Hey everybody, welcome back to Wikinki Tim Gio here and today we're going to be taking a look at Undead Unlock. Welcome back to the channel and yeah, I took my sweet time getting to Undead Unlock. This premiered I think back in January of 2020 and only now I got around to making an actual video of it and catching up on the series. This action series written and drawn by Yoshifumi Tozuka tells the story of Fuko Izumu and her Unlock powers. You see she has this uncanny unnatural ability where if you touch her skin or she touches you bad things happen. An unlucky scenario will occur. When the story begins we find Fuko basically just giving up on life and getting ready to jump from a bridge and it's not until a chance encounter when everybody's screaming for her to not jump where she meets this character called Undead. We don't really know his name but later on she actually nicknames him Andy. But for all intents and purposes he is the Undead portion of Undead Unlock. So moving forward in this review I'm just going to say Andy because it's a little bit of a tongue twister to keep repeating Undead Unlock. So Andy is able to convince Fuko to step down but she impales him because she was carrying a knife in the process and he falls and is struck by the train that's coming under the bridge. And to our surprise and to everybody's surprise he actually survives. Turns out he is this undead ghoulish zombie although he prefers to be called an undead.  He just happens to be a badass and mortal with a very quirky personality.  He's lived for many many years and through some hijinks involving Fuko he realizes that she may hold the key to ending his immortality because of her strange unlucky powers and how she's able to basically give anybody the worst luck imaginable and in some occasions death as the case of her family. She's now living a single life and is actually pretty depressed because she can't socialize with anybody. She's such a shut in and doesn't feel like she would be a part of the world because of what she thinks is her bad luck later turns out to be this super ability that gets explored further down the line in the story. So it is under these circumstances that these two odd characters meet up and what soon follows is this action-rump classic shonen jump style of two characters coming together for a very particular purpose and of course evil forces and all that jazz coming after them. You see as soon as they get acquainted at first Fuko doesn't really like Andy whatsoever. He's a bit of a groper, he's a bit of a weirdo, a bit of a perv because he has a tendency to lose all his clothing as soon as he gets either impaled shot, decapitated, whatever it may be he ends up losing his pants and he has to be hilariously censored by the author in the manga which is the butt of many jokes that he could not keep his pants on. So if you're able to move aside from that weird humor there's actually a lot of charming storytelling here as you have a character like Fuko who has sort of given up and a character of Andy who has lived through so much encouraging her to live and seek tomorrow because it will be a better day tomorrow and there's more to live for. So I found that really nice for the story to drive home that message but obviously it's not all sunshine and rainbows Andy wants to do different experiments to really understand the full extent of Fuko's powers and how this ratio of skin contact equates to just unlucky scenarios happening from a rooftop falling on top of your head to something exploding to a freaking meteorite it's all over the place and it varies between the ratio and of course Fuko's emotional state towards the person that she's touching. So there's a full explanation to her powers and I found that pretty refreshing considering the subject matter of the series which I'm not going to entirely spoil but let's just say that once the antagonistic forces start to show up basically this organization that is after them because they want to regulate the earth and want to keep everything as normal as possible and crazy individuals like the two of them are abnormalities and you have to remove them from you know the regular life for people on earth no matter what country and you know once they and this is just a slight spoiler once they dispose of them in that first introductory arc we get a new status quo for the characters and the possibility of them not having to face such harsh fates and possibly evolve and continue to grow with a set of characters that are going to be the main supporting cast if you will. So what I like the idea that what you think is this antagonistic force gets sort of flipped around on its head and actually provides a source of resources and comfort and security for these characters obviously we're gonna get some main threats later on and the world opens up to some really crazy bizarre nicely done world building with the fact that there are ancient artifacts and people with super abilities that are unnatural there's a lot of UN in this title and of course the mystery of Andy and how he became the way that he is and you might have noticed his character design with his silver hair he's got a friggin at first when you see the promo images you don't really realize what's that what's on his forehead but it's actually a card which he has stuck there to sort of numb his brain from all the knowledge that he has from a hundred years worth of knowledge right because he's an immortal so that would drive him crazy and he's sort of just limiting or buffing himself so he can behave and act normal meanwhile the character of Foucault finds that even though at first she doesn't like Andy his inner their interactions will help her develop into a full-fledged character and you know progress her story and personality along to a very likable character that you can root for the villains and side characters in this story are really interesting I like the character designs at first I wasn't really a fan of the art going in for the first chapter it took a while for me to get used to the drawings for some reason but it's not bad don't get me wrong I just think it was a little bit too rounded and not entirely defined it to my particular taste when it comes to manga especially for stories like this which is action packed and slightly humor-based as well it took a little while maybe a couple chapters in where I got used to the art style and the character faces and the anatomy and all that stuff it's different from what you would expect an action comedy series would be but nonetheless you know I'm almost completely up to date with this story and it's lovely and really funny and action packed and I'm really enjoying it and it just I'd like that I think the main thing that I like about undead unlock is the fact that they're able to take a simple concept of a character that has bad luck powers basically a worse version of rogue from the X-Men and keep evolving that stuff and you have a character like Andy who you think you know he's an undead character he's sort of a hard-ass and how can he evolve from that obviously he is seeking a way to end his immortality so you would think oh once he has that answer that's sort of it for the plot right but no there are a lot of twists and turns and their relationship continues to grow and when you think the introduction kind of solves things it throws another wrench into the plan and you start getting introduced to different side characters that present different scenarios and different abilities and it's a it's a constantly evolving story which I really appreciate and yeah just the fact that you took such a simple concept and you're able to blow it up to really cool proportions is the sign of good storytelling and of course Yoshifumi is doing a fantastic job overall first impressions wise I think it's a fantastic fun action series with a really kooky concept that if you stick with it it will surprise you with of course the character interactions and how the plot continues to blow up from where it started Viz Media licensed it pretty quickly so we are gonna get a physical release that's awesome I wish other series would have gotten that physical release earlier than undead unlock but we'll see what happens what about you guys have you read undead unlock let me know in the comment section down below and if you haven't let me know what are some of your favorite undead characters in manga or anime very interested in finding out guys as always thank you so much for liking commenting and subscribing to a we can keep them if this is your first time here please consider subscribing I do content like this where I go over anime manga and a little bit of comics here and there thank you everybody once again I have got to go I will catch all of you on our next episode


What's going on guys it's your boy DPJ here today for another destiny video and today we finally have confirmation of the next Content drop for destiny one as well as some destiny two news But before we get into the video if you guys do enjoy leaving a like it's much much appreciated Can we reach 4,000 likes that'd be absolutely epic if we could now yesterday bunch of drop the weekly update in that Weekly update that they said tomorrow, which is today that they will drop news on the next Content drop for destiny one and also give us a little bit of speckle information on destiny two And that's what has just dropped now I will read through the whole thing But if you guys do want to check out for yourselves, I will link in the video description But getting straight into it and it starts with the road ahead Hey, everyone. We're planning to reveal the final live event for destiny one era next Wednesday We're calling it age of triumph and we intend for it to be a fun and memorable Celebration that will bring the first major chapter of our destiny adventures to a fitting close We'll look back upon three incredible years We've shared as a community and look ahead to some final challenges and rewards that await you in the weeks ahead But first we want to answer some important questions. You've been asking about destiny's first full sequel destiny more fucking to information Sequels represent the start of a new adventure for every player with new worlds to explore new stories to tell new powers to acquire New loot to earn and much more This led us to a decision that would enable us to serve both the game and the players best interests destiny one power Possessions and eververse related items and currency will not carry forward They will however remain accessible for you in destiny one now just cutting it straight there a second I'll get back to you in a quick minute But they blatantly say here destiny one power possessions and eververse related items and currency will not carry forward So this is basically going to be a fresh start Loot wise of what you have from your character from destiny one when you move forward to destiny two Okay, so getting straight back into it. We know that just like us you have grown fun of the garden You've created so we do plan to preserve your character personalization We're going to recognize the dedication and passion you've shown for this world Specifically the class race gender face hair and marking selections for all characters that you have achieved a level 20 and Completed the black garden story mission will carry forward We also plan to award those veteran accounts with honors that reflects your destiny one Accomplishments so basically if you completed the story if you completed that black garden story mission and your character I each race its gender space its house marking selections will carry on into destiny two now to be honest I don't know what I think about that. I mean like I mean I'd want my loot to follow forward, but still I'm quite happy to have a fresh start as well I'm twisty like a go let's go go right. I just don't know okay, so getting back into it We believe this is the best path forward It allows us to introduce the major advancements and improvements that all of us expect from a sequel in Showing it will be the best game. We can create unencumbered by the past We're looking forward to showing more details with you later this year for how we will honor your legacy in the future Before we do that we're going to deliver the age of triumph at the end of March to show you what it's all about We're planning the series of live stream showcases We'll be introducing you to some members of the live team and we'll be showing you content and activity updates That we've been working on the dates and times are listed below We are kicking things off next week with the age of triumph reveal Wednesday the 8th of March now straight away this picture screams It's the water glass door.    We can see the red icon the prison of elders icon mindful icon and so forth I'm just I'm absolutely certain now that at least the ball glass is coming back I'm not sure about crawler's end, but I'm pretty certain that water glass is coming back The next one we have the age of triumph sandbox update, which will come Wednesday the 22nd of March Now this straight up here. This is a hunter standing in the vault of glass I mean, it's quite difficult to see the gear he's got on but I don't know if that's new gear or not But it looks pretty damn fresh, but that to me screams what glass? I mean, I could be tripping. I mean, I might be tripping I mean I'm proper hyped so I could be jumping to the conclusions But to me that looks like the water glass that's setting that background looks like the water glass 100% so does it confirm it that the water glass will be making every turn that is just like the best news ever I mean I said yesterday in my video that I would like to see a whole new set of like weapons vendor weapons and arms and shit But I would also like to see the water glass return. I mean, it was just the best. It's got come on Apart from the latest rate. It's just the best rate ever I mean it was just so badass and I'm so pumped to see if it does return. So next week The 8th of March, which is next Wednesday.  I'm pretty much guarantee you guys It's got a bit of water glass.  I can't believe it. But guys That is it a little bit of destiny to Information a little bit of information on what's coming next for us destiny one players Which I can't wait for if anything else drops you guys will know I have you covered right here on my channel So subscribe if you're new here, but I hope you guys enjoyed the video tell me what you think about this down below in that comment section And you guys hope for the water glass return.


And moving on to sports, the first of two legs of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games torch relay in the Toyama Prefecture has taken place and consisted only of a torch kiss ceremony in Takahoka. The scaled down ceremony similar to those of the other prefectures following emergency restrictions being put in place because of the threat of COVID-19. Multiple opinion polls have shown that a majority of respondents are opposed to holding the games this summer during the pandemic.


Morning all, how are we? First thing we're gonna do is turn off that rackety air conditioner. That's one thing.  It is Friday. What is the date? Friday the 29th of March guys and I leave cans tomorrow.   It's gonna be a two-day trip back to Alice and I just thought I'd show you What the place is looking like so as some of you may have remembered across here all across those chairs all down here and All the way along there was all major key physiques products Well, we've sold some not all of course, but we have sold some and the rest Has been packed up into these boxes. We've got 21 boxes and they're all getting picked up today So that has been a headache and a half, but we've got it done down there. We have 10 packages that are being sent out some absolute legends Who have purchased some stuff and I will say I will say that after the launch I went into a little bit of a funk, you know, I Didn't know what was gonna happen. I didn't know whether whether what we had happened was a success or whether it was a fail I didn't know Whether I was gonna move back to Alice or not. I didn't know anything. It was all up in the air And so finally I've made some decisions in my head. I'm feeling better and the orders have started to pick up So, you know, first and foremost, I want to say thank you so much I know most of the traffic and most of the orders have come through my YouTube subscribers So, you know, if you have put an order of major key physics stuff first and foremost, I want to say I hope you enjoy it I hope you wear it. I hope you spread the word, but you know, I just want to say thank you. Thank you for Keeping my head above above water financially.  So um That is the fundamental fundamental reason why I'm going back to Alice brings us to Get some solid income coming in every week so I can still Put the money and the time needed into this business to keep it growing and keep it going So that's it. That's it guys as far as my personal stuff. We've got my camera equipment We have My god, yeah, I know what the title of the next video is gonna be it's gonna be titled How much can you fit into a 2009 Holden Berina part two because we're gonna be doing that tomorrow morning Mix feelings guys I came here with a big plan. I have I've launched my business man that was that was number one seeing my daughter was number one launching my business was number two and and Improving my my my headspace, you know, it was terrible before I left Alice. So I'm good. I'm good. I'm not I'm not gonna have any regrets that is something I will not have if I felt as though I was gonna regret going back to Alice Springs I wouldn't be going because that's not something I'm prepared to live with But I have to go back because of financial reasons So we're gonna do a one-take video. It's gonna be all in this this one clip Tomorrow morning Saturday all of these boxes will be gone. They'll be on their way to Alice Springs Which will be a great weight off my shoulder I will bring the camera back out when I pack up the car because we will be making that video and then following that I'll be taking the camera along for the drive back to Alice So any of you guys who do enjoy my travel vlog type of videos come along. I'm gonna need the support I'm gonna need the Company, that's the word. We're doing this in one take and that's it.  It goes up and down and round about and Well, it's Interesting, that's all I can say very interesting. Keep me on my toes if you have Had any concern about my previous video that I talked about with Coming off all drugs. I'm going well Okay, I'm going well. I Have slipped up But I did stop taking Lexa Pro and I feel fine about that Coffee I have had one a day since I made that video, which is really a huge improvement and The weed I haven't had so Sleep Has been testing But you know, I have mentioned this before that of course you fall asleep. You do fall asleep It's just I'm not gonna sleep for eight solid hours like I do when I knock myself out with weed. So anyways guys, it's all going well It's all progressing. We're getting there and that's the main thing so I'm actually excited. I'm really excited to be back. I'm back in Alice I'm excited to you know, see a few friends see my mom and my sister and I'm excited to set this up once and for all, you know Setting major chief Zeke's up in this little tiny apartment where I knew I was going to move out in a couple of weeks It wasn't ideal, you know, my head was not fully Able to concentrate because I always had this thought in the back of my head that I'm gonna have to move out Where am I gonna put all the stock etc? So for me to actually finally settle down in Alice Springs settle back there put this stuff down No, it's gonna stay there and then really set up my you know my packing station and my My workspace it's gonna be great and I can't wait. So I welcome you to come along for the ride. We're not finished We've had a hundred orders through major key physics and That is huge that is such an amazing accomplishment We were in the top 6% of all Shopify stores as far as traffic goes That launched the same week that we launched and I mean that's it's phenomenal It's awesome and it's all thanks to you guys. So once again. Thank you Have a great day or a great night wherever you are in the world We're doing this in one take and I'll see you guys in the next one He said


What's up everybody, I'm the Bangus, you are awesome and it's time for the weekly third person MOBA updates. Sorry this one is a bit late, I got kinda sauce last night. This week I have updates for Fault, Ethereal, Predecessor and Project Stamina. Fault's big news of course is that the Alpha went live, so those lucky enough to win a key or wealthy enough to buy one were able to play Fault over the weekend. They discovered a few bugs and dealt with a few trolls, but in the end it looks like it was successful and they were able to iron things out. They are at 21% of their fundraising goal for the game, lots of controversy there, but my personal opinion is that they need capital if they want to move forward, so I'm happy for them. They also told me that Steel and Sparrow will be coming out before the end of the month. I'm extremely happy to hear about that. My one small gripe with Fault is that all the heroes they picked are ones I barely touched in Paragon. Just a personal issue of course, that will be remedied when my boy Steel gets added. I'm a little curious as to which version of Steel we will be getting, but I'll be happy with any of them. They also want to have Borus released by the end of the month, however they did say that that may not be possible as they have nothing to base his sounds off of. I have a suggestion, Bears. Ryan Redd also expressed excitement over future tournaments and events. He has a lot of experience setting things like that up, and now that he's part of the dev team, he'll be able to implement some crazy rules like no CDR matches or infinite mana games. I certainly look forward to that. A theory will show off a few of their skins that they have in development. I personally really liked the Beach Fun Calia. They made it cute without being creepy and I appreciate that. They also released some of the audio from their upcoming cinematic trailer. It was just audio, but we can at least gather that it will have Malware vs Noxus. The Omeda boys are hard at work on Predecessor. King of Programs has been working on matchmaking and account rating. Fringes updated the map with 200 new files. Smokey has been updating the HUD and our friend Ruba has been knocking out animations. Oak Al continues to work on music and ambient and game sounds. Terriander is developing some new models for wards and Ace has been implementing Camera Shake. Project stamina will begin a round of internal tests this week. Hopefully I can get in on that and report back to you guys on what I think of the game so far. Fingers crossed. That's all I have for this week folks. Sorry if I didn't have much for your favorite, but I don't make the news, I just report it. Let's all keep our hopes high. Thanks for checking out the video. This is the Mangoes signing off. You guys have a good one. Mangoes!


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Hi, welcome to the All Things LGBTQ Interview Show, where we interview LGBTQ guests who are making important contributions to our communities. All Things LGBTQ is taped at Orca Media in Montpelier, Vermont, which we recognize as being unceded Indigenous land. Thanks for joining us and enjoy the show. Hi, everybody. I'm here with Martha Shelley, who is here for her third interview on the show. She's become a regular, and she's been very busy. We're here to celebrate the publication of her memoir. We set the night on fire, and we'll show the cover periodically. But before we begin, I'll just, if you haven't by any chance, tune in before I'll read you Martha's biography, if I may. Martha Shelley is one of the authors and owners of Abyssal Publications. She's a longtime political activist from Brooklyn. After the Stonewall riot, she organized a protest march that morphed into today's Gay Pride Parades and was one of the founders of the Gay Liberation Front, and all of that is in the memoir. She has published four books of poetry, Crossing the DMZ, Lovers and Mothers, Haggadah, and Released from the Wheel, as well as three novels in the Jezebel Trilogy. The Throne in the Heart of the Sea, the Stars in their Courses and a Meteor Shower. She lives in Portland, Oregon, and is passionate about social justice, dancing, and mango cheesecake. And now she has produced this memoir. Welcome Martha. Hi. Thank you for having me. It's great to see you again, to catch up a little bit. So how did you happen to write this? Let's cut right to it. How did you happen to write this memoir? Well, what I do is I write a blog, and I was writing, got into writing blog posts about what had happened in my life, as well as, you know, blog posts about contemporary politics and things. And after a while I realized that I had a memoir, and so I just put it all together and added more stuff that wasn't on the blog, and all the connecting stuff, and there it was. Well, I thought that might be the case, and that accounts for the fast pace. It's like a series of short chapters. And as Ian Northrop said in your interview on Gay USA, you just, the reader just flies through it. But there's a lot of important information as you're flying through that, that about lessons that you've learned and that we can take heed to. How long did it take you to write it? I would say maybe a year and a half. Well, one of our first interviews with you, you had just retired. And so you've been busy. You've used your retirement well. That was exactly it. It was from, I retired May, the end of May, 2021. Excuse me, I seem to have a course throughout this morning, and I guess by the end of last year it was done, and I had a publisher. Will you thank someone in the acknowledgement or suggesting the publisher? Right. Phyllis Chessler. Oh, really? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.  I remember our wonderful work, Women in Madness. Well, though, living in New York all those years, that's what happened is that I was involved with the women's movement, and there were all these people who became writers and celebrities of one sort or another. Well, and even growing up, there's Robert Joneiro and Stokely Carmichael and all kinds of luminaries and past. If you wanted to become famous, you went into New York.  And you talk about your family, and all of that was very interesting.  Right, and his family emigrated from, what was Russia then? Mm-hmm. And another connection is you were in Slovenian therapy. And I'm sure you know Esther Newton. Oh, yes. Did you talk about that? Esther Newton's stepfather was Saul Newton who founded Saul of Indian therapy. Were you able to talk about it when you met her in later life, or did you know her? Very briefly, when I met her, when we got together, it was through the women's movement. And what we were talking about was, you know, we had these women's consciousness raising groups. So we didn't really talk about the Slovenians. That was already passed from me. I had left. And what I loved about the consciousness raising groups is that a hierarchy developed. That was so cool. One thing readers need to know is this is very funny memoir. I mean, it's, you know, there's a lot of important information, but it's very funny, too.  What did she say? What happened? That was so funny. There was a lot of great. Yeah, that was in, that was at Bronx High School of Science. That was my social studies teacher. And, you know, she was teaching about World War II. And then she seemed to be bloating about how after the war, we had tried these Japanese generals and hung them. And my best friend at the time was a Japanese girl who was living in the United States studying here. And I raised my hand and I said, if the Japanese had won, they would have done that, I suppose, to our generals in Franklin Roosevelt. The teacher blew up. I mean, she had lived through the war and I guess she was pretty partisan there. And anyway, the other students, you know, there had been falling asleep through all of this. I wondered what I'd said, but I was proud of myself. The teacher was furious with me, but I walked out of there with my head held high because I had defended my friend. And from my point of view, I had told the truth. And Stokely Carmichael during a session, I don't know if it was at the same school said, get the bread from the baloney. Oh, yeah. This was the biology teacher who was at one point he said, we're saying, well, when I was your age, and that was when Stokely sang out past the bread, here comes the baloney. And the teacher threw him out of the class. That is so funny. I mean, gems like that throughout. So you've been kind of on a book tour. What has been the response so far? Well, just a couple of readings here in Portland and then on Gay USA. And then early in August, going to Vancouver, BC. And. Fort Townsend and Seattle. In September, the Bay Area. Mm hmm. Francisco. The East Bay. And then in October, New York. Oh, great. Great. What are you going to do in New York? The Gay Center has this place where I'm going to be doing a reading there. And then I'm going to see my sister lives in New Jersey and I'm going to see her and old friends like Phyllis. You know, I became liberation from people. Oh, that's great. So it's wonderfully detailed too. So I have two questions about that. First, you must keep journals. Because, you know, how could you. I talked to Carly J a while ago about her memoir and she said she wrote it when she did while she can still remember.  And you seem to have all these details. How do you remember them? They stick in my head. That's amazing and laudable. I mean, I had. I started keeping journals when I was younger. And then what happened was when I was moving some stuff around. This, these people stole my backpack with my journals in it. And of course at that point I was pretty paranoid about the FBI and such. And I thought maybe I shouldn't be keeping this stuff. So I stopped keeping journals. I did keep a journal about a trip to Indonesia, which is not, which happened much later after the memoir. And I had the journal with me when I went backpacking in Yosemite and a bear ate it. Oh, well, that's eventful. Maybe it was a sign. Well, you're gifted with a great memory. Yes. It's one of the, it's nothing that I am. What would you call responsible for? I can't take credit. It's a gift kind of like taking credit for being born in the United States. Well, the reason I was born here is my ancestors struggle to get here and to get away from the problems in Eastern Europe. And that wasn't my doing. It's my good fortune that they did it. I know. And given all the problems around the country, I'm lucky to be in Vermont, but I just sort of landed here. It wasn't any, you know, active will in any major way. So I was what I would have found difficult maybe is trying to figure out how much background to put in, you know, because I knew some of it, not, I mean, I learned a lot, but other generations might not know. So who's the audience for your book, would you say? I would say other gay people, people who are interested in history. And hopefully young people. This isn't like a recipe book for how to make a revolution. But I'm hoping it inspires people to figure out what they can do given their circumstances. Just as we had to figure out what we had to do, given the time, the place, and what was going on with us.  You did fill in a lot of historical information, which I think was important. Did you do, you did some research? Yeah, I had to. I mean, if I put one of the things that feel felt very important to me to talk about was the economic situation. Because when I was growing up, the United States was at the peak of its power, the peak of empire. We had passed through the Depression and Roosevelt and working people had a better shape than they had had in many decades. And it was possible for somebody like my father on 70 bucks a week take home to support a family in a tiny apartment in Brooklyn. But nowadays, you would need both parents employed and really, really struggling. And it's important to keep the economic situation in mind and I went and I refer to that over and over. Because that's the basis. At one point I talk about when I was selling come out newspaper and ducked into the a coffee shop. And there was, it was near New York University and this professor was talking to one of his students and saying that the reason for the success of the women's movement was that the industry needed more women in the workplace. And I'm sure you can see the power of the women's movement that we had seen in the past, but much later I realized, yes and no, the reason for the success of the women's movement getting into these jobs had to do partly with economic factors, but also with our ideas and our pushing it. Things don't happen just because business leaders decide what capital wants and what labor is willing to put up with them and what we demand. Yes. Well, and ideology, that's important too, our ideas. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. And the energy that we put into activism. Absolutely. And it's been so diverting talking to you. We need to get to you've prepared some reading so let's listen to one of them if we couldn't tell it set the scene for us if you want. Okay, let me get to one. If I can make this thing open up here we go. This is about when I was, when I first joined a lesbian organization, the daughters of the leaders which was the, the organization of time in November 1967 when I was 23. I found my way to the daughters of the leaders meeting. The do be rented a suite in an office building inexpensive but hello. You froze a little bit, but the do be rented a space office building. Okay, the do be rented a suite in an office building inexpensive but in a reasonably safe area with nondescript furniture and no decorations on the walls. Like the bars, we kept a low profile. The do be chapter had monthly business meetings, during which we folded and address the newsletter. It included a calendar of events, a lecture by a psychologist, telling us why we gaze weren't crazy, or an evening with a middle aged lesbian couple who lived in suburban New Jersey, and would give us tips on how to make our relationships work. There were about 200 women on the mailing list, though only a handful showed up for events. Gene Powers and Eleanor Pravitz, the couple who ran the New York chapter for an early 40s gene always attended meetings, but Eleanor rarely came to the office, and I never got to know her particularly well. She worked as a bookkeeper and was disabled from having survived polio. She was from Oklahoma. She'd been forced out of the defense department suspected of being gay, and in any case was too big, too smart, and too well organized qualities that would get a man promoted to manager, but that men found threatening in a woman. She used her managerial skills to keep our chapter running. And during the day she had some kind of computer job. For instance, she was a Republican and I was far to the left of Democrat. We seem to like each other. Gene and Eleanor saw that they could make use of my youth and enthusiasm and asked me to run for treasurer. I was honored until I realized that I was recruited because no one else wanted the job. I reported income and expenditures in a black composition notebook, including the times when I borrowed 15 cents for car fare and reimburse the Treasury when I got my paycheck. After two months Eleanor reviewed my work. These are the screwiest books I've ever seen she said, it took me a week to make head or tail of them. But I'll give you this, you didn't steal a penny. Nobody ever taught me how to keep books I replied. Eleanor took the job back. She then tried me out as chapter president. That didn't work well either. I had no idea what the duties were and they hadn't given me a to do this. Finally, since I was a frequent and articulate participant in our group discussions. They asked me to be the public speaker. Perhaps because McCarthyism had been discredited, perhaps because I hadn't invested years in a career that could be destroyed if I were known to be gay. Perhaps because I was young and thought I was immortal. I said, yes. In September 1968. I started a new job at Barnard College. Jean T. Palmer, the general secretary of the college, which meant she oversaw everything non academic, including fundraising and admissions. I would be her secretary. I saw her as a nice lady from the Midwest, probably upper middle class, warm and well mannered.  In the evening in the spring of 1969, I spoke for DOB in an interview with a reporter for W or radio. It would be part of a show on the sexual revolution, and was to be aired the following day. The next morning I was sitting at my desk when Miss Palmer sailed in. Guess what she said, W or radio was here last night, interviewing girls from the new poet dormitory, and I must stay up tonight and tune in. In a panic, I called gene powers. What am I going to do. The boss is going to hear my voice on that program. I'm going to finish and explain gene replied calmly. They'll understand and they'll take that segment off the air. I couldn't do it. Maybe it was the poster of Martin Luther King looking down at me. Maybe it was the question I always asked myself, what would you do if you've been a German under the Nazi regime. Would you have been too cowardly to stand up for the persecuted or brave enough to resist the regime. The rest of the work day I was so obviously agitated that my co-workers wondered a lot of what was wrong with me, though they didn't ask the right at five, just as the boss was about to leave. I gathered my courage. Miss Palmer, I said, I'm going to be on that W or radio program. What for I'm representing the daughters of the leaders. Civil rights organization. I started to sweat for lesbians. Miss Palmer gave me a big wing. How nice that you young people are involved in so many causes. Now help me out with my coat, dear. I'm going to be late for the opera. That is so great. And I missed you at Burner because I enrolled as a freshman. We might have talked about this in September of 69.  It wasn't only Martha Peterson. It was a whole lot of them, you know, that's right. There was Kate Miller to it was firing before you showed up. Right. Of course, there was the first dean of the college before they gave the woman the title of president Virginia guilty sleep. I mean, there was like gilder sleep everything you know she was an icon and you know, I just thought she was probably a stodgy. I mean there was a stodgy component of some of the burn at some of the Barnard faculty but when I got there. There were lesbians Catherine Stamson was there. Sue Larson taught me philosophy and became involved with one of my class. I mean you know I learned a lot from you and then from other people mostly from you.  But anyway it was too late to help me a lot in my personal journey but that is a fabulous story, you know, old Barnard, and you left then and moved on to other things you did social work. Well, what happened is I worked at Harlem welfare center before Barnard. I quit when they started being really hard on people in intake. You know I realized very early on that I was a kid. And here I was going out to deal with people who were mostly, you know, single mothers who are on welfare or black or Hispanic and really struggling. And what did I know, the only thing I had to give them was money. And the information, we were not allowed to give them information about contraceptive because Cardinal Spellman the arch bit, I guess, well he was the head of the New York diocese was against that we didn't want to offend our dear Cardinal Spellman. And some of us gave them the information anyway and I learned the terms in Spanish. And when I was dealing with my Hispanic clients I would tell them about the diaphragm, the diaphragm, those pastels, the pills, and how to get that you know how to get those things. And the other thing you did that I really want to talk about we mentioned it in other interviews, but from 1972 to 1974, you hosted lesbian nation, a lesbian radio show. And if I may turn to page 142. I'd like to read what you say about that and then ask you, you say, working at WBA I changed my life in many ways. I regret Rena, Rena, and Gary freed our deceased they were the people who whom you work with there. And I regret never thanking them enough for giving me that opportunity. So working at WBA, BA I changed my life in many ways would you mind elaborating. Okay. I got to interview a lot of people, you know, with the women's movement. I took my little cassette recorder and traveled around the United States and did interviews with different parts of the country, particularly the Bay Area, and put them on the air. And I met people who I wouldn't necessarily have met other ways. I learned that I didn't want to be a radio programmer. I didn't want that career, but it was really useful. You didn't want the career because you've been writing it. I wanted to write memoirs you're writing. So similar things happened. Let's see. I'm trying to remember this job that I picked. Oh, okay. This was years later and not in the memoir but I was at San Francisco State studying to be a teacher of English to foreign students for teaching ESL. I realized that was taking up all of my mental energy composing lesson plans, and I couldn't write so I quit that and took, again, a part time job, secretarial, whatever. So that I would that didn't require a whole lot of mental energy. So that would have time to write. I think it looks like WBA, I was a 20 hour a week job to produce a half hour radio program. I'm so into it. I know exactly what you mean, make sense to me. Let me ask you, do you have a writing schedule. No. I just write whenever I can. My wife and I have a little farm in Portland, we bought a double lot. And we form it very intensively we have like 23 raised vegetable breads, beds, fruit trees, chicken poof cornfield, berry patches, and there's a lot of work so usually I get to write when it's after dark.  No, I'm not really a night person but the sun goes down and I can't work in the farm anymore. Do you have a writing group, or yes. You know, friends of friends that I read stuff to them they read their stuff to me or we share it on the computer and then we critique it. It helps people catch my typos for one thing, and then my wife, who is also a writer, does some editing, and then I've got something that's ready to go. That's great. And you and she co-founded abyssal publications. Yeah. That's where your blog is. Right. It's named after the Japanese God of prosperity. What happened was some years ago I went to Japan. My Weber at the time had a lot of frequent flyer miles and so we went to Japan for, I think it was three weeks. And it happened to be around the Christmas time.  Ebisu, Ebisu, pretty, pretty big. You're a pretty drunk on that. Well, when I got home, my boss at the time had decided he brought in his girlfriend to work, and he decided that he didn't want to have me as an employee. He wanted me as a independent contractor. So I thought, okay, I need it. I need a business name. And I was thinking, well, Ebisu God of prosperity helped Japan. Japan is very prosperous. Maybe it'll help me. So became Ebisu associates. And then once we started the writing stuff with the Ebisu publications. And that's how it happened. Another interesting nugget is that you chose the name Martha Shelley because of the FBI back in the old days. Can you tell us about that? Okay, what happened was, when I joined daughters of Boletus, I was ready to use my birth name Martha Altman, and the engine powers who had been hounded out of her job told me, no, no, no, you have to choose an alias because the FBI might get hold of you somehow, and you don't want them, you know, etc. So okay, all right.  And I thought this is absolutely ridiculous. The FBI wants me, they'll know where to find me. But I started being known as Martha Shelley within daughters of Boletus and pretty soon that became and I started writing for the latter the daughters of Boletus publication under that name. And pretty soon, my whole social circle everybody knew me as Martha Shelley so I ended up changing it legally. Martha Altman Shelley, that's me. That's great. Let I should we do another reading now because let's hear another slice of Martha Shelley's life. Okay, do you want to hear about the Stonewall riot? Whatever you say, whatever you choose. Okay. Oh, here's another one. This is funny. This is about the gay dances.  The more radical members of the traditional homophile organizations and some gay members of the leftist organizations began to meet at alternate university. The institution, formerly known as the Free University of New York, or alternate you occupied the second floor of a loft building on 14th Street. The spirit of the place, and of the times was perhaps best characterized by the bathroom graffiti high up on the wall someone had scrolled, and God said, he equals MC square. It's a light show movie. Just above the role of toilet paper another person wrote Harvard diplomas take one.  We were pretty free willing. There was no official membership, you just showed up, and there were no officers. There were people with others of like inclination and made things happen. We organized demonstrations put on dances and published a newspaper. Bob Kohler was one of the people working to put on the dances. I remember him lugging in cracked ice and cases of beer, filling barrels with them and selling the beer for 25 cents a can. We had people away from the mafia run bars, which overcharged for water down drinks, and made patrons pay extra for admission to a windowless inners room where you had to, where you could slow dance with someone of your own sex. To put on dances. Nobody had to plug coins in it. You could gyrate for free to rock music on the sound system under the swirling light of a disco ball until it was time to stagger home and let the cleanup crew sweep the floor. I think a problem with this. Hold on. One soon found that mixed dances didn't work for us. The gay men were involved with each other oblivious of those few straight men who took advantage of the crowded floors to growth lesbians. So we arranged women only dance nights. Now we could strip to the waist on hot summer nights just as the men did. We danced in ecstatic circles, expressing a new sense of community, rather than coupling off. The majority of those showed up at one of our first all women's dances guns in their belts pretending to be cops. I guess their bosses were worried about losing business. They tried to intimidate the women, and according to Carla Jay in her book tales of the lavender menace, even punched some of them. I was cavorting in the middle of the dance floor and didn't even notice the confrontation. Meanwhile, someone had called Bob Polar and also the local precinct. Bob arrived first, pretending to be alternate use manager and got rid of the goons before the real cops showed up. In 1970, there was an incident at Giannis, a popular lesbian bar just north of the village, where a couple of straight businessmen came in for drinks and saw two women dancing together. One of them tried to cut in, but was rejected. He punched the butcher looking woman knocking her to the floor and then left. The low level mafia guys who own the place and was supposed to provide security in exchange for their overpriced drinks did nothing. As soon as the news reached GLF, about 15 of us men and women marched on the bar. We selected some fast tunes on the jukebox and danced in circles, but did not order drinks. Once again, I was selected as spokesperson. Knees shaking, I went up to the owner and his partner. As I remember they were about a head and a half taller than me and more black pinstripes suits. Cinematic memories of Al Capone machine guns and the St. Valentine's Day massacre flickered in the back of my mind. Later I realized that they must have had frightening visions as well, a smash furniture and liquor bottles of thousands of dollars in uninsured damages. After I'd finished shooing them out for not protecting the women who provided their livelihood, the taller one frowned down on me. Do you know who I am. He said, I don't know, and I don't care.  And I turned and walked back to the dance floor. That is fabulous. And another anecdote that you mentioned is at one of the meetings Carla Jay presided with the baseball bat. Yes.  So I missed a lot of it, but was there for some of it. Um, that's the liberation front meetings were pretty anarchic so we definitely needed somebody to be a moderator. I'd like to switch if you don't mind to ask you about the women in print conference in 1976. I was able to go to the second one in 1981, and I just found it transformative personally. But you said that one. What was your experience of it. Well, I was having a good time. But then an awful lot of this stuff I was having a good time anyway. It was really exciting to be part of all of this to be part of all of these women who were producing all this feminist literature and to my mind flooding the country with it, and making social change via literature. I remember it being hot. I remember the various people coming up with ideas, some of which probably made sense of this did not like Nancy Stockwell who worked for plexus newspaper in the Bay Area, and who was from the Midwest. Got the idea that we would use grasshopper spit which was brown and try to make ink printing a doubt of it. Because she was serious or not. And there was a I think there was a swimming hole that was fun. And never. And the woman from Chicago whose name I cannot remember. I think had organized the whole thing. But I confess that one of my fond memories of that was discovering wild cannabis sativa growing along the banks of the river, and harvesting a bunch of it and stuffing it into the trunk of my VW driving home and finding out that it hadn't ripen. And it was about as potent as toilet paper. And the grasshopper and it don't reminds me of that film left on Pearl. Did you see it about women over Harvard in those days. And so they took over this building at Harvard, and they thought they would release marbles. So when the police and they would follow the trip on the marble. You know, be just armed. I think some people try to do that at a demonstration in New York where the idea was to throw marbles under the hose of the mount of the horses mounted police. I don't know if it worked or not. A lot of colorful ideas there. I could talk about a little bit about lesbian feminism if you want another hilarious really interesting episode is when you went on the boat ride with men's magazine. Can you tell us about that. Okay. So what happened was, Phyllis Chesler had these tickets and she didn't want to go. So she gave me and this other woman who was part of our very small social circle. The tickets. Okay, I went there and I thought I'll meet other women writers. I went there, found that first there was a dinner, the kind of a rubber chicken dinner. And the glasses of wine. And I was sitting around the table. Next to the woman I had come with who was kind of big and much. And then that came dessert. And there was pineapple. One guy who was sitting across from us at this rather large oval table. Look at the woman that I was with.   So I jumped up and threw my glass of wine in his face. And Myrna Lam with playwright was sitting next to me and she said, Why don't we all get out of here and I thought that's a good idea. Well we're on the boat we couldn't just leave. This was the circle I'm going around the pattern. And so we went to the dance floor. And by then I had realized that the important people at this miss magazine anniversary party were the advertising people that we writers were decoration, but the idea was to make money for miss. This is in July 1973. So, I'm, you know, a little bit. A little bit drunk but not very. And I'm dancing with the one I came with. And this guy, another advertising guy steps out of the crowd.  And I got mad. I just went. And I just shoved him in the chest and didn't realize he was standing at the edge of the staircase and he went backwards down the staircase metal staircase and caught himself on the railing.  He didn't get injured. But, and I'm partly I was relieved because I didn't want to end up in jail.  I had mixed feelings about that. And then Pat carbine Patricia carbine who was the managing editor, a business editor of this stepped out of the crowd and shoot me out. Trying to say, Hey, you know that you hear what did you hear what he said to me. She didn't want to hear any of that she just didn't want to brawls happening on the boat, which looking back and it was pretty understandable. I wasn't even 30. And the title of the chapter is a brawl in the boat. But when the thing was over, I said to myself, I am never going to be at parties where there are a bunch of straight people and drink. And I did that. Oh, well, switching to lesbians. You talk about your first one of your early experiences in the bars. And where they, the, the Deutschland, over all this episode was that touches was that far. I, I'm trying to remember the name of the bar I had, you know, covered windows. It was a shirt square. Rita may Brown calls it the four squares and one of her novels. I don't remember the name of it. I found the judges very scary when I was trying to come out. No, it was before they even started the Duchess this was like the, maybe the only lesbian bar that I knew of. So I went in there I sat down at the counter.  And I, I wasn't dressed right I didn't know what the, what, you know, that you had to be either very butch or very feminine. The premise showed up in the addresses and the butchers showed up in suits and ties and stuff. And there I was in a pair of blue jeans and flat shirt. So these two women on either side of me, one of whom I think might have been working. She looked like she was an airlines flight attendant or something. They started singing Deutschland for hours. And I realized that they looked at me and saw that I was Jewish, I mean, very Jewish face. And I was very hurt, angry, walked out of there. And I didn't go back to the bar after that that's after that I started going to the daughters of the leaders. Yeah, the bars were really a tough scene in those days, and I came in and the tail end of it. And I'm not really a bar person I don't drink very much. I mean there were very few occasions when I did drink much like that parties and stuff but most of the time I don't drink. Nowadays I don't drink at all. You know, totally boring with clean and sober. I know I don't drink at all now either but I grew up in Buffalo, New York, which was a real bar town. In fact, there was that wonderful book about the lesbians in Buffalo boots of leather slippers of gold.  You gave a lovely interview. And at the end they asked you for a veledictory. And I understood you to say that the three things we need to worry about our first climate change, second economic inequality, and third, LGBTQ rights. Am I right in saying that. Except that the third part would encompass also women's rights and the rights of ethnic groups like, you know, black people in this country. So all of those other rights, because with climate change, which is obviously accelerating far faster than anybody had anticipated including the scientists. If we have an uninhabitable planet what good are our rights, you know with the pride. Second, the economic inequality I think is inextricably tied to the climate change. It's people who own the oil companies who own, you know, all the fossil fuel companies who are making big bucks off this and have the delusion that they're going to escape to planet B, or they will find places where they will survive and the rest of us will be out there struggling for crumbs, which is the way they want it. And if we don't deal with them.  Just, you know, just gave the green light to a lot of fossil fuel exploration and pipelines and so on. He's made he and his administration have made some changes. But as he said when he was running for office to his rich donors, if I'm elected nothing substantial will change. And I think he's kept his word on that. Well, it is very discouraging. I would disagree a little bit if you don't mind. It reminded me when you said that it reminded me of in the early days, heterosexual men whom I knew would say, Why worry about feminism in the face of nuclear proliferation. You know what I mean. And so I would suggest maybe that it's all important. It's overwhelming but you know, Okay, I don't disagree with you actually. I think it is all important and I think that in order for us to be successful with women's rights with gay rights, etc. We need to make alliances with the a lot of other groups what may give gay liberation front successful in the way that homophile organizations weren't was that we reached out we reached out to the black panthers the young lords the women's movement and so on. Yes, and I think what will make us successful in the future in terms of protecting our rights and expanding them in the face of the current assault on women's reproductive rights on gay rights and so on. Is or expanding and reaching out to other groups. One thing that gave me hope recently was until I first the gay pride parade in London.  They will, they will hold off but this. These are the kind of people we need to ally with. This is what we need to be doing just focusing on our own rights but seeing how it all fits together. And that's a lesson from the early days that has stayed with you and I certainly believe that too. So it's not like ranking impressions like in that. It all needs work. So speaking of that tell us what words of wisdom you would like to. First, if you could assess the current situation. You end your book by saying to young people fight keep fighting, keep fighting, and it applies to us to even though I'm no longer a young person trying to fight my own way. So if you wouldn't mind assessing the situation and telling us how we can act, engage in activism or what your thoughts are. Okay. Now, remember, young people aren't going to listen to me anymore than we listened to. But I'll say what I can. Aside from it, you know, getting together with other groups. I think what we need to do is work on several different levels at once. The people who work like a activist alliance work together with politicians pressure them. And then there were the people who are out on the streets like me, and the people who were pressuring the politicians could always say, look at those people if you don't listen to us if you don't make some concessions. They're going to be coming after you with pitchforks. So we need to be some people need to be in there working to make changes with the within the system. And others need to be saying, down with the system and pushing as hard as we can to try to finish the revolution that we started back in those days. Another model for that was act up, which learned from the gay liberation. Right. Also, and had people in all different capacities. And Bill McKibben, a climate activist from Vermont said, famously, someone asked him what they could do individually and he said the problem is in your question. You know, alliance building and coalitions. Precisely. And in the long run, and this is, I'm kind of worried about this. In the long run, the people who control the system, the CEOs, the people who, you know, they were, you know, this there are three individuals in this country who own as much or more than half population. Yeah, and they got to go. That, that wealth has to be taken away from them. And the same thing with the billionaires around the world. They cannot be allowed to run the world for their own benefit. Barbara Tuckman and one of her books. I remember this more than anything she said, people think that their leaders, King's presidents whatsoever, are really knowledgeable. And that's not true, because they surround themselves with yes man. And they're living in that echo chamber. And they don't really have more wisdom than the guy in the street. And I remember that we don't need King's presidents, great leaders to follow. We don't need that. We need to work together with each other. There are some people who will we thinking of Retta Tundra. Who said an example. She's not like, oh yes, you know, same brother and I will follow her wherever she goes. I have to think for myself and so does everyone else. And everybody's contribution matters. However much you can do, however little you can do, whatever you do is important. And your, your contribution, your thoughts. Learning about stuff on your own. These are all important. What I worry about is that the people who have, who have overpower may not will not want to give up and we will end up like they did in France in 1789. So that's apocalyptic. I hope, I hope it doesn't come to that. It might. And remember the French are much better off now than it has a result of having done that. I mean they have universal health care. They have four or five weeks paid vacation every summer. And they have activism. That's right. This has been wonderful. Do you have any concluding comments you'd like to leave us with. Just get out there and do the book. Yes, I have fun. Yes, revolution can be fun. I had a great time. Anybody who thanks me for my contributions. It was like a great sacrifice.  It was a great time. It was the best time of my life. Martha Shelley, thank you for joining us. Thank you very much. Thank you for joining us. And until next time remember resist.


So we got a thousand dollar challenge happening in our sneaker head community right now and it got me wondering how far can a thousand dollars really go? Today we're going to hit heart and see what we can get. Coming into the store right here. This is looking solid because this is typical where we can get some good deals on stuff. They got panda dunks right here. They're like 200 bucks. They got a bunch of different sizes on these. Okay, this is 250 bucks on the K01 low. What do you think about these? Do you like these? They're redder than pandas. They're redder than pandas.  That's okay. But this is Kota. I think, yeah, that's a solid shoe right here. This one is a sleeper. It's a women's drop. I don't think they made this. You got the high top version. I have the high top version. You like the low top? Yeah, I do. Is this a potential cop for the collection? I like the other ones better for everyday use. They got these in the size. I like the other ones better. Uh-oh. She likes the other ones better. Easy size. Now we don't need the easy size. All right, so they do have clothing and stuff over here, but I think we're sticking to strictly just shoes. But let's run through the clothes just a little bit. They got a bunch of different stuff. They got denim tiers. They got chrome hearts. They got gallery department, essentials, Eric Emanuel, they got a lot of different options over here. What do you think about the essentials? You like the essentials? Supreme, you name it. Okay, over here. Here we go. Classic. I don't know. I got a price tag on here. Hey yo, discount double check. How much are these? Uh, what's the price on this stuff? So you said you got all sizes in this? Yeah, these ones here are the hot sellers for us right now, so we have all sizes. Okay. So like 350. 350 for the threes, the fours we have at 350 also, and then lots of founds, depending on the size, kind of range from like four to 550. Okay. Yeah. So these are potential options. Y'all know I got this stuff in my collection, so I'm always looking for something that I don't have. Uh, I'm going to hit the size 13s, and then I'm going to catch back up with you in a bit. You know what I'm saying? Size 13 game. You know what it is. I got to look for my stuff first, but I like to do shopping for other people too, so I might have to cop something for the camera woman behind the camera. And then, oh no, we see if we can find any deals. You know about that. Oh, this is a 14 right here. Cool grade three. 250. Oh. That's solid. Size 14? Yeah. Okay. UNC5. This is actually a shoe that I don't have. Uh, they got these for like 300 bucks. Is this a cop right here? I feel like this is a lucky kind of a cop. Let's see. If you got $1,000 to spend, so in the community, we do different challenges, and this one in particular is if you had $1,000 to spend, what would you get on a sneaker that you don't have already? You know, get something different.  So that's why I'm actually looking at these. This is a good option. I still need to get the PE, but I'll take what I can get. Oh, they got a size 13 on these. This is a sleeper right here. All star weekend. Good times right here. Man, honestly, I feel like there's a couple options for me. I wonder, let's see, I already got those actually. It's gonna be hard to get something from that. Yeah, that's what I was about to say. That's the hard part of just getting something I don't have. So I used to have these, got rid of them because I did a trade, and I need to get them back in my collection. So it might be time to add them back in my collection. This is a cop for you guys. I know this is a very essential shoe for a lot of people. Let me know what you guys think about these down below in the comment section. I think I, oh, this is a 13 too. I ended up getting these from my dad, but I didn't get them for myself. Oh no. I don't know if that's a cop for me. I like to sum it a little more. I know it's simple. It's like all the same color, but it just don't, which one do you think is better? Like out of the two blue shoes. My personal opinion? Yeah. I'm gonna go with the lighter blue, I think, just for like an everyday. That's what I'm saying. I like these. These are my high school colors right here. But this right here is UNC, you can't never go wrong with UNC. So let's keep that on the back burner. I'm gonna go see if they got anything on the used wall too, because that's what I like over here. They got used deals. They be having some steals and deals. So let's see what they got over there. So, oh yeah. And then this is like, by the way, before we go over there, since you guys are new to the store, they just opened the store not that long ago. If you look at the wall, they got the sizes. So it's like, bigger sizes here, 10 and a half through 12 over here, 7 and a half through 10 over here, women's kids, everything like that. You wanna look in your section? Should we hit the use section first? Let's do the use section first. Use section first? Alright, come on. And then they got all the essential items for their merch, hoodies, different stuff like that. All their merch is in the front of the store. And then they got the pandas, the supreme effort. It's funny, I actually don't have these in my collection. I need to get a good pair of all whites. Now this is the pre-owned section. This is where I'll be finding deals. I've found a lot of deals here before, so I know we can find something today. The question is what? This is the size, 14, 150 bucks. These are pretty clean. Honestly, that's a solid deal. That's solid. See, if we spend $1,000 and we just bought all this stuff, that could be a play. We could do that. I feel like it's gotta be a mix of a lot of this stuff. Oh, this is a 13 right here. Off-white Air Max. What'd you think about these? I think those are good, especially if you're actually gonna wear them, because I mean they're pre-owned. You know what I'm saying? This is a cool little rocker. I had the white pair. Huh? How much are those? Looks like $3.50. Oh, that's not bad. So, this option? I think I got a couple options. Okay, so we got this and that. I already got these. I got all that. Oh, this is a good one. Okay, so I have these, but damn, they want $200 bucks. Aqua 8, size 14. I don't even have these been worn. It says they're pre-owned. Yeah. These are like brand new. We should get these for my dad, huh? Okay. Loki. He would go crazy if he got these. He wouldn't know what to do. Modulon in them. He probably would modulon. Okay, this one, we're for sure. We gotta get this one. We gotta get this one. I'm gonna just hold this one right here. All right, so I think I know what I want. What you want? We're looking for, I want to get her something, too. I'm trying to figure out what, though, because she was like Loki eyeing the Yeezes, and I was like, you hate on the Yeezes. Yeah, he hates on the Yeezes. So, we're not doing the Yeezes, but what's the other option? We need neutral gray one lows, bro. Yes. Actually, we just got a pair in. Don't say that. What's up? Where'd it go? I think it was a six and a half years. Don't say that. Where'd it go? Let me ask real quick. If you have that, that would actually be crazy. Chris, where'd that neutral gray low go? We need that. Okay, so for those that don't know, my wife behind the camera, the neutral gray Air Jordan one low, if I can show you guys an example of it, I think there's a pair over there. Actually, I'll show you guys the one over here. We're looking for you guys in the back. So, the neutral gray one low is literally like, oh, they got it right here. What size is that? Size seven. Where'd it go? Six and a half. Youth. This is youth? So, what size do you wear? Eight women. This is too big. Do you think this is too big? It's too big, huh? You need a six. Peanots are size. You need a six, youth? Oh, so it's a half size too big. Do you want to try it or no? Chris protectors. I don't know. You don't know? Okay, like I was saying earlier, for those that don't know, this shoe right here is like, she literally has so many pairs of these and she just runs through them like white Air Force ones. This is her white Air Force one. It's like, whenever we see a pair in her size, it's like, we need to have it. We got to get it. We got to get it. That's a good neutral shoe. That's not a panda dunk, I guess. Okay. So, no good. I mean, it's too big. It's too big? Okay. Well, it don't fit. Where's this at? Right here? Okay. All right. So, what are some other options for her? Let's see. She likes pearl colors. You like the KO one though? The one in the front? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that one's cool. Those have been pretty popular. That's a cool shoe. I usually get her either a five and a half or six depends. Okay. Got you. I'll bring a six out. Got balls. Okay. For sure. So while they were in the back grabbing those, I had them grab these for me as well. I think this is going to be a cop. I don't have these in my collection yet. The current total on this stuff, what was the current total on these? You said around 750, somewhere right there, so that means we still got room. I got something to get. Maybe I should, maybe I should get some panda dunks and give them away. I'm giving them away. There's no way I'm keeping those. A few moments later. All right. So I just saw two kids in the store. They just walked out. So we got to try to go catch them. But I'm going to see if they want to win some free panda dunks because I'm going to buy them. It looks like back to school. They're outside eating right now. This is perfect. Hey, you guys want to win some panda dunks? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. All right. There's only one of you guys going to win though. Really? Yep. What size are they? In your size. I'll make sure they're inside. You got to wear them out of the store.  Yep. Yo, I've seen you. That's a set, bro. Appreciate it. What?  My bad. I'll try to make sure they're running to this glass. All right. I came to the conclusion that I got extra money and I'm going to spend them on a pair of panda dunks. But you know, I don't like this shoe, so I got to give it away to somebody. So the question is, which one of you guys are going to win? Do you have your phones on you? Oh, yeah. Are you going to subscribe to my channel? Do you know who I am? I'm watching you. You watch my channel? Yeah, I do. Are you subscribed? I need you all to subscribe to my channel first because you can't just be winning stuff if you're not subscribed to the channel, man. Are you like the DJ? DJ sneakerhead on Tiktok. Yeah. DNA show on YouTube. Right? Yep. You got to hit that subscribe button. Show it to the camera. That is real. He just subscribed. See, y'all be watching the videos and y'all be subscribing here. Subscribe to Hearth right here, too. Subscribe to Hearth YouTube channel. Yeah, I'm going to link everybody down below. But I'm just saying, y'all be watching these videos. You got to subscribe, man. Once you subscribe, you might just win some free shoes. Do you know we give away free shoes every month? And in the community, $1,000 challenge, we give away free shoes and that, too, which I'll talk about that a little bit later. Oh, yeah. Perfect. Show them right there. Good. And then subscribe to Hearth right here. Make sure y'all subscribe to Hearth. I'm going to tag them down below as well. Everybody subscribed. Okay. Now that they're subscribed, you guys ready? Yeah. Yeah. First question. Should we have them write it down or should we have them say it out loud? Say it out loud. First person to say it out loud? First person to say it out loud. All right. First person. How many championships does Michael Jordan have? Six. Damn. Okay. There you go. That was easy. Did you know? You didn't know how? You didn't know? Okay. It's easy. Lightworks. That was easy. Yeah. There we go. All right. What size you wear? Nine. Nine? All right. We'll go into a nine.  We'll make sure you get them right there. I'm thinking I might want to give out my shoes for him because he actually watches your stuff. I don't know what you're thinking. Yeah. Okay. So you want to give over your shoes? Yeah. Okay. They're grabbing him a nine? Yeah. Okay. Cameron's family right here. Okay. So Alexa said she wants to give up her shoes to give the other kid a pair as well. Instead of me getting one for her. Is that what you want to do? Yeah. All right. So let's find, let's give the kid his shoes. Let's give the kid his shoes first. And then after, we'll make them all happy. And then the other kid will be like, oh yeah, by the way, we got you some too. All right. Cool. All right. Where is this at? We got to put them on his feet. All right. Size nine. Can you try them on? You got pandas? You don't got pandas? Perfect for school. Back to school. Oh yeah. He's getting laced up. Let's hear, let's hear his response. How you feeling right now? Take us through the thought process. He won. Prepare pandas. Feels good. He thought to be fly for back to school. When you start school? I don't know. Sometime in like August. At the end of August? We're in August now. Oh. You got school in a couple of weeks. You ready? What grade are you in? Eighth. Eighth grade? Oh yeah. You about to come in. Okay. Okay. What grade are you in? Eighth. Eighth grade? Oh yeah. You about to come in. Flexing on them. I like it. I like it. That's what's up, bro. All right. Show the camera. Show the people. It's through his head. Oh yeah. He's looking good. He's looking good. All right. Post game interview. How's it feel? You could have been faster. But did you know the answer? No. You didn't know the answer? Yeah. Dang. What size did you wear, bro? Eight and a half. Eight and a half? Yeah. Please. So I might get this man at eight and a half. Come on, bro. You know I can't let you just be the only one losing out here. We got to get you right. Shout out to my wife, actually. She's the one that's hooking you up. She behind the camera. Yeah. Eight and a half? She right here. She right here. Oh yeah. Wait, where's the... How you feeling now? That's only big size. Pretty good. You feeling good now? Me and my friend are just like studying at school. Okay. You at grade two? Yeah. We both go to the same school. That's what's up. You guys walking out of here fly. Where's the other shoe at? Let me get you the other shoe, too. Let's get these on their feet. Let's get them right. All right. How many championships does Michael Jordan have? Six. Okay. All right. He's getting laced up. Let's get him on there. Oh yeah, bro. This is nice. This is not... He ain't even unlaced him yet. He's just sticking his foot in there. He's just ready to go. We got two eighth graders coming fresh back to school in a couple of weeks. You know what I'm saying? We got to make sure they get right. I got enough shoes. Make sure everybody else got some shoes, too. Are you getting the shoe? That's me. Can I get the shoe? What's up, bro? Let's get it for sure. Thank you. Thank you. I watch you on YouTube. That's what's up. Thank you. Appreciate it, bro. Much love. Can you see his feet? You happy camper? Yes. Ready for school? Ready to look fly? All right. Was y'all grades right last year? Y'all ready to step it up this year? Yeah. All right. Don't be slacking off, man. What's good? Y'all ready to work? This is a big year. This year you got to learn a lot, prepare. Because when you go to high school next year, it's going to be a whole new world.  Y'all ready for that? No, not really. Not really? Well, hey, enjoy being a kid, too, though. Enjoy being a kid. Enjoy your time, especially this summer. Enjoy it. Enjoy your family, too. Amen. For the kids, too, on behalf of Hart, you guys got the drip on the feet, but we got a little bit of extra something. So we have three pair of Hart socks for the both of y'all. Thank you. That's crazy. I don't even got no Hart socks. This is burnt. This is burnt. This is burnt. All right. I hope you guys enjoy this. I appreciate you guys. I'll see you in another one. We're out. I would never let you down. Hey, before you guys leave this video, like I was talking about earlier in the video, we have a $1,000 challenge going on in the sneakerhead community right now. It's free to enter the challenge once you are in the community. I do these challenges every single month, and we give away a free pair of shoes every single time.  So if you guys want to sign up, make sure you guys hit the link down below in the description. Join the community. We have live access to me, monthly meetups, and a bunch of cool challenges and groups and chat groups. Trust me, there's a lot of cool things on the inside. I appreciate you guys as always. I hope you enjoyed this. I'll see you in another one. Oh yeah, my bad. And before I go, we got a new merch at shopdnashow.com. Thank you.