ere we're positioning this stuff because we might need that headline slot in september or october i mean i think in general uh the media have been responsive uh particularly the local media like yourselves and elsewhere around the country and you haven't typed things you haven't refused to report things as it were and and obviously uh what i say today some people will say uh there's a bit of sense in that in Europe say load or rubbish but uh what we're trying to get across is uh enough information for informed decision-making about whatever we're talking about and the local media are allowing that obviously um national media uh sometimes uh to use the phrase big things up because it suits their uh their audience etc but that's the way life is with anything it could be a financial issue it could be uh the housing issue whatever that's the way the media works but i i can say that in the north of yourself and your colleagues further down south uh in broadcasting and in the the print media uh have been uh very very reasonable i'm not saying you've taken everything um verbatim i'm not saying you haven't challenged us and for instance with ourselves you either challenge me or you'll have to put queries from your listeners in to challenge me and that's part of the that's part of the game but that's how we get to to information we have a conversation isn't it okay and that's the way i just i just don't want i just find as i say some outlets and i'm not asking you to criticize them i wouldn't for a second but just amplifying this and then what happens is it it it it pictures out if it does if not then we get back to it again but then when we need to talk about something that's really really serious then people go and well you said that about monkeypox anyway yeah yeah it's an ongoing it's an ongoing journey right i just want to update with you as it relates to hepatitis of an unknown origin in children as as that moved uh in any direction since we last spoke uh we actually i didn't speak to you about this my apologies doctor president no no no no you're okay you're okay um there are small number cases in the country as you know uh from national briefings uh we haven't seen tankly and upsurging cases uh we're internationally we're seeing cases increase but at a low level but they are coming in from all around the world unfortunately uh we still don't know what's at the bottom of this this was the main theory at the moment is the adenovirus infection but we still haven't got concrete information on that so we're basically trying to do lots of research internationally and a lot of cooperation between ourselves in the uk and other Ireland as well um on that and testing etc and the care of patients but the main thing is to get the message out again not to not to make people anxious that um uh it is mainly young children they get sick they get a pale feces a stool they get dark urine they get unwell talk to your GP talk get get an opinion from pediatrician and they take it from there okay and there have been situations where around the country kids have come in and we said oh could be could be and then do investigations and things settling that's not better to do that than to ignore it i'll think it's totally totally totally now obviously you know i've read some reports this is uh this could be linked to covid vaccine now i thought this could be quite easy to root out because this is a cohort that's not broadly vaccinated it's not because the vast majority have not been vaccinated dr anthony breslin thank you as always have a good day take care that's dr anthony breslin director of public health the hsc and as i say i just think there needs to be more responsibility there are reporting guidelines on other series issues such as save for instance suicide and others and i think it's really important that uh do we need guidelines on reporting things like um monkey parks because it's important as information out there but i think it has to be measured because i was listening to one national radio station um rte and it was headline news and i think if anyone was listening to that they would think that this is the next big thing and it's not and we've an awful lot to contend with at the moment and i just don't think we need uh important issues in context good information to be amplified to worry people i just don't see any benefit in that oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand whatsapps and texts to that number right uh i want to say happy 14th birthday to aran bates in convoy coming in from your mommy and also happy 98th birthday to kate mcconiglee from quarry port salon from all your family friends and all of us here at highland radio happy birthday everyone okay we'll be back with more after this from queen and david bowie and this is their track under pressure all right dj asks on facebook if these children who have hepatitis had the vast vaccine i know myself they haven't the vast majority the vast majority have not had the vaccine and i think it do it as a disservice in investigating it and try and get to the bottom of it if we started blaming everything on that's right okay uh michael darty joins us on the program now hi michael yes great how do you think i am good i'm good right you have a wind farming in a shown um like a full industrial scale not industrial scale one but like a big one or is it a small one what's the story mm-hmm like i'm supplying power to the national grid but i was at that meeting last night in boncraner and uh i have planning for 14 miles here on the other side right yeah and i got it about eight and a half years ago you get a 10-year planning right so there's eight and a half years of planning up to the air grids because they never give out no grid connections for the last 10 years until last year so that's a part of a big part of the problem so on the way um i was looking at the new development plan there and the dunagall kind of counselors they all voted they have actually wiped out everything in relation to renewable energy on the the one on the one more side of it because uh this site that i have here there's 18 months planning left on it they they have wiped out as well so could you not get a could you not get an extension well i'll come to that in a minute one of the planners last night you know for me you order the torbans today until you get them up and get them commissioned that's roughly about two years mm-hmm so out of six months out of this outside of the timeline so i asked them would i get an extension it says you will provide it your substantial work still that's exactly what i was going to ask yeah can you tell me what's substantial work because i'm sorry i can't answer that so that leaves it a mumble so you know why they've taken every site on the contrary out the elevated sites that every one of them taken out the only one is that they've allowed is down probably three to four hundred feet above sea level and they're all probably fairly close to houses and uh you know when you go to a bank to finance that the first thing the bank manager will ask you for is a one speech and seven half meters per second probably the lowest you can you can come down to but they'll rather have eight meters per second so that's another barrier there so you're saying they're being they're being planned out of existence they're being planned out of existence in other words you can maybe in some places build these wind farms but they're not practical so in other words you might as well not be given planning at all that is right and like you know i have one of those on the site here that the 14th is going on the planning for and why why has denigar the councillors voted this down why have they done it well we'll have to we'll have to look into that as two pound later at the moment and it's raising a full of oils around about 1400 euros heating up so where are we going we're going backwards can i ask you a little bit about running running the wind farm like how many days or weeks in a year would you be putting energy into the grid every week and it's obviously it's incredibly wind dependent is it and something else well probably during july i have to be what the two year your weakest months all in that you have 10 months right and in terms of you know fossil fuels required to keep them 14 wind time turbines because obviously as i say i referenced this already but you own wind turbines like do you need any other unsustainable energy to keep these generating energy oh no no no the one just the one or the one turn and it just drives electricity into the grid and that's it there's no other intervention required no no there's no oil at all russia required for that okay what about gas out of the carb no no no no no um i'm just another thing i wanted i wanted to say i had a lot of people ringing on this last couple of years to your your station as well because um what's the point in having one most when when uh electricity prices are rising well i'm getting eight cents from my car that's what i'm getting and if you don't have your household ball today ball a day you've been charged 25 to 30 cents for your day rate and 15 cents for your nightly and you're only getting eight as the generator and all one farm developers are the same that's what they're getting yeah that's the the optikers so i said the regulator needs to step on here or the god was there somebody making money three times more and we're getting but it's like farming and other industries isn't it the the person supplying the coal product they're getting the least well that's always the way it's right that is right now and like do you think it just to answer a couple of questions why we have on someone who actually works with wind turbines because it's quite fascinating like can the grid take all the power you generate do you know what i mean well come to that i was in Dublin six years ago and i asked the air grid what was it doing about upgrading the lines that had done it all and the answer they gave me was i was going to cost 48 million to upgrade the lines out of it all and they didn't think it justified that spend now they're spending 200 million the day down in Dublin on a quick fix to keep the lights burning they can't give data centers grid connections the earliest is 28 and they'll create thousands of jobs in this country so that's another downer as well it's a little bit like the electric cars everyone should have one but we don't have the charging infrastructure yet no we don't have the we don't have the infrastructure yet to carry the power from these turbines and let me ask you like is there times where you could be generating electricity and do you get an indication that they want you to stop like what is the journey of the power from your turbines in how does it work into the national grid does it go local is it sensitive i don't know how does that work michael well it probably goes local you know yeah it goes local but with travels in the lines you just don't know but i would say it doesn't travel because the part of the travels you lose more right okay yeah yeah that makes sense okay and like can you keep your turbines going all the time or does some at times can the grid not take it oh they're going all the time oh they're going all the time they can't switch them off because you see the moisture will get onto them so they have to know that they have to be generated all the time all right um and obviously you know you think you could be doing more we could be easing our reliance more but you're planned out of being able to provide more turbines more turbines you know you're trapped about 10 years them too many on the on the riddles of morning well i think that's incredibly optimistic uh because i don't think we can the planning the time it takes for for these projects to go through is astronomical michael you've been listening to this stuff for years right i haven't spoken to you before i don't think like what else has been said that you want to say well that's not the reality do you know what i mean like from someone who uh from within the industry operating like what what are the myths are out there i think all the stems from was because maybe of one mistake was made in a one farm uh and then they go off i'm not going to mention where but uh that where there was a mud slide but you see once you get planning for anything there's planning conditions in there right but there's one vital uh planning condition that the planners don't have on there on the grand planet mission especially for one month and all that is before work commences on the site the developers should be happy to furnish the planners with uh the name of the contractor that's going to do the civil work and secondly you know what experience has he got and the many years you know uh experience has he got and has has he money has he developed money one farm and that's not asked because if you're the one farm today and you bring in a contractor that never had any experience of building building another one farm like you know with a slick a slick ass in a man to jump onto a plane down in Dublin that was never in a plane before no i i i get what you're on about and i think too it also needs you know roads expertise in terms of linking that power to the linking that power to the local station as well all that stuff okay right michael i appreciate what are you going to do now i mean you can't roll the dice on substantial substantial work like if you pull concrete for the bases is that enough if you have the order you know with an estimated delivery time is that enough i mean presumably you can see to seek a further meeting with planners to get some clarity on those issues because i presume you know it was maybe wasn't all the expertise that we have in this in that regard of that meeting last night are you going to seek a meeting with planners to try and get some clarity on on the planning situation well after i but regarding that like you know the still the question is i i had another site here roughly 30 megawatts i was just about to lodge it into planning and huts weight off as well you know and i spent two years doing board studies and all different sorts and the cost lot of money that's that's down the tubes as well is there money in power generation when you get i mean i presume it's a long-term game and i'm not looking for figures but is there money in it well after probably 15 years there will be you know you have to be patient you have to be patient i like growing trees all right listen michael thanks for that all right take care bye bye oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand i mean obviously wind farms are a divisive issue but i think it's interesting to get some facts from his perspective of of you know what the situation is it relates to how green they actually are you know how they feed into the grid all that kind of stuff hopefully you found that 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at eclipse cinemas lyford stirban where the stars shine brighter by the way the pizzas are amazing you can book your seat anytime at eclipse cinemas.ie okay so we asked would you be happy to use nuclear energy if it were an option in other words if it were generated in ireland on twitter 67 percent of you said yes 33 no on instagram 40 percent yet said yes and 60 percent said no so difference of opinion there pretty much equal the difference um on different social media platforms brendan alconas the incoming president of the god of representative association good morning to you brendan good morning greg what i know with interest is some of the the headlines coming out of this conference which is currently on in westport is stuff we've been talking about for years you know the the the the issue of training of garter advanced driver training so they can know exceed the speed limit or use their lights or whatever you know basic tools of crime prevention that's still in 2022 with the subject of a a jr a conference it's ridiculous not from the jr a's perspective but that this stuff is still there's still these gaps yeah it's greg and i just completely share your sentiments there because the taxi ipad whenever i was looking at the agenda these are all issues that i've been speaking to you and indeed shant for years and the things that little or no progress has been made on them is a bit depressing for our members but it's important to keep beating the drum because there's a very strong message being sent out there from the communications department when on a guaranteed corner and the department justice that would perhaps give a different impression to communities across the country and the cost of it all that l is well in the garden that it's the best resource best equipped and delivering a better service never and that is clearly not the experience of our members who are the people who deliver front-line pieces policing and no more about it i think than any other group in society yeah i mean obviously that the where the guards are there they're there right i presume a good proportion of them would be open to this training what's the problem well is it a lack of training is it is it to do with i don't know what is the why do we have members of the four sitting in the driver's seat of a car that can't switch the the flashing lights on absolutely it's it's look at it it's it's i don't like to be little the situation but it's boring on far stuff you know we know and only go out of the side of the county in the distance and the fact that if a the citizen picks up the phone dialed 999 the diamond crisis and i need help that you'll have a guard driving along that maybe has to stop at a red light for road work so there's nothing coming the other way or if there's a car in front of them driving slowly that they can't even just signal that driver to move over and let them pass it's just beyond anything in this day and age so and i suppose the problem is often the guards we do have a have a have a have a culture of service and making bad systems work and but that's to our detriment because we're seeing now individuals guard even have to count and actually discipline for for driving with blue lights on and we just think that's completely intolerable i think any reasonable thinking member of public to rely on a service would share those thoughts but but again we beat this from and nothing changes also as it relates to the the uh i i did hear some discussion about self-defense classes which i i don't know to be honest with you i i rolled my eyes at that but that's probably my ignorance that brendan i'm just thinking of a situation whereby a guard who shouldn't be on the road is having to be out on their own and having to deal with two or three people perhaps or whatever i don't know how much training would be required for it to be effective is this tied to perhaps maybe also talking about stun guns and equipment as a deterrent i don't know what you're the expert you're the professional what's what's the move in the force it's just the overall package you know of of issues because the statistics are there the members are being assaulted the levels of injuries and and the amount of absenteeism and non-effectiveness because of the thoughts so we're saying something has to be done and maybe you know i can just speak for myself personally let's say um i was the test of the force in 1997 so now 25 years since i had any self-defense training so even if i had the best self-defense training at the time it's getting a bit rusty so we need to train train people so there's some merit in that so absolutely and we say you know we shouldn't be most police services trained on people regularly and they and they have yearly training of uh you know to ensure that they're up to speed with with with proper practices and so we think that actually could actually be a benefit to the tax process maybe carrots just would know how to maybe blot the salt or take people down or better use of restraint and that sort of thing that would meet the last injuries and then um as you say use of tasers tasers are very effective they're less leads of use of force in very serious situations we're not just in the cars we're running around tasers and people are fighting center but unfortunately there is a lot of incidents out there involving knives and sharp instruments and that and we just believe that access to tasers is something that most police officers in europe and across the world take for granted yet i mean in donnie gall we were just we were lying on the asu to come from barry shannon if we're looking up to there i'm going to come from flygo so we just think there should be more available if we look to scotland which is probably a type of policing that that would replicate donnie gall whenever police scotland decided that tasers were an appropriate piece of equipment they actually rolled them out to officers who walked in the highland the lawn quicker than they decided the city center stations where people had back up yeah i get you what is morale like uh brandon because you know i i get a sense from people i would speak to out and about that it it really hasn't perhaps been much lower you know when you're asked to do overtime or what have you that there's less of it an inclination to sort of want to do because you just want to break from the work there's some people excellent guards uh who are getting out just as soon as they can because they you know if they have an option to get out that's what they want to do i'm not sure what recruitment is like but i i just get a sense as to say that morale is really really low at the moment maybe two also with the role that god yet to play through covid it didn't help but also too that that there's a it's not a brain drain but it's the experience equivalent like how much of that is true how much of that's a reality that you can capture the situation per every day and if we take those of us we look at donnie gall for example you have two scenarios you have the 24 hour centers like there are kenny boncran and balichana where you have young members on units they're responding to incidents and the level of attrition the workload and the burnout it's just phenomenal and as you say it's years ago people will be delighted to work a shift of all time to get a few barb now members saying no i just i think i need to break i can't take anymore my workload is too excessive we've got going in on the day off and files guards taking files home then you go out to the rural station we've just had a delegate address conference there who station will vote he outlined how it used to be nine guards and a sergeant when he went there it's now down to a sergeant two guards doing to be two guards so members in in the outlying stations while they may not have the same volume of work there's less often doing the same amount of work so they are carrying a bigger burden i'm left on my own on my own station so you have that attrition so then how does that manifest itself well senior guards in the outlying stations when they hit the 30 years lot of them are saying this isn't for me i'm getting out so i can't take anymore are the young people who are the sergeant they're experiencing the burnout in the in the bigger stations and they're resigning in insignificant numbers which is a phenomena that we is really strange to guard so and recruitment is now keeping a pace we had 25 recruits started in the guard college last intake 25 you know that you're hitting now that's not for the entire year of you but i mean again the public statement for the budgets there'll be up to 800 guards recruited we won't see the 800 and what if we do see won't actually balance those leaving the force so we're actually on a downward trajectory now at the moment which is very alarming and we would say that you know 14 000 even when we're we have all those numbers isn't enough in the first of scotland but there's over 17 000 police sworn police officers police in a similar size population yeah but you've been obviously banging the drum for the north west for donagol and it seems somewhat ignored from an outsider looking on you know you can no comment or saying completely wrong it just seems some of the the the decisions that are made by senior guard it's more like following what's on in the media you know if journalists focus on a particular problem in an urban area resources are sent there if the next story is about a particular interest sorry a particular situation on a border in a border area guard are sent there very sort of reactionary to what's what's in the newspapers what's in the media and yet then we have these glaring gaps in the likes of donagol and no matter what you say no matter what the other members of the force say nothing gets done is there any truth in anything i've just said from your view absolutely Greg and i mean the classic example is the access to transport in donagol and i'm very conscious of i'm now the national president so i speak to all of my members and i'm not going to say let's take resources off members but i speak to guards around the country there are stations where there are vehicles parked up that are not used on the full-time basis but are there for use whenever the demand increases yet in donpanahe i have no car at all ever to go to work at the minute you know so that's just an example and i spoke speaking to guards around the country who were saying to me years ago the problem was that we had we had a guard and no cars now they have cars and no guards we have no guards and no cars now that's obviously the extreme but certainly and you know it's as you say the only we act a crisis and so it's i believe the public representatives don't need to stamp the fleet more and demand better service and the public because it's it's it's not it used to be the case though like i don't want to call anyone out because then i might do those that did say something into service but policing police resources uh stories like that you relate it should be an absolute scandal uh that there's a lack of guard in in donpanahe in mavil for example as was mentioned that that should be what people are are are up in the doll embarrassing the the embarrassing the minister responsible into action you know saying really is it like that this is a i'm going to have to get on to drew or whatever you know what i'm on about but i mean it doesn't seem to be maybe it's not a vote get her i don't know well we have said consistently as an association is that we there should be a clear level of our clearly a demarcation point that the x amount of guards are required to police donnie goff and we can look down and say right well we're below quota or we're above quota or we're holding ground we don't have that the allocation of guards orders is a political football and unfortunately the squeaky hinge there's a squeaky squeaky wheel gets the oil and it would appear that maybe donnie goll isn't just getting our message isn't getting through and you know but the problem is great and you know it we abandon about these concepts and these words like accountability so if a guy in donnie goll puts on a uniform tonight because i have indeed with them they're accountable for what with the outcome and their decision making but if you say there's someone in donnie goll why is there no guard or why is there no car well local management say well we can only have what we can are given from doblin we can only allocate that if you speak to doblin they'll say oh well that's the local management issue there's been what there's resources donnie goll is up the local management so who is actually a counselor we've a joint police committee we've a police authority we've got inspectors with all these quangos and talking shots but who actually made the decision that there will be less guards and over and if it was made why was it made what was the right now and the people of mozilla and titans know that and if you don't know that we're banjaxed uh but and and yet it's like we hear the same arguments in in in health and in other areas brendan thanks for your time this morning congratulations by the way on your elevation to president of the god of representative association and we appreciate your time on this program uh as you're always available to us and we appreciate that uh thanks brendan thank you very much take care of yourself 08 660 25000 your views 08 660 25000 give us a call in 07 491 25000 this listener says the court is letting down the guard the penalty does not fit the crime guard he do not know what's facing them it's a shame on them and other there's been no patrol car in tonfana since october it's not good enough i think we referenced that as part of that interview it's not good enough but it's good enough uh to someone who makes the decisions and thinks that tonfana he doesn't deserve a patrol 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there um is no longer there kathryn mclin is uh joining us now she's from wheel of donigol to tease us out with us good morning kathryn hi greg would you describe this as like a wooden Celtic cross is that yeah it's very nice it looks like it's hand carved and now it was just i was up there last week with some friends who were over from the uk and we took them up of course there because of course the fort and then the fantastic views over in childland and beyond but um one of the one of our parties are retired vicar from whale so i said i told him about the holy well behind the fort so he wanted to see it and my last picture sitting there was 2019 may actually this month in 2019 so this month when i went up 2022 the cross is gone yeah in the pictures that you've posted it looks it looks big it looks heavy it looks like it's leaning a little bit is it possible that it fell over no one's responsible and it was just removed for safety reasons no because it no it wouldn't have fallen over without somebody noticing it because it's not that big it would be i'm terrible at measurements maybe two feet high or in or around that no it looks bigger than that my apologies yeah yeah no it's not huge it's well that's perspective because i was down low to take the picture with a fortune that's gonna say it looks twice the size of the fort behind it it's like that fathoment would do go this is here um no no um so it wouldn't have fallen over that you wouldn't see it because the well is nicely maintained it's not overgrown like a lot of things to um it you know you would see it um and i got on to then i googled yesterday after i tweeted i googled and i found a a facebook page for hong green and as well and i got a reply from them and they said that they were equally shocked to discover it had gone so so we don't know when it went by the way it could have been the day before uh the pic you took uh your last picture it could have been the day after you took the picture in may 2019 we really don't know someone's going to know well come on obviously yeah and hopefully they'll get in touch with us but why why would they remove it because it doesn't it looks like you have to find your way to where it's at it doesn't look like it's spoiling anything and obviously it's gotta it's gotta it's gotta um religious symbolism there i can't understand why anyone would go up and remove it like it's not a fence if it's not in the way it's not disturbing anything and unless you knew it was there you wouldn't know what was there do you know what i mean you have to go around the side of the fort and walk down the hill a good wee bit and then you find it and i only found it because i'm trying to photograph all the holy wells and donnie gulf so it was on my list to do from a book from 1936 because um on was meant to have been blessed by st patrick there yes you know and i mean this respectfully as well okay it's it's a cross but it's not so beautiful that it would something that you would steal and put in your garden does that make sense i don't want to offend anyone at work like i'm i can't see the motivation for it being removed the only thing i can put it i don't think anybody who went who is of a religious ilk would take it not to do with you're not allowed to steal but to do with the fact that you know the way you shouldn't like holy artifacts like that would would not be good for you to be removing sort of do you know um so if you understood its significance you would and and you validate for that you know not to take it absolutely like anything you don't touch things when you're out but um the only thing i can put it down to is like for like you know the old ways of saying for divalement maybe somebody just removed it i don't think it would be in badness and i don't think anybody would destroy it okay well we need to and if it fell over you can see around the area greg if you go up for a run and you just part and walk to the left of the fort and then just as we passed down the hill not very far just down the hill and you'll find the well now it's a pity that the cross is gone i know it wasn't original to the site that's okay but because it was there you saw where the well was must be easier but you will identify yeah okay well listen we'll see if we can get to the bottom of the the mystery of the disappearing cross i know i would love to know i would love somebody just to put it back it doesn't matter why they took it if they just put it back because it's part of that and it's such a pity that it's that it's gone and it didn't look in such bad condition that somebody would have taken it to repair it that i know it didn't look it doesn't look to be in that condition but listen stranger things have happened someone's going to know it's just a case of whether or not they decide to share the information with us and us with you kathryn thanks for your time this morning thank you take care goodbye thank you okay have you any idea what 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Game of Thrones season two, episode eight, The Prince of Winterfell. We haven't changed this up in a while, have we? So I'm assuming those two boys were the farmer kids or something. The ones they sent to help that guy when he said he needed help, but because Rob the Stark army had all those people, all those like burgers. But it still has this a wolf on it. It doesn't have the ons little symbol. So what's up with that? Well, I guess he hasn't really officially taken it yet. He's still going to deal with Rob. Right. Does Rob even know yet? No, right? No, Rob knows or does he? I don't know. Does he not know? I can't remember him knowing, but I would assume because I remember him saying specifically he'll hang for this talking about the on. But let us know, guys, very certain that he does. Yeah, someone he did say someone had to hang for something. He'll hang for this. But I don't remember if it was like, I feel like they would be like more stressed about it. Well, they don't have a choice. They're at war. See all the ravens, so they might know. Oh, look, it's his sister. Is it the 500 men? Right. They did show up in time. That's kind of respectful, I guess.  Because they're saying you're not in charge, little dummy. You're doing our housework for us. It's moved in. Oh, that's what that meant. Basement buster. Why? It's the Prince of Winterfell. Why are you here? Envy is attractive. Envy. You should be proud of your brother's achievement. I took the Great Castle of Winterfell with 20 men. You're a great warrior. I saw the bodies above your gates, which one gave you the tougher fight, the cripple or the six-year-old. Oh, what? I treated the stark boys with honor. By butchering them.  Is that treachery? I'd call it bravery.  You know how valuable those boys were. Are they dead for real? I don't know. I just can't believe it. You know what I'm saying?  I'm warning you. Go on then. You wanted to have showed us? Like, I captured her. Am I supposed to defend Winterfell with just this lot? You're not. I've come to bring you home. Father, what's the word? Is this a joke? Winterfell is the heart of the North. Aye, it is. We're islanders, baby brother. Had you forgotten that? Our power comes from our ships. And now that you've decorated your walls with the bodies of the stark boys, every man in the North wants to see you hanged. Yeah, damn it. When Robb Stark finds out- You won't find out. We've killed all the Ravens. We have all the horses. I've taken Winterfell and I will keep Winterfell. Good luck, bro. Leave us. She said they take what they need, so she's saying him playing all those games with the stark boys was wrong. Yeah, you should have done all that. You should have just took it and then let them live. Yeah, because they left and she said it was brave they left. See on, you're my blood. We both loved our mother. Endured our father. You both took horseback together. Come home with me.  I don't intend to die.  Balling all the time, never sleeping.   I wanted to strangle you. Oh, my God.  You smiled at me. Don't die so far from the sea. Dang, she's basically saying go home. The Winterfell is not your home.  You're going to get killed. That's the message that I heard. I could be right. Oh, my God. That's so creepy. Lord of Bones. I've already got one, Crow. Don't need two. Mans will want to question this one. This one's just a little boy. Got him.  Ned Stark's son. Oh, that means something. Dang, how did she know that? Mans will want him. What does Mans want with a dead man's bastard? Think he'll want to decide for himself. He runs.  He runs. I'll do it myself. Me, though. I love that. Jon don't love that. You don't love nothing about that. Where are you even now? Jon Snow. I couldn't do it. I had the sword in my neck. I just cut my nose. He'll just give out your tracks fast enough. They found us before we found you. So they're captured because Jon couldn't do it. Yeah, basically.  You know what I'm saying? I just sound so terrible, but it's because, man. It's real life out there. What's her name? Prane, I suppose. And you're marrying her for a bridge? An important bridge. It was before they killed my father. I still thought I could march south and rescue him in time, but only if I crossed that bridge. Oh, wow. That expired, but you still have to... Yeah. They all loved your father. He was a damn good man. Yes, best man I ever met. R.P.  The child women scrubbing the floors, yours to protect. Told me I woke with fear in the morning. Went to bed with fear in the night. Asked him, how can a man be brave if he's afraid? That is the only time a man can be brave, he told me. Wise words, Ned. I wish I could have met him. He would have liked you. Aye. Most lords worry more about their gold and their glory than the child women scrubbing their floors. You think I'm fighting this war, so they'll sing songs about me. I want to go home. I want the men following me to go home. And why don't you? Because I believe in justice.  That would be a start. I agree. You just don't know, you just don't know him, Talisha. Yeah, that's two B's, y'all. You just don't know Joffrey. You would feel the same. The king's lair, he escaped in the night. What? How? Again. How is he slipping away, so... Man, tell me this isn't true. She let him go? Huh? For the girls. For the girls. Rob. No, you knew I would not allow it and you did it anyway. Bran and Rickon are captives in Winterfell. Sansa and Arya are captives in King's Landing. I lost one son fighting by your son's side. I lost another to the king's lair.  Oh, my God. Because your children are prisoners.  I'll be saying treason. I grieve for your sons, my lord. I don't want your grief. I want my vengeance. When you stole it from me. Oh. Killing Jaime Lannister would not buy life for your children. That is true. If returning him to King's Landing may buy life for mine. I mean, that's facts right there, Mrs. Stark, but...  I know, though. You've weakened our position.  Make sure she's guarded day and night. Well, how many men did we send in pursuit of the king's lair? Forty, your grace. Send another forty with our fastest horses. Oh, my gosh, man, this hurts my feelings right here. I know, because isn't he known because he's so good at, like, war strategy and, like, this, like, weakens everything? Yeah, well, he's basically saying, man... That's his trade offer. Well, he hurts because there's one person on this earth he can go into that tent and honestly talk to and he's betrayed by her.  I'm Jamie Lannister of Castley Rock. Brienne of Tarth. Tarth? Tarth of Tarth. Sun, moons, and starbursts. Selwyn Tarth. Your father. It's a long way to King's Landing. It might as well get to know one another.  I know. Horses? Didn't mean to give offence, my lady. Forgive me. How crimes are passed for forgiveness, King's lair. Why do you hate me so much if I ever harmed you? You've harmed others. Those you swore to protect.  Oh my gosh.  He's so meaner. Do you think you could beat me in a fair fight? I've never seen you fight. Shoot, she might. There are three men in the kingdom who might have a chance against you. You're not one of them.  If you're so confident, unlock my chains and see what happens. But for what? Who would do that? Maybe one day we'll find out, King's lair.  I have to go on a voyage in a boat with this guy, Malvi.   I know. He's so sneaky. It's not too late for King Joffrey and Cersei and the court to ride west to safety. Surrender the iron throne. Better than seeing their heads mounted on the city gates. Stannis will execute them all. Our king who runs will not be king for long. He's a Lannister. He'll stand and fight. Stannis, two days from the capital and the wolf at my doorstep. Until last time the scouts assured us of Stark's movement. He lured us into a trap, which is why my son, this is prisoner.  I know. She has to sit there and listen to that with a straight face. He sent a splinter force to recapture Winterfell. The great joys have done us a great favor. Stark won't risk marching on Casterly Rock until he's at full force. He's a boy and he's never lost a bucket. He'll risk anything at any time because he doesn't know enough to be afraid. The experience. The understanding of the human nature. Love it. Night at night full. I want a full night's march before he knows we're on the move. Glegane, you'll maintain a garrison here at Harren Hall. Track down this brotherhood and destroy them. The girl's proven herself a good servant. She'll stay on with you. See that he doesn't get drunk in the evenings. He's poor company when he's sober, but he's better at his work. So he mustn't know that she's a Stark because why would she leave her? Either that or maybe he just said all that just to fool her. Just to like see, which would be, you know, probably not, but. Look, it's Yoram's little. He used to be a boy now. It's a girl. Where's Jacket? Don't care.   They're just so like obviously evil. I'm the murderer. Where's Jacket? You need him. He's helping me. I saw him. Where? They're rushing out the gates of Fjallsga on patrol. Kept her in my ears. Why did she just grab on him like that? She's bullying him up now. He used to be so tough. Oh gosh, that's so stressful. They're going into war against your family and you just have to stand there. Poor girl. I couldn't imagine. Right.  They'll never trust me. They might. How does it feel knowing those men all die so you could skip through the snow with your little savage girl? Mm-hmm. Bastard! He's not yours to kill. That's some good acting right there. I know. That's better acting than the acting. Mm-hmm. Oh, she has this sword look. Do you have to do that here? I like to keep my hands clean. But do you have to do it here? I like their dynamic for some reason. They're like brothers. You should start wearing the gold cloak. I don't want to wear a gold cloak. It's funny because he works for Tyrion but he just like really bucks the system a lot. I know. He's like edgy. Mm-hmm. Well, you're not sneaking through alleyways any longer. You're supposed to stand out. We had a deal. And wearing a gold cloak wasn't part of it. Fine. No gold cloak. He's like, I do my job, man. Don't make me wear that thing. He said, I'm just fine with these dark colors right here. What? Why are you staring at me? Why am I here? To help me plan the defense of King's Landing. Stennis will be here any day. That's all they're doing. Like how many books they have? Like, geez. An History of the Great Seizures of Westeros by Orange Master Chevalethin. You should have read that a long time ago, though. That's like a life time thing. He's cramming for a war. I swap all your books for a few tonaches. I must compliment you on the gold cloak's performance these last few weeks. Did you know there has been a marked drop in thievery? Me and the lads rounded up all the known thieves. For questioning? No. Have you ever been in a city under siege? The poor start eating each other. The thieves, they love a siege. They steal all the food. By the time it's all over, they're the richest men in town. Wow. Bronn with a strap. Stennis knows King's Landing. He knows where the walls are strongest and he knows which gates are weakest. Put that bomb stuff in it. The wildfire, whatever it's called. In minutes, it's only 50 yards from the watcher. That's where he'll land. Stennis does attack the mud gate. What is our plan? We could throw books at his men. Don't have that many books. What do we have?  He said it like he was going to use it. Like build a bomb or something. Sam. Come on, because how for this sort of work? I always imagined myself doing something much worse. Digging the train pits at the end of the world. I can't imagine anything much worse. You lack imagination. Yeah, for real. Where do you think John is right now? A batty man would go with dead. He's not dead. John's a great fighter. Well, he's better than me and a lot better than you. He's got a Valyrian steel sword. So did his father. The greatest ranger alive. Great rangers never get old is the problem. Shit one's neither. Right. Sam in the middle. Lost a long time. What in seven hours is that? Oh my gosh. What is this? A stone? That's interesting. The first men made these marks. What? Help me with it. The thing's been there that long? Yeah. What's up under there? What is that? That's the thing to do. Since then, you've never seen it. That's a Night's Watch clock. It's been here a long time. What is that? I need to jump like that. Because I thought I saw claws. Must be a dragon glass. Sorry. Whoa. It's like an arrowhead. That's cool. I have no brother idea. I suspect it's because he wanted somebody to find it. Ooh.  Someone in the Night's Watch. Probably never find that. That's like, who's Alaska is digging a hole? Don't smack her in the head. I'll smack you in the head. Where were you? A man has patrol duty. A girl owes one more name. The Red God demands it.  It's just how wrong that is to her. Oh my god. An hour a month? That is certain. The time is not. He's taking his army to attack my brother. I need him dead right now. Yeah, good luck. A man cannot do. A promise should help me. That wasn't a promise, lovely girl. There must be others. And you killed them. Anybody. By the seven new gods and the old gods beyond counting, I swear it. Where does she got? Jack in her car. Whoa. Himself? A girl gives a man his own name. Right. This is no joking thing. Unname me. No. Please. I'll unname you. Dang. If you help me and my friends escape. This would require more than one life. This is how it is. He must take that very serious. A girl lacks honor. What does he have going on? I'm so confused. If I do this thing. Is he just like a religious fanatic? A girl will it be? Just a random fanatic? I guess. They go into friends. We'll walk through the gate at midnight. And why does he talk like? Like third person. Yeah. Thank you, Patrick. He's like, gotta go. Certain sympathy for old little boys. You and Varys both. Comparing them to Varys. Excellent lamprey pie. Were you slaving away in the kitchen all day? I hear Joffrey plans on fighting. An inspiration for the troops. Fighting to defend the capital against the wicked old rebel. He's going to go fight. He's going to get his hands broken. He's not ready. Remember Jamie at 17? Better than you. Some men have a gift for this sort of thing. Some don't. His place is not on the battlefield. Not on the throne either. Isn't that his squire or something? Or his wine guy? I'd say you possess above average intelligence. You've shipped off my old daughter. What do you call him, Patrick or something? Yeah. Now you want to send my eldest son to the battlefield to die. He'll have his king's guard protecting him. He has the finest armor gold can buy. He needs to be out there. The men will fight more fiercely seeing the king fighting beside them instead of hiding behind his mother's skirts. Right, though? That is so true, too, man. I know, because he has to prove himself somehow. Or overstate it. Because he has thousands of spies. Because he knows everything we do before we do it. Because he doesn't have a gun. Neither do you. Perhaps I'm dangerous, too.   It's not that little. You better chill. You better find out, because you might find out. Yeah, you better chill, dear. Why are you smiling? Because I'm happy. Oh, jeez. Why are you happy?  I told you, consequences. Tell me, have you married this one yet? Oh. Good. Father will be so pleased. Because the Lannister always pays her debts.  You plot to have Joffrey killed. This is madness. Stannis will be here in days. You need me. For what? Your skill in battle. Pretty thing. Lovely body. The bruises will heal in time. Barris isn't the only one who hears whispers. Really, a Lannister lion necklace. He's so sentimental. You don't buy them. You only rent them. You're usually a better liar, baby brother. You like her very much. Could it be love? Don't worry, she'll be treated gently enough. Unless Joffrey is hurt, and then every wound he suffers, she'll suffer too. And if he dies, there isn't a man alive who could devise a more painful death. So he has to protect them? How do I know you haven't killed her already? I'd like to see her. This is about to be crazy. I know. I hope it's the wrong girl. This story just keeps evolving. So Cersei just took another step towards just being evil again.  Even with me. Oh. I'm sorry they hurt you. You must be brave. I promise. I will free you. He's acting. That's jacked up. Don't forget me. Never. Why does she go on with it? Because she doesn't really know? Because he's basically pretending it's her to keep Shea safe, but he don't really care about what happens to her. Well, he does, because he doesn't want to hurt her. I mean, he cares, but you know. See, but Cersei thinks she's on to something. I will hurt you for this. See? He's acting. They will come when you think you're safe and happy and your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth. Oh my god. And you'll know the debt is paid. Get out. This is so sneaky. This is evil, bro, like. Shea! I've been waiting all night. What is wrong? You're beautiful. We have to be more careful. Don't be afraid. I can take care of myself. She really can, Darian. You should see. Yeah, but she can't take care of herself that much. Right. I cut off their faces. I will. I would kill for you. Do you know that? I expect I'll have to before this is over. You're mine. Promise me.  So they're like, are in love. They're a little lion. I thought it was just a whole thing for her to get to King's Landing, but I didn't really know what her motive was. We've sent a dozen ravens. Really? Because I kind of got in the vibe the whole time that she liked them. I don't know why. My bastard is only a few days from Winterfell. Theon has my brothers. If we stormed the castle. He wouldn't dare hurt the boys. There is only hope of escaping the North with his hand. Send word to your son. Any ironborn who surrender will be allowed to return safely to their homes. A touch of mercy is a virtue, your grace, too much. Any ironborn with the exception of Theon Greyjoy. He betrayed our cause. You got to do it, two bees. And you knew it. We will hunt him down no matter where he runs. You're pardon, my lord. Is that Bolton? You have Vladimir Bolton. Vladimir Bolton. How are you? I've had to arrest my mother. Right. My ancestors have my sisters. The man I considered my closest friend has seized my home and my brothers. I'm fighting a war and I don't know if I should march south or north. I'm sorry. Stressful.  I'm sorry. Forgive me. I have no rights. We have every right. We're a king. That's not the kind of king I want to be. That's not a relationship's work right there, y'all. What kind do you want to be? I don't know. Two people just. The good kind? Most kings grew up as princes. I was raised to be Lord of Winterfell. I was raised to be a proper little lady. Would you like to hear you play the harp? No. No, you would not. She's not good. How did you go from reciting Valerian poetry to sawing off men's feet? When I was 12, my mother and father went to a wedding. Weddings in Volantis last for days, you know. Valanted. And they lit me with my little brother. It was the hottest day in the three-year summer. Every child in Volantis was in the ruin that day. Drummers were playing for coppers in the East Bank. I was treading water talking to a friend when I realized I hadn't seen my brother. I called his name. Sorry, the story, I just want to know what's happening. But jeez. Mushroom. Thank you. And then I saw him bloating face down. My heart just stopped. I was dragged him from the water. He was so little. And we pulled him onto the riverbank. And I screamed at him. And he was dead. Just dead. A man ran over. He had a fish tattoo on his face. Interesting. In Volantis, the slaves have tattoos. So you know what they are without having to talk to them. And this man worked on a fishing boat. And he pushed me out of the way for a slave to push a high-born girl. That's death for the man. But he pushed me out of the way. Started pressing on my brother's chest until my brother spat out half of the roid. She knows how to drag a story out, don't she? Plano. The man's at war. Plano. Maybe she's stressed out. I'm going, all right, all right, what happened? I decided two things that day. I would not waste my years planning dances and masquerades with the other noble ladies. And when I came of age, I would never live in a slave city again. So that's why she believes in Rob's costs so much. But she doesn't really. I blathered on. I don't want to marry the fray girl. I don't want you to marry him. But you needed that bridge.  I know. I hope it's a very beautiful bridge.  The Asgard Bridge. Absolutely. He's like, I don't know, march north or south or on Talisha. Yeah, he's got some decisions to make for real. Is it Talisha or Talisa? Whichever one you decide, baby. Whichever one I decide. I don't remember. Walter Fray is going to take his bridge back. He really might. Sal cherries is all crushed up and ready. He's still talking about pie. He's like, crossbar. In the oven, a nice warm oven.  What did you bring? Cheese could be better. Get some nice sausages. I think he wants to do about those guards. And say anything about the guards. Oh, he left that bit out. That's a pretty important part, don't you think? We have to trust him. What is he doing? Harry, don't. Are they dead? Yep. All right. Is that Stannis? Yeah. If the wind holds, we'll reach King's London in a day. Will it hold? We can't make promises for the wind, your grace. My red woman can. She's going to conjure up some wind spirits. Right. My you, Sadavus.  I think they insult you. So you take the onion for your sigil. Fly the onion flag. He's a troll. Yeah. I understand why the older families look down at me. Why? My father was a crabber. All sons of lords don't like to break bread with sons of crabbers. Our hands stink. Not many fought bravely for your brother. Many fought for the Mad King.  What's someone happy to do with my face? Robert and Ned Stark, they were the heroes, marching from battle to battle, liberating towns from the yoke of the Mad King while I held Storm's End with 500 men. No one has forgotten. He gave Storm's End to Renly after the war. Renly never fought a day in his life. He was only a boy. So why'd he give him Storm's End? Good question. First we ate the horses, then the cats. Never liked cats. The night before you slipped through, I thought my wife was dying. Then you made it through the lines. Slip right through in your little black sailboat with your onions.  I was relieved they did not. Robert told me to hold Storm's End, so I held it. Then he told me he was giving it to Renly, so I gave it up. But now I'm the rightful king. When I sit the iron throne, you'll be my hand. Dang. You saved him. I pray I serve you well. I expect you be the first crabber's son to wear the badge. Facts. I wouldn't like people bowing to me like that, though. Joffrey would. No man can be in all rooms at all times. But they said that Ser Davos brought the red woman on shore because he was a smuggler. Yeah. Now is the time to strike. You do understand Stannis Baratheon sails this way? If my uncle Stannis lands on the shores of King's Landing, I'll ride out to greet him. A brave choice, your grace. I'm sure your men will line up behind you. They say Stannis never smiles. I'll give him a red smile from ear to ear. Right. We bet. Not if Ari is in the way, though. Imagine Stannis' terror. I am trying. Y'all are doomed. You're an intelligent man. I'd like to think I'm an intelligent man. I wish we could converse as two honest, intelligent men. I wish we could too. Yeah, not under Joffrey's rule. Right. If we're going to play, you'll have to start.  Dude, he's one of the best, pro-bearers. I know. I was the youngest king's guard in history. My sister became queen at the age of 19. Y'all breaking records. When I reached manhood, the father put me in charge of all the drains and systems. A most high-born plumber. The water never flowed better. Never expected to have any real power. So when my father named me acting hand. You're quite good at being hand, you know. John Aaron and Ned Stark were good men, honorable men. But fools. But they disdained the game and those who played. You enjoy the game. I do. Last thing I expected. I'd like to keep playing it. What an admission, though, like I was saying earlier. They say he burns his enemies alive to honor the Lord of Light. Oh, no. The Lord of Light wants his enemies burned. Where is the god of tits and wine? You know what I'm saying. This morning, I heard a song all the way from Kath. Daenerys Targaryen lives. Wow, who told him? The least of our problems. She has three dragons. There'll be years before they are fully grown. And then there'll be nowhere to hide. Oh, shoot. One game at a time, my friend. Yeah. So they're saying, yo, y'all need to come back for like season four. We'll be here. Like and subscribe. We're in for the whole journey, people. Careful, Curly's here. Well, I kind of got chills. That was tough. I know. Thousand eyes watching for you. I've found one. A ship with a good captain. She leaves for Astapor tomorrow. Astapor? We cannot stay here. They have my dragons. Not your children.   They are dragons, Cully C. Right. I was kind of wondering that. You should sail to Astapor. I'm sure you'll be safe there. You know I would die for you. I'm sworn to protect you, to serve. Then serve me. If my dragons are in the house of the undying, then take me there. That's where the wall up once. If you enter that place, you will never leave again. This magic is strong. And what of my magic? You saw me step into the fire. What did the flames do to me?  Look at those guys working hard. Come on, man. Oh. You want to keep a man silent? You're silencing. Did he just get some hope by seeing Osha? I'm not really sure what that implied. Because it seems to me like Theon just paid off the farmer to kill those boys. Got as far as the farm, then doubled back. Walked through the stream to throw off the hounds. Hope this would be the last place they'd think to look. You're right. So far. Who was that out there? Hung put the gates. Must have been the farmer's boys.  So Bram's all right.  They mustn't know. Bram would blame himself. Oh, he's going to hear it, I bet. The little lads have suffered enough. He looks so much different than the first season. Yeah, he's growing up. That was insane. That was crazy, right? This show is just cute. Where do we start? Which one should we start on? Let's start with these chills I got in that last scene. OK, go ahead. So we're just at a point, man, where Stannis is coming. And the thing that really blows my mind is how many people are aware of the idea that everything that goes on in this jacked up world, right, is all just a game. You know, and the people who are poor, who suffer, those are the people who mock it and make comedy of it. You know, just like the same guy who had his tongue gripped out. That just goes to show why they hate so much.  And the people who's not in the game despise the fact that everything essentially is a game and no one has any intentions of doing the right thing. Everyone just wants to like hold their power and it really just speaks to reality in a way. You know, like even when it comes like our elections and politics and things of that nature, like, you know, we all wish that it could be better. We wish it could be done in a more civil way. But the reality is, man, is like, we can all hope that as much as we want. But we're all just individuals. And as a collective, we really don't have much control. I mean, we can take control of our individual lives the best we can and control what we can, but we can't control what a society chooses to do. And in real life, man, people play the game. So and people suffer for it. And it's just crazy. That was a good episode. Junt was wild. Rob finally has this girl that they're together. He said he's not going to marry what's her name? The Freight Girl, which could cause problems. I mean, get over it. Rob's got an army. That's why I see it. So he's obviously really in love with that girl. That's good. Katelyn is helped as a prisoner, that makes me sad, man. Me too. I really don't know why she did that. Like, they're so far into this war. Why would she send Jamie? Well, because she truly believes Little Fingersaw Arya, because he didn't.  And then just knowing everything that she knows, man, so much loss. She's had so much she's probably just not thinking straight.  And the whole theme of the show is how much like a mom can love her kid. Right. And so. But my thing was I thought she would just try to keep Jamie alive. Like I thought Brian would just keep him alive like a way until Rob came back. I mean, maybe she's just sitting there feeling like we might be winning this war and all, but I'm not any closer to getting my daughter's back. Right. At the end of the day, I feel like I'm actually further away from that. Like the more we put a stranglehold on the Lannisters, the more they're almost guaranteeing that, you know, my family's not going to make it out of this. So that part is a little shaky to me. But also it kind of this episode kind of portrayed just how like naive Joffrey is to this war. He thinks like he is just going to walk up to Stannis and chop him up. Like, you know, like that's just silly. That's very naive mind. Yeah. I mean, obviously the what's going to the undoing of the Lannisters, it seems to me is probably going to be Joffrey, you know, assuming that they ever come undone. I don't know how this war is going to go down. Right. If I had to predict, man, I would just have to predict that Stannis is going to lose because I really can't tell. Like, well, because I'm thinking in terms of like what would upset the masses, you know, because, you know, at the end of the day, HBO writes this show and they want the show to be successful in this. I feel like if Stannis wins the war, they've already set the stakes so high that if Stannis wins the war, like Cersei, Tyrion, all these players are going to have to die, right? I mean, that's just a precedent, right? They're not going to be able to stop all these great characters because Stannis, I love him as a character, but let's be real, dude. He doesn't captivate the screen like Cersei. Right. I don't know that. Yeah, like if you're looking in terms of the show, but if you're in terms of the story, it's just kind of up in the air to me. Yeah, I could be wrong, man. I can't predict the show. It's hard to predict what I'm even supposed to be predicting sometimes. So we know Daenerys is still in the hunt for dragons and she needs to be taken to that house. But the house is undying. I kind of wanted to go to see what it is. I guess they don't know where it is. I don't know. All right. Yeah, because she said take me there and George doesn't want to. It's really hard to like keep saying what's going on because it's setting stuff up. Everything we're watching is setting something up. So it's just kind of like I don't want to say too much because I know it's not going to be correct. And I don't really have a basis for what I would assume right now. So I'm loving the aspect. I'm loving like the dynamic of Jamie and Brienne, you know, together. I think he's annoying. Well, I can sold things her and she just doesn't give into it, right? Which I love. I love. And I wonder how much it's going to take for her to crack. Do you think she'll crack? I don't know. I feel like she wouldn't. I feel like she's too loyal. And especially after losing Renly, I don't think she'll crack. Did we talk about Arya? What was Arya doing? Well, Arya was basically trying to get I forget his name. Obviously, he's got such a weird name, right? Jockin. Yeah, is that the name? Jockin. Jockin.  And he just help them escape. Right, exactly. So she put him in a very weird predicament. She's very smart for that. And so I guess that's going to be how she gets out of there. Because I'm sitting there wondering, obviously, how is she going to go from being under Colin Lannister's, you know, supervision to being free again? Well, he's at war right now. So she kind of is like there. Yeah, she's still. Yeah. So right now would be her opportunity. Right. And that's what she's doing. So she's very smart for that. She's strategic. Absolutely. All right, guys, we already know we're going to be back with more episodes, and we have two more episodes left of this season. That's crazy. Crazy. Cannot believe that we're almost to the end of it. I'm very excited. We're going to knock these out pretty soon. I think next we are watching The Hobbit. So if you guys are excited for that, then definitely show that video some support, but we haven't filmed it yet. But that is what we're going to do tomorrow is we're going to watch that movie, the extended version. We're not going to make that mistake again. But we'll be watching the extended version. I've been sort of putting it off since we started Game of Thrones because I'm so into this story. I kind of didn't want to dive into another one. But at the end of the day, managed YouTube, I really got to start getting more types of videos out there. You know, we can't just only put out Game of Thrones and Spider-Man. Yeah, which is what we've been doing for the last month. So yeah, we need to start diversifying a little bit on this channel. We've been seeing that more people want to see us react to different types of things, because obviously not everyone on planet Earth enjoys the Marvel and Game of Thrones. That's all I'm trying to say. Sorry, I mean Game of Thrones. And if we keep putting out the same thing, same thing, you know, we just need to put out something different. Always going to put out this show very consistently. We're always going to get it out 100 percent. We just want to add because we love this show. This is a great show. I got to see it to then. 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everybody. So we all know as developers that sometimes we have some bugs in our brains. We have an example here. I had to do it yesterday. So for this, we need some tools like this to try to find the bugs where our brain is introducing in our applications. So for making memory profiling on HPC applications. So those tools, I make them because I made my PhD on developing a memory allocator for high-performance computing, so for supercomputers. And I learn a lot of mistakes applications are making on those things today. So I developed Malt as an exescal computing research lab after as a postdoc, which is a memory profiler for Maloch, and NUMA prof as a side project at CERN later to profile the NUMA aspect of the memory management. So the motivation is that today, mostly in HPC we have really huge space of memory to manage. We can find today some servers with roughly terabytes of memory. It's really huge to handle in the operating system. There are some issues for performance. We have a lot more distinct allocations to allocate all those subjects in this big space. So, for example, during my PhD, I was working on an application making 75 million allocations in five minutes. So when you develop a Maloch on the root of this thing, this is a little bit challenging. And on top of this, we are using multi-threading. So I was working on a big cluster with 256 threads on the same motherboard. And all of this is done inside really huge applications, mostly C, C++ or Fortran for HPC, which can be for the application I was working on one million line of codes. So of course, if you want to understand what happened on this thing, you need some tools because looking at the code by your eyes, this is doomed. And you add up to this. Now we have the NUMA layout, so the non-uniform memory accesses, which also add up to the complexity. And in the end, we are against the memory wall today, which was discussed a couple of years ago, but now we are really in. So the performance can really reduce a lot the performance of your application due to memory. So my work today from my PhD, you need to well understand the memory behavior of your, I said HPC, but this is also true elsewhere, application. So just to give you an example, this is a big application I was working on. One million lines of C++ code running on 128 cores, 16 CPUs on the same other board. So a big NUMA node. This was really challenging on Linux and the root. And just by changing the memory allocator, you can see the default one from Linux, JLPC, Gmalloc, Antisimiloc, which were mostly the top allocators we have today. Just by changing the memory allocator, you can change the performance of your application by roughly 35%. I mean, this is not 2% or 3% we can expect. And even more, I mean, when I made my PhD, I was implementing my memory allocator, taking account of all the issues I was seeing on those things. And just by improving the communication with the under root operating system, I was able to gain 20% of performance on this application and again taking account the NUMA, 58% of improvement just by changing the malloc. So, I mean, this is an extreme case. I mean, there is not so much application with such large gaps, but still, when you start to look, there is a lot of application where you can gain 10, 20%. This is quite common in HPC now for this thing. About memory consumption, same thing. On the same application, so this is on a smaller machine and the worst case I have seen with this one. On 12 cores, you just change the memory allocator and you look on the memory consumption of your app. And then you can see that changing the memory allocator can change from factor 2 the memory consumption of your application, which is again not 10%. So, if you really want to understand a little bit what your application is doing, in this case, you need tools. You cannot just look by eyes and try to pray that you will understand at some point. So, for this, I first developed MALT, which is a malloc factor to try to understand the memory management issue. So, how many times I'm calling malloc?  So, I try to track all the mallocs in the code and report the properties of those allocations to understand the behavior of the thing. So, in the principle, this is the same ideas on Valgrind and Kakashgrind, which are nice for performance profiling, but providing source annotation, call graphs. At some point, I was starting using Kakashgrind as the graphical interface and was stuck because I wanted to have also some other metrics I was not able to put directly in Kakashgrind. So, at some point, I made my own graphical interface on top of it, which is web-based. So, you get this kind of thing with source annotation, so you can see directly here the values annotating the lines. And when you click here, you can get the details on which code stack lead to this point, and the details value you want to get the properties of this allocation. So, you can quickly understand what happened. And I will not put all the examples. You also have some time charts to understand the dynamic behavior of the allocations inside your application. So, here is, for example, the sizes you allocate over time, the lifetime of the segments you are allocating depending on their size, all the stuff which can impact the performance of your application. So, then I moved to NUMA prof, which is a really similar tool, and I really liked it. So, the idea is about NUMA. So, NUMA, when you have two CPUs, we know that today we have a memory attached to each CPU. So, if you access to the local memory, this is quite fast. But if you access to the other one, you need to go through the second CPU and it starts to cost a lot. So, again, you need to take care of the placement of your memory, which is a big challenge today in HPC. And for this, I developed NUMA prof to say this line is making these accesses, this malloc has, at the end, generated these accesses and to try to understand the behavior of the thing. And also, to detect the unsafe, I mean, sometimes you can say the Linux kernel will detect automatically where to place the memory. This is what mostly we do every time, but this can be wrong. And I also try to detect this thing to push on to the developer to maybe you need to control this thing. So, just to get some views, for example, you have a summary view telling how many remote local accesses you are making, uncontrolled accesses you are making.  Most of the time, it's not what you get, you get these vertical lines which can impact the performance of your application. And here you get the memory distribution of the NUMA nodes, for example, just to check if you allocate more and you have a lot of charts like this in the tool. So, I just show one. And again, the source annotation with some details, if you put your mouse on the annotation you get all the details of the accesses you are making on this line. So, you can really dig in the thing and try to understand what happened. So, just to get some success, I get with those tools. So, Mart, when I was developing it, I'm using it for my own development most of the time. And I was able to use it by saving some mallocs call to reduce the CPU usage of this application by 20%, which is, I mean, not null. And it was done in roughly, let's say, 15 minutes. So, nice. We improved also two commercial simulations while I was developing the tool at the Exascale Laboratory. And the profiler is now also able to profile the LHCB application which is 1.5 million lines of code. I mean, I don't have results yet, I mean, the tool is working on this thing.  Numa prof, when I was developing it, I took one application from CES or numerical simulation and in 20 minutes without knowing anything of the 8,000 lines of code and MPI application, I was able to get 20% of performance in 20 minutes without knowing anything on the code. So, I mean, it was quite nice. I also detected a Linux kernel bug about Numa policy. So, it was detected by Redat two weeks before, so I didn't have to report, but at least the tool was showing me directly the thing, so it was really nice. And it was also validated by a CERN PhD student which was checking the Numa correctness of his application. So, in this case, it was nice, so no gain, but at least the tool has confirmed that he made the thing right. So, that was nice. So, both of the tools are now hosted on GitHub since hopefully one year you will find a nice website if you want more skin shots to see what you can get also. And if you are interested in memory management for high-performance computing you can find all the documents I wrote during my PhD on this website so you can get many pointers to everywhere from this. So, thanks. For what? No, not yet, no. The question was do I have support for NVD memory and volatile memory and this kind of stuff? Currently not, but at some point they will be exported as Numa nodes. So, I mean at some point I think I will get something, yes. And I have an explicit support for NCD RAM of the KNL for this. The KNIGHT learning from Intel. Yeah. Nice. Thanks very much.