Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the club, it's bell time. My name's Drew Kizu, joined at this time by Mark Green, and we got fatal four-way action on deck for us. We'd like to welcome back to the commentary table our own Commissioner Smooth. Welcome back, Commissioner. As we see the entrance now of the spectacular JC. I say all the time, in appearance, this guy reminds me of a guy I see on Monday nights a lot. I don't know if that rings a bell for you guys. Just a little bit, just a little bit. But I'm sure he would love to get to that point in his career. He's well on the way, that's for sure. This will be an interesting contest for him because one of the men in this match is his former long-time tag team partner. Lot of history between those two guys, the five-star spectacular, but they are a team no more. Broke up here, right at Fenway Park last year. Yes, they did, following their own career paths now. And here they are, crossing each other in fatal four-way action. And so they go to the level. That is Jace right there, the former tag team partner we were just referring to. Formally, this tag five-star spectacle. And it is interesting that they are the first two men out. And look at, spectacular JC, wants nothing to do with him. Spectacular JC has been mean mugging them ever since he came out the back. But totally no, look at him, he's not even really paying attention to him. Oh, like we said before, not an ounce of love lost between these two. Former tag team partners, and you gotta wonder if the issues between these two will be a casualty for the other two guys in this match. And here is the guy I'm very, very high on a young performer, Marcos, accompanied by Honest Abe, and in a super twist of irony, Honest Abe, who used to manage the five-star spectacle. A lot of pads crossing here at Bell Time Club at Fenway Park, only adds to the chemistry of the match and those who benefit are on the, you know, the Bell Time Club faithful. Marvelous Marcos is gonna be a star. You can just look at him, it oozes out of every pore of his body. He carries himself like a star. Absolutely. Guys, Jack that he's built like a tank, but here we see all pro Brandino Davis. He's all pro all the time. I'll tell you what, Brandino, from day one has had that charisma, that innate X-factor when he walks through a curtain, people care about him. That's the thing you can't teach. As is made evident right here, has yet to totally put it together in the ring, but there are pieces and moments where you see it. It's there. It's just a matter of him finding it. I've seen him wrestle a couple of times and he was on top and then once we talked to him, like we talked about a couple of matches ago, play Kate to the fans, we just got to get the business done. But big stick, I agree with everything you just said. He has a great future in this business. Last time we saw him in Belt Time Club action, he was in that gauntlet match with Brian Malonis and almost walked away with the W, but an impressive showing. Well, look it, I mean, Jason and JC continuing to just go at each other. Wow. A less than warm reception for five-star Jace here at Fenway Park. Like I said, the former manager of the five-star spectacle now with marvelous Marcos. Apparently he's magnificent tonight. He's both. He is spectacular and he's also dressed for success, apparently. They love JC here at El Mundo, they have much. Brandino's lost some weight, got himself in better shape. Looking good. I'll be curious to see how that affects his in-ring performance. Should be a good one here, folks. Just waiting for the bell. There we go. As if on cue, we are officially underway. Oh, little shove-in contest there. Oh, you knew it was gonna break down between Jace and JC pretty quickly. Marcos and Brandino have paired off now. Double scoop. It's too surprisingly working in unison right now. Absolutely, who would have thought that? And Brandino, the straps have come down already. Tell you, I'm not sure how you pick a winner in this one, because I think all four of these guys are pretty equally matched. I would say just got magnificent Marcos with the size advantage, but maybe in the strength department, but other than that, these guys pretty evenly matched. I'll be curious to see how this plays out if the match goes on, particularly between the former tag... Oh! Brandino! He is fired up here tonight! Big man with the big moves, a good thing he trimmed out a few months ago. He might not have been able to pull that off. Absolutely. Tell you, I gotta give kudos to you, Commissioner Smooth, for signing this match. Bell Time Club and this club, as I said before, and I'll say it again, it's a club where you can expect to get your belt rung at any time, only to find us a new... Oh! Gotta be in Bell Time Club. I am pleased with how the entire afternoon has gone. Absolutely. As we see the spectacular JC now, just took flight. Living up to a stand, that was spectacular. And he throws JC, and that's the guy he wants. I'm not sure he cares about anyone else in this match. He wants to get a piece of five-star JC. I was just gonna say, I wonder if that will actually work to his detriment, because if he's focused too much on JC, he may forget about the other two, and that could prove to be, you know, not working his favor. Very, very true. But I'm sure he's feeling good right now. Big boot by JC. I'll tell you what, that move looks familiar too. Pretty sure I've seen that before. Oh! Big shot. JC's held onto the ropes and lifts that boot right in the face of JC. JC's off the ropes, but gets caught. Look at the power of spectacular JC. And an earth-shattering fallaway slam right there. And magnificent Marcos circling the ring now. And JC gets his foot on the ropes to stop the count. Again, remind you, this is a one-fall match. JC hard to the outside. And now, Brandino Davis struggling at his feet. JC, JC, brawling all over the floor now. Well, Brandino and Marcos going at it at the center of the ring. Wow. The center of the other side now. It picks him up. Big fine buster. Well done by Marcos. That could be it. Like I said, Marcos just oozes superstar from his pores. This kid has it all. He's put together great look, great performance in the ring. Just needs that little extra something. I don't know if that's on his name or not, but we'll see. Charges into the corner. Brandino out of the way, picks him up. Beautiful release. Belly to belly. Into the cover too. Oh. I don't know if he's starting the outside there. Five-star, JC just cuts spectacular JC down right on the apron. I saw that. Action all over the place here. And JC with that knee strike right to the face of Brandino Davis. Somebody just finally realized that there was two other people in this match. But you figure, I ain't hating. They waited a year to get their hands on each other. Yeah, absolutely. Now, JC finds himself in the wrong place. JC with that uppercut. JC in a bad way right now. Setting up for Superplex, it looks like. What are you looking for? Uh-oh. Oh, wait. Wait a second. Here we go, Brandino in two. We're going to see a big train wreck. Here it comes. Big Superplex. I thought that ring was going to buckle. Well, how many pounds you think that was combined? Too much. Marcos looks like the one in the best shape right now at the moment. He's up to a knee. First to his feet. Brandino right behind him. Big right hand. Now these guys trading right hands in the middle of the ring. Big heavy shots by these two guys. Oh, Brandino caught him. Big year in Aggie. Absolutely, all the way down to the canvas. One, two. Oh, I think the ref held up a little bit there. I'm going to have to check the footage about that. I'm just going to make sure he's not in anybody's pockets. I don't know. It looked a little questionable. Whoa. That was downright violent. Brandino looks out. His eyes are glassy. Wait, there's Honest Abe up on the apron. Oh, most of Miss Q. Oh, wait. JC sends JC right to Honest Abe, hooks him up. There, Chokeslam into the cover. One, two. What a victory for spectacular JC. And I believe one year later, the story of the five-star spectacle has now been put to bed. Dressed for success, came in town, handled his business, one, two, three, hand raised. What a difference a year makes and what a fatal four-way match we just saw. Bell Time Club faithful head and treated to an amazing contest there. Spectacular JC. On our job, Brandino Davis, behind spectacular JC. What's he going to do here? What do we got? I don't know. Hatch is over. Oh, Brandino Davis with the show of sportsmanship. Extends the hand. And we got the handshake. You like seeing that kind of thing. The Bell Time Club founded on good sportsmanship. There, you see it right there. There's a lot to be said for good sportsmanship. So that was cool. But you all know my background. I would have loved for one to slap the taste on, slap the taste on about the other one and have an impromptu match. If you want to impress Commissioner Smooth and move on up that ladder, they had that opportunity. The commission is going to have to go ahead and sign that match for us. But we're going to tune out. My name's Drew Kazoo for Commissioner Smooth and Mark Green. Thank you everybody watching at home on YouTube. We'll see you next time.


This is the R.M. Williams rick-a-Bee. Yeah, R.M. Williams do make lace-up boots. Now in this video, we're going to review this boot and I'll take you on a business trip that I took across South Australia and Victoria. So be prepared for some segues into different country. G'day, how are you going? Welcome to bootlossophy and if you're new to this channel, my name is Tech. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land that I'm filming this piece on, the Wajat people. But because I'll also be on Ghana, Gondijmarra and Wurundjerai land, I will also acknowledge their country and their relationship to their land. Now keep watching the video because while I take this pair of R.M.s through some parts of Australia, for non-Australians, I will also tell you about the Welcome to Country ceremony and the acknowledgement of country protocols. This video currently is being filmed here in Perth in Western Australia, but I'll also be filming in Ghana country in Adelaide and in Gondijmarra country in Western Victoria. But of course, it is about the R.M. Williams-Rickabee, R.M.'s lace-up boot. So let's go. The B-roll vision in this section is filmed in and around Portland in Western Victoria. I'm going to splice it in in places. This is the R.M. Williams-Rickabee in Charlestead's Tobacco Suede. I'll put a link to the website below. I have also previously reviewed an earlier version in Black Newbuck, see up in the corner there. Now I guess for boot people used to American heritage boots, you might call this a service boot. It has all the usual hallmarks.  But this is actually a take on an Aussie farm or station that's Aussie for a ranch, a work boot. In fact, R.M. Williams calls it a modern take on a classic workwear design. With the almond-shaped toe, people even rode with this style of boot. However, the modern take is in the cleaning up of the lines and in this case, the use of a non-workwear material, soft suede, and with the low-profile rubber sole, it can be worn casually. In fact, easily worn with jeans of any type, including darker indigo that portrays maybe a more dressy look. It's a casual boot that can be worn in the dirt and the dust. The last is elegant and shapely and the almond toe is reminiscent of R.M. Williams' Chelsea boots. Now, as I said, some of this B-roll is shot in Gondagemara country, east of here in Western Victoria. So let me explain about Australia's cultural protocols. When visitors arrive at a place, they are given a ceremony that is a welcome to country. Now, this even happens at major sports games, large events and so on. It's a ceremony that invites visitors in the same way as was practised in the local language, of course, not in English, millennia ago. The visitors then acknowledge the welcome by stating a short declaration called an acknowledgement of country in the form of acknowledging the people of that country and in more formal events paying respect to their leaders, past, present and future. The respect paid by an acknowledgement of country is shown at the start of our national broadcasters' news and current events programmes and in government and other meetings. And many of our bigger companies have also put an acknowledgement into their websites as part of their reconciliation action plans. Go check out the bottom of the R.M. Williams Aussie website, use the link below. It's actually become a national cultural protocol due to the efforts of previous governments and our reconciliation Australia Council. So now I'm filming in Adelaide in my hotel room, which is appropriate because I'm going to talk quickly about R.M. Williams. I have reviewed other R.M. Williams boots, so if you want to explore more of the history, you can check out this video up here. Now, R.M. Williams was founded by the man himself, Reginald Murray Williams, in 1932. He was a South Australian and founded his workshop and first store in the property still shown on the boot taps of his Chelsea boots, which is 5 Percy Street in Prospect, a suburb of Adelaide. Over the years after R.M. sold and then retired, it has passed through different hands and is now owned by one of Australia's richest men, Mining Magnet Andrew Forrest. Today, R.M. has stores all over Australia and the world and where it doesn't have its own presence, sells through quality retailers as well as through their website. The Prospect workshop is now a museum and in their stores, R.M. Williams sells their famous craftsman Chelsea boot as well as other standard models and it brings out some old designs now and then seasonally. Now, let's turn to construction. It's built on a proprietary long horn rubber comfort outsole with a grip pattern that's similar to V-brims, a V-bar type outsole. The grip of the rubber over concrete in the urban jungle as well as over sand and rocks and mud is actually excellent. The construction method is a 270-degree Goodyear welt. Now, I'm not going to talk too much about Goodyear welting as I explain it in every video I've done so far, but if you're new to Goodyear welt construction, you can go and see this video up here, which explains how they're put together as well as the pros and cons of Goodyear welting. The welt is basically stitched through the outside edge of the welt as well as the midsole and outsole, while on the inside it's separately stitched to the turn-in uppers and the insole. There is a fiberglass shank, so airport-friendly, giving good arch support and it's placed in the cork-filling layer in this gap between the heel and the ball of the foot. RM Williams usually uses a leather insole rather than leather board, but I don't know enough about the construction of the rickety to swear to this, but if you look inside, it looks and feels like any other RM comfort craftsman, Chelsea, so I'll stick my neck out and say that this has a leather insole. If you look inside the boot, it's a firm leather insole with a half Sahil protector slip sole, and in fact, it really gives you a really nice comfortable footbed like on the Chelsea's. The back quarter of the boot is not part of the three-quarter welt and so it's glued and nailed to the insole and then the heel, which is a stacked leather heel, as well as the rubber top lift is glued and then nailed into the sole. This is on for good. I've never known one of their welted boots to ever lose a heel or have the outsole strip off. Moving on up, there is a padded comfort slip sole like in the comfort craftsman, Chelsea's. This gives a lot of great arch support as well as comfort on foot, as I've said. The inside of the boot is fully lined with soft glove leather and even the tongue is lined. And oh, by the way, apart from the suede, all the leather components in this boot are tanned here in Australia. The suede, of course, is from the famous suede tannery of Charleston, England. It is quite thick for a suede. Because of the lining, I can't measure it, but it feels thick. The temper, however, is soft and supple and the nap is just buttery soft. This tobacco color is one of RM's favorite suede colors and it patinas really well and it will also darken a little bit through wear. Going up to the top, the last is a round toe almond shaped last with a more than usual, a four RM at least, round toe side profile giving comfy room in the toe box. Look, I love the shape and feel of this last, even more than their popular craftsmen last. There is a soft toe puff. I think it's elastic, but I'm also pretty sure the heel counter, which is sewn in between the lining and the upper, is leather. On the inside, not sure you can see it, they've sewn out a rough out internal heel cover for grip. The tongue is not gusseted, but with its lining, it's firm enough not to slip. The hardware is slightly antique brass, seven generous sized eyelets with no speed hooks. They are fixed in with washes at the back well, so there's no scratching of the tongue. The edges of the lace facings and the shaft collar, they're unfinished edges, not French rolled, but it still looks very nicely finished. The stitching on the uppers is immaculate and I want to show you the single seam of the back and of course, up the top is the single cloth pull tab with the famous RM Williams embroidery made in Australia. As for care, RM will tell you to use their products. Their suede protector spray to waterproof the suede and their suede cleaner spray and suede brush. Now, don't get me wrong, their products are really good and I use them on RMs as well as on other brands, but you don't have to use their branded products, which can be on the higher end of pricing. To care for suede, you brush dirt off with a suede brush to remove the dirt and to raise the nap. If there are stubborn spots, you spot clean with a suede eraser and then you brush again. If really dirty, use a suede cleaning spray, but don't spot clean. Spray it on a soft cloth and use the damp cloth to clean the whole boot so as to avoid creating uneven spots. You let it dry and then you use the suede brush again to re-raise the nap. Now let's talk sizing, fit and comfort. RM Williams uses the UK Sizing Convention and they are true to size in UK sizing. By the way, they size exactly the same as Weiberg to Commonwealth countries using UK sizing. UK Sizing Convention uses one number down from US sizes. So for example, an 8.5 US is a UK 7.5, but you know where US boot brands say that you should size a half down from your true brand size? In this case, you should take your exact true size. However, if you're a wide D-Width, but not quite an E-Width, I would consider sizing up, especially if you like thick socks. This is quite snug. I'll use myself as an example. I measure US 8.5 D on the brand, but on the cusp of going to an E-Width at the ball. This is a UK 8 medium. In RM Williams, I should wear a 7.5 G. G is medium and 7.5 G does fit, but in some of the last, I'd actually go up to 8 G because they're slim. I have tried 7.5 wide because of proportionate measurements. I found my heel is looser. So for many RMs, this included, I size up to 8 G. I know it's confusing, what can I say? Comfort though is exceptional. The suede is soft and supple, yet the thickness with the lining as well means you get a lot of support. The toe box is great and it doesn't squish your toes. The insole comfort is cushioned and it's really shock absorbing on all that leather. The arch support is great. I can and I've walked around all day in these. Okay, let's go. All right then. What you've been waiting to hear, value. Now, this is recorded in March of 2024 and RMs have had a price rise not too many months ago, so I don't expect another one soon. The RM Williams Riccabee is listed at Aussie 649 bucks. Now, that is a lot in the world of boots in Oz, especially as you can get an Aussie made, completely hand stitched, artisan handmade wooden boot for just over 800. So what do you get for 650? The quality is there. The stitching is excellent. The materials are Australian, ignore Charles have said, and they use proper natural veg tent leather insoles and midsole and heel counters. The comfort is all day comfort. The sturdiness and reliability I can attest to. I have RM boots that have lasted me 20 years, used and abused in the bush. So you know, cost per year is pretty good. In my other reviews, as the price kept going up, I have said, oh, I don't know, how much of the price is a premium for the brand? I think I still haven't, ooh, about it, but I'm coming round. Look, the labor is Australian and it's not shipped overseas and Australia has one of the highest GDP in the world, so wages are high. Let me wimp out. Let me just say that if these last me 20 years, that's a cost of $32 a year. Make up your own mind. Well, I hope you like this review of the RM Williams Lace Up Riccabee Boot and my segue into parts of Australia. Let me know if you want more insertion in my videos of where I go, be polite, and don't forget to click on like.  So many of my regulars watch my videos when they come out, but not many are actually subscribed. Go on, do it. Until the next time, please take care of yourselves and I'll see you again soon.


I'm standing here right now with elected, newly elected Attorney General Maura Healey. How does it feel right now? Oh, it feels great. Look, I am so thrilled and honored at the opportunity to serve the next four years as Attorney General. We worked really hard over the last year campaigning around this state, and I'm humbled and grateful to the voters in Massachusetts who went out yesterday and voted to give me that chance.  What do you think made the difference for you? Well, I think for us it was all about getting out and getting after it day after day, meeting voters, getting to every part of the state often, listening to them, and really making my case about what it means to be the people's lawyer, to fight for people here in this state on issues of gun violence, on heroin and prescription drug abuse, on mental health services, you know, on protecting against unfair predatory practices, you know, standing up for civil rights. And that's what this campaign has been about. Those are the values that have driven this from the beginning, and I'm anxious to get to work on them come January.


Freshmen! Freshmen! Freshmen! The best summer of my life was in Seoul! Hi everybody, welcome to a special quarantine episode of Fung Bro's Food. David, Andrew, we're here with Ryan. And we are going to be trying 20 different Korean instant noodle bowls. A quarantine essential, the instant noodle. The Koreans got this all the way down to a science. They have all these different soups based on traditional soup bases, but then they have some fusion items as well. And I would say that Korean instant noodles may have moved past Japanese instant noodles. Korean instant noodle bowls! Let's go! Alright everybody, and if you guys are interested in knowing the answer to the best Korean instant noodle soup bowl, then make sure you hit that like button, click subscribe, and turn on your notifications. Alright guys, starting with our first round, we have five flavors of the famous Samyang brand. Not Samsung. Not Samsung. The different Sam. I think Samyang is famous for having the four triangles at the top where you're supposed to drain everything out. It is an extra step. You don't just pour water into it. You have to pour it in to cook the noodles, then drain it, and then you pour the sauce on it. Alright, so our first one is the hot chicken flavor ramen with cheese. Hey, did you guys, uh, did you guys ever study abroad in Korea when you guys were in college? Uh, no. We are now, dude! Dude, me and neither. Are we in Hongdae? Did you go to Yeonsei? Yeah, dude. I'm in the study abroad program there. Oh, s**t. See you later in Itaewon. Oh, dude. This, uh, let's try the hot chicken ramen with cheese and cream. Everything I want from an instant noodle packet is just, it's so good. I've had this before. This is, this is one of my favorite. I thought they did a good job of imitating the cheese flavor, obviously without having a dairy slice on top. Yeah. Next one is the hot chicken jajang flavor. I think it's really interesting the way they took the hot chicken noodle as a base and then layered a bunch of flavors on top of that.  Usually has pork or seafood or a mixture of things inside, but you don't normally get this type of spice. That gets you harder than the other one. I felt like cheese sauce kind of brought the spice down. This one's letting the spice shine though. What'd you do? You spilled. Ryan spilled. I need you to pass me the ultimate Korean college food for an exchange student dish. The kimbap. The kimbap. We got this one fresh from H Mart. Hey you guys, are we gonna pound the bottle of soju later? Yo guys, is it 4 a.m. right now? Yo, do you have jami su, fresh? Oh, that's like a good palate cleanser right now. Yo, you guys, the original samyang spicy chicken noodle. Oh, I'm doing it all in one bite. Let's go. This is like your base flavor. The newer flavor is just like they have the base plus more. It was pretty hot, dude. But what I like about the jajang is that it pretty much was just that black bean sauce on top of your regular spicy. Yo guys, overall guys, I suggest people go with the samyang bulldock and derivatives. Like I, overall I endorse this whole line. Well, it goes from least hottest to hottest. This was a little spicy. This was medium spicy. This was like pretty hot. I thought this one was actually the least spicy, but. Jajang? I might have to cool the spiciness with this morning rice. This banana milk is like the perfect drink to like cool down your palate after some spicy. This was almost like a milky barley tea. Samyang's new instant topoki with cheese. It's got the texture that did taste a lot like the real thing. Yeah, it picked up the flavor from the bowl. The cheese, it picked up the hot chicken flavor as well. That was like a spicy chicken mac and cheese. All right guys, moving on. Before we find out which one is the winner, we have the original spicy chicken samyang duppoki. Kimi dad's. I kind of like it better. Yeah? I kind of like it better. I kind of like it better. Then the cheese one. It was sweeter. It's sweeter. I feel like it picked up more of the sauce. Yo, I gotta say, I have a tie in my opinion of the top two. Just top one, man. You can't pick top two out of five, bro. There's too many. That's like the whole field. Yeah, that's true. That's 40%. Yeah. Damn. All right. 40% of people can't be winners. There's too many winners. That's not even the way society works. And it's definitely not the way capitalism works. On a count of three, hand over the one you liked best. Three, two, one, boom. You know where I agree with you guys? That one easily tasted in a weird way. I like that better. At least flavor profile-wise than regular jajangmyeon. Or if you take the kimbap and you dip it. Oh, you're bugging. Who's a real college student now? Oh, that was gross. Freshmen, freshmen, freshmen. The best summer of my life was in Seoul. Okay, next round of noodles. We have the udon and seafood noodles section. I've never had instant udon, but I have to say that the whole cooking process was actually similar to the ones out of the package. The bulgogi udon. The texture of the noodles is good. Wow, cooked perfection. That soup is, it does have that sweet bulgogi flavor, kind of beefy, a little, a little sweet. I drank the soup, the instant soup. Okay, guys, mushroom kalguksu. Kalguksu is a Korean soup. The noodles are actually knife cut. So that's what makes kalguksu. It's a wheat flour noodle that's been knife cut. Wow, I am blown away. Wow, the depth of flavor, let me tell you that. It might have been the deepest depth of flavor I've had. Okay, guys, we are trying the odongtangmyeon. I think that one was real regular, except for a little bit of additional seaweed. Pretty good flavor for an instant noodle. Like, if you had to eat that, totally. But I mean, in the shadows of the udon, I mean, and the kalguksu. All right, guys, moving on. We have the seafood udon. Not too crazy about it. A little bitter. For me, I would go with, in a weird way, a lesser version of the kalguksu. Yeah, just a little bit worse. You guys, I believe we have entered round three, the budget section. There's no extra steps, no frills, no... Mr. Kimchi, stir-fried kimchi ramen flavor. There's actually pieces of kimchi in here. Shout-out to the dehydrated kimchi that had that kind of sourness from the kimchi. But, I don't know, it just didn't really work out. Seafood flavor noodle soup by Paldo. Oh, Paldo. That was not good, man. Paldo! That was my least favorite out of all of them. I think it was actually better than the last one. This is the Paldo hua noodle. Of the Paldo's... They all taste a pretty conventional. Yeah, I'm gonna give it... Of the Paldo's, I would say I prefer this one the best. When there's three levels of something low, middle, high, I generally tell people, at least go with middle. Yeah. Let's go with middle and up, guys. Come on. Here's actually our last Samyang bowl, but the reason why this was not in the first round is because this is the original Samyang bowl. Nothing spicy about this. This is the first samyang that I've seen without the little chicken mask on. This might be potentially for more... For hamoni. Dog, I think this is like the first Samyang. This is for hamoni. A better flavor than the Paldo's, but... Is that chicken? What is that? What's that flavor coming through, bro? You know what it is? The soup tastes oily. Overall, I would say that this was pretty solid, though. It's a good... And I don't know if it's just being colored because the Paldo's were so bad. The new Samyang's have a better noodle color. Yeah, more interesting, but that is true that they're completely different.  You just said you want the party noodles, right? I'm shocked that a guy wearing that shirt said he'd like the party noodles better. Guys, shocked. I like to party. Is that everything, guys? Are we through 20 noodles? No. No? There's still more right behind you, bro. I don't know why you went and got more soup. I was like, David, is that just because you could read the Chinese on it? That's why you drank more soup? You didn't even round four, guys. We just wrapped up the budget round. The clear soup round. This is the clear soup section where it's not supposed to be spicy. I noticed the majority of the Korean noodles are actually seafood-based and not as much of the beef or pork flavors. Yo, guys, I want to start off with the rice cake soup. Let's do it. The duck, right? Duck soup? That is super fragrant for a broth that says rice cake on. It kind of smells buttery, too. Yeah. I might... Don't speak too soon, Marco. Yeah, definitely try this rice cake soup. Here, guys, this is the next milchi yuk soup. I just butchered the name, guys. This is different. Anchovy noodle soup. Anchovy noodle soup. Easy to eat, light flavor. I like it. I like the texture of the noodles. It's nice and chewy. And then the broth has some flavor to it, but it's not, like, out of this world. So, guys, what we're doing here, I mean, this is a traditional anchovy Korean noodle soup here. And the base is like rice noodles. It's good. Guys, I have to be honest, this is the first time I'm having this dish, whether real or instant. Overall, it's been really strong. I got a really strong showing from the Korean instant noodle game. I can see why. I think it's pretty debatable, but that they're the top of the Asian noodle soup game. Guys, mild noodle soup cow guksu. Oh, this is of the cow guksu family. It's not bad, but it's definitely... It ain't no spicy cow guksu. You guys know what I mean. I like it better than the other cow guksu. Here we're moving on to... These are premium ones. This one came with a tempura block. This is tempura udon.  I didn't know that song. You really? I don't know. That song, what song is that? It's the final count. No?  A little salty. Yeah. Does give me some mari gume udon vibes. I liked it. I liked it. I thought the tempura chip boosted it. No balance in the soup whatsoever. Just salt on top of salt on top of salt and there was no depth of flavor in the soup. I thought the chip made a big difference, but it's a little too salty. Well, we disagree. Hey, what are you going to do about it? A motto? You'll find out later, David. This is the sesame flavor Korean noodle. It's pretty solid. I would say it tastes a lot like your standard sesame ramen that you could get from a lot of different brands. It kind of just tasted like a regular ramen to me. There was something cool about this. I got to say. I don't know if it was the egg block. It was the egg block. There was a freeze-dried egg block that came with it. I really do taste the flavor as you could tell. All right, you guys, that does it. That was round four. Round quattro is called plued tente. This is a Korean video. Why are we speaking Spanish? Can you name your top two noodle soups out of the entire excursion? Out of 20. Bulldock tappoki original flavor. Wow. From the first round. From Samyang. And then the tempura udon. With the kalguksu right here, the clam flavor. Then you have the best broth out of everything. For my next top pick, I'm going to go with a rice cake soup. There was something about the broth that I was not expecting, and then the chewiness of the rice cake. My top two picks of them all that I would recommend anybody out there try is the spicy kalguksu from round two. And then the jjajang Samyang spicy chicken dry noodle. So there you guys have it. That is six choices. I think I feel pretty comfortable with anybody trying all six of those recommendations during quarantine. You guys don't have to try all 20 like we did. We did that. So hopefully you guys won't have to go through that. All right guys, make sure you like that video. Hit subscribe and turn on your notifications. Check out Ryan's information down below. Guys, in the comments down below, please let us know another food or snack battle you guys would like us to have. I would honestly say that I never was going to try some of these if we did not do this. For sure. One would never try them and then two would never bought them in the first place. I don't know what I'm saying. Yo, we ended it right there. I can't just edit that. No, we're leaving the hell out. That is true. Yeah, I need a word, bro. I need a descriptive word. All right, between the three udon.  It has a bit of heat to it and kick to it. One word. It's gotta try to be Pete Wells. New York Times over here.


too. So it is time now as always for a little doodoo doodoo doodoo doodoo doodoo doodoo doodoo Okay, what do we got this week? I want to talk bangles. You crushed your last week. Listen, you were texting me 90 under Sunday. So this whole time you nailed it with what's going on. I want to dig a little bit deeper. Okay, take me into what we saw out of the bangles, their performance and how it can potentially translate to this Sunday situation against Buffalo. Well, as you said, okay, we talked about it last week. And while the bangles still aren't an under center team, we did see them go to it a lot more on Sunday. And it led to results in both the run game and the passing game. We also saw a much more mobile Joe burrow sauna dig into it right now. They had it all working. And this is the best version of the bangles offense we saw a year. And we'll start with some of that under center stuff. You're going to see here, Jamar Chase at the top of the screen. He's going in motion Joe mixing in the backfield. And I want you to watch first this orbit motion from Jamar Chase. What that does, it forces the safety have to come outside and fill that alley because you have to respect Jamar going in motion there. They could throw a bubble to him toss to him on the reverse. And from the end zone view, you can see what that does to the defense. The bangles are going to have a hat on a hat here. They're running downhill to mixing and there's no one on that third level to step down and fill the B gap. So mixing is going to explode through there and pick up 11 yards, a first down set up the bangles second touchdown of the game. And mixing just seems so much more comfortable running downhill to but we also saw the impact it has in the passing game here. Tyler Boyd coming in jet motion. That's going to force who found going to have to widen out. Great. Just a little bit of an easier release here for Jamar Chase. We're going to see play action here and watch the impact that has on the linebackers. They're peeking in the backfield. They have to step up just in case it is a run and that's going to allow Jamar to get behind them, sneak into that window and it doesn't take much of a window for Joe Burrow with his accuracy to be able to thread the needle there, find Jamar, anticipate the throw. It's a thing of beauty. But as I mentioned before too, the other thing of beauty is Burrow's mobility is back. This is the first time we really saw him mobile this year. Just watch the escape ability here. Eric Arnsted has him dead to rights. I don't know how he gets out of this one, but he manages. Then he goes against his hand on him. He's going to get a little bit of an assist here from Alex Kappa. And then watch this throw. That is a thing of beauty. The ball placement can't be any better than that to T Higgins. And that's while taking a shot to the jaw from an old Burrow linebacker. That is vintage Joe Burrow. That's what we saw last Sunday. And I really think that's what we see again Sunday night. I put together a little Parley. I think the Bengals, I'll take them with the one and a half points. Joe Burrow over 225 passing yards and Jamar Chase, any time touchdown score. It's a plus 259 in there. But I think the Bengals get it done. I loved what I saw from this offense last weekend.


the other episode of Hungry Shark World! And today, yes, you have been requesting it since it came out. Now, I technically unlocked it. Because there is a new shark in the game, as you've seen the thumbnail and the title. But, there was a catch. You needed to- Yeah, this thing, Francis, there you go, woohoo! So, you needed to save its babas. Which I was more than welcome to do. I did that, and I thought, oh cool, can't wait to unlock it. Got to it, it said 10,000 pearls.  What is this? So, luckily, F Gold gave me the pearls. And I was like, because I was- I don't have time!  No content? How mad am I? I can't do it. Anyway, here we are. Francis, made of pure spiritual energy, Francis is the guardian protector of the oceans. So, let's buy it. Cool, I did have 4,000 pearls before, so I have done work in the past. I was just like, for 10,000 seems a bit too much. I'm not gonna lie, I think they need to tone that down. Anyway, Francis Manta Ray. Enemies can also be defeated using a Mind Dash. Press the ability button once to expand the area of effect. Press the button again to defeat enemies caught inside, and use Mind Dash on enemies to charge up psychic pulse. Okay, do we have multiple buttons? There's only one way to find out, guys. And that's to use it! You know what, let's do a regular run. I like doing the regular run first. Oh, we have a baby, Francis. Wait, did I- did I get that for free? What's going on? Am I not allowed? Can I not? It's like the only one that's grayed out. Oh, right, I don't have the costume. Oh, look at the youngest one. He's so cute. Oh, yeah, you've also got these guys. I think- yeah, these are all on the splash pass. So, 35% speed boost, and minus 35% health drain. Oh, plus 35% health. Oh, look at all these! Oh, my God! So many rays! Okay. Well, my favorites have got to be- I like each young- like 10% health. Look at that. Look how far we've come. We've got 20% health. I'll take the Oceana sub. I'll take the 25% boost refill. And I do like Trevor. Because Trevor does save me in times of great hardship. Although we can't do any costumes. You can do the lasers. We'll get the garbage. We'll get the jetpack. Hell, yeah. But, we'll not upgrade just yet. Now, I normally like to go in the Arabian Sea. So, what do I normally not do? It's how trying to see- I never have a good time with. I don't know why. I think it's where you can get the most amount of points, but I just find it. I die a lot. I die very quickly. Arctic Ocean is loads of fun, but I barely get any points in. So, it's going to have to be. It's literally- You know what? We'll go to the Arctic Ocean for the next one. We'll just have- We'll upgrade this guy next time. So, yeah. You can still get the help, Mies, which is quite interesting. Oh, can I- Oh, okay. Oh, that looks cool. Oh, okay. This is interesting. So, I'm wondering what the number means. Is the number just how powerful it's going to be? So, the longer I leave it- Oh, my God. I think I've cracked the code. I think that is exactly what that does. Oh, Trevor. Thank you, Trevor. I think Trevor did that. Great one! No! No!   Oh, what if we go through mines if that gets rid of everything? Oh, it kills the jellyfish. Gold rush. Heck yeah. Oh, I don't have gold magnet on. Oh, okay, okay. We'll do- We'll see how good I can get this run. And then we'll upgrade. We'll use some of the extra stuff. I think Arabian Ocean was how I got- or I saved all of the babas, I think, so if I remember correctly. Right, so this will be lots of- Mines! Mines! So we just break through all that. It may as well smash that one. Not that we really need it. No, no, no, no, no. Don't you dare. Right, is there anything down here? Oh, there's a little blooper fish. Ooh, I'm a little bit too big for this. Anything good in here? Oh, my blood on! Nom, nom, nom. Yes, good. Sometimes it doesn't spawn in here. And if it doesn't spawn in here, I just get- Oh, I like that. That's going to be a good boost to sort of just be able to get out of- or go towards or- sorry, into the current. If I can even talk. What am I like? Right, I'm going to click the four thing. I don't know what this does. I think this is the psychic ability. Oh, my God. Okay. Well, that was something that just happened with him. Okay. Help me, help me. I don't need a savior. Roar! Darsh, darsh. Yes. Oh, this is good. This is good. Two million, two million. I mean, it's not the- it's not the highest amount of point of views. I'm not going to lie. But it's still pretty decent. There we go. There's a U. Oh, my God. First letter. And I- And I- Gain a total of 10,000 gold. Oh, interesting. Whoa. Have we- Have we lost all audio? I feel like we've lost all- How did that happen? How did I do it? We've lost- We've got like a- What do you call it? We've got the sound effects. We just don't have the music. That's interesting. We broke the game. We did too many sound effects all at once. Oh, that's good as well. I can do it in the air. Oh, yes. I like this. This is good. This is really good. Right. Let's go on here. Nom, nom, nom, nom. Destroy that. Hold on. I'm curious. Does one of these cars have a license plate on it? Oh, my God. I can't even see. I don't see it. No? Oh, that's interesting. Okay. That was supposed to be an Easter egg, I think. I wonder if they changed it or if they moved it or if it ever was even implemented it. Why am I huge? What's going on? Did you zoom in? Okay, we zoomed in. Never mind. Yeah. If anybody remembers Master of, he used to cover a hungry shark. I think he still does actually. But it was supposed to be an Easter egg that I think he was going to get a name on one of the cars or like it was supposed to be his car. And then there was like, and then he changed his car or something. I don't know. Either way, his name was supposed to be on the license plate of a car. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Do mind control. Mind control. Oh, mind control. Boom. Not dead now. I'm terrible. Anyway, I think it was supposed to be there. I'm really not too sure. I don't think I ever found it. Maybe they never did it. I don't know. But I'm curious now whether they removed all stuff like that. So I want to go into the Arctic Ocean and see if my good old beaver's belly is still there. Oh, helicopter. Thank you, Trevor. Thank you, Trevor. 8 million. Very good. Very good. I always get scared now when I play this for a long period of time that all of a sudden I'll just lose everything. Like all of my progress will just disappear because it'll crash. It'll crash. Or something like that. This is not the first time that's ever happened. I've had a really good run and all of a sudden I've just lost it all. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. That's terrifying. I lose so much health so quickly here. Let's just do... I like how I can get through dangerous stuff by doing that. That's good. Oh, God. Okay. Let's see if we can hunt the megalodon again on a time. Oh, God. Time's 90. Okay, quickly go in. That's good. Boost all the way. Do my twirly twirls. There we go. I think I just got another megalodon there. Oh, I got a Y. Y, Y, Delilah. I don't even know where that's from, but it just stuck in my brain. That little sound fight. And I don't even know where that's from. I just remember he goes, Y, Y, Delilah. Like, he washes his face or something after it. There we go, there we go. There we go. Big one, big one, big one. Oh! Well, did it do good? I don't even know. Right, so I'm missing H and R. Serves me right. Okay, okay, okay. Now normally I can usually find all the letters by myself without clicking on the map. I pride myself on that. I usually know where all the letters spawn. Somewhere around here. Is it around here or is it up here? It'll be hidden in this maze somewhere. Let's go, we'll go left. We'll go left first. I could just do this all day long. Yeah! I really can, actually. Although, saying that, I don't know if I'm eating stuff. Because my health is very low. Okay, big, big, big. Right. Oh, well at least that counts as eating. Whoo! Oh, all the goodies, all the goodies. Oh, God, it's spawning place. It's spawning place. We're gonna get mega rush, dude. We're gonna get mega rush. We don't have time. We're gonna go. There we go, there we go. Keep going, keep going. Oh, that's getting stuck. That's not so good. What if I just, like, twiddled in the air? Twiddles! Twiddles! Oh, twiddles! Twiddles! Twiddles! Twiddles! Now, normally boosting the air is a bit tricky for me, but if we have just a twiddle ability, I hope that's what they call it. They've changed it to twiddle. Oh, he's doing the twiddle. It's way better than the twirl. Wouldn't dare be called the twirl. Oh, is there one up here? There's not. Okay. I like doing the twiddles. Oh, I know where it'll be. It might be up here. Twiddle! Yeah! I knew it! Twiddles! Twiddles of doom! Hello! Right, I'm missing one. I think there's still a couple of places I haven't been, obviously. I think I might know where those are. All right, we're going to have to use mind control. I'm not exactly sure what that does, but there you go. I wasted it. Gimme, gimme, gimme. Yummy, yummy, yummy.  That's not good this reading good. I twiddle and he's still can eat me Oh, we're definitely not making out of this guys Yeah Okay, Trevor, please you wouldn't mind. Thank you. Oh Trevor again. Okay, uh blood fish God oh good on this way. Maybe didn't go this way. Oh, no, not there either. All right, then Well, let's go eat the Megalodon again We are okay, so we've got 15 million ish in about 10 minutes But oh there's each there we go. Oh Sweet now we get to be big And we get everything. Oh, I made that Megalodon absolutely ginormous there Okay, come on jellies. Come on jellies. We got this we got this everything big mind control business big mind control business Yes, yes Yes, we're in another gold rush as well as being huge look at all of this. Oh Yes, oh we got it. We got it Okay, we got 17 million in 10 minutes on this map, okay, right let's see We'll see oh did we do we level up are we going to level okay, we'll level up these guys Okay, pretty pretty good. I did say I was gonna get some of these guys Although that feels like it's unfair if you do the octagotion now Mmm, okay. We'll keep it as is. We'll not do anything just yet. We'll go to the octagotion 70 million in 10 minutes Let's see.  They're beautiful. They're the clowns of the skies. I Mean this I think actually maybe it's penguins. I'm hearing but there are poofins We did see the poofins is the yeti here. It's very rare the yeti actually spawns, but Oh, damn it. Damn it. What's the point in this place? Sometimes you can get lucky you can get lucky. Maybe I need to wait till later Okay, well for a minute in and I've only got a hundred that oh Well, there we go destroyed that that's not in the other place so that could be cool. Okay, okay Maybe is there underwater current in this one? I feel like that might be oh Oh God Oh, whoa, I didn't even do that very freaking did a sonic dash to the other one that was I'll take it one times ten very good very good Oh the killer whales All of the cod and on the sea lions as well gotta get those. Okay. Here we go Gold Rush Gold Rush Gold Rush Come on. Come on. I've got to get at least one million. There's the arse. There's one of the arse There's a lot of fish in this one. I like it.  Just a shame. There's a lot of the jellies that I am not very good against. Oh There's that a fighter helicopter that is that takes me into another gold rush. That's perfect I didn't want to go that way So we will just quickly rush back over this way eat all of these fish Go over the top go a bit too high and maybe ruin the street. Yes, I did fantastic But I did kill a helicopter Into the polluted place. Oh, we're kind of getting the light as an order. Let's go to the military base Military base is supposed to be good There's a lot of helicopters up there. Oh, brilliant Right, that's ring destroy one. Oh, I don't have a boost. I need to let go. Oh, I can't get boosted Okay, how about that? Okay, that doesn't work. That did though. Very good Right, I want to go this way though. I want to go. This way into the base Roll them over Okay, we're on 2 million we got 70 million 10 minutes This is not looking too hot for me. I've kind of wasted okay That there was the big one, but that wasn't on a big multiplier. So that's not so good We're about to run out. I'm seeing if there's anything down here that we can sort of grab in a last-ditch effort To try and you know get some oh a mega mouse shark. That's good. That was a huge kaboom as well Oh, good God. We're still doing good. Yes, six million in three minutes. Okay, maybe maybe I'm wrong Maybe I'm better at this map than I thought. Oh, no. I didn't get a didn't get a buff. It might have got a buff No, oh There's this stingray. Oh damn.  Whoa a bane of my life Whoa Trevor, you're not doing your job Slacking Trevor you might get fired and I replace you with one of the rays that I don't have All the junk, that's good.  That's brilliant Penguins penguins always good or is it you know part of a balanced meal a dude after the Splomb burgers Very good. Very good. Let's see if we can just get this helicopter. That's brilliant I've wanted that for 108 times bonus We'll see if there's anything we can get underneath. Oh, that was something big. Yep. That's a megalodon.  This is nowhere. This is the little blob fish cabin Okay, nine million. Okay. We're doing pretty decent. I don't know what I did I'll be honest in order to give myself up Uh, maybe I could do this Boom didn't really do much. I should probably have done that. Maybe up here would have been really good actually More of the poofs eat the poof-ins all the poof-ins. Okay. Let's let's just eat more residents of Beaver's Belly There we go. They don't stand a chance. Oh all of the penguins have respawned. That's really good times eight for you. Yes Oh Right, we've got 90. We've got 90. Let's see if we can just eat something here down here down here There's a great white. That's good. That's good. That's good anything up here. We're sometimes 12. That's good Stay away from the jellyfish. There's no jellyfish at the surface. I'm pretty sure that's good Come on another one another one. Yes, there it is 11 million looking good. I feel like we're doing this on hard mode man 14 million. Oh I did lose it did lose it and there was a jellyfish at the surface there Oh No, I'm going in. I've got no time bonus. Oh 50 million and five. Okay. I don't know man. Maybe maybe the Arctic Ocean is really good Or maybe it's just really good for this guy with the twiddles of doom Twiddles is fun Everyone dies. That's why it's fun. Oh, let's get that. Okay Don't know really if there's anything there Should save that I should save that. I don't even know how I get it. Do I get it when I twiddle things? I don't know 15 million. Okay. We've got four million four millions four minutes to beat the skull We've still got to get another two million Kind of slowing down. Oh, there it is. That's good. That's good. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep Don't really know where I'm going, but I am I'm doing it. I'm doing the things There we go 16 million. I did it. I Well, I feel like I've done it. How did that even happen? Guys, is this normal? Oh god. It's so silent guys Hello Where is everything? Come on. Come on. Gotta find something. Yeah. Oh, we're up. We're back over here. Okay. We didn't go We didn't go inside the puffin cave Hold on it's up here I love eating the poof-ins Okay, let's just just get some boosts. Just move slowly get the boost going boost. Good Who's best? Let's go all the way. Keep around about this height because this is where helicopters are Or drone a single drone fantastic Oh, yeah, look at me go. They call me freaking. Oh, there it is plain Monterey Oh, yeah, there's the pink the pangolans good good good who remembers pink guy from my playthrough on arc I remember getting some real backlash over there. It was a character diamond. I wouldn't really hit penguins Look at this. I played a game where I'm eating like millions of stuff. Do you think I would really do that? No No 19 million guys smashed it absolutely smashed this My god, I am high. I'm so high right now. Oh, there's a dude up there. No, don't mind me. You just dropping in Oh That was I was a good one to get gold rush in. Oh Okay, cool So what's good about this guy is it does have its mind-control ability and Also, it has a boost that doesn't consume boost. Which is very good. Yeah me mean Oh treasure chest done and done Right, there's multiple ways to go. I didn't go down the bottom way I didn't go this way because I think it goes towards you as long as I do the boost.  Oh, there's the big one 20 million. Oh, that's it. Oh, wait. No, I'm missing the age. Damn it Where is that age? Where's that pesky age? Yeah, huh? Where are you? Hiding away from me. Oh great whites.  I mean it gave me like a hundred times bonus. I'm half. I'll happily take that Come on, where's this H? Where's this H?  Can we get in the ship? I feel like at one point we used to be able to get in the ship. I don't know Oh, I'm thinking of a different place. That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking of the Pacific Islands, I think the very specific islands Just vacuum up all of the all the waste at the bottom of the floor There we go. Even the shark. Num nums.  I've grown. That's brilliant. That's brilliant Just gonna keep on searching every crevice for this H I will when I find you I will get huge. I don't want to use the map. Okay. I want to see if I can find it myself I'm just a mapping this area. I'm combing the sides It's got to be maybe it's around here. I don't go in the middle here too often. Oh Have you all respond? There's the poof-ins Got to love a poof-in. Oh, we did it. So 23 ish million. I'd probably say 22 because I didn't even count it. Oh So good though, I don't say how far we can keep going with this Hold on. I need to be I need to be big. Where where was it the whole time? It's at the very end I do I usually skim past it. That's why I had been there. Damn it Okay, let's go get that H So what do you guys think of this? Is this your new favorite shark? Kind of I mean technically a man to is a shark. There it is. Look at it. I saw that Little buggy yeah, no don't spin. Whoo. There we go Right now we can be huge. I'm a hungry boy Wow Where are we? I want to go down this way. No, I don't I want to go down this way. Oh No, I've already been here not too long ago. Nothing's spoiled apart from you I'll take you make a mouth Boost while huge come on get things There we go. There we go. Okay. Well, we didn't really get much.  Why is it only? I'm a thing of evolution. Maybe I'm thinking of evolution They're trying to make it like hungry shark world was a sequel nom nom nom nom Okay, okay, we got seven for the mind control that's good Went all quiet again. I don't like it when it goes quiet Okay, okay, so I can't even dodge. Oh, sorry boost and I'm starving now all the squid liams No nom nom nom nom nom I'll take all of you. No, you don't give me much. Oh, no, no boost Yeah, there we go big shoals of fish very good very good and you oh god Oh god.  Oh It's getting huge can huge Why didn't realize it could get that big Jesus all my gold No numbs no numbs It's so quiet. Look at me. I'm just silently eating everything Oh got the wine again, but why did I really have yes that old joke? 31 I Will throw out. Well, you know what my high score probably isn't on this map But for ten minutes, I think it probably is maybe I can't last as long. That's it. Maybe I die quicker on this map I'll get him on the way back. Oh god. There's nothing over here. Oh god. Oh god. There's nothing Was a drone was that a blood fish no Oh No, I died, you know what that'll do 36 million not no revives. Oh I'm level five. Oh, do I not get to see do I have to wait for all the splash past progress to like show Do we not do like that? That's what Why is the other things not okay? Can we do it now? Oh there we go Jesus? I like this 384 wait did my health just go down. I'm pretty sure it was 400 before Why the most that the best part of every end run when you're leveling up a shock is this bit Is is the tiny bit to the left? I don't want to see boost reward. I don't want to see the bottom thing Yeah, they've overly complicated it make it make it great again Well anyway guys there you have it the anew is it Francis fingers Francis. Yeah, Francis Manta ray I mean when we think how far we have come from when it was the first sort of Excel shark we got oh God was it it probably was no Was it? One of these yeah, it was just a megalodon then we got the legendary gray white We got big mama killer whale atomic shark zombie shark a buzz. Mr. Snappy. Wait veteran great. Wait.  Sorry What was it? Yeah, better zombie shark and a better atomic shark mecha charge illa Shin charge illa cosmic Alan a Bissell shark, which is the black magic shark, but a little bit better mighty matriarch, which is big mama quantum and Francis is there anything that this franchise can do? But if you enjoyed this video guys leave a like and until next time. I'll see you later. Oh, bye. Bye


Aloha, welcome to Talk Story with John Laihei. We've got a special guest today, Representative Bet Fukumoto from the Mililani area, right? Yes. Mililani area and one of the outstanding members of the Hawaii State House of Representatives. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. And this is what's interesting among other things. You were here in, I think it was July or August of last year. And at that time you were the minority leader of the House of Representatives. And today you are our newest Democratic member. So I guess... Hopefully soon. Hopefully soon. Okay. I'm still waiting. Well, you are. You know, we'll get to that hopefully. What happened? Well, since July, you know, some of the concerns that I expressed in July, I think you and I had started talking right after we've had our state convention, right? And I had had some drama... When you had your state convention, you're talking about a Republican convention. And so I came here to speak about being a Republican, right, after we had had the Republican convention. And I had had some trouble with people in the party and that troubles continued. I think at that time, the last time we talked, I felt like there was a way to change the party. And that's what we talked about. Right. A way of bringing energy to the party. Right. Making it a little bit more local, trying to sort of infuse it with local values. Yeah? Right. And gosh... It's just in the dark, right? No. I think I finally hit a place where I just said, oh, this is not going to work. I'm trying to change a thing that just has no interest in changing. Unfortunately. And yeah, at some point you got to walk away and just say, all right, you know... You know what's interesting about that is that actually Hawaii would benefit if the Republican party, in fact, followed your lead and changed and became, you know, much more, as you say, local, much more in tune with our people. Yeah. Yeah. So you get... You cannot make a mainland party here, right? Yeah. You got to make a local party and... It just didn't work. Yeah. Well, you gave it your best shot. I did. I gave it what, eight years of my life and I took a lot of different positions in the party and at the legislature. I feel like I gave it my best shot. You know, one of the things that I read was you talked about your grandfather being interned during the World War II. So I talked about him getting picked up and then not interned. Oh, okay. Unfortunately, people started... A lot of the news reports have said, oh, he got interned. No. He did not. He got picked up and like so many Japanese in Hawaii, he got let go, right? It was different for Japanese on the mainland, but here he got picked up and like... You know, I wasn't going to get this heavy real soon, but you know, I've been thinking about that and it is sort of frightening how close in some respects we're coming to that kind of reaction to people from the Middle East. And on one hand, I feel terrible about having these thoughts, but at the same time, I can appreciate why people had this paranoia and why we need to be so vigilant about not ever letting that happen again, you know, it's actually kind of spooky. Yeah. Fear does that to people, right? Yeah. I think we can all understand that, that desire to just try to make yourself safe by excluding people that make you uncomfortable, but I think, you know, there's got to be a better way than just excluding whole groups of people, right? Right. I mean, it just doesn't happen. And I thought that that kind of tendency was in the past, you know, it would be just maybe theoretical today, but it actually isn't. And I think that, well, you know, welcome and actually welcome to you for bringing, making that issue, an issue, you know, making it cool. So what happens now? Yeah. So now you've decided to switch parties, right? Right. Right. So for me, I think it's making a pitch to Democrats that we have similar values and that I can fit within the party. I can see there are a lot of Democrats out there that have said, well, should we just accept everyone? Like, because there's not a strong Republican party, should we just be a party that is really a party and takes everybody with all different viewpoints? But I'm trying to make the pitch that there was so much common ground all along over the last few years. Right. I've been able to work across the aisle. And the only reason that that's the case, and you can find common ground because you agree on stuff, right? Right. So I think there's a lot of things that I can agree with. Well, let me say this. See, I come from the point of view that we ought not to have any kind of litmus tests in the Democratic Party. Okay. Good for you. Good for you. And I know that over the years there's a process that evolved. As a matter of fact, I just had a conversation with Tim Vanderveer when I told him when in the world this ridiculous situation occurred. And, you know, and he was telling me to be kind and so forth. Sure, sure. So, you know, we'll be gentle. But, you know, I think that it's only when you become so overwhelming, like the Democratic Party, that you tend to have these things.  That would be it. Because we so desperately need another member, right? So anyway, in Hawaii we have decided that, you know, you've got to go through having the party interview you and the rest of this. And I actually, I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that being the process. I can see where people would have concerns about it. Because sure, at the end of the day, the committee could reject me, right? But I think going through that process and making everybody feel comfortable and making everybody feel like they know that I want them, that I want to be a part, maybe that'll help, right? That's a good thing. Well, I'll tell you what, if you need character references, you know, I volunteer. I will take it. And, you know, and I'm sure I can get some of my fellow governors to do the same for you. Thank you. Because I think you'd be a tremendous contribution to our party. Now, having said all of this, you ought to know something. Okay. Our party needs a little reforming, too. Seriously. So people have said that as I've been talking about switching, you and Democrats have been like, are you sure? So, you know, I hope you don't give up on your determination to make wherever you are better. Yeah. You know? We should all feel that way when we're in elected office. Yeah. I think so. I think so.  My only, and I'm not crusading, but my only, one of my main hesitations about the, about all of these discussions before somebody can get to change party, is that sometimes if we do too much of that, we start to calcify. We start not being open to change. And I can understand where certain issues are, you know, they're bedrock issues. They're completely the opposite of what somebody in the party may believe. But our party has evolved over the years.  We used to be the home of the deep south. Right. Right. You know, the solid Democratic south. You know, the Democratic party was the party that maintained segregation. And so if we weren't willing to change over the years and become the party of Martin Luther King and the rest, where would this country be? You know? So, yeah, welcome on board. Thank you. Thank you. One of the main criteria is raise a little cane, you know? Yeah. I think, you know, that's the thing that I've always respected about the Hau'i Democratic Party is you guys have done such a good job of making sure that it's a local party, right? Yeah. That it's not, we're not being dictated to by the mainland and by mainland values, right? The national party, sure, they exist to give us some guidelines, but we got to make it applicable to Hawaii's people, right? Right. And we should, yeah. I think Hawaii's party has never been afraid of not being in lockstep with whatever. I mean, whether it was, you know, we had healthcare, we didn't need Obamacare, frankly, to provide our own citizens with healthcare. And so, you know, on the issues, you know why? Because we secretly believe we're smarter than the guys are. I see. Okay. Now I know. Yeah. You know, in your old party, I think sometimes they don't think that. Yeah.  What do you go to high school? I went to Hawaii Baptist and Honolani. See? Private schools, yeah. You are smarter than the guys up there. Oh, I hope so. You know, welcome in. Thank you. Thank you. And so what's next, you know? I think for me, the biggest issues are still the same as when I was minority leader. The ones that I outlined at the beginning of session, it's affordable housing and cost of living. There's no reason why those should be Republican issues. No. Those are everybody's issues, right? So I'd like to see us focus more on those things now and as a party, right? I think, I think we've drifted, both parties have kind of drifted into other issues. But, but the economy and economic inequality should be a super important thing for everybody, right? Regardless of your party. Absolutely. Absolutely. So, do you have any thoughts on what would make Hawaii much more pro-affordable housing? I mean, what can you do? So there are a few things that I had thought of this year. One is not necessarily pro-affordable housing, but I'm sure you know that Hawaii, the legislature allowed to lapse tax increase on the high-income earners. What I had introduced this year was increase, putting that back so that it's not going higher than they were paying, but go back to the increases of two years ago, and then take that money and lower the rates for everybody in the middle of the hour. Why don't they dump you out of the Republican Party? Right? I know. I know. But we're lowering taxes on everybody else, right? Wow. I feel like people should pay more attention to the middle class, right?  Yeah, that was one of my bills, but you're right. That's it. That's made to trouble. I feel some kind of a litmus there. For sure. Yeah. Then there are a couple other, one of the things that I think we should be focusing on is the rail and rail transit. I think also we should be looking at providing some sort of a property tax credit on the state side so that the counties can raise taxes, but only on out-of-state property owners, right? Right. Because that's the fear with raising taxes is that we're going to hurt Hawaii's homeowners, right? But there's a way to do that, I think, and try to raise funds for the rail. Well, we'll be right back. This is an exciting interview with Representative Fukumoto, our newest Democratic star. Hello, I'm Dean Nelson, host of Planet of the Courageous. From a Tibetan point of view, we chose to be on this planet because we enrolled in a sort of graduate school for courage. Just that we may have chosen this adventure is a leap of logic. The question is, how do we spend and make sense of this precious human life? We are, as a species, extraordinarily successful, dominating the planet, and now with planetary size problems that our existence itself has created. It takes courage to face not only the uncertainty of life, but also the challenges sustaining this gift of life for future generations. Join us every Monday at 3 p.m. on Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha. Aloha. I'm Kaui Lucas, host of Hawaii is my mainland every Friday here on Think Tech Hawaii. I also have a blog of the same name at kauilucas.com where you can see all of my past shows. Join me this Friday and every Friday at 3 p.m. Aloha. Welcome back to Talk Story with John Wahee and our special guest, Representative Bet Fukumoto. By the way, if you have any questions for us, please call<PHONE_NUMBER>. That's<PHONE_NUMBER>. Well, this is exciting. So okay, now you're in the house.  I think that's more of a problem with the, I'm assuming your colleagues in the state legislature see you as a member of their caucus already.  I remember referring to it as partisan purgatory. So my seat got moved, and I'm now with the Democrats, we haven't started caucusing together yet. Technically, I'm an independent until I become a member. So you're like Bernie Sanders? Right, so I'm just like, hey guys, it's just like Bernie Sanders, let me caucus with you, right? And I'm sure I have a lot of people in the house that have taken good care of me as a Republican, I'm sure. You know, we're going to get along just fine as a Democrat, so, but we're not there yet. We're still trying to figure out where I go. Just to figure out how you do it and so forth. Right, we're figuring out the mechanisms, but everybody's been very welcoming. Why the timing? You know, I thought once I made that decision, I talked to my community, and I had heard back from them, and enough people were calling me saying, hey, did you decide yet? Did you jump and not tell us? Right. I felt like it got to a point where I needed to just say something. I needed to tell people, because once you know and you kind of carry on, it's kind of dishonest, right? Yeah. So the timing's not great in terms of logistics, right? But I thought in trying to just be as forthright with my community as possible, I needed to just say something. So you did move chairs? I did move chairs, yes. What about your office? The next day, no, office is the same. I have a very good office. I don't want to change it. I like my office. So we've got to make sure that Speaker Suki understands that, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Leave the office alone. Just let it go. Yeah, even if you're trying to be nice, I like my office. Yeah, great. Good for you. Now, you, do you have any other particular issues that you're working on? Yeah, I think the biggest thing is, like I said, it's just affordable housing. I think that is the issue. And as I said, an opening day, I had said that... That was a great speech, by the way. Oh, thank you. You're welcome. I felt that cost of living, it's the one thing that we can definitely address. Everything else, shipping costs and all that, are sort of larger issues that are national and local. But affordable housing is something the state can do something about, like, right now. And so I think it's our job to do that.  Oh, good. Because, you know, that was our challenge as well when I was in office. And one of the things that we did was create the couple aid, you know, and made homes more available and the like. Is there any effort being made to do something like that to actually, if not directly, indirectly sponsor more houses on the market? There is. I mean, money is going into some of the rental housing trust fund and those funds that are supposed to go towards building housing, but what it's really going to take is a massive infrastructure bond infusion, right? We're going to have to do a bond authorization for 25 million or more to actually improve the infrastructure because the city is just not doing it, right? And you can't, every single developer that you talk to that's willing to build affordable says we can't do it unless the infrastructure is available because otherwise all the cost goes into the infrastructure and then the housing won't be affordable. One of the mistakes I think that the government made was we sold off our rental inventory. Right. And, you know, now we're paying the price for it. Yeah. Yeah. And building more rentals is now on the list of things to do, right? Well, I think you need to do all of it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And just, you know, get started. It's a question of energy. Right. And hopefully you'll inject some of that into our culture. I hope so. It's a time trying to learn about affordable housing. Like in the last, probably two years ago I decided I think this is the issue of my generation. It's something we have to, in Hawaii, something we have to address. Otherwise we're going to keep losing people to the main line, right? Let me ask you a question. And maybe we should learn more about you because I hope, I hope. And, you know, I hope that not only that you help our party become a better party, but I hope that you also, you know, look at a future that's beyond what, you know, where you might find yourself. Well, thank you. Thank you. So, what did you grow up? I grew up in Milani, primarily, but I was born in Salt Lake. Then we moved to Milani when I was about 10. Okay. That's all, you know, kind of affordable housing-type moves. Yeah. For middle-class people. Right. Milani was, you know, a growing area for young families. And my parents just thought, okay, once my dad was a postman and my mom was a stay-at-home mom until she became a realtor later. And so we went from a small apartment in Salt Lake to an apartment in Milani. They worked as hard as they could to put me through private school. Eventually we moved to Kalihi to take care of my grandma. Right. So I spent two years living in Kalihi and then we moved back to Milani. Where in Kalihi? Right above KBTV, between Dole and KBT, on Hawiki Street. You really went into Kalihi. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. It is Kalihi. Yeah. That was my dad's childhood home. So we moved in with grandma. Oh, that is Kalihi, yes. That was my district. Oh, okay. In the house. Okay. Because, let's see. No, you were right out of it because my district line was the freeway. Oh, okay. So everything below the freeway. Oh, okay. Yeah. Just out. Just, you know, that's Kalihi. That's where we were. And my wife grew up, and her mom had a business right on the corner of Kalihi Street and King. Oh, okay. So it was called Farrington Inn. Oh, okay. In fact, that was the first job I had when I came back to, I see, I was cocky. I went through the street lane and came back thinking I was smart. And I couldn't get any work except being a fried cook at the restaurant.  And my grandparents had a store in Kalihi also, the Fukumoto store. Right. From way back in the day. Oh, wow. Yeah. My dad's born and raised in Kalihi. Right there. He's starting to high school right there, yeah. Okay. So we'll talk a little bit more about the rest of your family. Okay. Your husband was the chairman of the party. Yes. Yes. How's he taking all of it? Well, he and I have not talked about it much. Yeah. Yeah. I have not talked about it much. Well, it's okay. So one of my friends is the Raging Cajun, you know, Carville. Oh, okay. Yeah.  People can disagree. Yeah. Yeah. And it's fun. But I think we all agree that we ought to do whatever the best we can to make Hawaii better. Yeah. Yeah. And that's why I got involved in this in the first place. Right? I wasn't like a super strong Republican when I came in. I just thought it was a way to make Hawaii better, right? And I think I can carry that mindset on into the Democratic Party. What got you involved in politics? I mean, did you do that in college? Were you an activist of some sort? Not at all. So I was an English lit major. I wanted to read books. I had no interest in politics. It was actually the recession when I came back to Hawaii that I started working at the legislature because it was the only place hiring.  I came back and I was a file clerk. Yeah, right. Right? With my master's degree. After you went and did all of these things, right? I was like, I went to Georgetown, you know. I came back and I was filing papers. But it was a good learning experience. I got involved in politics that way. Who did you work for? I worked for the minority research. Oh, okay. So, and my story of becoming a Republican was I was answering an ad in the newspaper for minority research. Right. And I thought it was ethnic minorities. So I thought, oh, okay, I'm a minority, right? I can do the legislature studying minorities. So that's what I did. And I didn't realize until I actually got in and interviewed that it was Republicans. Well, I'll tell you, you want to start with how I got to be a Democrat? Yeah. So I, well, outside of the fact that my father was pretty much Democrat, I think. But, you know, we live next to Takmini. But I come back to Hawaii. And I'm working for the city. My colleague of mine, he calls me up and he says, you know, come over and have a drink with me and da, da, da, da. So I go there. And I hardly know the guy, you know, and we, he started, we're having beers and so forth. And he's like going crazy, you know, he's jumping up on the table and dancing and making jokes. And I'm like, what in the world is happening? This is right after I return. In the middle of all of this, he pops down and he hands me a blue card. And he says, I think you should sign up for the Democratic Party. I said, what? He says, yeah, yeah, sign this card, you know, and I'll buy you another beer. So I signed the card. I did that. And then he says, I want to talk to you about Tom Gill. See, so we were, I joined the party to be in opposition to the establishment. Okay. And had a lot of free beer doing it, you know. So that's, yours is a little bit more sane of a pathway. I like that you joined to be in opposition to the establishment. Yeah. Well, I'll see. Now you got your chance. Plenty of space. Yeah. Who knows where you might end up. You might be on this side of the table telling somebody, you know, after a career in the house and maybe, maybe more. That would be nice. Yeah. Because I tell you, we really do need leadership within the party. And people, I think that people are due for an exciting time. And, you know, the national level politics is such right now that, and this is not just an anti-Trump thing. I mean, just in general. Oh yeah. National politics are such that we are going to have to take on more and more responsibility as a state. Yes. And as a city.  And a lot of the problem just sort of from a political science perspective, right, is that the Democratic party nationally sort of lost sight of state legislatures. At least in Hawaii we have had Democratic control. So, you know, we know how to handle this, but there are a lot of, there are a lot of legislatures that just don't, nobody, the Democrats don't know how to gain them back. Yeah, it's amazing. When I was in office way back in the day, you know, out of the 50 governors, 32, 32, yeah, 32 were Democrat. And that's completely flipped. That's, yeah. Completely flipped. Yeah. And that was the chairman of Democratic Governors Association when Bill ran. And within our party politics, what it was, what made it possible for him to be successful was the fact that the Governor's Democratic Governor's united. Oh, yeah. Which is a big thing. And yet today, on the national level, we haven't been as successful. Yeah. But when we competed at a legislative level, that naturally is going to cause a problem up-ticket, right? At some point. And I think we saw that this last election. Yeah. So it's another way that Hawaii can be a good model for the national party, right? We've done a good job of having local leadership here that fits the state. Well, welcome on board. Thank you. And when you get to talk to Tim, the chairman of your new party, tell him I try to be as kind as I can. I will talk. Our tools are kick and very well. I will tell them. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you for joining us. And thank all of you for being with us to another episode of Talk Story with John Wahey, an opportunity to welcome our newest Democratic member. Thank you.


Okay, so I just want to know like the crowd I'm speaking to, like how many of you are computer science graduates? Like, oh, how many of you are like self-taught developers? Oh wow, pretty cool. Oh, oh I'm surprised, okay. Yeah, so a little bit about me, like when I think Ken, when Ken saw this title, he's like, why do you call it a pointless LED X telegram board recipe project, right? So it was like, well, technically, there's no, there's really like no end result to this project. It's like, what can I do with it? It was just a fun project. But why do I think, like, why do I name it as a pointless thing? Okay, so a little bit about myself. I have a very, very, very diverse background. So what I mean by that is, if you look at me, this is me as a show presenter, strutting very, very confidently the one on top. I was a sports coach. I was a dancer of life over here. This is actually New Zealand and I'm a self-taught developer. So that was a word press. You can see the alignment out of space a little bit. That was like one of my very, very first project that I did for one of the company that I worked for. Okay, so this is a Raspberry Pi. If I have not seen it, it's a mini computer that's like a credit card size. And this is the project that I did. So that's my LED, buzzer, resistors and things like that. So today I really wanted to show you how I actually work with telegram board and everything. But have you guys heard of the Murphy's Law? Yeah, so in the morning I was like, okay, I'm going to show my very, very cool Raspberry Pi project. I found an ice cream box, put everything, packed everything nicely. Then I came over and realized, hey, I can't SSH into my Raspberry Pi because I'm not connected to the Wi-Fi here, right? But that's the process of being like, do you learn things along the way, right? Okay, so this was like, I prepared something like, okay, so this is what I'm going to do here. This is like a reminder very beautifully done now and everything. Okay, but I have a video that I'm going to show you what I did. So my Instagram, so initially this is going to be my grand entrance, but unfortunately you can only see it. So this is actually a Mario team song. Yeah. So how this actually works, okay, let's just close this. So this is actually connected to a telegram board. You can actually see it from here. So this is my telegram board and the robot face that you saw just now, that's the board. So what is going to happen is, okay, it's a bit lucky. So you get a red light when you type out red or you type out green and the green light come out and things like that. So how I imagine this talk to be is like, I show you guys the boards and then you guys will take out your handphone and try to do something like, you know, do the bars or whatever, but now we have a video. Not too bad as well. Yeah. So you can actually control all the lights over here. Yeah. So one thing that I did was, okay, if you type a gibberish, you always say like, oh, I don't understand what to say. So I actually pull our API from a code. It's just for self-entertainment, you know, like that kind of thing. Yeah. So this is what I did over the weekend. Yep. Okay. So, okay. So let me see. Let me just go back to my slide. Okay. So right now, so this are like some of the things that I learned from because my background is actually do more of like front-end web development. So what I did over here was that I have to learn like how do I actually control with Python, you know, front-end is very CSS, HTML, JavaScript, that kind of thing. So I learned how to, as I say, do the VNC viewer. I actually have like my iPhone all hooked up already for today, but Murphy's law or so. Obviously going to make the best out of it. Okay. So this is something that I learned, which I thought it was really interesting. Like how many of you work with Raspberry Pi before actually? Yeah. So you guys know the GPIO pin, right? I never actually quite figure out why it's not number and sequence. It's like, you will have like 14 here. If you can see this is actually, okay, wait, hang on. You will actually have 14 here and then you will have a sustain here. Then you will jump to like 18 at a green one at a green spot. You guys ever wonder why it actually happened? Yeah, me neither, but it's just the way that things work for the GPIO pin. Okay. So this is what I use for my telegram bots. So with the API Python, everything is really useful. Like you have a Python framework and the buzzer, which is like the Mario team song that you did that you saw just now. That was actually open source on a GitHub. So it's really cool. Like you can get like new projects and things like that. You get a lot of things from GitHub open source. And like what I really want to bring out from this point is that when yourself taught developer, right? Are there times that you really doubt yourself when in the beginning? Like for me, I constantly doubt myself, you know, whether am I better than people? Like there's computer science people, right? Computer engineering people. Like how do I actually compare to them? Like they know all the concepts. They have like four years, massive, massive information, all crammed there. So how am I as a self taught developer going to stand out and compare with them? So that brings me back to my last point. Like what I want to really say is what's the point of me doing all this thing? Like shouldn't I be, you know, like doing like what Ken is doing? Like having like looking, exploring all the amazing CSS framework and things like that.  Well, that is very useful. But it also like, but sometimes it also means having fun, you know? Like I think as a developer, like you, you mentioned like the code monkey and everything I have mentioned about that. But it's about how can you actually like bring fun back into development again? So it's about like trying out all like hardware. I will never ever have thought I would do this. This is, yeah, I haven't touched hardware for like the last time I was like secondary school. So it really brings the joy out of me. It was like, oh my, I can actually control things like with my telegram bot. It's just amazing. So the point is like sometimes it's just about injecting fun into like maybe look at things at different way. Like for, you know, like when I do front end, although you do SSH and everything, but with Raspberry Pi, I really need to do it at a deeper level. To understand how the network and of course I forgot that Raspberry Pi doesn't connect to Wi-Fi just like that. No, I know, no, I know. And this all brings, it all goes down to like, I know like as developer we all love learning and things like that. So it all comes together very nicely. So the point is like we do all this stuff sometimes to have fun to inject to learn and on the, along the way you get to learn new stuff as well. So that's my talk for today because yeah, that's it. So thank you. So if you want to find out more, yep, that's my Instagram and Facebook account. Thank you. Yeah, is this awesome?


Howdy how's it going? My name's Davy Chappie, and I just saw The Green Knight, and it was weird, dude. First of all, I'm really interested in how the marketing of this movie happened. It was shown off in a lot of places, and it was treated like a mainstream movie, but it totally is not. It breaks a lot of conventions that you would expect from a basic story structure that you would get from something appeasing a mainstream audience, and instead it takes you on this surrealist, abstract fantasy journey where Gawain smacked some green boys ass, so now some green boys gotta smack it back. The first thing I want to talk about is the cinematography is really, really good. This is a weird thing, but normally in a movie you'll get a cut every two to three seconds, but David Lowery just lets shots hang for so long, which is normally an issue, but here it's to emphasize a point. It's to get you to really comprehend what you were seeing, and I remember one shot near the beginning where Gawain was walking through a field of dead bodies talking to another character, and it's so cool to have shots go on for so long with no cuts, because it means that they had to do that whole thing in one go. Speaking of talking, the acting in this movie is really good. I think that the characters at the beginning are kind of slow and a little superfluous. I understand that King Arthur himself is necessary, and you have to have the whole nights in the round table, and then the green night shows up and all that for the story to happen, but it just felt a little bit slow because most of this movie is carried by the actors, and the actors just weren't doing all that much, but once Gawain gets into the journey, any interactions that he has with another actor is phenomenal, and just seeing him acting off of the scenery with no one else around to bounce off of, it's fantastic. It's really hard to do that, and I give massive props to Dev Patel. The scoring was also great, and the special effects while a little dated in some point still got the message across. I will say, I wish The Fox didn't exist because every time it was on screen, it pulled me out of the movie, and this movie lives or dies based on how well you get pulled into it.  I myself, who had no idea that The Green Knight was anything other than an adventure time reference, didn't get the inclusion of some of the characters, but after reading the story in the bathroom of NJR, suddenly those things fell into place, so if you go in with no information at all, it's gonna be more confusing because the movie does seem to hope that you already know how the story goes. It just wants to show you a really cool version of that. Overall, if you're into a fantasy journey style of storytelling, a la The Hobbit book, then this movie is going to do great for you. It has fantastic set dressing, the actors are amazing, the lighting that they do in certain scenes, mm! It may not end up leaving a lasting impression, but if you got ten bucks in an afternoon, I would definitely recommend The Green Knight, and I give this a 4 out of 10. But yeah, Davie out.