Good morning, I guess is what I should say right how's it going? It feels like I wasn't talking I was just talking to you guys what not too long ago Our live stream last night ended right at midnight and it is only seven and a half hours later But here we are because we have a brand new Pokemon scarlet and violet trailer dropping at the top of the hour so we are gonna be live reacting to all of that and Watching it probably watching it multiple times Slow go through it discussing things really really really excited, but we do have to kick off this morning With some pretty big news Maybe some of the biggest new maybe even bigger than the trailer This comes from Euro gamer net and Pokemon legend Masuda is leaving series developer game freak Masuda a legendary figure in the creation and development of Pokemon is leaving serious developers green game freak Masuda was one of game freaks founding members and over the years had worked on numerous games in the series Beginning as a programmer and composer for the original Pokemon red and blue the Pokemon Ruby and sapphire Masuda took over as game Director a post he held for numerous other entries such as diamond and pearl black and white x and y and let's go Pikachu and Eevee on other Pokemon projects. He is frequently credited as a producer Composer advisor or supervisor. It's hard to find a Pokemon game that he has not touched Now Masuda is moving on Although he's not entirely leaving the company in a statement today Masuda said he would serve as a chief creative fellow for the Pokemon company and weigh in on issues relating to the overall brand Rather than the games. I would like to express my heartfelt. Thanks to all Pokemon fans. Masuda said in a statement This is a pseudo retirement for him Going forward, I hope to transcend the boundaries of video games by trying to offer greater surprises fun and excitement to people all over the world While doing my utmost to connect to people expand the circle of play and help bring about a richer world for us to share I appreciate your continued support in my new role in recent years The role of director for the Pokemon projects has gone elsewhere and soon it will again with the upcoming Pokemon violet and scarlet So Yeah, Masuda is stepping down from basically Anything related to the games he's he's done. I he's still gonna have some input on the overall brand You know, you think of it more like a sugar on me a moto role if you think about what should be a motor doesn't Nintendo right now as much as he is You know still an amazing and important part of Nintendo. He's not running Mario anymore He's not running Zelda anymore. I could probably not even running Pikmin anymore. He is really stepped down from Running any of the IPs and running the franchises and that's basically what Masuda has done here He has stepped down. He will no longer, you know be part of anything to do with with that stuff Bet time uses his free chat says if you're not a Pokemon fan Then why are there if you're not a Pokemon fan then why are there a new trailer? I'm really confused about that statement if you're not a Pokemon fan Then why are there a new trailer your trailers exist whether you're a fan of something or not? I'm really confused The weird it's a weird statement if you're not a Pokemon fan, then why is there a new trailer? Um Whether you're a fan or something or not doesn't doesn't affect trailers coming out We have a suit up Masuda stepping down. So um That was kind of a bit of a shocker at least to me this morning. Maybe it shouldn't have been You know, if you play close to interviews over the last two years You can kind of tell that he maybe wanted to step down. We did a super chat as well from Logan LaBloch buddy. Yeah, yeah Thank you so much for Logan LaBloch's just finished the OB won Now Nintendo prime time. Yeah, I didn't watch that episode yet. I Like enjoying my series all at once so I watched the first two episodes and then got incredibly disappointed I couldn't watch the next so I don't know if I'm gonna watch Obi-Wan until all six episodes are out Like watch episodes two three four five six until all six episodes are out So it's gonna be a while probably before I actually watch it All right, let's get into some other stuff people say Let me just shout out everyone. Well, I might as well everyone is here today I'm just gonna glance at some comments in the chat All right Your weighty music isn't half bad. Hey, thanks Tom Blance. I try to make it I try to make it pretty good again 20 minutes away from the trailer supposedly dropping You know, if it doesn't drop right on the dot, I can't really do anything about it. This isn't on me Um But yeah, let's see here so the trailer drops at 20 minutes Tharks is I personally don't care at all about Pokemon I used to back in the 90s where others do and I hope the trailers are good and they enjoy them good trailers Let's ask did you did you what what are your thoughts on Arceus thark? Because I was a lot like you but Arceus man Arceus is good Let's see here Where's it airing? Yeah, guys, it's not it's not up yet The trailer is dropping at eight o'clock on the Pokemon channel. It's been advertised by the Pokemon company themselves This isn't like speculation. This isn't a rumor. This literally was posted by the Pokemon company themselves They told us trailers dropping on the official Pokemon channel In 19 minutes All right, um Let's see here Do that. It's awesome. It means you'll have more touch and save a Pokemon without him to do the work Uh, he's more it sounds like his role is less to do with the games More to do with like outside marketing Um Theme parks the show maybe some other stuff I I think he is He's just going into a sugar mea motor role Sugar mea motor ironically also has a creative fellow title. So It's like literally the same role um Let me scroll down here. Oh, we got a five dollar super chat in from And he says I am first and foremost a Nintendo youtuber. Am I not This is the biggest game landing on switch this year. Is it not? I really really enjoyed pokemon legends arceus. Did I not? This is an open world pokemon game. Is it not people question what I'm interested in I I I always I always want why do people try to tell me what I can do on my channel It's it's so weird It's so weird Like I wasn't a big fall guys fan and guess what I did also live stream the fall guys event I don't own a playstation 5 and I'm live streaming the state of play tomorrow.  Come on now Come on now Thanks for the five dollars. I do appreciate it. Um Just reading the chat here a bit here. We got uh Am I gonna live react the sonic frontier reveal today? Probably not I my kids don't have school guys. It's like literally you might even hear them in the background They're literally on the other side of this door over here. Um It's really hard for me to live react to everything right now um So probably not Will I cover it in my video today? I do plan to get a prime news video today. Absolutely But I probably won't get the live reaction today. It's just it almost impossible to do like All these lot back to back to back to back to live streams. I mean there was part of me that thought Hey, let's turn this into a pokemon and sonic live stream. Let's just go from pokemon Let's shoot the ship for a couple hours and then do sonic but It it's just it's just not gonna be possible now Not what my kids told me I got all the responsibilities But uh, I can do this and I can stream for an hour and have some fun And then we'll go from there and we'll include the sonic stuff in our prime news episode Um, let me see here How to play to put my games into og sapphire but archaeus drew me in for 60 plus hours and finishing the pokedex nice um When does pokemon thing start we are 15 minutes away top of the hour top of the hour Nate are you looking forward to xenoblade 3?  It's a responsible gamer dad. Yeah, I got other things I got to do too Um yesterday was kind of weird. I didn't get a single video out yesterday and I did more work for the youtube channel Yesterday than pretty much any day in the last year and all of it was for prime gaming fest Which is for the channel, but none of it is something that really gets published publicly yet So it's it was a really weird day where I actually did a ton of youtube work Just none of it was actually about creating a video Um, it was insane. I'm like even today I have a meeting at noon Um again for prime gaming fest. So like Things are rolling here. Things are rolling. Uh, so I gotta No, sorry. I thought there might have been been a new rumor a new leak thing happening, but no We're really close for 14 minutes away here Uh, so many people are up. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Yeah, that's right Get the eric dab going any bets on the switch will reveal this month. No, no, no, no, no, no, no Me I think I don't think we could just forget about new hardware until maybe next year at the earliest Um, now I want to see Nate live stream and cover something he never would like nascar or wimelton Uh, I don't mind wimelton. I'm I have zero interest in nascar Um So we got kyle 3 n zero three seven saying Hey listening in playing some master mode in breath of the loud Nice man. Enjoy. Enjoy that master mode. Enjoy the master mode Enjoy it well last baby 13 minutes away Dude, I am I am actually kind of curious about pokemon scarlet and violet Uh, I thought the reveal trailer for it was was pretty good Um, I was disappointed that they went back on some of the things that they're doing that they did in legends arceus Uh, at least from what we saw in the trailer and the information we got after it's kind of like, oh Damn it. You're kind of going back on some of the things. I really liked in legends arceus But then there's other things that intrigued me like the fact that you can enter towns from anywhere Kind of like in breath of the wild, you know fully open world you can it's an open world Um, so it's going to be really interesting to see Uh, what ideas they are expanding upon or if this is just literally Pokemon sword and shield in an open world Because that's I don't want it to be that I don't want it to be pokemon sword and shield In an open world I want to see them actually take advantage of the freedom that an open world can give them rather than just making Sword and shield again, but now the world is open, right? So we'll see we'll see what happens Um, don't know enough about it. So Uh, where can I watch the trailer without commentary the pokemon channel? Where can I watch a pokemon trailer without commentary on the official pokemon youtube channel? Uh, let's see here Obi-Wan was nuts non-so-okay Lowy, we're not we're not talking about Obi-Wan. All right, buddy. We're here we're here for pokemon, buddy Okay, I get that you're really really really really hyped about that show. That's not what we're here for this morning.  I'm sure someone on discord will want to talk to you about it um A difficulty picker in this new game would be sick uh, we'll Spragadio stand Found out in today's episode of nintendo prime I'm dude. I'm quacksley quacksley all the way, baby. Come on quacksley Come on. That's my favorite of the starters. Come on quacksley Yeah, I'm so excited remember 10 minutes away Show you guys that show you guys what's up here. We got uh We we got the official, uh channel right here and uh, literally we just go up here and hit refresh and then the Trailer will drop The trailer will drop somewhere in this pokemon new section. There will be a new trailer Top of the hour So let's go let's go um Quacksley evolves in the ducky wucky even if that's the case. I'll take it Uh, how many nintendo switch games do I own? too many to name Not as many as some more than many New eb form dragon or poison blah blah blah lots of lots of stuff can be unveiled today My favorite games are sword and shield and arceus dude.  I like them I like his first form anyways. Maybe I don't like his final form, but I like his first form So I'll take it Let's see here I'm really I'm kind of nervous. I'm afraid that this trailer is going to end up disappointing me But Hey, you can't say I'm not hyping responsibly right my skepticism is on high alert But maybe this trailer is about to be a banger Maybe this trailer is about to be one of the biggest bangers we have seen today We are eight minutes away From the brand new trailer for pokemon scarlet and violet in fact, let's go watch the reveal trailer together Let's let's watch the reveal trailer together But right before the new trailer just to refresh ourselves, right? On the reveal before we get to the new trailer in eight minutes Let's refresh ourselves with the reveal and then get to the new trailer. Let's do this Reveal trailer To the new I haven't seen the reveal trailer since the day it came out I loved how they went into this with this whole live action segment I thought it was pretty cool pretty clever when they revealed it. No football gamer seven minutes away We're just rewatching the the reveal trailer Seven minutes away six minutes now six minutes away from the new trailer We're just rewatching the reveal and here's the original reveal A scarlet and violet new trailer drops in five guys only new charizard forms. Let's see Yeah, charizard My favorite pokemon you get the release date like the exact Having pretty cool. All right, so that that was the the original reveal trailer, which uh, not as shocking to me You know Now because I've seen it, you know a bunch but uh Or we're right here on this pokemon page waiting for this trailer to drop guys four minutes should be dropped in four minutes according to the pokemon company All right, uh the story's good. We need more games of memorable characters like sun and moon omega ruby alpha sulfur That's according to tyler writes They made it look a detective Pikachu. Yeah, I remember when when they were dropping this I really got detective Pikachu vibes and I was like, man, are we getting a new detective Pikachu even though I like Okay, they kind of tease like it's going to be a new gem, but Detective Pikachu And then bam they drop open world pokemon and you're like, okay We're just doing this now. We're just going open world. All right That's cool What's up animations animations to be like release date and demo Yeah, it'd be neat if they were going to drop a dent. I don't think they will You guys you guys said they're going to put a demo for this game out. They have done demos for pokemon games before You do you think they'll they'll make a demo For scarlet and violet. I don't know man. I feel like this is the game. They're not going to do that with We're three minutes away Three minutes away from my dropping See, I just get this feeling. We're not going to get a demo, but you know I'll take one They they they offer I'll take it What's up jewel daddy? Good morning. Good morning to everyone today Pretty cool that we get to start our day with some poko.  I got a meeting after the sonic news drops. I have a meeting Um for prime gaming fest Meetings for prime gaming fest.  Yeah an actual phone call meeting for prime gaming fest More stuff coming in equipment coming in This morning. Um, well until it ships. I guess I don't I don't want to get too crazy yet, but we have uh, we Have rented some equipment For prime gaming fest as well so Plus we wanted to test this equipment anyways before we make a purchasing decision down the line Because it's really expensive um Do you think we would have Uh make our pokeballs, uh, do you think that we would have to make our pokeballs and scuttle them by that? Like what we did in legends irkies. I don't know man. I don't know Caleb What was the last pokemon demo? um I'm gonna look quick It was on 3ds. I think Let's see here. Um Let me see Diamond and pearl had a demo Omega ruby elf at software had a demo Sun and moon had a demo So that might have been the last one sun and moon maybe So yeah a lot a majority of pokemon games don't get demos. So Uh, it's definitely not something to expect. I would not expect a demo, but could be or a minute away Do a little refresh here trailer up it trailer up it No, it's not. All right. We're waiting. We're waiting. It's technically not time yet. Give it a moment Could take up to a couple minutes for it to load. Yeah, I mean some of the pokemon side games Maybe have some demos. I don't remember but some of the mainline games. I did have demos It just wasn't it just wasn't uh Very many of them You know about a handful Morning, man, you know anything about sonic frontiers. Uh, it's related to breath of the wild nothing man supposedly something's dropping soon Uh like 11. I think today 11 o'clock a uh central time. There's supposed to be some news on sonic frontiers all right, um We're going we're refreshing we hit eight, but I'm not seeing the trailer They said they were dropping it right here on their on their youtube channel just kind of Refreshing as as we go here And we'll go to videos instead of There there it is. There it is. There it is. All right. All right Uh, what's the difference here? We got uh Did they just upload it twice? Oh, there's a wait. Oh, what's the uk trailer? Okay, ready guys? Here we go two factions Two It's looking crisp Looking crisp I can the texture on the clothes Oh, she would be noisy The power of science These character models are looking better than ever Can you play with that? Oh, they're just showing off All the trades are gonna work now this guy's like holy crotch gameplay footage or not. That's jet engines, baby Here we go Dragon sport do those dragons look badass Okay, those look badass those look badass And the cover art. Yeah, that's some badass cover art too November 18th. There it is folks November 18th Pre-order digitally right now What do we got? What do we got? They didn't end with the date. Oh, okay. They did end with the date. All right.  No, no, no Something I wanted I want to highlight here. Ah dang it Hold on. Don't keep going Okay, so remember how much fun people made of pokemon What was it the last of the sword and shield for how bad the trees looked I'm sorry, but uh I'm seeing massive quality of life improvements to the visuals in this game Massive quality of life improvements to the visuals different types of trees from palm trees The that all these trees actually look like real trees And this is like off in the distance draw distance Look at this. Look at this sky cam view. Look at the trees. Look at that. I'm sorry. This this is great This actually looks visually pleasing This looks visually pleasing It's not like the greatest visuals I've ever seen but this looks Like potentially the best visual Looking pokemon game to date I mean you got you got a world a world shot there. It looks pretty decent Pretty decent I would see some some poppin will be happening I mean these character models are looking better than ever Pokemon looking crisp This is looking good, man You're looking good I mean look at that. Look at all the grass that that last shot had a really beautiful looking shot of the grass I really liked it You can hear you can see some of it. I mean look at that. I like the way this grass is looking while you're running I like that. I like it's a very pokemon style grass. I like that I mean this is looking crisp Are they using FSR? So this is just an example of creative characters They're like different types of creative characters that they made Because you know you'll have you'll have customization for characters and they're showing different zones as well here So you got the wintry area. You got the grassy area.  That's a different type of tree back there I'm liking this and they're sneaking. Look, they're sneaking up. I like this Snuck up on the pokemon And I'm curious did it go from sneak up to throwing the pokeball like in legends arceus I know they showed that you can battle the pokemon But if you sneak up on them, can you throw pokeballs? instead of uh Having to battle them. I'm very curious if they're going to carry something over from arceus like There's not gonna be a national dex michael bruce people. They just stop talking about national dex.  I'm liking it I'm liking it I am curious what this is. Oh, wait. Wait. Is that that's like a wait. Wait. That's like a mini So I think you can heal your pokemon. This is like a pop-up shop It's a pop-up shop So it's like a poke-a-mart poke-a-center And something else maybe trading all in one That's really neat. So they got these little pop-up shops. That's cool And is this like I want to know is this multiplayer? This gives me a multiplayer vibe like two creative characters talking to each other. I could be wrong But that that that's the vibe I'm getting here Again, you don't know Trading characters, yeah Oh, dude That looks badass All right, sorry This this looks awesome. Uh, the snowflake pokemon. Hell. Yeah, I don't know what's called. That's pretty cool Some gag guy I don't know idea what that is some sort of pokemon league or gyms or something Dude dude This looks good The question is what additional information has dropped since Like it legitimately looks like there might be multiplayer Maybe maybe i'm wrong on that Is it is there multiplayer? Has it been confirmed? The science dude That's four player god He's like badass Dude those legendaries are badass.  Let me read the text more carefully This time around i'm gonna pause and read the text. I didn't read the text at all This is looking so good. Yeah, professor. Okay, professor. Yep I'm gonna pause it. There's one of the texts mentioned multiplayer.  Oh legends arceus They couldn't possibly have a revolutionary gen 9 stuff happening and boom You head around adventures together Notably, it doesn't say if you connect online with friends So I hope it's not just local play But either way local or online It's gotta be online though, right? They can't ignore the fact that people are gonna want to do it online, right? I mean, maybe they're ignoring it, but dude, that's cool Four players at a time someone said you could ride the legendaries Chad Clark Chad Clark 63089 we've already watched the trailer through twice If you want to watch it without my commentary go watch it. It's on the official pokemon youtube channel No need to be rude to me because i'm commentating On the footage after we've already watched it twice Come on now Come on now All right, that's literally the point of the stream is for me to react to it and commentate All right Um, so this is cool. This is cool local or online. I'm not sure but you either way you can play with friends. That's awesome See there's any other detail. Oh, yep. This is an example of playing with friends. Okay Okay, that's an example of playing with friends right there. That's what I was trying to represent Same with this playing with friends. Cool It is buddy Look the official pokemon youtube channel click on videos. It's right here. It's right here All right here right now They have a uk version up as well, but It's probably just they look like they're both three minutes and seven seconds. So they're going to be exactly the same It's up on the official pokemon, right? I appreciate you being here though It just felt like a very rude comment to make after we've already watched it through 15 minutes ago It's good It looks so good So apparently we can apparently we can ride the legendary someone said They're usually as additional information And it releases november 18 And the legendaries i'm not even like the biggest pokemon guy in this this looks so good. I have no criticism right now None I have zero criticisms And you guys know what we'll be talking about this Tonight on the nintendo prime podcast.  So I hope you guys turn in for what's gonna be a banger episode tonight at 8 p.m Central time That's so cool What are you guys's thoughts? What are your guys's thoughts? pokemon legends Arceus compared to This Because this is the evolutionary step right we go from sun and moon to archies to scarlet and violet And I loved Arceus legends archies great This is looking good guys This feels so good if they nail the characters In game and what they are about it will probably surpass sun and moon for you nice, man Name for the two legendary pokemon are on the official site as well Okay, uh, let's go let's go to the official website. I was at pokemon.com. All right, let's uh, let's look at this together Let's look at this together Um, let's see here new pokemon to discover it's exposed. Yeah, let's let's let's let's dive into this official website here um New pokemon to discover Okay Sure, let's learn more quick There they are There's the names.  You can meet in pokemon scarlet miradon is a legendary pokemon You can meet pokemon by these two pokemon are said to have powers that far surpass those of other pokemon But details about coradon and miradon remain shrouded in mystery awesome Um Other new oh cool. We can look at some other new pokemon. Oh, can we look at evolutions? They have evolutions yet for these No, no, they don't they don't have evolutions. Okay um Other other point may I paw me? Uh, le chunk. Yes, dude. I love the name le chunk Le chunk and small live You know olive small live. I get it le chunk hog pokemon type normal Agoramon with an excellent nose timid and faint hearted but also strong That's cool. Or about paw me Electric nice Oh, so cute Uh, small live. Let's see uh grass type Fine without eating or drinking oil so bitter And astringent it will make you flinch What is going on? Okay, okay Okay, got you new pokemon. That's cool cool. Oh, what else we got? um The world of pokemon has evolved. Let's check this out World of pokemon um Violet game I'm gonna see carlin violet the newest chapter of the pokemon series are coming to tunnel switcher leaders year The new titles of pokemon mainstream are taking a new evolutionary step allowing you to explore freely in a richly expressed open world All right Dude, I mean Attention to detail the visuals man This is obviously like a uh gym or uh some sort of battle area These are mostly like stills from the uh the trailer So the world pokemon is about pokemon surround violet offer an open world experience that only pokemon series can deliver One welcoming even to newcomers to the series You can experience a new style of adventure with a world that you're free to explore your leisure and not in An order dictated by the story you will of course journey to hone your skills as a pokemon trainer But many more discoveries and stories away you mean a variety of people in pokemon adventure in the world of pokemon okay yeah A deeper experience of multiplayer gameplay pokemon scarlet and violet allow multiplayer gameplay with up to four players along um Along with series staples such as trading and battling pokemon You will be able to explore the various locations of the region in these games with other players You can discover new pokemon and explore unfamiliar areas with your friends and family Opening the door to an adventure more precious and fun than ever like dude Dude Dude That's awesome That is so awesome Okay, um, sure meet the characters one out Main characters is one of the main characters you set off on your adventure Your outfit will vary depending on whether you play pokemon scholar violet. Who knows what kind of story awaits you? Okay Two different professors Uh for the first time in the series one of two different professors will appear in your game depending on which version you play Uh in pokemon scarlet you meet professor sada and pokemon violet. You meet professor toro Each carrying out research into certain lore passed down in the region Uh Nimona a powerful pokemon trainer your friend namona has a sunny and energetic disposition and she absolutely loves pokemon battles She's an experienced pokemon trainer and serves a reliable guide for you on your adventure She has undisputed skill in battle though it does also seem that she's not the best at throwing pokemon That's cool That that's it for new information. I think on the official website I don't know where someone said you could ride the legendaries um But Dude that's that's that's pretty sweet So I think we've checked out everything on the official website. Is there anywhere else that we should look? I mean there are factually two different professors. You just get a different professor depending on which game you play They both technically exist They're just not in both games Is there anywhere else that we should be looking for information right now that might have dropped? Besides the official website and obviously the trailer is there anywhere else that we could find additional information Anything else thrown out there in an official capacity not just like speculation um Look at the professors and legendaries the game will be different um One in the past and one in the future maybe I mean you do see kind of like a more primitive sort of Look here compared to this one being a more like modernized actually this guy wearing like a Let's say he's he's supposed to go swim in the ocean man. He's got a wetsuit on Little literally looks like he's wearing a wetsuit. You can't tell me that this isn't a wetsuit The wetsuit with the with the doctor's trench coat on um Hope all pokemon have a different way to throw your pokeball like you can in sun and moon Uh at the end of the video with a date. I believe it said digital pre-orders. Yeah. Yeah digital pre-orders are alive digital pre-orders alive Pre-orders in general are going to be up today now that we have a date All pre-orders are going to be up leaks hinted at one being Uh at one being in the past and one being in the future could be true. I don't know. Yeah Like there's there's nothing that definitively states that that's the way it is Like she could just be really a really eclectic type, you know, this is just her style what she prefers It might not necessarily be that way. So I I don't think the differences are going to be that that staunch between the two versions But who knows I have no idea I'm not basing my thoughts on this game based on rumors I'm basing it on the official information and the trailers available two of them now Uh the game was great um Then the legendaries are thunder gods since that's what uh rate on translates to in japanese Yeah, we'll see We'll see Pokemon spaceman vs pokemon cave woman. Yeah, these are just the legendaries. We're electric dragon and fighting dragon. Yeah Yeah, the so far the leaks, um that we have seen Uh, we literally covered some of them yesterday uh or last night on on live stream Um look like most of those leaks are probably true Um, that doesn't mean every leak that exists for pokemon is true, of course just some of the ones that we went over last night Uh, if you go to the pre-order tab, you can see the official art for the double pack for the double pack Sure, let's go look at the double pack I haven't looked at the double packet. We've seen the box art for individual Um, so we've seen this You know by the way really like the box art Really, I mean it was clearly going to be red red and purple, right? But uh, maybe it's just the design of the legendaries combined with the uh This little art they have put around the this box. I I don't really know why but this just works for me Like this just works for me I really like that box art Um, and the double pack art Okay I mean it it's what you expect, you know smashing the two box arts together basically That's exactly what they did looking at this and looking at this. They just smashed the two box arts together There you go. That's what the double pack looks like Yeah, that's that's about that's what what I expected um I wonder if multiplayer works across both copies. I would assume it would that that would be really stupid if multiplayer didn't work across both copies Um, this is looking like the same story with same locations per game or could it be one based on the past one based on the future I know not like the apahaku would it be? Yeah, people keep talking about that past future thing because it was a rumor and then you saw Um One of the professors looking kind of like caveman like you can see it down here Um, and in one looking more futuristic I I honestly think that there's I don't think there's going to be a a past and future difference between the games Um, I think that that would be too staunch of a difference Then you're basically making two different games that take place in the same world Uh, which is fine, but they've never done that they've never gone so far as to make two different games Um like that so I don't I don't think they're going to start doing that now There will be differences between the versions, but in general the main the the brux of the story Um, how the world works a lot of the stuff's just going to be the same Uh, which is fine And when you have multiplayer that even that that kind of even nixes it even more so to me I don't think multiplayer is going to be only scarlet red people and you know Can can can play with each other, you know The other people need to play with it.  I think this is just her style Um To hear uh, but again, I I don't know. I didn't make the damn games. So how the hell I know I'm just speculating um Yes, the time open the legends and legends was a standalone game If they do touch on the past future thing it would be more due to the spanish revolution where they wanted to get rid of the royals Uh, the buildings of the banners look to be the same building too. Yeah. Yeah We can go by and look in glance in glance of that trailer again. Uh, wait, no, they had a screenshot of it here. I think um Where's under learn more? There was a No, no under learn more. Where was I looking? Oh this one Yeah, like the building looks exactly the same here, right You know The window like it's definitely like a past future. It's just different banners here. So yeah, I I don't think there's a past and future aspect here at all But you know, as I said, I I could be wrong on this. I'm just basing this on no other pokemon games really done it Yeah, archaeus, you know, when you went back to the past standalone game I'm talking about where you have a duality release and they're Fundamentally completely different like that like that just never happened and I don't think that's starting now Uh, the buildings of the banners look to be same feels more like the duality of this gen Uh, just jump to the left to play with your friends in the past Yeah, I I honestly don't think that's gonna be a mechanic could be but I don't think so I mean, you're seeing both versions of the game right here in the screenshot and like That does not look like Anything different than everything else was treated as if it's the same. So um I'm sad they didn't keep the archaeus gameplay. There there was one moment where the where you were sneaking And then it went from sneaking to throwing a pokeball I don't know if they that was just a clever cut and they're trying to make you think you can do Some of the legends archaeus stuff um Because we haven't seen it Officially, you know where you could sneak up and throw a pokeball without battling the pokemon I would like to see them include that mechanic even if it's gonna fail A lot of the time It would be cool if they would at least let you sneak and throw and then once it fails start the battle I I can understand anytime you bump into the pokemon start a battle. Fine um But it would be cool if they kept the whole sneaking and throwing mechanic even if it's going to fail a lot of the time um I I would like to see that stay and they sort of made a clever cut that made it look like it could be in but I think it was the the way they cut the footage that they they knew what they were doing They cut it to to maybe make you think that doesn't mean it's gonna happen All right, it definitely doesn't look like the legends archaeus style of uh, it is in this game um Let's see here All right, so I think that's it. I think we're good I don't think there's any other official information. Anyways right now for us to go over Um, but yeah, that's really cool. Well, we'll mention this again briefly and prime news Just briefly because we we already did a video here and we're gonna talk about in the podcast tonight Stay tuned for prime news later today. We'll be rat. We'll be talking about The sonic frontier stuff 8 p.m central time tonight. We have our um live stream for our nintendo prime podcast episode 53 It's gonna be really great nintendo academy eric more is going to be here It's gonna be a lot of fun. We're gonna be talking about the pokemon stuff We're gonna be talking about uh sonic and more. I don't want to get spoiled all the topics Uh sonic frontiers should be landing in about two and a half hours There should be something for sonic frontiers out there. I have no idea what it's coming from ign first So we'll just have to wait and see So thank you guys for tuning in. I had a blast. I hope you did too Uh, is this the trailer all for this where there was a pokemon presents schedule today? No, there is not There's no pokemon presents today Nope, this this was this was the big thing today for pokemon. This was it the trailer drop was it That's what we were looking forward to. All right guys. Catch you later. Peace out


Ac rwy'n rhoi'n bod yn cyffredinol i chi i'w'r craffai yma yn y Maes Cymru, yr MOREC yn cymryd yn ddiolch ar y pryd yn ymddangos yn ymdweithio, rydyn ni'n gydigwyd yma yma iawn gwnaeth gwahanol ar gyfer hwn. ymddangos eich chyfnod yn dweud y llwyffau o'r llwyffau o'r llwyffau yma. Rydyn ni'n rhoi unrhyw rydyn ni'n roi gweithio cael y cyffredinol, ac yn pethau i'r mynd i ddweud yng ngurol yn yr unrhyw fagodig yn gwahanol. Dwi'n gydag o'n rhoi'r dda strig, mae'n ddiddordeb am y cyfrân yn ddiddorol. Be'r rhanau 16. Dwi'n g renewed, o'n ddiddorol, y cyfrannu neb yn cael yn llwydon i'r Rhian, sy'n gweithio, byddwch i ddiddorol, byddwch i'r ffrân honno, rwy'n ddiddorol i ddiddorol. Fy o'r gwn, rydych chi'n ffordd y gwahanol wedi'u cyfrannu. Fe'i gweithio sy'n gweithio fe ffordd o'n llwydon i'r rhian i', ydych chi'n gweithio lle hwnnw'n ei blynyddu, a'i fyddwch yn gofyniaeth yn cyffredinol. A o ddim hynny, mae'n gofynio'n gweithio i'r ddau'r ddechrau, mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gwahanol yno i'r amlwg. Rwy'n gweithio'n cwmwysig. Mae'n gweithio'n gymhreffol yn dwylo'r pethau. Mae'r gweithio'n gwahanol sy'n gofynion â'r gweithio. I'm not sure I can change it all that you know. It doesn't sound too bad either. So let me put that into perspective for a minute.  That can't be fair can it? So before we go any further let me introduce you to the new stealth iron from Taylor Mae which I reckon could be their surprise package in this whole stealth range. It's really surprised me on a number of different levels, but like I said you take a look at it and tell me what you think of it first. So you've taken a look at the iron and you can draw your own conclusions in terms of visuals, but for me I certainly think that you're always by with your eyes first of all, you're drawn to a club. Now as I've just explained, if you're in that super game improvement category then you're often looking at big clumbosome bulky products. Now what they've done with the stealth it is got a little bit of mass around it and it's got that kind of mass and bulk that's going to give you the confidence that you're going to want at that level. But it's not been overdone, it doesn't seem oversized and if it is then they've certainly done a very clever way of disguising that if you like in terms of the colouring. The backside of it looks to me in terms of shelf appeal, one of the best looking if not the best looking super game improvement out there. Monochrome and it's finished all kind of stripped back in terms of the decals, in terms of the lettering, very much in the kind of players profile if you like visually. And I think for me many of us golfers shy away from putting this kind of iron in the bag in the past because of the way it looks. Well I think you'd be pretty proud to have them in your bag. But not only the way it looks clearly these things have got to perform. I'm going to show you next a very short video explaining what technology is packed into the irons and I think this is pretty impressive as well. Now for the loft police amongst you then yes you are going to be offended because this is as you'd expect strongly lofted iron, seven iron at a shocking 28 degrees. Yes start in the comments now and get offended by it. It doesn't bother me the loft thing.  It doesn't bother me.  What loft is on it and how it gets from A to B is irrelevant to me. If people play with golfers who sort of want to brag because they use the seven iron but it's 28 degrees and yours is 34 degrees then well don't play golf with them anymore. The point is people golfers rather, average golfers, they need a bit of help. This package of 28 degrees with a CG placed in the position that it is due to what we talked about earlier. This ball launches into orbit. It doesn't travel necessarily the distances it should do in theory because it's 28 degrees. My average carry on this is around sort of 170. My 32 degree iron at seven iron if that's what you want to call like currently game is probably around 163, 164. So the yardage compared to loft is irrelevant to me. The point is this club gets from A to B in a certain way and it launches the ball incredibly high. In terms of sound and feel, I was a big fan of the Sim 2 last year in terms of what they do because yet again you've seen in the video if you watched it carefully, forged like feel. No, I don't agree with that. This isn't forged like feel but what they've done yet again is made a super game improvement iron feel really good, sound really good. So again, it does all the things that you want to do or what you'd expect to get out of a player's iron into a game improvement iron. But the other difference is this. I'm going to put these two visuals up for you now. I've got alongside this club. I'll make sure it's a yes. I thought it was a max then. It looks that much bigger. This is the Sim 2 from last year from TaylorMade and if you look at the overall profile, not just the top line looks incredibly narrower if you like, but also that heel to toe distance overall profile of the club has been made much more compact. So yet again, all this focus is around for me is just making a far more appealing iron for the masses, those average golfers, those 16 handicappers that are out there. If you want a game improvement club in your bag, you've now got the opportunity to put something in there that sounds good, looks incredibly good and you're proud to have it in your bag. Right, on to dry ball data, but there is no dry ball data and there's a reason for that and it's because it tells us exactly what we'd expect to see. I'll have it a few shots in here on the simulator into this par 3 and you'll see from those that the carry was what I was suggesting only with 7-iron that is 170-ish carry plus spin number very reasonable for the type of strength of loft of iron. But the big thing with this is it's not about spin and it's not about carry, it's about whether or not you're going to stop on a green, it's down to launch and descent angle and they're the big things. You can see these things are coming down with snow on them quite literally and again, I can't sort of keep on driving on the same thing. It's not something that concerns me in terms of spin on these type of irons when they're launching and the descent angle is as steep as it is. These are going to hold greens, you're not going to worry about that. And yet again, to be honest with you, when you're looking for these type of irons, this is the category that you put yourself in. It's the least of your worries about holding a green. It's how you get there is the problem and these will certainly help. Well, a summary is going to be a fairly quick one because I've pretty much said everything in the review so far of what I think of these irons. But I said in the title of the video, forget the stealth driver. And well, again, bit tongue and cheek, not necessarily forget the driver, but there are other products within this range, which I think are really, really special. And the first one we've come to is the irons. As I've stated, I just think they really appeal to a broad section of golfers. And I don't care what level you play at, these could appeal to a fairly low handicapper and a high handicapper. But the big deal for me is they perform incredibly well, but then look really good as well. So they're not the kind of look that you generally have associated to this type of iron. So for me, a massive thumbs up to TaylorMade in creating something that's really appealing on the eye that is available to those higher handicap golfers, something that we're not used to getting. More importantly, like I said in all these videos, that's only my opinion. What do you think of the stealth irons? Are they as good looking as I'm making out or is it just something that appeals to me on a personal note? As ever, comments down below. Let me know your thoughts. And if you're looking for irons this year, are these going to be on your list? Right. Thanks as ever for watching. I'll see it all very soon in the review itself. I said in the title of this video that the kind of... What was I saying on the video? Forget the self-driver. Forget the self-driver.


Good morning. The Department of Joint Warfare Studies welcomed you to today's lecture. It is my pleasure to introduce today's guest speaker, Lieutenant General Allen Peck, United States Air Force, retired. Currently, General Peck is serving as the Director of the Air Force Research Institute here at Maxwell Air Force Base. AFRI is charged with conducting objective research, outreach, and education to enhance the effectiveness of air power and support of national security. Focused on dissemination of professional ideas, AFRI publishes the Air and Space Power Journal, which is currently published in four languages, and the strategic studies quarterly. AFRI also oversees 125 officers selected to serve as Air Force fellows at leading universities, think tanks, laboratories, major defense corporations, and key Pentagon offices. General Peck retired from the United States Air Force in 2011 after 36 years of distinguished service. In his last active duty position, he was the commander of Air University. General Peck earned his commission upon graduation from the U.S. Air Force Academy. After completing graduate pilot training as a distinguished graduate, he went on to become an F-15 aircraft commander, instructor pilot, and standardization and evaluation flight examiner. General Peck completed two tours on the Air Staff at the Pentagon and a joint assignment as Chief of Current Operation at U.S. Central Command, the General Commanded and Air Operations Group in Germany, an Air Expeditionary Wing in Saudi Arabia, and the Air and Space Expeditionary Force Center in Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. General Peck was a key planner for NATO's Kosovo Air Operation and served in the Vicenza Combined Air Operations Center as the Chief of Combat Plans during the subsequent campaign. He also served with the commander of Air Force Forces at the U.S. CENTCOM Combined Air Operations Center during Operation Iraqi Freedom, major combat operations. During his subsequent tour as Deputy Combined Force Air Component Commander, he oversaw planning, tasking, execution, and assessment of coalition operations for operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. The General was a command pilot with over 2,700 hours in the air-to-air and air-to-ground variants of the F-15, including more than 300 combat hours. On top of that, he was mentioning that I shouldn't say that he was a distinguished graduate at certain places, but honest to God, he was a distinguished graduate everywhere he went. Stop. Thanks, boss. Appreciate it. Hey, gang. I think it's traditional for folks to say they're happy to be here because they're out of the Pentagon. For me, I'm a cheap date. I walked over. Thank you for the opportunity to give a shameless plug for our literature, by the way. The Strategic Studies Quarterly and Air and Space Power Journal, which are available online. But I strolled over here today, and it got me out of a staff meeting, so I am truly happy to be here today and talk about something that's of keen interest to me, and that is command and control of air power. Let's see if I can get this thing to work here. Here we go. These are the things I was asked to talk about, some CFAC and ComF4 things, and then future trends. And I'll leave some time at the end for some questions. Pause was kind enough to go through some of the background. I got some tactical experience and some more strategic experience. Right in the middle there is some time I spent in Combined Air Operations Center at the operational level of war learning from some of the masters. In 1998, NATO had not authorized planning for the Coastal Operations, so the U.S., the United States, with a couple of allies, got together on our own, essentially, and started the planning in 1998. And those eventually became conno plans for what was Allied Force, and I was part and parcel to that effort. Had a great team there. Went down to the kayak for the 79-day operation, and involved in, as you see there, the GATT. Doesn't mention the master air attack planning, airspace, information warfare, ATO production, over at PSAB, and then at AUD for a year as well. So here's some home movies. Up in the upper left-hand corner is Mike Short. I had a chance to work with General Short. He was the C-FAC for Allied Force. We're kind of smiling in that picture, but it was shortly after. Every morning we'd come in and we'd have a gathering, the C-5 and the C-3 would get together and talk about what happened overnight, what we're doing that day. And General Short's hard to get comfortable with, but after a little while I started feeling comfortable, and this picture was taken right after he caught me pilfering one of his bananas from his little breakfast tray. And he went apoplectic on that and said, Peck, what are you doing? Later on we took a picture. But I actually mentioned to him, I said, I'm going to go over to ACSC and they've given me an hour to tell him everything I know about command and control of air. And he said, hey, that's great, Peck. What are you going to do the other 55 minutes? Here we are in the lower right is Dutch Holland, Randy Gellwicks, General Short and myself. This is in June of 1999 after Milosevic had given up. And so we were having a little piece of cake and a beer in the courtyard. And not long after this picture was taken, General Short gets a call. And one of the guys came to run out and says, General Clark's on the phone, General Clark's on the phone. So General Short goes back in and it's Wesley Clark on the phone. I'm figuring he's going in to say, hey, congratulations, you know, great job. Instead he yells at General Short and says, Mike, they're telling us that you only killed 10 tanks in the whole air operation. What's up with that? And so Short says, well, I guess it was enough. Well, that was the wrong answer. And as many of you know, that started the Air Force on an entire episode of trying to find technologies that would discover tanks under trees and all kinds of other things. We can get into more detail on some of that. But in the end, it achieved the desired effect. But the fact is that, you know, with the MUP and the VJ, who were the folks who were harassing the coast of our Albanians, their primary goal was to hide and survive. And you can do that without ground forces in there to help root them out, without folks on the ground to give the intel. It was a pretty tough task to actually go out and attrit the forces that were doing the evil. General Buchanan had a chance to work for him, General North. I'm going to talk a little bit about the difference between being a CFAC and being a ComF4, but it sort of sums up here. Here's the CFAC job. I'm giving tours of the Kayak at Al-Yadid to Bush 41. And then inspecting logistics. This is ComF4 duties, the mother of all bombs. So let me talk a little bit about this. Part of the desired learning objectives here were to do a quick review of doctrine. So those are the documents. Here's your pop quiz about doctrine. Service and joint doctrine is authoritative, directive, is it policy? Any guesses? D is probably the most common one that we find out there is that, you know, whenever you're charged with an operation, the first thought is let's take a blank sheet of paper, this has never happened before, and start drawing wiring diagrams and figuring it out. In fact, doctrine captures best practices and lessons learned, but it is not directive. It's authoritative. So it's a place to start and deviate from. And that's the main lesson on that. I was told you'd already had plenty of doctrine, so this is your doctrine review. Any questions? Command relations? Good. We got that done. So I realize this is going to be somewhat U.S. centric here, but I'm going to talk a little bit about the relationship between a commander of Air Force Forces and a Joint Force Air Component Commander. The service component, you will, from an Air Force perspective, from a service perspective, you will have a commander of Air Force Forces, and this is how we will tend to organize with an Air Staff, and you will have an AOC, even if you're not designated as a JFAC or a CFAC, you'll need an AOC to do your OPCON responsibilities and control your forces, and we typically will deploy with Air Expeditionary Wings and Groups. It is customary based on the preponderance of force and the ability to do command and control that the component that has those capabilities will also be the functional component, and that's the, in this case, would be a JFAC or a CFAC, and your AOC will become a Joint or Combined Air Operations Center with a staff, and you'll have allocated forces, TACON, and these are the service of the U.S. forces, but will also include forces from coalition members, so that's kind of the basic construct, and again, that's pretty basic. Why does all this matter? I mean, who cares? In fact, I would say the Air Component is probably more anal, if you will, about this than other services that tend to mix the two together, and part of that has to do with the makeup of our forces, which tend to be, as opposed to, in separate areas geographically, we will mix together tankers from multiple countries, fighters from multiple services in multiple countries, and the staffs will also be mixed together. So, many of you remember the story of Marcus Latrell. There were four SEALs in Afghanistan who got compromised, and this was not long after I'd showed up at the KOC in 2005, and a rescue force was sent in, two CH-47s went in, one of them got shot down and had 16 on board, and they were killed, and in the process, they were trying to recover the four SEALs who'd been compromised and then were isolated, and in the process, we had some ISR assets overhead. One of them was a predator, and we had video of what was going on to try to orchestrate, and it was a pretty chaotic scene. So, as sometimes happened, the weather started closing in, and the folks who owned the predator said, we're going to exceed our tech order limits. We have to bring the aircraft home, and the decision was made, no, this is more important because the nature of the mission, you've got to stay on station in spite of the fact that it violates your service minimums, and that was the right decision, and in fact, when it started to go home, it iced up and crashed, and that's a risky take. The problem was that the decision was not made by somebody who had operational patrol, it was made by the RAF Air Commodore who was at the KOC at the time, because I was on my way back in and hadn't gotten there before that decision was made, and nobody questioned whether the decision was made, it was just who had the authority to make that decision. That was, the KOC had TACON, not OPCON, and TACON doesn't give the authority to exceed the limit, so we had to develop a process, and in this case, it's a predator, and there's no funerals for predators, and that's a good part of it, but if it had been an EA-6, if it had been another aircraft, a C-130, and you did that, then it becomes more problematic, because you need someone with the authority and the understanding of what you're actually doing when you're violating service minimums such as altitudes, fuel requirements, crew duty days, and those kind of things, so that's why it's important that you understand the distinction, so those kind of decisions are made at the right level. By the right folks, and after that, we establish a process, typically the special operators would come in, and they'd need a predator to stay on station in spite of the weather, and we would assemble the right folks, including those who own the predator, the weather folks, the special operators, and the representative of the OPCON authority, which was Centaf, and would say, okay, you stay on station and violate, and that way the risk is placed in the right place. So you have two staffs to help you, kind of an eye chart, but basically shows you, and there's a lot of things that go on, but some of these responsibilities, you know, these are administrative responsibilities, and the commander of Air Force Forces accomplishes those, and these are joint responsibilities, and those are the responsibilities of the JFAC, and you have staffs that help you do these things, and typically this will be a joint and combined staff. So here's some of the challenges, and I've narrowed these down, but to me, as I would walk into any combined air operations center, whether it was Vachenza, or at Princeton, or at AUD, or anywhere else, I mean, it's a... the orchestration of air operations is something we take for granted. It is just, to me, still mind-boggling, even though I understand all the details of how it works, to me it's an amazing process, it frankly is underappreciated, and how many of you have served in a kayak? Excellent. So you all understand what I'm talking about, is how that all comes together and works, to me is absolutely amazing. So here are some of the things that I think are important in terms of the key challenges. One of them, you've got to master these responsibilities, and I've got two charts here. One's the ComF4, these are the responsibilities of the commander of Air Force Forces, which are typically the responsibilities of any of the service component commanders, whether it's the R4, the Nav4, the Mar4, would have these responsibilities to include the administration and discipline, force protection. I can't tell you how many times this was mixed up by the higher-headquarter staff who would say, a task would come down and say, CFAC, establish force protection here, or send these munitions over here. Well, that's not a CFAC responsibility. Those are commander of Air Force Forces responsibilities. These are what CFACs do. Recommend courses of action, strategy, ROE, Air Apportionment. Typically, and not always, and by the way, you don't have to establish a CFAC, but it is, again, become fairly accepted after the first Gulf War. Typically, at the beginning stages, the CFAC will be, as it was in, for example, Iraqi freedom. The air component commander will be the supported commander for counter air, for strategic attack, overall air interdiction, most space control, and ISR, and will be the support team commander for close air support, AI that's behind the fissile or within the other components, AOs, and maritime support, and will act as airspace control authority, area defense commander, and space coordinating authority, if designated, and then the personnel recovery and CSAR operation. So that's a lot on the plate for the CFAC. So then you get these big old staffs to make this happen, doing all these things on the blue side, all these things on the purple side. In some cases, for small operation, you could probably combine these staffs. We did that, for example, when we sent humanitarian aid down to Mozambique in 1999 after a big flood. So a couple of folks with a laptop, if you're doing a couple C-130s, can do this. In a major operation where you've got, we may have, I think, in some case, we had 300 airlift sorties a day. You've got maybe 1,000 sorties of kinetic sorties of air to air and air to ground and so forth. You need a big staff with separate responsibilities to do these things. Airspace control, area defense, space coordinating authority, the personnel recovery business, the inter-theater lift, theater, electronic warfare, and the joint training in doing all these things takes a staff with expertise. And representation, by the way, people will talk about, well, you know, you Air Force guys. This is not an Air Force thing, okay? Typically the Air Force will supply the facility and the core, but this is a joint and combined effort. In fact, much of the talent that runs this thing comes from other countries. The Brits and the Australians, for example, supplied superb K-Och directors. Other services. The Navy's second fleet has expertise in AOC business, so this is not just an Air Force thing. Pretty complicated stuff that you've got to oversee. You've got to have the right people who understand this business for the theater control system and air ground system. I'm not going to get into this, but it gets to be very complex, obviously, to make all this work. And here are the products that you're going to produce. Or you should produce. I would tell you that, you know, we've done operations strictly on PowerPoint, but to do it right, this is what's required. Joint air operations plan, an area air defense plan, airspace control plan. And by the way, your airspace control plan will then deviate every day with an airspace control order as you update what you're doing on airspace. An AOD, an ATO, which most people recognize what the ATO is, and then the air defense orders and airspace control orders. The Wheel of Death. This is the doctrinal view of how this happens. It's an orderly process. I mean, it happens pretty quickly, but it allows all the right inputs to be vetted. And let's face it, air power is a finite asset and you want to make the most, not just efficient, but effective use. And so there's a process for doing that that can be short circuited when you need to. And that's probably one of my main lessons here is, yeah, this is a complicated process, but it doesn't mean that in real time, if a high priority target pops up, we've got the capability to divert forces and go attack a high priority target even though it wasn't input 72 hours at the start of the circuit. This is kind of how the, this is how the ATO battle rhythm unfolds and what that allows you to do is take your strategy, develop the target, so you make sure you got the right weapon, the right desired mean points of impact. You've done the weapon nearing and now you can make sure the munitions folks load the right munitions, the folks flying the missions have got the right briefings. You can package them together to include tankers and electronic warfare and CSAR and air-to-air support and everything else and go hit the target. Again, you can do things on short notice, but it will probably be less effective and less efficient. Basically you've got five ATOs in process at any time. Typically you'll have somebody, these are vertical processes here. You've got folks that do gyptals, you've got folks that do the map or the mayop and so forth. You also will typically designate one or two folks who carry the football for each ATO and follow it all the way through the process, but it doesn't mean it can't be short circuited. An Allied Force, for example, this would be the doctrinal flow and some of these terms are a little bit outdated because this was back in 1998 and some things have changed, but you've got a flow for how these happen. Well, the senior leadership, General Clark or Admiral Ellis, had wanted to be updated and provide updates at times that may not have been completely convenient in terms of the doctrinal flow and would provide guidance. So you'd have VTCs in the middle of some, while you're in the middle of guidance apportionment targeting, you'd have a VTC or you're already developing the ATO, you'd have VTC and get some direction to go do something different. So, modified the cycle. Typically, you know, you're going to modify your cycle to fit the higher headquarters as opposed to expecting the higher headquarters to adapt to your cycle. And I've never been part of an operation where something like this didn't happen where you took the doctrinal flow and you changed it based on the situation. I'm going to talk a little about command relations here and without going into excruciating detail, but there's typically two chains. You have, at least in our doctrine, you have a service chain which has the ADCON support and then you have the operational chain. There are a couple of options here for a CFAC. One is to essentially have a theater, CFAC, COMF4, and then those are, if you have subordinate joint task forces, then based on the priorities established, not by this guy, but by this commander here, you point that fire hose in whichever direction it needs to go. Now, I would tell you that sometimes this causes some heartburn because the JTF commander say, hey, where's my KOC? Where's my CFAC? And so there is another option, and that is as opposed to supplying, in this case, is where you're putting a liaison, if you will, at the JTFs. Here, you actually put a separate facility with the JFAC and his own air forces. If they're geographically separated to where the two probably don't interact, that may make sense. It becomes more problematic when you could take forces that are used here and you may want to use them over here. It becomes more challenging to do that again if the weight of effort should be over here. But that is an option and it's included in doctrine, and it's really at the behest of the combatant commander. This is another case where the JTF could have a commander of air force forces and a JFAC. It's important. But it's never that clean. I'll just show you that the fact is that, okay, when you get it out in the real world, and again, sometimes because folks start with a clean sheet of paper or the situation dictates differently. So this is JTF Haiti. You see, it doesn't look as clean as the one that I showed you and I can just show you some other examples. This was Noble Anvil, which was Allied Force. Again, sort of a convoluted, and it has to do some of it has to do with the U.S. versus the NATO versus other components in other countries. And it gets very complicated. This was the ISAF relationships. Some of this is sort of touched on in a book by Dag Henrickson that's just come out. It's available online, on the AFRI website, by the way. But Dag goes through looking at U.S. commanders and NATO commanders in Afghanistan and compares and contrasts their reflections. But part of this was, as you can see, becomes problematic. And I'll just say somewhat, I guess off the record here, some of this had to do with the politics of concern about having too many U.S. Air Force or U.S. officers in charge of this operation. So that's why some of these things ended up being not doctrinally pure. But in this case, you had the NATO chain and the U.S. chain. But if you think about it, the NATO mission and the operation and during freedom mission had somewhat different perspectives. The enduring freedom mission included a counter-terrorism piece to it and was also mixed into what was going on in Iraq. And so had more of a theater perspective, because the NATO mission was fairly focused on countering the Taliban. So there's a lot of tensions that come out of that and some of these are indicated here. In the case of Iraq, for example, this was early on, the multinational force, the multinational core Iraq. Who's the joint force commander? What's the role of the ASOC? And I'm not going to go through all of these things, but these are continuing challenges that had to be worked through as we progress through the campaign. One of the facts of modern warfare is you're going to fight as a coalition and it's a great thing. The fact that it's not just the gringos going in with a couple of folks, it's truly a coalition effort. In this case, this was Allied force, but there were complications and you can expect that this is going to be the case in an operation. Target approval. I could give you an hour-long brief on the challenges of getting targets approved through four different countries and some of the complications. And we had a spreadsheet, essentially, that would have different target categories in every country and which types of targets some countries would and would not hit. So as an additional constraint, as you began the targeting, for example, AM radio stations. Some countries viewed that as freedom of the press and we're not going to attack that. Some viewed it as a Milosevic propaganda vehicle and so only certain aircraft from certain countries would agree to attack those. And by the way, then it got to do with will you refuel aircraft that are going after that if they're based in your country? Will you support it in any other way by supplying electronic warfare or so forth? So it got to be very complicated. It's just a reality of coalition warfare. And by the way, the military folks involved, this has nothing to do with impugning folks doing the mission. The airmen, the soldiers, sailors, marines from all countries doing this. This was directed from higher up in the political chains of each country. Not everybody has the same capabilities. Air refueling, ISR, electronic warfare, precision munitions, secure comms. That was a huge headache in that typically you'll go to the least common denominator and so much of the comms in Allied force was unsecure in the open because not everybody had the encryption to be able to talk secure. Airspace control. What had happened was in the initial phases of Allied force, I can tell you, I learned more about airspace control here in a hurry than I ever wanted to because as the forces came in and we created more and more tracks, tanker tracks and cast stacks and air to air areas and so forth, the airspace filled up. I'm curious. Did any of you fly in Allied force? You probably know what I'm talking about. We were having at least one near miss every night because the airspace just became more congested. So on the 1st of May of 1999, we instituted a complete change to the structure to allow avenues and boulevards and restructure the airspace. I tell you, trying to make a major airspace change in the middle of a war, that was a challenge. We had to send liaisons out to every base and brief them on what was going on, make sure everybody knew the changes and then just kind of held our breath as we rolled it over, but it improved things. If you were involved in it, presumably in May, you'd notice huge changes and improvements in the safety and efficiency of airspace but it just had not anticipated that that was going to be the case. Munitions shortfalls ended up aircraft countries running out of precision preferred munitions. Are we different as I talked about all these kind of things as well? Host nations really worried the country of Italy, a great host, but they're worried about noise, they're worried about if aircraft are dumping, they come back and need to land and dump munitions, where do you dump them? Some of those things are still out there in the Adriatic. Now let me talk a little about flexibility as we get into some of the challenges and typically at the start of an operation you'll be rolling along and this is kind of where the focus is on air and addiction and defensive counter air, offensive counter air, strategic attack but pretty much every operation that I've been part of, over time you'll shift and more and more of your effort will be supporting other components. We started running out of targets and allied force and it wasn't too long after the start of Iraqi freedom that there were no aircraft left to fly in the Iraqi Air Force and so the weight of effort will naturally shift as you go through that and so it looks like this and your theater air missions will shift to the support of the ground component and this is something that happens and I think it's food for thought is what happens is typically we don't have a sufficient liaison or presence in the ground force I would say to anticipate this and so the ground component are developing missions that may not include the air support and the effectiveness of air for example to protect their flanks or to do deception or something else and so it is sometimes added in at the end of the plan and it's something we've got to think about as we move to this area more effective support to the ground component as the importance of the theater mission starts winding down one of the challenges we have we do operate on the centralized basis centralized control decentralized execution and it works very very well and by the way it's not centralized planning it's more than planning it's synchronization, it's integration of the entire effort but you need to have a backup plan and whose job is that by the way? Is that the CFAC's job to have a backup plan? No, it's the COMF-4 responsibility to ensure that because typically the air force component in this case for example supplied the combined air operation center and also needs to supply the backup capability and test it so something to think about because again I think that the centralization model works pretty well when you've got that capability if you've not done so I'd encourage you to read the spider and the starfish and essentially the book talks about, although it kind of wanders off course towards the end of the book but if you think about it the chaos to me is kind of it's the spider model and it does really really well but if you smish the head of a spider it's ineffective as opposed to the starfish that pops off an arm and eventually it kind of grows the arm back and it can survive pretty serious attacks and I think what I would say as food for thought is this is our model here but adversaries are coming to recognize that and so we have got to evolve to a capability to be able to do less decentralized operations and we've talked about adaptive control methodology but otherwise you find, I think you're going to be vulnerable to either through kinetics or cyber having your centralized capability taken away so we can talk more about that but I think it's food for thought as a challenge we've got to be prepared to operate in an area where at least temporarily the CFAC at the headquarters is not able to communicate in real time and so we need folks who can operate at the operational and tactical level without continual guidance from on high and that gets into this staying at the right level as a CFAC and this can be a problem most folks who are working in the chaos came up in the tactical business and frankly most of them would rather be out there in the tactical business flying the airplanes than necessarily being on the staff someplace and so it's a tendency and unfortunately I think we don't have the technology but typically it's like a window on the world here, see we had at the time I think we had five predator orbits at the time and so they would be up on the wall and you can kind of watch what was going on up there and in this case if we could roll it this building blows up and there's a tendency to get fixated on tactical level issues to get a sense of what's going on out there but you've got to resist the urge to focus on that you've got to stay at the operational level and there's a CFAC also let the folks out the field do what they need to do you stay at the operational level but you still need to do battlefield circulation you need to get out there and get a sense of what's going on I found that you're issuing these ATOs and ACOs but you need to get out there and see the weather you need to listen to the comms the rules of engagement are and experience that so you can have a better capability to command all that go visit the units and those from other countries go where you're not comfortable and let me see if I can get this thing to work there you go get out in the field once in a while and it's my trusty backseater keggy after a mission here we go now I'm going to talk about some trends this is where some of this is looking in a rear view mirror in the past but here are some thoughts for the future what are some of the trends this is taken out of the blue horizons briefing it talks about technology trends for the next 15 to 20 years so these are some things to think about as future CFACs and operational level staff moving away from platform maneuverability of missiles hypersonics and swarms photonics dispersed operations versus big bases this is a huge discussion particularly in the Pacific right now you have certain bases where we've concentrated capability which can become pretty lucrative targets for an initial volley of theater ballistic missiles for example how do we operate in dispersed manner that can be a deterrent but it also logistically is very challenging to operate off of a couple hundred dispersed fields and highway strips and those kind of things is a huge challenge and how do you make that happen moving from man to remotely piloted or autonomous vehicles I'll focus on one area and that's the unmanned area we kind of think about this as an offensive capability we think about predators and reapers and other countries are thinking about this as well and this is something that CFACs are going to have to think about from a counter air standpoint small, cheap, easy to obtain tend not to recognize the threat that these will pose to us in terms of adversary use of unmanned systems and the likelihood is we're going to face adversaries that will have access to small unmanned systems that need to be included into your counter air plan or air space plan so they got to be included in air space control, area defense, the spins, the ROE interoperable systems and then command and control of counter air ops below the coordinating altitude that's typically where you're going to find some of these and air space control is a huge challenge because everybody wants their own air space but you need a centralized capability of command and controlling it so I think I managed to get through that in about 40 minutes those were what I talked about so what questions might you have that this has sparked any thoughts apparently uh oh


One of the most important things about early childhood learning is to have fun and Also, while we're having fun, hopefully we can teach some concepts and some learning while that's happening So this song incorporates fun and a lot of great motor activity That's gonna encourage all of the child's senses to work together and coordinate the song goes like this. Oh the Grasshopper went to the general store any on the table and on the floor and in the coffee and in the tea And if I had to move do it on me somebody catch that big bug So the kids have fun with that song and sometimes I'll do the actions and have a little grasshopper I'm a little toy grasshopper or maybe even a real one if I can find one and I'll take it to each of the Children when I'm pretending I'm spitting on them, but it's great for the kids to learn those oral motor skills which is basically using their mouth and They also learn to anticipate if that grasshopper is gonna get them