Before we get into the video today, I just want to give a quick shout out to one of our sponsors, Gnostic TV. Gnostic TV is ancient wisdom reimagined. This is a Netflix for those who are spiritually curious and want a place to go where there is no censorship. I personally am doing a whole series on Gnostic TV called The Esoteric Explorer where I am providing exclusive content to Gnostic. Gnostic TV is a host to all sorts of different content creators, many of whom are your old favorites. If you would like to check out Gnostic TV, there is a link down in the description box below. Hello everybody, welcome back to Esoteric Atlanta. My name is Bryce and I am joined here the first time ever on my channel, a new friend of mine, Laura McGrath. How are you today, Laura? I'm really good. Thanks, Bryce. How are you? I'm so good. And you guys, there might be a little bit of a lag because Laura is one of my Australian friends. I keep laughing with Tamara that this is not just Esoteric Atlanta, it's also Esoteric Australia because we have so many Australian people in this community of ours, which is awesome. I've told Tamara so many times that besides my own country, Australia is one of my favorite places that I've ever traveled to in the world. We were just chatting offline that there's a lot of similarities between the southern part of the United States and the southeast and Australia, which kind of leads into our conversation. Because Laura, you did the media course with us and you have opened up not more but two YouTube channels. So before we get into guys, she doesn't have her videos up yet, but they're coming. I know she's got some videos already done because I've been lucky enough to watch one of them because they're really good, you guys. But I'm going to go ahead and ask all of our friends here over on Esoteric Atlanta to go ahead. I'm going to put these links in the description box below and subscribe to both of Laura's channels, the one being her blog channel, which is a more of like a fun channel where you're really talking about your experiences, all that kind of stuff just under her name. And then let me clear the screen here and pull up your second one, which is more of like a strictly business. When it comes to people who are not really interested in the quirks of your life, but are just interested in the business aspect of what you're here to do. And so you guys, go support a sister out, go help a sister out, we're all in this together. Laura, you are one of the wisest women that I've gotten the chance to meet, especially because you are young to have figured out so much about the world around you. But first of all, let's start with point A. Who is Laura? Who are you? Introduce yourself to my audience. I'm Laura and thank you for the nice introduction. And as you mentioned, I was born here in Australia. And I think that second channel kind of gave it away as to what I'm doing with my life, which is property investing. I didn't start that way. You know, I grew up, I went to a private all-girls school, which was a lot of pressure. But it was kind of more after that I left school that I kind of started to find myself and started to go down a path of, you know, doing a lot of reading a lot of self-help and personal development and finance books. And I really found a passion for the property side of things. I really enjoyed watching a lot of those TV shows like Fixer Upper, Million Dollar Listings New York, you know, just kind of like dreaming. But also during that kind of starting to create my own reality from that as well, finding what I liked. And, you know, I started watching a lot of different content on YouTube for property stuff. And yeah, one of the things that really did change, I think the biggest change for me was when I read the book Rich Dad Poor Dad. And that really started to kind of change my mindset on things and learning about business and investing and how to make property work for you and how to make assets and money really work for you. And that kind of led me down a path of going to a property mentorship. I did a New Zealand mentorship and a UK mentorship. And now I'm looking at moving to the UK permanently to do property and buy more properties as well. But in the meantime, I have actually done my first deal, which was fantastic. I ends up getting a job working for a developer here in Perth. And from that, I was able to find my own first property deal. And it was, I guess I'll give you the outcome of that deal because it worked out really well. I purchased the property during COVID. Now, I think a lot of people at that time would have been really nervous to actually go and buy property. But it was kind of the best time to do it because everybody else was scared and property prices were low. It was a buyer's market. It was a buyer's market. So I was able to pick up a property for $355,000, did my due diligence. During that time, the government was actually giving out grants for new builds. So I got $45,000 in grants from the government. And I lived in that property for a little bit and had outgoings of that $25,000 and then sold that property for $455,000. So I made $120,000 from that first deal. So now I'm getting ready to move to the UK and do more deals just like that one. Maybe some different strategies as well. So that's a little bit about me. And I will say more because I watched your first video because it was part of our course and we edited and stuff.  I am the more philosophy side. And I've always been very intimidated. Even at 40 years old, I'm very intimidated by that kind of stuff. And after I watched your first video, I was like, oh, that makes sense. You had a way of talking about property investment that wasn't scary. Because I think a lot of people in our world get intimidated by the big words of a bank and the big contracts. And so they get almost intimidated by entering into that world of investments. And something you said that was so fascinating to me. I don't remember if it was in the course or last time we spoke where you said something about be the bank. And we know that the financial system in our world, you are very, very much awake and aware of what's going on in the world. Just like our audiences, we know about the corruption, we'll say, in the banking systems. And let's start there. What do you mean or what did your mentor mean by be the bank? The element by be the bank is, you know, obviously, we give our money to the bank and they use it for things like overnight money markets. They're making a lot of money and they give you like no return on your investment, maybe 1%.  Now, the thing about property is if I find a really great deal and I can get private investors to come in and fund that deal, because I know that the outcome is going to be really good, I can then give them a better return on their investment, say a 7% return on their money. They understand that it's being put into a property. They can see that all happening. They can understand the numbers side of it because I would have done that beforehand. Then we can take the bank out of it. You know, Lloyd's Bank is one of the biggest banks in the UK. And they're coming out saying we want to be the biggest landlords. We want to own the most property in the UK. And I'm like, no. I'm like, let's give the power back to the people. Let's show people how they can use money, their money to buy a property without having to use them. Or work with people who are actually doing these things who can give them a better return on their investment. Or do a joint venture where you can both share in the cash flow. So it's being able to actually give people a better return on their investment. And that's the great awakening to me. It's not somebody coming in and saving you. It's you learning how to save yourself. How to outplay the bad guys if we want to say it that way. I mean, what happened with GameStop? People are wising up on how to play their game. And that was so powerful when you said that. And as you're saying that, we even know here in the United States, which like Australia, the continent, the American country, excluding Canada and Mexico, just our United States, we have got five different time zones, right? So it's a huge, massive, there's lots of land here, especially the Midwest where it's just plains. It's just land and land and land. Well, we know that Mr. Gates, I'll just say that way, is now going up and buying all this land. Why? Because it's the best investment you can make. I mean, we've talked about this, I don't know if we talked about it in a meeting or just one-on-one, Laura, but me being a history fanatic, we look at like the UK, for example, how did people get the title of being a noble or being aristocratic by being landowners? They would own land, and then the people that lived on that land would then be taxed to them. So it all comes back to land, doesn't it?  Exactly. I learned from my research as well that there's actually three asset classes that have allowed people to hold their wealth throughout the biggest times of economic uncertainty. One of them is gold, one of them is property, and the other is art. And I always used to think when I thought of art, I was like, oh, you know, the big old fancy paintings that are worth millions of dollars, but this art is so many different things. Art is music, art is YouTube. It's that ability to create. Yeah. But, yeah, it is. My grandmother... Sorry guys, this is a leg, she's in Australia. My grandmother's family, all of my family that went through the Great Depression, of course we weren't alive for the Great, I didn't have any family that really struggled in the Great Depression, and my great, my dad's mother's family did well because they own movie theaters. They own picture houses. And liquor cells, people who own bars are owned, I don't know if prohibition was in the Great Depression era or not, and speak-easies did well. That's true, that is true. And the thing is, I like what you said, that you can actually see it. So sometimes I feel like with the banking system we have today, back in the olden days they would carry around pouches of gold or they would trade a chicken for some wood. There was actual seeing of actual items being exchanged, whereas today it's all computerized. But I like how you said that you can actually touch the land. That's your land. And it all else fails, it's your land. You own that, that is an asset, that is yours. It is your piece of property. And that is amazing. And it's outsmarting. The powers that be have been doing this for a long time, haven't they? Yeah, I guess I kind of went down the process of figuring out what they were doing, understanding they wanted to take the power away from us, and figuring out how they were actually using their money acquiring assets. Because at the end of the day as well, money is a tool. It's figuring out what they were doing and being able to replicate it so that you can take that power back. In 1971, this is when the whole monetary system changed because President Nixon took the dollar of the gold standard. And so what happened was they made agreements with Saudi Arabia to then back the US dollar by petrol. So then we're on the petrodollar. And that was when it started to become a case of the dollar actually losing its value every single year. When it was backed by gold, it actually gained value every single year. So that was when really the monetary system started to change. So now it's a case of going, okay, well this piece of paper is devaluing every single year. How can I use that to the best of my ability to put it into an asset that can give me a return and take that power back and then be able to use that knowledge to then help other people do the same? Because if all of us are out there buying property, not necessarily always buying property, but taking our power back and figuring out their game and taking that power away from them, it's giving the power back to the people. Absolutely. I love that so much. Again, I'll reiterate this guys. It frustrates me to know when people just sit on their bombs and expect somebody to come and rescue them. How clever is that of the bad guys to the controllers to make you believe that someone's coming to rescue you so you rest when you're laurels and then what do they want us to do? Own nothing and be happy? When actually there's things you can do, you don't have to be the savior for the world, but you can do things within your own community with your own life to start shifting, collectively shifting that power balance. And that's one thing. Here in the United States, our government was always set up with our constitution to be a country that was run by the people for the people. And so we take that attitude into everything, every country in the whole world should be run by the people for the people. And that's a way to do it. And so one thing I know, Laura, that people are going to assume because that's what we do.  So we don't want to assume anything. We don't want to speculate. A lot of people are probably sitting there thinking, oh, she probably has a trust fund. She probably got all this money to do this, but from her parents or family, that's not me. I don't only have like 20 bucks in my checking account. Like I can't do what she's doing. Can we talk a little bit about that and kind of bust those myths, that speculation? I definitely do not have a big trust fund. That was definitely not the case. I got my first job when I left school and it was at a department store. So just a casual job at a department store. And this is when I was at uni. So working a casual job at university. And what I decided to do first and foremost was I actually found Dave Ramsey and I was started to go down his route of paying off my debt. And the debt that I had at the time was my student loan. So I was taking all my money I was making budgeting and paying off my student loan. And it was probably after I finished university. So I studied accounting and finance. After I finished, I got a job as an accountant. And it was my first year as an accountant where I paid off, finished paying off my student loan and actually was able to start saving. But that was also the time that I actually went to the property of mentorship. And so I went from being in a situation where I just paid off my debt, had maybe a couple grand in my account and then paid for a mentorship which cost probably about the same as my university degree. So I went back into debt. And the day that I paid, put down the deposit for the mentorship, I actually came home and had $19 in my bank account. And I was really, really stressed because I was like, the next day I was getting ready to go to work and I was like, if I tap this train card and it needs to recharge, I don't even have enough for the automatic recharge on that card. So certainly didn't, eventually then got my paycheck come in and I could start rebuilding that. But that certainly didn't happen. And the only reason I could actually do that property deal was because I'd left my accounting job and I was like, got stuck here because I was wanted to originally move to the UK in 2020. But that obviously didn't happen because of COVID. So I'd left my job and I was like, okay, I need a pivot. I didn't have a lot of savings, but I started learning how to trade crypto because that was kind of what was all the rage at the time. And it was at a bull market. And I did okay with that. Not great. But what had happened was I parked some money into some crypto, started working with a developer and by the time I actually was going to get that property, the value of those crypto had gone up so much that I had a down payment for that property. So that's the only reason that I could actually do that deal was because of trading, trading crypto. So I did this from nothing, just getting a casual job, investing in myself before, I did go and splash money on a lot of things. I invested in myself and my education and that's how I kind of built that up. So definitely didn't come from a trust fund. Absolutely not.  And my boyfriend, his whole life has never taken a penny from his parents or anyone's ever helped him. And he really worked hard to working multiple jobs to start his business, and now he has his business, so it's funny because off camera, we talked a lot about the educational system and your struggles with that. He kind of had the same growing up. He was a military kid, and so they moved around a lot, but his IQ is extremely high.   He didn't do well in school, but he's smart. And he did the same thing a few years ago. He started to study, literally took the time to sit down and started studying the market and just studying it and listening to lectures, listening to YouTube, because that's the beautiful thing about our time today is you can find a lot of information for free on the Internet. And he doesn't make one of his great qualities as he doesn't make quick decisions where I'm more the one that's prone to making quick decisions, and he'll study it and ruminate and think, and he ended up making a shit ton of money just off of following investments like crypto, like these different things that he started following and just putting a little here and seeing what happens and then putting a little here and seeing what happens. And it just goes to show you that there's that saying that motto where there's a will, there's a way. And nothing good in life is easy. It takes time and knowledge. And as the Cassiopean say, knowledge protects and knowledge is power. And so, and I will say, because Laura, you have such a great way.  So the blog channel she's doing is kind of almost going to be like a reality show in a sense where you're really showing your personality as a female, as a young female in this world and explaining everything you're going through and what led you to make certain decisions, moving to the UK to a different country that's vastly different from, especially the weather from Australia. And so that side of you, that's a human being that I think is what's the most, in my opinion, that's so powerful because it's showing people that you're not one of the elite. You're not one of someone that had a trust fund. You, I'm going to guess your parents are not into property investment. No, I've tried to like help them from that perspective. But no, when I first actually, when I first started talking about it and when I told them I paid for a mentorship, they were in complete shock. They actually thought I was going to get scammed, but I didn't, thankfully. So, yeah, so they're definitely not. My dad's... You didn't have parents to pay as an account on what instructions. So you didn't have parents sitting there telling you, now do this, now do that. You figured this out by yourself because you wanted it and you were clever. But when it comes to like changing the matrix, changing the game, again, it's not going to be a big shut...  I need to figure out how to do this so that I can change the trajectory of my life and for the life of my family. And once you figure out how to... You know, Catherine Edwards, our friend Catherine Edwards, she posted something yesterday on Instagram. I thought that was great and paraphrasing when it said, it was like always have people in your life who are doing something better than you. Because you always have somewhere to go and learn. You can always learn from that. And you did that. You sought out mentorships. You sought out people to guide you and teach you how to do this. And I just think it's awesome that you're going to be putting that up on the Internet too to empower other people. Other just common 99... The 99% of us, just the normal regular everyday people that the matrix is trying to squash, you're now going, here are the tools to fight back and to take your power back. So that's really, that's really cool. In five years from today, you're going to be the same person. Yeah. In five years from today, you're going to be the same person except for the books you're reading, the people you hang out with. You have the ability to change your external reality. And yeah, I guess I was at uni going, I don't want to work in nine to five for the rest of my life. I didn't like how everything was structured. So I was like, I'm going to find a way to not have to be a part of that.  And I was like, well, what can I do? I can't change the fact that these people are doing these things, but I can figure out how I can empower myself, what I can learn so that I can fight back. So I don't have to be a part of that matrix. These money is a tool to make things better. You don't look at, for example, I don't know if I can say this, but Mr. T, he's a property investor. And if he didn't go out there and do that, we wouldn't have somebody in politics challenging what everybody else is doing. I just got chill bumps. I just got chill bumps by you saying that. That's such a good point. I know that's the reason why he didn't take, you know, I don't know if you know this in Australia, he wasn't paid. The president gets paid, I think like $250,000 a year or something and he did not want to be paid. They had to pay him something. And so he only took like what, a dollar a year or something like, you know, something very, or he donated it out. There's something he did not, he actually did it for free because he had made so much money with a good heart. But they have to have money in order to and then they have to get tied in and roped in with the puppet masters where now they're under their thumbs. And so it gives you, money is freedom. You know, money is not, I don't like that saying money is the root of all evil because it's not. The root of all evil is evil. If you have bad intent and you get money, it's going to be bad. But if you have good intent and you use it like, it's a tool as you said, to help yourself to help balance the power, then it's not. It's freedom at that point. It is absolute freedom. And you know, you told me, I don't know if you want to talk about this. You don't want to talk about this yet, Laura. We can wait. But you have a goal, don't you? There's something you want to do once you start really building up your portfolio. Do you want to share kind of like a nonprofit idea in a sense? I don't know if we'll call it that in the future, but, and I thought this was beautiful. Do you want to go personally with your goals with this? Sure. I kind of look at it as my 10-year plan to eventually build up. The thing about property is you can do multiple businesses. I can buy cash flowing property. I can do deal sourcing where I can find deals for other people as well. I can have a property management. There's so many different things that you can do. Or you can join venture with companies that are doing this. And eventually I want to get to the point where I can buy an apartment block, renovate it, and then have it as kind of like a place for the homeless where they can actually come, they can have shelter, they can have food. But then what I can do is I can actually then employ them in one of the companies that I hopefully will be owning. So then it can kind of be a very symbiotic relationship where they can come, they have a place to live, they have food to eat, then they have a job so that they can have employment. And then what they can be doing is also learning about how to budget and how to actually manage money as well. To kind of break the cycle versus just giving them the money and then it's not ending a cycle but this can really break a cycle and create a really symbiotic system that feeds into each other. I think that's so brilliant because at homeless people break my heart. We have a lot of homeless people here in Atlanta and they can't catch a break. It's like they've hit such rock bottom that no one will hire them. They don't have a place to shower and cut their hair. They just literally cannot catch a break. And so giving them that stepping stone to rehabilitate, it's like a on my channel we've talked about feral people, all that kind of stuff. So I'm not saying that in that sense like the feral people that live in the mountains but people on the streets do end up getting a little bit wild because they have to survive. They have to bring them back into society and I think that's just such a genius idea. So that again is you using property and money the same that the controllers do but in a way that's benefitting society and helping other people and it's of service to other people and helping other people be of service to themselves giving them that power back and just giving them that chance to take their power back. It is all about that freedom as well and if you can have that passive income out there and have that time to enjoy life it's the best of your ability. And that's what it's all about. You can always make more money but you can't make more time. And we know that there's plans in place and they want to do certain things but we don't know if and when things are going to happen. But I'm like if I can go out there and live my life to the fullest and buy myself that time that's empowering me and that gives me the ability to enjoy my time and then find ways to fight back. Yes. Fight back smarter not harder. You know it's one thing to throw temper tantrums online all the time it's another thing to be like alright this isn't getting me anywhere it's like I just sent Tamara a clip. I think I shared it on my Insta stories of this town I believe it was in Michigan here in the United States where their board of directors for their town had made cut these deals with China and the town people were not happy about this because China hates America and so you know what they did Lara they changed the locks the town got together all the people of the town went to the wherever the board meets and they changed all the locks on the buildings and kicked them out like that's really smarter not harder that's smarter like instead of just protesting holding a sign and crying about it they're like uh-uh no no no we elected you into these positions and you sold us out to our enemy uh-uh that's treason we're going to change the locks you are no longer welcome to be in this position of power in this county you know it's like I shared with with the stuff going on with the schools with the kids I shared this on my show it's still on my Instagram guys so if you want to go to my esoteric on Instagram download it and share it please do but we were seeing like with the kids what's happening in the school system I have to be careful what words I use on YouTube but you know with inappropriate conversations around intimacy and body parts with really little kids and parents have been showing up here in America at these board meetings and actually reading out loud the kids books that their kids are bringing home that are totally inappropriate and um the board members like no we can't have you read that they're like it's funny we're adults and you can't have me read that but you're reading it to my five year old in kindergarten well this has been going on for a while where parents are getting shut down shut down shut down shut down and one I think somebody said this happened maybe in Ohio and I can only imagine what happened one parent or couple parents got smart you know what they did they went to the mayor they showed the mayor of the town all their kids homework the mayor went and spoke to a local judge in the town and here in the United States I don't know what it's like in other countries the judges are elected by the people you elect a judge um and they showed the judge and he got the judge said yes this does count as child CP which is a felony and so the mayor went to the board meeting it's on my answer to the video someone videoed it sat up at the board and basically I'm paraphrasing what he said he goes I have spoken to a local judge she has confirmed that this is CP you have two options you can either resign tonight or you'll face charges and he turned around and walked away and everyone bust out so you know boom done taking care people are fighting they're fighting smarter not harder and I think that's what this is all about because you know if you sit back and do nothing you know you start to see it during the 2020 period how they actually started in America to give out checks you know to people and I'm like if people get reliant on those kind of things they're trying to crash the economy and get people reliant on checks and it's like that to me seems like a communist system absolutely it is they're using money as a tool to try and get to try and actually break the barrier between the rich and the poor and get rid of the middle class that's how I see it and they're using money as that tool and I'm just like you know what there are so many ways that we can go out there in this world and actually make money and if we are making money and we are building our wealth their plan to try and push us down into a system done the thing about it with property as well is you actually don't need a lot of money to start doing it so if people are wondering what I'm going to be doing when I first move over there I'm actually going to be doing a strategy for rent to rent so I'm going to be renting a property from somebody under a corporate layer and then I just go in and I fully furnish the property and then do it as short stay accommodation so I will never own the property but I'll control the property and I'll be able to make a net profit from the difference between what I'm getting from the short stay and what I actually pay to the landlord so I don't need to own the property either but I can then make that passive income so I'm going to invest in actually going out and buying a property and I'm like if I can go and show people because I'm going to be doing it from scratch if I can go and show people how they can actually do this with little money give them the tools and be like look you can actually go and do this that's empowering a whole bunch of us to go up against the very few anybody can do this anybody can do this I'm south of all that it's amazing and that's so my mother used to tell us all the time growing up that if you allow the government to take care of you then you allow the government to control you and as you're saying with communism I feel that way about Nisara and Jisara that people I feel like that's communism too because I see so many people who are going without money and they're putting themselves in very dangerous situations they've stopped paying their bills they've stopped paying their credit card bills they've stopped paying their mortgage because they believe that somebody's going to swoop in and give them a check which is the exact same thing as what happened when you're talking about in COVID so it's suspicious like you should have a little bit more discernment like that's suspicious you know we know I remember hearing about that and reading and saying oh they're going to have these meetings so that you can get your pay packets I remember thinking like here's where you go but also I was thinking wow I've spent all these years learning about all these ways to kind of empower myself you know do I just stop because somebody's going to give me a paycheck and it got to a point where I'm like I don't think this is coming maybe I actually learnt these skills for a reason to actually because I enjoy property and for someone to just give me a check and then me actually not be able to go out and fulfill my dreams and make my dreams come true and it's kind of a bit disappointed by that it dumbs you down when you don't have the opportunity to have to figure things out it dumbs you down I feel the same way about the med beds as well because I see people like oh I don't need to go on a diet and lose weight or exercise because I'm going to get a med bed I've spent almost 18 years now breaking myself to heal my body to work through my shadow side you're telling me that you're that entitled that you can just hop in like a tanning bed type tube and all of a sudden you're right where I am you skipped your chapter 1 is now you're going to wait for all the way to chapter 10 no that doesn't work that's not the point of life the point of us being here from a spiritual perspective the point of us being here is to have friction is to have struggle and figuring out how like what you actually when the last conversations I had what to rise again from the dead means it doesn't mean the physical body it means you work on yourself and you refine your soul through the obstacles and it rises up again like the phoenix rising and that's kind of what you're talking about is you didn't have a trust when you didn't have all these things but you said you know what I'm going to sit down I'm going to figure this out yeah I'm going to make mistakes along the way but I'm going to learn from those mistakes if you make a mistake and you learn from it it wasn't a mistake and here in India says don't interrupt someone's karma don't ever interrupt somebody's karma because that's important for them it's important for them because there's wisdom that comes from that I use the analogy with the match a lot you know if you hold a match by itself away from the packet it has everything on it to light itself but it's not going to light itself unless it's struck up against that match book and once it strikes this big light comes off of it and that's what our life is you get that feeling of fulfillment you get that feeling of fulfillment when you actually achieve something when you put that hard work in and you have that goal in mind and you actually put the work in to get there you have that fulfillment inside of you whereas if somebody comes and gives it to you you don't get the same feeling and you're not as stable you're not as grounded in yourself I say that with like exercise too it's like you know people let's take running for example because a lot of people understand this if you want to train for a marathon you're not just going to sign up for the marathon and go run it are you you're going to have to start running that one mile running that two mile and there are going to be moments where you don't think you can do it but the next day you're going to run a little bit further and it's not going to be comfortable but every time you take one more step further you feel that sense of wow I'm stronger than I think I am faster than I think I am and when you do stuff like that like you're saying not really liking the academic side you kind of prove to yourself Laura that you're smarter than you actually thought you were I was a C-grade student I was a C-grade student I did not get the good grades but I think there was just some kind of subconscious knowing in my mind that the school the education system it wasn't as important as maybe what they make it out to be and I went to a school with a lot of pressure and maybe just subconsciously I knew that but then I enjoyed my school experience I enjoyed the social aspect but when I actually it was only after I left that I actually started learning the things that actually fulfilled me that I actually really enjoyed learning and that's when I kind of got that progress so I agree I went to a private school too and it is a lot of academically it's a whole comparing and contrasting school experience compared to other people who went to public school it's a very different experience and I think I just walked away with a bunch of PTSD because it is so much pressure academically to they do give you like my senior year our senior year at the school I went to is really your first year of university so you can opt out when you go to university you can then test out of your first year and start at your sophomore year most people just repeat it again to make their first year at university easier so I agree with you and I absolutely agree with you I think that a lot of my knowledge came post-required school when you get to really focus on what it is that makes you happy what is your passion my grandfather who was a surgeon used to say if you do what you love you'll never work a day in your life and that's the thing he was right because we're not laboring as one thing it's completely different it's very different when you actually enjoy what you do and that I think we are meant to work well we all came here with different skills and gifts and talents I believe that we all have something to contribute and there is a way for everybody to try and to actually monetize that passion now I feel like that's where we are in this part of life we have that ability to take what it is that fulfills us to monetize it especially with things like YouTube there's so many different ways so many different ways the amount of opportunities you're going to get Laura just from putting yourself out there that you probably have even fathom how many opportunities are going to come just from putting yourself out there and it's interesting I will say so my step-sisters both of their husbands work for corporations my sister and I our partners and us our businesses my brother in law has his own business that's part of his family business my boyfriend owns his own business I'm my own business owner through YouTube and my mother always made that comment that her kids we're not slave to anyone we don't have to ask permission to go on vacation we don't have to ask permission to randomly take a day off if we're not feeling well we don't have to ask permission to go how dehumanizing is it to be 30 years old and have to ask permission to go eat lunch yep and when you work for it and when I was working it was like you could only go between these hours to your lunch break if you missed it yeah that's dehumanizing that's dehumanizing and so I'm fully in support of people working for themselves because it does give more quality of life to your life which is what you were saying too it's that quality to be able to afford with all of this and I think it's brilliant I'm just going to talk you guys through this one more time because we talked Laura and I talked about this because there are going to be people out there that are just going to want one of the basics of what they got to do to invest in property so this is that second channel basically just going to be business right Laura yes it's going to be every single deal that I do you see it from start to finish plus all the numbers and know exactly how I did everything so that's going to be that channel and in this channel which I'm super excited about because I love the human quality to everything is going to be about you doing it what you personally are going to you're going to get to see more of a realistic perspective so people don't get in their minds that oh I can't do what she's doing because she has some secret weapon I don't have no you're going to be showing people on this channel how you as Laura as a young girl from Australia middle class did this for yourself in this time of great awakening now Laura I'm going to again I'm going to ask my community because again you guys I have seen Laura's first video she sent it to me it is fantastic it really did I send you Laura that stand up comedy about the sketch about HDTV did I send you that clip I might have tried to I don't know or did I think you did yeah HDTV is our channel here in America where they have property brothers flipping houses all that kind of stuff and it is very addictive I find myself watching that show I love it like it's so addictive to see that the remodel of these house transformation yeah it's and what was he saying Laura he was like he accidentally flipped channels and he's got stopped or he lost the remote or something it got stuck on this what do you call this wonderous channel HDTV and then he ended up being like no pick that stone count and not that one yeah a thug guy like he looks like a gangster like arguing about like the color of the wallpaper and how he's addicted now to HDTV but it because I mean listen transformation stories are beautiful even with like weight loss and the struggles people it's it's it's because it's it gives hope it gives that feeling that humans are resilient and they can be resilient within their life around them it's possible for you to do what these people are doing and to see the miraculous work that creation because you are a creator as as a human being with a soul with that spark of light you are a creator and you can do that so Laura I'm going to ask you do you have just because I know I asked this question of my audience a lot to give me ideas but is there an email people can email you if they have an idea of like a show topic they want you to cover with with property or questions they're confused about that you can maybe cover in content on the show is that something you'd be willing to do sure I might actually open up a different separate email and then I can give that to any computer down below and I'll put it in the description box below that's a really good idea guys I tell that all the people like when you open up a platform it's nice to have the platform email and then your own private email because you're going to get a lot of emails girls and so you don't want to like miss anything accidentally that's that's vital to to your to your personal life and yeah so you guys is there anything you want to tell the audience Laura about your your channel that we do we get everything or is there something else we forgot or I think that's it it's it's going to be exciting it's going to be different going from like the middle of summer in Australia to the middle of winter in the UK I think I'm going to get a shot but you'll see all of that that's all going to be documented on the blog side of things so it'll be exciting it's going to be a journey and I really hope everybody wants to follow along and see see how it goes and learn some property it's it's honestly so much fun property investing is very exciting and I'll make sure to make it very exciting for everybody too I think I was telling you offline Laura that I follow this guy on Instagram this British guy who comes back and forth to the United States and he is hysterical comparing and contrasting the different I was telling Laura that here in the United States we call fannies your butt so like butt burns so like your heiny that's a fanny what is fanny in Australia and the UK what is that Laura your crotch the other side that the females have well I was telling Laura so the thing is is here I used to hear all the time the older ladies at church if a church went too long they would say Lord I got fanny fatigue which basically means their butts were burning so if you said that over the UK that would imply that you work a very different job so so in Australia so that kind of stuff that lost in translation stuff is quite funny it's quite funny and I will say I have noticed because I film with so many people from all over the country the people that I film with consistently have started dropping y'all in and I'm like I did my job they're starting to say like y'all my good friend is Canadian he'll say y'all now he'll be like y'all eh and I'm like I've done my job there it is so those cultural differences are hysterical and so that brings some humor to a very harrowing time that we are in as a collective and humor is something that the darkness cannot create only those of us of the light can actually laugh at our predicament sometimes and feel the humor in the situation we find ourselves in as humans so Laura I'm going to ask you this on camera will you come back again to the show and keep us updated on everything going on absolutely absolutely awesome guys well once again I will have Laura's links to both of her channels down in the description box below as well as her business email she's going to send to me in case you have any ideas of stuff if you're inspired by what Laura said today and you're starting to feel like you want to learn more from her channel just let her know if there's any topics with this that are confusing to you and she can do a video over that hopefully it's awesome when people ask questions because then when I'm in conferences with my teachers sometimes people ask questions that I don't even think of but when they ask the question I'm like that's a good question and I like hearing what the teacher has to say so you asking that question allowing Laura the opportunity to create that content probably isn't just going to help you but it's going to help a lot of other people too so and that's what it all is right we're just walking each other home so property real estate in the sky I'm just kidding so anyway guys well thank you so much Laura I know it's late for you over in Australia it's early for me over here in Atlanta and I look forward to having you back on and going on this adventure with you thank you so much for having me I really appreciate it awesome we'll see you guys soon make sure you subscribe to Laura and we'll talk to you guys soon bye everybody


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Before I get into this video, I want to remind you we're on our road to 133,000 subscribers and you know what folks, we have a giveaway going on as well. So all you have to do is head on to the pinned comment or the description. You can enter to win a Hylian Shield replica, one of two Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Switch OLED editions, or a Tears of the Kingdom Collectors edition. We're going to win two of those as well. Oh, beyond all of that guys, just I want to say thank you so much for all of your support and getting me to where we are today. We're getting to the point of being almost comfortable doing what we're doing.  I really appreciate that. And you know what, it turns out my kids are even inspired by what I'm able to do and not giving up on my dream. So thank you guys and you know what, let's get into this video. So all day long, I've been racking my brain around this as I dealt with some family stuff and you know, had a little gathering and everything was all good, right? We're just doing the weekend thing. It's Memorial Day weekend in the United States. Most of the family are around. But this entire day has been a little bit wonky because of the headlines. The headlines are everywhere. Nintendo has gone after the Wii slash GameCube popular emulator, Dolphin. Now we know Nintendo doesn't like emulation. They've made no secret of it. They're not the only company by the way that doesn't like emulation, but gamers seem to give them all the hate for it. The only company to actually technically file a lawsuit against the emulator is Sony. We'll get into that later. But Nintendo is the one that gets the hate for it. And that's just the way it is. Maybe it's because Nintendo still goes after ROM websites really hard. I don't know. But we know Nintendo doesn't like emulation. This isn't a secret. Well, back on March 28th, the official Dolphin emulator website announced it was bringing the popular GameCube and Wii emulator to Steam. The main benefit of this, of course, being that with Steam Deck, you could actually run the emulator natively through the Steam operating system. So this would just be a big boost to Steam Deck in particular. It obviously could help people as well on Steam in general, on PC and Mac. But the idea here, of course, is that you could already just go download those emulators freely. If you want to do that on a Steam Deck, you have to install Windows and boot into other modes. And that's not what people want. They want everything to be native. And this was a way to make this emulator native. It did have a store page, but that store page is down right now. But early this morning, they updated the official Dolphin website with the following statement. The statement section had been edited. I don't have the original statement because the original statement apparently just straight up said Nintendo did a DMCA copyright claim, which isn't technically what they did. But here is what it says. It is with much disappointment that we have to announce that Dolphin on Steam release has been indefinitely postponed. We were notified by Valve that Nintendo was issued a cease and desist, citing the DMCA against Dolphin's Steam page, and have removed Dolphin from Steam until the matter is settled. We are currently investigating our options and will have a more in-depth response in the near future. Now, this in and of itself suggests that Nintendo issued a DMCA claim based cease and desist to Valve, claiming copyright infringement over Dolphin. Suggest is the keyword, as the post is lacking any explanation of the full events. Now, before we go into what has become a big mess of misreporting and misinformation all over the internet, we should know that Nintendo has lobbied on behalf of stricter copyright laws and can be found on the OpenSecrets.org website with a listing of a donation of $30,000 towards lobbying for stricter laws. Of course, this isn't that abnormal and most major corporations are throwing money behind lobbying that benefits them from a legal standpoint. But it is a note that Nintendo is, naturally, trying to get laws to change in ways that help them. Now, let's get to a specific issue. First, LuigiBlood on Twitter brought to light that technically if this was a DMCA claim, and note there is no legal filing at this time, Nintendo does indeed have a leg to stand on, possibly. This is because after the 3.0 update to Dolphin, keys were added natively to the emulator. These are encryption keys specifically for Wii and are 100% owned by Nintendo. So this is Nintendo's own work. This would give Nintendo grounds for a DMCA claim as having these keys present in the emulator does indeed make the emulator potentially violate copyright law. Potentially. The thing is, it is presumed these keys are a problem, however, it's never once actually been tested in court. If nothing else, however, it could give them grounds to pursue legal action and get it tested. So they could try to take it down over those keys and then go to court over it. Because hey, this hasn't actually been legally tested, it's just been presumed to be illegal. Of course, if Nintendo was actually going to go after them over the presence of the keys, why did they only go after it on Steam when they could go just after the emulator on the whole? We know Nintendo will not hold back and try to shut down emulation. That's because as it turns out, maybe they didn't go after them with a DMCA claim after all. Let's first dive a little deeper. An excellent article over on PC Gamer really gives a lot of the nitty gritty. First off, Nintendo wasn't the only gaming company to go after emulators. Sony actually did it way before Nintendo ever did all the way back in 1999 against the BLEEM emulator in a ConnectX case. And the emulators technically won the case? Well, Sony lost anyways. This is often the case cited to state that emulation is in fact legal. Of course, this case centered around the use of a PlayStation BIOS and specific firmware, and from a legal standpoint doesn't inherently make emulation legal in all cases, they are just mostly untested at this point. Now PC Gamer did get their hands on the actual legal notice sent to Valve. Here's what Nintendo told Valve's legal department. Because the Dolphin emulator violates Nintendo's intellectual property rights, including but not limited to its rights under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, DMCA's, anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions, 17 USC 1201, we provide this notice to you of your obligation to remove the offering of the Dolphin emulator from the Steam store. The Dolphin emulator operates by incorporating these cryptographic keys without Nintendo's authorization and encrypting ROMs at or immediately before run time. Thus, use of the Dolphin emulator unlawfully circumvents a technological measure that effectively controls access to work protected under the Copyright Act. Now that sounds like a DMCA, but it's not what you think, they're not actually going after a copyright. They are inferring that those keys are an anti-circumvention matter and are protected under a subset of the DMCA copyright laws. Now this gets actually into something very specific because Nintendo hasn't actually filed a DMCA claim. So Nintendo has actually taken no legal action at this time. Let's actually get into what happened as we found out thanks to the treasurer or soon to be former treasurer of the Dolphin project called Pierre Bourdogne over on Nastadon. He actually dove deep into this. Disclaimer, I'm not officially involved with Dolphin anymore. I was the treasurer for the foundation backing the project for a while, technically still am for a month. But I've stepped down from the project a month or so ago. So still plenty of context, but not much at stake for me. The error that many have done in the reporting is to say that this was a DMCA takedown notice or a DMCA notice or DMCA in general. This was none of these things. The DMCA is a broad set of laws that includes a process for copyright owners to ask publishers to takedown data. This is defined as Section 512c of the Copyright Act and it comes with some requirements from the claimant side of things, which is Nintendo and some liability on the publisher side of things, which is Valve, they own Steam. It also includes rights for the entity accused, which here would be the stitching Dolphin emulator, to counterclaim, allowing the publisher to reinstate the content until the claimant sues. In this case, none of this process was followed. To the best of my understanding, this is actually what happened. Valve Legal contacted Nintendo of America to ask, hey, what do you think about Dolphin? Nintendo replied to Valve, we think it's bad, and that it violates the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions. Note, nothing about violating copyright itself. Also please take it down. Valve Legal takes it down and forwards NOA's reply to the Dolphin Foundation contact address. This is very much not a Section 512c takedown, just standard legal removals and a cease and desist between two companies. This has some interesting and sad consequences. Dolphin is not party into any of this. Valve's terms of service likely allows them to take down anything for any reason they want and it does. There is no counterclaim process or anything like this. Valve could have decided to ignore Nintendo with no liability. They decided to just do whatever they were asked, and that's not surprising given they initiated contact in the first place. So Valve already thought maybe this could be a problem. Dolphin probably has no recourse here to get any other outcome from Valve, but also no particular risk or liability at all. Now onto Nintendo's legal claims. Nobody can tell for sure whether Dolphin is in the right or whether Nintendo is in the right. Like all legal matters, there is a lot of space for interpretation. Dolphin does distribute the Wii AES128 common key, which is used to encrypt Wii game disks. This isn't required in theory. The tools at dump game disks could just dump decrypted images. In fact, that might be easier than dumping encrypted images. The decryption is done transparently by the Wii operating system. Whether that's allowed by exception clauses for interoperability, whether that's allowed by some kind of fair use clause, whether Nintendo's broken DRM actually counts as an effective copyright protection measure, etc., only a lawsuit could decide that. Your guess is probably as good or as bad as anyone else's. So now that we have this full context, here's basically what happened. They publicly announced they're bringing Dolphin to Steam. Valve goes, hmm, we're not so sure about that. Let's go ask Nintendo what they think. Nintendo tells them, you know, we think this might be a copyright issue. This might be a problem with the DMCA. Can you please take it down? And Valve goes, sure. That seems to be the gist of it. There's no actual DMCA copyright claim. There's no DMCA takedown. There's actually nothing legally going on. There was basically a conversation between two law firms. Valve initially reaching out to Nintendo's law people, Nintendo responding, and then just agreeing, you know what, let's just take it down. This means that Dolphin doesn't really have anything they can do because Valve took it down willfully and without being forced to. So because Nintendo never actually filed an actual legal DMCA takedown, Dolphin can't do anything. They can try their best to convince Valve to put it back up because Valve has no liability in any of this. But Valve just basically said, sure, bro, and they took it down. So we can get mad at Nintendo, of course, for even asking Valve to take it down. You could also argue you can be mad at Valve for just taking it down in general. They didn't have to. Whether it was a DMCA takedown or whether it was not, Valve is sort of innocent in all of this and wouldn't have to do anything until an actual lawsuit occurred. Then it could actually stay live until the lawsuit comes to a conclusion and then obviously the determination in a courtroom would tell Valve if they had to leave it up or take it down. Valve doesn't really have to do anything. Unfortunately for Dolphin, Valve decided, you know what, Nintendo told us they're not cool with it, we're just going to take it down. And that's pretty much where this is going to end unless Valve magically changes their mind and then it forces Nintendo to have to actually file a legal takedown. There was not a legal takedown presence here. This was just an agreement between two companies to take it down. That's it. No legalese needed at all. Just some potential legalese cited where Nintendo is trying to argue they could take this to the court system, not that they would. So why hasn't Nintendo then just gone after the Dolphin emulator on the whole? Maybe they don't want this to go to court. That's probably the biggest thing because if it goes to court and you find out that, hey, they defend and lose and you are allowed to put decryption keys into this software, they're not going to be included in all emulators going forward. And right now that is a minor stopgap even with switch emulators that you have to go to a different website to get the decryption keys. So right now it just sounds like Nintendo doesn't care about going after them legally. They just said, hey, bro, do us a favor and Valve said, sure. So if you're mad about this, you sort of have a reason to be mad at both companies. Nintendo for raising an issue, but Valve is the one that actually went to Nintendo. There is a chance that if Valve never reached out to Nintendo that none of this happens anyways. Nintendo did not go out of their way to contact Valve and request us to be taken down. It very much appears that Valve initiated the conversation with Nintendo because it rubbed Valve the wrong way. So who should you be mad at? Probably nobody. And here's why I feel like you shouldn't be mad at anybody. This doesn't affect the current availability of Dolphin. Dolphin was never on Steam, so to argue it was taken off of Steam is strange since the Steam version never existed. All that has happened is the Steam version has been halted and it does appear that it probably won't come back because Valve decided in its terms of service with its rights to remove any content that they're just not going to have it on their platform. So take that for what you will. Nintendo isn't trying to destroy the Dolphin emulator. They aren't going after it. They aren't taking them to court. Valve reached out to Nintendo. Nintendo said they're not cool with it. Valve said, okay, cool. We'll take it down. That's pretty much it. That's the story. That's the simplified version.  But also, look, I'm all for crapping on Nintendo when they deserve it. This time around, it really wasn't as bad as the headlines made it sound. This was just two companies coming to an agreement and Valve was the one to initiate the conversation. Nintendo might have never said anything if Valve never reached out.  Thank you guys so much for tuning in and we'll catch you in the next video.


We're here to look at some more Super Mario Odyssey. I'm Rob here with Teresa and Sam, and we're gonna show you a level that is not on the show floor. This is the Wooded Kingdom, home of the Steam Gardeners. Yes, we are in a beautiful, beautiful Wooded Kingdom. And before we get into gameplay, I just wanna kind of take this all in. This is a really pretty space. I love the little shafts of light that come through. And I hope this is coming through on the stream, but the ambient noise here is really nice. I've got the sound of wind going through the trees. I've got bird song. And I'm gonna get into a lot of trouble here, but it's a nice place to get started. So I will kick it off and start running around here. So I can't say too much about how this kingdom fits into the rest of the game and the other kingdoms we've shown so far. But yeah, this is Treehouse of Light exclusive content. We are not making this playable on the show floor. So this is just for you guys who are checking us out on stream. And I'm gonna head down and chat to these fellas. So yeah, these are the Steam Gardeners. They're the natives. Every kingdom has its own strange native creatures and they're robot watering cans that take care of the flowers. And I love their dialogue. Rotating out of control, doing to anxiety. It seems like a good way to handle stress. And it's all because of Bowser. Yeah, he has taken their flowers. It's very sad. They worked very, very hard on them. Rotten guy. What's good to know though is even though Bowser is causing lots of havoc, commerce is still alive and well. I've got a nice little crazy cap spot here. And I know we did a little bit of shopping in the first segment, but I just want to visit these guys and see what they've got going on. Yeah. And as we explained in that previous segment, there are two coins he's explaining again. There's yellow coins which are good everywhere and purple coins that are unique to the individual kingdom. So we got some goodies there. I like how direct they are to spend money. Do it. They look so cute with their little hats. Subtlety is not their strong suit. And these caught my eye. I think that since so much of this game is all about travel and exploration, having an explorer's outfit feels like a good way to go as we're back in here. And I'm going to need 15 of a local currency coins. Yeah, especially with all the green and stuff. You need an explorer outfit to track it. But I'm going to mess around with these guys a little bit first. Oh, look at Mario Jam. You'll see I can change the music. And yeah, I've got to get a look at this dude. So happy. He's just so, so happy. I love his dance. But all right, we'll get up some more trouble here. Leave that alone. Nope. I'm over trouble looking at him. I'm sorry. Guy worked hard to stack those. He really did. Maybe his stock was there. You just ruined the shop. Where'd he go, Sam? I'm a monster. Trying to smash and grab your explorer clothes as that was happening here. I guess I'll earn them properly. I'll get the currency. So I got two there. And you see the regal currency here, these cute old gears. Hi, buddy. All right, I'm not leaving me. And this is just intriguing. Naturally, there's Egyptian sphinx in the middle of the woods. There's a lot of variety. Why not? Oh, yeah. That unusual stuff in this forest. Specuous at all in the middle of the woods. It's a strange place. There's a few more coins over here. Oh, yeah. There we go. And now, over by this water. So you'll notice that there's prog noises. Prog noises? Yeah, oh, you're right. The ambient noise in this kingdom is just incredible. As you move around, you're going to start hearing different kinds of wildlife. I love that. It's so relaxing. It's just so fitting in the setting. I was just going to comment that every time you get one of those regional coins, it comes up with X of 100. And that's because there are exactly 100 in this kingdom. And they're all in specific places. So this is an additional collectible along with power moons and a few other things that you can find throughout the game to keep you busy almost forever. This game is huge. And that is a suspicious rock. That is super suspicious. So I love that this game is really taking so much of inspiration and so much of its DNA from Super Mario 64 and Sunshine. And 64 is, I think, straight up my favorite game in the Mario series. And any other folks watching who are also 64 fans, you'll remember the rabbit in the basement and how much that rabbit drove you nuts. So we have a bunny here.  Are you going to steal it? I'm going to try to catch him. Come here, bud. The important thing is that if you're wearing a hat, he can't be captured. Yes. Oh, nice. That went a lot better than I was expecting it to, frankly. That actually worked well. Pretty fast, yeah. It's really a nice way to, I think, practice your targeting as you're dealing with Cappy, because his trajectory as he comes back to you shifts as you're running around. You'll notice here, if I throw it out and then head this way, he's going to come back to me that way. So you can be pretty strategic about how you deal with his trajectory to get with some of those targets that are fast-moving. And there's another look at my Odyssey ship. It's beautiful, but I need more coins. I need to get going on this. And rolling is, I think, one of my favorite ways to get around in this game. I really enjoy this. It's so fun. It's a quick way to grab around places. It's not something I can do in real life without getting super dizzy, so I might as well take advantage here. Totally. Where Mario's got the skill. Ooh. Little tunnel. Oh, yeah. Little bit of purple there. All right. You're almost there. Eight. I'm getting there. But I do love how much these spaces encourage. Just kind of free exploration. So if I wanted to, there is sort of an overarching mission that I could do here to progress the story and move along. And we'll be getting to that a little bit later. But if you just run A to B and try to focus on completing goals and you don't really dig into these spaces, you're missing so much of what this game has to offer. There's so much more. I'm sure I can't say the numbers on the number of moons you need to complete the game. And then on our moons, there are altogether. But it's a very large difference. I'll leave it at that. Definitely a significant volume of collectibles, which is great for me because I'm a complete collectible junkie. Yeah, same for me. And can we? Sam, can you show us the sky a little bit there? I would love to show you the sky. Let me grab these coins. Oh, no. Are you stuck down there now? No, I'm not stuck. I'm just short. I can do this. I know that feeling. It's true. This is kind of like life. Just accepting the background is short. So yeah, the sky here is very interesting. You'll notice. It's a sci-fi like a holographic dome or something. I'm apparently built by the robots. I want to know more. I think this is something we're going to have to ping the devs about next time they're back on a second because it is very curious. And if you look, it's very faint off there in the distance. But we've got these larger seams and also these little triangular panels. Yeah. It looks like a biosphere. It's Mario in his own TV show. Mountains. It could be. This is like the Mario show. For us, it's a super pretty kingdom. And all of the kingdom in this game are just so diverse as far as what you're going to see and find there. It really blew my mind the first time I played through different kingdoms and found out what they were doing stylistically. We're going to take a little slow wander here. Seems a little precarious, Sam. Just a touch, but you can hear little footsteps in the grass. I've got some points. Some points to just tap. I regret my decision that I made a mistake. Or did I? There's a world of the underground. So if you want to find everything that's in this game and really dig into all the interesting little corners, you're going to have to be a bit of a daredevil at certain points and take some leaps of faith and try some stuff that maybe in a Mario game, you would not think is terribly wise. But this is the deepwood. And it is creepy. I love this space. Mario's terrified. He does not want to be here at all. Oh, look at him. Buddy. Oh, I'm sorry, buddy. Even Cappy looks startled. But that's OK. We won't leave him down here forever. But I just want to appreciate how this space looks. And here are the ambient noise. We're hearing a lot more insect calls, little crickety kind of noises as well. And there are a lot of goodies to be found down here. I don't want to show off too many of them because we want to hang out some surprises. But there are some very cool things here. And I feel bad for these guys. I feel like they got the short end of the stick when it came to job assignments with the steam gardeners. Who did this guy annoy to get stuck with this job? And you will be in the deepwood. Especially down here where everybody else is up there. Yeah, it's dark and cold. I also wanted to mention this level is not playable on the show floor. But there is another area kind of like this in that you have to do something. It seems to be lethal to get to the area in question. And I didn't actually know about it until Sam showed it to me while we were preparing for Treehouse Live. Because Sam is more of a daredevil than I am. I do a lot of very foolish things when I'm playing games, just to see what will happen. Works out well in this game, though. It definitely encourages experimentation. And this is actually kind of a neat spot here. So we've got super creepy, creepy, dark forest. Everything's terrifying. And then we have a weirdly cartoony tree. This is a very happy little tree. That tree definitely seems out of place from the rest of the trees. If it's what this game has taught me, as soon as something's out of place. You throw your hat at it. Mightiest capture. Mario in the tree. I am the most mighty of trees. And I can't do much, but I can do this. It's a little hopping motion gets me every time. So I'm the noise, too. Just doing my own tree dance. Basically, what a tree would sound like if it was hopping. I'm pretty sure. But what's nice is now I was able to uncover a leather moon. So definitely when you're playing the game. And if you happen to be here at E3 and you're playing our levels on the show floor, just try throwing happy at everything. It's so worthwhile. You never know what you're going to find. There's a lot of just fun capture targets, fun secrets. And they've really built the challenge here, where I think whatever kind of player you are, you're going to find some stuff that really feels like it's in your wheelhouse. It's the kind of stuff that you're comfortable doing. And then a lot of stuff that's going to take you out of your comfort zone.  It's very cool. And actually, before we head back up to the surface, there's one little friend I would like to introduce people to. I'm going to ask him quietly so it'll startle him. Yeah. Is it a little friend or a big friend? He's a pretty big friend. He's pretty fantastic. I see a tail. Hi, buddy. So if you watched the video during the spotlight, you certainly saw the T-Rex. And here he is wearing a fantastic hat. He's super depper. He's just taking a nap. That's a cowboy hat. You didn't know you wanted to see a T-Rex sleeping in a cowboy hat until today, did you? The old friend of Mario, I'm doing this to him like, get a little closer. See the T-Rex. That's too close. Too close.  And the T-Rex is actually snoring. He's got the cutest little snore as he's sleeping. So I'm not going to bug him and wake him up. I'm actually going to leave him in peace. But I did want to give folks a chance to actually see him in person because he's pretty fantastic. I also love, though, I don't know if the people in the home noticed, but there was a little regular lizard, not a dinosaur, just a small. Maybe the size of Mario's hand. Just running around. It has no game function. It's just there because it adds this wonderful atmosphere to this place. He's a little companion to the T-Rex.  Sidekick. Yeah, he might just skip it. And there's rats in the New Donk City and all these little atmospheric animals. The pigeons in New Donk City are amazing, too. They have a lot of personality, as pigeons do. They're kind of fun to hang out within the game. All right, so I've definitely got enough of these coins because I'm going to grab some maracas. He doesn't want to grab coins. And we've got a nice little river to splash through down here. And the work that's been done on the water effects, I think, is just fantastic. It's gorgeous. And it sounds very pretty as well, actually, particularly here, playing with my headphones on, getting like, oh. Oh, there's a lizard. Oh, there he is. Oh, another one, too. A lizard. There's a couple lizards. I'm in the lizard kingdom. Come here. Why won't you let me play with you? Oh, wow. You're not wearing hats. How are you immune to this? That's OK. They're really fast. I probably have to sneak up on them and take my time. Too agile from Mario. I've got to blend and be more like a lizard, earn their trust. But that's all right. Let me find one of our little buddies who had a seed. Oh, yeah, there's the poor unfortunate robot. Hi. That's OK. That's a big seed to go inside that robot. That's like, where was he storing that? Robot places. I think it was actually in his head. So now he doesn't have the little piece on his head there, I think it just kind of popped out of his skull. Are you saying you took his brain? He's not talking anymore. Oh, boy. No judgments. I needed a seed to get home. So I'm going to toodle my way back over here. This is a, there we go. So this is one of the spots. And we passed by a few of these, but I'm going to try this one out and see what happens. Oh, not quite close enough. There we go. Up we go. So that's my pathway back up to the sunlit surface. And there's a lot of stuff here that I'm not going to show, but there's stuff down here. So when folks have a chance to get their hands on the final game, I highly recommend visiting the Deepwood. It's a really cool spot. Poke around in every nook and cranny, folks. You'll find something more often than not. For sure. And so here we actually popped up on the other side of that ridge. So that is where I was coming down. And one of my favorite capture targets is over here. So I would like to introduce our viewers to this wonderful little critter. This is an uproot. As I suppose you can tell, he's got little planty legs. And he goes up, and this brings back down. And let's actually take a better look at him. And his flower pot counts as a hat. So he is all kinds of adorable, all by himself. But all right. Better with a mustache. He's trying so hard to get to you. He's glorious. And now you've become one. And his little hand leaves. I love the way he waves his little hand leaves around. And he's polished himself to a nice shine. He takes care of himself. I think he waxes. Yeah, with that little mustache. He is pretty shiny. And his noise. Wait, listen to him walk. He's got that cute little squishy feet. So all right. Now I'll show off his ability. So one of the things that's really cool in this game is all the different capture targets you get are going to give you access to different abilities. So here I've got this nice springy jump. I can actually shake my joy con to give myself a bit of extra boost. So I can reach things that normally I wouldn't be able to. And a good chunk of the puzzle solving in this game is actually finding something weird, something maybe that you can't get to or you can't interact with. And then figuring out what in the world is going to let you interact with it. And a lot of times it'll be a capture target. And you have to find maybe the right item, the right enemy, and get it to where you need to be. And a lot of times trial and error, you just kind of mess around. You make some new friends, take over their bodies. And a lot of times the challenge will be, oh, I see I need to bring this kind of enemy to the spot. But how on earth can I get an enemy that can't jump, for example, to this place to use it? And different capture targets. They'll have different advantages, but also some different weaknesses. So a lot of it's going to be kind of getting experience with these different enemies and finding out how they work to your advantage and also how you have to be careful with them so you look after them if you're trying to get them A to B. And yeah, he's just adorable.  OK, that's enough. I've appreciated my little friend and his cuteness.  We can actually go get that outfit. I'm going to leave you here, bud. Hi. And actually, this is kind of interesting. So I'm just going to hang out with him. He's a dizzy. He's dizzy. He feels a little funky.  Had him bouncing around for a while. But if I hang out long enough, so what I can do, grab him again. So if I had to finish something up, maybe there was a task I had to complete as Mario, I could let go of my capture target. And while it's sitting there dizzy, I can get something else done and then recapture it. But if I leave him long enough, he's actually going to work back to where he started. So he's OK. He's another worse for wear. He's going to go home. Oh, coins. Wait. Coins. Oh. Come here. Oh, that's a big stack of coins. Ah, come here. I didn't see where that came from. Where did that come from? Oh, it went down somewhere. I don't want to go. Shoot. I missed it. No, it bounced out of one of the bushes. But that is not something I want to show folks just yet. So I'm going to let that go. Whee. Splash. Oh, and he's wet. Yeah, his water texture looks so cool. And the detail. That's so amazing. I love it. Drips for a little bit as he's splashing around. That's OK. The detail work in this game is just insane. Hey, I'll tell you, every time I see a new ROM at this game, they've hit the textures up again and brushed them up. And it's always interesting firing up the new ROM and seeing what they've done. Spend money. I will spend money. I will spend money on that. Thank you. And we showed changing in Crazy Cap in our last segment. So I'm actually going to hang on to these because there's another place that we can go to change.  All right, buddy. Thank you as well. Maybe later. Why thank you. All right, so I have got my. And you'll notice there's souvenirs for sale there as well that are specific. These are the Steam Gardens souvenirs that you can decorate the Odyssey with. Oh, actually. And I'll put those out as well because we're actually going to take a peek inside. So here I've got a sticker that would actually go on the outside. Kind of like a bumper sticker for your car. I decorate my Odyssey. And then some souvenirs there. I won't scroll any farther, but there's goodies to be had in each of these kingdoms. I love that customization. You could just pick and choose how you want your Odyssey to look. I totally did this kingdom. So I'm going to get all of its stuff first. Yeah. And rolling because Mario has a very strong stomach and he does not get dizzy. And so this is the Odyssey. And we're going to take a look inside so we can show off what's going on in our ship. So this is the interior of the Odyssey. And you can see I've got some really interesting shelves up here. So I've got some spots I can put some things as I collect some new stuff that I still seat. I can just chill out and have a relax here by my coffee table if I want to. But I've also got this closet here. And I can change to my new outfit pieces here. So hit the Explorer outfit. And there's even a mirror. Yes, I can actually get myself positioned right to get the angle. Where am I? Over here. Close. There's my hat. OK, so over here. There we go. Yeah, it's pointed toward the center of the room here. So I'm thinking, Mario's looking good. I'm feeling Explorer appropriate now. So this might actually be a good time to visit that sphinx. Let's say hi. Maybe throw a couple rocks around for good measure. Hi, buddy. I'm going to leave him alone for now. So let's head over here and pay this fellow a visit. OK, so what did Bowser steal from this kingdom? Water, wood, flowers, or soil? Now, based on the conversation that we had with those steam grinders earlier, I'm thinking flowers are what got taken. Yeah. All right, so now I'm going to head a little bit further into this area. Got some more local currency to grab. Always good to catch those. And these are actually fun, too. We've got these little signposts. As you're playing through the game, you'll learn how to do different moves, get some different tips and tricks. So as you see these signposts, it's really worthwhile to take a look at those and see what they have to offer. Some of those are returning moves, like the backward somersault, but others are brand new or hat specific and that sort of thing. So this is a very different spot. Got some really cool stuff going over here in the corner. But first, I've got this purple stuff. Now, you see I can splash it around with Kathy, which is good, because if I actually come in contact, and I'll do it because I'm a foolish, foolish person. Ow! Yeah, that hurts. So I have to be very careful of this purple business. And thankfully, Kathy's able to splash it away. And you'll see that there are actually some coins hidden under it. So I've run into this obstacle, but it's actually really in my best interest to try to deal with it. So I'm gonna find some more coins. And as I think about the rest of this game, you just never really know what's waiting for you in spots, so it's really worth checking every little corner. I got some nice views over here, some more off into the woods and some other activity over there. But I'm gonna head back this way. I'm gonna narrow that out here. I love the surf guitar music here. Yeah, the contrast from the very environment ambient noise that we just came from, it kind of matches, yeah, it kind of matches like the girders that kind of off-stand from the rest of the environment. It just comes hand in hand, I guess. Oh, sure. All right, so let's hit the checkpoint flag first, and then we've got the binoculars. So these are returning from previous Mario games. So I'm gonna grab this guy.  So I can see the Brutals, it looks like, are hanging out up there. And then there's a lot of terrain up here. There's a lot of space, yeah. And a lot of stuff I can see already that I'm not even close to touching on in this segment. But this is a really big kingdom, and there's a lot of interesting surprises there. We got another rocket ship, like we saw in, or first segment, back in New Donk City.  Here's another one of my little buddies. Hi, uproot. Just putting around doing his thing. All right, so there, I will pop out. Got some piranha plants up here. They're spitting that same purple goo, so I know I have to be careful with these guys. And this is actually a good chance to talk about the camera control as well. So just as I'm kind of getting the lay of the land before I head forward, this is all just really smooth movement that I'm able to do with my right stick. So I can get a really nice view. You'll notice there Mario goes a little translucent when I'm really close, so I'm not blocked as far as my view goes with what he's doing. And I can get a really nice view, and his idle animations are actually fantastic too. So it's kind of nice just to let Mario hang out for a minute as you're figuring out where you want to go next, and just kind of watch what he gets to do. You might as well take a nap here, see if you will. Maybe gonna get comfortable. Step one, gonna sleep. So Mario talks in his sleep, and it is adorable, so. If you have an opportunity, if you happen to be here, and you are messing around with the show for a while, if you have a couple seconds to let Mario take a little nap, it's really cute.  I am so purple, and I actually stayed messy. All right, Cappy is taking one for the team there, and actually, Pranipans are eating him, so here, no more spitting purple goo, and I can just give him a little punt. I like that tag teamwork there. Yeah, it's nice that Cappy is invincible. He takes a fair amount of punishment in this game. So. It's a hard life for a hat. There we go. Very conic question mark boxes. So, I can hop up there, but I'm actually gonna take a little stroll this way. Yeah. Be very careful again at these. It's grossness. Boom. Feels good to just be able to kick over a piranha plant. Yeah, take that piranha plant. I'm not that skinny kid from the beach anymore. Come here. I'll take this one out too. I'm gonna get a little bit lower so I can get the right angle hunting though, because Cappy is gonna go kind of in a straight line. He's not gonna go up or down when I'm using him this way. So I need to be very careful. I can certainly throw him. So, if I swing my arms up with the motion controls, I get a nice forward throw. If I swing them down, I actually get a nice forward roll. That's pretty good. But when I toss him, it's really tossing on a level plane. So I need to be very careful of where I am in relation to where I'm throwing him to make sure that I'm actually making contact with what I'm gonna make contact with. Sneak over here. I don't wanna leave any question blocks unsmashed. I'm just curious, really, kind of nice and jazzy. I wanna say I really like this girder environment. It's bringing me back to the DK stages. Totally, yeah. And I absolutely love DK, so this is very nostalgic for me. And I love the color contrast with, you know, you've got the red metal and the green plants and everything. It's both a texture and a color contrast. It really looks fantastic. Yeah. And you could tell this has been here a while because it has this growth on it. Yeah, there's some interesting stuff going on here with what looks like maybe steam coming out of those pipes as well. And I guess, being the steam gardens, they may be using that to some why. Hi. Oh, hello. Yay. I'm just so happy. So good. Okay, enough of that.  I'm gonna be talking about your uprooted problem. You call it a problem, it's not a problem. It's a way of life. It's magic. And they make a cute little noise when they hit that top.  Is that what's happening? We're dancing. This is how they communicate maybe. We're just kind of hanging out, but I don't want them to hurt me. It's like how bees are going to get the location of flowers. Oh, buddy. So this is an interesting, almost really a side scrolling section where I need to use my uprooted abilities. It's worth clearing out some other stuff here too just to see what's maybe hidden away. Oh, hello. Oh, there you go. There we go. Your fourth moon. Yeah, there's that little counter on the upper left to tell you how many moons you've gotten. And the first time you arrive in a kingdom, there's a number of moons you need in order to get to the next kingdom. And it'll show up as little outlines this particular round because it's for Treehouse Lab only. It doesn't show that because we're not trying to get to the next kingdom. But yeah, it helps you keep going. I'm gonna show little bits and pieces here, but there's certainly a lot more going on in these kingdoms that we've got here. Yeah. And the beautiful reflection texture on these urters too. Steam gardeners look after their place. They really do. They're hard workers. All right, so I've got some coins there. And here, I'm actually gonna pop this up to the top and try to pop over this guy. Come here. Come on, come over this way. There we go. I'll lure you away. You're going for your pacifist run, Sam. There we go. I don't want to hurt these little guys. They're too precious. They just want to do their thing. Maybe have some sun and some fertilizer. All right, so we've got some coins up here. Certainly don't want to miss those. They're very close to our objective, so this is the next spot.  I'll actually let my little buddy close to it. Super handy when you're going back later for completion goals and stuff. So he's doing it. And just looking back, so it's worth it, I think, as you're progressing through these kingdoms, every once in a while to stop and take a look backwards because you're gonna see some things that you maybe didn't notice, didn't realize were there. So there, for example, I've got some regional coins that I didn't hit on this run, but looking at them from this direction, I can see, oh, there's something there. There's some other interesting stuff going on in that corner, too. So it's certainly worthwhile, you know, backtracking and taking a look at spaces and there's a whole bunch of stuff over here.  Oh, yeah, and this game will keep a completionist busy for a good long, long, long. There's so much stuff to find here. Oh, so here we go. That little prod-a-pot actually made the mistake of chomping onto that rock I threw over. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. But I will leave him to rest now. All right, I'm ready. Boom. Nicely done. I've got to clear out some more of this because I want to make sure there's any goodies under here, any hidden coins. I want to find these, and there we go. That capspin is really handy in that spot. Yeah. That looks really good, too, when you execute it. Yeah, the capspin's a great move for clearing territory around you. If you've got a lot of enemies nearby or maybe you have, like in this case, a lot of this toxic liquid nearby as well, it gives you a really good kind of circle of protection around you. And it could be actually helpful for some boss fights as well, just to give yourself a little bit of a perimeter of safety. Your turn, buddy. I'm sorry. You got to go. And here, we've got an impressive big piranha plant going on. I'm going to take a look closer up here. I might actually see. Oh. There's the brutal ship. You're going to close to them. They're our friends. The HMS Brutal. Beautiful, beautiful wedding planners. They live up to their name. Yeah, they're brutal. They're pretty brutal. They are brutal as well as being, you know, bridal. Oh, it's a hard job. You know, it's a cut through business. Got to make yourself stand out and maybe being willing to take on all challenges and fight people is how they make their wedding planning for each day of the night. If you have enemies intent on stopping your wedding, these are the folks to hire. Yes. Good to note. So there. Oh, the rock. It's not tasty. Sorry, buddy. Oh, I know that didn't taste good at all. Okay. I want to get you though. All right. Sam, we're just out of time here. Sam's perfect timing. Done. Well done. So that was the Wooded Kingdom, which is our Treehouse Live exclusive area for E3. Hope folks enjoyed taking a look at it. Yeah, thanks for showing us. No worries, Sam. So up next, there's the Splatoon 2 World Inc.


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talented individuals from the Roseau Valley area got an opportunity to display their products during the second annual farmers market. This year's event was held at Constitution Park and also provided agro processors from the area with an outlet to expose their creations to the wider public. The Ministry of Youth Development and Sports is one of the agencies involved in the staging of the market and its Minister, the Honourable Kenson Kazimir, believes it will give persons the chance to tap into the youth economy. This farmers market has been put on to really showcase some of what is produced right here in St Lucia. I'm very proud of the young individuals that have come forward. We just saw an ice cream demonstration right there. It looks very, very tasty. And this is what the Government of St Lucia is about. Given everybody opportunities, they tap into the youth economy, use their talents, their skills and capabilities and turn it into enterprise and to further develop themselves and their family. Minister responsible for agriculture, fisheries, food security and rural development, the Honourable Alfred Prosper emphasised how these events can aid in the concept of food security and promote agriculture in general. What I really picked up from today is that we have a lot of persons involved in agro processing but a lot of them seem to be operating from their homes. I want to see that opportunity for a lot of those products to be displayed or seen on the supermarket shelves. And I can tell based on my discussion with them that there are challenges in terms of certification and all of what it takes to get the products to the standard that can make it available for consumers. More significantly, I want to see our processors getting to that level where we can begin exporting. Taiwan's technical mission continues to play a vital role in the development of agriculture and youth development. Taiwan's ambassador to St Lucia, His Excellency Peter Chai-In Chen, notes that this farmer's market is an ideal way for agro processors to showcase their products. We always, always minister of agriculture to host a farmer's market to help farmers to increase their income. But we are thinking it's better that we can include youth because it's a good way for youth to showcase their talent, showcase their product. And today we see a lot of youth that actually come with their new product and a very unique way for making, for example, like ice cream, for example, like Seymour's juice. So we are really glad that we have this event today and we encourage more citizens, solutions, come to enjoy this ambience and come here to enjoy the products and support our youth, support our women and support our farmers. Maisan Hutchinson is a youth worker for Castery South East, Castery South. As an initiative for the international layer of the youth, we're in the Rosa Valley and in collaboration with the Rosa Valley Youth Alliance, the Taiwan Technical Mission and Ministry of Agriculture, we decided to have a farmer's market for young farmers and agro processors in the Rosa Valley. Today we have almost 15 agro processors here and they're exposing their business to the public and what they sell and how they created their business and stuff like that. And I believe that this initiative was a success. It is anticipated that these farmers' markets will continue to be an annual affair. From the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, I'm Ryan O'Brien.