Yeah, totally. Let's plug it over there. Michelle, can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you now. Michelle? Yes, we can hear you. Can you hear me? Rafael, if that's you, I can hear you. I can hear you, Michelle. I can hear everybody. ID, followed by any number. Please re-enter your meeting ID, followed by pound. Brad's trying to get on it looks like I don't know if somebody is making a panelist or something. He's calling from Chicago, so he may not be showing up with his normal number. Or IP address or whatever. Okay, and it's for Brad? Yeah, correct, Brad Calkins. Okay, I see him. Let me promote him now. Rafael, are you able to hear us yet? So 845-8705-3890. Hi, Michelle. I can hear Rafael and Donna, it sounds like. Can you guys hear me? Yes, we can hear you now. Hey, Brad. Yeah. Technical difficulties here at the best western end, but. Are you over there with Donna? Yes. Don't be laughing. Hey, there you go. Okay, I think we have everybody on it now. And I believe that we all can be heard. So just let me know when you're ready to get started and I can stop sharing my screen. One more thing here I got to do. It's obviously some kind of audio connection. I don't know if it. It didn't be hotel-wise, but. Probably our firewall. And just trying to turn the volume. Down on my laptop, but it's not letting me. Cause like every three minutes is weird. Space. Sound comes on. Let's at least maybe get started and then I'll see if I can. Okay. All right folks, I apologize. We're going to go ahead and get started with our answer. PBI eight November meeting for November eight. 11 a.m. Or actually it's 1107. And I'd like to welcome you all before I get started.  An advisement. Given that our meeting is being held through. Zoom. So. Let's see. Okay. So due to the provisions in the governor's executive order and 2520 and in 2920, which is spent certain requirements of the Brown act. And the. The director of the health officer of the county of Sonoma to shelter in place. To minimize the spread of the coronavirus. The center of that tourism business improvement area. Board committee will be conducting today's meeting in a virtual setting using zoom webinar. Committee members and staff are participating from remote locations. And are practicing appropriate social distancing. And will be able to do so by utilizing the raise hand feature on their zoom interface. Or by pressing star nine on their phone. And they'll be given the opportunity or ability to address the committee. Members of the public may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website. And as noted on the agenda. Members of the public wishing to speak during item three public comments or during our public hearing items. We'll be able to do so by utilizing the raise hand feature on the agenda for the meeting. Thank you for that. And I'm going to now call the road call. So if you could please announce your name and the name of the agency that you are involved with. Donna, thank you Donna. The Anderson best Western plus one country. Thank you. You're rumbles center as a Metro chamber. Morning, Peter. Thank you. Brad Culkin's VSR staff. Thank you. That's it. Madam Secretary, if you please record that. Thank you so much. Thank you to everybody. Moving on to our exciting agenda, and we have item number two, which is actually public comments. If we have any members of the public wishing to make a comment not listed on today's agenda, Madam Secretary. I am not seeing any hands at this time. All right. Thank you so much. Since there aren't any comments, then we'll move on to item 3, actually 3.1, which is the approval of the minutes from our July 22nd meeting. I'd like to hear a motion if there aren't any amendments to those minutes in order to approve the minutes. I did read it. I'll approve it. Okay. Donna, a motion to approve the minutes from July. Someone one second. Also. Okay. All those in favor say aye, approving the meeting minutes from November. Aye. Okay. Any opposed? Aye. The minutes approved. Thank you. Moving on to item 3.2, it's actually the minutes, the other minutes from our September 23rd meeting. So if there aren't any changes or suggestions or modifications, amendments, and such, I'd like to hear a motion to get those minutes approved. Moves. Second. Donna, seconds. Everyone in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Great. Minutes approved for September for our 23rd to September meeting. Thank you. All right. Moving on to, down to new business, I'm actually going to switch the order a little bit this morning. I apologize for that. And I think I'm within the right to do so. And we're actually going to take a look at the event support applications that came in in the last couple of days.  And we have included the attachments as well as the hyperlinks. So hopefully you've had a chance to review those applications. And then we'll go ahead and move on to item 4, which is the strategic objectives for 2022. So at this moment, I would like to review the three applications that came in. And let's go ahead and start with the center of Turkey Trot. And then we'll need to decide if what we're going to do in terms of supporting the event or not supporting the event. Chair Raphael. Yes. As we get into this, can I suggest since we, this is our last meeting and we currently only have 5,000 left, that we go through each one before take and then return to take a vote on support so that we have a chance to talk about them all. Understanding what we have left and then we can come back and do the individual votes for support. Yeah, that's actually an excellent suggestion. So let's go ahead and briefly take a look if you haven't done so. And then I usually just provide some highlights. But then let's go ahead and go through all three of them. And then follow up with our decision to either support, given that we have a little funds left or not. So then the first one that you'll see is the Turkey Trot. It's an event that has been apparently very successful in the city of Hillsburg. They are having the event for the first time in the city of Santa Rosa. It's actually right around Thanksgiving. You don't see the dates right away, but it's following Thanksgiving holiday, I believe. And it calls for lots of participants, quite a few runners. Apparently, there are some levels. And anyway, that's a little bit of of insight regarding the Turkey Trot. Sounds like a pretty exciting event, athletic. And they also state that. Average, do you have a chance to look at it? What do they know? I'm sorry. What do they use the money for? What's the money going for? They have four thousand five hundred for downtown Santa Rosa road closures and five hundred dollars for digital advertising out of their five thousand requests. Oh, here we go. OK, yeah. So the app is five thousand dollars and the total cost of the event is around twenty thousand or so. And it'll be it's a five K round throughout the downtown area of Santa Rosa. And then it will score a square at the exact day. I mean, I mean, we don't know if it's. Oh, yeah, sorry, let me clarify for that. It's actually November 25th Thanksgiving Day, isn't it? Well, you have some highlights regarding that event. So let's just park this one here for a second. And now let's move on to the next one, which is the Wine Country Distillery Festival. And I think this one here as well. Yeah, so this one's actually taking place in March of next year. So they are hoping that things are open back up again. It is held at the Luther Bourbon Center in the East lawn. It is, I believe, a returning event. This would be the third year and they did take a break in 2020, of course, through the pandemic. And the estimated cost is around twenty five thousand dollars. And the event support request is for five thousand dollars to do digital digital and print marketing and also do outreach and promotion in the Sacramento region, as well as San Francisco, East Bay and Silicon Valley. And so that's the second one. And again, so that one is slated for March 12th to be held at the LBC. And then the third one, it's actually one that we are somewhat familiar with is the golf tournament and the the acronym is AJGA, and it takes place in the city of Windsor. This has been going on for quite a few years. Seventy eight junior golfers from around the world. Eight ranges between twelve and nineteen. And so the Windsor Golf Force, I said, is returning and the total cost to run the entire event is ballpark figure twenty eight thousand dollars. And their request for event support is ten thousand dollars. And that is to do for the purpose of doing marketing, advertising, promotional materials and so on. All right, so those are the three. They also estimate, and I forgot to mention the estimated night or I mean rooms that will be reserved. For this one in particular, there's around one hundred and seventy five rooms here in the city of Santa Rosa and for the wine distillery, they estimate something around three hundred rooms and for the Turkey Trot, twenty rooms in twenty twenty one. OK, so you have it as those are the highlights regarding these three awesome applications. And then now we just need to decide if given with the very little funds we have left for the year, if we can go ahead and provide some support for some of these. Chair, can I review? Can I go over some of the thoughts on the three of those? Absolutely. Uh, as mentioned in the Turkey Trot, they are looking for road closures and digital advertising. I think the digital advertising would be a great, the five hundred would be a great opportunity in digital advertising. We do only have a week to go, but they do show they did show a preliminary zip code analysis that there is some people coming from outside the area. It also allows us to talk about the bigger picture, what's going on downtown with the ice rink and winter lights, because that's all part of the bigger picture than just the Turkey Trot. So I think that five hundred for digital advertising, given our limited funds, would be a good use for them for the distillery festival. Just as a note, Chris, our director of marketing and I have been working with her for a long time. She did the first event in nineteen, where we found out afterwards and started talking and trying to do the twenty twenty one. Unfortunately, we know that later that got put in a high eighties. I think of the three, this is the perfect example of what we're looking for an event support. It has a high potential for out of town room nights. It has even more interesting as I think it really has a chance to grow over the future years and some working for giving her giving this funds, supporting funds for marketing outside our five county area would be a great. Long would be a good long term investments because it also allows us to talk more about the spirits market. We've, as we know, we do very well with the wine and beer market, not as much with the spirits market. So that would also give us that opportunity. And like I said, we've already had multiple discussions with Lindsey and are excited about potential on this one. So I would recommend that a large, the largest portion goes towards the Distillery Festival and the American Junior Golf. As you had mentioned, we have partnered with them before. We've always required, though, that if we do support them, that the the lodging regardless of what they do, the lodging must be at any SRT, BIA location. As we know, the first year we wanted to support them, but they went to Windsor. So we had to cancel our support because we're obviously not supporting anything that's going to the Windsor hotels. And I think last time we also paid the money directly to the lodging so that it goes directly to cover the lodging costs of the teams or the players. Do you know what they're planning on putting the staff in Santa Rosa? Yes, that is the requirement. The staff and the players must be in in Santa Rosa. The only thing we don't have control over are the parents, because they can book where they want. But I'd say a majority of the parents want to be at the host hotel. There's always going to be some parents that have preferences that will stay outside the area. We can't control that. But most of them do want to be wherever the host hotel is. And that is required to be in Santa Rosa. Any other comments or thoughts before we move on to a vote? And also, well, anyway, go ahead. How do you have? Brad, did you think we had 5,000 total? OK, and the city is a city also has another 5,000 total. No, that's the total. So it's 2,500 each, but 5,000 total. Thank you for that clarification. So just following on that thread that that Brad was discussing, you know, if we start with the Turkey Trot at five for five hundred for digital marketing and then scale that up as we go to something like I'm just putting a I'm putting something out there to attack or to, you know, just to start the conversation, something like five hundred for the Turkey Trot 15 for golf and that would give three for the distillery. So I just put put that marker out there and whatever reactions. I was really close to what you're thinking, Peter. I was thinking five hundred for the Turkey, a thousand for the golf and thirty five hundred for the distillers. I'd be willing to meet you in the middle. But if that's your motion, I'd be willing to second it. I'll make a motion to approve. Yeah, sorry, before we I wanted to check if there were any comments from the public. If we have any members of the public, Michelle, willing to give any input regarding these events, Michelle. Yes, I am not seeing any hands at this time. OK, all right, thank you. OK, yeah, I mean, that sounds ideal.  I think it's going to team up really well with the skin rink and the lighting of the tree. And of course, the junior golfing tournament is always very exciting. And I'm also very excited to see something related to the Distillery Festival returning to the area as well, given that this this will be the third or fourth year. So, yeah, that's right. So I heard a motion to do the five hundred for the Turkey, five hundred. Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to catch you off there. I would say five hundred for the Turkey run to be used for digital marketing. One thousand for golf to be used for expenses within the S.R. TVA boundaries and then thirty five hundred for the distillers would be my motion. Second. OK, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye, OK. So motion approved, approved to do to do that breakdown as such. And those organizations will receive those funds for those particulars. All right, so that takes care of that agenda item. And now I wanted to move on to the next item, which I jumped. And I apologize for jumping, but I wanted to get that out of the way. And now we move on to the strategic objectives for twenty twenty two. And then it's basically regarding event support and what exactly what what else can we do with some of these funds that are available for event support? Do we want to eventually provide the funding for a major, large event? Do we want to have returning events continue to be supported? Or do we want brand new event? And that's what I wanted to have a little bit more conversation on. And I just want to hear a little bit of your input and then see worth where that goes. I mean, I think just depending on new events will be good.  Everybody hear that from Donna? I miss some of it. What's some of the new events with me? I mean, I agree to keep contributing to the ones that bring us business every year. But new business would be good, depending on what it is. My thoughts are if it's put in heads and beds, I think new events would be ideal because especially when you get them to reoccur every year and become self-sustaining. I don't mind helping out reoccurring events for the first few years until they really get established.  I mean, they've been replying for support for every year, I think since we've been around. And I don't know if I should be wrong on that. But I don't think we should be like a permanent funding source. I think, you know, if they need it or something, then we could consider it. But I think our primary objective needs to be to put heads and beds. And if we can get new events like races and bike rides and distillery festivals and whatever that brings people here and becomes a regular thing that's self-sustaining. That, in my opinion, should be our primary goal or whatever. I think one way it looks like we lost Brad. Oh, here he comes. I kind of feel like it's a, it's not an either or. I'd really like to see us have a, have more of a conversation. Then we probably have time and space for today to talk about identifying a limited number one, two, maybe three events that we are committed to in a, in a significant way, right? And that is just sort of a budget set aside that we have that we're going to support. And we don't need to go through application process. We don't need to go through application process. We don't need to worry about timing. We just know in X year, we're going to put Y dollars to events, A, B, and C. And then that's not all of the funds that we would have available. We would have some set aside for things that might come up. And that, that might be where we identify these new, these new events that sort of spark, up from grassroots and people want to bring their, whatever events to Santa Rosa. And it's a great opportunity to start building a relationship. And, you know, maybe over time that becomes the, the long standing event that we're going to be committed to for the long haul. But from an event production standpoint, I think it's really important for us to, to have some sort of stability in their planning. They know that they've got a partner, you know, is what I mean. They know that they've got a partner in us for, you know, a number of years. Should everything go okay. Right.  You know. And again, not, not at the exclusion of events that might come up, but, but to provide a real stability there. Yeah, I really like what I'm hearing. And, I'm looking forward to seeing what the outcome is going to be for the skating rink. Cause I think that would be a So, in particular, that event wouldn't necessarily be applying every year, but we would set some funding aside to definitely have this and, again, promote Santa Rosa in such a way that, you know, we have this going on every holiday season, for example. But is that event putting heads in beds? I don't think it is. If it is, I don't think it's a whole lot. I think when we set up this funding and in this board, the goal was to put heads in bed and bring in events that do that. And I don't think a skating rink. I mean, I think it's a great event. Don't get me wrong. I think it's wonderful. I love it. I think it's awesome. I don't think it's bringing in overnight stays. I think let's let's see before we make that decision or that evaluation of it. I'm in the middle of cleaning it right now. So, you know, let's see, we do know that it's getting the media that we're putting out there is getting a lot of attention and I don't have the breakdown of outside versus in town but there, I think this is part of that longer discussion as well of we, you know, we might want to set up some additional time for of does having a skating rink bring in, and I'm just using this as an example, right, it could be anything could be whatever could be the could be the distillery festival that I just that we just perfect could be anything but having an event that gets attention, but maybe not a room night on that particular night, but bring somebody back because, you know, they they saw that event and they think it's wonderful and now they're going to come back for an extended weekend at another time. It's not it's, it's a harder connection right between that one funding decision and that decision to have the of an individual to stay, but I think that is really impactful and I don't think that we should discount that. And so I not to get into the discussion today right but I that's a thread that I'd like to pick up. Okay. Sorry Mike kept cutting out. Those are all I mean there's lots of options I think the one that we've we've talked about in the past and we looked at and what some other locations do is put a cap on the number of times an event can apply or be funded. So it would be something like a three year cap on existing events so it goes back to I think it satisfies the conversation of allowing for more new events because existing events aren't enough taking up the limited funding. But it still gives you seed money to help someone grow for a couple years. I think there's always going to be an exception there could be an exception if we sign a long term contract with someone, but we would know that in advance. So something like that would allow you to have a little bit of both where you would have that money and then also I think we discussed informally. I think Peter mentioned to the funding issue you know if we do go back if we do and we looked at this one time, doing just instead of this meeting every other month, do a large funding round in January and a smaller funding round in June. That gets you to set up the year but still gives you a little bit of leeway if something good comes along towards the end of budget changes versus doing it all in January. And then there is also the option of reorganizing the application to emphasize the marketing and media plan for their organizations for just for just room nights. I mean, I agree with Todd there's got to be some correlation somehow and whether it's the right marketing opportunity then that would be emphasized on their marketing plan what are they, what is the event organizer doing so that's not up to if we're going to if the BIA is going to fund it they're not leaving it up to BSR to do all the marketing so what kind of marketing is that event also doing to help promote Santa Rosa as an overnight destination and as Peter mentioned it doesn't always have to lead to that one specific weekend or day, but what is the organizer doing to help promote so that someone may see it and say you know what my schedule is full that weekend but Santa Rosa sounds really cool I am going to plan something in another month or six months or something like that. Dana you have any thoughts. No, I totally agree with Todd though on you know heads to bed because I mean after all with money is coming from from hotels. So, you know, I agree with Todd on that end. All right, well, this is a good start of the conversation what I like to do is then definitely add this item on to a future agenda and continue the discussion. I think we're on to a good start and realizing you know what what kind of modifications we can make as we move along, and then we allocate those funds, but we do want to keep in mind that, you know, the rooms are are still important to to all of us, and and the rest of us, but I think that the ordinance also doesn't necessarily call for for a caveat, tied that the room to to the funding but we can definitely continue the discussion at a later meeting. If everyone's okay with that, I would definitely like to add it on to a future agenda and and we don't need to make any any decisions at this moment. So, everybody's okay with that. I think that yeah I think that would be great even setting aside an entire meeting for it so we can really create the space to have a conversation. I think that would be great. All right, well then that leads us to the end of our meeting and I like to thank you all and I like to have it. Yes. Sorry to interrupt we it does look like we have someone with their hand raised for public comment on this item. Would you. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Would you like me to call on them. Yes, yes I skip that so I apologize. Absolutely give me just one moment while I share my screen. Any comments from the public. Yes, we have one hand raised, let me get my screen up for public comments. Thank you. Of course, and then we have Eric, Eric you should have a prompt allowing you to unmute, and if you could please start by stating your full name for the record, and I will start the timer when you are ready. This is Eric Frazier with truth in tourism at gmail.com. I did want to chime in on this issue. And of course I agree with Todd that the money that was designated for visit Santa Rosa, its purpose is to get overnight stays, as we understand it. And also this overlap I think that's misunderstood with the money that the city keeps for its out there Santa Rosa campaign. But I'm, I definitely agree also that we should have a longer time to discuss us with more information pushed up front, so that there can be more public involvement around information. I realize that money is a political tool as well. And so I'm very uncomfortable with the suggestion that there would be some sort of events baked in the cake. I think that's probably a recipe for disaster and goes against the concept that we want events to be self supporting. So the question is about how the BIA spent its money. In addition to that there's a lot of unresolved questions about its organization, its board and so on and so forth and, for instance our pre litigation research found that short term rentals have brought in about a half a million dollars to the BIA fund over the past five years. The BIA's inception probably another half a million or so 300,000 to half a million so about $800,000 and money that may have been sort of illegally gained by the BIA board. So that may be a problem that has to be reckoned with next year. I'm also concerned just about when we talk about how the money spent. It just seems like so little money that does it Santa Rosa controls actually ends up in the hands of organizations and promoters and events. It seems like that money has to go through a tremendous burden of administrative expense. And it doesn't really appear that the professional competencies for how that money is spent are very apparent. So we'll look forward to a future meeting where we can dial into facts and have a good hearty discussion about the facts. As we know them and as they're changing. Thank you for your time today. I appreciate it. And everybody stay well. Thank you very much for your comments, Michelle. Any other comments available? I am not seeing any further hands. Okay. I'd like to move to adjourn the meeting. I'd like to thank you all very much and happy Thanksgiving everyone. Same to you. Thank you. Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving. Well, happy Christmas and New Year's too, I guess.


What's up, trade hackers? Welcome to today's update, today's Monday, January 6th. Looking at the markets, little movement today. So I was looking at the S&P last night when the futures opened up. S&Ps were down about 10. Woke up this morning, S&Ps were down 20. And they got down to as low as about down 25 on the day. And I thought, huh, maybe we will see a little follow through. And then what happened? Well, they reversed, went back up, and 30 minutes left in the session and the S&Ps are up four. So not the follow through we were hoping for today, but who knows, could happen tomorrow. One of the reasons I thought we would potentially get some follow through is some of the inverse correlated assets like bonds. Bonds were also up. So stocks down, bonds up, kind of a flight to quality, but then bonds reversed as well. And now the bonds are down on the day. And then gold, same thing, gold was up huge. And it's still up a percent on the day, but it's come down significantly off of its highs. Nat gas is still up, depending on the contract between three quarters of a percent and a percent and a half. So definitely some decent movement in the markets today. Oil also obviously with the airstrikes in the Middle East last week, little on edge. So oil was also up and it's reversed all the way back down as well. So now oil's down over half percent on the trading session. So we'll see what happens tomorrow. So what else did we do today? Really the only, I mean, the only opening position we made was a open up a new iron duck on booking, ticker BKNG booking holdings. This is what price line goes by now. This is what it trades by. So put on an iron duck, made a couple adjustments to a couple other positions, but other than that, that is it. So that's all I got for you today. Look forward to another good trading session tomorrow. See you then.


Hello there everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swish and I'm reviewing fast. This was the Stock Swish Show play of the day today in the live trading room and it worked. We had a nice easy peasy short today. Again the only issue with this was that it was a little spready but now as you can see the spread is tightened up. So really actually this looks like this could set up here for an or has set up actually for an afternoon train. If you want to get back into it again I prefer to focus in the morning and for those of you that don't know what I do a short. So the stock closed here the night before it's 74 74 and gap down and open at 72 33. Again I am looking for gap downs to short either at rates per my 26 point system to short in the direction of the gap or I will not do it or I will go long if there's a good bullish gap but there really wasn't anything I was in love with today to the upside. So really glad we had this and really glad it worked and it actually kept going. It's pretty crazy actually it's almost got to 69 it was way out of it before then but I could have actually made double actually probably I think even where I got out of this yeah but I made double 69 45 is a low. Anyway stock closed here gap down rallied we shorted it got in got the drop and I got out. So again I'd like to get out quick fast early but this did have the drop it continued even went down like I said almost to what I would have considered the dream target at 69 and now it is setting up again it's still falling this is weak as I'll get out today and it's going to close right at some point here three hours plus left in the day. This was a nice gap. So I'm looking for everything to do every day that I can get the biggest momentum I could get as soon as I can get it and the reason that I like to prefer to short and trade in the morning is because really 80 percent of the movement of stock happens happens in that first half an hour hour period. So I don't feel like I mean could this theoretically go and break the low yes but I just don't feel like it's worth it holding it all day long to get to get another 20 percent 10 15 percent and again remember the longer in a trade more that you're at risk of other things could happen the market news data could come out whatever but this was a nice short today really really nice short today and again looking for a during season which starts officially tomorrow April 12th when the banks report so congratulations to everyone in the live trading room who did this with me everybody made money today and again looking forward to an exciting month of April to trade if you're interested in learning what I do you can learn what I do and how did I know that fast was just short today how did I know it would go to the number I rated it when I got up in the morning and you can learn what I do in the golden gap course the class for April is April 27th the 28th spots are filling up don't delay if you want to sign up and join you have to do the class to join the live room because I talk about information in the room that is specifically for the class the points the entries the exits and everything we do but the nice thing about being in the room obviously today I call the trade live I rate the gaps for you myself and I narrow it down to the best one which I did with this today so looking forward to tomorrow any questions email me at melissa at thestockswish.com have a great day everyone


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In the second trimester, we consider this your easy trimester in a sense. Most people feel much better in the second trimester. People just feel much more themselves. It's sort of the magical time. You know that you're pregnant, you've kind of accepted it, both emotionally and your body's kind of accepting it. It was almost like to the day starting the second trimester that I finally got my energy back. I felt like me again, which was really nice. Fatigue often resolves the early part of the second trimester. After the placenta is fully formed, energy levels tend to increase back up. Any nausea that you experience gets much better. Around week 12 is when the nausea went away and smells started smelling more normal and things felt much better. My nausea went away. My mornings in this went away. My appetite was growing. I was just mentally just a lot happier emotionally. My husband and I were, you know, happy again. You know, we were really tired and I was really fatigued my first trimester as well. So I was a lot more energized the second trimester. A lot of women who have nausea and vomiting by this stage in the pregnancy that starts to really improve. You might notice that you're more hungry and you might start gaining a little more weight than you did in the first trimester. But we do begin to worry that preterm labor can be an issue. So if you do begin to feel contractions, water leaking, those are things where you need to notify your provider right away.


This is Anna Adamek in Ottawa. Could you give me your name? Yes, good morning. My name is Glenn Nolan. And could you tell me maybe something about yourself, about your, let's start with your childhood? Where were you born? Sure, I was born in Northeastern Ontario in a small community called Schaplo, and I was raised in a very traditional Kree family that kind of lived off the land, had very little access to, you know, modern amenities, running water, power. We had outdoor privies and we heated with wood. And what were your hobbies when you were a child?  And could you talk maybe a bit about your primary and secondary education? Well, we moved around a bit because my dad was in in mining, eventually took a job as a miner in a local mine. And I went to primary school there, moved to other towns and cities in Ontario, kind of following my father as he worked at different mining operations and ended up in Atacocon, which is in Northwestern Ontario doing high school. And then I went off to Sioux College in the mid-70s to get a diploma in geological technician. And then went back to school in the 90s to get my teaching degree. So you said your father was in mining. Could you give me the name of your father? Yeah, my dad is, his name was Ken Nolan and he comes from our community is the Miss Naby Cree and we were just next to a coal mine that started in the late 1940s and would hire from the local workforce, men from our community and eventually my dad took a job there. And what did your mother do? My mom was a homemaker, but she also had her own business, especially at the mine site. She did the laundry service for the single men. So we had a number of single men that lived at the mine and she would do their bedding, which was a contract with the mining company, but she also did the men's private clothing and she did all that. It was kind of amazing because she did it year-round. There were no dryers at the time, so she hung everything up outside in the winter until it froze and then she would bring it in and hang clothes up in that kitchen near the wood stove. So she was busy and she did all that with a ringer washer and when she became, I guess, made more money, she could do more washing, so she had a second ringer washer. And that kept her pretty busy, plus raising nine kids. What was her name? Her name is Helen. So did your parents encourage you to go to mining or geology? They encouraged me to stay in mining because all my older brothers worked in a mine or started off in the mine as a young man and ended up getting some sort of trade and moving on. Some of them moved on, some of them stayed in mining for the rest of their professional careers. And my mom, when I said I wanted to go away to school, she said, well, you can get a job as a tradesperson, you know, welder or mechanic at the local mining at Akoken when I was in high school. And I thought, no, it doesn't get me out into the bush, which is where I really wanted to be. And by happenstance, I ended up in the geology program at Sue College and found out that this was going to keep me in the bush. I can work outside all the time. And so that's why I stayed with it. At Sue College, did you have any notable teachers, someone you really said, someone who you considered your mentor at the time? Not so much. I mean, there was a, we had some good professors there. Manfred Engel, who was a mine engineer from Germany, was one of our professors. And he's memorable because he was very flamboyant and loved his stories about working in the coal mines in Germany and working in other mines around Europe. But I would say the person that really sparked my interest in mining from the exploration side was a geologist by the name of Ray Bernatches. He worked at the Steepe Rock Iron Minas in the lab there. And on weekends, he would go and prospect. And he took me under his wing one summer when I was a summer student at one of the mines in Atakoken. And I would go with him on weekends and do some exploration, just prospecting, going around collecting samples, drilling the fuel crops and just walking around the bush. And I said to Ray, is this, you can get paid for this. And he says, absolutely. And I thought, wow, you can get paid to do this. This is something I want to do. So you mentioned Ray, are there any other people you consider your mentors? Well, once I got into the industry, there is an individual that I worked for when I worked at Kaminko Limited, which is no longer a company. It's actually now tech, natural resources, I believe it's called. Anyway, tech and tech and Kaminko merged back in the 80s. And before then I worked for Al Scott. He is the geophysicist at Kaminko. And he really inspired me on my work. He trusted me. He I guess he valued what I was able to to offer to the company and offer to his program. And he kept me inspired to to even try to do more. And I love doing the work that he offered for me as an employee. But he also gave me a lot of freedom to do things my way. And I was able to, I think, contribute something to the company through through my initiatives. You said you wanted to be outside. You wanted to work in the forest with nature. So was that one of the main reasons why you chose industry over academia? Oh, you know what? Growing up, I don't even think that was a thought to to be in academia. You go to work and academia was not something where I consider to work.  So I don't think that, you know, it's it's unlike I think when you're when you're from a family that is basically blue collar workers. The thought is, do you want to be a blue collar worker and work with your hands? Be a mechanic or a welder or something in that line? Or do you want to do something a little different and to do a little something a little different is not going into academia. It was, OK, I can still work with my hands, but I can be outside. What is it that I can do? And, you know, prospecting and doing geophysics and doing geology was was the kind of direction that I took. What was your first job? My first full time job was with a company called Amock, was a French national French company that was exploring for uranium. And actually, they had a mine in Northern Saskatchewan called the Carswell Lake mine or no, Clough Lake mine. And I worked at their exploration camp, which was at Carswell Lake just north of Clough Lake. And that was my first full time job. So after I finished school at Sioux College, I took a job with Amock and it sort of helped me to while I'd done some of the work before, some of the geophysics before, previous summers. This was my first time where I had my own crew.  And this offered me a lot of freedom on traveling around, being in different places, you know, using unique methods of travel, motorboats to get to different sites, helicopters, fixed wing planes. And it really was something that kept me inspired that this was something I really enjoyed to do. Could you outline quickly your career for me? Well, I started off in 79 with that full time job. But previous to that, I did work at an iron mine, an open pit iron mine in Atacocon called Kalinore. And another American company that was operating in Canada. And it was one of the two mines in Atacocon. And most young people work there, you know, that were in high school, they got jobs, especially if your parents, one of your parents worked there, you would get a summer job. And it kind of exposed me to a number of areas within a mining operation, an open pit operation that I think was kind of unique today. My first season there, I was basically janitorial support and I did some painting. And my boss at the time worked in the pit. I had to clean washrooms. And she said I was the best toilet bowl cleaner. And I took pride in that. And it was something I guess my parents always said, if you're going to do a job, do it well. And so surely it was always complementary in how clean my washrooms were. The next year, they elevated me to running supplies to different parts of the mine from the warehouse. And when I wasn't busy doing that, they had me doing other things like driving truck, those big haul trucks. I got trained on that. I got trained as a blaster's helper. So I got to mix chemicals and dynamite and blow things up. That was fun. That was only for two weeks. So I got these short term placements where people would go away for holidays. But it still was not, I wasn't out in the bush. And I kept thinking, you know, it's fun, but I don't want to make a career out of it. And so that's when I decided, because I know some of my colleagues that I went to school with, that took jobs and mines and became part of the mining operation. I took a different path and I decided that this was something that I wanted to pursue, which was the exploration site. And that led me to traveling all over Northern Canada, experiencing some truly remote and beautiful areas that I got to be part of an exploration program. Sometimes just a couple of us out working for a couple of weeks at a time in a very remote area, got to just experience, you know, what can has to offer in the way of scenery and diversity in its landscape. And so I did that for a couple of years, worked for Kaminko, and then I started my own company and became a contractor. Just at the time when a lot of companies seemed to be getting rid of their exploration companies, exploration departments, and moving into hiring more contractors to do the work. What was the name of the company? Talisman Consulting. And we, it was myself, and then I would hire my team to go and work, started off just doing geophysics. That evolved into building camps for larger exploration projects, and then eventually managing those camps. So I did everything from staking claims to cutting the lines to do the geophysics and to do the mapping, to putting the camps up, establishing the camps, and then managing the camps even with companies having their crews stay in there. And, but it also demanded a tremendous amount of my time so that in around 1989, 1990, I sold that business because my son, who was quite young at the time, didn't like me being away from home. So... And where did you live at the time? I lived in Atacocon, and so I started off living in Vancouver for a number of years, and started the business there, and then I went, I moved back to Ontario to work at the Hemlow Development, and at Hemlow, it was just starting to get started, and there was a lot of contract work there, so I moved to Atacocon because I went to high school there and it was a convenient location, and moved my family there, and I would commute to Marathon every week and work for the week and come home on weekends. That got to be too much as well, and so it was all part of the process, and that's the industry at that time was not very family friendly. You were gone for months at a time, and it just became very tough for my wife and for my young family to have me gone for that long. So you sold your company, and then what? Well, I... It's the next step. Well, I continued to advise, you know, work in winters doing small geophysical jobs, and mostly in the far north, I kind of specialized in some winter cold weather geophysics, which is always a challenge, trying to keep your instruments operating in extreme cold conditions, so I developed a few ideas that I was able to keep my instruments operating, and I worked up in some fairly remote northern locations. Could you describe one of those innovations for me? I was just battery packs that I could put inside my coat as opposed to in the instrument that you couldn't put in your coat, and so it wasn't anything extremely innovative, but it just allowed me to keep my batteries warm, basically. And sometimes they would have batteries that were specialty batteries, but I would just rig up, you know, desal batteries with the same voltage that would do the same kind of job, power the instrument, but it would allow me to work all day in minus 30 weather, whereas you wouldn't be able to do that with most of the instruments that just the battery life wouldn't be long enough. So one of the things I ended up doing was I moved into tourism during the summer months, because it allowed me to be with my family and it allowed me to take my kids on some of the wilderness tours that I did with mostly Europeans. So I would bring in, I had a cultural tourism program and would educate Europeans about my culture, my pre-culture and what my family, who my family was and some of the stories I could relate to them from our culture. And then I got back into this mining sector in a big way, advising my community of Ms. Naby Cree of the potential for mining. There was a few companies that were knocking on the door of my community, asking for their participation in the sector. And around that same time, I decided that I wanted to enter politics and I ran for chief of my community. And once I became chief, I was also very active in negotiating with companies on agreements, looking for opportunities to supply those companies, those mining projects with various services. What was your goal or what was your approach to these negotiations? Well, first of all, was to explain who we were to the company and that we wanted to talk, that we weren't there to oppose projects that included us, that were sustainable, that had environment as a priority to protect and that the jobs, some of the jobs and some of the business opportunities came to my community. And companies at the beginning were a little reluctant because I think we brought a different approach to the table when it came to having these discussions and some of the companies were I think a little surprised because we had a different approach when it came to negotiating with the companies. And I think it opened up the eyes of some of the mining executives that we dealt with. And it then led me as the chief to start working with the prospectors and developers association of Canada to try to bring out more stories about companies working well with communities, communities working well with companies, maybe discuss areas of conflict and how to resolve those conflicts. When is this happening? This is in the early 2000s. And a person now who is a good friend of mine asked me to join the board of PDC. So I ran for a position on the board and I got in and a few, I think years after that we, well, we're very active on bringing an Aboriginal program to the convention. The convention, the PDC convention is the largest mining related convention in the world. So we've had upwards of 30,000 delegates come through over the three days that we are holding the convention in Toronto. It's been 85 years as an operation. It brings together the companies from across the globe to meet, I think we had 125 countries represented. So everyone comes from across Canada and around the globe to meet during that week because it is a place that is a great place to network, look for financing to sell your properties or to find partners for your properties. It's also a great place for suppliers to try to market what they can offer to projects. So I thought it was a good opportunity for me to offer a world view that is different from the mining perspective. As a First Nation person and a leader, I thought that we had a unique story to tell and share. And I believe by working with the industry, we could build a common purpose to work together. And that led to I think a very successful Aboriginal program that was started in 2004 and it's grown every year and still one of the top attractions for the convention. Even though it's a mining convention, we have a lot of Aboriginal content now. We signed the first agreement with the Assembly of First Nations of any outside organization to work with them to share information as it was with the Assembly of First Nations. And that was signed in 2008 at the convention. Took a lot of negotiations with the team for the National Chief Phil Fontaine at the time. And then I was my role on the board. Somebody suggested that I run for an executive position on the board and I got elected as second vice president which is you then move up to first vice president after two years and then so on until you become president. And so in 2011, 2012 or 2012, 2013, I was president of the BDAC and I'm very always honored to have been given that recognition by my peers in the industry. They trusted in me that I could lead an organization that has 10,000 members across the globe that speaks for the industry but also brings together perspectives from indigenous people and the mining sector together in a common voice that leads to a collective growth. Absolutely.  What are you the most proud of in terms of your career? You know, I think it's giving back. My father and my mother were committed to working in the community, volunteering their times, doing a number of things to make our community better. And I remember that as a young kid and my father was one of the first Aboriginal people to be on a school board. And we still have the letter from the Lieutenant Governor thanking him for his service as a board member on the school board. He didn't do that because he wanted it to be the first. I think he did it because he felt he had a duty to give back. So I saw that and I try to lead my life where I contribute through volunteerism. That's, I think, my career has allowed me to do that.  And even today, my wife and I still do a lot of volunteering. And so that's to me, those other things, yeah, they're good, but being able to give back is even better. Could you talk about the most memorable project that you were involved with? Oh, there's so many of them. They're, you know, whether it was spectacular scenery that I was working in or the number of kilometers I walked in a single day to conduct surveys because I had to get done flying for hours and hours to get to a project site by helicopter and having to stay overnight on the land because helicopters broke down and couldn't pick us up or having a windstorm up in the Hyardic and not being able to travel and being stuck away from camp for the night.  It's all part of the mining experience, but it was something that, you know, I still look back and go, wow, that actually happened to me. You know, my career's taken me to Latin America and I've done some, you know, when I was a kid, I used to, my dad was a guide and some of his clients would send us National Geographic that they had read and they'd send it up to us and I remember going through the magazine when I was a young kid and seeing images of jungles and Africa and I always thought, I'd love to do that. In fact, all my time I'd spend in the bush, I'd make believe I was either in a desert or a mountain or a jungle and so I've actually had to live, I got to live that life. You know, I've got to climb mountains, I've got to run wild rivers. I've worked in the Amazon, I've worked in other jungles. I've partnered with indigenous people in Ecuador and Peru. I have wonderful relations in Guyana and Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras, you know, I keep pinching myself that I got to do all this because of the career choice that I made and that to me is very, I've been a very fortunate person to have experienced these experiences and got to do things that I only dreamed of as a young man, a kid. Now the most difficult project or the most challenging project that you were involved with? Right now there's, as the vice president of government relations with Noron Resources we're developing a mine in Northern Ontario. It's the first time a mine has been developed in that region, we're about 500 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, no roads into the area. It's a large wetland, the third largest wetland in the world. A lot of physical challenges, you know, distance from roads and so on, wetlands and just the isolation. Those are challenges, those are all technical challenges and can be dealt with. The most challenging part is that some of the community members still don't trust us. Even with our best methods and best efforts, we still haven't completely built the trust that is needed for some of our community partners and that has been the most challenging, it's been very frustrating as an indigenous leader, former chief, I appreciate their concerns but I also know the benefits that come from being involved in a mining project and that it's not for five years, it's not for 10 years, it's generational. The benefits that will come out of their participation will have a different community in three generations from now. The way my community has seen that kind of growth, personal growth, as well as monetary growth.  And this has been transformative for my community working in the mineral industry, but it's also, I believe, an opportunity for communities to derive that same benefit in the north, but we can't get through that trust factor. That's been the single largest challenge or the challenge that we're faced with right now. We haven't talked yet about your current position, so can you tell me when you joined the company how your career developed within this specific company? Yeah, I'll go back. I knew the gentleman who's passed on now, unfortunately, his name is Paul Semple, and I built a relationship with him when I first started, when I was first elected as chief and I would go to the mining conferences and representing my community, and I met Paul, and Paul was an engineer, a mining engineer, and had worked across the globe and we struck up a friendship and a lot of common interests outside of mining. But he carried himself about his concern for bringing indigenous people into the mining sector. So I think he was beyond thinking much earlier than most people about how important this was in projects. So we maintained our contact over the years from early 2000s and then in 2009 I was contacted by Paul to sit on an advisory committee for Norant. Norant had just gone through a change of board members and executives, and he thought that I would make a good fit to advise them on indigenous relations, Aboriginal relations, and within a couple of months he offered me a full-time job. And so I started with Norant in 2009 as the vice president for Aboriginal Affairs and my role was to build relations with the communities. So we ended up hiring some local community members that has leave zones, and we were in the communities often, we were spending quite a bit of time talking with community members, not just the leadership, and we were making some progress on building those relations. And then we made outreach to some of our community members that we were working with to offer them positions within Norant, and then we have one in particular that we've promoted, who's now taken over my position as a manager of Aboriginal relations or community relations. And for me, that made me feel like we're doing what we need to do, which is bring people in, give them the mentoring they need, and then allowing them to foster their own ability within the organization and grow within Norant. And then once they have that capability, new capabilities, put them in the positions that they can thrive in. And we're doing that, whether it's at the camp or whether it's in our office in Thunder Bay or in Toronto. And then at one point, two years ago, my president and CEO, Alan Coots, thought that I would be a good fit if I was looking after government relations because ironically, when I was chief, this is what I was doing, meeting with government officials on a regular basis. And yes, it does seem to be a good fit. And then now that we have an individual kind of doing my job, previous job, so I'm really fortunate that I moved in with almost nine years with the company and kind of had expanded opportunities and new requirements for fulfilling my role with Norant. In your opinion, what are the major changes that you could see throughout your career in relations between mining industry and indigenous communities? Well, I think it's more the fact that we've identified areas that companies need to fulfill in establishing relations with communities. Back in the 40s and 50s, mining companies were already hiring indigenous people. They just didn't make it a big issue that, oh, we've got to hire so many, 10% or 20% of indigenous from the local population. They never said, oh, we've got to have a procurement policy for business, First Nation business or indigenous business. They never did that, but they were, as I mentioned earlier, my father, I have uncles, I have great uncles, my grandfather, my brothers, my cousins, you know, dozens of them worked for the mine. It wasn't a big operation, but dozens of them. And the majority of them went on to expand their careers that started with either electrical or mechanical and taking them off to, those opportunities are those new skills to other places. Some of my brothers stayed in the mining industry, some of my cousins stayed in the mining industry and continue to be, even today, their children are working in the industry. But today, there's regulations that say you've got to consult. Mostly the government has to consult, but some of that obligation is for the companies to make sure that the information about the project is accurate, and the best way to do that is to do the work themselves on informing the communities of what it is they're doing. And, you know, recently, there was a call to actions for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And I believe, you know, before that report came out, I believe that we've been doing it as an industry. We've been reaching out to the communities, helping them on a number of fronts. You know, I look at my own father. He had a grade three education when he entered the mine in whatever year that was. And he ended up, the mind said, you've got to get, you're very good, Ken, at what you're doing, but you need to get a ticket. So you're a good welder, so now you've got to go to school, but you need your grade 10. So my dad would sit at the kitchen table doing his lessons with my older sisters, my older brothers. It was kind of interesting to think back on it. But the company wanted him to get his education. That's part of, I'm not sure what number it is actually, but education is important. Health care. You know, the mine offered, it was a company town, but the mine offered nursing service. We never had that. Our community never had nursing. Health care, not in the same way. Better housing. Even though the housing from today's standards would be substandard, it was better housing than what we had. We had run water. We had flush toilets. That was the first time I ever saw a tub coming into the mine. The mine community. Power. Turn on the switch and you've got power. So I think the companies that have been doing that a long time has just never been structured. Today though, companies are really, really want to ensure that if they're going to put efforts into this relationship building that the communities are part of that decision making of where the effort is best spent and where the money is best spent so that more is accomplished. So I think that's the difference. 40 years ago there wasn't any talk about reconciliation or consultation or engagement. Things just happened. Today we're obligated to consult, to engage communities and by simply having those relations built we're doing that, we're accomplishing those goals and we're able to say we're addressing health issues or addressing educational issues or addressing social development issues at our mindsites and helping the communities just by having a healthy workforce that goes home to a community every two weeks we're going to be creating more healthier communities as well. What is your advice to someone who's starting in this career or to a student who's considering this career? Well, I've had the good fortune of speaking to a number of universities and to students that are either close to graduating or in the middle of their their programs two years in or three years into their their degree and I say you know from my perspective there's a lot of positive opportunities that come from the mining sector. There are some challenges you know you tend to have to leave home to I mean if you have a family but if that's something if it's something that excites you about being in new places and discovering new areas or I mean not necessarily discovering something but just being there for the first time and if you like being outside and if you like you know traveling to different countries and meeting new people this is a really neat career. There's so many positive things that kind of evolve out of that and your career can take you in a number of different directions starting off as a geoscientist or as a mine engineer that can lead you to doing some pretty amazing things and you know we talked earlier about some of the financial leaders and what they've done with their accumulated wealth is they've given back to universities and given back to charities, other charities so it's not just about them, it's about what they can do to make the world a better place. Is there anything guys you would like to add? Nothing. I wouldn't be sitting here if I didn't make that decision when I was seventeen or eighteen years old that I wanted to look at exploration, mining exploration as a career, still was kind of nebulous, it wasn't something that I totally understood until I got into it but I was able to get a passion for being outside and I realized that mining exploration was a vehicle to keep me outside as often as possible and I didn't realize the extent of how much I would travel I didn't realize the extent of where I would be twenty years later or forty years later after starting my career back in the seventies and where that's taken me geographically across the globe and I always shake my head thinking I came from such a remote disadvantaged community and to where I am today you know, having these opportunities presented to me is I couldn't be happier. Thank you very much for this interview. You're welcome.


दीस्छौन्त अपका दिसक्छन अं रोंवाग और वो दूग ष्टिजनरिया प्रोचैस चाह। किस तट्टाएप की सीज तो और उसकी ग्राफ्टीकाल आनालिसिस किस टाएप कहोगा कब हमें idea होईगेगा उसके graph देखे, whether the series is stationary or not, then we have specified like formulas जिसे हमें idea होईगेगा, that अगर rho की value equal to 1 है, it means there is unit root, there is like the series is non-stationary. इसी तरा we have another term which is deterministic trend. अगर कोन सेसेरीज होगी जो प्तियोग रन्धंवाक होगी कोन सेसेरीज होगी जिस में deterministic trend होगा, and along with that you can see that there is random walk also there is drift. उसके सास प्ताथ आप उसको देखाखते है, there is random walk also you can see that there is drift. आप नेकस वी हैगेगा like yt is equal to beta 1 plus beta 2t plus beta 3 yt minus 1 plus error term, या आप उसको दिस्टर्बैस ताम भी कैसकते हैं य। have the idea of beta 1 क्या शुओ करते हैं बीटा 2 का येडय है, य। have the beta 3 का येडय है य। have the idea of error term और, उसpecifically, when there is deterministic trend, then बीटा 1 य। is not equal to 0 बीटा 2 य। is not equal to 0 अद बीटा 3 य। is equal to 0 अद बीटा 3 य। is equal to 0 य। means there is no random walk अप की रहाँ नेक्सट याख साथ अज्टार आस्ती्त नहीं हो रहीं तो जस वोगत बीटा 3 य। is equal to 0 वाई ती माँन्स वान की तम जो है येप मोडल से एकसक्लूट होगेगी और अप के पास शिंपल माडल भान जगा yt is equal to β1 plus β2t plus aratum it means that your series is only depending on the time with the passage of time it is changing with the passage of time it is changing we can say that your series is changing series with the passage of time it is changing this is non-stationary but there are two types of non-stationary this is random walk and pure random walk random walk with trend only there is a trend but there is no random walk the value only depending on the time period with the passage of time it is changing the time when the value is deterministic trend to make it non-stationary the procedure will be different like if you have a pure random walk you can find the difference of the series if you take the difference then the random walk will be over and the series will be stationary and the unit will be over if there is a deterministic trend in your series with the passage of time the value is changing so you have to take the mean of every value of y if you take y minus y then we call it detrending if you have the trend of the series to eliminate that trend from every yt to yt bar minus then you will have a new series and we will call that series stationary as I have shared with you about the data of GDP and the data of GDP with the passage of time is increasing and when every value is increasing then we will not take the difference we will detrend it and when detrending is done then your non-stationary series will be converted into stationary and when we finish the deterministic trend then we call it the process of detrending that the trend has to be over and when the trend is over then we can call your series non-stationary to stationary or the unit root problem we resolved that problem by detrending the series and due to detrending your non-stationary series will be converted into stationary


Alright, so it all really just comes down to Usopp, doesn't it? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the channel. My name is Jack the Buster, I, Shinobi. Today we have an episode 76 and 77 of our one-piece watch screw. Once again, everybody else is entombed in wax, and then Luffy's just, I guess, under this trance, still he's having a lovely time at the picnic. We're gonna hop right into it and see what Usopp can do. If you're new to the channel, drop us up and hit that big boy bell. Let's get started with the episodes. This is a recap. Oh my gosh! How far back do we go in the beginning?  Oh my. 338, 404. We're still going. Almost there. Almost there. Oh my gosh, we broke five minutes. Five minute recap with the intro. We made it. We're breaking records out here. Time to shine, Usopp. Well, I had to get a credit. It's Usopp and Kadu. He does have a little bit of an assistant. Oh, so his idea was to smack Luffy to get it off of him. I mean, you gotta do what you gotta do. His friend was the target. We're still going? Oh, he had the invisible ones. That's right. As long as Kadu is fine. I'm just kidding. I think Usopp would be okay, too, though. Everything explodes from this man. So it's not just boogers. It boogers his kicks, his breath. I'm guessing his spit.  Now you get it. Let me disastrous if she painted his skin, though. Bro. Bro! For some reason, I haven't even thought about Sanji. He was never trapped or engaged in wax or anything. He's just been chilling. He's been waiting for Zoro to see what he caught. He's right. Oh. Oh, that's where they were hanging out beforehand, where they were hiding. He's like, hmm, curious. Maybe Sanji will actually play a part in it. Barely, probably. I think Luffy's a little bit too mad to let you trap him now. What is he using? Why does that sound like a mech? The mechanics of this just blow my mind. 42 million. Sheesh. Look down a bounty higher than Luffy. Bro, that's actually a crazy form, though. Yeah, I mean, it's an absurdly strong armor. Yeah, like that probably rivals that of like Don Krieg's armor. So she's going to paint the armor. Oh, no, she's throwing it at Luffy. Oh, he did tell her to paint it. That is a clean paint job, actually. He looks so cool. Bro. Okay, Mr. Three just like power spikes so hard. They didn't realize like how it was working. Wouldn't that hurt them though? Luffy just think they were like dead, dead. Yeah, I mean, it's probably hardening fast and they're just encased in there. I want to get a look at them in there. Probably being, this is probably like being buried alive, honestly.  Well, Sanji's coming. He might make the difference here. Dude. He's actually really intimidating.  Oh, no. Yeah, he doesn't want to try and burn it. Oh, dude. Oh my gosh. That's just torture, bro. Just slowly crushing him. Bob and Weave got him, Bob and Weave. He's actually getting the rope all around it. Oh, shoot. Even while being crushed, he soaked it. His beautiful creation. You put the gun there. Honestly, Kadoo has been the standout MVP from this entire like sequence of fights. It's absurd. Omi has made all the difference in the world. Dude. They're melting. That's got to be painful either way. He's melting his suit too. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He's giant. It's destroyed. Lost to fire. Are you going to finish it? Okay, where's Zoro? You have quite a bit thus far. This Zoro's coming. Oh, or what's up? Did he plan something? Wait, what? Oh, shoot. Wait, he did talk about making that, didn't he? He did. Back in Looktown, I think. And I'm pretty sure I was like, okay, what purpose would that serve? Oh my God. Lost to hot sauce. I was waiting for it. It's glorious. Dude, they are rolling them now. They're fighting with passion. What about Brogy? Yeah, that was sick. He's down. Gonna have to chase after Mr. 3. Oh, there's Brogy. I love how Sanji hasn't shown up yet. Yo. Gotta go find him. He's chasing him down. Why do I feel like Sanji is going to just like casually come across them? I don't think you can be laughing right now. You can pretend like Luffy's trouts, but I'm just gonna start smacking all of them. I'm shocked Mr. 3 has this much confidence right now. Really, you're saying that right now. It is true though that this is like anti-Luffy because he just hits what's in front of him. He wouldn't typically think about how to find the real one, or maybe he's gonna catch us off guard and actually zero in on the right one. He's actually thinking it through, I'm pretty sure. I think he's figured it out. I don't know how, but he actually did it. Oh my gosh. Luffy actually shows up. The intellectual. He just took him a second. He just sat there quietly analyzing. No shot. He just guessed. Was she actually trying to just slowly escape a hunch? I can't with this dude. Sanji, no shot. Are you having a tea party right now? No shot. I can't. He does have a taste for the finer things though. Oh, it's too late now. I mean, I think it's all good. What is that? There's someone in there? Oh, it's a phone. I've heard the phones are like snails. Yeah. Oh, shoot. Who's calling him?  You're kidding me. Who is that? Is it Crocodile? It is Crocodile. Sanji knows it means business. I guess he didn't see the giant like Mr. 3 on the side of the transponder snail. All right. Well, let's see how this sort of hopefully wraps up. I mean, it seems like they've really taken care of things. Episode 77. He can actually mourn. He knows the big boss. We got a little bit of a look at him. Yeah, he is a warlord. That's right. Well, it does say Mr. 3 on the side. He's putting the pieces together. And now he's going to freak out thinking they're there or like fighting. Is he going to say anything? How does he play this? Very smart. Unlucky. Oh, okay. Those are like, yeah. Give them the report. Oh, shoot. What is that? Is that a pet? Oh, shoot. Yeah, those are the Unluckies. They're there. Oh, no. They know it's not Mr. 3. Oh, my God. What's going on with my machine gun? The Unluckies are kind of terrifying. Get them, Sanji. They got an eternal post that points to alabaster. That is so convenient. Nice. Not for the bird. I'm surprised he's able to trick him like not even changing his voice. Oh, dang. He killed him. He rolled the Unluckies. Maybe he does know something's going on. What was that? What is this guy's power? He obviously became a warlord for a reason. He's got to be really powerful. He's getting Mr. 3 into some hot water, bro. He knows something's up. I cannot believe Dory's alive, man. So sweet. Well, my boy was crying a waterfall over him. The eternal fight continues. It's a miracle in and of itself. Yeah. Not in the slightest? Man, just thought he was dead. They're just punching each other. Oh, my God. What an adventure. Dude, this lair. Navy catching whiff. I thought the Navy kind of like didn't mess with the warlords. Dude, he looks huge. Oh, there she is. Mr. 2. Oh. You don't give wrong orders.  Boy. Crocodile don't mess around, man. Is that like a pet in that room? Well, now they're going to have to deal with Mr. 2. And if he's stronger than Mr. 3, he's going to be a nuisance. There's the pose. That's what you need. That is huge. Just give it to Nami Sanji. Nothing else. Oh, they got him all bandaged up. No wonder they came after us. I guess that too, yeah. I'm just glad Karu made it out alive and fine. I love how Sanji still hasn't gotten there and he still isn't part of this. And how they haven't questioned where he is yet. Oh, like a bug bitter. Guys, you don't need it. You have a one-way ticket to Al-Basta now. There he is. Sanji, you missed quite a bit, buddy. Luffy's just happy to see him. Oh, my God. He lacks so much critical information. Oh, such a gentleman. After calling her tit-to-lating. Just had a combo with them. Well, now they're under the impression. Yeah. Bada bing, bada boom. Vivi's going to be just like overjoyed. Sanji comes in clutch, baby. Yeah, they would have just started sailing just guessing or just hoping that they would find their way there. Hey, you got to get going. Al-Basta's in trouble. I want to see what Mr. 2 looks like. I'm so intrigued now. Oh, now it's going to inspire them. Round old guy and shy old guy. You might have lended us a ride. I'm so glad Broggy isn't going to be all alone here. I guess, yeah, wouldn't he have gone back to Elba? Wherever it is. What a successful vacation. Wait, but Mr. 2's going towards Little Garden. I wonder if, like, he'll intercept them on the sea. Monster in the western sea. I hope he doesn't go straight to Little Garden and kill them. They're going to be the exact same size again, yeah? Either way, they have a ton of food. Yeah, we got to get going. Oh, they cut up some of them. Just leaving the pieces behind, bro. My question is, how long is it going to take to find Mr. 2? Yeah. Oh, they're going to help him. That's so nice. What badass giants, man. I wonder what it is. Dang, that's really good that Dora was still alive. Am I going to see them fight? A monster? He said, just keep going. He's going to listen to them. They're capes blowing in the wind. That's so sick. What is it that prevents them? He said, no matter what, what are they calling in the giant monsters? They're called sea kings, right? I'm guessing it's just a giant sea king. I guess that's kind of an oxymoron. Sea kings are just giant. Island eater. What? They can power each other? I like the contrast of the red and blue. Oh my gosh. What did he say? Just straight ahead, no matter what. Nope, what did he say? Yeah, you don't turn or anything. Right into it. They're trusting him. Laboon. She caught it anyways. Oh, that does look good. Hey, man, Luffy's a bit of a psychopath, but he knows what he's doing. Look at him, ComCoin collected. What are they going to do? They're still on the island is the thing. They're not even getting in the water. It is a goldfish. Oh my God. East Island, Poops Islands. Guys. Giant spear. Do they call it down from the sky? No shot. Oh, nope. Luffy's like, ah, I knew those giants were pulled through. Oh my gosh. Rip the goldfish. And that is it for Little Garden, I presume. Unless Mr. 2 actually does go straight to Little Garden and misses them on the way. But I think it's kind of like closing off this story with the giants and setting up for Mr. 2 to find Luffy and Co. But what a way to end it. Again, I'm so glad that Dory's alive. Although like, I don't know if it's like cheesy that they let him live and they kind of like took away from his death, but I think it's more appropriate that they're both still alive at the end of things because they're just each other's equals. It would have been kind of weird if Broggy had been left alive and then just alone on that island or he was just gone back to Elboff. Well, the thing was, it was their bond that kept them there and like nothing else mattered. It was just that warrior's pride. I do like the little de-teasing we got of Crocodile, aka Mr. Zero this episode and how it's really, really setting him up to be this overarching villain. It kind of reminds me of Don Krieg to another extent or I guess our long too. But guys, that's been it for episode 76 and 77 of our One Piece Watchthrough. Don't forget to drop us up on the channel if you are new and I'll catch you guys in the next one. Peace, peace.