Hey everyone, welcome back to another counter side video today's video We're going to dive into Nayel blue steels Strategy and build but before that if you want it updated counter side videos, please hit the subscribe button down below Okay, guys, so we are here at Nayel blue steel. I'm still salty about my pulse earlier Had to pity her banner and I didn't really like it I'll actually put a link up there for that live streaming earlier that I did in terms of her pulse and Nayel is a is for cost. I was actually skeptical at first, but bringing her in PVP Just today was actually an eye-opener and may and turned me into a believer She is a striker ground type ground attack So she is actually specialized more in PVP as we go to her stats She has a couple of strengths such as her HP, which is above average at forty seven six ninety one Attack is also above average at four thousand seven hundred thirty five and her crit is actually above average as well at seven sixty three Third defense is at six sixty nine, which is one of her weaknesses and two others are her weaknesses are her hit rate Which is low and her I think evasion, which is below average by the way, her hit rate is Actually low so you might need to kind of tweak it a little bit so that she could hit more For her skills guys. She is a very fascinating Counter so for basic attack valid hits is two So it's an AOE swings her sword Reflecting AOE damage to tell the truth. She can only handle a single sword at a time Okay, as you can see I'll go back to how she looks. She actually carries three swords So I don't know where she's good to use the third one, but when she attacks she only uses one So I was hoping for a dual wielding Counter, but didn't happen. So it's okay Anyway for her level two three and four. It's a basic of attack plus 20% passive skill is going to be a theory over dry valid hits is to so an AOE again For her passive after every fourth basic attack she delivers an enhanced attack inflicting AOE damage increases her attack speed by 50% for five seconds If any unit in the battlefield is killed So it doesn't necessarily mean that she has to kill it as long as anybody is killed She is going to trigger this passive can't be renewed during buff Okay, levels two three and four a damage resistance of a plus eight percent at level five increases enhanced attack damage by up to 75% inverse proportion to current HP inverse proportion is actually Opposite it's just a you know, it's just a more complex ways saying that it's going to be opposite of her HP So basically if her HP is going to be low This one is going to be bigger if her HP is going to be high So it's going to be lower special skill attacks also count Okay, special info starlight inverse strike her. This is her special skill at 22 seconds This is one of the skills that I really really like so valid hits is three charges forward and inflicts AOE Kind of similar to the charge of a weakened hildae Damage on contact with the first enemy in her path seals the affected target skill for six seconds This is actually what I like and bosses are not excluded, which I don't like but anyway This is why she is only good post primarily in PVP So the the ceiling the skill for six seconds is a long duration guys and it's a AOE of three hits so think of that three targets that cannot you know Do their skills. It's this is really bonkers guys levels two three and four damage is going to be a plus at Plus 25% Level five for her special skills immune to damage for two basic attacks after skill Hey very good contributes to her survivability and her ultimate skill Call blade catastrophe. It's a cooldown of four to six seconds valid hits is for someone's spirit swords okay, inflicting a we damage on and around the target and Level two three and four damage is going to be a plus 25% Blinds all enemies for four seconds after the skill. So again, she has Seal skill. She has blind. She's a she for me She's good. She's a perfect debuffer and at four cost. I think it's justifiable. I think so I think so especially if you go beyond a hundred of level 100 you go ever up to 110 She's going to be a monster in PVP Okay to start off with her gear gear sets I've had conversations actually with a couple of people and The ones that have been out is either going to be CDR attack speed so attack speed to trigger her passive as frequently as often or You have CDR trigger your special and ultimate skill as often as possible So but for this build this This gear is actually not hers. I just borrowed these gears I think I borrowed these from I don't know who I think but it's from Yuna, but again She is going to have good. She's she should have good CDR gears Preferably at least For me on my end, I'd like to max her her CDR But some are saying that if you go with CDR for her gear set Then your sub stat should be others like HP so to increase her survivability that can be but for me I'm happy with a 70% is I think this is 70% skill haze. I'm happy actually I tried this out earlier and very happy with the results And I think it increases her survivability more because she was able to cast her special and her ultimate that often So again gear set CDR attack speed If we're gonna go with attack speed make sure that you also have gear sets for CDR So again gear stats would be HP or CDR gear set again going back would be CDR or attack speed But the gear set that I'm referring to is this one the yellow one So you could actually have those CDR or you could enhance that to HP Okay, the yellow blue sea. Let's just send out some goodies here and have them on As you can see here as you as you actually Deploy her she will use her special skill and she is actually a good Off tank. So basically you have a tank in front Whether a defender or another striker who is tanky enough to take some hits and she is good once she applies Her a both her either her special skill ultimate skill Sometimes it's going to be hard for the opponent especially for a special skill the seal skill is actually crazy and It really benefits her and her team as well as what that is why I'm Encouraging you guys to do a CDR set or if you really really want an attack speed one. Let's take a look at her Special skill guys. So that is the the charge that I've been looked at that I was referring to and let's Let's do a her ultimate skill her ultimate skill The swords and attack It's like an ethereal sword a couple of ethereal swords that can pierce and enemy I think this is also Going to be sorry the the debuff for that one is going to be I forgot the debuff already But I'm the seal skill is for her special skill But again her ultimate is going to be terrific and it is actually Her face is very funny with that smirk and it really deals. So it gives actually blind So it has blindness and it's an AOE ultimate skill as well There were three targets that were hit so around that Number will be blind as well. So blind is more or less Saying that your enemies cannot hit you and again She is going to be a headache. I think moving forward. I'm still thinking of whether I should I should Take her to 110 but time will tell okay. So anyway guys Let's move on from her deployment strategy Okay, guys, so here are my final thoughts on Niel. So for PVP She is a 9 out of 10 very good off-tank works well with you Detroit and with A rush team. So basically if you're into PVP and you like to climb PVP In terms of the rankings then be my guest you can summon for her And she is going to really help your gameplay in terms of pvp or pve. She isn't used well Um, I would score her a 5 out of 10 So we have to wait for shadow palace for her to be used by the way for PVP I'm going to score her a 9 out of 10 because The only thing that is going to be a drawback for her is going to be her She's at 4 so we're actually Most of us are accustomed to three or two striker units. She's going to be a four. So again Her skill is going to have to provide you more value at four But if you build her well, she will really give you good value and will be and you will be able to Compete well in people. Okay guys. 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You know one of the reasons we're here is to help you with your home voiceover studio. I Mean, that's how we started this whole darn thing pointed this thing when we started it out Who's gonna want to watch a show on home voiceover studios voiceover studios answer to car talk? That's right where it came from that was in 2011 and now it's July 2018 So I guess people want to watch stuff about home voiceover videos And they want to learn about home voiceover studios and their home voiceover studios break Where they get buzzes and hums and all sorts of stuff Mm-hmm You know guys There's only two places on the face of the earth where you can go to get the expertise you need To get your home voiceover studio the way it's supposed to sound the way it's supposed to sound Whistle way it's supposed to sound Why am I not catching on to what you're throwing down there? I don't know I'm not on what it's a what it's supposed to sound like is whistle. Oh, no, okay. Does that make sense? No, okay? It's my acronym take it for what it's oh, it's an acronym. Oh my god, what it's supposed to sound like like Whistle anyway, okay now. I'll remember that you'll never have to do that again Whistle you would I've been saying that for weeks and you're like now you figured it out. Where have I been? Anyway What is it supposed to sound like but the thing is is there's only two guys that know how to do it this gentleman here and Hopefully me You always need a backup so you got two people to choose from you find me over at George the tech comm and you find Dan over at home voiceover studio comm and It makes it easy because we can teach you how to do it right from soup to nuts from Alpha to Omega from USB to Thunderbolt 3. That's right and and we'll teach you the difference between those two and if things go wrong and We want to be able to hear what your sound is sounds like All you have to do is drop off a sample of your audio that's 25 bucks at home voiceover studio comm If you're not confident with what it sounds like Well, I'll tell you what happens when people send me the audio. It's like, you know, this was in there We'll talk about that in a second, but again go to George the check comm you leave me a sample or you can over to home voiceover studio comm and Click on the specimen collection cup That is literally there and that will take you right to the drop box your cup runneth over it does Anyway enough commercial stuff We'd like to talk about tonight About soundproofing now somebody sent me a sample as I was just mentioning Of a booth that they had a custom built booth. Yeah, and At the end she on your she sends me some silence. All of a sudden I hear this sound at the end And I'm thinking uh-huh. It sounds like a dog's claws on a wooden floor, which is unmistakable Yeah, and especially when you have a couple dogs, especially so she sends me a picture of the booth And sure enough there is a there's a there's a crate right there with a dog bed in it And she's like you're right. It was and I'm like I'm sorry if I'm wrong tell me But are there is there a dog walking up to the booth as you're finishing at least one dog and she's like Yes, there it was and I'm like, yes I my hearing isn't gone at my at my late age and But it raises a problem. Yeah, she said she's in a soundproof booth. Why is there the sound of a dog's foot? During her audio it's a good question. Well, I have a microphone outside the no I think it's the door open though. Is the door open? No doors not open. Okay. Is there a seal around the door? Hmm, and she's like well, I know there isn't the guy that built it Had a leave and he never put anything in there Or he put it in too loose and she's like well the door doesn't doesn't close all the way Well, if the door doesn't close on your soundproof booth, what you basically have Is just a booth. It's a hole You have a soundproof booth with a hole. That's right But it's not so soundproof a small gap around your door or a gap in a window Whatever it is if you have a gap it can only be like a millimeter or so But if it goes like around the perimeter of the door or more More is that possible whatever? If it goes around the door, it's it's more than a perimeter than it you're just totally on another universe gone into another dimension Literally, then it's like it's like having a hole like this big right in the middle of the wall I mean, it's it's a big deal and the thing is Small gaps like cracks in the door let through higher frequency sounds and that may sound so logical It's impossible, but that's kind of how it works like a an opening acts as like a noise filter filter, right? So a door that's heavy will stop a lot of the lower sounds But a crack in the door will let through the higher sounds right and that's why you hear that Sound through the through the crack in the door and she was mighty embarrassed by it too But well the thing is is the door doesn't close all the way and there's not a proper seal on it That totally sure it circuits the idea of soundproof you shouldn't be embarrassed because honestly I Know what booth she has and we're not gonna say where it came from that wouldn't be fair But the booth that she has I've seen studios with the door that cost twice as much as this entire booth I'm not kidding. No, there are studio doors that cost $6,000 There was one installed at the voiceover lab here in Hollywood in West and well The sag after midtown. Yeah, it's sag after we'll share at the top right and these these studio doors went in Was it 2011 when that place was built now? I'm starting to forget 2010 2011 and that studio the one door in their solo booth Never quite sealed right it and it it was a pain because yeah It was extremely heavy. It had like lead shot in it. It weighed like 300 pounds But the seal never had a perfect seal So it had somewhere along that along that seal it'll let some sound in and so it filtered out everything except you could hear High-frequency sound you'd right you wouldn't hear voices you'd hear more like You'd hear that through the crack in the door. It was really strange So anybody that was out in the classroom area the control room area They had to be quiet Which made it very difficult to have someone even the solo booth Recording while there was anything else going on and eventually they had those doors replaced Well, the second half of that story is yes brand new doors went in right I get an email from the lab administrator Eric saying We got new doors in and we still hear Voices through the seam of the door of the new door. I was like, are you kidding me? Right? And I went I was over there for something and the new doors have a magnetic seal Right, so they have like this strip of magnet that goes all the way around Right, you would think that's gonna be a perfect seal, right? So I'm running my finger down the seal along the edge and all of a sudden I hit something sharp my finger I'm like, what's that? I pick it. I pull it off and it sticks to my finger and it is a teeny weeny metal shaving Like when they were putting the screws a little chip that little chunk of metal stuck to the magnet creating a gap and created a Little gap on either side of the magnet that was probably, you know a couple inches long I took the little chunk of metal out. I was like, how's that I Mean If the detail devils in the basically the story that is the devil's in the details, right? I mean the littlest thing can let sound in right another time. I'll tell you about the sandwich in the wall story Oh, wow, that's not my story. It's somebody else Is the cat in the wall? No, it doesn't smell like that one before but it's fascinating what that sandwich But when it comes to soundproofing a proper seal on a door is essential Mm-hmm and People don't realize that it's like well just close the door Even if you're in a closet it helps to put a rubber seal on that and a proper seal at the bottom at the sweep Yes, or a threshold on the sweep on the threshold you can actually buy a magnet or I'm sorry not magnetic automatic sweeps They're called automatic door bottles little thing in it when the door closes it closes up and lowers this Those are available for any door. You can actually retrofit them on to your existing doors You don't have to replace them or it's it's not very hard to install If you have the opportunity to have a double door scenario That's what we have in this studio is an exterior door and an interior door. That's even better Right, that's to me better than a one single door Because first of all, it's a lot less expensive to buy two Sound damp not I'm gonna soundproof but to like exterior grade doors They're gonna have seals thresholds and everything but you put two of them together You get much better performance than just one door and if one seal isn't perfect You got another one to back up the first one So so if that doesn't prove that we know more about home voiceover studios than anybody on the planet You don't need proof to you. Well, maybe maybe you do. Maybe you think we're full of yeah, maybe Let us know anyhow, let us know down in the in the comments. Yes, YouTube comments. Let us know


Yo, what is wrong with Sonic? Sonic, how are you? Okay, what is going on here, man? Oh, we're falling. Okay, we're actually moving. Okay, this is pretty cool. These are like those roblox skin, the tonneau ones I forgot what they're called. Oh, okay, seems like we've made it to Green Hill. Oh, we're actually moving now. Look at this. He needs some milk! This is like the guy's real estate game here, and today we are in this Sonic suggest. It's supposed to be like a parody game, I think. I don't know, but this thing is frickin' cursed. We can see Sonic has little man-movies. Dude, those things look like they can flap and slap you in the face. Alright, so let's go ahead and begin with this. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay, cool. Very nice. Okay, 10 coins, nice.  Wait, what? Why did it say the dialogue from GTA San Andreas? That was CJ from San Andreas. Okay, definitely a troll game. Let's try this one. Maybe I'll say something. Okay, I think it was a box, actually. Okay, let's keep advancing. Let's keep on moving. Oh, okay. Mega Drive presents. Dude, this is epic. What? I never played anything like this. I love it already. Okay, let's keep going. A Hideo Kojima game. Very nice. Sonic suggests a sequel to Sonic Forces. Okay, so there's actually a sequel. Oh, I mean, this is actually the sequel. There's a prequel. We'll have to check that out some other time. Okay, let's go up. Oh, okay, cool. Oh, the critters. No, Tails! Oh, that dude is getting jumped! Leave him alone! Dude, let's help out Tails. That's messed up. Okay, get him! Get him! Oh, my God, they look kind of creepy. Okay, nice. I got your back, Tails. Don't worry, my boy. Oh, my God, look at him! Wait, he also looks like he's, like, tweaked out trying to get a closer look at him. You really can't see, but... Oh, my God. What is wrong with these characters? Okay, why do they only keep going after Tails? I feel kind of bad. Tails! Okay, he's getting beat up over there. Let's help him out. There you go. Okay, let's collect these. Okay, nice. I thought that we're gonna, like, say something, like the first one did. Okay, whatever. Let's keep on moving, Tails. Okay, bro, they just keep going after Tails. Let's help him out. Oh, boy, you gotta, like, jump. There you go. All right, nice. Wait, where does this right here? Let's try this out. Move, bro! Okay, he's just gonna make a tip. They didn't even got Tails, too. All right, let's keep going. Oh, watch out. Watch out with the critters. Okay, they're pretty ruthless, bro. Okay, keep going. Oh, nice. Trying to get a... Okay, maybe we can get a better image of Tails here. Oh, great, we're getting ambushed. Okay, there you go. Tails, look at the camera. What? You can see, like, his little teeth? Oh, my. All right, let's keep on going. Wait, why is this bounce pad like so humongous? Whoa! Where is he sending this to? Bro, I barely made that. Okay, cool. All right, let's keep moving. Wait, what is that? Is that Knuckles? That's Knuckles, no way. Oh, my God, we even got a Derpy Knuckles. Okay, let's... We have to get a clearer image of the three of us here. And turn around and look at the camera. Dude, turn around. There you go. Oh, my goodness. Look at Tails. I mean Knuckles' mouth.  And then look at his six-pack. It's all weird. This game is totally weird, man. All right, let's keep on moving. Okay, that was a close one.  Oh, my coins! My rings! Great, now we lost all my rings. Collect them. Dude, I have like 40 rings. That is not cool, man. Okay, whatever, we'll just have to move on. Oh! Bro, I can't see a thing. All right, whatever, we got it. I think I'm just going to skip these guys. Like, not even trying to kill them. Oh, it seems like they're having a hard time. Okay, 10 coins. Wait, what's that? Oh, my God, there's an entire army right here. Oh! They just got launched. Okay, what is that blue one? Let's go on the blue one. Mega spring. Yo! That thing sent us to the moon. Bro, it's a legitimate life from us. Okay, so do not jump on the mega spring because it sends you to the skies and then you lose the life. Come on, Tails. Dude, Tails is dead. Okay, there you go, they respond. Come on! Go! Defeat them! Dude, they're chomping on Tails. Okay, there you go, nice. Okay, there's one stuck behind this rock. Whatever, let's leave him alone. Why is it crawling? You guys saw that, right? Knuckles is crawling on the ground. Okay, let's go over here. Let's follow the green arrow. Is that Professor Robotic? It is. It looks like he's licking for us. What do you... Oh, wait. Look at this. Wait, where is he going? Wait, come back. Tails is trying to get the smoke, bro. Tails took off. All right. Oh, my God, the way they run. It's just so funny. Okay, um... Oh! Knuckles died, no way. Okay, we have to defeat Professor Eggman. I can't hit him because he keeps moving. Dude, how do I keep missing this? Okay, we got him right here. Right here. Bruh, I like miss that. Oh! Okay, there you go. Okay, another time. Come on. No! Okay, we still have two lives. As long as we don't lose all of our lives, too, it should be good. Bro! Okay, there you go. This is only the beginning. Come on, hit him. Bro, you got to watch out with that ball, that wrecking ball he has. Oh, my God. Come on, come on. Stop moving, bro. Trying to defeat you. Oh, my God.  You see that? Wait, Knuckles is running. What is this game, man? Oh! He just kicked him. Ruthless. They tossed him in the water. Savages. It's not real dead. This is so loud. Okay. Thanks for playing again. Wait, what? Well, it's actually the first time we played since I didn't know there was a prequel to this. And this is actually the sequel. All right, you guys, what Sonic suggests has to be one of the most trolled Sonic. It was more like Sonic. I didn't think it was Sonic. It was more like Sonic since it was like a troll or a derpy Sonic. I don't know, man. But we'll definitely make sure to check out the prequel, Sonic Forces. I'll drop the link in the description so you guys can check it out yourself. And if you made it to the end of the video, I'm Sonic and thank you for watching. And I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye!


All right. My name is Mark Brannon. It's a pleasure to be here at the Great Plains Growers Conference with everybody. My wife, Michelle, and I own a acre-and-a-half farm up in Omaha, Nebraska, sort of urban farm in central Omaha. Pretty typical diversified vegetable farm. We have about a 30-member CSA, sell the restaurants. Historically, we've done a couple farmers markets. We got away from that in the last past couple years. Our project that I'm going to talk about today was an NCR-SAR funded farmer rancher grant project back in 2019. It was a year-long project titled, Planting a Profitable, Pollinator Habitat with Native Nebraska Plants. I will note that many of the plants we use in the project are native to the region that I assume most everybody in this room and listening is from. It should be applicable to most everybody here, and I hope you can take something from it. Before I get into the project specifically, I'll give you a little background on myself and the farm so you can decide whether or not you want to trust me. I like to say my wife, Michelle, and I are accidental farmers. We have no formal training. We grew up in the city, but a dream was sparked in us back in 2012. We were backpacking around Central and South America, and then one of our stops was in an organic vegetable farm in Panama. So we grew everything from carrots, tomatoes, peppers, typical anything you can grow here. We made it work there. And also, as you can see there with the bananas, there was mangoes, you name avocados, you name it. It was a truly wonderful experience for us. And we left that coming back to the states, not knowing exactly what we wanted to do, but knowing that we wanted to grow more of our own food because we fell in love with the lifestyle. We know we wanted to have children and stay home with those kids. So blindly, we lived with my aunt for a couple months until we found the acre and a half, and then jumped into it. But again, we didn't really have an intention to have this be a business or even a full-time business. I will say, right now we both do work full-time at the farm, and we're able to make it work. We just paid off our mortgages this year after seven years living there. So it's working well enough. And I'm going to share some of that story, how we got there. As you can see, we have three wonderful boys that takes up the majority of our time, farming's really the second job. That's why I was a little late getting here. Thanks for putting up with me. I'd like to say that it was, as any farmer, diversified vegetable farmer knows, it was a very steep learning curve, not having had years of experience in the field. Even after one or two years, you think you got it nailed. Different weather pattern or different pests will come up, and you realize you don't know as nearly as much as you knew. So it's been a learning experience, to be sure. We sort of went at it. I like to say a lot of, the same way a lot of people go at it with Gooster, reading all the books we can, all the latest magazines, Mother of News, this, that, the other, bought a BCS, started doing diversified vegetables because, well, that's what we wanted to eat. As we grew, first I took it on as a full-time job, then Michelle moved away from her job. That's what we've done the last few years. It's been fantastic, but we realized what we wanted and what fit with our farm, we don't have any employees, it's just the two of us. We wouldn't necessarily become rich doing it the typical way, competing against, doing the same thing that everybody else is doing, competing, offering the same vegetables. And so, one thing Michelle, she's always been great with value-added products. We began to diversify our value-added products. As you can see there on our table, we've got some beeswax candles. We keep bees, but she began to, it wasn't our idea. Other people at Market were doing the same, offering candles with herbs and infused, not just essential oils, but infused with herbs and herbs. We began to do that and everybody else that was doing that was buying the herbs from us or from somebody similar to us. We really found that that was sort of a niche for us. In addition to that, up in Omaha, north of Omaha in Blair, Nebraska, there's wonderful botanical shop, Prairie Star Botanicals. They do wonderful work, do nationwide sales. They began buying from us stuff that I, when we started out, didn't even know you could grow for profit like echinacea, coneflower, common yaro, some stuff that Michelle was already using in some of our products, but we realized there was potentially more opportunity there. And that's when we began to discover the NCR Ceregrant. It was a pretty modest grant where we only got $2,900 and hindsight, I wish I would ask for more, but it's a wonderful grant. Anybody that has looked at it is afraid to apply, whether it be a farmer rancher grant or a partnership grant, just go for it. We had a simple idea and that was just that we could sell more native perennials. It would be good for our farm, generate more revenue, also be good for our farm environmentally, ecologically. We presented that idea and it was funded. This is, the title again, was planting a profitable pollinator habitat with native Nebraska plants. And this is our project grief was we will assess the potential for small diversified farmers to generate profit through the establishment of permanent pollinator habitat that consists of a variety of native plants that can be marketed as high value alternative crops. And we plan to show that there are a number of pollinator friendly plants native Nebraska that can be utilized to build a stronger, healthier farm ecosystem while simultaneously providing an additional revenue stream. And then that part was important to us, not just providing the additional revenue stream, something that we could rely on year after year, but we plan to be at our house forever, turn to our kids if they want to farm it, they can do that if not they can sell it, but we want this area to be an oasis in the city and improving the land as the years went on farm and we realized that improving the land was needed to be a more important aspect of our operation. We're excited about the opportunity that native plants offered to do so. Anytime you do a NCR, SARE grant, you're charged with measuring the benefits and the impacts of the project. And they really want you to focus on one specific benefit, whether it be economic sustainability, social sustainability, or environmental sustainability, show that your project can make strides demonstrating that not just on your farm, but potentially on other farms can make a difference in one of these areas. It doesn't need to meet every area. I am currently on the NCR SARE review committee for the region, so I know that you really only need to hit one of these. When we applied, our aim was to show the obviously the economic sustainability of the project, but also we really wanted to focus on the social sustainability project. We really didn't even mention the environmental sustainability in our application. It obviously has clear environmental implications, as far as improving biodiversity and providing a place for beneficial insects. There's many ways you can focus on one area and don't make it too complicated, I guess, when you're applying. I'll talk quickly about each one of these, though. With the economic sustainability was clearly just to have improved income or profitability and improved market opportunities. So as far as profitability, I can tell you the project was a total success. I can tell you how many times in the past I planted an entire three by 40 foot bed of radishes. I only got three quarters of that bed sold. Well, because in early April, where we're from, everybody has radishes. That's one thing you can have at that time. You're competing against a lot of similar operations. So for us, but ultimately, square footage, it did prove to be certain plants were more profitable per square foot. I'll talk more in detail about that in a little bit. And then improved market opportunities. Obviously, at a farmer's market or even going out to restaurants, whatever it may be, there's only so many customers and it seems like nowadays there's more and more farmers. So we wanted to find untapped market opportunities in our area. And that's, you know, with Prairie Star Botanicals really opened our eyes. The botanical industry is really fast-frying industry. And after connecting with them, there's lots of people that they work with that then reach out to us for, you know, for similar product. And then also, I mean, some other stuff that really opened our eyes. You know, a couple ice cream shots in town, wanting native herbs, a nice hyssop or even purple cone flower, putting stuff like that to make, you know, have their value added ice cream, you know, using our product. So in that aspect, it was a successful project. And the social sustainability, like I said, for us, that was a big deal. The improved quality of life.  And so that goes along with, you know, the profitability, but also I'll talk about how the maintenance of the native plants for us was a big, a big change of pace, as far as being less maintenance and day to day maintenance and turnover year to year. And then environmental sustainability. I think that's pretty clear.  I really like to highlight a couple of books, building soils for, for better crops with Sarah, my friend Mad Goff and Harold Banas. It really talks about no matter what type of farmer, if you're a row crop farmer here, there are benefits to incorporating native plants in your operation. Getting better pollination on whatever crops, whatever your cash crops are, but also pest control. You don't want to underestimate the value of pest control. Many of those, many of those native flowers are uniquely shaped for insects and pests that have been, pests that have been around for a long time that may not have a place on our farm right now. But if we give them a place, their numbers increase and then they can be a form of pest control on your farm. And then also decreased water use. As far as economic sustainability, you know, I've got a chart here comparing native perennials versus the typical annual annual vegetables, at least in our experience. There's very little competition, at least where we're from as far as marketing these crops. The flowers and herbs and roots that we, we grown, I've got, you may be wondering exactly what, what, what plants I'm talking about. Common Yarl, purple cone flower, lead plant, Solomon seal, blue verbane, any, a lot of plants, any plants you find on the, on the plains here in the natural prairies. But again, getting back to, to the difference between the typical annual vegetables and we still, we haven't gotten away from that. We still, obviously, we're not going to sustain our entire farm through the marketing of these, of these native plants, but it has provided a nice additional revenue stream, like I said, one that with less work and frankly is more satisfying. So again, there's not that many people growing this type of stuff where we're from. I think you might find the same thing around here or anywhere, wherever you're from. Whereas, typical annual vegetables, it's a race to the bottom. So, I have to charge $1.50 at market for my radishes per bunch. Why? Well, because there's 30 other people charging the exact same thing. I charge $2, they're not going to get by it, even though it costs me $2.25 or $2.35 or who knows how much to produce them. So again, going along with that, you become a price setter versus a price taker. If you're the only one who has that individual product and you'll find that there generally is, there's people willing to pay.  And you can do it a lot cheaper than we did. We set it up in a 2000 square foot perennial garden. And we set it up to be able to compare the production of the perennials versus the annuals we set up in the same sort of scheme that we do our annual vegetables, which is raised beds about 36 inches wide with heavy mulch in the aisles. And then we bought plants, established plants, you know, four-inch or quart pots from a variety of native plant suppliers in our region. And that was because the time constraints of the project we wanted to get in and be able to have it have it established to the point where we could then start selling the product. Whereas, but there is a much cheaper alternative. And you know, and that would be seeding, you know, if you have the patients seeding perennial plant perennial natives in the fall is a fantastic, cheaper way to do it. You know, you're going to wait, if you're looking to market it, you know, you're going to wait another year, at least under a year and a half before you see the fruits of that labor. But, you know, there's, if you're going to look, if you're looking to get strips or, you know, anything in a larger scale, I'd say that would be the way to go. But again, it's a one-time expense and versus, you know, looking through the seed catalogs every year. And then, you know, with the native perennials, there are multiple marketing channels. You know, you can sell them fresh, you can sell them dried, put them in, use them in value-added products. Of course, that's the same thing in tip-pointing vegetables. We do a lot of dried peppers and the like, so not quite much of a difference there. As far as social sustainability, I think that's what we found was the biggest difference. With the native perennials, we had that one-time installation. And then, you know, we've laid mulch one-time since then in the aisles, but it's just a tremendous difference between the amount of, you know, weekly maintenance that these, this area, this same 2000 square foot takes compared to 2000 square foot that we have, you know, whether it be in tomatoes or whatever, what have you. Obviously, for us, being a small farm, we want to get at least two cycles of crop, you know, per year in any given bed, usually three. And so, we're constantly prepping those beds, getting compost on those beds, you know, shaping them, seeding them. And then, you know, if you're seeding, the competition with weeds when you're seeding is the vein in my existence. And that's part of the reason why this project appealed to me. Of course, the goal is every year you're competing less and less with weeds, but it seems like it's a losing battle sometimes. And so, that one-time installation really appealed to us. And then, the minimal maintenance versus the endless outkeep, not only the weeding, but the watering was a big deal. And then, as far as if you want to talk about taking care of the beds versus being all the way to harvesting, post-harvest storage, it's generally easy on the back, clipping flowers, clipping seed heads, digging up roots. So, a lot of the plants that we grow are for the roots. The botanical industry uses the roots. Don't ask me to explain it. I just grow it in tinctures and whatnot, but it's really, it's a lot easier on the back versus hauling 60 pounds of cucumbers from our back 40 in the two days. And then, one thing we were surprised about, we didn't expect going in was the beauty that it provides all four seasons. We knew it would provide beneficial habitat, but the beds that we had our tomatoes in right now, this year, there's mulch right now with leaf and straw mulch. So, they don't look ugly, but they're not beautiful and they're not inspiring. You go out in the perennial garden right now, and it is. Those seed heads are still there. The birds are fluttering around. It's still an active farm all four seasons. So much so that we enjoyed the space. We carved out another area next to the perennial garden and then expanded the perennial garden in that area in between. We built a flagstone patio. Spent a good deal of money to invest more in that space because we found that we host with our CSA members and, again, we got away from farmers markets. So, a big thing for us was we had people pick up vegetables weekly on the farm, neighbors and when that would come. We'd have our pick up date. A lot of them, especially during the pandemic, we found to me under around the farm and get outside away from everybody, obviously, but enjoy a beautiful space. And that was clearly obvious that that became the favorite of everybody who visited the farm in a focal point. So, we built around that and that was just this fall. So, we hope to host events there in the future, possibly another revenue-generated opportunity. Environmental sustainability, like I said, minimal water use. That was really a tremendous surprise. I mean, I guess I should have seen it coming. But with our annual vegetables, we typically, whether it be on drip or sprinkler, we got both systems going. It's about an inch a week. Some crops is a lot less or a little bit less. Some crops is a little bit more, especially the last couple of summers in Omaha. It's been dry and hot and dry and dry.  The kids say, you're going to go haul hose, dad? And I say, yeah, I'm moving it from one hose, one drip system to the other. And that becomes an expense over time, obviously. But with the native perennials, we had a drip system. When we first installed it, we installed the drip system and we used it about what we normally would, how we normally use it on other crops for that first season. But again, found out, we really didn't need that. And we took that drip system out. And ever since then, we have not watered that one time. So, I mean, they're native to this region for a reason.  But it's been, that's been a really great reprieve, not having to water. So, cutting out the time, but also the cost. Zero soil disturbance. That's when building soils for better crops, less soil disturbance, you have the more the microbiome can improve. And again, with these perennial crops, we planted them. The beds are established. And we don't do anything with them. Some of them I do mow over depends on the, on the, on the crop, the, like the yard I'll mow over. But for the most part, I mean, again, the soil is not being disturbed. But with typical any vegetables, you know, you're generally, one way or another, you're disturbing the soil. And so I find that you know, just by anecdotal evidence, the soil is after a few years, the soil is better in that area than in the, in the other more intensely farmed areas of our farm. And then, you know, environmentally provides you around habitat for beneficial insects, birds, mammals and more. I think, well, what else could be there, but there was a tortoise, tortoise that was burrowing in and making a nest, burying some eggs recently. So that was a surprise. But, you know, with the typical any vegetables, if you do want to provide your own habitat or your own cover, you know, you're having to, you're having to use cover crops, which is, that's, you know, that's what we do in our other beds. It's a great practice. But again, that, that adds just one more step in the process of planting the cover crop of ultimately terminate two tumor steps, terminating the cover crop, and then additional costs. So you might be wondering how, you know, how do we market some of those native plants? Cut flower arrangements is a big one, something for us. Again, we don't do the market so much anymore, but we were really surprised how successful the cut flower, the native flowers did at market. You know, they're less ubiquitous than, than the zinnias that everybody has, and that we have to fill out, fill out our arrangements. But, you know, you get some unique flowers that people have never seen, but they haven't seen since they used to live on their grandmas, you know, they used to visit their grandmother's farm. It really brings them to the table. They buy the flowers and they, they buy our radishes instead of somebody else's radishes. And florists too, you know, they, they have their typical sheets that they get from people that, you know, the imported flowers that they get, and it's not going to vary. They can distinguish themselves with your flowers, and that's something to, to highlight to them. Yeah, they, they're a little, some of, a lot of them are doubtful at first, or not sure that the flowers are going to hold up. You might have to give them some stems for free, but a lot of the native flowers do really hold up well. And so that, you know, if you get it in their hands, I think you'll find that they'll love it.  Just a few years ago is that one botanical shop in Blair, Nebraska that was buying from us. And now there's three or four in Omaha and another in Lincoln. So it's a growing industry, and really an industry that's willing to pay top dollar for product. And then value added products, we do a lot of that, you know, both at the markets, but also online.  Michelle does a lot of body products. She's a pasty redhead that has always had skin problems. And she found that there was nothing that could ever do it, you know, treat her skin right.  And so she uses a lot of these products in the lip balm and salms and soaps that we sell at market. And again, there's, there's a few other soap sellers and, and, you know, four or five other people that do salms or something similar, but we distinguish ourselves in the fact that we take the product from the beginning and bring it all the way into the end product. Great for potpourri.  I mean, any, any, any native flower is gonna, gonna have some smell to it. So just throw it in that potpourri. And if it doesn't have much smell, that's fine.  But again, like I said, it has, it has year round, year round revenue for us. So that's good. Less pressure to get all of our revenue in the summer months. Although it's the growing season is getting longer up in Omaha. We're basically down to almost down to four. We were in 5B when I started, or 5A, 5B. By the time I'm done, we'll be in, I don't know, Oklahoma City or Kansas City, whatever you guys are in 4B. Or excuse me, going the wrong way, getting colder. Marketing channels, again, here's just an example of, you know, some of the cut flowers that we do. That's that white is common yarrow. That's the native plant. There's also Colorado yarrow, which is that pink, pink flower. But that also comes in pink, purple, yellow. And yarrow is fantastic. It has one of the longest shelf lives of any flower.  As long as any other flower in the bouquet will last fresh. And then when the rest of the bouquet is done, you can stick the yarrow up in your, you know, wherever you'd like. And it keeps its color, keeps its shape for years and years and years and years. We have some yellow, yeah. And it's a really good shape to fill out the bouquet. So if you're, you know, if you may make bouquets, you know that that's important to have a product like that. Also, it's an early bloomer and it blooms all throughout the year. And most flowers that we work with, the native flowers, they do that, right? Because that's what they want to do.  They're going to send out more seeds trying to continue their gene pool and get that into the ground. So they'll provide for you in a much longer window I found than most of the other flowers that we grow for bouquets. The green one on the edge there, that's Solomon seal, which we never, we never, it's Solomon seal. We never considered for cut flowers. We were growing that specifically for Prairie started for the roots for them to use. But it's a plant that grows in a real, it prefers a shady location. You'll find it in a lot of the, like the oak forest around Omaha and, you know, throughout Missouri. And it has these tiny little bell flowers, which are beautiful, but really it's just, it's a great foliage for bouquets. And then there's just a few pictures of, you know, our potpourri and not everything in there is entirely native. You mix it with a variety of other nice milling herbs that we grow. But we did, we did create a new, a new line of products called Nebraska wildflower or Nebraska wildflower series. And so we had a Nebraska wildflower soap and Nebraska wildflower candles. Just over time, we found there are some people who do not like essential oils, whether it be in their soap or their candles want it more, more pure. And so we, you know, we found that there was a, there was a market for that and began creating these essential essential oil free products specifically from wild bergamot and cone flower. And, you know, that's again, this is the only, we're the only ones on earth offering that product. I know that and it's been a, you know, it's been a good seller. So I encourage you to try and we know whether or not you're going to incorporate native plants on your farm, whatever it may be, try and find your own niche, something that sets you apart. Um, some of the native, again, we tried over, we tried 12 different varieties and then again, we've, we've, uh, we've expanded our perennial garden and, um, tried others since the, since the project for us, the ones that work best for cupflowers are common URL. Again, for that filling, that ability to fill out and also the shelf life purple cone flower. It doesn't last as long as far as vase life goes, but that's one that everybody, uh, recognizes, you know, and, and it's just, it's striking throughout the season. And no one, no one is, no one is, uh, identical. You know, you'll, the, that's one of one thing I love about purple cone flowers, the sizes of the, of the seed heads vary, shapes of them do the petals. Um, and so they're, they're popular at market lead plant, uh, again, another one that we were growing for the root, uh, but we found that, and that's more of a, more of a shrub. I have a picture of that. Sorry for that, but it's more of a low growing shrub. Again, that grows well in shaded areas. Solomon seal is that arching plant. Uh, and there's, uh, with a lot of these, there's, there's a whole bunch, you know, there's a whole variety of Solomon seal plants, uh, some that might be better suited for Missouri, some, some that might be better suited for, uh, uh, more of, uh, you know, a drier habitat versus a wet habitat. So, um, you know, the possibilities are endless. Uh, my favorite plant that we grow there, you can see up on top is the purple, this purple one here. Um, it's, that's hoary vervane, uh, but any plant in the vervane family is just fantastic. Uh, you might find the one drawback is it's almost like it is a weed. Uh, you know, if you, if you, we've, we found it 20, 30 feet away from the beds that we have it where, where, where plants are popping up. Who knows exactly how they got there. But, um, it's sort of a, it's not woody. It can become woody later in the season, I suppose, but it, uh, it sends up these tall flout, these tall spikes. And again, it, like most of the others, you cut it and it just sends out more and more and more and more. It's just a tremendous accent to any bouquet.  Um, and again, it has, has a tremendous shelf life, uh, base life, excuse me. Um, so any of the vervanes and they thrive, again, they, they thrive in dry conditions. So poor conditions, poor soil. Um, when we tried it, um, you know, when we set up our printer garden, uh, not everything grew, what, you know, some of them weren't, frankly, some of, some of it was a loss. Uh, you know, we had a couple milkweeds that, you know, never, never really flourished. And economically it made no sense to, you know, we thought they might be good and cut flowers, but it just didn't work. Um, so this is why I'm going to highlight, highlight, highlight these that did spiderwort. Uh, we had Ohio spiderwort. For us, spiderwort was fantastic because of the, uh, the blooming window. It's the earliest flower to bloom on our farm. Um, and so, uh, you know, along with like chai flowers and some other stuff really early in the season. Um, so it allows you to, we were able, you know, building around the big patch of spiderwort, we were able to, you know, we were able to, to market a good month, month and a half earlier, as far as cut flowers go, than we normally would have. You know, any loop, lupine variety is going to be great. And then there's just a whole wide variety of woody ornamentals that especially I think are popular with, with forests. Medicinally, um, you know, one thing I'd like to say is that you'll, you'll notice that the plants that we market as medicinal herbs, a good number of them were also on that last list, as far as flower bouquets. So that's the great thing about it is there's two, you know, with, with any given product, there's plenty of marketing channels, um, and avenues that you can go down. How many are, like I said, it was a fantastic cut flower, but that's, we sell, that's probably our, by weight, that's probably what we sell most of. Um, and, and you utilize most of it. Again, it, um, it's an early bloomer, comes again, we use it in all our poperies, candle, the, the Nebraska wildflower series. Um, but again, the botanical industry, um, they use it in tea, uh, uh, just straight, straight up your ROT, but also then, you know, tinctures and, and the like purple cone flowers, same kind of the same story, uh, lead plant is, is used for, for, you know, again, you can harvest the roots and, you know, you want to do it last year was the first year we did it after, you know, after two years, we didn't, we didn't want to over harvest it or, or doing damage to the plants. So, uh, Solomon seal though, again, it was great for a cut flower, but we harvest that for the roots as well. Wild bergamot is fantastic for teas, uh, you know, any other, any other thing that you're going to use Yara for as well. Uh, mulling root is, is one that thrives in kind of wet conditions. Elderberry and elderflower, that was the one that was part of our project, but we, that was one that when we, when we expanded, we incorporated, um, you know, a patch of, of elderberries. We'd already been selling, you know, we had a friend that had a, had a, had a big patch and so we would always go there and harvest and so we already had a market for them.  We, you know, we sell the flowers in the spring when they're in bloom to, you know, to Prairie Star, also to the ice cream shops.  And that's one, that's one, both elderflower and elderberry that they love to utilize. It's a lot of old fashioned recipes. That's, um, you'll always see them driving down Iowa or Nebraska, those, in the spring, one of those big, big white flowers that grow along the train tracks and the dishes, that's them. They love the, they love the ditches and that wet, those wet feet. Anise Hissop is just a workhorse for us. Um, you know, it, uh, you know, use it in a potpourri, a lot, in a lot of the, uh, the candles and soaps. It just is one of the most fantastic smelling plants you'll come across. Anything in the, in the Hissop family, I suppose, but, um, the Anise Hissop does well for us. One that wasn't in our project, but we, you know, we came across, um, you know, we'd always had a little Jerusalem archeroke patch, but, uh, we really expanded production of that when we, uh, were trying to get away from annual vegetables. And that was one of the best things we ever did, uh, was put a lot of space into that. Uh, it's a native to, it's pretty much all in North America.  If you're looking to grow something for biomass, um, you know, we have a, like a chipper that end of the season after we harvest the roots, just got thousands of pounds of stalks and leaves and, and flowers. You know, that's great. You know, put that back into the soil. Exactly, livestock. You know, it's a, I've got a friend that uses his first pigs, right? And it's, it's, it's tremendously healthy for him, great for him. And just no matter what you think, oh boy, they ravaged the patch and it's gone, it'll come back year after year after year. That's, I mean, don't get scared. It says that it spreads like crazy, but if you're truly harvesting it for like we do, um, you know, you harvest it and then it comes back about the same strength from the year before. Yeah. And it's, it's like magic. And we get, like what we're selling it for, who we're selling it to, we get $68 a pound with yields up to $2 a square foot.  And again, this, the Jerusalem March out, we don't, we do not water. It's in the farthest stretch of our property, sort of as a, as a fence line almost. We've got a car dealership right next to our property. So it helps block the F 150s. But you know, we again, we don't water it. I don't think about it until it comes time to harvesting it. And then we can't, you know, this is, this is just one of the loads recently that we were taken to, to a restaurant. They, they, you know, they buy as much as you can produce, at least around, around Omaha. And then, I mean, again, maybe not everybody's going to be interested in this, but then once we were selling to some of these botanical places, they started asking us for certain things we never heard of, or certain things that we thought had no value, right? Like dandelion root. I mean, every year we, I never really cared about dandelions. We never tried to get them out. They're just there. But we have plenty of them. And so that price are by, you know, buys as many as we can get them in the fall. They want it, you know, they don't want it until it gets cold. And there's some chemical transition in the properties of the roots. But, you know, when I'm done, basically done with almost everything else in the farm, I just go out with my Hori Hori and dig as many dandelions as I can for 18 to pound. Stinging nettles, you know, the same thing. Like we were trying to, there was just this one little patch on our property and we were trying to battle it back here after year. And then there were people that wanted it. So we just let that patch be and then make a little money off of it. Wild raspberry leaf using tea. We use some of our teas, but also sell to a couple of different companies. And then black willow would, you know, they use it, the apothecary, but also, you know, we make our own homemade root stimulant out of it. And again, anecdotally, it works. It works just as well as the stuff we buy. You know, if anybody isn't interested in incorporating native plants on their farm, you know, whether it be for revenue, but like I said, it doesn't have to be for that. There are social benefits. There's environmental benefits.  Some great businesses in our area, most of them I've worked with. Prairie Legacy is in western Nebraska, not way out in western Nebraska, but the town of western Nebraska is by far, I think, the best. She's got a tremendous operation there. It's a little, it's kind of far out, but it's worth it if you're in the area. And then Missouri Wildflowers Nursery in Jeff's, Jeff City, Missouri. The Nebraska Statewide Arboretum in Lincoln has an annual plant sale. So if you're from Nebraska, check them out in the spring. City Roots Nursery is not one that I've been to. I used to live in Kansas City. That's where I went to college. But as I was searching for more, you know, places that offer these, these type of products, you know, these type of plants and seeds, you know, for potential farmers that might be here listening, it seemed like they have a great thing going down there in Kansas City, Missouri. Prairie Moon Nurseries, I've never bought anything from them, but their websites fantastic. If you want to learn more about growing conditions and the like, I found them to be a great resource. And then Midwest Native Nursery is in Lincoln, Nebraska as well. They're, you know, have been around just a couple of years, but I think they're doing really good things. And if you're from Lincoln, I'm sure it'll be Nebraska or Iowa would be great to support them. I don't know where I'm at with time, over or under, but that's about what I had.


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atever it is in handheld I just sort of think 720p is just an easier target to hit for For games and everything but but not every game is going to need that extra horsepower A lot of them are a lot of them will because we're deep it. We're getting I mean indie games But You know, I just wish I would be perfectly happy because I kind of almost feel like they feel like they have to go above 720p I wish I was like sitting there with a bunch of sweaty asian men and just said to them like look Everyone's happy with the OLED panel at 720p If that costs the same you don't have to up the resolution. Why I said that they're sweaty asian men I don't know. I'm guessing it's hot in the office, but let's get a little warm It gets warmer in our offices. I can't imagine when you're with a bunch of other men Oh god, my my armpits would be dripping too if I was in a hot office, but like Oh like Nintendo if it costs the same to do 720p even in 2023 People would be fine with it if that means you could put an OLED screen on it, but you know, yeah I guess for me, I stuck in my head that's going to be eight inches and I know that's a rumor, right? So like it's not it's not guaranteed Six inches too many That eight inches is what it's got to be Like now that now that I now that I think that's a possibility like that like I'm going to be disappointed otherwise Not really. I won't care. Oh, if it was the exact same size as the switcher I wouldn't I won't I won't actually care, but I will be disappointed if they don't think of something They can do with that screen where it doesn't feel like an improvement over their current offerings So, you know, if it's 720p, I would love if they went mini led man. I'd be happy then But yeah, let me tell you something if you play like a game What's the game that really looks next gen and you were even playing it at 720p OLED You would be happy with that screen if it was if you no one complains about the resolution on the New monster hunter would would probably be pretty great. Yeah, I'd love I'd love the OLED screen on the switch I think things look so good on it It also helps that I don't have like OLED TVs in my house. So it actually literally is like the best looking it gets for me Yeah I'm just gonna stick by that like Something that's kind of neat about the switch is that because people take it with them to play It's kind of like marketing, right? Like you see someone on the plane playing a switch. You're like, well, what's that right? So if the tunnel has a switch to and it just looks like a switch I don't I just personally think they're going to do something with the screen That's going to kind of suggest it's better than what was before. So if they have this a basically same size 720p That's not OLED. I just don't see how that's going to work. So I I think it's It's gonna be best. We're gonna show call of duty on the thing and you'd be like can't do that on can't do them switch Yeah, anyways, Microsoft said they're going to be coming out with cold duties for the next gen switch. So that deal is official now, right? Yeah, yeah, it's not gonna happen. It's active now. Should it should go into effect with the next one next november I'm kind of hoping that they release um block ops to remastered for switch one Yeah, I think it happened Um And then he had a second part to it. He had another question basically is are any of us going to personally review mario wonder eric You're totally going to review mario wonder, aren't you? Hey, eric, eric You've been talking enough already. You just I know I've done a little bit Yeah, sorry I talked way too much. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for acknowledging it quick question before we move on though So, um review tech you said you don't think a remaster would happen. I mean, obviously there's nothing it's just like me Just kind of wish listing, right? But would they put Current call of duty on switch one or are they just going to ignore switch one entirely? Because I think that system's still going to be like out in the market for another two years It doesn't have the hardware to handle like even like it Right game So you didn't even bring the mobile version which would have made them bank on the switch over to the switch I guess um, you know part of like the argument with that like That legal case is that in like maybe they might have been able to bring it over to switch if they really wanted to So I guess the question is if they have this deal going will they just do the switch to version or will they have something for switch? And that's why I entertain the possibility of a remaster because obviously that's easier than getting over current call of duty I could see them maybe bringing switch mobile to the Are not switch mobile jesus christ bringing a call of duty mobile over to the switch. Sure. I could see them doing that Yeah, which actually isn't terrible, but I just don't think it has the hardware grunt to handle it a current gen Even if it's like cross gen Maybe they do cloud That's another way to kind of get there. I don't even want to think about that I know and I rather smack a brick across my head. So that's cool But technically ever read the tables on switch I've tried the cloud.   Yeah, I don't play it Uh, if you do your question that you asked Nate, I'm probably not gonna be reviewing Mario like officially I'm more likely to review spider-man, but I don't really do a lot of reviews So probably not yeah, I might really review channel We'll talk about it on the podcast, but that'll be the closest you'll get to a review from from my side of things We're gonna do a review Yeah, it's just I got a lot of shit going on right now. So who's gonna be playing it in in 14 minutes Um, I might I'm gonna be sleeping in 40 They won't even send me the code until like 9 a.m. Or something. So mine game's already ready because I didn't get it physically It's like this is a question for rgt Yeah, this is the rgt question here. Uh, do you think c.m. Punk comes back to the wwe? No rgt is looking at breasts No, I'm playing Wayne Gretzky 3d hockey on the d 007. So you should be looking at breasts.   Maybe he's just always been this way.  What are we talking about? What are you talking about? He's a stubborn man He he jumps off of high stuff the last time he saw him.  Like You could even do store like against kane. That was the most interesting storyline where kane Fucking electrocuted his testicles on raw Yeah, that that was a good wrestling chance So change your mind. Well, if you think he's a top 10 wrestler, I don't think there's anything we can say it's gonna change your mind, but uh Um, it's a then your top 10. I'm guessing it's pretty weak pretty Pretty out there like having a guy that got his testicles electrocuted.   Look at the punches he threw on randy orton back.  No, you know, he doesn't he doesn't have the talent or charisma Yeah, the storyline only ever worked because of his dad anyways, so Um, let's see here our kool-aid Three said nintendo debuted the first successful hybrid handheld console Will competitors follow in the coming gens and will nintendo ever go back? Why or why not? Doesn't seem like anyone's gonna fall for a while. I mean, I'm sorry tando pcs, but you know, that's a different market That that yeah, I think that the switch made the like steam deck slash rog ally slash 7000 ion eos Um market emerged but in terms of like microsoft or sony now I don't see them. The only thing you're gonna get is the portal which is a good dinner plate There's a lot more hope for sony now that jim ryan's gonna be out I don't think so you think they're gonna make a hybrid those but they specifically said hybrid handheld console I don't think yeah, I think you got the portal and that's all you get I think they know all this money is moved on from it You know, it's funny is that the portal actually sold out too. I wonder if a bunch of people think it's like a portable actual portable PlayStation they're gonna get it home and be like wait a second A lot of people even the people that know what it is don't fully understand how it works I I could say this people think you have to be on your own on the same Wi-Fi in your house for it to work We we we don't know the pre-order numbers on it, right? Like it could have just been a really low run Yeah, maybe it might not be like Sony might know it's not a big deal Like they might just five thousand orders have a good day.  I was like that was some headlines for that like there was a brand new we use it in a store somewhere I would probably do it like In their inventory in the back and an employee found it It was like, oh my god, can I buy this and they just let them Yeah, you could read you literally flip that thing an unopened brand new we you Yes, I gotta empty the whole beer. Yeah, it might be a good deal. Yeah, that's probably a great deal Um, but yeah, I don't think there's gonna be like anyone serious in like the console space You know, I kept thinking like if a new person new company came in like if apple tried to come in with something They got phones though But yeah, I know they do have the phones. That's like there's been rumors on apple game consoles forever And nothing's really ever came out of it. So Uh, I just can't think of anyone who Here's the thing. Obviously, there's a big market. It's just Can that market get bigger than it currently is and is the room for somebody else to even come in And do you think that that company could take it away from nintendo's like we've had so many Just look at handheld gaming on its own all these companies have tried to compete with nintendo over the years And all of them went away from from actually doing that Um, even sony's attempt, you know, they they tried for a couple gents and then they they dipped out it's It's really hard to compete against a company that has such a lock on a very specific base I mean just look at how much xbox has struggled to gain meaningful ground on sony They've been trying for generations And outside of one and it was the one that sony messed up real bad at the beginning Which sony ended up Ended up ahead in the end anyways, but I would say they probably still consider that a successful generation for them Yeah, so It's interesting like if they're struggling to compete against, you know directly with sony in like a similar sort of field I don't know that anyone thinks they're gonna be able to touch uh, nintendo in the hybrid uh field and What what's crazy? I think about the hybrid field as I honestly think there's a long future ahead For a hybrid system, uh pretty much I mean, I could see it being there all the way until cloud gaming takes over to be honest 100 or until the sun blows up Well, that's yeah, I mean Actually, and I get better and just make it more versatile like yeah I will not be more feature rich I will not be on board with cloud gaming until it's exactly like having the native hardware in your home Yeah, I there is not no. Oh, it's just a little bit of latency. My ass is just a little bit I want no latency and until I could get that naked in the mountains I am not on the idea that for clout that I would be reliant You offer me that fully clothed not interested. I need the clothes to be Streamlines The only reason I don't know if cloud gaming will ever fully take over is just because it relies on um isps and it relies on electricity And the thing is those aren't always reliable as everyone knows you have power outages You have obviously internet outages all the time even when you're on fiber. It still happens data caps Data data caps like in some countries. It's they have data caps for everything in some countries So even if you have fiber, it doesn't really matter. You're just going to run out of data even faster Uh, I hope it never takes over. Well, the other thing is that that might prevent it from taking We're looking at from perspective as americans, right? Like we're looking at technology kind of catching up Here in america where technology is pretty good. There are other parts of the world where they game But like this idea of like constant internet access Yeah, it's it's even more Partially us like that honestly But there's parts of Europe where their internet bodies are internet like they have insane In japan bodies are our internet too, but there's no sorry There's certain places in the states that they're getting faster speeds in other parts too. So it's yeah, look I'm fine with it. I like having my games local on my ssd or whatever Micro sd card. I'm good. Keep cloud gaming in the cloud for a very long time and out of my hands Yeah, thank you. Then will nintendo ever go back? No Honestly unless somebody comes and oh and starts to really push them out of it I don't see them and even go back. They'll probably Nintendo probably try to invent its own market again somewhere else Yeah, I I don't really see Um, it happening. I think the nintendo is kind of really Positioning themselves to kind of have this incredible growth Like you look at the mario bros movie if they start doing more movies Like they're going to kind of continue to build up their brand you have the parks They're they're kind of I talked about this earlier, right? But like their ecosystem of game development. They are sitting on games They are taking more time with more games and making them better So they're making more games better games. They're making movies Expanding their reach they're expanding the parks Like I think nintendo has this trajectory even if switch 2 doesn't do better than switch 1 Like if we look at this from a you know from a larger scale perspective, like I think Nintendo has this upward trajectory. So this idea that they might be At at any point in the foreseeable feature like gonna get to a point where they have to kind of like dial it back I don't think that's likely that said You look at the switch and you look at what we think the switch 2 will be They do have a scenario where they can have like different versions of the system, right? So we have the switch like that's handheld only I'm not saying it's likely but like I think maybe your best bet of of nintendo going back Is just having an alternative Nintendo system that it comes out mid gen that it's maybe only like for the tv that sports like better visuals Or maybe like a cheaper Yeah with the vita they did that yeah I don't I just that's what I love about the switch is the fact that it's a hybrid and especially like I I'm kind of kind of reiterate what I said before if they Give me rog ally performance with better than switch battery life like by two hours I'll be fully on board and be solely playing on the switch too if they give me that You know, so yeah, I don't really see a reason for them to go back to a conventional console They should keep where they're because this has been their most successful piece of hardware ever. I believe right? Um, it's getting there. Well, if you combine software and hardware together it is Yeah, they just it's a second best-selling nintendo system of all time It's got to catch the ds But it's all the software sales are the highest ever for uh, let me like for home because it is technically a home Console they call the home console. Yeah. Yeah the most successful home console. Yeah. Yeah, so I don't see why you would change it and most consumers including me I don't want them to change that formula if I want a powerful home system. There's other options to go to I want that hybrid Those other companies would have to go out of business and stop making them for me to even because then Nintendo will be like, oh, there's a market there And then they would just and that would be going back or maybe they have a handheld and a home console Or maybe it just benefits them and more people to buy what they have and play it at home Well, let me ask another question. Um at the risk of delaying this podcast romantic. Um Will any of the three uh companies bow out ever? Microsoft I could see I would say my yeah, I was about to say even with what happened with the acquisition It would be Microsoft that would see Microsoft might just go straight services and try to get them on everything else Right Like it would just be like the higher ups just to setting. Hey, this is not worth it well and then uh Phil Spencer when they were having like the hearings He was like being such an xbox boner killer saying if this deal doesn't go through there may not be an xbox Like yeah, that sure makes me confident to go out and buy your hardware. Phil. Thank you It's because there was I think they were they were thinking about selling it off They were yeah, I'm making money Well, I bet you they probably like, you know the lawyers and I'm sure they had a meet board meeting and they said like Is it worth damaging the xbox brand by saying it won't exist? Is that worse? Then not getting the deal to go through they're like no the deal is more important. All right damage the xbox brand. It's fine Like if they probably I mean the deal is just going to make them straight profits and make them all their money back Anyways, eventually so well, that's why they were like, well if we say something bad about xbox It's worth it to get the acquisition is what I maybe I worded it wrong And we had one last person chime in here just wanted to say that they went with spider-man 2 But cheers to the mario launch which I don't care what you guys play So I'm gonna play spider-man 2 mario mario wonder and sonic superstars all within the next three weeks like it's There's nothing wrong with that and I feel you man games are expensive Yeah, they're expensive as hell. There's people there's people like eric over here.   Yeah, I yeah for how much you're like, oh, you mentioned earlier I like from software and then I'm like, but you're not playing like arguably the best gate No, I will play it. I just haven't gone around to it. This year. It's just been a hectic year for me I think it's one of those things that maybe you're afraid to start because what if it takes you away I'm keeping my blood-borne blue balls until they remaster it. It just sucks you in Oh, it will It doesn't like well for like a month That's what'll happen. That's the kind of game it is like yeah, I know it's honestly if they if they save that for the ps5 pro launch And like a remastered blood-borne that could take advantage of the pro That would be Did you just did you just explode in your pants? Yeah, oh, but yeah, I just have to ruin my pants because That was a clean way to phrase that you guys Yeah, it was I nutted in my pants clean That's actually a ball kidding aside though like think about a selling point like hey, you want exactly that's version of the Bloodboard play it on the ps5 pro at 4k 120 hertz Yeah, that would be huge. That would be great for marketing for sure Yeah, this is not so low-key, but I am kind of waiting to get have switch to announced and see what third-party games are coming Because imagine they announce elden ring for switch 2 I'm probably playing it. It needs to be on switch 2.  We've all we've all got shaving bets up. I mean, can you imagine next year Switch 2 gets announced and there's monster hunter. There's elden ring. There's resident before remake There's 3d mario and metric prime 4 like I would just I would have to mean it has to be because the iphone 15 pro the iPhone 15 pro and pro max They're going to be playing triple a games like so they have to have like those games for the next switch That's why do you think apple caved and got the triple a games on here because they see What like the steam deck and all those other Consoles, they want a piece of that pie Because we haven't gone to dlc for elden ring yet. That gives me hope that they'd be willing to go back and bring that to switch 2 I'll mean they have uh demon souls remastered on the switch. So There's that there it is. Yeah, great. Wait. Well dark souls Dark souls Was on a ps5. Oh, it's delicious. Yeah Yeah, I do. Yeah, that's good. All right. Well, I think that's uh, gonna wrap up the show We'll just go around the room quick. Uh, tell people where they can find you guys and uh Yeah, I guess that there's not much more to say that we'll start with again just going right next to me with review horse usa I am review tech usa on youtube you so i'm also at the real rtu On twitter where i'm definitely a professional and don't rap about horses And that's it.  Yeah, he's been making some music producing some music Yeah, no because the one i'm working on is not ready yet and the other you could actually go to uh My music channel like if I could put a link in the description. It'll take me three seconds But you could go on to the next person. I can drop the link. Yeah. Yeah, we can get a link up for you I'll take your time Uh, take your time.  You you might have new viewers that haven't seen me before You never know Here's my Finished enough music, which I still think some of the mixes could be better, but I have other stuff i'm working on And that's it.   Um, all right andres restart. Where can they find you man? Uh, you can find me at andres restart. I make videos about nintendo pretty much every day. Um, pretty much On youtube, you can follow me on twitter as well so you can try to bother me But Yeah Yeah Nintendo speculation every day Every day That's fun. Mr. Two inch. How's it going? You still got that stream coming here in a couple days Yeah, so you can find me on youtube for Twitter x whatever it's just jake randall Only fans is two inch destroyer but Saturday on youtube i'm gonna be streaming for like 12 hours straight To play do a full playthrough of the quarry except the chat gets to vote on every decision It's like a choose your own adventure kind of game. So every time there's a choice There's a poll and the chat gets to choose and then every hour on the hour during the playthrough I'm gonna give away a brand new ps5 game So i'm gonna be giving away like 12 ps5 games total. I'm gonna give away some other kind of cool stuff to In between but we did that stream a couple years ago with Until dawn and it was really fun. So doing it again Nice We got rg to you over there, man. Where could they find you what you got going on? You're muted Rg you're muted muted buddy.  Whoa. I'm going I'm going to buy him book right now He's got he's got it. See your whole hardware didn't die like mine did right now I gotta call in a warranty on a thumb reason It it turns off my mic and then it switches to a different mic in the setting.  Yeah, problem. No problem I'm gonna review a tv with him next aren't you? It's all right cool to admit Eric I that's where they can find you wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You're not giving a claim We've gotta gotta plug rg t's book one more time. Oh, yeah Yeah You can buy on amazon I'll go grab a link to that right now I literally just bought the book now you bastard All right Isn't that a nice way to say it? I'm a sweet guy. Yeah, the whole process only took like Six months seven months.  Like that. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, I was already full time on youtube So, you know, it was it was fine as far as time management was concerned But yeah, like just you know come up with an idea and yeah You do it and then you have someone who's efficient at helping you as far as Conceptualizing it into an actual book and amazon. It's super easy to publish a book on there if you just use their program So that's what I didn't I didn't I didn't do it to make money. Like I never thought I was gonna be rich office I was just that's just what I wanted to do Listen, you made a book about the 32x to buy a house in the Hamptons don't like yeah You're not by the by the Lamborghini house in the Hamptons all from a 32x book Goddamn right Yeah All right, Eric. Are you alive now remember when you unmute it? It takes like a few seconds before it kicks in The floor is yours. Welcome to a mic. I bought. Whoa Yeah, I'm here That's where you can find me It's about it. Where is here? On the podcast Is it somewhere or is it nowhere? It's your neighborhood and cowardly dog. You know an old testament Yeah, I am everywhere and nowhere at once Oh, you were the all you were the not got it. God No, I'm here on the podcast pretty much every week Except for last week when I was sick.  So Exactly. That's my yeah, that also doesn't help.  I have my whole house. Um I'm off to Nintendo Prime. You guys know what's up with that This is the Nintendo Prime podcast. You can catch it on my on my channel every well, usually every Wednesday at 8 p.m. We'll adjust things for certain guys like we did today We had to let Sean watch AEW because you know priorities priorities, uh, but Yeah, we we uh do it every single week We have the audio version go up every single week as well We're everywhere podcasts are heard except google because they you can no longer use the google podcast app That being said, I thank you guys so much for tuning in And I think I have an outro Thing that will gates will be here next week. I heard Oh, yeah, yeah, see the guests are only gonna get better. I'm gonna take a break We'll get will get maybe You know, I don't What I was gonna say might get me canceled. So let's just go to the yeah, let's not go there


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