after the shenanigans I can't believe it's still like an ongoing thing I'm kind of getting tired of like talking about it now but we're back anyone that's still hanging around thank you so much for hanging around waiting I don't think anyone will be we'll continue on for the mimilax team for a little bit to see what we can do with this we've got David up next from Spain it's the next opponent so we'll kick straight into it and they're playing the team of Groudon, Manitric, Mandibos, Bronzon, Gengar and Kyoga so dual primals Bronzon gonna be the main kind of speed control here you're gonna have Teowyn from the Mandibos for sure Mimikyu could be quite good here we've got the tone for the Bronzon tone for the Mandibos we can really cause that Gengar loads of problems here we just got Persian as well like Persian might not be bad because the fake out the Z-Party shot is also quite nice the Z-File play even if we want I think if we can get Snorlax into a position here could do some work between Persian and Mimikyu we should be able to deal with the Bronzon pretty handily and then my friends I think we would maybe go Groudon yeah let's go Groud let's go Groudon let's go Groudon let's see hopefully yeah just just so so so sorry about any internet issues that I'm having at the minute like you know like it's been fine all week and then the one day I do decide to stream it's like obviously this this happens it's like the powers of B do not want it to happen but we'll persist we'll play on we're playing a bit of a fun team tonight anyway so it should be a lot of fun gonna see the Groudon Minetrix come in my opponent doesn't want to bring the Gengar out top so gonna go with the Mega Minetrix in this one cycle those I mean we've got a pretty safe trick room set up here now if we want to I mean we can just potting potting shot out into the Groudon and trick room really I think I'm just gonna do that actually just potting shot the Groudon I don't think like the does the Groudon protect you I'm gonna see the Minetrix Mega Evolve so it's gonna get the Intimidate off just fine just fine for how we want to operate so we'll get the there's a volt switch okay where you going into the Mimikyu it's fine so I disguise his bust but we'll get the potting shot next onto the Groudon oh bronze on coming in okay what if it's gonna go gravity hypnosis that could be a little bit of a problem for us and Snorlax is gonna come in and take potentially a press of his blades here that's what I would imagine and block who hi how you doing me thanks for joining us tonight I don't know if you were here earlier but I do appreciate you coming back in hanging around for the stream tonight so we do get the trick room up and you have see fine how are you doing I hope you're well my friend thanks for joining us tonight we had some technical issues just now so it has meant that we weren't able to get the stream up and going and I think what we'll do is switch in Persian so we've got the fake out the next turn and yeah I do I really do want to I do want a belly drum here just to make use of this trick because it like Snorlax is gonna be in a position now where I can take attacks from Groudon the bronze on may go for it could go a skill swap here as well that's a thing to get rid of the the ground of weakness on the ground on but the Persian coming in here does give us a bit of a leave deviation and thank you so much for the cargo spread you're very welcome my friend I hope it's working out hypnosis and there's a press of his blades okay I'm living dangerously here these hypnosis coming out and all right we can go I think we have to fake out the bronze on and it's a little bit tricky because the ground and probably protects you we'll go for the high horsepower anyway yeah ground and protect they're gonna go for another hypnosis which hopefully they don't get and we could have doubled the bronze on for sure but I think one thing we could potentially do is go for can we go for the Z move into the bronze on or do we just go for I just feel like the bronze on gonna go skill swap now that's the thing I will go point shot into the ground on again and do I go high horse power or recycle I think recycle here we'll play the long game ground on the withdrawal we're gonna see we're gonna see come in the net trick come back in okay I got top 8 at Daytona with one of your kayak a YouTube spread that is amazing man that is so good and you are so welcome I'm just happy it worked out for you man that is amazing the tailwind trickery one that's awesome news man thank you so much that's made my day that's really great to hear and now that's awesome like yeah I'm really pleased in top 8 Daytona that's that's incredible like really incredible so we've got to stop pressure in the bronze on I think we've got yeah and if you bring a ground on we've got the precipice blaze we could go for we could go for the eruption as well they've kind of got to go for the blind hypnosis if they want to do anything unless I'm not really paying attention here being sidetracked unless the bronze on gone to reverse the trick which it could potentially do make sense again attacking this snowlacks as the trick room I think is incoming but I mean we're in such a nice position now unless they do have the Kyogre in the back which I presume they probably do so we could just cover our bases by going eruption and checking the Kyogre if it comes in Glaxon God thank you so much for the subscribe my friend I hope it has popped through there it is there it is thank you so much for the survey really means a lot and I hope you enjoy the rest of the stream since we are back now so yeah the Kyogre gonna come in gonna try and disrupt our eruption here it makes a lot of sense but we will get the return off into the slot Groudon's not on the best position but I mean oh right we're going that way are we maybe it's not enough to pick up the the KO but we do our eruption does fail the return here should get them in a trick yeah okay that's good so man okay I mean one of the things with hidden power water it's a nice tech but like if you're not guaranteeing the knockout onto Groudon not even but running the bulkiest of Groudon's here her problem is now Snorlax doesn't really want to enjoy taking a waterspout we're bringing Mimikyu and we'll go for the return into Kyogre we'll see if we can get it if you can I can link you my QR card don't want to steal anything away from your stream now that would be cool man definitely link the QR code a hundred percent that would be great we should take this waterspout with Snorlax yeah just about and get that berry so that recycle earlier on was was super super handy and the bronze one is gonna be a bit tricky because the eruption is really weakened now we avoid again we get away with it okay so we should get the Kyogre now Snorlax doing its thing okay this is good this is good yeah but you'll see if I'm please share the QR code I'm sure everyone would enjoy to see and I sure would we can get the Groudon in now we should be faster than the opposing Groudon and we still threaten with Snorlax I mean bringing in Persian here could have been probably a better choice I think just for the fake-out support that we've got there but Persian should actually be able to kind of clean this one up because I don't fear that Groudon can take down Snorlax it's just the fact that her eruptions probably not powerful enough to get the bronze on from here like heck no it's not so I'm gonna go earth power into the Groudon we've got to dodge another we've got to dodge another hypnosis which is a bit of a pain but you've got to fear what this Groudon's gonna do to the bronze on we'll get the earth part I don't know if it'll be enough that's the big thing is it gonna be enough it's not enough okay it's not enough press this blades it will get our Groudon and be some nice times just not maybe it would have been better going for a cycle here hindsight of course it hits now but I mean the Groudon is in a really awkward position because can the bronze on pick up the knockout onto the Snorlax I think the thing what you probably have to do here is hmm so don't want Persian oh we should take a precipice blades we should take a precipice blades it's just whether or not as a move can get the bronze on which I really don't think you can and if we can't then that's that's the bad thing like foul play is the play into Groudon all day but the Groudon protects bronze on probably tries to put the Persian to sleep in that case we could taunt we could taunt the bronze on it's just we leave the ground on unchecked and if it does go for a precipice blades here and could take Snorlax down I'm just gonna foul play the Groudon and I'm gonna try and recycle with Snorlax oh not gonna get it we're not gonna get it we've run out of time the Groudon does protect here so we just bottle it completely I think there's the thing like we knew what we needed to do we needed to taunt the bronze on because if it puts Persian to sleep here I mean okay I mean if Snorlax works up that would be amazing no okay so I think you go Hypnosis there to be honest optimally you've got to do it because now we just foul play the Groudon we do lock into recycle don't lock into belly drum again and we should we should be able to close this one up it's not like it's done all right in this one again still Groudon going for the double protect not getting it yeah I still think the Hypnosis probably would have been the better play even trick room just to get around the Persian would have been maybe a little bit better to do because yeah we get the recycle now and the bronze on I mean are you going trick room now because you just can't beat the Snorlax I don't think now yeah it's gonna trick room I think it's like a little a turn too late to do that you either had to do that the previous turn and then hope that you well gone for the double protect I mean I probably would have sealed it we can see I mean one of the things I'd have probably better off doing is just taunting the bronze on and let's see how much you returned as we saw earlier how much it did to a stack attacker and did nothing but we'll just see the full fit there so good game to my opponent and we do get a little a little bit fortunate with some hypnosis misses earlier on but I mean that's the I think that's how you kind of have to expect it's not always gonna hit is it's not the most accurate moves and we know our precipice blades and origin plus alike and they are a lot more accurate so right we'll jump into our next one fingers crossed we don't have any more internet issues I'm really hoping we don't but this team's been pretty fun if you guys want a pace of this team to take away and play with have a bit of fun with we've got Nick again he's back I wonder if he's not on the stream now he's not in the chat right now so well it's gonna be the best of three isn't it is the best of three against Nick so we know what to expect from the another the Chris Elliott's got the mental hope there and so we can't approach it like that so there's not really much getting around the trick room to be honest but we could use Persian a mimic you do we want mimic you here because Persian is pretty decent Salamence is good as well and kind of like Snorlax just in case the trick room does go up but then the Amoongus becomes a problem as well let's bring groudon and do we bring mimic you here or do we bring Salamence I feel Salamence with the intimidate supports pretty nice yeah we'll go for that we'll go for that good luck Nick have fun and UFC fan has posted his QR code of his top 8 Daytona regional team which is incredible and incredibly kind of him so guys it is there in the chat right now check it out try it out and I'm sure you'll have a lot of success with it and you'll see fan and enjoy a lot of your content both on YouTube and Twitch it really helped me a lot in prepping for regional thank you so much man that really is super nice to hear and just massive congratulations for such a good finish and really tough regional as well with some like a field of like incredible players so you did amazing well man and just thank you for coming on and just sharing it because there's no need you didn't ever need to do that but that's that's super nice of you to do we're gonna see the Kyoga and the crests come out so we can just go bake out in to crests and I mean we switching groudon here we could do that I mean one of the things you could potentially do is just bake out the Kyoga let the crests do what it wants and belly drum because then we make it really all good for them like how goes in the switch out we're gonna see come more wow okay I don't mind this too much especially if the crest goes trick room which I don't know if it's gonna though would you set the trick room up I mean it makes sense to set the trick room up here skill swap oh don't like that taking our gluttony away giving us levitate we don't like that Nick I know galaxy and God yet always run into Nick's like Nick loves the thing loves coming on we play quite a bit when we do streams it's it's kind of nice okay I think what we could potentially do is go party shot into the more well you can put it down to minus two which not like should then be able to get some sort of health back I think and we'll go for the the crest with a return and more well is mega evolving where you going more well minus two we should come on we should take a minus two ironhead play rough there's the first one we'll get the salamence on to the field this next turn and that should proc our berry with small acts even though we haven't got the gluttony we want to hold off bringing groud on in unless Nick brought both groud on in Kyoga we know he's got the Kyoga from leading with it ourselves so you do get the minus two into the more well does the ice beam scouting out that switch image makes a lot of sense yeah salmon takes it it's worth it though if we can take this yeah and there's our berry okay so we could have went for a high horse power for sure but I think it's nice to be able to kind of remove the crest which is such a big threat to us right now oh it survives barely but it's in range now for salamence do we actually hyper voice yeah I mean we can do because I think one thing we could do is just high horse power the more we know we're not going to get taken down by it we can hide the voice they've got a sucker punch the salamence to kind of protect the crystal here and they don't mind that sacrifice and Dynamus how are you doing I hope you're well a nice team yes see you see fine everyone appreciates it it's amazing that you have shared that so thank you so much for that and then Dynamus thanks for joining us tonight I hope you're well you enjoy the stream with us this evening okay so men's going down I think it's a worthy sacrifice here as long as you get the high horse power you do it okay I'm always worried about it I know it generally is decent accuracy compared to most things but I do worry about it missing sometimes and let's get nice a more while I hope Megan more while it's still goodness what I is really good in this format I I do like it quite a lot but yeah I think it's hard to utilize hard trick room with it because of all the dark types and the ghost types now that you didn't seem 16 I think it does become a little bit more tricky gonna see Groudon hit the field now and Kyoga coming alongside it will be able to see a little bit of speed tearing here depending who gets the so the ground on slow than that Kyoga there the Kyoga is pretty useless now it can only ice beam slacks and Persian don't really care about the ice beam it's just the ground on gonna be the main thing that we need to concentrate getting rid of now we should be able to close this one out I think I might spend this turn actually just baking the ground on out and going for the recite do we go for the recycle though because we've not got the gluttony anymore let's go return into Kyoga pink or how are you doing why just don't like to get high horse but I know right got I'm gonna protect how we're gonna protect no okay we're just gonna say try and chip uh oh thunder that's a bit risky in the Sun yeah so there's a Kyoga gone and now it's done it's like a big cat it is like a big cat I've never actually thought about that oh yeah and the Snorlax has levitate now so it's not even it doesn't even care does it it really doesn't care and we'll just file play the Snorlax and high horsepower big cat that's that's the name of our Snorlax that's the nickname we should do it yeah I completely forgot we had levitate but yeah Snorlax the most ridiculous Snorlax in the world imagine if it actually got this as a high horsepower should pick up the knockout yeah and good game Nick so we are able to pick up a little bit of a win so that's nice and Snorlax is almost like restricted apart from its special attack and speed it's basically got God stats the God Horsecat Pokemon it is the God Horsecat Pokemon it definitely is you are right though it's got such high base stats I think normal typing as well really helps it out a lot you know it's only got like the one weakness which is incredible it's got some nice immunities as well which are handy in this format especially with like we've been saying the ghost typing as well and so it's definitely something I would definitely recommend trying out and like I said that earlier if you guys weren't around and if you guys want a paste of this team to try out take away try for yourself I will I'll put that together and I can I can post that up on Twitter later on you can you can have a go with it so we've got bird geist as our next opponents Zornius, Smigel, Salvins, Finny, Groudon and Topical so Persian could be good here we need to be a little bit careful with this Coco and there's a part of me that thinks maybe the Coco's got the Ferenium but we hmm I mean we could actually go Mimiki rather than Persian or we could go both to be honest I definitely think we need Salvins here just for the Groudon and the Intimidates nice we need to be careful around this Zornius though that's the big big problem that's what it's kind of I'm leaning more towards the Persian I mean Persian Mimiki isn't bad I kind of want Groudon yeah we'll go Groudon Snorlax okay I don't like that I'm leaving Salvins behind but at the same time we might be alright and if my opponent brings either of the Tappies then they're kind of protecting us against potentially the Smigel putting us to sleep so that's kind of that's kind of good new Big Six the floating cat Snorlax we could do it good game Nick can we get a game 3 and Nick keep searching my friend I would love a game 3 tonight yeah good game is what my friend will get up the ladder so you can match up with me well I'm trying man my internet isn't allowing me it's been it's been the worst right we've got Tapa Coco we got Smigel and I mean we can just taunt the Smigel and go for a fake out into Coco here that's pretty safe and shutting down the Smigel early early doors is always a nice thing to be able to do we'll get a fake out into the Coco there there's a taunt into the Smigel unless it is mental herb but it now it tries to transform wow okay it's pretty useless now so it's fine we don't need to worry about the Coco we can parting shot or we could potentially just like I say that I do worry about the Coco potentially having the Ferenium which would be terrible for a good old person here but I think one thing we could potentially do is just parting shot and Smigel if we lose Persian here then we get a free switching to snorlax so Tapa Finney gonna hit the field what is it gonna be is it like Z nature power Coco the normality MZ now just doesn't game hopefully we can take this come on Persian yeah boss okay we can take it that's fine that's good that's good the Finney coming in though does make me worry about his for sure so you might want to put off belly drumming a turn and we can potentially just high horse power this the the Coco and taunt the Finney cream your back everyone's back this is good I'm sorry about the disconnect earlier as well guys my broadband as you all are aware is absolutely trash when it shouldn't be the weird thing is it's been amazing all week and the one night I do decide to do is streaming and decides to go go wrong and okay well taunt into the Finney will go high horse part into the the Coco I'm not sure because we're so bulky with Snorlax if we get the Coco with the high horse power but any damage right now is pretty nice we just need to be able to kind of shut down the the his option on this Finney which I'm really think it's got high horse power yeah it's not enough to get the Coco unfortunately there's the his yeah so we'll be able to stop this now with taunt and then the next time we can belly drum ooh z move it's a giga volt okay Nicky was alright I know I know I shouldn't talk about we discussed this before me discussing things that happen in game tend to happen in game we need to be more positive wow I mean we take that pretty well don't we hmm maybe a shadow claw what's my opponent got to bring in so they've got the smiggle so they could bring that in here I'm just gonna shut a clock cocoa and I'm gonna go for the belly drum I mean they probably bring in smiggle where the Finney is that would be my best guess I just want a belly drum just want a belly drum we'll see what we can do from this point Finney out smiggle in yeah cocoa out okay grow out on in huh okay fake out is a bit of a pain and this is where the men's would have been really great to bring in like honestly the men's would have been incredible we do get the belly drum up a crimson we're actually max speed jolly mimic you with yeah with jolly nature max speed it's so you've got the fast horn but then the more I think about it you know the we could have done with a speed booster from smiggle that would have been incredible and yeah the more I think about it the it's probably better we're probably better off going for something a bit different with all the scarf Lele that you seeing it that in the format the minute right we still could go for a taunt into the smiggle so many terms of trickery we got to okay that's who turns a trick they can't put us to sleep we still got a berry so we can high horse part into the ground on there's a fake out yeah that makes no sense right on swords dancing so we get it okay that's fine nothing the next turn they're gonna switch the smiggle out for sure protect ground on because ground on isn't a world of trouble right now we're bringing Persian we just attack into the smiggle I don't know if we feel like it's probably better attacking into the smiggle slot it's just the ground on probably just I don't want to be punished for not attacking into the ground on and we've got the Persian coming in the next turn so I'm gonna just yeah I'm gonna go for the ground on the Finney comes in for sure what's the topical okay I mean that's it's fine if we can get the ground on here I mean that is that's incredible I just dodged two sleep patterns and they rage yeah the ground on okay I think the one thing that we didn't want to do there though was actually kill what came in and that's me go slot unless it was the Finney because then we give the smiggle free a free kind of switching which is never ideal we can fake out ground on in high horsepower as well right on retreating okay makes sense me go coming in we'll be able to get rid of the smiggle which is fine Coco actually protecting here so we're actually gonna get to keep Persian for another turn and a berry is not even propped with Snorlax yet so that's that's really nice okay so smiggle gone just psych up on the mimic you Lee be that guy be me it is a nice option man it really is I'm thinking like maybe Sasha and mimic you could be good just to get around the moon guys beam like just to really guarantee that trick room you kind of need and real men is she and I'm sorry no I'm not in Germany this weekend I'm really sad about it but I'll be rooting for you and the rest of the guys of the weekend definitely I'm looking forward to watching it sad I'm not there and Finney coming in we can't avoid the DM we can't avoid the haze now for sure but we're gonna see it doesn't mean I kind of want to keep Persian around for the ground on later just gonna go for a return into the cocoa just to get rid of it yeah there's a dazzle okay and the penny definitely is gonna here's but we I mean we've had a berry with snorlax we could have went for the recycle there but you still have a z move with mimic you which is kind of nice cuz the ground on does decide to go for like we could see destiny bond here and recycle I think I'm kind of tempted to do that the desktop on the recycle let's try it and moon guys doesn't hit through me visibility yeah I think it does Nick I think men guys beam hits through the disguise that's why it's kind of dangerous for us I'm pretty sure it does that's why the sash would be nice there and the reminiscence you're playing 17 and night I know right real throwback I'm hoping the ground on attacks here I hope the precipice blades because if it does then we kind of just win the game yeah there we go and it didn't miss the mimic you which is the best thing ever please take the mimic you down it does okay bye bye right on the one time where you're like actually wishing for your opponent's precipice blades to hate you're like come on please hit please hit this one the ground on down mimic you doing its job snorlax doing a decent job as well moon blast going into nothing and we can have a little bit of fun now I think because we can see how much an eruption can we get the finny with two eruptions I don't think we can but we can definitely try we can definitely have a go but it's not like to mimic you's not doing too bad it's not doing too bad at all really is it it's been a lot of fun a lot of fun will you guys be what for those of you that aren't in Berlin this weekend we'll be watching the stream tomorrow catching up on it later tomorrow night or over the weekend and I have no idea what to expect I think there's gonna be some crazy teams I think there's gonna be some mad teams and mad texts and stuff that we've not seen yet I do expect to see a lot of good stuff there's gonna be stuff that we've probably seen a lot of times so many good players that are going it's crazy the remanishing can't root for me if I'm not playing but in the city oh well man I hope you're just having a great time over there and I hope you're enjoying it it's a nice it's such a lovely city and okay let's go for I mean what's the finny doing here I'll play and just press a bus and that should be enough that should be enough and for the synthesis how are you doing thanks for joining the stream tonight with us what about God think you could be good in this format I do actually I do think it could be good again it struggles a little bit like Chris earlier like it does really it doesn't like the dark types and the increase in goals types that we've got now in the format it is a lot harder to you so you need a lot more dedicated support for it like redirections almost a must to like always secure your kind of trick room set up which you are really needing with got the town but got the town more while is a common partnership that we've seen in past formats do really well a good game to my opponent as well by the way and so I do think it has a lot of potential and it could work really well I think that the the advantage of got the town has over mega Gengor is it instantly traps your opponent in which is which is super nice and like it really does help you kind of lock down those those matchups I think got the telly Velto could be nice as an option got the telly Velto Kyogre kind of works similar to how the mega Gengor works there but it's still a little bit tricky but yeah and then you play more while with it as well yeah you know and really mission you castle have escaped relegation which I'm so thankful for but it's kind of the realization now that Rafa Benitez could be leaving which is a little bit sad and I just hope they renew his contract I hope big big fat Mike if you're listening not that he would ever be he might be a crazy Pokemon fan you never know he might be in the chat imagine if he was my wish is just give Rafa what he wants and sign him or I'm banning you from the chat yeah there you go Mike your C-fan goth eval to ground on maybe yeah that could be really nice stops Rick Hazard from switching in yeah I think that's like a really nice really nice option there and the ground on more I was kind of interesting as well and eval to ground on is always something I absolutely love and you could play misty seedy Velto so you've got tailwind support there with maybe a mixed ground like a middling speed ground on which can work in trick room tailwind depending on what you're going up against and you've got the options there I think to play around with that quite well because you've got the trap and you probably need radar redirection for sure a mungus could work for sure ocherberry sash something like that so yeah loads of options and the real munition Rafa Benitez is the world champ for 2019 I wish you imagine I reckon if Rafa Benitez played Pokemon he'd be absolutely amazing because he's like the master tactician right if you played Pokemon he'd be incredible being like yeah he would be world champion probably do like a rare iso like three years in a row or something crazy like that be the oldest world champion in existence and Nick someone clip this for redirection could Smiggo work definitely I think so like Smiggo's really nice as well it's got the immunity to the ghosts so the follow me super nice there and the real munition yeah football manager should play it a hundred percent I would pay to watch that we've got our next opponent they're playing Shininger yay awesome it doesn't look like the silk there so that's that's nice incinero salamence earliest ground on Lele Lele is the problem here obviously but we can go mimic you and it's got mimic you snorlax we'll go salamence and then the ground on and we'll see what we can do I don't like that I've not bought Persian upfront because then if the zonius comes out as a lead we've kind of left ourselves a little bit exploited by the the geometry set up I mean we can get the trick room up get the belly drum up if they do decide to do that so it's not the end of the world but I mean I kind of prefer to prevent the geometry rather than allowing it to be set up and then dealing with it after that but that's just me as a player they're gonna see that the Lele and the zonius come up you have see I do have to say that Smiggo felt off the map at the regional didn't fist one a single one wow yeah I think it has but it's still got such good utility hasn't it it's crazy how good it is I still think I think it's one of those things that probably as the format progresses develops a little bit we'll probably see a little bit more of it as we go on Scotty how are you doing hope you're well my friend and having a good day and thanks for hopping in with us tonight it's just tuned in when did mimlaks come back throw back throw back Thursday indeed my friend right let's go should we just go full on let's just go for it bull's-deep trick room belly drum we're just gone for it we're not bottling it here we're just gonna do it that's what happens scarf taunt I mean it it's it's it could be worse it could be hella worse because that Lele is definitely scarfed it's locked into taunt we get the belly drum off we're not in any danger of getting killed from the zernius and we can still Z move if you want to we could Z move into the Lele to be honest I mean what probably comes in there let's have a look at the team because it's likely the incident well does the incident come in or the men's or the shinninger shinninger we could just Z move into it as well Z move into the Lele and let's just return into the the zernius let's do it best happy on the field what the mimic you will I would definitely agree with you if that was the case well wow we actually out speed the Lele so we could it's not even scarfed we could have actually just went for the taunt into a turn one just a little bit sad we're not seeing a protect come out from the zernius though if this Lele is not scarfed I think we're in a good position to clear the field here which would be incredible for us is it is it it's gone excellent excellent memes income it means incoming 100% okay another dazzle that's fine it's not like to return bye bye dear yeah okay this is working out and no it can't be a speed time Nick because I'm running max speed jolly mimic you so it was for that reason to kind of get the jump on Lele but like I said before I think it's not as relevant now because of the oh man you bring the shinninger as well okay good shadow sneakers for sure but I think I think we'll be fine now won't we yeah I just think we'll be we'll be alright and we'll shed a claw and we'll go high horse power into the incident I mean we go out on the back so it should all be fine shouldn't it yeah so Mimi is base 96 so it will hit like one six one I think yeah we're gonna have sash it's likely to have sash yeah what's it doing that I wonder what we're gonna see there's the flablets into I wonder if we see a toxic into the snow likes I mean it's pretty hopeless now it's yeah I'm just oh willow it's maybe not maybe not but I mean ground on just comes in just does the job doesn't it a horse power so I did like snow likes is like burned I don't care it like burn me burn me just fire me up I'm gonna do the job anyway it's good it's fine um yeah let's get how well who do we want to give glory let's give glory to mmm yeah let's just go proud on definitely using guts hey came how are you doing I hope you're well hope you enjoyed this dream of this tonight good snow likes it would be pretty decent actually it would be pretty bad for the air the berry procter wouldn't it no good snow glory 100% to be fair if you're not running like a belly drum set like a curse good set could be decent with help or support just throwing it out there just throwing it out there and I mean snow likes it's pretty useless here I mean we could just now I'm not I'm not I'm not gonna play around I was gonna high horsepower growed on but I feel like you could protect there and it would all go wrong but good game to my opponent with side on lax facade yeah remember those days the hard throwbacks today it is isn't it it's good I'm enjoying it I hope you guys are as well you know I was like sitting before coming on live thinking what can I play tonight I did mention earlier on one of the comments on the YouTube that I play banded lax banded request but I couldn't quite finish a build and I didn't really want to play something that's kind of I kind of in the circle at the minute so we're doing that with the requiser team on YouTube I felt like I want to play something a little bit different I haven't played any Kyogre yet now we will be playing Kyogre on the channel next week so I'll probably bring Kyogre to the stream next week for sure and depending what time the stream is on Saturday for the the European internationals I might do a Saturday morning stream but if it clashes I'm obviously not gonna do it because I don't want to like everyone wants to watch that so we've got TA Watts as our next opponent as polite as I could put that so we've got Groudon Incineroar, Thiny, Salamence, Duskman and Taboo Lele so what are we gonna do here the Lele again is a bit of a pain but I mean it's my opponent really do against the Mimikyu and we could actually go and now we don't want to go Persian we want to go just Snorlax and Groudon do we want Zern here though maybe nah we got Salamence it's weird when you've got a team with Zernius and I'm very rarely bringing it and Picatrina how are you doing hope you well thanks for joining us tonight I hope you're having a great day as well my day is going good heard some technical issues earlier with my broadband again but it all seems to be fine now so fingers crossed it stays that way and for a synthesis I miss using Snorlax like I said man if you if you any you guys would like a paste of this team after the stream I will I will pop one up on Twitter later on when I'll do a poker paste of it so you guys can try it out take it away and have a little bit of fun with it as well because I think it is it's got a lot I think the team probably needs tweaking a little bit I think but it's still it's still fun to play and I think it's got potential real munition Lee we're both going XOR and yeah well yeah XOR yeah just we're just gonna do it because that's how we roll man easy only undefeated players in EU internets it's first year that's probably happened maybe the last year as well Nick double-primal heavy trick room please zone is bad we could do yeah could do could throw could throw cargo now you know the other thing I was thinking maybe throwing in was it's just because eval tol becomes a bit of an issue if you don't have the zone it kind of alleviates that a little bit but I did think about ultra and a cross mat as well I thought that could be could be good so Lele brought on coming up for my opponent and the destiny bond or trick room hmm or just Z move into the Lele Z move Lele and and belly drum yeah magic room ha okay hmm magic room you say kind of wasting the belly drum here hmm why did we never see magic room used in any of the other formats where it could have been really relevant like we only really saw use of it at the start in the Sun series precipice blades it will hit and we still have the destiny bond we could actually use the next 10 disguises Brock belly drum is gonna cripple us now we kind of needed to go below 50% so it fails here it's not like it's done hmm could we maneuver ourselves into a position where we can maybe get a trick room up and get lacks back in to recycle and give it a nice of life again I don't know I feel like that time has come and gone magic room man okay hmm mean what comes in now for my opponent probably the dust man Picatrina at one one it might have been banned due to glitches that's kind of true actually no point in setting up tricking for lack now no point now and I mean we go Z this we go destiny bond for sure I think probably better off just sacking yeah we just better off sacking and we try and get try and get a high horse power into the ground on I just fear is the the photon guys are into the mimic you hear from the ultra and across my because I don't think we can we don't take this in the side no way I mean if they've went press of his blades and it misses Snorlax could still do how good would that have been how good would that have been okay right we don't get that this becomes a bit tricky my friends because there's a move in some men's is the big thing here isn't it that's what's gonna happen here we get the intimidate off onto the ground on which is nice we could press the piss blades and not get ground on do I protect men's though I really do think that's where because I think my opponent like I could be really cheeky and just press his blades and mega-volve protectments because I think that's where the Z move comes in I really do and well what has Pokemon come to when psychic span actually requires a game plan yeah I'm not psychic spans crazy strong now isn't it and Nick for the random magic room thank you for the bit my friend thank you for the bits we'll see if we can come out of this hole we're gonna see the Z move here be in the salamence might be into the ground on that I kind of expect it more in the salamence the speed controls there so that's where you want to kind of put the stoppers on if you can real munitions so you could read your ground on protect and attack men's that's the overlay animation isn't it so there we go into the men's you take that oh well I mean that's crazy the nuclear explosion get the precipice blades that's why precipice blades is the worst we don't get the ground on we're gonna see precipice poops old stunts okay and diamond more than five how are you doing I hope you're well thanks for joining us this evening we could have done with that precipice blades hitting and we'll go for the tailwind see if we can get photon geyser you into the salamence here yeah okay you've probably got a power on the alternate cosmos so oh come on okay that's just it's not fair yeah we would have got both if just precipice blades been a little more accurate pretty good good to hear mate yeah more like precipice blades doing its thing right now for us so good game to my opponent the magic room totally screwed us there like a hundred percent Sean how are you doing thanks for hopping into the stream with us all tonight I hope you're well and I hope you enjoy the rest of the stream with us this evening are you by any chance in Berlin this weekend in 2017 I miss the precipice blades in 2019 I do the same whenever I use it will it's always the same you remember that really horrible run I had on the channel with it was in the Sun series when I played ground on I think it was and there's like every day the grind of just precipice blades doing precipice blades things you could just see the progression of my demeanor just reducing every day until we like moved on to a new team and I was like a new man it's like yeah no more ground on let's get into this but yeah it's a horrible move in Picatriona ticking down the last few minutes as work with streaming the background and I hope you've not got like ticking down the minutes till you finish or taking down the minutes so you start and now how are you doing I hope you're well made thanks for joining us this evening and Sean no and no oh that's a shame Sean hopefully you can get to some events soon Nick I should give you've waited I love a bit how are you doing thank you so much for joining us tonight and thank you so much for the bits as well hope you enjoy the stream with us for the rest of the evening got an ex-opponent and pick it during you can't miss precipice blades if you don't use it that's a thing I can't really have any excuses I got earth power in the ground on for that exact reason I've just been greedy greedy there so we've got Yveltal Kyoga Lily in general and this is like the gyms back team that he won the Daytona regional with so it's to be an interesting game see what we can do again see how many lacks can to match up to this I don't know how well we're gonna be able to do that okay we'll go memory queue obviously the the lay lays a bit of a problem again you might need to bait bait in let's go snowlaks and let's go crowd on yeah let's just lock in let's lock in and do this I know yeah it was awesome you know I wish I'd realized at the time that you were on today's episode maybe were yeah I wish I'd realized it was you at the time you know and then I could have give you the big shout out that you deserve but it was a fun game great game though and hopefully you can bump into you again soon so we can feature some more of your your mad skills it was it was a lot of fun really nice to feature as well and food came going to start again in Sword and Shield kind of washed up at the moment haven't attended since February 2018 it's always nice to have a break though mate so be good to see you back and hopefully you enjoy the the new format when it comes back around right okay make a ginga you're gonna protect right Gengar gonna protect I think so what's the stack attack are gonna do is gonna gyre ball into us into Mimikyu we're gonna get doubled into the Gengar could taunt us as well I mean one of the things you could potentially do is just go never ending nightmare into the Gengar get some damage off there and just fake out the stack attacker I mean it's pretty passive but I mean like if we get away with getting rid of the Gengar here it's pretty big for us totally expect the Gengar just to protect though wow no protect no protect on Gengar sludge bomb yeah gone for the double up into the Mimikyu interesting okay and Nick Lee would it be great where you find you make a final build after two weeks and the best of three that would be cool that would be really cool that would be that's that would be a nice thing to do like on the channel Nick that would be I'd love to do something like that I think like incorporating that sort of stuff into the series like my big hope for sword and shield really for like content going forward because it's so centered around best of three and like best of one practice it's all well and good for testing a team but it's not really relevant like super relevant to a competitive circuit it's really all best of three so my real hope for sword and shield is that they implement a best of three option on the bat spot ladder that would be incredible and then it would like so after a game you can you can message your opponent and say do you want to do you want to go best of three or you there's just the best of three ladder where anyone you bump into your best of three with I mean it take a little longer but I think it would be so much more valuable for a competitive circuit and then you could also have a best of one ladder as well so you've got both options I don't know if it's even possible but I mean stuff like that would be amazing and galaxy and God thank you so much for the bits my friend okay right we've got Incineroar coming in it's got the fake out we're gonna be gyro ball fodder at the minute it's gone to groud on with Mimmy Hugh we want to just keep that around for later and there's a parting shot out into the stack it's okay I don't really mind if the tricking gets up because it gives Snorlax a nice opportunity to kind of come in and start doing some work and who can do you reckon we won't get events until some shield is out I'll get ultra series random format I don't know mate it could be anything we could get some weird random format if K is involved I'm sure she would be thinking of something really cool because she came up with this whole format this year which is incredible and so it may be something like that we may just see a progression of ultra who knows but I don't think the format will officially change until what depends when the the first international is doesn't it it really does that will make a big difference because whenever that is if they do a similar thing to like when Sun and Moon came out in 2017 and then they changed the rules like super quick they could do something like that but I don't really know I don't really know man no we'll just have to see what happens but I don't think we'll get sold and shield events until after after the Christmas after the year that would be my best guess anyway yeah yeah so I love this ghostly boy killing ghostly bra I know right we're getting it we're getting it and Smith's girl how you doing thanks for joining us this evening hope you enjoy the stream of the soul tonight I'm gonna see the yoga come in I'm gonna see a trick from the stack attack now it's just jarra balling okay into the lax yeah you don't mind that at all okay do we bring in the queue let's bring in men's and go for high horse power into the stack I don't really mind about the Kyle great the minute because we've got the ground on to come in and we've got plenty to deal with that once we can kind of reposition our weather so we should be all right going forward and good relaxing God and hoping that in between this format and sword and shield we have VGC 18 again love that for my last year that would be a lot of fun I'd love that and Nick I'm battling toxic shenanja man that sounds fun I battled a shenanja right what was it like two weeks ago I was testing I think it was before one of the last streams that we did I was testing out stuff and what was it they entrapped yeah in training they went sturdy into it so it obtained sturdy and then and then they nuzzled it so I couldn't I couldn't physically I couldn't burn it because that was one of my outs so it was paralyzed it had sturdy and then my only thinking was okay I know focus sash kind of acts against confusion but does does the sturdy ability act if you hit yourself in confusion so I was like swaggering it so position myself into this this this bold position where I could swagger it the misty terrain had gone it left me open to toxic which was doing and I got the swag on to it three turns later it hits itself in confusion sturdy procs I'm like oh my god and like by that time my timer was just all to pot there was no way of like time was stolen it's all so horrible thing to face it with yeah it was pretty nasty and okay Kyogre is gonna switch out here I think one thing we could potentially do is switch now we could recycle here yeah that's a power into the stacker because if the stacker stays in you take it down I know we gave the Kyogre free switch in by taking the stacker down and then they got big at the next turn but it's not like should take a water spout from this range oh my god nice nice nice nice nice inside barely and I like everything you've done on your channel oh yeah being a massive fan oh thank you so much y'all that's really nice to say that's a really nice to hear and I hope you continue enjoy the content mate I've got the recycle off with the Snorlax get that biggie very back we'll find it thick lax as well and the chef right chef rags yes no yes yes a hundred percent mate in Smith's skull anyone wants a battle yes come on guys if anyone's around want to give Smith's skull a battle hop on now he's ready to go and well if you don't have a ninja odyssey I hope both you're bad best of one do you mean an answer to those we'll switch in Persian here we need to get the weather control back I'm kind of hoping the incinero fakes out Snorlax here that would be incredible because that would proc our berry hmm do we get greedy in your belly drum I don't know if we do really we could just return into the Kyogre just get some damage off into it I think it's probably the better thing to do or will do you mean if you don't have either a shininja or a ditto you're bad here we go you take it with Snorlax no we don't actually oh this is not good it's not so good okay but it's not so bad either and Sean do you still get enough time to enter VGC tournaments I haven't been at the minute mate no but I'm planning on attending Bristol Bristol will be in like three weeks time so I've registered for it I'm really pumped about playing because I've missed playing comparatively for a really long time so like Berlin was never a possibility whatever was going on so and Bristol's gonna be nice and it's kind of nice that it's in like my hometown now which is like really cool and so yeah I'm looking forward to it and hopefully I can I can do something at the event it would be really nice to be able to do something so can we get the incinero yes we should be able to beat the Kyle guy I'm hoping with precious blades and the FL regs MSS was best of one Swiss and I didn't use shed ditto I made it to the finals this past week nice nice you see well that face just does it all okay three blades you've got to just hope haven't we know that they hit one hits all we need is one more we might get away with an F we need another one ice beam what's this doing is this a three hits yeah we're good we're good we're just we can afford one miss not to but we don't even get one so that's good okay and good luck where is Chris I haven't heard from Chris in a long time man no I don't know I know the last time you could Chris was playing League of Legends so I'd imagine he's probably mastering that right now but yeah it's a shame he doesn't play Pokemon anymore it is a shame but he might come back you never know short and sword and shield coming out and Nick I hate she ninja yeah there's a part of me that doesn't like playing it but there's a part of me that kind of likes it it's like a real sadistic side of me I feel I feel wrong saying that clip that bit really like she ninja but now I do can't I kind of like I like its utility I always enjoyed playing it when I play it the real mission laser type of player that I'll secretly place your ninja off stream yeah just like all the time just yeah just streams over right get this to ninja team out come on ditto get out come on boys let's go for a party yeah I'm no I don't do that but I do have a lot of fun playing she ninja but who knows who knows if I secretly place your ninja under a different on a different cart under a different alt that would no one would ever know it was me not given anything away and that's right crib 100% okay we got buck up and guys probably this one's gonna have to be the last one of the evening unfortunately I'm gonna have to shoot off after this but it's been a lot of fun hopefully you can get a good win we got buck up next he's playing an x-ray team so is that kind of standard x-ray team you're looking at requires a landerist the Xernius incinero or type of any animal is probably looking at sash requires a with sword stance you can't discount that it could be banded but I think with the kind of build that we're looking at it's probably not banded you probably looking at just a sash variant so the sword stance there's gonna be the big thing hmm right I think Persian's decent Persian mimic you could be good could be good do we want we want I kind of want to bring Xernius here but that I kind of don't as well and the thing is the Amungus does make it a little bit trickier gone for the trick room I could just go Persian Xernius for this last one let's not bring Snorlax on mimic you and go salamence ground on and see how we can get on there because I feel like that could potentially do some work yeah let's do that let's do that let's see and well I'm that guy because I'm evil and I'm like when this is true if you if you want to win Detotian Ninja on every team love a burst I faced a lot of banded rays at the Daytona MSS one was banded with earth power for a while okay that's crazy like banded ray is like a big thing at the moment I do think it's I think you need specific text against it like I'm not massively fond of like the builds that are going around at the minute not to say that they're like bad because they're obviously really good and effective and do really well but I think there's better ways to play banded rain support it like Serena I am a bit the huge advocate of Serena in its format but I think with banded ray Serena does an incredible job you've got the protection from priority so you've got that that quick you can just get the attacks off when you need to you got help and hand to support that alleviates intimidate you've got feints so you can get around protect and then pairs Serena with crowbar I don't know how you build the rest of the team around it but I just think that core three with the support around the band is just yeah really good but you know someone might put something together with it we're gonna see a moongus and zonius come out for my opponent and what do we want to do we want to we have to talk we have to talk the moongus pretty much but I kind of want to talk the zonius and just if we see a rage I'm gonna talk I'm gonna talk the moongus and I'm gonna GMC now I'm just gonna protect cuz I run out of time again ah zonius protects okay please let the other zonius protect oh this is like this has gone from bad to worse from bad to worst but okay doesn't gleam I mean we get away with that so I mean you shouldn't be getting away with this okay really shouldn't be getting away with this at all okay okay okay let's bring in grad on and banded raise super scary isn't it I beat all the ones I face but it never really gets any easier now it definitely doesn't it's the bit where you kind of like is it banded or is it not like I intimidated it but it should I should survive and then it's like dragon ascent knockout and you're like that's bad yeah that's bad it's like and it's so hard to play like in best of one as well it's so much more difficult to actually play around corruption and we will I mean we have to GMC here just to keep up because the opposing zonius definitely GMC's I think like a moongus probably switches out to ray okay yeah I just yeah we're gonna hmm I wonder if it's if that's sash to moongus though that could be that could be the tip in point for us a hundred percent let's see let's see oh actually out speed in the zonius we'll get some nice damage there yeah we don't know no Sasha moongus I don't slash has been something that's been played in Japan like max speed timid like no job like max speed timid a moongus Japanese players I do see the utility in it though it's good you know I came so close to running that in like 2015 like max speed timid a moongus to get around so many things in the format at the time but I never actually did run it but yeah no I think it could potentially be good and Sean what what you most wanting from sword and shield lay what path would you want the games to go down this could lead to any sort of possibilities right oh I don't know Sean I think I think personally I think more competitive stuff like having a facility that is like where you can use rental Pokemon on the battle spot I think that would be amazing and like tweak them EV them and stuff like that makes testing a lot easier I think something a facility like that would be my big hop for sure that would be the big one but outside of that storyline I just think have a different ending leap for I did like a little video on on the channel about like what my big hops were kind of like a lot of those but there's like lots of other stuff as well but I'm just really excited for I mean playing on the switch is gonna be incredible I think the switch is like my favorite Nintendo console since like then the n64 which is it's just so much fun I love it I honestly do we're gonna see the request burst out and obviously a movie is being not sashed means that the request are probably is like we kind of suspected this start a lot of this at least once it's locked into a scent it cannot really hit stack yeah that's so true yeah very true so yeah there's a sash on the ray we knew our speed in the opposing zernius because he kind of had two speed ties every well the one speed time you know I kind of don't agree with that really too much I think you have to drag and ascent the zernius here or you at least protect sack your your zone potentially having I don't know and cinnamon in the back to come in and help you set that sword stance up but it is difficult at this point as well so and Sasha Moonga's forces double downs and you get a free set up yeah especially like so on this sort of team it's like perfect isn't it Linus coming in and Sean would you want a showdown incorporated type mode and so like if you could have that online yet I 100% would like something like that we'll just corruption again and be blessed and that should be game and real mission hi I went to the bathroom and what happened and we played Geomancy zernius for our last game of the evening my friend we kind of nearly got punished but it worked out alright actually in the end by taunting the Moonga's and then timing out and protecting with our zernius to him on our opponent didn't go for the Geomancy just went for the dozen to get rid of the Persian and then from there to kind of being a little bit easy because the ray went for the sword stance rather than the attack into the zern that last time and we wrap things up with buck so it's been yeah really good so good game to buck and that wraps it up for tonight guys at least we've had a nice little run now since the we had a little crash earlier and we've had a bit of a run so what I'm gonna say guys is Saturday morning depending on the schedule of the European international championship stream if it's on early I'm not gonna stream but if it's not on early and it starts a little later I will stream in the morning so I will see you then but I will tweet out if you guys want the pace of this team let me know in my thank you message to all of you when I tweet out in a moment to say thanks for coming by tonight and if you'd like the pace of the team I'll put it together I'll tweet it out and you guys can try it out it's a lot of fun maybe lax is something don't forget about it in 19 definitely not it's got a lot it's got a bit of potential I think and it's a lot of fun if nothing else so thank you so much to each and every one of you for coming out tonight have a great weekend if I don't speak to you till next week we'll be back next Tuesday if not Saturday enjoy Berlin internationals yeah the stream so and just have a great weekend everyone thank you so much for coming out and I'll see you all next week so take it easy guys bye bye


Okay, we're gonna get started. Please take your seats. Up next we're gonna have Pilar Egues Guevara. I didn't pronounce her right. And she's gonna be talking about coconut gentrification in the coast of Ecuador. Is that where you're from? All right. Thank you everyone for being here. My name is Pilar Egues Guevara and I am from Ecuador but I've been living here for about 10 years. I want to start by saying that I also come from a different field than many people and the topics dealing most of which have been dealt in this conference. I have a PhD in Anthropology so my presentation topic is along the lines of the previous presentation about not what food does to our body but rather where it comes from and what happens at the place of origin of these trendy health foods. I will present the findings of a study I've been conducting over the past years or the past year in Ecuador using the methods we use in Anthropology which are ethnographic fieldwork in this interviews, focus groups and participant observation with older people and medical doctors as well as literature review and commodity statistics of coconut over a period of over 50 years. So where I conducted my fieldwork is in the province of Esmeraldas which is highlighted in red. It's a northern province in the west in the coast near the border with Colombia. They have a population of about half a million people which is predominantly of African descent and this is a photo of the some of the women that I work with there. So coconut is an essential ingredient in their traditional dishes of this region. It's characteristic of this region. It gives a name to the iconic dish from Esmeraldas called en cocado which literally means coconut. En cocado is a seafood or meat stew cooked in a coconut sauce and local herbs. So that's a crab en cocado. To the tourists visiting Esmeraldas beaches en cocado is an exotic dish and an attraction of Ecuador's black province as is their traditional music and dance. However for black esmeraldeños or esmeraldas, the people from there, en cocado represents more than just food. It's just a potent symbol of their identity and essential part of their bioecologic and cultural heritage and of their collective history as an ethnic and regionally distinctive people in Ecuador. In spite of this cultural significance to the people of Esmeraldas, en cocado, this dish has become an exceptional as opposed to what it used to be an everyday meal and a basic staple in the diet. In my interviews, olden men and women remembered having eaten coconut in almost every single year of their day during their childhood and young adult years, about 40 or 50 years ago. At that time many of them still live in the country. In those years, coconut was just was used to make drinks such as they used to make hot chocolate with fresh pressed coconut milk. Smoothies made with ripe plantain, cinnamon and coconut milk and this is known as masato. This upper photo there is what they used to drink. It's not so common anymore. If it's done today, they used regular milk, not coconut milk. Children and adults used to eat pieces of coconut with rock and sugar or panela as a snack. Many desserts were made with coconuts such as the steel popular cocadas made with grated coconut and rock and sugar. That's a photo of the cocadas that are made with white sugar but the traditional, more traditional cocadas are brown with rock and sugar. Older women from Esmeraldas told me about their countless recipes which called for coconut milk adding a distinctive color and consistency. The cocadas mentioned earlier were stews made of varieties of seafood or wild mountain animals hunted locally and cooked in a thick flavorful coconut sauce. Even to this day the coconut milk and cream used for cooking is fresh, hand-grated and pressed minutes before adding it to the pot. Coconut oil was scantily used for frying and mostly had cosmetic and therapeutic uses taking internally to combat intestinal parasites and externally as a skin and hair conditioner. We do not have data for this time period 40 or 50 years ago but it is likely that at that time the fat intake of Esmeraldas mostly came from oil rich ripe coconuts used in everyday cooking as well as from wild cut fish and other seafood. Older people also testified to using lard in small amounts for seasoning. Also their diet and conditionally included plantains and ore rice to company meat or fish stews as well as small amounts of mostly cooked vegetables and for those of you who don't know plantains are a kind of banana that is not eaten raw you have to cook it and that's a green plantain when it becomes ripe it it's a yellow and it's sweet and that's the one that is used to make the smoothie that I showed before. However Esmeraldas diets today look quite different compared to previous decades the rice portions have increased significantly to make up for or replace the reduced consumption of plantains and fish we have become which have become more expensive and relatively inaccessible to the majority and especially those living in urban areas and I went to do my fieldwork with a friend and that's the typical dish that you you're served today in Esmeraldas that's the kind of it's a yeah it's a fairly decent amount of rice with a little bit of beans and and some fish on the side that's actually a restaurant but generally the portions for meat or fish or seafood are smaller because it's expensive and people eat a lot of rice. So in addition fat from traditional sources like lard fish and coconuts has been replaced for disproportionately larger amounts of commercial vegetable oils and margarine made with hydrogenated vegetable oils. As a reference the Food and Agricultural Organization reported that in 2010 4% of the dietary intake in Ecuador came from animal fat well over four times as much 17% came from vegetable oils. These are the data from the Food and Agricultural Organization and they show a fourfold increase in vegetable about a fourfold increase in vegetable oils over four decades and relatively stable and low levels of animal fat but the most of the vegetable oil increase comes from palm and soybean oil. So Esmeraldans today are not eating as much nearly as much as coconut as they used to and certainly not every day. In fact going against the traditions and of their cultural preferences most people in Esmeraldas are purposely avoiding coconut. Some of my interviews told me that nowadays on average they eat a coconut based meal once a week or maybe twice a month. Some people particularly medical doctors in Esmeraldas reported eating coconut exceptionally as a treat once or twice a year purposely repressing in purpose their desires to indulge in tempting and cocaos. So based on my interviews I found that there were too many reasons for this drastic change. The first is that people especially adults and those suffering from chronic diseases particularly overweight and diabetes are being medically advised to avoid eating coconut. The ongoing preventing campaign against obesity in Esmeraldas led by public health authorities prescribes not to eat fat from animal and coconut sources and I got a flyer from a local hospital and the point highlighted there is a avoid saturated fats of animals and of coconut. So doctors in Esmeraldas and in the rest of Ecuador based his dietary prescriptions on the American Health Association's current recommendations regarding saturated fat consumption and its supposed relationship with cardiovascular disease. As most of our are familiar with these recommendations are best based on bad science in quote made in the 1950 United States particularly Ansel Key's seven country studies. Nutrition books in Ecuador as late as 1960 still admitted oil from coconuts as good sources of vitamin D. However already in the 70s major vegetable oil industries were founded and processed commercial oils particularly from palm and soybean were advertised wisely as healthy and cheap alternatives to traditional fats. By the 1980 influential nutritionists in Ecuador condemned the use of lard from pigs and coconuts as unhealthy sources of fat which were harmful for the heart. The prejudice against saturated fats prevails and through today both in the medical community as well as in popular belief. In fact in the imagination of many Ecuadorians including many people in my family and many people I interview and I work with, margarine is a healthy food as is sunflower oil and they are preferred over lard or coconut which often steer feelings of guilt amongst those who choose to indulge. Therefore it is fair to assert that thanks to the prevailing global economic and cultural hegemony vegetable oils arrived at the tables of Ecuadorians and Esmeralda around the 1970s effectively displacing traditional fats from local sources via the importation of technology and bad science from the United States. The picture get even more ugly. Racial prejudice against black people in Esmeralda's informs the generalized discourse among medical doctors blaming black people and their cultural traditions for their health conditions. Consider this quote from the head nutritionist at a local hospital in the city of Esmeralda. He said to me for generations the customs are not focused on the care of their own health but rather the habits of the black race are not to better their health but rather to live day by day. He said unfortunately for the black culture the food here in this area is hypercaloric because their main source of food is coconut. Everything is incocal. There are similar expressions of food shaming with regards to plantains which are thought to be an inferior food of black people or of slaves.  Overall identified a tendency among medical doctors in Esmeralda to understand chronic diseases among black people as genetically or culturally determined that is individuals presumably are guilty of their bad health based on their bad habits and preferences their culture and their inferior genetics in quotes. What is interesting about this medical understanding is that they are shocked odds with their everyday reality in Esmeralda's according to my interviews people in Esmeralda's particularly those under medical oversight and treatment avoid eating coconut under the assumption that it worsens their health conditions rather they follow their medical prescription to eat vegetable oil and margarine as healthy fats. So we see how racial ideologies become entangled with obsolete medical understandings of disease further amplifying the negative impacts of this epistemic gap or the gap in the knowledge about health and food for black people in Esmeralda's. So the major factor which I observed drives people in Esmeralda's away from coconut is an economic factor like the two other main staples which are fish and plantains coconuts have become scarce and expensive over time in Esmeralda's according to my interview is well in the early 2000s one coconut cost as little as 10 to 25 cents today they are sold for as much as 150 or 250 dollars US dollars in times scarcity but how were coconuts made scarce in the local markets of one of the major coconut producing lands of Ecuador. There are several reasons over the past decades there were plagues that the decimated coconut palm tree plantations and also my coconut plantations have been replaced by other more profitable commodities specifically African palm trees which are used by the vegetable and soap industry. So the remaining coconuts grown in Esmeralda's are now being shipped to major cities like Quito, Guayaquilancuenca to meet the growing demand for the pastry and restaurant industries that have flourished there. Another portion of the demand for coconuts from Esmeralda's come from granola factories in the city of Santo Domingo which used to dry grated coconut as an ingredient. More recently government programs included granola with grated coconut from Esmeralda's as part of cool breakfast in public schools throughout the country. So it's interesting to see how as coconuts travel from Esmeralda's to major Ecuadorian cities they are rebranded as healthy foods and they're predominantly consumed by white and mestizo urban middle classes there. So I have little time so basically the demand there's been such great demand for coconuts in these urban based industries that we have to start importing coconut from Peru, Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines and also we've started exporting coconut in the early 1990s sending most of it to Spain, the United States, Colombia and Argentina. So we all know that coconut has become so trendy here in the United States and there's so much interest for it. So recall my previous comment about the US dominated economic and cultural hegemony that frames this field of power and within this field of power there are specific pathways or circuits through which health food science circulates going from major global centers of research to global peripheries like Ecuador. Ecuadorian health authorities today are still making policy based on American Heart Association recommendations to limit consumption of saturated fats. However there's this new mainstream science about the goodness of saturated fats that is gaining ground here. These new science as we all know simply validates or rediscovers long discredited and in the case I've presented shamed dietary traditions of many populations in the tropics who have had coconut as a staple in their diet. Now this new science is finding its way back to Ecuador and I brought an example for you to see. So this is Kale Food Conscious Young American an entrepreneur that brought a coconut oil enterprise to the coast of Ecuador and the people from the you know the Esmetsonian magazine that feature him say Ecuadorian kitchens and street food stole sometimes rick of stale burn oil but one American man is striving to invent a new culinary tradition and he is saying it would be hard to instill coconut oil into centuries of tradition here as if we had vegetable oil as a traditional and people are literally prelim themselves here by using tons of these rancid vegetable oil. So it's the same logic of blaming that we saw earlier. Just to wrap up this issue of gentrification is real. There's many other foods that are undergoing this process and you might have read about quinoa but basically it's when you know these foods become trendy among especially middle-class educated people and they're sold at hard prices. They pull the prices up and then become inaccessible where the places where they're grown. Some implications of this specific case are to note how these foods are framing new identities, modern identities of health conscious and educated US Americans who are taking in all these foods into their daily lives but at the same time other people are losing their resources upon which they have built their own identities for many many years. And okay I'll just keep are there solutions and going back to the previous presentations what can we do about it and I'm not a big fan of or not that I'm not a big fan but I don't believe too much in boycott. I think that there's a limited potential for change through consumer choices. I think that people need to get involved and I invite you to get involved with my project. I'm directing a project, an educational project in Ecuador. I work with an unprofit organization called La Polarosa Media Project which is a film education organization and we bring education about food to Ecuador. So if you're at all interested I have a sign-up sheet here and you can write your email and be really happy to send you more information about how to get involved. Thanks. Thanks Pilar. We can do one question. Do we have any questions? Okay let's thank Pilar again and we're gonna try to get back on schedule so the next talk we'll try to start around 10 o'clock still.