Yo, what's up? What's up live from Atlanta, Georgia? That's right. It's a new Jack thriller city, man It's going down in a major way. I got a great show for y'all tonight, but first let me shout out my outfit, man That's right. This is bomb city Bomb city man bomb city get at bomb city calm and whatnot man. Yo check this out brilliant open mind become Conscious individuals to you. That's right man.  I got man a very very special guest inside the building man He's a living legend. That's right ghetto Legend you didn't seen him on 85 south you'd have seen him in coming to America, man And you didn't seen him.  Now you that nigga, bro Yeah, bro, I'm practicing bruh, and you deserve more.  I got to say this man. The growth is Is this uh, you know, it's unstoppable, man You constantly elevating taking the game to a whole another level. I want to say the first time I seen you was 2017 No, 16 16 and it was memorable Jack. I know exactly what you're talking about Jack you were hosting that uptown. Yep. Yeah, you had a showcase going on Yes, you always knew how to hustle and get some goddamn money, man.  Uh-huh, and what was that to change? That's a teacher. Yeah, that's that week. That's a week That's yeah, I was supposed to say the name. No, I was hoping that you wouldn't Cuz I saw he follow you he don't follow me and what not I thought I thought we Yeah, I thought you go follow me back. I'm trying to get them on the show is that you forget that I already asked me say no for Jack.  So with that being said, I probably That's good. Yeah. No, don't do that.    You know I'm saying on my comedy special To time.    We got one. Oh, yeah, that's hard That yeah, that's all that true religion album was hard. Yeah We just the I just made a mistake I can tell you the music you saying them a regular song like you gotta really know.      So you saying hey this ain't about them This about you.  I see what you did. They make too much sense. I Remember you were saying this inside of an interview I forget who was interviewing you but they were there they'd ask you What what do you do when you are doing like a big show with like 85 and stuff like that and what lie And do you get nervous and stuff?  Yeah, and that ain't even really being Being cocky or nothing like that. Oh, yeah, I'm well Jack. Honestly, it's not not even being company I know what I'm capable of doing So even if I have a bad night, it's a bad night But I'm not gonna have a bad night because I don't put in those the hours the rest So if it's a bad night, it's for the crowd.   No, I think it could be a lot of stuff could happen.      Yeah, man. I see you talking to the Murphy Lee.  To Murphy Lee How is now you know, you know, if I was just guessing what would you say?    Do you want that? Yeah Do you do you want it? What's the most you what's the most you honking out for the others?   Yes, I did I stopped trying to haul that girl Cuz I'm not coming to see you and bitch you can't come see me For sure My car was taking 93.  What's your driving now? I was driving I start putting 87 in there That bitch ain't drool right Yeah That whole 32 day span when the gas prices was just skyrocket high cuz it still was high But I'm 32 day away. It was too high.  Hmm.  I do Do so you notice Notice what that I got a lot of issues. No, I thought I was talking about like Yeah, I situation. Yeah, that's what I was talking about too.  Yeah, I'm saying I thought it was something else I thought you couldn't describe something else But yeah, so the I so like it was late at night That'll be hard to focus with one eye drive, right? Right around If it was the daytime, it'll be hard to focus With one eye, you're right. So is that your only reason why you don't drive? It's a very good reason No, it's a it's a valid reason. Yeah, some ego like I'm not the ego Not even you don't need to have that when it comes to dry.  Oh What I know that happened Statue of limitations is over Don't tell me about it.  What's it in Atlanta? It was definitely in Atlanta. Oh, I moved to New York You did go to New York. Yeah, I left I Start working for fifty cents. I changed my name So that's what you make the change from honey boy. Yeah, so it's a nigga was at the house The honey boys hit me. Yeah, and now you Jack Thriller and now I'm Jack Thriller. Yeah, honey boy.  That's how you did. Yeah. Yeah. Hashtag not me. Yeah, Jack Thriller has Disassociated himself with honey.  Yeah, honey and buns are no longer together. Okay Yeah, 100%. Yeah, uh Yeah, so I I don't I don't I don't drive. I haven't driven since uh, oh nine And I I'm believing you For a nigga just a quick cold turkey driving cold.  Yeah Like I was a driver holic.  So yeah, I'd never drive again. You had you hit somebody for real Yeah, I did. I hit a nigga for real.   That's what it looked like dumbo though. Yes You ever play the game drive on the playstation? Yeah, I've seen it play, right So you can't even drive games, right?      You would have been past him. Yeah Easy so that one eye that keep you That's holding me back. It's holding me back. Yeah, yeah, yeah for sure.  Yeah, I was like dating this R&B. Was she on the buzz or she she got some Some stature. No, she had some stature. She she I don't even want you to tell me man. You that nigga Jack Yeah, she she was popping when she walked in and whatnot.   Yeah, I was that nigga that night That was one of the dope things about that. She's still on Yeah, she's still on She's still on but now she married Yeah, now she married man, you're gonna have me googling all kind of shit, man Just just as on chris who But that's the thing about me.  I'm chilling So but I'm not gonna fact check you neither.  She's not a husband looking for you um Exactly, right?  Oh, yeah Yeah, he like nigga this is my woman now.   Yeah them niggas will be in good shape.  I'm really happy for that. I ain't trying to put death on them niggas, but yeah I don't yeah, I don't I don't want to kill nobody.   Yeah, but it come from me trying So it's like I don't just like I don't want people to be like You know how healthy niggas view people Like look at this nigga. If you don't take care of your body, you don't love your life. Nick motherfucker. I tried. Yeah, you see I don't I don't want to be just I don't try and not accept it.  You can't even walk And look at a bad built nigga like me.  I can eat ice cream with my kids Grandkids and walk around the yard Them in shape motherfuckers. They don't work out so much.   So I guess you couldn't always look like this.   Yeah for about six months What year 17 2000 I got married after I met you And and divorced right after I met you so I Jack so ten minutes, bro. So like I I met you in 2016. All right. Yep. You hosting the showcase.  Yeah You then leave and you get married.  Yeah After you just was tone kissing r&b singer. Yeah So what made you like i'm so lit.     No, don't do that on that You don't call yourself fine.  Yeah, yeah one one one hundred percent. So how did she tell you she was getting married? I I saw it on um shade room Oh, she popping like that like that.   This is jack thriller That's right, man And uh, if you're feeling down in the dumps and you don't have nobody that's up to You're just sad and you just don't know what to do Hey, I got the thing for you, man. It's therapy It's therapy and it's nothing wrong with getting therapy man. It's called better help Better help.com. We have counselors on line 24 seven that are here to talk to you And I guarantee if somebody is not feeling your needs. We got somebody Definitely for you man. Just fill out a brief questionnaire to match with a therapist No waiting rooms. No traffic. No endless searching for the right therapist as the world's largest therapy service Better help has matched three million people with professionally licensed therapists Available 100 online So if you go ahead and get down with us right now, you can take 10 percent off your first monthly subscription That's right better help Dot com Slash thriller and tell them jack thriller sent you Save 10 percent off your first month of better help dot com slash thriller That's better help H-e-l-p Dot com Dash thriller Yeah, man You trying to get a pregnant Yeah, I did. I don't think that I I got the ability to do shit like that Yeah, that is a lot to ask for That is a lot to ask for. Yeah. I don't know.  You damn didn't look at it. Oh, I think I'm pregnant. No, you can't be bad.  Oh, yeah, she can't get pregnant I don't even put the dig in tell them about the none of this fine.  You are the father. Yeah That's why people be wanting like hot.  That's the one we get pregnant Yeah, because that night you just refused to check off He reviewed you just had to be with a real person I wouldn't technically call him a real person They were just convenient his man. Yeah a convenient person. Damn.  No, man, I ain't do nothing. All I did was I was just you heard about that. Yeah, I was in disbelief.  Yeah, and you know, and you know what's funny about that?   She knew it wasn't gonna work. She knew I had married her Yeah, oh you did marry her. Yeah, I did By accident that good person I don't know about marrying.  Yes That's how my life went.       She don't even know you got an ornament Oh, she know exactly what happened. Okay.  Oh, yeah It's the part I'm leaving out because right now they look like the score about even they got taught you was winning I pushed her away because It was a lot of things she didn't divulge to me until we was married Not to get out of y'all business. I don't mind. Yeah, go ahead proceed. Yeah She she uh, she was like, uh, so yeah, I used to talk to Marlon Wayne's Tony Rob Um, what's the other nigga name? Kevin McCall John sadly Oh and 50 cent 50 cent.   Yes Yeah, that's tough.    It's all them in the group chat With your picture and they're laughing at you with your laughing emojis with your emoji kids I'm job. They're breaking down the facts What made her tell the truth? Did you ask?  She said it's something I got to tell you And what you saying, but what was you doing?  It's a lot to take We was in the bed.  She might wasn't here.  I stopped watching the wands brothers I do all niggas. I got all these in mind you.  Hey, so they go, man that nigga jack.    I think your wife was not with you for the right reasons and shit And that's all I was trying to do to talk to somebody and I wasn't over yet And it took me a long time to get over this. I didn't know I wasn't over it That's a tough way to go a bit on drink champ. Yeah, well and because we I think we was drinking. Yeah, that's the name of the show and that's what they usually do. Yeah You probably didn't see it coming. I didn't see it coming. It was an hour and hour and a half into it And you just sitting there venting. You think you think Kanye went crazy on him Yeah, I don't even want to go see that episode. I don't want to see my boy going out like yeah Yeah, yeah, man. I was out of control, but you don't bounce back now. All right Oh, yeah, yeah 100% Hey, what's up, man? It's your boy jack thriller. Hey It's all about here because this is where love starts But I'll maybe that's more my heart. Keep going. Okay, cool. Oh, yeah, this is love according to music man And we're back with music soul child. So music. Let's get right to it. Yeah um How do you know when you are placeholder Inside a situation that's a good question. That's a good question.  That's that valuable to them, you know, like you're not going to want Something that's you know, that you that you hold in high regard to just be in the wind You know, you want to secure you want to make sure that it's in a place where you know You have exclusivity to it, you know, not to talk about people like objects But the point that I'm trying to make is you're not going to be in a relationship That's constantly open and in limbo and you know, if anything anything can infiltrate it Like like somebody could come along and make the person that you in the relationship with change their mind You know and now it's no longer up to you, you know, so I think you're a placeholder when You know something like the timeline is saying so, you know, it's long stretches of time But nothing is secure That gives off the vibe like That person might be waiting on something better to come along or they don't or they don't feel That secure in the relationship now, there are other factors that you know Are, you know the exception that That I'm then apparently I'm not talking about that but if there is no real obstacles if there's no Real interference if there is no real reason why You know, you guys haven't moved to the next level or the ultimate Destination which is for y'all to be a secure couple and work on building a family or building an empire Whatever you guys want to do and y'all just waiting in the wings waiting on the other shoe to drop I think that's a good indicator that you're you're a placeholder now There are benefits, you know to being a placeholder, you know, that could just be a learning curve for you That could just be experiences or yeah, or you know You might actually low key be trying to get out of there and now they could be somebody else's problem You know, I don't know but um in my opinion, I think that The timeline will will will tell it and you know, it's important for you to be honest not only about the timeline But also about yourself and the person that you're with and be willing to make some potentially pretty uncomfortable decisions Um to not be a placeholder or you might not mind being a placeholder because they might be a placeholder for you I love it. I love it This is love according to music soul child. I'll see you next time.   That's what they say, man That's all marketing tactics. I got a degree in advertising. Oh get out of here. Yeah, wouldn't you go to school now? You got to be specific when you say why I wouldn't the school is late What did you get your marketing degree now? I got it.  I'm smarter than a lot of people. You're smarter than a lot of people, nigga Oh Now I always what is now short for my real name Good stuff, man How did you get started in comedy?      You went to school four years. You can't get to me.     One of my teachers in eighth grade Told my mom I had gotten in trouble.  I don't need none of y'all class.  I don't need that.   Hmm. I stand apartment.  So if I would have knew back then I would have started in third grade I would have started in third grade not going to certain subjects So he's like pull out your funics books. I just get up and walk out It makes sense to me it makes sense Well, that's what life we don't understand until we don't went through shit in life. That's why we went through it So, yeah I felt with it. I definitely felt with it. Was you ever molested? I wanted to be but no man My babysitter was fine as a motherfucker.  You be hearing stories like people did I don't even think it ain't be lying I don't know. Why are you? Why are you mad? I was 12 years old.  She's pregnant. Yes, she can.  Yeah, that's it. There you go. Yeah Hey, man, let's make a tile of beer and play like that.  Let me explain Oh R&B singers would you cast in there? You gotta you gotta have two two old lad r&b singers in there two old r&b singers two old explain old though Like give me a age right well, let's go Let's get it.  Yeah, he's still alive. I just seen him on instagram this morning. I'm putting free Yep, you follow a lot of old niggas jack. Yeah, dude. I'm an old nigga. I'm 40 Really? Yeah I'm putting him in there. Hey, I look good for 40. I'm putting him in there Uh Damn I don't know niggas ages though. Uh jack this I mean, did you know I was 40? Nah, I actually thought you were older than that. I gave you probably like 48 49.      So they took me to the car.  You're gonna let this nigga with two eyes, man.   Well, you know, we just got to get your I fix I know somebody that can fix the shit, but I didn't want to ask the nigga for nothing So, you know, I'm saying I If a nigga suggests to ask All he can say is yes or no, he he said he was gonna get my affigs I would have I would have took him up on his office. Yeah, I should have did it. Yo yo jeez. Don't forget what she said He was gonna fix my Yeah, yeah cash out went out then. I like cash out. No, it was nowhere in the out cash ever right now Yeah, yeah, it was nowhere in the out But and he he seemed very sincere about it too.  Mm-hmm.   So now he got to make you at the best Like appearance looking him as you could be So he would have had to invest Hey, but let me ask you this.   Jesus Then I just seen you say that Okay, so you you feel like I dress uh older. No How you feel like I dress?  I feel like we should Yeah, I'm like you're not gonna see me. I don't do the skinny jean thing And that's not my new not my era never was my era.  Oh, yeah And that's why I was hating the way we built bro. Yeah, that's not for us. It's not for everything ain't for everybody It ain't for it. If we wear skinny jeans and it looked like we have a shape. No, don't worry. Yeah I was sweatpants. I was sweatpants like A female basketball player Like you won't see them in jeans. You won't see them in nothing but sweats And that's how I dress. I dress casual like a w NBA point guard Hey, I was just about to say because a lot of people think I'm a stud when I wear tight clothes And they as they should Yes, I don't I don't I try my best to you know Dress as masculine as I can got to both have a lot of feminine features in my face like what? You just my cheekbones and whatnot Because I'm very very pretty naked Bruh Yes, sir So yo, it's white for marlin finishing Tony Robbins Tony rock. Oh, Tony rock. Yeah Hey, let's see if I can know what if she would afford a comedian who not funny I'm pretty sure she probably has But she didn't get you to what the name she named you can't even hate on them niggas.   Oh And when we got our money, right? We both left each other.  Yeah, man What's her problem?  Nothing It was just convenient I was just convenient. How did you know she wasn't good enough for you?         Stop fucking. I got back with my goddamn eggs from high school I got her pregnant immediately because she was on the right track Got her pregnant immediately. We get us a spot. What's your kid who my uh, the high school sweetheart. No She had a nice shape. She had that they immediately get pregnant. She was beautiful. She had a beautiful shape Got you, but now it was at the point was like man.   Yeah Oh, they had you doing chores over there.     Whoa, man.    Okay Oh my god, one time I had company. We're in that chiller. Yeah, we're not chilling in my room Oh, we vibe. That's your space. Yeah, this my space. This my this my studio apartment. Yeah My dad hit the door. Hey, open the goddamn door and kept walking down the hall.   Yeah. Yeah, either way. I'm two wrongs.    Yeah one And did she have a kid? No. Oh, oh, she was kid free at the time. Yeah a lot of us were we were fresh out of high school Got you. Yeah Is she watching this, you know I don't know if she doing better for herself or not, but I probably I doubt it I had a similar story like that. I moved out when I was like you was 19 Yeah, I was like 17 and whatnot.  I was biting the pillow and she walked in and I was like I was screaming.  I'm tired of this. No I am so tired You are out of bounds.      That's already wrong To an extent in my mark because it's no but what made it wronger That you were biting a pillow.  Why else are you biting the pillow? I was feeling good I was feeling good man about myself.   She didn't blew my hat.  I see I see what you said That makes sense. Your dad. I know your dad would have been embarrassed You got a relationship with your dad? No no Now we uh, but we cool We cool because I'm one of them niggas don't need a daddy you feel me Yeah, it's barely you biting pillows. That'll make me stop want to be cool with my son. Hey, man, that niggas gonna raise itself Look, I just I just never been like one of people that just like Man, my daddy wasn't there for me. Why don't you pay attention to me?    You gotta ask your mama That's a good question. Have you ever made dad bite a pillow?      Huh. Oh, yeah, she did.   I I don't know who make them But I think it's a it's a code of ethics and morals And I could be wrong.   Yeah, I don't know if it's that one hand or what Uh I don't care what a nigga do. I'm talking about as for me. Yeah, I don't want to be biting the pillow I don't want to be gasping for Express yourself express yourself. You don't need the pillow Yeah Once you once you bit that pillow, did you feel like I'm tripping? No Don't I think that's why your mom was more upset that you was biting the pillow.    You ain't selling dope.   I see what you did. I see exactly what you did right there I see exactly what you did Hey shift leader man. Talk to me about this character. How does this even come up, man? Did you start off being a shift leader at a um In a fast food situation? Did you work? I never worked a fast food job in your life Now that was my thing And not and not uh, you know, like but I just like you ain't shitting on nobody But I I I never do that. How do you know the jargon and all this then? um Like what you mean Like do you do the backstories and the situation?  I'm saying so that's how I would use the term of it But uh, it was at a time when uh ratchet people meet was doing Ratchet people me. Yeah, so they they had it right are they still around? Uh, they still have a page. Yeah, okay So, uh, who run that? Uh archive Archive you still in contact with them Uh, man, mostly yeah, I got get in contact with what you need in contact. That's what's up, man Yeah, I like to talk to those folks. Okay That's what's up. Okay. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt you good. Uh, so It was about doing a character So I had already did a skit about icdc.  You end up being a shift leader at me Is that open campus? You never knew icdc. Uh Romeo school Little Romeo. Yeah Little Romeo.  Yeah I didn't know what it was though. Yeah, so Ratchet people meet they was doing like people come down and do they had reached out to so say he was doing, uh Pick one. Okay. Oh instagram. Okay. He do the Atlanta music So luckily he had needed a ride to go down there, but they wanted him So I was like, uh, I'll take you down there, but I already had my idea I was going to do the shift leader character. I wrote it on the shirt and boom.      You know what I'm saying? You might get somebody through their day with that So that's when I was like, bro, I'm gonna if I can make it funny, which I should I just got to start thinking I'm feeling like I done did the most of shift leader could do Like what else can this nigga do at the shift leader level?  I enjoy your comedy, bro. You're an amazing talent now I appreciate it. That means a lot come from you don't been around the best of the best. Yeah, man.  Yeah Yeah, and man and to that to that. I just want to talk to You know the people of the uh the 85 community Man, it ain't no motherfucking beef between me and nav green. No the beef Yeah, I and I had to explain that like it never was a beef between me and jack thriller They they can't see through carlos Carlos whole design was to put me and you against each other Bro see and that's why with with you you so you so green you didn't see it either I was the only smart one to know So now if carlos Sit here and watch this episode.    Let me tell you something Ain't nobody better than them. Hey that nigga. He got damn. We go.   I can't hear that Do you hear me? I hey dawg. I've been crisp been going christmas shopping every day for the past Two months now trying to find a perfect gift You know i'm saying to show my love and gratitude You know i'm saying for even being inside this position and whatnot man There you go doing really great friend.      There you go. That's right. There you go. That's right Um brilliant open minds uh become conscious individuals To you he gonna love that because it's there for something. That's right And that's bomb city gear dot com I'ma get him. I'ma get him my outfit. You don't mind if I do that, right? We'll still be cool. Yeah, get him that same color. He's gonna love that He's gonna love that I'm a little colorblind right now. What color is it? I would say salmon Man city told me this was great Yeah, it's the way you look at it.  All right, um Yo nav, man, you know, this is the first many times, you know, I'm saying you're gonna be at, um, New Jack Dweller city, man I don't know because I've been I've been trying to get on the show.  You you flaked on me the first day How You flaked on me.   I never knew about the first day. Got you. That's what happened.  I got shows coming up. I really don't give out dates because we know how Uh This stuff get in and in place. We never know when this come out.  They wanted me to come up here and kick it But if y'all do man, I do I do stand up, man I do stand up. Hey, you you got a sports show coming out on 85 some. Yeah, man And uh, hopefully that's still coming out. Uh, it's definitely gonna come out. Yeah, man, but Check it out. Say it. So yeah, my first my first guess gonna be my favorite comedian. Oh man. Come on, bro Gotta have my boy. Come on, bro. Gotta have my boy Carlos Miller on now the first episode Yeah Second episode won't be one one of the dopest niggas under the 85 umbrella, okay Gotta have that boy DC on that second episode Now I would be wrong if I ain't had one of the best People that I know that know how to interview people. Okay, know how to talk to people. Okay, drink wine. Yeah, okay Elegant come come on now. Gotta have legs pee gotta have legs pee to facilitate and you know know how to Try to work out one two You know, I'm saying yeah, but I cannot forget somebody that done been around the game so long right from music Having their own shows already Gotta have that boy chico on there. That would be a good addition to have chico on there. His knowledge and music That's right because chico he know what he's talking about. Yeah in regard You're welcome to do it if you want I appreciate you inviting me And I love to come to you know, whatever I can do to help appreciate you jack. No problem man. So Man, I enjoyed myself here I So man, hey, thanks for coming to new jack through the city man. I um, I hope everybody had a good time I'll see you next time. Hey dj. Where's gonna take us out, baby


Hello and welcome to the Fort Report. I'm Chris Connolly. And I'm Betsy Price. Oh, where's Alicia? I don't know. They gave me a good-looking guy instead. I see. Well, they probably want me to ask you some official questions. Do we have some questions? I didn't know this was part of the job. You never know, do you, Councilman? Well, let's see what we've got here. We've got, why did you want to be mayor? What's on your agenda? Yada, yada, yada.   Let's ask some questions that will help the citizens get to know Betsy Price, the person. Okay. What's your favorite book? It's Kill a Mockingbird. That's my favorite book. Love to Kill a Mockingbird. How about a movie that you can watch over and over again? South Pacific. Do I got John Wayne in it? No. No, John Wayne. It's musical. Oh, okay. Maybe Rio Bravo? I like Rio Bravo. My mom like Ricky Nelson a lot. Yeah, I like Ricky Nelson. So when you're driving around Fort Worth, what do you listen to in the car? Country Western. Any particular artist? George Strait. All right. I know one of your favorite hobbies is cycling. Absolutely. How do you just put that off till the fall? No, no, no. You have to keep riding. You build your heat tolerance up, ride early, ride late, drink lots of water. All right. Well, the most important question I have for you today is, you know, you get to put in certain situations, see how you'll deal with things like that. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with a former Fort Worth mayor, who would it be and why? Cagranger or Bob Bowling. They're very tolerant people. They put up with all my bubbles. But can they shimmy up a coconut tree? Sure. If that can, I can. All right. Well, you know, that's all I got. So now I think we finally know the things about Betsy Price that really matter. Thank you for being on the Fort Report today. Thank you. Appreciate it. See you next time. I mean, it's really worked out for me that you're here today. I've let my car registration lapse and, you know, I just want to make sure I get this taken care of. I kind of don't do that anymore, but thank you. Okay. Thanks.


How's it going everybody? Dato Doi here and in today's video I wanted to go over the Dragon Ball Fighters World Tour which was announced a little bit ago and then just recently we got a lot more information on it as well as its own Twitch channel which I'm going to be linking in the description below. I believe this is where all future big tournament Dragon Ball Fighter stuff will be streamed so it's definitely worth going over there and giving a follow like I have done here. CEO is all gonna be here. We'll talk about that a little more later but if you're gonna be watching CEO you might as well be giving this a follow right now. Now I do have this YouTube video pulled up. This is just the World Tour announcement. It goes over a little bit of what they plan to do. Their Dragon Ball system in which they have everything. They have the seven Dragon Balls and it does announce the individual places where you'll get them so you have one in the USA, one in UK, France, Australia, Mexico, Singapore and Japan. Honestly I think that's a really good mix of locations. Obviously you're covering a lot of ground there and the placements of the Dragon Ball is something you definitely have to take into consideration here because the winner of these Dragon Balls does dictate I should say what the format of the Grand Finals for the World Tour is going to be and again that's something we'll talk about when we get to the site with more information. Starting in June it does start at CEO as you can see here. Tournament begins June 29th which is a couple days away at this point at CEO. A big tournament coming down here and it's going to be super hype but yep that's it for that YouTube channel page. Now we can go on to where most of the information lies on the World Tour site. Again link will be in the description if you want to read along or if you just want to close the video and read it by yourself. I'm going to be breaking down this and the Tekken World Tour which I thought it was going to take after more but it appears they're going in a different way. So let's talk about those Dragon Balls because again they are super important. So here's the tour structure. The tour is divided into several type of events so these are the kind of things you can look for as to what is going to make up the bulk of the tour. So we have the saga events and these are where you compete against the strongest player from the world. This is just the different places for a chance at winning a spot as a finals as well as coveted Dragon Ball.  That pretty much makes sense if you get a Dragon Ball you're going to the finals. And then we have here repeat saga event winners will obtain a Dragon Ball and the next eligible non qualified player will receive a ticket to the finals last chance qualifier. Let's go over what that means. Basically let's say Sonic Fox hook gang god both make it to the finals in the USA. Hook gang god wins Sonic Fox goes over to Mexico. Hook gang god goes over to Mexico as well. If hook gang god wins again he'll get both Dragon Balls but now Sonic Fox will also qualify to go to the next event as well. So that's obviously a good system. It would kind of suck if losing to somebody already in the tournament meant that you don't get to go either but that's not going to happen here with this system in play. Now the finals event this is where the Dragon Balls really come to shine. This is going to be a two day event that features Dragon Ball Flyers player from the tournament season battling for possession of the seven Dragon Balls. So obviously it's going to be like they hand it over to each other and as you climb up the less people they're going to be meaning the more Dragon Balls you're going to have on your possession. So Grand Finals is going to be like one has four and the other has three for example and then whoever wins gets all seven. But that could change because what if theoretically some crazy madman travels across the entire world and is the unchallengeable best Dragon Ball Fighters and has earned all seven. In that case the format actually changes because it says here however should a single player win all seven saga events and obtain all seven Dragon Balls the format of the finals will fundamentally change. The player possessing all seven Dragon Balls will obtain a buy to Grand Finals guaranteeing at minimum second place. So if you get all seven Dragon Balls you're at least getting second place which means you're getting you're getting some money either way. But that's not even all because if that was it I would say that's kind of not even that great for getting all seven but in this case the Grand Finals becomes it's not even just a normal match. If you get all seven the guy that makes it to you has to beat you in a first to 10 set for the title of Grand Champion. Ten games is a lot okay that is a long time they are going to be competing with the best if you earn all seven you're the best at this game I think unquestionably. So if someone can beat you in a first to 10 then they're the best that's pretty much how it works. There is no there is no chance in ten set there is no chance in ten first to tens. Now as far as the schedule for this tournament goes obviously Saga one is going to be at CEO on the 28th through the first and that's only a 5000 prize pool bonus so it's not all positive here. There's some stuff to cover that the prize pool I think for this is just a little too low and that goes for pretty much all of these. I don't know I just wish Dragon Ball FighterZ has been very successful and if you want that esports pull I think you really have to reward these players for coming out and actually you know playing their hardest. So the prize money could definitely be something for a point of contention definitely something I think they should look into raising. I get it's the first time this event is being held but I think Dragon Ball FighterZ has more than proven its success already so definitely look I would definitely say looking at bumping these numbers up. Saga two is versus fighting Birmingham UK 720 through the 22nd that's going to be happening actually relatively soon after CEO. Saga three ultimate fighting arena 831st in France that's going to be really cool nice to see an event happening in France like this. All of these are pretty much $500 pot bonus so I don't feel like covering that for each of them. Thunderstruck 1006 that's actually a pretty long time in between and then 1013 wow SEA major this is going to be one to watch. I definitely think if you're looking for one of the best sagas this is probably going to be one of them or at least most interesting. A tournament taking place in Asia is going to have a lot of competition that we just haven't seen yet and this is one of the big draws of a tournament like this. I think Dragon Ball FighterZ has done a great job of bringing together a lot of communities and I'd like to see more people from just all over the world taking part of this. Then of course we have our finals back in the USA for this one and this one's actually $25,000 uh I don't know I still want to see that bumped up it's not enough because that's going to be this is going to be divvied out to everybody and if you think about it if you come in fourth place that's really almost not even enough to pay for traveling fees and at that point you're the fourth best in the world and then you have saga six and saga seven I actually don't know I don't know what these are for actually uh maybe these are the online events that they were talking about there will be online events if you want to take if you want to if you want to do those from home other than that there's really not too much left on the site to cover uh just some media which great photo gallery that's awesome dude uh we have the rules and the rules aren't too big it's just uh it's pretty much your basic stuff but yeah I'm actually surprised they went with more of an MVCI thing uh definitely not as bad as MVCI we'll cover that in the future video the infinity I don't remember what it's called battle for the stones for MVCI was just an awful way to run a tournament uh and it doesn't look like dragon ball fighters is going that far in that direction we just have the dragon balls and it's not confirmed that any one of them gives you an advantage over your opponent uh they're mostly just used as a marketing tool I think and uh yeah that's just a cool marketing promotion stuff MVCI really affected the gameplay of it and that's what I was afraid to see with something like dragon ball fighters but doesn't look like that's happening overall I'm very excited for this pro tour uh pro tours come with a lot of benefits for the game as well as uh you know just for even if you're not a competitor uh it's great it's great to watch and also it does a lot of good for the game it promotes it makes more dlc happen yada yada it does a lot of good stuff let me know down in the comments if you're hyped for the world tour or if you're even going to be competing in the world tour if you're gonna be competing let me know down below uh because that's super that's super awesome and I want to wish you good luck um other than that just let me know your thoughts on the world tour uh what you think about the rules and the format and stuff and uh while you're down there if you like this video and channel make sure to hit the like button and subscribe I'm dr doya and I'll see you in the next video


What are advanced materials? And are they safe? To start with, we need to go back to the very beginning. Humans are great at taking lumps of stuff and making them useful. Our ancestors, for instance, were pretty good at using materials like stone and clay and bronze and iron to make tools and other useful objects. This ability to design and engineer products from the basic materials around us is what has enabled human civilization to become what it is today. As a species, we have been incredibly successful in changing our lives by adding value to the materials we mine or grow or otherwise collect. But until recently, how we made use of these materials was limited by what we could see with our eyes and what we could touch with our hands. Then we discovered atoms and everything changed. Over the period of a few decades at the beginning of the 20th century, scientists and engineers went from being limited by what they could see and touch to being able to play with the basic building blocks of all materials. It was a pivotal point in human development and one that we are only just beginning to realize the full significance of. But what does this mean for advanced materials? Next, we'll look at how the atomic revolution opened the door to a new age in materials engineering and how this paved the way to the modern era of advanced designer materials. At this point, we've looked at how our ability to design and engineer the materials around us has got us to where we are today. But we also saw that for millennia, people were limited in how they made use of these materials by what they could see with our eyes and what they could touch with their hands. All of this changed when we discovered atoms and how to play with them. At the beginning of the 20th century, scientists confirmed that everything around us is made of atoms, something we take for granted now but it wasn't so obvious 100 years ago. Researchers quickly developed instruments that allowed them to see how these atoms come together to create materials. These instruments enabled them to start working out how what a material does depends not only on which atoms is made of but how they are arranged together. Then they discovered how to create new materials by putting atoms together in different ways and the world changed. Of course, this didn't all happen overnight. The first breakthroughs came about in the early 1900s when techniques such as X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy allowed scientists to see for the first time how atoms form materials and to understand that how materials behave at the macroscopic scale depends on how the atoms were arranged at a microscopic level. And it wasn't just stuff like metals and other inorganic materials that they were exploring. Scientists used the same techniques to learn how organic materials were constructed and how they functioned all the way down to the DNA and the proteins that are at the core of all living things. Once scientists and engineers had discovered the atomic rules of material construction they set about designing new materials. Using newly developed synthesis and construction techniques they started to make designer chemicals and they quickly moved on to more complex materials materials that were stronger and lighter that conducted electricity and heat better that transmitted or blocked light and other forms of radiation more effectively and did other things that had previously been out of reach. And they achieved this by manipulating the structure of these materials at an incredibly fine scale. But researchers were still limited by the finesse with which they could engineer materials at the finest level. They knew that if only they could play around with the atoms themselves they could do incredible things. 50 years ago they didn't have the tools and the skill to do this. Now they do. And this is what's opened the door to a new era of advanced materials. Materials that are intentionally designed and engineered from the atomic level up and designed to do things that were the stuff of science fiction until just a few years ago. Next we'll begin to look at how these advanced materials are beginning to change our world. At this point we've looked at how our ability to design and engineer materials from atoms up has launched a new era of advanced materials. Next we take a whistle stop tour of how these designer materials are beginning to transform the things we make and how we use them. Over the past 100 years we've discovered how the arrangement of atoms and materials influences how those materials behave. And we've started to use this understanding to design and create new materials that have never before existed. This heady combination of new knowledge and new tools and techniques for manipulating matter is enabling scientists and engineers to create products that were unimaginable just a few years ago. We've effectively opened nature's toolbox and we're starting to play rather seriously with what we've found. Admittedly we're still learning how to use these tools and our knowledge is rather patchy in some areas. But already researchers are using them to create an incredible array of materials that push the bounds of the possible. Materials for instance that are lighter, stronger and tougher than ever before. Materials that generate and bend and absorb light in unusual ways. Materials that convert sunlight and heat and movement to electricity and other forms of energy. Materials that help get drugs to where they need to be in the body and prevent disease and help create high performance replacement body parts and keep food fresh and make food healthier. Materials that help chemical reactions go faster and that mimic and improve on biology and that allow cells and viruses and organisms to work differently. Materials that enable faster, more powerful computers and computers that are just plain different like quantum computers for instance. And we've only just started. As our understanding increases we'll see more and more sophisticated materials being developed like materials that adapt to their surroundings and change their behavior accordingly. And hybrid materials that combine different advanced materials into super advanced materials. Even materials that blur the boundaries between living systems and everything else. Now that we have the keys to the building blocks of everything we are really only limited by the laws of physics and our imaginations. Without a doubt we live in exciting times. But are these designer materials safe? Or are we playing a dangerous game here with little thought at the consequences? It's a smart question. Advanced materials are designed to behave differently from more conventional materials and it's reasonable to assume that this different behavior could lead to different risk. The safety question has led to millions of dollars worth of research into the safety of one particular group of advanced materials over the past decade engineered nanomaterials. And for good reason. Our bodies have evolved over millennia to handle the natural materials we have evolved alongside. And even then they're not perfect. So how are they expected to cope with something that has never before existed in the history of humanity? Like for instance precisely engineered nanoparticles of gold or silver or other substances. And what happens when something that has been designed to say speed up chemical reactions or be part of a super strong material or to convert one form of energy into another gets into our body? Do these unique and unusual properties also lead to unique and unusual risks? If advanced materials are going to be as useful as we think they could be these are really important questions. The last thing we need is a wonder material that ends up causing disease or harming the environment. It's not good for the people it affects and it's certainly not good for business. But how do we know what makes an advanced material potentially dangerous and how future risks can be avoided? To answer that we need to start with what we know about what makes any material risky and build up from there. Exploring the potential ways new materials can cause harm is important. If you want to make money from advanced materials and the products they're used in maiming or killing your clientele in the process is not a great business strategy. And surprising as it may seem many folks in business would rather be improving people's lives than making them worse. But if you've got a brand new never-before-used material how do you know what it might do that you probably don't want it to? One approach is to assume the worst. Maybe that novel never-before-seen nanoparticle for instance could burrow into your brain replicate itself and bring about the next zombie apocalypse. Maybe it could. But probably it won't. Fortunately, a firm grasp of scientific reality past experience and some risk analysis know how go a long way to helping predict the likely ways a new material might be harmful and how that harm can be avoided. The first thing to ask if you're interested in health risk is can this new wonder material get into your body?  If there's a way in we need to consider the harm that could be caused by the material as a result but if there isn't a way in there's little chance of harm occurring. For example, a single carbon nanotube could be inhaled or ingested and get into your body that way but wrap it up in an iPhone and unless you have some rather odd eating habits it'll probably stay in the phone and not get into you. But what if an advanced material does get into your body? Over millennia we've lived in some pretty cruddy environments as humans and as a result our bodies have evolved to handle stuff that could be harmful. It's a neat survival trick that has helped us stick around for as long as we have. For many advanced materials our bodies will process and eliminate them just as effectively as other materials just because we think they're fancy doesn't mean our bodies do. But there are some warning signs we've learned to look out for in materials that our bodies don't handle so well. Particles that get into us and don't dissolve or degrade easily aren't great news for instance. Neither are particles that are long and thin like fibres or crystalline or small enough to slip into places they shouldn't or materials that release known toxic chemicals. These are all characteristics that scream watch out if they're present in a brand new never before tested advanced material. In other words out of the vast array of advanced materials we could be using some may need to be handled with special care. But only a small number of these materials will have the potential to get into our bodies and cause harm. Of these only some will overcome or slip by the body's defences and cause serious harm. And of these fewer still will cause harm in ways we weren't expecting. And a very small number of materials indeed will lead to new diseases. As a colleague of mine likes to point out the body only has a limited number of ways of saying ouch. By using scientific understanding and expert knowledge many of the potential risks associated with advanced materials can be spotted and managed or avoided altogether. That said there are bound to be unknown unknowns those things that a newfangled material does that no one thought of beforehand. While second guessing what these might look like can be a dangerous game it's important to continue researching possible risks just so we're not caught with our pants down when something unpleasant does eventually turn up. This of course raises an important question. Do novel materials present novel risks? Novelty is a big part of advanced materials not novelty in terms of amusement of course although the inventors of silly putty may beg to differ but novelty is in something that's new or unusual. If you can design and engineer a material that behaves differently to other materials you open the door to improving existing products and inventing exciting new ones. If you get it right you could make a financial killing but novel materials can also help find solutions to some really stubborn challenges like ensuring everyone has enough food and water and energy for instance. This is fantastic. As long as your fancy new material doesn't create more problems than it solves and here's the rub. How do we know that these novel materials don't come pre-packaged with novel risks? On the surface the question makes a lot of sense. If a material is designed to behave in unusual ways who's to say that that unusual behavior won't lead to unusual biological impacts that in turn lead to unusual harm and unusual diseases? However this is also a somewhat misleading question and here's why. From a human health perspective we're interested in risk. What can cause harm? How does it do it? How much harm could potentially be caused? And how can we reduce or avoid this? As far as our bodies are concerned they couldn't care less about whether a risk is novel or not. They're just interested in whether something is going to hurt and how to avoid that hurt. For instance, if you hit your thumb with the latest nanocomposite metamaterial superhydro whatever hammer the instrument of destruction may be highly novel but the pain will be the same as if you'd used your grandmother's antique nail wacker. The novelty is in the hammer but not in the harm it causes. The danger here is that focusing on novelty rather than risk diminishes the importance of the actual harm that a material could cause. It implies that the only interesting risks are the new and unusual ones and it ignores the reality that many common risks associated with materials novel or otherwise remain highly important and poorly understood. When it comes to novel materials and advanced materials more generally a much better question is can this material potentially cause harm? Followed quickly by under what circumstances what type of harm, how much and how can it be avoided? These questions focus on impact rather than novelty and recognize that many novel materials may in fact present rather mundane risks that nevertheless still need to be dealt with. Of course there's still the chance that a novel material will do something entirely unexpected if it gets into your body. This is where we need scientists asking the difficult questions just in case something new does come up but until it does fixating on novel risks runs the risk of overlooking the more boring risks that are likely to be a problem unless dealt with. At this point you'll have a pretty good idea what advanced materials are and what might make them potentially risky but there's one question that hasn't been addressed so far are we smart enough to create advanced materials that are safe by design? In principle if we know what makes something harmful we can design it to be less harmful We're already seeing this with synthetic chemicals where scientists are designing substances that do what they're supposed to do but are gentle on the environment and our bodies and there's nothing to stop us doing the same thing with other materials. Because advanced materials depend on designing and engineering substances to behave in a certain way it's a relatively small step to including safety parameters in the design process as long as we know what makes something harmful and how to reduce it. This safety by design approach is already being used in areas like green nanotechnology an innovative approach to developing high performance materials that pose minimal risk to people and the environment. One example of safety by design and green nanotechnology is the use of advanced titanium dioxide nanoparticles in sunscreens. Many sunscreens use organic chemicals to protect the skin against the sun's ultraviolet rays but to work these chemicals have to be absorbed into the skin and over time the UV radiation breaks them down and makes them ineffective. This is why sunscreens need to be reapplied every few hours. Inorganic sunscreens on the other hand work differently. Particles of an insoluble substance like titanium dioxide are applied to the surface of the skin where they reflect the UV light. But they can also reflect visible light and look kind of messy. However, making the particles small around 20 nanometers in diameter hits a sweet spot where they reflect the harmful UV light but are transparent to visible light. In other words, you have a highly effective yet invisible sunscreen apart from one small problem. Nanosized titanium dioxide particles are photoactive. Mix them with water and ultraviolet light and they produce free radicals, highly reactive chemicals that you really don't want to be exposed to. This isn't great news for the skin but it also isn't great news for the product as the free radicals also kill long-term performance. To overcome this problem, one company engineered their sunscreen nanoparticles to be safe by design by adding small amounts of the metal manganese. The result was highly effective UV protection without the production of harmful free radicals, something that was only possible because of a combination of materials design know-how and health risk smarts. As we learn more about how to make materials safe as well as useful, safety by design is likely to become an increasingly important way of ensuring products are acceptably safe and commercially viable. Of course, sometimes a fair dollop of creativity is needed to ensure both safety and functionality. Sharp knives that don't cut for instance are still tough to make. But by combining science, design and engineering in innovative ways, risk and usefulness are no longer either or options when it comes to the next generation of materials. To the contrary, an intelligent understanding of risk is becoming an asset rather than a liability in making and using materials that support sustainable and profitable products. And this, from a risk perspective, is what makes advanced materials so exciting.


The goodie side of the goodie knotty book This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org The goodie knotty book by Sarah Corey Rippey the goodie side Honor bright president When honor bright went to live in the country the very first thing he asked for was some real live geese To join the chickens and the pussy and the rabbits already on the farm Will you remember to feed them every day son if I get you a pair asked his father Yes, papa said the little boy honor bright When he promised honor bright he always kept his word and he said honor bright so many times a day that Finally honor bright became his name Quack quack cried mr. And mrs. Goose the day honor bright's father brought them home. What a fine place Isn't it said mother hen and Just wait till you know honor bright Just wait echoed the rabbit gray family and mr. T cat Honor bright was as good as his word and the geese grew fatter and fatter and fatter Good morning, mr. T cat cried mr. And mrs. Goose early one morning had your breakfast Of course answered mr. T cat honor bright always feeds me the very first thing You must be mistaken cried mr. And mrs. Goose honor bright always feeds us first But honor bright gives my children their breakfast very early cackled mother hen Well squeaked father rabbit gray. We've all had breakfast and that's the main thing Now let's make honor bright president because he's so good. That's the way people do you know? Just then honor bright came out Hail president honor bright. They all cried Honor bright thought they said I love you and really it meant the same thing rose red and Ruthie It was rose Mary's mother who named her rose red Rose ready it was at first because rose Mary was always ready to help then it became just rose red for short Rose red had much of the sweetness of her name flower and few of the thorns That is why when Ruthie slapped her rose red didn't slap back, but she came home crying Rose reds mama gathered her up in her arms and comforted her Ruthies probably sorry now dear. She said perhaps she will tell you so by and by Will my little girl be rose ready if she does Rose ready for what mama?  I think I'll gather the posies now was all she said Every day rose red cut fresh flowers in the garden and arranged them for the house It was the one thing in all the world. She liked best to do the roses She always left till the last for dessert. She explained Roses dear she said as she tucked them one by one into their special bowl What would you do if your best friend slapped you? Just then a thorn pricked rose reds finger you'd prick her would you rose red laughed That's because you are only a rose and don't know any better. It wouldn't be nice for a little girl to prick I do know something better Rose red chose six of the finest roses and carefully clipped off all their thorns Then she ran to the gate between her yard and Ruthies and slipped them into a covered box beside it This box was rose reds and Ruthies post office Nearly every day something went into it from one little girl to the other Four o'clock was mail time postman rose red hid behind a bush and watched Presently postman Ruthie came down the path she opened the box and took out the fragrant letter Then she laid something inside drew down the cover and ran back It was postman rose reds turn now to open the box her letter was a real one. It said I'm sorry Rose ready to forgive flew through the gate Ruthie Ruthie she called and Then rose red kissed Ruthie and Ruthie kissed rose red and that was the last of Ruthie ready to slap the tree game When Margaret and Benji were getting over the measles their mama invented a new game to amuse them You might play you are trees. She suggested I'm a pine tree cried Margaret. So am I agreed Benji Pine trees sing you know Benji Margaret went on so we must sing too And the two struck up a lively tune Toodly toodly do it was not the pine trees. However, that sang it. Oh An organ man.   She cried and disappeared When she came back. She carried two plump bananas Here she said handing them out through the window Tessa smiled her thanks politely, but Jaco just fell to munching greedily The pine trees hung out of the window and watched Tessa and her father and Jaco as they went off down the street Finally the biggest pine tree turned to the littlest pine tree.  I'm a banana tree now So am I echoed Benji Billy boys magic key Billy boy had a magic key. He carried it in his face. There was a secret about this key It always opened doors into pleasant things. His mama had taught him that Billy boy was playing in the yard one day when his mama came to the door Billy boy Billy boy. She called. I want you to do some errands for me When Billy boy hurried up to the steps his mama handed him two baskets One is to carry the groceries. I've ordered Billy boy. She said and there's a cake for Mrs. Thomas in the other You can leave it on the way to the store Billy boys face clouded. I I'd rather not go there mama. He said Mrs. Thomas is so cross.  Remember about the key and you'll be all right Billy boy picked up his baskets and marched off pretty soon thump thump thump went Mrs. Thomas's brass knocker The door flew open No, said Mrs. Thomas's loud voice. I don't want Then she stopped Billy boy was using his magic key. I'm Mrs. Sheldon's little boy Explained Billy boy pulling off his cap mama sent you a cake Mrs. Thomas just could not resist that key Thank you child. She said smiling and lifting out the cake. Wait a minute as Billy started down the steps She plunged her hand deep down in her pocket and drew out a bright new nickel Here she said buy some candy The nickel was clutched tightly in Billy boys hand when he reached home Look what she gave me he cried and she wasn't a bit cross. It must have been count of the key And the magic key why it was Billy boys own sunny smile to be sure Polly's new April Fool You're losing your hair ribbon Polly remarked the twins as their sister sat down to breakfast one first of April morning Polly hastily felt of her head April Fool April Fool April Fool Shrieked the twins joyously pounding on the table Polly glared at them.  She said nobody but horrid rough boys like you would ever think April fools any fun And she sulked through her breakfast without another word But Helen was different Helen liked rain Moreover, she didn't in the least mind being fooled and she laughed just as hard as anybody when she put salt on her mush instead of sugar When she went upstairs to put their room in order however the room she and Polly shared the steady drip drip drip of the rain made her Remember Polly's unhappiness and it troubled her a Robin singing his rain song in the tree outside cocked his head saucily as Helen went to the window Help her cheer her help her cheer her saying mr. Redbreast over and over again as he swung on the dripping branches That's a good idea. Mr. Redbreast Helen answered. I'm sure she needs it, but how shall I do it? Mr. Redbreast winked wisely. You'll find a way away away he trilled Helen spanked a pillow and stood it in its place on the bed Thank You mr. Redbreast she answered politely. I'll try Mr. Redbreast gave his tail a pleased little shake and flew away Leaving Helen to spank the other pillow and to wonder what she could do to help her cheer her A blue ribbon was hanging out of the top bureau drawer The very thing cried Helen. I'll straighten out her drawer. It's always in a must And she fell to work with a will rolling and folding and arranging things in neat little piles The baby stood watching her There what do you suppose she'll think of that buddy? She asked as she gave the last pile a happy pat Then a new idea popped into her head She flew downstairs took a sheet of writing paper out of the desk and printed something on it in big black letters Then running back to her room. She laid the paper on the rows of nice neat piles and carefully closed the drawer I hope she won't mind she said with a twinkling little smile as she pulled buddy up on her lap for a story The story was only half finished when Polly burst in What do you think Helen? She cried tossing her hat and coat in an untidy heap on the bed I'm invited to a party. What shall I wear?  She cried and I'm just a silly cross old bear This is just the loveliest April Fool that ever was. I didn't suppose folks could play nice April Fool jokes Just then the sun came out from behind a cloud and peeped through the window Helen pointed to it Another nice April Fool for you Polly But Polly wasn't listening she stood quietly thinking for a moment Then she picked up her hat shook out her coat and started toward the closet April Fool she said with a laugh as she hung them inside That's another joke on you miss Polly untidy cross patch a few more April Fools might turn you into neat miss Polly polite It's about time you turned over a new leaf I think I hear it wrestling said Helen listening Here here here chirped mr. Red breast joyously from the tree the three bees The three bees club had only one rule each member was to try every day to be all of the three bees Usually it was quite easy to be one bee often It was not so very difficult to be two bees but to be three bees was many times very very hard indeed The Saturday Ned Brown's father gave him the new catching glove was one of those times Ned wanted to go out and try the glove just as he was starting. However, Mrs. Brown called to him Ned she said the wood box is empty Ned knew what that meant, but he remembered bee number two in time to keep from frowning All right. He called back cheerily and went out whistling to the barn The whack went the axe into the wood Ned was strong and every blow told His mother hearing the chopping smiled to herself. She knew about the bees Who said Ned presently stopping for breath? This is being bee number one. All right, two bees in one morning aren't so bad Hi Ned came over the fence as he started for the house with an arm full of wood Why don't you come over? You said you had a new glove Have answered Ned as two other members of the three bees climbed into site. Wait a minute He dumped his wood into the box in the kitchen and then ran proudly back with the precious glove Here it is The boys felt of it pinched it tried it on It's a dandy come on and catch they urged Can't just yet you can use it till I come And Ned returned to his work while the boys ran off with the glove The three bees met at Ned's house that afternoon. The club always reported once a week on their success as bees I don't have any chance to be bee number three complained Ned when his turn came to talk Mrs. Brown was just coming in with a picture of lemonade I know better Ned. She said how about chopping wood when you wanted to play ball that made all three bees this morning busy bright and brave And I know another bee number three too cried Ned Baker. How about loaning us your catching glove when you hadn't used it yourself? Ned smiled shyly and bee number two was written all over his face as he slowly sit his lemonade Teddy's helpers Christmas was near and there were only a few pennies in Teddy's apple bank I'm afraid I won't have money enough to buy them mummy said Teddy wistfully won't you His eyes looked the question his lips wanted to ask No, Teddy said his mother for then it would be my present instead of yours But Arthur's hands get so cold carrying the clothes Teddy's eyes fell to his own hands, which were always snug and warm in their red mittens The washerwoman's little boy had no mittens Earned some money Teddy suggested his mother Teddy's face fell How can I he said keep your eyes open and do the thing they tell you to do All right answered Teddy. I'll try At that moment father's son who had been peeping through the window slipped behind a cloud Children he said to the little clouds There's a boy down below who wants to earn money to buy mittens for a boy who hasn't any. I want you to help him We will father son cried the little clouds Then the sky began to grow so dark that the earth people looked up and said I do believe it's going to snow and it did Soon the air was filled with great fluffy whorling flakes tumbling eagerly down to help Teddy Not so close cried the first flake as the others came down on top of him We'll make it too hard for teddy if we pack tight together That so cried the others and so they settled very very gently All night the snowflakes fell in the morning father's son poked his head out from behind a cloud My my how fine the earth looks he exclaimed. I think that's about enough children And father's son smiled so broadly that the earth people said How dazzling the sun is and squinted and rubbed their eyes When the last flake had settled in its place teddy buttoned on his leggings to go out Are you keeping your eyes open this morning teddy asked his mother? Teddy laughed of course. He said I couldn't see if Then he stopped abruptly It is a way. Isn't it mummy? He cried Yes, she said I think I hear twenty five cents dropping into the apple I will give you that much if you will shovel a path to the gate Could he cried teddy then he hunted up the snow shovel and fell to work Teddy teddy Teddy looked up the old lady across the way was standing in her door I'll give you a quarter if you'll clean my walk All right, teddy shouted back and then how the snow did fly as he dug and scraped and shoveled My my said father's son what an industrious boy And he smiled till teddy grew quite warm and the busy hands in the red mittens were never once cold When the day was over four bright quarters lay snugly in the apple bank The day before christmas teddy emptied the bank and went shopping And that night when the washerwoman's boy came for the clothes On top of the basket lay not mittens, but a pair of thick gloves lined with wool Father's son was so happy about it that he smiled all christmas day and so did arthur and so More brightly than either did teddy the red letter day What's a red letter day norah asked betty coming into the kitchen where norah was doing the saturday baking It's a day when something especially nice happens answered norah why Mama just said it would be a red letter day if she got all her mending done by night I wish added betty wistfully that I could make it a red letter day for her You can cried norah. I'll show you how to make a cake and then she won't have to make it She can have the time to mend Goody goody cried betty when her mama said she might try I didn't tell her about the red letter part. She explained as she and norah measured and beat and stirred That will make it another kind of red letter day s for surprise The cake came out of the oven light and flaky and beautiful Wouldn't it be nice side betty if it could only have a red s right in the middle It can said norah make it of those tiny red candies of yours You'll have to work fast before the icing dries When the s was finished it was pretty crooked even for an s but there was no doubt at all about what it was When dinner was on the table betty brought in the cake and said it before her mother Well, well, well cried mrs. Arnold. What a fine little cook I have but what is the s for betty It stands for saturday mama said betty And then she told all about the red letter plan It was a dear plan said her mother and I did finish the mending and now I'll tell my little girl something else s stands for saturday, but it stands for another word too It stands for my sunshine. She finished giving betty a loving kiss end of the goody side of the goody knotty book read by kara schellenberg on october 26th 2007 in ocean side california The naughty side of the goody knotty book This is a libra vox recording All libra vox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer. Please visit libra vox.org The goody knotty book by sarah cori rippie the naughty side will he won't It was baking day at willy rite's house willy was on hand as usual to scrape the dish and teas for raisins Suddenly jenny the cook threw up her hands Oh dear, she cried. I forgot to order baking powder willy will you Bang went the door and off ran willy down the path with laddie at his heels I won't go to the store.  It was warm in the sun and the locusts were droning drowsily in the grass Oof oof oof Snored laddie willy nodded and nodded and nodded Ho ho came a voice over the fence will he won't that's a funny name Funny retorted another voice. It's ugly Willy will would be far nicer Nobody named willy will would ever set a dog on a cat came a third voice No said a fourth nor run off and hide when there are errands to do And then the four began to sing Willy won't a horrid boy No one will like him till He helps when people want him to and turns to willy will Willy jumped to his feet and looked around The neighbor's sunflowers nodded solemnly over the fence Willy will they seemed to urge Willy started for the house Willy will he echoed as he went up the path Molly and the pouts Until the pouts got to work on molly.  Why didn't you lay me nicely on the couch? My what a sour face With that dear doll dainty stepped up to her own special trunk Which stood open in the center of the floor and put on her hat and slipped into her coat What are you going to do? Asked molly staring Going away of course. I don't care to belong to a little girl with the pouts Dear doll dainty walked to the door Wait a minute dear doll dainty squeaked the rabbits that were capering around the top of the wall We're coming too And with a great scurry down slid the bunnies. We're tired of trying to make a cross little girl happy So are we added the roses on the curtains sweetly as they let themselves down by their thorns And walked to the door on their stems And we The pillows molly's impatient little fists had punched dropped it to the floor and started off The trunk slammed down its lid and followed the pillows The bureau followed the trunk the book molly had thrown on the floor followed the bureau Pardon me said a deep voice But I am tired of being sat on and having heels dug into me Up went the couch bump went molly on the floor The couch walked clumsily to the door. It couldn't get through Tee hee hee hee giggled molly the pouts took to their heels Tee hee molly stopped laughing and looked around in amazement Everything in the room was just as it ought to be except that she and dear dolly dainty were both on the floor But molly thought the rabbits winked at her as she laid dear doll dainty gently on the couch and put the book in its place on the table Indian Huey Huey had always wanted to be an indian One day he told his mama about it Well, she said why not be an indian Huey looked down at his little blue suit and his low shoes I can't be an indian. He said I haven't any bow and arrow or or anything indians have And anyway, little boys can't be indians Oh, yes, they can said his mama Indians are strong and brave any little boy can be that How do you do chief Huey? She added with a low bow Huey drew himself up until he was at least an inch taller He peep strong and brave. Thank you. He said gravely That very day Huey's mama bought him a bow and arrow Then Huey felt himself a real indian indeed But chief Huey grew tired of shooting at a mark with his new bow and arrow It would be much more fun. He thought to shoot at something that moved Just as he thought that a bird flew up from the snowball bush Chief Huey hastily slipped an arrow into his bow Bing it went toward the bird Huey Huey turned around Chief Huey he corrected politely No, said his mama not chief Huey Squaw Huey chiefs are strong and brave Chief Huey would never shoot at a dear little bird Only a cowardly indian a squaw indian would do that She came down the path and took away Huey's bow and arrow Squas don't carry weapons. She said Huey threw himself down on his stomach and screamed with anger Squas cry said his mother She walked back to the house leaving Huey sitting on the grass He was wondering how long it would take for a squaw to become a chief once more I forgot Inside of little Jean there lived a naughty imp His name was I forgot One time this imp made Jean do a very wicked thing Jean owned a canary named Goldie because of his golden feathers Whenever Jean came into the room where his cage hung Goldie would pour out a flood of song But one morning when Jean came in there was no flood of song from the yellow throat The tiny singer lay still on the bottom of his cage Jean slipped in her hand in alarm and drew out her little pet Mama mama she cried something's the matter with Goldie The imp I forgot laughed as he heard her But Jean's mama did not laugh She knew about I forgot and she laid her hand tenderly on Goldie's little body All thin under the fluff of feathers Goldie has starved to death Jean she said sadly why didn't you feed him I forgot sobbed the little girl Forgot poor Goldie Jean's mama stroked the golden feathers It's too bad Jean that you couldn't remember to do that one small thing for Goldie When he did so much for you with his songs and his cheer Jean's tears fell fast Her mama looked thoughtfully at the bird We can do nothing more for Goldie She said at last But I have thought of a way you can help other birds for his sake Jean Jean wiped her face How she asked Jean felt happier when her mama had explained the way to her And if you should pass Jean's house some morning before breakfast You could see the way for yourself For every day Jean scatters crumbs and grain on the lawn for the birds And puts fresh water in their drinking bowl For Goldie's sake She whispers to herself as the birds fly down for their breakfast As for the naughty imp I forgot He is fast turning into the lovely fairy I remember How Sammy was cured Sammy was a pretty good boy in some ways But in one way he was a very naughty boy indeed He never got up when he was called Jean He would yawn Uh-huh And with that he would roll over and go fast asleep again This always happened at least three times every morning Often it happened more times Then when everybody was out of patience and breakfast was nearly over Sammy would come creeping down digging his fists into his eyes and still yawning One morning Sammy's father had just called him the second time And Sammy had grunted And turned over for another nap When the door opened softly Creep creep creep came quiet steps But Sammy didn't see the little man with twinkling eyes and queer clothes enter the room He didn't know that the little man lifted him out of bed Slipped him quickly into a sack and swung him over his shoulder Sammy was too fast asleep to know anything Crickety flickety flea-flow-fly Cried the little man and away they flew Straight through the window and still Sammy slept He didn't know he was not in his own bed till the little man slipped him out of the sack and gave him a shake Yeah Muddered Sammy sleepily So you are Sammy's sleepy head A loud voice interrupted him Sammy woke up so quickly that he bit his tongue I know you you were the little boy that never gets up when he's called Sammy looked about him in surprise He was in a room filled with the queerest little men he had ever seen Men with funny clothes and twinkly eyes While right in front of him on a throne sat a very splendid person Sammy knew by his robes and his crown that this splendid person must be a king Sammy had never before seen a real king He opened his mouth in awe The king thought Sammy was going to yawn No yawning here He cried giving Sammy a sharp little wrap with his scepter This is the land of the wide awakes. We always wake up the sleepy people And then just because he knew he mustn't Sammy yawned He said so loud that it frightened him and he clapped his hand quickly over his mouth But the king had heard him Sleepy cure number one men he cried The men in the funny clothes at once formed in two lines facing each other and twinkling more than ever Sammy's sleepy head stepped forward between the lines commanded the king sternly Sammy saw each queer little man pull a small paddle from his pocket His knees were shaking with fear, but he dared not disobey Run ordered the king Sammy started spat went the first paddle Ouch screamed Sammy Faster cried the king Spat spat spat went the paddles as he ran Ouch ouch ouch screamed Sammy Done Cried the king as Sammy breathless and crying reached the end of the lines Awake Cured Inquired the king Hick up Sammy wiping his eyes with the sleeve of his knighty No, you're not cried the king only sleepy head say uh-huh Cure number two Poor Sammy stood scared and crying while the little men grinning broadly now Brought big sponges dripping with water Squeeze cried the king Squash went the first sponge right over Sammy's head Hug screamed Sammy as the ice cold water poured down his back Hug hug The next little man stepped up lifted his sponge started to squeeze it then changed his mind Crickety flickety flea-flow fly He cried instead The next thing Sammy knew he was standing in his own bathtub wet and shivering His father stood beside him holding a big dipper Hug hug hug Gasped Sammy while the water dripped from his yellow head I'm sorry Sammy Said his father handing him a towel, but we can't have any more of this nonsense about getting up This will happen every time you have to be called more than once Dry yourself now and hurry into your clothes Sammy gulped and nodded he couldn't think of anything to say just then But he did as his father told him to and never once dug his fists into his eyes or said The next day he joined the wide awakes Sammy sleepyhead was cured The going to club The going to club had only one member Bobby brant was that member in fact Bobby was the club It was his mother who named him the going to club It always took at least two askings to get Bobby to do anything Sometimes it took three or four Bobby was always going to This club always met when there was something Bobby wanted particularly to do and it met most often in the spring When the boys were out flying their kites in the spring nobody could get Bobby to do anything One spring Bobby had a very fine new kite that he and his father had made it together They named it the skylark because they thought it would fly higher than any of the other kites But something was wrong instead of sailing up gracefully as it should the first time Bobby tried to fly it The skylark pitched about so violently that Bobby had to wind in Just then he heard Mary Jane calling Bobby will you get me some water? All right, cried Bobby I wonder what ales it he added as he turned to the kite about Bobby I'm going to answered the going to club impatiently and straight away forgot all about it Pretty soon Mary Jane came down the path with the water pail Mary Jane had little brothers perhaps she could tell what was the matter with it Mary Jane said Bobby my kite won't fly straight. Will you help me fix it? A naughty twinkle came into Mary Jane's eyes All right, Bobby she said and went on to the well Will you urged Bobby as she came back with her pail full?  She said and by the way Bobby she added with a laugh What do you think about the going to club now? Bobby grinned and hung his head When perhaps he said yes Perhaps he parent was never quite certain about things She always said perhaps instead of yes or no That's how she came to be called perhaps But there was one thing perhaps he was certain about She loved to go barefoot and just as soon as the first warm spring day came Perhaps he teased to take off her shoes and stockings But Mrs. Perrin only laughed You'll catch cold perhapsy and you know what you have to take when you get sick Perhaps he thought of the big white bottle on the bathroom shelf and stopped teasing But she didn't forget that afternoon Mrs. Perrin went out to make some calls Be a good girl perhapsy she said as she left the house Yes, some promised perhapsy But she must have added perhaps inside For she ran straight to the backyard and called to the two little girls next door You who she cried come on over and go waiting A pool of water had been left in the hollow of the yard by the heavy spring rains Dare you it seemed to twinkle up at perhapsy Oh, I decent cried to the biggest little girl carefully smoothing down her stiff clean dress Oh, I decent echoed the littlest little girl Perhaps he eyed them scornfully as she took off her shoes and stockings and splashed into the pool Frayed cats she jeered frayed cats frayed cats frayed cats The little girls watched perhapsy in scared silence You take cold finally ventured the biggest little girl Perhaps I will retorted perhapsy You're getting wet Said the littlest little girl Perhaps he only sniffed But it wasn't so very much fun after all Perhaps he kept hearing Be a good girl perhapsy Yes, some When she had proved that she at least was not a frayed cat perhaps he splashed out You needn't tell She cried over her shoulder as her bare feet twinkled back to the house That night mrs. Perrin heard strange sounds in perhapsy's room Coochoo! Coochoo! Coochoo! She went to the door Perhapsy was sitting up in bed I'm dobsick, baba, she explained I'm just coochoo Mrs. Perrin left the room When she returned she carried a big white bottle and a spoon Do do do Screamed perhapsy As her mother poured out the thick slippery oil I'm dot What she was dot Was lost in a gurgle and a splutter as the oil slid down her throat Perhapsy was not happy She drew the blankets up around her and buried her head among the pillows Perhapsy said her mother when the dose was down You've disobeyed me Are you sorry Per Yes Sobbed perhapsy under the bed clothes What happened to Waggles Waggles was Jimmy's chum He was never cross and he loved Jimmy And Jimmy loved Waggles But sometimes Jimmy was cross It was when he was cross that he tied the can to Waggles tail Waggles thought it was new game But at his first jump the can bounced up and struck him This frightened Waggles and he tried to run away from the horrid bouncing thing But the faster he ran the harder the thing bounced and the oftener it struck him Waggles became wild with fright and he gasped for breath as he raced along Suddenly he heard a voice that he loved Waggles, Waggles, Waggles Waggles stopped running and dropped exhausted at the feet of Jimmy's father Poor Waggles said Mr. Brown tenderly as he cut the string I didn't suppose there was a boy in this town mean enough to do a thing like that Waggles licked his hand and looked up at him gratefully But Waggles was too much of a gentleman to tell on Jimmy Even if he could have spoken When Mr. Brown went home Waggles trotted along beside him Jimmy asked Mr. Brown that evening Who tied that can to Waggles' tail Jimmy said nothing but his face grew red Very well said his father A boy who could treat a dog like that and doesn't deserve to have one I shall give Waggles away Jimmy was very unhappy he cried himself to sleep that night But next morning who should come bounding in but Waggles He jumped and barked and said I forgive you in every doggie way that he knew Jimmy hugged Waggles and looked wistfully at his father Well Jimmy said Mr. Brown since Waggles has forgiven you I think I shall have to forgive you too Waggles may stay End of The Naughty Side End of The Goodie Naughty Book by Sarah Corey Rippey


Study Question 5-2 brings together member states, sector members, other experts, and stakeholders to consider lessons learned, best practices, consider our experiences, and tools and templates. And so in this study cycle, we're going to have a unique priority focus on one specific area each year so we can go more in depth. So in 2018 we're looking at early warning, in 2019 we're looking at drills and exercises, in 2020 the enabling policy environment for resilient communications and the deployment of emergency communications, and throughout we're looking at emerging technology and current technologies and how we can support and enable those in response. So our discussions, our yearly reports with focus on the priority areas, our final report, and the workshops we're going to have each year will reflect those priorities. ICTs support all phases of disaster from the critical preparedness stage through mitigation response and recovery. So imagining that you get an alert, an early warning that helps you get to a safer place or using your phone to text your loved ones and let them know you're okay, or using it to call for help, or thinking about the responders and the humanitarian responders who use ICTs to coordinate their responses and think about a refugee camp where ICTs can bring education, health care, and even the opportunity to work. So imagine going through your life without being able, without communications, ICTs are essential to our daily lives, they run them. And so in a disaster, that need is only magnified, you know, exponentially. So ICTs are essential. Well, it's often assumed that communications are just going to be available in disasters, but in reality, having communications available takes a great deal of preparedness. If you think of emergency communications planning, or setting up coordination mechanisms, or exercises and drills, and the policies and procedures that you need, think of all that's needed. And Study Group 5-2 gives us an opportunity to go in depth to look at all of those so that we might all be more prepared when disasters strike.


It's finally time to talk about magic and sorcery, and what that means in Druidry. Hey there saplings, welcome back to esoteric moment. I've had countless comments and messages asking me to talk about magic and witchcraft and sorcery. This is such a big topic to cover, so I'm going to do a whole series of videos on magic. This is the introductory video, of course, but you will be seeing videos that go into specific types of magic over the next couple weeks. The book reviews that I do during this time will also have an emphasis on magic and witchcraft in a Celtic or Druid path. Before we get into the meat of it, I do want to emphasize that not all Druids practice magic or witchcraft. You can totally be a Druid without doing any spellcraft, and if you do lots of it, it totally works in a Druid path. I'm also going to use some words interchangeably, and I know that really they are slightly different, and we can get into the minutiae of what magic versus spellcraft versus witchcraft actually means. However, I want to make this series of videos really welcoming to all sorts of different magical practitioners. So I'm going to use those words somewhat interchangeably, just bear with me and understand that I know there are slight differences, but it's just for ease of this conversation. I'm going to talk about two kind of major categories of magic. I'm going to call it folk magic on one hand and high ritual magic on the other hand. For me, folk magic is that small, quick magic that is really easy to incorporate into all sorts of tasks that we do on a regular basis. Folk magic to me is the healing tea I make for a friend. It is the wish on a shooting star. It is that magic where I'm focusing my will onto a specific outcome, and I might incorporate some small symbols or ritual practices like physical things I'm doing, but it doesn't take a lot of prior planning and it's really fast. The outcome to folk magic is usually on a smaller scale, but happens faster for me. Ritual magic on the other hand for me is something that I don't do as often, but when I do it, I go all out. I will take time to plan in my journal a specific ritual. I might write out a script. I will gather lots of supplies and symbols that will help me really, really tune into the specific currents and energies that I want to use to make big changes. Ritual magic will usually mean preparing, opening a circle, doing my normal ritual things, building lots of energy, focusing that energy onto something that I want to happen, change or become, and then closing ritual and waiting, documenting for what's going to happen next. Both of those cases, I don't anticipate Harry Potter magic or like movie magic. What I anticipate is me setting in motion the things that I want to see happen, and I have to follow through on some of that. And we'll get into that in each topic area on what I mean with follow through on that. Like my daily practice like Druidry in general, I don't think magic is an armchair practice. I don't think it's just buying crystals or even just buying a spell kit. I think you really got to do a lot more work outside of that action or item. In order to have magic create the outcome that you want, you need to be really clear about your intention and you need to be able to practice willpower. Frankly, if you're the type of person who says you want to do something, but then never ever does it and you can't hold yourself accountable or even find someone else to help you stay accountable, magic is not going to work for you in my opinion. Magic is the combination of using symbols and inspiration and your own willpower to see things happen. I have a friend who's incredibly astute and intuitive and does some interesting magic work, but if it's ever big magic about making life changes like moving somewhere or starting a new project, they really struggle. And I think that's because they allow other fears and concerns get in the way of them using their willpower on basic things. So it's hard to make magic do anything different on a big scale. If we can't do those mundane willpower thing. Of course, magic sometimes works amazingly well and sometimes it doesn't. I think one of the ways that we can make sure that spellcraft and magic has the outcome we want is by including some specific phrases or at least thoughts in our workings. Some of the things I like to do is include make this happen this or better. Letting the universe know that I really want this to happen. But I also know that maybe there's something even more incredible out there waiting just around the corner for me. Of course, the common phrase and let it harm none or something that says, you know, it only affects me is another way of kind of tuning into the energies of the universe and saying, I'm looking to make changes, but changes for the better. I think this helps avoid situations where you immediately are fired when you do a spell looking for more time in your day. Whether you write these down or you use it in your verbal magic or just hold it in your head as you're doing spellcraft. I think it's important to understand that the universe might have more for you and that you don't always understand what the fastest way of having your goals accomplished might be. So make sure it doesn't harm people. I'm really excited to share with everyone. Some of the magic that I use, what has worked for me and what hasn't worked for me and really dive into some of these particular conversations. I also have a couple of rants that I've wanted to get off my chest. Like why do pagan authors use quantum mechanics to describe how magic works? It doesn't. That's for another video. If you want to hear that rant and learn more about magic, including learning specific spells that I have had work in my practice, don't forget to subscribe so that you will get all the videos in the coming week. This week's sapling shout out goes out to Belle Hewitt. She put a comment on my two new Druids video saying that she was really looking for guidance in her new path and the video was helpful. And I'm so glad. If you want to be the next video's sapling shout out, leave me a comment below telling me whether you use magic in your practice. Thanks for watching. And as always, may you find peace in the sacred grove.


It's really been surreal for me to be featured in Forbes magazine at 10 years old, receive a commendation from President Barack Obama or be one of Oprah's youngest Supersoul 100 change makers. All of this is something that I never could have imagined when I started at 8 years old. My name is Maya Penn. I'm a 21-year-old entrepreneur. I'm also an environmental activist, an artist, an animator and a sustainability consultant. I really started my company because I wanted to combine the two passions that I have. My passion for the environment and my passion for art and design, which is how I came to sustainable fashion. I was always super, super hands-on in every aspect of my business, drawing out the logo. I built my first website when I was 10 years old in HTML. I was doing the branding, the marketing. I was taking the pictures. I was really learning through trial and error. So here are a lot of the designs that I've created. They are all made from either recycled vintage or organic materials. Here's a blouse that I made from remnant materials. I hand-painted on. Being an entrepreneur is not only about building a business, but also really building yourself as a person. I think that it's so crucial to bring the human side and the heart-centered side of entrepreneurship to the forefront. Here is a scene from an animation I've created for a short film that I'm working on. Animation is actually my first passion that I had before fashion design. I started creating animated flip books when I was three and four years old, and then by the time I was seven and eight, I was creating animated short films digitally on my dad's old MacBook. So I made a bunch of watercolor paintings on this canvas paper, just like this, and then I scanned it into the computer. I actually used the same technique for a Women's History Month animation that I created for GoDaddy. I really saw the power of how this medium can make change and inspire others, and so that's what led me to start my own animation production company. I'm personally focused on job creation for Black, Brown, and Indigenous people, as well as women in the animation industry. And so we've created animation for Hulu, for Attention, Adobe, Luna, GoDaddy. I just really want to use this medium to empower, educate, and inspire as many people as I can. So I've been using GoDaddy since 2009, and GoDaddy has really helped me to capture all of my ideas, in a sense. Jen, do you want to go ahead and pull up the website and we'll just kind of walk through it again? One of the first things that we did, I know that you were saying, like, maybe a little bit more greenery, so I definitely sprinkled some more assets in there. You really basically captured what I had in my mind. Awesome. We'll go ahead and set your site live, thanks, Maya. This has been my first time using the GoDaddy website builder, and I'm somebody who's used a number of different e-commerce platforms, and GoDaddy has really, really stood out. A lot of the analytics and a lot of analytic features are not just about the numbers and the data. It's actually helping to lay out a sort of game plan, helping to lay out strategy. And I really, really enjoyed just how streamlined the entire process is and how much time that it really helps save the entrepreneur. I always have to remember when I started my company at eight years old and that was really taking a risk. I didn't know how Maya's ideas would really turn out when I started it. Now I have to look back to my eight-year-old self. She took this leap and she took this risk and she started this business and it snowballed in something really awesome. So whenever I feel unsure about taking a leap or taking a risk, I look back to my younger self for that inspiration.