Hi, it's Bridget. Welcome to Above Life Channel. I have an invitation for you today. So I am going to be doing four days with Freddy's and I'm going to be doing it over the weekend. So I hope that you will come and watch the videos as I release them on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and yes, Monday. And those dates for the release, if you want to watch them every day as I share them with you, as I release them so you can watch them. These are pre-recorded videos that I have channeled with Freddy and related to Freddie Mercury. So there might be some other people that I'm channeling with him that you might be interested in hearing from. Totally related to Freddy, of course. And we're going to be starting that on Friday, February 22nd. So you'll get a new video each day, February 22nd, 23rd, 24th. Yes, I know that's the Oscars. This is intentional, my friends. I've got to celebrate that energy and the 25th. All right, so four days with Freddy. I hope you'll enjoy these videos and we can celebrate the energy of what he's represented and what he is bringing forward to a new generation who are connecting with him. Whether you're discovering him as an afterlife energy celebrity or whether you know him from being a fan for life, all are welcome here. This is Brigitte at Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you up with hope because this, this is your life. So live it. Thanks so much for watching and I look forward to sharing these four days of Freddy videos with you.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's CaseBreaks.com with 2022 putting the National Treasures Baseball coming at you. Four box, full case. Pick your team number 55. We've got a little Willy Wonka and the Chaka Factor on the background, little old school. Old school Willy Wonka. Big thanks to this group right here for making it happen. Rex ended up with Last Bomb Mojo with his cubbies and then we pulled the rest of the teams for the random number block randomizer but thanks to the people who bought their spots straight up. Appreciate it. And there are the teams for the random number block. We did that in a different video so we just turned those, we pulled those teams out and turned it into a serial number break. So that's what that is right there. We upload that in a different video. I guess we'll keep this near me right over here. So there's the NT case right there. Let's see what we got inside. Good luck everybody. I do remember the band Veruca Salt. They did the song. Did they do the song? No, I think that's Lush's Jackson. Lush's Jackson I think or was it L7 who did the Naked Eye song? With my naked eye, I saw the falling rain coming down. That might have been Lush's Jackson. Wait what song did Veruca Salt do? Did they do... Do do do do. Do do do do do do do do. Was it that song? No, that's the Breeders. Oh Veruca Salt did Cedar. This Breeders Cannonball thinks easy note. Just missing the marker on it. Cedar is a can't find a cedar. There is Eugenio Suarez, 22 out of 49. That's close enough. Thanks Rex. So I remember Veruca Salt. This scene right here terrified me as a child when they were in the tunnel. Eugenio Suarez for Seattle, that's a number block team. So if you're not familiar with that we go by that digit right there. So the number directly left to the flash. So that'll go to number two. We did a... And it's James with the number two. We did get a new camera so we can do some pretty close close ups. Like if that's worth it, look at that. This Rysale Iglesias, three out of ten. This is old Reds gear but with Atlanta on this one. That's going to go to the Braves, that's three out of ten. So Braves three. That'll be for Steve H, last Bob Mojo. We got Dustin Pedroia, laser show, nine out of ten, Boston. That's going to go to Boston nine, Jason K. David bought an auto of Mike TV on eBay, nice. I think that Mike TV scene is coming up, isn't it? There we go for St. Louis, ton. Tyler O'Neill looks like ton, right, T-O-N? Seventeen out of ninety nine for St. Louis, that'll be for Ed P. Next up is three out of five, Jaren Duran Duran. Duran Duran, ordinary world. Red Sox, Red Sox three. That's going to be Steve H, Steve. All aboard the Big Head Express, congrats. That's a nice one, what are you going to do with it? Dan O'Win Big in our wax party break. There's Matt Brash, three out of ten for Seattle, Seattle three. That's another number three for Steve. This might not fit into a 180 top loader. Dan O'Winning the case of Fnatic's under wraps, autographed baseballs. Actually, it's a perfect fit. Nice rookie silhouette. There's Kyle Muller, 32 out of 49. That's going to be for the Braves, Braves two, that'll be for James. You're going to open them, sell a few to some pals and enjoy, nice. We've done promos like this in the past. Last time, maybe not the last time, but maybe a couple of times before that. Ooh, nice Ken Griffey Jr., 25 out of 49. Piece of his lumber and on-card autograph. That's Richard C with the number five. So James, you got the Kyle Muller and Richard. I think he said he was new to Jaspies. It's a little new guy Mojo here. And a random number block too. I like the close-ups that we can do on these now. Game worn right there, that's always good to see. And we got 79 out of 99, Avicel Garcia, Miami. Miami's a number block team that's going to go to Jason K, Miami nine. Yeah, Ken Griffey Jr., great penmanship there. All right, then we got legendary materials, Nolan Ryan, 46 out of 49. Piece of his Rangers jersey. Game worn, game used. And that will go to the Rangers. Rangers, Ed P, picked up Texas straight up. No, I appreciate you getting as many at-pats in as you did, Dan, but that was from a filler break, getting a main spot to the wax party spot. I told you, folks, I told you that's how it could happen. Hey, you're welcome, Dan. Thanks for being a part of the promo. But yeah, I was gonna say before I was distracted by the Ken Griffey Jr. to the other hits, is that we've done this before, obviously. Not a wax part, I think it was something else, but anyways, we were given away a case of something. And yeah, one dude and like four or five of his friends, they said they made a whole night out of it. They said they went to one dude's house. All the wives were able to get together and hang out too. They made a whole evening of it. And got some food, got some adult beverages, and everyone hung out and opened a box and stuff like that. And made a whole fun night out of it. So congrats again, enjoy it. Let us know how it goes. Let us know if you get to pull anything nice.  All right, we got Matt Brash, 34 out of 99, and Seattle four for Nathan. Yeah, that tunnel is terrifying. Got Goliwank on the chocolate factor on the background. 20 out of 49, Jonathan India. Piece of the jersey going to Jared and the Red Legs. Terrifying, what a terrifying scene.  Yeah, they are. Look at that, he doesn't pay those guys. He definitely doesn't pay those guys. He's like, you're... There's Luke Appling, 95 out of 99. Your labor is just not living nice and swung. Right, yeah, so you don't get eaten by Wang doodles or whatever. Okay, that must be Cubs, right? With the blue jersey right there. There you go, Rex. Last Bob Mojo. There's Luis Frias. Die Cut. It's for Victor, the Dimebecks. Slugworths, put Slugworths to see. It's just spheres? Yeah, I guess he's just freaking them out. Now, Mike TV just shooting at it.  It's like, there's Matt Tice, Patch and Autograph for the Halos. That's going to be for David M. 25 out of 25. Terrifying. You got Yuri Perez, 49 out of 99. That's going to go to Miami Nine. Jason K. 21 out of 99, Thomas Zapooky. For the Mets, Mets one, that's going to be for Tristan and the Mets, number one. And there's Jordon Alvarez, eight out of 49. Jersey and Autograph, Clutch Factor, Jersey and Autograph for Houston. That's goes to Houston, eight. And that goes to Nathan. And the book is Romeo Gonzalez, nine out of 99, Rookie Signature Jumbo Material. There's his Rookie Signature and his Jumbo Material. White Sox Edition going to the Number Block Group and that goes to Jason K, number nine. Number nine, number nine, number nine. And we've got a five out of five, Johnny Bench Treasure Jersey Numbers. That's pretty cool. Jared with the Reds. Jared, all aboard the Big Hit Express. Yeah, five, five, five. Two more boxes to go. So far, so good. What do you think all these Willy Wonka kids are doing these days? I feel like I did see like some sort of, you know, was like a reunion show or documentary or something like that. We've got Thomas Zabuki again, 21 out of 25. Field gear, dual relic. That's going to go to random number block, number one, Tristan with that one. Who Rex is thinking? Monster's got to be on the way. We've got Riley Adams, 58 out of 99 for Nationals Eight. Nathan, ooh, look at that.  Wow. A little bit of history there for the number one, Tristan. There you go, Tristan, nice. And a train whistle. Tristan, all aboard the Big Hit Express. We've got Che Ling Lears, two out of 10. A's edition, going to Oakland. That's for Brian Kay, got the A's straight up. There's Patrick Sandoval, 12 out of 64. Angels Two is going to be James, James P. I feel like Patrick Sandoval has been having a decent season this year on the bunk. Do they still sell Everlasting Gop-Soppers? And then we've got seven out of 10, J.J. Bladet. I think one of their up-and-coming prospects kind of signed over the window right here, but you can see it right there. Miami Seven, that's going to be for Richard C. There you go, Richard. Hmm, the Charlie Bucket character, that's the only movie I've ever did. Rex is saying that the girl that played Ruka is no longer with us. They used to sell Everlasting Gop-Soppers. They don't, I think, in stores anymore, not that I know of. Rex, you're in a grocery store. Do you ever get Everlasting Gop-Soppers? And I always remember, distinctly remembering when I was a kid, never really thinking or noticing a gov stopper before, but I saw, you see what they look like in the old movie, and then I was disappointed when I bought a box of them and they were just like spheres. Here's Josiah Gray. He's having a nice season. 76 out of 99, RPA for the Nationals. Nationals six, that's for Al. I'll leave it, that's your limited market since they last for, Rex has never had them. Jen's looked it up. Joe Peter Ostrom who played Charlie is a vet. All right, so he's served, nice. Thanks, Joe. There's Gunnar Henderson, nice. Eckler's Choice, Paginotto, nice color in there. 10 out of 10, Francis with the O's. Julie Dawn Cole who played Ruka is still alive, and the book is 37 out of 40, Trey Turner, Old Glory. Autograph, nice. Dodgers, number block team, so Dodgers seven, and that's gonna be for Richard C, the new guy Mojo. Ah, it was Violet who passed away. You're turning Violet, Violet? Jason was telling me, we saw a trailer, or Jason was telling me there's a new Willy Wonka. Saw the trailer for Timmy Chalmay, is the title character, that looked interesting. Kind of Harry Potter vibes, like Fantastic Beats vibes. All right, we got a plate on top, that's a one-of-one, and that's a Michael Taylor. Kansas City, tradition. And that will be for, Kansas City is a number block team, KC one, Tristan, all aboard the Big Hit Express, woo-hoo. That Jaren Duran Duran, seven out of 10. Boston seven, it'll be for Richard C. New guy Mojo is still going. You got the man of steel, Ricky Henderson. 10 out of 49 on that one. That will be for Brian Kay and the A's. Hugh grants the Oompa Loompa? You guess we'll finally find out how the Oompa Loompa's were enslaved. Nine out of 25, Josh Lowe, the big Guava apparently. That's for the number block team, Ray's. So Tampa Bay, Ray's nine is gonna be Jason Kay. Tristan Casas, one out of 10 for Tristan. Tristan with Tristan. They spell it differently though. Tristan with the O plays baseball, and Tristan with an A is gonna get this hit. And we got Brian Reynolds, 78 out of 99. Jersey and Autograph, that's gonna go to Aaron Miller and the Pirates. And we got O'Neill Cruz. Nice, 28 out of 99. Three color patch and on-card autograph, nice RPA for Aaron and the Pirates. The buckos, yarr. We've got Prime Pairings, wow. Dual Autograph, Andrew Jones, and his son Drew Jones, 18 out of 25. That's one happy person, one sad person. Nice, Andrew Jones is a pretty good penmanship. His son, not too bad either. Nice father and son. All right, so A's, sorry, Braves that is, is a number block team. So Braves eight, Nathan, you're part of the randomizer. Diamondbacks were picked up straight up by Victor. Good luck to the both of you. You can do that randomizer at the end of the video. Book is 23 out of 25 legendary material signatures duels. And that's Mike Piazza, Mets edition. And then the Mets, number block team, so that goes to Mets three. And that will be for Steve H. You're turning violet, violet. You think any of those kids, like in terms of the movie, you think they're alive? You think, are they all dead? Like, because violet just ended up popping. And the last one is Connor Norvey, 73 out of 99, not 29, 73 out of 99 for Francis and the Orioles. There you go, Francis. There you go, everybody. That is the break now. Let's make one person happy and one person sad. Let's go to random.org. Let's go to the list. Let's get Atlanta. Let's get Arizona. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. One and a four, five times. Name on top after five, or the team on top after five will get the card. Fingers crossed, good luck. One, two, three, four, and five. After five times, ATL. So Victor, my apologies, but Atlanta, Atlanta eight. Nathan, congrats to you. Look at father and son. Yeah, nice little father and son duo here. Nice. And there you have it, boys and girls. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. And I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.


If you watch Common Ground Online, consider becoming a member or making a donation at lptv.org. Lakeland PBS presents Common Ground, brought to you by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the citizens of Minnesota. Production funding of Common Ground is made possible in part by First National Bank Bemidji, continuing their second century of service to the community, a partnership for generations. Member, FDIC. Welcome to Common Ground, I'm your host, Scott Knudson. In this episode, walk the trails and bathe in nature at Wadena's Green Island Preserve. I'm Vicki Chipolas. I'm at Green Island, which is also my home and the home of my husband. I am Kent Shearer and this is the old family farm where I would visit when I was a child. My grandfather farmed this property through the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. I would start coming here when I was probably a youngster in the mid 50s through 60s and when I had the opportunity to come here, I certainly jumped at that. This particular property was a standard old-fashioned farm. It was as practical as it could possibly be. It was as open as it could be. But about 40 years ago, this 60-acre piece of property started getting converted to green space. So there were very few trees. It was quite open right now. When you enter this property, it is sheltered, visually sheltered from the surrounding community by trees and shrubs. At that time, it was an open, flat landscape right out to the highway. You could sort of see forever. It was the leftover component of a family farm which at some point fairly early in the 1950s went idle and then it was simply left to sit. But it was a long time before my family and then I got around to filling it in to adding trees and changing the landscape and enriching the landscape.  And that would be exactly what we were aiming for. We're looking for a green space that would enrich this community, also enrich perhaps tourism because we do have people that come through the area and will find their way in as they're passing by. The whole notion is that within the city limits of the little town of Wadena, we should take this space which is 60 acres and quite sizable and turn it into a green space that is rich in shrubs and perennials and annuals and trees. Once the vegetation is established, as it has been, the birds come in, the canines start to come and the whole idea is to create a space where especially youngsters and young families can come out, they can picnic, they can walk, they can walk the dog, the kids can look around, it's non-threatening. It's our hope that when someone comes to Green Island they're going to get a chance to reconnect in nature. Walk through the pines, hear the birds sing, see a bunny running across the path and also encounter a little artwork, beautiful flowers and also get tips on how important our earth is and how much we as human beings have the responsibility to care for it. We've become adopted by preschool in the general area. We have about four school districts that bring their preschool out for spring outings and in that way the kids are introduced to a non-threatening landscape where they feel very comfortable kind of running and tumbling and looking around. We have multiple intentions and multiple uses for our place here. I'm also very interested in establishing usable plants, medicinals and food resources which can be gleaned by the community down the road when they've matured. People could come out to pick berries to make jams and jellies. Another component of what we're after is a retreat. So we have a small kuti, a meditation building. It's actually sort of patterned after Southeast Asian meditation buildings in Thailand and this one is intended for people who just need space to write, to think, to pray, to meditate in a separate spot where you can be free of responsibilities, leave home, not have to worry about painting the house and not worry whether you left the stove on or the electricity is too costly. You get someplace else and you don't feel responsible for anything but the moment that you're in. When we see someone drive up, whether it's a single person in a car or a van full of kids, you know, we both kind of smile because it means that someone's coming out to just have a moment for themselves or just to enjoy, you know, being among the trees, being with each other and we just kind of let them be. We have signs along the way saying, we're going to be out mowing the lawns and planting the gardens and you feel completely comfortable to just come in and make this place your own. All we ask is that they be respectful of the property and treat each other with kindness while they're here. The oak trees that are here are pretty much the original inhabitants of this landscape. They're the one thing that has not been changed. From there we have a trail system that covers about a mile and a quarter which if a person strikes out in the trail system you'll pass by some outdoor sculpture, half a dozen pieces of major good size outdoor sculpture. We're going to be adding and removing those, changing them up a little bit. We have small orchards, like 10 and 12 apple trees at a time broken up into different small orchards. The trail system takes you out to an old hand pump that has a sand point on it. Kids are fascinated by being able to walk with the water and feel the nice cool comfort of that. So when the conditions are right when we haven't had too much rain that has made things soft which happens on our outer trails it can be a mile and a quarter walk and along the way there are benches that a person can sit at, take a break. There's a little magnetic poetry board. We have an actual slate blackboard that usually gets lots of John was here, Mary was here and that sort of thing on it. We had a very limited experience. We had no sense of what it should or should not be beyond just letting it evolve as to how it gets used and what people appreciate. Green Island was inspired by the fact that it was a big property 60 acres right in the heart of Wadena, Minnesota surrounded by commercial property but really just the place for two of us, my husband and myself and we thought that this was too good not to share with the public. We really thought that people yearned for a place like this in their lives and so we decided let's invite them here. So throughout the year we've got quiet activities that they can do and a lot of people have made this their home. We have people come out for regular picnics every spring we've got preschool kids buses of preschool kids that come and read stories along our trails on our story walk. We do poetry walks here plant swaps all kinds of activities but really basically it's just a place where people can drive in feel comfortable get out of their car walk the trails and just relax. And there are a number of factors that pulled together to bring us to this place this very sizable space 60 acres inside this small community it seemed very unfortunate that anybody would say this is mine no one may come here now that would be very typical but we said let's do just the opposite let's take a risk let's invite the community and let's invite outsiders to come to this place which we cherish and we spend a fair amount of time making it perfect just for ourselves we might as well make it perfect for others as well. On top of that there's an unusual reason I have at times been a meditator during my life and my feeling was if we could get people to step away from daily life come to a spot where they could sit on the grass where things would be less disruptive and there would be less to occupy their mind and perhaps use the little meditation hut that we have we might be able to refocus people back on the importance of the environment and I'm afraid that we have gotten far away from acknowledging the base that our experience has and the base that the quality of our life has in a rich and healthy environment my hope was that we could help to move people back to that realization and we could give people to value and be more alert to the way that we care for our surroundings now this worked out because the schools are coming and that's a very rewarding thing for us when these preschool kids come and they read a book and walk our trails and then they just trot and run and you can see them picking up pine cones and some of these little things that we overlook just a rock found here and there a little bit of a flower you know that they're starting that engagement that we want to see. When you're in the woods so to speak literally what you're breathing in is stuff that makes your brain function better makes your body healthier generally enhances your well-being and that's one of the things that you'll get to experience when you are on the trails of Green Island to get a chance to see flowers and unusual plants. Kent especially is one who loves to try new things. He'll import seeds from as far away as Siberia and northern Norway to try those northern growing plants here to see how they do. This is purely experimentation. This is something that's just interesting to me but the notion is that let's elaborate let's diversify and enrich this landscape so that it will have increased utility in the future and one of the most easy keeping ways to do that is just by putting the right plants on. You can create buildings and you can create bridges and those things all have to be maintained but typically if you establish plants here give them a year or two to settle in and they will look after themselves after that so they're easy keepers. So it's always an adventure to see what kind of plant is coming out of the ground at Green Island. In addition to that there's the birds and literally the bees and the butterflies and you know it's just a way to connect with nature. There is an unusual reason for the name that was chosen in the 1300s outside of Strasburg and either the Rhine or the Roan River which I can't remember but we're going to be close, either one of those. There was an island that was called Green Island and what was unusual about that we have to go back now think this is the 1300s. This was a spot where laymen and clerics came together in the worship of God so that typically the clerics were a separate group of people and you had your monks and your nuns and they were cloistered and they were kept separate. The priests had their own roles to perform but on Green Island outside of Strasburg there was a significant lay community and there were sort of freelance priests and monks that would hang out there also that they could simply dedicate themselves to worship and to contemplation of God. Well meditation has been important to me I thought that was a very charming concept and I also like the philosophical component of that so when it came time to giving a DBA or a doing business as name to what was the family farm just decided that something that had a little bit of a ring to it Green Island would be an interesting way to state it plus of course surrounded by commerce there's residential homes on the south side of us there's industry to the north of us there's shopping to the west of us so we really are an island green space right here. When you come here the one thing that you may encounter is our one or maybe both of our tricolor colleagues and Lassie in particular loves to welcome people and show them where the trail is and so she'll get you on the trail and now she's getting a little old so she may tend to go back to the house and lie in the shade but she has you on your way and as you go you're going to walk past artwork created by various artists from across the state of Minnesota down then some of it comes and some of it goes so you're kind of always seeing something a little different picnic areas unusual plants and flowers you know every season brings different color and different shapes to Green Island it's fun in a way that just feels enriching. It feels fairly essential to be able to share this space simply because of my outlook on the way humankind is moving and what we're doing with our relationship with nature I want to do some role perform some role in raising that awareness and turning in a different direction so when I sense that that is happening when I can see that happening in one form or another you know that feels pretty darn nice there are many activities that take place here that are sort of outside of our preview people have simply identified how they can use Green Island now that could be weddings we have a poetry walk and a book dedication coming up but one of the ones that has become really rewarding for me are the school outings in the spring we know that that's taking kids in a direction that I want them to at least get started so I can sense that my mission is being fulfilled when I see the buses pull in In October 2016 we held our annual plant swap this year in collaboration with the Wadena Garden Club we love to collaborate with community organizations so this was a fun one and we invited anyone who had plants to swap as well as things like honey from the local bees and lots of value added products like jams and jellies and those kinds of things people came and swapped with one another and it was really wonderful for anyone who was into nature and gardening and all things plants because horticulture is important to me and we know that anybody who gardens always ends up with surplus then the idea came out for example well maybe we can facilitate an exchange maybe based on an event that has taken place here earlier the Barter Fest that became an example of what could be done just by the idea of exchanging goods or services and materials but we put a focus on plant materials and horticultural goods tools and that sort of thing for this so it is simply the opportunity for gardeners to bring in anything that's surplus to look for the novelty that they really want to add to their garden to get rid of some things that are just too frequent we also had one or two farmers that came in brought in lots of old tools and that sort of thing we've had people that have brought in home produced gems and jellies anything that has to do with food stuffs is what the plant swap became you know to do something like the plant swap is like a lot of our other activities it just allows people to connect with one another which is so important to the I think mental, physical, emotional health of human beings and they have fun in the process I mean they get to know people they didn't know they get to take home some sort of plant slip that they're going to grow and remember I remember where that came from they're going to go on their shelf at home a jar of honey that somebody just down the road made from the bees that have been buzzing around flowers here and other places all summer long it's kind of magical to see people come together and that's ultimately you know why we love to do this actually I'm going to say that it has matured and moved beyond us which I think is a good thing we've had the plant swap here for about three years it's now going to be moving into downtown Wadena in a more central location where as people pass through who are not connected or did not come for it they're going to see the opportunity and can swing in and give it a try I'm at the Green Island Preserve Plant Swap and I've got some plants and I've got some honey from my hives that I'm swapping and selling today I think the plant swap is a great way for people to talk, learn about ideas and trade ideas and tricks of the trade and also hopefully get some great new things to plant in their garden we call it a garden swap although people can buy and purchase too for that matter but the garden club members got together a couple years ago and decided to do this in the spring and it was cold and rainy so this year we decided to do it in the fall so we could add produce and that kind of thing and invited some of the other clubs so you come you can buy you can swap the fun part is just visiting with other gardeners and learning new things one of the events that just kind of brings people together with the common interest basically is what it is garden garden yes and the beautiful Green Island Kent offered us this beautiful space he's got places where you can walk through the trails there's little places back there that you can meditate there's sculptures here and there some whimsical some education things we like to come out here and bring our dogs out here and go for a walk on a Sunday afternoon it's a beautiful place but he was so kindest to open this up for us just a fun time I think Green Island is a great place for people to get out of town and just find a nice calm place to get in touch listen to the birds see a frog jump across the path and just kind of enjoy that which is not paved and cemented well like I said there's a lot of different people who come to Green Island on a regular basis and one is especially close to my heart because when that van pulls up I know I'll always get a hug and out comes Mary with her guys the guys from the group home who come out at least once a week they'll have a picnic we hold a big patch of rhubarb for them every year so that John can get his rhubarb crisp and rhubarb cake they're a part of this place in a really special and wonderful way and just fill it with love and we love having them here so we do have a group of adult men who live in a group home situation who have rather adopted Green Island in that sense I would say that they come maybe twice a month or so as an outing the last time that we saw them they were here for a picnic they just sat up on our barn foundation and they had a picnic for about 20 minutes or 30 minutes but they tend to walk the trails and the woman who comes with them takes the time to point things out to bring things to their notice what has been very sweet about this is they have a variety of options as to where they can go and what they can do when they're doing an outing and it's become apparently common that they say well let's go to Green Island and so these guys have kind of adopted our place and it's fun to see the smiles on their face when they come strolling in and it's actually fun for us to be with them because they tend to be very calm, very engaging very sweet people so we spend a little time visiting with them when they're here Green Island is open any season of the year in fact you know one of my favorite times to be here is in the winter an opportunity to be outside on the snow breathing in that great cold-air winter and it's really a wonderful experience and the novelty of our Green Island is that we simply say anyone is welcome to visit during daylight hours so what that means is as you might find in some park situations there is no need to call ahead of course we don't have an overnight stay but here at Green Island just come rolling in or biking in if you're a local kid or walking in and you can just sit down and pull a book out or get your sandwich out, take the dog for a stroll there aren't any arrangements that need to be set before you do that we say that we're closed in the dark so we know that we have some private time for example but otherwise it is simply drive in, stroll in, bike in we're very proud of Story Walk that is something that has a national presence it's being done on a national level but we're sort of the permanent opportunity for it right here in this area Story Walk the idea behind Story Walk is to simply take a children's book with a lot of illustrations separate the pages so that they're mounted some place outdoors over a larger area so that anyone who reads that book needs to move through the environment, be outside feel the wind, encounter insects, see a gopher and we have actually a quarter of a mile long Story Walk quarter of a mile out, quarter of a mile coming back that's attracting local schools when they come they typically bring their lunch they might also do some games during that period of time and that's become a spring outing there is a great deal of groundskeeping involved because I want to make sure that the trails are easily walked that there aren't any pitfalls that are really sort of lingering so there's a good deal of mowing there's a good deal of weeding and I try to stay on top of it just for the security of the people that come out to take a stroll we're just hoping to stay on top of the property you know just doing the mowing and the planting and tending it so it's a well maintained place in the long term we welcome ideas from the public and really are interested in seeing how much the public is interested in maintaining this as a public space after the two of us are gone we're already seeing the result of a society that is leaving nature behind I'm hoping that we can make a turn away and move back in the correct direction because I think too much is at risk we already know about massive extinctions this is the new extinction period so many species are being lost and we know the endangerment of our waters and pollutions so my thought is once again the concept will be can we just reopen that door for the youngsters so that they are not entirely sitting on the carpet in their living room and have the opportunity to make the choice even and say oh I was out there and the trees and the squirrels were great fun I'm going to give that another try let's go to the park that's the way things will go because there is something inherent in humankind that says my place my space off you go and we're working in just the opposite direction from that thank you so much for watching join us again next time on Common Ground if you have an idea for Common Ground in North Central Minnesota email us at legacy at lptv.org or call<PHONE_NUMBER> for more information on Common Ground visit lptv.org and click local shows to order episodes or segments of Common 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Hello everyone, this is Dave Vellante. We're diving into the deep end with AMD and Oracle on the topic of MySQL heat wave performance. And we want to explore the important issues around machine learning. As applications become more data intensive and machine intelligence continues to evolve, workloads increasingly are seeing a major shift where data and AI are being infused into applications and having a database that simplifies the convergence of transaction and analytics data without the need to context switch and move data out of and into different data stores and eliminating the need to perform extensive ETL operations as becoming an industry trend that customers are demanding. At the same time, workloads are becoming more automated and intelligent. And to explore these issues further, we're happy to have back on theCUBE, Nipin Agarwal, who's the Senior Vice President of MySQL heat wave and Kumaran Siva who's the Corporate Vice President Strategic Business Development at AMD. Gents, hello again, welcome back. Hello, hi, Dave. Thank you, Dave. Okay, Nipin, obviously machine learning has become a must have for analytics offerings. It's integrated into MySQL heat wave. Why did you take this approach and not the specialized database approach as many competitors do, right tool for the right job? Right, so there are a lot of customers of MySQL who have the need to run machine learning on the data which is stored in MySQL database. So in the past, customers would need to extract the data out of MySQL and they would take it to a specialized service for running machine learning. Now, the reason we decided to incorporate machine learning inside the database, there are multiple reasons. One, customers don't need to move the data. And if they don't need to move the data, it is more secure because it's protected by the same access control mechanisms as rest of the data. There is no need for customers to manage multiple services. But in addition to that, when we run the machine learning inside the database, customers are able to leverage the same service, the same hardware which has been provisioned for OLTP analytics and use machine learning capabilities at no additional charge. So from a customer's perspective, they get the benefits that it is a single database. They don't need to manage multiple services and it is offered at no additional charge. And then as another aspect, which is kind of orthogonal, which is based on the IT, the work we have done, it is also significantly faster than what customers would get by having a separate service. Just to follow up on that, how are you seeing customers use heat waves, machine learning capabilities today? How is that evolving? Right. So one of the things which customers very often want to do is to train their models based on the data. Now, one of the things is that data in a database or in a transactional database changes quite rapidly. So we have introduced support for auto machine learning as a part of Heatwave ML. And what it does is that it fully automates the process of training. And this is something which is very important to database users, very important to my secret users that they don't really want to hire or data scientists or specialists for doing training. So that's the first part that training in a Heatwave ML is fully automated, doesn't require the user to provide any specific parameters, just the source data and the task of which they want to train. The second aspect is that training is really fast. So the training is really fast. The benefit is that customers can retrain quite often. They can make sure that the model is up to date with any changes which have been made to their transactional database. And as a result of the models being up to date, the accuracy of the prediction is high. So that's the first aspect which is training. The second aspect is inference, which customers run once they have the models trained. And the third thing, which has perhaps been the most sought after request from the MySQL customers, is the ability to provide explanations. So Heatwave ML provides explanations for any model which has been generated or trained by Heatwave ML. So these are the three capabilities, training, inference and explanations. And the whole process is completely automated, doesn't require a specialist or a data scientist. Now that's nice. I mean, training obviously very popular today. I've said inference I think is going to explode in the coming decade. And then of course, AI, explainable AI is a very important issue. Kumaran, what are the relevant capabilities of the AMD chips that are used in OCI to support Heatwave ML? Are they different from say the specs for Heatwave in general? So actually they aren't. And this is one of the key features of this architecture or this implementation that is really exciting. There with Heatwave ML, you're using the same CPU. And by the way, it's not GPU, it's a CPU for both, for all three of the functions that Nipon just talked about, inference, training and explanation, all done on CPU. Bigger picture with the capabilities we bring here, we're really providing a balance between the CPU cores, memory and the networking. And what that allows you to do here is be able to feed the CPU cores appropriately. And within the cores, we have these, we have AVX instructions with the Zen 2 and Zen 3 cores. We had AVX2 and then with the Zen 4 core coming out, we're going to have AVX512. But we were able to, with that balance of being able to bring in the data and utilize the high memory bandwidth and then use the computation to its maximum, we're able to provide, build probably enough AI processing that we're able to get the job done. And then we're able to build a fit into that larger pipeline that we build out here with the Heatwave. Got it. Nipon, you and I, every time we have a conversation, we've got to talk benchmarks. So you've done machine learning benchmarks with Heatwave. You might even be the first in the industry to publish transparent open ML benchmarks on GitHub. I mean, I wouldn't know for sure, but I had not seen that as common. Can you describe the benchmarks and the datasets that you used here? Sure. So what we did was we took a bunch of open datasets for two categories of tasks, classification and regression. So we took about a dozen datasets for classification and about six for regression. So to give an example, the kind of datasets we use for classifications like the Airlines dataset, Higgs, Census, Bank, right? So these are open datasets. And what we did was for on these datasets, we did a comparison of what would it take to train using Heatwave ML and then the other service we compared with this Deadshift ML. So there were two observations. One is that with Heatwave ML, the user does not need to provide any tuning parameters, right? Heatwave ML using RML fully generates a train model, figures out what are the right algorithms, what are the right features, what are the right hyperparameters and such, right? So no need for any manual intervention, not so the case with Deadshift ML. The second thing is the performance, right? So the performance of Heatwave ML, aggregate on these 12 datasets for classification and the six datasets on regression. On an average, it is 25 times faster than Deadshift ML. And note that Deadshift ML in turn invokes Sage Beaker, right? So on an average, Heatwave ML provides 25 times better performance for training. And the other point to note is that there is no need for any human intervention that's fully automated. But in the case of Deadshift ML, many of these datasets did not even complete in the set duration. If you look at price performance, one of the things again I want to highlight is because of the fact that AMD does pretty well in all kinds of workloads, we are able to use the same cluster, users can use the same cluster for analytics, for OLTP or for machine learning. So there is no additional cost for customers to run Heatwave ML if they have provisioned Heatwave. But assuming a user is provisioning a Heatwave cluster only to run Heatwave ML, right? That's the case. Even in that case, the price performance advantage of Heatwave ML over Redshift ML is 97 times, right? So 25 times faster at 1% of the cost compared to Redshift ML. And all these scripts and all this information is available on GitHub for customers to try to modify and like see, like what are the advantages they would get on their workloads. Every time I hear these numbers, I shake my head.  And so we'll see how the competition responds when and if they respond. So, but thank you for sharing those results. Kumaran, can you elaborate on how the specs that you talked about earlier contribute to Heatwave ML's benchmarks results? I'm particularly interested in scalability. Typically things degrade as you push the system harder. What are you seeing? No, I think it's good. Look, yeah, by those numbers just blow my head too. That's crazy, good performance. So from an AMD perspective, we have really built an architecture. Like if you think about the chiplet architecture to begin with, it is fundamentally, it's got a kind of scaling by design, right? And one of the things that we've done here is been able to work with the Heatwave team and the ML team and then been able to within the CPU package itself be able to scale up to take very efficient use of all of the course and then of course work with them on how you go between nodes so you can have these very large systems that can run ML very, very efficiently. So it's really building on the building blocks of the chiplet architecture and how scaling happens there. Yeah, so what you're saying is near linear scaling, essentially? So let the punk comment on that. Yeah, also, so how about as cluster sizes? Grow, what happens there? So one of the design points for Heatwave is scale out architecture, right? So as you said, that as we add more data set or increase the size of the data or we add the number of nodes to the cluster, we want the performance to scale. So we showed that we have nearly linear scale factor or nearly linear scalability for SQL workloads in the case of Heatwave ML as well as users add more nodes to the cluster. So the size of the cluster, the performance of Heatwave ML improves. So I was giving you this example that Heatwave ML is 25 times faster compared to Redshift ML. Well, that was on a cluster size of two. If you increase the cluster size of Heatwave ML to a larger number, I think the number is 16, the performance advantage over Redshift ML increases from 25 times faster to 45 times faster. So what that means is that on a cluster size of 16 nodes, Heatwave ML is 45 times faster for training. These are again, dozen data sets. So this shows that Heatwave ML scales better than the competition. So you're saying adding nodes offsets any management complexity that you would think of as getting in the way, is that right? Right, so one is the management complexity and which is why by features like elasticity, customers can scale up or scale down very easily. The second aspect is, okay, what gives us this advantage of scalability or how are we able to scale? Now, the techniques which we use for Heatwave ML scalability are a bit different from what we use for SQL processing. So in the case of Heatwave ML, they're really like two trade-offs which we have to be careful about. One is the accuracy because we wanna provide better performance for machine learning without compromising on the accuracy. So accuracy would require like more synchronization if you have multiple threats. But if you have too much of synchronization that can slow down the degree of parallelism we get, right? So we have to strike a fine balance. So what we do is that in Heatwave ML, there are different phases of training like algorithm selection, feature selection, hyperparameter training. Each of these phases is parallelized. And for instance, one of the ways techniques we use is that if you're trying to figure out what's the optimal hyperparameter to be used, we start up with the search space and then each of the VMs gets a part of the search space and then we synchronize only when needed, right? So these are some of the techniques which we have developed over the years and they're actually papers file, research publications filed on this and this is what we do to achieve good scalability. And what that results to the customer is that if they have some amount of training time and they wanna make it better, they can just provision a larger cluster and they will get better performance. Got it, thank you. Kumran, when I think of machine learning, machine intelligence, AI, I think GPU, but you're not using GPU. So how are you able to get this type of performance, price performance without using GPUs? Yeah, definitely. So that's a good point. And you think about what is going on here and you consider the whole pipeline that Nipon has just described in terms of how you get your training, your algorithms and using the MySQL pieces of it to get to the point where the AI can be effective. In that process, what happens is you have to have a lot of memory transactions, a lot of memory bandwidth comes into play and they're bringing all that data together, feeding the actual complex that does the AI calculations. That in itself could be the bottleneck, right? And you can have multiple bottlenecks along the way. And I think what you see in the AMD architecture from Epic for this use case is the balance and the fact that you are able to do the pre-processing, the AI and then the post-processing all kind of seamlessly together, that has a huge value. And that goes back to what Nipon was saying about using the same infrastructure gets you the better TCO but it also gets you better performance. And that's because of the fact that you're bringing the data to the computation. So the computation in this case is not strictly the bottleneck. It's really about how you pull together what you need and to do the AI computation. And that's probably a more, it's a common case. And so you're gonna start, I think, we'll start to see this, especially for inference applications, but in this case we're doing both inference explanation and training all using the CPU and the same OCI infrastructure. Interesting, Nipon, is the secret sauce for HeatWave ML performance different than what we've discussed before, you and I, with HeatWave generally? Is there some additive, engine additive that you're putting in? Yes, the secret sauce is indeed different. Just the way I was saying that for SQL processing the reason we get very good performance and price performance is because we have come up with new algorithms, which help the SQL process and scale out. Similarly for HeatWave ML, we have come up with new IP, new like algorithms. One example is that we use meta-learn proxy models. That's the technique we use for automating the training process. So think of this meta-learn proxy models to be like using machine learning for machine learning training. And this is an IP which we developed. And again, we have published the results and the techniques but having such kind of like techniques is what gives us a better performance. Similarly, another thing which we use is adaptive sampling that you can have a large data set but we intelligently sample to figure out that how can we train on a small subset without compromising on the accuracy. So yes, there are many techniques which we have developed specifically for machine learning which is what gives us the better performance, better price performance and also better scalability. What about MySQL Autopilot? Is there anything that differs from HeatWave ML that is relevant? Okay, interesting you should ask. So MySQL Autopilot is think of it to be an application using machine learning. So MySQL Autopilot uses machine learning to automate various aspects of the database service. So for instance, if you want to figure out that what's the right partitioning scheme to partition the data in memory, we use machine learning techniques to figure out that what's the best column based on the user's workload to partition the data in memory or given a workload if you want to figure out what is the right cluster size to provision. That's something we use MySQL Autopilot for. And I want to highlight that we don't have any other database service which provides this level of machine learning based automation which customers get with MySQL Autopilot. Interesting. Okay, last question for both of you. What are you guys working on next? What did customers expect from this collaboration? Specifically in this space, maybe Nipin, you can start and then Kumaran can bring us home. Sure. So there are two things we are working on. One is based on the feedback we've gotten from customers. We're going to keep making the machine learning capabilities richer in heat wave ML. That's one dimension. And the second thing is which Kumaran was alluding to earlier. We are looking at the next generation of like processes coming from AMD. And we will be seeing as to how we can more benefit from these processes, whether it's the size of the L3 cache, the memory bandwidth, the network bandwidth and such or the NUMA effects and make sure that we leverage all the greatness with the new generation of processes we'll offer. It's like an engineering playground, Kumaran. Let's give you the final word. No, that's great. Now look with the Zenfour CPU cores we're also bringing in AVX 512 instruction capability. Now our implementation is a little different it was in Roman Milan too where we use a double pump implementation. What that means is, you know we take two cycles to do these instructions but the key thing there is we don't lower our speed of the CPUs so there's no noisy neighbor effects. And it's something that OCI and the heat wave has taken full advantage of. And so like as we go out in time and we see the Zenfour core we can, we see up to 96 CPUs that's going to work really well. So we're collaborating closely with OCI and with the heat wave team here to make sure that we can take advantage of that. And we're also going to upgrade the memory subsystem to get to 12 channels of DDR5. So this should be a fairly significant boost in absolute performance. But more importantly, just as importantly in TCO value for the customers the end customers who are going to adopt this great service. I love their relentless innovation guys. Thanks so much for your time. We're going to have to leave it there. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Dave. Okay, thank you for watching this special presentation on theCUBE, your leader in enterprise and emerging tech coverage.


Yo, what's poppin' folks, welcome to another video. Thank you guys so much for the support. If you guys are new to the channel, you better smash that subscribe button, man. Put some bangers every single week. Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday. And also, hit that notification bell right next to it. YouTube's been a little weird lately, so be sure to press that thing and smash that like button. Well today, I'm here with my boys. Got A-dub fishing right there. Hey, boy. Let me get a little focus going. There we go. And then we got old fishing wind norm right there. If you guys wanna check out their channels, I'll leave them in the description box below. So guys, what are you guys doing, man? We're trying to get a massage. Trying to get a massage, man. What you doing? So what we doing today, Norm? We're at Santa's at Bass Pro Shop, so we're here to visit Santa, right? Santa actually is. Dude, will you go sit on his lap, bro? I will not. Please go sit on Santa's lap. Honestly, I'm kinda scared though. Can you sit on Santa's lap? Wait out. For 10,000 subscribers? Yes. Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, wait, wait. For 10,000? For 10,000 more than I already have. Oh, come on, bro. To hit 10,000. Okay, hold up, hold up.  Are you guys gonna do it? Dude, I'm not doing it. It scares me, honestly. Well anyways, guys, we're actually at the mall today as connected to the Bass Pro, which you guys can see out in the world right here. We're gonna be going inside. We're actually getting some stuff today for some sort of top water video. We're gonna be going down to Florida, so I'm hoping to get on a good top water bike. So we're gonna go in here, get some of the top waters, and see what we're gonna be doing today. So let's go ahead and go inside. Norm, what are you doing, bud? Oh, you gotta be covering this. You definitely gotta slam it, but I don't suggest you do that. This is totally broken before I got here. This wasn't me. No, you definitely have to slam it. Yeah. Okay, we're good. What is it? What if they actually left the key in it? You just start whipping it around the mall. You're like in the box. So I put in two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive. Put that thing in sport mode. All right, let's go before you get us in trouble. Yo, look at that, man, up there. He's just chilling. Look at this, man. Look at the guy. No, above your head, bro. He's just chilling. It's a squirrel. It's a squirrel. Out here inside of Bass Pro, we came at the perfect time to be honest with you, because there's not many people in here, but yeah, it is. So you guys are both repping. Look at this. Norm put his green off for the kick-in vid, boy. Hey, with the merch, if you guys want to check out the merch, it really supports me, guys. It helps with the travel trips, like we're on today. 30% off, you can check it down below. Go peep it. Yes, sir. Yes, sir, looking sexy. So we need to look for some top waters, okay? So, I saw no top water, boy. It is what you wanted to be. Dude, those back are what you wanted to be. That would probably be soft. Oh yeah, it kills it. That is unbelievable. 7,400 yards in line. It's bigger than my head, but not bigger than my brain.  Wait, how much? 7,040 yards here. I'm gonna prove it to him real quick. It's basically longer than a mile. Yeah, way longer than a mile. That's like three or four miles. 740 football fields. Wait, wait, no. Where's the 70 football fields? No, that's seven. Wait, how many? Okay, I've already forgotten the number. 7,400 yards. That's 74. No. Yes, that's 74 football fields. What pound test is it? What is the, dude, something just hopped on your shirt, bro, I'm just saying. What pound test is it? That is 30 pound test. 30 pound, dude, that seems, oh yeah.  This is what I want for Christmas, Santa. Hey, Santa. You should go take it to him, sit on his lap. I got exactly what I want right here. All right, boys. So we're looking for top water lures and we just kind of stumbled upon a few. How about you go over a few of the... This one is butterfly net. Ow! That's not a butterfly net, that would hurt their wings. So we have whopper ploppers right here. We got the big ones. We got the small ones. That's not the big ones. Yeah, I was about to say it. No, we're the bigger ones. They don't have the turbo, boys. We're gonna talk about turbos, man. Where is the squirrel? Squirrel? Where's the turbos? You know what's funny is like, YouTube probably doesn't know that inside joke yet. So it's just like going around. Everybody's like, what are you guys talking about? But we got some chug bugs. So that is a killer bait, dude. I've killed the spots. I actually caught a four pound spot and a five pound larger mouth. I had one on each hook. And I got it up to the boat and the spot came off, but I caught the largey. That was only noon. Man, that would be tough. Yeah, I know. It's crazy. But yeah, we got some whopper ploppers. We got some chug bugs right here.  Over here. Yeah, we got some poppers. We got the prank, which is the crank bait and a popper mix. I've been wanting to try that, dude. That thing looks kind of sick. Have you seen any videos on it? Yeah, actually I have. Like I've seen the action videos. It literally looks like a crank bait. And like whenever I fish a popper, I throw it out there. I'll pop it a couple of times and I'll reel it in. But then it just kind of like barely goes under the surface. That's like the genius way to catch fish whenever you're reeling it back in. Yeah, that's true. I've fished with them before. Oh yeah? Yeah. Is it any good? Yeah, so I'd actually use it like as a crank bait, just a normal crank bait. If I get bit, but he wouldn't take it, then I let it float to the top and I start popping it. Oh, dude, that's actually so cool. That's like a rock. Dude, I don't have to go take one of these out. If you guys want to see me film a video of one of these, just like a little experimentation video, drop some comments down below, smash the like button, let me know. What type of lure can we make where it's two different types of lures in the same one? That's a crank bait and a popper. It's like a homemade build? What if we made a frog shader bait? That's already been done. What if we made... Frider bait. Frider bait, I like that.     I don't know about that one. Jerk worm, $5,000. These actually can be like money. It's kind of like a, I guess it's like a kind of old school lure, I guess. But you know they have the Bangaloo or the Devil's Horse. Yeah.  Oh, it's the thing, it's the go-to.  I actually have some balsa and cedar ones. I'm a skinny type guy, honestly. I like the Devil's Horse. Look at that mega popper right there, dude. That's a big one. Got some walking baits, got some other poppers. Look at that, that's like the, their version of, it's called the cha-po. Ooh, the cha-po, I like that. It's cha-po. Yo, it's cha-po. I got a tool. It's a tool. It's a tool. That cool fishing lure is for you guys, though. Look at that, it's called the Frog-R. I think it's topwater. That is a topwater, it's like a hard-bodied frog. Yeah, I don't... Speaking of frogs, where are the frogs, man? That's the real question. I'm gonna be completely real with you guys. If I could pick like any topwater lure out, it'd probably be a frog. What do you think, bro? Look at this fishing. Like, if you could fish with any topwater. I will say it's like the most versatile, you can kind of throw it anywhere. But I do like fishing a popper, and I actually really like a buzz bait, like, a lot. You love a buzz bait. I like a buzz bait. He fishes a buzz bait a lot. What about you, Norm? Like, frog fishing? What, is this a favorite topwater lure of walking bait? You like a walking bait? Yeah. I'm not gonna say it. I just like really enjoy frog fishing, you know what I mean? Some of our frog fishing is really cool. Let's go ahead and look at the frogs. Maybe if we find something interesting. What? I found a frog. Kind of. Kind of. Look at that thing. I've never seen that before. What the heck is that? That might need like a video just on its own. Look at that hook. Yeah, look at that. That's so weird. I'm scared about the hookover ratio though. Dude, that's hard.  Or like a jitterbug, that's probably what it's like. Pretty cool. Can I get it? Oh, no. We gotta look at the normal frogs, bro. Normal. Yeah, we gotta go on Santa Claus' lap for you to get that, and I'll buy it for you. Ooh, that's a tough bargain you're up for. You guys found the frogs? Holy, dude, this is a frog wall. I'm actually impressed, Bass Parishops. This is what you call a frog wall, right? I want this frog wall in my own tackle shop. Oh, they do have this. Oh, look at the green one, bro. Kicking green, you gotta pull that guy out. Oh, look at all of these, dude. Dude, there's more. They have five different colors. Oh my. Dude, where's the black? They don't have like a black window. That's what I have. That's the one I use for my video. I'm sorry, everybody. My favorite is this one right here. This one right here. My favorite top one was the poppin' pickle. I had somebody tell me that they couldn't find the poppin' pickle in its store. And they actually thought it was called a poppin' pickle. It's not. So they're asking all their employees, where's the poppin' pickle? Oh my God. It's not called a poppin' pickle. It's actually not called a poppin' pickle, but. Good shot. That's a poppin' pickle. Good shot, man. Yo, what is that? Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. I actually, did I see this? I think I filmed this. Was it at this Bass Pro? Dude, I saw this at one of the Bass Pro's. I thought it was so neat. And I didn't really want to do, dude, look at that. Did you literally get six of them right there? How much is this? $30? What's that? That's actually. That's five dollars a frog. That's actually cheaper than most frogs. Yeah, because they sell theirs, and that's their brand, and they sell it for seven bucks. So five bucks for a frog, that's pretty cheap. And look at that. You got all the different colors in there. That is actually really. What are all those tails? Are those some of the largest tails in the frog? Well, you got to trim it. Yeah. I'm running a fresh out-of-the-package baby. Do you really? It's not trimming it. You don't trim it? Oh, I normally do, but not for this. If we're fishing with these, soft water, I'm not trimming it just for that. Wait, do you guys actually want to do a kit? I wasn't going to do a kit, but. So out of all the top waters that we just saw, I'm going to be honest with you, at least me personally, the most exciting one, and probably for you guys to watch too, for me, is frog fishing. If we came over here and we did a specific frog, I'd probably want to buy three of them. But if we do get the kit, we get six. We get six, bro. So if we end up breaking one off, we get backups. And they're different colors. What's better, three or six? I think six. I think six, bro. I want the kit. You want the kit? Seven, eight, nine. 10, 11, 12. That's also a good point. So we're getting the kit? Is that what we're doing? Here, we're getting it, here. Wait, we all get a kit? You got to roll it. You got to roll it. All right, oh, what? So, wait, here. Here's one for A-Dub. Oh, we're all getting a kit. Oh, yeah. Right? That's what you said. So we're getting 18? 18 frogs, bro. What are you saying? Bro, we're about to- Well, I'm using kick-ins. No, no, Noah's buying you a kit.  Boy, I'm a boy, there's six. But I want one, dude. I don't know why I'm just buying you a kit. Noa always does this. He's like, Noah, please, I really want it.  He always goes up to me. Noah, can you please buy it? Santa. Santa. Yo, Santa. Santa knows he won't get it for me. Yo, Santa. What are you at? No, that's not Santa. Wrong guy. He's eating something. Oh, he's teasing me so much. Anyways, guys, I think we're gonna go with this Kermi frog kit right here. It's got six frogs. I think it's gonna be perfect. We'll catch you guys at the lake. Okay, folks. Out here at the lake. Got us some Kermi frogs. Gonna catch some smallmouth. Gonna catch some big old smallmouth up at Lake Erie. Another out here. Out here on the bed. We're out here flogging for them. Trying to catch a couple of them. We're gonna throw our frogs. Gotta choose our selection. What'd you like, Norm? I think I was given one of the black ones, correct? So this is what I'm thinking. So if we look at it, guys, we got probably, we got one, two, three, three greens, one yellow, and two blacks, and one of the blacks has chartreuse tails. I'm thinking one of us should throw a black one, don't you agree? So if I'm gonna be real, I'm probably gonna throw just the normal, natural green one. It's gotta have the kicking color, bro. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, man, that one was pretty good. I don't know how I'm not. And then one of you guys should throw the black and then the other can just pick whatever. Cause I mean, it could make a night and day difference. You know what I mean? Yeah. Okay. I don't care which one I throw. Give me a frog and I'll put it on my rod. Well, froggy. You broke it. Yo, this kid is actually awesome. Dude, so cool. Look at that. Here's your frog. Yes, sir. Okay. All right, boys. So we gonna trim them up. Eight up trimmed his up. I don't know what Norm's doing with his. Okay, boys, let's cut just a pass. Better get your big bass energy on folks. Here we go. I cut them a little short. I kind of messed up, bro. It's honestly not that bad though, look. It's just a little too short, but it'll be fine. All right, baby. Let's get it. What? Oh, are they schooling? Some schooling frog bass? Schooling. Dude, they'll definitely hit it. Oh, dude. Bro, that was wild. Dude, he hit it though. Look at the bait on the bank to the right. Oh my gosh. I guess I don't. Yo. Gosh, that was a giant. Oh my God, he's still hitting it. Well, frogs got too much water in it. Yo, Norm, that was a giant, bro. He hit it twice. He's got too much water in it. Oh my gosh, there's no way. It's been a long time since Adam had that first bite. Finally get a good bite right there and he just completely doesn't eat it. I don't know if it's because it's a green one. Maybe they want like a black one or a white one. Oh my God. God, I'm going to throw him. It's a giant. Yo, Norm, come here. Gosh, solid three. He ain't even that big. Look at him choke it, too. Mm, it's only about two pounds. I thought he was three.  Look at that. Gone, homie. Let's get it. Look at that, right in the back of his throat. Look at that, boys. First fish today just munched that frog. I mean, dude, that's how you want them to eat it right there. When you're frog fishing, if you see one eat it like that, that's a good sign. I had a two couple bites right before that and then this one I had to hit it like three times to actually eat it. But I was popping it really fast. Beautiful little two pound bass. I thought he was a lot bigger, but that's a pretty one right there. First fish today, baby. All right, Norm, it's your turn, man. Pretty bass. Come on, Norm. Get hyped, bro. Right here, I'm holding my, here you go. Oh, geez. Here you go. Let's go home. All right, boys. Well, we got the monkey off our back. That's what we needed right there. That was just a couple of casts after that big one hit me. And gosh, I wish I would've got that good one. But when you start off first fish of the day, it does not matter the size. And you just got to get that first one on the bank. You know what I say? Look at that. I just spooked fish right in front of me. That's probably that big one that ate me a second ago. Oh, let's keep moving. Nice. Oh my God. One just hit me out of the water. Oh my God. What in the heck's going on? What in the heck's going on here? They're popping up everywhere. They're just not eating frogs, guys. Like this time of year, we... Oh, that's a good one. Look at that right in the top of his mouth. Everyone said they're not eating frogs. It's two and a half pounder. Boom, baby. Look at that. It's cooling in front of me. Look at that. Boom, just came right out. That sucker nailed it. You just got to act like it's a bait fish. I'm telling you, this time of year, with the frogs, man, it's really not this time. We're being stubborn. We're trying to do the impossible right now, but we're still catching them, man. All right, boys. So there we go. Another two pounder on the frog. Like I said, it's tough right now. It's not, you know, we need to be throwing like a fluke, a trap, chatter bait, anything that really imitates that shad, but we're throwing a frog. So we're gonna keep covering some water, see if we can catch some more. That's a beautiful one right there. There are colors on him. Oh, yeah. There you go. Well, boys, that is two fish on the old Bass Purr Shop's Kit Frog right here. I don't know what Norm and Adam are doing over there, but look at the teeth marks on that sucker already. The one bad thing about this frog, I will say they're not the best. I mean, they hold a lot of water.  Oh my gosh, did you see that? That is a massive blow up, but uh, ooh, yeah, they hold a lot of water. You're having to squeeze that thing a lot. That's one thing I can tell you.  I mean, I'm walking and casting. That's all I'm doing. You know, I've talked about that in a lot of videos, just walking and casting, covering water can be one of the most important things to catch more fish wherever you're at. And that's what I was just doing, you know, popping this frog along this grass. It's hard to see. You guys probably look like I'm just throwing an open water, but there's a ton of grass right here and it's just below the surface. Yeah, so we're over here popping this.  But maybe we'll catch a few more on this and pull out something else to show you got some big ones. That should be it right there. Yep. Got it. That was such a soft bite. It's underwater too. See, see what I mean? It gets so much water and he dove right over it. That was a softest bite. You like barely, this is the most subtle dive over I've ever seen. I felt that right there. Oh my God. That's a big one, almost a four. Dude, he creamed that sucker. Look at that. That's almost, that's about three, three and a half. That's a good one, man. That's a three pounder all day. Look at that right there. That's a beautiful fish, solid three. We're upgrading every single time now. We're gonna get a weight on them. You guys love the weights and we can do that. All right, there we go. Zero it out. Yes, sir. Let's see what she weighs. What's she think A-Dub before I go? Three and a quarter, maybe three. I don't know, turn it to the side. I think three. She's not as fat. Three pounds, three ounces, about three and a quarter. He does have a nice frame on her though. She's not fat, you know? Yeah. That's a beautiful fish right there. That fish had some more meat on her bones. She could totally be a four pounder. And that's what we're coming here for right there. That's a beautiful frogfish. This one slammed it. I started walking here right here in this calmer water. You guys can see in the distance all that wind. And you come in more of this calm water with a regular frog like that and catch them. There we go. There she goes. Let's go, boy. Let's go, let's go. Yeah.