Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Your weekly movement news round up. Welcome to September. It's a strange day because it's our 43rd episode and you've joined us on Give the People What They Want with Prashant and Zoe from People's Dispatch and me Vijay from Globetrotter. It's a strange day because we're going to have a show where a number of our stories are going to be about the United States. It's very unusual for us but important. We're going to lead off with a hurricane. Now, when I heard Hurricane Ida is coming to strike Louisiana, New Orleans again at the epicenter, I thought immediately Zoe of Hurricane Ida from 2009. These names recycle. But tell us now about Hurricane Ida from 2021. Devastation not only in New Orleans but of course up the eastern seaboard. Yes. Well, I mean, I think it's telling because Hurricane Ida not only has been a hurricane before but it also struck on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina which devastated Louisiana, devastated the Gulf Coast area in 2005 caused over 1,800 deaths, hundreds of thousand dollars in infrastructure damages, hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes. Hurricane Ida I think in the Gulf Coast region, there wasn't as extensive damage but the warning came really late for people to evacuate and the storm just rolled into hit. Louisiana was the fifth most strong storm that has hit the U.S. in recent history. Over a million people were left without power. They still hundreds of thousands continue without power today. The death toll so far from this storm in Louisiana was around 12 people who were killed in different sorts of incidents that happened among storms being hit by debris, being hit by structures, drowning, which is all really, really horrible. And part of this that was happening in Louisiana was because the governor issued this warning, this storm is coming, it's going to be really strong kind of too late, far too little, far too late. Wasn't even able to issue the order for people to evacuate from their homes because there wasn't time. They said people should evacuate if they can but really they had no ground, they had no ability to do the massive evacuation that would have been necessary to save those 12 people's lives. And people continue to languish in New Orleans without power. The south is extremely hot region, extremely humid, so people are suffering without fans, without AC. It's a truly difficult situation and unfortunately Hurricane Ida didn't stop in the south gulf of the United States. It continued moving up to the northeast where I'm currently located in New York City. And it's interesting because people knew that's where the storm was headed. People knew the storm was going to head, you can clearly see in the weather patterns, maybe people were unprepared for to head towards Louisiana but they knew exactly that it was coming towards the northeast. And the storm hit on Wednesday, you know, torrential downpours, really, really, really strong rain that was occurring.  It was just this tropical storm but it released, you know, enormous amounts of water, record breaking levels of rain in the city. And it was, it was, you know, horrible. At around 10 p.m., only around 10 p.m. after it had been raining already for hours, the city issued the first ever flash flood warning. You know, so everyone's phone lights up and it says, you must go home, do not leave, don't travel anywhere. And it's like, okay, we'll have to sit, you know, millions of people are on the street in the subway in various different places. And then what happened is that, you know, floods began to happen. You know, with these high rainfalls, basement apartments were flooding and people were told to stay in their homes. And as a result of this, in New York and New Jersey, at least 43 people were killed. They drowned to death in these, you know, very precarious living situations. They were unable to escape. There wasn't emergency services available. And it's tragic. It's, you know, this is the richest city, the richest cities in the world, and the city was unable to save its people who just, you know, were trapped in their basement apartments because they can't afford better living conditions. So I think this is, you know, really a tragic situation, horrible for all of these people whose lives were lost. And of course the next day it's sunny. It's almost as if it didn't happen. But of course these people, these 43 people who died in New York and New Jersey, you know, were not able to be saved by the city and yeah, it's very unfortunate. Going from one of the richest cities in the world to what is increasingly becoming one of the poorest cities in the world, Kabul in Afghanistan where flower prices, the price of the most important staple has begun to escalate where the cutoff of funds from the IMF and the World Bank are sinking the Afghani. Please bear in mind friends that 40% of Afghanistan's money supply came from foreign aid and that has been cut off.  They don't have any money to buy basic things. The country is in prefall. The UN has said that children under five in total are severely malnutrition. Half the population doesn't know. And here's a direct quote from the UN. More than half of Afghan children do not know whether they'll have a meal tonight or not. The UN is requesting $200 million of emergency funding, $6 million. Imagine that. Out of the $2.26 trillion that the United States spent during the course of this at least 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, the situation ugly, no government yet in Kabul. This is important. Unless the Taliban is able to create some sort of government, the government of Afghanistan is going to be having a hard time to make a claim on funds. And because there's no government, institutions are falling apart. Nobody is running the institutions and so on. So nobody is being able to organize prices. Nobody is being able to tackle the food inflation in the marketplace and so on. Banks remain closed. They worry that the economy is going to contract is extraordinarily significant. There are clashes taking place in various parts of Afghanistan, including in the Panjshir Valley where the former vice president is holed up trying to make a deal through the Russians to somehow de-escalate the situation. There's no joy there. No apparent de-escalation possible. Statements coming from the Taliban about their allies in Pakistan, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan looks like we're going to see now intensified militant activity in the Pashtun borderlands in Waziristan, in northern Baluchistan and so on.  It's already beginning to disappear from the front page of the news. For instance, in Europe, what's the conversation? Not the open so of Afghanistan. The conversation now in Europe is whether the Europeans can trust the United States for security and whether the Europeans should spend more money. Here, bear this in mind. Spend more money not to shore up Afghan people's lives, not to shore up the food situation, but whether the Europeans should spend more money to bolster their own military. This was a demand made by the Donald Trump administration of NATO that the Europeans need to increase military spending to 10% of GDP, that the Europeans need to finance NATO, that the Europeans need to build up their own collective security. This is an old idea inside Europe. It hasn't gone anywhere, but that's the discussion in Europe, not how to shore up the Afghani, not how to help the Afghan people. Meanwhile, the Taliban has been speaking to the Chinese, the Taliban speaking to the Russians, to the Pakistanis, Indians and others, not clear what the path forward is. A lot of pressure on Mullah Baradar and his colleagues to have a unity government, a lot of pressure. We'll be watching this closely. We are interested at give the people what they want on the politics of Afghanistan, not on the ongoing autopsy of what went wrong. We're interested in who's there in Kabul? Who's there in Kandahar? Who's there in Herat? What kind of government will they create? What kind of situation will come forward? If you just look southeast of Kabul, look at what's happening on the street of Bangkok. So many people on the street. They are interested in politics. They are not just there to be photographed. Prashant, what's happening in Thailand?  Right, Vijay. Right now, Thailand is going through a fresh wave of protests. We've been talking about this on this show. We talked about it quite a few times, of course, because this has been a process going on for a very long time. A lot of players in it, a lot of agendas in it. But I think fundamentally, the key thing to note is that Thailand continues to be ruled by a government, a military junta supported government, which came to power in 2014 through a coup. It continues, the junta continues to support a monarch who has a huge amount of powers insulting the monarch. Anything which looks like an insult to the monarch continues to be a crime which can lead to very heavy punishments. And this was one of the factors that spurred a round of protests last year in August 2020. And it was begun by university students. This year marked the first anniversary of that. But August also saw a massive increase in COVID-19 cases. And this is very important to note because I think, oh, July and August saw hundreds and thousands of, hundreds of thousands of cases being added right now. The total number of cases has crossed 1 million. The number of fatal cases has crossed 11,000. And a lot of this has happened in the very recent time period. So basically we have seen protests against the junta government, against the power of the monarchy also sort of coalescing with protests on the handling of the COVID-19 crisis. And currently there is a no confidence motion against the prime minister and five of his colleagues, including the public health minister for the handling of the crisis. So we have seen protests on August 31, September 2, on the round of protests. No confidence vote is shooting for tomorrow. Now it's expected that the government is going to win because they've really failed the Senate with representatives of, you know, allies in the military. They have a comfortable majority in the House of Representatives. But what the opposition is looking for, what the protesters are looking for is a discussion on the failures of the government, which is actually only militarized, you know, the whole country further during the period of the pandemic. And this is a trend that we've seen, of course, in many other parts of the world. There is a report which says that over 260 people were arrested in August alone. Many of these veteran protesters who had been to prison, been granted bail and again were arrested after that on various charges. There's been a huge concern about the use of rubber bullets and the suppression of protests that are taking place. The people in Thailand, of course, resorting to a number of, for instance, huge car rallies are now the way of protesting because of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to avoid the proximity that protests might bring. A lot of people taking out a car mob rallies or what they call car mob rallies in very, at least five places in August 31st. So what we're seeing right now is an attempt to bring some kind of accountability to the government's handling, as well as the resurrection of these, the demands that have been, you know, driving the protests so far, which is that the law against insulting the monarchy be withdrawn, activists who are being arrested for criticizing the government and the monarchy be released and that there be a further democratization of society. So Thailand has remained one of the important processes in Southeast Asia over the past one to two years. And like I said, there's a lot of, you know, there are a lot of questions about, you know, what are the aims of various sections of the protesters? But I think what we can agree on right now is the fact that the current ruling system is extraordinarily oppressive and is supporting a set of values which are completely inimical to the rights and needs of the people. So that's really where we are with Thailand right now. I think in the coming months, what we're probably going to see is definitely further rounds of escalation. The COVID-19 crisis is still continuing. The cases are still quite high and it is expected that the coming months, that is September, October, might also see a further increase in cases. So at which point it really becomes, and we have seen a number of governments, whether it be India, whether it be Brazil, whether it be the United States, all of them facing these kinds of questions on, you know, what is, how do you respond to the pandemic? Do you respond by cracking down on civil liberties? Do you respond by denialism? Do you respond by blaming the opposition? Or do you actually try to have some kind of, you know, an open community-based approach to the pandemic? And Thailand clearly is definitely in the first camp in the way it has been responding. So that's where we are at now. Extraordinary, extraordinary. It's a very important story and I hope people will be following it. You're listening to Give the People What They Want, coming to you from People's Dispatch. That's peoplesdispatch.org. We're always joined every Friday. The three of us, two of you, Prashant and Zoe, co-editors of People's Dispatch. I'm Vijay from Globetrotter. Always happy to be with you. Just to remind you, it's September the 3rd, 2021. It's important that you remember that it's 2021. Saudi Arabia with the United Arab Emirates has been at war against the people of Yemen since 2014. That's 2014. We are in 2021. This is a seven-year war which has yielded no fruit for Saudi Arabia, one of the richest countries in the world, clobbering one of the poorest countries in the world. Yemen, my friends, a population of roughly 29 million people, a very small country, has about 20 million people who are in humanitarian distress. About 18-19 million of them are in a situation of extreme hunger crisis. That's the situation on the ground in Yemen. Across the border, Saudi Arabia, one of the main antagonists of the people of Yemen is facing an economic crisis during this pandemic. They're struggling to pivot out of their oil dependence and so on. Their effective ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince who's been driving the war in Yemen, has been seeking an exit from this because he's made several, several grotesque errors in the way that he's dealt not only with Yemen, but also accelerated the tension between Yemen and between Saudi Arabia and Iran. This is a very significant issue. At least since 2016, the heat has been up. No communication formally between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Well, it was interesting this Saturday in Baghdad where there was a regional summit called by president of Iraq, Mustafa al-Khadmi. He calls a regional summit. It is attended by both Saudi Arabia and Iran. Iran's new foreign minister makes an appearance. This is significant. The fact that Hussein Amir Abdul Han comes to Baghdad, he meets privately with the Saudis. A very significant development. The Iraqi government hasn't said exactly what was discussed between Iran and Saudi Arabia, but there was a discussion. Now, we should take some comfort in the fact that they're at least talking to each other. Then, Mr. Abdullah Han went to Damascus. He met with Bashar al-Assad of Syria. They had a set of conversations on Sunday before he returned home. Now, why is all this important? It's important, my friends, because you see, Iran is in the process of trying to reopen a conversation, a dialogue with the United States, the Europeans, and so on, to bring the United States back fully into a process for the so-called nuclear deal. Now, what the Iranians have made clear is they violated nothing when Trump withdrew from the deal. They don't believe they need to give any concessions. The Biden administration is politically in a really tough place, because how do they just return to a process without seeming to be tough as it were? Because after all, we're talking about the United States, which has this problem of needing to be tough in diplomacy. The Iranians are interested in Vienna and having this conversation, advancing the dialogue of returning to the protocols of the deal that was made. Abdullah Han is known as a man of the so-called hard right of Iran. I think this categorization of moderate and extremist in Iran is very misleading. Certainly he has the backing of the supreme leader and so on, and therefore he has legitimacy in the negotiations. I think that's a better way to see it. He is more legitimate politically. Mr. Zarif played a card where it appeared that he didn't have legitimacy, because he threatened to resign and so on. I don't think this is accurate to consider Iranian politics hardline and moderate. I think it's more accurate to say that he has the full support of the supreme leader. Mr. Amar Hussein, Abdullah Han, certainly seems to have the full support. This is a good period for the United States to return to the process to engage Iran. I think it's very important to see Saudi Arabia having recognized its defeat in Yemen, a mirror of the U.S. defeat in Afghanistan, having recognized its defeat in Yemen, Saudi Arabia opening up this dialogue with Iran. Keep an eye on this as we will. It's not clear yet what Israel will do, and I think this is the significant wild card in the entire thing. What will Naftali Bennett do? What was the deal that Naftali Bennett cut with Joe Biden when Mr. Bennett was in Washington, D.C.? Not clear about that. Not sure what the signs are coming out of Israel regarding the rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, but it's a hopeful development for West Asia, and it's a hopeful development for Afghanistan, as we will see in the months ahead, because Saudi Arabia are a major backer, initially in 1996 of the Taliban. Let's see if they're able to take a seat at the table. Right now in Kabul, it's not the Saudis at the table. It's the Qataris and the Turks, and that's the story I'm going to come back to you next week. An important and significant story. We're going to return now to the United States to the great state of Texas. What's happening in that great state? You can't say the word Texas, Zoe, without saying the great state of Texas. What's happening in the great state of Texas? Well, you're absolutely right. I think we can thank George Bush for that. But, you know, there's been a lot of attention on Texas. People have been talking a lot about Texas, the Supreme Court, and it is important to talk about this because this was a really major development. The Supreme Court of the U.S. upheld a law that was signed into the Texas legislature in May 2021, which is called the Heartbeat Bill. And this bill, which is now a law, essentially completely bars access to abortion services to anyone. And also, not only that, but also makes it quite dangerous to access abortion services. And so, essentially, it bans all abortions from happening after six weeks of pregnancy. And, you know, six weeks is an extremely early period. I mean, a lot of people do not know they're pregnant at six weeks of pregnancy, especially if it's an unplanned pregnancy. And then the law also says that, you know, individuals can file suits against anyone who's suspected of, you know, taking part in an abortion, aiding an abortion, which essentially, you know, completely criminalizes the whole process without doing so. And this law, which was met, has been met with, you know, tremendous backlash for the past couple of months, because as I mentioned, this was, you know, introduced and passed in May, was upheld by the Supreme Court. They said, well, there may be elements that are, you know, unconstitutional, knowing that, you know, Roe v. Wade was passed in 1973, which was, of course, a landmark decision which granted abortion access. They said that, you know, it's a little complicated. And because of the nature, the complex nature of Texas laws, you know, it wasn't necessarily against these things. So this law was upheld by the Supreme Court, which effectively means that it can be put into impact, because a lot of other states, actually, Texas is not the only state that's tried and successfully has passed a law that restricts abortion in such a way. You know, 13 other states have similar laws, but have been struck down by courts. And, you know, what's interesting to note, which I think, you know, reproductive health advocates have been highlighting is that, you know, the barriers that existed already to access abortion in Texas to access an abortion before six weeks are already extremely high. So, for example, the Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, you know, they gave a testimony to the U.S. Senate in June to talk about the necessity to pass a law that really protects access to healthcare. And they said that in order to get an abortion in Texas, you have to go through medically unnecessary sonogram, receive counseling, then wait 24 hours, and then go to the clinic and get the abortion.  And this Institute, the Latina Institute, further highlights that in a state with a very, very high, you know, Latinx population, a lot of people who, for example, don't have, you know, the language to be able to access healthcare, who, you know, maybe because of their papers, their migration status, you know, they're not able to access healthcare services. And this is putting a huge barrier, once again, to those people to access this really essential human right and service. Well, the great state of Texas, not so great after all. Meanwhile, just north of Texas, in the town of Arora, Colorado, which, you know, refers to the dawn, not much of a dawn for a young man by the name of Elijah McLean. Prashant, what's the story of Elijah McLean? Right, Vijay, it's actually a, it's a very tragic story, also a story of how the community really mobilized over a very long period of time to demand for justice. So Elijah McLean, very young black man in 2019, in August 2019 actually, just over two years ago. He was, you know, somebody called the police and said he was reported suspicious activity.  There was no sign that he was doing anything illegal. There was no sign that he was engaging in actually any suspicious activity, so to speak, but nonetheless, they got him in a choke hold. You know, the body camps of the officers were not working, but the audio feed was visible, audio feed could be, was recorded. He was heard saying, I can't breathe. He was, you know, he was heard vomiting as well. And then medical personnel came in, they injected him with ketamine. This happened in August 24th, 2019, and by August 30th, he was dead. And the horrible incident, because like I said, often there are all these allegations, immediately the police of course said that he had reached for a gun or something. Again, no basis for any of those claims.  The, you know, the institutions concerned refused to take up the case. In 2020, we saw a very similar incident with George Floyd, but even before that, in the case of Elijah McLean, in many other cases like this protest had taken place with the George Floyd protests, these protests also strengthened and even at that time, the head of the legal system there explicitly refused to file cases against the police and medical practitioners there. But what we also saw was an entire community standing up, resisting. So in June, 2020, we saw over 5,000 protesters, you know, March demanding justice, the party for socialism and liberation, very active in these protests actually. In November, similarly, we saw another major protest in between activists and protesters who were working on this cause were arrested and, you know, they were arrested in charge with a variety of charges, including besieging the police and, you know, really non-sensical charges for just doing the for just doing the job of protesting and demanding justice. So this is actually a long legal battle which has continued alongside, you know, sustained and continued community efforts. And finally, what happened in September 1st was that the five the five persons, that's three police officers and two medical persons, they were charged under, I think that there were 32 counts in total, including of manslaughter and negligent homicide. So this was following, the governor was finally forced to order a probe on this last year after continued and sustained protests. So finally a little bit of justice, this is a grand jury indictment. So a little bit of justice, we have to see how the process is going to continue because one thing we have seen in this case is that, like I said the authorities have been continuously negligent and neglectful and in complete denial of what is a very basic fact, what we saw in the case of George Floyd, what we saw in the case of Elijah McLean and so many other cases that institutional police racism is a reality in the United States, there's no point denying that and the toll it takes is on black men and women especially hard, the kind of the number of lives that are lost, the number of families that are destroyed and Elijah McLean's mother said that, you know, made a very poignant statement, she said that, you know, he was just a boy who was not hurting anybody, who was not harming anybody, he was just leading his life and he lost his life. So that's where we are with the case right now, it is definitely I think for the community of Aurora for the state of Colorado, for progressive activists across the country, a definite victory and each of these victories including in the case of George Floyd where legal proceedings happened recently each of these victories won with a lot of effort, with a lot of organizing but still nonetheless each of these are concrete steps towards achieving some kind of justice towards achieving some kind of reckoning. Extraordinary story Prashant extraordinary because it was so brutal and then of course as you say community mobilization and so on. Friends two of the stories we did today the story on Afghanistan and the story on Yemen were also stories of hunger, a terrible hunger in these two countries we could very well have done a story on hunger in the United States. Today's episode of give the people what they want could have been called give the people what they want about the United States of America we started with Hurricane Ida, we went to the abortion ban in the great state of Texas and then we went to Aurora, Colorado to talk about the fight of a community for justice for a young man we could have done a story on hunger and in fact, indeed people's dispatch in collaboration with six other media projects ARG medias in Argentina Brazil de Fato in Brazil, breakthrough news in the United States, Madar media in the Maghreb region the Arab language speaking region, a new frame in South Africa, news click in India these are media organizations which have come together with people's dispatch to do a series called hunger in the world. You can see the series at the People's Dispatch website peoplesdispatch.org as well as at these other media projects on the 16th of October peoples dispatch will release a document with all the stories together and on the show give the people what they want we'll have a special edition in October bringing in some of the writers from that series to talk to us about the question of hunger. We want to put the spotlight on hunger friends because it's such an important pressing issue for the world that we live in you've been watching you've been listening this is give the people what they want coming to you from peoples dispatch and that's Prashant and Zoe and Globe Trotter and that's me Vijay see you next week take care of yourself


Belfry Volunteer Fire Department takes this time to invite you and your family to the 41st annual Thunder in the Valley Saturday, July 2nd. Fireworks start at 10.05pm. This event will be held at Belfry High School. Come enjoy Thunder in the Valley. Also, Belfry Fire Department takes a moment to take all the sponsors that help make this event possible. Knot County Fiscal Court and Judge Executive Jeff Dobson will be hosting the 4th annual Thunder on the Mountain at MindMade Adventure Park June 30th through July 2nd. The weekend will feature food vendors, live music, fireworks, and a guided ride. We're having a got a guided ride set up. It's a little bit of appreciation we give back to our customers here at MindMade Park. We've got the individual help set up a lot with the guided rides. We're going to leave about 11 o'clock on Saturday morning from the MindMade Park office building. It's free to tour customers that come and stay with us and support our ATV park here. It's a little incentive to give back and a little appreciation. It's great to see folks come together and a lot of folks don't know the trails and this opportunity to get toured around and not worry about getting lost and have a good all day ride. If that's what you so choose, I know that the guy takes them out and there's a I guess a halfway point where you can come back into the camp or keep going and if you so choose to take the long ride. So we've got food vendors, we've got an ice cream truck here.  Taylor Austin Dye will perform at 8 p.m. And halfway to hazard will perform at 9 p.m. July 2nd. Admission to Thunder on the Mountain is $15 and kids under 12 are free. It's very important to us here, you know, it's good for our community. The end of this day celebration here, the fourth annual Thunder on the Mountain, everyone looks forward to it. I've got a good buddy last year, he's like man, he said these shirts is not say third annual Thunder on the Mountain. He said I get these shirts every year and he said it goes in my collection. He said next year you need to make sure they say fourth annual and folks, they mark their calendars for a year after year and they plan to come back to Nott County to celebrate with us. They have such a great time out here and just enjoying God's beautiful creation. For more information on Thunder on the Mountain, visit Nott County Tourism on Facebook. For Mountain Top News, I'm Breanna Robinson.


Summer in Mara. Is it any good? You guys have been asking me if I like Summer in Mara. I've not been looking forward to making this video. Actually, I've been putting it off a tiny bit. And it's a game that I want to like. You know what I mean? I want to like this game. I had been looking forward to this game so much. Incredibly much, you know. Because of the way that the game is presented, the graphics and what you do in the game. Just really excited for this title. I got it as a review code, so you know, thank you so much for the review code. I really appreciate that. And I'm gonna be as fair as I possibly can to this game. Not be too harsh in my critique. I'm gonna rather explain what I think the game could have done better and I hope that they do better in the way of, I don't know, patching, adding stuff to the game. This game really has potential is what I want to say.  It is a new adventure RPG with farming and crafting elements. I gotta say I was first very drawn to this game because of the cute and colorful graphics. And of course the farming and the gathering and the crafting. I love those types of elements in games. And so does a lot of people. It is a game that is very cute and charming. But there is a but. I'm not looking forward to talking about this. It pains me to say this. The game does not live up to my expectations of the game. Not in its current state anyway.  And the first hours mainly consists of collecting things and doing some quests and getting to know the controls, etc. It took me some time to get used to the controls but I am, I always say that. It's like I've never played games in my life. I always take my time with the controls. Sometimes it is difficult to know exactly what to do. So I was often stuck in the beginning. You may actually feel that way too. The game just looks super wonderful. I love the art style and the vibrant color palette they are using. And you know the grass and the sky and the NPC pictures are really cute. And it's all very happy looking and pretty. The music is nice too for the most part except for when the music seems to suddenly just disappear for no apparent reason. Music abruptly stops up, you know. Now, you can plant trees and bushes and that is sort of fun. I like that. That is fun. The jumps are high and like SwitchUp said in their review Mark and I we talk a little bit behind the scenes. I love that channel, SwitchUp guys. I'm so proud of them for reaching 100K. They work so hard anyways. He thought that jumping was a bit too, you know, to jump. I liked it. It is highly unrealistic to jump that high. But it was kind of fun.  The house on your island. It is menu based. I wish we could walk into the house because you actually see the interior in one of the small cut scenes in the beginning of the game. But it's just a menu. Walk up to the door and it's a menu. In this menu you can find your crafting recipes, your kitchen for cooking, et cetera and an option to sleep. If you don't sleep or eat, you will collapse and return to your house. To the roof of your house. Actually. So actually collapsing is a nice way of fast traveling back to your home. The farming is simple. You till the soil and you plant your vegetables like carrots and a variety of vegetables. You water the crops using water from a well. That seems to run dry very often. And the game keeps telling me that I need a better hole. Now around the island you can collect oranges, blackberries and go mining in the tunnel. Or you can also fish, which is good. The fishing in this game is good. It's satisfying. It's sort of like the Stodgy Valley fishing style. It's good. Fun. Fishing is good. There's no need to improve on the fishing. There are bugs in this game. For example, one quest told me to light a fire. I had already lit it before getting that quest so I had to restart my game on the switch to go and light it again for the quest to trigger to be complete. So I had to restart my game for that. Small bugs like that. Now the second island that you get to in this game that is a city, sort of, a main island. This game has no quest markers. That was my first complaint while playing this game. No quest markers. I'd have no control over where I need to go. And the quest log is not very descriptive in what I need to do or where I need to go. So this game is actually a lot of running around not knowing what the frick to do. That is how I experienced this game. It's simply difficult to know what to do and where to go. The interface and menus could have been better. However, I feel like the entire development team was put into graphics. And you know, a couple of dudes into the gameplay. No offense. But the graphics are so good. This game can actually fool anyone to think that it is a good game. No offense again. But the gameplay doesn't live up to the quality of graphics. It's like... I also found a water glitch. It happened with everyone. I heard that that glitch is there. And that is what happens every time I heard that. This game has great potential, but it could use a little more polish. Add quest markers is what I want to say to the developers behind this game. It is a Kickstarter game. That is also very fun and nice. But they need some critique in order to do better. I feel like. So I would like to suggest adding some quest markers and also a map of all the islands that you visit because you only have a map over the main island, the city island. And also you can't see where you are on the map. That is also a thing I wish that you guys can put in the game. If you're gonna enjoy this game in its current state, you gotta have patience. A lot of it. Now on the city island there are shops and there are a lot of items.  And you often have to go back to your main island with a boat. So it's a lot of traveling back and forth and that gets tiring after a while. So Summer in Mara is a game that looks really good. But it does not live up to my expectations of the game. I'm sure some people are gonna find enjoyment in this but I feel like it needs to be added some sort of polish and extra features for it to be a game that I can recommend. So unfortunately I cannot recommend Summer in Mara as it stands right now. I hope I wasn't too harsh. Just honest. So that was all I had to say about this title and check it out if you want to. Thanks again for the review code and you know it. I will see you later.


Our beloved Baltimore Ravens, what an off-season it's been, right? They get to keep their quarterback, they add some nice new pieces, they have a solid draft, and hey, we're here now, and expectations are really high, but there's just a few positions where there's still some question marks. I know Cornerback has been one of them when you think about the top two cornerbacks, Marlon Humphrey and Rocky Scenic, like, okay, cool, but after that, it's like, ooh, I don't know who's going on yet. And I did see something that said, hold up. Don't buy your Marcus Peters Raiders jersey yet. So we'll see what happens with that. But another area of concern for these Baltimore Ravens is at pass rush. Justin Houston not returning, Kaleas Campbell not returning. Well, Justin Houston not returning for now, at least. So we'll see. But even still, even if he did return, there will still be that concern for the Ravens pass rush. But there's somebody out there. Well, in there, in the Baltimore Ravens, part of the Baltimore Ravens, because he's not a free agent, obviously, that is really sort of kind of, not technically, but it's kind of going into his rookie year now. And that is David Ajaubot. And somebody made a really good point on to it. I forgot who it was yesterday, but they were like, essentially David Ajaubot is like, it's like having a first round pick, because he's actually still younger than some of the top pass rushes that went this year. And I saw that I was like, well, that that's interesting. And that's something that I never really thought about. And I kind of forget, forget about because last year was his red shirt year. Last year, he played like a game and change because there was one game where you played a couple of snaps and then like the next couple of games you saw him for maybe like one snap. You didn't really see him too much because they took it super, super easy with David Ajaubot. Obviously, he had that injury that he suffered, the Achilles injury, I believe that he suffered at his pro day where everybody just looking around, standing around, sitting there, posted up, watching them.  But anyway, David Ajaubot is somebody that could hopefully really help this Baltimore Ravens pass rush because they need all the help that they can get. Last year was rough. It was really rough. They had injuries to guys. They brought in guys like Jason Pierre Paul and it just it was up and down. They had Stephen Means for a bit, but then he got hurt. Michael Pearson, Michael Pearson, not really a pass rusher, but as far as the defensive line, what he could have done and how he could have helped, it was just missing. It was missing. But anyway, he had a presser yesterday with the Baltimore Ravens. And it was funny, it was funny. Obviously, the most funny part was it was right at the end because he went through all those questions. They went through all the serious questions and what not asking about all this different stuff.  He said, Tarell Sugg say, nope, not at all, not happening. He said, Tarell Sugg was not going for it. And what got me with that is he said they've had conversations plural. So I'm like, they were the job who are really trying. And Tarell Sugg were really not buying it. He said, no, you ain't going for it. Because there'd be one thing if you say, oh, yeah, we talked about it. We had a conversation about it. But no, he said they had conversations plural, more than one, at least more than one. And then they even said Steve Boshani got involved, too. I'm like, man, y'all really took it that high to the highest level of the Baltimore Ravens that you took it to the owner about the number. Like, man, like, hey, those must have been some serious conversations, man, about that number. Because I'm like, wow, OK, like, but at the same time, like, I get it. If I was Tarell Sugg, I know it with Joe Flack. Joe Flack don't care about that number. Joe Flack don't care. Super Bowl champion, Super Bowl MVP, they don't care about that number. They gave it when they were, I remember when everybody was flipping about when Hollywood switched to five, they were, oh, Joe Flack don't care. They didn't care. And then they gave the number to, I think, Jalen Norma Davidson. So that five been floating around like crazy, man. But anyway, with Tarell Suggs, it's a little different. Two-time Super Bowl champion, Tarell Suggs now. Don't forget, don't forget, because he got that Super Bowl championship with the Chiefs, too, then. But anyway, I know some people like, oh, man, that's just a participation award, but regardless, he got it. Tarell Suggs, Hall of Fame career, did he even retire yet? I don't even think he retired yet. I don't remember hearing none about him retiring. But anyway, Hall of Fame career, former defensive player of the year. And obviously, Tarell Suggs has created so many memorable moments for the Baltimore Ravens. It's just crazy, man. It was crazy. And oh, yeah, he got signed by the Cardinals, right? Then he played for the Cardinals for like two seconds. Then that's when he got, they released him. And then he went to the Chiefs. Forget that he went to the Cardinals. It's so weird, man. But anyway, why would he give up the numbers? Like, there's some, like, Ravens don't officially retire numbers, but they kind of retire numbers because they got some numbers, some jersey numbers in the shed that they ain't taking out. They're not giving away. Like, I even be feeling bad. Like I'll be playing Madden. I'll be playing Madden. I'll be going through my connected franchise and I'll be drafting corners and stuff. Safeties, linebackers, all that stuff. And they can have whatever number they want, but I feel weird when I draft a linebacker and inside or outside linebacking, they got a 52 right there. I said, I got to change that. I got to change that because it just, it don't feel right. And then even when a cornerback or a safety that I draft, they get the number 20. I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, I just can't. Do y'all do the same thing? Because I be doing it every time. I'm like, it's so weird, man. And then it's like, man, me as the head coach slash owner slash Madden GM, whatever you want to call me, I take whatever title. But I'm like, man, my expectations will be higher when I see that number on them. Cause it's like, hey, those some guys right there. But anyway, anyway, let's get back to real life. But yeah, why would he get that number? Because again, there's some jersey numbers where Ravens just don't give them out. Obviously 75, Jonathan Ogden, Ray Lewis, 52, Air Reed, Air Reed being number 20. And Terrell Suggs is another one of them. He's another one of them. Now, Lody Natter number, like, and I know Lody Natter was nice. That man was a beast. He wasn't quite on the, he was nice. He was great. Again, not taking nothing away from Lody Natter now, but he wasn't on that level of those guys. Again, he's a beast. But I guess Ravens, sometimes they like, we can't retire every number. So that 92, they're like, hey, there you go. Madden BK, hey, do what you want with that. Do what you want with it. This mother nut like 21, that's Chris McAllister. There's that Ladaeus Webb and whatnot. I know those ain't Hall of Fame guys, or anything like that, but still. Then there was even 31 with Jamal Lewis, who actually could be a Hall of Famer. He got the numbers to be a Hall of Famer, but anyway. Cause Bonapala had 31, but anyway, so there's a certain set of numbers that Ravens just like, hey, y'all ain't touching it. Have they given out 74 for Marshal Yonder? What Marshal Yonder was 74? No, he was 73, he was 73. Are they giving that out? I don't think so. Anyway, regardless, I get why Tarell Suggs was like, no, no, you ain't getting that.   I get it, cause it's true. When you look like, when you look good, you got on a certain, whether it's a hoodie, whether it's a shirt, whether it's a shoe, whether it's the whole thing. When you, and that's in anything, it ain't just in football. When you look good, that could give you a nice little confidence boost. That could give you a nice feeling. You feel like you got a little more swag and whatnot. And you're just feeling yourself a little bit, not in no cocky way and nothing like that.  And it's the same way in football too. Look good, feel good, play good. All three go together. But he hasn't accomplished anything yet in the league. Now he did say in the presser, he did talk about how, when he did get that sec, I think it was that face mask sec on Joe Burrow, but when he got that sec, he said, that's when he realized like, oh, okay, I'm here, I'm here.  It's real now. Something that I appreciated too, especially going into this year, with last year being his sort of red shirt year, he talked about how he already knows the defense. The defense, the playbook on defense is not an issue for him. And that's something that I forget about a lot too, because Mike McDonald, Ravens defensive coordinator, he was David Ajabo's coach, his defensive coach at Michigan. So it's just a continuation for Ajabo. It's just that continuity for him, that consistency. So it's nothing that he doesn't know already. So that'll make it even easier for him going into his technically second year, but more kind of like first year, but it'll make it easier for him just moving forward. And that's a beautiful thing, especially when you missed most of last season. He talked about the injury, he said he tired of talking about the injury, really. Say he ain't wanna hear about it no more, he ain't wanna talk about it no more, because he said he never got injured before. So it's just weird, it was different. Just having to sit there and do nothing. But he said he is over, he's past it. Now he, like again, we are much different. He said that he added 10 pounds. He had heavier, he had a little more muscle whatnot. If I add 10 pounds, it ain't gonna look the same as David and Jabba with 10 pounds now, man. Trust me, I done done it before. I done done it. So it's different, man. But he wanted to bulk up a little bit. I'm like, okay. I know what John Hardball called his legs last year. What he called them, like beach legs or something like that? I forgot. He was talking about David and Jabba with little legs last year. John Hardball had got on them. But anyway, man, I'm really looking forward to that. Because again, Past Rush is a big question mark this year. It's a big question mark. A lot of us have been wondering if the Ravens are gonna add somebody. What are they gonna do at the Past Rush position? He, of course, it was brought up about him in a daffy away. Them just their journey, playing high school ball together, them being friends, and them going their separate ways for college, and them reuniting. And David and Jabba both said, oh, it's just this guy was playing and then everything worked out. And he said that hopefully they just wanna be playmakers. They wanna be impact players. And he said they wanna make Hardball happy. Hey, that's a great answer. I see, hey, he trying to be slick. And he slipped them little hardball quotes in it and hardball compliments and all that. Hey, give me some more playin' time hard. Now, I know what you do. I know what you do. You know the game. We get it. There ain't no problem with that. You get your playin' time with Jabba. But yeah, I'm hoping that he can help unlock a daffy away. Because the potential's sittin' right there. You know, a daffy away is super, super raw. He started playin' football late. The potential's dead, though. He's close. And he even talked about it. He talked about how last year it was so many close sacks, so many almost sacks. And yes, we know, we've seen that. That is the Baltimore Ravens right there. A lot of almost sacks from their past rushes. But yeah, hopefully this year, they can turn a corner, especially a daffy away. And he can really just start sealin' the deal. Cause that would be nice. Cause again, the potential is there. And if those two opposite each other, they can help unlock each other. Man, the sky would be the limit, man. Past the sky would be the limit. It would just be a beautiful thing. Cause again, past rush, it's been an issue for the Ravens for a while. Just havin' consistency at past rush. Cause they just, they hadn't had it. They hadn't had it for a while. They've been trying all these different things, all these different ways. And I think last year was a little bit of an improvement. Over has been the previous years and whatnot, but still past rush was an issue. So we'll see how this thing goes, man. We'll see how it goes. Obviously still got Tyus Bowser as well. Trenton Simpson, we'll see how they work stuff out with him, Patrick Queen. He's still on the team for now. So you got him, who's an excellent Blitzer. And obviously Kyle Hamilton, hey, we said it a lot last year. Kyle Hamilton was the best past rusher last year. He is a safety. So I think that's an issue. But Kudos to Kyle, but somebody else got to be a good past rusher. I mean, Maulah Humphrey's a good Blitzer. I can't say past rush. It's a little different between past rushing and Blitzing and whatnot. But yeah, you get it. So yeah, man. This is something that hopefully they can unlock each other and really, they can help each other. And obviously coaching staff and everything, they can really tap into these guys' potential. Because again, potential is there, but potential is nothing if it isn't tapped into. So it's really important that the Ravens, they get the most out of these guys. So we'll see how it goes. Anyway, Team Keep It Clean, I love y'all so much. I appreciate y'all so much. And like Dave the job will won't be like he was last year. Well, for the majority of the year, we out. Love y'all.


how is it that like dogs and cats they don't they don't brush their teeth but they don't need dentures well it's because they don't they're not at least they're not supposed to eat um garbage food like sugar and which is what kills your teeth um their food is supposed to be not supposed to eat sugar but you you are supposed to brush your dog's teeth why because they still get plaque well i know they do get plaque but that comes off if they're like doing their natural diet and stuff because i don't see any wolves in the mountaintops going no but they chew on uh wood and and stuff they with just like that yep put in their paws yeah sit on their hind legs and with their possible foams yep it's so juicy we have one the content is pulsating you today we're reacting to a trailer good it's from a marathi film good it's called nude better you perv uh but it came out in i believe it was in 2018 yes uh it's with ravi jadav her name sorry i think uh but it's a it's a tone 18 marathi language directed by oh it's that's the director right uh they're not gonna tell us much no i'm not gonna reveal anything in nude but before we get into this let us know what's the next uh marathi film we watched court loved it yeah loved court uh we've actually liked most i think marathi uh we okay okay i i have you didn't like we both were iffy on not some rot yeah we liked the performance we liked his performance and we liked the story but there were some problems we had with other aspects of the i liked sairat a lot and we had questions culturally yeah about not some yeah i liked sairat a lot but we both loved the factory one loved the factory and loved court uh and i think those are the only ones we've seen so far but so uh what should be the next uh fangery i know is nude nude just for the title uh fangery i know is a popular one as well fangery is going to be about things blowing in the wind you know fans this is going to be about naked people i'll let us know what's next watch here we go that sounds like it's a real job hey nice job you're gonna be a beautiful film yeah uh very art house and you know very film festival we love that that's just doesn't get any better um but also it looks like it's gonna have a message yep uh multiple messages probably it looks like people that are upset by either what they're doing or the arts i believe in any country has always had a rough time yep um being considered as important as i guess your your core like math english you know those type of things right especially i mean i know in america i don't know about other countries but i'm pretty sure that's probably the case is that it's usually secondary to people and i don't know if that's what this is about but i i bet that's one of the messages well and i would imagine the idea of doing nude paintings is not going to be as widely acceptable as it would be in france that's true you know it's just not been part of the culture for as long a period of time as it would have been in a place like in france where it's not just painting people in the nude is common it's common to see people naked on the beach in france yeah starring kalyani mullay chai akadam in the seroton show in a special appearance the movie centered around a mother who poses as a nude model for students of an art college in order to fund her son's education oh i so want to watch that look that sounds just fantastic one great concept for a film because you know there's gonna be conflict with that you probably even from the sun who she's trying to support uh in that in that area right thinking she's a prostitute probably yeah she's a whore for doing what she's doing um it's quite unfortunate and i don't outside of obviously i've recognized in seroton show and yeah we recognize his he's a very iconic voice it's like if michael kane and morgan freeman morgan freeman right it's a very uh at or big b yeah very iconic um and it's it's a very it's very different conceptually but the two of my favorite films one and most recent watching that incorporate the world of fine artistry in the telling of the story are uh portrait of a lady on fire from france i do love that oh i adore that film it's one of the best films i've seen in the past 10 years portrait of a lady on fire is a gorgeous film as is the danish girl okay fantastic uh eddie red main is beautiful as is um start to the day um i see her face oh crap who she plays his wife um alicia vacander thank you uh alicia vacander they those centered around art but not in the way that i believe this one does because i think this one uh is obviously in a very different telling but when you when you're incorporating the world of art in the telling of a story that has cultural significance and uh the the need for change i just this looks absolutely and was uh i know it's just probably a special appearance he's probably like an art teacher or something my bet is he's the son older maybe teaching at the school maybe something like that but was he speaking marathi or was he speaking hindi question i can't i can't pick up the difference between those yet because they're wouldn't surprise me if it was marathi i believe they're the same region wouldn't surprise me if it was marathi um how because they're both in the state of right right yeah i think because that's where marathi is from and obviously hindi is spoken everywhere and that's all the word is right so i do most do a lot of people in yeah i guess is it do they speak both or is it we could ask the stupid babies in mumbai yeah um but it's quite funny because you know in that state you know there's bali there's bali with mumbai right but they have their own little separate industry um right of marathi um and they've all they seem pretty like maybe they have mass movies and and stuff like that but they seem pretty like artsy and is that i'd like to know because i bet you could figure it out which of the industries does the hindi speaking actors from bali would most commonly penetrate into is it marathi is it it probably marathi if they're from mumbai or is it to lugu yeah i guess it just depends on where they grew up yeah because if you grew up in a certain state you probably speak that state but then you probably also speak hindi as well because it's such a and there's many actors and actresses that we know that do multiple language films like uh radhika i know does that to do does that um so it'd be interesting to see if there is anything that's predominantly yeah it may be regionally that because it's so close to where the capital for baliwood is i don't know but i want to see this yeah this looks fantastic so please let us know that it's fantastic yes uh if you've seen it uh if with no spoilers yeah obviously but uh let us know if if it's this or if it's something else what should be the next marathi film that we explore because we will uh so let us know


You know what I'm saying? That's my big brother and I learned sign language and that has taken me so many places and I'm doing a book called, I learned to hear it through a deaf man's ears. That's what made me such a cold songwriter and producer. Cause he could only hear Michael Jackson through putting the boom box to his face and then they go through his jaw to his brain. Cause the ear is dead, it's vestigial at that point and they ain't working. So the bone, the skull has to be his ear. Yeah, we on Boss Talk TV. Shout out to Ihi, the reason you see. All the way up to Kanye got wounded in that accident and then that took me out to LA. Yeah. To be around him, to be more present as a protector and as a financier and all these different things that come with being a big brother.  And my big brother was deaf so he was a little bit like a little brother to me too. Had somebody I had to take care of. Yeah. He was deaf and people take advantage of a deaf kid that's real. Luckily, he was the toughest nigga in the world. He's the left that he could knock anybody out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He could run faster than everybody else. What I'm saying, all he says is even stronger. No question, he could do all the flips in the world. He could get straight A's, he could play baseball, football, volleyball, basketball, he could jump, he could run, you know. So he didn't need that kind of physical protection but he needed the protection from people emotionally tormenting him. That's right. Making fun of him. And he said, Malik, what they say? What they say?  It's all over. Oh, fully. I know. One thing my daddy told me when I was real little, I was like four, maybe five. And I was telling my grandma. And when my brother came to play with me, he was two years old to me, he was seven. And the big kids who I really loved, like teenager kids that used to let me be they little mascot, they ostracized him and kind of like made fun of him and abused him. And he was crying because they was bigger than him and they was bullying him. And my father asked what happened. And I didn't really know what to say. Cause I seen it happening, not really having the vocabulary. My father said, man, don't you ever let nobody take advantage of or harm your brother. That's real. You stand with him and ever since then. It's been up. Ever since then. Me. Never, never, never, never, never, never that I abandoned him in any way. You know what I'm saying? That's my big brother. And I learned sign language and that has taken me so many places. And I'm doing a book called, I learned to hear it through a deaf man's ears. That's what made me such a cold songwriter producer. Cause he could only hear Michael Jackson through putting the boom box to his face. And then they go through his jaw to his brain. Cause the ear is dead, it's vestigial at that point and they ain't working. So the bone, the skull has to be his ear. The vibrations. And I see how he, the rhythm in which he moved. He's like, what are you saying? So I would tell him the lyrics then we got the tape. Cause he was here on the radio. We were taping from the radio. When we got the real tape, it got the words in there. So he could read along and I would give him the cadence on that. And boom, eight Grammys. Wow. That's odd, man.  Till he got better. And until basically I stayed with him until the spring time till it was time for his album to come out. Till it was time for, well, I had to go back to Chicago. I was still in the street. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I had to go back to my hustle but I came out with 500. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I came out to LA with 500. That's what he said he needed. And you know, the camera that they shot the, the documentary, the genius, Kanye West genius documentary. I bought that camera. That's all, that's all. Cause Kanye didn't want to use a stolen camera. He didn't want the energy of a stolen camera, you know? So I was like, let's buy a new camera. How much is the new camera? You know what I'm saying? This is back in the days when cameras was, you know, It was expensive. $5,000. That's right. That's right.   But I grew up with Cootie. Okay.  I kept trying to leave the street for years, from like 94 until 2005 when I finally left. It took me like 11 years to leave the street officially. So I would leave and then I would go broke. Yeah, yeah.  One time I had to go to my little brother, how's Omar? He's on 115, he asked me for some money for his rent or something, pay something. I say, man, okay. I said, bro, I got to go back to these streets, G. I said, we prayed together. And my brother, we prayed in his basement. So I had to go back to the street. That was the one last time and we prayed. And I was like, man, I don't know how I'm gonna make it. Cause I knew Niggas was telling and all that. And we prayed our way through it. And I'm blessed I never had to tell him nobody. What year was this? That was 2004, I left the streets in 2005. Wow. I went and we had a deep prayer, man. You know what I'm saying? He credit my brother with that, you know what I'm saying?   I mean, there's some guilt there.  He loved his mama. She was good to him. I understand that. I don't love his mama. Our mother, I don't love her. And it's okay not to love her. You know what I'm saying? It's okay. I don't hate her, but I don't have the love for her that you would think that you would need to have for the maternal unit that put you into the world because she was an antagonist, a consummate antagonist, an enemy to me, an oppressor to me. And by him wanting to take up for her it puts a rift between he and I, which is fine. He's grown and I'm just a person that's like, cool, that's who you love, love her. That's fine. But you can't love her anymore. At the end of the day, I just feel like, and I never put nothing in a box because everything's always evolving. It's always evolving. You know what I mean? Every situation, I don't want to take it to heart because I know already as God do His thing, everything will roll out. You know what I'm saying? But you got to be patient. And without faith, you can't have patience. Without patience, you can't have faith. So you know what I'm saying? You got to have both. So at the end of the day, I'm able to work with everybody when it comes down to thinking that way. Talk boss. You know what I'm saying? That's the only way to deal with people that you love and not detach yourself from. And I've proven my love to everybody. They've not proven they love to me. I get it. You know what I'm saying? And it's that time. And now it's the harvest, now it's the harvest time. Let me harvest what you planted. Y'all been harvesting what I planted. Y'all ain't never went without. Y'all got bombed out of jail. Y'all got y'all kids fetched. I got y'all rent paid. Now I got to move to a new season because I can't have God being like, uh-uh. I told you, leave that alone. You already done enough. You done that. Let them do for you. If they don't do it, they just don't do it. I'm not mad. No, but at the end of the day, even on Spider-Man, they say, to who much it's given, much is required. And I did all. I was great. Responsibility. There you go. So you already know what will come with leadership. No question. So at the end of the day, you are that one. And there ain't no way to get off around that. No way. Go ahead. Okay, I got a question. Yes, ma'am. Earlier you said you went to prison. How old were you the first time whenever you got in trouble? I never went to prison. I've been in jail. And I went to Illinois Youth, how old were you the first time? First time I got arrested, I think I was 13, 14.  No, I've had 82 arrests. 82 arrests. So how many of that end up being in jail? Only like four, five times, man. Oh, so you're lucky. Yeah, lawyers, man. Blessed. Now lawyers.


Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today we're going to focus on doing detailed tattoos. So here I've got three colors, Bugman's Glow, Dark Blue, and Payne's Gray. Don't worry, I'll write them down. You can see they're all in the palette here and I've mixed all three of them as well as some Flow Improver into a nice mix. We're going to be tatting up our giant. This is obviously one of the gargants out of the from Age of Sigmar and the first thing I did was make a nice smooth, well flowing mixture. That's why you always want to use an ink. So as I'm drawing here, you can watch as I'm going, but I'm going to explain the basic principles and then we'll talk about what I'm doing. So when you want to set up a very detailed tattoo, something like what I'm doing here, the first thing you want to do is make sure that you have some kind of reference photo to go off of or a good clear image in your head or you've drawn it out on a piece of paper or whatever. In this case, I actually just googled some images of Aquaman's tattoos from the movie Aquaman and I really liked kind of this sort of Maori triangle pattern type thing that he had. And I thought it was cool how it kind of looked like shark's teeth, like kind of like a shark's jaw there. So I thought I would expand on that idea. So once you've got your concept, the key is with any big detailed complicated tattoo, just like any piece of freehand, is to not try to draw the whole thing at once. So you break it down into constituent tiny elements. So you notice here I wanted to do all of these, these what we would think of as dags, these little teeth, right? So I started by drawing one thin line. Then I thickened that line up. Then I started applying triangles. Then I drew another line over the top and now I'm going to start putting triangles alternating over the open area below that. So basically each point of the lower triangle leads up to the line of the next triangle. The reason I can do this is twofold, like why I can be this precise with the paint is twofold. First, because I mixed in an ink. Second, because I mixed in flow improver. Ink and flow improver are really essential if you want to do nice, sharp, thin lines. If you filled the pen on your desk with acrylic paint, it wouldn't really flow so well, right? So you want to include that ink because it's thin. It flows well. It's meant for this sort of purpose. Now, as to the colors I use, this is a good generic tattoo color. A nice dark blue, something like Payne's Gray, which is blue-black, and then a little bit of a deep flesh color. And you want to make sure you're mixing in some kind of flesh tone. In this case, I picked Bugman's Glow. I like it. It's a nice deeper flesh color. I find it works really well to sort of mix in some of it into your tattoo color. The more of it you mix in, the more faded the tattoo will look. So that's the key. What you're doing by mixing in a little flesh is ink from tattoos sinks into the skin. By mixing in the flesh tone, you give that impression even with only one layer of paint. Now, we'll talk at the end about how you can continue to build that up. But you see how all I've done here is just continually draw a thin line, put the triangles on top in an alternating pattern, and then draw another thin line over the top of that. This is really easy. Like, the tricky, the wonderful part about big, complex patterns is that they're so complicated, your brain won't actually notice small inconsistencies. When you add enough visual confusion to the pattern, it just, your brain makes it correct, OK? It also helps if the pattern isn't completely regular. Like, that is to say, you would probably notice if it was a big grid, and there was one line slightly off, but you'll notice a lot less if it's something with angles and curves and unusual shapes like this one, OK? So, as I said, I looked at the Aquaman tattoo and decided to use that as sort of a reference, but I wasn't making that my ultimate guide. So the goal was to be, use that as a starting point, but I ultimately liked the idea of like a shark's teeth coming up into a wave kind of pattern. So I just decided to have it follow the curve of the shoulder there, and then you'll see how I then make the thin lines of the wave extend. So the goal here is I'm just drawing these thin lines, connecting them around. Now, I just want to take a couple moments to like talk about my general process here and things that you have to be aware of. First off, so the other thing besides the well-flowing ink and paint and stuff like that you need is you want to make sure you have a real nice sharp tip brush with a decent belly on it. So I'm not using the smallest brush in my collection or anything like that. I'm using something of a decent size that has a good belly on it because you notice how long I want to keep painting. I also, you can see how I try to always be doing this in one continual stroke. You want to avoid any kind of like hashing at it, where you're stabbing and then moving and stabbing and then moving as much as you can. So you see how I try to consistently draw a line as much as possible. Sometimes there'll be a break or I'll need to change angles like there. For the most part, I'm trying to avoid that sort of thing. The next thing I'll say is as I build this up, what I'm doing is just making decisions based on what's already there on the tattoo and where do I want to go from that point? So in other words, I kept looking back at my reference photo and looking at some of the shapes and the forms that they had for like Aquaman's tattoo, right? And I said, okay, well, how can I integrate that? And I noticed they had like a lot of these long swooping lines and these alternations between thick and thin lines. And I think that's a really compelling look for a tattoo like this. The more of those little thin lines you add, mixed in with the thicker lines, the more it will add to that sense of visual confusion and distract people from any minor inconsistencies in your work, okay? So the other thing I'll say is as you're sort of thinking about this, you always want to be sort of trying to build out like a center mass and then have it come down into sharp, interesting edges. So you see how I'm sort of building this thing out and slowly reducing the amount of real estate, as it were, I guess, on his body that I'm taking up. And that's because as you draw that down, again, it will create that more dynamism to it. So in this case, I started with this big sweeping arcs and then I've slowly added more and more of these small areas I'm drawing down into a thinner and thinner area. Now, the key is you can then build that back up. So in this case, I'm only going to do so much of this on camera, but you could always go farther than that. So I could take this thin one and then bring it back out into a larger shape down the side of his torso going down into his pants or something. I could have it meet with a similar wave reaching off of his shoulder and then extend the whole thing onto his back. And it would be the exact same process. It would just be me continuing to add these lines to follow the patterns that I've set up. And if you're working from a real life example, it shouldn't be too difficult to just keep looking at other elements of that example and build it out. The idea here in its simplest form is that the more you keep adding to the complexity of the design through one line at a time, one triangle, one stroke, one hash, one move of the ink, the pen around there, the more you'll build a pattern that's complex enough that people don't really notice any minor inconsistencies. But that being said, sometimes you might feel a need to change something or clean something up. So what do you do if you want to clean something up? Well, fortunately, that's really easy. One of the most important elements of freehand, one of the things that has to be internalized about doing freehand is two things. First, you're not done immediately because you draw a section of what it is. You'll notice multiple times here that I go back, that I correct things, that I change lines, that I reinforce a triangle, that I touch an area I've already touched. This is where it becomes really hard to work on this on camera, by the way. You'll notice that I slightly alter shapes, that I extend lines, that I will draw things up to other places from where they were before. That's a really critical piece. So the first thing is if you go slightly outside the line on an area, maybe you can just make that suddenly a transition into a thicker line. Alternating your lines from starting very thin and then swooping out into something bigger, like you see me do a couple times there, is actually a really nice looking aesthetic. And again, it's one of those things because you're creating movement, because you're creating directionality, it will still add to the overall visual confusion and prevent people from noticing any consistency. But sometimes you can't do that.  Find whatever flesh tone is close to where you're working. And it doesn't need to be exact. This is, I think, one of the things that scares people when you do this over a blend like this. They're like, oh, if I mess it up, I'm never gonna be able to fix it. Yeah, you can. Like if I messed up here somewhere and wanted to correct it, I would just grab whatever flesh tone I thought was relatively close, doesn't have to be right on, and I would just correct that tiny spot where the ink went over where it shouldn't. Okay? And that's it. That's all you gotta do.  No one's gonna notice if the flesh color is slightly inconsistent, okay? So as we're coming down to the end here of the design, I wanna review kind of the key elements. First, a good standard tattoo color is gonna be opposed to the skin color. So if you're working with a standard Caucasian skin tone, then something in the blue-black is gonna be nice because that's contrasting to the orange of the skin. So in this case, I used a dark blue paint. I used Payne's gray ink, mixed it with Bugman's to make it seem a little faded. The more flesh you integrate, the more faded the tattoo will look. Ink and flow aid are important because they let the paint wick off your brush very easily. Two, use a real-life reference. Find something you can draw inspiration from. There's thousands and thousands and thousands and millions of pictures of cool tattoos online. Use those. Lastly, it's about building up small, simple elements over and over again. So there you go. I hope you liked that. If you did, hit the like button. Subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future. But as always, I thank you very much for watching this one and we'll see you next time.


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