What is up guys, thank you so much for tuning in for real man. Yeah, man So this is a shocking episode usually in the series. I'm so nice. Hey. Oh Yeah, what'd you call him the other day chef Ramsay? Yeah, yeah, we're gonna double him in real time though. Oh, my me Okay, Peter Griffin Bravo, let's go. You ever think like bravos bravos. Is that not what you think sometimes? Oh I've got Khaleesi will Khaleesi bill. Yeah, yeah Yeah, let's freaking go. Yeah. We were finishing this season today. That's wild I kind of don't want to go about too fast. Ain't it? Yeah, we recognize we're in the good old days right now Just so you guys know we're taking it in nice and slow. Like maybe what was she like? Of course, that's what he asked. No, she had red hair How big were her feet? What do you want me to say? Want you to tell me what it was like to have someone to be with someone It's kind of awkward though. I know I wouldn't tell you bro. That's gonna. Let's go. Oh, they're they're boys Yeah, but I was stuck with her right here a lot sooner than I've planned you the closest I'll ever get to knowing Oh, he thinks he's gonna die you and gilly never no the interesting thing is our vows never specifically forbid Intimate relations with women the loopholes. I shall take no wife. Yes. Well, you're saying that I shall father no children's very specific What our vows have to say about other activities. He's open to interpretation Don't think sir. Alison cares much for interpretation at all.  We can decide like it's this person this whole other person You're wrapped up in there. They're wrapped up in you for a little while. You're more than just you You know, I don't know. I'm not bleeding poet. No, you really know Who's your imagination, dude? For some reason I love their dynamic like they're like brothers to me for sure Yeah, I love their dynamic too because it's like John's the hard Beep and Sam's just a little nice guy. Yeah, I don't know. It's like you're wrapped up in you and but John's honestly not He's not that he doesn't you know, he's like a good fighter, but he doesn't like come off as like a Hey owl It's that guy that's scary Could be waiting a while good the longer we wait the more arrows I'll have art broken when they came up here To our land and pop a big wall and said it was theirs and they started hunting us down this time We're the ones doing the hunting got a lot to say about killing Back in those villages. I killed just as many of them as you did. Yes, none of those were your crow love I probably killed him already So you've said and if not the only thing left of him is going to be his fun bits hanging around me neck More words know what I think you do when you see him serve him up a nice juicy slice of ginger men Well, you've been thinking about that ginger men wondering what it tastes like maybe I have but for real What it tastes like like John snow is mine.  How did you know that it was you who else? Would be wasting candles to read in the middle of thousands of books and no eyes to read them Old age is a wonderful source of iron is if nothing else that you didn't answer my question What are you reading maester fall the wildlings? I can assure you that the closest maester fall ever got to a wildling was this very library But what he says about what they do it's all true. It's exactly what the survivors of their raid report Imagine the stories wildings tell about us love is the death of duty I told that to your friend John Snow once he didn't listen and neither did you Which is why you've abandoned your watch atop the wall to come here and read about the terrible things That may have happened to the girl you love. I don't love her you captain's aunt. I know why You do heard it in your voice when you first brought her to me. I was in love once Oh, is it so difficult to to imagine that an old person was once more or less like you I'm sorry maester. I didn't mean it like that You know who I was before I came here what I could have been if I'd only said the word I met many girls when I was a man Targaryen a future king always does a king Yeah, he's a monster green and they're attempts to win my affections one of them succeeded who I was very young Naive it was she please don't say another Targaryen Tell you everything about her who she was she was me mother. I can see Right in front of me. She's more real than you are nothing makes the past a sweeter place To visit than the prospect of imminent death. Why does this look like a goodbye?  I've never heard you curse before. Yes. Well, let's get used to it It was horrible I didn't know until I got back don't let them send me away sound I know there's no women allowed anyone you trust to throw you out. We'll be having words with me from now on Wherever you go, I go to oh Doesn't he have a duty though? Yeah, but they're like about a battle is that dude even like you might not live till tomorrow. No, but they win They're gonna need everyone they need or they can just trust me out No better arrow that thing down This is like the most of castle black I've ever seen There it goes, that's the biggest fire I've ever seen Especially in this world. I guess they don't have any wildfires out there, huh? There probably is the biggest fire Dang John got put on barrel duty We don't have time for this Oh, John, I might would accidentally push them off. I know seal the tunnel where we had the chance It was a difficult decision either way, sir Do you know what leadership means Lord snow be start second guessing himself? That's the end.   I didn't mean in the same room How you going to fight the free folk when they come they'll kill you you won't matter up there You will down here. Oh I am a man of the night watch gilly. I made a promise to this. I agree with gilly And I have to keep it because that's what men do and I agree with them both to be honest But Sam's just gonna get stabbed up. I'm nervous now. Yeah, me too.  I didn't know I was going to kill it I wasn't Samwell Tarly anymore. I wasn't a steward in the night's watch or son of Randall Tarly or any of that Was nothing at all. When you're nothing at all, there's no more reason to be afraid. But you're afraid now. I'm not nothing anymore She better not kill Sam Most of that man are up top Didn't count more than 20 down here.  Oh, we'd be open over before they know what's happened. Let's kill some crawls Is she about it? I don't know Well, she seems down to kill crows just not John because she didn't have no problem with that horse breeder or the villages or that little boy's dad You know, really? I just thought about You would think that the show would have so many battles or something and I guess like on a small level They do like individual ones, but this is only what the second war that we see. Yeah, or the second battle Mm-hmm First time I liked him the whole season whole year Oh, she's got you.  I respect that I respect that about him in their language. That means come on in guys. Yeah, apparently Did you get one? No Teamwork Yeah, I think we're gonna die Don't you keep missing me will I kind of like that it showed that Oh He's in the trenches lord commander. I love it.  No training gang of thieves. That's all this is. We can't just let them attack the gate The bars of those gates are four inches of cold rolled steel. Those are giants wearing mammoths down there You think you're cold rolled steels gonna stop them? No such thing as giant story for the children. Is he in denial? He's in king's landing He really doesn't does he the most experienced man. He's got said he needs you. No, he really might need him He came in and the king's landing you've got this it seemed like he tricked them It seems like the people in king's landing are soft is what i'm developing Okay, john They're more accurate for john ain't they I wouldn't hit one of those dudes Nice that's so crazy They're like tom cruise out there because if you think about it that climb is the most like that's the worst part You're about to have to climb and then go battle with axes. You're gonna be tired and dehydrated I'd be looking nice. Yeah. I'll be looking that wall the whole way It's gonna be caved in by the time I get up there He even had a way bigger arrow. He's got like a 400 pounds Shadow realm Wow, she thought that was john. She's looking for every dude with long brown hair How can you really tell them apart though? That's kind of hard.  Yeah, me too, but he's just so annoying. Oh, no, gilly's in there He's harder. That's what I was scared of somebody coming in there. I didn't expect it to be him I'm kind of glad it was him.  He didn't even he didn't even need to be there too, man Are you kidding? He's gonna make it all right. Mm-hmm. If he was telling the truth about what problems of the wall, that sucks Don't wait up for them giants to come to drop them things. They didn't play enough.  You ain't getting through that thing. It's like me beating through like a solid oak bore Look at him. Look at him. He's okay for a bar. Yeah, he's done this before Dang, and they're smart.  We can't get that door off The alter gate won't hold take five men. Hold the indicate Hold the gate if they make it through I love that Oh, please don't die Uh-oh, they're on a collision course Oh No, I just didn't want that because I like them Oh my gosh, sam you better get moving bro. Sam. Why weren't you sniping? Oh Nice that close range that no scope. He made one shot ran down there and then ran away Yeah, but now they might open the gate that man was butts on fire. Do you see that they could have used some of that? Uh Wildfire, that's what they're gonna use Nice shot Oh, he's mad my brother Oh Oh, my man be squatting John want to go grab a sword And the one door gave them I don't know. I kind of like him commanding. Yeah, he is like he gives me hype. Yeah Yeah, we quiet pit sweet I wouldn't even want him fighting without me. He's too scared If you don't have time Platinum Watching screen you screwed me up, man. If I don't see you down camera. I don't believe it, right John needs a headband or something. Let's go bro. Do you hear this music? I love it. I know it's getting me hype. There she is They're so close This is stundles. Sam stressing me out. Go hide. We need you boy Let's go ghost What if ghost kills a eager e-grip? I don't want to see another wolf out though me either. I can't He wants to eat him so bad Let's go John He's quick. Mm-hmm.  That's who killed his dad though. That was justice for him, man Yeah, boy said that just saying we'll go about that. She had to go out like that, didn't she?   I thought they were gonna like team up together in the end and like of course they didn't yeah Yeah, I thought they would just have like ties I just want my whole words is going to take John in my head. Yeah, me too. I guess we'll talk about that. Whoa Booby traps on the wall They've had enough for one night There's a lot of John's and I'm looking guys all of a sudden He might not be alive later, which I'm talking about Oh, I don't like that John's just really depressed right now Dang I promise you didn't know. Oh, yeah He's in there.  Here's a thousand times as many men. We'll hit us again tonight Where are we going? We're going to find Mantz. You can't do that No one gave you any orders. Who's left to give orders? Right, an army is only an army because of mantz without mantz.   You're right. It's a bad plan. What's your plan? Oh, good luck with that John But they stopped it.  Not just for you, obviously, but some brothers down here RIP was that grand or brin? I always say grand with a g raise the outer gate and lower it again as soon as I'm out Does he think he's gonna negotiate with him or just like fight him? What are you doing? I promise mom I'd never lose it again in case I don't come back Come back What? Holy cow. What an accident. That was the end of the episode. All right guys, so that was The washers on the wall. I mean, I'm excited about it, man Uh, we had us another battle that I mentioned. I'm excited about it. That was so good You know as the person in the seat, man, the person that these people put so much time and effort to entertain I really thought they did a good job executing that battle I mean, I understand that this isn't a blockbuster movie This is just an episode within game of thrones But some of the pans and zooms and just the live action the cinematic feel of just Moving all around castle black and just seeing all everyone fighting and not even breaking the scenes I just loved it. I thought that was fun. Was it better than the battle on the black water, baby? Well, okay, so the battle of the black water to me I felt like there's more stakes because we knew the characters a little more political Right and we just knew we just had a really working relationship with all the characters and this one We kind of started to develop like a good love for these characters in this Episode like for example, sir. Alaser.  I mean, it wasn't that it was just like he was like ready Like he literally went down there.  We didn't see him die. He just got no, he got killed Oh, he died. Mm-hmm. Did he thorman killed him? Yeah, yeah, he did it was like going on. Um, well, I mean, I know he killed him, but I didn't see his final breath I just saw no, he don't pull him inside. He got okay. Awesome.  That was really nuts to me The amazing symbolism of the fade to white transition at the end of this episode John snow once again, man taking his place back in the north Seems like he's just there a lot, but He's like he's like an ambassador for For basically south of the wall like all the westeros. He's always up north like doing like Doing some good work. So good thing. We got john owners on our side The show definitely told me in this episode that there seems to be a leadership vacuum in this episode And john seemed to be the guy for the job john and I don't know the other guy's names guys. I'm terrible with names I know you know this but I know the main characters Seem like a lot of like a lot of the people around john really respect him and like they're willing to die for him Absolutely, like clearly you saw that whenever they were holding the giant and I think that's just what makes like john A leader without him like, you know having to be the leader He just like is by fighting with them and being brothers with them and I I really respect john in that way He's becoming like, you know at first he was kind of like a not one of my favorite characters But he's like it in top five now I don't know that I put him in my top five per se His the I don't know. It's hard. It's hard. The scene with a great and I know I pronounced her name wrong a lot Sorry about that Yeah, that was that was really like I don't know how I felt about it because you know I really wasn't like feeling her for a while because she turned kind of rogue But she spared him again and that to me is like I don't think she was ever gonna kill him I genuinely don't believe. Yeah, probably not. I like her character a lot man I think that you love to hate her. Obviously, there's a lot of greats to her but looking back at her I mean for what it's worth man. I just thought she was a great addition to the show. I really did She definitely was well, I it's hard for me to say but I feel like she will be a great addition to the show Well, basically what I was trying to say babe is there seems to be a leadership vacuum john is taken over It seems like that's the vibe that I was getting right and so her death is kind of like his birth Right, like he needed that to happen Right to yeah, and that's why I really like her character. I mean she was an awesome actor She I mean she played the role of what her role was supposed to be just like a rough neck I loved it.  That's what I loved about her. So like get her a bud light It was really sad to see her go. Um, yeah It was really cool to see sam kind of like step up as the man of like his household But when she killed that dude right in front of sam that's went in my mind It kind of clicked like okay. I really don't like her right, but it's hard for john But at the same time i'm i don't really think john has any business like in her anyways I think that he should just find someone. I mean you see they're literally at war with each other. That's like I mean, you know what that's like, right? I just felt like he was infiltrating and Falling in love. It happens. Yeah, and you know Honestly, I would say though of all episodes nines that we've seen Because you know the first one was ned the second one was black water. The third one was um Catlin and rob the red wedding. Yeah. So this one the rings of castamere This one was tough. I will say it was tough, but it wasn't like one of those There were i'm just like I mean I did have some tears, but i'm not like, you know freaking out about it We got one more episode to go. Yeah, we do but i'm just saying for episode nine I don't understand. Yeah, like episode nine. That was the chill the most chill for me Uh, that battle was crazy. I didn't expect it to be going down quite like that I didn't realize that battle was gonna take place in that episode. I mean, I knew it was coming I didn't realize that was the episode so that surprised me a little bit going in I thought it was really good, man Very well executed a lot of pieces on the chess board got moved around and have a whole new perception of john now Right. Thank y'all for tuning in season finale.  That's like a long height too.  Like a like a step son that just pulled in or something looking like theon It appears my trusting nature got the better of me. I was hoping your loyalty was real when you pledged yourself to us John snow truly I was I was loyal. I know it's watch fouls all of your vows She wasn't enough to turn you hey, she put three hours in me when I escaped did you see her again at castle black? Yes, and she's dead. We'll drink to her. Don't try it, john This isn't king blending.  It's not wine. No, it's a proper north You did well fought hard one of our giants went into your tunnel and never came out again mag the mighty He's dead. He killed my friend grin. He was that king The last of a bloodline that stretches back before the first man. Wow grin came from a farm I Drink to that.  You know, I know you're low on arrows. You're low on oils You're low on men. How many are left 50? It's all torment in the realm. We have more than a thousand men I showed you everything I had the whole army a hundred thousand stronger. What did you do?  Here's the bargain. You go back.  Oh god. Do you believe him?  I do believe him. Yeah. I mean winter's coming. He's not lying about that Yeah, he has a moral obligation to his people. He seems like a honest dude on this thing That's why you're here.  You knew that when you came in here. Desperate. Are you capable of that?  Is that what the night's watch is? Is that what you are? You're attacking us. I don't believe the thing would stop. We don't have the men. Who's attacking them? Walkers Who's this? It's not walkers. It's people. Lots of them. I should know about that flag, but hang on Oh, they're well trained. Look Come on, john. You got to go brother. He's about to be fighting right alongside him They're coming from both sides. Oh man. It was a heart Man, now I kind of feel bad for them. I mean like I understood the situation going into it You know, that's why I was not so hard on eager it, but man, you know, they are very brutal though Yeah, but they're just looking for survival too. Yeah, but who is this? Who's got a heart? I don't know. I don't know yellow heart. I don't know yellow heart I said my people are bloody enough and I meant it Whoa It's just a stannis I'm more happy about davos though. Got a little gold. They're ready for war night boy I know look at him right there. No helmet. Why this music? What's this flag though? It's a heart. Oh, yeah, it's a burning heart Oh, sorry about you. Oh, okay. Okay. Be merciful stannis You're the king beyond the war People love never had the pleasure Stannis Baratheon the one true king of the seven kingdoms not in the seven kingdoms and you're not dressed for this weather It is customary to kneel when surrendering to a king We do not kneel not here to slaughter beat dogs their fate depends on their king All the same we do not kneel the man of the night's watch doing in a wild link camera I was sent to discuss terms with the king beyond the wall You're speaking to the one true king boy. You will address them as your grace I know he's the king my father died for him. My name is john snow. You're grace. I'm Ned Stark son. Oh god He's about to get caught up with the name cold honorable man. He was your grace. What do you think he'd have done with him? That's tough, man. I was this man's prisoner once you could have tortured me.  I think my father would have taken him prisoner Listen to what he had to say very well That was kind of beautiful. I love these things. Yeah, that was good If my father had seen the things that I've seen he'd also tell you to burn the dead before nightfall all of them No problem. I love burning people Yeah, he does The cause appears to be a manticore venom. It is the death's head manticore.  I think he got infected from the cut. Yeah with poison Is that what was he actually poisoned it? Oh because Oberyn used to study poisons Smart Yeah Necromancy or something they said Difficult to say but if my past work is any guide, it's done a chance Do everything you can come to me for anything you need. Thank you. Oh grace. Oh, I get it. I get it The process may change it. Will it weaken him? Oh, no. Very well, then Yeah, she said Bumpterian so he's using like modern type medicines Like i'm assuming he's about to hit him with like a steroid.  Yeah Oh Not another word. We've been over this the matter's closed. I'm opening it again. You were betrothed to laurice tyrell So betrothed to laurice tyrell and you will marry laurice tyrell soon as thomin marries marjorie I will not jamie cannot marry or inherit lands You have on several occasions made great claims about your commitment to this family's future I will stay in king's landing where I belong with my son the king when you were nine years old I was called to the capital. I decided to take your brother with me and nod you and if you I'm not interested in hearing another one of your smug stories about the time you This isn't going to be one of those times when you marched into the throne room to tell me we won the battle of blackwater Do you remember? I remember me too. I in throne thomin. I was about to give him essence of nightshade That's how far I was willing to go and I thought someone awful had come to take my son away Someone awful is coming to take him away.  Wow. How will you do that? I'll tell everyone the truth. What truth would that be? You never believed it How can someone so consumed by the idea of his family have any conception?  Oh, you don't want to know pops Everything they say is true about jamie and me. No, your legacy is a lie. I don't believe you Dang Yes, you do Rain's a costumere tywin gets to have his dream life, right? He's just the ultimate just alpha out there You know I'm saying those powerful man, but it's all but it's not what he wants it to be because it's all built On the line. He knows it. He's in an aisle. Most kids are all wild and they don't listen You won one fewer brother must be proud of yourself.  I would do things for my family. You couldn't imagine.  You cut it out before it does What do you decide? I choose you those are words Yes, like the ones I just said to father told him told her about us Oh, you don't get to make that choice. I won't marry lorris tyrell I told him i'm staying right here with tommy with you I'll just accept that go and ask him What did you say? I don't want to talk about tywin lannister. Why do you have to say that? People will whisper they'll make their jokes let them. I'm also small. I can't even see them There's so many you're right. There's so many words You can speak the common tongue if you wish you speak it very well before you freed me I belonged to master mcdow. I was tutor to his children I little color is only seven but she admires you very much Hope I can prove worthy of her admiration When you took the city the children begged me not to leave the house But master mcdow and I agreed that I must so I lost my home Now I live on the streets I have outfitted mess halls to feed all former slaves and barracks to shelter I do not mean to offend the young prey on the old Take what they want and beat us if we resist even if they are safe Who would I be there? What purpose would I serve? With my master I was a teacher. I had respect and love of his children What is it that you want from me? Your grace I ask you to let me sell myself back to master mcdow You want to return to a man who owned you like a goat or a chair? Please your grace the young may rejoice in the new world you have built for them But for those of us too old to change is only fear and squalor Oh, I never looked at it from their side. I did. I mean I thought about it It was kind of like y'shaul shank redemption I thought about all that in those episodes where everybody was getting mad at me Reside over the injustice I fought to destroy it I suppose having so black and white is something simple Freedom but freedom means making your own choices I will allow you to sign a contract with your former master It may not cover a period lasting longer than a year They're still not free because she's allowing things like you see the problem here That's the paradox with the whole thing The masters will take advantage of this situation The men serving them will be slaves in all but name Well, at least it's their choice though now Approach my friend That's she funny for that she funny for Yedal bochashkot niyesha I am gentlemen I have brought to you This shayang mayyadro He came from the sky Yasobla The black one The winged shadow Matis shayang mayyadro He came from the sky and Awww They're bitches My girl My little girl Oh my gosh, this just got 10 times heavier, didn't it? Oh man What was her name? Sohala You agree? How old was she? Three Oh my gosh Three He's missing? What is she gonna do? Not kill them right? There's no way Oh, she's shaming them up And that's crazy because she's like the break herbs Right The symbolism I mean that thing is a danger to everybody though I know so many of you guys are all about the dragons and stuff But man, those things are scary And one of them is missing?  Hanging, you heading?  Words, but kind of words If you know words, I don't know how the free folk do it Do what?  Did you love her?  There's just not really any consequences I guess Well it just so happens that every person that's supposed to be every of them is dying so Yeah, well now he's in charge Well, no, still Stanis is I don't think he's gonna stay there though Not long term No That was respectable It's okay, John, usually your first doesn't work out anyways We can stop, we can rest We'll rest with the three-eyed raid We're not going to make it We're already here Jojen Jojen, look, Jojen, look Is it one of those trees? Cause it looks bright down there Mm-hmm, looks beautiful I'd feel like such a wuss if I fail 20 steps where I needed to go This could have seemed to have been dying from in the past season And they're kind of far still Is that the three-eyed raven? The wolves walk so beautiful, don't they? So graceful Is that a hand? Oh, it's a- Oh, my Is that any brand, though?    What show are we watchin'? No He is lost Come with me Or die with him Go with him No Now we're on our own We don't have the instructional character anymore Man, I seen one this yesterday I thought that was Peter Pan Yeah I watched you got fireballs with someone on your hands like that I don't know, but I'm glad they went in the cave with her For a second, I thought that was like an X-man movie Right You don't get to come in there, haha They cannot follow us Power that moves them is powerless here Who are you? First man called us the children Oh, yeah Title We met one of these? That's crazy I didn't think we'd meet one I didn't think they were still around No, I thought they was like They created it and then they died But apparently they're magic AF I'd be kind of creeped out if you If that thing invited me in there though I know, don't you feel like you're gonna get wrapped up by that spider on Lord of the Rings? Yeah, I know This must be the good ol' three-eye right here Joruf and Mama The skull, you know Oh, yeah, I get it He was a three-eyed raven I've been many things Now I am what you see I've been watching you All of you That's why he didn't look shocked when he was getting stabbed With a thousand eyes and one Now you've come to me at last Brandon Stark Though the hour is late I didn't want anyone to die for me He died so you could find what you have lost You're going to help me walk again You'll never walk again Oh, that sucks But you will fly Wow Like literally?  I hobbled them last night What sort of hobble? Figure eight, like you've taught me If you did it like I taught you then the horses would be here The eaves, maybe It's at least 30 miles to the area from here You're carrying subtle bags She said this is why I never needed a squire Is that Arya?  About 10 more miles Do you hear that Podrick?  No But you know how to use that sword I do Does it have a name? Oh, it's Cooper Mine's needle Besties Good name We taught you how to fight My father The hound's still going back there Mine never wanted to Dead fighting was for boys Mine said the same But I kept fighting the boys anyway Kept losing Finally my father said If you're going to do it You might as well do it right Seven blessings Are we out of tarp? Podrick's made You want something? Send your cloak again The hound You are your Stark I asked if you wanted something I swore to your mother over bringing you home to her My mother's dead I know I wish I could have been there to protect her You're not on northern there But I swore a sacred vow to protect her Why didn't you?  Where the f*** is that?  No, so serious She kept it moving She can go, okay Bye, nice to meet you, Julie Just kept it moving That's funny, though She takes her oath so seriously And the hound says F the king They're so opposite Can none of them win? They look pretty even, huh?   Is she just about to zero?  No That was incredible by Brienne But I don't want the hound to die either, though That was a crazy scene Like, I was not expecting that I was watching you I thought you might need some help What did you think? I think that way Oh, she escaped She probably thinks she's going to get taken I don't blame her for not going with her, you know Yeah, right back to the lannisters, yeah But what the hound don't realize is they're basically on the same team I think their team bumped the lannisters, right?   Another name off your list Not the back of the school Get promising me I cut down your butcher's boy The ginger He's trying to antagonize her to do it He was begging for mercy Please, sir, please don't kill me Please, please Played all over my horse Saddle stunk a butcher's boy for weeks Your sister, pretty sister I should have taken her That night the black water burned At least I'd have one happy memory You'll have to beg you Wow Arya doesn't seem very interested in that And even more does she? His acting's incredible, though She just robbed him?  Or is she giving him mercy?  Like you guys get what I'm saying Because in that last episode Remember she did that They did that guy a favor by killing him He was like struggling and they Yeah, so it was like she just didn't return the favor Exactly But it was almost like I don't know man Did she spare him or was she trying to like Ultimately like screw him over there? Or was it like a little bit of all of it?  Is there any way to speak about our mother? What are you doing? What do you think I'm doing? Gali's wasting in the very pounds of the free city Who's hoping you? I was he freeing him No shot Varus is helping He must think it's best for the realm So look, door at the top of stairs I'm not going to twice I'm going to twice again I suppose this is goodbye then Aw Bro, but if Cersei finds out that Jamie freed Their own son's killer Oh my god Jamie Wow What a moment Why is he nervous? Maybe he's hoping it'll be Varus on the other side of that door Yeah, true Lannister It's just saying that like He's walking away from that family name I think Is he a Cersei's? Kill Cersei The hand? Oh my god, that's Shay No way What? Did she just call him my lion?  Like what did that have to do with Varus? He's turning into Joffrey Joffrey Jr He just had like a character shift probably He's probably about to go freaking evil Where's he going? I have no idea Probably to go see Cersei But he is in Tywin's tower Is this a tower? Tyrion, put down the crossbow Or what?       Where's this place? Looks like Elsa I want to see the captain You're seeing him I want to go north to the wall No you don't I could work scrubbing the floors I'm not going north child, I'm going home Where's home? The free city of Braavos Wait, I have something else More silver or drink less Oh yeah, that coin It's iron How did you? Valaamogolis Oh Respect Of course, you should have a cabin Oh, she should have a cabin because of Valaamogolis It's all about who you know people She made connections I just had an epiphany though Silver doesn't mean anything but iron does So when they're saying they paid the iron price Are they really on or something? Maybe Okay That ship is tough So we're finally gonna figure out about Braavos Cause she's about to go Bro, what is this music? Like what is going on? This show is the best This is no go Is that not my favorite weather? God, that was good Geez Oh my gosh, we're on season five now Guys, I don't know where to start Um, I can honestly say watching the show That might have been the most fun I've ever had Yeah, me too Watching the show That was a really good episode Something about like whoever the team Whoever's the team who puts all this together Like, you know, so many people have their hands in this project You know, but the way they wrap that episode up with the music Just almost like hopeful Yeah See, you know what I'm saying That was so good You saw all this crazy stuff But then you saw one little glimpse of like something beautiful going on That you think is beautiful You're not really sure But it makes you feel that way Because it's just like the way they set it up When Game of Thrones is over, guys We're gonna be watching something else And you're probably gonna wonder yourself I wonder if Mr. and Mrs. October like the show As much as Game of Thrones We don't You know what I'm saying Like we might be into it at the time You can't like something more than this I don't know Guys, this is good If we ever see anything that tops this Guys, this right here is becoming straight This top tier Freakin theater I don't know to start That was that To me, man, it's just the investment That I'm really getting in this world The more we travel it The more I'm starting to understand it The more I'm starting to feel like home How can you not like Arya Stark, dude? Like how could you not like her? She is cool, man Yeah She's such a cool character Baby, can you please try to get us to this episode? Can we try to talk about what happened Okay, well Without getting me lost Because dude, this was freaking packed Let's talk about the episode name in itself The Children So when we're talking about The Children Where do we see The Children in this episode, right? Right So to me, I saw The Children I saw The Children as in the Lannisters Because the Lannisters all defied their dad Which also their dad died Brilliant, right So, but then I also thought about The Children of the Forest Because they were also They were the ones that dropped the title But then I think about the dragons Being children So I'm thinking about the episode The Children Reflected on three different types of children Who all went through adversity in this Maybe the Yeah, it's almost like it's saying like Yo, think, you know Triple think what you do Because ultimately like The person you are today Is going to determine who your kids are In the future in so many ways And just do a good job and be smart Because eventually it might come back And shoot you in the ass while you're on the toilet You know what I'm saying Literally Literally So that was just one thing But I guess like Do you want to Do you want to talk about like What was the biggest thing in this whole season To you or this episode Man, dude So the biggest thing to me guys Just hang on Let me get there a little recap up Everybody I like to be able to scroll through this little episode And just see in order where we're at So I think the first thing That really got me guys man was Obviously obviously Stannis came to the rescue right man He ended the war in the north And it appears castle black Has finally been retaken back And just the way that they came in Just the way their formation was organized The way it was shot The way it was shot So he did get those second signs Absolutely It was gorgeous Right The way they the way they filmed It was absolutely brilliant man It was beautiful And they pulled up at the right time It was like It worked because there was so much going on guys But in the north There's so much snow And so you got the contrast of the dark Uniforms and the horses And it's kicking up the snow And it's creating like just enough fog effect Just the choices The choices of where to shoot this Are top tier to me That was one of the greatest Scenes in this show I've seen You know it wasn't exactly like a full-fledged battle But they had like a drone But they had like a drone footage Of like all of them coming together That was so nice looking Yeah the flag sort of threw me off Because I didn't really see them They said the heart Well it was yellow That's what threw me off So it was like a yellow It was combined of Stannis And the sell swords Because the sell swords are yellow I'm not going to sit here And try to pretend that I'm as smart With those details as you though Well I'm like obsessed with those details So yeah like I miss some That was really awesome to see That whole shot I guess man Did that mean Where did you see Mansai? Because I didn't see Mansai And me either I don't know what happened to him John granted him mercy though Ultimately when Stannis came up So something really interesting Is John's becoming someone Who is not a niller Right and he said that So I don't know what's going to happen But it just seems like John's His character development Is starting to become meaningful Because I guess he's He's starting to like step up In such a vacuum of light And the north is a Is a huge strategic point in this show Like the north is just as valuable Talking about the wall of course As like Kings Landing strategically And I guess in the Greater scheme of things That ultimately might be The most important geological location In the show I agree with that Go ahead man I also agree that You know he's came a long way Because you remember the first time He met Mansi And he kneels like immediately Immediately almost annoyingly And now he's like I'm not kneeling Like not even to Stannis Not to anybody So that's impressive Right so that's going to be a little Awkward man Yeah very interesting seeing Stannis Just make his way around West Rose and Make his way up to the north Him and John on the same screens A little interesting Absolutely And then we had something very Interesting going on One of my favorite characters in the show One of the most interesting Is the story of Daenerys Targaryen If there's a statement out there About Just be careful What you wish for I guess Maybe this scene Encaptuated it Where the guy was saying that Ultimately like he's old man And he's just sort of set in his ways Like you know he rose with the sun And went to sleep with the moon So he's just saying That's how he's always been And the younger generation Are enjoying their newfound Liberation if you will And freedom but He said it's old And you know it's just really Interesting guys Because just I don't know Maybe it's just the way I think But I mentioned it in the show My whole thing with With Dany is she's coming in And everything she's doing Is just so righteous And it just seems so right But obviously reality is very gray And it's hard And she's ultimately coming in And she's saying like I'm going to grant you freedom As long as you bow to me Write yourself the answer to me then Right right So she's not really offering freedom She's lying You're free to everyone but me And I understand that she says Well if you know You're free to go But in this society There's free people And then there's slaves So the slaves who decide not to fight I don't really know Where they're supposed to go What they're supposed to do She's obviously trying to set up Some type of government Right She's trying to set up a government And she's trying to rule over these places And that's what she's struggling with But as you know man Government run things aren't good Like if you think government run things are good Then you just live in a really nice place I guess But typically when I go somewhere Government run It moves extremely slow No one's in a hurry No one cares No one feels like they can get fired No one They treat you like you're a number 100% And he said that's what it's like man She's setting up this little shadow government In her place To try to help things run And ultimately the people on the ground Are just exploiting it And it's just different And it's one of those things man Like I just don't think that She understood exactly Like what she was getting herself into When she decided to play this game Right But she I mean just like everyone else She's just trying to figure it out Yeah there's It's just that everything's already set in Westro So it's almost like not that interesting But over here it's like They have an opportunity to reshape culture And the foundation of civilization And it can go in so many ways And like I get that she's free in people But She just has to put out a few fires Like there's gonna be lots of fires When you do something So like when you switch something on its head Yeah You're gonna have to deal with a lot of backlash Because of things you probably didn't think about Like this for example Well ultimately like You know say we're just doing fine over here But you know Maybe we're not doing as fine as we think Or maybe someone thinks We're not doing as good as we think we're doing And someone comes along And forces us to fight And then ultimately like You lose everyone in your family Right, your house is destroyed everything You know we helped you It's like in a way you kind of disrupted Like my entire existence My gang and my gang is completely destroyed I really like her character I think that she had a very big character development moment I think that Did she lock the dragons up Well I sort of feel like You know man maybe like If I'm writing this show If I'm writing Daenerys' character And realize like Okay maybe she's coming across in a certain type of way Like I might go and try to refix that And I feel like by her locking the dragons up Like you're saying that really shows that like She's understanding that like It's just It's bigger than her vision sometimes You know Right Maybe like you know She thinks that she's ultimately like The most self-righteous But even though she's doing the right thing She's causing a lot of pain And a lot of displacement And that was big for her character To actually take the courage to lock up Something that means so much to her I'm just proud because it seems like She's really listening It seems like she's actually willing to go in And listen to people when they come forth And that's what you need in a leader At the end of the day And she sits there through it And she doesn't seem to shy away from it She doesn't seem to deny it And she It looks like she learned a lesson But ultimately I don't see How she can just lock her dragons up forever You know what I'm saying And one of them's missing And so that's bound Something's bound to happen with that I hope she doesn't have to make a really big decision By like killing it or something I think she should lock the dragons up Forever and throw away the key But that's because I'm a third party observer But if you're Daenerys You're not going to do that And I understand that So Well I'm thinking from Daenerys' perspective Absolutely yeah Yeah yeah yeah Me Yeah I think that was big for Maureen honestly Absolutely And then obviously Jon Snow did something so strange She went north Buried Ygritte in the north And it's like I appreciate the sentiment And it really just goes to show The heart of Jon Snow I don't think You know that's And that's something that Really goes along with Daenerys with me Like Jon's sitting here And he's like taking that girl north and stuff But it's like The show didn't really address it And maybe it won't But I'm sitting here feeling like Dude like She just infiltrated your Your base And she killed your brothers And I understand that it's You know it's Complicated but Just in terms of like What you're representing to your To your brothers Like you can't do that Like did no one notice Say he took one of the enemy's corpses North to give it like a proper burial It's kind of weird right I don't know But I feel like his brothers are so much Brothers that they understand His feelings for Ygritte Yeah I mean that's easy to say I mean you heard Sam You heard Sam at the top He was like How was it Blah blah blah Like they all know But at the same time man When you're part of the team No matter how much you love someone Like when a bunch of dudes Get together man Like either one guy's the alpha And everyone falls in line Or no one's the alpha And the minute someone starts bucking Like people put him in their place Potentially so So that was very interesting to me The show didn't really address that But he went north Which I was glad to see You know I think he did right Byar I understand the complicated situation Really sad that Bran Bran got north Finally Finally met the three-eyed Raven The dude he was with Ended up passing away Giving his life for it And apparently he knew He was gonna die the whole time So When he was stabbing him babe Did he not look calm Yeah I mean it was kind of like He knew it was coming So he was just like Wanted Bran to get where he needed to go And the children looked weird The children were scary They had all these magical powers Which like You know we've seen magical powers A bunch of places But this one was different This one was Yeah it was a little goofy to me guys I ain't gonna lie And then just throwing them fireballs I was good on that Right Like that one was a little different Maybe we'll find out more about that We probably have to go watch the history I really really really really really really Let me say that eight times Appreciate the realism of this show So I mean when You know what I'm saying When Mario runs up and catches a flower It's like Shooting the little fireballs out of his hand I didn't really expect that I guess I didn't expect you to start doing that That's one little minute That's one little moment in this whole show But it was a good It was a good thing Because I feel like A lot of that to me And I'm thinking about Bran's character a lot Bran's character He doesn't need to walk He has that ability to just like Work into things that are helping him And when he said he could fly That reminded me of That guy working the eagle So I'm thinking maybe Bran is going to be able to work Something that can fly It seems like if he could If he couldn't work an eagle Then what business does he have working Hodor? You could be right about the dragons though Yeah that was my grand theory Yeah I think Bran's Because Because he said you'll fly I think I'm my ultimate theory guys I think ultimately Bran is going to work the dragon And the dragon is going to be used to burn all the white walkers And in the war Yeah hopefully Or whatever the case might be That'd be dope That's my prediction so far Yeah that part was crazy man Which RIP to Jojen Reed Appreciate you Who's Jojen Reed Jojen Reed's the one that let this The height he had the sight Oh that boy right there Yeah Peter Bran Well I thought he played Peter Pan on a TV show that I watched Back in the day but it turns out It wasn't Hamo's It was fully My favorite part of the episode guys Let me take that back It wasn't my favorite part of the episode It was just up there with all of them Arya Stark in the Hound We discussed it We paused it in the episode Right What do you think? Did she want him to suffer Or was she sparing him? Tell us what you guys think Because what I personally think Is it was a little bit of all of it Like I think she Not only looked at it Because you know he just Did all that fighting for her Like he was literally Yeah he just was like nah Like you're not coming up here She's lost everybody You're not just gonna come up here and take her Yeah And so she did that because He did that because she just wasn't sure Because the Lannisters have a bounty for his head So he just wasn't gonna play with that Well yeah it seems like The Hound definitely I mean dude everyone can see That the whole vibe of them is a father and a daughter Right so everyone's getting that vibe It's an unorthodox version of it But yes And maybe that's part of why like I'm really starting to like Aria's character Because I'm seeing her Reluctantly take on the role of like Maybe not the most willing but a daughter Even though she doesn't like She's not begging for it But it's cute man It's good to see It's complicated guys It's very dark in a lot of ways But you gotta look really good in this show And I think that's a really Cute sentiment And then ultimately The shocker The shocker so far Other than 2Bs dying Well damn there's been so many Ned dying 2Bs dying And then this right here was a good third You missed 6 You missed about 6 moments at least Yeah it was just crazy Oh I know I miss moments But I'm talking about like these shocker of deaths I was not expecting Tywin to die ever You know what man One of my like And I'm not gonna give too much away But you asked me like In a previous episode I think the last one like What was one of my favorite moments Even when the Hound Aria's like He's like they'll be dead by once And she's like you don't know it And he's like I do know it Just like the way he just like Just his dialect in that scene Like the way he It's the things like that And then sure for me Hey that scene though that you said Remember He took his gold and he said Dead man doesn't need gold I feel like Aria kind of did that to him When she took it Yeah like I was kind of like They didn't go man That was kind of like a re Like I felt like that was kind of like The same scene but opposite But like I said man The shocker of the episode As it turns out Shea was ultimately Now we're not really sure 100% how Shea We knew she was escaping I don't know how long She's been involved in that It could have been a long time Or it could have been She went to the tower And he just like Used her I don't know Remember Well someone said in the comments Like what do you think they would have done to Shea If she would have said anything else on trial Because the thing is Is like she escaped But you know like You know man I just didn't get the vibe in that trial That she did that reluctantly Like it really seemed like to me that In that situation Like Tyrion's cars ran out And she hopped ship And she just You know like when someone Does you wrong man They can either walk up to you And they can like reluctantly Do you wrong and feel shame Or they can just pretend That they didn't do anything wrong To begin with And she just sort of seems like that Tight to me And I don't necessarily Blame her I mean the world seems very tough Particularly like if you're a female You know Doesn't really seem to be a lot of options So for her She's just doing the same thing So many other people are doing man She's just playing the game But unfortunately When you're a girl You have to do it in a different way Which comes across sleazier But it's not her fault I mean she doesn't have the threat Of brute violence And You get what I'm trying to say Yeah she's just She has to play it different Yeah And to survive You know And she got caught playing the game And it was With the wrong family honestly But it was different Like the way she played the game Was different and hurtful So much different in a way And this seemed Tyrion was just heartbroken man And I don't know exactly What was going through his mind But he did make the statement I loved her And he was still so hurt That when Tywin would call her Basically bro Like every time he would do that He would He would cringe on the inside And get mad at him And I think What really Could have hurt Tyrion was the fact that like You're sitting there Proclaiming her to be a whore Through your own mouth So that's all she is to you You knew what she was to me But she matters a lot to me And you still Knew that That particular line of work Is literally a dime of dozen You know what I'm saying And you still chose to do it And then he And then he played it Off like He didn't really know It was like Who Shay Who's that Like oh oh So disrespectful What I really And I'm so sorry That I'm talking so much babe I just have a lot of thoughts guys That's okay One more thing I wanted to mention I'd be remiss if I didn't Mention it is Did you notice when When Tyrion walked in there And Tywin was on the toilet Did you see how Tywin Stayed calm To control the situation Like do you say Like did you see how He was making it basically seem like The idea that I'm sitting here on the toilet We're having this Discussion is very There's no dignity in it And Tywin has Tywin just completely Sold that whole logical reason Down the toilet When he caught Shay in his bed That was crazy guys That was just one of the coolest things It's You remember you said He's gonna go out in the coldest way Because he's so Tywin I don't know if that was the coldest way But it was good to see Tyrion do it I don't like the deaths in the show They hurt my feelings a lot But this one was like Does he see Tyrion after that trial Finally get the revenge he needed Like oh my gosh Like But the thing is he lost like You know the love of his life That sucks but And you know something that You guys might appreciate is I just had the thought before I've completely forgotten Never mentioned it Tywin just died Okay Right before his death He spent his Final moments of his life Basically Almost almost like When you figure out something terrible So you go into the bottle He went into The bed Which is something he really hates Right He had to face the fact that His legacy was alive I forgot about that yeah His whole His whole heritage His whole lineage of Proud kings You know They're gonna remember Like Oh yes My grandson is a king I'm so proud It's so noble But the reality is Is yeah Your grandson's a king And that's great And it sounds good on paper But the reality is It's Joffrey And he sucks And it's like It's too bad that like You're in this position That so many men in this society Would kill to be in But it's just not Quite what it's cracked up to be Because of so many Underline issues And you know There's something And I've said it from the beginning man Like your kids don't come out That screwed up dude Unless You're a little screwed up yourself In their universe It comes out of the form of incest Like Yeah Yeah so I think that I don't know if Joffrey was a little bit of that And a little bit of like You know He's just a little cuckoo But it seems like the The newer ones Okay But now he has no hand So I don't know who's gonna be the hand now It better not be Cersei I swear to God I didn't even think about the pull I mean Obviously the thought occurred to me right babe Not only is there a complete vacuum of leadership In the north There's not a vacuum of winnership In terms of the north Like Winterfell But there's a vacuum of good leadership there There's a vacuum of leadership In King's Landing now babe Like Tyrell's are about to take over The Tyrell's They're about to take over That's Okay Tyrell's the only thing in between them Cause Tyrell's remember The only reason Cersei was marrying Loris was for like money Well now Cersei doesn't have to do that Cause Tyrell's not gonna make her That's right Didn't even think about that Oh wow So this is about to switch so much On different ways So Cersei's gonna look at her little brother As the man who killed her mother Killed her father and killed her son And ultimately killed their legacy Killed their home More people were probably gonna die in the future Like the Lannister house Was like so up here at the beginning of the season Now it's like And you know why all fell apart For a lot of reasons But one of the biggest reasons I know you guys just don't want to hear it But it's cause Jamie was banging his sister bro I hate to say it A lot of it also is cause it's Tywin Well they went into war Well yeah but that whole situation up there Ultimately got them in a war You know what I'm saying Even if it was Littlefingers doing They played right into it Got them in a war That war exposed It exposed that family And had that war never came They'd still be sitting there All pretending it was all okay Right But at the end of the day though When you think about it And I'm not saying what Jamie did was right Cause that sucks and it's not good But for Bran it opened up a new power That Bran never had So in the end of the day It's made Bran like a more valuable person Sometimes you beat people in the head And they wake up from a coma And realize they can do math At the blink of an eye But they still probably wish You didn't beat them upside the head Right Yeah man Crazy episode One of the best One of the best One of the best episodes in TV movies I've genuinely ever seen I wrote something down right here though babe So good Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt you No please I wrote something down right here Because like I didn't know Like this hasn't been addressed in two episodes But like when Arya was laughing at the eerie And nothing happened What's going on there Like what do you think Why didn't they show it Where's Littlefinger What happened to that The mom that I mean she fell obviously But like what's going on with that Arya and And them couldn't even get there Yeah it seems like they Did they turn around Did they I don't know Are they guests And they're just out on a walk You know what I'm saying They didn't really understand Yeah I don't know They didn't say anything about it So That's like the biggest mystery I have leaving Leading into season five Other than Arya Going to Braavos And also like Stannis Like all of that is a big question So like Do you have any theories on it Or anything you want to share You don't No Why I just don't I don't know where it's going You want me to think about Melisandre and nothing None None I don't Guys I don't know I don't know You just don't know All I know is Dude Because this show doesn't tell me Dude It's sitting there telling me that Like Why dude we're not putting puzzles together We're breaking them apart right now Okay at the top of your head Tell me what When Daenerys finds that dragon What's it gonna be doing Drag racing with his friends I don't know dude What do dragons do When they sneak away Exactly I don't know Well that's what Eating forbidden sheep That's what I wanted to know I don't know Well I don't know I don't know We're gonna find that thing That thing might just But how can you not find that thing A dragon Yeah Oh my god I know I put a tracker on that dragon The only prediction that I That I That I can really think To be honest like Maybe I'm just kind of dumb guys But the only thing I can really piece together And see is I just don't think Jon's gonna be rocking one Melisandre And I think that Oh he's gonna see Stannis like bowing to that Jon's gonna make an enemy of Stannis Or Jon is gonna Yeah I don't know Yeah I never I never thought about how that This episode So much happened And then I'm gonna say that out of Every episode we've seen in this show This one might have had the most information in it Right And impact Because everything's gonna change Exactly Like next season I won't be surprised if there's a new map Like what the heck's gonna happen You know Like oh my goodness Then like How's Tommen gonna do Like we don't even know There's been no talk about Tommen even Like seeing how he handles like situations Or It seems like everyone in the In the realm is kind of distracted right now So Luckily for Tommen He's got a very easy introduction Introductionary period Because It just doesn't seem like a lot's going on Right now But he was kind of like following Tywin's lead So now I don't know what's gonna happen with him Yeah You're right about that Yeah You're saying like Who's gonna be the ones Maybe Maybe Jamie will have to step up Because When I think of Tywin I think of someone who like Has been doing this for so long That you're the only person keeping that standard That because you've been around So you're family matters So you marry matters All this stuff matters But now that Tywin's gone It could go anywhere you know It does seem like a lot of like It seemed like if it was up to Cersei And Jamie per se They would make a lot A lot A lot of selfish decisions That were self serving short term Like you can like Tywin was going to make hard decisions Like you can be a Kingsguard You can be a Kingsguard But let's say you meet the right woman You can retire if you want Like that's what I feel like it could be Or if you want to marry your sister Okay that's fine Or what would be even worse It's not like those new standards Would apply to everyone Maybe they would just apply to the core family Which ultimately would like Lower the respect for them But you see what I'm saying about Tywin He was kind of like the Just the glue Yeah the glue to everything So like He even knew that he wasn't The Lannisters didn't have money anymore So he got the Tyrells involved Like who's gonna make these decisions Now Tyrion's not there I don't know But you know what guys I hate to see him go But it was so fun to watch him leave So guys it's been the October's man Like, comment, subscribe Hit us up on Patreon if you guys want more content like this And I'm just gonna repeat myself one more time man Thank you guys so much for 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The Honourable Victor Colade Akejo. The Honourable Minister of Industry, Trade, and Investment, Otumbah Diniya Dibayo. The Honourable Minister of Health, Dr. Osage Ehaniri. The Director General, Bureau of Public Enterprises, and Secretary of National Council on Privatization, Mr. Alex Oko. The Chairman of the Technical Committee of the National Council on Privatization, Malam Muhammad Kabeer Ahmad. Chairman of the Legal Committee of the National Council on Privatization, Mr. Yomi Okunu. Vice Chairman of the Technical Committee of the National Council on Privatization, Dr. Ayo Teriba. And other members of the National Council on Privatization present. Honoured guests, participants, ladies and gentlemen, it's a great pleasure to join the Director General in welcoming you all to this retreat of the National Council on Privatization for a comprehensive review of the proposed amendments to the Public Enterprises Privatization and Commercialization Act of 1999. 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But there is a large pool of investable funds from both local and international investors for the development and maintenance of infrastructure. But these are only accessible, whether it's a business case, to be made for developing public infrastructure. So for both institutional and individual investors, there is far more comfort with lending, where or with lending or with equity participation, where a private sector entity partners with the public authority owner of the infrastructure. This way, the public partner can play its natural role of regulator, leaving business to the private regulation and policy, while business is left to the private sector, whose reason for being in any event is business. So for the investor, PPPs present the best of both worlds. However, we may not be able to fully unlock the potentially huge benefits that are afforded by PPPs due to the absence of a comprehensive PPP framework, setting out institutional responsibilities, which would provide investors with the necessary comfort to commit capital to infrastructure development. In particular, the ambiguity in the roles of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, the ICRC, and the borough of public enterprises, as well as other key stakeholders. This has been a source of concern for investors. So what exactly is the role of the ICRC? What exactly is the role of the BPE? This has now been addressed by policy pronouncement in the form of a circular. This is circular number SGF 50 slash S 37 slash 11 slash 749. And this is a circular that was issued on the 14th of September, 2020. The circular provides the much needed clarity on the institutional roles to be played by agencies of the federal government of Nigeria for PPP purposes. Now, in the light of that circular, the federal government has directed that the borough shall be responsible for the concession of public enterprises and infrastructure already listed in the first and second schedules of the public enterprises, privatization and commercialization act. The borough is also to act on behalf of government as the counterparty on all infrastructure projects being developed on a PPP basis. Consequently, the borough reviewed the provisions of the Public Enterprises, Privatization and Commercialization Act and has proposed amendments to exhaustively articulate the functions and powers of the National Council on Privatization and its Secretariat, which is the borough, in order to implement this additional PPP mandate. Distinguished participants, in view of the overarching objective then, to leverage on the potentially huge benefits or PPP arrangements to attract private sector capital for investment in infrastructure development in Nigeria. This retreat is designed to achieve the following purposes amongst others and the Director General has outlined several of these objectives. But one is to enable members of council to understand and appreciate the need for the proposed amendments to the Public Enterprises, Privatization and Commercialization Act. Two is to provide members with an opportunity to develop an appropriate strategy for stakeholder engagement and support the facilitation of the amendment of the act and the implementation of the federal government's PPP mandate. So these are the broad objectives of this stakeholder's meeting. And I'm positive that this forum will benefit considerably from your vast knowledge and experience. I'd like to urge you all to participate fully in the discussions. And it's now my very special pleasure to formally declare this retreat open. God bless the federal republic of Nigeria.


You're tuned in to the COVID-19 community report here on KDRT 95.7 FM Low Power Radio for Davis, California. I am Autumn Lab-A-Reno and today is Tuesday, May 5th. We are sharing local news and resources focusing on what's impacting Davis and nearby cities in Yolo County during the COVID-19 pandemic. The show airs live at noon on Tuesdays and Fridays and repeats at 5 p.m. both days and at noon on Sundays and you can also listen online anytime at kdrt.org. My guests today are Davis Mayor Brett Lee and Jessica Hubbard, Executive Director of the Yolo Community Foundation. We'll get to our interviews in just a few minutes and this Friday, my guest will be Senator Bill Dodd. It's been an incredibly busy and strange past week. And protesters surged at the Capitol in Sacramento as they did elsewhere in the country trying to force the government to reopen. This week brought us an ill-fated juvenile bear on the loose, reports of a gun-toting man on the green belts of South Davis, and a construction error that took out internet service for much of the town for much of the day yesterday and it's only Tuesday. And the pandemic continues. And apparently there's something in life called a murder wasp and now we need to be afraid of that. There have been many changes to the statewide shelter and place order and that of course will trickle down to all of us in Yolo County. In a press conference yesterday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that some retail stores across the state can reopen with modifications as early as this Friday, a partial list of stores that can reopen on a pickup-only basis includes bookstores, music stores, toy stores, florist, and sporting goods retailers. There are many types of businesses not included in this release and still others scheduled for a much later Stage 3 or Stage 4 reopening and Newsom's office said it would release more details later this week. The governor's plan also expands decision-making at the local level, allowing some communities to move ahead with the reopening process at their own pace. Counties must first submit containment plans that outline their ability to meet certain requirements for medical equipment, hospital beds, testing kits, and the ability to implement contact tracing. There's a lot more to this order. See covid19.ca.gov for more information. This is a reminder that Yolo County's shelter in place remains, order remains in place until May 31st and until further notice, generally that happens as a result of the state changing its order. Face coverings are recovered while conducting all types of business in Yolo County. New at Yolo County.org, click on the roadmap to recovery link. That is where, since April 24th and forward, they're storing all their current covid19 related information from public health. All right, there are two significant days of philanthropic giving this week. Thursday is giving Tuesday and that's scheduled at an unusual time. We'll hear more about that later. Thursday is our important annual regional big day of giving or big dog. The need across nonprofit sectors is intense right now and I think this week expresses that. I do want to take a moment to advocate and ask for support for this nonprofit in particular. I sit here every week highlighting a diversity of community voices is, it's what we do. Thank you to the show. Thanks to the combined work of Davis Media Access and KDRT. That's community media supporting volunteer fueled radio. Low power, big impact, especially in this time of physical distancing. Donations to Davis Media Access on the big day of giving directly support KDRT. And folks, I am one among many voices here. Check the schedule at KDRT.org or visit Davis Media Access on YouTube. And that's where the Yolo County Community Diary Project videos are starting to filter in. Over the last few weeks, we changed up everything we do to make new things and facilitate new ways of connecting and expressing ourselves. However you are able to support, I thank you. Let's take a break from music and we will get to our first interview in just a minute. He was first elected to the Davis City Council in 2012 and reelected in 2016 becoming mayor in July 2018. With us again today is Brett Lee. Welcome to you Brett. Hi Adam. Glad to be back. Yeah. How are you doing? Yeah. Okay. Good. We spoke very briefly back on April 10th and I'm pretty certain April had 49 days this year. But here we are again in early May. There is a council meeting tonight and I know it's focused on the budget. I'm pretty certain it's not going to be pretty because the COVID-19 impact just isn't. What can you tell us about tonight's meeting? Yeah. So we're kind of talking about a couple things, big, big, fairly important things. One is Measure J.R. Renewal. We have a couple months before we need to officially place that on the ballot. But we wanted to start discussions early. I think that's one thing that's important to do when possible to have a fairly long sort of runway on these types of things. And then the other thing which our fiscal year starts July and we need to talk about the budget. And as a lot of California cities and sort of counties are discovering there is going to be a lot less revenue coming in than was originally forecasted. So Davis isn't as sales tax reliant as some communities, but it is an important component of our budget. So we're going to get the latest update on what sort of shortfall we think we're going to see. And then importantly, there's an aspect of forecasting. So depending on who you talk to, some people talk about sort of a V recovery, sort of a dip down, hit the bottom and bounce right back up, kind of like the shape of a Z. Most people are not expecting it to be like that.  What is a little alarming is some people are talking about an L-shaped recovery, which is you basically hit the bottom and then you just sort of drift along the bottom for a while, sort of in the shape of an L. So tonight we'll get an update on the actual numbers to date in terms of the impacts we're seeing and then discuss some plausible scenarios and what magnitude of changes we'll have to make to the budget. Right. And it's not just, obviously you have to pay attention to the fiscal year that's coming up starting July 1st, but my understanding is not just going to impact cities and counties for the next year, we're looking at several years and we're looking at some pretty serious structural deficits. Potentially. We were already underpaying towards our maintenance of infrastructure, so roads, bike paths, things of that nature. So we were looking to close that revenue gap. People have various estimates, but if we think about that gap as being previously roughly about $8 million a year, that gives you a sense of the magnitude that we're talking about in terms of additional money we were looking to find from other sources. And by other sources, I mean we're a couple hotels are under construction and they're soon to open and those would have brought in about a million dollars, cannabis, depending on your view, better or for better or worse. We originally thought it would bring about $500,000 of revenue to the city. It looks like more like a million dollars. So that gives you a sense of the magnitude of the challenge, but also the magnitude of possible additional funding that we might have seen had the world remained relatively normal. But now with COVID-19 and all the businesses being shut down, depending on how long the recovery is, you're right, it could be a multi-year process to get back to where we were. And so that has implications for the city's budget. As of now, I think Davis is not facing as large a challenge as some of the other communities in our region, but having said that, there will be challenges and I also don't want to take away from the individuals where we have sort of this, I would say in our community it's perhaps a little more pronounced. We have some folks who, their jobs and everything have been fine. They work from home but get the same amount of pay, but we've had others who have seen their income go to zero, where they've lost their jobs or been furloughed, or we have small business owners who are now starting on the second month of absolutely no income coming in. And so we see sort of the challenges that our community face. It's a little uneven in terms of at the individual level. I would say at the city governance level, there's definitely going to be a shortfall and we'll have to adapt and tonight will be a good opportunity to think about how we make some changes and the magnitude of those changes in relation to the challenge we face. What we don't want to do is overreact, but at the same time, we need to get a little bit in front of it rather than you look in your pocket and there's no money to buy the essentials. So we've got to make sure that the essentials continue to function and we need to have police, fire, water needs to run, sewage needs to work, all the sort of basic things. We need to be able to repair dangerous situations with the roads and stuff like that. So we need to protect absolutely those fundamental services and then we have to figure out, okay, how do we do cost containment? Are we talking about overall across the board reductions in terms of departments? Are we, you know, do we look at specific areas to defer or, you know, various things? I think it will be a good discussion and the important thing is we're starting, I wouldn't say we're starting early, but we're not starting late. Yeah, over the last couple of years, you've been in a lot to appear on one show or another and we've talked a lot about economic development. You mentioned two things at the top of the interview. I want to make sure we circle back to one was formerly Measure J, now Measure R coming up for renewal. So let's talk about that, what that means. And then I also wanted to touch briefly on what's now being called the Aggie Research Campus because the EIR feasibility study came out for that last week. So first measure R, let's talk about what that means. Yeah, so for your listeners, Measure J, J slash R, J was original, R was the renewal of Measure J. So in summary, in a nutshell, if the city wants to grow outside of its existing borders, and when I say grow, grow in terms of some sort of development, it triggers a community-wide vote. So the community gets to vote on whether they want that or don't want that. And there has to be kind of specifics around the proposal. So the first one was Covel Village, which the community voted against. The next one was Wild Horse Ranch, which the community voted against. There was Nishi One, the community voted against, Nishi Two, the community voted for, and then just recently, West Davis Act of Adult, the community voted for. But this Measure J, our ability as community members to vote on peripheral growth will end December 31st unless it's renewed. And so the city council is talking about putting it up for renewal to add another 10 years to this ability of us to vote on things like that. Right, right. So this will be its second vote for renewal, and yeah, the last time it was approved was 10 years ago. And of course, that has direct bearing on our ability to vote for things like the Aggie Research Campus. And as I've read materials from the city, I mean, I know any time a development comes up, there's concern from open habitat groups and environmental protection groups and all of that. But I know that the ability to vote for projects like that will actually bring significant money into the city's coffers. Yes. Potentially. It's not only from the city's perspective in terms of money to the city in terms of taxes, you know, revenues like that. It's also potentially for local businesses, you know, more customers, things like that. Sure. And also, you know, there's the ability of companies that are expanding and need additional space, a place for them to locate to. The flip side is, you know, Davis is a nice place, and people understandably are concerned about peripheral growth, what that does to the quality of life for the people who are already here. Right. And I think it's a balancing act, and we've seen with, you know, a couple of the yes votes and a couple of the no votes, that people do understand that there's some nuance there, that it's not, you know, all growth is bad or all growth is good. And I think, unfortunately, maybe in the not too distant past, we kind of, it kind of split along those lines. And now I think it's more of a, well, let's see the details. Let's see whether this actually is an overall net benefit or a net negative for the community. So it's not on the ballot at this point. It still has lots of steps to go through before we figure out at the council level whether to put it on the ballot or not. There's several more commissions to go, that needs to go before. But at this point, it is not on the ballot for November. And they're still, I would describe it as fine tuning their proposal to provide more detail and make it a little more tangible. Okay. So, you know, it'll be an interesting discussion. Yeah, I look forward to hearing more about that. And because you mentioned commissions in our last couple of minutes, I want to talk about what it's taken to run the city during this time of COVID-19, like everyone else, you're working remotely, you're holding meetings remotely, and we know that, you know, that didn't get off to a great start, but it seems to have evened out with Zoom and a process there. Have city commissions been able to continue, you know, meetings, how is that all working? Yeah, I would say it's going well. I've been, I've had two full open space and habitat commission meetings. I'm the liaison to that commission, and that went well. I've been on a social services commission meeting as well. The commissioners have been able to participate fully. People have been able to call in or zoom in and provide public comment. Last night, we had an open space and habitat commission meeting scheduled. There was a quorum, but because of the Comcast outage, it was difficult for some people to participate. So the commission made the decision to postpone the meeting until there could be fuller participation. And so they're likely to reschedule last night's meeting to a future date. But I would say it's actually going pretty well. And I think what's nice about it is for people to make public comment, they can just call in or zoom in rather than in the old days, take a trip to some physical location to wait for the item to come up and then give you a two to three minute comment and then either sit and watch the meeting there or you know, then head on home. We may never go back. Yeah, I think there are some definite advantages to this way of public comment. I believe it makes it easier for people who are busy to be able to provide their input. Well, I want to thank you and the rest of the council for keeping keeping everything going during this time and for stopping by to provide us with a lot of information and some important updates. And I also want to direct people to city of Davis dot org, the city council link there, you can get all the information about calling in or zooming in to the meeting or watching it online. So thank you, Mayor Bradley for taken a few minutes to join us today. We really appreciate it. Well, thank you bottom for having me and also thank you for the community service that you guys are providing, especially during this sort of new, not so normal, normal. You bet. All right, great to talk to you with you. Thanks. Okay, bye. All right, we'll take just a minute for music as we get set up for our next call. Jessica Hubbard is the executive director of the Olo Community Foundation. We spoke some weeks ago when the foundation was involved with coalescing support for nonprofits during this extraordinary time. Welcome back, Jessica. Thank you so much for having me. So let's start with where we are, which is an unusual week with an unusually timed giving Tuesday that falls in the same week as the big day of giving. What's the deal there? So the deal there is that the big day of giving is a local event is for the Sacramento Metro region. It always falls on, I believe it's the first Thursday of May. So that's May seven, and has been in that that's been the case, you know, that's been planned for some time. Yeah, giving Tuesday is typically the Tuesday after Cyber Monday, which I believe is Tuesday after Thanksgiving, right? And it's an international event. So that's not specific to our area. And because of the tremendous need facing nonprofits right now, the international organization decided to add Giving Tuesday now, which just happened to be to take place the same week that our local big day of giving happens to happen as well. Yeah, a little bit of confusion out there. A little bit of confusion, but we can just make the sake of an end of giving. Right, right. The point is that nonprofits are in need. And this is these days are both opportunities to support the things that people care about.  Tell us what's going on there. And I know you want to talk about the donor engagement work, the foundation's doing too. Absolutely. So there's three pillars. As you mentioned, the first is the yellow COVID-19 relief fund. We're in the midst of reviews reviewing proposals. That's for grants that we're making with money that came in from the county and the cities in Yellow County, as well as a few other donors. And those that's a rolling application basis. So if a local nonprofit is listening and is interested in applying, go to yellowcf.org and you can find the application and how to apply. We are also in the midst of a technical assistance program offering training to nonprofits on the issues that they're telling us are particularly pressing right now. So I think we've done four or five. We've got four or five on the schedule over the next couple of weeks and we'll continue to add as we hear from our nonprofits what will be useful. And then the third piece is exactly what we're talking about today, which is donor engagement work. So we know that, you know, the fund will be great. I really am excited about the support we'll be able to give local nonprofits. But this is really tremendous need that's going to be around for a while. And so this isn't something that just a few donors can solve. This is something that needs to engage our community at large. And so we're really working to help our local residents understand the needs created by COVID-19, understand the really inspiring things the nonprofits are doing to address those needs and then come together to each give what we're individually able because they'll add up to a lot. So I've heard comments from people as I talked to people in the community. I had no idea there were so many nonprofits in Yellow County or I had no idea you guys, Davis Media Access, do all the things that you do. And I think that's going to hold true for a lot of donors that they're going to be surprised at the depth of resources and talent here in our local nonprofit community. I think that's a silver lining to all of this. I think that we're really working to help the community see the tremendous work of our local nonprofits. There are 87 nonprofits participating from Yellow County participating in the Day of Giving. And of course, the majority of sort of nonprofits that fundraise and our community serving do participate in the Day of Giving, but not all do. So the answer is the number is bigger than 87. And they do tremendous work. So on our website, we have a section where any local nonprofit can share a brief summary of what they're doing in this crisis. And, you know, when I read through it, as trying as this time is, it makes me feel like we're going to get through it because they are amazing people doing amazing things for our community. Yeah, I'll say it was actually fun to fill out the survey too, because it helped, it helped center me in, OK, what is it we're doing at this time and how are we doing it differently? It didn't take a lot of time. So I'll encourage my fellow nonprofits to, you know, fill that out and check out the foundation website if you haven't done so. Thank you. Already. I am curious, you mentioned the tech assistance assistance. So what kinds of things, what kinds of issues are nonprofits identified that are challenging? So for sure, cash flow management is a challenge right now.  So we had a recent Megan likes is a local CPI who has a national training business did an amazing session for nonprofits about how they can address that. We have been a Sarah Carter, who's a local marketing consultant, talk about how to use the virtual tools at Artisposal to take services and fundraising and sort of stakeholder engagement online as well as operations of the organization. We had several people from the center for rights and also from the county talk about how nonprofit employers can support their employees and connect their employees to resources and make sure that they're making decisions with their employees benefits and needs in mind. And that's just a few.  Oh, we have one of fundraising in terms of crisis. All these are reported on our website too. Actually, the best way to do the recordings is YOLO nonprofits.org, which is a partnership between us, the Impact Foundry and the YOLO County Library System.  We've got one on board engagement in times of crisis, one on strategic planning and crisis, so we're excited. As soon as we can stop having, you know, internet go down. Right, right, right. But that aside, we're really excited about the training. I know the partnership between the foundation and the library and the Impact Foundry is great. I've gotten a lot out of the webinars and the sessions I've attended, so thank you for that work. I feel like we should also give a shout out here to the YOLO County Board of Supervisors for, you know, for really beginning to identify this issue and kick off this this fund and working with with the foundation. So, absolutely. That's where this started. They came to us. Yeah. And they, so they were the ones who initiated this process and they sent you the $250,000 to the fund. So, right, there have been really critical and core to this process. Right, and the individual cities who are supporting and some of the local big businesses that I know you're hoping will will come on in and join this. So, all right, well thank you for your work. Thanks for coming back to update us too. I have a quick plug. You bet. Bigdayofgiving.org. So, it's very easy to give. There's 87 local nonprofits. You can give any time between now and Thursday night. So, just www.bigdayofgiving.org. Right. Thanks for that. All right, take care. Bye. Well, thanks for tuning in to another episode of the COVID-19 Community Report. I will be back on Friday with Senator Bill Dodd. And as I read out all that information from the state of California, I'm looking forward to getting his take on some of that. From the KDRT Studio, I'm Autumn Labirino, and this has been the COVID-19 Community Report.


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