back for another XOZeroes episode in today's episode we're going to discuss how to clear chapter 17 episode 14 how to beat John Donk but before that if you want an updated XOZeroes content please hit the subscribe button down below. Hey guys we're now here at chapter 17 episode 14 so we're going to try to check out John Donk's passive and skills for this stage as a boss so he has thrust three for his passive but more importantly he has a lot of status effects immunity he has actually more or less other passives as well so aside from status from immune to status effects so he has buffs so increase own block by 1000 the start of the turn if if there are living allies so the key is actually this is going to be you know this is going to be a bit confusing because the key in defeating him is actually taking a lot taking all of his allies out or killing them but again for his S1 he actually brings them back to life so I'll be explaining a bit of a strategy later during gameplay so again for his buff he increases own block by by 1000 if all if there are living allies even if there is one so special reduces normal damage received by 65 so damage reduction pretty much a headache increase attack at the start of the round by 20 again bit of a headache more on I'm more worried about how to kill him than you know than my heroes dying in this in this what they call this in this in this episode so more or less how to kill him with less hits for us to get a three star so right now guys I already did this and I was able to finish this with two star but more or less the objective here is to get to three star so again he also has tenacity which reduces the duration of his of his break status for a for his S1 he has um what do you call this um declaration of victory so increase own defense by 30% also another headache so aside from damage reduction he increases his defense which is really really really really really headache um grants damage immunity for self or two turns again another one so really big on defense for this guy and revives all dead allies and for his S2 you have their kings army deals 255 damage to all enemies and there you go so that is it for John Donk so more or less for him if you check out the garden stones for for what do you call this for this boss or this episode so you have five so more or less you'll be requiring five with with a different garden five heroes that designates a specific element so for light more or less um the recommended here would be Garf or Schmidt probably Schmidt because of his turn reset because the more turn resets you know you do the more you can you know you could attack your enemies and you know give them less of a turn to attack you that's so Schmidt here is actually very beneficial for nature you have rudley tantalo junai rara and talia so all our fcs i'm i'm i'm talking about fcs here guys um so don't be confused so more or less the best here for me would be tantalo rara and rudley okay for dark you have choices would be adams ramji shufraken again all fcs um choice would be either ramji or adams for this one so machine your choice would be dorka fc shell or fcu loom so again your choice here would be fc you know fc shell or dorka and for frost you actually the choice here would be primarily would be battery if you don't have battery read marie would be good because of his damage over time also bernett would would be good because of his aoe but more or less you won't really need much more much aoe for frost for battery or read marie would would be okay okay so again for my team that i'm using for this one so i'm going with rudley battery schmid dorka and and fc ramji on the front okay so um i'm actually good with this team ready this gives me a lot of hp survivability turn reset for for fc schmid damage is actually questionable but i'll try to three star with this team okay so the first time that i encountered this i was able to to two star this on auto i'll try to do this now on manual um try to make sure to control to control the enemies on the other side in terms of the turns if possible so uh here we go with rudley so rudley here is basically your top hp and defense enhancer also good with burst damage as well to make sure that um um he deals a lot of damage in terms of in terms of enemies and he has silence as well for you know it's usually for for the allies or for the enemy allies in front of you so we'll go with schmid it's a pity that for schmid i haven't you know i haven't elementally enhanced him up to three breaking three garden stones so i'll have to be contented with two for now but more or less i like schmid here because again with the with the with the turn reset so more or less um if his defense is actually higher than than your other allies then he can give master's footsteps and pray eventually so basically for ramji he is good here he did a turn reset so he's going to do another s2 again for damage making sure that they cannot you know uh a few of them can only you know can only have a a counter attack so it's actually important that you keep that you keep your hits low in terms of wave one and wave two so that you'd be able to reach um reach wave three with you know less hits um wave three is actually quite the headache in terms of the enemy in terms of the boss so we're now at 10 so that's good so more or less we'll go again with uh with dorka's s1 for bind and more or less not to give them any mana for two turns and next would be rudley again to break green garden stones to give hp and defense to the team so again rudley my best hero so far been you know been happy bringing him mostly in pvp but again he's actually good as well in your in your pve content so very good utility for a player and also damage very underrated he was very underrated before i even underrated him and schmid um hopefully for my team i could build up his signature force um i'm nearly done with his unleash potential he's actually kind of good in terms of you know um splashing him to other teams as well aside from you know so i'm trying to i'm going to try to splash him with my other teams and probably try to um um try to apply master's footsteps then pray so again we're good at hit 36 for wave two i hope ramji finishes them off so the biggest challenge would be our wave three so there you go we're done with wave two off to wave three bath three leading the way okay john donk very very tough old man so very tough old man and we go ahead with dorca for s1 again applying bind so again the key for the key for um the allies of donk is not to finish them off because again he has revived so as much as possible just kill off around four then keep one alive then break donk uh then kill both of them that's actually the strategy here because you don't want to trigger his revive he revives actually if you you finish you know you finish everyone off so that is that is actually where you should not kill every every everyone off um to minimize your hits so we're now at 56 actually i i like schmidt because of the aoe you know the aoe for all um to break guardian stones garf only hits the back so preference would be schmid for for this one so again we're at 60 so we're going to at least kill one more and save the other one too so that so that he won't revive everyone so we're done to one so again so we're here breaking john donk hopefully we can we're a hit limit 61 so we're we're kind of good so this is actually a pain aoe which you know we're at 64 we're still good so he's broken for have a little bit of uh you know glimmer of hope in terms of finishing finishing this off with with three stars so again um when i did this at two stars um pretty much um really hard especially if if you expect to three star on auto so more or less i'm doing this again on manual and i've you know i've i've changed up some of the heroes that i used i used garf before i switched up to schmid which actually more or less is more effective in terms of in terms of what he can do so again once donk is broken you can actually kill off kill off that uh that minion of his so that his um his uh his block would go down again he has a plus 1000 block if there's an ally on the field so more or less there you go schmid really you know gives a big damage to everyone so off with his s1 hopefully he won't revive any any one of them anymore so i'm at four more or less i have to bring on a lot of damage now he doesn't have you know additional blocks that so more or less again i'm free to you know attack him multiple times but i i think i will have i i will not have the opportunity to you know to finish him off now um because i have two more turns for the break and one here with battery and one more hopefully battery does a lot of damage not so much so i have to rely on another break oh boy i was actually hoping that he won't wake up see he's actually he's actually reviving everyone so i'm at 64 another another break would do i still have to do another break and kill off most of them because again the the the aim here is for three stars um three stars and more or less um trying to break john donk for this one so again for dorka breaking two machine he has damage immunity i forgot so we're going to weather this have to kill you know everyone here everyone of his allies prevent more damage from me i'm at 75 already i just have to weather this 83 i don't think i can so more or less guys um i don't think i can weather this in terms of in terms of hits so again this will be finished in a two star so again it's really hard because he has revived um but i'll finish this one i'll finish him off but i won't be three starring him now more or less two stars would be enough for the moment so again the satisfaction here is actually clearing this again and you know i'm showing you guys how it's done um again schmidt is actually crucial here moving forward um also i think ramji has to be changed to to adams i don't have a built up built up fc adams that is why i'm going with ramji so again uh adams would be i think would be good because he's a single target damage dealer um in terms of he can deal a lot of damage more than ramji uh what else so that's mostly it um i don't think you'll have any more changes in terms of the roster i'm pretty much happy with what i have unless if you want to change um dorka with david to deal more damage that's probably it so again he's he's reviving gang before he's broken so in terms of hits i i think i could take the hits but the problem is the hit limit keeps on piling up so more or less i just have to you know be contented again with two starring this the stage so this revive actually thing is really a pain i if he doesn't really have revive more or less he can really be you know we can can be taken out quick so again i'm at hit i'm at hit 100 exceeded my quota again for hits so just have to slowly take him out so for redly again have two more two more garden stones for lights so i'm sure schmidt would take care of him again i think i think redly would would be crucial for this one for for three star so if not for for for schmidt you know i would not have reached this far in terms of hits so again it's a it will be a big improvement from from from ramsey to adams actually if you change or switch it up so more or less i'm just you know clearing this one hopefully i could i could finish him off while he's broken because i don't want to go through another revive of his gang so he's at uh break two so nearing hopefully i could really finish him off so another s2 from bathory little damage little damage so again he survives another break um with little life left again very here we go again another another round of revive so this stage is going to be so long so it's actually you know down the wire ready for the third revive very very you know very very hard to kill again he is damaged immunity at this point so we'll have to weather this out and kill off is is what they call this is posse damage immunity weathering it off so more or less need this aoe from rudley to finish them off so where is it so he's nearing nearing extinction so more or less i'll try to finish him off with fc schmid i should have brought fc adams kind of regret it i'll have to redo this one with fc adams for the three star so again pretty much hard headed guys can't really stay down he's down to about i think five percent hp around 10 around 10 that's around 10 more so and he's really stubborn and still doesn't want to die i i need one more good burst attack there we go okay so we're done with john donk so more or less this is the end of his reign so more or less again chapter's done guys so there you go okay guys for any comments any suggestions any suggestions on any lineup that you want to suggest so that i could three stars one please put them down in comment section below anyway guys um hope this helped and always stay here stay safe this is the warden and i'm out here


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Hi everyone, I hope you're all well having a great day. Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 Battle Series, but it is Friday. So getting into today's episode I did say in our last episode that we've spiced things up a little bit with this Ultra and Acrosma and Zonius team that we've been playing since the introduction of the Ultra series I'm a little bit sad to see it go because we're gonna be saying goodbye to it today And obviously getting ready for a new team come Monday, so do not miss that Remember we've got a poll up at the moment on the YouTube channel asking what call you'd like to most see Starting on Monday next week, so go ahead vote over there if there are options in the poll on there for teams that you'd like to see Just leave a comment and I will make sure to feature whatever comes out on top But don't be sad if what you vote before doesn't get played We've got so much time in the Ultra series to explore so many different archetypes So we're gonna be able to have time for everything in this series And I'll make sure to cover as many things as you guys would like to see going forward But getting on to today's team. I did say it was gonna be a bit spicy. So here we go Let's have a look. We've got rid of the salamence. We've kept it lately. That's been doing a great job We've got a light screen on there. We haven't got the redirection anymore But we've got the introduction of mega meta grass now One of the things that we did say over the last couple of days and discussions in the comments with you guys And thank you so much for those as well It was the little bit of a weakness that we've got to the Zonius now We're relying quite heavily on making those quite ballsy plays and positioning with the tabulae leg at the Z move into the Zonius But that's kind of a two-turn setup. It's not ideal So we've introduced the meta grass into the team meta mega mega meta grass if I can even get my words out Right, which is gonna be a lot better for dealing with things like Zonius and just pressuring it instantly And making them really think twice about Geomancing in front of us So as always the team pace and the role pace are down in the description You can check those out and try it out if you'd like to and if you do is always let me know what your thoughts are on the team And without further ado, I guess we'll just jump straight into today's episode As always if you enjoy the content on the on the channel Make sure you do leave a like on this video does really help out the the the channel in general though guys Make sure you do subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any more daily battle series I we obviously have a guide series more guides coming next week Which is very exciting with all the other mega Pokemon that we'll be featuring and so we'll hop in to our next game Hopefully it doesn't take too long again if it does I will I'll just cut to it And we'll come straight back when I bump into another opponent And we have our first opponent of the episode so I'll hop straight into it into team preview here We go we're going up against Umbrian pherothone goththel landeris therian Kyogre and rikwaza so we've got a kyogre rikwaza call We've got the goththel that's going to trap things in give Opponent a little bit better positioning for making sure that their board position Punishes what we've got on the field. So we need to be very careful around that. I would say maybe It's likely to see scarfed kyogre in this team and then you've got the the Umbrian there I don't really know what that does other than snarl it can foul play It's very bulky as well. So we need to make sure that we're dealing with that Well enough and then the pherothone as well. They're gonna check Azernius There's the intimidate from the landeris as well, which is probably got maybe the Z move I can't discount it on something else as well. So How are we gonna approach this one? Hmm? I think the one thing that we want we want to try and avoid is being trapped in with a Tap of Lele here and we definitely want pivots to lead out with so that would either be incinero landeris theory and I think Hmm, I do like the idea of Metagross here. It does become a bit more difficult with the Umbrian I think if we go incinerole Yeah, incinerole because of the pherothones we can pivot out there That's gone across my let's go Metagross and I think we definitely need Azernius Let's go Azernius and bring these four and get into the first game today So good luck to my opponent Seen some mad combinations of Pokemon and I did say last week I would ladder up in my spare time to get us a little bit higher going into our next episodes Our next matches But one of the things I've had a problem with this week, which has kind of stopped me doing it is my Wi-Fi at home So once it's resolved, I will spend some time dedicated to getting up a good portion on the ladder We've had some actual suggestions to Implement some changes to show the bottom screen one was searching for opponents so we can see my rating and things like that So make sure that it's all implemented for next week's episode So the aesthetics of the the episode should be looking a lot better And if you've got any suggestions as well that you'd like to see going into these games Make sure you do let me know and I'll try to make sure that we can cover them going forward We're gonna see the primal cryoga the Gothel come up for my opponent now One of the things I could do we could sack in Cinero at the cost of getting rid of The problem is I don't really want to just lose Incineroar so freely I'd rather fake out the cryoga because we need the incineroar to deal with The ferrithon late game we need to keep that in mind if the ferrithon is being brought here Which it's likely it has to deal with the zernius I'm happiest allowing the trick room to be set up here And going for a ultra burst and getting this moon guys beam into the goth hotel rather than You know and letting the trick room go up rather than not letting the trick room go up and taking a water spout I don't know I just impose You know an ultranocrosm will be able to take it but incineroar is not going to be taking that at all so Yeah, we're gonna see the protect from the cryoga, which is fine And We do ultra burst and there was an all game. Okay, so we just see the double protect there. Hmm Now could we I don't know if we're gonna be able to take down the cryoga? With Ultranocrosm with the z move especially with the Lele not been out on the field Does my opponent have the switch in for the z move they do have it in Umbrian Maybe the ferrithon is not a bad switching either if you go to trick room route But we just revealed the moon guys beam, so I mean that's something that my opponent has to think about I'm gonna try and you turn out into that slot and I'm gonna go for the the light that burns this guy into the cryoga We've got to try and damage it as much as we can I just really don't okay, so the goth hotel gonna switch out Umbrian gonna hit the field they're gonna try and take that moon guys beam here But not gonna happen. We are gonna be able to get this into the cryoga. Obviously, I'll have to cut this again Be nice going into next week and not having to cut every z move that we fire off But we'll be right back my friends And it is gonna be into the cryoga here. Can we pick up the knockout? I mean that would be incredible for in Senor would be so grateful if fair we can knock out the cryoga. I'm not Really confident, but We do enough to it. We do enough to it if it's water spotted here. That's yeah, it's origin pulse the crossmer avoids It's a little bit unfortunate Because we probably will yeah, we're losing Senor unfortunately But we can bring in Azernius here. Yeah, we've got a really good opportunity to go for a Geomancy If it is if it the problem is if it is the The ferrithon and the back things do get very difficult and some one thing we didn't want to do is lose that the Incinero But it's a bit of an oversight for my side of things. I think what we could potentially do is I want to go moon guys beam into the cryoga, but I'm a little bit afraid in case it doesn't pick up the knockout there So I'm just gonna go for the size shock just to make sure cuz yeah I was expecting maybe to see the gofford's help come in, but we're not gonna see that We're gonna be able to just remove it from the field Keep our little Zernius safe And be able to get the Geomancy off which does help us out a bunch especially against this Umbrian now The Umbrian has a couple of options here. It can go for I think the one thing that we would hate to see is Psycup here But it can go for a snarl To kind of get around the boosts a little bit it can go for file play into necrosma There's a snarl We're likely to see the goth hotel come back in now, but I think a double up into that slot would be enough to remove it So let's see goth hotel coming back in dazzling gleam and moon guys beam should be enough to get the goth hotel The only problem is I feel like the goth hotel probably protects. We probably see I'm still gonna go for it. We probably see a snarl. It's just I can't afford to let that goth hotel get a trick room up So I don't want to not target into it now and get punished for it. I'm gonna see the Umbrian switch out I'm gonna see ferrathorn make its little debut No Okay, well, I mean getting switched into that if we can remove the goth. Oh, I don't know if we're gonna be able to get it with Yeah The moon guys beam and if this trick room goes up things get very hairy for us very quickly I mean we identified it straight away. Come on moon guys Nothing's getting tricky. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Where do you talk it into your ferrathorn? We've got metagross in the back can come in maybe do something not really too good against the Umbrian though And then across my definitely isn't like if I'm opponent I think probably the Xernius protect here. So I just talk it into the necrosma Can we take a gyro ball with necrosma? That's the that's the question. I kind of want a dazzling gleam as well Oh moon blast. Yeah moon blast. I don't really care about the goth hotel at this point. I'm gonna moon blast We run out of time. I think we protect With the necrosma, I mean if we get the moon blast off that makes things so much easier for us Especially if they talk it into the necrosma in this turn. I doubt they do though They probably just make the play. Oh leech seed. Ha there. They do predict That we protect the Xernius here, so we get around this a little bit better Maybe it's in it's power range now. We are minus one of course, so we need to be a little bit careful And what we do now? Do we just dazzle now? Because I think now's the turn where I would protect it probably again don't want to talk it into it The dazzle would be although the dazzles very obvious here I'm gonna have to do it. I think I have to go for it and go for the earth power I hope they go for the necrosma again got the tail gonna switch out Maybe they target the the Xernius here just covering that slot. I think that's what you would do Yeah, Jerobo We survive Come on Zern you are the the king Please no Barry. No Okay, I can't believe we survived that we're gonna get some nice damage on to this Umbrian plus one Yeah, can we stall out the trick room now, you know, we're not we're not trapped in anymore So we can potentially get around things Okay, let's go protect and Let's switch into Do we switch into Metagross? Yeah, we do because we want to reset the drops and we want to get Meta in Metagross mega Metagross. We're gonna be able to feature it. I can't believe we survived that that year that Jerobo So good Okay, we're getting Metagross in It's obvious we're protecting there now though. Isn't it? It really is Jerobo going into that slot again needing to protect that Umbrian There's a file plate. That's not what we wanted to see. Oh Man look at the damage That is disgusting One more turn of trick room left. I Mean we've got to protect like we've got to get around this trick room. Yeah And I think we have to forego our boosts We have to protect Metagross at all costs. Yeah, it's gonna be difficult to close this one out But we can maybe do it Just whether we see a snarl here or not like a snarl wouldn't be ideal. I just hope we see Jerobo and file play again Jerobo, we should take this. It's a snarl. That's not what we wanted to see We do take it. I mean that's Something the leftovers on this Umbrian as well. Umbrians are so frustrating The trick room does end Now like where do we go because the snarls the the most obvious thing here Can we get the Umbrian now with a combination at minus one We probably can get the Umbrian with earth power and then an iron head and there's always a chance to flinch as well Let's try it. We've got to try it. I think but then If we get the Umbrian, we're still in with a shout Very small shout, but we're still in with a shout very thought protect. So that's a big big plus for us So if we can get the Umbrian Things are looking up is the iron head. Come on Metagross. Let's do this for the team. Come on Yes, come on gross. Yes big bad meta. Okay, it's not over though yet. Not by any means But this means that we have to stomp in tantrum earth part into Graffarathon and we have to be able to get it with this combination of attacks. I mean would moon guys beam be better? Stomp It's just let's just just just just double check here And so Yeah, I think the moon guys beam is gonna be better, isn't it? It's gonna be a little bit stronger So we'll go moon guys beam and we'll go It's ice punch your stomping gonna be better though They're both neutral Stompings I think a bit more powerful from not mistaken Gonna go stomping So we've got to get it with moon guys beam and stomping come on Can we clinch this because if zernius can then come in it can totally got the tail gonna protect this time? Okay, well the first ones only gonna well depends where it targets Targeting like into the ultra necrosma, but maybe then zernius comes in and it's gonna be enough to be able to Take it down with Dazzle, but we get it anyway. I am Bob's that's fine Wow What an episode what a game to kick off the episode this has been so nail-biting Can't believe we're on such fine margins with like 9 HP with got the tell 10 HP with zernius Going up against this got the tell now I think you're my opponent then maybe you trick room with the got the tell and try the double protect onto the ferrathorn I think that would have been the wiser choice But it's hard to say in these situations, you know where you want to go with things I'm just thankful that we were able to get the double up onto the the embryo and without that I Don't think we could have done very much, but very good games my opponent and what a blaster to kick us off with today How can we top that going into game two? I don't know but we'll try we'll try at least we've got to see mega Metacross as well It's really nice being able to kind of see against Pokemon It's not really, you know, you're not really generally gonna bring it against these sort of Pokemon And it still performs very well. It's a very strong mega. I still arm on the side of mega metacross is Good in this format. I think it's very niche. I think players that are saying it's bad Haven't played with it enough to Really justify it, but there's always gonna be people that just don't agree with me at all And that is fair enough because they they they've got probably definite good reasons why it's not very good in this format And yeah, that's fine, but I do think it's got a very good place in this format. It does wreck a lot of things It's not gonna have a great matchup against a lot of other things, but it does have its place I feel but we've got an ex-opponent child 1399 rated a player so we're gonna up against him and we'll go into team preview If you can get it There we go. Finally.  So How are we going to approach this because it's probably a very similar kind of core to what we're playing and The fact that there's the scarf Tepolele there Like metagross does really well in this game I mean you've got to be very careful around the opposing Groudon And obviously the Dawn Mungus Necrosmas is gonna be a bit of an issue for us I think we maybe have to debate in the the Z move Well, the Mungus beam from it to deal with it. I do want to bring Incineroar here just for this the the the idea that we've got snarl. I think more than anything We're gonna cross ma I think I need Tepolele here and do we bring Zonius? Do we bring metagross or do we bring lander us like lander us could be quite good here to be honest But I'm kind of swaying more on this side of metagross even though it makes us a little bit of a worse matchup against the Dawn wings, but we'll go good luck to my opponent. Let's see if we can top that last one That was a good one Sorry to keep popping on about it But it's always nice when you kind of you're in the middle of a game You're like I don't see a way out of this like I didn't see a way out of after the trick room goes up And he's taking quite a bit of damage and although we got a geometry off the ferrathorn appear We lost our incineroar just seemed really difficult to kind of overcome that when you do overcome something like that It's so nice that feeling of just being able to be like Okay, you can breathe a little bit now So we're gonna see the the dawn wings and across my come out from my opponent with the salamence We'll get the intimidate off with the art incineroar. I think one of the things I'd like to do potentially here is Switch out our Incineroar, oh do I just snarl? No, I think what I'm gonna do is I just say I just fear the potential Tailwing from the salamence and we don't really want to allow them to do that. I'm gonna fake out men's Do we just stay in this form and moon guys beam because we should be able to take a moon guys beam from the necrosma Although we could just go ultra burst and just be the first time playing this be like super risky and go for the 5050 speed Tie, I would never advise this as well if we use this be tied It's gonna be very difficult for us to make very much progress in the rest of this match And so I'm really kind against it But because it's Friday and we're feeling ultra lucky. I'm just gonna see the protect from the The opposing necrosma we could have went into the salamence predicting that protect, but that's fine Do have access to a Z move now, which is always good As we could mute the salamence We just not really got a switch in for our ultra necrosma That's the only problem, but they don't really have a good switch in for the Z move now from our ultra necrosma And we can get this alamence for sure It does make the on with the the ground on a little bit trickier say and I Think what we'll do is we'll go for you turn Into the ultra necrosma and we'll try and make this salamence and hope that we're pressuring this necrosma Feel the enough for it to switch out, but we're not gonna see that Fall things of all things we walk into it once again once again my friends We walk into this trap, which is not ideal at all, right? You're gonna see this thing Come out new because for the moon guys being for sure it's gonna go for the speed time But it's not really because it's kind of beat us all in all anywhere unless it goes for the earth power Ha, at least we've got no editing to do on the Z move third disappoint me keep falling for that trap So was the obvious thing to do and with the mega salamence not mega revolving there I think it's a good indicator for us to Probably say that it was gonna switch out wasn't it? It's moon guys beam. It's gonna be See another sucker to our a good old. Oh, we actually survive Wow Wow That's that's pretty incredible. Okay, that's really really impressive Okay, so that is a big game changer for us. We've lost as a move, but I mean just having ultra necrosma now So check out we could change the EVs And they're down in the description if you want to check out the team we're bringing Lele We can pressure that ultra necrosma pretty much straight away And I think there's no home and just chucking around some Moon blasts to be honest. I think the ultra necrosma probably protects here the incinero probably pivots out Hmm It's a thing we could double into the incinero with a moon blast Like I think we've got to try and make some traction in this game We could moon blast and earth power into the incinero and pick up the knock out there I'm gonna do it because we need to try and pull ourselves back into this expecting that necrosma to protect It does withdraw groud on coming. Yeah Now if we can get the incinero here, which I'm kind of hoping we can it really does open the door for Atabu Lele to do a ton of damage and really kind of claw this match back from us For us, I should say it's just about whether we can We can get rid of the incinero. It's just about this moon blast If it does about 40% Think we'll be safe to get the earth power and knock out onto it Yeah, we should get it now. Yeah with the earth power definitely. I think Okay, so there we go Okay, we make the right choice there And what's coming in the necrosma Now, I think what we will do is moon blast as the necrosma will bring an incinero Again, we'll get the intimidate off onto the ground on which is the big thing here for us We need to preserve our necrosma to help us deal with that groud on later in the game with the earth power All we need to do is chip it slightly and it's going to be an earth power range Maybe the necrosma Because cheeky here thinks we're not target into it because of the last turn So it doesn't protect so we can nuke it this turn That is going to be safe, but Lele should be able to take a minus 1p blades That's fine. So we do get that all the salamence the next turn. There's the precipice blades We can't obviously fake out the groud on which is a little bit of a um It's not ideal Um, and we've got to really think about this now because The Lele is our answer to dealing with pretty much everything Because I think if you're my opponent You probably switch out the necrosma into the salamence at this point The salamence is less useful But we've not really got too much we can switch in I mean we could This is tricky could preserve the Lele Let's just go for the moon blast and do I just bring in metagross To get the intimidate back onto that ground on once again I'm gonna do it so we we can put it down to minus two. We'll lose Lele Yeah, we're gonna see it switch out But We will get the ments. There's always a chance of the precipice blades missing as well I don't think metagross shouldn't go down to this I'm gonna be taking a bunch of damage though. We do get the salamence Oh, that's huge. That is absolutely huge for us lele avoiding That is massive That's too too big too big Um, because now we can stomp in tantrum into the ground on switch out a lele Into incinero Mega revolve and just go for the stomping into the ground on It's likely the necrosis might protect because knowing that we're scoffed It has to protect and try and take us down with the next precipice blades It's like the only option my opponent's got so the metagross has a pretty free turn here to go for the stomping tantrum um, and then if incinero goes down to The precipice blades here, then we get a free switching back into that lele The necrosis just protect so can't really protect again Metagross should go down so that opens a door for our alternate cosmos to come in So we've kind of got a checkmate situation. It's just about both of our pokemon going down here, which I'm not sure if incinero actually goes down or not But we'll see there's the protect from the necrosis All we need is this stomping tantrum damage onto the the ground on and then it puts it in range And you know if incinero doesn't go down there is the fake out option with the psychic terrain ending this next turn So we would have that option as well going into this next turn Uh, but we do see both go down which is fine Critical hit rng giving us the role there. So uh, the psychic train will disappear now Metagross doing its job getting that damage onto the ground on setting up this end position and like I say now we can um We've got a complete checkmate situation where we can just go Um moon blast hit par and we should be able to wrap this game up It's such fine margins again It's um, it's been one of those episodes again It felt like after turn one and the survival there with the necrosis absolutely huge for us Um, you know, we got a little bit greedy But because of that that that survival there from the moon guys beam it makes such a difference So it makes sense to just you know Put the extra bulk into it because you're not really missing out on the damage From the attacks that you're doing. There's the moon blast into the necrosis I'm gonna be enough to pick it up and now the earth power comes into the ground on watch it survive I don't think it will from this range But yeah, we are able to pick up another win very nice and a really good way for us to send off this team this week so that's incredible and just massive good games to my opponent and Thankfully we were able to pull out the win there and like I said, just a nice way to send off this zernius and Ultra necrosis build that we've been playing since the ultra series kicked off last week guys. Thank you so much for tuning in today I hope you've enjoyed the run with this ultra necrosis and zernius team We've featured a few different variations throughout the last couple of weeks and I hope it's been interesting and entertaining for you It's been amazing just interacting with you guys in the comment section for the last couple of weeks on these episodes Well being featuring this team and I was excited to announce that on monday. We'll be going into the Battle spot if I can speak obviously. I'm just so excited with a brand new team So we have a poll up at the minute. It will be kind of I'll take in the results Probably this evening So if you haven't voted over there for what you'd like to see played next week go over there Stick a vote on and I will make sure to play whatever comes out on top And as I've been saying as well, don't be too disappointed if we don't feature something you want to see We've got so much time in the ultra series to feature a bunch of stuff So I will make sure to get through everything in the end We're gonna have guides coming up next week. So don't miss those and I'll just end it by saying I hope you all have a fantastic weekend and I will see you all on mondays until then guys Thanks for tuning in. I will see you later take care of yourselves and bye. Bye


This programme contains swearing, mild pain and sexual references. Some viewers may find offensive. Baz looks very guilty. Really? Oh, my goodness me. That scares me even more. Jen, can you come give us a hand with the bandages, please? Oh, my God. Jen, what do you think of the tattoo? It's good and bad. Oh! OK. Sorry. Ah! Oh, sorry! Come on. OK, ow! I have no idea how much is going to tear this one. Baz, have you got any regrets? No. Watch it. How many albums did Sugarbirds release? Er, about five, six, maybe. That's what we'll count down from then. Are you ready, Scott? OK. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Can you move your feet, goggles? What is that? What is it? A girl. Is that a girl? That's quite cute. It is weird. Are you doing the same tattoo as me? Because I see like an old bloke. What is it? Basically. Come on, Baz. Explain yourself. What is it?  And sometimes I feel like you think people see you otherwise and you always play on how people look at you. So you may think people see that, that old man, but what I want you to see is what you really are, beautiful princess. That is lovely.  That is so sweet. That's actually really, really sweet. I really... That is so sweet. What have you done? Thanks, all. Baz. How many celebrity friends have you got? Oh, my God. If you had to just... If you just had to say a number. About 30. Right, let's count down from 30 then. Of course. Unlucky. 30. 29. 28. 27. 26. I don't think Scott can count all the way down from 30. 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. Go on, you may remember three goggles. Just look, just look. I can't think it was going to be that big. Oh, I love what it says, though. Can you read out what it says? Low tea family, love, money, loud, active. What's the story behind this tattoo? Obviously, he loves himself and that's a good thing. And I wanted it to be a portrait of himself with everything that he is on top of his head. Baz, do you like it, honestly? It's thoughtful.  No, it's, I don't know, I'll grow it tonight. It's fine. So, we're all still friends. Yes, of course. He's a happy. Of course. We're still friends. Let's have a thoughtful hug. Come on, Jews. Oh, what the flesh just happened! I'm happy I've come. I'm happy that we passed the test of true friendship.


Hi everybody, Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com coming at you with some 2020 Panini National Treasures football. Love this stuff. Random team break 26. Thank you everyone here for joining. Congrats again to the winners right here in those mosaic packs too. All 32 teams are in. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. Three and a two. Five times for names and teams. One, two, three, four, and fifth and final time. We got William down to Matthew. Three and a two. Five times for the teams. One, two, three, four, and fifth and final time. After five times we got the Bills down to the Browns. All right, William with the Buffalo Bills, PJ with the Rams, Matthew with the Seahawks, Daniel with the Panthers, Aaron with the Ravens, PJ with the Eagles, Oliver with the Jets, PJ with the Patriots, and the Colts, Matthew with the Bears, Daniel with the Chargers and Dolphins, as well as the Falcons, Matthew with the Buccaneers and Steelers, PJ with the Bengals, and the Titans. Matthew with the Jags and Vikings, Daniel with the Washington football team, Matthew with the Texans, Daniel with the Giants, Matthew Shearer with the Chiefs, Daniel Katz with the Cowboys, PJ Lyons and My Raiders, Scott with the Cardinals, Chad with the Saints, Matthew with the Packers, Paul with the Niners, William with the Browns, and Matthew Shearer with, sorry, check that, Paul with the Niners, William with the Broncos, and Matthew Shearer with the Browns. It's alphabetized by team, and when we come back, we're going to see if there's any trades, and then it will have the break. Stick around, we'll be right back. All right, welcome back, folks. As you remember, I marked those RT-26s, so we know they're from the same case. And here is the final printout. No deals, no deals were done. It's all good here on a Monday. Thanks everyone for watching. Let's see what we got. Got a book down there. Let's see what we got. Let's use this blank card here, try to slow play some of the hits a little bit. We got a four out of five to leave things off. Hollywood Brown, out of fives and under, of course, get the train whistle. That's going to be for Aaron, Aaron W, and the Baltimore Ravens. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Got Joe Namath back here. 17 out of 99. Jets, Oliver. Century materials, 28 out of 99. Joe Mixon. Bangles, PJ. Triple Relic, NFL gear, trio materials. Josh Allen. Devin Singletary. And Zach Moss. 54 out of 99. Buffalo. That's going to be for William and the Buffalo Bills. Century materials, 42 out of 49. Tori Holt. Rams, PJ with the Rams. 20 out of 50. Patrick Queen to the purple foil against the dark blue. Kind of hard to see, but it is Patrick Queen and that is going to go to Aaron. We have a Christian Fulton. Three out of 50. Tennessee Titan. That will be for PJ. Got Jalen Johnson. Four out of 35. Four Dub Bears. Matthew Sheeran. And the book is Van Jefferson. 60 out of 99. Rookie Jumbo Prime signatures. Let's take a look. Oh, that's nice. Three color patch and great penmanship from Van Jefferson as well as always. Los Angeles Rams. PJ with the spot that he won. I don't have a slider box handy, PJ, but let me just set that aside over here and we'll put it into one of those at the end of the break. And 71 out of 88. Two color patch and autograph, CD lamb. Got the green foil against the cowboy blue. That's mad. No, not sorry, not Daniel Katz got randomized Dallas and Daniel won that spot. One of our filler pack breaks as well. All right, box one done. All right. And the second box. It's also a bit of a thicker box here. What do we have here? It's another book. It's a fatter book. Oh, possible randomizer. One happy person. Multiple sad people. Or one very happy person if it's all the same team. We're going to find out. There's 38 out of 50. Joe Mixon. PJ with the Bengals. Drew Brees. Chad with the Saints. Will Fuller, Dual Relic. Matthew Shearer. Quad Relic. 14 out of 25. Derek Carr. Josh Jacobs. Hunter Renfro. And Henry Ruggs, the third. The greatest. PJ with the silver and black. There's Herbie, Justin Herbert, Dual Relics, 72 out of 99. For Daniel Hayes and the Chargers. All right, let's see what this fat book is going to be about. Oh, rookie triple. 48 out of 49. Rookie triple. Clyde Edward Dillard. Deandre Swift. And Jonathan Taylor. Boom. Boom, boom. That's a cool looking book. Wish there was a little more in the way of color, but not too shabby. That's a randomizer between the chiefs, the lions and the Colts. That's going to be for chiefs. Matthew Shearer. Lions. PJ Colts. PJ. So PJ has the odds, but let's see what happens. And the randomizer at the end. All right. Got a few more to end things. We've got a dual autograph. Mike Singletary and Brian Erlocker. Wow. 10 out of 25. Matthew Shearer and the Bears. Nice. A few more to go. We've got two color patch and autograph. Denzel Mims. Jets. Oliver. Two more to go. We've got a Joe Thomas. 19 out of 25. Cleveland. This is for you. Matthew Shearer with the Cleveland Browns won that spot.  Should I give it four colors? One, two, three. And a little bit of green. Four color patch on card autograph. 23 out of 25 for PJ and the Eagles. Jalen Hertz. Nice QB Auto. Nice. Hopefully it takes it to the next level this year. All right. Thank you. That is the break. Let's do one quick randomizer here. So let's go back to some new dice. There's a new list right there. Once again, that was Clyde Edwards-Elaire, Deandre Swift for Detroit, and Jonathan Taylor for Indianapolis. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. Five out of five. Hard 10. Name on top after 10 gets the book. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 10th and final time after 10 goes to Indianapolis. And that's PJ with the blue horseshoes. So he wins the book, the triple relic. These three running backs here numbered 48 out of 49. The rookie triple book from 2020 Panini National Treasures Football. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.


Countup and Countdown instructions are used to count rung transitions. The Countup instruction, or CTU, is used to count false to true rung transitions. When rung conditions for a CTU instruction have made a false to true transition, the Countup Enable bit is energized and the accumulated value is incremented by one count. After the accumulated value reaches the preset value, the counter instruction done control bit is enabled. The accumulated count is retained until cleared by the reset instruction addressed same as the counter file. The Countdown instruction, or CTD, works the opposite way of the CTU by counting true to false rung transitions. When rung conditions for a CTD instruction have made a true to false transition, the Countdown Enable bit is energized and the accumulated value is decremented by one count. After the accumulated value reaches the preset value, the counter instruction done, or DN control bit, is enabled. The accumulated count is retained until cleared by the reset instruction addressed same as the CTU file. Pairing a CTU and CTD in a counting sequence using the same counter file is demonstrated in a parking garage application. As vehicles enter the parking garage, PB1 is pressed to open the gate. The CTU instruction increments by one and the visual display is updated. Cars exit the garage by pressing PB2 to open the gate. The CTD instruction is decremented by one and the visual display is updated. With both the up and down counters addressed to the same counter file, the preset and accumulated values are the same. When the accumulated value reaches the preset value, the counter done bit enables output C and full is displayed. Both counters are reset using the reset or RES control bit addressed the same as the counter file.


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Think Tech Hawaii. Civil engagement lives here. Welcome to Talk Story with John Wahee. Aloha everyone. We've got a special show for you today. I've got a friend of mine who agreed to come here and do a little reminiscing. And I'd like all of you, if you don't already know who he is, to meet Chali Tuguchi, who was a state senator for a number of years and represented the windward side of the island. Well, you're also in the state house, so yes, you're a boat. But what's the reason for inviting Chali was that doing my entire tenure as governor, Chali, you were superintendent of schools. So our adventure together in education spanned my tenure in office. So that would be eight years. In fact, I don't know any other superintendent who served eight years. Do you? Well, Governor, thank you for having me on this program. It reminds me a lot of our old times together. Yeah, it does. I don't know anybody who served as well as you. So Chali, you're one of my favorite cabinet members. So I want to invite you back. Yeah. Okay. And I want to talk story with you a little bit about what we were trying to do in education, how the educational system works today, and maybe some of the successes that we can see as people go about the work of educating all young people in this day and age. So first of all, you worked with an elected board. Yes. How is that? It seemed like it was a pretty political process. Yeah. Governor, it was very challenging because all of the board members were elected. Politicians. They were all politicians. And you and I being elected officials. Also, we know how politicians can be. And so, but when you compare that to today, if we look at when we were there and today, I would say we have a great Board of Education now. The Board of Education now is appointed. Right. And I think the law passed in 2011. Right. And by the way, the law, the change in the law was really supported by all the governors. Yes. The incumbent, I think, at that time was, was it Neil? Neil. Neil Abercrombie. Governor Abercrombie. But Linda Lingo, who was a Republican, supported it. I supported it. Yes. Ben Caetano and Governor Yoshi. Yes. The governors of the state, anyway, believed that an elected board would be better for education. And because of the appointed board. Yes. And because of that appointed board, the governor makes the appointment. And the current board is a very good board because of the appointments that Governor Iggy has made. All right. We have a cross section of outstanding educators. We're getting, I think, two of the best coming in. A former principal of Farrington High School. Really? Yeah, Cathy. I can't think of her last name now, but. I remember her. She was, she really turned around Farrington. Yes. Yes. In fact, she's going to be the chair of the board. Oh, terrific. I believe this. And I've expressed this thought that, you know, we got a lot of capable teachers out there and they work hard. But what makes, what takes a school that extra notch, it's just that little, is the quality of the principal. I mean, understanding how to administer a school is a challenge, you know. Yeah. I think with the current board and the governor working together, they've created a situation where they're trying to empower the schools. And in a school like that, you need a good leader, as you said, a good principal. And that empowerment, I think the governor has offered the schools the flexibility that they need. So at that point, it becomes the governor's role is to support the school, provide them with resources, provide them with the support that they need. And get the right people in the right places. Yeah. And in 19, I think it was 1986, David Ige was chair of the House Committee, and Mike McCartney was chair of the Senate Committee, Education Committee. And at that time, they passed Act 150. And so what you see, the movement today that you see in the schools are based on that Act 150. That's right. Remember, you and I used to have so many discussions. Right. And it's so wonderful to see, you know, how history comes together. Right. Because you remember what it was called? School based, community school based management, right? We were trying to, we were playing around with the idea. And the current governor, David Ige, was the chair and education chair in the House. And Mike McCartney, who is his chief of staff right now, was the chair of the Senate Committee. Yes. You know, in the Senate. And so you had to go down there, and you and I had had these long discussions. And Francis McMillan. Francis McMillan was the chair of the Board of Education. Right. Which, by the way, was not necessarily in tune with some of the things that we, you know, were tempted to do. So David, Governor Ige now and chief of staff, Mike McCartney, actually were in on the beginning. Yes. Of the idea of returning the, I guess you would call it the governance. Yes. To the community. Yes. And teachers. Yes. And, wow. And if you look at the current superintendent, Dr. Kishimoto. Right. If you look at her priorities, her priorities are teacher empowerment, student involvement, and school design. By school design, what she's talking about is how we organize the school to empower the school. Well, Charlie, you were superintendent.  So I may not be getting this.  I mean, what exactly does that mean in terms of the people on the ground? I think it's the recognition that those on the front line, those in the schools every day, know best what's best for the youngsters. And it's involvement of the entire community, not only the teachers, but the parents and the students. Well, I've heard it said that without the parents support, it's very difficult. Exactly. And it's not the top-down, you know, the way we were taught along the way. And so schools are getting empowered now. I see good things happening in our schools today. I think Cathy Matayoshi did a good job and then carry over to this superintendent. Well, I think that transition was handled very well. And this current superintendent seems to be very creative. I mean, I don't know per, you know, very personally, but she seemed to be very creative in following that path.  It was like two weeks before, oh no, like several days before the state of the state. I'm saying, Charlie, we got it. I got to get this down to a point that I can talk about it. And now to realize that we got a governor and a superintendent actually carrying out what to us was a little foggy vision. It's kind of exciting. I think when we were there, like, you know, governor was spent over 25 years ago that we left. So if you back that up eight years, so it's like over 30 years ago, right, when we talked about empowering the schools and it took others to complete this full circle. And I'm very hopeful today because I don't know if you feel the same way I do. But when I when I hear about that, when I see that happening, I mean, it's like it makes you really proud. And it also makes you realize that, you know, there are other people that can pick up the ball and run with it and do a fantastic job. And so I believe, I believe that from what little I know of what's going on now, I find out by reading the paper and talking to people. But I feel that the schools are heading in the right direction. I think our policymakers are understanding what their roles are, the governor and the legislature. And rather than prescribing that, for example, that we want to teach foreign language and to to get a top down mandate that you are to teach foreign language at every school, it's better to pass a resolution in the legislature requesting that the Board of Education consider teaching and leave the decision, the education decision. What language, for example. Yeah. And how, yeah, and how they do it, you know, how. Well, that's kind of interesting because, you know, we, all of us, many of us anyway, we have all heard of the Democratic Revolution in terms of how the Democratic Party really democratized Hawaii in the 50s and the 60s, mainly with the return of the of the Nisei from World War Two and so forth. These things are legend in Hawaii. But in back then, what the school system seemed to exist with a lot of, I would say, discrimination. They were English only or English proper standard schools. And there were other schools where kids that may have come from a different background weren't given the same quality of education as others. I mean, even there was doing that dark era, there was support for the private schools at the expense of the public school. Things were bad. So the revolution brought in the concept of everybody was going to be equally treated. Everybody was going to be equally treated, which was a good thing for its day. But then I heard the governor say something recently, which I totally agree with, by the way. And I thought that we might want to discuss that he said we are no longer, we are no longer going to say that one size fits all. Exactly. You know, yes, kids are different. They're all different. And I think every child is entitled to the best education that they can get. And it's not always the same education. Right. Right. And so what that means then is that the kids on Kaua'i may have something to contribute to their own education that is different from somebody in Moiliili, for example. Exactly. Exactly. And we need to recognize their contributions as well as the circumstances in life. So I'm fascinated. He said that. He says, you know, we don't have a one system fits all process anymore. We are going to recognize that each child has a different rate. And you think that's a good thing. Yes, definitely. Yeah, because, you know, I what I think I can see is with there seems to be when you approach education in that way, there seems to be a kind of excitement about it. It's not dull, you know, it's not made for the lowest common denominator. It's made for the person wherever they are. And, you know, we're going to take a break in a little while. And when we come back, let's focus on that. Let's focus on what's happening now in education that appears to be exciting to a couple old timers. Okay. A couple old we had our shot, you know, our job was we believe I believe till today that the center of our future was public school system. There's no question, you know, and and I know that you believe that as well. And with and that's how we build Hawaii's future. So when we come back, we'll talk about the governor. And maybe we start off with a promise that he made. Okay. You know, start off with a promise that he made. He promised that he was going to air condition schools. Okay. Let's talk about that. Hi, my name is Bill Sharp host of Asian Review coming to you from Honolulu, Hawaii right here in the center of the Pacific Ocean. Asian Review is the oldest of the 35 or so shows broadcast by Think Tech Hawaii. We've been in production since 2009. Our goal is to provide you the viewer with information, breaking information about events in Asia, Asia being anything from Hawaii west of Pakistan, from the Russian far east south to Australia and New Zealand. We hope to see you every Monday afternoon at five p.m. Hi, I'm Ethan Allen, your host on Pacific partnerships in education here on Think Tech Hawaii. Every other week, Tuesdays at three p.m. We have guests on and talk about the fascinating, interesting and unique partnerships in education that occur across the Pacific Islands with Hawaii, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Guam, all these places have really rich local education programs going on. And the exchange among and between these programs is a wealth of great information helping the islands all learn how to survive and thrive in our ever-changing world. I hope you'll join us on Pacific partnerships in education. Aloha and welcome back to Talk Story with John Wahee and my very special guests and good friend Charlie Taguchi, former state senator, former superintendent of schools, all around guy committed to education not only as a part of his career but just you know just in general. By the way, folks, if you want to ask a question, you may not have a chance to do it in any other forum, but if you want to ask former superintendent Charlie Taguchi a question, call us at<PHONE_NUMBER>.<PHONE_NUMBER>. Well, Charlie, just before the break, we started talking about the Governor Egan's promise. He made a very interesting promise during the campaign. He said that, or maybe it was right after the campaign. I'm not sure of the timing, but I know he made a promise and he said, I intend to air condition, air condition a thousand rooms in the school. And you know, and for maybe, maybe, maybe for the average person, what air condition rooms?  But when he made that promise, I remember another episode you and I had and you took me out to Nanakuli. Nanakuli, I guess it was, well, it was intermediate and high and we walked around the school and you took me in the classrooms and the place was stifling. It was so hot and you told me, Governor, we got to have some air conditioning. These kids are not learning in this, and it's obvious that education couldn't take place. And yet we couldn't pull it off. And this is why Governor, it was very interesting when Governor Iggy said he was going to air condition. Yeah, I said, well, I can do it. How are you going to do it? We couldn't find the money to air condition the schools at that time. And so it was very interesting that the governor was able to do it. And not only a thousand schools, but I think he's at 1300 today. And I think one thing that we never thought of at that time was that we couldn't do it because of the cost. But yeah, the cost, by the way, it wasn't the cost of the air conditioning. See, that's what people got. And I remember when you told me that, I said, yeah, we can buy air conditioning. You know, air conditioners, they may not be as neat, as nice as they are today, but they were good air conditioners back then. The real cost was Hawaiian Electric. It was the electric bill. And by the way, I'm not knocking on an electric. I'm just saying that the cost of electricity in Hawaii is not one of our great selling points. So when we added up, we even had people volunteering, by the way, to buy the air conditioners, the actual machines. But the one nut that we could not crack was the cost of operating. Exactly. No. How did they solve that problem? Technology. He's an engineer. Okay. He's an electrical engineer. Okay. So today, technology, solar. So it is alternative energy. Alternative energy. Completely different from our days. And so costs have come down. And the monthly bills, I think, in fact, I think with renewables, it's cheaper, probably. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's cheaper. Wow. Cheaper. And but the more important, well, just as importantly, in my opinion, are the testimonials that are coming out as a result of it. I mean, people are actually, in fact, there was one young person, I remember, who made a statement, something along the lines that the air conditioned classroom really contributed an extra month to his education, because it was so hot during a certain period of the year, that really there was a month off. Nobody could learn in that circumstances. That's right. And you know, I think with technology today, I think a lot of things are possible, not only in terms of air conditioning to give the students a more conducive learning environment, but I think technology is a way to learn also. Yeah. It's a learning mechanism. I mean, there's this interact. I don't understand the challenge. So you're educated. I don't. You're educated. You may be able to explain this to me. But there is this necessity, really, for an interaction with machines that we didn't have. We were not aware of. I watched these kids going around with their tablets. iPads. iPads. And I've heard that for many children, if you don't know how to use, which is in fact a computer, when you enter school, you really start falling behind. Yes. And so this is why many schools are, I think with the support of the policymakers, like the governor of legislature, they're getting more and more iPads and computers into schools, because that's how you learn and you work out in the community. And more and more, I think they're bringing the community into the schools and the businesses and etc. Because what is education? Education is to prepare our youngsters to be productive citizens, to get a good job and to be able to take care of their families. You know, and it's amazing because my wife is totally committed to reading and reading to youngsters and having youngsters read and adults and the rest. And we often have this discussion. She and I come from a generation, we love books. I mean, I just love books. I cannot throw away a book. She has to sneak around and sell it at one of her bookstores, you know, just steal it from me. But I keep thinking and I keep telling her, you know, the machines of the future, because I have a Kindle and which I, you know, read all the time. I said, this is a machine and I'm reading it like a book and I keep many books in this machine. And you can't take it away from it. Well, all these kids are doing that. By the way, this is an aside. The person who got me started reading on a Kindle was your old buddy, Governor Caetano. I had my kids bought me this Kindle and I could never bring myself to, you know, play with it. And when I ran into Ben once and I said, and he had one, I said, how you find that? Yeah, it's terrific. And so I figured, you know, the one thing I didn't want to have in life was for him to be more technologically advanced than I. So I learned how to use the Kindle.  And that's how he went to college. He got, he went to a public school, by the way. He graduated post-city high school. Pearl City High School. You guys ought to be very proud of the Governor. There's an interesting story about him. He applied to major colleges throughout the nation. Did he get accepted to MIT? Yes, yes. And I don't know, some other real people. But he didn't tell his parents. He didn't tell his parents. Yeah, because he had all these brothers, I think he's got like four brothers. And he didn't want to place any hardship on his parents. If he went to a school on the mainland, you know, the cost of doing it. The cost of that. So he went to a good school. He went to the University of Hawaii and came out of the lecture. Well, you know, I think that's a good thing. Yeah. And then has left an imprint on the Governor. And this is why he is involved in programs like Hawaii Promise. Explain Hawaii Promise real quick. Let's get that out there. Yeah, this is a great note. They just signed the bill recently. They augmented the program with an additional, I think, half a million dollars. This is like a scholarship program for students. Yeah. They want to guarantee that a youngster who prepares himself and want to go to college, that money is not going to come in the way. You know, that's fantastic. And the Governor also started the program that allowed students that are currently in high school to take college classes. Yes. An example of that was at Hawaii Power High School. Right. Where we just had 12 students graduate from college before they graduated from high school. For example, with an associate arts. They had their graduation recently, I think last week. Right. And when they graduated at Waipao High School. They had the week before they had already graduated from... They had their AA. You're right. Which is fantastic. Yeah, because what that will do, it'll save you two years of tuition at the University of Hawaii. Because community college, two years, you can apply it to University of Hawaii. Right. And the University of Hawaii's tuition now is about $12,000 a year. $24,000 got saved. Exactly. Because the kids that from high school that take these college classes that work to an associate, they do it for free, right? Yeah. And this is one of his programs, I mean. And the amazing thing about that is that kids, they can still, students, they can still go to high school. And at the same time, they're capable of earning their college degree. You know, we talk about these programs in the sense of how much money they save the parents. And that is important. Believe me. I remember when my son came back from the mainland and said, Daddy, I only want to go to University of Hawaii. I think the powers that be that I can find me afforded instead. You know what it was like. But what's really interesting to me is seeing the impact on the student for somebody who's gone out there who has earned college degree. You know what that does to somebody's confidence and the ability to believe in themselves? That's a fantastic program. You're just about guaranteed their success. Oh, yeah. Well, I tell you what, what's interesting and exciting is that the principal at Waipahu High School is so excited about this program. He's encouraging every student in his school to take advantage of it. And the societal impact of having students being able to go to college that would not have done otherwise is fantastic. You are breaking the chains of poverty. You're creating opportunities that don't exist. It's exciting. And I just want to say before we get off there that we have good public schools. Good public schools and good public school teachers. Exactly. And if you have a concern to the audience, I would say if you have a concern, get involved because the schools will welcome you, your involvement. Thank you. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you. It's two guys from the past, reminding everybody about what a great Hawaii we have. Aloha. Thank you. Thank you, Governor.


This is something that is usually kind of sold as an obvious good move, right? I think the typical high school textbook may even mention a little bit of constitutional concerns at the time that ultimately this was just too much. Yeah, it's such a good steal You could not pass it up But I think it's interesting from this perspective and I really think this chapter is one of the very best in Really highlighting the difference of the narrative That that you have outlined here building off of Rothbard's work because again, it's The the the impact of this absolutely corrupting the political ideals Of what we think about with Jeffersonian politics, right? I love the way that you start off this chapter Framing it with the death of Hamilton How his death in 1804 Was the hammer hammered the nail into the federalist coffin But while the reactionary forces decayed their special interest policies lived on for slowly But surely the libertarian republicans embraced statism and so that it is this move Because of you touching on the aspects that we were talking about last week with kind of recognition that with the drawing back Of the the spending programs of the federalist regime things like that. It's not only important just in a tax aspect, right? Like oh, well, you know, this is going to create more birds and taxes on farmers and things like that But there really is a corrupting element here when you think about the creation of of new government offices when you think about Money spent and investments That you know have to be allocated through the political process. You start dealing with a sectional differences and different considerations in here you the the growth of this major increase of spending done through questionable constitutional grounds though from the perspective of You know the way that we that we understand the reason for the constitution It was explicitly designed to expand the government not to limit it And therefore it it can be very fairly argued as was the time that this was a constitutional move Even if it when it gets the jeffersonian principles and that the strictly the strict reading of the constitution That the old republicans That that we've been praising, you know That that that strategic pivot You know There is a sound legal argument in defense of the constitution, but it goes against that work being done by an anomaly in theory The political party in power right now Yeah, so this this is a very important point to understand Regarding the louisiana purchase and just what exactly it did to the republican party because in many ways it's sort of this It was This corrupting agent because it it swelled the amount of land in the country To an enormous size and this led to all sorts of changes in the republican party, which which we will Which we will get to but it was this this Usually when the louisiana purchase is discussed in high school You know american history textbooks or even college american history textbooks It's described as one of the most important and beneficial per you know laws in united states history and it's generally regarded as jefferson's best legislation So that's when people who usually are jefferson haters. They'll say well, he did that He did the louisiana purchase, which of course from our perspective is probably like his worst thing that he did right because um By pushing for this it really did open up pandora's box so to speak to broad constructionism. All right the constitution does Intended by you know is created as intended by the federalists It does allow for the purchase and annexation and incorporation of territories into the united states They they they intended this okay, and many republicans also argued along these lines But jefferson was dedicated during this time period to upholding his strict constructionist view And his logic was basically saying okay We can read into the treaty making power because of course there has to be a treaty in order to purchase the The land you know from from another country, but it's saying well once we do that Well, then you know the powers are boundless. So wouldn't it be better to just pass an amendment? Okay, requiring uh, are you like pass an amendment allowing or explicitly enabling us to do that then we can purchase the territory and for this it's it's really the precedent So it's the idea that's saying all right. We're in control of the government We could read the constitution broadly or we could stick by our principles Read the constitution strictly and then we're going to set a good precedent because even this way It would still be a problem if louisiana was purchased But it would have been less a problem because at least there would have been an amendment Okay, but jefferson ultimately Um said he discarded this this possibility. He said all right We'll pass an amendment after the fact which is Completely useless then it defeats the purpose of actually having a binding constitution And once he did that once he he sort of broke his rule once he stuck his hand into the cookie jar So to speak well, then he really just said all right. Well, why don't we use the constitution? Uh, you know read it broadly to accomplish other aims that we want and then when that happened the whole strict constructionist approach Really suffered a fatal setback So this louisiana purchase has important implications not just for territorial land You know land mass and all of that but also for the um, the the the constitutional implications regarding other policy So it's really important to understand that jefferson He he was really torn by this and he was at one point going to push for An amendment and even though some people said napoleon wasn't gonna wait Uh, napoleon was gonna wait. He needed the money. Uh, he wasn't gonna Uh, he he he's only gonna sell it to the united states. So there there wasn't someone else Uh, he needed the money and it could it could have gone through But instead jefferson just basically decided to downplay constitutional issues and once he did that the die was cast


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