What's the word y'all? What's the word? What's the word? Alright y'all know man. Welcome to the show You know, we're trying a lot of things differently, man. This week. We wanted to do something live There's a lot of stuff going on in the NBA y'all notice I haven't been doing recaps because I wanted to do this big old segment today So we got a lot of things planned. We're gonna talk playoffs We're gonna talk Celtics. They're not in the playoffs no more, but things are going on We got guests along the way. We super excited. Let's just let's just get into it Tell him I gotta go and get the money because the money won't pay me if anybody really thinking no balling Well, please tell him come to pay me or you can go to youtube and search a card game watching an hd Yo, and that's game So yesterday we had a historic performance by damien lilor one of the greatest playoff games I have ever seen and today we're going to talk about that with our special guest Zach Hollins of the Portland Trailblazers powerful center combo. He do a little bit everything Welcome to the show Zach Thanks for having me man. I appreciate it Yeah, this is great man. I appreciate you taking the time one of the first things we want I want to talk about is yesterday's performance because uh You weren't you aren't able to play right now because you're going through injury and getting back healthy But what was it like in the arena to watch dame do the things he did?  That's how you know It's not easy. Uh, it's it's amazing. Um, it sucks that we didn't get a win though I know I know him. Yeah, that's all he's worried about so all that doesn't mean anything to him unless we get the win so Um, but it was amazing to watch What's your progression like everyone knows you've been sitting out due to injury We saw that you were getting some shots up before last game. So do you have a timetable? Um, for me personally, it's just It's from the beginning when we redid this, you know when I refraction my ankle back in Uh, jane or december It was going to be a four to six month process. So we're coming up. I think I might like five close to five and a half months now so um You know in that six month that six month mark is more of a A timeline for me to to come out and start playing against contact and all that so Six month isn't isn't a hard time for me to you know come back It's more of just a baseline for okay now We can start, you know ramping things up on the court and going up against defenses and whatnot. So that's where I'm at So I want to kick it back to 2019 because you guys went on a crazy run to the conference finals And in that y'all did meet the the denver nuggets on that run Of course, you plan to get them again right now You guys some okay experience guarding yokich probably the league nvp So what are you guys talking about in the in the locker room when it comes to guarding nekoli yokich? You guys like that. You got to make it just hard on him Uh, we know that like you said he's probably going to be the nvp of the league and We just have to make him work hard. We have to make every every time he scores has to be you know the most difficult shot for him and You know, obviously we have we have Things that we look at as far as his tendencies in which directions he likes to go, but it's When it comes to guys like that and I'm sure they have the same mentality when it comes to guarding our guys Damian cj, we have to guard, you know He has to make he has to see five defenders and it can't just be one on one It has to be a team effort with those guys and we have to you know, when he's cut through the land That you know, they run a lot of actions for him to Um to come to to to get to the block So a lot of guys screening the big our big man trying to get him open So we got to make sure that the guards that are Behind those screens are bumping him a little bit and making sure he's feeling bodies at all at all times and Um, you know again, but guys like that He's you know, especially him because it's it's tough to double a guy like that because he's such a good passer He's one of the best passives in the league if not the best so It's it's it's a balance between doubling him and staying home so that guys don't get open threes So that that's that's what we're at They talk about his passing there was a play yesterday They went viral on twitter Where he like looked off robert covington and made a pass to the corner and I forget who ended up hitting the shot But it was just like his vision is ridiculous. You can't I feel like it's just so hard to figure him out Um, I mean you guys haven't tried to do it You did it once upon a time and that's how you got to the conference finals But this year I think this man is another beast Yeah, I mean again, it's It's tough Some of the passes he makes, you know as a fan of basketball you sit there and you appreciate it You know, it's frustrating to go against him, but you know, you got to appreciate the skill level and his skill level And and his his openness to pass his teammates, you know, he's got to be a fun guy to play with But we're you know, our our main focus is is to stop him and you know We have to stop the role players as well because they've been getting hot You got some legendary players in that locker room, man. Damian Lewis is going to go down. It's an all-time great You got carmelo anthony who's top 10 in scorn and everybody loves mellow. What what is it like in the locker room? The locker room is fun. It's a a lot of great stories, especially coming from mellow You know, he's been through so much and he's seen so much in this league And he's seen how the game has changed from, you know, the Early 2000s to where it is now and just hearing his take on everything and hearing how you know He's had to adjust his game to the to the times now and It's fun, you know and guys like game and cj They they both Work extremely hard and I've said it from day one watching those guys work every day is is very contagious You know, there's no excuse with all the money those guys make and Uh, how much success they've had so far and they still work Just as hard if not harder than anybody It it shows you that you have no excuse and it's it's very It's very good for young guys like myself and especially, you know, rookie's coming in to to see that and to to be around guys like that And again, day being our leader. He's as real as they get, you know, there's no there's no fake to him There's no fluff or anything and what you see is what you get so Um, I think watching those guys you have to realize that's the standard of a player and a leader That you should be in this league And I appreciate you coming on to the show Good luck on your injury recovery Good luck to you guys in game six because I think every NBA fan a lesh I guess a lesh you'll not get spent want to see a game seven in this series, man It's been one of the best ones out there. So we appreciate you bro Yeah, thanks for having me man. I appreciate it. No problem Shout out again to Zach Collins for stopping back Again, one of the most legendary performances I've seen in a very very long time when it comes to NBA playoff though the shots that Damian Lillard were hitting we have not seen before we talk about step backs to send it to Overtime might have been a little phantom phantom found, you know what I'm saying? Well, we're not gonna talk about that step backs double teams off the glass He just did a little bit of everything yesterday So to hear it from first first experience with somebody that was in the arena It's dope man. We really appreciate him comment about A lot of stuff happened in the NBA man. We're gonna we're gonna get to some playoff talks But earlier today we saw out of nowhere the Boston Celtics decided to make moves man They get eliminated from the playoffs last night and we all knew it was coming They actually, you know, they lucked out by taking it to five shots of Jason Sato for the 50 But we all knew that they weren't gonna last in that first round and just like that They made some some big time big time changes that on our podcast We were talking about the future of the Boston Celtics and I think it was my guy Mike That was like man the way they plan right now doesn't feel like brad stevens It's not a brad stevens offense. It's too much. I sold too much this and that and little bit We know things were in the work for a minute for brad stevens to step away as the head coach It was already rumored that that indiana has sent him a super bag to try to get him back at the college basketball He turned that down because they had different things in mind then he aims retires I think that's official. He has retired and brad stevens is now the head of basketball ops I did not see that comment at all. I know nobody else did either So let's talk about the Boston Celtics and talk about Danny Ains because I've been seeing a lot of different takes about Danny Ains as tenure as the as the general manager head of basketball operations, whatever you want to call it. I think It was a net positive I know the last couple years have been kind of kind of weird And I think that's what people try to focus on the last couple years Because yes, they had a bazillion first round picks. They were trying to trade up They were trying to do this and that and they they didn't Gordon Haber left for literally nothing They had an opportunity to get Miles Turner, which is the type of big that they needed on his roster And they decided not to they decided to not do this signage right thing. So the last couple years Yes, it has been really really tough for Danny Ains But I want to look at his his career as the head of basketball ops is like a big umbrella because yes He has been struggling overall. You got an NBA championship at the end of the day Everything we do on this show Everything we want as a fan is that championship He's been there for since 2003 2004 and he's got one championship He brought the bosses soldiers back to a championship after years years of them not even being in contention He pulled off the trades to get Kevin Garnett. He pulled off the trades to to get Paul Pierce They hope and and Ray Allen. Yes, they ended with one championship that maybe that was That was a bit underwhelming maybe but they did end up getting that championship And we have to talk about the biggest finesse job and possibly the history of basketball When it comes to getting all of that draft capital all of those assets When it came to trading Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett And I'm gonna see if people look back on that trade and say things along the lines of oh, they didn't get enough Oh, they didn't do this or that Yes, they haven't won a championship since then But you got Jason Tatum Jason Tatum had 450 point games this season this season alone He had four of them. Thanks for it. Uh, 50 point games Jalen Brown was a part of the Kevin Garnett Paul Pierce trade when it came to the Brooklyn Nets They got another pick and they used that pick to get carry urban and I know the carry urban thing then go as planned But all of that Was the Brooklyn Nets thing and now Steven Adams. Oh, I'm sorry. Um, um Brad Stevens has to come in and figure out what's next and I think that's the biggest thing This is not a job that I think many people just walk into and be successful A lot of people that end up getting these head of basketball operations and get to call the shots have been in front offices before They've been assistants. They've been scouts. They've been doing all these other things Brad Stevens has no experience there at all And I think when we see this first move, which will be hiring a coach We can kind of get a feel of what Brad Stevens can be as he had a basketball operations They're looking at him to be the next pat Riley They're looking at him to be the next pat Riley to be a guy that's going to control the team and if things ain't going great Well, I can suit up and be the coach again in six seven years But he has to start off with getting the right coach to start off with And try to figure out this roster because as of right now, the only two guys that should be safe on this team Are the jays you love a robber ways who's giving you so I'm not saying he's untouchable But they like to take a lot to give people are saying that Marcus smart should be untouchable I think I think that's not sure anymore Yes, he is the hardest over the team, but I feel like you can replace that considering the hardest over the team Still got your first round exit So a lot of stuff going on with the bosses Celtics and I am super excited to see what the next couple years Look like for the bosses Celtics because it could be It could be really good Or it could be really really bad. Um, the carry over thing Boston has been everywhere man. These guys cannot stay out of the news When they be the fans When they be the organization when they be the players they cannot stay out of the news at all And it turns out that right after the game yesterday That's when the rest of the team found out of what's going on with like Jason Tatum found out They brassdiva is not going to be my coach next season And I guess brassdiva has been his coach his entire NBA career Um, and people are saying that maybe he lost the locker room They you you've been a coach of an organization for eight years and he's had relative success Of course, they haven't got the trophy But they've been to multiple conference finals and if I'm not mistaken They've been the underdog and majority of those things they may have been a favorite in that one year Where LeBron was doing the things by himself the one rookie season Jason Tatum year where he dunked on LeBron They might have been the favorite but even then if you're going against LeBron, you aren't ever really the favorite So um, relative success as a as a coach And I think all of us will put him towards the upper echelon of coaches in the NBA But now we got to figure out what he does as the head of basketball operations I'm curious to see What the what the Boston Celtics fans think about this because I don't follow many Celtics fans on the timeline This is live So I'm looking at the I'm looking at the chat here Somebody immediately said that Kimmel Walker gotta get traded. I agree But the only problem with Trader Kimmel Walker is that his contract is so big and we've seen here after year This man is struggling to stay healthy. That is a negative asset. You there is no such thing as an untradable contract I think that has changed. I think we've seen people take over teams and immediately trade away untradable contracts But they usually have to attach something to it Maybe a first round or maybe a couple second round is getting rid of Kimmel Walker You're not getting back value of the player that Kimmel Walker could potentially be That's enough Boston Celtics talk man. We'll get back to it once they decide who is going to be their coach They're in no hurry whatsoever. I guarantee you that they will not hire a coach in the next couple months I feel like they have to wait until after the playoffs are done because you get all the assistance as you can interview Um, and you never know. Maybe a playoff coach becomes available Next thing we want to talk about Let's talk about the Lakers No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let's talk about the Phoenix Suns because yesterday them boys dominated You know them boys dominated Devin Booker came out dusted his hands off It was like this is going to be my game because for the most part I would say Devin Booker hasn't been the player that me and you know Devin Booker can be so far in his playoffs He had a couple of good moments a couple of games But he's been playing at a good level But in the last game he played it that that that all started level that we've all seen and we all know Devin Booker can do so I really love the performance that he put on But but man it's so hard to look at what they did yesterday and not immediately think about Chris Paul because yes They won. I don't know that they went by 30 and when I turned off the game and I went to the other game The Damien Lillard game. It was like a 30 point and I didn't need to come back So I don't know what they officially lost by but when I see Chris ball Chris Paul thing go down I immediately get worried man because yes, you have a 3-2 lead going against a Laker scene that is missing Their best player this series Chris Paul being out is going to hurt and I'm not so he's not officially out He did after he came without that injury. They set him on the sideline. That could have been for the multiple reasons I mean you're up by 30. So you don't need to play anymore. Or was he really like, you know what? I don't know if I really can play anymore.  We Jalen brown, of course being down to kimba walker Robert Williams We've seen a lot of injuries happen in the last couple weeks of basketball But I don't know if any of them has been have been as big as anthony davis, right anthony davis Objectively has been the best player for the ellie lakers this series We get we throw in our game one where he shot like one for nine or whatever Well, we're throwing out that because right after that he dropped 30 30 He was literally a guard able by the phoenix sons and then he goes out this injury and he says he wants to play Of course, you want to play but can you who played because even just in the last game He was trying to fight through this injury. He wasn't as effective as we know Anthony Davis can be so even if they clear him to play he's not playing at 100 capacity He might be playing at 70 capacity and maybe that's good enough to to steal the game six and send it to game seven But we don't really know I have to say LeBron hasn't been playing like LeBron James It hurts to say that as a guy that loves LeBron James He has not been playing like LeBron James. He took 19 shots the other day last night 10 of those were threes now I'm not saying he should have taken threes because he hit six he was sitting 60% But in that 19 shot attempts he got to the free throw line zero times Zero zero times for LeBron James I'm coming into the playoffs. He let us know. Hey, I'm not gonna be a hundred percent I just won't be a hundred percent and we kind of like you LeBron James because even 80 percent is the greatest in the world Even 75 percent is top five in all of in the league right now But you're really seeing that this man is not 100 percent Now you have your star player being out and then your other guy being not 100 percent You need the others to step up to to some some capacity, right? Dennis Rutter was was training on twitter because he turned down four years 80 something million dollars And he shot over nine in a playoff game He's the only laker Since they left many an apple is to start a game shoot over nine in a game That's a lot of playoff games by the way. The Lakers are are always a playoff team He is the only guy to ever do that. He turned out 80 million dollars though Frank Vogel decided to start marquise morris and andre drumming together And this is hindsight because if they end up winning this game then we don't talk about this But I can't help but to look at what LeBron James is doing Or who the player that he is forming into in year 100 and not say like hey, how are we not starting marquise? How do we not open a lane up for LeBron James because one of the reasons LeBron Didn't get any free throw attempts because it's hard to drive to the paint. You got andre drumming down there, bro It really is and then marquise all end up playing 10 minutes because by the time marquise all get into the game It's already a 20-point or like why even play him at that point So yes, it is hindsight But I think that Frank Vogel if anthony davis is not playing for the next game Which it's still up in the air. He has to figure out the starting lineup and the rotations associated with it kcp also a down an injury Big thing he hasn't shot the ball well this series But we all know what mvp mv kcp can be you saw him in the championship last year He had a couple amazing games He can he could hit four threes in the game and immediately become the x-factor in your game So he'd be an out. It's really really tough Entry is a tough man. It's 100% a part of the game. It's not that we can do about it But they suck I'm gonna keep looking at the chat somebody said that andre drumming is not playing the way andre drumming should be playing Well, yeah, but this is what you signed up for Everybody that's been watching andre drumming for the last year or so knows that andre drumming ain't the all mba player That somehow he got a couple years ago You know like I remember having a conversation on our podcast Once you rather have andre drumming or gorgie yang for the Lakers And a lot of us it was like they should probably go after gorgie yang or the buyout market Andre drumming is good at a good at a certain amount of things but bad at all the other things If you need an offensive rebound put andre drumming into the game He could probably do that if you need somebody that can switch on to a guard and play a pick and roll You should probably put someone else in the game. You know I'm saying andre drumming just doesn't do those type of things So I'm I'm curious to see how game six go I think we're going to get another big game from Devin Booker This phoenix sons need to look at game six as if it is game seven because even if anthony davis does come back He's not going to be at 100 and maybe if they lose this if they go to game seven anthony davis is close to 100 They need to look at a game six like a game seven. We need to see if chris paul is going to be healthy They need camera pain to be The opposite of a tank master what's he's been doing this whole series They need all these things You know they need all of these things and I hate that an injury might be the Determinative factor in a series that I think majority of people saw to be a six or seven game series I hate to see an injury do those type of things But I it's a part of it man It's a part of it So before we get to our next thing we we got to talk about some of the things we got going on behind the scenes because yes Zach Hollins was the the live guests We have other guests coming into the show the first one being Josiah johnson if you are part of NBA twitter, you know Josiah johnson drop it meme after meme after meme And last time I was in LA I had Josiah come on to the show and of course we had to talk about sneaker So let's let's get to it Josiah welcome back to the show. Uh, let's let's see what he did I want to I want to pivot here a little bit and ask you about about sports cards Were you or are you a collector of of sports cards? I'm not but I would certainly say I'm well versed slash educated in the industry I know like I know panini and prism and I watch people do breaks all the time And I can't say that I own anything other than some In this attic that I'm pointing to above me. There's a little square up there There's a bunch of cards up there that may be worth a lot of money Um, I need to go up there and figure that out But yes, you do You you never know you never know some of the some of the craziest stories in a sports Where are the people going through old collections and finding a rookie Jordan or a rookie this player? You you should definitely go through that. I I'm going to it's way up there So it's an adventure to go find it But all the cards are from the 80s and 90s So there could be a Jordan in there that I don't know of it could be And I've just got a gold mine sitting up there And I might as well while the industry is hot because I have been found it and I certainly know if you score a lamello sign something I mean, it's going to be worth a lot of money to say the least For sure for sure So around here We're a big fans of sports cards sneakers and things like that and we have this recurrence segment where I and typically my Guests if you are in person we open up two packs one pack each and through the eight cards We have to pick our start in five of the ones that we got So I'm going to open your pack for you since you're you're on the on the east coast right now I'm out I'm out west. Okay, so let's see what we can potentially get On these ones. So remember we're trying to build our start of five. The first one Is wilson chandler who I can't tell you completely if wilson chandler is still around in the league right now For sure, maybe not getting pt if he is on a roster. That's our first card Then we have one of the top 25 players under 25 mckel bridge is one of my favorite players in the league Then we have marquise more senior And quinn cook that is our that is our four card pack Of this and anybody stand out that you're excited about I mean the mckel bridges is probably worth the most just because he's at the beginning of his career and the potential that he has Is that quinn cook of him waiting for the bus after the championship in the bubble because that would be worth a lot more If it's that specific moment I wish it was that moment, but unfortunately we just have Um a moment of him laying the ball up as lebron watches from the sideline So, you know, it's not it's not the greatest looks like i'm gonna be a mckel bridge I might as well change my handle to a what do the kids do nowadays at a world or szn at the end of it It's going to be a mckel season. It's going to be my new burner So the next pack starts off promising with carousel avert Shout out to carousel avert kyle law reformer nba champion paul milsap And then victor oladipo. So pack pack number two Put together two former also three former all stars because paul milsap has been there once and then up and come in Player so not too bad. Not too bad for pack number two I'm gonna say rigged because that second pack just happened to be significantly better than the first pack I'm up for a good conspiracy theory and this camera that i'm watching you was not zoomed all the way in So I can't prove that those cards weren't opened very much to the frozen envelope of 1984 that pack could have been frozen for all I know Hey, listen people benefited from the frozen envelope for sure And I might be the one to benefit from the second pack the second pack Um, so we have to build our start of five So I would go out on the limb and say that we are starting kyle lawry over quincook. Hopefully you agree with that Yeah, I think I could agree with that one Okay at the two we have victor oladipo and I mean carousel avert two players that were basically traded for each other one way or another Who are you thinking? Okay? So first of all the nba in 2021. There is no one through five anymore I think we put the five best players on the floor together that would play together. All right, so let's go lauri Let's go lavert. Let's go oladipo. Let's go bridges. Let's go small and since we don't have a big guy Since we don't have a big guy. I think it's either it's either mil sap or or marquis morris Yeah, yeah for sure. I mean I would I would like Man marquis morris is having such a good season this year. Is it marquis morris or marquis morris? Like the client we have marquis, which is the the better of the morris brothers, right? So, yeah You know marquis morris could play five for me. He's he's one of my favorite players in the league So he could play five for me any day We need someone that's willing to put the other team on their back if they try and get a bunny against us And that man can do it He's got that he's got the aspect of his game So I like our lineup. So we do have cal lauri carousel avert victor oladipo McKell bridges and marquis morris. That's that's not bad. That's not that's a playoff team a playoff lineup In the east we're going to be giving up about 130 points a game But I'm hoping we could score because we got shooters on this team You know where you can find the rarest cards in the latest box drops ebay the one stop shop for buyers and sellers Check out the episode description below to find out more about where ebay is rolling out Josiah looked a little bit different there y'all um No, y'all know how it goes man. It's a live show. We press the wrong button. It's all good We're gonna get to this Josiah segment a little bit later. 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I didn't know what to really expect and he's like one of the hardest working guys in the industry for sure Independent to um, let's talk about Joel and bead because it turns out this man has a slight meniscus tear You can't make it up man. You can't make it up, bro for team That has like Championship aspirations to to team that look like the best statement of playoffs until of course the injuries One of the best teams in the playoffs to have Joel and bead go down another injury sucks and they're talking about day to day Day to day to day on a slight meniscus tear is cap I don't care what nobody tell me it's cap. This man is not probably he's probably not playing game six If he plays game six, it is a miracle.  Whenever you give the toronto raptors praise for winning the championship There's always somebody in the comments somebody under the tweet saying well They had this injury this injury this or this or this injury Which is yeah, it's true. It's true. They they went against some teams that were missing players Yes, but at the end of the day, they still have to play basketball You know if I'm coaching if I'm a nurse and I'm a toronto raptor I'm going to get the the warriors without play thompson and uh kevin arant is out We're not supposed to tell my team how I don't play Matter of fact, let's even a playing field kawaii.  No, you can only play the teams That's your that's in front of you, right? So it does suck to see so many injuries happen in the league, especially for philly because I think daryl morey has done an amazing job at this team The one offseason that he had was an amazing offseason elevate in the team. That was yes pretty good I mean, they got swept in the playoffs last year. I understand that the semis didn't play They got swept in the first round last year to be a team that had the easiest path amongst any top C to get to the championship the easiest path you're going to get washed up right now And honestly if joel and b doesn't get injured this series was over the other day Let's be honest. Shout to rod and lopez for the good block on the play. I guess, um if he's playing He was unguardable Look at look at his advanced stats his plus minus in this series. He has been absolutely Dominant, right? So if he plays for the rest of this game is probably over and then in the next round You're probably going to get s Atlanta. We can talk about this series at the end of it Maybe going to get s Atlanta and they are a sigma more They're a better team than lana They have more defenders to throw at right now You can't tell me in the next round if they go against each other. Trey young is about to be Drop it 40 pieces if you got my t style Well, Trey young is a different piece. So maybe he will but it would be tough It's going to be tougher And then you get the championship or you get the conference finals and you just going against, uh, Brooklyn or mil walkie who just beat the hell out of each other that get that series is going seven Unless the but if that series doesn't go six or seven and the bucks are the winner of it give them a trophy, bro If you if you sweep into Miami heat and then dealing with three future hall of famers Maybe four future hall of famers and four or five give them championship But that's the type of uh trajectory that the Philadelphia 76ers had to the championship And that would you want to be gone It's not the same Without joining me. They should be able to wrap up the Washington Wizards. They should tonight, right? They should be able to do that tonight Miss M's got his free throws other people got to step up But they should be able to get rid of them tonight and that'll give them a few days at least a few days between the beginning of the next series Because hey, they might be hoping that the nicks win this game Because as long as the nicks keep this series alive As long as the nicks keep this series alive That means the Philadelphia 76ers get extra time for Joel to be to here to heal But a meniscus tear seem like something that needs to be worked on and not just how we don't say him a couple Day rehab. He'll be back for game number six. So it's unfortunate Is this pre-recorded? They answered your question does So, I mean, we'll see what Joel Labeet does. I'm not Joel Labeet. We'll see what Ben Simmons does I do personally like to see when Joel Labeet is out the way Ben Simmons comes with that aggression Because he doesn't play with that same aggression all the time But it seems like when Joel Labeet is out the man is an easy 2010 guy One of the biggest ones being a game against Utah where he dropped 40 against the defensive player of the year Rudy Gaubert and I know everybody talk about that because maybe Rudy Gaubert shouldn't deserve defensive player of the year If a guy that can't score is far 40 But I love those type of games. I love this type of games Let's let's talk about this nicks versus hawks because It's a little animosity going on man. Shout out to my guy pier because my boy pier says it best He's been quoting my cousin pier has been quoting mj the last dance mj is in the locker room He's got a baseball bat I'm alluding to what's about to come and he was like I I love a person that can talk trash before the game started I hate when I'm down and somebody starts to talk because that's the difference between a true competitor and somebody I think that's an amazing clip from Michael Jordan And we saw a player that's up 3-1 in the series who hasn't said a single word all year Besides you want to show his chess? Oh man. We the big dogs. We don't send this series home today Unless I'm not saying click a fellas wrong for talking trash I just think there should be a time and a place and that time should have been eight Talk don't travel for the series started. Are we going we going to be this in five? But this is a this is a when a brand agenda say bucks and six brand agendas before the series started said bucks and six Yes, he was wrong But you've got to respect the fact that he was talking trash the primal LeBron James and said he was going winning six Um, you know things things like that. So click a fella comes out and said, yeah You know, we don't we don't keep it here We go into the garden They're gonna just be able to taxi home because they season about to be over I like the responses from the nicks players though. I love their girls. Y'all notice. This is no surprise If I had a dear girls jersey, it'll be I do have a dear girls jersey It's gonna be hung up Behind the camera, but what I'm saying is I love the way dear girls Um talks to the media now because this has not always been the way to dear girls talk to me I love the progression from dear girls in front of a camera because I remember him in high school His first year in college his only year in college and then his first couple years here in chicago He hated the camera. He absolutely hated the camera and I don't blame him I don't blame him.  Why should I care? And I hope that jeweler's brand takes that and he has a domini game And then I guess it was a media guy that came out with rj baron and asked him, all right If your season ends today, how would you look at it? rj baron is like, bro, we're not talking about if my season ended today And hopefully it doesn't I want to see the series. I thought the series is going to be better than a 4 1 I thought it was going to be better than a 4 1 So hopefully is if I'm rooted for somebody it's where dare rolls a drop of 25 jeweler's random to come out with a 30 10 and 7 and rj to finally hit his threes I think they need to make some sense to start a lineup though I do think they need to change the start lineup before we get to some of the last topics We're gonna finally get to the Josiah thing because again, Josiah is one of the coolest guys I had no idea that he was gonna come into the studio and be what six seven six eight I know he hooked at UCLA But I didn't expect him to be like that And that's why I love that we do we do these shows and chairs because maybe a five seven You can't really tell that there's a huge difference You can tell there's a difference But not a huge difference if you did not know um Josiah's father played for the gawky bucks in the day And now he's doing commentary is one of the best in the game But he's not just known for being a player He was known to be one of the greater players in the league and got a sneaker So let's get to Josiah talking about his pop sneakers. What a good conversation Let's get to it.  I never really got good sneakers as a kid My parents I had my dad had a lot of kids So we had a lot of different hands in the pot But I've always respected sneakers and I've definitely been a trading card do since the 80s word word. So we're gonna Show you something We want you to open these and tell me if these bring back any memories any reactions or anything Let's see what we got in here Oh, yeah I think my these were my pops had these joints to be real with you. Yep. Yep the top tens like so he so he was um He kind of he'd hurt his neck when I was a little kid So he wasn't I didn't get to see him play as much So I always think he was washed and tried to watch and highlighted in my older life But knowing he had like a shoe deal and all the stuff because we we'd have these just laying around the crib And I remember even wearing them in like junior high like he would have just random shit jerseys Like we would wear his clippers jerseys His also we just did a video for his uh 65th birthday dunking And he's wearing his jersey, but I actually wear that as a kid. It was snug on me So, yeah, um for the people at home the story behind these adidas dropped these On the late 70s and they're called top 10 because they gave it to their top 10 adidas athletes And your pops was one of them. Yeah, which is which is crazy. I mean, this is a silhouette that will live forever Like it's one of the Premier early stages basketball sneaker And it lives even to this day in certain portions of the country like Detroit rock with these heavily I don't really understand why I mean, I'm not it's a it's amazing shoe, of course But something about Detroit and the sneaker just go hand in hand And uh when I was a kid I wanted a pair of these kind of Unrelated to the basketball. I just think that the way it looks was fire, you know So we thought it'd be cool if you unbox a pair of your pop sneaks and Yeah, these are this this brought back memories. We went back down memory lane with this one, but Yeah, knowing it's funny because I think he was one of the first dudes to get like a million dollar contract But it's like I got so many brothers and sisters now it's like I'm gonna be a working man for the rest of my life, but Knowing the like the way like Michael Jordan like I don't know if you saw the lab I'm sure you did saw the last dance, but he's got the poster at his at his college dorm So we're looking at my dad like were you really that good because like I'm giving you buckets now It's like 13 14 year old.  But now once I hit a doe hood and I see Like I remember him waking up at two in the morning to go to work and then coming back at 5 p.m Like oh snap pops is really about that grind Um in a few days we have Matt Barnes and his boys on and I wonder How they look at their dad if it's similar to the way like NBA fans look at their dad, you know I think you know growing up with the pops who played in the league It was tough because it was that was that was your normal right that was it was never You know, it was nothing for us I remember he finished his career with the golden state warriors and mj came to town But we get taken into the locker room to go meet mj. That wasn't I'm just saying I'm not trying to stun or brag But that was like a normal experience like we're hanging out with chris mullin We live in the same gay community like chris mullin I don't think he had kids at that point. I want to say his wife was pregnant with like their first child This was like 89, but he's taking us to the gym to go get jumpers up. So we're literally an oracle by ourselves Shooting with you know shagging rebounds for chris mullin like and that's just like I go back and think now like holy shit Like that was like, you know, legendary like this dude This dude and just to see even the way he like talked about my pops because my pops Was it was a shadow of himself after his neck injury But to see the way that these dudes and don nelson was coach of the squad at that point But see the way these dudes looked at him and revered him and just the respect they had for him And i'm looking like that you're only averaging like six points a day Like you're not the business dog, but it's an amazing thing and to know that he had adidas Literally, you know was on the roster giving them shoes and yeah, that's a legendary thing It really is it really is rare retro latest release all on ebay all backed by the authenticity guarantee And if you're a seller out there, there is a zero fee for a hundred dollar plus sneakers all on ebay Shout out to ebay out there.  So shout out to ebay as well. Appreciate you guys I hope that bag is in transit Don't make me punch you Shout out to osaya man. What a what a great see we got some Underneath that. I don't know if y'all are ready for man. Josiah was another great time guys So shout out to him go follow him. I mean you probably already do He's one of the kings of mba twitter meme after meme after meme But before I get y'all out of here because I know we got games to get to we got four a four game slate But I don't even want to talk about those everybody's been asking about my opinions on the only The only second round series that is set in stone actually started this weekend, which is a fast turnaround, but I did We have bucks versus nets like I said earlier. This might be the conference finals Especially with joel's down. This is probably this might be the series of the year Because I believe these two teams match up so well. That's the fight. This is the fight between a organically grown drafted small market team Versus a team with a lot of money and friendship and and max contracts That's what we're about to see And boy boy boy. Do I want to see the organic team win?  I love kiki I love kairi. I love James hard. I don't want any of that to get confused here But I would love to see the organic small market team walk out on top there's something about Goliath going down and in this case Brooklyn is goliath I ain't looked at the odds just said but I would go out on the limb and say that Brooklyn is the favorite in the series Maybe not a heavy favorite, but I would say they're probably the favorite in the series for a good reason They got one of the greatest score. They got three of the greatest scores of all time One of the greatest playmakers of all time the greatest handle of all time And a coach that's one of the greatest point guards about it. It's just a superstar studded roster here But there's a there's a thing about them Is a team that struggle to get stops their their team that struggles to get stops But also we've seen they can get stops when it matters the most right But in a series like this with the Milwaukee Bucks Every every possession matters the most Because if that's the team we see and if this Milwaukee Bucks team is that nice And that series against Miami because I've been trying to have this this conversation with myself trying to figure out where the heat bonds Or the Bucks really really about that this year And I guess we'll find out in the next series The Bucks are a team if they are about that Brooklyn cannot afford to take many possessions on at all And one thing that I know this is gonna say weird one thing that might be a big determinative factor Is whether or not jeff green is able to play Jeff green is one of the the only players on this roster that might be able to make it a little bit difficult for gala guys We're gonna see yannis guard kd. We're gonna see kd gar yannis. Hopefully that's that's gonna be great Like last year two years in a row yannis won defensive player the and he won that by being a amazing help defender The everywhere but not being that one-on-one lock-up guy that you may want from your your defensive player the year And the playoffs this round against Miami. He was that guy He got some jimmy butler assignments and he made it impossible for jimmy butler shot 20 something percent from the field in the series Entire see jimmy butler had the lowest plus minus of anybody in this whole series the star player ESPN jimmy butler is a top 10 player coming into the season He averaged 12 points in the series, bro A lot of that is because of yannis a lot of that's because pj tucker a lot of that's because drew holiday They have so many pieces that they can throw at the big three of the brooklyn nets Kyrie and james hart and ungun are going to see significantly better defensive. They just saw on their first round And I that might be one of the one of the reasons why Because I know everybody loves a good prediction I might say bucks and seven I might say bucks and seven. Yes, Katie's gonna have a game james hart is gonna have a game Kyrie's gonna have a game they gonna have games together But I do believe the offense of the bucks is real And I don't believe the defense of the brooklyn nets is real But I'm excited to see y'all know around here. I may give a prediction because that's what people like But they don't matter. I just want a good series. Don't be a four series, bro Don't be a four if it's a four game series either way I'm I'm I'm upset because the playoffs ain't living up to the to the height not living up to the height at all We'll see how things go, man. I this is going to be a very watched series Because I I believe depending on what joel and v is The team that wins this is going to the championship I do believe that again, depending Depending on joel and v Kevin runs one of the greatest playoffs scores of all time. We're gonna see that Kyrie Irvin was 50 40 90 We don't see that james hart is this became I think the only player in brooklyn nets playoff history to get a triple double So even though I'm picking the bucks. We all know it can go either way, bro It can go either way. It could go either way Um, man, I appreciate y'all coming out to the first official live episode of called game This is a test and it seems like you guys enjoyed it. Maybe leave a like let me know if you enjoyed it Can I get some w's in the chat potentially? 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So good morning committee for the record bring hair from Legislative Council. You do have a new draft of S7, which I'm happy to put on my screen if that's helpful for people. Is that 1.2? Nope. Nope. It's draft 2.1. Can you send it to me also, Brandon, I'll test it. Sure. I thought I did. Sorry about that. No worries. Okay. So I think you should have that in a moment. And usually it's helpful for this community if I share my screen. Is that right? Yes. Yep. Okay. Can you see draft 2.1 S7? Yep.  Sure. Perfect. Was that? That's good. That's good. All right. I'm just going to try and move it. Can you still see it? Yep. Okay. Great. I've got so many screens here. Perfect. Okay. Great. So just a few changes to this version from draft, I think 1.2, which you looked at before town meeting week. So I'm going to jump to those changes. And the first one is on page 9, I'll just remind the committee, these were just the last few points that you were discussing with respect to this bill last week. So the change here, this is that provision that you looked at before that says that only the office that prosecuted the case can stipulate to a petition to seal or expunge that's filed prior to the date that the offense is eligible pursuant to the statute. And I've just added a little additional language here to clarify that this only applies if the person is petitioning to seal or expunge prior to the date that the offense is eligible as provided according to the statute. So I think there was some conversations still ongoing about that, about that. Yeah, we're not seeing that change, Bryn, can you scroll up on your version? We're only on page. We're only seeing. Oh, really? Okay. Let me try. There we go. If the person petitions. Yep. Yep. Okay. So the language in yellow is new and again, it just, it adds some additional clarifying language that provides that if it's this, this applies only if the person is petitioning prior to the date that the offense is eligible according to the statute. By the way, that Peggy has posted the version on the website if people want to follow. Go ahead, Bryn. Okay. So the next change is on the following page. And this is the new language that deals with that the, the provision of the committee has been spending some time talking about where a person is subject to a probation term that is dependent on a condition of that probation that requires them to pay restitution. So this language comes from originated from the defender general's office and I just made a few changes to that proposed language. I don't think it's altered the spirit of the language at all, but it makes it clear what kind of circumstances we're talking about. So it provides that anyone who's convicted of a qualifying offense for which that person has to serve a probation term, a condition of which is that payment of restitution is entitled to petition the court to seal or expunge that offense once their probation term is completed. And then the second sentence says that the petition has to request that the court in the interest of justice adjust the waiting period for the ceiling or expungement as it set out in the statute. And then it directs the court to consider this request. And in considering adjusting the waiting period, the court has to consider the nature and circumstances of the offense, typical sentences for similar offenses and the length of the sentence that was served by the petitioner and deciding whether to adjust the waiting period and any adjusted duration before the person is eligible for ceiling or expungement. Brynn. Yes. Just a quick question about the first sentence. It says that they may that they may apply on completion of the probation term. Is that including restitution? So that I my understanding is that that would include restitution if the probation term is depend has it as a condition of the probation require the defendant to pay restitution. So it doesn't explicitly say that, but I think it's implied by the fact that yeah, I thought that one of the things and Joe correct me if I'm wrong on this, I thought one of the things we were discussing was that those people who had had restitution as a condition that held them out of the ceiling and expungement process for such a long time sometimes, as in the case of Erica Reddick. Is this in line with what you were hoping for Joe? Well, some people keep in mind we're dealing with a limited number of individuals now, but some people have been given a probation sentence that has the limitation of until further order of the court. One of their combined or conditions of probation is that they pay restitution. So when it takes an extremely long period of time to pay that restitution, maybe it's $5 a week or whatever the case may be on a $10,000 judgment under that situation, they would still remain on probation until further order of the court. And I'm not sure that this language has written would take care of that kind of a situation. Did we hear that they're not doing that anymore? And so it's mainly people. It's mainly people who are so maybe we need to put in something there about people who are currently in that situation. Yeah, I would agree because they are not doing that anymore. So we're talking about a finite group of individuals. Right. How do we do that? We toss it to Ledge Council. OK, so can I can I can I hear that once more? I was trying to adjust my. OK, so blinds to so I wasn't so so to improve my picture. Go ahead. There are some people out there who have. Been sentenced in a way that their probation term reads until further order of the court you're on probation until further order of the court. So there's no finite term for them at that point. One of the conditions of probation that they have is to pay back restitution. If their restitution is an extremely small amount on a very large bill that could mean they are on probation for many years. Well beyond what anybody would normally be on for this particular situation. And they're only there because they're on this payment plan that's keeping them held up. The question is, how do you address those people and give them an offer of expungement? If that open ended. Term is still. They're laboring under that open ended term. And I'm trying to read the language four and five times over as we speak, trying to figure out how to resolve that. So is the idea for the person to be eligible prior to satisfying the condition of paying the restitution? Well, that's I guess would be my hope. I'm not sure how you get there. And I think Judge Greerson had some concern about that. And I don't know how we reach a middle ground. I can't remember his concern. Oh, there he is. I'm here. Right now, in order for a person to be eligible for sealing or expungement, they have to have completed their sentence, i.e. they are no longer on probation. And they have to have paid restitution or completed their restitution because this involves just a very small number of individuals. And I don't know the exact language, but in concept, I think you could say that if they've served a term of probation with payment of restitution as a condition of probation, once the restitution has been paid, the person could seek a discharge of, and assuming that's the only condition that's keeping them on probation at that time. Once they have paid the restitution, they could seek a discharge. And if that discharge is granted, then the court could consider a request. That begins on page 13, line 13. Person could then request that the court in the interest just to shorten the waiting period for for sealing or expungement. So I think you have to start. You have to start with the discharge being granted. But the problem is that they'll never pay off their restitution. Couldn't we say as we did with fees, when we didn't want the payment of fees to withhold certain candidates, we just said that the payment of fees wouldn't be a factor. Couldn't we say here that failure to complete payment of restitution will not in and of itself disqualify a candidate? Yeah. What I don't know, Senator, is on these old cases, and maybe Senator Benning may be familiar with it, or David Cher, if he's still on. When it was a condition of probation, I'm not sure that they entered into a so-called restitution order in addition to being on probation with a condition of paying restitution. So if you discharge them from probation, and that's the only condition that's out there, there's nothing to enforce at that point. In other words, there's no way to track the restitution. But if I remember the individual who came before the committee, I thought that that was a situation where she had paid the restitution and couldn't get off probation, and therefore, because it was till further order of the court, and therefore, couldn't apply for sealing and expungement. I think it's more common to find that the person has paid the restitution, but they've got this outstanding probation until further order of the court, but I could be wrong. I think you're still going to want a discharge from probation and then couple that with a request to shorten the period waiting for sealing or expungement. I think we need to do something about the people who are on a $5 a week. Payment or $5 a month or whatever it is, that just are going to be there forever and ever if they can't. Do we know that those people actually exist that haven't paid the restitution? If you're asking me, I don't have a number on that. I don't know how many people would be affected by it. Because I thought that was the issue, that they couldn't pay off the restitution. I could be wrong, but I thought it was the reverse that they had paid restitution, but couldn't get off probation. Judge, is it your opinion that anybody who is subject to a restitution responsibility is going to avoid that restitution if they are no longer on probation? Because we have this restitution unit, it's now a civil enforcement process, and I'm trying to wrap my head around what happens if you did give them permission to get an expungement. Does that necessarily leave them no longer responsible to the restitution unit? The problem is that if you seal or expunge the underlying case, they're effectively, you've taken away the basis for the judgment that was entered. I think you'd need to talk with the restitution unit to really understand the implications of that. That's my understanding from past testimony that they've provided. I know from a debt collection standpoint, if you eliminate the judgment, you've eliminated the ability to collect the debt. And so I think that's the problem with that's why restitution right now under the statute has to be paid before. But this still requires the payment of the restitution, right? This does. But the question is, as I read this language now and the question has been raised by the committee, is the person still on probation? And so I'm saying if you couple this ability to request a shortened sealing or expungement record, I think it would certainly address the issues, because I understood the individual that appeared before the committee. In other words, discharge them from probation and then allow the court to consider a shortened period for restitution. But this doesn't provide for discharge right now. And so they haven't completed their sentence and therefore they're not eligible. The time period for eligibility for sealing and expungement hasn't occurred. You've got to eliminate that conviction. I'm sorry, you've got to, they have to have completed their sentence. Whatever word we're using, completed or executed, they satisfied. That's, I think that's once they've satisfied the restitution. Yeah, I think they're protected once they've satisfied it. The question is whether or not, if they're stuck on this $5 a week payment plan for 20 years to pay off whatever this massive bill was, they can never get their record expunged. And this may be something we can't solve. It may just be something that we have to leave. And I'm not sure what else to do about it at this stage. I don't think there's much you can do until at last you can go back to court and have the conditions changed. And we didn't, we do that in a different bill. And the probation bill, don't we allow for, in S45, didn't we allow for somebody to go back to court to change conditions? And that was a midpoint review. There was. Right. So I think they could do that. They could say, you know, this $5 a month's keeping me on probation for the next 20 years. Is there a way we can resolve this and whatever. Marsha Paul had that idea of, to allow a judge to recalculate the term of probation and of the sentence after the, if the sentence was completed and then just go with the restitution. I don't know. Yep. That's, that is, this is the language that the defender general's office submitted. I've just amended some of the wording a little bit, but I'll let Marsha weigh in as to whether he has any comments on that. No, this is, this is substantively the same proposal that we had made and it was to address, you know, not a situation of someone who is stuck paying a small amount every week for a long period of time. This does not solve that problem. It wasn't intended to. This just deals with the problem of someone who had pro restitution as a condition of probation. And because of that, it took them a very long time to complete their probation, to complete their restitution. And this simply allows the court to, so for example, in Ms. Reddick's case, she was off probation and done paying restitution, but she still had a long time to wait before she could get an expungement. And this would allow a court to recalculate that waiting period, because she was on probation for sort of an artificially long time. And that's all that this language was intended to address. But Marsha, would you agree that they have to be discharged from probation in order to do that calculation first? Yes, I mean, I think the intent of the language that I drafted was that they are off probation because that if they have restitution as a term of probation, then the idea was, because I wasn't in proposing this language, I wasn't trying to change anything substantive about how restitution is currently collected for the criteria for collecting restitution or even the criteria for getting a ceiling or expungement. So this wasn't meant to make it, that there was a way to get an expungement while you still owed restitution. It would be best to deal with that, with Eric Reddick's problem. Does this satisfy the committee to solve that problem? I think the other problem solved in S45. Yeah. Yes. That explanation helped. Yeah. All right? Yeah. Moving right along, Bryn. Yeah. So I did hear Judge Grierson say that we may need to change just this completion of the probation term to satisfy as the judgment for the offense, which would make that language more in line with the requirements and the rest of the statute. Does that make sense to everybody? Yep. Okay. So the next change is just something that no longer appears in the bill. And if you remember that you spent some time at the last hearing about the issue of the particular breakout waiting periods of a person was convicted of a subsequent offense for certain qualifying offenses. And we've just removed all of that waiting period language and gone back to the version that was passed last year. Everybody remember that? Nope. It's actually on page 17. That language doesn't appear anymore. And that's, those are all of the changes that are made in this version. Bryn. Yep. That language that we removed, that was May Read's language that was three years. Right. That was the proposal from Legal Aid, yes, to make different waiting periods for certain offenses. Okay, great. And that is it. Those are the only three changes from the last draft. Fantastic. I would say. Yep. Are there any further comments from anyone? Who's in the room? Okay. Committee, any further comments on this? Now we have to have a new draft number or can we get somebody proposed? So I could just. Yeah. Oh, sorry. It will have a new draft. It will have a new draft number. Yes, it will be draft 3.1. So I'm, I'll move that we amend S7 with, that we accept the amendments to S7 in draft 3.1. Is there any further discussion? I do want to mention that we have a letter of support on our webpage of four S7 from Anthony Lamora. I've probably announced the name from the R Street group in Washington, DC. Governor affairs associate. I said she is and whoever reports this bill might want to read that article has a lot of information about the economic impact of the funding. So Peggy, would you please call the wall? Senator Benning. Yes. Senator Nitta. Yes. Senator Wayne. Yes. Senator Baruth. Yes. Senator Sears. Yes. So now I move that we report favorably S7 as amended with 3.1. Senator White moves that we report favorably S7 as seen and as amended by draft 3.1. Is there further discussion by anybody in the room? Anybody on the committee? No. Hearing none, Peggy, would you please call the roll? Senator Benning. Yes. Senator Nitta. Yes. Senator White. Yes. Senator Baruth. Yes. Senator Sears. Yes. All right. Who would like to report a S7? Senator Baruth. I'm actually hoping to report another bill. Okay. Well, hopefully you'll get a positive vote on that bill. Well, that's, I'm a cop, I'd have to move. Senator Benning normally reports expungement bills. Yeah. That's a good choice. Is that a yes, Senator Benning? It sounds like I'm entering into default, Peggy. No, seriously, if somebody, I've reported quite a few bills and I am planning to work with Senator White to report S3, get a favorable vote. Well, Bryn, can you get me a short blurb on the bill? Peggy, can you get me a list of the witnesses? And Bryn, when you get the new draft in, I have to send that off to John Bloomer for registering purposes. Yep. I just sent it to the committee and I will get you a section by section. Actually, it's a lot easier. This is one thing that's easier on Zoom is filing reports, getting them up to the Secretary's office. I find it's much more difficult because I don't have that piece of paper and so I forget to send it. When I get the piece of paper, I... Well, Peggy sends us the note and reminds us what to do, which... Yeah, I know. Even then, I forget. Solve the problem for me. Well, Senator White. Oh, gosh, I hope you don't lose, that's 107. No, I already sent that one up. Okay. Thank you very much. Is there any further discussion on any issues? Not, I suggest this has been a really productive meeting. And I, again, I wanted to emphasize that I take responsibility for not having DMH aware of the amendment this morning to S7.


It would be very valuable if you could, in ITU, bring together the leaders of the automotive transition, how to build the steps that will get the regulatory side, the technology side, and the communications side all working together.


What's up guys? Evil D here. Your God. And today I want to focus on a topic I get asked quite a bit by people who see my channel once here and there. And I figured, you know what? I will make a video blog on this, and then I can just shove it in their face when they come to me. No, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not that violent, or maybe I am. Okay, so the topic is, how can you speak Esperanto, or really, any language, but how can you speak Esperanto fluently, clearly, and without too much hesitation, without stuttering while speaking? So, for instance, a lot of people, they'll learn the language, they'll learn all the grammar, they'll learn a lot of words, or at least a good selection of words, and then when they go to speak the language, you'll be like, blah, blah, blah, uh, uh, oh yeah, blah, blah, blah, uh. And it'll be like, lots of stop and starting, and you can see them physically turning words over in their head. Now, the way you defeat that, or the way I found to defeat it anyway, is in the most simplest term is that you need to know how to say everything, and every type of context, before you actually have to say it. So, what does that mean? So, for instance, let's say that you wanted to say, um, you walked to the shop, uh, while smoking a cigarette, for instance. Vi ida salabutico fumante cigaretto. So, you notice there, I just used ante, while also using a normal present tense verb. Now, a lot of people will stutter when they try to use that, because they'll be like, wow, this is like, trying to figure out how it all fits together with the sentence type of thing. But it's actually quite easy once you know how to approach this type of thing. So, what I said is, you need to be able to say everything in context before you actually have to say it. So, you see this dictionary I have right here, okay? Filled with literally thousands of Esperanto words.  And let's say the verb for today is, look, let's just open up randomly, okay? So, the verb for today is, no, I'm not going to use that one. You wouldn't want me to use that one.  So, the word for water, as we know, is aquavol. And a lot of people, this is where they make a mistake. They will put water into their flashcard program, and they'll practice water, and then that's it. No, it doesn't work like that. What you need to do is you need to practice water in context. So, you need to put water in your flashcard program by itself. Then you need to put water as a noun in there, within context, within a sentence. Then you need to put it as an adverb, but you need to put it as an adjective, or within sentences. Multiple sentences, say three sentences with water somewhere in that sentence, okay? And then you also need to put it in with, say, when you're watering something. When it's a water-borne, or when it's a water bottle, or when it's watercolor, or when it's a waterfront. You know, all these possible variations of the actual word itself in all the different contexts, you need to take every single possible variation that you would use. Obviously, not every single word in the world, but every variation that you'd use of that word, within at least three different sentences, and shove them all in there. Now, literally, for one word, say, water, you might put in there 40 different sentences into your program. That's a lot of sentences, I know that. But practice those, and guess what will happen? You will actually be able to use those words in context correctly. You won't be thinking, okay, this is an adjective, I've got to swap it to this. Okay, now it's in this context, I've got to do this.  And that's how I got to where I am now. That's how I can speak the language, how I do now. That's why I, yeah, obviously sometimes I drop the accusative, but that's how I learnt the accusative case correctly. I actually built literally hundreds of sentences in context, and then put them straight into my program. And I just practiced them over and over and over. Now, obviously, you've got to get a good flash program that only picks a certain amount of random words per day based on how well you evaluate yourself. And then it will go through, and as you get better, obviously those ones will disappear from the front. As you get worse for like particular ones, they'll come back to the front. But the good thing is, you will start using every single possible variation of that word in context. Now, you could imagine that eventually your flashcard program is going to have like 10,000, 20,000 variations. Okay, I don't even have my original flashcard ones that I used because I deleted them years ago. But my newest ones, you know, they've got a couple of hundred variations here and there. And every now and then, I accidentally delete them or something, but it doesn't matter because I've already ingrained certain words and stuff. But let's say I come across a word that I'm in, like, I'll be speaking with Kaya or I'll be speaking with myself. And I get stuck and I'm like, what is this? How do I use this? Or even a guy here, Grammarforum, for instance, like a couple of months ago, I wanted to practice saying percent of energy, okay? So, because that's something you got to say in gaming all the time, so 50% of energy. So, say, I want to get the plural, with the dot, with the numbers all working. So, I literally put in from zero to 100, all the percentage ranges, okay? You don't have to go that crazy. That's just me. I just slapped them all in there. And then every now and then, it will randomly pop up, say, 61% of energy.  And that's particularly handy if you want to learn Grammarforms, like the particles and stuff like that. You know, go un-ten, in-ten, on-ten, stuff like that. Because those you have to practice in context in order to be able to use them correctly. Things like the accuser for an English speaker, that's definitely something you want to practice in context. A lot. What other things? You've got, like, dot and debt. Halfway through a conversation for an English speaker, you will be like, is this dot or debt? And then you'll think about it and you go, well, it's a quantity, okay, so it's dot. And then you'll continue on. You don't want to do that in a conversation. So, literally, whenever you get that little bit of which one should I use? Find out the correct use, slap it in your card program, in your flash card program. Then practice it. Eventually, you're going to get to a point where you don't even think about it. Literally, right now, people ask me grammar questions. And some of the times, I can't respond. I don't know what the technical reason is for doing it that way. I just know that's the correct way to do it. Because that's how I practiced it so long ago. And obviously, I learned the correct way originally. And now it's just ingrained. That's the best way to do it. Now, obviously, that is a ton of work. But if you want to speak a language fluently without having to stop and start and have all these issues along the way, that is the best way to do it if you don't live within the environment. I don't live in an Esperanto environment. Every now and then, I'll meet up with Kaia. And that's the way I do it. Everyone else has got their own way, but I just wanted to make this video to focus on that way so you understand how much work it really is to become fluent in a spoken language. Because this is an issue or a mistake a lot of people say when they talk to others about Esperanto. They say, oh, it's the easiest language in the world. You can learn it in like three months. Yeah, sure. The grammar, fine. You can learn three months. The words you can learn in three months. But getting up speaking the language, that's different. In order to speak fluently without hesitation, without thinking about it, you need to practice just as much as any language. The only difference is you get to the point where you know everything and then you just need to practice it 10 times faster than any other language.  And without any issue, just letting those words just roll out of your mouth. Anyway, that is it. If you've liked this video, give it a like, share it around with your friends, subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and I'll see you in the next video. And if you're not there, I will practice the many ways to hunt you down and do bad things to you. So, as always, I want to thank my Patreon supporters. Those are Robert Nielsen, Little Bear, Sarah S.C., Jay-Z Knuckles and Shane Power. 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Obey Almighty God and worship only Almighty God and do good actions." Ultimately this is the strongest point of Islam, a congruent message, a message that is permeating throughout the times, a red thread so to speak, a message that never changed. If you really think about it, it makes sense. Looking at Genesis, the creation of Adam, how it all started. If you look at Adam as the first human and no matter if you are a Jew, a Christian and Muslim you will believe in Adam. So when Adam was created, what was his religion? There must have been a religion if we believe in religion to begin with, right? If we believe that there is such a thing as religion, what is religion? Is it a relationship between us and God? Is it a man-made concept? Is it something fabricated? What is religion? So if we believe yet again in Adam and Adam was the only man around and we do believe in religion then we have to ask ourselves what can that religion be?


Well good morning everyone. Mary thank you for that introduction. You know usually the story of the understudy waiting in the wings is about a woman all right who suddenly is a cheese stardom. The fact that I'm waiting in the wings probably says a lot about how we're going to shake things up over the next day and a half all right because as we all know women peace and security is an issue that's only going to be successful with the participation of women and men. You know when I was asked to come to speak I realized that I wasn't coming alone. I was going to be here with a Washington team that has heard me say these things over and over and over again. Nala Arnes, Nala you should have my partner and what I'm calling success at NDU and women peace and security issues. Sara Capel who she and I have been trying to push these issues forward and of course we have here Jeff, Lieutenant Colonel Jeff McDonald who promises that he'll remain awake throughout my presentation. He made that promise because Jeff is one of my students in the women peace and security elective and I haven't turned in my great jet. But most importantly today actually marks my last set of formal remarks as a foreign service officer. I'll be retiring soon but I began my journey on these issues on the team of Ambassador Judy McLennan. So I think it's very fitting that I began my career on women peace and security with Judy and today I'm going to end it with Judy in the audience. So what we're going to do this morning is focus on a number of issues. Some of which you've heard before but they probably bear repeating again. Others really is a history of what we tried to do at National Defense University and promoting women peace and security. And finally I think I'll have just a few thoughts about where we should go next. I think that that's really important in terms of trying to understand that the issues regarding women peace and security are not our vibrant issues. They're not static. You know women peace and security is a cross-cutting policy issue that will impact the future of our policy makers. At NDU women peace and security is not a discourse on gender preference, gender prerogatives, or gender promotion. Our goal is to define an operational doctrine to undergird the development and implementation of strategies and policies that would lead to the successful formulation of a sustainable framework that meets the foreign policy and security objectives of the United States and its global partners. It's a long sentence but I think it captures what we're really trying to do. Critical issues of human rights, security, justice, employment, health care that ought to be at the very core of this armament. The mobilization and reintegration planning are often neglected or inadequately addressed by primary stakeholders who hold the decision making authority. When women are allowed to participate to any extent in these discussions, women's bring to the forefront success. Through organizations and as individuals, they provide social services and support that not only act as essential compliments of formal programs but in some instances wholly replaced them. As we all know, the United States, the United Nations Security Council adopted a set of several resolutions and what is referred to as its women peace and security agenda. These resolutions were adopted on the chapter 6 of the United Nations Charter. As we frame women peace and security for future policy makers at NDU and other senior service schools, our students are given this paradigm to understand the United Nations process. These resolutions while binding on UN member states lack the coercive power of security council resolutions adapted under chapter 7 of the UN Charter. When President Obama issued executive order 13595 on December 19, 2011, an issue of significant international importance became a national security priority. His mandate called for federal agencies' development and institution of a national action plan on women peace and security, the core of which would be a gender responsive approach to all diplomatic development and defense related work in conflict affected environments. The lead agencies implementing the order are state, defense, USAID and Treasury, which reflect a continual growth of political consideration for making a gender inclusive approach to US national security policy. This executive order, the US national plan and the Department of Defense's implementation plan that was put forward by Secretary Gates all referred to one thing, enhanced professional education and training to institutionalize the women peace and security agenda. In response to the President's policy directive and in accordance with our mission, NDU developed and implemented a responsive strategy. It was important to familiarize military academics with the President's executive order and the overarching goal of enhancing the place of women peace and women peace and security issues within NDU. In spring 2016, the Eisenhower School inaugurated a 12-week elective course consistent with joint professional military education requirements that familiarize students with the importance of considering gender in the operating environment. We are working with the Department of Defense, state and organizations like the Institute for Inclusive Security as well as other relevant agencies and non-government organizations to firmly establish that understanding the operating environment is critical to operational success. In order to frame the operating environment holistically, it is necessary to examine gender along with religion, history, governance and other aspects of a given culture. Valerie Hudson last night set us on this path with her outstanding lecture so I don't have to add anything to my comments, but I think that we have to understand that this is not a discourse about current discussions regarding the combat exclusion policy, military sexual assault, prevention of sexual harassment or equal opportunity in the U.S. military. Those are related issues. What we really are trying to do is to understand what are the objectives of a women peace and security national security agenda. First of all, we have to understand what is going on in the United Nations context. We have to understand the United Nations role in security. We have to comprehend the role of gender in framing the environment. We have to understand strategic guidance documents regarding gender in the operating environment and we have to comprehend the ethical dimension of gender in the operating environment and the challenges that it may present. Gender is important in shaping, planning and execution of joint force operations to facilitate the accomplishment of strategic and operational objectives. So we have to consider how do the goals of the United States National Action Plan support U.S. national interests? How should they inform U.S. military plans and actions? How does understanding gender in a given society contribute to understanding the operating environment? How might security differ for men and women before, during and after conflict? As part of our course requirements at NDU, students are required to submit a paper for the NDU Women Peace and Security Writing Award. The NDU Foundation was a principal sponsor of the University-wide Writing Award for three years. Its parallel grant with the award heightened student interest and underscored the importance of women peace and security and strategic leadership development. We had to move forward with this award because it became clear to me early on that the only way I was going to help move women peace and security into the curriculum of National Defense University, I had to think in terms of asymmetrical warfare. We had to create a student insurgency to force women peace and security into the curriculum. And for three years, the Writing Award sought papers that focus on a gendered understanding perspective and how to really institutionalize these notions. We had our students focus on how to advance peace, national security, economic and social development. They focused on conflict resolution, peace building, conflict prevention, countering violent extremism, protection of rights, protection from gender-based harms, access to relief from recovery, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. But most important, leadership. I often say to our students at NDU that those of you who take our course on women peace and security will thank us when they come back for their training as one stars. When they come back as three stars, they'll fully comprehend the importance of what they did. In addition to NDU's focus on women peace and security, we wanted to really develop what I call an issue taxonomy on the basis of which efforts could be organized. We used the solicitation of expert recommendations with respect to course content and research literature to encompass not only the full scope of women peace and security, but to compile a list of potential speakers and panelists and promote these through issue-driven events for the student body and alumni. I just read Nala Arnaz's bio for us on this. As I said, it's not just me. However, it is important that we begin to focus on how to make the strategic vision that we share on the importance of incorporating these issues into our overall planning for operational reality. The women peace and security concept should not be seen in its parts, but rather as a holistic approach. We cannot be distracted by using the word peace when the same elements of deployment are present whether we are discussing conflict zones or hermetic assistance or disaster response. At this stage, we must begin to devise mechanisms that bring our policy makers and war fighters into a coherent, comprehensive, and coordinated approach that reflects 21st century realities. Having a shared body of knowledge is critical to this endeavor. National Defense University published a book co-authored by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta entitled Women on the Front Lines of Peace and Security. It was a compilation of views of senior officials that addressed the engagement of women in conflict zones, their role with ensuring that invulnerable populations are protected from violence and total integration into recovery efforts. The book focused on determining both national and international stakeholders' respective roles in setting an advancing agenda. This book is noteworthy not just for the subject, but the realizations that the issues affecting how we implement women's peace and security requires the full participation of men and women. We only need to look at the ongoing migration crisis in Europe and North America to see the overlapping lines between conflict, humanitarian assistance, international law, domestic legislation, and the role of civil society in resolving these issues. Last March in the Youth Center for Complex Operations published a special edition of the journal Prism, which further explored the critical components of the agenda to help move discussion forward toward development of an international agenda and body of knowledge. The journal's objective was to broaden the dialogue at all levels to identify and share effective strategies amongst those countries that have implemented national action plans. On March 16th of this year, the Eisenhower School's combatant leadership series on women, peace, and security familiarized students with the concept of considering gender in the operating environment. What was important about this event was that it was mandatory. All 350 of our students and 40 faculty were required to be here for this hour and a half session. We were particularly pleased that this session included Ambassador Swanning Hunt of the Institute for Inclusive Security, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Ann Wachowski, and most importantly, Dr. Mary Rahm, who was able to underscore, again, the importance of operational consistency. The events gave students an understanding of why integrating a gender perspective during planning and operations contributes to successfully meeting sustainable outcomes. However, we cannot in our efforts with singular events, but continue to promote a sustainable approach to curriculum development. There should be greater impetus to establish universal progress assessment metrics. These metrics should focus on gender doctrine as it relates to counterinsurgency and war, humanitarian assistance, the political empowerment, health, and education of women, as well as the formal mechanisms by which aims in these regards may be accomplished. This academic focus would include gender doctrine as it relates to conflict zones in war. Most importantly, we should reaffirm that our thinking has to be expanded to include all vulnerable populations to protect them in war and peace. The issue of the relationship between women, peace, and security and preparations for humanitarian assistance and disaster response can not be understated. As we continue to devise mechanisms to implement the U.S. National Plan, the focus on peace sometimes dilutes the necessity to inform doctrine. We have often heard that peace is not our business. However, the security requirements for humanitarian assistance and disaster response missions often mirror the requirements for deployment to conflict zones. To deflect such notions of irrelevance, we should continue to identify the commonalities in both missions to sustain the importance of developing an overall women, peace, and security doctrine. HADR is the appropriate portal from which to view how we integrate women, peace, and security into mission strategies and operations. The response to national disasters, the impacts of climate change, the growing needs for food security and water management, as well as the challenges of combating pandemics are essential areas of our national security strategies that will be buttress by including women, peace, and security as a critical planning to meet these challenges. Moreover, to help facilitate the global strategy, we should share the curriculum we've developed with other institutions and partnering countries. We should also identify opportunities to work with international partners to accomplish a wide range of national security objectives. Sharing common approaches with the international community will ensure a coordinated, cohesive, and coherent global approach. At NDE, our graduates leave with the understanding that an effective leadership strategy is based on a whole of government approach that rests on the pillars of good governance, rule of law, religious freedom, and gender equality. Moreover, we have an alumni network that is self-sustaining with graduates regularly participating in exchanges on operational information and best practices that can help make this approach visible, collaborative, and sustainable. So therefore, to help facilitate the global strategy outlined by President Obama, it is necessary to share the curriculum we've developed with other academic institutions and partner countries. Additional opportunities to work with international partners should be identified to accomplish a wide range of national security objectives, as well as the goals of the United Nations Security Council resolutions. In conclusion, the Executive Order, the U.S. National Action Plan, and the Department of Defense Implementation Plan all refer to enhanced professional education and training to institutionalize the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda in the classroom and training exercises. Sharing common approaches and understandings, not only with the international community, but also as we develop policies and programs here in the United States at the local, state, and national levels will ensure this coordinated, cohesive, and coherent strategy that we are here today to implement. It is an imperative then that we meet this challenge with a credible approach at the academic institutions that enable the U.S. government to develop leaders who understand the value of women, peace, and security. The Naval War College is at the center of this effort. In meeting our strategic objectives through using the concepts that we are developing today and tomorrow in policy formulation implementation, what we're trying to do here will undoubtedly lead to success. Thank you very much for your time.