OK, well it's that time again. It is the Q&A. This time it is with our host nation, Germany. Right, so before race off one of the Monster Energy FIM Speedway of Nations, let's find out what's going on behind the scenes. OK, so Martin, Kai and Michael joining me. So first off Martin, who will the winners be if not you? It's a very hard decision, I think. What's he the best team? OK, I'm surprised you didn't say you. You would have said you, wouldn't you? I hope we will be, but yeah, we'll see what happens. OK, we'll see. All right, so out of the six other nations that are here today, who do you think is your biggest competition, Michael? I think Poland is very hard to beat and Sweden is very good as well, but all the other teams are nearly on an equal high of level, so we all have to fight hard and see what we can do. All right, that question was from Brad. David wants to know who's the most annoying team member? I can't say anything about that now. OK, we have answers over here, go on. I think it's the team manager. I was going to say you could say that. OK, so we have Sam, who wants to know which football teams you support? I'm not a football fan because I love motorsport, you know, so why we should watch football, you know? All right, football team? Dortmund. OK. Bayern Munich. You see, that's what they wanted the answer to be. OK, now Vegas has written in saying, Kai, how many points are you planning on getting tonight? Max. No, I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. All right, no pressure, no pressure at all. OK, Fix is saying what's your favourite track? I think it doesn't matter which track is favourite. My personal favourite track is New Zealand, Auckland. OK, it's a long way away. Michael, any favourite tracks? I like round tracks like Gustro or... Yeah, my home track in Wichita is pretty nice, but I think we all know Lancet pretty good and like the track here, so it should be all right. All right, now Scott wants to know who eats the worst food in the team? Kai, he's the man who's reading the worst food, I'm sure. What kind of food? Give us an idea. He loves McDonald's. Yes, so do we all. Other fast food chains are available. OK, and well, Sam wants to know how you're all feeling? Pretty good. Yeah, the weather is still not perfect, but I think the sun will come out and then we are ready for the meeting. There's a song about that. Feeling very nice. I mean, the focus is quite OK. A little bit of sun is out there now. I think it's covered, so it's time to beat the other boys out there. OK, well, let's get ready to race. That was your Q&A with Germany.


George Lincoln has been out of uniform only a few weeks blessed with an abundance of energy and adventuresome spirit and not too much money He has sunk his last diamond office rent a few pieces of furniture and an ad in the classified section of the daily paper Now as he sits back in his swivel chair waiting for the clients to form a line outside his office the door burst so Mr. Lincoln yes Mr. George Lincoln, that's right I saw your ad in the paper. Do you have a crime that needs solve and let George do it? Do you have a dog that needs walking? Let George do it. Do you have a wife that needs spanking? Let George do it What are you a client? Oh, no, Mr. Lincoln. I'm Sonny Brooks. What do you want an interview for your grammar school paper? Oh I graduated from grammar school Congratulations. Thank you That's all right. I'll get it. Hey wait a minute Good morning. Let George do it. How do you like that? Oh, I can make an appointment for you now Mr. Lincoln's confidential assistant. That's nice to know. Well, if you're that close and come right up, Mr. Winters Yeah, goodbye, sir Now look here bottom button. You can call me sonny. Well, now look here sonny. Who hired you? Well, I come with the office. You see Caleb the elevator man is my friend He knew I was looking for a job. So he said sonny whoever gets that office gets you too Well, isn't that just ducky? Oh, you'll find me very reliable. Mr. Lincoln I have intelligence initiative a pleasing personality and I'm cuff cuff. What's that mean? CUF cool under fire. Oh, that's great. Well tap to what's that sir?  Lincoln you're too young sonny things may get a little rough around here. Oh, that's okay, sir I'm a very rugged character. Now then mr. Winters will be here soon winners. Yes, sir Jonathan Winters. He just phoned. Oh We can discuss my salary later. I'll go on the payroll as of today whether I like it or not Well, I have a feeling you're gonna become very fond of me, sir. I grow on people. Yeah, like a bunion All right, sonny call an employment agency and get me a secretary. Well, that won't be necessary, sir Why don't tell me you type to no, but my sister does your sister Claire She'll be here soon to start to work. So does your whole family go with this office? Well, I don't have much of a family. There's just Claire and me. Oh That's tough kid. Well, you like Claire She's prettier than I am. Oh, that's perfect. It doesn't matter. She can type or take dictation just so she's prettier than you are See, this is my lucky day Mr Lincoln. Oh, oh, yes, mr. Whitties come right on in mr. Lincoln. I'm here because Because oh, well, it doesn't matter what the job is mr. Whitties I'm your man. Just throw your problem in my lap and I'll come up with the right answer mr. Lincoln I'm about to be murdered.  Well, that's a little out of my line mr. Whitties I mean that you see well, uh, mr. Lincoln I I Have been murdered Holy Joe.  Yeah, mr. Lincoln. Don't get excited. Look at me. I'm perfectly calm Going up miss is mr. Lincoln's office in this building the fifth floor step in Oh, thank you.   Are you well? I thought not some day. I'll cook my specialty for you Devastating duckling divine ola Caleb. You'd like that wouldn't oh, I'm sure.  Never you haven't lived Oh, it's the fifth floor now you take mr. Lincoln. He appreciates good food. All right, but he will put sugar on his tomatoes I hold to the salt school myself. How about you miss? I knew we had a lot in common First door to your left. Oh, there's mr. Lincoln now. Caleb get a doctor up here right away. I hear no I don't care get a doctor. I'll get dr. Mack. He's very fond of my cheese Mr.. Lincoln well is anything wrong?  You will come back tomorrow Mr. Lincoln well, I spent 10 cents on bus fare to come here to interview you for a job I'm gonna have that interview whether or not you like it. Well, look here's a dime. I'll be a good girl and beat it I certainly will I wouldn't work for you if you offered me a thousand dollars a week to sit behind a desk and do nothing But powder my nose it could stand a little powder at that Oh, wait a minute. You haven't the experience as a secretary You men socks men's iron shirts so buttons cook breakfast over a canister no mr. Lincoln Are you looking for a secretary or a wife? Oh a secretary? I'm still a bachelor knock on wood had one close call Oh, but I got away from her Lucky guy Lucky girl, okay, you're hired. Thank you. I give me back my dime. What about salary? I will discuss that after I collect from my first client. How do I know you'll ever get a first client client? Oh, I've got one now. I don't know what I'm gonna do with them, but I've got him come on in and see for yourself That gentleman stretched down on the floor is my first heat the way you're Sonny sonny. Yeah, mr. Lincoln. Well, where is he? Where's the body? Where's mr. Winters? Holy Joe, mr. Lincoln. He's gone Makes sense. Will you mr. Winters couldn't have just disappeared into thin air. It's like I told you mr. Lincoln I went into the waiting room to phone the police and the next thing I knew you were out here yelling for me Look this window was open matter allergic to fresh air. Well, don't you see it leads to the fire escape And this door leads to a closet and that door leads to a you won't ever mind Will you be serious mr. Winters was shot really? Maybe his murderer followed him here to your office Maybe he hid out on the fire escape listening then when you left the office. He dragged the body out.  Just sit down there and make like a secretary I'll see you later. Where are you going to mr. Winters home? I've got to find some clues and when the police comes stall them Yeah, they'll be here any minute sonny Voldemort mr. Lincoln, what'll I tell them tell them nothing you've got charm, haven't you well use it Mr. Lincoln, I've got to know what do you think happened to my husband now take it easy mrs. What is I was afraid something would happen to him why well he was He was so worried. I thought it was because his writing wasn't going too well He hadn't been able to write anything in a long time or your husband as a writer Yes, I'm mystery writer. Oh sure of course the case of the body in the bathtub murder has the hiccups This is my husband's study Quite a layout. Oh, what are all those papers his manuscript? He was working on the lost corpse the lost corpse Cute title. It wasn't coming easy. He knew it had to be good or it had made the end of Mr. Lincoln, what are you looking for in that waste paper basket? What do you think poor leaf clovers, of course, I want the truth was he murdered? Relax mrs. Witness relax the best man in town is on the job who who why me of course Is this the lost corpse put that manuscript down? Don't look at it. Why not? Oh, I'm sorry You're just a Superstition Jonathan never wanted anyone to read what he was working on oh then of course you haven't read this No, no certainly not Did did your husband have any domestic trouble domestic trouble Jonathan was devoted to me was why the past tense what oh I don't know what I'm seeing Yes, yes, what is it? A policeman I'll be right down look mrs. Witness you you haven't seen me understand But why look your husband trusted me? Why don't you try it? Well, all right, mr. Lincoln Anyway, I can get out of here without going down the stairs well that door leads to my husband's private elevator It takes you down to the back entrance say he thought of everything Well, he liked to come and go without disturbing the rest of the household Very clever man. Okay, mrs. Witness. I'll get in touch with you tomorrow tomorrow You mean you'll have news for me Well, maybe it'll be news to you and then again mrs. Witness. Maybe it won't Mr. Lincoln, what's the idea of dragging me out here in the middle of the night keep your pretty little mouth shut? What is this place anywhere the back entrance to the widows home? Well, haven't they got a front entrance sure, but we're not using it.  Lincoln I quit some other time now step into that elevator an elevator Where will this thing take up to mr. Witness workroom? It's pitch black in here. I don't feel safe I'm here. That's what I mean. Oh What's that you don't have to hold my hand I'm not holding your hand well someone is well don't scream I got him covered. Hey get that gun out of my ribs sunny. I told you to go home. I have a feeling you're gonna be very glad I'm along mr. Lincoln. You might need me. Yeah, like I need a second head. You could use it Are you two stay right here? I know where the desk is. What do you want in there? Well, I've got to get the lost corpse lost corpse. You mean you think mr. Winter's body's in there No, no, no, no the manuscript of his book now keep quiet. Don't make a sound Mr. Lincoln, what was that? Oh just an old shin of mine. Hey, I hear somebody coming up the stairs Okay kids we can beat it now. I found the lost corpse. Is it a good story mr. Lincoln? Why aren't you gonna let us read it? Mrs. Winter's wouldn't approve. Oh, what's she like? Is she attracted? She has the most beautiful the biggest Blue eyes never mind mrs. Winners. What about the lost corpse? Well, it's a very unusual story About a man and his wife how original the wife would like to give him the gate But she hasn't any money of her own However, she stands to collect a lot of her husband ever kicks the bucket. Is there a murder natch the husband is shot But he manages to make his way to a private investigators office. Oh, is that in the story? Sure Yeah, but that's what mr. Winners did the husband tells the investigator. He's about to be murdered Hey, that's what mr. Winners told you then he collapses when the investigator steps out of his office the wounded man disappears Just like mr. Winners did that's what actually happened. It is. Oh, what do you know about that? Well go on mr.   Winners got with this story No wonder mrs. Winners didn't want you to read it.  It shows.  Lincoln. Yeah Caleb, what do you want? Where's mrs. Winters? Is she all right now? Mrs. Winters, what are you talking about? I left her in your waiting room. She came to see you When was this few minutes ago? She acted kind of funny like maybe she was sick, but I was cooking a mackerel on my hot plate down Stairs, and you know you got to keep your eye on a macro never mind the mackerel. Where is she now? I just come up. She's all right. Do you want me to stuff the mackerel with cornbread Caleb? Are you sure you left mrs. Winters here in my writing room? You know some people like my stuff and I prefer corn myself mr. Lincoln look on the table a woman's purse with initials on it Mw Marsha Winters Do you think the same thing happened to her mr. Lincoln someone followed her here and hit on the fire escape now Now she heard us talking. She knew we thought she was guilty Say how are you two at playing games games at a time like this look sunny you be sunny I'll be George Lincoln and Claire you be mr. Winters Oh, what about me wouldn't I do mr.  Okay Claire get going first I'm a second story man, and now I'm an actress I quit I'll go on Claire be a good sport humor I said I quit we haven't got time now. You can quit tomorrow. Oh very well, but you can think of a silly Now what'll we do mr. Lincoln? That's exactly what we did when mr. Winters first stepped into this office Okay Claire come on in I Don't think she heard you All right Claire. We're ready What's the matter with her I'll get her Claire you can come in now Claire Where is she? Oh Joe this is quite a problem now my sister's disappeared Well Lincoln doesn't seem to have gotten very far in his solution of this case First a murdered man disappeared from right under his nose Then the murdered man's wife mysteriously departed and now his secretary is vanished into thin air Are you just gonna sit here in your office mr. Lincoln? Aren't you gonna do anything? She's my sister She's the only sister I've got I'll take it easy sonny nothing happened to Claire well, then where is she couldn't take it? That's all so she quit left us flat. Well, that doesn't sound like Claire The mackerel looks good enough to eat brown and crisp By the way, please card just stopped in front. Huh, holy Joe the police How does buttered radishes with the mackerel strike you look Caleb get down there and stall the police Oh, I intend to and we can top it off with cherry flamboy. Come on Sonny. We'll leave by the fire escape Oh and Sonny yeah, mr. Lincoln bring Mrs. Winter's purse along with you Yeah, that's the trouble with women as soon as they're going gets a little tough.  Lincoln, but aren't you in kind of a jam with the police? You're right sonny. She is She is sir much prettier than you are Mr. Lincoln, we can't just drive around all night We've got to find out who murdered mr. Winter's and what they did with his body and where Mrs. Winter's disappeared to and what happened to Claire Isn't that right sir, and she's very intelligent that is for a woman mr. Lincoln Okay, Sonny look at the address on that letter. What letter sir the one and Mrs. Winter's purse Is there a letter in here? Well, didn't you notice it when Claire opened the purse? No sir. Oh here it is It's addressed to Mrs. Marcia Winters 300 pepper tree lane Cedarhurst. Uh-huh. Hey That's in the country. Yeah, they must have a country home too Cedarhurst. That's out on highway six right near Hey, we're on highway six. We're headed towards Cedarhurst now.  No water. No, thanks. Yeah wash you in she you don't bother I washed it once and I couldn't do a thing with it Hey, don't get many customers around here tonight a pretty deserted rule. Uh-huh. I'll uh, I'll bet we're the first car You've seen this evening. That's right Except that there are cab cab with a woman in it. Hey now. How'd you guess? Hey, I'll bet it was Mrs. Winters Hang on Sonny. We're getting warm It's this it mr. Lincoln careful. Don't make any noise There's a light inside the cabin. Yeah, and a woman see her moving around. Oh, yeah I can make out her shadow now. Yeah very shapely shadow We're gonna just walk right in. Oh, no, no, of course not. That's no fun What would they do in a mystery show? They'd climb in the window then we'll climb in a window Mr. Lincoln she turned off the light Shall I go in first stand back son? This is a man's job. I'll grab her. Yes, sir Oh, no, you don't you'll stay right here Yes, sir, let's see what we bag Claire Well, well, well if it isn't second-story Clarissa You have to be so rough. I'll bet you crack two ribs. Sorry. I don't know my own strength Well now that you see who I am you don't have to keep on holding me. Yeah, but it's fun Claire What are you doing here? Well, she saw the address on the letter So she decided to follow the clue Yeah, but why didn't she let us in on it? She thought I was a dope sonny so she took over You know all the answers don't you not quite what happened when you got here nothing place looked deserted I crawled in the window to no one here. I couldn't see anyone, but Well, I've had the strangest feeling. Yeah, as though someone's been watching. Well, stay here with Sonny. I'll look around Holy Joseph. You sure had me scared. I'm sorry, Sonny But mr. Lincoln didn't seem to be making any effort to solve the case. Well, don't kid yourself He just keeps things to himself. Well, everything seems to be in order Hey That was a car look Sonny Claire stand back there in the corner. I'll cover the door be careful, mr. Lincoln Do I detect concern in your voice? Well, good evening, Mrs. Winters. Oh May I present my two assistants Claire and Sonny Brooks? How did you know I'd come here? What do you want? Oh, just want to make talk mr. Lincoln. You've got to believe me. I'm not like the woman in his story I love Jonathan and you're the girl who never reads his manuscripts until they're finished. Well, I Oh, go ahead turn me over to the police.  We're gonna play a little game Sonny you keep an eye on Mrs. Winters. Don't let her leave. Oh, don't worry.   You think you can follow those lines. I can read if that's what you mean. All right all set.   I swear I didn't but who'll believe you the police all the clues point to you Do you mean yes, my dear you wanted me out of the way. Well, you got your wish I shot myself.  You'll pay for it I'll get a doctor too late too late. Goodbye my dear.  What a performance. I Don't get it mr. Lincoln. You wrote this ending for his story. Is that it? Well, of course. What's the story without an ending? I'll tell you what mr. Lincoln is getting at He's trying to prove that my husband shot himself shot himself in such a way that it would look as though I murdered him. Why would Jonathan do such a thing? He knew that I loved him You don't have to put on an act for us. Why don't you turn her over to the police now? I'll keep your shirt on, sonny Okay, you come in now. You mean the police are here the police Well, how did you like my way of ending your story mr. Winters mr. Winters Jonathan here? It was very clever, mr. Lincoln I'm terribly sorry. You were worried darling. I tried to go home and explain but the police were there. I don't understand Will you see the ending to the lost corpse was driving me crazy? See I knew that when I searched his waste paper basket.  Winters he came out here to hide. I saw him in the closet, but I wanted to put on a show for him Oh, John, I'll forgive me darling Well, come on kids. They don't need an audience. Wait a minute mr. Lincoln I've got the ending to my story thanks to you and with all that publicity in the papers It's sure to have a big sale so name your fee Well, I don't know mr. Winters. I haven't really thought about it. It's supposed to be saying even grand I'll send you a check in the morning. Oh, no hurry. No hurry, but I just happen to have a pen and a blank check with me As a matter of fact, it's all made up. Just need your signature mr. Winters. Oh, yes Holy Joe a thousand bucks. There you are Thanks. Thanks. Well, let's go kids Good night mr. Winters, and if you ever get stuck again, I'll remember good night. Good night What a day now I feel like a lapsing Sonny come here and put your arm around. Oh sure, sis. Go away, sonny Let George do it Next week at this time George Lincoln has a difficult problem thrust upon him You will probably hear him saying something like this all that money just to find you a wife, mr. Peterson why it's a sin now just a minute mr.  How many have you got 400 400 children? No 400 pigs


What's up guys? My girl, Jaspy, is doing a quick recap for our National Treasures football mixer. It was three boxes. This one was number five random team. One box of 2022 National Treasures in two boxes of 2022 Panini 1, a little refresher if you forgot your teams. There's the list. Pause if you need to. All right. Getting into the recap.  And a Jonathan Taylor quad patch and auto out of $10. Getting into the NT box, it was a nice one. Had a Brady out of $99, Kamara out of $15, Daniel Jones, Juventa Williams, Tyler Boyd out of $25, very nice Justin Herbert tremendous treasures out of $10 for the Chargers. And then Colossal material signatures, Aaron Jones for the Packers, and Earl Thomas, the third auto out of $49. Had a Tyquan Thornton, true RPA to $99, and the big boy, a Kenny Pickett Midnight RPA out of $20 for the Steelers, beautiful, beautiful card. Yeah, that does it. It was a quick mixer. Thank you to everyone who got in. It was our last break of the night. Thank you guys for watching, and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye, guys.


Georgia, Georgia, Georgia. Welcome. I'm Mike Abadi, and this is All Eyes on Georgia, episode two. And I'm extremely honored today to welcome Maynard Eaton to our virtual studio here. And Maynard is an eight-time Emmy Award-winning Atlanta journalist. He's been reporting on Atlanta civil rights and Georgia politics for 40 years now. He's also the National Communications Director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He's a gifted interview. He's the host of Talk to Me. It's excellent. And he's got connections to community television in Georgia with People TV and the Atlanta Video Network. So just thrilled you could make the time today, Maynard. Thank you, Michael. Appreciate it. I've never been on a camera in Vermont. Yeah, well, also on the worldwide web. So actually, I've been visiting with the Georgia Public Access Station. So hoping we get some traction down there, because this has been some really good conversations already. And I mean, the big news this week is voting started Monday. And I'm just wondering if you've got your plan to vote, figure it out, and what your options are. If you have an absentee option, you have an early option, you have a day of option, how are the rules there for how to get your vote in? Well, personally, I mailed my absentee ballot yesterday. Nice. It's done. And I'm sitting back watching the frenzy early voting. But that's the key to this whole thing, this whole runoff, is who's going to turn out to vote? That's the question? That's the turning away at trying to get folks back to the polls, and particularly in a black community, because the numbers often dwindle when on runoffs are returning to the polls. This has been such a frenzied year with voting, special elections, presidential elections, all that. So to get them back again is going to be a feat. But enthusiasm seems to be there. And the commercials are certainly driving home the point of voting, that's for sure. Right. And yeah, the dynamic is a little different than your typical runoff, where Republicans tend to show up for every vote for dog catcher and everything. But there's a bit of a rift on the Republican side with, well, your governor's getting beat up by Donald Trump just about regularly. Certainly, your secretary of state has taken some hits from both Republican candidates, Lefler and Perdue. And I don't know if there is this sort of a bit of a slog on the Republican side. They're not finding the unified message and the enthusiasm. If that might depress their turnout. Do you have any read on that? Well, there's been a lot of visits by Vice President Kemp, not Kemp, but Vice President Pence and others in through Georgia trying to rally the vote. But again, the president's division amongst, on one hand, criticizing, polarizing verbally against Kemp and Rothen's brother has made some people feel like they're going to stay home. Others have said do not vote. Deep right wing forces have suggested not to go out and vote. So there's a turmoil within the Republican party over the outcome of the election, whether or not to go back to the polls. There's infighting to be sure, which is interesting.  He just had a ruling yesterday by a federal judge suggesting that a group called Black Voting Matters, Black Voters Matter, have filed suit along with, based on a report by investigative journalist Greg Pallas, saying that 197,000 Georgians had been illegally purged from the polls. The lawsuit ruling came out just, they just had a news conference a few minutes ago suggesting the judge says, it's a little too late to do that. I think you should meet again. Well, today they're saying, today they're saying, let's meet, let's do it. Let's cleanse these, they gotta find out who actually has been left off the polls. That's what the court said. We can't determine who has been re-registered or who has been left off illegally.  Black Voters Matters and other civil rights attorneys wanna have it done now. There's been no decision on when that's gonna happen. But again, Rasmusberg is getting it from Democrats and Republicans. I mean, he's a guy who's been under the gun, believe me. But rightly so, I believe. There's been some shady things on both sides. The president alleges voted irregularities and three years ago, so did Stacey Abrams, who was challenging Brian Kemp. I could become governor, came with an eye shadow of winning. At the time, Brian Kemp was the secretary of state. And so many alleged he purged a lot of voters. Voter purging, voter suppression is a major, major issue in the black community. Right, well, that is a really fascinating aspect of these charges of voter fraud coming from the right, coming from Trump. When they go to court, they really don't, they don't have much. Maybe what, signature matching they've got?  You've got Biden winning by 0.3%. You've got to wonder if there was better access to the polls, if that would have been two or three or 4%. That's right, that's right. But it seems that the charge from the Trumpists that there's widespread voter fraud, throw out all the votes, send some different set of electors along, may shake Republicans' faith in even bothering. I don't know. You know, the thing that got me about throw out the election results, that didn't mean throwing out some Republicans who won as well. That's what got me. Right, right, it's all the same ballot. That is a very good point. Not just a president on that ballot, that's right. Yeah, and actually speaking of the president, he visited, is it Valdosta, Valdosta a couple of weeks ago? Yes. You've had Sarah Palin showing up, you've had Louie Gohmer, you've got Joe Biden this week showed up. I'm just wondering how the press is covering all these visitors that have suddenly got terribly interested in Georgia. Well, the whole nation is watching, including Vermont, including you. But this is such an important race. And I want to tip the Valdosta power in the Senate. You have two dynamically different sets of candidates here on the Republican side and the Democrat side. And they're funny to see them running together, you know, in a sense, they're like teammates. Right, they're pairs, yeah. They're pair, and it's, so yeah, there's a national interest in it, consequential political national outcome on it, and it's all kind of sitting right here in Georgia. We've had this kind of political spotlight since Jimmy Carter, really. Yeah, well, you know, thank you for mentioning him because I saw Louie Gohmer, he's a rep from Texas. And one of the things he said when he visited was, you know, vote the Georgia way, and I don't mean the plains Georgia way. Like he sort of, you know, actively dissed Georgia's president, thinking that would help. Like that's what really amazed me. Like he actually thought that would gain traction beating up on Jimmy Carter like that. Well, let me ask you some of your mind. I'm used to asking questions, not answering them. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. We can go both ways. Let me ask you, why do you have an interest in this? Why all eyes on Georgia? What's prompted the interest of Vermont viewers and all that?  And then you throw up a global pandemic on top of that where you need government to function. And hope against hope that the executive branch turns to be functional is, I really did think that the Democrats would do better in the Senate and a lot of really races that weren't terribly close in, you know, Maine, Iowa, Montana. Was Doug Jones gonna hold on next door in Alabama? A lot of excitement about Jamie Harrison. So Biden wins, you know, clearly, but it's going to be... But Republicans won too. They really did, they just lost the presidency. Yeah, yeah, they gained in the House and they are, you know, they've got a hold in the Senate right now. And it would be really difficult to imagine President Biden working with McConnell and a Republican Senate. I mean, that's just, I actually saw an interview with David Perdue saying, you know, Mitch McConnell is a real negotiator like Joe Biden's a real negotiator and their old friends. And, you know, he was presenting a picture of you can vote for me and Lefler and we'll still have a functioning Senate, we'll have a functioning government. But I think that's just, I think he's just making noise. I don't think we'll have a functional government unless the good people at Georgia send Warlock and Ossoff to the Senate. So that's a weighty responsibility. But this race is still Trump versus Biden in a sense. I mean, because they're, I mean, Lefler and they're running right along the president's coattails. Anything he says they do, they laugh, they repeat is dead out of the president on everything. I mean, they're so afraid to stand out and all. And this race has become, not so much about local issues. Some people have criticized Warlock, for example. Thinking about reparations or anything related to the poor, something that any quote unquote black issue. This course, the system dictates, I mean, it's a national race, they're kind of controlled by the process. I mean, they don't make their commercials that are made for them, they appear in them. It's, again, it's become a race based in Georgia, but it's run by the national parties, that's for sure. And the national parties reflect the interests of the Democratic Party nationally and President Trump for Republican. Right, and if Georgia did not have the unique, you've gotta hit 50%, you'd be sending Purdue and Warlock to the Senate. And McConnell would still be Senate Majority Leader, would still be a Republican Senate. So it's fascinating that this 50% threshold creates a situation, and I don't know if it's a hope against hope, where potentially the Senate flips. But wouldn't it, correct me if I'm wrong, but even if it's Warlock goes and goes and what's the name, wouldn't the Vice President Harris have the time to break the vote? Right, right, it would be 50-50 and she'd be the 51.  So it's really... It's consequential, isn't it? Yeah, there's never, I mean, there's never been an election like it. So actually in our last show, we really were left with the unanswered question of a lot of hope, you know, about would Florida vote for Biden? Again, Jamie Harrison, you got Doug Jones next door. A lot of, your neighbors didn't do what Georgia did, so what was different about Georgia this year? What was the sort of X-factor that turned Georgia blue in the presidential this year, yeah. Stacey Abrams and her Fair Fight Organization and the other organization she has, there was an aggressive, passionate, persuasive, get out the vote campaign, a registered campaign. Thousands, I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, but there were more black folks, more people on the polls now that have ever been before, that there have been some, several hundred thousand that registered and are gonna vote in this runoff, new voters. This has been the door to door, even under the pandemic, phone to phone, computer to computer. I get calls every day, have you voted, have you registered, you know, it's a, I think that's been the difference, it's been a, and she promised this fight when she barely lost the camp, and she has never stopped, created two organizations to do that, and they've been passionate and committed to doing just that. It's been a, and it's all you heard about for two or three years, and it's, and people have a sense of, it's our obligation now to vote, or to be registered to vote. There's not the fate of complete at once was. Now, many people, especially poor people and people of color in Georgia, just say it's not gonna make a difference. Well, they saw how close Stacy came, it could have made it. My vote could have made a difference, you know? And I think now there's a, you know, the old South, there's not the old South anymore. People who moved to Atlanta and parts of Georgia, urban Georgia, that have not from here, necessarily, or coming back home to where their family roots are, and they have a different perspective on life and things. So, and in Atlanta, politics has always been the drum beat of this town, always. But now, even people in poor communities are saying, registering, not just for my councilman or state legislator means a difference in how the country is run. That's what I think is ringing true here in this race. For now, for once in a lifetime, perhaps, a Georgia vote in Auburn Avenue could make a difference in how the Congress is. Folks, you know, that's, wow, really. My vote could change how the Congress makes decisions, how the Senate makes decisions, and that's kinda interesting, you know? Right, maybe this is a really good time to lay out the lay of the land in the Metro Atlanta region.  And now, Atlanta's in Fulton County. Yes. The Calb and Cobb, and how, just how's that? Where are your voting blocks in Metro Atlanta? Well, again, Metro Atlanta, Atlanta solidly black and solidly Democrat, all ahead then. That's getting a little closer to that, I believe it. Because there's so much justification. So everything's not, I mean, you have a lot of, have more white council than we ever had before. Oh, okay. Since Maynard Jackson, but the suburbs, Clayton County, DeKalb County, those folks are moving into Atlanta. We're being pushed out to the suburbs. We being black voters. So they're having an impact. For the first time ever, Gwinnett County has a black chief executive.  A neighboring Calb County has a black district attorney. So they're black folks are having influence in the suburbs now while white voters, and I don't know if they're necessarily Republican or not, but white voters are having more of a muscle inside the city of Liberty. So it's spreading, but it's Democrats are having a more influential outside the belt line, as we call it, than they have ever had before. But again, there's still strong Republican support. I mean, you look at these rallies in the capital downtown, these folks are coming from deep South Georgia. They're coming nearby. I mean, and these are strong, right-wing, ultra-conservative Trump supporters who are just less than an hour away, or around the corner. So actually you see gentrification in the last couple of decades is kind of the, the core, the shuffle. Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean, literally speaking, many folks of my ilk, my color can't afford to live in Atlanta anymore. You can't buy a new home is upwards of a million dollars in a black community. People are like, what? Are you kidding? It's a major problem, a major issue, a major, especially these COVID times, folks, I mean, what was the stats yesterday over seven million, eight million more Americans or gone into poverty since the summer? I said a lot of that's in the South. I mean, people, you don't have the jobs we once had. I mean, the jobs are gone. Let's look, people now, people are being evicted. Homelessness is gone up, poverty is gone up. Hunger is out the roof. Right. These are not good times in urban America. And Atlanta's certainly urban America. Yeah. And Congress has done nothing since April. And nor these candidates speaking to that. Again, I mean, if they're arguing back and forth with who's a radical, who's not, people are hurting. We don't hear that pass. We don't hear that, hey, I'm gonna help you kind of spirit. I'm not feeling it anyway. Right. And it seems as though the, I mean, both Purdue and Lefler have these really self-interested stock deals based on inside information from COVID briefings. And that just, that seems to just continue to unravel. And I would, I mean, I would imagine that would turn people off incredibly given the context you just laid out there of people really hurting. I wonder how much it's being chewed though. I mean, I think to hear that, I tell you what these charges back and forth, or maybe cause we hear them so much, it's kind of become deft till the morning. It's just kind of annoying.  But I'll tell you something that's really true, but breaking news here, a consortium of black preachers, some 85 of them, have written an open letter, they're having a news conference tomorrow, an open letter to Kelly Lefler, complaining, charging about her commercials, particularly, can I be part of it please? You mind, Michael? Oh yes, yes, please. You know, I'm fascinated. I'm sorry, I was just, it's an open letter. And it's led by Bishop Daryl Watt Winston, that Mr. Daryl Winston, as led of this consortium of preachers. She said, your most recent attack against Warlock for sermons condemning police brutality, advocating criminal justice reform, and expressing support for measures to reduce gun violence, all concerns of his congregation, are beyond the pale, and cannot go unaddressed by members of the faith community. The reprehensible false equivalences must stop. It continues, we call upon you, Kelly Lefler, to cease your false attacks on Reverend Warlock's social justice theological and faith traditions, which visualizes a just and ardent world where love, fairness and equal justice under the law, against, from marginalized people of all races, is not only accepted as an authentic prophetic message of the gospel of Jesus Christ, we call on you to cease and desist your false characterizations of Reverend Warlock as radical and socialist. And remember, Warlock preaches that everybody's a Baptist church once, and that pulpit was Martin Luther King Jr. So he's been beat up because of his association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright. They're suggesting that Lefler's commercials are morally incorrect. And that's really the point she's just been hammering.  And I saw him in the debate really handle that quite well, trying to explain to her what scripture was. And she just came back with abortion. And that actually really leads me to, so here we are up in Vermont, we really don't have a white evangelical voting base and we don't have a black voting block either.  And I'm just wondering what that dance looks like. I did see that photograph of Kelly Lefler visiting evidence you're Baptist. I mean, they do seem, there does seem to be some kind of I don't know, a back and forth affiliation. It's really a fascination. That's political gamesmanship when they show up in each other's pulpits. That's what political game, that's just a look right. She has not been back since he got her appointment. So let me tell you, where America and particularly the South and particularly Georgia is still segregated divided, is in the church. There's no, I mean, we might talk to each other and we see each other and commiserate with each other but on Sunday, even in your homes now, like this on COVID, it's a black church and a white church. There are black church leaders and white church leaders, be it Christian or Catholic. So there's, or Muslim even. There's a solid division or demarcation line between the churches. Sure, they'll visit, so we'll have multi ethnic, multi religious groups to meet on certain issues.  So you have your major super church leaders and your community church leaders, but they're black or white, not together. Right, so when Lefler goes to Ebenezer Baptist, she is, I mean, she's not hoping to win votes from people in the pulpits there. She is, this is her casting her images. See, I'm not a racist, I went to that church. I mean, that's what I'm trying to sort of understand what she sees as the payoff there, I guess. Well, it was the campaign stop. It was something to make her look good. I mean, she intended, before she was running his ward off, she would have used that in her commercials, believe me, to win some black support. And there are some, there are black Republicans in there. I may never think about that. Right. One of my best friends is a radio guy named Shelly Winter. He loves Donald Trump. I mean, he's a friend, but we don't get a law politically. But I just, so there are black Republicans to be sure. You may have seen a shot of a guy named Representative Vernon Jones being lifted above the crowd, dancing floating over the crowd. Yeah. He's out at the Cap County. He once was a Democrat turned a Trumpster. He's applauded by some, but mostly derided by most, derided by most folks. But Lefler, that was a deliberate campaign stop and something she thought she could use. Well, maybe we win a couple of votes. Now she's, now it's being used against her when she talks about war knocks so bad. Oh, how are you there? So let's be, the church is a powerful voting blocking a powerful force. That's why I read that letter. Black preachers are more than as much as elected officials. Black church leaders, while they might be officially nonpartisan, their congregations vote. Politicians are part of almost every sermon, particularly during this kind of season. They follow their pastor. That's why they're called the shepherds. I mean, they lead a flock and they lead a flock of many of their flock to the voting post. Black folks interest, they thought or felt have always been determined by the vote. Well, because their thoughts are hard to get the right to vote. Right. Democrats have let us down, many say all along. And that needs to be changed. Many people derive the fact that they didn't so happy to have Barack Obama as the first black president. But they don't feel they did enough to urge him to do more for black folks, that they were so satisfied and being elected, not demanding things get done.  Now make me do it. Make me, right? Yeah, yeah, something. I don't know if it was Obama's style or what, but it created an incredible lull. I mean, people kind of said, OK, he's in charge. We can go to sleep now. I doubt we'll be making that mistake again. And that's sort of, Trump is the ultimate wake-up call.  I mean, I've never seen anybody take over a party like that.  I grew up in Jersey and went to Columbia University. So I've seen Trump's kind of, from afar, but to see him dominate the trickery and the gainsmanship, to dominate a party. And it's just amazing. I mean, that's why I don't like Trump as a president. But I've amazed his chicanery in a way he could almost take over something. And it's narcissism. It's just amazing how somebody who likes to do so much for himself can get others to believe he's for them. What has he done for anybody? What has he done for anybody other than his friends? It's quite a disturbing gift. But you do have to acknowledge it as some kind of gift. And also to create fear within the Republican Party to cross, I mean, and that seems to be what Perdue and Leffler have had the trickiest tightrope to walk is making, I guess, they see how rabid his fans are and they just don't want to alienate those people is. Yeah, I don't know. It's a bit of magic going on there. Well, the Republican friends I have, the black Republicans and others, not necessarily Trumpsters.  They're others who just business Republicans, who are not necessarily in favor of his aid domination of the party or be his style.  I mean, many of the people I see in the Trump rallies couldn't afford to eat in his restaurant. I mean, couldn't have, I mean, they've never seen Mar-a-Laga or, you know, it's just amazing how they worked with this guy who they had no idea what his lifestyle was like. Anyway, that's it. He's a political miracle, but I'm glad he's gone. Right, right. But also, as you know, as a storyteller, though, things won't be boring on the mind compared to journalists. That's for sure. There's not gonna be as much to write and talk about it. The TV era is going to. That, I mean, that's probably part of the formula is he gives, he does give the media something every day to chew on. And, you know, I hope people enjoy being bored again.  Isn't that nice? Because it really, you know, this is what it looks like when it becomes a wing of the entertainment industry. That's true. You don't necessarily have someone who can confidently guide us through a global pandemic, say, you know. How's Kemp doing? How is your state government doing with COVID?  Is it what kind of position you're talking about? Yeah, mask, mask of problem in most places. You get still eat out, dying in, but masks are generally, yeah. I mean, I don't see it a glaring misuse of people not wearing masks. I mean, it's not light, but I think people are generally afraid that they're gonna get it. I mean, I think there's a realization now that these masks things work, so that's where I'm reluctantly. They also wanna make sure, I think that the stores and restaurants stay open, you know. Don't wanna, I mean, there's a, that was a dark period when you couldn't go to your favorite bar or restaurants in inside. And I just think it's, so there's a realization that let's do what it takes and aim for business and to keep the jobs, but also for their own self-grandizement to be able to sit and have a meal outside of your damn house. They get small after a while. I know you have a bigger state up there, Vermont, so they'll go to you. No, I think, you know, Atlanta's probably got the population of Vermont five times over, I would think. Are your K through 12 schools all fully open or? No. No, okay. They're not, in fact, surrounding the county schools is closed down again. They're gonna open up the Atlanta schools, I think beginning of January for test run, but they've been closed, you know, like my school's been closed. I teach at Clark Atlanta University. I've been teaching like this remotely, so it's, they've been cautious. I mean, there's a, and particularly, you know, Black folks are a little apprehensive about, they've been apprehensive about the disease and now the vaccination is something that there are, you know, those who, President SCLC was mentioning yesterday, he says it about getting the vaccine as on many Black folks, which is why they think the first person to get it was a Black nurse.  Right. Where the heart gets back to ski gear men and all that kind of stuff. Sure, sure. People are very wary of being experimented on by the government. Right, let's see how this works. Right. Who can we, who can we, who can we give it to? And also on that, well, I guess a bit of a different and hopefully positive note, Atlanta hosts the CDC. And is the CDC affiliated with Emory or is, they are, That's good, I know they're at Emory, Emory's right there in there. I mean, they're on a kind of on a campus, a border to campus of Emory, but I don't know if they're affiliated, that's a question I don't have an answer to right now. Right, do you, do you think Trump's real politicization of the CDC has heard him in Georgia, that it's a very, you know, an institution that Georgians are very proud of and that his, his going after him has been, been negative, negative, negative for him in Georgia, I think he's going after everybody, going after, even Rothensburg, who wasn't held in high esteem, particularly by the black community, you got a feel for a guy who's been beat up like that.  I mean, it looked less than men sometimes. Yeah. And the CDCs, I don't see how this guy could, he took it in the CDC. I mean, to be put upon like that, by somebody with that kind of power, that we talked about, to have your reports, you don't need any health authority to have your reports redacted by some president's henchmen, a health official of that ilk or that power, you feel like a child. Yeah. Like being told to go to the bathroom or, or paddled. It's just, it's humiliating. Right. And to be feeling less than a man. It's, that's a game to belittle and emasculate and you're reminding me, you're reminding me a little bit of Arizona right now where Trump was just, you know, doing the same with McCain after, you know, even after he's passed. And the people of Arizona just said, you know, you've been, you've insulted someone we're very proud of long enough. And I just, I'm just curious if George has got some of that same dynamic going on. I don't, I wonder how much that'll play out in the election though. No, that's a story that hasn't been really played out in the papers or on TV yet, but how that slapping down or repudiation or CDC may play out in the election. That's a good story I go, I won't say. But I know this Trump, I mean, a Kemp this looks like less than himself. He just looks such, he had a news conference yesterday. He was softer tone than he was before. But he said he had to follow the law at least he stood tough and followed the law. I'm inspected for that, but not, you know, count salary that much, you know? Right. You can see the bloodstains though. Yeah. Well, it's really, it is really hard to understand why and how these Republicans that Trump goes after don't stand up for themselves better. I guess that's just, yeah, there's certain just, you know, pride in your own person to stand up for yourself. Well, watching this series called The Boss, but a big city mayor of Chicago, how he can ride over people and derive people. I guess when you have the cloud of a president, you are fearful of what he can do to you, but you got to look at the mirror. You got to, yeah, I don't know. Well, politics is a two-way street. It can be exhilarating, but also can be disasters for your personal pride. Yeah. And the other factor is Trump's out the door. His days are numbered. He doesn't have many cards left and people are still, right, you know, tiptoeing around him. I love how he's, I mean, really, how he's, he's gonna walk out the door multi-millionaire based on what people are giving him. I mean, just based on his story-selling, his fantasy about how he still won the race. He's making millions of donations. Yeah, election fraud fundraising that he can just keep whenever he's not spent. I mean, that's a pretty good scam. He's a hustler. He really is. Just, I would like to, and it may be the last thing we touch on because we've actually covered a ton of ground already, but when we were talking a little bit about, I guess, the interaction of Christianity and politics, it seems the black church has very much got to understand teachings of Jesus in terms of social justice. And the white evangelicals have this kind of like personal salvation. It's a very individual, you know, connection. I am saved. And I don't know if you do, do white evangelicals bring their faith into their politics beyond abortion? I mean, when they say pro-life, is that, are we talking death penalty? Are we talking COVID? Are we talking, you know, how does that work? I never hear that expressed. I really don't. Pro-life is anti-abortion. That's, I mean, I've never heard expressed beyond that. Now I'm not a white evangelical. So I can't tell you, I don't live in that churches, but I don't hear expressed in the media or my colleagues or people I know who are white Christians. So even never heard expressed by anybody I've interviewed who's white, even a KKK member, or, you know, they'll just have a one pro-life is that. That's the filter in, yeah. While in the black church, in the spirit of Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement is spread throughout the South. The black church is kind of the headquarters for social justice talks about racial inequality, poverty. That's always been kind of the room where civil rights and our rights, our human rights are discussed and manifested through the Bible, through philosophies and that kind of thing. And I'm no Christian wizard.  You might not know what the verses mean in the Bible, but you know what they're talking about. Right, right. So you've already voted, congratulations. Yeah, yeah, I got mine in. Actually, do you know if, does Georgia allow for processing of mail-in votes prior to election night? No, they have to be done after the election. Okay. The day of the election, it'll sit there. So that means odds are more Republicans will vote on the day of? That's generally been the case thus far. And then they'll be open in the mail for the next few days. Right, right. That's been the case thus far that Republicans like to show up the day of.  The absentee ballot was not fun. It didn't hit there after. The rich. Yeah, it was passionless. It was like, that's mail is something. Being there, doing it, there was a difference. I'm glad you brought that up. I didn't realize what it was, but I was telling my wife, I gotta get into the mail, I gotta get into the mail. But that's not like, I gotta get to the polls, gotta get to the polls. It's a little different, you know? Right, right. Yeah, I mean, if it's a sacred institution, it's a bit like going to church. So that means if those mail votes just sit, chances are good, the Republicans will be ahead early and it'll just be, we see if as they process the mail votes, if the, what tend to be more blue votes, quote unquote, if those catch up and surpass. So. It'll be a long night, that's for sure. Yeah, yeah. It'll be a long and a really a really a tense, anxious morning. Right. And then the post-mortem, will there be claims of fraud here, claims of fraud there? It'll, the dust may take a while to settle there. So. It's gonna continue, the narrative has been set. So fraud, voter purging, voter suppression, cheating on both sides will be echoed and cried about. Right. Charged. Right. It's the way politics has become now because of Donald Trump. Yeah. And also because many human rights, civilized folks have said that we've been cheating for too long. So. Right. And it'll, I mean, we will get to see if we move with Trump gone, we move back to a situation where it's just kind of assumed that elections function, institutions function, but, or we've got some permanent damage here. That's. I think so. He'll never see Trump gone until he dies.  He's such an, you know, an irritator. Plus he has a following. And what that's, he'll keep rallying them up for its own interests. Yeah. He'll have his base to go against political leaders to let people with his ilk, you know, he's gonna, he does not let go of power. He loves this stuff. Right. Right. I don't think he actually likes governing. So he'll get back to doing his. Right. His side show and let people that actually know what they're doing run the government. Cause we really need some, some functionality right now. And yeah, we'll see how this vaccine rollout works. Hey, Maynard, it's been fantastic. I really appreciate the time. Maynard is a journalist from Atlanta and he's got a depth of knowledge here that's just shared with us. Thank you for inviting me. It's been fun. Yeah. I'm not used to being on the side of it. You enjoy your holidays and here's to 2021 and here's to January 5th. Thanks. Thank you. Have a good week, you might have a thanks. Take care. Bye-bye. Bye. Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia.


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She was the Stanford faculty member teaching the MOOC. This is after the MOOC was done. This was actually the first time I did this. This was before Coursera was founded. And so there were no terms of service to worry about. The videos were just up and online. I had students watch those. I adopted Jennifer Wydams' textbook in database to make for a smoother experience for the students because they were both reading and watching her videos. You can see in the middle that I would also quiz students on the material. So they would watch the videos the week before. They would walk into class. It was a Tuesday, Thursday class. They would take a quiz on the videos and the reading that they were supposed to do. And then we would do some kind of in-class exercise. Here's an example of Jennifer Wydams' screenshot of Jennifer Wydams' video in database. This is a good nuts and bolts lecture. I think I will always want to do the inspirational lectures in person. But for nuts and bolts, I'm a big believer in video. So you can see Jennifer Wydams' there in the bottom right. She's interacting with the screen. She's playing PowerPoint. Students would watch these kinds of videos for the most part of the nuts and bolts variety. And then they would walk into class following a quiz and they would do some other exercise. In this case, this other exercise was to watch a video by Hans Rosling on visualizing data. You should be seeing Hans here. The year is 1948 and he's talking about a visualization of economics and health in 200 countries over 200 years. Just do a sanity check. Are we all there? So they would watch a video like this, a very short video in class, and then they would spend the class reverse engineering a database that would be sufficient to support Hans Rosling's visualization here. And it was a much more interactive experience than just listening to me lecture, giving the same kinds of nuts and bolts that Jennifer Wydam had already done. Now you might imagine if you're a student and you're watching Hans Rosling lecture and then you're engaged with your colleagues and with the professor in small groups working on a problem engaged in active learning that things might improve. And things did improve. When I first started doing this, I was worried quite frankly what other people would think of my using other professors lectures. I was worried about what Vanderbilt would think. I was worried about what my students would think, what my colleagues would think. But it's been a great success and everyone seems to have liked what I did, which is one reason I'm director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning right now. But these are class ratings and you'll notice that I guess the surprise for me was having my students watch other professors lectures. My instructor rating has increased across virtually all classes. In my field of special interest, artificial intelligence, it's held steady. So these are ratings that are taken at the end of the semester and they're on five point scales and on a five point scale. And I've done this now in three classes. I've highlighted in green, the green box, the database progression at the bottom there of that green box. You can see in my pre-moof use of materials, my ratings were three is average, four is very good, five is excellent. They were decent ratings, but they were nothing to write home about. But those ratings have increased. The means have increased as I've adopted MOOC use and as I have adjusted to it. So that now at the top in spring 2013, this semester ago, things are quite good. I think if you look at the bottom observation, just that summary observation in the red box, again, the experience was that the instructor rating was typically going up or at least holding steady. And as importantly, I think the standard deviations are going down. Now there are some confounds to all this. I was really excited about the course. I don't think quite frankly that the fact that the students were watching another professor's lectures, even though they were very good, was primarily responsible for this increase. Although I think it was responsible for some of it because they could go back, they could watch the lectures over and over again. They were very good lectures. But I think in large part this is due to the fact that they're engaged in active learning inside the classroom. The confounds here are probably several. I was a lot more excited to go in and work with a class in smaller groups than I was to lecture from PowerPoint. Quite frankly, lecturing from PowerPoint has become very old. So that's an example of a confound. I was just a lot more enthusiastic about some of these classes than I had been before. But you know, as a good academic, I think if you're going to be using other people's content, you start producing your own. And I started producing my own for my AI courses first, then for my database courses. And I would simply do voiceover PowerPoint. What I noticed after putting up, producing some of this content and putting it up online, because I had been impressed by the very good nuts and bolts lectures of some of my colleagues. If you don't know what a nuts and bolts lecture is, it's describing an algorithm or a mathematical proof in some detail. It's not a kind of inspirational lecture or a big picture lecture. It's sort of getting into the trench and working on something technical. And again, I think these are much better online. And I started doing my own nuts and bolts lecture. And I was happy to find that I could do outstanding nuts and bolts lectures too, so long as I was willing to put the time into them. But what happened after I did this is other students started finding my lectures online and started using it. And this was quite a revelation. When this first started happening, you can see the student comments here. They were coming to my YouTube channel to look at my AI videos. These were students in a UC Berkeley MOOC in artificial intelligence. So MOOC students coming to my YouTube station to remediate their understanding of some of the content that had been described in that MOOC. So this was good. I went back to the discussion board and verified this. But this is sort of an example of updated statistics on my YouTube channel. And at the top left there, you can see, you can get a glimpse of the pattern of performance over the number of views. 37,000 views is small by MOOC numbers, but it's a lot more views than I've ever gotten before. And, you know, if you look elsewhere, you look on the far left or far right rather, see the subscribers 121.  So this is kind of a kick as well. But, you know, I think, and this is going to be something that I come back to is you look at a pattern like this and it impressed upon me to think that much of our educational data mining work so far as MOOCs are concerned is looking at patterns of student behavior within the MOOC itself. But really I think where we will go, I hope where we will go, is understanding that a MOOC is, I liken it to the sun and the solar system. And there's a much larger ad hoc community that grows up around a MOOC. And really what we want to be looking at eventually is that larger community and mining the data from that larger community. So my hypothesis about my YouTube channel performance is that these high points are synced with MOOC use. And to some extent I verified that. Now, something that I've done since this experience of students using my MOOC is at X has just opened away for closed, what they call closed instances of courses. And I'm now using that 188 MOOC, a material from that 188 MOOC from UC Berkeley as part of my current artificial intelligence course. And I don't show you a screenshot here, but I can go in and they see this closed instance with the UC Berkeley lecture material and quiz material and test material. And I can go in and I have gone in and swapped out some of their material and substituted some of mine. I've augmented the material, the lecture material from UC Berkeley with some of my own. I've augmented it with lectures from University of British Columbia. So I've gone in and I've customized my course using UC Berkeley content, Vanderbilt content, University of British Columbia content and probably down the road other content as well. This is something I'll highlight in a second that something that I think is really exciting to me is that this MOOC activity has made me feel for the first time as a teacher that I am a member of a community. I mean as a scholar I've been a member of a research community for a very long time, but I have never felt like I was a member of a community as a teacher. When I walked into the class it was my class and quite frankly as you get older the idea that you are now a member of a teaching community is a lot more exciting than the whole lone wolf idea that you walk into your class and it's your class. That's just an old concept for me now, something that I don't enjoy nearly as much as being a part of a larger scholarly like community of teachers. Just to show you that we can do all the kinds of content, it's not all video. This is a wiki book that I started that's community driven. The intent here is to use, well we're running short on time so I won't explain it, but community driven content in the form of wiki books, open source materials, the AI course uses a text which is freely available online as well that I can adopt and use in my lectures because of the licensing. The next time that I teach a machine learning course online I really expect that I'm going to be customizing it even to a greater extent than I did before. These are the two main themes I want to stress right now is one of community which I've already talked about but also customization. I overheard the last speaker talking about University of Edinburgh's AI planning course but if I ever teach a machine learning course again I think I will customize it by drawing on, if I can, material from different sources. Not just the machine learning course from Stanford on the Coursera platform that I've used before but another machine learning MOOC that may be offered from Washington and some of the learning content that's in the AI planning courses, natural language courses as well as some of my own content. So I'm now getting pretty comfortable with the idea that I can customize courses, I can draw from different sources given my edX experience and students aren't freaked out about this, they like it. They like looking at different professors for different content. That's not something I had thought that they might like but they seem to. So educational data mining, just some questions suggested by this experience. I think we want to look beyond individual MOOCs and mine data from what I call the MOOC solar system. How do MOOCs students interact with YouTube, Wikipedia, other sources? There's going to be a challenge there, how do we get that data? Who's going to give us the data? Is Google going to hand us the data for this kind of thing? How do we link users in Coursera course or edX course or Udacity course with users in some of these other open source environments? So some real challenges there about how do you get that data, how do you link it up and of course how do you mine it. I think, you know, one thing that I've been tempted to do is start creating content intentionally. So not just putting, when I put up material, when I produce material now, I tend to be busy right now but when I do I intend to be pretty strategic about it. And I'm going to put up content that fills gaps in MOOCs. I as an expert in a MOOC know where students are going to have a problem with content in a MOOC and I can fill that content in. I can bridge those points of difficulty in advance with content of my own. And I think we'll see other examples of that. I want to have my graduate students do this. I've had graduate students in my advanced courses produce and upload educational content as a requirement of the graduate course and I think I will do that more and I will have them look to MOOCs to figure out exactly what content will be most useful given the current resources on the web. If we go below to benefits of the on MOOCs, you know, I think there are some real, so flipping the classrooms an obvious one, I think there's real course design issues. The previous speaker mentioned that online learning education has been around for a long time and that's true. But how do you take as an on-campus instructor, I think this is a new question, and incorporate a MOOC in full or in part into an existing on-campus course in a way that's ideal, in some optimal way, in a way that maintains the faculty engagement which is the second bullet there and which is not a no-brainer at all. I imagine faculty members incorporating MOOCs and then sort of becoming very disengaged, unengaged with their courses. These are things we're going to want to better understand. And then with these local learning communities and just the learning material, how do students interact as a local learning community in their own class with the global learning community that's part of the MOOC if in fact the MOOC in the on-campus course is synced? I'm going to ask Fiona for a time check. How am I looking? It's okay. We can spare you a few more minutes. How much longer do you have to go? We will ask you some questions. I can go a very long time. So I will hit a couple more points for you and then I will close. Brilliant. Okay. So this is, you know, even in October 2012 you could complete, essentially a computer science degree online and for free, given the MOOCs that were up from different places. And I think that you will with all these resources, not just MOOCs, resources on YouTube, Khan Academy, elsewhere. You can, well we know students are already customizing curricula if you will. They're looking at different ways of working their way through a sequence of courses. So they might take the intro course from edX in programming. They might take a second course in data structures from Udacity and then move on to some Coursera courses from different universities. And so they create their own sequence and we can certainly do this. But once students start creating their own sequences and start embedding these within larger social networks, we now open the possibility of crowdsourcing and that some of these trajectories through existing online courses and other remedial material are endorsed or not endorsed by the community and then become consensus favorites. And so, you know, I think crowdsourcing curricula is going to be something that's going to emerge in the near future. Vanderbilt and the University of Maryland have just joined forces to offer not the first MOOC sequence, not the first MOOC but the first MOOC sequence. So these are back-to-back MOOCs with a kind of loose intended to have a loose coupling and so that students will get something added by doing the sequence above and beyond simply taking two independent MOOCs. Again, I think you'll see university partnerships that create these curricular constructs that then are vetted by the community. I'm going to go to the very, this is not the very end but this is my last slide, design strategies for MOOCs. We want to start designing MOOCs with local learning communities in mind. Not just so much of the MOOC landscape now is opportunistic. We use MOOCs for local learning communities but how can we design? What are the design criteria when we actually start deliberately designing MOOCs with local learning communities as well as global learning communities in mind? Design MOOCs for remixing. Again, I think customization is going to be a big thing and if you can create your MOOCs so that I can swap in certain things and take out other things, I think it will be a benefit. And finally, design MOOCs with research opportunities in mind. So we can use MOOCs for research questions. Right now, much of the data mining is again opportunistic. Let's look at the data and see what happens. But let's say that midway through a class, I ask half the students the following question. If you finish with distinction, would you be willing to become a community TA for the next offering of this class? I ask that question of half the students. I don't ask it of the other half. And I look to see how such a question as simple as it may seem affects retention rates, affects completion rates, affects the rates at which students obtain distinction. Another example that we might ask is we're interested in looking at MOOCs and other kinds of social media. We want to have students tweet some online lectures and then take quizzes. Half the students tweet, half the students don't in real time, and we look to see how this improves or doesn't comprehension in quizzes and whatnot. And so moving from opportunistic research to deliberative planned hypothesis testing is something that I think certainly a Vanderbilt you'll see more of, but I can't help but to think you'll see it everywhere if it's not happening already. I guess I'll just stop right there, Fiona, because as I said, I could go on a long time. It's lovely. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. It's really weird talking to a screen, so it's really odd that I can't see you, but I'm just going to ask if there are any questions for you. Does anyone have any questions with us? Oh, yes, we do. I'll just get the microphone so you can hear. This is Helen Gersby, I'm from Unia in Norwich, and I was just wondering if we could then transport you back a few years to the beginnings of dabbling, mix, and can you repeat that? Fiona, can you repeat that? We're just going to come up to the front. This is Helen Gersby from UEA, and I just wanted to ask you, if we could transport you back in time a few years to the beginnings of your dabblings in the world of MOOCs, is there anything that you would do differently? Because that's kind of where we're at at the moment, and I think we'd kind of like to learn from your experience, and if there are some tracks out there, we'd quite like not to fall into them. So is there anything that you would change or do differently, or is the fact, I really like the way you just describe it as serendipitous? Is the serendipitous thing just part of what we should embrace? Thank you. Well, I think to some extent that serendipitous is something we should embrace. We should try certainly new things. I am sort of naturally conservative in doing these kinds of things, and I think that that conservatism was an advantage. One thing I was told by the higher level administration here is, you are in your current position as director because you did some interesting things, and you did them by the rules. So, for example, if you have MOOCs in your courses, this is something to think about. If you use MOOC materials in your classes, at least it was the case that some of the terms of service for some of these groups, for Sarah, for example, said that you needed explicit written permission if you were going to use this material as part of a tuition bearing course. Now, the problem is if an instructor requires that students turn in assignments from a MOOC as part of their on-campus course, the instructor is not in violation of those terms of service. The students are in violation of those terms of service for turning it in, and you don't want to, as an instructor, put your students in violation of the terms of service. So, those kinds of legalistic traps are things to think about as you move forward. Student, you might start off slowly. I sort of naturally started off slowly. I did not rely on any of the material I did in the lectures. I quizzed the students myself, had them do the different assignments than the MOOC assignments, so they were watching lectures, but I was still remaining very engaged in the course. Again, I think a possible trap, and it's to some extent something I have felt this year for the first time, but I think it's probably just due to my new job, rather than the way I structured the course per se, is I think we want to be aware of getting too faculty becoming disengaged from their students because they are relying heavily, or they start relying too heavily on the MOOC material. There is also, I think, you want to think about how is the online material going to relate to the on-campus, for the in-class experience. Creating in-class activity takes time, and if you don't take the time to create that in-class activity, I think you will fall down as an instructor. The students won't like it, so there has to be some relationship between them. Thank you. We've got time for one more short question. There's no more questions left. Thank you so much. That was excellent. Thank you very much. Thank you. It was a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you very much.