Oh, yeah. Well, it's the right to destroy unions. Well, somebody's got to get on top of it. As soon as we have the final payment to it, then we're going to ask the insurance if we can read the line of code. Because I don't know if we're going to need it. Bye, John. Hello. I'll take a minute to say. I was trying to throw in a few things while learning the ropes here, so. Oh, no worries. No worries. Tell me. Give me a place when I need it. I was trying to do it. No worries. Welcome, everybody. 615 here on my agenda. November 25th. And welcome. Before we start, does anybody have any additions to the agenda that they would like to make? Harlan, I see you do.  Please. Just for my request? Sure. Yeah. You'll be part of the thing here. Yes, I just have a simple request about an AOT map. Thank you. AOT? Yeah, AOT map. What's that? Transportation. All right. So I'm going to start off with the minutes from the last meeting on November 11th. And I did make a few clarifying edits on there just to, there was a lot going on in this conversation. So I don't know if people want me to read out a little. I mean, a lot of this is just grammatical stuff, but I could if you want me to go through it. But Dale will, with these corrections, I mean, I'm just putting in some proper spelling of there instead of there as a place. It's there as a person, stuff like that. So you can all see these when they're corrected and typed up. So I've moved to, Tom, you had a chance to look at them. I've moved to accept these and is corrected. I'll second that. Long paper. All right. Thank you. We've got Joan is not here. She's off on a vacation this week. But basically the update for her work is that she's been working on all the FEMA project paperwork and applications. So that's Joan's report. Is Tony here from the library? No. No? All right. So you're clear. You're into the winter wonderland. Yeah. We've got to remind everybody to not plow across the world again. We just want to say don't write so many bills on your own. It's been a really big issue in this last storm. Really? One in particular. Simply share. I thought the same. I mean, we didn't find them and I went looking for them and I haven't come in. We will explain to them. For Patrick's role. He really had her have gone up to getting up there after he took it down. Turned it to ice. Yeah. She's not worth smashing a truck over. Getting somebody hurt. You know very well. We go through the same. One actually happens. What is this? They tried to get right into ice and then it doesn't peel off. Who presses it all down? Yeah. And you can just get in trouble and really quit.  Is there a problem? Yeah. I went out a couple of days ago. Oh yeah? We had to. You had fun? Went down my hill backwards all the way. No. That was fun. All right. Well, carry on. Thank you. All right. Terry is. Did he get back from hunting in Canada? Yes, he did. He did. All right. But he's not here tonight. So we don't have. He's still deer hunting. He's still deer hunting. Yeah. That time here. All right. So we've got a couple. With contract that we approved the bid last meeting for a music mountain to deal with the sidewalks. And now we have the contract here. I noticed that he didn't get out there today and deal with it. I went and spoke to him and he's still waiting on a part for his tractor. So. So I. He thought he'd have it this weekend. And I understand he was waiting to order that part until he knew he had to contract. So it's. Well, it's supposed to warm up tomorrow. Should melt a lot of stuff on. So. So I'd move to go ahead and sign this. I guess we already accepted the bid. So there's no sense in. I don't know if we even have to make a motion, but I'll make it anyway and sign it. I second it. All in favor. Yes. I don't have too much of a choice. No, we don't. But. I think it's going to be fine. And then we also have the contract for the roadside mowing that we agreed to. The bid at a past meeting. And we've got two places to. So I'd move to go ahead and sign this contract. I second that. All in favor. All right. Who was that regretful time? Music mountain probably. Yeah. Same. Yeah. What was the bid for the amount of money? It's on that one. Yeah. What is the amount? She wants to know on that. Oh. 13. No, that's. I mean, that's the. That's a. This is the snow. That's the. That's the one. 14 950. Yes, ma'am. Come on in. All right. 14 950 is. I'm talking about the music to have roadside mowing. 14 950. Well, she was waiting. I have. All right. And we also have. Find our first application for a roadwork under our. New class for road policy from the loo logging. From. Hancock Vermont for work up on the top of wing farm road, which is basically. Fixing the road and turning water off the roadway. So we can do with logging. And. Move to. Approve that. I would. Second that. David. Hi. Okay. Termination. There's not a termination date. I guess it's, he's, you know, got permission to. Improve the road so he can. Do his. His logging. I would suppose at the end of this, when he's done the logging, you should have an inspection. That's a big law. There's a big law. They're going to go through the other side first. Yeah. You mean I may be able to make a little maple hillside. Right. Yeah. First. I just didn't know. Well, I, I, I saw the machine go up maple hill. So. I think it's, you're right. He's going to start. That location. No, because the next one is before he gets back in there. I didn't know if he needed another. I think that that's. I mean, we haven't really. I don't know if we have to get that fussy about Nancy. Yeah. I think he said it probably was going to be a couple of years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so this, this just lets us know who's doing any of the work. Right. Right. Right. To be fair to everybody, it shouldn't go on forever. You can fix it forever if you want. Yeah. He's continuing working on the same job. Yeah. Close to, it's the, to the Forest Service. Right. So. Well, the job. It's part of the Forest Service. It's part of the Forest Service project. Right. It's actually overseeing this, as far as I know. Yeah. But this is just in terms of the town, the aspect of the town road. Right. This is just access to it. Yeah. We have, we have to grant the access, but it's the actual logging is on the jurisdiction of the Forest Service. Right. He's going to repair the road. Yeah. But if they go back in there in 20 years for the, you have to get another. Well, if he's going to do, if he's going to have to do significant work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe that just needs to be clarified a little better. Well, I don't know. I don't know. In what way? I mean. Well, he did. He can fix the road forever for us. Well, back in there, five years from now. Mm-hmm. And say, well, I've done a permit, but he's already done that job. And maybe there's a job right next to it. And maybe you want to do something different in five years. Well, sure. I would read this as he's getting permission to work on the road for this project. And if it comes back in the future that, you know. What's his project? He's completed. How big is his project? Quite large. The logging job is quite large. The project that this application is for is not large. It's just basically he's hardening, putting in some gravel and even out some of the water bars. And so it'll, he can drive through there without getting hung up. I mean, I guess the main condition is that when he's done with the project that there's, you know, that it's doing probably water. Probably water bars. Yeah. Martha? I just want to make sure I get this clear for the first time. Yeah. All right. So the application from blue logging at Kankuk for access to doing work in preparation for a Forest Service project at the top of the informal work, is that correct? To access a logging job, the National Forest, you know, property. Okay. To access a logging job. The swans mill, right? For the Forest Service? Yeah. The swans mill. At the top of Wing Farmer? Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. I see a hand in the corner there. It's me. Yeah. You know, there's, I believe there's a time limit on the amount of time they've got the Forest Service hasn't in the contract. It's either three or five years, I'm not sure which. But it seemed to me that it would make sense to go and give the guy a permit to keep the road open to get his logs in and out.  So why not just make it, you know, for the duration of the time given by the Forest Service to complete the contract? Notes. I would say that. I think it's specific to that road. Yeah. I would say. The writing conditions. Yeah. For the durations of his project and then to be inspected when he's done. Yeah.  That's reasonable. We'll put that in as a condition. Who inspected? Road commissioner. Road commissioner. Road commissioner. Right? Oh yeah. Yeah. So to find out about the extent of the project and together the Forest Service works, I can see. Yeah. They actually have a map. Yeah. It's a very surgical, selective cut. That's one of the reasons. And there's another one that's even larger. Yeah. It's large. It's not like clear cut or anything like that. Yeah. No. Is everything coming out of that same road? No. No. There's some coming from the other side. Yeah. We're going to access some from Hancock too. I don't know. They just asked us about this. So I added in the conditions for the duration of the logging project and with inspection after the job is done. And we do have this certificate of liability insurance. And it gives us on to the additions. Harlan, do you have something you want to say about the book? I know of none. I was wondering if you were reporting something since you brought it. Yeah. They found it. They were cleaning out their attic. Cleaning. Yeah. Cleaning. Just like we're doing. Yeah. Yeah. And they, yeah. I will tell you, I have one more place to check. Sure. It's a real long shot for any town records. But that would be the office right next door downstairs. What's below us? The American Legion. American Legion. The American Legion room. If I can get in at some point, we should probably just check that. Americans. Well, it used to be the Constable's office. Constable's office. Yep. The boiler room. The Legion is just below us. Yeah. And then the boiler room. The boiler room over here. Yeah. The Constable's office. Yeah. Yep. The library. Nothing of value to us. No. No records were stored in there. Yeah. And Nancy and I, we did some on the weekend searching. And we looked behind books. And we did not find it. We know if there are other books that are missing. No. Has there been a comprehensive catalog of the world? Who's came up? Who's willing to do that? Yeah. So there is a comprehensive catalog of all the... You know, he's cataloged everything. There is little. Yeah. Because it's just maybe what's in the books. You need to verify the dates. No. We could have been bound. Right. We could have been bound. And so the dates may not correspond with what's inside. I see. Okay. So at some point when we have extra time. You just put it on the side. And off I risk to that project. It sounds like it's probably an idea. Yeah. It's kind of common instead of finding funds to help. Well, because... So it's a volunteer project. Sounds like a good intern. Well, this... Yes. I'm afraid. So Mason, you wanted to, as mentioned, is this the same that Harlan was leading to? I just have a simple request in reference to the 2015 AOT map on the wall here. That it's incorrect. Yes. And can we take it down? Because this ruin is used by the public and a lot of people. Look at it. Try to understand what's going on. We did. We took the corrected one down to use for... I think that's in Jones office again, because there was a newly corrected one. Well, why don't we instead of taking it down, why don't we just replace it with the corrected one? Well, that's totally a great idea. Yeah. I really appreciate it. But for the most part, it does... Well, the most part is very wrong. Well, no. For the most part, it's very right. There's a small section that's very wrong. Right. Yeah, that's correct. But not drastically wrong. It's drastically wrong that right now the AOT is still waiting for Hancock to explain TH-18 in three years now, three years running of how this magical situation happened from 2001 to 2017. It sounds like a Hancock meeting. I don't... Yeah. But I just don't want people to have the wrong idea by seeing false information in the public like that. Right. Thank you. Okay. All right. And the other... I did get in the last meeting. There was a lot of discussion around the Class 4 road policy about why we modified it from the VLCT policy. And I do have an explanation from our attorney why he did the way he did it. And I know you guys are interested in it and I can give this to you. I don't know if you want this read in the public meeting, but I know you're at the questions about it. So I'll give you a copy of that. Thank you. Yeah. So, in other words, paying attention. Yeah. All right. This is a copy of an explanation from the town attorney. Right. Right. Going over basically what we talked about last meeting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And really, this is the shortest meeting we've had in months. And we've got something... I think it's really helpful things in that letter that should be shared. And since it's being recorded, it should be on record. All right. Well, I'll read it since we have plenty of time. Can I have it back? Yes. It's 125. All right. So this is from Jim Barlow, who we've been using as our town attorney. So these are his words here. By the way of background, in the area of Vermont municipal government for the last 15 years, including nine years as a staff attorney for VLCT, I regularly counsel town managers, select board members, road foremen, and others involved in managing and maintaining town highways. In addition to advertising municipalities on all matters of town highway issues, I have been a speaker at numerous town highway conferences around the state. Most recently in 2018, I gave five regional presentations on highway right-of-way issues under the municipal roads general permit. The model policy that I provided to the Rochester Select Board is based in part on the VLCT model policy. It includes additions and changes that reflect my professional experience with class poor town highway issues and changes to reflect the implementation of the municipal roads general permit. I originally developed the policy for a specific client town and have since modified it so it can be adopted by other towns. I believe it to be a significant improvement over the VLCT model. The purpose of this policy is to protect the public investment in a town highway system was included to give specific recognition to the fact that the town highway system is every town's most expensive and valuable public asset. Town highways comprise 85% of the roads in the state of Vermont. Annual expenses related to maintaining and repairing town highways typically comprise 50 to 60% of the town budget. In almost every Vermont town, the majority of the town's employees are involved directly or indirectly in the management and maintenance of the town's highways. As anyone experienced in Vermont, local government knows because they are usually remotely located and not as frequently traveled as other highways, class poor town highways are often abused and damaged, especially during mud season and occasionally at significant cost to the town and the public. For several reasons, including in some instances commercial scale maple sap production, this seems to be an increasing problem. While historically maintenance and repair of class poor town highways has been discretionary, quote, to the extent required by the necessity of the town, the public good and the convenience of the inhabitants of the town, 19 VSA 310B, under the municipal roads general permit, towns will soon be subject to maintenance standards for class poor highways. Compliance with the MRGP standards will only increase the need for protection of a town's investment in its class poor highways. The concept of protecting the public investment in class poor town highways is embodied in Section 3, which includes a list of some of the statutory tools available to a select board to protect class poor highways, i.e. special gross weight limits, temporary travel restrictions, temporary permits, bonding, et cetera. The concept of protection is also embodied in Sections 6 and 7, which set standards for private improvement and maintenance of class poor highways. Restricting or prohibiting motor vehicle travel on a class poor town highway is not as simple or as clear as the VLCT model implies, hence the need for different language. The statutory authority of a select board to temporary restrict travel on a class poor highway imposed barriers and post signs indicating the road is closed, clearly recognized under the statutes cited in the Rochester policy. The statutory authority to entirely and or permanently prohibit a restrict motorized vehicle travel on a class poor highway as suggested by the VLCT model language is much less clear and probably doesn't exist. For example, by statute and ATV or snowmobile, both motorized vehicles can be operated on any town highway that is not being maintained during the snow season. That's a 23356B1A and 326A2. There is nothing a select board can do to prohibit this. In my opinion, a select board does not have the authority to unilaterally and permanently prohibit all motor vehicle travel on a class poor highway. My recommendation has been that if a select board is considering permanently prohibiting motor vehicle travel on a specific class poor town highway, probably can only do so on a seasonal basis, example December to May and only by adoption of an ordinance which is subject to permissive referendum, i.e. voter petition in a town meeting vote. That ordinance would need to have exceptions for, among other things, snowmobiles and ATVs and allow persons owning frontage on highway to use the road by motor vehicle even when it is closed to motor vehicle travel by the general public. This comes from the holding in Okimo Mountain Incorporated versus the town of Ludlow Prohibition of use of a public road in winter represents a taking of a budding owner's property right of access without compensation. So that's um, that was what, did you miss something you want me to read again? I obviously couldn't write as bad as you would guess so I was wondering if it was possible to get a copy of that Sure. Sure. We could do that before you go tonight. Thank you. Thank you very much. And I'll make a copy and then you can have a copy too. Sure. Yeah. Harlan, you want a copy too? Sure. Alright. Thank you for taking the opportunity to talk about that. I appreciate it. It does explain a lot. Yeah. I just um, figured that. Alright. I think that um, I would have one request I one request everybody have a safe and happy Thanksgiving. Yes. Thank you.


This is my first time trying it because, you know, I didn't want to try the ops for a long time Yo, I like this part of the pork right here that looks like that means gonna come off real nicely Yeah, and it did right there. I think Has the best full broth chicken and beef that I've maybe ever had Little known fact Philadelphia has the largest amount of Vietnamese outside of California and Texas Which means the fall has to be banging and the Asian parties are super lit So let's see how much better this Philly for is then New York City Welcome everybody to an episode of farm grows food We're here out in Philly today helping host a book event for our guys see mulew But before we go to that event, I'm out here with the via plug a B That's good And we are going to be going to the most iconic Vietnamese shops in all of Philly All right, you guys have come from New York guys been talking about Philly for a minute It's been a long time since you've been in the city I'm gonna take you guys to the top four spots in Philadelphia. All right Is one of the spots gonna be your parents shop? Of course. All right, but first before that we got to check out for 75 Hey, what's going on everybody? 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You definitely get the football outfit or any type of beef that you like if you don't like doing all the Tripe and everything but you definitely got to get the hang-zum and the nook bail which is Like the fatty scallion oil and then the vinegar onions Okay, so the foods arrived and this looks like delicious for but it looks like for but these two things we got to talk about this AB all right We got the nook bail right here, which is uh the fat skin from the top of the broth melt it down with some Scallion tips just drop that into your full hang-zum right here, which is vinegar onions Okay, so these are like pickled onions. You could throw it right in the bowl with the nook bail Do I just pour it all in just pour just pour a bit in I mean you don't want your cholesterol going too hot Okay, don't scallion for at first 75 That is beefy and oily Wow. See I didn't even think about the sriracha or the hoisinia Guys, I'm telling you for the price and it being in the city plus the nook bail the oil on top I got to give this a five out of five You know what it is it tastes like the broth could almost just be sold on its own as a beef soup Hey, and you know it's good because it's cash on the second spot in the plaza is for God tan tan now For God is not popular in every city like for example in New York You can't find a good chicken for but out in Philly. You really can why is that I think it's all about the ingredients There's a lot of poultry shops that sell live chicken here. So, you know, that's where we get it That's where we source our meat. All right, let's go All right, what did you just order?  So I saw that they also What is that the chicken liver on top like the brown pieces? Yeah, you'll get some organs You get liver heart gizzard as well. Is this for God? How does it match up to your parents spot hang long? Yo, this is my first time trying it because you know, I didn't want to try the ops for a long time See that yellow skin not You see that yellow skin not all chicken Come out like that. All right, AB We got to be honest that you didn't want to try this spot because for a long time They were the direct competitor to one of your parent spots.  I just didn't want to go. All right All right. All right So so I need you to give an oath real quick that you are going to give your most honest opinion And if it is better than your parents spot if it happens to be then you're gonna say it I'm an honest guy. I'll you know, I'm sure I'll right now So this style is not going to be familiar to a lot of people outside of a vietnamese area because you have a plain broth Fuh, right? Yep. And then you have the chicken on the side and we're going to be dipping the chicken In this sauce right here with the chilies and what salt and lime. Yep, lemon pepper. Oh Man, it's different. It's definitely different from my mom's. It's way lighter So grab this piece right here. You got the breast meat. I got a thigh piece. Okay. All right. You got to dip it in the Lemon pepper right here.  Okay All right, ab so in your initial thoughts, which one is better? My mom spots better man. Come on That was pretty good though. It's good. No, it's delicious man Yo, we're gonna we're gonna try tang long at the end of this video When you guys order for god in other cities, it will not come like this The chicken will be like chicken breast pieces in here. Basically if the spot doesn't focus on for god It's not gonna be good. I'm gonna give it a 4.75 out of five I'm gonna leave a little bit of room for the five, but this chicken is delicious That's good. I'm gonna give it a 4.5 out of five Especially once you dip the chicken in the crack sauce and then some of the crack sauce gets in the fuh Definitely a 4.5 out of five. All right, so we just left fuh god, tan tan And I'm gonna say I'm gonna bump them up another 0.25 for how many abg's we're in there eating fuh There's a lot of there's a lot of shorties in uh south philly man more people come out here than kensington All right, so we ate at two spots already. I need to take a break. I need some refreshing puhti Let's go into mr. Wish right here Have a drink make a wish Look how murky that is. I like that. That's how you know, there's a lot of fruit I've not had a drink like this since the shilin night market in taipei taiwan bro Mr. Wish is from taiwan. So, you know, they're giving you authentic buy All right, our third spot is cafe non. What are we going to get here ab? I get the boom bahui fried chicken and the beef fuh. Thanks bro. Appreciate that I get the boom bahui right up there.  There's the bumble whey here I'm gonna go in first thing I'm gonna do is taste the broth It's spicy man. You can get it spicier too. You asked for the house peppers Lots of kick. It's gonna kick you cafe non That is really good. I'm telling you this is one of the most hearty beef fuzz in the city Like this will have you full for most of the day, you know, sometimes you get hungry later on The broth here is really like husky. So all right personally guys All the fuzz I've had in this video is delicious so far But I'm gonna say that this gets the edge over for 75 man. This is so beefy There's a little bit of oil on top. Like you said it hits hard that broth is husky. I love it guys I mean this broth is so rich. It really feels like I'm eating like a tonkatsu ramen or you know I'm going to a really rich fatty Chinese beef noodle soup spot the neuro man and I'm just gonna tell you this man This might not be for everybody, but this bowl of fuzz is for me I have two other iconic dishes here at cafe not you got the vietnamese chicken wings right here Let me break that open for you As you know, I'm a chicken wing fiend It's there's a scallion. There's a fried shrimp already and then it's wrapped in a one-ton skin I'm gonna eat this first man. I go for it. I never had this before Because I've had vietnamese like shrimp rolls before but not like this Wings no sauce Your fingers are burning aren't you? Yeah, it's worth it. It's worth the burn. It's worth the burn What's you guys taking a quick break from fuzz spots here in philadelphia? We're in south philly right now. AB. Tell us where we're at. We're at peas and queues. Let's check it out Let's get you fitted for the seamen event tonight. All right All right, we're with the owners of peas and queues rick and key. What's up? Yo, man, tell us about you guys's shop. These and queues. Uh, it's not just a clothing store We feel like we're more of a community-based shop that kind of really focused on like uh the creative vibes for philadelphia Yeah, and we've been here for uh, 10 year almost 10 years now. So we are happy to excited to start the community Yeah, this one is dope. All right grab a pair of shorts. What do you think of this? Oh, this is the rick set. You gotta grab this. He actually designed it himself right here You know, I heard dea dora is local to philly now as far as their american headquarters. I gotta get a pair of those Yeah This is tough man with the aged midsole made in italia Hey, I love it right now. This is so in right now and I love that everything's in the house too This is the peas and queues in the house brand. I think you need a rose cap. Oh, man This is dope. What is this based off of this rose cap? So if you see on the side, we originally came from chinatown philly Actually, so it says chinatown in chinese Aren't you guys we're gonna do a quick tour of peas and queues man. What are we looking at? Uh, this section here there used to be a map behind here. It didn't work out for us We put a whole bunch of wood on there. So that's some book bags some travel goods Over here is our particular section the local section. So all anything that's local brand philadelphia is all right here in this whole section Bumper total I think it's really important that we bring in local brands because a lot of the young kids Is trying to start up a brand and we got they need a platform So we offer them are you know one of our platforms to sell their stuff here They keep all the profits and everything from themselves and you know, it's really awesome that you know You have real estate in the store when you have a brand next up abe Where we're going going to home base ketherington tanglong. Let's go the dragon All right, so for our last and final vietnamese spot We have made it to north philly wearing kensington and we are at your family spot tanglong Can you tell me what it means tanglong used to be the old name of hanoi before change the hanoi and tanglong means like rising dragon Let's go inside Right, actually like six years ago. We filmed that episode of our tv show broke bites What the fun here and uh, I mean that was cool. It was a long time ago, man But now we back and we're doing a youtube style. Let's go in the back Can I ask you what makes your guys's uh chicken foot so good sauce the sauce is the money The lemon grass didn't sauce with the pepper. All right our fourth and final spot, man We're here at your family spot tanglong the food has came out now You guys have actually won an award for the beef. Uh, but I bought a newspaper Yeah, the newspaper said the beef was the one but you would say that the chicken foot is the one Yeah, because we had the chicken shop right next door the live poultry shop So it's as fresh as it gets. They're literally just clucking right next door. We got to start off with the chicken Uh yellow skin, of course looking very juicy. You're gonna dip it in the sauce right here I'm gonna get that lemon pepper.  Hey, man, that's your opinion I already said I like my mom's bottom already biased That's true. But no, honestly, that was really good, man And we ate here before six years ago and I thought it was the best fog I've ever had and I would still say It still ranks up there compare this Tanglong's broth for the chicken is way stronger. I think um, the chicken is comparable I think the chicken gives a slight notch. I will give Maybe just a shout out to foot a god tan tan. I like their crack sauce a lot a lot But in terms of where you guys need to go in Philly to get chicken fog Let me get a dark meat piece right here come to tang long Tang long Kensington, I'm not just saying this because abe's behind the camera is the best overall for god I've had in america.  All right, you guys, uh, like we said tang long Best chicken fog in philly. However, we do got to get into their beef because uh, they won an award for the beef too There's a couple spots in new york. I got a shout out to one spy in chinatown Fubang it does taste like philly level. That's the new standard is it's philly. Hold on. Hold on a lot of ginger Dairy hat noi style Wow, no, your guys' broth is crazy too You know what I noticed about this is that I almost have a reverse vibe from caffeine non Cafe non did not have a lot of ginger and it had a ton of the fatty vibe This has very little oil on top and a ton of ginger All right, so the boom chowhan is pretty much like a boom tea noom So it's like pork belly But then the difference is the way it's set up So you see it's marinating in the fish sauce you get the meatball right here too Which is my favorite eat ball. I got the carrots and whatnot. Do I need any extra sauce? Up to you And then I just eat it like that It's almost yeah, it is a deconstructed vermicelli bowl right here. Let's go in. Let me get you some All right, boom chowhan noi from tang long in kensington You guys the spot overall beef chicken boom chowhan noi It's crazy, man. I hope I'm not just saying that to hype me up because we home me school I'm really not. I'm really not man. That is one of the best boom chowhan nois I've ever had Of course we saw vntn Sunny, this is your restaurant. This is the first loud spot in philly, right? Yep. My parents started Okay, and then when you took over did you try to like switch things up and update it or did you how much of the same did you keep I kept it by like 80% the same and then 20% is my little twist to it All right, tell us about what we're looking at because this is like pretty fancy presentation Thank you. I try so the first one we have is uh, we actually call it site golf in lao I know some places call it site oa pretty much the same thing the difference is site oil is more fermented So it has a little sour to this to it. This is the site golf which is not fermented There's gonna be a pork lemongrass sausage So my choice will be the ginger habanero sauce Every family have a their own version and my my version is the sauce is a different one.  This is the most popular Like party food in the lao culture and this is my twist right here bing gai or talk bing gai which is Fried chicken wings chili oil that I developed during the pandemic sold online at its own and also at some local markets Yep, local markets online and this is you with your hands. Yep. All right.  All right cycle We're gonna call this the jail Eat this hold on hold on hold on I just ate a bunch of bean in these food, but I got a second wind my other stomach open the heart the gut Yeah, what would it be this esteem hang which is a beef jerky And this one here is the crowd favorite It's like sweet Cheers cheers cheers a lao crispy sweet like a crispy sweet fried rice with um A little bit coconut in there Next up we got the wings bing gai one fighter. Okay Good. I love lao food. And of course here we got the lao papaya salad to end it off Cool minty sweet a little bit spice and you know what I like about this one sometimes um in the uh Papaya salads, you don't really get much greens, but this one got a pretty good amount of greens Go to tang long and go to bfm north philly kensington Boom and everybody that wraps up our vietnamese crawl through philly Uh, ab why do you think the vietnamese food in philly is considered so good though? Like is there some historical context? Maybe yeah, like there's been a lot of immigrants from the 80s I heard even some from the 50s. I came over here. So there's a large vietnamese presence here So when immigrants come they're going to bring their food with them philly delphia has the best vietnamese food on the east coast Now I do need to spend a little bit more time in boston. I heard bosses pretty good, you know, but uh I know that compared to new york dollar for dollar philly's got it All right, you guys we are here for simu leo's uh book launch in philly of his book. We were dreamers It's his autobiography. We are going to be uh moderating tonight So it's really cool to see everybody online like take a look All right, you guys we are headed to the green room right now if it was up to simu Yeah, these are these are two pretty incredible friends of mine.  They're uh, you know, really great friends of mine today So please guys put your hands together for the phone bro. It gives you the beat What happened where's your dreams at man? Did you achieve it? We we were dreamers just it just sounds so good I feel like that's almost exactly Why it's so important to kind of coax it out of them because they really aren't these incredible stories of an inspiration of sacrifice Of perseverance. I think I think I think it's this even though I wanted to rebel against my parents expectations of me I was so like their influence of like success the definition of success was so pervasive That it affected like I was completely unable to imagine A pathway outside of the one that they set for me. All right, everybody So we didn't have time to go get philly cheese steaks in philly. I know there's a lot of great spots Not pats and geno's only but de lasandros. There's angelos. There's jacks. There's maxes However, I'm getting the most authentic cheese steaks at shorties in new york city They bring their bread in from philly every day And they bake it here fresh guys. This is the original philly cheese steak with whiz with onions.  So I don't know. Maybe it's like a cross between but this is pretty good Juicy the broccoli rob is hitting wow Wow Hey, I know not everybody has time to go to philly and sometimes when you are in philly You're too busy to go get the cheese steaks, but I would say shorties is a pretty good You know representation of it. I would say my first choice is definitely the original whiz and with onions And then I would say that roast pork sandwich is pretty good too But you know what you don't have to take my word for it because I know I'm not a philly food expert But you know, you check out the reviews for shorties and you know, come check it out in new york


So I was just reading in the New York Times that there's incredible unease out there because of the politicization of the US Supreme Court. And I'm just wondering, are you feeling uneasy about the politicization of the US Supreme Court? So if you were to weigh up, you're feeling of unease with the politicization of the United States Supreme Court and rank your feeling of unease on a score from one to 10 with 10 being just incredible amounts of unease, and then compare that with the amount of unease you feel with your morning wood or your afternoon wood or those inconvenient times you get the horn. Where would you say you have the most unease? So is it with the politicization of the United States Supreme Court? Or is it in your relationships with the fairer sex? Or do you perhaps have more unease in your relationship with yourself or your relationship with God or your relationship with Torah? Or your relationship with your neighbors or your relationship with your employer? Like, where is the unease? Somehow, now and I know it's feeling uneasy about the politicization of the United States Supreme Court. Of course, courts are political, right? There is no escape from the political, right?  So if you're uneasy about the, oh, what the heck? If you're uneasy about the United States Supreme Court, then it's probably because it's not operating as a friend to you. It's not operating in the way you anticipated. But this gets back to the lofty question that I get asked when you operate in the rarefied circles that I operate in, when I'm floating around Beverly Hills, when I'm dovetaining at Shaw. Like, you get the question, like, do you rent or own, you know, where are you invested? How are you hedging against inflation, right? If you're operating in the lofty circles of J-Swipe or Tinder, you're gonna be asked, where are your investments? And from my perspective, the very best investment you can make is in radical love and inclusion, right? How do you beat the benefits that come from steadily increasing your capacity for radical love and inclusion, right? The best hedge against inflation, invest in your relationships with your family, your relatives, your friends and your community. The best way to invest, right? With other people, right? Think about the beautiful community that we're building on here, right? Forty University, right? Maybe you've invested in the life of the mind at Forty University. Maybe you've invested in becoming a political philosopher, right? Maybe you've invested in taking my advanced course in the lessons of the Holocaust, right? Maybe you've invested in delving into 17th century English literature, such as Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, all right? Why not invest in the life of the mind, invest in community, invest in each other? Like people on this channel, they go to work for each other, they go to bed with each other, they invest in each other, they set up hedge funds, they're changing the world, all right? The things that we're chatting in this channel, they will echo in eternity. People think, oh, to hedge against inflation, I need to get in to buy some gold, I need to buy some real estate. Now, I need to buy some crypto, I need to start a new business, I need a high-performing mutual fund. Well, the very best investment you can make is with other people, right? Friends are the very best investment you can make, communities are the very best investment you can make. Having a good relationship with your family is the very best investment you can make. What's the best way to survive an earthquake? Have good relations with your neighbors. Do you know the names of your neighbors? Like, do you know people on your block? Are you friendly with people on your block? Can you text people on your block? All right, that's the best investment for earthquake safety, crime safety, monetary safety, life safety, absolutely nothing beats investing in other people. Investing in those relationships. So you got relationships, then you've got a really solid basis for riding out most any storm. You don't have relationships, but you know, you've got all this money in the bank, you're not gonna have resilience. Man, my screen keeps wanting to dim on me and like I'm dropping these bombs of wisdom, I'm dropping truth bombs here and my screen wants to go dark on me. How dare it? All right, so I just hear all the time like, oh, where are you invested? I mean, these are the circles I run in, right? Like in Jewish life, like we're looking for often looking to take care of our family and to take care of our community and take care of our synagogue and to take care of the causes that we're committed to and we take care of promoting the kind of politics and culture and wider society that we're interested in. And so this requires money, but there's no better investment than in your family. And it's not one of those investments that you can optimize, right? Building investments with other people takes time. Like think about the countless hours you have spent on this channel and God forbid maybe not every single minute of your time on this channel was a scintillating, uplifting, inspiring, awesome, compelling experience. Learn about the maximum domestic international ratios by cap adjusted free flow. Bro, the best investments are with each other, right? The best friends that you may ever have are right here on this channel, right? Becoming a premium member of this channel. I mean, such a great investment in your future. But no, I live in California and people talk about, you know, getting prepared for an earthquake, right?  And that's so well and good, but bro, you can't trust anyone and most will sell you out, bro. It's America 2020, bro. Bro, on this channel, we have created a place of love and inclusion, right? You cannot trust anyone 100% in all circumstances. You can't even trust yourself 100% in all circumstances just because people won't always act as you would like them to and as you expect them to. It doesn't mean that you can't have some trust. So for example, I could have Elliot Blatt over and I don't believe he's gonna steal anything. Now, Elliot Blatt may let me down in some other ways. He may, instead of coming on my live stream, he may go on some competing live stream. You can trust Halsey English crypto investments. Yeah, Halsey knows his stuff. Halsey is a very accomplished businessman. When the S hits the fan, 40 will share his stockpile of salsa with you and protein bars. But we have the best people in here, don't we, folks? I mean, the best. I mean, when we get together with each other, we have a good time. Like, there's just a sense of ease and comfort, like red and yellow, black and white, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, atheist, agnostic, Baha'i, Buddhist. When we get together, we just have the best time. When I go to dinner with people on the show, when I go for walks with people on the show, when I go to the beach with people on the show, when I get on the phone with people on the show, it's so much fun, man. And like having this fun place where we gather and we kick back and we create a community. We create a safe space, all right? This is the circle of trust. And you are right in the middle of it. I mean, that's the best investment. I mean, people talk about crypto and real estate and I know that sounds cool, but next time someone asks you where you're invested, say you're invested in radical love and inclusion, that you've invested in the life of the mind, right? Let them know that you've invested in 40 university, that you've invested in mateship.  Like what do I have in common with Black Lives Matter? What do I have in common with Antifa? What do I have in common with communists and Nazis and Jews and Christians and blacks? No, Bitcoin doesn't solve earthquakes, relationships, all right? I lack common sense. Yeah, what do I have in common with 40? Yeah, that's the way to go. What you have in common with 40? I was just thinking about this the other day. This is a painful confession. It seems like most of my closest friends are nihilists. I mean, they're not the bad nihilists, right? They're not the nihilists who throw bombs. They're not the nihilists who make morally corrosive movies, TV shows, social media content. No, these are, these are trad nihilists, but what does it say about me that most, is it true? Most of my friends are nihilists. God forbid, God forbid.  I'm talking about, you know, outward trads. Well, they're all trad, but they're trad nihilists. So, they're not nihilists in the daily, hourly sense that nothing we do matters, but I guess they're nihilists in that they don't subscribe to any ideology. Like an ideology comes along and they may find it comely, they may find it attractive, and they just wear it out, all right? I could use much more vulgar language, but they look at the ideology, they try it out, they take it for a ride, all right? It's like, oh yeah, going for a ride with this ideology. Then it's like, oh, a lot of shortcomings, a lot of holes in this ideology, and it's gonna just gonna put the ideology on the side. So, I guess my friends at Postboden in the sense they understand that there's not one overarching ideology that's gonna unlock life, that they're nihilists in the sense that they don't believe that there's like a magic key for unlocking history or for unlocking how the world works. They're nihilists in the sense that they understand that there are many beautiful ways of leading a life. So, if I had eight kids, I wouldn't have time to make this video right now. And part of me wishes, oh, I wish I was married, I wish I had kids, but I'm not down, I'm not depressed, I'm not going, I'm not married, I don't really matter because I haven't reproduced.  And so I guess that will seem nihilistic to people. You don't subscribe to, oh, now there are these 15 ways of leading a life and I've got a hierarchy for them. And so this is what matters most, right? So they're nihilist in the sense of a deep, deep understanding of our own shortcomings, nihilist in the sense of, oh, I remember I was so enthused about Trump, right? Remember 2015, 2016, or when Donald Trump got elected in 2016, it was like, oh yeah, this is so exciting. And he turned out to not be very good at running things. Now, Trump did a good job getting conservative justices on the Supreme Court and he did a good job restricting immigration, but he was a child, he was embarrassing. He would have these fits of peak. He got rid of a terrific attorney general, Jeff Sessions. He simply wasn't very good at managing things. He's never really shown much leadership capability. If he'd simply taken the money that he got from his father and invested it, he would have been financially far better off. So nihilist in the sense that, we've ridden these waves of excitement about political and cultural changes and now we're feeling a wave of 2015 energy about Elon Musk, he's buying Twitter and now what amazing free speech is gonna be unleashed because of Elon Musk?  And he may not change the world by buying Twitter. Matt Forney took too much flag from the alt-right. He's disappeared from the internet at sea as well. Often it's very healthy to disappear from the internet for a while. Jeff Sessions led Rod Rosenstein run all over him. Jeff Sessions followed his legal obligations and kept Trump out of trouble by following the law. Jeff Sessions was a great attorney general. He cracked down on illegal immigration.  I think he does. Kavanaugh looks like he likes balls. Balls run the world like Scarface says. That's why liberals run it. Right, in real life, friends are unaware of Nielus as well. So maybe a better word for Nielus is some sense of humility, some sense of the limits of our own perception and understanding the limits of our own ability to change things around us. I miss David Orini says the chat.  Guys, please. God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, right? That investigation into Trump's Russia ties was something that Jeff Sessions could not change legally. All right, so let us accept the things we cannot change, change the things we can and may we be granted the blessings to know the difference. So you can say, may God grant us that blessing or reality, may we get in touch with reality, but best investment guide with each other, right? To have people in your life who love you, to have a community, to have a synagogue, to have a church, to have a mosque, to have a book club, to have a workout club. Why did Jeff Sessions have to appoint Rod Rosenstein as an open-ended special prosecutor? Because that's just how reality works, right? Trump got sidetracked by that investigation, but that's on Trump, right? I've been sued five times for libel. So when I've been sued, I can get sidetracked by being sued. It's no fun being sued, right? It's no fun being investigated. It's no fun being the center of a program, but it is on you to calm down, get serene and just focus on changing the things that you can change and have acceptance for the things that you can't change, such as investigation. So maybe later today, I'm thinking of doing a video, seven tips for avoiding sexual slavery. Will you join me in victory over sin? Bye-bye.


Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential. My name is Lee Fuge and I'm here today with MusicTeacher.com and in this video we're gonna be talking about gain stacking using the St. James plug-in suite. We're gonna be looking at the differences between using an overdrive pedal into a clean or an overdrive amp and why you would want to do any of those things. So we're gonna be using the St. James suite for this. The only thing I'm gonna be changing is the two different amp types. So I'm gonna go from the EL34 amp that you see at the top here to the 6R6 amp. Everything is gonna be left as it is with all the EQs just running straight up at midnight. The only thing I am gonna change is I'm gonna go between the clean and drive channels of each amp. The compressor is switched on just to give me a bit of an even balance sound. Not gonna be changing anything else other than turning the drive on and off as I go as well. So there are two main ways that we could think about using overdrive pedals into amps. One of which is into a clean amp and the other one is into an already overdrive amp. Now there are pros and cons of both of these things and really the correct answer to which one you should do is completely down to the sound that you're chasing. For a lot of players, especially gigging musicians who like to have a huge palette of sounds available, going into a clean amp is probably the way you're gonna go. But if you have an amp that you really love the sound of and you only need to slightly change the gain structure and the gain character of it, then you may wanna consider going into an already overdrive amp. But again, there's no right or wrong answer with this. It's all down to what works for your sound. So if we start with an EL34 amp, I've got this running clean, which sounds like this. If I put the overdrive in the TS mode into the front of this with these settings, what it's gonna do is it's gonna just give me a little bit of drive into the front of the amp because it's not a high gain drive pedal but I've got a very clean sound. So it's gonna do this.  In which case you can change the gain on the pedal. But that gives you all the gain from just the pedals. We're not actually adding any of the amps on gain there. What we are doing is we're slightly pushing the front end of the amp.  Now if I go to overdrive mode by turning this switch here, this is the sound I get. So the EL34 amp is predominantly a lower gain amp. So this is kind of like a just off clean sound. It's a bit of crunch there, which again you can play some classic rock stuff with.  If we now turn the overdrive on, what's gonna happen now is it's gonna not only give it's own overdrive levels and character to the amp, but it's also gonna push the existing gain level that the amp is outputting. It's gonna sound like this. So that is much more of a sort of classic rock, hard rock sound. And again we can crank the gain if we need to. What you will notice is when I put the drive into the already overdrive amp, I'm actually creating a thicker sound because we've got this gain stacking going on. We've got the gain from the amp and the gain from the pedal stacking up. The pedal gain actually goes into the amp. So you can start to hit the pedal, pedal hits the amp, so you've got this cascading gain stage going on which creates a much fuller sound. Now obviously if you want to change the tone, you can use the EQ and you can use the tone on the pedal to taste. You can also boost the amp a little bit further if you want, if you wanna do this for a lead boost for instance, or you just wanna hit the amp even harder you can boost the level on the pedal and that's just gonna give you a little bit more front end kick.  So that's gonna give you a bit more of a compressed, little bit more sag to the sound as well. Great for, again, classic rock kind of stuff for the Neil 34 amp, just pushes the amp a little bit more. But you can also use this as a lead boost if you really crank this you get a noticeable volume lift. Now we're gonna do the same thing into a 6L6 amp. The 6L6 amp is very, very clean. So into this amp, what we're gonna get here is we're not actually gonna get as much gain as we did from the EL34 even though the pedal settings are exactly the same. The reason for that is the EL34 amp has a lower headroom. So the actual point where the clean sound breaks up into an overdrive from being pushed is much lower than a 6L6 amp. This particular 6L6 amp is insanely high headroom on the clean channel. So this pedal will add gain, but not as much. You'll notice that's a very clean sounding gain. You can hear all the notes, it's very, very clear. There's a lot of clarity there. Now again, we can crank the gain if we want more into the front. And that's gonna give us a real fat gain sound but still retaining all of that clarity. Now the 6L6 amp is a much higher gain amp. So even with the gain on halfway like it is here, I go to the gain channel. There's way more gain on tap there. So putting the drive into this is gonna boost that even further. We're gonna get even more gain. I'm also gonna show you a really cool quick thing you can do to tighten up the sound of a high gain amp. So let me just set the gain a bit higher and go on to the higher gain voice like so. So that's a great high gain sound and that sounds great in isolation. But if I'm in a band mix or a track mix, all of that low end content that you're hearing can sometimes be a little bit overbearing and I'm also in standard tuning today. A lot of the time if you're playing heavier styles of music you may be in a lower tuning or you may be using an extended range of guitar like a seven or an eight string. So there's gonna be even more low end there. What you can do is take a TSL drive, put the gain to zero, put the level up full. What that's gonna do is push the front of the amp a little bit but it's not really adding much gain. You can use the tone control here to taste depending on what you've got your overall EQ set to.  That's a great way to just free up some of those low end frequencies in a mix. You can adjust that to taste, you can use the tone control to make it match whatever you're doing. So there you go, there's a quick guide on how to use overdrive pedals with clean and overdriven amps. Let me know down below in the comments how you guys are using your overdrive with your St. James amps in the St. James suite. I'd love to hear which combinations of things you guys are doing to get your tone. Don't forget to check out Blackstar Amplification on YouTube for more videos just like this. If there's anything you'd like to see us do or talk about with this plugin, let us know down below in the comments. Don't forget to head over to musicteacher.com. If you're looking for a great guitar teacher, check out their website. There's a bunch of teachers all around the country waiting to help you guys out. Thank you so much for watching as always and I'll see you very soon.


Dotted north to south of the Pacific and Indian Ocean is the beautiful subregion of Oceania, known as Polynesia, made up of over 1,000 of the most beautiful and indeed intriguing islands. Some of the most puzzling ruins on Earth can be found here, upon some of the most remote islands of this enormous chain. The most well known being Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, with its iconic enormous Moai statues, an incredible and extremely remote place, one that was once home to some of the most resilient and luckiest souls on Earth. For to land upon these remote shores all those years ago, instead of perishing in the deep blue, could be seen as a one in a million chance occurrence. Direct mariners from all over the world, marooned upon an island littered with enormous unexplainable ancient statues, once hewn from the solid bedrock and moved across the island using as yet unexplained technologies. And although Eastern Island takes up nearly all of the public spotlight, there is another island, an equally confusing, amazing counterpart. Known as Temahua Tahua, it is located upon the island Nukuheva, the largest of the Marquisis Islands within French Polynesia, whose once ancient inhabitants lived within a crater of an ancient volcano upon the island. Temahua Tahua is littered with puzzling statues, possibly as ancient as the Moai, yet they are clearly of a much more peculiar subject. The earliest archaeological evidence of human inhabitation of Temahua Tahua is estimated to be around 2,000 years ago, yet many suspect these statues may be far older, an apparent altar for worship of a reptilian deity. Did the inhabitants of this ancient island once encounter aliens? Who were these statues intended to depict? It is highly intriguing that this extremely peculiar island should be found in a similar location to Easter, and although the Moai do appear to be human, we still do not know who or what was capable of shifting such enormous lumps of rock all those years ago. In fact, even with modern technology, we cannot shift such statues without damaging them. In known human history, Temahua Tahua was the ancestral home of Queen Vaqehu, the last queen of the Tahui, the ancient people who once lived upon Nukuheva. She successfully reunited the two halves of a once divided tribe, subsequently becoming their queen. The Marquisis Islands were settled by Polynesians around 200 BC, and have cultural links with many other Polynesian peoples across the Pacific. But the origins of these alien-esque statues remains a perplexing mystery. Are these really the depictions of ancient aliens? And if not, why go to such effort in creating them? Temahua Tahua is undoubtedly an amazing place, one which deserves far more attention. The ancient ruins of Giza, perhaps the most incredible of them all, and possibly the clearest displays of academic conspiracy, with much of the most puzzling of areas, all but closed off, away from public view. An attempt to stifle controversial questions, which inevitably arise from such baffling ancient wonders. However, this attempt to obscure the greatest aspects of ancient Giza just fans the flames of curiosity, for when one realizes that much of ancient Egypt is being actively covered up, so-called officials avoid any obligation to explain the methodology, behind many constructions found on the plateau, structures and relics, which to this day, escape any logical explanation. Once one accepts this reality, one begins to wonder what unspoken motivation there could be to ardently hide these sites' true characteristics. We have in the past covered many areas of ancient Giza, which cannot be explained. Many people are aware of the issues surrounding the construction of the pyramids, and the largely exposed void in modern understandings. However, this conundrum is but one among a smorgasbord of highly intriguing, yet no less mystifying features hidden in plain sight all over the plateau. The basalt floor, which still contains volumes of tool marks, evident of high-precision, high-rotation ancient power tools. The gigantic megalithic blocks, each sunk flat, level with the base of the pyramids, which although walked over by millions, have been largely overlooked by all. Some of these blocks, forming the immediate foundations of the pyramids, are similar in size to the pregnant woman of Balback, which is estimated to weigh some 1,000 tons. Additionally, all of these features, according to mainstream teachings, were created by the ancient Egyptians. A civilization we claim merely re-inhabited the site, like many others around the world. It is a fitting hypothesis, which if indeed the case, then all said tasks were undertaken and masterfully accomplished with nothing more than a set of soft copper tools. A clearly illogical hypothesis, disproven in many ways, one of which is by the main pink aswan granite relics, still in existence all over Egypt, which were all simply impossible to have created with just copper chisels, and our next artifact of interest is of no exception. This imposing altar was found at the west end of a passage, just outside the northern wall of the temple of King Amenhamhat I. Originally, it is presumed that the altar once stood in the open court of the temple, with its roughly shaped lower part, suggesting that it was sunk into the ground. A rectangular libation basin is carved into the top of the altar, as well as representations in flat relief of an offering mat containing two libation vasons and three loaves of bread. The middle one incised with the king's throne, with the name Horus added, with the phrase may he be given life forever, uncannily similar to long-lived the king, but I digress. At the center of the altar's front side, the incised birth name of the king Amenhamhat, with rows of approaching fertility figures who are designated by inscriptions as personifications of gnomes, regional governorates of northern and southern Egypt. It is undoubtedly an incredible ancient artifact, one carved with such precision and artistic accuracy, and upon some of the hardest stone on earth, to suggest this was achieved with soft chisels, is to us absurd. Who made the altar of Amenhamhat? How did they carve it? An exquisite ancient relic, which is, like much of ancient Egypt, highly compelling. Sardinia is undoubtedly one of the most overlooked areas of ancient interest to be found anywhere in the world. Located within the Mediterranean, it's a large Italian island with 2,000 kilometers of coastline dotted with sandy beaches. The interior, however, contains some of the most heavily concentrated ancient ruins to be found anywhere. Thousands of structures, known as Nuragis, litter the island. Stone structures masterfully shape like beehives, often with domed roofs that from inside reveal the mastery of the original constructors, with the largest and oldest of which, known as Sunuragi in Barumini. The Nuragi is a unique feature of the island of Sardinia that, according to mainstream academia, were constructed during the Nuragic Age, between 1900 and 730 BC. However, the Nuragi is not the only compelling ancient ruin to be found upon the island, that regardless of the mundane academic explanation for their origins, are indicative of an enigmatic, highly capable, lost group of ancient beings, locally said to have been of tremendous size. Known as the Giant's Graves, or Tumba de Gigantis locally, the legends that can be found still circulating within the local population tell of giants having once been responsible for these structures, with the graves supporting such claims due to their enormous scale. However, predictably, academics argue that the size of these tombs were merely due to them being mass graves, although any remains from these supposed Nuragic inhabitants, dated to the Bronze Age, remain elusive. Additionally, many of these giant graves, which number around 800, are constructed using enormous megalithic stones many tons in weight. This use of enormous stones is strangely absent from the 2,000 or so Nuragi that are instead constructed from more manageably sized stones. However, interestingly, legends in other areas of the Med, such as the Navita destodons found in Menorca, also built with manageable stones, shares these legends of giants having once been responsible, a structure built for human habitation by supposed giants using similarly sized stones as the Nuragia. Gantia, found on yet another Mediterranean island called Gozo, shares these same local legends of giant builders. Is it mere coincidence that all of these ancient ruins are found within the same global vicinity as each other? An extremely ancient ritual, still practiced within Sardinia, predating Christianity by a considerable time, could hold clues to the construction of these giants' graves. A carnival so old, the story behind its purpose has been lost throughout the ages. Depicting monsters of giant proportions, often covered in cowbells and adorned with horns or goats heads, these monsters march through the local town, controlled as they go by human-looking counterparts named the Isohedores. Known as the Carnival of the Mamothonus, what exactly the Mamothonus are, or indeed possibly were, is also lost to history. Although these beasts who grunt and stomp through the town center are tethered and controlled by the Isohedores as they go, were these mysterious beasts once a real creature? Were they utilized for their strength and size by these Isohedores to build the inexplicable structures still found within Sardinia? Are these widespread yet openly shared local legends passed down from generation to generation, pertaining to giants having once been responsible for Sardinia's intriguing ruins a true story? With the visually stunning ancient ritual, still preserved by the Sardinians, clues to the origins of the giants' graves and indeed the Narages? We find the spectacle practiced by the Sardinians, along with their local legends surrounding the giants' graves, highly compelling.