Aloha, this is Politics for the People, and I'm your host, Stephanie Stoll Dalton. We have a talk show this morning with several guests who are going to bring their informed opinions to the topic of Putin's war and the return of perhaps Pax Americana, which is an article published in Foreign Affairs. And the guests that we have today to discuss this article and its premises and predictions and historical reviews are Jay Fidel and Cynthia Lee Sinclair and Tim Apichella. So welcome, panel. Let's get started with this article. The article's authors, Beckley and Brands point to the fact that Putin's poor judgment in attempting this brazen land grab in Ukraine has possibly gifted, in fact they don't say possibly they say has gifted, the U.S. and its allies with the opportunity to rebuild and reshape international order. So Jay, as an early premise in the article, how do you think about that? Is that a breakthrough in thinking about our dilemma in the world now or not? It's a very inviting possibility, as she was saying before the show, Stephanie, if Trump were president, Putin would have been much further emboldened and earlier emboldened than to do more. And his technique of doing false flags and, for my money, false threats on people and then doing the very same thing he believes he threatens that they will do, it's cute, it's gaslighting is what it is, he's been gaslighting the world. And Biden has developed a strategy to deal with that. I wouldn't agree with everything he's done or not done, but he has developed a strategy. And in that process, he has brought Europe together. And that is remarkable, because Trump did a lot of damage to Europe, to the EU and to NATO. But Biden has brought them together in a coalition and if you want, it's kind of a new continent. It's a continent that collectively, arguably, is another great power. So you have the great power of the U.S., China certainly, Russia at least ostensibly, although that may change with the sanctions and Europe. So the balance of these various powers has been in competition since the Second World War. And now the question is whether the U.S. will return to its position of dominance, which I think a lot of people would say it lost in the last few years and especially during the Trump administration and be the leader of the free world, be the leader of the world, be the exemplar of the liberal world order, which we established in the late 40s and early 50s with the United Nations. And so I think the article stands for the proposition that there's an opportunity here for the U.S. If it carries on, if it keeps Europe together, if it somehow contains Putin and Ukraine, then it can be, should be, the leader of the free world. And given its high morals, you can say that it's imperfect, but basically it's the best morality the world has, collectively, then we can lead the world into a time of Pax, peace, Americana. Wouldn't that be wonderful? I think we kind of had that for a while after the war, but we lost it. And now maybe we can regain it. And that's, to me, that's what the article speaks. Well, Tim, Jay's point is that we may be going to a Pax Americana. Maybe you could talk to what a Pax Americana would look like or has been or is emerging. Can you talk to us about that, please? Well, in my short 63 years of life here on this planet, I have never known Pax Americana. Before I was born, there was something called the Korean conflict. And not soon after Vietnam took place.  So then, of course, the Middle East conflicts, Gulf War and Afghanistan and Iraq and, you know, the list goes on. Panama. I forgot about Panama. Noriega. You know, so we've had all sorts of military incursions. So really has the United States enjoyed Pax Americana. I'm not quite certain it has. I should like it to be. And I think we all do. But as Ronald Reagan said, you know, a strong, you know, peace through strength. And I'm a big believer in that. And I believe that there's would be despots and dictators around the world that want to like Putin, that wants the world to succumb to their evil powers, and I say the word evil. And it takes, you know, a lot of bullies in this world and it takes a few strong nations to say, no, we're not putting up with it. And the United States happens to be one of those powers.  You've seen you've had the stage long enough. Goodbye. Well, well, that's interesting. And with the Pax meaning piece, of course, do you think that? Well, there are two things. One is, did do you think that peace as Valensky meant it in his comments about the President Biden's approach or asking pleading for President Biden to be the leader of the global world? And if he's leader there, he then is the leader for peace. Do you think he meant Pax Americana? Well, I think he meant exactly what I just mentioned, and that is peace through strength.  Give us the tools that we need to make peace. And that's only one piece Putin understands is warfare. And since he started this incursion, this invasion, that is what's required. It'd be great if there could be negotiations and a settlement at the negotiation table. But I'm not sure Putin is really interested in that. I think it's all for show. And what Zelensky was saying is, I need to win this conflict to obtain peace. Yeah, I'd go further to obtain peace for the world. Zelensky correctly sees it in a global context. Yes, not just it's not just Ukraine. It's Europe and it's not just Europe. It's the world. And I think he correctly sees this whole affair as an inflection point for the liberal world order and the safety and security of every country. Yes. And Jay, to that point, we need to see it. The countries need and its citizens need to see that exact point. We are in a 1941 scenario where our isolationism has to come to an end. And Donald Trump put us on that path and it became quite convenient, quite good place for us to be complacent about it. It's time to get back to where we were as a world power and as a world neighbor. And Mike does not make right.  And we have to see that clearly. Let me add, Stephanie, we have to see that clearly. You're right in enumerating some of the mistakes we made over the years since the war. Some of the mistaken adventures hither and yon for various reasons. A lot of them were, you know, were intended well, but it ended badly. And they're covered in that article, by the way, a number of them. We're according to the writers of that article, necessary, necessary to establish American presidents and values, you know, as establish American values in various places and in order to maintain the balance. But if we're smart, if we exercise smart power and we will be able, at least theoretically, to achieve that. That that was why I was thinking to go to Cynthia and ask you, Cynthia, has have we shown that strength that that is our power as we've moved towards this? Do we already model that or do we? In other words, who who's setting who set the parameters here for all of this? Has that come from the strength of US and its allies? And who's setting the red line drawn the red lines now? Is that the US and the allies, Cynthia? Where's that strength that will get us to the power that will give us the peace in the world? Well, unfortunately, money, you know, and one of the things that I took away from this article was that people are political factions and people, just, you know, independent people are happy to sign for the money to go for all these war machines or to go fight a war or to help somebody else fight a war. But when it comes to the diplomatic money that's to really ensure that these alliances are going to hold, then nobody wants to spend any money. And so I think until we get to the point where we are willing to spend the money just to invest in the, you know, NATO alliance in all of our alliances and to expand that alliance. You know, over this last few years, we've been reading all kinds of articles about how dictators and autocrats are on the rise. And what happened to all the democracies? Where did they go? You know, and in this this aggression from Putin right now that's happening, this war on Ukraine, not war with Ukraine, but war on Ukraine. And I think that's an important distinction to make. And it's Putin that's set in all the boundaries. He's setting all the red lines. He's the one who's got the power. And I don't know how we get that back. But I think it needs to be our full focus, because until we get that back from him and he's on the run and he's going, well, let's see, I can't do that because they'll do this, you know. And right now it's more like if he does that, we'll do this. And that's given him all the power. So I mean, and I'm not a great military genius that can figure all this stuff out. But we've got those guys on on retainer, don't we? Hey, Stephanie, I want to jump in on a comment she made. And that is and don't fall out of your chairs, my fellow guests. Don't fall out of your chairs. But there was something Donald Trump did that I actually agreed with. And that was to put put NATO on the embarrassment. Well, he embarrassed them, but he should have dead behind closed doors and say, pay your dues to NATO. The United States is tired of footing the bill 100 percent. So pay your bill, please. And because I believe if you don't have skin in the game, you're not committed to the game. And their payments to NATO was skin in the game. And they did. I think they brought their accounts up to they brought them paid currently. But you know what tip, you know, what tip to scale on this? It was Putin. It was Putin threatening Ukraine. It was Putin invading Ukraine. It was Putin scaring the pants off Western Europe. Yeah, good point. Good point. That's what tipped it. And you know, and one of the pieces in this and many other articles, including a number of articles and foreign affairs, is that it was a huge miscalculation on his part. He hasn't admitted he hasn't bellied up to it yet. But the fact is that he did he win? Did he win? He he messed up a lot of things. He reduced to half of or more than half of Ukraine to rubble already. That's his style. But but has he gained anything so far? Only notoriety, only, you know, pariah status. And so and so it was a miscalculation for sure. And that miscalculation is what helped Biden, you know, solidify the EU and NATO. Well, you know, Jay, to Cynthia's point, OK? So what what do we do to pull this alliance together? And if you go back to the article and think about what it discussed about Truman and how Truman for all of his little guy thing and not stellar reputation as he got started out of the gate. But he he went about fortifying the larger world instead of looking to now. Oh, now what are we going to do to save Ukraine? So he took advantage of some law and some opening that he could build the bigger alliance that then would bring all of that strength to bear. Do you do you call that part of the article and how they were quite complimentary of the way Truman pulled this off? And then that is what established the Cold War and its parameters for holding the thing together for a while. Well, I think World War Two established. I mean, or yeah, at the time, it did establish a great cruise around the world is that, you know, is that if unless you watch out, unless you stop despots and autocrats, they will make a mess. So you have to pay attention. And we knew that for a while after the war. But I think we forgot. Trump certainly forgot. I think we're learning it again now. You can't turn your back on them. You can't isolate because the natural, you know, the natural effect is for them to take greater power, do greater autocracy, do war crimes and all that. And we are learning that yet again. We are learning it again. So, you know, I totally agree with, you know, Tim's point about strengths. And that's a big point in the article. You have got to have strength if you want to maintain a liberal world order. And if you don't maintain strength, you know, you have Neville Chamberlain and you have World War Two yet again. And I totally agree with Cynthia's right now, however well Biden is doing in terms of solidifying, you know, the coalition in Europe. The fact is that that Vladimir Putin every day still today. Look at the papers, all of them. And you will see that Vladimir Putin is setting the agenda. And we have to have to find a way to take that out of his hands. As Trump said, he's very clever and that that is revealed in the fact that he knows how to set the agenda and cow everybody. But that doesn't mean he can cow things forever. And it doesn't mean we can't find a way around his his strategy. Exactly. You know, Tim, would you say that something about the point that of the article that the U.S. and allies have really been living with or have constructed comfortable myths about the possibility and the shackles or the constraints that hold Putin together? Do you think that the world has been living with comfortable myths that have kept them maybe from being as alert and attentive to to Russia's aggressiveness and perhaps other other candidates to who they've not risen yet, but could. What do you think about that point in the article, Tim? Well, I've always believed that Americans are naive. I've always felt that way. I think we always think the best and benefit of the doubt and all that stuff. By and large, we've been Americans are naive and maybe to our credit, you know, we try to think of the best of other world powers, even when you have horrible people like Pol Pot or Idi Amin. The difference is we didn't have interest in there. We didn't have minerals. We didn't have oil. Rwanda, I'm reminded about, you know, the shame that the Prime Minister of Ireland, since it's St. Pat's Day, gave Clinton's administration for doing nothing in the Rwanda and conflict and the genocide. And because we didn't have interest there. And we didn't have a political or a strategic military or mineral interest. And that's the shame of how we pick and choose which conflicts we want to engage in. And I'm not necessarily want to be the police of the world. But at the same time, when the obvious is going to happen, there needs to be a collective action, not just the United States, but other neighboring countries to intercede on the behalf of the victim that's soon to fall because of some despot crazy dictator that has bloodlust and wants to slaughter everyone in its path. And should I mention Putin in this in this also same sentence? So that's point number one. And the important number two is, yeah, we just we need to engage more in diplomatic efforts. And since he made a great point to this, we don't spend enough resources on the diplomatic corps. Donald Trump gutted the State Department. I mean, absolutely gutted it. And we have to rebuild from that from from basically from the basement back to a point where our diplomats are well informed and know what's going on before they open their mouths. And we engage in conflicts and know how to resolve them on the diplomatic level. All right. Now what that that's very, very interesting. Thanks, Tim. And Cynthia, what are where are we going? Let's turn to talking about outcome. So what what is it that that we're trying to reshape in the global community? So what you think that Tim has brought up some issues here about how to be inclusive and be responsive to all these visits? Is that where we're going and how do we get there? I think that is where we're going. There are things like examples of Ireland becoming part of all of this for the first time in history, joining in with the, you know, with Europe to to send things and to be part of the the the hand reaching out to Ukraine. I don't think Putin cares that he kills everybody. I don't think he cares one bit about this scorched earth that he wants to do that. The only thing he wants out of Ukraine are the minerals. And so he doesn't care if it's just level. And so if you think about that and that's what he wants, if that's all he wants, then. How do we stop that? Because so that's when, you know, maybe we do need to get involved. But like Jay was talking a while ago about him doing the whole false flag things. And and I agree with that. But I don't think it's just gaslighting. I think it's a very specific tool called projection. And I have looked at everything Trump did while he was in office with that spyglass of projection, because it seemed that often. Usually I'll say that that's what he was doing when he was accusing someone else of doing something. It was the very thing that he was doing himself. So I think that that's Putin also. I think everything he says has to be looked at with this lens of projection. Is he really accusing someone else? Or is that something when he accuses someone else? Is that not something he's going to be doing himself? Like the chemical attack, things like that. I believe and this is just a very didn't come out of the article. Didn't come from anybody else. This is just my own opinion. I believe that this was planned. Putin had planned to go into Ukraine long before Trump lost the election. He fully well intended for Trump to still be in office. If that was the case. Would that not have made this be nothing for America? There would be no NATO. There would be no response from anybody. We'd all just turn away like Tim says. You know, are we naive or are we just ostriches and want to bury our head in the sand? So, you know, I worry about that. And I wonder in that same sense that Trump had set up that the removal from Afghanistan, right? He released all of the prisoners that we'd spent 20 years capturing and including the head of the Taliban so that he could reestablish his his government and made it be that Biden was in a position where he either had to send in more troops and fight the same fight that he had already fought for the last 20 years or leave. So it was like a no win situation. I'm worried that we are getting into a no win situation again. And that the people that are going to lose are the Ukrainians. Well, that's interesting and the rest of the world. Well, Jay, to that point, let me go to that point. You know, I think I think what what's what's happening is Putin is following his M.O. We talked about that on Tim's show yesterday and there's a really, really, really good frontline movie on it. Called I think on the road to war and it's Putin's road to war. And it talks about his M.O. in so many circumstances. Remember, and by the way, it's available on YouTube for free. Anyone wants to see it. I urge everyone to see it because it explains his career and his his stepping up to power in Russia. He's been there running things for 22 years now. He's a serious player and he controls everything in Russia and he's managed in the past few years to, you know, stomp out for all practical purposes and he protested whatever he does. He's a one man band. He's running the whole country, a great power. That is something. It's like Xi Jinping, but maybe even more more so in terms of Russia. And so what he does, his M.O. is to kill people. He kills them. Then he blames it on someone else and then he attacks the someone else. And that's the false flag thing. He's done that in a number of circumstances. He's used that as a way to achieve power within the Russian government. And he's using that as a way to achieve power vis-à-vis the Ukrainian invasion.  Well, maybe he is.  But he has a vision.  He wants to push the boundary closer to NATO. Mind you, NATO has never really threatened him. NATO has never taken an inch of territory from Russia. And I don't know what the problem is, but the problem for him is he wants the power. It's the power that that that intoxicates him. It always has. Hey, Jay. Yes, Jay. Let me let me throw out an idea. I mean, it is the power and I couldn't agree with you more. But isn't it really he wants to show the world that he is the incarnate of Joseph Stalin? It's not important that I'm like, it's important that I'm feared. You're absolutely right. And that's part of the power, Tim. Right. Everything he has done has created fear. And if you remember, and in Applebaum's article back a couple years ago about what made Eastern Europe work under communism after the war, it was fear.  And that's exactly what Putin is doing in the Russian government right now. It's fear. These guys who appeared with him when he made his big fancy speech last week, they were totally totally petrified. He had them all dancing on the stage that he said yesterday to the Russian people. Real quick. OK, Tim, let me get to you here. Wait, wait, wait, I want to hear the speech. It's perfect now. You say any people and particularly the Russian people will always be able to tell apart patriots from the scum and traders and spit them out like gnats that accidentally flew into their mouths. He went further. I'm convinced that this is not this is important. I am convinced that this natural and necessary self-cleansings of society will only strengthen our country, our solidarity, cohesion and readiness to meet any challenge. There it is. There it is. Stalin, that is a wrong side of that. And where was that? Was that for the Russians or the world? That was for the Russian people. Yeah, yeah. OK. So, Jay, that validates your point. It's cleansing, right? Did you hear the word cleanse in there? It means it means it's back to his MO to kill a lot of people in order to achieve power. Right. So anything to do that. So, so, Tim, I wanted to to touch on this emerging notion I see in this article by the two authors, Beckley and Brands and also elsewhere. And that is, has Putin possibly erred in his judgment so much that this may be the beginning of his end? Tim, can you comment? The world is saying he's miscalculated again to Putin's mind. I don't care. That's what he thinks. I don't care. You will fear me as you did my beloved leader, Joseph Stalin. And so in his mind, he has not aired. He will he will clench his fist and as this article, well, this this message to the Russian people suggests he will clamp down on them. He will he will bring it back to the old Soviet days as a pariah nation and he doesn't care. So is that the end of Putin? Well, there's an old saying, how you can keep them down on the farm when they've seen the lights of the big city. Russians have seen capitalism. They like capitalism. So to that end, he might be at the end of his political days. Because I don't know if they want to go back to 1950s, 1960s Soviet oppression. Let me add a point on that. There was an article in the New York Times or maybe the Washington Post this morning about how Russian government sites, government organizations are being hacked at an unprecedented rate. They're being hacked. They're being stopped. Messages are coming on there about the war, you know, using that forbidden term. There's the Russian government is under attack. And the Russian government is is trying to stop that in the belief that it comes from outside of Russia, not at all clear that hacking may come from inside of Russia. So it could be Putin is in the beginning of the end. Yeah, good point. And I think I'm hearing often that actually Putin does care about something. And it's the people, whoever he hasn't wiped out or genocided, but he knows he has to have a monitor. Could you say that again? That last sentence? Could you say that one more time, please? I said that the one thing he does believe in that he does care about is people that are going to function for him to keep him in power. The ones that he hasn't slaughtered in murder. The ones that are not yet, right. OK, I thought that was what you said. Don't forget the ones who live in fear of the old KGB coming back. Fear of what Ann Applebaum wrote about East in Europe. Fear of of of losing your land, your property, your life and spending and spending a lot of time in Siberia or Ljubljanka prison. Yeah.  Yeah. And to go to Cynthia, that this is arising that as we've as I've heard that the soldiers are even having some problems with this. Arnold Schwarzenegger just sent a big tape over to the Russian people and the soldiers are even claiming that, you know, they deserve punishment for this. It's all wrong, etc. So I wanted to go to Cynthia to see what she might have picked up on this and how you're you're reacting to that. Cynthia, this possibility that he may have erred too far and may go into self destruction. Well, I think there's a lot of people praying for that right now. And and, you know, what you said about the thing he does care about the people, well, maybe the ones that he hasn't cleansed already. I don't know. I don't think he cares about anybody, anything except for his own ego and his own power. He is the, you know, the extreme version of a narcissist with way too much money and way too much power. He's the Donald Trump of the East. Thank you very much. I'll go with that one. I think that all of you are absolutely correct. But whatever the structure of the country is, is what I'm talking about is the minimum he has that piece. He understands that that piece has to be there. But anyway, that's what's coming up is those things that will attest to his power and his position. He's going to protect whatever it takes to get that to happen. So, but I'm hearing from you what you don't believe that that is possible. He's totally not all. I don't want to say less than if he doesn't care about people at all. But, you know, to make a little bit more on Jay's point about that being hacked, I was watching a thing about that the other day and they were interviewing some of the hackers, right? And one of them may very well be in Russia because he was, you know, in this big surround thing shroud so you couldn't see him and his voice was changed. But they are just going after the government. They're going after businesses, local businesses. They're going after individual people, calling them on the phone, saying, hey, did you know? And the guy said, you know, some people just get mad and yell at us and hang up, but some people are open to it and they have questions and they want to know more. So maybe that's where we can really sort of try to make some inroads with the Russian people, because right now all they see is his misinformation.  There's no Twitter. There's no Facebook. There's no Instagram. There's nothing except state TV. So that's all they get. And so, you know, anything that we can do to, you know, flood there, the little bit of airwaves, these are direct telephone calls. They're making somebody figured out a way to hack the lines so that it used to block any incoming calls from outside of the country. And they figured out a way around it so that they can call in to individual people. And that we just have a we're running out of voice of America. Jack, we're going to we're going to make one round here because we're out we're out of time. So let's just let's just start with the round. I'll start with you, Tim, and then back to Jay. Oh, thank you. Hey, Cynthia, we used to have something called Voice of America. Previously, it was referred to as Radio Free Europe. Guess who got that program? Donald Trump, by the way.  The world needs to get more engaged, more sanctions, more military assistance. I agree with the keep NATO out of accelerating this to the World War Three, but more engagement and don't let up and give Valensky what he wants. If he wants migs, get a mix. Our general say he doesn't need them. But guess what? His general say they do need migs. So get it to him. They know what they want. They know what they need. OK, Jay, last comment. I agree with that absolutely. And every day that goes by with all those people being killed. Oh, gosh, it tears my heart. And what it says is we've got to we've got to give them air cover. We must give them air cover. Otherwise, they're just fishing a barrel. But no, what I was going to say is this. You know, there's two things happening here. You know, one is Putin's quality of battle with his own people trying to do propaganda on them and squash them and arrest them and throw them in jail for speaking out. That's one thing and it's hard to say where that's going to go. I like Cynthia to be right. I like this, you know, I like this to actually take root and the country rise up and oust the bugger. But at the same time, the other the other thing that's happening is is Europe. We have to keep your together. And you can bet that Putin is trying to do just the opposite. He feels that if he keeps on killing these people in Ukraine, they're going to be discouraged. They're going to be disheartened and they're going to give up. And if they give up, maybe Europe gives up. And here's the last thing I leave you with is that don't forget. We have an election in six, eight months. Forget we have an election in 2024. It is not at all clear that Biden and his policies and his abilities, which have been really good and helpful in this regard, will continue. And if a Republican, God forbid, Trump or anybody like Trump gets into the Oval Office, they're not going to continue those policies. And so, you know, Europe could easily come apart. And at that point, we are in the proverbial kimchi. Thank you, Jay. And that is that is a dire thought. And Cynthia, would you like to respond to what where we are now then within these global events that include our domestic one? I've done a positive note about that. It was awesome to watch Congress be united while they sat there and they watched as Zelensky gave his speech and they all rose before and after with, you know, standing ovations in every country, even to. So the one good thing about this, you know, the one good thing that we can take from this is that it's kind of uniting Americans. And it's definitely uniting Congress, which is really nice. And unfortunately, it might not go forward. But for now, let's just take one day at a time. OK, hey, Cynthia, that's wonderful. You've brought us full circle because the Putin's more. This is the subtitle of the article is is for to find the Democratic Alliance and certainly unifying us at home. So interesting comment there at the end. So let's hope we're going to keep going with that. This is Think Tech Hawaii's show, Politics for the People. And I'm your show host, Ebony Stoll Dalton. Thank you for your attention. And we look forward to seeing you again next Thursday at 11 o'clock. Aloha.


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Make the best move you can, then make the next move, and then the next one. Each time, going as carefully and thoughtfully as you can, Winfrey believes that success isn't one giant leap. It's a series of baby steps, and if you make one mistake, understand that your life and your career won't be defined by that one mistake. You have more steps to take, and you will arrive at success eventually. 2. When you see an opportunity, take it. Oprah does not chuck up any of her success to luck. Instead, she insists there's been grace and blessings, but there's also been opportunity. The key to being successful is recognizing when the opportunity is in front of you and seizing it. So what about luck? Luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity, Winfrey has said. If you're not prepared, if you're not looking for that chance, then luck when do you any good. 3. Forgive yourself for your past mistakes. You're not the person you were 5, 10, 20, or more years ago. A lot of wisdom just comes with age. So don't beat yourself up for youthful errors. You didn't know any better, but you know better now. Look at those past mistakes as teachable opportunities, learn as much as you can from them, and then move forward. 4. Never stop improving yourself. This means continually working on your personality, your skill set, and your network, so that you are in the best possible position to make a difference. Others may see your efforts to improve yourself as self-centeredness or being full of yourself, but Winfrey believes you should ignore them. You always need to be improving if you want to get ahead. If people are saying that about you, take it as a compliment. You're doing a lot, and others are noticing. 5. Go as hard as you can. Beyond that, recognize that you have control only over your own performance. You can't control the competition at all. When Winfrey was starting out with her talk show, she knew that there were lots of other shows competing for guests, topics, and airtime. But she also knew that she had no control over any of that. All she could do was make the best show she knew how to make. Similarly, all you can do is the best you know how, all the time. It's like a race. You just run hard until you reach the finish line, and all you can do is make yourself run more quickly, not make your competition run more slowly. That's what brings you success, building yourself up, not looking behind you to see where your competition is. 6. Don't just dream. Believe. It's okay to have big dreams for yourself. We all do. But if you're going to be successful, you have to do more than dream. You have to believe that the life you aspire to lead will one day be yours.  She had that strong belief in what her future held. Do the same, and hold firmly to that belief. Even in the most difficult times, and you're likely to get exactly where you want to be. 7. Remember that people are more alike than they are different. We're all seeking the same thing, Winfrey will tell you. We all want to reach our fullest potential. Sure, we all go about that in different ways because we all have different skills and different passions, but at the end of the day, we all just want to be true to ourselves. 8. Find your purpose in life. According to Winfrey, if you're going to be successful, you need to figure out why you're here on earth. Most entrepreneurs already feel like they know their purpose, but if you don't, stop everything.  9. Keep yourself grounded and centered. It's easy to get lost in your work, and it's easy to let your ego inflate. But if you keep your focus, stay compassionate, and always seek to understand and connect with others, you'll improve your chances of success substantially. 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Hello, I'm back and I'm not shrinking guys. It's just a different camera angle. I know I look a little bit smaller Also, I finally got some soundproofing up around here. Let me know how well it's working. Hopefully it's not that echoey But anyways, that's not important. So let me ask you a question How many times have you seen Alice in Wonderland? And I don't mean how many individual times you've watched one of the movies or anything I mean how many different times has that story been told that you're aware of? Because according to Wikipedia, there are 44 feature-length film adaptations Dating all the way back to 1903 as a hundred and twenty years ago and they are still making these There's more planned in the future for some reason and these are mostly direct adaptations of the story You know, it's like taking the original book written by Lewis Carroll in 18 whatever who cares And just translating it into a different medium. Sometimes these are Close adaptations which follow the story pretty much exactly. Sometimes these are much looser adaptations which Chain stuff and make stuff up, but these are direct adaptations of the original Alice in Wonderland book So the story has been told a lot But then you think of I don't even know the word for it But all the fan fictions or re-imaginings or retellings or whatever you want to call it of Alice in Wonderland where It's basically just Taking some elements of the original story and then inserting them into something that is basically just completely different good examples being the Looking Glass Wars which is I've actually read that book a long time ago and basically it's okay What if Alice in Wonderland was a book it was a real book that was written by Lewis Carroll But it was based on a true story, but he changed a lot from the true story. So like this is the real one And I'm sure there's other people have done that same thing or Alice in Zombie land Which I have not read but from what I understand is basically just Alice in Wonderland plus zombies You know, it's not the exact same story. It's not just a straight-up retelling but it is basically taking all the same stuff and Remixing it into something at least somewhat original and there are a ton of other books that do something similar to this There's all there's those two. There's also tainted Wonderland sons of Wonderland the Wonderland murders Vincent in Wonderland and a bunch of others you can just look at this online And I honestly was going to list everyone I could find but then I realized that list would just keep going on and on So I'm like, okay, you know what? I will let other people look it up themselves if they don't believe me There's there's a lot of these but those are just books if we look outside the realm of books at things like video games There's stuff like Alice Madness Returns, which is again just a basic Retelling of the story which is pretty substantially different than the original It's not a direct adaptation and because of how many of these there are or at least partially because of just how many of These there are I really hate Alice in Wonderland. I don't wish that I hated it You know, it's a the original book is a perfectly fine fun little kids story and some of the adaptations like the Disney one from the 50s are kind of fun as well and hell I think the Disney adaptation from the 50s is more iconic than the original book But that's whatever we'll get to that later And I just I hate Alice in Wonderland so much because it won't go away And it's loved by all of the most annoying people on earth Like from the time I was in like elementary school up until I finished high school all of the most annoying emo kids or emo adjacent kids Had a bunch of Alice in Wonderland merch. I have no idea why I don't know what Connected with them about it, but it's just it's just everywhere and on top of that because it's been done so many times Or in spite of it being done so many times There's no originality there Like it's all the same thing over and over again Except for some which are completely different like I mentioned the Looking Glass Wars earlier And they basically have nothing to do with the original Alice in Wonderland like Looking Glass Wars is essentially just an original fantasy story with some elements that are kind of related to Alice in Wonderland and also Lewis Carroll is there briefly and it mentions that he wrote the book and that's where we know all of this from because like in that story Alice that like wonder Wonderland is just another world parallel to earth like a different dimension and Alice is the princess of Wonderland and she winds up having to flee because the Red Queen takes over and she winds up on earth and While she's here She tries telling people about Wonderland and people think she's just a kid with an overactive Imagination and it just you know it becomes a story about okay. Can she go back home and reclaim her lost kingdom and it's Very very different than the original like the Cheshire cat for instance is an assassin He's a like an eight-foot tall furry basically You know he's a humanoid animal who is just a killing machine that can cut through Soldiers and guards and everything without too much trouble and he also literally has nine lives like the characters have to kill him nine times over the course of the story before he stays dead and It's not treated with like Fantastical whimsy the way the original book was it's actually treated as like a serious threat to the characters and That's just one thing that has stuck with me over the years because I actually like that change but basically what I'm getting at is there's some elements from the original story, but they're so far removed that it's just It looking less wars and Alice in Wonderland have basically nothing to do with each other now How many times have you seen the Wizard of Oz done? I think you see where I'm going with this It's been done a lot. There are 30 film and stage adaptations According to Wikipedia again, there could possibly be more This is not counting unofficial spin-offs or prequels, you know things like wicket which was a stage show and a book And I believe they're also making it into a movie which is not written by L Frank bomb It's not officially based on anything L Frank bomb wrote. I don't believe but it's just yeah It's like a unofficial prequel to the story or Oz the Great and powerful that terrible movie with James Franco which is also unofficial or spin-offs and retellings like there's One I am suddenly drawing a blank and I didn't read it in my notes But there was like a sci-fi miniseries tin man. That was it and it was also like a Retelling of Wizard of Oz is kind of weird and there's stuff like Return to Oz which is a movie from the 80s, which is very loosely based on the sequels to the original book Also. Yes, the original book had sequels a lot of you probably didn't know that and just like with Alice in Wonderland There are like weird fan-fix slash re-imagining slash retellings Slash whatever you want to call them where they just take some elements from the original and Other than that it's a completely different story like the Hedgehog of Oz or one that I haven't read But I have put it on my list of like really stupid books I might get to and make fun of one day called Dorothy must die and that one is similar to looking glass wars It's one where the original book is real and like the characters are familiar with it, but The story is completely different from what they've heard like I I don't know what you would call this trope But Dorothy must die is about a different girl from Kansas who gets sent over to Oz and like oh Dorothy is actually an evil dictator and Like that's why I want to read it and make fun of it someday because it just sounds ridiculous Now I won't repeat this pattern over and over again But just think about how many times you have seen some stories told like there's some which they just will keep making Over and over and over again think about how many times you've seen Peter Pan or Robin Hood or a Christmas Carol or the three musketeers or Dracula late and keep in mind these are all just books from like the past 200 years, you know like those and I mean, I'm not hating on any of those books. I've read all of them. They're pretty good But like they've just been done a lot and they're all books from like the past 200 years If we go back even further to like myths and old fairy tales and legends and stuff There are way more and the problem becomes way more acute How many times has Beauty and the Beast been done? How many times has Red Riding Hood been done or? Changed around at least a little bit like that really terrible movie I think it was just called Red Riding Hood with a man to say free God I hate that movie so much I don't know why that is stuck in my mind over the past like 10 or 12 years since it came out But I really really hate that movie I might just do a rant video about that one day because I don't want to get off topic But you know and think about how many other things have been made based on Greek myth or Norse myth And you know some of those are just directory tellings other times. It's just Taking all the same, you know familiar figures and concepts from those myths and just putting them into other stuff Like all the Thor movies from the MCU That's basically just hey Here's Norse myth and then throwing it into the midst of all this other crazy Marvel stuff or Greek myth You know Percy Jackson. I love those books. I have very fond memories of reading them as a child And even as an adult I can appreciate a lot of the good parts of them But they are basically just hey here's all these old myths Place into a modern setting and then we'll add in new characters like Percy and Annabeth and them and they're like the main cast But it's essentially the setting is essentially just Greek myths or how about God of War the original God of War games That's basically all these Greek myths are more or less the same as they've always been and then they just add in this one wild card, which is Kratos the unstoppable killing machine and he has his own original story and everything but then He just completely fucks everyone else. What I'm getting at is Even if these aren't direct adaptations They are basically still the same ideas in the same settings and a lot of the same characters and everything Which is just being done again and again and again and these are all public domain Which if you're unfamiliar basically public domain just means Copyright law doesn't apply to them like you would need permission to do anything say that deals with Mickey Mouse or if you wanted to like do a retelling or Reimagining or whatever you want to call it of something else that's popular It's more contemporary like say the Hunger Games You would need to get legal permission from whoever owns the copyright which I believe in this case would be Suzanne Collins, but whoever happens to own it you would need to get their permission and It's likely that a lot of them would just say no Whereas if you just wanted to remake the Wizard of Oz or you just wanted to do yet another Robin Hood movie You can just do that. You know, those are public domain Which means anybody can do anything they want with the man profit off of it So it is cheaper and easier to make But it's also and probably more importantly cheaper and easier to market because these are all Recognizable brands, you know, even though Robin Hood has been done a trillion million freaking times If you see a movie and it's called Robin Hood or any variation of that you at least know Somewhat what it's about, you know, you know It's gonna be about a dude who's really good at shooting a bow and arrow who steals from the rich and gives to the poor like The last major Robin Hood thing that I believe came out was the movie with Taran Edgerton in like 2017 or 2018 and I Hate that movie, but it's so hilarious. Like it's just it's just so bad Every every part of it is so bad and it has Christian Gray playing one of the characters It's it's beautiful. It's a mess, but I kind of love it Signal the stone throwers now But the point is that Advertising and marketing for these is easier and cheaper because there's just a tsunami of stuff that is released constantly You know new books new movies songs video games TV shows like all sorts of this new stuff and Frankly most you're not going to hear about the majority of it Like it's not even you're gonna hear about it and just not be interested and not watch it or read it or whatever Like you're probably just never going to even hear about it because they're just so much like no one could possibly keep track of it all but if Something comes up that is Robin Hood or Dracula or three musketeers or Wizard of Oz or whatever then you will at least recognize that and Even if it doesn't necessarily pique your interest you are going to pay slightly more attention to it and of all the people That know what those are and recognize it and pay slightly more attention to it There will be some percentage that actually get interested and look a little more into it and of those Small percentage that are more interested and look a little more into it Some will actually like consume slash buy the thing that is being advertised and like I mentioned a lot of these are direct adaptations, but a lot of them are You know just retellings where they in where they acknowledge that the original work exists But it's like based on a true story, but they changed a lot from the true story Like I mentioned Dorothy must die again Wizard of Oz is a well-known book in that world But it's like it's propaganda made to make Dorothy look good or something again I haven't read it. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on that and of all of these that I've seen The only one that is good is again the looking glass wars And it seems to me that the author basically just wanted to do a completely original story and then she just Slapped Alice in Wonderland on there as a way to grab attention because really if you just changed some of the names around And you didn't mention the whole bit with Lewis Carroll. You would be hard-pressed to even Recognize it as being based on Alice in Wonderland because it changes so so much And I get why you would want to put a recognizable brand on the thing that you spent a lot of time and effort creating like No matter how good art is it does need to get some sort of attention and in order to get attention sometimes it needs to do stuff that I Don't know I was gonna say dilutes it But I don't think that's necessarily the case like it just needs to do something anything to stand out from the pack so I Understand why people use public domain and hell I think a lot of people like see the original stories and like them and think okay I could do like a modernized version of this because in some cases these stories are Not necessarily bad, but they have aged quite a bit and don't appeal to modern people as much as they would have Whenever they first came out. But here's the real kicker, which I think is causing a lot of the problems here Very few people including the creators of this stuff like people who write crap like looking last war as Alice in Zombieland or the million other spin-offs and variations of all of these public domain works very few people have read the originals like Not a lot of you have read the original Wizard of Oz book You're very familiar with the franchise because you know, there's that movie from 1936, which is You know, it's stuck around for almost 90 years So like it's a good movie and everyone knows about it, but it also changes quite a bit from the original like for example The end of the movie is when Dorothy and the wizard are supposed to fly off in a balloon together But he accidentally goes off without her Like in the book there's quite a bit after that just as an example and a lot of people don't know that because they just they Haven't read the original book But also very few of you have read the original Dracula or the original three musketeers So like you know about these things, but you know about them Basically through Osmosis, you know, you know about them because they've been done and adapted so many different times that you're just Somewhat familiar with all of the many many iterations of them and the problem with this sort of thing is that you don't know Exactly why and how the originals were good or at least why the originals have stuck around for as long as they have You don't understand what appealed about them like you only know other people's interpretations and a lot of times Those interpretations are based on other people's interpretations, which are based on other people's interpretations And so there's just many many layers back before you finally get to the original and because there's so much Distance and you're playing this long-ass game of telephone with the original a lot of people Even if you're familiar with the you know franchise or our intellectual property or whatever you want to call it Even if they're familiar with it, they tend to make a lot of the exact same mistakes Which in many cases the originals didn't make like for instance the three musketeers in the original book the musketeers are a bunch of dipshit aristocrats who go around making a bunch of trouble while they're fighting other dipshit aristocrats and They kill a whole bunch of like common people in their Quests for power and quest for revenge and quest for pride and you know all this stuff like the musketeers aren't They don't really come across as heroes in the original story But a lot of the adaptations and retellings and everything have made them seem much more heroic because again a lot of people Haven't really read the original which I have I feel like I'm one of six people that has sometimes and the same is true for shit like Alice in Wonderland and Dracula and just all of these there's like weird aspects to them which weren't in the originals but have just become accepted as part of them in the broader culture and A lot of the times these aren't these aren't good. They're just doing the exact same shit over and over again because it's just Adaptations based on adaptations based on retellings based on adaptations based on different interpretations like it's inbreeding That's what it is. It is literary and philosophical inbreeding So yeah, this is basically what I'm getting to with the title of the video Just let public domain die. Just stop using it. I swear to God You really do not need to do this like again I mentioned earlier that people will attach a recognizable brand to whatever thing they're creating as a way to draw attention and Maybe that would have worked 30 years ago But it's been done a lot now like there are too many people trying to get attention with that exact same idea And so now this sea of like retellings of Alice in Wonderland retellings of Wizard of Oz Like this has become its own sea of crap and its own tsunami of shit Which is being thrown at people's faces and they just tune that out too. So you're it's just part of the flood You're not actually gaining any recognition and you're not really gaining Any eyeballs on your thing even if you want to anymore like so it's not actually helping you that much but also like I mentioned you're probably just Going to be making very similar mistakes that other people have made over and over and over again And even if you don't make those same mistakes like what are you really doing different? What are you bringing to the table here? Does this need to be told or said a million more times than it already has been told or said? I would say if you're like really interested in any of these franchises like check out the originals and see like What about them appeal to people and take inspiration from it? Like don't just try and redo it again Like don't say okay, I'll do Beauty and the Beast for a modern audience or I'll do Tarzan Except he's in the city now instead of in the jungle, which was an actual thing That was a show on the CW a long time ago look it up if you don't believe me But like instead of doing that just say okay We'll take inspiration from it and we'll do something kind of different with that idea like please just For the love of God stop inbreeding. I don't want to end on the stop inbreeding line So please like the video comment and subscribe to my channel Become a patron and all that other stuff and now here's the end credits.  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So seven wonders one of the games we picked we played like I don't know a ton of games that we have to review We've just been slowly like piling them up and then playing them more times to make sure basically seven wonders is the new hot game I heard about it, and I heard that it was the new hot game I played it a couple times at someone's house And then I played it a few more times at like a Zenkaikan and then rim bought a copy and played it even more Yep, it was sold out. I had to pre obviously, you know Yeah, you know already that if we played it so much and we kept going back to it that there is good a warning I am getting slightly tired of it, and I don't think it has staying power. I agree Well, there we go But anyway, it's still a great game I highly recommend you own it because straight up this is a game like Zulareto where it's not the best game if you're smart You'll have solved it pretty quickly and the winner will come down to luck But it's a game that you can whip out and play relatively quickly that you can teach Relatively quickly. It's a great game like at a con like you have a bunch of new people We should play a game You don't really want to spend 45 minutes teaching them Puerto Rico The game pretty much is almost exactly in the same niche as Ticket to Ride It takes about the same length of time to play It's got that same mechanic of on your turn All you do is one very small thing and you take a lot of small turns So the game goes very quickly and in fact this is even one better than Ticket to Ride because everyone takes simultaneous turns So there's absolutely no waiting for anyone to take their turn You just keep going and going and going and going over any arguments of oh so-and-so always doesn't take his turn That's a lie. You take just as long because you can see every round Exactly who's holding everyone up because everyone's taking their turn simultaneously. So always Scott Johnson. That's right So the way Seven Wonders works is you know You have there's a deck of cards and you split it up and you give everyone a hand and on your turn every turn of the entire Game all you do is play a card That's it And you and then you give that the remaining cards to the person to your left or right depending whatever and some of the Cards are resources and you basically tap the resources magic style every round So you build up this kind of increasing accumulation of resources and there's a whole bunch different kinds Yes, so you so early in the game you build up more resources and having more resources allows you to play other cards Which allow you to play other cards which allow you to play more cards that give you more points And then at the end of the game rose the most points wins, right? So it's all about you know getting a good sequence of cards that play into each other You know every if you play a card and you never use that card and never gets you any points You just wasted a turn because you could have used that card to get money instead Which would be worth at least one point now It has a lot of particular mechanics that are either cribbed from other games or just analogously grown like you build buildings Right and you can only build unique buildings So if there's a grainery and you build it you can't build another grainery, but you can build another building similar to a great Now the thing is many buildings have a notation on them that if you already have x building you can build this for free Yeah, it's basically identical to the way it works in Attica Yeah, for example, I learned by you know if you if you actually look at the cards of the game Right, I learned that there's a very the most difficult card to build in the whole game is worth like eight points I forget what it is. It might be the Parthenon or something. It's something ridiculous It's worth a ton of points But if you have a theater you can build that ridiculously expensive building for free So basically I always build the theater so that I can always try to get the expensive building for free And it's worked out in my favor two or three times already Yep, so it's like no wait once you know the cards the game starts to lose a lot of its luster because it's like Just sort of obvious the path to take Well, I wouldn't say the pad there. I don't know about three Maybe four Pads to victory. Yeah, this is the military path. Yeah, there's the green path Well military is a choice that modifies every path. It does true military alone does not win you the game I can get you at most ten plus six plus two points It's mostly the green path and the blue path are the way these ways to go right and green is harder to do But has a potentially higher payout like if one guy goes all blue and one guy goes all green green guys Probably gonna win because the way the math works But here let's talk about like the reason the pads are different You know not to get into the stupid details of the game because you should just buy it You'll read the rules. You see how it really works But the green path is these there's a sets of different science items Yeah, science cards So there's three types and you get points increasingly based on the number of sets of three that you get but also Two to the end points and being the number of one particular one that you have So basically all the green cards if you start piling them up They it makes sort of like a two-dimensional grid of scoring So all the green cards actually score twice in two different ways One of those ways it scores it scores exponentially and the other way it scores It scores linearly, but even the linear scoring is a multiple of seven Yep So you get basically every green card as you get more of them They see the amount of points that each individual green card gives you continues to go up at a very very high rate So if you're playing this game because that you know, it's two-dimensional grid It's actually fairly complicated until you figure it out and then it's obvious If you play this game with friends who have not played it before get all the green cards They will look at the green cards They'll glaze their eyes will glaze over when you explain how the scoring works and they'll ignore them You will win almost every time if you go for the green cards when people around you are not that bright or haven't played much Yeah, it is sort of interesting because there isn't a lot of interplayer You know there is a little bit right you can buy things from the people to your left or right and you military with the people to Your left or right and things like that and But it has a heavy left right mechanic Yes, and you know there's in you hand Pete you think about your hand You're you're we're gonna play a card But any cards you leave in your hand you're giving to the person to your left or your right depending on the age So there is you know significant impact you can have on your immediate neighbors in the game And in a three player game that's really significant because you're influencing all the other players But other than that there isn't a whole lot of interplayer You know mechanics or you can't destroy other people's cards. You can't steal their cards You can't there's really not much you can do to take points away from other people It's about the same It's a little more than say agricula in terms of how much you can actually fuck with everybody I say it's a little bit less than Puerto Rico because you could screw with people sort of the same way that you do in Puerto Rico Like aha, I played captain so you couldn't play captain You know, but it's like a little bit less than that because in Puerto Rico if I craftsman out from under you That could hurt you pretty badly, you know So my main problem with the game is that like I said, I think I have solved it mostly and I think when I play It really just comes down to luck. Yeah, and it didn't it took maybe eight plays to solve There's not that much going on in most people though Don't play a game as much as we do right they get a game and if they play it twice It's like oh, they're so happy You know, how many people play get a game and play it eight times I found that games like this in a couple weeks Will be played a lot or zulareto gets played a lot too just because like I said at the beginning They're quick to play that is true. It is quick to play. So if you do bust it out You're probably gonna play it too. I mean just takes a half hour tops if people are slow If people take their turn you'll whip out a whole game including scoring at the end in like 20 minutes The scoring could actually take as long as a whole age Just because you know, you have to add up so many different things and you know Some of them are slightly now the analogy of the game is Not as bad as lahab, which basically doesn't have an actual theme. It's just kind of like yeah boats and food Port it's a port town. Yeah, you make money But seven wonders you're playing a wonder Slash the civilization that built that one.  I think you're playing the city-state that has wrought the colossus But you know, everyone plays a wonder so sardia you can either pick them Or pass them out randomly and everyone has a little card And in addition to the cards in their hands that they're buying and passing back and forth You can also buy the improvements that make your wonder bigger like as you complete your wonder It does stuff and every wonder has a different set of powers and an a and a b side Yeah, so basically everyone has a wonder which is basically three unique cards that no one else has effectively, right? It's like everyone's playing with the same deck of cards, but each person has three cards Usually three sometimes four. I think there's one weird one weird wonder that is four But everyone basically has a handful of a few cards that are different from everyone else's cards that makes you unique Which gives you a little bit more replay value. It's like well, I'll play with the mausoleum Well, now I'll play with the hanging garden. So it's a little slightly different game If you have a different wonder and every wonder has two sides Which gives you a little bit more replay value because there's an a side Which is easy and direct and there's a b side Which is a little more complicated but potentially higher payout I would recommend when you play do the random allocation of the wonders but let players pick a or b I would recommend you do it completely randomly. No that gets boring because i'm already bored with the game I mean, I wouldn't play it unless I was teaching it or playing it with new people Or as like a warm-up game at a board game night. I would just definitely it's definitely a good warm-up game I don't know. I wouldn't make the highlight game though. No, but it is it is an excellent new warm-up game You know, and if I was short on warm-up games, I would definitely add it to my game library Even if I was I'm accumulating a lot of warm-up games because I lacked them I realized that I because people refuse to play the serious games people just play warm-up games And then they're done. Well, I particular I only owned some of the big heavy hitter games like al grande And t and e and I own a lot of the weird old out of print games like la chita I didn't own many quick whip them out games That's why I got zulareto and seven wonders and i'm ordering riko Zulareto takes a little bit longer than seven wonders. I think it's more of a mid It's sort of in between warm-up when I say well highlight There's different there's two kinds of warm-up games in my mind There's the warm-up game that's quick to play as in you whip it out You play it with everybody and then you play the main event And then there's the warm-up game like zulareto where you've got a bunch of people over you're gonna play a game You're gonna play games many games, but people are still wanting to socialize. They're not indie. Let's just play a game mode yet Zulareto you can socialize over without impacting the game I mostly think of zulareto as more like a settler's replacement right because like i'm looking down on settlers But zulareto I can still play a lot more easily than I can play guitar Settlers and zulareto are actually pretty equal to me zulareto is a much better gateway. I think too Uh, I don't know It depends on the person someone who is predisposed toward hardcore Settlers is a better like intro game someone who isn't zulareto is a better intro game anyway But yeah seven wonders is my other new hot my other trouble. I'll warn you now when you're teaching this game People who played magic as they were kids. They'll get the resources immediately.  I guarantee at least one of your players doesn't actually understand Yeah, and on top of that right even if people uh understand resources, right? There's a lot of the game requires you to notice a lot of small things on the cards For example, you know the you what this card upgrades to that card for free Well, it's a really tiny icon that says that so if you're not really looking closely at every card You might like say not build something even though you could have for free Uh, you know because uh People will also fuck up They will not remember that they can't build the same named building twice So they'll build the barracks and then they'll build the barracks again, and it just cocks up the game Hmm Anyway, other than that the game is great. Uh, I don't know if it was really worth msrp, but I'm glad I own it. Mm-hmm We're doing more show or is that enough? I think that's enough This has been geek nights with rim and scott special. Thanks to dj pretzel for the opening music


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Everybody forced here between 2023 Bowman's best university football delight five box number five random team style Let's randomize right now and then get started. Good luck everybody three and two five times names first one two three four and five Ramirez down to Greg T and then five times on our teams here one two three four and five Duke down to Texas No, I think I think Brown's gonna handle the Texans kind of easily Think Brown's got that one Remarse with Duke Brian T Georgia Chris V Notre Dame Greg T USC Richard H Clemson Greg T Ohio State Martin G Oregon Robert H Wisconsin and Greg T Arkansas Chris V Kansas State Kale F UCLA Wayne P Alabama Evan Y Penn State Stephen L Tennessee Chris V North Carolina Nenad with Washington Heath with Michigan Tobias Florida State Brian T Oklahoma LSU Evan Y Missouri Stephen L Ole Miss Evan Y Colorado Vincent G all other schools not not listed here and then Greg T with Texas Get these posted now guys not gonna recap this one's gonna be a quick break What we are behind I do want to make up a little bit of time here since we do got to get a lot of personal Dude, I'm telling you Brown's bucks super. Well, let's see it. Come on Brown's bucks First time I saw this horse like first five times. I didn't realize it was a Volta. I didn't realize it was I didn't connect the dots to like Saturday night Also, I just he's unrecognizable. Yeah Very much. So does not look like John Travolta from Greece or Pulp Fiction not even close All right, that is a Marvin Harrison Jr. Refractor to 75 yellow Xavier Worthy, Texas Parrish Jones for all other schools the 100 Green Mini Diamond Jaden Ott all other schools as well Gold to 50 DB Martinez also all other schools Oregon State First auto is gonna be chop Robinson for Penn State nice chop chop Robinson Dual auto here I can pick it up here will Howard and Jalen Daniels seven to ten the former rivals I think they both transfer. I think Jalen stayed right will Howard and Jalen Daniels That will be between Kansas State and all other schools random at the end this number seven to ten very nice hit So random between Kansas State and Kansas would be all other schools random at the ends Others Vincent Kansas and Kansas State Nice got a Blake Corum red auto nine of ten likely soon to be here a national champion And the driver seat at least right now awesome Corum to ten auto Michigan Wanted a bandits orange to 25 Javon Bollard for Georgia. I think part of this card is missing. I think Shawn bit this card And don't say more you see a lady 25 nice orange Yeah, it's a it's a good design I think for it. I don't know like die cuts, but if it's worked with the theme I'm all that is yeah And it's not that difficult the sleeves. Yeah, so I think that's the big thing It's a little sleeve.  Yeah Automatically go away Okay, I need a toddy right here. Hey, let's go It ain't over get on the line. Let's go. It ain't over. Let's go How do you stop? Yeah, I would love to see this get super interesting. Hell, yeah, the Fracture Grant Wells Votek is all others Dallara blue to 150 is all others as well for Arizona 200 bucky Irving, Oregon Blue to 150 Julian Fleming, Ohio States Green Mini Diamond to 99 Key on Keeley for Bama Gold auto Mackay lemon usc to 50 but they said he broke his finger right he broke his middle finger on a throwing hands Bad news for the Eagles man. And AJ Brown got hurt Dude, did you got to go on the road? Oh You auto is Dylan Gabriel Sooners Jersey Auto for Ohio State Emeka Igbuka very nice You should be what first or second round pick Assuming I don't even I don't know if you declared or not Igbuka nice one there There he is dude JJ McCarthy orange studio stars at 25 Michigan. Oh, no fracture. Oh, they said they thought it was broken I think at first Nice one Michigan and gold jacquory Brooks at a 50 for Alabama. I think I think it was like Eagles minus three I think I feel decent taking the bucks in that Let's get a touchdown Washington. Come on refractor Trey Benson Florida State Yellow to 75 drew pine color match Arizona State is all others It's 100 Antonio Gates, Jr. Michigan State all others green mini diamond drew a lar Penn State to 99 Gold to 50 Ruben Owens Texas A&M all other schools. Yeah, either way That's gonna be a low-scoring game this weekend. Oh nice hit here for the Razorbacks Arkansas KJ Jefferson auto number to 15 the new UCF quarterback go Knights Nice KJ for Arkansas Bama auto here is gonna be Kobe Prentice. I'm a Kobe Prentice How about a Travis Hunter Jersey Auto for Colorado? Buffs with a big one Evan Y Awesome Travis Hunter Masterpieces Blake Corum insert from Michigan and A gold to 50 Jorian Dickey for Oregon fourth down For the 13 That's all they've been doing is you're gonna start you get a keep throw like that You're gonna end up with earn long How many timeouts they got can they take a field goal here? They got three I guess it doesn't make sense. You'd be down 11 I guess you have to go for it 13 if you're only down by certain I just get fuel going trying to end but refractor Ruben Owens A&M there green mini diamond in 99 Jordan Travis, Florida state Lou to 150 UCF that's all others John Reese Plumlee Yellow to 75 or on-day Gazden Syracuse is all others Take miracles gonna fall short guys Scott green mini diamond to 99 Hartman for a Notre Dame Auto Tyler Newman Minnesota, that's all others Michael Penich jr. Auto 11 of 15 Washington awesome hits Grats Washington Wow, there's a hole. Oh, is there very nice Penich's ready to get that magged for you Washington and Drake may Jersey Auto UNC You will get that magged for you Grats, North Carolina Great box here dude a penix and a May North Carolina. We're yet. We're yet Chris V. Congrats Chris V Offsetting penalties Play for it down Gold wanted bandit to 50 Andrew Mokuba for Clemson. I for the cues That's a rendez-guards and that goes all others Number to five on the white and last one Lit through his guy That's ballgame And he's gonna take it to the house dude. He's gone. He's gonna that's it Big boy got him. Oh, oh, I mean, that's You just get to run it now Well, there it is refractor CJ Donaldson blue to 150 Trey Benson for Florida State Red to five Jalen Daniels Kansas all others It's 100 Donovan as a rock you all other schools BC blue to 150 camera rising for Utah Gold auto film off at a 50 for Clemson Tennessee auto Jalen right And his bathrobe like Like you had pressure coming and they had the right coverage like they got to get 13 yards like you just can't convert that It's tough. All they're doing is rushing for if you can rush for and collapse the pocket like you're gonna win the game That's exactly what they're doing Michigan front just Winning the game Michigan front just went in the game basically Jalen right there Casey Thompson number two 25 on the auto FAU Touchdown Here as well FAU goes all others wanted gunslinger Dante Moore for UCLA It's okay. It's a it's definitely want to hit a Panix auto stove gold to 50 justice Allison Wake Forest Yeah, he's been getting hit all night. All right, let's do a quick random here Do a lot of will Howard Jalen Daniels, so Kansas State and all of the schools here, Kansas is all other Luck seven to ten 11 on a random wherever's up top gets it one two three four five six seven eight nine ten and eleven go into Kansas States All right, thanks again everybody moving on now to number six