In the weird circle, in this cave by the restless sea, we are met to call from out the past stories, strange, and weird. Bellkeeper, hold the bell so all may know we are gathered again in the weird circle. Jane Eyre Dear diary, March 1st, 1864. I left my aunt's house early this morning and arrived at Fawnfield Manor at five o'clock this afternoon. The house was dark and gloomy and the winding path that leads in the house is shadowed by old trees. I like old trees usually but these trees are gnarled and bent, like gnarled bent old men. The limbs which reached out over the path reminded me of long bony fingers which were reaching out trying to choke me. My throat was dry and parched and I experienced a new kind of fear as I walked up the path to the steps of the house. This is my first job of any kind. I've been hired as a governess a ten year old Adela Rochester. Adela and her father Edward Rochester, a widower, live alone at Fawnfield with two servants. I walked up the stone steps and then nervously pulled the doorbell and waited. My release in my right hand. The heavy door swung slowly open. Oh, are you Jane Eyre? Why yes, yes I am. Mr. Rochester told me to expect you. Won't you come in? Thank you. I'll show you to your rooms. I'm Mrs. Campbell, Mr. Rochester's housekeeper. How do you do Mrs. Campbell? I'm so glad to meet you. Are you? Follow me up these stairs please. Of course Mrs. Campbell. Mr. Rochester left word with me to see that you are made comfortable. At least as comfortable as anybody can be at Fawnfield. I'm sure I'll manage very nicely. Will you? That's what you think now, Miss Eyre. But wait. Wait till you've been here a while. We've had many governesses before you but they never stay. No, never. Why not? Why not? You're sick. This is your own right at the head of the stairs. Make yourself at home, my dear. Oh, and one thing, dinner is served at six. Never later. Please be prompt. Dear diary, September 1st, 1864. This is my sixth month in service. Looking back I have no regrets. I spent many evenings talking to Edward Rochester. Unforgettable pleasant evenings. Happy evenings listening to the soft pleasant murmur of his voice. But there's a shadow of some strange remote misery that seemed cling to the house. A shadow of something that I can't fathom. I never ask. I don't dare intrude my curiosity, idle curiosity into a family secret. However, strange events took place this evening when Adele, my student, and I were sitting in the living room alone. There was a warm fire burning the fireplace and though it was well past Adele's usual steady period we were reviewing her geography. I think I remember the English seaboard towns. Well, just the eastern coast, dear. Now you start with Timmeth. Timmeth, uh, South Shield, Sunderland, West Hartpool, Scarborough, um... Yarmouth? Uh, Yarmouth? I never can remember Yarmouth.  Now think of all the people who live in Yarmouth whose feelings would be heard. Would they? Well, they most certainly would. Of course, I forgot, huh? Yarmouth. Yarmouth, lost off, his switch, Harwich, and Margaret. How's that, Miss Sayer? That's brilliantly executed, young lady. Thanks.  That's just about all I am. Mrs. Campbell says I'm a naughty, wicked, simple child of a devil. Adele, when did she say all this to you? Yesterday. I was... Well, I was on the third floor. You had no right to be on the third floor. Your father's given strict orders that no one is to go up there. No one, but Mrs. Campbell. I don't see why children are shut out of things grown-ups know about. What's in the ad if it's so special anyway? I don't know, Adele. Daddy knows. Mrs. Campbell, tell me Daddy knows. Well, perhaps Mrs. Campbell says many things she doesn't mean. Do I indeed, Miss Sayer? Do I indeed? I didn't know you'd taken to interpreting my mind, as well as the child's mind. Well, I'm sorry. I'm sure I didn't mean any harm, Mrs. Campbell. I'm sure you didn't. It's time to go to bed, Adele. Nine o'clock. I don't want to go to bed yet. Now, yes, you do, young lady. You want to go to bed because I do. I'm sleepy. Sleepy, too. All right, off we go. Oh, Miss Sayer. Yes, Mrs. Campbell. Mr. Rochester asked me to tell you to drop into the study for a few seconds before you retire. He wants to see you. What about? I'm not in the habit of prying into Mr. Rochester's private affairs, Miss Sayer. Come along, Adele, off to bed. Good night, Miss Sayer. Good night, dear. Pleasant dreams. I'll be up shortly and look in on you. Miss Sayer. We've been sitting here talking for well over an hour on Mr. Rochester. Just chattering aimlessly. I don't find you chattering, Miss Jane.  No, not at all. I find it stimulating. I've learned a lot about you, too.  You love children.  Please call me Edward Jane. Edward? No, as a matter of fact, you didn't. But I gathered as much. Let's see what else I found out. Well, you're a particularly nice person, and I love you very much. Did you say... Yes, I said I loved you. I love you, Jane. Edward, I... Is that frightening you? Yes. Yes, it does in a way. Why?  Trust me and try to believe in me. Edward? What's bothering you, Jane? Well, it's Adela. She's so frightened. She's frightened of the mystery in this house. There's no mystery in this house. Well, then why is the attic shut off that way? It saves fuel. Well, that's nonsense. The attic's heated. Let's say it saves fuel and let it go with that. Edward, last night I was awakened in the middle of the night by shuffling footsteps over my head. Like the footsteps of a lame animal. I lay in bed trembling for hours until the footsteps subsided. You had a nightmare, probably, Jane. That wasn't the first time I heard those footsteps. Probably Mrs. Campbell rummaging up there. She hasn't sound many at times. Mrs. Campbell doesn't walk on all fours, Edward. Well, probably, uh, probably the wind. Adela heard it too. Let's say it's the wind and forget it, shall we? Sorry. I shouldn't have started to talk about it, but... ask me to trust you. And you can? Well, you make it a little difficult, don't you? Jane. Jane, I... Yes, I guess I do. Where are you going? To bed early. I'm frightfully tired. No matter what happens, Jane, believe this one thing. I do love you. I love you more than I ever believed I could love anyone. Good night, and sleep well. Oh, I'm so sleepy. I'm so very sleepy. Oh, I wonder... I wonder if you meant what he said. Now, why would he say, love, maybe? What's the secret in this hug? What the... Oh, I wonder if it'll start. Probably with the wind, my imagination runs wild at night. No. No, no wind ever moaned like that. Not even a leaf on the tree outside my window stirs. Now, how could I even think it's the wind? Oh, Edward. Edward, what are you keeping from it? There it is again. Just listen to it walking up and down, scratching the floor. What? An animal of some kind, a caged beast. Just listen to it. Oh, what could that be? That's not the wind, that's not my imagination. I'm awake. And yet I know that thing's got to stop, it's got to stop. No! Oh, God, child, of course you are. Nothing at all, darling. Now you see it's stopped now. It's all over now, darling. I'll come along, I'll take you back to bed. But you wouldn't, what's up there? I tell my daddy and he make it stop. I'll come to you back to bed. I'll hop into bed again, darling. And I'll stay right here next to you until you fall asleep. Never used to be like that, never. You know, when did this start, Adela? Just in the last year or so. Of course, I was never allowed in the attic, never. You didn't stay never because I don't remember everything, never. I was sleepy. Then you go back to sleep, Adela. You sleep, darling. I'll pull the covers way up over you. Like this.  You're quite safe. Now go to sleep. To sleep. I don't want anyone to say any scratching doesn't start again. If I went up into the attic, I could find out what it is. Nobody would even have to know that I was up in the attic. Nobody? It's there at the back of the hallway, I think. Somewhere back here. This door. It must be behind this door. I see Mrs. Campbell coming this way off. Yes. This is it. Quite a long flight of stairs. Oh, there it is again. Just walk up these stairs and look around. I'll just walk up, perhaps, the peeking keyhole. I shouldn't really, but for the child's sake, for all our sakes. What are you doing here, Jim? What are you doing here? Edward. Answer me. What are you doing on these stairs? I'd be glad to answer you, Edward, if you'd just tell me what that ungodly noise is. Don't look at me like that. Please don't look at me like that. Edward, I just can't stand it here any longer. I can't stand it any longer. I tell you I can't stand it. Stop sobbing. Someday I'll explain everything to you. Honestly, I will. Come along to the study now. I'll add a fire in the fireplace and have Mrs. Campbell bring us some hot tea. You're so thoughtful. And be careful walking down the stairs. Please forgive me. Forgive you? For what? For what I've done, being so disloyal. Any woman would have done exactly what you've done. If only... If only what? If only I could tell you everything, Jane. Why can't you trust me, Edward? I can't trust anybody. Mrs. Campbell knows. Yes, Mrs. Campbell is the only one in the world who knows, Jane. Please, darling, trust me. Did your first wife know? No. No, she died without knowing. Oh, darling. Edward, is this secret the reason why Mrs. Campbell hates me so very much? She doesn't hate you, not really. She's worried about me, that's all. Here's the study. Come in and sit down. Edward, I'm tired. I'm so very tired. You mean tonight, dear? No. Tired of always having me alone. I wonder where Mrs. Campbell keeps the tapers for the fireplace? In the bays, in the corner. I see. I'll light the fire, Jane.  Yes, Edward. Being alone is... Well, it's not good for people, really. When two people are in love, the way we're in love. Yes, Edward. Well, if the obstacles which prevent their getting married can be ignored, if they trust each other, I mean really trust each other. Edward, what are you trying to say to me? That I... I love you, Jane. Can you... well, could you possibly believe in me enough to... to be my wife? Your wife? Please, darling. But Edward, I... I've been fighting loving you ever since I arrived here, and I'm tired of fighting it. Edward, I'm tired of fighting something that's stronger than I am. You will then? Yes, Edward Rochester. I'll be your wife. You're writing for me, Mr. Rochester. Yes, Mrs. Campbell, I'm writing for you. Would you bring me a decanter of wine and three glasses? Three glasses, sir. Yes, Mrs. Campbell. I thought perhaps you'd be the first to congratulate the bride and bridegroom to be. Yes, yes, I'd like to be the first. Congratulations, sir, and a long and happy married life. Good morning, Miss Eyre. Do you mind if I come in for a while? No, please do. I was just brushing my hands, Campbell. Do you seriously intend to go through with this marriage, Miss Eyre? Why, yes, Mrs. Campbell.  Really, Mrs. Campbell? Take my advice and pack your clothes as fast as you can pack them and leave this house. I don't understand. Naturally, you don't understand. There are a lot of things you don't understand, Miss Eyre. I know there are, but I trust Mr. Rochester. Do you? Do you indeed? Yes, I do. And I don't like your attitude toward me at all. You don't? You don't like my attitude, eh? You've no idea what you're getting into.  Mrs.  Perhaps you are.  A pretty face like yours has no meaning for me, even if it has trapped Edward Rochester. Trapped him? Yes, trapped him, but I do care what happens to him. And I warn you right now, I'll do everything within my power to see that your marriage does not go through. There's nothing that you can do, Mrs. Campbell. Nothing. Isn't there? Well, a certain Mr. Mason could do a lot. You won't be married for four days, and I can do a lot in four days. September 5th, 1864. Tears. My tears splotched the pages.  Today was my wedding day. A guest arrived as planned at five o'clock this afternoon. The minister waited and hastily built all turn the parlor. As Edward and I walked hand in hand toward him. Then the wedding ceremony started. Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God and in the face of this company to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony, which is an honorable estate institute of God signifying unto him if any man can show just cause why they may not be lawfully joined together, let him now speak or else hereafter forever hold his peace. Wait a minute. I'll speak. I'll speak, although it should be obvious to others in this room that a marriage between Edward Rochester and anybody is completely illegal. Mason. Yes, it's me, Edward. How did you know? How did I know you were intending to get married? Ask your housekeeper. Mrs. Campbell? Yes, Mr. Rochester. I wrote a letter to Mr. Mason and had him come to Thornfield at once. And so I came, just in time to watch this pretty little farce be enacted. Edward, what's he talking about? Yes, what's this all about? Why don't you tell them, Edward? Tell them the truth. I... I... What is it, Edward? I can't tell them, but I'll show them. I'll show everybody what you did to me, Mason. Come along, everyone. Where are you going, Edward? To the attic, Jane. Come along, all of you. And I'll show you what he's talking about. I'll show you why Mason can speak now and speak fairly. I'll show you what he means. Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is the famous secret attic of my home. Follow me right here to the left. Oh, no. Listen to that, everyone. Listen. Do you know what that is? Wait till I open the door and you can see for yourselves.  You'll see, all of you. You'll see. Well, Bertha, how are you today? May I... May I introduce my wife to you? Edward. This is my wife, Bertha Mason. My wife and his daughter. Mason's daughter. I was forced to marry her when I was a youngster. I never met this woman before I stood in front of the altar with her. You were given a good dowry at the time. Oh, yes. Yes, you provided an excellent dowry. And then, then when I drew my bride's veil off of her face, I saw this face.  Edward. But there was nothing I could do by the laws of the state and the church.  Edward. Edward, what have I done? Adele is not my child. She's adopted. I need some interest in life. I needed someone to care for her. And I thought Adele would be the answer to my loneliness until I met you, Jane. Until I met you? Edward, Edward, my darling, what can I say to you?   And I don't blame her. I don't blame her at all. So diary. So it was that I discovered the secret of the attic. Secret of the tragedy which clung to Fawnfield. The guests left the house hurriedly. I went to my room and packed my clothes. Then I walked slowly downstairs without saying goodbye to anyone. Not even to Adele. I was confused and alone. The foot of the stairs, Mrs. Campbell stopped me. Miss Ayer, are you leaving? Yes, Mrs. Campbell. Please say goodbye to everybody for me. I had to do what I did, Miss Ayer, for his sake and for yours. Yes, I understand. Please don't say any more. Yes, Miss Ayer. Take good care of Mrs. Campbell. I will, my dear. I will. Very good care of him. Goodbye and good luck. She said goodbye. For quite a while I stood outside the door trying to collect myself. Then I started to walk down the road alone. Suddenly I turned around and gazed back at Fawnfield. The entire house was on fire. I dropped my suitcase and I ran back as quickly as I could. Mrs. Campbell and Adele were standing outside the house. Mrs. Campbell called out to me. Jane Ayer! Jane Ayer! Yes, Mrs. Campbell. He's trapped up there. Look on the roof! Edward! Remember, we've got to help him. We've got to... I told him not to go up and help her. That fool of a woman set fire to the place. Birth formation! She's like a child with matches. She's on the roof when he went up to rescue her. Edward! Don't you slip! Edward! Edward! As she reached the edge of the roof and went hurtling over the edge into the flames below. As for Edward, somehow he managed to survive the fire and slip to safety. We took him to the hospital for immediate treatment. Now as I sit by his bedside writing to you, dear Diary and gazing at the beloved features I know so well I conclude the Diary of Jane Ayer. Wait, I must. Perhaps for many months. But wait, I will. To become the wife of the man I love. September 5th, 1864.


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Welcome everybody, it's good to have you here. This is a really important project for all of us, an initiative that really has been started at the federal level and that Pennsylvania actually has been the first state to join in and it's on us campaign. One in five college women are assaulted. Nearly 20% of young women between the ages of 14 and 17 are sexually assaulted, mostly by someone the survivor knows, a classmate, a supposed friend, a relative or a family member and the impact is serious and it's widespread. When these acts are not taken seriously or when they're ignored, victims are singled out for humiliation and those who have committed those crimes go unpunished. That's what happened at Stanford University for example, where a member of the university swim team was caught in the act of raping a young woman. He received only six months in a county jail with probation. While his victim will have to live for the rest of her life with the consequences of feeling violation and the danger that that person caused her. To that end, I have proposed a million dollars, one million dollars in the 16, 17 budget to invest in community partnerships that will help prevent sexual violence to remove barriers to reporting in schools across Pennsylvania. I am determined to make Pennsylvania a shining example to the rest of the world as to what a committed citizenry can do to make our world better. Now, I am very proud to turn this podium over to the person you really wanna hear from and that is the coach of the Villanova Wildcatch Coach J. Wright. Coach, thank you very much. Thank you, Governor. It's an honor for us to be here today. Our team has been all over the Capitol, met everyone and it's been an amazing day but what we're talking about today is most important.


In September 2020, Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice had put her giant custom New Jersey mansion on the market for around $2.5 million. This wasn't the first time the estate she once shared with her ex has been popped up on the market, but these days Teresa has moved on and has a new place to call home. Earlier this year, the reality star and her boyfriend Luis Rela bought a 7,000 square foot manor in New Jersey. Today, we'll take a look at a few of her homes. In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. The fabulous Teresa Giudice is best known for starring on the Real Housewives of New Jersey and is also the author of multiple books. In 2015, she was released from prison after serving 11 months for fraud while her ex-husband Joe began his sentence in 2016. However, those days are long behind Teresa as she has a new man Luis Rela's in her life and is slowly gaining her success back. No doubt those charges affected the star's success and while she's known for her extravagant and lavish lifestyle, highly publicized financial troubles got her in an estimated $11 million worth of debt at one point. Sources say her net worth is back in the positives now and with the new house purchase, I gotta say she looks to be doing well. Her and Luis's new abode is just up Teresa's alley with luxury features like a saltwater pool with underground slide and insane home theater that you guys are gonna want to see.  This one looking at where Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice calls home. If you haven't already, make sure you subscribe and ring that bell for notifications because we post brand new videos daily. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram to chat and now let's get into this video. Back in 2014, Teresa and her ex Joe pleaded guilty to 41 counts of fraud as a result Teresa was sent to prison. After her brush with the law, Teresa's Lincoln Park, New Jersey home was sold back to the lenders in a foreclosure auction. Teresa's husband Joe bought their former three bedroom and one bathroom home for 170,000 in 2015. The couple had initially listed their home for 179,000 prior to their sentencing. However, the listing simply described the home as charming and not a flood zone. As a result, no bids were made on the property to make things worse. Her Manahawk and New Jersey beach house was also sold back to its lender at a foreclosure auction for the minimum bid of $100 in August 2015. Shortly after Teresa's very public divorce to Joe, the couples listed their custom built Monville mansion for $2.5 million. This is the same one that popped up for sale again more recently at the end of 2020. The estate featured 10,000 square feet situated on a four acre property and boasted six bedrooms and five bathrooms. The couple bought the property in 2001 for 530K and quickly began building their dream home from scratch.  I gotta say, one glance at the mega mansion and you know it's worthy of real house wives standard. Teresa's former abode also had an attached three-car garage plus a detached two-car garage, allowing room for five cars and that doesn't even include the driveway. The deluxe palace where Teresa used to create some reality TV drama featured a grand entrance complete with black marble floors, a Cinderella-style double-spiraling staircase with elegant swirl-drailing designs and regal chandeliers soaring above. While some may claim it's over the top, it seems that's just the way Teresa likes her home. The home has a bit of French Normandy style on the build design while a turret tops the double height entrance portico and heavy front doors. As you would expect from a home this size, there was ample space with two-story great room and other entertaining spaces like a large formal dining room with herringbone wood floors and an embellished fireplace. Then we had the colossal kitchen which featured carved wood cabinets and a huge island snack bar that may have been the most familiar room in the home for real housewives of New Jersey fans. It's right here where family and friends often gathered and Teresa's late father was often seen cooking up some sort of authentic Italian food. Upstairs, there was a second floor family room that opened up to the swimming pool and boasted a TV-watching lounge, dry bar, pool table and a pro poker table. Four of the bedrooms, including the master suite, are found on the second floor as well. Teresa's colossal master bedroom measured 36 by 22 feet and included hardwood flooring, high ceilings, a sitting area and an additional fireplace. Some more bonuses, the reality star had access to were not one but re-walking closets and a fancy ensuite fully decked out and rust colored marble. Moving outside, the property had a newly installed swimming pool set against stone walls and some shady trees. Fans of real housewives will remember the pool being built by a hunky pool contractor friend of Teresa back in the day. Either way, the mansion offered quite the outdoor oasis despite being so close to the New Jersey city life. While the home was stacked with countless deluxe features, the couple once again had a hard time unloading the home. More recently, the home popped back up on the market with a reduced price of $2.25 million, continuing their unlucky trend of trying to unload real estate. Since moving on from her scandalous past and getting a fresh start in new love life, Teresa and her boyfriend Lewis have also recently snagged a $3.34 million investment property in Montville, New Jersey. I mean, that's what they're saying the property is for but there's always a chance it'll be the couple's new dwelling because it really is oh so fit for Teresa. Oddly enough, the new residence is actually three doors down from the house Teresa had shared with her ex-husband. Hopefully the properties are big enough to keep those memories far, far away. This grazed stone mansion was modeled after the Thomas Kincaid painting Beyond Summer Gates and features 7,000 square feet with seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms and three powder rooms scattered throughout. Upon entry, double wooden doors lead to a grand entrance which features Brazilian cherry hardwood flooring, custom crown moldings, elegant cherry wood spiral staircase and stunning chandelier floating above.  I highly doubt she would live in a home without one or five. The spacious living room features top of the line furnishings, a gas fireplace and expansive bay windows which overlook the 5.6 acre property. The banquet sized dining room features dual chandeliers, Brazilian cherry custom made cabinets to match the floors and three sets of French doors while the family room boasts a gas fireplace, more French doors and a wet bar to help get the party started. The gourmet kitchen is decked out with nine Tiffany glass light fixtures, granite countertops and top of the line appliances. Between the center kitchen island, additional seating and prep area, you can be sure Teresa is more than capable of cooking up a store. Additional kitchen features include a large walk-in pantry, breakfast area with chandelier and some more French doors which open to an outdoor summer kitchen. Quite possibly one of the best rooms in the home has to be the 11-seat movie theater in the basement which is designed for both movies screenings and family performances with add-ons like a changing and costume room for performers. The theater even comes complete with a concession stand and a wet bar with custom lit shelves for movie snacks. Nothing like open mic night in the comfort of your own home. No excuses for adult family movie night at this mansion, that's for sure. Just when that was enough entertainment, beside the theater is a rec room complete with billiards table, gas fireplace and French doors leading to the stunning backyard. The outdoor features of Teresa and Louis' property are just as grand as the rooms inside. There's a beautiful saltwater pool with waterfall and while that's enough for the adults, there's also a 60-foot underground slide that would excite the whole family, I'm sure. Also back here, there's a poolside cabana, multiple lounging areas, a jacuzzi, barbecue area, fire pit and more. Whether it's Teresa and Louis who live at this mansion or the next lucky family, there's something here for everyone. And with that, I think it's time to wrap up this house tour. We checked out Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice's homes, including her former Montville mansion and her newly purchased one. After seeing her properties, what did you guys think? I think the over-the-top and lavish mansions definitely suited the reality star. They're exactly what I would expect from Teresa. I have to admit at the beginning of the house tour when I first heard that Teresa lost a pair of homes for $100, I really felt for her, but it's hard to feel bad when she recently upgraded to a mansion with its own movie slash performance theater. Either way, what an impressive spot that was. Out of the many rooms and amenities in Teresa's mansion, which was the very best, be sure to let me know down in the comment section. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram to chat and I will see you guys all in the next video. Bye!


Will Kazarin, a Nostra protocol developer and creator of the app, Damos, which was the first Nostra-based app to make it onto the Apple Store. Within two days, I was banned in China because the CCP, I guess, got wind of it pretty quickly and they're like, oh, we've got to stop this. But it's been an interesting experience to see it going through the whole process. How many downloads have you seen so far? We're up to about 250,000. It went up to 24,000 in Mainland China in a day before it got cut off. So if they didn't cut off China, I bet it would have been much, much higher. When you say, OK, so it's cut off. So people in Mainland China can't get it anymore, but the people who have it, can they continue to use it or has it been rendered inoperative? They can just use it outside of Damos and outside of the app store. I remember when the relays were getting bombarded with Chinese traffic, because the app store did open there, the downloads on the store for China dropped, but the relay that we run, the Chinese traffic sort of like remained the same. So that's the thing. You don't need the same client. It doesn't matter if CCP doesn't like it anymore.  Right? The client is just sort of like one more nice sort of experience and shapes how you absorb it, how you interact with it. But the information system is the same, much more, much like the Internet, right? Or TCPIP, like I mean, the stuff is just flowing through. You just find another way of tapping into it. Back to the China example for a second, because I think it's worth lingering upon since that is the prime example of an authoritarian, very powerful authority saying... Second only to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, right? This is not allowed. I'm putting up here just right now the notice that Will posted that his app had been banned in China, and you see Snowden commenting down there, smells like fear. But the reality is, when I go to the global feed, which is like the kind of fire hose of everything that anyone is posting from anywhere in the world to Nostra, you still see like a ton of Chinese posts. It's almost maybe even half of the posts have Chinese characters on them. So clearly that's some evidence that this protocol is fairly censorship resistant. Yes? It's going to be really hard for them to shut down all the relays because for instance, because I was asking some people in China, I'm like, do you guys, are you guys running your own relays? And they told me, yes. So there could be like a sub network that we don't even see, that they're using within their country. And that's a big issue is when you go across the firewall, apparently, then they can start tracking things. But if they're actually running their own relays within their local communities, then they can communicate and we wouldn't even see that, right? Yeah, I mean, so think about it this way. You don't really have like a global feed, right? It's not like there's a single source, a single river. It's more like a Blueville system, right? So you have like multiple rivers and they're all connected to each other. And they can change paths too, right? So if somebody puts a stop in one, you can reroute that to some other relay and you can have say like a mirror relay or bridge relay that uses some other sort of form of communication that is not like the main internet for you to sort of create this interactivity between the two. Mostly because this protocol is so sort of like simple and contained. It's pretty clever. So the thing that you start to think about then is, you know, what are the choke points that governments are going to try to use? I mean, it seems to me that the relays themselves would be that the target, like there's going to be malicious actors, right?  And then the government's going to get interested. Are they going to go and start shutting down the individual relays that host this stuff? Like is the relay operator going to be the choke point or the person held liable? And is there any way to guard against that and make sure you're not going to get screwed over as the person that's hosting this content? It's just like, you know, flag theory, right? Same idea. It's the same idea for Bitcoin mining is, you know, as long as there is an economic incentive and that's why sort of like the Bitcoin start to play into this, somebody is going to relay that message somewhere else, right? So yes, they can ask Amazon to take down a relay here. They can ask, you know, Herzl like to take down a relay in Germany or whatever. But you can't block them all and they can all have a copy of the information. So this one is going to be a tough one for governments to try to stop.  The OFAC cannot, OFAC is this stuff that it's essentially like the Treasury saying, hey, this is a terrorist transaction. You can't accept it. You can't mine it, right? Sanctions, violating, yeah. So most of the miners like still do it, right? So it's no different than this.  So they will relay and you can attach that economic sort of interest or incentive so that they have a reason to do so. But does that push people out of, I mean, like you guys are living in the developed world, in OECD countries, you know, if they come after you, isn't that going to have a chilling effect on people who are either developing clients or other programs that lay on top of the protocols, et cetera? And if they go to Amazon, I mean, like if the U.S. government, if the SEC or the FTC or the FBI says, hey, you know what, you're harboring something and you have this, you make a lot of money having web servers, but you make even more money and you have your freedom in the Amazon retail stuff, isn't that enough pressure to kind of squeeze the type of activity you're talking about out of the developed world? How's the war against turrets going? How's the war against drugs going? It's always going to be about selective enforcement, right? These guys break broad laws and then they essentially only enforce against the people that they don't like with the current government in place. Hey, thanks for watching that excerpt from our conversation with NVK and Will Kasarin about Nostra and the future of the decentralized web. 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So having played this DLC for almost 2 weeks now thanks to Gearbox allowing me to play early, I've had the chance to experiment with every weapon this DLC offers, the DLC of Bounty of Blood, and today guys I give you my top 10 favourite weapons. As it goes guys my name is DPJ and today I bring you another BL3 video. If you do enjoy it leaving a like really helps out and subscribe if you do want to see more. So having quite a lot of time to use all weapons from this DLC, today I bring you my top 10 favourites. Now this isn't the top 10 most powerful, it's just the ones I feel work best for me and offer the most. So let's get into it, and in at number 10 we have the Beacon. So the Beacon is a Malouan pistol which like previous to this kind namely the Houshuk, it's a weapon people know of but don't really use. I feel the Beacon will go that same route. I already think people are actually overlooking this incredible little pistol, because as you can see by the background footage now, this thing is in fact an animal. It's even better than the Houshuk which as you know is already a great weapon. The Beacon's speciality is un-reload, you let off a powerful know of a burst, which is actually quite efficient for what it is. So this Malouan pistol comes up with all elements and the ability to switch between any random two, like 99% of all the Malouan weapons, it also has that charge time too, before you can fire it off but once you do fire it off and let it rip, that's exactly what this thing does.  Now what I will add, I have made a complete guide for all legendos and the locations in which you will find them, that video I will link within the video description if you see any today that you're interested in farming. Okay so we're going to move on and in at number nine we have their proprietary license. Now this Hyperion SMG I've already made a video on, in which I mentioned that this was a weapon I saw quite early into playing this DLC, but I pulled it away and kind of forgot about it. And that was my bad for sure, because after actually testing this thing, I found out it truly is unique and actually an amazing weapon. So this SMG comes after in all elements and is a five round burst. Each shot will stick a projectile if you land it to the body and it will deal damage over time. Headshots ricochet to nearby enemies and do some amazing damage at the same time. So this weapon right here is truly capable and powerful SMG. Now I called it in my video the redistributor 2.0 and to be honest having this thing, my redistributor has now gone inside of my bank. That's how good I think this thing is. It's single target damage in my opinion is way better than what the redistributor offers, but the redistributor does have that amped shot meaning the fact it chains to nearby enemies at the same time means that the redistributor is better for grouped up adds, but this is better though for single target damage but also at the same time does deal great damage to enemies gathered up. So it's a potent SMG and if you're interested in getting this thing, it is indeed a world drop but it's dedicated bus drop is the Hydro Goryan who are located on the obsidian foist. Okay so moving on and in at number eight we have the flipper. Now the flipper I will straight up say this has to be one of the best SMGs in the game right now. This Maliwan monster reminds me a lot of the old school tsunami but this packs way more of a punch. So this Maliwan SMG when you first fire it starts off shooting one projectile but that one projectile quickly becomes nine projectiles and that is nine projectiles per one single and more consumed. So it's capable DPS is on another level and using it within a slot of shaft on mayhem 10 I actually can't remember the last weapon I used that killed this quick it is that crazy. Now since the tsunami I haven't really used any other Maliwan SMG. They all in reality were getting out of its shine by others new to the game or all the ones receiving buffs. This one though is definitely staying within my loadout and if you're interested in the flipper it is a world drop but it's dedicated bus drop is the Minusaur who can be found within the Bloodstone Canyon. So you know what to do if this looks interesting to you. Okay so moving on and in at number seven we have the Unkempt Herald. The OG BL2 pistol returns to BL3 with the bounty of blood DLC. And while to be honest with you guys I don't think it's as good in this game as well it was in BL2. Now I still feel it's definitely a good and unique weapon it does pack a great punch and if you pair it with the right setup and build it's truly capable of some deadly things but personally I myself I'd rate it higher it's just there's just many other things on this list which are just better and to be honest I am seeing myself not using it as much as I thought I would be but here it is in at number seven and I feel where it belongs. Now the Unkempt Herald is a world drop but it's dedicated bus drop is Kaver Dowd who can be found upon Bloodstone Canyon. A weapon I definitely feel you need to use and decide yourself how you feel about it. Okay so moving on and in at number six we have the Storn Thrower. So this new Jacob's legendary assault rifle is in my opinion a weapon I don't think people are giving enough of their time to. Yet I know many people watching this video probably haven't even seen this yet which is understandable but for those that have will probably have used this thing thinking it was just that you know it Jacob's semi-autos spammy rifle but you would be wrong. What this thing is without you actually realizing and less testing it properly is an absolute beast and I'd even put it above other amazing Jacob ARs like the Clare Voyants which I rated really high. So what's special about this only really becomes apparent when you come face to face with mobs of enemies because hitting shots with this ricochets multiple shots to other targets and when you shoot this thing you will notice enemies all around you just get mounted at the same time and if I'm honest I've waited for a Jacob's assault rifle to offer something like this so I'm glad we finally have it. This thing is crazy powerful and it does come in many different variants. Yes it's easy to overlook but that would be your mistake. Now the Storn Thrower only drops from one place from this DLC and that's the Kormish bus found at the end of Ash Four Peaks. Okay so we're going to move on and in number five we have the Light Show. So the Light Show is a new legendary pistol and let me tell you it's truly unique and while we are at it I may as well say and get straight to the point this thing is incredible. So being just another Vladov pistol to many many people how does it contend? Well to be honest it's the best it's the best Vladov pistol in the game it's probably the best Vladov weapon in the game right now because it is like great. And as you can see via the gameplay footage this thing is on another level DPS wise. So when we check out this thing firing we can see it's truly unique for sure as we can see it fires four projectiles per shot that split apart further and further over range but it's still a very capable weapon for close to mid range combat for sure. Another thing you may notice also is the fact we see it deals two counts of elemental damage and it is because every single shot landed with this thing adds close to around 50% extra trail damage to that shot. Another amazing thing about this thing is it has zero recoil people and I mean absolute zero recoil when you hold down that trigger it doesn't move a centimeter which is incredible too. So the Light Show in my opinion is a musket and how you get it is quite easy it's a world drop but it's dedicated bust drop is the latest adaptor who is located within the obsidian first. Okay so moving on and in at number four we have the Quick Draw. So the Quick Draw is one of a few epic weapons on this list and to be honest the reason they are here and this video isn't titled Top 10 Legendaries is because they're just too good to leave out. The Quick Draw is one of those epics so it's obtained from a side machine called the Quick and the Quicker and this is a weapon I've already made a video on and if you want a full guide on it you'll find that video linked within the video description. But it's a little jacob's monster that is truly unique and I said this in my other video this could easily be a legendaries like good. So what special about it you may be wondering if you haven't seen it already. Well upon switching to this weapon it automatically reloads and gains a damage bonus of around 130% and you truly feel it. Watching the background footage now you can see how potent this thing is. Now I actually went out my way to make a build surrounding this weapon and I mentioned in that video that using this with one other weapon in your loadout double tapping that switch weapons means you can literally in a blink of an eye get that damage bonus and auto reload to trigger and it more or less means you can have infinite amp shots even better used for at the same time and switch between each then we are talking people. Now I will experiment a little fair with this thing as I do think it's capable of more than what I actually previewed with my initial video. But yeah guys the Quick Draw is an epic pistol 100% worth your time getting. Okay so moving on and in at number three we have the P Shooter. So the P Shooter is another epic weapon in fact another epic pistol I just couldn't leave off my list. This one I guarantee you have all seen but I know for an absolute fact some people didn't even try it out and probably disregarded the weapon and this is because you probably first saw it and then realised it's below your current level because you get this at the start and the DLC is Story which if you started at level 57 you probably got it at level 57 and because you're now at level 60 no doubt looking at this thing being a little lower this is one reason many people disregard it which would be a mistake because this thing demands your attention. So what this P Shooter does is on crit shots it spawns flakalite explosions that bounce off that crit shot and if enemies are nearby they get battered otherwise they fall to the floor. Using it within the slaughter shaft you can see the damage this thing is capable of and it truly does pack a nasty punch. This thing also like the Quick Draw I feel 100% could be a legendary pistol.  But yeah at number three we have nothing other than the P Shooter. So we're going to move on and in at number two we have the Complex Root. So the Complex Root was a weapon I covered in one of the first videos I posted on this DLC and it was for good reason. The version I first got and was testing wasn't even the best variant for my build and I was using it and still couldn't believe how easy it was utterly mounting enemies for what it was. I knew straight away it would be a popular weapon and while seeing all the videos, posts and comments on it my thoughts come true. It is a special weapon. Now this Malouan Sniper with the typical Malouan features of charging before firing and the ability to change its elemental type upon shooting it consumes two ammo but after hitting a target it forms like a laser cage around the enemy doing some amazing damage over time. Hit a headshot with this thing and that cage like projectile laser feature comes out tenfold and to witness it is amazing and the damage it does is again amazing too. So this Malouan Sniper is in my opinion one of the best and most fun weapons to come out of this new DLC. Now the weapon is a world drop as I first got mine out of a toilet but its dedicated bust drop is a landing Dixon who can be found within Ash 4 Peaks. Okay so we're going to move on and in at number one and my favorite weapon to come from this DLC and this may shock some of you but it's nothing other than the bubble blaster. Now this is the third epic pistol on this list and I know some people will think I'm crazy having this as my favorite weapon from this DLC but if I'm honest it's the one I had the most fun with. So the bubble blaster basically shoots bubbles and to be honest it isn't even the most powerful feature today. I just love the overall package so it shoots radiation bubbles and many pop out of this thing but only a certain amount do that damage and it's those projectiles that kind of travel upwards. Here I target with those bubbles and watch them melt in a fashion which reminds me a lot of the old G pipe bomb which used to melt enemies which you might remember. Now obviously this doesn't have that kind of power but the power it does have is spectacular and watching it in action melt enemies is truly amazing and unfortunately you can see in the background now this is with no special buffs, two pistols or radiation from my build. This can only really get better. Now the epic bubble blaster is a side mission reward. The mission is on Asheville Peaks and it's called Dirty Deeds. The mission itself is amazing but the reward is even better in my opinion. So yeah guys my favorite weapon to come out of this DLC is nothing other than the bubble blaster and it's a weapon I truly recommend you try it out at least. And there we have it guys my top 10 favorite bounty of blood DLC weapons. Let me know down below in that comments section which legendary or epic is your favorite from this DLC and let me know why. On that note we have come to the end of the video. I hope you enjoyed it and if you did leave me a like really helps me out. If you're new around here and want to see more bloodlands be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload you can turn on notifications by hitting that bell button. Also if you'd like to support me directly you can by clicking that join button and becoming a member of my channel. But guys thanks as always for stopping by. Hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


Welcome back ladies and gentlemen to Toppy TV USA. My name is James Boyman joined by my co-host Ryan Williams for episode 4. Ryan, how are we doing today? Not too bad, James. It's another week where there hasn't been a lot of news. We're going to try and fill up the time. Probably not going into too much detail today, but we have some observations and I'm excited to be back with you as usual every week. Indeed, yeah. When we started this weekly news show, we were under the assumption that there would be weekly news to discuss. It has been relatively slow, but we will nonetheless dive into some topics today. We're going to be doing a little bit of a review of our episode from last week where we discussed some of the in-depth statistics of Everton thus far this season. We're going to take a look at those relative to the win against Fulham last weekend, of course, and maybe try to project outwards how those stats will continue to look. And then we're going to do a little, of course, for those of you that don't know, tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the United States. I'm going to talk a little bit about Everton players that we are thankful for. But before we get into that, Ryan, let's kick things off with some stats for the people. Yeah, we went through a bunch of different things where, and again, it's just additional information. Don't kill us for bringing up some numbers, but we do like to take an objective look at things like I said before, just to see what it tells us, you know. And a lot of them sunk with some of our observations, too. There wasn't too many dramatic things, but one of the things we did talk about was movement and whether we were really getting back and forth up and down the pitch, you know, whether we were working. And there was some concern that we really weren't. One of the stats and metrics we looked at was the concept of progressive runs. I don't think we're going to find that last time, but that is an actual stat.  It was actually a pretty big difference. We had several individuals that had them and I think we mentioned last, last week that we're Charleston led our team with under four a week and sure enough, my man Alex a woby, and I would be remiss if I didn't show it, show it to the people. Well, let Alex a woby handle it. Anyway, Alex a woby had six which is really a big number honestly it's he hasn't had that many in a long time and really haven't. I don't. I'm not sure another Everton players had that many all year. That was a big difference and I thought his ability to get up and down the pitch was a key element of our attack. And even in the second half when we didn't generate too much he was really the one threat that still was able to carry the ball forward and create a couple with that pressure. So yeah I think in that particular instance that number does stick out and I think that speaks very positively. I think the other numbers kind of we looked at and that same attacking vein was passing in terms of getting a high volume of key passes creating shots from a pass and getting the ball into the box more. And the final third we didn't see that. But one thing we did see that was a little bit different which is seems kind of obvious is we had 22 crosses. We've not had more than 17 in the league yet in any single game and that is a hallmark of our past sides. And when you have Dominic Calvert Lewin in there as well as for Charleston a guy is pretty good in the air. Why would you not and again that doesn't mean looping stuff in the air that simply means that we did attack in a little more volume on the wings. And I thought that was very good to see. I know one thing too that you've always harped on is the way we attack the different sides as well as one thing that you noticed in particular that Everton was not doing very well in the last three games proceeding the full of match was just our passing network. It looked dire a lot of stuff just back and forth between center backs but James this is a very different scenario and I think it's a good thing. Yeah most definitely and just to quickly add to the points that you made I mean everyone was giving Alex will be a ton of credit on Saturday because he was just that with the ball he was really really aggressively looking to bring the ball forward consistently from that kind of right wing back position, which is something that I think the only other player on the right side that we've seen aggressively drive the ball forward that way would be shameless Coleman in any sense. In his absence I think will be did a really good job of both getting the ball forward and kind of finding the balance between offense and defense. We know that he's not naturally a defensive player but he is a big strong physical player as Carlo mentioned in some of his comments impressors this week. And so that could be a potential interesting long term solution. And then yeah the passing I mean the crossing has been Everton's most effective way to create goals now for a few seasons and a lot of teams do that. It's not uncommon, but to get that many in when we have a poacher of the nature of cover Lou and a player who can finish both with with both feet and his head and Richard listen, just getting them the service it's that simple, and seeing Richard listen back in the side obviously helped provide a ton of balance which segues nicely into the conversation about pass amounts. Yeah the balance is key because it seemed like we attacked from both sides almost equally and that had not been the case and several matches proceeding. Furthermore I mean a lot of the times what we see is an over reliance on on using the outside the outside players to get the ball forward. And that's just kind of the way that modern football at the highest level is played you have to that's most teams will try to leave the center compact and force you wide and and give you what what you can take. We did a good job of exploiting that but we also did a good job of getting Alan into Corey involved in the middle we see you look at the most. So for example the top 10 links the two players who are most frequently passing each other ball at number one we have two players, Rodriguez and decor a 24 passes between them, 12 on each side so that is a really good indication the quarry in the central mid, getting the ball to Hamas who was kind of in that free floating role. Second is Gary mean and Michael keen which won't really surprise anyone you've got your center backs, they're going to be on the ball a lot there that's how you generally recycle possession of course. So you have players that it's interesting because that's actually again toward the right side although Hamas drifts he was in name or right when you're quote unquote. So to see the emphasis of getting the ball down the right side when traditionally the left side has been our strength was really interesting to see but later on you get into it and you've got Michael keen to look at Dean is next up so you just see that sort of balance and none of these relationships are like, it was dramatically higher than the other the highest 24 than 20 to 1918. So it's, it's pretty balanced in that we're going to both sides. And then I think the sixth one is is a will be in Rodriguez which is a really good relationship if they can build up a good rapport and a good good understanding of what the other is going to do. That goes really well for our ability to create on the right side which, you know, with the a wall called last season was not something we were all that good at and we've been missing that right side presence for a long time so if we can start to create that and find that balance on both sides it's really going to do wonders for our attack. Yeah, I think it was really key how well we move the ball to like you said attacking the final third when a team is being compact as hard. You know the Premier League is known for big physical players from speed athleticism in order to beat that you've got to move the ball. And we saw a lot of that and I think a lot of that is the reason why we're effective not just the pace of doing is I think we did a pretty good job this time one of the things we talked about was getting our best players the most touches, and that definitely played out against Fulham. Most definitely and so if you look. We talked a lot about Hamas touches and how he the last several games he hasn't been getting nearly as many as he, as he did in the first few games when he was lighting up the league. Today, or rather against Fulham 57 touches and 73 minutes at halftime he was well on pace to get his most touches in an Everton shirt of course he came off early which prevented that. But then the next three guys with the most touches decor a little bit will be and look at Dean. So you're getting your most dangerous players Barbara Charleston you're getting your most dangerous players the ball. And that's only going to go well we talked about it. If you're in any sport you want your best players to have possession and be able to create and do things. And we did just out and I think it's worth the little sleigh asterisk that it was for them. They weren't great and we did maybe struggle a little bit in the second half but still these stats are better than they have been the last three games and I think that that shows, at least from a numerical standpoint why we were able to win. And look, they are a good attacking side it's not like they don't have weapons and so one area we focused on was some of the defensive metrics which are a little more difficult I think. We talked about some of the flaws again these are just numbers that just pieces of information. Every sport has them not always do they work well for certain things but just defensive metrics across the board. One thing that did stand out at least against Fulham was we had 14 interceptions that's the highest we've had in the league. I mean the next highest was eight. It is at least some indication that we were picking off passes and making a little bit difficult for them to split lines and we talked about some of the gaps between the midfield and the defense in the last couple matches. We didn't see that as much I mean I we also said on last pod how important it was to find the right midfield combination. I feel like it's a lot easier and we both said this to have two man in midfield working together and I think Alan and Decori did a pretty good job in there. Decori in particular had like nine takeaways just just an outrageous I mean it's an unbelievable number. He was all over the place but rarely did you see one of them go forward without the other supporting him. And so while yes they had a lot of possession and when you sit back a little bit more which we did in the second half you're going to concede more possession we weren't pressing this high. I think number one that has to do with some of our guys were tired. The international break was not too easy even for Gary you didn't play the second match that had to be a stressful time to be part of a Colombian side that just got smashed twice. Coming from South America is not the easiest thing you could tell where Charleston was dead even well before they subbed him off. But the bottom line is even though we packed it in if you look at expected goals and you look at the chances they created ignore the penalty is you know that obviously would weight the numbers too much. The expected goals was higher in the first half than it was the second half they really didn't create too many moments I think of terrible fear other than the penalty which is more just an individual mistake. As well as hey look look look man dusted Dean. He did he went right by him. But really the only reason why they scored there too is yellow off the sheet got open but you're just made an individual mistake you know he just didn't get down to his knee quickly enough and deflected in the goal. That was it. I mean there really wasn't a lot of danger other than those and and I think that's a good thing and I think, you know one other thing too it's one thing to be disciplined positionally but another thing was I didn't feel like we are reckless to get around like a bunch of idiots and and I think we had seen that in the past accumulating a lot of cards that's something we picked up I think the last three matches proceeding this one it was something like four cards two cards three and three and two reds maybe the four matches I think proceeding that that's a terrible record but we didn't see much of that against full and did we know we didn't I mean we had no cards so that anytime that you can escape a match without a significant discipline I mean the only as you mentioned there was the individual mistake from your amino leading to the to the goal and there was the foul by Godfrey in the box that led to the penalty. But again those are individual mistakes isolated and I think highlighting the XG XGA and the second half is really important and it kind of speaks to a point that actually I think you tweeted earlier this week that upon rewatch. It really wasn't as bad a second half performance as people made out and I think I alluded to it on the pod where people kind of just assume that everything that has happened in the past will come back. The ghost of Everton past. Yeah, we haven't been able to hold on to this kind of need so anytime that you have a big lead and you start to see it slip a little bit. The panic starts to set in okay we're going to blow this is going to be like Newcastle last season yada yada yada. But it's true. I think a lot of that is just sort of unconscious bias by fans or maybe even conscious bias. When in reality especially after we made the substitutions bringing Guilty and Tom Davies on there really wasn't a whole lot from did to threaten our goal and I think people were just kind of frustrated that we weren't being more aggressive to attack but again, you know you attack you leave yourself exposed on the counter and Fulham have good attacking players I think it was made perhaps even wise of enchilada to to rain things in and again the discipline is really, really crucial because we can't be going without a good team and Richard listen for games over the course of the season or anyone really in our starting 11 because we've seen how thin we are so anytime one of those vital first 11 players is out. It's bad enough if they're out with an injury but if they're out through a self inflicted decision on the pitch that just shoots us in the foot even more. Yeah, and I think it's all product of the same thing you know being focused having a game plan and seeing it out and I thought the guy showed some maturity in doing it. And look they were playing a slightly different more unfamiliar system I think you blame that a little bit maybe even on the first goal. But they did settle in and and I wasn't as nervous as some others but I was, I was. Well, we all get it I mean when a team has the ball that much anything can happen and that's the risk of doing it, unless you're really sound really well versed. Those are certain actual enchilade learn from the best you know Ariadjah Sachi is really the main guy he learned from and you know his hallmark was coordinated defense you know they pressed like crazy you know running out of people. But they did it together as a unit and Carlo if anyone understands the need to do that as we saw some of it it's certainly something to build on I guess we'll put it that way. Most definitely. So, taking a little change of pace here after we've knocked into the stats and moving away from that in the vein that it is indeed going to be Thanksgiving day I think when this comes out. We couldn't help but notice that Everton very nicely posted an interview with Landon Donovan on the site and to quote them. Mark Thanksgiving in the USA on Thursday Everton FC sat down for an in depth interview with American Great Landon Donovan to discuss his two memorable loan stints at Everton and why he will always cherish being a blue. Now I have to admit that got me thinking as well about what I am thankful for, and we thought it'd be kind of fun to take a little trip down memory lane to talk about maybe the players the American players. There have been many, which is why Everton Tony Samson this is for you is America's team. But truly, I thought it'd be fun to talk about the guys that kind of maybe helped lead us to Everton, the American players in particular. So I'm going to start off and with my guy Joe Maxmore. Now most Everton fans are thinking like, how long did he play with us longer than you might think. Joe Maxmore was an interesting player for the US. He came over on a free transfer from New England Revolution from MLS where he was lighting up the league. He's still actually the sixth, sixth all time leading goal scorer in US men's national team history. So I love Joe Maxmore. He was a little guys diminutive but he was so tough and such a fighter but he was very clever and actually creative. The US didn't have too many players like that at the time and he was definitely one of them. Now Joe Max kind of, obviously I was aware of Everton at the time, but I got kind of excited that he was playing for what I thought in my mind was such a big club. And he started off. Correctly. Yes, of course. I mean, yes, true. Maybe not, maybe not quite at the time, but I think it's very amusing when he showed up. I mean, felt like every time he stepped on the pitch, he scored. I mean, I think he scored something like six goals in seven matches in crazy display between January and February 2000. And it was really cool. You know, they were singing songs about him more, more, more. There was a funny song about Joe Maxmore and David Beckham and, you know, being better looking or something. I can't remember exactly what was pretty good stuff. I mean, it was exciting. It's gotten interesting. He went on to play 52 times for Everton didn't score too much after that, but made 22 starts eight goals and four assists. But anyway, he was a unique player for the US at the time and unfortunately got hurt. I was actually at the match in Korea when the US played Portugal and Joe Max more hurt his knee, which is a total bummer kind of killed his career after that. Yeah, Joe Max more. Thank you my friend and thank you Evertonians for making him feel welcome enough and getting me excited about Everton while watching him and the few chances we could growing up because a lot of people don't realize that there was no European soccer on at least when I was a kid. So this is kind of some of the first forays we could really watch or at least get on the internet and, you know, learn about it and stuff. So yeah, Joe Max was a key one for me. James, how about you? Yeah, I mean, I think I'm going to go with a less perhaps obscure pick than Ryan. And for those who are familiar with the show and its history, this will come as no surprise, but I'm going to go with the classic. The legend US men's national team legendary keeper, of course, Tim Howard, friend of the American toffee podcast incidentally we of course had him on the show a few months ago to sit down and Alex and I were able to meet him when we made our first trip to Goodison on match day. And it's weird thinking now, but this was the last home match with fans allowed in the stadium against Manchester United with the the 1-1 draw and the hay have played that the deflection deflection off of Calvin Lewin in the opening minutes. And anyway, Should have been a win. We are first, our first Premier League match live in person and we were robbed by garbage, I mean, garbage poetic in some ways and tragic and others. But I am thankful for Tim Howard. First of all, he is an unbelievable guy, super nice, super an amazing representative for the club off the pitch. And we're going to talk a little bit about his on the pitch achievements, but to be such a strong character to be such a big personality and one of the very first American soccer superstars stars guys who truly captured the national spotlight in the World Cup. There have been plenty throughout the years, but as the sport has grown more popular, I think Tim, Tim's performance against Belgium was one of the, I think maybe watershed moments for US soccer perhaps and certainly exposed a lot of Americans countless Americans to ever And even in the first place, I have him to thank for one of the primary reasons that I'm a fan and to have such an impressive career. There's there's a history of keepers American keepers in the Premier League but 354 appearances over the course of 10 seasons over 1000 saves in amazing achievement and he really truly in interviews and in every public appearance represents the club and truly understands the club and speak so eloquently about it and you know now that he's on of course NBC sports weekly coverage of the Premier League it's great to have you know that we have a blue in our corner, although I'm sure he tries to be as unbiased as he can. He does a great job as an analyst as well. And as I said an amazing guy and for the US men's national team over 120 caps, the most, the most capital keeper in US men's national team history 62 wins 42 clean sheets so big thank you to Tim Howard. It was great to meet you it's been was great to watch you in a blue shirt and all the best in the future. I of course have to come up with another lesser known American because that's just me and the interview was already about Landon so what am I going to say about that. Right. My guy and probably in all honesty my favorite soccer player of all time is Precky. I know people may think that's insane but wait before we go in. Yes, I just want to say Ryan is so excited to talk about. It's true. It's true. Yeah, this is just a ridiculous excuse for me to bring up Precky at a private. Well, yes. So pre drag Rado slagovic. That's right. I don't know if I got that right. It doesn't matter. He's Precky. Yeah, the guy, he only played 46 times for Everton 22 starts four goals to assist. He was actually pretty decent the teams weren't great. Howard Kendall bought him for $100,000 where out of MLIS. So, from the indoor soccer league, think about that MISL pardon me, straight to Everton and I remember seeing Precky play in the indoor soccer league. He was playing for Tacoma at the time the massive metropolis of Tacoma playing against my dear Pittsburgh spirit and he would just tear them apart and it was frustrating but yeah in the mid 80s believe that's all we had in America I mean, you know, the American soccer league was defunct. There were some smaller leagues so Precky was truly a superstar and it's funny, you know, he did the same stuff for Tacoma that same move it's he sits on his left foot, takes to the outside cuts back rolls over cuts back rolls over bang he's gone, all throughout his career. He was one of the few like truly technical players, the US had like a player player we didn't have many of them. He was distinctly I mean he eventually played for the US later to that was kind of the interesting part about it or else it might have attracted me more obsessively to the club earlier. It's funny then after Everton he went back to MLS from ages 32 to 41 one hand BP twice, including the second time at age 39, 39, maybe his debut for the US at age 33, probably best known for the goal that actually beat Brazil at the 1998 goal cup the only time the US has beat Brazil we won't bring up the loss in the Confederations Cup final. Anyway, we still lost the final to Mexico but whatever we still won. So either way, I want to give thanks to Precky, as well as the Evertonians everywhere that seem to embrace him as well as the other Americans on this lovely Thanksgiving day and just in general everyone I think the big reason why we truly love is the people and the fans and the reception we've gotten being over there for me a couple times now, and I really appreciate it so that's what I'm going to give thanks to thanks for Evertonians everywhere. Yeah, big thanks to everyone out there to all of the American Toffees who are watching either after Thanksgiving hope you had a great one if you're watching on Thanksgiving hope you're having a great one etc etc. Great holiday look forward to seeing Everton play Leeds at the weekend. If you haven't already be sure to check out our link in the description to all of our podcasts and socials give us a follow, give us a like if the video like give Tuffy TV a like and a subscribe if you haven't all that good stuff. Otherwise we'll be with you guys next week appreciate everyone checking it out leave us a comment. And until next time up the Toffees.


This would be the, you know, you asked me earlier how I was getting to know young guys. I've told this story three times today, but I was in high school.  I got some offers for some small schools, didn't want to go there. So I just went to University of Florida to try and walk on the team. And I was interested and I was a good student and I, you know, valued education. So I said, I'll try to walk on and see how it works out. And my freshman year, I got caught throwing overhand. Sophomore, freshman year, I just went to school and worked out. And then my sophomore, freshman sophomore summer, friend of mine was pitching in a Jacksonville Municipal 18 and over league. So anybody 18 and over could try out for these teams. And he asked me to come pitch for his team. So that's when I started goofing around throwing sidearm. It was the first time I'd ever played. Where there was no results, didn't matter quite as much. And I started throwing sidearm, playing shortstop, hit a little cleanup in my off days. And I had so much fun doing it. And my dad, like all baseball dads, loved watching baseball. So he came out to watch me pitch and said, hey man, you're on to something with that sidearm. You should go try out again. So this story comes full circle. One of the Yankees employees, Pat McMahon, anybody that really knows baseball knows Pat McMahon. He's a wonderful person and baseball coach. He was my coach in college. We had walk on tryouts again at the risk of being Rudy. I tried out again and made the team, became a closer, got a scholarship, played there for four years, played for Coach McMahon and learned a lot about baseball and about life. And if he had never had those, I told him this the other day, if he had never had those walk on tryouts, like a lot of D1 schools don't have them anymore, I would never would have played college or professional baseball. And who knows where my life would be. So I'm excited to be here and be part of this organization where Coach Mack is as well.


HPC judges welcome back. This is part of our HPC voices of STEM excellent series where we invite conversation with the best and brightest from historically black colleges and universities in terms of baccalaureate or graduate training who are making acceptable moves in the science technology engineering and mathematics field. Today our special guest is Dr. Ebony Madden. She is a program director in the NIH Division of Genomic Medicine in the National Human Genome Research Institute and a proud graduate of Howard University. So Dr. Madden it is a pleasure to have you on today. Thank you very much Sarah. So your work in genomics it is something that is widely known in the scientific field but to the lay person who hears a lot about public health these days may not be intimately familiar with the importance of genomics or what that field of study does. Can you kind of explain to our listeners and particularly young people who are at HPC now and considering fields that they may want to enter as careers why genomics is so important and particularly to minority communities? So first genomics is important to everyone because it's pretty much the map of how your body will respond to everything. How your body will respond to the environment is the map of how your body functions and so genomics is the base of everything the coding that you have as you know we share our coding as humans there is almost exactly the same we just have a small amount of variants that may change how we respond and how our body reacts so it's very important.  How did you get or become interested in this field? Tell us a little bit about your upbringing your earliest exposure to science and where did he get steered towards genomics as a as a specialty and then your journey to Howard University for both your your master's and your doctorate and how that really shaped your career and and leadership at NIH. That's a great question so growing up my mother is a teacher and she felt strongly about getting us involved in different things especially in the summer and so I have a twin brother my twin brother and I were in this program called ACE starting from middle school and it actually involved you and it exposed you to the sciences and you would go to different summer camps and be able to work with investigators to run different studies and I love that I love just learning about how things work in your body and actually you know seeing how the experiment ends seeing how medicine works and that just excited me at that point I thought I wanted to be a physician I went to UNC Chapel Hill as undergrad I in all my education genetics was my favorite course but I still thought I wanted to be a physician until I did an internship and I actually worked in the cancer institute and Dr. Golly is the person that asked me about genetic counseling and I had never heard about genetic counseling and I looked into it and it seemed just such a great field where it brought into science but then you actually work with patients and going to a predominantly white university I my brother went to predominantly black he went to HBCU North Carolina Central University and he always would talk about how wonderful it was going to HBCU so I wanted I really really wanted to go to HBCU for graduate school and that's what led me to Howard University in the masters of genetic counseling program and what I learned when I was doing my masters is I love the science the counseling was not exactly what I thought it would be you did not spend the time with patients that I thought you should spend it was all about billing and not the pediatric counseling but the prenatal counseling and a lot of that it was it was very it was structured very different than what I had envisioned and my love for science brought me to just go on and get my PhD in genetics and human genetics and just go the science route wet lab route those of us who are parents who've had babies we some of us are familiar with that term genetic counseling so that's that's so encouraging to see that you know their sister would even consider getting involved in that because that's something that's that's very important particularly for black families um talk about some of the the differences not necessarily better good but what was different about your experience at Chapel Hill from Howard and I know it's two different programs and it's two different cultures from an undergraduate to a graduate student but what are some of the things that you would say that affirmed Howard as a good choice for you and and also you kind of took an opposite route a lot of our best stem talent they started hbc using their kind of guided to predominantly white institutions you kind of flipped it around was that was that part of the mentoring at Chapel Hill that said hey consider Howard or was that something you discovered on your own with you know obviously with your brother's influence um well that's the difference in going to a predominantly white university especially majoring in the sciences our classes were 300 plus um even your very advanced classes were that large and so you really did not have a mentor to guide you like hbc use do have a professor really has interest and make sure you're doing well and that's something that i constantly heard from my friends and my family in hbc use that their professors always looked out for them they knew when they weren't in the classroom we had a joke in among my friends that they knew we weren't in the classroom because the couple of dots in the group of 300 were gone you know so it was a difference of your professors knowing your name compared to okay i don't see the color you know the couple of these black yeah and so i think that's what really led me and even though i know graduate school the classes are so much smaller i had a group of five in my class the professors really wanted to see you um have success and they were invested in guiding you and giving you that success and i don't think it was just because you were on the graduate level i think those professors just really cared and they wanted to see where you go even um unfortunately the director of my program he has passed but i kept in touch with him all the way till he passed he wanted to know where what i was doing how i was doing we all he always reached out and we all we had the students even he connected me to people who had finished the program who were doing similar things and had a similar drive to me and just the passion i think hbcu professors have for their students in that drive they're not their most large predominantly white university especially research intensive universities they're there to do research and then teaching is what they're required to do hbcu's even though you may have some very um advanced researchers and they're getting a lot of grant funding they're still very invested in their students in the teaching of those students and guiding the next group of diverse researchers to come under them so i think that was the difference so you would say that the the teaching element is what makes hbcu stand out a little bit because you have world-renowned researchers and practitioners that are one-on-one with students because that's not you know i think people always wonder why is it you know hbcu's produce all these stem professionals why are they so good at you know you know this particular kind of profession and black students can go anywhere but yet you see this tagline that runs from hbcu's all over the plate all over industries and you would say that that's the actual one-on-one teaching element i would say that and also the mentoring element not only the teaching the mentoring element where professors they knew you enough to say okay this is your drive i know about this have you thought about this um i graduate schools and i have friends that went to graduate schools they cared about the research and how well you did in your lab but i don't know if they were really invested in you per se is and and my professors i had um professors that were not black i mean but still they worked at hbcu hbcu for a reason they really wanted to develop and feed in diverse people into what they were doing and they cared and i i think and i i work with investigators all the time at NIH and i work mostly with um these very research-intensive institutions and it's the research that drives them not that they're not caring people but it's the research that drives them rather than the actual people that sit there friends what would you say it's so we obviously know that every industry is better suited when we have more diverse representation more women uh more people of color obviously but for the the field of genomics specifically why is it better suited when more sisters like you are involved and and offering research offering practice offering management and guidance why is that so essential for america at large in the world at large to have a broader spectrum of expertise involved um one is the point of view um i have sat in on meetings and the diverse point of view um and thinking about underserved populations it's just not there because they're not living in that world um and so they forget to think about okay what does that mean for communities that don't have the access to this technology they're just trying to build the technology rather than thinking of disseminating it making sure everyone um can actually benefit from the um technology and i think when you have diverse people in the room that voice is then heard another is just research participation and not just genomics across the board if you want diverse people to participate in the research you need leaders heading up that research that look like them because there it's the trust level and we've heard that feedback so much whenever we're doing surveys to try to understand you know why or why are you not participating what will help you to participate and get involved we hear this message so much is there's nobody that looks like me you know i i don't think you understand where i'm coming from but unfortunately um there i think they blame it on the pipeline but i think the pipeline is there it's just giving people um the chance i think um i'm not saying that we have a lot of um people of diverse ancestry or um a lot of people in color but we do have some and actually if we put those people of color in these leadership positions more people will see themselves in those positions and want to um actually um go there as well and then the final thing what what advice would you give as i mentioned before to an undergraduate or even a graduate student um who is considering an hbcu for their career what what what advice would you give them about how to maximize that opportunity and why an hbcu could be depending on the program in their area of interest could be um the ideal place for them to jump start you know their professional life um i would my first advice is actually make sure you're talking to the directors of the program and the professors and letting them know your interests and where where you want fill them out that's the first thing i did and i think once you have a relationship and they know your needs and wants they will look out for that as far as um hbcu make sure of the program that you are doing look at um the access for the research experiences and all of that make sure that you are your own advocate and making sure your research experiences guide you to where you want to be in your career but i i would do it all over again i think it's funny when i came out of Howard University my um i was a program director at a research lab and then i came in the NIH and the director of my program came to me and she was like i have never known anyone with the education that you all have had at Howard she said everyone i have met because um and i don't know if it's just Howard because hbcu's are so invested in they know the people that are training it's their reputation the people that come out you know they're representing them they're going to make sure you are equipped and i think that's one of the benefit of hbcu's is you represent them you don't just represent yourself and they're going to make sure you represent them well dr me man uh NIH program director of genomic medicine we appreciate your time sister thank you so much for your hard work and for your example thank you so much have a great day