Now thanks for staying with us. The rise of technology and social media has led to the emergence of new genre of comedy in Nigeria. For example, skit comedy has become increasingly popular in recent years. Skits are short humorous videos that often feature popular comedians and actors, and they can be used to address social issues or simply make people laugh. Social media platforms like Twitter, now X, Instagram and YouTube have also been used by comedians to connect with their fans and promote their work. Comedians can use these platforms to share videos, images, jokes with their followers, and this has helped to make Nigerian comedy more accessible to people all over the world. Today we're asking what direct influence do you think tech and social media has had on the comedy scene in Nigeria? Now please let's hear what you have to say. Remember you can join the conversation. Send us an SMS or WhatsApp on<PHONE_NUMBER>. You can also follow us. Of course all our social media handles that way to Africa. I'll bring in actually in a minute, but I just want to hear your thoughts. What do you think? Just as the music industry has evolved in Nigeria, I've seen how comedy is becoming a huge thing. If I can, I would join comedias like this. Honestly? I think I'm funny. Let me go and test it out. No, you're not. You're called to media. Even if I'm not funny, I'm going to learn it. It's not comedy. It's like a purpose-driven relationship. That is why you're called to media. We are going to learn it. I need to go on. What do you think? Literally when you hear the skit makers, especially the skit makers, if you hear how much, first of all, the charge clients to create that one minute or two minute skit you see. This thing is lucrative. I think we've gotten to the place where everybody needs a piece of mind. One of the beautiful things comedy does is just give you that piece of mind.  So it could be scrolling through your status or through your different social media timelines and you're just seeing different skits and it makes you happy. But nowadays, are people truly like funny? Is it just a situation of Nigeria? Because sometimes do I see this? I think it's a global situation. You don't say again that I can't come and you don't call me.  Your problem is so overwhelming. That's Ashimi. Dabila Riauluwasego is an award-winning author, comedian, brand influencer and renowned speaker. He's the founder of Mystery Tribe, a community curator to help entrepreneurs and creatives maximize their gift. He has built a stellar brand as one of the leading voices of transformation in Africa. And it's such a delight to have you again on the show. Thank you for joining us. You're funny. I should just start my own business. Start small. I'm going to say I never know if this is funny. But I mean, this is such an interesting conversation to have. Because you guys are down the drain now. I say I won't come and do it. Reaching up on my way from Facebook. Because I am coming to come and learn. You have to call now. Just understood this. Give me inspiration on what to do from this. You need inspiration. To be funny. If you need inspiration, you are not ready. Because Nigeria needs help. That means you are cooperative. You are very mosquito-disruptive. But you are speaking to technology, right? The recent thing that just happened on social media that went everywhere. I think NJ took that story yesterday where Josh is too funny. He does all these auditions. And he went on America Got Talent, I believe. And everybody was saying it. I kind of feel like that thing, they know that he was going to come three times. They know his stage and all of that. But I think what also gave his brand that leverage was the fact that he has done multiple skits like that. Because he does his own audition. No, he even does his own audition. He has an exact content like what he just displayed there. That is powerful. So just imagine if a lot of us are becoming a lot more creative and saying, let me see how I take this content that I have been consistent with. And I will take it to a bigger stage. Because that is what I think he just did. He is not going to go anywhere. But he is taking his brand to a whole new level. So literally, how excited are you for technology and in the comedy space? It's a very good time. It's a very, very good, great time. Sometimes when I see memes of Akia Papa, I love them, I cherish them. But just imagine for a moment that Akia Papa came with this dispensation. Look at the total number of conversions they would have had. Oh, it would have been crazy. Because most of their stuffs are trending now. It's about 15 years, 20 years. So technology has given the immense platform. You make mention of George Stouffoni. Of course, obviously that thing was staged because FGT cannot give you a slot. They found him interesting. They know that he has something to contribute. He is trying to target the Nigerian market. He gave us a template. He broke the internet.  And about our own talent. There are other trends in Nigeria that are trending in the world. I had the number. Yes, and there is a new market. So the world is fixing. Their eyes are fixing towards us. Something is happening here. Look at the new number of conversions HGT would have. Because of George Stouffoni. Some Nigerians have never had the HGT. They are popular here. Because of George Stouffoni now. They know about it. Comedy is one of the greatest sports in Nigeria. And the beauty of it is that there is no audition. All you need to do is pick up yourself.  Starts one day. Hope you get the acceptance. There is no restriction. There is no board of trustees. There is no board member that is auditioning.  I'll come back to that. You hit that thing like bam on the head. You know why I say so? Even in the media space that I work. Lately I wanted to do something. They say I have to join one professional body. I'm just wondering. They literally stripped all those bureaucracies. All the things that you would have thought about. Which Godfather you were. Who will not bring you into the industry. Now your phone brings you to the industry. If you are funny, there is nothing.  There is one guy who always finds him funny. He is just always funny. He is always funny. So I find it funny. He would just do the thing. Even by himself he would start laughing. Because he knows that he is not working. And I watch it a lot. Because again, Nigeria's problem is too much. I need something to cool me down. So I like the word competition. My spirit will be coming down. So I mean like literally. Just to buttress what you said. Your phone has given you access to the world. It's a global stage. You don't need anyone's permission. If you are creative, come on board. People who vibe with you. You don't need to run after anyone. If you want to be popular as a comedian. There are some comedy clubs that you must perform. You are not funny. Nobody will come with you. Yes, comedy clubs are still existing. I own one. But the options are not many. There is stand-up comedy. There is skit making. There is a lot. So you don't necessarily have to be a stand-up comedian. You can be a skit maker.  You can be both. Some people can be both. Just do your thing. Now that you mentioned stand-up comedy. It's like the traditional comedy that we know. Chris Rock, the likes of you. Steve Harvey. Do you think that now that skit comedy is becoming a sensation in the world. Almost all the countries do that. Do you think it's becoming a threat to stand-up comedy? Or is it an asset to it? It's not a threat. It's just going on its own. They are not the same. Why it takes to entertain audience in real time? It's not why it takes to entertain audience in real time. It's not why it takes to entertain audience in real time. You can record now. You shoot before you do want to credit him. It looks funny. But when you are on stage as a stand-up act. It's very hard. You must get it. If you don't have it, you don't have it. But here is my question. So usually, for instance, what is it? Easter Sunday comedy shows that everybody is rushing to get tickets.  Right now, you have options. So you can either buy that ticket or you just sit at home and scroll through your status. You actually know pages you go. You go and they have clips upon clips to keep you entertained for three hours at a stretch. So in that case, maybe if you are making like 5 million Naira in one show. Because you don't have as much people turning up because people have alternatives now. Maybe you are making down to 3 million Naira. I don't think that is happening. My show, for instance, is sold out. Congratulations. The place is different. What it takes. Most people who watch skates want to sleep. They use it as tranquilizer. They watch it when they go to. Some watch in traffic. Some watch in traffic. Some watch to... Stand up as it plays too. When you are watching your skates, are you networking or so? When you go to a physical location as you are enjoying the joke, you are networking. Is there a carpet with skates? No. So every no one can take the place of the other. They both have their pros and cons. But the ultimate goal is satisfying the people making them happy. Alright, thanks for saying with us now. If you just tuned in, we are discussing influence of tech and social media on the Nigerian comedy scene now. And we have with us Ashiri Kame. She said he is a student. Because in Ibo his name is like Asiri. I get that a lot. I think he means the same thing. Just like my name. I also have to I mean remember you can join the conversation, send us an sms or whatsapp to do it. 1-803-4663. You can also tweet at exos. This is on my head. Go ahead Glory. What is the secret to succeeding as a comedian on social media? As the open secret you should go for his comedy issue. The way you ask me that. I was about saying you know what. And you know when someone starts a secret with actually. I don't want you to ask. So because I believe like it's sort of like there's a secret. Honestly the question I asked him. Some people will do this. But you see the engagement and it's like going viral. So is there a secret attached to maybe you're probably not funny. But there's something you can do to succeed in social media space. Maybe if you want to be a skit maker. There are people now they just wake up. They just do things they want to do. We understand like you probably just want to get your phone busy. But when you look at things like the end of the day. I think there's a little bit of luck in the world. Or even if you will be lucky you still have to show them. You get the point. So factors might not be in your control. But what I know for anything entertainment, anything business. What is your control is you showing up. When it will work might not necessarily be in your control. You may not know that for sure. I keep putting these things out. I keep putting it out. One day it will hit. So that one that will hit will compensate for every other one. So I see people they do for they do 5 and for you know it it's not working. You do it and then you do it and then you do it. When you give up you give up. That's when fashion starts to hit. They take back to 2014-2015 when Instagram was doing 15 seconds. There were not much of social media there. In 15 seconds we do not have a team. But now there are too many options. I see some online comedians. I have never had them before. I get to their page I see engagement. I am like this person has 72,000 likes and I have never seen this person before. So there is a whole lot. So it's not like the real estate now you know is land. But the real estate now is online. So it has to come now. When people start using your own asset as collateral. You say I have some 10 million followers and it recounts. I think it counts. You start using it for big transactions. Because it starts becoming an asset. You start adding it to your win. Because I watched the video today and they talked about this thing you said. And the guy said if he wants to sell his page today. He's not selling it for anything less than I think about half a million dollars or something like that. Because that's how big the page has grown and the engagement as well. So it's completely you're completely I was just going to touch on this your open secret matter because like okay so where I when Glory was asking that question the secret to success. Where my mind flew to was that I've seen a few of your posters you know scattered all over the place and I said why is a comedian saying open secret because I don't understand. It doesn't make sense to me because yeah like literally when you want to when you see all these comedians they say laugh out loud like yours is a bit unique and so I'm wondering like literally like this guy really knows one secret to bring people to come and listen to secret because your strategy is a bit different and you know when I see the flyer very professionally done it doesn't tell me anything around like there's gonna be it keeps me guessing like so how are you able to take that because the big risk is a very big risk people are people that chat those kind of waters you know they are risk takers you know people just go with the flow that's why you see a lot of for instance movie makers they'll tell you I bet let's just go with comedy that's what we sell in the cinemas so you see them doing comedy and they are sold out sold out sold out but when they go in a second line nobody really sends them so how are you able to do that you know basically for me I I just got to a point where I aggregated my potentials then I realized okay what is comedy for me what am I using comedy for so comedy is more than cracking jokes for me I use comedy to bring insight I use comedy to correct society I use comedy for social commentary so it's not just comedy for me so when I was crafting the show people have called me a serial man in years and of course I know some secret but they are not secret like you will know some of the actor I won't be tempted to review too much but the idea is just that when you are laughing what are you going on with I miss the laughter what is changing within you I miss all the entertainment what we combat you and I'm like who actually said this oh and I was laughing I almost miss this that's the idea so when I said open secret there are several dimensions of insight that will be laced with you more then you are going to glean from that because that's what I've been on I've got all the books I've done a lot of capacity building but I just said I'll kill I'm doing a special and in this special I'm touching all like performing for more than one hour stretch and I'm touching all subjects it's going to be funny at the same time it's going to be enlightening so then I like turned it open secret okay we are calling you secret all the while what is that secret go go go go because Sunday, August 13th come and cash us let me ask something so if you are given two choices to make one between skit making on social media and the sort of one you are having on Sunday which would you go for between skit making and standoff which is the standoff in the first note standoff so mutual school I'm emotional with standoff no standoff I'm used to uncle faculty dinners then that ten kids, eight thousand if you associate for like two months especially if you are not lucky they are calling for no dinner they have money, 15 kids unless in college those ones they have money no they are working here actually I can genuinely believe I wasn't a comedian but when I was in school I hosted a lot of shows I was always looking forward to now you can stop and then when they are doing the all those programs because they would pay like 10K, 6K two of K was the highest when I collected 5K for two months I collected 10K one night this is how I used to work back to just now you know what 3K I would get back to just now then all of you this is brother and egg you know you die here emotional content creation for me it's become more of a necessity what I really want I love doing content for skit comedy skitmaking online because of my schedule it's more of a necessity I'm doing it as a necessity it's not fluid for me but standoff hosting is what I've invested in over the years but the demand of our business now you know that's so that you won't go out of business this is made very realistic to something because you love it when the world is already tilted to this it's just going to say that how do you balance that with the evolution you have to move with it you have to move with it there's even between joining the bandwagon and sustaining your relevance joining the bandwagon is you are doing what they are doing sustaining your relevance is you are sitting towards what they are doing but you are still maintaining your core and your element while tilting towards what they are doing in the name of not wanting to join the bandwagon they become laid back things start happening and when they start measuring them and they stop calling you that's why they call it show business once they start mentioning names and you are not coming to mind you are not the top of mind record I know that many people have flashed you they have flashed you I used to I'm a very melancholic to some extent and I'm a very self-pacing I'm very shy I don't like talking I'm the type that I don't like doing my trumpet and those are the things that will finish you that thing used to do me somehow that I will not pick phone I just finish a gig man I killed it but that's the language that you can let do you understand it has changed it has changed that's how we are raised our parents will say what you are doing to the left don't allow the right to know when you do this don't praise yourself now we are in the age of praise yourself because you are doing it yourself you are still your flower if they didn't give you your flower go and buy bouquet buy bouquet if you don't give me flower I will give myself ah you don't understand I was having this same conversation with my son last night and I told him I said see we've got to that stage where everything that you have to loud because literally the world is so superficial now and it is the person that is making noise I told you I said that it's a noise breaker online so as long as it's making noise you are top of that's all you need you need top of my brand awareness somebody needs to remember that this person exists so the fact that you are keeping quiet you are not helping your brand oh my goodness so comedy go ahead so there is this recent introduction of the comedy makers award but it seems as though the award because I saw clips of it I didn't watch the whole show but it seems as though it was just skid makers that's what you are talking about yes it's actually for content creators not really skid makers so anybody that is trending that is creating content consistent they are strict measures because I was at their award so how about stand up comedy is there any award for that? yes there are several awards for stand up comedy I'm like notable because I'm not not really known yet but some people are coming up to bring up things because I feel like comedy is becoming such a big business that we should have knowledge the same way we have the film business AMVCA, AMA awards and then you have the Heddy's awards for music I feel like comedy should have something that is loud this is dedicated to comedy night so if you had one thing to say we are in the age of technology and you want to speak to your colleagues because again in the midst of all these nice things we've said I've seen very what was this person thinking just kind of people of course they cannot all be like you so it's not like it's not like I expect everybody to understand that there are also deeper issues we have a lot of issues in this country and I believe that when you've grown to a certain extent with your brand you should also be concerned about those issues but it will affect you because someone is going to be virtual because I was at the airport yesterday at $9.35 you are looking away literally what would you say to people that have those platforms those influence what would you say should just be at the back of their mind for every content that we put out there people should just know that you are not doing it for yourself you are doing it for others it's your legacy now it's your body of work so when you are doing it you need to ask yourself questions let's say 5 years now come back to this content there are so many things going on and it's so amazing the amount of platforms to talk about governments, to talk about religion so how will you have that kind of language when you are using it I just believe that people should be more intentional about what they put out there it's not about yes, we can flex, we can cruise once in a while pass the message because at the end of the day even if the body is just working and empty-headed there will be problems 9 foolish men and 1 wise man last last when the foolish man invites the wise man to his house when they are in a meeting if they want to vote now the foolish men will win so foolish men will win so the society we just need to be more conscious I see content creators do some things they are like why we do this sometimes I go on tiktok and cringe I don't want to go there I don't want to go there I cringe for what you did this this is going on and it's because when the people that really have this they need to come out and do it they need to show, they need to come out of their shell the problem we have is that people that really have this capacity there is some type of being creative that might make you laid back it's kind of some form of argument you are speaking, look in that direction the problem with creative people the problem with skillful people I have that problem that's why skillful people really make it you understand this thing is for the audacious it's not necessarily for the talent it's for the person that they are to so when a foolish person is audacious and he got the platform you can tell him foolishness was now you won't get sense why did he come out so it's a call to people just gloat over what you have put it out go on out I was just like with high time we start doing big things in a big way the problem we have is that we like to do big things in a small way then when I see people do small things in a big way when I be overwhelming the big thing and you are sure that this thing is a big thing do it in a big way if you are not ready to do it in a big way you don't come out yet there's a lot you can get to that start small it's no longer strategy start small is for the first maybe 1 to 5 years 3 I'm telling you everything everything look at your years already here on media I can't tell you start small it's not strategy the amount you get to start small the amount you get to start small it's big you have to do it big a lot is happening you need to secure your space don't worry catch me on Sunday I'm sorry I didn't see what I would like to be oh my god I was going to quickly touch on this pressure because again with all of the things happening I see that there's so much pressure to want to to want to hit it big and to want to also get all the big things by the cars so it's a lot so how do you maintain your sanity and meet that because again with all these things music, comedy, film, whatever your last big things they are trying not to cancel you they are trying not to cancel you yes now literally they say the pressure is real so how do you manage that pressure how would you even speak to people to just control that pressure quickly you have to manage your expectation and you have to understand that one of the things we do is that we you want to appeal to everyone one of the way I stay sane is that I rationalize that these are the people I'm attending to they are my world so I may start so I'm constantly serving them I wrote it in one of my books I was on the flight one time like that and the food is served in the entire flight I was going to Dublin in the entire flight I was only wonder was allergic to it I was going to the restroom yes so I'm not so I now said these people their food is bad but there are over 100 and 15 others that love the food so the fact that I was allergic to the food doesn't mean that food is bad it was not just made for me so those people that's how I stay sane so when I don't envy people I focus on the people I'm servicing and I get joy you have your people you understand if you do your event today and I do my event tomorrow your people are not my people your people will show it won't be the majority so what are we pleasuring ourselves our job description is when you start doing your thing your people will gravitate towards you keep them close all those things you are trying to look for if you get it fine if you don't get it you are still alive you understand you are servicing people some people they don't think you are a big deal to them the fact that you are not gracing you are not big yet so relevance is you have to narrow it down it's not like you are consoling yourself but you have to narrow it down that okay I'm doing this I'm doing that the best of CEOs I've worked with go to their Instagram she's followers private account one man messaged me one time when I was a wedding of his daughter I didn't want to reply that DM private account 13 followers I was on his head I wanted to dismiss normally I should send him voice go to all those procedure I just put it one police something he just said can you write that voice for it I say let's take this conversation to ourselves 13 followers and I've seen so many 86,000 followers DM me 200,000 if they say 200,000 don't buy 4F for you buy 4F for you so it's not a numbers are good but we need to understand that the indexes of success they are not optics they are deeper dimension there are secrets to it so what are you going to say secret secret secret secret before we go next week we are doing something special for the teenagers we want to call it the waist teams takeover it's never been done in history of mnj so in case you see any of that TV channel copy it you know that they told you from us so waist team takeover is also part of what we want to do is to get young people to discuss some of the things that we discuss in their own language amongst themselves so Yasmin Basharu will be the host for this event. And she's going to be bringing in all her teenage friends to have different... I mean, I saw the lineup of topics. I said, I don't want to say my brain don't correct me like this. So they have lined up of topics for Monday all the way to Thursday. So make sure you tune in, share with your friends, share with your teenagers, share with young people because the goal again is to get young people to begin to think differently. It's not just all about.  There are so many things that are deeper than the superficial that we're seeing. So we must consciously put these kinds of contents in the minds of our young people to help also change some status quo. But thank you again, Ashiri. Thank you. Thank you, ladies. We had so much fun. I'm sorry we cannot take your messages this time, my God. Now, before we go and show you followers across all our social media handles, at Ways Show Africa, you can interact with us further.  And more importantly, follow all our engagements on social media. Like, share, and invite your families and friends to watch and follow the conversation. If you missed our quote for today, here it is again. Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself with its might. Hallelujah. Oh, deep. My sanity. Oh, deep. I missed your skit too. We'll see you guys live on Monday. Oh, no. We will not be seeing you. The teams will see you on Monday.


I wanted to riff a bit about the idea of paradoxical intentions and why things often are the exact opposite of what they seem. This came up recently when I had the memory of how I used to date women and send them messages and then I would not get a response for a couple of hours and the first thing that I would think is oh no like she doesn't like me anymore or maybe you know she's not into me anymore or she changed her mind or something happened and out of those instances which by the way can be applied almost exactly to sales you know this person is not gonna close he's not the right person blah blah blah out of those instances almost none of the suspicions or accusations actually ended up occurring in real life so out of the total amount of times where I was so sure in my heart of hearts that the girl who was not answering the message was not really into me or that the person who hasn't given me a response yet he's probably not into the product that I'm selling you know and it's probably not gonna work out of those intense instances almost none of them occurred and the times where I did close a sale it was always the person that I would not suspect at first hand so the person where we just start talking and you know you're not even maybe not even a sales call but let's say it is so we start talking and he ends up buying on the by the end of the call and at the beginning of the call I think no no way like no and there you go you've got a sale or or on a bad side like the the girls I dated were I got my heart broken or bad things happen or got cheated on it was never when I expected it it was never when I thought it was gonna happen so yeah I mean it's pretty it's pretty devious but that's simply the way I noticed life works it's that the things you worry about the most are often the things that never come to fruition and it's actually the things that you didn't think of that end up happening now how do you actually deal with that how do you what do you do about it so on a positive side if you've read Victor Frankl's book man searches for meaning on the positive end you learn that for example when you have a person with a stutter and that person is trying to file for some sort of a government compensation for it the welfare thing the officer the health officer comes check to check him out and obviously you want to make as much stuttering noises as possible to show them you actually need the money well suddenly that person who's started his entire life can't seem to start and the reason for that is the paradoxical intentions principle principle which states that whatever you try to apply force to accomplish you actually end up creating the reverse reaction so a person who's getting anxious and he's all he's thinking is don't get anxious don't get anxious like applying force against it he's gonna get more anxious or if you go to a party and you're like be cool be cool be cool you know be confident you're gonna project the exact opposite because this relates to the book power versus force where when you're in your power you do things without trying to do them you just do them but when you try it actually creates the opposite reaction so by worrying about your goal for not answering the phone you're basically reinforcing the fact that you shouldn't answer the phone or if you're like anxious that she's losing interest you're actually making her lose interest by doing that behavior without noticing it or if it's in sales when you're absolutely sure that this person is not you know the right client the not the right person that will end up becoming a client you're actually gonna do the things that will push that person away like being kind of like not very interested in them maybe a bit nervous so do how do you deal with that like how do you actually solve solve that problem well you use it to your advantage so the cool thing about paradoxical intentions is that you can actually use it in the reverse manner and what that means is let's say that you're not confident that you feel kind of like ashamed of yourself and slouching and depressed you can actually try to be more depressed or more lacking in confidence and by trying to do the opposite of what you want you're actually reinforcing what you want so again let's say you're in a really bad mood you're like how do I make myself even less happy right now so you start frowning and just do this face like me me you know just start making noises like yeah I'm I am p you know fuck it fuck you know like just sound really depressed and and like slouch and shit and the more you do that actually you start to laugh all of a sudden because it looks so ridiculous or let's say again in terms of the sale I could say you're having a sales call and you instead of being like thinking oh this person is not gonna buy oh no this is not good how do I get them to buy and you know being all needy you can actually try to actively make them not want to buy like yeah you know you don't want this product it's not good for you it's trust me just don't you should hang up the phone right now and like literally just go against everything that you're taught because that would make the other person laugh and that will really ease the tension and suddenly that person be like no no why why should I buy like why like what's the problem with it like why wouldn't I buy and that actually try to chase you when you do that which is really fun when it happens so yeah just anything that's sort of bugging you or stressing you and you need to relieve yourself from it simply apply paradoxical intentions against it instead of having it be against you and you'll find it gets dissolved very very quickly yeah that's a really cool concept and just in general just as a warning you know don't don't don't take it too seriously like whatever you don't take your perceptions too seriously because most of them are wrong again if you look at the lives of most people the shit that they were scared of did not happen and the things that they did not predict did happen you know like you end up you save your money your whole life and you end up getting hit by a car good for you it's just the way that life life works so the things that you worry about probably won't happen so don't worry about them and start worrying about the things that you're not worried about things you think are permanent things like your health that you think will not deteriorate you know it might very well either slowly deteriorate or quickly something would happen might happen to it you know it might be in a car accident or something just just change your your entire system of thought again the things you were worried about will not happen and even if they do do happen you're probably gonna deal with them things that are gonna crush your things you never thought about like war or crime or health issues or you know somebody coming up to your house and apparently you owe somebody a hundred thousand dollars or something like you don't you have no idea how life could pull it out of its ass like how these kind of occurrences but it does and you that's how you deal with them is you actually learn ahead of time you know you read books you get educated about them so that you actually get to worry about things that might actually happen like you turning 17 or 60 and not having money to pay for yourself which happens to about 30% of Americans yeah so that's these are my tips again talking about both paradoxical intentions and having kind of like back-ass backwards perceptions of reality and worrying about the wrong shit I hope this helps you let me know in the comments if you have any question or what sort of situation did you encounter recently that this could have been useful for and I'll see you in the next video


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For uniformly fine wine at reasonable cost, do what millions of others do. Ask for R.O.M.A. Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. And now with James Thurber's poignant and strange story and with the performance of Richard Worf as the man who was a friend to Alexander and of Geraldine Fitzgerald as his wife, Bess, who relates these events to us, we again hope to keep you in suspense. Harry was a laughing, happy-go-lucky fellow before he began to have those dreams. I guess he was pretty much like dozens of other men who go to work every morning, settle down in soft chairs with the newspapers after dinner, and like a weekend in the country now and then. He was fond of easy living and good times. Like everyone else, he talked of the war, rationing tires and his golf scores, until, until those nightmares began to plague him. At first, I was amused. You know, I've been dreaming about Aaron Burr every night. What for? Well, how do I know what for? Aaron Burr is a funny person to be dreaming about nowadays. I mean with all the countries in the world at war with each other. What's so funny about dreaming? Maybe you're upset. Everybody dreams, don't they? I don't know why you see Aaron Burr in your dreams. Well, I do. Where do you see him? Oh, places, Washington Square, Bowling Green on Broadway. Even here on 55th Street? No, mostly downtown.  Oh. Then suddenly there will be Aaron Burr bowing and smiling and smelling like a carnation, and telling his stories about France and getting off his insults. Who is the woman in the Victoria? Huh? The woman. Who is she? Oh, how do I know? You know about people in dreams, don't you? They're nobody at all, or everybody. But you see Aaron Burr plainly enough, though. I mean, he isn't anybody or nobody or everybody. Oh, all right. Maybe I don't know who the woman is. Maybe it's Madame Jumelle or Mittens Willett, or a girl I went to high school with. Who is Mittens Willett? Well, she was a famous New York actress in her day, 50 years ago or so. She's buried in an old cemetery on Second Avenue. I've seen the tombstone. That's very sad. Why is it? I mean, she probably died young. Almost all women did in those days. He's a vile, cynical cad.  When I looked at Hamilton, who do you suppose he was? I don't know. Who? My brother Walter, the one I told you about. The one who was killed by that tramp in the cemetery. Harry, I never could get that story straight. Well, I've told you about a dozen times that the tramp came up to him when his back was turned. But what was he doing in the cemetery? That's not the point. He was killed. That's what's important. I loved him very much. I don't understand what anyone... What's the use of telling you? Every time I tell, start mentioning it, you ask the same question. I understand now, dear. When you looked at Hamilton, he was your brother Walter. Yes. Harry, maybe we ought to go to the country for more weekends. Weekends? Yes, maybe we don't... Oh, I'm going to bed. For a time that evening, I worried about Harry. Not about his dream. Why shouldn't he dream? But I wondered about his health. He looked so... So unlike himself. I was glad when he went to bed. A good night's sleep was just what he needed, I thought. Sleep. How could I know? The next morning, we were quietly eating our grapefruit when Harry flung down his spoon. I wish you'd go back to France and stay there. Him and his la-la. Who, dear? Oh, you mean Aaron Byrd. Did you dream about him again? Yes, and he said la-la to me. Why should he say la-la? Look, I was at the tavern and we were drinking ale. I said something funny. I don't remember what it was. Something amusing about what Ben Franklin had said to Washington once. It was one of those things, you know? No, I don't. Have some more coffee, dear. No, I don't want any more coffee. I made this remark and everyone laughed. Everyone but Byrd, that is. He sort of sniffed and then he said la-la. Well, why not? I mean, is there anything wrong about him saying la-la? Well, it's the way he said it. He was sneering at me. They all noticed it. Who noticed it? The others, all of them and Hamilton. I was there with Hamilton. It was swell until Byrd came in, Aaron Byrd. I don't see why you dream about him all the time.  I'm not sick. I know what I'm dreaming. I just thought, well, it's always Byrd and that seems odd. Why? Why shouldn't I dream about Byrd if I want to? But you don't want to. No, but I can't help it. Everywhere I go with Alexander, sooner or later, Byrd shows up and he makes those nasty remarks. Last night he elbowed Alexander out of his way. He did it deliberately. Alexander? Hamilton. Oh, Alexander Hamilton. Yes, goodness knows I'm familiar enough with him by this time to call him by his first name. You know, we might go to the Old Rovers in this weekend. You like it there. Hamilton has become not only my brother Walter, but practically every other guy I've ever liked. Don't you like the Old Rovers in anymore? Isn't it natural that Hamilton should represent my brother and guys I like? Well, that's natural, isn't it? Yes. I suppose it is. Then why are you looking at me like that? You know, dear. I wish you'd go and see Dr. Fox. But I don't want to go and see Dr. Fox. I want Aaron Byrd to stop sneering at me. And my clothes. He looks at me and his lip curls up and he says, La, la, Mr. Andrews, what odd taste you have. I wish you'd go and see Dr. Fox. I'm going to the zoo and feed popcorn to the rhinoceros. That makes things seem right. For a little while anyway. I thought he'd forgotten all about that ancient pistol duel because for two days after that, he lost his haggard, tired look and actually seemed cheerful. But one night, about five in the morning, he came into my room in pajamas and bare feet.  He got him! He got him! LaRotta got him! Alexander fired in the air and smiled at him. Just like Walter must have smiled. Like Walter? Oh, yes, dear. Your brother Walter, who was killed in the cemetery. This was at Weehawken in New Jersey. What? Your brother? Alexander and Burr, their duel. Hamilton had a white rough around his neck. Burr was in black tights, French clothes. Alexander lifted his pistol and fired in the air and he smiled at Burr. And then that fiend from hell took deliberate aim. He took so long. He meant to take his time above it. I saw him grin. Then he pointed his pistol at Alexander and fired.   Don't. Don't. Here, darling. Take some of these pills. No, I don't want any. Oh, take it. You'll feel better. No, I don't want any. I'll tell you. Here. Swallow. Please, dear, swallow. All right. There. That's better. Cad. A rotten-sleekin Cad. He grinned just as he fired. And Alexander clutched himself at the stomach.  And he tried to walk forward.  As though he wanted to say something. And Burr stood there, grinning. Finally got him to see Dr. Fox. And he said Harry was fine, heart perfect, everything. But Aaron Burr did not leave my husband to sweeter or more peaceful dreams. Harry said nothing about it for several mornings. But I could tell he was still being tortured by these ghosts. He brooded over his breakfast. He didn't answer me when I spoke to him. What was that? Only my butter knife, dear. Oh. Harry, are you still dreaming about that man? I wish I hadn't told you about it. Forget it, will you? I can't forget it with you going on this way. Can't you forget? I mentioned it. What does he do now? He goes around bragging. Bragging that he did it with his eyes closed. He says he didn't even look. Didn't look when? When he killed Alexander in the duel. Well, what does... He claims that he can hit the ace of spade at 30 paces, blindfolded. Furthermore, since you asked what he does now, he jostles me at parties now. I think you should stay out of this, Harry. It wasn't any business of yours anywhere, and it happened so long ago. I'm not getting into anything. It's getting into me. Can't you see that? I see that we've got to get you away from here. Maybe if you slept someplace else for a few nights, you wouldn't dream about him anymore. I don't know. Oh, let's go to the country tomorrow. We'll stay at Lime Rock Lord. Bess, why can't we visit the Crowley's? They live in the country. All right, fine. Bob has a pistol. We could do a little target shooting. What do you want a pistol for? Plenty of open space. I'd think you'd want to get away from shooting. Yes. Yes, sure, dear, sure. Sure. The vacation seemed a success at first. When we arrived at the Crowley's house in the cab, I thought I'd left my suitcase at the railroad station. Harry laughed his old normal laugh for the first time in many days as he found the bag and handed it to me. And then he leaned over and kissed me. Good old Connecticut. Oh, Harry, this is wonderful. We'll have a grand time. Yes, sir. Here they come. Oh, good old Bob. You might be telling that rabbit joke. Hello, Madison. I'll take you back, Miss Anderson. Oh, thanks, Madison. Good to see you. Thank you, sir. Hello, there. Well, Bob, how's the old country squad? Fine, fine. How've you been? Never better, boys. Good to be here. Hello, Alice. Well, you too. I'm glad you've come. It gets kind of dull out here in the hinterlands. Well, Harry and I'll fix that. Wait until you get one of our extra special cold martinis in there. You'll feel ship-shaped there. You still know how to mix them, huh? Better than ever. Get lots of practice these long country wins. Seeing Harry's face relaxed and smiling over his cocktail glass, when I went to bed that night, I felt that at last that nasty old business of the dream was over, and I was happy. But when I awoke the next morning, when I awoke, I saw my husband lying rigid on his back staring at the ceiling. One Henry Andrews architect. What's the matter, dear? Nothing.  It's only eight o'clock, and this is the country. One Henry Andrews an architect. What are you talking about? That's what he calls me. Calls you? Who? One Henry Andrews an architect. He keeps saying it in his nasty, sneering little voice. One Henry Andrews! Harry, Harry! Please don't yell. It'll wake the whole house. It's early. People want to sleep. I'm beneath him. I'm just nobody. I'm a man in a gray suit. Be on your good behavior, my good man. He says I shall have one of my lackeys give you a taste of the riding crop. Why should he say that to you? You ask me why? He wasn't such a great man, was he? I mean, didn't he try to sell Louisiana to the French or something behind Washington's back? He was a traitor. Then why worry what he says? He was a scoundrel, but he had a very brilliant mind. I was in hopes that he weren't going to dream about him anymore. I thought if we came up here that... It's him or me. I can't stand this forever. Neither can I. As I had expected, Harry spent most of the afternoon with Bob shooting at targets. At first they just aimed at the paper squares. It all seemed to be good natured and in fun. After a while, Harry stood with his back to the dead tree trunk on which the targets were nailed. Then he walked 30 paces ahead in a stiff-legged manner and his face was set in stern lines. His revolver was at arm's length above his head and he turned suddenly and fired. Bob dropped to the ground, scared. What's the big idea, Harry? But Harry didn't answer. He started to walk back to that dead tree trunk again. Oh, I get it. Then with his back to the target, he began marking off the 30 paces. Bob called to him. I think they kept their arms hanging straight down. I don't think they stuck them up in the air. But my husband continued to count off. At the 30th step, he lowered his arm, wheeled about suddenly and fired from his hip. Hey, what are you doing? Two of the shots missed the target the last while. Hey! Watch out! Like a mechanical man or someone in a trance, Harry began to walk back to the tree again without a word.  Ah, it's my turn, Bob! But Harry about-faced and stalked on. This time when he fired, his eyes were closed. Poor Bob didn't know what to make of this strange behavior. Good heavens, man. Give me that gun, will you? Without a protest, Harry let him take it. For the first time, he spoke. I need a lot more practice, I guess. Well, not with me standing around. Come on, let's get back to the house and shake up a drink. I got the jumps. I need a lot more practice. I guess I must have slept soundly that night because I didn't hear him leave the room. He must have crawled out of bed, dressed silently and crept out of the room. The sun was just coming up and the light was hard and the air was cold. Then I heard the shots. Come on, a dressing down and round downstairs. The crowded were in the hall. Harry, all right? He sounds like it. Where is he? What's he doing? Well, it sounds as though he's out behind the studio shooting. Oh, Alan. Oh, take it easy, Beth. Bob will go out and get him. Well, maybe he had a nightmare or walked in his sleep. No, he never walks in his sleep. He's awake, all right. Well, let's go down and get some coffee. He'll need some. Oh, I need some, too. What the dickens the matter with him anyway? Oh, I don't know. I'm so sorry.  Is your service mad up alive or dead? Bob, stop it. Well, okay, I'll do my best. Harry, what's the matter with you? What?   I'll get him one of these nights. What do you... I'll get him one of these nights. By this time, I was really frightened. When we returned to the city, Harry was the picture of gloom, our first night back. I looked at him as he lay on the shade lounge in my bedroom in his blue dressing gown, smoking a cigarette. He was haggard and tired, and he kept biting his lower lip. I mixed the scotch and water nightcap for him. No, no, no, no, thanks. No liquor. I need a steady hand. Look, watch my hand. Does it tremble? Is it steady? Yes, very. That's good. That's very good. You need a steady hand, you know. For what, dear? Oh, things, things. Harry, will you sleep in my room tonight? No. You'll keep shaking me all night to keep me awake. You're afraid to let me meet him. Are you still on that? Why do you think everybody's better than I am? I can out-shoot him the best day he ever had. Of course, dear. In the waistcoat, right next to the middle button. He has three big pearl buttons on his waistcoat. Came from France. Why don't you dream about it somebody else? Anybody else, please. You'd like that, wouldn't you? You'd like to have me dream about somebody who wouldn't hurt a fly. Somebody like that because you knew I'd never get in the duel with him. A duel? You're dreaming of a duel now?  It's nearly over now. Harry. It's him or me. I'll get him, Burrata. But, Harry. I know I'll get him. I have a modern pistol. He has to use an old-fashioned single-shot muzzleloader. Is that quite fair? Fair? What do I care whether it's fair or not? Was it fair the way he shot Alexander? Was it?  I'm sorry, darling. I'm very unhappy. I'm sorry, darling. And I'm worried sick. Oh, I'm sorry, darling. Don't cry. Please don't cry.  And you mustn't be upset. I mustn't be upset. I mustn't be upset. I must be very calm and rested. My hand must be steady tonight, especially tonight. I'm so worried, Harry. Oh, don't worry about me. I'll be all right. I'll be fine. My hand is like a rock. Later, when I kissed him good night, I knew it was really goodbye. He didn't say anything and neither did I. It's just that he seemed so far away in another world. And each moment, I felt that he was becoming more and more remote. Something told me he wasn't coming back. I couldn't sleep. After an hour of tossing and turning, I went to Harry's room. He was sleeping peacefully. I sat down in his chair and watched over him for a long while. Then finally, I must have fallen asleep. A beautiful morning. It was about five in the morning when I awoke. Harry was talking in his sleep. Yes. Doctor? Could have you come, doctor? Yes. Often misty at this hour. Harry? Are they loaded? Splendid. Yes, I'm perfectly ready. Is... Is Mr. Burr? He is. Good. Shall we proceed? No. No. I do not care to make any statement. Wake up. Very well. Harry? I understand it perfectly. Ten paces. Turn and fire at the dropping of the handkerchief. Yes. Ten paces. Harry? Harry? Thank you for acting as my second, Mr. J. It's, of course, extremely good of you. Very well. I'm quite ready. One, two, three, four... Harry! Harry, please! Five, seven, eight, nine, ten. Harry, dear, Dr. Fox was puzzled when he examined Harry. It was extraordinary. His heart was as sound as a dollar when I saw him the other day. It seemed to be fine, Dr. Fox. I can't understand it. Hot. Well, his heart stopped as if he'd been shot. Shot? Yes, of course, with no gunshot. Yes, then, Roger. Shot? Oh, no, you'll have to calm yourself. You can't help him now. I should have known it would happen. I kept staring at Harry's right hand. The three fingers next to the index finger were closed stiffly on the palm as if gripping the handle of a pistol. The taut thumb was doing its part to hold that invisible handle tightly and unwaveringly. But it was the index finger which held my eye the longest. I looked carefully to make sure that I was right. Yes. Yes, it was so. That index finger was curved inward slightly as if it were about to press the trigger of a pistol. So there had been a duel after all. Perhaps there was no gunshot wound, but Harry had been shot as surely as he was dead. Dr. Fox saw me staring and spoke to me. What are you looking at, Mrs. Andrews? Harry never even fired a shot. Aaron Burr killed him the way he killed Hamilton. What are you talking about? 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Here we are on our way to the farmer's market. This lens right here, I love it. Hey guys so it's June 7th and it is our second day here in the Grand Cayman. Today is actually me and Ryan's four and a half year anniversary. So this morning I actually brought my camera to the beach to vlog but I couldn't because my SD card was in my laptop from last night. This morning I slept in and we headed out to the beach a little later because it was kind of rainy and we actually thought we weren't going to be able to go to the beach today because we thought it was going to rain. But it turned out to be a really nice day so we went to the beach later and me and Ryan had our chips and salt so that we got at Coste West yesterday which was nice. It was like the perfect beach snack and this morning I actually had a PB&J for lunch. That's the jelly and I feel like that was really smart of us to get food there because then we could just snack on that and like have a really nice dinner and not like splurge every single meal of the day if that makes sense. But right now I'm just going to do my makeup and maybe watch some youtube videos. I had a watch on down there that's what it looked like before. This is actually my color before it looks in. Oh my god now I can see it in my face here. It's two days or one and a half days of being outside and I got my Ritz Carlton slippers finally. They don't say Ritz but they're good enough I guess. I did steal a bunch of Ritz Carlton pens and I'm going to keep those right with them at school so I look bougie. Now we wait for five hours while she does her makeup. Damn. Watch these youtube videos. Is that Aspen? Who's that? No that's Sierra. So at the beach we pick resort Viagas and they have like water bikes. They have snorkels. They look like a sailboat you can get off for free apparently. Look at this rooster. No don't actually I don't want you to know. Can you talk to me? My head is used actually. I'm kind of scared. There's a rooster out there. Did you see it? Yeah she doesn't snap out of it.  Today I'm using my L'Oreal and Valuable Matte. It's a little bit darker for my tan. All right guys so I'm done with my makeup and our ride gets here at 4.20 and it is 3.36 so I have some time to spare which is nice because I hate being rushed. We are on our way to the farmers market and we're just going to check it out and then eat dinner. My bougie house boyfriend over there. Pretty nice shuttle and it goes to the farmers market for free. I brought my good camera with this lens right here. I love it and I feel like I never use this anymore so I'm excited to finally use it. Sweet chili but apparently it's like their own secret ingredient with like barbecue and stuff. They said I can't get it anywhere else. I'm really sad. Everyone's all good for now? Yep. Get your special sauce in there. This bird like won't move. I love it she's like stuck here. You should take it into the ritz. Foster it. I feel like shit's off. Do you want to pet her mom? Shit bro. Killing over there.


I'm gonna watch out for Richter pulling you into Murdoch traps because that will stun you. Oh, they stun on this one? If you get CC'd, if you get displaced into a Murdoch trap, it stuns. So if you set down a Murdoch trap and then you blast somebody into it with your knockback, it'll stun them. All right, so what do you get on Murdoch? Probably King?   It's all right. I'll figure it out. It's fine. It's fine. Should I get a static trap first? I guess so. It'll help with some sort of defense. We're gonna go to left lane. Oh, I didn't buy. Wait. Shit. Let me just go back. Mud! There's so many steps. You. Sorry, Evan's recording something, so I'm trying to be quiet. Oh, okay. I could just close the door to be honest with you. Are we not leashing? They're on red side. Oh, I see. Okay. Last time I was on the other side of the map, so I forgot it's mirrored. I thought it was. Although last game, did they not run 2-2-1-1 on this? Because it was really odd that the enemy duo, we were not facing the enemy duo. We faced the off-lane Richter. Oh, really? Well, then they probably just went to the wrong side. Well, I always think people think that like it's Paragon, so you have to be 2-1-1. And I was like, that's not how this game works. That's not how any of this works. No. No, no, no. All right, I have to farm. I'm so used to not having to farm. I do like the brackets on the stuff, so I know what I'm shooting. That's nice too. It's a nice touch. Oh, I missed that one. All right, what are you doing over there? Do I need to help you? If you want. Okay, just watch out for their ADC. I just don't want him to come back in and pull me. Oh, it looks like he's rotating. No. I don't know what we're doing down here. I don't. I guess you guys are having a dance off. Let me know how it goes. I'm de-warding him right now. Oh, he got my rad pulls before I could de-ward. I'm gonna have to thunk him before I can. That's fine. He can pull through minions, right? It's not like just first. He can pull over the minions. Okay, okay. That's fine. He's looking for pulls. I'm just being wary.  Get out of here. I don't think I'm farming the best, but I'm just trying not to die to our vector. Yeah, that's fine. Oh my god, that one was close. I'm just doing that to activate my thingy. Okay, let's try to push this up a little bit. They're getting gold buff right now. Oh, should we stop them? They already got it. Okay. Sorry, I don't know, um, like rotations or whatever. Okay, so how does the stun work again? Uh, if... For the trap? Yeah. If there's cc'd into it in any way, they get stunned. My has been slain. No, we're leaving. We're leaving. Oh, that's a knockback. Okay. What is that giant AoE? Oh, that's her thingy. Okay. Okay. That's her drone. All right, I got it back. Okay, I'll farm. Oh, it's not going to happen, Richter. Get out of here. He's going to make it his mission to pull me. What I don't like right now is the terrain in front of this tower is like dipped so like I can't see the minions. Like it's like they're I get confused at what I'm seeing. But that might just be me. It might be a me thing. I don't even know if this item is that I do, but it's an active. So that's interesting, I think. Oh, no, it's not an active. Why is there a four on it then? An enemy has been slain. Oh, he got one. Get out of here. Here we go. They're the minions. I thought I dodged that appropriately. That's all good. I got a thunk on their Murdoch, so they weren't able to deal any damage off of it.  Christ. Oh, hang on. It's going to be a while before I can start out. I have another health potion. It's good. Huh, it's a lot different facing a duo with Richter than just. Oh, God, we need to go help our bear. OK, an enemy has been slain. I can't reach him. Oh, I can reach him now. OK. Do you like that the reticle goes green now for Narvash Slings? Does it? Yeah, it turns green when you can hit them. Like, I don't know if it's arranged. He's given you the gold buff. Oh, is he? Oh, I'm sorry. Now he's not. Oh, OK. I didn't. I didn't know. I know they just added those in. I saw I was actually confused at what they were. I haven't looked it up. But if it's a gold buff, good to know. Let's see, my CS compared to the other guy is pretty on par. OK, not bad. All right, I'm just going to let him push. I want to go back first. I was going to say, you want to go back and spin? Yeah. So you know the passive points that you gain for your attributes that you picked? Is there a way to level them up without going into the menu? There is. I don't know what it is. OK. That's what I thought. I just wanted to know if there was, because it was just annoying. All right, we're going to buy this. All right, I'm coming back. Oh, I thought I turned off the item shop thing that picks up.  I just don't want it on my screen. But yeah, I know this game runs and doesn't dip below like 120. I have it set to 120, so it doesn't really go. It will sometimes go to 119 for FPS, but like it runs so smooth now. It's like night and day for me. Before, I could barely keep it at like 80. And it would dip to 60. Nonstop. I don't know what they did, server side or programming, but it was nice. Jesus Christ. Oh, I'm so sorry. It's all good. I was like, we must kill the goose. I stepped in front of you just in case he did. I did that for my support, too. But they never hit me. They were just bad. Are they going for mid now? Enemy tower destroyed. OK. All right, OK. Got the tower, though. Are you think they're? No, we have a word there. Never mind.  An ally has been slain. As I miss, it's fine. OK, so gold buff, jungler will generally give to me. They do sometimes, I wouldn't say generally. Oh, OK. Can I take it, though? Yeah, take it. It's your buff. Oh, OK. He's coming. I'm not going up there. That's not happening. Oh, no, I didn't realize.  I thought he was.  Oh my gosh, I know.  At least I know I can hit those when they're stunned. Oh, what is our boar is doing? Oh my god. Oh my god, boars. An ally has been slain. Oh my gosh, what is he doing? Oh, I want that, though. I'm so sorry, teddy bear. I mean, he knew what he was doing. I know. Did he get the kill at least, or did he not? Yeah, he got one kill. He got who he wanted. At least it's a win for him, I'll take it. Long as he's living his best life, we're good. Yeah, all right. How many traps can I have?  Is it three, maybe? I think so, I don't know. I think so.   Huh? I'm not the trap police. You could be, though. I could be. Yeah. Oh, there he is. Go, go, go, go, go. We're going to go this way. You know, it's such a tell when he looks for pulls, though. I know. That I just run in one direction, and then wait for the animation, just run the other way. It's great.   It's fine. We're even-ish. He's a little hood. As soon as he misses another pull, we're going in. OK. Oh, no. They got everybody here. Oh, no. Everybody's dead. Here we go.  Yeah, he pulled me. Kalari can stun. She's a countess. Oh, I'm sorry. Kalari's in the game, though, right? I'm not, like, delusional. An enemy has been slayed. What I'm really sad about, I played the whole game as Narbash, carried that guy to victory, and I never used my ult once. Such a fun ult. So has the new patch made you want to play fault all the time? Not all the time, but I do want to play it more because it's actually fun. Yeah. It's really just a matter of the game structure that was killing me. Oh, I don't know why that skin reminds me of Kalari, to be honest with you. Such a weird. All right, I got it back. OK, that's fine. I guess there's no way to enter all. I thought I've said hi to people. Maybe it is Fred. Don't hang on. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. An enemy has been slayed. Can't blame the Richter. I was there for the dev stream for when Richter was released. I know how hard those pulls are. They're getting my gold, I think. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he got the gold. He's got a little thingy next to him. That means he's got the gold. Waiting. These guys are high level. Like, they're doing a really good job of rewarding me. Oh, no. Oh, god. I've got to get mana muzzle as soon as I can. Oh, yeah, it's fine. Oh, no, hold me. An enemy has been slayed. An enemy has been slayed. Oh, thank you. I didn't hit the kill, but I don't care. Oh, that was intense. That was pretty intense. But the thing is, it ran smoothly through the whole thing. I never usually be able to see team fights. I'm really happy with this patch for this game. Yeah. My community is very for cred, though. So I don't think they would love it if I played more. I don't know why it has to be a choice.  But after we get out of here. Enemy tower destroyed. I have zero manas. I have zero manabana. I have manas, just like I'm an AD carry. What were you saying? I don't know why there has to be a choice. I feel like I'm going to turn you up, I'm so sorry. Well, the back sound is super loud. Oh, yeah, I know. All right, go ahead. I'm not going to move. I don't know why there has to be a choice. You know what I mean? Yeah, no, I understand. Honestly, at this point, I think I'm waiting for a third person MOBA. And I don't think I'm going to ever classify. I don't really want to classify these as paragon remakes anymore, because it just hits them against each other. They're just third person MOBAs that use paragon assets, for me, in my head, anyway, regardless of the community. Obviously, I don't think that way. You try and say some stuff like that, yeah. And people just don't understand what you're saying. So I just always say parazombie or what have you. Even when I was streaming this on, like, the enemy has been slayed. Theta or whatever.  Mid needs help, it looks like. Are they pushing mid? What are they doing?  And it doesn't even feel like paragon or look like paragon. I was like, it's not false. The one that doesn't want to be a carbon copy. So it's like, if you understand that, I mean, the enemy has been slain. Oh, I can't aim. Got it. It has to go where it goes. OK. Who? Oh, more guys just here somewhere. I went whoop. Who was whooping going on? Sorry, the minion ran at me. I had to shoot it. But yeah, I don't I don't think it needs to be a competition at this point. Like they're doing their own thing.  I didn't put that trap in the right spot.  I mean, and I know that their their stuff's moving quite along nicely with the funding and everything. Oh, we're getting fricking fricking off. Hang on. And Ally has been slain. How close is it? Pretty close, close enough that I had to do that. I could see him come up on the map and he was like kind of getting closer. Yeah, he was right up on your butthole. I know. I was like really scared about it. It's like that is not for things, sir.  That's good. It's he can do it then carry me, please. Yeah, that's the way I played this game. Oh, God, he is engaging. Well, yeah, if I'm not, if I'm in a role that I'm not comfortable with. An enemy has been slain. And Ally has been slain. All right, hit him both. Ally has been slain. Oh, no, they're almost dead, though. Oh, I'm so sorry. They're so all three of them. An enemy has been slain. He's under attack. An enemy has been slain. I just got a message. Someone's like, oh, you're playing against Bridek. He must be streaming. I was like, yes, you see, not fun. Oh, wow, I have a golden blue buff right now. How did that happen? Well, you see. Yeah, yeah. I know, but still, that's did not expect that offensive. Oh, movement speed would be good to probably next, though. I don't have any for it now. Oh, I lost my when do you lose jumps 20 or is it when you lose a T2? It's at 20 minutes. OK. Oh, I've got enough for Man of Muzzle.  Here comes Man of Muzzle. OK, well, my lane's pushed, but gold is up. So I might try to go sneak it if they don't see me. The definition of sneaking, yes. Oh, go this way. Jungle is confusing sometimes. Oh, no, he saw me.  How did that happen? It was weird. Just scary way. Yeah. That was scary. An enemy has been slayed. There's a Richter there. They're at the gold. I wanted to walk up to the gold, but he came through the wall. I was like, oh, they might have awarded. So I'm just really I get super confused with what minion I'm hitting sometimes because it's very reactive. But I just watch all the health bars pop up and I'm like, oh, wait, which one? I'm going to try and help them right. I don't think I'll make it in time, but that's fine. I pushed this. So it should be fine. Raptors are up. I guess it doesn't matter. I'm coming. I'm going to try to get there. An enemy has been slayed. I'm watching. Hopefully I hit somebody. An enemy has been slayed. Double kill. An enemy has been slayed. Hopefully that was a big ult, I hope. We need to push this right while we can. OK, I'm coming. Oh, sorry. That did seem like a big ult. OK, good. An enemy has been slayed. Nice, nice. I just saw that there were clumps and I was like, hopefully I can just hit the cluster of people and I don't like field gold them. I think it worked out. I think it worked out. I'm just going to concentrate on getting this hit hit down. An ally has been slayed. I'm OK with that. An ally has been slayed. Double kill. An ally has been slayed. You know what it is? My audio is like the hero basic attacks. I wish there was more audio settings because everything is just now because the guy's like everything has been slain and like super loud. Are you actually recording? I am. I'm always recording, bud. Oh, OK, what's the rating on your channel? Oh, come on.  True. Oh, gosh. I still remember when you guys interviewed Nox, this is voice actress. Oh, God. Yeah, that was so funny.  Oh, she's so sweet. Sarah Dunham. I just love that she she was like, oh, I'm so sorry. And then you were good. And then she was like, all right, I can be my normal self. She just let the bombs fly after that. Well, I mean, it's a whole different culture there. But at that point, it's like saying hi to your best friend Yeah, no, right.  Sure, I don't think we've gotten one yet. Don't they only have one? Yeah, we should get these more. Oh, I don't want to be hit. There we go. I should probably read with this buckshot those. I have no idea. Is it a me buff or like a or like a I think it's a debuff for them. It's a well, it's a team buff for us.  Oh, I don't know.  I'm just trying to base it off of OK. That lane's pushing. It should be. It should be fine. It's slow pushing our word. They are there they are. Oh, God, Boris is going in. Of course, he is a teddy bear of love. An enemy has been slain. An enemy has been slain. God or an enemy. Has been slain. I'm waiting for the color to come in here. Or count it. Sorry. I'm sorry. You're going to be crazy. I just OK. It's the way that she runs. It just reminds me of a sculking. Are you all right? Just the way she moves. Enemy tower destroyed.  OK, what does that do? It's a silence. OK, OK. Hence the name man a muzzle. Muzzle got it. You get it? An enemy has been slain. I don't think I have a single kill, but I am the greatest support. She is muzzled. An enemy has been slain. I'm just going to give you the thing. Oh, we don't have any minions. Oh, now we do. OK. I think we should back off. Oh, we're all here. OK. I thought you guys went a different way. Oh, no. An ally has been slain. Oh, no. Oh, no. I will leave. I'll leave. It's fine. I saw that. I saw it on the corner of my screen. It was a scary thing. I don't have any man a man a banana. That's fine. I have money. We got the man a man a man a man. Did they heal in this game? Yeah, they do. They respawned. OK, they respawned. Oh, it's that like basic version right now. Sure. Take my word for it. What you said. It's it's like it responds.  And then after a while, it's like a basic version. Yeah, it'll come back, though, fully eventually. Oh, like with the turret and everything. Yeah. Oh, with Tourette's syndrome. I don't know. I don't think it did that last time I played. Or the enemy team just didn't stay alive long enough to where it did. Staying alive. Staying alive. They're not they're not doing it. You're just going to leave me hanging like that. You're not going to sing Staying Alive with me. Thank you. By the way, that is definitely going on YouTube. Oh, perfect. I would be louder, but I can't be loud. Damn, the copyright strikes. Oh, no. Well, there was a break in between, so we should be good. Using it to your advantage. You know what I discovered from watching a lot of my replays and stuff. I whisper what I'm typing to myself as I type. I just did it, too. He said, be right back. You, Mantle, I said, don't call me a Mantle. And I whispered it to me. Don't call me a Mantle. I didn't hear it on my way. Are they going for prime? Maybe they're a little. Oh, that's kind of like has been slayed. Double enemy has been slayed. Jesus Christ. What happened? I'm the support Murdoch. Power play. It was a power play.  Oh, that's fully OK. But is it is it the full one or is it a little one or, you know, I don't know. It looks like it's a full in head to me from the mini map, but mini map wise. He's beating me in CS, but, you know, I'm the support Murdoch. You're beating him in player in a team skill.   Oh, God. Oh, no. I just I get so concerned for them. An enemy has been slayed. The enemy has been slayed. An enemy has been slayed. It's fine. I don't need kills. Support Murdoch for the win. And then go.


Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything one piece. And today we have a review of chapter 969, Fool of the Lord. And this week we have a very, very strange addition to the Odin flashback, in which our plucky young hero has turned into the titular Fool of the Lord, for reasons mostly unknown. And therein lies a pretty effective description of the chapter as a whole, because Odin has elected to, for whatever reason, strategically keep the motivation behind the bulk of this chapter, and I'm honestly not quite sure how to feel about this initially, because Odin goes from hell bent on destroying Orochi to willing court jester with no transitionary period. Now we are left with a fair bit for us to infer as to why Odin became so cooperative with Orochi. For example, he probably threatened citizens of the capital and even demonstrated his power with the whole poison arrow business. But there was also a part later on in the chapter where Odin references some ships with Kaido, so we are led to believe that Odin did make some sort of deal with Orochi, and then five years later he found himself in a position where Orochi had altered the deal. And as for the basic explanation of why, look I don't particularly care what the conditions were, but looking at the chapter in an individual context, I think that not knowing produces a really weird narrative flow, where we as an audience are suddenly being kept at arm's length from Odin after spending time following his perspective and thoughts, and in fact in the last few chapters he's even acted as the narrator. But as a result we are now viewing him very much as an outsider, and it feels to me like this chapter was intended to be far more powerful of a statement than may have come across as a result. At least to me. So for example, there's a pretty phenomenal idea to work with here.  And what's more, the fact that he is seemingly willingly inflicting all of this upon himself. That is a great idea in terms of the whole swallowing pride business and doing what a true leader would need to do for the sake of the country. But that effect is significantly dulled because we don't understand the specifics of why he is doing this. Odin is a character that I love. Over the course of a handful of chapters, he has been portrayed as one of the most intriguing figures in the entirety of the series, and we've gone on this incredible eye-opening journey with him. So when this man completely abandons all sense of his established self and swallows his pride, I want to be in on that, because I want to experience it with Odin to make his half a decade of humiliation hit that much harder with me. Because as it is, what I'm kind of left with after reading this chapter is primarily a bit of confusion, and instead of thinking about the emotional effect that these events are having on Odin, I spent pretty much the entire chapter more or less questioning why is he doing this in a wide variety of ways. So for example, at first I was convinced that this was not Odin and it was the old hag, whose name is Higurashi by the way, but you know, using the money money no me to impersonate him. However, Odin does very quickly dispel that idea by including her in a panel beside Orochi. But the very fact that I thought that proves how out of character this is for Odin to be acting in this way, for five years straight no less, and I'm really hoping that keeping this reasoning a secret pays off in a big way, because I think it goes on to hinder almost every other aspect of the chapter. And another example of that would be later on during the fifth year, where Orochi visits Kuri and betrays Odin. That betrayal can be seen on the page, it's very clear in Odin's face, through his shock and his tears, that Orochi has committed an action of the highest degree of dickery. And some of that does also have to do with the Hyogora situation, but once again that betrayal does not hit me anywhere near as hard as I feel like it should, because at this stage we have been so disconnected from Odin, so it doesn't land there and it's obviously something we've come to expect from Orochi, so there's no surprise that he was a dick again. And so what we're left with is this inevitable feeling of dude I have no idea why you were doing this for five years, but this was clearly the obvious outcome. Whereas if we had the context of Orochi saying something along the lines of Hill's slaughter, thousands of Wano civilians in an instant, if Odin speaks out of turn or if he made some sort of deal with him to open the ports of Wano, then at the very least we'd be able to strongly empathize with Odin, because there are some real stakes in play. But as it is, it just, it's a bit of a lessened experience for me. With that said, that's very much in the context of looking at this chapter as an individual experience, which these reviews are based on, so there is that. In volume format, with greater context, this may not be an issue, but I personally found it quite jarring and weird. Anyway onto more interesting stuff, right at the beginning of the chapter we had something else that was very, very unexpected, which was a surprise guest appearance from the Bari Bari Nomii, owned by a man named Semimaru, who we also know immediately is not making it out of this flashback in a good way, because eventually Bartolomeo has to end up with this ability. I do love that Odin chose to bring back another known devil fruit ability though, especially one that is so closely tied to the straw hats. Because seeing the Manamanonomi and the Bari Bari Nomii being used so directly for antagonistic purposes is a very nice twist on how we would normally associate their powers within the series. It's kind of like going into a flashback and seeing a character like, I don't know, Rock Steezerbeck wielding Luffy's Gomu Gomu Nomii. There's something at once familiar, but just plain wrong about what you're seeing. And I know that I personally went oh shit when it became clear that this was the Bari Bari Nomii, because currently this thing is still entirely unbeatable within the one piece world. Although I am very much in the camp that it's not impossible to break the barrier, but at this stage you know this thing has been shown to tank a king punch, so I really don't like Odin's chances. Although maybe we'll get to see just how these barriers can be broken coming up, but I do think it's more likely that you would just need to take the user by surprise. In any case, it's a nice little addition to the flashback here. Another one of my favorite parts of the chapter was the tiny panel featuring a young Gekko Moria and Kaido. And whoa, how cool does Gekko Moria look? He seems like he was a true force to be reckoned with in his rookie days, almost evoking that used as kid level of sinister youthful menace. And I don't know if this is just the perspective because, well Moria is a big lad, but Kaido looks a lot smaller here in terms of pure bulk at this stage in his life. Which from that panel alone does give you the impression that these two could have been equals, I mean maybe, although obviously not with how things turned out, but I also really like that right behind Kaido you can see the silhouette of king which is a great teeny tiny detail. And this also goes a long way in fact all of the way to explaining how Moria acquired the corpse of Rima, because as it turns out he just all out invaded Wano with his crew which is such an awesome move from one of my least favorite characters in the series. This is the Moria I want to see more of, the man before he became a broken shell. And another thing I need to mention is when Odin found out the news of Roger's execution, which came courtesy of a newspaper from Orochi which was an oddly nice thing for the Shogun to do. Although maybe Orochi knew about Odin's association with Roger which you know isn't inconceivable because of Orochi's relationship to Kaido and the knowledge he would have of the outside world, but I'm actually thinking that Orochi may have seen this and given it to Odin with the intention of torturing him. Sort of like, haha your friend is dead, although it very much had the opposite effect. What I really like is that Odin has the Ray Lee reaction though, which was described as this kind of profound fit of both laughter and crying. Which I assume is how just about all of the former Roger Pirates would have taken this news. I mean maybe not shanks, he did seem pretty firmly depressed in that one panel we've seen of him reacting to Roger's execution. But speaking of execution, the final two pages of this chapter has begun a series of events that I'm not quite sure I'm ready for. And before we get into that I have to say that these two pages were easily my favourite of the week, with the group shot of the scouts from behind as well as the individual close-ups of their faces. In regards to that it's probably important to note that Dendro is back in action, still looking in awe for Lot like Koshiro, who if you don't remember was Oro sensei in East Blue. However at this point I think that idea is thoroughly debunked because Koshiro was confirmed to be in East Blue at the time that Roger was executed. So despite many many people pointing out the incredibly similar appearance, I think that this is an idea that we can finally let go of. I mean to be fair it is still technically possible but it requires such a huge stretch of thinking, such as Koshiro making a return trip into the new world just around this time but that sounds really clunky and weird. But this is very much it. These last two pages signify that we are well and truly in the business end of this flashback and that it will end with Odin's execution. So this is where the true tragedy that all one piece flashbacks are so great at portraying begins. I do however find it interesting that we've come this far into the flashback without exploring Toki too much, but then again after Odin meets his inevitable fate maybe exploring her story will make up the tail end of it. Or perhaps down the line she'll even get her own dedicated flashback. All I'll say right now is if we do not learn anything more about Toki's abilities and the fact that she very very likely lived during the Void Century then this woman surely has some connection to modern day that needs to be explored separately. Which I've spoken about to death in an entire video recently so I won't harp on about it here. And there were some other miscellaneous things in the chapter like the fact that young Shinobu seems to have overheard the conversation between Orochi and Odin so that might be the key to Odin's dramatic reveal of the deal that they made like say we're back in modern day and Shinobu tearfully reveals why Odin acted like a fool to all of the citizens of Wano to convert public opinion in their favor and turn the tide of battle something like that. But overall this chapter… look it was alright. It definitely wasn't bad by any means but like I stated at great length I really don't like that after becoming so well acquainted with Odin that we were suddenly pushed into viewing his story from a more outsider perspective. I wanted to be able to experience every high and every low of this man's story and to be frank that just didn't happen here. Not understanding his motivation very much hindered the impact of him willingly turning into a public disgrace as well as Orochi's betrayal at the end and you know what I think it even impacts the epic march of the scabbards. Because if we still retained that connection to Odin then I'm certain that we as readers would be furious with this situation and cheering on these ten figures with every ounce of our being. As it is though I guess that effect is still kind of there but once again significantly lessened. And in all fairness this chapter also suffers from what I would call post roger blues. Because after a string of chapters featuring insane content like literally finding the one piece the first Wano centric chapter was always going to feel like a bit lacking in comparison. But it was still good solid build up to an incredibly tragic event and just wanted that tiny bit more. And that pretty much does it for chapter 969. 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