Emily, I thought we didn't have to be televised, but this is one of the committees it does. Oh, we do, yeah. Yeah. I was just telling the mayor, well, when Josh interviewed, he grilled me on one of our most recent commission meetings because he went back and watched it. And I was like, oh, this guy really prepared for his interview. Wow. Oh, wow. You gotta watch everything. You do. You gotta know what you're getting yourself into. That's right. Okay, it is eight o'clock and I will declare the Senior Activity Center Commission meeting open and we start with the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, thanks. Thanks. Why don't we, for those who may be watching or watch it later, why don't we introduce ourselves? Barb, you wanna start? Hello, everybody. Good morning. Hi, I'm Barb Felde. I am the council president and older person for district one. I'm Josh. I'm the new program wellness coordinator for Uptown Social. It's been almost a month now. So, yeah. Emily Rendell-LaRauho, director of senior services. John Schulke, commission member. Rich Miesfeld, chairperson of the commission and friends member. Sugarski, just friends member. Okay, very good. Thanks. We have the first item agenda as approval minutes for the May 19, 2021 meeting of the commission. I'll make a motion to approve. Second. Motion, okay, discussion. Okay, I'll in favor of the minutes signify saying aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposition?  Sure, let's talk about it. So if you wanna give us a program update on what's going on. Sure, well, I'll defer to my new colleague, Josh and ask if Josh wants to let the commission know anything about what's going on with programming right now. Yeah, programming is still going pretty strong. We averaged about eight to nine a class right now. In September, we'll be moving to Kiwanis. Can't hear. Yes, sorry I'm deaf. So starting September 1st, we're gonna move to Kiwanis and we're gonna be moving bridge to Wednesday's and afternoons might try to get a couple more programs at City Hall here. Been talking with Sarah about including maybe like the writing club here on that Friday and everything. So might be on the move some days in September but excited to have more space at Kiwanis. So very excited for that. Yeah, if you haven't, well, if you haven't been to Roosevelt or Kiwanis, Roosevelt is pretty small and not the best space conducive to programming, the floors are tough and whatnot. So we're pretty excited to move over to Kiwanis where of course the room is bigger, the floors are nicer and there's a second room so we can have multiple programs going on at the same time. And so then my hope fingers crossed is that we'll be where we stay until it's time to move into the new building. But so with that change and moving over there September 1st, we're working on, Josh is doing most of it, reevaluating the program schedule because initially when a lot of these programs came back, starting up in March, April, May kind of thing, we were limited to one program at a time and so a lot of folks didn't get their preferred time slot and now we can better accommodate everybody to get them in when they want. So I think it should make some people happy. Good, good thanks. Josh, I heard there's a room where you may start kayaking. I would like to. Well, the reason I thought about that then I just saw a picture of my 80 year old cousin on his 80th birthday kayaking in Lake Michigan. So I guess anything's possible. Yeah, exactly. We are doing an outing in September with sailing education. So that's pretty close. Good, good, thanks. Thanks, well, welcome, Josh, on behalf of the commission. Thank you. We hope you have a long and fruitful and the only other question I have for you, Josh is, how's your dancing coming? It's good, good. Everyone said that I'm doing pretty well and they're teaching me a lot of it still. So it's a process, but I haven't made myself look like a fool yet. And Barb said she'd help you learn. No, Barb Grinke. So. Oh. You have this one. Yeah, it's funny. Well, Barb Felde, I don't know, you can make little X's on the floor. So, okay, the big news is our, how's our building come along and are we on target yet? So we are behind schedule, a couple things. The funding for phase one of construction, which is $2.7 million for the construction, is CDBG Community Development Block Grant loan that we will be paying off over a period of time. That paperwork to progress the loan was delayed coming out of Washington, DC. So my colleague in the planning and development department, put some pressure and asked for help and got things moving. So my understanding is that the funding that loan should close sometime in later this month or early September and around the same time, we should be getting approval from the state of Wisconsin on the plans to move forward. So my understanding right now is that we will be going to bid for contractors in September. The original timeline was that we were to go to bid in June. So we're about three months behind because of that. I'm not particularly surprised. Yeah. But, you know, because we know that these types of things happen. So that is where we are at. No changes to the floor plan or anything like that have occurred in that time. We still feel pretty strongly about the direction we're headed and yeah. Okay. Thanks. Any questions from anyone? Okay, thanks Emily, I appreciate your updates. Now, the next item agenda is fairly important. Been over the last couple of years we've, since I've been on a commission, I've always questioned, you know, what really is our role of the commission? And now with the building and the friends doing more involvement on the fundraising side, Emily and I have been talking about what our direction is and she was hired as a senior services director, not a senior activity center director as in the past, which she and eventually is going to have an expanded role. And one thing we're going to have to do by a bit, some point because it's by statute, we're going to have to change the name of this commission because we change the name of the, because it's not the senior activity center. But one of the things we had talked about down the road is making this actually the senior services commission, which we look and look at all the senior services within the city, not just the activity center and making more in line with Emily's job description. So that's kind of what, you know, my dream would be, and I know we talked to Emily and I think she's on board with that concept to make it a more all encompassing for the services for seniors in the city, not just the one building, because that's what we want to do. We're not just one building. We're a whole community, we're a whole city. And then, but part of that is a couple of years ago, and it's kind of been put on hold. If you look at that Liveable Communities Action Plan and Liveable Sheboygan, and if you have it and you open it up to the second page where the committee members, you can see there was a whole host of, it actually is on page one behind the contents, but there's a whole host of community members that put together and met because ARP came out with a program on the most livable cities in the United States, and Sheboygan had been one of those, and we decided to get on board and so we could get recognized by nationally as one of the most livable cities for, at this time it was for aging, but we looked at it and why can't we make this so it's most livable city for everyone, including those when they age. So these are the people who got together and put together that plan that you see later. So Emily's got some ideas on how we want to move forward with this, and we thought this commission could be a very vital aspect of making this work because it's a five-year plan which has been kind of put on delay right now, but we're gonna have to start moving forward on our action plan. So Emily, you got some thoughts? Yeah, yeah, so I think everyone has a copy in front of them, we sent them out ahead of time. As Rich said, this has been put on hold basically since COVID hit. I know my predecessor, Vicki Schneider, was working on these things and then the world threw a wrench at us. So I would say in terms of the action plan, we're not necessarily behind because the action plan was completed and it's a five-year plan and we're smack dab in the middle of it, but obviously we can't ignore it for too much longer without not fulfilling our goals. So what I wanted to do today was to just walk through, if we get to page, it's not a page number. This was started when Wendy was director. Oh, it started, yeah. She's the one that spearheaded it and then when Vicki took over, she continued it. Yep, yep, so we had focus groups and stuff like that. We had all focus groups and stuff like that. Yeah, and so what Rich and I had talked about was that this commission could really be the leader behind continuing this project and seeing out the action plan. So what I wanted to do today was to walk through the action plan that starts at the end of it, the appendix and just kind of go through line by line and see where we're at, how we're doing, where we want to go from here. What's nice is that, well, maybe I'll back up and say, you know, if we look on that first page of everyone who was part of this the first time, I'm like, I don't know, does it make sense for us to reconvene that entire group? I look at this list, a lot of these people are tired or left or moved on to new things. Like maybe we want to reconvene that whole group and do a big check-in, but for now, let's just kind of go through line by line and see if, well, a lot has changed in the world overall. So there might be things on this list that we want to say like, you know, that doesn't make sense anymore or we want to pivot. So without reading it, everybody, I guess I'm going to read it everybody. So, you know, the first one here, communicate and promote City of Sheboygan's Americans with Disabilities Act assessment plan and advocate for all city facilities to be brought up to standard. And that was assigned to the entire task force, should be completed by next year. I'm not sure where that's at. So I guess that's, I could check up with, oh, there's all right, I don't know. That might be one where it makes sense to reconvene the group and see where the group is at, so thank you, since it's assigned to the whole group. Inventory and promote current accessible public amenities through the City of Sheboygan. Again, that's probably like an overarching city project that we're not necessarily, that's not up to senior services. Improved perception of safety in our neighborhood. That's departmental teams, Mayor's Neighborhood Cabinet. I'm not sure, we have a new mayor now since this plan was put in place. I'm not sure if the mayor has a neighborhood cabinet or has, I don't know. I don't know. Well, there's neighborhood associations. Do you know, Barb? I don't, I can't say. Okay. So, so far those first three seem like different city departments. On the next page, provide education on the diverse forms of communication tools which offer public information and wayfinding in the city, such as apps, large font maps, appropriate signage, and directories with the planning department. I know that conversations are happening there. I'm not sure where they're at on that front, but I know they're working on it. So yeah, I can check back on that. So the next one, research and recommend programs and activities which encourage people of all ages to be connected to their communities and to remain in their homes. I don't know that, Rich, you haven't heard anything about this going on anywhere, have you? I haven't, there not much really going on with any of this right now, as far as I know. Okay. I might just skip, let's just kind of skip down. So the next page, we've got one that's specifically assigned to us. Invite and encourage residents of all ages to attend public events such as farmers markets, concerts and community festivals. And that's assigned to what was the Senior Activity Center. You know, I think, I know I personally am trying to promote more community events to our people. Since I started, I've added a weekly e-newsletter that goes out every Monday that includes what's going on for our programs, but I also try to promote other things going on in the community that I think will interest people. One of the things, one of the needs we've found going through our task force is that is communicating with the seniors in the community was one of the biggest gaps. You know, because at that time, more and more of them were just, had relied on the old Sheboygan press and a few of that. Well, that has certainly changed. Now it seems like I see more stuff in the sun than anything that's kind of taken over to local. But I think my sense is since COVID, more and more of the seniors are getting more electronically based. So it's making sure that we continually use that. And I do know, we had a gentleman from Coler and I did a focus group with all the department heads and talked about how they can communicate. They, I don't know, you may wanna check if that's still going. But they came up with a plan on how they were gonna communicate to the public and not necessarily always duplicate it. Now, it may be through the city newsletter, but you may wanna double check on that, Emily. Yeah, well, and I'm wondering, I know a few years ago there was talk, I think the Chamber of Commerce was spearheading it, but there was talk about developing a community calendar. Have any of you heard anything about that since then? That would be good. I think a lot of that is being done through Plymouth as far as the event calendar. Like the city of Plymouth has one? Or the Plymouth Chamber? The city Plymouth Chamber. And then it's like, so like all their events in Elkhart Lake would get priority. And then Sheboygan was on the back burner. That was like two years ago. I don't know if that's changed, I hope so. Yeah. Because that's important. Yeah, well, and I think that's one of the big challenges is that there's a million different places where you can look and some things are one place and other things are another place and there's no centralized location to know what's going on. Right. I think having this project that we're kind of in charge of inviting and encouraging residents for events is going to help our perception of the center, not just being for old people sitting around playing cards. Right, well, and I will say anecdotally, over the past few weeks, I've gotten a number of calls from folks who are not 55 or older, but are disabled and they asked if they could utilize our programming. And I said, absolutely. You know, really like a 20-year-old could come and use things, it's just they might not get as much out of a yoga class as if they go to yoga on the lake, but, and I think that was part of the impetus for the name change was so that we're not pigeonholing ourselves, but yeah, it's just, it was interesting, I wasn't expecting that. Okay, well, I'll do some, I'll do some investigating and see, because I feel like a community calendar would really help with a lot of those, and I know that's not just coming from me, it's been a conversation going on for a long time. All right, so next up, develop strategy to expand programming to include diverse populations. That's on us, the library, the ADRC, Community Rec and Ed. I know we're talking up, like we're talking about that, but we haven't really acted on anything yet. And Emily, I have talked about that, to expand this. We have, we need people on this committee right now, and if you have any people that you think would be valuable, but one of the things is that Sammy had represented the Hmong community, so we'd like to replace her with that and reach out with some members on this committee from the different populations in Sheboygan to be able to expand knowledge for that, and they can help with reaching out to the diverse populations in the city. So what I'm thinking with this line in particular is what it makes sense, would it make sense to convene these parties specifically to talk about, because I think we're all doing things, like I know the library is doing things, partners for community development has a new executive director who's fantastic and wants to be more engaged in the community. I wonder for that one if it makes sense to convene those groups in a meeting to talk about what we're doing collectively and how we can move in that direction together. Sure. Would any of this group like to be, I don't think it makes sense for all of our commission members to be a part of that conversation, but would anyone in particular like to be part of that conversation? Rich, yes? Sure. Okay. I just love working with retired people because your schedules are so much more flexible. Okay, next page. Initiate pop-up meetings to gather community input by us. Initiate pop-up meetings. Right now you're the only senior services department. Yeah. It's us. I'm just thinking about that. How many calls do you get that, to do pop-up things where you can gather the community and get their input? Right now, I haven't done any since I started like an open listening session. Phone calls. Yeah, I mean, people call all the time and say, What? You know, lately it's been a lot of calls of like, is the new building gonna have X, Y, Z because ping-pong tables are important to me? And then I say yes. I know what they're talking about. What? Can't hear you. Oh, I'm sorry. I said I don't know what Barb's question was. I'm sorry. Do you wanna repeat your question? Well, the question was how many, where would you get these and how can you get them out? And right now, Emily has said that the best thing is people are calling her, but mostly asking about what's going to, if there's going to be things in the new building. So, maybe the pop-ups, maybe coffee, invite them to please the officer, and walk up the steps and it's coffee and a cop. So, maybe we could do uptown social and coffee. Coffee with us? Yeah, when we had the focus groups, we had at the one coffee shop often. Yeah. But now that coffee shop is closed, but yeah. Well, you know, now there's that new parklet. We could do a parklet outside of Paradigm in the ale house and could do it pretty safely, pretty easily. I think it's called, isn't it called Uptown? The Uptown Parklet. Yeah. Let's do it. That'd be pretty easy to pull it off. I'm looking at you because I want you to do the work. You should have stayed remotely working. He loves Paradigm. I love Paradigm and an excuse to hang out there. Yeah, that would be, and to hear from people of like what they wanna see and, but I think too, like the whole purpose of this is that it's beyond just what we can do as an organization, but even I think if we do a pop-up like that, we'd probably wanna invite like someone from the planning and development department, you know, whether it's Abby or Chad or Janet or one of those, but just so they can hear from people. And I know we talk as a city about being more accessible and approachable by the general public and how to open that communication from both directions. So speaking. And a less intimidating way to come in and, you know, hear somebody talking and see them. Yeah, yeah, we can pull that off. All right, next one. Partner with institutions of higher learning for lifelong learning programs. That's a sign to us. I'm happy to say that even without having had to look at this livability plan that was something I was already working on, we, my connections with Lakeland are strong as are yours, Rich, I know, Professor Rich. We did last spring, we did a couple virtual school for seniors programs. The first one, Lakeland made the connection but it was with the Better Business Bureau on anti-scamming and we had a good attendance there. I wanna say we had like 20, 30 people. The next one we did was on technology and it was via Zoom and the attendance was not as great. And I think by then that was April or May and that was when a lot of people were vaccinated and everyone was just sort of over Zoom. So I've kind of put that on hold because Lakeland is not really doing live events quite yet. But I think when we get the go ahead to do those things in person, I think they'll be gangbusters. They're teaching in person with masks this fall. Yeah, yeah, but it was, and it was the person I was working with, Chuck Grubasek on the technology one, he was all ready to have, to do a presentation in person so that people could actually practice with their devices. And at that was last spring and at that time Lakeland said they weren't really allowing anything in person that wasn't, you know, they're prioritizing their students, which makes sense. But so that's in the works and kind of on hold until it's safe to do so. So the next one, educate and encourage older adults to use the Volunteer Center program through United Way. I haven't done anything with that yet, but I'm very excited because next month is gonna be their day of caring and we are gonna host a project. I would imagine that the center probably hosted projects in the past for either like fence painting and whatnot, or, you know, gardening usually, right? No, they would come in and paint and we did have some gardening. There would be a few helping with the gardening, but we had, they took out, I think they took out the lockers and they redid that one whole area.  Well, so this year, because we're not in our new building or our old building, what we're doing is we're having an extended greeting card making class.  Really, I'm excited because I know the Volunteer Center has a hard time finding projects that are good for people who cannot do hard physical labor. So, and they do mini grants to buy supplies. So I'm hoping that they'll give us some funding to purchase supplies and then we can have folks come in and they'll be making greeting cards for the day. And then we'll have that inventory to sell and just a way for people to get engaged a little bit. But on the flip side, I'll be promoting Day of Caring as an opportunity for our people to go out and volunteer in other spots. So that's kind of in the works. I did just here on a community meeting yesterday that there's going to be a volunteer fair. It's the Volunteer Center and Just Serve, which is the other local organization that houses volunteer opportunities. They're partnering to do a live volunteer fair in late October. So that'll be one that I'm really hoping to promote to our people a lot to encourage people to get out and... When is the actual, the other volunteer? The Day of Caring is. Day of Caring is September 16th, whatever that Thursday is. September what? I think it's the 16th. Oh, okay. Yeah, that Thursday. If there are people that want to do something physical, we can do a cleanup of the... You want me to add that as a project? Sure. Okay. Yeah, because it's, stuff has really grown very well at the center. So getting rid of it would be good. Cool. And I'm assuming I can use you as a team lead there? I'll be a team leader, yeah. John, do you need any more volunteers for the MHA walk? Are you pretty well set? We're pretty well set. John's one of the committee members for MHA. Oh, nice. There's Hope Walk. What's that September 11th? I will promote it to our people. Appreciate it. You betcha. So then on our next page, expand senior activity center newsletter to include community news items. Hey, we're doing that. Sweet. Check that box. I do want to pursue that community calendar thing more because right now it kind of, how much I include from the community sort of depends on how much free time I have to go out in search of it. Cause, you know, it's just sort of like, if I'm exposed to something I'll throw in there, but it's hard to like track down all of the things. And I'm positive that I miss things that people would want to attend or know more about. But we're doing that. So that's good. Discover and promote or develop technology training and ongoing support for older adults. So that's one where Josh, you're new, so you don't know this yet, but we did, we have had calls from people specifically asking for that type of thing with our current transient state. I didn't think it made sense to develop a specific program just for that, but what we did was Rachel, our former program coordinator actually did just like one-on-one coaching with people who needed help with technology as she fit it in her schedule. She really enjoyed it. So, you know, and I'm happy to do that too, but. And we did have a former member that would do this tutoring, but unfortunately she moved up North. But people really did like that help. Yeah. And I think when we're in our new building, I'd love to see that as part of our regular programming, almost like an office hours type thing to say like, this is when you can come in and get help. And then also once a month, like, hey, we're gonna talk about this topic today. So we're kind of working, that's one of those like on hold till we're in our new building things. Next up, research and recommend community connections for residents which promote wellness as well as health and active aging. And that's everything, or that's us and the entire group. I almost wonder if this is another, because it's so many different organizations involved with this line item. I wonder if that's another meeting to just reconvene the group and talk about, because we're all doing things individually, but I don't know that we're necessarily. It may be if we have a meeting with other groups just to let them know to always keep us informed of what's going on so we can promote it. We don't need to do everything, but we can promote what they're doing. I think that's a concept of the senior, turning this into more senior services in your position as opposed to just the building. What we would do is maybe we'd be the clearinghouse, not this committee, but we'd be the clearinghouse for organizations to help get the word out. Yes, yes. And that might be one that I kind of shuffle over to your plate, Mr. Kinesiology. It's going, yeah. Oh, I can do that. And the other thing I think our commissioner, whatever our thing is to help support the city side of the senior activity center. You as your employees went to, we always had to at least test, just tactfully approve the budget, but maybe we can help and lobby or support you and your efforts with the city. So that's kind of, I see it as one of our roles too. I'm sure that will come in handy, thank you. I will just share, I know in the past this organization has had a mix of employees split that some were employees of the city and some were employees of the friends. We currently don't have that, both Josh and I are employees of the city and I don't know if you know this, but the friends is basically paying the city to pay you, which I think is nice, because then you get benefits and all the other nice things that come with being an employee of large organization versus, and then logistically, it's nice to not have to do two payrolls. But so what I've shared with the friends and also city leadership as we move into budgeting is that I'm not necessarily interested in ever having employees of the friends again, because I think it's messy and complicated and can create a hierarchy of employees of like, well, why does one employee get benefits and the other one doesn't? So I think in terms of budgeting, I know the plan is to keep the friends very close with how we do the city budget, knowing that there are stronger limitations on finances of the city versus the friends where the friends can be a lot more fluid and whatnot. But I just bring that up because I think every year it's gonna be a conversation around budgeting of like, okay, we think we're gonna need to bring this new employee on next year and like for example, as we're getting ready to move into the new building, I do plan to bring on a full-time person, not to refill the operations coordinator role as it was, but to have someone with a greater focus on communications and volunteer coordination. That was a little bit of a ramble. Does that, did it make sense? Yep. Okay. So any questions for Emily on this? I mean, this will be, I think this, I think maybe this could be one of those ongoing agenda items each month to give updates on the livability and where we're going. So with that, I think. Can I give you a little bit of, this is hot news, as far as livability item, that's kind of going on. The above and beyond museum is, they have a garden next to their building and the city has worked with them and said, you know, it'd be good to have a playground there and they're thinking of doing that, they're working on doing that. And one of the thing is fundraising and I'm a member of the Lions Club and last night we're like this close to getting final approval for, we will be contributing 5,000, that's town of Sheboygan Lions Club, the noon club has committed 5,000, there will be more clubs, hopefully we're gonna get 25,000, that will get us another matching 25,000 and then there's another donator that's gonna be donating another 25,000. And we saw the drawing for this playground, it's gonna be for all accessibility it has is. Octopus theme, it looks so cool. But anyways, I think we're gonna make really good progress for that so that'll move on nicely for the downtown. Sue as the person who was working at the Children's Museum won that conversation about that project just started and as the person who like secured that company that designed it, you're making my, I'm getting chills, I'm so excited that it's really happening. Yes, it was so neat to see, you know, it's going to be something that is really gonna be unique and you know, I think it's really gonna be something that's gonna be, that's gonna draw people to Sheboygan or when they come, they have some place unique to go to. Yes, well, and that was the impetus for putting in a playground like that, that's pleasing and exciting to look at as opposed to a traditional, if anyone hasn't seen the plans yet, I'll send them out, they're very cool. It's very cool. So I thought I'd, like I said, it's just a proof part of that approved last night, so. Congratulations, thank you. Any other comments or questions? Well, thanks, John and Barb and Emily and Sue. With that, the next meeting is September 20th at 8 a.m. and we'll keep moving forward and thanks for your participation and the meeting I'll ask for a motion for adjournment. Motion to adjourn. Second. Okay, made in second, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay, meeting adjourned. Thank you, Mr. TV8 guy. Thank you for covering for Scott this week. He's on vacation. He likes it. Right, Robert, you like it?


to one in this series. Let's get it to Michael Kay and Paul O'Neill. And I know Michael you alluded to this too. It is a good case scenario when Tanaka gives the ball to Green but not in this case tonight. Yeah once once Tanaka couldn't get it out in the fifth inning you knew they were kind of in trouble because the Yankee bullpen is not deep enough to get you 15 outs in a game. I mean optimally you would have liked to Tanaka to give you six innings and then you go green Britain and and Chapman and we've been saying that you know they have three high leverage guys but there's really two guys that they trust without any kind of hesitation and that's Britain and Chapman. Green has had some bad games this year usually with a guy with his stuff he does not usually get hit as hard as he has so when he came in he came in too early for him he didn't have it and then you look at the guys that have done well Michael King gave them two strong innings Nick Nelson pitched well Louis Sessa did not pitch well so the highest and Yankee relievers didn't do the job but I think it fell apart once Tanaka gave up that home run to lead off the fifth inning and I don't blame Boone for taking him at that point because she can't fall any further behind it it just unraveled and you guys showed that possible strike him out throw him out double play when that's a race because Carlson doesn't think that strike three where the whole tenor of the game changes when Kiermeyer hits the home run. Paul I wanted to talk to you about the Yankee lineup facing the veteran Charlie Morton who I thought was fantastic getting ahead in the count with two seamers but a big part in this game was the third inning Luke Voight was up there with the bases loaded and maybe a chance to do some damage a questionable 3-0 pitch for strike one questionable 3-1 pitch for strike two he ends up grounding out. Yeah I mean obviously a huge part of the game you throw up some runs there Luke Voight has been in some opportunity and you know in this playoff where you know during the season you're so accustomed to seeing him do it but you know big at bats sometimes don't go your way the umpiring was questionable not nearly as bad as it was last night in my mind that ball was low on the strike amount throw them out but it did set up for a huge inning for the race.


Oh Oh PCP races are a lot of fun and I love doing them even though I always lose Because I never try very hard because I don't practice because I'm not competitive about things that I'm not already good at Nor really anything. I'm just I'm not a I'm not a contender.  What is happening? Okay? Okay? He ate the thing Yeah So yeah, I didn't I didn't have a Super Nintendo and You know, my first Kirby was nightmare and dreamland on the GBA I played through I've played through the earliest Kirby games because I made a Kirby video a couple years ago And I was watching I played Kirby games for the sake of that video And I've played little bits of some of the newer ones and some of the DS and another Point being I never got around to this one Even though this is like the one that everybody says is the best like especially the the remake on the DS like is often considered to be the best Kirby game I don't know how much of that is just because there's multiple games Like I don't know if that's like the primary reason that everybody likes Kirby Superstar so much So I think I might have played a little bit of the great cave offensive ones For some reason I don't remember why but I think I probably played a little bit of great cave offensive at some point But but I but I haven't played through much of it. I haven't played this level So So I would have gotten my ass kicked I mean I because I definitely wouldn't have practiced I maybe I would have played through once just so I could at least Like know what I'm in for beside beyond the idea that it's a Kirby game But um the reason I'm playing it right now is simply that I am in my new house And my girlfriend had a wee so we went and kidnapped her wee from her house So that we could play Kirby epic yarn I'm probably not going to let's play that because I want to just play it You know, I just want to play with my girlfriend and have a good time Because it's a very relaxing game I'd rather just play it to relax as opposed to trying to entertain an audience like what I'm doing right now With the constant dialogue so So I you know, I hooked up her wee just now she's at she's at work and I was like I'm gonna check out this We I'm gonna have it hooked up and ready so that when we decide we want to play Kirby We'll have it right there available to us, you know And I turn on the wee and she happens to own Kirby Superstar just on the wee I guess as a you know, probably a digital download You know she probably bought it off of the the Nintendo store or something because she liked the Kirby and I liked the Kirby so So yeah, that's why I'm playing it because I saw it there and I thought oh I didn't get to participate in the race So I'll just make my own video where I do the race You know where I do the same levels they did and we'll see how long it would have taken me had I been there Cuz that video was really short and it's it's funny to think about because I think of the PCP race videos as like the biggest deal on the channel almost like they're the they have by far the most work put into them of Anything that we do, you know, the Dark Souls one had like a really epic presentation It had, you know, several people had practiced for even I kind of practiced for that one Not as much as I obviously should have considering that everyone else was able to beat like too fucking Like like they were able to ring both bells and the time it took me to ring one but but nonetheless I You know it had a lot of effort put into it as a video and the Pokemon one did as well I mean Ben and Nate trained so ridiculously hard for the Pokemon race.    Well, that was cool. So So yeah, I I figured why not why not give it a shot See how long the video would have been had I actually competed had I had I given it a go Would it have been a 40 minute video as opposed to a mere 20?  Okay. I hope that would break all the blocks Why would they put that power right there? Oh God, that's obnoxious Is that just to troll me? Well, I use it all up great. No, I don't even have anything I can't eat this guy. He responds every time I go up. Ah Give me your bombs So yeah, we're gonna learn that today you gonna learn. Oh, oh What did I do? What did I even do? God This I probably would have actually reset my run if it was if I you know if I lost this badly Did I read did I die in the Dark Souls run and keep going? I don't remember if I did I think I might have died once at least. Oh my god.   So instead I'll talk about other stuff that's going on with me You know, I've been um, I've been trying to I've been getting back into the human content machine swing over the past week because You know before I left on this this cross-country trip I had made this big deal about the fact that like I make ass tons of content and that's all I do and like you know that It felt like my subscriber base no longer really cared that much about an anime analysis videos compared to just like watching me do shit like Particularly the kind of people who patron me are like often the ones who will just watch like all of my content regardless of what it is so um, I Thought it was starting to seem weird to like to have my patreon dedicated to just one type of video when I make so Many different types and it was so hard to justify other types of videos When they don't make money, you know, so why not change up the formula? And embrace this idea of me as like a guy who just puts out all kinds of shit all the time Not that I wanted to get rid of anime analysis videos or anything You know, I still want to do those especially because DeVu's employment kind of depends on it But like they wouldn't be the sole focus it would be more about like putting out tons and tons of unique stuff all of it Like totally different, you know, see how many different ways I can make a vlog or let's play or or What's the other podcast like those those are my basic my skills my like the things I like to do and I'm good at is like blogging podcasting and Podcasts let's plays.  Oh What was that?  I don't know There's there's nothing all that funny about watching three guys be almost just as good as each other, you know Like granted they didn't put as much effort into the Kirby race as like particularly Nate, you know He usually goes all out. He didn't have time. He was busy with me and Mafia and all that Because that's how long that's how far ahead we plan these are usually like the idea is probably like months ahead of when the video comes out but um You know, I'm sure he was busy with all kinds of things.  It's just harder to use But but anyways, yeah, like, you know, I missed out I missed that that feeling of like the the huge fjord of difference between like what it means to play skillfully or not Like seeing the way that Nate handled the Dark Souls race and like the giant difference between that and what like You know how hippo was able to do it just by being like insanely good at Dark Souls and Jesse was like You know ahead of me because he's still way He's still good at Dark Souls, you know He used a little bit less tech than than hippo did and then me who uses no tech and it's just like and it's not even that I'm like terrible at Dark Souls.   So You know, I just I don't have the tech.  That's how bad I am Rock power seemed not great for this bomb seems better so, um Yeah, like It's it's about seeing that difference in skill. I think it's really interesting. But what was I talking about? Oh, yeah Before I got sidetracked by talking about video games again Okay, I think I just beat the first game. I think I just beat the first like Part of this and then I have to yeah, okay, spring breeze is done next.   I asked it to explain copy. I don't need this Okay So anyway, what was I saying? Yeah? I've changed everything so that it's more about like frequency of content and and diversity Like it's not just about the fact that it's hyper frequent But also just that I can do all kinds of different things and really play around and experiment and like see what's fun And what I like doing like right now It's like I've got a series going where it's like me and my girlfriend rating pokemon designs, you know Which I think it's like a genius idea because it's such a weird form of content Like it's not something that anybody would have seen coming and yet makes sense And it's like it's kind of the most digi bro thing imaginable because I love making lists I love scoring things in relationship to one another, you know and just like passing judgment and and having an opinion about things And I also love like pokemon and like I've literally done it before like I did it just out of uh just What what even what I consider the reason I did it before like I had just played through pokemon x and y And I think it was because I liked the designs in x and y so much And I felt like they needed defending because you know not everybody's a huge fan of the designs of newer pokemon And I really liked the x and y designs I felt like they were stronger even than some of the you know the classic gens and shit like that and so Yeah, I put together this this series of charts just like Ranking all the pokemon designs and I just posted it on tumblr like it had no purpose to anybody, but me I probably did it all in like a night and so Like I think I just mentioned to may that I'd done that before and she was like that would make a good video series And I was like, oh my god. What have you done like you realize that I now have to do that And like I told her like, you know if I do that it's gonna take forever Like if I if I make a series of videos It's gonna be hours for each one you should be in them too because you also love pokemon and can do the ratings and And it'll also be a fun way to introduce my audience to you because Like, you know, I've put her in a couple videos But she didn't have much to say really because it's like subjects that she's kind of new to Like talking about anime history.  She's pokemon lifer like myself So I was like, okay, this will work and and she's also I don't I don't feel like I'm just talking about my girlfriend now. But like because she's a a fashion person and stuff like, um She's into design.  Oh, get me out. Let me out. That was horrifying. I didn't know they could do that um Anyway, yeah, there's some people who like legitimately love it and are like, oh, this is so much fun I love doing this, you know people who are playing along people who are charting out all the scores and stuff like that Which is you know, I knew all that would happen I was like, this is this is that's the kind of idea this is like if you are into this idea You're gonna be way into it and want to join in and like play along because it's a very inviting kind of setup So, you know And the idea is that like because all the content is so different There has to be a shitload of it because if any one person like doesn't like Let's say you're a patron for 20 a month and you don't even like pokemon, you know And so if my content for the next week is just seven hours Or well more than seven hours Probably close to 10 hours that it will be in total of Me ranking pokemon designs, then you're gonna be like this is fucking boring like I have no interest in this This is not my kind of content and why am I paying for it? You know so like Even though the content is long and voluminous there still has to be something else for those who won't be interested So then it's like well, there will also be all these different kinds of podcasts Some people won't like insufferable social media argument the podcast But some people think it's the funniest shit in the universe Some people won't care to watch a weekly anime or you know me and Nate comment on one like, uh You know made in abyss every week, but it's gonna be there for those who do Oh, you only like three minute videos. You don't like it when I go on all day Well, here's uh the most interesting thing about series, you know and like I still want to make like stuff that's more universal that everyone can appreciate and like But even then there really is nothing like that anymore Like there's some people who have a conception that there is like the people who do like those kinds of videos I get comments from them sometimes like digi. Why aren't you making like good videos anymore? Like what happened to just stuff that's more universal?   Like there's gotta be some people who are gonna be mad when this or that one thing doesn't come out And that's why I'd like to have lots of regular like more regular content because then people at least know they'll get this thing like Even if my one-off series like something like the pokemon thing, you know, that's only gonna last a week and then or Eight days however long it takes to go through all the gents And then it'll be over But like if we if me and Nate keep doing like, you know Anime every week and stuff like that or if I keep doing insufferable social media argument And the pub crawl and like these shows that at least you know, you're gonna get so, um You know, even if the the the the new stuff that comes about Isn't something you're interested in at least if you're interested in one of those other shows you will get it You know, and there's some people who will just consume all of it.  They just like me and you know hearing me talk and Being interested in my personality and perspective, I guess So the result of all that Is just this increased weariness about getting into like bigger projects like one of the things I was glad this would free me up for Is like hey, I'll have time that I can set aside for a a bigger project, but then at the same time Um, maybe people don't even want to see those You know like some people won't care about like if I spent all month on a big project There then the people who don't care about it are going to be just as put off as you know, um As the people who do care about it are when I make a bunch of small stuff Not that that's I mean Not that that would stop me if I had a big project I like super wanted to do and I have one that's that I have in mind that I might start soon that I think people will appreciate I don't know what I was doing wrong there but um You know it's just put me in an interesting position where I really have to rethink the way I do stuff and I really um I feel like I'm gonna change the nature of like a lot of things like for instance even the anime analysis videos like Um, I can do them without Uh, like requiring the things that I've acted like I required all the time like for instance, um Like I can talk about shows that maybe I am not doing like because I'm not doing like an analysis video on the show I don't have to watch the whole thing. I can just like talk about it Um, maybe I don't have to script all of them You know stuff that stuff that allows them to fall in better with this constant content model. We're like Right now it's like most of the stuff I make is hour long videos or like the only 10 minute vlogs I do are like random concept shit, but it's never about anime I'm never doing like an unscripted or like lower effort version of what I was doing all this time Um, and as a result, it's harder to fit what I was doing all this time into this new model But I think there's probably ways to do that, you know So for instance, I have this idea for a video that I'm I was planning to write today. In fact, I should be working on it right now, but instead I'm playing Kirby and um Like I just haven't gotten around to writing it because I keep wanting to fill my time with different podcasts and blogs and stuff like that and scheduling around When my girlfriends at work because I've been picking her up and dropping her off at work So there's like a period of time Of like a few hours each day where it's like all to myself that I can work on personal projects And I don't have any obligation to drive anywhere, you know for a little while um And so during that time I try to get as much done as I can And um, so this is I'm in that time right now and I should be writing this video that I've got this idea for um that that was going to be another a broader concept one And basically I was like well the only real thing stopping me is that I have to write this like that that the idea of sitting down to write it because It it's not a complicated video to write. I I know exactly what I want to say. I know exactly how it's going to go. Um You know, it's not a difficult Script but like finding the the exact moment to sit down and like concentrate all my power into writing as opposed to watching a youtube video or doing a podcast or you know uh If my girlfriend's around like doing stuff with her like To do a writing as opposed to that is uh is where I struggle But then I thought about it when I was uh on the way home and I was like wait a minute This doesn't need to be written at all Like this is not something it's not struck the video is not structured in such a way that like it requires um That it requires actual like pen to paper. Well hands to keyboard.   It was just an audio only um, you know explanation thing That a lot of people really appreciate it. It got pretty good views. It got uh, it was well liked Um people were interested in the subject matter So that's what really matters here like having a script especially if I literally can do it just as well without one Is not necessary and it's if anything just slowing down my process It's kind of like I feel like I've reached the level Um as a talker that an artist reaches where they don't have to do uh sketches anymore You know like there's a level you can get to as an artist where you literally just don't have to sketch things out Because you know what you're doing, you know, like you probably would if you were doing like a really big thing But like you you can draw competently without it.   So it went on for uh forever and Yeah, like it was it was interesting and I feel like I'm at that point because writing Is literally the same thing as speaking. It's just you put more thought into what words you use When you're speaking you're writing in fast forward You're just writing as fast as you can as fast as the words can come to mind But the actual practice is not very different at least not from the way I write, you know, I'm not writing fucking Uh prosaically.  It's just how well can I phrase this thing in the moment that you'll get the point But I don't sit there and like craft sentences and shit like that, you know, I mostly just write straightforwardly so for me writing and talking are basically the exact same activity and so it's um Yeah, it's interesting to think that I don't necessarily have to write things down If I can just take the time like like Rather than spending 15 seconds thinking about how to write the sentence and then later recording myself reading that sentence back I can just spend 15 seconds thinking about how to write the sentence and then just say it into a microphone You know, like there doesn't have to be a writing step in there.  Whoa I literally don't know what this does Oh Did I just did it give me his power? Is that what it does?  I used the power. Nope, and I didn't even do it I thought I had and I hadn't and now I wasted it. Well Good for me um, yeah, anyway Point being that I can do it a lot faster and I'd like to I'd like to um I really want to introduce like a mid level Of content where it's like So I've got the um, you know, the most interesting thing about series and that is kind of Almost mid level except that the point of it is that it's like super Simplistic, it's like literally just the most obvious thing about a show That I don't have anything else to say about, you know and um And like just something I thought was interesting And wanted to talk about but there was nothing else to say about the show So let's just like get that one idea out there and uh, and you know send it along And those like have been written just because like it's so short that I can write it in half an hour And there's no reason not to but like I do think there's a a mid level of content where it's like it's not something that's That massively needs to be worded well like I could never have unscripted done the asterisk or sucks Right because it has to be like processed while watching the show It's something that I have to like pick out the words through the experience of literally watching it and um You know coming up with ideas and all that like it's a very laborious rating writing process But if I'm just like explaining something that's like, uh Yeah, um Here's how this show uh affected Something historically or some shit like that, you know, that's basically what this video. I'm I'm working on is like again I literally already know what I'm gonna say. So like there's no reason to even bother writing it down I know where it's going. So Um, I will not write it as soon as I'm done with this, uh This let's play which is taking longer than I expected simply because of course Watching those guys play through these two levels made it look really short and really simple and easy Um, and to a lot of people it is exactly those things But for me, I did not know what I was getting myself into. I've never played the game.  Um So it's taking quite a while. I don't know exactly how long I've been going but I've I've got to imagine it's like 40 minutes.  Whereas what they're really doing is finding ones that are like that like We'll probably take them 20 minutes the first couple of times and then 12 minutes each time after that And they're really just shaving seconds off, you know, they're just trying to to get like the optimal time They're like literally speed running whereas with me i'm like Just doing it once and like sticking with whatever it would naturally take me with no practice Which um, you know, I don't know why but I find that interesting in itself like to just to just display what the uh What what it would be if you didn't try Uh to to like become a master Like to me the point of the dark souls race was just to show who was best at dark souls at that moment You know like if if the if the competition had been who is the most skilled dark souls player Then hippo would have won because he's better at dark souls than nate But the reason nate won is because he used strategies, you know, he he He he he was the best at doing that challenge. He was the best at Going as fast as you can to beat that boss and I understand why that is more interesting to him Like i'm not saying that he's wrong to think that way. I completely get it But to me it like I had thought the idea was like, let's see who's the best at dark souls You know, like let's see who can who can play the game the most good and um That's not really what the competition was or ever is but um, you know, someone's representing that angle on it So anyways, yeah, there we go.  Um You know, I'll put my time on screen I'm not sure where the I'll have to look at the video to see where the timer exactly begins and ends but um You'll be able to see my time So you can compare it to everybody else This is the digi only commentary version of a I realize it, you know, and this is the difference between if it was just me versus if I'm in attendance Is that if if I had been in attendance You would have gotten the stuff I was talking about for the first 15 minutes And the stuff I've talked about for the last five minutes and all of the midsection where I just rambled about What's going on in my personal life would have been cut out because it's completely unnecessary to one of these But you know, I was I was a one man. Let's play That ran long so there had to be some content filler in there. I apologize to those who Who didn't who weren't who didn't sign up for that shit? All right Thanks for watching everybody I'll see you in the next one


The Lady of Elche, a limestone bust that was first discovered in 1897. It was found at an archaeological site on a private estate, 2 km south of Elche, within Spain. Currently exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid, the artistic influences involved in creating her are a heavily debated topic. This undoubtedly due to her unusual appearance and the fact that no one seems to be able to pinpoint her origins. According to the Encyclopedia of Religion, the Lady of Elche is believed to have a direct association with Tannit, the goddess of Carthage who was once worshipped by the Punic Iberians. Though at best this could be perceived as a guess based on vague similarity. Clearly the most striking and intriguing detail surrounding the Lady of Elche is her mysterious and possibly advanced technological appendages. Positioned around her head and flowing down the bust, the original function for these strange decorations is unknown. The current academically accepted view is that the originally polychromed bust is thought to have represented a woman wearing a complex headdress, while some scholars suggest that the sculpture is Iberian and associated with Tannit, the goddess of Carthage. Others have proposed the work reflects a long lost Atlantean goddess. The unusual features of the sculpture, such as the quietly kept detail that she had an elongated head, has led many independent researchers to suspect the spools were not part of a unique headdress but was a type of lost technology reflecting the highly advanced nature of the lost and forgotten Atlantean civilization. Art historian John F. Moffat, along with most of academia, agree that the shape of the Lady's eyes, nose, and other features were too delicate to have been carved in pre-Christian Spain. Therefore, predictably, instead of suspecting that an unknown highly advanced civilization could have possibly created it, many academics have simply concluded it to be an elaborate hopes, regardless of the compelling evidence upon the statue which displays its true antiquity. And also of the fact that in 1997, the mayor of Elche fought to have the bust of the Lady of Elche return from the National Archaeological Museum of Spain in Madrid to the city of Elche to be on display during celebrations of the city's 2,000th year. It was to be a special exhibit, but the petition to have the bust return was denied. The director of Elche's Archaeological Museum, Rafael Ramos, argued that it was preposterous to say that the statue could not survive the journey, noting that more delicate pieces are transported around the world regularly. Do these sound like the actions of a group of people who suspect the artifact to be a fake, or does it sound more like the actions of a group of conspiring individuals with an aim of retaining a valuable yet largely unknown relic? Is the statue of the Lady of Elche a long-lost Atlantean bust, or maybe a leader of a group of beings whom once visited Earth? Questions surrounding the Lady of Elche largely remain unanswered. How did she end up in a farmer's field in Spain? The disputes and specialist theories surrounding the Lady of Elche clearly illustrate the secret importance of the bust. Just who was the Lady of Elche? An ancient queen, perhaps an ancient alien? When a piece is clearly treasured by the same group who can test it as a fake, we always find such objects highly compelling. We previously covered what is undoubtedly one of the most peculiar ancient statues ever unearthed. Now known as the Lady of Elche, she mysteriously turned up in 1897 on a private estate two kilometers south of Elche, Spain. Her unusual headdress is obviously her most baffling characteristic, and a subject of heated debate to this day. Some claim that it is nothing but a mere fashion item, although their links to other ancient examples are reaching at best. Other theories pertain to them depicting some form of ancient advanced headphones, an antenna, or even that she was actually an ancient alien. An additional enigma surrounding the Lady of Elche is the cavity within her back, empty when discovered. The question is, why was the statue made in such a way? What was once placed within the statue? The information known about her is understandably extremely limited. She was long thought to be one of a kind, and as such easily dismissed by academics as a mere one-off. However, it seems the Lady wasn't actually unique. Additionally, she may have actually been a rather well-known figure to a civilization we are possibly yet to understand. Although the statue was found in Spain in 1969, in Richfield, Utah, another as yet unexplained object was found. Discovered at a depth of six feet, within soil that contained no other evidence of past disturbance, what some now think was once a buckle adorned with what clearly was an image of the Lady of Elche. The question is, who was the Lady of Elche? Why is an ancient medallion, presumed belt buckle, found within an empty field in Utah adorned with her image? Furthermore, upon the observance of the buckle, along with the bust of the Lady of Elche is perhaps the most compelling clue pertaining to her identity discovered yet. Many people suggested that due to the Lady of Elche's unusual existence and the claimed location of the discovery of the buckle, it was claimed that the Utah Lady was in fact a fake. However, after extensive research, the inscription upon the averse was found to actually be authentic ancient Assyrian, translated as the Assyrian. Was this the original name for the Lady of Elche? Who were these particular looking Assyrians? Was she a member of the civilization modern academia have permitted such extensive study of? If so, why are we not aware of such a clearly famous yet visually unique character? Were the Assyrians actually another lost, advanced ancient civilization? Perhaps the inspiration for the name of the Assyrian culture we are so aware of? Are the real Assyrians being obscured by acclaimed more recent imposter by academia? Or were they merely a weird fashion item? For now, her identity is still up for debate. However, such finds undoubtedly strengthen some highly compelling possibilities. We have recently covered many of the amazing archeological ruins, which can be found within modern-day Turkey, and it would be foolish of us not to devote a small fraction of our investigative minds on what is probably the most enigmatic of them all. This tie atop a rather suspiciously shaped mountain known as Nimrut, someone at some time within our very distant past, went to tremendous efforts to create what academia have concluded was some sort of tomb. This however, absence of any king or queens remains to date, or indeed any other form of evidence to support such claims. Said to have been constructed by the Kamagini Kingdom some 5,000 years ago, the enormous stone statues are placed at a height of 2,230 meters above sea level. Because of the site's clearly tremendous antiquity, coupled with the astonishing achievements involved in creating it, many people attribute the site as the eighth wonder of the world. Furthermore, and perhaps most intriguing regarding the ruins, is the fact that Mount Nimrut Da is one of the only places on Earth where a number of sunrises and sunsets can be observed. Every year, thousands of local and foreign tourists come to Nimrut Da to watch the sunrise and sunset. Was this particular anomaly found at this specific location a factor in the decision to place this mysterious structure at the top of Mount Nimrut? And if so, how did a culture more than 5,000 years ago understand this? The name Nimrut is a relatively modern one, dating back only to the Middle Ages. In Armenian legend, Haik defeated the Biblical king Nimrod and buried him in these mountains, meaning the real name of the mountain at the time of the monumental structure's construction remains unknown. According to academia, quote, the tumulus, or ceremonial mound at the site, which is 49 meters tall and 152 meters in diameter, was possibly built to protect a tomb from tomb robbers since any excavation would quickly fill with loose rock. The statues appear to have Greek-style facial features, but Armenian clothing and hairstyling, end quote. We find it interesting that academics would happily mention the amazing characteristics included in the build. The hidden chambers beneath being booby-trapped with multiple tons of loose gravel placed at top to quickly fill any tomb robbers' attempted burrowing tunnels, stifling their attempts to loot the site, yet say, with their second breath, that the site was somehow looted some time within antiquity. The site was excavated in 1881 by Carl Sester, a German engineer assessing transport routes for the Ottomans. However, his claim of a tomb have never been validated. Subsequent excavations have failed to reveal the tomb of Antiochus, the supposed character who resides here. This however has not deterred academia to continue to strongly argue that the site is indeed his burial site. Who built the ancient monumental structure high atop this mountain within Turkey? Why did they build it? Is it indeed constructed, like Alajahoyuk, by a far more advanced civilization than we are led to believe? The more we learn regarding these ancient sites, the more such a proposition becomes a real possibility. We have in the past covered the fascinating legends and indeed recovered artifacts that have been found over the years within the Ecuadorian cave system, known locally as Cueva de los Taos. The legends of the cave nearly all surround hidden treasures of lost ancient and giant civilizations, including the posit of an ancient yet inexplicable library room made entirely from a curious metallic formula. With caves with an intrigue, strong enough to even attract the attention of the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, when began to wonder whether these legends be true and when you bring Father Crespi's collection into the fold, the flurry of interest surrounding these legends and indeed the artificial nature of some of the portions of the cave itself all become easily explainable via such motives of discovery. Father Crespi, as the title would suggest, was a religious man and one who was highly philanthropic and also incredibly interested in the artifacts of antiquity, and fortunately for him and us, the location in which he lived was steeped in lost ancient artifacts, all just waiting to be recovered. Father Crespi was a man of modest wealth and in return for curious artifacts, often found within the Taos cave, even reported to have given food in return for clear forgeries offered by hungry individuals, although he would offer more and often money, respective of the artifacts clearly historical value. This allowed Father Crespi to gather a literal horde of authentic ancient artifacts, many clearly from this long claim to exist metallic library, his collection full of metallic plates of unknown writings and other fascinating metallic artifacts. The reason for our revisiting of these caves, and indeed the fascinating character that was Father Crespi, is our recent perusing of new information released on the cave, deliberately ignoring all aforementioned facts, including the artificial nature of some of the portions of the cave itself, in particular at entrances, as if reinforced with enormous ancient lintels. Unfortunately, all that remains of Father Crespi's collection, that can be confirmed as 100% his and authentic, now only exist within the photos taken of him with his collection prior to his death, whereas the horde of artifacts was ransacked and many replaced with poor quality forgeries. Thus, it is a mystery, and we believe conspiracy to conceal a lost history, which we find incredibly frustrating. Alexander the Great was a member of the Arjad dynasty. He was born in Pella, central Macedonia in Greece in the year 356 BC. He succeeded his father Philip II of the throne at the age of just 20, and spent most of his ruling life on continuous military campaigns through Asia and Northeast Africa. In just 10 years, by the age of 30, he had successfully created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to India. Undefeated in battle, he was widely considered history's most successful military commander. The final resting place of this Macedonian king is one of the greatest mysteries of ancient history. No one has apparently been able to locate any evidence to suggest where he could have been buried. Recently, however, archaeologists claims that the actual tomb of Alexander was discovered and that this discovery was blocked by the Greek and Egyptian governments and has been ever since. Alexander died in a mysterious death at the age of 32 in Babylon in 323 BC. He had been holding a memorial feast to honor the passing of a close friend when he suddenly suffered intense pain and collapsed. He was taken to his bedchamber where, after days of agony, he fell into a coma and died. Scholars still debate the cause of death. Alexander was embalmed and a golden chariot was built to transfer his body to the sanctuary of Amon. When the procession made it to the border between Syria and Egypt, it was met by Ptolemy who stole the body. Its location, along with all artifacts ever since, have remained a mystery. In the early 1980s, a man named Russell Burroughs claimed he stumbled upon a hidden cave somewhere near Olney. He apparently found human remains, metal weapons, and an ancient language carved into gold tablets. Strangers still, the language was Middle Eastern and European in origin, and not from any known American Indian culture. What was astonishing about this apparent discovery was the fact that many artifacts were covered from the site strongly suggested that they were connected to the tomb of Alexander. The reason he claims his find has been covered up was realized by Virginia Horrigan and Harry Hubbard, who upon deciphering the writings and cataloguing the artifacts, realized that they detailed numerous close encounters with extraterrestrial life, apparently including a specific species of reptilians. Their work, which they maintain possession of, has been disclosed across the web, with a large selection of photographic studies of said objects. Are the powers that be hiding the fact that past rulers throughout history have been in contact with beings from other planets? Many have claimed through the subsequent years that Russell Burroughs artifacts are frauds, and he still refuses to reveal the location of the hidden cave. However, it could also be seen as a smoke screen, obscuring from public view a real find of significant historical importance. Around the same time, many archaeologists came forward claiming Leonis Tuvalte to have found the elusive tomb, just where it should have been all along. Yet they also claimed that her discoveries were indeed covered up, and it would seem with the help of Russell Burroughs debunked find, it was successfully concealed from the world. Just what could there be in this tomb that is such a threat to modern understanding? What could be so earth shaking that it would lead to an international cover-up? Let us know what you think in the comments. Thanks for watching guys, and until next time, take care. Thank you so much for watching this video, and I'll see you in the next one. Reaves argues that due to King Tut dying suddenly, he was hastily buried in the outer chamber of Nefertiti's tomb, with the opening to her chamber then concealed somewhere within the tomb many millennia ago. Again, a tomb unlooted, filled to the rafters with priceless golden relics. Reaves even claims that he himself detected a hidden passageway behind a funerary painting on one of the walls of the tomb. Thus, in 2016, an American survey team, harnessing ground-penetrating radar, peered into and beyond the walls within the tomb. However, they were unable to confirm nor reject the second chamber theory. Yet this did not dissuade anyone who had become convinced of the theory, coming to this conclusion via different avenues of study, continuing to be convinced of the theory's validity. So, after another unsuccessful attempt, a third was arranged by a new Minister of Antiquities set at a media conference, stating he would conduct a third GPR analysis to, quote, put an end to the debate. The third survey, led by Francesco Porcelli of the Polytechnic University of Turin, subsequently came forward to publicly state, beyond doubt, that there was no hidden chambers within the tomb. However, this entire sequence of events can simply be perceived as a rather hazy attempt to put people off from covering this story, diverting attention away from its possible truth. Firstly, why three attempts to confirm that a chamber did not exist? For why would the first two attempts have openly admitted that they were not able to confirm such claims without doubt? How could a person from such an institution, if not funded to come to such a definitive conclusion, make such a post statement? And why would so many from different academic backgrounds arrive at the same conclusion? Is there a secret chamber in King Tut's tomb? And if so, why is it being hidden? What could be inside it? We find the possibilities incredibly intriguing. Tucked away in the bowels of the Israel Museum within Jerusalem is a small inconspicuous artifact that, if the claims of its origins believed by many independent researchers and scholars alike be true, it would support the existence of a remarkable treasure, which countless individuals over the millennia have become convinced of its existence, yet their efforts to discover this treasure were all to no avail. Yet a small ivory pomegranate, about the size of an adult's thumb, with some rather intriguing inscriptions still writable upon it, could possibly prove those who believe in its existence right all along. The object's Paleo-Hebrew inscription contains the divine name of Yahweh, which was used by the ancient Israelites. If authentic, then this small ivory pomegranate may be a still existing head of a scepter of King Solomon, which could have only been found within a treasure and possible tomb, which many claim still remains beneath Solomon's temple itself. What makes this treasure so incredibly intriguing, if indeed it existed, along with its gold and silver relics, and the aforementioned scepters and canes, was that with this collection has long been claimed to have been the storage place for the Ark of the Covenant, whose location is also continually debated by many different fields of interest. The scepter's head's authenticity has, predictably, been dismissed by some and argued as real by others, yet having first came to the attention of the public over 30 years ago. Its discovery and possible incredible origins have received a suspiciously low level of media attention. Paleographer André Lemaire initially stumbled across the ivory pomegranate in 1979 for sale in an antiquity shop in Jerusalem. Lemaire published a note on the object in the French scholarly journal Revue Beblique in 1981 and by his 1984 issue of BAR, the inscribed ivory pomegranate was really beginning to be looked at seriously. For 15 years, the inscribed ivory pomegranate could be seen at the Israel Museum, displayed in a special room with a direct beam of light on it. In 2005, however, a committee comprised of Israel Antiquities Authority and Israel Museum Scholars published a report in the Israel Exploration Journal concluding that the inscription was a forgery. However, this claim by the individuals who forensically examined the object originally were later redacted, stating they could not confirm its authenticity, yet were reluctant to state it as authentic, yet regardless it is now curiously protected and not on display. Is this object really a surviving relic from the treasures of the Temple of Solomon? Does this support the possibility that other treasures, specifically the Ark of the Covenant, could really exist? We find such possibility highly compelling.


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The good examples of blockchain applications and government services is in former Soviet Republic of Georgia, where the entire land registry of the country and all the transactions and buy-sell agreements for property now are using blockchain, which makes it very secure, very efficient and very quick. Also, there are some other uses of blockchain, potentially electronic auction systems, smart contracts for buy-sell agreements for properties. And we have some of those use cases in Republic of Georgia as well as in Ukraine. I think that governments implementing blockchain services is a great idea. I think that in general, the technology which is provided by blockchain is a technology that actually provide more advanced technological solutions for the same things that governments are providing solutions for today. Just like email was providing a solution to mail that was provided by governments and even YouTube in many cases provided a solution for television that was provided by governments. Today currency issuance is a service provided by governments that it's not dependent on them alone anymore because now you have alternative as well as judicial system like when you're talking about the legal framework, this is something that the government provide and this is something that smart contracts addressed in a very innovative way. So I think that we will see a lot of government services and main thing is bureaucracy that is going away thanks to the blockchain because the blockchain is really about replacing bureaucracy. It's about providing online proofs for anything that you need proof for. And the fact that we have that technology today means really exciting thing for how we will organize and collaborate between ourselves in the future. Well I think that there's a huge opportunity for the blockchain to replace a lot of the things that the government does and so blockchain is probably the best chance we have at having a much smaller government. A lot of things that have a lot of bureaucracy and a lot of people involved in them in those systems are very bloated and blockchain can sort of streamline them and do a lot of things in a much simpler manner and with a lot more transparency to make sure that things actually get accomplished and we don't need so much government intervention in our lives. In the most recent study that was published by G20 it is stipulated that in the next 15 to 20 years all G20 countries will be using blockchain one way or another. It is hard to speculate how long it will take for the entire world to switch to blockchain but already today in countries from Asia to Africa to Europe, South America, United States we see different blockchain applications whether it's government services or enterprises. As most of the speakers and experts think I also have a strong opinion that blockchain will be a strong enabler for governments in the public sector. What makes a difference probably is that I'm for example not a strong believer of private blockchains and I think a government needs to work with a permissioned blockchain. So when it comes to liquid democracy and to public blockchains people will understand government as a service and governments right now don't act as a service to citizens. So I think there's a big paradigm that needs to be resolved but in my opinion people will blaze their bed. I mean that's why I'm in this environment because I'm a strong believer of public blockchains and tokens and that people can really interact peer-to-peer and bypass a lot of intermediaries or regulators which doesn't necessarily mean that I promote tax fraud or turning back to public system in fact in the business compliance or in the compliance business in crypto. Generally public sectors everywhere by definition don't work, don't tend to lead to technological innovation so everyone is free to carry out a project. I'm more interested in private individual projects than in governments trying to do things in this area. I think governments have other roles and building blockchains is probably a little bit outside their role I would say. So the first smart government was the government of Dubai when the ruler came out in November 2016 and said that Dubai will be the first smart city in the world by 2020. He didn't say it was January 2020 or December 2020 but it doesn't matter. He gave himself four years, hired the smartest people to run that piece of the government called Dubai Smart City, started lots of conferences in the crypto world and eventually they could become the gold standard of what it is to be a smart city and then everybody else should copy which you know copying somebody else is the greatest form of flattery. In the Netherlands we have many implementations of blockchain in government services and you can see many different countries where they are trying in Dubai and Singapore. Certain industries especially in the ports you know they are doing projects with blockchain and I think there is great value of the adoption of blockchain technology in government services. Look at Lithuania what they are doing there it's perfect. Now this is going to happen they are one of the early adopters.