I'm going to talk about two books. The first one is 1812, The Navy's War. This is the paperback version that came out in October, last October. And the second book is The Shining Sea, which came out at the same time. So I'm going to talk about them both. And the thing I'm going to talk about the War of 1812 is why I think the War of 1812 was important. You know, when you mention the words 1812, War of 1812, it's always the forgotten war. It's a war that is not taught anymore, or it's not important. Obviously if it's not taught and it's forgotten, it couldn't be important. But to my mind, the War of 1812 was very important. Important in this country's future and for the history of the world as well. So let me tell you briefly why I think it was important. And then I'm going to go on and talk about the second book, The Shining Sea, and then answer whatever questions that you have. So why do I think the War of 1812 should not be forgotten and was so important? Number one, it changed the whole relationship between England and the United States. At the end of the war, British policy towards America underwent a complete reversal, a complete change. It took a while for American leaders to understand that the British had a different approach to us, but eventually we understood it and took advantage of it. As a consequence, the two great English-speaking countries were never at war again. There was never a war between them again. And a hundred years later, just think of it, in August of 1914, August of 1914, the world went into war. Looking back on it, one of the most senseless wars in world history and one of the most destructive went into it. And the United States would become a vital to the British at that point. And as a matter of fact, in August of 1914, the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, he wanted to stay neutral because he thought the war was insane. He didn't think there was any reason for it. He was opposed to it and he certainly didn't want to get the United States involved in this war. But at the same time, there was enormous sympathy in this country for the British and the French, but particularly the British. Now, if the statesmen of 1814 in England had known what the situation would be in August of 1814, they would have felt that their new policy towards the United States was a success. Who were these statesmen? Well, the principal one was Castle Ray. He was the foreign minister of Great Britain. The prime minister was Liverpool. Castle Ray is very well known to historians and Liverpool much less so. But Liverpool was very important because he was the political leader who could get Castle Ray's ideas enacted. And this was Castle Ray's new approach to the United States. Keep in mind, Castle Ray didn't like the United States, didn't like anything about us, didn't like our politics, didn't like our culture, didn't like our economics. They were capitalist, of course, but a much different form of capitalism than we have. So it wasn't out of some sort of sympathy with us. This was a hard-headed decision on his part to seek a rapprochement with the United States. The basis, the new basis of British policy would be to settle the inevitable disputes with the United States in a peaceful way and do whatever they could to avoid hostilities with the United States. Why did Castle Ray adopt this new policy? Why? Because he thought that if the basic policy of Great Britain towards the United States was not one of friendship, the two countries would be fighting each other for another hundred years. And when you think, and when he thought of all the potential areas of disagreement between these two countries, all the various ways in which they could come to blows, he thought it could go on endlessly. It didn't. When August 1914 came around, there was great sympathy for the British, and we eventually became involved in World War I, and we tipped the balance. If it wasn't for American intervention in World War I, Germany probably would have won. I think they would have won myself. So it was of enormous importance that we had not spent the last hundred years fighting each other. Can you imagine where we would have been in August of 1814 if we had spent the last hundred years fighting each other? Think of all the things we could have fought about. Just the Canadian boundary, 3,000 miles of boundary between these two countries. There was a lot to fight about. Think about having an arms race on the Great Lakes and all the trouble that that could have bought. And that was just one area. Also at the same time, in 1814, 1815, the great Spanish empire that had existed since Columbus' time was collapsing everywhere. The entire hemisphere that Spain controlled was in revolt. Who was going to supplant her? Think of all the mischief, all the conflict that could result from the United States and England competing over this territory. Instead of that, we had something called the Monroe Doctrine in 1823. What happened between 1814 and 1823 to bring about a situation where you had the Monroe Doctrine and had the English supporting it? Well, what happened was that England had changed its policy and Castle Way had won the day because Liverpool supported him and so did the rest of the country. So I could go through, and if we had two or three hours, I would go through the whole 19th century and show you all of the potential disputes between the two countries. And you'd think, boy, this is amazing that war didn't come. And there were plenty of times when hardheads on both sides advocated war, but there's more sober, more serious people, more responsible people sought an agreement instead of war. Of course, the most serious one was the Civil War, and you students of the Civil War know how important Britain was in that war and how critical her decision to stay out, although she never really stayed out, of course, was. So this change in the relationship between the two great English-speaking countries to me began as a result of the War of 1812, and it was enormous importance to our history and to world history. How different the 20th century would have been without the great alliance between these two countries. How different it would be to even today without this great alliance. One of the things that led Cassoway to this conclusion was the strength of the United States. The United States, when we began the War of 1812, was very weak, but by 1814 we were a lot stronger in Cassoway's eyes, in Liverpool's eyes, than we were in 1812. In June of 1812, when we declared war on England, on Great Britain, we had no navy, no army. Our navy was 20 warships, six of them were laid up for repairs, 14 serviceable warships. They had a thousand, probably 600 or so were at sea, the restaurant being repaired or being built. Our army was practically nonexistent. We had 7,000 troops, a country of 8 million had 7,000 troops spread all around the periphery of the United States. And probably just as important, maybe more important, we were deeply divided politically in 1812 between the Federalist Party, who did not want to go to war, and the Republican Party of Jefferson and Madison, who thought it was now time to go to war. The timing was perfect. Timing was perfect because Napoleon was invading Russia at the time, and Madison thought that that would bring England to negotiate grievances that we had with her. Now we showed ourselves during the War of 1812, up to, let's say, the fall of 1813, we had shown ourselves to be inept, in most every respect, inept enough so that the British could fight Napoleon during that time and not have to worry about us over here. So the war in the United States during that time was a holding action. The United States Navy did a lot better than people thought at the beginning of the war, and they were the bright spots, the United States Navy. And in September of 1813, one of our bright spots from Newport, Rhode Island, Perry, won a great victory on Lake Erie, which was usually important in the war in a number of different ways, but not enough to get the British to change their approach in Europe. By 1814, however, Napoleon was gone. Napoleon was abdicated in April of 1814, and the British decided to turn on the United States and settle with us once and for all. And it looked to them like we were so weak that if they took some of their forces that had beaten Napoleon and brought them over here that they could dismember us. It's very controversial among historians whether or not they really meant to dismember us, and I've been studying this for a lot of years, and I've come to the conclusion that they did mean to dismember us if they could do so easily. What they found out in the summer and early fall of 1814 is that they couldn't. They found out that the United States was much stronger than they thought. They thought they were going to succeed when they invaded Washington and burned it in August 24, 1814. They were riding high, but two weeks later they suffered a huge defeat on Lake Champlain, and two days after that they were stopped at Baltimore. And these were huge events, and this changed everything. The British didn't want to get involved in a long war here after they had been involved in a long war with the French. They started fighting the French in January of 1793. So the country was not ready for a long war with the United States. Liverpool and Castle Way recognized this, particularly Liverpool, and that's why the peace treaty came so quickly. And they dropped their whole idea of expanding over here, and the peace treaty was settled on December 24, 1814. And out of that came a new attitude, a new approach to the United States. As far as Castle Way was concerned, we were just too hard to pursue the old policy of dismemberment. They were going to leave the continent in effect to the United States. Very quickly afterwards we won the Battle of New Orleans, January 8th. And the Battle of New Orleans, which is seen as unimportant because it came after the peace treaty, was very important in the sense that it again underscored the fact that the Americans were tough. The British were certainly not going to just work their will over here. So I want to say this in connection with this, that part of the reason that Castle Way and Liverpool felt the United States was too tough to continue with their old policy, too tough, was the United States Navy. The United States Navy came into its own in 1812. You remember there was a debate going on in this country right from the beginning about whether or not we ought to have adequate military forces. Washington and Adams were on one side, Jefferson and I mean Washington and Adams were on one side, Jefferson and Madison were on the other. Washington and Adams said we need a respectable military force and a respectable military force will not be a threat to our constitution. It will be necessary in order to protect our constitution and Jefferson and Madison said if you had a strong military force you're going to use it. So they were not passivists. They were for a minimal defense to defend our borders. Well, that argument over the type and size of forces that we have ended in the war of 1812 with the victory of Washington and Adams. The country decided that we needed an adequate military force and after the war of 1812 there was no dismemberment of our armed forces as was natural after every war. Madison pleaded with the Congress to continue with an adequate military and they supported him. Okay, so this is number one why the war was so important. The change in British attitude and the change in British attitude based on the fact that the United States was a much stronger military entity than it had been when we entered the war. And guess what? The great disputes between the political parties that had gone on all through that war stopped miraculously in February of 1815 when the peace treaty arrived in Washington and news of New Orleans arrived in Washington and somehow or other the country came together. It's a miraculous time in a nation's history. It's sort of like December 7, 1941 ended the debate in the United States about what we ought to do about the war. It was a time like that when there was a complete turnaround and so the great political divisions that had plagued us for so long disappeared. They came back but they disappeared. Okay, now the second reason why I think this war is important is that President Madison conducted it according to the guidelines of the U.S. Constitution. He didn't seek to amend it. Everybody in Europe, lots of people in the United States thought that Madison would have to become a constitutional dictator or just a plain old dictator in order to conduct the war. He didn't. Madison, the father of the Constitution, was determined to fight this struggle under the strict constraints of the Constitution so that he was not going to end our divided government. He was not going to end freedom of the press. He was not going to in effect make the Congress a rubber stamp. He kept all the constitutional constraints on the presidency and he succeeded. This was a huge triumph for our Constitution which was on trial. A lot of people thought a Constitution like this could not really function in a crisis. Madison proved that his Constitution, our Constitution, was equal to any crisis in this form of government could deal with a war and deal with any other crisis that it needed to. This was of enormous importance in our constitutional history. I'm going to end here with this section of the talk by saying these are the reasons and these are sufficient reasons why this war ought to be studied. It was of enormous importance not only to us domestically but to the world in bringing about a new relationship between the great English-speaking countries. Now, the Shining Sea. This is my latest book. The subtitle of it is David Porter. The woman who runs the publishing house changed the title on me. That's why I have to read the book. And the reason she changed the title was because it didn't quite fit on the... It's a perfectly good reason, right? David Porter and the epic voyage of the USS Essex during the War of 1812. So that's what it was. And I wrote this book for a number of reasons but primarily because I love the story. Guess who also loved the story? Well, a lot of people loved the story. One of them was Samuel Elliott Morrison and so I hear. And maybe if he lived another hundred years, he would have written this story. It went over a period of 17 months. It's one of the great epic stories in the age of sale. And it has a wonderful hero at the center of it, Captain David Porter, who's at the same time flawed. He's a hero and he's an anti-hero. The reason you've never heard of him is because of his defects. He had great strengths. But his great strengths could not overcome his defects.  But he's also a fascinating character if you're an historian. And he's also unknown to you because he did things that other heroes didn't do. He got carried away with himself and then some. And he was doing it in a famous ship, the USS Essex, which was our smallest frigate during the War of 1812, 32 guns. But for my money, certainly one of, if not the best built of all of our frigates. It was built in Salem, Massachusetts, in the county of Essex. And the county of Essex tried very hard to pay for it. They raised money. They could only raise half the amount that was needed. The total amount was around $160,000. They raised about half of that, $80,000. But nonetheless, it was their ship. And it was a wonderful ship. The first captain was Edward Prebble from Portland, Maine. That's where I'm from. And I remember when I first went to Portland, I said, what's all this Prebble stuff? Prebble Street, Prebble Square, what's all this stuff? Well, I soon found out. Anyway, the Essex was built during the quasi-war with France, 1798 to 1800. Prebble was its first captain. Captain Porter did not become its captain until 1811. And he had been waiting for a promotion to captain, number one. And he'd been waiting for a frigate to captain. And he wasn't getting one. One of the reasons he wasn't getting one was that his previous career in the Navy had been a mixed bag. He had been a hero in the quasi-war with France. But during the war with Tripoli, he had been the first officer aboard the Philadelphia when it was captured by Tripoli. And his captain was a man named Bainbridge. And Porter spent 18 months imprisoned in Tripoli. And you can imagine what this did to this guy. He was aggressive. He was ambitious. He was successful. He came from a family of naval officers, a very distinguished family during the Revolutionary War. He had a lot to live up to. And here he was experiencing not only defeat, but 18 months in this prison in Tripoli. So this had an enormous impact on him. And it was obviously affecting his career. But his strengths, the people who knew him, knew what a very fine officer he had. Now, don't forget that during this time, and one of the reasons the United States was so successful, the United States Navy was so successful in 1812, we had a group of officers who were as good as we've ever had in our history. You know, sometimes the Red Sox actually get a group of players who can really do the job. Well, we had them. The officers in the United States Navy who began their careers as midshipmen during the quasi-war with France, lieutenants in the war with Tripoli, 1801, 1805, these were the guys who were captaining the ships who won the famous battles in the War of 1812. And poor to, you have to count him among this group. He was as good as any of them, and the other captains who knew him knew that. So he, like some military people you know, we don't like to talk about this. He was anxious for the war. He was anxious for the war because of his chance to redeem himself for what happened to the Philadelphia and also to move beyond that and acquire the glory which some of the other captains were achieving in that war. So he was very ambitious. All right, he gets his chance when President Madison in August of 1812 decides that, well the United States Navy maybe can be useful in this war. Up to this point, from June of 1812 and long before that, but June of 1812 until August, Madison thought the United States Navy was of no consequence. He really had no strategy for the Navy during the war. He wanted to rely on privateers. And in fact, privateers were an important part of the war. Five and 126 of them set out. And that part of Madison's strategy worked but the Navy, he had no faith, no confidence in. Well, what changed his mind was in August when the USS Constitution beat the guerrilla, he was in political trouble. He was in political trouble because on August 15th he had lost a battle, a land battle at Detroit and this was going to kill him politically. And just a few days later you had the battle between the Constitution and the guerrilla and the Constitution won in a half an hour and this was not supposed to happen. This was a huge event in England but it was also a huge event here. Just two ships but in a battle that had huge political consequences, it saved Madison's election. He thought so and I think so. Of course you can never prove that. So in September the Navy had orders and Porter was to be part of a three-ship squadron to sail to the South Atlantic around St. Helena and attack British commerce. The head of this squadron was Bainbridge in the Constitution along with James Lawrence and the two of them were in Boston and Porter in September was in the Chesapeake, I mean in the Delaware River. So Bainbridge issued orders for them to meet up and I'm going to make a long story short, they never did meet up in the Atlantic. Bainbridge and Lawrence got involved in successful battles before they ever were able to meet up and Porter was left on his own around the area of St. Catherine's Island in the South Atlantic and he had to decide what he was going to do and you can imagine a guy like this, his mind was just racing about where can I go to achieve the great things that I want to achieve. I don't have the ship I really want, it's too small, he didn't like the type of guns that were on it but anyway he decides to go into the Pacific and there was a wonderful Coast Guidesman who asked me this question the other day when I was given a talk and he said, you mean he went into the Pacific without orders and that's exactly what he did do. He made excuses for what he was doing but nonetheless he went into the Pacific, he rounded the horn with the Essex, went and got into the Pacific and it's a little ridiculous saying that this was the first American warship in the Pacific considering how long Spain and all the other European powers had been in the Pacific but nonetheless he was the first American warship in the Pacific and the first place he lands is Valparaiso. And he spends a week in Valparaiso getting his ship ready and he's off to the north and he doesn't know quite what he's going to do but while he was in Valparaiso a whaling captain talked with him and told him about the British whaling fleet that was in the area between the west coast of South America and the Galapagos Islands and it wouldn't be nice if you wiped them out. Why did this American whaling captain want to wipe out the British whaling fleet? Well, they were competitors but they were also intermixed with this whaling fleet of the British were regular warships that were attacking our whalers, regular warships disguised as whalers. Porter thought this was great and he accomplished this in a very short period of time. Most of the damage he did was in the Galapagos Islands. He captured 12 British whalers and the rest of them, there were about 24 of them, the rest of them kept in port just got out of there. He wiped out the British whale fishery in that part of the world and it was important because whale oil was of great importance to the British economy right at that time so it was a significant blow to them and of course these warships, I mean these whalers and their oil were worth a pile of money so Porter was always interested in money and so were his men. So all he had to do now was go from the Galapagos back home and collect the money. He had no interest in doing that. Then whatsoever, what was on his mind? Two things. One, he wanted to go to the Polynesian Islands. He wanted to go to the Marquesas Islands. Why? Not for the women, don't get us wrong folks. It had nothing to do with all those Polynesian women there. We were going to take the Essex, 2,500 miles to the Marquesas in order to restore the ship, which it needed restoring and this is what he did. He went to the Marquesas Islands and spent seven weeks there and then you think, okay, he's restored the ship, he's got his prizes and oil and why not go home now? Because he wasn't interested in going home. What was he interested in doing? He was interested in having a fight with a British frigate and doing what the captain of the Constitution had done. Isaac Howell and defeating in a great battle a British warship. And if the British warship had escorts, all the better. He had big, big dreams. So where does he go after seven weeks in the Marquesas? He goes back to Valparaiso, of course, where he's going to wait for the British and of course the British are coming after him. When they finally got word that what was happening, of course, they went in search of him. And the leader, the man who became the leader of the search was a guy named James Hillier who was one of England's best captains. He had been a protégé of Nelson. You didn't become a protégé of Nelson if you weren't very, very good. And he had a distinguished career and so he was on Porter's tail and he would have been absolutely amazed to find out that Porter wasn't running. Porter wanted to be discovered and that's what he was doing in Valparaiso and he figured that at some point he and Hillier would cross paths in Valparaiso and they did. And when they did, there was a great naval battle and the odds were in Hillier's favor. The odds were in Hillier's favor. His own ship was stronger than the Essex and he had with him an escort. So the two of them were stronger and Porter put up a great fight in Valparaiso harbor and he lost. By that time he had only 255 men aboard his ship and aboard the Essex and 155 of them were casualties, either dead, wounded or missing. That's what kind of a bloody, awful fight this was. And at the end of it, Hillier did everything he could to facilitate help for the wounded and he made an agreement with Porter whereby Porter could take one of his ships. Porter had an escort that was with him which he named Essex Junior. This was the best of the ships that he had captured, the Atlantic. He converted her into a small warship and it was an Essex. The Essex Junior stayed out of the actual battle. Anyway, Hillier allowed Porter to put all of the surviving men and return to the United States instead of having to become a prisoner of war. And this was a wonderful thing that Hillier did. He was a great gentleman, he was a great warrior, really a model of what an English officer should be.  He gets off New York in July of 1814. And of course, what do you think is on his mind? I've fought this battle, I've lost, I've lost all my men. How am I going to be received? And well, guess what? It's a wonderful story of how he gets ashore and every part of this story has a subplot or an interesting sidelight to it. But anyway, to make a long story short, he discovers that he's a great hero. That his exploits, his exploits before Valparaiso and their terrible defeat, his exploits were so admired here. He had done all this damage to the British whaling fleet. Here's this lone frigate captain sailing out, stretching his orders into the Pacific and doing all these things to the British whaling fleet and succeeding. And one of the biggest, the newspapers all over the country were lauding him except for, you might have guessed it, the Salem Gazette where the ship was built, the Essex was built. They didn't think it was so terrific what he did. They didn't think it was so terrific that he lost his ship and lost two-thirds of his crew and they wondered, what the hell were you doing in Valparaiso after all?  Why were you there? And this is against naval policy at the time because we had so few ships the Secretary of the Navy and the President didn't want you getting into a battle with another warship, never mind two warships and getting yourself defeated and we'd lost, even if you won, you'd be laid up for the rest of the war. So it was specifically against the policy of the Navy for him to doing what he was doing. What were you doing there as the Essex, as the Salem Gazette and he didn't have to answer because the rest of the country didn't feel that way and the President himself didn't feel that way. President Madison greeted him as a hero and in the summer of 1814 things did not look good for the United States. The war itself and this was Madison's frame of mind when he was thinking about how he was going to receive Porter. But he remembered back to the Revolutionary War and how bad things were then sometimes and how difficult it was for someone like George Washington and how Washington nonetheless committed himself to fight on and never give up and that was Madison's attitude in the summer of 1814. He was a little guy in Madison but he had a stout heart. He was not going to give up. He was very much in the tradition of Washington and so when he saw what Porter had done put up this great fight, Porter and his men, put up this great fight against overwhelming odds that this was reminiscent of what, let's say it made Madison feel a kinship with how he felt in the summer of 1814 and he gave a marvelous speech to Congress in which he lauded Porter and his men, his gallant men and never once criticized them. So I'm going to end there. Is that okay? All right. So I'll answer any questions you have. Yes, sir. What was the length of time to go around the horn? He did it in record time and well, the length of time to go around the horn varied tremendously depending on the weather but he was around by February of 1813 and that was like 12 weeks from Statt which would be roughly around from the point where you would think of the Falkland Islands around to that same parallel in the Pacific. So roughly that. Yeah. Wasn't there a Porter class destroyer in World War II? I don't know. I'm sure there was. Was there a Porter class destroyer? What? There's a stepson Porter. I think the ship was named for both of them. Yeah. It was very easy. Yeah. You know, I should say about Porter too, oddly enough, he got home in time to participate in the defense of Washington and Baltimore. He wasn't in time for Washington but he was for Baltimore and he played an important role in delaying the British attack on Baltimore and in that way actually had an effect on the war and of course his peers and Madison recognized that. Yes, sir? The other day at an interesting point when Washington assigned the frigates to their captains in the beginning, he made them find the materials to build them. They couldn't order them to have a goal like one of those islands off of Georgia where they get all those beautiful knees and things. Live oak. Yes, live oak.  He made them find their own materials to build their own doors. Yeah. Well, it was very hard to do. It was hard to come by the live oak in the south but live oak exists all over the country. I was just out in California and it's full of live oak and they have a disease now and they're losing a lot of their oak. I should say that the Essex after the defeat was really beat up after the defeat in Valparaiso. It was taken back. Hillier took it back to England and it remained in the British Navy until 1837 when it was sold off for scrap and legend has it that it was made into a pub. You told us that Porter was imprisoned in North Africa for 18 months. I understand that the slave trade was very large but I don't think Corsairs, maybe as many as a million were taken and sold into slavery. How did Porter escape that? Was he being held as a negotiating chip? Oh, he and the crew of the Philadelphia were worth a lot of money. Okay, so the... He was more than a slave. Exactly. Exactly. And they didn't get... They got some money for him but not as much as they had hoped. Yeah. It's not the odd topic but relevant to something you said is I heard... I think it was Callaghan who proposed that if the Americans hadn't entered World War I at the point in which they did both sides would have fought themselves through staff still and would probably be John's winning as you suggested and there would not have been a World War II because of the both side treaty would have been a whole different format. And who says that? Who says that? I think it was Callaghan who proposed it once. Well, I think he should go back to the library. I can see that by the point because they were very... In 1917, the government they were almost fought for a stance in the end of the year. Well, in the summer of 1918 if perishing and the Americans don't forget the casualties we suffered were God-awful. Over 100,000 in a single battle but the British and the French sure thought that without the Americans they were going to lose and I think they were right. And then the peace was lost but whether the peace would have turned out differently I don't know but you're going to have a high time convincing me that the United States was an absolutely vital in winning the war. And the Germans would not have light terms for the British and the French if they had entered Paris. My point was different. My point is that they would have pulled themselves to a draw much more reasonable terms which would not have created the size. Right. Well, I don't think the British and the French could have withstood the Germans at that point. And when the Americans came in it was still close and it was decided in the summer of 1918 and in my view and the Germans at some point sort of flipped around. They didn't know what effect the American forces would be. They didn't even know if Pershing was going to commit them in the way he did. But when he did and when they did not succeed the way they had hoped they flipped around and they knew that they were going to lose. So the Americans were the key factor. There was not going to be in their mind any let's say stalemate between them and the British and the French. The British and the French were in terrible shape at that point. Didn't the French want to divide our troops up among themselves so that old Pershing stood fast and that's when it was a step forward. Sometimes he did and sometimes he didn't. He did what he thought was necessary depending on the situation in the battlefield. He said one thing and did another sometimes in order to succeed. But primarily his approach was to keep the Americans together. That's right. Were we talking about the war of 1812? But no, we're going to later on how things happen. No different uniforms. Did I bring this up? I think I did. Go ahead. You were going to ask a question? Could the Essex have out sailed the British had they been on the open sea? Yes. They won the battle? Yes, the Essex proved that it was much faster than the British ships. It's a good point because Porter actually tried to get away from Hillier and his escort before the battle and he almost succeeded but he had some bad luck. A wind came up and damaged his ship and he had to put back into Valparaiso and he couldn't get back into the harbor actually. He had to go to the eastern part of the harbor and not a very good spot and he became duck soup for Hillier. David Farragut. You probably never heard of David Farragut, right? David Farragut was a midshipman aboard the Essex during this whole episode and later wrote his reminiscences about this and he thought it was a big mistake on Porter's part to have turned back when the ship was damaged and try to get back into what he thought would be a neutral port in Valparaiso. He should have kept on going. That was Farragut's estimate that Porter made a big strategic tactical error right then. Who's to say? It's one of those questions that you can't answer. So Porter did try to escape. That was another wrinkle on this but I wanted to simplify it. That's my job is to be simple. Not simple-minded. Yes, sir? Just a comment about your book, 1812. I thought that was one of the most fascinating books that I've ever read. Well, of course, yes. What is your name? What an intelligent man. What I was going to say is simply the realization that the Revolutionary War wasn't over until after the War of 1812 and it was really the battle of New Orleans that nailed it down because of the excellence in that battle that occurred under Jackson. But this follow-on with the Essex, you know, the Essex, if you look at the Constitution, sort of in the south Atlantic, it disappeared. And yes, there was a discussion about the various acts and so forth. But it was interesting to see that, again, it was a logistics that made a big dent in the various decision process. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Your first point about this war and what I've thought for a long time is that I think the two countries are going to fight again at some point. The British policy towards North America was unsettled. The whole collapse of the Spanish Empire here was drawing them here. They had to think about the extent of Canada, of how big that entity was going to be. The United States was the most dynamic society in the world.  But that was the only thing that was holding us back and they were worried about us. We were rivals. Until they changed their mind about their approach to us, if they continued on and saw us as rivals and wanted to contest our expansion in this hemisphere and they wanted to do more in South America than they were doing, there was going to be a conflict between them. I don't think the 19th century would have been a happy one or as happy as it turned out to be. In some ways, in my mind, the War of 1812 happening when it did was a blessing that made both sides wake up to the fact that they were better off together than they were apart. What was the other question you had? I just want to comment that the fact that the war was so important to Great Britain, it was one of the factories that caused everything to go off again so there were forces from the Atlantic. Oh, sure. Yeah, it was very important to them. There was one ship over there. Right, it was, yeah. Let's see, someone else said... One last question. Yeah, good. Why the Essex Union's injuring a plane? What? Why the Essex Union injuring a plane? Too small, too small. The captain was a guy named Downes who was Porter's right-hand man, a remarkable officer, and I have a lot to say about Downes. One quick thing, yeah, we'll go quickly. Yeah. Why didn't he use his own set of orders just to take a look? Well, because the president decided that he needed him as a hero. And it was really for political reasons. And then he was a factor in the British defeat at Baltimore. And so that was, you know... Great book. Yeah, and so after that they just forgot about it. He, of course, they had a court martial, all arranged and so on, they just forgot about it. So that's the end.


Many thanks for staying with us this morning on the breakfast. The second conversation for us is that there's an accusation made by the APC against the NLC of hypocrisy of a fuel subsidy removal. We have a guest joining the conversation this morning, Onika Christopher, his assistant general secretary NLC Yaba. Christopher, it's good to have you join us. Thank you for having me. It's good to be here once again. So quickly a bit of a background to the conversation. The all-progressive Congress APC presidential campaign council has accused the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress, that's the NLC, of being hypocritical over the burning issues of fuel subsidy removal in the country. The council director, median public affairs, Mr. Festus Kiyamo, in a statement so faulted the leadership of the NLC for promising to mobilize its members across the 774 local government areas in Nigeria to ensure victory for the Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr. Pete Orby, in the next year's presidential election. Now justifying the council's position, Kiyamo raised several questions about the stance of the NLC and he noted that before adopting Mr. Pete Orby as a candidate. Did the leadership of the NLC have a conversation with him on the removal of fuel subsidy? If there did have the conversation, did Mr. Pete Orby agree to back down on the issue of subsidy removal? What was the basis for supporting him? Did the organized Labour agree with him if he did not back down on the issue? If no such discussion or conversation is held, does it mean that the leadership of the NLC now fully supports the removal of fuel subsidy? Or will that not be reckless of the NLC to adopt a candidate without thoroughly interrogating the candidate on his policies as they affect the Nigerian workers or in the masses? The NLC must make a public statement and come clean. Onyeka Christopher, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Thank you. It's good to be here. Well, yes, so you probably have to respond to that. Yes, we're getting to that point. And so listening to, you know, the thoughts, I'm sure that you've probably seen or read and heard of this before now. What would you say that the position of the NLC is on fuel subsidy removal or subsidy removal? However, you want to look at it. Thank you. At this time, it is important that we, anybody that understands the trade union movement in Nigeria, and especially the Nigeria Labour Congress, over the years, in fact, you're talking about decades, our position has remained unchanged on fuel subsidy issue. Our position is that for you to remove fuel subsidy, there are certain processes, there are certain milestones that must have to be met. So our position has not changed. Our position has rather been amplified or deepened. Our position has been given a voice, a further voice, by what the candidate of the Labour Party for 2023 presidential election has said, that there is no disagreement between the position of PTOB and the position of the trade union movement. We believe that it is rather a positive of understanding of the position of the NLC on fuel subsidy that made Teyamu, for Christ's sake, Teyamu was part of the struggle. He was in the civil society, though he stopped of the Labour movement. But he was part of the process that crafted the position of the trade union movement. He should know better. But for the fact that he had decided not to know. So then that becomes his problem. I think that he is actually not worried about probably the pretended contradiction in our positions. He's only worried about the fact that the Nigeria trade union movement are going to mobilize all over the several and 74 local governments in Nigeria to ensure that our candidates, especially the presidential candidate PTOB wins the next election. I think he's the fear. He cried out in fear without understanding the fact that this position has been our position all this while. You cannot remove fuel subsidy based on imported products. You can only remove fuel subsidy when the refineries are working. And our position has been clear. Let the refineries work. Let the local refineries work. The issue of subsidy would die. And that is very simple. And that is what our candidate has said. He has said that what we do with the issue of subsidy, he has said we are going to move the nation from consumption to production. And then what he said is that we are going to do what? Repair the refineries. And what the refineries are working for Christ's sake? The issue of subsidy dies because you no longer have an issue, you know, important wealth. Because the so-called subsidy claims, which is very, very fraudulent, which this party, APC, in 2014 told the whole Nigerians that it's a fraud, that it's a scam. Instead, when they came on, they started enjoying the scam, the fraud. And so one is surprised who is hypocritic. We think that Kayamo and the APC are the main hypocrites. They are so hypocritical that Nigerians are suffering over what they have found for subsidy. You could see that they have removed under this regime, they have removed for subsidy almost like four times. What are they removing? You ask yourself, you told us in the first time that you are removing subsidy. You removed it later. You came again to tell us you are removing subsidy. Does this subsidy, is it a cat with nine lives? Is it a cat with nine lives that cannot be removed once and for all? So they have kept on removing for subsidy. And in any case, the understanding of removal of for subsidy is price hike, which is very, very wrong. And we have made it clear, our position has not changed. It has remained the same over the years. We are not fit to consider and somewhere superficially crafts out a position. These positions are where taught by the organs of the labour movement, jointly with the TUs. Our positions are very, very clear on this and they are very, very deep. So what the candidate has done is to give voice to what we have said all this, all this why. Let our refinance work. As soon as our refinance works, the issue of first subsidy will be taken care of once and for all. They don't want it to be taken care of. That is why some of them are crying. That is why they have their money. Repair the refinance and first subsidy scam will stop. And that is our position. So we tell Kayama to please go back to history. To still go back to all the conferences and meetings we have all had, which he also participated in. And tell Nigeria what our position is. It has not changed. It has the same thing. God bless you. Okay. So what's your having this conversation? I mean, because of some of the questions that Festus Kayama has raised, and over time we're understanding like you have rightly mentioned the position of the NLC. As regards subsidy removal, you have never been in support. So with the NLC throwing their support and saying, hey, we're going to support, you know, the candidate of the Liberal Party, that's Pitalbi. Are you saying that the NLC has, you have had a conversation with the presidential candidate, and you are saying that you are in support of removal of subsidy based on Okay, if you listen to my No, are you saying that there's a certain condition? I want us to, you know, have this clarity. Yes. We have had this conversation. In fact, before he was adopted as a candidate of the Liberal Party, we had conversations. We do not bring people from the moon. There is a chapter of demand. Okay, by NLC and TUC that has already been mainstreamed, that has already been kind of added into the Liberal Party chapter. And so the in those chapter of demand, we have asked certain things. There are certain milestones. Look, this thing is in public space. All the CAs, it has been in public space. I wonder why Kayamo is crying. I've told you why he's crying. So we had that discussion with recently last week, we had the same conversation at the Liberal Party National Retreat that took place in Amboja. I was there. A lot of people were there. TUC, NLC, civil society organizations who were there. And we, this chapter of demand of the trade union movement was also read once again for the benefit of those who did not understand it. Let me reiterate what constitutes that chapter of demand. All the trade unions in Nigeria, with NLC having 40 something unions, TUC having 20 something unions, all of them came together. Each of these unions crafted their own chapter of demands and they brought them together and it was articulated into one particular document and was mainstreamed into the Liberal Party. That is so, you find that these are well-total documents that represent all Nigerian workers and all Nigerian people from all facets of life, including you, my sister, it captures your own intentions concerning the place of the issue and all the issues that bothers us as common people in Nigeria. And so Peter Obi, like I said, was speaking in our minds. It has not changed. Nothing has changed at all, at all, at all. That is our position. So was there a time frame that was given as to when, I mean Paraventure, he becomes, this is a conversation, very honest conversations that should be had or should be had. And the one should have a different, you know, point. So was there a time frame that was given as regards when subsidy will be removed entirely? Because if you talk about having the refineries refining the product, I mean, this would not just be a thing that happens in one day. I'm sure there's a lot of issues that need to be sorted out. So was that really a time frame that was given Paraventure, he becomes president? My sister, one thing I can assure you is that Nigerian workers and Nigerian people are represented in this government. It's an inclusive government. That is the truth. Because we are part of the process. We are part of the people that would drive all of this. And then to tell you whether it's 10 days, 20 days is, for me, it's not something that we could we could decide now. But let me tell you one thing. The APC government has told us that the refineries, the protocol refineries will come on stream by 2023. I hope you are aware of that. Now, I am conversant with issues in the petroleum industry. And that is a truth. I have engaged several in many ways. To repair a refinery is not rocket science. To get a refinery to come on stream is not right. In fact, to build a modular refinery from scratch is not rocket science. And so those refineries will be repaired if the political will is there. If you remove greed and corruption, you repair the refineries in months. That is the truth. It is corruption. You know, it is the fraud that is in the system that is preventing the refineries from being repaired. That is a truth. I will also tell you another story. In 2015, early 2015, some people called me to a meeting somewhere in a hotel, you know, Europeans, and some civil society persons, you know, called me 15 of them, interviewing me sitting on one side on the issue of petroleum subsidy and what was going to happen. And I explained to them the race issue of the refineries that the refineries was moribund. And I said the refineries are not moribund. And that is a truth. Some people want to cash cash out on the refineries. They want to sell it to themselves. And so some of these issues. So I told them that you cannot remove petroleum subsidy in the way you're talking about. Let's repair the refineries. If we repair the refineries, subsidy with that naturally, that is a truth. And there's no two ways about it. And so if you talk about when the timeline, I will tell you that what is going to take to repair the refineries, since the refineries is going to come on stream next year, as promised by APC, which we know is not going to happen as usual because corrosion and the, and the fraud in the system has not been dealt with. I assure you that as soon as our candidate Mr. Pito, it takes over, you know, governance in May 29, 2023, one of the priority areas will be to start refining the products locally to get the refineries working. And like I told you, it is not okay science. Okay, just, just before we go, what's the position of the NLC on time? We're talking about turnaround maintenance that's been going on. Some people say that, you know, is a front. But what's the position of the NLC? It's a fraud. It's a, we have a question is holistic. Panaramb maintenance that they have impact on is redoed with fraud. It's part of the system of corruption that is going on. And so when we, when they say that, how, I mean, you need to remove the corruption in the turnaround maintenance, turnaround maintenance could be carried out quickly. That's what I'm saying. Faster. And the money is, there will be value for money. If 10 billion Naira, for example, is invested, Nigeria's will get 10 billion Naira to repair, to repair the refineries. Not when 10 billion dollars is Naira is giving out, then somebody does something for 100 million. And then the other 9.7 billion goes into private pockets to fund the elections and to fund some of the activities. So what we are saying is that we are bringing in integrity. The Labour Party is bringing in 50% of the workers that we have to go down. I mean, you know that the campaigns would definitely start on the 28th of September 2022. And so it will be important for us to hold on up until that time before we begin to talk about the campaigns. Thank you so much, Onyeka Christopher, Assistant General Secretary of the NLC, Ryan Tien Legos. We appreciate your time and thoughts. Thank you so much. God bless you. Thank you for having me. Well, that's the size of the conversation. turnaround maintenance, the issue of the NLC, fuel subsidy removal, fastest Kiamo, and what have you. However, the NLC is saying that the position, you know, are the fuel subsidy and this removal is that when the refineries for subsidy to be removed, the refineries needs to be functional. And that's when they can fully support the removal of subsidy. Well, that's it this morning on the breakfast. It's been quite interesting for us here. Seven o'clock on material now. 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Hello and welcome back to The Croft Box, my name is Brent and today we're in episode 78 of the Pirate101 musketeer walkthrough, long time since I've said that. Just finished off the dungeon that I rage quit on last time, in between episodes which has been a long time. I've probably done this dungeon more times than I want to admit, all of which dying and finally I got lucky and won. We finally have gotten the marble after all this time. Um, yeah. Exactly, I'll tour around with you. Once a true love be free, Lady Desdemona tell us how to find the resistance in a circle. In a circle tell us how to find Gaspacho, and Gaspacho, him tell us how we beat Kane. You see it now? Yep, so that basically caught you up what we're doing. Um, really good. Um, so I'll be back when I'm at Pygmalion's pygmalion and pygmalion studio. Okay, I am back at Pygmalion. Okay, I'll be back when I'm in the Halls of Justice in Valencia. Okay, I am back. Oh, what an amazing piece. So lovely. And that's a great marble which is the tassel in my foyer. You know, I have been thinking about the Bassanio's case but you were gone. Yes, they were definitely irregularities during the initial hearing. These letters put my conscience at ease. I am free? Yes, you are. Free as well. I don't understand. Who are all of you? Why are you interceding for me? There's a Demona. I have no ship. Take me to her, I beg you. Okay, let us go and find Dizdemona. There's quite a few errors switching through locations. Okay, and we'll see how far I can go. After the update that came out yesterday, no, the day before. The day before or yesterday morning probably. For me, I don't know when this is going up, but this is, yeah. But there was a new update, the party barge thing.  I'd played on the test run of it. I didn't record it just because I kind of just wanted to see how it was by myself and see if it was worth recording. I mean, it's kind of cool, but I'll probably do it on my witch doctor, but I don't think I will. Okay, I don't think I'll necessarily like to do all of it. Yeah. See, it's been quite a while. Okay, come on. This is really annoying. This has been happening to me all the time. It's been quite a while, about seven months. So, yeah, I thought I'd just, I thought I'd try again. I mean, I've tried that dungeon so many times. Probably about 40 or 50, to be honest, to be completely honest. No exaggeration. Okay, maybe slight exaggeration, like 10 times. But all of those except that one, I failed. So, yeah, it's kind of annoying. Okay, I'll be back once this is fixed. Okay, I am back. It is a couple of days later now, but we, and the bug is hopefully fixed. Mostly is. Um, hopefully we can talk to Dizdemona, who is just over here. Hello. Okay. Let's go and talk. Okay, let's go and talk to Dizdemona. Okay, let's go and talk to Dizdemona. No, no, no. I'm not going to talk to him. You'll see that I'm not going to talk to him. You'll see that I'm not going to talk to him. okay let's go and do this um that was weird how it like cut out in the middle don't know what happened there um but yeah let us head on over to Villa Trigante don't know where that is it's an island obviously but um I don't know which island it is yeah this is actually really cool place I know we've been here before probably I can't actually remember probably but yeah it's cool very nice thank you thank you feels really good to be playing once again like I think the break that I took was well was well for me was well yep great England was very good I think um where is this let us also not get pulled into a name combat battle to do to do should have taken the wind lane let us boost Jean do to do to do to do to do to do fume okay and we will just sail on the plane up until Villa Trigante which is over here yeah over here right at the end I'm lazy I am lazy oh so lazy I am impatient as well dum ba dum ba dum ba dum ba dum the one thing I hate about Valencia is the skyway is so big and mine as well just use it all might as well I can refill it it's fine I've got lots of gold yeah that's so big like that's the one thing I hate about this one lane is that it's huge but anyway let us hit on him to this villa bum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum it's quite a big place actually the most decadent noble in Valencia or so he seems we shall see okay interesting very very close to the machine mm-hmm hello door guard hello you wish to see don Giovanni met all means inside speed with major doble up a little boo boo boo boo boo boo boo load load load load load please and thank you are here to see Don Giovanni I don't recall anyone so colorful on today's invitation list Okay, let us head on over to the cellars. Uh-oh. We are gonna have to fight people. It's fine. We can probably do it. Probably. Who knows? Okay, we are just gonna switch it up a bit. Not P. Been playing too much with us. Gonna go U and who's better at Romba. Just so we have some... Okay, that is slightly worrisome, but oh well. So, I changed up what Kill is between episodes. Well, yeah, between episodes, but it's been like six months. He now has Vengeance Strike 3, so that basically means that he has the possibility to stun. I've got First Strike. I don't like that. I'm just gonna let you come to me. So, yeah. Possibility to stun, okay, so which is nice just to stop them from critting and hitting and anything of the sorts because they do that a lot. Um, so let's see how this goes. I'm not sure if it's gonna go too well, to be honest, but you never know. Here we go already. Rip already. Nice. Mega hits are always good. Okay. Oh, Bladestorm. Nice. Oh, hello. Yikes. He's gonna Bladestorm again. And, well, start, oh. Rip Romba. Rip Romba. Here we go. Rip Romba. Rip Baroni. Oh, God. This is bad. That was just one. Yikes. Rip Romba. Oh, Valencia is so hard. I love it. I might be here for a while. Yay, me. At least this one you can team up on, so I might have to do that. Yeah, go for the pit. That's always good. Rip. Vingent, no, First Strike. Okay, good dodge there. Good dodge short killers. Oh, unlucky dodged. Oh, Vingent Strike. Stop. How do you have riposte and First Strike? This game.  Oh, my gosh. Why are you just stuck over there? That's fine. I'm not gonna complain. Deal with this with Whiskerude. Whiskerude, like, no doubt, but please go off on them. First fires. Double tap. Thank you. Come on, Chantel. You're my last hope. Thank you. Hawk, please go. Okay. Nice. Okay. Overwatch. Stop. Oh, my God. Step me, not Chantel. Chantel's good. No. Well, at least we got one of them down. I mean, that's always good. Okay. We're gonna do this because we can. I mean, Whiskerude, either way, so I'm just gonna try. I mean, trying is the best I can do. If I have to heal, then so be it. Luckily, I've got a lot of agility, so they don't really crit on me. But they do relentless a lot. As long as they don't crit, it should be fine because they won't get the burst, not the burst fire. What's it called? The Bladestorm. Okay. We're doing some damage, which is good. Oh, dodge. That didn't look like a dodge, but okay. Elusive. Hopefully, I can dodge a lot more now. That's good. Hopefully, fingers crossed. There's still a big chance that I could die. We're not gonna heal. We're still good on health. We'll wait for a bit. Okay, dodge. Okay, we're gonna have to heal. No. I should have healed. I should have healed. Damn it. Well, I'll be back in just a bit. Okay. I'm back. Did it the second time around. I went for a more musketeer sit-up and seemed to work. Oh, God. More. Yikes. Who do we have? Tyson. Okay. Yeah, I went for a more musketeer sit-up for this and it seemed to work, so I'm gonna do probably the same sort of strat again. You can't know. You will be up here. Done. Okay. Yeah, so I did bomb traps last time, but I'm gonna do claw traps this time just to see. Obviously, maybe not the best placement, but it's fine. He doesn't have first strike, which is nice. He just has vengeance, which is really nice. Hello. Glancing below. Yep. Okay. That did a lot.  That was bad. This one isn't gonna go as well as the last one. Stop. Thank you. Jeez. Okay. This could also go that. This is gonna go that. Yep. Rip. Rip, Tyson. You're dead, Tyson. You can't come from this. Bladestorm. Whoa. Swoop-de-do. Look at that. Oh, look.  Two people in one round. Wow. Yeah, this isn't gonna go as well. Rip. We tried. I'm gonna have to wait forever now because I can't go without some of these companions. Just not. You're gonna be able to do this. It'll take some miracle if we can do this. Please dodge. They crit so much they have such a high crit chance. Like, honestly, I have a 1% chance to crit on people who are anybody who uses agility. Like, how? Honestly, their crit chances were way too high, I think. Like, look, 1% chance to crit. 1% chance to crit. 10% because he's that 1%. Usually, it's like 25% for normal things.   We're gonna make it really hard for you all. So that's fine. Highly suggest get some friends. Because look at that. Well, I'll be back in a bit. Okay, I am back just finished that. Yeah. Took a while. Not gonna lie. But we did it. It's actually another day now because I don't like the real hospitality. Okay. Yeah, it's, I prefer waiting for companions to live instead of not. So yeah, that was, it was kind of difficult, kind of difficult, but you just need to kind of try and try. Who bested Rook and Deacon and thwarted Gaine himself. This is indeed an honor. I have no fear. The revelers around us have had their senses so dulled by fun and folly that they will forget all they have seen or heard of you. The time of Valencia's liberation may be at hand. Wouldn't you say, General? We meet again, pirate. When I heard you were in Valencia, I thought it must be a trap. Yet, here you are. You seek Gaspatio, eh? He is being held in the clockworks, fortress factory of the Totalini Crab Clan, where the soldiers of the Armada made. Gaspatio can send us messages, but we cannot reach him. An assault on the clockworks would be madness for anyone else, I think. But for you, go back to Florenza and find No Bartonello. He is our agent who receives Gaspatio's messages. He can tell, in the meantime, we of the resistance will do all we can to draw Cain's eyes from the clockworks. Go quick. We've come this far. Why start being smart now? Let's go. Okay, let us head over to Florenza. I don't know, that's probably a while away, but we're gonna walk. So yeah, Steve, what a legend. He was the one who helped us in part one of Valencia. So yeah, he makes a return, which is cool. So yeah, that battle was, I'm not gonna say difficult, but it was um, well it was difficult, but I'm not gonna say it was like overly difficult. I mean, it was good. You just need to find a kind of good strat, and I hope that your powers draw, they don't crit as much, they pass a lot, who just, it's, this game is just really like, like, like seriously. This game is all luck-based, and yeah, I'm lucky I won that, both of them, and only losing one companion. I'm pretty, I'm pretty impressed with that. That was pretty lucky. So yeah, we're so slow. We need more fuel. Yes, the skyway is so huge. Well, it feels like so long since I've been here. I just forget how much I love this game sometimes. Is this Florensa? No, it isn't. That is too small for Florensa. Florensa is there. Why am I lagging so much? Who knows? Oh, another one. Here we go, Florensa. Hello. There we go. Thank you. Okay, let's do this. Okay. Back in Florensa, I am first going to get some fuel, from the fuel guy who I think is over here. Ship vendor, ship parts, fuel. Hello. There we go. Okay, and now we will head in to the Missa Lunatevan. Don't know where that is. Probably been there before, but don't remember it. Nope. So who knows really? Who knows? This way. Nope, this way. It's nope, nope.  Doesn't like me. Nope, nope, nope. Where is it? Question. It is... Ah, there. Over there. Nope, over this way. Where are we going? That is here. This Quistero is being really weird. Really, really weird. Really, really weird. I don't like it. Okay. Hello.  That's cute. The clock works. It terribly seems possible to break it, but we know Gespacho is a... Yay, level up. Level 68. The tortellinis keep Gespacho prisoner in the tall tower at the rear of the factory. That is where he makes his perks. You cannot reach him without a key to his cell. Lucky for you, I know how you might get him. I hear rumours. The rigatoni clan plans to break into the clockworks and rob the tortellinis. They stole a master key. Get it from them. Back to the crab tunnels, eh? Lovely. You can't do shady business in Valencia without running into crabs sooner or later. Their intrigues are the worst in the unicorns. Good luck. Okay, let us hit on down and collect this key. Let us also train up some companions, but Chantel is one of them. Load. Jesus, weird. 66. 66, and you're dead. That's fine. Um, I mean, I'm really happy with our team currently. Um, it's looking good. I think it's gonna do well. Okay, where are we going? We're going back into the caves. Where are they? Again, it's been a while. Doesn't even show me on the map. That is perfect. I feel like the dialogue here is way too quiet, but like, I've got it up max, so... Who knows? Not me. Weird. Okay, we can go down there. The light wasn't working something like what? Weird what? Okay. Kind of weird how they're just like standing there. I swear they're usually moving. That's weird. Oh well. Or not. Maybe, maybe they decided that moving is not for them. Oh, these ones decided that moving is for them though, obviously. I don't even know where we're going. Down here? Uh-huh. Is there a map for this place? There is creptomers. Woo! They're actually quite big, aren't they? Yeah, they are. Oh, don't say it's this dungeon. Don't tell me. Oh, I'm afraid now. What do we have to do in here? Oh, it's just, um... No, it's just what we had to do for the quest. That's cool. So we don't get any XP for it? That's fine. Ooh, buccaneers. You know what? We're just gonna go in and yolo it and see what happens. A very small battleboard. Don't like that. Don't like that. Um, got this. My plan is kind of just to spam traps around because that is always a great idea. So yeah, we'll see how that works for us. Sometimes it works out well, other times not so much. Depends if they want to land on traps, you know. Some of them don't. And I completely understand why they're smart, but others are not so smart. Okay, nice work. Decimus. Yay. Do you have another double tap? No, you don't. That's unfortunate. Overwatch, though. I don't even remember what I have on her, so who knows. Ooh, double tap. Yeah, boy. And another one. Yeah, boy. Yeah, and a bird. Oh, nice. Another double tap. Okay, yeah. These guys are easy because we have heaps of agility and we just smash them. Especially me, because I have quite a lot of agility. Oh, parting shot by.  Yup, bang, glancing blow. Ooh, okay, not too bad. Okay, you stepped on a bomb. Unfortunate. Okay. Overwatch. Overwatch. Oh, blocked, unlucky. Overwatch. Oh, epic. Nice. Nice. Okay, I'm thinking you might be dead, nearly. You did. Yay, one down. That's perfect. That's actually really good. I'm really happy about that. Oh, blocked. These two block a lot, which is, oh no, mega. Yikes. Yikes. Yikes. Okay, rip, rip, Chantel, rip, rip, rip, rip. No, no, not quite rip. Don't relentless. Thank you. I don't even know if they have relentless, but I just assume they do. No, they don't have relentless. That is a surprise. That is very much a surprise. Most people here have relentless of some sort. I should have probably healed Chantel because I'm not going to kill, but you never know.  Go, Wing Chun. Yeah, boy. Yas. Yas. Vengeance. They have vengeance, so that's not good. Dodge. Nope. Okay, that's fine. Yas. Okay, two down. Two to go. And Chantel is RIP, probably. Um, no, yeah, she's rip, rip, Rony. That's actually a really cool attack, but rip, Chantel. Rip, Chantel. That is not good. Dodge, Wing Chun. I know you can dodge.  Five health. Really, really gave me going to do me like that. Of course, you are. You have like first strike. Okay, we can get away with moving there. It's just first strike, we've got to be worried about. Okay, there's one down. So three down, one to go. That was, oh, yikes. Okay, hopefully using that will. Decimus Magnus is really going off, geez. Keeps mega, which is really cool. Keeps mega, keeps with the megas. Yas. RIP, Wing. Didn't, didn't do anything, but that's still RIP, Wing. Wing is next on the chopping block. Um, do I want to heal Wing? I might heal Wing, just, just for lolls, just because we can. Don't want to waste too much epic heal. That's fantastic. That's superb. Okay. Yeah, he's dead. He's dead next. If he hits Wing and, nope, he's going for Magnus, I would, I would do that as well. I would definitely do that. Um, okay, 92. Let's do that. See what happens. Epic. Nice. There we go. RIP, 800. Okay, perfect. Amazing. Absolutely amazing.  Give me that key. Was that your army? That's a very small army just saying. I should have left the mark.  What? What? Why did you not? Okay, good. What? Weird. That was really weird. Weird. Okay. Anyway, let us, where's the forensic doc? Nope, can't use the life fountain. Gotta run all the way back. Load, please. Thank you. Whoops, nearly walked right into that battle. Walked right into that battle. I'll be back in a bit. Okay, I am back. Here is Nobora Tanalala. So I need you to give me a new cruise. You have the key. Good. I found something else that can help. Here are some architectural plans of the place. They will help you find your way around. The place is crawling with guards, and there are hundreds of clockworker soldiers waiting to get shipped out. But they're not the worst. Pomodoro Totalini. Dizzy overseer of the whole place. Don Totalini's meanest son. Make sure you get out of there before he finds you. If you intend to go to the clockworks, you're the best to be ready to leave Valencia immediately after. Then it is time to say goodbye to our gracious host, Aramando. Okay, so I'm going to end off the episode here. So yeah, I hope you are looking forward to the series being back for like the three episodes, two episodes now that are remaining. Next episode, we will head into the clockworks and do that dungeon, and then the episode after that will be Kane. So if there's anybody who wants to help me for those two episodes, I would be much appreciate that because I can't do either of these by myself. So either way, I won't be just by myself next time. So yeah, thank you for watching. Smash that like button for this series revival. So yeah, thank you for watching. Remember to leave a like and subscribe. And if you're very subscribed, press the little bell to know exactly when I post another video. And remember, craft outside the box.


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