I've just been reading a terrific book on how postmodernism explains football and how football explains postmodernism. So the book's really about the stories that we construct. We construct these narratives, that's how we live our lives according to meanings that we construct or meanings that we believe are given to us by God or by our ancestors.  It's written by Professor Robert L. Kerr and he is at Gaylord College at Oklahoma University. He's a professor of media and law. And so this 2015 book is how postmodernism explains football and football explains postmodernism. The Billy Clyde conundrum. So Billy Clyde was the Bert Reynolds character in the 1977 movie Semi-Tuff, which was based on a 1972 novel by Dan Jenkins, who was a longtime sports writer for Sports Illustrated. Dan Jenkins wrote a story about that 1970 Super Bowl played in January 79, where the Steelers beat the Cowboys 35-1. And Dan Jenkins wanted to focus the story on how some bad calls by the ref distorted the outcome of that game. But the editor of Sports Illustrated did not approve of that at angle. This book is just so much fun to read. I love academic approaches to normal life. And the book begins with a photo of this bloke as an infant holding a football that's about two-thirds the size of him. It's like 18 months. So he says he noticed that when he writes a book that people usually want to talk to him more about why did he write the book than what the book's actually about. So in the introduction, he talks about why he wrote this book. And he recalls on a cool bright fall afternoon that he was playing with a football that was about his size. And he still has this memory when he's like 18 months or two years of age playing with a football. And so memory, we have this engaging blend of fact and fancy that imaginatively recreates for us some kind of mythical adaptation about what actually happens. So we all have memories and stories about what happened, but our memories and stories are not fully accurate, all right. But nevertheless, we tend to be incredibly devoted, intensely ferociously devoted to our stories. So he wants to write about these memories when the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow. And then another of his early memories is all the grown-ups that are family gathering are particularly animated by what's happening on this little black-and-white TV. He watches only fleeting moments, but he eventually comes to grasp that a team from the University of Oklahoma has been playing football on TV, and that's what's commanded the attention of the adults. And that stays with him. And he learned stories that his father was an all-state halfback who joined the Navy instead of playing for Oklahoma.  But then he realizes that the business model for news is dead, and so he becomes a professor. So there was a famous American historian, Carl Becker, who gave a famous speech to the American Historical Association around 1930, called Every Man His Own Historian. So his point was that scholarship is of little importance unless we transmute it into common knowledge. So writing history that no one will read is a vain and pointless business. So our protagonist here, Professor Robert Cursus, I want to write a book that people want to read. It's going to be an academic book, and it's also going to be aimed in part at a popular audience. So he wrote, How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism. So he talks about the beginning of football on American college campuses. He references Steve Arman's book Against Football. So Arman is a lifelong hardcore fan of the game who's recently turned against football. Arman has written previous books on rock and roll, on chocolate, and various other pop culture staples. So football has a narrative structure to it that's so rich that it's easy for even mediocre sports writers to give readers a sense of the thrills, spills, suspense, and athletic prowess that goes on. I mean, people respond viscerally to football as an irresistible duality. Mythic and visceral, liberal and lethal, rolled into one compact drama. Football succeeds as spectacle because the game's own structure makes narrative drama possible. And so early thinking about football was profoundly influenced by a series of books and essays about a fictional character, Frank Meriwell, who embodied manly virtues, who was essentially a manifestation of muscular Christianity. By the 1890s, there was growing pressure to completely ban football in the United States because it was too violent. But the powers that be stepped in, they made illegal some of the more violent aspects of the game. And with a few revisions, football moved on to become America's sport by the 1960s. So chapter three is called Time Runs Out on the Wholesome Warrior. So this is referring to Bud Wilkinson. So he served in World War II and he developed his coaching philosophy from what he learned in the Army. And he was the head coach at the University of Oklahoma for 17 years. He won three national championships. His team from the 50s hold the record for the most consecutive victories by a major college football team. And then after every game, he would publish a newsletter, his football letter, and he would articulate his worldview. He would promote a narrative, a story about his games. And he'd present this idealistic vision of college football as a metaphorical realm where wholesome warriors strive for collective progress. But starting about 1957, there's an entire sea change in the attitudes of his athletes. So his early athletes were all World War II veterans who were willing to sacrifice for the common good of the team. But as the team became less racially homogeneous, there were different attitudes that took over among his athletes. So his vision of raw, collectively working together for the common good was challenged by this younger generation of athletes raised on affluence on TV and on individualism instead of wartime sacrifice and collective effort. And also behind the scenes, he was quite a heavy drinker and alcohol was illegal in Oklahoma until 1957. So he was presenting this very respectable public image while at the same time he had somewhat of a problem with alcohol. He was doing deals with bootleggers to get his alcohol. So Los Angeles Times sports columnist Jim Murray wrote about him, the Oklahoma Sooners are the only team in football with a head coach who looks more like a poet than a punter. I used to cover the San Francisco 49ers in the 1980s. Bill Walsh had a similar reputation for a cognitive approach to the game. So Bill Walsh didn't engage in like rah, rah motivational talks. And so sports writers would describe Bill Walsh on the sidelines as his headphones on it looked like he was listening to Mozart. And Jim Murray wrote, but Wilkinson looks like he got lost on the way to a Browning lecture. He would write poetry for his wife. He read Shakespeare for fun. He played the organ to relax. He won loyalty from the sports reporters by inviting them to his home after a game and explaining what happened in the game to them. So they could then give their audiences the impression that they understood the game much better than they really did. So he would try to push his presentation of the moral meaning of football through his football letter narrative. Now what was not said in his football letter narrative is that much of his success was that Oklahoma had a lot of affluent oilman and these wealthy Oklahomans kept him supplied with all the cash he needed to attract the best football players around the nation. And it was quite a hard drinker. Oklahoma did not repeal prohibition until 1959, but 1957 an entirely different bunch of guys showed up and they questioned everything. They didn't see the importance of discipline. It was like a watershed in the Wilkerson era. So Wilkinson had served as an officer on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. He participated in Iwo Jima and Okinawa, those invasions. And he was assigned to the U.S. Navy's V-5 pre-flight program. So the Navy developed a training model that featured a strong athletics component, which included developing a football program. So men were trained for war through sports, just like in England. Like the future leaders of England were developed on the playing fields of Eaton, which was the elite high school in England. Trans cheerleaders are the best cheerleaders. So I love this book. Our postmodernism explains football. So one of his last All-Americans was a running back, Joe Don Looney. He was an unruly hedonist and he spent his one season on the team defying the coach. And shortly after his Joe Don Looney experience, Wilkinson retired from coaching football after 17 very successful years as the head coach at Oklahoma. And he ran for political office and just lost narrowly and he became a TV commentator. And then for two years he served as the head coach of the pro football team, I think in St. Louis. Men eat a lot of junk food watching the game. It numbs the pain of the word commercials. Clip Medley, my God. So it used to be the dominant image of the college football hero was that of Frank Meriwau. But then you had the rise of the anti-hero with the beatniks, the late 1950s, moving into the 1960s. So Joe Don Looney had such enormous talent that Bud Wilkinson tried to turn a blind eye to his troubled reputation. So Oklahoma was his fourth college in three years. He was an obsessive street fighter. He kept an elaborate gun collection in his dorm room at OU. He was a self-absorbed individualist. He became an All-American on the field. But off the field, his violence bordered on the sociopathic. So psychopathic means that I think you don't know what's right and wrong. Sociopathic is you do know what's right and wrong, but you just do what you can get away with. So he once broke in, Looney broke into the apartment of a young couple and he beat them up because they voted for Lyndon Johnson for president instead of Barry Goldwater. So Looney was like an Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando, anti-hero type. He was like a rebel without a cause. He was like the wild one. He was like some character out of Blackboard jungle. He was just a complete rebel. I eventually died on a motorcycle in 1988. Never achieved his athletic potential. So then he had one full season together. Dak Prescott really disappoints and how much he curses on hard knocks. I know it's supposed to be raw and unfiltered. That's to understand he's a role model for kids. Yes, I agree. But aside from his drunk driving conviction in college, Dak Prescott has been reasonably responsible for a pro football player. He's not quite like Russell Wilson with the Seattle Seahawks who's like always in his Bible, but overall Dak has been a pretty solid citizen. So Oklahoma was trailing Syracuse 3-0 with less than three minutes in the game in their one full season together. Looney approached the coach and said, look, I'll win the game if you just send me into play. So Looney enters the game, he delivers a 60-yard game-winning touchdown run. It's been described as the single most impressive touchdown run ever. Dak Prescott is a responsible mid-20s guys, but I don't like the cursing on camera. Yeah, I get it. So eventually Wilkinson has to kick Looney off the team for his undisciplined.  Now, what happened to Wilkinson can be characterized as the failure of his idealistic Frank Meriwellian meta-narrative, right? But Wilkinson could dismiss Joe Don Looney from the team, but he could not dismiss the future. Like, I can dismiss you from my life, but I can't dismiss the future, all right? So Wilkinson failed to sense the abandonment of the Frank Meriwell model for good sportsmanship and solid, upstanding citizen among athletes, and we see instead the development of the anti-hero. So Wilkinson ends up running for political office and he loses and he's never great again. So then 1972, we get the rise of the anti-hero in Dan Jenkins' novel Semi-Tuff, Billy Clyde Puckett, who is the running back played by Bert Reynolds in the 1977 movie Semi-Tuff. And so this is like the opposite of the Bud Wilkinson selflessness, Tom Landry, you know, wholesome Christian, muscular Christian portrayal of the football athlete. So Semi-Tuff portrays these professional athletes as pimps, as sex maniacs, as dope fiends, as violent and criminal. So all the behavior that Bud Wilkinson rejected is normal now in the world of Billy Clyde Puckett and his roommates in the Semi-Tuff novel, maybe the greatest novel written about football came out in 1972. So the players in this novel, they have no interest in moral decency, they'd simply party their way to a Super Bowl championship with a week of routine debauchery.  There is a nonfiction version of this book that was written about the same time by Roy Blount. He spent six months with the Pittsburgh Steelers and he calls this book Three Bricks Shy of a Load. It was inspired by a conversation with a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive line who told him, you pick the right team.  I'm crazy too. We're all about three bricks shy of a load. That sentence summed up my six months with the Pittsburgh Steelers team better than anything else, says Roy Blount. And the Steelers won three Super Bowls in the 1970s in large part because they were probably the most roided up steroid team in the national football league. So when the Steelers and the Cowboys would play, you'd see a dramatic difference in the physique.  The Steelers were roided up.  The Cowboys would try to win on trickery. So football was not always the most sexually charged of American sports. I mean, this really only developed during the 1960s.  But you can call Semi Tough the most complete portrait of the stud football player in American fiction. Sax is the foundation of Semi Tough. Everyone enjoys it and nobody is hurt.  There's another novel that came out at the same time. This novel had a huge effect on me. I read this novel for the first time in the summer of 1980. So I got to finish eighth grade Pacific Union College in the Napa Valley, seventh Adventist college. And then I moved to Baltimore that summer to be with my father who was preparing a defense of his heretical theological views for the seventh Adventist church. So I didn't know anyone in Baltimore. So I spent my days at the local library. And surprisingly, the black kids did not want to allow me to play basketball with them. Man, if I could have just shown them my shake and beg moves, I was shocking. I opened the door for this young black lad at the library as he was coming in and he cursed me out. And I didn't understand it. Luke thinks he's so cool because he knows how to read. And I said, why'd you curse me out? I'm just opening the door for you. And this young man was a strong embodiment of ethnic nationalism because he said to me, I hate what your people have done to my people. I've never encountered like this gratuitous racial hatred before, but I would get to encounter it a lot in secular life once I start going to a secular high school. But I read this nihilistic novel, North Dallas 40. It was a bit of a downer because I had fallen in love with the Dallas Cowboys in the 1970s when I came to America in 1977. So I read books on Tom Landry and Roger Storbach and the Cowboys just seemed like the most Christian of the teams. And so I felt like I was doing, you know, my Christian duty by supporting the Dallas Cowboys. The fall of wasp dominance in football parallels that in American society. Yeah, I've got another book on my agenda about the fall of the wasps. So it's by Michael Knox, Baron Ford. It's called Wasp, the splendors and miseries of an American aristocracy. So I was all set to read this book this morning and then I got sucked into, first of all, a book on the sociology of sports talk radio and now a book on how football explains postmodernism. So next I'm going to read a book on the wasp. So I read North Dallas 40 and all the characters, there are no heroes in this book. Like people are having promiscuous sex.  And so I mean, pro football players use massive quantities of alcohol and drugs to deal with the constant pain from injury and their fear of losing their jobs. This book was a real downer. It was, this book really shook me up. It was the most, I think it may have been the first sexually explicit book that I ever read. So I was 14 years of age, fairly lonely. So maybe this was the beginning of my learning to use fantasies and explicit depictions of sexuality to distract myself from my loneliness and dysfunction. So coaches in North Dallas 40 is modeled on the Dallas Cowboys. Peter Jen played for the Dallas Cowboys for many years. And so the coaches like Tom Landry, just part of corporate management, they view players purely in business terms and just players are just interchangeable parts to be kept around for the best price possible as long as their value to the enterprise exceeds their cost. So these players lead anxious lives in which the violence they appear to engage in on the field does not end after the game, but manifests itself in all sorts of ways off the field in parties. And I mean with their spouses. So players bottle up their frustration and then deal with it with amphetamines, lecker and adrenaline. So there are more punches thrown between player and wife than there ever are between player and players. So Peter Jen, the author of North Dallas 40 never writes such a powerful book again. It's funny that the Cowboys in the 60s and 70s, the ones with the most straight laced public figure according to Skip Bayless were the ones most likely to be indulging in massive amounts of drugs. And those with the most hippie counterculture figure were the least likely to be engaging in drugs. That's in Skip Bayless's book, God's Coach, that book twice about Tom Landry. So this book was a real downer. It talks about the pro football experience. The first hours of the morning are always the most miserable. Getting arthritic joints, torn muscles, traumatized ligaments, warm took at least an hour. Large quantities of blood and mucus had to be emptied from my head. And so the book, the demise of the central character here plays out in a climactic clash between this wide receiver and the Tom Landry light coach. So the Tom Landry coach says, football is other things besides ability. It's about dedication and discipline. And the player says, look, I can barely stand up. I can't breathe through my nose. I haven't slept for more than three hours at a stretch in over two years or from leaving pieces of me scattered on playing fields from here to Cleveland. Isn't that giving back? And the Tom Landry coach says, you must live by the rules that are being built up over the years by people who love the game and who have sacrificed it.  The player says, you guys change everything. Now this game has become a corporate enterprise. And the coach says, you think there's something wrong with winning. I won't tolerate that. Winning is the most important thing. The sacrifice and responsibility that must be shorted to win are what make men, what makes this country the greatest country in the world. So Peter Gent, the author of his own injuries from the game included three ribs detached at the spine, permanent damage to several vertebra, lingering paralysis on the left side of my body. He died in 2011. So New York Times obituary caught his book, one of the first providing unsettling views of pro athletes that went beyond the game details. And near the end of his life, Peter Gent said that despite the physical toll, football held the same power over him that it does to millions of other Americans. It was violent. It was cruel. It was insane. And I loved it. We hear so much about how heterogeneous white communities are. But imagine how insulated that black guy must have been to see 40 is the embodiment of slave driving. I was in eighth grade. I wasn't wearing a yarmulke. I didn't convert to Judaism for another 20 years. All right. So the real life antihero that rose to prominence in professional football 1960s was Joe Willie Namath, who played quarterback for the Jets and then for the Los Angeles Rams. And then Dick Butler is probably the most famous linebacker in American history, still celebrated for his savagery. He would just twist opponents as if he could snap that person in half, take them over the sideline and drop them in a garbage can.  When he tackled people, he didn't want them to get back up. He just kept banging them and banging them. So at the University of Oklahoma in the semi-tough era of the 1970s, a young coach took over and won games at a rate that would top even Bud Wilkinson's years. And he did it by demonstrating how comfortable he was with the Billy Clyde Puckett model from semi-tough.  So he was named head coach in 1973. His fun loving freewheeling style helped him to relate to that era's players, won three national championships, recorded 12 more wins in one last season than Bud Wilkinson. So he says the university president taught him in the mid-1980s after a season in which he lost four games that he needed to go to church more often and marry the woman he was dating. But the president says if you go 10 wins and two losses next season, and as long as you beat Texas and Nebraska, you don't have to attend church and you don't have to get married and we won't fire you.  So Barry Switzer was expected to pay lip service to all the high sounding ideals. But what really comes down to is money and winning. Those two things control everything. So Switzer referred to the expectations created by Bud Wilkinson's success as the Oklahoma football monster. It is real, it is huge, it is hungry and my job is to feed it. And Switzer's most famous Billy Clyde character in the mid-1980s was Brian Bosworth who was eventually banned by the NCAA for steroid use. But he was the most famous player in the game at the time. He was called Barry Switzer in uniform.  Now eventually Barry Switzer's career at the University of Oklahoma ended because there's a rape and shooting in Bud Wilkinson's house, our football dorm. His quarterback was arrested for selling cocaine to an undercover cop. The NCAA charged our football program with 16 rules violation and put us on three years of probation. And Sports Illustrated did a cover story with the caption how Barry Switzer soon has terrorized their campus. So another failed narrative, the Frank Marywell narrative didn't hold up for Bud Wilkinson and the Billy Clyde narrative didn't hold up for Barry Switzer. Now if there's anyone who comes close to the Frank Marywell muscular Christianity ideal of professional football player, the one player has probably come closest to that is Roger Storbach. He was the Dallas Cowboys quarterback who won two Super Bowls. No one's going to find anything wrong with him because he does everything right. That's Cowboys safety Charlie Waters. And Mike Dick has said if you depict the prototype great American I would say that is Roger Storbach. And Troy Aikman, former Cowboys quarterback said Roger Storbach is everything that people think he is. So in the Billy Clyde era of professional football figures like Roger Storbach and Tom Landry stand out as exceptions. I mean Coach Jimmy Johnson is much more like Billy Clyde. Like he encouraged his teams to gloat to run up scores on their opponents and not worry about social niceties. So he was called pork faced satan. And the now retired Jimmy Johnson hates the person that he had to be back then. So this book remember it's called how postmodernism explains football postmodernism means that none of our stories are adequate to reality. So if there is perhaps one underlying theme to my shows, it is to encourage a little distance between ourselves and the narratives that we love to encourage some introspection on why do I love this narrative? That why do I have so much disgust and hatred for competing narratives? And why do I need this narrative? Like what does this narrative do to me? Do for me? Now why do I love this particular text? Now why is it that this particular story about how the world works is something that I cling to so tightly and reject any any challenge? Billy Clyde model owner in the NFL probably the biggest was Al Davis. He branded and marketed his team the Oakland Raiders as the villain. Raider rule number one, cheating is encouraged. Raider rule number two, see rule number one. So the the Oakland Raiders in the 70s, their defensive players were called by I think the head coach Chuck Knoll or the Pittsburgh Steelers, the criminal element in the NFL. Now again, this narrative, the Billy Clyde narrative doesn't work out for the Raiders either. Lyle Alsado, he won a Super Bowl ring as a defensive end for Al Davis as Raiders and he would see about how he loves playing this violent game. Lyle Alsado was responsible for the NFL instituting a rule against players using helmets as weapons after he did just that in a Savage 1982 game. I love the NYPD blue. What does it mean? I back the blue no matter how corrupt. It means that we all need narratives, right, to give our lives meaning and order. Reality is so confusing and contradictory that we have to impose narratives on it to provide ourselves with a sense of comfort and meaning. So perhaps just have a little bit of meditation on how important narratives are for me and for you. So you're trying to say is NYPD blue? Is that a show? You don't mean Hill Street Blues. I just started watching Hill Street Blues from the 1980s. But then Lyle Alsado died. He publicly admitted that his career was based on a massive use of illegal anabolic steroids. It was his deal with the devil.  And then there's Jerome Brown, right, superstar lineman and Mark Bowden, author of what's that book about war in Africa where all those Americans got killed, the helicopter Black Hawk down, Mark Bowden, right, Black Hawk down.  He was a defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles. And he played at the University of Miami and he eventually died in an automobile accident at high speed. So he lived his life, breaking the rules, staying out late, skipping class, juggling girlfriends, drinking too much, driving too fast, blasting his music through the center of town, finishing off into the thick Florida Ville with his collection of high-powered automatic weapons, partying, partying, partying, rolling in snatch, living to the hilt until one summer day he crashes one of his six sports cars into a Florida palm tree and dies at age 27. There's just one of many young men who get paid extraordinarily well to play a violent game. So these football stars have performed a kind of end run around or a bull rush through all the truisms of America's creaking dusty Protestant ethic, writes Mark Bowden. Mark Bowden Demonstrating that just by playing that game, well, one can succeed in life brilliantly without ever doing homework. Oh, Hill Street Blues as Dennis Franz's big show, Horizon NYPD Blue. I didn't realize that NYPD Blue was the was the show. Meditate on the inadequacy of narratives long enough and only nihilism makes sense. Yeah, that's why you don't, there are lots of things that are great in moderation or even in mild amount and everything comes with dangers. Certainty comes with dangers, uncertainty comes with dangers. There's no answer that doesn't come with dangers. So I'm not pushing the postmodern approach that there is no truth. I'm just saying it helps to have some awareness of why you love a particular story and how you might benefit by considering that there are other stories that are equally or even more useful than your story. So apparently NYPD Blue ran from 1993 to 2005. But yeah, you can overdo postmodernism. You can overdo fundamentalism. You can overdo certainty. You can overdo uncertainty. You can overdo nihilism. All right, there's nothing that you can't overdo. You can even overdo crystal light classic orange caffeine free. So good, particularly when it's ice cold. This is a fun book. How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism. Call on the Billy Clyde Conundrum 2015 book. Bye-bye.


The horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty Hio Silver, the lone ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Toto, the daring and resourceful mask writer of the planes 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. A lot of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse, Silver. The lone ranger rides again.  Jack Ingram had fought in the War of the States. When the war was over, he was mustered out in Washington. Then by rail and stagecoach, he set out for home in Texas. The trip had been a long and hard one, but it was over. There was quite a crowd waiting in Sackville when the driver rained up. Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Here we are, soldier. This is Sackville. And for me it's home. Hi there, Joel. Hi. Is anyone on board? What do you mean am I on board? Hi there, Jack. Welcome. Good to see you. Hi, sir. Hi, John. Here. Get out of the way. I gotta see my boy. Jack. Oh, go on, Jack. Welcome back. Oh, God, it's swell as he was. Come on. Don't waste time. I got the buckboard over here. All right. I'll see you later, fellas. Still rough over, will you? All right. You're looking good, Dad. That's a darn fit, but you know what? I don't look good. Neither does any other Kettleman. We're worried plum-sick. But get aboard the rig. We'll talk while we ride. Yeah. How dandle, Lorraine. Yeah. How's that, Dan? Good. Get up there. I was hoping the stage would be on time. Some Kettleman meeting at our place. You know, son, this part of Texas is in bad shape. I heard something about your problem. You see, son, during the war, we were too short-handed. We couldn't call the Kettle and we couldn't ship it. Couldn't do a thing, but leave it alone and let it increase. The price away down? Down. My son, there's no market at any price. What? There's a market in the north. Sure. There's a fine market there. That's why we're meeting. There'll be a gent by the name of Tom Gannon at this meeting. He's got an idea, some sort. Where's he from? Somewhere north of here. I don't know what his plan is, but I hear it's a good one. Well, slap them horses, son. Come on.   When Lem and his son reached home, they found ranchers already assembled for the meeting. Lem joined his friends while Jack went to his room to wash away the dirt of traffic. Then the young ex-soldier went to the ranch house living room to join the men. That's the reason I went, Jack. Oh, here's Jack. Well, Jack, meet the Kettlemen. I know some of them, Dad. Hello, Bill. And this here is Tom Gannon. How do you do, Gannon? Well, glad to know you, Jack. Son, Gannon's got a crackin' fine idea. And Hank Finney's the only one against it. My idea's a simple one. You see that map there, Jack? Sure. Now, up here in the north, there's a fine market for cattle. The big problem's to get the cattle up there. You see, Jack, I, too, have cattle. My ranch is marked out here on the map. It's on a direct line between you ranchers and the northern market. I mean, and we'd have to cross your land to get to the market. Is that it? To the left of my land are these mountains. They'd make a cattle drive in that direction too difficult. And to the right to the east. You can see how far around you'd have to go. Sure. We're going to cross Gannon's land. The only reason there's a problem about crossing my ranch is the canyon, a bad canyon without a bridge. According to this map, the canyon runs through your land. That's right. I own both sides of the canyon. If the canyon were bridged, your problem would be simple. Our problem would be simple. You see, Mr. Gannon has a lot of cattle on this side of the canyon there and no way to get it north. I'd build a bridge, but I can't afford it. It wouldn't be worthwhile for my few thousand heads but it would be worthwhile if there were enough steers. Well, then why not all chip in and build a bridge? Hey, you see, Gek's got a good head. He put his finger on it right away. That's just a plan. I'm still set dead against it.  You've got no reason. I've got it right to my opinion and I'm against it. Hey, Hank, what's wrong with Gannon's idea? Hey, look, Gannon come all the way down here with that idea he has. He must have some darn good reason for being so generous about his idea. He's been so generous about letting our longhorn to cross his lane. You're right, Fenner. You're exactly right. I thought so. I have a selfish motive. I did come a long way to get you men to chip in on a bridge. Why? Because I too need a bridge. I have cattle south of the canyon. I want to sell them. That settles it. I'm for chipping in right now. Now, here's what cash I've got with me and I'll get more when the bank opens in the morning. Carol, my cash. Here's mine. Me too. I'll get mine when the bank opens. Oh, come on, Fenner. What about you? Yeah, what about you, Hank? Boys, I've always been governed by the rule of the majority. That's the stuff, Hank. You all think it's a thing to do. I'm with you. Good. That makes it unanimous. That's fine. That's fine. A short time after the men left. What's the matter, Sharon? You don't look too well pleased about the way the meeting turned out. I did. Tom Gannon is too slick-looking. He's too willing to be helpful. I'll bet he's got something up his sleeve. A week after the meeting at Lem Ingram's ranch, a crew of men were at work on the heavy bridge across the canyon. The Lone Ranger's nephew, Dan Reed, and his Indian friend, Tonto, had been following the southern ridge of the canyon for some distance. When they came upon the construction work, they reigned up to watch. Oh, thank you. Tonto, see how many men are at work? There must be in a rush to get that bridge done. Ah, bridge here. Plenty good things. Isn't it slick the way they drop those timbers into place? Can't we watch them work for a little while? Well, maybe better we cut south and go on, Dan. Mass-framedis and camp tomorrow morning. Yeah, I suppose we'd better. But he's talking dust, Tonto. How do you two like to earn some cash? We need more men on this bridge. Well, golly. Well, plenty of fellow there now. Why, you need more. Mr. Gannon wants it done as soon as possible. We can use all the help we can get. Oh, when we travel south, here, suit yourself. Are you coming back this way? We don't know. Well, if you do, you won't find a sure to cut to the north than the Gannon bridge. You might spread the word through the cattle country. All right. Just tell everyone you see that the bridge is ready for business in another week's time. You say business? That's what I said, business. Mr. Gannon's not putting this bridge up for the fun. Everyone who uses it will pay. Dan, it'll be worthwhile paying to get the cattle through to the north. Oh, I see. We'll tell the people we meet about it. We go now. Come down. Right. Come on, Victor. Get them up. Come. The following morning, when Dan and Tonto joined the Lone Ranger in camp, they told about the Gannon bridge. It was sure slick the way the engineers went at it. I'd like to watch them longer. That's right. Dan, did you say there was to be a charge for the use of Gannon's bridge? The man we talked to said that everyone would pay to use the bridge. He said Gannon hadn't billed it just for fun. But Gannon didn't pay for that bridge. Oh, he didn't? No. It was paid for by the cattlemen around Sacville. That's south of here. Well, that's where you went to see if anything were being done about the surplus cattle. Yes. I learned they have heard about the market in the north. The bridge on Gannon's property, they'll be able to move their cattle up there. But having paid for that bridge, they don't expect to pay toll to Gannon for its use. Well, maybe Gannon not charge those men. I'm going to find out. I might ride north to Gannon's bridge and see what I can learn. No, Dan, I'll go. But you were supposed to meet someone this evening. Our friend Don Alfredo. We were to meet him in four corners. Well, I'm going to Gannon's bridge. You and Tonto meet him. Stay in four corners with him, and I'll join you as soon as possible. Well, we meet him. He's one of the most important men in Mexico. Dan, you'll be interested in some of his stories. I'll bet. If Gannon is on the level, I'll probably meet you sometime tomorrow morning. If he isn't, I'll be delayed a little longer. And what you do? If Gannon's planning to charge those cattle and to cross the bridge they paid for, you'll have to know about it. I'll settle up for you. You'd better get a little rest, Dan. You belong right ahead. The afternoon was well advanced when Gannon rode up to the canyon and dismounted beside his foreman to inspect the bridge. They're in a lot of headway today, Mr. Gannon. Yes, I see they have. Of course, the fact that there was a footbridge helped a lot in lugging stuff on one side or the other. They'll finish on time. Well, they sure they will. I'm not worried about it now. And we'd better start signing up some extra men. More bridge workers? No, no. When the bridge is done, we'll need gunslingers. Hey, boss. Well, turn around and take a look at the rider. The white horse is coming this way. Is that a mask on his face? It is your arm-seeing things. It is a mask. Got your gun handy? Sure, I'm ready. Whoa, whoa, whoa, easy, boy, easy. That's near enough, mister. Put your gun away. I didn't come here to make trouble. The gun stays where she is until we know your business. Easy, big boy. Mr. Gannon. That's my name. What's the mask for? What's the mask generally for? To hide my face. For the present, not just as soon, you didn't know who I am. Dodging the law, mister? No. Gannon, if you expect to collect bridge toll from the Sacville ranches, you'll probably have trouble. I can handle any trouble that comes up. I guess they'll pay to get their cattle through to the north. What if they try to cross the bridge without paying? What if they do? You'll need a few fighting men, won't you? Total collectors, we might call them. Oh, looking for work? What's the pay? $5 a day in cartridges? That's not very much. It won't be much to the job. Besides, mister, you won't be expected to go outside the law. You see, the law is on our side. Of course, you might be uncomfortable working on the side of the law. I'll think your proposition over. Meanwhile, I wonder if the Sacville ranches are going to start out with the impression that they'll be able to cross this bridge without paying. By the time they travel this far, it'll be cheaper to pay than to hit the back trail. Yes, you're probably right, Gannon. Of course, if they were warned before they leave the Sacville neighborhood, it might be different. We wouldn't like to have them warned, mister. I can understand that. Eddie Silver? Hold on. Yes? Which way are you traveling? South. I'm sorry, stranger, but we'll have to argue that point. I wouldn't want you to go and warn those cattlemen. Are you going to try to prevent my leaving here? Something of a sort? Aren't you assuming a lot of authority, Gannon? This shooting iron gives me the authority. And this one backs them up? Unbuckle, stranger. Unbuckle that belt and let it drop to the ground. Then you can unmask and we'll see what you look like. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. Gannon and his foreman Jake were determined that the masked man would have no opportunity to carry his information to the cattlemen. You heard what my boss said. Unbuckle that gun belt. You think you can capture me and get away with it? I don't want to hurt you, stranger. On the other hand, I'll go a long way to make sure those ranchers don't change their plans about going north. I'll drop the gun belt. Gannon, what if I refuse? What would you do about it? Jake knows what to do. I'd let daylight through you. With all the men working on the bridge over there as witnesses? Your mask. Masked man has generally looked down as a crook. The shooting of one isn't questioned very far, especially when you're on my property. I wonder if you'd really shoot me. If you're not quick about taking that gun belt off, you'll find out. Uh, have either of you noticed my horse? What about your horse? When men hold guns on me, he moves into position, ready to attack when I give the word. When you give the word? Adam Silver! Silver charging from the side struck the two men, knocking them off balance. In that instant, the Lone Ranger whipped out a gun and closed in. Jake fired, but an instant too late. The Masked Man's bullet got there first, creasing the foreman's gun arm. Then the Lone Ranger's fist found Gannon's unguarded jaw. That'll hold you. Easy, big fella. Where's my gun? Where'd I drop my gun? Get him, boss! Get him! Yeah, that ordinary... He's too far. My arm, boss! He greased my arm! Yes, and nearly smashed my jaw. But I'll get him, Jake. I'll get that Masked Man if it's the last thing I do. Jack Ingram and his father were but two of the many ranchers who were covered with sweat and dust, but happy in the action of a roundup. Hey, Dad. That man coming here, he isn't one of the herders. But look, he's masked. Hey, there, stranger, watch that mask, please. Easy, big fella. I'm looking for the owner of those Lone Horns. That doesn't answer my question. Well, E.J., maybe you don't do it. We own some of the kitties, mister. Why? Are you driving them across Tom Gannon's bridge? You bet we are, and there'll be men enough to meet any gang that has ideas of interfering with us. Did you help pay for that bridge? Yes. Why? Gannon plans to charge you a toll for every head of cattle. What? Why, that dirty- Hey, he can't do that. We gave him the money to build the bridge. If he's planning to do it, you'd better check up. I don't believe it. All right, suit yourself. You've been warned. Leaving the vicinity of Sackville, the Lone Ranger joined his friends in camp near the town of Four Corners, which was located about halfway between Sackville and the Gannon property. Don Alfredo, a gentleman from Mexico and a friend of the Lone Ranger, had been with Dan and Toto for several days. Oh, sir, for who? He's a very big fella. Where is Toto, senor? Come with me. Very sorry to keep you waiting so long, Don Alfredo. He's nothing, amigo. Time by lots of it. Have you been up near the Gannon place all this time? No, Dan. After leaving Gannon's place, I rode south to Sackville. Then you passed through here? Yes, I. Didn't stop because I was in a hurry. I told the cattleman that Gannon planned to charge for the use of the bridge. Dan and Toto have told me of the plans to move the cattle north. How will the cattlemen do? I think they'll move their cattle in spite of what I told them. They must. There's nothing else they can do if they hope to find a market. And they will pay the toll at the bridge? I doubt it, Don Alfredo. They'll fight first. Oh, and senor Gannon, what of him? He'll fight back. He's hiring Gannon for the purpose. Oh, perhaps the ranchers will do well to pay the toll. They spent their money to build the bridge. There's no reason why they should pay to use it. Oh, senor. I meet you here to ask you to take me to your governor so I might negotiate. I think I have the problem. Just nothing. Please forget my problem. You are the greater one. I'll see that you get to the governor, Don Alfredo. But I'd like to stay in this vicinity until we see how the cattle drive turns out. Gali, I wish there was something we could do. Nothing we can do. I've been thinking. I... perhaps there is something. It was late afternoon, two days later. Jack Ingram and his father had ignored the warning of the Lone Ranger and rode at the head of a vast herd of longhorns, the combined stock of a dozen ranchers. They rained up at Gannon's bridge. Gannon was there to meet them, flanked by heavily armed men. There they are again. Well, here we are right on schedule. Glad to see you, Ingram. There's all the longhorns. Well, I've got the tally sheets here. We'll count them as they cross. A toll is two bits a head. What's that? What toll? What do you mean? I'll take it in cash or cattle. I'll allow a dollar and a half for each longhorn. Gannon, you took our money to build this bridge. You said you had cattle your own you wanted to move north. Sure I have. It's on the east range. I'll move it after yours is gone. The understanding was that we could use the bridge. No, you can't. I didn't say you could use it free. You can't do this. The sheriff says I'm within my limits. All those men on the north bank and these alongside of me are sworn in as deputy sheriffs. If you fight, you'll fight lawmen. Hey, boss, in Gannon. Yeah, what is it, Jake? There's some chance to speak to you. Think it over, Ingram. Discuss it with your friends and let me know. I'll be back. Why, in Gannon. 100 yards north of the bridge, two men who looked like prosperous Mexican ranchers awaited Tom Gannon. Don Alfredo was just what he appeared to be. The other man was the lone ranger wearing clothing borrowed from the Mexican. His unmasked face had been darkened with stain and his horse Silver, covered with the dust and mud of travel, was hardly recognizable. Did you gents want to see me? Senior Gannon, I am Don Alfredo Mendo. Oh, sure enough. I've heard about you. I guess you're about as big a rancher as there is to be found south of the border. This is my friend who will speak for me. Then y'all, we see all the livestock over south of the canyon. Well, you have a mucho. You've been looking for cattle to buy? Oh, I can always use good cattle in Mexico. It would be good to be back home after so long a time. You're coming down from the north, huh? Yes, senor. And up there, long? Oh, much longer than we had planned, senor. I had thought to take back with me to Mexico some stock from the states. How much do you figure to pay? Well, north I hear a good steer bring up or a fifty dollar. Oh, that is a little more than I would like to pay. Perhaps if I were to buy several thousand heads. Several thousand? I suppose you'd be willing to go as high as forty dollars? Do we pay as possible? Just excuse me a minute till I speak to my foreman. Come over here, Jack. They've been up north so long, we don't know cattle. They'd be bought south of here for about two dollars ahead. You'll find out soon enough when they talk the angriom and the rest of the ranchers on the other side of the bridge. Mars, they think you own all that cattle. Listen, Jake, there's a chance for me to unload all my stock over on the east range while those ranchers are close by. Especially if the Mexicans cross the bridge and look their livestock over. Listen, Jake, you take those two up to the house and entertain them. I'll get all the other stock out of the way. I could want to do as I say. Keep the Mexicans busy. I'm going across the bridge, all right? Senor Alfredo! The boss wants me to take you and your friend over to the ranch house. Ganon looked back when he reached the south end of the bridge. To his satisfaction, the men in Mexican attire were moving toward the ranch house with Jake. How to get rid of the others. He advanced toward a group of ranchers that included Jack Ingram and his father. Yes, I've thought things over. Maybe I was wrong. After all, you men did pay for the bridge. Go ahead, move your stock. Without paying toll? Yes. Take them over the bridge and run them north. You'd better do it right away before I change my mind. He hear that, boys? Go ahead. All right, let's get going. Come on, boys. The lone ranger, disguised as a Mexican and Don Alfredo, had been in Ganon's house for some time. Listening to Ganon tell story after story and otherwise play the part of a host. They could also hear the movement of a great herd of cattle. When the last of the hoofbeats faded into the distance, the lone ranger said, That was a lot of cattle being moved, senor. Yes, a lot of it. Moving north. Yours? Oh, no, no. It's ranchers to the south. They're taking it to north of the panhandle. Oh. We might have dealt with those ranch shallows. Well, you wouldn't want none of that livestock. It's gaunted for lean pasture. Now, as to the stock, you won't. Oh, there is a matter of price, senor. Sure, I'll make that right.  It is too much. Four. I said 40. I said $4 a head was too much. What do you think, Don Alfredo? Oh, I would say, $2 is a good price. Oh, wait. Hold on a minute. $2. There is much cattle south of here near the border. But you two said you'd pay $40. Senor, you misunderstood. We said it was possible. Well, perhaps another time when the market shoes improved. But now, oh, no, no, Senor. Boy, you... Hey, boss. Thank you for your armories. What about them, Jake? I was walking their horses over. Underneath the dirt and dust of that man's horse, I saw something I recognized. What do you mean? You remember that masked man who creased my arm and cracked you on the chin? Yes. But his horse is outside. What? That's right, Gannon. Boy, you... That's the voice. The mask man. You are... Now! Are you... I've fixed you. And again... That's it. Are you... Gannon, when you saw a chance to unload your cattle at a high price, you were quick to get the ranchers out of the way before we could learn the true value of cattle. My men are coming. They heard the gunfire. They'll get you, too. Have to catch us first. Come on, Alfredo. The government. Here they come. This way, Alfredo. Get to the horses. I can't run any faster. You all right when we reach the horses? Those men are on foot. They can't shoot straight while they're running to catch us. Come on, the horses are fast. Easy, big fella. All right, get going. Get up there. Come on. When Gannon saw the lone reindeer and Alfredo right away, he knew that they'd made good their escape. He closed the door with a heavy sigh. Ah, no use, Jake. By the time my men get horses, those two will be in a hilt. Two cracks at the jaw. Yeah, look at me. Both eyes brushed by bullets. Oh, that dog-gone, fast-shooting mask man. What's that, Gannon? A bullet. Here, where he was sitting.  If only we'd found out sooner that he carried bullets like this, made of silver. I'd have suspected a trick to get those ranches across my bridge. Jake, the deal I got was typical. It was just what I'd have expected from the lone ranger. This is a feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated. Created and produced by George W. Trendle and directed by Charles D. Livingston. Tonight's story was written by Fran Stryker. The part of the Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beamer.


Good morning, my name is Lance Corporal Brown, and I'm from Marine Forces Pacific Band. And today I'm out here competing in the United States Marine Corps Marksmanship Competition, the Precision Rifle. I was invited to participate in the Marksmanship Competition for Hawaii, and then after getting a bronze medal there, I received an invitation to come out to Quantico. So in the five minute prep time, I'm trying to get a game plan in my head for which targets I want to shoot first, round counts of ammunition to make sure that I'm conserving ammo in the best possible way, and then finding the holds and the reticle to make sure that I can adjust for things like distance or wind.


The next spot like Terrorade Event featuring Delly Bird is now live in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, we're going to cover all of the details in today's video. But before we get into the video, please subscribe to the channel, remember you can always unsubscribe later if you would like to. The latest Terrorade Event is based all around Delly Bird and is running over this coming weekend over the holiday period. So without further ado, let's hop over to Serabie and take a look at all of the details for this particular event. So the event itself will be running from December the 23rd as of recording this video until December the 25th from Friday to Sunday. You're going to be able to keep this in your game if you don't go online after this event ends. You'll be able to keep this until you do next go online to bear that in mind. The event ends themselves will be ranging from one star Delly Bird raids right up to five star Delly Bird raids. So depending where you are in your playthrough, depending on the gym badges you've got on your progress through to your story modes in the games, this will dictate what star rating you will have access to. So if you've got access already to five star raids, you've finished the games and you've got six star raids, you're going to have access to three, four and five star Delly Bird Terror raids. If you haven't complete the game yet and you've only got a set number, law number of gym badges, then you're only going to have access to the one to impossibly three star Terror raids. So these raids don't look like they're shiny locks. There is a chance that you can get the Delly Bird in its shiny form. So that's something to think about. Although it will be full odd. So one in four thousand ninety six, if you do get it, you're very lucky. And it is a very nice holiday gift. The Terror type for all of these will be random. So you'll be able to identify them like you identify the other Terror raids spotlight dens in the map area where they do have that kind of wide glowing aura around them. But their Terror types can be completely random throughout the map. The one and two star raids will have the standard ability where the three to five star raids will have the chance to have the hidden ability for Delly Bird as well. They're all going to have the move, present ice punch, swift and quick attack are the moves predominantly on the one and two star raids. And then you're going to get the three star raids with present ice punch, swift and drill pick four star raids are going to have present ice punch, swift and icy wind. And then you're going to get the five star raids with the more fleshed out move sets with present blizzard, swift, air slash and the additional move of icy wind. And that's going to be for both five star Terror raids. So the item drops even for the one star and two star raids are pretty good. You're going to get a mix of candies, so small and medium candies are what you're going to get. You're going to get the materials for Delly Bird as well and a bunch of berries, stardust and feathers. You do get higher value items when you go into the three star raids. You're going to get larger candies and medium candies with the added bonus of terror shots, as well as additional candies and the berries, nuggets and red shots, as well as those feathers for star raids. You're going to get additional candies. You're going to get pretty much the similar things as the three star raids. But you're going to get a few additional items here, then you would have got and the larger candies, which aren't available in any of their last star rating then then we get in to the five star raids. And this is where the item drops really get very interesting. So you're going to get a mixture of different terror shots for different terror types when you go into these dens, which is really interesting. So you can see you're going to be guaranteed three large candy, two Excel candies, then you're going to get the materials for the Delly Bird itself. And then you can see you're going to get two terror shots of the current type. You're going to get five terror shots of different types. And as you saw from the terror that we did, we didn't get grass, water and fire. We did get a variety of different types, but we did end up getting five of each one. You get additional candies. You've got the chance to get a rare candy in here as well as EV reducing berries, red shard, pill string, nuggets and then nature mints as well. You're going to be able to have the chance to get PP ups as well as bottle caps. More terror shard drops with a percentage and ability capsules as well in the five star terror aids, which is really nice. And I would assume for the terror shards that you're going to get the additional ones that you're going to get in each den. So it looks like for the five star raids, you're going to get three additional terror shards and you get five of each of those three additional terror shards that you are going to get as well as the same type terror shards that you will get for the deli bird den, whatever type it is that you've just defeated. So you're going to get a whole bunch of terror shards from these five star raid dens, which is absolutely incredible, as well as all the exile candies as well and the added bonus of getting ability capsules, bottle caps and a bunch of high value items. So these are very good dens just to take part in. And I really feel like these dens are not going to be difficult. Deli bird is not a strong Pokemon. It's based that total is extremely low. If we look at it down here, I think it's in the three hundreds. Is it? Yeah, three hundred and thirty based that total. So even at level seventy five, as long as you've got a level 100 raid month ready to go, you're going to be able to take this down. No trouble at all, even if you are weak to some of its attacks, because it's just not going to be hitting hard enough. So if you've got Pokemon like Nihilip and things that we've covered on the channel before, you should be pretty safe going up against these deli birds and making quick work of them. But like I say, the event itself runs from December the twenty third to December the twenty fifth. So you've got a little bit of time to take advantage of this one and make sure that you do get a lot of these amazing item drops while the event is running. So once you're in your game, you want to come to the poker portal and like with the other raid events, you want to come down to mystery gifts and then come down to check poker portal news. That's one minute past. So I'm hoping that the updates are live now. They should be. They should be. Hopefully. OK, two minutes past. But that is all of the dens updated now. So if you come on to your map, you should be able to identify the terror event spotlight dens. They will look like this. So regular then will have no kind of aura around it when you're hovering on the map. This is the spotlight then that you can come to. And I'm going quite close. So we'll head over to it now and we'll take a look at this one. OK, let's have a look at this one. It's a fairy type and it is a five star raid den. And you can see the typing here in the corner. My camera is just over it there. So it is a psychic type one going to bring an eyelid. It should be more than enough. So in comparison to other five star raids, it's not really going to be anything that you need to worry about too much. It's not going to be too difficult. So we'll book up a couple of times. I'm more interested to see what the item drops are like for this event in particular. OK, so we've done two bulkups, one rage fist. Now we've been hit twice. So the base power of that boosted. This should be a maybe not take it down, but it is. It takes it down. This is what I mean. You're not really going to have any trouble against Deli bird. We are using a super effective attack and we have boosted up a couple of times, but not really. It's not really that difficult, right? So we will catch it, though, because it is an event Pokemon. So it's worth catching while the events going on. And then we'll be able to have a look at these juicy rewards and see what we get. So in the preview for this event, it did mention item drops, specifically other terror shots as well that we're going to get because this is obviously running over the Christmas period. So you would imagine we'll get some extra drops from Deli bird and Deli bird always one of those Pokemon that does give extra drops anyway. So wow, OK, three large candy, two XL candies. We get some Deli bird parcels and, oh, man, that is a lot of terror shots. So we get four psychic terror shots. We get five ice terror shots, five poison, five dragon. We get an adamant mint to pee pee up some more candies. Adamant mint, more psychic shots and the health feather. So these red drops are incredible. These are really good for item drops, insane item drops there. So yeah, this is going to be an amazing event just to take part in and just be able to farm all of these really difficult to get items because terror shots are something that aren't too difficult to get, but they are time consuming to get because you've got to complete terror aids to get them and you pretty much want to be maximising your time when you're doing it by going for the highest star rated terror aids, which does take a bit longer. All you would do to farm these is just come and take a look on your map, find the next spot like terror aid, visit it, beat the deli bird, get the items and then move on to the next one. If you get to the stage on your map where you don't have any spot like terror aids left, then you can use the day skip glitch to change your terror aid dens or just respawn new ones for yourself. So what you can do is here, as you see, you just hit your home menu, then come down to your system settings, down to system, down to date and time, come to date and time and then turn your, you don't need to skip your day forward. There's a new method to this where you can just move a minute back. So you would just take a minute off, click OK and then come back into your game and you will see all the dens do change around the area. So that one's gone and we've got a bunch of new ones as well. And when you come back onto this screen, you should get the messages in, outbreaks have changed and that's a good indicator that the dens have moved around as well. So that is a way for you, if you have run out of them, if you are farming these items and you've literally went and done all of the dens in and around the area where you are, then you can use this method to just respawn a bunch of new ones and then keep grinding this event for as long as you want. And remember as well that you also don't need to get rid of this den anytime soon. If you want to just keep it for a while and keep farming these items until you feel like you've got more than enough items and then all you need to do is not go online. So as soon as you go online after this event ends on Sunday the 25th, then you will lose all the dens. Your dens will update and the event will end. But if you stay in offline mode, these dens will stick around for as long as you want them to until you do go online. So these event dens are absolutely amazing for the drops alone. The Pokemon are actually really easy to beat. Even the five-star ones are not difficult to beat at all. So you're gonna have a really easy time doing these solo or even online with friends. I hope you really enjoy this event and make the most of it when you are able to collect such good item drops. It really such a low cost as well because it's gonna be so quick to go through all of these dens. The Terrarium themselves aren't gonna be difficult to beat even those higher rated ones as well. Hope you found today's video useful and all the information in it. If you have, please drop a like. If you're new to the channel do subscribe so you don't miss any more of these updates in the future for Pokemon Scholar and Violet. Have a great Christmas if you are celebrating over this weekend. And I will see you in another video very soon. So until then friends, take care of yourselves and bye-bye.


What's up guys my name is Michael and welcome to my YouTube channel I actually have to re-record this video because like the file got corrupted, but basically we're gonna do the another decode problem They're called transpose matrix. You're given a matrix return the transpose That just means flip the row and column of each value in the matrix. So I'll just redo this so first We're gonna create a vector called to return That's we're just gonna store the The to return values That we're returning so we're gonna turn to return Then what we're gonna do is we're gonna go through every row and column So our new matrix is gonna have a row value that is as the little number of columns of the old matrix and our new Matrix is gonna have a column value that is The number of rows in the old matrix. That's where is what I'm gonna say So this is gonna be a at zero Dot size the reason why this is gonna be the number of columns. So this is actually columns number of columns Okay, then we're gonna go every row So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna create a new row every time. This is gonna be new row a vector of new row then After we add each row value. We're going to add New row to our to return matrix and then we return to return to return Here I'm gonna do new row is gonna push back and I'm going to essentially add a at J I This is gonna swap the two values Not swap. It's gonna flip the two values. So essentially All the rows are gonna become columns all the columns are gonna become rows. Okay, that's what it means Let's just run this code to see if it works Boom got the expected submit And it passed so essentially all we did was if you want the Rows to become columns and columns become rows as when you flip the rows to be columns columns Be rows all you have to do is essentially is is just Instead of going through row by row We're gonna go through the number of columns then we go through number rows and then we're gonna add whatever value that was flipped So instead of I J we're gonna add J I and then we're gonna add that Add that new row to our matrix and then return it. Yeah, that's basically how you do it. It's pretty easy Yeah, didn't take that long ready calm subscribe


ho really comes here to be with us today But I think to work at the forthcoming agenda of the bilateral visit. I'm sure he got many ideas here today In noting the unfortunately, I'm a I'm a Morgan economist and an engineer I was thinking that engineers build bridges and makes it and the economists spend a lot of time in this dozen Discussing what is the reason for the bridge? never and they never get They never agree not to mention the funding of the bridge, but anyway, so my envy to the engineers Well, he was a great keynote speaker Well, it's a great pleasure to see again. Professors. He'll be a noon is from the very prestigious North American research center of our Now and Dr. Gutierrez has is which I have not had a pleasure meeting personally I've heard I read you and I have learned very much from from reading your articles and listening to hear you today Susana Chacon is both a very distinguished professor and researcher and I must highlight that there's a director of the of the prestigious foreign policy Mexican the Mexican edition of the of the foreign policy journal She has published and it's very attractive the first for this issue for this year has a very attractive coverage of The 70 years of the anniversary. It's over in there with very interesting very interesting Articles I was delighted to hear professor Duncan Duncan would Okay, I will make three final reflections one on the past one of the friend one of the present and another on the future On the past I think it's the one point I would like to highlight is that the years 1944 are important 1994 is also important But our relationship we can many many years before I would like to underline three periods I have spoken a lot with our friendly Spanish ambassador who is who was here today And I think it's not worthy to speak about the role of the Mexican explorers Along the Pacific coast of Canada in the Vancouver area captains Narvaez and Perez When the 1780s predated and in fact gave technical assistance to captains captain Vancouver particularly in given in laying out Maps for him and who traded with the first nations particularly Highta nation I would like to highlight also as we mentioned the degree of activity during the or feriatto Obviously was really a great in the sense of golden age and energy finance and infrastructure the same topics that are obviously here today But I came across something which I contribute to history Who's to the history which is really something remarkable and I somebody that's really the the son of somebody that's actually saw this in in in in 19 in 1922 There was the establishment of what's called in 1922 the real conscious hydraulic dam in Chihuahua Who was the project manager of the hydraulic a real conscious dam in Chihuahua? None other than prime for what was then later Mackenzie King Mackenzie King was the project manager of the real conscious hydraulic plant manager in 1922 I think that probably made good luck for him to later become the longest-serving prime minister I will hope but also I would like to highlight, you know That you know asylum is a topic and social tolerance and social help well president I present over the gun again in in the 20s Showing a great deal of religious tolerance Welcome the men nights in Chihuahua also giving them full benefits in religious Education and marriage rights probably we are something like 200,000 I think they have contributed somewhat to the political landscape in the United States and probably also here the third area is obviously the the area from the Second World War to 1994 and here I would highlight the era in which we actually shared Very closely with the Canadian foreign policy on hemispheric policies I think we should not remember that Mexico and Canada were the only two countries that Established relations with the government of Fidel Castro all along Without interruption and therefore contributing in the in enlightened sense to the long to long-term to long-term vision But also Premier to don't work very much in this third way policy to get good meeting the contador of peace efforts on the present In the 20 years since NAFTA Obviously the economic relationship in trade tourism and investment the figures have reached a phenomenal Plateau there. There's There's there's no doubt about it. I Think here I will go a little bit my wife somewhere around here And so I like very much the academic forum in the academic forum I tried to stretch to the limit becoming less of a diplomat and more of a of a Condemnition well in doing this I would say okay It reached a great a phenomenal plateau But increasingly it is clear that the relationship has lost dynamism dynamism it has become stagnant Scholars and big scholars scholars here today and businessmen have pointed out this is you spoke here of the unfinished agenda I think I can certainly commemorate NAFTA. I think it achieved a lot But I must say it has entered into a mature into mature Dignified old age we would say in Spanish tercera with flaws limitations and increasing wrinkles on their face You can say it did not generate growth Very noted Mexican scholar Jaime Ross mentioned well, it's fantastic. We we had for 20 years export lead growth But with no growth It did not correct inequality between regions the north the south Skilled versus a skilled large firm versus small and medium-sized firms It is highly concentrated in a few sectors mining agriculture energy Automobiles and the aeronautics although it is true that that very successful real production chains have stopped have been stopped the future The 70 on diversity I think should serve as it has done here today to give food for thought and Reflection I think the real challenge is to achieve and define a long-term strategic vision that is both deeper and broader I think this new vision can be launched in the forthcoming visit by Prime Minister Harper and later on this year by President Pena the conception of a dynamic and competitive North American region oriented towards a underlying growth employment generation Greater equity Converges between income levels the unfinished agenda, but such a vision requires I think very much Intellectual support from the academic community to think tanks and universities have the substance and the credibility to do it It's clear that it we secretary Schultz place or the freezing the road is it make it's in North America's economic power Hello, let's let's let's give the substance to it New sources of dynamism. I think they're enormous Obviously the North American energy revolution that has been mentioned here particularly in gas And I think gas it's has been mentioned I think the property three of the largest future producers of gas three of the five or six potential gas producers are in North America is that that changes the landscape completely. It's make it in Canada, Mexico and the United States among the first six Obviously this has enormous possibilities for for grids Pipelines, there's a Canadian company that already has five projects pipelines to more than 2,000 kilometers. It's there Cheaper energy to mention renewable green energy. I would take a bit of I would be more optimistic than than a very interesting comment Professor Pruitt made it is I would say with all confidence. It is not like a step in the right direction I would go more more than that. It's not a step in the right direction It's a major revolution in the history of Mexico I think after 1938 that went one way was what happened in 1913. It's a major revolution. It's done Okay, you have these the major obstacle was to was to have a two-thirds majority. It's done now obviously you have to make the the laws but To to come to the constitutional agreement in the sidelines or not in the sidelines I think the the PEN together with PRI had to look at the more difficult issues Which are in the transition articles and there we changed what was a great limitation We changed the fact that it was not a good idea to have made no sense to have profit sharing That was I would like like this shit like this shared contract I mean no sense we moved to production sharing and I think the our friends from Norway very intelligent said you know You're debating about concessions concessions about working Mexico, but that's not so it worked invite invent a new word Licenses and permits and now will we working at licenses and permits? I think that that will that will really create a normal revolution in Mexico and cheaper energy Renewable energy Pemex has said we're not interested in shale gas that the Americans have 90,000 wells Pemex will not be doing 90,000 wells. Who can do the night in 90,000 wells Mexican private sector? Texan tech well some mixing companies are Drilling in Texas visa so you and certainly I would say you know the antennas of the of the Alberta firms I think it should be put because that offers I think great possibilities in shale gas Second revolution in infrastructure. I was somebody was saying yesterday Well a few a few weeks a few phase before the expansion of the port of Veracruz is the greatest Since the perfidy or Firiato times a doubling or tripling of the capacity of Veracruz. That's a great change I think the railroad projects are almost as large as a for Firiato. Now you're having a Transponential or railroad the road from Mexico to Keretharo to Leone and then to Jalisco the there's a you know For the fact or dry channel in the in the easements of the one the pick. It's really a an infrastructure revolution We have to work at ports modern efficient borders not physical or bureaucratic walls with our two friends The drive towards in this reindustrialization of the region with at four dollars are four dollars the price of gas The possibilities for reindustrialization in the region are absolutely immense There are many tasks I think it's mentioned here Canadian tourism in Mexico The Canadian tourists to Mexico has to move from Sun and beaches to culture to the baroque to to the Colombian to bring Colombian art We have to move from Canadian investment into Mexico to make some investment towards Canada We have now a major project that we think will go ahead And that's the bimbo bimbo the bimbo acquisition will become the largest bread producer in the world It is already the largest in the United States It will come the largest one in Canada and now the worries that I'll say well, let's hope that the the equipment to our old Canadian foreign investment Commission does not put hurdles in the way. Okay, as it has happened sometimes That's enough that the things have changed upside down I Think well Mexicans there are the figures that were mentioned by on the secretary Mexican students coming to Canada are Very large. You open the program. It's flooded by Mexicans, but you open a reciprocal program to Mexico and You know 400 students why we have to work at Spanish at the teaching Spanish Innovation, I'm sure that in this great project. I think it really Push forward by on the secretary I go said I think there are many ideas I think for Bessie, but it's a pity that for Bessie. I wasn't a meeting last week or the America They were enthusiastic about for Bessie everybody from the US academic community were there the State Department people They were very enthusiastic about for Bessie. No Canadian participation. That's that's really it's really a pity So I think we can identify some obstacles some obstacles Misperceptions and problems I Think some of the problems that we found to enlist Canada to a meaningful trilateral relationship in 1994 are still there In some quarters of government business or public opinion, I would say to borrow a recent title There is also a nostalgic view That goes by 20 years a nostalgic view that is that still looks in Anglo terms Either to the British Empire to Britain or to the special relationship with the US in this nostalgic view Mexico is not existent and is not part as was said by professor Duncan part of North America This nostalgic view I think loses sight of the transformation that have occurred in 20 years I think was mentioned here in a decade or two Mexico become the seventh largest economy We're six or seven hours away from Canadian or US ports huge location advantage. We're not 30 years 30 months or several weeks I Think the middle class. Well, it's not a dream. We have 50 million middle class That 50 million middle class has the wealth of the Canadians, but we're 50 million not 30 million. I think that's That's important. I think another change The the US will no longer be dependent on Canadian energy So that part of the special relationship will be gone in a few years. So that that Canadian energy is broken And I think politically well the weight I this is fair to say the weight of 10 to 30 million Mexicans in the United States I think gives us a significant political plot. So I think you know, we should not compete in establishing special relationships I think we're not we should not play there. Our other obstacle is not nostalgia, but economic fashions The trade agreement with Europe is a great success. We really congratulate you thought the Canadian thought is for it TPP is very promising Mexico is also looking both towards the Atlantic to To reinvigorate our existing trade relations with trade agreement with the cure and we're also looking to the Pacific I will highlight the Pacific Alliance. I think that really holds great promise. We hope that Sometime Canada will join The North American countries countries together can really strengthen our negotiations and some Very good writers friends of ours have said the European agreement is good, but do not forget NAFTA and your existing friends It was hinted here trade within North America now is twice the trade of North America with all of Asia And and trade with Europe a trade within North America is three times that of North America with a whole of Europe Mexico is a young population. I was underlined train in Western values and culture The academic community always brings the knowledge of objective history constructive criticism criticism and And and the analysis of the present as I was seen today very fresh ideas for the future I think you can contribute usefully and I'm sure here are colleagues in the embassy certainly In Mexico, I think it's been done by very efficiently by undersecretary And I would lastly say because the topic came here. I think to put in a sense, you know concrete actions I would very much think of the possibility that for the forthcoming meeting of president spainia and Prime Minister Harper It will be possible to set up the model of a Mexican chair in In Canadian universities the Mexican chair there's some and this Mexican chair can be I think the advantage is very cost effective Initially a Mexican chair also requires a good technical committee that you know get together People that you know in themselves will be networking you set up a Canadian chair You pay a plane ticket for the Canadian chair to the to the presentation You come here and you go back you pay hotels Of course nothing in terms of the of the value The Mexican chair can become a Mexican seminar of a week and the Mexican seminar of a week Can become a center for Mexican studies. We have to get a private sector involved. I think all our governments are very very Reduced in mud And I think this can be I think we would love if Carlton could be one example of this a Mexican chair in Carlton Obviously had to be mirror Mexican chairs in So Canadian chairs in in Mexico as already to some extent exist and I think it would be a great step forward in the soft hours range Thank you very much for your Thank you very much ambassador Suarez and thank you Undersecretary for participating in this event and This closes our session, but I would say Feel at home come back to Carlton We're open to take this dialogue further as you saw this morning. It was a very enriching discussion and lots of issues to think about and Let's let's move forward Where and we're happy to be involved with you and in taking this forward to the next step So, thank you everyone for participating this morning. Thank you