And basically what I'm going to walk you through is a process that I've done with a lot of institutions around Australia, both at K-12, VET and higher ed, and pretty much the approach, as we'll demonstrate shortly, is fairly easy to replicate with various institutions. And the example that I'll be using today is some work I did with TAFE SA in Adelaide last week, and basically building on that process. So essentially when I go into environments, this is usually what you hit with, where it's, you know, we have all this technology available, but teams are excited about using it, but unfortunately on the other end, you've got users that just aren't quite ready to accept that challenge. And so there's a bit of a bridge or a gap that we've got to try and overcome there to make that happen. And one of the key areas that we can start to focus on, and the easiest one, is around assessment. And so in terms of reimagining assessment, what I want to walk through is what can you do when you're working with academics or teachers or lecturers, all of who are really good subject matter experts, but don't necessarily have the background knowledge or education to know the most effective method to teach that. And so what I'm going to show you is one approach that I've taken that seems to be really well received that helps contribute to the success of getting those people on board and getting them reimagining actually what can they do to help bring in technology to make it all happen. And for me, one of the key focuses is on this idea of what's in it for me. That could be the academic, the lecturer, or it could be the student perspective. And I think when you're dealing with these types of people, you need to keep this in mind. And so this is the work I did with Cheryl Cox at TAFE SA last week in which we've enrolled in one of these subjects, which I taught many years ago having looked at the content. So pretty much all it is focus around assessment. Thing is, what can we do to change that up, to focus on those assessment tasks to make it more engaging? So the approach I take is based on some re-principles, which simply stands for re-engineering assessment practice. And there's some information about it there. But it's really simple to implement, a bit old school, but it works really, really well. And by old school, which is just a couple of cards, well, a few more than a couple, nicely color-coded. But it's amazing how well it works because when you're dealing with academics, you're trying to work with them to discover what is it that they're trying to do. And as you're talking to them about that, you can capture that using these cards. So for example, if I lay the mouse here and I say to an academic, which I often do, let's just focus on what key assessment principles do you think you need to start addressing in Weeks 1 and 2 of your course? So we say in Weeks 1 and 2, here are nine principles, do you think it's important to let the students know in Weeks 1 and 2 that you need to clarify good performance? And they go, yeah, actually that's something that I'd really like to do. Make sure students understand what the assessment tasks are that they need to do. So I say to an academic, do you need to deliver high-quality feedback in Weeks 1 and 2? They're going, well, actually I haven't even given out the assessment, so I don't really need to do that one. So we take that one off the table. We then say, well, if you don't deliver high-quality feedback, what's the likelihood that you need to provide opportunities to act on feedback? If they're not delivering it, students don't need to act on it, so we can take that one off at that point. Given the TAFE environment is competency-based, a lot of the assessment tasks that are available are fairly well set, so unfortunately in terms of giving assessment choice is also off the table. But when we look at the other things around getting students to start reflecting on, you're in this new course, what are you going to do? What are the competencies you've got to cover? What do you need to do to get through the course? How are you going to encourage them to work with each other or to encourage time on task? We then look at this and then say to the academic, well, what tools are available to you to make these things happen? And so, usually I use Post-it Notes, I'm a big Post-it Note fan. You go through, can anyone suggest what would you use to clarify good performance? What would you use to clarify good performance, just picking a Moodle tool? Rubrik? Excellent. What do you think you would do to encourage interaction and dialogue in Moodle? What tools could you use? Oh, now we're talking, you guys must be designers. So you just literally go through that, put all the options on the table. My Post-it Notes and Writing don't look as neat as this, but essentially you literally walk through and identify what tools you think are available that will work well in this case. And so we go through, you identify the tools and then say, well, there's the tools there. As a learning designer, you think into yourself, have I seen this sequence of events or activities before? If so, have I already got some of these things developed in the template that I can just import into the course? And if not, we'll say, well, that's what we need to do. Now how do we translate that into the Moodle course? And so we say to the academic, what skills do you already have? What tools do you feel comfortable with? Is that too many to start with? Do we've got to, maybe that's the end game and where we work. Usually that process I can have mapped out with academics in about 20 minutes, because it's so easy. And for them, what it's doing is it's getting them to think about the way they're teaching and no focus yet, really, until we put those post-it notes on in terms of what tools are available for them to use. So what does the outcome of that look like? Well, when you sit down and we get our consultants in and to work with learning designers to make that happen, essentially they'll come up with something like this. So that course you saw before has now been redesigned based on that pedagogical approach that we just showed you with those cards. So we identified that tracking was important, so we can do that in a number of ways, using the progress bar. Students are aware that hey, in weeks one or two, I've already done a heck of a lot in terms of just short activities, but actually when I look at the progress bar, I'm really starting to cruise through this course. What they don't realise, I haven't put all the other things up yet. So it looks as though they're doing quite nicely. There's calendar events reminding them of what's coming up, and so we've addressed that aspect. When we look through other aspects of the course, we obviously have the completion tracking at the various stages of the course, so students can immediately identify that hey, I've finished that section off, I can move on to the next. So for students, they're getting motivated thinking hey, as I'm cruising through here, I'm really getting through this course quite nicely. We then find that when it comes to communication, we can provide some support around the drop-in. We can use chat. If you have virtual classrooms, you can use those environments. Set up situations where you can work with your students to make sure that they're engaged and they're working through this course. Again, we're throwing the book module at this point here so they can get an appreciation of what it is they need to do in the course. We're throwing the label of the video, which what we've been able to do is, we'll have it in this case, but what I would suggest we do, is you get in other students to tell about their challenges, the way they overcome those as they went through this course as well. And so again, when you start providing real-life solutions, examples, students say, hey, if that student can get through, he had challenges, there were barriers, they were overcome, I can do the same thing. And so a lot of this is around the student getting them to see what's in it for me, getting them to buy and invest in this approach, and at the same time, they're working through all the competencies that are required. And a lot of these things are very easy to achieve. In this case here, you can see with the time limit, 10 minutes they can do a feedback, which is basically, here's a video you've got to watch. It's an example of the type of evidence you've got to provide at the end of this course, I think. I can't remember, I only created it the other day. Actually, it's not. It's a feedback around the competencies. So what we've done here is created a reflection tool for students to say, you've got these five key competency areas that you're focusing on. Where do you think you are in relation to those things at the moment? Do you know how to code? Are you familiar with a lot of the programming terms already? Are you excellent in that area or you're poor? And then you can say overall, in terms of programming, have you done it before or have you not? And in terms of the Visual Studio, is that a programming application that you've already used previously? Or do I go to provide you some additional resources to support that? And based on those answers, we can use the restrict access to release those additional resources around how the program works to those students that never encountered it before. But those there are, we don't even have to bother showing them to them. We then include our files, our rubrics, and in this scenario here, we put the rubric in a feedback form. So students can look at some examples of work, use a feedback form as a rubric and self-assess what's happening in those examples. At the end, the teacher throws up the results and that starts a discussion going which can happen in the forum. I thought that example that we saw was really, really good but there were some areas I needed to work on, that the student who submitted it needed to work on. And other students may have different opinion but that's where you can get those things happening. So after that task, students are now aware what it is they need to do in the course. They've seen some examples, they've had a look at the rubric, so they're really clear on what they need to do. And then from there, we can see that in relation to the question we had about, well, what's your experience with visual or studio like already? We can throw a badge to the student to provide quick indication for them, hey, you've already achieved something. For those that need some support with resources, once they get on top of those, they'll get this same badge as well. It may not be the same time as these more experienced ones, but that's still coming as well. And so we're giving students all these different triggers. We can throw images in forums as like little kudos to identify high quality work or forms of encouragement for students as they're working through our course as well. And basically in weeks one and two, we've now covered that whole re-imagination piece around assessment. Just basically using those cards to identify a pedagogical approach to then say, ah, now I can see why these tools might be useful. And then when the students go through and make it happen, that's when all the magic takes place. And for an academic here, they can easily track now where their students are, how they're progressing, use the messages and things as appropriately to respond, encourage the students to get through the course. Again, they can look at some of the self-reflection bits that we put into the start to get an indication that, hey, most of my students have never done programming for. I've got a lot of work to do in this course. Or similarly, when you look at all the competencies, it's going to help inform my teaching as a lecturer in terms of what areas I need to focus on more and perhaps some things I can move fairly quickly. And again, in relation to what students have and haven't achieved, I can quickly look at the badges to get a quick observation that, hey, most of my students haven't used Visual Studio. I need to run some more support sessions to help those that can't. That's it in a nutshell. So pretty quick, probably took about five hours to build that course, about an hour to work out the pedagogy. But essentially, we've done weeks one and two. That's it. By the way, I have some cards here for the first. I don't know how many are here, but there's a few sets if you want to try it. Do we have any questions? There's 20 here. There's probably 20 over there somewhere. So I don't know how many that is, 40? First come, first served. There is a URL that you can download them right back here, if you're not quick. Just down the bottom there of the post. But it works really, really good. Tomorrow I'm doing student engagement, different set of cards, but same idea in terms of how do you now? We focus on assessment. How do we get students more engaged in our courses? The beauty I find with it is academics can really relate to cards and paper. There's no wrong or right answers, and you adjust quite easily, where academics are a bit reluctant to try and tell you what it is or try and tell you the way they're trying to teach when they don't really know. And this is a good way to help trigger that conversation. Excellent. That's it from me.


The first point to write down, it is based upon, based upon the law of probability. Based upon the law of probability. Second point. It is a graph between, a fraction of molecules. It is just based on the probability, there is no exact thing of it. Like what should be the value of the speed of a given fraction of molecules based on that. So just a guess, it is not very exact. Graph between the fraction of, fraction of molecules and the speed of the molecules. Fraction of molecules and speed. Third point. The fraction of molecules, of molecules having zero speed or very low also you can write. Zero or very low speed. The fraction of molecules, very high speed, very high speed is negligible, is negligible. The fourth point. The maximum fraction of molecules, fraction of molecules having, have common speed. Which is the most probable speed. Most probable speed. At a given temperature. Temperatures of area under the curve. Is constant. Last point. As the temperature increases, it shifts towards the right. Hence, the most probable speed VMP decreases. Pop it up at this point. Ok you see the question that they ask into this. There are only few things that are important to this. The graph that you see. The y-axis is the fraction of molecule. This is the fraction of molecule. And this side we have the speed. Ok, fraction of molecule and speed. You see the graph, it goes like this. Ok, so this point you see. Corresponding to this point. What is this graph? The fraction is maximum, right? No, I can't even see. So it's like the volume of my fraction. You need to say there were 100 molecules. The speed of one molecule divided by 100 molecules. The fraction of that molecule. Ok, now you see corresponding to this point. The speed that we have is this, right? This is the speed. Now this fraction of molecules is maximum, right? So maximum number of molecules corresponding to this. The speed that we have, we call it as most probable speed. This is VMP. Most probable speed. Ok, and we have some velocity here also. You see, this velocity is the VRMS. Root mean square velocity. Root mean square velocity. No, randomly I have given you. Why it is more than this? Because we know VRMS is maximum. Then V average and then VMP. So with this relation, VRMS should be somewhere this side. And in between these two will have the averages, right? So average speed will be somewhere here. This is V average. Ok, so you see as the speed increases, VMP to VRMS. The fraction of the molecules having this speed decreases. That's what the point is that the fraction of molecules is very less with high speed. Similarly, the molecules which has very low speed is also very less. Ok, this is what the Maxwell observation. So fraction just means number of molecules. So suppose we have 100 molecules, right? Out of 100 molecules, 90 molecules will have the same speed and that speed is VMP. So fraction of molecules having this speed is what? 90 divided by 100. This is what this axis is. Understood? Ok. So now this graph is fraction of molecules at V and the speed. So based on this, what is this speed we have? What is this speed we have? They ask one question. Ok. So the molecule, the maximum number of molecules or fraction of molecules corresponding to that, we have VMP, most fabulous speed. And we know VMP is minimum. So obviously VRMS and V average will be more than this. So it will be right side of this point. Ok. So like this. We will discuss that. Ok. So this is at some temperature we have this graph. Ok. Now you see when we draw this graph at two or three different temperatures. Ok. So one point I have given you as temperature increases the curve becomes flatter, right? It shifts towards the right side. So when you draw this graph at different temperature, at one temperature we will have graph like this, another temperature we will have graph like this, and another temperature the graph goes like this. It is very simple and straightforward. As you increase the temperature, kinetic energy increases, kinetic energy increase, this velocity increases, this most fabulous speed also increases. And that is only possible when the graph shifts towards the right side. So you see if this temperature is T1, this is T2, and this is T3, so most fabulous speed is what? This is speed. This is VMP1, and T2 temperature most fabulous speed is this, which should be more than the most fabulous speed is T1 temperature because temperature is increasing, right? And VMP is this corresponding to this. So as the temperature increases you see the most fabulous speed increases and the graph becomes flatter. The fraction of molecule having this speed obviously decreases because the velocity is increasing. So lesser number of molecules will have the same speed. See the fraction of molecules decreases, but the most fabulous speed increases, okay? So that is what we can say at a given temperature we will have this kind of graph, but at different different temperature the most fabulous speed will increase. So if we can write here from this relation T3 should be maximum and T1 should be minimum and corresponding to this VMP3 is maximum VMP1. Understood? So temperature relation is another kind of question they ask on this. Second time. The last thing here. Suppose this is a full graph, we have different graph and we have four different gases suppose O2 and O2, H2 and Helium. So which gas represents which graph? So why is the root mean speed better? Root means speed better. I have discussed this, no we have just formulaized what? Rt by m, averages 8 RT by 5 m and most problem is 2 RT by m. So you can take the ratio VRMS is maximum you will get with this formula. This one? Where VRMS? You have done it in the last class. VRMS speed. VRMS V average and V most problem. Done. So question here is we have four different graph and four different gases we have. Which gas represents which graph? Helium will be the highest. Helium will be the highest. What highest? So lowest VLP. Helium. Hydrogen. Hydrogen. Hydrogen. Hydrogen. Hydrogen. Hydrogen. Hydrogen. Hydrogen. Hydrogen. Hydrogen. Hydrogen. Hydrogen, helium, end to a node. What is the answer? First one is hydrogen. Can you tell me one thing? For this graph VMP is what? VMP here is this. Hydrogen? Hydrogen? Hydrogen? Hydrogen. From this graph we can see what? This is the order we have. VMP4 is maximum right? VMP4 is the maximum? And what is the formula for most problem speed, VMP is equals to what? 2RT by m root over of it, so most travel speed is inversely proportional to the square root of the molecular mass, so the molecular mass is maximum called oxygen, it means it most travel speed should be minimum, so this is O2, this is N2, this is E and this is H2, this is how we assign the gas. Easy. This 2 three types of questions they ask, okay, no, no, no, I mean yeah the first part, till ideal gas, anyways those two will not add on that, after that they have involved the also now they ask theoretical question, conceptual question mostly done, is it clear? So what is the formula? 8 RT by 5M to the power of m Sir is it that 3RT by m? Yes, 3RT by m you can take a ratio and guess 3RT by m is maximum So what is the formula? So what is the formula? So what is the formula? No, RMS is 3RT by m Sir RMS is supposed to be the most Yes, 3RT by m is maximum So you have 3RT by m is maximum It is 8RT by 5M V RMS is root under 3RT by m V average is 8RT by 5M So you see it is 8 by 5 is 2. something you are getting here Right? And V MP is 2RT by m So obviously V MP is minimum RMS is maximum Okay


I'm Brian May in the state's Emergency Operations Center at Cal OES headquarters. For the fifth day in a row, this room has been staffed around the clock as local, state and federal leaders continue to respond to three major wildfires still burning in California. There are over 8,000 firefighters currently fighting fires throughout the state and that includes hundreds of mutual aid firefighters from nine states across the country. The date over 209,000 acres have burned close to a quarter of a million Californians have been evacuated since these fires began last week. Here's the latest on the three largest fires currently burning in California starting with the Camp Fire in Butte County, now the most destructive fire in California state history. The camp fire has now burned over 113,000 acres, containment up slightly to 25 percent, more than 6,700 structures have been lost in this fire with now 29 fatalities. Two fires continue to burn in Southern California. The Woolsey fire covering both Ventura and Los Angeles counties now closing in on 100,000 acres, containment still at 20 percent, more evacuations around the Woolsey fire today as some 57,000 structures are still threatened. The firefighters do continue to make good progress on the Hill Fire in Ventura County, containment up again now to 80 percent. Extremely dangerous fire conditions though will remain through Wednesday so residents are urged to remain on alert and heed evacuation warnings immediately if told to do so. Air quality will remain poor across much of the state due to the smoke so if you need information on where to get free N95 masks you can find a link under the info and video tab on our website wildfirerecovery.org we've also got links there on how to protect yourself from the smoke and if you'd like to make a donation to the survivors of the wildfires you can find that information on the volunteer and donate link again that website is wildfirerecovery.org


Hello, everyone, I'm Gabrielle and I'm over here at Oxmer Toyota. You guys, I have a brand new 2023 Toyota Tacoma Trail Special Edition that I want to go over some of the details on it. So it's got a lot of really neat features. So why don't we go ahead and go to the front and we'll start there. So first, the exterior of your color is in the ice cap. Now in the front, you have the black grille, but with that Trail Special Edition, you are going to have bronze accents. So that Toyota is going to be in that bronze color. There is going to be a skid plate. Now moving to the side, you're going to have 16-inch bronze finish wheels. Now you are going to have black badging.  And you're also going to have the Predator tube steps. Now that bronze against the white with the black, it all looks very, very good. Now moving to the back, again you'll have that 4x4.  Now this is a 5-foot bed. Now there is something special back here that I'm going to show you. You're going to have the lockable bed storage. So there is going to be two. Now on the driver side, you do have a little ice, snow I guess. All you do to open this is you're going to push this and it's going to pop open. So you can put ice in here, use it as a cooler, or just you can use it for additional storage. Now on the passenger side, let's walk over there. Now on your passenger side, this is just going to be your standard storage. So don't put ice in this one. There's not going to be a hole for the water to get out of. Going into the interior, you're going to have all-weather floor liners.  Now you are going to have kind of this beige, bronzy stitching. You're going to have an 8-inch touchscreen, 6 speakers, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay. There is a backup camera. And then also in the interior, you're all going to have this kind of bronzy, silver-esque finish around the vehicle. All right. So again, this is that 23 Tacoma Trail Special Edition. If you have any questions, let us know. All of our contact info is listed right here. Thanks for watching and I'll see you soon. Bye.


There's always a big set piece, right, or two or three. And Tom Cruise is always doing his stunts. That's the big takeaway from these. In Fallout, he's jumping from, you know, like outside of the Earth's atmosphere. And I think he did it a dozen or a hundred times. I think it was over a hundred times he had to do this freefall from space. But it's kind of undercut by the fact that everything around him was then CGI. They added in a digital storm. They added in the entirety of Paris because when he was doing the jump he was over a, you know, an empty field. So if Tom Cruise is the only real thing in the scene kind of removes me believing that he's there.  And I almost feel like at that point throw him in front of a green screen and have him pretend to jump and then film the Paris shots. I think it's kind of done in reverse.


Personal notice. Danger's my stock and trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle, you got a job for me, George Valentine. Write full details. Greetings as always, Mr. Lover. Time for another Let George Do It adventure. You know, I'm particularly fascinated with the title of this epic. It's called The News Hangs High. Now, that's a switch if I ever heard one. And better still, it gives one an insight as to what is about to take place. You see, George Valentine is always sticking his neck out. Now, for the first time, he has a place to stick it. Let's see if he makes it. Dear Mr. Valentine, I'm J. H. McHugh. I'm editor of the local Sunday magazine section.  But I figured the true revelations of a Turkish secret policeman had more family appeal, and so I've got about it. Anyhow, this letter concerns a different matter. Valentine, I'm going to make a report for you. You're going to be the author of a serial on the Tover Embrons. What became of the exotic prince's wedding stones? Did the eminent hornithologist, Ensil Fairweather, find them or didn't he?  The riddle of the two recluses. Why have the two big brothers refused to cross the threshold of their own gloomy mansion? And for that very same ten years. What is the mystery of number 37 Ashton Street? Well, well, isn't it the greatest story you ever heard? Well, Mr. McHugh... I noticed you came trotting over here fast enough. I tell you, it's the best feature we've had for years. Since the last mommy sued King Tert for alienation of affections. What? Well, I always preferred the classic case history of the two-headed werewolf. Now see here, both of you. Oh, come on now, McHugh. You've been mashing your own corn too long. I gather all the purple double-talk has something to do with a man named Ensil Fairweather. Well, I looked him up. He tied a rope around a chandelier and hung himself at 37 Ashton Street ten years ago. Ten years ago today in a gloomy brown coat. Trot your local color. He'd been to the Himalayas looking for rare birds once. He was probably one himself. But any talk about emeralds is strictly for the birds, too.  Well, I may have overspressed that aspect a bit. Just a bit. All right. Forget them. Look at the facts. He took a jury to decide his death was suicide, didn't he? Well, it was a very unfair trial of his two cronies, yes. The Binks brothers. And they still live in that same house. Never stepped out of it since. Oh, we didn't know that. I thought not. That's the story. The rest is all trimmings, I'll admit.  Why? It only took two minutes for the jury to exonerate them of his murder, if that's what you're driving at. Fairweather was sick, despondent, out of his mind. No, no, no. I'm not trying to say they killed him. And to be unfairly accused of his murder might make anyone withdraw from the world a little. You think I'm trying to make something out of nothing? Cook up a story that's a little too wild? We think you're an expert at it. No offense, of course. Not at all.  Well, now that's better. Well, now that we've got that off our chest, what do you really want me for? In fact, for nine years I've tried to get a little anniversary story on Jared and Tom Binks. Uh-huh. Why they're such reduces. Are they? Really? Every reporter I ever sent, and don't worry, they've been clever about it too. They've been thrown out in his ears. To my knowledge, the brothers have never been outside that house. And no visitor has ever been inside it. Why? You get the facts. I'll write the story. You get pain. You are listening to Let George Do It. Our adventure will continue in just a moment. Now back to Let George Do It and George Valentine. Leave before I see you throw now.  Look, you go and check on Farewell this death. Uh-oh. Here's the little one. Oh, and how do you do, sir? My name is Valentine. How do you do? I represent the City Fire Protection League Department of Fire Inspection Service in the interest of fire prevention. I'm sure you won't mind me taking a few minutes of your time for an examination of the premises before I... What's the matter, friend? You're not listening. Well, uh, perhaps I have a card here. Is that girl with you? What? Me? No, I was just asking directions. You're not busy, young man. You're free for the next few hours, perhaps? Well, I... Thank heaven. Come in, come in. Please, do come in. I'm so glad to see you. Yes, come right in. Oh, Jerry, Jerry, where are you? We have a visitor. Isn't that wonderful? What in the man? Gentlemen, come right in, George. Are you sure it's the right house? Somebody's throwing curves. Now work fast. Wouldn't you, Angel? I'll see you later. Yeah, good luck. Yes, yes, hurry, Jerry. This way, sir. Valentine, you say? Yes, yes, that's right. Your, uh, Tom Binks? Oh, yes, yes, quite. Tom Binks. Uh-huh. Somehow she have here. Don't you ever open the shutters? Oh, yes, yes. Forgive the lack of furniture. We've never bothered about the hallways. And the parlor in there makes such a handy place to store things, don't you think? We're very informal here. Oh, brother, there's an understatement. Pile of magazines, clothes, boxed up books. Oh, look out. Oh, this way, please. Hey, here. What's the matter? Afraid of a loose chain on the chandelier? What? Oh, no. No, not at all. Oh, oh, yes, sure, the chandelier. That's what fair weather hung himself from, isn't it? I thought you said you were from the fire department. How much it's worry hung himself? One of it. Well, Mr. Merton. What are you doing here, young man? Well, I invited him in. There's no reason. You might answer the same question, friend. I thought these guys lived alone. Yeah. The name is Merton. Binks boys aren't crazy. I am. I handle their business affairs. Mr. Merton is just on his way out. Yes. You know what I mean? I've been trying to leave for the past three hours. Now Tom kicks me out. Oh, no, no, but I think all about it... That's because you walked in. I make one visit a year to this place. I spend the rest of the year calming down. I don't follow you, but I guess that's all right. Of course you don't. Who could? You don't know it, but you've been tapped to take my place holding hands. What? Now, now, Mr. Valentine is interested in our work, and I was just going to show him through the house. Oh, it's all yours, son. You scare the boogeyman for a while. The boogeyman? Yeah, sure. Make a good story for you. Now, come on, tell the truth. What newspaper are you from? Newspaper? None. But what's the story? I don't really care who you are. Tom, where's my coat?  I'll get it. Boogeyman. That's the story, you know. It's a haunted house. Okay, Buster, I'm dumb. What's going on? So am I. Valuable property, but kept in a mess. Good securities, but all gummed up. Couple of loony clients, that's all. Well, look around you. Nuts. Lived alone so long they imagined that... No, no. Hey, what's the matter? The light cord. Martin, look. A Jared. Jared, come down here. Oh, for the love of what? Well, you see, another knot. It's tied in a knot like the others. The light cord in the closet here. Tied in a hangman's knot. A noose. He's found some others around like that. Well, now, who's the practical joker that did this? None of us. That's it. None of us ties those knots. Well, what is it, Tom? What is it? Look, look here. I didn't do it. Well, of course you didn't. And no one did. Oh, Jared, this is Mr. Valentine. I asked him to... I could hear you from upstairs. I could hear. I don't think it is good to ask people in. There you see, young fellow, I've got a card to the club like I have. You have finished your business, Mr. Martin. Get out. Jared, now, wait. I know what happens when people come in. I'm not afraid of any nooses. There is nothing for anybody to be afraid of. Please, Jared. Perhaps you tie the nooses yourself, Tom. Of what? Perhaps you don't know that you do. But it's all right. There's nothing to be afraid of. Oh, no, no, I don't. It occurred to me when I saw the shadow on the stairway from the same noose, I suppose. What shadow? The stairway? Well, no, no. This door was shut. Oh, brother, now, take it easy, Tom. Oh, look, yes. You can see it on the wall. It's a shadow of a noose this time. Yeah, sure. I'm upstairs here. Only place it could have come from. There is nobody else in the house, Mr. Valentine. Hey, now you can't see the shadow anymore down there. Oh, Jared, for the love of God. That doesn't. I'm getting out of here. Where's your telephone? There's one in the library, but we don't want any policemen. This is nothing to be upset about. Who sent anything about policemen? They've got an extension. They'll listen while you're called. Come on, move me to the drugstore. Let them listen.  I'm not nervous. I don't get a gilly feeling when I look at a noose. Not yet. Hello, operator, get me... Mr. Valentine. Mr. Valentine. Yeah, everything's funny. I was just going to call you on the World Cave then. What? I was going to tell... Hey, Tom Brinks. Looks like he fainted or something. George, for heaven's sake. He's crazy. They're all crazy. The whole place is crazy. Brooks, he's so am I. Now listen, Angel, I was going to tell you the Marquis out here was too thick to be true, but I guess I'm wrong. I guess I was saved by the bell when you called. Will you please tell me... On account of everybody's seized nooses out here. Well, now I do too. What? Yeah, Angel, there's one made out of rope neatly draped around my neck. You are listening to Let George Do It. Our adventure will continue in just a moment. Now back to George Valentine. The two Brinks brothers, Jared and Tom, two Reckless's whose friend hung himself ten years ago. Now the Brinks brothers are seeing the shadow of a noose. Light cords and sash cords have been tied with Hangman's knots. Well, if your name is George Valentine, the whole thing looks a little wild to you.  Angel, I don't know what hit me, I tell you. But George... You've got a funny sore neck, though.  Oh, Brooksy Skipper, will you have more right? What did you find? Well, all that silly stuff about emeralds may not have been so silly. Huh, what? Oh, Mr. Stones in India, and the only ones they've ever found have been in Kansas, just one or two. Oh, you make a lot of sense. How it's when someone must have found them. Yeah, only the police don't know who. And there's nothing illegal, anyway. They were found. Somebody just sold them. Angel, I love you. What? You're fitting the first piece into the jigsaw.  Hello. How are you? Cleaning lady at the booby hatch. Ah, lady with jokes, huh? I worked in a real booby hatch once. Come in to bring their weak spools for the binks, that's all. I'm a long order cook now. I've got to eat, don't they? Only say. What did you do to Tom there? Nothing. He fainted. He's all right. Yeah. Any funny one. Spends all of his time drawing birds. Looks kind of like a sparrow himself. What are you doing? Put him down. I know where I'm at. I was a nurse once. No, I'm all right. No, please.  Um, there's a man out back to see you, Mr. Binks. What's that, ma'am? That man who owns the house, that fair weather. Fair weather? Man, who owns it?  Duchess, go tell Amanda White. What? Yeah, you're losing your job as nurse. Get out. I never trusted anyone, Mr. Valentine. I was tried for murder once. Jared and I, but we hadn't done anything. Do you know what it's like to be tried? Sure, sure, Mr. Binks, but I'm only trying to help. There's nothing secret about our work. All those crates of specimens downstairs, birds. That's what they are. We've collected them from all over the world, and I am drawing them. Jared and I. For 10 years? Oh, it will take much, much longer than that. We don't work very fast, and there are more than seven problems. Yeah, sure, I get the idea. And Ansel Fairweather was your partner in that work. He was an ornithologist, I remember. So now explain who this other fair weather is who's alive and waiting for you out back. A cousin of Ansel's. He's been trying to get the house. Mabel said he owned it. He has some old deed that Ansel gave him. He says it's quite valuable property. That's why we're moving. Moving? Well, didn't you know? That's why the birds are all crated. We're being thrown out of the house next week. Ah. Huh. Why didn't you buy it? Why'd you let him get it? You guys have money, don't you? Or something worth money, maybe? Now, see here, young man.  I asked you into the house and all you do is ask questions. Just like all the rest. Jared told me not to talk to people. He warned me every time anyone gets nearer. Take it easy, take it easy. Only suppose I go out and talk to the new landlord, huh? Hey, all this stuff on the back porch. Do you suppose it's going too, Mr. Fairweather? How should I know? A couple of blame crackpots. Now him and the house torn down as soon as they get out. Yeah, sure.  What's that, Mr. Valentine? Never mind.  A business deal? Business deal, that's all you. I know. I met that lawyer or whatever he is of theirs. Oh, Merton, sure. Just saw him down at the drug store. And he's smart.  He didn't offer to buy the place for them, though, huh? Mac, a cousin of mine I never met. Used to live with these bird birds here. Now that's ancient history. But a friend of mine discovered this old deed and I found I could get the place. So why not? So I've got it. Got a key, too, I suppose. Come in and out any time. What? 30 rooms, three stairs. An army could be wandering around. Fresh, girl. What's eating you, anyway? Just because I won't sell a house to Looney and Goonie Banks? Well, sure, they offered to buy it. What of it? I'm in real estate. I got plans for the whole block. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Just stop justifying yourself. Flashlight. Oh, go jump in the lake. Hey, how long do you figure to take to tear this house apart if a man wanted to find some emeralds? Oh, that old story.  Well, I'm in business, friend, and I don't have... So blame much, junk, isn't there? Here, ever see a flashlight rigged up like this? What's that wire thing? Found it in the trash barrel. Put the button on. See? The wire is twisted around in a circle.  Shadow of a noose. Jared! Jared! What in the name of... Jared! Tom, where are you? What's happened? Shandler there. The noose. He's dead. He's dead! Tom, Tom, come back here. Come back here, Tom!  Who says he's dead, huh? Just as well be I suppose. You hung yourself, sure. Oh, brother. Not heavy or anything, are you, Jared? Tom! Hey, anybody! Okay, come on, Hermit. Let's get you out of here. You need help fast. Hey, you. You're the pharmacist? Yes, that's right. What do you have? Get out of that car as fast as you can. There's a man been choked. Hit over the head, too. What? Joe, you, too. Come on. Come on, I'll be with you in a minute. Well, hello. Well, well, sit down, sit down.  No thanks, Mr. Martin. So, had enough prying around in the booby, had you? Hermit's hollow. Once a year's all I can stand. Sure, sure. Whose taxi is that out there? Oh, waiting for me. I got a job back in real life, as they call it, to worry about. See the house from here, but nothing happening yet. Well, what are you talking about? What's the matter? Come on, come on, let's wait in the taxi. Hey, what are all those guys doing around that car across the street? Police will be here in a minute. What? Come on, get in the cab. Wait here, Mac. No place. Jared Binks may be dead or alive, I don't know. He was hanging from the chandelier. Jared? Now, look at this. Only person strong enough around there to lift him up for it is that woman, I guess, that Mabel.  Oh, you weren't there. I haven't got any muscles. Unless Jared hung himself, but that's a fair chance. Besides, I've got a sore neck, too. Now, look. And that rope around me wasn't pulled tight. And I don't know what knocked me out. But if Mabel was telling the truth, if she had been a nurse and worked around an asylum, well, it's one way to quiet somebody in a hurry. Slap him in the back of the neck, heal of the hand. What are you guys talking about? Just keep turned around, driver. I'd like to know what you're talking about, too. Well, why wasn't the rope around me pulled tight? Why wasn't I killed? Go ahead, watch the house. I can see the alley entrance. What for? Oh, we're not waiting for Mabel to show up. That's a police job. By now, she must be blocks from here. So am I. You don't wear it, and it's pretty clear. I got the flashlight off her service porch. I don't know who else could have been upstairs to throw that shadow in the noose and then duck in a hurry. Well, stop looking so sad. Mabel's a hired hand.  Oh, brilliant. But what I'm not sure of is who she works for. Hey, look. There he is. There's Tom. Well, how mean. Yeah, the little man himself with a suitcase. Oh, yeah. Follow right along, driver. Okay. Yeah, I guess Jared had all the courage.  What's that? No, the guy's walking up there. Just keep your mind in the front seat, driver. And that's what the rope was put on me for, I guess. Same reason as the hangman's knots in the shadow of the noose to scare the pinks boys. Only what happened with Jared? He catch on who was doing it? That's why he was strung up to put the final thread into Tom and make him run? Oh, stop dribbling. Tom. Hey, Tom. Who is it? It's me, Merton. Over here, Tom. If there were any emeralds in that house, nobody'd ever find them. The pinks has never talked about them. What's been pretty hard on you, Merton, wondering how you could get your hands on them?  Hey, what the... You too.  Oh, hello, Tom. Hop in. Well, I don't know. It's all right, Tom. You can tell me some things. Like who this guy Merton really is. I told you... Tom. Tom, get in here. Get in. Oh, of course. Merton, don't point that gun at me. You see, Merton's been so careful to get himself an alibi. Taxi already and waiting.  And Merton told me he came to see you men once a year to handle your business affairs. Well, I have one of it. Once a year in April? One month after income tax? Does that make any sense for a business manager? All right, genius. You've said enough. Goodbye. Well, Merton... Give me that suitcase. Come on, I'll step on it. Yes, no, no. You get out from behind the wheel and turn around. Hey, what now? I'm leaving you right now.  Get in the suitcase, banks. It has the emeralds, right? Isn't that the point of the whole business? The scare you went to running and when you run, the one thing you take with you is the emeralds that a man could spend his life searching for in that house? That a man could get one at a time, you mean, once a year. That's who I am. I handle a business all right, one at a time, once a year. Merton, please. But never a glimpse of the rest of them. Well, now I've got the whole mess. Get out of my way. You're going to mess, all right, Buster. But look out!  Not in April, sweetheart! Mr. Valentine, yes. Yes, that's all true. Give me the suitcase then, Tom. This guy's safe at the police. I want to find how your brother is. But people will come and they'll bother me. There'll be policemen and photographers. Well, there's nothing wrong with you having the rest of the emeralds. But, Jared, and I only use the emeralds to carry on our work. Not another suitcase. You open it. What the? Is there anything wrong, Mr. Valentine? Well, no, not from your point of view, friend. But in a few minutes I've got a date with Miss Brooks and a guy named McHugh at my office. I'm going to find out how they can take a surprise. Back to the conclusion of our Let George Do It adventure in just a moment. You heard me, McHugh. Skins of birds. That's what he carried in that suitcase. Uh-huh. Yeah, if Tom could take one thing of value from the house, that was it. After all, what are emeralds compared to birds? Jared, thanks. We'll be all right, George. Good, Bruxy. That's fine. The police caught that woman, Mabel. She had been working for Merton. Birds.  That's the only way they'd get excited enough to tip where they'd hidden them. Bird feathers. They had over a hundred emeralds, and how many did Merton sell for them through the years? Seven. Well, what's the matter? What are you sore about? He wants to know where the rest of them are, George. But Tom and Jared will never tell. Mr. McHugh, we got your story for you. What if we didn't find the emerald? It's certainly a better story than the usual Vampire Scotland yard confessions of a werewolf that you usually print in that sewage. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. But it's a little wild, don't you think? The noose hangs high. Hmm? See what I mean? Who will ever believe it? You have just heard The Noose Hangs High, another Let George Do It adventure. Robert Bailey was starred as George Valentine with Virginia Gregor's Bruxy. David Victor and Jackson Gillis wrote the story with music by Eddie Dunstetter.


Welcome back to Teens On Topic. I'm your host Emma. Today I'm joined by my friends Blaine and Sarah. We have a very exciting topic today that I'm interested in getting in more depth about. So we're going to have some clips roll from some adults around Davis. Hi, so do you think we should split California up into two or three states? You ask me if it's two or three or just split it period. Just split it period. No, why not? Because I think that there would be a state that couldn't make it economically. You know, and I think we're doing okay the way we are. I know. Why not? I'm not sure that if that would be, you know, the best for Californians to be split at this time. No. Why not? I think the I think the state has more to offer as a whole. There are different areas where different things are happening, but I think the synergy of all the different parts in different populations working together is a good reason to stay as one. And then also think about like the way that California would lose power for the United States. I mean right now, like if you think about the laws that they've put for the things they've put in place for cars have have affected the whole United States. And so having a market share that bag has imparted us with a lot of power to. Yeah, I mean the saying as California as California goes so goes the country that wouldn't hold anymore. And currently California is the fifth biggest economy in the world and and you would lose all of that. It's the fifth biggest economy. I think it has a larger I think California has a larger economy than the United Kingdom or about the same. I think that's primarily because of agriculture, Hollywood, high tech, obviously. That's really interesting. I like that the last people had a lot to say about all the different economy and stuff like that. What do you think? Do you guys agree with what she had to say about the economy? I'll take this one. I don't know if I agree. I think that or not so much that I disagree. I think that she's right on target when she says that California's got a super big economy and that's correct. But I don't think that that's something that would go away if the state were split into three. It would be these three states combined have a really large economy because the contributions made by the people inside the state wouldn't change the things that make the economy so good would not go away. So the economy would still be very good. Yeah, I agree. I don't know. I feel like it wouldn't break up into like like it would still function as three different states. I don't know if it would function well. Yeah, but it would still function. Yeah, I think that none of the speakers brought up the idea of like voter representation, which I think is a big issue currently. If it's but with the economy thing is that if it's true that like the lady on the left said that the California is so good because the people inside of California like geographically work so well together that's those relationships are not going to go away just because there's new borders drawn if that if they're working together and the teamwork makes the economy work that's still going to stay if there's three separate states. Yeah, that's true. I mean at that point, why separate them though if it's working well together? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I mean like there's something to say about like voter representation and stuff like I know you were starting to talk about that. I mean because I know there's a huge population in California so maybe it would work. I don't know. I don't know a lot about voter representation to be honest but what do you think about it Sarah? What do I think about it? I think the population of California is massive and so the representatives that we do have making decisions for us in Washington if they're not fairly representing our voices I think that's something that we should consider but I also don't know how much of an actual viable possibility it is to split up like that. Yeah and it's in Washington too but it's even in the state legislature too because the like the biggest problem with the representation is that there's so many people in California and the population keeps growing and the way that districts are made for state legislatures isn't the same as it's made for federal legislatures so the end result is that like one assemblyman or assemblywoman in California is responsible for a growing number of like representing a growing and growing number like more than any other state like California is a really big problem with represent like lower state level representatives representing so many people and because they're representing so many people it's like nearly impossible to broker a deal if your constituents are split or you have like a significant portion that agree on something or disagree on something they can't compromise on anything anymore. Yeah I think something else that was brought up I think that like a family event a few years ago it was like around the 2016 election and it was just like I'm not even going to go out and vote because I know how it'll be decided it'll be decided even if I don't vote because California is blue and I think that's something to be brought up based on active involvement in voting. Yeah and the thing about splitting California up into three states that the one about the one that was going to be on the ballot proposition nine called for splitting it up into three states which is like a little weird because it had a northern California a California and a southern California most of what or like almost all of what makes California blue comes from southern California central California and the middle of California is is a toss up and northern California is pretty red and if we were to split California into two or three separate states it would kind of dispel that notion it would let people know that their voice would count more than it does right now because it's like a winner take all thing where there are more people in the south than in the north even though the people in the north vote for republicans more than the people in the south do. I think it's definitely like California is just such a massive thing I think it could work I don't think it should split it up that I think it's like I feel like it could work I don't know like yeah it would never happen though because it's not it's not a legal maneuver like a state can't vote on splitting itself up there's a supreme court case about it so it would never happen so we just I guess we're just like hypothetically arguing the impacts of it like would it do more harm than good I'd say it probably would or do more good I think we should have a civil war I'm starting to like this like three-part California yeah interesting things in the United States yeah I don't know where would the new capitals be that's true that's a good point doesn't matter it's like it's like an interesting thing to think about but the United States like when we were making our capital we were like where did we put it and that was a big debate but it wasn't like I don't know the nature of the question is not one where we should be like we should not do this because where we put the cap you know like we should do this because it's going to solve voter representation in partisan gridlock you know not because we don't know where the capital is going to go that's it we'll figure it out later yeah I don't know I think it's interesting yeah it's interesting there are a lot of interesting things on the ballot that's true that's done they're like if you guys have ever been up to northern California I remember when I was going north to go to Canada over the summer I saw so so so many signs that said the 51st day of Jefferson and like there's apparently like strong political will to to get some kind of sovereignty for northern California even if it's just a gag but in order to for it to be on the ballot it had to get something like a hundred thousand signatures or something like that so people like they're serious we'll seriously want to consider it yeah I think I think that's really interesting that people feel like the need to separate like California like I mean obviously not everyone but like a lot of people and I don't know like do you think it's like people who actually want to do it are people like it would be so funny if we split up California into three states like imagine that just for the last yeah I think it's more humorous than a serious recommendation I mean it's on the ballot but it's not everything on the ballot is always well do you think a hundred thousand people say they're like let's get this like it's just a joke though but let's actually have a vote on it I wouldn't be surprised I feel like I'm gonna say I would decide if I would have voted if I could vote I'd vote for it no but yeah I don't know like honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it was kind of I mean I'm sure there's a lot of people who are like we need this split into California but I think a lot of people are like yeah yeah northern California and southern California are just so starkly different that yeah I agree there's like I don't know it because it's kind of for me it's the question of like do we want to incentivize this behavior like do we want to look at because for the most part I'm kind of in favor of it I think that it would help a lot federally and also would deal help with a lot of California's problems but also for me like the big question against it is like do we want to incentivize this kind of behavior like because California is obviously not the only state with a significant political divide California is like 60 30 Republican Democrat or something like that same is true of Texas which is another big state and like do we want to set a kind of precedent politically and legally that just because your state has a big like political divide that you can just split it up into a new state and deal with it that way like I don't know if that's the best solution to the problem even though I kind of do think it's a good idea I don't know like Texas I mean I guess I could see that I'm breaking it up I mean it California and Texas are pretty massive states but like why does size matter well I mean population or does population matters well I don't know how many people are in Texas right but there's like there's a comparable amount of people in New York yeah and New York is geographically much smaller than California but I feel like the whole idea of Prop 9 being on the ballot was more driven like economically or like based on like how it would affect our economy than like this like political divide coming into real life right I don't know because I don't categorize California as a whole as red and blue I see it as yeah blue period and I would argue that the majority of Californians see it that way yeah yeah that's what it is but I mean that's that's kind of in part due to the winner-take-all system that we have because like 51 percent of Californians will vote for a Democrat in most elections and that's that's enough like under the way our federal system is structured that's enough to get a Democrat elected but the divide in California like it's not 51 to 49 but it's close and there's a lot of like it's solid solid one color and solid the other color in half of California but it just so happens that the states or sorry the counties in the south of California have a lot of people like Los Angeles and San Jose and San Diego a lot of people there and they all vote Democrat yeah I think it's a really interesting topic to think about I mean I don't think it'll ever happen um but it was really fun I enjoyed talking about it with you guys uh next week another real fun topic we have affirmative action so I'm excited about that so stay tuned


Look at this, it's hanging over the limb. Fish ate it. Oh, hello, everybody, and welcome back to the great outdoors. We're at the deer lease again.  And this thing is awesome. And I actually took it out last night again to go after some predators, ended up running into some other hogs. And whatnot. But the rifle scope was apparently off, where I just really suck. Because that ended pretty much unsuccessfully. So there is a pond out here that I've yet to fish. And it is just lined with vegetation right now, weeds. And it's a pretty wide pond, but it's shallow. And I just thought this is the perfect time to break out a little frog. And just go bob that thing around the edges and see what happens. So that's what we're going to be doing in today's video. Sometimes you just get these ponds in the summer and early fall that, dang near, all you can do is throw a frog. And it's such a good, effective way to fish over the top of grass. And with our collaboration with Ketchco, making a lot of our hard baits and frogs, we decided to go with a junior-sized frog. Now, everybody's got their frog color preferences. But for me, I like to go dark on overcast days like today. We've got a little overcast coming in. So I've got some black frogs and I've got some white frogs. I really just like to go with light colors, dark colors. The ones with the little yellow and the white on the bottom are good too. I like that color.  Just a little bitty buddy ready to be slurped. Now they're available. So you can pick them up at GuggenSquad.com. And you can always use the code LFG if you want to receive 10% off. If you don't, it's up to you. My new e-bike here, it allows for a few danglers on the back. There we go. All right. Now we're ready to rock, y'all. So let's head down to the pond. I have not fished before. It's covered with weeds. And this is the pond where the pond deer was living last year. This deer that I really, I was targeting for weeks. I was really trying to get him in the fall. And I never really wanted to mess with that pond. I never fished down there. I never duck hunted down there because I just did not want that pond deer to go away. But we are not in hunting season yet. So it should be good. So let's head down to the water and see if we can get some bass on the frock. Up top. Let's ride. We're going here to see if I can do all this at the same time.  Oh, spilling my drink. I'm going to get real nasty in a second. That's a doozy. That's a doozy with the one hand and the drink right there. Look at me go, get my morning drink. Don't hit the rocks. Fishing pole. There's a whitetail just across the road. I think we ought to fish the damn deepest spot. It could be wrong. I think that's what we'll try to do. Oh yeah, there goes the fish right there. Just all one swim off. All right. What a beaut. So you've got really clear water around the edges. That's due to all the filtration of the grasses. There's some surface grass with leaves, and that's pondweed. It's really common. Oh, I see baby bass right there in front of me. Baby bass, so that's a good sign. So I know there's bass in here. I just heard like a good pop.  I was slurping something. But look how far this grass goes out. I mean, you have to make a long cast just to get to open water. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to look for edge holes. Anywhere that has an opening with deep enough water, then I'm going to throw out into the middle and work it to the edge. Thought it was going to be overcast, but we'll still go with black frog right now. Crazy story about this place. The first time I ever came out here, rode straight by this pond. And the first thing that I saw along the dam was a dead 10-point buck in the water. It had drowned. And I was like, wow, there's some good bucks out here. And way back there, that's where the pond buck kind of resides. There's this ridge. Pretty sure I got him on camera in the last video. Real tall, main frame 10. He's got a little extra kicker. But he kind of goes over that ridge and back and forth from here from what I've seen on the trail cameras in the past. So we'll be looking for him this year. All right, let's do a little exploring. Look at that little nook right there. Why would a bass not? Watch out.  Just moved from right there. It was hanging in that shade, guys. Oh, there's a bass right here. See him.  He's right under it. Oh my gosh, got him. Oh my gosh. Let me watch that fish. I watched that fish. I set the hook way too early. I was watching him. That's cool. Oh my gosh, I got him.  Oh, it's inhaled. It's gone. Oh, dude, are you the same fish? You look even bigger. Oh, man, it is down the hatch. Down the hatch, guys. That was awesome. Just right next to the bank. I mean, literally a pitch. Two rod lengths. What a beauty.  I'm going to let this fish go. I honestly think that was a different fish, guys. It is. It was a different fish. I just saw the other one. Oh, and there's two more over here right here in the shallows. I'm going to let this fish go right here. Other way, other way, other way. There you go. Come on. Just give it a kick. Give it a kick. Go that way. No. Go the other way. You mud fish. Why do you keep wanting to go in here? This fish just wants to come home with me. One final attempt here. There you go. No, what are you doing? I had you in the clear part. You could clearly see it to go home. I have to get in here. If you come back up in here, I'm going to be upset with you. Oh, my God. I've never had this much issues releasing a fish that does not want to go back into the. OK, I saw another one right here in this little shade pocket. I'm just going to try to stay back and flip this. Oh, my gosh, ate it right away. Ate it right away. And I don't know if you guys could see this on the camera, but that fish tracked it in the air. Oh, man, I got mud. I got clay all over my reel. I'm all slippery. Just a hot mess, as they say right now. That was insane, guys, because I saw the fish tracking towards my bait in the air, just like if something was falling out of the tree and it already knew it was already looking at it. So I'll try this again. Just could not even react it way too fast. Got to settle down. Look at this hanging over the limb. Fish ate it. Fish ate it when it was sitting over. Oh, my gosh, I'm a little kid right now. I'm a little kid. I'm not sure why I did not hook up that time, because I let them have it for just a split second. Maybe I didn't wait long enough, but I thought I did. This fish is like waiting. Just waiting. It's not a big one, but it's exciting on the last. Let's see if I can. There he is, he's right behind it. He's right behind it. These fish are ready for things to get in the water. If I get this fish on the third try, it's going to be, oh, my gosh. I can see him in this little pocket, just waking. See if I can shoot it out there. That should be money juice. Just going to let it sit. See what he does. I can always look at it. He's right under it, just so I'm awake. Right under it. He's like fooling me once.  I won't get fooled again. There's plenty of tries there. All right, there's still, gosh, there's another one right here. Try this little cast again. I just spooked that one off. Got to be sneaky with these guys. Oh, my gosh. Oh, that was the fish I just caught.  OK, all right, let's just make a cast out into the deeps. See what happens here. I really don't think this is very deep at all. I think that's why the ducks like it. There's a lot of stuff to eat around the middle they can get to. So this thing could set up for a shallow bass. There's no reason for them to go out there and be on the sun. Just hear those frogs in the background, too. Oh, yeah. Good hit out of nowhere. Oh, I lost him. He got me in those weeds. Tried to put the hammers to him. Oh, that was fun, man. Just working it in that open water. Wow. Yep, got a good hook in him. He's not coming back. Another bluegill just tried to eat it.  Wake up and smack that frog. Frog croaking right in front of me. It's like doing the jaws thing. Down it, down it, down it, down it, down it, down it, down it. By the way, I have no idea how big, like what's the potential out here for big bass. From what I've seen around the edges, it looks like a four-pounder would be a pretty good one. But there could be some giants in here if they're eating lots of bluegill and frogs.  Got him. Oh, dude, right there. Just having a little trouble with that hook set. I suspect that was a little one. Something about the smell of cow manure around the pond just brings back old memories for me. Pawn hopping. I was younger. Oh my goodness, there's one right there in that hole. I spooked him. He saw me before I saw him. That's the name of the game sometimes. Caught in a thorn. Company's bass are living in just inches of water. OK, I'm going to try the shallow end. I don't think this is going to be the deal. I think these fish are going to be, oh, there's one. Oh, I've got him. And then I'm tuned in here with a spinning rod. Is there anything in there? What are you? Are you a snake? No, there's nothing there. It's just weeds. I had me fooled there for a minute. I had one on. It's a sloppy pond fish. Let's see if there's one in this gap. There was one. I just don't know. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, straight reeling it right there. Well, that fish was living in gulk, absolute gulk. I was not even looking.  What in the heck is going on? We are in sloppy slops, I swear. Three quarters of the fun of frog fishing is just watching those little blow-ups. This guy's still hanging around. What is he living in? This is some nasty, nasty stuff here. I am just as confused as you guys are. Like, what did that fish just come out of? Oh my gosh, one right there. He's just waiting. Just not quite big enough opening. They are definitely in that gunk, that nasty zone. But I've been hearing the most activity on this other side. So I'm going to head back over there, where I originally saw those bass, and then fish that thick edge and fish over these mats and see if we can get some of it here. Let's try this little mudskipper again. Give him another chance. There he goes. He's swimming towards it. He's like, ah, oh, there we go. That's why I kept missing you. You're that small. That was so cool, though, to watch him come over to it. Just barely had it. Good job. I like the way you move. I like the way you do business. OK, we're back at the bike. I'm just going to do a little slop work here. Oh my gosh, that was awesome. Come here. Oh. Well, he was about 12 inches too, but hit it right where we're supposed to in that little gap hole. Our hit to sniff ratio is pretty low today. Frogs are the worst. Look up ratio of bait in your tackle box. Oh my gosh. You little body. You just came out of the weeds. Look how small. That's what's happening on these guys. It didn't happen on a eight pounder. They do not have a problem with it. They sound a lot bigger than they are. Just a light sniff for you. OK, I'm going to try to work a few more of these openings, and I'm going to grasshoppers out here right now too, let's see. We've got plenty to eat right there. Good one, good boil. Come on. How big are you? I don't know. I don't really know. Probably not big. I need to follow up with like a lunker log or a dart. I probably should give a couple of those things a cast just because they're being very snippy. Oh my gosh, I'm watching. We've got to stop setting the hook on impact. This is what happens when your frog game is weak. OK, I've just got to see what a soft plastic would do. Wouldn't be able to sleep at night. Oh, look at this bass right here. I just saw him. He's right there in a little juicy gap. And did you see the impact mode? I mean, I saw him. I turned around through to him and wobb I am. I just, I don't know. It's almost like, do they think it's a grasshopper? And I just not fully am I setting? I don't know. Put it in your mark on you. OK, let's see what we got to play with here. The money bag and the saddle. Tell me I've got just something. What is this? Tell me. Bandito bugs like the color, though. I'll just try one of these colors.  Come out, do your twist, textbooks it on top. Let's go in the same gap. Oh, my. OK, OK, folks, clearly what's going on here. These fish are, I don't want to need more bugs. These fish, I think, are targeting bugs that are falling out of the trees. They're not getting that full, full on mouth. They're not getting their whole mouth on it. I think they think it's a grasshopper, and they just assume the size, and it's not the same size. OK, got to let them run with it. Do not set the hook, dude. Got him. There we go. That's the key. I believe I saw you earlier, dude. I saw you. Oh, look, he's got an injury. Trying to get eaten by something. I saw you earlier in there. I came back for you, because I love you so much. See you, Bob. OK, there we go, a little wading on the hook set. That's what I should have done with the frog, too. Give him a little wait, just wait a second. That's that one I just missed on the frog a minute ago. And small, small, but very aggressive. Pretty healthy look at fish, actually. These fish don't look too stunted. Yeah, they don't look too stunted. So it's telling me they got enough to eat out here. Hit it on the swim. Again, if I, uh, they're just getting me, guys. Still see his fresh little boil. All right, gotcha, boy. Let it sink down there. We had to have another fresh, healthy little guy. These, these fish's gearing is towards bugs. I mean, stuff falling out of the trees. It's pretty crazy. Oh, there's a bite. Does he have it? Got him. Yeah, there we go. Come here. The old willow tree fish. Hopefully you've not damaged my bug. Ripped the pincher off, but you're OK. It's OK. It's my last one I got on me. Back into the slop. Oh, guys, it looks like size. Uh, that's, that's what we're dealing with. I'm thinking I need to put a fish feeder out here. I've actually got one. I just need to fill it up with some pellets and let it do its thing. Maybe get these bluegill to a bigger size, get these bass to a bigger size. But I've never run across a fish that didn't want a banditio bug. This thing is just crazy. You can like swim it at the surface like a frog. There's another one. Hit it as soon as it hit the water. Oh, I mean, they are just waiting for things to fall out of these trees. 100 percent. It's it's almost like it's like you've got to cast it around a tree and just make it plop on the water. And that that plop is what's triggering them to come over in there and eat it. Don't even know if I can try to make this banditio bug work one more time here. It's like plop. Oh, yeah, I need to go eat that thing. There's one. Get out of there. Fish might have got off. Nope, we still got him. My little surprise. Thank you for for eating my last my last worm or officially torn up. You need to grow possibly the last sniff of the day. Smells good. Good old grass bass. Smells extra watermelon like sweet like sugar wine. Back to my old trusty horse. Sheath are a rod for the moment. So there is another pond out here that I know has bass in it that we can ride to. But a lot of fish died in it during the winter. So I don't know how it's going to be right now. But I know it did have bass and I've caught some good ones out of it. So we'll load up on the horse and head on over. Piece of cake for the old block you going to need to take your water and whole here for a minute. I know I'm sorry. Just got to give it a quick dangle. Be out of your fur just a minute. So unlike the other pond, this one doesn't have an overhang of trees. So these fish are not on the edge like the other ones. But we do have some pond weed around the edges of the pond. And I think like right there, right out in front of it, could be where they want to hang out. It could be all the way up in it right now too with the sun being out. Oh my gosh, that's a good one too. Yep, he was all the way up in it. And that's the difference.  Woo, that was fun. You skinny, though. Indeed. Old mud face. When they're that size, you really don't have to let them take it. They just do it all on their own. Sorry I got you in the tongue, buddy. I want you to go quick because tongue hooked fish never do well to get back in fast, especially in the summer, guys. You get a fish hooked in the tongue. If you're in a tournament, it's almost guaranteed you're going to have problems with that fish. But their blood coagulates in water, so you want to get them back in the water as soon as you can. Wow, that could be a dayender for me. This is the ball game. We're going to call it a day on the fishing scene, y'all. But just crazy how those fish were tucked up under those willow trees. And you had to just be sneaky and pitch to them. And I really think they're just waiting on bugs. Grasshoppers, dragonflies, little beetles, things to fall out of those trees. After I started really looking in the water, I didn't see a whole lot of bluegill. So they've got baby bass to eat. They've got little minnows, little top minnows. They've got bugs. And they've got frogs. So those seem to be the natural resources. I don't know if they just scooped up all the bluegill, ate them all, but I didn't see any in the shallows, where you typically would see them. And it just goes to show you a bass is just going to be a bass at the end of the day. A largemouth loves to be in the shadows. And no matter the water temperature, it seems like they just love to be in the shade, love to be in those dark places where they can ambush prey. So we always think about, and I say this all the time, and I love to do it, we got to go out to deep water and we got to find these groups of fish and catch them. But you can catch fish year round up in shallows. And especially in the summertime when it's hot, if you can find shade, that is really key. So no matter if you're pond hopping, creek fishing, or you're going on a lake, there's always going to be those bass that are tucked up and inches of water just waiting for something to fall out of a tree or smash a big bluegill or a frog, things that are living around the bank. One more thing that just blew me away was watching those bass track my lure in the air similar to a trout does on like a dragonfly, something like that, where their eyes are looking up and they're tracking timing when the bug or whatever is going to hit the water and just chasing it. I mean, it's like a wide receiver on a football. It's insane. So very awesome, very like button smash worthy. So go ahead and do that and just want to thank you guys for being with me in the great outdoors and hopefully you're having a blessed day in the great outdoors as well. So I will see you guys on the next one. God bless.