What's the word, y'all? AffectionateSoup24 on Reddit says, what is an NBA conspiracy theory that you believe? I just saw this a little while ago and though I have not read a single comment, I'm fascinated with all the stuff that could be potentially in this thread because a conspiracy theory, especially in the sports world could keep my attention for a very, very long time. Like they're typically pretty harmless, which I enjoy. And once we start talking about conspiracy theories and other worldly things, it's not as fun for me, but in sports, 1,000%, you know what I'm saying? Like, okay, they're the famous ones who I'm sure I'm gonna see in this thread, like Michael Jordan getting suspended from the NBA and that's why he wants to go play baseball, whatever. The next one, the frozen envelope to get Patrick Ewan to New York, another big conspiracy theory. Also one that I am in favor of, specifically this season.  Because I know a big market team that's pick is top four protected and they need all the help in the world. Let's make the bull, rig it for the bulls. That's all I'm really saying. No, but my favorite NBA conspiracy theory, I don't even know if it's considered a conspiracy theory, but something that I believe could have potentially been rigged. Adam Silver, if you're watching this, we still homies him. I don't think it's a coincidence that in a 2018, 2019 NBA season, the NBA decided, you know what? We're gonna try our very best to combat tank it. We're gonna do everything in our power. And the first thing we're gonna do is flatten the lottery odds. If you win seven games this season, you no longer get a 25% chance of getting the first overall pick. We're gonna flatten it. You get 16, the second worst thing is 16, third worst thing is 16, and so on and so forth. This is the first year they did that. And a team that won the lottery, the New Orleans Pelicans, that was a Zion year, by the way, generational talent, at least a lot of people thought so and he's been living up to that, at least when he's healthy. The team that won the lottery that year had a 6% chance. Looks like they might have been trying to set an example, don't you think? Who got the second overall picture? I'll tell John Morant. The Memphis Grizzlies, who also had like a 4% chance. They wanted to show all the other GMs around basketball. You don't have to necessarily tank to the bottom to get the first and second overall pick. And then also, I'm not gonna Google this because why would I do such a thing? Like put in more work. This is right after or during the Anthony Davis thing. And if I'm not mistaken, the Pelicans didn't have an owner at the time. So I can see another conspiracy theory that they rigged it for the Pelicans in order to get someone to buy the organization high because they knew that Z was coming to New Orleans.  I don't know if that is a crazy coincidence or the lottery odds. And then you get to like the Minnesota Timberwolves who won the 2022 lottery, 14% chance they were one of the worst teams of basketball. And the Detroit Pistons won in 2021, 14% chance they would have won one of the worst teams of basketball. And the same with the Orlando Magic. So the one year, the first year that's all flat in the odds is the one year that somebody jumped up dramatically. You love to see that. You can make an argument for the LeBron James when being rigged or the Derrick Rose when coming to Chicago being rigged. So you know what I'm saying? The lottery odds, the drawing of the whatever, it's no longer televised because I think people were afraid of the Patrick Ewing thing happening again. But I do believe that actual NBA writers and stuff are in the room when the actual drawing happened. So I'm just, there's conspiracy theories, they're fun, all right? Let's see what the people in the subreddit are thinking. I did Google Gail Benson and the Benson family have owned the Pelicans for, since 2012. So that, I kind of made that last part up about them not having an owner. But I think I was conflicting the Chris Paul deal that got vetoed from the Lakers because I don't think they had an owner then either way, either way, let's get to the actual subreddit. So the ones that affection soup 24 gave were the MJ gambling things and then the Patrick Ewing being rigged. That's exactly what we said. Let's see the number one most upvoted thing is a response to Michael Jordan not being suspended. Good argument, if you believe David Stern punishes number one money maker with a two year suspension, you really don't know him at all. Good point. Tim Donahue wasn't a lone wolf and refs the term of the outcome of more games than we know. Ah, dang, you know what? This is probably deeper than just conspiracy theory. It's probably the truth, let's be honest. But I, you know, I'm a dude that if you've watched this channel for half a long, it's very, very, very, very rare that I even mention officiating because I believe that officials have a really tough job that they have to make split decisions literally in the millisecond to determine whether or not that's a block that's a charge is that worth calling the foul? Did he actually travel there? They have a tough job and it's, it's, it's hard. And they also be screwing up but also understand that they're human. So I don't mention it a lot. And yeah, you probably right. There might be some a couple refs in the league right now that is low key pan a little bit on the table. But that's for somebody else to research and not necessarily me but I understand where you're coming from. This was not even really a conspiracy theory. NBA owners in the league front office conspired to remove Sam Hinky from the 76ers GM position. But this is the type of stuff I'm here for. Ryan Anderson sucked at shooting in predominantly red arenas due to his, him being colorblind. And that is something that I didn't even know. I had no idea that Ryan Anderson was colorblind and that I'm about to go see with Ryan Anderson averaged on the road in Chicago, averaged on the road and Philly, any team that had a red court. I'm about to do some research on this random, random conspiracy theory. And guess what ladies and gentlemen, I ain't even have to do my own research. This is from six years ago. I'm shot out to a box on fire for putting this together. Ryan Anderson shooting struggles at home in result of his color blindness. If you don't want to read all of this, all you need to know is that at home he shot 30 percent from the field, 33 percent from three and 70 percent from the free throw line. And that was when he played for the Houston Rockets. Remember that. But when he was on the road, his percentages jumped up about 10 from the field goal, about 13 percent difference from three on the road versus home. And then like a 15 percent difference between his free throw. That's that database alone. These little statistics alone tell me everything I need to know. That's low key insane. I had no idea again that he was colorblind. Maybe I'm a casual. Maybe that's like widely known across NBA fandom. But I didn't know that. This might be an anomaly, but I thought about which other team had a predominantly red court. Chicago comes to mind. His career shooting splits in Chicago ridiculously bad compared to the rest of his career. That is a, like at this point, is it even really considered a conspiracy theory if we have evidence to support? Maybe it still is a conspiracy theory.  I bet we can ask him. Like I bet someone, maybe I should take initiative to find Ryan Anderson's Instagram and Twitter and try to DM him about if he's aware of all of this. And even before he became a rocket, he only shot 29 percent from three in the games that he played against the rocket. So again, ridiculous right up from six years ago that makes its way back into NBA culture right now. I remember seeing this one before. The Moore's brothers definitely switched places during the playoff series before. I think it was 2017. One of them was playing and the other one was out for the playoffs. I think Marquise got hurt and it looked bad, but he still suited up to play the next game. I convinced it was Marcus playing. Nowadays, they wouldn't be able to get away with this because Marcus has been a significantly better basketball player. I mean, he might even been that way in 2017 as well. But the thing that makes this fun is the Mark, the Moore's brothers have identical everything, hairstyles, height, near weight, tattoos.  They're identical brother. I think it was a story a little while ago that they share a bank account. These two identical twins NBA money have one bank account between the two of them, which is crazy. I'm going to try to dive deep into this though because that's a far one. For reference, I want to show you the injury that everybody's talking about right here. Guarded by Al Hor for Al Hor for undercuts him and he steps on that foot. And as you can see, he is on the floor for over a minute and agonizing pain. And again, two days later, he suited up without a hobble and this was a big moment. And while I don't want to spend too much time on one singular one, the Ringer put together an article once this happened, just saying like, hey, this is what happened and they admit that they've done it before. Not in the NBA circuit, but like when they played AAU, they've switched jerseys and played for each other. I mean, yeah. I mean, I can see them looking different. Obviously identical twins don't literally look the exact same, but like on national TV, from that view, they could have been the same person. It could have been different. It's a good conspiracy theory though. Okay, this one is low key kind of crazy. Ersan Ilyasova equals Arson Ilyasov. Now that might be confusing to some of you cause it was just confusing to me before I looked this up. So according to this conspiracy theory, Ersan Ilyasova isn't a real person. That's what they're saying. Back in 2003, a Turkish news channel came out with a report saying Ersan Ilyasova lied about his name, age, and nationality. Ilyasova's official birthday of whatever, whatever, was allegedly false. Ersan was actually born in 1984, making him three years older than the list of age. Now, obviously if you're an NBA fan, you know that this is not anything that's too out of the ordinary. Sometimes people come from overseas and they just lie about their age because the younger of a prospect you are, the more likely you are to get drafted. Like Buddy Heald from the Bahamas, it came out like five years into his career. He's like two years older than what everybody thought he was. The theory is that Ersan Ilyasova is actually a person named Ersan Ilyasov, born in, I'm gonna apologize. I'm not even gonna try to butcher this country's name, but born there. And in 2002, Ersan crossed the border into Turkey at age 18, but then went missing, never showing up again. All the documents about Ersan Ilyasov simply vanished. But only a month later, a person would go to the Turkish authorities and say that they forgot to register a 15-year-old son, a boy that turned out to be named Ersan Ilyasova. So it's low key a really crazy story and conspiracy that I mean, based on this one article, I can't see if I agree or disagree, but it's a part of NBA lore that I had nothing, I knew nothing about. So that's fun that we're learning something today. Uh-oh, uh-oh, me and very cool guy, Smas, we are on the same page. He said that 2019 draft ladders, master specialists, pelicans get their futures, the future after AD and the Lakers get the fourth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I didn't even, I didn't even peep or remember that the Lakers got the fourth overall pick that season to make the trade happen. Yeah. Whoa, so that low key kind of rigged it for the Lakers to end up with Anthony Davis. That's low key insane. I forgot about the aspect. Shout out to you. Very cool guy, Smas. This is a funny one.  That's, that's, that's a fun one. Obviously not true, but still fun. The 2006 NBA finals was rigged. Obviously this is the one where we got to see the he versus Mavericks. Now the person that did comment that was a Mavericks fan and you're looking at the series and if you weren't around then you're probably asking why would anybody even consider this to be a rigged series? Well, in game six, the game in which to Miami he closed this, this one out. Dwayne Wade shot 21 free throws by himself. I don't agree that it was rigged, but I can see someone seeing the, the imbalance and foul shots and believe that it might have been rigged.  So again, I don't necessarily agree, but I can see if I was a fan in 2006 of the Dallas Mavericks watching that game and being like, what the heck? Because in game five, that set up game six and closed out game Dwayne Wade shot 21 of 25 from the free throw line. So two back-to-back games with Dwayne Wade took over 20 free throws. Maybe a little fishy, depending on who you ask. And it was a 2-2 series at that point. We had a 4C Dallas Mavericks that wasn't supposed to be there. Shaq, I want to say on his last leg because he played a few years after this, but an older version of Shaq at 33 years old, you got this young emerging superstar 24 year old, Dwayne Wade. So, you know, I don't agree, but I can see the world in which people think it is. Okay, this might be the last one we end on. Here's one. The sports news shows deliberately make their anchors unlikable. Those scripts and overexposed to generate hate buzz and potentially let them go more easily if they want. Um, it's an interesting one. Sports shows deliberately make their co-hosts unlikable. Ah man, I don't know how to feel about that. I will agree the majority of the people on TV, at least when I watch them come off as unlikable people, I can't say that they actually are. I never met them, but I do know for a fact that a lot of the people on TV that talk sports are playing a character.  They don't have that same level of energy or that same level of passion about things that you might think they do because they're playing to this. They're trying to do this. They're trying to get the numbers up. These people worked 20 plus years to even have an opportunity to have a TV show. So they're gonna do everything in their power to keep it. They're gonna do everything in their power to keep the numbers up. So yeah, you might get a bad take that they don't even believe in because they know that it might go viral on Twitter and they might get people to talk about it and talk about it and talk about it. For example, I don't know what happened between Shannon Sharp and Skip Bayless the other day when they kind of got into it. I can't tell you it was fake. I can't say that, but it got people talking. It got people talking. At the end of the day, that's what these shows are for and about to get people to say the name. That's why you have Skip Bayless on Twitter, damn it, exclusively talking bad about LeBron because LeBron James gets clicks. If I made a video specifically about LeBron James right now, it's gonna be my best performing video out of my last 10. That's the name that LeBron James carries. So this guy who again, wants to continue to stay, I'm not saying, it makes me seem like I'm shitting on it. I'm not, that job is literally to stay relevant is going to almost exclusively talk about this one thing and that one thing is LeBron James because it works. Unfortunate, but one thing I will say, I think there's next generation of people that do talk shows in 15, 20 years or whatever it may be when the new people starting in, we might see less of that and more of legitimate level headed conversation because I think that's what people enjoy now. The whole talking head thing, I think it's an overplayed and dead medium, close to dead medium. So guess what we'll see. Guess what we'll see.


the comic weekly man the jolly comic weekly man and I'm here to read the funnies to you happy boys and honeys yes boys and girls it's comic weekly time and here I come right into your house to bring a little fun and happiness right out of the pages of Puck the comic weekly straight into your living room your friend the comic weekly man the jolly comic weekly man little more sunny how are you today I'm just wonderful because spring is here everything's turning green the birds are singing school soon be over flowers are beginning to flower blossoms are beginning to blossom and and butterflies are beginning to butter yes you certainly are happy aren't you if you'll just read me the funnies it'll make everything perfect Puck the comic weekly very well I will in just a moment but before I do let's listen to this nice man oh with Puck the comic weekly and on the top of the first page which we will read right away magic words for the music please very well my lady six guns blazing as he thunders along give us music for hop along rescued from the bog by the sheriff hoppy and his pals have ridden to the tax assessor's office to get vain the brains of the gang stealthily hoppy enters the office he sees vain going through the files vain says you know is that you slot hoppy replies not this time mr. Prentice vain alias PB vain whirls around first picture next row when Stammer's Cassidy I thought you were dead slowton his boys did their best but luckily the sheriff showed up in time to pull us out of the oil bog and California says man is for your paid killers are running like scared rabbits with a party breathing down her nicks vain Stammer's my paid killers I don't understand hoppy continues first picture next row you understood a rich oil vein when you saw it you found you couldn't steal the claim so you decided to use Don Felipe to force the issue well now the game's over California says yeah we've come for the boy vain says are you in gentlemen you'll find him in that vault I'd open it and cover him lucky vain opens the door to the vault first picture fourth row hoppy in California go into the vault as lucky stands guard lucky turns his head aside for a second quickly vain picks up a big dictionary and throws it at lucky quickly steps outside and slams the door of the vault closed he picks up his box of money throws a lamp on the floor sets the office of fire first picture bottom row then runs outside he leaves in his buggy and drives off saying now hit for the old quarry works and silence down pity pay the last witness against me the building is on fire and hoppy and his friends are locked in a safe how will they ever get out that is that dangerous situation I only hope that the safest fireproof so they won't be burned to death and now that hoppy isn't free that mean man's going to get rid of Felipe and there'll be nobody to rescue you next week we might have very exciting things happening that'll turn the tables on mr. vain well I certainly hope so cuz this is situation don't give up in dismay remember hoppy is a hero and maybe he'll find a way but now what I think you better read Prince Valiant because I'm sure he's on page three well let's look and see you're right he is Prince Valiant page three and you remember last week that poor boy Arf froze his feet when they crossed the mountain yes and they came to a little town at the foot of the mountains and the doctor told Val that he'd have to leave Arf there for a long time and the Prince Val has to continue his journey so I wonder what he did well let's read right now and find out here we go with Prince Valiant to the days of King Arthur heck it break it gray mullkin and quince music romantic for a fair fair prince Val is faced with a problem first picture he's saying to his friends Arf's feet were frozen crossing the pass even now he's fighting for his very life yet we have a mission to complete Rufus and Eagle agree a quest is a quest so they go to bid our farewell last picture top row telling him they must continue their errand but they promise to return when the work is finished Arf understands and bravely nods his head even though he hates to be left behind first picture next row Val leaves a princely sum of money with the doctor to make sure of his young squires care and with all arrangements made Val and his friends prepare to continue their journey all the guide from the monastery is no longer needed now that he has shown Val the way across the mountains and he turns homework once more to pit his strength and skill against the perils of the past with its bitter cold its avalanches and its chasms last picture the roll Val Eagle and Rufus speed on their way the old Roman roads are good the weather is not and first picture bottom row they reach the city of Rome and through the mist and rain see that the city is a place of ruin scars of the vandals visits still visible ruin everywhere about them they find an inn in the city and their dismount preparing to spend the night next morning last picture the sun is shining the world looks brighter and Val announces let's away to the bizarre and replace our travel stain garments with Raymond befitting ambassadors of through a bizarre was a name used many years ago for a store where you could buy almost anything yes the barbarians were cruel people who didn't respect anything that was good or nice I think we will I certainly won't miss that we waited a long time for them to get there mm-hmm well now while we're waiting for next week how about reading Donald duck oh please very well and turn over the page and here he is on page five and here we go with Donald duck say the magic words with me squeeze them squeeze them squinty ticket jack let's have music to better quack quack Donald loads a ladder in his car and jumps into the car and drives off when Donald stops he's at the city park he takes the ladder out of the car puts it against a lamp post climbs the ladder screws the light bulb from the lamp post in the last picture top row climbs down the ladder first picture bottom roll picks up the ladder carries it to another lamp post sets the ladder up climbs up the ladder and unscrews the light bulb from the other lamp post climbs down the ladder puts the ladder in the car and drives home when we see Donald again it's evening he's all dressed up in a sporty checkered jacket smart hat and his squirting cologne all over himself last picture Donald is with his girl Daisy in the park on the bench and neither of the street lights are on and Daisy says my it's done and Donald says cheerfully like romantic huh it's yes this way no one will see him sitting on the bench with his girl and then he won't be bashful about holding her hand no how would you like to skip to me quickly and since you found them we'll read them right away so here we go with Dagwit and Blondie Ramaphoo Ramapham Zim Zim Zambi come to me music for Dagwit and Blondie alarm clock rings waking Dagwit up he shuts off the alarm saying oh boy Sunday morning I can turn off the alarm and sleep as long as I like but just as he snuggles down again Blondie asks before you go back to sleep dear will you feed the pups and let them out Dagwit puts on his bathrobe and toddles down the stairs last picture top roll Alexander who's in his pajamas calls on your way up up will you please bring us some cinnamon toast and milk and Dagwit thinks first picture next row Dagwit is setting out the dog's food and he says no I can get back in bed and go to sleep what a delicious thought he gives the toast and milk to Alexander and cookie and just as he's about to climb into bed Alexander calls well thanks for the toast and milk pop whereupon Blondie sits up and says in bed I'll have orange juice egg toast and coffee and Dagwit thinks puts on his bathrobe and trots downstairs again last picture the roll he's frying eggs and says well might as well make my own breakfast too while I'm first picture next row after having his own breakfast he hands Blondie a tray with hers saying cheerfully no go back to sleep and Blondie says you're a darling takes off his bathrobe climbs into bed and he's just going to snuggle down when Alexander runs in saying hey pop mr. Whittler he's downstairs he wants to borrow something and Dagwit thinks and shouts tell him to take whatever he wants a few minutes later Dagwit hears an awful racket outside and first picture bottom row he sits up in bed and yells he jumps out of bed dashes downstairs out the door and he grabs the lawn mower from Herb Woodley gives it a mighty swing and hits Herb Woodley on the head with it he's back in bed again he's been trying to go to sleep finally he sits up and snarls thinking about how much it'll cost to repair the lawn and Blondie says yes it looks like Dagwit's Sunday has been spoiled and I think that bathrobe looks so silly I'll read that in just a moment but first here's that nice man again with something interesting to say oh here we go again with Puck the comic weekly and on the first page of the second section at the bottom Roy Rogers king of the cowboy magic words for the music please a yippie-yo now here we go with Roy and trigger a yippie-yo Hawkins succeeded in stomping they stampede to the cattle they went off to look for glib mason a citizen of raw hide friendly to dole full leaving Wildwood and her steer blackjack to watch the herd Stogie Grimes the outlaw who escaped from Roy earlier captured Wildwood and blackjack and has taken them to an abandoned logging camp he locks Wildwood up inside the shack but who should ride up but live Mason he dismounts and greets Stogie in a friendly way Stogie says to him third picture top row live Mason well I grabbed the gallon or critter like you said boss live Mason answers good when Roy Rogers has been trailing me since I slipped away from the herd get your rifle quick meanwhile Roy who has been following Mason's track says to trigger Mason's trail eats that old log and camp trigger I have a hunch that promoter stampede at our hurt and also knows what happened to Wildwood and blackjack last picture top row Mason leads Stogie Grimes over to the edge of the cliff saying Rogers pale Hawkins is driving the herd to raw hide alone we gotta stop him Grimes replies yeah well first we got to take care of Rogers it goes on first picture bottom row we'll make plenty Mason you promoted money to finance the trail drive and then you're rustle the very steers you buy for the folks in Roy Mason sees Roy coming up the road below and he says quiet Rogers is entering the ravine I got an idea we'll make this look like an accident Roy rides up the bottom of the cliff sees Mason's horse and says hey that's Mason's horse trigger he can't be far away I'll go up the bank and have a look so he gets off trigger and starts to climb up the bank directly below a flat car loaded with logs at this moment Stogie says to Mason hurry cut the ropes he's coming up the bank Mason cuts the ropes quickly the last picture the logs roll off the flat car thunder down poured Roy as Mason says stand back Grimes Rogers will be crushed to a pulp unless Roy thinks of something to save himself but what could he do I don't know we'll just have to wait till next week to find out I know but that's one of the things that makes the funnies exciting yes but let's go to flash Gordon then before you die oh well let's see you're right here oh and yes I love because flash is on the moon and I've always wanted to go to the moon yes flash has gone to the moon to find out why the meteors which had been exploding on earth had been dropping so regularly and they discovered that the beatleman on the moon had been shooting them mate and made meteors at the earth and last week flash put their machine out of order and then flash and his friends hid with the beatleman who became their friend and I wonder what's going to happen to let's find out right now so here we go with flash Gordon regga regga dune dune saskam attach let's have music for heroic flash flash in his party watching all is their atom blast wrecks the cannon from which flaming meteors were hurtling from the moon to the earth beetle like moon man poor angrily out of their burrows to find out what's happened last picture top row as the beatleman swarmed toward the space rocket flash freezes captive moon man and orders him to keep his people away from the ship tell them to stay where they are or shoot a warning ray blast emphasizes flashers command first picture bottom row flash and his friends scramble into their space rocket flash says we can't hold them off very long we'll fake a retreat hide the ship and then come back later quickly they enter the ship and take off just as the beatleman close in around it the beatleman dance and try as the rocket roars away but in the tunnel entrance a mysterious figure seems grimly concerned it's an earth man who looks through his telescope at the disappearing rocket last picture had brights request last circle stored the dark side of the moon bright busy himself taking pictures so he'll have a photographic record of the weird moonscape until flash warns we're heading into icy night better turn back to keep an eye on our playmates he has a gun just like flash he's an earth man I'm sure yes well I hope flash gets wise to him in a hurry well next week we really will have something to look forward to in flash Gordon because this is something flash hasn't expected no well now let's get over to the next page quickly because dick is with George Washington's army and we want to see what's happening to him yes he's at Valley Forge spending the cold cold winter there with the American soldiers and he must be going to have a battle soon so quick read it all right here we go with Dick's adventures and say the magic words with me a regular backpack is it let's have music for adventure the terrible winter is over sergeant gunner Hayes dick's friend confides joyfully to him hey wonderful news my wife Molly's on her way here for a visit dick Molly Molly pitcher sergeant Hayes smiles at dick and answers is her nickname dick Molly bring the picture her folks used to call her when she was little hey how did you know dick says nothing that just goes wisely about his business last picture top row suddenly that night orders come to strike camp at once and March dick groans oh your Molly you'll never find us now sergeant Hayes laughs hey I guess you don't know my Molly no time at all the army's on the March first picture next row because an immense British force under General Clinton the Vivo act of Monmouth, New Jersey dick says we're going to attack before they have a chance to move on back begins at dawn all through the next day furious battle of Monmouth rages in unbearable heat it is covered with grind burned with gunpowder Washington himself rides through the Rhine rallying his exhausted troops new strength flows into the man when they see their brave commander cheering them on and they fight with redoubled fury and first picture bottom row sergeant Hayes shouts Molly dick turns to see a young girl in silicon ruffles coming toward them it's Molly pitcher he tells them it took a long time to find them and now that she's here she wants help man need water to cool their parts thirsty throats and to cool the hot cannon so back and forth under fire Molly runs with a broken pitcher to a nearby brook and dick hears himself shouting hey Molly bring the pitcher Molly pitcher then sergeant Hayes is struck by a shot from the enemy and falls to the ground wounded and Molly last picture springs in to take his place at the cannon and fights beside dick until the battle is won was he was a great heroine yes Molly pitcher was a very famous woman patriot oh I'm sure we will you know she helped win that battle we will and now look right underneath dick is rusty Riley and remember a terrible thing happened last week yes that mean man Smith drove the truck that Rusty and Tex were in across the bridge and then he set the bridge on fire and ran away yes and Rusty and Tex are stranded in the old lumber camp and can't get out but one thing that doesn't know is that the plans that he had stolen the factory slipped out of his pocket and Rusty has them now but he's apt to go back after them so let's go and see what happens with rusty Riley say the magic words with me Gallup and run to the road is dusty give us music for his horse and rusty first picture as Rusty looks at the bridge which has fallen into the river he says golly Tex the bridge is nothing but smoking runes how we're ever going to get away from here Tex replies well you and I might find a way cross that gourds but we could never get big blaze over gee Wilkins takes what we're gonna do we write off I can't say rusty but one thing I know I'll never leave blaze here I'm responsible and somehow I'm gonna get him home whatever we do we better do it fast because that home brie sure to find out that those secret plans ain't in the back of that picture golly you're right Tex and when he does he'll be back sure last picture top row as Rusty looks at the huge logs lying around the lumber camp he says Tex I was just thinking those big logs must have been brought here somehow and I don't think that bridge we came over would have been strong enough yeah I see what you're getting at did shake a lot even under our van yeah we must be another way so they walk through the camp looking around first picture bottom row they see railroad tracks rusty exclaims hey wait a second Tex how about these tracks they must go somewhere by jingle rusty I think you got something there come on they lead around behind that shed quickly they walk along the tracks rusty stops look Tex another bridge Texas thoughtfully oh bridge ain't quite the word rusty I'd call it a trestle I'm afraid it ain't much help we can't walk big blaze cross that thing rusty looks back the other way and says well in the other direction the track runs right into a building I wonder what's in there he runs down the tracks goes into the shed where the tracks end and finds a train engine rusty exclaims hey Tex come here yes if Tex can run that engine well I'm afraid that's another thing we'll have to wait until next week to find out well don't sound so disappointed you've got lots of other comics you can read all during the week and don't forget you can enjoy yourself with a comic weekly corner oh yes and I can read Snuffy Smith and the Phantom and the Lone Ranger and of course you can now that's all the time I have but before I go here's that nice man with some more interesting information all your boys and girls they gotta go now okay that's the date and the date with all your boys and girls be sure to meet me with our little friend miss honey next week when I read Puck the comic weekly for I'm the comic weekly man the jolly comic weekly man I'll be back to read the funnies to you happy boys and honey don't forget boys and girls see you all next week your friend the comic weekly man the jolly comic weekly man


Hello everyone, this is financial author Amit Dan of AmitDan.com. On this channel, you'll find financial travel and more videos just like the one you're watching right now. If you like what you see, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing. Hello everyone, this is financial author Amit Dan of AmitDan.com. On this channel, you'll find financial travel and more videos just like the one you're watching right now. If you like what you see, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing. today I'll talk about bill 791 and bill 134 that were proposed in Quebec now this video has two parts part one and part two I recorded part two before May 1st which talked about bill 791 bill 791 proposed a stop create card companies or reward programs devaluing their viewers program or viewers chart which would put an end to viewers programs or create cards in Quebec now just before publishing part 2 I found out that bill 791 was changed to bill 134 and bill 134 does not have the clause which would prohibit loyalty programs or viewers programs devaluing their points or changing viewers charts as a result what I mentioned in part 2 is no longer valid and because bill 134 is more flexible for loyalty programs and viewers programs viewers great curse and loyalty programs are no longer in danger in Quebec for that reason part 2 article is no longer valid however I'm going to publish it anyway just for your reference or as an FYI now this new bill which is bill 134 is no longer considering devaluing viewers programs and as a result whatever I mentioned in part 2 article for example create card companies are living Quebec or it will be an end for viewers programs in Quebec these are no no longer valid also I mentioned in part 2 that MBNA Canada Araska MasterCard they stopped taking applications in Quebec that's no longer valid as well since the clause was removed from bill 791 and the new bill started which is bill 134 now MBNA Araska World Elite or MBNA Araska MasterCard is available for Quebec residents and it looks like that you know the loyalty programs and all viewer programs are going to be just fine in Quebec so after this part 1 the part 2 start and you if you watch part 2 then you'll see what I was talking about before thank you for watching and if you find this video full of information or if you like what you see please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing that's all for now thanks hello everyone this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com today I'll talk about bill 791 that puts viewers program at risk of extinction one of the Canadian provinces Quebec has introduced a bill called Quebec 791 this bill proposes three new legislative requirements for loyalty programs that operate in Quebec to protect consumers in simple terms bill 791 means if it comes into reality is that viewers are loyalty programs will have to abide by these rules number one in front public how to collect and use the viewers number two the viewers own expire once collected and number three the program or value cannot be changed when you use the viewers what it means that the programs cannot be devalued loyalty or viewers programs can accept rule number one or two I just mentioned however rule number three is where no loyalty programs can comply with in theory this sounds like a great idea because you're guaranteed to retain the value of the points you're collecting whether it's airline hotel or other points but in reality this is not sustainable by any hotel airline or other viewers programs changing our charts adjusting viewers redemption rates are devaluing loyalty programs whatever you call it it's a necessity for the loyalty programs and it's a must to survive it's kind of same like inflation making grocery prices going up whether you're like it or not it will happen restricting loyalty programs to make necessary adjustments to survive will only make things worse and chase these programs away from Quebec Quebec residents are the one who'll suffer in the end and there's no need to wait to see the consequences it's already happening MB&A Alaska Airlines MasterCard has already pulled out of Quebec other programs like SPG, IHG, Hilton, Airplan, Avios, American Express and many more will have to follow the same path if bill 791 passes it will be the end of viewers grade curse and loyalty programs in Quebec especially those international based Quebec residents and points collectors should take a hard look at this bill before it's too late that's all for now if you like what you see please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing thank you


Let's continue our discussion with trigonometric substitutions in the following way. In general, the most difficult part of integration by trigonometric substitution is going to be the very last step, which is putting everything back into place. So we'll have made our substitution x equals trigonometric function of theta. We'll have done a whole bunch of things, so then we'll end up with a final answer that is expressed in terms of theta, but now we have to go back and put everything in terms of x. And for that, it's helpful to remember the fundamental triangle. Anytime we have a trigonometric function, there's some right triangle that we can draw, where we have our angle theta, we have our sides, a, b, and our hypotenuse, c. And in this case, we have sine is the opposite side, a, over the hypotenuse. We have cosine is adjacent side, b over hypotenuse. Tangent is opposite over adjacent, a over b. And then finally, c-count is reciprocal of cosine, that's c over b. And these are going to be the four important trigonometric relationships that we'll want to have at our disposal. And if we combine these with our Pythagorean relationship for any right triangle, a squared plus b squared equals c squared, then we'll have a good and easy way of substituting for theta in the final step of the trigonometric substitution. For example, consider the anti-derivative one over square root one plus x squared. Now the problematic portion of this integral is this radical right here, square root one plus x squared. And so we might reason as follows. If we're going to use a trigonometric substitution, then this radical is going to correspond to one side of a right triangle. So let's play around with that. A little bit of analysis is going to go a long way. If we make this side length have length s, then one side of the right triangle looks like this. And let's see, if I square both sides to get rid of the radical, then I end up with s squared equals one plus x squared. And this looks an awful lot like the Pythagorean theorem. In particular, it looks like we're talking about a right triangle with sides one, side x, and third side is going to be hypotenuse s, but rather than writing s as a new variable, I'll substitute in what that is, square root one plus x squared. And so I can record it that way, and this s here doesn't ever enter into our picture. And now I have this nice right triangle, and here's the important thing. Part of that right triangle is part of the integrand. Now in general, what we're going to try and do is we're going to try and make the substitution x equals some trigonometric function of theta, and here's my x, and the thing that suggests itself, the simplest trigonometric function I can use here is tangent theta, which is, here's theta, tangent is opposite over adjacent. So tangent theta would be x over one, and so I make the substitution x equals tangent theta, dx secant squared theta d theta. The other thing that's helpful about drawing the triangle first is that we can use it to simplify the integrand. So let's consider this expression one over square root one plus x squared. Well, that's actually going to be cosine of theta because that is adjacent over hypotenuse. So my integrand, I could go through the procedure of let x equals tangent theta, substitute in applied trigonometric identity to evaluate simplify, but I can look at my picture, and I can see that this one over square root one plus x squared that's adjacent over hypotenuse, and I recognize that as cosine. So I can use these substitutions, integrand as cosine, dx secant squared theta d theta, drop that in, do a little bit of algebra. This is antiderivative secant. We do have to remember certain antiderivatives and secant is log secant plus tangent, absolute value thereof. Well, that's our constant. Well, again, we have to put everything back where we found it, so we need to express everything in terms of x. And again, our fundamental triangle helps us do that because what is secant theta? Well, secant is hypotenuse over adjacent side. So secant root one plus x squared over one, tangent opposite over adjacent is going to be x, and so I can substitute those back in, and there's my final answer.


Hey folks. Can somebody talk to make sure I've got my morning audio configured? Hey Steve. Hey, there we go. And people start showing up. This is getting bad. I don't want to disappear from webcam because it's just, it's some connectivity with people, but I think I'm going to start putting one of those things on my, can I get like one of those own hats and like hair things that just kind of floats on your head? Oh, I see somebody's already got it. Great. Thanks, Aaron. I'm assuming you did that. How you feeling, Justin? Yeah, back to normal. Welcome back. So we have this call at 1030 where I'm drinking coffee and then we have the later call on Wednesdays where, uh, Vincent's drinking wine. There seems to be some combination of the two. We'll give a couple of moments for people to join. And Justin, uh, Capos, I just, I've replied to your, um, post this morning on the feedback. It's a, it's probably the most meaningful conversation we might want to figure out is how do we find the balance. So. I saw. I will Cormac offline from Slack. And I want to apologize in advance. I'm going to have to drop out of this call a bit early. So. Okay. Let's see what agenda items we have. Maybe we can cover, um, that topic sooner. We're at the five minutes. I don't see Justin. Cormac online. He might have had another call. I camera of Vincent said he was or wasn't coming. So. All right. Why don't we pull up. Just pop this over here. Okay. So from a working group status, which was the agenda item, I guessing, uh, Aaron popped in there. So thank you. Aaron, am I giving you credit for somebody else? No, I just copied. I just. I was just getting it started. So yeah. Awesome. Thank you. Yeah. Oh, and, uh, something that we were discussing. I can't really just call the OCI Wednesday call is being better around taking notes. This is something I've watched the helm team a while ago do really good as they kind of a designated note taker. And if that person's talking to somebody, it picks up from them. Cause it is hard to talk and type at the same time. Um, so I don't know how we want to start doing that. Um, any volunteers. I'm hoping we'll get a collaborative work. I'll certainly type when I, when I can with, uh, trying to keep up with the conversation as well. So mostly for a status, uh, a couple of things, uh, that I was going to chat about, um, Um, Obviously we have this one conversation, which I'll queue up. Uh, so let me just kind of indent this here and we'll talk about the, um, Scenarios update or scenarios feedback. I'll call that. Um, So when we start there, well, there's that actually, let's get a couple of items on here. Then there's, um, Um, Um, Um, flow that we'd been wanting to do and, uh, Provide a status on that and why I was thinking we wanted to start focusing on that. Uh, is any other topics people want to cover just in anybody else? Okay. Um, It's going to be difficult to do this without Cormack here. Cause I know he, you know, there was this conversation with, uh, between Kapo's Cormack and myself in a. Um, Um, Um, Last week we had a pretty good conversation where we were talking around, uh, kind of, I'm implying it as a scope. Might not be the best way to do it, but scope isn't necessarily a bad word per se, but there's this conversation that I've been, at least that I've been kind of pushing from, and I'll just kind of put a transparent of where the, where I've been kind of thinking. But obviously completely open to where we want to do this is we're really trying to do that signature on, uh, a piece of content. Um, because if we can sign content that says this thing is what it is, as long as the key that backs it up is still valid. Uh, then that enables lots of different scenarios, because then you could put lots of other documents that represent. Um, additional information that you could then trust because there's a signature associated with it. Um, that said, I think, and I'll cue this up for you, Justin, to kind of, to jump in. I think there's a little bit of a challenge is that signature good enough to actually mean anything. And do we need to take it further to what you've been doing with tough, um, to do some additional validation. And I think that's the push and pull part that I'm just trying to get my head around. Um, we just get my head around. So with that, I'll guess. Is this, is this the, we're talking about the scenarios document discussion, right? I just want to be a hundred percent. Yeah. So basically the, um, Am I being too concrete in some of the technology or maybe scope? Yeah. So, so yeah, and I'll just, you know, because I am going to have to drop off soon, I'll, I'll try to keep this kind of brief, just to explain the sort of problem here to people. So, um, one, one, uh, if you kind of over scope scenarios, um, like are too precise in how you're describing things, you can run into crazy situations. And so I'll just give kind of an example here. So, um, you know, let's, let's say that you, you know, rather than doing anything with no, whatever, we're just trying to move people that have had some kind of medical emergency, um, quickly to hospitals. That's like the, the kind of thing we're trying to do. Um, then if, if we kind of over describe this and talk about how, you know, um, like any vehicles for doing this have to have puncture, resistant tires with thinking being that, you know, if an ambulance is carrying someone and it runs over a, you know, a board with nails and the middle of the road and gets a flat tire than that results in deaths. Um, if you kind of over specify it in that way to say all vehicles that transport people must have tires that are puncture resistant, then, um, the problem you run into is that later your design that you come up with may involve, for instance, helicopters that fly people from hard to access locations. And then those are required to be fitted with puncture resistant tires. He's kind of like, you know, to continue my silly example here. That's a good example. So what I'm arguing for in, to try to bring it back home. Um, what, what I'm arguing for in the scenarios is for us to focus on the goals we're trying to achieve and to leave as much as possible of the mechanisms out so that we're not being specific, but instead of talking about the fact that, um, you know, that, that, um, like there have to be puncture resistant tires on the ambulance is the fact that, you know, the goal has to be that we have to be able to transport things and have this reliability and this resistance to these types of, you know, conditions and scenarios and so on. Because, um, then I think we can better ensure that what we're getting is actually a solution that, that meets the goals, not just, um, uh, sort of, uh, like, uh, you know, doesn't already have pre-baked into it a bunch of design that some of which maybe doesn't, uh, doesn't fit or, uh, possibly, you know, wouldn't, uh, isn't justifiable. No, totally fair. Um, I think there's no, um, it's hard to debate that because it's a very valid point, right? It's, uh, I was going to make some joke about helicopters. Still have tires, the big ones, but you know, they can still get there. You know, they sketch across, but anyway, um, I think the question is, uh, so here's the larger part. One of the things that, and I want to circle back around to this, as I think in some places we're being so open-ended that people are having struggles on where to engage and provide more context. So the example I've been using lately is, you know, we've got electricians, we've got plumbers, we've got, uh, cabinet builders, if you will, and they know that task really, really well. Uh, the concrete example is I have some people internally that are handle key management and they've been hacking at notary, uh, notary or Docker content trust and how they could create private keys, uh, in a separate environment so that they're never actually on build machines. Um, and they're not knowing where to plug in. So the only thing they can see is the existing Docker content trust. So I have some internal teams that are starting to build up solutions around something that we know doesn't work. So what I've been struggling a bit with is how can we give enough of a sketch and I'm purposely using the word sketch as opposed to a blueprint of what this thing is going to look like on this vacant lot and the vacant lot is on a hillside, not on a beach. It's, you know, a two-story house with four bedrooms. And if we can outline, you know, the basics of it, um, that, and maybe to your point, it's like, Hey, I've got a family of four with two kids that are aged two and four or whatever. Is there enough details there that it gives the ability for people to bring their expertise in and know where to contribute?  So, right, there is one perspective and that's, and that's why we've tried to put some things in the scenarios or in the DevOps flows that people are doing related to containers. I'm using containers, but I air quoted it because I wanted to be more artifact driven, but is specific into a registry. So. Using, I just think we, you know, I don't think there's wild disagreement, but I do think that having the scenarios be the requirements, the actual like required things in scenarios is important and having the threat model and and some other things related to that exist at a high level, including perhaps some of the, you know, some of the UX slash design work really gets kind of co created, but I think you need to have like the threat model and you need to have the like a scenarios that's, that's not at that level. And then once we have that, then I think that you're absolutely right that people can step in and propose things with designs. But otherwise, like, how do we judge if we just bake it into scenarios, then how do we judge if a requirement is a good, like if a scenario part of a requirement is part of a scenario is good or not. We sort of don't have that the way to really reason about it. It's just, well, it was written and it was agreed to. And that's, that's not, not really the, you know, whereas I think the scenarios themselves, we all, we could all agree on the goals and the scenarios absent the design aspects, which I hope, you know, but yeah, I can see why right now it would be hard for an electrician or a plumber to come in just like before the architect has, you know, has drawn a sketch of the building. It's hard for them to do that. And so we do this for architectural purposes. So that would help me a little bit more. This is why it was because I haven't been disagreeing with your feedback. I just I'm trying to figure how to make it actionable. And by all means others, you know, I'm looking around and I see some people that are, you know, have a lot of great contents. So please chime in with info. I'm trying to figure out how to turn it into more concrete.  So if you could help me structure, structure the wording a little bit better, I'm really happy to do that. Because I what I'm, what I'm wondering though, is like, when I look at this, I don't see, I'm not seeing, you know, it's always about perspective, right? I mean, you know, the concrete things that are the need to change as an example, for instance, like there is a presumption around, we want registries, we want these DevOps flows. What is it that is there a specific thing that I could be word or restructure in a different style of that would help you would make it more generic in a way. I'm going to have to drop, but I think that level of specificity we could discuss and do. But in general, there's things that aren't going to change. I mean, there's the mountains in your example, the hillside is there. The size of the plot is there. The number of people that need to do things, and the fact that they need to be safe, those don't change. But then the actual mechanisms used to accomplish those are like, those are not forces of nature.  I mean, we very likely will agree with a large part of what's proposed, but the, you know, we'll end up with a lot of that in the design. But with that baked into the scenarios, it becomes hard in many ways to tell if we've like presumed things that we shouldn't have as part of it. And it'll give us like a much firmer foundation. So I'll talk with you more about this offline. And maybe we can also include Justin Cormack, who's got a brief conversation with him. And I think we're, we're seeing a lot of the same kinds of things. So, okay. Rather than just to make a quick phone call with me or, you know, something. So I pinged him. So hopefully we'll have that to review that it scales much better when it's written. So have a good day. We'll chat later, ping me. We'll figure out something. We'll bring the conversation back to the group. Sounds good. Thanks. Thanks, Justin. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Could we maybe attract those suggestions as a pull request on the current specifications? Uh, So the, so yes, but I, I, I'm not sure. Yes. If. When I butcher somebody's pronunciation name, please correct me. That is what we were discussing. I didn't actually paste it because I was talking again. There is a PR. I'm not sure. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't have any requirements for the scenarios that mark down. That Justin, I've been discussing back and forth. So are you looking for more? Or are you. Or are you looking to try to capture these notes in? Yeah, just making sure we're capturing this notes in PR. Because I wouldn't want to have those over discussion and then lose track of them. I think like putting in a PR makes it more concrete where we can just review it and say, yes, this makes sense to up level it and we can just apply it. Yeah. Yeah. So, this notes and you can see what I think we are doing. Just what you're asking. But again, this is always about perspective, right? So it's. Let me take. I'm going to put the link to my response because my response is right after Justin. So this way you'll capture both. So I'm just going to put it here. We're adding a name and we're adding a default. We're adding a default price.group planning and top of valuation. I've highlighted that with a PR, PR, whoops. You're number 15. So take a look at that. If you don't feel like that covered what we just did. We can always do more. It's always a balance of the notes we're taking here versus taking notes in PR is completely. So that was one of the things I think I wanted to bring up I think it would be more efficient if they actually commented on the PRs themselves and closed them outside of the meeting. I'm sorry, this is the problem with typing and listening. You said a part of it, repeat your last part of the sentence. So I think part of the problem has been that we've been debating PRs and scenarios in the meeting itself, whereas I think the looking at the PRs and commenting on them over time and then giving people enough time to comment and then closing them out in a week would be we'd be making I think more progress that way rather than trying to debate everything in the 30 minute call. Yeah, no, it's fair. I think it would try to do a combination of both because sometimes the back and forth in text gets lost where a phone call helps facilitate but then there's a combination of both to be fair. An example, I was on a completely different project. I was going back and forth, I completely missed what a person's context was. Somebody pinged me offline, explained to me some of their background, and when I considered their background and then we were talking through it, I understood exactly what they were referring to and there was an easy change for me to make, but it only happens with that dynamic conversation. So we're not trying to do one or the other, I think is the thing. And we've had a lot of good feedback on the PRs that we've gotten some stuff in. So please take a look at that PR and we want to support both. We know some people think better by typing and some conversations work better by conversation, but we want to capture both. Anything else on that one, before we go to the next, well, the threat model update, I don't know, Sam, were you able to look at who's here to provide an update on that? I don't have an update to provide. Okay. Okay. One of the last things that came out of the threat model conversation we had roughly two weeks back was that until we have more of a design in place, it's really hard to do sort of like a threat model analysis. The one thing that we talked about a bit in that one was looking at key management from outside of a threat model perspective. I think at a high level, we understand the threats we want to cover, but a real full detailed analysis comes after we have more of the design in place. We may want to look into how we want to sequence those parts of the project. No, that's great. Actually so this is, there is a threat model doc and maybe the threat model doc is not titled properly. The threat model doc was supposed to be, here's the high level threats that we want to encounter. To your previous comment, this was the conversation we had in the initial scenarios doc that Justin had provided. And we actually moved some of the feedback from the scenarios into the threat model. So the idea is that, and again, I'm open to threat model doc markdown be renamed to something as threat model requirements or something. So yeah, I think we want to make sure we're capturing that because it did tease out some really good info on camera, which particular one it was. I think it was some of the revocation scenarios. Yeah, I think if we call this like acknowledged threats from V1 that we're trying to address, I think that's a fruitful conversation. And I think that's one where I'd like to talk to both Justin and figure out when we look into threat model versus what can we get done for the key management. Now there were some interesting conversations on key management. My audio was a little bit garbled last week, but I think there are high level questions around what we want the signing to attest to versus what we view as sort of like updates that are necessarily not security related. I think Justin brought up last week that you'd always be pushing everyone to use the latest version of the update and use that to make sure they're getting all the patches and everything that they need. I think we'd push back against that a little bit and say that not necessarily every update has a flaw and then we'd look more at like the key management and how keys are revoked to track security vulnerabilities. But you should be able to roll back to a previous version of software as long as you know that doesn't have any vulnerabilities in it. No, I remember that from last week and that was there's lots of interesting conversations around the rollback concept and when does it happen and so forth. So and that's what I'd love to see written up more because I think it it's it's hard to digest until you can read it four or five times. Okay, let me I'm going to finish my note here for a second about splitting up the threat. What did you what did you call it the threat model requirements? Yeah, so this is like I would say we call it like current threat models that we can address for Nord AV1 and then a key management discussion that is separate from a threat model discussion of a design. Key management separate from a threat model design, right? Yeah, great, perfect. We and we talked about having the key manager being a separate work group. I think there were so many people that were overlap. We left at the same, but I think we need to split it out. I know and I'm looking I don't see some of the Microsoft folks on because they're actually on a conflicting call. But we've been also trying to figure out and this actually come up to the UX flow. So let me just broaden back. So I mentioned that we've internally been have some teams that were working on this as with any large company. There's lots of people working on things. I got to work with John Gosman has this Gosman's rule that any good idea has at least five implementations going on and you only know about three. I'm assuming it's the same with other companies as well. So the some of these things did pop up that these other teams were working on it. So what we've been trying to figure out is how to work on a little bit of that sketch and we realize that this will be absolutely iterative. So luckily instead of physically building a real house, it'll be a little bit more of a Lego model, if you will, that it's easy to kind of tear it back down, rebuild it up as we learn more. But I think there's some contractors that want to get in and start doing some plumbing and electrical. And only after they do some of the work will they realize some of the things are going to bubble out for requirements. Omar Paul was really good about, I think it was Omar, was mentioning that we need to make sure that key management is a pluggable model. So that we're not tied to the keys being part of the registry per se. That native US you can use their key management Azure. You can use our key management and others you can use, I just drew a blank. Hashi Corpse, Key Vault for instance. But there's other things around keys being offline is another scenario. So to try to move some stuff forward, what we've been talking about is the UX probably being a bit of that sketch. Like having this scenario is written down and we'll continue this conversation that Justin and I were just discussing. Cuz I'm not, I think, I'm not sure he's, the thing that I'm trying to make sure is are we debating the actual content, the intention or the goals or whatever are wrong or just it's the wording and the style that are making it too difficult to try to figure out how to implement. So those are subtleties that we should work on. But can we continue to make a little more progress in this era of cycles? So we've been talking about having a little bit of a UX flow to help put a sketch that here's the interaction models we wanna have from a usability. And an experience in the sense of what we're capturing and enabling and start allowing some of the people to work on different parts of the project. So we're talking about getting that done, release started. We'll probably sketch it out for the remaining of this month. Let's just look at the calendar cuz we have some people that will be available in the beginning of May that can start hacking at a solution. So we were gonna just sketch out some stuff with like a UX flow that will tease out some of these things and hopefully that'll provide a very, again, very iterative on how we're thinking about all these different things. So I promised a couple of weeks ago nothing is gonna be concrete cuz we know everybody's, first of all, everybody's engaged. Normally this would be something we wanna make sure we capture and certainly at this time where people have to disappear for a couple of weeks for reasons of world pandemic. We wanna make sure that everybody had a chance to jump back in and take a look. So that was the main topic there. Actually, I just realized we're actually at 11 and we are at a half an hour. That makes sense to me. I think if they're also in this Slack channel and we wanna look at other times to kind of look at what we understand as concerns and be one that we wanna address and see if we have consensus there. Happy to set up a meeting at a different time. If you can ping me their aliases, I can reach out to them and see if we can schedule a chat at a different time. Yeah, we probably, this is something we talk about a lot about moving it to evening and morning so that people in other parts of the world can contribute. And we never seem to get that done because moving is almost more difficult. But let's see what we can, I don't know what voting app is good for good times, but let's, yeah, why don't we talk about that? Again, we just talked about in the Slack, when I say offline it's necessary always in private. Let's just ping each other on the Slack channel for the Notary Vee too. And see what we can come up with and we can find another meeting time. Yep, I think there if you, for me like in the past, like when we went to the Threat Mall discussion, I retouched to Cormac and Kappos and we were able to figure out times and then just shared that in the regular Slack channels so everyone else could join in. So if you have people in Microsoft that are working on key management and you ping me their aliases, I can make sure that we find times that work for them. Excellent. All right, well, thank you, folks. We have a small group this week. I hope everybody's doing well. Glad Justin is back feeling good. And I look forward to talk to you guys on Slack in next week. Thanks, folks. Thank you.


Welcome to ToffeeTV, the Everton News Daily. Marco Silva has held his press conference today ahead of the trip to Arsenal on Sunday. He's been given a bit of an update on the injuries. The positive stuff, he says, Yeti Mina has trained all week and is in contention. He's saying he's trying to find his sharpness and he's getting closer to it. So maybe, just maybe we might see him in contention. Possibly on the bench maybe would be a more realistic prospect. But we'll have to wait and see. But if he feels like he needs to make a change, could he put him in there next to Kate Zuma and maybe move Mason Holgate to right back possibly? Could that happen Sunday just to show that defence up against an Arsenal side that I think is one of those four games? So we'll have to wait and see on that. Will he be tempted into bringing Yeti Mina in? So that is the positive news from the injury front. He said Seamus Coleman is still out. I don't think he mentioned Michael Keane, but he did say Jag Elkhut should start training next week. Andre Gomez, he's given an update now. Anyone who goes on social media, anyone who goes on the likes of Twitter, there's been a lot of rumours concerning Andre Gomez this week. We didn't really want to put any fuel on the fire by mentioning it beforehand, but I know a lot of people have mentioned it to us on Twitter regarding people saying has he suffered a setback? There was talk that his injury had got a lot worse and it could be that his season could be over. He has had a setback so far, which has kept him out longer than expected, and these muscle injuries can be unpredictable if you come back too early and you do the same injury over again. And sometimes if you do it again, it's even worse. Now, Michael Silvers addressed those rumours and said that he expects them to start training after the full game, the week after the full game. So, another week out and then hopefully, hopefully fingers crossed he can start training properly. So, do you have it? Listen, you never know with these rumours. Sometimes you see rumours on Twitter and other social networks and you don't want to believe him. Sometimes they come through, but this one hopefully is being put to bed by Michael Silvers, which is good. Because he's a player that could make a difference. I've watched some videos of him, YouTube is not always the best place, I know. But I've watched videos and I know Baz has done the same of him when he was at Barcelona. And when he was at Barcelona, he was a bit of a like, Snydlan kind of player, just got the ball, give the ball. But when he was at Valencia, he was a player who ran between the lines, he was a player who got the ball and ran from midfield into forward positions. A much different player, maybe that's why it went wrong at Barcelona. But maybe we could get that side of his game forever and we would get a player I think we desperately need, someone who can break between the lines because that's something, that's a player we haven't had in midfield since Ross Barclay. So, yeah, hopefully he can come in and do a job for us in that number eight position. Fingers crossed. What else has been going on? The manager mentioned with Charlotteson obviously just come back game and how much of a big difference that will mean to us on Sunday to have him back. And with Charlotteson has actually been called into the Brazilian squad for the next set of fixtures in the next international break. So obviously scored a couple of goals in the game against El Salvador and he's been rewarded with another call-up. So that's fantastic. He's got that now. He knows he's got that call-up and hopefully he'll take that into the game on Sunday, that conference into the game on Sunday. And hopefully that will, hopefully that will push him forward. Another play he's been called up is, just again, a guy he's been calling up. I don't understand why they've all been called up so early, but he's been called up as well. Yeah. Walcott has been having his say on the situation he had at Arsenal and it said, that the last couple of years he hadn't enjoyed at Arsenal and that's why the move to Everton was being so positive. He said, he's got that back now. He said he's loving it and he's enjoying his football now. And Theo also said that if he scores on Sunday, he'll have no problem celebrating. You know, he said he played for Southampton, scored against Southampton and celebrated against Southampton. So why wouldn't he do the same for Arsenal? He said, you know, he enjoys his football and wants to show that if he can score, he will celebrate and hopes that the Arsenal fans would respect that because he's always respected Arsenal. So hopefully he'll get his way and he will score and he will celebrate. That would be fantastic on Sunday. What else is going on? Leucadine is how we should be pronouncing Leucadine's name. There's been a lot of chat about this. Was it Dean? Was it Dean Ye? Well, there's been a lot of different pronunciation, but Leucadine has said it himself. He's been interviewed by Rob Parmer for Sky Sports for Saturday, I think it is. I think it's on soccer Saturday. And he said it himself on a video. Leucadine is how it gets pronounced. So that puts that to bed. It's come from the man's own mouth. Leucadine is how we pronounce his name. Last but not least, Everton under 23, he drew 2-2 last night with Brighton in the Premier League international Cup. They took the lead through Bassa Samba and then went 2-1 behind and young Ellis Sims come on to score off the bench. This is a 17-year-old who's been playing for the under-18s, scored 85 goals for the under-18s and come off the bench last night. David Underworth normally uses these Premier League international games as a way of bringing younger players into the squad. He just rotates a little bit, leaves out some of his normal under-23s to give players that are doing well in the other age sections a chance. So Ellis Sims came off the bench and scored the equaliser last night. So fantastic news. Hopefully that's a name that we can look forward to hearing in the future. Putting the ball in the back of the net for Everton. Seems like a good up-and-coming player there. So look out for that young man's name in the future. So there you go. This has been the Everton News Daily for today. We'll be back Monday. Hopefully with lots of smiles. We'll see you then.