Yuma. Hello. My name is Wally Bell. I'm a Nunuwal man. You might have noticed, I pronounce it quite differently to everybody else. I say it the right way. As you can work out then, I'm an elder of the Nunuwal people. My clan group are the Yart people. We have seven different clans. My clan group come from a place they now call Yass. So I actually grew up just outside of Yass in a little place called Jeroa, our word for running water. It's out on that place that I learned about being an Aboriginal person. As is our traditional customary practice, my father took me out onto the land and taught me all about the land itself, how to survive on the country, learned all about bush foods, bush medicines, sourcing food, sourcing water, basic survival on country. That knowledge I carry with me still to this day. As Aboriginal people, we gain all our customs and belief systems from the land that we live in. Our culture and practice is quite different right across the country. As I just said, we get our customs and belief systems from the land that we live in. When you look at Australia, there's over 400 different tribal groups living in totally different environments. So we're going to have totally different cultural practice. And that's something that governments really find hard to comprehend. Everybody seems to think that our cultural practice is one and the same, and it's not. So we have probably what I'd like to call communal law, LAW law. Now that allows us to live then as our separate clan groups on country. We always live in total harmony because we look after each other. But we also look after the place that we're in. The other part of that is that we also have traditional customary law. That's the LOR part of it. Now right across Australia, every Aboriginal tribal group abides by that law. That law tells us what we have to do as Aboriginal people on country. That law must be adhered to. If you break that law, you're severely punished. Some of that law then relates to what I'm here for today. I'm going to do a welcome to country. Welcome to country then is not as simple as most people think. It's just not me as an elder standing here in front of you saying welcome to country and enjoy your next day while you're here. Under our law, we're bound to make sure that visitors to our country are safe and protected while they're here. That means that we have to look after you in two ways. We offer up a protection in a physical sense and we also offer up a protection in a spiritual sense. Now the physical protection is going to be taken care of by our spirit of the land, which means that as you walk around on country actually treading foot on the land itself, the spirit of the land is going to look after you. Make sure that you don't have any trips and falls and you know break a leg or something like that. Something we don't want to happen because that'll reflect on us very badly as the host peoples. The spiritual protection that we're offering up is going to be taken care of by our ancestral spirits. Now our ancestral spirits then, if you don't know what I'm talking about, is our past generations that have returned to the land because as Aboriginal people, our strongest belief is that we actually come from the land itself. We're here for a little while. In which time we look after this place, take care of it. We become the custodians of the land, the carers of the country. Then when our time is up, we then return back to the land where we come from. That's where we call this place our belonging place. So the ancestral spirits then, they're going to look after you like I said in a spiritual sense because everybody in this room carries your own personal aura right throughout your life. Unknown to you, under our belief systems, there's bad spirit out there as well. And that's the stuff we don't want on country because that's not only going to affect you as a person, but it does affect country as well. So our ancestral spirits are asked to remove that. The way that I get the spirits to join us though is that I've got to make a little bit of noise to let them know where I am and call for them to draw them into me. I do that by the use of my clapsticks. Got to bear with me for a minute. I've got to get the right spot to my takeover in this place. Have a real strong connection with country because I'm out there looking after it all the time. I can actually feel the presence of those spirits with us. Very strong. Hopefully you can feel that presence as well. I'd really like for you to try and feel that presence. Okay. So like I said, then the spirit of the land is going to look after you as you're walking around on country, protect you as best it can. People do silly stuff out on country, but you know, that's up to you. The ancestral spirits at this very moment then are going around everybody here, checking out your personal horrors, looking for bad spirit. Because that bad spirit, you can't see it. You can't touch it, but it's there. But the ancestral spirits know what it is. If they find that stuff, they just grab hold of it. It's a real off country. It's something we don't want to hear. Now, of course, we're bound by other tribal rips as well. So the downside of that is we're chucking that bad stuff over onto their country. Well, yeah, they'll have to take care of that business. Okay. So then as I said, the spirit of the land is going to look after you as you're walking around on country. The ancestral spirits have now looked at your horrors, and they ask that you do two things while you're here on country. The first one, a really important one, is to respect this place that you're in. Look after it. Care for it while you're here, as we have done for thousands of years. The other thing they want you to do is also to respect and be kind and courteous to other people that you meet while you're on country. So if you do these two things for us, the spirits will harmonize with your stay on Ngunnawal country. So may the spirits be with you today, tomorrow, and for always.  I'll close with some words in language. Ngunnawal, Ngunnawal, Ngunnawal, Ngunnawal. This land is Ngunnawal land. Welcome. Thank you. Chancellor, colleagues, students and friends of A&U, Wally Bell, I too begin by acknowledging the first Australians on whose lands we meet, the Ngunnawal Namburi peoples, and pay my respects to elders past and present. And Uncle Wally, thank you for welcoming us so warmly to these lands where your ancestors have met for thousands of years. It is an honour to meet here and to reminded that our campus, this great place of learning, stands on the land where hundreds of generations of Indigenous Australians learned from each other. Before I talk about the state of the university, I want to spend a moment talking about the state of the world around us. So far, it has been an exceptionally difficult summer of flame and fear of hailstones and health warnings. Smoke from bushfires has polluted our air for weeks, and in the past week, the fires reached our city. Our normally lively campus has been closed multiple times, and our Australian summer has been spent indoors, sheltering from the heat and the smoke. And then came the ice and the incredible hailstorm that impacted our wildlife and dented and destroyed our roofs, our windows, our facilities and our cars. Through both the hail and the haze, the thing that's shown out was the resilience of our community, and I pay tribute today to the dedicated staff from across ANU who have kept us safe, monitored threats, provided advice and repaired damage. And I thank every member of staff who supported a colleague or a friend who was doing it tougher than them. So I want to start by giving each of ourselves and each of these people who have contributed a round of applause. Thank you one and all. Our community is never stronger nor kinder than when we're dealing with incidents like those that have given 2020 such a dramatic and terrible start. And as Uncle Wally's presence here reminds us, finding a way to thrive and prosper in the hostility of Australia's natural environment is the legacy too often ignored of 60,000 years of Aboriginal culture. And it is a legacy we must do more to harness. In 2020, we are faced here in Australia with some of the most significant challenges of climate change yet seen on the planet. And we have an emerging threat of a pandemic that is already affecting many of our students, but also our staff and our alumni. It has restricted the travel of the many outstanding students who would otherwise have been getting ready to come to Canberra if they were not already here. I want you to look around in our auditorium. You don't know today if the colleagues nearby have recently been in Balmain, Ballarat or Beijing. I am a world expert in cosmology, but I am looking to the world leading Australian health authorities to give us advice that will keep us safe. I ask you to trust these authorities as we ask people to trust in our expertise every day. We don't yet fully know the consequences of coronavirus on our community, but let's always remember that there are people at the heart of this. And let's resolve to show the same resilience, the same care and the same kindness that has brought us through the challenges nature has thrown us over the past six weeks. We can only do this by being rational and listening to Australia's public health experts. When we're surrounded by the urgent, by critical incidents and distress, it becomes even harder to step back and think big. But that is what I want us now to do today. Our university is at an inflection point. At the start of a new decade with a new chancellor and a vice chancellor, that's me, who will be seeking his second term next week. So if someone else is giving this lecture or this address next year, you'll know my meeting didn't go quite as planned. In 2020, our strategic plan is now in its latter stages. And I'm starting to think about what A&U might look like at the end of my second term. In other words, what do I want this great Australian university to be? And what must we do to get it there? And I encourage each of you to ask yourself that same question. Let's start with the fundamentals. What defines us as a university and as our national university? Let's not focus on parking for the moment. For me, the thing that defines A&U is ultimately trust. Since 1946, we have placed integrity and quality at the heart of everything we do. And that must never change. That approach is one is the trust of Australia, of the students who study with us, of the staff who make their careers here, of the policy makers who listen to our ideas, to the philanthropists who donate to us to make the world a better place. The businesses that employ our graduates and ultimately society that relies on our research findings and believes in them. Our own social research centers findings showed that almost 80 percent of people across Australia trust A&U. Well, trust in, for example, another pillar of our democracy, the media, is that around 20 percent. So we're in a good place, but that trust in A&U cannot be taken for granted. I welcome the hired standards to which we are held, because that is ultimately the seal of trust which empowers us. It's why we met head on the disturbing reality of being data hacked late last year. Our approach was to speak openly about it with brutal transparency, to level with our community about the scale of the data breach and the implications for individual security, and to develop sector-leading protections now to help stop future intrusions that might undermine our academic freedom or the safety of members of our staff and students. Trust is our currency and having worked hard to earn it, we must work just as hard to keep it. And the only way to keep it is to invest in and insist on excellence in everything we do. And when you interact with our students, you will know that many of them exemplify excellence. They are impressive intellects. They're worldly. They're great at solving problems, thinking differently and challenging us and the world around them to do better. Last year, three of the nine Australian Rhodes scholarships went to ANU students who will now head to the University of Oxford. This is a great symbol of the quality of our student cohort. And we are privileged to attract such fine young leaders to our campus. And we must remember that this campus, our workplace, is also their home, making us unique amongst Australian research-intensive universities. Those students and their families and friends trust us to provide a learning environment that is challenging, stimulating and cutting edge, and a home that is safe, welcoming and inclusive. I will not be satisfied with simply meeting their expectation. I am setting the university this goal of delivering a student experience that is as good as the best in the world. Many ANU students travel from across Australia and around the world to a new campus in an unfamiliar city. They have chosen to spend one of the most valuable times of their lives with us. ANU will be their university, possibly the only one they ever study at. How do we validate the trust they have shown us? Well, by providing the very best experience we can, and by recognizing that each of us, whether an early career researcher, a professional staff member, or a distinguished professor, each of us have a part to play in making that experience among the best available anywhere in the world. Now, if we're honest with ourselves, we have a way to go before we meet that standard. Let's ask ourselves some important questions. When a student is considering joining us, are we always welcoming, friendly, and informative? Is our information accessible and timely? Are we responsive to queries and feedback? Do we offer distinctive programs that stand out for their quality, their flexibility, and their rigor? Do our facilities, both physical and digital, meet our world-class ambitions? Do we give every one of our students what they need to succeed? If we don't do all of these things, and do them better than any other university in Australia, we are not the national university we strive to be, and we can't be sure we are finding the best students from every walk of life and graduating these students as leaders whose inquiring minds, sharp intellects, and contemporary skillsets will inspire employers and colleagues while being the catalyst of their ability to change the world. That is why I have set this year to be the year of student experience, and I'm asking every single staff member, wherever you sit in the ANU community, to make a commitment that you will do everything you can to make our student experience the best it can be. This means improving our practice everywhere we think it falls short, listening to feedback, learning from colleagues inside ANU, and from around the world. Challenging ourselves with the question, is this what a student joining one of the best universities in the world should expect? Is it what you would expect? I know what I would expect. I expect the educational standards of the best universities in the world. I know we need to have outstanding research led teaching. We need to be a place where the connection between students, academics, and professional staff is seamless, and with and us having degree programs, experiences, and opportunities that allow me to graduate as a leader. That's what I would expect. Now parts of our university do this brilliantly already, but by 2025 every student at ANU should be able to say they received a distinctive education that is second to none. We need to be seen as the Oxbridge Ivy League institution of the Southern Hemisphere, but with an inclusive and distinctively Australian character, we need to be ANU, but we need to be great. To help figure out new ways of doing things, later this year we are going to establish in Cambry a student experience accelerator, a space where we can collaborate in teams to try out new ideas and seek real-time student engagement and feedback. Now we're going to prioritize this as soon as our campus returns to some sort of normalcy, but this new initiative will be a great way of bringing the startup mindset to improving our student experience, and I hope we can roll it out to almost anything we do in the future. Of course students are not the only priority. We have committed to investing in and insisting on excellence everywhere at ANU, and by 2025 I expect to see evidence of that commitment everywhere. That means investing in research that transforms society, that changes the way people act and the way they think. Since our researchers train the future leaders of Australia, our region and the world, we must do that well. It means ANU becoming the public policy university. We will be the brains trust to the public policy making community, listening, not preaching, and being trusted to suggest, refine, and road test policy solutions. The government is entitled to expect this from its national university, which it endows with the national institute's grant, and we must exceed their expectations. Now I cannot emphasize this enough. This is not an optional extra for ANU. This is a core reason why we exist, and so we must excel and do better than we have been doing. Being ANU also means being the place of choice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to engage in higher education and undertake research. Why? Because they trust their peers when they tell them that ANU is a community which embraces and celebrates the culture and contributions of Australia's First Nations people. And if that message is to be shared, we must be as good as our word and embed Indigenous culture and learnings across our campus and attract many more Indigenous staff and students. More on this in a moment. And by 2025, I want every single one of you to know you are working in one of the best environments in the world. A university you are exceptionally proud to work at because any other place will be a step down. We will be a workplace that is equitable, collegiate, that nurtures talent and provides the best working conditions of any university. Now to achieve this, I could resort to having policy drafted, creating incentives, begging, pleading and cajoling. But in the end, the only way to achieve my ambition and I hope our collective ambition is if the people who work here make it so. I ask you to remember the kindness that emerges every time we are faced with a crisis. And let's try to be that workplace every day, not just on the difficult days. I also ask that you reflect today on how you can contribute to these ambitions. What can you do in your role to achieve this level of excellence and to build Australia's trust in us. And I look forward to hearing your ideas. If Australia is to trust its national university, we must do everything we can to resemble the country we seek to serve. If we're honest, we haven't yet done enough to look like Australia. Talent exists in every community and every ethnic group at every age and is not symbolized by physical abilities or conventions. Our admissions scholarship and accommodation scheme is starting to succeed in widening the range of students who come to ANU this year. But we have a long ways to go before we can truly say that the nation's microcosm is its national university. One of the places we have the most work to do is in attracting new Indigenous talent to ANU. Less than 1% of our domestic students identify as Indigenous while the national figure is say more than 3% of the Australian population. There is so much talent, potential and imagination that we're missing out on and this is a gap we must address. And if you ever want to see that talent and what that talent and potential and imagination looks like, I recommend you go visit Anyan and the Chabal Center where Anyan and her team can introduce you to the many brilliant and committed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who have found their academic home here on our campus. There is no question we should be doing more, much more, to make this university accessible to as many Indigenous Australians as we can. Our campus is enriched when we embrace diversity and reflect this nation. That is why I am proud and delighted to announce the creation today of a new sector-leading scholarship scheme, the Cambry Scholarships, that will provide any Indigenous student who comes to ANU the financial, academic and pastoral support they need to thrive in our community. This will enable us to welcome many more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to ANU while ensuring that they are supported to complete their degrees. Now how can we guarantee that this money will be available each year? Well, the ANU Council has committed to create an endowment of at least $50 million where the university will match dollar-for-dollar philanthropic gifts until we meet that goal. The university has already provided several million dollars of seed funding to ensure the program starts this year. The investment returns will fund the program into perpetuity and so never again will Indigenous students miss out on the ANU experience. Thank the leadership of Anianne and the Council on this who I will pass on your congratulations. If you are inspired by this and I surely am and want to be part of it or you know someone who might be you can find more information through the Cambry Scholarships button on our website or just speak to our advancement colleagues who are here on campus and in the audience today. In the years to come the Australian National University can look back to this moment as the time when our commitment to Indigenous Australians took a bold new step and they along with their fellow graduates will become the leaders Australia turns to in order to tackle the problems their own generations will face. This is our university showing leadership and of course there are many domains we must show leadership. There is almost universal concern across our campus and indeed the nation of the impact of climate change. The world is looking to us and other leading universities for action and solutions. So one of our first conversations the Chancellor and I resolve that we must do something significant. Therefore I have asked Professor Mark Howden a global leader as vice chair of the IPCC and director of the ANU Climate Change Institute with esteemed colleagues like Professor Frank Yonzo to chart how ANU can not only become carbon neutral but carbon negative as fast as possible. We will be looking to many of our staff and students for expertise and help. There is so much we can do now and what being carbon negative will evolve over time but if this university and our students and staff are prepared to be part of the solution I think we can lead the world starting this year and show how we don't have to wait until 2050 or beyond to act. This group this group is going to provide a pathway and I hope all will join us in this action. Each of us are going to have to look at the contribution we can make on and off our campus and that is the only way we can succeed. But this is ANU meeting its responsibilities that trust Australia places in its national university to confront the biggest issues and create leaders with the capacity to solve the issues we haven't yet imagined. Those leaders must inspire us being willing to take a stand to speak truth even when inconvenient and to be authentic and to win the admiration of their community. They have to be trailblazers and pioneers with the strength of character to do difficult things for the first time. This brings me to our chancellor a leader of distinction who has served in cabinet under three prime ministers and across three portfolios including foreign minister the first woman to serve in that capacity one of just 15 people in Australian political history to have been elected deputy leader of the liberal party and the first woman to have done so elected seven times to represent the people of Curtin and the House of Representatives the first woman member for Curtin Julie Bishop achieved global recognition as foreign minister for a response to the shooting down of MH17 she secured Australia's election to the UN Human Rights Council on a platform of good governance freedom of expression promoting gender equality and the rights of indigenous people Julie was also responsible for creating the New Colombo Plan which has so far made over 60,000 awards to Australian undergraduates for study and travel in the Indo-Pacific region by any measure this is an exceptional record of public service her straight talking honesty won the trust and respect of the Australian people and leaders around the world and now we are honored and delighted that her service continues as one of our most distinguished and globally recognized and you guessed it the first woman Chancellor of this great national university colleagues I'm delighted to introduce introduced for the first time our Chancellor the Honourable Julie Bishop Thank you for that very warm welcome and may I first thank Wally for his welcome to country such a beautiful inspiring and haunting welcome for us all Thank you Brian for your very kind words and for your wonderful address the state of the university and I particularly focus on the Canberra scholarships and that will be a magnificent initiative for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders but also for our university our community and Australia more generally and also our ambition to be carbon negative this is my first official appearance on campus as Chancellor and I took up the role on the first of January 2020 that happened to be the day that Canberra was reported as having the worst air quality in the world that should have given some indication of what lay ahead for the university in the following weeks the extreme weather events the bushfires encircling Canberra the smoke haze caused us to close the campus and then we had the torrential rain and the hail storm that caused so much destruction to our infrastructure I visited the glass houses yesterday but the impact was so profound and so we closed the campus again and then a state of emergency was announced for the ACT last weekend and then we had to deal with the impact of coronavirus and the travel ban preventing so many of our overseas students from coming here and this was all just in the first month of my chancellorship so I decided in discussion with Brian and the team that we really shouldn't go ahead with the formal installation of me as Chancellor by the Governor-General when there were so many other priorities that we should be focusing upon and I do apologise to anyone who is inconvenienced by our decision to postpone the ceremony but I want to acknowledge how throughout all of this our Vice-Chancellor our management team our campus leaders acted in solidarity with our community in focusing on the health and well-being and safety and security of everyone and they acted with such calm professionalism with such sage advice for me and for others and always with an absolutely perfect sense of priorities so Brian and the team thank you so much for what you've done over the last few weeks in such difficult times Thank you and to you Now I've been asked regularly over the last few months why I would take on this role in my post-political life and there are many reasons it is an immense honour to be appointed Chancellor of Australia's first and only National University this is a prestigious institution it has national and global significance it has an enviable reputation for excellence in teaching and research and I've had a long-held interest in improving the quality of the higher education sector in this country not just through my own educational experience but also as education minister when I got to know this university exceedingly well and I've always believed that Australia as one of the most industrialised and developed nations on earth with one of the highest standards of living with the top 20 economy indeed we're in the top 20 of nations on virtually every social and economic indicator that counts that we should have at least one university in the top 20 around the world and that is my ambition and aspiration for ANU now also as foreign minister I came to know the university so well because it was my go-to university for public policy development whether it was the Coral Bell School or the National Security College or the Climate Change Institute or the Fenner School the research and the data and the analysis was first class always had credibility and was always accessible to me as foreign minister I've always looked at ANU as the university for that highly sought after on campus student experience and I think this adds so much to the unique character of this university that students can live and study on campus in the national capital in a group of students a student population made up from people across Australia and from around the world that rich diverse student population gives us such a unique character and it's Australia's attractiveness as a destination for overseas students that made me ponder as education minister as to the benefits of student exchange and I began wondering wouldn't it be a good idea if more Australian students studied overseas to get the benefits that so many overseas students get from studying in Australia and thus I can see the idea of the new Colombo plan where Australian undergraduates would be funded to live and study in a nation in our region and they would be following in the footsteps of the original Colombo plan of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s which bought thousands of students to our shores to study in our universities and they went back to their home countries and became great ambassadors for Australia well I had this fantastic plan but I couldn't actually implement it there was an election and we lost but in 2013 when I came back into government as foreign minister I introduced the new Colombo plan as foreign policy and as Brian indicated around 60,000 students have now been funded to live and study and work in one of 40 countries in our region now ANU was a partner from the outset and already over 1,085 of our students have been recipients of new Colombo plan funding in about 25 countries and they come back here they come home with new perspectives new ideas new skills maybe a second language but with a much deeper understanding of Australia and it's a place in the region and they make connections and networks and friendships that could last a lifetime and that is to Australia's benefit I recall being in a joint sitting of the Houses of Parliament in October of 2016 when Prime Minister Lee of Singapore said of my championing of the new Colombo plan that it continues the spirit of exchange and builds anew the connections in good will that exists between our people but for future generations I really do hope that the new Colombo plan and student exchange is becomes a right of passage for Australian students in our university that they spend some of their higher education living and studying undertaking work experience practicums in countries in universities in our region now we are a research intensive university and I believe that ANU has a national responsibility to come up with evidence based solutions to the great challenges facing our region facing our nation and many of our researchers indeed our own esteemed Vice-Chancellor have been recognised globally for their great discoveries contributing to the benefit of humanity we're also a teaching university and we nurture inquiring minds as Albert Einstein once said now apparently he was another Nobel Laureate in physics it is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and understanding so ANU must continue to strive for excellence and embrace and defend fiercely academic freedom and independence within a culture of challenging accepted wisdom and the status quo and our students our researchers our academics must be and feel supported in their pursuit of knowledge and understanding and our graduates must have the skills and the abilities and be prepared to succeed in an ever changing ever disrupted world and we must always hold true to our values and principles that are in violet freedom of speech and thought within the rule of law now I know and I'm acutely aware of the transformative power of education perhaps I can tell you a little of my personal story and why I'm here today my father grew up on an apple and cherry orchard in the Adelaide Hills and he was head boy at Urbray Agricultural High School but as the eldest son he had to come home on the property and he didn't go to university he was then in the Australian Army during World War II my mother grew up on a sheep property in the mid north of South Australia and she won a scholarship to Adelaide Girls High select high school in South Australia and she completed her year 12 but she couldn't go on to university because her mother was dying so she went home to the property my mother and father met after the war they married and they moved home to the Bishop family property in 1955 this very established orchard was raised to the ground through the Black Sunday Bushfire they lost everything and their lives were absolutely shattered and so they worked very hard to rebuild that property but it didn't turn a profit for over 20 years and so my childhood was spent in the shadow of that bushfire event in fact I was telling one of the deans last night that my favourite book as a child I was completely obsessed with it was February Dragon by Colin Tealy a story about three children whose lives were so devastated by the February Dragon that fire breathing bushfire that we know only too well anyway my parents were determined that whatever sacrifice it took I and my three siblings would have the very best education that they could afford I went to a private girls school in Adelaide and I was the head girl I then had the opportunity to go on to university to study a course that I wanted to study and then undertake a professional career in an area that I chose and that led me to becoming Australia's first foreign minister and the first female chancellor at this university so I want for every student in Australia that has the will and the capacity to study at ANU to have that opportunity and whatever their family background whatever their circumstances if they are able to gain a place here at ANU we will give them the hope and the opportunity that they so richly deserve and I hope that our graduates continue to question to inspire to innovate to lead in our communities in our nation and globally that should be our aim that should be our legacy and I thank Brian for setting out in his address today how we will achieve that such a great vision for a great university thank you well thank you Julie at I think our community is very excited to welcome you here today it is great to hear of your vision so crystaly defined you will note without any notes so it real is up here not just what I told her to say we look forward to welcoming you further at a barbecue that will now ensue we're gonna have it because of rain at the Athenaeum and I'm very happy to see say that university house is catering it now university house you will see has been beaten up probably harder than any other part of the university other than the greenhouses and it's great to have them here today and so I suggest enjoy your barbecue but can you thank them for all what they are doing and for the resilience that they're showing thank you one and all look forward to seeing you out at the barbecue


Welcome folks, this is Tom O'Brien of TFNN. We got five days a week, we go seven hours a day, we go 24 hours a day on the internet at TFNN.com. Always remember folks, whatever you think about, you bring about whatever you focus on, grows up, everyone's having a great day, safe day, it's making a great week folks. Serve the one you love.  And every kiss and every touch you feel you're there to please the one you love without expecting anything back. Mm, I got a wise, let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow Industries up 186. NASDAQ's up 33, S&P's up 12. Gold contract up $15, trading 18.22 an ounce. We got Silver up 59 cents, $23.06 an ounce. Light sweet crude off a buck, $91.39 a barrel, notes and bonds.  The 30-year up six ticks at 150, 314, and King dollar. King dollar's down 58 ticks, trading 95, 427. The euro is out here at 114. The yen's at 115, the British pound is trading out here at 135 to one US dollar. Let's get over to our mammoth to Dave Mazda. Dave is the head of product and the managing director at Direction folks. And of course, as you come over to our website, you can just hit that Direction banner, bottom line. We have a trading, we have a traders market for sure. We got a two-way market. We got commodities moving. They have a lot of great products out there that can help you each and every day. Dave Mazda, how you doing? I'm doing well, thanks for having me back. Absolutely, man. Well, first, you know, folks, you gotta remember something, when you're over to Direction shares, right? Every day after the close, okay, they put the price movers up there, the volatility spikes and they create and redeems. So Dave, I'm looking at this volatility spikes and you can see that the bulls and the bears are fighting about the LABD and the LABU, pretty cool, man. Yeah, yeah, it's an interesting, the biotech space, I mean, pretty rough 2021. Yes. And now we're seeing, and you know, longer term strategists are saying, now may be a better time to get into the space and the valuations have come down, but the trading community has really lashed onto that idea. And but we're seeing, really, to your point, the bulls and the bears fighting out in the near term here and there's not necessarily a clear direction from the activity we're seeing in those paper funds of who might be winning right now. There isn't, and that's pretty, I kind of like that setup, folks. And the reason I like that setup is that's how the market likes to trade. I mean, when you have a two way market out here, you know, as Dave just said, biotech's been down for a while. Let's talk about, you have a new, two times oil service stock, the ONG. This is pretty cool. Yeah, we're excited about ONG, you know, it stands for oil and gas, if you will. Cool, okay. Really a compliment to a fund like Gush, which people might be more familiar with. The names in Gush are your oil and gas exploration and production companies. The oil services, which are in ONG, those are your, like the picks and shovels of the oil industry. So they have a really high beta to the price of oil, the underlying commodity. And in fact, depending upon the environment, they might be performing a lot differently than the EMP names. So I think there's a great opportunity for traders who, especially in this market, as we're seeing energy make a pretty decent comeback here along with the rest of commodities, to actually play those two off each other. No, big time. And inside that folks, you get Schlumberger, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Transocean, a lot of them that you actually know. Now we have to go, you know, the bottom line folks, if you've never traded, whether it's the nugget or the dust, okay? Bottom line, we got some action in gold. And so when we get action on gold, you know, you can go over to this nugget. This is gonna get interesting here, Dave, to see, I mean, it's been laying down, not just, you know, your nugget, I mean, that market in general. We've got a couple of little pops, but we got action out here now, man. Well, I heard you talking about the dollar, you know, when you're wrapping up the previous segment. And look, that's been a big part of one of the reasons along with yields of why gold is a commodity. I think it's been confusing traders, right? Yes. Many people would kind of expect historically that gold would be ripping and it would be in the, you know, nightly news, like it was a few years ago. Yeah. That hasn't been the case. And the miners in particular, to your point, haven't really seen that come back. But gold's on the move today. And we're definitely seeing it with nugget or dust, at least on a daily basis. And folks, if you're watching Tiger TV and you're seeing this screen, the bottom line is that nugget is taking out the B point of an ABC up with volume. So that, you know, bottom line, when I do these ABCs, that's saying, what's it, seven, that's seven bucks. That's saying nugget's going to 51, you're at 48, 12 right now. So pretty cool that we finally getting some action in that market. And, you know, when we take a look at the, whether it's the S&P, whether it's the NASDAQ, this has been pretty wild action, hasn't it?  There's a lot of opportunity out here, Dave. Yeah, I think traders, you know, the pulse at the fingertips is, this is the market for it. You know, I've heard some people call to use your ABC analogy that maybe the market itself is kind of, is going to see that. Maybe retest some lows later, later. I agree. Yeah. Basically, I think, you know, on the upside, take advantage of it for the time being, but we know there's still, you know, question marks about what's going to happen with the Fed. Are we going to get, we know we're going to get a hike. We know we're going to get some action. Yes. But is the market really prepared for it? And I think earning season, frankly, has been helpful to kind of get rid of those macro headwinds for the time being.   So this market is going to remain kind of two way, I think, for a while, but at least for the leverage and inverse side, to your point, we have, we see action happening everywhere, really. It's happening in the growth names, like biotech happening still in the semi. People aren't giving up on that trade yet, but we are starting to see people really nibble again back at the gold miners, back in the energy space, which is one of the reasons we wanted to bring ONG to market as if we do see that secular move away from growth and toward value. There's no doubt. And you brought up a great point. You know, what has happened, folks, that gold hasn't moved and the equities have moved pretty good. And it doesn't move folks until it moves. And then, you know, they love, gold loves these straight line moves, man. And we'll see whether this is going to be one of them, but there's no doubt that we have a two way market. You get some great product out here. And it's very easy to look at the product, folks.  A lot of great product. Dave, you have a great one, safe one. Look forward to speaking to you in two weeks from today. Thank you, talk soon. Thanks so much, man. Have a great one, have a safe one. Stay right there, folks. We'll come right back. The market's getting gooseed. We got the Dow, industrial's up 222. Nasdaq is up 62, S&P's up 20. Stay right there, folks. We'll come right back with our mammoths to Steve Rhodes.


A gaming take-to-interactive? You know what's funny? When it came out, I did some background work. And, you know, Red Dead Redemption, this is a very important game. This is a ground-up game from the guys from Rockstar. People have to understand the Rockstar divisions, people came up with Grand Theft. The gamers tell me that this Red Dead has always been an amazing title. This is being held back. This is one of four that has been held back under Strauss's tenure. Held back because it's not good enough to meet his or Rockstar's standards. And one of the things that's holding it back is the NVIDIA. The fast-grant game chips have made it so that they could take advantage of the hardware more. It'll be six months late, and therefore will be much better. Now, the one thing you need to know is Strauss-Zelnik has never delayed a second time, so it's going to be in the numbers. And in the interim, what we saw was one of the biggest blowouts ever, because people continue to underestimate the Grand Theft Auto franchise. They underestimate the WWE franchise. They underestimate the NBA 2K franchise. They underestimate the Switch to Digital. And it was a remarkable quarter. This is only a $7 billion company. You know, Grand Theft Auto is probably worth $7 billion. And this is before even esports is really factored in. You know that one of my thesis is that the video games are in a great secular growth mode. This confirms it once again.


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Unfortunately, each year about one and a half to two lakh of our citizens develop severe kidney failure or end stage kidney disease as we call it in the medical terms. The first and the best option for patients with severe kidney failure is kidney transplantation and next comes dialysis. Kidney transplantation could be of two varieties, one someone known to you especially a relative giving you a kidney which is called a living related donation. The second is a diseased donor donation or a cadaver donation. After the cadaver brain death law was passed, now people who have been declared as brain dead based on a neurological evaluation can donate their organs like the kidney, liver, heart, so on and so forth to others who need it after an elaborate process even when the heart is beating. There is a severe severe organ shortage in our country and lot of people die waiting for a transplantation. So my earnest appeal to each and every citizen is be an organ donor, do not bury or burn your organ, please give life to someone else and this is the greatest gift to humankind. Now to donate an organ if and when you have an accident and have a serious injury to the brain, there are a couple of things you need to do. One and foremost is that you should tell someone especially a near family that you are willing to donate your organ, so at the time of crisis and sorrow they will be able to fulfill your wish. And there is an organ donation card that needs to be signed by you and that is available in any of the major hospitals and also at the organization called Jeevanasarthakate in Karnataka which sort of supervises the cadaver organ donation in our state. So please be an organ donor, save a life, save a family and this is the best thing you can do as a human being. Your organ will only be donated after the doctors have certified the individual as having brain death and have irreversible damage to the brain which will not recover. It is very important that your family knows about it because at the time of this situation the family should be agreeable to let your organs be donated for another person who needs it. Thank you very much.


Hi everybody, it's Brian Wilson the co-instructor for the 2019 computational law course with Mila Rioja teaching assistant for the 2019 computational law course in our esteemed guest Michelle Gitlis from Blank Rome She's a partner there and co-chairs their Digital currencies working group and one of the things that we're going to be doing today with this smart legal contracts workshop is kind of recapping a little bit of what we touched on in the lecture, but also diving in a little bit more into some of the practical applicability of smart legal contracts with the specifically looking at the questions that you guys have submitted in pigeonhole kind of looking at some of the feedback that different people have there While the sessions live and ongoing and then also trying to weave in a little bit the the great feedback that we had yesterday from the in-person session that we did with the open music initiative where everybody kind of sketched out a framework for Publishing rights organizations to interact better with musicians um with the specific focus on The the copyright issues that kind of exist there and the way that the money kind of flows between the different rights holders that Are part of that ecology and so with that i'm going to hand it over to michelle and Let her take it away So are people i'm just trying to make sure i understand so are people going to ask questions or am i going Yeah, okay. Awesome. And where will i see the questions so they're on that link that i sent you perfect Hold on i can and then And then mila should be able to help uh Kind of disintermediate the questions with the The conversation Okay, i'm just trying to open it up in a different tab so that I can see I didn't realize i'm sorry. Do you want one of the questions is and i can start Yeah, so the first question that came in was Are there any companies that you find to be super exciting in the smart contract field with us and a special eye towards the music industry? You know, I think I think that the companies that you know have have been contributing and featured Oh, whoops, I did the wrong thing um with respect to this program are Are obviously very interesting. I think there's also um, I think there's also just in general um A need in the music industry to be able to understand and be able to effectuate Getting artists and authors and even in in photography artists in general their Payment for their contributions. Um, and so to the extent that smart contracts can help us More effectively Both disintermediate and also make sure payments get to the right people the right for owners I think that really helps um in terms of companies Um, I think what some of the accounting firms are doing is really interesting because their job is to audit the royalty payments And so that's that's sort of the last line of defense, which I like to say because You know if if the payments were not made correctly in the first place to the artist or the author or the photographer Any auditor can step in and can correct that mistake, but the auditors oftentimes They are only looking at a sampling of payments that were made because they are auditing Um, and so what we're seeing now is the audit firms are moving toward being able to do 100 auditing with smart contracts and artificial intelligence and things like that And I think it's really going to move the ball forward Um, well amazing. Uh, thank you for your first reply. That's quite quite interesting. So Let's hop on to the second question now Um And michelle, please feel free also to provide further information based on the lecture we already had so If you're able to extrapolate a little bit more on that I'm sorry. What would you like me to extrapolate on? Uh possible companies, uh that you'll find well, you talked about companies that exist in the market But what about companies that don't exist just yet and would be like a very fruitful, you know And could make things better in such way I think that to the extent that there are companies out there who can better Assess and assign revenue sharing agreements. I think that would be really helpful Um, there's also a question about amendments Um to smart contracts and I think that I think that perhaps there won't necessarily you can't amend a smart contract in a traditional way by erasing the contract that already exists You can just set up either a side module or another contract that would Um Coordinate with the already existing contract that's immutable to be able to effectuate the secondary or split payments That could come in the future that amended the contract Yeah, thanks. So we have brian back. Yes, sorry We were just discussing the very first question about what companies The shifter would be interesting and we extrapolated a little bit more Because we're talking about some companies that she knows and then she knows about like what could be like prospective companies or ideas Yeah, I I think the idea about Getting different perspective companies formed, especially in this space is always something that's really exciting um I I know it was only a year ago that we're uh, Really excited about in this course, especially like the advent of crypto kiddies As a real thing that was happening and now it's kind of pushed the envelope with regard to the What is possible with smart contracts and smart legal contracts? Uh, especially with like the this conceptualization of a non-fungible token um I I think Especially as it is considered kind of like a work of art in a similar way um the the idea that we could have something that You know In a digital world, but can be like tokenized and kind of reduced to Something that people recognize stores a certain value is a really cool and exciting thing um for moving forward uh with in with that in mind, I I don't know very much about non-fungible tokens and I was wondering if you could like kind of uh, Provide us with a little bit of information in there Um, I'm not sure I could I could speak um extensively on non-fungible tokens, but I'm sorry. We can't hear you I don't know if there's an error on our end or if it's on mute or Oh, I'm not on mute Oh It's Can you hear me Hold on just one moment bear with us and we'll try and get this figured out Because nothing happened if you could jump out and then jump back in using the same link. Uh, I want to see if that will work Okay Sorry everybody All right, we can see you. Is that better? Yes. Now we can hear. Okay. Thank you. Sorry about So you were asking about non-fungible tokens Yes, so so that's you know, that's a token. That's that's unique Right. It's not it's not like a cryptocurrency like bitcoin And I think I think what's interesting is the concept that And some companies are starting to do this that you can create your own work and use either a non-fungible token Or use some type of music platform that will pay you royalty So instead of just putting your work up on the internet or putting your work up on the platform There's a new mechanism for you know, seeing new artists or undiscovered artists to generate their own money through Using a token or a block or a blockchain rather than an established artist who we know already has an arrangement With a record label or something like that or with amazon for books to get paid Okay, so with with that in mind you kind of see this And I think I know the answer to this but I just want to make I don't want to say something that Could be wrong I I want you to have the oh my gosh Am I on mute? Was I on mute? No, nobody's on mute um, so kind of in that vein do you see this move towards decentralization as one that uh As one that will open up parts of the market to like the smaller players more so than the larger players um I would I'm not sure I'd say open the market up and at least provide access to and at least provide a mechanism by which people who are either unrepresented or you know I guess when when People started being able to self publish their own books and sell them on amazon That was that was a really big deal. And I think we're starting to see the music industry move to the same place um, I think the identification and distribution of royalties in general is something that's really Um ripe for the use of blockchain, but also the idea that you don't need an intermediary You don't need an agent. You don't need a record label to be able to sell and monetize your music That's important right that helps that helps the quote struggling artist that helps everybody um And I think it'll bring more people and more diversity to market Hold on we're still having one bit of trouble and we think it may be on our end But I think I may know a fix for it. So just a couple of seconds. Okay, no worries All right, so we Have hopped on with another computer. Are you able to hear us michelle from? Yeah, this is much better Okay, we we still are having some trouble on our end uh here with your audio and i'm not sure how to Okay, wait there Can you try and say something real quick testing? Yes, okay Back i'm so i'm so sorry about that Um it cut out in the middle of what you were saying about non-fungible tokens Okay, so so we we know that A non-fund fund fundable token represents something unique right and so um, I think that that's that may be a potential way for for artists um and authors and other types of people who are who are creating art or creating music to potentially market and get paid for their contributions um the other side the other side of um The coin so to say Is creating additional platforms that are decentralized where people don't need agents They don't need record labels to be able to get paid for the music or the content that they're creating And you know, that's that's important because it means that more people can get Their deliverables heard and also get compensated um, and we know that there's companies like dot blockchain that are you know specialized in in helping people Get to market and get paid for the content that they're putting out there Nice had had previously been kind of uh closed off or In a way, uh Inhibited or limited by the the uh high cost of that it takes to get in and so I think that's In terms of just the ethos of uh Blockchain, I think that lies very well with uh, what the whole point of it is Going back to kind of like satoshi's white paper vision of And even some of the stuff by uh, some of the earlier stuff by nick sabo um Sorry, we had another feedback thing Uh Let me pull up some of the pigeonhole feedback really quickly so we can get to more of the questions um So, uh kevin points out that's or Yeah asks Um, so smart contracts work only for controlled compositions Can we make uh clever contracts that allow for works with multi stakeholders? Like a Beyonce song where there might be different like a lot of different people who were either sampled or Um accredited with having some contribution to that song. Would there be a way to make smart contracts that allow for Um those works to kind of be disintermediated um to Oh, you you froze at the end of the at the end of the question Um, but I I read the I read the question So So I think what you were saying was is there is there a way to The multiple stakeholders to be able to make a smart contract that allows the multiple stakeholders to participate Yeah And I don't I don't profess to be a developer Or a coder but from a from a legal standpoint, we know that if we can draft The terms of a legal contract we're working with the coders and the developers to be able to implement that on blockchain Um, whether we can do that today. I've not seen that yet today But I find it hard to believe that it's not possible and just because I haven't seen it doesn't mean that it's not out there And to that point, I think one of the things that Uh, they went over yesterday a little bit in the working session that we did in person was involved two composers who collaborated together to create like one song and some of the insight that came out of the There is an architecture where you can do it Whether that's it it just involves the level that you want the payment to come from so whether that's you know, you Have your You have it whether you want it to go directly from the pro so the the rights management organization who's Getting the money to all of the artists or whether you want it to be at a lower level where you create some sort of investment vehicle or kind of like a Some sort of autonomous entity that the money is instead sent to where the permissions of that autonomous entity are such that you know, it it's set so that any time a A composition is created and it is sent to say party one Of the organization who helps create the song it also Based on our the arrangement setup in the smart contract Splits it and has it sent to all of the parties that are necessary So I I think there's definitely a way that it could be done what that might actually look like I Remain a little bit less sure of Hold on and I'm gonna get to the Get to the questions on this laptop. Sorry for Sorry for all of the technical difficulties in this. Um, no, that's okay Is mark joining I Had thought he had the link, but I'm not sure I he did send us a message with some feedback while the While the session was going so I I think he is out there But mark if you're out there, we would love to love for you to join so that we could kind of Talk a little bit more about some of the some of the goings on of yesterday and And now I just got to the pigeonhole widget So Ivan mentions that the Audits of music usage could eventually be performed by AI reading the blockchain. Is this something Any auditors you mentioned are currently working on and it said, you know who these groups are For sure. Um, I can't I can't disclose the names of the people who I'm doing work with for it for it. Um, but Definitely AI is a huge huge component of Ensuring that the auditors who want to use blockchain to audit the music royalty payments are able to review All of the different records and contracts that they need to review to be able to do Whether it being 85 or 90 or 95 percent or even 100 percent audit So AI is a huge component and I always love to Talk about how AI and blockchain can be married together. It's it's a pretty it's a pretty magical solution Yeah, so One of the one of the areas that I work in is with I was mark here I'm here. Oh Hi everyone. There's a recent comment about The compatibility of AI Its potential applications with blockchain I think You know just in some of the work that I've seen and been doing in the insurance space At the enterprise sort of level it seems like the only way to kind of take catalog of a lot of these digital assets involves Using some form of AI whether it's machine learning to kind of Get an understanding of what is there and then a Kind of like blockchain sort of back end where you can then take what is there and kind of Make it so that you have an absolute record of it that everybody agrees on and that is You know widely Accepted as the kind of single source of truth that that seems to be kind of like the the combination Are there are there any other areas that What is one of the other areas that You have seen or that you can hypothesize about that Would see this combination of the two together as a as a particularly Particularly advantageous combination Is that for me or for? Sorry, I my fault Sorry, I thought it was remark Um Basically just wondering about the uh, you know, what are some other examples of The combined, uh synergies of Blockchain with AI Um, I think certain certainly we've seen it in the in the legal context in terms of Researching and being able to cull records public public filings on on say Pay serve with the courts You know when we used to do legal research It was all it was all manual First it was in books and then it was online and now we're able to have use AI to scan Documents and be able to give us outputs and say here's here's the cases that were cited in a brief That looks very similar to an issue that you were citing to and here are the cases that you should look at I mean that was something that you know It wasn't even a thought in our minds 10 years ago And those tools are readily available to us now because of of AI um in terms of blockchain And the combination of it. I think what you're what you may start to see that in the bankruptcy context I think that there's a lot of potential applications for trustees in bankruptcy using blockchain to help Manage claims against the estate and to use AI. It's so Intensive the amount the volume of information that the trustee needs to get through that I've heard that people are looking at pairing blockchain and AI in that context Okay It's really helpful. I think because You know knowing that there are like a couple of use cases That where this can happen Also, I think starts getting people thinking about it and getting people open to the ideas of it and then starting to think about it And you know potentially new contexts where you know people haven't Even really begun to think of it. And I think this Kind of music vignette that we were able to do yesterday Uh is one area where it was um, you know, particularly helpful And I want to give market chance to kind of introduce himself and then provide like a little bit of Talk about what we were able to go through yesterday and then kind of steer the discussion a little bit from there Well, hi joinic I'm flattered that I've been given this role because I'm really the interloper here I'm neither an attorney nor a soccer engineer nor in the music business But I've acquired a boatload of information in the two and a half days that I've been participating in the course Yesterday's in person session involved George Howard from the open music initiative Uh Two gents from uh redbill music house and two gents from ibm When we basically did a walkthrough of of of what? What smart contracts might be able to bring to the open music initiative? With the ability of helping emerging And uh and uh enable them to um Uh make a sustainable living Um the way we ultimately mapped this out was discuss the purpose uh legal technical and social aspects of this from the perspective of these three entities and this perspective of the artist um And uh looking over my notes, uh Uh the issues that we have uh in tandem with michelle's topic are How to deal with uh the performing uh rights organizations, uh It's a very fragmented marketplace Uh, they're granted monopolies by government action Uh, so it necessitates that there are many many intermediaries in the current uh value chain Um, we talked about um Contracts that are simple enough for artists to to use um because song splits can get uh complicated um And uh get amended over time Uh that assignability of rights is a requirement To the fire drill as you guys can Um We have to leave for a fire thing apologies about this. We will get this sorted out at some Thank you It's gone Sorry about that Sorry about that Um sorry for the bonding Um I'm gonna leave it to one of the assistant For the project software Um We should be And uh I'm saved uh on your zion


All right. Hey guys, welcome back to Comic Gettin. We've got a toy review here for you. Actually, we're going to have about three of them over the next few weeks here. The first one we're going to do here, they're all going to be He-Man Master Universe Classics figures. So the first one we're going to do here is the Battle Armor He-Man. Everybody remembers that the original vintage figure was such a cool He-Man figure. It was like almost everybody's most played with He-Man figures because the middle had an action feature to where when you tapped it, it would have a dent in it, similar to this. And if you tapped it again, it would spin around and you'd get a third damage on it. So what Master Universe Classics and Matty Collector did is they captured that feel and that overall look of the figure, but they did take away the action feature. But they kind of did something neat to honor it and I'll go over that here in just a moment. Let's go ahead and go over the basics here of the figure, their articulation mostly. So here we have your standard Master Universe Buckeer. The head moves up and down, left and right, left and right, up and down, side to side, all the way around. It's kind of ball joint. The arms can go out. You can move them up, down, swivel with the biceps, swivel with the wrist. They will bend at the elbow. We have waist articulation, which is really tight on this one. My skeletal was the same one. I was almost afraid. Legs can go out. It is the softer loincloth. They can go forward, backward, bend at the knees. There is swivel here at the cup and of course the legs. The feet can bend and there's no real swivel to them. So there you go. Now I'll go ahead and go over the accessories real quick because those are part of the features of the figure. He-Man just like the original vintage battle armor He-Man. It came with only one accessory and that was his battle axe. He did not come with the standard power sword or shield. Now the other accessories he comes with, as I showed before, are these two extra chess pieces. Because like I said, the original had the action feature where if you tapped it, it would change. Here's how this differs. First you're going to have to undo his battle, his armor here. It just clips off. Kind of like, kind of like so. Now the only thing about this I don't like is it's the more harder plastic. Unlike the other armors that we've had to deal with in the line. So that just comes right off like that. And as you can see it's painted silver to match the armor so it doesn't look funny at the waist. So now what we do is we pop out the middle here. It just snaps right off. And you can replace it with any of the other pieces. Just fit it in and it should snap right in. Make sure I have the right. There we go. I did have it right. Give me a moment. I'll just do it right here. There we go. Nope. It's not this hard. It's because I'm doing it at a weird angle. There we go. Now we're in. See, now it's in there. So then you just take it and you place it back on the figure. Start right back on. Snap it in place. And now he has the battle damage. So and you can do that also with the other one. And of course you can always replace it back with the original good version here. So as cool as it was that they honored that feature. As you can see it was kind of a pain to snap it off and then snap back in. And if you want to do another damage you have to do the same thing. So it would have been kind of neat had they actually just kept that particular action feature. I know Maddie Collector wasn't really keen on doing action features with their figures. Especially early on the line. But that is one action feature I think this one could have benefited from keeping. But like I said he does come with the action. And it is pretty much the same action came with He-Man. The standard He-Man figure. And that could fit in either of his hands. And there you go. Now he's ready to face Battle Armor Skeletor. Which is in another review. So there you have it. My comic hidden friends. Battle Armor He-Man. Overall a really cool figure. They did update the armor a little bit here. The paint job is pretty good. My only issue is having to snap on and off the armor. And then the various chest pieces. But it was really cool also that they did include that option to do that. To stay in line with the vintage. So alright. You can purchase like I said it has been a few years since this guy came out.  Such as eBay. Not sure exactly how much he goes for. I purchased him and the other two I'm doing through a trade. So. But he is out there. He is available and he's a relatively cool figure. And of course when I display him I prefer to display him with the non-damaged chest piece. Alright. See you on the next review.