and the relationship and sexuality uh education so what are your concerns about it yes this is a series of meetings that we're doing across the country at the moment and much of the content of the sphe right to um curriculum is positive and it's good and it's helpful uh for children and but the government unfortunately have let's say crowbars uh a lot of and ideology in relation to gender uh into the uh particular curriculum and so obviously we as a party want to see every citizen treated equally in this country no matter who they are what orientation that they have uh whatever their identity is and we also believe that there needs to be compassion uh for children and you know grown-ups as well who suffer from gender dysphoria maybe who feel that their gender is underlines to and their their physical gender and but we're a political party of pluralism we're a republican party that recognizes that there are plural value systems in Ireland and this is really important so you know everybody listens to your show not everybody thinks the same way people have different beliefs and values and we believe the education system should be plural as well so that a parent should be able to choose a school with their own ethos with their own value system so so before we get into that pattern so in in the curriculum i'm sure you've went all the way through it like i have from baby infants to sixth class in terms of national school you've gone through the the curriculum and and and the the notes for teachers and parents i presume you have obviously oh yes absolutely so um what is it in it that concerns you and and let's like is it talking about a person who's got two parents who are of the same gender or is it about the transgenderism uh a gender identity so like what is what is your actual concern that you say hold on your second should we be teaching this to primary school children the first concern is that we have is that the this the government is not allowing for plural ethos anymore they're saying there's one ethos it is uh every school has to accept us and it's mandatory so that's our first difficulty and that's that's what do you believe people should be able to opt out of is it talking about gays is it talking about trans people the major issue we have here is in terms of the gender ideology the issues around transgender ideology and for example most polls have shown that most parents don't believe that fifth and sixth class kids are mature enough to be able to be taught issues around transgender okay so so i'll read it i'll read it for the listeners it says uh this is in the fifth or sixth class it says that um we all have a gender identity gender identities how we think of ourselves as a boy or a girl neither or both the feeling of who you are starts when we are little and becomes more obvious as we go through adolescence when a baby is born from the new baby is initially identified as a boy it has a penis and as a girl it has a vulva that is what's called biological sex of the baby most people born with a penis feel and know that they are a boy and most people born with a vulva feel and know they are a girl these feelings interests and beliefs all make up what is called your gender then it says uh then it goes on to say however a small number of people may not feel that they are called at birth uh boy or girl really fits them and may want to explore their gender identity to find out what is right for them if a person has a deep sense that their gender identity is different from gender they were given at birth they may decide uh they may describe themselves as transgender then it goes on to say if you've got questions about your gender identity puberty can be a particularly confusing time your body may be changing in ways that don't match your sense of yourself so that is what's being taught about gender identity to fifth and sixth class now you believe that that's damaging or harmful and and by the way i'm not taking an opposing position to you i'm teasing out the convo you're saying that you believe that goes too far so like most people i believe that a woman is an adult's female okay and so like most people i don't believe that gender is identified are assigned at birth i believe that there is an actual gender that's you know i would believe that we should follow the scientific uh understanding of what gender and sex means and so what the government is doing here very very subtly in fifth and sixth class it's actually you know it's starting to dissolve that scientific understanding of what gender is the gender and sex are aligned and it's starting to say well actually gender is not your sex its gender is a felt experience and it may be completely different than what it says is the recognized gender at birth and then just to just continue because this is important and then when we get into the secondary school like so we're talking about 12 year olds who are starting secondary school very very shortly and the the whole process then increases that understanding the schools are actually advised now that teachers should introduce themselves by their pronouns on the first day that they have their class so that's you know mrs and smith is going to say my name is mrs smith and these are my pronouns so it starts to kind of really put front and center in this whole s p h e and class the idea that gender and sex are not aligned actually lots of people will agree with you and lots of people will think i'm i'm i'm wrong but i'm trying to as i say have a conversation with you like me and you i think we're kind of similar ages right you know ish maybe i don't know you could be older or younger it doesn't matter but be that as it may 49 i'm talking i'm talking to you about you know we're like two two bald men fighting over a comb right but my children have friends who are uh who are non-binary uh who are um that they're born as as boys and identify as girls and they're all treated equally they don't they don't really care like it's already happening i mean and that was started from 13 or 14 or 15 i'm not going to make a commentary on on on what uh the people that they're friends with are are not or whatever but they're all they already accepted like we're afraid of language and concepts that young people it's their life they're they're very funny with it they follow the people on tiktok they follow them on youtube people of all different backgrounds right so we're arguing oh we can't let the children they know it already but so just just the point i'm trying to say is the the education system is not advising children about the dangers around this issue so for example within first class already they're introduced to the idea of transitioning from one gender to another now in transitioning uh what we often have is children being assigned chemical puberty blockers for example now there is absolutely so little research done on the effects of chemical puberty blockers on young children at the moment in sweden and in britain and in finland they're already starting to advise that puberty blockers are not given to children why because they have a significant inevitably effects on their bone density and also can lead to lifelong infertility so that the school is presenting transition as a very very normal experience without actually discussing at all any of the chemical dangers that are presented by this so the the weird thing is that the irish education system is traveling down a route which many of the countries are actually traveling back from because they know that the dangers in relation to this so for example as well the school doesn't talk about the fact that there are you know certain challenges to women's rights around the issue of transgender so many women feel that they should the rights to use bathrooms and changing rooms as safe spaces for women only and and many women feel as well they should be allowed to play sports for women only and and you know many people feel that male-born sex offenders shouldn't be put into female prisons that doesn't happen very often but just to some of you it doesn't happen very often is not a good enough excuse yeah okay putting a male-born sex offender into a women's prison uh is an absolute disgrace yes and it actually led in parts it led in parts to the uh the prime minister of scotland's have designed yet is happening in ireland understood and and and also lia veratka is putting pressure on the irish rugby union to allow male-born players uh compete in women's rugby which you know for for people who who are worried about the impact that would have physically on women that the damage that can do so what i'm saying is the danger is that if you elevate ideology over science it will always lead to danger and you mentioned at the start of the intro that many people have different views about this and we're fine with that we're just saying that let parents choose the education value system that their kids have if parents want to have a value system that allows for this that be my guest i'm not arguing against that all i'm saying is that for the majority of your listeners don't force an education system that radically goes against their value system can i just ask that's the danger we're in at the moment can i ask a question i mean you don't mind me asking you questions do you and us having a conversation because every time i'm interviewing someone from main two and to a lesser extension fame uh people get up in arms that for all of a sudden that paddertole b's not able to handle himself and he's not being hurt you don't feel that do you know i'm quite happy to have a good robust discussion and i think you always have a respectful discussion when you come on highlander else you wouldn't come back on so so padders well able to look after himself and could eat me up and spit me out so don't worry about padder um but in terms of the hdc is already reviewing uh puberty blockers i think the majority of people have serious concerns about that uh there there we are already seeing in terms of padder um sports i i think there's a pullback uh as to to to where um you know as to where we we used to be are we not so are we not finding our level sort of as we work through this we went too far and now things are are coming back a little bit naturally yeah i do think your right to one's extent in that there has been far more discussion about this you know i think in 2015 when the gender recognition act went through most people you know including myself would have felt you know we want to make sure that you have a live and let live society okay and but what's happened i think is that the government are looking to re-engineer much of society and to fix their ideology and you know you mentioned the reality that the government is now reassessing puberty blockers and i mentioned obviously that the other countries are pulling back which there's no mention of the dangers of puberty blockers in and this education system there's no mention of the facts that 80 percent of people young people especially who feel that there are different gender than their their physical gender if they're given support and care and help true time they will actually come to learn exactly uh that you know that this this feeling will pass if you know what i mean so that this this feeling isn't the feeling that you know needs to be locked in and the problem is we now the government's policies was called gender affirmation and that means that if a young person said i feel that i'm a different gender the government's policy is that schools in the health service and elsewhere we immediately affirm that we don't necessarily start to diagnose what are the reasons for that feeling and there could be many reasons people could have mental health issues autism difficulties are having at home and the problem is if you don't actually treat the other co-morbidities that could be leading to this feeling of a different gender what you do is you you send a child and a pathway of changing their gender which could lead to significant you know major operations that could you know figure out the physicality for the rest of the life without actually treating the the real issues that are at the source but i don't see i don't see anything in the curriculum that goes against what you're you're saying there because in the bit i read out it wasn't like and sometimes you know of someone a boy a boy someone who's born a boy might feel like a girl here take some puberty blockers or here go and get corrective surgery or whatever you might call it it's like speak to a trusted adult speak to a trusted friend and i presume it's at that point when someone goes to their parents that the parents go right okay thank you for letting me know this is how you feel and and now we can go down the route of finding out if it's one thing or another pattern but in the absence of of giving the children that language could they not suffer a worse outcome in terms of you know feeling bullied or lonely or suicidal or something like is that is that in fifth or sixth class and i say this is just to tease out the points does this curriculum not encourage those children not affirm what they're feeling but encourage them to speak to a trusted adult and then we can get to the bottom of it and then it's the parents responsibility as to whether or not it's one of the conditions that you talked of well so first of all and the your rights in in in the terms of if you look at specifically just the curriculum but the ncca which is the national body for curriculum development in this country also has a lot of toolkits so these are supports and guides for teachers in how to implement and the curriculum itself and you know when you look at that that's actually quite more startling in many ways so that actually talks about teachers not using the words boys and girls in class anymore and so you know to actually delete the words boys and girls in class because in some way it could have an effect on children and make them feel not included and you know is is a quite a big step in terms of i don't think anyone yeah i think people would be really uncomfortable with that i'm talking about the support documentation and this is where i i don't sort of you know have to pay devil's advocate as much as i was here to for uh there's a person who's responsible for formulating this that's given examples of a study of 11 children i believe it is uh one as young as three um and that that child is quoted as part of this decision making process in saying that you know i i i'm a boy on the outside but i'm a girl on the inside or a reverse of that and this person says this is provable that that at that age people know already um if they are in the wrong gender now it's mostly for the teachers that information is is but that is feeding i mean i would like to see more evidence on that rather than it being presented as fact that three and four year olds know that they're in the wrong body in inverted commas and and it's where this might go i think that parents need to keep an eye on sure and if you were just to still aim to approach to this we understand that there are some children who are having difficulties in terms of gender and we want to make sure that they're treated with compassion and support but we also want the education system to be to be based on science because if we're based on ideology it means that it could actually lead to major difficulties for children in the future so we mentioned i mentioned gender affirmation there earlier and you know if you go to the toolkits again it states that you must accept the child's identity decided identity and i've spoken to two teachers on this and you know they're they're telling me that there's no due diligence being done as to actually what's happening in the child's life to make them feel a certain way it's just purely acceptance and once it's accepted the transition is encouraged and once the transition happens the child in many ways gets locked into this process and we're just calling for like common sense in relation to this i think here's lack of common sense what we need to do too is is you know it's a lot of adults and listen it's our responsibility there's a lot of adults backwards and forwards and and people are locked into a position on a lot of this stuff what we have to make sure is that we are helping children and not harming or damaging them because the consequences of what we are or not doing now will be felt for them not only just in their teen years the 20s 30s 40s and 50s so we need to make absolutely certain rather than us getting polarised on two opposing arguments to actually say hold on your second let's put that to one side let's come together and let's make absolutely certain that we are helping and not harming children and i worried that we're not doing that i really yeah and so you'll be you'll be aware of the taba stock crisis in english so obviously taba stock was a gender identity clinic in england and it started to process children in a similar fashion that mentions that simply simply affirmed that the identity without actually checking out what all the other issues were about now they have a thousand people suing them at the moment because of the lack of due diligence and care that they provided for the children and remember this as well if you look there's a gender identity clinic in ireland and in these are the people who are most educated in this space most based on science and actually probably other people who care most because they've invested their lives in it you know professor donaloshe stated on the radio in terms of the government's gender ideology policies he said that the government and this is a quote are being brainwashed by ideological activist groups in relation to their actions and we're just saying listen guys relax pause take it easy here let's start to make sure that we base our approach as a country on science and on evidence and not on ideology and right now the government have crowbarred ideology right in the middle of the education system that's quite dangerous and we're just saying simply you know that parents should have a right to to have a say over what their children are being taught remember the department of education is employed by parents to teach their kids and now these these departments are actually going against parents wishes in terms of that education and it's a dangerous space when you when you you know block parents input into education so but there was a in fairness there was a full consultation and you know thousands of parents did have their say maybe those with the majority opposing as well interesting but just one other thing too again and this is only for children all of the children that we have to be careful of I talked a little earlier on that where we were at right so where we were at whereas sport was was very very inclusive and on other things and now that's rolling back a little bit in terms of puberty blockers and what have you but this this curriculum is is is born of of the time when you know four or five years ago maybe when everyone was rushing to just thinking maybe they were doing the right thing maybe it'll turn out to me and this is locked in now whereas we're seeing in the education of children yet we're seeing in the other areas that we talk of that we're having pause for thought and a rethink do you get where I'm coming from and I just I just wonder if they need to sort of now as we maybe are seeing as the dust settles and having more conversation if they say right okay is this locked into a what we thought was the right thing four or five years ago but maybe we've learned a little bit more since so I I understand for sure that people come to this on both sides from compassion so people feel that they're doing the right thing by those who they feel are the most vulnerable and but my worry on this is you know this is now being delivered rights true society so you know you have a situation incredible situation where the HSC is advertising their cervical check services to people with cervixes rather than women they you know they've advertised you know breastfeeding as chest feeding that the government's tried to get rid of the word mother from maternity legislation not just to get away with it though that I mean that's all been most that's where the pushback yeah this is where the pushback is coming from and and and I think it's because the government have way overstepped but just to reiterate my point that pushback I don't know if it's reflected in this document that's the point I'm trying to make you see it's still locked into where we were at four or five years ago yes I agree I agree I think that the education system currently and the the thinking in the NCCA is absolutely still where you know the the state may have been three or four years ago so I do think it's it's a historic it's an out of date approach and I do think people have moved on and realized that there's actually more balance and safety and concern needed in this space there are a lot of elements of the sex education system that are difficult as well in relation to let's say hardcore pornography and you know we believe obviously that children need to be I suppose educated into what hardcore pornography is but we do understand that kids need to be taught but the the the dangers of hardcore pornography that consumption of hardcore pornography can lead to sexual violence rape and assault and but we have seen we've heard people from the NCCA been interviewed on the radio you know for example saying that's one of the tools they can use one of the resources they can use to help teach about hardcore pornography would maybe be the you know a script of a pornographic film to be discussed in class with the children good luck finding one of them like it's it's just incredible because most many parents at least are trying the best to keep kids away from hardcore but again I I think we need to do something there I think young men particularly are getting their sex education from pornography I think young girls are are having expectations set for them from pornography and I'm also really concerned that the most search term in our end on porn hub step sister or step mom so whatever's going on we need to know whatever's going on we need to sort that out I don't know how we do it but ignoring I'm going to tell you aim to have a bill and that bill would actually prevent and pornography companies from targeting children with materials so and we were told that it couldn't happen we identified you know a system whereby internet and search companies such as you know virgin and air for example they would have to put a block on a company providing material to children if that company didn't put in some system to identify age and again we were told it couldn't happen the french government are now going exactly down that route because right across the world people are understanding that providing 10 10 10 11s bad girls with really hardcore materials absolutely distorts their understanding of sexual relationships healthy sexual relationships should be as you said it distorts girls understanding of what's expected from them in society and and that they have a right to to withhold consent and is leading to violence on a significant scale like sexual violence has increased in Ireland rapidly over the last 10 years and sexual violence by children on children is also increasing rapidly we're making victims perpetrators out of our children okay listen interesting conversation and we will get nowhere in in this society unless we start conversing again because you know what I mean the public discourse conversation exchange of views where people's views are hardened or softened or whatever it is we have to keep talking pattern and I appreciate you coming on the meeting is tonight in the Mount Erickle hotel letter Kenny at 8 p.m and I'd say there'll be a big turnout because it's a very it's a very important it's like I know I'm going to get hammered for trying to tease out the points with you but that's my job and I did sit down and I went through the exact same way you did so that we could have a structured and hopefully constructive conversation I would agree I'm a firm believer that the competition of ideas is the best way to organize a democracy because when people you know make their points and in respectful competition with each other the people can then see what are the best most common sense ideas and that they then percolate into policy it's when actually people don't converse or when some views are censored that's the dangerous place and I've no doubt there'll be a big turnout tonight we did a similar meeting in Dublin where we five or six hundred people turned up a number of weeks ago as well so and we 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now by kazoo the clan aka jess harkin uh kazoo jess interchangeable thank you so much for joining us how are you keeping i'm good how are you and i have to say you look fantastic thank you okay um you are going to be performing um with the circus here shortly we're gonna talk about that in a moment but talk to me a little about yourself because very early on you got the bug to be a clan how did that come about yeah i saw a circus when i was three and uh i thought that the clowns owned the elephants and i thought if i became a clown that i would get a pet elephant but uh i've been working for a circus for two years now and still no elephants so i'd have words of fanpost but i mean like obviously at that time animals would have been more common you'd trapeze artists you had people standing on chairs and all manner of things why do you think it was the clown that stood out for you well the other than the morning elephants the elephants were the coolest thing and the clowns were the next coolest thing so in my mind they had to be the ones in charge so the clowns owned the elephants that's the way my three-year-old brain worked but at three you wanted to be a clown yeah all right okay so then as you i mean you know i remember when i was younger you'd watch ramble or something and next thing you know you'd have a pretending knife and all that kind of stuff was it like that like uh for you for clarity then you instantly want to dress up and act out and i didn't really have anything like that back then so i didn't dress up or anything i just told everyone that i wanted to be a clown and that that did not go down well in school so i did quickly get bullied out of that and i forgot about it for a long time um but i started doing magic tricks then when i was 12 so when you went into school you had to suppress that in you a little bit yeah yeah um the kids just kind of teased me about it so i kind of give up on it for a long time yeah you had to hide that part of you uh so then uh you hit 12 you start doing magic tricks and stuff what got you into that well i saw darren brown on tv yeah and i just thought it was wonderful so i started learning tricks on youtube and showing my family and friends and it went down very well but uh i was very shy so when i started doing birthday parties and stuff it was not great so that's when i decided to make a clown character when i was about maybe 13 or 14 and uh that's when i made kazoo and it was just easier to be kazoo rather than me yeah um because i thought i'm not reading the notes here i don't think you enjoyed school too much i think it was a bit tough for you wasn't yeah i dropped out yeah okay so did i by the way go team go team go drop out so and when you were doing the magic tricks did you find yourself like terrible sort of fear beforehand then it went okay then you were yeah that's brilliant for five minutes then you forgot that and then the fear of it doing it again uh started up always all a nightmare for you it was it's the fear of going up to people and saying do you want to see a magic trick as soon as they say yes then i'm fine then it was then it was okay and then it was over again then it was fine too because then we had something to talk about and and you used magic really as your introduction to people you you you know it started the the interactions the first conversations and all that kind of stuff so it was a tool for you and we often use that don't we we use laughter or humour or whatever it might be so this was just your wee version of what we mostly most of us use in society anyway exactly how good magic were you darren brown is it darren brown darren brown yeah darren brown he is uh something else isn't he is uh if madam knows very cool yeah uh nowhere near his level but he's not like i mean he does a bit of he does a bit of you know the close-up magic and stuff but his is more mentalism now isn't it mentalism is that it you know what i mean and tricking the mind and and it's beyond it's beyond uh how he does a lot of the stuff he does but his stage shows i've only seen the live ones as you know he's well in with channel four but they are an experience a journey a story you know i think one was about his relationship with his father and you know it's all very meaningful yeah okay uh so you've met him he seems like a decent chap yeah he does all right okay so then thought that's magic from 12 you continue that through when did you say that kazoo was born uh around when i was 13 or 14 you've got no water and i've got coffee it's all good so right 13 14 about 13 or 14 yeah and how did you perform or where did you it was mainly cousins birthday parties at that stage yeah i had you a routine practice and ready to go at that point yeah i was doing magic tricks and uh few balloon animals face paints yeah okay and at what point did it get to where you thought there's a career in this because i mean i perceived people around you were going hell on you yeah well when i first started i wanted to do more of the Darren Brown stuff yeah i didn't want to do kids parties at all uh children are scary you know yeah but uh all my parents and all the adults around me told me that all magicians start with kids parties yeah so i did that and i just got kind of good at it so i stick with it and uh then i first got my first circus job just before the pandemic uh it was in letter kinny it was a santos grotto circus brilliant different crowd than what i'm off now yeah and what was that like it was really fun um i was an elf though not a clown right but uh that's what they told you it was just for a couple months and then uh they he passed on my details to the guys i'm with now after the pandemic and i've been with them since wow okay so it's the it's the it's the it's the culmination of a dream since you were three yep and has it matched all your expectations uh jess there's a lot more sweeping than i thought there would be but uh yeah it's it's wonderful it's a lot of hard work but really fun yeah and what is the life in a circus like because there was a circus up recently uh up in uh that was touring around bonnie gall and there's some amount of equipment and everything's set up and it pops up and then it's down and then they move 15 kilometers away and it's all again i assume everyone has to be involved in that yeah you know no one's no one can sit in a trailer just doing nothing here i'd imagine it takes the whole team uh to do all of that is it is it tough is it as tough as it looks oh yes there's uh there's five of us at the minute um and everyone helps with everything now yours you're in a different type of circus of course i'm on about a massive grandiose one yours is how would you describe the circus that you're involved in traditional circus traditional circus okay would you like that other side of it do you know the big versions that i'm talking of i think it's nice too but there is a better atmosphere in the smaller shows yeah everyone's packed in and also you you're not restricted by uh space or booking or whatever you can just go to a venue exactly yeah all right okay and is it your circus or circus is generally are they for kids and adults sneakly enjoy or if they're for everyone they're for everyone yeah of course circus was originally just for adults and then kids started going and they added in the animals and the clowns hmm i don't mind the animals not being in as much that's the one thing i didn't really like about uh well they've been bad since 2018 so yeah i just i wasn't um i don't mind if you want to pull a rabbit out you know and i want to join that so then talk to me about the the crew that you're working with as you mentioned it's a it's a crew of five and that there's still an awful lot of work to be done uh with the type of traditional circus that you're involved in so um what is this the show because we're talking about a show that's coming up as well very shortly between the first and the 10th in letter kenny across from mcdonnell's there but so what is your show about uh well we've got trapeze fire breathing uh hand balancing comedy bananas you have to see the show to understand that there's little bits everything there's even lasers so we've got a little bit of a modern twist in it too but it's all very traditional i really like it yeah but it's still a big show yeah oh yeah loads of big trucks outside too yeah exactly all right okay and um is it what what do you do like it i mean what is the role of a clown in a circus now as you see because obviously you've got your magic skills and all that type of stuff as well i'm doing comedy routines i'm doing magic routines as well so all right okay what's your best magic trick uh not one that i do in the show because it's broken currently and it's been broken for three years and i can't find anyone that can fix it but it was a floating table uh i knew a magician uh once who um their their favorite act uh was you know what do you call it when you saw people oh i was like uh saw a lady in half yeah yeah yeah yeah but there were there they they did it took an awful long time to perfect it i've they got very good at it but at the at the moment now they've got three half sisters and two half brothers hey hey you know the first guy that did that trick when uh when it was like it was a long time ago and uh to publicize that they had an ambulance outside the venue and a big sign on it that said in case the saw slips oh fantastic and it's the little things isn't it yeah it is just the little things um right so it's nice to bring joy to people isn't it yeah is that the part that you enjoy this laugh the smiles smile is the best bit yeah and particularly the younger ones yeah well both i like but you know i think part of me would go right you know it would be lovely if if the next three-year-old jess was in the audience you know what i mean and to influence them and bring joy into their life yeah i like to make sure that everyone gets a souvenir so i try to stand outside ever after the shows to get pictures of people and uh if kids are too shy then i'll still give them a sticker so that they have some kind of souvenir because the pulleride that i got of me on the elephant i carried around for weeks oh brilliant i still have it as well um right so where do you tour um is it all over the country is it international or what's the story just in ireland um we've been turned around donnie gulf for the last couple months now um which has been lovely for me yeah handy close to home got to see my family and stuff and they've got to see the show because they hadn't seen it before now so and is it seasonal uh jess we stop around the end of october and then start up again in march okay brilliant uh and you're always working towards well what can we change what can we do and all that kind of stuff and then like do you have a schedule for next year or do you see how it goes as the year breaks we just see how it goes i don't even know where we're going next brilliant well that's nice though isn't it and life would you call it life on the road yeah definitely it's a different town every week yeah rock and roll heck yeah okay and um originally jess where you're from letter kenny well i'm from convoy convoy okay born letter kenny born and out of jail okay i did work in tesco for like two years but you're enjoying this uh is kazoo really banned from tinder i was yeah we got some random comments in here what are you on about yeah i used to do a routine i used to do a like a mini series on tiktok um where i would just go on tinder and change all my pictures to kazoo and uh just see the funny messages that i would get and reply to them and uh then tiktok ban me which is tiktok banned you no sorry tinder i was gonna tiktok did also ban me but they thought i was underage it's what i do i get banned on things and then get it back again but the press reached out to tinder and asked them for comment and then they on banned me and that made i think that's a big plan discrimination going on there it made international news so just woke up one more now i was in the new york post and then what they put me on the drew barry more show really when was that yeah last year my god were you on zoom on the drew barry more show did you go over what uh no they just showed my the tiktoks on the on the show i know that i know the item that you're talking about if you do if you go up on youtube and you type in drew barry more clown it'll show up i don't miss much i can't believe i missed that story because i'm never off the phone yeah i can't believe that all right brilliant stuff uh so you got great publicity and you're on tinder or kazoo's on tinder or whatever fancy takes you uh that that's completely up to you right so you're doing um is it nine shows or just the shows between the first and 10th of september we're doing seven shows so it's this friday saturday sunday and next thursday friday saturday i just hold on your second it's september soon right i thought we're still in the summer remind when you're doing again sorry i thought september was about two months away so it's from the first to the tenth we're in letter kenny at the minute we moved here last night so uh we're doing the shows this friday saturday and sunday and next thursday friday saturday sunday and again i'm i'm confused in different things it's is it in your tent or is it in a venue oh it's in the tent in a tent yes we're right across from mcdonald's right okay so i can get my clown food yeah exactly i'm trying to figure out where that is yeah i know where it is now all right okay so you get the full circuits experience there's lots of stuff a bit of it i like the modern twist a bit laser stuff that sounds fantastic and and and just you're happy at you're enjoying life definitely enjoying and it's good to get home as well yeah but you are you staying at home or with the rest of the crew no i'm staying in a wagon at the exactly that's right you can't have any uh teabas i'll probably get home at night after a show or something all right okay so how do you can't book in advance you turn up don't you on on the if you go down to the circus site you can but if you're about half an hour before the show you should be fine brilliant okay and just remind us once again the dates and the times and the location so the first to the 10th the friday saturday and sunday this week and next week the thursday friday saturday and sunday and we're across from mcdonald's in the town all right brilliant stuff and what time did you say oh the times that's why you're avoiding that right it's seven on friday five on sunday oh no five on saturday so there's a good seven on saturday seven on friday five on saturday five on sunday and then next week it's seven on thursday seven on friday five on saturday and then you chilled on sunday and then you chilled on sunday uh come here where's our facebook page there is at circus corvinio corvinio okay well listen fantastic story um jess aka kazu it's i i i love happy stories and the fact that you're sort of realising the dream of a three year old to me is just beautiful it's fun uh and i'm so happy for you and continued success with it and you're with this crew now you see yourself with them for you're obviously in a family now and see your future there listen thank you so much for joining us jess harkin aka kazu the clown you can see uh kazu and the rest of the crew as uh we heard there on dates between the first and 10th of september at various times uh cross from mcdonald's and just remind people of the facebook page one more time circus corvinio we'll be back with more after the break the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low rate holiday loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today with electrified finance rates available exclusively at i motors find 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time in the school's history so we've opened a special class for students with autism and a special class for students with multiple disabilities so orio really compliments the work that goes on in those classrooms but also in the wider schools so any students that might have behavioral difficulties or emotional difficulties or anxiety or stress or anything like that orio is there to help reduce those barriers to learning and really it's about you know maximizing the learning potential of the students and he's he's two at christmas and he's still he's still young uh he's still learning but he is an incredible asset and a resource to have in the school and as I say he joined us from irish guide dogs we're very grateful to them there's only 14 community dogs in irish schools at the moment so we feel very privileged to have them and uh yeah so he's the first indoni gol and he's the first I believe north of go away so we're very fortunate to have him in the school fantastic and um his skill set or her skill set is very very particular tried and tested only three weeks in the job uh and and everyone's still learning the ropes I suppose because there's a wee bit of a change isn't it in a different approach particularly uh north of that Galway Dublin line yeah yeah so a lot of consultation involvement staff and the build up to this it as part of the application to irish guide dogs it was a very rigorous application and this was vetting process for us as a school to make sure we met the requirements we have three staff in the school who are handlers and again they're all trained as handlers in the school um we had consultation with parents as well because we recognized that it was quite a departure to have a dog in the school and for some people when they think of a dog they might anticipate a dog running free through the corridors but it's quite the opposite it's very very controlled and he's not a pet or a mascot he is very much a working dog and he's there to support our students he has his own timetable he has his own safe spaces where he can you know switch off and let's suppose decompress because it's it's intensive work that he does he's limited to four sessions a day with the students and that can range from anything from you know taking the dog something simple like taking the dog for a walk or grooming the dog or doing animal care but it can be a little bit more intense one to one you know if you have a student who maybe is a school or fusion and doesn't want to be here Oreo can be the difference he can be the the reason they come into school he's there in the morning greeting students and he can be the reason the student stays in the school so it's a massive benefit to us for the special classrooms yes but for the wider school community as well and it is early days and his timetable will evolve and change but it's all based on the needs of the students so yeah he's settling in quite nicely where he's a few sessions a day we'll build up to four sessions a day eventually but it's going very well so far and required buying from staff as well presumably it's the teachers have to be his designated handlers is that correct and also you know the comes that they have to buy into it and go right I can see the benefits of this and you can't just have one because there's holidays and what have you as well so you have to have your team on board with you to say right this is this is best for the students let's go with this yeah that's right we've two teachers in one s and a who are his handlers and who will do the work and one to one or in groups or in classroom activities so they're had to be buying but from the wider staff and the community as well you know there was apprehension amongst maybe some staff or parents but again we had open dialogue when we explained you know if there's a student who has an anxiety around dogs or allergies the dog won't be going anywhere near them and and it's very controlled as I say there's only certain rooms the dog will be in and certain spaces so for example he's currently lying next to me having a time out on the floor in my office and but again I'm not a handler so he just comes here to switch off while I'm working but yeah it is it's very beneficial to the students you know as I say it could be something simple like reading to the dog it could be just sitting down and reading to the dog that allows that student to relax it could be more significant you could have a student who's in real crisis and you know they could be suffering potentially a trauma or a panic attack or something like that and this could be the it could be the dog that calms them down allows them to regulate their mood and their emotions so yeah we're very very optimistic it's early days we've been told by Irish guy dogs in no uncertain terms that we have to reinforce his training and it's very strict in terms of his diet he's not allowed in the staff room for that reason he's not allowed in the canteen for that reason so it's very very controlled and even if somebody wants to meet him or you know interact with them it's all on you know it's very controlled the the handlers have to agree to it and then it's the dog has to sit or lie down and again it's it's it's very calm he's an outcast as you explained it sounds all bloody complicated and in practice it works really well I'm sure and it'll work even you know more smoothly as the term wears on I really look forward to maybe chatting to you again to see how and I'm sure other schools will be saying how's that going for you and we'd love to chat again Brendan but and he came named Oreo I take it he did he came from a litter down in Cork and he was fostered by a family to socialize him for the first 12 months and then he was trained intensely by Irish guide dogs and he came with the name Oreo but it suits him he's a lovely black Labrador and yeah we'll have to take your word for it I'm having a white middle okay listen thank you so much for that Brendan it's a great it's a great departure or adventure or or initiative and we'll track it and see how you get on sounds brilliant thank you so very much indeed Brendan O'Mahney there who is principal of St. Columbus comprehensive in Glenties now right at the beginning of the show three hours ago was chat to Lee Gooch and Lee mentioned quite rightly that we have it's the culmination of our mega summer cash draw here at Highland Radio it all wraps up on Friday around about half 11 we've 12 and a half grand to give away on Friday two and a half thousand euro on the naughty alarm clock I'm going to sit in with Lee from about half late might even let me maybe let me do the secret sound I don't know but anyway we'll give away the two and a half grand I can't promise the secret sound and then later on in the show on my show then on this show on our show we will give away 10,000 if you want to be in with a chance to if you want to be in both draws there's going to be a rush on 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Hi, can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you fine. Are you ready to go? I think so.  Okay, welcome to my talk and well, let's see how statistics also look in this field. I want to talk a little bit about SPDX license markers and reuse statements. Before I show you statistics, I will recall what they are. Let's start with what is a license?  You own the right that this is only yours. That is good and fine, but in open source software we say it's good that other people have the right to use it, to study it, to share it, to improve it, and by default they are not allowed to do that. And to allow those people, those other people to do something like that, we have to grant them licenses and they are different free open source licenses. Most prominently in KDE, that's GPL, LGPL, MIT, BSD and some more. And you have to grant them in a legal, correct way to ensure that others are able to use what we are doing. When you are doing that, you usually have something like that. This is some arbitrary license header I took from our code base. It's typically a comment at the head of file. At the top you see a list of the copyright holders. So the people who own the create right to that contribution. And then we have a lengthy text, this one is about three paragraphs and simply explains this code is under the GPL 2.0 or any later version. And the problem with these long text is if you create another source code file and copy the license header because it's already there and then you decide, well, it's maybe not the GPL but the LGPL and you start to modify a little bit and replace the general by a lesser and then maybe forget also replacing that one, then we already have a problem to see, well, what does that mean, is it GPL or LGPL? And such problems occur often, really, really often. And it's hard to figure out by automatic tooling, what do we have for licenses. And that's the reason why we discussed one and a half years ago to go with reuse compatible license statements. This is mostly the same at the top. We simply replace copyright by this SBDX file copyright text. And the important part is that we replace the long license header text by a machine-readable identifier. And that's easier to read, it's harder to make errors and it allows to make automatic tests and also create statistics of what we have here. And during that time, a lot of things happened and many, many people helped. Before I show that, if you want to read more and know more about how this framework is working, this SBDX framework, there's a really good website, the reuse.software website, even with a small three-minute video that explains everything to you, there's all the legal documentation if you want to go into that. And of course, we have our wiki page with how-to's and guidelines, how we are doing that in KDE. In a nutshell, it's quite simple. If you create a new file, you have to add a license identifier tag. You have to create a copyright tag. And for the license that you are using, you have to add the license into a specific subfolder. It's all documented here and it's actually really hard to do it wrong. And there are even tools that check for you that you are doing it right. And during the last one and a half years, we started to replacing the old existing license headers by these shorter expressions. That's not always that simple. We have automatic tooling for that. It's also documented at the wiki page if you want to convert it because we have to match exactly what license we have. We must not change the license by doing that because we only want to make it machine readable, but we must not change it. And I will look in some areas where a lot of progress happened. This is frameworks, for example, and there we are actually done. Here, you can see the number of files we have that are about close to 9,000 files we have at the moment. And there's a small gap between the files that are converted to SPDX and those are not. And those are the files that are replicated. These are modules that will be done with KF6 and so we didn't spend time for it. So at that point with about KF573, we were done with the whole progress. And you see nicely that for all new files, there's a small upward trend. So people are still, well, are using it for new files, which is really good and important. Another area where we currently can see a lot of progress is Plasma. It's extremely nice because I didn't do anything and people started doing the conversions there and occasionally added me to prerequisites. So you see I did statistics about two weeks ago before the release, but it's on a really good track and I just did a review on a prerequest. So we are probably right here at the moment in one or two days. And if we look at the overall list, it looks actually not that bad. Let's start at the top. I did a small calculation of all the source code files. I could check out with KDE source build and simply looked at the CPP and header files, which is not completely accurate, but goes a really good impression and it's easy to calculate. And we have about, well, closely to 7,000 files and close to 40,000 files we have converted, which is really cool. And you see frameworks that are done or mostly done, well, PIM, I completely forgot, they are simply done. They did an impressive job and it's all converted. Frameworks are done essentially, Plasma will be done soon. We have a few smaller modules that probably will not that hard to convert and I think that's the area where we have some work to do, but it's looking really good and it's so nice to see a lot of different people doing the work. And if we do something like adding such markers to the files, we can do a lot of tooling and that's something I just tried out yesterday. I did a check out of all the source code I could get and, well, I grabbed for our license markers and did some statistics, which license statements do we have in our code base? So we can see and I must go to closer because it's really small for me. We have the majority with GPL 2 or later. Then we have the really big area with LGPL 2 or later and this is the combination of 2 or 3 or accepted by the KDEV. And so on, you see it's a good trend. I think that's expected to be the majority. What we probably should look into in the future is, well, we have a lot of different statements. I made it cut at all statements that were used at most 10 times and there are a lot of different interesting licenses we have at a few occasions, but we can audit later. Now we have an overview of what we have here and that's actually it. If you are interested, go to the website, go to the RIKI. It's easy to do conversions. Just ping me on IRC or on metrics and many, many thanks to other people who are involved and making this work. Okay. Thanks a lot. I think time is mostly done. Just ping me on metrics. Thank you very much, Andreas, for that. As you said, questions for the later talks, we refer to the metrics chat. So catch Andreas there and I'm sure he'll be happy to answer some of those. Thanks.


Hey everybody, I'm Jen with opensource.com and we have a brand new top five for you this week for the week of March 4th. At number five, Buffer sees clear benefits to transparent employee salary policy. If you don't know Buffer, they are a social media startup doing things a bit differently. For one, they made employee salaries transparent. To find out more about their quest to become more open, check out Brian Barenhausen's article. At number four, six essential non-coding careers in open-source. Nithya Ruff is the head of Sandis's open-source strategy office. In this post, she takes a look at some of the most influential roles in open-source businesses and communities. At number three, Linux gives me all the tools I need. Sean Ballas shares his Linux story in this tale about his father's influence, his first install, and the tools he uses today. At number two, top five open-source command shells for Linux. Jason Baker is back with another in-depth look at Linux. In this article, he takes us through four open-source alternatives to the standard bash shell. And finally at number one, Raspberry Pi 3 rolls out with faster CPU, onboard Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. You may have heard the news by now, but we've got an up-close and personal look at the new Raspberry Pi 3 from Ben Nuddle of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Additional neat factoid is more than 8 million Raspberry Pi units have been shipped out since this tiny computer launched four years ago. And that's it for our top five this week. Thanks so much for joining me and I'll see you next time.


And now on to our deep dive on Thunderdome. Take it away, Tommy. Thanks very much. So yeah, we called the project Thunderdome after the 1985 film. I won't talk too much about the film. I just have to say that the shoulder pads are probably an example of why you shouldn't project current growth rates too far into the future. So we're currently targeting the IPFS gateway use case. So we do this by spinning up so-called targets and firing traffic at them. We make sure it's exactly the same traffic. We gather as much information as we can when we do that. So we get metrics via Prometheus. The newly enabled tracing in Kubo, we scrape all that up if it's there. We grab logs and we're pushing everything to host it in for us so we don't have to do any work to keep up with the number of experiments. I've said no limits on how many experiments we have. Couple of lines of conflict to define them. Next slide, please. I should say it's me and Ian in the production engineering team that have been working on this in the last couple of weeks. So yeah, the first thing we did was make a tool called DealGood named after a character in the film who organizes fights. I tried to resist talking about the film, but yeah, they make people fight in a hemisphere in the middle of the desert in a post-apocalyptic future. So make up that what you will. So yeah, multiple targets, same load. Like I said, we could run it headless or in it with a terminal UI. So it's useful for local dev actually. It's also got tracing enabled. We do tracing propagation. So you can say this request and then trace it all the way through from the points of view of the clients as instrumented as the go HTTP lib is. We trace all that and then we can correlate it with Kubo's tracing. Also exports Permefius metrics and we can playback production load from a log stream that we take from the production gateways, which is minimally service impacting because it's just another engine X log file that's being written or from a randomly from a can list of your eyes. And there's the terminal UI there. It looks delightful as it moves. Ian's got an ASCII cinema demo that he published a week or two ago. Yeah, so that's what it looks like to define an experiment at the moment. We're limited to give us a couple of or not couple give us N Docker images and whatever environment variables you wanna set with them and we'll run the experiment for you. And we automatically on the left there is all of the tracing stuff. That's not any work we've done. That's just what Grafana tempo looks like. And that's all the default tracing in Go IPFS that's there now. There's a, I think there's a big seam of work in Kubo to instrument more and more things and become more and more useful. One of our first experiments is actually measuring how much enabling the tracing, what fraction of tracing you enable, how much does that impact performance. On the right there is a still from the demo video I'm about to play. And you can see the dashboard is automatically generated. So dashboards for free. And then you've got a one minute, 45 second video to play. Yes, that should start building things makes a ECS service for each of the back ends, the targets rather and deal good. So we should start seeing stuff appear here. And yeah, there we do. Peer and demo deal good. Peer and demo without peering demo with. So we should be able to go to our automated dashboard. We go to peer and demo. It might be a little while, it takes a minute or two for the containers to start. So you can imagine using Firebase at the moment. So it's got a, like a sign in network interface in the VPC and that kind of stuff. But very soon we should start seeing some things. Yeah, so there's a little bit coming through there. That's where there's reported. And that should refresh every five seconds of full screen this now because there's nothing else to see really. Starting to get some data through already. Times of first byte is kind of the most critical metric in terms of the user perception of the service and stuff. So we kind of centered that in this default dashboard. So we're saying that with is about twice as fast. So when you're peering is about twice as fast in the initial startup here, zero to experiment in end time units. We'll develop this dashboard further with a whole bunch of default metrics and stuff. My wife was saying that she wishes she could fast forward me and meet me in real life. So yeah, we've already got on the backlog a bunch of experiments. We want your experiments though. So like what's interesting to you? What would you, what battles would you like to create? So yeah, send us your suggestions. We want to get as many experiments going. The thing's only as useful as the experiments we've run. Mario's asked the question, where does it get the traffic from? It's replaying a trace log. You approved the PR a little while ago, mate. So various levels of soon coming soon, more production like. So at the moment we're saying the Docker image plus environment variables constitutes a different target. But of course, other things affect how well the infrastructure runs. What kind of disks are you giving them? What file system you're choosing? Are you raiding it? We want to finesse the UX. So it's an absolute delight. We want to automatically, if you've got performance enhancing branch, just track it, just keep deploying the branch, test for regressions, et cetera. RCs automatically should be tested. I shouldn't read the comments. Mario's making me laugh.  So like we don't like our hardware options running it yourself, pointed at something you're interested in, run our side cars, get graphs automatically. And then one thing I'm mega mega excited about is the idea of like infrastructure experiments. So which load balancing strategies should we adopt? What kind of machine sizes might we use? Can we compare this infrastructure provider with this other one? What if we use a shared block store? What if all the nodes in a region had a peer store in Redis? Things like things above the level of individual instances of our software that do impact the performance of it. Because Kubo and anything implements in the IPFS gateway spec actually are deliberately designed to interact well with load balancers, caches, that kind of thing. So we wanna be able to like test them as well because that is the aggregate of all those things is our performance. So that's it, that's all for me. Thanks for your indulgence. That was a pleasure. Awesome. And everyone have a wonderful rest of your Thursday.


U.S. warship downed Iranian drone. A U.S. Navy warship sailing near the Bab El Mandeb Strait shut down a drone launched from Yemen the U.S. military said in the latest in a string of threats from Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. U.S. Central Command said the USS Kani, a naval destroyer, downed the drone and Iranian-made KAS-04, which was launched from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen and was headed toward the warship. The ship was operating in the southern Red Sea and was moving toward the Strait. At the time of the morning shoot-down, the Kani was escorting the U.S. NS supply, a military sea-lift command, fast combat supply ship, as well as another U.S. flagged and crewed ship carrying military equipment to the region. There were no injuries to U.S. personnel and no damage to the ships, the command said in a statement. The shoot-down came a day after an Iranian drone flew within 1,370 meters of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier as it was conducting flight operations in international waters. Navy Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, said that the drone violated safety precautions by not staying more than 18.5 kilometers from the ship. The drone ignored multiple warnings but eventually turned away. This unsafe, unprofessional and irresponsible behavior by Iran risks U.S. and partner nation lives and needs to cease immediately, Cooper said.


Hello friends, welcome back to the channel. In today's video, we're going to look at some more best builds to prepare for the brand new Seven Star Terrarid event. For Rillaboom, they'll be dropping next week in Scarlet and Violet. Starting on the 28th of July, the Rillaboom Seven Star Terrarid will be coming to Scarlet and Violet, we know, will be in normal territory. And it's likely to have the move options like Wood Hammer, Stomping Tantrum as ground coverage. You could potentially have knockoff, dark coverage, a flying type coverage in acrobatics, and fighting type coverage as well with either drain punch or more likely hammer arm. And then it will have some sort of normal type attack to play off that normal teratiping. Now that could be special, it could play off boom burst. It would make sense for the drama Pokemon to have something like a sound based move like boom burst. That is a completely different throw off to normally going down a physical route. Whereas the options there would be something like the facade, body slam, or even something like Giga Impact, which are its main options. It does have set up options, of course, and things like sword stance, bulk up. It does have disruption in Screacher Loyal Defense by two stages every time it uses it. So that's something to consider taunt it does get access to. And then another combination that it could see is something like Sunny Day and then growth as well. Because the sunny day will turn growth into a one stage attack and special attack boost into a two stage attack and special attack boost under the sun. So that could be something that we do see as well, making Rillaboom quite formidable. At the base of things, Rillaboom is a very, very strong defensive Pokemon. It's going to be hard to break it down. It's got big HP stat and very good defenses. So it's going to be something that you're going to need to have combinations for to really deal with effectively in the game. Although we did cover predominantly a lot of fighting types in our last video, we did cover three Pokemon that weren't of a fighting type that did offer a little bit of a different strategy for going in against Rillaboom. But of course, it's going to come down to a lot of factors when that Rillaboom raid does get announced. These can change some of the builds, of course, depending on when Rillaboom clears the stats on your side of the field, when it clears the stats on its side of the field and when it puts a shield up as well as what options it has in its move pool. Is it going to have fighting coverage? Is it going to have that flying coverage with acrobatics? Is it going to have ground coverage? All of these different options throw up different questions for what Pokemon would be more suitable to the raids. And of course, when the raid does go live, we'll be able to kind of hone down these options a lot better and produce what Pokemon can solo this thing more effectively in battle as well as what Pokemon are going to be able to go online and really perform very well if you are doing it online. So the Pokemon that we are featuring in today's video, all the builds will be down in the description if you want to take a look at them, but we'll be starting off with Covenite. I think one of the best options going in against Rillaboom, despite the build, despite how it comes into the raid, and you're going to have the tools with the Covenite to really handle it pretty well. It's going to resist all of those grass type attacks. It's going to resist the ground type attacks. If it has ground type coverage, it's going to resist the flying type attacks if it has acrobatics and it will also be neutral to those fighting type attacks that it could potentially have. So all in all, Covenite, a very solid pick going into Rillaboom. We have chose the fighting terror type on it and you'll see why in a moment we've got the leftovers option on there as an item. It can be changed for something like an expert belt, a shell belt item if you want. But I feel like the leftovers gives you that nice recovery each turn just to kind of keep your staying part on the field. There's level 100 as always and we have a move set of Roost, Eye and Defense, Screech and Body Press. It is one of the only and few Pokemon that we've got access to in the games where you're able to have that combination of Screech, Eye and Defense and Body Press and not have the weaknesses to grass or ground type attacks that are likely going to come out from this Rillaboom. The nice thing about Covenite as well is it has that ability, Mirror Armor. So any status attacks that come out from the Rillaboom like Screech or something like that will be bounced back onto the Rillaboom and it will be affected and you won't be affected by it so it's a really nice ability overall. And I think the combination of having that Roost with the setup as well means that you're going to be able to stay on the field setup and even if you do get your stats removed early on in the battle you're still going to be able to kind of have a clean setup and then start throwing out some big damage very quickly onto the Rillaboom.  So using this in combination with Iron Defense where you're boosting your defense it's making Body Press even stronger. So that's the stat that the power is based off from Body Press. The EV Spread that we've got on this Covenite is 252 HP, 252 Defense and of course as well with that Steel Typing you're not going to really worry about any normal type attack and moves that come out from the Rillaboom either. So you can fully invest in defense and then at HP with a bold nature on there as well. So this is the basic premise of the set you're going to set up those three Iron Defenses from turns 1 to 3 then go for those Screeches turns 4 to 6 and then you're going to start launching off the Body Presses and Roosting as and when you need that recovery. So that is the Covenite and I do feel like probably the best option if you wanting to build something going into this raid that's going to give you a very solid option whatever the build of the Rillaboom when it is finally released on the 20th of July. Next up we've got Glastria the Ice Type Legendary Pokémon from Pokemon Sword and Shield. It is pure Ice. We've given it the Fighting Terra Type and the Shell Bell is the held item. Level 100 and a little bit like the Covenite of course. We have got a move set of Mist that is going to stop any stat drops on your side of the field for 5 turns as long as that Mist is in effect. So if we do see something like Screech or anything else like Drum Beating, Law and your Speed or anything like that then Mist is going to protect you and your ally Pokemon for 5 turns as long as it's in effect. Then we've got Iron Defense. It is again going to boost your defense by 2 stages every time you use it. Tail Whip is a way to reduce the defense on the Rillaboom side of the field. It won't work through the Shield though. So as soon as that Shield goes up you don't rely on the Tail Whip. You'll have to wait till that Shield is broke but then you can use that in combination with the Iron Defense and then Body Press Combination that we talked about with that Covenite. So we're playing along those same lines here. Chilling Rain is the ability you only have that option and it's not really going to come into effect in this raid at all unless you want to start knocking out Partnering Pokemon which could be an option to boost your attack. But again, that's not really going to benefit you at all because your main attacking move plays off your defensive stat rather than your attacking stat. We've got an EV spread on this Glastria of 252 HP, 252 defense and then we have the remaining put in the special defense with a calm nature. So you think you're probably asking why we went for a calm nature over a bold nature and if we don't see something like Boom Burst on the Rillaboom then change this over to bold and just have that full defensive investment there just to maximize the damage output that you're doing with Body Press as well as minimize the damage you're taking from Rillaboom. But the calm nature on here is to really cover in case we do see that Boom Burst. So you've got a decent amount of special defensive investment with that boost that you're getting through the nature there because you've already got such a high defensive stat. So like I say, if we don't see any Boom Burst I would suggest going bold on this. If you do see Boom Burst then I would stay with the set that we've got here in that calm nature because we're only relying on a defensive stat anyway but that spread investment that we've got on our defenses just gives you a bit more stability in case we do see something like Boom Burst come out from the Rillaboom but that is the Glastria and again a really nice option. I think because it has an ability to lower the defense on the Rillaboom it gives it a different dimension. It's going to expedite the damage that you're going to be able to do once you are set up that some of the other options in this video don't have and it's a bit like the Corviknight. Just not as quick with that screech over the tail whip that you've got the option there. Next up is Talk All the Fire Type with a fighting Terra Type. Level 100 it is going to have their Shell Bell as its held item and it is a very unique Pokemon. It's very strong defensively so going up against the Rillaboom it's going to be very good. It's going to resist those Grass Type attacks as well and for the most part it's not really going to worry about any of the big physical attacking moves that are going to come out from the Rillaboom except for Stomping Tantrum. Of course when you do end up Terasolizing you're not going to have that weakness anymore and you will obtain a weakness to the Acrobatics but by that stage you should be set up and not need to worry about that big physical attack coming out and threatening you because you're going to be in such a good position where you're not really going to have to worry about it at all. If it has got Stomping Tantrum then one nice thing you would say about Talk All is it's naturally very good defensively so it still will be able to shrug those attacks off but with the setup that we've got on the Talk All once you start kind of getting that setup in motion you're not really going to be affected too much by even the more super effective attacks anyway. So the moveset that we've got on the Talk All is going to be Clear Smog, Iron Defense, Amnesia and Body Press. We've got the Ability White Smog which is going to stop the Rillaboom from lowering stats on your side of the field which is a big thing. So if it has got Screech it's a little bit like the Mirror Armor on the Coving Night except you don't bounce back those stat changes we just negate them all together. The White Smog going to give you complete immunity to any stat drops on your side of the field. We've got Clear Smog that is going to be able to remove any stat boosts on the Rillaboom and it works through the shield as well. So if we do see it going for Grails for Sword Stances for Bull Cups we are going to be able to use that Clear Smog at any stage in the battle and just remove any of those boosts. So it's really good for supporting Partner in Pokemon as well as just making sure that your Talk All nicely in a safe position. Eye and Defense is there. Obviously that combination with Body Press we've talked about on the Glastria the Coving Night, it works exactly the same. You're going to aim to get three of those off and then utilize Body Press because it is going to be maximized damage there and the Amnesia is there to give you a little bit of coverage if we do see something like that Boom Burst. If we don't see the Boom Burst then the Amnesia is not needed and we can replace that with something else of course on the set. The EV Spread that we've got in the Talk All is 252 HP, 252 Defense and the rest put in Special Defense with a calm nature and again the nature he is decided on just to give us coverage in case we do see that Boom Burst it gives us a little bit of stability against that potential Special Attack that could come out from the Rillaboom just in case it's there. If the Boom Burst is not the option then we want to just change that to a bold nature and put all of our eggs in that defensive basket because then will benefit us more for longevity on the field as well as being able to have a bit higher damage output from that Body Press as well but that is the Talk All I think a really nice option going into this raid and something that Ed could see having a good time no matter really what the Rillaboom set would be. The next Pokemon in this theme of Body Press users is going to be Goudra, the Steel and Dragon type. This is the Hissui in Goudra. We have got the Fighting Terror type on it of course as well with the Shell Bell held. I am level 100 as usual with a moveset of Shelter, Charm, Life Dew and Body Press and the Ability Sap Sipper with an EV spread of 252 HP, 252 Defense and a bold nature on here. So boosting that defensive stat because Goudra and Hissui in Goudra one of the things that they do have to their own benefit is a Sky High Special Defensive stat as well. This Hissui in Goudra if we do see any sort of special attack and moves come out from the Rillaboom it's going to be able to take those really well as well as resist them with that Steel typing that it does have access to. Normal type not effective against Steel typing. So the basic premise of this is Shelter is going to boost your defense by two stages so it's a bit like an iron defense and that just boosts the damage of Body Press. We've covered that before. Charm is there to support other team members and also yourself. The one thing that you would have to worry about with Hissui and Goudra being having that part Steel typing is again stomping tantrum could be a bit of an issue and although you are boosting your defensive stats if the Rillaboom has something like Sword Stance or even growth under the Sun you're going to want to kind of try and negate that as much as possible to kind of make sure that you're staying on the field so you can get your strategy pulled off and Charm allows you to do that lowering the attack stat on the Rillaboom by two stages every time you use it. Just bear in mind that you won't be able to use this through the shield. So that's one of the drawbacks and we are in this list going from what I think is the best suggestion in this video and that Covenite to the not so best suggestion but all of them I do feel will be able to work against this Rillaboom when it does go live. Lifeju is there to give you and your partnering Pokemon a quarter of health every time you use it. So it's a little bit of recovery there for you as well and combine that with the Shell Belt you should have a good line of recovery to keep Goudra on the field for as long as possible and especially once you're set up you're going to be in a really good place you're not going to be taking much damage from the Rillaboom and you just need to watch out for when it resets its stats and your stats as well. So we've covered Hissui and Goudra the other Goudra we are going to cover is the regular Goudra and just pure dragon typing fighting type, terra typing on it as well same item choice, same level and everything like that the one thing that it does have a disadvantage over the Hissui and Goudra is it doesn't have a weakness to stomp in tantrum so you don't have that ground weakness but you are going to be a little hit a little bit harder because you don't have that resistance to normal type attacks if we do see something like boom burst, body slam, facade or anything like that from the Rillaboom you will be taking just neutral damage from those attacks but the move set is going to be Acid Armor so a little bit like Shelter, a little bit like Iron Defense is going to boost your defensive stat by two stages every time you use it it's pretty much in essence the same set just different moves we've got the charm there again we've went through that the life due for recovery and then the body press to play off that Acid Armor and then with your terrazolization of fighting type you're going to just expedite the damage even more EV spread on this Goudra is going to be 252 HP 252 defense, bold nature and the rest put into special defense SAP SIPA is the ability again we didn't really talk about that too much with the Hissui and Goudra but SAP SIPA gives you complete immunity to all grass type attacks now you do have the part Dragon typing here but I guess it's going to benefit you more a little bit more when you do terrazolize into that fighting typing just to make sure that you're still not getting hit for big damage from those big grass type attacks it's going to come out from Rillaboom it's also going to be boosted from the grassy terrain that it will sum into the field for 5 turns so both Goudras here have that SAP SIPA ability both will resist it in their base forms but when you terrazolize that ability will really be very beneficial for you going forward and I think the Goudras are going to be good Pokémon to take online support fellow players online with the access to recovery for you and your teammates and that charm it is going to be something that can be utilized quite well of course keep in mind as well if you want you can also run acid spray to support partnering Pokémon if you're going online with Goudra because it gets access to that so you can learn the special defense of the Rillaboom two stages every time you use it and that can make going through these raids a lot quicker as well if you've got something where you're able to help it set up like a Lucario or something like that with a Roarosphere and you can reduce that special defense by two stages every time you use it it's going to be a very valuable member online as well as being able to kind of perform a solo roll it's just not got the ability to learn the defensive stat of the Rillaboom unlike some of the other options that we've got here which will mean it is going to be a little bit slower if you are going to dedicate it to be something that you take in to use as a solo Pokémon and finally the Pokémon I'm going to finish up with today is Zamazenta ledgering Pokémon from Sword and Shield fighting type, fighting Terra type on it as well we have given the Rusted Shield item which gives it its crown form when you do enter the battle and obviously with its ability Don't List Shield you get a defense boost as soon as you hit the field we've given the moveset of light screen the Iron Defense, Snarl and Body Press with an EV spread of 252 HP, 232 Defense and Rest Put in Special Defense with 8 Impish and Nature so light screens there in case we do see something like that boom burst you're going to have no resistance to it to begin with but when you are in your crown form you will be fighting and steal so you will have a resistance to it but it just gives you a little bit additional support the Iron Defense of course like we've said already boost your defense by two stages every time you use it Snarl as well is there again it's just another measure against those big special attacks that you could see coming out from the Rillaboom you don't have a way to clear the stat boost on the Rillaboom side of the field so just keep that special attack stat in check if we do see something like the boom burst then that is quite a nice option and that works through the shield as well and then you've got that Iron Defense and Body Press combination which is going to be very strong going into this raid because it is normal type so they are everything that we're going to cover in today's video and I do think the Covenite out of everything is probably the one thing that you can build of course when the raid does go live on the 28th we will go in and do a lot of testing and then we'll throw up what our best solo build options are going to be going into that weekend when the raid goes live but I hope you found today's video useful all the builds will be down in the 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Welcome geometry students. We're going to work on the converse of the Pythagorean theorem again in this video So have your paper and pencil ready follow along and we're going to work through two steps First of all, we're going to solve question a is it a triangle? So to solve that we are just going to verify that it's a triangle by adding the two smaller sides Five plus six and if that is greater than the third side, we have a triangle and 11 is greater than seven So yes, we have a triangle and now we can try to classify it So now for part B We're going to go back and look at our numbers five six and seven and we're going to put them in order So that we are doing the Pythagorean theorems converse So we're going to look at C squared and compare it to a squared plus B squared C has to be the hypotenuse the longest side so it is a 7 so we're going to compare 7 squared or 49 To 5 squared plus 6 squared They're called the legs if 5 and 6 are interchangeable. It doesn't matter which one is substituted for a or B So we do our calculations and we have 49. We want to compare it to 25 plus 36 25 plus 36 is 61 so 49 is less than 61 and therefore we have an acute Triangle and you've worked with the Pythagorean theorems converse


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