our Butterick 6386. So let's head to the cutting table where I can talk you through the first step. All right, let's finish off these sleeves. I'm gonna demonstrate one of them and then you guys go ahead and finish the second one on your own. So the first suggestion they have is actually really good any time you're doing a casing, whether it's a waistband or otherwise, but it's to take your seam allowances and to baste them along the raw edge or surged edge so that when we have our casing made and we go to insert our elastic, our elastic is not getting stuck into our seam allowances. So there will be four basting stitches going all the way around. All right, so to make the casing, what they want you to do is turn up your seam allowance of your sleeve along the fold line and on our sleeve pattern, which I don't have nearby, but the fold line is one inch from the raw edge. So they would like for you to fold this up, press it and then after that's done, then turn it in under a quarter of an inch. But as you probably know by now, we're not gonna do that. Just with this fabric, I mean, maybe if we were working with like a twill or something, it would be better, but this fabric is already kind of hard enough to work with. So we're gonna bust out our wash away wonder tape again. We're gonna cut two pieces of this, one for the front and one for the back and that's just gonna help us set in that quarter inch seam allowance. So cut two of them, lay it right on the raw edge of your sleeve opening like so, one for the front, one for the back or vice versa. I don't really know if this is the front or the back to be honest, it doesn't really matter. Okay, like so. And then we are gonna, at the ironing board, we are going to press this down, peel away the backing and then use this as our guide for turning under. Isn't that pretty? Okay, and then if the fold line on the pattern piece is at one inch, we know that they want our finished hem to start there, which means our raw edge will match up to the two inch mark. However, because we are already gonna have this turned under a quarter of an inch, it's actually only going to be one and three quarter inches. You're following that sort of logic and math. Similar to the hem that we did. You know, just calculating where the raw edge ends up getting lined up and then using that to mark. Because if you just mark on the fold line, you can't ever see that fold line, like once you turn it under. So I never do it that way. So we will fold under like this and then we will fold under again like this and that will give us our one inch fold situation. All right, so once you have your sleeve pressed, this is what she ends up looking like where the inside has that beautiful little quarter inch turn. It was super easy to do with the washaway tape. Go ahead and sew this very close to the folded edge, leaving an opening where we can insert our elastic in the next. So anytime I'm working on a sleeve, I do like to remove, I don't know whatever that thing is called, so that I can just slip my sleeve right over the edge. And then I'm gonna be sewing from the inside so that I can make sure that I'm staying very, very close to this folded edge. All right, so there you have it. I have my sleeve completely sewn and I have a little itty-bitty hole. Now I'm a little bit aggressive when it comes to leaving holes open for elastic. You might wanna leave yours open a little bit more than this. So now we need to get like a safety pin. All right, so we got our safety pin. We are going to place that into our elastic on one of the ends and then use this safety pin as a guide to feed our elastic through the casing that we just made. So it just goes into the little hole that we made. See, you don't need a super big hole. That's why I make them so small. And then just, you know, pushing that safety pin through the seam allowances because we basted the seam allowances closed though. It's a very easy process to get through that little section and just, you know, keep going all the way around till you get to the other opening, making sure that you don't lose the other end somewhere along the way. All right, so now the instructions will have you stitch these closed like this and then press them open. I prefer to do it like this where they overlap each other.   Again, trying to make sure we're not twisting it anywhere along the way. That will just be really uncomfortable in the end. So just get it all, get all the little gathers as even as you can through here and then we can remove all of these basting stitches with a seam ripper and then you're gonna need to stitch this guy closed. You can do that by machine or by hand. It's totally up to you. All right, you guys, let's make a hood. What do you say? All right, the first step for the hood is to stay stitch the neck edge of the jacket. Now, this also means it's a very exciting time because we are going to open up those stitches that are holding our zipper closed. This is like a very, very satisfying process. I don't know what it is about it, but I will take my seam ripper, I will place the red ball underneath the seam, working that in and then you're able to just no pun intended, but zip up through your jacket, little bit at a time and reveal your zipper teeth in there. It's so exciting. It's so exciting getting to this part. Okay, so now we've got a revealed and operable zipper should come apart at the bottom because it's a separating zipper. Okay, so that's the zipper. It's fully open, feel free to try it on, be able to spin, see what you think. But regarding the hood, so they want us to stay stitch the neck edge and I'm gonna open up my jacket just like they have the illustration if you're following along like this. So they have the jacket facing up, the zipper open like so and stay stitching as we went over in, what was that, the first video, is a seam line through one layer of the fabric at the seam allowance all the way around from between zipper stitching.  All right, and then while we're over there, let's go ahead and move on to the actual hood construction. There is a center back seam to our hood. My hood is already right sides together from when I cut it out. So we are gonna take this over to the machine and we are gonna stitch from this edge all the way around the top of our hood till we get to the front again. So go ahead and sew this seam. Do not finish the raw edges unless you want your serger stitches to show.  Even when you have your hood up where your face comes out here, the serger stitches will show. So they are instructing us in the next steps that I will show you how to finish this off. So this seam is not exposed at all. It's kind of like a mock French seam. So I'll show you that in the next steps.  Okay, so once you've got your hood sewn, you're gonna press your seam allowances open. And the way that I do this, whenever I've got a really big curve like this, is instead of coming in here and pressing them flat like this, I will lay it just like it went through the machine and I will pull one of the seam allowances back. Pretend this is my iron and I will iron this one side back like that and it serves the exact same purpose as ironing them open and flat. So I've done that and now they want us to trim back. One of the seam allowances to a quarter of an inch and then press the other seam allowance over that, like so. So we're gonna pretend that I'm gonna go ahead and have done all of this, like the whole seam, but I'm just gonna show you one. So we're trimming this one back, right? And again, you're gonna do this whole seam this way. This is like this and now you want to press this over the edge that you just cut. Press it really good just like that. Then while you're over there, after this is pressed closed, like so, they want us to turn this under a quarter of an inch and press it again. So our seam is gonna end up looking like this. Feel free to add some of that washaway tape to this seam allowance. If you feel like that would help you get this turned under really well, go ahead and use that because otherwise I think you're gonna burn a lot of fingertips. Definitely a bit of a tedious process, but take your time with it and you can get it done. They're gonna be around this curve.  Try not to be too much of a perfectionist about it, but I do feel like this is gonna save your fingertips and your sanity. So once you have that, then you want to sew from the right side, making sure you have your needle on where the seam allowance is and then sew a quarter of an inch from the raw edge all the way down the top of your hood. Okay, so now we are going to make our buttonholes in the corners of our hood. The exact same way that we did it for the hem. All right, so now we are gonna address this opening. It might look like we're hemming it, but we are not hemming it. We're hemming it at a later step in order to enclose the upper neck portion of our jacket. So all we need to do right now is turn this under a quarter of an inch. You can try and press that if your fabric is pressing really well, you can use the Wonder Tape if that is helping you out. I am going to go to the machine and just kind of baste this down and then pull out those stitches later, but I wanna make sure that I'm getting a really accurate quarter inch. So I am going to mark at a half an inch all the way along my hood opening because when you turn under a quarter of an inch, the raw edges match up to the half inch mark. All right, so now we are gonna go through the process of attaching this hood to the jacket. So now we are gonna take our jacket and all its glory and we're gonna lay it right sides up like so. We're gonna lay the hood right side down and we are going to pin the raw edges together at these different marking points. So we have the center back and we have the center of the hood. So those get lined up together. Then there is a marking about, I don't know, halfway. That is where the arm seam goes. So this gets a pin. And then we also have a marking closer to the zipper. And it's important to note that your hood is going to be longer than your neckline. Okay, so you've got those three points and then pin in between those and then repeat for the other side. We are gonna take this to the machine and we are going to be basting it together. But similarly to how we did on the front, we can clip the neck edge to our stay stitching so that there is a little bit more ease in the seam allowance to allow these two things to come together a little bit better. So same exact process as what we did for the front. You're gonna clip two, but not through the seam allowance on the jacket, not the hood. So now, whenever we stretch this guy out, you can tell, it's laying a lot flatter. So when we get to our machine, these are gonna spread apart, allowing our seam line to come together seamlessly, okay? So we are gonna stitch from the zipper teeth, from the edge of our jacket. And remember, we clipped all of those zipper teeth. So now we have plenty of clearance and we're gonna start our stitching off of that and then come all the way around and stitch off the seam line as well. Okay, so once we have our hood basted on, we can check and see if there's any bumps or puckers or anything like that. And it looks like I got mine in good. I'm also checking to make sure that the seam allowances are flat like I want them to be. And everything looks pretty good except for this one little tainty, tainty little error here. But okay, so the next step is to take our hood and we have a right side of our jacket and a right side of our hood. So we've got them right sides together and you've got this little overhang where the hood extends beyond the center front, beyond the zipper. So you're gonna take your hood and fold it back onto the zipper tape like this. And you're actually, it's kind of hard to explain but you're gonna fold it over along the zipper and then just ever so slightly, just give it a quick little, oh, like it rolls over, just ever so slightly. Like the teeth are still facing this way. They're not facing any other way. But you'll just feel it with your fingers. Everything just kind of like shifts over a little bit and that's gonna ensure that we get a nice, tight, clean line going up the center front of our jacket into our hood. So pin this in place and do the same thing for the other side. And then we're gonna go back to our machine and we're gonna stitch at a regular stitch length from this end all the way over top of the basting stitches we just made, all the way over to the other end which will be folded over as well. So that's the next step. All right, so now that we have that taken care of, we're actually going to cut away some of this seam allowance.  So here, I'll just show you with the actual scissors. So we're trimming all this back. Again, you're not cutting through any teeth or anything else other than fabric because we trimmed away so many of those teeth in the earlier step. So I'll trim back the other side and I'll grab, go ahead and get all of these like loose threads so that we are ready to go for the next step which is gonna be finishing our neck edge. In order to first finish this, we need to trim back the seam allowances from the jacket and all the jacket seam allowances are the ones that are clipped, the ones that are closest to the jacket and we're gonna leave the hood seam allowances completely whole. We're doing it like this one. Remember when we made the hood, that's the same exact kind of seam that we're about to make now. So let's trim back the jacket seam allowances. Okay, cool. And so now we're gonna go over to the pressing station, my ironing board, and we're gonna turn the hood facing over the, I'm sorry, the hood seam allowance over the jacket seam allowance which has now been trimmed and then now all of that is gonna get turned a third time so that we are gonna go to the machine and end up basting this down and then topstitching it after that. So we'll have completely enclosed the hood which I think will be really, really beautiful. So I'm gonna go to the ironing board. This takes time, it's a little bit tedious, try and save your fingers when you can and then I'll pin all of this in place and show you the process of basting it next. All right, I actually found that ironing process to not be that difficult. So hopefully you guys found the same thing. Okay, so we're gonna be basting from the inside so that we know for sure that we are catching the seam allowances in this stitch and then when we go to topstitch, we'll topstitch from the right side along the basting stitches so that again, we know we're catching. So I just have everything folded like it's supposed to be and I'm gonna place my needle right on the edge of that fold and sew all along this edge. All right, and while we are here at the machine, I'm gonna go ahead and talk you through this next step as well. After we sewed the center front of the hood over the zipper teeth, when you go to pull that out, now you have a complete center front with your hood but you can see that this is not finished on the inside. So we need to turn the hood to the inside so that everything forms one solid smooth line and stitch this down. So we're finishing the hem of the hood. Now the hem of the hood is one inch deep. So we are gonna take our marking tool and measure this hem. The pattern fold line is one inch in but obviously we don't want to force that if our sewing wasn't super accurate and we don't have a one inch hem anymore, we just wanna honor whatever the new hem is. So mine is coming in at 7 eighths of an inch. 7 eighths times two is actually one and three quarters. So this is where I'm going to mark just like I've done for all my other hems. This is where I'm going to mark and then when I go to fold this over the folded turned under edge will match up with that marking there and that'll be my hood hem. The last step in today's video is to just stitch down this hood hem. Remember mine is 7 eighths of an inch away from the raw edge or from the folded edge. So I'm just gonna shimmy this little guy over to just inside the 7 eighths mark. You can kind of feel the hem inside too. So you know where to go from there.  All right, and there is our finished hood. Isn't she beautiful? If you have any questions about the steps I illustrated in today's video please leave them in the comment section below. If you have a photo that you would like to submit with your question, do that over on Instagram. I am at inside the hem. You can DM me and I will be able to better assist you that way. But that's gonna do it for me today y'all. I will see you all tomorrow.


Brought to you by DIS, keeping companies connected with cloud-based solutions. Come on, City! Connor, good to chat with you again. Can I start by getting some team news, if I may? How was Billy Clark progressing? Yeah, Billy's been training with us, so it's nice to get him back out there. He's a good character, so positive news on him. But again, there's another day to go in the preparation, so we'll see where we are at the end of it. Is that a case of just seeing how he reacts to a full week of training and then of course being cautious about bringing him back into the first team fold? Yeah, exactly. I think what we don't want to do is for him to come back and for him to be re-injured. So I think, again, just with the kind of people that we are and as a club, we're all trying to look after these players, yeah. Harry Pritchard, I know he's had some recurring problems with his back. Yeah, we're just trying to finalise exactly what's going to happen with Pritchard, but until we're here, I can't really say. What is the situation with Pritchard in that respect? Is it a case where he's going to have to have some surgery potentially to sort this out, or is this just something that he's going to continuously have to put up with? No, it's been, I said it, thinking maybe a month ago or something where he had an injury, which he brought to the club if you like, and a lot of players have them, and it's just trying to get down to the bottom of it, but he has been training, and then he sort of dropped out of training, and we're just trying to find the right solution for him at the minute, so we're just trying to gather as much info as we can. How close is Bryce? Yeah, he's promising. I know we've probably been saying two, three weeks for a while. Again, people changing their recoveries and things happen, but again, when Bryce does return, it will be safely. Even a position at all to give a time scale on me now, if I can add that you were waiting to try and finalise details on that? I think with what he's had done, he's looking to settle down and it has now, and he's just sort of been advised by the physios, so I wouldn't like to put a time on it. I think everybody's different, everybody's body's recovering different ways, and I think past a few more weeks and maybe we can give a date. At one final one, just Zellie, I know that he's a long-term absentee. Do you expect him to return at all this season or is season done? Again, it's how he gets better from the injury. It's not straightforward all the time, but again, it's kind of been a bad one for him this season where he's had a reoccurrence if you like, a slight reoccurrence. We'll see where he has. We're hopeful that he's going to be back sooner rather than later. In terms of building up fitness back, Richard O'Donnell, of course, been on the bench for the last few games. Is it a case now with Richard and Sam that it's playing for the shirt as opposed to Richard building his fitness back up? Yeah, I think Richard's injury and he came back and had a speedy recovery, which is brilliant, but Sam's also performing well and getting clean sheets and doing his part, so where the type of people where if Sam's doing a good job, then we can't really change it. But again, Richard's got loads of experience and he wants to play as well. So it's fair to say that at this moment in time, Sam Hornby is Bradford City's number one? At this moment in time, yeah, because he's got his chance and he's keeping his shirt, but when it's brilliant because you've got two really good and talented keepers where they keep pushing each other, so they'll both be on the toes, that's for sure. Does that help you at all plan long term as well because I realise he's out of a deal in the summer? Does that give you something to think about in that respect with, of course, Richard's contract lasting until the end of next season? Again, I think we like both of the goalkeepers and you know, I think with contract talks, they'll probably start, you know, towards the end of the season from now and we'll start to chat more in depth, but again, we've got two talented guys and we're working hard to be number one. Looking back on Tuesday night's performance, I'm sure you'll have watched it back here. Once the dust has settled some, what are your reflections on the game colour? Yeah, I thought it was a performance where maybe we started off a little bit slower than we have previously, but you know, at halftime we sort of mentioned a few things and made some good changes, which changed the dynamics a little bit. Obviously, it's tough with all the games that come thick and fast and I felt the changes really changed the game, but overall they came with a game plan and that was to, you know, nick a point or potentially get one on the break. So we had to be patient. We had to provoke them and try and use the spaces that were available, but they made it tough for us so it was brilliant to get the one in the end. It's been referenced a few times since the result, the way that Aurid approached the game. Respectful of your recent form, I think it would be fair to say, wouldn't it, that they've gone there to try and sit back and frustrate you in the end but they're a reflection of how the league perceives you in your form right now? Yeah, obviously, people do their homework and they've seen us and they've potentially thought that coming away from home to Bradford in form is... and they maybe looked at our team and thought we could potentially get them on the counterattack. I'm only sort of guessing here what they were thinking, but I think it's credit to the players that teams are coming here and then trying to nick a point and they're not trying to get three points, they're coming here expecting a big game. What's it done, that kind of result, that kind of performance, grinding it out towards the end of the game? What's that done for the mood and I suppose the belief in the camp? Yeah, it's fantastic, you know, when you come off the pitch and you speak to the guys and you can see in their faces that they're absolutely delighted and we talk about that feeling of winning games and how addictive it is and that's why they work so hard throughout the week, so it was a positive day and night and obviously coming into the training ground again to work to win the next game as well. You've often said over this run that you've been on that the mood in the camp naturally has been one that's been positive but now you've had more time to spend with the players and you're seeing any further developments in the mood and maybe getting at things like fearlessness, character, belief. Are you seeing any further developments in that respect? Yeah, I think a lot of those things the players have through their development as a professional footballer, you're getting to this level, you've got to have some kind of really tough mental attributes and I think it's maybe as winning promotes more confidence, you start seeing them a little bit more but again I think when we play and I think when you see the team you see people who are going to work hard they're going to feel like underdogs are going to do everything they're going to outwork everyone and that's the mentality that we want ultimately. We've just spoken to Elliot Watt it was a really enlightening conversation actually he spoke a lot about how he models his game on certain Premier League professionals at the moment they're active but he also referenced Conor a conversation that you and Mark had with him after the Crawley game in mid-December and for him that 10 minute chat that he had with you guys there's been a big turning point for him in his season and it clearly still rings true what you said that day what was the need for that? Why did you feel you had to sit him down and have a conversation and like that with him? I think Elliot's a really big character you know if I'm right he's 20 years old but he has an influence he's probably acts beyond his years if I'm honest with his leadership skills etc and he's the type of character that he does everything right around the building, away from the building etc he lives like a real pro so for us it was to get him in and for him to know that we believed in his character and we felt that he had a positive influence on others so it was to keep that up and don't be less confident because of your age or anything just keep doing it for the team and yourself. How important is it as managers that you identify those leaders within the group you just said Billy Clark being amongst the players as well as a big character when you see those strengths in individuals you're honing on those? Yeah I think it happens naturally as well you know we've tried to identify these players and if they're already in the building or other clubs in the window so the more of them that are going to set the standards and really you know push everybody and then that's just really positive and that's what we want. The reason I mention that is because I think towards the back end or sorry the first half of the season it was something that was maybe said about Bradford City that they didn't particularly have that midfielder general for the wants of a better phrase dictating things in the middle of the park do you think that the Elliot's okay yes 20 years of age but you said already ages but I know but he can be that kind of player for you in this side? I think he's already showing it and I think he was showing it in parts as well throughout the season maybe that he just feels really good about himself as well at the moment you know he's developing as a person as well as a footballer and he feels good at the minute so for him it's really positive. We're now in the thick of this hectic schedule that we knew that was coming and I know that you and Mark have mentioned a number of occasions about capping minutes and being very wary of how you rotate the players I just wondered then with that in mind does that offer a pathway or opportunity for the likes of Ramon Borell and Matty Ford who we haven't really seen since the arrival in January? Yes you know again things happen at football clubs where people have injuries and things like that and there's a lot of games coming up so it's kind of tough at the minute for them guys because they're working really hard in training and around in the gym etc but because the squad is as it is and the team's doing well and the squad's performing well it's hard to just put those people in because then it'd be other people missing out so they've just got to keep fighting for that chance because there is tough competition. How do you keep their spirits up? Keep their belief going? I think ultimately their character is really important that they understand that they're preparing for their chance and I've spoke about that in the past where when people are wary for the team they're preparing for that chance because if they maybe go off the boil and when they do get opportunity if they're not doing more than the people that are playing around the squad then they're going to maybe fade away and not show the best capabilities so they're just working hard. What have you made of their current situation in the league table? Obviously with the game last night as well and the situation that happened with the changing managers and things like that it's something that we've been looking out at we do our work on the opposition and this is a part of it we want to know as much as we can about Warsaw but they're a good team a really good team we watch teams every week who are playing and they surprise you of the strengths in ways that they can hurt you so Warsaw is going to be another tough test. I often hear the phrase 1% in football management and how you try and gain a little 1% here and there it is a big 1% for the want of a better phrase again the fact that they played last night and you guys played on Tuesday We probably can't use it we've seen player teams that have maybe played the Wednesday and the other team played the Tuesday and they still come out on top the ones that played closer to the game so I don't think there's a perfect formula if you like of if you do this you win or do that you've got to turn up, you've got to be better than them and you've got to earn your luck as well so we're not using that as an excuse. Speaking of your own managerial experience at Bradford City how wary do you have to be of that managerial change and the bounce back from that the buying that could be there?  Thank you. Hi Conor. We've spoken a lot in the past about the players missing the fans but from the point of view of you and Mark how disappointed was it on Tuesday night that there were no fans there to cheer you on your new role as full-time managers? I guess it had been a surreal and unbelievable moment for us to come out and to have the fans there but we just can't control what's happening at the minute it had been brilliant but we've got a job to do and that was maybe at the back of our minds to the game but it had been so good if they were there that's for sure. Has there also been the flip side of that that you've not had the pressure of the fans during the period up till now? Yeah, I guess so. With the fans in there they're expecting a good performance and players to be working hard and winning games so we know the fact that the fans put pressure on managers we definitely know that. Mark said after the game that the league table is not something you're looking at but you are now in the top half but there is now a little points cap between you and the teams above you so I suppose it's even more important now to keep them willing because otherwise that cap is only going to get bigger. Yeah, you know again we'll say we're going to win the next game that's our vision, that's how we work irrelevant of the table and how it's looking at the minute and looking above and below we've got a job to do and that's to win games and that's the forefront of our minds. And did you expect when you came in back in December that you would now be sat here in February, joint full-time managers but also in the top half of the table? Didn't really have any expectations it was more just coming and do a job to your best ability and we tried to do that and we found ourselves in this position but again we know that things can go wrong quickly and you can be here or to zero but you know we'll work hard to make sure that we were trying to put in as best performances as we can. Okay, thanks very much, good luck on Saturday. Thank you. Hi Connor. Hello. You were saying obviously about the league table and playing it now but being in the top half now is it a slightly different mindset now because I mean I know you'd like to sort of say we like to play like underdogs but clearly you're going into games now where you're the form team and people are going to say you're the favourites and it's probably difficult, how easy is it to keep that sort of similar mindset for every game? I think we've again you know it's how you make of it yourself you know if you feel like the underdog and you know you create that mindset it's powerful so we've got yes we're maybe going to favourites in certain games, in certain situations but as long as we feel that we have to and we always say we've got to work the opponent, that's a first and then the quality in the squad should shine. The longer this run goes on the results being so good you do get a bit of a target on your back, don't you because as people have said the opposition want to be the club that's perhaps not your for that run, don't they? Yeah 100% you know maybe they don't look at us as in looking at the run that run or the last 12 games or however they're looking at posing a problem on us and winning us in the game rather than potentially making a point out of us. Is it a source of pride that this run? Do you sort of see it as an incentive to keep it going just because the points are clocking up and people are proud of the results so far? Yeah I think the football club is delighted with the last 12 games and how it's been and gone so far but again we can't get ahead of ourselves we've just got to keep putting in these results and performances. And as you said obviously the change at Walsall I mean in a way it's you and Mark probably know better than anyone the scenario there isn't it because obviously they've got Brian Dutton to come up from as a system manager it's his opportunity now so similarly to yourselves he's probably thinking let's see what I can do here. Yeah you know because was the assistant manager it doesn't mean he shared the same beliefs as the ex-manager so we're not thinking that they're going to be the exact same team they're going to pose different threats and it's our job to make sure that we know what those threats are. Psychologically does it all feel a lot easier but feel nice going into games when you were in the top half rather than when you were 21st 20th not immediately looking over your shoulder when you first came in. Not necessarily I think every game has that pressure for me certainly as well you're going prepared as you can and you're going to win and that's whether you're first or 20th you're going to win every game and that pressure might be external from other things but your mindset's got to always be the same to win games. And just very quickly in terms of the team use Gareth Evans he went straight down the tunnel when he came off on Tuesday is he okay? Yeah we sort of were monitoring today and we're hoping to get results soon. Nothing serious though? No I think we've got good news on that yeah. Brought to you by DIS keeping companies connected with cloud based solutions Come on City!


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George Bruno with the 21 report. We're at the 21 convention the patriarch edition, and I'm talking with Stefan Molinou. Welcome Thanks, George. Great to be here. Absolutely We're talking about fatherhood patriarchs in the light of hope optimism and positivity in a world that's degenerate spiraling down. How do we remain optimistic? I I saw something that you had put out on YouTube recently about parenting some great tips and was reviewing that great solid stuff Absolutely, just total respect for you on that And I thought that would be a great topic. You had said something Conflict should be welcomed. A peaceful household is not necessarily a conflict-free household Yeah, so there's this idea I think it comes a little bit more from women than from men that Conflict is a problem conflict needs to be repressed needs to be avoided and conflicts are in issues The closest friendships I have are people that I've had strong disagreements with we've worked it out We've resolved it and we gained the trust of knowing we can do that and therefore we're free to disagree and both learn from each Other's perspective so this idea of a conflict free household I mean I was raised by a single mom My dad was out of the picture when I was a baby and he was like in Africa and I was in the UK So it was like the entire planet was between us and my mother had this belief That family life should be perfectly tranquil that that there should never be conflicts And so any time that there was a conflict it was a catastrophe, you know It's like rain on your wedding day, you know If every day is your wedding day all rain is a disaster and so it took me a long time To realize appreciate and understand the value of resolving conflicts if you don't have the capacity to have Conflicts with people and resolve them you can't trust them all you're doing is avoiding and given that we're inevitably going to disagree When you avoid conflict you avoid intimacy you avoid trust and I think that men's Greater comfort with conflict is something that society is really lacking I mean see all these free speeches these these bannings that went on Of of men and Laura Luma, of course as well And that's because society is not good at resolving disputes anymore We've just been so dispute avoidant that now it's gotten to this hysterical Semi-physiastic level of just banning people right for disagreeing. That's not how we grow That's not how we resolve things as a society. We need that masculine comfort with disagreement yeah, I saw someone somebody saw a picture of me and Cernovich and the comments down below there was one comment that said I can't believe you would associate with him I Am unsubscribing mm-hmm the comment below that was Wow, you're associating the Cernovich. I'm subscribing so it was this polarization, but I Like that mm-hmm. I like that it shows movement it shows movement It shows stiffness on their part Well men are not allowed to have allies in the modern world. We're not allowed to have groups We're not allowed to have sweat lodges. We're not allowed to have tribes We're not allowed to have you can have a man cave as long as you're not talking to other men about something important And you're just watching some Bruce Willis movie. That's fine Right, and so this is why you see, you know the the the conference here is under threat Yeah, the conference is to do with men's issues that I've attended in the past or all you got bomb threats death threats You name it, right? Because the world the West as a whole has become so female centric that The idea that men can have partnerships that men can talk to each other You know, there's this old cliche and I've known this for years I've talked about this on my show that you know a friend of yours who's a man He's in a bad relationship if the woman starts cutting off contact with his friends, right because she wants to isolate him So she can go full bunny boiler on him without his friends saying oh, she's crazy You got to like get out or you know, this is not good and so on So this isolation of men in modern society is a reason why these conferences are so important And why they're so opposed because if we start getting together and talking about stuff Well, you know, there's great strength in numbers. So we've got to stay isolated, you know We're allowed our video games. We're allowed a solitude. We're allowed a little room But the moment we start getting together with other men and talking about issues and learning from each other You know terrible stuff is gonna happen terrible stuff is gonna happen. That's right I remember at last fall's conference I was sitting next to a woman in the lounge in the bar in the lobby of the hotel that we're meeting at And as the speakers were coming in we see each other once or twice a year handshakes and Bro hugs as like the half, you know, where you kind of bump shoulders kind of thing And I came back to the bar and like every time a guy would come in I would welcome him and so forth and she says, oh, are you guys here for the parade? Well, we didn't know that that the 21 convention was scheduled during pride week right and And uh, the hotel was booked with the pride attendees and she saw men Happy to see each other shaking hands and giving each other a hug And she thought we were part of the pride week. I said, oh, no, no not at all I said, we're here for a masculinity conference And then she started scratching her head. It was more feasible for her to think That we were there congregating for the other thing Then for meeting about manhood masculinity positive masculinity Gearing up to be better men better fathers better citizens I thought that was interesting. That's an old Cliche that keeps men from having honest affection with each other Was that if you have any kind of positive affection for a man, you're gay Right and and that is something that scares men away a lot of times from being affectionate and then you get this Stoic stone faced carved out of granite kind of masculinity That is incredibly fragile right because where do we get our strength? We get our strength from flexibility from reason from community from from relationships or from intimacy And if we have to be isolated then we become weak You know, it's the old cliche that that's a good story, right? Like, you know one stick you can break you put a bundle of sticks together. You can't break them So yeah, we we have to be scared away from talking about our feelings at the same time as society says Well, you're not emotionally available. And then the moment you're emotionally available. It's like, whoa, whoa You must be gay, you know, all of these impossible Standards that men are subjected to and what that does of course is it teaches us to forget about the external cues And just, you know, follow your heart and and be friendly with people and be positive about the future and Listen to and give advice, you know One of the biggest topics that I've had in the past is around this question of single moms and dating single moms and so on And every time I've touched on it in a show I get like endless comments In like, oh, I tried it and it's a disaster now again Sometimes it works and all that but it's kind of the exception to the rule as a whole Can we share our wisdom about this kind of stuff? Well, no because you see that's to the benefit of men as it is talking about Diverse problems and problems of family courts and false allegations of I just did a show with a guy It was falsely his his father was falsely accused according to him by his mother of sexual abuse and a divorce Can we talk about these kinds of threats to men? Well, no because that benefits men and doesn't benefit women and the whole society seems to be around just Whatever women need whatever they want We're just these disposable cogs in a big conveyor belt to bring resources to women And anytime men say well, wait a minute. What's in this for me? How does this benefit me?  And we we have been through throughout history, right? I mean men are used as like lead soldiers just throw it into the fire of war You can't have your own I remember this as a kid like learning about the second world war and the heroics of the men And I remember as a kid charging down a football field Probably about six or seven, you know forward for some George imagining I was in a war and you get all this programming That your life is is just this empty shell to be used in in productivity, you know the old reality that That in in the free supposedly free market Labor-saving devices for women were invented before life-saving devices for men In other words the men who were down there getting coal that they had washing machines They had dryers They had all these wonderful things ovens for women before they developed basic ventilation and masks for the men in the coal mines You know and and so this idea of just being a worker bee and you just you're there to produce You're there to fight if necessary Uh, you're there for resources so that politicians can tax you and give to other groups this idea that society Should listen to men and men should have a say in how things go and that men's needs are important You know, you're really pulling the rug out of a very delicate house of cards that people want to keep standing. Absolutely You were talking about sugar in the household and our reaction to it And how might you bring up my nemesis I mean and that was fascinating. No one ever I never heard anyone talk about that. Yeah. Yeah sugar It's a big problem. Of course, uh, like sugar is the pornography of the buffet, you know And and so sugar is is a big issue Men are incredibly frustrated and thwarted. We've we've got a society You need a license to do everything things are very complicated You need to know people and you need to get the right permits and You remember seeing this guy who was weeping about a star wars Uh a trailer right and I I get where he's coming from because in the star wars universe You just you're swashbuckling.  You can make things happen And there's not like well, I'm going to need this form in triplicate And then you got to have this corporation fill out this form and then you need this legal approval and that just saps men Like we are Adventurous and and we want to go out and explore and and conquer and risk Yes, and this society has become so averse to risk that it's now become anti Masculine like there's a fascinating thing you can people can see this on the internet Go look at playground structures from a hundred years ago Interesting. It's fascinating. See now playground structures. I mean, I'm a dad I go with my daughter to to the playgrounds. They got this soft squishy.   Oh, yeah No, and now like if you go back and you look at these people The kids who were out a hundred years ago. These things just went halfway to the sky You know one drop and you're ding ding ding your way down to like some brain injury And the kids were fine and they got more exercise and they learned how to manage risk But you know, it's like that internet meme where the dad's throwing the the kid up in the sky and and you know What's really happening is the kids like this high above the dad What the kid feels is this high what the mom sees is is that high because women are very cautious And it's a beautiful thing. We need that risk. We need that caution But now society's just become so claustrophobic and so safe obsessed That men almost don't have any particular scope Which is why they pour so much energy into video games where you don't need forms in triplicate You could just go and risk and and take but it's all artificial and it bad for you in the long run again I like video games, but you know It's become a bit of a real sink for for young men in terms of productivity and that's because Achieving something on the screen is so much easier than trying to go out and achieve something in the world in real life.  We've had to find ways to negotiate without that the feminine approach And again, this is very general There's lots of exceptions But the feminine approach tends to be if you have disagreements You spread poisonous rumors about the person until they lose the will to live and there's not that kind of direct You know, they're not gonna have duels and there's not that direct confrontation So this idea that men are just these big bullies and so on, you know Talk to any teenage girl about whether they fear more the boys or the girls when it comes to their reputation And their social standing and their happiness And so I think that once men are taken out of society We lose this capacity to negotiate which is why you get these incredible ugly hit jobs from the media with people They disagree with that's a feminine thing in general And it's why you have banning people is why you have the whole concept of hate speech You know because men can negotiate we can reason and I think for the most part men We don't like to lose but we recognize the benefit of losing an argument Which is that we have something better than before and for women it feels almost too humiliating I think for a lot of women so When men get shuffled more and more out of the public square You end up with these massive tangled complicated disagreements that you can't resolve with reason and evidence And so you end up running into the government you end up with hit pieces trying to destroy people's reputation Or when men are trying to get together at this 21 convention You end up with threats that are designed to shut down the whole thing You know violent violent threats and that's That you you can't run a civilization that way. Yeah. Yeah What would you say are the most important things that we can tell our kids? A lot of dads here are going to be watching this Most important thing men matter men matter Foundationally the civilization that we have It was It's it's a it's a complex combination and we've just taken out half of the whole equation So, yes It was built by men and those men were raised by women and they were fathered by men Right, but the the entire sort of basis of our civilization I played this game with my daughter sometimes in canada if there's an ice storm You know if we're driving around and it's late at night And we'll say hey, let's spot the women up there You know on the hydro lines, you know repairing things and we've yet to see one, right? I mean and every time we see some oil rig You know as like can we spot the woman at the in the oil rig and But it's kind of out of sight right like who is it who we deal with mostly in cities You know service workers or daycare workers teaches a lot of women and that's that's great and women have a lot to contribute But everything we walk on You know the roads the buildings the all the infrastructure that like the women will choose the taps But the men build the sewage systems, you know like the taps are kind of useless without the sewage systems and so men really matter and When men have built a civilization out of you know blood sweat and tears What generally happens is then the aesthetics of that civilization get taken over by women and women make places beautiful Don't get me wrong.  That's about it and women make things beautiful and it's a wonderful part But in the beautification of the civilization built by men What happens is the male contribution gets taken for granted and Men really matter they matter when it comes to parenting the these statistics I'm sure you know them as well as I do George these statistics of what happens On average to children who don't Get fathered. Yeah or catastrophic absolutely absolutely and and lack of Fatherhood or lack of father presence is an environmental toxin For I mean if something came in like there was a gas that was seeping into people's households that produced the promiscuity and produced the aggression and produced the Dropping out of school and the drug use and all of this stuff. We'd be like We've got to stop our whole society find the source of the leak of this toxin and we've got to seal it up because it's Damaging children enormously father absence is incredibly toxic for most children I mean there's some bulletproof kids who get through it. Okay, but for most children So, you know the men really matter and even in the maintenance of our civilization There's this general slowdown that's happening these days, you know planes falling out of the sky potholes increasing You got water problems in flint, you know There's this arc and momentum that men have when they propel a civilization and build it You get this arc You're like, you know if you're going up in a plane and your engine cuts out you still go up for a little while Yeah, you know, but then you know Right. So men really matter and there's a whole cadre and and and propaganda mill in society that's constantly telling men You're toxic. You don't matter. You're negative. If only you're basically just broken women You know, if you were just like women, everything would be wonderful Even though historically female rulers initiate war a lot more than male rulers That's something that people don't usually know So this idea that that the ideal is women and however men Deviate from that ideal is is negative and the problem have to be fixed. Yes, absolutely wrong If you look at how all of this stuff is communicated It's all almost all of it is on infrastructure built by men So without men, we don't have a civilization without women. We don't have beauty in a lot of ways So it's a great compliment to each other, but taking men out of the equation Well, what happens we know what happens is that when men get taken out of the equation Women women get married to the government you end up with socialism and everything falls apart true You did a great series on that too. That was Wonderful. Thank you. Loved it and I've I've been talking to a lot of young men And I'll say uh, so when are you gonna have a family? And not here, but it in my practice and in my travels And a lot of young people are saying this and you might have heard this as well I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world With the way the world is and I think to myself You know, there's never been a Better time or there's never been a good time to bring a child into the world. I mean every era ideal time. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, there's never been an era that's been ideal and there's this darkness. There's this pessimism That's amongst men young men right now What would you say? How would you speak to those men? How would you give them some optimism? a boost of encouragement About building a family Because young men are not building families anymore. They're not building legacies. What would you tell those men? Can I tell them? Tell them tell them directly. All right. Yes. Okay. So guys I completely and totally understand where you're coming from and I'm not going to just say that all of your caution and all Of your concern is misplaced. It's not There are real challenges in the world But here's the thing you're alive and the fact that you maintain your existence means that you're happy to be alive Now when I was growing up if you're like a young younger than me, which is not that hard these days But when I was growing up We were told about all the environmental catastrophes and they were much more imminent than the global warming stuff That's going on at the moment. We had like acid rain hole in the ozone. We were going to run out of plants when I was a kid We were going to run out of oil.  You're happy to be alive and when it comes to money as well because that's like the big thing We're the first generation. You're the first generation growing up poorer and with fewer prospects Than the boomers right then then the elder generation. But here's the thing. You're still the second richest generation in history Out of the 300 or 500 or 700 generations that humanity has existed. You came in second That's not the end of the world. You know, that's not too bad people had kids during the fall of the roman empire People had kids during the black death people have kids during the spanish inquisition People had kids Greeks had kids in in greece when they were christians when they were ruled for 400 years by by the muslim hotoman turks I mean There's always been a reason to not Enjoy life to create life to experience the joys of parenthood and the joys of fatherhood. There's always been a reason Don't let the fear mongering when you're still the second richest and second greatest opportunity generation in human history Don't let people take that away from you. You'll find a way to make it work Some things you have to do with way ahead of planning, right? You want to build a bridge from one side of a canyon to another You got to plan that you got to build it like crazy. You got to meet in the middle You can't drop one rivet without threatening the whole project That's not how family works. How family works is you find someone you love You're a good enough person that bad people are repelled by you and good women are attracted to you Which means you're not going to get pillaged in some divorce court. I've been married for 17 years So I kind of know what i'm talking about with regards to that But with family you take a running leap You jump and the bridge gets built through your momentum. That's the way it's always worked Your income will go up when you get married and your income will go up when you become a father That's just the way it's always worked.  Just take that leap and you will find it amazing How much power and support you will get simply from taking the risk because the greatest risk Is to not have children the greatest risk is to not experience the joys Of parenthood because then the second half of your life in particular Kind of a bleak and empty and lonely place. So fulfill your destiny. Have those kids save the world another message of hope positivity and optimism from a father Stefan mollinou. Thank you, sir. Great pleasure. Thank you


Ollante Tabor, probably one of the most visually perplexing sites within Peru, claimed to be that of the Incas and at an altitude of 2,792 meters above sea level. Once one takes a good look at this place, it becomes near impossible to believe that the Incan civilization, with their access to such limited technologies, could have created such a place. During the Inca Empire, Ollante Tabor was the royal estate of Emperor Paca Cuti. According to academia, when he conquered the region, he built the town and the ceremonial center within. It is such an impressive, perfectly placed strategic structure that, at the time of the Spanish conquest, it served as a stronghold for Manco Inco Yupanqui, leader of the Inca resistance. However, as mentioned many times on our channel, how could a civilization create such astonishing architecture at such an early time within known history? How did they create some of these sites? What purpose could they have served? Some of the ruins that can be found in Peru, and in particular, Ollante Tabor, you cannot help but wonder if, for example, the giant stairs carved into the hillside were intended for human use. Then why create them to such enormous scales? According to the history books around the mid-15th century, the Incan emperor Paca Cuti conquered Ollante Tabor, including the surrounding region. All were incorporated into his personal estate. The emperor then claims to have rebuilt the town with sumptuous constructions and undertook extensive parisang and masterfully irrigating the Eurobomba Valley. Notably without any prior knowledge of these techniques known of. Were these giant ledge steps, once used by giants, or possibly, had a use similar to the ancient site known as Moray? Moray also claimed to be Incan. This mind-boggling site had an astonishing purpose. It seemed the builders of this enormous structure were masters of horticulture. They had somehow figured out that by creating these raised ledges at particular angles to the seasonal winds and sun, using this to slowly acclimatize plants previously not suitable to that climate over many generations, perhaps this is what Ollante Tabor was used for. Moray is little shared by academia. Indeed, its existence and one's function is difficult to explain with modern paradigms. And although not giants, we feel the site's once use was no less impressive.  Although many people have been mystified by the site's characteristics, some even suggesting that its shelf-like construction was once created as steps for giants, its real original use, however, being no less remarkable. The so-called pre-Incas, responsible for its original build, did so with the intention of utilizing these layers of soil to slowly acclimatize plants that were once not used to a certain altitude through a process of selective breeding, eventually taking them far higher than they were ever found before, making it possible to cultivate said herbs, fruits, or vegetables within their high-altitude sanctuaries once virtually impenetrable fortresses so that with these newly adjusted phenotypes of plants, and with the aid of what is the subject of this video, could stay high in the mountains virtually indefinitely, self-sustained thanks to the incredible achievements of Ollante Tabor. The Incomisana Water Temple being the final piece of this now lost people's armory, for although the horticultural knowledge displayed by this lost civilization is evidence of advanced culture, their abilities to control the path of water is another of the pieces of evidence which not only proves that this people were highly capable, but were also unquestionably advanced in their execution of said feats. For although these irrigation systems, or drinking water inflows, are many thousands of years old, most still work to this day. Some of these water features were so well made that even modern re-inhabitors still use several of these systems as they even rival that of the modern system which would replace it, bringing water to the locations. Dr. Richard McSod, who studied the water sources of Incomisana in Ole Tentabo, led a team of researchers from the University of Virginia, known as the Right Water Engineers, from the Right Paleo-Hydrological Institute, and archaeologists Armenda Gabaja Oviedo and Dr. Gordon McCowan, all of whom conducted reverse engineering in an attempt to back-engineer the remarkable achievements seen at the water temple. Located north of the Manjaraki Canal in the Sacred Valley of the Incas at an altitude of 3,000 meters, this sophisticated water complex consists of rooms, open spaces, beautiful complex pools, ornamental fountains, waterfalls, and buried channels. These pre-Incan accomplishments display an intimate knowledge of so-called modern hydraulic principles, even building their channels in such a way as to avoid hydraulic jumps. The water temple's architecture and hydraulic works define Incomisana as a high-status sanctuary for worship of water. Intricate and carefully executed cliff carvings parallel to the water temple add a mystical dimension to the temple's original purpose, which is currently claimed to have been the worship of water. Ancient roads also left by this same elusive group unquestionably tie Olentetabo and the water temple to this once-great now-lost civilization's empire. Who built the Incomisana water temple? How did they build it? Why is the polygonal masonry, something which ancient Peru is synonymous with, found at many of the world's ancient relics? Who were these ancient people? Where did they go? It is undoubtedly an incredible place, one which we find highly compelling. Although school curriculums, historical publishings, permitted TV documentaries, and even national museums all conform to a dreary, limited historical tale in which modern archaeology dictates all. We feel evidence to suggest that a lost civilization once lived, flourished, and built incredible as yet unexplained structures all over our planet is now overwhelming. We have endeavored to explore, unravel, and describe to the world this unimaginably enormous array of impressive, incredibly ancient feats of stone building. By doing so, we feel we have demonstrated that not only is academia severely lacking any explanation or even permitted study of these features, but that this lost civilization before their mysterious disappearance were clearly far in advance of our own current architectural, agricultural, and even technological knowledge. And while the world has begun to awaken to the reality of this group's past existence, we have been busy attempting to uncover just what they were building, who they could have been, and why they were clearly infatuated with the stars. It should be clear to anyone who has explored these unexplained ancient structures that a common reoccurrence, among all, is the inclusion of constellations, whether that be within the alignment of said builds, or indeed etched into the architecture itself. Why would a clearly highly advanced past civilization have been so obsessed with the stars? If one ponders this question without the clouded primitive belief-based explanations and motives academia puts forward, it is a question that becomes highly compelling. In Kiorikancha Kusko, the Golden Star Disc once rested, once part of a large star map. Although funded scholars have seemingly been unable to describe its obvious depictions, many individual researchers have conveniently deciphered this disc with ease. The Golden Star Map, according to an Incan elder, is a map of the sky where their ancestors and Viracocha came from. It has been investigated by academics for over the last 70 years, although this research bared little fruit. Its detail was masterfully produced on one enormous hammered gold sheet, and is believed to have been a mere piece of a map once far larger. How did this ancient people know so much about the stars and the universe around us? Why were they so obsessed with stars? Were the Incas visited by beings from space? Perhaps one day we will find out. Saksahiwaman, meaning royal eagle, is a fortress temple complex which lies at the northern edge of the once great Incan capital of Peru, still known today as Kusko. Apparently constructed during the reign of Pakakutik between 1438 and 1471 AD. According to academia, its massive well-built walls remain a testimony not only to Incan power, but also to their skills of architecture and their approach of blending their monumental structures harmoniously with the natural landscape. The Saksahiwaman site was so well-built in fact, it is still used today for reenactments of Inca-inspired ceremonies. With some of the biggest blocks to be found within ancient ruins anywhere on earth, it's important to remember just how these ancient civilizations managed to move these stones having never actually thought to record such techniques within engravings or writings of any kind remains a mystery. Blocks many tons in weight placed together with such precision, no mortar was ever used yet the site remains intact like a giant dry stone wall. Enormous random shaped stones were apparently effortlessly stacked neatly together or one on top of another forming the amazing walls we see today. Who built Saksahiwaman? Was it really the Incas? If so, how did they manage it? Like all other ancient sites upon earth, archaeological finds are one of the main driving factors behind dating such relics. These investigations will often look for specific artifact types. These objects, known to have places within studied history, are often used to establish a date given. This by no way means that the date is accurate, or indeed the artifacts from a far different type of culture from a very different time in history are not missed, or more often than not ignored. The giant blocks interlocked and sloped to maximize their resistance to earthquake damage, a construction feature somehow understood over 500 years ago. Time has proved its efficiency. Earthquakes have done remarkably little damage to the structures in Peru over the years. Many still in their apparently abandoned state, and the Saksahiwaman is no exception. Did the Incas really build Saksahiwaman, Machu Picchu, etc? Or, like we have postulated regarding the Great Sphinx and the Giza Plateau, was the Incan Empire a mere re-inhabitation of an extraordinarily well-built ancient ruin, left by a far more advanced yet far more ancient civilization? Just one day, Peru will reveal its ancient secret. One of our personal favorite ancient sites is the ancient fortress of Saksahiwaman. We believe this site was built an unimaginably long time ago, yet it would still be a daunting proposition for any invading party. One of the most impressive features of the site, and the reason why it is ranked as one of our favorites, is the inexplicably baffling stonework that makes up the fortress' maze of outer walls.  Although many other sites within Peru undoubtedly contain incredibly precise stonework, Saksahiwaman is the jewel in the crown when it comes to the evidence for a lost advanced civilization. The largest stones in this boundary being 28 feet high, regularly academically estimated to weigh over 120 tons, with more enthusiastic estimates placing the largest stones at around the 300 to 400 ton mark. Located on the outskirts of the ancient Inca capital of Cusco, it rests on an enormous artificially leveled plateau. Iconsis of three outer barriers, gargantuan walls 1,500 feet long and 54 feet wide, created in a strategic zigzag shape.  As recently mentioned in another video, there is overwhelming evidence to suggest two phases of building was undertaken at certain sites within Peru. We feel that the constructors of Saksahiwaman are the same people who indeed built most of ancient Peru. This group were the ones who utilized the enigmatic protuberances even found upon the casing stones on the Great Pyramids. However, interestingly, there was another later phase, and although not as complex, still far more advanced than any academically studied ancestor who are currently claimed as the actual builders. This means that more than one ancient civilization must have called ancient Peru home. A later group, re-inhabiting these sites, flourishing to a point where they were clearly inspired by the site's original builders, becoming highly capable stone builders themselves. How old is Saksahiwaman? Who could have possibly built it? And why did they not utilize the mysterious protuberances found on much of their other stonework throughout Peru? It is undoubtedly one of the most incredible ancient sites still standing on our planet. And thanks to the incredible capabilities of its builders, it will remain standing for many more years to come. It is a site filled with inexplicable features, which we find incredibly compelling. The Great Pyramids of Giza, undoubtedly some of the most incredible ancient monuments to be found anywhere on Earth. Just how old are these structures? 4,000 years? 10,000 years? 100,000 years? We recently uncovered the astonishing megalithic blocks once exposed upon the east side of Chiyops, blocks which indicate that the entire skeletal structure of the pyramid is actually made with blocks similar to those found at Baalbeck. 100-plus ton blocks, revealed at some point within antiquity, most likely done by a jealous ruler in an attempt to destroy and conceal the evidence of this past, more capable civilizations were. Additionally, humans are curious creatures. Not only do we now suspect that destructive phases have befallen the great structure throughout its long life on Earth, but also, like we do today, has also before experienced being marveled at, and conservation efforts in the form of more modern casting stones have been installed, these blocks initially obstructing our view of the seemingly impossible blocks which make up its inner structure. Is there any proof to support such claims of an enormous age to be found anywhere else on Earth? Peru, a place which contains the same uncannily designed impossible pre-Incan architecture. Within the Supe Valley, some 120 miles north of Lima is the Pyramid of Corral, now claimed to be the oldest pyramid on Earth, and the clear erosion which it has experienced clearly makes it an obvious candidate for this title of incredible antiquity, once towering into the heavens, now virtually leveled by erosion over many, many millennia. This site has clearly received no later attention by a capable or interested civilization, left to rot with the overgrown mountains of Peru. Yet, it possesses such similarities in architecture, with ancient Mesopotamia, China, India, and indeed Egypt. Is it now so unforgivable to suspect that all of these structures were actually built by the same civilization, at the same time within history? The only difference being that the well-known and documented Egyptian civilization later moved in on the specific pyramidal structures of Giza for power purposes, while the Inca focused in on the ancient architectural land terracing. Interestingly, and yet more compelling, evidence supports previous hypotheses here on the channel when Paul Kosak discovered Corral in 1948. It received little attention because it appeared to lack any historical artifacts, an unusual absence of any habitational evidence usually saw it at archaeological sites. Could this be due to the sheer age of these monuments? Yet all but the remaining gigantic stones has simply eroded away? Corral is not the only pyramid to be found within Peru. There are many more which share the same evidence of great age. Near the city of Saipan is the largest pyramid concentration in southern America, known as the Pyramids of Takumi or the Valley of the Pyramids. It has no less than three pyramid cities, which together have a stunning total of 250 pyramids. Takumi lies on the southern margin of the valley and is surrounded by fertile agricultural land thanks to the Taimi Canal, which brings water northwards from the Changkei River, a perfect strategic location for a once flourishing civilization. Who were these people? When did they live? Thanks to ongoing research, not only is the officially upheld story surrounding such cities crumbling, but we are now getting closer and closer to finally answering these questions. Kulap, a site that I have previously covered and also personally exposed the true scale of. Seemingly, or more than likely deliberately overlooked by academia, Kulap not only possesses an enormous ancient wall which surrounds the entrance to the site, which according to academia was seemingly placed upon the plateau of a naturally formed hill. However, after personally investigating this site myself, I found that not only had the wall constructed took unimaginable effort to build, but that the site beyond this impenetrable fortress had in fact been backfilled with Earth, artificially creating the plateau that geologists, academics, and archaeologists alike long ignored and merely assumed was selected due to natural features, were in fact artificially created. However, it is clear for all to see that not only was the plateau painstakingly created to backfill to this fortress' wall, but the ingenious entrances were also the work of a people of tremendous intellect. Many of the passageways into the site allow many to enter the passages. However, as the invaders made their way along these elevations to penetrate the fortress itself, not only were they wide open to arrow fire from above from both sides, but also by design, the passageways slowly narrowed to a point where only one person at a time could actually enter the site. However, the purpose of this video is not the astonishing architectural features of the site itself, but possibly an exposure of the true creators of the site, a group of people with characteristics which may come as a shock to some and been long predicted by others. Found deep within a cave system within the site, a burial chamber at the depth of 800 meters, a burial chamber created at this location for the sole purpose of preserving these individuals' remains for as long as possible, and also to avoid the ravages' tomb raiders that have been experienced over the eons by many of the other burial sites by many different cultures. There are many wooden idols that have seemingly been treated with lost technologies and have survived the climate astonishingly well. Yet this set of mummies could expose once and for all who were responsible for this astonishing site and indeed its miraculous characteristics. Thankfully, although much of the ancient tombs had been ravaged by robbers over the years, this absence of mummies didn't deter archaeologists wore in church whose work for 19 years to save lost pechudos and learn its secrets. Seemingly successfully unraveling its innermost protected secrets and possibly coming face to face with its original builders, they were known as the Chachapoya, or the Cloud People by the Incas, who by this stage had re-inhabited the ancient pre-Incan ruins which Dotparo, and due to the ingenious nature of the fortress, the tremendous efforts that went into building it, and the seemingly impenetrable nature of its design, the Cloud People seemingly survived all the way up until the Spanish invasion, only succumbing to the introduction of smallpox, which the Spanish seemingly brought with them. An intriguing characteristic of these enigmatic people is the fact that they left no written language, yet adorned their site with countless stone carvings of orchids, butterflies, and jaguars. According to Warren Church, for more than 500 years, the Chachapoya cut farm terraces and villages into these steep slopes. This burial chamber found deep within the site shows that not only did they display great respect for their dad, but that they were of European origin, white-skinned and blonde-haired, with Church apparently stating that the mummies are of the most beautiful past people he has ever witnessed. Were these mummies the remains of the original builders of this astonishing site, or were they like the Incas, merely re-inhabitations, although how they got there to these Peruvian hills and controllers of Kulap itself remains a mystery? Yet white mummies of a seemingly European ancestry have been found throughout the globe. Does this suggest that the ruling force we so often postulate once existed, that many known as the Atlanteans shared their knowledge across the globe before catastrophe? Regardless of their ethnicity, we find such research by church highly admirable, and such discoveries highly compelling. If you enjoy our content, if you think our battle worthy, please help us to continue our voyage of discovery in unraveling the mysteries of history. Links to donate can be found within the description. Without you, we cannot survive. Thank you. Chachapoyas is an ancient city once effortlessly mingled among the mountains of northern Peru. At an elevation of 2,335 meters, it is still an inhabited location that was once the home of a little known or indeed understood enigmatic civilization known as the Cloud People, situated in the mountains far from the Peruvian coast, although this didn't apparently stop them somehow, creating elaborate jewelry from seashells. Chachapoyas remains extremely isolated to this day. Only ever accessed by enthusiastic hikers, adventurers, and airlifted scientists, it is a site like many others we have covered which dot our planet, that through our own research has been revealed to have a contradictory explanation for their construction. Indeed, these sites are dated to and subsequently tagged to convenient culprits. We have not only found compelling evidence to suggest that this most isolated, once thriving location is one of the oldest pre-Incan relics anywhere in Peru, but that the datings of such sites is often a funded conspiracy rather than a reality. Los Pinchudos is an elaborate Chachapoya tomb complex molded into a high rock face. It is a natural and cultural World Heritage Site, and is guarded 365 days of the year and closed off to all except specific scientific exploration. What is remarkable about the site is the fact that the wooden statues marking the tombs have mysteriously survived the ages. These statues were used by academia to date the site, however, the explanation for the statue's survival is apparently, quote, an arid climate, end quote. The actual site displays evidence of a far greater antiquity than these timber ghosts. Wooden artifacts rarely survive the humidity found within the Peruvian mountains, and although scientists attribute the figure's preservation to the site's location in an arid climate, the site, when discovered, was in such disrepair, an emergency conservation effort was launched to save it from further erosion. Many believe that the tombs would have been lost completely without church and Peruvian conservator Ricardo Morales Gamara, who restored the eroding foundations. The clay and stone tombs of the complex also have wooden roofs and have surviving Inca paint in red, yellow, black and white. We feel, due to the other compelling evidence that has been gathered and subsequently shared upon our channel, along with the extensive erosion found at many of the sites attributed to the Chachapoyas, that there may be a high chance that the wooden roofing and statues commemorating the graves may have been another conservation effort performed by people placed more recently within history. People, modern academia, claim as the original builders. Is it possible that with the extensive erosion evident at the site, in contrast to the highly preserved and seemingly recent wooden monuments and protective roofing, that we are actually looking at more than two building phases upon these tombs? An original construction, followed by a later Incan conservation effort, and then a modern correction? We find the evidence to suggest such highly compelling. We recently covered the enigmatic ancient civilization that could once be found among the tops of the mountains within northern Peru. Known as the Chachapoyas, or cloud people, they were a race of possible ancient giants that are said to have been responsible for some of the most precariously positioned and most amazingly constructed ancient builds to be found anywhere on Earth, let alone Peru. And the most astonishing of these has to be the ancient site known as Kulap. Kulap is a little academically shared, thus little known ancient Peruvian site, located within the Peruvian mountains near the towns of Maria and Tingo, in the southern part of the region of Amazonas. According to particularly funded parties, it was built by the Chachapoyas culture a mere 1,400 years ago, on a ridge overlooking the Utkubamba Valley. However, once one has an opportunity to visually explore this untouched, once lost ruin, the unexplainable extent of the groundwork that went into creating the site becomes apparent. What first appears to be long brick-walled fortifications are soon realized to actually be enormous, seemingly unimaginably huge groundworks built by brick, creating multi-meter reinforced walls backfilled and leveled with Earth, creating a ruin which is now what can only be seen as man-made geology. Groundworks the size of no other anywhere on Earth, created apparently quite recently within history without any real record of the astonishing event, or more importantly, cataloging of the methods used found anywhere among the sites. The city has three entrances, two to the east and the other one to the west. The main entrance has a trapezoid shape, having once also having a corrobill arch. This entrance was siege-proof due to its cunning shape. It becomes narrower and narrower until it allows the passage of only one person at a time. Astonishing architecture built with precision into enormous constructions. There are over 550 structures within the fort, nearly all of which having once been circular. On the southwestern part of the settlement, there is a 5.5 meters high structure known as El Tentero or Templo Mayor, Spanish for main temple. Ceremonial archeological remains have been found at this location and it is hypothesized that the building may have been used as a solar observatory. Kulap was accidentally rediscovered in 1843 by Juan Cresostomo Nieto, a judge from the city of Chachapoyas. In 1870, Antonio Reamonde made the first known survey of the site ever since details regarding the site have slowly been revealed. Astonishing ruins, a place like many others around the globe which also display seemingly impossible feats of engineering accompanied by complete lack of any recording or explanation for said tasks, undoubtedly predates its academic dating. The question is, who could have built such astonishing architecture atop the largest groundworks anywhere on earth? How did they complete such a mammoth task at such a high altitude? Perhaps one day we will find out. Kulap, a site that I have previously covered and also personally exposed the true scale of, seemingly or more than likely deliberately overlooked by academia, Kulap not only possesses an enormous ancient wall which surrounds the entrance to the site which according to academia was seemingly placed upon the plateau of a naturally formed hill. However, after personally investigating this site myself, I found that not only had the wall constructed took unimaginable effort to build but that the site beyond this impenetrable fortress had in fact been backfilled with earth, artificially creating the plateau that geologists, academics and archeologists alike long ignored and merely assumed was selected due to natural features, were in fact artificially created. However, it is clear for all to see that not only was the plateau painstakingly created to backfill to this fortress's wall but the ingenious entrances were also the work of a people of tremendous intellect. Many of the passageways into the site allow many to enter the passages. However, as the invaders made their way along these elevations to penetrate the fortress itself, not only were they wide open to arrow fire from above from both sides but also by design, the passageways slowly narrowed to a point where only one person at a time could actually enter the site. However, the purpose of this video is not the astonishing architectural features of the site itself but possibly an exposure of the true creators of the site, a group of people with characteristics which may come as a shock to some and been long predicted by others. Found deep within a cave system within the site, a burial chamber at the depth of 800 meters, a burial chamber created at this location for the sole purpose of preserving these individuals' remains for as long as possible and also to avoid the ravages' tomb raiders that have been experienced over the eons by many of the other burial sites by many different cultures. There are many wooden idols that have seemingly been treated with lost technologies and have survived the climate astonishingly well. Yet, this set of mummies could expose once and for all who were responsible for this astonishing site and indeed its miraculous characteristics. Thankfully, although much of the ancient tombs had been ravaged by robbers over the years, this absence of mummies didn't deter archeologist Warren Church, whose work for 19 years to save lost pechudos and learn its secrets. Seemingly successfully unraveling its innermost protected secrets and possibly coming face-to-face with its original builders, they were known as the Chachapoya, or the Cloud People by the Incas, who by this stage had re-inhabited the ancient pre-Incan ruins, which Dotparo, and due to the ingenious nature of the fortress, the tremendous efforts that went into building it and the seemingly impenetrable nature of its design, the Cloud People seemingly survived all the way up until the Spanish invasion, only succumbing to the introduction of smallpox, which the Spanish seemingly brought with them. An intriguing characteristic of these enigmatic people is the fact that they left no written language yet adorned their site with countless stone carvings of orchids, butterflies, and jaguars. According to Warren Church, for more than 500 years, the Chachapoya cut farm terraces and villages into these steep slopes. This burial chamber found deep within the site shows that not only did they display great respect for their dad, but that they were of European origin, white-skinned and blonde-haired, with Church apparently stating that the mummies are of the most beautiful past people he has ever witnessed. Were these mummies the remains of the original builders of this astonishing site, or were they like the Incas, merely re-inhabitations, although how they got there to these Peruvian hills and controllers of Kulap itself remains a mystery? Yet white mummies of a seemingly European ancestry have been found throughout the globe. Does this suggest that the ruling force we so often postulate once existed, that many known as the Atlanteans shared their knowledge across the globe before catastrophe? Regardless of their ethnicity, we find such research by Church highly admirable and such discoveries highly compelling. If you enjoy our content, if you think our battle worthy, please help us to continue our voyage of discovery in unraveling the mysteries of history. Links to donate can be found within the description. Without you, we cannot survive. Thank you. Homes, towns, religious structures, an entire living infrastructure of a once highly successful, highly capable people. Managing to expertly fuse their existence harmoniously with the surrounding environment, creating structures which left little, if any impact on the surrounding landscape, structures still usable even to this day. Located within Abanque, a province in the region of Apurimac, Sayhuite has been conveniently dated to the period of the Incan Empire between the 15th and 16th centuries AD. However, like many sites dotted around Peru and indeed the world, an explanation as to how these cultures achieve such wonders with such primitive access to construction or tools is not forthcoming. Compared to other Incan sites, Sayhuite is also a complete ruin, leading the more observant, and indeed the free thinking, self-funded geologists among us to suspect that it may actually be even older than the pre-Incas responsible for Machu Picchu, yet the most noteworthy object at Sayhuite and the reason for our video is its monolith. A mysterious boulder drenched in intricate, purposely placed carvings. Interestingly, the word Sayhuite originated from the Quechua word, seweda, which translates as place of orientation. The site is located on the top of a terraced hill. Dedicated research has also revealed that the site was once home to an enclosed sanctuary. Yet all that remains of this sanctuary today is a few leveled platforms and the monolith. It contains more than 200 geometric and zoomorphic figures, including reptiles, frogs, felines, topographical hydraulic models, complete with terraces, ponds, rivers, tunnels, and irrigation channels. The functions or purposes of the stone are not academically known. Yet others suspect it was a map of the once existing complex created by a culture able of moving tremendous weights and carving stone with relative ease. Researcher Dr. Arlen Andrews Sr. believes the monolith was used as a scale model to design, develop, test, and document the water flow for public water projects, and to teach ancient engineers and technicians the concepts and practices required. Quote, the rock was edited several times with new material, either altering the paths of the water or adding routes altogether, end quote. Clearly, a remarkable artifact left by a remarkable civilization. Thanks for watching, guys, and until next time, take care.


I played for a guy named Vincent T. Lombardi, and I never forget one coming he made. He said, don't kid yourself.  And boy have I ever found that to be true. I remember going home telling my mother who is truly, is my role model in many ways.  You know, she didn't want to discourage me, but she didn't want to make me feel like it would be easy. And maybe that was one of the best things she could have done was to make me realize I would have to earn this right. It wouldn't be given, it wouldn't be easy, but if you really wanted, pursue it. And that's what I've done all my life. When I was named defensive captain, I said, why me? I really did convince myself after a while that I brought some leadership, that I brought something to the team that said, hey guys, follow me. And there was guys that believed or was willing to follow. We chose the name closing the gap. And then in choosing that title, I think I was saying, you know, I want to talk about everything in my life, from bottom to top, in a sense of what I was able to achieve. And I sit here today not saying that I completely closed the gap, but at least I got closer to achieving those things that I wanted, than maybe I ever could have expected.


Is that a nice ring to it? That definitely has a nice ring to it. You know, what a year it's been so far. We're definitely not done. But this is a great first step into, you know, the ultimate goal, you know, going out there and winning a World Series.  This is definitely something special. What do you think makes this group such a tight-knit group? You know, every single guy that walks in this room, you know, they check their ego at the door. And I think that's something that's pretty special. You can look around this room. We've got MVPs. We've got All-Stars, Silver Slugger, you know, winners. And you can never tell. World Series champions in here as well. And you can never tell. Guys just continue to walk in, you know, and just try to figure out what they can do to help this team win. And when you've got 26 guys like that pulling on the same rope, you know, good things are going to happen. Do you feel like you guys are starting to come together at the right time? Are you getting guys back healthy? The lineup is becoming more whole? Yeah, I think so. It's tough to say.   It says, do your job. You can ask every single guy in here. I think when they step out on that field, all they're focused on is going out there and trying to do their job and not focused on stats, not focused on their personal stuff. And when you've got guys doing that, no good things are going to happen. Nester's creeping in. He's making me nervous over here. This team has had confidence from day one. Where do you think that confidence comes from? Just believing in each other.  You know, it's an impressive room and a special room to be in. You know, so I think our confidence and our belief comes in each other. You know, trusting each other day in and day out. And there's been so many games this year where we've been down and out, down five runs, and we just look at each other and say, hey, you know, let's pick it up, let's do it. And when you have that type of bond and this, you know, special chemistry, you know, anything's possible. Why do you like this team's chances heading into the postseason? Like I said, we got a lot of bad dudes in this room and, you know, guys that are definitely hungry.  You've been under a lot of pressure, lately obvious, for obvious reasons. But how have you been able to maintain your discipline at the plate? You know, it's the trust of my teammates.  And, you know, my ultimate goal is always to go out there and win the game. You know, I'm not focused on the past, not focused on the future. I'm focused on what I can do tonight, what I can do in the box to, you know, help the team win. And if it's me taking a walk, if it's me hitting the base hit, home or whatever, you know, I'm going to go out there and do it. So, you know, it's having that focus and having the trust of my teammates. I think that's what ultimately drives me day in and day out.