Hey, it's Bridget. Welcome to above life channel. The purpose here as always is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope. This is an update video. It's been a while since I've actually done a channeling session for you. Again, I want to be clear. This video is an update video. So I feel like I should share a little more with you about why I felt like I needed to take a break from channeling. Obviously there are world events and lots going on in the world over the course of the last several months has definitely taken its toll on many of us, especially those of us who feel everything, who are empathic, clear sentient, psychic, or intuitive. Pretty much everybody that's watching this probably does apply to you, right? But I think I should share with you the mediumship and the psychic side of why it was really important for me to take this break. And I'm still on a break. And I don't know when I'm coming back to just do the afterlife celebrity channeling. In the meantime, you know that every Sunday I am sharing a podcast style about intuitive topics called Sunday morning coffee with Bridget. So it's not like I'm missing or just not here. I am, but in a different way than you're used to. So let's talk about the mediumship and the psychic part of the break. So being very empathic and feeling literally everything. I have been like this forever and I can feel when things don't feel quite right in alignment. So I need to take a step back, take really good care of myself, get back into my self care practices, especially working with energy. I do a lot of teaching, a lot of coaching around intuition and tools and techniques to help you manage the way that you feel the way that you are interpreting information, how you're managing your life as a spiritual being, because you are a spirit and a human, you're both. That's part of the point of above life channel is to share inspiring messages from those who know those spirits in the afterlife to give us better understandings about how to be people who are very intuitive, in tune and making that choice to be in tune. Okay, so that's what it's about, right? That's the purpose. So as part of that, I know when I need to care more about myself than I do about myself in the world and what other people need from me. So what others need is not as important as what you need for yourself and it can feel very pulled. You can feel really pulled like you need to show up, you need to do weekly channeling, you need to do volunteer work, you need to do X, Y and Z just because you've always done it and that's the kind of person you are super reliable and other people need you. The truth is, is other people don't need you as much as you think they do, as much as you need them to need you. And so I was like, wait a minute, do I need people that are watching above life channel to need me? Do I need you to need me to channel for you? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You should see some of the emails, the personal emails that I've gotten requesting me to channel people and give specific information from celebrities to individuals for all sorts of different topics and all different kinds of things. And well, I suppose that's a natural thing maybe to, to reach out and share and connect, especially if you feel like you get to know me because you do because I just show up in my authenticity every week. So you do get to know me right as a person. So you might feel like you know me really well, which is very flattering, which is awesome because that's, that's, that's a great compliment. It means I'm doing something right, right as I'm channeling. And all of those emails and things and those pleas for help, the ones that are begging me for help and they're at their wit's end and they can't function and they're just, they've had so much grief or loss or they're sick or they're dumb, they're luck or life's given them a tough hand to manage. That on top of the current events of the last six months and the health of the world has just put so much energy into psychic connection in a group setting like globally. I always like to work with small groups anyway.  So I'm really aware of that too. And so channeling for you all, even if I'm not channeling live, I feel all of you, I feel everybody and this need for me to satisfy a need for you. And I just can't do that. I can't. And I've had very high expectations and high standards for quality for myself for connection for being a really good role model for you about intuition and encouraging you, you, you, you to work with your own intuition that you don't need a psychic to do it for you. But that by listening to one, you can get tools and tips and get inspired and encouraged to maybe live your life better and to make changes that you need to make and learn more about energy and other resources that you have available to you besides those traditional methods of just mind, intellect, school that way. There's so many other ways. Also, in addition to there's so many other resources. So being a medium and a psychic for me during this time has been a lot, especially kind of getting more public and more people reaching out to me personally. So that's one layer of it. That's a lot. It's intense. And I just can't respond to all the emails. And obviously, I can't just just help people that are begging me to help them. I just, that's what above life channel is. It's a platform for that. If you need that kind of, if you need help inspiring your spirit. Yes, that's what this is. But privately in private session, my private session work isn't about desperation and last hope. It's about inspiration and empowerment and for people who are really in a place to want to be accountable for their lives and to make changes to embrace your own healing to start driving your own bus. And I help with that and I give tools and techniques and things. And so that's what I do in private sessions. So the mediumship piece and the psychic piece. The part about current events that I have to share with you that I haven't shared with you is that over time, especially I'm probably going to get really emotional because it is so incredibly powerful. The number of spirit, the number of people who used to be in human form who have made a transition into the afterlife in huge mass waves. It's like an immigration. It's like almost like a refugee from humanity, leaving body and becoming spirit fully. And that transition process is supposed to be beautiful and freeing and and timely and intuitive. And no matter how the actual body is treated in the end of life, the moment of release is completely is supposed to be completely at freedom. The number of people who have died in mass in a short amount of time in the world. I live in the United States and it's more people than died in one of our wars in like a six month period over a war that was like 10 years. And so what has happened? What started to happen for me starting in about May, early May, end of April was when I was doing session and I was doing mediumship. I don't offer mediumship right now. But when I was offering mediumship, again, I'm not offering mediumship, which means afterlife connection. I'm not doing that right now. But when I did and was, I would start to feel in regular session and like I was in a football stadium. And I was sitting for session in the middle of the football stadium. And all of these people, 20,000, like all of these people, hundreds, over 100,000 people, spirit people were all there watching me do session. It's almost like not waiting, but watching kind of like too many onlookers. And I know you're probably thinking, well, you should manage your energy and you should set your space, especially if you work with energy, you know, you're an energy worker or a healing person, so to speak, which we all are, by the way, FYI, everybody is, it's not a job description, it's just a state of being.  But I know you're probably thinking, well, bridge it, you know, set space, create safe and sacred space, use your tools. Yeah, I can use my tools. But it's like layering up, it's like getting full armored just to go into a session.  It's not worth it. It's exhausting. It's so tiring to try to do that. And for me, it was because my own human energy was depleted. And so I'm building my energy back up, I'm coming back into my center, practicing my own safe and sacred space skills and creating safe space, healthy spiritual boundaries, healthy human boundaries, because the human boundaries and the spirit boundaries get really mixed up. I have found when you're on YouTube, big time, big time when you're on YouTube, because there's this human component to YouTube, and there's this super human component to YouTube, like, like I'm just sitting around waiting to just talk about spirit stuff with everybody. I'm not, I have like lots of projects I'm working on, classes I teach online, I have small groups I'm working with, I have, I have clients already besides anything on above life channel. And so I was out of alignment, and I was feeling so much from all these people who left their bodies. And it's not sad that they left. It's not sad, even no matter what age they were, no matter how they crossed over from the virus, they, I know that there's a choice. And I understand all that. But the families, everybody that's left is grieving so much. People are so sad. And they're scared that they're going to be like that. And that they're going to leave their own kids or their grandkids. And to me, that's too much, the feeling. And I can't work in that capacity right now. And that's a personal choice I'm making. Okay. And so when I do come back into channeling celebrities like people, former people that I got to be clear, because I can channel spirit guides, archangels, totem animals, God goddess aspects, saints, all that. Star folks, I can channel all those. But the human people, that's where it gets intensive, denser energy, denser energy density, because there's a fear around life. And there's a fear around death. There's a concern for life. So there's fear around that. And so that fear energy, mixed with the sadness of the grief energy, it's too much. It's too much. So I'm navigating this for my family. I'm a mother of four. And the back to school thing just started. And there's just a lot. I have an elderly mother-in-law who's in the hospital, not with the viral sickness, but with old age stuff, lots of other stuff. And so I gotta move her out of an apartment, gotta do a whole move during this time for her. I don't have to do it with my husband's taking care of that, his family. But at the same time, it's like, oh my gosh, all of a sudden, hubby's gone. And I'm like, I have to do this, this, this, and this. Plus we have soccer. My son is in soccer, senior year of high school. And so there's like eight hours of soccer every week, which is a blessing. It's a blessing because he gets to have that experience when the football players don't. And other sports don't. So I mean, we're lucky. We've had five games. And he's placed on two teams. So it's like a four-hour stretch twice a week. It's like, it's a whole huge commitment, you guys. Like a part-time job. And I'm blessed to have that, but it adds. And then I have a kid at college that I'm worried about.  But so financial stuff is a scary because there's the virus and nothing on campus is open. So she's gotta get a job off campus. And then if they have to quarantine people on campus, she'll lose her job off campus. And she's competing with everybody else who's lost jobs in the area, try to get a job off campus. It's just crazy. And the pay is so low because they know people are desperate. And I'm like, oh, there's no money to pay for semester two. So we'll see what happens. So there's a lot going on personally, also. So that's why that's why I'm not channeling right now. I just, I can't give, I can't give the quality that I want to share. And that is deserved by anybody spending time watching and to honor not just the celebrity in the afterlife, but their families too who grieve. You know, grief isn't just a one-time thing or it doesn't have like an expiration date.  That's not even true. That's not even true. And it doesn't have a proximity requirement. Like you had to know them in the human life in order to grieve them in the afterlife. We've talked about this before, my friends. You can have an incredibly intense, a powerful reaction when someone in the human form leaves even though you never knew them, like Chadwick Boseman, for example, or Naya, I can't think of her last name from Glee or Kenny Rogers.  I'm like, oh my gosh, it was like every other day there was another, I was like, this is too much. This is too much. This is too much.  How do I accurately represent people without using my own filter? How do I channel without being ignorant or naive or whatever? You know, it's just there's so much. So there's layers. I felt like I owed you guys that like an explanation, an explanation. And it's not like I've been just missing again, every Sunday I post a podcast style where I do an audio Sunday morning coffee about a topic. So if you're interested in the intuitive connection, the energy connection of things, watch that, listen to that. That'll keep your spirit inspired and fill you with some hope to encourage you to live your life. That will certainly help keep the mission and the connection going. In addition, I also have other ways to stay in contact with me. I have been working my tail feathers off on my fairy grasshopper channel where I share intuitive stuff. I share vlogs about my day to day life, my psychic life. I share videos about intuitive topics. Sometimes I channel like archangels. I'll talk about topics like being an empath. I share videos from the past that I've done in small groups from a couple of years back, like a full moon clearing session. I've shared videos about that. I've shared tools, using tools for intuitive connection like card deck readings. I do lots of card deck readings on there. Lots of inspired inputs for you. So fairy grasshopper. So check that out if you're interested in the intuitive stuff and you're interested in me, like my work. If you're interested in the celebrity channeling, remember there's hundreds of videos here on above life channel.  And that's awesome. Again, there's tons of playlists here, hundreds of videos on above life channel that you can enjoy. All right. And I definitely will be back for sure. And I will channel when I feel inspired to channel. So this is Bridget. Thank you so much for being here. Be sure to subscribe to above life channel. Check out my other channel, fairy grasshopper. If you want to find me on social media, Facebook is my homestead at Bridget inspired and above life channel. There's two pages there on Facebook. Also on Instagram, if you're an Instagrammer, I have Bridget inspired on Instagram too. So I look forward to connecting with you again over and over and over and over again. I hope you continue to be inspired in spirit and in human form. Thanks for being here.


Now, no one here needs an introduction to Bob Schieffer and to Henry Kissinger. You know Bob, the quintessential media journalist in Washington. More than anything, he asks the simplest questions and the hardest questions simultaneously, which is really a mark of ultra-professionals. Bob, we'll turn it to you to run this whole program. Thank you. Thank you very much, Dr. Henry. And it's really fun to be here and to have this association with CSIS. And it's always fun to interview Dr. Kissinger, which I've been doing since back in the... I didn't get to talk to him during the Nixon administration, but I talked to him a lot during the Ford administration. And sometimes he liked my questions and sometimes he didn't. But we've been friends all along the way. And there's no one in American life today that I have more respect for than Dr. Kissinger. So that doesn't mean I'm going to ask you easy questions. Dr., I do. I kind of have been known for asking the obvious questions. So everybody's been talking about you. We've been talking about U.S.-China relations today. I want to ask you the obvious question. How do you assess U.S.-Chinese relations right now? Today. Today. Both of our countries are undergoing potential changes. We have to face the fact that our relative position in the world is going to diminish in the sense that we're not going to be the dominant nation, but we're still going to be an extremely powerful nation. Chinese have a change of leadership coming up, and they will have to face during that period how to bring their political arrangements in line with their economic achievements. So both sides will have a temptation to use nationalistic explanations for the difficulties associated with that process. We can blame our economic crises on the Chinese, but we have to distinguish those things that are caused by our own failures from those that may be caused by the actions of others. The Chinese have to adjust, as was said in previous panels, to an international environment in which for the first time in their history, they have to deal with an international system composed of at least some states of equal magnitude. So I think the Chinese in the last year have gone through a process in which first feeling the impact of the economic crisis and feeling the confidence that had inspired them relative to us of testing their power. And I think they're coming to the point of view that they need a substantial period of coexistence. We in this country, as far as the administration is concerned, I believe has also come to this view, but the internal debate about the ideological conflict with China is growing rather than diminishing. I don't know where we will be at the end of, say, 10, 15 years, but I believe that if we make a serious effort to deal with the unique aspect of the situation that we have two major powers, one of which is rising, but two major powers who know the consequences of a conflict between them. And at least prepared to take a look at what measures can be taken to alleviate these dangers that then at the end of that period, cooperation of some kind may have become habitable. That is my objective. One of the goals in this book for you is to help Americans understand China's strategic thinking. What exactly do you mean by that and help us understand? In American history, in the American experience, every problem that we have recognized as a problem has proved soluble. So we tend to segment... Has proved what? Has proved soluble. Soluble? Okay. So we could, or we could overfilm it with resources, and it has had a finite time limit that you could attach to it. In Chinese history, no problem has an ultimate solution, a Chinese perception. Every solution has an admission ticket for another set of problems. We tend to think that there is one interpretation of a situation. The Chinese tend to see the situation in a more complex way with various aspects. Let me give one example that struck me as I was actually writing in this book, which is the different notions of deterrence, as I understand it. The American approach to deterrence is to identify the danger. You amass resources, and if the danger becomes acute, you overwhelm it. So it is addressed to capabilities. The Chinese approach is also to identify the danger, but then to deal with the psychological capability of implementing it. So the Chinese are more apt to take a preemptive military action, but it would be of a much more limited nature. For example, the war with India in 62, the war with Vietnam in 79, both were designed to affect the calculations of the adversary, not to achieve a total victory. In fact, they achieved whatever military goal they set, and then abandoned it, because they were more concerned with the psychological impact. And before that, there has been some discussion of the difference between the game of chess and the game of gold. So this would be the difference in approach. You talk a lot about China's great goal is to avoid encircled. Is that sort of the basis of their foreign policy as you go back to history? Well, somebody when we were standing around said to me that my book is being reviewed widely by signophiles, by experts, by signologists, I don't consider myself a Chinese scholar. I consider myself somebody who has had a lot of experience with Chinese leaders and who has thought a lot about how they evolved their thinking. Now, the idea of encirclement arose in my mind when I wrote this book. I asked the question, why did the Chinese intervene in the Korean War? And I tried to trace what it was that made the Chinese take that decision. And like most American intellectuals, I used to think that it was the advance of the Yalu River that was the decisive element and that was an example of American rashness that triggered a Chinese reaction. But that isn't what happened when you studied them. What happened was that when the North Koreans invaded the South and Truman unexpectedly for the Chinese and Russians responded by sending troops to South Korea and then followed this up by what Truman thought was a conciliatory move, namely moving the 7th Fleet into the Taiwan Strait and saying he was keeping both sides from attacking the Chinese, Taiwan and Taiwan, the mainland. In the Chinese mind, this meant that America had re-entered the Civil War and it also had put a marker down in the straits and it had put another marker down in Korea and it would, as they said in their internal discussions, put another marker into Vietnam and if they didn't give us a shocking response, we would keep that process going. And the planning for the invasion or whatever you call it of Korea started within a week of a fleet in the straits and of our troops while we were still in the Pusan perimeter. The implementation then was probably speeded up by moving up to the yellow but even then I'm not 100% sure and the same was true in Vietnam in 1979. They had been allies of Vietnam until 1975 and then almost immediately they fell out with Vietnam because they interpreted Vietnamese moves in Cambodia and Laos as a prelude to taking over all of Southeast Asia and then when Vietnam made an alliance with the Soviet Union, they decided to strike and this is a good example of the pre-emptive deterrence that I'm talking about. Most Western nations would say that when Vietnam made an alliance with the Soviet Union, it had become impregnable. Here was the Soviet Union to the north but within a month the Chinese attacked Vietnam with as much of an eye on the Soviet Union as on Vietnam and one could argue although it wasn't recognized that the decline of the Soviet Union as a superpower began when they acquiesced in the attack on an ally that they had just recently made and permitted this northern province to be totally devastated and then withdraw. The Chinese paid a horrendous price for it and in most of the Western military literature this is described as a Chinese defeat but if you look at it in strategic terms it was from the point of view of what I call an offensive deterrence, it was successful. Speaking of Vietnam and what you just said what does that mean to how we react to China's assertive actions in the South China Sea? I mean is there a danger that we might back China into a corner here? I must say during the Vietnam war it's not your question but I think one has to say that we did not as a country adequately analyze the impact, the relationship of China and Vietnam a succession of American administrations believed that Vietnam was an extension of Chinese policy and that it was all part of a grand strategy in which Moscow, Beijing and Hanoi were working together and nothing could have been further from the truth. So in the nature of things Vietnam and China are strategic opponents in the sense that Vietnam is assertive insisting on its autonomy we of course have an interest in the independence of countries of Southeast Asia but we should not treat Vietnam as if it were an ally against China and while I agreed with what was said about freedom of seas in Southeast, South China Sea I did not think Hanoi was the ideal place to make that declaration and we should avoid, we should find political and economic means of cooperating with the countries of South Asia we should avoid the impression of a military containment policy and China should accept our having these relationships without trying to push us out of Asia those are the two limits, no containment, no Chinese Germany over all of Asia But are you saying that some of this, some of what we're seeing in that area today goes back to the Vietnam war No, I don't think it goes back to the Vietnam war is such it is, people say that the conventional wisdom is to say China is a rising power we are an established power, it's a rising power usually in conflict with established powers and therefore it's like Germany and Britain in a way that's true but in a way China does not think of itself as a rising power China thinks of itself as a country that was preeminent for 1800 of the last 2000 years and it's returning to its traditional preeminence in its traditional preeminence the states surrounding it were treated as a kind, were treated as tributary states and indeed the notion of sovereign states did not exist Vietnam had actually been a part of the Chinese Empire so that relationship is particularly tense if I look back on the Vietnam war, something I did not fully understand at the time was the Chinese strategic interest in Vietnam was really the same as ours I would like to see an outcome of force states from a strategic point of view but they didn't want an American strategic presence there having, but once we were withdrawn from Vietnam some of the traditional Chinese notions of how surrounding states should behave re-emerged but I read today that the Chinese defence minister in Singapore said that the issue of freedom of disease is not the issue and if that is true then we are dealing with a whole set of complicated, abstruse issues having to do with economic zones around some rocks in some cases there are some islands there that are islands only at low tide on one of them in fact the Chinese have built a platform so that it's always... my point is the South China Sea issue we will defend freedom of disease we cannot abandon that I think this is one of those issues where the Chinese will come where we and the Chinese will come to an understanding in which I believe they have already modified their attitude of last year then there will be a whole set of issues about these various islands and that will involve the Philippines, Vietnam, China, Indonesia and that will be a very complicated diplomacy but I don't think it will threaten the peace of the world do you think that China's strategic approach will change as their stature in the world changes I mean you say they don't see themselves as a rising power they see themselves returning to the place where they once were they recognize that there's change and will that change their approach to these things? this is one of those questions which I meant in my early remarks that will have to evolve over the next 15 years I think the natural instinct of the Chinese with respect to surrounding countries it will take an effort to get to treat them as fully equal sovereign countries they know the language of doing it I think it will happen and I think it's probably happening now but the basic question is as their power grows my interpretation of their thinking is they will want to be treated with respect and respect will be related to their strengths so if we keep going down internally and they keep going up our negotiating position will be much more difficult for any observer of China the financial crisis of 2007 had more to do with our political difficulties than the actual issues that arose the Chinese had believed that the Americans knew how to run the global financial system and they had actually geared a lot of their policies to that belief so when it became apparent that we didn't know it not only did we lose faiths but also the people that had been associated with the policy of cooperating with the United States lost some of their prestige so we cannot ask the Chinese to solve our own domestic problems for us we have to distinguish those things they do that are immeasurable by decisive American or long-range American policies and those, a foreign policy and those which we need to deal with by making ourselves truly competitive that second part we cannot ask for them to solve for us What does it do to the relationship that we borrow so much from the Chinese? Has that changed the relationship? You seem to kind of suggest that perhaps it might have The way it was until about ten years ago I don't think it was even in a way helpful to the relationship but when a nation keeps borrowing in a profligate way and heads itself for a demonstrable financial crisis then it means you are tying yourself to a potential wreck it isn't that they can use the money we own them in a strategic way because we can then cut off their exports and it's sort of a mutual suicide fact but it does not enhance our capacity to convince them of the desirability of moving on a joint approach I agree with what Fick said in the previous session namely that the region between the Himalayas and however far west you want to go is emerging into such a state of chaos that it needs some reordering I'm not saying the United States alone can reorder it in fact this is an area where soon or later we are going to be driven and they are going to be driven and every other country in the region India is going to be driven but to come up with some concept will become more and more chaos it's in this sense that the respect for American thinking in Beijing not in this sense I don't know of a military attack on the international system I think that is nearly inconceivable to me anyway let me just ask you about North Korea and China's relationship with North Korea are they being helpful to us what should we be doing if they are not doing what would we like for them to do if they are not doing in order to understand their position on North Korea one has to recall what I said earlier about the Korean War which is in Chinese consciousness a big event no they are not helpful to us if we mean are they helpful to us in getting the nuclear weapons away from North Korea they are marginally helpful but they face this dilemma as in a way do we which is that the only successful thing the Korean regime has done in it long and unattractive history is to build nuclear weapons almost everything else domestically it's been a catastrophe therefore the Chinese probably recognize that the pressure required to get nuclear weapons away from North Korea is almost identical with pressures needed to collapse the North Korean regime if one could create a North Korean regime that operates like the Dong Rui Fung system and that gives up nuclear weapons and that develops its economy I think the Chinese would be delighted but such a regime wouldn't be the current North Korean regime and so I believe at some point there has to be an understanding between China and the United States and other countries on a Northeast Asia arrangement into which North Korea fits and of course South Korea has to be an integral part of this so that the nuclear question can be solved without chaos in North Korea what the Chinese fear is chaos in North Korea they have to know that the nuclear weapons in North Korea are infinitely more dangerous to them than to us and we have not yet found the right way to talk to the Chinese nor have they found the right way to talk to us about it because there are too many inhibitions on both sides but it seems to me and I think you hit the nail right on the head and I think that's what causes a lot of Americans to just wonder about this answer they don't seem to be as worried about nuclear weapons in North Korea or in Iran for example as we are and are they or are they not they don't have the cosmic view on proliferation that we have I agree with the administration that the proliferation of nuclear weapons is one of the greatest dangers that the world faces the Chinese look at it more from a local strategic point of view I have described the Korean issue on Iran they went along with us on the last sanctions if we can segment it into individual steps like many governments they do not want to give up the access to Iranian oil and their balancing it but in the long run they will face the question they will have to face the question of a chaotic Middle Eastern region but it would be a big change in their historic approach obviously they are playing a larger role in the Middle East but let me say one other thing they will not do it when I talk to people in Washington they will say they are not helpful to us they do not conceive foreign policy in terms of being helpful to us they conceive foreign policy in terms of their own strategy so what we have to learn to do is to merge our strategy and their strategies so that it leads to common results when we said they should be stakeholders we decide the thing and they make a contribution in that concept they have to be made part of the design just while we are in the Middle East do you expect China to continue to play more of a role in the Middle East than they had in the past? I think China is going to be forced to play more of a role cause of the oil yes when the crisis occurred in Egypt and the way the Saudis interpreted it I thought it was almost inevitable that a new relationship would begin with Saudi but they are doing it primarily to protect their energy resources but it is a vital area for them they prefer it if we took care of the security I thought one of the most interesting thoughts in your book you say that American exceptionalism is missionary Chinese exceptionalism is cultural just talk about that a little of course again I have to tell you I do not pretend to be a Chinese scholar and there are several former speech writers of mine sitting around here who are moving their lips well you probably know enough to pull a loss so with these qualifications let me make my Americans believe that our values are universally valid and can be applied by any society and moreover that we can teach any society to adopt these values and finally that the prospects of peace are in hand if we accomplish this task the Chinese believe in the superiority of their culture the uniqueness of their culture and they are delighted and proud if you respect it but there is no way you can become a Chinese it is not a if you are not part of the Chinese culture born into the Chinese culture you cannot become one so it's hard to imagine Chinese armies intervening somewhere to make Chinese culture the Chinese governing principles that is not a Chinese way of thinking the Chinese way of thinking is that the majesty of the Chinese conduct and the achievement of Chinese society will inspire respect which leads to a cooperative action but it's not one that they have historically attempted to bring about by military force they'll use military force if they feel themselves threatened and brutal to say but it's hard for me to visualize a Chinese military strategy designed to back up a Chinese world government even in the name of universal peace so you talked in the beginning about how we have to look for things that we can agree on and all of that do you think the two sides recognize how dangerous a rivalry between China and the United States could become or do you think that could depose this? you know what I think I think the best thing that was done in the beginning of the relationship was not just the discovery of the importance of the relationship because that was sort of going to happen even though we may have done it the best thing was that we sort of put aside all the technical issues that had impeded previous discussions and said let's talk about fundamentals what are we really trying to do and luckily since there had been no diplomatic relations there was no agenda to impede it so if you read the transcripts of the first years of conversations they were almost like college professors discussing but it had the advantage that it concept formed now to talk about the current situation from my knowledge of both governments and having talked to both leaders in our world the importance of what I've said is recognized I don't think there is anyone who says it is not important in the government there were confrontational people outside but what tends to happen now is each government faces more and more problems is that they make a communique and then not much happens until the next communique what is not happening yet fully it's the kind of dialogue that enables us to deal with this question of North Korea in its ultimate sense and of the Middle East in its ultimate sense that's where the big gap is it's not that people don't want an understanding it's that they have not yet found a message or even the people to do it United States I mean this is one of the questions that some of the folks at CSIS sent along one of them was and I thought this was interesting United States was historically isolationist and forced out on the world stage by a series of great wars do you see a similar impulse toward the world stage in China now you talked a little about this well it isn't that China didn't have wars in its history it had many wars in its history they never had to deal with sovereign state the notion of sovereignty was unknown in China they didn't have a foreign ministry until the end of the 19th century and then the foreign ministry was supposed to deal only with the invading Europeans all other things that we consider foreign affairs were assigned to different departments so this notion of a sovereign will it require wars to force China into that I don't think that because the Chinese are really careful students of foreign policy and of strategy but they undoubtedly have different interpretations now of their opportunities and of their necessities and I would expect that the new administration that is coming into power next year in China will have to face this the current administration after going through a the Hu Jintao administration after going through a period that could be compared with the elbowing of the Germans before World War I however made a turn which the Germans never made and I think the State Council in charge of foreign policy made a very thoughtful speech and the theme now that the Chinese also at the Singapore Conference have is that of peaceful rise and of a cooperative relationship and even of Pacific community and undoubtedly there are country reviews in China and in my view it should be the objective of American policy to enhance the plausibility of the view that one's cooperation but they have to do the same thing it's needed on both sides it would be a unique experience in history it's not huge, it's not happened before but it also hasn't been necessary before I keep saying in this not keep saying I say in my last chapter in my book what would have happened if the European leaders who drifted into war in 1910 from the period say 1910 to 14 had known what the world would look like in 1919 what they have done it in that case Germany was the principally responsible country that was meted here we are I think on an equal basis in having to make adjustment I just want to ask you one more question you've been to China what 50 times now since you made that first trip I just wonder as you were on that airplane going to China that first time what was going through your mind when you knew this was on the cusp of something grand but did you have any idea it would come out the way it did we would be here today talking about what's happened since then just to keep Winston Lord from rushing up on this stage he was my principal associate at the time and the quality of our thought was shown by the fact that he went up to the pilot seat while I was resting in the rear of the plane so that he could say he was the first to be in China which will show you the I'll tell you I think that we knew it was a momentous event we did not know its magnitude we looked at it primarily in terms of three things of balancing the Soviet Union isolating North Vietnam and giving the American people a demonstration that even in the middle of a divisive war its government could come up with a comprehensive notion of peace none of us, certainly not I expected a China of the magnitude that had since arisen and even after we saw it but it was we were all lucky in the sense how often in life do you get a chance to do something unique and something that you know is going to make a huge difference if our mission had failed it also would have made a huge difference but the odds were that it that it would succeed and just to show the Chinese side we had sent a team of people that had to escort us from Pakistan into China which we didn't know until we got to Pakistan so we knew from them on the plane that this was not going to be a gravitational meeting if it was avoidable it was from that point of view a great experience but we had others I would say one great moment was when we knew the Vietnam War would end and that didn't end so we thought it was a great achievement and that failed and that blew up but we knew it would do make a historic change but a number of things we couldn't imagine it predict for example we thought that there was a possibility and all our experts had told us that if we move towards China our relations with the Soviet Union would deteriorate and we thought we would get into a period of increased tension with the Soviet Union the exact opposite happened the opening to China greatly improved our relations with the Soviet Union and in fact made it possible to have a global policy of what was then called invitiality thought which we thought represented a significant problem Dr. Henry Kissinger


This boy vanished almost 10 years ago. Now the FBI have discovered the strange truth. A child disappearing is every parent's worst fear and when it happens, it usually doesn't end in good news. Every year there are hundreds of children who seemingly vanish all around the world, many of who are never heard from again. However, in the strange case of Timothy Pitson, everything investigators thought they knew about missing children's cases was thrown out the window when they discovered something they never thought they'd see. Timothy Pitson was a happy-go-lucky six-year-old boy who was the light of his family's life. In the early morning hours of May 11, 2011, Timothy's father, James Pitson, dropped him off at school just like he would any other normal day. However, only an hour later his mother, Amy Fry Pitson, checked him out of school citing a family emergency that was later deemed untrue. Now here's where things get strange and it's only the beginning. The pair was off to what would become an odd road trip ending in tragedy. They dropped the family car off at a local repair shop at 10 am where an employee kindly dropped them off at Brookfield Zoo. The pair then returned for the car around 3 pm heading to their next destination of Key Lime Cove Resort in Gurney, Illinois. Ending only one night in Gurney, Illinois, the mother and son duo then head to Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin-Dells, Wisconsin for unknown reasons. They were spotted on nearby security cameras, seemingly calm and under no duress. By this time, other family members were beginning to worry about the safety of both parties until Amy phoned them reassuring them that everyone was safe. However, the unplanned trip had everyone on high alert as it was unusual behavior that left everyone feeling uneasy and for very good reason. No one was more worried than Timothy's father, James, who had been desperately trying to locate his wife and son since he received a call from his son's school, notifying him of his absence. His wife, although reassuring other family members, failed to contact James during the entire trip. When Amy did contact family, Timothy was heard in the background complaining that he was hungry, urging the family to question Amy's state of mind. Over that same night, Amy was spotted on camera at a Winnebago dollar store, but not with her son. She was alone, making the previous phone call the last time Timothy was proven to be alive. Oddly, what she purchased at the dollar store would foreshadow devastating events to come and spark a nationwide hunt for the missing six-year-old. Amy purchased paper, a pen, and envelopes, which initially caused confusion until later when police made a disturbing discovery. At 8 p.m., she was seen at Sullivan's food store, but again, she was alone. Investigators had a hunch that things were about to get a lot worse for the Pidson family, but little did they know this case would be full of surprises. A few hours later at 11 p.m., Amy checked in the Rockford Inn at Rockford, where sometime that night she ended her own life. Leaving behind a suicide note, Amy stated that Timothy would never be found but that he was in a safe hands. Her body was discovered by a hotel maid and police were on the scene shortly. The desperate search for little Timothy was kicked into high gear, but sadly, his mother's suicide wasn't the only shocking turn of events. Investigators located her car at a nearby stream and highway and began to thoroughly search for any clues to Timothy's whereabouts. Although all the blood in the hotel room belonged to her, the surprising amount found in her car belonged to young Timothy. It was blood to suggest that the little one was injured and in trouble. They also searched high and low for her cell phone to try and turn up any new clues but didn't locate it until 2013, off Route 78, when they finally located the phone, no new evidence surfaced. At what felt like a dead end, investigators refused to give up and asked the public for help. As news spread across the nation of the unfortunate disappearance of little Timothy, shows like live PD aired the case alongside any details of the child in hopes that someone, somewhere, would come forward with news of where to find him. James, Timothy's father, still believes his son is alive. Although no new lead surfaced into the whereabouts of young Timothy, something else happened that would leave many people scratching their heads. On April 3, 2019, reports of a teenager wandering the streets of Newport, Kentucky, claiming to be Timothy, hit local officers. The 911 caller stated, He walked up to my car and he went, Can you help me? I just want to get home. Please help me. I asked him what's going on and he tells me he's been kidnapped and he's been traded through all these people and he just wanted to go home. Excitement filled the air as they thought this might turn out to be a happy time for the Pitson family, but when they took the teenager into custody, things got weird. The Pitson family was cautious to celebrate until the boy could be positively identified as Timothy and it's a good thing they did. Red flag started to rise as the young man was questioned. Although the young man swore up and down that he was the missing child, something just didn't seem right. First they realized that the teen was actually a lot older than Timothy would have been. Rather than being a 14-year-old boy, the man was actually 23. To get to the bottom of his identity, police performed a DNA test. When the results came in, they realized that it was in fact not Timothy. The man was actually Brian Rini, a criminal who had just been released from prison a month prior. He was known around his local community for being a thief and a vandal, far from the young innocent Timothy. One major question still remained, why would he pretend to be Timothy? Trying to determine if Rini had anything to do with Timothy's disappearance was their first priority as they didn't see any benefit of Rini lying about his identity. They determined he had no connection with the case but couldn't figure out why he lied. Timothy's family has been through hell and back waiting for Timothy's return and have had many false alarms during the process. According to his grandmother, this one however has to be the hardest and strangest to deal with. It has been awful, Alana Anderson, Timothy's grandmother told reporters. We've been alternately hopeful and frightened, it's just been exhausting. Timothy's aunt also shared how it's affecting them. It's like reliving that day all over again, she said, and Timothy's father is devastated once again. Although we are disappointed that this turned out to be a hoax, we remain diligent in our search for Timothy as our missing person's case remains unsolved. Police spokesperson, Sergeant Bill Rowley said.


So since so many artists are asking me, brand man, is TikTok really worth it? I really don't understand this thing. I decided to go ahead and do a free training using real campaigns and I'm gonna go through some real results, but also explaining it in a way that if you get TikTok in this way, it will be a game changer for you with your music. I promise not only that, no matter what type of music you have and no matter what age and you'll see why. So let's start here. Views, 734,900 views on this particular campaign, 27,899 likes, 2,661 shares and 87 videos have been generated from this campaign. Now let's look into the finer details though because this word becomes more important. For those views, then views came out at .00115 cents per view. That's a fraction of a penny. 20, well the same thing for the likes. Shares were 31 cents per share and videos came in at $9.77 per video. Now you might not have ran a TikTok campaign so I wanna ask you in general, do you feel like these are good results for anything? They're not the worst results in the world.  This was a situation where the artist had some business issues in the back end where the campaign didn't even come to fruition like it was supposed to. It had to halt mid-campaign but we still got these results and I'm gonna go through the rest of results before I talk about some more aspects of TikTok. So check this out right here. That same campaign just marketed on TikTok got some streams. It got about 1700 streams and those streams came out at 49 cents per stream. Industry average, if you have a really good playlist broker you're probably gonna see around 2 to 4 cents per stream. This was at 49 cents but remember this is overtime. We just marketed on TikTok and it bled over to here. Same thing for YouTube. About 1800 views on the YouTube video, 47 cents per view. You can get lower, you can get better than that on YouTube. If you are dangerous enough, you learn it well enough it's easy to get one to five cents per view on YouTube. Of course you got fractions of penny views that you can get on YouTube as well if you really know what you're doing but let's just stick with the average of what most people are gonna get. One to five cents, right? 47 cents per view, higher than that. That's what this campaign got but again, this is overtime. This is extra. Now with that being said, a campaign that's currently running right now, .216, well 2.1 cents per view is what it's getting per stream on Spotify. That's right in the pocket of an industry average and this is about 50,000 views that this campaign has gotten probably. No, it's still going. It's still going. I just talked about it and talked to the people earlier today. So that's still going. Remember this one only got 1700 streams. This one at .0211. A fraction of a penny is at 50,000 streams and still going on Spotify just from being marketed on TikTok. Now we look at the YouTube results. It's about 15,000 views in on the YouTube video that came from TikTok. Now the average, remember we said one to five cents if you're pretty solid, the average for that particular campaign is about, that's a 0.57, you probably can't even see that. So it's about 5.7 cents, right? Per view on that campaign. So it's on the top end if you were running but remember this isn't an ad on YouTube. This is coming over from TikTok. Lo and behold, it's about 10 million views on TikTok right now, thousands of videos being created to it. So you're talking about from what this artist has done the first campaign, by the way, when we talk about it being the worst campaign, it's not even a thousand dollars spent on that campaign. It's not that much money that's been spent and it got the results it did. This is somewhere a little around that but it's some very good results. So maybe double the money but you have far more results because we were able to keep running it and run with the strategy that we planned for. And this is what I love about TikTok. You run in one place and get all of these results that get pushed in all these other areas, right? Where traditionally you might run something on Instagram and it stays on Instagram or it might be a programmatic ad where you're running it on Instagram and you're pushing to Spotify. So you see the results there or you're running on YouTube and you push it there or it's just one platform that's really seeing prime results a lot of times in a lot of people's campaigns but this is one campaign that's having people go to all other aspects because of something on TikTok that I like to call transferability. That has to be kept in mind whenever we consider any type of campaign. People will discover you on TikTok and they will happily go find your music because up until now there hadn't even been a direct link to select on TikTok. For a long time people hadn't even been able to put a link in their bio when it comes to TikTok so people could go directly to the music so this isn't people even saying hey go check out the link in my bio with the call to action. This is people literally hearing a song and then going to find it, Google searching it, YouTube searching it. So 50,000 streams based on that behavior not go I'm pushing you over here this is ooh I hear it, whoa what's that song and that's what we're seeing again and again and again on TikTok. If you look at Instagram we already know those prices have gone up. You're not gonna pay $100 per 10,000 followers for an influencer because we know it's not worth that anymore. Right $100 per 10,000 followers means you're paying $1,000 to someone who has 100,000 followers and stop and think and tell me if you think that's worth it on TikTok. I'm on Instagram today. I don't think it is, as a matter of fact I know for a fact many of the influencers know that it's not. They're trying to hold on as much as they can but so many of them have come down since I've been working with them because they already know and understand that there is more competition in these other spaces. They're trying to maintain if they can but a lot of them have come down because they know it's not worth it. Instagram is suppressing traffic. So to really understand though here's something to consider. When we look at TikTok, right? This is how the content flows through TikTok. There's four buckets that you can look at. Content always starts in bucket number one. It's shown to a small audience, it gets stress tests for a period of time and I can go deeper into the algorithm in another video but just understand that it's here for about two hours and it starts to move throughout the platform and it stops on level three for about four days actually. You'll understand that when you start to get into TikTok and see how the content flows as well. But if you even make it there once you make it to each level it's shown to more and more people. So these levels also coordinate with the size of the box.  That's how the flow of the content works but outside of the transferability which is one of the most important facets of TikTok when it comes to an artist, people looking for your music, they're hearing your music and then they're actively going to look for it because this platform works like promo daily. Every single video is promo except people are giving you permission to show it to them. That's a marketer's dream. The other thing is viral loops. So because of how this works, the way the platform is built, if you drop a video, right? Then it'll go through these levels and your video might make it to level two. Somebody sees that video and they decide, I'm going to create a video and this person could be better at you than creating videos. And matter of fact, they might actually have a lot more followers and be a strong content creator so they might do it and then it'll take it to level three. Multiple people see their video and then they might do it. Let's say five people see their video and one person stops on level two, two people stop on level three and then four of them make it, oh that's the wrong math. Two people make it to level four, right? So now you have people being planted at seas on different levels all coming from one video, right?  So now it's marketing for itself in the same way we think about passive income and people say I want my money to work for myself. On TikTok, your content is working for itself. It's a little shop soldier that gets other pieces of creators and content out there to create for it. And then when they create, that brings back more content that gets created and it continues this loop while your video is working for you, you can continue to make strategic moves to boost that content as well. So that's one of the biggest beauties. We have the transferability of content on TikTok and then also the viral loops being built in. And just to actually drive that point through, let me pull this up right here.  So 83 of those videos all came because of that viral loop concept that's ingrained into TikTok. There were other people who saw those videos and said I want to create videos off of it which allowed our cost per video to come down to $9.77. As a matter of fact, remember I mentioned this is that worst campaign that I've ever had run on TikTok. That artist was actually extremely delighted from the results and based on what they had to pay any results they saw somewhere else and they wanted to do more and more work hopefully after they finished figuring out all the back end business troubles that are going on right now. We, because we know what it could have been and it could have gotten closer to those other campaigns that we run, we were kind of sad about it. We were highly disappointed, especially with that song. And another thing about that particular song it had zero base in it, zero. So the type of music that you think blows up on TikTok it's not just high end energetic hip hop. It's not just super poppy songs. That song, I don't even know what to call it honestly. It's pretty slow. It's not even an R&B song. It's some kind of mid alternative modern whatever you want to call it, right? But it's an interesting type of sound and it still is taking off in its own with those little pushes that we put behind it EDM, I see that blow up on TikTok all the time. Country, plenty of traction on TikTok. It doesn't matter your type of genre and it doesn't really matter your age because it's about the music itself if you run and understand how to push the campaigns in the proper way, right? People are hearing the music and going to find the music before they even think about who they see in it like who the actual artist is. That's after the fact as a matter of fact, I've seen some instances where people have been highly surprised to find out who the artist is, how they actually look and all that after they hear the music and become fans of the music itself. But that's what you want, right? You want followers based off the merit of your music first. That's what so many artists are looking for. TikTok affords that in a way that a lot of these other platforms aren't necessarily affording, right? It's more Spotify in many ways than it is Instagram because people are truly discovering music on TikTok. That's another conversation for another day but just understand that this should be enough to give you an idea that you don't have an excuse on age, you don't have an excuse on your type of music because all of that stuff is there, right? Gary Vee is talking about it a lot because it's a very real thing. You hear a lot of people talking about it because it's a very real thing from music results and so much of the industry, I'm in meetings all the time, these people are coming, right? These people are coming and the prices are going to triple at minimum for a lot of these influencers and a lot of these other types of campaigns that you might be looking to run on TikTok because they're gonna bring the money. You need to make sure that you get in before the prices rise, particularly if budget is a constraint for you. So if you wanna make sure you understand TikTok and you wanna get onboarded as quickly as possible on how you specifically can benefit as an artist because there's a lot of content and ideas for just creatives in general, but how you can benefit for music, then check out our free training. It's at tiktokandmusicpromote.com and you will reap a lot of benefits from not having to go through figuring out TikTok. It's a completely different platform. So get on there, utilize the information and put it to work because TikTok is a game changer and I've yet to see a social media platform that impacts an artist's music directly like this. Get on while it's sweet because it won't always be this easy. TikTokmusicpromote.com, we have an entire free training and for those of you who wanna share this video with your friends, you can check it out on the Brandman page. I'll make sure it gets posted on the Brandman page on YouTube. That's it.


Dealing with physical trauma involves rest, while chemical imbalances might require medications or nutritional adjustments. But here's the kicker. Emotional stress, which affects a significant number of people seeking healthcare, often goes overlooked. Emotions like anger, fear, or insecurity are connected to stress hormones. When we dwell on negative thoughts or past events, the body responds as if those events are happening right now, impacting our overall Now listen to this. Long-term stress hormones can activate certain genes that may lead to disease. So if our thoughts can make us sick, is it possible they could also make us well? Managing attention and energy becomes crucial. Where we focus our attention is where our energy goes. Inhibiting negative thoughts that condition our body into stress states is key. By changing our emotional state through practices like gratitude and consciously directing our thoughts, we can positively impact our autonomic nervous system.


You know that moment when you're a background character listening to some sort of important announcement? Maybe it's about emperor alliances or wallow dissolutions.  At which point you are filled with this overwhelming sense of existential dread. And so you just need to stop and ask yourself, why? Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review Source for everything one piece. And today we are back to place a comically large microscope across the span of one piece to discover some truly mind-blowing details about the series that I can guarantee most of you will have missed. And why can I guarantee that? Well, because even I, a man who has honestly nothing better to do except read and reread and even reread the series over and over again. Well, even I missed a lot of these things the first few times around. There is just so much to take in with this series that many profound background details get overlooked entirely. But as you'll soon discover it is very much worth diving into things a little bit deeper. Before that though, it's time for a quick round of Major or Minor, a very simple minigame, the rules of which are as follows. Inside of this here box is a one piece character and your job is to guess where that character will be a major or a minor character. Major characters being defined as our primary protagonist, antagonist, et cetera, whilst minor characters are best defined as something like this drawing of Fishman Nami. And if you guess incorrectly then your envious punishment will be to subscribe to the Grand Line Review which will also result in regular one piece content being uploaded straight until YouTube beat. And if you are correct, then you may reward yourself with a candy of your choosing. But what will this character be? Major or minor? Choose now and we shall reveal the answer in three, two, one and bam, it is the dirt boss from Gadatsu's cover story who in addition to being a minor character also happens to be a professional minor with an E. So it's like this pun thing happening. But if you picked major, then you know the thing it is that you need to do. Hit the button and please do comment down below if you are a new member of the Grand Fleet, welcome. But for our first mind blowing detail, I actually want to return to this drawing of Fishman Nami because you are not going to believe this. This was originally a goofy little gag thing that happened at the dawn of One Piece.  It's a fantastic throwaway comic moment from the early days of the series. However, let's skip forward ahead about 13 years of publication to chapter 626. A primarily tragic installment involving Otahime actually, but in our one moment of victory, what do we have here? If we look closely at this crowd shot, yes, we see Fishman Nami brought to life in all of her bizarrely simplistic glory. And actually, you know, come to think of it since this was a flashback, I think that means that Fishman Nami canonically predates Luffy's drawing and thus I feel like Fishman Nami could sue Luffy for aquatic plagiarism. Sadly, however, Fishman Nami did not make it into the anime adaptation for no good reason, especially since they went ahead and animated Squid Head. Ah, I mean, seriously, Squid Head got in, but Fishman Nami did not. This process is a sham. However, what makes up for this is that you can actually vote for Fishman Nami in the world top 100 character polls. So go forth and do with that mind blowing detail, whatever you will. Let's move away from Fish for a second though and on to a man who no doubt smells like putrid fish. It is of course, Wapol. And our mind blowing detail regarding him is that Wapol is technically responsible for the entire existence of General Frankie. How is that possible, you ask? Frankie and Wapol, they've never met and that is actually true, but you have gravely underestimated Wapol's capacity to fail upwards. After being unceremoniously expelled from Drum Island, Wapol was left to fend for himself on a street in a location that I can only describe as somewhere. And due to eating almost exclusively garbage, Wapol accidentally created an entirely new metal compound that went on to completely revolutionize global engineering and was thereby dubbed Wapol Metal. And it's only because of Wapol Metal that Frankie was able to build the gargantuan beast that is General Frankie because it allows metal to kind of morph and change shapes. So basically we have Wapol to thank for General Frankie as well as many of Frankie's other great inventions. And it doesn't even end there though because Wapol Metal is now such a prominent substance that it is being used by leading world scientists including those of the German kingdom. The German Raidsuits now incorporate Wapol Metal into their functionality. So in a weird way, Sanji also has Wapol to thank for his latest power-up, which means that two straw hats have now significantly benefited from one of the most hated characters in this entire series. So yay, Wapol. Speaking of the German though, here's a detail that made my mind kind of melt when it was first pointed out to me, but Sanji's mother is named Sora. Now that in and of itself is not mind melt appropriate. However, in an intriguing parallel, Sora is also the name of the main character of the comic strip published in the World Economic Times. Sora, Warrior of the Sea, a marine hero who notably battles the fictional armies of the German double six, which is quite striking, but Kasanji's mother, Sora, despite being a member of the German was in direct opposition to their ideals and goals just like the Sora from the comic strip. So there's this very subtle story being told here through fiction within fiction, although where Sora, Warrior of the Sea was quite successful in repelling the German, Sora, mother of Sanji, saw much less grandiose success, although her ideals are now survived by her son, which I don't know. Through inherited world, does that make Sanji our new Warrior of the Sea protagonist? I mean, I can see it right now. Sanji, O'Kama Warrior of the Sea. Sanji is far from the only straw hat who has inherited aspects of their maternal figures though, and we now turn to Robin for a pretty incredible detail. So if you've seen my video detailing Robin's true bounty, I made the claim that her initial bounty of 79 million berries was a bit of an arbitrary number, but as it turns out, that's not entirely true. Robin's child bounty is actually a direct replica of her mother's Niko Olvia. Prior to her untimely and unfortunate death, Olvia also had a bounty of 79 million berries. And so when the world government were, I guess, discussing what number to assign Robin, it would seem that she basically inherited her mother's threat level and was slapped with that 79 million. Not the greatest of things to inherit, I must admit.  At least it's nice connective tissue back to her mother. Also, while we're here, I do need to admit that for a shockingly large majority of my life, I had no idea that Robin's mother's name was Olvia. For whatever reason, I had always read her name as Niko Olvia. I thought that was reasonable. I didn't need to question my eyes. However, when I did eventually find out that there was no second eye and that her name was Olvia, well, that was, that was a legitimate mind blow for me. Running with the theme of seemingly arbitrary bounties now, have any of you ever looked at Charlotte Carter Curry's bounty and asked yourselves, why 1 billion and 57 million berries? Why not just cap him at a flat 1 billion? At that point, what does the extra 57 million even do? Well, functionally, nothing, but narratively, everything. As it turns out, this 57 million is actually far more important than the whole 1 billion aspect. And to explain why we first need to take a look at Luffy, if you've spent a decent amount of time with One Piece, then you will have noticed that he has a trademark number, which is 56. It occasionally appears on various items of clothing and such, because these numbers can be read as Gomu in Japanese, which replicates the name of Luffy's devil fruit, the Gomu Gomu No Mi. So when it comes to Carter Curry, whose entire idea was that he was the superior of Luffy in every way, having a very similar ability, only much more better. Well, what's a better way to show that than to make Carter Curry's trademark number 57. Thus, one-upping Luffy's 56. It's an almost frustratingly clever minor detail, and it shows that very little in One Piece is actually arbitrary and meaningless, even if it does appear that way. Oh, and as a Carter Curry bonus fact, many people overlook this, but he is actually a triplet. He was born in what we'll call the same batch of spawn as both Charlotte Overn and Charlotte Daifuku, thus making them all 48 years old and also making them an entire pack of middle-aged men who still live with their mother. Not that there's anything wrong with that.  I'm a millennial, I understand. But you know what is very, very wrong though. Well, that would be anthropomorphic swords. So here's a fun detail that you will find buried in a mountain of SPS segments within the manga, but Oda actually has a habit of drawing objects as if they were people. And three primary victims of this artwork consist of the swords Wadawichi Monji, Sanda Kitatsu, and Shusui, all pictured here from left to right in all of their, I don't know what you would call this. I do know that glory is the wrong word though. You know, you got Wadaw looking quite nice and chilled and then Shusui on the far right, looking very refined, like the upstanding black blade he is. But then in the middle, we have this sneaky Sanda Kitatsu, just looking for trouble, which makes sense since it is a cursed blade and all. What makes this so much better though is that just like Fishman Army, you can vote for all of these personified swords in the world top 100 character pool. So at the very least, I suppose these three Stooges now canon characters, which is still more than we can say for Kondoriano, so mm. On the topic of swords, now this is a ridiculous detail that is far too buried and nowhere near widespread enough, but you may remember that during Wano, Hitetsu mentioned a man by the name of Shimotsuki Kozaburo, a man who was responsible for crafting Zora's Wadawichi Monji, as well as Kozuki Odin's Enma, which I must stress is not the same thing as Kozuki Odin's Enma. I have no idea if Kozaburo was involved in that. I mean, for his sake, I hope not. And whilst this has not been mentioned in the series itself as of yet, but Odin has confirmed in an SPS segment that Kozaburo is the one who left Wano 55 years ago with several other citizens and eventually ended up in East Blue, founding Shimotsuki Village, which is where Zora grew up. In addition to this, Odin also flat out confirmed that Kozaburo is the father of Koshiro Zora sensei and the grandfather of Kuina, Zora's key rival and inspiration. And while it was not confirmed if Zora himself is descended from Wano or not, he did know Kozaburo sort of. Zora referred to him as an old geezer in the village who taught him the Tsunachi term, which is particularly fascinating because in the current day, Zora has also inherited Enma another blade crafted by Kozaburo. And in a way, he's kind of the rightful descendant to Enma as well. So, hmm. Given that Zora is carrying on Kozaburo's grandfather's dream, it only makes sense that he would inherit another Kozaburo blade. So that is an absolutely wild detail that you will currently not find in either the anime or the manga. For something that spans both now, who remembers this girl? She was quite prominently featured post-Holkic Island in a chapter where the Revolutionary Army commanders helped the people of the Lelusia Kingdom in order to fend off the Peachbeard pirates. In fact, this girl, this one right here is ultimately responsible for defeating Captain Peachbeard himself. She is far from a random character though and her name is actually Moda, who we first met 15 years prior to her appearance in this chapter. Moda was a key figure in Ace's cover story, first introduced all the way back in chapter 278 and is actually responsible for saving Ace's life, albeit in a very comical kind of way. But this entire cover story turned into a sort of quest for Ace to deliver a letter from Moda to a Marine vice admiral, ultimately resulting in Moda supplying the Marines with much needed milk. It's a very cute story with quite a sweet ending, which is why seeing her village invaded two years later is actually, that's a bit harrowing. But at the same time, it's a very cool callback for manga fans. I mean, sadly, most of our cover stories were never animated. So anime only watches are just, they just sort of stumble upon this random milk bearing girl, which reminds me, milk, milk, milky. Despite the fact that Oda isn't really all that keen on some of the old romance in one piece, occasionally some does slip in here and there. And a very count impairing that is currently developing would be that of Chopper and the mink milky. Milky is the only character that Chopper has shown any real interest in and on the color spread for chapter 900, you can see him sort of meekishly about to offer her a rose, which is adorable and I can certainly imagine Chopper retiring to zero at the end of the series after having cured all disease everywhere and just having many, many young Chopperlings. For a more global perspective now, I honestly cannot believe how long it took me to notice this, but have you ever considered that none of the four emperors are ever actually referred to as pirate captains? They are captain figures of their own pirate crews, but that title just doesn't really get used internally. Shanks happens to be called the boss or the big boss of the red-haired pirates. Marshall D. Teach is labeled as either the Commodore or the Admiral of the Blackbeard Pirates, depending on your translation, while Skydo is the Governor General of the Beast Pirates and Big Mom is usually referred to as the Queen or simply Mama by her family members. Furthermore, our dearly departed Emperor Whitebeard was always called Pops by his crew, all of which is a very interesting trend and quite appropriately implemented because I suppose the idea is that these key pirates have surpassed that basic seafaring hierarchical structure to the point where the captain role is a bit too understated because they are now effectively the rulers of their own empires.  He's the King of Alabasta. I mean, provided he isn't dead, which he very well could be, but even if he was dead, we still wouldn't call him a captain because he was a king, not captain. We couldn't call him a captain when he's a king. It's ridiculous. Which does raise the question. What will Luffy's title be when his empire is equal to that of theirs? Well, I'm going to put in a preemptive vote for chieftain executive skipper Luffy Esquire, eater of meat, breaker of faces, lord of the grand line. But if you'd like to see more mind blowing details in one piece, then please do check out my original video exploring the top egg lots of crazy stuff in there. But please deliver thoughts in the comments below or even join the discussion on my discord server. But for now, this has been the Grand Line Review and I'll see you next time.


Happy time of day place to be at 1245 Eastern. Yeah, that's true. Mm-hmm. Wow. We have kind of have the primary colors here now. Yeah. My yellow and during. I should have worn my red one. Yeah, exactly. I didn't know. You didn't get the memo. Right. So we're counting down to wiki tree day. We're down to 22 days left y'all. We're not panicking. We're not panicking. Don't panic. So here's the help page on what wiki tree day is and when it is and all the information. I'm dropping into the chat the link to so you can go register. Now you can watch everything without registering. You just won't be eligible for any prizes or get any of the updates. Right. Prizes. That's the best. Don't miss out on the prizes. So talking about prizes, we have a win for from yesterday. Yay. Yay. So let's see what that looks like. All right, Judy. Congratulations. Judy. Nice. So just want to point out something that has been brought up a couple times and Alan mentioned that yesterday too. You don't have to have a yes answer or a positive answer to the question each day. You can say no. Just respond in some way and that counts you in to get into the drawing for the prize. And to claim your prize Judy, just email Alan at wiki tree.com to claim it and she'll get to taking care of she's our forestel. So the question for today it is emergency nurses day. So it's do you have any nurses, doctors, first responders in your tree? So just comment on this video or you can respond to any of the social media posts that are going to be out there and we'll get you in the drawing for tomorrow. Excellent. Do you want to sorry, do you want to explain real quick the commenting on the video and chat on the video or two different things? Yes. Yes. So if you go down below the actual video, there's a place where you can see comments that are added or there's a place where you can add your own comment to the video. So that's different than actually chatting in the during the live chat during the video. Right. So that's a great question. Yes. And of course there is the there is the Facebook page that we have set up for the wiki tree day and symposium. You can also go on out there and answer if you like because it'll be posting out there. And I'll drop that link into that as well. Okay. So that's where that's at. Nice. And that is a good place to kind of follow the page because you can get updates about all the talks that are happening and more information so kind of follow that page would be a good idea. Yeah. Yes, Kathy, you answer the question answer the question by commenting on the video. Not just putting it like that. Yeah. Right. And while you're there, like the video. Yes, please like the video and share it on your social media. All right. Was that everything? Do we have everything? I think that's everything. I think it is a wrap. Yeah. Okay. Well, we'll see you all tomorrow. All right.


Samhain is Celtic Halloween and it may partly explain why we dress up for Halloween. It is the Gaelic word for November and tradition states that at this time of year the ancient burial mounds open meaning that it's easier to communicate with the Celtic other world and interact with the likes of fairies in the East Sea. As it was easier to cross over between the Celtic other world and the human realm, ancient Celts would often dress up as animals or monsters to scare fairies or other entities from the other world, kidnapping them into the other world, like in Stranger Things. This ancient pagan festival stretches back thousands of years and in ancient times the Druids would often lead massive community fires, sort of bonfire type events where they would light it using a peel, a representation of the sun. In this marked the dark half of the year. Happy sound and please subscribe.


But after a couple of days, I finally found the issue and fixed it. It didn't happen, like I think a week after I originally recorded the video and honestly even though I really dig into the code, I couldn't find any clear issue. However, there has been some attempts by even viewers from this latest video, which is pretty cool, like the idea that somebody watches my video and then tries to fix it on their own. That's super cool, please do that if you can, makes me happy. But at the end, a solution wasn't very clear. So the idea was that each time a new window is added back to what is called again the proxy model, the model. Every time a new window is added back or removed from it, well it changes the count of the windows and that emits the count changed signal. And something shouldn't happen, in theory I contacted the person that wrote that piece of code, but I had no clear idea on how to fix it, so however I did find, let's say I work around, not a ugly one, to be honest, a pretty one, to avoid the flashing. So this bug has been fixed, it's no longer alive, I did it, it's no more. How did I fix it?  If you do that, you will see that there are two animations that change the opacity. Basically when you go from opaque to transparent, it changes the opacity from 1 to 0, and when you go from transparent to opaque, it changes it from 0 to 1, which makes sense. Basically you're changing the opacity of the opaque layer based on whether it should be opaque or not. However by doing that, if it comes to the signal, you need to become transparent. And then just after that, also the signal to you need to be opaque. What happens is that it switches from one to the other to the first one, and it goes like, at the beginning it's opaque, so you've got this straight line, it's opaque. And then it says, okay, now you need to become transparent. And so it becomes to become transparent, which is going up like this. However, before it actually finished the animation, it says, okay, you need to become opaque again, just after that. And so it actually resets the opacity to be transparent, and then that's the cool animation. So you've got like this, tick, then flip. And that's the blinking you see. Now my hands are surely better than graphs I could do on Desmos. You totally understood everything, totally. But how did I fix it then? Basically I told him instead of going from 0 to 1, and from 1 to 0, just go from the current value you have to 1, and from the current value you have to 0. So basically this time, if we go, let's do this, if we go from 1, and then it tries to go to 0, and then it has to come back to 1. Instead of doing the whole whip thing, it just does this. And you almost don't see it, like you don't see it at all, because it's, I think, milliseconds. I don't know why even does it, but you don't see it anymore, because instead of resetting the opacity each time you need to go from one state to another, it just takes the whole opacity and animates that one. So now the bug has been fixed. It's no longer there. The fix ain't beautiful, I could have done better. But honestly, after a week of trying to fix this, let's say it, little bug, I was annoyed, and this was the best I could do, so I just went for it. So that was all. And of course, that doesn't end the bug fixing. I will find a new bug to bug fix. And just give me a second. I won't edit this part out, because at this point, you can be bored or whatever. I don't care. Yes, okay. Yes, I remember. There's this bug that I've been trying to fix, which is super annoying, which is when you, in the latest version of Plasma, when you go to the panel, you go into panel edit mode, and then you take an applet and try to change it to an alternative. For some reason, it just moves it all to the left. I've done some investigation, and it's super weird. I think I better understood how the code works. And honestly, I do not understand how the hell did it ever work, and now we'll have to fix it. And if I'm able to, I will do a devlog about this. Otherwise, I will just do a short video summarizing this time with pretty graphs and everything at the end how I managed to fix it, because I will totally fix it. That's for sure. I have just done like four videos in a row. I just sat here and recorded four of them. This is the last one. I don't know what order I will publish them by, but you know.