Good morning Happy Saturday Yeah, I think first couple people might be Sunday. Who knows? Oh Yes, yeah, that's true Uh-huh, they're there That's almost like making my brain math. Don't do that. I'm sorry.  How are you? Is there a eat? Doing fine. How are you? Susan has a good question. Yeah. Yes. Good Is there an easy way to find it? It's not Listed on our morning our Wednesday emails that come out and they don't put it on the the home page ever. Yeah so and My mom always And they don't talk about it. Do GE ever I Feel kind of like the red-headed stepchild Did you didn't notice I am a red? Did you notice I'm a redhead now? I did. I noticed that just as I was saying it Okay, I did my hair I should get my sunglasses on She's that bright. Oh, okay My god, I can see that Tinge is a red. Who's here Sarah? It's not Lucille ball red No, it's not I wanted a muted red like a Gables rent like a natural Is that such a thing a muted red? I don't know. I think what's your head? Everything is like I that's true. So let's see who's here. So we have Susan Anderson the best way to find a link is to go to the YouTube channel the wiki channel and I think there's a There's a little section for saying like upcoming streams. So probably there Would be a good place to have Susie Jennifer June oh, did you see June posted this cute little elephant on her Facebook and tagged me in it because you know, I love animals a Lovely reddish That's nice from June Look Chris is here this time You know what Chris was doing last week while we know he answered hard time He answered he was working in the garden with his dad. He had to help his dad with the garden. That's a good We apologize for all the horrible things we said We were just we were just teasing We have John here See Hillary Lisa hold up my thing just skipped.  I got everybody my mom's like it's still hard to find on YouTube Every now and then when I see that you have a post about the question of the week I'll post a link to the live cast there. But sometimes I don't get to it Marie says she's normally in bed. I don't blame you. It's midnight. She is I've seen that too Hi, Kathy. Hey, Kathy It's early for Kathy She was at circus world a few years ago. That's where the that's where the elephant came from She didn't know elephants and cats and Yamas are some of Sarah's favorite things Yes, I just like all the animals All the animals all the animals, you know what? So guess what? What? Chicken butt. There's a chicken butt I've never heard that till my children started saying that And now I say it to them and they're like mom Oh, yeah, and they're in their late 20s and 30s. So, you know Question of the week. Let me uh get myself started on it Share actually share my screen. Let's do it I'm gonna move us Out of the way. There we go Oh Sorry, I was trying to help Oh, let's see. Um I've got some some some people wrote books. I I appreciate the books But I'm I can't read out the whole book. I can't read the whole thing David mcnickel wrote a really cool story of the true tale of the wild west And it was the homesteads of my four great great grandfather mcnickel's sons Including my great grandfather daniel mcnickel Basically, what happened was there were claim there was a claim jumper who appeared in town to Try and steal people's homesteading claims By claiming that the people hadn't done enough work to their property. That was a part of the rules that you had to do stuff and People got really angry and they they decided they were gonna mob this guy and um Went to arrest him drew his pistol back up his horse holding the crowd back with a gun Someone took sweetland's gun away from him The madden mob was in for hanging sweetland then and there Using two wagon tongues fastened together by his own account. James came forward and said no There shall be no murder committed by me or my brothers He pleaded with the man and finally the mob left the sheriff to take the Claim jumper to jail. So that's a a true wild west story there. So The brothers are his hero Did I even mention what the question of the week was? What's a favorite story you have of a paternal ancestor paternal So Because it's father's day in the united states in canada this weekend Um, let's see moving right along I like this one the best This is a story about my grandfather luis gullison After the second world war he and his young family moved down to florida where he had a job as a bus driver One day a man asked to sit up front as his stop was the next one My grandfather agreed and things seemed to go. Okay. The next day he was called into his boss's office and fired The man that he had let set up front was black and a number of my grandfather's white passengers had called to complain At the time racial discrimination in florida was quite prevalent And he found it hard to get work after that and eventually had to go back home Oh In that side, but good on you. Alexis, uh, erin gullison wrote he's sometimes on but he's not on today Erin we talked about you. We're not here. We're talking about you when you watch this later Uh, my grandfather. This is from mark wineheimer Uh was captured on the great lakes in 1892 his vessel the russia Collided with another one on a foggy night He and the crew were able to bring off all of the crew of the other vessel which sank Except for the cook he ran below to get some things Don't ever run back into a burning building or a sinking ship He then ordered his vessel beach to keep it from sinking Everyone got a shore his swift reaction in ordering a transfer the other vehicles other vessels crew In beaching his vessels saved many lives that night. That's a pretty story um, and I think Yes, uh, this one is from john vaskey Uh, great grandfather. Ted cypher was quite a character.  And you argue people down on the price of everything. Oh, no. No, I'm really bad Oh, no I'm a horrible salesperson You don't help people when you happen.  So that's just too too much like conflict to me.  So he had um He never had any money. So he used livestock old equipment To trade and sell if the kids needed shoes or other essentials and when I first read this I thought it said he traded the kids But he didn't he didn't Uh, she said they never went hungry and they never wanted for anything. So Ted must have had it going on Uh, so a barterer. That's pretty cool Uh, oh there it is again. I had it all queued up. Let's see This is an interesting story from a wiki tree or and this is a story about herself I and several other children contracted polio in the 50s The disease seemed to move through the country towns in new south wells Um And there was no treatment and so they were put in an isolation Which was a first floor sleep out with louvered walls Sounds fun. I have no idea what that really is, but I can kind of figure it out My father would bring a ladder Climb up and pass ice creams over into the children We were delighted and if the medical staff knew they never said anything about it. Isn't that cute? That's a hero Maybe that should be the best best answer Yeah um See Oh Cindy Fogle moments before the church doors open to reveal a bride and her tuxedoed clad father to walk down the aisle He said to me Are you sure you don't want to just shack up with this guy rather than marry him? You know, I I don't know about you guys but I've heard a lot of people say that their father or whoever was walking down the aisle Asked him if they had any second thoughts You know before that walk started Julie have any second thoughts. Do you know greg? Uh, no, I well, I don't think so. I mean the The interesting story about that is that um on the day of I couldn't find my tuxedo shirt It somehow got lost between when it was ironed by my sister-in-law and the morning of the wedding So she was interested in coming down the aisle to see what I was wearing because As far as she knew I was just going to be wearing a plain white Uh shirt that I found in the closet but luckily friends from university Scour the town and found the only two tuxedo shirts for sale and um, I did a quick change 15 minutes before the wedding Where did the tuxedo shirt go? Did you ever find out? It has never been found. It's a mystery ever Yeah Somebody was saying no no no greg. I know maybe somebody secretly secretly hit it. Yeah I don't know I really don't know It made for an exciting day I like the story down here from judy mold and my favorite story to tell about my father is every night He would shave before he went to bed.  So, you know go sandpaper your wife today Or partner Um just before he finished I would fall down and pretend I was asleep and every night he would pick her up and tuck her into bed Even though she really wasn't asleep. Isn't that sweet? I remember my dad running through the house with us on his shoulders And he would he would literally stop dad so that we would fly onto the bed Yeah, child abuse in the best way Oh, let's see. Oh, that's that story Oh, okay. Here's a cool one from beth montano um My paternal great grandfather john g montano was born in italy the family story goes that he was brought to the us When he was around nine years of age as part of a traveling children's orchestra He played violin the adult who arranged this trip took all of the money and returned to italy leaving the children to fend for themselves I went to the nearest catholic church and asked for help but was denied and she thinks possibly because he was Italian Catholic and not irish catholic He ended up making his way to Cincinnati, Ohio from wherever he was Where he was taken in by the warren witham family and it ended up living with him at marrying their daughter francis That is a crazy story Wow very crazy Wow I don't know what this is greg Give me some help here My dad had I understand Okay, so the first the first one is I understand You can't take it with you because it's not there Um my undertakings, uh, I let's see I over Over to you over to you overthrow. Yeah Huh So this is my dad has a small piece of paper He carried around in his billfold pulling it out at any moment to challenge people to say what it meant Uh, since I can't attach the paper. I'll pull up the letters in the table. That's from david fey Um, that is a very dead Thing. Yeah. Yeah, can't figure out this this riddle Yeah, can you imagine standing in a line waiting for something and he's like everybody's bored and they're kind of going Ah, I need to as well here entertain ourselves here And then uh, viola kramer says I I managed to figure it out myself over and out for now I understand I understand you over you You overtake to overthrow my undertakings Really? I'm impressed That's that's that's great. I think that's what it means. I understand You overtake to overthrow my I knew your brain would figure that out Oh, let's see Oh in 1970 this is from john bales My grandfather bales was 91 years old and we're sitting on his front porch in texas when the state vehicle pulled up and a young man Got out carrying a clipboard He explained that state of texas was building small ponds and lakes on the headwaters of creeks in an attempt to maintain the water table They wanted to build a 25-acre lake which would partly extend to his farmland and he needed permission to do so And the grandfather considered it a bit and replied I'll be glad to sign your permission form But the lake will silt up in no time And he's 91 year old man and the guy says oh no no no our engineers calculated it'll take 75 years And the grandfather says yeah, like I said it'll silt up in no time Get it For a 91 year old 75 years was like that Oh, let's see And that that was all of the questions that I was gonna do so I have I have I have all of the information queued up for our Uh, are you? Yeah, I watch I look at it while you guys are It's me Okay, so that was the question of the week so I got plenty of time for greg to Have his fun I offered to share with her some of my uh, my my coffee but I got my own The wire is very well. She's got her own She's in a wiki tree mug the 10-year anniversary mug I almost wrote my 10-year anniversary shirt today just to be different Have the source of thon shirt on too source of thon I've I've only got the one wiki tree shirt. So I just have to keep wearing it over and over again But it does It's still long as you don't lose it like your wedding shirt No, no, well It's a mystery, you know Uh, anyway, so the uh the topic this week for profiles is science fiction writers authors And I think that was ticked off because Um, the wiki tree challenge of the week, which people are working on is a science fiction writer herself lowest and master bush old And so wiki trees are furiously working away at her profile adding connections and whatnot and um I just I took a look yesterday. I didn't actually take a look this morning But they've already added a bunch. So they're doing a great job there and uh, so she's an american Specula fiction writer is another term that the people have been using lately uh, um for science fiction writing one the hua ward best novel four times and uh her Books are there's sort of two series that she has she's popular for so that's one of the things that's going on in wiki tree right now and um Which has spawned this category So arthur c clark Commander of the british empire Frass I forgot to look up what frass stands for but it's in there. It's in there somewhere um But anyways, I also when I went around grabbing because I have um, I have books from all of these Or for many of these authors. So here's one. So that's arthur c clark 3001 Of course, he's most famous for 2001 space odyssey, which was a book before it became the movie with the and um the uh theme song Which is also which is actually a piece of classical music called thus spake xerathustra, but I digress on that um But anyways, he's a well known and respected science fiction writer from Born in 1917 In minehead somerset england united kingdom. He passed away At age 90 in sri lanka 19th march 2008 colombo west sri lanka um I want to be remembered most as a writer. I want to entertain readers and hopefully stretch their imaginations as well and as a Long time arthur c clark fan not just because of his last name but because it was writing um, I would say he succeeded in that um, it's interesting one of your um the stories of the week talked about um the The person from new south wales who had polio and did you know that arthur c clark also developed polio um, he contracted polio And in 1962 at the age of 45, which I thought was rather late to contract polio FDR Was a very late polio contractor as well Oh, he was late. Yeah, he was very late as well. Well, I didn't know that And I don't know if f dr had this but um arthur c clark was diagnosed with post polio syndrome in 88 And from them his health, uh, did decline. Um, so in the end he ended up Yeah, needing a wheelchair for the remainder of his life. Oh m&m's nice Uh, so great man there The next one douglas adams now. I know I have douglas adams I've read the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and the all all five books of the trilogy Which I know it's called the hitchhiker's guide trilogy even though there's now five books to it or is there a six one? Um, as well as his other series the holist dirk gently's holistic guide Detective stories, um But I can't I couldn't put my hand on his book right now, but I've Got those I was born 11th of march 1952 in cambridge in england and he passed away on his On the 11th of may 2001 at age 49 montecito, uh, california He was only 49 years old and died of a heart attack but, uh He was uh began writing while he was still at school began published in the school magazine and Went up to st. John's college When he was at university. He was part of uh, he went to he went to a comedy club And there he was discovered by graham chapman who you may recognize as one of the founders of the montipython troop And he actually co-wrote So a couple episodes or a couple skits on the montipython series one of only two people Who are non-montipython people to get a writing credit. So that's pretty impressive His career progressed to be Go ahead. I was gonna say chris is saying that he wrote. Um, he was a writer on dr. Who? What yes, that's yeah, because after after montipython, then he went to the bbc and became a writer for dr. Who um And a script editor Um shada, I think which is chris is referring to as one of the episodes that he wrote that never did get officially aired Though it's been there have been different versions of it in different media But none of them are the official have been officially Added, you know on why not? Uh, I don't well actually his the episode of shada Was scheduled to be part of the series the season that got cancelled. Um Let me think what I think it was the the year that um, there was a strike a bbc strike and so The I think it was the sixth doctor at the time That one season got cut off because of the strike and then The next doctor basically came along and And then the show was cancelled. So I think it was in the strike year that the shada was would have been scheduled So that's why and there was a few other scripts, I think but shada is the one that's been Been farmed out or the one that's surfaced as Having a lot of potential. So there are different book versions of the people have rewritten as well. So And I have a copy of that too up here upstairs. It was gift from one of my sons Which I haven't actually read yet. So I'll have to do that Um But hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is one of the things he's probably most famous for and after his death fans created a towel day To celebrate that because as he wrote in the book a towel is the most useful thing a space traveller can have Anyways, I will move on to another Influence uh, robert robert hainland robert a hainland or robert anson hainland This is born actually was the very first science fiction writer that I read when I was uh, I think I was introduced to him when I was in grade six by my Greats, you know grade five on my grade five teacher And uh, so he read um the very first book. We were talking about this before we went live That I read with his was called farmer in the sky, which basically talked about A family that moved to one of the moons of jupiter and was farming there in space but um and growing up on a farm that seemed interesting and that got me hooked but he's One of the really nice ones. He did his time enough for love And what I really like he's got this huge. This is a huge thick book here. It's called the pass through tomorrow Actually, it's a collection of a whole pile that you see the really tiny print Very tiny print. Um A bunch of his story short stories and novellas And let me see if I can show you here. Where is it? Oh, there's a anyways They all all of them are interconnected with one this one big giant universe. Um Anyways, that really got me hooked early on and I'm still afraid And I have this arch ship troopers one that was made into a movie another good one But the movie's nothing like the book so No, no They like to vary things up. Um, anyways, he was born in 1907. I can't I can't believe that I was reading in the you know in the 70s uh something by someone who was Had started writing so much so much earlier, but um, it was classic Uh passed away the 8th of may on 1988 and uh He was known as the is the first uh grandmaster of science fiction I'd recommend checking out his stuff Oh, there's a picture and a number of those books I've got Um, but I didn't want to show them all to you, but that's not my shelf, but my shelf looks very much like that Frank Herbert, uh, who wrote the dune series. So here's The latest dune book that I've got house of tradies Um, but I've got um read a bunch of the rest of his Uh, he was born in 1920 in Tacoma, Washington Passed away in 1986 only at age 65 again. These people dying way too young. Um in Madison, Wisconsin Uh best known for his dune and its five sequels Um, then became science fiction. Uh, he became famous for science fiction But he was also a newspaper journalist a photographer short story writer book reviewer Consultant and lecturer and which isn't surprising considering the ecology is such an important aspect of the original dune book And the other thing interesting about the dune series is that after he did pass away Um, one of his sons brian herbert carried on the tradition and has expanded um The genre The remake of the movie they did recently. Yes. Did you see that? He was pretty good You know, you and sarah are both closest to robert hindland not Yes, I was thinking it might be herbert, but it wasn't Yeah, no hindland Which is which is good because he was the he was my first we're also related like 22nd cousins five times removed So, I don't know the chance of actually any actual dna after that set that distance is probably fairly slim But on paper we're related we're distant cousins like really distant Uh, Ursula Le Guin born in 1929 in berkeley, california and died second 22nd of january 2018 at age 88 in portland, oregon Born in berkeley california 1929 to the noted anthropologist alfred l poober and theodora crackow She was an accomplished writer of novels and short stories and perhaps best known for the left hand of darkness For which she was awarded the hugo and nebula awards and the earth sea series Earth sea now that's I think I see that unless Unless I have read that one. Hmm. I'll have to go back and check I Clive staples lewis or Uh, the the name that he goes by as an author is cs lewis though Um, he didn't go by cs in life. He always asked his friends and family to call him jack Um, anyways, he's born in belfast 1898 29th of november 1899 in belfast, ireland and lived to the age of 64 dying on the 22nd november He was born, um, his father was a lawyer. His mother was a mathematician So that's kind of cool. He had a brother named warren hamilton lewis So this is this this is an interesting but kind of sad story when lewis cs lewis was four years old His beloved dog jacksy Died as a result of being hit by a car Moved by the death lewis made it known to his family that he would henceforth only answer to the name jacksy Um, but later he did allow them to shorten his name to jack And so he would be known as jack to his friends and family for the rest of his life So it's not interesting Um He and his brother were very close companions and spent many days playing together creating a private magical world Which led i'm sure to the creation of the chronicles of narnia, which he's most famous for Narnia the voyage of the dawn trader all of those The lion the witch and the wardrobe A bunch of that um so Next we have harry edmund martinson Uh born 6th of may 1904 in jamsock lekinga sweden, uh son of martin olufson and benkta spence daughter spence um And he died on the 11th of february 1978 at the age of 73 um His parents were bethyan martin olufson. He lost them both early his father to pulmonary tuberculosis In 1910 and his mother emigrated to the united states the following year And he was fostered out at the age of six to the lowest bidder That's so nice since he often ran away. He grew up in several different families He was a member of a swedish academy and his epic science fiction form an Aniara presents the tragedy of a lost spaceship carrying escapees from the ruin of birth We see the nobel prize for literature in 1974 together with even johnson the last time it was shared between two prives winners The ward was appreciated by the reading public But was harshly criticized from several quarters in the swedish press Mainly because the swedish academy had to appoint two of its own members as prize winners Increasingly hardening criticism led to harry martinson falling ill with a clinical depression Taking his life in carolinska hospital In 78 how he died was public described for the first time in uh colleagues memoirs um He's buried in the burial ground in the parish And then i'm not going to read the swedish version of the biography assuming it says the same thing It's not a sad ending um Next we have ann mccaffrey Who is famous for her dragon books of pern and here is one of the very first ones of hers that i read and you can tell from it from this book and The cut like it has been well used and um, I think this was uh Again from grade five or six or something like that. I read that. Um Uh, she has a huge series of dragon books dragon singers. There's another series that she wrote daughter of george herbert mccaffrey and and dorethia mccaroy born the first of april 1926 in cambridge massachusetts um and mother of todd mccaffrey and she died on the 21st of november 2011 in county wicklow ireland She was america america irish writer known for the dragon rise of pern and the first woman to win when a hugo award for fiction and the first to win a nebula award The first woman to work went a nebula award. She was inducted by the science fictional hall of fame On the 17th of june 2006 and also received the robert e hindland award for her work in 2007 She died at her home In dragonhold under hill in county wicklow. So she moved back to ireland and actually lived in a castle Um in county wicklow 21st november 2011. There we go The 21st of november reminds me because I meant to me one of the thing In piece interesting pieces of c.s. Lewis was that his birth his date of his death was the 22nd of november 1963 Which some of you may recall is another Big day in history because that was the same day that jfk was shot. In fact They figured out that c.s. Lewis died fifth. I think it was 55 minutes before the assassination of jfk And it's also the same day that all this huxley another famous writer passed away So between the three of them on the day um Well, c.s. Lewis, uh and and oxley didn't get as much uh media coverage because no Surprisingly but it interestingly inspired wasn't crying on air because of them No, i'm sure he was not no, but interestingly there was a book written about that between heaven and hell A dialogue somewhere beyond death with john f kennedy c.s. Lewis all this hexley That's fun. That would be kind of cool to check out Yeah, I think I think you and I need to and sarah need to run to our local libraries And I think sarah would be the fastest with her new red hair Mary wolston craft godwin Was born on the 30th of august 1797 to william godwin and mary wolston craft Um, but she's more popularly known as mary shelly She eventually married persie shelly the poet And her claim to fame is of course the that she wrote the gothic novel frankenstein um Or the modern prometheus So she was born 1797 long time ago The only the only daughter william and the second daughter of mary wolston craft um And uh, let's see her childhood was unconventional And after her mother's death Her father took over the care of both her of mary and her half sister And and willing married again Um, the household contained five siblings all partially related to each other in some way by marriage or births Now that would be an interesting family tree to draw um So she met the poet the poet persie shelly and his wife in late 1812 um They carried on fair she became pregnant with her first child and then eventually married persie um She carried uh anyways and she went on to to write um frankenstein and uh, it's my it's popular for that but has also written other books as well that Are maybe not as popular Or did not turn into movies as much as as frankenstein did The best of which of course is young frankenstein young frankenstein That's great Uh, theater hamilton waldo sturgeon um Is born on the 26th of february 1918 in statin island Um passed away the 8th of may 1985 at age 67 Um Oh, and they've got his uh death notice here as part of his picture as part of his profile Popular award-winning american writer primarily of fantasy science fiction and horror His science fiction novel more than human One of the 54 international fantasy award for sci-fi fantasy as the year's best novel Uh, he was a distant relative of ralph all waldo emerson and through his waldo Hamilton digger and dunn ancestors a direct descendant of numerous influential puritan presbyterian and anglican clergyman Um at the age of eight his mother divorced waldo and remarried Um, but he was legally adopted by his stepfather And as a son of william d sturgeon and christine h sturgeon and his name therefore became legally changed to edward h sturgeon Um, he sold his first at age 20 He sold his first shorts his first story in 1938 the first syndicate and he wrote numerous novels since Short stories during his career And then goes on talks about his life He won again like some of the others he won both the hugo and the nebula awards um him the 71 is 1970s uh novel vela slow sculpture And he was inducted into the science fiction and fantasy hall of fame And the last one is jules verne jules guapriol verne born in nantes you are on arctic france on the 8th of february 1828 some of pierre verne and sophie angriette à l'autre de la fouille Passed away the 24th of march 1905 at age 77 and amiens france French novelist poet and playwright best known for his adventure novels And sometimes referred to as the father of science fiction um most popular novels journey to the center of the earth 20 000 leagues under the sea um around the world That's that's the first one you read. Yep. Nice um I've read some of his stuff here. I can't put a finger on where his books are but they're here somewhere um And uh the first submarine um The first submarine that simons company the lake torpedo Well was built for the us navy was the uss seal Inspired by jules verne 20 000 leaks under the sea So very cool. And then there's a much more in-depth wikipedia article as well So There we have it lots of cool stuff And I can go on and on with book reviews So i'll stop So many sci-fi Well, thank you I don't know if anybody One you know people are saying their connections. Do anybody have a favorite sci-fi author that they had out of the Bunch that we talked about or that greg talked about I only knew a few of them I really liked the dune series a lot, but I love frankenstein. I love 20 000 links under the sea I loved all of them Did I meant to I wasn't sure did Mary shelly did she have a Pen name when she wrote it or she wasn't she just wrote it under mary shelly. It wasn't I don't remember I don't remember that either I think she just used mary shelly I could be wrong, but I thought she did um now She may have banked on the Popularity like her husband being the famous poet percy shelly Okay But Because of being so right a lot of Women writers back then did use pen names to uh to get published because of the prejudice of the time Yeah, that's why I was curious The one thing I mean hindland was my first hindland and macafe were my first hindland was really my first Hard sci-fi and macafe was my first It's fantasy hard sci-fi that it's like you're talking drugs here I know Yeah, that's right. His I mean There was lots of stuff. Um, I think one of his best books was called citizen of the world Um, and it starts out the protagonist is actually is basically an orphan on the streets of india I read that I think It's it's wonderful. Yeah, and but there's it's not um I mean and maybe partly partly because when my teacher introduced it knowing that there was no, you know Sex and violence and stuff like that. There was intrigue There were difficult situations, but it was um, it's something kids could could read and it wouldn't be It wouldn't affect He wrote as bram stoker No, bram stoker our our our team of of Extra going to google it now I don't think so no bram stoker who wrote dracula is a totally different person Yep, I But good try susan Good try it gave it gave us a reason to to use our google brain Yes Is that the one dracula? I say citizen of the world citizen of the galaxy. Yes, erin It reminds me of the one dracula movie with um, gary oldman whinona writer and uh What was that other guy? Oh, um With gene ronberry count as a sci-fi writer, of course I don't know why he didn't get included Yeah, that's great I try to remember keanu reeves. I was like It's funny cc keanu reeves and I don't know if you just never think of canary's and dracula, but it is George lucas. Yeah, George lucas too Okay, I guess on two photos You would think the theme of the week would be fathers But it is not It is not it is love though. I might go on a tangent we I might go searching for some father photos love of fathers Love of fathers. Let's see if any of the photos are of Fathers But we'll see There's only five photos so we can go look at for father photos Well, there was a That was a theme a few weeks ago when we missed didn't it wasn't it? It wasn't I don't remember. I think so. I thought we looked through the list and The week one of the weeks that we missed the theme was fathers So we could go back and look at those photos one of the weeks we missed like we miss a lot of weeks here craig We don't miss a lot of weeks Okay, I miss a lot of weeks It was probably for one of the thorns Yeah, I like this one. This one's a cute one. It's a sisterly love That's cute. That's very sweet. Oh look it's them holding. That's kind of cute Kathleen sharing I wish it was the other way Oh Look she looks like pippy long stucking. Oh, we're all going Well, I wasn't that red hair, right She did You want to see us do calisthenics post your pictures sideways? That's right. Yeah I have I have one. I'm gonna zip in real quick Okay, how cute is that father? Oh, that's so sweet Isn't that adorable? That is adorable.  Sarah did it perfectly. This is Greg's mind There's hold on. Hi. I'm trying to remember a good way to search photos. There's a way to search photos Hold on. Let me Back to the Oh, I was looking up. I'm actually 14th cousin sometimes removes from Robert Heinlein. So all right. There you go So we're going to For anybody who wants to know You can come all the way down here And we can search images I'm gonna go father.  I already see some cute ones. So this is gonna go well Oh, yes Looks like a father and his son The next one's cute because they're also on a horse No Look at that. Look he's dressed as father christmas. Look they look at that It's a great father photo one two three four small children It looks like a grandma and a mom Fathers was week 30 from tommy bush buck. Sorry Let's see. There's This one father this will only search for images that have father in the name. So if they like Added it to something else Robert and his father Oh, wow, wait a sec. Oh, wait a second I don't know what's going on here He seems very tall That is very very tall That's all all some kind of tall May 30th a week 22 Let's see All They're playing ball together Do so do we have the link for the? The photos as a weak one for father that we can look at maybe Maybe not. Oh, here's another one Full family There's got to be an easy easier way to find these I know so Okay, so let's go Oh, wait, never mind This how I usually do it. I'll click here And this is the 52 photo weeks for mothers So if we What of It was supposed to be may 30th. He said There we go I found it. You are you are just ahead of me. Thank you Let's let's look at some of these fathers We got some bonus father pictures with my search though And there's a dog Nice. Oh, this is Janine's. Yes, Janine says you're dead Then look that's Janine. I'm assuming Cool and her dog Guy and Dela May with their nine with their nine youngest children nine youngest One two three and we're the nine older ones Oh, it's a good good. I like that photo Ronnie At the bean blossom bluegrass Bean blossom three times fast bean blossom bluegrass festival bean blossom bluegrass festival bean blossom bluegrass festival Four generations of gentry firstborn how cute nice They all look alike They do I think the nose Oh The baby was moving too much for the photo so she's blurry One of my cousins has a son who's the spitting image of my grandfather, which just Thrills me every time I see a picture of him. Oh, that's me Isn't it? That's cute. Mm-hmm. I do like that one Oh jack mary with his daughter's how cute Lloyd Wright in his 1924 chevrolet coop Lloyd Wright Bless you. Thank you. I couldn't mute myself in time. So I'm on the wrong page When he gets a visit from his father He's wearing he was wearing like uh, oh from canada Yay He's wearing a some kind of pilot maybe some kind of uniform. It's he's a sergeant But of my grandfather Walter who fought in World War one with his brother nice Kelly herald herald and merrill merrill That's four times really fast. Go ahead. Yeah, herald herald Kelly herald herald merrill That was it for fathers So we saw two bunches of photos today.  There was a A video which is on youtube now from wiki tree about one name studies That had been done on the wednesday azure was part of that I believe and Oh cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, and aowyn and julie Hmm, and just I think azure put it in the chat just as we were clicking the sign off button Oh So we just missed from mentioning it. So I apologize azure for having not mentioned it Well, but now you're talking about it, but you don't have the link. Do we have a is on the home page, maybe memory point of lose is a Mary And I think there's something scheduled for this coming Wednesday. Is there not Let's check the g to g feed real quick Anybody anybody has any questions with this time Oh, and the connectathon is coming up. Oh, yeah, john was saying that Yeah, yeah, so yeah, it's coming up the weekend of 15th through the 18th. I have signed up. What are you doing? If we were connecting connecting, what is it? When was it say that say the dates again for the connectathon 15th through monday the 18th Okay, I will be here. I'm supposed to be leaving for the cottage on the 18th. However However Yes, however if I go to the cottage I have to Camp away from where the cottage is because they're rebuilding the cottage And the cottage will not be ready in time for me to be at the cottage. So I could go and camp on the property But not be over where they're building. So I have to decide Can you take time later or is it? What's that can you delay your your holiday till the cottage is ready Yeah, I I probably will go once the cottage is ready. Yes, but my holiday block time for my time off is already so If anybody has a lake they need to have watched for two weeks Buy myself. Let me know I'll come and watch your lake for you I'll make sure you can just come sit on my lake max Can I feed the alligators though? Of course you can. Oh, yeah, right Okay, so coming up this week Finn again wants me to come see you Yeah, that's right At 12 noon on wednesday this week Uh wiki tree leadership and projects is the theme for a um a live cast Oh good in that That week of the well, I guess the following weekend After the connect on I'm going to be on a beach vacation Oh Very fun. And I'm supposed to be at the cottage. So drag I'm alone You can bring someone on or you can have a Guess what? I'm going to Miami for my holiday Oh, nice. Well that week we're going to be in Daytona beach So do you see that?  Do we have any Do that Yeah, never Never never ever We have three more minutes people Oh lake june sterns is uh saying um lake To beck in main is some great places to sit and relax I have to go and watch water Mm-hmm. Just just fill up your bathtub and you can I have a fountain on the back back patio and my son says there you go This is all you need. This right here is all you need Like it's not the same Oh, I know it's not the same Oh, Lisa's going to have brunch. I need to have something to eat too. I haven't eaten anything sometimes I'll eat before the live cast early after It depends on what time I wake up Can we talk about the connection person is for next week? Wasn't it the what's that wasn't the sci-fi person? Archie Griffith Griffith Archie register now to join us on researching archie grief griffin Oh And then lewis mcmaster bourgeois is the first one coming that's happening right now. Yeah, that's what's happening right now Well, aren't you special lisa It's strawberry school. If they were blueberry, I'd do Mags might be coming to your house for brunch if they were blueberry scones.  So she's up here somewhere She's up here somewhere June boat cut you're driving for lunch june That's good She knows how june knows how get us with the elephant Yep She's in Ottawa Lisa gets a bite mags to brunch now. Where are you lisa? I'm on my I'm hanging up now. I'm on my way Yeah, the blueberries up here aren't quite ripe yet. All right, so I'm ready to go.  I'm gonna go find lisa you're gonna find


everybody i think the lighting is bad no matter which way i turn let's turn some more lights on i don't know i don't find out maybe a little bit hey everybody it's sunday morning april 25th it's still morning but it's like 11 something a.m i don't know what time it is exactly um you know i slept in a bit which doesn't happen too often but probably because i was tired from the covid shot but other than a little bit of fatigue and a sore arm i'm fine uh anyway i've been up for a while doing tours and starting laundry cleaning out a few drawers and getting rid of some things that i never wear anymore which i seem to need to do every year or so um hundred piece puzzle but it's deceptively hard i think it's time to go take a walk now i'll be back good morning everybody it is monday morning april 26th 9 40 a.m i'm looking at the computer don't get all excited or anything um so we had an early morning visit from the groundskeeper for the school because he couldn't find where the dead deer carcass was and so we pointed that out to him so hopefully that's getting taken care of sometime today or soon um no word yet on the tree although the school has informed me they've called in an arborist to look at the tree that we are concerned about that's right next to the house so now the only other thing to do this morning is get somebody to call us back about the leak in the seal or the drainage system or something in the sunroof of my Subaru because yeah that's a thing it's not a bad leak but it's a leak and i live in the pacific northwest so yeah it's an issue anyway that's what's going on right now this morning i'm going to edit the vlog and i'm gonna answer that dinging because that's a facebook message or something and uh yeah let's hope let's hope we make some progress today on some of those things because that would be nice all right i'll be back april 27th 10 40 a.m um as you can see i'm checking on youtube comments and that sort of thing i if you saw this clip there's a little clip of me i think working on these yesterday so these are um dryer sheets and i um don't really use them too much anymore but um i do have actually half a box downstairs i use wool dryer balls instead but i'm going to use up the half a box and then when i'm done doing the laundry i save them and i iron them flat yes you can iron them and then i use um fabric paints to doodle designs on them and then i use them in my journal and let's see if i can show you a page i can't find the page i'm looking for and i don't want to just keep looking through the whole journal but um this is these circles here are actually um a handmade paper but it's the same idea and then you can use it in the background of your journals to give some texture and interest and these these work out really well they work out just the same and it's easier to collage the dryer sheet to your page than it is tissue paper or napkin because they're it doesn't tear as easy and um i usually just do black and white but this time i decided to do some in brown and i have a green and a blue tealy color and so yeah so i'm very well stocked up now um there's a lot of them yeah but after i got them all done i had the idea that i do have a little bit of leftover fabric paint what if i um did a couple of different designs than i normally do which is just a scribbly circle so i might have to use up that other half of the box of dryer sheets and work on that not right now of course because it'll take a while to use them but you'll get the idea okay i got a couple of short videos done for the folks over at patreon i'll be sharing still images of said work to into social media later instagram and facebook got another journal page done and that video will be here on youtube like the others it'll just be music no talking and going back to an old form of sort of art journaling slash documenting my life style that i used to do i used to do it a lot when traveling but hello covid nobody's traveling so i've decided to do it and document the things that are happening and so like getting my second covid shot yay all right 10 15 or so am on wednesday april 28th computer um i am loading some patron only video um two dropbox this morning i have a dropbox file full of videos and some are listed here on youtube before patrons only and so yeah they get some video content y'all don't get so if you want to see what that is go over to patreon it's very inexpensive to support the free content here on facebook and over i mean here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups by becoming one of my patrons plus you get the free content you get downloads periodically from me and every now and then once or twice a year more if i can squeeze it into the budget you get actual snail mail for me i did have a another video that i wanted to do or i thought i filmed doing this page here so i used to do pages like this in a journal this is um one of my favorite uh what is it um you know it's that ranger holy cow this creative journal it's this small one um i do like it for this particular thing i do is something i i have been calling my life journal and i actually haven't done one for a little bit and i decided when we got our second covid shot that maybe it was time to do it it's just kind of my way of creatively um journaling um what's going on in my life i had some pictures um tickets stubs if we've gone out somewhere usually i do this kind of thing when we're traveling um but in light of the pandemic of course we're not doing that but i did get my second covid shot and i wanted to document that so i started a new one so i'm sure i can find stuff in life that i want to document in here so i've started a new journal didn't really need to but you know i thought i filmed it but you evidently i forgot to turn the camera on at least at the important parts so anyway i don't have my days these days just never turn out as planned sorry about that i'm kind of holding the phone with one hand i'm trying to check the mail um expected sort of a quiet day upstairs doing art things while that cleaning lady was doing her job and doing it so much better than i can um and then the poop hit the fan again with my my mom my parents her health care and trying to get the doctors nurses hospitals like to actually talk to each other is just like pulling teeth in our rhinoceros a wild mad one it's just it shouldn't be this hard she was supposed to have a procedure tomorrow to relieve some pain and maybe give her some slight mobility improvement um keeping in mind there's not a lot they can do but they can do that um it's not going to happen it's being rescheduled for at least a week because of some miscommunications between the doctors that we're all having to make phone calls and straighten out because they can't be bothered to accurately communicate to each other my dad's given the nursing care place three copies of the same paperwork like three different times that they needed like just it's so bad i could go into more detail but i'm not going to it's just it's bad you guys it's just so bad morning everybody it is thursday morning yeah yeah i would days it april april 29th 9 11 a.m i woke up to an early morning message from my friend mike deacon over a mission inspiration i'm working on some stuff with him and he um he forgot and i kind of forgot to to get me some um stuff that i needed so i could do some recordings for him that's all coming up for may and so we got that done i think and i've got my my copy of that i need here um and the video clip for him he loves it yay sorry jiggly old lady arms sorry oh oops that's not what we want there explosions sounds that's mike's video okay so um so that worked so yay okay so we got that done it only took like 20 takes and yes i put a little bit of makeup on because i thought i don't want to look like a complete slob on video for everybody all the time um i do have an appointment to go get my hair trimmed today and so we're going to go take care of that i've got to put my desk back together because i had to rearrange things to get the best lighting for the video clip for him that was a thing it's just a lot and there's lots of stuff going on with my mom i'm going to turn this light off which means you're going to see my bags but that's okay these um there's a lot going on with my mom and miscommunications between doctors and the family and anyway so the short story is her procedure is being put off for a week which isn't a super great idea but we don't have any choice so that's a thing um so i'm headed home now this is how my hair looks it never is this straighter decently curly unless i see Cassandra but this is what i think we're going to do something similar for the wedding celebration so looks good i think i'm starving now so i'm going to go home and have lunch i'll be back so it's almost lunchtime and it's yet another one of those days where i forgot to vlog um i added a few more layers yesterday once you cut my hair so that when i do just let it dry like this naturally by the way i didn't this is how my hair goes by itself um there's it's less flat in the front which i i like um when i was younger my hair was bone straight and as i've gotten more gray it does this so anyway i decided to spend some time this morning starting a new puzzle i'm going to stop right now bob and i'll work on it some more later um i need a prescription refill for my prescription with my doctor and i sent an email off yesterday and i don't wait usually more than 24 hours if i don't get an email back then i call the office good thing i did because she's on vacation for two weeks and i explained the situation so they're going to have another one of their doctors look at it and see if they can approve the prescription um um let's see what else emails back and forth through the hoa because i'm trying to get our front yard relance re landscaping plan approved so she's going to check on that she hasn't heard anything yet and um got confirmation from my mom's doctors that finally the paperwork's been done and approved so they can go forward with the procedure she needs next week yay now we just have to make sure that transportation is arranged and one that's covered by insurance and not ridiculously expensive so that's a thing i think in the meantime we're going to have lunch right fred yep and he's going to move the cars around for me too because i don't drive his little red sports car um i don't want you to drive the barracuda it's a stick shift so yeah we won't even go there um but no but the red sports car is the one that's safe to be out in the weather and so we need to switch the cars around since mine has a a water leak somewhere in the in the window or the sunroof or who knows where and it's supposed to rain this afternoon so or mitzi i mitzi is gonna have to get rained on i'm sorry um so that my car stays dry and doesn't get moldy until we can get it fixed yeah which is next week so anyway it's a lot of stuff going on i'm gonna eat some lunch i'll be back it is saturday morning may 1st it's just before 11 o'clock 10 49 a.m and i um you know for no particular reason bob and i had a slow start this morning we didn't need to go anywhere we don't need to run any errands bob's got a couple of things around the house he wants to do so he's outside doing that i am getting my journals ready my daily drawing and our journals ready for may um because well it's may 1st and i need to put um the april ones away i need to add some little bits of ephemera to refill the ephemera pack for my daily drawing bag downstairs and or change out a few things i changed out some of the washi tape already and um prep the cover for my um old skin kaya that i use for um um my creative year and i am gonna do all that and i'm gonna let you watch me so we'll do it to music right about here i'll be back okay so we got all of our morning chores done so we're out taking crazy pants for a walk she had to go for a walk we came inside to sit down and chill for a bit after doing morning chores and she immediately got the wrong idea so yeah anyway yeah it's overcast but not too cold and not raining at least not yet so i don't even have a coat on but you know anyway i don't know what we'll get up to for the rest of the afternoon but i'll let you know i'll be back doing laps around the house i'm only a few hundred steps short of 10 000 so i'm doing laps right now we're over here in the front room because it's quiet dude's got the tv on we're grilling up some steaks before it starts raining again got some salad we've got some grilled asparagus should probably turn the lights on so i'm not talking in the dark anyway we're still puppy sitting and it's been a good jam packed today i'm not sure we're going to go for a second w al k after dinner or not looking like really crappy weather not that that's ever stopped us before but you never know in the meantime i want to make sure i have 10 000 so i did already close the vlog for a week and right about here you just heard me say we're probably not going for a walk yeah me and my big mouth i lied we're going for a walk i think a crazy pounce kind of is insisting on it she's just insane for the walking and she's really trying hard to catch herself a bullfrog because she's hearing them every time we take her out and she is obsessed anyway i also have an idea i think for the may mission inspiration tutorial video if i can get it to work i think it'll be cute so we'll see so watch for that anyway we're going to go for a walk and we will continue with the closing of the vlog right about here anyway it's been an interesting week i am going to film some videos hopefully tomorrow and monday um for me i'm behind again like i'm always behind lately including my take on the mission inspiration this month for mike deacon's art group and um yeah there's a post over there with my thinking behind um the mission this month which by the way i i did the mission this month mike asked me to i said i'd be happy to um so if you want to see what that's all about go join mission inspiration the link is down below um anyway i hope you've all had a good week or as good as you can make it because you know life is challenging on a regular day and this is covid so you know anyway please uh don't forget to like share and subscribe if you have questions comments or concerns do leave them down below i reply to all my comments um if you'd like to support the free content here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups of which i have two ways to do that like shopping my anti-store join my patreon join said facebook art groups are in my link tree list elix which is down below along with my link to the art filmies i've designed and the class i'm teaching with baeg rob and a bunch of other really great talented artists all that stuff is down in the description check it out all right that's it i think for this week please stay safe stay healthy stay 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Hello, hello, hello, I'm Philip Magnus, back with some more of the Banner Saga 2. Today I'm killing horse people, centaurs or whatever their in-game name is. Honestly, I forget some of these details, I know it's annoying, but I can't help myself. Let's move here a little bit and let's show another inside this she-horse woman. Why do I call her she-horse? Because I'm horse-racist, as you may know if you have seen last episode. If you have not, please go back and watch it. It was a lot of fun, a lot of dialogue, a lot of silly voices were made by yours truly. But you may not miss as much as if you're watching this right now. Why? Because I finally found a way to fix my audio, to use noise reduction and all that. I actually downloaded a bunch of Adobe programs and that has been absolutely fantastic for me. Because honestly, the Adobe set of programs is just wonderful and wondrous and filled with so many options. Yes, options are always good. Let's see, I need a few more stars to break down this hair shield. Good jobs, entire woman. Don't you just love horse people? I know I don't. Why? Many reasons. I think I was bitten by a horse when I was a child. No, actually that didn't happen. I love riding horses. My name, Philip, actually means lover of horses. Oh, God. That was agonizing. Absolutely awful. Well, I have two dead characters right now, but they've got like a baker's dozen, which would say 13. Hey, I love English. So many funny things, so many phrases I love using. I know I should probably break shields, but honestly, I need to kill things, horse people, to be exact. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Those guys are totally trying to kill me, which is understandable since I have killed so many of their friends. Oh, I unlocked an achievement and got some renown for it. Excellent. It's kind of sad though that probably when I replay the game, if I don't unlock those achievements, I probably won't get all that extra renown, which is ever so useful. I think anyway, that that may be the case. Let's see. Let's see. Eight. How much? Let's take some of these guys' shields out. Good job. In general, I decided not to record the entirety of this battle, because it simply would have taken too long. And so I prefer to record just the last few turns. I need another star, bit of movement, and time to murder.  I'm happy with it. Honestly, I don't mind as long as blood is pouring into the ground, turning it into mud, into bloody, bloody mud. And yes, I realise that I sound like some sort of psychopath, which accidentally is exactly what I am. Funny, isn't it? Good. Time to end this. A very fine job to one and all, but mostly to this here guy with the gigantic shield. He is the MVP, as kids say nowadays. In other news, Donald Trump has won the presidency. An exciting day for all. And by exciting, I mean to say horrifying for some. Joyous for others, of course. Lots of people unhappy with Hillary Clinton. And those people are very happy right now, which it's okay, I guess. I'm not an American, and my opinion doesn't really seem to have a place in all of this. I have one, of course. Everyone has opinions. Oh God, I must do that. Huh, wait. Well, minus 35, wow. Jesus, that's a lot. Well, well, wartime leadership. Your forces defended the lives of, oh, good. Injured members, plenty of them, Model E, Gunn Yulff, and even Der Drie. Der Drie, let's call it. Huh, sorry. Again, being racist. Equal rights for centaurs, I think not. Just as quick as they tried to flank you. The remaining horse-borne scutter. Only Flucitune smiles. You didn't have to come for us, but I'm glad you did. Roek and Der Drie look excited, but he could be misreading them. The town, the valking's voice throttles you. The dredger destroying it. Everyone who can manage getting to their feet rushes into Lundar. You look at the older destruction around you, the loss of life, and try to find some meaning in it. Even before your breathing slows, an older townsman runs up shouting. Those dark spoons of the depths are destroying everything.  They ruin the homes and the market. The great halls, the only thing still standing, full of the decision makers and those with money. His bits. Let it fall like the rest for all I care. Just take the rest of us with you. We'll save who we can. You told the man. To the great hall. Really? I didn't get to decide? Huh. That's kind of disappointing, if I have to be honest. I was hoping to take on a decision. Alright, a let. I think it's time for you to... I don't know, I had 26 renown. Oh, very well. Let's see. Iver, I think it's your turn to get a promotion. Both of these. Iver is really very useful. Very powerful. A lot of stars. Yeah, let's do this. Another promotion, shall we? Yeah, let's do it. 14-14. Good. Very, very good. And now I can put him in the place of Gunjölf. We should probably also take Odleve and Derdry out. I think we could take this guy and event or rather... Hey, this guy is awesome. Yeah, I think this is what we are going to go with. Unless we've got... Do we have any items we can... Yeah. What does this do actually? Protects from death. Sure, let's protect Skatak or Roik. Roik was very useful last time. Let's protect him. And this, what does this do? Two will, one armor, one string, one will. Let's give it to the puny human. Now as for the rest of them, I have absolutely no clue what they are wearing. Dark two armor per turn, useful. And what about Ivor? Did I just miss him completely? Ah, here he is. Twill and rest. Two will. Much better. I never rest. Never do it. Absolutely never. I don't see the use for it. Another long battle, I suspect. But hey, we have to deal with what we have to deal with. Okay, so I think we are going to send our people and others this way. But how do we do this exactly? 10, 15, 10, 11. This one is actually the most annoying. These two I should be able to take out with the let's quickly, if not painlessly. But this is just not a great map, is it? Yeah, let's go with this. Can we manage this way? No. We're going to go with Ivor, and Roik on the right and with the rest of our characters on the left. That's what strategy feels like, I guess. Because we smart, yo. Even with their guards, the people here were still being slotted. Oh, he's got a nice dress. He's important, I bet. I expect to cutscene with him any moment now. Come on, swing at me. Or not. Hey, another guy with a knox. The last one. This seems painful. Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate the sacrifice. Yeah, I think wasting will in order to take this guy's shield off is absolutely worth it. Let's move here. Why did I move that way? Because I'm trying to be disruptive. That's the only reason. Let's see then. This guy's certainly going to take a crack at my armor. Unpleasant, but expected. Now, I can either swing for four, actually four.  Sorry, strength out of this dredge. Excellent. And even better. Now, if only I could move a bit further with this guy. He, uh-oh, bad place. Never mind. Never mind. Now, he's in a bit of trouble, honestly. But while the big dredge are busy with either, I'm going to take off the slingers. He just keeps killing himself. I absolutely love it. I won't lie. See, yeah, I completely screwed myself over with this. Never mind. Let's move him here. And now, I think, ouch, whoa. I have a sad list primed for some massive damage. Next turn. But hey, I will make sure that it's not as massive as it could turn out to be. As it could have. Anyway, removing that shoot really won't help. Not at all too much, I'm afraid. Let's see. What can we do here? Kill this guy? Yes, sure. Why not? One less slinger. All the better for me. Yeah, I saw that coming. Let's see then. This guy is going to end himself. I'm fairly certain.     Uh oh. And he's down. Yeah, I could have done something to prevent this from happening, but I didn't end up on me completely. Uh oh, that was a nasty. Never mind, though. Time to end this one.  But at least this time I can actually use Mogr and deal some punishment. Should have used a star here and taken a swing to finish this, but it doesn't matter anyway. Finally, Scatic does something other than, of course, standing in the, well, back. Yeah, I wanted to go with a strategic word, but I forgot all the strategy and all the vocabulary. I have so carefully honed throughout the years. Oh, poor me. Hey, for now, not as much as I would have liked, honestly. Okay, I'll take it. What you did there? No, wait, what you did there? The old man says, but his voice cracks. He says how that you good people died in those houses and our food was looted all the well to do, hid with fighters in that great hall. And that's who you saved.  Royk Derdryu and Scatic suddenly catch the man's attention. His news that these three belong to you. I reckon the people around here would pay good coin to see them gutted. Olive looks flushed, belong to? No. And no one is getting anyone getting anyone. They just helped save your town. Sorry, I don't know why Olive's voice suddenly became so dark and mysterious. Well, my dog bit one of the attackers, too. But I don't let it in my ship. Keep those pets and short leeches. It's all you can do to keep Olive from arguing with the man. She storms off muttering things best not repeated. Yeah, I'm sure my viewers will enjoy that. I wonder how I can find you, but both look as tired as you feel. I am not sure how so many of us made it through that. I never expected to see halls born in my life, let alone fight them. And the dredge seemed desperate. Fighting like us you mean, like they've got nothing left to lose. I wasn't worried. With a great Ingvar on our side, how could we fail? I've a look at you on grumbles.  Oh, and what are you? See how you enjoyed when you get to Arberang.  You won't be able to relieve yourself without it being an act of the gods. That's disgusting, but that was a funny, very funny either. Or is it Ingvar? I agree. And uncomfortable. It's supposed to be a private moment. How can laughs at the face you make? Well, I doubt anyone in the capital even knows what happened in Borsgart. Jun walks up to your group unexpectedly. Word has a way of traveling faster than any of us. Don't be surprised if the capital knows you are coming. Which reminds me, we should be figuring out what we are doing next. I agree. Unfortunately, all this fighting took a serious toll on the caravan. Lundar, or what's left of it, is defensible and will allow everyone some greatly needed rest. I won't argue with the valker on that front. And I'm in no hurry to enter the old wood. I've heard strange things about that place. I'm sure it will be fine.  She looks less confident than you've ever seen her before. Oh, another chapter. This one next time. See you guys. Thanks for watching. This has been fun. Most fun. Bye.


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Hello, everyone. Welcome to Looking to the East. I'm your host for the show, Steve Zercher. I'm a professor and Dean at Kansai Gaida University. This is our inaugural show for 2022. I want to wish you all a very happy new year. And I decided to start this year with our roundup show. This is the third time now I've done this where I've had several guests from Kansai Gaidae and also from Japan as well to talk about current events that affect Japan and the United States relationship. I'm very happy to welcome all four of them back. I have S. White Kim, who is a professor of political science diplomacy in particular at Kansai Gaidae University, and Johnson port to who's also a professor at Kansai Gaidae in political science. I have Paul Scott, who is emeritus professor and also teaching. He lives in Paris, France. He's joining us as well with the European perspective and last but not least we have my good friend Jerry Mistecchi who is a partner at Kitahama partners also a Kansai Gaidae graduate from the Asian studies program. So thank you all for joining in the show you guys I really appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely so the topic for this show is to take a look at what transpired in the last year in 2021. So when I was thinking about the various topics obviously the ongoing pandemic has affected all aspects of economic activity and political activity. So let's talk about that. Currently, as with most of the rest of the world, we have the Omicron virus in Japan, even though the levels in Japan are far lower than they are like they are in the United States and certainly Paul where you are in France I've been reading that the numbers are quite high. But any comments from you on the effect of the pandemic on over the last year, actually two years now. And maybe a sense of where we're going with this going forward maybe Paul I'll start with you since you've been watching what's going on in France now for the last two or three months. So it's interesting over 300,000 cases today in France and for the last week have been about 300,000. The government has the Macron government was who was up for a reelection in in April with serious challenges has taken a, an approach, different, I think, than in the United States and in Japan definitely. And there is a there is a vaccine mandate, excuse me mandated. What's called the pass sanitaire, which I guess is a vaccine passport and the French like to protest, but there's very high compliance on that and that vaccine rates for adults is is over 90%. Wow, that's higher than Japan. I guess well you know it's it's everything is how it's reported and, you know, when you start at age 15 and calculate, you know, the numbers of vaccinations it's big basically the most 90% of the adult population, and the French government is really looking at not just the economic costs, but the generational costs students going, you know, have to go to school. It's no good to isolate people. And as we know in Japan suicide rates are up. I think the key is in school is that is extraordinarily high. There's that, there's that. I don't know how long lasting the damage will be, but there's a social impact, which will be I think more devastating than than Omicron you know for the Omicron again I don't want to talk too much 300,000 infections but the death rate is 0.05%. So, so when governments and this is including Japan is going to declare this an endemic instead of a pandemic. It's a public health issue, but an incredibly political issue as well. So, I went to Rome for Christmas. Oh, you traveled. I went to Rome for Christmas. Yeah. I had to, I had to show a PC. I had to show an antigen test. And I've been vaccinated three times. It was, it was, it was lonely. So, so I'm involved in this, I'm sorry, go ahead to Francis. No, no, no, no. So, so I'm very concerned about maybe one casualty of COVID is the politicization of public information. Yeah, that's definitely the case. Go ahead, Johnson. I have to tell on that a lot of political scientists thought that this last election in last October could have been a critical juncture. And it would have been a critical juncture if more than 70% of the population had actually of who could have voted actually went out to go and vote. It seemed like a lot of people were angry about the COVID response. And what the LDP did was, was basically incredibly savvy politically savvy is that they seem to have got the public to believe that we were in a post COVID era, like so the big kind of the population was drawn down. And as a result, only about 55% of the population went out, went out to vote so it wasn't a mandate the same people that voted in the previous election ended up voting but the people that could have gone out to vote actually didn't. We have the status quo so it wasn't a critical juncture. I think the decisions, a lot of these health decisions, I think we're politically, we're political calculations. Yeah, yeah. Go ahead, Jerry. I'm sorry. No, no problem. I think that 2021 was the year of the vaccine right I mean I think that that's the year that not only in Japan, but I think worldwide people got wide, you know, widespread access to vaccines which I think is a very good thing. And I think it's also the year that as was mentioned earlier, we're getting to the point this is not so much a pandemic as it as it's going to be sort of an endemic and endemic type of disease which is going to be with us for a very long time and is going to be manageable and I think 2021 is the year where we found out that despite the spread of, you know, Delta variant, Omicron variant, everything else, that we now have medicines, vaccines, therapeutics, so the things that are hopefully in the future going to keep this from being nearly as deadly as it was in 2020 so I think that's very good news and here in Japan, despite whatever you know, political machinations. The fact is that Japan has done extremely well, numbers wise, as far as infections and deaths and so you know there is there is some, there's a bit of a silver lining perhaps. Yeah, I agree. So in Japan with decisions are really slow to be made. But once they're made, then it's really really efficient so that's that's, that's a, that's a positive so there's there's a lot of, there's a lot of risk averse I think also, in addition to the calculations that I noted, absolutely. One thing noticeable in Japan has been that there's few politicization of the vaccine issue or lockdown that shows that Japan has remained as a quiet society without very revolting resistance against government state actions. And in terms of controlling the pandemic, it has been fairly successful. Just before and since the Olympic Games, it Olympic was kind of tantalizing success. There was a kind of big worry about the danger of super spread events during Olympic Games that didn't take place. And since the inauguration of Kishida Prime Ministry, Prime Minister and the Japanese government has taken fairly direct Korean approach banning all foreigners, non essential foreigners from entering to Japan. So we should wait and see because the arrival of Omicron has been delayed in Japan, because this tight control against foreigners. But just start, it just has started spreading. Nonetheless, the vaccination, particularly boost of vaccine has been delayed. Japan offers boost of vaccine after seven months after the second shot. It's a big chance that the danger of spreading of Omicron. So we should wait and see what will unfold from now on, because just number of the Omicron spread has been increasing from last week. It may be a successful case. I very much hope so. But we should still wait and see. You know, Edelman trust barometer and I've done a little work for Edelman. It's very, very influential. They came out with a report saying that the United States is in a is in a is in a is in a, excuse me is in a cold civil war. I was shocked when I read that statement and that politicization in the United States seems to be becoming sharper, and you know that spills over. And I agree exactly with what my colleagues were saying is what's interesting about Japan is is the dampening of that. I'll use the word dampening I won't say that it doesn't exist. I think I can only remember one protest and it was a bunch of odd characters up in Tokyo and they were protesting vaccinations along with 5G. You know the latest cellular technology somehow those two things were wrapped up together and I even though it was reported. I don't think it was taken very seriously it was a minority for those viewers of the show are not familiar with Japanese culture. This is a mask wearing culture it has to do with allergies. So every year, 40 or 50% of the population is wearing masks to prevent this allergies. And today, even though there's no mandate for this. If you get on the trains in Japan, it's 100% compliance, when you're on the streets it's 98% compliance it's really remarkable. How the Japanese public I guess through peer pressure not so much through government leadership has embraced wearing the masks, and I think that's a part of this, the miracle, you know the the Olympics, the, the rates for 25,000 a day. After a month, it just went down to almost nothing it was like a, almost a miracle, and I really haven't seen a good explanation as to why the Japanese infection rates just went down to below 50 a day mask. I mean, I think you hit it on the head I think if there's one thing that that, you know, the message from Japan to the rest of the world is masks work. The vaccination rates in Japan are similar or less than a lot of other developed, you know, countries and the difference here is that everyone wears masks everywhere. It's just, it's, as you noted, it's a cultural thing but I also think Japan has has the people in the culture they've stepped up, you know, to the challenge of this and I think that it's a, again, it is something that everyone else around the world can learn from vaccines are going to get us out of this we need people to be vigilant you need people to wear masks need people to, you know, do things in order to stop the spread and that's not just vaccination so I think I look I don't know that Japan has done everything perfectly but I don't think it's incorrect to say that Japan is one of the best places to have written out any pandemic and while I also understand that the, the border measures have been very strict and they certainly have within the country. The restrictions are much less than then in other places such as Europe and other places so you know I think on balance I mean you know that knock on wood we'll see what happens from here, but overall Japan has done quite well. Yes, that's work master grade and they're also wonderful for no makeup days which is often why I use them. So if I have asked some of the students why they choose to stay home because it comes I got eyes under a hybrid policy right now so the students basically can choose whether to come in person or not. And many of the female students say well if I feel like putting makeup on I'll come to school but if not the mask goes on and you know, I just stay at home. One thing I also wanted to talk about was you guys have already touched on it with the reelection of the Jiminto yet again and basically Japan has been under one party control since the 1950s other than a few brief periods. So the election forecast was that they would probably win but not do as well as they actually ended up doing. And as a result of the election we have a brand new Prime Minister. His name is Kushida, and he's been in power now for a number of months so any comments you guys on on the election or the leadership of our new Prime Minister here in Japan Prime Minister Kushida. Can I mention just to dovetail off of what Professor Kim was talking about is looking looking around outside of Japan a lot of protest and a lot of anger and some people wondering why are Japanese citizens not angry at you know at a lot of the gas which were made early on. And one of the arguments I've heard that is, it's not my argument, but it's by somebody else that I know, and she's testing it but it's on this manufactured Mukanshin, or manufactured indifferent so making Japanese politics, basically boring like trying to manufacture this apathy. And it seems to have worked right so if you actually look historically across elections in Japan after the post war period, voting rates were pretty high, right in the in the high 60s sometimes even 70s, and then from the 90s it be actually 93 was the last time and then it dropped pretty low, then you had higher rates again in with the 2009 with the election of the DPJ, and following Fukushima it's dropped back down so it seems to be working in the favor the LDP did not really get the hit. The hit for for COVID, but that might change we're going to have a new election for the, for the upper house which is the most insignificant house among in Japanese politics but we should see what's what's going to happen. You know when I first heard from the great resignation, because of my background I thought yeah of course that's that's you know a kid on me, that's to be resigned, and I thought that's a very much part of a Japanese cultural trait. You know, shogunai, shigateganai, there's no there's no way around it, and the resignation, and yeah I agree with you completely that, but it's the weakness of the opposition as well. And perhaps, you know 250, what's the LDP won 259 seats. And the political party that increased it's, it's, it's innovation party was Ishinokai right innovation party based in Osaka. So I'm curious whether or not Japan like some other countries is also showing a center right swing. One thing I'd like to catch up. Okay, sorry, is that there's a external factor that has been awakening Japanese population and establishment alike, which is the challenge imposed by the assertive China in South China Sea and East China Sea. America and Japan and Australia had tried has been trying to have been trying to tackle it all together along with India. Under the name of free and open Indo Pacific. But this trend has also impacted upon the last general election. The LDP did not perform superbly. It could retain its power base. And as Scott noted, noteworthy development was the advancement the progress of the Japan Innovation Party Osaka Ishinokai. If you combine this Osaka Ishin, I mean innovation party together with the LDP, they can achieve the two third majority required for change of constitution. So it's really issue to wait and see and then Prime Minister Kishida have stated that he would pursue a project to achieve the revision of a constitution. In addition to that acquiring a capability military capability to launch preemptive strike to enemy basis if they are ready to launch attack to Japan. So these are very much noteworthy changing trend that is taking place within Japanese politics in conjunction with the change in external environment. Two points on that one, the LDP did win 261 seats. So they had they had lost the number, but they still retain their absolute majority and then they have Kometo right or the clean government party, whatever it is in English. But the margin of victories in these in principally the winner take all elections was was the margin was fairly slim so it wasn't, you know, a lot of people, you know punishing the LDP and then going to the Constitution Democratic Party or it was they were either not voting or they were voting to the to the safe Osaka LDP chapter called Ishinokai or the innovation party, the innovation party. The second thing I want to say about the China issue the China issue actually helps the LDP. I mean the LDP's main thing or actually under Abe was Abe's Abe's baby was constitutional change, and he was an extremely powerful Prime Minister probably the most powerful Prime Ministers maybe in the post war period. You got Nakasone and all they're in there I don't I'm not sure about that but certainly powerful. And he's a Prime Minister mean, meaning he has a lot more power than let's say a US president. And he had a lot of support within the LDP, yet he still couldn't push through constitutional change. Right, that means that probably the majority of the population still doesn't want it. One constitutional change to happen would be my guess. The thing that worries me about China is something that we started off earlier in the program was that China has China's GDP growth rate has begun to decline. And that's what makes me worry so as the as China's economy is growing and growing and growing, the cost of going to war increase increase increase and as it goes down, then maybe the Chinese Communist Party is going to have to figure out some way to some other way to legitimize itself. So there's what we call window opportunity Chinese growth would continue but would be eroded within 10 years. She and Chinese leading Communist Party might want to achieve some goal, such as including the unification with Taiwan, which has raised a lot of lambels on the side of Japan and United States and then now as Stephen is keen, we have new ambassador from United States will arrive to Japan. Right, yes, one of the things I wanted to touch on but but before we get to that, one more general question having to do with the relationship between the Japan United States. Guys, we've gone 22 minutes into our show and we have not mentioned Trump. The last shows of course that was topic a. So I want to ask you, now that we have a new president, Biden, looking back across the last year has the relationship between the United States and Japan changed in any material way under the new leadership in the White House or is it pretty much the same in your interview. I mean, I did Steve I would say on that that I think that I don't think it's just Japan I think Japan and a lot of countries have started to question whether or not the United States going forward is going to be a, you know, a reliable partner on the United States. And I think that that sort of, you know, goes to the previous conversation I think you're seeing increased defense spending in Japan. I think you're seeing Japan trying itself to create its own, you know, alliances, I think you're seeing trying to create a, you know, credible that you know deterrent to China so I think if there's been a big change I think the Japanese government and many other governments around the world are glad that the US government has achieved a bit more normalcy, but I don't know. I mean, I think that what happened with Trump sort of shook people's faith in how, you know, the US system and the possible future and how reliable a partner they would be in the case of a serious conflict. Interesting. Others agree with that. So, even in Japan, among the establishment on the defense and foreign music side. They are always concerned remain concerned about not just necessarily return with Donald Trump, but some similar kind type of agendas with America first type of approach after Biden. And that is one reason why they are promoting the various other military capability and other hedging approaches to ready for the change of US leadership from Biden to more Trump type of leaders. Yeah, the American America seems, you know, absolutely obsessed with internal domestic politics. So it's always, you know, my triangle, it would be no skill will and finances at the at the international level and I just don't. And I think people are waiting, but I'm not sure how long, you know, how long it can waiting for the 2024 election and then what happens with that, and we're going to wait till 2029. It's not the worst case possibilities. So, it's a difficult time. I think uncertainty, no one likes uncertainty markets don't like it, and politics certainly doesn't like it is too much uncertainty for the US I think, my own opinion. The bureaucrats that I've talked to here in Japan. A lot of them, honestly told me that they felt the US lost a bit of credibility for a time. And for the next four years they expect a little bit more predictability but they're still kind of wait and see. They're not really sure what's going to, what's going to happen what's going to unfold with with the US. Okay, guys we're running out of time but as s why I mentioned we do finally have a ambassador after I think it's been a couple of years since Haggerty Jerry and I both met him several times through the ACCJ he's now a senator from Tennessee but we have Rahm Emanuel coming in before the show we estimate he'll come into power be in the country in the next week or so. And we've discussed his nomination and the political aspect of that. He didn't win position unanimously, but he won't got enough votes that were Democrats who voted against him and Republicans who voted for including Haggerty voted for a Rahm Emanuel's nomination to the ambassador so maybe just quickly. Any impression so you guys excited that we have an ambassador again from the United States. Hey, Steve absolutely. Well you know I look I worked in Chicago I'm an Illinois attorney and look I think that he has the opportunity to be a very effective ambassador I know that there were some commentators who have you know express concern well he you know he didn't have the full of you know the senator, you know Congress etc. I don't think that's what's important I think what's most important in any you know diplomat I've you know dealt with numerous. You know diplomats and ambassadors going back many many years the most important thing for the ambassador to Japan from the Japanese perspective is how close is this person to the president. And Rahm Emanuel is very very close and I think that given that he will have the opportunity to be very effective we'll see you'll need to have good people around it. And he's effective with the floor with the, with the people from the former Obama administration, who are powerful in the Biden administration. So he's got great connections. Absolutely. Johnson any any perspective on this or we just have a last minute or so or are you guys excited we have a new ambassador now. Yeah I'll just say what GD said. Okay. I still believe that ambassadors would operate under the instruction from the Washington DC. He cannot become free willing free Madonna. Although he's a political asset will be greatly appreciated by Japanese counterpart, but he he's boundary will be a bit constrained than when he was in Chicago. That would be important point. He will have to deal with or kept keeping mine. So you're asking how diplomatic will he be. He has a reputation for being very forthright. Yeah, how to balance between the two Japanese political leaders would discipline him to very quietly. One man not making provocative at all, utilizing unique Japanese way. Then he would realize that it's not like in Washington DC or Chicago politics. Now, I think Jerry and I should have an opportunity to meet him. The ambassador usually comes down to consign and the ACCJ consign hosts him in one former fashion. We're the ACCJ consign is very close to the consulate in Osaka. So I guess we can look forward to that Jerry and yes in the next six months or so when he makes his way down to consign. Hi guys that is a wrap thank you so much for starting the new year off on my looking to the show with this retrospective I really appreciate it. Enjoyed your comments. I'll be doing a show with on Japan and the immigration issue employment issue Japan also like the United States knows beginning to experience doesn't have enough workers for the amount of jobs that exists in this country so that'll be the topic in a couple of weeks again on looking to the east so once again thank you all very much guys for participating happy new year to all of you viewing this program and I'll see you in a couple of weeks. Bye everyone.


I just wear a hat every day but today we are going to be talking to you guys very briefly about the live pd meet and greet that is coming up in just a couple weeks let's go okay everyone one one take we got this all right so for the live pd meet and greet it's actually on january 19th we are opening the doors but the doors are actually this lot because it's going to be in front of our admin building and we're opening the doors at 11 the event actually starts at 1 p.m and we'll be here until you guys aren't here basically um i am going to be your mc for the event i was chosen uh all right um so i will be uh on the mic the entire day and i'll be doing the live q and a portion i don't know if they knew that there was a live q and a but there is a live q and a surprise so for all of you that come out we have come up with the hashtag hashtag live pd queues i'll put that right here on the screen for you so the date of you can go ahead and send in questions and they'll be sent to deputy reymos deputy car mac and deputy peony i'll be the one on the mic asking them the questions that have come directly from you guys so yeah it's going to be a really fun day and i will take it away so along with our most favorite person ever benicia i will be there as well you guys will actually see me in line so i will be taking the pictures for you guys so make sure you have your phones cameras all that good stuff ready um there are do they need a lot of people here so do they know what they're in line for oh wow oh i guess i should tell you guys yes so you guys are gonna be in line to take pictures uh get things signed from deputy reymos peony and car mac uh yogi and chef will be there yes they will be there you guys will get to see them i don't know how good their handwriting is so we're gonna try we'll work on the paw prints the autographs we'll work on that autographs there you go but i will be taking the pictures for you guys so again if you guys can have your cameras phones all that good stuff ready um just wanted to add a little side note a couple yes there are going to be a lot of people here so we're going to have to get through it like this just to make sure everyone gets their pictures and stuff so i'm going to be snapping quick don't get mad at me pretty please thank you smile and keep it moving guys all right keep smiling who do we have coming out that day so we have a ton of special guests coming out and i'm gonna read from the list so forgive me for looking down um west pasco chamber is gonna be there the sunrise domestic violence center uh central pasco chamber uh pass one take pasco EDC north tampa bay chamber the autism society of florida they're gonna have a lot of great info hands across the bay hands across the bay united latino council the salvation army of west pasco department of health and pasco county tourism all great special guests to be there and get a lot of good info so they're gonna have tables as well we're all gonna have tables so we have all of our specialty uh units are gonna be out here a lot of vehicles um our aviation units our slot vehicles uh there's gonna be a k9 demonstration there's actually gonna be a table for the charities uh store too so if you want to purchase some gear you haven't gotten the chance here you want to just do so in person we'll be able to do that for you as well um it's a family fun day it's kind of like a carnival style so there there will be like a kid's area too so um and there's also food trucks so come hungry always down to eat always always always yeah so that pretty much is like the gist of the day we are really excited to meet all of you we'll all be out there other members of our unit will be out there a lot of members that work for PSO will be there like just off duty you know but on duty but alert exactly so we're eager to meet all of you and to see all of you but again just remember there's gonna be a lot of you there so please be patient with us this is the first time that we're ever doing an event like this and it's all hands on deck but we're really excited to meet all of you and we out after you like comment and subscribe to this channel boom doesn't work out let's do this see you guys then


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