Pow, what's up everybody? Once again, it's Brandon Shawn and I got to start with the question, what are you great at? And there's a reason why that question is so important because you should be building content around your strengths if you want the best return. I know a lot of people were saying it's so hard to build content, especially a high quality because at this point, so many people understand that there's a strong benefit to having a high quantity of music. Or any content for that matter. So how do you do a lot, but then do it at scale? That comes from understanding your strengths. How do you do a lot at a high quality that actually makes impact? Because not that quality like, oh, it looks good and it's perfect high resolution and it's editable. No, high quality in terms of impact. How do you do that at scale with at high quantities? This is how. So first, let's just use three examples. I'm going to start with Casey Neistad. You don't know who Casey Neistad is. Look him up on YouTube. I'll put a link to his channel in the description below. But Casey Neistad is a vlogger, has probably like 10 million YouTube subscribers if I remember correctly. And his strength is just his editing, right? The way he shoots things and he carries cameras around all the time. And I know you can say, hey, there's a lot of vloggers who carry cameras around and go throughout their day. But Casey Neistad is known for this because he does it on an entirely different level. He just edits and brings things together and he knows that. And that's his thing, the way he tells stories, like legitimate filling stories throughout his footage. Then you have somebody like Gary Vaynerchuk. Now, I know a lot of you know who Gary V is, but what is his strength that you think about it? Outside of his strength for his business, you really got to hone in on his intuitiveness and ability to improvise and respond quickly. That's what he does. He's like a quote master. He's dropping quotes again and again and again. He talks well. He doesn't have to repeat and do multiple takes. As a matter of fact, I remember him saying that he's a lot better at just freestyling than he is at actually doing takes where he has to read a script and say something off of memory. He'll do that 50, 100 times before he finally gets it right. And he built his content around that strength.  He has somebody carrying a camera around following him, right? He has people who edit his videos for Instagram. Yeah, he does his own copy and things like that. But so much of his content is really just generated from him living his life and he's already going to these places where he's speaking on stage. He's going to meetings and he's just being himself. So he is able to do a high quantity because he's just leveraging his strength, which is I'm going to respond quickly. I get into these conversations and these instances. I'm the center of the brand and I'm very good at talking. I have a lot of charisma. That's what he capitalized off of. Think about the show, Ask Gary V. That show is a very basic structure. People ask questions, he answers. Whoa, I just sounded like him. But really just step back and thinking about it. All he's doing is answering people's questions. What's his strength? Answering questions, having conversation, charisma, responding quickly with great contextual answers. That's what he does. So what does that look like for an artist? Because I know there are a lot of artists, obviously, that follow this channel. Here's a perfect example. Recently, I was speaking to an artist and producer who's pushing his artist brand. He's growing that brand and I listened to his music, watched some clips of him on Instagram and really calmed in on the fact that, yo, bruh, you are great at songwriting out of all the things that you do and you do quite a few things well, your songwriting really stands out. The reason I figured this out was he had some videos where he was sitting at the piano playing some of the songs that he wrote. When we talk about making remarkable content, content that's gonna stand out, get rid of everything else and highlight the strength as much as possible and it's typically gonna be easier to actually do at a high-clip break anyway. So in the case of Mark C, it's easy for him to just sit down and do exactly what his strength is. ["Hide and Seek"] -♪ Part of me wanna wife you, half of me just wanna slide through. -♪ Part of me got a high IQ and the other half got -♪ And the math issues like, look at you. -♪ I'm supposed to add it up, it's like I can't get enough. -♪ Might make me wanna fall in love, it's a clean version. -♪ So when you hit me and I tell you that I'm working -♪ And you say it's so good, that's why I love it. And let people just hear the songwriting. No music in the background, not a lot going on. Let people hone in on what this guy's writing abilities sound like. Now, what if your songwriting ability isn't super off the chain but you have some great snippets? Like Meek Mill, Meek Mill is great. Everybody knows that the dude has some off the chain snippets so he can drop those snippets and he can draw people in. You could put out a lot of snippets to your songs that makes for a lot of great content. You could easily drop more snippets than you do songs. You might not even create entire songs. You might just do really dope snippets of incomplete songs because like Mark C with his songwriting, there's a lot of songs that he didn't record but he could sit and sing at the piano and people hear them and then even people hearing them could create the opportunity for having a song that takes off just off the lyrics alone and everybody starts going, oh man, can you make this a real song? Can you make this official song? So what are your strengths? Is it that I can rap fast? How do I make that interesting and hone in on that so I could do that again and again and again? It's not necessarily like about the lyrics in my case or maybe you have a beautiful voice and if you have a beautiful voice, you can sing covers. It's not necessarily about the lyrics of songs that you wrote yourself. There's so many different little nuances, different things that you can figure out for whatever your talent is but figure out what that strength is and highlight that because at the end of the day, what's going to make the impact is you doing your strength. So the best content will just be stripping away a lot of all that extra stuff and highlighting your strength and that's gonna be so much more repeatable at scale than having this high production or getting a whole bunch of music and a mixer engineer, a producer, finding somebody to be a videographer or a graphic designer. All these types of things are things that cost whether it's money or time and they slow you down in terms of creating content. Figure out what your strengths are, focus on those strengths and create content around it. Figure out how to creatively deliver that strength to the audience at scale. And that's it for today. So what is your strength? Answer that in the comment section below and maybe an idea on how you can highlight that strength throughout your content as opposed to doing the most every single time. Other than that, as always, if you liked this video, go ahead and hit that like button. If you like it, you must well share it and if you're not subscribed, you know what to do. Hit that subscribe.


Good morning. Good morning, everyone. It's Jacob here. Welcome to my marathon prep video series It is exactly seven days Until I run my very first marathon running a marathon's been a challenge that I Always wanted to do But I've never actually done it. I've never specifically run 42 kilometers, I believe it is 26 point something miles 26.1 miles 26.2 miles something crazy like that But today's the day today Marks seven days until we do it Seven days until D-Day It's November the 14th. It is 7 20 in the morning I've done something that has motivated me even more than I was before which is by a brand new pair of shoes Brand new pair of running shoes, which is something I've known that I've needed for a while I've been Doing a little bit more running than usual in 2020 Due to the fact that I did a bodybuilding prep. I did two bodybuilding shows this year The final one being about three weeks ago So one of the major challenges that I wanted to give myself post bodybuilding show Was to do a long-distance running race and I was able to find a marathon that was being held in a place called Queenstown Which is in the South Island. I'm in Christchurch. Queenstown is about six hours south So in six days time, I will be driving down I'll be staying down there for a couple of days and doing my very first marathon. So guys This is the video series the way that I do things on my YouTube channel is I will You know do whatever interests me and I will bring my camera along To document the journey to talk about my experiences my opinions And that's how I roll on this channel, you know, you never know exactly what you're gonna find But one thing I do know myself is that I love a challenge and that's what this is gonna be So it starts today. We're only seven days out guys. I haven't given myself I haven't given myself much time to get things ready, but like I said, I've gone and got the shoes I'm going to charge my headphones. I'm going to make a specific running Spotify playlist so I'm not fumbling with my phone every five minutes trying to change a song I think that's going to be key and I'm going to set off on a 20 kilometer run this morning So that's going to be seven days out. That's going to be my prep For today is going to be 20 kilometers I'm going to go out at a pretty steady pace nothing too crazy because I do want to finish it and I think we're just going to taper it down from here, but I do need to test myself I need to test myself with a long distance run Before we before we you know get to the D day because to be fair I only entered this a week ago and I haven't done any prep. I haven't done any running in the last month I did prior to that but as you'll know You know with jogging and running especially Especially a running pace that you might have got yourself up to which I did I pretty much got myself to about five minutes per kilometer But I feel like I definitely would have regressed in some way shape or form So today the goal is to complete 20 kilometers in Two hours or less That's going to require me to run at a six minute per kilometer pace Which I think I should be able to start at that but for me to continue it for 20 kilometers May be quite difficult, but this is about challenging ourselves and today is day number one so guys Welcome to the series the way that I'm going to structure this is I'm going to come out here in the morning each morning Talk about how I'm feeling talk about what the plan is for the day and then post training or post run We'll come back. I'll have a look at my Strava and we'll discuss how it went Seven days out from my very first marathon guys I'm excited. I am excited. I I I Firmly believe that with my mindset, you know the way that I tackle challenges I could turn up on the day having not done any training and still complete it But that would not be ideal. So I'm starting this series today to keep myself accountable to make sure that I do You know train myself Towards the show for the final week most most I feel like most people when training for a marathon Start about six months out I'm starting a week out But if you've known me for any length of time, you'll know that Sometimes that's just the way I roll And with that being said I'll see you guys after my two-hour run, which I'm slightly apprehensive about because I haven't done it for so long But thing is and this is the advice that I give to anybody and this is what I'll finish on All you need to do is keep those feet turning over. That's all you need to do slow down as much as you need to Just keep those feet turning over and that's the main thing. So I'll see you guys later on in the day. Peace Okay, what's up guys? We're back. We're back from the run and I can happily say it was completed We did 20 kilometers in under two hours. That was the goal and we we smashed it So I have to say it was a great start to the day. I headed out onto the road at 7 30 in the morning I got back about 9 30. I did an hours worth of YouTube Videos before I went out for the run.   So if you do want to follow me on Strava You can do that, too So I'm just gonna grab a drink. We're gonna sit down and discuss how this run went and What three factors I Included in this run that I haven't done previously that I honestly feel really gave me an edge To push probably a little bit harder than I have done previously. So with that being said Let's sit down Okay, here we are. All right, so we are seven days out Like I said the time now is 1140 November the 14th The date of the marathon is Saturday November the 21st, and it's down in a place called Queenstown Beautiful place like I said six hours south from Christchurch. I can't wait, but some honestly guys this morning I did not know what to expect.  I did do a 10 kilometer slow jog Four days ago. I had three days off completely this morning at seven days out I knew I was gonna create this video and so, you know, it was time to push myself time to test myself You know, I'm not gonna turn up on race day and expect to just roll out of bed And run 42 K's I Probably could but I'm not gonna. I'm not I'm just not gonna put myself in that position So today it was was the start of a little taper to the the the race as far as you know, just just getting my pace and knowing what pace I can actually continue at and I guess not not gas myself out. I think today was was successful in that I think after that 20k run. I didn't stop the whole entire time. I was able to You know maintain a heart rate of about 150 beats per minute the whole entire time so what that's led me to believe is that I've found basically my My pace my comfortable pace that I'm gonna be able to maintain at least for 20 K's like I did today and Hopefully, you know, continue that on race day and maintain that for the full 42 K's So I Am so proud and so happy to say that I actually ran a PB for 20 K's So I ran 20.02 kilometers in One hour 51 minutes and 19 seconds Which is a PB for 20 K's? I also got my 10 mile PB, which is One minute one hour 28 minutes and 14 seconds and I also got my 15 kilometer PB Which is one hour and 22 minutes flat so As far as the splits go, I am gonna put the splits up on the screen right now So you can look through them as I discuss them but basically I Began the the race like I mentioned before I went just ticking my feet over just going out a nice and easy pace I know that I can run at six and a half minutes per K and not be out of breath whatsoever So I did that, you know, it's it's a it's a relatively easy way to get into it It's it's not scary You're not going out there and and you're jacking your heart rate right up instantly and then you know in recovery mode from There on out so I I went out really really easily and I went six minutes 25 for the first K from there I said to myself right I'm gonna go I'm gonna try and get under two hours for the 20 K's and what that's gonna require me to do like I mentioned before I set off is Run each K under six minutes and That's exactly what happened from then on out. So we went six twenty five five fifty eight five forty four five thirty nine Five forty four five twenty six five thirty four five thirty nine five seventeen and so on and so forth and in the end I averaged five thirty four per kilometer. So I completed twenty kilometers today guys at an average pace of five thirty four per K Which is an astounding success. I mean I Feel good after that. I feel really good twenty kilometers without stopping under six minutes per K If I can double that if I can double that I'm not expecting I'm not expecting to be able to double that because you know my my legs or my calves are sore Not so much my quads or anything, but my calves are certainly Saw right now. So I'm gonna have to keep stretching those out But you know, I tend to think that I probably could double that on a good day Which means that I'm you know fairly close to a four-hour marathon Which is a huge huge goal of mine. I Honestly never thought I'd be capable of running a marathon in under four hours and actually thinking about it right now I still don't believe that that's possible. I feel like I'm definitely gonna hit a wall I feel like I didn't quite hit a wall today because that 20k mark about that two-hour mark of exercise, you know, I Feel like you can you know push through without Needing to take in extra carbohydrates or water and that's one thing I will mention that this morning all I had is a cup of coffee I had a glass of water and then I set out for my run I didn't do anything else. I didn't eat and I did not take in any consumable Carbohydrates or liquid throughout the run.  I got a new pair of shoes So I'm gonna show you guys the new shoes next next video tomorrow morning. They are awesome I am absolutely stoked with them the new balance. I'll show you them next time, but they felt good So new shoes definitely a motivating factor, right? You get anyone a new pair of runners and they're gonna want to go out and test them So new pair of shoes not only that but I put on a playlist a specific running playlist So every time I go out for a run, I'll always just press play on Spotify on my liked songs Now some I like more than others, right? So specifically today, I made a playlist for running with my favorite songs Which meant that I didn't need to change songs at all. So you're literally just going and going and going and K after K after K seem to just You know happened just seems that you know, you just keep running without Without anything distracting you because I will say that every single time I need to stop and change a song It's not as if I'm stopping running, but it is stopping your flow your mental flow and in a long distance run In those middle K's you just want to be in a flow You want to be in a zone where you're just going and going and going and not really thinking about it And that's the zone that I found myself in today. So new shoes a specific playlist And the third thing And the third thing was being adequately fueled, right?  But I had a plan in place and that plan was to fuel me for this run this morning So that I didn't need to have any breakfast I didn't really need to take in any water and I would be sweet to go and that's exactly what happened. So new shoes playlist specifically for running and Adequately fueled and lo and behold. I got a PB For my 20k around this morning seven days out from my very first marathon. So guys. Thank you so much for watching. I Assume I'm gonna bring out a video every single day leading into the marathon I will be leaving Christchurch on Friday. So that'll be One day out staying in Queenstown that night waking up early Saturday morning and heading out to the start line. So guys Follow along at home. If you like if you do want to follow me on on Strava, I Believe my username is Jacob McDonald. I could be wrong. I Could be wrong but if you yeah, if you look me up on Strava, it's Jacob McDonald and And Please if you follow me, I'll follow you. I'll give you kudos. I mean Strava is a fantastic app I do want more people on there. I want more friends that I can I can then support back You know what I mean? Strava's an amazing app. It's It's it's an app that I've been using for about six months now consistently I Was running Then I was doing walks and now I'm obviously back to running if you want to like this video Please do if you want to subscribe that would be amazing and I'll see you tomorrow at six days out from my very first marathon I'm going for four hours. I'm gonna say it right now a success a massive success something that I'll be so proud of Would be to run a marathon run this marathon in under four hours. That is the goal I'm going to do whatever I can over the next week to prepare myself for that and then it's race day See you soon guys. Thanks for watching


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Hello, hello all. Welcome to Eat NATO for Breakfast, episode number 20. This is our last online program next week. Some of us, many of us I hope will actually be in Madrid and we are making our very special last program sort of in-person life with a stream from, I don't know, sitting together rather than just online. So today we wanna draw some conclusions to prepare ourselves for the actual NATO counter-summit that is happening next weekend in Madrid. And that's why we're called on Marco. And Marco Fernandez to assist us with this. He's from Tri-Continental Institute in Dongcheng News.  You're a Brazilian living in China and you're embedded in different movements where you actually approach global issues and look at sort of international developments from all different angles. We're really super glad to have you on our last online show. How are you? What's breakfast in China? But I know it's afternoon now. As we said already last show, we've learned our lesson. We will only look eastward so that we don't have to wait people early. They hate us for it and we don't want that. How are you, Marco? I'm fine, I'm fine. Well, it's a big honor to be here, especially the last show. I just feel like huge responsibility. The show that started with VJ, right? So, wow, it's, let's try my best. So, breakfast in China. Ooh, there's many different ones, but the one that I like, my classic, at least from big cities and like rushy daily life, it's like a bao.  It's not baked and filled with many stuff like could be different kinds of meat and vegetables. It's very practical. And one thing that I really love, it's the hard-boiled eggs that they have, but they actually, they boil in tea, in black tea. Yeah, so it gets, I mean, they break a little bit the shell, so you got this sort of like seasoning of the tea. So it gets a little bit dark, it's delicious. So this is, for me, it's a classic one. And of course soy milk. This is like the whole combo of daily life. I'm beginning to think we will stop always trying to understand politics. We'll just do recipes of the world from now on. I think this is something we need to work on. That's an idea for next show. Talk about politics, why we cook international working class food. Yes, for that we'll need a show kitchen that allows us to do so. But yes, we'll keep that in mind. We'll talk later about what our plans are in the future. And now this is a whole new plan. Nora, how are you doing this morning? Well, I think that even though next week will be our last meeting for breakfast, I think I will miss the Saturday morning conversations. So let's think of the next steps. Because if not, I'm going to call you every Saturday morning on the phone to talk about what's going on on the world. I believe that our guests have been providing us with some very important analysis with proposals. They have explained to us historical processes, which are vital for understanding what's going on today. They have also tackled many issues related to NATO and war. And we have managed to assemble a global map of the causes of this crisis that we are experiencing. And also very important, the importance of fighting for peace for another democratic world order, which resolves conflict through dialogue and negotiation. So we encourage you all to revisit the previous episodes of the NATO for Breakfast if you miss some of them. The folks at People's Dispatch have them organized in a YouTube playlist. So you can just check the one you missed. And I think they are topics that do not expire. And that can make us think about them whenever you watch them. But above all, I would like our audience to take away that we have a lot of work to do ahead of us, that we have to fight for peace, that peace is not an idea, just an idea at least, and that wars are not inevitable. So when we are organized, we can change things. So Francie, and how do you feel about the end of NATO for Breakfast? I think you already heard, I'm not particularly sentimental about it. I'm just feeling that after 20 shows, I think we've all learned quite a bit. And I think I would like to, together with our friends at People's Dispatch and everyone else who's been on the show, I'd like to think of new things that we can come up with. And now it turns out Marco and I will do a cooking show. That's awesome. But no, let's get started. Let's get back to serious business. Let us start with actually addressing the NATO question once more. Yeah, but before, maybe if people, if our audience have any idea of what to do next, maybe they can post their ideas. Yes, tell us what you feel about a cooking program or share with us, what do you think? Yeah, but let's start. During these 20 programs, we have understand some very important facts that before the war in Ukraine, NATO's project was not at the center of the political agenda of the allies countries. And now crazy amounts of money is been spending weapons before this war NATO was even contested by some countries in the European Union that wanted their own regional security project. Now we see Finland and Sweden joining NATO. We also know that NATO strategy is the US strategy to maintain its unipolar project. And with this war, the US has imposed its agenda, the fact in a European Union that before was balancing its economic and trade relations with Russia and China. We even have again in our conversations the risk of nuclear war. So things have been changing somehow. That's why we want to talk to you Marco in this first block that now almost four months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, what have been the major developments in the world order? Or is everything stuck? What is on the move? Well, I think there things are accelerating a lot. And I would say this is like the, it's like a wall saying that there are new things and good things. The new things are not good and the good things are not new. So what are the new things? The new things are not already said. It's true. US was able to reunify NATO under its leadership.  Remember that the meeting with the Trump with Stoltenberg, I think is the military head of NATO a few years ago. And he was basically like beating up Stoltenberg saying, you guys ask us for money to defend you guys from Russia.  And then Russia gets stronger. And then you guys come back here ask more money to defend yourselves. So, I mean, that was what's happening. I mean, you're totally right. So, I mean, Biden was able to reunify, not only reunify NATO, but to impose Europe, which is I still don't understand you guys from Europe. You can explain better, but I don't understand what is the logic behind, because it's so, it's almost like Suicide or what Europe is doing right now. But it's true. It's not only, I mean, Finland, Sweden are joining. And if I'm not wrong, looks like Japan and South Korea are going to attend the meeting. This is what we were reading here in the Chinese media yesterday. That's gonna be the first time in history that Japan and South Korea are gonna attend the meeting. So this is very worried, very worried. And at the same time, as you said, it's the risk of nuclear war is again, it's again. But at the same time, this was a victory from US, but also might be a short term victory. First of all, they weren't able to crush Russia with the sanctions. That's the truth.  It's not easy to crush a country like that. I mean, no matter what, I mean, it's not about ideological discussion right now. This is objective. You can't crush a country like US or NATO is expecting to do with Russia with the sanctions. So at the same time, as we know, European Union economy is doing very bad. Like highest inflation in 40 years, not only in Europe, also in US. They are losing competitiveness in Europe. Because of energy prices, this is crazy. I imagine that at some point, the big bourgeoisie, industrial bourgeoisie of Germany, they are gonna complain and probably already complain to shorts because that's not possible. US now, it's also having like a very bad economic moment. Even like the stock markets that were doing great during COVID, people were dying, but stock markets were great in US. They just had the worst first quarter since 1932, since that was Great Depression times. So that's the, and you have stagflation, all the money they buy and put like $5 trillion in the economy went all to consumption. There's no like new fixed assets, investments, infrastructure investments. So this is not sustainable. And there are many signs already in the last weeks, even in the media in US that they know that Ukraine is gonna lose this war and they will have to reorganize. And at the same time, global South countries are also realizing some important things during this four months. Nothing new again, but it's clear. Their interests are not the same as US and NATO, right? I mean, they need China, they need Russia. They are not going to join this white supremacist crusade of the Western with Japan and South Korea. They're not white, but all the rest are. So even India, I mean, Vijay Prashat is publishing just an article about that, how even India and Prashat also talk about that last week, right? Like big ally of US, but I mean, now come on guys, we need energy, we need food.  That's not gonna happen. So at the same time, even like countries like Brazil, also super pro US, Bolsonaro government, guess what? The agribusiness would say, come on, we need fertilizers.  So I think this is getting clear. And then also one thing that I think this war also one of the lessons for the global South countries clear now is that we need to build alternative to the US dollar. This is clear, I mean, we cannot, global South countries cannot depend heavily on US dollars as we do now. Of course, this is not something that you change in six months, but it's not coincidence that so many, I mean, this discussion is all around the world right now. You take like the Euro is Asiatic Economic Union. They are joining with China and discussing under the leadership of a director, Sergei Glazeev, which is former Putin minister, is now putting up like a plan for like alternative, not necessarily like a new currency, but at least a sort of like a mechanism. Same is happening right now in Brazil. Lula, who is probably gonna win the election is discussing also this in South America. There is already actually a mechanism in Argentina, Brazil or Paraguay, they have a mechanism already to do transactions without the dollar, but it's still not that used. But I mean, this kind of discussions are all around the globe right now. So at the end of the day, what US did, and this is even like US analysts are saying that, it was also like a shoot in the food because people realize now, okay, if they can just steal our assets like this, $300 billion with like two signatures in a paper and a button, they just steal like $300 billion from Russia, from foreign assets. They did the same with Venezuela before, they did the same with Afghanistan, but now of course it's Russia and it's $300 billion. So I think there's a lot of lessons to the global South countries. And at the same time, of course, this war is accelerating, accelerating all these discussions and the necessity to create alternatives. So this also reminds me a lot of Vladimir, not Putin, but Lenin, that remember there's a famous sentence say, there are decades when nothing happens, but there are weeks in which decades happens. So this is I think what happened in these last four months. It's a big acceleration of history.  And I think this will be a game changer for the next years. Thank you, that's a very good overview to begin with. I think the way you talk about the global South countries and how different countries have reacted in this moment around Ukraine and sanctioning Russia, we already heard last week, you mentioned it from Prasant, who was giving us a little bit of a tour of what the non-aligned movement meant for India, which no India played. And I think since we heard about India last week, and there was also a bit of history that Prasant was able to explain to us, it would be really good to look at that again, this time from the perspective more of your former home country, Brazil. Let's look at Latin America a little bit and how the non-aligned movement like historically played out. And are we moving towards this again? Because this is what you're describing a little bit with some of those countries, even unexpectedly taking same stop to certain, I don't know, following the rules, certain alliances with the US, following the US's lead. Are we seeing the development of a non-aligned movement? And is that an inspiration? Is that something we wanna cheer on? Or what does it mean historically? And what do you see this happening again? Okay, so I hope Vijay is not going to watch this because he's a big fan of the idea. No, I mean, first of all, the non-aligned movement, it's true, I mean, Latin America was different because at that moment in the most important, like the high moment of the non-aligned movement, Latin America was mostly run by right wing and even like military dictatorships. So we didn't actually, I mean, the country actually was one of the protagonists was of course Cuba. And Cuba was a very important moment to Cuba because Cuba was also building its international influence and maybe all the participation in Africa, the fight against apartheid, national liberation. So Cuba had major role. But for instance, like in South American countries, nobody was taking part of that. So it's not for us in our history, at that point, of course, the left was very influenced by Cuba, but because the states were not part of this, so it didn't have like such a great influence on us in Latin America, in the Caribbean, I mean, apart from Cuba of course, but it's true. I mean, the spirit of non-aligned movement, this is looks like this is being revitalized right now. I mean, if you take all the ideas of anti-imperialism, international solidarity, even like artistic networks that were formed at that point, especially between Africa and Asia with like a big participation, of course, of China. So, I mean, if you take the five principles, I mean, who could be against this? Of course, the empire could be, but not us. Like the mutual respect for territorial integrity, non-aggression, non-interference, domestic affairs. This is what I mean, China says is every single day to the US, right? Equality and mutual benefit, peaceful coexistence. Of course, this is what the spirit that we need now, and I think the spirit that is being rebuilt in the global south. The only thing, of course, this is a matter of like name, how we call this, how we call that. I mean, I particularly, I don't, I think we have to create also new names for new historical moments. So it's not the same configuration of the Cold War, but that's not the main point. The main point is the spirit, and the spirit is there. And the spirit is there, for instance, I don't know if you guys saw it, I think it was a few days ago, this proposal from Russia of the creation of a so-called G8 Plus. So that would be our G8, would be the BRIC countries, South Africa is still not in the list, but should, it should, but will be Brazil, Russia, India, China, Mexico, Turkey, Iran, and Indonesia.  But these countries in GDP, the PPP, the parity power purchase, their GDP of these eight countries are 24% bigger than the G7, the Bayer G7. So this is not a small thing, right? So, and even the BRICs, I mean, next week is gonna be very interesting. The journalists will be crazy working because you have the NATO, you have the NATO meeting, but you also have the BRICs meeting the same week and will be in hell, I mean, hosted by China, still online, unfortunately, but it's gonna be at the same time. So I think it's also gonna be a very interesting week to compare the proposals and, I mean, what's at stake at this moment. But I mean, they're discussing also the expansion of BRICs, that not necessarily is gonna be this G8 Plus, but maybe it's gonna commingo, we don't know, but Argentina, for instance, being discussed as a possible name, Indonesia's being discussed as a possible name, Nigeria and Senegal in Africa, beyond South Africa. So I think it's a very, and Salak is coming back. We're gonna talk more about this still later this show, but Salak is coming back. So it's not a coincidence that so many platforms are being reorganized and being proposed because this is the reaction against the aggressiveness of NATO and US. So I think it's a very exciting moment, a very dangerous moment, of course, but it also a very exciting moment because, as Lenny would say, this is like weeks where decades are happening. Yeah, and I think that thinking about blocks that is like what we have been discussing this in the middle for breakfast is coming back of the Cold War mentality. Regarding this idea of blocks, recently you wrote an article about why Latin America needs a new world order. In case you missed it, by the way, we will post the link in the chat, but in the article you talk about the necessity of regional projects and why China's relation is important to this. You pointed out that this NATO project has aroused a backlash around the global south and also even though the US has succeeded in revitalizing NATO, as we were saying, and military expenditure is skyrocketing, countries like mine are following NATO blindly, promising the 2% of GDP or cutting ties with Russia and buying gas from the US, but the US recently failed at this summit of the Americas. We saw an exclusionary and imperialist understanding of the whole region that Biden says is not only the backyard of the USA, but the front yard, like we don't know even what to think about that. And we saw people's summit for democracy full of people, grassroots organizations of the whole region discussing their own future. We'll leave you the link also of the panels of the People Summit if you missed it and also check out the amazing coverage that was done by People's Dispatch. And also you said in your article, something very interesting, Marco, that Latin America wants peace and that the global south might be prepared to reemerge by the end of the year and create an espade for itself within the world order. So please explain to us a bit on how Latin America, US, NATO and China also are related and what can be expected next week at the NATO summit regarding changes in the world order. Okay, so first this issue of Biden.  So actually this speech of Biden, like maybe two months ago, he was in a White House. So somebody made this comment about, oh, the Latin America is a backyard of US. I said, no, no, Latin America is not our backyard. Latin America is our front yard. That was the thing. Like, okay, you guys are in the front, not in the back. Come on, guys, we don't wanna be yards, any one's yard. We wanna build our house and I'm gonna live in the house. So this is the mentality of US and this mentality, as you said, was expressed in the summit of America because, I mean, US has this issue. I mean, they always are trying to divide everybody and of course, submit, but people are fed with that.  Imagine that 12 out of 35 presidents didn't show up. It was Mexico, of course, it was Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala, but many other countries didn't show up. And even like Argentina, Alberto Fernandez from Argentina, he went, but he said, I'm coming here as official president, a pro tem body of Celac and I'm coming here to criticize this summit. And so that was the vibe of the summit. And by the way, very important statement from Fernandez because what he said was, you know, I mean, talk about the Cuban embargo. They said, I mean, this embargo since 1966, this is a genocide. He called Cuban embargo a genocide. And by the way, also things were discussed in the people summit, the real summit of Americas. But by the way, Cuban president was Nikolas Maduro from Venezuela was even like ex-president Evo Morales was. You know that some studies says that in Venezuela, because of US sanctions, 40,000 people died because of lack of access to food and medicine, for instance. So this is US politics from Latin America. So how can you expect the countries in Latin America were just gonna like submit themselves to that? And of course right now, we have another sort of like a wave of progressive governments that is growing again.  But especially now you have the organization of Celac. I mean, Celac didn't meet for four years since 2017. And why that happened? Because it was a moment that was the rise of a right wing in some countries, like Brazil especially in 2016. And also Venezuela, there was another key actor of Celac was being massively attacked by US sanctions. So it got weakened. So Celac actually withdrew in 2017. So it was four years without any summit meeting. And they just met last September in Mexico City under the leadership of President Lopez Obrador from Mexico and Alberto Fernandez from Argentina. So they are meeting again in December. You know, tomorrow in a few hours, we're gonna have a historical moment for Latin America which are the Colombian elections. We still don't know the results. It's actually very, it's very like 50-50 now. But there is a chance for the first time in the history of Colombia that a leftist president will run the country.  The thing is that Colombia is the real backyard of US in the last decades in South America. Colombia has like seven US military bases. Colombia is like almost like NATO. It's the closest of NATO we have exactly, exactly. So I mean, all the military industrial complex of US and the relationship with the so-called war on drugs. And I mean, it's huge. If US loses Colombia, it's gonna be a big blow. And in October, we have elections in Brazil. And well, by the way, Lula is running. I mean, it's way ahead of Bolsonaro now in the polls, but we don't know. They might try something. We have to be very careful. But if Lula, even if Petro doesn't win, it would be bad. But if Lula wins in October, this would be a game changer, not only for South America.  Imagine like a few months ago, Steve Bannon, the ex-Trump advisor, usually he is 99% wrong. But I think this time he was right. He said, this is the most important elections of the history of South America. And he might be right. Because it's not only about Brazil. It's not only about Latin America and Caribbean and Sillac. It's about bricks. And it's about bringing back Brazil to the center of the job political table in such a moment. And Brazil being like a huge country, a big economy and having Lula that, by the way, we are lacking global leaders at this point. So this is something that also having Lula back again, this would be something like another level, I think, of the whole situation. So let's see. I mean, we can have this meeting in December of Sillac with a very different scenario for the continent. And just lastly about China, yeah, it's true. I mean, this is also something that would be a game changer for the relationship between Latin America and China, which is already like a very important relationship, as we know commercially, for instance, the trade grew from 18.9 billion dollars in 2002. To 449 billion dollars last year. So it's huge what's happening up right now and like $200 investments and funding in the last 15 years. But I think one thing that we need a stronger Sillac is that the relationship and now we're finishing this topic, the relationship between China and Latin America is very important for Latin America, China and Latin America is very important for Latin America commercially, economically, absolutely. But we need to improve the conditions of this relationship because right now basically Latin America, we export commodities to China. It's okay, China needs 1.4 billion people, 28% of the manufacturing of the world, they need natural resources of course, but we need more than just import cell phones and computers and machines from China. We need technology transfer. We have countries with huge industrial bases like Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and we need more than that. And there are already things happening in this sense. But definitely as I was saying, I mean, Latin America needs like a stronger leverage also to discuss with China of course, because job politics, there's no friends, right? There's interest. So of course our interests are very much aligned right now against NATO, against the empire, but we also need a little bit better conditions with China. And China is not, China, I don't think China is, China is willing to discuss this kind of things, but we have to propose. That's the problem. We're not proposing right now. Brazil is not proposing anything to China, different from just export soy and oil and beef and mining. We're not doing that. If we do, like Argentina has been doing lately, probably China would be very willing to have discussions about, for instance, technology transfer to some of our countries. So I think this is, again, I think the next months will be decisive to maybe the history of Latin America for the next 10, 20 years. So let's see, I'm a little bit optimistic for the first time in many years actually in our continent. You work just to continue on the China threat. You are working also, you do a lot of work for Don Cheng News where you are exactly exploring these type of relationships and where you are in some sense countering or at least expanding the very, very uniform voices that you hear in the West about relations to China. Like things like looking at, is China just another colonizer for Africa and Latin America is a common thread that we hear in the West. We don't often hear voices from China. We don't often get the Chinese perspective. So at Don Cheng News, we will put the link in the chat. This is something that you work on actually exploring all these other more intricate relationships and it's, as you said, I think this is really important to remember. It is not all about being friends. It is all about the different interests and how they align. So I leave this to the people to all read the Don Cheng News and subscribe to the newsletter. I have a really unscientific question that just interests me. I have been to China very briefly once I would never even say that I've been long enough there to say anything about the country and certainly with all the inability to speak the language, et cetera, et cetera, it's not even, I can't even imagine to judge anything there. But I'm wondering what these types of, what these conversations are on the street. I already said in the West, the general conversation is very uniform. It is very much demonizing China. Sometimes from the one side saying, this is too capitalist, like the left will say, this is just a, you know, all these different terms, state capitalism, capitalism, this is just hidden. And then from the right, because of course it's a communist dictatorship. So there's sort of a demonization that goes in all different directions. One thing everyone is sure on, it's not democratic enough. The democratic values are not being held up. Again, whether from the right or from the left doesn't even matter. And what I find interesting or what I often witness is it seems that everyone somehow has something to say on this.  And then comes this way or that way, some concern or criticism of the country. And I would like to know whether this is something, like whether the Chinese people are spending as much time judging, scrutinizing, criticizing, giving unsolicited advice to the United States or more interestingly to Europe, because we're sitting here now talking from Europe and preparing for the Madrid NATO summit. So is that a sport? Like this in China seems to be a European sport. Is it the same in China? And I know it's an unscientific question that you can at best give anecdotal evidence. I understand, but I'm really curious about that. I think there's China in the last 40 years. China, of course, most of the energy, the focus of international relations was towards the Western powers, right? US, Europe, Canada, even Australia. So of course they did this for a strategic reasons because they need technology transferred, they need finance, they need everything to their development. But this also created a weird ideological configuration in the country. Of course, I mean, economy, money, technology also comes with ideas. And it's, I mean, I didn't have ideas, I still, I mean, until I came to leave here and I was shocked that the size of the big influence of Western thought and even now liberalism here in many circles in China. If you get now like, I don't know, scholars in China, this is like people debate here, some friends, but maybe 70, 80% of the scholars in China in the top universities, they love the West. They are pro-Western. So it's actually the opposite. I mean, if you're asking, oh, but in China, they like criticize in Europe and US, I think they have to criticize more. That's the problem of China. They were too much enchanted by Western ideas, by Western ideologies in the last 40 years. And it's interesting because this is changing. This is a big shift that is happening in the country now. And of course, it has a lot to do with the attitude of US and Europe against China. Because if you take like big cities, you talk to like young people like five, 10 years ago, they are dreamers maybe to live in US. As millions of them went to study in US and UK and they still do. So actually, I think to hear that what's happening now in China is big part of the youth, it's realizing how much US and Europe are not friends and not gonna be friends. You know, there was like a report from a very important think tank from China, which is part of the state council with how they call the ministries, the whole, all the ministries. So this thing thinks called Chongyang, they are related to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China.  So they were very historically very close to the US and to peers in the US. So they did this report recently, basically the conclusion is China has to give up any illusion of skipping the rivalry of United States and more China, we don't want that, we want to avoid that, but China has to be prepared for eventual war against the US regarding Taiwan, of course. So this is like two weeks ago and I can give you one more example of how the mood of the people here are changing regarding especially US. So last year, we had like the biggest blockbuster movie in Chinese cinemas was a movie called The Battle of Lake Changi. This was a battle during the so-called the Korean War. Here they say the war against the, resistance against the invasion of US and United Nations, et cetera. And it started directly with the Korean people. So imagine that in 2019, I was talking to a professor here at university and was at that moment that you remember that was the beginning of the trade war and Trump was really like going after China was a week that the very like heavy negotiation happened. And then I talked to him and I asked him about the trade war and he said something interesting. He said, you know, less this week, the Chinese CCTV, they have many channels, they broadcast a movie about the Korean War, not this one, but like a classic one from the 50s or 60s. He said, you know, that's the first time that the Chinese television broadcast this movie in 30 years. So for 30 years, they didn't discuss a Korean War here. They didn't want to discuss that because, okay, let's be friends of US, this is the past, let's move ahead. So this was 2019. So last year, you have this movie that the box office of this movie is more than $1 billion. This is the biggest box office of the history of the Chinese movies. And this is basically a three hours of, this was a battle between China and US and against US because Koreans were not in this battle. So imagine that a movie, of course, I mean, we are here in this program and in the fighting for peace. But I think I just wanted to transmit this sentiment, popular sentiment that it's getting dangerous what US is doing against China. But they are prepared for that. And this sentiment of, okay, US is actually probably a threat to us. It's growing in Chinese population. And after this movie, you had like that of leg chunking to, you had many other movies about Korean War, you have a TV series about Korean War, you have documentaries. This is like a big discussion now in the country. And I think it shows a little bit of the shift. And at the same time, this same youth that is going to watch this movie is also very interesting in reading Mao again. It's very interesting in Marxism again. So it's also there's a revitalization of socialist ideas, of Maoist ideas, which I think it's a big shift that's happening in China, especially I think in the last three years, three, two years. So. Yeah, things are changing. And thank you very much for this overview because sometimes I don't know, like at least in the Western media, they talk about China, like if China, in China, nobody lives there. Like if people doesn't exist, like it's only Xi Jinping doing everything alone. So it's nice to have this kind of measures of what actually the movies are, what are the interests? How is the investment? Like this kind of connection with material reality that explains a lot of things because we need also to understand China, whatever your opinion is, because we live with them and they have a major role in the world. So these kind of exchanges are really, really important. Now we want to wrap up with going back to NATO by talking about some of the things that we've been talking more intentionally. So what are the key points of the next NATO strategic concept? We know that they change from the world of terror to the Cold War. So what are the key points that we are going to hear on the end of Union Madrid? And also the difficult question. Connecting this next NATO strategic concept, what do you think is the most important outcome for this peace movement and anti-war organizations after this NATO summit? What are the necessary changes to commit to an actual common peace strategy and not only mention peace in manifestos? I think my Trinidad is bad. I didn't listen to you. You have to answer that, Marco. This is a hard question. Let's ask Vladimir again, not putting Lenny what to do. So I don't know. I mean, there's not a recipe for every region of the world. I think the political realities are very different.  And we know that unfortunately, European left is not always strong anti-imperialist and it's very like eager to be against global self countries, right? Either like Venezuela or Cuba or China or Russia. I mean, there's always a problem with global self countries, which I think it's very difficult for us to think about, I mean, how to deal with the threats of the war if you don't have allies and the allies are not going to come from Germany, bourgeoisie, it's gonna come from global self countries. All the contradictions we have, of course, I mean, it's again, the spirit of non-aligned movement. It was not a leftist movement, I mean, absolutely not. But this is not only a left coalition that we need now because peace, I mean, it's, war and peace is not only a discussion. I mean, it's beyond, of course, like grassroots organizations and people's movements. This is like a state discussion. What I think is the role of the people's movements or should be the role of people's movements, of course, it's just to put pressure on the governments to take position against the empire. And I think in this situation, it's of course, probably Latin America now has better conditions again for the movements to pressure some of the governments of the region. But again, I don't think it's hard to say, I mean, what to do in Asia, for instance, I mean, this is probably gonna be much more a discussion in the level of the states, like state level. And of course, I mean, again, I know that this is a very controversial topic in Europe, but I'm sorry, we can't avoid Russia. We can't just isolate Russia and think, oh, there's evil Russians and because I mean, for peace, we also need them. I mean, of course, they are in the middle of the war right now, but who is the one who had any power of deterrence against United States and NATO right now if it's not Russia and China? So this is the kind of discussions that it's really hard, of course, to do in some of the leftist circles that we leave and we discuss with. But I don't think, I mean, this is geopolitics. This is like big picture. This is not about only the pure and the nice people in the room. So I think, again, there's no way out for the global south and there's no way out against like a real threat of war if the regional platforms of the global south are not stronger, but even though, to be honest, even though, because I think the biggest problem we have now is that United States know that by like only economical measures, they are not going to avoid, they're not gonna win the competition against China. They know that. And that's I think the big problem we have right now because they might try something radical because they know that if they just allow China to grow and even now with all the new configurations with all the new alliances in the global south, I mean, global south, we get stronger. So I mean, I don't know if you saw yesterday, they were this, I mean, starting again, there's discussion and there's speeches in the US saying, oh, the straight of Taiwan is international waters. This is a huge provocation. You can't say that, like, this is coast of China. You cannot say now that the coast of China is international water and you'd expect that, okay, there's gonna be any reactions. So I mean, I think I'm worried. Everything is our worry, but at the same time as I was saying, this is also a moment of opportunities for the global south. And I think that, I mean, in Latin America, movements have to be stronger and put pressure on the governments, Africa is a bit different, but still the African countries, most of the governments, they don't wanna, of course, nobody wants the war. Only the industrial military complex of US wants the war and some of crazy European presidents right now. The world doesn't want the war. So I think this is our strength because most of the people and most of the countries in the world, they don't want a war. So, exciting moments, dangerous and exciting. Thank you. I think those are really good words for sort of send off into the week of the summit. Thank you for that, Marco. If any of you are coming to Madrid who are listening now or watching this later, we'll be discussing a lot of those questions and other important topics at the Marcelino Camacho's auditorium on Friday evening and Saturday all day. We'll have panels and discussions and workshops. We will have translation, English and Spanish for some of these events. And you can look for us in special workshops on Saturday and think more about what perspectives for peace are there and what does this look like, what we want to accomplish together. There'll be a demonstration in Madrid. It'll be at noon on the Sunday of the 26th from Atolcha to Plaza de España showing our commitment for peace and against NATO and against the wars in general. I want to thank you all. We have obviously not learned to stay in time at all. So we are way over time. Sorry for that. But I really, no, no, no, but I really want to say thank you. I think it was really helpful. And I think those were really good words to start out this counter summit with and also very, very good moments too. What should we be looking for? What should we be looking for when we listen to the first press conferences coming out of the NATO summit? What is being told to us and how we should understand and interpret what we are being told? So I want to thank you very much, Marco, for joining us. Thank you, Nora, and I will see you in Madrid and all of you hopefully next week from Madrid. Thank you so much. Bye-bye. Thank you.


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Hello and welcome back to The Craft Box. My name is Brenton. Today we're in episode 9 of the Pirate 101 Privateer Skip-Through. The last episode, if you haven't checked it out already, we made it into Jona Town. And we did things and stuff and now we're defeating... not defeating, we're finding the Frogfather. So yee, let us do this.  So yeah, we'll see how far we go. I know there's a dungeon, so it might just be the dungeon, but it depends how long it takes us. We're like skipping all the dialogue and stuff. So yeah, should be fun. Um, what we got? We will do that. We will do you. I mean, we'll do that I suppose. Done three. Interesting number. Here we go. Fantastic. Hello. What's the damage for you? Mega her. Nice. Nanu Nanu. Amazing work there. 90. He nearly did. That's great. Okay. Also we're level 10, so if you want us to know we're now level 10. Probably should have got some new gear, but I'll do that in between the next episode and this one and the next one probably. So yeah. Millie. Hello. Millie's great. So we will do... I mean, might as well just do that. Sure, why not. Boop. Just do that. Sure. Why not? Why not? Okay. Epic again. Wow. You're great, aren't you? You keep epic against. Fantastic. There we go. Rocko is down and just you. Okie dokie. Um, crazy bill. Go Millie go.  Can't make it up there yet. But um, yeah, we should be fine. Done. See how that does. How much? Oh, super. Okay, we get it. You can correct a lot. That's great. No, no, no. Fantastic. There we go. That is that. Done. Yay. Easy peasy. Hello. Can't get through there. Treasure chest. There we go. That's it. It's true. Frogs on her. Nobody's guessing yet. Let's go and head over to the Frogfather then, which is fantastic. The Frogfather is probably one of my favourite. Favourite. Favourite. Favourite. Um, NPCs is just so cool. Hello. It really hates skipping dialogue. Okay. There was a hidden dock there where one of my associates will be waiting. Do we have an agreement? Interesting. Polaris. Um, I'll be back when I'm at the Hidden Dock in the Presidio. Okay, I am back. Just made it over to the Presidio Fun Week dungeon. I quite like it. I actually do really like it. There's someone else here apparently, which is kind of cool. Um, I've actually seen a lot of people on like, literally in the last, as I was sailing here, I've seen about probably like five people. I'm really surprised. So, yeah, I'm really happy about it. Flippin' it. Flippin' it, yeah. Okay. So yeah, try not to get pulled by these guys because they're bad. Um, and if you get pulled, you're bad. Um, you have to defeat them in like two rounds because you can't draw attention to yourselves. I've been pulled way too many times. I think they've actually made it easier to not get pulled. Um, yeah.  Um, also, in that short wee break when I was sailing over here, I leveled up Emmet and the Monkey and Bonnie up to level eight. Bonnie is now ready for a promotion, which is really cool. So we will do, I'll probably do that off camera. Um, if you saw my Musketeer walkthrough, you'll know that I, um, I kind of messed up with promotions. So I'm going to try and do it as soon as possible this time and not like waste time with levels just because some people can't make promotions if people aren't there. Um, yeah, so I'll try and do that real quick, hopefully. I mean, the first promotion isn't too bad because that's easy, but yeah, you get it. So, we'll do this battle, Millie. There we go, fantastic one down already. Amazing, Millie. Millie is great. Um, anyway, we're just going to go for you. You can go on him, you can go on him, and so can you. Fantastic, okay. I'm really thinking of training into Buccaneers for a bit to definitely get Glancing Blow because I really, not Glancing Blow, I'm the one that I got, whatever that's called. Yeah, I really like that. Um, but otherwise I'm not too sure what I want to get. So, again, if you have any suggestions, let me know down in the comments. I would love to hear what you think. Um, so yeah, we'll try and get something because I know I've got one training.  Calm down. Just chill, bro. Chill, bro. Ooh, nice work. Fantastic. Return of Fire is great.   Yeah, you did. Yeah. Okay, one left. Um, just in case. There we go, done. Fantastic. Okay, and here we go. There we go, done. Fantastic. That is the first battle run. Um, there's quite a few battles in this place. So yeah, just be careful of that. Let's go and get more. Who are out here? Yay, hello. Yeah, they do. Okay. Um, I'll be back once I've defeated these guys because it is just the same battle as what we did just before. Okay, I am back just finished off that. And where do we go next? Into the barracks. Okay. Um, yeah, so that one wasn't too hard. I mean, it's just the same as the first one. And so it's just who are we? Yeah, Jack Russell. Fantastic. I love Jack. Lucky Jack. Fantastic. He's amazing. I just like, I don't really, he's not like the best, but I mean, I really like him as a companion. So I usually generally always pick him because he's great. Um, obviously I hadn't done on my musketeer. Um, I did get sparred and on my witch doctor. No, no, I have dead mark on my witch doctor.  I know on my swashbuckler, which you guys probably haven't seen, I have Jack, I think. So yeah, I actually haven't played on him for a while. So I don't even know what I have on him, to be honest. Uh, yeah, let us go for you. Just go there, I suppose. You can go for him. Go for him. And you can go for him. Done. Fantastic. Look at that. Amazing. Bop, bop, bop. Okay. And here we go. 44. Nice work. Epic. 23 and 23. Fantastic. And what are you doing? You're doing epic and 53. Fantastic. Um, and what are you doing? Ah, Pizzol. Pizzol, we don't want you. We don't want you. Ooh, dodge, cheeky. Ooh, dodge. Very cheeky. Cheap shot. Nice. He's nearly dead. Repel borders. You're dead. Bye. You're screwed. You're gone. You're gone. You're gone. You're gone. Okay. And three lift. So we are going to go for you. We're going to go for you. We're going to go for you and you. Done. Immobilized. Attack. Done lucky. Nanananu. Holding ground there. Fantastic. 69. Amazing. Oh, block. Done lucky. These guys have a lot of block. More blocks than the other guys. Because they were so easy. Repel borders. Okay, that's good. He's nearly dead, which is great. Dodge. Nice. They should have accuracy, but good block. So, I mean, it comes in circles, I suppose. I should know you're going for him. You can go for him. You can go for him. And you can go for him. Actually, you should definitely go for him. I don't trust. Don't trust. We're going to go like that. Should have trust, but that's fine. Um, okay.  So, not worried at all. There we go. Bye. Amazing. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Fantastic. Okay. This is transport skullcap. Interesting. Um, okay. We will head up here. He is a boss, this guy. He's actually quite a good boss. What's this? A hairless giant thinks they can steal from the crown of Orquista. I shall dispatch you with the irresistible horse. Okay. There we go. Done. Um, Millie. Yay. So, basically, we have to defeat the boss. So, we're going to do that. Obviously, we're just going to go for him, I suppose. Just full charge. Well, um, I suppose we'll slow you guys down. Done. Um, yeah. What I'll do is I'll bomb him, and then I'll go up and get the other thing. There's a tome right there, so make sure you get that because that allows you to get another companion training point, which is very handy. Um, I'm going to try and collect all of them, I think, all through there. I don't actually know where they all are. Maybe I should do, that's a good idea. Maybe I, oh, my musketeer actually have already, I might have already started collecting them all on my musketeer, but I'll go through and collect all of them that are on the ground. Probably, probably a good idea. Um, Millie is fantastic. We are going to go like this. We're going to go like that, and we're going to go like that. And we're just going to go down there. Done. Fantastic. He should nearly be dead. That was the effort, which is fantastic. Um, okay, this should, oh, he blocked unlucky. This isn't going to do as much as I hoped, but it's fine. He will nearly be at half. No, not quite. I overestimate a bit too much sometimes. It's fine. It's fine, it's fine. The power board is nice. At least we've strapped him, so he can't really escape.  Um, that's nice. There we go. That's those out. Just focus on this full now. And the view up. Done. Fantastic. Okay. Lots. Oh, none of please, none of you. Please. Damonkey. And the power board is nice. Thank you. Half health. Damonkey. And what are you doing? What are you doing, Millie? You're not doing anything? Okay, that's fine. Oh, she's getting a big arm long distance charge. That makes sense. I would do that as well, myself. Okay. Order that. Hopefully he dies. Hopefully. Should be.  He should die. Come on, we believe in you. Not quite. Millie, we believe in you. Do it, Millie. You won't. Do it, Millie. Do it. Do it. Yeah. Millie was just getting a long charge up for him, because he's now dead. Okay, there we go. That is that battle done. Next. We will head on down and free the prisoner. Yeah, and then I think that's nearly it, which is great. It actually goes so much quicker skipping all this dialogue. So yeah, I mean, if you haven't played the game already, you should really listen to the dialogue, because it's really well done. Especially in Pirate. I prefer the dialogue in Pirate, but yeah. Anyway, I'll be back after this battle, because it is just the same as before, except we've got Lucky Jack Russell, so yeah. I'll be back in just a sec. Okay, I am back just finished off that battle. Yeah, and we're going to collect the spices. The spices are yours, Captain. The Great Fair leads to a tunnel. You have no trouble getting out. I'll meet you in Gullet. So yeah, that was fantastic. Luckily, I have left a mark in Gullet before we left. Oh, the other guy's left. That's cool. So yeah, we will head over to the Frogfather, who is behind us in Hyalur. Let's go. And hopefully, yeah, we'll get Jack Russell. Yay. Fantastic. Okay, let us continue. We've got Jack now, which is fantastic. I might actually switch to Jack, because I prefer him. No, no, no, just because I prefer the look of him. Big decision. Do I want you or you? I might go you, because you do a lot of damage. New talent. We're going to give you rough, yaw, and accurate. So yeah, we have 15. You can't be leveled up. So yeah, we've got a promotion for Bonnie, which I'll do off camera. Yeah, so I'm actually really happy about this. We will get a new ship now, and then I think we head over to Flotsam, which is the New Exterior. Okay, here we go. Done. The Darling Venture. The Dearing Venture, sorry. Okay, here we go. Yeah, I am excited to head into Flotsam now, and we will continue on our chase for Ratbeard. So yeah, if you don't know that we're basically chasing Ratbeard, if you want to know the full story, go over and watch my playthrough on My Musketeer. It's got basically 99% of the dialogue in the game for the storylines, so if you don't know what the storyline is about and want to play, you should. And go and check out my Musketeer series, which is, there's a playlist on it. It's finally finished, which is great. So yeah, if you haven't watched that, go do that. If you want to know the dialogue, but if you just want to see me play game, that's fine. You can also do that. Yeah, I'll be back once I'm over in Flotsam at the black spot with One Eye Jack. Okay, I am back. Just made it over to the black spot. And really go find Gustav and Sally. Okay. Let us get on down here. Just mark here just so we're kind of close. Where are we going? Over here. Uh-oh, getting stuck. Not good. Okay, Flop House. So yeah, there's a whole bunch of vendors around. It's quite a nice place. Flotsam. I enjoyed it except for the fact that it's all really difficult to navigate, but that's fine. Okay, here we go. I don't really care. Yeah, sure will. Okay, cool. Thanks. Let's just go. Thank you. Okay, cool. Nothing's... cool. Um, okay. Let's do that. That, that and that. Yes, sounds good. Okay. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. What are they doing? Um, okay. Done. Fantastic. Okay. Hello. Blocks would be you. Thank you. Um, okay. Go Millie, go! Yeah! Amazing. Okay. And what are we going to do? We will do that, I suppose. That, that, that short. Fantastic. Okay. Kido-ki. Fantastic. Jack is amazing. And no, no, no. Yeah, boy. That did a lot. And there we go. Woohoo! Half health. Fantastic. Millie, what are you going to do? Oh, we got them first. That's just kidding. Haha. Blocks nice. Millie, go! Yeah, Millie. Good job. Um, okay. Who do we have left these two? Well, I'm just going to heal.  That should be good. Okay. Fantastic. Blocked unlucky. Um, okay. Yikes. Go Millie, go! Go Mustang Sally. Yay! There we go. Fantastic. Done. Okay. Bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop. And doop. There we go. When I jack, haven't seen him. Not today at least. Now, where were we? You're looking for when I jack? Talk to Ned over Ned's galley. Jack's often there. Okay, so we're assaulting it. He is over this way. Over down here somewhere. Yeah, hello. There we go. Up the hoist. Yay.  Do-do-do-do-do. When I jack, where are you? Oh look, you are there. You are the same person as the thing. Good job. Ah, so you found me at last, eh? Sorry about the deception, but a rabbit can't be too careful. Now, on to business. Err, come on. Come on. Thank you. You can still catch Ratbeard if you're quick. Ah, two favours repaid today with nothing but- Okay, so next time we will go and locate Ratbeard in his hideout. 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As the world today marks Teacher's Day, those in the noble profession have been enjoying to join hands together and build the education sector in Nigeria to an enviable standard that can compete globally. Correspondent Uyime Elijah in this report takes a look at the teacher's welfare and the possibility of keeping up with impacting the education sector in Nigeria. Academic professionals all over the world no doubt gain prominence from the four walls of the classrooms. Today the world celebrates Teacher's Day to recognize, evaluate and enhance the status of teachers around the globe. A cross-section of Nigerians says that teachers need to be given the rights they deserve as they are the pillars of nation building. If you are going to put 20 people that are passionate about education, some people don't care about the salaries that is fine but you can't evaluate and conclude your result on that. There are some people also that they are passionate about that but nevertheless that is what they do for a living. You cannot teach when you don't have passion for it because it's not easy to like mentor somebody's as child. So by doing that you have to be passionate about it. Not them do the normal thing. Teacher they say they are what in heaven, it's not in heaven, it's here. They won't be like us. Not them do something new for them, for their life. Nigerian teachers have over the years raised an alarm over their poor welfare and salary debt owed them by some state governors. This purpose-driven profession takes so much livelihood out of them to benefit others as they live below the impact they give. If you look at the team for this year's celebration, you would say the team is the transformation of education begins with teachers. You would discover that it is only the teachers that can transform education completely because they are the drivers that are driving the vehicle of education all over the nation and the team could not have come at a better time than now. When you discover there's a global economic turn down globally and I want to believe teachers can transform education all over the nation, Nigeria inclusive, provided the government is ready to invest in them, provided the government is ready to improve their working condition, provided the government is ready to better their welfare. I want us to note the fact that this transformation we are talking about cannot be done in isolation from the living and working conditions of teachers. Fees are fees, where they work, their condition of service and everything. Teachers can transform education if they are treated well. Many Nigerians argue that the current budget for education is far below expectation for a country with about 10.5 million out of school children, the world's highest number. A data from 2017 shows the downturn trend in education spending in Nigeria. In 2021, the budget allocation was 5.14 percent, a 0.01 percent increase from 2020. This year's team is giving more responsibility to teachers as transformative agents, but the reality in the country where the cost of living keeps rising and the take home cannot actually take the teachers home. Much is left to be desired. Weyime Elijah, PlusDV News, Lagos. Well joining us now via Zoom to discuss teachers' matters is Dr. Gide Johnson from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, and educationist, Professor Abyola Awashika. Good evening to you. You're welcome. Well, the role of teachers cannot be over emphasized in any nation. So how would you describe their remuneration, particularly in Nigeria? Perhaps you want to compare to any other scenario that you're privy to. Have information about. Let me start with you, Professor Awashika. All right. Absolutely. Thank you so much. We all know our teachers are doing wonderful things. We know the condition of our country and we know that they're sacrificing themselves for our children. And we need to help them. The federal government wants to try to throw money at it, but really, we don't need to throw money at it. What we need are people who are qualified and able to teach our children like Finland. Finland puts their best forward to teach. If you don't have a master's degree, they don't even begin to talk to you. And it transformed their system by doing that. Unfortunately for us in Nigeria, we have chosen to put our first forward. We say if you want to teach, you can do with a hundred points scored in jam whereas other professions, you have to score about 200 to 100. This is not good enough. All right. Well, let me just take you up on something you just said. You said one of the errors our government has committed is just throwing money at it. How do you mean? Because teachers are not well paid in this country. That's one of the problems that the education sector is having. Teachers are not well paid. Yes, we know. But some of the thing that the government is doing right now, for example, they're giving scholarships to people who want to go to colleges of education or educational institutions. Well, that is throwing money at it. But who are you giving the scholarship to? Is it the guy who scores 100 points in jam or the guy who scored 250 points in jam? So we cannot just say, all right, we're going to give you a scholarship, but we need to watch who is in the classroom with our children. All right. Let me go to the gentleman. What is your take on teachers' remuneration in Nigeria? There's no doubt that the degree of comprehensive analysis of teachers have been in Nigeria with what obtains another client. You agree with me that teachers have been paid peanuts. Apart from being paid peanuts, the enabling environment is not provided for them, for them to try as compared to what we have in the 60s, compared to what you have in the 70s and the early 80s. The whole environment has completely changed. As I've pointed out, at that particular point in time, people teaching us in a passion, the best of the site want to go into teaching. However, the story has changed. The general societal view of who the teacher is. We have this common thing that the rewards of teachers are in heaven, as we have made the teaching profession, not to be attracted to even the best of the society because the condition does not take care of their business. All right. Let's move over to the system, the current system that we have that we currently operate. What's your view of that? That's the 6334 system. How do you see that? Is it working? Has it worked? Well, it's because we didn't let it work. That's because we all want tertiary education. We don't want technical education. The three that are supposed to split when they get to JS3 doesn't split anymore. Everybody now stands in line to go to a university, whereas there are opportunities in other places to go through the polytechnic, to go through the innovative enterprise institutions and still get back to being a wonderful professional in your field. What would you say corrupted as structure? Why is the implementation not as it should have been? Well, unfortunately, the fact that the government does not pay the same to a graduate of a polytechnic and a graduate of a university causes everyone to think, okay, a college of education is out, which are not going to get as much as a graduate. Polytechnics are out. IEIs are out because they're not going to get as much as a graduate. So when you have an HND starting at level seven and a BS is starting at level eight, you already have caused that system not to work. Okay, Dr. Jida Johnson, let me come to you with the next question. Well, on that question, I think that the problem starts with us paying attention to the first level in the secondary school, the termination on the first level, for those that want to acquire technical education, those that will provide the labor force for business like bricklayers, technicians, electricians, all of this. Government has not made any investment in technical schools. What investment have we made? Now if you are involved in the building sector or in the construction sector, you will see that majority of this labor have been imported from Republic of Togo. If you are looking for the pet bricklayer, the pet tyler, they are coming from being in Republic of Togo, Ivory Coast and the rest of it, because they have the support system. So in the 6334 educational model that was introduced on the upper bank, the Minister of Education, the quicker component after your three years in secondary school, which is technical education, leave service or speak to it. It was rendered useless as a result of your system in its entirety. To add to what Prabha said, we have also laid emphasis on satisfaction, tertiary education satisfaction, while downplaying this technical education. And I tell you this, majority of Nigerians are traveling out of Nigeria. In 1983-84, we are and we don't check out. Now we have JAPA, a lot of Nigerians that are checking out now are doing these technical jobs that they could not do here to go and learn it abroad. Well, time would not allow us to explore further. But let me ask you the last question. Again, I'll go back to the prof and then you wrap it up. Dr. Johnson, how better can the government encourage teachers besides financial motivation? Well, first of all, don't tell them their reward is in heaven. It's here. So motivate them with money, motivate them with training, motivate them with promotion, and make them happy. Because if your teachers are happy, the children will be happy. Okay, so Dr. Johnson, your take on that. One, there should be a comprehensive national policy on health care for teachers. Three, if you have a better working condition, you need to be put to the classrooms to look at the classrooms and the staff room of the teachers. Does it measure up to turn that you want to give to people that will impact future leaders? And lastly, the retirement benefit. Teachers don't have to go through here to collect their retirement benefits. We provide all of this. You don't need to throw money like a point out. I assure you that we have better teachers in the system. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you. Thank you. I do hope that at the end of the day, all these judges would amount to something because I know that governments should be working towards ensuring that by the next year, when we celebrate the teachers, their lot would have improved and the education sector in the country would have also been transformed. Thank you so much, Dr. Jida Johnson, for your time. And Professor Abyola Woshika, thank you so much for your insight on this very germane issue. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.