I think empathy is the first step towards getting the spec and really understanding, you know, your customer. Welcome to the Smarter Building Materials Marketing Podcast, helping you find better ways to grow leads, sales, and outperform your competition. All right, everybody, welcome to Smarter Building Materials Marketing, where we believe your online presence should be your best salesperson. I am Zach Williams, alongside my co-host, Beth Popney-Glomf. And today, we've got a great show lined up for you today. We are really excited to welcome Greg Rohl. He is the principal of the Rohl Model and Family-Founded Rohl Faucets. Greg, we are so excited that you are here. Thank you very much for joining us. I'm very excited to join you. Thank you. So, Greg, for our listeners, give us a little bit of your background, what you do, and then we'll dive into talking a little about how people can be more effective in their marketing and sales. Sure. Well, as Beth noted, our family Rohl established Rohl LLC back in 1982. The company was founded by our father, Ken, and my brother, Lou. And then another brother, Mark, joined. And then I came on board officially in 1993. And over the years, the company grew from really introducing, notably, the first pull-out faucet, which was a new thing back in 1982. But along with that, it was a level of European quality and design that, particularly in the plumbing and decorative plumbing category, had really been seen before. It was pretty much considered a kind of a commodity market. And there were a few sort of decorative faucet lines, but they were more on the bass side. And they kind of evolved out of hardware companies. But when my father sort of discovered this product line over at a trade show in Germany, he realized there was an opportunity in the marketplace. And the company he was with wasn't really interested in working with a real high-end manufacturer. In fact, the message back to him when he suggested introducing this product under their label was no one will ever spend $250 on a kitchen faucet. At that time, he might spend $50 to $75 if that was really high-end. So the idea of introducing a product line that was four to five times higher than the standard was a risk. But I think he understood at that time European products, particularly appliances and cabinetry, and kind of that euro style was starting to come into the larger metro markets like New York Metro and Los Angeles. And so he moved our family from Chicago to Southern California and started that business. And really, he left the former company and he was an entrepreneur at 48, 49. When we think back on that scene, the office was the spare bedroom, the warehouse was the trunk of the car. And he'd literally fill up the trunk of the car and head out and place these products in the marketplace. And fortunately, he had been in the building materials industry for many years, particularly focused on kitchen. So he knew the showrooms, the kitchen and bath designers, and so he knew the marketplace across the country. So he really had the strategy in mind. He may have not had a lot of resources, let's say at the beginning, but he had the experience and the confidence and the right product, I think, at the right time. And also, as I mentioned before, at that time, he was really catching what we call kind of this boomer wave. That generation was just starting to enter its home formation years, late 20s, early 30s, and really so well positioned. I was a wealthy generation, they were interested in luxury. This was the early 80s. So that kind of conspicuous consumption was a little bit more the style. And the force of that generation and the strength of their buying power, and their focus on home, and particularly kitchen and bath, certainly buoyed our company early on and through the years and through the various trials and tribulations and successes and setbacks. But I think the whole industry and that kind of luxury market within kitchen and bath grew from what might have been single digits into healthy kind of teens, maybe even going towards 20% in the late 90s. So we're actually up until the great recession, but we were able to build back. And it was just an amazing kind of journey from one product to sourcing from over 20 different factories from Western Europe through North America and even New Zealand. We had some partners there too. So it's been a great experience. And I think the lessons learned really are both kind of the art and the science of business. And I think a lot of times, I think as you were saying before, people want to focus kind of on the process and product and data. And I think there's a real human side. As I was telling some of the other day, I think empathy is the first step towards getting the spec and really understanding your customer and being hungry, you want to achieve, you want to be successful. But I think you also have to be humble and really listen and understand what's motivating your customer, whether that's a B2B or a B2C. There's so much good information. I don't know where to start. A lot to unpack there, right? That was awesome. What I want to ask you, Greg, is you've seen the lifecycle of a building product manufacturer go from startup in your second bedroom to international manufacturer. And you said something else a minute ago about how empathy is really the cornerstone of, I forget how you said it, but the cornerstone of getting the spec. Talk to me about marketing, sales, and how to get into spec. As you've seen the lifecycle of role, what's changed as well as what are some tried and true tactics for manufacturers to learn from if they want to grow their sales and specifically grow specifications? Sure. Well, one of the things we like to do in our company, like my dad, having that corporate background, and he would call himself a corporate tenure, that kind of combination. He had the entrepreneurial spirit, but a corporate training and a lot of those tools really came in handy both internally, no matter whatever size of business you're starting out, but also in communicating with our own teams, our sales teams, and then ultimately our customers. One of those things would be the use of formulas and acronyms and the one like D, P, and E come to mind. Whereas D is differentiated. So from a product standpoint, making sure that you have a story of differentiation, whether it's a functional improvement, better quality at same price or lower price, what's the unique back story? What's the origin story behind your product or your service for that matter? P is always profitability, particularly at B2B. In our company, we sold through distribution, so different channels, but at each step, there had to be a story of profitability in working with our product line. In that extended, it had to be profitable for our sales team. Most of our representatives were independent reps, so they're working on commission. So obviously that had to be worth their while to go out and advocate and support, particularly a new product line. And then in the showroom, obviously the person in the owner, the manager, they need to see that your program is profitable and worth investing time and space in a retail environment and the people selling the product on the showroom floor. There's all kinds of benefits and stiff programs and that kind of thing that are pretty typical, but they need to see that when they're working with that product, it's a profit, it's a benefit to them. The specifier has to see a benefit in selecting your product over something else, so there has to be something compelling about it. So again, in a building material sense, I can imagine that either it performs better, it's easier to work with, it's more dependable from a sourcing standpoint. Better service, obviously your service team has to be second to none and that makes a huge difference. So you get the greatest product, but if the team in the field isn't well supported and keeping promises, that product's going to get set aside for another selection. So then finally, E, and that kind of leads into the E being easy. Your product has to be easy to work with, easy to specify. Ideally, if it's something that end user is also seeing, it has to be easily attractive, whether it's a design or a function. And then that EZ also goes back to the profitability. So if I'm selling a brand or specifying a brand, let's say the product or the money I make is money I keep because there are no after sale issues, or if there is a need for after sale service, it's second to none. And again, I'm not going back and giving back that profitability and having to deal with any kind of issues after the sale. So again, that's I think a very general approach to I how one succeeds. Getting into the marketing of brands, our product line, as I mentioned, was considered a luxury brand. We built the company around this luxury strata within the kitchen and bath world. We had to become very good storytellers, and that's where I think the power of story is really important. And not just with a decorative product, but I think any product. Having a real sense of its origin, the development. We had the great fortune of dealing with factories that were in beautiful parts of western Europe. Many of our factories are in the north of Italy. And it must have been actually known as the village of faucets, Laga da Orta. It's about an hour north of Milan. And it's kind of up the mountains. It's a lake region. It's absolutely beautiful. It's also very historically connected with metalwork. Alessi, the brand Alessi, they're based there. There's a lot of and it may have been because of the resources in the area or the ability of access to water. But there was a real generational tradition of working with metal and brass. And so the plumbing industry, there are a number of different factories, both commercial products as well as decorative products. People do components in that area. So there was a lot of storytelling that we had access to, which again made it compelling for again the end user, the specifier. We had product in England. We have two factories or companies based in England, Pair and Row, and Shaw's original, which are now part of House of Role as well. And again, wonderful stories of both engineering and artistry, authentic original designs. The Shaw's story is really interesting. It's a company that goes back to late 1800s and making fireplace sinks, the apron front sinks, which are so popular now and have been, they still make them kind of by hand. And it's still a really special product with a lot of human effort that goes into it. So again, that's something compelling. And that brand, one of the things that we also learned over the years was that Row essentially became a brand, but originally we were a sales and marketing company and a distribution company. And we evolved over time and we learned a couple lessons that we had to be our own brand. Row, there is no factory with Row above the door. We were working with other manufacturers, some of which had great stories, but trying to incorporate all their brands wouldn't necessarily be, it would be more confusing. So Row was always top of line. But other companies like a parent of Row or a Shaw's, their brand story was so authentic and contributed so well to their story and to their value that we utilized that. And eventually that Shaw's original, the sinks are distinguished by a kind of blue diamonds as Shaw's original 1897. And people would look for that, particularly as commodity or things are, other products come in and try to offer that look for a lower price. People would say, no, I'm going to step up. I'll spend more for the Shaw's sink with that blue diamond because that's the original and that's what I want in my kitchen. So I can find the balance between when to highlight brands within that have great stories if you're offering multiple products and when to make sure that the main focus is on your brand. I think it would be another lesson word. I'd love to dig in a little more about what you're saying about story. We are big believers in story and it's something that comes up again and again, especially for products that could potentially be positioned as commodity story becomes even more important. But specifically, Greg, I'd love to get your experience with how from a role from roles perspective, you've solved the problem or at least you're solving the problem that a lot of manufacturers have, which is you have multiple product lines, multiple product families and multiple audiences that each of those product lines are speaking to. Could you talk to us a bit about how you take those into consideration? How are you speaking to everyone but keeping a very clear message at the same time? Yeah, it's an interesting balancing act. I think, A, it's understanding who all the end users are or who all the stakeholders are within your distribution channel down to the end user. Again, that's where that empathy comes in and really taking the time to understand big brands oftentimes will develop customer personas and that's a typical more of a consumer brand process. But I think it's well worth even on the building product side that we think in those terms. One of the things that we did over the years that I think helped distinguish us was looking at the lessons that other product, say luxury categories employed and saying how do we take those approaches and use them in our world because ultimately we're all selling to the same customer. That luxury consumer might be buying fashion or clothing or jewelry or travel or dining out. Those were our competition. We looked within our industry and we had a lot of our conversations with, let's say, our friends within the National Kitchen and Bath Association. I remember very early on the message was the competition isn't necessarily the showroom across town or even that display next to yours in the showroom. It's really the other ways people might spend their money instead of upgrading their kitchen. Understanding that and that was really fun to employ as we talk about this language of luxury. For us, it was looking outside our world and seeing what was appealing to that buyer in other areas of their life and bringing that into our story. Coming back to when you're dealing with different products and different levels of price point and perhaps sub-brands, again having a clear idea of who each of those brands is serving and I think developing the stories for each of them very clearly and making sure that those stories are well documented and they're shareable and they're clear all the way down the line. I think in our world we could have the best collateral, we could have the most compelling language and the role family and our extended family of our company, we could speak that language very fluently. But the reality is that the sale, we're not there when that designer or that builder is standing in that showroom, they're standing with whoever's working in the showroom. So are they capable of telling your story well and that's something that it's hard to do but the clear the message it can be and consistently broadcast out across all the stages or positions of selling and specifying is something that people really need to focus on. And then that balancing of this, when you have sub-brands versus you're going to say your company brand, we learned a tough lesson early on when my father started the business he envisioned it really the sales and marketing business. It wasn't about creating a branded the product was the star and that product's brand was the one that we promoted and for the first 10 years of our company we were very successful and that brand became very well known and at some point they severed their relationship with us. So when they said we're not going to renew the contract, everyone knew that brand in the marketplace let's say from a specifier standpoint and that was about 70-80% of our revenue with that one product and so we had to re kind of indent ourselves and fortunately again our company had a great trust with our customer base and so again that relationship we were given great opportunities as we started to bring in new products and create new relationships. We found a home and a venue to promote them and again that good customer service that we were known for and that good sense of understanding and our clients needs and concerns really paid dividends in creating opportunities for us but never again we would you know as we started then to really you know conceive of the company as a brand and really talk about the role brand and there were you know enroll it kind of evolved over the years I mean you know you you don't build a brand overnight brand is not something you can you can't buy a brand you know you have to earn you build a brand and it was 30 some years of us you know doing what we did and doing the right things day in and day out and just you know the brand gets built incrementally it's it's really built on a foundation of trust right and and eventually you know we were always marketing I think we were always speaking to not only our you know B2B but we always had an eye on the B2C but being a relatively small company we always invested in marketing but we just didn't have a big advertising budget but we looked at it as you know it wasn't about just creating overwhelming you know consumer reach it was also about showing that investment we would call merchandising the advertising because it was it was a signal back to our customers that we were investing in our own brand we were investing for them we wanted to create you know a pull as well as you know the push through their distribution channel and that was something that ultimately I think helped differentiate us and helped build our brand with our distribution partners over the years and you know again would be you know would help that be a go-to where role would be a go-to product because hey they're investing in you know speaking to that end user speaking to that designer creating some awareness of the brand and even you know early on I think the first ad that my father ever purchased was in architectural digest and that sounds pretty major but at the time art digest had what they call a california edition so it was just they would they had you know you could do a section of advertising that was distributed just within the california market so as opposed to being a $45,000 ad it was maybe a $5,000 right right right and of course the distribution was obviously much much limited now we were based in southern california so that kind of made sense but what we did was we part of the deal like you know give us lots of extra copies of the magazine so let's see you get 50s of any 500 copies of the magazine and then we sent them all to chicago and new york and florida and said gave them to our reps that go out and give put you know walk into your showrooms and say here's architectural digest and look at you know role is advertising and architectural digest to create awareness and we might not have said that it was just showing up in california but i mean it showed that we were you know we were we were doing our part and i think that was something that we always made a point to make sure that you know you didn't invest in marketing without making sure that everyone in the sales structure was aware and again i was also that part of educating them to be speaking that same language and again that's something incremental but again over time that really helped help build the brand this has been super helpful gregg i really appreciate you sharing all this information um if someone wants to connect with you what's the best way for them to do that i'm sure they can email me uh gregg at the role model that's rohl model.com or i've got a website the role model.com as well that's great excellent and for our listeners out there if you want more great content like this go to nvio.com slash podcast until next time i'm zack williams alongside beth popney glove thanks


Russia begins to evacuate Crimea, first the prisoners are taken out. Russian occupiers are evacuating political prisoners from Crimea to the mainland of Russia, possibly due to the panic about their ability to hold on to Crimea when Ukrainian armed forces approach the pericope Isthmus, according to the Telegram channel of the Partisan movement, Ateş. The occupiers plan to relocate political prisoners from Crimea to Russian territory in the coming days. Special wagons will be part of the passenger train Sevastopol to Moscow. The report states, as revealed by the partisans, the procedure itself is carried out at the railway station Simferopol-Pazayskri near a pedestrian bridge. The composition of the opposing guard consists of no fewer than 20 soldiers and two officers. Added Ateş, the bridge that links Crimea to Russia is still only part in use despite Russia's claims it is fully repaired after an attack by Ukraine in July, and will be a significant security burden going forward, according to UK Intelligence. The UK Ministry of Defence said in an intelligence update that the Kursh bridge is fully operational but is limited in its use under restrictions that were introduced after Ukraine's first attack on the bridge in October 2022. Trucks and fuel supplies continue to be moved by ferry, the UK MOD said. Russia continues to violate human rights in the occupied Crimea. As of October 2020 approximately 100 Ukrainian citizens were unlawfully detained on the peninsula on politically motivated charges. By March 2021, this number had increased to 114 individuals. In February 2023, Ukraine initiated the creation of a separate register of Kremlin prisoners. This includes Ukrainians who were unlawfully detained due to their political or public activities.


everyone's having a great day, safe day. Let's take a look at one of our four agreements. Create new agreements based on respect and love. Take the responsibility to make new agreements with those you love. If an agreement doesn't work, change the agreement, create a new one, and use your imagination to explore all the possibilities. Not gonna lie, let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow industrials right now trading up 524. NASDAQ is up 247. You get the S&P's up 72. That's a gain inside the Ollie indices of about 1.6 to 1.7, Dow's at 1.5.  We've got Silver up 43 cents, 23 to $1.60 an ounce, Light Sweet Crude up a buck, $81.42 a barrel, notes and bonds. Ten year note right now, trading up nine ticks at 131.16, the third year up a half a point, off 15 ticks, at 160.04 and King dollar. King dollar's down 166, trading out at 93, 974. Euro is out here at a price point of 115. The yen is 113.66 and the British pound is 136 to one US dollar. iPhone number's 877, 9276648. Give us a call folks. One note's going on in your world. And the world of the S&P's, let's take a look at them. This is going to be some fun coming into the close here. And this is what it is. So you have the spy right now trading up $7.00. You get 442, you get a swing point that it took out when that swing that was established last week on the seventh, that swing point was going into the down drafted, failed on price, failed on volume. Now that swing point folks had 72 million shares. Well we're not going to do the 72 million. The real kicker is going to be, do you get any type of pullback coming into the close? The number that if you're going to have a failure is 441.68, which we could get pretty easy actually, okay? We'll see where this shakes out. If you're just listening to Dave, and I agree with Dave was saying, that it's very unusual when you have a market that pops like this. And even though I'm in the market that we want to pull that it's going to come down lower, when you get a market that pops like this, it's almost like, okay, these prices probably will hold. That being said, you can see that you don't need much for a failure to come in. And I love it when something is that subtle. That's my point because if it only pulls back a little like that, it's like, okay man, you couldn't even hold that price. And it should have been able to hold price, okay? So now we have the number. The number is going to be 441.68. If you close underneath it, there's a failure in price and volume, and you can go right back down the other side. That's the first part. Second part goes like this. If we hold the number, then what you do have game on is that you have game on for 444.80. That's 89, that's the swing point that was established out here on the 21st. NDX100 is the exact same setup. And I'm going to show you something inside the NDX as well as the S&Ps. So inside the NDX, the number you're gonna be watching is 365.69. The difference on the NDX is that we will have the volume. That being said, you're actually still going into 97 million as well as 76 million, and we're gonna do only do about 40 million. So it's gonna be an intriguing close. Now let me show you something here from this morning. We already have a seller that's in here. And the real question is, is that what are they going to do coming into the close? And what it is, is this. So when you do price and volume, even intraday, the NQs right now are up 263 points. We're at 15,027. Well, the bottom line is that when you're actually looking at when's the last time we had any volume, it's 14,953, which was established at 20 minutes of 10 this morning. So the first sell, and it's right there, the first sell inside the future market, that's not gonna be you or I, okay? There's gonna be some big player in the futures market, but probably a bank, a broker, a dealer, whatever. Bottom line is that we came down with 57,000 contracts, just out of nowhere. That more than likely might take you, okay? Even after going through that whole thing, my take is that you're gonna get a little more weakness coming into the close here. That's kind of, that's where I'm at at this particular point. So we'll see how this shakes out. And so that was the first one. And now what just happened, as I was explaining that, you can see there's another one that just came in with 43,000. We're on a new bar right now. So the first one had 57, the second one had 43. And what we had done is that at 20 past one, you attested that area with tremendously light of volume. That's where we stand. So it's gonna be pretty cool watching this whole thing shake up. Gold contract continues to want higher price. What you have here inside of the gold contract, I hope a lot of our taggers, one of our taggers said they were part of that bar and they were part of that bar by the way of making money, which is a beautiful thing. Because guess what? You gotta take the money in order to make the money. We take a look at the gold contract, what we have with the gold contract is this. This is really a cool lesson folks on complex ABC structures. And I'm not saying that you have to trade them right away, but once you start looking at these for a couple of years, you're gonna see how these work, man. And they're pretty intriguing. They're really intriguing actually. What I like about them is this. So look at the gold contract. When you get a confirmed ABC up and it's a complex one, this is what ends up happening. So picture, most of the time, you can miss an ABC in a second folks, okay? So when you get a complex one, what happens is that, okay man, we got an ABC structure that's in place. Then what ends up happening is this. Is that, and if we take a look at this one, you're gonna see on October 8th, you took out the B point, you took it out with volume, it had everything, but then it gave it up in price in spades too. I mean, we went from 1782 to 1753. The thing to keep your eye on on a complex ABC is this. So first you take it out and you take it out with volume. What we don't know is that what will happen after that. So you have to wait. And if it's a complex ABC and it's gonna go back after the volume again and we'll likely take it out, you pull back with tremendously lighter volume. That's exactly what we did. You can see we went up with 240,000 contracts. The next day you pull back with 115 and then what ends up happening?  Stay right there folks, you come right back.


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We're having some technical issues but if we can get them on the show, they're going to be joining us. Shout out to Ronald and shout out to JC as well. They are on standby. They're going to be joining us hopefully, right? Now we're going to go to the first story. Shout out to Mwangi's right here for always having me back. All right, so I know first story. It is what it is. Exactly. Now it's not news that most countries among them Kenya are looking forward to beating the COVID-19 which has affected most businesses. Now restaurants and eateries are one of the most affected sectors. But recently the government of Kenya allowed reopening of restaurants that are willing to follow regulations put in place to ensure the safety of customers who want to eat out. Now one of the regulations was that customers must order food fast and then maybe order alcoholic beverages but some canyons took advantage of the situation and are now ordering according to CS Mitahi Kaguya one sausage and a lot of alcohol. We actually have a video for that. Let's have a look. All right, we're going to be playing for you the video in just a minute but first of all, I'm going to remind children at home and it's why he's the CS of health. His name is Mitahi Kaguya. Let's stop calling him that. That's number one. And number two, come on. You see, in everything that goes on, we're going to go loophole. Loophole is when they just say that they are going to be opened in all the eateries and the restaurants for people to eat. All right, carry on. They decided to open all the eateries and all the restaurants. They didn't say how much you should eat for you to drink how much. So, Kenyans are just trying to be creative in their own way.  So, as in lack of the fact that people don't go out clubbing, people don't go out drinking, people are not like social life in Maribika. All of a sudden, what I'm doing here, when I think you're going to tell me, you know food, it's food. Food is classified. I think you don't give this classified. But Kaguya went so far to even classify how Kenyans are doing it. So, what you do, you take your sausage, your two beers, actually the menus that we are seeing now, this is my bad lesson. But that's what he said. I don't know if you guys watched the video.  Yeah, exactly. So, this is a chungwa and a dessert. So, this is a chungwa and a beer. It's a balanced dish. So, what do you expect? What do you expect them to end up eating? So, I'm going to be telling you guys, we can't roll the video right now, but maybe we're going to get it for you later on. But we're going to move on to the next story. The hashtag is Y254 updates. All right. Actually, we actually have the video. The video is ready. So, let's have a look at the video. Yes? Let's have a look at the video so that you guys will know what we're talking about. It is a fact of life that people have been going to pubs all to Italy. They order one sausage with two beers. They eat that one sausage. It is a fact of life that people have been going to pubs all to Italy. They order one sausage with two beers. They eat that one sausage. It is a fact of life that people have been going to pubs all to Italy. You have to stop so what is going on currently as what he is bringing the COVID briefing. Kenyans are now busy making memes. He's giving memes applied daily. Yeah, but anyway, it's not funny. Let's stay safe. Yeah, let's remember the whole point is staying safe and it's icing washing your hands. We have to beat this corona. We have to stay alive. And we're gonna go to the next story. Now social media went into a frenzy when news broke that Willis Robourou and his wife of two years, Mary Prud, had allegedly called it quits because of a Ugandan lady. Now, but just a day later, they said lady by the name Miwa Noella came clean through a friend on Edgar O'Barre story, shout out to Edgar by the way, to claim that she was in fact Rwandese and not Ugandan and that she had never met Willis Robourou in her life. She was actually surprised why anyone will go out of their way to tarnish her name and be mean to her for no reason. Even with all this drama, Robourou is yet to address the issue. Alright, so Kenyans, Kenyans, Kenyans, meme lords, what's wrong with you? So they're apparently, I don't know, it's alleged that Willis Robourou and Prud apparently called it quits. They are no longer married. I don't know how true that is because they had an amazing wedding two years ago and Willis was so happy for them. They were girls, but unfortunately it's said that they are no longer together. We don't know how true that is. So they said, you remember when you were taking your vows, till death do us part, damn, till death. Death has come between them, not funny. So apparently they say I'm Ugandan and then they say I've never met Willis in my life. I don't even know who he is. So she's being drugged on social media for all the wrong reasons. What do you have to say about that? I was arguing with a friend about this. At first I thought this was the one who was doing this kiki at first, but then actually it's unconfirmed that Willis has tried to respond to it. But what he's saying is that the wife is threatening, but it's unconfirmed. The wife is threatening her. I'm like wondering why Willis, when you're trying to pull off this stance, think about it at all. You know, like you've already hit that level, you don't need kiki to survive. I don't understand why he can pull off such a stance. If it's him or whoever is trying to pull off this stance was Udayum, honestly. Team master. And things would just be clear. Clarify. For her to go to Edgar, I'm really sure she didn't like just go for the clout. She was just trying to clear her name. Yeah, exactly. But here's the thing I don't understand. Like, you know, we talked about as, yeah, do you remember the Utawazana stuff. Apparently what woke up in a room I saw was Saifi Ali Mpia Jo Baka Kata, which was not true. She confirmed it wasn't true. Sayi Sijui at your Willis' wife is threatening him. I don't think there's any twist to that. By the way, here's the thing. There's a lot of fake news out here. So you have to be careful. Don't just trust. Don't believe everything you read. I think that's all I have to say. Not all sources are legit. Yeah, not everybody is just going to tell me that. It's not even Edgar. Sometimes people go out and tell Edgar stories that are not true. Sometimes they'll say, you saw and so broke up and then you see them together. So they're not like always true. So you have to always find the truth in all those stories. What you want to happen in Udaku, I think. That's why we are here. So we see a BNU at Udaku and you can be part of the show, yeah? The hashtag is Y254Updates. Just head over to Facebook to Y254. That is our page. We have a photo so go comment below any comment you want to tell us about the show and we're going to be sampling it at the end of the show. Where are you even watching us from and what you have to say about these stories? And shout out to everybody. Shout out to JC, shout out to Ronald, shout out to Haflou in Boko, and shout out to Jessie Mugure, Junil, Beatara, Giovanni, shout out to Jeanette and the whole gang. But on that note, we're going to go to another interesting story which is also very funny. Now, a video is making rounds on social media of a Kenyan police car allegedly playing the death song during a few hours while on patrol. The song by the name Astronomia was released back in 2014 by Vice Tony and Tony but went viral recently. The song is used mostly to show Ghanaian polar bearers in black suits and sunglasses grooving a house bit while carrying a coffin. They perform in friend roles to make monas feel a little bit better when sending off their loved ones. But in this scenario, the song is used as a warning to those engaging in risky behaviors during coronavirus pandemic.  I don't know how but they've been making our quarantine period worthwhile. So, in Italy, they did that. In Italy, police officers did that. They were playing that they were patrolling in their cars playing that song. So, there's a video claiming that even the Kenyan police are doing that during a few hours. In a way, we try to solve modern problems, modern solutions as much as what they're trying to do. So, I'm just trying to imagine. I know, right? But I just love these little things. They make us sometimes forget what is really happening about coronavirus. So many people are frustrated but we try to think about what's happening. Even the sense of humour. It's not just like that. They're humans too true. They're human. I don't know if you can hear me or whatever they're doing. I'm sure there's that discussion before that. There's a discussion too. There's a discussion, you can't define what you're doing, you can't just say that. You're talking half human and half, you know. You know what I'm talking about? It's all those things. You know what I'm talking about? It's all those things. Do you think they discuss, we love myself, that it's not what I'm talking about? We want to practice.  You know what I'm talking about? I say, hey, but they don't want to listen to me. It's not what I'm talking about. I'm not asking you to listen to me. I'm just like a frog jump. I don't know for sure. I say, I left one and I'm like, checker. Okay. I don't know how true that is. Do this. Let's have a look at the video. Let's have a look at the video. Come on.  I'm here for the quarantine But then, you know, definitely when you're on the quarantine You're on the quarantine? Yes, that's some good news But when she's on the quarantine, she's free Of charge, so what was she? Alright, on to another story Now Alright, Bongo Star Hamuna is shared an emotional post On his Instagram Regarding his former colleague at WCB Wasafi Records Now, it's been 5 months since Mavoko appeared in public Or posted anything His last post dates back to new year According to his post, Hamuna said That it hurts him seeing his talented brother Quiet and without any explanation He went ahead to say that Some fans should stop celebrating Mavoko's absence Since he might be working behind the scenes And even though it seemed Like his concern came from a good place Most of the fans on his comment section Didn't take it well With some asking him to Sign the letter Or others saying that he might be the next one Since he left Wasafi to Just like Rich Mavoko Mavoko You remember that song? That was such a big hit Like, I don't know What happens When people go to Wasafi He was doing well on his own I don't know why he had to go to Wasafi What do you think happened to him? Because after I talked to Wasafi We no longer hear about him I don't know what's going on He's not been posting He's not been appearing anywhere No one knows about his whereabouts We talked about this thing I think some time ago When somebody left Wasafi and we said This one that these people sign That is the post that Hamuna But I didn't sign I didn't sign I didn't sign I didn't sign I didn't sign This one I can actually read for you guys I don't know If you know I can read for you Family I don't know Rich Mavoko I don't know I don't know I don't know We don't know Bring it Mama Mzaziemba'e Ndio Kamarrohoiake. Usha Juliza Nkawulingapi Zautungu Anazouzi Toa Anbazouzi Naweza Kumpata Kila Anefu Rahishua Nahili Kua Makusudi. Mama Mzaziewa Menzio Ni Wakopia Lanayake Haishindui Kukupata. La Mwishokabisa Mgewke Menzio Anefu Rahia Na Kuifanya Hikuwani. Habari Nge Mkwake Ya Kumpanya Atembe Kifu Ambele. Nahata Kuandikam Tandaoni Kua Furaha Mavoko Kapotea. Mulize Anaifai Dika Nanini. All right. And then he goes ahead to say Mungu Anasababu. Namana Ya Ke Bro. Rich Mavoko. Akam Tagia. Kama Mdogo Ako Na Kuombea Na Jua Ukimio Ako. Namana Kuba Sana. Nandaa Ni Ako. Nina Jua. Niku Jua Ka Sawa Na Ku Tule Tea. Kazi Zingine. Tuna Kupenda Na Tuna Kuombea Mungu. Akufani E We Pesi. Let's go bro. Mdogo Ako Na Fiki Ako. Nipo Hapa. Muda Wawate. Ramadan Karim. Was he coming from the right place? Was he right to write that? In short, Anaifai Mdogo Ako. People should stop making fun of Rich Mavoko. Like, he's going to be back. Maybe he's just working behind the scenes. And they should be thinking about his family. Especially his mom. You know, mom's a very important. I don't know why people are making fun of him.  Nino Jua Ni Ni Ni Ni. Niku Moku Mambea Hanga Toka. Like, you made the wrong decision.  Like, we can't go back from where you came from. Asha Toka wa Safi Asha Toka.  Harmonize. I have to tell you this. What do you want? Exactly. We know you. We know you. We are not behind anything. We don't know what you are doing. We don't know your story or the Rich Mavoko. But anyway, worry not for that story.  We don't know you. We don't know you. But people have heard like, Actually, I'm going to just quote some of the guys. Kideboy, TZ, and I'm going to say, I am Chukwe, Muweke, Kondegang, Labda, Utapata, Kiki, Kawikimili, too. Exactly. That's why in comments, I'm going to say, Definey, Backbench, and I'm going to say, Hatawewe, Ungedichanga, Ungedichanga, and I'm going to say, Rayvani, and I'm going to post.  Everyone's say, Are you sure? I'm like, What? Like, I'm like, I want to save my wife.  But most of the guys were like throwing jabs that are harmonized with life. For example, I want to say, Let's not say I am going to say it. If he's really interested to help reach Mavoko as he is trying to show us, call him. Try it. What is the other thing? You are happy. You are happy. Exactly. They have been friends. They have been in Wasafi. They have been kicked out after that. And as I told you, you don't know here. You never come and see Mavoko. I don't know where she is. I don't know where she is. I don't know where she is. I don't know where she is. And speaking of Wasafi, let's go to the next story. You know, business woman and demon Platinum's baby mama, Zari Hassan, seems to have let the beef with the ex-lover slide. While running errands in South Africa where she resides, Zari recorded herself in the car listening to demon song, Jeje. This comes just days after demon shared videos on his Instagram talking to his kids on video.  But that seems to be in the past now. Are they getting back together? That is the big question. I don't know. Are they getting back together? I don't know where she is. I don't know. What is going on? You know, not even so long ago. First of all, before we went and Asha got with demon, Zari Al-Mabiyat, Jejiaribu, demon, Atamua, Chatu. And if she's planning to get with demon, she would be ready to be a single mother. He is irresponsible. So she had really bad things to say. And just two weeks ago, demon like Se Mavili at Adonit, she was at Adlipiyar, some 500 families rent.  Jejiunni ni ni ni. And right now she's taking videos. Je, Je, Je, Je, Je, Je, Je. Jejiunni ni ni ni. Why don't we try to play Jejiaridamual? Do you think it's about the money or are they like in love? Because even I saw Damwon's sister a couple come in sections and she's so happy about that, even the mom. So the whole family, what's happening? So why do you think it's Zari who hasn't moved on? It might be as well be diamond the one maybe who's been calling her Damwon has not moved on Zari was dating some I don't know something she was dating so I don't know, what happened to him? Zari moved on I don't know what's going on He's the real thing I don't know what's going on You know, it's very simple the moment Damwon decided to move in with Tarnasha and like date Tarnasha Zari became salty the moment they broke up in a way I don't know what's going on I don't know and all of a sudden just when Damwon was trying to become nice to the community and try to make things she seized her moment she was like I don't know what's going on and she was like I don't know what's going on She was just looking for opportunities to talk to Damwon she has it now she can play Jeje the way she wants she can call him, the kids can talk and trust you me after quarantine There'll be a new bed Damwon is going to have a new bed You think? Zari, it's very unfortunate that even after this period is over because this is where I would say Zari is drunk drunk doing these things I don't know what's going on I don't know what's going on I don't know what's going on This is what she's doing at this point Drunk darling Whatever she's doing now when she gets sober Damwon is going to move on Okay She's going to move on Okay and you'll be calling people again she's going to move on so just move on Zari is now as I was saying there are people in Kenya who are single and they are very willing to yes, as I was saying, yes Oh, by the way by people he means him Zari, then it's his single and he needs your love yes? Hashtag Hashtag why do you prefer updates now? Let's go to a live story now right here back home social media we all know is not is a place where fans get a slight invite to their to their favorite celebrity's lives now while some celebs are very open to show their houses, spouses, kids some choose to live private lives in her recent video in her recent live video on Instagram rather I really revealed that most of her fans want her to show them Hasan's face something she is not comfortable with I will say that she will let the child decide when he is old enough whether to be in the spotlight or not and that's why he'll never post his face anywhere anytime soon that is of real being a mother do you think that's fair for the fans who have been waiting for the longest time just to have a look at the face what does the baby look like? but she's like, no to young girl maybe I talk to famous and I don't want to make him famous if he wants to become famous he's going to do that on his own when he's old enough to understand social media because right now there's a lot of negativity on social media do you think that's the right step to take as a parent as a celebrity she is failing the fans? that is a wife material in Takumi Plus really we are Ako-Sao we are Ako-Sao every... she knows how to I really appreciate her her way of handling social media there are limits there are limits there are fans who have been waiting and trust you me if you give that thing it's going to be at your disadvantage you know me? trust you me trust you me very soon it's going to be like you're comparing yourself to your diamonds to your nameless it's something the comparison is what now brings in things the way people are comparing diamonds kids to Alciba's kids and Tanisha's babies to Hamisa's, to Zari's that's the whole thing can you imagine that kid is very young and when the kid now gets to age Anapata when he was five years or three years he was trending for all the wrong reasons exactly come on, I want to say to Tanisha you know we understand all these things Cloud said to Tanisha maybe she was a diamond we have seen these things can you imagine that kid when he or she grows up and finds out that some years ago people used to say that the father he or she knows is not the father and that's just according to the people but they are completely wrong about that and that kid will go to school that kid will have a social life that kid will have friends and those friends they will have a social life those things those small things are the things that they used to hurt you yeah it affects the kids and that kid will not be as strong as possible because now look at this thing of video chatting and everything kids can't even make meaningful connections with people simply because they are hiding and why are they hiding? their parents made them hide so Avril can you give me a hug? I will talk to you later that is so deep he is so deep into this and he is like okay we will talk to you later we will talk to you later we will talk to you later that is true you know we will try to I think that's also commendable I would love to commend that Avril that's amazing I wouldn't want I don't know my baby's face to be everywhere also maybe but come on first of all some of the fans are always right no the clients are always right now no client simophones no client those are your enemies you should know that your fans are your enemies right so real quick I'm going to be shouting out a few people right here who are on Facebook I'll tell you guys to head over to Facebook and comment below there are some posts just go comment below and we're going to be shouting you out so let me shout out a few people who are on the TL right now Ras Bashir where Wabusea he is always tuned there and shout out to you as we're watching out for Jesus Busea I have a Bramweke Kaya and I say my pick up how many okay um Neete Mzinga what am I getting at wow that's a name Leone Gina and I say my Abelettis hahahah I'm getting out somewhere in Gugi and I say my watching shout out to you by the way and I have some guys right here as well I want to shout out Pato shout out to you Pato thank you so much for watching Mose hi Mose he's watching Mashwane Vasha hi it's been a minute alafu these are Johan shout out to Johan and Jerry from Kero Goya hi Johan and then there's Robb oh Khalifa shout out to a very own Khalifa you know every single Friday why in the morning on Friday he plays right here shout out to you he is watching the show as well and I have some more guys on Facebook I just want to shout them out real quick and then maybe you can get out of here bio bio bio let's see let's see let's see alright right here who am I seeing okay a more a more science in your butto that's actually his name and some of the DJ Darius from Bamburi Mombasa Nikiwa and my daughter oh and they even sent a photo of them they're so cute however to our Facebook if you want to see them as my blessings show equal it to Pelleke Nahiorada yes Enzole baby and as my Muranga County love shout out to Muranga by the way and if you like to say I choose it to Kero Bimans and he cough you too by it to go to the tembea okay Bramueke Kea and I say my auto tool auto toolette Kitale well represented shout out to you Fevered Kim Tundin Arathika Maurice Jacob Makohar okay now I'm just gonna read names because I can't read me welcome welcome to the computer Maurice Jacob Makohar shout out to you Judah Thagon you know me to my picture shout out to you Samuel Googie Luca Slyzer shout out to you Babalao ooh Fevered Kim Robert Machimbo Micah Khombe Joseph said all right there's so many I'm able to price the David Kido shout out to you and everyone else who has a show possible Mother Susie so I'm gonna have to be time we're gonna get out of here we have another show coming up but shout out to Dennis Bob Miner what's your social media Dennis Bob Miner across all social media platforms allow me to shout Demo Meru and to Christine Moomer I'm sure you're watching somewhere there thank you very much for tuning in and it's always a good time please people sanitize stay safe and try your level best all right so thank you so much guys for watching shout out to Elvoh it's his birthday right here shout out to Timor shout out to Rozz shout out to Mosse all of you we're gonna see you guys again next week with an amazing show shout out to JC and Ronald thank you so much guys see you again next week have an amazing evening happy birthday Elvoh happy birthday Elvoh happy birthday


back to another counter side video so today I will be featuring tier six gear guides and future tier six gears that we'll be receiving but before that if you want it updated counter side videos please hit the subscribe button down below. Alrighty guys so here we are I'm just gonna you know um show to you guys what are the what they call this what are the pictures for the tier six gears that we have in this game so at least you'll be familiar because the next what they call this the next information that I'll be presenting you doesn't have any pictures yet but it's more on statistics on what these gears can give you so at this point you should be able to know what are yours what are the suitable gears that you should use and who should use them so to start off here are a couple of tier six gears that I have so as you can see here Dante is here SC actually is superconductor so another type of tier six gears you have your mace of course very sought out of the community you have them at the version for soldiers then you have exclusive gears for specific units then Dante again movement um what else you have here courageous this is what it looks like I'll discuss more on this you also have here hummingbird and you have gorgeous here make sure that you only spend um your binaries the gold ones for your um set gears for your tier six gears okay do not spend them on other tiers because they are very very rare to come by okay so also have your electric learning side so these are all tier six gears um as far as the other tier six gears um as you can see here you can farm them here I still don't have them yet because I'm still uh farming them they are going to be found here once you open military supply 1-5 1-6 and 1-7 you have here iron tailors so this is armor mold t5 to t6 this is also t5 to t6 which is profit industries so this one is accessory mold this one is going to be an armor mold as well for Maxwell corp so these will not be included in the discussion because I don't have them yet I will update the file that I will show you in a while I'll show you guys a a file that I'm going to put in the description below so that you can access them as well okay guys so here is the file that I actually made um this is a tier six guide this is based on what we have right now so you have your your maze gear hummingbird Dante you have your your super super conductor then you have courageous you have gorgeous and you have spectral hands case and crown these will be coming in soon let's start first with with the first column which will be your maze gears so as you can see here on the top are all the types of tier six gears on the left hand side you you will have here the unit type where are the applicable equipment type weapon armor accessory primary stat which is the first stat on top so it's going to be attack HP or hit next is your option one and two of course because we have that in the game then here are the stats that is possible for each gear please note that not every stat is available for each gear as you can see here for maze hands not every stellar evasion hit and speed attack speed is not available here um the one in in violet actually or in purple is going to be your fixed stat so anti ground damage or anti ground damage resistance depending on which maze gear you have so the the amount will actually depend on the what you call this on your enhancement as well but they are fixed fixed on the type but the amount or the value there is going to differ okay so let's take a look at the bottom here so again this file will make you more aware of how much each gear is going to give you in terms of stat what is the maximum that it can give you so you can compare um also you'll be aware whether if you equip that you can get that specific stat because what happened to ma to to me was I tried equipping something to a unit then unfortunately that gear did have skill haste I didn't look for it at first I kept on I kept on rolling for enhancements and I told myself why is it taking long to get skill haste then I found out that it's not in the list of options for that specific gear so again this is actually your guide this will be available in the description of this video and also in what you call this in the bottom part is ideal units to equip when so this is also a guide on where they should be placed as well and also if there's a soldier version for ma's hands what does it you know what's its name if there's a mech version what is what's its name as well and the location um where you can farm them or buy them it's also here as well I'm going to start with ma's ma's is a terrific set it's a very all-around favorite units who wish to increase skill haste usually use ma's hands because number one because of the availability of ma's hands so it's really available and you have a lot of shop locations that you could purchase ma's hands and again the ones that I highlighted in red are the more or less the sought after skills that usually are you know are being enhanced so for skill haste um for ma's crown um it's going to it's going to give you a maximum of 11 percent so here are the stats as well so let's move on to hummingbirds so hummingbirds we've seen hummingbirds recently with the emergence of of what they call this awakened you bin so it's actually for tanks defenders and for high hp tanks or again defenders so those are the the the ideal you know the ideal um users of this gear so it's it's focused more it's good because it has high skill haste and it has anti-range damage resistance anti melee damage resistance and damage taken so these are your choices as well for option one so let's move on to the next you have datai hands datai hands is actually um the most common that we have for six gears as for for for tier six gears and it's usually the middle of the pack if you don't have the higher classification of tier six they're also good already but you eventually have to upgrade because again even for even if you look at what they call this the maximum in terms of skill um percentage they're going to be a bit lower than hummingbirds or maize so entry level all around gears very all around just have to select and make sure that the gears that you want to be improved in that specific unit is available in these gears okay so this one is usually available in events and event currency exchange okay so again these are the versions for mech and no versions for soldier for the meantime at today and the next an improvement would be your superconductor um Dante so these are also good so the the permanent stat here is critical damage you want to deal a lot of critical damage this is actually going to be the what they call this the the gear for you especially if you're bringing in Shaolin so if you want to bump up her crit crit damage more then this one should be equipped or should be equipped to her provided that the gear set is going to be um critical damage as well so high crit damage units are going to enjoy this and usually this is available during events as well so you also have um courageous crown courageous crown actually has three variants as well three bars as well you have soldier and mech as well it's available in the gaunted shop it's a seasonal gear so it's specialized in pvp and also is specialized damage because as you can see here it's going to give you anti counter damage if you want to increase your damage against counter anti soldier damage and anti mech damage so that is where it shines but again as you can see you can also use this if you want skill haste because it gives you a maximum of 11 so that is it for your gorgeous crown next would be gorgeous gorgeous is actually a defensive tier six gear so again it's it also gives you a maximum skill haste of 11 percent um it's kind of par with with your maze and with your hummingbird as well in terms of stat and it gives you a permanent of anti range damage resistance and anti melee damage resistance which is kind of good as well that is why this this set is favored with defenders as well defensive ideal for defenders and with high hp okay so there are also um counterparts for soldier and mech and it's available in your gauntlet shop uh under regular gear the last would be your would be our future gears that we haven't that for example uh we are going to be expecting soon so it's going to be your spectral hands spectral hands is geared towards more on the attack side so increase of attack so the stats are tba tba or to be announced because i got these only from from the korean server data i don't have the stats because i don't know how to read korean so more or less these are the highlighted portions where the stats are going to be available for these type of gears and as you can see there for high dps and damage dealers so spectral rifle and spectral shell um they have it it has also a version for soldiers and for mech so it's available in shadow hall which i assume will be getting in the future um in the form of mold so you have to you also you have to craft them first before you get them but they are very very good and they have a lot of usage in this game for your for the units that you have so as you can see here i'm going to show you guys the recommended gear sets these are more for tier six so for damage dealers the recommended again will be spectral gear um use shadow gears high damage type so for your um rosaria there they will be very very good in spectral gear for those who are reliant on uh on cooldown um but also the uh high damage type so you'll be relying more on maze gears for them so skill skill haste and spectral spirit attack 60 percent plus skill haste 12 percent okay then the next would be your um damage dealers with with with enhanced attack so you have your admin rifleman and you have also um awaken you mina then again attack speed plus 20 percent a spectral blaze attack 16 plus attack speed eight okay so next would be tanks and defenders next would be your tanks and your defender so you have here heal day and awaken heal day and you have serapil here so you can actually equip them with hummingbird maze and gorgeous as well so a mix of the three so hp plus hp hp plus defense uh defense plus defense is not recommended in these defenders so next you could also in terms of high evasion um defenders you can use evasion and hp but um sometimes i do use um defense as well especially for awaken now you've been but these are the recommended ones that you use for them you have your hummingbird and you have your gorgeous for your supporter so um the lower types of gears would be applicable for them they can actually use them especially if you're not you know i'm i'm sure you're going to have a unabundant Dante superconductor gears that you will have extra in terms of tier six so you can actually use it for them for your supporters you have here um young harem you have uh chinatsu and you have evident killer then cooldown skill haste or hp plus hp if you don't have a good cooldown set so recommended exclusive gears these are more or less the ones that you should you should develop or you should uh what do you call this you should try to tinker with or try to equip if they have the appropriate gear sets that you are using i would highly not highly but i would discourage you to use binaries to change gear sets here because again once you change it's only applicable to one certain type of unit and you can't equip it with any other um unit so here with Shaolin so fixed is attack speed sub up is attack speed um sub option two is going to be ground damage recommended is crit damage then set is going to be of course uh crit damage so as jiao has crit percent for basic attack by a passive skill level attack speed or crit damage can really help her here next would be kim sobin so parts accessory fixed uh up is attack speed sub up one is going to be crit damage sub up two is going to be ground damage and set up is going to be attack speed recommended or anti defender okay so basic attack as a large portion of keeps damage so attack speed can be quite useful to her so okay so can get anti defender attack and take shot the whole items to max her damage okay next would be geon so geon has her one of the you know one of the most sought after rangers in the game uh it's a weapon fixed option is a going to be attack sub up is attack speed preferably attack speed as well and attack speed or cooldown for the set up for me i chose to equip her with attack speed rather than cooldown for the set because um it's more of i'd like to trigger um there is actually a certain passive that you can trigger with a higher attack speed so geon geon has a powerful enhanced attack on passive skill so this is it actually uh three basic attack it was an enhanced attack which makes attack speed attractive or you can think of um ultimate skill which is also powerful so that you can think of cooldown too so either way um she's going to be very good so sylvia so actually i have this equipped with sylvia um i think i also have this equipped with jaolin so for sylvia it's going to be an accessory fixed up is attack skill haste for her obviously so that you can cycle out her stun for her special skill maximize her stun ability with cdr increased damage with ground damage anti striker plus shadow whole set stun striker damage as well so this one is going to be kyle wong i also use this for kyle wong so ideally this is going to be again skill cooldown skill cooldown is going to be one of the top gear sets that anyone will be needing as we play um counter side as we you know stay long in this game um cooldown is going to be your ultimate gear sets especially for gear six cdr haste wall deployment attack speed makes more makes more um kyle the kylas hp damage on passive level five okay so next is roi bernett so part accessory i also have this equipped on him um fixed attacks uh up attack speed skill haste skill haste and the set option is going to be hp defense or cooldown or attack speed so i but i would suggest you give him hp or probably attack speed um again to give to to get to let him deal more damage and also for more survivability because he's a debuffer so hp or defense to make him survivable and cooldown attack speed for more faster debuffs next is joshion so parts weapon uh skill haste up one up two ground damage and um the set option is going to be cooldown okay again another cooldown we need to have a lot of cooldowns in this game because again um it's really run this game is going to win you by the skill the special skill and good usually the ultimate skill next would be we don't have this yet this is going to also another future gear that we're waiting for so this is going to be titans exclusive weapon so accessory attack speed skill haste ground damage resistant recommended ground damage set is go up it's going to be hp or defense or attack speed or cooldown but mostly most people prefer hp for this one but attack speed makes titan motion faster skill haste is not bad but titan has already delayed before uh after skill activated so hp and ground damage resolution uh resolution resistance is preferred okay so choy in again this is i think the last for the exclusive gear so part accessory um skill haste skill haste attack speed only because um even though she doesn't attack enemies but recovers one deployment cost after three basic attacks so this is what why you need attack speed for her so but using set binary is definitely not recommended for choy in okay so again um all of the all of the what do you call this all of the documents that i presented here i'm going to put a link in the description of this video try to open um these files and also look out for the guide and from that time try to try to try to take a look at your gears if your gears are already you know are the right gears that you are supposed to use for all of your units okay guys so thank you very much for staying this long in this video so please consider subscribing and also don't forget to click the bell icon and put a like to this video thank you guys stay safe this is the warden and i'm out of here


So today's video is a bit different, today I just wanted to talk about some of the books I've been reading. There's no real reason for that, but I just wanted to. I will actually, there is a bit of a reason, because I had something to do with translation and so I thought it would be interesting to share it with you. I'm just talking about the books I've read more or less in the past month or so. Because about a month ago is when I got Ilacci. So Ilacci is a book by Domenico Starnone, he's an Italian author. My two languages are Italian and English, by the way, so I'm going to read in both those languages. Now I'm in the States, so they're more English language books. But I was interested in this because this book Ilacci was translated into English, has recently been translated into English, and in fact I think it's out now in English, by Jumpa Lahiri, Jumpa Lahiri. So Jumpa Lahiri is actually, she's very interesting. She was born in London to Bengali parents and raised here in the States. Then she moved to Italy and really liked it there, learned Italian, and wrote a book in Italian, not as her first language. The name of this book is Inattre Parole. I haven't read it, I confess, but I've heard interviews with her and she's quite interesting. This book by Domenico Starnone, called Ilacci, is a book that she has recently translated into English from Italian. And so I thought it would be interesting to read the Italian version and then read the English version and kind of compare them. By the way, brief side note, Domenico Starnone is interesting in his own right, because well he had sort of a controversy surrounding him. Elena Ferrante, Neapolitan novels, that whole saga going on. Elena Ferrante is no one's real name, no one knows who really wrote them, but then someone came out with an article that it was actually this guy, Domenico Starnone, or his wife, I can't remember, the way they found out it probably wasn't him. He's a personal friend of Jumpa Lahiri and I've never read any of his books before, so I thought it'd be interesting to read this in Italian and then read her translation in English because I know she would have worked closely with him since they're personal friends as well. I've only read the Italian version. I don't have it with me because I loaned it to my sister. She can probably show you a picture since she's my editor. I'm going to find that interesting, I'm sure. The next book I read, since I came here to Charleston a bit less than a month ago, I decided that it was finally time to tackle this. Charleston, Charleston, 400 something pages, 470 pages. But it's basically all about Charleston, the history of Charleston. Charleston is a very historical city. It actually is more than 100 years older than the country it's in. It's one of those like Savannah that wasn't destroyed during the Civil War, even though it's in the South. So it retained a lot of that, the old world architecture and whatnot. It also has a Huguenot Church, French Huguenot Church, which I think there are only two of them in the world, one in the UK and the other one here in Charleston. That was a long book, but it was interesting. So if you're interested in Charleston, for some reason, definitely look it up, Charleston, Charleston. The next book I read was this one. I'm not sure why I read it. It wasn't that good. I don't know, maybe some of you liked it. I didn't like it much at all. Oh, actually I do know why I read it. My sister gave it to me and she's the editor of this, so I should be nice about it. I am quite interested in Taoism and I did read quite a bit about it when I was in Taiwan and also China. And obviously I read Winnie the Pooh when I was a kid. The author was trying to draw these two things together and it was very weakling. He was really trying to pick and choose how to tie certain aspects of Taoism to Winnie the Pooh and tie different other ways of thinking from Confucianism to Western, whatever, to this and that, to the other characters, Christopher Robin and Eor and whatnot. I mean, he was oversimplifying so many matters. I know very little about Taoism. You know, what little I've read is an armchair enthusiast, but even I could tell that. Anyway, if you're interested in Taoism, you can find better books than this. If you're not sure if you're interested in Taoism, then by all means read this and if it gets you interested, then read another book about it. So I've also been reading, actually listening to because I also use Audible, a bunch of mystery novels. My wife really likes mystery novels, so we listen to the same ones so then we can talk about them. If you do like mystery novels, I do recommend Harlan Colbin because to me, I think they're the smartest type of these mystery novels. There are other very interesting ones that we've been listening to, some that take place in Amish country. Another one that takes place in Alaska. What else? I read a short biography of this guy. I'm not sure why. He was sanctified recently. I know there's some controversy. He was one of the original, I think, the first Spanish priest to go into California. And he set up a bunch of the monasteries over there.  He wanted to set up a chain of them. So I thought it'd be interesting to read. It was very short and sweet and yeah, pretty interesting. Anyway, the main reason I'm doing this is because I'm about to read, I'm looking forward to reading The Language Instinct by Stephen Pinkham, a big fan of his. I haven't read this yet. I probably should have, but I found it at a library sale for 75 cents. If anyone has read it, feel free to let me know what you think of it. But first I'm going to finish reading this book, which I'm reading right now. I have no idea what this book is about or anything about it, but I just judged it purely based on its cover so we'll see how it goes. And it's another one I got at that library sale. By the way, if you want cheap books, always go to your local library sale. They usually have sales every now and then. You get books for very cheap. And that's pretty much it. The only other book that I'm reading right now is Start With Why by Simon Sinek. This is a business book and I try to read business books since I'm in business. So that's the one I'm reading now. I don't know if it's any good or not. I do know, I've read some articles by the author and I've heard him speak before and I do like what he has to say. So we'll see how the book is. So this is a bit of a change of pace but I've been reading some interesting stuff lately so I just wanted to share it. So that's pretty much it. I'll be back with more videos about freelance translation next time. So feel free to subscribe and you'll get more videos that deal with freelance translation and languages and stuff right to your YouTube page. If you did like this video or found it interesting, please click like because that always helps or the thumbs up thing they have down there. And yeah, and I'll see you in the next video. Thanks, bye.


Hi guys, welcome to a new vlog. I'm so excited because I think tonight my cousin's gonna get engaged Which is so cool. Oh, I can't wait to that point in my life But you know you just have to go where life takes you and like timing and everything But I'm just excited cuz I'm gonna be taking like a video and stuff. We're going to rock wait not Raleigh Where are we going? Charles Charles in South Carolina? I was thinking Raleigh. Is that in North Carolina? Yeah Oh, all right. So my geography is a little off, but I was kind of close So yeah, tonight's like a fancy ball and then tomorrow we're going to a football game a little bit And then we're having a rooftop bar party So this vlog is gonna be like all over the place super fun Of course Wendy's gonna be in it which is amazing cuz she makes the vlogs a lot better and stay tuned for the ride of our Little staycation slash vacation weekend vacation. Harry. You ready? I am ready to go We are on the road. Here's Valerie Sherry's in the back She doesn't really mind sitting back there and I don't either Because I like sitting up in the front, but I just tried some of these white chocolate M&M's They're really good, but they don't taste like a classic M&M. Obviously, okay So we finally got checked in to the hotel. We're in South Carolina again third take of this clip We're gonna do the room tour here. Cameron just got his ring over there. Say hi again And then their room is across the hallway, so I'm gonna do this room tour really fast So we have the two beds here the nightstand. We have this little desk area They're reminiscing over the Epcot vlog if you haven't seen that I'll link it down below So you guys can watch it, but we had this like family day at Epcot. It's so funny We have this little area here for like snacks and stuff refrigerator and The little TV then we have these little poofs here and another little desk area to get ready pretty soon Well, we have this body mirror. I actually might take it like an OOTD pick in this. Oh my gosh, Valerie Okay, anyway, it makes me look a little skinnier like in that and we have this closet and We have the bathroom over here This is like a really nice. I think this is Hampton in I'm pretty sure this is a really like fancy Hampton in so Here's a shower Lookin nice and then toilet. Obviously. I like this flooring.  How do you put it on? Yeah, look look watch this You sling it. Yep. Yep. Just like that.  Yep We're going to get some drinks and dinner There's Wendy over there and are also with some cameras like family, but We're just a little overdressed to this place. Okay, so this is the rusted rusty bowl the rusty bowl And I guess I make beer here and stuff. They're in South Carolina North Charleston. There's a really cute mural over there that says it But Sun is kind of glaring. Wait, hold on. Let me see.  I don't even know what I like So I'm gonna try this All right Oh It's a coffee one Sherry you would like it. It tastes really good. Okay, so we're at the Citadel now and sorry I haven't like vlogged anything, but you're vlogging too. Yeah, wait you you're you have a channel So we're learning a lot about the Citadel on sale.  Hold on.  I'm so happy for Francie congratulations if you watch this We are ordering a pizza right now because I am starving but I'm also going to send Francie the video That you just saw of her getting like asked to be Cameron's wife. That's so exciting. Love Anyway, I tried not to cry just cuz I didn't want like that to be heard in the video Okay, so this portion of the vlog is gonna be on my phone because we can't take bags or anything to Football game, but anyway, we're going to a Citadel football game and Sherry and I are just grabbing a little bit something to eat Yeah, so I'm gonna show you that real quick, but I'm wearing this black top and My high-waisted pants here, and then my choker and bracelet like normal and then the earrings Spencer got me I don't know if I'm gonna eat this entire thing, but I just wanted to get a lot of eggs and This patty thing Yeah, I love it. I love Swiss miss. Okay. Thanks. That's random, but thanks Sherry So we're doing low carb. I did want to try the potatoes so I am having some Sherry's having the exact same thing. So this is good content. We have Valerie here with her foot up And I love it because she always tells me not to do that, but you know She had to Then you're going to see that there's like no room for my feet I would I attempted to close the door with both legs there. I thought I was gonna break my leg Okay, so now that's the one that was replaced to guess this is the need that's replaced Well, I'm I glad I did my exercises Wow That's a few decorations for fancy and my hair is going crazy Okay Okay guys, so we've got little stickers here and we're getting ready to go to the game and everything and Here's Sarah We're made of France in oh my friend Carly just texted me There's a yeah shoot a ring like actually just a normal kind of football Environments we got our tickets scanned and now we're gonna go find our seats. I Don't even know if the games already started, but we'll find out. Okay, so we're at the game now. We finally found our seats Are we winning cherry? At the moment, yes Anyway, I got some stuff here. I got some free stuff. I got this towel that says USAA It's like the insurance. I think and then Valerie bought me this vineyard vine shirt It just has this and then on the back it has the the whale So I'm excited about that and I also got this like stress ball, but I don't know where it is right now I think sherry's holding sherry. Do you have my stress ball? I Just have my football. Oh, she has a stress football Oh Oh Because we are surprising Francie for Oh, this is really dark. Sorry, but we're surprising Francie with a little engagement party this little outfit We have going on here. Oh, there's Valerie Charlie came to surprise Francie And then there's Wendy we're getting in the elevator now So pretty oh look little cupcakes Little congratulations. She said yes How adorable this is the rooftop that Wendy rented out and everything good view So we have like kind of a nice view of like the lake over here and everything. Oh Look at these Look at how cute. There's little things to take pictures with Look at the little ring so cute Oh Okay, so we just surprised Francie and Cameron This is a little food table And they have a drink named after them. How cute is that? It's pretty much it everyone's pretty much here already Just like hanging out. Yep So this is my uncle Bobby Say hi And then there's sherry uncle Bobby was my grandma's brother still is but she's past Really That's so sad Okay, so I'm having the Townsend drink I've had like a couple Moscow mules, but I decided to have a Townsend drink because it's the engagement party Townsends now, so I decided to have one and it's not too bad. I'm drinking it like super slow Okay, so I just had a minor heart attack this camera might be on its last legs Which I almost like cried because I'm obsessed with this camera and even though I'm looking to get a new camera I love this camera is kind of like my default camera I was just coming on here to end the vlog and then it just like the lens wouldn't open and it keeps saying like Charge the battery or like the lenses such-and-such so restart the camera life struggles But anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this video Congratulations to Francie and Cameron really happy for you guys Don't forget to give this video a thumbs up do it for the newly Engaged people and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye