ke it needs to be more interesting than than this um and we really need to bring this to life and that's what you know that's what we're definitely going to do in the uk 2021 ica congress they um they started talking about the um the um the process that they were going to follow following up from that there was a delegate consultation it's already happened ica global identity panel that's been set up that's who um alexandria is she chairs it pauling green is the uk representative on the panel there currently we've got global consultation one that's happening right now um if you go on the ica website there's a questionnaire to fill in um up to now you know as usual court movements or questionnaires and congresses and everything else the global consultation two is where we can all really get involved that's going to be in the autumn um and it's going to be something that everyone in the court movement is going to need to really get behind as victor said yesterday we need to talk much more widely not just to ourselves but cops uk isn't going to do all of this on your behalf we're just not going to be able to um it's too big and so we are going to be coming out to you all to think about any sessions you're having any meetings any consultations that you might be doing in your in your areas or in your societies so that we can get as many people's views as possible um on um the the statement um a couple of people have said to me over the weekend what is the ica statement and it's just like i think that tells you everything you need to know by the way it's the it's the sentence of what a co-op is it's the values it's the principles you can comment on that as well i try to find an interesting picture to to define the ica values and principles and and you can't really find one it's just words and so it's trying to find a way also i think as part of the the consultation to help to bring this to life for other people who aren't as embedded as what we are in pictures and graphics and however we can do it to help us to communicate this a little bit better 2023 ica congress is apparently when the first changes um to the statement will come for consideration um by the delegates and then again it will be talked about at the 2024 ica congress so we have really this autumn up until about march next year to be able to feed into the consultation so ian do you just want to come and you can throw your hat into the ring on id thank you and emma hopefully put me in a session about an hour and a half two hours early to get all the controversial stuff out in there so i didn't say as much of it as much of it now it won't surprise you as a lawyer working the registry authority i think definitions are important um and spend a lot of time on rules definitions are only important if you want anything legal status tax treatment policy aimed at you funding etc if you don't less important um so it's kind of up to the co-op movement as to what level of importance it attaches to it i'd say the as to whether this statement's important we use it in our decision making on a day-to-day basis we use it in our guidance we reflected that in our policy with any definition you decide how uh how well defined that is what gets how sure you need to be whether something's in it or out of it and people won't always agree or disagree on each of those instances and each of those decisions i would say a challenge is to understand what the ica statement actually is there's a tendency to jump to the values and to the principles and to overlook the definition i won't read out the full definition you'd be pleased to know but you know the autonomous association of persons etc because that is the minimum statement that co-operatives should be meeting that definition is not aspirational that's a minimum statement the principles are not principles the guidelines it says so they are guidelines for putting into place the values to help you meet that minimum statement and go beyond it in terms of what a co-operative is so i think it's really important to look at that only in the session earlier there was a debate about the definition about meeting the common economic cultural and social needs and aspirations of members and how it is all three and it is part of that so for i would say the starting point is to have a good look at the ica statement and think through how is that working in practice in your co-operative what i would say the the ica produced some really helpful documentation in 2015 guidelines on the principles it had this helpful section called matters for future consideration underneath each principle and most of the things falling in that matters for future consideration are things that we're making decisions on on a day to day basis and a lot of those haven't been fully considered since 2015 when they were labeled as being for future consideration so the challenge is define it or accept that somebody else will because other people are having to make decisions on those things so i really would encourage people to to engage in it and i would say from our perspective we're one way we're really pleased to be here today we're back to have these conversations with people to get the feedback to hear things those that know we're very happy to hear frank using expressions from people and all things with us so we're really pleased as well more recently we've been doing some working on some really good initial engagement with the larger retail societies as we're doing a piece of work a short questionnaire looking at member economic participation and member democratic control in a way to explore that topic further which might go into other work that we do in the future and those sort of questions and those sort of topics are really important for co-opters to be looking at on a day to day basis and those things are peppered throughout the ica statement and there's been a lot of talk lastly i'm just going to go down a slightly anirachy point to double down on the opposite of yesterday there's been lots of talk about the rockstar pioneers and the one pound membership it was only a pound between 1844 and 1845 at 1845 he amended it to be four pounds so when you're looking at the levels of commitment and what members have done and you look at that actually we know we like it but we need to go back and look at it and look at what it actually was and what it actually said and how it evolved and i think the same is true of the statement and looking at the things that underpin that and looking at the things particularly from 1995 and the background paper of the work to approach the consultation with a deep understanding through the lens of how it's working your co-operative now so i'll pause her thank you so it's over to you um i have the job of guiding you through the slide out so um you will find in your brochure at the beginning brochure there is a um a barcode that you need to click on and there are two questions um and the first question is is the ica statement fit for purpose it's on page four you just need to scan it yeah and then the second question is um what's missing from the principles so we're just going to see what's going to start coming in because it's an interactive bit so you should hopefully start seeing some activity on the screen and then we have five minutes which i'm going to throw over to you just to you know just get some general feedback but this is very much the beginning of the consultation as everyone said you know we want maximum participation across the UK movement because it's a really good opportunity to kind of shape but this is the beginning of a conversation so and it's going to last over the next 18 months so this it's where it's all starts today all starts today we we can throw it out to a question so um or or actually we could just we could put our hands up so okay so this is what's now come in um so is a statement of cooperative identity fit for purpose um most people said they don't know which is a good start i would say um so i'm going to throw this out to the audience before go to the next question um does anybody have any comments on this in the don't know area so so nick i think are you are you murmuring on the screen can you just check my slides because i think that the actual ICA statement might be maybe the next one along and again no anyway you mean you don't know what you don't know what the the statement is sorry no i thought you said it would be useful to have it on the screen i was you know have you got have you got anything to say on this i mean i could probably go yeah for the next week do it do it uh sadly because i i was following the discussion at that cell about the statement i've spent the last month going back and rereading all of the previous iterations of the identity it was only the identity statement in 1995 before that there were just cooperative uh principles but it is interesting the processes that we went through and i think this is i think it is important that it is a collective coming together to define ourselves for ourselves it's not somebody else telling us who we are and what we are and what we're supposed to be i think the the the this uh the original identity statement you see at the beginning of the cooperative identity statement i think originally as Sarah will know comes from the ILO statement which the corp college blessed them were intimately involved in creating that consultation with the ILO back in the 90s when they produced the the fantastic which is what i recommend anybody who who's interested if you go back and look at what the ILO declaration is i think it's 197 is it the ILO declaration about cooperatives if the world had ever fulfilled that statement would be in a lot better place than we are now it is a fantastic document and it does give international legitimacy for governments being asked to incorporate cooperative legislation into their body politic which is why for example Ian has the cooperative identity statement in his in his guidelines for fca registration in britain so i think it i think this process is incredibly important but i do think that uh as a consumer operator the the the principles are very lopsided towards consumer cooperatives uh and i think that we we we we shouldn't shrink from being critical of what they what they don't say uh they say some great things but they don't mention workers the statement on the environment is wishy washy and pretty much nonexistent so there is a there is a huge opportunity for us to look at the look at this again and i think every you know uh i remember when i was in Holland once one of the dutch's cooperators said to me every generation has to make the cooperative belong to them so in a way that what we're doing for us old farts like me now is trying to pass on this movement to the next generation and it's for us to help them to define it so it's something that they own and belongs to them and they will take forward on our behalf you know when we disappear off the seat so i do think this process is very very important and i really appreciate that what you're trying to do because it's lacking what something that could be very dry uh very serious and interesting it's quite challenging but the two things reasons why i think the brits or sprit should take it seriously one is the original principles were from bloody rochdale you know and i still like principle five no credit but but the and they didn't change till 1936 and then the last time the iteration was in manchester so i think we have a very special role in principle in getting involved in this iteration wonderful thank you nick thank you um i'm just conscious this is the last slot so um and yeah just to reiterate what you were saying as well it is you know these the purpose of these are they are they can be changed and that's the whole purpose of this consultation is that we want you to get really really engaged with it so i'll go to the second question um we have just got one question oh elaine off to you right um thanks um i agree totally with nick that we are just custodians of cooperatives and we we have to make them fit to hand over and hand them over in good purpose um to our successors and uh you know we should have a succession plan but going back to something that ian said um definitions are only really important or meaningful if they hold interest um if they're just a sort of meaningless blurb uh then it doesn't really resonate with anyone and i think this particular one does need zipping up a bit um it seems to be missing um along with the things that that nick said about workers i agree um environmental sustainability world peace you know that's what we're about and and youth engagement to bring on that next generation of custodians so i think it would be helpful to sort of try and um incorporate that as well it's amazing thank you elaine so we've got world peace we've got you just world peace brilliant um and we'll try and get zipping up in the um in the new word in that as well um so the next the second question then was um what's missing from the principles and i think we both i think we've probably touched on this but um just because we want you to use slido again um yes in one to two words are are there any important areas missing from the principles and this is a free for all you should have a text book so just throw anything in there so everybody's typing everyone's trying to stick to two words so if there's anybody in the room that doesn't have a phone and wants to say something that this is a great opportunity so jenny you good oh oh environment that's the power of dr george i mean that was an amazing session actually i'm very sobering but can someone explain jedi go on mark so um mark jedi so hello mark simons culture i'm part of some international co-optive organisations mainly around sociocracy um and those circles are quite interested in this quite excited by this and particularly the us worker cart people that that i'm involved with um are interested in it from this point of view of what they call jedi which is this diversity inclusion of what they call justice equity diversity and inclusion so that's why i put jedi check brilliant although some of them are starting to say diege now to put diversity at the front anybody else wants a comment on what we're seeing here i mean it's great to see it i mean just just the themes that have been coming out of the workshops of the past two days environment he's just at the centre of it all really but any any other comments sharyl oh service um the quality um thing i i would have thought that could go in this principle one voluntary and open membership and i've i'm a trade union rep and involved in other things to do with equality and so on and we're rewriting a lot of guidelines and codes of practice and codes of ethics and so on at the moment and what we're trying to get rid of is this list of things gender social racial political religious and just talk about equality with no discrimination and not specify all these different things and especially to get rid of the word racial because um although racism is a thing race is not a thing and we need to get this idea out of people's heads this old idea that unesco already said 50 some years ago that races is not it's not a scientific concept although racism is a thing so yeah i would say principle one needs to be rewritten um and that's where you would put in the equality and and inclusion and so on great right well thank you everyone um and there again we just wanted to get a bit of flavour we just wanted to ask the room um and this is a start so today we're ending um congress at the start and started by starting a conversation we're going to be reporting back probably next year um probably doing a similar similar activities but i'll just say please get engaged um and please you know um culture k through emmer will be um kind of just telling you what the framework and the process is going to be but yeah please get engaged so emmer no yeah just to finish we just have one last message again just a call to action to end um congress hello everybody i'm pauling green and it's my great delight to have been asked to say a few words to you at your first in-person congress since covid struck and you know it's no exaggeration to say that the last few years have changed our lives covid brexit social environmental health economic crisis and now war again on the continent of europe it's at times like this that the cooperative movement is so important so i just want to say a few words about the work being done by the international cooperative alliance to review its identity globally the last time the ica reviewed its identity i had the great privilege to be president of the international cooperative alliance and the result of that was the blueprint for a cooperative decade which saw a renaissance in cooperative development all across the world and perhaps the long-lasting result of it was the development of the cooperative mark which is now used by co-ops across the globe and what it did was to give us a sense of our own strength across the world and our unity of purpose across the world so what the ica is now looking to do is to build on that and to make sure that our our identity is not only right in bringing the values and principles that have stood us in such good stead for over 200 years to the fore but actually that they're relevant and right for today so i hope that when you get the invitation to take part in the surveys and the consultation on the working group and and its interim report and its final report that you will do so because these events give us the chance to demonstrate unity of purpose across the globe to make sure our brand is up to date and modern and our identity is synonymous with that brand so i hope very much that you will take part it's a crucial time for so many people across the world poverty is rising we know that the environmental crisis is is going to be really important in the coming in the coming years and co-ops can do so much on the whole range of issues that now confront us so i hope that you will take part in the icas activities join in the consultation make your views known britain was the heart of the cooperative movement where it began so let's make sure that we're part of its future thank you very much and enjoy congress that really is it and i've been reliably informed the die hard aren't just in the room they're still online as well so props to everybody and i just want to end by saying thank you very much to the cooperative bank for enabling it to be free online for all those members we do have feedback forms we've done lots of things differently no idea what you think of them really keen to see what works what we can improve and really start to think now about next year so feedback forms are at the front desk are there in your programme as if we're not busy enough on monday co-op fortnight starts so just to remind really that we want you to unwrap your co-ops look at that they're very slick out of this team and we want to know why why you're in a co-op and what it means to you and if you do go to co-op uk.co-op slash fortnight there are assets there that you can use within your co-op to go to your members and really ask those questions so please help us with that and again feedback we've had in the past is that why concentrate on a fortnight so you'll see we've done it slightly differently the fortnight is going to kick off what will be a continuing and growing campaign and it will feed into that census work and what we talked about in terms of understanding what it is that motivates people to join and engage with their co-ops if you final thank yous I can't thank everybody in person but I do want to thank both my chair and advice chair and the whole co-op UK board for the support that they've given us giving me in particular for the past year but giving us to make sure that congress is a success that I hope you agree it's been and I would also like to thank the co-operatives UK staff who've been phenomenal they've really really done incredibly well thank you and most importantly I'd like to thank you our members you know all I can do is invite you here to talk and boy have you been talking so thank you for an incredible congress and I'd like to see us back well not it here but you know theoretically it here at congress next year with feedback and you know double the numbers please next year double the size of the movement but not by next year thank you to you all it's been incredible but safe journey home


This is your host to welcome you through the creaking door into the inner sanctum for another quiet, breathful evening on the homie's side. What's that, madam? Oh, the humidity. You feel land cold.  Oh, too cold. Well, how about a nice hot poker game? Cutthroat. Well, how about a nice sociable game of bridge? Oh, I see. Yes, afraid of the stiff competition. Oh, you'll play. Well, remember, you got to pay up if you lose. We got enough dead heads here. Tonight's inner sanctum mystery, deadly fare, was written by Henry Warner and stars Larry Haines in the role of Angelo with Everett Sloan as Philip. Just a moment. Don't settle back in your chair. You're going for a ride. Ready? It's the dark hour before dawn. Along the tree-lined suburban highway, the headlights of the speeding sedan poked two long yellow fingers through a swirling dune. Behind the wheel of the sedan, a local taxi sits Angelo Minetti, the cab driver.  Wondering how long before the mad man's trigger finger bends in the nervous twitch and makes a widow out of his wife, Josie, and the fatherless boy of a seven-year-old son, Johnny. You're not your tonight, Johnny. Sorry, I made you cry, but if I ever get out of this, you can have all the crayons. You want a hundred boxes of crayons and you can mark up all the walls. You can mark up the whole house. Pray for me, Johnny.  Just because I was a good guy and changed shifts with Connolly, I guess it was just the cards for me instead of Connolly. Just the cards to be working nights and meet the 225 on it pulled into large parts. Taxi, here you are, man. You going to the manor? Yes, ma'am. I took a quick look up and down the station platform to watch with stragglers. Bad business leaving a local citizen stranded in the middle of the night, and I saw him coming towards me carrying a suitcase. He must have got off from the first car. Is this a taxi? Yes, sir. Oh, I can't tell these suburban taxis look like private cars. Where to? Go to New Rochelle. I slept past my station. Well, good thing you only slept by one station. Sure, I'll take it. If you don't mind riding while I drop this lady. Thanks. I took the mic off the dashboard. Call the office. 64 calling radio taxi. 64 calling radio taxi. Come in, 64. Station the manor, then Rochelle. Check. I put the mic back on the dashboard hook. Settle down for the run.  Oh, fine, fine. Must say it's improved the service. Is it dependable? Oh, yes, ma'am. No trouble at all. Circus always open for us to receive messages. I want to talk back. I just pressed the button on the hand, ma'am. Very simple. What's his address? 76 Manorland. Calling 64. Radio taxi calling 64. Hey, Angelo, listen to me. What's eating you, old Louis? Place on fire? Hey, Angelo, just got a police call. Don't pick up a guy with a tan raincoat. The cops are looking for him. He's a killer. Take it easy, Louis. Now, what's this you're saying about a killer? The cops say he got on at Grand Central with a ticket to New Rochelle. But so what? What's an Angelo? The guy didn't get off. Pick up someone with a tan raincoat? There turned around to look. The man in the back seat had a raincoat. You could almost hear the woman sitting beside him holding a breath. And then I recall the guy as he walked down the station platform. I recall plain that he did not have a raincoat. Only a suitcase. Well, you pipe down, Louis. You better get some coffee at the diner. If you fall asleep, you'll be having nightmares, Roger. Good thing I have no raincoat, ma'am. Yes. Strange that all that should stand in the way is a raincoat. How's that? Drive right there, please. About the next street life. How much is it? 35 cents. Nice. You changed. She just waved her hand. Is it telling me to keep it? Change from the dollar. She seems kind of scared, if you ask me. Are you? Scared? What for? The killer, huh? Ah, that Louis, he gets excited about everything. Always adding a little out of his own head. What's the address in New Rochelle? Bayside Lane, 36. 36? Bayside Lane? Yes. Know the place? Off Hillside Road, Long Driveway. That's it? I drove a party up there from the manor tonight. What did he look like? I didn't say it was a hint, did I? Well, wasn't it? Yeah, I was. Tall chap, slick looking. Well, look, I didn't talk out of turn, did I, mister? Not at all. I'd rather expect I'll find him still there. What's your name? Angelo Minetti. Mines Baker. But don't let me embarrass you, Angelo. It's quite all right. That party you drove to my house is seeing my wife. Isn't that what you think? Ah, you got me wrong, mister. I don't think nothing. Don't you really? Lots of others think so. Rather common gossip, as they say. But I'm not angry. Not at all. I'll take care of everything once I get home. Calling 64. Radio taxi calling 64. Hey, Minetti. Come in, Louis. Got some more dope on that killer. He got in the Grand Central on the train from Albany. Porter in the club car told the cops the guy was making cracks about having a gun and taking care of the wife and the boyfriend. Well, so what? What are you bothering me with it for? Go call the Daily Knows at the mirror. Well, wait a minute. Now, here's what I want to tell you. The cops at the Marinette got on the train and found the ring code. After a few things, it was left by a guy who got off at large, man, with a suitcase. How about that fear you picked up? There was a gun in my father's hand.  His finger was on his lips, warning me. You did see the trigger finger, Bendy. And his head shaking from side to side to tell me to say no. Uh, no, no, Louis. I had two. One to the man of the other to rock down. Not, not Rochelle. I didn't get it right the first time. I forgot to call you. Also, also he didn't have a suitcase. Oh, that's a relief. See, uh, how's it about coming back to the shack so I can get a bite at the diner? Yeah, sure thing. Soon as I'm free, this guy wants me to wait for him, take him back to the station. Roger. Nice work, Angelo. I got a wife and kid to thank of Mr. Do you want to go to 36 Bayside Lane? That's right. Better slow down. There's Bayside Lane right ahead. All right, this'll do. I wouldn't like it if they heard us coming up the driveway. There'll be a dollar and a quarter soon. Get out, Angelo. You want me to get out? That's right. You're coming in with me to be my witness. Witness? What for? Divorce, maybe. Oh, please, Mr. Baker, that's not right. I can't afford to get mixed up. Like this will my taxi get out. And don't slam the door. Yes, sir. Carry my bag, please. He steered me with the gun in my bag. Slowly picking each step in the dark across the lawn, shielded by a high hedge, and around to the back of the house, to the kitchen. The lights were on and we could see his wife and the boyfriend making themselves some bacon and mix. All right, Angelo, pull open the door. Hello, Doris. Hello, Walter. What are you doing with that gun? Please, sir. Excuse me while I close the door, Walter. No use waking the neighbors. Oh, Doris, this is Angelo. Walter, Angelo. The introductions were polite all night, but deadly. And he looked like he was enjoying it, a big joke. But there was nothing funny about that crazy grin on his face in a way he kept waving the gun around at the three of us. Well, Walter. Philip, please, you're fighting me. Walter's not frightened. He never was, of me. Isn't that so, Walter? Well, why don't you answer? There's nothing to say. Doris. Do you love Walter? Come now. Of course. And you, Walter, do you love Doris? Yes.  Please. He's lying, Doris. I know he's lying.  That's not true. We're going to be married. Oh, married. Not until you become a widow, Doris. I'll never give you a divorce. Or are you planning to divorce me? All right, Philip. You found me here and you have a witness. What are you going to do about it? I came back from Albany tonight to kill you. Philip. But I'll give you a chance to see what you can do. But I'll give you just one more chance.  And Angelo here can be my witness that I warned you. Remember that, Angelo? Yes. You got me wrong, Philip. Sure, I've been seeing Doris, but I never went around talking about it. Don't come any closer. I always said to Doris, let's tell him. Give me that gun. Let's go. Let go of that gun. Philip, Philip, please. Please stop it. Stop it. Stop it. The three of us stood here paralyzed.  One look was enough for the three of us to know that she was dead. You killed her, Philip. I killed her. No, Walter. You killed her. Didn't he, Angelo? I stood there glaring at one another across the body of Mrs. Baker. Yes, you killed her, Walter.  If you hadn't tried to take the gun away from me, where are you going? On the police? Police? Yes. Put down that phone. Put it down. I think you ought to put that gun away now. Please write, Mr. Baker. I don't think he even heard it. He kneeled down beside the body of his wife and stared out at Tenderly.  I could see Walter sensing it, too, realizing that Mr. Baker was going out of his mind. It was a heavy glass ashtray by the phone. I could see Walter slowly reaching for it. Mr. Baker looked up and jumped back as Walter threw it. He won't stop him! You stay out of this, Angelo! Don't shoot! Don't shoot! Angelo! Doctor! You're going to die, Walter. Die like Doris! Angelo! Help me! Don't bother, Angelo. He won't need a doctor. Stop it! No, no, don't do it. Mr. Baker, give him a chance. Please, give him a chance. Get off! He doesn't need a doctor now, Angelo, does he? Go on, bend over him, see if he needs a doctor. Yes. Now, they're both dead. Both dead. What do we do, Mr. Baker? Do? Well, what is there to do? The police, we ought to call the police. They'll take me away from Doris. I don't want to leave her. No, I mustn't leave Doris.  The gun, no. No, I've got the gun to protect myself from Walter. But I'm not afraid of Walter anymore. He's dead, Walter, he's dead. That's right. Doris is dead and Walter's dead. We can't leave them here. We must take them away to a nice, quiet place where they can be alone forever. We... We'll take them away in your car, Angelo. My car? Yes, Angelo. You must do as I tell you. It will be... their funeral car. The kitchen was next to the garage. And he made me drive my car into the garage. Open the trunk compartment, Angelo. He kept the gun on me and followed me into the kitchen. He pointed to her first. I picked her up and carried her. Try not to look at her. Tell her myself, I ought to grab the jacket and put it back in the car. I was afraid. I was afraid I'd never live to see Josie and Johnny again. I placed Mrs. Baker in the trunk gently. And then he made me go back for the other one. Push him in, Angelo. Doris, the code will stick through the door when you close it. That's better. Very good. Who's the trunk? No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Who's the trunk? As I locked the trunk door, I grabbed the handle and let my left to keep from passing hot. Don't you feel well? Hot. I'll be all right. Yes. You'll be all right as soon as we hit the road. The fresh country air will straighten you out. Get behind the wheel, please. I got in and he got in the back seat.  Don't try to trick me. Don't answer, Angelo. Ignore him, Angelo. Start driving. Wait till, Mr. Baker. Just keep going. But stay off the Hutchinson Parkway. The troll cars, you know? Take the back roads. You'll find a nice, quiet place for them. We went north on the post road. Louis' car breaking in on its every minute or so. Calling 64. Radio taxi calling 64. Assistant, hello, isn't it? Well, he's sorry. Expect me back to him. Relieve him so we can get down to the diner for a bite. Pass me that cigarette lighter on the dashboard. Don't you hear me? I want the cigarette lighter. Oh, it's not working. We've got any matches in my pocket. Let me have them. I reached into the side pocket of my jacket. Bumbling through my handkerchief and keys for the pack of matches. And then my fingers touched the crayon.  No bigger than an inch long with a paper wrapping.  I'd taken away from Johnny after I yelled at him and made him cry for marking up the war. What about those matches? Uh, yeah. Here you are. I handed over the matches. But the piece of crayon was in my palm concealed and held tight by my little finger and the one next to it. He lit his cigarette. You want the cigarette, Angelo? No, thanks. There ever was a time in my life I needed a smoke, it was there. But I was trembling with an idea. An idea to make my microphone stay open so Louie could hear me without Mr. Baker getting wise. But I had to hold on to the crayon. I couldn't take a chance reaching for a cigarette. I might drop that crayon. I waited for Louie to call me again. I should say, Mr. Baker, maybe I'd better answer him. Why? He might think I'm in a wreck and he'll have the cop start looking for me. Yes. Yes, you're quite right. Very well, talk to him. But be careful what you're telling.  Sixty-four calling radio taxi. Where the heck you been, Angelo? Let me explain, Louie. I kept gabbing to Louie and forcing the crayon into the button on the mic, right into the hole that housed the spring button, hoping the paper wrapping on the crayon would wedge the button and keep my sending circuit open. Uh, Louie. Louie, I'm fixing a flat. Must be a loose wire. I didn't hear you until just now. Be back as soon as I can. Roger. I put the mic back on the dashboard. Craying the crayon wedge would hold. As long as that button was wedged on, Louie couldn't talk to me. His voice came through. I'd know the crayon had slipped out. I waited. Seconds seemed like hours. No word from Louie, so the wedge was holding. I raised my voice so it would carry the two feet between me and the mic.  Kill you? Yeah. Like you killed Mrs. Baker and Walter? I've been thinking about what I ought to do with you, Angelo.  I got a wife and kid. I swear I will. I'll never tell anyone that you killed two people. Where are we? Where are we going to hide the bodies? We'll run out of gas if we keep going like this. I know where we'll go. Lake Atoma. Doris loved Lake Atoma. We used to go there weekends long ago. Where is Lake Atoma? About 40 miles from here. I knew I had to find some way to stall him. The range of my cab's transmitter was about 30 miles. If I ever got out of range, I was done for. I had no way of knowing whether Louie had left the office or if he caught my first words telling him about my danger. Uh, do you know how to get to Lake Atoma from here, Mr. Baker? Roughly, I know we used to go past White Plains. Oh, I got a map. Good. Stop the car. Take a look at it. Now, let's see. White Plains. Uh, yeah, yeah, Lake Atoma. There it is. Uh, we go up here and then, uh-huh, I know where it is. Sure, sure. All right, let's go. Go the most direct way. No details, mind you. Oh, no, sir, no, sir. We're on Weaver Street now. We keep going up Weaver Street until we get into Old Mamaronic Road. That sounds right, but hurry. I'm getting very tired. Step on the gas. I heard him, but I played dumb. Don't you hear me? I said let's go faster. Oh, sure. Sure, anything you say, Mr. Baker. But, uh, you think it's smart? We're doing 50 now. Not very fast in the country. Well, county patrol cars are all through this section. We'll get caught speeding. That's quite all right. I'd pay the fine. Faster, Angelo. That's better. 60, 65, 70. Faster. It'll soon be daylight and I'm very tired. I'm very tired. I wonder if Doris is tired. Yeah, see, what did I tell you? This is Weaver Street. And then into Old Mamaronic Road. But remember, I'll have the gun in my coat pocket. Let me do the talking. Just accept the ticket and we'll be on our way. Let me roll ahead and swung in behind us and we came to a stop. Where do you think you're going? You were doing 80. Let's see your life. It's my fault, officer. I asked him to... Yeah, what for? There's been a death in my family. My wife. Sorry, but I have to give the driver the ticket. She looked at my license in the name of the patrol car headlight. And they started making out the ticket. And then in the side mirror of my cab I could see another cop get out of the patrol car with a gun in his hand. And I saw him sneak down on the right side of the cab. He stuck the gun through the open back window just as Mr. Baker saw him. Don't move! Too bad we couldn't take him in. Oh, it helped, Johnny. It helped. Say, how come this guy didn't get wise? Your microphone circuit was over. You want to know? You really want to know? I'm leaving the house to go to work, see ya. In the hall my kid, Johnny, is marking up the walls with crayons. I yell at him and they can cry. I take the crayon away. That's what kept the mic off. Look here. The crayons to hold his buttons down. You got any kids? Yeah, why? You think I done right? Yelling at Johnny? It just goes to show you a fella can do a lot worse than stopping in the middle of the night for a lovely siren. As you father, next time you find Junior's crayons crawls all over the house. He means well. They're trying to show you the handwriting on the wall.  When the warden asked him what he wanted for a last request, he said he'd like to watch a game from the scaffold. But they called it after the six, so he could enjoy a seven-leaning stretch. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.


What's good Josh boros back again with another video, so we're gonna check out a wrestling news related video by wrestling hub And when you guys had told me to check out the channel, so I'm definitely gonna check it out This video is titled AEW stars to WWE Tony Khan Responds Seth Rollins Apologizes Matt Riddle hit old woman. What is going on here? I don't know this is gonna be interesting man. Appreciate all the love and support you guys It's on on the channel. Let's see what wrestling hub has with the wrestling news and see what's going on here Let's do this With former WWE stars considering a return now that Triple H has had a creative and more this is wrestling Up, my name is John and you're watching the wrestling of work for July 27th Before we get into the rest of the video, make sure you subscribe to wrestling hub and turn on all notifications to See what they talking about man. I may be Instagram at wrestling of official and follow us on Twitter at wrestling underscore hub It's being the superstar crossover raw women's champion Bianca Bella revealed a humiliating moment She had in WWE thanks to her husband playing a prank on her The only other embarrassing moment I've had is my husband Montez for trying to rib me when I first got to the main roster I was talking about the usage and I said something about them being twins. He said they're not twins What? No, they're not twins. Really? They look just alike. That's crazy I was in the locker room one day training. I was like, I can't believe the uses are twins. They looked at me like What are you talking about?  Probably a couple of months. I was so adamant. No, they're not. They're not twins What are you talking about? Yes, they are. Okay, nevermind. I go to my husband now. I'm like, why did you tell me that? I don't know. I was just messing with you. I said it out loud in front of people That's Not a lot of twins. They just look alike. Oh I thought that was I ain't know y'all were in twins. Y'all are twins. You can talk about That's funny man With sports Gita live Morgan talked about becoming Smackdown women's champion after cashing in money in the bank Where she noticed she hopes more younger stars continue to receive these opportunities. Hopefully so. I really do hope so because I read something on the internet a couple of days ago I don't know if it's true or not But I'm the first WWE superstar over the last four years to win the Smackdown women's championship That wasn't a four-horse woman or ronda rousin one. I think that's unbelievable And I'm so proud to have it be me, but hope that trend is something that can't be interesting You know have newer talents fight for these opportunities because we have such an incredible women's roster I want to defend my championship against anyone that wants to fight for it I hope this is the start of WWE highlighting and featuring more talent Man, I ain't man if someone can fact check that if that's the case damn That's crazy. They've been pushing the same four women since they left the NXT. So wow Man, I don't know if she's gonna retain against Rhonda, but that summer something this week But we'll see this weekend You sure about that Rick? You sure about that Promoting this final match on July 31st for star cast Ric Flair made it clear that this will be his last bout telling Chris Van Bleep It has to be my last match. I get that question asked a lot, but it has to be even if I do well I can't go back on my word to the people right giving me all this respect of time and bought tickets All right been offered 10 matches at 50 grand apiece and I think in Europe someone offer me a hundred grand They'll be the last one I can manage somebody and be in the ring, but it will be my last match Okay, Rick we'll see bro You know, I think you should probably hang it should still stay hang retired, but they do what you do Fucking Rick play he gonna do what he do I don't I don't think you should be out there, but he gonna do what he do We'll see if this truly will be his last match. No that goes where also gave his reaction to Vince McMahon retiring from WWE I wasn't happy about it at all. I love Vince McMahon I don't know what he is doing right now, but I feel like he will have a hard time He will adjust obviously, but he loved the business and he made us all who we are from hope to everybody I don't care what everybody else thinks he made us and I have nothing but respect for him He's a majority stockholder. I don't know if you will stay away or not. He's a genius Now he's people have been praising Vince McMahon, you know over the past few days And I will never take anything for what he's done for the business. I don't think anyone can but at the same time We can't just sit up here and act like he hasn't been out of touch for all these years and of course The timing of him retiring is no coincidence. There's a lot of stuff that's coming out about his, you know His the things he's been spending extra funds on Hush money and apparently now there's another report that the money that he was spending Was potentially company money So I don't know what's going on, but the timing is no coincidence He probably had to step down. He probably had to just walk away from this because it's just not looking too good on paper You know, it's just seems like it's getting worse and worse with more reports coming out Allegiant reports. So I don't know but him retiring my opinion. I know people may disagree. I think this may be Something better for the future of WWE You know saying and it seems like they're trying to at some point sell WWE it's kind of hard to sell it or make one of people buy it when the owner and CEO is under some You know, it's in some hot water. So I don't know. We'll see where things go with the future But I'm very optimistic to see how they move forward with the booking of all the shows Talking to sports get ahead of his match against Pat McAfee if summer's I'm happy Corbin touched on how long he plans to continue Wrestling and what he wants to do after made some good buddies in the food network world Oh, wow is one of my good buddies. He's always on guys grocery games I want to have another five or ten years here in WWE But eventually like all athletes at some point our body doesn't keep up with our minds anymore We may think we can go and I want to be a guy who withdraws at the appropriate time I don't want to be there too long I don't want to jeopardize because I feel like I've got good stigmas about me other than everybody hates me I'm good in the ring. I'm smooth. I have a creative move set I make things look as violent as possible and those kinds of things So I don't want to be a step behind my mind physically. So I think you know in the next five or ten years I'll probably have reached that point Then I definitely want to get into that food world whether it's food network or it's my own YouTube stuff or you know My buddy Aaron does a lot of stuff where he's a guest where he's a celebrity sponsored cook You know, we were talking about doing the food and wine festival together in Connecticut because we're gonna Go out there for WWE and raise some good money for Conor's cure So I'm going to cook out there That's so there's a lot of really cool opportunities that food will bring when I'm done throwing people like Pat McAfee around I Will say this about Baron Corbin Baron Corbin's move set is actually pretty cool. It's very smooth He's not bad in the ring at all. I just Even though the feud he has with McAfee. It's not bad. It's in my opinion I think it's better than what he had with the happy With mad cat moss, I think it's much better Um, I just feel like he needs to be in that really good few that will Really get him over and even more as a heel and maybe Pat McAfee is to start You know to that to that whole trend of him having being a good a good bad guy to someone else You know I'm saying I think Corbin only works as a heel People love to hate him So if you can find that very good good guy the face Outside of like, you know Pat McAfee somebody that can really go back and forth with him You may be able to get something, you know a really good feud out of it.  I get them back because they're hard to come by John Cena sweatpants, they're premium flops Cracked an elderly lady for glasses. She was a good sport about it and I let her keep the flip flops We want to keep them. I'm so sorry She kept them brought the action of the outside gave the guy some hits in front of her get her into the action I felt bad. That's the worst one. I'm seeing in person.  I also heard that apparently He's he will not be in the match against Seth Rollins I did see Seth Rollins sin Matt Riddle to the gulags. Oh, that was pretty crazy I enjoyed that whole little segment and apparently because of the curb stomp to the steps or whatnot. He will not be I Don't know if he'll be medically cleared to even wrestle at SummerSlam against Seth Rollins So I don't know who Seth Rollins is gonna be facing this year Doesn't look like he will be wrestling Matt Riddle, so we'll see where things go with that, but this was an interesting story Talking to sports Gita about potential competitors for her and AEW former women's champion Britt Baker made it clear that she wants to face AJ Lee I think you have to ask her that not me I think I would love to see AJ Lee in the ring again She did so much for women's wrestling And I think there's so much more that she can do even if she doesn't know that there are so many girls That still look up to her myself included now. I see myself on an even playing field as her I think I could I feel like I could be better than AJ So let's get in the ring and see I'd love for her to come out of retirement. I'd love for her to be in an AEW ring I'd love to possibly have a tag match That would be quite interested. How would y'all feel about AJ Lee coming out of retirement joining AEW? With CM Punk and actually going out there and wrestling for us once again. Let me know down below if y'all would love that I'll be there for it. I think the women's division AEW it's it's it's it's not bad But it's still it still can be better and I think AJ could definitely help without help with that as well.  Oh, they're going to want to wrestle I think they're the ones that can draw her in based on looks and ability in the work Oh, that's crazy, man That would be also cool to to see her in Iraq with Jay Cargill and and from what I remember AJ Lee wasn't that bad on a microphone. So I'm I'm all for it if she actually decides to do that Given the news of Vince McMahon retiring from WWE Stephanie McMahon and Nick Khan have now been named co-CEO's and Triple H Is now once again head of talent relations and the newly made head of creative which has some former WWE stars thinking of a return Piper reported that one former NXT talent that had options within WWE before signing elsewhere said that they felt an incredible sense of Loyalty to Triple H He'd been the person managing their creative future things could have been much different the talent and another talent that ended up in AW said that they had no confidence of being creatively satisfied on the WWE main roster and once said I'm glad that I went to AW but if I was graduating to a Triple H led smackdown or raw I probably would have re-signed with WWE before my field was up another top free agent that has several options that we spoke to said that Both Triple H and Stephanie McMahon being in their positions greatly increases the possibility that eventually heading back to the company We've heard from other free agents that were hopeful their previous relationships with Triple H led to them at least having conversations But didn't expect that to happen imminently WrestleVotes would additionally note that with SummerSlam being his first real show in total control source this Triple H would like to make a creative splash at the event Oh only if it's making sense. We'll just do something to do it. How about the change of pace already? I like that. I like that man. He's gonna be really controlling SummerSlam. They already have the matches booked I'm gonna be giving my previous and predictions on that they're on this week So people look out for that, but I like that. I really do like Where you know where he could potentially take the company creatively, you know And I'm interested to see what he does on the show And I can see some of the AEW talent or former WWE talent That were in NXT or whatnot I can see them actually having that love for Triple H and respect for Triple H because of what they did in NXT. I Can actually see that I can actually see them like you know what man If you would have been there before I left and in control like before I left I probably would have stayed Because I do believe and some people disagree here Some people like oh the people in NXT wouldn't have flourished the same way on the main roster in NXT I disagree. I Truly disagree not everybody would have gotten to the top of the car not everybody would have made it But I do feel like more people than not would have been in great hands on the main roster If Triple H had full creative control. That's just my personal opinion. Let me know down below if you agree Tony Khan on Triple H working with AEW When asked about Triple H possibly being open to WWE working with AEW in the future AEW press and Tony Khan told NBC Sports Boston I'm not sure if that's the case But I would certainly be open to talk with pretty much any wrestling promotion in the world about how to work together if these Circumstances are right. We've worked with I would say in terms of securing footage or providing talent with probably a dozen companies around the World including Ring of Honor before I was the owner when they were owned by some clear I'd like to think that was positively received by them and we did things to help them out when they were in tough times And I think that goodwill helped us in the sale process That is not a bad idea Do y'all think maybe in a few years time or maybe even sooner could we have talks with AEW in WWE actually having a program a segment like it's building up to something.  I Would love to see that. I Would love to see that only because I want these crazed fans these WWE only fancies AEW only fans I want them to be able to see that you can work together and Make a great product. It doesn't have to be one or the other you can like both like neither you can like one of over the other but the The type of toxin this you guys be doing back and forth over a company is ridiculous I would love to see them come together. So that way these toxic individuals can be like chill out like bro. It doesn't matter It's all wrestling as long as we all have a good time. That's all it didn't matter Reacting to Vince McMahon's retirement on his Hall of Fame podcast Booker T was asked if the relationship between town and management will change as he said, you know Vince retired is it gonna affect guys certain guys especially certain guys in certain positions. Yeah, heck Yeah, that's because I think a lot of these guys are used to dealing with Vince McMahon directly Certain comfort zone there that these guys have had with Vince They can knock on that door and they go in there And they can actually have a conversation with him and get that wisdom that advice from Vince I'm gonna tell you right now a lot of guys cherish that a lot of guys went through their whole careers having been to be that umbrella Yeah, I could totally understand that 100% And not to say that you know, it couldn't work they can't build that rapport with Triple H I just do believe me personally. It was time for Vince to kind of just you know Take a step back. It was time for him to it without this whole case situation. It was time for him to step down It had been time for him. He just creatively isn't all there anymore. That's just my personal opinion With Vince McMahon no longer in charge of WWE Tony Khan spoke about the possibility of a to be stars now making the jump to WWE there are a lot of changes in for wrestling. I think it's going to be really positive for the fans overall I am a little amused that changes in the competition. People think it's going to magically change the landscape Some of these accounts Twitter can be a fun place to follow But some of the narratives I've seen every day for the last week are really amusing to me I've got people signed here for five years and people think that just because the CEO chairman head of creative those people changed in the Competition people I have five year contracts with they're going to magically switch teams. Good luck with that Adam Cole is signed until 2027 now I wouldn't expect to see him going anywhere anytime soon Malachi black has almost five years left on his deal I wouldn't expect him going anywhere anytime soon just because these guys had some success under a previous Administration somewhere else around magically going to be going anywhere. Those are two people I like just as examples of people who have worked under the previous administration. I'm very amused by that That's a narrative. I see so-called wrestling writers pushing every day. It's pretty amusing. Oh, yeah They're not going nowhere there during the contract If you're under contract not going anywhere the same thing that I think is what's happening with MJF He's under contract to I think he's under contract until 2024. I could be wrong Let me know if I'm correct on that But if you're under contract unless he lets you out the contract, which he's probably not No, he's gonna keep them there. Obviously Then we won't be seeing any shifts unless someone's contract is already getting close to ending and They don't really negotiate the same thing will happen with Cody Rose Cody Rose contract was ending They couldn't find the common ground. So he left and went back to WWE. So The IWW canceled Rawlins versus Riddle at SummerSlam We saw about this earlier when it comes to the reason why Riddle and wrongs won't be facing at SummerSlam Fightful said WWE announced Wednesday that the match would not be taking place Siding an injury to Riddle. We're told that the injury is cave-fabe and there are plans to do the match down the line Oh, it was due to creative adjustments We're told talent wasn't for Monday and the working plan was to have the match take place at the clash at the castle in September However, with the ever-changing WWE landscape, it's quite possible that isn't final as of now Rawlins is expected to travel to Nashville for SummerSlam weekend and as media Obligation schedule Friday Rawlins would take to Twitter after the news broke writing for anyone who purchased a ticket to SummerSlam Hoping to see me in action. I apologized I did everything I could over the last six months to earn my spot on the show, but some things are out of my control Thank you for always singing my song. They'll hear you someday And this was your pro wrestling news Very interesting Very very very Interesting So it doesn't like that. They're probably switching some things up. I don't know if that I don't it's it's I don't know if that's a triple H thing He decides to switch it up maybe but they do plan on continuing the feud and I mean the man storyline wise did fucking curbsop his head through onto a onto a Steel step So if you want to kind of sell that to make it seem like Seth Rawlins is just out of control And he pretty much injured his opponent before the show this weekend. You can kind of do that So I don't know. We'll see what happens. 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Tweet tweet, tweet tweet tweet tweet, twitter to tweet tweet tweet. Hello and welcome to The Grand Line Review, your source for everything one piece. And today for The Devil Fruit Encyclopedia, we have a strange little existence to examine that really does ask more questions than an answer being the TamaTama No Me. The TamaTama no Me is an unclassified devil fruit, which is new and interesting. That allows its user to transform their body into an egg, which upon cracking open will begin a cycle of ongoing chicken power evolution that gives its user a sort of zoan-like effect with access to different forms, but through some really strange conditions that cause into question exactly what kind of fruit this is. In any case, we will get into all of that, but for now this fruit was consumed by Tamago, which means egg, although this name changes with each of his subsequent forms. Although, as he's introduced to us, he is barren Tamago, and this fruit was technically first displayed during the Fishman Island arc. So as you can probably tell by now, the Tamatama, I mean takes its name from the Japanese word for egg being Tamago, although Tamar itself does also mean ball in Japanese, which naturally turns into some slang for testicles, given that you would say that as Kintama. But here, we are strictly speaking about eggs, not man eggs. And obviously enough, in English, it has been translated as the egg-egg fruit. Now let's begin to detail the sheer madness of this fruit, which is one of, if not the most unique in the series. So as far as we can tell, upon consuming this fruit, the user will be granted a form that resembles that of an egg, which can be seen quite clearly on Tamago, donning his half-cracked egg shellware, which when he was first introduced, I just thought that was, you know, a bold fashion choice, but it actually appears to be the core of the fruit. And this is because despite appearing as a human with a very attention-grabbing fashion preference, the user actually takes on the properties of an egg, meaning that if they are damaged significantly, i.e. cracked, then the yolk of the egg will spring out of them, which goes on to immediately evolve into the next form, which in this case would be Viscount Hyoko. And in this form, the user is, well, and truly a chicken or a chick anyway, as it turns their skin yellow and gives them wings. And allegedly the user is also much stronger in this state, although that was never seen in the manga, as Pedro just immediately cut Tamago up again. However, in the anime, Viscount Hyoko is shown to have a far greater degree of speed. With that said, that is technically filler, although we can safely assume that the user's physical abilities do receive a general all-around upgrade. But interestingly enough, despite being a living chick at this point, the user's body still retains the properties of egg. So if they are struck down once more, then the same effect will occur. Their body will have its yolk fall out, which then goes on to evolve into the third and final incarnation, which is referred to as Count Niwatori. Now this state once again comes with a physical upgrade, although we do have very little evidence to determine exactly what the effect would be. What we do know is that Count Niwatori is at the very least durable enough to tank an explosion at point blank range, caused by the ever troublesome Jaguar Ming Pedro, which isn't to be underestimated at all, because characters like Perespero have lost entire arms in explosions like this, so Count Niwatori is no joke, despite the fact that his form does look admittedly hilarious. And that's very much it for the cycle. If Count Niwatori is defeated, then the same thing happens. The egg yolk comes out and restarts the cycle, evolving back into baron tamago. So this fruit is super, super weird and entirely unclassifiable by our current knowledge. The issue is that the tamatomani takes on the properties of all three classes. So first of all, it obviously reflects a zone type by having an animal basis, but it also evokes a paramecia through the gift of a strange mechanism like evolution, and it even has some logear basis by giving the user the ability to regenerate their own body and potentially even intangibility whilst in their yolk form. And given the existence of a fruit like Charlotte Cardicuri's mochi mochi nomi, which has been dubbed as a special paramecia, I would say that my inclination would be to classify the tamatomani as something like a special zoan, an animal-based fruit with an extra mechanic, kind of like how the mochi mochi nomi takes on multiple established and usually singular paramecia powers. But to discuss this a bit further, let's delve into tamago's use of the fruit, and he is a fairly prominent figure of the world, being a mainstay of the big mom pirates, as well as being worth an incredible 429 million berries. And tamago has certainly made fine use of this fruit to get there, because while he certainly isn't, you know, the most powerful of figures, he does take advantage of the endless cycle of regeneration, which is a supremely underrated feature of the tamatomani, because think of it this way, anytime the user incurs damage designed to kill them, this fruit says, okay, bruh, have some egg, and I'm going to just go ahead and regenerate into another form of chicken. So it brings up the idea that this fruit may make its user entirely unkillable. I mean, how are you supposed to deal with an opponent who will always regenerate from a fatal attack? Well, it may not be quite as foolproof as it seems, because the question has been brought up in the series regarding how vulnerable the user is, whilst in mid evolution, in their eggy goop. It's very potentially the case that this is the only state in which the user can actually be killed, that few brief moments of formation. However, this has obviously not been tested. Also rather interestingly, the fruit does not make their user completely immune from permanent damage, despite its regenerative nature, because tamago does carry a scar given to him by Pedro from the past, which resulted in the loss of his left eye, and this scar, as well as lack of an eye, are carried over into each chickeny incarnation, which brings up the idea that maybe only certain zones of tamago's body are reflected by this fruit's regenerative properties, meaning that maybe if you were to decapitate him, then that may be outside of the fruit's purview, making this a very specific existence that the user needs to be very, very careful with. Alternatively, it may also be possible that tamago consumed this fruit after his initial duel with Pedro, thus carrying his scarred body into his new chickeny life. And now as for an awakening with this whatever this is, I don't even know where to begin. This one is so much tougher to predict in general because of its lack of a defined classification, but my initial thought of an awakening would be to add extra forms into the cycle. For example, before it was revealed that Count Niewatory would simply become Baron Tamago again, it was hypothesized that he would just keep ranking up because there are plenty of positions above that of Count, so why not work our way up the hierarchy? You know, an awakening of the Tamatomani might allow its user to reach the exclusive level of Duke Fowl, Prince Poultry, and even the most coveted role of all, King Cock. The potential is endless and I see no reason why we should be restricted to the mere level of Count. And in that respect, this fruit could have multiple awakenings with each new rank, perhaps even a series of mini awakenings if you will. And if you won't, then I don't care because I've said it already. Some other miscellaneous things to consider when becoming an egg, a chick, and a chicken, human. Fascinatingly enough, as much as I did state earlier that this fruit upon consumption would grant the user an egg-like form, I must stress that this is unconfirmed and likely always will be because there is a chance that the Tamatomani very much incorporates the idea of the chicken and the egg dilemma, where we ask ourselves which came first. So with that in mind, the user of this fruit could find themselves at any stage of the given cycle and who knows, it might even be determined at random. So someone who didn't know what type of fruit they were eating may find themselves evolving into Count Neuatori, mistaking it for a Zoan and then finding quite the surprise upon their defeat and subsequent de-evolution into an egg-like existence. Also just to point this out, the chicken and egg dilemma is often used metaphorically and the general consensus of the might of science is that the egg came first. Although it was likely to be laid by a creature that was not a chicken. So that would also kind of make sense in this context because say a human user eats the fruit and then becomes a chicken egg and begins a cycle of evolution of a new creature. Also something of note is that with each subsequent form, the user of this fruit takes on a speech quirk with Tamago adding a peep to the end of his sentences in the form of Viscount Hyoko as well as a clock as Count Neuatori. So you will not be immune from sounding like a chicken which is in stark contrast to a general Zoan type fruit which usually give their users perfect speech no matter what animal they are. Furthermore, the Tamatama No Mi also demands a stay in your wardrobe as each transformation will leave the user with a brand new garb and color scheme reflecting that new stage of their lives. So at the very least, you probably won't ever have to worry about dressing us off. So where do we land with this bizarre fruit? I'm not so sure to be honest with you. There is a startlingly powerful benefit to the Tamatama No Mi in regards to its incredible regenerative nature. In most combative situations, it would seem that the user simply cannot be killed unless it is done by a very particular method. So that is certainly not to be underestimated under any circumstance. Plus, there is a definite boost in physical prowess. The further you proceed into the evolution chain, the question is, are those two features worth becoming an egg human for? And it's tough to examine because let's be real. This fruit is another joke existence from Oda who wanted to draw something funny and quirky, not meant to be examined in any serious context. But unfortunately, that is the situation we find ourselves in here today. And I personally don't think that the trade-off of having a giant egg shell permanently draped around me is worth it because I mean, just think of how difficult it would be to go to the bathroom and everything. But the idea of becoming various stages of a chicken don't exactly appeal a lot to me either. So despite the funky, fresh, unknown of this fruit, I am probably going to give it a miss because there is just too much out there that I would prefer. Almost everything, really, almost. And with that, we are going to commit the Tamatama No Mi to the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia. Next time on the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia, we are stepping into the era of Pankazad with another new world logia held by the mad scientist Caesar Clown being the Gasu Gasu No Mi. If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general, then please do consider donating to the Grand Line Review Patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. And if you'd like to see more videos like this but apply to other anime and manga series, then please do check out my second channel, New World Review, for all of your wider needs. And if you'd like to join the fun at any time, then please do head over to my Discord server where a wide array of shenanigans takes place on a daily basis. And finally, please do comment with your thoughts on the Tamatama No Mi. This has been the Grand Line Review and I'll see you next time. What would you say to assist a manga to One Piece where you follow Sabo parallel to Luffy's timeline? Yeah, I like the idea in general because I think that One Piece holds infinite potential for side stories like that. Although in regards to Sabo specifically, yeah, I definitely read it, but I would prefer to focus on almost anyone else. Sabo is a character who has never particularly excited me, but at the same time, it would probably include a lot of fun with the Revolutionary Army. So it might be worth it for all the other characters that would inevitably appear in it. Something else I probably rather see though is a manga adaptation of the Ace prequel novels because they have some really interesting stuff in them. What do you think how One Piece will end? Don't say Luffy will become Pirate King in end. Okay, Luffy won't become the Pirate King, I guess. He'll be killed by Blackbeard in the most depressing moment in the entire history of media. And immediately after that, Oda will pass away from the grief of losing his main character, thus forever leaving One Piece on a cliffhanger. But obviously, Luffy will become the Pirate King. I guess what you want me to examine is how the series will actually technically conclude because I doubt that becoming the Pirate King will be the very final action. Kind of like how Roger was the Pirate King for the final period of his life. I do sadly think that One Piece will either end in Luffy's death, which will reignite another new age, or with him passing the Straw Hat onto some kid to restart the cycle of inherited will. Whatever the case, I think it ends with either Luffy or a shot of the Straw Hat.


This is Think Tech Kauai, Community Matters Here. Happy Friday, Paul Hanna. I'm Kauai Lucas, host of Hawaii Is My Mainland. You can find 100 or so past episodes on thinktechkauai.com or YouTube. If you're a podcast fan, check Think Tech Kauai's website for instructions on finding them on iTunes. I'm mentioning this because after today's show you might want to watch or listen to the one from October 15, 2016, last year with Joseph Valenti and Matthew Lynch, titled From Forest Menace to Urban Shelter. Today, Joey's back in the studio, along with Stephen Hill, IDSA, who's director of the 3D lab of UH Manoa School of Architecture, and Miles Ludkey of Waimanalo Wood, a key collaborator this past year. Welcome, gentlemen. Hello. Hey, Joey. So it's been a year. And it's been a pretty busy year for you, I think. So your albezia project has sprouted and has been growing like an albezia. So where are we? I mean, the albezia project was your dissertation project. But now you're a doctor. You're all finished. Is that right? Right. OK. And this concept you had of building a shelter from albezia wood. We saw the models. We have the rendering behind us. Now it's been taken to another level. So tell us where you are. All right. So since last time we met, we were pretty early in the project. I think I had recently graduated. Just had received the New Age President's Green Project Implementation Award. And that was a $10,000 award that kind of kick-started this project and got it to continue on after I graduated. And since then, we've leveraged a significant amount of additional funds that have helped us to really reach this project to be able to be built at full scale, the prototype that we're working on. So somewhere along the way, Miles Lynch here, sorry. Miles Lutke, thank you to Matt Lynch, had heard about what we were doing, and he reached out to us, to me specifically, and said, and this is exactly what we're about, utilizing our local resources, specifically lumber, and turning it into something unique, different, beautiful. And so he said, we'll help you out. So that was a huge first step. And then with the funding that we got, it really helped us to get the ball rolling. We have a slide that kind of takes, that you gave me, that kind of takes us through the project here. How it happens, just to kind of give an overall snapshot of the process. It's so beautiful that really you've taken something that was a hazard in our forest and are putting it to good use. But that wasn't an easy process. No. And it took some engineering. It's taking some engineering. I shouldn't at all be putting it in the past tense because it's not like it's done. But the original design, which we see behind us, I just want to mention for people who haven't seen the other ones, you were, the idea was a transitional shelter, right? Yeah, transient, more temporary. I can explain that actually very well, because when I first started my research on this project and the albizia tied into it, like everyone else, I knew as much as the guy next to me, which is the albizia is problematic, it's weak, yada yada, all these negative things. So with that kind of initial understanding of it, I thought, well, at the very least, we can use it to solve some of our social issues, which is housing primarily at the moment. So we have a material that may not be strong enough, or may not be durable enough to last like it would, like a traditional building material. But since then, we've actually learned that that's not necessarily true. Okay, well, let's dive into that a little bit. I think we have some action shots of you in Stephen Hill's 3D lab. Stephen, tell us about this. What are we looking at? And there's the model of the structure. Okay, this was a small class we had over the summer, where we took mostly second and third year architecture students and actually kind of went through the process of how you'd manufactured this little house. And it was really rewarding because we started out, Joey planned the class great. We went to Lyon Arboretum and saw the stump from Albizia Tree and where they had been and heard the whole story of why they needed to remove them from that place. And also heard the story of why Albizia was planted there in the first place, which was interesting. And then some wood that Miles had milled and dried. And we made these engineered panels, which is one of the strategies that Joey's utilized to kind of compensate for the inherent low density that Albizia has or weakness by actually gluing it up into a sandwich panel, like a three inch thick plywood panel. And then in the background there was the CNC router that's used to cut pieces out for the house and it all kind of snaps together in a way and builds the structure. And we went through that whole process. Snaps together? In a way glues together, but there's been a hundred little hurdles that Joey has cleared on this project. One of which is just limitations you run into not only in the material, but in the machinery too. And most CNC routers and ours, which is a very entry level machine, is limited in size to eight feet. But Joey's arch requires a 20 foot column. So he had to figure out a way to make that in eight foot sections, you know, but you can't very well join two boards together end to end. So Joey, and this was really clever, I thought, kind of adapted a traditional Japanese splice joint in a way that could be produced on today's digital equipment. And made very precise lap joint that lapsed together and then the pieces kind of like a puzzle piece fit together to make the beam, which is then glued. How long did it take to work that one out? Well, I have to, I was going to jump in there because Steve, I have to give credit to for that because he, you know, we put down paper and would draw up ideas and evolve it, you know, over time. And also, since we were working, yes, at the College of Engineering, Dr. Ian Robertson played a significant role in all of this. He, we did the first set of testing with the original joint, which wasn't sufficient. So we, we did several other iterations and we found something that still has remnants of the original design. But like Steve said, it's overlapped and all these other evolutions that made it significantly stronger. OK, so you did all of this at UH except, I mean, the engineering part at the different labs so far. So we've, we've, you've involved the School of Architecture and the School of Engineering. Anybody else? Office of Sustainability, they kind of, they stay pretty close with this. Lion Arboretum. Lion Arboretum. Even I did a visit to KCC, Kauai Community College, and they were doing this tiny house project. They invited me to come try it out. That was right after I graduated, so, so that was, you know, we can say like their collaboration in some way and they kind of gave feedback on. How to make this thing a reality. Even Jason Levy, who's been really cool and like looking at it from his perspective, which is studying albizia and trying to see how the numbers of it, like how many are there and all these other studies that he's conducting over at UH West Oahu. So we've done some collaborative papers together and so it's reached, you know, pretty far. This is, this is the way we come to solutions that really work in this place. Okay, and Miles, you, you have brought in a significant technology and skill. And would you talk about Waimanala Woods and what you guys are and do and how, how you're involved in this? Yeah, so we're a local sawmill and we use a pretty big bandsaw sawmill to saw up wood and our business was sort of, the idea of it came from my business partner and he just, he really, he moved here, you know, 25 years ago and he saw all these guys putting large trees through chippers and he was like, those are trees that could be milled into good wood, what's going on here. And if you drive around, you'll see there's a lot of really big chippers going down the road and there's not very many sawmills. So, and the truth is, is every couple of those chippers would be enough wood to start another sawmill. So there's a serious lack of sawmills here because many, many trees are removed. Every time a property is developed or a tree gets too big, they're removed and without enough sawmills, it gets chipped up and thrown away. So, yeah, we really believe that trees are the golden resource of Hawaii. They grow here, they grow quickly and they have really gorgeous wood and about two years ago we started the business and we were really looking to promote just all the benefits of sawing up wood here on Hawaii with our own trees and I came across Joey's Facebook page when he was kind of just getting some publicity out there for his project and I thought, oh, this guy needs albezia milled up and I don't think anybody else is going to saw a bunch of dimensional wood for him. I mean, maybe, but I think we're a pretty good fit together. So I messaged him and said, hey, man, you should come out here and check out our sawmill and we'd like to saw some wood up. So Joey, before you met Miles, how did you think you were going to do this? Oh, I wish I had sent you a picture of the first log that we milled. When I was doing my research, I had heard about the removal project at Lion Arboretum and that was a big one. They had like 20-something huge trees, like 80-year-old trees coming down and they got, all right, I got one of those trees donated during my research to kind of test and prototype with, but the trick was getting it out of there. So what we did and me not knowing anything about sawing wood at the time, worked with one of the guys up there and taught me how to use the Alaskan sawmill and me and him milled it all on site, which is a pretty tedious process. So you actually physically did it? Yeah, yeah, I physically did it with a chainsaw and we, yeah, it took several weeks because it was like, you know, a couple hours a day when they had free time and then I was doing my research, so it kind of, we tried to fit it in, but we did it and we got it to the shop where Steve is and we dried it, took a pretty hefty chunk of space in the yard and then, yeah, it was kind of the initial learning process to see how this works and then... So, so Miles, up your game a little. Oh, yeah. So how long does it take that process take of, I think we have a picture of the wood drying and going, the milling. What is that? Most of us aren't familiar with that process? Yeah, so most of our logs come from our wrists.  You put them on the sawmill, you cut them square, you cut off all the round outside bits and then from there, you can start milling lumber. In Joey's case, we mill four-quarter, which is one inch, lumber, eight inches wide, nine inches wide and he was using, we'd cut the logs at nine feet because he's looking to have eight feet in the end and the ends will usually split as it dries.  The nice thing. And that's, I'll take how long? The milling, you know, you can get through quite a few logs in a week of milling. The drying, that's the interesting part, albezia, because of its low density dries relatively quickly. So, and by relatively quickly, for us is under a year. So, typically, like with monkey pod or mango or a lot of the local woods that we cut up, you think about for every inch of thickness, it takes a year to dry. So, when we cut two-inch thick monkey pod, it would be air dried in two years. Wow. So, yeah, it's a step process. Okay, and speaking of time, we're going to take a little break and come back and talk some more. Great. Thanks. Aloha. My name is Mark Shklav. 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I'm Kaui Lucas and with me here today are three men who are involved in the fabulous albizia project. I love this project because it's about taking something albizia would and turning it into structural elements that we can use on island to build whatever we need to build. I think if all goes well. So Joey and is the instigator of all of this madness. Wonderful. And Stephen Hill from the UH architecture department. And Miles from Wyman, Hollywood. So Miles, I think we have a a few more pictures of what that looks like to create the raw materials for Joey and Steve to play with in their fancy machines. When the when the arborist drop off those logs art, is that a transaction that involves money? Yeah, that's something I'd love to talk about. So many places in the world, there are things called timber rights, including on the big island. But in Honolulu city and county, there really aren't timber rights. So oftentimes arborists will remove a tree and then sell it to a third party without informing the homeowner that they're selling the tree they removed and get paid twice for these jobs. So we don't buy trees unless it's from the person who owns the tree. So that's a big part of what we do is kind of setting standards for how, you know, trees should be respected in a way and they shouldn't just be sold under the under the radar like that. So sometimes we do buy logs. A lot of the times we don't have to because it costs arborists to dump like albizia logs are pretty easy to get because they would pay by the ton to dump it. So it costs them money to get rid of it. So if they bring it to us, it doesn't cost them money to get rid of it. And so you just accept it for free? Pretty much. I have some standard sizes and they got to be kind of straight like that. All those good things. Okay. Well, thanks for enlightening us on that bit. Okay. So now we have it's been milled and dried and then Joey's putting it together somewhere. Talk about that. We have a couple of shots of that process. All right. So we, I guess I'll jump to what happened this summer, which was that's actually where the full structure is going to end up, which is right outside the architecture school. The site we have contracted with UH Manoa is that's kind of what we're planning on doing when it's finished to exhibit it for a year on campus. So it's kind of highlighting what we're about and showing the public that this is something that we can do. But before we get to that, this summer we did a pretty big step in the process. So Steve and I co-instructed that class and with seven students we built the first arch of the structure and it was a pretty intensive class, but also very rewarding for the students because they actually got to be involved in the whole process as Steve had mentioned. The field trips were a big part of it, but also just working in the shop and learning how to use the equipment. We were able to build the first arch and then assemble it on site at the School of Architecture. Steve, what did you do for field trips? Well, we went to Lion Arboretum and we saw where the trees originated. We went to Mill Workshop out in Wahiwa and looked at their process for making finished product out of rough lumber, which is on a much bigger scale than the way we do it with our machines in our little shop. So that was very interesting to see. The students kind of got some basics of how to use the equipment, but then they also got to see what the next level is. I love hearing this really integrated hands-on as well as the theoretical UH architecture is obviously doing an awesome job. Okay, so I'm sorry for the digression. Let's keep going. No, no, that's perfect. So we built it over the six weeks. There's an arch plus half of one of another one and in total, the structure is made up of 13 of these arches, plus the louvers and the roofing and everything else, flooring and stuff, but the arch is a structure. Well, it's arch and beams, cross beams, so that's like the core structure of it. So we wanted to get that started just to make sure like everything worked well and even just standing it up was, you know, part of the process that we're going to have to figure out when we build this on site, what equipment we need. We actually were able to do it with just a couple of us and, or me, myself and Steve and the seven students. That was all we needed to really get this thing started. There are a lot of pieces when you look at that design. Is Miles going to be cutting all of that wood, the slats and everything? Yeah, so I think we saw an image of that chuck load of logs and if I'm not correct, correct me if I'm wrong, but that was taken today. Yeah, that was this morning. So that's all headed for the project. So this is one of the three companies we work with and I actually, I texted them about five days ago and I said, hey, my buddy Joe is looking for albizia. Let me know when you got some and they called me Monday and said, hey, we'll bring some by this week.  There's a lot of people, I think, who find it easy to doubt that this can be used, but the thing is with his hard work and some belief and going through the engineering and the stress test, it turns out it can be done and it's kind of, I think, our challenge is to show people that. So can you talk a little bit about that stress test? I mean, how much can it take? Do we know? What do you know? Well, for context, we did a series of tests specific to this structure and we overcame the joint, the challenges with the joint that we had talked about. We overcame how we're going to engineer it. Like Steve had explained already that we're making this panelized system and cutting out the parts. So we wanted to test those parts and we were able to get all of that to meet the requirements for this to be built. So the engineer actually, Ian Robertson, is confident that we can get this thing permanent, which is a big step. Okay, is it time to bust out the video? Sure, yeah. Sorry, I know we have other things to talk about, but it's just so cool. Let's have a look at it so people have an idea of what we've been talking about and then we can talk some more about it. This was done, where was the video done? So the summer class, we had built that, as I said, that first arch and we installed it on campus and then we took it down at the end of the day, put in storage, but then Steve and I made it a much more durable system that was going to basically stay up for a month. So the way it was secured to the ground and all that had to be taken another step. Okay, more little design challenges. Yeah. So that show is still up? Yes, the show ends on Sunday. On this Sunday. Speaking of Sunday. Sunday, I am doing... Sunday, October 8th. October 8th at 3 p.m. I'm doing a talk updating on basically what we've been talking about and what's next for the project. Co-presenting with Matt Lynch, who is UH System Sustainability Coordinator and we'll be talking about what's happened so far, the challenges, how we've overcome them, all the collaborators, obviously, and what happens next. So that is the closing reception for the wood show on Sunday. Well, and people should go early so they have a chance to see that wood show. It is so inspiring. I did my whole show on it the other day and I went to the opening afterwards and it's just magnificent. I mean, clearly we are under-utilizing our wood resources here in Hawaii. One thing I think is really nice, if I may, about the wood show and Joey's involvement is that, you know, a lot of the pieces in the wood show are gallery pieces, you know, but what Joey's doing is showing a whole another dimension of the industry where this could be used as a more utilitarian type product. So I think that's really inspiring. A good point because we do tend to think of wood here as an artistic element, something for special purpose because it's so precious, right? We've lost that idea, as you said, Miles, of milling our own here. And it's so interesting what you said about, do you happen to know the other counties, what the rules are as far as trees, who owns the trees?  So timber rights exist and you can buy the timber rights to these trees without owning the property. The property owner can sell you the trees at a set rate and that's what timber rights are. And typically the owner of a property, unless they had sold their timber rights, would own that tree. So if somebody came in and cut it down and then sold it, that would be poaching, which can get you in really, really big trouble. But because that isn't here, these trees don't really have the full rights. They should have, you know, trees are important. Wow. So in the last minute, Joey, can you just give us a little taste about what's going to happen? Okay, a minute. So let's see what I can wrap up in a minute. 12 more arches. That's exactly it. 12 more arches. We're actually aiming to have the full prototype completed by early next year. January is what I'm shooting for. It's very exciting to see that truckload of logs that came in today to Miles Mill. So they're going to mill that up for us, dry it, and then we send it actually over to Bellows Millwork in Wahiwa. And they have generously, Eric Bellow, the owner, generously offered to help us get this built. And they have a pretty impressive setup over there. Well, thank you all for coming downtown and tearing you away from your project to talk about this. But really, just this is such a good thing and make it happen. Yeah, great. Thanks for having us. Thank you.