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So enjoy your breakfast every day with delicious Cheerios and milk and get that good go-power! Then folks will say... She's feeling her Cheerios! Faithful Indian companion Tuttle, the daring and resourceful mask writer of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early Western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the Great Horse Silver! The Lone Ranger rides again!  Let's go people! I'm gonna tell her! The three were camped in Southern Texas when Dan rode to the town of Fairville for supplies. On the return trip Dan struck up an acquaintance with a stranger at a waterhole. The two were discussing an old handbill which had fallen from Dan's pocket. The stranger was saying... I remember when Feney was caught and convicted. I felt sorry for the little critter. He's only about half my size and he sure looked helpless in the courtroom. I didn't think he was guilty or robbing that stagecoach. Have you seen him since he was released from prison? No. Are you looking for him? No. No, but I think the sheriff may be. Why? Well he thinks Feney may have hidden the stolen cash and bonds before he was captured. He may try to get the loot now that he's free. He aims to catch him when he does, hmm? Perhaps I shouldn't say anymore. May I have that handbill? Yeah, here. Thanks. I'd better be going. Adios. Bye. The diminutive stage driver listened to the account of the meeting. Then said... Did you get the name of the young gentleman? No. The names of his friends? Nope. He climbed up when I started asking questions. Now we'll have to be more careful than ever. As if I didn't already have a tough problem. Jake, you might stay and hide and let me go get the cash and bonds. Well, you think I trust you to go alone? You'd probably run out on me as soon as you got the loot. I wouldn't do that, Jake. I proved I'm your friend and pal. Didn't I pull the strings to catch up a roll? You did that for sure. The cash and bonds. Even if I was willing to trust you, you can get the stuff without my help. It's gonna be done right ticklish job. Why? I hid the cash and bonds in the cellar of an abandoned building. Well, can't we just go there and get it? No. Place is occupied now. The new stage line opened up. The route went right past the building. It made a good stage stop. A man and his wife fixed up the building and started the red rock trading post. I know the place. There's a settlement of Cardo Indians a few miles east of it in the Comanche Village a few miles to the west. Yeah, that's right. A couple named Hank and Molly Hawkins run it. So why can't we gun Hawkins and his wife? They're full. The murders have been discovered as soon as the next stage stop there. The law would soon put two together and figure I'd done the killing. I'd be hunted down all over again. Both the Cardo's and Comanches are peaceful. They haven't even got firearms, so we can't make it look like the Indians killed a couple. Lefty, my plans are all made. I spent a lot of time working them out while I was in prison. Yeah.  Get the Cardo's man at the Comanches and vice versa. Get them fighting. During the days that followed, the Lone Ranger, Tuttle and Dan Reed covered much of the area between the prison where Feney had served time and the Red Rock Trading Post miles to the west. The handbill was shown to storekeepers and other townspeople in many communities, but no one had seen Jake Feney. Then one night when the three were camped a few miles from the Trading Post, the masked man said, Dan, we're within a couple of miles of the Trading Post. You go there with a handbill tomorrow and make inquiries. Yes, sir. Oh, and by the way, a man I talked to in the last town suggested that we ask the Indians about Feney. He said there are two settlements near here. There are. I doubt that either the Cardo's or the Comanches would have seen Feney. They rarely leave their villages. Himasabi. Yes, Tuttle. Chief Thunder Cloud camped 10, 12 miles north of the Trading Post. Thunder Cloud, our own friend? Ah, and we talked to Indian Hunter, him from Thunder Cloud Tribe. Well, what's Thunder Cloud doing in this part of the country? He looked for a place where they're good hunting. His man covered plenty ground, maybe one of them, Feney. All right, we'll visit Thunder Cloud tomorrow while Dan goes to the Trading Post. Not good. Do you want me to meet you here in camp? Yes, Dan. We'll meet here. The following morning, Dan Reed went to the Trading Post, introduced himself to Hank Hawkins and his wife, then showed them the handbill. Height about five feet one inch, weight about 100 pounds.  Yes, Mr. Hawkins. Well, we haven't seen any one match in this description, have we, Molly? No, but that name Feney is familiar. Yes, it is. Jake Feney. Gee, I remember. The Command Chief's told us about him. He's that little critter who's been living in the Command Chief Village since a few days ago. Why, that's right. Yeah. Jake Feney living with the Command Chief? Yes, Dan. There's one of the Command Chiefs outside right now. Yeah, he's coming in. Aren't you going to see what he wants? Oh, I know what he wants. He wants to buy rifles, but he knows we're not allowed to sell firearms to the engine chair. He's looking at that rack of rifles on the wall. Yes, count them. If he finds it somewhere gone, he'll probably suspect we sold them to the Cato. Now I'm afraid to sell them to anybody. You see, Dan, there's a Cato tribe living a few miles to the east, and Command Chiefs living about the same distance to our west. Yes, I know that. The engine's satisfied. Now he'll get back to his tribe. You know, I don't blame him for being worried. If the two tribes start fighting, a dozen rifles would mean the difference between victory and defeat. Why should they start fighting? I thought both tribes were peaceful. Well, they were until the past few days. What happened? Well, there's been thieving going on. We get the same story from both sides. The Cato's claim the Comanches are stealing from them. And the Comanches accuse the Cato's of stealing food, buffalo robes, blankets, and the like. Does either side have proof against the other? Well, sure. One of the Comanches told us that Feeney showed him proof that the Cato's are thieves. I tell you, Dan, both tribes are getting madder and madder. There might be an outbreak. That would be bad. It'd be frightful why both sides had won our rifles. And whichever side got here first would probably help themselves. Yep. And the other side would be so at us. They'd blame us for letting the rifles go. And they'd be on the war pass. They'd probably murder us. Another Indian. Yeah. Now, that means the Cato seemed to come to the rifles just like the Comanches did. Oh, I wish I knew what we could do. One of my friends might have a suggestion. They understand Indians. There's another Cato outside. Yes, I see him, Hank. He rode up mighty fast. He's telling the other Indians something. He seems very excited. Both those Indians are excited. Something must have happened. And I'm going to try to find out what it is. Boys, what's all the excitement? What happened? Many cuddles. Maybe war. War? Comanche weren't war. Them steal food. Steal other things. Oh, now take it easy. The Comanches are saying the same things about you. Comanche like. Cato not steal. The Monchie try to start war. Steal many things. Now steal son of Cato Chief. What? You mean to say the Comanches captured the Chief's son? That's right. Son of Chief Gohanen. Him captured. Carried away by Comanche. What are you going to do about it? Chief want all the tribe together hold council. Decide what do. Maybe tonight we start war dancing. Oh, my sake's the line. If there were, we'd come here and take rifles. Now listen, neither of you can have the rifles. There'd be no good to you. You wouldn't know how to use them. We'll learn. White friends show us. Who'd show you? White man. Him come live in Cato Village. You mean to say there's a white man living with your people? Him show Chief pretty magic. Him make pretty good medicine. I'd better tell my friends about this. All right, Dan, hurry. Maybe they can help. In just a moment. That goes for the star wherever you are. Take Barbara Ann Scott, figure skating champion from the Northland. Watch her on this one. Barbara Ann's good. There is a champ who's a real Wheaties fan. Sure helps to keep a gal up on her toes. A guy too. Take Bob Lemon who pitches a lot of ball for the Cleveland Indians. Lemon knows what champions know. Wheaties for breakfast away you go. Gosh, no wonder the champs of tomorrow are eating Wheaties today. There's a whole kernel of wheat in every Wheaties flake. Keep body cool. You're the Wheaties and you'll be doomed to do what I say. Good afternoon. The Lone Ranger and Toto finished their meeting with Chief Thunder Cloud and started south toward their camp. They had written about a short distance when they saw Dan Reed approaching. That was a close to wait for us in camp, Toto. I wonder why he came all this way. He moved away. He looked excited. A lot to tell you. Dad, what's wrong? There may be war between the Kato's and the Comanches. But those are peaceful indeed. They're not peaceful now. There's been trouble brewing for the past week. Each tribe thinks the other is stealing food and other things. And both tribes have tried to get the stock of rifles from the trading post. Them indeed not know how to use rifles. Wait, let me tell you. Jake Feeney is living with the Comanches. What? Feeney with the Comanches? Yes. He showed the Indians how to use rifles. And there's another white man in the Kato village. While he was at the trading post, word came in that the Comanches had captured the son of the Kato chief. That means plenty trouble. Kato's are holding a council meeting. They may start their war dance tonight. I wonder if Jake Feeney had a hand in the capture of the chief son. I don't know that, sir. Feeney, no. Thing like that start plenty trouble. So do the people in the trading post. They're scared. Scared? Yes, sir. They think the Indians will attack their place to get rifles and ammunition. Probably right. They're afraid the Indians will kill them. He must not be. Yes. You think Feeney hides stolen money in trading post buildings? Many will all believe so. Feeney can't have free access to the trading post while the trader and his wife are there. But if the Indians raided, massacred, then Feeney would go to the trading post and recover the cash in Bonsie yet. And what we do? We must protect the trading post. Follow me. We're going back to Chief Thunder Cloud. For what? For yourself. Come on, sir. That night, Jake Feeney sneaked away from the Comanche village and hurried toward a cave a short distance south of the trading post. It was a rendezvous where Feeney and Drake had met in secret every night since the beginning of their efforts to incite the Indians. When Feeney reached the Candlelit Cave, he found great waiting and saw an Indian about 20 years old lying on the floor tied hand and wood. Great, said. Look who I brought here. Who's he? The son of the Cato Chief. Great Scott, how can... He and I went hunting together this morning. I watched for the chance, then slugged them on the head and brought them here. But why'd you do that? We weren't getting anywhere by stealing grub and things of that sort. I had the Comanches convinced that the Cardo's were doing this tailing and you said that. I know. I told you I'd stolen lots of things from the Cardo's and I'd convinced them that the Theven was done by sneaking Comanches. But we weren't getting anywhere, Jake. Oh, you captured the Chief's son. Yeah, brought him here this morning. Left him tied and gagged and went back to the Cato Village. I told the Chief we'd been attacked by Comanches. Told them Comanches had captured his son. Well, if this don't start the Cardo's on the warpath, nothing will. They'll go on the warpath, all right. They were holding their council meeting when I left the village. They'd been discussing their plans all afternoon. They'll decide to go on the warpath and they'll rusted the trade and post for the rifles. And they'll probably wreck the place. They may even kill the trader and his wife. They don't, we will. And the Cardo's will be blamed for it. Right. And while they're fighting the Comanches, we'll get the hidden loot. What do we do with this engine? We can't let him live. He knows too much. Make sure he can't get loose and leave them here until after we've got the cash and bonds. And what? Then we'll take him somewhere near the Comanche village and knife him. Good idea. By that time, the Cardo's and Comanches will be fighting Hammer and Tongue. Hey, listen. You hear that? War cries. Sounds like the attack on the trading post has started. All we gotta do is sit tight until it's quiet near the trading post and then move in. The war cries struck terror to the hearts of Hank and Molly Hawkins. They sat in the trading post listening to the shots that came nearer and nearer. Then suddenly the door was open. Excuse me, frightened. Dan Reed told me of your problem. I'm here to help. I see that your rifles are still in place. Yes, sir. And we're not too late. Can't you hear those war cries? The Indians are coming. The Indians are. The mind led by Chief Thundercloud. I've asked them to come here and make a lot of noise. Borrow your rifles and fire them into the air. Eh? They're not hurt anyone. But why are they coming here? To protect you. The other Indians may stay away if they think the rifles have been seized. Don't mean the Cardo's will think the Comanches have the rifles and vice versa. That's the idea. But what will those, those friends of yours do after they're through shooting? They'll withdraw and stay out of sight. Then we'll see what happens. Uh, I wish I knew I could trust you. Here's Dan, all right. Hello, Dan. I don't call up to you. Well, these good people, the Thundercloud and I are on their side. Say, Dan, did you smash man, the friend you spoke of? Yes, he is. He's the lone ranger. Sakes alive. Day. In whatever he does, it's all right for us. Then listen to me. I'll tell you about a stagecoach robbery. And loot has never been found. Later, Chief Thundercloud and his men, accompanied by Tatl, drove close to the trading post. Their cries, shouts, and gunfire were heard by Jake and Lefty in the cave not far to the south. They got the rifles all right, Lefty. They seem to know how to use them. I'll just make sure once more that the Chief's son can't get free. Then we'll go and get a fortune in cash and bottles. Jake and Lefty approached the trading post with caution. They dismounted a short distance away. Then advanced on foot. The building was dark. There seemed to be no sign of life. The doors wide open. I see it is.  I'm ready for trouble. I'll go in first. I'll light it and take it with us. Bonds, we're hot. Seller, follow me. It used to be right back here. Sure, the loot's where you left it. Oh, he's upstairs. Careful now. Loots on to a lot of trouble. It'd be a shame if someone else had found the loot. I'm not worried about that. You see where I hit it. I'm following you, Jake. Keep going. Well, this is as far as we go, Lefty. Where is it? See this stone in the foundation? Yeah, what about it? It looks solid, but it's not, huh? Here, angle lantern on that hook near the ceiling. Right. Watch this stone. Find the stone. The bike's here. Good. Well, I've been waiting for it. Now don't move, Lefty, put down the gun. Why should I let you have half a cat? Why are you double-pushing? The skins might as well take the blame for your murder as well as the death of the traitor and his wife.  Help me. Why are you... Get your hands up, Feeny. Your mask. Bring the ropes. Where'd you come from? We were behind those boxes waiting for you to appear, Jake. Hank and Molly were with us. You bet we were. That's the man I talked to at the waterhole. You! That's right. I told you my friends were looking for Jake Feeny. I don't savvy. The Indians. We heard them. The Indians. You heard our friends of ours. Now listen. Drake's the crook. He captured the chief's son.    I'll fix you for that. Listen, mister, you'll find the chief's son tied and gagged in a cave south of here. Drake's the one who'll catch it in... Why, you... You old... When the chief's son tells his story, there'll be enough to hang you, Lefty. You're in this as deep as I am, Jake. You're both in trouble. How do I know that cave? I'll go and release the chief's son. He'll be able to rejoin his tribe and prevent the uprising. That's good. Hank, when he's told his story and we're sure the threat of trouble is gone, thundercloud will return the rifles. Well, I'm not worried about the rifles, but I'd like to know what's to be done with these crooks. Hold them until I return, Hank. Then we'll take them and the stolen cash and bonds to the United States Marshall. And I'll see you later. You bet. Well, Dan, I've heard about that mask, friend of yours, but I never expected to see him in the flesh. He's a mighty good friend to have, if sure is. Oh, who is that mask man? He's the enemy of your kind, a poor catfini. He's the Lone Ranger. Campbell Muir, Incorporated. The part of the Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beemer, your announcer, friend Floyd. 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And usually people that's what they do when they come to church they begin to follow Christ and they're like I need to clean up My head I need to clean up my life. That is not where it starts if you start there your victory will be short-lived Everything starts with a spirit your spirit inside. What does it mean to start with a spirit? That means that your spirit must be strong For your spirit to be strong. It must be developed your spirit like every muscle in your body does not get developed on its own Once you develop it and then it will develop you Once you grow it and then it will grow you How does your spirit get developed it gets developed when you connect yourself with the higher spirit? Your spirit doesn't get developed when you go You're gonna attract other higher spirits that you're not gonna be happy with and Then you're gonna lose your spirit your soul your body and everything We're talking about connecting the only human spirit can be developed under one condition if it's under influence of a higher spirit That higher spirit is your choosing either a spirit of depression Spirit of fear demonic spirits Or Holy Spirit But you and I choose my spirit must come under influence of the higher spirit Which is the Holy Spirit, and then my spirit gets strong when my spirit gets strong my body and my head And my mind becomes a servant Obedient servant when my spirit is weak when my spirit is broken the Bible says there is a verse in Proverbs that says that a Mary a hard a merry hard does good like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones What this means is this when a human spirit is weak their body will suffer When your human spirit is weak Your health will deteriorate When your human spirit is weak your mind cannot be controlled a Merry hard does good actually your spirit is a medicine to everything else in your life And we look well this is true, and if you read health self-help books You will find out that to be true The only problem is that in every self-help book the challenge is you develop your spirit by focusing on your spirit Christ tells us we develop our spirit by linking it to a higher spirit the Holy Spirit and When the Holy Spirit begins to influence your spirit something happens your spirit becomes a medicine To your body To your mind and to everything in your life you can control your thoughts after that because your spirit is Developed how do you develop your spirit? You make time for a connection with the Holy Spirit That connection cannot be done when you're doing your makeup and that connection cannot be done when you're eating your breakfast That connection has to be done when you are undistracted The connection that brings you closer to the Holy Spirit is when you have the least distractions and those least distractions Happen usually in the morning before the sunrise Before everybody wakes up to tell you something about today send you the emojis before the snapchat before people upload their latest Instagram pictures Before Facebook before anything you wake up 15 20 30 minutes earlier before anybody else It's still dark.  I welcome you Holy Spirit. I love you Holy Spirit. Let this day Be under your supervision. Something happens.    Every problem is under your knees I mean you walk around strong. What happened your spirit got connected with the higher spirit And it became a medicine to your body and to your mind You cannot overcome lust if you start with the mind It has to start with coming with our spirit under influence of the Holy Spirit


What's going on guys welcome to another video as you guys know traveling to Atlanta for the Lakeland near tournament I've been grinding all morning guys.  It has been insane all day I've just been grinding grinding grinding working working getting everything done and now we're about to leave for Atlanta So I got to go pick up Oakley or actually got to go downtown Do a few things run a few errands and then I'm going to be picking up my fishing partner Oakley from his house They're gonna be heading right to Atlanta and as you guys know the boat's not with me It's actually already in Atlanta because I was getting it fixed So I don't have to tour that bad boys. So thank God. That's gonna be a lot better though drives I'm gonna be a lot lot better So everything packed up gonna run downtown do some stuff for class and then go pick up Oakley and we'll be on our way Let's go ahead and get it. Oh I think we are good to go guys. I think am I good? Am I good? Close this door right here All right Let's put this up one All right. Oh the light turn off. All right Kitchen's all good. Yeah Living room's all good Yeah, I got to get those out of here. Those are actually the TV boxes from those TVs that I've been here for a hot minute These need to go to bye-bye Let's go ahead get this trip rolling guys So excited so pumped but this day is not even close to being over The TV is not off time guys time to go Truck is slam-packed guys. Look at all this You got all my stuff I need Let's work out stuff Shoes I got my suit right there. I also got a few jerseys. I got backpack computer homework everything I need clothes Rods, let's go. I just forgot one super important thing that I cannot forget Let's forget a few fishing boxes now. We were on with our day I'm so excited to document this series because I haven't done one of these in a while And I'm pretty much gonna be documenting every single day going up to the tournament because I want to show you guys You know everything that it takes To prep for a tournament and everything it's gonna take so I'm gonna run grab some gas real quick because I'm literally almost out Like I said run downtown then grab Oakley then we'll be on our way. It's uh the reason it's already Pretty late right now and the reason I'm leaving kind of late is because I don't want to hit land of traffic Right when you know Everyone's getting out of work and everything is just gonna be chaotic. So That's the reason why I'm leaving pretty late right now And I had a lot going on I had to get a lot of homework done And I'm having to run some errands right now because I'll tell you here in a minute filling up this bad boy right now So I kind of want to rant on something real quick. That's just very very dumb So I as you guys know I preach be the best so you can be Everything that you're doing Anything that is in your life and be the best so you can be at it one goal that I set for myself that I get a 4.0 every single quarter here at school and I have all great grades. I usually don't talk about my grades But I have all a's right now in 1b, which is like an 89. This is pretty much an age just around the money So I have a project due for this class Wednesday, which is tomorrow I finished this whole project Sunday and I went in the class Monday and I said, you know, I finished this whole project I'm not gonna be here Wednesday because of a tournament and she's trying to tell me that Even though I already turned the assignment and assignments already turned in Finalized in everything. I'm actually going to print it off right now and she's trying to say That it won't count. She's saying it won't count because you won't be here to critique your project So they a whole other class can look at it and I'm trying to tell her like I'm literally going to college for school and Also fishing like equal amount on both sides because obviously I'm the only reason I'm at this school is because I got a scholarship. The scholarship literally gives me money towards school. So and with that being said is to be on the fishing team and is to get the grades and the teacher really doesn't understand that I have to go out of town on Wednesday and I just don't get it. It's really really stupid because I literally spent eight hours on Sunday on that project I worked from eight in the morning all the way to 12 at night on two different projects And just for a teacher to say something like that is just really messed up Something dude just stopped me and was like, are you a sprinkler company because my title sponsor logo is so big on the side of My truck that literally I get asked that all the time. I'm like, no, man. I'm not Sorry about that. I'm like I can I I can get you hooked up with the sprinkler company though It's just one of my sponsors. That's just hilarious. Like so many times like people come up to me and ask me like If I'm a sprinkler company or like if one of my sponsors is actually me Like I wear lucky tackle box teachers all the time and people think that I'm actually like lucky tackle box It's just hilarious. Also. Look at all the work that they're doing here There's a public right there that they just they're they're building right now And I couldn't tell you they literally made that so quick that is ridiculous like I'm very impressed They put I know it's hard to see but that right there That's the public's and it's not open yet But literally they're starting building it like a month ago if that and is already almost done Yeah They want practice Getting ready to leave the house go on the lake It's pitch black outside right now Very tired. We're gonna get this grinding Want to make sure be on the water, you know when the sun's coming up Be sure to get off the water when we have to We're gonna get a lot a lot of stuff done today Or should I eat some quick breakfast right now? We should be good to go So at the boat right now getting everything ready to go on the water man of clear here my dad actually came because My boat has my boat my truck. He's got to take my truck to the shop to get my train horn fixed on it so He's undo that so we're actually hooking up the boat to his truck and dump it in the water I'm very excited. I mean if we're gonna go out there and try to put some together and hopefully to be good You know, I haven't been out here in a while. It's super cold It's like a high 30s right now and it just changed in the past like day So it's gonna be rough out there. The lake's turning over. It's gonna be hard But you know, we're just have to put put our heads down and keep grinding it through and see if we can put Together just got out here on the water day one of practice. It's cold I mean, I haven't fished the cold in the hot minutes pretty windy As you can tell Probably go out here give it our all spend a lot of time out here and hopefully find some stuff here for the tournament We're still gonna have get to come out here tomorrow But I just want to come out here. Look at as many things as possible and put together something And I just grind it out today. I mean it's pretty cool, but that's no excuse. We're gonna Get out here. I literally see like 10 fish under me as we speak What's up guys first I like to Huge apology, you know today was first day of practice. I'm actually very I'm very happy with it You know today went very well For what we're looking for ran as much as we could, you know, we got out there around six seven and stayed all the way till Five which is as long as we could And you know, we had a good time. It was good out there found a good plan found a backup plan Everything was going good. I did not feel much today and the reason I didn't feel much today is because of I needed to get a lot done. I really needed to you know Search search search and get a lot of stuff, you know, look at all these spots and look at everything That I really needed to look for it. I was just grinding so much guys I was putting time putting time putting time and I feel so bad because I really want to report a lot You know, I could add some cool fish catches. How are you? Yes, ma'am I Well, that was awkward. So as you guys know, I got a train horn They wired it today to my regular horn is usually a button that I press on the side But they wired it to my regular horn today and every time I unlock my car it beats my horn so every time I unlock and lock my car now is hitting the train horn and She literally just ran half a mile down here to tell me to not honk my horn when I wasn't meaning to so My bad, I didn't mean to but um anyways guys, this is this is not the topic. So today went very well Tomorrow I'm gonna make sure I record I'm gonna make sure I record as much as possible to show you guys what's going on during the tournament as you guys know You guys are watching this on Thursday tournament starts tomorrow, which is Friday and Saturday's the second day of the event Hopefully it's gonna be awesome. We're gonna search a lot tomorrow on a whole different part of the lake And hopefully find what we really need to find like I said I've been grinding a lot trying to get as much done as possible and That's like thank you guys so much for the support.  I literally was on the water today for like 11 hours Turn around from getting off the water wing got my hair cut because that's what I had to do and Then right from there I drove straight to the gym and now I'm home And it's like 1045 at night and I got to edit this video and get it ready for you guys Because I love you guys so much and then I'm gonna get up at five o'clock Get everything rolling and just cuz guys put 110% effort whatever you're doing I still have a little bit of homework I need to do tonight as well But I just want you guys to strive to achieve be the best that you can be change this world promote positivity And just keep grinding guys. I love you guys so much. Thank you guys so much for the support I'm gonna be recording as much as possible throughout this whole tournament and hopefully we'll get a lot of footage But I'm gonna be sure I record for you guys tomorrow mark my words. You're listening to me right now I will record and show you guys what I'm doing to find these fish and some of your awesome video But thank you guys so much for the support stay tuned for Sunday's video Which is gonna be what I'm filming tomorrow. I'll catch you guys in the next video 247 are the statements of my day today if ain't no way then I'm gonna make a way


Yeah, so my name is Arthur Gilgrain. I'm a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Geography here at UBC. And I basically have spent a year here working on open education resources, enhancing the teaching of learning in the department. I'm also a faculty fellow for BC Campus, further open education resources program, and a permanent faculty member at Okadawn College where I teach geography and GI science, geographic information science. Perfect. So based off of the questions that we've talked about, can you talk about your experience in the BC Campus open education faculty fellow? Yeah, so where do you want me to begin? Do you want me to start? Why I'm in open education? Yeah. Okay, so when I started teaching in 2010, my first semester, I was finishing a course in Introduction to Human Geography. And I noticed there was four of my students in the back of the class taking pictures. I thought, why would they stay after class and do selfies? So I walked to the back of the class and it turned out they were taking pictures of the actual textbook. And it was the first time I encountered that. So the students, I said, why are you taking these pictures? And they said, well, we collectively bought a textbook and one of us gets it every week. And the other ones take pictures with their phone and read it off their phones. So that was sort of a, it was the canary in the coal mine for me in terms of open education resources and proprietary resources and how they interacted. So from that point on, as a young teacher, I was trying to identify open education resources for teaching. At that time it was really hard to find anything in geography. It really struggled. And it was only in 2014 that BC Campus under its mandate that it had for a couple of years to build out open education resources, in particular textbooks for the top 40 top subjects in education, university education here. It was only then that they started to work on a geography open textbook. So as soon as they sent out a call for geography, I signed up. I was the first person to sign up. I got some other geography post-doctoral people and doctoral students and professors on the team. And we did what was called a book sprint, which is a week long, locking us in to a room and writing together. And that was my first experience actually, authoring an open textbook, creating a truly open education resource. That book came out, I think, about three months after our writing session. It is now on the BC Campus open textbook website, which has, I believe, about 140 different textbooks for different subjects offered here in British Columbia. After that, I fell into the open education movement and I decided I wanted to make it part of my professional identity and my career. So, and my pedagogy, clearly. So BC Campus, I believe, is at the cutting edge of open education resources in terms of developing them and thinking about them. Especially here in British Columbia, but I think also within the international context. They've hosted the Open Education Conference just this last year, 2015, and they're continuing to do amazing stuff. So when they had a call from the faculty fellows, which is basically we're charged with working on publicizing, promoting adoption and adaptation of open textbooks and helping them think through a strategy for open education resources. When they published that call, again, was the first person to apply broadly. I was really excited to see it. So then being on the cutting edge of open education resources was very attractive to me because I do believe open education resources are on the cutting edge of responsible pedagogy, really. So I feel like my work with them is encouraging responsible pedagogy. It's encouraging adoption of open education principles and resources. And, you know, that's so far been my experience. They're in neighbors in a good way. Sorry? What do you mean responsible pedagogy? I mean, so far since they've started their program, BC Campus Open Textbooks are estimated to have saved students between $1.1 and $1.4 million. And the conservative estimate is $100 textbook per student, so that's the $1.1 million. The $1.4 million is actually a reference to what professors and students report is the true cost of the book. So it goes back to the first story I told about the students in my classroom. If students can't afford resources, if they can't afford textbooks and it's hindering their learning, there's now survey results that show that students in parts of the United States and Canada may not take certain courses because they can't afford the textbook. So if textbooks and other proprietary resources are hindering learning, then we're not being responsible on how we choose the textbooks and how we choose what students should read and how we make them really the principal agent problem. The professor chooses the book, the student has to buy it. So how do we be responsible at our pedagogy and our approach to choosing textbooks, choosing resources and delivering them? Does that make sense? Perfect. And so going off of that, can you talk maybe about some of the work that you've been doing around open at UBC and if you can mention the websites? Yeah, great. So I was hired on here in June of 2015 to work with Loc Brown and Derek Turner as the other postdoc. Loc Brown is our principal for the fund. The fund is underneath the flexible learning project. But this flexible learning project is actually emphasizing curriculum enhancement within the environment sustainability program in the Department of Geography. Loc came up before we were even on board, before I was on board, before Derek was on board. He came up with several guiding principles for what he thought flexible learning and what an environment sustainability program should look like. One of those was open education resources. Whenever possible, we should be emphasizing adoption, adaptation, creation and overall use of open education resources. So my big contribution to this project is basically teaching, I think, faculty members, helping other postdocs, young PhD students who are going to be professors, understand how to access open education resources. On top of that, I think we're sort of on the front end of introducing open education to geography. And what do I mean by that? For me, open education is a movement. And as part of that movement, you have open science, you have open pedagogy, you have open, what's that, open education resources, right? So there's different components to open education. And as we bring that into geography, we're confronting not only some of the disciplinary ideas around what we should be doing, but also some really giant opportunities for what we can do. So one of the things I've been working on as a postdoctoral fellow here at UBC is introducing free and open source software for GIS, particularly quantum GIS as a possible learning tool within geographic information science. So we've got two research assistants and myself who've basically been rewriting a training manual using BC-specific cases so that people can learn open source software. And these training modules we've built, which will be also a training manual and hopefully one day a textbook, these are free and open to the world and they'll be presented on our department website. So that brings me to two websites that I've also been closely involved with developing. The first is called open.grwc.ca. And this is envisioned by our project team as an archive of open education resources. So what we've done is, what I just mentioned, the quantum GIS modules will be there. We're also working with Google Cardboard and Photospheres, how to do technology-assisted field trips. That'll be there. We've developed a plugin for WordPress called FieldPress, which is again an open resource. That'll be hosted there, this sort of technical background to it, installation of that. But then it'll be part of the WordPress universe of plugins that anyone can use. So all of these things are for teaching and we want to share those as part of our mandate. The second website I've been closely involved with building out is called environment.grwc.ca. And this second website also, I believe, is integral to the principles of open education and goes back to what our principal investigator, Loc Brown, sort of outlined as principles for our project. And one of those was authentic learning. So that's very important to me. I grew up in a service learning environment and I believe service learning and authentic learning really are a great marriage. But authentic learning for us means that students don't just write papers that end up being read by a TA or by a professor. It can be extended to community-based research, service learning, all sorts of other things. But if we just start from the basic principle, student assignments should be made to benefit the large public. It not only gives a benefit to the student because it allows them to show their expertise, it also increases their learning and allows them to see how interaction with the world can either provide a new venue for their project, their skills, or it can provide feedback that they can improve on the actual products that they're making. So environment.grwc.ca is supposed to host student-only creations. And right now, some of the early stuff we put on there are case studies of what we call wicked environmental problems. So which environmental problems are environmental challenges that have their heart to solve? So we have, I think, 40 or so different case studies. And that's sort of being presented as an encyclopedic resource for anyone who wants to teach about wicked environmental problems. We'll also have student-generated field trips. So students are learning how to make field trips using Google Photosphere and Google Cardboard. And we'll also have additional products as we go on through the semester. So we're hoping that both of these will be released in February and that these will all be open resources. Perfect. And so based on your experience at BC Campus and your experience here at UBC and with open and large, could you talk about some of the other opportunities that you see that exist for open practice within geography? Yeah, so that's a good question. I think geographers have the benefit of integrating human and environment. And also having this amazing geographic information science that helps us bridge issues in the human and environment world. So we also have a long tradition of getting in the field. A geographer who's not in the field often has difficulty with their own professional identity, right? So it's part of our discipline, it's part of our professional identity to go out and get dirty. Whether that means doing interviews or whether that means digging holes and taking samples and bringing those back for analysis. So in terms of open, I think there's a lot that we can do in terms of open pedagogy. We do have a large amount of topics we cover and by having this large amount of topics we cover, we can be very flexible in the type of assignments that we work with students to assess their learning. We can also be flexible about how we get out in the field. So I believe open pedagogy can play a big role in our discipline. It can actually help us reinvent some of the ways that we're teaching. And I believe we can open up a discussion with the students so that the students are really no longer students, so that we sort of overcome this student-teacher divide. And we understand that everyone in the relationship is a learner. The teacher and the student are both learners and we can explore the field of geography in that respect. I'm not sure that that totally gets at your question, but I think another avenue besides open pedagogy is the open science aspect. So open science again is, I believe, one of the pillars of open education. And one of the projects we've done here in the department in regards to open science is in our JOB 270, which is the Interjunction to Geographic Information Science. We had them do a project on the agricultural land, which is sort of British Columbia. Basically, we looked at what was being given as the estimate of the number of hectares within the agricultural land reserve. And we saw that there were roads and other types of buildings and water bodies and other things that were included and covered a substantial amount of the land that was estimated as the agricultural land reserve. So our students, as a group, it was a course of nearly, I think it's around 100 students, broke up the agricultural land reserve into 25 different subsections and they all went and they analyzed the subsections of the ALR to look at how much land in the ALR, the agricultural land reserve, is actually being used or can be used for agriculture. And we're still in the process of tabulating the results of that student work. But once we have come up with a new estimate, we hope that this student work will be able to inform public debate about the agricultural land reserve and actually give a better idea of how much land we have within the province in the ALR. So I think that's the open science aspect. We've opened up a research project. Our results and our process will be open to the public. And I think a lot of geography would benefit from that. I think it's something we can adopt right away. Perfect.  And like at times to record every 20 minutes and then it starts again. I'll make sure before you start answering the question.  So you've talked a lot about the benefits or the advantages of open education for students. Can you talk from an instructor perspective? What are some of the advantages of open practice? Yeah, for sure. That's a great question. I think most of the open education resources literature has been focused on the economic benefits for students. And I don't think there's any question that open education resources do have clear economic benefits. I think one part of the equation that hasn't been focused on enough yet. And what I want to focus on at BC campus is the idea that adopting open education resources changes pedagogy. It changes the way that we teach. How does it change the way that we teach? When we adopt open education resources, we're no longer relying on a canonical text. We're no longer relying on the textbook that's been approved and reiterated through nine editions with minor so-called improvements. We are now relying on a community of people who are collaboratively editing a text. So it's the difference between, say, Wikipedia and the quality of some of the articles in there, which is very high. And, say, it's like the Wikipedia Britannica, where you may not have as many articles and they've been through a vetting process which constrains how much information can be given for specific subject areas. So as a professor, I enjoy teaching as part of a team. And by adopting open education resources, you're becoming part of a team. You're part of a community. You're collaboratively teaching now. Another advantage is you can actually take the text and modify it to your teaching style. So I mentioned earlier, I grew up in the service learning tradition. That's how I learned. So any text that I adopt for my courses, I'd like to build in service learning components and have students be able to go out and do stuff, you know, in the community, come back and as part of our course text have reflective questions, right? So the text is tailored to me. I'm not no longer tailoring my courses to the text, if that makes sense. And I think that is true academic freedom. I believe that's academic freedom. I should say point there. Perfect. I think I have just a couple more questions. And this one definitely overlaps with your answer that the answer you just gave. But if you could just elaborate a bit more on sort of the importance of open education. Sure. So my elaboration, so cut. So open education to me, I mentioned earlier, is a movement. And one of the things I learned at BC Campus was how this movement has grown. And BC Campus, people that I work with, Amanda Kluge, Clint LaLa, Lori, Mary, there's so many people there who are doing amazing work and they've been at the cutting edge of this. So they say, you know, okay, they went to conferences five years ago and they said the University of Minnesota had a project that was helping five to eight different campuses across the country think about adopting open textbooks. Five years later, this same group from Minnesota comes back to a conference here in BC and they've got 29 universities or educational institutions that are helping adopt open textbooks across the country in the United States. So yeah, for me, I think it's a growing movement. So I think what I think about its importance has to do with faculty, our benefits to faculty, the benefits to students, the institutional benefits. A lot of institutes can actually have more of a collective memory of what was taught. They can benefit on book prices and so on. But I believe, beyond what I believe is important about open education, there's a wider social recognition that open education is a movement. It's getting bigger. And if we can be trained within open education principles, we may have a more open society. So open education links to open data, it links to open society. It links to a better democracy. It links to, I think, a better world. Perfect. And I think part of this idea of open education being a movement intrinsically implies that there is a shift happening in education as a whole. Can you talk about what you see education in the future looking like? Yeah, I get on my crystal ball. I'm not sure I'm one that I can predict what education in the future looks like, but I can tell you what I hope it looks like. And I hope it looks like this movement will continue. I hope it looks like professors working together to write textbooks that meet their individual teaching styles, that meet the learner's individual demands, and that are free. I think it's part of our job. It's part of a responsible pedagogy to do that. I do believe that education in the future, some people are afraid that everything will be online, but I know I just finished that training course. People want to talk to each other. They want to see each other. Everyone has a different learning style. Some people may be at home accessing the literature and only come in for occasional discussions, but it's part of the conversation that happens face to face, which I think is the vibrancy of education academia. And that goes all the way back to radical pedagogy and polyphery. So for me, the education of the future will probably still involve human beings together in a similar space, but I hope it involves them using open education resources. And I don't think that's as big a shift as it may sound like it is. Once people can understand the licensing and the incredible benefits that open education resources provide, I think a lot of people will come up with.


And I saw it, too, that you just raised a bunch of capital. Congratulations in January in a pre-COVID environment. Very awesome. You have some big names. How did you go about raising that round? What were the indicators from the market that you were getting that said, OK, we're in a position now where we're going to scale. We're going to get into every store, or at least try to get into every store in the United States? Sure, thanks. So 2020 was definitely a very pivotal year for our business. We started the year in about 350 stores. I was the only full-time employee. And we had big plans for the year. We knew that we were going into Target in a big way and that we were going to go into Sprouts and expand with Whole Foods. And then George Floyd got murdered. And there was this newfound desire from businesses and investors and influencers to amplify Black-owned businesses that gave our business a lift like I could have never imagined. And so we right now, in March of 2021, we're in about 6,000 stores. Our team is seven people. We're doubling that over the next couple of months. And so we're in major growth mode. And so I think it was the growth that we had over the past year that really got investors interested. And I didn't plan to raise a series A until maybe this summer, this fall. But there was a lot of inbound interest. And so I figured we should take advantage of the momentum while we have it so that we can go ahead and go into the new year ready to execute against our lofty goals. And thankfully, because we had that momentum, I got to be very selective about the partners that we work with. And so over 50% of our cap table is Black and Brown investors, which was very intentional. I think all of our investors are very mission aligned with our business, understand the importance of causes, like increasing diversity in the natural foods industry, working to eradicate childhood food insecurity and are very supportive in my mission to drive those things as we grow our business. That's amazing. Kudos to you. Congratulations. Thank you. That's exciting. We do real estate development here. And my goal for every project, so if I enter a Latino neighborhood, let's say, then I try to get to investors that are Latino, because it means a little bit more to them. And to me, that's what I'm looking for. It's a deeper connection. If you're just money, yeah, it's OK. But we're looking for more of social capital. Maybe you went to high school here.  But that personal connection to your heritage, I think, is important when you're investing, or at least in what we do, which is investing in a lot of these communities to build something and create some jobs that help at the end of the day and impact several thousands of people. I agree. I think anything that you can do to create generational wealth in your community is some more of that undue pressure and the responsibility and something I welcome that I think a lot about. Do you have a dream investor, like someone who's on your list that you'd love to have on in your next round? I think we have them. We literally, like John Foraker, who started, who scaled Annie's and ran General Mills National and Organic Business, Jay-Z through Marcy Venture Partners, Rihanna, like I couldn't ask for a more dreamless group of investors from a high profile perspective, but more from a mission alignment perspective and belief in our business. Did that surprise you? So we've talked to some people that have had the Kobe Bryant who passed. But the question I always have is, does it surprise you that, because everyone knows them in a certain way. Everyone knows the celebrity in a certain light. And not everyone knows that person only invests in vegan-based startups. And I think it's hard for people to connect the dots. And so as you were meeting some of them and taking these investor meetings, were you surprised by just their level of knowledge in spaces that maybe at the beginning you wouldn't have thought they'd know much about? I think I was just most pleasantly surprised by how mission aligned everyone was, how they cared a lot about the HBC fellowship program, the work we do around childhood food and security, how dedicated we are to making a safe and high quality product, and not necessarily like the fancy fluffy metrics. They actually cared about building a sustainable business that was going to hopefully try to make a positive impact in the world. I think that's it. Yeah, that's awesome. I think we invest in some companies and everyone asks me, oh, what's the thing you look for? And I'm like, honestly, their dedication to the problem they're solving. I don't care if they're making money or they're not there yet. It's really just based on where is this person going? What really wakes them up in the morning? And do I think that they're the best in the game? Because at some point, if there's two equal people and one person is solving a problem that's personal to them, they're going to win eventually over time. Even if they have no business acumen or even never went to college, they're going to win because they're going to figure it out because they have the energy creates discipline and they have the internal energy to want that. And so they will, at the end of the day, succeed. And it sounds so fruitful. People are like, that's it. There's no Excel sheet. There's no MRR or the run rate or the recurring revenue. I'm like, no, it's none of that. Is this problem really personal to the individual? And are they building things around them that are in line with their mission? And if not, it's pretty obvious, actually, when it's not. That's my take on it. And so it sounds like you're in the same boat. Definitely so. And you could feel it in the conversations because I feel like the investors that we clicked most with were trying to understand what drove me and who I was as a person and what my values were and what type of company, what type of leader I would be and then there were these very like transactional investors who were kind of like, well, tell me why your margin went up one point this month and then down the next point and it's just like, you were not aligned and like, don't get me wrong. I know the margin and it's important. But like finding somebody that your mission aligned with and really believes in you and what you're doing, I think is the most important thing. Yeah, it's like, do you think you can find a cheaper sugar alternative? Right, exactly. To drop, to increase margin by a penny. What would that do? And you're like, okay, wrong guy. Sorry, gotta go.


Monkey D. Luffy and Roar No Azor. Name a more iconic duo. I'll wait, except that I won't, because the most dynamic duo in all of history, fictional or real, is in fact you and the subscribe button for the Grand Line Review. Because when the two of you work together, it results in regular One Piece content being uploaded straight into your YouTube feed. Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece, and today I'd like to take the time to examine not a character, not an event, not a piece of story, but a bond. A highly underrated bond forged between the captain and swordsman of the Straw Hearts, the OG crew, Luffy and Zorro. And it might seem like a bit of a weird topic to dedicate time to, but at the same time, this relationship actually forms quite a massive core of everything that is One Piece, and apart from the early days of Romance Dawn, it almost never becomes a major feature of any arc within the series. However, it is always present, and acting very much as a backbone of this whole journey. And I think it's safe to say that without this particular duo, almost none of One Piece happens in regards to our main characters. And yes, you can say that about pretty much every member of the crew, because they have all been integral in an almost fated way to Luffy's journey. But at the same time, a lot of those are pretty super obvious. For example, without an army, they quite literally could not have gotten anywhere. In the same vein without Chopper, the crew likely wouldn't even be alive right now. And without Frankie, they wouldn't even have a vessel capable of sailing comfortably within the new world. And so on and so forth. But in regards to Zorro, his role is generally accepted to be that of a pure fighter. Technical aspects like sailing and cooking are handled by others, but when an opponent of overwhelming power appears, more than that is Zorro's time to shine. And that's not an entirely inaccurate characterization. However, such a simplification neglects the true benefit of Zorro, which is to act as a second in command and to provide a presence capable of keeping his captain in line. And no, Zorro has never actually been referred to in any capacity as a first mate or official second in command. But that does not mean that that is not the role that he quite blatantly serves. And as such, he does have a very unique relationship with Luffy in a capacity in which the two can very much be considered equals, which Oda makes clear through a variety of factors throughout the series. For example, Zorro is often mistaken as the captain of the Straw Hearts, which generally speaks to his raw presence, and also the fact that he is considered a member of the worst generation alongside his captain. Zorro is not just a subordinate of Luffy. He is a contemporary, a colleague, if you will, or in a much less formal sense, a true friend, despite the technical crew hierarchy structure that separates them. And I would describe what Luffy and Zorro have as more of a partnership. Think of some of media's greatest duos, Captain Picard and Commander Riker, Danny Crane and Alan Shaw, Goldy, Roger and Silver's Rayleigh. In each of these situations, there is a distinct technical separation. However, the bond between the individuals was always one of innate trust that forged a partnership rather than a boss and subordinate relationship. And part of the reason why this dynamic works so well for Luffy and Zorro can be seen right in the beginning of One Piece back in the days of Romance Dawn. And originally, like very originally, One Piece does sell itself as a story about Luffy, a boy entirely on his own wavelength, making his way through the world to the shock of everyone around him. That doesn't last very long though, because upon his arrival in Shelstown, Luffy immediately discovers another individual who shares his wavelength in the Green Head swordsman. And before everyone scrolls to the comments to point out how dissimilar Luffy and Zorro are, yeah, they're obviously not interchangeable beings and they do have great differences in terms of personality. However, when it comes to what actually matters, being their core beliefs, these two are entirely in sync. Think about it, both of them are incredibly similar beings, characterized by simple minds and big dreams. Here you have what is effectively two children in this gigantic dangerous world, each with their heart set on conquering their chosen aspect of it, whether that's to be the world's greatest swordsman or to become the pirate king, desires that the large majority of the planet simply scoff at. However, when Luffy and Zorro reveal their dreams to each other for the first time, it is startlingly casual. For example, when Zorro says he wants to become the world's greatest swordsman, Luffy just replies, the world's greatest swordsman, eh, that's great. And it's fitting since your new boss is going to become the king of the pirates. Anything else would make me look bad. And Zorro's response to hearing about Luffy wanting to become the pirate king is just a, huh, you talk big, and that is kind of that. From this moment onwards, these two figures acted as a multiplying factor for the other, combining their power and wills in order to push each other forward in this world. Two dreams entwined as one, which can be seen slightly further run in the series during Baratier, where after losing to Mihawk, Zorro makes the famous claim that he will never lose again, which technically true or not, serves not only as a new found resolution to his own dream, but this time it also incorporates Luffy's dream because Zorro does go on to say, got a problem with that king of the pirates and this is actually huge because it shows that Zorro and Luffy's desires have truly amalgamated. They are no longer working solely for themselves but for each other as well. And this is true for most of the Straw Hats, they do all great, they respect the dreams of the rest of the crew. And given the opportunity, they would do whatever it takes to help them achieve said dream. But this is the first tangible example of that in the series. And in many ways, this is almost Luffy and Zorro taking direct responsibility for the dreams of the other, which means that in a scenario where one may falter on that path, it is the job of the other to step in and write the situation. And in the series, this mostly comes in the form of Zorro needing to step up from time to time and use his unofficial status as second in command. And there is probably no better example of this than the water seven saga, quite specifically with the rift between Luffy and Uso. Now this is a situation where Luffy's unconventional style of captaincy came to serve as a detriment because he became embroiled in a highly emotionally charged situation and at times, he very much lost sight of his role as a leader. And the first instance of this was immediately after the physical fight with Uso. Luffy was a wreck and on the verge of complete emotional collapse. So it fell to Zorro to back him up by stating that this is the burden of being a captain. And he also then told Luffy not to doubt himself because if he does, then who could they have faith in? And furthermore, this is kind of weird to look back on, but Zorro was the one who actually made the order to vacate the going merry and stated that they could never return to the ship. He basically saw Luffy's moment being taken out of commission and immediately stepped into the role of leader to ensure that even with the ensuing chaos around them, that this crew still proceeded on the path of their dreams as best they could. And this is why it kind of works me when people say that Zorro is here just to be a fighter because he is so much more than that. It's just almost never seen because his action is rarely required, but he does effectively serve as a backup captain because as we know Luffy is far from perfect and from time to time, he will either be on the verge of making or even make great mistakes. And it is on those occasions where we see Zorro truly shine in this crew. And we can go to the end of the water seven saga to see another example of this during the moment where Usopp eventually rejoined the crew. Although this time Luffy had a solid grasp on the situation and while Luffy was pretending to ignore Usopp, Zorro was directly backing him up by also saying that he couldn't hear anything until of course Usopp offered a proper apology. And this is a much more subtle moment as is most of the Luffy and Zorro partnership but I find it so interesting that Oda chose to focus on their reactions whilst the rest of the crew was either trying to bring Usopp to their attention like chopper or just silently caught in the middle, not really sure of how to act. Meanwhile, Luffy and Zorro were on the exact same plane of thought, which is what makes them such an effective duo. I honestly don't think there is anybody else on the crew who has the ability to identify with Luffy as strongly as Zorro does.  And of course we should move to Thriller Bark to discuss probably the most obvious example of this relationship in action during the whole conflict against Batholomukuma. In this situation, Luffy had just finished dealing with Gekkomoria and he was down for the count. So the Straw Hats were in a rare situation where they found themselves without a captain. And so what happens? Well, this is another situation in which Zorro stepped up into that role by taking on Kuma and even making a deal with him, not just to preserve the life, the freedom and the dream of Luffy, but the entire crew as well. I mean, he even knocked out Sanji and very much forced him into a state of unconscious safety. And this is where that Baratier scene comes back in full force. When I said the dreams of Luffy and Zorro were now entwined, this is where that whole idea bears fruit. Because here, Zorro was more than willing to sacrifice his life and his dream for that of Luffy's, which of course resulted in the iconic Nothing Happened. But further on right before the time, skip a similar action occurred where Zorro essentially abandoned his quest and begged his ultimate hurdle, Dracule Mihawk, to train him so that he could better serve Luffy's dream. Although it's not an issue that's as simple as say Zorro finding something more important in his own desires. In effect, it's because he and Luffy have the symbiotic nature. He needed to get stronger for Luffy's sake and Luffy needed to get stronger for Zorro's sake. And speaking of, most of the examples I've given here paint a very one sided picture that seems like Zorro making very consistent sacrifice for Luffy. But that's really only because I don't think we've truly been put in a situation where Luffy has needed to act to preserve this the other way around. But there is no doubt in my mind that he would because you can see countless examples from other crew member situations. I mean, he declared war on the well government for Robin, he invaded the territory of an emperor of the sea for Sanji as well as all of our classic stories. Zorro has not required that kind of intervention because he has ultimately always been something of a wall behind Luffy, ensuring that his captain always moves forward. And apart from the battle of Aratiye, Zorro has not had a moment of pure crisis. But if he were to, then these roles would be instantly reversed with Luffy becoming a wall behind Zorro and the two would continue on into the world to cause more chaos and reach for the peak of their pursuits. And this partnership has continued well into the new world era with another example of a Zorro wall moment happening on Pankazad where after initially being beaten by Caesar, Zorro issued Luffy with a reminder slash warning that this was the new world and not to get careless. I mean, who else speaks to Luffy like this? Sure, you have characters like Nami who will always be a constant source of logic but Luffy heats the words of Zorro with a far more serious resolve. They are not the kind of statements made by a subordinate to their superior. They are the words of equals. Although sadly in the post time skip era we have had a bit of an extended period of absence from the stewar. However, that was rectified almost immediately on Wano when the two reunited and the atmosphere of the series immediately shifted. This was no longer a case of Luffy bumbling his way through the world like much of the Hawkeye Island arc. No, the moment these two joint forces again and prepared to take on Basil Hawkins was like a narrative explosion of conqueror's hockey crashing like a wave against the faces of the readers and watchers of the series. But that feeling simply would not be possible without all of the work that Oda has put into building this pair over the last two decades. No, this is not always the most focused on relationship. In fact, I would probably say it's the least focused upon and Luffy tends to have far more moments with other members of the crew but it is always within the context of this original partnership. Luffy leads the crew from the front and Zoro pushes the crew forward from behind which is probably for the best given his sense of direction. But that dynamic is of the utmost importance on this journey. There can be no Luffy without Zoro pushing him and there can be no Zoro without Luffy leading him. And by the end of the series I believe that this dynamic will be remembered as one of the most revered partnerships in the history of storytelling. But what do you guys think? Please do leave your thoughts in the comments below or even join my Discord server. And if you'd like to see more videos like this then please do go and check out some of my other content or even subscribe to the channel for more glorious one piece business uploaded straight to your YouTube feed. But for now, this has been the Grand Line Review and I'll see you next time.


Join me tomorrow as I order press briefing at 9 o'clock tomorrow on Monday as I discuss five pertinent issues in our country. The first one is being the 2020 budget that was presented by the Honourable Minister of Finance. In my view, this is a very useless budget that is not in tandem with what President Ed Galungu said when he addressed the sauna in Parliament two weeks ago. Secondly, I would like to discuss the issue of the Electro-Commission of Zambia. What law is the Electro-Commission of Zambia using to do away with the odd register? Thirdly, I would like to discuss the issue of the police summoning President Nevers Moomba. This is the intimidation of the opposition and must not be tolerated. Since when did the ECZ and the police start summoning people for their opinion in as far as election rigging is concerned? Fourth, I would want to discuss the consequence of debt repayment deferment. In my view, this will have very, very bad effects on our economy. Join me tomorrow at 9 o'clock as I address a presser at my residence in Kabulonga, Chishimbaka Mwili, NDC President, Power in the People. Thank you very much.


There's a breakfast in post-TV Africa. We're about to go through the papers this morning looking at the front pages of a National Dailies We have Chris Kende who joins the conversation in no time. Chris, it's good to have you join us Thank you for having me. Good morning. I'm Raqqa the Salah. Good morning to you Sike. All right. Happy holiday We take a look at the daily independent newspaper and the focus would be on, you know The top stories or bold caption. Buhari not part of plot to draft Jonathan into Presidential race. That's what the president says Quota to say Buhari not part of plot to draft Jonathan into presidential race It's what we're reading on the daily independent away from that you have debt toll rises to 10 in Lagos building collapse Desist from further external borrowings. Anglican say not advices the federal government I mean the fact that the church is interested is a serious issue if zoning is buried Nigeria is buried saddened middle-belt leaders tell not in elders Interesting caption. We must cut down on cost of governance says OB Pita will be also a presidential aspirant for 2023 and Kaduna train attack federal government working on savory 10 of Abducted passengers. That's what the president himself is quoted to say Reveals bandit are using abducted peasants as shield against rescue efforts. These is I mean, this is a practice is very common Three killed as sit-at-home order holds in Anambra These are the headlines on the daily independent newspaper Right away from the daily independent who will move on next to the daily Tribune The lead story for this morning Cluck at the banjo-obyosa to Neff. That's the northern elders forum Dumping zoning will kill Berry Nigeria other stories making Headlines wall press freedom day media freedom under attack in Nigeria city editors or the writer there are one federal government to make Newsprings broadcast equipment consumables tax-free FIFA finds Nigeria 63.9 million narrow for fans misconduct after Ghana March All right, God will show the way la one unported presidential ambition. I will hand over to any one Nigerians Elect, that's the president saying president Mohammed the Buhari Gunmen strike again in a number a kill policeman six others That's the wake of him the seat at home Going on there in a number of state Buhari tweets for the first time since federal government lifted ban on tweet her P2P heads for appeal court over a ruling on conduct of primary election Thank you 23 rescued in Lagos three-story building collapse Train attack bandits using captives as human shield That's according to president Muhammad Buhari. Those are the stories on the front page of the Nigerian Tribune Away from the Nigerian Tribune. Let's take a look at the nation newspaper this morning terrorists use captives as human shield says president Muhammad the Buhari That's a boat caption underneath. You have service chiefs should locate eliminate criminals IGP or IG deploys surveillance choppers Away from that boat caption and the nation you also have another head of saying campaign for APC PDP presidential ticket hot up Reschedule debts get more loans. I am of tells Nigeria really who's interest Do you have this conversation? I mean really we have to deal with I am for a very long time until we Understand that we don't need to Lagos collapse building 10 dead 23 rescued Nigeria uses a 5.04 trillion narrow annually to headache farmer conflicts Disqualified PDP presidential aspirant face panel today, and I'm sure you want to find out the outcome National assembly workers serve strike notice over wage at the time where you I mean we just celebrated workers They it's a lot to talk about but these are the headlines on the nation this morning Finally, we'll take a look at the leadership newspaper Despite PMB's marching orders to service chiefs many Nigerians still trapped in captivity Abundance prowl the North with several writers there 1,908 kidnapped 4,233 killed between January and April this year gunmen behead military couple in emo We are working on safer turn of kidnapped victims. The president is quoted in that Be ruthless on bandits terrorists army chief all these troops Most stories are world-press freedom day media freedom under attack in Nigeria according to editors PDP perspons neck meeting the first decision on zoning till May the 10th Both are reopening importers agents recount losses of two-year closure My presidential ambition mere speculation says the one death toll in Lagos building collapse rises to 10 State of the nation can the class 3 day prayers cautions politicians and Let's see. I think those are all the stories on the front page of the leadership newspaper this morning Let's have Chris came they want to join the conversation this morning We'll start off with the daily independent newspaper now Chris On the daily independent newspaper, I mean the presidency is responding to the Allegation if you like to say that's been put out that the president has a support I mean it's part of the plot to ensure that good luck Jonathan returns to the race But yeah, you have the presidency saying he has no reason I mean supporters of The former president are saying that you know all of this has been sorted out well, it's good that the president is coming out to you with that Statements because nobody weeks a lot of people believe that because of the Simile closeness of the former president Will or Jonathan to Correpres that and the way he has been frequently in Asura That is the subject support for his Ambition to Come back to office in 2023. But personally, I would just look at those things as most clean I don't see good luck Jonathan coming back for whatever reason. I personally feel that For his own integrity personality and whatever he did has done I think he's just stay out of this and just enjoy his retirement. Don't forget that the same Government since 2015 he's all his problem on good luck. You're not until today Anything that went wrong with this government Reflect with good luck. You know If there's no fuel very quiet to Jonathan the level of insecurity is Jonathan economic rules is Jonathan lack of infrastructure is Jonathan division among Nigerian Let me stay and rest of them is good. I don't know so practically if you are happy to play an individual like good or Jonathan to be the man behind all the mood Well, it's been since 2015 to date. How come we are now also try to cut his His membership to come apply the flag of the APC as it were so all these days I should have been in sick He should have been sick resort or bet to me Do not turn good luck. Do not turn yourself. It's not it's not a happy matters Remember a few days ago when some people So called supporters went to his office to protest. It was neither here nor there This he was not contest in all he said that he's consulting. I will get back to Nigeria city of course that to me Is noted That's they have left room for a stipulation bet. I'm good enough that the Government but let's quickly I mean look at this before we move away. I mean just in with the other People now. Do you think that if the presidency or the president wasn't support of Jonathan's return? He would actually own up to it. Let's also not forget that There was a time the president talked about he can't make known. I mean disclosing his favorite because You know, whoever he might be supporting might be killed these are some of the words of the president had put out prior to this time and We know that sometimes with the speculative we see a lot of manifestation. So Do you think that? This would have been different if the president was supporting would he own up to you to say that? Yes, he's supporting Jonathan to be back in the race There's no way the president will know Jonathan is not a member of the AP starting to the best of my knowledge So in what way will you come out to say support a PDP member to become the presidential flag bearer of APC? That is absolutely possible. So except we are not to that people don't have to speak up membership of APC but even at that if we decide to run it's not going to be a One a racetrack for him. There are so many other presidential aspirants In the APC so he has to go out and the slogan talk with them for For the party to pick up his presidential candidate before me as I say, I believe this is just more like a diversionary And it's mostly I don't see good luck Jonathan coming to contest the 2023 presidential election All right CK and let's stay with the daily independent There's still the talk of from zoning if zoning is buried Nigeria is buried southern a Middle Belt leaders tell it or tell Northern elders there seems to be no end in sight. It does issue of zoning Do you think it will make or my elections in 2023? Yeah, it will go a long way But my own personal concern is not even whether what not is thinking is the attitude of the leaders of the south the aspirants from the south if there's no unity or purpose among the candidates from the south southern part of the country as I'm seeing it now if the south is south west and south So I cannot come together people to forge a common force among themselves Then you can be rest assured that the presidency will go back to 2023 So it is only when those Politicians in the south leave their greed and selfishness and see that there's a That is the need for them to be able to forge a common force against the tsunami that is coming from the north Then you will see that them don't be able to get it in 20 days So irrespective of what everybody says zoning to us not zoning to us a problem is good There a problem is being created and you don't know where this is coming from some say it's from the notice Don't forget just three days ago We heard although it's a public source associated that even the senior president La one I made We'll be we'll be throwing his rights into the ring in the north. You already see people like Tambua You have seen a Ticua bubaka. You have seen a baller Mohammed and the Salaki and a lot of them saying that I'm going to contest in 2023 that business speaks volume, but in the south what we have you see also Those from the south west are not trusting those from the south is those from the south side Don't seems to be saying all sorts of things I guess those from the south ways and south west So that has become the game and where they are only Irrespective of whatever Panda for whatever says if there's those units of purpose among Politicians from the south then you can rest assured that the north which is a much much coerce Coherent Can just decide to just go go for it and the magnetic advantage of the division within the south and get it in 22 Let's also look at the nation. They talks about which structure or rescheduled debts and get more loans I mean, this is I am of speaking to African countries including Nigeria How do you react to this juxtaposing that with the fact that if you look at our debt profile right now? We're heading towards maybe 50 trillions Miss if I borrow your money, I'm gonna tell you what you could take the money to now Now so if I borrow you money, I go put my eye for the money now I borrow you say you come to borrow money from me or take money from me and that you want to use is it and Buying goods in your shop and the next night. See you at one. Oh, I'm there wearing 500,000 lids. I got asked to see waiting now. You'll get my money where I'm now So that is what is happening. He who goes abhorring where sorority if we continue as far as Africa continue to go to the IMF and International Monetary Fund the International Monetary Fund a World Bank and Western countries to borrow money. They will always determine what happens and that is where we find ourselves. So for me Way to this economic reliant I've been to be able to show that our self and handle our responsibilities as Try try as much as possible to be financially independent of most of the states Is that possible? It is not totally possible because there is no country in the world that not even the United States But the bureau understand and you use it for infrastructure What happens in Africa? Our government bureau and use it to decide to pay salaries and also to be traveling around the globe instead of investing in K infrastructure. That is very problem. So the IMF wall is determined to tell you what to do And if you don't do that, they just plug it in. They just off the plug and you'll be in jail Situations, that's the solution. We find ourselves in Africa and Nigeria All right This one seems to be taking its impact on the nation's Economy and of course so what we should be making the herder farmer conflict on the nation newspaper The nation aptly captures it this way Nigeria loses five point zero four trillion Naira yearly to herder farmer conflict How does this some P2 she can? It's part of fortunate. We know things But I don't think it used to be what I don't think the situation Is what it used to be in few years Some years back. I remember what used to happen in Benway play to Tarabah most of this other sticks and It was a very very terrible situation where farmers were killed in their farm and that's cost a lot of a lot of Problems and which especially in the North Central But I think that has really come down now. What we are facing now is banditry kidnapping And that part of those a kidnapping and vanity also involved most of the people going into the farms and kidnapping farmers and Ascending for ransom that in itself has affected the prices of good and services, which are Lee Full stop if you know what? The to bow a bit of yam costs now a bag of fries tomatoes Vegetable name them So for me, I think it's a wake up call and there's nothing that Pricing that is not to be all you need to do is to into any of the markets near you and you see the prices of Commodities have scarocketed and these are not and it's funny enough. These are not things we import We don't import most of these things. These are things that we grow here So I think we should be able to the first and foremost we need to handle this shopping security Once we can handle this issue of insecurity then There will be a growth in our economy. I'm not going to be able to die down, but are we doing the needful? I don't think so Quickly on the leadership. You also have another header that talks about border reopening as importers and agents Complain about or recounts their loss. I mean for almost You know, how many years now? What do you make of this? Firsts, what do you think about the fact that the border has been reopened? Others have queried. What was the essence of closing the border in the first instance? The question you asked yourself, we are the borders actually closed We are the border actually close. Yes, they may look Which are down on the one After but I refuse and rest of them begs for every two three I think about how many you have less than ten people that are close about six or there about you have over 1,000 Borders open so even if you close the one in same or the one By continue or what the one in Casino wherever there are still a thousand and one other routes Where people in ports or moving Smoking things into the country. We have one of the most porous borders in the world and we cannot mind them So Whether they open it or not rice are the smoke if you go to the markets all about Nigeria You see smoke would rise all of them the what's when you see the cost of doing is going Now leaving their job that is supposed to be and be going into people's shop and breaking that shop and trying to cut away Those those rice that is not the right thing to do. That's what you should be able to manage But so I believe that we should be able to equip our custom equipped in Nigerian migration service and already five agencies that That that that take care of our borders to make sure that most of these things are not Let's get into the country, but most of part of the not even if we buy the petroleum Why we have so much pressure on on the prices of people is Particularly close to about 30 or 40 percent of the petroleum that's coming to Nigeria Taking as a decontinue a smoke out of the desk to take it to me in the jail public taking to chat Republic Cameroon and the rest of them to the border and a security agency since most of these things so For me is neither here nor there whether we are closing on opening if we don't do the right foot in there So why then do we have these importers and agents complaining about the loss that they have experience? The loss they are complaining is the fact that most of these important things is telling on their own products If you are if you are given a free room for such importation like this are coming in definitely is going to affect the prices of Goods manufactured in Nigeria. So if we're bringing a box of rice That's at a very less right most of these ships to bats in a cotono And they use the land is to move it into Nigeria because they cannot move into the port and the rice coming from Thailand China Or whatever because about 18,000 Naira and the one that is producing at I at a aback leaky in a Boeing state Hey, or is a KB or whatever some of this state and it's going for about 30 28,000 27,000 Naira What you want do you think Nigerians we buy that is the situation that is what they are complaining that these borders Open a screen but what I'm saying is that whether you close the border I don't we don't close it people are still finding a way of thinking in most of this And we should find a much better way of money this but that's so that this thing can be stopped All right, Chris today is our world press freedom day Nigerian Tribune Captions this way media freedom under attack in Nigeria say editors Let's examine how the press Or how free the press has been in Nigeria since this dispensation. How would you rate it? I'm a journalist If I'm to rate it, I would say we are not doing badly Sincerely, we're not doing badly Look at what we're coming from from 1984 the digital decree for down to the military era And from 1990 90 days, I don't think we're doing bad. We can do better My problem has always been that access to information has become a big problem for us as journalists Don't forget that the freedom of information Be who are passing through law and in now most It was a journalist a media piece not immediate. It is a Nigerian bill But most of them say that as a journalist if you want to use that law to be able to assess information Especially we didn't go many agencies. There are so many hordes that you have to pass that at the end of it So, you know, we're able to do that. So I think not so much to be done to be able to Make sure that that's the access to information is a make easier for us to be able to work as journalists Then secondly for me is also The problem with most of the media houses, they are grumbling and they are practically choking so many of them cannot pay salaries of their Journalists or workers or colleagues some are going as much as 10 months 11 months 12 months alive So we will even go when you try to talk up with them. They say we are giving you a Was it an ID card which would be a mitigate for you that in this ever brought a lot of on a tickle Behavior by journalists because a hungry man is an angry man I might not be himself when he goes that day to be able to do his job I said this is that he might be able to just drop the ball. So those are the part of the Problem and say I'm also we are living in a country also just like journalists are Nigerians We are really the pains of the economy. We are feeling what is going on. So But in terms of freedom, I think we've been given a some free hands. I've been There be a situation where the government choose some agencies want to get the media here and don't forget the especially with the TV station when born come up with some laws and some sanctions on the broker stations We broke out find them certain money and rest of them, but all well and good I think we are still much much better than most African countries For now the present Quickly on the nation before we move away and call it a wrap on the paper review You have Nigerian loses five point zero four trillion narrow Annually to farmer head a conflict. Is there a possibility for us to save this money? I mean because it looks like we're losing money every other time. I Think we have discussed this initially the headers promise And I've spoken about it before quickly let me let me let me talk a bit about them the level of a security in in the south is now Since it seems not to be a beating just three days ago a couple so just we are killed and beheaded in my state of That to me is the moon crystal Act that can be performed by any what that means that the humanity in us is gone And I I hope that the security agencies especially the army would do everything my possibility fish out The people behind that starts where you did not only Kill the the couple both of them that they went out this through this member Their body and two pictures of those things and I'm splash it on social media that to me is a terrible It is it's really horrible for me. And then if you do everything money possible to make sure that those behind those Bridges yesterday again. Is it at home? So the killing in an umbrella this time what? New governor Charles Louder is doing to stem the issue of his security in under arrest it isn't that them the unknown government or non-government still had been in making sure that The states remain insecure and that brings me to the to the leaders and governments of the South East They have to come together Presently, I would say that the South West is the most secured region in this country the South West and reason for this Is because of a motorcycle a bug who was agreed and approved by the governors of the South East in now They've not done anything about it. So when they come through to talk about insecurity or treat me as myself What are they doing? Don't they say what I can't about in the south what is they are doing and making sure that They can do more and I think that's true Finally run his pillow start South Eastern governors and make sure that issue of a bug who comes to the front and that's a security agency should be put in place But back to the issue of That's farmers. I've said what we need to say. We need to spend the issue of the security across But so that people can be safe to go back to the farm if they can do that we have enough to produce and we have enough to Produce over reliance or just good for him is not in Nigeria any good So every alternative we can make to be able to make money get supporting the exchange would be good for Nigeria All right. Thank you so much Chris Kane the one do chartered mediator and conciliator Thanks for all the thought you have shared on the stories that made headlines on the front pages this morning. Would you appreciate your time? Thank you very much. I mean All right, it's still the breakfast ahead of straight to what happened this day in history and when we return we'll be having our first Conversation of the day stay with us