Yes, I am. Joining us from San Francisco is our resident film critic Michael Snyder. These are the movies he's going to be reviewing today. The Mummy, Megan and Levy, My Cousin Rachel, The Hero, The Hunter's Prayer, and The Last Men in Aleppo. Let's talk about The Mummy. Is that with Tom Cruise? I'm afraid so, and you will not want your mummy if you get my drift here. The Mummy is crummy. Let's put it this way. This is Universal's attempt to capitalize on their long-running monster movie series that developed in the 30s and 40s and went on to have many, many revisions, sequels, re-imaginings. Now they would like to do what Marvel and DC, the two comic book companies, have done respectively with Disney and with Warner Brothers, and that's to make a shared cinematic universe using all of these famous monsters of the past movie history, like The Mummy, The Wolfman, Frankenstein and his monster, Dracula, etc. They had a couple abortive starts. Dracula Untold should have been Dracula Unseen, for instance, and there was a Wolfman movie with Benicio del Toro, which I kind of liked, but they're starting fresh ostensibly with this mummy. And I'll tell you what, the Wonder Woman film that came out a week or so ago, certainly, As Head and Shoulders, the best thing that Warner's and DC did in their shared cinematic universe that includes the Batman and Superman films, and it's the way to properly do a blockbuster. But right out of the gate, Universal's branded dark universe is more like a dork universe in the most unflattering ways. The plot is a purile pastiche of old horror and sci-fi tropes with lead and dialogue and weak comic relief that counter very tired CGI effects, you know, sandstorms and the such. As soldier of fortune, Tom Cruise woefully miscast, and his buddy, also a guy out there that snatch up relics, despite being in the Middle East as part of America's military forces, come upon essentially an entombed mummy along with a young woman who has actually specialized in these relics.  I mean, one great action sequence in a plane is fine. And I mean, oh, for the joys of the Bretton and Frasier, Rachel Weisow did fair mummy movie that stole from Indiana Jones and some of the classic mummy tales of your, I think, 1999 that came out. But it did that with such bruv and a little, let's call it, Rick. Jake Johnson, by the way, who plays Cruise's pal, that is a guy from TV's new girl, Annabelle Wallace, who plays the young woman working for this organization that seeks out these monster oriented relics was wonderful as an Irish bartender and agent in Tiki Blangers, a period TV series that I highly recommend. Sophia Buquela, who plays the female mummy of the title, was great in the Kingsman movie. And we also get Russell Crowe, who is the only actor in this film who actually makes something of his character, someone meant to be the linchpin for this proposed universal shared monster verse. He's playing Dr. Henry Jekyll. Get it? You know, as in Jekyll and Hyde, he seems to be having a ball. They're going to maybe make Brighter Frankenstein next unless this thing tanks so terribly that they can't bring themselves to do it. There's rumors that Angelina Jolie's playing the Attitular Bride, but that presumes that this thing will not tank. The mummy, a grave, pardon the expression, this appointment should have been left inside the pyramid where it belonged. Yar. What studio made it? Universal? Yeah. They made the original, right? Right. That's what I just said. Universal has this stable of monsters and they're trying to have their universal monster verse that they're calling dark universe. The questionable brain. So yeah, there you have it. Should we move on to Megan Levy? Megan and Levy. No, no, just Megan Levy. Why do you say Megan and Levy? Because I wrote down Megan and Levy. You're just not paying attention. They were my original divorce attorneys. Ah, there we go. Now we're getting to the heart of the issue.  It's a real story. It's very well told. It stars Kate Mara and Tom Felton, who is best known as Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter films. She plays unrecognizably so and thoroughly American and noble. He plays an expert Army canine handler who is sort of the mentor of young Megan Levy. So it's the tale of a dog and the woman who grows to love it while she personally grows and begins to thrive as a human being in the combat zone. Are you saying this is a tale or she falls in love with the tale of the dog? It's the tale of a dog with a tale and I have to say as we tail off in sensibility here it's very, very well done. It's directed by a woman named Gabriella Calpriclate and written by a couple of women and a man. One of the writers of the script is Annie Molo who is Kristen Wiig's writing partner on Bridesmaids. So this is a real change of tone for her and I was you know... Does the dog poop outside as well like they did in Bridesmaid? The dog stands on its hind legs and delivers crazy quips down again as it's sniffing out bombs. You know, I just thought about sniffing out bombs. You'd think that the dog would have warned me about the mummy. Anyway, I thought this was what Kate Mara is very winning in this. She's playing a working class kid who's just aimless. Her life is going to crack. Her mom, played by Eddie Falco, you know, is a nightmare. She's a nightmare and she just enlists in the Marines and next thing you know... Is it pro-war? It's pro-dog. I think it's pro-dog. It's not really pro-war. It just accepts war as a circumstance that Megan finds herself in. Does it criticize our involvement? You know, American sniper, I had to turn off because it didn't question why he was there. I just couldn't get through. This is not about that. This is about a woman looking for purpose in her life who finds it in the armed forces and ends up getting kind of a sense of herself and becomes a better person because of her relationship with this dog and her attempt to save lives from the devastating IUDs out in the theater of war. Did you just say IUDs? That's what I meant. No, I guess I didn't mean IUDs. IEDs. Yeah, IEDs. It's blue. You sound like Ted Cruz.   If you talk about IUDs and pro-life, it's kind of confusing. I know. IEDs, yes. IED. Yeah. All right, so we should go see Megan Levy. Well, you should maybe watch it on video or support it in the theaters. I think it's going to be a good view on one of the premium cable channels. It's worth your time. Speaking of American sniper, Clint Eastwood directed that. Not a fan of Clint Eastwood, not a fan of his politics, not a fan of his movies, maybe a million-dollar baby. I kind of like that. And I noticed The New York Times voted that one of the top 25 films of the 21st century. And I thought it was pretty good, especially the ending. It was very uplifting. Agreed. I think his next film, Maybe You Kids Get Off My Lawn, is going to be a good one, didn't he make that with the car, the Pontiac, or what was that Ford Transant? Yeah, it was called Transant. It should have been called Get Off My Lawn. I think that really would have sold the movie.  But I watched Sully with Clint Eastwood directing and Tom Hanks. It's a masterpiece. If he's a fine director when he has a good script and he generally has great instincts for casting, he knows what he's doing. I'll tell you what, I talked about this last week. Some of these old guys have not lost a step.  All right. My cousin Rachel, is this a sequel to My Cousin Vinny? You wish. Not at all. By the way, written and directed by Robert Mitchell, who is best known for doing Notting Hill, this is an adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier book, and it stars oddly enough, and we mentioned earlier as being the co-star of the good recent Mummy movie, recent being 1999, Rachel Weiss plays My Cousin Rachel. Must not have been too confusing on the set. Anyway, this is rather gothic as a young Englishman decides to mask and get revenge against this mysterious beautiful cousin that he thinks murdered his guardian and is just trying to collect all the money left to her in the wake of this guy's death. He doesn't really expect to be, you know, drawn into her whip by her beauty and grace and elegance, so it's not a modern romantic comedy like Notting Hill at all. Dark, gothic period piece, and it's well done, you know, with the storm-battered English coastal dwellings and, you know, the heather on the heath and etc. etc. You know, Weiss is deep and bewitching and inscrutable as Rachel. You can't beat that. She really does a wonderful job in, you know, kind of misleading you and drawing you in herself. The Sam Claflin, as Philip, who is both instigator and victim in the situation, he's quite good. You know, he's a little on the callow side and the pampered side, and he's trying to make sure that his mule ticket isn't taken away from him, the inheritance, and the lovely holiday granger who played, she actually played Lucretia Borgia in the miniseries of Borgias opposite Jeremy Irons as the Pope Borgia, the Borgia Pope. She's in this thing. Ian Glenn from Game of Thrones plays a family friend and advisor. Everybody does what they're supposed to do.  Again, start to wear you down a little bit.  And again, Rachel Weiss is, she's a wonderful and talented actress and, you know, she carries the film. And one of my favorite songs from The Sound of Music. Rachel Weiss. It would be what? Rachel Weiss. Oh, Rachel Weiss. Rachel Weiss. Yeah, yeah, I love that, dude. Was it as good as Notting Hill? Did we like Notting Hill? Yeah, Notting Hill was sweet entertainment, but this, this, you know, is a slog, a bit of a slog. It's, you know, again, she's wonderful in it. And the period detail is well, well executed.  Turgid. Speaking of turgid, speaking of turgid, I directed the porn version of Notting Hill. Did you know that? Yeah, it must have a zany title. What would that be? No, it didn't have a zany title. I directed it. I didn't write the script. I didn't come up with the title. It was called Notting, I'm sorry, it was called Not at Rag.  Not at Rag? Not at Rag.  I never understood. Huh? Oh, I know. I'm sitting here nodding. I'm nodding off. Hey, let's move. Can we move on? Yeah, I'm just a host standing in front of a movie critic asking him to love me. That's all. You mean to laugh at you? Well, you're going to have to do a little more prestidigitation in the humor department. But let's move on. Can we move on? Well, I just, I, yeah, we can move on. Don't get so grumpy. You're getting grumpy. No, no, no. I'm fine. You know, I'm thinking about the turgid Gothic romance and I'm thinking there must be something more to life than that. Okay. Chris Christie's favorite movie, The Hero. Delicious. No, that would be the hoagie or the grinder. The hero. Okay, man. The hero, to me, was very well done. And again, it's a personality profile. It's a portrait of someone in crisis, like Megan Levy in a way, but radically different. It's about a movie star aging and dealing with illness who has to kind of face what's going on in his life and confront his own mortality.  I like that word titular. Sam Elliott, whose drawl is all over commercials, who always plays a rough hewn Western icon type. And so when they do little vignettes in the hero showing the work this actor did, it's always, you think, oh, yeah, I saw Sam Elliott in that movie, even though these are little scenes and segments that were shot and written and shot and acted specifically for this film. One of the wonderful things about the movie, other than Elliott being like a comfortable shoe in terms of the character, is that it probably truly reflects aspects of Elliott's life. You see this guy whose film career has sort of dwindled a little bit, but he's making bank doing commercial voiceovers. So you see Sam Elliott in what might really be a Sam Elliott commercial voiceover doing that. But he also has a personal life. And in that life, one of his best friends is dealer Nick Offerman. That's not actually the name of the character. He's the great comic actor. Nick Offerman plays the Sam Elliott character as dealer.  Is this text writer's granddaughter? Not at all. She's a lovely former model who was a wonderful and engaging actress and part of the big Marvel mega universe with the Netflix show. No relation to John Ritter. No, not at all. War to Jason Ritter, John Ritter's actual son is also an actor and former. This is yet another Ritter. There are other Ritters out there, my friend. Okay. And she's one of Laura Prepon from that 70s show in Orange is the New Black plays a young woman who becomes fascinated by this old dude. And of course, that's the sort of thing to give an old guy like me hope. But that aside, everybody's fine. We've kind of been here before we've seen this kind of thing before, but there is something so reassuring and engaging with Sam Elliott at the heart, essentially playing a less acclaimed version of himself. You know, it's it's it worked. I guess co written and directed by Brett Haley. I thought the hero again, like Megan Weavies, we're seeing it and would probably be just fine on your home entertainment setup if you catch it on online streaming or watch it on one of the cable channels. But you know, if you want to support this sort of thing, you know, go to a movie theater, the hero is a solid portrait of a man in crisis. Sam Sam Elliott was in a very underrated movie from the 70s called The Lifeguard, which when it came on television, I would watch over and over again. Because Paul Williams wrote the theme song. Do you remember a movie called The Lifeguard? He plays an aging lifeguard who plays an aging everything. Has he ever played a young man in his entire career?  One of those guys, you know, he seems to have that thing. I would rather sit down and have a beer with Sam Elliott than, you know, Clint Eastwood any day. Yeah. And he took a lot of ribbon growing up in that small British coal town wanting to be a dancer. Oh, no, I was Billy.  Come on. Come on. Oh, my mistake. All right. Was there any movie that Sam Elliott was in that was a big hit? I mean, up in the air, he, you know, he came in at the end. But I mean, what plays a dancer? No, did Sam Elliott ever break through? And he's been, he's been in a few good westerns and stuff. Yeah, he's got a nice filmography. We don't have to rattle it off, but he does. He's made some fine films and he always delivers that sort of rough hewn, sometimes folksy, frequently effortlessly charming despite his, you know, his sort of draw on his like leather chaps and what have you. He's just a good actor and he's got a great presence and a very specific one. The Hunter's Prayer You know, if you've seen Leon, the professional, you've kind of seen a better version of this movie. If you've seen the Taken movies and we were joking about them last week, you've seen a better version of this movie. If you would sub Liam Neeson for Sam Worthington of Avatar fame in this film, you've got a slightly better B movie, but still it's not bad for what it is. It's basically about an assassin who has as his target, a young girl, a college girl who is away at school in Switzerland when her father and her father's second wife are killed by other assassins and there's one more member of the family that's got to be taken out and it's our heroine and that would be the character Ella played by Odea Rush. So Sam Worthington is Lucas the assassin and it turns out that the assassin, in addition to having a drug problem, also kind of has a heart and decides he's going to protect her from the villainous and vile head honcho of a grand and perverse corporation. And interesting in the case of the villain, it's played by Alan Leach, who was one of the more lovable people on Downton Abbey. He replays a full on prick and does a really good job. And I don't know if you've ever watched Line of Duty, which is a terrific British police procedural that it goes beyond what we do on our American police procedurals, because you know, the British, Martin Compton, who's kind of I should mention that line line of duty was also a documentary about the Porto San at the Puerto Rican Day Parade in Manhattan on Sunday. I know, I know it's all about the beans. Martin Compton plays the other assassin.  I was entertained by this. It plays out the way you expect you to hope and expect it would I stream it, you know, I'm just telling you, it's not anything to go seeing a movie theater, but the Hunter's Prayer. How shall I put this not terrible? Boy, is that damning with pink grace. This one is intriguing. Last Men in Aleppo. This is a documentary that opened a few weeks ago in New York and Los Angeles, if I'm not mistaken. And it won the grand jury prize for documentaries at Sundance, and rightly so. It is the collaborative effort of a Syrian filmmaker, a guy named Firas Fayad, and a Danish co-director, Stine Johansson. And it's basically cinema verite right in the middle of the Syrian conflict. As they follow with their cameras, a few of the members of the White Helmets, which apparently basically it's kind of like a citizen's militia who are trying to save people when the bombs drop in Aleppo. And so there's a few of them, Khaled, Subi, and Mahmoud are kind of founders of the group, White Helmets. And the movie follows them during their days in the middle of this horror as they try to get people out of the rubble and also deal with the fact of either they're going to be in the midst of this ground zero nightmare in Syria, or they and their families are going to bail out if they can and take the refugee route. So there's the aspects of the morality and the question of whether or not you abandon your home country just for the salvation and the greater safety or whether you fight for it or try to preserve what you love and what was so dear to you. And it's kind of amazing. These people have guts, man. They are courageous and steadfast. And I thought it was, you know, eye-opening to say the least and obviously worth seeking out and watching. Your thoughts on the passing of Adam West, the star of Batman, who gave us a second career parroting himself much the same way William Shatner did. Adam West, great sense of irony. Terribly, terribly funny charming man. And everyone I know who knew him now knew him said he was a sweetheart and very generous as a performer and generous as a celebrity to those who followed him and loved him. You know, not only has Gotham City lost its protector or it's the most beloved protector because it's kind of hard to love the Batman of the Dark Knight series.  And you know, it was wacky and campy, but the 60s TV Batman TV program was for many people the quintessential Batman. The first thing they saw in electronic media that depicted the comic book hero that is now obviously not only a brand, but a marketing giant and obviously central to DC's Warner Brothers movies that we talked about a little earlier. Adam West was funny and wacky and at the same time elegant in the way and we've lost that Batman and we've also lost the mayor of Quayhog in the guy. For some reason, Seth MacFarlane thought, you know, we're going to bring Adam West in to play the mayor of the town where the cartoon family, the Griffins lives and he made fun of his persona. He delivered some of the biggest laughs and the whole family guy run as far as I'm concerned. There's a sequence where the noise shows up from the piece of ads and the mayor West takes the little guy and basically slams him against the wall and you know, renders him unconscious and you know, I had laughed out loud at innumerable times when Adam West delivered his lines on Family Guy. Great stuff. Some of my children came of age comedically watching Family Guy and Adam West, Mayor West was one of my daughter's obsessions. She thought Adam, not having seen Batman, you know, who else loved Adam West was Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel. They were huge fans of Adam West. They put together that pilot for that hilariously funny TV show that was way ahead of its time starring him. It was a parody of, you know, the private detective, police procedurals and such. Extremely funny, no laugh track and the networks didn't buy it. You can actually seek it out on YouTube, I think, but you know, he was a very talented man and he had a lot of, he was just lovable and genial and people just got a kick out of him. One of the last things he did that had anything to do with the Batman franchise was something called, I believe, Return of the Caped Crusaders and it was a DC animated cartoon that came out in the past year that was inspired by and kind of mimic and, you know, reproduced the campy 60s Batman stories. And it was funny. He did the voiceovers and obviously Batman was depicted as a young and vital man, but you could still hear, you know, the quaver, a slight quaver of age that he had and it was a little, you know, kind of, it made me think. It made me think about how much longer we have this guy on the planet and sadly he took the bat rocket into the heavens where he's joining a lot of my pop culture heroes right now. Before you go, there's some videos I'm considering watching this week on Netflix to stream very quickly a United Kingdom. It's a very earnest, documented drama that deals with one of the most high-profile interracial couplings in recent history. While we have had issues here in America, the idea of a white British woman marrying a black tribal king of one of England's, I guess you would call, allies in Africa was horrific to the populace in the 50s and these folks, you know, went ahead and said, screw you, we're living our lives and it's actually pretty well done. Good chance, too. David, what's his name? Oh, Yellowo and the girl, Rosamund Pike, who was in a Pierce Brosnan Bond film. And is it, don't ruin it for me, but is it pro-interracial marriage or anti, is the message anti-interracial marriage or pro?  Well, I'm gonna put that on a double bill with loving. That would be appropriate. It's odd that the two came out around the same time and they are sort of twins in a way. I think loving is a slightly better and more moving film, but the story behind, you know, the United Kingdom movie is one worth learning about.  Land of Mine looks interesting. Have you seen that? It is one of my favorite films of the past year or so. It is a historical drama. You know, it's, you can only hope that people have learned the lessons that Ward teaches us because this is one of those situations where, you know, it's almost unbelievable the cruelty and, you know, the craving for revenge that seems to be inherent in a lot of, you know, these situations that we're, that we confront, you know, it's, this is a very powerful film and it's about forgiveness. It's about revenge. It's about a lot of things. And you know the basic premise, right? No. At the end of World War II, there were unexploded minds that were lining, I believe, the Danish coast. Is that right? Maybe.  And so in order to get them removed, what they did was they brought in German prisoners of war and said, okay, boys, you're going to clean up the mess that your fellows left, like it or not.   It's a very, very good film and, you know, it's inspired by actual events. And, you know, the Danish didn't really know what to do. There were two million land mines that the German army planted on the coast there. So they have to have these kids dig them up. And they're mostly young POWs, dig up the mines with their bare hands. So it's brutal, very disturbing, very provocative, beautifully acted. And, you know, again, a story that should be told that people should know about war is monstrous. And hey, these guys didn't apparently care about the Geneva Convention. Hey, boys, you're going to dig up mines. Well, America still will not be a signatory to the worldwide ban on mines. We still believe in planting land mines. That was one of Princess Diana's causes. And finally, the sense of an ending. The sense of an ending. Trying to recollect that. I believe I saw it. And I think it's probably worth watching. Okay. And so leave it at that, if you will. I will leave it at that. It's probably the best way to look at it. Yeah.  They're in the tank. I think they may be sellers instead of buyers around the All-Star Break. It's not a pleasant situation for a giant span to see them 10, 12 games under 500. I'm far more concerned with the Golden State Warriors somehow eliminating the evil empire from Cleveland and their vile leader, LeBron James. I've had enough of that guy. Let me tell you. So yeah. How the Mets do it. How the Mets and Yankees do it. The Mets are not doing that great. They're still within striking distance of the leader role in their division. The Yankees are winning the American League East right now. And frankly, I'm not a big fan of either team. But if I had to say or choose between the two, I'm more of a Mets supporter. But that may only be because the Mets logo is an orange NY stolen from the original New York Giants ball caps. And so I have a little San Francisco New York Giants connection to the Mets. And the Dodgers before you go. Hate them. Can't stand them. They're my arch enemies. They are flirting with the top of the National League West at the moment. And I think maybe a game out or game or two. And I can only hope that they go down like the dogs they are. I'd rather have, you know, my whole philosophy in terms of the National League West is A B D anybody but Dodgers. And certainly I would prefer the Giants to somehow rally from all these games under 500. But they've been beset by injuries. And, you know, again, I can only crow about three world championships over the past six, seven, eight years. So that's unheard of the Giants did it. I should be satisfied with that. But you know, I would not be happy if the Dodgers won the division.  I said, Really? He said, Yeah, there was a lecture hall filled with 300 students and the professor was a San Francisco Giants fan. And he started the lecture by saying, Well, it looks like the San Francisco Giants are going to the World Series. Isn't that great? And everybody applauds. And he says to my son, I noticed you weren't applauding.  And everybody starts booing my son, right?  Remember that? Wow. I have bad guys, Brian Stowe. And I don't know whether the people that beat him are still in the clink or not, but they certainly deserve to be his life is destroyed. Oh, is it really? Yeah. Yeah. But how badly did they beat him? They beat him into a coma that he stayed in for a number of months. Is he okay now? He will never be okay. These constant rehab, constant care, you know, it's, it's a tragedy, a real tragedy. Well, I'm going to have to yell at my son. I didn't know that because yeah, nothing funny there. No, I know. And he said everybody booed me. And I finally, he goes, I finally figured out how you feel all the time. And I laughed really hard, but I didn't know that the guy was that messed up. So that was inappropriate. I'm sorry. I apologize. Incidentally, I recall the sense of an ending, and it's a little drive. It's one of those British character studies that they do so well. I've got a great cast. So you may want to look into it. But, you know, seriously, land of mind is the movie of the ones you mentioned that I would say seek out on Netflix. I did the porno version of a sense of an ending. Really? Was it something about the tip of a penis? Come on. Please. Oh, sorry.  It was called The Scent of an Ending. A little subtler than what I said. Yeah. I will grant you that. But still, come on. Come on. Come on. Speaking of endings, Michael Snyder is our resident film critic. Fantastic job. We'll talk to you next week. Sure.


Early organized labor under the leadership of Conrad Giorgio and Tuesday made bold its threat to stage a protest over the continued hunger, poverty and insecurity that has caused serious hardship on the citizenry, despite the government's plea to show understanding. The Nigerian Labor Congress, together with other affiliated bodies, started the march on the early hours of Tuesday from the headquarters of the Nigerian Labor Congress located at the central business district to the National Assembly to protest the serious hardship Nigeria is experiencing since the removal of subsidy by the precedent brought an amicable on assumption of office on May 29, 2023. It is important that all of us talk something new, that this is not just a symbolic rally, but it is a rally to signal to the people in authority that they are struggling in the land. People are dying of hunger. People are dying of downfall. This is a body for Mr. Conrad Giorgio speaking, but some of us don't. And that might not happen to this moment. We are here already, again, to tell you that hunger is a gender in the land. If that is right, it cannot be brought to the National Assembly. In his response, the representative of the leadership of the National Assembly and Chairman's Senate Committee on Labor, while assuring that the leadership of the National Assembly is aware of the hardship being faced by Nigerians. Assured that the National Assembly will interface with the executive to address the situation. I won't just put some sentences into the tongue they address position now. I will say in trans tribulation, everything is fine. I think that's what's allowed by the leadership being that the very amount that have been covered by the Democrats, everything is being changed. In the mouth of the leadership, they're not telling me This cannot, cannot be a matter. We understand this need of a common. We see what we see. What has led me that this matter will be discussed immediately at the plenary session. The leadership of the National Assembly please have your seat. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. For anyone new to the channel, my name is Lee, also known as Osiris. I hope you're all doing well. And in today's episode, we're going to be discussing all of the news updates for series 8 that have just dropped in regards to the online rank ladder system that will be kicking into effect on the 1st of February. As you can see, we got a tweet here from Joe over at Sarah B and just give Joe and Sarah B a little follow over on Twitter if you haven't already. If you want up-to-date news, if you want the precise news at the precise time that it comes out, Joe is your guide to follow and just a big shout out, really, because he does help out myself and I'm sure a lot of others out there. So here we go into today's episode series 8 rules. We are coming to the end of series 7, which we're currently in now in the rank doubles ladder. That's predominantly what we're going to be discussing. But the series 8 rules, there was a lot of kind of talk about what it was going to be. Was it going to be GS couple? We're going to get another band list, but it's been announced that we are going to be getting something very interesting. So without further ado, let's hop over to Sarah B and we can take a deep dive into what we'll be doing. So as you can see, the rules will come into effect on the 1st of February. They will run until the 30th of April. So we've got a few months of these rules and the meta game to develop as well. It will mean that the players cup, the next round of players cup 3, the regional heats will be included with this rule set. So this is what the rule set will be for players cup 3.  The singles will kind of leave because we are predominantly more of a doubles channel. And this will be concerning the rank doubles ladder going forward from the 1st of Feb when the rules will update. But as you can see, Pokemon restrictions available national deck Pokemon. So every Pokemon in the national decks is allowed if they have the Galamark or battle ready mark. So we know what those are for court and game or if you've been to the guy in the battle tower and got the mark on the Pokemon that's been traded. Pokemon limits. Now this word gets interesting team of four to six Pokemon from level one to 100 or Pokemon then set to level 50. We know that already restricted Pokemon. Here we go. One of the following per team. So you can have a team of all the Pokemon that we were used to using in series seven. But you can also add an additional restricted Pokemon, one of the legendary Pokemon, which is going to be either one of this next following list, which is Mewtwo, Lugia, Hoho, Kyogre, Groudon, Rekwaza, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Reshirom, Zekrom, Curem, Xenius, Yveltal, Zygoth, Cosmog, Cosmome, Sogaleo, Lunala, Nekrosma, Zassian, Zamazenta, Eternatus and Kalorex. Wow. Okay. Now that's, that is, that is a big decision.  These are restricted Pokemon. These are big hitters. These are big powerful Pokemon. We've already had a kind of teaser with an event recently online event where you kind of had a similar sort of rule although you've got two or more restricted Pokemon. So you've had a little fun in the doubles seeing how they operate there and these Pokemon are ridiculously powerful. So adding one of them to your in-game party now, it changes the landscape of the format completely. It's going to be very interesting going forward. Obviously, going down, we'll just cover all the rules before we get into anything else. They allowed Gigantamax Pokemon all the same as what they were before. Battletimer is still 20 minutes. Your time's seven minutes. You get 90 seconds team preview and your turn time is 45 seconds. The eight ranked battle series focus on the Pokemon of the Gala Pokedex, the Isle of Armor Pokedex, the Crown Tundra Pokedex and any other Pokemon obtained in the games will allow you to utilize restricted legendary Pokemon once in your team. So that is a recap and go down and see the restricted Pokemon again. I've went through the list. I'm sure you don't want me to repeat them again, but we can see all their nice pretty sprites here and their typings.  Unfortunately, we've not come to the point where we're going to get mythical Pokemon allowed in VG events, even though a lot of them are already obtainable in the game through special events or whatnot. But one day, my friends, one day we'll be able to use Melmetal and Jurachi and friends, but that they will have to wait, unfortunately. But yeah, so lots to talk about in today's episode. Obviously, the restricted Pokemon, as I've said, make a big difference to your teams. And you can see here, I think some of the ones to kind of give a big shout out. Well, it's hard to just give a big shout out to a few of them, because all of them are kind of surpassing everything else that we've got already. Obviously, the only ones that can't Dynamax are going to be Zassian and Zamazenta. But in their own right, they are very strong because of the abilities that they have. Obviously, the typing as well, Zassian and Fairy typing, it's the only other Fairy typing outside of Zernius. And we've seen the impact that Zernius has made in Formats before. Zernius is going to be one that you're going to have to watch out for as well. Again, a very powerful one, a good Fairy type, something that's been lacking in series seven really. So something that players can rely on that and Zassian. But you've got things like Mewtwo, very fast Pokemon, probably not going to make as much of an impact as it may have done in previous Formats. Still nothing to be underestimated, but with things like, you've got Dragapult now, and you've got Spectria, Speed Ties with it, the Ghost typings do make it a little bit difficult for it. I think the same with Lugia, although Lugia now having access to its multi-scalability definitely gives it a good place in the Format. That psychic flying type as well is quite nice, matching up with the Galarian Articuno. So it's kind of like a little upgrade on there, just with a few missing moves, and a few other supporting options that it's got access to. Now Houta is a very interesting one, Houta is a Pokemon I love. Fire flying type as well, with access to its hidden ability Regenerator, which makes it incredibly strong. Switch it out, you get a bit of HP back and bring it back and cycle it in and out. Houta is just a tank as well, especially if the Fairy types like Zassian and Zonius become quite popular. Houta is one of those Pokemon, super high, special defense stat. It's going to be able to kind of soak up those Fairy type attacks and deal with those Pokemon quite reasonably.  And recovery as well, which is not something that is commonly seen throughout these restricted Pokemon. So yeah, Houta would definitely something to look at, definitely a bit more reliable for those new players coming in, but you've got to be careful about those Rock type attacks. And for the next Pokemon that we're going to be discussing as well, which is Kyoga, obviously Kyoga Groudon Requaza, they've been staples in every single format that they've been available in. They're always going to be used. They bring the Sun, the Rain, and obviously the airlock to nullify the weathers respectively. So yeah, very strong Pokemon. And the fact that Requaza still gets access to Dragon Ascent now, which is its primary, like its predominant move that it used in previous formats to Mega Evolve, obviously haven't got the Mega Evolution mechanic anymore, but it still gets access to that really strong 120 base attack. So you know, it's a very strong Pokemon still, nothing to scoff at with the airlock ability as well. It's good at disrupting opposing weathers and kind of stopping a lot of teams in their tracks. Kyoga Groudon, there's not really much to say about them. We know how good they are as Pokemon, the drought and the drizzle ability there. And you can slap a scarf on something like Kyoga and it can become very, very powerful. And you've got access now to that really good combination of Tornadus and Kyoga again, the prankster tailwind, the fast water spout in the rain. It's going to be nasty and it's going to be something that players are going to have to kind of prepare for for sure. Dialga Palkia, two of my favourites for sure. And we might be getting new games based around the next three later in this year. Who knows? That's a discussion for another time though. But yeah, the Steel Dragon, obviously a really nice Pokemon. Water Dragon, I do like Palkia a lot. They've got good bulk about them, like most of the Restricted's do and Giratina as well, another Pokemon. I think falls a little astray and a bit more into the camp of the psychic types where there's a lot of faster ghost types now that will threaten it and give it a bit more of a harder time. But it doesn't mean to say it can't do well. Reshiram, very good Pokemon, nice typing with the dragon and fire there, Zekrom. And I am just kind of skipping through these Pokemon as we're going because obviously I don't want to keep this video too long. It is just a kind of overview of the rules update. But it'd be nice to talk about these Pokemon as we're going through them, I think as well. So hopefully you guys are enjoying this and interesting. So yeah, you've got the Reshiram, Zekrom, Curam and you're going to have the Curam variants as well, obviously Curam, Black, Curam, White, which you can do in-game now. And then the most famous one of all, the one that everyone hates. But it hasn't got some of its supporting options this time around. Obviously not all the Pokemon are in the format. So we don't have Smeagol to help old Zernius out this time with Evaltel which is, I don't know, is it an upgrade on Maltres? It's a completely different Pokemon. Evaltel is always going to be one of my favorite restrictors as well. I do like Evaltel a lot. I still think it's going to have a good impact in the format for sure. But again, it falls straight of those fairy types that are going to be predominant. And I can really see Zassian being one of the most dominant Pokemon used in the format. Honestly, Zygarde, a great Pokemon, all-round great Pokemon, great typing as well, dragging in ground. And it's got that amazing ability where it can go into its final complete form. Like good old Freezer and just be an absolute pain and coil kind of going to be your most probably seen set used on Zygarde. Cosmog, I don't know about you, but we might see a few Cosmog and Cosmom on some fun teams, but probably nothing serious. So Galeo's an interesting one. It's got a really nice typing, psychic steel. It gives it lots of resistances. And against the fairy types as well, it could be very good. Sunsteel Strike is its signature move. And it's been good in previous formats where it's been allowed. So I can see it's been good again in this format. Lunala is pretty much the same. Love Lunala. Such a good Pokemon. The Crosmog probably not so much. And then we come on to the beasts of this game, which I think will be used a lot. Zassian, Zamazendra. Zassian definitely going to be used a lot.  The rest of these restricted Pokemon can all Dynamax, but Zassian's Zamazendra do not have that ability. So they need some sort of compensation for that. And they do have it. And I would imagine you're going to see probably more Zassian than you are Zamazendra, but I wouldn't discount ever seeing Zamazendra. I still think it's a very strong Pokemon. Good option. Eternatus is an interesting one. It's the only poison type or partial poison type restricted Pokemon we've got. I'm a bit on the fence with how Eternatus is going to perform in this format, but it's nice typing. We've seen dragon poison types do well in formats before, but it's one that I'm interested in, but I'm not really too afraid with how it's going to perform. So as we go forward, I guess we'll find out. And then we've got Kalorex, which we know, you know, Kalorex is just crazy Pokemon in itself. So that wraps up the rules. Obviously, we've mentioned that the mythicals aren't going to be allowed. We've given a brief overview of this, but it was just today to give you an update on series eight dropping on the 1st of February, because I'd like to stay on top of these rules updates, especially going forward. I think it's interesting to talk through them a little bit. Just get your heads around them to get you prepared for the 1st of February. And obviously, I will have a bunch of content coming out in preparation for it. We'll be looking at team builds. The different will take a depth and in depth look at these restricted Pokemon and take a closer deeper dive into these Pokemon before we get to the 1st of February to hopefully get everyone up to speed as best as possible with what the format is going to start to look like in the coming weeks. But I'm going to round it up there, wrap it up there, friends. Thank you so much for tuning in. If you like this sort of content, please let me know down in the comment section below. It's not something I generally do. Just sit in front of the camera and just talk about these things, these news updates. But it is something I genuinely like doing. And like I said, we're not going into too much detail today, but we will get into a lot more detail as the weeks come forward. And I get a bit more time to spend looking at these individual Pokemon and we'll take a real look at what some of them are capable of and what the threats are and how we can go about approaching the new format. So we're all on a level playing field going into the 1st of February. Right. Going to wrap it up there, friends. Have a great rest of your day, whatever you're up to. And I will catch you all for another episode very soon. Take care. Bye-bye.


My name is Staff Sergeant Tyler Franklin, RSO here at Range 117. That'll happen a few times. Safety's our biggest concern on a range. What's it take to get done screening? Make sure we get confirmation with the TC. He's got all of his weapons opened up so we can check them out, make sure there's no rounds inside the chamber. Check the 50 cal, the TC's 50 cal. Check the loader's 240. Once you get done with those two up top, we hop down on the inside the turret when we check the breech, the breech needs to be open. Make sure there's no main gun rounds inside. The gunner who's sitting to the bottom right of the turret, he has his selector switch in safe. He has his LRF which is the laser in safe. He also has his coax feed tray cover open so that I can see inside of that feed tray to make sure again there's no rounds inside of there. I've had the Plymouths are being in every spot on the tank and now being a tank commander. These are massive killers man, that's the biggest piece, the best piece of equipment that the Army has on the battlefield without fail.


yes girl she is back she is back she is back for another chit chat if y'all hear anything first of all let me explain to you I am feeling a certain type of way cuz I have so much do you see that I have so much great hair coming in not a lot you guys but I've noticed an extra six to seven strands and she's always over here in this area so it is what it is girl if you hear anything it's my little space heater because I'm cold y'all I don't know what's going on with the heat in here but Mr. Man acts like he doesn't want to do anything so it's time for another chit chat full of randomness and foolery you already know how it is we talk about a little bit what's going on in these YouTube streets we talk about what's on TV and then some random stuff that pops in my head I do have a couple of things I have jotted down y'all let me see if I can hear myself let me play back this real quick to make sure that this heater isn't driving me out hold on yeah y'all that was a little too loud so I went ahead and turns it off so yeah y'all decide to come on and do a little chit chat work it's really really slow right now at my job it typically gets slow which I think it depending on what type of what area you in I should say but for me personally since I work with adult education and people need to be in the office girl to train your ass people typically take off they take off for the holidays so between mid-November to the 1st of January there's literally nothing going on both internal and external training so yeah so yeah her hair has been a little busy lately look at look at the length I'm getting you guys so how long can I go with this girl you know better than that said it's been two weeks right now it's been about two weeks of me not washing my hair and this has been out for a good two days I don't know what made me think that I could go another three or four days with my hair looking like this is not gonna happen because what it'll look good on the outside but in the inside it'll get matted up like right now if I put my hand through here it's caught because it's tangled at the root so we are gonna be pre-pooing and let's just get right into it let me show you guys what I'm gonna be using so do you remember this the salt anacles can't believe let's see if that a zoom in for y'all the salt anacles can't believe it's not butter now this is made with coconut milk and Jamaican black castor oil I started to do a review on this but I noticed that the type of coconut oil she used for this is the one that is it kind of beats up almost you know what I'm talking about so it was sitting on my hair it wasn't absorbing even when I tried to rub it in I don't know if you can even I can even woods it's even worse now that it's cold let me see if you can see this so do you see how I can even feel it you guys I can feel it so what I'm going to do is use it as a free pool because I'm gonna wash it out right I'm gonna wash it on anyway all right you guys let me go ahead and start section let me hush up section off my hair so what's going y'all what's what's going on what's the tea yes look at her give in that girl I should have made use of this hair you know what y'all wait when we're done I'm sorry y'all when we're done we're gonna go ahead and read the book of Corinthians cuz I'm all out of pocket so um sectioning my hair off and I'm on I am going to be lightly misting my hair with water and then what is it applying this product but y'all real quick last night my whole aim last night was to do a hair related video for y'all hairstyle I could not I don't know what what was going on you have one of those days where you try to do a hairstyle and you've done this style before and it's just not coming out the way you want it and it like a perm rod or a flexor right and you just can't get it down so I was trying to do a one curl and I just I could not get the dangle thing to do what I wanted to do and I've done one curls now how many times I've done them three times and I filmed it once for you guys and it was really really nice and I had set aside a full hour and a half to curl my hair I kept doing it the wrong way you can see this is this is some of it so you see that you see how can you see how it's still that's okay though because we're going to lightly detangle and just twist her back up so y'all look I'm gonna be stopping by Miss Arlett Pender's shop tomorrow and I lowkey want her to do my hair but I know she ain't gonna have enough time y'all because it takes her hours to do my hair but I'm thinking maybe I'm not whispering I'm thinking maybe that I could go ahead and wash my hair detangle my hair and blow it out and I'm gonna ask her if she could flat twist it y'all let me tell you something baby she shared and we're gonna get to what we're gonna talk about but she shared a video like I believe it was last year of a flat twist she had done and I was so taking them back at the definition I literally thought they were crochet rates that's how beautiful the flat twists were so I'm gonna see if she could flat twist my hair I know Patty she likes doing hair and she really likes doing my hair what's in these YouTube streets so I talked a little bit in my vlog my last vlog about what's in these streets and I told y'all I have to unsubscribe to a couple of people just too much drama and you know I'm like I miss delightful aka Rhonda I don't mind a little bit of drama but too much time for so TV TV TV TV we talked about the real hot swabs we ain't talking about those helpers anymore we talked about the real hot swabs but I have been watching Mary to medicine Mary to medicine is the new show now I know a lot who don't watch reality show and I'm a type of person who if I miss an episode oh well I'll catch you later on but I feel like okay so let's talk about a little bit of it so the last episode I was confused as hell because Cecil and dr. Simone went out to eat and they're talking about things talking about things first of all y'all huh this goes to show you that men men can also have an emotional affair with someone so I'm the show married to medicine Cecil who is thought the husband of one of the doctors dr. Simone he has had an on and off again emotional affair basically with his best friend first of all I already have a problem with my husband having a best friend as a female if you're gonna be best friend we all gonna be best friends if you best friend with her we're gonna be best friends too so during the reunion show last last year Simone said that this woman spent the night in their house doing the holidays when she lived there in Atlanta are you out of your damn mind I wish my husband will get his raggedy ass up here and say I shouldn't say that I wish my husband would say hey um Rochelle's gonna be up in here and she's gonna spend the night can you make sure that you fix her some some collard greens to do what no other female is gonna start I'm sorry y'all isn't that some fullery his best friend is a woman and I apparently he was best friends with her before he met his wife I'm not sure but it's been a number of years and the problem with that is that when this is what I've seen happen because it happens in relationships before but a lot of the times it's a woman who does is who gets emotionally connected to the opposite sex not to say that a man can't do it clearly we see it happening so whatever problems he's having with his wife you would typically go to your best friend right but your best friend is more than likely the same sex but no he's going to his best friend was what's her name Tammy he's going to Tammy and even though Tammy looks I shouldn't say that well I saw pictures of the woman I thought she was a I thought she was at the all-you-can-eat seafood boy lesbian she was a lesbian y'all I'm sorry but she was giving me lesbian fanny pack khaki shorts tease I'm sorry but she was and so come to find out that he is having a emotional an affair emotional affair which is worse than an actual physical affair in my opinion and he's moved back into the house so that's another thing they have separate houses so he's moved back into the house the main house or whatever her house and they went out to dinner and get to the bunker they went out to dinner and the conversation goes back to his affair with this woman Tammy and then just for you to move he's gonna get tired of that shit real fast okay you can't if you're gonna sit up here and say you're going to accept your spouse when they cheated you can't keep bringing back stuff you can't do that I mean cuz the other person's gonna get tired of it and I was like she just came out of nowhere just look her feelings are warranted but there's a way that you can communicate without sounding sounding all crazy I mean she was cursing and just acting the fool and she got up and stormed out of the restaurant and he's sitting there like he's confused and I was confused too for him child though so you're watching that and you know what really tore my heart was hater lover with Mariah she really does love her husband and I guess Mariah is another person on the show her husband Aiden was sick when they went on this famous trip all females trip he calmed down he called her and said that he's going into the hospital the ear excuse me he's been admitted was it meningitis it's what it was y'all when you are sick you have to go to the hospital and you know thank God he's a doctor and he recognized recognizes when things are getting out of hand but there are so many people who wait to go to the doctor or they just don't go and then by the time they do go it's too late which is why a lot of the times when we hear people have died of the flu they go to the hospital and literally they died in the hospital from the flu oh my god this is why this is why I go to the doctor about everything like miss Jackson my out of pocket and everything is meh I've been meeting my deductible for the last three years straight girl cuz I go to the doctor for everything cuz I'm afraid that you know I want to be sure you know I'm very proactive when it comes to my hair my health at least I try to be in my hair too girl we proactive about my hair so yeah let me get these like something girl so you see everything okay that's a little too much um so yeah y'all that's what's been going on um Christmas around the corner about the order JB his Christmas presents tomorrow and I told my husband I'm like well it's about a hundred and sixty dollars worth of presents he's like a hundred and sixty dollars one of you I said that is cheap yeah I'm sorry that is cheap that is cheap because I know some people who go three hundred four hundred five hundred dollars on their kiss oh so you see that you see those chunks they spend some coins and you know JB's little presents are like seven eight ten dollars you know about him a telephone like a real landline phone yeah I have the weirdest child I know so anyway y'all let's get into some other discussion um oh another show I've been watching is dirty John girl when I tell you this show Bravo it comes on Bravo my best friend she was um we were talking about it a couple of days ago she's like you got a check out this show the documentary is even better I'm like wait a minute this is based on a real person she's like yeah so basically I'm not gonna give a lot in case you guys any of you are watching or want to watch it but it basically is around this man name what is his name John Menahan or Menahan he has a very unique last name he has spent his entire life basically scamming women being married having a wife then a wife with two kids and then having another woman on the side that he's possibly being engaged having different identifications aliases different social security numbers going to jail scamming people because I got TV one back I'm still back on my where we're gonna start it y'all fatal attraction y'all I love me some fatal attraction I will sit up here and I record record them too because I don't have time to watch it when it comes on and I will sit up here and watch three or four episodes straight in between doing other stuff but it's just sad what people will kill someone over just to smile and it's like that how are you not thinking I mean I understand to a certain degree like a crime of passion where you're upset and I'm sitting someone kills but the fact that people in to kill someone over like a $10,000 insurance policy or the one I saw not too long ago the guy got a shotgun rifle walked up to his girlfriend who worked at a tollway unloaded on her then drove to her boyfriend's or husband and killed him too it's like what are you thinking now he actually asked for the death penalty and they're like now we ain't gonna give it to you but it's like you always try to think you know I always think to myself when I watch your show it's like what can really drive someone to really do that like what do you what are you thinking what are you thinking about why how and why could you do that to someone especially when it comes to stuff like insurance money there was one where I'm sure y'all would know who I'm talking about what is her name she's based out of Francis Newton and I remember seeing her her story a couple of a couple of years ago on the 80s what was it in Huntsville and was it was it Houston was she in Houston y'all yeah I don't know anyway she had shot and killed her children and her husband for insurance money like I think it was like a few days before that week she took out $50,000 insurance policies on her children and her husband come on now girl are you serious and then the thing that was well the thing that's a red flag in a lot of these cases is when your ass is called the insurance company asking where your money is at because most of the time people don't want that money like if someone is it's not that they didn't want it they're not gonna be calling the insurance company asking for their money they're gonna be busy you know grieving and planting a funeral for their loved ones a lot of the times they don't even think about that money two months later after the person has died so what the hell so they executed her oh yes Texas does does not play now of course they are a little lenient on women like it is anywhere um but yeah she she got executed for that but yeah y'all watching my fatal attraction love me some fatal attraction there was one story out an um tower Texas and I know people who knew the guy where he killed a forgot his name but he killed a transsexual and that he was that he didn't know that it was really a man come on y'all so real quick I finished the book be coming and y'all know if it's because I've been so blind sided or just in this I feel like some Americans some of us are in this almost trance due to all of the foolery that has gone on with Trump and this administration like every other week it's a did he really say that and so I completely in reading this book or hearing it because I did the audio book I completely forgot about all the stuff that had occurred while while Obama was in office everything from the same hook shootings to the Dylan roof to the nightclub I forgot about all that that man had to and you know go through I for completely forgot about Trump being a birther and I wonder if his supporters even know that if they even remember that that that Trump had this huge agenda agenda where he would pay someone a million dollars if they could find Obama's birth certificate and that he was really a Muslim even though he went to a they go to an AME church and I I do remember that preacher who was coming out with all those the preacher that they had on camera saying all that no racist stuff and then they tried to paint Obama of being you know this militant person but yet he's would be a Muslim some really confused and so in the book Michelle was saying how they were very careful with that you know and it's just so amazing to get this almost different perspective now that she's not in the White House and I find I found myself wondering is Melania did she do any of any of this you don't really hear about much what she's doing I certain things as a as a first lady that you are responsible for you organized she always basically saying is that you find certain projects or causes to either work on or manage and I don't what what exactly is she doing y'all and you know organizing the Easter egg hunt organizing all these parties that's a first wife duty or responsibility it was a very interesting book and so towards the end I came I love the book and I think a lot of people enjoyed the book but I was left with this oh my god type of feeling you know she it's she's becoming a college graduate she's becoming a lawyer becoming a leader becoming a first wife to the first black president you know what I mean but her purpose at what what Michelle's 54 her purpose as a individual on this planet you know she's halfway done with her life let's keep it real but towards the end I got this feeling that she still be calming she's still evolving so I what I took away from the day is that because you guys know I'm always on this I gotta find my purpose I gotta find my purpose what is and I mentioned this before what if your purpose is where you at right now the season that you in whatever type of hurt whatever type of whatever you're in right now you supposed to be in that and then you become another year two year three year four year however long it takes you go into your next phase but you never stop becoming you know what I mean so again my takeaway was that you know you have this woman who became a first lady but yes she's still questioning is she good enough and you hear that read she repeats that throughout the book in certain chapters is she good enough you know she doubts herself someone who's had all these accomplishments from two Ivy League colleges I'm sorry you guys she's one of the highest educated first women first wise we have had so highly educated okay but yet she's still doubting herself is she if she's good enough and what was she really what what should she do now and so I'm like at the end of the day let me just say this at the end of the day I'm like I shouldn't beat myself up I shouldn't beat myself up because I'm not where I think I should be at in life right now you know what I mean I'm okay where I'm at right now I just shouldn't stop growing I should continue on so yes I enjoyed the book I love it but I it was just so amazing to hear all the little stuff like they have to get there like if when the kids have a sleepover if they wanted to go somewhere they had to get the people they were traveling with social security numbers Secret Service have to go over and you know do a sweep over the house over that person's house I'm like wow a person on Obama had to travel with a personal doctor backs of his blood type just in case something happened I'm like that's a good idea how can I get back to my blood type I got yeah it was just so amazing to hear that just to hear how you know her her humble upbringings you know being raised in south side of the Chicago with her grandparents and you know taking piano lessons and one thing that stuck out to me though you guys is that you oftentimes hear especially from people who I feel like a lot of people and I'm gonna go ahead and say it because I'm just transparent like that I feel like a lot of white people are tired of hearing about the racism and the racist comments from black people they feel like we're wanting is that slavery was not that long ago the Jim Crow laws were not that long ago and Michelle spoke on how the men and her family and the obstacles that they had but yet they still kept working and providing for their families but some of them couldn't go and get a college degree they couldn't go you know things with the unions all because they're black they were black you know what I mean my own grandfather passed away at 101 years old he knew slaves my grandfather knew slaves so no it was not that long ago my own grandfather couldn't even write y'all it was not that long ago it really wasn't so and then the effects of that we see still going on today so yeah I really do love the book if you haven't read it check it out girl so yeah I cannot get through this hair while I'm on this camera with y'all I'm not gonna be able to get through it that it's it this is gonna be kind of a longer chit chat gonna go ahead and put this down and cover her up somehow I don't need to be scaring anybody oh lord this is all types of so yeah y'all this is it I'm so glad you pick up the phone girl cuz I've been wanting to talk to you so alright you guys take care bye


Are you ready for a game?  It's Corbin. I'm Rick. And you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, for more juicy content. Then go to some Patreon, official Twitter account, ring the bell to be part of the notification squad. BANG! Also, Ready for a game. Personal YouTube channels. Uh, links in the description below. More shenanigans on those. Um, but, today, we are playing a game, Rick. We haven't done this in a while. Uh, no we haven't. I was thinking about this the other day. We haven't done something like this in a while. Uh, so this is, guess that Indian movie.   Sartaj! But we've done this, um, with video. This is actually stills from the films. So, they're gonna, I'm assuming, show us stills of the film. Uh, and then, uh, we're gonna have to see who can guess first, um, the, uh, the movie. Okay, so this isn't, this is just gonna be a still, and we're gonna, like, we're gonna be timed, right? I don't think so. Yeah, I think it explains it in the video. Uh, because I, obviously, I didn't make this. Um, but, uh, all right, you ready? Oh, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay. You all right? Uh, they have a description, so I'm gonna read that. Rules, two stills per movie. One guess allowed per still. If guessed on the first still, two points. If guessed on the second still, one point. And you get 15 seconds for the first, 10 seconds for the second. If failed on guess from either, uh, of the stills, you lose a point, I guess. What? This is getting too complicated. Anyways, well, we'll see who can guess the still first. All right, yeah, we'll see. Oh, yeah, you guys can keep scoring home. And if those of you wondering it's iced coffee with no cream in it. Just, just know I'm gonna win. All right, ready? Three, two, one. Two stills from each movie. One guess per still. If you guessed on the first still, two points. Okay. Oh, uh, oh, the Punjab. I'll go with that too. But you guessed it first. Yeah. That's oh the Punjab. Wait a minute. Yeah, that's oh the Punjab. That's my best friend. Two. So we get, we get two stills per film. Yes. Oh, I'm gonna wait for the second one. Oh, you didn't.  Oh, uh, I'm ease. I'm ease. You're right. That's what it is. I just saw a thing of food and I said lunchbox. Camelism. Yeah. I'm ease. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What'd you say? What'd you? Ramen raga? Oh, maybe. No. The Vicky one. No. That's right. It was on the windshield. That's right. It was on the windshield.  Is that kambalaji nights? No. Well. Get to boss number one. Is that header? Do you know what the score is? I'm so good at this game. Santa remember that. That's a great one to use. That was a great choice for a photo for a film. Like stars on earth. That's exactly what it is. I got the English translation. Is that okay? That first picture was a great choice. Oh, I know this one. What? Gully boy. Oh yeah. Yeah, you're right. That's a hard shot right there. That is a hard shot. Make it easy. Good. That was a good. Those were two good choices. Lutero. The kids that are in love with each other. Kambalaji nights. Yeah, you're absolutely right. It is. Stop.  I know this one. Yeah, I do. The coin lands on its side and it stands up that way. Was it. Was it street? This is the only one I don't know. What I was thinking. I was like, it's old. What is it? I should have known because that's like the only old thing we've seen besides enough. But I'm pretty sure I won because I'm awesome. Those were good choices for the photo. Yeah, that was awesome. I enjoyed that. I enjoyed competition.  I hope you guys enjoyed that as much as we did. What's your score? I'm sure you're all going to say that you got all 12. That's always the comments that I got them all. Sure you did, buddy. Sure you did. But I thought we did pretty well for seeing all those. I mean, most of the films we've seen what once, most of them. 100%. And some of them we haven't seen for a year and a half. Many, many months. Yeah. So that was great. I enjoyed that. Thank you for making that. That was great. Let us know if you want more of these or any other kind of game competition kind of things. Please let us know down below because we enjoy them. We do.


I've heard for many years now that some animals have a sixth sense that can sense danger, natural disasters, and or changes in weather, among many other things, like geese flying south for the winter, like cows laying down when it's about to rain, and that dogs can see spirits, you know, ghosts. I can somewhat believe the first two, because after all, I've actually seen them. I never believed the seeing ghost things about dogs. I never believed in ghosts, spirits, or anything paranormal, until recently. About a week ago, my wife, Barbara and I, my name's Tom, by the way, we had planned a nice relaxing day at the beach, given the fact that we just so happened to be off on the same day. It's something that rarely ever happens. Well, my wife is a teller at the bank in town, and I am the night manager at Wally World, a department store in town as well. Anyway, we finally had a day off together. My wife had packed a picnic lunch, sandwiches, chips, little pieces of fruit, and a cooler full of sodas and water, as well as two travel mugs of coffee, one for her and one for me. We were ready for Shower Beach. That's not the real name of it, though, but it does rhyme with the real name. We just call it that to amuse ourselves and because it has a full shower facility on site. Anyway, we also have a dog, Gremlin. Gremlin is a two-year-old Chihuahua terrier mix, brown and white, about 15 pounds, and an absolute mama's boy. He follows my wife everywhere. The kitchen when she's cooking dinner, the bathroom when she showers. He even has his own chair at the dinner table next to her, of course. He's not spoiled. No, not at all. Well, he decided that he was going to come with us. It was about 8.30 in the morning. I grabbed the cooler and basket, headed for the door and my wife grabbed her purse, the travel mugs, a blanket, then held the door open for us. Apparently, Gremlin saw the purse and the open door. He knew exactly what that meant. He's a very smart dog. I guess he decided he was going to go buy buys, too. He ran out the door, almost tripping me, and sat by the passenger side door of the truck. You guessed it, my wife's door. I loaded the stuff in the back of the blazer as my wife opened her door. Yes, Grimmy, you can come, too, she said, smiling. Gremlin got in, wagging his tail. My wife got in herself, and I did the same. All three of us then made the 45-minute drive to shower beach. Gremlin sat on my wife's lap, of course, and went to sleep. My wife and I talked, laughed, listened to music, not my kind of music, no, her kind of music, Michael Bolton music. When we got to the beach, I had the overwhelming urge to listen to Slayer Metallica, or even Ozzy, just to get my manhood back. Anyway, we got to the beach, unloaded the truck, went down to the sand, and enjoyed the next four hours, spending time together, running around, playing with a dog, getting our feet wet in the water, eating lunch, then relaxing on the blanket. Gremlin as well. I was lying there. With my eyes closed, my wife was doing the same. As Gremlin sat there, checking out the girl dogs, I assume. Now, I'm sure many, if not all of you, have been to the beach at some point in your life, and you've laid down and closed your eyes. You can still feel the heat from the sun beating down on you, right? Well, as I lied there, sun beating down on me, it suddenly faded into a brisk blanket of cold air.  I tapped my wife on the shoulder to get her attention and said, Yeah, there's a bad storm coming, babe. We gotta get out of here. She looked up at the sky and quickly agreed. We grabbed all our belongings and ran to the truck, as well as many other people on the beach, Gremlin right beside us. We threw the stuff in the back of the truck and quickly hopped in. Gremlin jumped in the back seat and laid down, which was odd. Anyway, I started her up and began driving out of the parking lot. A fog then rolled in completely out of nowhere. And I'm not talking a little bit of fog. No, I'm talking barely see an inch in front of your car fog. There was no fog when we went down on the sand.  I thought to myself. The best way I can describe it is that it looked like a scene from that Stephen King movie. The mist. Only worse. Anyway, I drove like a snail creeping down the road, barely able to see where I was going. You could see lightning bolts flashing within the fog and hear thunder booming in the distance. It never rained, though, which was odd. Gremlin began to whine just a little bit. It's okay, boy. My wife said to him, then turned around, reached between the seats and rubbed his head.  She asked him. Gremlin didn't move, which was odd. Okay, my wife said, then turned back around. About 20 minutes into driving in the fog, it just disappeared. Just like that. The fog was gone and the day was bright and sunny again. I couldn't even see it in my rear view mirror. The image shown in the mirror was that of a bright sunny day like the fog or the storm never existed. Where'd the fog go? My wife asked. I don't know, but that kind of crept me out, I answered. Gremlin then barked from the back seat. I guess it creeped him out, too. We drove for about 10 more minutes, passing familiar buildings, gas stations, and other businesses. Now, brace yourself. This is where it gets weird. You see, my wife and I have made this trip to and from shower beach many, many times before, so we knew the layout of the road pretty good. I mean, where all the stoplights were, places to eat, gas stations, and landmarks. But we did not remember what came next. As I was driving along, talking to my wife, not really paying attention to the road, we suddenly came upon a stoplight that was never there before, at the beginning of what should have been an old dirt field, but was now an old rundown cemetery. I slammed on the brakes to avoid running the red light.  Where did that cemetery come from, Tom? My wife asked, slightly confused. I don't know. I replied, maybe we just missed it on the way down. But ain't it awesome? Yeah, maybe. But it is awesome. Let's stop. She replied. Now, you have to understand, my wife and I are both history buffs. We love history.  And this cemetery was old. You could tell, because it was completely surrounded by an old black iron fence about 10 feet high. And all the headstones were made of stone, not granite or bronze like they are nowadays. Anyway, I put on my right turn signal and got in the turn lane. As soon as I did, Grimlin put his paws on the armrest on the back passenger side door, stared out the window, and whined, loud. I then drove about 30 yards to the entrance of the cemetery. Grimlin began whining more intensely. What's the matter, boy? I asked, stopping the car at the entrance. He turned his head quickly, and I swear he looked me dead straight in the eyes, growled then barked, as if he was trying to tell me something. In retrospect, I should have listened. The entrance had two large square gray pillars on either side of the road, with huge gray gargoyles on top. A black iron half moon sign stretched across the top of the pillars, connecting the two feet together with the words Robert Bell's Memorial Cemetery written on it. Since the cemetery's entrance was located directly on the road, there was nowhere to park the truck I had to pull in. As soon as I pulled in, Grimlin began to bark repeatedly, running back and forth on the back seat, hitting the doors as he did. Grimmy, stop. My wife yelled, and she never yells at him. He didn't stop. He just kept running and barking. He'll be fine, I said, and got out of the truck. My wife did the same. Now the air should have been hot, given it was bright and sunny outside. But it was not. The air inside the cemetery was cold. I'm talking goosebumps cold. We walked to the back of the truck, opened the hatch, and each grabbed a fleece throw-on that we keep in the back, just in case.  We closed the truck doors, leaving the windows down about two inches, so Grimlin could get some air, and began walking through the cemetery, looking at the headstones. I got 1735. My wife said, Cool, here's one that says 1437. I said, Can you believe that? Take a picture of me in that stone, please, babe. I've never seen one this far back before. She then pulled out her phone and took the picture. I'll check it out later. Let's keep going. We could hear Grimlin growling and barking in the distance, going completely insane. It wasn't a, yeah, mommy's home happy bark.  We walked a few more feet. When my wife turned to me and said, I'm worried about Grim, look at him. He's never acted like this before.  Now, you have to understand, Grimlin is a very laid back kind of dog, and for him to be acting this way was not normal at all. Yeah, I said, something spook in him. Poor guy. Let's go. We'll come back another time. My wife agreed, and we quickly made our way back to the truck. We got in, took our fleeces off and began to drive home. Grimlin stopped barking as much, laid down on the passenger side of the back seat and growled quietly as he stared at the other side of the seat and barked on occasion. He totally ignored my wife when she tried to talk to him. That was really, really odd. When we got home and got out of the truck, Grimlin refused to get out, so much so that I had to physically scoop him up and carry him in the house. I put him down once we got inside, and he just stood there, looking at the front door intensely. It was about 530 at this point. My wife and I decided to have TV dinners for dinner and to watch a couple movies on Netflix. My wife prepared the food while I set up the TV trays. Grimlin was still staring at the door. About halfway through the first movie, Grimlin again began to bark angrily at the door, then took off like a bat out of hell towards the kitchen. My wife and I just looked at each other. We quickly got up, ran to the kitchen, and we heard Grimlin yelp several times and heard the sound of dishes and glassware breaking. I turned on the light as we both walked in to see Grimlin laying down in the doorway, eyes wide, staring up at the ceiling, showing teeth, but not growling. Every single cabinet door and drawer were wide open, and multiple pieces of plates, saucers, and glasses lie broken on the kitchen floor.  I said. I don't know.  I've had enough for today. I'm tired. I'm going to go lay down, hun. She said, okay, babe, I'll be up in a minute. I'm going to clean this up real quick. I said, Grimlin then got up and walked with my wife, looking back to the kitchen on occasion.  As the light went off, I saw what looked like an old woman standing by the back door. I just shrugged it off as bad lighting, then went upstairs to lay down. I walked in our bedroom, and Grimlin was laying at the foot of the bed, staring at the door, instead of snuggling with my wife, like he always does. What's going on with him, I thought, and laid down too. The next morning, the alarm on my phone woke me up at 5am, like it always does. My wife didn't have to be at work until 9, so I just wanted to let her sleep. Grimlin, as well. It did not happen that way. I stumbled down the stairs when I got about three or four steps from the bottom, and I heard a voice, or what sounded like a voice, in my right ear, saying something I couldn't understand. What? I thought, then quickly dismissed it as people outside. I turned the corner to see my dining room table turned upside down, with the six chairs positioned like a pyramid on top of it. Strange writings, and even stranger symbols carved into the wall. The chandelier was ripped down, wires hanging from the ceiling, and thrown into the back of the couch, ripping it to shreds. Barbara, I yelled, as loud as I could, then felt incredibly cold. Just for a few seconds, then back to normal. My wife came staggering down the stairs in a hurry, Grimlin in tow. What the? She said, it's gotta be the wind, or a truck going by. Something, there's gotta be an explanation for this. I said, completely frazzled. I moved the chairs, turned the table right side up, then put the chairs back in place. I then grabbed the chandelier, took it out back, and tossed it into the trash. I came back inside, walked into the kitchen, turned the coffee pot on, then sat at the bottom of the stairs, trying to rationalize what was going on. My wife joined me, after letting Grimlin out to use the bathroom, and then back in. He made a beeline for his food and water bowls, ate some food, drank some water, then sat at my wife's feet. When the coffee pot beat, I made us each a cup, and we sat on the stairs talking, drinking coffee until it was time for Barbara to get ready for work. She got up and said, I'll be right back, babe, I'm gonna get dressed. I nodded my head as I took a drink of my coffee. She then turned and began walking up the stairs. I watched her. Anyway, Grimlin followed close behind. She reached the top of the stairs, turned right, and disappeared out of sight. Suddenly, my wife screamed, a blood-curdling, terrified scream as Grimlin began barking viciously and growling once again, Tom. I heard my wife scream as I heard the sound of a door being slammed shut. I ran up the stairs as fast as I could, turned to see Grimlin barking, growling, and clawing at our bedroom door, trying to get in. My wife screamed again as the sound of wood breaking could be heard, then a loud thud on the floor. Tom! My wife screamed again, more fearful this time. I tried the doorknob, but it was locked or stuck or something. I then began slamming my shoulder into the door, screaming, Barbara, Barbara. Grimlin was going completely insane, Tom! My wife screamed again, help me! Another loud thud. After the third or fourth try, I finally managed to break the door down. I rushed in, to a huge gust of wind blowing in my bedroom, like a whirlpool, several pieces of paper, chunks of wood, small knickknacks, and various other items were caught in the whirlpool and spinning in the air. I had to shield myself from getting hit. Grimlin tried running to the bed, but was caught in the wind and slammed hard into the chair. I looked to my left to see Barbara pinned back first against the wall.  Barbara! I screamed and began to fight the wind to get to my wife. Suddenly, an ear-piercing screech was heard, which morphed into words. She's mine. The voice said, as this incredibly grotesque, for lack of a better term, person began to appear in front of my wife as the wind died down, the items falling to the floor. I was frozen for a second. This person was dressed in an old white robe that was tattered and frayed at the edges. Its entire body was void of any flesh, only the decaying skeletal frame. Its nose and eyes were just black holes that had what appeared to be worms crawling out of them. Its mouth had about five broken decaying teeth in it. This person's right arm was holding my wife off the ground. Oh, and it was completely transparent. Get out. It screamed demonically. Someone then barked so viciously that it actually scared me. Before I could even move, Grimlin jumped from the chair to the bed, then leaped at this person. It then shrieked and completely disappeared. Grimlin landing on all fours on the floor, my wife fell into the fetal position trying to catch her breath. Grimlin quickly running over to her and licking her face. I ran over as well, making sure she was all right, and I picked her up with a fireman's carry. Grimmy, let's go. I said loudly as I ran out of the bedroom and down the stairs, my wife in my arms. Grimlin right behind me. When I got to the bottom of the stairs and turned the corner, Grimlin then passed me, stopped at the front door, and began barking again. What is it Grim? He barked a few more times and stepped toward the door.  Please department, open up. I heard a deep voice say. Grimlin then sat down. I walked to the door, opened it, still holding my wife. We gotta get out of here, I said, and pushed past the officer as I laid my wife down on the grass, Grimlin now sitting by her side. We got reports of domestic violence happening at this residence, now back away from the woman, the officer said sternly. I looked at my wife.  Grimlin stayed put. I spent the next 45 minutes explaining to the cops what had happened as the EMTs tended to my wife and found out she was okay. Just a little shaken up. Grimlin still by her side. The cops then spoke to her. She confirmed my story. They didn't believe us and actually told me that they believed my wife is covering for me because she's afraid. I would never put angry hands on my wife ever anyway after the cops and EMTs left. My wife and I, as well as Grimlin, agreed that we were not going to stay here anymore. We got in the truck backed out of the driveway and left it all behind. Free house if anyone wants it, ghost included. I called the landlord and told him we were leaving. He wished me good luck and hung up the phone. I didn't tell him about the ghost or the damage. My wife and I both called our jobs and told them we were involved in a traumatic event and needed a few days off. They both agreed. We rented a room at the local hotel for a week or so, so we could find another place.  We never did find out why the ghost wanted my wife. Yesterday, my wife, myself, and Grimlin made the trip downstate to see if that cemetery was still there. This time, no Michael Bolton. It was Motley Crue all the way down and back home. The cemetery wasn't there, just a dirt field like it was before. I don't know what that place was and I don't want to know.  She deleted that picture immediately and we're never going date hunting at a cemetery ever again. Now, if I learned anything from this experience, it's that ghosts are real and dogs can see them, even if the human eye can't.