Good afternoon, Cloud community, and a welcome back to fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. We're midway through day two of three days here at Google Cloud Next. My name's Savannah Peterson, joined by the ineffable and fabulous Rob Streche. Rob, what a joy to host with you. This is always so much fun. I know. I think, again, getting the energy from all the guests that have been on today has been fantastic, and this place is just hoppin'. It really is. And you know, I thought we were going to have a little bit of a come down because we just came off a show in Paris. I feel like that energy is good. We have all the shows to go to if we have to leave France. We come here, but it's similar technology. It's a lot about Cloud, and I think we get to talk about two really tightly knit topics here, tax and sustainability. Because I'm very interested in diving into this because not usually what I think of, I mean, I had to do my taxes this past weekend, but other than that, it was, it's really- I'm an extension filer myself. We deal with that and I'll cover it. 100%, I will just admit that. It is busy season for events this time of year. Without further ado, I suppose we should welcome these fabulous gentlemen to our left. Justin and Dallas, thank you so much for being here. Pleasure to have you. Excited. I'm excited. When I was reading the briefing and it literally said, tax, sustainability, and data, I thought, okay, this is awesome. Where is this bend diagram? Yep, yep. Obviously, governance is going to be a theme of what we're talking about, but why don't you explain why these three things go together so lovely? Sure, I'll get started, but we're excited to be with you guys as well. I don't have adjectives prepared to describe Dallas. But we'll start on these topics. So it's interesting. Tax has been around forever, right? Death and taxes. Certainties in life. Right, just going to say. So tax functions have become more mature over time versus sustainability, which is a relatively newer area, but there's a couple of things that are happening all at the same time in both of these areas, right? So number one, it all stems around data, okay? The first thing is, both of these functions share attributes that we don't get the right data that we need. We have a lot of manual work spreadsheets to get the data together, which is not in vogue with cost reduction and things that we're seeing in the market, right? When we're asking for more resources to deal with manual work. So that's the baseline. Both of these areas, there's a bunch of new regulations coming out. So our friends in tax will talk about pillar two regimes and we'll talk about invoicing, and we can talk more about what those are after the interview. And on the sustainability side, we've got CSRD that came out in Europe demanding more disclosure around our carbon emissions. We've had the same thing in the SEC recently and state of California. So these regulations are putting more pressure to have good data, to be transparent around the data and to have quality and reliable proof of that the data is valid. The last part of this equation though, with the regulations, it's not just about the reporting, most companies, tax functions and sustainability functions are looking to become more strategic, right? They don't just want to be a back office. They want to move to the front office, so to speak. They want to be involved in decision making. They want to help advise the company on where to go and the ROI and all those things. It's really difficult to do that if I can barely get numbers to do extension or a tax return. I was going to say, yeah, I feel a little bit last minute. So companies are looking for more sophistication which has brought us here because we need more sophisticated data management tools and analytics to be able to move from back office more efficiently and into the front office which is what gets Dallas and I out of bed in the morning, so to speak. I love that. Dallas, why do you get out of bed in the morning? Are you going to miss us going to put these pictures? It's mostly just to make sure that Justin doesn't talk too much. Yeah. No. I can see why this is a good little dream team between the two of you. So where are customers off at in the journey when they come talk to you? Dallas, I'll open with you there. Yeah, actually, they're everywhere in the journey but most of the time on tax, they're nowhere. Okay, that's what I was thinking. So there are visionaries, but the ability to really progress that vision into something that's practical and applied is very nascent. And that's the interesting part because whenever we come with not just a vision but actually now with a tool set the things that we developed over the last couple of frankly years but really the last couple of months where we had the most synergies take place between PWC and Google and building some of the technology we have in the market now. Like we're able to show them almost instantaneously joking aside on extensions that you can do something within a couple of days to actually take a bunch of different data sets, pull them together, have them immediately accessible even to like the CFO level where they can look at summarized information that is actually like meaningful. And the part that happened I think the last couple of years on the individual automation, a lot of people were playing with other tool sets and they said, oh, I'm going to do this little thing here, I'm going to do this little thing here. There was no standardization. What we see taking place now, both within PWC but also with our clients is them saying, wait a second, we actually need to use the same tool set. And you mentioned this with sustainability reporting, tax reporting, other SCC related matters and the like. You can actually use in this case Google Cloud to be the foundational model. The data set all sits there. You can then extract what you need for the various reporting requirements that are from it. But the real key is, it's quick access. You're not doing ERP transformation. You're not doing a two year journey to go install and implement, change a whole team of people. It's not that. It's nearly plug and play, the APIs exist and that's the fun part. I think that's the piece that really will be the most meaningful and the most absorbable from a market point of view. You don't have to change everything. And for us from a services point of view, we can meet our clients where they are as opposed to telling them to come where we are, right? In terms of either delivering the service or transforming them or what have you. I think that's, go ahead. So is this that you're helping them move the data into Google and into one of the services and then you're applying models on an AI that you've helped to tune for these purposes? Or how is it really working? It's both. Yeah, it's both. It's a great question. So the answer is yes holistically. Like within our global alliance, we are absolutely taking people and doing lift and shifts whether information's like sitting on-prem if it's an interior data, we're going to BigQuery, we're doing those types of large data modernization programs. But even if that's not what's going on, right? From an API point of view, we're actually able to use these tool sets we developed like the tax control center through our connected tax compliance platform. We're able to go in and actually say, hey, I don't care necessarily where it is right now. Let's point that data into one control plane where we can actually summarize everything that's going on and give the users data sets that they can actually go take and not only do reporting if they want to do it, but also do the internal stakeholder management. So it's a little bit of both, right? Like you don't have to come in and say, I want to move all my data over to BigQuery. Of course, our preference would be to do that. But in our little, like if we're just sitting in our tax bubble, right? Like here's the tax nest over here. What do we want to do? I just want to get no joke. Like as a corporation, I just want to get my extensions done. There's a bunch of information I need to go do that, right? I need state apportionment data. I need global payroll information. The only way to go do that is actually like to go find it and pull it in. And you can do that very easily now with a lot of the tool sets that are out there. I mean, I'm a business owner outside of being this person and running an agency. You're speaking my language so much. I have employees in seven different countries and just even to get over the line for saying, hey, I need some more time is a huge process. I can only imagine as a corporation, quite frankly. So I can imagine that customer feedback is probably pretty positive when they hear this. Most people would think of a transformation as taking more time than you said, like a plug and play sort of option. Yeah, I think speed is key here. Right. Look, and we partner with the ERP companies too and there's massive power in those programs. I think people have come to realize though that these cloud-based ERP programs have largely been about business simplification. The back office functions like tax and sustainability have sort of been penalized in a way because in the effort to simplify the business, a lot of the custom analytics and data and processes that we're built in are actually maybe shrinking, right? So it's not quite the home run for tax and sustainability as we thought to Dallas's point. So now we're coming and saying, all right, we don't need another five to seven year ERP program. Let's take the data as it is, as imperfect as it is, structured, unstructured, invoices, feeds from ERP, feeds from vendors and outside parties and let's start to make some sense out of all the noise. And that's where a lot of these tools have come in place. On the sustainability side, are you helping them put together their scope one through three and do all of that reporting back? Because we cover sustainable IT. And I think a big piece of that is obviously, Europe is light years ahead right now of the US, but we can see this train coming this direction. Is that really where you're- It is. I'll just talk about the specifics of what we built, but if you think about sustainability, it's a gigantic umbrella in which you can work under, right, it's no different than, oh, it's the world of the tax, okay? Well, like every country has a tax, then you have state everything else. They're all chaotic. Correct. Yeah. On sustainability, I'll just make the plug, right? PwC's sustainability partner of the year, which is super exciting because some of these, the team has built. Give me some shouts for that. What we're doing as a services firm is looking at that saying, hey, where do we want to meet our customers, our clients, in terms of their needs? Whether it's strategy, it's reporting, right back to that point, it's somewhere in between its ERM, right, which is an interesting space for more sustainability and your footprint, like just what are you doing for a planning point of view? The cool part with Google Cloud, we've done some of the things on ERM, but on the reporting side, that's where we're really excited, and Justin, if you want to take that a little further. Yeah, and I love the question, right? So the scope one, two, and three, right? Just to click in for a second. So a lot of companies have already started reporting scope one and two. A lot of, I would say, leading companies, like Google and several other, have committed to report on scope three, which is their entire supply chain, right? Because they would argue, or many would argue, that that's the indirect impact across their true operations. And so the tool that Dallas has talked about where we're using Google Cloud and working with a lot of our clients is really interesting because it might have started in the, I just need to measure, right? So how do I measure all this information? And that's hard, a lot of the data sits in my supplier's information wall, so to speak. But as they're getting into it, they're saying, wow, this is giving me new information around my whole supply chain and my supply chain risk. And wow, I didn't realize I was concentrating 50% of my buying from this particular region or market or customer. So I think the cool part about all this is reporting and regulations are maybe driving the need to get the information. But then they're quickly saying, what this data, how do I actually bend the graph? As opposed to just, you know, see what the graph looks like. And so that's where a lot of the exciting, I think work is really starting to happen with us and our clients. Can you give us any client examples? As some success stories, perhaps? Sure, well one of them was along the lines of what I just talked about, right? It started with a reporting function. And so the company had made, and we've seen this in many companies, like kind of a broad commitment that they want to do, scope three hadn't really factored in what exactly that meant from, you know, Dallas talked about getting data integration. I mean, it was a big technology lift. So you had the IT team saying, hey, you should probably consult with us.  You had a lot of teams that were not necessarily organized around what that ambitious statement meant. We helped them stand up a steer-co just to get all the right parties in the room. We used the platform that we were just describing where we basically used GCP. We partnered with a lot of their suppliers to give us information. And we created again, something to do the initial reporting, but it actually gave us some really good ideas and gave their management some really good insights to make improvements on their supply chain that went far beyond climate, actually got them into cost reduction, improved the relationship with some of their buyers or suppliers, sorry, who are also trying to set their own commitments in this area. So it was a home run in terms of galvanizing supplier buyer. It was a home run in terms of getting better data to make decisions. And again, it all started with, maybe a pledge that was not well informed, but we quickly were able to galvanize people and then use Google Cloud to bring the data and do what we needed to. So low key, PwC can save you when you've decided to go fully sustainable, but you have absolutely no idea how to do that. Yeah. Yes, I'm sure answer that, yeah. Yeah, I think again, to your point, obviously being in this industry, we see a lot of people looking at scope three because that and maybe they're sort of trying to figure out which pieces of scope three are actually applicable to them. How does that work when you're trying to get the data from those suppliers? I mean, because again, it can go, there could be multiple levels of that supply chain that you have to go into and getting that all into one place. I'll say this, there's no common model yet to actually go about doing this. Certainly there are some folks who are filling the gaps on the we're going to go out there and collect, but that's not, you know, necessarily the space we're trying to play in just to be clear. However, the space we are playing in is once it's all collected, like what do you do with it to go get there? I think there will be a common model to go collect that information as these rules that Justin mentioned a second ago actually go into full effect on the reporting has to happen. Someone's going to come in and say, hey, we actually want to own all this collection. We're going to do it in the exact same way and or you're going to have, like I said, a common like actual cost to every single thing, which there's sort of a little bit of that out there, but the standardization of it having everybody going down the road and using the exact same data point for any given, you know, input in supply chain, that's really where everything has to like eventually evolve to.  No different than the way the last 150 years of policy on other reporting fronts have evolved. Right, but this one is probably a little bit better informed candidly when you stop and think about, you know, the level of complexity it's there because I think technology actually exists right now for people to actually partner on this in a way that they never really did before. You've briefly mentioned it Justin, but if you think about what the OECD has done in terms of their standardization of global tax reporting, what, you know, the globe wants to do in terms of sustainability reporting is actually very, very similar, different bodies, but very, very similar to what the OECD has done in pillar one and pillar two. Standardize and say, hey, everyone's going to be on this plane for the amount of tax you're going to play. This you're going to be on this plane for the basis for the tax you're going to pay. Now apply that sustainability. You're going to be on this plane for exactly how far we want you to go deep within your supply chain. You're going to be on this plane for exactly how you're going to report it and the numbers you're going to use to do it. I just see that as being like the direction of travel. The cool part of that is there's actually an opportunity for someone to come in on a single platform to go actually sell that as like the thing. I actually don't think it's a bridge too far to say Google's actually really uniquely positioned as a broader company to go do that if you think about just the amount of data that Google has. Might be a bridge too far for right this second, but they exist if you go back 25 years to organize the world's information, right? So how is this any different?  Probably not lower though, I'm sorry to say. I'm a Californian, don't remind me. I got it, no, us too, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, we're still here paying. And half my team is in New Zealand, where it's even worse. I just love paying taxes. I hope the government's listening to that statement. Yeah, right, yeah. Pays are taxed. Yeah, yeah, I do pay my taxes for better or for worse. So you mentioned data. Trusted data has obviously got to be a big part of this, right? You've got a lot of bespoke solutions, you talked about spreadsheets.  Things are in a lot of different places and don't always have a central hub. How do you get everyone on the same page of trusted data and what is that even for an organization? Well, I'll say this, as it relates to our global alliance with Google, our moniker is founded and trust, right? Power by data, right? So, us as a large regulated entity, right? We're an audit firm, a tax firm, in addition to what we do in the consulting business. It is fundamentally about trust. It's fundamentally about being in some way, shape, or form like a go between a stakeholder management, if you will, for companies and what they are reporting to the government, what they're saying to their shareholders, what they're saying to the public, what the NGOs want to know, right? All those things. We are very uniquely positioned to answer that question. That's why a lot of the things that we've looked at, and from a vision point of view, a lot of the places that we've been talking to Google and our stakeholders has been around the idea that, hey, if you're going to go with a partner and with a company, right, who knows what trust is, who has that built into the framework of their existence, like the partnership that we founded is actually, frankly, the right place to start. And I think you start with that point and then you layer the pure technology play on top of it. It's a great story, but it also has a practical application because we have the technology capabilities that are there, too, which is basically what Justin's built. To be a little bit self-engraved shading, right? Please! I afforded you the opportunity to do so. We talked about stitching the technology together. That is hard. These tools make it a lot easier, quicker speed to value. But to Dallas's point, where we're playing a large role, on top of the technology is back to the sustainability or tax point. Things were done locally very different. My assumptions, my methods on how I pulled it together, very different. In the case of sustainability, I may never, maybe never was audited before. You look ahead to the future. I'm all of a sudden going to be audited. That's a whole different level of rigor and scrutiny from the last week. Everyone's favorite word, the A word, yeah. So a lot of where this starts is just inventorying all the disclosures we've made, all the assumptions we've made in our data, where our differences are, starting to establish very central governance around all of this and then, you know, inventorying all the assumptions that we're going to use going forward. So even if my data's not perfect, I have a transparent trail on the methods I'm using, you know, that's consistent that I can say is reasonable. So even where there's gaps, I'm filling in those gaps with this logic. That's a key stepping stone to then piping in all the data, codifying that logic and getting something pretty automated, even again, when the data's not perfect, which it will never be perfect. If it is, we might be out of a job. But I think it's a fair bet that source data's never going to be perfect. Just the notion of data being absolutely flawless is a very Cinderella concept in general, but I love it, and hopefully we're all so employed. Question for you, what's your advice for companies as they're thinking about coming to approach you, where they realize this is a process that they could transform? Yeah, I'll say this, I mean, it doesn't matter where you're out on the journey. Justin mentioned I've made a promise and now I have to figure out how to keep it. What if I've never mentioned anything about this before in the press? I need to analyze an approach to go get there, I need to formulate a strategy around it. The good news is we take all kinds, like come as you are, if you will. All about inclusion. We'll sort it, we'll sort it, right? In the best way, we'll sort it as in, hey, maybe you're not ready to make any proclamation of what you're doing.  Maybe you could have two people go do it, you don't have to go that direction. But I think the real key is engage with some folks and have that conversation, figure out like where are you at on the maturity scale. And Frank, we can help with that too, but the idea shouldn't be I need to wait until I've done something extreme and then it's too late. Or I need to show up, I'm a pre-IPO private company, I just got my first round of funding, I should figure out sustainability reporting. It's probably everybody in between, but maybe not necessarily those two, but hey, we'll figure it out and figure out where you land on the map. Again, the fun part about the scalability here is if you're ready to talk like what data you're going to put in the cloud, you could probably start having this conversation, right? Like you start having the conversation because that means you're likely a company, you hope to make a profit, therefore you might pay taxes, right? And depending on what you do, you might have a sustainability reporting obligation, you certainly have a financial reporting obligation, so you may as well get the ball rolling and have that conversation and figure out what's the best model. It may not be that, but start having the conversation, right? Yeah. And I would just add on it, in addition to Alson, we take all kinds, which we absolutely do, or all levels of maturity. I think it's awesome, my favorite conversation is not just what's the one single need that's driving you for data right now, but let's step back and look five years from now. What are all the insights you want to drive? So let's not just let the newest regulation dictate, well I need these 20 business requirements or the stuff that we do today for these other 30 business requirements. I've seen a lot of companies fall into that trap. Step back and think about what are the insights I want to be able to give to my C-suite when it comes up? And you work backwards from those to figure out what data you need, and that might be a totally different inventory of data that you haven't thought about, but that's where a lot of the ROI might come in from. So don't make this as much as we help companies on the regulation management, we need to have the data, we want to be able to be compliant, we want to use that data with credibility, with our stakeholders, but really thinking about all the insights that we want to deliver and then reverse engineering the data we need, again, provides a much bigger component of return and also really elevates the value of the function. I think that's a great point, and I think we're really at a stage, even with JNAI, where we're rethinking how we ask questions, right? Rather than having to figure out the solution, it's what is it that we're trying to do? What do we want to do? All right, last question for you both. What can't you say today that you hope to be able to say when we have your fabulous selves on the show at the next Google Cloud Next? That's a great question. I'll respond in this way, because you just said JNAI. The direction of travel for the type of services that we're talking about is to simplify and actually make accessible to even more users, right? You can say more taxpayers, you can say more clients, you can say more Google Cloud customers. I think the scalability and access point is going to be the most critical feature that comes into play with the latest, iterations of Vertex AI, the Enterprise Suite, and even the individual user part of it, which is something we've been excited about. I started talking about this with my leadership team probably eight years ago. We said, how do we commoditize the construct of tax reporting and make it so that anybody can actually go and get the absolute best from a big four in this case and what they're trying to do? It doesn't have to be the largest corporations or the most famous people in the world, right? Which I'm sure you fit into that category, no doubt about it. And soon to be in the former category, but it is anybody should be able to come to use this as a service provider. I think that's like the democratization, if you will, of that service. I think that's where it's going. I don't know how fast. It may not be at the next next, but maybe like the next, next, next, next, next, best. No. We'll count how many next it is when we have you. We'll have you on this show again. What about you, Jesse? I'll go shorter terms, since Dallas won a few years out. I'm going to go back to my point about value. I think, and I believe this will happen, that Gen AI specifically, since you asked about it, will raise the IQ, and it's going to show us where our gaps are in IQ. So in other words, let me just give you an example. With a lot of historical automation tools, it's been about doing the same thing faster in a more automated way. Gen AI is very different, right? Like the real, the real sauce is like, what questions are you asking? And what so what question? And you can ask the so what question repetitively so many times in such a short period of time, that that's where your brain starts to go and train starts to thinking. So we've already seen this with the clients that we've been working with. We talk a lot about getting the data together, but then it's like, what can you do with it? Whether it's on the tax side and saying I've got thousands of variances, but let me ask Gen AI and use it to channel on which ones actually matter, right? So separating the signal from the noise, whether it's asking questions like in our ESG solution, which is what's the most cost effective way to hit this decarbonization goal on a year versus two year on three years? It's just getting us thinking in a different way. And I think it's starting with leadership teams and I think that's going to trickle down to everyone else. So that's what I'm looking forward to and I think it's starting to happen already. Well, we hope both of those things happen much sooner rather than later. Thank you both for being on the show with us today. Justin Dallas, always great to have another sitting name on the show. Absolutely. Happy we're representing the South today, candidly. Rob, you're just a gem. I don't even have to say anything else, nice to. I've said enough nice things to you today. And thank all of you from tuning in, wherever you happen to be on planet earth or in outer space today here. We're in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. 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Good morning, brandos welcome back to another day in the life vlog today is a Saturday, and I thought it would be super fun to vlog for you guys It's 7 15. I need to get cash awake. Vanessa's gonna be here in about 30 minutes So that we can go to the gym today so I thought I would just take you guys with me for my weekend and Yeah, it'll be kind of fun. So let's go the tent blew away. No, it's still over there It's just over in the corner Yeah, it's over there. It's okay. Yeah, the police car is over there behind the tree. You're right Okay, so for breakfast, I am having a protein shake I used the Elani new whey protein and confetti cake and then I also threw in a scoop of peanut butter Shaking it all up. Cash is having some cashy organic super loops Delicious and nutritious. I got this cute little shaker cup from the Target dollar spot loves it And I get my water ready I'm gonna need some pre-workout Which I have in there and I can put in this Let's go check the gym outfit. I Changed my office around It's easier having my screens side-by-side. So I kind of like it. It's nice Okay, so today for the gym. I'm wearing some phabletics Leggings, they're cool. They have little pockets in the side The shoes that I'm wearing are the vans athletics. They're called ultra Ultra range, I think is what they're called. I really like them and then I'm just wearing a combat iron sweater My husband loves this company. He buys me their clothes all the time. They're like a veteran law enforcement friendly company So we like them and then my shirt is from Amazon It's one of those like built-in sports bra tank tops and just so you guys know I know that I've had a lot of people comment about like how skinny I look and Whatever, you know, I I feel like I'm definitely thinning out I am still like kind of a thicker girl like my thighs touch And I do have a mom pooch I mean like that's definitely there especially like I wear high-waisted leggings for a reason So I just want you guys to be aware that like the social media illusion is not always what you think it is Yes, I'm thinning out and I'm gaining a lot of muscle But I still have a lot of work to do but I do appreciate all of the sweet compliments It does really boost my motivation So that's really Not I'm not gonna hide it from you guys I do have you know a mom pooch and it is early in the morning, so it is hiding right now Today I need to water my plants. This one especially is getting a little dry And then these two over here this one. I think I've killed It's not growing any new leaves, which is really sad. I think it's gonna take a while this monster Cannot be stopped Do you want to wear this to the gym? Yeah, okay, that's fine.  I think I might throw those in before we go This one's still sleeping, but he needs to wake up because he needs to go to the gym too now. It's um 952 There was a few shenanigans. That's why we were not out.  So we went to salad and go which I haven't ever been there for breakfast And we got burritos We were two bucks cash is eating an apple. He kind of snatched like all day. So he doesn't really need to eat lunch um I'm gonna take a shower and then take a nap while he naps. I think this evening I think we might go to our friend's birthday party um for a couple hours and then That's it. So I'll see you guys in a little bit Good morning guys. So it is now sunday morning and um everything yesterday that you missed Um, we tried to take a nap. I could not sleep. So I got up and I played the Sims and I did get on stream for a little while Um, when cash woke up, we ended up going to a friend of ours the birthday uh, son's birthday party We went for just a couple of hours. So I'm shaking up my protein copy Um, and then we came home. I put cash to bed and I got on twitch again So, um, I did end up building this little farmhouse. It's really cute. Um, I might make a video On it like a tour video and then post it and share with you guys. I think that'd be cool. Um And then went to bed kind of like kind of like 1 a.m. So i'm really tired Today though We are hanging out. I think I need to go to the grocery store. I don't know if scott's gonna be going I think he might go to the gym This is not mixing up very well. I think he might put it in the blender Um And then I do need to do some work stuff like planning. So I think during cash's nap today I will be planning rather than Playing the Sims and tonight as well. So Good morning. Are you hungry? You want some breakfast? I promised him he could have some of the party candy for breakfast. So are you pooping? Are you grabbing at your bed? So he had a starburst this morning, which I'm sure I will regret Mommy, do you want some of daddy's yogurt? I could put some strawberry and honey in it Yeah I could make you some Okay, so anyways, I'm going to end the vlog here Um, thank you guys so so much for watching and for joining me And I will see you in the next video


Now I just want you to literally just let gravity do the work so when he shoots that leg disappears and I'm literally just dropping straight down. Now I want you to focus on bringing your lead leg hand across your body a little bit so we're going right into our backhand, right into our knuckle block.  What it's going to do is it's going to turn my hips a little bit more because I want the tightest angle I can when I'm chasing this guy's backside. So if I just take my leg straight across here, that's not bad.  It's just turning my knees so my hips are already turned and I've got a better angle. So when he shoots here, I've already got a little bit better angle, all right. You'll feel it as you start getting to that point and where you're dropping down, but don't catch yourself with your hands, all right. Don't try to jump out of the way. I'm literally making my leg disappear, taking my hand across my body. So as he shoots right there and I'm running down the angle and then I'm just wrestling right there, like you would on any go behind. It's just going to be hustling angle, getting my hands to some handles, some anchors, and then finishing, all right. So I still don't want this guy going too fast to start asking your partner to pick up his closing speed a little bit so we can work on our timing and work on our reaction. Because when they give us that low level look at a match, they're going to be coming at us pretty fast, but I want you to build up to it.  Okay, then that low level shot comes right there and I'm hustling the angle. We might not end up perfect position every time. I might have to get my feet back up under me and wrestle, but I want to make sure when this guy is shooting this low single, they're not just diving down. I want to give him a good low single feel because they're going to be here. Notice the chest, knee aligned up and I got a good space right here. Now if his leg disappears and he lands on me, he's going to land on a pretty tough base, all right. If you're collapsing and falling down to your face, you're not giving him a good feel. Questions? Anybody need to see it again? So now we're moving that leg, but we're pointing our knee a little bit. So I'm moving, that's all we want of that lead leg light. So we can point that knee, attack with that hip. Go!


This lecture is entitled Jean-Antoine Oudon, still making sculpture in the 18th and 19th centuries. Now you might be asking yourself that question because we haven't really paid much attention to sculpture since we looked at the sculpture created in Baroque Italy and Spain and it's true that so far in this course painting has really stolen the show and that's what we've been spending our time looking at. But with the 18th century we see more sculpture and this is especially going to be true as we move into our next unit on neoclassicism. Now Oudon was the leader in French sculpture in the 18th century and he was really influential on later generations and he is known for his portraits and we see three of his most famous portraits on the screen here and we will look at each of these in more detail in just a few minutes. Now like a lot of French artists of this period he traveled to Italy and Italy was very influential on his work. I'm gonna write that on here. Travelled to Italy and as you might have assumed on his travels to Italy he was informed by the ancient art he saw there, especially ancient sculpture. He was also influenced by Baroque sculpture, especially the sculpture of Bernini but he was equally influenced by the styles of his native France and think of the earlier Rococo style that softness and also the enlightenment interest in naturalism. So all of these combined influences made his portraits incredibly lifelike and hopefully you're getting a little bit of a hint of that as you look at these three portraits on the screen and they don't seem to just have the physical likeness of these people but there's also the suggestion that he's really successfully captured a sense of these people's soul. So it's not totally surprising then that he was really famous, really successful and not just in France but abroad as well. And we're gonna turn our attention there first. So what you're looking at right now is a life-size portrait of George Washington. You might have been able to tell that. George Washington and this dates to 1785 to 96. And this is actually located in Richmond, Virginia in the state capitol and this is one of his most famous works created for American patrons and the Virginia legislator wanted to commemorate George Washington who was born in Virginia and they actually sought Udon out for this. He was that famous that patrons in Virginia thought we want to find this man and have him do this work of art for us. And it's one of his most famous works of art because it's of a very famous man in a famous place and also indicates his international fame. So let's take a look at his approach to George Washington here. We have a life-size image of this famous man. He's in military garb but he's also surrounded by some other interesting symbolic figures or items. So let's take a look at those. I mean first off you can see and by the way, this is just a close-up here on the left. This is a broader view so you can get a sense for where he stands in the room. So you can see he's resting his left hand on what seems to be a column or something like that, but that's actually a bundle of rods and it's known as a facies which is a classical emblem of authority from the classical world. So we've got a little hint of the classical world there, but it's interesting. You'll notice there are these little, you know, I said it's a bundle of rods. So we have each rod here bundled together and there are 13 of these. 13 rods. And when we're looking at a famous figure from American history, the number 13 is significant because the 13 original states. So this is an image of George Washington, the leader of America, the father of America, as they say. And again, he's depicted in this military dress which reminds us of his role as a military leader and this is actually comparable to classical sculpture of famous figures. And if you think back to sculpture from ancient Rome, the Emperor Augustus was often depicted in this way. And it's in that same idealizing tradition. It evokes that very old tradition. So here he's idealized. He looks relaxed, but confident and powerful. But importantly, he's not so idealized that he's not recognizable, right? If you look up at his face and you've seen other images of him, you can tell that it's George Washington. So it's not just a generic depiction of this man. So let's take a look at another portrait by Houdon. And this image on the left here is a portrait of Voltaire. And this image down here on the right is not by Houdon and we'll just discuss that in a minute. But this portrait is of Voltaire and it dates to 1778. And I think you can see right away it shows Houdon's ability to capture an individual even more. Now Voltaire was a famous French philosopher, thinker, writer, and here he is depicted as an old man. And this is a man who was very revered by the French people. So I think it's interesting to look at the different way he's depicted from the George Washington we just looked at. So unlike George Washington, he's completely stripped of symbolism and those other props. And it's just a simple portrait of this man. It's not a portrait of his position or his historical role. And I think it's interesting to look at the details of his face. I mean, every last detail here is captured. We have the thin lips of his mouth, the kind of large nose. You can see little wrinkles by his eyes. And I love the details of the neck. You can see kind of the loose skin of his neck as he's an older man. So really there's no attempt here to kind of airbrush or make perfect his face. It's warts and all here. And that belongs to an old tradition from Republican Rome. And that's what this image here on the right is. This is a portrait of Cicero from Republican Rome. And there was this tradition in Republican Rome you might remember from previous art history courses of showing very realistic portraits of important figures. So this is definitely connected. Udon would certainly have been informed by this ancient tradition. And he's modernizing it for his contemporary audiences. And really Voltaire's so-called imperfections really add to his uniqueness and make this bust all the more special. Finally, let's finish up with a portrait. And this is it on the left of Robert Fulton. Robert Fulton. And this dates from 1803. And this will get to in a minute, this image on the right. So this portrait seems to kind of combine the realism we just saw with the gracefulness and elegance of the Baroque and Rococo as well as the contemporary enlightenment from France. And it shows Robert Fulton, who was an American artist. So again, we have that evidence of Udon's international fame. And much like the portrait of Voltaire, we can see here this man's face is unique, it's identifiable. But he's dressed up in a sort of elegant costume here, the ruffle of his shirt sticking out through his jacket. And a little bit of that harsh realism is softened. The harsh realism we just looked at with Voltaire. And I have it up here next to, hopefully this is familiar to you. This is La Biguiard's portrait of François-André Vincent, which we looked at before. And I think it's an interesting comparison because it shows the similarity between these two 18th century French portraitists, you know, both figures, I think, look very poised and distinguished. And both are unique portraits with these very recognizable likenesses. But more importantly, they're really Frank portraits that connect with the viewer. It's almost as if they'll turn their heads at any moment and ask us a question. And I think they're both really infused with much more than physical realism or psychic drama, which are things we've seen before. But what these two portraitists do is they capture a sense of an inner life and even a soul in these figures. And really, that makes them true products of the Enlightenment.


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Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing great and for anyone new to the channel, my name is Lee, also known as Osiris. Today, we are kicking off our week one in the X9 draft league. We're going up against poker, Alex. If you haven't already checked out my intro video to the X9 draft league and the team building analysis, I'll leave it up in the top right hand corner. It might be worth going and checking that out. You'll get an idea of what the draft league is all about and why I've picked the team that we're playing today before coming into today's match. There was a few mistakes when I was actually building a team because obviously showdown I had anything go rules. So some of the some of the moves that I picked weren't actually legal for the actual team. So one of them was Jolteon. I wanted role as you as you would have seen. I couldn't have that. It's not legal anymore. So your own is the option over that. The other one was Scrafty as well. So Scrafty doesn't get knocked off anymore, which is a real shame. So I've opted for crunch there instead. So they're the only two changes overall. But you can see we've got the Mimikyu, the Torcal, the Venusol, the Charizard and the Jolteon. So I'm hoping it's going to go all right. Now, I've been kind of thinking like back and forth quite a lot whether or not right period would be a good shot because it feels like it would be good. But I feel like Alex is probably going to take for that quite heavily with things like chandelier getting energy ball with things like Vikevol also getting energy ball. So I think it might be a little bit more difficult for I period to operate then then some of the other Pokemon in here. And we've got a game plan going to stick with it. See how we get on and hopefully it all works out. So I'm just waiting on Alex coming on now. So we'll hop over into the match as soon as we hook up friends. Right, we are finally into today's match against the two hot to handle Harry Amherst, Poke Alex and myself. Southwest hook all bunnies to decide the rules. I think we're just gone series night. We'll go with the Marnie theme as always. And yeah, never setting in. I think the big thing in this match is obviously we want to try and just capitalize on any opportunities that we get in this match. Interested to see what Alex has brought as well. Obviously, we mentioned in the analysis about the Vikevol. I really do worry about that Pokemon. I think Chandler as well is gonna be a bit obnoxious to deal with hello friends. I'm just sitting down to edit this video, put it together so I can put it out to you guys. And I just thought it would be worthwhile to mention that there was a trade week prior to week one starting. So after the draft had finished, we had a bunch of time to go and trade Pokemon with Pokemon that were available. It weren't picked in the initial draft. Now I haven't done my homework here. Alex has made a bunch of trades. I've just talked about Vikevol and Chandler. And he's actually traded those out, which I didn't actually find out until after the match. But it's totally on my head. I just wanted to put this in before we get any further in the video because I think it otherwise makes me look even more dumb than I do in the first place. Talking about these Pokemon when they're not even there. So big disclaimer there. Thanks so much guys. Hope you enjoy the rest of the video. And make sure to check out Alex's side of the battle as well over on his YouTube channel. I'll be linked down in the description below and see what it's like from his perspective. Cause then it's always interesting getting like both sides to see the full story of a battle. Poker Alex with the Alolan Maruak, the Galerion Zapdos, the Fungus, the Mudsdale, Tapufini and the Cresselia. Okay, so. Right, what are we gonna, we need taunt. We need taunt, don't we, to shut things down. Mimikyu feels good as a lead because it threatens. You know, the one thing that I would say is though that I could potentially see him going with the Zapdos and Mudsdale lead, which makes me wanna leave the Jolteon just to get around that core. The other option is I kind of want Mimikyu to come in for the taunt because that Fungus can be a bit obnoxious as well. Okay. What are we gonna go with? Venusol feels actually quite good in this match, you know, as a late game on, almost. But do we want the sun? That's the thing. We could go Venusol, talk all as well. Or we could play it super safe and go like Mimikyu, Venusol. Although like Charizard was always our player. I think we go with what we kind of decided. Jolteon, Charizard, I think we're gonna need, I think Venusol, talk all, if I'm completely honest. I think that's what we'll lock in. We'll lock in with those four. Well, we'll ignore the taunt. We'll ignore the taunt for this first one. I don't know how bad it's gonna go. But yeah, we'll see. We'll get into this first one, see how it goes. It's obviously a best of three. So we're gonna just test the waters now and then we'll go into our second one. And hopefully if it doesn't work out this time we can kind of turn things around after we get a bit of a better idea of how things are gonna work out. So we're seeing Cracellia and the Zapdos there, which is honestly not too bad for us. I obviously worry about the Cracellia. So whether or not we want to go with something like, I don't know if I wanna go Airstream just yet. We could go Max. We could pick up a knockout here onto the Zapdos pretty quickly and go for like a yawn into Cress. The problem is they're gonna get the trick room up. But it's actually not too bad. As long as Charizard doesn't take any damages turn, we can Max go for that and then go for the yawn into the Cracellia and shut that down or at least kind of force a switch out the next turn onto it. And I think that's probably not a bad idea. So we've gotta win the speed tie first if that isn't, because there's a part of me that thinks is that Zapdos scarfed as well, you know? But we're pulling the trigger early on. We've gotta do it. Gotta try and get rid of this Zapdos as soon as possible and see if it works out. Not confident. Not, I'm a little bit confident. I'm not like 100% confident, but I feel like we can't stop the trick room right now. Like if we had that role like we initially thought we would, we'd have access to make things a bit better. Okay, so Zapdos probably gonna go for the Airstream as well. What's the Cress gonna do? Like Cress could have ally switch as well.   Ally switch would be bad to see. Bad to see it would be really bad. But we'll kind of save with, no, it's just gonna go helping hand. Okay, well that makes sense.  Go for Yawning to the Cress. Makes things a little bit more tricky for him to utilize that Pokemon at least. We get the Airstream. I don't think it's gonna be enough to pick up the knockout though. No, but we'll keep pace with the Zapdos regardless if it goes for an Airstream here, which you would imagine it probably is gonna go for into the Zard. Oh, it's revealing the Rockfall. Okay, well the helping hand there, not ideal. It goes for the Rockfall, but I thought it better really helping us out a bunch. Okay, that's fine, that's fine, that's super fine because now we got the fakes here. Now we've got the kind of the double up potential here. The worry is, I guess if the Cresselia goes for something like the Trick Room, the Trick Room here, which would make sense because Zapdos probably doesn't attack, right? Zapdos probably goes, unless it's a Saltfest, you know? Is it a Saltfest? Cause we don't wanna miss the opportunity because one of the things we could potentially do is go double hard into that Cresselia with the Max Wildfire.  That's the big question. That is the question. And if he does, what have we got in the back to kind of come in? How are we gonna have to just choose some moves? I think we go Max Wildfire into Cress and we go fake tears into Cress. We'll double up into that slot. I hope that the Zapdos goes Max Guard. No Max Guard, ooh, but this works out perfectly. The ally switch coming back to bite him in the butt. So that works perfectly. Even though this will proc the Defiant, this works out beautifully for us because we've got the speed boost and now we should be able to just remove the Zapdos and get this G-Max Wildfire into this slot. Ooh, it's not quite enough. Geez, geez. That must be a Soulfest. It has to be a Soulfest. So we'll lose the Charizard, but at the same time, we're in a good spot. The Cresselia is now asleep. Charizard's got its Wildfire onto the board. And the residual damage is gonna take that Zapdos down anyway, even if we've got the Thunderbolt, which we've got to be a bit worried about the, of course, the Maruak coming in. But we've got kind of good protection with, and the Cress is gonna be put to sleep. So, do we just bring Tocall in now? Do I wanna bring Venusol in just yet? Probably not, I probably wanna keep Venusol for a little bit later on, if I want to. Let's go, let's go Venusol. Yeah, cause, yeah, let's go Venusol. We can just start Sludge Bomb in the Cress. It's gonna be asleep at this next turn, so we're kind of fine here. And then we've got the switch to Tocall if we want it. So, that's just got Sludge Bomb. The worrying part here is actually, we should have brought in, we should have brought in like I feel like the Maruak could come onto the field now, which would be horrendous for us, would be horrendous. Yeah, the Maruak's gonna come in, I think now. This is the thing for the Cresselia, and we'll lose Venusol. And then the match is kind of over, where we kind of, if we get the Tocall in. I think we cover our bases, because I don't wanna lose Venusol. I don't think I can afford to lose Venusol, especially if something like Tapu Fini and Maruaks in the back. So, I think, like, I worry about Alex switching the Cress out to the Maruak now, which would completely protect him. The G-Max Wildfire will take him down this next turn. No switch out, so it doesn't look like the Maruak's in the back, which is fine. So, we didn't need to be, we could have got a Sludge Bomb off there, but I don't regret that turn at all. Cress gonna stay asleep. Okay. So that yawn coming in pretty handy. Now what comes in? Is it gonna be the Mudsdale? The Mudsdale, I reckon, I reckon it will be. But we got Charm, so we can kind of slow that down a bit. We got your double yawn as well, so that helps us out a bunch. Okay. Right. We need to get rid of that Cress, you know? We need to, like, probably double up into it, like, Eruption, Thunderbolt probably will be enough to get it, you know? All fake tears, Eruption, would definitely 100% get it. So it depends what comes in for Alex here on his side. I'd imagine something like the Mudsdale, so it might tie up a little bit of time for Jolteon to go for, like, the Charm into that slot. Just, okay, it's the Mawak. Hmm. Okay, well, that's actually, it's not terrible. It's not terrible.  We're gonna go for a Charm into the Mawak, just to really make sure that it is as weak as possible. And I'm going for the spread damage here. I just wanna get as much damage onto the Cresselia while it's sleeping as possible, because there is a chance that Alex has went for something like maybe Moonlight here, which would make things difficult. And you can see, like, I think our switch last turn wasn't a bad one, just to kind of mitigate that slot. But I think Alex probably wants to just keep the Cress on the field to try and burn these sleep turns as soon as possible, as we're gonna see a potential ally switch here from the Cress, I think. But the Charm gonna be massively useful. Bonerang coming out.  So it means that the Eruption's still gonna get at least a good chunk of damage off onto both these Pokemon, although, you know, the big problem for us right now is, yeah, it's not quite doing as much as we kind of want it to, but the Wildfire definitely helping against that Cresselia. Where we're kind of locked. Here we go, Earth Power now. I think Earth Power's probably the better option. The problem is though, like, actually, an Eruption, hmm, the G-Max Wildfire probably, now let's go for an Earth Power and let's go for another Charm. Because the Wildfire will get the Cress. Let's go for another Charm into it, yeah. Just really slowed down. Getting that Charm off again is super, super useful. My Wax is so bulky as well.  There's a Psykit coming out, being to the Torco. Oof, yeah, that's fat damage.  We should take two of these, so that's fine. And we'll get the Earth Power off, which definitely helps. Oof, ooh, it's so close. But the Venus on a good spot now to kind of come in and close this game up for us, because the Wildfire should be enough to get the Cress, like I say. Oh, just hangs, just hangs on. Just hangs on, and I think we don't have any more turns. Without Wildfire, do we? Let's see. Wildfire's done. I think I let Torco go down here, you know. I think I go for a Yorn into, actually, are they gonna trick room here, maybe? Are they gonna trick room? Because we could potentially catch them if they go for a trick room here. I'm gonna Yorn into the Maruak. I think they're gonna trick room because they know that we've got the Venus on the back. I think they trick room with Cress here. Okay. Finny coming in, not the most ideal, but if we can get our Venus on the field, we're fine. I just don't wanna like switch it in for like, for nothing, if you know what I mean. But the sun going, yeah, it's not gonna work. It's not gonna work. There's a trick room. So we do get the trick room up, but the problem is like our eruption is not in any place to do any good work. Does he preserve Cress now and switch in? There's the, I do feel like he switched the Maruak in for the Cress now, where we could eruption and just get damage off. It's just the one thing we could potentially do is Earth Power and we could Thunderbolt because are we eruption? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We go for this play because I think the Cress switches out to the Maruak. No, it doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't, no. Oh, there's a moon blast coming out into the talk hall. So we'll get a Thunderbolt off into the Cress, which is good, I guess, but Venusaur not gonna be in the greatest spot. We need to stall out these trick room turns because we cannot beat the Maruak. We cannot beat the Maruak with Venusaur in the trick room. That's the issue. Yeah, we should have tried to stop the trick room, I think. Yeah, I think not attacking and allowing them to get the trick room up. And protecting talk hall was like the wrong play. We should have, we should have just eruptioned at that point. Yeah, now Maruak comes in and just destroys us because we can't do anything with Jolteon. We can't do anything, can't literally cannot do anything. We don't even have protect on Venusaur, so it's kind of locked now. Yeah, this is the problem. We had an opportunity there and we just threw it away. Okay, the Maruak gonna detect and it's calm minding, which makes it even more difficult for us. So maybe protecting on our protect and yeah, the thunderbolt not gonna be pulled in by the lightning rod. No, it's not lightning rod. Huh, huh. Okay, that makes things a little bit more, a little bit easier to deal with then, maybe. Okay. When he turns the trick room, we got left. It's not lightning rod, rock head then. Two turns, I don't know if we're gonna be able to do this. Now, okay, well, I still think we go after the Maruak here and we try and get the thunderbolt in. Because the Maruak flare blitz is right, it goes down to the recoil, which is fine. And the crit didn't matter. Oh, it didn't take the recoil, okay. There we go, and we go down to this. Okay, and we're good game to Alex, game one. Okay, we've got a good idea of what we're kind of going up against. And we're going to game two and try and turn this round. I think we had a really good start in that match, but like I say, there was that one turn where we just really didn't capitalize like we talked about. I'm more disappointed in myself for that, for being super defensive, like passive in that turn when we just didn't need to. So yeah, good game to Alex and we'll go into game two. So he's worn up at the moment. Right, Cress. There's Aptos is definitely a salt vest, which makes it a little more tricky to deal with. But now he knows that we've got the rockfall. Let's think, let's think, let's think, let's think. I think the Mimikyu, I honestly think Mimikyu is gonna be an absolute monster for us here. I think we maybe like, do we need the talk hall? Like the talk hall was good, but I don't necessarily think we need it. I think like Jolteon Charizard's great, but then I do think the Mimikyu is more worthwhile because then we've got real pressure onto that Zapdos. I think we bring Venusol. Do we bring Scrafty? Scrafty's great because just the Intimidate, once that Zapdos has gone is amazing. And we can almost allow the Cress to get the trick room up if you want and then get Scrafty onto the field. But it is difficult. I think Scrafty probably helps us out a bunch more. Yeah, we'll go with the Scrafty in this one. We'll swap up, we'll change, we'll bring it. The Scraft, the Scraftmeister to see. Because I don't know if Alex will approach it exactly the same as the last game and it might be a bad mistake for us not to approach the game like we approach it in that first one because I think like early game we definitely had a really nice opportunity to kind of take a good lead. Okay, well, we're gonna see trick room, yeah. I would imagine that we're probably, we've got to taunt the Fungus. I'm not gonna max, I don't think. I don't think I'm gonna max because we've got Venusaur as an option in the back if we need to and Venusaur still will work I think. I'm just gonna heat wave. Yeah, so there's a rage powder. They're gonna get the trick room up but we just want damage onto these Pokemon really right now. That's the thing. Yeah, and I think the next turn, yeah that's fine because now we can go for our sword stance with Mimikyu and then we got Shadow Sneak that we can kind of take advantage of. So just sword stance and then we'll just heat wave again. We want to just keep chipping this Crasella and I'd imagine the Crasella might have mental herb, you know, because I don't think we saw an item on it in game one, pretty sure. But here's a chance like Alex has got the opportunity to break out the skies on a Mimikyu which makes it a little bit more tricky for us. Obviously with that kind of security blanket that we've got at the minute where we've got at least one hit where we can take for free. I mean, it does allow us to get the sword stance up which is nice, but we just need to kind of, and I prefer the trick when going up early in this game. I think that the fact that it went up so late in that second game and we kind of allowed them to do it, made it difficult. So there's a seed bomb coming out from the fungus, breaks our disguise. We're going to just see it double up with the Psyche here, potentially I would imagine. We do get the sword stance up though. So it puts a little bit more pressure on Alex to kind of concentrate a little bit more around the Mimikyu than just this Charizard, you know? The heatwave does hit, getting a bit more chip onto that Criselia which is always good, takes down the fungus. So, and the reverse in the trick room back out. Okay, that's kind of interesting. Helps us, I guess, but then is the Zapdos going to make an appearance? It's the Mudsdale. Here he is. Yeah, Helping Hand. Helping Hand going to be obnoxious to deal with which we can't really do anything about. I think we just play rough. And do we just go G-Max Wildfire this turn? Yeah, I think we've got all in on the Mudsdale here. It makes me think that the Mudsdale isn't a salt vest either then, because I 100% I think from that Zapdos from the calcs. Like Zapdos, Clarion Zapdos is not that bulky. So the salt vest makes a lot of sense there, you know, with the Rockfall, which I would imagine we'll probably see coming out here from the Mudsdale, you know, but I'm going all in on the Zard again. We're going Zard Party and we're going to try and get, we're going to try and get the knockout. Plus two Mimikyu is in a good spot now to just nail this Mudsdale, even if it maxes with a bunch of damage from the play rough. We could see an ally switch as well. Here's Muddy, big Muddy horse. Right, let's see, is this combo going to be enough? I don't know, FaZe. I don't know. Probably not. Probably not. The horse is so bulky, man. There's a help in hand.  I mean, to get rid of it for the next turn for sure, but at the same time, they may go after the Mimikyu here though, you know? They may like decide, like, let's just go after the Mimikyu because we've got the Zard kind of in our pocket going forward. Are you kidding? Play rough, doing play rough things. I don't have the best of luck with play rough. As many of you will know from my timing video, you see play rough is an evil move and I keep going back to it. We could have really done with the, we could have really done with the, yeah, we could have really done with that hitting here. Now we've got an option where we can bring in Scrafty, start the bulk up train, or we can bring in Venusaur and put things to sleep. We know the life orbs on the Mudsdale. Just trying to think like a bulk up access stream. Yeah, it might, I think Scrafty, let's bring Scrafty, let's keep Venus for later in this game. And the intimidates are super useful, especially with the Charity Berry that we got. And I'd expect maybe help and hand or an ally switch to come out here. I think we bulk up with Scrafty regardless. So we go for an Airstream. An Airstream makes sense too. Yeah, let's go for that into the Mudsdale. I expect maybe ally switch to come out here, but we could also see help and hand. It kind of mitigates the intimidate we've just put onto the Mudsdale. But the Airstream is going to be useful, especially if the Zapdos is in the back, it just means that we've got the speed jump on it for the late game. And it makes it a little bit more, well, it's tough because like if Alex here clicks Trick Room, which he's not, but it does make it a little bit more tricky. We'll get the Airstream off, which is nice to be good consistent damage into this Mudsdale, not really. Oh my God, does nothing. We really needed that play rough to hit. We really did. Now that Scrafty should be able to get the bulk up off, which will allow it to at least take an attack a bit better from this Mudsdale, this next turn, this special defense buff to the Mudsdale, really helping it out there. And we are going to see the Rockfall come in, but Intimidate is going to help that. The Charity Barrier course is going to help that. Is that a crit? Is that a crit? No, it's not a crit. It takes us down. Jesus with the life orb. Okay, well, all down to Scrafty Vynu. Okay, well, these Scrafties probably got the opportunity to get the Crest this next turn, and Vynu can put that Mudsdale to sleep in a wildfire. Yeah, that's Crest is sitting duck this next turn. So is the Mudsdale, to be honest, like we could probably even ice punch that, but I do want to start putting things to sleep. I can, I, yeah. Just thinking, did the Crest take residual damage from the thing or has it got, has it got the safety goggles? Potentially has, you know. I'm going to crunch it anyway, and I'm going to go for, oh. I mean, at this point, Scrafty should be faster than Vynu, right? So we could kind of, in case of the ally switch, let's see, let's see. I need to just, I need to just check something. Oh, we've not got time to do it. We've not got time. I just feel like the ally switch is coming. The ally switch is coming, 100%. Let's click sleep powder into Mudsdale. We know it's got the life orb, so we can get a sleep powder off into it. Yeah, there's the ally switch. We knew, we knew it was going to happen. We knew it was going to happen. And now we probably lose Vynu. Yeah, that's why it would have been better to just go double into the Mudsdale slot. Yeah, that's Scrafty, yeah, not. Okay, well, the defense drop's not really going to help us out a bunch. The max quick coming out. Can we take it minus one? No. No, the life orb is just too much, and it's all down to Scrafty now. So the thing is, if there's a tapu finny in the back, we've lost. We've absolutely like just collapsed in this one. I'm really disappointed with how we've kind of, we've dealt with this, you know, because I think we definitely had the options. It just shows that Alex is just making the better calls, better reads all the time, so it can't be too upset. It's just how it is, which is slightly frustrating. The only thing is that you can think, if it's, there is a saving grace. If the finny's not in the back, then we've got an opportunity because the fungus is down. The crest is pretty much near enough down. So anything but the finny and we're kind of good. Okay, Mawak, well, we probably got this then. Can crunch. So, I thought it was over, but it maybe not. It maybe isn't over. So, maybe.   Come on, Scrafty, be the saving grace here. Pull this back, one-one. I love that I'm just on the brink of like, just giving up, like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It still could be over mind, but we'll see, we'll see how it goes. Come on, Scrafty, crest is asleep. That's fine, we don't really care about crest at all. We just need to get rid of this Mawak. It's not quite enough to pick up the knockout, but the flyer blitz, we should, well, we will take. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. The recoil will take that down. Oh no, it doesn't get recoil. Doesn't get the recoil, does it? Ah, the recoil! Ah! Now, if that crest wakes up and, oh no, the residual damage, we've locked it. The Charizard comes in clutch. Okay, so the ally switch in the wake up there would have been the one thing that would have been the worst case scenario for us. And the leftovers, man, that Mawak is a... That is monstrous. We're plus one defense. Plus one defense. Scrafty coming in, king! Tying it up, one, one for us. Okay, here we go. Excitement getting into game three. Wow, okay, that was very close. That was very close. So what do you bring there? Fungus, crest, Mudsdale, Mawak. Mawak, no Jolteon for us. All right, well, there we go, good game. Okay. Going into a game three. So, I like the Mimik, I love the Mimikyu. I think the Mimikyu is great here. So if you're Alex thinking about like, what were you gonna bring?  Like, has the Fungus got protect? Cause if you protect the Fungus, turn one, it becomes very difficult very quickly. But we could also bring the talk hall in the back over the Vinu, but the Vinu was, did the Vinu do anything? It put the crest asleep, I mean, which helped. But other than that, I think talk hall helps mitigate the trick room a little bit better, although the Fungus is gonna be slower than us anyway. So the Vinu is probably a better option overall. Yeah, let's go Char. Let's go Mimi. I think Vinu. I think, hmm, we just need to manage Vinus all a little bit better. I think in the late game, I think that's not what we've been doing very well. I think like that's been a huge problem for us, like Scrafty or talk hall. I'm gonna go talk hall, cause I think there might be a good end game where we can potentially, if it comes down to like the Marak again, we've got the Yorn there. We'll take a Flare Blitz, even in the Sun for Marak, I'll do a lot of damage, but then we can protect, they can go to sleep and we got at least probably two turns then to get an earth power, knockout into it. We've got to hope. We've got to hope that this is the right selection. The talk over Vinu, Vinu talk hall is going to be the winning combo. Chryselia Modsdale, right. Okay. Well, the problem is, the problem is here, that we know that Max Rockfall will help in hand. We'll knock out the Charizard, turn one, which makes things very difficult for us. Makes things very, very difficult for us, for sure. And we could Max and Max guard, turn one, and taunt the Cress, because we know she's just not getting the damage onto the Modsdale that we need to. No, let's just do this. Let's just do this. This might seem like mad crazy. Not even going to worry about taunting. I'm just going to get the sword stance up and I'm going to just go for the residual damage chip to start like getting it out and get some damage on that Modsdale as soon as I can. Not going to start guessing around because there's a chance that Alex thinks he's probably going to switch his Charizard out to Scrafty here, so he might commit into the Mimikyu to get that special defense boost like we saw and then get that trick room up. The big thing here for us is like, if we can get this sword stance up with Mimikyu, it puts a little bit more pressure on that side of the field, detracts a little bit away from the Charizard, but at the same time, got a hope that the Charity Berry stays strong. Didn't really account for Life Orb on the Modsdale here with the Charity Berry Calcs and that's what kind of throws it, especially with that help in hand boost. So Alex does have a way right now to really just get rid of the Charizard, cleanly turn one. We could have Max Guarded here, but I don't really know what that gets us, especially if he goes for an attack and he's setting up trick room, like we're kind of probably going to see right now. The best case scenario for us, there isn't a best case scenario. It's all bad because the trick room going up. Yeah, the Max Quake coming out, which makes a lot of sense. Makes a lot of sense. Okay. The thing is the next turn, does he think that we are going to, does he think that we're going to switch or protect the Charizard, you know? Because let's just say, did we bring, we brought the Tocal, so we're not in the worst spot. Because we could potentially, Max Guard, I kind of, I want to, I want to attack with the Charizard here. I want to attack with the Charizard because he may Max Rockfall, but again, like the Max Guard, no, I think we'll Max Guard. It's just a waste of a turn if he attacks into Mimikyu here, which he may do, because we're in such a horrible spot. Yeah, let's just attack into the Mudsdale, get more damage onto it and go for a Shadow Sneak into the Crest, just in case he goes for the Mimikyu. Yeah. So if the Mimikyu sticks around, it'll be able to get the Crest the next turn at least. Max Quake again, come on. Okay, that's good. We lose the Mimikyu, but that's fine because the residual damage that we're going to pick up now onto that Crest, Crestelia and the Mudsdale, even though they are plus two, it might just be enough for Tocal to come in and kind of pick up a knockout. Maybe, maybe, maybe, but we can Max Guard the next turn, which is, which is, which is super huge for us. So the Psychic coming in, special defense drop, okay. It's just the chip damage, isn't it? You know, the chip damage there, but the Crest's going to drop the next turn, as well as that Mudsdale. Well, Mudsdale's not going to drop the next turn, is it? But we can bring the Tocal in now. How many turns of trick room we've got left? I think too many, too many, if I'm completely honest. Three, yeah. Like Tocals are most important part of this. And now it makes sense to go for the Rockfall. Problem is if we protect now, I don't think we protect now, you know? I think we go for it another one and just blatantly go for it. Because the Mudsdale's only going to be able to take one thing down. And I think out of everything, you really want to get rid of the Tocal because it's just taking advantage of the trick room right now. So we'll see, we'll see where he goes. Not doing enough to that Mudsdale at all. And Rockfall, where are we going? Into, into the Tocal. Perfect, okay. Now the Charizard gets that third and final attack off, which is ideal, what we want. And then we can protect the next turn, which definitely helps us out a bunch. And maybe with the Life Orb recall, this damage here, it's going to be enough to get, it's going to be enough to get the Mudsdale. You still got to worry about the Mawak in the back though, that's the thing, you know? Yeah, the Mudsdale dropping. So the Crissel, you're gone. Oh, it's going to be the Mawak. The Mawak's the problem for us. And no protect on Venus makes it very difficult for us to kind of, to deal with it. So it's, it's going to go either way. Yeah, the Mawak's there, of course. Yeah. And Tappafini, which makes it even more tricky. Yeah. Okay, well, what are we looking at? Two more turns. Yeah. I don't know. I don't think we can do this. I really don't. I think we can probably deal with, we can probably, it depends what the Mawak's got, honestly. Is the Mawak going to attack here? Yes, I would say so. I'm going to double in on it. I don't think there's really much coming back here. I think the Mawak in these Trick Room turns does enough. Maybe the recall damage with the Scorching Sands will be enough to get the Mawak. But then we've not really got a way to deal with the Finny at all. Like the Muddy Waters are going to be enough by themselves. And we can protect, not even protect, man. That's just insane damage. Single target attack. Good game to Alex. It was a great set. It was nice to be able to pull it back. But yeah, the Trick Room there from the Crests. I think the problem was for us, we weren't, we were, the Mudsdale got all of its attacks off when it needed to. So I think that's the big thing, you know? Bit disappointed on my end, because I think that end game was a bit, ah, I don't know. The end game could have been better. Maybe, and even if I say Scrafty would have been better there, I don't know if it would have been. I think something like, right, Pirae would have been a better shot to deal with like something like the Mawak. And it was a really good shot on his end and not to go Lightning Road, which, yeah. Obviously we were caught out with it early on. So the big thing for us, I think if we had Protect on, or Sash, Protect and Sash on Venusol, it would have been a way better call. I think the move, item choice and the move selections there weren't necessarily as good as they could have been. And maybe gone with a bit more of an offensive talk call would have helped. I think maybe something like Charcoal would have been a bit better. Or even an offensive item like the Life Oak could have been that little bit more that would have tipped it into our favor. But I think the big thing for us was obviously and that must have got the special defense boost up and then it went a bit south from there. But good game to Alex. Hope you enjoyed week one. We'll try and come back in fighting style for week two. So keep an eye out for the analysis video on that one. At the end of the day, it's been a lot of fun and I hope you've enjoyed it. So thanks for sticking around friends. Have a great rest of your day and I'll catch up with you all again very soon. So until then, take care. Bye-bye.