Welcome to Ask the Crossroads. I am your host, Tisha King. Thank you for joining me today where we have conversations that are real and relevant. Today is no different. I'm very, very excited about our topic today. During this wonderful holiday season as we jump off with Thanksgiving coming up just this week, 2019, how exciting it is to give thanks. Today we have with us someone who knows all about giving and we're going to talk to her in just a minute, but we're tying it in with our homeless situation right here in Honolulu, Hawaii. As of January 2018, Hawaii had an estimated 6,500 homeless people. So we are talking about nearly 10,000 who are houseless. Some are the working poor, some have mental health issues, but all have needs. And today's guest helps to meet those needs in a very practical way. And it just so happens that this month is the month when most of us think about giving and giving to others as well as our friends and family. Well, today we're going to talk to the co-founder of It Takes a Village, Carol Reynolds. So join me in welcoming Ms. Carol Reynolds. Aloha. Aloha, honey. It's so good to see you today. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for being here. Thank you. It is an opportunity for us to share some of what you're doing with It Takes a Village. So why don't you tell us how did you get started with this organization of yours? So, actually, we started off as a mentorship program. In 2000, we brought it back to Hawaii in 2011. But before that, in 2000, my husband and I were stationed, he was stationed in Maryland. And I was teaching at elementary school, at a grade school, middle school. And some of the children asked for help. They said, we need a step team. We need an after-school program or something like that. So six children came to my classroom and I figured, well, sure, I could do that. In Maryland. In Maryland. So you started an after-school program in Maryland to help students who saw it. Students who saw you out. They came to me. Actually, they wanted to start a step team. Okay. And they didn't have one at their middle school. And I said, I don't know how to step, but I will find someone who can. Now, we should mention that for our viewers who may not know, a step team is what, exactly? It is actually the tradition of most of the Greek fraternities and sororities. It is older than that, of course. It's an African tradition of sharing dance and telling stories in the African American culture. Okay. And the colleges had, you know, adapted that program or that style of dancing and performing and showcasing their talents. And that's what, and they have competitions, you know, in schools and things like that. So middle school children wanted to be a part of that. They wanted to learn that. So I reached out to a couple of the sororities and fraternities. And I thought it was just going to be six children. Okay. 100 children showed up. Now, stop right there. You started with the idea of six children. Six children. Just going to learn to step. I can do some, you know, school events, do some after school or at lunchtime when they have the little things doing on. 100 children showed up. And I'm like, well, how are we going to manage 100 children? I reached out again to our Masonic family. My husband was a Mason and we reached out to the family. And it was also an African American Heritage Committee group on the base of Fort Meade. Okay. Fort Meade in Maryland. And they jumped in to help. They said, well, sure, we'll help. Well, of those 100 children, of course, the principal had his specific idea of who should be able to step and what the criteria were going to be. And of course it was, if you have good grades, you can step. But I didn't like that because the children who didn't have good grades needed the confidence boosters. They needed someone to believe that they can do something. So I said, no, we will keep them all. If they do not keep their grades up, then they'll be cut from the team. Sounds good. Well, some of the children realized after stepping was hard. So they said, Miss Carol, can we have a choir? Huh. So we created a choir. Amazing. One of the young fellas said to me, he says, my brother is a black belt. Can I start a karate team? And I'm like, well, sure. So we went to a local dojo. Dojo? We went to a local dojo and he donated the clothing and we started a karate team. Wow. We had, then of course, as an academic, as a teacher, I said, look, we have to have some sort of after-school lesson. You must be learning something else. So we had math club, we had English club, and of course we were in the heart of culture. Yes. So they had to be a history, an African-American history club or group. And we were able to take the children to the monument. We took them to the African museum. Oh, wow. Some of them were the first time they'd ever been on a train. And so the program grew from there. I had lots of support, lots of help. But we were active duty. So that means we were leaving soon. Oh, my. And I left it in charge of a few people. But those children eventually went on to high school and it wasn't well supported after that. So it lasted for about five years. It's still really good. We were actually even awarded the Martin Luther King Drum Major Award in Maryland. Wonderful. I got some city-sized stations and, you know, awards and things like that. So when we came to Hawaii, I met with some other women who were doing these luncheons in Women's History Month. I went to a luncheon. Now, what year did you arrive here? We got here, I want to say, in 2004. Okay. So 2004, you were here? 2004. We got to Hawaii. My husband got stationed here. Okay. That was the second time. We were here in the 1990s. Oh, goodness. So your history with Hawaii runs very deep. Very deep. I love it. Actually, in the 1990s, I have a title here. Oh, what is your title? I am Mrs. Nubian Hawaii. 1996. Nubian Hawaii. Yes. Guys, you heard it here first. We have Mrs. Nubian Hawaii from 1996. Yes, ma'am. The beautiful Miss Carol Reynolds. Who knew? Oh, my goodness. So we came back the second time around. Of course, I love community involvement. So I wanted to get back into doing something for the community. So at this particular event, I realized there were only active duty young women. If it's a luncheon about educating women about, you know, history of women, we have to reach back. Yes. We and I can't keep telling the same story to each other. We have to reach somebody else. That's right. So I said, well, where are the young people? Who are you talking to? Who are you inviting? I said, well, what do you want to do? I said, we need to reach the high schooler. Okay. We need to do something there. And so I said, well, let's have a pageant. Okay. So we created the empowerment women's pageant in the month of March to celebrate women's history month. Yeah. And we did that for five years. Okay. We graduated about 25 women total over those five years. I mean, everybody came through the winners and some of the students stayed with us. Yeah. And I just wanted to tell you about in Maryland, I followed, we kept 35 children of that program, stayed with us as part of our mentorship program. I see. So you had a mentorship program in Maryland for approximately five years. And during that time, you were able to graduate about 35 children. All the way through college. All the way through college. Starting in middle school. Starting in eighth grade. Wow. That's a beautiful thing. Yes. And Facebook allowed us to keep in touch. Amazing. And because before that it was Yahoo. Yeah. We're really dating ourselves now. We really are. And the writing letters. Yahoo and Myspace, yeah. And I didn't even have, so a lot of them were handwritten letters, you know, all the handwritten notes. Handwritten notes. So this was some of the, you know, I sent home to the parents. Oh, my goodness. All my permission slips and things like that. We had to handwrite them out on photocopies. Oh, wow. But they stayed in touch with you. They stayed in touch with me. And sent letters and mail and e-mail. To keep in touch with them, you know. And that's how you know 35 students who were in your program went all the way to and through college. Right. That's a feat in and of itself. I tell you, it was amazing. Yeah. So we came here, we did the pageants here and one of my truths is that I started the program here because my daughter was going into middle school. I was, I taught middle school in Maryland. Yeah. I knew the environment. Yes. I needed to make sure that the people she had around her were the people I approved of. Exactly. I want to tell you, I teach middle school currently and when my children were in middle school, I'll say my first born, I would ask her every day if she'd lost her mind. I just don't know. I think it's a true thing. Things happen in middle school. Their hormones change. They have a little bit more independence. And so you kind of need to participate in their life very closely. It sounds like you've done. So let's fast forward. So you got involved here in Hawaii approximately 2004 and you started this program and an effort to stay involved with your own children, but also to help a greater part of the community. A greater part of it. Okay. And so my daughter graduated and I decided I did what I was supposed to do. And you're done. That's it. No more. No more. I'm just going to go back to teaching. I was teaching third grade. Decided to know. And then I got invited to a senior center for Christmas celebration. Okay. And they kept asking for things. Oh, can we have a pamper day? Can you come back and do this? Can you come back and do that? And I was like, well, sure. And at the senior center, someone said, are we going to feed the homeless? Would you like to help? Help. Okay. And I met a gentleman by the name of Kapua. Kapua. Kapua Tani. He is the volunteer coordinator at the next health center. And what year was that? That was 2011. Okay. All right. And the rest is history. And the rest is history. Well, it can't be history because that's what you're talking about. But I love how this started in a very organic way where you were back in 2000, whatever, working in Maryland to help in the community and reaching out beyond your own family is something that doesn't seem like it's new to you. I have a few pictures that I want to share. We're going to put up, first of all, your organization, is it a nonprofit organization? It is a community nonprofit organization. And show that again, or it takes a village. Okay. This is a community nonprofit. And it takes a village Hawaii because there are many, it takes a village. So it takes a village Hawaii. Right. Yeah. Now, why is it, why do we distinguish that it's a community nonprofit? Because we are not 501C3. I do not get money from the state. So where do you get your funding? From the beautiful hearts of my volunteers. Beautiful. And right now, the chapel, actually Hickam Chapel at the base, they are one of my, lack of a better word, sponsors. Okay. They have adopted the program as part of our community program in the chapel. I love that. And they sponsor two of the meals every month. All right. So let's take a look at some of the pictures of some of your sponsor or some of your volunteers. Yes. And we'll see this group of wonderful people. They look like they're having a good time. We had a blast right there. That's the young lady in the picture, the one in the back actually. She is the owner of Werner's embroidery here in Hawaii. And she is a wonderful supporter of our program. She donates dishes. If I need something embroidered, she will support. Beautiful. In our next picture, in our next picture, our next group, this group here. Right. And this group are some of the men of the Masonic Lush. That's my husband, Wayne, the back. Okay. And so they had just come from a meeting. See some of them in bow ties and suits and stuff. And they just came right over. They look very formal to serve dinner. In our next picture. Okay. Right. And these are some of my church family and Rotarians also. Also, you're a member of the Rotary. I am a member of the Hickam Pearl Harbor. Rotary. I'm a Rotary member as well. I know. That's wonderful. And our next picture. Okay. And these are one of, this is one of the sororities that always support. Okay. Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority supports. Okay. Wonderful. And is there one more? Oh, look at that large group. Yes. And actually this was denied that my Rotary Club actually sponsored. And we also do toiletry bags every year. I do them every three months. I see. We collect soaps, soaps, soaps, shampoos, and we do. I call it purses with a purpose. Oh, I love it. Yes. So a lot of people have different ways that they give. And when we come back from our break, we're going to talk about how people can get. And then you want to give a special thank you. I do. So wonderful. So you've been watching at the Crossroads where we're having a wonderful discussion with the lovely Carol Reynolds, co-founder of It Takes a Village, Hawaii. She's been doing a great job. And when we come back, we're going to continue right after this. Hawaii Energy. The Hawaii Energy Policy Forum. Hawaiian Electric Company. Integrated Security Technologies. Galen Ho of BAE Systems. Kamehameha Schools. MW Group Limited. The Schindler Family Foundation. The Sydney Stern Memorial Trust. Polo Foundation. Yoriko J. Sugimura. Thanks so much to you all. And welcome back to After Crossroads. I am your host, Keisha King. And today we want to say thanks for giving. And that thank you is coming from Carol Reynolds, co-founder of It Takes a Village, Hawaii. So welcome back, Carol. Thank you. It is such a pleasure to talk with you about your community nonprofit organization and how you all give back to the homeless and you do this by way of feeding them. And people usually sign up. I know that's how it works for me. And how can others get involved? For example, anyone who's watching right now, why don't you look right here at this camera and let them know how they can get involved to support you. Well, we have a Facebook page. It Takes a Village, Hawaii. And you can send me a message. I usually have a calendar of dates that are available that usually I get from the next step shelter as to when a meal is needed. And you have to be willing to prepare, to purchase, to prepare and serve the food. I will usually show up to help you to show you what the ropes are, how things are done, or even some of the volunteers at the shelter. Come out and help. And really, that's it. That's what you need to do. Just be willing. So that's so easy. So go to your website, which is It Takes a Village, Hawaii. VillageHawaii.com.org. No, it's a Facebook page. It's on the website. Okay, perfect. Even better. So go to your Facebook page. It Takes a Village, Hawaii. Send the message and say, I want to help. That's it. I want to help. There are so many different organizations that do so many great things in the community. I've spent this year trying to talk to as many as I possibly could to get the word out to say, this is what's being done in our community and this is how you can help. I wonder, is there a larger network or nonprofit that organizes all the nonprofits to know who's doing what, when, where, and how? Have you heard of anything like that? Actually, a couple of years ago, I actually did work when Governor Abercrombie was in the seat. There is a workforce program that, but I think most of them were 501C3. So they were getting money from the state. So they were accountable to the state for how much money they spend, where they spend it, how much they spend on each plate. I think that was one of the requirements. You had to set it, you know, what you were giving the people and things like that. So if you are a 501C3, you would already kind of know how to do that. If you are not a 501C3, there are many other programs. There is, I think it's called the Vaaloha program. I think her name is Christine. She does wonderful stuff in the community. As far as other organizations that I actually work with, I am a part of the Masonic family here on the island. The Order of the Eastern Stars and the Masons. And as a community, we do a lot of programs also in Hawaii. So they also, they have adopted schools which we donate school supplies to. They do car washes. They even have some of the women in need shelter with their program. We provide baskets for Thanksgiving and Christmas. So, I mean, all you have to do is ask somebody. Everybody can help. As long as your hands are open, you have the opportunity to give and bless someone else. And that's the beautiful thing. It feels so good to give. And I try to express that so often is that when you are giving to others, you feel good, which is not being tipped. It's usually secondary. But you walk away feeling like you were the recipient of the greatest blessing. Yes, yes. My father used to say that you must never pray. You know, people talk to do this to pray, right? He says, but that's a closed hand. How can God give you something if your hands are closed? He said, so pray with your hands open. People can take what they need. Somebody will always give you what you need. I love that. I love that. Thank you so much for sharing that. So now, we heard about the, you just mentioned someone who is sponsoring two meals for you all. Yes, Hickam Chapel. So I know you want to give them a special shout out and thank you. I would love to thank my church family. Hickam Chapel, her name was Chaplain Hugley. She was the first one who said, let's eat the homeless. So let us be a part of that. So I have a total of about 50 volunteers, 50 after volunteers that at any moment, you know, are part of it. They go out and five or six times a month. They help doing something in the community. Collecting clothing or eating the homeless. So I would like to give a special thanks out to my church family. Chaplain mentioned, Chaplain Shawn mentioned. He's loving Chaplain at the Hickam Chapel and really the one who has to sign up and say, yes, you can do this. But then there's Sergeant Rodriguez, there's Adela, there's Miss Donna Moorfield, Chaplain Rowe, the whole family, everyone there specifically. I would love to thank. The volunteers, happy Thanksgiving, not Merry Christmas yet, but happy Thanksgiving to you all. All of the sororities, members of the Lynx, Sandra Sims, and Carolyn, these are just women who just you know, I just have to I just have to wave and they come and support me. The Delta is, Libra is no longer an island, but that's my girl. But all of the sororities, I want to pick anyone out in particular, but all of the sororities, all of the fraternities, all of the Masonic families, you, Kisha, Kisha did a Facebook post and called me out and called out for support. That's what I mean. It called out for support and people showed up. They did. I just love it. I have my women's group, women to women, just everyone, everyone who over the years have a heart. There's one particular woman, she's no longer on the island, but her name is Maxine, called her Mama Maxine. She has the heart, she truly has the heart of a servant and her daughter Alicia now sent her the Lynx so she can share it. They now live in Texas. She has been my driving force. Every time I want to do something, I don't want to do something. I want to do something about it. You will say get up Carol and go do it. Keep moving. That's the thing. I think that it's beautiful people like you and Maxine who have that heart to do for others in a very practical and realistic way meeting their basic needs. Shelter and clothing. I do have one special thank you to the other half Mr. William T. Reynolds III. I couldn't do any of this without him. I was talking to a gentleman outside, and he says, how do you, how are you going to afford to do all of this? I said, I just know what my blessings are. I have two wonderful children, Malika and Gabrielle, who, they were raised this way. And so I love to see them do it in the community and go back out there and give also. And I can call them at any moment. I'm still mama. That's right. But they do it because they want to, not because they have. So I would express special thank you to them. I think that's wonderful. Since you mentioned your daughter earlier, and being closer to her in middle school, probably guided her so that she could make better choices or good choices for friends. But I think also having parents who give in the way that you give and support others in the community also makes a difference in shaping a trial. So thank you. I truly think so. Thank you for your example. Thank you for what you do. Thank you for giving people like myself and others an opportunity to give. I never could have imagined that when I came here, I would get involved in the ways that I have or that I would be accepted in the ways that I have because of getting involved. And I thank you for the group that you have of people around you, all the groups, all the organizations, and just the wonderful influence that you have on the entire island. So it's Thanksgiving. I want to say to you thank you for giving so much. Thank you, my darling. Thank you. And thank you for being here with us today. You've been watching at the Crossroads where we've been having a wonderful conversation with Carol Reynolds. People often talk about the homeless and what they could do and how many programs, and they're getting food for free, or they're getting so much help, but they won't change their lives. It's not really as easy as it seems. It's not easy for you and the way that you live. No matter how wonderful it is, you still have challenges. And those with mental health issues or financial issues, they have challenges too. And it may be just this one kind act of a meal that changes the trajectory of their life. So rather than complain, this Thanksgiving, be sure to give thanks for what you have. And in your own unique way, reach back and give to others. It'll make you feel good. This I know from personal experience. And please remember that you can go on Facebook and reach out to It Takes a Village Hawaii and talk to Carol, send her a message and say, I want to get involved. I want to make a difference in the lives of others. Please do it. It's the holiday season. There's no better time than right now. Thank you so much for watching at the Crossroads. We'll see you next time. Aloha.


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It looks just like this So that's how you will know the number is the box number and then the pack is the pack of that and the auto is the auto of that so So yeah, let's go ahead and Run the random here We'll match up your name with something there and then we will see what you get. Good luck y'all Again, usually the packs have a numbered card sometimes they don't but usually they do yeah, let's do it 96 spots in the randomizer Go 12 12 on it 12 times. Oh boy. Let's go and Scott. Yep doing some Star Wars Names first here we go one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven and twelve Well, he way H down to Alvin s and Then a pack packs and autos here again. Yeah, so you get a number and then you get the pack of the auto of that box One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven and Twelve so auto 19 all the way down to auto 13. I don't think I'm gonna read out every single I don't think I'm read everything out here. Just scroll through 96 is a lot. I'm sorry bull. So yeah, we go. I'm gonna scroll through and Drop the link in chat. So you know what's what I'll give it a few seconds So you can check it out if you want to and then we'll get started, but I will scroll through here a little by little Seems like it goes three down every time. So yeah So you either get the auto or the pack and the number is the box number George should have been yours. Oh Lamouk, you just got to join. This will be fun. I hope you pull a couple monitors in here There's there's some big cards lurking in this stuff big cards lurking in this stuff Rage pulled a super earlier. He only ripped like five case. He pulled a super in the same box in which I had the auto in He pulled the he pulled the base super in the pack. I Was so close to greatness How many names we going through? I don't even know how far ever down we on the list We are magic beating the blazers at half-time good better be the blazers. They don't got dame anymore Clanthony 14 points at halftime Luca have 49 tonight Luca killing it Luca killing it Yes, Higley bocatan does sign in this kitty sack off does have autos Think she's also in the base set to how many more how many how many more names are there? I've been scrolling for a while now 96 is a lot you guys There is no better in this. There is no better for packer auto Some of the biggest cards will be the non-autos in this for sure like a like a low-numbered grogu That at a low number like Mando. That's huge. That's huge And the monster autos are shorter printed like like a Mark Hamill auto is is harder to hit There's a Zach Braff auto earlier that rich pull. We probably pretty cool We got to be almost at the bottom of this list, right? We got to be Keep how many I'm not kept track, but man. Oh man. We are scrolling here. Oh Oh, there it is All right, I'm gonna post that and get you guys a link. I thought she did Let me uh, let me see bring the checklist real quick and then we'll start on Beckett it said she that she wasn't it. No, she only has base. Never mind is the Beckett one wrong I'm gonna look that up here a force Whitaker autos. That's awesome. Huh. No, she's not in this Yep, no Katie sack off in this. Sorry, Higley. All right. Let's go ahead and get started Yeah, where's where there's a big auto to get obviously. All right. Here we go y'all. So again, I'll pull them out leave them face up This will be boxes one three twelve These are here pretty tight. All right. I'm gonna dump it out of the flipping back over Like I said face up So box one box two box three all the way down to six then And then we'll continue that throughout the whole break here Again case two is this one case three is top back fourth is the bottom of the back Let's have some fun Before we get started, let's give flawless filled up guys flawless is right after this right after this we're at 11 to go Just 11 to go So pack one pack one start over the Zory bliss purple Zory bliss 25 to 125 Zory bliss We're starting off hot. We're starting off hot. We got a magenta or a red. Let's carry Russell by the way play Zory bliss Eight of ten eight of ten for pack one is Ray Ray magenta to ten Don't start much better than that that is for certain pack one Michael J Yeah, we'll get that mag mag in the first pack, huh? 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He's definitely one. I think he's one of the guys he choked out. All right. This is pack three by the way imperial royal guard Mace Windu is that it animated? Yes, so the animated series I think are short print right animated short print mace Windu And jinn or so. Yeah, we did hit it. You could like a nicer, you know ray or you know a nicer like magenta Maybe it's tough though. Oh, yeah number dollar here 11 to 50 dark side auto light side auto 11 of 50 for auto number three is neon numb The light side auto Mike Quinn neon numb to 50. He's the one that survives all the way through and gets right up Try to go fader kill somebody Shall double our efforts always that guy.  Vel Sartha. They're nice hit. I like that they have the and or characters in this are a lot of them I know Diego Luna has autos This is I think Felicity Jones sign I think Huge of Felicity Jones is in this all Jenner so stuff. That's pretty well Pack five. We've got Tobias Beckett. What do you harrelson? 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Check it out All right, right tend to go on flawless everybody seven box seven pack seven as Newt Gunray base fantastic fights of Windu and Palpatine and a DJ Vinicio Del Toro DJ Yeah, these released today Next up gonna be auto number seven and it is Valon Hess Richard break is Valon Hess Richard break DJ Vinicio Del Toro Yeah, I've seen you make that face funny at times actually the one he's doing there Number eight here box eight pack eight Ho dameron the green behind it Newt Gunray to 99 Green Newt and Fantastic fights Ray and Palpatine and auto number eight of handmaiden Aguirre Just a refractor out of this time handmaiden Aguirre auto number eight pack nine Boss Nass to 199 refractor Everyone loves boss Nass Blue refractor here 75 Chewie 75 Chewbacca and Base Chewbacca and auto number nine is Jawa Lailani shoe as Jawa box 10 now Thanks for filling us up everybody Solid product Wow, there we go purple Mal the 125 for pack 10 all by a gold it looks like it's a slap slap purple the 125 mall and Gold kit fisto 44 a 50. That's Higley's boy right there Kit fisto 50 and a base R2-D2 Yes, I find I Do they should have the Jawas with the egg that's what they should get the mud horn egg gold auto for auto number 10 is Director Krennick 10 of 50 Ben Mendelsohn Great hits Ben Mendelsohn auto number to 50 is director Orson Krennick That is fire dude. Who's got number 10 here if I can find on this list. I could sort it But goodness gracious. That's awesome auto number 10 big congrats That's fire Ben Mendelsohn gold auto Trevor and there it is Trevor and auto number 10. That's a fire hit 11 here box 11 You could send us an email. I don't I don't I personally don't deal with acquisitions But you could shoot us an email That's the email for laying our who does our acquisitions, but it really depends on like what it is If we're interested in acquiring it We don't do a lot of mem but cards. Yeah, we'll definitely take a look at memorabilia. Not really though pack 11 here Hey, there you go. Fergen Don best, uh That's a rock star in the universe right there. Got a green mas canada to 99 See a red saber see a red saber base Luke and Vader Fantastic fights dude that card. They have parallels on this parallels of that are gonna go crazy Luke and Vader that specifically That's a return of the Jedi fight. They need to have the the Bespin fight Empire strike back fight the best one Auto 11 is gonna be jacquille jacquille Tim dry What the heck's going on here? Jacquille for auto 11 it's like Jake Pack 12 pack 12 we've got Ray base Refractor to 199 to buy us Beckett Yaddle Yaddle We got the world series on slap no baseball tonight. We missed us. We missed the magic every an almanac all night So it's the magic game For the start of it anyway Now you got a Senta cause on the auto also from and or that is Varada say to you as Senta cause all right Case two with boxes 13 through 24 Dummies outflip them over as the front of the case by the way There's only the the box info on the one side by the way, so we know what's the front of it.  I feel like he got underpaid consider like other contracts. I feel like I got underpaid I don't know still making a mega ton of money, but Rob see what the spot falls falls down to nine y'all nine to go flawless Exactly slap I guarantee to play more baseball if you can't score again Flawless after this Let me refresh personals here. So this is 13 right here 13 Personals might be full. I'll just see what time we get done with this break or kind of where we're at in a few minutes It's already 11 30. Actually. Oh, it's already 11 30. Yeah, I'm gonna call personals full guys Anything ordered after now is gonna go tomorrow night pack 13 Got Kylo Ren Fantastic fights Ray and Praetorian guard. That was an incredible scene. Although That's red lightsaber Ray. Oh wait. She did have she'd have Kylo's lightsaber one point in that nevermind That's correct. That's correct and a zet jukasa Zet jukasa auto 13 is Captain Carson Tava had a nice expanded role in recent Mando and Ahsoka Paul Sun Hyeong Lee Carson Tava 14 14 pack 14 Major Brent Durlin Major Brent Durlin a refractor to 199 of Dak Ralter Dak Ralter can't leave secret. I know he is him dude and Then an orange at 25 of K2 SO Good pack K2 SO and pack 14 I Was off of Seawall too. It's been lights out typically SO all right auto 14 auto 14 is gonna be Purdue shared Chad Parker as Padoo shared so many hockey names All right 15 pack 15 Obi-Wan old Obi-Wan there purple to 125 is Emperor Palpatine 499 per spot You the auto or the pack Gore Koresh that John Leguizamo leg was almost character Gork Koresh Who does have autos in this Gork Koresh John Leguizamo has and then the auto in box number 14 auto 15 is Pomet Warwick 39 to 50 Harrison Davis Pomet Warwick gold auto to 50. We got 16 here That is not good Dirty get him out of there spend it out of the picture for the series, dude Alright Luke animated Luke SP. I'm guessing For pack number 16 here Animated series Luke there a gold ray 42 of 50 Theoretically, but it's random pack or auto so you could get two packs you get two autos But the box. Yeah, we saw the boxes for like 99 99 gold rate of 50 and Cyan Cyan base Auto 16 a still second a single pretty much wins it here. All right auto 16 is officer okay Okay, there you go. There you go. Well the red ray was in case one this case, too 17 Supreme leader Snoke to 199 refractor of Cobb Vanth. That'd be cool. They got Timothy all offense autos in this They should get him and bill bird a sign And Woody Harrelson, that'd be sick to 99 on the green refractor is law grads Dylan And auto number 17 Is Brea organa Simone Kessel is Brea organa. He seems pretty down-to-earth Jenkins. That's cool, though He's he comes off as like pretty down-to-earth and just like funny honestly like Got the right sense of humor Doesn't take himself too seriously Chasing oh too All right pack 18 here pack 18 has a blue Dr. Cornelius Evison That's the guy goes. I don't I don't like you either and then the dude's arm gets cut off by Obi-Wan in the bar The cantina that guy practices man. He's a doctor.  No, it's auto 18 and it is a neon ump Fractor auto neon ump right 19 here the 35 things you're running Could all be a facade But yeah, I've heard like interviews and stuff seems that way anyway pack 19 here Has Boston ass purple to 125 With a fantastic fights Obi-Wan invader in the Obi-Wan series That was a pretty good lightsaber fight actually at the end of that one series wasn't the best but They had its moments and then Leia Leia on Endor auto number 19 Got a Valon Hess Richard break is Valon Hess. I have not seen that one Scott. I hear it's pretty I hear it's pretty amazing Yeah, the way they make the Southwark episodes is nuts 20 Hack 20 as Watto Watto To 199 refractor key Audi Monday to 199 Jake right there Blue refractor to 75 is wedge and hilly's And auto number 20 is gonna be jacquille to 99 of the green Tim dry as jacquille 99 of the green 21 back 21 green Jabba. Oh That's What a job is that? What photo is that from anyway Yoda and Darth Sidious fantastic fights. That was a pretty good fight Pretty good one and Admiral pietz that auto 21 is Moff Gerger odd Michael Pennington Michael Gerger odd expected his name to be Jada Baba 22 into extras extra innings first world series. This does not happen very often Which one is this 22 pack 22? Is a less a cura with a refractor Yoda to 199 Yoda Fractor Yoda Fractor and Beaumont Kin and then auto 22 is Groff Ditcher Groff Ditcher Heath McGuff as Groff Ditcher 23 You see a monster auto here now the Krennic was sick The Krennic was awesome. That kid fist though base in pack 23 purple to 125 K2 SO And pay page deco Didn't page deco die very early on in the eighth movie Then he got auto of Mina's velty. I hit one of these in the with Richard Ming Chu as Mina's velty Auto 23. All right. Here we go at number 24 Number 24. I Don't know Drew. I don't think so. I Don't know So quickly the check was after this pack 24 got a Zem vessel. That's a super rich boulder Zem vessel Refractor to 199. Hey, it makes mayfell bill Burr Tony they need bill Burr autos and Then purple to 125 is Finn good pack there Migs and Finn and then you've got auto 24 orange orange of zero 21 of 25 Chris Bartlett you zero to 25 Chris Bartlett and then didn't think they had do a lot of 70 won't follow us. All right, so bloopers. So this is the third case here so numbers 25 through 36 case I'm from out flipping over get them right side up Yeah, thanks Joe. Yeah, I just I did remember seeing him earlier But I don't know if what I saw earlier was like complete. I'm guessing it is black is a pretty Not it not another gigantic checklist, you know from 25 here 25 pack 25 Got Mace Windu Purple to 125 luminara unduly and Rancor auto 25 is cloud someone in a Nick kellington is cloud someone in Fnatic slide trailer said this was Vienna sausage 26 I want to pull a super in this or at least a really nice red or something in four cases Gold Jar Jar book into 50 That's how Jake is in chat. It's coming after Sean all night. It's all he's doing right there gold to 50 Jar Jar nice Got a Finn and Kylo fantastic fights and Dak Rolter Auto for 26 auto 26 is a cousin Niano or Ghana Ian and ego as cousin Niano or Ghana Yeah, Mesa gold exactly 27 coming up pack 27 of Padme Amadala animated Padme animated short print there blue refractor to 75 general Grievous and Mon Mothma the OG Mon Mothma there and Auto for 27 27 auto here is going to be Minas Velte Ming Chu as Minas Velte or minus maybe minus Y'all 70 go off all this Breaking next 28. Yeah back is killing me dude I know it's not great my head's better now. I just had to hit against the wall couple time. There you go knock it back in Bale or Ghana refractor to 199 all by green Han Solo 43 of 99 Never tell me the odds and sigh stoodles sigh snoodles and Then for Auto 28 you got Corrin Indy Deroche as Corrin Coran Corrin 29 29 is this box pack 29 Jabba the Hutt Ray and Praetorian guard fantastic fights and Eath Cough base back there corn Auto 29 is green and it's pike traveler 60 of 99 pike travel book above a fat Alfred sing pike traveler to 99 30 Cattle conics Cattle conics refractor to 199 Finn Cattle conics played by Carrie Fisher's daughter, right? Finn to 199 and green to 99 there. He is Babu Frick Baby Is that what he says bad baby no squeezy Green Babu to 99 and give me some Babu's in this and an auto for number 30 is Java Java Lelani Sue as Java Sixty go on flawless now six to go six to go six to go all right on the 31 Trouble Pack 31. Yep pack 31. You've got free grin Don Kenobi and grievous fantastic fights and a mix may fell then auto 31 is officer okay Officer okay Mark Capri Number 32 pack 32 Janna purple to 125 Janna purple To 10 7 of 10 magenta is Mon Mothma good pack here 7 of 10 Mon Mothma Mon Mothma magenta a lot of m's there and a Yoda base auto 32 is Crescentin Carrie Jones Crescentin Sean's gonna see some Crescentin tomorrow. We're playing fortnight All I use is a Star Wars skins. I like Crescentin Phoenix and Ahsoka and Luke Oh, that was not a good call right there Come on alms get it together Call it there was a pitchfooled the ump. I guess run number 33 now keep Miss met Mixing it up. We're looking at the game. You got Finn refractor of ray to 199 a lot of ray in this numbered ray and green 99 Jack porkins. There we go, baby. Jack porkins To 99 on the green SMH SMH Jack porkins Really George Lucas really you're gonna call the guy porkins Jesus and Then Auto number 33 34 33 auto 33 Jaco green auto jaco Number jacobi swayed a 99 That's what I'm saying Zeph That's what I'm saying 34 I packed 34 is that John come on. That's not John candy RIP John candy. That's not him. Come on Mike. Imagine how casting went Got bail or Ghana refractor to 199 figurin Don Gotta walk. Gotta walk. He had a Monday and auto for 34 is Brea Breu Organa Brea Organa I've seen her a lot Simone Castle Brea Organa number 35 Keep in mind purcells are full gotta get flawless filled up last the spot sider for flawless Pack 35 count Dooku Dooku Purple to 125 jar jar banks jar jar banks and a cob van Auto 35 Is a jaco jaco base jacobi swaying Jaco refractor all the base refractor writes and then 36 here pack 36 general Hux to 199 refractor mace Windu and A mando and past Vizala legendary fights or fantastic fights mando and past Vizala But a gold auto here saw the gold see the gold the gold of Tally lintra 35 and 50 tolly lintra Hermione corfield is tolly lintra from the sequels A wing pilot something like that. Oh trouble here trouble here trouble here It's only got for a second. All right. All right. That double play this dude. Yeah, it was freaking huge Because they would have put it on if they didn't get that it would have been over Because he walked a dude now you have another hit. All right y'all last case we got 37 to 48 right here Not the guy you want to see up right now that boy After the if it that is probably the guy you want to see up if you're the if you're the Rangers Here we go 37 To account this is getting this is getting dicey out of it Got in the chase on something low and away man Better off swinging a miss into that one Honestly would have been for factor to 199 Q 9 0 Green refractor is Owen Lars in 99. It's the og Owen Lars right there And Yoda base 37 auto here is Purdue shared Chad Parker Purdue shared Let's get follow us going guys at 6 to go break right after this 38 Kylo Ren purple refractor to 125 a la Sakura And a blue refractor is mix mayfeld 17 of 75 nice pack there an auto number 30s 38 Is going to be Brayew or Ghana Brayew or Ghana Simone Kessel Seen her every case 39 Sean and I are going to Wolf House after this I was gonna be crazy the one All right, we got pack number 39 here Grand Inquisitor Obi-Wan and mall fantastic fights and a size noodles auto 39 here Is handmade in Aguirre Molly Miller is handmade in Aguirre number 40 log ray fall by refractor Dr. Cornelius Evison Definitely the most trustworthy doctor on Tatooine. I bet and gold to 50 is Darth Vader Darth Vader to 50 and then auto number 40 is Purdue shared again Chad Parker is Purdue shared 41 Yeah, that's a great one 41 41 Park still up there You went quick in that first inning you pitched though purple's major brand-derlin to 125 Lou to 75 is general veers That's the guy that was on off and then Mon Moth and auto number 41 right 41 is Leera or so that's valine can is Leera or so Lyra or so Leera or so probably Lyra Number 42 count Dooku Animated Luke Animated Luke Skywalker and a gold of Bix Kaleen 30 of 50 Bix Kaleen Auto 42 is orange It is an orange IG 11 1 of 25. That's pretty sick taika Waititi is IG 11. That's a big card actually Congrats on the taika auto. I don't know which IG 11 auto you're gonna get here. That's sick though taika Waititi 1 of 25 IG 11 orange auto Maybe and that's I'd say it's the best auto I've hit so far. It's either him or the Mendelssohn Awesome Waititi auto 42 coming through right there. I Didn't get me a taika auto 43 43 Kettle conics Yoda and Dooku fantastic fights and a Cobb van auto 43 is Groff Ditcher Groff Ditcher, I Guess it depends a lot of people like error cards. So some some error cards go for good money 44 some error cards are famous 44 pack 44 Obi-Wan Kenobi Obi-Wan and Dooku fantastic fights and Gore Koresh and Auto 44 Gold 44 auto Moff Jar Jarrod 30 of 50 Moff Jar Jarrod Michael Pennington and to the bottom of the 11th who scoreless quick ones from Leclerc Carter Garcia Garber coming up. We go number 45 here 45 Pack 45 as a refractor general grievous out of 199 green refractor to 99 is Zuckas in a Zet Jakasa Auto 45 auto 45 right here is a father of the Mandalorian Bernard Bullen father of the Mandalorian a shorter printed one.  There you go Green the 99 Grogu Green Grogu that'll work Pack number 46, that's Kyle Z nice green Grogu good parallels in this box to this case I should say we go and East Cough and auto number 46 is Green and it is the armorer 63 of 99 Emily Swallow as the armorer Great box It's a good hit right there to green Grogu and a green armorer box 46 got some heat all around Probably the best overall pack in auto combo. We've seen from the dual case. I would think Maybe there's some other that that's that's that's good stuff right there Both spots did well now one for 46 both 46 is did well Emily Swallow has a cool tic-tac count What's it about her? 47 here pack 47 Jabba refractor wedge until he's the 199 and Luke and Vader Fantastic fights the Empire one. That's the best one in the entirety of all Star Wars. I am your father and an auto is Tusken chief Tusken chiefs Xavier Jimenez All right last one 48 last one of the break. Thank y'all for filling this up This is a lot of fun pack 48's got a major brand derlin Refractor Luke Skywalker one of 199 001 of 199 I was kind of cold drew and Then an Admiral P yet It must be kind of nice for her to go to events like that though because a lot of people probably don't recognize her You know I mean because you've never seen her face in the series, so I'm sure some people do but most people probably don't Admiral P yet and The last hit of the break auto number 48 is a jaco Jacobi Swain as jaco that does it y'all quad case. Thanks for filling it up. That was pretty fun hit some monsters, too Thanks y'all moving on now to flawless


Hello and welcome back to the Rugged Rockhound. Today I have some more pieces cut open that were cut by my friend Doug, some of the larger ones I can't cut on my little saw. So he's cut them on his big saw. So let's take a look at them. Here's this cut open, some Crandallite from Clay Canyon. Very yellow. I like the brecciated altered limestone though. Makes a nice pattern in it. Cool. Here's some more Clay Canyon Crandallite. Yep, a lot of yellow. Take a look at that side. On that side. Nice. Some more Clay Canyon Crandallite this time in three pieces. Not too bad. Some more. Nice pattern. And some more. So the whitish color stuff you see in the area is calcite. Nice. Once again, a piece of Clay Canyon Crandallite. This one a little better. We got a little bit more color in this. Got some red on this side. Looks like in the middle we're getting just a teeny bit of blue. There might be more further in it. Very nice. But yeah, I like that little red that's showing up there. Some of you may remember this red agate from a previous video. Levan red agate, not black. There we go. As you can see it only went so far in it. Kind of what I thought might happen to it. But still nice. There's the other side. Here's one of the ones we've been looking forward to. Big blue opal geode. So you can see blue opal on the outside there. And sometimes they're pretty solid. As you can see, mostly just volcanic. With a little bit of blue in veins. However, on this side got a little better because that had partial geode exposed there. And then if you look on this side, there you go. So not too bad, but not nearly what we were hoping. Remember this big one I pulled out? Blue opal geode. The big one on the end here. You got it cut. Here we go. Nothing on that side. But look how he happened to cut it. Look, there's that flat layer of white opal. We know what's underneath that, don't we? Blue and yellow, typically. Sometimes just blue. So it looks like we're going to have to cut that one again. But as it is, it still looks pretty darn cool. And the last one for today is this blue opal geode. If you remember, it had the little here. And then it had this on the back side. And that end of it right here had a bubble, but it broke off. It was hollow. So here we go. And we got some. The bottom one had some blue opal in it. Not too bad. Not too bad at all. And there you have those cut open. Some nice stuff. And some duds. It happens. You get good ones and you get not so good ones. But overall not too bad. Nice to see some of the larger ones cut open. So I still have lots of dugway geodes to cut open. A few more of the large blue opal geodes. Lots of agates. All kinds of stuff. So we'll get around to those eventually. So a little bit of a heads up on what's going to be coming up these next couple months. So there might be some big changes that's going to require that I not spend as much time on YouTube. So I may be going down to one video a week. And sometimes I may miss a week with making a rock hounding video. But hopefully I'll be able to do rock cutting videos because they don't take nearly as much time. But we'll see. We'll just see how things go. And I'll keep you guys posted and updated. If I have to miss a week of a video, I'll go ahead and send a message out to let you know. Not going to be able to get a video out this week. But we'll see.  So we'll just see how things go. Until next time, remember, there is treasure everywhere.


or maybe not yes, but not no now, or no the now, that's going to allow them to provide value going on into the future. Well, thanks a lot. Thanks a lot for coming on, John. I appreciate it. Any guy who had to suffer through telco early on in his career is going to appreciate easier solutions and better ways to get things done. There's all kinds of horror stories about trying to get the telco bill out to the right person or the right building. But anyway, another great segment on theCUBE. Hopefully you learned a little bit. Hopefully you're joining the journey. Data journey is the hashtag. Thanks again, John from EMA coming on board. We've got more guests lined up. We're going to take a short break. We'll be right back to Splunk Comp 2012 at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas.


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We've been talking about Zelda remakes and remasters, potential future new Zelda games, like a top-down Zelda game for years. Oftentimes, there is some merit to the rumors, leaks, and reports. We got Link's Awakening Remake back in 2019, and there were rumors and leaks around that, an Unreal Engine project for Zelda. The Skyward Sword HD did actually release in 2021, and there was lots of rumors around that. We obviously know new game-wise, Tears of the Kingdom did release this year. Earlier this year, Jeff Grubb said he heard something Zelda would be announced by the end of this year that wasn't related to Tears of the Kingdom. Dr. Circon Toto also tweeted out ZR 2023, and then quickly deleted the tweet and deleted a former tweet in 2021 that leaked that Nintendo was about to announce a 2022 release year for Tears of the Kingdom. Which Nintendo proceeded to do just that before delaying it to 2023 a year later. Of course, the Jeff Grubb rumor of a Zelda announcement was assuredly the Zelda movie, and he has publicly stated that he's pretty confident that was what his source was hinting at. Okay, so we can remove Jeff Grubb's rumor from the equation. But what about Dr. Circon Toto? Sure, he's an industry analyst, and part of his job is to make predictions and projections to help investors make sound decisions. So a lot of what he says is often guesswork. But he also attends Nintendo investor meetings, and we can't ignore that he has leaked a Zelda-related announcement back in 2021 in the exact same way he dropped the ZR 2023 tweet this year. Now, it's possible ZR 2023 could be the movie, but the R doesn't really fit. There was no known title for said film, and we likely wouldn't get that title until a year or two from now. Even then, there is a good shot a major speak called The Legend of Zelda, especially if they are going with an original story. R isn't even in that title name. It's also possible a title, let's say there is a subtitle, like The Lord of the Rings movies, because it's setting up a trilogy, may not be decided yet either. The film did just enter production, though Miyamoto has stated publicly that they have been working on and at least discussing the movie for about a decade behind the scenes. So we can't entirely rule out the possibility of R being related to a title for the movie. But chances are the R was related to remake or remaster. Often the simplest explanation is the correct explanation. As we have seen with Mario this year, Nintendo is not afraid to stack multiple announcements for their largest IPs. Pokemon has been doing this for decades, and Mario post Mario movie has been delivering announcement after announcement in spades. Don't be shocked to see Mario movie to announce publicly at some point next year, just to add more Mario goodness to the world. So what if Dr. Circuitoto is actually talking about a Zelda remake or remaster to be revealed before the end of this year? When would they announce it? What game would it be? And beyond this, what does the possible roadmap of Zelda releases look like? Nintendo can drop the announcement of a remake or remaster really at any time. They don't need to do it at Nintendo Direct, though that's usually the most likely place. They announced Fire Emblem Engaged DLC at last year's game awards, and there is a real possibility Nintendo might have two games up for Game of the Year at said game awards in Super Mario Wonder and Tears of the Kingdom. To me, if it's announced this year, that makes the game awards the most likely place it could appear. Okay, so we have an event it could happen at. A rumor revealed this year from an industry veteran. So what could it be? We speculated in the past about Ocarina of Time. Of all the 3D Zelda games, it is the one most in need of an HD treatment or even a ground-up remake. After all, they have now remastered every single 3D Zelda game. And Aonuma recently mentioned he wasn't sure people knew anymore who was the original RaRu character. That's right, he doesn't think gamers know. That character originated in Ocarina of Time, though, hey, shout out to Zelda II. You did name a town, RaRu. It makes sense this could be the next remaster or remake. And given the studios Nintendo has worked with in the past and there are so many that could be tasked with bringing this to life, anything is possible. Grezzo did the 3DS version. Of course they could probably do a Switch version too. They have the experience already with said title. That's essentially the argument for that game to be the game announced. We also can't ignore Twilight Princess and the Wind Waker HD. Both would be relatively easy ports from the Wii U where they never truly hit their full sales potential due to the lack of sales of said console. So many insiders have talked about these games for years. It's practically a foregone conclusion that they're already done for Switch and just sitting on a shelf waiting to see the light of day again. Of course, plans may have changed the later into the generation we got. And it's possible they want to bring them back with some sort of new features to tout at this time. Things like a 4K resolution output, ray tracing, maybe 60 FPS. And for that we'll have to wait for Switch too. Though if they did that, I would hope in the back of my mind they give that treatment to the Wind Waker, a game whose HD version most definitely stands the test of time. And then maybe shelve Twilight Princess for a more ambitious remake. Look, I can't help it. That Wii U tech demo for what could be still rests in the back of my mind and will probably always be there until we see them do something like it to an older game. Wajora's Mask is certainly nice to think about but that wouldn't be until after Ocarina of Time is done unless they just HD'd both 3DS versions and gave us a twin pack. Something similar that they did with like Pikmin 1 plus 2 HD or Advance Wars reboot camp. Zelda though, that's a way more popular franchise and I can see them wanting to avoid combo packs. Again, Ocarina of Time just got called up again. That's what happens when his 25th anniversary is almost upon us. Sure, Zippo dropped a hint at it, though he's also doubling down on an animated Illumination Zelda movie after the live action one was just dropped. Now saying it's not as far along, giving him what a 10 year window for that to possibly ever be a thing. Oh Zippo, keep shifting those gold posts buddy. But Ocarina of Time actually first appeared in rumors long before Zippo said anything. Game Rant had a conversation about this back in July of this year. Mostly thinking it could use the Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom style to remake Ocarina of Time with some minor tweaks to make it fully open world. And I gotta admit, a few tweaks here or there and yes, Ocarina of Time could realistically work as an open world game. Increasing its appeal and sales likely beyond what was done with the original on the Nintendo 64. But that was just wishful thinking. First, we have the trademark renewal by Nintendo back in 2020. We talked about this last week, but it's a separate trademark from the ones that already existed for the game slash merch. And we still have no idea what that trademark was for. Could be anything. Two years ago, game over Jesse, good friend of the channel, put together some evidence that suggested something is in the works, specifically from Grezzo. We all know Grezzo's work, right? They handled Ocarina of Time 3D, Majora's Mask 3D, Link's Awakening, Meet Tomo, and they were the primary developers of Triforce Heroes. They have also made a lot of other games along the way for other platforms with their most recent being a mobile phone release. But one consistent pattern is that they're always working on a new Zelda game, a remaster, a remake, and sometimes something more original like Triforce Heroes. Two years ago, they were hiring people for a medieval adventure game, which basically matches Nintendo's own job hirings for Zelda and matches prior hirings at Grezzo for Zelda games. Remember, Grezzo hasn't released a Zelda game on a Nintendo system since 2019, and they are a much larger studio today and working on many projects. Of course, this could literally be anything. It could just be an HD-ifying of the 3DS versions of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, another popular theory and rumor also from two years ago is that they are working on an Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages remake to Zelda remasters or remakes that have to release side by side, explaining the four-year gap from Link's Awakening. It's possible with multiple teams. They are working on all of these projects. They have hired and expanded their team greatly from the Ocarina of Time 3D days. But naturally, anything official they are working on is under wraps. Also, hey, Tantalus did Twilight Princess HD. What if they're working on something? So to summarize, we have had ongoing rumors on Twilight Princess and Wind Waker HD for many years. From so many insiders, it's hard to name them all. We have Grezzo, who is always working on Zelda projects for over a decade, likely working on one given hiring posts from two years ago. Who did work on Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask 3D, Triforce Heroes, and Link's Awakening. We have Aonuma saying he isn't sure people remember who the character Rauru is anymore. Originally, and he's dropped similar hints in the past for future releases. Maybe Ocarina of Time 3D in HD, or a full remake from the ground up potentially to launch the Nintendo Switch 2. Frost-Gen, maybe? Who knows. And don't get me started on if any of these games get announced at the game awards and show colored buttons because we all know the rabbit hole that's all related to. So no, I don't know what is happening. I did reach out to my contacts, similar ones that gave me details on some of the marketing events or tiers of the kingdom. But it's been radio silent. Could one Zelda remake be announced before the end of the year? Absolutely. Could they not be announced until next year? This is possible too. But let's play a game. Let's work on a weird assumption that all of the above is happening. We're getting either an Ocarina of Time slash Majora's Mask HD or remake. We're getting Wind Waker slash Twilight Princess HD or more, and we're going to see the Oracle games get a remake too. That all of the above are happening. So what release window and schedule would we give it? Heck, Alnuma slash Fuji Bayashi have already told us that a new Zelda game is in the works. Well, here's my predictions. Whether announced at the game awards or next year, I do think Ocarina of Time is arriving in 2024. It may be a cross-generation release. It could be a remake. It might just be an HD port of the 3DS game with some upgraded textures and lighting. I don't know. But I just have a gut feeling they are going to drop it next year. I think in 2025, we do get the Wind Waker 4K. As I said before, ray tracing, 4K textures, a few changes to the Tingle bottle system. But it will be really good. Maybe they even find a way to bring the original Tingle Quest back to make it the most complete version of the game. In 2026, I do think they're going to announce their new Zelda game this year. But the games that are going to release this year will be the Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages remakes. They will release them for $40 each or $70 in a combo pack. And they will be as impressive as, well, the Link's Awakening remake was in 2019. In 2027, well, it's time now. Let's get the Majora's Mask HD. Whatever they did with Ocarina of Time, I guess. They do it again with Majora's Mask. In 2028, yeah, I'm really on the new Zelda game is launching this year, Mantra. Whatever the heck the Zelda team is working on. In 2029, look, I don't know. Let's just throw Twilight Princess 4K in there. Or maybe they shock us with an actual remake of the game. Of course, these are just projections based on little but hopes and dreams, but also with a smidge of reality in terms of Zelda releases. Nintendo has, for a while, liked to get a lot of remakes and remasters and spin-offs released between major Zelda title drops. And I don't think that's going to change as we head into a new generation. After all, Onuma admitted before Breath of the Wild came out that Nintendo was asking him to get more Zelda games released. That means we may even have years with remasters and spin-offs in the same year. Who knows? In the end, we don't really know what's going to happen. But it is fun to think about. Give me your projection on what games you think are coming in what years, if any, down in the comments below. And you know what? Revisit this video, revisit your comments years down the road and see if any of us projected Nintendo correctly when it comes to what Zelda games they're releasing, when and why. Thank you for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video.


Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Petty Officer Jessica Bidwell. Chief of Naval Personnel, Vice Admiral Bill Moran, and Fleet Master Chief, April Beldo held a live All Hands call February 3 at the Defense Media Activity Studios in Fort Mean, Maryland. They answered questions from sailors across the fleet via phone, satellite and social media. One of the hot topics was the Navy's plan to recruit and retain women. The total number for when you put all of our officers and enlisted together is about 17.8 percent of our forces female. Not enough in my view and we're trying to bring in more. We actually bring in between 23 and 25 percent women in the enlisted and the officer communities today. And that's a far better place than we were 10 years ago, but we're still trying to continue to attract the highest quality young women that are coming out of high school and colleges. To watch the All Hands call, visit navy.mil.


On the Tavria Axis, Russian troops lost almost four companies' worth of soldiers killed and wounded. That's according to General Aleksandr Tarnovsky, commander of the Tavria Operational Strategic Grouping. In the Tavria direction, our defense forces continue to knock out the Russians from their positions. Over the last day, the enemy's losses in terms of killed and wounded amounted to almost four companies he added. Also, 59 pieces of enemy military equipment were destroyed and damaged. In particular, these are the Ka-52 helicopter, 14 tanks, 10 infantry fighting vehicles, 6 armored combat vehicles, machine-light armored multipurpose tractor, 2 S-19 M-STAR S-Hauser, 2 A-65 M-STAR B-Hauser, coordinate anti-tank missile system, self-propelled artillery installation, 2 S-1 Gulf Zika electronic warfare complex, 3 UAVs Zala, UAV Orlan 10, UAV Orlan 30. In addition, the enemy's ammunition depot was destroyed.


Welcome, welcome to Global Connections here on Things That Hawaii. I'm your host, Carlos Juarez, and delighted to welcome a very special guest today, a dear friend from many years now who, years ago sat with me here. I wanna say 20 years ago we received her here in Hawaii, but before I give you more details, let me first just say a big warm welcome to Anne Wright. Anne, thank you for joining us today on Global Connections. It's great to have you back, welcome. Thank you, Carlos, it's great to be back and welcome back to you too. Yes, well, again, full circle all of us as we move around, but I wanna maybe just, some of our viewers, of course, are familiar with you, work you've been doing for many years, but I wanna take us back, again, about 20 years ago when you found yourself as a, at that time, a member of the Foreign Service, a diplomat, and you had an opportunity, which I imagine at the time sounded like, oh my gosh, this is wonderful, like a nice lead to get away from the nitty-gritty details of working in embassies. Suddenly, you were here in Honolulu, Hawaii, as I recall, maybe you can clarify, but it's some kind of fellowship or an opportunity to be connected here with the Office of the Governor at that time, Ben Payetano. So you're like an international affairs fellow of some kind. All this to say that suddenly we had dramatic events of 9-11, the terror attack, and within a short time after that, suddenly you, as a diplomat, were called back into a very interesting task to help us reopen the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. It had been closed for many years after the Soviet invasion. And there, I can remember you came back later to characterize from that what it must have been like. So I wanted to revisit that in a while, but maybe more importantly for our guests, so just to make sure we know of your own background to me has always been fascinating. I think of you, Anne, as one of these polymaths, persons who have some ways, many different things in your life because you've had a long career with the government itself, and now many years as a peace activist, engaged in civil society, very much as a pressure on government, very important. But your career, of course, includes a long service with the US military, the US army, a retirement terminal, and maybe just give us a quick snapshot of a couple of the areas because you were involved in some important international humanitarian issues, but eventually you would come into the foreign service as a diplomat, also serving in some, well, some hot spots around the world. Like I mentioned earlier, landing yourself in Honolulu here, working with the governor's office, suddenly back into service, opening that embassy in Kabul later than, it will continue talking very much, one of the very high-profile state department officials who would resign after the war in Iraq and as a voice of conscience, as a protest, as we call a number of others, and we'll talk a little bit more about that, but all that to bring us to where we are today. Here we are in 2021, suddenly revisiting Afghanistan. It's been with us for 20 years. Rather than reopening that embassy, now we've seen this very frantic, getting out of town and closing that embassy. So really strange how the world comes in circles. So let me just, on that topic, because I could go on forever, but Ann, I'm just grateful for your ability to share some insights, some perspectives, some reflections from your long career. So maybe just kind of taking us back a little bit from that early, because in your involvement with Afghanistan, very specifically reopening an embassy that has been closed, so it was a little bit of that background, that story that happened. Well, as you mentioned, I had been in the government service, essentially all my adult life. I joined the army right after college. I was in for 29 years, 13 on active duty, 16 in the reserves, retired as a colonel, and then went on to the state department as a U.S. diplomat and served in embassies in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, and then I came to the office of the governor, as you mentioned, on a special program the state department has to work in state level government. Then 9-11 happened and I was selected to be on the very small team of five people who were sent to Afghanistan to reopen that embassy in December of 2001. We stayed there for, or I stayed there for about six months before the first permanent party, so to speak, the first assignments of foreign service officers began. I was there when Colin Powell arrived for the first time as secretary of state, Zalmai Khalazad, who is now known for being the negotiator with Taliban. At first he was the special envoy from the president of the United States to Afghanistan. Then he became the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and then the U.S. ambassador to Iraq and then the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. So I got to know a lot of senior level people in the state department that I had not been around before and also the senior members of the Afghan interim administration. At that time, interim president, Haman Karzai, was the head of the government. The man who later became president, Ashraf Ghani, arrived in Afghanistan in January of 2002, coming from employment at the World Bank, and he as an Afghan said, I have to come back to my home now that the Taliban's out and it's time for me to help with the country. And he became the finance minister and did a lot of economic things first and then later on became part of the political process and became the second president of the country. So I look back on 20 years ago when I was in Kabul and with reopening the embassy that had been closed for 12 years that had no telephones that worked, had no computers, had no running water, no sewage, no net. And then trying to race around Kabul in a little car that had been pieced together from other embassy cars in the 12 years that we'd been gone and trying to track down the new ministers and the government and arrange appointments for our never ending flow of US senior officials from both the State Department of Defense, from every agency that wanted information about Afghanistan, they found their way there and I was the first political officer was the person in charge of getting all the appointments with the government and then writing cables back to Washington about what all happened. So it was a very, very busy time and thinking back on it and going back through diaries about the numbers of people that were arriving and what was going on and the hope of course that things could settle down in Afghanistan after first an eight year war with the Soviets then a four year war among the Mujahideen, the freedom fighters, the warlords that then led to the rise of this group that call themselves the Taliban and the remarkable quickness actually in which they took over the country back in 1996 and then they left as the US came in in October of 2001 and then by November of 2001, they had pretty well cleared out of Afghanistan and were over in the sanctuary areas in Pakistan. Well, I mean, as you've described, it's just like a complex web of different things that were happening and I'm fascinated that you're describing the scenario of reopening this embassy and just a very basic, literally bare phone. I can remember some pictures you shared of the dust that had settled for years and years and it just must be, I can only imagine from your perspective now watching these events in the last few months with the closing of it. Now at the end of the day, of course, we know we stayed there too long, we were not able to do maybe what we idealistically thought could happen and in retrospect, some important lessons to be learned. I myself, as you were describing, because I'm finishing a book, I wanna just mention into it, I'll show you a picture of it here, it's called How to Hide an Empire. That's one of these stories about what we don't learn in school here. The United States obviously has global interest and by the mid to late 19th century, I mean, we had expanded, but it wasn't somehow built into our, I don't know, mindset and even today, Americans don't see that we are empire. It's a loaded word, of course. So what we mean is that of course, the US had colonies around the world, but remarkably in this book's main point is that we kind of tried to hide it, we didn't kind of act like we owned up to it. And you look at the engagement in this part of the world, and of course, going back, we have to remember the attacks who were one thing and then of course what began to happen and part of, you can continue the story. I mean, you thought yourself suddenly seeing US foreign policy shifting from this focus on Afghanistan and dealing with the individual, Kamal Bin Laden, who was seen as the mastermind of these terror attacks, suddenly within a short time, we're putting all our energy and focus on Iraq and this massive invasion that was very controversial and contentious at the time and obviously ever since. But that would of course create a lot of turmoil within our diplomatic service. You yourself found yourself with this very difficult decision to effectively resign. A post in the senior level of diplomacy and maybe we can share a copy of this book that you will go on to co-author in entitled Descent of where you're looking at, again, a range of high profile officials. So tell us a little bit about that story because that again is some of the context of what would shift your own life out of so many years of government service, suddenly just take a look at policy and say, wait a minute, what's going on? You've now become a voice of conscious, very much an important dissenting voice about our foreign policy. So that was a little bit more about what would follow after your experience there. Yes, well, after I left Afghanistan, after six months in Afghanistan and after observing that Afghanistan was not really getting the full attention of Washington, that we were asking for things. We were wondering when programs such as road building, school building, things like that were going to start and we were getting not much information out of Washington. And when I would call friends that were back in Washington and say, what's going on? We're not getting any feedback from this. They said, well, there are other things going on. Well, what it was was the buildup in the Middle East of US forces that later on became in March of 2003, the invasion forces. And by that time, I had moved on to my permanent assignment which was the deputy ambassador in Mongolia. And it was from there, observing what was happening and being asked from Washington to go to the Mongolian government as all diplomats were asked to go to their host country government to ask for people military to join the coalition of the willing. Well, I was having a very difficult time of rationalizing what the US was doing and talking about having military operations in Iraq. By that time, there was 10 years past the Gulf War I, the United States had all sorts of inspectors in Iraq. They had the majority of the weapons of mass destruction inspectors from the AEI were actually CIA intelligence people. So the US government knew exactly what was in Iraq, what wasn't there. And there were people in those intelligence positions telling the Bush administration there are no weapons of mass destruction. But as we now later know, the decision was being made just that the project for the new American century was to go into as many countries like seven of them were identified that the United States needed to overthrow. And that's what happened. And the lead up to that, I was saying, we know what happens with these wars. I mean, tens of thousands of people get killed in them. Of course, American soldiers get killed but the civilians that get killed, the numbers. And I finally just said, I cannot be a part of this. And I became one of three US diplomats that resigned before the war started. Mine was right on the tusk of the war. I kept hoping that, please let's not do this. Maybe the political pressure was going to be sufficient for whatever it was that Washington wanted, the Saddam Hussein regime to leave whatever, but it wasn't. And so I resigned. And since then I've been challenging US policies no matter what parties in power. I'm an equal opportunity critic. And the whole issue of what was going on in Afghanistan. And I went back to Afghanistan several times as a private citizen and talked with lots of people all over the country. I was also in Pakistan several different times talking with families whose loved ones had been killed by US drones as we call them, assassin drones. These drones that are now located in Hawaii. Just two weeks ago, the very first two out of six have arrived and it's as a citizen I'm questioning what in the world are these types of drones doing in Hawaii. We're 2,640 miles from the nearest land mass. So what are those drones doing here? But the bottom line was that there were lots and lots of critics of what the US was doing in Afghanistan, the whole issue of nation building which the Bush administration said in the beginning of course we're not going to do that. But that's a part of whenever a military goes in they try to do some good works for the people as they unfortunately are killing some of them. So there's always a nation building part of any military operation. And it became bigger and bigger and bigger. And that says the contracts, the amount of money that started flowing from the Congress meant that there were huge, huge contracts, multi-million dollar contracts. There was a lot of money that went into Afghanistan and a lot of the Afghans say where did it go? The percentage that US contractors take off the top is anywhere from 40 to 60%. So there's not a whole lot of it that actually gets to the country itself. But then once that part, where did it go? And of course there are allegations that there was corruption within the Afghanistan government. I'm sure there was. And in fact, the special inspector general for reconstruction for Afghanistan who does a quarterly report and he did his last one in August which was yet one more scathing report on accountability of funds that were used there and also accountability on the whole strategy that the US government had used through 20 years, three different presidents of strategy to what end?  We go in with certain intentions and then some of them very valuable noble. But gradually it becomes this reinforcing and you mentioned like the military contract. Pretty soon you've got so many vested interests that they almost have an interest in keeping it going over the years. And oh, just a little more training, a little more, but just, oh, and even in the past, let's say a couple of years, we need to leave. Well, if we can just leave a small footprint and then when do we now just a mess? But of course I recall too, at the time as a professor then teaching about these issues, the tensions with the international community because it was one thing way back and I'm talking what now 30 years ago, I'm guessing it was the invasion of Kuwait that Saddam Hussein had done. It was a groundswell of international support then President Bush senior got basically the world community behind him and he led this effort. Not quite the same with his son. There was a lot of pushback from the Europeans I remember on the security council, there were, I think Chile and Mexico from Latin America and I remember some of my students saying, well, why aren't they supporting us? We do so much for them. And then of course any Latin American will know the history of US intervention and a lot of skepticism about US intervention, et cetera. But the world was obviously skeptical because wait a minute, let's give a chance to the dialogue and diplomacy. Well, it didn't go over too well with the then administration in the US. So we found ourselves suddenly boom, going into a very unpopular war without the support of the world community. Now, Afghanistan again, we set aside Iraq for now because that's of course Afghanistan is this other challenge because while we had a large international community there engaged as well and maybe just continue a lot of love, here we are 20 years hence from that other period that you've described reopening, here we are now and of course on one hand, a lot of things don't change. But on the other hand, Afghanistan has experienced suddenly a relative openness and even the role of women in particular and from our own East West center, we have a lot of engagement with the programs and citizens as well must need different things like that. It's difficult for me to imagine how this same group that suddenly is back in power are they gonna take it back to 1996, 98 when they first rule? Cause clearly we have new technologies now. We have people who've grown up in a different world. And so it's gonna be interesting to see how that plays out. I wonder if you could just reflect on that. I mean, where do you see Afghanistan now and then in the coming years given some of these more recent changes, is there likely to be an imposing within even this thing we call the Taliban, their fact, but it seems like doesn't look like they brought a whole new agenda. It looks like they're back in power because they were able to outlast us in some way. What do you see in the current dynamics and maybe what we can anticipate in the coming years ahead of what we've said? Well, I think there are two parts to it. One is the urban part, one is the rural part. And it was the same for 20 years when the US sponsored government was in power. Things happen in the urban areas. That's where the education took place. A lot of businesses grew up. It became a much more westernized society. Yet when you went out in the rural areas, it hadn't really changed much. Even though the US said, we have so many millions of young girls and young boys in school. Well, when you really looked at the statistics, there were big gaps in that. And that in many of the outlying areas where the conservative, I wouldn't even call them Taliban, it just the conservative nature of rural Afghanistan was ruling and they were not having their young girls go to school. The women still wore burqas, which to us, it's like, oh my God, why would you wear that? But he talked to a lot of Afghan women. They say, we wear it a lot for protection. It's a protection. And well, I don't like it, but a lot of Afghan women in the rural area say, we will continue to wear this. That's part of our culture. So to get into our minds that there are differences still, even after 20 years of the United States really pushing its agenda. And I think a very good agenda in many ways that certainly the opportunity for education, for better health, all these sorts of things, one would certainly hope that the Taliban government will continue on. The senior leadership of the Taliban government, which really hasn't spent much time in Afghanistan in the last 20 years, they've been either in Pakistan or in the last five years, once talks started with the United States, they've been living a pretty good life in Doha, Qatar. And in fact, one of the questions I always have is, how about the kids of those senior Afghan Taliban while they were in Doha, were those kids going to school? And I bet you they were.  It may have been an international religious school, but it may not. So on one level, there is the thought that maybe at the senior level in Kabul and at the major cities, hopefully these folks who have seen a different way of living and it's a Middle Eastern way of living, it's not the totally Western way of living that indeed they may bring some of these ideas back to open up the society a little more than what probably will happen out in the rural areas where the same people are still in charge and the conservative people are in charge and they're not going to be changing things. So trying to get in our minds that there is this dichotomy within the country and we keep our fingers crossed that human rights violations won't occur and that the brutality that we'd seen 20 years ago, 25 years ago and in 1996 to 2001 won't occur. The Taliban is kind of over a financial barrel right now because the finances that are needed to actually run the country are being frozen. I don't agree with that quite honestly. I think whoever is in charge has to have some money to run the country, to keep the lights on, to keep the water going and things like that. So I have been, in my writings, I encourage the US government to release the funds that are Afghanistan's funds. They're not ours, they just happen to be in a US bank. They should be released and the United Nations should start releasing funds so that they can pay the electric bill. They owe over $90 million to the Central Asian countries around them that normally furnish electricity and once the lights go off and it's starting to, the fall is getting there, the winters are very brutal in Afghanistan and they need to pay the teachers, they need to pay the medical people, they need electricity. The government has to continue its functions and the Taliban was in charge of the government for five years and kept things going. Of course, I will say that when they left in 2001, they took the bank with them and when the new administration came in, I can remember the discussions with the Hamid Karzai, all of them like, and they said, we don't have any money. There is no money left in the national bank. Well, in a way that's what the Taliban are facing except there is money. There is money that is Afghanistan's money but it's being held by both the United States and by some international organizations. Well, it's fascinating and as you're describing, of course, let's say the Taliban who were there before, they've come back now. The political scientists in me are just saying at the end of the day, all political leaders in many ways are about the same thing. It's about survival, staying in office so you can do what you want. And of course, these leaders today, I mean, we can demonize them and yes, they have a horrible track record from the past and dealing with so many issues. But at the end of the day, guess what, they are the sheriff in town and we probably can do more by either trying to engage them or more importantly understanding that some of those neighbors are gonna obviously need to engage in and work with them. Whether it's Pakistan, which of course had a key role and even having housing, many of them in some of those territories. But many of the other Central Asian countries, there's a lot of stake, it's a very complex political area, but let me shift for a moment and maybe in our final discussion here, one of the core issues of guess government and accountability is this question and it goes back to the title of your own book, Descent. Because here in the US, we purport to be a democratic system of government with the checks and balances and Descent is so fundamental. I mean, it's the core of the whole revolution that created the country and it is understood well, in different ways we can define it but I see it as the expression or holding opinions that are at variance with those that are either both common or maybe even officially held. And of course, in a democracy, we have opposition parties, we have opposition, I guess outlets, even within the State Department, our diplomatic service, there are systems set up and post-911, I think some of those were refined that allow those who may have a criticism or a critique of the government to do that without getting their careers in jeopardy. Because of course, that's the real challenge. Why would you speak out if you're, so maybe say a few words about that, Descent, as you understand it, as you see it in government and then I'm really worried about today because we see this rise of authoritarianism everywhere, including the US, and that means less Descent, that means like pushing it away. So we're working- Well, Descent in Afghanistan under the Taliban is gonna be tough. There's no doubt about that. Just as it's tough in Saudi Arabia, as it's tough in Qatar, as it's tough in Bahrain, as it's tough in Kuwait. I mean, it's not like this is going to be different from a lot of the other countries in the region where Descent is not brooked at all. One would hope that women can continue employment and government and as teachers and in the medical field and things like that. And that's where I think with the international community has to continue putting pressure on. And that there are elements within the Taliban, I think, and there are some members of the previous government that are still in Afghanistan to include Hamid Karzai, the former president, the former co-executive president, Abdullah Abdullah, who was the foreign minister when I was there. There are some Afghan, senior Afghans that did not leave and we hope that their influence on the senior leadership of the Taliban works. Well, absolutely. And again, these are things that are gonna play out in their own way. And at the end of the day, Afghanistan has to figure out Afghanistan. We can only do so much. And so far, we've helped to do things up quite a bit. And obviously the solution is not pouring more money because that can just create different problems. I think I've been very grateful to hear your insights because, again, having been there and an experience of reopening, I can only imagine it's just the folks on one hand, maybe the distress of being suddenly pleased to see this country close the embassy, rushing out of a violent security uncertainty. It's just, the world is a strange place.  We're gonna still need to be there, aware of what's going on with our eyes and ears open. And there is today a very different reality. Many of those putting in Afghanistan, you mentioned, whether Hamid Karzai or the former former, let's hope that they might be able to be part of the future of Afghanistan in some way, even as perhaps opposition or partners. But at the end of the day, I think for the US, we need to step back to the real humility and understand that our big bully way of coming in with force, it's not the solution. It's created its own different problems. And we're coming to the end of this. And I know as we continue, we'll have other opportunities to continue our dialogue. I'm really grateful for your insights here. And as someone who's done so much in the way of service to the country, but even now as a very important vocal activist, you're involved with groups like Veterans for Peace, the Hawaii Peace and Justice Organization, these continue to kind of push back and help both dissent as you need to, but also create awareness of these issues, how we need to think broadly and in a more human way. It's not all about just the guns and bombs, but really at the end of the day, people and what it takes to move us forward. So I really am grateful. It's been a wonderful chance to reconnect and to hear your insights. And for those of us who've got a website, I think that you've got perhaps to share with us here on Voices of Conscious from your website, where any of you who wanna see some of the recent articles you've shared information on this book that we've talked about briefly, the dissent piece. And again, I'm so grateful to reconnect. And thank you for all your service and looking forward to keeping in touch and having you back on again on the next show. It's a real pleasure, Carlos. Thank you so much. Yes, so thank you for our listeners and stay tuned as we continue with our global connection. Thank you for joining us today and thank you again, Anne. Aloha.


And River State Governor Yensom Wike has declared a member of the House of Representatives and Governorship aspirant in the state, Farah Dagogo, wanted for allegedly masterminding the disruption of screening of aspirants for various elective positions at the Secretariat of the State Chapter of the People's Democratic Party in Port Harcott. In a statement through his special assistant on media, Kelvin Iberi Governor Wike directed the state police command to arrest Dagogo for allegedly sponsoring cultists to disrupt the screening. Reacting to the directive, the lawmaker will represent Digga Maboni federal constituency at the House of Representatives said he is not a cultist and did not send anyone to disrupt the screening. In a statement through his special assistant on media and publicity Dagogo expressed dismay that the governor labeled him a sponsor of cultists in order to stop the screening of governorship aspirants shadowed for Thursday, 28th of April. The lawmaker called on the Inspector General of Police to direct the state commissioner of police not to hit the directive issued by Governor Wike but expressed willingness to make himself available if invited by the police after the screening and not before. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.