This 10th year of Daily Tech news show is made possible by you. Thanks to every single one of you including Vince power Rodrigo Smith Zapata and John and Becky Johnston coming up on DTNS an AI that can understand a whole novel in 22 seconds and why you should care a Google open source tool to play games with just your face and Who is this new Twitter CEO anyway? That's our story This is the Daily Tech news for Friday, May the 12th 2023 in Los Angeles, I'm Tom errant and I'm Chris Ashley coming from your local barbecue And on the show's produce sir Roger jay. All right folks. We've got a packed show. So let's start right in with the quick hits Now you know China wants to develop domestic companies that can make chips So that they can get around those restrictions from the US you know that because you listen to Daily Tech news show your smart person Well, two stories right now indicate some setbacks for China in that effort pay attention to these China's top smartphone maker oppo always in the top five smartphone makers in the world says it's shutting down Ziku ZEKU its chip development division oppo attributed the shutdown to uncertainties in the global economy and Smartphone industry so no in-house designs for oppo and the second story China's biggest domestic chip maker SMIC posted its first quarterly revenue decline in three years US sanctions prevent SMIC from getting chipmaking tools to make the most advanced Semiconductors now and it's having an effect SMIC is still seen as China's best chance of catching up with chip industry Dominators like Samsung and of course the Titan Taiwan's TSMC Meta announced a new AI sandbox available to select advertisers. It provides three features One let's advertisers generate variations of the same ad copy for different audiences There's a background generator to create different media assets, you know, like images and an image cropping feature to more easily Post content across mediums and social chains. Meta plans to expand access to the AI sandbox in July All right, so now we know what they're using their AI for Wiz spelled WIZ has launched a new home monitoring feature that combines motion sensing from its light bulbs with an indoor security camera A new camera from them to send you alerts if there's somebody moving around when there shouldn't be the bulbs use a system That detects changes in Wi-Fi signal strength. We've talked about this on DTS before too So it changes it detects those changes in Wi-Fi signal strength and then it knows if there's motion The bulb will then tell if somebody's there and the new security camera will let you see what's going on to take advantage Of the new feature Wiz is offering a home monitoring starter kit That puts three of these bulbs and the camera together for 159 euros 99. That is available starting June 15th No US price yet for that bundle But the camera is coming on its own if you already have the bulbs you can get the camera in the US for $70 later this month Well, if you drive a Toyota and you've been wondering why random people know how much miles Toyota disclose that a database of vehicle data for 200 sorry 2.15 million users in Japan has been accessible without a password since November 2013 Ouch So if you know anybody tried to look they could have seen it all Data left public included vehicle locations and identification numbers now Toyota made this data private in mid April Thank goodness and said there were no reports of it being misused But really who's gonna say they left the door unlocked. They have no evidence There's no footprints on the inside of the database, right? Oh by the way, Tom Nobody told Toyota that they actually took the data They left a note nobody left a note. Yeah I mean, it's possible that thing has just been unlocked for 10 years and they just noticed and nobody else noticed Right. It's also quite possible. That's not true either. So, yeah Yeah, well this one is for the adults in the room adult communities often want to allow Legal let me emphasize these we're talking about legal stuff here But adult images on reddit things not safe for work in the past those might be hosted on imager But of course as we've talked about imager is tightening its restrictions against adult content So reddit is stepping into the gap itself if your community is set as 18 plus and reddit has a system for that It can now allow NSFW images to be uploaded directly to reddit from the desktop This feature was already available on mobile, but they have now expanded it to the desktop All right, let's talk chat bots. Do you use barred or chat GPT or any of those things Chris? No, I just having fun watching all the other people use it and all the crazy stuff that people are doing with it But it's not my I don't have a use case today where I'm just gonna go play around with it Gotcha. Gotcha. If if you were you you might run into a couple problems Perhaps I'm just speaking theoretically here You tried to put in your whole novel and ask the chat GPT to proof read it And it said your novel was too long and you tried not to take that personally Or perhaps you've been chatting and this happens a lot the bot sort of forgets things You said earlier in the conversation you chat long enough that it's like it's not referring back too far That's because both of those things are because of something called a context window Remember that these work by breaking words up into tokens and then figuring out sequences They're they're just making predictions, right and how many tokens of information the model can process at once is called the context window. All right Chat GPT can handle 4096 tokens. That's about 3,000 words. So if you're like, okay, yeah, that's why it started forgetting things Open AI's GPT for API is a lot better. So if you're using the API, you can handle up to 32,000 tokens at a time Well, and throw up and announced that it's clawed API for its business partners can now process up to a hundred thousand tokens That's roughly 75,000 words Your whole novel that's more Exactly very Anthropic demo demo this capability by processing the entire novel the great Gatsby and to look for a single edited sentence They say to find the sentence took a 22 seconds to process all of Gatsby and find the sentence that larger context window Also means it can carry on longer conversation So apparently this thing can go for days and still remember context from a couple days before that's crazy Yeah, so this is really interesting One of the things I remember back when Apple first announced or even I think it was Bing actually dead at one They were talking about their Cortana and how it could be more conversational with you And then you know Siri caught up and was able to be a bit more conversational with you And I imagine that the problem was the same which was remembering the context of the conversation. So so this is the natural Trajection I would expect for to see in this but I could see things like for me personally like if I'm I'm trying to get better about planning some of like my project. So currently I'm building a Table and a console table from for to go on to my TV And if I could just have like a conversational planning session with with the chat GPT And I'm like, okay this is the dimensions that I want to use and You know, here's the what the tabletop is gonna be and here's the overhang that I want to have on the top and the you know The space inside. Okay, what type of wood? Well, what are my what is my cut plan needs to be and then I can you know spit it out and then say okay? Well based on that, you know, I don't like the way it sits. So can I you know mean so being able to work through a solution? You know or a project because you know that the absolute that exists out there to do that and they're not tear, you know Crazy hard to use but I just not interested in learning how to use them For a cut list so being able to have a conversation around that and then having it spit back to me It's like here's your cut list go by a four by eight piece of plywood You know make these cuts right here I can spit out the difference and you know and being able to adjust those plans on the fly That's something I could I could get behind and see some really cool because you could go back to it over days Exactly, and it remembers your project and all that. Yeah, not to mention you could actually upload home manuals Right the tools you're using right and why not sense of what you're using. Yeah, right and they help me put it together Yeah Yeah, so and you know oftentimes off you'll find when you're in the middle of a project like that and you know Something you had an idea of how it should work But one they're practical of cutting it or making it, you know, putting it together Not not so much, you know, the idea was great in your head, but not so great And you know in when you're actually building. Yeah. Yeah. Well, anthropic because this is in their enterprise API, this is probably not too surprising, but they imagine this being useful for businesses. So large troves of documents You would be able to just say can you find me all the instances of whatever? And and throbik says this should outperform the existing vector-based search the company's used now So well imagine when you're in the middle of You know either a lawsuit and then you know as a law firm, you'll you know Give me all of these emails You have to feed those emails into something and then be able to search the context of the emails to find whatever it is You're looking for. Yeah, I could definitely see it from that professional aspect maybe Honestly, you know when you have a lot of these European countries that are super stringent on You customer user data, you know, you could use something like this to say hey You know go find all the instances of this customer data so we can make sure we properly delete it So don't you know from a business standpoint. I could see those things as well That's interesting like where is it hidden like what what other documents was it copied over to what other databases? What databases are left with a password? Perhaps you could find that for me to find all open passwords. Yeah Yeah Yeah, this new Context window is available right now if you're a user of the Claude API that's restricted by a waitlist So there's not a ton of those out there right now, but but yeah, it's I I think Anthropic is making a play this week. We had them talk about their Constitutions earlier this week now they're talking about how they they've expanded this token space this context window in a huge way These are both. Let me let me Hurry to say these are both real advancements. They are real projects and they're they're worth talking about But it is clear that Anthropic wants to steal a little of that limelight from open API Well, and from Google because Google's you know touting all their AI stuff this week, too, right? Well, the interesting thing that always I think a lot of people miss when new software comes out is It's always exciting to see the new software and what it can do But I actually kind of take a step back and kind of look to see what are the APIs that are available And what are people doing to you know take advantage of those APIs? You know me because that's one the real Fun and the real you know awesome this starts to come in when you have people that you know Really grasp of what you're trying to do and then figure out ways to make it do more Well, we've got some other Google news out of Google IO this week that isn't exactly Well, it is AI, but it's not a chat bot. It's not chat bot related The verges West Davis wrote an article called Google's open source AI tool Let me play my favorite Dreamcast game with my face Google calls it project game face It replaces head tracking mouse gear which usually costs in the hundreds of dollars So it's it's not super expensive, but it's not cheap with software that just uses your webcam So you can program up to six facial gestures to act as your mouse or keyboard actions And then a just typical mouse setting so jitter speed all of that stuff The algorithm is able to use what it sees from your webcam and translate that to head tracking so that you can do Tilts open mouth that kind of stuff to control This was developed in in conjunction with a gamer named Lance Carr after a fire destroyed his head tracking mouse And they were able to make this work for him The get hub project right now So not everybody's gonna be comfortable navigating get hub But if you are you can go try it right now and it's available for free under an Apache 2.0 license Yeah, this is really really cool. First off I love seeing like accessibility stuff that people are doing for gaming and even though You know because a lot of times stuff will start out in gaming But quickly it becomes available in other aspects of life But you know the older I get and I'm playing these games and and I'm just realizing like man I don't have a lot of time left to be playing this competitive stuff The old fingers just can't keep you know if I could add in a head nod while I'm using my controller Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, so it's just like okay, you know make me let's even the playing field for the old fella you know mean but You know, I love the idea of that how they allow you to move and you know just to tell you of course You know the one downside is that you don't have a lot of inputs, right? There's only yeah, just so much you can do with your head. So, you know You'd hate to be somebody looking in the window and you're flicking your tongue Do some type of battle and somebody's like oh this guy's got problems. Yeah. No, I'm just playing a game I want to know why they're looking in your window Which came first the tongue yeah looking in the window. Yeah They but I'll kidding aside that they do definitely need to have more than six and they plan to expand on that To have a wider range, but the fact that it just replaces the head tracking stuff altogether is is pretty really really awesome Yeah, West Davis from the Verge tried it with res from the Dreamcast That that's one where you you fire your weapon You move your cursor and you trigger the shoot everything So it's it's not a car, you know, it's not like a strategy game It's it's a move around shoot game, but it's but it's a fairly simple one And he said like it took him a little time to dial in the right settings But sure but once he got it going it was totally playable and he said the lagging latency wasn't bad Maybe not competitive, but it wasn't bad. Yeah. Yeah, and that's definitely what it would have boils down to is Just the proper use case in the type to a proper type of game for it Because I imagine that if you go from a gamer and then all of a sudden, you know some tragedy hits And you can't game anymore, but you can do something something is better than nothing even with my brother After he had a stroke and he lost a lot of the dexterity in his hands But the doctor said, you know what if you can give him a controller and let him mess around and stuff Let him do it because it's familiar to him, you know, and it'll help the brain rewire And you know, it's good for him. So, um, yeah So anything that I see that can help, you know, folks that have had some type of accident or just, you know Haven't had the ability but now they have the ability man. I'm all for it. This looks like it's a very promising. Yeah, and and This is called project game face. It's obviously its use cases gaming But uh, this could be used for any mouse interaction for any reason. So It's useful in that way as well All right, folks, uh, we have a series on our youtube channel called top five If you haven't checked it out yet, uh, we got a bunch of episodes over there The latest one relives the decade of gas lines and disco the 1970s Get your big collars and your bell bottoms and watch tom's top five as we break down the most memorable pieces of consumer technology from the 70s Including top loading vcrs Uh, I'm just gonna give that one away. But what else is in there? Is there computer stuff? Yes, there is you can catch it youtube.com Slash daily tech news show that's youtube.com slash daily tech news show get the top five right now All right, I'm really looking forward to talking about this one Let's go isn't everyone Uh thursday during dtns the news broke that elon musk said he had chosen a ceo and she would start in about six weeks That wasn't entirely true Uh 24 hours later We know that in fact, he did choose mbc universals head of advertising linda yakarino and It looks like she might be starting now not in six weeks Uh, all right. Yeah, you want to hear some interesting notes about how the announcement went down chris. I'm sure you follow I got it. I got it here. Yeah, so Uh, yakarino was scheduled to present mbc's pitch to advertisers at its upfront on monday So when this came down yesterday, I'm like, well, she's obviously not gonna start They're not gonna make this announcement for real till after she does the up fronts And in fact, yesterday when mbc was asked for comment mbc said no, she's in back-to-back rehearsals for the upfront Then friday morning NBC said oh about that her rehearsals are done They didn't say that part, but they did say she has resigned effective immediately And then musk announced that indeed linda yakarino will take over as ceo of twitter now He didn't actually say when but it kind of implied that well, she resigned I guess the time is now, right? We get right and uh, so we'll have some fun with this Right off the bat because you know a common tactic I've seen uh companies is when you announced you're leaving. Oh, you can just go right now Yeah, I mean, so i'm wondering is that what happened here? It was like, well, you know, I did plan I was going to put my notice that no no you can go right now. Yeah, it's like we don't need you so Did they get hurt? I think this is most interesting because Uh, it is the first example And maybe elon musk does this sort of thing on purpose of like get used to it. This is how I work, right? It sounds like Yakarino had given six weeks notice was going to do the up fronts Then make her announcement and dignified leave NBC and join twitter And that when elon musk spilled the beans yesterday That caused an uproar and NBC is like, well, you can't do the up fronts now There's too much of an uproar around you, right? So did she start sweating because the other day when he said I've already found my new My new ceo did she start sweating and I was like, please don't ruin this for me. Please don't ruin this for me I can't tell even it has to be one of the two right either It was like, oh man, what are you doing? Like we had a plan or it's it was Them saying well, he can say he's found someone and no one will know and then the wall street journal went and figured out who it was So, yeah, maybe they just didn't plan well. Oh, yeah, that is a viable option They hey, do you want to we believe this person's coming on? Can you comment? It's fine to drop a hint. But yeah, yeah, yeah, okay fair enough I mean A normal disciplined business wouldn't even do that at all. So there's there's that Let's talk about linda yakarino though. She has been with NBC since november 2011 She has been in her current position as head of global advertising and marketing for NBC since 2020 Before NBC she was a turner and those are the only two jobs listed on her linkedin So as far as we know, she's always worked in advertising and marketing Her entire career Do you know her nickname? I did not pick up her nickname. No wall street journal says they call her the velvet hammer Right because she's got great relationships with everybody, but she's got hard nose negotiating tactics I don't know who gave her that nickname, but they need help in making nicknames. I don't like you don't like that one It's very descriptive velvet because she's got good relationships hammer because she you know hammers home the negotiation You don't like it. It's too. It's just too much I don't know. I'm not a wrestling that one. But yes the velvet hammer Now, uh, you when you and I were talking about this earlier today You pointed out that everybody's making a big deal about the fact that she seems amenable to musks free speech stuff Yeah So I found weird. Yeah announcement because and you know a lot of times when something big happens I'd like to see all the different people reporting on it and see what's the common thread because you know I'm starting to you know figure out that a lot of these times. Here's what you're going to say and then everybody repeats what what they're told to say And uh, the common thread that I was finding was that she had done an interview with uh, mr musk And uh, she hosted the interview. She was interviewing. Yeah. Yeah, and then she pointed out she's like, um, Yeah, uh, we believe in the uh In in in the first amendment I agree with you in the first in in his take on the first amendment and I was like, that's kind of but everybody was reporting it Let's let's give her the exact quote here Oh, right if if freedom of speech as he says referring to elan is if freedom of speech as he says is the bedrock of this country I'm not sure there's anyone in this room who would disagree with that and then elsewhere in the conversation She said remember freedom of speech does not mean freedom of reach which is parroting a thing that musk says a lot So when I saw that I was like, okay, we got to break this piece down I don't know why it struck me But the problem is I think most people that looked at what elan musk was saying about freedom of speech Was like, come on, dude. That's nonsense, right? It's you're not the government So you have nothing to do with freedom of speech so when um, when she when they pointed this out it's like Did she tell him that and then because she was marketing to elan musk for a job Um and selling herself as far as like, yeah, I was only a month ago. So yeah Right, you know what I mean? Because it's like that Freedom of speech, you know, it's it's there's nothing there But then I was like I started looking at her credentials. I was like, oh, she's got a game Like she's done some very successful marketing campaigns um She did one with the pope and that was very successful and it was just like, okay She's got a lot of games. So I don't know if you picked up on the uh on the whole Journalists were trying to both sides this and show like she's friendly to musk's freedom of speech, which I I'm a little bit different than you. I think it's a worthwhile conversation to have like what speech should be allowed on the platform I know what you're saying. It's not about the first amendment, right? Right, but but I I think freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom of reach is an interesting Thing I don't think it's as crazy as it sounds I think a lot of people were trying to take this as a like she's in his pocket Uh, I think more telling and interesting is the fact that she served on president trump's council on sports and nutrition Which a lot of people would not serve on on that administrations Councils at all, but she was willing to serve, you know, tim cook Served on some some councils and stuff as well But she was also chair of the task force on the future of work at the world economic forum a decidedly not conservative Organization, right and she pushed for workplace diversity At that which I thought was interesting as well. She definitely Is not on a particular Easily pinned to a particular spectrum Right and that's why I find this overall very a very interesting move and something, you know Us who like to do from the podcast and we talk about tech news You know, this would probably be something we'll be Revisiting a lot throughout this year because to see the move she makes because the one thing that I've that I found Was like, okay. She's definitely got game. She's definitely top-notch in marketing as far as I can tell with all the reporting That's out there and then the things that she's accomplished. So How the biggest problem with Twitter right now is the fact that Elon Musk ruined their marketing dollars, right? Almost cut it in half With all the changes and all the things that he did So you hire this expert in marketing to fix what you destroyed But she's also then Supposed to help move the company forward because clearly, you know It's been reported that he wants to make Twitter like that center platform for everything Okay. Yeah. Yeah, and she's an expert at finding ways to monetize things. She's an expert Well, well said because Musk says she's going to handle business operations while he focuses on product design and technology. So you're absolutely right That's code for she's going to fix the revenue. She's going to repair the relationships with the advertisers She's going to do better marketing And he also wrote looking forward to working with linda to transform this platform into x the everything app He's still on that So here's why I find this like I I think she has a lot of work ahead of her So as a lifelong A commander's fan here in the area in the dc area We love our team, but we dislike our owner So no matter what general manager they brought in they were always kneecapped by the owner So having seen that and how that usually plays out in the end Are we going to see the same thing here where she has great ideas? Great implementation But The the guy that has proven to make some knee-jerk reactions that are detrimental to the company Will he kneecap her ideas constantly to the point where she's like, I can't do this. How long do you think she lasts? Well, so interesting question I'm going to give her at least a year. Why?   It's like I fixed twitter Yeah, you understand what that looks like on a resume. Here's a resume. I fixed twitter That's a wrap like okay. If she can out if she can outlast him, right? I think that's the key, right back up the prankstruck Yeah, yeah Real quickly before we get out of here. I want to get your reaction to this thing called oak scan It's from a cooperage cooperages make barrels For well, they make barrels and this particular cooperage rado Makes them for wine They developed a near infrared spectrometry scanner That can instantly measure the properties of the wood that they are going to make the barrels out of To save wineries and distilleries hundreds of hours of testing Because different wood even from the same trees that are a few feet apart Can release different polyphenols that affect the appearance the taste and the smell of whatever you store it in the wine whiskey, etc So radoo can not only tell you really quickly like oh, this barrel is going to have this flavor profile But also replicate the profiles of woods that you want by being able to say Oh, we'll make it out of this wood and it'll give you that flavor profile First off props to them for being able to amass the knowledge to determine what the effects of one versus the other It's going to be on the outcome of the wine. I that blows my mind Now at the same time, I'm like you're wasting your time with wine and bourbon Come over here scan this brisket and let me know exactly when to take it off So it's gonna be perfect. I thought you were gonna go for the wood chips. You went right for the brisket. Yeah Scan this brisket. Let me know exactly 12 hours Five minutes 38 seconds. Perfect. That's fantastic. We're good to go. Give me that flavor profile Well, if you want to read more on this, there's there's a lot more about this and and a bourbon company That is using this technology that you can read in an engadget article by billy steel go to engadget.com Or we'll have a link in the show notes as well Regarding the pixel fold we got an email From scott who wrote while I agree that $1,800 is an eye watering high amount to spend on a phone. It's worth taking a historical look here Consider the first flip phone the original Motorola star tack which came out in 1996 for $1,000 adjusted for inflation That's a thousand eight hundred sixteen dollars today So pretty much the same price Over time that star tack came down to the price point where even poor me had one says scott And they became extremely common and popular Hey, listen, you can if you can find this is the key If you can find a context to make you feel better about your expensive purchases You are living a good life Because I have buyer's remorse for everything I buy that is expensive for at least a month The the more expensive it is the longer the buyer's remorse lasts. Yeah I it's a it's a good point The comparison to the star tack is great because I think we think of the star tack as being cheap I think what what this reminds me is like, all right, the star tack was once also very expensive Right when it first came out Well, before we let you go chris ashley what you got going on to talk about to the folks I know you just mentioned a brisket. I'm sure there's a good barbecue and tech cooking Yeah, so we just released our last episode of season four And we had another awesome pit master on there Marcus mcnack from crimson creek smokehouse And uh, he had some great gems or tips and uh, you know, he had a different upbringing when it comes to getting into barbecue Which I thought was super interesting and a great conversation So yeah folks that love barbecue tech or just love a great conversation in general come check this one out for sure Yeah, good new episode fresh off the grill folks go and get it bbqantech.com Also, thanks to our brand new bosses denis and thomas who just started back in us on patreon. Thank you denis Thank you thomas uh for for joining Folks, you can you can join our patreon for free. This is a new thing. We just started doing this week If you don't have funds, but you want to get in in case, you know, at some point you can get a little funds You can join for free at patreon.com slash dts. 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Maybe i'll do roger too So, uh, you you might want to stick around You can also catch the show live monday through friday 4 p.m. Eastern 200 utc find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live back on monday with justin robert young talk to you there This week's episodes of dailytechnewshow were created by the following people host producer and writer tom merit host producer and writer sarah lane executive producer and booker roger chang producer writer and host rich straffolino Video producer and twitch producer joe kunz technical producer anthony lemos spanish language host writer and producer dan compos news host writer and producer gen cutter science corresponded dr nicky ackerman's social media producer and moderator zoey debtarding our mods beatmaster w scottis one bio cow captain kipper steve guadirama paul reese matthew j stevens aka baggadget virtuoso and jd galloway mod and video hosting by dan christensen music and art provided by martin bell dan looters moustapha a a cast and lenn peralta a cast ad support from tatiana matias contributors on this week's show included justin robert young patrick norton shannon morse scott johnson and chris ashley And thanks to all the patrons who make the show possible This show is part of the fraud pants network Get more at frogpants.com Ironman club hopes you have enjoyed this program


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Very nice wide receiver starting to come out here hot Falcons Rodney H nice one there Rodney Put that in the magpile and that card coming out here. I'm on raw. We've got John Dotson rookie base We have a silver Kyler Murray Boy is killing it Killing it Jorge. We he's got a gold. He's got an auto and now he's got a black Oh my goodness Put that one in the magpile to 20 20 time to 35 all-time contenders Bruce Smith. That's a beautiful Look at that autograph Beautiful hit there buffalo There you go bills Very nice first one of those that we've seen You're most welcome Jorge. You're on fire fire my guy and orange Rookie ticket auto to 50 Alec Pierce Colts Check where we are on this next break after this box. Come on. Where's my guy Kenny to gloves? Let's see Kenny P. I don't know if he's redemption in this. I'm not cooks and Kyle Hamilton Got orange sequa for the Giants 14 of 50 Die cut X's and O's Patrick Mahomes base for the Falcons Arnold Ekbegeti on the rookie ticket auto and how about to 30 green Pulsar rookie ticket auto Sam Howe There you go Washington. Wow that green pulsar look on the autos. It's just nasty David G Congrats on that one David. I'll get this one magged up to 11 of 30 couple off of that Jersey number Yeah, Jorge. Okay, so he is a redemption in this. I figure it because he was in Contenders to Few more left here. I was thinking it. I jinxed it in my thoughts Mark Andrews and a Drake London rookie We have our first points card coming up a hay. We'll take one. We're averaging about three to four every half case We have to wreak woolen on the green pulsar rookie Seahawks five of 30 there and we have Up in coming of Kyle hits on the black scopes seven of 25 First one of those that we've seen to nice color match there for the Falcons Falcons with some nice hits Got 900 points Ran them off here and Washington John Dotson on this silver on card rookie ticket auto Commander's heating up here, too There you go All right box nine that's some more We've got Justin Jefferson and a Tremac bride rookie got another gold here It's gonna be a Nick Chubb for the Browns on the gold season ticket. That's gonna be eight out of ten Two times four is eight eBay 101 Jersey number We've got our first round numbers pink. We've got briefs hall for the Jets up top and Kenneth Walker for the Seahawks on the bottom. That's gonna be 49 to 75 I will roll the dice one two three top four five six bottom That'll go for the remainder of the break unless there is a one-of-one or an auto So this is gonna go bottom with these Seahawks We've got another 900 points and to 22. We've got our first cracked eyes Rookie ticket auto Hassan Haskins Titans there you go Dylan Jay Very nice. Gosh. I love the cracked ice on these optic cards. That is beautiful very nice one there Congrats on that. Wow. All right last box here my homes and Johan dots and rookie base Yeah, doesn't it Blake? We have a silver rookie of breeze Hall for the Jets X is a nose die cut miles Garrett for the Browns and We've got to 99 on the blue rookie ticket auto Jelani Woods First one of this guy. How about a Chris a lava a rookie on card auto. There you go Saints again first a lobby that we've seen today Very nice Another solid break. There's some very nice cards coming out Give me one second to set up the points random only two two points cards Just nice. You've had three and four the past two breaks there So 900 points One second already got the random set up again going to roll the dice whatever two teams are on top We'll get the 900 points Good luck Ten times here we go one two three four five six seven eight nine and ten gonna be chiefs and Cardinals Chiefs and Cardinals all right. Yeah, I'm not gonna do a full recap. I'll just go over what I'm gonna mag We had the RPA George Pickens and We've got a nice a high pile here You see him how on the green pulsar lotto ticket to 25 Brock Purdy on the blue scope black scope Drake London Pickens variation the legit in a short print lamb jack player of the year Jalen Hurts and red White and blue to 13 Trevor Lawrence. Thanks so much everyone. Well, we'll get these cards right out to you


Hello everyone! Hello! How is everyone doing today? I hope you are having a fantastic Tuesday or Wednesday depending on where you are located. It is Tuesday night here in the Central Standard Time Zone in the United States where I am from. So I will take a look here and see if you guys could just let me know that you can see me and you can hear me. That would be fantastic. Just let me know if you can see me and hear me and I will look at the chat and see who is here and do some greetings. So let's see it looks like we have who was Anna you are the first one to have arrived today. Thank you for coming and gratuitous hello great to see you. May, good morning to you May, good morning, good afternoon, good evening to everyone. Thank you for coming to learn English live where we are going to have a lesson together. My name is Sherry. If you have not met me before I am one of the teachers who provide live lessons on Learn English Live. We also have of course Robin Shaw who provides lessons on Sundays. So let's see who else is here. Thank you Layla for letting me know you can see me and hear me. Hello Layla. Thank you for getting up so early. I am doing well today. I had a fantastic day today. We did not have school because here in the United States it was election day so we all were voting today and so I was able to do some relaxing today. I watched a great program on Netflix. It was a well done show. I enjoyed watching it and Shakespeare you're from Yemen. Hello Dwee. Great to see you Dwee. I see a lot of our WhatsApp group members here. Jose Good evening to Brazil. Brazil is on a similar time zone. They're in a similar time zone to myself. Brand. Hello. Hello again. Good to see you. Raha. Welcome to the live lesson. Vishuda. Welcome. Great to see you again. Samira. Hello Samira. That's a beautiful name. I enjoy that name Samira. So let's see. My name is teacher Sherry and like I said earlier I am one of the teachers here. I also have my own YouTube channel that is called Learn English with Sherry. If you have not already subscribed please check it out and do so. I would greatly appreciate your support and hello Prashant. Good morning. Good morning to you and Natalie. Hello Natalie. Great to see you. So I'm joined in my classroom today with one of my dogs. This is Bitsy. She was my first Chihuahua and she is the just she's my favorite. We're not supposed to choose favorites when it comes to your students or your children or your pets but she is my favorite pet. So great to see all of you. Let's take a look here. We're going to go ahead and get started shortly with the lesson but please let me know. Check in. Let me know that you're here and I hope you are all doing well. We had a great day of weather here as well. It was beautiful, sunny, warmer than usual weather. Last weekend I was outside and I had four layers of clothing on. It was so cold and very windy. Jonathan welcome Jonathan. Great to see you. So I think we're going to go ahead and get started with today's lesson. Today's lesson is going to focus on pronunciation. I know many of you have really been working hard on your pronunciation skills and today we're going to focus on the vowel sounds and to be more specific we're going to focus on the short vowel sounds. So let's go ahead and get started. There are 40 phonemes or sounds in English. 20 of these sounds are vowel sounds. Half, half of them are vowel sounds. Hello, let's see. Welcome. So what we need to think about is that many times students who come to me and want to have lessons will often want to practice pronunciation of the consonant sounds and I understand that especially if there are certain consonant sounds that are in English that are not present in your native language but the vowel sounds they don't get the love they deserve. They don't get the love or the attention and just like a plant they need love too. So we need to make sure that we practice pronouncing our vowel sounds as well as our consonant sounds and that's what this lesson is all about. So let's take a look. I just mentioned how the vowel sounds are not addressed enough during pronunciation work and the thing with vowels is that they are key to helping understand the meaning of the word. The vowel sounds are the meat of words. So vowels add the meaning to the words. If you change the vowel you're going to completely change the word and often the meaning of the word but if you change a consonant oftentimes your listener can still understand what word you're trying to convey. So for example I work with young children every day and one of the main things that I work with with these children is helping them be able to speak clearly. So we are working on pronunciation skills and the thing is that they often will substitute a consonant sound for another consonant. So for example the word cat or as we have here cat young students will often substitute the t sound for this the k. So it'll come out tat but I'm listening and I understand they are saying tat but they really mean cat. But if they were to change the vowel sound and instead of saying the short a and they said the short e and said tat I wouldn't understand what tat meant but tat I could understand tat was cat. So that's an explanation for you of why the vowel sounds are so important to helping listeners understand our message. Hello Michelle great to see you great to see you. So here is another example of the importance of vowel sounds. So we have two words one is with the short a bad and then we also have the short e sound bed and I have here one of my props I use in my lessons. So bed and bad. One sound a vowel can completely change the meaning of the word and make it difficult for your listener to understand your message. That is why we are going to focus on the short vowel sounds today. I've listed actually four of them here. I'm seeing that I missed the u so let me see if I can fix this. I did not add the u sound and we're going to talk about the u as well. I was watching a show when I was doing this so maybe I wasn't focusing quite as much as I needed to. So we have the short a like map the short e as in bed the short i sound as in tip the short o sound as in a like cop and the short u sound a. So let's see you guys helped me finish this slide. What word should we use as an example with the short u sound. We need to make it a short consonant vowel consonant word. Let's have you guys help me out here finish this slide for me. What should we use for an example word with the short u. I'll kind of wait here for a moment and see what you guys say. I'm going to have a quick drink. Remember if you have not subscribed to learn English live please do so. Hit the bell so you get notifications when we go live. All right James that's a perfect word cup. Okay so put uh is a different sound than the uh is a different vowel sound. So we're going to work on cup cup good. U that is a long u vowel sound u is a long vowel sound. We need the uh sound here cut um dwee that that's the aw so that's the short o our our is we need the uh sound here guys uh this is why we're working on this bus great those are all so we have cup cut bus okay michelle yes plumber uh plumber works hot is the ah that is that is not the uh that's not the short u uncle yes uh uncle that is correct so this is why i was saying that we don't give the love to our short vowel sounds that they deserve it's easy to get confused with them so that's why we are going to do this lesson so let me switch here to our lesson and so let's start with our short a vowel sound ah here we go and if we were to do sign language this would be the a hut lucky good cut butt shut yes prashant umbrella you guys got it now upset yes don't be upset for shuta let's let's talk about the short a vowel sound so here is a written description of how to pronounce the short a vowel sound the sound now guys if you are in public i still want you to try i know you might get embarrassed if you're sitting on the bus or on the train but i want you to do these sounds with them with me this is how you're going to improve your pronunciation so let's practice the front of your tongue is pushed forward and held lower in the mouth when forming the short a the sound then with any other vowel sound so this is why it's important for you to make sure you're really opening your mouth when you say ah look at how far my lower jaw goes down ah ah when you say it in isolation you're really going to exaggerate the movement of your jaw ah so this vowel sound is produced in a much different way than all of the other vowel sounds like i said our tongue is held lower in the mouth than any other vowel sound so let's practice ah ah okay i think we're ready let's move on and talk about pronunciation tip two the tip of the tongue will touch the inside of the bottom front teeth so down here ah ah if it doesn't touch it moves towards the teeth the body of her tongue is rounded slightly upward ah you can feel the tongue tip going upwards slightly like i mentioned the jaw is lowered the lips are held apart and the entire middle part of your oral cavity is open wide open so this is a sound ah you're just basically opening your mouth and the air is coming out ah with your tongue moving up just a little bit on the front okay so let's talk about you guys are giving me some great words yes michelle and we rat and hat are nice sounds we're going to go through three words for each short vowel sound and we will have sentences for each one as well so i'd like to give you target words that have the vowel sound in the initial position of the word if possible then we'll do a word in the medial or middle part of the word and also then we will do a two syllable word and uh i thought you were here earlier so i said hello so let's practice the word add okay add say it now good now let's try the sentence i had to add more sugar you can never have enough sugar right sugar sugar one of my dog's names is sugar so she's looking at me right now like she thinks i'm calling her um so i had to add more sugar okay now you guys you try the sentence what would we add more sugar to maybe you want to add more sugar to your tea or maybe i needed to add more sugar to the cookie mixture i was making yes anna i did see you sign in really early okay let's continue remember you need to practice pronouncing these words and sentences and this is basically your this is your lesson so your ability to participate is going to help you improve so let's talk about coffee you add sugar to your coffee donathan i don't drink coffee this is what i drink for my caffeine it's soda and the total sugars 46 grams of sugar um yeah so it's a lot of sugar that's in here it's not good for you it is my vice that's the one thing that i do that i well i probably eat too much too i don't eat as healthy as i should my hat is blue okay so there's a good sentence robin gets mad our word is mad let's practice that again mad mad robin gets mad when you don't follow the rules yes that is true mad so let's practice robin gets mad when you don't follow the rules what's something that makes you feel mad let me know in the chat you can start with i feel mad when what makes you feel mad let's see what makes me mad i feel mad when people are unkind to one another i feel mad when people are unkind that makes me feel mad so i'm gonna just look and see if anyone has anything that they want to share with a sentence well rules are important especially when you have a group of people from all over the world where things can get misunderstood in translation okay so dwee let's look at that sentence i felt mad if someone we need to change the tense of your verb i felt mad if someone has cheated me has cheated me or has cheated on me okay great usage of the original sentence leila i don't want robin to get mad i don't want robin to get mad so i will follow the rules i feel mad when people are unkind to animals raha i get mad when i see some new english words okay robert i get mad when my daughter doesn't make her bed i feel mad when i drop a dish we need to have the article uh when i see people don't follow the laws i get mad samira i feel mad when i see selfish people great sentences guys well done now i want you to say these sentences that you're typing out loud as well when you are typing them i feel mad when my daughter messes up with her toys okay so we need to remove one word from that for shuta you don't need to say messes up you need to say i feel mad when my daughter messes up her toys messes up her toys i get mad if someone breaks his promise or break i get mad if someone breaks his promise or promises i feel mad if someone doesn't respect each other okay so i feel oh i didn't see that bashoota that you said i feed i did not read that okay so here is another word and this is for you superhero fans out there um there are a lot of people who will argue who is the best superhero batman versus superman um and then also marvel versus dc um but anyway batman let's practice that batman and our sentence good okay and i see you guys making your corrections batman is the caped crusader batman is the caped crusader that is a nickname for batman that he's the caped crusader freshant is a spider man fan yeah i do enjoy spider man as well i really i don't know if i have a favorite superhero if i did i would probably have to go with i really love the wonder woman series movies that they've been coming out i like those um and i when i was a kid i enjoyed watching the justice league on tv and they had a wonder woman and i related to her because it was the only female superhero they had as salita you're a fan of batman and gratuitous batman is the best hero awesome so make sure you're saying these sentences sentences out loud batman is the caped crusader okay before we move on to the short eval sound i just need to remind you i am also on instagram learn english with sherry many of you are on my instagram as well thanks so much for your support and i have my youtube channel learning with sherry which is down below and then most recently um i am on tiktok and i just recently overnight i got i think i've up to 600 followers which is amazing because i just started it so that's been going really well um let's see do we pronounce the t sound of the word batman so okay when um when i say batman the t i'm moving right past the t and going to the m now you can say batman but when you are speaking in continuous speech batman the t just is kind of your tongue pushes past because you're moving from the a to the m in batman okay so i hope that helps you understand all right so let's continue with the short eval sound okay so our short eval sound is a more of a relaxed vowel sound the middle of your tongue the middle of your tongue round slightly upward the sides of the tongue may lightly touch the bottom and top of your teeth on the sides here okay so uh uh see if you can feel the sides of your tongue against your teeth uh uh your rights anna batman and batman sound very similar he's a batman i like batman you have to listen really closely to catch those uh let's see so the uh the middle of the tongue is rounded slightly the sides of your tongue will lightly touch the top and bottom side teeth and your lips and jaw are loose and relaxed uh uh it's always great to pronounce a sound several times in succession so when i'm working with students i'll often say uh uh uh uh just so you can get that that feel of where things are so here is our first egg i have my egg here somewhere i use all kinds of toys in my lessons this is like just an example of some of my toys that i use so egg how do you take your eggs people say how do you take your coffee how do you take your eggs so practice that word guys i need to set this down egg egg let me know how do you take your eggs guys i i prefer my eggs scrambled so if anyone wants to make me some eggs i prefer my eggs scrambled my son does a great job making eggs he is our resident chef here he makes eggs almost daily here at our house so let me know how do you enjoy your eggs take another drink here well we'll wait a moment this lesson may run a little late we're not getting through things quite as quickly as i thought twisted eggs ryan you need to tell me what are twisted eggs two half-willed eggs for breakfast ah spanish omelette omelettes are delicious i have never made an omelette i i've tried but i just can't quite get that technique down but eggs are a great great source of protein unless you're allergic because a lot of people are allergic to eggs natalie you just don't like okay and also if you are you know on specific diets then you may not eat eggs scrambled eggs so do we scrambled sc r a m b scramble led scrambled eggs adding cheese yes my my kids really like to have cheese michelle my husband likes fried eggs he will fry himself an egg ah salita had some eggs for breakfast scrambled okay twisted i i assumed that maybe that's what twisted meant okay so let's move on to our next word which is 10 10 now not 10 this can be difficult 10 as in a metal ti and 10 at 10 10 okay may that's not a problem brand 10 he had the strength of 10 men so we have a few eh sounds here ang strength of 10 men 11 yes 11 the second e is been scrambled he had the strength of 10 men this is a saying that is often used when someone is really strong um so if there is an accident and something has fallen on a person oftentimes a person will be able to lift something that is extremely heavy as if they have the strength of 10 men because they adrenaline is going and there's someone who is potentially in a very dangerous life threatening situation so you'll say he had the strength of 10 men so prashant i just answered that i hope that that made sense to you we do have several idioms in the lesson today so you it's a a two for one type of lesson you get the pronunciation work and you learn some idioms as well eggs with mayonnaise is the way to go good afternoon hello okay sounds good samira he got 10 out of 11 okay so let's move on to uh uh fester uh fester the wound began to fester fester let's practice the sentence again the wound began to fester uh now fester is a way to describe a wound that is um is not healing properly and it's infected it's infected fester so you don't want your wound to fester of course fester now i want you to also to recognize the difference when we say the words in isolation by themselves and then also when we say them in the sentence so when it was asked about the word batman um and how we do not enunciate that t sound in the middle due to co-articulation of the different sounds and their influences on one another particularly when we are speaking in running conversation a wound that is that you have an injury an open wound is an injury so you have a cut or a scrape on your body and you have a wound from that it then began to fester which means that it was um infected and so there is liquid coming out of your body and um it's not a good situation so faster versus fester yes that is a great practice to fester faster faster faster ah versus eh and even better practice in my experience has been distinguishing between the eh and the ih sound because they sound very similar even to a native ear ah is is quite different than eh versus ih ah and eh i can are similar but i feel the eh in the ih are vowel sounds that more of my students seem to have difficulty with okay so let's move on to the short i vowel sound now if you would like you can always give some other examples or sentences but at the end we do have some exercises as well so the no festering is not a good thing to have happen um for surgery yes short i vowel sound so let's sound so let's take a look at this the pronunciation tips for the short i vowel sound the ih ih the lips are relaxed and the middle and front area of your tongue is in a higher area of the mouth ih ih so let's let's just take a look at the difference between ah so let's all just say ah with me ah eh ih so your tongue went from a low position in your mouth ah to a mid position eh and now with ih your tongue is even higher in your mouth ih let's say it five times ih ih ih ih great now let's practice some words we have iguana iguana iguana does anyone have an iguana for a pet let me know in the chat if you have an iguana the boy wanted a pet iguana iguana iguana i would not want to have an iguana for a pet i'm not a big fan of reptiles in general i know a lot of people do enjoy having reptiles as pets and they like iguanas hello zaman great to see you yes so do we do you have an iguana let me know if anyone has an iguana i have a friend who used to have an iguana and she would have to buy crickets and they would come to her in the mail so she could feed them to the iguana and they had to be alive right yeah okay don't like reptiles maybe jonathan has one i don't want to have an iguana okay okay reptile dwee has an e on the end i don't like reptiles reptiles es so now let's work on the ih sound bit bit bit bit is the past tense form for to bite bite bit and our sentence the iguana bit me the iguana bit me michelle likes lizards oh gratuitous thank you for the movie recommendation the iguana or the iguana bit me the iguana bit me the iguana bit me try it slowly first and then try to speed up the iguana bit me i hope the iguana didn't bite you there are some iguanas who have pretty nasty bites okay i'll just pause a moment here i'm going to take another drink to see if anyone has any other questions or comments bit see is making me very relaxed right now because she is sleeping on my lap and she's snoring so um having a sleeping pet on you can make you very relaxed it makes your heart rate go down and it also makes me sleepy sometimes hello rod ha hello so i is the short vowel sound i is the long vowel sound and in today's lesson we are just covering the short vowels it would i'm going to do the long vowels next week week oh zelita it's your favorite yes sit and bit are pronounced the same no anna e beat beat and bit the long e is in the word beat b e a t like this music has a great beat okay all right so let's talk about cabin also before we move on i wanted to just say to all of you don't be sorry when you have a question there's nothing to be sorry about that's why we're here he fell in a pit yes and pit is a word that has several definitions a pit could be a big hole in the ground we could also have the pit in a peach a peach pit which is the center stone that's in the pit it's not really a stone but i think it's the seed so here's our next word for it this is our two syllable example cabin it cabin in it okay i'm listening because cabin it it can be pronounced cabin in it's very difficult because the in the are so close here cabin but the word list did have this listed as the so we're going to leave it here cabin in so a cabin is a small home usually small there are some cabins that are quite large but usually a smaller home we went to the cabin for christmas we went to the cabin for christmas cabins are often located in forest areas or near water let's see if anyone else has any suggestions here so pronouncing iguana whether we should concentrate on another valsam which is two a's as well iguana ah so you're talking about focus should concentrate on another valsam the a's ah iguana iguana i'm not sure what your message question is there yes yes gratuitous that is correct cabinet yes that's a tough word cabinet because um if you were to say each syllable james it's cabinet but in running speech it sounds more like cabinet so the often just gets pushed out cabinet we went to the cabin for christmas okay so i hope i i think i answered all those questions basura i'm not sure we might have to uh touch space later but if you can can ask the question again that would be great okay so let's move on to the short o valsam okay so the short o valsam and we're going to have our pronunciation tip for the short o valsam the vocal tract is very open for the production of the short o the jaw is held more open and the back of the tongue is held lower than any other sound in the american english valsam pronunciation very open ah so if you look at ah ah is even further ah ah ah insurance so insurance the i sound yes is the very first letter in i insurance the tongue will touch the inside of the bottom teeth again similar to the a so that the top of the tongue is nearly even with the top of the bottom teeth ah yeah you can feel it touch ah the lips are held open and kept rounded but relaxed ah right at layla what did i miss here okay yes i did address that thank you okay so let's practice ah ah ah ah remember you need to practice these out loud to help improve your pronunciation here we have the word odd odd he was the odd man out he was the odd man out he was the odd man out he was the odd man out this is a saying that means that someone got left out of an activity so for example let's say you had five five guys and they were playing a game and four of them had paired up so there are two and two and the fifth guy was the odd man out um he didn't have a partner it's also a way to just say that someone got left out of an activity he was the odd man out all right so give me some examples of all sounds here guys as we move on through this pronunciation exercise we also have the word pod pod let's practice pod they were like two peas in a pod they were like two peas in a pod cooperation cooperation see i have to really listen myself i can't remember another word has the same pronunciation of odd sod mod hot pot yes pot yes prashant god is definitely perfect so does anyone know what the meaning of they were like two peas in a pod what does that mean ostrich great samara yes they were like two peas in a pod what does that mean stop yes not pot great okay students so let's see leila's not sure shot that reminds me of one of my favorite songs but i'm not going to sing it because we're not supposed to sing on youtube excuse me plus you don't want to hear my singing a lot so the saying they were like two peas in a pod mensur nice to see you here not as correct oxford oxygen yes prashant so two peas in a pod that is like saying that people are very very similar they get along very well they are so similar they get along very well so i would say my daughter callie and her best friend amber are like two peas in a pod they are very close friends they're not very similar in their personalities but they're very close so you could say it as if people are similar or if they are very close because two peas in a pod are close together all right so let's look at our next aw word which is polish now this could be pronounced polish to talk about people who are from poland or i'm sorry you would say polak but um polish people um is a different way of pronouncing it so aw polish is another way samira outstanding is not that's the out sound aw we're looking for the aw sound here polish let's practice in the sentence we need to polish the floors my floors need polished really badly polish we need to polish the floors uh police is actually the uh sound that is the short u sound police is the short u portable mm no aw audible is the uh or diphthong which we're going to talk about at another lesson too no don't be sorry guys don't be sorry possible yes um foolish is the ooh that's the long u sound police police okay so aw we're looking for the aw sound here guys so some other examples would be now i have to like use my brain at 7 44 p.m in the evening so polish abolish demolish ah those would all in in the the l i s h sound as well um any other ideas aw folly this is a folly meaning that it's um a farce you're you're on a um wild goose chase you're doing something that is doesn't make sense folly owls that's the aw sound so those are again some some the owl sound a more so aw aw so top rot cut i like to polish my glass table falling aw yes falling mm-hmm demonstrate dim um no aw you need the aw sound demonstrate that has the uh uh that is the short e and the uh sound the short u and the long a dominik yes bashoota dominik is correct aw bomb yes prashant i know that this is challenging guys i understand that that's why we're doing it robin how could we forget yes samira aw robin i don't know how i couldn't have used him as an example column yes james column so let's talk about the short u vowel sound the short u vowel sound i do have actually on my tick tock i did uh tick tock on the short a vowel sound and um i had someone who commented that the schwa or the short u vowel sound is the most difficult for them so i need to do a video on tick tock for that one as well so here is the pronunciation tip yes ana please do so mm-hmm the body of the tongue is relaxed somatic ah so somatic and sithlita yes um the body of the tongue is relaxed and set low in the mouth and the sides of the tongue lightly touch your bottom teeth the jaw is kept in a neutral position and the lips are relaxed so remember we're doing the uh sound here so uh uh uh uh uh body ah yes that would be the last sound we were working on that's correct ana i'm sorry you were disconnected michelle so ah body polish yes so let's talk about the short u vowel sound the jaw is kept in a neutral position and the lips are relaxed i have that twice okay so let's try the uh sound in some words students you're doing great guys hang in there i know this takes a lot of concentration under under under he received money under the table so this is another idiom under the table my meaning for this sentence was not that somebody is actually going to let's see if i can show you i think i have my table over here hmm i don't all right so it's not that they're going to actually get money under the table you're not handing them money under the table to receive money under the table means that the person was paid money for a service that was just cash and so there wasn't any way to trace it this is done so that people don't have to pay taxes receive money under the table so umbrella yes thunder number yes gratuitous yes it's illegal to receive money under the table uh uh he received money under the table and i'm not talking about stressed versus unstressed in this lesson we're just keeping it as basic as possible so you want another of the uh the short vowel yes we are going to do many other words so the short you vowel sound is used extremely often in the english language very very common son money uh uh money it has the uh sound in it um sun fun money run beach bum beach bum is a term that's used for someone who likes to hang out at the beach a lot a beach bum it doesn't mean they're actually a bum it's just a saying that describes someone who enjoys staying at the beach a runner uh yes us fun gum those are all words that have the uh sound in them bunny i have a bunny right here too that i use in my lessons all the time bunny bun i have a bun here too uh but i had children here in my home today and they've moved my toys so here is a bun all right plum yes my son pasha loves to eat plums so when they're in season i will try to pick one up at the store for him when they are in season okay so let's practice another word we have cut uh cut cut sun and sun yes those are great that's a good good lesson i'm also doing some homonyms and homophones on tiktok as well those have been pretty popular and that would be a good example run sun none sunday sunday sunday sunday that's right so cut cut the fighter had to cut weight the fighter had to cut weight the fighter had to cut weight samir yes butt and shut cup great so the fighter had to cut weight that means that the fighter is going to have about meaning that they're going to fight someone and they have to be under a certain weight depending on what weight division or weight class they are fighting in so if they are 185 pounds and they're supposed to be fighting at 180 pounds they have to cut weight they have to lose the weight that is over 180 pounds monday yes monday is also the uh the short u vowel sound so here we have uh a word that i included because it has the short u it has the schwa sound and it is difficult because they're the a's right it has the a even though it's the uh thursday is not the uh that's the ur sound uh ur diphthong button yes button so banana banana the uh at the end of banana the last a banana banana so you have the first a is the uh it's the stressed banana banana banana right banana so stress in the first uh and then the last a is also a short u but it is the unstressed banana the banana wasn't right banana it's not banana banana i can't even say that buh nan nan nan nan nan is it's difficult right banana so your favorite fruit is the banana excellent so dwee ah that's the short a sound bath is the short a sound flexible uh uh is the that's also the short e we're looking at the uh math ah those are the short short a sounds uh the uh sound here is what we're looking for sudden is another example of a word that has the short u vowel sound umbrella the iguana is the short i i but oh yes the last a in iguana is a short a short u vowel sound yes the banana wasn't ripe i prefer my bananas to be a little overripe so i like for them to have a few brown specs on them not very brown but a few brown specs i it just the bananas are sweeter that way and i prefer to eat them like that okay so students pronunciation of vowel sounds in running speech can be challenging as we've seen during this lesson today most languages have fewer vowel sounds than english and so for that reason it can add another caveat yes yes yes michelle mm-hmm the unstressable schwa the uh dip thongs add complexity to this okay and i just wanted to briefly touch on vowel dip thongs because those came up today right vowel dip thongs are when two vowels are paired together and can make a different sound so we have fun and fan so that's a good example of the uh versus the the eh the ah sound so here we have an example of a vowel dip thong you put the o and the i together and it makes the oey sound it starts with o e oey sound so oil soil foil these are examples of vowel dip thongs i just wanted to introduce that so that we can touch on that in a future lesson so the o plus i makes the oey sound and so yes this is part of why vowels can be complex to learn in the english language all right so we're going to wrap up our lesson with a listening exercise so what we're going to do is i am going to say one of these words yes prashant's coin that's a good example of the oey sound and yes the another dip thong the e a i'm going to say a word and then you are going to listen and then you are going to give the letter of the answer in the chat we will wrap things up with that okay you guys have been great hanging in there thanks so much here is the first word are you ready here we 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sitting for a bit too long a or b pin a or b mm-hmm yes that is correct a uh thank you bashoota so this is the actual area that i have received i have my master's degree and a lot of my training is on pronunciation manzor yes riam mm-hmm sehib blue good yes pin the answer was a pin versus pan pan is b and we use a pan to cook food pin i have p i n pin this is spelled p e in pen pin is something that you would use to um stick into like maybe clothing you could use like a safety pin that would be p i n okay so here is our next exercise we have a or b please choose and the word is sun sun please post in the chat a or b sun i think this is my longest lesson ever thank you for hanging in there students leila pin and pin um many people pronounce those two words the same way pin and pen it's very i say it the same way pin and pin sun a a a yes are you guys headed out of the ballpark with this one that is correct i did say a sun versus b sin if sin the answer was a sun okay so now to address 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Our topic, at least this morning in a symposium, is a little bit different than what we often do. We call it What Must Be Done, which was originally the title of a talk that Dr. Hans Hermann Hoppe gave at Amisa's Institute Conference way back in 1997. Now, Hoppe opposed it as a declaration, a declarative statement of what must be done. But it's also a question, right? It's a question we all get and we all ask each other amongst ourselves. It's a question we all wrestle with as libertarians in the world, a statist world with all of its apologists. And at the Amisa's Institute, we hear this time and time again, what should we do? What can we do to fight back against the state? We understand the problem. We're real good at understanding the problem. But what's the solution? What can we do in the current environment where we are today to build a more sane and more libertarian world? And equally importantly, how can we find some measure of freedom today to live more freely in our own lifetimes? So rather than simply discuss some aspect or problem with the state itself today, it's devoted to a discussion of tactics and strategy and ideas for what must be done. So to that end, we have changed things up a bit. We've planned some shorter talks with plenty of opportunities for Q&A. And we've arranged for a panel discussion of some very interesting individuals who I'm sure will provide us with some thought-provoking ideas for what we might do. Now, from my perspective, when we talk about what must be done, when libertarians especially talk about what must be done, the discussion tends to revolve around four common strategy options. And none of these are mutually exclusive. There's a lot of overlap between them. And of course, we all, I think, favor a multi-pronged approach. But I think we can categorize most approaches loosely into one of these four categories. So the first option we'll call the political option. They're to borrow a tired phrase working within the system. So this argument, I think the hippies tried that one. But the argument is understandable. It goes something like this. Government and the political process that surrounds it, these things are inevitable in the real world. And therefore libertarians can't stand idly by on the sidelines while the politicians inexorably do what they do, steal our freedoms. But instead, we have to organize and become active politically, maybe under the banner of a third party vehicle like the Libertarian Party or by working within the Republican Party. Because whether we want to accept it or not, politics involves itself with us. So from this perspective, political action can be viewed as a sort of self-defense, something that we're forced into. Now, I've noticed that amongst libertarians, this approach usually has a national focus, that we need some sort of national presidential candidate to carry the banner. But it contemplates political action at the state and local level as well. And it has appeal, I admit to it, especially for libertarians in a hurry. There's a vote. There's something tangible. And ultimately, at least in theory, the political approach attempts to mimic and reverse the incrementalism that has been so successful for the political left, the progressive left, over the past century. Now, speaking for myself, let me just say that the political option, at least in terms of national politics, and we'll get to that later, strikes me as the least attractive alternative among those available to us today. I mean, when we think about the amount of time and energy and money and human capital that have been invested trying to win the political and legislative battles, it's staggering. But what do we have to show for it? The 20th century represents the total triumph of left progressivism in the political sphere. Everything we think of, central banking, income taxes, the New Deal programs, the Great Society programs, these are all enormous political victories that change the landscape forever. Everything today, after the progressive century, has become politicized. Everything from whether it's OK to engage in fantasy football betting online, to what bathrooms a transgender person should use, everything has become a political question. So today, everything about human activity is framed with the question, what should government do? What should government do about this? It's never whether government should do anything at all. And I think we need to accept that. I think we need to understand the political option, the political strategy within this context of the progressive triumph. So a second option that libertarians often consider might be termed loosely, strategic withdrawal. And you might have heard of the idea of the Benedict option. This is something that's going around today in Catholic circles, amongst Catholics who are unhappy with the new pope or unhappy with the direction of the church and where it sits in the broader culture. So Catholics have been talking about this Benedict option. And of course, in Atlas Shrugged, we had Ein Rand talking about going galt, right? Galt's galt, which was in reference to sort of a strike by the productive class that takes place in that novel. So this approach involves separating, withdrawing, or segregating ourselves in some way from the larger society and from the political landscape. So it asserts, with some justification, I think, that the current environment is largely hopeless for libertarians politically and culturally and therefore attempting to play a game where the deck is stacked so heavily against us and the rules are skewed against us, that this is foolish. So it's better to retreat, at least for now, and build a life outside the state's parameters to the extent possible. And in this sense, the withdrawal option has a certain tactical appeal. It's almost like the concept in martial arts where instead of taking a force head on, you sort of move to the side and attempt to deflect it. And a strategic withdrawal can take many forms. There's a range of alternatives, right? It can be some sort of absolute separation all the way down to some very subtle lifestyle changes. In some cases, this strategy can mean actually physically uprooting where you live and where you work. We have examples of this. People have tried things like the Free State Project in New Hampshire. There's a new project called Lieberland in Europe along the same lines. There's been some sea-steadying proposals over the years and some attempts to create libertarian homesteads in South America. But I asked David Gordon to find there was a great interview with Murray Rothberg where they were talking about sea-steadying. And I will say that Murray kind of joked, I don't want to go live on some blank, blank island. So he wasn't necessarily a fan, but we don't have to move to an island per se. I mean, withdrawal can take other forms. Some libertarians just choose to live off the grid, either literally or metaphorically, right? I think the prepper movement represents a form of strategic self-sufficiency and simply choosing to remove to a remote area, a rural countryside area I think is part of this option. And of course, just withdrawing from the American way of endless consumption and debt, you might call it living small, is another form of strategic retreat in itself. And it often allows libertarians to live happier lives and also to minimize one's cooperation with the state's regulatory and tax clutches. And of course, homeschooling probably represents the great example of libertarian strategic withdrawal. In the modern age, it's enabled millions of kids and parents to escape state education complex. And I think withdrawal can be as simple as just abandoning state media or unplugging yourself from the digital white noise that surrounds us. And of course, finally, expatriation, voting with one's feet is a time-honored historical strategy for removing oneself from a tyrannical state. And this happens domestically with people moving from a higher tax state to a lower tax state, but also internationally. And we have millions of, well, many tens of thousands of people not only leaving the country now, but also renouncing their citizenship. And I'm sure that there are people in this room who have at least considered this option for themselves. And who could blame a young person today in looking at the landscape for thinking that maybe I'm gonna leave the US? Now, a third tactic that we often advocate might be called the hearts and minds strategy, right? This is education, winning hearts and minds. So this approach is multi-pronged. It involves education, academia, traditional media, social media, religion, books and articles and speeches and literature, even pop culture. Hearts and minds is really the strategy behind why we hold conferences like we're holding today. And the hearts and minds strategy is really all about education, persuasion and marketing at every level. And I think this is the approach where the Mises Institute, anyway, has made the most headway. You know, a hearts and minds strategy argues that we can't really make any significant headway or any real changes in the world unless and until a significant portion of the population shrugs off its bad ideas and begins to embrace what we would say are more sensible ideas, particularly in the area of politics and economics and social theory. In other words, politics is a lagging indicator. It follows downstream from culture, so we should focus more on the underlying disease, not the symptoms. So just as left progressives captured institutions of the West, they captured academia, news media and government and churches and Hollywood and publishing, libertarians ought to focus our efforts on reclaiming those institutions for ourselves and for liberty. So it makes sense from the hearts and minds strategy to try to launch liberty-minded people into these streams of academia or business or media or religion. And this way, we can begin to strike the root or at least chip away at the root, the mindset that supports the state. Now clearly, this is a daunting task. You know, wholesale attack on the institutions of our country. It's a long game, but the argument goes that something like this, unless and until we win hearts and minds, it scarcely matters whom we elect or what bill gets passed or how we arrange our personal and professional lives, the same status mentality will continue to resurface time and time again to work against us. And I think the state's education racket maybe offers the ripest target for us in terms of winning hearts and minds. So we really had this opportunity now in the digital age to appeal directly to the intelligent layperson to bring Austrian economics and libertarian theory to them in ways that we never could before and really bypassing the traditional channels. So I think the hearts and minds strategy has a lot of appeal, but it's a long game. It's not a quick fix. It's a strategy for sober people with long time horizons. Sober in the broader sense. And so the fourth option that often is discussed in libertarian circles, I'll just term resistance. Here we're talking about actual civil disobedience or agorism, this tactic contemplates tax protests, evading or ignoring regulations, engaging in black market activity and the like. And it also contemplates the use of technological advances. There's a lot of third way technological libertarians now who promote things like encryption and cyber currencies and platforms like Uber, all are which areas when they were first developed sort of existed in a gray area as regards to their legality. Now, agorism was the preferred approach of the late libertarian theorist, Sam Konkin, who encouraged people to bypass the state and devote their lives to black market or gray market activities and avoid taxation or regulation as a result. He called this counter economics. And agorism had some critiques. Among those was Murray Rothbard, who found Congress's antipathy to being engaged in wage labor and white markets, legitimate markets so-called as anti-market itself. I mean, after all, was agorism off for the vast majority of workers or how will goods and services like automobiles and steel be produced in an agris society? And Rothbard saw agris as sort of neglecting, he says, quote unquote, neglecting the overwhelming bulk of economic life to concentrate on marginalia. And I think, let's be frank, the appeal of living the agris lifestyle, living without a driver's license maybe or not being able to own any real estate, that sort of thing might not be wildly popular. Now, as for applying new technology to bypass the state, cybercursions, I'm all for it. Any innovation that makes it harder for the state to govern us as a practical matter is something that we should celebrate clearly. But we should also guard against the false hope of technology, the same technology which might serve to facilitate privacy or title transfers or stealth movement of money and people can also be exploited, can be used by the state or be subject to its spying apparatus. And no innovation, no technology can change the fundamental questions of whether and how human affairs ought to be organized by the state. So these four basic approaches, we have politics, withdrawal, hearts and minds and resistance, these give us a framework to consider some of our tactical approaches in an unfree world. When we ask ourselves the question, what must be done? So it brings us back to the aforementioned Professor Hans Hermann Hoppe and his speech. I encourage you to read it. I think we have photocopies of it outside. It's really a fascinating topic and Hans is treatment of it, it's razor sharp. Now keep in mind he delivered this in 1997. So the digital revolution was still in its infancy, social media, mobile devices didn't exist and several precipitating centralizing events. The introduction of the Euro, the September 11th attacks, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the crash of 2008, Greenspan and Bernanke's monetary hyperdrive, the rise of Obama, the full rise and contagion of PC in the West. None of these had yet occurred in 1997 and each of these events intensified the growth and the scale of centralized government power. But even looking back on what now seems like a relatively carefree time of 1997, Hoppe's explicit focus was this fundamental fight against the centralization of political power and whatever form it might take. So in fact, I think decentralization is a lynchpin that connects each of the four tactical approaches that we've outlined earlier. If there's one principle and only one principle that libertarians ought to apply when considering strategy, it's this. The radical decentralization of state power must be our relentless goal. The 20th century, the progressive century witnessed the unprecedented centralization of power. We see this in Washington DC, in Brussels, at the UN, at the Fed, at the ECB. So our overriding goal has to be the reversal of this terrible trend and the creation of what Hoppe calls implicitly seceded territories. He describes very much a bottom up strategy that really forwarded by what he calls natural elites. And we think of elites as the political class, or we think of these connected people, billionaires like Facebook, Zuckerberg, someone like that, but Hoppe sees a natural elite very differently. It's not made up of the political class, or its core intellectuals, but instead it's made up of just accomplished, upstanding local citizens. And these natural elites in Hoppe's view form the counterbalance to the centralizers. And they serve as the vanguard of the bottom up revolution. So Hoppe has three keys to this revolution in his section on strategy. Number one is that protection, defense, and justice have to be demanopinalized. And this is one of the toughest areas for libertarians to argue that police and courts and armies shouldn't be run by the state. But here Hoppe says we have to be steadfast in our advocacy of a truly free society because if these functions remain under the sole power of a central state monopoly, then no progress towards liberty is possible because we just can't trust the state to have guns and lawyers in jails. Second, Hoppe says that political decentralization has to be ruthlessly pursued. And here he actually makes an exception and says that voting, especially on local matters, can actually be morally justified on the grounds of self-defense, which is an interesting perspective coming from an anti-democrat like Hans Hoppe. And third, Hoppe argues democracy as a concept has to be attacked and ridiculed whenever and wherever possible. Private property forms the basis for a free society while majority rule, including voting, the system that permits the theft of private property forms the antithesis of Hoppe's free society. So as you think about things today or as you leave today, I really encourage you to read Dr. Hoppe's article. I think it may just change the way you view this task that's before us. So in conclusion, let me give you a quote from Rod Dreyer writing in the American Conservative about this Benedict option that I mentioned earlier that some Catholics have been contemplating. It's from his article talking about the fall of Rome. And he says, Rome's collapse meant staggering loss. People forgot how to read, how to farm, how to govern themselves, how to build houses, how to trade, and even what it had once meant to be human. So has the world today fallen so far into reflexive status and that we've forgotten how to be free? Are we living like Benedict on the edge of a new dark age? Or is a revolution, a radically decentralized Hoppe and bottom-up revolution brewing, is the pushback we see all around the world against central states and their cobbled together a historical borders against political elites, against bankers, against the UN and the IMF, against the Euro, against taxpayer bailouts and cronyism, against PC, against this manufactured migration that's going on and against drug laws? Is all this a last gasp or is it a sign of a worldwide movement towards political decentralization? Well, the future's unwritten, we don't know. But we can play a role in this. And let us remember that every society worth having, every advanced liberal society, was built by people with long-time horizons. Horizons beyond their own lives. And generally, those societies were built under very difficult circumstances of material hardship beyond what we are likely to face in our lifetime. So let's appeal to our better natures and turn what must be done from a question into a declaration. Thank you very much. Thank you.