How many years have you been here? What's that? How many years have you been here? Since 2001. No, I don't need a lifestyle. I just want to be moveable. And if I want to be moveable, I got to move everything. What's left on your bucket list? Staying alive. And welcome everybody. It is my pleasure and delight to introduce you, my friend and colleague Brett Pablo. Since you're here, you probably know he is the best selling author of Outsider, which I'm really glad we'll be digging into tonight. But he's also an author of the book, The Escapist, and author of many, many, many, many pieces of journalism in notable publications like The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, You Name It. Some of my favorite pieces of his journalism are his investigative pieces, such as the one in The Walrus about the LRT gong show, something we can all relate to, or another piece he did about a Toronto doctor turned fentanyl drug dealer. And yeah. Or a piece he did on the Future of Journalism, which won him a national newspaper award. So this man is full of great words and stories. So yes, let's welcome him. And I think what we're going to do to start off is Brett's going to read a passage of his book so that we can kind of contextualize Dag, this man he writes about. I'm going to ask some questions and then I'm going to turn it to you. So definitely write down any questions you have. And you will have an opportunity to ask them a threat. So without further ado, let's hear some of your words. Okay. I should have marked the page. Thank you so much for the introduction and thank you for joining me on stage here. So I'm going to read, it won't take long. It's just about a two minute little passage here. It's from the prologue of the book. And I'll just set the scene that this is actually, it's something I witnessed and it was about five in the morning on a November nights on the side of a mountain in the winter. I had been camping out in sub zero temperatures to follow this man who was at the time he was 74. He's he's now 82 years old. So the it begins with with a quote from from this man and it's old people need superheroes to the last of the ubermensch runs through the night alone. He carries no identification, but the scars on his face, hands and body tell of an 80 years struggle to survive on the edge of society. He has been starved abandoned and trapped in a foreign land for nearly 50 years unable or unwilling to get back to the place that made him conceived in war. He is the aged mangled remnant of a darker time and yet he is innocent. As he races past snow covered hemlock fur and pine. The sound of frozen dirt crunching beneath his feet dissipates as he nears the edge of a cliff wall. His are not the only tracks out here, but they are the only sign that a human has been here. He plants his feet in the snow next to the paw prints of a mountain lion that stalks this hillside. He knows she's out here. He has seen her eyes watching him from the shadows while he runs. But the innocent mind has no fear, even when it should. Fingers knurls, fingers knurled, arms bloodied, shoulder shattered, teeth broken, heels battered. The old man keeps driving his body forward one boot drop at a time. He reaches out and wraps his clawed hand around the dormant trunk of an aspen and uses it to slingshot his body away from the cliff's ledge and upwards regaining the mountain lions trail as he makes for a frozen waterfall that few people have ever seen. To those who have seen him, his age coupled with his tottered boots, gloves and duct-taped jacket project an image of vulnerability. His face, masked in a frosted beard, is chopped and weathered by decades of cold and sun. Long-haired and straggly, he looks as ancient as a man would, having lived in a school bus parked in a forest since the start of the 21st century. And yet buried within his aging frame is a strength that seems to keep him safe. So this is this is the beginning of the story of a man by the name of Dag Obey, who is probably my most complicated friend. And well, let's jump into some questions, I suppose. So Dag is clearly a super athlete.  He runs marathons. He lives entirely off the grid. He seems to defy aging. How did you find this man? So Dag sort of found his way to me as a myth, as a mythological creature. He was once upon a time and still would be regarded as the world's first extreme skier. He was Norwegian-born and he's been living in a bus for 30 years. And he came up on my radar because he did this thing where he would run 125-kilometer ultra marathons as a 75-year-old and a friend of mine, a colleague I used to work at Sportsnet and a colleague of mine was running in this as like a 35-year-old. And he came upon this man on the hillside who looked, as my friend described, looked like Jesus if Jesus had grown old. And he sort of planted himself in the mind of my friend because there was all these people competing in a race that takes 24 hours to complete. And there's one person doing this that stands out from everybody else because of his age. So my friend started to ask some questions like, who is that man? And he learned like, oh, well, that's Dag. Dag is Dag used to be a stuntman. Dag was in James Bond movies. Dag is the first star of Whistler. Dag lives in a bus. Dag is basically like a Sasquatch. Like people see him, but then they lose sight of him and he sort of disappears, wanders back into the forest. So that friend came back to Toronto and years later at a moment in my career where I was sort of down and out and there's nothing sort of really more desperate than a journalist who doesn't have a story to tell. And I was just sort of a journalist who didn't know what my next story would be. And my friend told me about this man and suggested that I might want to go out and find him. And so that's how I got onto the trail of seeking out Dag. That's incredible. You're actually really known for writing great profiles of people and you often go to great lengths, but not the lengths that you went to profile Dag. What was it about this man that got under your skin to the point where you didn't just write a profile in a magazine, but you wrote a book? I never did write a profile of him in the magazine because he was too complicated. When I met Dag in 2015, I was really fascinated. I wanted to get an understanding of how he did what he did, how it is that a man was living off the grid in a school bus on the side of a mountain. And let me just contextualize that a bit. There's a romantic sort of view that I had of a guy living on a bus with like a wood stove in it that's sort of puffing underneath the trees and the snow. The moment you get close to that bus, you realize how tough an existence that actually is. This is a man who has no toilet. He has no running water. He has no refrigerator for heat. He relies on himself to chop the wood that is going to keep him alive every night in this bus. I was fascinated by how he lived and other journalists had reached out to him and tried to follow him to get a sense of like how he does what he does and how he's pushing the limits of the human body to the extremes to try and continue to run 125 kilometer death races as a 75 year old. It was in meeting him and chasing the sort of how he does this that I realized the actual more difficult question to answer is why. And I kind of fell into this journey of following Deg for eight years by listening to an answer to a simple question that I posed to him that really threw me for a loop. I asked him on our first meeting there. We're up on the hillside. I asked him and I'd been really sort of intrigued by the Therovian aspect of his life. And I asked him if there was anything in this world that he wanted like an object and I expected him to say nothing. And instead he responded and said I wish I had a photograph of my mother and I have always in every piece of journalism that I do anytime I set out to write somebody's story. I always end up asking them about their childhoods because I think that that helps me to understand more about who they are as an adult and in the present by going back to the beginning and learning about their origin story.  Maybe this answer has kind of revealed a little bit as to why he is here because he was living very much sort of an alien existence. And so I asked him the follow up of well what do you know of your of your mother and he said well I I know that she was a Norwegian woman and I said what do you know of your father and he said well I understand him to have been a German soldier. And then I figured out like well he was born very shortly after the invasion of Norway and I don't know much about the history of Norway but I do know some things about the history of ABBA the supergroup and one of the singers Anna Frid was she was what's known as a Liebensborn child. She was Norwegian and her parentage her father was a German soldier and when the war ended her and her family they basically needed to leave Norway for their own safety and go to Sweden and that's how she became she she ended up in Sweden and meeting the rest of the group of ABBA and so I started to wonder if this man was perhaps had a similar story and if that maybe explained why he lived this way. We dig into that a little bit more I mean to drop a bomb of I think my father maybe part of the Liebensborn is a pretty huge thing and you went to great lengths to help him figure that out. Can you talk to us a little bit about what precisely you did to help them track down his past. Yeah so as a journalist I like we are sort of trained to kind of like the same use the same tools as historians right to go into to archives to search through any databases any records that we might be able to find to to answer questions and do do research. So I started to liaise with different archives in Germany to try and track track the name of his father in Norway as well and also also in Sweden because I had suspicions that perhaps they're there you know there were a lot of Norwegian women who after the war and I'll just paint the picture after the war these children were essentially kind of stateless a lot of them were institutionalized the Norwegian in the Norway as a as a country just kind of abandoned a lot of these children those who had been adopted were adopted into German Nazi sympathetic families and after the war those families a lot of those families were standing trial for treason. The mothers a lot of them couldn't sort of filter back into society in Oslo after the war they would be single that they'd have their heads shaved so that they they couldn't just walk the streets that they needed to sort of wear this. So I was trying so a lot of them fled to Sweden so I was trying to trace the names that he had in his mind of who his parents were and see what I could find.  What you leave behind is is essentially like little records whenever you checked into something like when you crossed a border or when you signed a marriage certificate or when you were when you appeared on a on a baptismal record. So I was tracing chasing like these documents that don't really amount to much to sort of tell you who somebody was in life that can only get me so far. And then ultimately I needed to to go to Norway and bring this man with me who and I should say like when I first encountered him he had no identification. So how do you bring somebody with no identification back to the place where they came from you have to help them get identification and you have to be very conscious of what you're doing because what I didn't what my biggest fear was that I would help him to get to Norway to help solve some of these questions and then and then not be able to get him back to bring him back to back home. I didn't want to bring him out of the country and then strand him in Norway because he didn't have the proper paperwork to come to come back to his bus.  It became very personal very quickly. Yeah, let's talk about that. I mean at some point it's pretty clear when you read the book that you went from having a journalism source relationship to being friends and you know that's a really natural understandable process when you're spending this much time when you're helping him find his mother but you're also a journalist and you're trying to write a thorough fact check journalistic book not a piece of PR. And so how did you confront that tension of having to write a book about somebody that you ultimately really care about? It's very uncomfortable to be a journalist if you have any to try and be a journalist to try and be detached from the people that you're writing about if you start to have to form a friendship with them. It's why we try to you know when we go to restaurants we pick up our own tab we don't we don't want to you don't want to be indebted to the people that you're writing about through the course of this and some of my students are here and like through the course of doing this I kind of fell into this this uncomfortable and kind of dangerous territory with this source where where we became friends. I began to really care for him and worry about him I would find myself waking up in the middle of the night knowing that he's out there running endlessly through through the forest and wondering if he was still alive because at any moment's time he could fall and hurt himself and he did fall and hurt himself several times while I was working on this and become like increasingly battered as a man who's trying to push the limits of what the human body can do. There's only so far you can take that and there are several times where I would go to see him and and he he was physically injured like looked like he'd been almost beaten up but it's because he's fallen down. So so I started to to care for him as a person and consider him a friend and I think I needed actually to cross that line in order to kind of validate the amount of work that I was doing on this to try and help him if I didn't care about him as a human being if I saw him simply as a story I would have given up earlier and you know moved on to an easier story to tell there was also something that happened and then I talk about this in the book and that I was exhausting a lot of myself trying to help answer this question as to his origin essentially to help connect him to his mother who is gone. And in doing so while doing that my mother developed stage 4 breast cancer and died. And so it became like a very personal experience for me when the relationship changed with this man where I'm not just the one reaching out to him. He was reaching back to me to see how I was doing because he knew what I was going through while simultaneously trying to help him on this journey. Let's talk a little bit more about him and his personality this this essence that you became close to me he's kind of complicated as I was reading the book. There was times I found him completely inspirational and there are times that I found him somewhat delusional and tragic and I guess. I wonder how you approached writing about the more tragic possibly delusional side of him. How did you do that with Grace as his friend? It's very difficult when you're. When you're talking to somebody when you're trying to when you're interviewing someone and you're asking them to share their truth and talk about things factually. And they start telling you things that don't check out with what you understand to be real.  I wanted to write something that captured his. His view of everything his view of his life and Degh what I will say is that. I view him as someone who has this kind of. Base level survival instinct in him that in order to to sort of survive the way that he does. It requires him to always think positively and project positive possibly on everything so. That lives in the bus that the economics of Degh's existence kind of forced him to live in the bus. He doesn't really have a an out. He couldn't we couldn't sort of he couldn't really just move into society and live in a house. You can view that as. Unfortunate or you know a victim of circumstance or you can view it the way that he does which is what a gift. To live in the forest what what it treats to like I have I have what more could I possibly need than a bus I have a fire like I don't have a bathroom why would I need a bathroom I have I have the forest I have all of this here he just he takes everything and he makes it positive and. And I loved that elements of him because it is the world in which he lives but it is extremely hard to. To sort of square the corners of that when you when you talk to other people like his children when I spoke to his children who explain sort of why they don't live in the bus why he is there by himself and sort of the world that he had and the family that he had and why essentially they do not speak to him now. So in writing it. And being friends with him it's difficult it was difficult because I wanted it in it wasn't meant to be a takedown of him but I wanted to be honest to how he sees his life but also the way that everybody else sees it and understands it and so he wants to be inspirational and he is inspirational but at the same time he is tragic and he has all these things and so it was a fine it was a delicate balance I guess is what I would say. Well let's talk a little bit more about reporting the book because one of the nice things about being a journalist is that you can be a journalist anywhere. Except where there's a terrible microphone. So like you just need a laptop you need a cell phone but you kind of need your sources to answer the phone calls or to be able to answer the phone calls and here you wrote a profile of a man who lives off the grid in the mountains on the other side of the country during a pandemic. Can you tell us more about actually how you managed to even speak to him on a regular basis. Great question so this was kind of like trying to report a story and when I talk about reporting I see obviously making these writing these kinds of things there's two sides that you have to report it which is like going to the source doing the interviews gathering the information and then you come back and you write it. So the reporting side of this I through the process of this journey I basically concluded that I was I might as well have been reporting a book a hundred years ago and that I could not telephone this man to ask him questions I couldn't email him. The only way to ask him questions was to go to him so I would have to I'd have to try and line up a meeting place in the forest often are on a road by basically putting out feelers to send messages to the local pubs near where he lives or to some of the people near by him to try and leave a message for him to let him know that I am reaching out to him so I'm trying to come out and do a reporting mission. Sometimes I would hear back from him. Sometimes I wouldn't sometimes what I would have to do is just buy a plane ticket fly across the country rent a car drive into the mountains and either locate him at one of his fire pits or go to his bus and he gets up at four in the morning every day and he goes and he runs and tell about noon. So I knew that if I go to the bus in the afternoon and I knock on on the window there's a chance he will be there and if he's not there then I just kind of have to hang out long enough until he tell him materializes. So it was every it was like it was just a total analog reporting mission and I again like teaching journalism at Carleton it's it's often difficult I think for students to make that first leap to even like telephone people and try and ask them questions. I just have this all on my mind like it is it is incredibly difficult to report something like this to have to go to go to them every single time and then to try and fact check all of this also it just it was just incredibly an incredibly long experience. I think I think I went out there about 15 times to do to do this reporting. That's a lot. That's that is a lot and that is and that is costly. That is costly it is it just it just became what I did on my reading weeks over the over the holidays some long weekends. Yeah. So reporting was rife with difficulties. What about writing how did that go was it at least simpler or more straightforward. The writing of the book was was I wrote the book three times. The first time I wrote the book I wrote it largely in a palliative care wing in Ottawa where my mother was dying and I got about halfway into the book and then and then she died and I was sort of reading some of it to her because she was fascinated. She was always fascinated by what I was doing by my work and the stories and the people that I that I met and and and wrote about. So I was trying to race to get it done so that it could be sort of the last thing that that I shared with her and I didn't get it done. And because of that I kind of broke after after she passed I was sort of halfway through the text and when things are going well for me as a writer I can clock a thousand words a day if things if everything is going well like wake up in the morning and I sit down I have my structure everything ready and I can get a thousand days. So to write a book you need a hundred days like that a hundred thousand words days. Those are exhausting. After my mom passed I was having days were like I'd get a sentence like it was just I was just I just couldn't do it anymore and I just had memories of of where I was and I'd go back and read and try and fix up what I had previously written and it was just extremely painful. So my publisher gave me time and space to recover from that and and then I finally did finish draft one of the book and I handed it into my editor and and she she gave it back to me and she was like this is this is a you know this is great they tell you what you need to hear like this is great books can this is going to work everything's going to be okay and then they sort of flip it over and you see like it's just they've really gone into it. And what she basically said to me was that it wasn't working because I wasn't in the book the book was entirely the story of Dagg and she helped me to understand that the book it's the answers that he is able to provide are not what was driving the narrative it was the questions that I was posing and so she sort of opened up this gates that we keep closed often as journalists which is you know you don't put yourself in the story unless you have to go into that story and she just opened up the gate and said like you got to be in the story everywhere because without you he's not getting back to Norway without you he's not solving this this riddle without you there is no book and so so then draft two of the book I just I completely rewrote it and put myself in the story. And then in draft three I kind of brought my mom along with me because because she sort of belonged in it because the writing of the book was also sort of part of the book in the end like that I'm writing the book in the book which is very weird. I've never I've never gone that layer of like an inception in these kinds of stories. So what does Dagg think about the book? Has he read it? What does Dagg think of the book? He and so we're not allowed to share these things with like contractually I wasn't allowed to share the book with him before the book was done. So the moment that my publisher gave me two copies of the book I booked flights to Kelowna. I rented another car. I headed up the mountain and I brought it to Dagg and I said I'm I'm going to stay for five days. I know he's a fast reader. His bus is filled with books. I was like I'm going to stay for five days so that we can talk through it. What I didn't want to do was just disappear on them, right? Like just the book comes out and I never talked to him again. I've never been that kind of a journalist. I always go back and talk to the people after the story comes out because they've given, you know, they're fully exposed in my stories. So in those five days, every day I would go back to the bus in the morning and I would bring him a coffee and I would ask him how he was doing with the book and he couldn't get into it. He couldn't read it and he got his the first thing was he was it was the title. He was like, you know, outsider, outsiders are it's kind of a negative like outsiders are you know, in the in the media when we talk about outsiders we're talking about people who have done something bad like outsiders in society and he was like, I'm not an outsider and I understood what he was saying and then and then he got to the subtitle which is an old man a mountain in the search for hidden past and he was like an old man. I'm not an old man and I looked at him and I was like I don't think you should read the book but what so I mean I don't know if he has read the book what I do know what he what he did was he I inscribed the version that it gave to him and ultimately he took the he's a journal or he keeps journals every day what he does is he after his run he goes back to his bus and he records in his journal the story of his day and he looks back a year and he reads what he did a year earlier and then he tries to make sure that today is as good as the day that he had a year ago. It's actually a really interesting way to live in his journals he he laminates things all the time and so he took the the sort of inscription that I gave to him and he laminated it and put it in his journal and then he took the book and he ran down to the local coals which is the only place to buy a book near near him and he brought the book to them because he wanted to make sure that they knew that his friend had written the book and and they're they're like yeah we know it's it's sold out he was like oh then what happened is he started to get he wasn't sure what to make of the book because he like there's a lot in there this whole life is in there and he started to get people would recognize him because of the book and there's some people have sort of started to figure out where he is based off of the descriptions in the book and there was one day he was out for a run and there was a man standing on his trail on one of his trails and dad ran up to him and the the man wanted to tell him how moved he had been by the story I think if I have this right I think the man had been had had survived cancer and was trying to be more active and just wanted to share how much day story I meant him. And so dead called me to tell me that story but he was you want to know he was interested in how other people were reacting to the book. The last time I saw him I was about a month after the book came out and I went to pick him up to knock on the the window of his bus and say Matt Galloway on the current wants to talk to us about the book. If we if we can get to a CBC outpost Bureau I guess what they call and he was like oh yeah cool. So we went to Kamloops to call in and talk to Matt Galloway on the current and at that moment he still had not read the book and that he had had it for sort of a month. So I think I think it is extreme. I don't if someone came if some if a journalist came and wanted to write a book about me one I would be very cautious with this journalist and then I don't know if I would want to read the book either no matter what I would be interested in hearing what other people thought about the book but I don't know if I could read a book about myself and so it doesn't surprise me that he hadn't and and if he still hasn't it doesn't I get it. I have a couple more questions but soon we're going to open it to everybody in the room. So if you have your question feel free to line up near the mic. When do you think you'll see Dag again? Do you like like what's next? I hope to see Dag Dag still means a lot to me. I I hope to see him before the year is out. I think of him most in the winter because the winter I think is the most difficult for the life that he lives. I do ski I grew up skiing and this book and his story kind of had me fall back in love with that sport and so I hope to go out that direction to see him and and to ski as well. The I've been trying to ski some of the places where I wrote about in this book because it's where he went and so I'm still trying to sort of go and be in the places that I've written about and and I hope to see him. I do reach out to the people nearest to him especially during the forest fires this summer. Had some people asked me if I knew how he was doing during the fires and I was slow to respond because I didn't really know I didn't want to say he's doing great if he wasn't but he was in an area where they were on. They were told to be ready to leave to evacuate and I just sort of assume that if he was ever in this zone that needed to be evacuated. I really do believe that he would just leave when the animals leave like he's living such this natural existence and his whole his whole wish for how his story ends is that he doesn't want to end up in a in a retirement home. He wants to live in the forest until he dies and then just lie down in the woods and become food. And knowing that about him. I just had faith that if it ever came to a point with the this around his immediate surroundings were on fire that he would have already left that he would have left when the squirrels left. I guess that's just a face that I have in him. I do believe in his ability to survive. There will come a time when I will go out there to see him and and I won't be able to find him. But I don't believe that it's that time yet. My last question is you know what is your lasting take away from this how has written writing this book affected how you will write your next book. Well I hope that the next book that I write is is about somebody who has a telephone and and email and is easier to to get in touch with. But I don't know if it will ever be as as personally moving and experience as this one was. I think that when I met Dag I was some 40 years old now. I was 32 years old when I met him and I was an extremely competitive journalist. And I was never happy. As a journalist because I never felt I only ever felt as good as my last story. Which only sort of helps you. In the moment and in the moment that that story is in the really far back there. You're in trouble if you're living this way because then you're only going to feel as good as your next story. So I was kind of stuck in this peak in Valley. Kind of really really like big highs and low lows and when I met Dag. Some were along this journey with him. I've sort of let some of that go over the seat of your journey and I and I think that it's got to do with something that he explains to me as I was kept probing the story of his past. He kept sort of telling me like this is important stuff like where we came from. But it's like it's like we really need to concentrate on where we are right now what we're what I'm doing what we're doing right now and make sure that we're making the best of this moment. I was always like yeah I know but I need to figure out why we're here. And I think that that was more me projecting onto him because I've always been one of these people who focuses a lot on the things that have happened and like where I've been and what I've done. Sort of maybe think on it too much and at the same time sort of dream of this future and where I might be going and how I might get there. And the thing that I'm kind of least conscious of is where I am right now and what I am doing and he through the eight years that I've that I've known him he's always been been focused on where he is and what he's doing in the present and he there was this lion that he said to a runner in a in a in the death race and think the context of it if I have it right and I might have it wrong but my understanding of it is this he came upon this runner who was really struggling and when he sort of stopped with that runner and said look at your feet. It doesn't matter where they were or where they're going. It matters where they are right now. And then he just kind of kept running himself. It just kind of screwed up and and I think there's something there that that I I want to hold on to because I think that message for me is important and so to go back to your question of like then like whatever I might do next. I hope that I appreciate the journey of whatever book I do next if I do a book again for what it is in the moment and live it and enjoy it as opposed to sort of struggle through it and until it gets to this point where it's fully shaped and I'm happy with it because it's the journey is the it's torturous but it's also sometimes it's all there is.


I'm sure at one time or another everybody has had an occasion such as this. You're at home, it's the evening, you don't feel like cooking, so you decide to go out. Everyone? Everyone? Of course, of course. Even though we have actually food in the kitchen, we have food in the pantry, we have food in the refrigerator, but we want to go out. Nothing wrong with that. Friars are there every now and then too. Now, the next decision is obviously, well, where are we going to go? So we're going to have Italian or Thai or Mexican or barbecue, so we've got to figure this out. And then as we figure that out, then we're going to end up going to the restaurant and we all grab in the car, jump in, take off, and we get there and there's a line. So we go and we wait and we put in our name and they take our phone number and they're going to text us. It's going to be 20 minutes, that's fine. So we just, sometimes, patiently wait 20 minutes, amen. And then the next thing we do is we sit at the table and they said, would you like an appetizer? Which is interesting because what they're doing is they're giving us food before our food, but we say, yes, of course, we want an appetizer to get us really ready to eat, right? And then we have our meal and we have our dessert to just kind of wrap things up. We do this time and time again, very tidally, very, this is what we do here. Imagine the same scenario if you were hungry, I mean really hungry. I've never been really hungry, even though I told my mom growing up, I'm starving. She's like, you're not starving, just be quiet, right? Just imagine for a moment if we really were hungry. We were in our home and we have to go out of our home because there is literally no food in our home. And we're hungry. And we hear of a place down the road that's around 20 minutes away and we will do whatever we need to do because they've got food there. Again, this has never been my experience. But imagine if you really were hungry. What you would do when you get to that place 20 minutes down the road and they say, okay, can we have your name? It's going to be about 20 minutes till you eat. Imagine really, I've been blessed to be able to be in places where people were hungry. I mean really hungry. The looks on their faces, one of fear, concern, dread. I was at a place one time they said that they knew that we had, the people who were hosting us knew that we had some granola bars and stuff in our bag and they said make sure that the people don't see that because they're hungry. I've never been hungry. I also had an occasion one time in Africa and we were celebrating Mass and it was just this beautiful experience of kind of out in the field. It was in Kenya and people, some of the people that were there at this liturgy had walked five, six, seven, eight hours to be able to get there. Mass was at 10 in the morning. They got up in the middle of the night and walked hours to be able to come to the Eucharist because they were hungry. They didn't have their tidy clothes that they could put on and they didn't have nice pews to sit in. There was a couple of small statues. There was no stained glass windows. It was outdoors because that's all they had. And when it came to the Eucharist, it was one of the most beautiful things that I've ever experienced but also there was a part of it that was troubling. I don't know quite how to reconcile it because when it came time for the Eucharist they gave me a Saboria and they sent me out. I don't know, there was something like 15,000 people and they sent me out to you just kind of go over there and you begin to distribute communion. And there wasn't these nice little lines and they didn't get in line behind each other and they take the one step and the one step and they're just waiting. No, no, no, there wasn't anything like that. These people were hungry. And to the Western sensibilities what took place was scandalous, too strong word, I don't know what to say, but people just began gathering around me. And they were reaching out and they were almost pushing the other person away and they were just reaching out and said, Father, don't forget me, don't forget me. And it wasn't this nice little line, it was me just kind of moving around and people in it, it was crowded and it was hot and it smelled and all of this and people were just coming, reaching out because they were hungry. They were hungry. Don't forget me, Father, as the people crowded around me. And to the outsider looking in and said, well, where's the reverence? The reverence was so beautiful and real and honest and authentic for they were hungry, for the food that endures for eternal life. Do we have that kind of hunger? I love this scripture. The people are following around Jesus and he's speaking about this food that will last for eternal life. And later in the end of this first paragraph, Jesus has obviously multiplied the loaves and he's fed the 5,000 and that's why they're following because they're amazed at these things that he's done and yet at the end of the first paragraph it says, what can you do, right? Moses used to do these things. Well, what can you do and doesn't this speak something about the human condition and the human perspective? So often he's literally just fed 5,000 people with a few loaves of bread but that was yesterday, right? What are you going to do for us today, right? What can you do? Moses did this but what can you do? I can give you bread that you would never hunger. You see what they're doing is they're comparing he says our ancestors, Moses but the people didn't understand what was going on even then. If we pay attention to the scriptures, obviously we hear in the first reading today, Moses and the people receive manna. Every morning they wake up from manna just so we know, right? They would collect the manna, they would put it together, mix it with water, fry it in oil. Every morning they get donuts, amen? This is good news, brothers and sisters, right? But if we pay attention in a couple of days, a couple of weeks, a couple of months, they're going to actually say, we're sick of this food. We're sick. We wish we were back in slavery again. We are sick of this food that the Lord is miraculously giving to us. Every morning we wake up or we're tired of this, right? We want how fickle we are. We're tired of this. What can you do for us? And what they're doing is they're comparing their says ancestors did this and they're comparing Jesus to Moses and there's obviously some similarities and he is the new Moses that he leads us out of slavery. Brothers and sisters, every one of us is in slavery. We were trapped and there was no way out and the Lord reaches out and he pulls us away from the grasp of the pharaoh and he leads us to the promised land. Amen? If that's not been your experience, brothers and sisters, I pray that you experience that. What it is to be a slave, what it is to be taken by Jesus' hand and leading us to freedom, he is the new Moses. Amen? And he is also the manna and they missed that. They didn't understand that. They simply saw Moses and Jesus says, I am the bread of life come down from heaven. Give us this bread always. He says I am the bread of life and whoever comes to me will never hunger. This is a promise the Lord has made to us is a promise he's made to me that I build my life on.  He literally gives himself to me and it satisfies all of the other things that are going on slowly begin to melt away because the bread of life that leads me to eternal life. It's not just something in the future every time we receive the Eucharist brothers and sisters we taste eternal life. It's a promise that the Lord has given to us. Amen? That's what we're doing here. But do we really come hungry? Do we really make Jesus the focus of what we're about here? And my concern is the evil one is having a field day in the church recently dividing us and separating us and causing us to look at a million other things all of which are important. But rather than coming to the Eucharist focusing on the bread of life the one who wants to give us life so that we can live eternally we're focusing on the evil one and focusing on so many things. The place that we are supposed to be most united is the place that we find ourselves most divided. We like this music. We like that music. We like this architecture. We like that Cartesian. We like this language. We like that language. And rather than focusing on what is happening here at the Eucharist and being able to receive the body and the blood of Jesus that will lead us to eternal life the evil one is separating us and dividing us. And we're seeing this all across especially on the evening news on who is going to be able to go to communion who is going to be able to receive the Eucharist. I want to be very careful because this needs to be nuanced but I believe brothers and sisters that the church must at times tell individuals that they cannot come to communion but this ought to be met with us with sorrow, with pain and it breaks my heart when people cheer and celebrate that. If we think about what's taking place is when the church is saying that this individual is not able to go to communion because maybe they don't fully understand what is the bread of life and they don't agree with the teachings and there's a disconnect there and we simply say that this individual can't present themselves but that's not to be celebrated. That ought to break my heart because if we believe what we say that this person is now separated from the Eucharist his very salvation is in jeopardy that is not to be received with cheering brothers and sisters it ought to lead us to deeper love for the Eucharist and intercede for that individual and for the many other people that are in mass that may not be so public but find themselves in exactly the same place. My fear is that we really don't understand we're not terribly different. We don't fully understand what it is that manna from heaven the food that leads us to eternal life the food that will give us life eternal so that we never have to get hungry is Jesus himself and by the grace of God and by His mercy we can see this but I believe the Lord wants us to be able to transform us more to be like Him. It's not just and I speak of this often it's not just the bread and the wine that's transformed into His body and blood but it's supposed to be me that I'm every time I come here I'm supposed to become more like Him more loving more merciful more kind more generous more patient that brothers and sisters is what begins to change and transform people's hearts about what we're doing here not the way we're divided not the way we disagree on things rather this Jesus that is inviting whoever scripture says whoever inviting us all to be able to receive the bread of life the manna that comes down from heaven the manna that satisfies this longing heart this hungry heart this frightened heart this broken heart this wounded heart the manna that will satisfy and heal and restore so that we as a body can go out together and help discover and help bring this reality to a population even within our church that doesn't know that doesn't believe that doesn't understand if we don't do this brothers and sisters who will if we don't represent this if we don't experience this if we don't share this my prayer is that in this Eucharist as we come up and hear the Lord calling us and we hear the priest or the deacon hear us say hear him say the body of Christ we say yes yes to this life that will lead us to eternal life yes to this food that will allow us to never ever be hungry Amen


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Hey guys, welcome back to my channel or welcome to my channel. My name is Makayla if you're new here today I'm switching it up from the vlogs I normally make lifestyle vlogs But I really want to make a massive spring cleaning video because my house needs a makeover and needs an Organization and needs a deep clean I feel like there's difference between tidying your house and deep cleaning your house And I have not deep cleaned my house for a while now because I have been waiting to do this spring cleaning I'm pretty sure astrologically this time of year is actually the real new year So I don't know. I just feel like spring cleaning has to happen It's appropriate for this time of year, especially as we're entering the warmer seasons, which I'm so excited about But yeah, I just feel like I need a huge refresh So take this as your motivation whether you want to deeply in your room your house your apartment Whatever it is and we can do it together. I hope you guys enjoyed today's video subscribe if you're new here Let's get cleaning. I'm so excited. This is gonna be a very satisfying video. Make sure you stay tuned till the end I got my cute little floral shirt on because I wanted to feel a little springy and then just some biker shorts So we could be comfy Taking this coffee to go with me Well, we do a couple errands because we're gonna meet some energy for this cleaning video. So cheers the spring cleaning Okay, guys as you can see I just got to winners I'm gonna head it now. So basically what I'm aiming to get are storage bins because I have been needing to organize my garage Since we moved in I'm gonna just see what they have and go from there And then I also just need like little organizers Just randomly like little bins for random places in the house and that's basically it I kind of want to be in and out 20 minutes ideally because we have a lot of cleaning to do today So you're gonna hop in quickly and see what they got Just got back from Walmart. Here is a little cleaning supplies haul I tried to keep it as natural as possible guys But there's just some things that I need chemicals for like the toilet and stuff I like to use chemicals. I got the method all-purpose cleaner. I got the method shower cleaner It's supposed to help maintain your shower. So you're supposed to spray it every day as you go lift it So I'm excited to try this out. Then I got the method anti-bacterial toilet bowl cleaner I got Vim. Vim is just the best. It just cleans the best got some Clorox wipes These are great for using on the toilet and stuff that you could just throw out and then I just got some glass cleaner This is just like a Windex knockoff and then I got this little scrubber thing that will be really good for scrubbing like the sinks and stuff and then I got these Reusable cloths that you could throw in the wash So I feel like that's perfect because I always use paper towel when I clean but instead of being so wasteful These are gonna be perfect. So that is a little cleaning supplies haul because I literally run out of everything at my house Like I have nothing so super excited to use these new products today as for the bins I got six of these bins Hopefully that is enough for our garage because we don't have like an extreme amount of stuff But everything that we have down there is in plastic bags. It's really not organized So I'm hoping I can get everything organized gonna Christmas decorations, etc All in these six bins and I can always go back to the store if I need more But yeah, they close like this are from Walmart and I couldn't find any bins at winners So I just get them from Walmart, but they close like this They're super easy to open and close and they stack really nice. That was a success for the bins They were only $12 each so not bad and then at winners I got these Organizers that I'm hoping to use in the kitchen just because I need a couple more and honestly home sense slash winners was really Lacking today. They did not have like any good organizers at all. These were like the only ones I could find I wanted like bigger bin ones, but at least I got like what I needed and then super random But I did pick up this super super cute pink and white striped mug I am obsessed with it and it's just so like summer springy. So love that. That is a little haul guys I'm so excited. I just got the Brooklyn in Luxe hardcore sheet bundle I'm gonna give my bedroom a little bit of a spring makeover switch up my bedding I think getting new sheets and putting new sheets on your bed is one of the best feelings ever in the world This is my first time trying Brooklyn in and I am so over the moon because I've heard about their bed sheets forever Now and I've been itching to try them. Oh my goodness. I already feel like I'm holding luxury Hotel bedding. Wow. I'm just gonna unbox this now and then put it in the wash Just because I always love to wash my bedding before I use it. I love the color as well the beige Oh my goodness. I am obsessed with the new bedding I just feel like my room got a refresh and it looks so good. This vibe gives me a hotel Luxury feeling while also like bringing warmth to my bedroom. It looks so good I wish you could feel this material, but it is so soft. I'm obsessed these sheets have a luxurious 480 thread count and as you can see they have like a slightly luminous finish. Oh my gosh It looks amazing. This is the first time I've ever actually had good quality sheets So if you guys have never heard of Brooklyn in their luxury sheets company creating the best Quality home goods to just transform your home The thing is it's like so important to invest in high quality sheets So you're not wasting your money because these actually get softer every single time you wash them Brooklyn in just launched a bunch of exciting patterns and colors onto their website I have an obsession with like cream white bedding But if I were to step out of my comfort zone and get a color I would definitely choose the willow It's such a pretty color. Did you know that you spend one-third of your life in bed? 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I really want to make it over from head to toe My cabinets need to wipe down the insides need organization like as you could see They're just a mess like this needs to be all taken out reorganized cleaned Restocked it just needs to be clean like I should have to take everything out clean it put it back This is gonna be our starting point here I'm gonna go through the drawers cabinets clean everything and then work our way to the rest of the kitchen And then eventually get to the island and stuff What nice and wipe down and clean this took me so long just to do this section guys But I have to continue on Now to the rest of the kitchen I Just took most of my mugs down and I have a lot of seasonal mugs Christmas mugs fall mugs So I kind of want to take all of my seasonal mugs out of the cabinet and store them in the garage Just because I am running out of cabinets We so I only have these two little shelves for mugs So I want to make sure I'm like strategic and they're always getting so Unorganized in the cabinet because of that so I'm gonna take all my Christmas mugs and seasonal mugs and put them near The stairs so that when I buy storage bins I can pack them away and then that'll just clear up space for me to get new mugs for the spring in the summer Because I literally have no space right now So these are all of the seasonal mugs that I want to put away in a bin So I'm gonna load them into the bin right now Just to get them out of the way and then we could take that into the garage My goodness you guys I just finished cleaning the fridge and it feels just about a million Times better than I did. I am so happy. I did this This was so long overdue. This is your sign to clean your fridge Because it'll make you feel just so good like why does this directly correlate to my mood? So I actually thrifted this new vase recently So I'm thinking about switching out that one for this vase so we can spice up the kitchen a little bit So I'm just gonna transfer the flowers. Oh my gosh. How freaking cute. Here's the new vase I'm obsessed with the springiness and colorfulness of this area right now because it just brings some life into the kitchen I feel like and now I'm gonna have to start buying the flowers to put in the vase Maybe even some tulips next time because these flowers only have like a few days left They're pretty much dying, but they still look good So anyways love the cute little vase when we're in the middle and then probably eventually only gonna have that one Unless I get two bouquets at once or something, but how freaking cute I'm obsessed the kitchen just feels amazing Just let it candle and now we're gonna have to move on but oh my gosh This alone guys took me three hours over three hours actually almost four Okay, my living room needs a bit of a vibe reset and I just want to kind of go in the cushions Deep clean as much as I can pull up the vacuum and just reset this whole area white behind like the window sills and stuff But in terms of the couch I don't need to like actually wash the cushions because they're already pretty clean So I usually just maintain them by vacuuming and just like resetting things Let's get this whole living room in order in check and make it super fresh My goodness you guys look at how much better the living room looks I completely as you saw tore apart the couch and I got in there I vacuumed everything and there was so much disgusting mess that needed to be cleaned So it definitely feels like this area is just redone fresh and she looks so much better I am so satisfied with this and I also dusted down like the Vac the robot vacuum over here and then also like the TV and the fireplace So everything is dusted and folded and just so nice This is like the best feeling ever it just feels so fresh I'm going to now move on to cleaning this little area because these cabinets are a mess And I just want to get this more organized This is what I intended to buy more bins for but I don't know why I could not find bins But this is the vibe in here is hideous It is just all over the place and she needs to be cleaned So let's do a little bit of a cabinet makeover This is our spare bathroom downstairs and she needs a bit of a clean I still have a Christmas candle on the window sill so that needs to go in storage for next year So I'm just gonna give her a little quick clean This bathroom show smaller really doesn't take long which is nice But I do want to get in there and like make sure it's all spick and spam. So let's get cleaning this little bathroom Well, and I just got a Dyson and oh my goodness It has been the best thing literally ever 10 out of 10 recommend especially for our carpets upstairs It does an amazing job and yeah She's so good and I haven't been able to stop vacuuming since being excited about a vacuum is so adult But seriously the best thing ever Okay guys our bathroom needs just like a massive clean I have been putting this off because I knew I was making this video.  I still have a Christmas candle in here She needs to go get stored away with the other ones I'm definitely gonna start on the shower because that's like the worst slash hardest part for me for cleaning the bathroom And it feels so much better and it just smells so good. This was well overdue while we're here Let's get cleaning the rest of my room.  I can't believe that I just did that I'm so it feels like I just did a full-body workout after I already worked out this morning I'm so sore and I feel honestly disgusting after that like my hair's greasy. I just feel gross I need to rip these clothes off put them in the wash and take a beautiful shower But the best thing is I get to bask in the most rewarding feeling tonight of sitting on the couch And watching a movie with Joel and eating takeout being all showered and bask in my clean house That's like one of the most best rewarding feelings I swear especially when you like did action organize things So I hope this video gave you guys some motivation for spring cleaning 2024 or just to organize your house Trust me it's so worth the investment of your time because Mentally I am just feeling so amazing right now because of the cleanliness of my house like just looking around smells clean You know like the chemical smell probably really bad for you, but it just signifies things are clean.  It just smells so good. I'm so happy. That's done I just feel really refreshed going into the new season now and knowing that my house is like super clean and Organized is like the best feeling I did leave two rooms So that I didn't clean that are gonna be for my next video my office and then the bathroom here I'm going to be doing a spring reset video So I wanted to save a little bit of cleaning for that video and I'm gonna do a whole wardrobe clean out Just like organization of my office and stuff in these two rooms So that's gonna be safe for that video which will be out very very soon So subscribe turn on your notifications and stay tuned for that But anyways, I'm just so happy right now that it's done. I did this like I cleaned, you know It just feels so good It's a lot harder than you think like on the day to day sometimes to maintain certain things like for example me Pulling apart my whole couch and like vacuuming in the creases like I don't just do that every single week because that takes a lot of effort You know just doing things like that makes the overall house that feels so spotless. The feeling right now is amazing Anyways, that was my spring cleaning video I hope you guys enjoyed and feel motivated to clean now and tonight's guys getting in my brick linen new Bedsheets after showering. I think that's like one of the best feelings on earth is getting into a cozy soft Fresh clean bed after you shower. That is just definitely one of the best feelings of life Like honestly, it's the little things in life. That's gonna be amazing tonight Don't forget to check out brick linen with my link down below and use my code Mikaela20 to shop them Thank you guys so much for watching today's video Don't forget to give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to me if you haven't already Because I would love to have you and I'll see you guys in my next video


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. Today we're looking at a Diamondback DB15 DMB. A very nice rifle from Diamondback. Now we may think of Diamondback as making the very small DB9 handgun. They also make the larger AM2. This is a rifle in which they make several rifles and AR pistols. What I like about this, which is chambered in 556 NATO, is that everything that you need comes with it in the case. Now when I bought my Colt 6920 approximately 10 years ago, I had to add about $300 worth of accessories to get it to the way I wanted it. This comes seracoded, as well as an incredible aluminum handguard here. We're going to take a closer look, but everything that you would want to add is already added and the MSRP is just under $1100. This is my third time out at the range with it. I took it to a longer distance range, shot over 100 yards, and we're going to take a look at that. What I'm shooting now is probably 75-80 yards, but I shot over 100. It performed great. Let's look at those scenes and then we'll get a closer look at this rifle. Let's take a closer look at this DB15. It comes standard with a Magpul ACSL stock. Now these run over 70 bucks. I had to add it to my Colt when I got that. This comes standard with it, also a Magpul K2 grip. Now what makes this different is that it's a little more vertical, makes it comfortable when shooting, and I like the texturing on there. It feels like a real strong rubber. This is a CMC drop-in trigger. It's set at three and a half pounds. Flat face trigger, very nice. I'm going to get a close-up on that when shooting, but look at the trigger guard. The way that is angled down there to give a little bit more room, and you can see that it is cut out as well. So it's got a nice look and feel to it. When shooting it, it's very nice. DB15 logo there. Another Diamondback logo. Now I took these optics off of my Colt 6920. This is a Vortex 3x magnifier and a Strikefire 2. I like, you know, it just works. I figured that out a while back and decided to add it to this rifle. Now the handguard, okay, 70-75 aluminum handguard M-lock slots there. I love the way this thing is cut and the way it looks. You can see that it has holes in there to lighten it up an integrated rail to add a front sight. I already mentioned M-lock slots and check that out. It's just a beautiful overall look. Now the cerco color on this is midnight bronze and it just works with this rifle. It does have a Diamondback flash hider there. It's a CMC flash hider. It actually says Diamondback at the muzzle end of that, but I'll get a close-up on that so you can check that out. But look at this thing. You don't really need to add anything other than the front sight, which I'm going to add eventually as a backup to the optics. We'll check out this side here. Okay, you can see that cut at an angle there. Very nice setup. Dust cover 556 dado. The bolt carrier group also is laser engraved with the Diamondback logo and there it is and there's that stock again. Very much impressed. I've taken it to the range a couple times. I'm planning on keeping this as my primary 556 rifle. This rifle has a 16-inch black nitride barrel with a 1x8 right-hand twist. The top of the receiver is T-marked so that if you remove your optics you can mark where you had them based on the numbers there. Also the handguard is anti-rotation. You can see that it's bolted on the side and underneath. But what I want to check out here is the trigger. So let me zoom in a little bit and we'll get a close-up on this trigger as we fire. So there it is Diamondback DB-15. It's a nice looking rifle. It's an excellent shooting rifle and the entire package is pretty impressive. I look forward to showing more of this off in the future. If you like videos like this please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe.


Alrighty, so let's watch this. This is the revised version since last time we talked was a lot of camera changes and just angles and Kind of processing how to tell the story. I think this is definitely better. It makes more sense I think it's on the shop by shop basis more interesting to see Like you are seeing here in the email about the camera totally send me your scenes I will give you a little bit of camera pass so we can talk about that I think in general and now this is just in rough form, but as you continue what I would do is We're a bit low in terms of framing. There's a lot of headroom here. It doesn't get really filled until here So what I would do is once you start animating this with a bit more Purpose I will probably keep this already in this area between here and here. So there's a lot of chewing already Stuff can be flapping and it can be more things or maybe You know me potential some some claw Action to get this bit in place. I don't know how much you want to use the arms Given that this is such a I don't know how big the creatures and curious how big you want this to be if you know if there's a human egg So if the human is this big, I'm not quite sure But the reason I'm saying this is because you would have more focus here and we get to see it more and there's just better Balance in the staging so it's not to cut off here But what I would do is after the initial thing that maybe starts like this Then as you go down Into this where it's a bit more cut off and we're leaving a lot of room here I would just have a little bit of movement as if there was a little bit of chewing not a lot of Tearing and moving so that the audience almost loses focus and then whoop Then you can introduce this character coming in because right now what's happening is that I'm looking kind of here I'm wondering there's a lot of stuff open here. I guess I'm looking here and then it's okay I'm looking at all that big head moves and all that and then I kind of miss this It's the way it comes in It's like I'm following this character down and it's so slow and once I might see it be cut out already So that's why I'm saying I would start with something. That's a bit more like this and then you go down and Then hold this for maybe 10-12 frames and then you have you know as you start animating with steps left and right coming forward It'd be a bigger visual pop for this to come in and then give this another second So there's a bit more time to view this of course again This the length of all the outer frames might be different depending on how you animate in the speed and everything I would just keep that in mind Then as this creature comes in same thing I will go a bit lower Just tilt that overall. I don't I wouldn't really put a camera move I would just have just a static camera but lower so that if that's you know the the half of your of your composition That it's not in here that if you think Kind of you know classically traditionally in your thirds Yeah, even though there are different compositions you can use You know find a way where we can potentially potentially zoom in so that the creature might end up here and starts here and ends up here But just the face is kind of at that height so you might have a creature You know, that's maybe almost this big coming in. This is the body in his arms That makes any sense. I just make it bigger Now understand that you have this here, but I would just have you know You you caught on action here with whatever step you have here cuts across here big steps and then we're closer It's nice to get some cool animation on the whatever that is hair Couple ears. I don't know what that is. Whatever, you know, you know fins, whatever I know, whatever you're gonna call this So big big steps here Coming in but then I would have a moment of pause and then even if you just do Couple steps here and then here's just that one last step and then it rests And then you can do maybe like one two for an adjustment and then it's some head move Getting ready and then anticipation and then go and then you can have a bit more of a you know Just a bit of a more focused Texture of the timing where it's not just I know this is just rough But I wouldn't have this creature step step step and then jump definitely come in pump pump hold a bit pause and Jump out And again, I'll give me the scenes now. I'll check out what you can do with the camera I think that should be okay, but you could potentially start panning to the right and In here obviously tilt up higher at the beginning Follow creature down And this is way too slow here So you're gonna have to have the proper timing in a physics of that and that impact And I wonder if we might have to change the camera here a bit And I know I said come, you know have the impact and haven't come towards camera But I wonder if that's gonna be just too close and to whoa in your face for the audience Or imagine what if the camera is overall, you know, a couple feet back a couple meters depending on What do you prefer so that we might not even have to tilt up because we're further away and so that by the time This happens in terms of the tumble and the moving forward. They're visually maybe only this Foreign maybe max this so that's something to think about but that's to me easily Changeable the animation technically is not gonna change I mean we can still tweak the camera and do potentially leave it like this and do a pan and tilt or move Globally further back to just have the whole thing in frame. That's something that can easily change So I would just continue on with this to actually, you know, full animation for all of this here And then this again, I will probably help you tweak this because with this Even if you have a little bit of pan and tilt following the creatures, this is a bit jarring They have a certain move here There's some leftover keys It'd be better if it starts kind of like that with a bit of a pan over It's all a bit slow. So I think that's something else again now We can kind of work out, but I can definitely I will probably start With this or probably go and check out this and then into that That shot just to see how it flows And then that will help you with the timing of it too. This one's a bit. I Mean again, you can technically just animate this and then we can just add the camera But I do want to give you a good template Because right now once you get to this really cut off You know at this point I would have the dinosaur here and Then the creature could still be here at least one creature is more prominent in frame And then you can reframe and readjust to have them both in but it's just a bit awkward how How they're so cut off and this is big empty space there and for the ends Even then I don't know if you want to take a step or two towards but you know There's something where they could just be Potentially closer and just ready to go So it's not so cut off here, not do you want to cut off at that part? I don't know something that we can check out Towards the ends, but you're absolutely good to go in terms of animating this and this and this for sure That's a lot of work already so you can move forward with that and then we can save the big shot here For the end as we get to know the camera bit more. All right. That's kind of what I have That's it. Thank you Alright, there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whatever you want You get 16 submissions either way the like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you


Hi everyone, Joe for Jasper's case breaks calm. Happy Saturday watching a little Divisional action here Rams at Packers Packers up 25 10 and the start of the third quarter and we're ripping open some sports cards We've got 2020 top triple-threads baseball picker team three Thanks for spending a bit of your Saturday with us ladies and gentlemen. I appreciate that hang out with us We'll discuss the games We'll bust open some boxes. Hopefully pull you some nice hits remember We marked those with X's so you know that they're all from that same nine box intercase I don't think we have any more triple-threads. I didn't see any more in the back, but keep your eye on the website For more in the future Right. Yeah, why don't we rip open the football got that playbook number block We're just a number block away from knocking out another playbook. That's a lot of fun. All right. We got Louise Robert 15 out of 75 White socks that'll be for Jimmy Brandt got Mariano Rivera at a 199 Shogo Akiyama to 299 That's for the Reds That'll be for Dennis and we got Joe Hiltani for Matt Lieber Here are the base cards right here and behind Nico Horner here your hits. We've got straws at the bat 12 out of 27 that is for Fred and the Nats I didn't realize he had five RBI's in the game behind Nico is Luke Voight Two-color Jersey got a got a couple pinstripes there 31 out of 99 and his autograph going out to The Yankees that will be for Jack one of his last spot mojo teams. Thanks Jack Greg what's going on?  They were just sitting there. Nobody wanted him That's Daryl Strawberry David Wright and Pete Alonzo Wow, that's a sharp-looking card right there Jack Congrats, and we've got a Cody Ballinger rally 24 out of 27 Nick Piper with the Dodgers My Dodgers all right next box Subjet is carousel avert have cancer. Is that what you're saying? What is it? What is this news explain small mess on the kidney? That's not good Hang in there carousel bird. All right next box His gold from it to 275 to Teese jr. To 299 Him bunting It's a fun picture I don't think he's gonna bunt very often. There's Ty Cobb to 275 Tigers will the thrill will Clark to 199 It's from my rivals the Giants Some base cards here and behind Padres edition of Dave Winfield is George Springer spring of power 6 out of 36 for the Stroh's that's gonna go to Richard Where is George Springer gonna end up? He's a free agent I guess he could end up back in a Houston Toronto has been linked to George Springer Mets And behind Dave Winfield is Jersey and autographed Tim Anderson nice 28 out of 50 Jersey and auto for the White Sox Jimmy Brant behind Walker Bueller is Victor Robles Was that fine leather it says in that triple relic And that is one out of 18 Nice low number there Fred. Oh with the Nats. It's a nice defensive run save some fine fine leather And we've got Walker Bueller's teammate Clayton Kershaw 20 out of 36 and that'll be for Nick Piper and the Dodgers there you go and the third and final box Good luck everybody Packer defense looking strong Sack and Jared Goff third down No worries Jack Congrats. Thanks for grabbing that team The last one I was just sitting there.  There's air seas Aquino to 299 Dennis with the Reds The man of steel Ricky Henderson to 199 Brian Vornberg with the A's you'll get this man of steel right here also to 199 This one's 180 out of 199 Rookie Niko Horner to 275 for the Coveys Brian Bledsoe some base cards and the final hits behind the babe is Oh nice two-color triple relic Will Smith the Fresh Prince of Bel Air 72 out of 99 going to Nick Piper and The Dodgers nice in West Philadelphia. He was born and raised and the playground is where he spent most of his days Chilling out maxing relaxing all cool and playing some baseball right outside the school That is his walk-up music on certain at-beds All right, Babe Ruth going to the Yankees Jack and that reveals a Nick Sanzel big relic there one out of 36 red legs Dennis Foley with Cincinnati Ronda Cincinnati and the final two hits behind Mike trout is a triple relic six out of nine six nine nice Tyler Glass now Blake Snell and Brendan McKay Raise that goes to Oliver. There you go.  I'm Joe for jasky's case breaks calm That was three box pick your team number three of 2020 top triple that it's baseball I did not see any more in the back But always keep your eye out for more baseball on jasky's case breaks calm check every day I'll see you for the next one. Bye. Bye


Okay so if my ankle was the problem why did they cut off so much of my leg? Fascinating question, fascinating answer. So I have about six inches of human meat leg left below my knee and this is actually pretty ideal for the fitting of prosthetic legs. On this side my ankle was toast so in theory they could have just cut my leg leg right here and I would have hit so much of my body left. But the problem is that makes it incredibly difficult to fit prosthetics that allow for a lot of motion. For instance this ball right here allows for a lot of side to side motion on rocky ground there would be no room for that. Carbon fiber piece right here that allows for really good rocking motion as I'm walking there wouldn't be any room for that either. However that does not mean it is impossible it just makes it more difficult for certain kinds of prosthetics. There are prosthetics for toe amputations, partial foot amputations, through ankle or through knee amputations. There's all different kinds of things you can try but for maximum mobility which is what I was looking for best outcome they needed to take a lot of my leg to allow space for proper prosthetic attachment.


New version, let's check it out Leaving so soon. I was just going to I was trying to sneak away I mean no, no, I like children for breakfast It's kind of tricky. It's kind of neat to have all of this here Definitely feels really imposing I almost wish that the chest was kind of here to see a bit more Up that head. I know you can sculpt that thing around for that But I am concerned about BOOM The thing is if you if you watch this right and you listen to the audio It's that's crazy. Imagine you would have actual sound design in that Like the impact sound is gonna conflict so much with the voice And the voice is so calm that it doesn't reflect that physical action at all You would have to get to this so much earlier I don't know If you can do this by slowly getting in so you would have that arm and And then the other one, you know, then by that the rest is great Love all this kid direction. Everything's great. I can love all this. I'm not super sold on this If you do this and you can make it a slower entrance, so it matches the sound So it's just a guy casually coming in or you make this much much earlier And then have about a second after the impact and then the audio starts then I think you can work No, I just want to sense All right, there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want You can submit whatever you want you get 16 submissions either way and like and subscribe would be awesome All right. Thank you


a hallmark card when you carry it up to send the very best. The cards bring you another inspiring true story on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. A dramatic story of an actual person who because of his courage and achievement is honored tonight on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Our distinguished host, Mr. Lionel Barrymore. And welcome to the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Respectfully dedicated to men and women whose service, sacrifice and devotion have made our own lives better but about whom we know how to riddle. Tonight we honor W. Freeland Kendrick. It's the story of a man of vision and courage who sacrificed for an ideal brought about the establishment of one of the greatest groups of modern hospitals and clinical facilities in the United States. In addition to this unusual story of one man's crusade, you'll also hear a transcribed message from another remarkable man, the great and lovable comedian Mr. Harold Lloyd. And now here is Frank Goss from the makers of Hallmark Cards. When you want to remember your friends, there's one way to be sure the card you send receives an extra welcome. Look for that identifying hallmark on the back when you select it. For words to express your feelings and designs to express your good taste, let the hallmark on the back be your guide. For that hallmark tells your friends you'll carry enough to send the very best. Lionel Barrymore appears by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producers of the Technicolor Picture Young Best, starring Gene Simmons, Stuart Granger, Deborah Carr and Charles Lawton. And now Mr. Barrymore brings you the first act of our Hallmark Hall of Fame. Christmas season December 1918. The first month of peace which the world has known in over four long heart-breaking years of war. Nations and peoples turn to the task of reconstruction. It's a time of new hope, great beginnings, and a one particularly great beginning born so humbly and without fanfare. Early evening traffic chokes the streets of downtown Philadelphia. Top coat emerges from an office building and starts across the street. The numbers, they won't hurt you, necessarily. I'd like to pay all expenses, Doctor. What's with the boy's parents? We've notified them. They're on their way to the hospital. I do not know whether you realize this or not, Mr. Kendrick, but Bobby has been a cripple since birth. I noticed he limped as he tried to cross the street with the papers. Poor Ken. That's probably what almost cost him his life. As a contrary, it is possible the accident may have been a blessing. A blessing? He may be able to reset the boy's leg in such a manner as to cure his lameness. There is a good possibility he may never be crippled again. Seems incredible. A lifetime of lameness. There are many others like this child, Mr. Kendrick. But the facilities are inadequate and expensive. We need more hospitals, more research, and perhaps more men like you who are willing to pay the expenses for an underprivileged child. I've always thought of myself as a charitable man, Doctor. And yet now I wonder, seeing that child's face as he crossed the street running toward me, it's a memory I won't easily forget. Mr. Kendrick, there are over 400,000 crippled children in the United States. You have helped one. It is as much as any man could do. I'm not sure of that, Doctor. I'm not sure. It's a late at night in Philadelphia when W. Freeland Kendrick returns to his home. The vigil's over. The strain of the day is etched lines in his face. His wife Mabel greets him with relief. Darling, is he all right? Yes, my dear, there's nothing to worry about. Oh, are you hungry? If you don't mind. The boy, did you talk to him? Yes, yes, he even asked for me. Oh, what is he like? About ten freckle face, curly blonde hair, blue eyes, like yours. His parents? Nice, nice, very nice. He works in a mill, she's a seamstress. What must it be like to have a child to have this happen? People like us, dear, we miss the grief and the joy. My dear, when that boy, that little cripple newspaper boy, started to cross the street toward me and when I saw his face and his laughing eyes and then the truck, for that instant, that moment, it was almost as though this was our boy, my son. And for an instant, I think I knew what it's like to be a father. We've missed it, haven't we, Freeland? We told ourselves it didn't matter, but it did. Deeply, came to me. I wonder if we will ever be free from the longing? Suppose, Ma'am, suppose we found a way to fill that void. Suppose we could bring children into our lives. No, no, it's too late, Freeland. I wonder, I really wonder. It was the following week that Kendrick found himself in the office of his friend Harold Stanley, president of one of Philadelphia's largest banks. I think we can arrange the negotiations for you, Freeland. Property seems to be an excellent investment right now. Oh, thanks, Harold. Now, how about some advice? I can always lend advice. How's the hospital business? Hospital? Suppose I wanted to build a hospital. You're on the board of Mercy General. What's your advice? Where do I start? Freeland, you're a hotel man and a good one. Some high advice is to stay in the hotel business. Harold, what if there was something you needed to do, something that started as a little germ of an idea and you're heading and crawling down inside of you until you couldn't get rid of it? And what if your life meant nothing more than the completion of this one idea? Then I'd say complete your idea. Just a minute, Freeland. I'll bring you my file on hospitals. It's an idea. One man with the integrity and zeal to go forward even against seemingly unconquerable obstacles. And there were many. Mr. Kendrick, I can tell you from my own experiences an architect, the kind of hospital you're talking about will cost money, big money. How much? Oh, for a start, say, half a million dollars. Hospital? Well, Mr. Kendrick, Philadelphia's a highly developed city. The acreage you need simply isn't available. That's close in. Now, perhaps if you'd consider something a few miles out, say here, we might investigate the cost. But then on the other hand, there's zoning problems. Come to think of it, I don't believe we could get a hospital into this area. We need about $100,000 for a start-up. That right, Freeland? Discovered something in these past few weeks. Something I didn't realize until now. I warned you to stay in the hotel business. No, no, it's not that. What I discovered is that money alone is not the answer. More important is people, a lot of people, working together. I see your point. But where are you going to find a lot of people who want to start a children's hospital? Where are you going to find the hundreds? Maybe even thousands you need. I think I found just the people, Harold. More than 300,000 of them. Turn to the second act of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Most any mother will agree that this old saying is true.  All you need do is watch your father when his youngsters give him a present and a special compliment. You just know by the way his eyes light up and his face breaks into smiles that dad is a sentimentalist where his family is concerned. That's why here in America, we set aside the third Sunday in June to honor our fathers. And you know, one of the nicest ways you can do this is to send your dad a Hallmark Father's Day card. You see, there are Hallmark Father's Day cards to suit every taste and preference. Cards for outdoor men who like hunting, fishing, modified cards for older men or grandfathers, gay cards for the little tots to send their dad is, yes, new wives can choose a Hallmark card to send your husband on June 21st. So why not select yours early? Add one of the fine stores where Hallmark cards are sold. Just look for the hallmark and crown on the back. The symbol that always means you carry enough to send the very best. And now Lionel Barrymore brings you back to our true story of W. Freeland Kendrick. The goal is clear and unmistakable, and now he takes the first step toward its attainment. He gives a small dinner for a few of his close friends. Friends who like him are all members of the ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. More familiarly known as the Shriners. Finally, with the coffee and cigars, Kendrick gets to his feet. Gentlemen, may I have your attention, please? All right, boys, here comes the after-dinner speech. No, it's not going to be a speech. I just want to get in a few serious words. Thank you. Thank you, boys. Now, I hope you'll still feel like clapping when you hear what I want from you. We're a game? What is it? Oh, just a half million dollars. I'm sure he would settle for a million feelings. Well, I may have to, Henry. You'll get the idea from the little prospectus I prepared for you. George, would you pass these around, please? Oh, sure thing.  I've investigated it pretty thoroughly, and I know it can be done. And I want it done by the Shriners of America. Just a minute, Freyland. Yes, Harry? I'm looking at your prospectus here. There are 400,000 crippled children in the country. If that's so, what good is it going to do to build just one hospital? That's only a drop in the bucket. That's all it is, Harry. But at least it would be a beginning. But let's be realistic, Freyland. What do any of us know about hospitals? Yes. We can learn, George. I want us to be able to say to the crippled children of America, come to us. Whatever your creed, color, or class, we're here to help you. Where's the money going to come from? The Shrine Temple here in Philadelphia could never raise a half million dollars. I know that. This is a job for every Shriner across the country. We'll raise the money by special assessment against each and every member. A special assessment? George, did you contribute as much to charity last year as you could have? Well, you know how my business was last year, Freyland. How about you, Harry? Oh, well, I had some extra expenses, and you know... Yes, yes, I know. I suppose, Larry, you have an excuse to... All right, Freyland, we get the point. You can count on us. Thank you, George. Does that go for the rest of you? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Your encouragement, Freyland Kendrick, goes to Indianapolis, Indiana for the annual meeting of the Shrine Imperial Council. There he meets with both victory and defeat. By unanimous vote, W. Freyland Kendrick's elected Imperial portentate of all the Shriners of North America. But, by another vote, his proposal of the Children's Hospital is emphatically rejected. But Kendrick doesn't accept defeat. With his wife, Mabel, he boards a train to take his cause to the Shrine temples across the nation. I'll tell you jokes or after dinner stories. I'm going to tell you about the thousands upon thousands of unlived lives of the worthwhile careers denied the crippled children of this country by lack of medical care. Less about making fun, abilities. Let's lead the way toward a healthier America. Some kind of war to protect our homes and children. Now let's fight another kind of our children and for the children of the future. In 2020, the Shriners gather in convention at Portland, Oregon. Imperial portentate Kendrick once again proposes a plan for a children's hospital. Debate on it postponed until the following day. Meanwhile, the convention gives itself over to a huge night parade. Freyland Kendrick watches it from the hotel window. With him is his friend Forrester Dare of Yarab Temple. Forrest. Yes? What do you think our chances are tomorrow? For the hospital? Yes. Well, I'd say the voting can go either way. It's 50-50. Only 50-50. After my spending a whole year working for it after talking in over 100 different towns. Oh, I know how you feel, Freyland. But we've got to face it. The fellows who don't understand what it's all about and there are still plenty of them. They're going to be dead against us. If only you could give one more talk, Freyland, to the whole convention. Well, you know the rules as well as I do. The Imperial portentate can't take part in debate. I'll have to leave it up to you, Forrest. If I could just find some way of dramatizing what we're after. Some way of jolting the convention out of its apathy. Yeah, what are those fellows down there care about a children's hospital? They're having fun. That's enough for them. Wait a minute, Forrest. What is it? Open that window. Listen to what that fellow with the horn is playing. Sounds like I'm forever blowing bubbles. It is. Think about it a moment, Forrest. What's that mean to you? I'm not sure. What did you just tell me? If only we could find a way to jar the convention out of its apathy. Perhaps. Perhaps this is how we can do it. It begins before a packed convention hall. This and this treasurer for the Shrine Organization requires, First of Day, a hospital. And then suddenly we will... Treasurer rises and faces the convention. I make steps to the front of the robles of the mystic shrine for crippled children. For the selfless efforts of W. Freeland Kendrick and his associates, the work went forward. Years had followed. Others were to take up the task of courageously begun. One such Shrine has a special message for us today. Some of you may not know him. There's a past imperial potentate. But all of you will recognize him for his wonderful motion pictures which have been seen by so many millions of people. Welcome, hallowed to the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Thank you, Mr. Barrymore. Speaking on behalf of the Shrine Organization, may I express our appreciation to you and to the makers of Hallmark Cards for your very fine dramatization of the founding of the Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children. In the 30 years since W. Freeland Kendrick and his fellow Shriners established the first medical center in Shreveport, Louisiana, 16 additional hospitals have been opened throughout the United States and Canada. We prefer to measure the work, not by the millions upon millions of dollars spent, but by the increase in human happiness which has resulted. More than 300,000 Crippled Children have been completely cured or greatly helped. The nearly 700,000 Shriners of North America take pride and inspiration from the great task so ably begun by W. Freeland Kendrick. Once again, may I thank you, Mr. Barrymore, and good night. Yes, the Hallmark Hall of Fame is leaving the air tonight until next September. Mr. Barrymore will all certainly be looking forward to your return next September, but in the meanwhile, what are you going to be doing? Are you going to start another novel? I've been hearing glowing reports about your first novel called Mr. Captain Wine. Well, well, well, thank you for that. Thank you. Mr. Captain Wine is out on its own now, all over the country. What about my plans? Tritle my thumbs till next September, although it's my plans anyway. Well, we always say that, don't we?  Oh, I suppose you're right, Frank. How about you? Don't you want to say some farewell to all our good friends in the audience? I most certainly do, Mr. Barrymore. As the curtain falls on our show tonight, the Hallmark Hall of Fame leaves the air until next September. At that time, we'll be back over these same stations. The makers of Hallmark cards and the fine stores that feature them hope you have enjoyed these true stories of famous men and women and the events that shape their future as much as we have enjoyed bringing them to you. Thank you for letting us visit your homes each week. We hope your summer is a happy and restful one and hope on those occasions when you want to send your thoughts across the miles, across the years, or even across the way. You'll remember Hallmark cards. In the meantime, don't forget the Hallmark Hall of Fame on television every Sunday with Miss Sarah Churchill as your hostess. Consult your paper for time and channel. But now, goodbye, Frank. Goodbye, everybody. We'll be seeing you next September. There are sold only in stores that have been carefully selected to give you expert and friendly service. Remember a Hallmark card when you'll carry it up to send the very best. Our producer director is William Gay. Our script tonight was written by Leonard St. Clair. 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