When you think of Yu-Gi-Oh, how'd you know I was going to start with that? I don't know, I was just trying to be synchronized swimmer over here, brother. When you think of Yu-Gi-Oh, you think of all the iconic duels in the series, none so more iconic than the final duel between Atem and Yu-Gi, where the true king of games was crowned. Evadeable.  Nah, bro, Kaibo versus Yu-Gi, a little more iconic. That's all I'm saying, but continue. All right. I personally like Yu-Gi versus the Pharah, a duel where Yu-Gi proved himself, and now we've set out to recreate that duel in Master Duel. I'll be playing as Yu-Gi and Syriac, aka Diem will be playing the role of Pharah, and yes, I did stutter. Fuck. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You saw what happened last time I played as the Pharah against your chain. All right. If you didn't see that video, it'll be linked down below. And I think we're going to see some more Pharah shenanigans, and I don't think you're ready. In this timeline, Yu-Gi wasn't ready for the Pharah to leave. He wasn't ready. He did cry, and you know, I might cry after I seal you away, too, bro. It's going to be sad, but it is what it is.  Please, Pharah! I once again will let fate decide whether I go first or second. I will not press a thing. Yeah. I'm going second. Bro, this is actually pretty accurate. The Pharah with all the duels that he won for, Yu-Gi. That is not the sand temple, bro. I picked the wrong deck. Some Pharah, bro. You left me out here in the middle of the desert. I, in the spirit of, should I just make you go second again, or should I just let it run out? I'm going to let it run out. I'm going to let fate decide this millennium duel. Fuck. It looks like I'm first. Oh my God. I am literally the Pharah, Dotto. I know you're quaking in your boots. I'm quaking right now. I'm the- I'll start to play with a pot of greed. Not bad. Then I'll follow it up with my graceful charity. Oh, brother. He's actually a 10. I can't get a win on this guy today. I'm quite literally the Pharah. I will discard this along with this. Bro got me trembling, throbbing over here. And then I will end my turn. All right, let's go. Remember, Yu-Gi.  Why did you give him a little Lord of the Rings play? Because that's how he is. He has that Lord of the Rings play. He solves puzzles in his bedroom in his free time.  You'll never make it past my deck. I'm going to seal you away. How many times are you getting sealed away? It won't happen. Not when I have my king's knight to discuss urgent matters with you. I will attack with my king's knight. No. Should I activate this? I don't think you deserve it. What upon? What does this scrub do? Nothing. Nothing at all. That thing is worthless. He is. You see, I was testing you. I said it was worthless, but you agreeing with me, your deck will never trust you ever again. I draw. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I just drew the monster that's going to put your king's knight away. Fight. Yeah, the magnet warrior, bro. I've ever heard of him. Here he comes. Ha, beta. Beta. This is- This is much slower pace. I didn't want to have to pull out my ace in the hole so soon. Ain't no way you have an ace in the hole. But you've left me with no choice. I will pay half of my life points to play my dark magic arches. Damn, he's going all in. To call forth my dark magician all in this early. And then to get rid of your magnet warrior, I'll activate my thousand knives. No shoddy through a thousand knives in there. Little party trick. Now I'll attack you for 2,500 damage.  To the grave. The grave. God, impossible. Let's go, dude. Yu-Gi wins. I'll end my turn. It's my turn now, and I'm going to draw. I'm going to put away this card. Yes! I'll start by activating the spell card, Swords of Revealing Lights. Giving me 3 turns of protection. Oh, look at the animation. I thought you'd not be a pussy. You know this isn't a fan game. Then I'll summon Red Gadget, and with its effect, I'll get Yellow Gadget from the deck to my hand. Did throw a wrench in my plan with that sword of revealing light. I cannot lie. Exactly. It's always good to use protection, Pharaoh. I'll play my monster reborn. And then I will bring out my dark magician. No, I need to seal that away. Seal it away.  And I'll set this card onto the field. Yes. You think Yu-Gi was like, Hey, Teya crying a little too hard to see the Pharaoh go. Yes! Looks like I'm a little bit slower, but I've also drawn the spell card part of greed. He said drone. Drona, I was hoping that would get away. Oh, I'll also activate Catapult Zone, a little field spell for me. That too. And then I'll play the monster card, Yellow Gadget, giving me access to the last gadget in my deck, Green Gadget. What are you doing with these gadgets, Yu-Gi? None of your concern yet, Pharaoh. Dude, this is going to be sick. I'm actually dueling out of my mind. I draw. It should have been me, not him.  Um, okay. I will end my turn. No shot. Oh, your sword's revealing light. Just end my way, bro. I know, I know. I'll activate the Trap Card Stronghold of the Moving Fortress to summon forth my Stronghold in defense mode. Don't worry. He won't be staying like that for long. I know what he does. I know what he does. Because with the third gadget in my hand, I'm going to bring out his third pilot, Green Gadget.  I can't stop this. But first I'm going to put pot of greed down. You have another one? I have two of them, yeah. What? You don't have two and a graceful charity? Are you about to get run over by the gadgets? Dual one? We're getting gadgets. Do you want a homie drop, Pharaoh? That's your decision to make. I still have a turn of swords. I'll give you a homie drop on game one. Just realize I could have sealed you away. I draw. Good lord. That's actually funny with the Lord. Just attempt getting pocket bodied. I won't steal you away this third. I literally, no, kill me. I literally want to lose. Please. There is nothing I can do. Damn, your swords revealing light combo. Like if I get rid of one of these gadgets that gets weaker, but I can't attack because of your swords. Exactly. My swords are being lighter. Simply few power. My devious plan didn't work out in the end. I'll set a card. I'll set a card. I'll set a card. Damn. I'll set a card. And you know better than to give me another homie drop because you know one more homie drop I'll just win. I will literally, I'll give you another homie drop, but not until I activate my second swords of revealing light.  I knew it was a bluff, but the seed in person is embarrassing. Also an alpha the magnet warrior. Bro, you never stood a chance, did you? I'll give you a second homie drop. I didn't ask for this. Kill me, Yugi. Seal me away. I want to go be with my friends and family. I'll play my monster reincarnation to get rid of my... He's bringing everything back from the grave except himself. King's Knight. Ass, right? I drew. Look at my graveyard. I have three King's Knights, bro. I have nothing to do with them. I'll pick up my King's Knight after throwing it away. And then I will play my King's Knight. And I was going to crash to lose, but I can't do that.  Quite ignorant. Here comes the stronghold of the moving fortress. Enjoy your one win. We've got to respect the gadgets. Sorry, I don't get sealed away unless you beat me two times. Oh my God, the pharaoh. No way ancient Egypt works on best of three rolls. Yeah, bro. That's how they work. That works. The God's watching? No, he got it. He going to run back with that though. No, he get one more. He get one more for you. He got one more. I got one more in me. Bro, got one more except it's going to be two more because I'm winning the next one. All right. Part of the cards. Uh-oh, work for me. Another bad hand. Indeed, that will work for me. I'll set a card. Setting one card? I'll set a card. You got me hyped up for nothing. I thought I was going to get to see a goat. And then I'll end my turn. Nice turn. Do they make it for men, pharaoh? I draw. Don't get too big for your britches. I taught you better than that. I'll set one card face down and bring out a familiar face. Bait of the Magnet Warrior. Yeah, you got 1,700 defense. You probably got 2K.  Yeah, man. Oh, 1,600 defense. It's just not going to go your way today, attempt. Fuck. I draw. Yugi's the king of games for a reason. Not a great situation to be in, I must say. I must admit. So I will end my turn. And it's my turn. I draw. Bro, why didn't you give me the broken pharaoh attack again?  You're all out of time. But because of that, then he'll have another gadget. And then I might just have to activate stronghold again. Bearing that in mind, I must act fast. So I'll activate my monster reincarnation. He's going for queen's night. And I'll send away my obelisk to the torment. Grab my queen's night. I know, bro. Brickin' like crazy over there. Yeah. All right. I'll play my queen's night. And I will attack your yellow gadget. Bro, just activate the mirror force. I don't have mirror force. You have something. Maybe I do. Maybe I don't. Main phase two. And then I'll end my turn. Made a big deal of main phase two, huh? I draw. Pot of green. Ooh. Not pot of green, but just as good. First, I'll thin my deck out a little bit with the green gadget you saw me pull. Real easy stuff. Give me that. And then I'll activate the spell card Graceful Charity.  And I'm going to discard this. Bro, got every card in his deck in his hand right now. And then I'll discard. Well, I don't really need red gadget anymore, huh? Gadget. Gadget. I'm going to get rid of these two. And then I'm going to get rid of... I don't need red gadget. And then look who was added to my hand by a card effect. It's the card you called useless. Every card has its value, including water palm. Get special summon a monster with 200 attack. It's useful now in a format where you can't link it away. It's useful now, bro. It's not about who I got. It's about how much heart I got. I'll set this card. I'll set this card. Do you have anything? And I'll set this card, which allows me to normal summon without tributing my swift Gaia, the fierce knight.  This guy's beta, for real. Beta, the Magnum Warrior. No. And I'll end my turn. That was quite the play, Pharaoh.  I'll tribute the two monsters on my field to summon Gendora, the Dragon of Destruction. No, no, no. And activate his effect to destroy as many cards on the field as possible. Unless you can draw the outfaro, this very well might be the beginning of the end. There's one card I can draw. What's that? What cards do you have? What cards do you have, Banister? Dark Illusion. Bro, I only played those on the field. Damn, Book of Secrets. You got Book of Secrets? Alright, it's the card he's trying. Yeah, bro, I told you. I'm fucked, bro. I'll set a card. I only played those cards down because I needed Swift Guy out, so I couldn't have any cards in my hand. I need to see who that is. I'll activate Swords of Revealing Lights. Oh, no. Okay, well, that's a no-go for no-go. My one chance to not have you take damage. That's a no-go for right now.  You're getting beaten by some... Draw. You're getting beaten by monsters you could potentially see on a frid. Potentially, I end my turn. Good, good.  No shot.   It should have been me having fun, not him. Look at me having fun about your stun on him. Oh, 900 damage.  My next standby phase, he'll be Silent Swordsman Level 5. All the cards. You need to hurry, Fero. This is just... You guys just be iconic out here. I would be doing every iconic move the deck could possibly do. This card, one card. This potentially about to be the end. Special summon the Tricky, and end my turn. The Tricky's actually a pretty good card.  That means it's my standby phase, Fero. Meaning my Silent Swordsman Level 3 is about to grow up into Silent Swordsman Level 5. He won't be sticking around long. It's all like to make the spell card level up.  Transitioning from the Level 5 to Silent Swordsman Level 7. Yeah, this duel's over. Yeah, it should look like it. 2,000, meet 2,800. For exact lethal, he's different. He's different. Is this the get back for what happened with Jaden and Fero?  This is how you felt. This was the beginning of when Yu-Gi put that deck together for a while. All right. Well, now I'm simply going to win. This is the third duel. You got to piece it together now. I will now fate to decide, and I will have the most anime ferro-canonical duel that I've had. This is the only one that matters.  You got to beat him three times. We may have first to three, not best if we were a little behind the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. You lose. You lose. You lose. I mean, you might as well just pack it up right now. Not so. I'm going to activate Gold Sarcophagus. Oh my God. This guy has searching. Oh, I didn't even know that had an animation. That's cool.  And I'll seal away one card for later. It wasn't supposed to show you. That's going to be a big reveal on the show later. Oh, that's true. That's the only reason I chose that card is for lower accuracy. And just in case you get any ideas, I'll play Swords of Revealing Light.  I just don't get to play the game. I will activate my Pot of Greed. I'll set a card, and then I will set a monster. I should have waited to play Swords of Revealing Light. I would know what that monster is. And then I'll end my turn for now. I draw. Hmm. Looks like the deck's speed enough again. Oh, you're running out of time on Gold Sarcophagus. I'll play Green Gadget. I'm getting another gadget to my deck. I hate these things, bro.   What do you got based on it? Oof. It was worth it for the knowledge. Not good enough. It was worth it for the knowledge, though. I draw. Finally. Can't do much with it yet, though. Um, I will activate this card in my hand. The tricky. I will special summon it by discarding my, my Burf from it. Oh, man.  Right when you see Burf from it.  You know I'll struggle it. You know I'd be struggling when you see that guy. The Pharaoh, the Pharaoh basically, you even as the Pharaoh was basically like a banless change. You, you just had two good cards.  And I'll end my turn. Hmm. I draw. Ooh, that was the card I was hoping for, too. How many turns on sword do I have? My Gold Sarcophagus is up, meaning I'm getting monster reborn back to my hand. Yeah. Now you can take Burf from it out of the graveyard. Good job. Now I'll play my Silent Magician level four. So quiet. I didn't even hear him show up. And then I'll go ahead and level Silent Magician up right away. Say goodbye to Silent Magician and hello to Silent Magician level eight. I am so. Bring any bells, Pharaoh. I am so cool. Good Lord. Are you aware that I, run out yet? No. On the end of this. Oh my God. The thing just never goes away. This has got to be the, this is the biggest Yugi sweep of all time. And these are accurate decks, by the way. Once again, we like to remind everybody that we do not build these decks. I like how whoever's winning, whoever's winning has to like be the one. By the way, by the way, everybody. Now, now, now Pete game, Pete game here. Swords is so annoying. My Silent Magician went into a time capsule and emerged a level eight, meaning I'm unaffected by any spell cards. So don't even think about doing that. Fuck. All right. I'm going to just play.  What you working with? All right. I'll discard another card. The tricky. The special summon, the tricky. Again? I feel like it's 1200. All right.  His ending of a third battle.  This might be the rare time I put my hand on the deck, bro.  Those were both in my opening hand.  And then I'll play Silent Swordsman level three. Just can't play the game.  What a duo. You know, what a couple of duo between friends. Yeah, riveting gameplay, bro. How do you stop Yuki? I can't, man.  I got you with the homie drop. Bro, that card should be banned. All right, bro.  I'll promise if you homie drop. Let me draw. Let me draw real quick. Now with my draw, I will be saying my standby phase comes around. So Silent Swordsman level three, he's going to go ahead and become Silent Swordsman level five. And then I'm going to thin my deck out a little, play some red gadgets. That's going to get my other gadgets to my hand. Bro, how did the pharaoh win shit?  All right. And do you need a full homie drop or you want like 100 life points left? Uh, bro, I don't care, bro. As long as I survive, I guess. All right. Well, let's get you nice and easy. You want to push me in the face? Go ahead. All right. I guess I'll leave you with 600 life points. Swords for feeling light. Let's see. What can I do here? All right, bro. You see it, bro. You give me just one more homie drop.  You already know I was going to give you another homie drop. I'm homie dropping the swords out. Oh, OK. Is that what the homie drop goes to until Swords runs out? Give two or three of those. I think three. All right, bro. Pay up then.  What could you be saving up for? That's what I want to know. Now, I haven't gotten to do this yet, so I will be playing him just for, you know, the true canonical experience, but I'll sacrifice green and red gadget to bring forth Buster Blader. I was going to begin door cross. Ha ha. Finally. What do you got? First, I'll play my dark magic curtain. 300 life points. To bring out my dark magician. Unreal. Then I'll play the spell card, Thousand Knives, which can't work on two of your cards, so I got to get rid of this. Buster Blader, no. And then I'll activate my graceful charity. Oh, brother. He really the pharaoh for real. You got to come back in him. Oh, so close. He gets so involved.  This is insane what I drew.  Also in the way. Oh, yeah. I'm not going to be able to summon it in it. Send him away. Send him away. Wait. A chance. A chance.  I'll send away my wing dragon of raw and my Slyther the sky dragon. Okay. Why can't I play this?  Never mind. That's going to be a... And then I'll play my monster reincarnation. What is he? The discard my magicians unite. Okay. And grab the tricky. The tricky's coming back. Hey, bro. If you let dark magicians survive this turn, you lose, bro.  I don't think I will. You don't have to. I don't think I want to.  Monster reborn. To bring out Slyther the sky dragon.  I want it to take raw. You couldn't. Oh. Can't be special summoned.  I was one play away. I could have got obelisk out. So I could have got obelisk out that turn, but because I use dark magic curtain, I can't summon anything else. What was the play to get him? Bro, I was going to play fiend sanctuary. That's another tribute. And then I was going to special summon the tricky. That would have been three tributes. And then normal summon obelisk, the tormentor. It was a pretty good duel. It was a pretty good set of duals. No, it wasn't. Well, you just had swords revealing light simulator. Like there's nothing I could have done. Well, you clearly understand. I didn't get to play the game for three back to back duel.    I'm going second.  Bro will not be sealed away. Don't you got a family you want to go see? Don't you got a source revealing light you don't want to play, pussy? Yeah, I win this one. Why are you quiet? Does that mean you drew him again? Make your move. I'll set one card face down. And then my turn. I'll start by playing my graceful charity. Oh, brother. And I will discard a queen's knight.  And my dark magician. He threw away the dark magician? And then? What is the Pharaoh thinking? I'll play my dark magic curtain, special summon my other dark magician from my deck. And then I'll set a card and I'll set another card and I'll attack with my dark magician. You've made a mistake. I'm so done. The powerful marshmallow can't be destroyed by battle. Sure can't. Can't eat. Yeah. That is a fact. I draw just to make extra sure that you won't be killing marshmallow. I'll activate the spell card Swords of Revealing Light. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. All right. And then I'll play yellow gadget.  That's what you're gonna do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. No. No.  Honestly, I still win this. What? You mean what? The fact of surprise. No shot. How do you get over marshmallow? I'll find a way. First, I'll play my king's knight. Since queen is on the field, I will be able to special summon my jack's knight from my deck. I wasn't able to stop this play this turn. Could this actually be the Pharaoh's duel? I wasn't able to stop the king, queen and jack. Can't do anything with these guys, can I? And then I will simply, in my turn to shoot, what else can I do to shoot? I can't attack, you know? So he's revealing light. And I just got vanilla monsters. Look, I'm gonna do about that. Well, I'm not drawing anything too crazy on my side here. So I'll just continue to thin out my deck with green gadget.  I don't even know what you're talking about. All right. Well, I've done all that. Does he run two or three?  He runs three sword of revealing light. That's... Out of 40 cards, three of them are swords. Pretty annoying to deal with, not gonna lie. I will give you 3k burn damage. One card can play this. Face down. What could that possibly be? I'm trying to think of any one trivia monsters that you would set in the fence box. Catapult turtle? Is that your big strategy? I'll set my deck. I guess I'll just... I'll also set a card face down. And then my... Actually, no, I'm... You got me curious and she pulled me. No, no, that's...  You got me curious and she pulled me. What is that? You've attacked into my burp of it. Oh my God. Yeah, no wonder. But I needed to flip some of it to grab my gazelle. My card that would have turned this duel around. You said no. Why did you just normal summon the guy? I draw. All right, all right, all right. Hold on, hold on. It might be okay here. I might be able to work with this. But I'm gonna tribute my king and burp from it for my swift guy of the fierce knight. Man, he could have just... He could have special summoned that thing. Yeah, if I had nothing in my hand. And then I'll end my turn. Swords go away. What about second swords are revealing light? Please. Which I also drew in my opening hand.  It's okay. I actually don't have anything to beat you right now. So you're still at a great position. Bro, this is a whack position. I just watched you. And I guess since I have nothing else to do, I might as well tribute Wadupon. Spoiler's Wadupon was down there for Curse of Dragon. Wow. Yeah. And then I'll use that to take out your third tribute. I don't want you summoning any gods. I don't have any way to deal with them. Oh no. Can't wait till I can fight back after six turns of swords revealing light preventing me. Six of my turns, so a total of 12 turns. If I just had the final card, I'd win. I'll discard one card to special summon the Tricky. Oh bro, the Tricky back. And it didn't seem to me like you had any face-downs that could actually be useful during battle. What I want you to think. Well, I don't know why I'm even thinking. There ain't nothing else I can do to you out of my dirt. I didn't see anything scary face-down, so I very well might have to make a big move here. I'm going to activate the spell card Monster Reborn. And get my own Dark Magician. I'll chain Call of the Haunted. Don't do this. To take the Dark Magician before you do. Don't do this. Wasting your Monster Reborn.  At least I got a cool glowy screen. Well, that's not very good for me, is it? I just have nothing. I need to draw my third swords unironically. I need more time. No, bro, you don't. I do. I play Pot of Greed. I clearly need more time. I need my third swords. You need bitches. I please third swords or anything like, please. I'll tribute my Swift Gaia. Who's this? And then I will end my third. I can't do anything when sword's revealing light is just looking at me. Yeah. There's no sad. It's not solid. I'll play Silent Magician level four. And while not threatening now, after a quick level up, you might just find that the next stage is a little too strong to beat. Meet Silent Magician level eight. Now it's time to start the real game. Come here, tricky. Why him? Because I'm letting you keep double dark magician. Aren't these losers? I draw. Bro is upset about that one. He liked the tricky. Oh yeah, I still can't attack. Forgot. Okay, I'll set a card. And then I'll end my turn once again. I forgot to put them in defense mode. Now it's my turn to draw. Oh, I thought it was going to be my third sword. And I'll play the field spell Catapult Zone. Now any monster that could be destroyed by battle simply will not be. Now I actually have to start playing the game for real. Scared. I'm terrified. What's this face down you got here? What's this face down you got here? What is it? What is it? I'll activate Mirror Force.  That's a good thing I put everything else in defense mode, I guess.  Now. No. It just seems like to make the most sense. I'm still reading, bro. I've got to buy time. I'll set a card. And then I'll flip over my Archfiend of Guilper. And yeah, then I'm small deck. My only hope is Marshmallow. Having these guys around could be bad later. Let's get rid of one of them. I'll use Catapult Zone instead. And I'll send a Fatal to the graveyard. As I was saying. Oh, brother. And now let's get rid of this one. Red gadget. No. How'd you know it was a red gadget? I didn't. You're taking out my gadgets. I have to draw the out. This card is useless. Thank God you lose. My deck is simply better the fourth time. You still haven't shown me a single card that gets over Marshmallow. I'll draw it right now. First, I'll get rid of this. Not with my Catapult Zone. I know. I know. I'll send Dima from the grave to the grave. I said grave to Milano. No. At least don't take Curse of Dragon. That guy's the only bad monster in your deck I've seen so far. And then there was Marshmallow. And then I'll end my turn. Oh, I'm at a bit of a pickle here. Now you don't have two tributes in case you do get Gandora. That's who I was terrified of actually this whole time. Marshmallow I'm disinconcerned. I mean, I couldn't have done it. This is such a specific card. Why would you put this card in your deck? Oh, now you're asking your deck questions after getting 17 turns of Swords of Revealing Light. I'll just set another monster face down. I draw. I wonder what that monster could be. There's two ways to find out. And one is by activating my Swords of Revealing Light. It's a Blood Golem. All of my cards in my graveyard need to be Earth, but I already sent some light monsters in there. That leaves two cards in my hand. And now I take a risk. Oh, brother. By attributing three monsters, I call forth Sniper the Sky Dragon. Oh, brother. This is going to be so annoying to play around. But now you can't get past the effect of my Catapult Zone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Genuinely a huge misplay. I draw. Now I will be throwing away my deck lead with this, but I'll use Pot of Greed. No. And now I'll seal away the gold sarcophagus. What's going inside the box? Damn, Sliper. Oh my god. How do I play around Sliper? Bro, there's one card that literally just wins you the game. Which card?  I'm not telling you. I mean, there's just, there's a couple options for sure, but I'm trying to decide what is the best option. Make the right move, Yu-Gi. Crazy. I'm Marshmallow and I almost solo'ed my deck myself. I don't know which one to summon. I mean, I know that... Okay, so let's hold on. Let me read this effect.  I guess I have to seal away the only card that really guarantees I have a chance. My Mirror Force. Wait, you're not affected by that anyway, are you? No, I am. Okay, good. Fuck, it all set.  I feel like there's another play I could have made. Sliper the Sky Dragon actually locks me down pretty good, though. All right, I'll activate Monster Reincarnation. Oh, you want to keep Sliper protected, huh? I'll send away my Dark Magician Girl. What was the card you thought I'd seal away? Gendora. The grab guy had this... That was the card I was going through. I just was worried that what if he's at zero and they have reduces at a pot, but I'm going to draw him anyway. Wait, what? They draw the card. I didn't seal him away because I trust my fate to draw him now. Gendora! One turn until my gold sarcophagus is back. I'll set a card, allowing me to normal summon without pre-beating my guy of the fierce swift knight or whatever the fuck.  That's what swords is here for. Damn it, though. Some Godguard.  Are you not attacking me? There's no point. I draw.  I guess that's true. And Sliper is not strong enough. I'll play swords revealing like the third edition. Oh, my God. I think she'll guard enough.  I forgot Sliper was here. Why? Fuck. I was like, well, dammit, I forgot what I was worried about. I draw.  I forgot. I was like, oh, swords. I have swords now. Now I can play any monster I want. Shit. I wish this to the vents mode for now. That is so annoying. I am so annoyed at myself. I've literally been playing around that card for so long. God dammit. I want to get rid of your block golem, but I know it just mills out. I can't attack anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bro, you just annoying.  Well, I need to hurry up and draw Gendora. I'm not going to lie to you, but I still have, honestly, my chances are so good at drawing Gendora that this duel is going to end very, very soon. Yeah, I don't doubt it. I wish I doubted it.  I have nothing to get over Marshmallon. Marshmallon just wins games.  I guess the only way you could win is Dark Magician 1009, so. Yep. You'll notice both my Dark Magician are in the graveyard, so I actually need Monster Reborn 1009. Uh, this guy's too risky to have on the field. Then I'll end my turn, yes. Oh, there goes my swords. I need to draw Gendora now. Draw. Oops. This is what I meant when I said my odds were good. I'll play the spell card Pot of Greed. No. You have two pots of Greed, too? Yeah. Nah, your deck's just better. Yeah. Three swords revealing light, Pot of Greed, and now here he comes, right? He's quiet.  No, he's not out just yet. Then I'll set another monster. It's tough.  I'm really bringing myself towards the brink of destruction in this duel. Hey, man, I feel for you.  I'm going to move. Yeah, I'll use Mirror Force for this. I'm sure you have three of those, too. No, I think it's a one-up. Well, I draw. This duel is over. You drew it? Yes. By sacrificing two monsters, I can bring out Gendora. Please don't. You have zero attack, so it doesn't actually do anything. Thank God. Gendora, the Dragon of Destruction. I'll chain the tricky spell for. Tricky spell for? What? Tricky tokens? What? It doesn't matter. I lose. I know, bro's actually powering me up. I know, bro, so I might as well, bro. Damn. Why they got so much tricky Sephora?  They can't attack. Oh, they can't attack? Yeah. Well, this duel's over. Yeah, it is. It is. Let's just get this duel. Gendora is the counter to Slyther.  Well, to be fair, Yugi was supposed to win. Bro, not by that. Not like that. I'll pay my third sword to revealing weight. Yugi, you built this duel. Yugi, I didn't know I raved to push you.


A dozen years had passed since Kuwait's independence from the British, and there would be another 12 years to come till the end of what all consider to this day as the golden age of Kuwait, a time when a simple people took on the selfless challenge of building a modern nation. The time was 1973, and in this year a renowned Hungarian photographer Paul Schiffer brought his team to this fledgling nation for an unprecedented modeling photoshoot. The shoot itself is not the topic of our discussion, it is the strategic foresight and the selection of the shoot's locations that accurately represents the cornerstones of the country's era of prosperity. Balance, harmony, and mutual respect overwhelmed the national sentiment at this time. All were driven with a sense of nationalism that put the interests of the country ahead of any jockeying for power or individualistic selfishness. The Muslim faith had always been a foundation for the people, yet this faith at the time was never imbued with any extremism or judgment. People were free to practice as they saw fit and left to their own convictions. Building for the future was about putting down systems that would transcend the day, and during this era Kuwait's institutions comprehensively became leading regional beacons of service and enterprise to its residents. The sea and the desert were both held in high regard by all Kuwaitis. The sea in the past had been the provider for its seafaring people. Now it was the desert's turn and driving the nation's surge towards the modern age. More of a family than a society, the typical strata of societal classes dematerialized as citizens aspired to achieve advancement and growth in life. Foreigners as well felt the mutual belonging towards the nation, its people, and its identity. This Kuwait is now long gone. Gone for almost four decades. Gone is the prosperity and gone is the benevolence. Gone because it has been abandoned by its people. Abandoned through an ideology that being Kuwaiti equates to privilege. A privilege that is unfortunately all too consuming.


Hello, everyone. This is Dr. Prashan. I graduated from Madras Medical College last year. I've gotten 40 gold medals and I was awarded by the Honorable Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and the Honorable Health Minister through massive women himself and through M.K.'s talents. Apart from that, I've also been in a non-medalined scheme awardee. So this is something short about me and this year, I've qualified the UPSI Civil Services exam with an R-78 and the Tamil Nadu rank of 2. So it gives me immense pleasure to be part of the Shankaraya's journey as well, and with respect to the mains and the prelims, free-storming have been part of it. And for the mains as well, I've taken guidance from Arun Sir, especially for GS2 and in the interview as well, the mock session with Rajatama. I mean, it's been a great journey, I would say. So it gives me immense pleasure to be part of this and I thank, wholeheartedly, the Shankaraya's team for the same. Thank you.


We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These words from the Declaration of Independence are familiar to many of us, and yet it took 143 years for women to get the right to vote and 189 years for black people to get the right to vote. And still today, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are still only words for many people. Here in Boston, life expectancy varies by 30 years depending on where you live. In Roxbury, with many poor and black people, life expectancy is 59 years. In the back bay, wealthy and mostly white life expectancy is 91 years. It's tough to have liberty when you are in prison. The United States incarcerates 716 people for every 100,000 people. Our rate of incarceration is more than five times higher than most countries in the world. Millions of people in our country don't have health care, a decent job, good education, a home they can afford, and that makes it pretty hard to pursue happiness.  People today who are making the words of the Declaration of Independence come true. Hello, my name is Michael Jacoby Brown, and we're very lucky today to have on our show, we hold these truths. Great social justice organizer, my friend, and soon to be yours, Horace Small. Welcome, Horace. Thanks for coming here. Thank you. No, thank you. We're honored to have you. I wonder if you can tell us a little bit, Horace, about where you were born and what your upbringing was and what led you to have the values that you have today. In other words, how did I get into becoming a professional troublemaker? That would be easy enough. I'm a kid from West Philadelphia. My father taught a class at Temple University, but he also worked at the post office, like other good black men in that generation. My mother was a nurse and she was the first black director of nurses of the hospital in the city of Philadelphia at Metropolitan Hospital.  And even when I was a kid, my father was active in the civil rights struggle, like I did go, I was one of the young kids that did go to the march on Washington. But the thing that got me into this for real, because what I remember about the march on Washington was the hardest day ever. And I couldn't buy enough ice cream, but I didn't know Dr. King was speaking and everybody listened to that. But what got me into this work was my cousin. My cousin got killed in Vietnam. And he was my role model, and he was the person that I always ran to when I got on my parents' nerves, my sister's nerves, and everybody else's nerves. He was always a friend. So when Roland checked out in Nam, you know, if I was 12, 13, we started a thing called Students Against the War. The person that got me into this was a guy by the name of Bob Brand, who was an organizer for, I forgot the name of the organization, but he was at the University of Pennsylvania, he was a student, and he was the organizer against the war. And so he gave me a place where I could go to, you know, and put my 12, 13, 14-year-old nine to work. So besides playing sports, we did this. So that's how I got involved in this. And I know, what was that like? I wonder if you could just tell us a little bit about what happened during, with your experience during the war in Vietnam. I know you went to prison eventually. Yeah, yeah. It was, well, when I was doing the work, one of the things they taught us to do was they taught us how to be draft counselors.  So I did that. But when it came to my turn to register for a draft, I just didn't.   And so what happened was when I was 19, I just happened to be going out with, my girlfriend was the head of, was the daughter of the registrar. And he was also the draft counselor, Dr. Van Cleave. And we were going out together and she said, well, you know, if things start to look like they were peeking, starting to perk up, she says, you know, maybe they just started this thing called the lottery. And so maybe, maybe if you register, you know, getting lottery, you don't have to worry about this. So that's what I did. I went back to Philly at Christmas break, I registered. They said, you're late. I said, yeah, I know.  I registered for the draft. I was eligible for the next lottery, which was that February. And my number was four. So I was getting, I heard from the draft board like two days later. And then I began this journey of writing my, I had to write, I wrote a nine-page paper to the draft board about why I felt I couldn't serve. Because I don't believe in killing anything. You know me. I don't kill bugs, right? You know, my wife better hope that God's not a lobster. That's all I know because she's thrown a lot in pots. I can't do it. But I went through all that, went through the hearing, went through, you know, about all the draft stuff I need. And the next time I know I was in Lewisburg. So that was it. And for the next five and a half, six months, I was working to, with other CEOs, you know, who are behind the wall, you know, helping guys get their GEDs and things like that. So you could have gone to Canada or someplace else like some people could do what you did.   Like for instance, you know, the relationship that I had with my father, which was I always thought was kind of strained from the beginning, ceased to exist at that point, you know, because I felt like when I needed him he was not there. And the tragedy is that state that way through the rest of his life, and he just died a couple of years ago. So, you know, we had no connection, no relationship. The purported shame that it brought on the family was something that people didn't really talk about, you know, the sense that my father was World War II, so you're a coward, you know, and he couldn't understand that the principle is nonviolence and a commitment to nonviolence is probably far more powerful than picking up a gun or hitting someone with your fist.   So that's just the way I'm cut out. But family-wise, we lost a lot. I lost a lot. You know, but I was 19. When am I going? Yeah, I was 19, 20. Well, can you tell us, you know, after that you, I know, got involved with the Philadelphia City Council and lots of other organizing. Can you tell us sort of what are some of the things you did after that? Well, I came home. Well, the thing that, one of the things, and I think if you talk to those people who were CEOs, whether they went to jail or whether or not, you know, the struggle that you went through, like, to this day, I still remember getting a small book to talk about life in a federal penitentiary, you know, to help influence you in your decision on what you're going to do. You know, we came home more committed to this thing called social justice and everything. Started a program called Young Adults United for Community Progress. Started working with young people and what have you. And then the Carter campaign called and said, look, you know, we need somebody that, you know, we would like to bring you. We'd like to talk to you about being the minority affairs, one of the minority affairs coordinators from Pennsylvania. So I went to work with the Carter-Mondale campaign and the chairman of the campaign was a state senator from Massachusetts, a guy by the name of Joe Timothy, who I thought was the coolest white man I've ever met. You know, he was the epitome of somebody who racially got it, who could operate in a lot of different circles and communities with ease.  He taught a lot, much of what I learned about the game of, because it's really kind of a game in many ways, you know, is, you know, I learned from him. And we ended up, you know, we won Pennsylvania by hair because at the time you could register voters who weren't convicted of a statewide crime. So you had people all locked up in prison an old bit because they go to Fort Bale, you know, we registered them and we got them out and we registered them, got them absentee ballots, they voted, and Carter won Pennsylvania by less than one percent. Well, and what were some of those lessons that Timothy taught you? What did he say or do that? He said he, you know, got people. Well, I think, you know, I think the biggest lesson that we learned, I mean, one of the, the thing I learned is that if that organizing is political, all organizing is political. What do you mean? Well, when you bring community people together to talk about it, you know, when they come together, they talk about issues. They begin to start talking about things that really matter to them, that, that, that, that they tell you are, are something that's actually impacting the quality of life in their community. So you have to determine what's the difference between a problem, what's an issue, and they would tell you that. So they tell you like if recreation was a, or lack of recreational opportunities was a, was a problem for kids and kids had absolutely no place to go, then the challenge for us is organizers working with community people is to come up to a solution to a problem. So the solution for, so what is the solution? The solution could possibly be more funding for, you know, community programs. It could possibly be engaging citizens to say, well, what is it that we want to do that's going to benefit these kids? Maybe we start sports programs, maybe we start after school programs, whatever kids you have to come up with solutions. You know, show in a movie on a Thursday night, you know, whatever the solution is. And Timothy was involved in that stuff, not just getting people elected. Timothy talked about what Joe talked about was the importance of listening to people, right? To come up, you know, listening to people, listen to their needs and concerns, and provide them, you know, and what organizing does, it provides people the roadmap in order to take control of their lives and to, and to, and to address the problems that they're concerned about. The organizer brings people together, essentially functions as a cheerleader, you know, helps them, helps them, you know, helps them believe in their skills, helps them believe in their capacity to do things, and helps them learn how to structure.  Yeah, that's unusual in an electoral campaign. Most electoral campaigns are votes from me and I'll take it from here. Well, the thing is, you know, but Paul Wellstone did the same thing. Right. You know, and Paul was a dear friend and he was a brilliant organizer in Minnesota. The things that he did in rural Minnesota are still talked about, but it all comes down to talking to people, listening to them, listening to them, you know, and, and, and, and helping them. Because one of the things that you always had, the organizer was, well, we can't. Right. You know, we can't. Well, you don't think we can get 10 people to the meeting next week? We tried it before, right? Yeah, you know, we've done this before. Okay, I said, well, let's make a deal. All right. Well, what are you willing to do to get to help us get 10 people there? Right. So are anybody here willing to bring three people for the next meeting?  Right. You know, hearing them. Not asking them to bring 30, but three. Right. 30, forget it. Right. But hearing them. But hearing them. Hearing them and hearing their concerns. And then reminding them each time we had a success. See, I told you we could do it. Yeah. See, I told you, I told you we could do this. I told you we could do it. Well, they got to see it for themselves. Yeah. And ultimately, like, okay, so now if we're talking about the change, I remember the one of the hardest things that you had to convince people was some of the simplest thing in the world was getting a stop sign. Right.  But to help people go, they're not going to listen to us. They never listen to us. They don't listen to anything in this community.  Then you show them how to do it.  So we need a petition. So who's willing to write a petition? Do you know what a petition is? Yeah, well, you know, sign, blah, blah, blah, blah, make statement, blah. And we do that.  Quite honestly, Michael, I miss, I miss that grassroots, you know, that, that, that let's organize this block, that we go over to the next block. But we stopped the drug trafficking in Philadelphia back in the late 80s, early 90s. That was the model that was used, you know, organize blocks, chase them to the next block, and just keep organizing these blocks. Well, you've been here in Massachusetts now for over 20 years. And I know you founded and led the Union of Minority Neighborhoods. I wonder if you can talk a little bit about some of the lessons and some of the work you've done there here in, in Massachusetts with the Union of Minority Neighborhoods. I have always thought of this has been some of the harder work I've done. There's a lot of reasons for that. There's, there's culture, there's class, there's race. I mean, like, you know, one of the first things that we had to handle when we first started was the idea that, that, that, that black people actually have the ability to do this, because like the general sense was the role of white organizers was to save everybody else, right? And so I remember going to a funder with an emerging board member and we talked about the things that we were doing, that we were really doing, and that we were doing like for nothing, because when you're an organizer, you know how to make things happen with nothing, because you're used to having nothing. You work with poor people, poor people don't have anything. And the guy said, said I was lying. He thought I was lying. Now, the filly in me was like, now I gotta get up and beat the bejesus out of this white man. But, right? Right? But the, the, the, the, the, the, um, um, the nonviolent harm. Yeah, the nonviolent harm, I said, but this is what we had to deal with. And with all Boston foundations, with all these various foundations, the reason why black organizations weren't getting funded was because the foundations didn't value the work. Or we didn't have the same, we didn't have the same grant writers writing, you know, flowery proposals that, that, that they like. Or that, you know, that, well, if we don't see it, because we're never in your neighborhood, if we don't see it, then it can't be real. And so that was a constant fight. So everything from, from when, when, um, when Mitt Romney decided to kill affirmative action, you know, we forced him to put it back. It took 10 days. But, you know, we forced him to put it back by pulling together constituencies from around the state saying, no, this, this, this can't happen. And we did it with nothing. We, we kept Ben Franklin Institute from being closed because, because Manino wanted to sell the property and put the money in the, in the, in the city's bank account. We're like, no, you can't do that. Kids go here. You know, the real kids go here. And, and, and the school's not any, any financial crises. It's just that you want to sell the building that was owned by, we backed them off of that. Corey Reform was something, you know, that we started, and we started with nothing. We had absolutely nothing. Right. Can you explain what that is? Not everybody, certainly a lot of white people, including myself, didn't know that Corey wasn't a girl's name. Yeah, well, that's what I thought. I was like, I just hoped to God I'd never meet her. But the reality was that, that Corey was a, is, is you're basically a criminal record. Yeah, criminal offender records. Yeah, information, criminal offender records. That's what it stands for, right. Is what Corey stands for. And at the time, once you got it, you can never get rid of it. It stayed with you. And it, it kept you from getting jobs. It kept you from getting housing. It's a huge problem in the black community. Oh, it's outrageous. In the white world, as you would say, people never thought of. Well, you know, it's also his class. Yeah. Okay. Because the thing about it was, there was a boatload of labor guys. There was a boatload of folks in Southie, Charlestown. There's a boatload of labor, you know, kids, people in Taunton, you know, East Bridgewater, white, you know, what we refer to as white world, right, that were affected the exact same way. Couldn't get jobs. Right. In fact, Tom Riley ran for governor and he had a Corey from when he was back in the day. So, you know, when he ran against Deval Patrick, and he was the attorney general. So, you know, the challenges that we had to, that we had to work through in order to get people to pay attention to the work. The first thing we did was we were able to convince Mayor Monino that people deserve second chances. So, the strategy was let's win citywide. Let's win a citywide effort so that at least in the city of Boston people with criminal records can move on. And we did that. So, we got that done, then it was on to statewide legislation, which took roughly about seven or eight years. Took about seven or eight years to convince the legislature that people not only deserve second chances, but they deserve a life. And what worked to convince legislators? What was effective? In my theory of organizing, you have to use multiple tactics at the same time, right? You have to talk to the faith community about, like, this is wrong. We need you to get behind this.  We talked to firefighters. Or said another way, you know, our strategy is, and our saying is we will talk to Lottie, Dottie, any damn body in order to get to where we needed to get to. And ultimately what we built was we built a, we built, we were influential in building a statewide movement of folks that brought, brought constituencies together saying this needs to be changed. And it was at that point, it was at that point that they decided to change. Because the problem that we had, you know, it took eight years, because the problem that we had was Finnerer was the speaker. And he gave all his committee chairs full power to do whatever they wanted. And in our world, the judiciary chair was a guy by the name of Eugene O'Flaherty from Malden, who was not, who was law, he was a law and order type. And we had the votes on the committee. We had the votes in the house. But as long as he was the chair, and as long as we had prison guards who we found out, prison guards really have a powerful union in the state. When the prison guards were telling them, no, we don't want this, because we'll lose our jobs if this happens. You know, we had to fight that and that took almost eight years. And the thing that was also really helpful was the sister by the name of Gladys Vega. Because Gladys Vega is the queen of Chelsea. I know. And my dear sister, I love her to death. And she, and the one area that was represented by Eugene O'Flaherty was Chelsea. So just so happens that election, I think it was Obama, 2012. It was that election that Chelsea, you know, had officially had enough immigrants that moved in who were then eligible to vote, which is a problem for Eugene O'Flaherty. So Eugene O'Flaherty went along with the legislation. And that's how we were able, excuse me, to get done. That's helpful. Now, I know you recently left being executive director of the Union of Minority Neighborhoods. If you look back on all those years, what are some of the lessons you would like to pass on to younger organizers who are taking up the work now? Read newspapers. Okay. That's a start. I mean, that's a start. The few that are left, right? Well, I mean, like, you know, I start, I'm thinking of this as millennial organizing kryptonite. Okay? You know, you have to read newspapers. Do you have to read bury articles? You have to read books. You have to be engaged in the world broadly and know what's going on. Not just newspapers, but books and articles. I mean, it would stand to reason. Okay? Because you've got to balance what community is telling you with the realities of what are taking place, you know, in halls of government, in other communities as well. You know, you have to pay attention to that. So for instance, there's like, you know, we have Uber and those guys are trying to take away the rights of workers. It worked in California. So now they decided that, you know, they're coming to Massachusetts. Permanently taken away. They've already taken them away. Exactly. And you have to, you know, in order to understand that whole issue, you got to read about it. It's pretty complicated. It's pretty complicated, but you've got to care about this thing. If you're worried about workers not getting unemployment, not getting, you know, just wages, not having the protections that they need, you've got to care. And that also means not only do you read the article that you saw on the paper, if you're going to work on that issue, you might want to read what happened in California and find out from organizers what, you know, what worked, what did. So being really well informed is real important. It is critical. What else is real important? I mean, you talked about listening earlier. You have to, I mean, that's the second thing. The most important thing is listening. One, I think you have to absolutely be comfortable in yourself and in your ability.   Yeah, because someone's going to ask you. That's guarantee. If you're lucky. Because if you assume most of these people have heard this before.  This is not the first time they heard that. So you have to know who you are. And you have to be prepared to answer that question. On a deep level, not just my name's hard or small. And be real. Yeah. And be real, because the most important thing that you've got, what keeps people involved, if you're the facilitator trying to bring people in, they have to be comfortable around you. You have to, and you have to be comfortable with all kinds of people. The Chattie Annie's, the ones who sit in the corner who don't say much.   The third thing is practice your skills. Understand the difference between a tactic, which is an activity to help move your strategy along, and a strategy, your ultimate game plan. How are you all going to get to where you need to go? You need to know the difference between the two.  Strategy is a long-term plan. A long-term game. A tactic is what we're doing this afternoon, press conference, whatever. But the other thing too is there's a billion tactics. Yeah, it's not just marching. Because at some point, you keep marching. The only thing you're doing is going for a long walk, and that may ultimately be good for your health, but is it moving the issue along? Of course not. There's also tactics that you've got to take people out of their comfort zone. So for instance, if we know that we're going to march, well, the police know. They already know how to handle that. Mayor's Office knows how to handle that. City Council knows how to handle that. All the policy people know how to handle a march. Been there, done that. Been there, done that.  What can you do to take them out of their comfort zone? What do you do to show that maybe we go to the mayor's house? Maybe we camp out in front of the mayor's house. Maybe we take over the statehouse steps and put up tents and we camp out there. That worked. Yeah, it works. And maybe we go to the bank. If we've got issues with the bank and we're opening accounts with, we're going to open accounts with $20 in pennies. Here you go. And each one. Lots of things. Be creative. Be creative. Be creative and have fun with it because people have to, you know, it doesn't work if people don't own it. If the people you're working with don't own it. They're not having fun with it. It doesn't work. They ain't going to last. They ain't going to last. And then the other thing I think the most important thing too is recognizing that systemic change takes time. Takes time and takes organization. Yeah, it takes time. So if you're going to work on an issue, it's not going to be resolved in three weeks. It's not going to be resolved. If you're going to work on it, you've got to plan for the long term. Right. And that's why we say organizers build organizations and build leaders. And you take that time to do exactly that. So they begin to find their confidence in themselves. They begin to start taking on the skills. Yeah. Harris, thank you. I guess I read my mouth too much. No, you're just enough. I'm Michael Jacoby Brown. We're really lucky to have had Harris Small, a great organizer, the recently retired director of the Union of Minority Neighborhoods in Boston, Massachusetts. And thank you for tuning in.


The sun is set of 840 close to 845 p.m. We got to get ready to get in the car and do the night harvest Well, it's that time of year. It's late August in Dalmatia, Croatia So we're gonna get ready to harvest some grapes and the reason that you harvest at night. Well Actually, you know what? Let me let the expert explain everything when we get there We arrived at the all-round evu point a little bit early. Nobody's here yet. Cars and vineyard people have started to arrive I feel a little creepy taking this video We have a tonight harvest tonight. We will take a push up from one plot Which we call A2 and it's about 1.5 hectares And how long would that take to harvest everything? All night so, you know harvest of white grapes here in Dalmatia is always in the middle of the summer and It's very hot by day and we want to have in the grapes to have a less temperature and cooler grapes to keep freshness So how's the vintage for this year? We are happy until now. We are happy It's a little difficult getting the shots because we have to keep climbing up and down the rows to get to the to the next picker So these grapes are getting picked up in the night And then they'll be put in a cooler room and they'll be ready for processing the next day Also, take note that they have done some selection in the vineyard But they are going to the selection table as well to pick up the best grapes that can be made into wine Oh, I love this acidity You don't want the grapes to start fermenting if you're picking during the day Picking at night where it's cooler helps the grapes retain more flavor make the wine more delicious It's been a long night The grapes are all in the basket and we'll send them to the winery We'll cool for a bit a few hours and then we'll start processing the grapes tomorrow morning We really love 2019 and 2020 looks good. So I'm looking forward to seeing how it will turn out Hello, thanks for watching. Hey, you made it to the end Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel click the bell so you know when new videos are out If you like content like this check out our patreon page where you get some behind-the-scenes exclusive content Thanks for watching. Cheers


So graduating class of 2020, many congratulations on what you've achieved this year. It's been a challenging year and to have graduated this year shows real courage and endurance. Well done. Whether you're from the School of Engineering and Built Environment, from the School of Environment and Science or from ICT, it's a fantastic achievement which we celebrate with you. And there are very many ways of staying in touch with Griffiths. We long to know how you fare and what you do after you graduate and there'll be various ways of staying in touch with us. So please don't leave us alone and we look forward to hearing from you. Many congratulations again.


Alright folks, we're going to talk about Dennis Prager and before we get started, I want to preface this conversation by saying that there is two things that every single American needs to know about Dennis Prager.   Now you might think, how are those facts if you're just insulting his intelligence? Isn't that an ad-hobbinom attack? Well no, I would argue that calling Dennis Prager stupid is actually a statement of fact considering this is someone who just a couple of weeks ago admitted that he purposefully tried to get infected with COVID-19, also he can get immunity from the virus that you can get immune from by just taking a vaccine that is incredibly safe and widely available. Somebody who does that, somebody who tries to get infected with a deadly virus at his age is a few fries short of a happy meal if you ask me.  I mean, he is refusing to get the vaccine and hence why he got the virus because he wanted immunity. Anyways, he's refusing to get the vaccine and he's going to say something about anti-vaxxers and it really proves that conservatives really want to be victims. They want to be perceived as these marginalized groups in society or as marginalized as if not more marginalized than historically marginalized groups in society. And he's going to compare anti-vaxxers to one historically marginalized community, but he's going to take it even further than that. Take a look and then we'll dissect what he has to say when we come back. No, what she found funny was that she doesn't have a magic wand, but somebody in her party has a magic wand. The reason we're paying so much is because the magic wand of the Democratic president was to destroy the energy independence of the United States of America. With one magic wand, the man ruined our economy, ruined the ability of the lower and middle class to pay their energy bills. As in Germany, by the way, this is not just unique to the United States.  If we survive this as a free country, historians will just ask, how did this happen? How did people get governed by irrational fears, whether it is of the non-vaccinated, who are the pariahs of America, as I have not seen in my lifetime, any pariah group like this? During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users were the vast majority of people with AIDS, had they been a pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are, but it would have been inconceivable, and it should have been inconceivable. They should not have been made pariahs, but this is kosher. This is OK. You can make the non-vaccinated. So it's a different America. OK, lots to unpack there. So the first thing that I want to talk about before we get to his comments on the AIDS crisis is that he claims that if you believe in climate change, like the overwhelming majority of sane people and scientists, then you have an idiotic, irrational sick fear. Now, it's weird that he says that as a conservative, because the totality of conservative politics is to be irrationally fearful of things. Be fearful of the unknown. Be fearful of marginalized groups. Be fearful of immigrants. Be fearful of societal changes. That's conservatism. But yet he's saying that it's everyone else. It's liberals and leftists who are irrationally fearful and that that's sick. I mean, I think this is projection and it's already been confirmed through science, which he doesn't believe in, by the way, that conservatives are more fearful because there are differences between the brains of conservatives and liberals. At least there's evidence that that's the case. So a university college London study actually looked at MRI scans from liberals and conservatives, and they found that conservatives actually had increased right amygdala sizes, which kind of confirms that, yeah, you guys are the ones that are fearful.  But he compared anti-vaxxers to gays during the height of the AIDS crisis. Anti-vaxxers today are bigger pariahs than gays during the AIDS crisis. Now, for him to say something like that, which is just a historical, is bizarre considering the fact that he was alive during the AIDS crisis. But nonetheless, he says that can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users had they been pariahs the way non-vaccinated are? It would have been inconceivable. It would have been inconceivable. Were you living on a different planet during the AIDS crisis, Dennis? He also said that never in his lifetime has he seen a pariah group like the unvaccinated.   And I don't really even know how to respond to what he's saying right off the bat. But just at face value, I think that Mary Ann Williams had had the best response and saying, my God, man, were you not there? Exactly. Now, there's not really a way to debunk what he's saying.  But for those of you who were not alive during the AIDS crisis, I want to show a 1982 news clip. This is from NBC Nightly News where they were learning about HIV and AIDS. And they didn't really know what was happening.  Take a look. Scientists at the National Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta today released the results of a study which shows that the lifestyle of some male homosexuals has triggered an epidemic of a rare form of cancer. Robert Bazelle now in Atlanta. Bobby Campbell of San Francisco and Billy Walker of New York both suffer from a mysterious newly discovered disease, which affects mostly homosexual men, but has also been found in heterosexual men and women. The condition severely weakens the body's ability to fight disease. Many victims get a rare form of cancer called Kaposi sarcoma. Others get an infection known as pneumocystis pneumonia. Researchers know of 413 people who have contracted the condition in the past year. One third have died and none have been cured. Death didn't scare me, it was living with this for a long time. That's more frightening than death. Investigators have examined the habits of homosexuals for clues. I was in the fast lane at one time in terms of the way that I lived my life. And now I'm not. The best guess is that some infectious agent is causing it. Today, researchers here at the National Centers for Disease Control said they had found several cases where people who had been sex partners both had the condition. The scientists say this probably means they are dealing with some new deadly sexually transmitted disease. The investigators see this as a serious public health problem. From an epidemic point of view, there have been more deaths from Kaposi sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia than have occurred with all the cases of toxic shock syndrome and the Philadelphia outbreak of Legionnaires disease combined. Researchers are now studying blood and other samples from the victims trying to learn what is causing the disease. So far, they have had no luck. Robert Bazelle, NBC News, Atlanta. OK, now let's try to put all of this into context. So you see this news report and it's the early 1980s.   Many, if not most gay people weren't out of the closet because it just wasn't socially acceptable to come out to your friends and your family members.  And this is happening at the same time when Ronald Reagan's moral majority emerged when there was this reactionary pushback against this growing LGBTQ plus movement.  And that's not taking into account the fact that the gay community, they saw sometimes more than a dozen of their friends die and they didn't know why this was happening. They didn't know why it was happening. So let me show you or tell you about the response that the government had to gay men back in the 1980s during the AIDS crisis. So as NBC News reports, after the Stonewall riots in 1969, LGBTQ activists across the country made significant civil rights advances and secured some municipal and state level protections against discrimination and public employment. Roughly two dozen states had decriminalized sodomy by 1980 and some activists were already talking about the next frontier, legal recognition for marriage, almost at the exact time that HIV cases first began to pop up in Los Angeles and New York. The LGBTQ rights struggle faced a reactionary backlash led by figures like Anita Bryant and Reverend Jerry Falwell, whose moral majority invade against giving rights to gay people. As the anti-gay reaction gained esteem across America with the election of moral majority ally Ronald Reagan, activists found their demands for attention for a growing medical crisis were ignored. The march for LGBTQ civil rights ground to a halt after more than a dozen states repealed sodomy bans in the 1970s, just two jurisdictions, Wisconsin and the Virgin Islands decriminalized sodomy in the 1980s. In 1982, Larry Speaks, press secretary for Ronald Reagan, laughed when asked about whether the president was tracking the spread of AIDS. It's known as gay plague, the journalist asked. Some people in the room chuckled, I don't have it. Do you speak snapped back as the room erupted in laughter? Do you? You didn't answer my question. How do you know?  We don't care.  That was the response from the government. Now, compare that with COVID-19 today or in 2020. And what was the response? The government poured billions of dollars into the development of a vaccine. And even in America, a late stage capitalist hellhole, the vaccine is free. It's actually free. Everyone can take it and it's widely available. Back then, they didn't care. But at least the government acknowledges that this pandemic is bad and they're taking action to stop the pandemic. They're trying to save lives. In fact, the vaccine itself has already saved nearly 300,000 lives, according to an estimate by the Yale School of Public Health, and it prevented more than a million hospitalizations. So in effect, the response today to anti-vaxxers by the government is, hey, please take this vaccine, it'll save your life.   We don't want you here. A little bit different. Don't you think Dennis Prager? But he knows this, he knows this. And being hyperbolic is how he gets people to pay attention. In a way, we're kind of feeding into what he wants, right? He wants the eyeballs on him.  He's reactionary and he just likes attention. Any attention, even if it's negative, is good for him. It raises his profile. But I think that to say that anti-vaxxers are bigger pariahs than gay men during the height of the AIDS crisis.  There really is no comparison. Anti-vaxxers today, their lives are mildly inconvenient. If you work at a job that has a vaccine mandate, well, you can either test usually weekly or you can get a vaccine, which is safe and effective.  Back then it was a fight to get sodomy decriminalized. So it's a little bit different. And I think that the history here is important because when a conservative reactionary says something that's a historical, I think it is important to correct the record, especially if you're younger and you don't really know about the history, but no, long story short, it's a little bit different the way that we treat anti-vaxxers today and the way that we treated gay people during the AIDS crisis. We might make fun of anti-vaxxers today and say that they need to educate themselves with actual science and data and their lives might be somewhat inconvenient because of their own stupidity, but we're not leaving them to die. We're not celebrating their deaths and pushing them away. As was the case in the 1980s.  We all know someone who's anti-vaxxer. I know anti-vaxxers. I have them in my family in my social circle. I don't want them to die. The reason why I push the vaccine on them is because I want their lives to be saved. It's a bit of a difference. See, the compassion here is there, whereas it was lacking before. But yeah, if you didn't know, now you know.


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Stella el nocta ch'ielo mi tuthe hazarde ch'i nokte brenis jinde mia libro breto, and all kızarte decided to read the book's reflective letters and that theful敬 사랑 is from the dodging words of the first international congress that energetically uneversely and when I started to read the constitutions I almost then noticed that this reflective letter was melting to the modern world so, when I said that it is as though I think that because little change is happened in the modern world because you see the thoughts, the thoughts of this lecture and you really can see that almost nothing changes and it actually touched my heart and I didn't want to be a strange person when I say that because I didn't want to put those things but really I just wanted to read part of the lecture every night for you so that you can see that almost nothing changes and I think that's a bad thing but also it can really remind us about why Esperanto is the first creation of Esperanto and also it's a very interesting lecture of a history viewpoint of Esperanto so I always read part and later if you don't like this kind of film just tell me in the comments if you don't want to hear a lecture or if you don't want to know why Esperanto is the first creation of Esperanto and I just don't want to be a strange person but every night I want to do it and in fact I'm the owner of this channel so I just start well, I don't start the lecture from the beginning of the lecture because in fact the beginning doesn't really change I want to start from the beginning of the lecture so here it is holy is for us today holy is for us today the world outside there's not much to know about it and the words that are spoken in our community there's no telegraph to all the Urbans and Urbans of the world there's not enough governments or ministers to change the political map of the world there's not enough clothes and furniture there's not enough orders in our salons there's not enough facilities around the holy house in which we are located but in the middle of our salons there are strange sounds sounds very loud not audible to the ear but sensitive to all the animals there's a sound of something big that is now screaming in the middle of the air there are strange ghosts the eyes, they don't see but the soul they feel they are completely new the ghosts flow into the world curvy and powerful and our children and nephews they see and feel and enjoy in the middle of the next century which for a long time became the memory of the people and about which our history preserved we are the most important documents the human family decided and each member brothers created all according to a model brothers who have all equal bodies equal spirit equal abilities equal ideals equal God in their hearts brothers who must help each other and work together for the happiness and glory of their family all brothers made each other completely new they decided for a long time in small groups and they started in the 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nation but sincerely as a man we get like no no it for it to I don't know yes language o mi suposas nur quaronon de tyu prelego al wi chui chade jyi fakte estes bona menui kay, kya chia mi voles danki mia indonatsanto in chai pageon tui estas sera esi sklavishklayev, Robert Nielsen, Alexander Tulfeson, Colt Aam, Tommy Linsley, Shane Powell, Lupe, Jason Knuckles, kai Jal Figeria kay, se wi shatas mian kanalo, kay, vi voles ke ji pli boniju eston tezen vi poves donatsi iomete damonu al mia kanalo per laligilo sube al mia pageon pageon to dankon al chui kay, mi esperas ke chi tyu filmeto ne estas tiil enuiga mis tiis ke jyi estas tre... jyi fate estas malo al tyu filmeto ki un mi kute me fadasi jes, jen jiyo


As I said earlier, but many have joined us since then, my name's Aaron Addison. I'm the incoming executive director for the World Geospatial Industry Council, or WGIC.  We currently have 45 members and we're rapidly growing that membership as our members continue to see benefits in belonging to the trade organization and the different types of engagement and outputs from our trade organization, which brings us to today's topic. Our today's topic is on oceans, which is a very rapidly emerging topic. As many of you may have heard terms such as the blue economy. And what we wanted to do here at Energio in 2023 is to showcase some of the WGIC members, not only their capabilities, but I think also their thoughts and their thinking as this industry continues to rapidly develop and take advantage of emerging technologies that allow us to see not only near surface of our oceans, but also well underneath our oceans, including down to sea floor with specific types of technology. So I am a big fan of self introductions. This will be our panel for today. So we have WGIC members, Mike Lee from a company called Plan Blue. We have Robert Hodenbach from Fugaro. We have David Neff from Wolpert. Jonathan Pritchard from IIC Technologies. And last but not least, we have joining us Andy Waddington from Hexagon. So with that I'm going to be quiet. I'm not the expert, but I'm going to hand it over Mike Lee. And we'll each go, so our format today is gonna be give a little introduction maybe up to seven minutes by each of our speakers. But really this is a panel discussion. So I want you as you're seeing the slides to be coming up with your questions about their capabilities, about their services, but also about what they think is happening in this space and why it's important. I'm sure some of our speakers will share and I'm not stealing any thunder here because it's not a big secret, but the world is covered three quarters by ocean, by water. And so it's an area that's been long neglected in geospatial because we just see a blue surface when we get there, we're not sure what to do it, do with it. But in fact the surface continues below the sea level and we know with changes in our environment that there are implications at that interface that are significant for our communities and their ability to adapt to climate. So with that, I didn't bike Mike up here. I guess you could take the clicker and sit or stand as you please. Thank you. Thank you very much. It's a tremendous honor to be here with some of the biggest players in this industry, which I think sort of speaks to how exciting it is. What we're doing at Plan Blue, it's not terribly unusual what we're doing except for where we're doing it. We're providing high resolution spectral seafloor data, which I think people here kind of understand what that means. I don't think I really need to go on about how exciting hyperspectral imagery is. We've seen the kind of things that we can see, for example from space, but we have sort of cracked the code to be able to take this under the water to apply the same thing to the seafloor. Of course, when I explain this to my non-geospatial friends, they don't really get that. We use a lot of fancy words. What I say is, you know how in science fiction movies, when they're looking down on some planet and the captain's always like, enhance, enhance, enhance. We provide the enhance. Here's a short video that sort of shows what we do. This is usually what we're seeing when we're looking down at the ocean using traditional geospatial means, but we provide the ability to actually zoom down and get that beautiful seafloor photogrammetry, but more importantly with the hyperspectral and RGB cameras married to a navigational system, we're able to provide insights into the seafloor and make it so that computers can see what is happening on the seafloor, and which is great because not only are computers able to scale and do things much faster, but we can use sensors that are much more sensitive than the human eye. And instead of seeing things in three wavelengths, we can see things in hundreds of wavelengths. That's that sort of bathymetric spectroscopy, which is so exciting. What kind of thing does this enable? Well, all kinds of things, infrastructure, you know, seawalls, pipelines, but for us, we kind of started with seagrass, which seagrass is sort of a humble thing, but seagrass is actually incredibly important because it's one of the best carbon sinks that we have. Seagrass is actually up to 30 times more efficient at fixing carbon than terrestrial based sources. And when we're looking at an economy that is increasingly seeing this kind of delay and inevitable catch up on carbon sinking, as well as drivers from corporate leaders like Apple, we see increasing demand for carbon sinks and carbon credits at the same time that terrestrial carbon sinks are coming under increased scrutiny because it turns out there aren't really that many good places to plant trees where there's not already a lot of carbon sunk. Traditionally, seeing what is going on in the ocean floor requires going down with divers, extremely expensive, slow, especially trained, scientific divers who are doing things like manual quarrying or putting quadrants down and counting individual blades of seagrass to...