If you were guessing that this is a two o'clock block, you'd be right. You're on life in the law. I'm going to talk about legal things today. But let me just make a statement first. And that is, this is about leadership. And leadership, you know, in this administration, it has revealed itself. Leadership is more important than it ever was in a multifaceted, multi-complex, highly specialized society where people can get divided so easily. Leadership is critically important. And we have to build leaders, not only for state government and state process and state industry. We have to build leaders for the whole country, in fact, for the world. And that's what Pat Mao is doing these days. She's building leaders, you know? You know why? Because it's the Bar Association. HSBA, White State Bar Association. She's the executive director. Welcome to the show, Pat. Thanks, Jay. Thanks for building leaders. Not only leaders, ethical leaders. Okay. Good. That's very important. It is. Yeah. It is. And Keisha King, my co-host. And we're going to explore with Pat how this is done here in Hawai'i Nei with the Bar Association in a program that's, what, ten years old now, Pat? We're going into our eleventh year. Eleventh year. Eleventh year. So this program has been in effect and running before I joined the Bar Association. And it's a, it was a product of a group of engaged HSBA members, Bar members. And they were in a strategic planning group. And this was one of the things that they said they wanted to establish. A leadership institute for aspiring young attorneys who have demonstrated some sort of interest in leadership in the Bar and or in the community and who show great promise for in the Bar and the greater community. Why is the Bar interested in such a thing? Well, as Bar members, we take oath of office and we not only say we're going to practice the law ethically, but we also have community service aspirations too. I think its unwritten rule and Chief Justice Rectonwall has always promoted this. While we don't have a mandatory pro bono, mandatory volunteerism. We promote it from within because we feel we have skills that we can lend itself to our basic lives, not only in the practice of law. So a lot of times our attorneys are called upon to do a lot of things in the community. And so we're trying to cultivate leaders, people who will do it the right way, people who are not worried about thinking out of the box. And definitely people who are forming the core of the HSBA and they have the core values of the profession at heart. So this is how we promote the longevity of our profession. What I heard you say, and I'd like to explore it for a minute anyway, in terms of one of the fundamentals of this program, is leadership includes community service. It includes volunteer community service. Is that what you're saying? Yes it does. After the fellows complete their year as fellows, they submit a program or project outline to me. And for the following year they go out into the community or within the bar and they do something that's not related to their day to day job. And it expands. And I tell them to do something they're passionate with, something that they're not used to doing when they're sitting at their desk. And we did something with Think Tank a couple of years ago, which really expanded the outside borders of their thinking with the three digit project that you headed. Well this is the triple digit program. That's right. Let me take a moment and explain that. Everybody gets a bar number. And back in the day the bar numbers were less than a thousand. And if you had a bar number that was less than a thousand, it would be triple digit. And we had this program, we'd be trying to talk to all these old guys and girls who had numbers of less than a thousand. And it was really interesting. We made a movie of that. We played it at your annual bar program. So I guess you're wondering, Keisha, how this program sort of got started because this is a program that's complex. You have to keep on interesting people. And they may not be completely interested. Lawyers are driven, lawyers are always driven, either to make money or to advance their careers. There's not all that much volunteerism and you have to encourage it. And the Bar Association has a role in all that. So I guess the question, I'm only suggesting a question here, is how did you formulate all the parts of this program?  She's going to ask you this in a minute. Yeah, what he said. How did you formulate this program? Actually, the template was in place when I joined the Bar Association about eight years ago because my predecessor had started it. So what it is, the template is, we have a core coordinating group headed by Judge Ricky Meilmano who's been hanching it since the very start. She was at the very beginning of it. At the very beginning. She was the moderator at the Strategic Planning Committee. And she calls the group together. We have a group of people who have regularly participate lawyers who want to do programs and get the panels and they volunteer for this. We get together in January. We plan the year's programs out. Everybody gets their assignment and we promote the program. And then we accept applications and this group helps us tear down the 30 to 40 applications we get to about 15 people who will join the Leadership Institute in May. And the programs are monthly May through December. And they spend half a day with us at the Bar Association. Or when Mayor Caldwell has with the people, he takes them on walking excursions. Oh, cool. So there's always a surprise with Mayor Caldwell because with him, we always tell people, you're not going to know two or three days before, but make sure you wear walking shoes and you wear comfortable clothes because he's taken us down to Chinatown to visit the homeless shelter. He's taken us to the police department when they had the controversy over some of the police officers getting on tape, getting into trouble. And we've gone to Cacaaco to talk to the Howard Hughes people and Earth Justice and get a whole panel. So that's outside. We go outside into the community. And same like when we have the pro bono month, that's October. We take the fellows to different legal service providers around town. So access to justice room in the district court, legal aid, volunteer legal services, ACLU, and they'll visit all these places and they'll actually meet the staffs and ask them what do you do? Is there a place for me to do my project? So there is a different theme for each month is what you're saying. Exactly. Different program. Exactly. Okay, that's terrific for each person, but it kind of baffles me. You would think that you would get this type of training while they're in school. Why must they continue this after? When you go to law school, they don't teach you how to be business people. They don't teach you how to be leaders. They don't teach you the rules of the profession like the rules of civility, the rules of pro bono work. In law school, it's very esoteric. It's very driven towards textbooks and driven towards passing the bar exam. Oh, wow. So these are things that you don't learn in law school and like I said, being a business person, they don't really teach you how to be a business person. So some of our attorneys, we have continuing legal education, accounting 101. How do you read an asset? They need to know that. They need to know that because they're managing people's money. They're managing a business and some people don't come equipped with that. So they don't teach you everything in law school. That's true. Yeah. Especially with, there are so many books now with regard to law, but leadership especially. I'm thinking about Stephen Covey and so many others like him. How is it that they're not able to study that and do you all study any of those great leadership authors? We leave the programming to the people who are coordinating the program seminars. So a lot of it, when we do have like say for example, former attorney general David Louis who's now a partner in a law firm, he has done extensive research on leadership. So he brings out and all these esoteric things and philosophies, but we want to bring to the fellows the real aspects of it. What does it take to be a leader? How do these people develop their style? What drives them? What keeps them into the path they're on? So it's more talking about personal development from an attorney's perspective and all our speakers are attorneys because we have a kinship. We all stress getting into law school. We all stress getting through law school. We all stress taking the bar exam. We all had these milestones that other professions may not totally understand what we've gone through. So all of it is local attorneys and pretty much they're in all different aspects. All different walks of life. There are secondary aspects that is true. One of the big bar association values is civility because when you're practicing law you want to win for your client and the organic natural expression of that is you fight. And some lawyers don't learn about civility. If you're going to fight you still have to be civil. So the bar wants people to be civil. The judges want people to be civil. And when you're in a program like this you learn how to rub elbows. You learn how to appreciate your fellows your fellow lawyers in the practice. I think it's an important lesson. Never spoken but it's an important lesson. It is because I think here in Hawaii we're unique because we're so small and even though we're separated by islands a coconut wireless in the legal profession is strong. So we always tell the young leaders I mean when I have the guy I'm in charge of the professionalism course from the Supreme Court. We always tell people be careful what you do the person you crossed today or the person asked you for an extension and for no good reason you just don't want to do it you don't want to play ball. It's going to get back to you. So this is part of the bar's mission with the leadership institute sections committees other projects face-to-face because if I know you by face I'm more likely to listen to you more carefully and not just brush you off. Yeah and you call me for an extension of time for something I'll give it to you but if you deny me an extension of time just because you're being spiteful I'll never give you an extension of time and so you have a degradation of the relationship that way. And he'll probably tell five other attorneys so-and-so didn't give me extension of time for no good reason other than he didn't like the way I look so if he asks you for something double think it that's how it works. But your program doesn't end that entirely it just teaches them the alternative that you don't have to be that way. Yeah because we're in the warrior mode men and women but then our program is good because we take people from all practices of law prosecuting attorneys obliquely frienders small firms I have our insurance claims adjuster last year I had a probation's officer from the federal court we have people from the neighbor islands because the neighbor islanders feel that they're isolated they want to know people what's happening and Honolulu and we want to tell them HSBA doesn't stand for Honolulu State Bar Association so it's different perspectives civil practitioners, criminal family so they all come together and we talk about leadership but you know the first segment we had was with Marjorie Bronster and when she was speaking about her experience as the attorney general during the broken trust and during the time she was going to court nobody moved the bodies were just mesmerized and one of the things if I may say she said the day she had to walk from her office to the Supreme Court to argue one of the bishop estate motions there was a whole line of people in red shirts and they were bussed in and they had the shirts down with Bronster stay away from commanding school and she said you know even small children she was walking through the group and she said well she was there with her staff and they said okay great face we're going to walk across the street but it seemed like I was going to walk a mile but as she was walking under their breath would go you go girl you like what you're doing and she said she never expected that so it's those type of stories from their perspectives at leaders that it brings to the fellow something that they've never seen that they'll never hear you wouldn't hear about it you wouldn't read about it but when she said people in that group were muttering under her breath their breath to her showing her support that really shook her more than facing the big crowd after that and in this group in these sessions they let their hair down it's really and I think we encourage them to do that we want to know how they feel their experience so that the you know the panelists the elder lawyers senior lawyers who are talking to the junior lawyers we want the junior lawyers to appreciate we want them to hear those stories and learn things they would not otherwise learn but right now we can take a short break okay we'll be right back in one minute that's Patty Pat now we go back a long way okay Kisha King we're talking about the leadership institute the Bar Association we'll be right back Aloha I'm Warren Pear a host here at Think Tech, Hawaii a digital media company serving the people of Hawaii we provide a video platform for citizen journalists to raise public awareness in Hawaii we are a Hawaii nonprofit that depends on the generosity of its supporters to keep on going we'd be grateful if you'd go to ThinkTechHawaii.com and make a donation to support us now thanks so much Aloha I'm Jane Sugimura a host here at Think Tech, Hawaii a digital media company serving the people of Hawaii we provide a video platform for citizen journalists to raise public awareness in Hawaii we are a Hawaii nonprofit that depends on the generosity of its supporters to keep on going we'd be grateful if you'd go to ThinkTechHawaii.com and make a donation to support us now thank you so much I told you we would return and we have returned Pat Mao and Keisha King talking about the Bar Association's Leadership Program you had something you wanted to ask Keisha I did this program sounds really amazing I would love to know how the junior attorneys are changed after this the fellows come in very tentatively and the first two sessions they're really quiet and then we give them a lot of breaks so they can get to know each other so they can talk to each other get to know each other and they're more willing to share their own experiences what they want to accomplish what in their background leads them and makes them tick and so they come in tentative and then as they get more and more and we prep them and we say you know we can advance these are the people who are going to speak please Google them these are their bios they come in and they start getting more confidence and by the end of this session it's like free flow you can't quiet them down and at the end when we do the wrap up Judge Amano does the wrap up and we talk about how it changed them how it changed their perspective and some of them have revealed that it changes their personal life too that's really good that's interesting yeah cause we have we've caught a lot of people who came in before there was somebody and the alumni it reads I mean I'm really proud that these people were leadership institute fellows before they've assumed their positions now we have Judge Jelotaki federal judge Judge Darian Ching-Nagata state district court judge we have people who are corporate officers we have people who are now named partners in their law firms so we have a broad spectrum and just so happened we're going to have the HSBA board elections the two people running for vice president which is a succession to become HSBA vice president both of them were leadership institute fellows and we have two or three fellows who are on the HSBA board couple of people who run the sections and they're all over the place it's like a secret society so one of my fellows said we should develop a secret handshake oh goodness well there is something like you know they know each other they stay together they're like graduates of a given school that were tight while they were at school and they know each other going forward and this is a valuable thing to have but there's something else too though it seems to me that being able to talk to a judge is not something that comes easy if you don't know the judge sometimes you know him maybe he's your cousin's uncle's neighbor but mostly he's not you don't know him and you appear in court in front of him and your relationship is across the bench it's not a matter of being friendly it's not a matter of knowing him personally now he comes in and he talks to you and he tells you his personal thoughts and you can ask him personal questions and he can so this is really valuable the same thing you know most lawyers of practice you know they start as associates and firms they're at the bottom of the heap they work on the cases they were assigned they were in a little silo they go out and drink with other associates maybe but they don't have a lot of exposure to the partners they don't have a lot of exposure to the families of the partners they don't know what the partner's career has been like and now he's a partner in a big firm a guy who's been a bastion of the Bar Association who's telling him his personal story this is extraordinary you know and it's only too bad you can't accept everybody Pat the coordinating committee likes it small so it gives everybody a chance to ask questions and speaking about interaction with judges one of the most popular programs is in September Judge Omano coordinates that that's speed dating with the judges that's the day first we go to federal court and then we talk with the judges in federal court and we look at their quarters we look at their chamber and we have lunch at the cafeteria then we walk over to the state court and in the Supreme Court the first floor they set up like 15, 16 desks and chairs and the fellows spend 5 to 8 minutes with each judge so we have Chief Justice Rectiwal every year he has to be on that panel every year Sabrina McKenna has to be on that panel every year we have certain judges and Judge Omano says she has a wait list because if she doesn't call somebody that year I'll come, did I get bad reviews we have judges who want to so from the state court level from the Supreme Court all the way down to district court they don't get a chance to speak to these people either on a one-on-one because if you're a transactional lawyer you don't go to court you don't even know what these people look like and to be able to meet the Chief Justice or even a district court judge and they're asking you what makes you tick it's mind-boggling to them and they go wow I saw a judge so and so on the street and he remembered me and I went yeah there's a real benefit in that it might even be a benefit that reveals itself in the ruling, who knows but I wonder about this and I haven't seen the program operate in this way but the post is the Supreme Court Justice and there's the Leadership Institute people and the question is it's an old and cold case it's not a case that's subject to decision right now it's finished final of appeal and the young lawyer says to the judge you know you ruled against the Superfery a few years ago that was really bad public policy I disagree with that case can you justify that for me now what would happen I never came across the question frame like that but I have heard some of the fellows ask the judge not in direct terms of a specific case but they give a factual situation and what was the rationale for that and the judge can't speak to it they will that's very interesting I think that's the insight that a junior attorney would definitely benefit from and those questions they are unlimited they can talk to them about anything except pending cases or anything that gives an appearance of conflict so a lot of the fellows ask the judges very personal questions what made you go into this that you have in balancing your life would you do it again or would you go back to private practice they ask a lot of questions I hear positive change that can happen have there been any attorneys that have said you know what I don't think I want to do this anymore have there been any negative changes or fallout I haven't heard of any because my best marketers are the prior fellows because I tell them the applications are out look for people you hear about this this is a good program we talk to so and so I got four names for you picked at least one or two from the names that I talked to so it's the fellows themselves that recruit and tell people about the program it's a door opener in terms of your career for sure because you're meeting people you wouldn't meet you're developing a relationship even people you would never have that opportunity but there's another part of it I find interesting it's the weighing of career options because you go to law school they don't really help you shape a career you have to do that yourself and sometimes things happen you're cast on an ocean of possibilities and you can't choose and you really need a big brother big sister person you can bounce this stuff or see your options and decide which one you want to pick because working in the at the library all your life and drafting documents all your life may not be appealing in this day of having second and third careers a lawyer really has to think about how he would how he would advance down the career path and whether he's going to be practicing in the library or doing something else and so I have noticed and I've appreciated that in this program the options are always on the table I could be a judge I could run for the legislature I could work for it in-house counsel there's a lot of things other than library working in the carols research and cases so this is an eye-opener because the truth is that when you're in that job you don't think much about what's outside that job this is an opportunity to meet people who are outside the normal silo who can give you information about alternative ways of practicing alternative ways to lead your life actually I've had heard that some of the fellows keep in touch with some of the panelists that they meet and so on a yearly basis they touch base because when you're in a large law firm you don't really talk to the managing partner about your personal life or something if you're in a crisis you're having a family situation you wouldn't because you realize your chances of going up the ladder but you have had a relationship with someone outside your office in which you can confide in and which you can ask for should I stay in the practice of law or should I start looking at and I think one of the best panelists is John Komeiji he said you know I was happy of being a litigator I love being in the courtroom but these things came my way maybe I should take a chance even after 35 years of practicing I should take a chance and go outside the box and see where it takes me and to the fellows to hear this kind wow, yeah we should because attorneys are generally we're adverse to risks very adverse to risk so then it's to teach people there's other things and if this is not your cup of tea you don't like it you can step outside and it's nothing wrong with stepping outside because we're not all traditionalists in the courtroom yeah and you get to think about things and there's a lot in my view there's a lot to think about these days it goes back to something that I've said in this program and that is inherent in our legal training is the notion that we are the guardians of the rule of law and most of us haven't thought too much about that because the system has worked pretty well it's predictable that's the nature of the rule of law it's predictable right until now until now and so if there is one group of people in the community in our horizontal vertical community in this country who are responsible really responsible protecting the rule of law who is it? it's not the butchers and bakers and candlestick makers it's the lawyers thinking about it so this program is a way maybe to inculcate or re-inculcate that thought with them and then the ethics you mentioned and the civility all these valuable things maybe you don't always learn in law school and you don't always learn in practice and somebody says to you wait let's just think for a minute about how you can serve the profession how you can serve the community because Judge Dan Foley he talks about his life as a private attorney and his pro bono experiences to have saved people in prison who've taken on cases from Micronesians taking on the same sex marriage case and all these things in private practice and he said he did it all pro bono free he didn't charge because he believed in it so to hear that kind of story from a person who walked in their shoes able to make a living able to make a real dent in a problem in society is very very inspiring yes it is we're going to leave it there Pat it's a beautiful program I envy you having the psychic benefit of being around it and developing it and creating new elements and components for it it's really been wonderful for 10 years 11 almost I understand thank you why don't you say goodbye to the people goodbye people you've been watching Life in the Law and you've been here with Ms. Pat Mal and of course J. Fidel we'll see you next time


Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. Before I get into the rumors we got for you today because we have a fresh batch from somebody who has basically a track record like any other. Sometimes right, sometimes wrong.  Some stuff wrong the year. Sorry, a bunch of stuff right in 2020. Want to keep forgetting we're in 2022. But some stuff wrong in 2020. Obviously there's also a pandemic so maybe that's an excuse to get stuff wrong. I have no idea. All I know is we're talking about this stuff because it's extremely exciting. But yes, it is a rumor video.  It's in the title. So anyways, before we get into that, I want to remind you that we are giving away a $100 cash money to a lucky new subscriber here in the month of January. We're running this all the way through January 27th. So we should have the winner drawn on the 28th. So yeah, if you guys want to enter and you're not subscribed to the channel, I encourage you to do so. Also, if we can get this video to, I don't know, let's say, let's just go out on a limb and say, a thousand likes in the first 24 hours. I will pick one random person down in the comment section as well and give them a $50 eShop gift card. Speaking of giveaways, I would be remiss if I didn't mention, for everybody, we're giving away three copies of Pokemon Legends Arceus this month. To enter, there's a viral sweep link down in the description or the pinned comment. All right, that being said, now we've got our pre-amble giveaways out of the way. Let's get into today's rumor batch because it's talking about some games, some really exciting stuff, and this comes from Marco Mauro over on Twitter. Now, this would have made the rounds yesterday in our little Twitter rumor roundup in our video, but unfortunately, they didn't come till today, and it's a bit of a slow news day. I do have one piece of news we might talk about tonight because we will be live streaming our Pokemon Brilliant Diamond stream tonight, hopefully getting even further in the game there. But the thing is, I want to focus on these rumors because they're about stuff happening this year, stuff that we might have already heard about before, but maybe have more confirmation on it here, including some exact release dates. And if these release dates are right, that's just gonna lead even more credit to Marco Mauro. So let's get into what he said on Twitter today. You guys know the drill, blur it up, get to the tweets, and then talk. So first up here, we have Kirby in the Forgotten Land, new info, is apparently coming later this month alongside a new look at Advance Wars 1 Plus 2. Now, personally, this feels like a Nintendo Direct, but he doesn't specifically mention a Direct, so we'll go from there. Also, it looks like Kirby will be launching on March 25th and Advance Wars will be launching on April 8th, which by the way, the Advance Wars 1 Plus 2 Rebocamp date actually leaked on the eShop, so April 8th's already something floating out there. So that's much credit for that, but if the Kirby date is correct, that would be obviously pretty awesome. There's also a couple of minor games to be announced for the spring season, including Fire Emblem Echoes, which should release in the first half of 2022 too. That's the next, you know, six months. So by the end of June, people are worried about the Zelda Breath of the Wild sequel and if Wind Waker and or Twilight Princess HD is releasing this year, I should remind them that in the past, they have released two Zelda games in the same year, like Ocarina of Time 3D and Skyward Sword in 2011 or Majora's Mask 3D and Triforce Heroes in 2015. These games are considered minor releases for them. It's basically the same games from the Wii U with some small fixes where Wind Waker actually gets most of those fixes. That's why they were planning to release both as a pack, a bundle. But he doesn't know if this is still the case and that's why they didn't release it in 2021 with Skyward Sword HD. That was in development for around two years and the same studio behind those games are doing the Wii U ports. The new Pikmin unlikely will have a chance with the packed schedule for 2022, aka if there's a new Pikmin game, it's probably not gonna be coming out this year, according to him. But I believe that at least it will be announced later this year. Development of this game was a little bit of hell and was only until 2018 when they started working seriously on it after they restarted development from the original development of it, which Miyamoto talked about in the past about how the next Pikmin game is almost done. Apparently they got rebooted in 2018. All right, other notes that I found when he was responding to people asking them questions is the Pikmin game started out as Pikmin 4 from the very beginning, but I don't know if that's gonna be the final name, aka that's basically what it was called when Miyamoto said the game was almost done, but obviously that might not be the case anymore. And then he does mention the Donkey Kong game that was rumored last year and he says more about the Donkey Kong game in a few months. The game is coming this year and I don't think it will be delayed. Now, again, we haven't heard much about that Donkey Kong game rumor for a while. It's kind of one of those we kind of assume it exists, but nobody actually, the big thing about the Donkey Kong game rumor from 2021 is that none of the people who said it's real said they actually know when Nintendo's gonna release it or unveil it. We kind of hoped it would be done for Donkey Kong's 40th last year, but it wasn't. So yeah, it's one of those weird situations where we aren't really sure when we're gonna see this game if it's real, is it gonna end up becoming a Star Fox racing situation where heavily rumored game never actually gets announced. Was it a real thing? Did it get canceled? Nobody seems to have any direct info on that because again, it was never actually talked about publicly by Nintendo. It's unlike if Metroid Prime 4 got canceled. That would be really strange since Nintendo's talked about it publicly twice now, the original announcement, and then the quote unquote reboot. I guess I can't say delay because it never had a release date, but the reboot. So yeah, what I find obviously fascinating in this batch of info is the idea that there was a new Fire Emblem game, specifically the Fire Emblem Echoes, which is like another, it would follow the trend of Fire Emblem where they release like a new generation of Fire Emblem games and then they obviously remastered remake old ones. Echoes is one that's been heavily hinted at for a while. The fact that he says it's coming out this year, I think is probably a pretty safe bet if you look at when the last time we got Fire Emblem Three Houses and the normal development cycle of Fire Emblem games, but still we'll have to wait and see on that front. So yeah, what do we basically learn here? I just want to glance at the notes here. We also know our Pikmin game is coming, probably not this year according to Marco Mauro. We learned that Kirby and the Forgotten Lands coming on the 25th. We learned that there's going to be a Fire Emblem Echoes game likely coming in the first six months. And yeah, obviously Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD, one of the two, if not both of them bundled together should be coming this year as well. It doesn't actually specify when. Jeff Grubb by the way has also backed up the Wind Waker Twilight Princess thing happening this year and I know some people doubted it because of the release of Breath of the Wild, but again, they have done two Zelda games in the past and they consider their re-releases like this to actually be considered major releases. Like, well, they hyped up Skyward Sword.  Technically we got Zelda Game and Watch. Arguably they did it again, but anyways, folks, you guys let me know what you think about all the stuff down in the comments because I'm, obviously when it comes to rumors, you know, you gotta be skeptical. You gotta, you know, take it for what it is, take it at face value. And that is, we don't know if any of this is true, but we should know soon. New information is supposedly coming later this month on Kirby and Advance Wars 1 Plus 2 Reboot Camp, and even if that doesn't happen, March 25th, let's keep that date, let's lock it in the back of their mind. I'm actually gonna make a note of it on my whiteboard in my office here in my studio because I wanna remember that, to fact check Marco Mauro here because if they nail that March 25th date, oh boy, would that be exciting. Also, I think Kirby and the Forgotten Land is a great pair-up with project triangle strategy and you're obviously, we've always hoped for Splatoon 3 or one of the other major games, but hey, Kirby and the Forgotten Land could become that Kirby game that blows up and hits five, six, seven, eight million in sales. We'll have to see everything sells on Switch, right? We just had record-breaking sales announced, you know, a few days ago for Shimigami Tensei 5. So yeah, clearly it's probably gonna sell. So we'll have to wait and see how well it actually does. Now before we wrap up today's video, I just wanna express my extreme thanks to all of you guys. I know I've already been through some of this on our New Year's stream and obviously in our end of year recap video when I was like, oh my gosh, you know, goodbye. This is the end and it was just the end of 2021.  I just wanna express my extreme thanks to all of you guys. I've had a lot of time over the weekend to reflect on 2021 here as a YouTube channel, let alone my life in 2021. I'm not gonna get into any of the specific details beyond our YouTube channel, but it was a crazy year. And obviously we've all been dealing with COVID and all of our own stresses and pressure and everything else that we all deal with. And I just wanna express my extreme gratitude to all of you. You guys watched my videos in record numbers. You guys supported the channel in record numbers, whether it was super chats or memberships, or just sharing, liking, commenting. It was the biggest year of the channel yet. And I'm actually kinda humbled by the success of the channel in 2021. It is so far away the best year that YouTube channel has ever had that it makes me extremely excited about our prospects here in 2022 and what we could be building towards. Obviously we have our own, we did our big E3 event last year. We'll be doing something for E3 again this year, whether it's an at home and studio event again, or whether we change it up and we're obviously gonna be at E3, playing the games, giving hands-on impressions, giving exclusive footage, hopefully getting media passes. That would be really cool, assuming that E3's even back this year. And if not, who knows? Maybe we'll do other events throughout the year as well. So we'll just have to kinda keep tracking the background of what we're building towards here because I think last year was very goal-oriented. I had a lot of goals coming into that year and I feel like we basically smashed every single goal I had. Chief among them, obviously bringing higher quality content to you throughout the year and I feel like with the set and everything and hopefully the set continues to evolve this year, we've done that. Beyond that, some people always get mad, why do you say we? Because this isn't just my journey. This is our journey.  I appreciate all of you.  And even people who get mad sometimes that they wait a little bit to receive giveaway prizes. I appreciate all of you, seriously. It was a big learning experience because it was the first year that I really felt like the channel became somewhat of a responsibility, not just something I'm doing for fun, but something that people come to rely on for certain things. And I really, I think that's maybe what took me back the most about 2021. So thank you guys so much for the success of the channel because it's nothing without all of you. And here's to hopefully an even bigger that are more organized and brighter 2022. I'll catch you guys in hopefully our live stream tonight when we're streaming Pokemon Brilliant time.


Using the authority Congress granted the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding federal student loans. Students who come from low-income families, which allowed them to qualify to receive a Pell Grant, will have their debt reduced $20,000. Which is just infuriating because if you're anything like my wife and I, then you've worked really hard and you've given up things so that you can pay back your student loans. I'm 43, so it's not like that was a quick process.  According to lawyer Clay Travis, it's illegal and unconstitutional. Joe Biden has no constitutional authority to unilaterally strike down student loan debt. Congress must act to allow this to occur. The Supreme Court will strike down this move. The Biden administration knows this, which is why this is simply a craven political move for midterms.


I want to toss this one a little your way, Mike Foster. So you have the most kids on this panel. And while you delivered an amazing spiritual speech to the men who attended patriarchs, I want to bring a little more practical on how you're managing so many kids, and your wife, and you're looking to build up yourself while the world is telling you to do the exact opposite almost 24-7. Where are you finding that energy? And I think there are a lot of other family men who are just feeling burnt out because the next day there's something else wrong and something else wrong. Yeah, well, I mean, there's old saying, men are like trucks. The more weight you put on, the straighter they drive, right? So with those response, you step up to your responsibilities. I mean, the good things about kids is generally they come one at a time, right? And you're upping your level with it. So M and I, we have a goal. M was my wife. We set out to do this. We used to joke while we were dating that we wanted a bus full of kids, which was a joke. So I had to buy something like a bus. They get all my kids in it. So I got a big E 350 to stick them all in there. But this has been the plan. And we've been preparing ourselves for this for a long time. I think in terms of what's happening in society, this is not new. There's civil wars, nations rise and fall. There's trouble like this all the time. And if you're raising your kids up, teaching them history, just walking them through the Bible, watching the fall of nations and rise of kings, letting them know this is normal. God has kept people through it before. He'll keep you through this. We got this. So our house isn't a bubble. It's a castle. Has a wall around it. It's our base of operations that we come out. So we let the kids know these things. And I think the main thing is that you have to have, your goals have to be like a bull's eye with concentric circles. The whole target matters. But the bull's eye is the main thing. And each circle becomes more and more derivative as it goes out, as it emanates. And so sometimes when things are crazy, those outer circles just drop by the wayside and you stay on the main thing, right? And so we're always talking about where are we at? Where are we at with these kids? Are we doing with our discipleship, our kids? With our family culture coming back around to it. And so I think it's the mission that you have to continue to revisit and just really keep in tabs on where your individual kids are. Because they're so different and they process.  And one of my sons, he's like calling up the police. The other son is looking for the gun, right? So we have very different kids that have very different solutions.  The other one's like I am the authority. It's like Judge Dredd or something. I am the law. But we're together. There's a reason a wife, a very capable wife is a wonderful thing. Like we see, everyone talks about how awesome it is that women can be CEOs or whatever. But when you see a woman be a wife and a mother, you see the full capabilities of a woman, right? What they can do, she disciples my kids. She helps me. She was harassing me about, I told her, I said you're nagging, but she was harassing me about getting registered to vote in Ohio because the vote actually matters. Unlike South Carolina, I was gonna go Trump anyway. But not in Ohio, we don't know. So yeah, she's a talented woman. We're on the same page. And sometimes we focus on the main things and get to the other things as we can. Excellent. And Tanner, so to continue on that theme, a lot of these men, a lot of the men who attend these, they're exposed to us through social media, somebody's YouTube channel, Twitter. What have you seen as a key player in, I've been watching your Twitter and your feed and your Instagram is, it's like life is normal.  How are you maintaining that? And what have you seen the manosphere? Have you seen any changes with the election rolling around? Is it all politics? Are the men going crazy? Or is it, how is social media treating you with regards to what you're seeing as a wave of men? Well, as far as our ability to maintain normalcy, we largely have. And part of that is that we've already been in a position where the changes that a lot of people experience as far as maybe you work a white collar job and rather than going to the office, you work from home. I already work from home. Maybe your kids can't go to school anymore and so you have to deal with them being home all the time. We homeschool our kids. And so we always kind of joke in our neighborhood and our friends have joked around about this, that everybody's now living the guzzy lifestyle because we're the ones who are already doing this and they're the ones who get to follow that. But one of the things that has, 2020 has been an awesome year for the guzzy family. It's been a great year for us. And part of it is that we've been able to reframe what's been going on as rather than we're freaking out and we don't know how to handle this or anything, but it's allowed us to see blind spots that definitely existed, but we weren't aware of and we're in a position where we can start to clear those blind spots. We've been able to take care of some things within our financial house or our preparatory house or the way that we're parenting our kids or things like that. And one of the reasons why my social media feed looks the way that it does, and you and I have talked about this, Zach and I wish that we were average. We really do. We want to normalize what we do as much as we possibly can. I would love nothing more than to be non-exceptional in the way that you and I live. That would be phenomenal. And the more that we can use social media as a tool to be able to demonstrate that and the more we can attend events like this and you can meet people face to face and you can help them recognize that Zach actually walks the walk. Like this is not some fake Pinterest level, totally perfected version that you see on Instagram or something, but this is the real deal and I try to embody that as well. Then the more social media can be a tool to help people realize, yeah, the world is burning around but I'm prepared for it or I can be prepared for it because I can see how other people have been prepared for it and so I'm very intentionally trying to capitalize on the time being what it is to strengthen my family, to develop myself more, to build my business, to improve my preparedness, to improve my community and see all of the chaos that is 2020 as an opportunity rather than seeing it as a problem that we just have to hunker down and survive.


This video will cover the following objective for the respiratory system, list the major functions of the respiratory system, describe the forces that allow for air movement into and out of the lungs, describe the mechanisms that drive breathing, describe the process of gas exchange, define and contrast the process of external and internal respiration. The major organs of the respiratory system are the lungs as well as the airways that connect in and out of the lungs, and the muscles of respiration that are responsible for ventilation, for pulmonary ventilation, drawing air in and out of the lungs. So the airways are connected to the nasal cavity and oral cavity and the pharynx is the throat, which the pharynx connects to both the nasal and oral cavities, as air is being drawn in through the nasal cavities, it will be humidified, warmed and filtered, and then it passes down through the pharynx into the larynx. Larynx is also commonly referred to as the voice box, and it contains the vocal cords responsible for sound production. And then air continues from the larynx down into the lower respiratory tract, starting with the trachea, which is the large airway which then branches into the right main bronchus and left main bronchus, each bronchus branches further into secondary tertiary bronchi in the lungs, which branch further into bronchioles, which are small airways that eventually terminate in air sacs known as the alveoli, where the external respiration, gas exchange occurs, where gas, like oxygen, moves from the atmospheric air inside of the alveoli into the blood to be transported inside of the red blood cells. In the role of the muscles in the respiratory system, like the diaphragm, the diaphragm contracts in order to increase the volume of the thoracic cavity where the lungs are located, and as that volume increases, there's a decrease in pressure inside of the lungs that causes air to flow in, increasing the volume of the lungs. Ulfaction is one of the functions that the respiratory system contributes to in order to draw air in. The respiratory system can draw air in through the nasal cavity and then molecules that are in the air can dissolve in the mucus of the olfactory epithelium and bind to the olfactory receptors, which relay information in through the cranial nerve one into the olfactory bulbs and olfactory tracts that carry the information into the olfactory cortex in the temporal lobe where the sense of smell is being processed. Sound production for speech is another major function of the respiratory system. In the larynx, there are vocal cords that are elastic ligaments that vibrate as air is forced in between these bands of elastic connective tissue. That vibration creates the sound that we use for speech. This should be a familiar diagram of the path of blood flow through the pulmonary and systemic circulation and so the pulmonary circuit is the blood supply to and from the lungs. The pulmonary arteries are carrying de-oxygenated blood to the lungs and pulmonary veins drain oxygenated blood back from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart. External respiration is the aspect of gas exchange which occurs in the lungs and so is a major function of the respiratory system is gas exchange and in particular external respiration where we have gas exchange between the blood of the pulmonary capillaries and air inside of the lungs, the air inside of the alveoli, which are the small sac-shaped terminal ends of the airways inside of the lungs. The air inside of the lungs is exchanging with gas that's dissolved in the blood across the wall of the alveoli and across the wall of the capillary. In external respiration oxygen moves from the alveoli or alveolus, as we can see on this diagram, is the singular of alveoli. Oxygen is moving from an alveolus into the blood plasma and then that oxygen in the blood plasma can move into the red blood cell and oxygen will then bind to hemoglobin inside of the red blood cell where hemoglobin will function to help transport oxygen in the blood. Carbon dioxide, which is found inside of the red blood cell and also dissolves in the plasma, moves the other direction across the capillary wall from the blood toward the alveolus. And so carbon dioxide is moving out of the blood into the lungs during external respiration and oxygen is moving from the lungs into the blood during external respiration. Internal respiration refers to gas exchange between the blood within the systemic capillaries and the interstitial fluid of tissues throughout the body. As cells throughout the body use oxygen for aerobic cellular respiration, the partial pressure of oxygen in the interstitial fluid decreases, and as these cells produce ATP from aerobic cellular respiration, they also produce the metabolic waste product carbon dioxide and so carbon dioxide concentration of the interstitial fluid increases, and the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the interstitial fluid increases. So normally the partial pressure of carbon dioxide increases to around 46 millimeters of mercury in the interstitial fluid and the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the pulmonary or in the systemic capillaries is initially around 40 millimeters of mercury coming in from the arteries. But as carbon dioxide diffuses into the blood, the blood carbon dioxide partial pressure rises to around 46 millimeters of mercury and the blood oxygen partial pressure is normally around 100 millimeters of mercury in the blood coming from the arteries into the systemic capillaries. Then the partial pressure of oxygen in the interstitial fluid is usually below 40 millimeters of mercury and oxygen will diffuse out of the blood into the interstitial fluid until the partial pressure of oxygen in the blood arrives at around 40 millimeters of mercury in the blood that's deoxygenated blood draining into the venules to return back to the to the right atrium of the heart through veins. The fact that the respiratory system allows us to remove carbon dioxide from the blood enables another major function of the respiratory system, which is acid base homeostasis. The respiratory system contributes to the balance of the pH of the body by removing carbon dioxide from the blood because carbon dioxide reacts with water in the blood forming carbonic acid and carbonic acid can release a hydrogen ion into the surrounding solution lowering the pH. The enzyme carbonic anhydrase is responsible for interconversion of the carbonic acid with water and carbon dioxide and so the chemical reaction that converts carbonic acid to carbon dioxide and water is very quick and is catalyzed by this enzyme carbonic anhydrase, which is one of the fastest enzymes that humans have ever studied. This is a reversible reaction. So if we have excess carbon dioxide, that carbon dioxide can be converted into carbonic acid by this enzyme, carbonic anhydrase, and if we have excess carbonic acid, carbonic acid can be converted into carbon dioxide by this enzyme. So it can move either direction and when the pH of the body is becoming very acidic as the pH is becoming too low, it will stimulate an increase in the respiratory drive leading to increased pulmonary ventilation, that is increased rate of airflow in and out of the lungs, which speeds up gas exchange, helping to remove carbon dioxide from the body and this will have the effect of helping to raise the pH of the blood restoring homeostasis. So here's a diagram just summarizing the mechanism through which the respiratory system can contribute to the rapid regulation of acid-base balance in the body. If the pH of the body becomes too low, which is also known as acidosis, there are chemoreceptors that are detecting that change in pH. The central chemoreceptor in the brain is very sensitive to a change in the pH of the cerebrospinal fluid and if that falls too low, it will lead to a stimulation of the respiratory drive leading to increased respiratory rate, removing carbon dioxide from the body, helping to lower the carbonic acid concentration of the blood, and this brings the pH of the body back to the homeostatic set point around a pH of 7.4. And the opposite will happen if the pH of the body becomes too high. If the pH is above 7.4, this is alkalosis. So there's a little bit of room, so above 7.45 would be alkalosis, a normal range would be around 7.35 to 7.45, but if it gets above that 7.45, the pH of the body is too high known as alkalosis, which is also going to be detected by receptors, the central chemoreceptors in the brain are going to respond to that alkalosis, leading to a decrease in the respiratory rate, which causes the carbon dioxide to accumulate in the blood. It slows the rate at which carbon dioxide is being removed from the blood. So the blood carbon dioxide concentration rises and the blood carbonic acid level rises and as that carbonic acid level rises, that causes a decrease in the pH of the blood, helping to restore the homeostatic set point around a pH of 7.4. Inspiration is the process that moves air into the lungs. So breathing in is the act of inspiration. And inspiration is an act of process that requires contraction of the inspiratory muscles, or the muscles of inspiration, which include the diaphragm and the external intercostal muscles. When the diaphragm and external intercostal muscles contract, the volume of the thoracic cavity increases, which causes the pressure inside of the lungs, which is known as intrapulmonary pressure, or intra-alveolar pressure. This intrapulmonary or intra-alveolar pressure decreases as the thoracic volume increases. And when the intrapulmonary pressure is lower than the atmospheric pressure, air will flow into the lungs. Expiration is essentially the opposite. When the diaphragm and external intercostal muscles relax, the lungs can recoil, and the volume of the thoracic cavity is decreased. This leads to an increase in the pressure inside of the lungs. And when the intrapulmonary pressure is higher than the atmospheric pressure, air will flow out of the lungs in the process of expiration. And so expiration is a passive process that can occur just by relaxing the diaphragm and external intercostal muscles, although it is possible to produce more forceful expirations by contracting accessory muscles, such as the abdominal muscles, if you contract your rectus abdominis and the abdominal obliques and transverse abdominis. Those muscles will compress the abdominal cavity, which will help to decrease the volume of the thoracic cavity and produce more forceful expiration. Pulmonary ventilation is normally regulated subconsciously, with an involuntary mechanism, coordinated by respiratory control centers of the brainstem. These control centers are found specifically within the medulla oblongata and the pons. Within the medulla oblongata, there are two regions, the dorsal respiratory group and the ventral respiratory group that are the respiratory control centers. The dorsal respiratory group contains the cell bodies of the motor neurons that extend their axons out through the spinal nerves to stimulate contraction of the diaphragm and the external intercostal muscles, leading to inspiration. The ventral respiratory group contains a cluster of neurons known as the pre-Botsinger complex that generates the breathing rhythm to regulate the activity of the dorsal respiratory group. The ventral respiratory group also contains motor neurons that excite contraction of accessory respiratory muscles. For example, the internal intercostal muscles are accessory muscles of expiration that contract to produce more forceful expirations. The respiratory control centers in the medulla oblongata are in turn regulated by respiratory control centers in the pons known as the abnustic and pneumotastic centers. The abnustic center excites the dorsal respiratory group, stimulating an increased respiratory drive and the pneumotastic center has an inhibitory effect decreasing the respiratory drive. The respiratory control centers of the brainstem are also regulated by the cerebral cortex enabling voluntary control over the respiratory muscles. The hypothalamus also contains control centers that can influence pulmonary ventilation, enabling emotions to have an influence over our pulmonary ventilation such as when anger causes a cessation of ventilation or when anxiety causes hyperventilation. As the major functions of the respiratory system include maintenance of the acid-base balance of the body or maintenance of the pH of the body, there are central chemoreceptors in the medulla oblongata that are very sensitive to changes in the pH of the cerebrospinal fluid. And this is the primary mechanism controlling the respiratory drive which regulates the pulmonary ventilation rate. If the blood carbon dioxide concentration becomes elevated which is known as hypercapnia, carbon dioxide diffuses into the cerebrospinal fluid where it reacts with water in a reaction catalyzed by the enzyme carbonic anhydrase to form carbonic acid then carbonic acid releases hydrogen ions into solution lowering the pH of the cerebrospinal fluid. This decrease in pH is detected by the central chemoreceptors leading to an increased respiratory drive stimulating an increase in respiratory rate and or tidal volume increasing the pulmonary ventilation rate increasing the rate at which carbon dioxide is removed from the blood in order to restore the homeostatic set point of the cerebrospinal fluid pH. In response to low blood carbon dioxide concentration which is known as hypocapnia the pH of the cerebrospinal fluid will increase. The central chemoreceptors will respond to this increased pH by decreasing the respiratory drive leading to a decreased pulmonary ventilation rate in order to restore the homeostatic set point of the cerebrospinal fluid pH. There are also peripheral chemoreceptors located in the aortic arch and the carotid sinus near the location of the bowel receptors that monitor mean arterial pressure by detecting stretching of the large arteries the peripheral chemoreceptors monitor the pH of the arterial blood carbon dioxide concentration and oxygen concentration of the arterial blood while the central chemoreceptors provide the primary mechanism regulating pulmonary ventilation under normal circumstances in an abnormal circumstance such as at high altitude where the partial pressure of oxygen in the atmosphere is lower leading to a decreased rate of oxygen diffusion into the blood a low oxygen concentration of the arterial blood known as hypoxia is detected by the peripheral chemoreceptors receptors in the carotid sinus relay this information in through cranial nerve number nine the glasopharyngeal nerve and chemoreceptors located in the arch of the aorta relay this information in through cranial nerve number ten the vegas nerve this information is relayed into the control centers in the medulla oblongata and leads to an increase in the pulmonary ventilation rate in order to restore the homeostatic set point for the blood oxygen concentration