Fruit prevents scurvy. Fact. Actually, it's not. It's overblown. You've been on a boat for weeks without fruit to see if it works? No, but it's not all fruit. There are certain fruits that will not just fruit in general. No, that's true.  I'm fruit. And you can pause. Did that throw you? Yeah. You can pause on Instagram. I'm twitching from off-duty content. And thank you also to Patreon and follow us on our official Twitter account. If you don't know what that is, you should check it out. Patreon. And... Thanks once for breakfast. Also, thank you to everybody around the world in peaceful nations serving in the military. Yes. US, India, and in the other non-terrorist country. Yep. Those are the only ones I don't respect. But today is the anniversary of the Indian Air Force. Done. Done. Yes. I was going to do a done-done-done like a movie review. I believe it is 1932. So it's the anniversary of the Indian Air Force. Yes. This is called Airborne, Journey of the Indian Air Force. Sweet. Awesome. This is going to be cool. It's a long video, but I think it's going to give us some of the history of awesome Indian Air Force. So... Jai Hind. Jai Hind, indeed. Here we are. Look at that stat fold. Well, the Air Force might be. Yeah. Right, right, right. But the beginning of this formidable force was quite modest. Indian Air Force was accepted in 1932 as an auxiliary of Royal Air Force. During its inception, it barely consisted of four Western Wabti and four Royal Air Force twin pilots. Wow, six. Yep. World War II presented a magnanimous opportunity to showcase the valor of the force. And indeed, the valiant officers proved so valuable to the whole operation that the British government bestowed Indian Air Force with a prefix Royal, which at that time was an immense honour. Number one squadron of the Indian Air Force, the Tigers, known for its precision strikes, electronic warfare and air superiority, today was the key player even back in the day. The Tigers were the one who landed in Burma with their Western licenter aircraft and bombarded Japanese air bases under the command of Royal Air Force. Air Force officers came back with 22 distinguished flying crosses pinned to their chests. The bound button belonged to the Royal Family. He had the habit, when he visited the Air Force, he just strictly climbed up the aircraft, standing on the wing of the aircraft and gave a speech. After that, he visited one squadron. That was important. He called me in the dispersal area. He gave a speech and then he called me over there. The Queen had to leave to carry this distinguished flying cross for you. It's only given from a father bravery and accuracy. Two hundred years, one year. Ninety years, three months. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That was a memorable chapter in the diary of Indian Air Force. Though the nation was not free, Indian forces were already making mark on the global platform. The role of Indian independence, partition of India and the Jammu and Kashmir dispute are well known aspects of our history. Indian Air Force did a remarkable role in all of that. 1947 was another crucial year for India and its forces. Excitement of independence and the thrill of coming out of the shadows of Royal Air Force were empowering. That's insane. That's heighteness of that flight path. This excitement was soon done by the invasion of insurgents from Pakistan into the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Indian Air Force evolved from a mere coastal flight in 1932 to what's perhaps the most incredible war Indian Air Force was involved in in 1947-48 in the state of Jammu and Kashmir when Pakistan attacked it. It was a great miracle that Indian Air Force provided in that war and that Jammu and Kashmir would not have been a part of India today. Ladakh certainly not if the Indian Air Force had not airlifted troops into Srinagar following the attack by Pakistani irregular and subsequently regular forces and ensured that fighter aircraft were deployed in that war of the Pakistani regular forces in fact to throw them back beyond the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Indian Air Force never shied away from protecting the people in need. It embodied the spirit of India. In a nation, favorite peace was frequently disturbed by a powerful war. In the India-Pakistan War of 1965, Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 and the Kargil War. For the first time in 1965, Indian Air Force conducted independent raids. They were not supervised or instructed by ground forces but were developing strategies in tandem with the ground forces. By 1965, Pakistani General Ayub Khan and his foreign minister Zulfiq Adali Bhutto had realized that 62 had demonstrated that India was militarily weak and the only way to gather Jammu and Kashmir once and for all was through a military action. The first action they undertook was to infiltrate people into Jammu and Kashmir hoping that the Kashmiris would rise in revolt against the Indian state and then they would be able to use a military action which was the infiltration that was called Gibraltar and the military action in the Jham Jhauryal sector so as to cut off Jammu and Kashmir from the rest of India was called Operation Grand Slam. A large number of Salkis were flown by these helicopters actually firing guns and miniature rockets at those forces which were intruding and infiltrating. The Air Force roles are classic. The first is to try and win the air war and the second is to be able to defend our own country. And the third is to support our army. We did all three. We did all three in varying measures at different times and the percentages differed from as the war progressed. Towards the end we were only supporting our army and I think we did reasonably well. It's amazing how much money has been spent for simply the sole purpose of destroying each other. The joint operation of the army and the Air Force. Everywhere.  The US famously spent a lot of money. In 1971 it was a showdown between three Canada Saber MK6 of Pakistan Air Force and four Indian Air Force Canads and Boyer. The Sabers violated the Indo-Bangla border and were countered by the Canads. Indian Air Force seriously damaged the Sabers and brought the situation under control. I have the privilege to take part in that war basically in bombing operations both in the eastern sector and the western sector. I think in the history of Indian strategic thought and action 1971 war can be really the golden chapter. Because it's the first time ever in India's history that military force, particularly air power, was used to such telling effect that militarily India was able to create another country. The second part was by 1971 India had modernized reasonably well. Pakistan was in a relatively weaker bracket although its air force was as good as it was in 1965. But the problem was because Pakistani technicians were primarily Bengalis and they were not quite quite loyal to the cause that Pakistan needed. 1971 war, in the beginning of the year, that was 1971, a new unit got created. It was called at that time the Tactics and Combat Development Assessment. The object was that here were a group of relatively experienced pilots who would train themselves and then train the others on the subject of tactics and air combat. But as you know around March the problem in Bangladesh, then East Pakistan had started. So we started our training and soon we used to be told that all right we were operating from Umbala at that time.  So we suddenly found that we were doing this reasonably well. That rather difficult task where they just wanted us to lock the bombs in the general area, we found that we could do it with some accuracy. They couldn't believe that over here with training you could carry out in those prehistoric aircraft low level flying and hit targets by night. After about three decades of light border activities and constant modernization, Indian Air Force again took stringent action when Pakistan soldiers infiltrated line of control between India and Pakistan in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. This operation named Safed Sagar is another success story of this relentless force in the sky. After war, I was in charge of the air action. But I didn't participate myself. You know our entire planning had to be shifted when at the last minute when I was told go you can now go ahead and attack. They also said stay on your own side of the NC. That made matters a little difficult for me because that entire planning was made. You see an Air Force is an offensive arm and if you have to win the air war we have to go across the border and take action. But staying on our own side of the border really tied our hands. It was not easy. We lost one or two aircraft. We changed our planning systems and we changed our pattern of flying. And we were always on the search to look for some juicy target on our side of the NC that we could attack successfully. And then we found one in Muntodalo is the name of the place where there was a relatively large ammunition depot, logistics depot, admin depot. And well we flattened it in one mission of Fort Mirage aircraft. And that was the absolute turning point because their administrative machinery got curtailed, their supplies got curtailed. And all the people concerned they were wondering as to how they can carry on. And we continue to attack these lines of communication is what we say. Basically it's not lines of communication. It's the lines of communication for supplies. And if you could hit those lines of communication you are hindering and interdicting the passage of supplies to the several troops. And if you do that you are winning. And that's what happened. Indian Air Force sporad into relief operations too. Operation Rahab where Indian Air Force extracted around 2,000 pilgrims stranded due to a flash flood became one of the biggest civil rescue operations in the world. Putting itself in league with nations like USA, UK, France, Israel and many others Indian Air Force now conducts women in combat role. After years of discussion and debate. 2016 marks the commissioning of first batch of three women fighter pilots. Put a record that I was very closely involved with the induction of women in the Air Force. In fact India Air Force was the first service to induct women. That was sometimes in 1991-92. I do remember just for a lighter, you know, a caravan or something that we went to the National Institute of Nationality to ensure that our lady officers are in their proper dress. So they don't look un-lady like them yet. They are solid air-person pilots. Still actual fact the first lot of women are at the moment the penultimate stage of their training as fighter pilots. And I think that should all go well. In so far as women in other branches of the Air Force was concerned where once again tell the viewers that the largest compliment of women officers in the armed forces in the Air Force. Not in the Army in the Navy. I do the Army strength in four times in the IF strength. Navy is about little over half IF strength. So the Air Force was way ahead. We also found that performance as officers was in no way second to the men. What a shock. So they also in many ways lay down standards. You know, women could fly in plane. As well, not better than men. Prove themselves as being better. Because they are competing with women. And it's likewise for the women. Because they feel that they must get the better of the men. I don't feel like they got the better of the men, do you? 2016 also saw the induction of the fluctuating indigenous fighter jet. Exactly. As next 21, our turning obsolete pages are expected to replace them. We now have this aeroplane which is ours. It is ours in every respect. And over a period of time we will improve on it. And when we do, we will have an aircraft which is far superior to anything that could have happened elsewhere. I think the viewers need to understand that pages has not been inducted into the Air Force. Yes, ceremonially, yes, most certainly, two aircraft form the 45th squadron of the Indian Air Force. Which was number plated earlier and has now become active again with two aircraft from its charge. This will be located in Bangalore. Which it certainly indicates that the leading problems in increasing the numbers of the squadron from 2 to 16, which should be the minimum number of squadron a must have. Those have yet to be dissolved and it will be many more than a few years before they just can be effectively flying in the Indian skies. Like at an air show? Yes. With the eyes, the military, the new air force will be able to go into flight. The technology for the air force fighters will be able to fly in one day. One day, we will love to. The nation is proud of Indian Air Force as it subdues its flight to glory. It so feels like an old movie. It does, it does. Jai Hind. Jai Hind. Jai Hind. Thank you to everybody who serves in the armed forces, especially today. That was quite interesting because it seems like most of their wars are between India and Pakistan. Yeah, India doesn't start fights. That's true. They're the only nation, right? That's what it says, right? Yeah. Only nation that has never instigated. They don't instigate. And I know there's people who take exception to that and we understand the complexities of Kashmir. So we don't even need to get into that. No, yeah. But yes, they're known. They've never done any, they felt no need to expand. Everything they do militarily is defensive in their motivations. Yeah. And it was interesting. I always wondered what it's like for a soldier to be in a situation where they militarily believe that the strategy to do is actually not the one they're on. Like for example, he was in the plane and he was thinking, if you want us to do what we need to do, we need to hit their front lines. We need to just pound their front lines. And he's told you can't cross this line. So he has to submit the orders, even though he's in his mind thinking the better thing to do is this. Oh yeah. And he focused on what he can get done and did what he can get done. It happens all the time. All the time. The most amazing thing to me is soldiers that they know full well that what they're going to do will probably get them killed and they don't necessarily agree with what it is they're going to go do. And they just do it anyway because they're soldiers. Yeah, I watched this video with a bunch of veterans talking about different various things they agree or disagree with. And they were talking about certain people that have to protect the president. Yeah. Regardless of who it is, if they agree with him or don't agree with them. Correct. They said, I could hate this guy, but it's my job. I have to protect the president. If bullets are in the air, my life will be on the line and I will lay down my life for a guy I despise. Yep. Because it's my duty to my country. Or even for a mission. Yeah, we're a mission. Like in here at the United States, the most complicated military mission we ever had in terms of the moral conundrum that happened with soldiers and with our country was Vietnam. Yeah. And so many soldiers, especially like the soldiers of that day were the kids of the World War II vets. And many of them really wanted to serve the way that their dad served.  Yeah. I mean, and the axis of evil. Then you went into the big mistake of... Right. And then Vietnam. And you had, unfortunately, there's so many soldiers still around who here, who when they, they were fighting that war didn't even, they didn't know what they were fighting for. But that's not the point of a soldier. And that's just what amazes me about soldiers, among other things. Which is one of the reasons I respect almost all soldiers, regardless of where they are, as long as they're not, like I said, a terrorist country. Just because it's not, even if they're doing something I don't agree with, it's not them. They're putting their life on the line for their people and their country. And the spouses, we said this before, the spouses and the kids of soldiers who they aren't on the battle lines, but every day they're thinking, I hope my loved one doesn't die today. It's unbelievable. Yeah. So, and also, yeah, the thing I was saying, somebody told me that in the Sikh videos that we reacted to, they had a huge part. They were like one of the biggest actually, like people there because they were part of the British army, I believe. And they weren't anywhere to be seen in Dunkirk. Why? I'd be interesting to talk to them. I'm assuming Nolan didn't know? That would be my assumption. Maybe he didn't know. But how does he not know that if he's doing a pic on Dunkirk? I'm sure he did this. His experts might be British? Yeah.  If I did a film on Dunkirk like that, like Nolan did, and then I found afterward I had missed an entire group of people who served.   So, yeah. That was sad. And when I found that out, I was like, oof. And I wasn't watching this. He didn't know. How many films are there that depict the stories that we were hearing, some of these misches and stuff? Because I was thinking immediately about the most recent one we saw, and the most recent military was Uri. Yeah. Which is about a real military event. How many more films do you have about military events? I'm sure there's a bunch. I'm sure there's a bunch. I mean, there was Kassari earlier, and now it's the Sikhs. Yeah.  What? With Ali Abad. Oh, Razi. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure there's literally tons of thousands.  I've messaged you on Instagram and Twitter for more juicy content.


Governor of Bayelsa State, Douyo Diri, has urged the people of Obomotoru, one and two communities in southern Ijoh, local government area, to return home, saying the Nigerian army has assured the state government of their safety. Diri stated this yesterday when he visited two communities with high-part delegation that included the commander of the Nigerian army, 16 Brigade Oluremi Obolu, to assess the situation in the area. Soldiers had been deployed in the communities in search of the masterminds of the March 14th killing of 17 soldiers at Okwama in Delta State. Addressing the parliament ruler, chiefs, elders and youths of both communities, Senator Diri again condemned the killing of the soldiers and charged the people, particularly the youths, not to allow themselves to be used as agents of criminality and destabilization. The Bayelsa State governor wondered why the impact of an incident that occurred in Delta should be felt in Obomotoru. He warned youths not to forcefully take over leadership of their communities, stressing that the era of militancy was over, and it was time for intellectual engagement to move the Ijoh nation forward. As cooperatives, and they are told here that you can go about your normal business, they will not hurt innocent people. And I'm sure from when that incident occurred until today, at least we are beginning to have better freedom in Obomotoru, we will continue to engage the federal government and the military high command so that this issue will be brought to a permanent rest. But those who killed must be brought to book. The military high command assured me that what happened in Oji would not happen in Obomotoru, that they are not going to raise down Obomotoru community. The era of militancy is over, and this is the era of intellectual engagement. And this is what your government is set to do.


Hey, hi everybody. Welcome. Welcome to the Spring Fever Garden Forms where we connect you the gardener to the experts at North Dakota State University. And my name is Tom Cobb. I'm an extension horticulturist in the Department of Plant Sciences, and I think we've really got a really nice series of talks tonight. Let's talk about monarch butterflies. Monarch butterflies are well known for their beauty and grace. Really, the more you get to know about monarchs, you get to see what amazing creatures of nature. They're just a wonder of nature. And here to tell us how to design a garden that will attract and support monarch butterflies is April Johnson. April Johnson is the NDSU Extension Pollinator Technician, and her job consists of writing publications, giving presentations, and organizing public outreach for pollinator conservation. April is living her dream of getting paid to talk about plants and insects all day long, so we want to help her dream away. So April, welcome to the forums. Hi everyone. I'm so glad that I get to come and talk about bees and butterflies with y'all tonight. Let's get started. So again, yeah, my presentation is on monarch conservation gardens. As Sir McGinnis and I have been doing a lot of research in this area in the last six months, and we've found some really great references to how to attract monarchs and create prime habitat for them. So why do we care about monarchs? The eastern migratory monarch population has declined by 80% in the last 50 years. That is a lot. That is a very rapid decline for any species population. Some of the reasons why this has happened is climate change, pesticide use, problems in overwintering areas, which is down in southern Mexico, and loss of habitat is actually the biggest factor in the population decline. 850 million milkweeds have been eliminated from the Midwest since the 1990s. Okay, the eastern migratory population is a special section of monarchs that move from Mexico all the way up to northern Canada in a rotation every year. And it takes three to four generations of monarchs to make that move. So they spend their winter in nice sunny warm section of southern Mexico. And then when it starts warming up in the north, they move up. And after they find their first nice sunny patch of milkweed in that you can see, sorry, we're on this slide now. They started in Mexico down at that red dot down here. And then in the spring they move up to this area in the southern United States and they have their first generation of babies. And that generation will develop and then live for four to six weeks and then move farther north and start the process over again. And you'll get several of those generations, three to four moving up. And then the last generation will move all the way back down to Mexico and live for about six months while they wait for spring again. So this, I want you to pay attention to this corridor right here where the monarchs move. This one right there. Here's the agricultural red basket of the United States and you can see it overlaps with the monarch migration area. We have lost most of our milkweeds to expansion of agricultural plots. Meeting the food needs of a global population demands the continuing conversion of native prairie to prime farmland. I just want to make it clear in this presentation that I'm not blaming farmers for killing monarchs. I'm just saying the global population is rising and people are hungry and this is the prime farmland overlaps with monarch conservation areas. The result of this conversion is increasingly fragmented prairie with an empty matrix that grows larger and larger. And then when we're not talking about agricultural land, the rest of it is a lot of private land. And we like to put in monoculture grass lawns and this is a very pretty lawn, but it is a food desert for all types of pollinators. So this is where you guys come in. The home gardener has an opportunity to positively affect monarch populations by filling in the empty matrix with monarch conservation gardens. That's what we're going to talk about tonight is how to make a really good one. The monarch conservation garden. So the three main factors that determine a really excellent effective monarch conservation garden is its ability to recruit egg laying adults, support larval development and fuel adult migration. So we're going to talk about how to recruit those egg laying adults. Essentially, the best way to do that is to create visual cues. Monarchs make decisions about where to forage and lay eggs based on those visual cues that influence, oh, sorry. And then in the garden, visual cues that influence monarchs include the bloom color, plant health, plant configuration and more. We're going to get into those details. Color. So in the garden bloom color isn't as important as abundance. And so what I mean here, if you look at these two figures on the right hand side of the slide, we've got a mixed planting, which is I think your typical garden where we just we try to spread out our colors and we want because we're right there next to the garden and we're not floating in the air, however many feet above us, we get to see all the details and the mixing doesn't matter as much as far as the impact. But to a monarch butterfly who's flying doing their migration, they're much it's easier for them to see color blocks than it is for a mixed planting. So if you're going to design a monarch conservation patch, you want to use color strategically by installing multiple plants of the same species or cultivar in color blocks to enhance the visual cues. Orientation. So monarchs, if you guys remember from earlier in the slides, we showed the pattern where they started Mexico in the south and they move up north through the US to Canada and then come back down. So they're always moving this eastern migratory population is always moving north south. And in the research we've discovered that plots are utilized and found by egg laying adults, easiest if the plot is oriented north south. So if you've got your color blocks and they're arranged in the north south orientation that gives a monarch the most amount of time during their flight path to notice that you have a buffet laid out for them. Yep, install them north south. And then the other thing you want to be careful about with orientation is, oh, that's another slide. I'm sorry. Okay, we covered that. Great. Yay. Next, design. Layout is important. We're going to talk more about milkweeds in the garden. But right now what I want to say about milkweeds is there's been the highest egg laying on monarch plots. When the milkweeds are planted in a ring around the nectar source, monarchs are more likely to see the milkweed plants on the perimeter of the garden as they're migrating. And adult butterflies can easily find the nectar sources when they emerge from the chrysalis.  And it's super convenient for them to have the nectar sources right next to where they just came out of their chrysalis. Larval development. That is the next element to designing a monarch garden. Monarchs do not detect sodium or metals in host plants. So we're talking about the location and metals and sodium get into your garden sometimes from runoff from the road. Larvae are at risk of sodium toxicity when feeding on roadside milkweeds. If you've done any research or reading about milkweeds, a lot of the stuff that comes up is how effective are roadside plantings of milkweeds along the freeway, the highway in those areas that aren't utilized as much and could be good sources of monarch conservation areas. But again, any sort of chemical runoff from the road can get into the milkweed. It can be splashed onto the leaves of the milkweed plant or taken up by the roots. And because the adults can't detect sodium or heavy metals in the milkweed, when they lay their eggs, they're laying eggs on a food source for their larvae that could actually poison the larvae. So when you're putting in your garden, establish the garden away from the road, the farther away from the road, depending on how busy it is, the healthier the plants and the larvae will be. Okay, now let's talk about milkweed. Milkweed is a monarch host plant because it supports the life cycle from egg to pupa. Monarch adults lay eggs on the milkweed, and then those eggs develop into caterpillars, and those caterpillars stay on the milkweed and feed on only the milkweed leaves for their entire life cycle until they become adults. Monarch larvae are specialist herbivores that feed on the milkweed to make themselves toxic to predators. So if you've ever touched a milkweed, it's got this really gross, milky sap. Gross is just a personal opinion, but they have this toxic chemical within the milkweed sap. And so when they ingest it, the caterpillars become poisonous to predators. There are lots of different milkweeds we can talk about, but the one you're going to hear the most about when you start digging into more information about milkweed gardens is you're going to hear about common milkweed. And on the right are some different characteristics of that milkweed, but I do want to say that it spreads aggressively by runners and I see that's the fourth bullet point down. Common milkweed grows really well here in North Dakota and all through the Midwest, but there are definitely some better options for a smaller garden in which you can't allow something to grow so wild. If you have a space where you can let something run rampant and have more of a prairie look, great. Common milkweed is for you. But for different garden setups, there are lots of other milkweeds. Butterfly milkweed, prairie milkweed, showy milkweed, and swamp milkweed. Look, they come in different colors. They're all very beautiful. They support larvae and they are a nectar source for foraging adults. These are different characteristics about swamp milkweed. Despite the name swamp milkweed, it doesn't actually need to grow in a swamp. It grows really well all over North Dakota and it stays much smaller as far as the spread goes than common milkweed. Butterfly weed, again, is a good choice for smaller gardens. It's very well behaved.  So at the end of the season, when you're cleaning up your garden, you can probably use some of your milkweed, depending on how big it's gotten, as kind of a living mulch or to help feed the soil or your other plants. Fueling migration is the third element to creating a prime monarch conservation garden. Some of the elements that you're going to want to put in your monarch garden would be water. There's all sorts of ideas to how to incorporate water in your garden. Migration is thirsty work. Yeah, it sure is. So add a water source near the nectar flowers. So if you create your monarch garden plot and you have your border of milkweed and your nectar sources within it, have your water tucked in there. A little fountain, a dish of water with rocks in it so the insects can land and not drown. The bigger the water source you have and the more shaded it is, the less time you're going to have to be out there refilling it. The shallower, the water, the smaller the dish, the faster it will evaporate. So that's something to consider how much maintenance do you want in your garden. And the other element that you're going to need is some shelter. There's all sorts of different types of shelter than talking about. Adult butterflies use trees for shelter during the night and rest periods during long migratory flights. So eventually your butterflies that have visited your garden may leave, but during the night they're going to rest. So consider adding elements of shelter like sturdy trellises, a bench, woody shrub, trees and shrubs are really great. The sturdy trellis and bench, I want to clarify here, those will also be super helpful for larvae that are ready to go into the chrysalis stage. They need something strong and sheltered from wind to attach their chrysalis to while they develop into adults. And then another really important element that we'll actually have more details about are the nectar sources. Adults monarchs do not feed on the milk we leave. So once they have like, oh, what is the word? I'm looking for COVID brain. When they develop, thank you, when they develop into adults, they switch to foraging for nectar. So they fuel their migration with the carbohydrates from all the sugar that they consume. They can travel between 1,500 miles per day. Yep, and the sugar is to fuel for the long migratory flights. Monarchs begin arriving in North Dakota in late June. Choose multiple species of nectar sources to bloom during the entire migratory season. So in your Monarch garden, you're going to want to have something that starts blooming in June and then stays through the beginning of fall. Sorry, not one continuous bloom through the whole season. I mean multiple plants with blooming times that overlap. But milkweeds also provide nectar for adults. Butterfly milkweed is one of the earlier blooming native species. Here are some plants that we recommend that are effective nectar sources for monarchs that are pretty easily sourced in our greenhouses. And we grow a lot of these in the experimental garden here at NDSU. So we've got wild bergamot, which is bee balm, black-eyed susan, prairie coneflower, Joe pie weed, August, metal blazing star, smooth blue aster, and September, New England aster and showy goldenrod. Okay, so here's my three critical concepts that I want you to take away from this presentation. One is the strategy. So I want to use visual cues to create optimum monarch habitat in the home garden. Monarch consumptions are customizable to their site needs. So please ask me questions about this. But what, you know, some of the things we talked about in this presentation are size doesn't exactly matter as much as the orientation and the layout of the garden. So you can have as small as like an eight by 10, you can have as large as several acres. But as long as they fit some of these characteristic descriptions that we've talked about, they will be, they will serve as prime monarch spaces. Yep. And then even small spaces can attract and support large populations. And that is because we talked a little bit about prairie fragmentation really early on in the presentation where I showed you pictures of the lawn that has no blooms in it. And I showed you the migration path that overlaps with the agricultural section of the United States. And prairie fragmentation is where you have a section of wild or private land that supports a monarch and then a long stretch of food, essentially a food desert for them. So what we're doing as home gardeners is helping to fill in the empty matrix, connect those prairie fragments. And if you have even a small monarch garden in your on your land, depending on how close it is to the next prairie fragment, it may be the only, I'm going to call it a rest area for miles. So if that's the case, even a small space can attract a huge percentage of those monarchs that are moving through our area. Two, impact. The goal of monarch conservation is to fill in the entry matrix with suitable prairie habitat. Yep, we just talked about that. And the home gardener can make a huge positive impact with seemingly little space and effort. Yep, absolutely. So exactly, yep, we were trying to fill in the matrix and connect those prairie fragments. And the last is education this QR code will take you to the NDSU extension pollinator conservation Facebook page. And that's where I put content up about some pollinator projects that we do here at NDSU that I'm organizing. I put links to presentations like this one. I get to talk about all sorts of different conservation news. Anyway, we do a lot of fun stuff there. I hope that you go check it out. And then I want you to watch for upcoming monarch and milkweed publications from NDSU and the easiest way to watch for those is to go and like the Facebook page because I will be talking about that when they are getting closer to coming out. And that is it. I would love to field some questions. Okay, thanks, April. We've got everybody please get in that Q&A box and ask your questions. April, we do have some already. Here's one. This person has a comment about monarch gardens and that she finds that adult monarchs like areas of her garden that are messy, where they have lots of places to hide. What do you think about that? Do I think that they're effective if they're messy? Oh, for sure. And you know what? That's a really good point because not only will that give some shelter to the monarchs, but also are other pollinators like bees, and I won't get too much into that. But there's lots of bees that shelter in like a dead log in your garden or dried up grass that's in a hibernation mode for the winter. So mess in the garden is good. So if somebody comes to your tea party and says, oh, your garden looks messy, and you just go, it's for the bees or it's for the monarch. Yeah. Mess in color blocks. That's important, right? Make sure, because you like color blocks, you're setting your talk, not just a mix of stuff, right? You want color blocks. Yeah, are much more effective. How about this person has lots of milkweed plants in her shelter belt, but every year they look at the plant and they can never see those chrysalis. So what time of year do you see a chrysalis for a monarch butterfly? Well, the chrysalis typically are not on the milkweed plants. At some point, and we don't, no one has really, there's not a lot of research of people observing when the caterpillars decide I'm going to go migrate to that bench over there. But they will build their chrysalis on a firm structure. Milkweeds just, you know, they move around too much. It's not a safe place for them to build their little chrysalis. Okay. How about would exhaust from a lawnmower be harmful to milkweed plants? No, I don't think so. I mean, if you're going to let your, if your lawnmower is going to idle for an hour next to a milkweed plant, maybe. Yeah. But no, just passing by, that's totally fine. Okay, that's good. Well, do you have a seed source to buy swamp milkweed? Oh, off the top of my head, I couldn't say, but I do have some resources that I have bookmarked, you know, at my office and I can get those out if people are interested in sourcing milkweed seeds or plugs. Yeah. I work a lot with vegetable seeds and like, even if anybody wants any variety, if you just go to Google and you type in swamp milkweed seed, you'll get lots of sources. But then April, is it important to where you get your source? Like, is there such a thing as a northern source? Is that important? Does that make a difference versus like a Tennessee's milkweed company? Does any of that make a difference? This has a lot of cheap, well, flower seeds. Right. I don't think so. I think that what's important is the cultivar or variety of milkweed rather than the source of the seed. Yeah. I mean, we love local. If you can, if you can source it locally, that's, that's best case scenario. Yeah. Yeah, I think like how about prairie seed nursery in Wisconsin that I'm sure that has milkweed, lots of milkweed and what's that prairie moon nursery? Prairie moon, yep. That's a very popular one in Minnesota. How about can milkweed be grown on hills? Yes, especially, well, yeah, yes, especially the ones that do very well with drought. So swamp milkweed does like a little bit wetter soil, so that's why it does super well here in eastern North Dakota because we have that clay, it holds water really well. But yeah, I would, I would guess that maybe swamp milkweed wouldn't do as well, but all of the other ones that I recommended in this presentation would do well on hills. Can you talk for a second about like, what's the life of a monarch? Like what's their life cycle in North Dakota? Like you said they hop up here and was it late June is when they arrive? Yep. And then what do they do here? How do they live their whole life here? Do they die off in September or what do they do when they're in North Dakota? Yeah. So monarchs in this area will experience a full life cycle from an egg and an egg will hatch in maybe like two to four days and then it'll become a larvae and that's like the long period or no, that's about two weeks and they'll go through five molting stages. And then after that, they'll become an adult and live like four to six weeks because we're not at either the tail north or the south end. We're not going to see the generation that overwinters. So the monarchs that you see will be, they'll be living there, they're full, they're, sorry, they'll be then, what is the right I'm looking for, the non overwintering generation. Probably the, maybe the first or second generation during that migration cycle. And then they fly, the adults fly back to Mexico in like September, right? Yep. In September. It's getting a little bit cooler. They start to, it's amazing. You said they fly like 50 to 100 miles in one day for a little butterfly. That's like, amazing. That's powerful. They have to visit hundreds to potentially thousands of flowers to make those really long 100 mile trips. I mean, that's incredible. Yeah, I think the North Dakota Monarchs, don't they travel just about as far as we're like kind of like at the edge of from Mexico to North Dakota. That's a very long migration pattern. That's one of the longest. How about can, can I put milkweed in a rain garden? Yes. So as I understand it, a rain garden experiences periods of swampiness and then can then can do drought. So yep, yep, you can definitely put those in there. And we already said that don't look for the chrysalis on a milkweed because look for a bench or something. It's a tree branch. Trub, yep. Okay. And do you get a, for a small yard, is there a minimum size for a milkweed garden or a modern garden? There's no research to really say what is the smallest version of that. I don't know. I think a, I don't, depending on the other floral resources you have nearby too, I would say like an eight by 10 is optimum as far as the smallest size. And even if they have a small yard, you talked about how the lawn can be used as another source. So just don't think about a flower garden. Think about the whole landscape, huh? Even you talked about the trees and shrubs can be assets to the monarchs. Yeah. I'm turning part of my boulevard section into a modern garden. So that's, which is currently just lawn. Yeah. Okay. A lot of people are just making comments about some of their experiences. Somebody saw monarch eggs on dill last year. So is that, was that, is that possible? Are we sure, are we sure they were monarch eggs? Hmm. Probably not. What does a monarch egg look like? What color is it?  Oh yeah. It looks like all of the eggs. I don't know. Got it. Okay. Last year, the monarchs came and ate all the milkweed leaves, but this year there's no milkweed. What's that about? Oh, weird. What kind of, do we know what cult of our milkweed was? Hmm. I think there's only two types that we know. April purple and orange. That's what I would say. Okay. That's interesting. So evidently that maybe anything, huh? Yeah. Well, I would guess that it's not a cultivar that spreads by rhizomes. Okay. There you go. It would have, I guess, Those less aggressive ones, not the common milkweed. Yeah. How about the monarch urns prefer shade or sun? Oh, definitely full sun. Yep. Because not necessarily because of what the plants like, it's because if it's shaded, that means that the view could be potentially blocked. By a building or a fence or a tree, that's going to prevent the monarchs from seeing it from above. Okay. How about does a road surface next to the garden, is that beneficial for butterflies? Like if you have gravel or pavement? Well, we talked about heavy traffic and then runoff from a, you know, from the road can. You can get heavy metals and too much salt uptake in the milkweed. But if we're talking about visibility, I would say that having it near driveway because a driveway can't shade a garden because it's flat. Then visibility, it probably might enhance visual cues. Don't butterflies like, what do you call it? They like to bathe themselves in the sun? They like to sunbathe or don't butterflies like to do that in general? Yes. Especially when they first emerge from the chrysalis, they actually spend about, I want to say three hours drying out. They have to pump fluid into their wings to inflate them and then they're just kind of wet when they can't fly when they're like that. So they sunbathe. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe that gravel surface where some flat rocks could help also. What do you think about butterfly boxes or butterfly hotels? Are you know, does that work? Oh, like squirrel lunchboxes? I don't know. I've heard of these. I don't recommend them. I don't know. I think, I haven't seen any research says that they help. So if you have evidence, like anecdotal evidence, just go ahead and try it. But yeah, I've just heard that. I don't know. I don't like the idea of concentrating them all in one space like in a butterfly box and then a squirrel gets in there or something a predator gets in there eats them. It doesn't make the prey easier to find than when they're tucked into the landscape. How about when you saw swamp milkweed, do you have to scarify the seed? Do you know that? Do I have to scarify? Scarify, like scratch the seed. Oh, good question. Or will it germinate by itself? I don't know the answer to that. I've never heard that. I've never heard that for milkweed. I'm going to look at it. I'm running it down. That's a good question. This person has an oval leaf milkweed on the dry side of their heel out here in the West. It's a smaller milkweed and less aggressive.  Do they appreciate a little nutrition like that, like pears or apples? Yeah. I mean, the, yes, I have seen butterflies nectaring on a dish with, you know, half an orange in it or a banana peel. They do like those. It will attract other insects though. So it's not exclusive to butterflies. You know, wasps will find it. And we don't love wasps. So use with caution, I guess, or use knowing that you may attract unwanted insects. Okay. Speaking of unwanted creatures, what can you name besides people? What are the predators of a monarch? Oh, well, I mean, yeah. So, okay. So the time when a monarch experiences the most risk of predation is egg to early instar stage before they've had a chance to consume enough milkweed to become toxic. Once they are nice and juicy caterpillars with their very vibrant stripes, most predators know not to eat them. And they know not to eat the orange adults either because they will make the birds vomit. So that's interesting. It's interesting about birds know it by the color of the stripes. Do you have something to add to that? I'm sorry.  They say milkweed does need to be cold stratified for 30 days. And then they germinate readily after that. There you go. But they don't cold stratified, but not scarified. They don't be scratched. But for example, they need a cold treatment to germinate like a winterizing treatment, which could be done like with course, moist sand mixing in the seed and then put in the fridge for 30 days. Stratification. Okay. So the same thing that like bulbs need or like the, you know, like some seeds had a lot of perennial flowers had those winterizing treatments. How about that person says that dill was probably a swallowtail. Okay, I'm just going to guess. Yeah, woolly bear caterpillar. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so that makes sense. Do monarchs like evergreen trees? Yes. So they overwinter in evergreen trees in Mexico. And is it true they can, a family can, the same generation flies to the same village every winter, even though it crosses generations? Have you heard that? Yes. So something in their DNA programs, monarchs that have never been to Mexico to fly down to Mexico every year. The same village. The same acreage of forest. Yeah. Astounding. And they fly from Bismarck, North Dakota down to Mexico and they land in the same village every year. Their ancestor, that their ancestors were at. That is hard to understand. That's amazing. How about, okay, this has a simple question for you. How do farmers affect monarchs when farmers spray their crops? Okay, so in the 1990s, Roundup Ready corn and soybeans became super popular. So that enabled farmers to have clear fields that they could grow their corn and soybeans and be really productive. And that was great. However, most of the milkweeds that I'm talking about that were in agricultural settings were directly like inside the fields. So the use of those products eliminates milkweeds from the field. So again, I want to reiterate, I don't blame farmers for trying to feed the world. But, you know, when we convert the prime farm, the prairies to farmland, we're going to lose milkweeds. There are a lot of programs that are empowering farmers to put in prairie strips and to let milkweeds grow in the margins of their property. And that's really effective. So, did I answer the question or did I go off tangent? No, to me it's, for I would have just thought insecticide sprays, you know, butterflies are insects. When the farmers spray insects, insecticides, the butterflies are going to get it too. But I like your approach about how the GMO crops could also have an impact. It's honestly less the, yes, insecticides affect insects. That's their, the purpose, right? But it is really the loss of habitat because monarchs will only lay eggs on the milkweed and the larvae will only eat milkweed. So if you don't have anywhere to lay babies or to feed your children, your population is going to decrease. And that's where we can help. Yeah. How about this, this person has a comment, they place monarch caterpillars in court jars with milkweed. And then when the butterfly emerges, he releases them to the garden. How about like an incubator? I'm guessing that the lid is perforated or has some sort of screen for air and everything. I hope so. How about is a viceroy butterfly as good as a monarch? As, what does that mean? Oh, that was just my, that was just me. How about beneficial to the world as monarchs? Why do we like monarchs so much anyhow? Just because they're orange and pretty? Okay. I have an, I think people like monarchs want, I think they've just, they're charismatic and they've become an emblem of conservation. You know, when you see, you know, but, you know, they don't necessarily provide better pollination services than they certainly don't do it better than bees. Not that I'm not saying the bees are more important to anything, but are they better than viceroys? I don't know. I think monarchs are popular because they're easy to recognize. And the way you tell the difference between a monarch and a viceroy, which are so easily confused, is the viceroy has almost a horizontal vein, black vein near the bottom of its hind wings. If you go, if you join the monarch NDSU pollinator conservation extension, if you join the Facebook page, you go look at it. The cover photo, the one that goes across the top of the screen has a viceroy and you can clearly see the black vein that goes across the bottom of the hind wing. And then you can, then from now on, you'll be able to tell the difference really easily. Yeah, I think they're all, they're all important, even like the lowly skipper. They're all important. They're all. All ones. I think we all have a place in this world. How about a last, how about a last question here? This person, is there a way to protect the larva that are feeding on the milkweed plants from those nasty birds? Or do we put a rope cover with that help on them? Or is that just doing too much? I need to think more thoroughly about that question, but they do, they molt to their different stages pretty fast. The window opportunity where they're multiple and are built is pretty small. But if you want to keep birds out of your milkweed patch, I've had really good success with putting those like any foil flags that pinnails. Yeah, just anything that moves to scare the birds away. So that, that could, that could work. Take down your bird feeder. Oh, yeah. How about that? Okay, April, I think we've got, we took care of a lot of questions here. And, and if anybody has any questions, follow up questions, please contact April, get on her Facebook page. And she is the expert on this topic and she will have the answers for you. So April, thank you for tonight's presentation.


What is up everyone? Welcome back to another FanDuel Monday Night Football Madden live stream where of course going to be talking about the Monday Night Football game between the Chicago Bears and the Minnesota Vikings, but we're also going to be playing a little bit of Madden. I had a suggestion on my TikTok to make a defensive career as a corner, so that's exactly what I did. I made a corner starting out as a 74 overall, got picked 14th overall to the New England Patriots and yeah I think it should be a lot of fun. I imagine I'm going to be really bad. I think the whole like perspective switch of being a corner is just really hard to deal with, but hopefully it goes moderately well. I can at least dream right? I think that's, I think that's fair, but before we get into that, if you guys have any questions you know regarding Monday Night Football, feel free of course to ask. I think that's one of the main things that we want to talk about on this is just you know how everyone's feeling about the game tonight, but if there aren't any questions we can kind of just hop right in. I will give a quick game prediction I guess just to set the precedent for because I've been doing them every week and I'm not always right actually I'm probably wrong more often than I'm right, but I would probably say the Vikings win this week and normally I think like if I'm wrong it's like well it's usually a pretty close matchup, but I do think Minnesota you know outside of the game the loss last week to Denver I mean they've been a pretty formidable opponent. I don't see a reason why the Bears should beat them the Bears don't really move me that much I don't think they move anyone that much I think that's fair to say, but you know what do I know you know I'm just a guy I'm just a guy you know I don't know anything, but yeah I think we'll just hop into we're gonna do some on field drills of course to to kind of start things off and I think the reason is just again I have very little confidence and in my ability to be a solid corner in Madden I have no idea how difficult this is going to be so I'm just trying to get a feel for the game a little bit I think I've just got to do coverage coverage stuff and we'll just kind of see how it goes hopefully it goes well oh okay so first of all I mean first of all they're telling me what the route is second of all even if they weren't telling me what the route is like the perspective angle makes it really easy to work with I mean this is this is so free everything here is it's just textbook man I missed him I literally knew the route and I missed him no blitzing I mean we we got a gold got gold who wins Monday night football between the Bears and I would pick the Vikings I think that's a pretty pretty reasonable pick but again who am I to make that determination we're only gonna get to play the first quarter as a corner so we'll see kind of how that goes Justin Fields cooking the Vikings defense tonight maybe but Brian Flores has been really cooking as the defensive coordinator in Minnesota tonight or this year not tonight this year he's been he's been really cooking with kind of I would say subpar talent I think it's reasonable to say but they've been really good so I okay so I do get I do get this perspective which I don't know if I like we'll see was kind of to play it by year I couldn't make the tackle there hey who's not was that Kyle Duggar good hit there at the end of the play good hit they're doing another run and we stuff that in the backfield third and seven obvious passing situation here we'll see how sending a blitz goes again we're only doing oh no I got stuck I got stuck on the the pick there yeah not not a great start there we tried play action throwing it underneath oh good hit was that uh who was that on the tackle I didn't quite see alright I'm in the flats here I'm gonna shade inside just a hair at the snap oh look at that look at that incomplete third and eight another obvious passing situation here we go some cover three so they probably got trips on the left side we got 11 personnel no sir no sir incomplete let's go let's go clamps clamps that's what we like to see that's what we like to see a great great job on the on the defense event on that possession oh we got him back to weigh up at the four yard line here sending the tight end in motion probably a run to the left side I would bet it is oh and they get a pretty solid run was that 14 yards there yeah not great I tried to get over there and make the tackle but it's a little out of reach for me just a little bit another run I may have to chase this down that's a good run by Damian Pierce he's cooking right now we got a we got to slow him down a little bit alright we've got a man coverage look here under center another run killing us in the ground right now we've got to get some guys in the backfield get some penetration we got a shotgun look here for CJ shroud we'll see how they try and test oh dangerous throw over the middle there dangerous throw don't worry this is going to go splendid I can already tell they're sending more guys more crossers more looks over the middle they are marching down the field right now man we had the we had a couple of good plays on that first drive but we have not had any answers for them this drive play action something short they're killing us on that mesh right there let's see if we can get a stop here on the ground Damian Pierce nowhere to go only a yard to be found there so we like to see that is what we like to see shotgun look a bunch set staying in that 11 personnel though there we go good tackle good tackle I feel like that was more my tackle but I don't get credit for it you know that's fine alright let's see what we've got here I'm gonna try and maintain outside leverage good call they do get the first down though that's crazy first in goal I was like I have help inside I'm going to I'm gonna maintain some outside leverage parlay ideas for tonight oh um I'd have to go I'd have to go and look at what's available and we give up a touchdown I'd have to go and look at what's available let me see if I can let me see if there's anything worth cooking up tonight let's see I feel like I don't know if it is a good bet but I feel like a Josh Dobbs like anytime touched I like I feel like he could run one in a fields anytime touchdown also feels kind of probable but I don't know I don't know for sure if I'm willing to bank on that we're down seven right now cover two look I've got the flats another run they're crushing us on the ground there Damian Pierce almost 70 yards on the day and a touchdown and it's only the first quarter it's only the first quarter he's killing us right now maintain outside leverage okay we just can't stop the run like at all I'm switching to this perspective we'll see how that goes another run break and tackles but no yards to be found there second down in 10 see how it goes got to cover three look here CJ stroud off to the races only five yards third and five kind of can do whatever they want here on third and medium I'm gonna go with another cover one look I think I'm gonna bail here again maintain outside leverage and they hit the underneath route to the tight end that's Dalton Schultz got an empty look here let's see what we can all right man I mean they're cooking us right now they're cooking us right now this is crazy I hope you didn't bet on the Patriots defense to like not let up a lot of yards in this preseason game because if you did you'd be let down it was a struggle it was a struggle for our defense but I do think I mean the Texans have they have a good offense so it's not it's not a total disaster we need to be a little bit more consistent stopping the run more than anything but I thought for the most part it was a pretty solid outing I really do we'll get to we'll get to the next week and we'll see I mean I'm sure that I'm sure that we can we can start generating some some pretty quality offensive or defensive performances often I'm still stuck in my quarterback head let's see let's just try and get some I don't think I need to do I don't think I need to necessarily do the on-field drills this time I feel pretty confident in in my skill set I think at this point I think I'm just gonna especially it's it's more a problem with they just show me the routes like I'm not really getting better doing that I feel like right I think that's the main problem for me my main goal picks baby we're going for picks we want six of them we're heading into the regular season game one against the Philadelphia Eagles I basically have to be Christian Gonzalez but really we're trying to be drum-blind we're trying to like break the record for pick sixes I'm turning the regular season Eagles have a high flying offense they can do so much to beat you in so many different ways starting out in cover four they're throwing it early and they've got a wide open is that Devonte Smith 14 yards on first down first play of the game that's tough that's really tough alright single back looks like 11 personnel alright good tackle good tackle I'm really worried about it's kind of hard to gauge how many yards they pick up oh there's there's Deandre Swift getting nine yards third and one kind of an odd I mean it for the Eagles say I mean kind of an obvious running situation they're going 12 personnel here I kind of like the idea of sending a blitz I'm guarding the flats here so if they do want to send a route underneath I'm right there for it it's fourth and inches the real Eagles I think would go for this but because it's mad and they'll probably punt we'll get off the field and I consider that a win but in real life the Eagles would go for that I promise you in real life the Eagles go for that this is risky this is a risky cover three look yeah and oh that incomplete oh he drops it hang on now get a little scared here and here in footsteps okay okay all right they've we're in quarter quarter half here they got me playing the deep half all by myself we'll kind of see how it goes Jalen hurts trying to run away gets a yard third down and nine this should be a fairly obvious passing situation we're gonna stay in a simple cover three look here single back basically 11 personnel and Jalen hurts is gonna pick up the first down doesn't he know he doesn't fourth in one what a tackle that Christian Gonzalez on the other side oh what a tackle what a play does not get much better than that and or often puts up points whoo all right quarter quarter half once again I'm the half man by myself here and they're gonna throw it short and quick that's gonna be incomplete we've been kind of all over it today especially all over the short stuff I'm impressed all right now they've got me playing the flats here we'll see how that goes AJ Brown can't hang on third and ten obvious passing situation of course we'll go cover three we've been killing it in cover three we've been killing it in every coverage really we'll just see how it goes sending the tight end underneath he's looking can't find a man Jalen hurts is gonna have to take off and he can't get the first down once again a huge stop fourth and short we're gonna get the ball back can we score no but if my eyes don't deceive me it looks like we have we have them pinned back on the three yard line I expect to run here it was the right oh my god they gashed us they probably should be running the ball more more designed runs there but they tried one there and it got really nice yardage that time we blow it up Deandre swift loss of yardage we're cooking right now this is what we like to see I need to get an interception though not to be greedy but like quarter quarter half I'm in the quarters coverage right now they're throwing it underneath they're not giving me any deep looks at all they're not even trying to push the ball down the field at some point they'll have to we're gonna send a blitz on third down a little bit risky wide bunch set someone's gonna take a deep shot and I'm gonna be there when they do oh but AJ Brown wide open in the middle of the field and now this offense is starting to roll pretty tight formation here but they're they're attacking down the field a little bit looks like another first down five for eight do you know it hurts starting to heat up a little bit let's let's we're gonna be okay blow low RPO read option action there but we're all over it Gabriel peppers in the backfield to sniff that out little too tight an action it looks like 12 personnel another read option look and another play in the backfield Bentley there to make the tackle for a loss and third and 15 we're gonna cover one look probably a little bit dangerous I just don't want to I just don't want anyone to like really break wide open and AJ Brown AJ freaking brown what are you gonna do what are you gonna what are you gonna do and now AJ Brown Jalen hurts has his X factor he's starting to really heat up yeah cuz they keep converting every single time another pass underneath quest Watkins man can't like quest Watkins pick up a first down on us they're really just like taking the ball away from my side of the field entirely oh Jalen hurts read option to my side I missed the tackle he breaks another one oh my god this is insane this is insane I've got the flats they're throwing it here Deandre swift oh huge hit huge what do you mean allow the completion that's a huge hit a loss of yards what more do you want from me huge hit loss of yards that's what we like to see okay okay another big play third and 12 can we get the stop here can we get the stop here they're at the 15 yard line third and 12 gotta keep him out of the end zone here and a drop fourth and 12 they're gonna have to settle for a field goal great drive defensively Ben don't break that's what we like to see that's what we like to see they kick the field goal we need to start scoring on offense I need to start seeing some points get put up on the board it's the third quarter we're winning but it's seven to three man alright I'm watching God are coming out in the flats it's just another run that read option four yards there by swift kind of going the same look here see what they see what they're trying to get out of us oh brother that is a that is a tough throw that is a tough throw to guard that was right in between the zones they've got me man up here on Devante Smith and Deandre swift gonna be short of the first down second and one I don't want to send a blitz here I'm expecting a run typical Eagles fashion yep it is a run I'm gonna try and get out there but Jalen Hertz is too wide for me there and that's gonna be a touchdown that read option man it's killing us it's killing us please oh we scored let's go let's go we scored all right let's go we're in cover three here another read option three yard gain by Deandre swift I'm always ready for when you know I'm always ready for when Hertz comes back side to me but even if he does I mean he's a hard guy to bring down trips bunch to my side send it to God her in the flat oh what a tackle by me can't quite prevent him from getting the first down but still wait or not let him get extra yardage there all right I'm in the flats here Devante Smith and quest Watkins on my side little motion action Deandre swift on the run that's what we like to see nice tackle four yard gain but no big plays you know we know we can make the stop then don't break type of defense we're willing to live with it quarter quarter half I'm playing deep quarters here Deandre swift gets another solid gain there makes it another first down but again we're willing to live with the short stuff willing to live with the the chip away as long as we don't give up a big play I think we can live with it second and two short passes we live with we live with more cover three look oh they're they're changing everything around flipped in the whole play watch for something coming across yep AJ Brown who else who else more quarter quarter half deep quarters for me I've got AJ Brown on my side got a watch for him but they're just gonna run it more swift action second and four they will probably use up the rest of the third quarter in this game I can imagine they've got me playing the half here gonna press but it ends up being another run what a tackle third and two oh my gosh what a tackle that's what we like to see cover three here AJ Brown on my side another run oh and he gets the first down he gets the first down so close so so close but he does get the first down more cover six got Devonte Smith Dallas Goddard over here Jaylin Hurd still on his X factor Goddard out of bounds six yards second down and four again we can hold him to a field goal we're up four we can live with a field we can't live with I don't think is a touchdown first and goal they might take me out of the game for this and they score a touchdown but so do we okay okay so we're still up four jeez these running drives are just killer man they're just killing us on the ground right now they don't frequent the air but man they they are willing to just pound the rock with Deandre Swift behind this off of the blind sending AJ Brown in motion here looked like it might be an end around but another long run by Deandre Swift 15 carries for 90 yards tough got me playing the half or not the half the shallow here another run they are not afraid all right we're good we're good alright I've got the flat here oh you had to stay there you were right there they're cooking us with Swift right now man they're cooking us with Swift yep there's Hertz there's Hertz oh come on how can I never bring him down I can never bring him down I had him dead to rights dead to rights man it's crazy it's crazy man that's so insane all right all right we've got it here oh there there he goes again there goes that guy kind of a tight look you expect a run here but I'm ready for the pass good tackle third and two third and two gotta hold him here gotta hold him here goal line look oh they're taking me out of the game I guess I just have to watch from afar they're throwing it they're throwing it first and goal to one oh oh if I had been in on that I promise it would have been different you know what I know I I know I normally let them kind of do their shit but let me on the field for this man I should have been on the field for the last place I always line up on that side and if I were there I could have picked that off I could have picked that off they score we need a touchdown we get it all the offense is coming up clutch right now I know the defense has not been off to a great start and we've earned you know through the whole second half of this game I mean they've been killing us up and down the field but gotta give the offense credit for for pulling through when we need it and cover one man here might be a little bit risky but again they keep running the ball we're gonna send a little bit of oh man I got bailed there I got bailed out by a drop there I really did third and nine bunch to my side Devonte all right it's gonna cover four look here another run another run five yards they're switching everything around got AJ Brown in the slot watch him coming across that was risky that was really risky I almost let up a horrible play Martin again under four minutes oh dog how does he always get past me how does he always get past me a man up on AJ Brown here let me give him a little bit of space I don't want to get hands on with AJ Brown good tackle only a yard to be found there we're approaching three minutes left in the game let's go let's go all right this is 11 per kind of 12 personnel weird look but not a bad play third and four Dallas Goddard's hurt they'll need him got close walk oh no oh no oh no multiple broken tackles there by Swift clock has not stopped we're getting close to the two minute warning here Jalen Hertz looking running we're gonna need a clutch stuff we're gonna need a clutch drive by our offense we got shredded no way couldn't pull it off but we were so close that's basically exactly how the actual Eagles Patriots game went to a tee man that's almost exactly how it went all right let's see what kind of skill points we can add we got to be able to tackle man we couldn't take down Jalen Hertz at all I'd be better at that gotta gotta gotta and now we take on Miami we're gonna be covering Tyreek Hill it'll be a tough job but I'm up for it let's get these I gotta get gotta get the tackling up refused to let people break my tackles and we're gonna be running with Tyreek man we're ready we're ready for this plus three speed plus two tackling let's get it the real question is is Tyreek Hill ready to face me I think that's the real question one-on-one with Jalen waddle to start let's get it here nice tackle for a loss Miles Gaskin nowhere to go why is Miles Gaskin the starting running back it's the real question I see waddle in the slot kinda oh oh oh no what a throw what a catch what a route I got cooked I got cooked I can't let that happen never again good sack good sack Bentley in the backfield play action hitting Tyreek in the flats nowhere to go nowhere to go third and ten obvious passing situation gotta get to the sticks here Tyreek Hill is over here I'm not afraid of him what have you got Tyreek didn't even go to him what are you stupid fourth and two give us the ball back I'm in the flats here got waddle on my side the Sunday guy in motion low run low run action three yards you see the great thing I don't have to worry about is I don't have to worry about to up being like an active participant in the run game under center here play action got the flats here we'll just kind of see what's available oh top top that's see it's not really on me but it does kind of feel like it's on me oh another run okay didn't let him get a first second one see if we can send them backwards here I'm actually gonna press waddle because okay I guess I can't and they're gonna take me out because goal to go I guess they score and we don't okay so not the best start good tackle good tackle loss of yards there a chain nowhere to go nowhere to go good defense third and 11 obvious passing situation here we do have to watch the screen got both waddle and Tyreek on this side five wide look oh good interception there we go there we go Kyle Dugger take a tour pick to the house that's the plan that's the plan we couldn't score off that possession we really needed a score there but nearing the end of the first quarter kind of a heavy set here run in the ball nowhere to go that's what we like to see that's what we like to see more flat coverage here for me motioning a guy out wide miles gaskin again waddle over here on my side more coverage in the flat quarter quarter half that'll be in the first quarter not so bad not so bad we got to be able to score on offense nothing will matter if we can't low short pass nothing crazy fourth and inches give us the ball back or go for it but they're gonna give us the ball back we still can't score here which is a little embarrassing and we had a safety yeah this is about as bad as it gets right now offensively another run big run gashing run there Devon a chain he's got the speed to kill us man got to be better got to be better cover three here we're gonna send a blitz see how that goes for us 39 come on this is the chance this is the chance I got Tyreek out here against me oh they're giving me a shot no way Tyreek Tyreek must be man no shot Tyreek must me oh man that's crazy that was good coverage to sat right on top of him Cedric Wilson down at the one they're gonna take me out of the game for this Goldigo situation I it's gonna be 16 nothing it's gonna be bad it's gonna be bad it's gonna be ugly it's gonna be bad points points it's what we like to see ten point game all right I'm locked in right now I am locked in you better believe I'm locked in low short pass nowhere to go second and ten low cover four look out of us bunch on the on their left our right side they're throwing it deep who's there someone please incomplete third and ten third and ten I got waddle here oh two is off two is off is he gonna get the first down he does powers forward dragging defenders I feel like a waddle slant is likely they're just gonna run it oh a broken tackle oh brother a miles gas getting big run what are we doing all right I've got waddling man coverage here we're gonna keep outside leverage but be prepared for something quick underneath another run nowhere to go Cedric Wilson gets only a yard cover three look here Tyreek again I'm ready for it underneath stuff is open waddle on this side a little power I set yo I'm right I can't get in front of him man I'm right on top of him my god that's so difficult it's so difficult ah that's so annoying I've been cooked twice on that side in good coverage it's just so hard to fight through and actually get the stop geez I got three offensive linemen upfield blocking me yeah there no shit the running back lost a yard the guys you're supposed to be blocking our back they're making the tackle what are you talking about and that time they get a first down a chain on the ground gotta get a stop here gotta get a stop here gotta get a stop gotta get a stop getting cooked right now low play action look please oh I got it I got it let's go I read that so well I was like just follow him just follow him oh my god I read that perfectly we get the pick first of the season oh okay okay now we're starting to cook a little bit and we get some points off of it nothing huge but it's now within two possessions 14-point game got waddle back on my side of the field I'm locked in now I'm like locked and loaded little run nowhere to go second down and ten at the nine yard line let's go let's go oh shoot they've got me they've got what in the okay this is so weird I just don't know why they've got me man up on the guy that they do third and ten all right we're gonna send a little little cover three pressure pressure look and it's wide open not ideal not ideal not ideal at all another run five yards by miles Gaskin last I checked the running duo was most dirt in a chain not Gaskin in a chain but whatever whatever another run oh my god nasty stiff arm a chain gets close third and three here necessary stop necessary stop not an obvious passing situation could be one or the other really we'll see how it goes pitch pitch get there get there good tackle fourth down they're gonna give us the ball back they're giving us the ball back all right offense we need a score I'm begging you I'm begging you get us some points get us some points okay okay it's it's I did I didn't specify I did just say get us some points single back look here kind of a tight set got Waddle on my side Tyreek opposite they're throwing on this play to a trying to step up nowhere to go second and ten we're definitely within this game both Waddle and Tyreek are opposite of me I gotta be prepared for one of them to come across they throw it to a chain out of the backfield third down in two I feel like this is going to be a run got Waddle on my side or a short pass but it is a run and oh my god oh my god huge run by a chain there that's tough to stop that's tough to stop all right Waddle and Tyreek both on this side I imagine it's probably a pass little play action look here throwing it short I thought he guess I think he stepped out of bounds there from where I stand it looked like you stepped out of bounds I could be wrong though I've been wrong before it's very possible but let's see let's see if we can uh oh that's he stepped out of bounds there oh wow that should have been such an easy first down third in two I feel like a man look is kind of risky that'll take us to the end of the quarter even though he stepped out of bounds clock shouldn't have stopped but I'm not gonna complain give us another this is the look I this is the exact look I want this is the exact look I want get some pressure on to a try and throw off the timing of this throw oh they're gonna run it oh they get the first I was expecting a pass there oh my god what a stop tackle for lost second and 12 see both Waddle and Tyreek out there just a chain is so shifty man he's so quick so shifty really tough guy to bring down third down in three here bringing back this tight formation sending Wilson in motion oh what a tackle fourth and six we'll hold them to a field goal we'll see if they actually can make it maybe they'll miss it oh my god we're right there we're right there we're right there we're within five we're within five okay okay right there man we're oh oh good great close out there by was that Duggar or Bentley that made the stop it doesn't matter great close out I think it was Duggar that was sitting over top moving guys around here still got Waddle on my side I'm prepared for it oh Jude on could have had a pick six there Jude on could have had a pick six there oh man all right cover nine look quarter quarter half you know the deal quarters to the weak side oh too well you're mine I missed him no I missed I missed him I was right there I had a shot I had a shot I was trying to run down this the line of scrimmage and get get to him or run down the the line of the sticks to try and prevent him from getting that first down I was just a little too late oh Tyreek oh Tyreek wide open up the seam there gashing that cover three all right we got quarters now it's quarters time hand off pretty good defense there only a couple of yards we found second down and seven kind of want to run another quarters look but what we'll send the man blitz it's a little bit risky but we'll send it wait wait did we get a pig oh my gosh was that Jack Jones or Jonathan Jones I don't know they've got so many different Joneses we got a pick we ran the man blitz and it paid off disrupted the timing of the throw and all we need is one score we take the lead let's go and we get the two-point try so a field goal doesn't win it for them okay they need a touchdown to win it a field goal ties it would send it to overtime right before the two-minute warning let's go wattles on my side 11 personnel three wide receivers throwing it into the flats okay second four we're gonna go quarters coverage here only rush three we've got Junon on the left side with me all the receivers kind of a way to screen screen I got stiff armed into the dirt no kind of the same look we're gonna go with got water on my side only receiver on money they're gonna run it again with miles Gaskin gonna get seven yards their past midfield minute 30 to go their flippings it's taking some time off the clock they've got all three timeouts though five wide they're throwing it quick to Wilson it gets dropped third down in three we're up three points come on dog we're right there right there need to just we need one more stop we need one more stop in its game over got water on my side only receiver watch the quick throw screen screen okay we kept him in bound which is good which is good a minute to go water on my side by himself oh I got lost there I got lost there he kind of cooked me on that route I was expecting a corner he took that back inside I was like oh good defense good defense way to sit on top of that third down in two they're in field goal range kind of it's still it's still a long field that's not a gimme definitely not a gimme all right motion and a guy over I think that's Wilson shoot okay 46 seconds they took a timeout there at the 20 just can't let him get a touchdown I refuse to let them get a hole he missed the throw he missed the throw that could have been that could have been a disaster that could have been a disaster but it was an inaccurate pass sitting at the 20 motioning Tariq over he's kind of lined up at tight end here that is a little weird oh no oh no oh my god I could not have possibly seen that coming that was such a nasty play that was such a nasty play I was so worried about him coming up from number two by coming up the seam I didn't think about the possibility of him running a corner no oh my gosh I gave up I gave up to touchdown in three huge plays in the passing game oh my gosh I choked I choked I choked but we're literally just like the real-life Patriots we start off the season like it's like man they could have won those games we're gonna get better we're gonna get better once I get locked in on just like how to handle this corner stuff it's over for everyone it's so over for everyone but that'll wrap up this episode thank you all for tuning in hope you all enjoy watching Monday Night Football again I think the Vikings are gonna win but it'll be a good game regardless and until next time I'm gonna keep doing this make sure you you know if you enjoy this subscribe you know like all this stuff but until next time thank you all for tuning in I will catch you on