We're gonna see a big one here folks welcome back Bell Time Club Fenway Park Dante Luna presents This is the lucky pro wrestling championship. If this is what you've been waiting for all day. I know I have goddamn it Let's get this show on the road. I will buy that for a dollar. I gotta tell you I'm psyched for this one JC Can't wait for it buy that for a dollar. I'm getting all kinds of slang throwing at me today. I Bet you that's not all he's had thrown out of his cams a gami sends the jacket into the crowd I don't know if they want it. Well the challenger's got a tough road. I'll tell you that but here Put your hands together you are supposed to be a professional They certainly they certainly do love the selfie made man Champion he's got the gold. He's got it for a reason and here we go This is gonna be a barn burner even though we're outside. Here we go. They are pumped and ready for it folks Picture perfect Represent what we want He's taking the time he's psyching them out. This may seem like wasted energy, but it's not He's just getting the fans into it getting into cams a gami's head and I tell you it will work That's why he's the longest raining Well, that's part of the makings of a champion right there the psychology of professional wrestling and psyching out your opponent Absolutely, I've got a wonder though cams a gami being the veteran.  Especially in a champion. I don't know but I gotta say one thing I heard a rumor that burned by Kalos virus sing to him when he wakes up in the morning I mean he just makes the place. Did you hear that rumor? I Cannot name my source Or confirm it But here we go. This is what it's for ref holding it up the gold For all the gold. There's the strap and there's the bell folks. We are in the way And look at him wasting a little bit of time the gami burn just sizing him up Colo not the only one playing mind games today. Oh, it was certainly not Oh, what are they gonna have a show of sportsmanship? I don't know burn. Don't fall for it You might be getting sucked in somewhat unexpected here. I gotta tell you that I knew it But he catches him quick on his feet Oh and look at this turn about his bare play took the words right out of my mouth There we go. Call a headlock tie up Right in the middle of the ring This is what you want to see two gladiators doing feel the battle starting out slow Send some careening off the ropes and bear with the shoulder block beautiful the champion starts out right off the ropes The gami goes down leap frog shoulder block Yeah, I don't know what he's cheering about. That's not much Fantastic drop kick there by the colors The champ now looking great here Oh, he's going back for sure. What is this now? We've got a stop. I mean always important You've got to mark the history in Fenway Park. Are we gonna see is he going for up? There it is for a selfie. There's the selfie the selfie made man. It's just class This is 2017 and cams a gami does not like that one single Like him you wouldn't either. I actually do have a schnauz like a man beside the point. Here we go Back in hard very hard burn size in a mop I Don't know what to call it like reverse Russia place. We want to pick out not enough pick out You know sometimes even I don't know what to call the moves. Well, I'd say whatever it was It was definitely not enough to put cams a gami away and here comes Bernie's going up the champion up top What is he going for? Having a little talk with the ref it up to the roof now. Wait a minute referee now push aside by the commie Apologize it now apparently that was an accident see it. I'll approve it. Here we go for the cover one two lateral press You got a wonder now. So gami's head is still in the game now. He looks to be somewhat possessed at the moment now nice neckbreaker really torquing on a kip up kip up Unbelievable. I mean I got to give props to that that is quite some athletic. He's definitely proud of himself That is for sure. Yeah, you know, it's tough to be in there with somebody a little more Self-indosive than the selfie made man, but I think he's found his match Selfie made man now on the receiving end of some vicious strikes here by cams a gami. So gami sends him into the corner lands hard No boot to the face. He was mated with Off the top off the middle rope. Excuse me cross-body press. Let's see Both men up to their feet now and a clothesline vicious clothes on nice back elbow Gami's checking the moneymaker over there making sure he didn't lose any teeth And here comes burn boom burn burn right into the corner got some distance on that have a little edge right there And goes for the ride right in the back of the neck Lacks an asical press Nope, that's not going to get the job done not even for the champion On the titles on the line You can't expect that that's going to be enough to put somebody like cams a gami away as we see the selfie Man now getting the Fenway faithful into this match Absolutely, and they've had worse worse and they're painting another chapter in their story Here we go going again for that modified Russia. Oh and look at this Beautiful one two Wow, that was close and I mean That's as close as close can get right there folks. Thank you for clarifying cams. I Think he's going up. What makes you think that? I don't know. I have a sense Cam's a gami now much to my surprise to the top rope. What is he setting up for now possible moon salt? Nobody home. Oh, no, that could be it. That could be the deciding factor here is the champion Make it his way to his feet to come out. He's going up. I think Certainly looks that way ropes selfie made in a fatigue climbing the stairs to the roof Climbing the ladder to greatness so to speak Cut off halfway Looks like a t-bone or an exploder that could be dangerous up that height sends him shoving off champion now and going for it now Beautiful elbow drop macho elbow one two three and that's it longest reigning lucky pro wrestling champion thank God I mean, could you imagine if someone like cam was walking around with that title? What would that say? I'll tell you what a fantastic contest. That was what a great match between two great competitors But the selfie-made man Fern Bacalo is going back home with his LPW championship belt That was a picture-perfect finish to a great match here at Fenway Park Couldn't ask for anything more on this nice sunny day not wrestling all stars in New England Fantastic and the champion coming around to shake hands with the Fenway faithful And he's just taking his victory lap as it should be and we've got plenty more action to call. We'll be right back


Hello everyone and welcome back to enter the ether of the podcast all about the upcoming third-person MOBA ethereal clash of souls I am your host the man goose joining me as always It's my friend and co-host jelly knees. How you doing jelly?   I mean Why do you got to put that lumberjacks like that? I did I just said you looked like one jelly hates lumberjacks hot take for this particular episode So we got a lot We got a lot to get to we got a lot to get to you guys had your your big community corner and There was so much information more than we could possibly get to on this show Without it turning into the community corner yet again Seriously like that you guys added and removed a bunch of items Yeah, I highly suggest anybody go go watch that community corner because it was very exciting the main things I want to touch on are of course the The streamer thing on November 6th the stress test on the 20th. If you guys don't know yet You probably should know they're Ethereal is having a stress test on the 20th.  There's a register button You hit that register button and you register for the newsletter and then you're in I had a lot of questions on that people were thinking I didn't get the register for the thing. I just registered for this newsletter No, you're in once you get your email in the system You're registered for the stress test. So you guys are going to start it up There's no set time on it Just until the game breaks And you're just going to keep adding more and more people in until the game breaks For lake for lack of a better way to put it the hope is to break the game Okay, right is that we're going in wanting to essentially get a predecessor out of the deal Right that we're going to go in there and hope something Catastrophic happens ideally it won't Right because that'll mean that we're up to snuff. We're good to go But we're not expecting that either right when it breaks. That's something we're expecting to happen So we want to find where the weaknesses are in our system so we can get those fixed So going into the pre alpha.  My question is what if it doesn't break? How long is it gonna go? Then we'll have to figure out what's a good time in theory We may do all day that saturday or we'll do the whole weekend or something. We'll keep on adding people. I mean so far Since we made the announcement. We've had like 500 600 people signed up to the newsletter that already weren't a part of it So I was gonna say there was already thousands and thousands that were part of it already. Yeah Yeah, so we've seen those numbers boost up So we've definitely got a large group to work with that we can increase over time and get as many people in as possible Right and patrons get moved to the front of the line as far as picks concerned or concerned, right? That's true. Yes So what we'll do is we'll go through the patreon first And then go through an email all of those people They're access to get in for their account all that good stuff And then from there we'll go to the newsletter Removing those same emails out and then randomly select from the who's in the newsletter. Okay I mean that's a good. I mean I would I would normally say then that then that's pretty much just paid access But you don't have to be a patron to get into this stress test And you do have to reward your patrons in some way you need to reward the people that are giving you money if you can That's a nice little reward for them We don't want to exclude non patrons But we yeah, like you said, we wanted to be able to reward the ones that are helping support the game and have been for the last month So on november 6th is the streamer event where various streamers are going to be able to have access to the game They'll be able to stream record. That's a ballsy move by the way, but uh They'll all be able to stream so you'll get your first taste of the game there Get a get a look of well not your first taste But you you'll get a better feel for the game through that and gets a wider variety of opinions And then after that you can try and play the game yourself. So A lot of exciting stuff going on for ethereal man Yeah, absolutely. I'll be curious to see how that for the minions poll looks this week after all these announcements Yeah, we'll see we'll see um Yeah, I mean like you said the extra life event we'll have right now. We've got 15 streamers. I think it is That's what I was about to ask Um, and we're still looking for more ideally if we can get two full games of content creators and streamers That's what we want to do Um, so the more the merrier in there if you guys are listening and you're a content creator reach out to me I'm happy to help coordinate that a little bit more Um, but it should be super fun lots of great content creators coming to help promote that It's also for extra life, which is great on that aspect as well So it should be a fun time So are the streamers that are streaming are they locked into the extra life thing?  Yeah, I agree with you 100% Help the kids out extra life is a is a great charity if you guys don't know about it It got formed a long time ago.  I forget what it was. I haven't looked into extra life for a while But a bunch of gamers got together and was like helping her to like send her games and then that has just Spiraled out of control in a great way to where this huge organization that helps fund Research and in treatment for for sick children that can't afford it and uh, yeah, it's it's a really good thing I'm glad you guys are participating in it once again, and I'm happy to participate in it as well Are you gonna be streaming jelly? Are you gonna be streaming for ethereal? I will be doing both. So I will be streaming for ethereal during the actual content creator event And then afterwards I will probably stream on my own channel Just to continue the extra life day. Okay, can I have dibs for being on your team? That might be up to the matchmaking because I think we're gonna let matchmaking decide who goes where Let's group up. I want to stack I want to get real sweaty for this extra life event All right, perfect So, yeah, this is amazing news. This is like I mean I think you guys should have had the stress test on november 28th Because that I think that was the date that the original alpha was supposed to be back in like 2018 Like We didn't say what year But no november 28th falls on a saturday, which is perfect people won't have to take I mean, some people will have to take the day off if they want to participate, but Most people are awful in weekends. Yeah No, it should be a fun time We're excited to Have more people and play the game stream the game the whole nine yards Get it out there get a bunch of feedback and return Right across the board whether that be That their system is struggling in certain ways or that the this myth is broken in certain ways or whatever it may be Right, ideally we found 98 of that but there's always inevitably going to be something Oh god, yeah Us and the testers haven't found out right that Someone's gonna do something we're gonna be like, hey that might be a little strong We may may need to tune that down a little bit Or just somebody likes to hit their buttons in a certain way and then that ends up Breaking like one of the movement abilities or something you never know you never know. Yeah Um, I just it's just it's amazing. This this is amazing news Like I've been following a theory for so freaking long just hoping waiting Dealing with people in my comments like this game is never gonna come out, you know And finally we're here. We're getting it into the community's hand. This isn't this isn't a pre alpha Like they said, it's just a stress test But it is the first time that the greater community will be able to uh to play the game and um Yeah, I think it's going to go well just judging from because this isn't like Like with predecessors alpha, they're very very first alpha back in march of 2018. They um They didn't have that much testing going into that alpha. They had like a little bit of content creators coming in but That there wasn't that much testing whereas with you guys you've had like You started out with like a small group of testers and you've you've built upon that So it's not like you it's not like You guys don't know that the game doesn't work or something like that like with with predecessor We found out that they had huge Lag issues and and and netcode issues So you guys already kind of know a little bit of what you're doing So i'm really rooting for you for for this test to go well Yeah, absolutely, and that's we've implemented the mini map the mini map will be live for Both extra life and the stress test We've got some class abilities that are on the way that we're hoping to have implemented by then But it's going to be pretty close But there's more features getting added still even before that stress test That even the community hasn't seen so there'll be some surprises going into that as well I mean, I would I would think that you you probably don't want to add too much before Things that will work consistently by that time will be okay. Okay good Like the mini map is is fully functional with fog of war the whole nine yards right now So that's okay already in the game as of today. We can already use that so that's good to go. All right now The one of the other things you guys were kind of talking about was the addition and removal of a bunch of items We've already talked about this one here. Like you guys balanced everything out So I don't really want to get into the item conversation so much if you guys are really curious about that I would say go watch it's it's a youtube video now or you can just watch the replay on twitch or what have you and Yeah, I think that would be the best way to do it What I would love to get into here Is grognark You guys revealed The kit for grognark and it is fucking insane Dude, he's gonna be crazy Let's how about you just go down the list real quick just list off his abilities And what he's got going on and then we'll just talk about it All right So like we said before with the pre alpha seven they were intentionally generic Right that we and you and I've talked about this man goose that the pre alpha seven were generic So anybody could pick them up and have characters that they feel relatively comfortable picking up and playing the first time From here on out these myths are going to get crazy Occasionally grognark. I think is the first huge example of that. So his passive is strong as rock He gains stacks of damage resistance over time up to a max of five Every time he takes an instance of damage He'll lose a stack but take reduced damage based on the number of stacks he has So just a basically flat damage nerf across the board for anything that hits grognark, which is insane The other thing that I am so happy to finally be talking about for this myth Is that he rolls around to the map And I can't wait.  He can roll off the side of lanes and then land somewhere else But there's no actual jumping itself. Okay So the special ability is one we all know and love or know and hate is rampages rock throw essentially is that grognark is going to be able to pick up a rock out of the ground Toss it at an angle if it hits somebody it's going to stun and do damage And the downside to this ability is that while he's carrying the rock he can carry it indefinitely But he has significantly lowered move speed while he does He can't roll around. He can't move quickly. He's going to be Very slow roaming around with this rock until he throws it Once he does throw it then his movement speed will slowly ramp back up to his full movement speed His first ability or his cue rather is load stones So every few seconds a load stone is going to a basically a rock is going to come out of the ground and start floating around grognark These rocks themselves can block projectiles So if a projectile shoots at grognark, it'll block it'll block that projectile and the rock will be destroyed And it's similar to like this. I always think imagine it this way the shells in mario kart when they spin around you When you have any shells if you run into somebody else with one of these rocks, they will take damage and destroy that rock So you can run right up to somebody and have them spinning around you and deal damage that way as well That's just a passive. Let me interject a real quick question. Did they spin around him while he's rolling? Uh to be determined Okay That would be very mario kart-ish that they'll they'll kind of hover around him So he'd be the the rolling hedgehog that he becomes yeah with rocks floating around him um The active for load stone is that he's going to take one of these rocks and launch it in a straight line in front of him And then dealing damage to the first target hit So it's just a straight skill shot that does damage when it collides with the first target So it's balancing that give and take of keeping them up passively to block projectiles or run into people with Versus using them actively to just throw damage out at somebody else His ability to is great divide great divide essentially spawns a wall out in front of him At a set distance and then for every level of the ability the wall gets larger So it'll start out relatively small like it's not going to block off lanes or anything like that But eventually it'll get to the point where you can do some pretty serious like uh terraforming of the map and blocking off certain paths or blocking off certain areas, which will be super cool And the cool thing about the wall as well is because we have berserkers who can destroy walls All berserkers can destroy his wall So there's a direct counter if there's a berserker on the enemy team And grognar throws his wall up the berserker can come up and break it down real quick Right, so it's you have to judge as grognar where the enemy berserker is and whether or not this wall is effective To use right now. So it's a little bit of that give and take with the ability itself He's got massive rupture, which is a Zone in front of him will he'll pound the ground dealing damage in a zone in front of him And then there'll be like a sweet spot at the end That if they're an enemy myth is in the sweet spot they get pulled toward grognar So kind of like he's he's shifting the plates and they kind of pop up and knock someone backwards towards him He can then use great divide behind that throw loadstones the whole nine yards Then his ultimate is litho quake This one also has a passive and an active The passive is that grognar reduces the amount of damage he takes from basic attacks And then reflects that damage back to whoever dealt the damage to him And that's just across the board once he has his ultimate. This is a passive that is always active So this he can use this to just mitigate that damage from a carry that's popping off or malaya Who's running at him and just slashing at him a lot. He's really intended to be a counter To those basic attack heavy characters of which we have a lot right now in the pre alpha 7 So he's going to be really effective at kind of mitigating a lot of that damage and helping keep his team alive And then the active is that he will He will root himself in place and then kind of smash the ground dealing damage in an aoe around him and slowing enemies that are in that zone as well Okay, I didn't understand that with the passive. So he just constantly reflects Basic attack damage. Yep.  How are you going to balance that? It's similar to the item that's already in the shop that can does the same thing at basic attacks get reflected damage So it's just figuring out what that balance of percentage is And if he builds that item The effect being doubled needs to still be balanced as well. So okay, so it's not what that looks like It's not full damage. Like don't he doesn't know. Okay. God. No, it's a it's a percentage It's very very okay. Because when you say reflect basic attack, I'm thinking full damage And it's like that would be Stupid deals a 1200 crit straight back at him. Yeah, he kills himself. Exactly. Exactly. I don't know Yeah, it'll just be a poor it'll reflect a portion of the damage that grognar takes Okay. Wow. So that's quite the interesting kit um Right out right off the bat. I just want to say that You guys are already breaking your own mold a little bit Now this is just an assumption that I I made I think you made it as well It was that knights would be the tanks of ethereal And that berserkers would be the bruisers Now grognar is a berserker, but he is definitely a tank through and through the tanks tank. Yeah, like he Will absolutely be able to survive most things you throw at him for quite a long time Now some of my concerns with This kit It seems like it will be hard to balance Player frustration both playing as him And playing against him Because him just being able to just block projectiles with his loadstones That's going to be that's going to piss you off whenever you try laying laying an ultimate or something Um, and the other thing too is that he moves slower than other characters unless he's rolling So Trying to catch somebody In a fight without rolling is going to be very very frustrating um Yeah, there's definitely A lot of tweaking that's going to have to go in once you have him in testing Right is that he's going in and making sure that all of these things feel rewarding to play as and against like for the loadstones if Dante uses his right click he can burst down all the loadstones And then now grognark doesn't have any to cast his ability with yeah, but then don't he's silenced Exactly, but so it's it's that give and take of yeah You're negating a basically an entire ability of somebody else And then you're silenced for a couple seconds or if you're just using five basic attacks in general at the late game stages Yeah, right. So it's it's finding those those interactions that can be rewarding for both sides of of the encounter My other concern is that he's going to be an early game tower dive terror Like he'll be soaking up tower shots with his loadstone He'll be grounding pounding keeping people slowed He could throw up his wall to keep people retreating too far behind their tower He could just set in that tower and take that damage and And with especially with the grounded pound the tower is going to keep refocusing on him Like if somebody else comes in and deals damage It's going to be really easy to juggle that tower damage Back to himself which he wants because he's got those loadstones up Taking those instances of damage. So I think that's a bit of a concern But also he's going to be a terror as far as when you're underneath his tower.  Yeah, and that's Something we've keep we're keeping in mind as well with his loadstones He is how will tower shots affect those because tower shots are projectiles But there's a chance that him being able to block tower shots is just ridiculously strong So towers just penetrate loadstones. He just gets the damage straight up Or a tower shot takes three loadstones to be blocked Right, so you can you can kind of finagle that a little bit to find a more balanced state where he's not taking five tower shots with no repercussions for it at all right, right it's finding finding a way to do that kind of stuff The other thing too would be would loadstones deal damage to minions because that way because you can walk through a minion wave and all five loadstones are gone Or um, I they target him and like all the minions firing will definitely do damage to minions And then the floating rocks I think is going to be a balanceable thing of how How easy is it to hit them on minions if you're just walking past a minion wave or or not? So it's just looking at all those things as well Awesome Now the the cool thing by the way litho litho quake the lithosphere is the very top trust of the of the earth if you're wondering why it's called litho litho quake instead of earthquake But uh The cool things that I want to do with them just right off the bat. I want to build move speed grog grogdark It just sonic my ass around the map Is especially if I can have loadstones going just wow Like a freaking motorcycle as much move speed as I can stack on him And it'll be awesome. I love it. I don't think it'll be effective, but it'll be fun Now I want a game mode where you can pick alternate myths right clicks and get liya's tailwind on grogdark Going the sonic build. Yes fly down The other thing that I really really want to do is since the lanes are split and up above each other I want to stand on that top lane and launch rocks at people like a like a freaking artillery battery I think you guys mentioned that I think in the uh in the community corner, but as soon as I That was revealed. I thought of rampage like getting in a high position and throwing that rock Oh, man, I not only am I going to get on the highest point.  The old horshack Not trapped in here with you. You're trapped in here with me It's gonna be such a cool ability to see how people use it and make it effective I really like the uh, the skill shot portion of his I forget which ability is the one the The earthquake that goes out and at the very end it knocks people back. Yeah his e so hit that's massive rupture Yeah, that that's really going to separate the good Grogdarks from the bad ones the ones that are able to hit that max distance It hit the right distance to actually catch people Especially if they're running It's basically it's the way I envision it at least is like a grucks pole But with a sweet spot as the pole instead of just the whole cone just bringing people back to you But it still deals damage if you Yeah, absolutely if you don't hit the thing. Yeah, that's that's pretty damn cool. I really like that.  Yeah I also like the flavor of him not being able to be knocked up Hmm He's heavy.  He's like he still takes the like he still takes the damage from a knock-up, but he doesn't Yeah, so tallows wouldn't be able to His eve too. Yeah, wouldn't be able to knock him up Exactly or heavens blade. You're not building heavens blade which every couple seconds or every four basic attacks You knock up the person you're fighting. Yeah, heavens blade wouldn't work on grognark Man, I built that on malaya one match and it was fun Uh, but that's just grognark hard counters that item, right? Like it's just that easy as a character Which is cool and scary at the same time, right? Yeah, and it starts giving you those options of Okay, they picked tallows If I pick grognark his e2 will only do damage, but I'm not going to get knocked up. I basically mute some of his cc In in my pick so it's going to be really cool to see how that works as well Which is nice for a tank having just a little bit of unstoppable Yeah, very cool stuff, um Yeah, is there anything else you wanted to talk about what what what what are we missing here? What did we miss? Uh, I think I mean we've gotten most everything I think already we talked about grognark extra life the stress test Um, we can talk about the myth update if you wanted a little bit of like the changes we did to the myths Yeah, that those though like people haven't been playing the game. So I don't think they I don't think that's as important of a thing to talk about is the changes because like it's like They're not like us where we know every in and out of the game at this point I don't you do that's why I want to be on your team But yeah, at the risk of this going for hours and hours Because we could talk for hours and hours about this community corner. Like I said, uh, I'll have the Is this will go to my channel this week or your channel? Okay. Yeah, I'll have the um The link to that video in the video description below if you guys want to check that out But I think that is going to about wrap it up jelly anything you want to plug Uh ethereal clash of souls the stress test on the 20th extra life If you again, if you know streamers that you think would want to be a part of it have them hit me up I'm coordinating with a bunch of people. So we're happy to get as many people in To that as we can because it should be a fun time. So we're excited. Yeah, definitely do that.  What blah blah blah It's worth a shot. It's worth a shot. Just go just go register to the register for the newsletter, which If you guys ever send out a newsletter, I don't even I don't check my one month. Okay.


I welcome and commend all the participants who are attending this very critical meeting that presents an opportunity to seize the history and turn the tide towards seeking lasting solution for the challenges we have in our region. I am encouraged by the progress made so far in facilitating dialogue, negotiations, and the peaceful resolution of conflict in our brotherly neighbor and brotherly country that the Democratic Republic was called. This effort and the promising start is significant due to the support and dedication of the chairperson of the East African community with Excellency Everest, the Ishinia President of the Republic of Burundi, towards the restoration of peace and stability in Eastern DRC. It is important that we also appreciate, with gratitude, the role played by His Excellency Gohuru Kenyatta as he continues to play the role as chief facilitator of the Nairobi process. Mr. President, I salute your credentials as you champion peace in our region, and in particular with regards to the inter-bombolese concertative framework. These shared values of the foundation of the East African community also encudder strong bonds of connecting the nations and people of our greater community. It is self-evident fact that our region is united by a common yearning for peace, hope for unity, quest for opportunity, and desire for shared prosperity. The people of Kenya are deeply invested in the destiny of our brothers and sisters who hold this leader. And as a government, it is our duty to actualize their aspirations by participating in frameworks that enhance our collective prospects of peace, security, social, and economic progress. Kenya comments you, Your Excellency President Felix Giusecchedi, for your sustained dedication and commitment to peace under the coming effort you have invested in endeavors to find a lasting solution to the security situation in the Eastern DRC. My government assures you, Your Excellency, and the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as the entire East African region and Africa at large, of Kenya unwavering support, and of our determination to stay this course together until the job is done. Mr. President, you are not alone, and I want you to let your brothers and sisters in the DRC to know that they are not alone. The inescapable diet of geography ties us together in the East Africa, like the Amit students. So long as the DRC knows no peace, the prospects for prosperity for the rest of the East Africa will remain in and above it. Instability and insecurity in the DRC will be relentless in undermining human development and holistic programs in and beyond the Great Lakes. It is not only limiting the potential of our region in terms of trade and investment, but also demigrating the dignity of our people, causing suffering, displacement, and death. In a world of eight billion people with unrelenting climate change threats, the people of Africa cannot afford to seek help from beyond, before exhausting our own proprietary innovative solutions. Africa's solutions are closer, at hand, given the scope of economic opportunities for one billion Africans and vast, under-exploded physical and human health. The state of the world beholds us to pull together and pull ahead. It holds no good standing. This is why we have taken a decisive position, a sense of state of EAC, to do everything possible to find a lasting peaceful solution to this conflict. And I dare say we will not relent. We shall seize every opportunity that comes our way to collaborate in enhancing our capacity for transformational collective action. To watch this end, we shall seek to enhance our bonds of profanity, purposeful friendship, and strategic cooperation for the mutual benefit of all our people. The security situation in Eastern DRC continues to be a source of great concern. As we welcome the deployment of the East African Community Legal Force, we must recognize that its operational environment remains charged with stress. This demands closer cooperation and greater capacity to collaborate with other regional and international partners to effectively counter the threats that barriers and groups and negative elements continue to force. We are here to emphasize the urgent need for dialogue, de-escalation, and to encourage and facilitate every actor to intensify their pursuit through the effective engagement of regional and international dispute resolution mechanisms. We are also encouraged, not to encourage regional states to maintain their commitment to existing regional bilateral as well as multilateral understandings. Later, the vital importance of utilizing approved frameworks and engaging positively to address all issues, disagreements, misunderstandings, and concerns in order to sustain and enhance mutual outcomes. For its part, Kenya retains its unflinching support for efforts that support diplomatic and necessary military solutions to the effective restoration of sustainable peace and stability in DRC. We emphasize that regional peace and security remains our collective enterprise. Specifically for Kenya, you may wish to know, and I'm telling this to my brothers from the DRC, you may wish to know that my predecessor, the president who was never here, and myself, were on different sides of the political context two months ago, and the competition was steep. But after the election, I met with the president, I looked at him in the eye, and I told him, Mr. President, you have started a very important process in EAC, I want you to continue that process. And he told me he was ready to do it. Despite all that had gone on, because of the interests of our nation, because of the interests of our region, because of the interests of our continent, and because peace is important to Kenya, to DRC, to our region, President Kenyatta has done a wonderful job as he facilitates this process, because collectively as a country, we value peace. Kenya is firmly persuaded that our well-being and destinies as peoples and nations of this region are intimately and intensely interconnected. Our security, stability, and progress, therefore, is dependent on that of our region and indeed on the rest of the African continent. Consequently, the possibility of peace and stability is not only desirable and beneficial, it is the inevitable condition for socio-economic transformation and shared prosperity. Kenya funds the East African Community Secretaryate and the African Union for the commendable efforts made so far towards implementing the decision and directives of the 22nd Ordinary Summit of the EAC Herzog State. I also take this opportunity to strongly reiterate the call for EAC member states, our partners, and other stakeholders to act swiftly in on-perspective commitments that we have been making. I want to thank President Sulu Hassan, the President of Tanzania, for committing to support this process financially. I also wish to thank President Kedami for also committing to support this process financially, and also President Iberica Putam-70 for also committing to support this process financially. There is no greater demonstration of commitment from the EAC than the one that I have seen from the Vegas Herzog State of our region. Yesterday, when we met with the chair of our EAC, we decided to call all the other colleagues in this region, and all of them are set aside their schedules to be able to attend this meeting, even if further. It demonstrates their political good that we have mobilized for the sake of peace in DRC, because peace in DRC is peace in our region. Peace in our region is peace in every part of our region and continent. For us, as leaders in this region, we take this assignment as an assignment of our lifetime, because our continent is ripe for the huge opportunities. This is the continent of our century, and we cannot afford to lose the opportunity of our lifetime at the order of countries that we can resolve. And it is our commitment, because the intra-Africa trade that holds the biggest opportunity for us to trade, using the great experiments we have already set up in the EAC, in Comercia, in Sadec, and in the Africa continental free trade area, we have the greatest potential and the greatest opportunity to be able to increase trade and investment, so that we can raise it from the past 30 or 15% at the moment to where other regions in Asia, in Europe, in America are at 60-70%. Ladies and gentlemen, it will be the biggest shame for us if while our brothers and sisters elsewhere in the globe are holding huge conferences in big tents to discuss investment and trade, and they are holding huge conferences in big conference halls to discuss trade and investment. Our people are in tents as refugees and displaced persons. It will be an indictment on us, the leaders of this continent, and that is why this assignment is an assignment we must not fail to discharge and to resolve. Canada joins the rest of the region in affirming its utmost respect for the total sovereignty of the Democratic Republic of Congo and for its territorial integrity. I also reiterate the full expectation that the East African Community Region Force will support and complement the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo in stabilizing and restoring law and order in eastern DRC. More critically, I call on the Force to collaborate with FADRC in supporting disarmament, demobilization, community recovery, and stabilization programs. As I conclude, I reiterate our commitment to support our great and current soldiers who continue to demonstrate their readiness to serve and sacrifice greatly for our countries and our peoples to live in peace, security, and stability. Their role is essential and our support for them is therefore vital. Canada has been, remains, and always will be a loyal and dependable partner of the DRC and a faithful member of our region in every mutually beneficial endeavor at all levels. Our determination to succeed remains stronger than ever, and our motivation even cleaner. God bless you. Thank you very much.


Radio's own show, Behind the Mic.  But there are stories behind radio, stories behind your favorite program and favorite personalities and radio people you never hear of. Stories as amusing, dramatic, and as interesting as any make-believe stories you hear on the air. And that's what we give you. The human interests, the glamour, the tragedy, the comedy, and information that are behind the mic. And now presenting a man whose name since the beginning of broadcasting has been a byword in radio, Graeme McNamee. Thank you, Gil Martin, and good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience. We've said that there's plenty of human interest behind the mic. And if you still have to be convinced, just listen to this story told by the singing star of the Eddie Cantor program and one of radio's favorite songstores, Dinah Shore. Dinah, will you tell our Behind the Mic audience that story about the truck driver who was such a fan of yours? Well, Graeme, he was a fan of mine who had often written requests for songs. I got the details of this story through a letter which he wrote me. Here's the story the letter told. Give me shore. I want to tell you about something that happened to me. As I've written to you before, I'm an independent trucker. I owned just one truck. A few days ago, I was bringing up a truckload of perishable goods from Florida to New York. I had a time limit in which to deliver the stuff or lose a contract that I needed badly. Two days from New York, my helper came down with some awful stomach cramps and I had to leave him in a hospital. I took the wheel myself. I'd been driving for about 40 hours without getting any sleep because, as I told you, I had to get my truckload to New York in that time limit. Keeping that contract meant a great deal to me because my business was in pretty bad shape. Cheap. I'm tired. Boy, what I wouldn't give for a little snooze right now. I could pull up the side of the road here and grab a little shut-eye for just a few minutes. Can't do that. If I ever start sleeping, I won't wake up till tomorrow. Gee, I'm tired. I gotta do something to keep awake. I'll try tuning on the radio. Now we bring you the voice of Dinah Shore, one of radio's favorite singing stars. Last time I wrote her, she promised to sing I'd Dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair for me tonight. I wonder if she will. Dinah opens her program by singing I Dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair. Say, she is gonna sing it. Good girl, Dinah. Boy, I gotta stay awake to hear this. Let's see. Four more hours and I'll be in. It's just got up. I won't have no trouble from now on. And did you reach New York okay and on time, Dinah? Well, Grammy wrote me the letter. That ought to prove it. Well, thank you, Dinah Shore, for a great story and, of course, always for your fine singing. The sound effect of the week. Each week behind the mic presents some unusual sound effect which was used on a program of the past week and tells exactly how it was done. On the Bishop and the Gargoyle program this past week, this sound effect was used to denote a character being placed under a guillotine and having his head bobbed. I think it was the hero's hobby. This jovial sound effect was accomplished by the sound man on the Bishop and Gargoyle show running a piece of metal up and down the side of a door to produce the sound of a guillotine knife falling.  There she goes. We're going to let you in on something that is really unusual and genuinely behind the mic. A young man, a member of the NBC guide staff, wants to try out for an NBC announcer's job and he's going to do it on this program. We have the chief of the NBC announcer's department here, Pat Kelly, to give him the announcer's test. Pat Kelly. Hello Pat. Pat, before we proceed with the audition, please tell our listeners what experience a man must have in order to become an NBC announcer. Well Graham, to get on a New York station he has to have at least two years professional announcing experience. To get a job in one of our out-of-town stations he has to have at least six months announcing experience and of course the qualifications we think necessary to make a good radio announcer. When you test your announcers before giving them jobs, Pat, what do you look for?  They should also be able to read with style and without conveying the impression that they're reading in an artificial way. The tests that we will give our would-be announcer this afternoon are designed to cover these qualifications. We have our candidate here at the microphone, the NBC guide whose regular job is showing visitors through a studio and who is now going to try for an announcer's job on one of our out-of-town stations. He's ready to proceed with the audition and this is an actual test.  Yes, Graham. But before I go into the control room to listen to him, let me say, ladies and gentlemen, that as his first test, our candidate will tell about himself and his background to enable us to hear his voice and to get an idea of his ability to sell himself. Because we feel that a man who cannot sell himself could not sell a commercial product or the program he's announcing. Now, I'll go into the control room, Graham, and will you describe the audition for our listening audience? All right, Pat. Now, Bill Huck, Mr. Kelly is ready to listen to you. It's going to be tough, but the best of luck. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm speaking to you for the purpose of trying to become associated with your announcing staff. Before proceeding with the audition, I should like to tell you my qualifications and experience as an announcer. I attended Duke University where I was a member of Duke Players, the dramatic organization on the campus, and the Fata Alpha Phi, National Honorary Dramatic Fraternity. I graduated from Duke with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. Having had some experience on a smaller station, I felt further and more valuable experience could be gained by coming to New York and the center of the radio industry, the national broadcasting company. The announcing class here at NBC has been of great value to me, because I've learned how to read on the air, how to pronounce difficult foreign words, and in general, the requirements of a good radio announcer. But now, after this resume of my qualifications, we'll go on with the audition. Ladies and gentlemen, the next test is designed to show the candidate's adaptability to different types of sustaining and commercial continuity and news copy. First, you will read a commercial of the punch type. If hot weather or household cleaning wears you out, I'll tell you how thousands of other women keep fresh and happy. For your fault may lie with what you use to clean. You may be working too hard with an ordinary, lazy, inactive cleanser. So instead of cleaning this hard way, I urge you to switch to the amazing, quick acting cleaner, two million women now use. And now the next commercial is to be read in a conversational style. My buddy, my buddy. Nobody quite so true. This program is in honor of the most loyal buddy you will ever have. Your dog. Presenting dog heroes. Thrilling stories about heroic American dogs. Sponsored by the makers of the wonderful health-aiding food for dogs. For our next test, Bill Huck is going to read a news bulletin to see how well he can handle this type of copy. Here's your bulletin, Bill. Here's the latest news from the United Press. Athens. The Greek War Ministry claims the Greek advance continues on all fronts. Vast stores of warm materials are reported captured from the retreating Alliant Italian forces. And Athens claims Greek cavalry and British planes are spreading panic among the fleeing columns. London. German long-range guns shelled the Dover area for more than an hour this afternoon. No damage or casualties are reported. This news is from the United Press. Further details will be found in your newspapers. And now for the final test, Bill Huck is to introduce a musical program to improve his ability to add lib. An ability every announcer must have by describing the studio from which the broadcast is taking place. Ladies and gentlemen, we continue now with our musical program which is coming to you today from the Ritz Theater in New York. And before introducing the first number, I should like to tell you something of our surroundings here. This theater is located on 48th Street, just west of Broadway in New York's famous Times Square. This is not one of New York's largest theaters, being conventional one, though, having the usual balcony, boxes on either side, and the orchestra, which today is mostly full and provides accommodation for approximately 750 people. But now, to get back to our program, which features another one of NBC's famous musical aggregations, Ernie Watson and his orchestra. NBC listeners have frequently heard the works of such celebrated composers as Bach, Guno, Musconi, Mussorgsky, and many other masters of classic music. However, today, Ernie Watson brings you Love Is. Well, that finishes the audition, and here comes Pat Kelly to give you his criticism, Bill. Well, I suppose you'd like to know about the audition, Bill. I certainly would, Mr. Kelly. Okay, then. I'll give you my frank opinion if you don't mind. Not a bet. I made a few notes while I was listening to you out in the booth. I find that your voice is satisfactory. Though, of course, a little voice training wouldn't do you any harm. It would develop a richer quality, especially in your chest tones. However, the voice is not the most important thing. It's no more important than having a violin.   But I think you have the vocal qualifications for announcing. Your pronunciation and pronunciation, your articulation, are all good. Though, you do have a tendency to slur final consonants. For example, watch words like speaking. There is a G on the end. Your salesmanship, commercial punch. You have a punch all right, but I think with a little practice and experience, you will be able to make it a little more convincing than it was.  However, I'd rather you avoid sentiment than to try too hard and get sentimentality. Further practice, training will help that. In ad lib, you have the ability to put words together and to make a fairly conclusive picture. In other words, you have what an announcer must have, the ability to keep the show going. And I think you'll make good. And I hope in the very near future, we'll find a position for you as, as really an NBC announcer here in New York someday. Thank you very much, Mr. Kelly. Thank you both. Pat Kelly and Bill Huck for giving us a real behind-the-mic scene. And boy, I'm mighty glad such tests were not in vogue when I broke into radio. Salutes a program you loved. We in radio believe that radio has a tradition at which it can well be proud. A tradition of good programs that linger fondly in our memory.  This afternoon, behind the mic, salutes one of radio's most famous orchestras, Harry Horlick and his A&P Gypsies, which was on the air for 10 years from November 1926 to September 7th, 1936. We will recreate part of the A&P Gypsies program with leader Harry Horlick himself, leading the orchestra in arrangements that made his music famous. Harry Horlick and the A&P Gypsies. You are listening to the familiar two guitars, the title of the composition with which the A&P Gypsies greet you each Monday evening. The Gypsies are here, ready and waiting to begin their hour of entertainment. Horlick and the A&P Gypsies now play a composition of Harry Horlick's Sen Sigan, Harry Horlick. Now did you... We'll be back a lot of years, Harry. And thank you, Harry Horlick, for recreating a part of your A&P Gypsies program. Just to hear the selection of two guitars played by you gave me a thrill and I'm sure it affected our listeners to whom you have given so much pleasure the same way. Better's from listeners. Each week we invite the listeners to behind the mic to write us questions about radio and the three or four we consider to be of most general interest. We have answered on the air by the radio editor of some outstanding magazine or newspaper. This afternoon's questions will be answered by Mr. Mel Spiegel, radio editor of the New York Morning Telegraph. Mr. Ralph Vogel of the Bronx, New York asks this question. I listened a great deal of European broadcasts and I would like to know if you can tell me when was the first transatlantic broadcast to regular radio listeners and from where did it originate? Well, Graham, the first transatlantic broadcast originated from Coventry, England. It was picked up at Elton, Maine and transmitted by wire to WJZ in New York and from where it was broadcast. This first transatlantic broadcast was in 1924. L.A. Carroll of Beverly Hills, California writes in to ask this question about firsts. I had an argument with a friend as to what was the first coast-to-coast broadcast and when was the event broadcast. Will you please let me know? The first coast-to-coast hookup was on January the 1st, 1927 and consisted of a broadcast of the Rose Festival Parade and the Rose Bowl football game from California. Yeah, and I had the pleasure of being at the mic all at day, Mel. One of my real radio thrills. Miss Dorothea McCann of Darlington, Maryland asks this, how is it that a star can appear on his own show as Jack Benny did recently and then right after that appear as he did on the Screen Guild show, which is on a different network? Well, the reason Jack Benny was able to appear on these two programs which followed each other on different networks is that the NBC and the CBS Studios in Hollywood, California from where both shows originated are right next to each other. As you remember, Jack did not appear in the first few minutes of the second show, which gave him time to travel from one building to another. Thank you, Mel Spiegel, for answering those questions. Ladies and gentlemen, the scene of our true behind-the-mic story today is in a dressing room of an NBC studio on Thursday evening in June of 1934. It's an hour before the opening broadcast of the famous Maxwell House showboat. The two blackface comedians of the show, molasses in January, whom you all remember and whose real names are Pat Paget and Pick Malone, are sitting in their dressing room near the studio. They're in the middle of giving their script a final reading. Well, well, well, dog on my time, molasses, old fraternity sister.  Uh, January, you mean my dog Corset? Boy, why you call that dog Corset? Because I keep him tired up all day and let him out at night. Aw, sweet. Pick. Pick that golden number. Sure will, boy. Well, come on now, let's get along with this. OK, next line's yours. All right, now here I go. Tell me this, yeah. How's you getting along with your E-flat fiddle-footed gal's papa, molasses? Well, they don't let me in the house no more because last time I was there, I got in a fight with a papa and stepped on his pipe. Well, what's the matter with the man? I don't see why he should be so mad with you. There ain't nothing so terrible about stepping on the old man's pipe. Yeah, but this was his windpipe. That's all right, boy. That is funny. You know, this looks like a good script tonight. Yeah, I think that windpipe gag is a great kicker. It's a killer. Let's go out and get a cup of coffee. Yeah, well, all right. Now wait till I wash up a little bit, will ya? OK. Oh, say, by the way, how's your wife getting along, Pat? Oh, not so good, pick. Ever since she had that operation of hers, she hadn't come along the way I hoped she would. Oh, boy, now listen, don't worry about that. That Arizona air is great. It's gonna fix her up all right. Well, I sure hope it does. I got to let her from the doctor a few days ago and really got me worried. Oh, well, now wait a minute. There's no use in worrying about it, Pat. Oh, boy, listen, you know dog going well, Diane's gonna be all right. I'll bet you'll be having her back with you before very long. Now you wait and see.  Well, come in. Telegram for you, Mr. Padgett. Telegram? Well, thanks, huh? Yeah, boy. Oh. Oh, Pick. What? What's the matter? What is it, Pat? Diane. What? She. She passed away in the sleep a little while ago. Oh, gee. Gee, I'm sorry, Pat. I can't. I can't believe it. Just don't seem possible, son. I know. Oh, Pick, I'm gonna miss her. Yeah, I know. That's all right. I know you well, sure. But I'll be right back in a minute, Pat, oh boy. Huh? Where you going? Well, I'm going out and find out about the trains. There's a train out there that gets out there, don't you? Oh. I'll be right back. Now, wait a minute. I'm gonna tell Bill Betcher that we won't be on the program tonight. Yeah, yeah, go on. Oh, wait a second, Pat. Yeah, what is it? Pick, come here. What? Don't do that, son. We got eight minutes of material in the show. I know. Well, they won't be able to fill that in without messing up the whole program. Oh, but listen, wait a minute, Pat. You can't argue. Listen, it can't do any good whether I'm there a few hours earlier or later. I know. She wouldn't have wanted it any other way, anyhow. She was in show business herself. I know that. But do her any good. I wouldn't go on this show any show ever. But it won't. It won't do nobody any good. Oh, but Pat, now, now, not really. You don't, you don't think you'll be able to go out there? I am. Pick, listen. Listen, son, don't tell this to anybody after the show. All right, boy. I won't say nothing. And when the Maxwell House showboat went on that night, little Flutty, do you flat ape, you? How you getting along with that farm of yours? We had a little explosion on my farm yesterday. An explosion? How was that? Well, I fed a chicken some layer of bus feed.  Yeah. Well, how come the explosion? She turned out to be a rooster. You don't know. Well, no wonder. See, I hear you get some very early down on that farm of yours. Yeah, that's right. In fact, five o'clock in the morning. That's AM. How come you get up so early? I use a parrot and an alarm clock. A parrot and an alarm clock? Yeah. Do the alarm clock wake you up? No, sir. But the alarm clock wakes the parrot up. And boy, what did parrot say wake anybody up? Yeah. Well, boy. That's unusual. You know what? I should smother to replenish. Yeah. I got another pet out there. Yeah, what's that? A whip nip. A whip nip. And again, the actor's creed, the show must go on. Had been given further proof. Not in a novel, not in a play, but in a really true behind-the-mic story. January was played by January himself, Pic Malone. Well, asses was impersonated by Ward Wilson. Be sure to listen next week when I will talk with NBC news commentator Fred Bates, who will tell you from London how he gets the news he broadcasts. And more of the human interest, the glamour, the comedy and the drama that are found behind-the-mic. To be speaking, good afternoon all. Behind-the-mic is written by Mort Lewis, original music written and conducted by Ernie Watson. This is the National Broadcasting Company.


Meanwhile, the Nigerian Army has reiterated readiness in stepping up all its physical fitness pro-training to ensure effectiveness of troops in combat in the country's security challenges for the Netherlands. The Chief of Army's staff, Major-General Tareed Lagwajah, stated this at an opening of the Nigerian Army Interformation Combat Sports and Swimming Championship in Kaduna State, organized to enhance the operational readiness of troops on the battlefield. Lagwajah, whose address to the athletes, was delivered by the Commander Infantry Corps, Major-General Ulufemi Uluyete, says the championship is to enhance physical fitness and troops' leadership traits intended to prepare them ahead of any foreseeable challenges in all the theater of operations. Physical fitness is one of the key areas of capacity in any army, and is considered imperative to ensure the promotion of physical fitness of all the Nigerian Army personnel. To transform the Nigerian Army into a well-trained, equipped, and highly-coordinated workforce towards achieving across the country within a joint environment, we have to enhance capacity for effective deployment of all hands to achieve the desired results through group training. We are therefore stopping off all aspects of our training and combat readiness. We need to start the new hands and the personnel readiness of troops to be given new power to across the country. We need to place this on ensuring the operational readiness of the Nigerian Army under a competitive sporting atmosphere, and also to work hard to bring personnel, and represent competence, towards achieving the specific objectives of the 2023-2013 year. The objectives of this competition, therefore, is to improve troops' combat efficiency, physical fitness, enhanced leadership traits, and use of initiative to result in concerted efforts by the Division of Border Assistant Services and Security Agencies. We have embarked on robust operations under the guidance of the Chief of Army staff and for all Nigerian participants and technical officials to take the competition seriously required by the rules that have been laid down. It is hope that all competitors who make good use of this opportunity can be worthy ambassadors of their formations, as well as the Nigerian Army at large.


Clearly, I mean, we've said it time and time again, is the funding issue and what comes with this uncertainty with the funding is creating some difficulty in hiring staff. I'm not talking as much about Erie because I think Erie has been able to continue to hire good staff. I'm talking about international staff, but with the uncertainty of the type of, I mean, the uncertainty of just restricted core funding and also the, like you say, we've got the threat of loss of all USAID funding and you're a bright young scientist just out of graduate school. Now, do you want to take a chance on starting your career there? Not their meaning Erie, but their meaning in that kind of system. And so, unless there are some things that will stabilize the funding, it may create far Erie some problems in the future of being able to hire staff, again, talking about international staff. And I think that is the greatest challenge that Erie will face. The culture of the institute is rich, it's great. I just think they need to have a more stable environment.


Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the Derby Preview. Everton vs Liverpool 8.15 on Wednesday night. I'm going to try and keep this one a bit positive, a bit upbeat. I have put a new Christmas jumper on which says, Miracle on Gladys Street. And very fitting. Not the jumper, I mean the slogan. I think the slogan might be what we're looking for at the moment given the form. Beautiful lap by the way. Yeah, it's not bad. The four and that bow teams are there. I mean going into this, I'll be honest, just right from the straight off, I'm not looking forward to this one. This is one where I'm normally thinking our own to Liverpool. We can beat them to crowd and we're our own. I think they've only won one in the last 10 or something. Mostly draws aren't they? Mostly draws but I always feel like we've got a good chance this one. I'll be honest, just the way we're playing and the mood around the club. I'm not as confident this time. I mean how are you feeling going into it? I'm not confident at all. I know we're trying to go and keep it a little bit upbeat. But yeah, let's have it right. It's going to be a tough, tough, tough fish. I think we need a lot of things to go our way to try and even lay a glove on them. I think, you know, Lychys couldn't come at a waste time. Four is good in the calendar.  We played Sunday, we played Saturday, we got the Wednesday, we got an injury. But, miracles can happen. You never know. Well, listen, I've said before, Duncan Ferguson's first ever in goal came and we were bottom of the league and he was second or top. We beat them that night, Howard Kendall's fingerwagon of Craig Joerking. After a four on the feet of Coventry in three days later, we beat Liverpool. He was second and we were bottom. So it's happened before. The differences, I think the mentality of this Liverpool side is totally different. They're never beaten, they do work hard. I think the mentality of our team is totally different. And our mentality of our side isn't the same. But the crowd won't allow our players to hide. That's the big thing. I think that's the energy that Godderson can create. No matter how loud we're feeling as fans and fit this game will be full of trepidation for all of us. Once it kicks off or once you're in the stadium under the lights, everything's got to go out the window and you've got to just focus on backing the side. And we will. I think we will. And that's what we'll do because that's what we do as fans and hopefully that energy will convey onto those players and they'll have to run three brick walls. Because I don't think the mentality came out after Sunday's defeat at Brentford and said something along the lines of the fans can't fault the players effort kind of thing today, well we can. Because it wasn't, if that's the best then players can do, then we are in trouble. I believe they can be much better than that and work much harder than that. Well, the only slight glimmer of hope and positivity that I've got to hang me out on is the Tottenham game. And I thought, the crowd got up a bit because of the penalty situation and the players actually reacted to that environment. Look, it's embarrassing that we have to talk about the players reacting to anything. They should be able to get themselves up for a dive in a football match. But let's take it away. We're at right here right now. That atmosphere that we can create, you just never know. We might be able to get up and at them a little bit. But yeah, we're playing one of the best teams in the world at the moment. And we're so far off the pace. But yeah, I'm just hoping the crowd get up there. Look, it's going to be a little bit nasty, a little bit toxic just with everything that's going on. But that could fuel almost what we need potentially if the players can buy into it. But like I said, I thought best performance for a good few months was the Tottenham game and that was based with a little bit of nastiness in the ground towards the referee. So let's hope we can get that energy. I think you've just been on the edge in terms of the opposition. They are a fantastic football side of the artwork and they've got well-classed players. The forwards, whichever permutation you use of those four seem to do really well. Jota has come in and looked like he's played for them forever last season and this season. Sal is incredible. Man is back on form. Byrnger i gen i'w sgwr i gen i'w sgwr. Don't say it. They're not infallible. They were beaten in the other week by Westam. We've drawn a few games. Brighton metru nildan against them and got a draw. Brentford drew with them. Brentford got a result against them. So you can't get at them, we know that. Everton, you said before, you're absolutely right. We're going to have a bit of luck. We're going to have to defend as if our lives depend on it. We're going to have to try and break the game up as much as we can and don't let them get into it. To say this kind of thing when we've spent the money we have. But that's where we are right now. Absolutely. If we had our best 11 out and we've been playing, we'll have players back, but D'Corey's just coming back after being out for six weeks and things. If we were flowing with our best 11, then I think we could cause them real problems. Dominic Alder-Lewan's not going to be there. I don't think that's unlikely. He's not missing last week. He's back, but he's only just back. D'Corey and stuff. Dam ar i greu mist y game on Sunday. Sub on Sunday. Imagine he missed that, but he's fully fit. We have got players who can cause them problems, but they are very, very good when you work very hard. We'll need every ounce of good fortune and bounce of the ball and the crowd to get everything. Mentality and character, isn't it? We need the players who've got to have a reaction from Sunday. Those away fans put it on them and rightly so, in my opinion. And we need some character bounce back from these players. Forget the football side of it. Football is a football thing, they're much better football side. But we've had that over years and years going. We're watching dirty games. I've never gone into one as concerned as this one. It ain't about the ability, it's about the character. Those players are going to stand up now and be counted. It's the minimum of the hours. We need a level of performance. Out of the big, big pluses you get having the gore back. I know he was miles off the pace in terms of his level on Sunday. But I'll tell you what, the guy's got character. It's strange, but talking about it, you start feeling like you can sort of see little bits, can't you? Which is crazy because at four o'clock on Sunday it was a million miles away from the door. But yeah, we've got to be solid. Pickford's going to have to have a good game. Last couple of darbys, he's played well. Going to have to sit in a little bit deep that can help some of the defenders that we've got. But I really, really pray he puts three in the field. I was just going to come onto that. I was just going to say what you think he should do. Do you think it should be three in the field because they live up here very strong in the field. You've almost got to match them up, I think, so what brings Fabian Delph into that? Yeah, I think the dynamic of the squad that we've got at the minute and what's available, I think the three in the field, it obviously supplements the corey being able to advance with the pitch a little bit more. Alan, get a little bit about it and not have to be disciplined because when he's sitting in that disciplined role I'll be honest, I don't rate him at it. I don't think he's particularly good at it. I think if you have Delph just sat in front of the back four taking the pressure off our back four you can't necessarily get the best passes out. Free up the other two midfielders to get forward. I'd almost have a proper from three but we probably won't but at least if they can sit in and we can have a five. So you'd have the challenge and the grand challenge and that would be three? Yeah, exactly that. I'd have the same back four that just played unless mean is fit. I'd have the same back four that played against Brentford. It could be the only way to go against them there. You've got to try to match them up. They're better than we are. You've got better plays than we have but one thing shouldn't be... one thing should be a given for us sat in the grand is that we know that our players right the way through are going to work harder than they are. That's what you have to do in these games.  Liverpool could destroy us. Absolutely destroy us. So you have to counter that by hard work and you see lesser teams overcoming at times by working hard. You know this Liverpool side albeit not this one because they had a few injuries but it lost six home games on the run last season. So they did not have injuries that is the caveat to that. I'm just trying to say that teams do lose games and stuff. Some of those teams you beat them simply just ran more than they did and it helped them get through. Now okay would they have lost it with the crowd and with all the players and now of course they wouldn't but it can be done. We had a simle shocking home form of times last season well from Christmas onwards because teams come and beat us who just ran more than us. The two relegated sides for the staff fuller men chefing I just ran more. Teams have beat us this season by running a bit harder than we have and that really is the thing that I struggle with is that when teams are working harder they've got more ability if it's Man City and they play to the best of the ability and you do they're going to win because you're better for boys. But you shouldn't be out running out for by anybody and this players now we've seen the reaction from the away fans of the weekend they told them what they thought of them and if you're not an Everton player that's hating after that on Sunday and you're thinking get me back out on that pitch I'm going to show this lot that I mean business. Forget about the managers influence or whatever go and do it for yourself and for the badge if you're all proud of it and for the fans if they do that then they can give Liverpool a right go go if they do what they've been doing in the last few weeks they could be on the wrong side. Yeah look we're trying to if we're trying to put that positive spin on it I think obviously you've got Rich Alison presuming we're going to come back in he's got a bit of character he'll do that so he's got that character he's got decor he's got that character back in Delph in terms when he's on the pitch has that character you know he don't make himself available over the years he's been there but let's just take him in isolation of where he's at right now I mean need him at the moment in the games he's been on the pitch for us recently he's shown for the ball he hasn't gone hard and he's there so the more characters and men we can get on the pitch get these or always off the pitch get that I mean if it's always on the pitch and he's starting against these then we're down to ten men and it's going to be it's going to be a tough tough ask and I think we just need eleven players on there that are just going to give us everything and at least we can walk up that stadium and go you know what we can't ask much more of that I think that's that's where we've got to start from and it is depressing based on money we spend and where we're at but it is what it is and that's what we need Let's have a look at Liverpool's kind of like what they play most weeks and they do play the 4-3-3 and obviously it's based on a shot at midfield that's just really mobile and then obviously you do have you know Sally Now the wingers the fullbacks the fullbacks are there with they will do brilliantly and then you've got obviously the front three are fantastic and particularly Sally and Manny Jota's being superb I'd say Jota at the moment it's Sally and Jota at the moment Jota yeah but Manny the thing that Manny is as well as being a goal threat and I think he's got eight goals this season he's just worked so hard and he's up and down your live wire he always does well against us always scores against Everton Sally you can't give him a chance or the fellas go he's probably probably the best player in the world right now for consistency and goals on current form he's a fantastic player we're going to have to be wary of these and defend for our lives and maybe maybe again it's going to be the case of sitting on the edge of your box and not trying to give them any space in behind you you're asking for trouble sometimes with that you've got to try to spring them on the counter we've got to give them problems but we've got to make them what goal do you do? 100% Fan 10, fan 10 they don't like running throughout their own goal like no defence you've got to utilise the space the wing backs leave you know we've got to if we just sit back we might get away with a 1-0-2-0 defeat we've got to if we want any sort of positive result we've got to put something on them and lay a glove on them it can happen you know like you said it's happened a season for them but we've got to have that belief and that desire to be brave on the ball we're going to need Damari Grey we're going to need Townsend to carry the ball and be brave in possession with Charleston making runs if we are just fully back to the wall it'll just be inevitable it will come so I really want to see us just put everything on the line maybe with Reymor Field it will allow the core right to break into the box and that might be something we can do catch them with but trying to be is positive it's a big-ass book to Damari and things happening to Damari matters Maw Salar is obviously the best player we've just talked about him let's have a look at his numbers for this season 18 appearances 11 goals 8 assists he's the top Liverpool player in that ultimate fan game 197 points he's got which is incredible look at that 19 goal contributions 18 appearances full of a bullish season and we've got a world be getting our November goal of the month award cos there's the only goal which is going to be excellent so that's where we're up to on paper and if you're level headed about it and if you're neutral you'd look and go away with it comfortable away with it and we're saying the same at the end of the day it's the odds are massively stacked there but what we've got to do the only constant half-up is us isn't it we've got to go to that ground and make it as hostile for the away team as possible because it's all we can affect all we can affect and as well I don't know about anyone else but if I'm going to game and I enjoy it more myself so we're going to be there anyway so let's just give it our all to walk out the ground going we couldn't have done any more I know that's sad and we shouldn't really have to be torn and stuff like that but I just want it where it's a proper dive and we don't just go as a fan base because like I said four o'clock on Sunday I was just thinking I'm going to rock up have a coffee just sit there watch us get out of our spank then walk out the ground but the reality is I know I won't do that and I don't want it to be like that I want us all to go in and think no, we're here now it's 11 plays it's 11 plays it's a football match let's have it right so yeah win your battle win your personal battle if you can absolutely yeah and get at them like you said you know their full backs are very very good one way the other way there's gaps pure gaps golf keep has not been necessarily as solid as he has been you know we've flapped a few bits in bobs let's see just a few facts I'm sure you can't wait to hear these well this is a good one Everton won 2-0 in their last Premier League game against Liverpool the first win in 20 games and against Liverpool in that competition which is scandalous yeah it's just we've not won back-to-back made a shot at Derby since beating them in the 84-85 season which is just outrageous really Liverpool unbeaten in the last ten Premier League games away against Everton the last was a 2-0 loss in October 2010 but eight of the last nine visits have ended in a draw which we know don't we I wasn't even at that last win I was away it was easy it was an easy one Eileen Arthrater and it was one of the most comfortable Derby games I've ever been to it was easy didn't think I'd have not seen one it was just so now I didn't walk on out that day I didn't think it'd be this long but it was one of the easiest Derby it should have been 4-5 it was easy they've had a lot more of them in Premier League history Everton Liverpool see more red cards than any 22 and it's been drawn more off on than any other fixture just on that point of the red cards it's sort of going to say like Richard Charleson needs to keep his head he needs to keep his head we cannot afford any red card not for this game for like the run just for the run but the manager to be fair to the manager he shared that the other day about he needs to just start reacting he needs to be calm about it and just play with him you can go and press without throwing a tackle in so just go and press get a yard or get a block in no just chucking your arms I know, yeah I'm not leaving that one cos I don't want to jinx it Liverpool have scored at least twice in each of their last 17 games in all competitions the longest run by the Top Flick Club Liverpool have won four Premier League games by four plus goals this season twice as many as they have in the the whole of last season great this is only one of his 10 Premier League games against Seidl he's previously managed that's not a good stat is it no no and the others can do one cos they're just about Liverpool and they're not needing any more we know they're good we don't need any more stats so that listen let's see what happens fingers crossed you know everything rosary beads will be open everything and we just have to see what happens but it's a derby in things strange things happening derby sometimes you can grab something you don't expect and a win a win changes the mood a win could turn this season round for ever and really couldn't it and the manager he could give the manager some good grace give the players a belief of being a beating a top club top side can really kick start the season listening to sound crazy to say but who knows who knows but even a draw a positive result just to start something is what we need from the bigger picture we need to start picking up points and it's just another game and we need to start we can't write off games left, right and centre we need to start picking points up and this is the next one the next available three points we've got to try and try and lay a glove on them and make it as uncomfortable an environment for them as possible and that's that's all we can do innit so fast but I'm I'm pretty for miracle I'm pretty for miracle I'm glad I see these Christmas young boys are available in our shop it's quite nice I just wish it was happier times at this moment but there is a belt you'll come back you'll come back oh well we'll be back at least we'll win games in December if we can wear this so there you go the link is in the description if you 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