As Nigeria marches on into its 62nd year of nationhood, we'll evaluate the systems and structures of Nigerian federalism. How can micro, small and medium-scale enterprises in Nigeria access the digital economy we have a discussion on integrating Nigeria's MSMEs into payment gateway services? And in-off-the-press Upunaboh and Kottaria joins us for in-depth analysis of today's new spearheadlines. Very good morning to you. We're back with the breakfast and plus TV Africa. It's a beautiful Monday morning, reaching live from our studios on Victoria Island Lagos. My name is Kofi Bartels. It's an interesting line of topics we have for you and we just encourage you to sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. As usual, we will have a top training segment which is a look at the most important conversations and conversations that are attracting the most attention in the social space, talking about online social media platforms. And that's what we bring you in a top training segment every single day. Nigeria marches 62nd year of independence from the British colonialists on Saturday. And we will have a crack panel from discussants here on an extended version of the breakfast. And it was quite an interesting time on Saturday. Well, of course on social media, I love Nigerians took to the spaces, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and others to express their thoughts on the day and the significance of independence. A lot of organizations, corporate bodies, sharing flyers, e-flyers, wishing Nigeria a happy 62nd birthday. But I think the highlight, we can say the highlight of that day was the Independence Day ceremony that held in Abuja precisely at the Eagle Square. It was a parade to mark that Independence Day. And of course, we can see clearly videos of the clip of the president arriving at Eagle Square in Abuja. This has not been, had not been possible some years ago with terrorism being on the increase. We had the Independence Day parade being held within the walls of Asarok villa. So I think it's a good sign. It's a good thing to see that we able to have the parade with the president and the armed forces out there at Eagle Square, Abuja. President Muhammad Buhari led Nigerians from various social strata to celebrate that 62nd Independence Day event which has marked all sorts of activities including military drills, as you can see, artistic performances. We had military fly past by the Air Force. We had the paratroopers, you know, gliding in the helicopter team. You can see a former president, Dr. Goodlock Jonathan there, Vice President Yemio Shibajo, Senate President Ahmad Lawan, House of Press Speaker Femi Bajah, yeah, Mila. The newly sworn in or newly read approved confirmed Chief Justice of Nigeria also there as well. Justice Olukayo de Arriola, he was also there as well. Secretary to the Government and Federation, Boss Mustafa was there, Head of Civil Service of the Federation. Dr. Fola Shadeyemiyeh was there. Several ministers, Service Chiefs are all there. Heads of Security and Intelligence Agency members of the National Assembly and also members of the Diplomatic Corps. On some days leading up to the Independence Celebration, we had some paratroopers. These are those who use the parachutes, having, you know, if you were a woman, you'd say, what do you feel, you can see a dog coming down with a soldier from the helicopter. That's quite amazing. I wish you could watch that again. They wilded Nigerians, you know, with the military display. See the dog, yeah, coming down, you see. And, of course, this dog will probably help the soldier for a search and rescue because that's what they do, probably to help trace, you know, some kidnapped persons made by terrorists.  What's going on with the victims of kidnappings in different parts of the country, especially in the Northwest, what's going on? If we have such, you know, military might and military power, firepower, then what is the problem? What is the problem? It seems to be a disconnect somewhere. Thankfully, the one paratrooper was able to make it successfully from the skies and to land without bashing into someone's car. I think it was on Thursday or so or Wednesday. There were some paratroopers who were trying to, they were set to have been rehersing for the Independence Day, you know, festivities. And, unfortunately, they didn't land too well in Abuja. They ended up landing in some parts of the central business district or central area, rather. Some hit people's cars, some landed on trees. You know, one was hanging from a tree, you know. Passes by had to go rescue the paratrooper with his parachute from that tree as it was dangling. It had to help him down. You know, so some people were laughing and saying, how come the paratroopers couldn't land successfully? And they drew us out as to the course of that. But on the day, Saturday, it was a video of one particular paratrooper landing successfully with a green-white-green parachute. And a voice could be heard on the background saying that, you know, what this guy, they called him out of retirement. And that led to some people, you know, making a gesture of the whole situation. So they couldn't find a paratrooper to successfully land the green-white-green parachute. They had to go call someone out from retirement. But, you know, we will never know the real story, you know, from this distance. You will never know the real story, you know, from this distance. But the major highlights of the celebration at Eagle Square, you know, included parades like you've seen, much passed by the nations, military forces, some paramilitary outfits. You had cadets of the Nigerian Military School, members of the NYSE. That's a youth service call. Like I said, the Air Force did a couple of displays with some of the aircrafts recently procured for various anti-terrorism fights. If we have what's going on, why not crush the terrorists for crying out loud? There were also cultural displays, you know. The President closed, the ceremony was closed, rather with the signing of the anniversary register by President Buhari and, of course, the three hearty chairs by the parade and finally the firing of the 21 artillery volleys for the national salute, the national anthem and the march of parade. You can see Ayesha Buhari in the picture by her husband, Ayesha Buhari, who recently apologized to Nigerians for the state of the economy and insecurity. No big, small thing. Anyway, that's that. The President had some things to say, you know, over there. The Progressive Congress also had some things to say over there. We'll leave it at that. All we can say is happy birthday in Nigeria. And it was good to see that at least we can have some of these parades at the Eagle Square without having to hide within the walls of Acerokvilla because of terrorists. You know, that is, that is, that was good to see. All right, let's move on to our next trending story. This one also quite interesting as well. I mean, talking about the ASU negotiations, the ones that have been put together by the, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the House of Representatives in general. Video surfaced online showing that, showing the Minister of Labor and Employment, Senator Dr. Chris Ingege, former governor of Anambra State, walking out on the meeting with the permission, with the permission of the Speaker. The Speaker of the House of Representatives is trying his best to see how we can intervene to bring a solution. Because even if you look at the history of events, you know, the chronology of the events as far as ASU's strike is concerned, this current seven-month strike, including the warning strikes, the negotiations haven't really gone well. It doesn't seem like there is a meeting point between the both parties. This led the President to call or to hand over the negotiations to the Minister of Education asking him to lead the negotiations, also saying that the Minister of Labor and Employment, whom you are seeing on your screens, should also be a part of it, but that the Minister of Education should lead the negotiations. Well, it seemed like it was a from frying pan to fire situation. As the Minister himself, Adam Adamo, has been described as an arrogant, arrogant individual by some. They say that his arrogance probably would also be a stumbling block to, or the alleged arrogance of the man would be a stumbling block to negotiations. He hasn't met with ASU till date. I think the only person who may have met with ASU would be the Minister of State for Education, and that was at a meeting brokered between the Union ASU and the federal government. The Minister was invited, he sent his Ministers of State. He hasn't really met with them. So, of course, we know that ASU has been in court with the federal government talking about the National Industrial Court. It seems confusing because, you know, on one side, the Minister of Employment is taking an answer to court, citing certain sections of the Trade Disputes Act as amended. Whilst the Minister of Education is trying to see how they can implement the Professor Nebricks Committee report or panel report by forming another 40-month committee to look into the recommendations of the Nebricks Committee, this committee led by the Minister. It has nobody from ASU there, but you have some VCs and Pro-Chancellors and education stakeholders there. Now, so these meetings and the process, brokered by Speaker Femig, by Javier Mela, seems to be the only avenue where ASU can sit down and have a listening ear because it's being confrontational. Is it from the Minister of Education? Confrontational. Has it been from the Minister of Labor and Employment? Confrontational. And this confrontation, you can see, it came to a head. It was really evident when the Minister walked out on the meeting, you know, walked out of the meeting. So, of course, I'm sure that we should not expect no results, no resolution if this is left to Adamo-Adamo, Minister of Education, whom you're seeing on your screen, or left to Chris Ingegate, Minister of Labor and Employment. There will be no resolution. Absolutely nothing will come out of this. Absolutely nothing. Because, I mean, for there to be a proper negotiation, someone has to listen to ASU, all right? Someone from the government has to sit them down and say, we hear you, all right, we want to solve this. Can we reach an agreement here? But not that high-hose approach of the Minister of Labor and Employment, Senator Dr. Chris Ingegate, and the Minister of Education, Adamo-Adamo, not the high-hose approach of these two men. It won't solve anything. All right, so in the meeting, this was held on Wednesday in Abuja, all the stakeholders from both parties were in attendance through reservation. I must commend Ingegate for going. I must commend Ingegate for going. Adamo-Adamo has not gone. I'll be surprised, shocked if he attends these meetings. Of course, credit to him, he's been selling his Minister of Safe Education. I dare Adamo-Adamo to attend any of these meetings. I can guarantee he won't go. If he goes, I'll be shocked, all right? I'll probably have to present on TV that day without my tie. That's as much I can. I won't shave my hair or anything. So what happened was that the meeting seemed to create another deadlock situation because of the walking out of Ingegate. He called out the ASU president, Professor Emmanuel Sodeke, for calling on Nigerians to vote out APC in the 2023 general elections because of the ASU strike. So that's what Ingegate said that Osodeke had made such a statement before and he didn't find it funny. That was the premise on which he walked out of the meeting. Of course, Speaker Fermi Bacabiamela don't envy him. He has his work cut out for him. What time will he have to focus on legislative matters? But hey, this is very important as well. He called on the aggrieved parties to shave their swords. He kept banging his gavel on the table to try and get the house in order. But of course, it wasn't possible. Emmanuel Sodeke had a chance to air his views at the meeting. He lamented that the salaries of the lecturers are paid from the office of the Accountant General of the Federation, which is not the order of the day in other countries. That's what he said. So he put that out. At the turn of the Labour Minister, he said, quote, Mr Speaker, it is serious that the ASU president has said that the government kept children at home and the Nigerian people should vote them out. You know, when someone now replied and said he didn't say that and he stood up and headed for the exit, asking angrily what did he say? So I mean, this begins to ask, will make people ask the question is the federal government really sincere about ending this strike? Is the Nigerian government really sincere about ending this strike? Or just trying to push things back to the next administration? Maybe looking at the humongous amounts involved, you know, the ASU deal. Probably they want to hand this as the first assignment of the next administration. Who knows? Who knows, who knows, who knows. All right, let's start. Let's move on to the next trending story. It's really funny if you ask me. The next one, flooding in the country really has been an issue, a problem. Really sad scenes and pictures from across Nigeria of different parts of the country being flooded. And the latest, of course, we're looking at Quarra State and Kogi State, you know, pictures and views flooding the internet. A very sad situation. Well, the Quarra State Fire Service said on Saturday that it recovered two bodies, two bodies from a river area, the Akere Biata area in the Lowering the Quarra State capital. You can see pictures on your screen, really sad situation there. The two corpses according to a statement signed by the agencies head of media, publicity Hassan, they currently were recovered from a river opposite or Lucio Lassaraki Abattoir along Sobi, Army Baraks Road in the Lowering the Quarra State Capital. Really sad one. Now, he also said that findings by the fire service revealed that the car carrying the victims fell into the river while the driver was struggling to navigate through the flood. He also said that it suddenly got stuck while the flood pushed the car and its occupants into the river. Oh my, really sad, really sad. Fela sang what I know get enemy, but you know what, the hazards that can come away from simple thing as water. It's a natural situation of an act of nature and I think everybody needs to pull together to see how they can help in one way or the other. We see what's happening in the United States of America where the government and even private individuals non-government organizations are sending relief materials to Florida that has been hit by a hurricane. So I think we also need to think about these parts of the country that are experiencing a flooding and see what we can do to support them, you know, government and even those outside government. It's very, very important as well. Now apart from Quarra State, we also have Kogi State where residents have also been suffering the effects of flooding, ravaging different parts of that state, you know, and it's worsened the situation with the scarcity of portable drinking water. I don't know how we can help the people in Kogi State but it's a very dire situation, indeed. I saw a report in the Ponsonist Repair earlier that talked about that they said the correspondent went around the capital of Kogi State, Lokoja, and according to that report, they say that Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, is a worse hit and because of the flooding, people can't find water to drink, water scarcity. The flood we're told affected the state water works where water is processed and pumped for public consumption. So for those who are wondering how flood can affect water scarcity, I mean, if everybody has or can create water scarcity, if everybody has a borehole where it seems in Kogi State they have pipe-borne water. I never knew this before now but from this report that I'm citing which we saw, it seems like there's a pipe-borne water in Kogi State. So the water works are found difficult to pump water because of the flooding and that has caused water scarcity in Kogi State. The paper says that the new, at Gadumo, new layout, one of the areas close to the River Niger, with many of its residents affected by the flood, the pumps were seen dry, a situation that some of the residents said had remained the same since last Saturday. It's a sad one, water is very important. So according to the paper they say that an official of the State Ministry of Water Resources who spoke on condition of anonymity said that, quote, we can only treat and pump water for public consumption when the flood leaves the area. So that will be till the flood goes out. I don't know what the residents are going to do, how they're going to cope. The flooding in Kogi State has been described as the most devastating since 2012. In fact, they're saying it's more devastating than the floods of 2012 that we saw in Kogi State. I remember that one. Even helicopter pictures, we had aerial view pictures of that. It's really sad and hopefully they can get all the help. They need water. It's very important. That's it on our top training segment. Our thoughts go out to those in Kogi State and other parts of Nigeria where we have floods and we hope that the necessary help will get to them as soon as possible. We'll be right back after this break. We'll look at what the papers have to say. We'll be right back after this break. Please stay with us.


ర్ర్ట్నిండ్బ్బామాభాలుసి. అ్త్ర్ర్నాటి. ప్ర్డ్వరత్తోంటోనలా. ఋవ్నిసి పమ్సాన్నింట్నా పమరనంటిస్టా◕్య్నం. I will talk about the activities. These are the four activities. Each group will be allocated a topic. On that topic, first activity is to construct a programming problem which can be used to illustrate some aspect of the topic or which can be given as an examination problem in a paper. So it's a programming problem. You design a problem either to illustrate some aspect of that topic or it has to be given as an examination problem. Second, describe the algorithm and program design for solving the problem. So this could be a description step by step process. Third, write a C++ program to implement your design. And this C++ program, if you wish you can write it in two ways. One, how a student will write in the exam. And second, how ideally that program should be written as a preservable commodity and usable commodity meaning full documentation, etc., etc. You can choose or you can write only the final version. It's all right. The last activity is you have to construct two multiple choice quiz questions related to the topic. They need not be related to this program that you are writing. There could be generic questions looking at some other topic. These quiz questions should be written such that you first write the question. For each question, for each of the choices, give a short one or two line explanation as to what that choice is right or wrong. This we discussed briefly in the morning. These are four activities. These are not very difficult activities. And since you have a group of four or five or six, it would be a good idea that you do this. But important thing is how do you coordinate, how do you distribute the work amongst yourselves and what quality of work that you do. Now you will agree that if there are different groups, the quality of output will be different. Yesterday only we discussed productivity and all of us get the same salary of a teacher. Yet our productivity is different. There is no problem there. It's perfectly all right. Second, the same activity will be given to multiple groups. So I am anticipating what you will be doing tomorrow.  First, some mundane logistics issues. So each group has to do this activity. But you will have to submit a single file. So the entire preparation is text. The program is also text. The problem is also text, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So use any available word processor. Most rarely open office would be located on your machine. If you want to use Microsoft and it's available, absolutely no problem. But it should be an editable thing. The only requirement is that each of the four parts should begin on a new page. So it is a multi-page document, a single file. Word document or an auditory document, single file. Not PDF. It should be editable. I'll let you know why it should be. And the file name has to be very, very specifically given in this fashion. The file name of your group report should be the activity number underscore characters rc underscore coordinators rc code. Each group has a coordinator. I hope you have already worked that out. Except for two labs, I did not have that information. And from one lab, I have information about all the group members. But no coordinator has been identified in that list, which I got. So I will tell that he has to get that information, but that is okay. So this is what you will have to give. So suppose I am in a group whose coordinators rc code is 2560. And the activity given to me is activity number zero. Zero is a valid number in the serial number list. Then the file name has to, this is explicitly required, zero underscore rc underscore 2560. By the way, this is something that all of us should learn to train our students right from day one. Otherwise you ask them to upload an assignment three. You will get hundred copies of ASS GN underscore three, ASS GN three, assignment three, just three, all kinds of things. And you will have no clue on who has submitted that assignment. So remember he also mentioned what is in a name. And I tell you that is a problem whose significance people have not understood. It is not only about variable names. It is not only about file names. It is about any name in nomenclature. In general, our psychology is that we use a name which we can recognize. But when we are using a name which all others have to recognize. And when others have to recognize our name in the context of hundreds of submissions, then the file names have to be very appropriate. Now the choice of the activities. There are exactly ten activities listed here. You will notice that these are nothing but simplified list of topics that each one of us has to teach. I am not talking here about the group projects that students will be doing, etc., etc. But as we develop the course, we develop the topics like this. So these are listed zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine. And the topic that is allocated to your group is found out from this simple logic. The last digit of the RC code of the group coordinator. Now I want you to participate in a peer review exercise as well. So what is that peer review exercise? When groups do these activities, I have checked because the coordinator would be randomly selected by that group. So if I take all the RCs, I have last digit zero, last digit one, last digit two, etc., etc., multiple number of times. There are 277 people. When I look at only the co-ordinators RC, it is likely that all 20, 30 co-ordinators have only last digit seven. We do not know that. But I have seen from whatever samples that I have that even they are randomly distributed. What it means is that there may be on an average there are 277 participants. The groups are about I think four to six people in each group. That is what they told me. If you take five approximately, the total number of groups are between 40 to 50. Now if there are ten activities, on an average there should be four to five groups doing an activity. It may so happen that because of this random allocation, some activity may be done only by as little as two or three groups. Some activities may be done by five or six groups, which is perfectly fine. When you upload these files tonight or today evening when you finish the lab, these uploaded files will get copies printed as many as there are groups doing the same assignment. So for example, if there are three groups doing the assignment serial number five use of two-dimensional arrays, then I will make three printed copies of these documents and will make these copies available for each of the group by the way. So each group which has done the activity number five, I will make three copies and such three sets will be available. Tomorrow the coordinators of these three groups will have to sit together with these printouts, with their colleagues in the background. And they have to discuss and decide which component of which submission seems to be best. So it may so happen that the three coordinators and the other people may choose a particular quiz problem from one group, a particular examination problem from some other group. Needless to add, all submissions will be available and accessible to all of us. So in future if we wish to use them, anyone can use anything. But the objective is to understand the peer evaluation system and how this can be done dispassionately and objectively. For example, let me ask you a question. If there are three coordinators who have to decide which is the best submission. Or let us say the choice of program or the program itself. And there is a dispute. And each coordinator says, no the work prepared by my group is the best. This is natural and logical. Now you tell me, how will you resolve this? By telling which is the worst. So let me digress and tell you how a reporter last century he correctly predicted who is going to be the future chess champion. There was an occasion when a reigning world champion died without losing to somebody else. So there was no world chess champion at that point in time. And the FIDE which is the international organization was wondering how exactly how we selected. That standard process is that the existing world champion has a match with the challenger. And if the challenger wins, that becomes a new world champion. But there is always a world champion. Poor fellow is soul departed to the godly award and world did not know it. So what they did by consensus of that committee meeting, they selected the four top players in the world at that time. Were undisputedly amongst the best. And they decided to have a tournament amongst these four. And the winner will become the world champion. So everybody was trying to predict based on the strengths and weaknesses and so on. So this reporter thought of a brilliant idea. He went to each player. Now if he asked the question, who do you think will be the world champion? Now that each player believes genuinely that he is the best. But out of maybe he may not want to say this. So his answer could be arbitrary or could be self. So he did this. He says he meets that fellow sir so and so. You are of course the most wonderful player.  But who do you think will be the runner up? And that fellow was very pleased. Of course I am going to be the world champion. But I think botvinnik will be the runner up. This was the answer given by all the four people. Because botvinnik also when he was contracted and he was told that you will be the world champion. But who do you think will be runner up? He modestly said I don't think I will be the world champion. He is a very tough match. I will be very happy if I am even a runner up. He collected these answers and next day announced that botvinnik is going to be the world champion. And botvinnik indeed became the world champion. So you may adopt this strategy. But what is worse is that you still remain undecided and as somebody said we will come to you or we will go to someone else. That is not a good solution even in real life. You have to solve the problem. Absolutely no way out. And the problem solution is what you must come up with. Because again what will happen is A our personal sensitivities might be heard. B our genuine differences that I might feel this is better. One might feel something this is better. Let me tell you fact of life. When you discuss these things qualitatively there is no unique answer. It is impossible to say that one is definitely better than the other unless in some exceptional circumstance. There is some aspect of everything which will be good. Which is okay. So this is not a Olympic contest where we are working for a gold medal or something like that. But the idea is to become familiar with the process of peer review. Then on the final day you remember in the timetable there are group presentations. There are 10 groups. There will be 10 extensive presentations. And these presentations will be whatever has been selected as the best of the submissions by these. And as I said this could be from here they are something. Each presentation must include the RC numbers and names of all the partners of all the groups. Because the entire thing is recognized as a joint contribution of everyone. You agree with this? Yes. Then is the exercise? Any questions or observations that you have now? So let me make one observation. Now please understand the power of the collaboration as I was telling you. In exactly one day there are going to be 50 creations useful for the course. 50 in exactly one day. Imagine what would happen when there are 10,000 teachers. How many creations you would get? Imagine what kind of good filtering may happen when you crowd source the evaluation there itself. And you collect the best from each remote center. We coordinate all of them. And finally you get a whole lot of useful material to be used not only by us, not only by the 10,000 colleagues, but any teachers and any students as well.


Also, next part, what you need to check in your contract before signing are your work hours stipulated correctly. Very important point, because I feel like this is one of the sections where the employer might look for loopholes. So the more detailed this is written down and stated in the contract, the better. So this is another example from the Epic Program in Korea and their contract. So how it is stated here. So Article 7, work hours. It is very clear indicated here, clearly indicated the employee shall work eight hours per day for five calendar days per week from Monday to Friday. So, oh, what happened here? Okay, here we go. If this is not written down like this, you know, imagine like if the five calendar days per week from Monday to Friday, this part is missing. They could basically have you work on the weekends and whenever they want. So that's just something to keep in mind. And usually it doesn't say it here, but in my, I remember from my contract, it even states the times, the exact times of the day that you work. So like what time you need to be there and until like when you can go home. The times of the day this is missing here because I guess it's just different from school to school and like Epic because Epic operates for a lot of pretty much all of the public schools in Korea. So they all might have different times. So that's why it's not stated here. But that should also be in there your exact like starting day and yeah. Things like that. One second here. Okay. Good. And then also your teaching hours very important so not only work hours but usually also teaching hours or working days should be indicated so employees class instruction hours. I don't know why it's doing that employees class instruction hours per week shall not exceed 22 hours. That's the teaching hours. If you teach more than 22 hours. You would get overtime pay that's also stated here. Right. So, here, if however the employees actual weekly class instruction hours exceed 22 hours due to supplementary class instruction. The employee shall be entitled to supplementary class instruction pay of 20,000 one hour. That's about 1818 dollars or something like that. Yeah. So over times clearly stated things like that right. Very important. I think this part is one of the most important ones and this should be written down as detailed as possible so like I said here. It clearly states eight hours per day for five calendar days per week Monday to Friday, typically. Oh, and it also says and shall not work on Saturdays and Sundays and also Labor Day and any national holidays of the public Republic of Korea. So that's also very important that it states that you do not work on public holidays. But there can be English camps etc etc. And yeah, there should be also the hours of the day when you start and when you finish. And like this could also be different right Monday might be different from Tuesday from Wednesday so but it should be written down in the contract as well. Good. I hope I'm still making sense here. Yeah, so this is an example of where they have to start time very good. So here again this is from a different contract not the epic program. So Monday to Friday. And here we have general hours of the Institute are from 10am to 740pm and it also says free lunch provided and when your break is so from 1.30pm to 3pm break. And only classroom teaching in excess of 120 teaching hours per month approved by the academic director is to be considered as overtime. And then there's probably a clause about overtime and how much overtime pay you get right. So this is another great example with the times stating when you start when you finish and also when your break time is and then you get free lunch. So all of these things are very important to check that they are in there in the contract right. Not saying that every school provides free lunch but if that's something that they already told you before during the interview for example that you will get free lunch and it's not in the contract. Then you need to let them know and they can add that in right. I mean contracts they can be revised many many times until everybody's happy. Right so yeah. All right. Thanks so much for watching. We are ITTT the leading provider for TEFL and TSOL training courses. If you like this video please subscribe by clicking the button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.


I've been doing this role, this Naruto role, for 14 years in 650 episodes and that's a lot. 40 video games and 6 movies. So I meet people all over the world, all over the United States, all over Canada, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, the UK, all over the UK, Ireland. And everywhere around the world it's the same, the fans are the same. I meet so many people that make drawings and bring them to me to show me or they'll give me stuff. I have a couple paintings people gave me. Someone just gave me a knit pat because she's a professional knitter. So she gave me a knit, it looks kind of like a Naruto wig. But it's really important to people's lives. And in addition to that I had at least three people today say that I helped them through a really hard time. Actually more than that, three that I'm remembering up the top of my head. And I went to do a Comic Con in Okinawa for the troops, the US troops. So there are 11 bases there, 55,000 soldiers, men and women. And so many of them came up to me and told me that that's what got them through is watching all this stuff. So you know that art really does have an influence and they thanked me for my part in the show. I don't draw it, I don't create it, I don't have those skills at all. But I know what I have and I can act. And I can voice the character and other characters.  Some people have said it helped them not be depressed.  And it helps them or calms them. So you never know when you do stuff who it's going to help. I think art gets very underrated because people say like, oh you're not a doctor, oh you're not curing cancer or anything like that. But the number of people that we have coming up to us saying, you know, Sailor Moon helped me come out to my parents or this show helped me through depression or when I was alone these characters felt like they were my friends. And I feel like art can really heal in a way that is complimentary, or supplementary, or whatever, supplementary, supplementary. I feel like art can heal in a way that like aids the soul the way a doctor would heal your body. And I feel like art is also, it's a great means of expression for people who feel like they didn't have a voice in another way. Maybe people who didn't have the greatest upbringing, whose parents didn't let them speak but they were able to doodle or they had a great singing voice. They were able to express themselves even in an impressive environment. And I think that's why art is so necessary. There are people who make art from the heart tend to be the ones who touch other people because when you watch that movie or you hear that song and it just breaks your heart or it heals you or it makes you just feel like you're soaring it's usually because that soul and your soul have made a connection. It's basically like if somebody records a song and after a breakup or something you're devastated and you hear that song and you're like somebody has gone through what I've gone through I'm not alone, it literally can help heal you. And I think that's the importance of art and like real authentic art. If you don't mind sharing, do you have any insecurities that may have hindered your success or may have stopped you from performing? Oh my gosh, yeah. Growing up I always told my parents I'm going to perform for you but don't look at me because I didn't want to be seen but I knew that I had this creative drive that I wanted to express so that was a constant challenge and it still kind of is because I do voiceover which kind of lets me perform without being seen I want to start doing on camera stuff and I want to start putting my writing out there and I'm terrified of success which is the weirdest thing but I realize it's because when you're successful the world can see you and when the world can see you the world can judge you and so that's something that I think will be a constant struggle for me but once I get over that it'll be so good for me because you should never not make art because you're afraid because you're never going to be able to control everybody else you're never going to be able to make everyone like you so especially in art, if you're pissing people off or you have people who have vocal opinions about your work it means you're doing something right so I would say that definitely the fear of being seen is probably something a lot of people have a hard time with because artists tend to be kind of shy and introverted and yeah I think that's probably my biggest insecurity Off the top of my head I have a thick skin I sure had insecurities when I was younger of course and whenever you decide to become a professional actor which I never trained for I wasn't going to be one I was headed in a different direction entirely and you know it's a hard road so you just got to work really hard and trust yourself you keep pushing you get rejected I tell the story one time I counted the auditions I had per year 360 of those I booked 11 jobs that's a lot of rejection but it comes with a territory and you just get a thick skin you just keep going and I'll tell you one more thing when I moved to Los Angeles over 20 years ago about 21 years ago I said to myself I'm going to do three things a day to help my career because I didn't make money at being an actor I was an actor but not making money even though I had agency stuff not fully professional I had day jobs so every day for two and a half years or three years I did three things a day to help my career and it worked


Aaron this team just continues to roll. Can you just describe the confidence in that clubhouse right now? Confidence is high, you know like it's been all year no matter the circumstances what's been going on Just like I've been saying the past couple days. Just you know a lot of guys in this clubhouse that you know, we're gonna continue to fight till the last out and you know, we're starting to show that the passable series and You know, hopefully keep this rolling with some big series coming up with with Boston The bullpen has had some rough days over the last week. Just how encouraged were you by what you saw from Britain and Green in particular? Oh, that's huge. That's what you know, I expect out of those guys You know, they expect out of themselves, you know going in there and putting up zeros and You know, Britain came in got out a good hitter their number four hitter Walsh and Pretty impressive, you know, that's the Britain I know and Greeny coming in shutting the door for us and you know In the middle of that order, it's it's tough to do in the major leagues, but that's what I expect out of them That's what they usually do. So, you know, let's continue to build off that and you know, take it into the next series Not a ton of offense clearly, but Joey Gallo's home run was enough Just what have you thought of the way he has fit into this team since joining the Yankees?  It's you know, pretty impressive.  So like I said with Boston to have in Minnesota come in We're just gonna try to continue to do what we do and you know, take two tomorrow


Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey, guys. Give me your buddy. Welcome to another edition of the AccessTrader.com nightly wrap up show. Hope everybody is doing well. A lot of things to talk about, especially earnings. Again, if you are brand new to the channel, guys, thank you very much for spending a couple of minutes of your day to support the channel. Like, share, subscribe, all that good stuff that social media tells you to do. I'm asking you as well. So anyway, let's talk about the market. So if you've been watching the tape for the last three, four, five, two and a half weeks, but who's counting? We talked about it yesterday, a series of two and a half weeks of lower highs on the QQQs. They broke down below the 50 day moving average and yesterday successfully tested the soft landing we've been talking about at 351. The question was, well, can the bulls sustain something more than just a dead cat bounce and break this impressive cycle of lower highs, lower lows? Well, kind of sort of, that's what happened today. If you look at the scoreboard today, the bulls actually did nice, right? Did nice. The Dow rebounded 200 points, basically erasing the losses that they had yesterday. The S&P gained 30 points and the NASDAQ that was up 30 points yesterday was up an extra 121 points today, or a little bit less than 1%. Now, the question is, did they reclaim the previous day's chattel? No, that's the point. Not yet. Okay, not yet. And there's a big question going into tomorrow's session, and we'll answer that in a second, but you can clearly tell here, and this is kind of the whole point of why technical analysis matters, why understanding rear supply zones matter. So here are the QQs, right? Here are the QQs. Last week, they lost at 59 level, and the next day, the previous high was the 60 area. Everybody see it, guys? On 1020, the high here was 360.04. Today's high was 359.91, right? So the QQs got rejected now, back-to-back days, well, not back-to-back, the last two out of three days that are trying to reclaim back not only the five-day moving average, but it's trying to reclaim back the 100-day moving average as well, right? So this is a very, very important level. So if the bulls now want to rally, make this a little bit more of an extended dead-cat balance, again, until we get back above the 50-day moving average, this is all deemed a dead-cat balance because there's no guarantee we're going to get back and reclaim the 50-day moving average. Having said that, this 360 area is going to be super-duper important, right? It's gotten rejected here on October the 20th, got rejected here at the same price today. So 360 for the bulls is super-duper important. Here's where the curveball comes in, right? A lot of people believe that the fact that the market did hold the bottom of the range yesterday and started rebounding, and today had a pretty impressive nearly 1% rally. The question was, well, can Google and Microsoft put them over the top, reclaim that 100-day slash five-day moving average and get the bulls at least running again to the next supply zone? Well, we got our answer. After the close, Microsoft came out with earnings, and they were great. They were absolutely great. Good positive reaction. Microsoft profit up 27% from Azure. I have no idea what Azure is, but okay. Azure growth accelerates. Okay, cool. Is that their search engine? I have no idea what that is. Is that their AI tool? Maybe it is. Maybe it's not. I have no idea. I have no idea whether I care. But Microsoft is surging after the close really, really well. Okay, that's very, very bullish. So now the question was, well, AI, Microsoft, well, the next one up to bat is Google. Certainly, if Microsoft had a good quarter on AI, well, maybe Google's have a good quarter as well. They came out earnings, 11% increase growth returns to double digits, and Google is about to explode with Microsoft. Not so much. So Google is down after the close. And again, this is my whole point. Nobody knows anything. Guys, everybody's guessing into earnings. Nobody has a clue. If you had this report in your hands and the report said Google's alphabets earnings are increased by 11%, right? Growth now returned to double digits. You'd be long this thing overnight. Again, I've been saying this for years. Nobody has any clue as any idea how a stock is going to react after earnings. You could have the report right in your hands and you could still mess it up. Yada, yada, yada, Google is down. Not only is Google down, but Google broke the 50 day moving average on its earnings. And now it's sitting right around here, this 131, 60s level, which is the linear regression line, which is going to be a very, very important level going into today's session, tomorrow's session. Now, the question was, right, the question was, well, what happens next? So Texas Instruments comes out with earnings. If you guys remember Texas Instruments from the 80s and 90s, they used to make calculators for God's sake, right? Anybody had a Texas Instrument calculator? I did, right? So Texas Instruments comes out with earnings, not good, down seven books after the close. Snapchat comes out with earnings.  My son will ask me, what's my snap score? What the hell's a snap score? It's kind of doing nothing. But again, it's actually doing better than it did in the last three, four quarters because every single quarter is blown up on earnings, at least now it's doing absolutely nothing. So we have Microsoft doing really, really well. We've got Google, Snapchat, not the Snapchat even matters, and Texas Instruments, that's moving down. And the question is going into tomorrow, what happens first, right? Does Microsoft pull everything up and the QQQs start reclaiming back the five and the 100-day moving average, or does Google bring everything back down? That's a question that we will definitely get an answer to tomorrow. But if you look after the close, and again, when I first saw the earnings reports, I said, well, Microsoft is a predominant more weight on the Nasdaq 100, well, things should be moving up. Yeah, I thought so, right? Not so fast. If you look after the close, things are down a little bit. Not a lot, but things are down. The only one that is getting hit a little bit after the close is Meta. It's down about four or five bucks. That is a reaction form for Google. Again, the point to click, the ad space, all that good stuff, it's being affected. But if you look at everything else, it's pretty much flat to down a little bit. So we're going to get our answer tomorrow at some point. We're going to get our answer probably mid-morning of what's going to happen first. But the key is, and this is what we talk about every single day, we want to be prepared on both sides, right? This is a broken record, but it's something that we've been talking about, discussing, and nauseating, right? For many, many years I've been hosting this platform that if you're going to be wrong in your research, at least have the common sense, don't fight the tape, right? Don't start pushing a piano with your pinky, right? Wait for something good, wait for something clear, and wait for something to confirm. That's the name of the game, and that's the approach I try to take every single day. If you look at the action today, again, very, very organic action, that's continued the theme. When you have a market that's doing what it's supposed to do off of key levels, that's great for every trader. I don't care what your process is, what your approach is, your time horizon, when you have levels that are being respected, when you have levels that are being held and built and all that stuff in between, that is a good sign of a good solid market. So going into tomorrow, again, we know our upside value on the Qs 360. We know the downside value of our Qs is going to be today's channel of 355.79. Something has to give, right? Something absolutely has to give, and obviously we'll wait for it. If you look at today's pivots, again, kind of what we talked about yesterday, can these stocks possibly go on a dead cat bounce for a second day? Tesla, NVIDIA, we got our answers to that, right? We got our answers. Unfortunately, I left when the video finally exploded, but at least we got the answers and the bulls actually did a pretty good job of getting our second day move in. And now we're going to see, because again, we have the price levels for tomorrow, we're going to see if the market can actually pull a third day out of its rabbit hat and push into the 62, 63 level, which is going to correlate perfectly to the 20-day supply and the 10-day supply as well. So let's talk about some pivots, right? Let's talk about some pivots. We actually had multiple things on Tesla today. We got one Tesla today. We sold it into supply. We shorted it into supply. At one point, Tesla was about to go red. It came very, very close. But nice move. Nice little pop on Tesla today. 217 was yesterday's channel. 219 was the channel. From two days ago, they need to confirm for a potential move. Tesla took out both channels right and traded right to the five-day moving average, which was a little bit higher of 221. Not only did we make sales there, we got short there, and it was a really, really nice pullback. Look at the move here. You can see on the five-minute view. Look at the run-up here into the five-minute supply, and look at the move right back that it got rejected. So great job everybody for training Tesla, especially both ways. On the video, unfortunately, I have to say it went when I left. 433 needs to build, and the video went, right? And the video went, unfortunately, it went into the close after I was already gone. It took out 433 and traded all the way up to 437. Still looks pretty good for tomorrow if they could hold up. Again, that's a key metric. If it can hold up is, again, DebtCat bounces sometimes there one day, two days, three days. Maybe they go for a couple of weeks, but the key is until the market reclaims the 50-day moving average, everything has to be deemed a DebtCat bounce. I don't care what you call it, potato, potato, tomato, tomato. It doesn't make a difference, whatever makes you feel better, whatever makes you float your boat, take it day by day, trade by trade. But again, facts are facts, and I've been doing this for a little bit longer than a lot of people to kind of have a open discussion of what it is. This is what it is. So nice move on the video. If you guys caught it towards the end of the day, good job there. I unfortunately was in the gym. Netflix finally woke up this morning. We talked about this for the last three days consolidation. 411 needs to build. There goes Netflix, right? I thought Netflix was going to have a bigger move. I'm not going to lie. But Netflix went from 411 all the way up to almost 417. It needs to reclaim back 417 for the next channel to really get going higher, but nice little pop there as well. Meta never got to this 38380 level. It got rejected twice there in the pre-market and never got back up there. Apple 174 rejected on the daily needs to build. It never got up there. AMD 9930, if it builds below can flush, never got down there. So you can tell it's predominantly Tesla and NVIDIA today and then came the after hours. Here came the after hours earnings. I always like to put in after hours potential pivots on earnings. Microsoft 333 to the upside. The stock is 345 right now. Google 141.22 to the upside. 134 to the downside. And Google congratulations for you guys who did catch it. Google is pressing that 130 level. So tomorrow, right?  We know our levels to the upside. We know we've gotten rejected there two out of three days. Now the question is going into tomorrow's session, can Microsoft pull everything up? Or can Google pull everything down? Tomorrow, right? Tomorrow we have more earnings obviously. Let's see what's on the docket for tomorrow. Tomorrow's earnings. We got meta, right? We got meta tomorrow after the close. We got Boeing pre-market tomorrow. Let me see if there's anything else that's major. IBM also. IBM also. I believe that is a team mobile. Nothing really crazy. Thursday is Amazon. Thursday is Amazon, Merck, Intel, Amazon, right? Amazon MasterCard as well. But Amazon's gonna be the big ones. And then next week, you have pretty much everything else. Apple, this one, that one. So let's get through tomorrow first before we start working on next week. So that's it guys. That's it. We know our levels. We know how important tomorrow's session is for both bull and bear. Because again, if the bulls can't reclaim back that 60, excuse me, that fifth five day slash 100 day supply, we are gonna roll over. So if you're a permable, let's hope and pray for all your sakes that we get a new channel above that 360 levels so we could extend this rally. That's it guys. God bless everybody. Have a great, great weekend. Freudian slip. It's only Tuesday. Have a great week. Have a great remainder of your day. And with God's help, I will see you all tomorrow. Check.


eeing and hearing none, motion to adjourn would be in order. The vice mayor moves. Ms. Watkins seconds, non-debatable. Those in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed? We stand adjourned.


What is up my Cranky Crew? It's Ethan from CrankGameplays and after 7 years of waiting the last of us part 2 is finally here. I am so unbelievably excited for this series. I cannot wait. I cannot wait to get into this. As many of you know, The Last of Us is one of my favorite games. I'll leave a link to the playlist down below of my original series if you'd like to check it out. But I absolutely adored The Last of Us. I meant to replay it on stream actually before this came out, but I actually didn't have the time to do so. But I am so unbelievably excited for this. These videos are going to be coming out every day. I'm going to do 2 videos a day until I'm done with this series just because I want to play this as much as I can. And it's going to be just a good old classic let's play. So it's going to be a lot longer too, probably upwards of 2 hours per episode.  Here we go. Let's go. We'll just do moderate. We'll do everything. What is the pre-order bonus? Unlock them? Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure. Let's go. Oh, I'm so excited and I'm so nervous at the same time! Let's get ready, baby. Let's get ready. I don't really know what to expect because I've let myself see very, very little of this game. I didn't even watch the second trailer, I don't think actually. I watched the main teaser thing that first came out, but to go at E3. I can't remember which one that was, but I was like, nope, I don't want to see much. I want to go in as blind, as blind as I can. So I achieved that, even with recently there were some spoilers that were leaked, didn't see any of those. I've had terms related to the last of us muted on my social medias for a while now. I was supposed to take her to the fireflies and walk away. She needed her immunity. I was starting to buy in that old cure business. Oh boy. Maybe I just wanted to do right by her. He found a firefighter. Giving us a little recap. Oh man. This is our future. Think of all the lives we'll save. What do you do? Oh yeah, you did. Oh, but that's right. She doesn't know. At the end of the game, she didn't know the truth. All right. I haven't played the entire game since it first came out in 2013. Which is why I wanted to replay it and I wish that I did. I played a lot of it, but I hadn't played it fully since 2013 to 2014. What does Ellie know? Not the truth. Has she believed you? We should head back. It's so cool because I'm friends with Troy and like it's just crazy. I don't know. Just like knowing the man behind behind Joel. It's cool just hearing him. I don't know. Here we go. Here we go, baby. It's beautiful. Even on the launch PS4, it's beautiful. I'm not on the PS4 Pro. I'm on the launch PS4. I sort of wish I bumped up to the PS4 Pro specifically for this, but oh well. PS5 is coming soon, you know. Oh man. Oh man. I am so excited. I'm so excited. So how much time has passed between the very end and right now? I am not sure. I'm not sure. Hold L1 to Gallop. Cha-cha, cha-cha. Oh baby. Oh. Man, I want to go and ride some horsies.  I don't know where I'm going. You lead the way. Careful, horsey. Don't get caught by the barbed wire, please. Oh, yeah, you got it, Joel. You got it, baby.  A little bit of swimming. Oh, jumping down. Damn, it's beautiful. It is so, so beautiful. Hello, dear. So just to let any of you know who don't know the last of us first, I would recommend either playing it or watch somebody play the first one before watching this. But also just a reminder that this isn't going to be a fun experience necessarily, you know? If we know anything about the last of us, it's that it's a painful harrowing journey, but one of the most amazing narrative experiences that I've ever encountered. Like, the last of us is such a beautiful, beautiful game and such a beautiful story, but same time, not necessarily a fun adventure to go through, you know? It's okay, I got him. It's not going to be a happy one. You sure? Hey, Tommy. You got to put your strings on your guitar, Joel. I can't say I've done it different. Take it to the grave if I have to. Thanks, Tommy. Man, that music. That music, dude. Neil. Good old Neil. Is it our lady? It is. Ellie! So this looks like it's about the time that everything ended, I think. Because they were going to meet up with Tommy after. So it seems like it was shortly after. I mean, it had, it has to be right after. There's no, there's no way that Joel would just hold that information from Tommy for such a long time. It is right after. Oh, she's drawn the giraffe. Jesus. This gave me a heart attack. I tried not. What's up, Joel? I'm talking about how impressed they are with you and helping out. I'm talking about a clock. Joel, it's pretty late and I gotta get up in a few hours. Yeah, I know.  I just, I want to show you something. Just give me one second. Some folks call this thing here a guitar.  Oh, what if he plays the original Last of Us theme? Like the... You pluck those strings, Joel. I get to do it. Oh, swipe to strum. Oh, that's cool. Oh, hitting us right in the heart immediately. See? She's yours. I don't know the first thing about this. I promise that I teach you how to play. I'm going to say tomorrow night, first lesson. So wonderful slash heartbreaking to see them back together. Like heartbreaking in the sense, hold on. Remember the joke? What is the downside to eating a clock I'm consuming? So bad. It's such a dad joke. It's heartbreaking because I know it's going to be a really long journey when I'm a part of me as afraid. And I'm like, oh man, I don't want to see these two beautiful souls get hurt. Because the first game you just grow to really love the characters. The Last of Us came at a time when I was first starting to really get into video games. And it was, oh, Ellie, you're older now, four years later. The Last of Us was one of the first games that I recognized as this is art. This is not. Whoops. I'm probably just trying to make you jealous. I didn't, I would never. I'm messing with you, man. Get dressed.  But it was one of the first games where it was such an experience. And like I was saying before this game probably isn't going to be incredibly fun. And I don't mean that it's not going to be a good experience because I think this is going to be an incredible experience. But it's heart-wrenching. The first game was really heart-wrenching. And like really it makes you think. And it puts a lot of things into perspective. And this game comes at a really weird time. Where like our world currently is at a place where it's never really been before. And a lot of people are sort of feeling this almost apocalyptic feel with the pandemic and everything going on. And so I think it's going to be really interesting having this game at this time. Dude, this is what I played The Last of Us on, dude. This is what I played The Last of Us on. I can't tell. It's Uncharted! It's Uncharted 2. It might be the first. Yep, it's Uncharted Drake's Forge in Uncharted 2. And I can't tell what that third one is. It's another Naughty Dog title for sure. Is that Jack? Is that Jack and Daxter? It totally is! That's so cool! That's such a cool little easter egg. Oh, I love that. Are those other PS3 games up there? Dude... Uh... I'm not particularly... I don't know if those are actual things. I don't recognize any of those. That's really cool though. Oh my god. Oh! Baby! I just want to look around and experience the environment. Um... Damn. That's really cool. Oh man. Oh man. Alright. Let's grab this.  It's just about to get up. I was. You got everything? Yes. Got all your stuff? So, because it's an apocalyptic scenario... Oh yeah? Let me see if I got this right. You kissed Dina. Mm-hmm. She kissed me. Mm-hmm.  That's a nice word. Then Joel decked him. Where's the bush? And then he got mad at Joel. That part confused him. That was a strange night, man. Mm-hmm. Sounds exciting. Maria wants a word with you. I'm excited to see all these new characters too. What's about Seth? I like Jesse so far. He's funny. Excuse me. So... Dina and I are... I just want you to think... Ellie. Oh, they got a barbecue place up in here? That's dope. Creating a whole new civilization. Oh, puppy, can I pet the dog? Oh my god, yes! Yes, I can!  If you show the gun in a movie, you have to shoot the gun. If you show a dog, you have to be able to pet the dog in a game. Thank you, naughty dog. I appreciate you letting me pet the doggy. Hello. Didn't say hi to me, but that's fine, I guess. The Winter Dance, 7 p.m. at the church. What's in here? Want to grab some breakfast? Got a whole little place. Ellie, there you are. Come here. Hello, Maria. Who are you? I don't want to hear what that bigot has to say. Do it for me, please. I'm trying to say I'm sorry. Maria tells me that you and Dina are headed out. I'll give you some sandwiches. Your steak. Thank you, Seth. I appreciate that. What you got there? Bigot sandwiches. They're yours. You sure? It's fine. Can we walk you out? I love this little town. It's so cute. Everything was so... in the last game, run down and hopeless. And there's a little bit of hope here.  They got a movie theater? Did they actually show movies? All right. What's up? Seems weird. That's worrisome. It's worrisome that somebody would say... that somebody would say, Joel really cares about you, Ellie. It's kind of implied. Stuff must be weird. If somebody is saying, hey, remember he cares about you, it's like, yeah, obviously. It's almost like a father to her. I can't do it or anything. You know what I love about you? Now you let me finish my sentences. Yeah, let's do it. This is about to teach us the gun mechanics. Oh, quick throw. Okay, okay, okay. This is a really cool way to teach the gun mechanics. The vertical is locked on throw directly and target with R2. Hell yeah.  Come here.  I got you. Where is he? Where is he? I see him. I see him. This is so cool. This is a really fun way to do this. Oh, I didn't even notice the score up there. Okay, okay, okay. Okay. Got him, got him. Got him. Got he, dude. Where are they? Where are they? Come out, come out. Ow!   Ow! They're catching up. They're catching up. Okay. Okay, come on. Got him. Can you throw snowballs anytime? I wanna throw more snowballs. That was a really good way to show that. Hello. Horsies! Horsies! Can I have a horse? I would like a horse, please. There's cat. Do I have my own horse? Do I have my special horse? I want my special horse. Man, I wanna go horseback riding. So bad. Hello, horsies. How's it going? Ooh. Oh. Oh, what's your name? What's your name? Are you my special friend? Shimmer. Hi. I love horsies. Big guns. Big guns. Big walls, dude. Excuse me. All right. Let's be safe about this. Even though safety doesn't progress the plot. So, it's probably not gonna be safe. But, you know, we'll try our best. Horsey, horsey, horsey, horsey, horsey. God, this is wonderful so far. I hope that you guys enjoy this series. Gonna be definitely different from what you're used to on the channel recently. A lot more slower paced. But, like, more meaningful, you know? We're experiencing a real big story together. It's not just funny memes all the time. Mean something! Who are you? I go, ooh, who's that?  I don't know about you all. This house is cool. Reminds me of the house from Untilled On. This dude has, like, a North Face jacket. I immediately am worried when you don't tell me what's going on and you just go, ah, trust me, it's fine. Is it? I don't know. Makes me spooked. This way. Okay. I wish I could grab snowballs anytime. Probably ruin the mood a bit, but... Ooh, jump. You know how you run in snow, right? I miss the winter, guys. I live in Los Angeles now. There's no winter out here. I miss the deep, dark woods like this. Where are we going, dude? Spooky. Are you worried of bears or wolves? Kids in the woods with snowballs ambushing you? Big jump here. Sorry. What have we got? Oh, is it just a nice view? One, two, three eyes on me. Oh, Abby. We know a name now. Abby and Owen. So we got Abby and Owen out here in the woods. Are they... the good guys? Are they nuts? Cool. That was Ellie and everyone. I'm assuming. Mm-hmm. I figured out how. Wouldn't... Wouldn't you want to join them and not... Oh, I think they're talking about Joel. Problematic? What does she want? Who are they looking for? I'm assuming they're looking for Joel. I mean, it looked like there was only like six people there. How would they expect to take on... not only that one outpost, but also... Abby, are you going by yourself right now, dude? That's a bad idea. Okay, sure. I mean... Whatever, I guess.  There's nothing on the line here. Oh, yeah. I'm about... Almost died immediately there. Don't worry about it. Where am I supposed to go? How am I supposed to get there? Boosh. Yeah, nice, nice, nice. Oh, yeah, we'll do the whole thing on our own. We don't need nobody, right, Abby? No. We don't need nobody. Oops. Okay, I guess we're going this way. Maybe we're not going this way. No, we're going back here. We're gonna sprint. And then... There we go. We had it the first time, just not quite. That's a long way. That's a long road traveled, dude. How are we gonna get all the way there? Oh, hold to go prone. All right. Teaching us the ways. God, this is so pretty, and the sound design is so good. Like that... That snow! That snow, the little, like... Of the, like, icy snow. Man, it makes me think of blizzards back home. That brings me back. Miss the snow, but not nine months of snow. Uh-oh. Houdis. Ooh. Oh, no, man.  You froze. Oh, God. Two... Three... Four, five, six, seven, eight... Nine, ten. Oh, my God. What happened to these people? It's like a dozen people frozen in the snow. But they do have blood on them, so they didn't just freeze. Something else happened. You might have just frozen, actually. Oh, do we have to... We gotta push you out of the thing? Remember when I was like, this is not gonna be fun in particular. This is what I'm talking about. Oh, infected. Oh, infected. Yeah, for sure, infected. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.   Let's get these head shots going. El Wounded Dodge. Oh, boy. You may like... Oh, I love... Damn. That was really fluid.  Got him. Thank you. You done? This is horrifying. From where? Ow, ow, ow, from here. Oh, my God. How many are there? Are you... Oh, my God, dude. It's so... The combat is so fluid. Jesus, that's nice. Oh, my God. That feels amazing. The camera movements and everything. All right. We gotta... Oh, wait. And R2 to heal. Okay. Wait. How do we... How do we reload? I don't remember. I don't remember how to reload. Oh, I guess I don't really have to. Is there anything in here that I could use like... Random 9mm ammo? Anything like that? I am afraid of the dark. I am 23 and afraid of the dark.  I'm afraid of the dark. I'm afraid of the zombies and the dark. Come on. Really? You're gonna do me like this so early in the game, Naughty Dog? This is a bad idea. Come on, Neil. Why you gotta do this to me?  Please don't come alive again. Please. I'm begging you. How do you hear me so well, Mr. Infected Boy? I've only got three bullets left. That is no good. Are we going in here? We don't gotta. Oh, man. What were they grilling, though? They could have grilled something, right? Hold on one to listen. I forgot about this mechanic. Just take crouch and sneak up on the enemies. Just trying to... Try and go to grab them. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it.  Okay. Dude, that was a swift little... Oh, my God. How do I reload? I can't remember. She just snapped that woman's neck with her... With her elbow. With her elbow. That was slick, dawg. All right. We're gonna try and be sneaky. They have a walk cycle.  And pop. That's brutal. Thank you. Thank you. How do I reload? I can't remember. That's how you do it. That is how you do it. You're doing good, Miss Abby. Miss Abigail. Now let's see. Anything else around here that would do me good in a survival situation? Situation, huh? Anything... Ooh. We're all full, but that makes me... Excited. We got extra ammo. That's good. Damn. Yas. Yas. Thank you so much for leaving ammo around. Whoever was here last. Appreciate you. Appreciate you. Don't worry. Don't worry. We'll make it out alive. Hopefully. Maybe. Is that blood trails in the snow? A little bit. Oh. Okay. Didn't even really mean to do that, but it's okay. I might be able to sneak. Just, uh... Try and sneak up on him. And yep. Good, good, good, good, good. This is very much a stealth game. Very, very much so. Um... Which is tough at times, you know? Don't wait until that one walks away. Come on. Come on. Come on. Shh, shh, shh, shh. Don't worry. Just go sleep. Go sleep. Thank you. Thank you. Bless your heart. Thank you for going to sleep. Appreciate it. All right. Looks like we got two left. I think, hopefully, I think that other one's going to walk over here. So we just try and... Damn. This might be kind of tough. If I can get it to just walk past me without seeing me. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I really hope the other one isn't seeing me. Good. Oh boy. Thank you so much for the ammo. I appreciate it. Right, turn around. B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b... There we go. There we go. Everybody's done with a stealth, boy. Thank you. Baby. Baby, baby, baby, baby. I hope so. Hope so I'm just gonna run back here. I can't remember if I grabbed anything. Where's the road? Alright Hopefully that's the brunt of the enemies Hopefully hopefully What are those horse tracks, okay But we tried did they go? Oh Now we're switching back. Aren't we? Weather's getting fierce out there So this obviously is earlier Just Ellie and shimmer going about on there on their days. Why are you making the horsewalk in the water?  I just wouldn't trust it Horsey Horsey Hmm talked about this stuff talk to me about cat Cat there isn't much to talk about yeah, I just I got the impression that you didn't really like her. I Don't care about her one way or the other Okay, haunted artist I've grown to like that tattoo of yours. Ooh tattoo.   Nothing is that spectacular. Oh, howdy-ho. Come on. Oh brother. What are you showing me? Oops wrong button. Oh This is super pretty hey, hey, hey, hey, I Love how I just slid over a little bit pretty spectacular. Nice. She has a nice brow eyebrows The delivery of that was flawless Oh Eugene he was funny. Was Eugene in the last game that name sounds familiar He taught me about rewiring electronics and stuff that sharp 73 Yeah, we all make it to 73 hmm Yeah, what's the life expectancy of people in this I guess it probably hasn't really gone on long enough Have those kind of statistics I am I am I'm develop God in this kind of apocalypse scenario. Everybody must be so fit Oh wait Wait, do I literally have to is that is that was that a joke or do we actually need to like sign in? Listen here. Oh pistol ammo Me likey. Oh wait, we actually do have to sign it Yeah, let's read I'll clear found a wild horse stuck in the ice got it out taking it back to camp skipping the next lookout Clear one clicker. Oh Clickers in the basement of 2358 Mountain View cleared it Dead goat by sunny days retirement found three runners inside cleared them one runner along the main road cleared it I'll clear I'll clear Clear on clear to clickers Clear clear soft footprints followed them to a small encampment two adults and one child and in need of medical attention We'll be skipping the next lookout and taking them straight to town Clear I'll clear bad rain stored never flooded Found a deer just outside the tower looks chewed up, but no infected Killed three runners outside the suburbs all else clear Anything in these boxes though town up ahead is our last stop Take a look was that the town that we saw with Abby or Were that yes, it was because there's the the thing up there. There's a ski lodge That's the one on Tommy and Joel's route. That's the one Westerns Strip mall. Oh with the supermarket. No towns pass that There's the lock tower with the big tower thing. Yep. That's where the next lookout is Anything else for us to see if a If a clicker pops up in front of the things I'm quitting the game Okay, okay Let's just peep let's peep around here really quick Just to see if there's any cool things a nice audio gear Fun fun fun Making some soup October 2013. I think that's when the game released. Hey Siri When was the original last of us game released? Think it was October Think I was it was May 2013 Or wait, I'm getting a bunch of different things Oh, it was June were you wearing those same clothes yesterday? They're clean. I feel like no judge and forgive people in this scenario We're here to kill infected not to look fancy True V true Thanks. Thank you. I just want to check around here really quick In a want to make sure there is nothing Christy We were already out here, that's right, that's right flammable liquid How am I looking hey Anything in here? It would be nice. Oh Be something in here. Oh rifle ammo dig that for sure For sure, dude, it's this here we go. Here we go. Here we go. It's all Sam These horses are good at jumping did What if an avalanche happens with these horses getting like flashbacks to Mulan when the avalanche with the horses happened Of the soundtrack so good Yeah, let's do it why not check it out see if we can find anything Why not do I not Just another evacuated neighborhood Oh, yeah, baby Give me some ammo. What's that? Oh? Tesseract or this one are those superhero cards you're all it's cool. Oh, yeah What are you doing tonight?  What's Joel into Curtis and Viper 2 That's what I'm on my radar for a while We used to watch these cheesy 80s action movies He's really into them. I actually really like them, too Anything more over here. What about you? We can check out later Some people were talking about sneaking out sneaking out Oh You got a sneak out though. Yeah, I don't know how I would Feel about sneaking out in this kind of scenario. I don't know I mean, there's probably like a curfew thing for a reason, you know, it's dangerous dangerous out here Okay, so two former commandos that go rogue to fight bad guys Hmm and I think in this one they go up against Russian spies or something All right, so the young one Viper, he's a trained ninja and he's a complete badass So, oh Dear Santa, I was a good boy this year and I please have a big dog I want to keep my daddy safe while he goes hunting for food It could also help protect our house from the monsters also keep me company when my daddy closes himself in the bedroom Here's what she should look like. Can you also get me a gun? I think if I was stronger my daddy would be happier. Thank you very very much, Eric Sad Hey, do we do we have a movie right here? Hell yeah, dude got a new EP coming out January 14th. It'll be dope. Check it out Pre-save it on Spotify Ouch, whoops All right Set all the houses around here that we can Search in I think maybe so actually Looks like don't think we can go there, but we might be able to search through this Maybe It would just be good to get supplies, you know, maybe we can't all right.  What you doing? We're going through here. Can we jump this? Oh, yeah.   They're so big Oh why though? Oh Yeah, oh, yeah, press our one to quickly swap weapons like that like that a lot You see any Right over here. All right, let's be careful or anything else get this one quick. Yeah, Miley I'm just gonna go back here really quick. I want to make sure I'm not missing anything. Okay, cool That's one thing about this game Is that it is really beneficial to just search around the area because Ammo and and supplies and everything like that really scares in this game. So it's good to Look around Locked. Okay. I mean usually be open from the other side.  Oh, baby.  Thanks. Thank you Anything through the window? Good question Maybe See you scavenger scarps upgrade your weapons at work That's how I got him take a peep real quick. It's like two Maybe more and see it. Oh, okay Okay We got a few I'll try and get this without the other one noticing good Can we get these ones as well, okay? Careful my dear careful careful. Oh Well, you get that other one nice. Thank you love that Love that Thank you for doing some stuff. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. I appreciate it now Want to check real quick to see if you've got anything. Nope Peek around the corner a little bit Let's go in the other way. I think that might be a Little bit better. It's just Trunks do you still see as possible? All right, so there's at least two might just be the two Hopefully the other one doesn't see or she gets it. Yay Love that. Thank you so much So nice when the NPCs actually like do stuff that contribute Cool, I think that might be all of them Think so Yeah, let's just search around here. There might be some good stuff We still got to get the ones in the supermarket. Mm-hmm. Let's keep circling the building Let's see That's not something that can open up. Okay Anything in here Nothing whole lot of nothing We hop up on this thing. No, is that a dude in there? No, it's filled with snow If we help each other we might be able to get on top of this. Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll boost Now you help me roof over there, okay Here where thanks. Okay. Look see let's figure out how to get in there Okay, we can go under here Say underwear. It'll be funny. It'll be super funny. I swear Jesus Christ.  Well, wait, she can't get infected though, right? Right, she can't get infected question mark. Isn't she immune? People not know that. Is that a big secret or something? Man, I don't have any Any health That's a bummer big bummer spooky Like that meds for me. What's this say? Ma'am, I'm sorry God for what I did. I wasn't going to hurt you I didn't want anything from your store except for the drugs husband came at me. What choice did I have? My little sister stopped feeling her feet. I need the I needed the insulin everyone is hoarding this stuff What choice did I have? I hope he survives. I'm sorry bummer bummer, dude Real big bummer. All right, anything else in here? Oh Maybe oh, I see why I see why I think question mark Maybe if I boost You boost I boost We go over here. Whoops. I think we have to sprint and jump to that. Oh, yeah, you can jump Sprint jump Okay Okay, I'm uh, I'm gonna wait for her. What you doing it? Okay. I'm afraid. I'm afraid That's a little conference room in here. Should we check for supplies? Yeah, that'd be good. I'd love to get some health mean Mean oh mean Hard work focus. Do we need a website upgrade gross margins gross profit expenses gross profits Nice, dude Sick Over here give me something good.  How do we craft? I can't remember Craft that bad boy. There we go. There we go Then we do this and then there we go lovely Lovely now. I'm all good to guy All right There we go, it's like real life guys masks on always Oh Damn keep your eyes peeled for older infected Really hate this really hated a lot Yes while we're here Can we craft anything else? No Okay, I thought we we had enough to craft, but we don't We did not we did not All right, let's be careful Because boy. Oh boy. Do I have a bad feeling about this mr. Krabs? Do I ever and cool in the safe get into it Thought I heard a thing did I hear a thing?   Thanks for That's for your back. All right feel better Okay, so employee of the month. I need to figure out wait That's a good boy right there That's a good boy And keep your keep your peepers open for employee of the month stuff Employee of is a mom Employee of is a months I Don't know if it's just around here where it says employee of the month, but it would be good to get To get some of what's in there see September 2013 That would be probably good to get some stuff, you know. Oh Employee of the month Okay, my boy Okay, July 2013 Okay There we go. There we go So oh seven oh seven 20 nope 20 13 there we go.  Oh, yeah, that's good. You have 26 supplements Let's see we have 26 so we can do Craft melee upgrades Want to do that or do we want to faster? Let's see craft melee upgrades. Let's do man We might we might just save up for a bit, you know, that's the first thing that we could unlock. Let's let's just keep moving for a sec Don't want to spend everything Immediately, you know got to save savings It's good to save This no good. Oh this no good this no good at all Please don't die Why'd you wait so long dude Why did you wait so long for that? Oh god, this is stressful.   Oh, they're terrible. They're terrible They have enhanced hearing guys enhanced hearing.  Oh god One down. Oh, man. You didn't get the other one. I got to do that too boy, dude See the fun thing a little bit is that you can first step of the game. Okay? Oh, yeah, I can I can stun them Gotta do this all again, huh? Gotta do this all again, huh? You very quiet How does it not hear me getting the other one, huh? Everything is okay going to be okay, mr. Clicker.  I got scared for a second. I was like, oh my god.  Hate that. Come on. There we go God All right first clickers the game there we go, baby Yeah, mine too, dude, I do not like it All right.  We are in a pharmacy So while we're here, let's just make sure that we're not missing anything because there's potential for a lot of good stuff Or maybe nothing, you know and knowing This game we might just get nothing You know really one or the other it's a toss-up. I'm assuming that can't be Hey, we get some money out of the ATM. Hey, I Know where the door is. Okay. I'm just looking for other stuff See I couldn't uh might have not gotten this rifle ammo and it's important Is important, dude From the knees come on. Oh I need to hold I keep forgetting not not tap That's so loud God that's loud. You all Gucci. I'll make you a present. Yeah, it's like a prison kind of present Solved it dude there is There is stuff in here. Wow, there is stuff in here. Love that Fun Molotov cocktail Hell, yeah, maybe all tops up for an area hold L2 and Press our two just go with that. Just drop that into my bag Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah First First I think because at least the clickers are blind And we'll try and be stealthy the whole way through But the runners see us they're gonna make a ruckus and then we're fucked Then they'll trigger the clickers and everything will be bad How many we got looks like two more runners maybe three. Oh God, you know, maybe we just we'll just take them as we go maybe Who knows what the best course of action is to be honest. Yep. Nice. Nice. Nice. Yeah Super stood Makes me skirt. We'll get it while we're here. Come on miss lady Come on miss lady On my base Spencer, why are you looking my feet right now? It freaks me out please Okay, are there any other runners in here one more we take care of you first Mm-hmm nicely done now we just got one more clicker and we are good to go For this room or this room come on my baby Hello my honey Hello my ragtime gal. You're so pretty. I love the way you walk Hate to see you go, but I love to watch you leave, you know You know All right, I think that's everybody in this room. Ooh, baby Was it not shit with her more And he's still moving I don't know cool cool no more spores in here, too, so Me too, dude's like pretty good Not bad at all not bad at all Let's just search around Yeah Maybe yeah, man, we don't have those sandwiches Ellie You know, I don't know I'll take a sandwich when I can get it, you know Maybe here Please don't let anything bad happen I'm moving. Here's what we're gonna do. Hmm.  Yeah, whatever. We'll try it Why not Okay, cool sweet I do there we go.  Let's uh Let's do it. That's gonna fall isn't it? Oh god. What if it doesn't hold? What if it doesn't hold for little me? I have a feeling it's not gonna hold I Have a feeling it's just not gonna hold for me and I'm gonna fall and I'm gonna have to find another way she's Oh, okay. Yeah, it is pretty windy. Oh man the horsies We Hello horsies. You did such a good job Pretty ballsy Even the horsies. Yeah, I'm sorry horsies. We should have left you in an enclosed area Following me. I don't know where I'm going dude. I do not know where I go juice Ah deepers man This storm really picked up quick. Yeah, I feel bad for the horses Okay, I trust you. I thought you wanted me to lead. Hey, you're getting pretty far ahead of me. I Can't see anymore In a No, oh No Where did she go? Oh? No This is the right way. Oh, okay. Jesus. I freak me out Please don't go too far ahead.  There we go Library that's nice. Yeah, kind of cold, huh? Horses There we go. Yeah, can I pet you? Oh, I'd love to Horsies I don't hear or see Anybody Hopefully it's all Gucci why are the horses acting weird is it just the storm? Hope it's just the sound There's fog on the thing I Gotta see what's back there. Hmm. Gotta go through the other way.  Yeah There's something back there. I think I see a bed I think I got a squatter You see another way in Can't get in through there. That's the front. Wait, whoops Can I go through the bull the broken window? I mean, oh that one was I see no Lock it. There we go. Oh That is nice There we go. This has to be Eugene's Are you sure?  What a PC up in here.   He said he blew up a checkpoint at Denver QZ killed three soldiers and two civilians He also told me that He and Tommy slow tortured some big Fedra general I don't know. I don't buy Tommy doing that though He could do worse What do you mean? He and Joel Did a lot to survive after the outbreak. I'll do what you got to do. I guess This is Eugene's bed then anything else back here. What's this say Eugene? I'm begging you to come home the fireflies want to save the world I say let them let's let them go after the military the politicians let them develop a vaccine to save mankind Maybe one day will live to see the fruits of their Fantasies until then I have to put our daughter first the fireflies will be fine without you your daughter Your daughter won't she sleeps? She keeps asking me where you're when you're coming home.  Please. We love you Claire Doofies tinkering Jason Momoa Should have brought that photo back for Tommy.  That's that good good. Oh, I'm member. I'm ever this Ooh, I can do things.  Let's do What's inspect what we got Nicotera Hmm cool See what the upgrades are like All right, we got fire away. We got stability Plus 45% fire rate. Okay. We got 57 of these bad boys Oh capacity already have it because Pre-order stuff Hmm, let's do Let's do the stability now why not Why not nice Just see what this looks cool cool cool cool cool Nice Very cool Valley cool. Oh, we got a heater nice Got a secret compartment down here, maybe if we move something How we get down there anything ooh Secret door, huh? That's pretty cool.  Oh It's got plants and stuff in here. He was growing weed down here, dude. It's weed wait Actually is weed that's really funny.    It's so funny. How'd he get this together? Must have taken him forever Is there any is there any good? Then they have it good and takes them back to Joel. Oh My god. Oh My god, that's so funny Yeah, it's a gas mask bong. That's so good. God. He was so smart. He was so smart.  You think it's still good probably go bad. I don't know She probably not do this way out here though Hard time give me that. Oh, yeah, like you're gonna get it immediately gets it.  Is that sticky icky dude? I mean how long is a while though? We're doing never have I ever Scale the one to ten life altering. How would you? Dude, I knew it that lip bite that she just did Do we get to choose? Why are we still talking about this?  Be good like a six Give it a six A six wow like a solid six. Wow. Wow Yeah, but six. Oh Yeah, it's not great. I mean now. I really want to know how you'd rate it.  Little bit of flirty flirting going on They gonna make out they gonna make out and they don't have the excuse of being drunk anymore They make it out. They make it out. They make it out. They make it out Damn, am I about to turn into a sex dungeon dude? damn Hell yes I'm loving this so far but I Think that is a Good place to stop for now. I am so damn excited about this series. I hope that you guys are too If you're watching this, thank you so much for for choosing to come on this journey with me because I know that there's a Lot of other people that you could choose to watch this series And please if you if you think somebody else's series is good for you then go with that But if you choose to watch my series, I really really appreciate it Thank you for hanging out on this journey gonna be posting this every single day So two videos a day until this game is done So I'm excited to do two videos a day again. I haven't done that in a really long time. So thank you guys so much And for old time's sake, let's throw it back to not only doing the outro But the old outro for those of you who remember so thank you guys so much for watching Hope you enjoyed if you did make sure to slap that like button right in the face And I will see you guys in the next video. Love you all stay cranky. Bye