All right, so today I've got 17 websites for you that pay daily and some of these websites you can make a full-time income with easily. And the first one on the list is going to be Fat Lama. And this is a website where you can actually rent stuff that you're not currently using to other people. So for instance, let's say you bought a camera one year because you wanted to take some photos and then you used it for about a month. And then after that, you probably pull it out about once a year. Well, with Fat Lama, you can take that camera and rent it out to other people in your area. And it's not just cameras. You can rent out many different things such as DJ equipment, drones, electronics, musical instruments, projectors, electric scooters, vehicles, and even sewing machines. And usually when you rent these items out, you'll make somewhere between 10 and $1,000 a day. And there are some lenders on Fat Lama that make over $10,000 per month. So some of the pros here are you can turn your collection of items that is collecting dust into a steady source of income. You can also connect with other people who are interested in the same things that you are. And you have flexibility in setting rental prices. Some of the cons here are the need to ensure security and returns on your rented items, the potential for wear and tear on your belongings. And for some items, there might be limited demand or on the other side of the spectrum, there might be way too much competition. So yeah, this can be a great way to make money from things that would just be sitting there anyways. I'll give this one an 8.5 out of 10 opportunity score. Are you tired of your neighbors borrowing your lawn mower, stealing your parking spots and making you question the meaning of life? Well, what if I told you there's a website that can turn those pesky neighbors into your own personal cash cows? And this is exactly what neighbor does. So basically, if you have extra space in your house or your backyard, you can rent that space out to your neighbors or really anybody in your town.  And people who use neighbor typically earn somewhere between $50 and $600 per month. So that's really good money considering you're basically not having to do any work at all. So some of the pros here are you can return your idle storage spaces into a reliable source of income. You can help your neighbors out by providing them with much needed storage solutions. And you have a flexible schedule as well as control over the rental space. Some of the cons here are the need for strong security measures to protect people's stuff, potential challenges in dealing with difficult or demanding tenants and limited availability in certain areas. So who knew that you had a gateway to a gold mine hiding behind the door of your dusty basement?  So I'm gonna give this one an eight out of 10 opportunity score. So picture this, getting paid to share your opinions as if your thoughts are the golden nuggets that everyone has been waiting to hear and being the Steve Jobs of ideas. And the best thing is you can get paid to do it. It's like the dream job of every annoying person at a dinner party. And you can do this all with Google Opinions which is a platform where you can earn rewards by taking surveys and sharing your thoughts and opinions on various topics. Basically, you're gonna be taking surveys that are run by market researchers and in exchange you'll receive payments from Google Opinion Rewards via PayPal. And you can think of Google Opinions as a virtual suggestion box where you can drop your ideas, opinions, and critiques.  And what sets Google Opinions apart from other survey websites is of course its connection to Google, the almighty search engine. And this means that companies can much more easily ask the right questions to the right people. And you'll receive between 10 cents and $1 per survey completed. And these surveys are usually very quick and there's a lot more availability than a lot of the other survey websites. So some of the pros here are you get to earn rewards for sharing your opinion so you don't have to annoy other people at dinner parties anymore. You have the flexibility to complete the surveys at your own pace and you have the opportunity to influence products and services that you probably already use. Some of the cons are there can be limited availability of surveys based on your demographics. There is potential for repetitive or lengthy surveys. And in some cases, the rewards may vary. But overall, this one is well respected. Obviously it's an extremely established company and Google does put out really good products. So I'm gonna give this one an 8.5 out of 10 opportunity score. Are you ready to unleash your inner digital entrepreneur and make money from home without having to leave the comfort of your pajamas? Well, welcome to Gumroad, the website that combines your creative genius with money making aspirations and a harmonious symphony of online success. Or as I like to call it, the magical marketplace where dreams and dollars collide. And this is the website that allows creators, writers, musicians and SaaS developers to create and sell digital products and earn a steady stream of income. And you can sell just about anything on this website from resume templates to courses to checklist to notion templates. And here's an article about Jason who made $239,000 in one year by selling notion templates on Gumroad. And he's literally a 20 year old from Singapore. So the price range for notion templates typically are gonna range from five to several hundred dollars. So some of the pros here are their unlimited products and no monthly fees. You also have global reach and access to a large customer base. And it simplifies the process of creating and selling digital products. Some of the cons here are there is gonna be a lot of competition from other people selling in the marketplace. And if you wanna make a lot of money, you're gonna have to learn marketing skills. So you can embrace your creative genius, join the ranks of successful online entrepreneurs and you can let Gumroad be your gateway to financial independence because who needs a day job when you can make money online one digital creation at a time. So with Gumroad you do have potential to make incredible money but the truth is it's a little bit harder to start than a lot of the other ones on this list. So for that reason I'm gonna give this one seven out of 10 opportunity score. Now the next one on the list is gonna be kind of like a digital flea market for photographs where photographers can showcase their digital treasures and buyers can stumble upon hidden gems they never knew they needed. And that's going to be FOAP. And this is a website where you can upload videos and photos and get paid for them.  So there are a bunch of different websites out there like this and FOAP is one of the better ones and you can make around $5 per photo you take every time someone buys it and believe it or not amateur photography and amateur videography is one of the most popular categories. So a lot of the time brands will like to use the amateur look in their marketing and advertising. So the pros here are you have an opportunity to make money from your passion you have an access to a global marketplace where your photos can be discovered so they're basically marketing for you and you have exposure to photo missions and requests where brands will basically say hey, we want this type of video and you can record it send it in and they'll pay you for it. Some of the cons here are competition from a large pool of photographers the need for consistent quality and marketplace image to attract buyers the uncertainty of sales and the potential for low return on investment and limited control over pricing.  This one is gonna get a seven out of 10 opportunity score. The next one on the list is gonna be kind of like a website that pays you to be a gossip columnist except about products. And that's going to be second to none which is a mystery shopping website. This is basically where you use products and you give your feedback on them and you'll typically earn more than $10 per assignment. And in some cases you get to keep the product. So it's not crazy good money but if you're gonna shop anyways you might as well make some money for it. So some of the pros here are you can get paid to shop. In some cases you get to keep the products and you also get to try out a wide range of products and services. Some of the cons here are it doesn't pay all that well. It can be extremely repetitive and you may have to use products that you don't particularly care about. So overall I'm gonna give this one a 6.5 out of 10 opportunity score. Now the next one on the list is gonna be a great opportunity for you to unleash your inner wordsmith and to conquer the digital realm with your amazing writing skills. And this is going to be clear voice where you get to write for top brands around the world. And this is kind of like a digital hub where writers, educators and business owners come together to create captivating digital content. So it's kind of like a dating app except for writers and brands. And on this site you'll make about $100 for a 1000 word article which is about 10 cents per word. So the pros of this one are you have access to top not your brands. You can make very good money and it's a great networking opportunity. The cons of this one are tight deadlines. Sometimes you'll have to do a lot of revisions and there can be a lot of competition. Overall, I think this is gonna be a great opportunity. Writing is definitely very valuable and it's gonna be even more valuable over the next 10 years. I'm gonna give this one an 8.5 out of 10 opportunity score. The next one on the list is going to be an exciting platform where you can earn money by showcasing your intellectual prowess. And it's kind of like a game show but with real money at stake. And that's going to be enrollapp.com. And basically this lets them know what you think of their products. Now this is a legit company but each app you take will only earn you about 10 cents. Now the tests are quick and easy but that's pretty low pay. So the pros here are the opportunity to earn daily cash rewards. There's a wide variety of tests and topics to choose from. And you have the flexibility to participate at your own pace. You can basically take these tests on your phone anytime that you want to. The cons here are low pay. There can be a lot of competition and it can take time to build up your reputation to maximize your earning potential. So you do make more over time but overall I'm gonna give this one a five out of 10 opportunity score.  And you can do that with field agent. And this is basically where you go to physical locations in your local area and you answer questions about products. And this is kind of like being a retail ninja but instead of having nunchucks, you've got a smartphone. And typically these gigs pay between three and $10. So that means you'll make typically somewhere between 10 all the way up to $25 per hour. So some of the pros of this one are the opportunity to earn money while completing tasks in your local area, a flexible work schedule and a chance to contribute to market research. Some of the cons of this one are earnings may vary depending on the location that you live. Some tasks may require specific qualifications. And at first you're typically not going to be paid as well and you kind of have to build up your reputation. So overall for this one, I'm gonna give it a 6.5 out of 10 opportunity score. Now the next one on the list is gonna be a great opportunity for you to unleash your creative genius and get paid to do it. And that's what the website called Etsy where they only sell original art. So they don't sell any mass produced art and typically it's going to be like handmade things like rings, but you can also sell digital products as well. But the whole point here is it's made by individuals and so it's more unique. And there are many sellers out there bringing in over $50,000 a year. So some of the pros of this one are global exposure. You know, they basically do the marketing for you, access to a large community of buyers that are looking for unique creations and the opportunity to turn your passion into a profitable business. Some of the cons here are high competition from other sellers. You may need to market in order to really stand out and managing inventory and shipping logistics can be a pain in the butt. So overall Etsy is tougher to get into. I'm gonna give this one a seven out of 10 opportunity score.  And that's on a website called schoolie where knowledge meets cash and you can earn money as a virtual tutor while you're still wearing your pajamas. Now I have talked about this many times on my channel but tutoring is one of my absolute favorite side hustles. I personally made over $180 per hour as a tutor when I was going to college and schoolie makes this process incredibly easy and you can earn about $25 per hour. So the pros of this one are you do have a flexible work schedule. You have access to a wide range of students and subjects to teach and you can earn daily income for your tutoring sessions. Some of the cons of this one are at first it may be difficult to get students. You have a lot of competition from other tutors on the platform and it does require very strong teaching and communication skills. But overall, I think schoolie is great. I'm gonna give it an eight out of 10 opportunity score. Now the next one on the list is a website that allows you to get paid for things that you would probably already be doing anyways. And that's gonna be QMe which is an online platform that rewards you for doing everyday activities. And this includes shopping, searching, taking surveys and giving your opinions. Now there are options for both passive and active income. There are people out there passively making like $3 per day, which is about $1,000 a year. But some of the surveys can be pretty low paying and you'll make around $1 to $3 per hour. So the pros of this one are you get to earn money passively for everyday activities. It easily integrates with popular web browsers and it's super easy to get started. Some of the cons are the earnings can be relatively low and the surveys can be somewhat limited. So this is a great way to earn a couple extra bucks a day. I probably would not be taking the surveys because they don't pay all that well. So I'm gonna give this one a five out of 10 opportunity score. Now the next on the list is very common and very well known, but it's honestly pretty good money and that's going to be Uber Eats delivery service. And this is basically where you pick up food from a restaurant and you deliver it to a person. And Uber Eats delivery drivers make about $19 per hour, which is around $39,000 per year. And it's super easy to get started with this. You basically don't have to have any skills at all. So this can be a great way to make money in between jobs or while you're studying to get a better job down the line. So the pros here are it's very flexible. You can basically work whenever you want. You have the opportunity to earn money while exploring your city. And there's typically a lot of jobs available. Some of the cons are the income can vary depending on factors like location and whether your customer's tip or not. You can have a lot of wear and tear on your vehicle and working during peak times usually means you're gonna have to deal with a lot of traffic. But overall, this is very solid. It's a great way to make money if you're in between jobs and you just need to start making money right away. I'm gonna give this one an eight out of 10 opportunity score. The next one on the list is gonna be a great opportunity for you to maximize your skills and monetize your skills by completing tasks for clients worldwide. And that's going to be TryMata.com. And some of the skills include graphic design, writing, coding and consulting. And this is kind of like a bustling marketplace where you can set up your own digital stall. And a lot of the time you'll be getting paid to test websites and apps. And typically you'll get paid $10 or more per test. And they also pay out daily through PayPal. So the pros of this one are opportunity to earn money while showcasing your skills, the flexibility to choose projects that align with your interests and skills and an access to a global network of clients. Some of the cons include competition, availability of projects and it can be hard to make money right off the bat. You kind of have to establish your reputation. So overall this one can be good but it's a little bit hard to get into. I'm gonna give this one a seven out of 10 opportunity score. Now the next on the list is probably gonna surprise you but it's honestly a really good place to earn money and that is Facebook Marketplace. I personally know people that are making over six figures a year using Facebook Marketplace. And Facebook Marketplace is kind of like Craigslist but with more of a personal touch. And I know people for instance who live stream on Facebook and make a ton of money. And this is a great opportunity because literally 35% of the world's population is on Facebook. So you have a marketplace of 2.91 billion people. So the pros here are you can make a ton of money. There's also a wide variety of different things you can sell and it's extremely flexible. The cons are it's not super easy to get started and you kind of have to figure things out on your own. But overall I'm gonna give this one a 7.5 out of 10 opportunity score. The next one on the list is going to be a global marketplace for print on demand products. And basically this is user submitted artwork that is made into products such as clothing. And that's gonna be on the website Redbubble. And when it comes to the salary there are many people making over $100,000 a year and you will get 50% of whatever you sell. But with that being said this is more of an entrepreneurial endeavor and it can be very difficult to start making money. But if you are successful it can be an incredible opportunity. So the pros here are the opportunity to monetize your artistic skill, a wide range of products available for your design and access to a global marketplace of potential customers. Some of the cons are there is of course high competition. Redbubble does take 50% which is quite a bit and you have limited control over the production and shipping process. So overall I'm gonna give this one a 7 out of 10 opportunity score. The next one is going to empower free lancers to scale their content marketing efforts through a free online portfolio, AI powered client matching and exclusive tools and integrations. And that's going to be writeraccess.com which is basically a content creation platform. So you can do just about any type of content creation on this website. Now a lot of these freelancing platforms have really bad reviews online but this one actually has really good feedback. And on this platform you'll typically make somewhere between $27 and $30 per hour as a writer. And I've said this before on the channel but almost all good content comes from good writing. So the pros of this one are access to a vast network of clients, AI powered client matching and advanced search capabilities. And there's a lot of perks and benefits to being on the website. Some of the cons of this one are the screening process can be somewhat difficult, competition among freelancers can be intense and you have to manage client expectations. But overall I'm gonna give this one an 8.5 out of 10 opportunity score. Now by the way, my friend Troy has a company called Course Careers where he teaches people how to get into a lot of these in-demand careers as quickly as possible. A lot of the ones on this list you can get into right away. Course Careers typically it's gonna take you somewhere between one to three months but the jobs are much better paying. And one person was able to land an IT help desk job in seven days. And you can check out free training which I'll put down in the description as well as the pinned comment below in order to see how it works. And I also made a video on the 21 highest paying work from home jobs which you can check out by clicking right here.


We've got a bit of an odd ball slate tonight for daily fantasy baseball where all the pitchers are not Super high strikeout guys you look at the composition of this slate And you don't see many guys who have the potential to put up 10 11 strikeouts as we get at least from typically one guy each night in MLB DFS So that does alter our plan of attack quite a bit because typically my approach is to just go to those guys and try to Get the upside today Might be able to play things a bit safer at pitch prioritize High-floor matchups and kind of go with just the best real-world pitchers, which is typically not our approach So we'll break down who that leads us to where we're turning for tonight and more to get you ready for Friday night And then they'll be DFS welcome on into the solo shop That's right here on the fan dual podcast network and number fire comm my name is Jim Saunas I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire here to break down Friday night's 10 a game main slate with Lockstep for 7 0 5 p.m. Eastern for today Now there are three games on this slate on the east coast that have some potential for some rain that could lead to Either delays or potentially post-pomance the first one is involved for the Orioles and Mariners And we have New York for the Rangers and Yankees and Philadelphia for the Phillies and the Mets of those three It seems like the Philadelphia game is the one most at risk of delays or a post-pomance just based on the timing of the rain Baltimore likely safest with rain clearing out right around first pitch So if they you know do a delay and then play that could work out okay for them with no in-game delays and New York seems like the rain be getting there towards the end So I feel personally right now, okay using Baltimore and New York players in those two cities Philadelphia, I'm a bit sketchier on especially because it's two pretty good pitchers there. So The risk of a delay becomes a bit heightened when it's a pitcher versus when it's batter So most concerned about Philadelphia But then also would want to check back later on timing for Baltimore and for in New York We'll outline why that's Baltimore game may be a bit important I in stacks later on today and we'll get you set with the pitchers in just one second First a reminder that baseball season is in full swing and there's no better place to get in on the action than Fandall America's number one sports book because right now new customers can get a no sweat first bet up to $1,000 That's up to $1,000 back in bonus bets if your first bet doesn't win So don't miss your chance to snag a no sweat first bet up to $1,000 when you join Fandall today Fandall official partner of Major League Baseball Major League Baseball trademarks used with permission must be 21 plus and present in select states first online a real money wager only $10 deposit required Refund issue is non withdrawal bonus bets that expire seven days after receipt restrictions apply seful terms at fandall.com a slash sports book Fandall is offering online sports wagering in Kansas under an agreement with Kansas Star casino LLC gambling problem call 1 800 gambler or visit fandall.com slash RG in Arizona 1 800 next step or text next step to 533 42 in Connecticut 1 8 8 7 8 9 7777 or visit ccpg.org slash chat an indiana 1 809 and with it in Wyoming and Kansas 1 805 2 2 4700 or in Kansas KS gambling health comm Louisiana's 1 8777 770 stop in Massachusetts gambling helpline ma.org or call<PHONE_NUMBER> for 24 7 support in Maryland MD gambling health org in New York 1 8778 hope and wire text open why and in West Virginia go to 1 800 gambler net Pitching preview for this Friday main slate Logan Webb comes in with a salary of $10,200 he is your highest a salary guy on this site Lucas G. Alito is 10,000 Cody Senga potentially in the rain in 99 Shane Bieber 96 Taiwan Walker facing off with Senga at 94 Chris Bassett they played a dome at 93 Kyle Gibson 92 with Logan Gilbert in 9,000 Then we had Joe Musgrove JP France Brian Bayo and that she and Patrick Sandoval and James Caprellian as the others at $8,000 or higher Now given the lack of strikeouts on the slate I think we are allowed to go at guys who are good real-world pitchers and in good real-world matches We'll get to that here in a second, but I think the top guy I just want the best overall pitcher on this slate and to me that guy is Logan Webb Now the matter for Webb is not great. He's facing Arizona and I don't like using That their pitcher facing Arizona because they're a very good team 114 WRC plus against righties and they can run like crazy So not a good matchup, but I really like Logan Webb We're up to 15 starts this year and Webb has a 3.19 a skill interactive ER a that is the best on this slate By almost a half rod in each pitcher's most relevant sample the strike area for Webb is 25% Which is not huge But it's also not bad relative to others on this specific slate and Webb will get a good number of ground balls That all leads to a 3.11 ER a for him and he can have big individual games He's hit 11 plus strikeouts twice now We've seen Webb face at Diamondbacks just once and that game he pitched really well one run allowed across seven innings Not a lot of strikeouts there But that game was on the road and this one is at home and Webb Does seem to get more strikeouts at home versus on the road So on a lot of slates if we have like a ton of high upside guys Maybe we're not getting to Logan Webb, but on this one I just want the best real-world pitcher and to me that guy is pretty definitively Logan Webb So despite a non great matchup I still think Logan Webb is the best pitcher on tonight's slate tend to me a very fair salary for a guy I feel great about despite not having a great matchup for tonight The second pitching option is a guy who is in the mold of good real-world pitcher in a High-floor matchup and that's going to Joe Musgrove. So he's pretty similar to Webb where he's not a high strikeout pitcher He's not a high strikeout matchup but I think he's a good a real-world pitcher and I do think that Musgrove has a better matchup overall than what Webb has Musgrove is facing the Nationals They do a good job of avoiding strikeouts But they don't do a whole lot with it because they have a 92 WRC plus against righties with a 135 ISO and a 33% fly ball rate Musgrove is also himself had really nice bad at ball data recently across six starts with more curveballs He's led up just a 21% hard hit rate He has the best mark in that department by 10 percentage points on this slate and a 28% fly ball rate as well That's a big part of why Musgrove's ERA in the stretch is so nice at 2.88 now the strikeouts haven't really been there He had just one strikeout last time out But has had some spike games eight strikeouts in one of those games and he's faced some low strikeout teams like Boston and Cleveland So that takes the sample a bit But he also gets a low strikeout matchup here It all leads to a pretty low strikeout projection from Musgrove of 4.6 and that's not big and typically I'm not gonna consider that on a full slate but Again, this slate is just different where there aren't a lot of high strikeout options and Musgrove I think is a good picture with the ability to exceed that number even in a Not elite matchup. So Musgrove is not unfaithable or anything I don't think that by any means especially given that he is a pretty heavy favorite for tonight Which does correlate well with daily fantasy popularity, but if you've gotten inclination towards someone else You can definitely follow it But to me it's gonna be web 1 and Musgrove 2 as the top pitching options on tonight's slate over on Fandall.com Now with Musgrove being the value play we got the entire board open to us for that third slot I think you could consider both Lucas G Alito and Brian Bayo facing each other But I'm gonna give Chris Bassett the slight nod here Bassett salary is $9,300 he's at home against the A's and that does help matters quite a bit Bassett has had some stumbles recently And it's annoying because it seemed like he had righted the ship from his early season struggles Whereas Velo is down didn't have great results. It seemed like he had gotten better But I don't think he's fully regressed I would say his bad games in the recent stretch have come against the Rangers Orioles and Twins Those are all offenses with some firepower and all those starts were on the road The one home start for Bassett in this time was against the Astros He held them to two runs across eight innings He also threw seven and two-thirds shutout innings against the Mets on the road before that So we've had recent good starts, which means our job is to basically make sure he hasn't broken between then and now I will say that the velocity for Bassett did go down in that range of star Which it was his most recent one, but it hadn't find the start before that So I think the Velo dip does mean you can and potentially should avoid him If he's going to be the chalk in tournaments and there is a good chance that he is given how heavily favored the blue J's are for tonight and That's easier to go away from him with web and Musgrove also available here, but straight up I'm gonna rank Bassett third on my list But I would say both him and Musgrove you got the ability to deviate I think they will probably want to be both pretty popular So I feel firm and like ranking web first despite the fact his matchup is not great And then I will go Musgrove to Bassett three we'll talk about Brian Bale as a potential pivot in things to watch later on First they'll let's dive into the stacks for today beginning with at course field of the angels They're facing Kyle Freeland who had a stomach bug earlier on this week So his start got pushed back and that might have been advantageous for him because weirdly He's been a lot better at home than on the road this year And so it could be a bit unnerving to stack against him with this game at course field Freeland at home this year three point one nine era with a five point nine two era on the road But those numbers last year in a larger sample or flipped where he was much worse at home And then he was on the road and as always we're dealing with small samples here So unless we believe that Freeland has conjured more gravity and can make course field less of a launchpad I think we should expect him to have worse numbers at home than on the road over a larger sample So to me, I'm not gonna worry too much about the home road splits for this year specifically Most recently we've seen Freeland trying to correct the issues He has had by throwing more four seamers and fewer sinkers and hasn't worked out ten percent strikeout rate doing that For the full season Freeland has a four point four era with a four point eight seven expected era He's letting up too much hard contact too many fly balls and the angels are a team That can punish those because they have a thirty nine percent fly ball right against lefties so far this year on the active roster And it's course field. It is one of the warmest temperatures of the night and I think all in all I don't see much to fear here. I don't buy into Freeland success at home and I don't buy into You know Thinking that what he's done so far will be sustainable So to me the angels are a great play and they are the top stack for tonight I do want to dig into Hunter Renfrow quick. He has not been himself this year It's ISO against lefties is muted at 198 His batted ball numbers in June are the exact same as they were the first two months as well So it's not as if he's getting better because I always kind of want to look you know Have you improved the past couple weeks or so and we have not seen that from Renfrow He's been pretty much exactly the same. He is striking out a bit less Which could mean that he's sacrificing hard contact in order to put the ball in play more The positive is that even with the decreased power numbers well to do his baseline They're still not bad like a 198 ISO is okay So I'm still down to use him especially with Renfrow salary at $3,500 for tonight that for a core field slate with it or $3,100 that for a guy with his power core shield Pretty tough to turn down. So I do like Renfrow and I will be going there I just am not as enthusiastic about as it would be in previous years until seeing that salary 31 I think that that can make us feel a bit better about that for sure number two stack is a Padres They're facing Patrick Corbin who I think we've seen recently we can stack against him still Especially when he's facing tougher spots and he does get one of those tonight We're up to 10 star sample on Corbin since he scaled back his slider usage and in those 10 starts He has a 4.45 era which is fine But there have been some rough games in there as well He let up six certain runs the Royals and four earned to the Marlins and those two teams not elite against lefties by any means The reasons we've seen Corbin have down games is because he's still letting up too much hard contact in this sample This 10-star sample his hard hit rate allowed is 47% Just a 14% strikeout rate which means more balls in play and when 47% of them are hard hits That's a lot of hard contact the Padres can't hit lefties Well 114 and WRC plus there in a 197 ISO they went bananas against Alex Wood last night So I think we got the green light to stack them once again here on this slate I talked to the yesterday show leading into that woodmatch about how I was willing to be high and want so too against lefties And I'm still fine with him But I would bump him down a bit extra here because lefties have an ISO below 100 against Corbin this year And that's with teams keeping just their best lefties in the line to face him and last year over a larger sample that ISO was 143 so even when Corbin is really struggled He's been good against lefties and again that's with teams putting just their best lefties out there to face him So so does fine. I still think he'd be in the top four for stacks But yesterday I thought that he could push him below many Machado's and her Bogarts I think for today, especially with Machado going going off last night I would go to tease one Machado to Bogarts three and then maybe putting so to and then next for the fourth spot after those two teams in the angels and the Padres The Jays are the next logical stack and I don't mind them We'll talk about them and things to watch But I want to talk about a bit more contrarian option here instead because the angels are of course field the Padres are facing Patrick Corbin tonight or after they put up like, you know, 37 runs So both those teams will and should be popular. So I want to talk about a more contrarian option So let's discuss the Baltimore Orioles They're facing Logan Gilbert and if you listen to the show all year, you know, I like Logan Gilbert a lot I've used him as a pitcher a bunch this year and it's worked out a decent number of times But Gilbert's in a funk right now across his past seven starts He's throwing fewer foreseen fastballs and that approach has not worked He's letting up a 44 percent hard hit rate with a 46 percent fly ball rate He typically does struggle in those areas. So that part specifically is nothing new but the strikeout rate is also down for Gilbert it's at 21 percent and That strikeout number being high for Gilbert is the key to masking his issues with hard contact And that number is not where it needs to be right now Gilbert's predictably has struggled in this time with a 4.85 era He let up six runs the Angels five to the Yankees He has had some good starts, but it seems like there is upside in stacking against him here The Orioles very good team against righties with a 110 WRC plus So we haven't sent it to be different tonight given how chalky our first two stacks are and the Orioles get us that differentiation in a matchup with a lot of hard contact and there are good offense themselves So I think it all adds up To checking out Baltimore tournaments tonight and feeling pretty good about them So to me if you want to get a bit different without being totally dumb I think the Orioles are your best stack for tonight beyond those two we discussed earlier on It does seem like Ryan O'Hern is establishing himself as the cleanup batter for the Orioles against righties Which is kind of fun because the salary is still $2,600 But he has a 279 ISO against righties across 93 plate appearances Now we've seen this from a her and stretches before which does mean it could stop But it also means not totally out of nowhere. So I don't think it's totally fluky I like O'Hern as a value play even if you don't go for a full stack here at $2,600 The Padres are pretty easy to stack I would say especially given the pitching salaries But if you want to maybe get to Otani at $5,000 in Coors Field Maybe O'Hern is a value play to help you get there for tonight. Let's go now to things to watch I said earlier, I don't mind Brian Bayo and I wanted to expand on that here given that Musgrove and Bassett Have pretty good odds of being very popular for tonight But Bayo is facing the White Sox. They had just a 90 WRC plus against righties this year Not a big strikeout team, but they're about average There's not a low strikeout team and that's fine in this slate Bayo has a 3.93 skill interactive ERA across 11 starts So we don't need as many strikeouts to hang on this slate Which means I'm fine giving Bayo some thoughts as the third pitcher if you're worried about Bassett's velocity We're about popularity. We're about Musgrove's popularity I think all those things are valid and I would be okay going to Bayo if you're worried about that I mentioned the Jays before for stacking I think that there was really solid consideration and again probably would rank them third straight up They're facing James Caprellian who is not a big strikeout guy and it means they also get to face EA's bullpen I am a bit lower here because Caprellian does a good job of keeping hard contact and check But I think they're the Jays are definitely fine option here There's not quite as high in them as the Padres or the Angels And I felt okay deviating for that third stack earlier on the Rockies Obviously also in Coorsfields facing Patrick Sandoval and you never want to fully ignore a team at Coors But the Rockies are just so bad against lefties.  So there are guys you like against lefties here But it's hard to get a full stack given how wretched they have been Against lefties so far this year. So stacking options to me are going to be the Angels and Padres Followed by the Blue Jays, but then the Orioles are a really fun Contrarian option I do want to get to especially in single entry tournaments where I think people will focus primarily on the Angels and the Padres Let's finish up here is some Dinger calls for today the boring one. Let's go Brandon Drury I know his numbers against lefties this year have not been great We've seen him be kind of weird in that regard previously too, but it's Drury at Coorsfield I think this makes a lot of sense. I still believe in Mike Trout. This is not like an anti Mike Trout thing I think that the bad of ball data still tells us that the slump will not last forever So still in on trout But let's go Brandon Drury as the boring Harun call for today for the fun one I want to go Ryan O'Hern again Matchup where he is facing guy. What's up a lot of hard contact and fly balls Oh, her and has been hitting for power in the big leagues so far right in the middle of that order So we'll go with him as the fun one. So Dinger calls for your Friday gonna be Brandon Drury and Ryan O'Hern That is all that we have here for today on the solo shot I want to thank you all for tuning in for today and this entire week Do not forget to subscribe to the number fire daily fantasy podcast eat wherever you get your podcast If you'd like what you hear leave us a five star rating on Apple podcast or on Spotify also check us out on the Fandall YouTube page And on the Fandall TV plus app on Amazon fire TVs Apple TV and Roku as well to get us along with Covering the spread up and Adams run it back all your favorite Fandall TV shows along with your favorite Fandall podcast as well If you've got any questions for me, I am on Twitter at Jim Sonnis J-I-M-S-A-N-N-E-S want to thank you all for tuning in for today Good luck to you with your MLB DFS lineups for tonight and we'll talk to you once again Monday for another week of MLB DFS this has been the solo shot right here on the fan dual podcast network


In a time like this, it's very important to understand your customer. Welcome to the We Are Slam Show where we share marketing agency insights, best practices and ideas to help your business grow. My name is Tyler Kelly, co-founder and chief strategist here at Slam agency, a digital first full service marketing agency, which helps brands captivate, motivate and inspire people to action through advertising. And today I want to share with you, just a few tips for transitioning during this time from real world, in person offline business to online business. Now a few weeks ago we talked about remote working and that's great for teams. That's great for production teams and corporate teams who, you know, are doing work day in and day out. But what we need to start talking about now is how to transition from an offline sales environment to an online sales environment. And for many businesses that have never sold online before, this is your first time even thinking about this. And this is what I want to do. I want to share with you a few tips to help you to get online right away and begin your journey into e-commerce. Now a lot of times on this show we talk about understanding your customer. And in a time like this, it's very important to understand your customer. Number one, understand that your customer has been going through a very difficult time just like you have. Their job security might be threatened. Their routines have been shook up. All of this is happening at a time when as a business, you've got to figure out how to survive and you've got to figure out how to take that stuff from doing business in an offline traditional way to doing business online. And so the first thing I want you to do is understand that customer journey. How do you do this? If you have a budget, if you're marketing director with the budget, invest some of that budget into market research, into customer research. Don't rely on the data that you have from last year. Don't rely on the data that you have from six months ago. It's time to do social media surveys, to reach out to people. Everyone's online right now. Reach out to them and ask them how you, your business can improve the quality of their lives right now. Research your customer, figure out what it is that they need, where they're going to find this information, whether it be online or offline, and how you can become a resource along that customer journey. Now, there's a few areas I want to highlight in the customer journey. The first is discovery and going from brick and mortar to online business, you have to think about how customers are going to find you. Okay. Now, right off to the bat, in order to make this transition a little bit smoother, a little bit more seamless, I want you to, as soon as you have your online store up and running, get to your current customers. I hope you have an email list. If you do, begin to email them. Try not to use the word coronavirus or COVID-19 in it, because what's going to happen is maybe they're just going to ignore that email. I think it's one of the many millions that we've all been receiving during this time. But reach out to them and tell them how you've optimized your business and how they can support you. These are your existing customers. If they're on social media, do yourself a favor, make a video, put your face out there, say this is how we are impacted and this is what we're doing to optimize our business. I love this word optimize our business in order to serve you better, to serve you in this time of need. If you do that, put some money behind it. You know, a lot of people say boosting posts is a waste of money and it is when you're trying to do specific targeted advertising. But in this case, put a video out there, put some money on it and make sure that your followers see it, okay? Because you want them to know what you're doing and how they can help you survive and thrive in this time. So you have your online store and now you need to communicate to your existing customers, whether that be by email, whether that be through social media, whether that be by phone.  This is the livelihood of your business at stake. So pick up the phone and start making calls, letting people know how they can do business with you during this time, okay? So that's existing customers. New customers, it's all about discovery. It's all about being found. In the next few weeks, I'm going to talk about what you can do as a new online business to be discovered, to put yourself in a position in the search engines, to advertise in the search engines, to advertise in social media in a way that will bring in new customers, to remind old customers that may not be on your list that you're still a viable option, that you're still doing business. And this discovery element is super critical in a time like this because everybody's going online to find the products and services that they need right now. The next phase in the customer journey is evaluation. Essentially, once they discover you as a potential option, they're going to evaluate your product or service offering to see if it fits your needs. If that's the case, you want to be credible, you want to avoid any sort of moment in that visit to your website that might deter them or promote the clicking of the back button or the bouncing off your page. So you want to provide trust indicators on your site. We're going to be talking about that in future weeks. If you pass all of those tests and you have a product or service that the customer might want, then at that point, a purchase is going to happen. And the last thing that we want at this point in time is for the user, for the potential customer to abandon that shopping cart. So think about what in this experience is going to prevent them from completing their purchase. We're going to talk about that in future weeks. But let's say you make the sale because I believe you will. At that point, it's super important to bring them in. Bring them into your email newsletter, your social media following. Provide, number one, a great customer experience and then a great follow-up experience because in this day and age, it's all about community and every buyer, every customer is a part of your community. Bring them in just like their family and help them to survive and thrive in this time as well. Now, I mentioned providing a great customer experience and as you know, customer service is king when it comes to retention and when it becomes to winning repeat business. But what I want to tell you is more so than customer service right now is standardization, meaning is to develop a predictable, reliable set of products and services that your customers know that they can come back to your site and they can get those things. You don't want it to be like this menu of options today and this menu of options tomorrow. Break it down, make it simple, make sure it's profitable for you, whatever business or industry that you're in and make sure that you're providing more value than you're taking in payment. And if you do that, then this is going to be a very good time for your business. So how do you transition from a brick and mortar to an online business? Number one is to understand your customer and not to understand the customer that you had six months ago, but the customer that exists today. Who are they? What are their pain points? What are they trying to accomplish? And where do you fit in in this customer journey? Speaking of the customer journey, it's always about discovery. So make sure that your business is able to be discovered online. Once a person can find you, they're going to evaluate you. So make sure you have a high quality experience and website and credibility and trustworthiness there on the site. There's many ways that you can do that. I'm going to share some of those with you in a future episode. Make sure that it's easy to make a purchase, that there's not a whole lot of steps, that there's not a whole lot of opportunities for that person to change their mind, what we call bounce, abandon the shopping cart. And then finally, once the purchase has been made, once you've made the sale, bring them into the fold. Make them part of your community. Bring increase to them. Provide a great customer experience and great customer service. And then finally, standardize at this point in time your product and service offerings. Don't get super creative and leave things up to interpretation or customization. Standardize your services so that people know what to expect and exactly what they're getting when they are shopping online, okay? So these are my three keys, my three steps for transitioning from brick and mortar to online sales. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Next week, I'm going to talk about ways to get discovered online, how to become more credible, and the things that you need to do on your website to convey credibility, and how to make sure that your website is doing everything that it needs to do to close the deal rather than push it away, all right? If you've enjoyed this episode, do me a favor and let me know. In the comments, if it's on a social media site, if you're watching on Instagram or Facebook, let me know. If you're listening on a podcast network, be sure to subscribe, rate, and review.  Share this with your colleagues. Share this with your teams. Share this with your friends and family. I appreciate your shares. We thank you for your continued support, and I promise we're going to get through this. I will see you next week.


Tlo what's poppin? We are on twitch. We are live We are live So you can Leave a like comment subscribe turn of the post notification bells, man. Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK Don't forget. We do got merch. We also got a patreon where we watched of Monday through Friday And we also got Twitch.com that's where you go if you want to replay lives if you miss them This is what's his name? Randy he's a you. He's a United Kingdom born Person and he's apparently in America and he's trying Texas barbecue for the first time Now the reason I'm doing this is because I'm genuinely excited for this dude I know there ain't no good barbecue in the UK. I know there's not there's no way There's just no way and I've talked to several people. They said there's no good barbecue in the UK Like comparatively speaking like there's no there's probably a lot of stuff that we don't have that y'all got that's Phenomenal and just barbecue is just that for us when it comes to y'all Like I know it's not good. I know y'all put y'all best foot forward in effort But it ain't good Talk to me Randy. I'm a little bit all over the place today But the plan is I've been to Texas a few times. Okay, and I've never been to have barbecue I've never done it.  I'll just go do that It seems like a really nice thing to do and for the vlog as well, but it isn't a rain, but I'm British I don't really care. Um, thanks. Well first of all, I'm gonna try this barbecue I never have done it before and it needs to be done.  I don't really need a hat or want a hat But I'll check it out and we'll see maybe maybe I'll do it. Okay. Maybe here it is. Look. Do I do it? That is a question. Do I do it? Texas hat shop Also, I'm really confused right because I've been looking at the things to do in Austin and everything that I keep reading about Always recommends going to see that. I love you so much mural mural.  I Appreciate the tour of Texas But let's can we get to the barbecue because I'm happy for you. I'm genuinely happy for you But I just want to see this moment. That's it. We don't okay. Okay. It wasn't too long I've never personally had Texas barbecue, but Chicago is like They have every genre of food and they do it well there is Texas style barbecue But there's also Midwest style barbecue, which I really like there's there's levels to barbecue across America There's different regions and things that are barbecue warm you up and so be you please I love it. I just work typical barbecue joint. Yeah, no alcohol for me.  Let's go This is a chain in Texas I've no idea what to order though. So you pick a side Green corn sounds cool. Mac and cheese on cream corn does not sound cool. What are you talking about? Was all I will go mac and cheese I asked her you got potatoes have it like what's the normal amount to get and she said this Like it's like $60. I'm not sure if you thought I was eating on my own or like with a family something By the way, I'm sure I'm doing this wrong. You know, you're in Texas. Everything is big in Texas I'm sure like I'm gonna get comments of people saying are you not doing it right? You know, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know Not from here. I'm on my own. I'm Riding solo, you know, but it is try this. Let's try this.  You fork a knife in it. You got to get that all as one bite I've got brisket, right?  You got to get it all in one bite That's why you don't use for tonight me personally.  It's gonna be good Pause oh Boy and beef ribs Bro pick it up by the bone dog, Nandy Try it and y'all ask me and on twitch like I'm not on twitch on on on What's that? Tick tock y'all be asking me. Oh, how come you don't use a fork and knife because For what? Everything is finger food here. It's good. Ain't it? Talk to me Randy. That's amazing. Wow.    Go ahead. They all told me by the way there's a free tour of all like the Smokehouse in the back. So I'm gonna go try it out after the camera and vlog it. What a day system out to be Let's go. By the way, I'm sure it finished this He gave me so much. Look at that. Oh, it's so good though You didn't even eat the macaroni and cheese or the string beans. You gotta tell us how that was The macaroni, I'm not gonna lie. It looked trash. I'm just being real string beans. Okay There's string beans. You can't really go wrong with them But me I would have probably chose baked beans and now that I see this macaroni I wouldn't have chosen I would have choose like some coleslaw Maybe if y'all got coleslaw not coleslaw. I'm tweaking potato salad. I made potato salad Those are the two sides I would have picked It's so good though, but like, okay Shall I do it? Shall I keep going?  It is unreal. It's amazing I cannot finish it. I cannot I've tried my hardest. I'm so full. I feel like I'm gonna burst man But it's really good. I asked for one Normal size. I guess this is that's normal. I'm clearly not getting that bean with my forecomer. Okay Anyway, what I'm trying to say to you guys is I can't finish it. I feel bad for wasting it. If I want this come I leave it here. Take it to go What you mean? What are you talking about? Do y'all not have like to-go boxes in the UK? But no, anyway, right? Cheers. Cheers. Here we go. I wish I would pay $60 and leave that on the table. You got me Ben I'm taking everything home I'm gonna go home and make a short rib sandwich later. You know what I'm saying? You make the food here?  Come on, Randy. Okay. Wow, okay Wow He sounds just like Hank Hill. Good job. Just try it now. My first time having barbecue It's to me first time having barbecue. Well, I'm from the UK. I'm from the UK. Well, we have barbecue in the UK But it's different about using what you got. Okay. Sure. Sure. This is how you do it You know, yes, it is.  It's about using the local wood Local proteins and the indigenous cooking methods of the region. That's why it's always a different show. No matter where in America I don't even think they got I don't even know I heard there's no good barbecue. That's all I'm gonna say. There you go. Yeah So here our local wood is host oak. Okay wood is so abundant They say we'll run out of cows before we run out of this tree Wow, we'll burn up two of these cages on a slow day three on a busy day every Friday They bring us 18 more changes of host oak. Wow We got that name post oak. Farmers and sellers cowboys used to use that tree to make fence posts because it's really strong It goes really straight.  I know he can cook. I know that's the I know the meat portion of the food there is great if he cooking it Barbecue show show we smoked up brisket for 12 hours to be crib eight hours. Anybody you see with with this And it can neck right here and then it don't got this part They can cook 100 and we always have a team of guys here Yeah, barbecuing 24 hours a day. We never stopped Yeah, we never stopped any day any time. We always got here barbecuing Awesome right now H Have you ever like listen? I've had there's people This I've talked to people that have been to america and to the uk Well, obviously they're from the uk And they've been to america and they had the barbecue and they had american barbecue florida style barbecue And they said there's no comparison Now that now they know that barbecue in the uk is not good because it doesn't taste nothing like You know what I'm saying and I'm not saying that that that that your barbecue is not good It's just when you've tasted barbecue that's great And you go taste something that's not as good Then what am I supposed to say? Just like the the girl who told me the barbecue was great that your barbecue wasn't good She said it Her palette was used to the uk barbecue and she had this and her eyes was open She had an epiphany Oh, okay It's an all-day process too, which is crazy So this brisket right here like I said it went on a six this morning So it's a seven and a half hours into the 12 hour cook Eventually when I get them perfect, I'll put them in this butcher paper right here And I'll spend them 180 degrees so the flat can face the fire right now doing the big end force the fire Because it's big it's gonna need more time to get there. Um, like I said, I'm gonna make dude It's a chemist. I I knew he could cut everything's perfect before I put it in that paper by that I mean the bark set up the fat surrendered the colors exactly how I like it Everything's how I want it before I put it in that paper. Um, people always want to know. Well, what temp what time? And I could tell you a temp or a time, but I'm not I'm gonna lead you astray if I'm doing it. Yeah. Yeah, this gotta come from the heart You know what I'm saying? It is a field thing So uh every couple hours I get in here and I pick them all up one by one and just rearrange them According to how they're cooking because it's full of hot spots full of cold spots Only way I can get it more evenly is to pick them up and put them where they need to be And you picked them up with tongs, yeah No, I would never touch them with tongs. I have gloves in my pocket I put these gloves over these gloves and then put more of these gloves on top of these gloves And then I pick them up one by one. I'll lay out paper set them on the paper do whatever if I grab If you grab them with tongs, they're probably a break apart, right? If you grab them with tongs they rip all this stuff apart. We have a whole beef and this joker You gotta grab over here. This one my sausage is looking like like a baby I get it. I get it. This is all calculated.  You know what I'm saying? Sausage is a different game I'm not getting in here moving it around when I set it up. I just got set it up for one of it touches We use a real case and so if it touches it's not going to get the smoke It's going to stay all fake and it's going to look gross So the main thing is I make sure nothing touches in here when you set it up before I start it So I have a tin stick with a sausage. It's not as much of a field game. I was bad at the taste Straight smoke sauce. It just looks amazing I don't even eat stuff shaped like that, but I that you know what I'm saying, but like if they cut it up I'll partake I can call it a river it's a lake Ladybird Lake I'm just going to try and do a loop around it or just walk for an hour or two. Um, oh, no, no, no, no Randy salute. I salute what you're doing I congratulate you on finally getting some real barbecue in your system. Um And thank you for sharing the the the journey And I'm going to be sure when I get to the uk this year That everybody in the uk is going to get the content That they deserve I'm getting a new camera I've got everything everything's going to be on point when I'm out there Tell me y'all gonna get about 40 50 vlogs If I'm there two days you're getting 40 to 50 vlogs on my life. Tell me leave a like comment subscribe and don't go


Sponsorship. Okay. Question number one.  That's a great place to start, Julia. So a fiscal sponsor is essentially an existing nonprofit. Usually we're talking about 5123s, although sometimes we're talking about 5124s or even other C numbers. But it's an organization that essentially takes either an existing organization or a new organization under its wing and provides back office services usually in exchange for some percentage of the funds raised by that project. And also that project gets to make use of the existing organization's tax status. So their employer identification number, their 5123 status. So it's essentially a way for usually a smaller new organization, although not always, to start sort of their journey as a nonprofit without going down the path of incorporating, going to the IRS, doing all the filings, to worrying about all the HR, worrying about all the legal, the insurance, you know, all that fun stuff, and being able to just focus on usually the mission, the work, and the fundraising for that work. So


Crane is a challenge for you. He's a challenge for me as a teacher. He's a challenging poet. He challenges his reader. He challenges us and he makes invitations to us. Well, he calls to us in various ways, places demands on us. I'd like to talk about a text I am not, in fact, holding. I wonder if somebody have an RIS packet handy and I could have it in my hands. Thank you, Gene. That is the poem Legend, which is the poem placed first in Crane's first and only book of lyrics called White Buildings. It's a poem that he used to introduce himself to the reader, as it were. Why don't we use it to begin thinking about his work? As silent as a mirror is believed, reality is plunged in silence by the poem begins with a kind of riddle or enigma. And then the first person comes forward. I am not ready for repentance nor to match regrets. For the moth bends no more than the still imploring flame. It's a wonderful idea. I'm not going to repent of anything. I'm not going to regret anything. I have not bent any more, I have nothing more to regret than the flame which has drawn me, which bent as well. For the moth bends no more than the still imploring flame. And tremorous in the white falling flakes kisses our comma dash, the only worth all granting. Characteristically here for Crane there's a compressed set of images. Those tremorous white falling flakes there, well, they're almost images, aren't they, of a burnt moth, a moth that's been drawn to the flame. And then those come to be seen as here kisses. Kisses, if we unpack Crane's odd syntax, the sentence would seem to read, although it's maybe available to other constructions, kisses are tremorous in the white falling flakes. But these kisses, these kisses that are also emblems of flame and of extinction even, are the only worth all granting. That is, the only value that seems to grant all, I think. Again, those words all granting might be construed in a couple of different ways. Crane says, it is to be learned. What is to be learned? Cleaving and this burning, the kind I'm talking about, we must learn to be drawn to the flame, and we must learn to recover from the flame and renew our desires and renew our quests. It is to be learned, this cleaving and this burning, but only by the one who taught himself again. In order to do this, you've got to spend yourself repeatedly over and over again.  And yet again this activity is repeated and repeated until the bright logic is one, unwispering, he returns to that initial enigmatic image, unwispering as a mirror is believed, then drop, by caustic drop, a perfect cry shall string some constant harmony, relentless caper for all those, and here we are, challenged and invited to meet him and join him, step the legend of their youth into the noon. Well, it's a hard poem, and yet there are a few, I think, simple basic ideas that it projects that are important to the poet that Crane saw himself as, and the one he wants us to receive and in a sense join. He presents himself as an unrepentant visionary, romantic, and lover, since after all these roles are all held in some association here. He talks about here a willingness that's erotic, that's aesthetic, that's spiritual, that's to exhaust oneself in the pursuit of one's desires, to spend out yourselves again and repeatedly. There is in this the promise that by doing it repeatedly, drop, by caustic drop, a kind of lyric voice will emerge that will be a perfect cry, and, despite this destruction in pain and blood, bleeding idol on, a constant that is sustained harmony will be achieved, harmony invoking, of course, more than one voice. And what is this? This is a poetic project, and it's a project that he describes as a relentless caper, a relentless caper. A caper comes from Latin, a sense of the goat that leaps. It's also a word that suggests well some kind of minor mischief. A relentless caper for all those who step the legend of their youth into the noon. And here Crane presents himself as a young person who would project all of the youthful vitality of his vision and desire into this symbolically pregnant moment that he calls the noon. It's a time very important in Crane's imagination, idiosyncratically, individually, but also in a way that alludes to noon in Emily Dickinson's poems. Dickinson being a poet that Crane shares a great deal with. The poetry of Hard Crane, well, it proposes to approach what he calls noon, which is an experience of fullness and absolute presence. Now, what does he mean he's not ready for repentance? Who, after all, has told him to repent? Who has told him he has something to regret? Repent is something that Crane heard from the culture at large in important ways. Crane is writing in the mid-twenties. We're at this point, I think this is a poem from Crane. It is post-war America. Crane sees himself as a member of a new youthful world centered in places like Greenwich Village. He sees himself as part of a young America, bound together across place by a kind of common dedication to art and to their will to free themselves from the sexual and economic disciplines that he calls in this letter that I have quoted other sentences from, it calls Puritanism. Crane is writing in an era, the era of the Eighteenth Amendment. Prohibition is in effect. There is a range of kinds of censorship that are a real and present threat. James Joyce's novel Ulysses has been banned from the United States shores for its obscenity. There's a way in which modernist art is mixed up with questions of sexuality. Crane got his copy of Ulysses smuggled from France, which a friend then stole. Crane is living too in a vital and nascent gay culture in New York in particular, and yet within a nation then as now that is strongly homophobic and anti-gay in all sorts of ways. Crane's insistence on his refusal to regret are assertions of his will towards forms of sexual and imaginative freedom. There are also affirmations of a romantic poetics essential to him. There's also a literary historical context for this that's important and that I think you can probably already start to guess at. Crane is a deep and a deeply ambivalent reader of The Wasteland and T.S. Eliot. He says in this letter to Gorm Munson in January 1923, there's no one writing in English who can command so much respect to my mind as Eliot. However, I take Eliot as a point of departure towards an almost complete reverse of his direction. His pessimism is amply justified in his own case. Why? I don't know. Well, Crane had his fantasies about Eliot's sexual life, I think. But I would apply as much of his ery addition and technique as I can absorb and assemble toward a more positive, or if I must put it so in a skeptical age, ecstatic goal. I should not think of this if a kind of rhythm and ecstasies were not, at odd moments and rare, a very real thing to me. I feel that Eliot ignores certain spiritual events and possibilities as real and powerful now as, say, in the time of Blake. Blake is very important to Crane. Certainly the man has dug the ground and buried hope as deep and direfully as it can be. After this perfection of death, which is what Crane is how he's reading the Wasteland, nothing is possible in motion but a resurrection of some kind, he says. Well, Crane is reading the Wasteland and he's reading Eliot's criticism. He's responding to a series of text and I'll just show you some of what he's reading here. This is the criterion, the first place Eliot's poetry, The Wasteland, appeared. That's in October 1922, Eliot's own magazine. The first American publication of the poem was in The Dial in November 1922. And then the poem appeared in, I don't know if you can see it very well, the poem appeared in New York publication in book form as its own discreet text. When the Livrite edition of the poem was being prepared, as I mentioned last time, Eliot was asked to make the poem a little longer because after all it was a little too short, or so the story goes. And this was in part one of his motives for producing the notes to the poem. As I said last time, and this is the way the poet poem looked in America when it first appeared, and of course with just a few lines per page. Last time I called it the shortest long poem in the language. You can see the way in which it's sort of drawn out. Here's the little section I ended by talking about Death by Water. Well, as I suggested last time, Eliot's notes, and suggested, created a kind of role for the poet, where the poet was not only the creative lyric presence at the center of the poem, but was also a kind of scholar and critic of his own work, including it mastering bodies of knowledge and arranging meaning in ways that the notes emblematize. In the process, Eliot's doing a couple of things that Crane is responding to. He is establishing himself in what I described as a new role, and that's very much the role you see Eliot embodying here. That is the poet as a kind of scholar poet, a figure backed by institutional authority of various kinds. And this figure is created specifically in the Wasteland through the poems turning away from and turning against in complicated ways its own forms of romanticism, which last time I suggested were emblematized by that Drowned Phoenician sailor, Phlebus, who is a kind of figure for what the poem sacrifices, or you might say a kind of version of the self that Eliot is willing to give up.  Crane means to reassert the power of youth, reassert the potential for romantic vision, and to do so in a way that he imagines as a kind of resurrection and specifically as a kind of passage through and beyond death by water. Drowning is an important imaginative motif in Crane's work. The poems that I'll concentrate on now to explore this idea all have images of romance, quest and drowning at their center. I mean, first of all, the very great love poem called Voyages on 609, which Eliot, excuse me, and which Crane began in the spring of 1924, about a year after he's read the Wasteland, and the poem is, I think, his first sort of developed reply, and it centers, as I say, on images of drowning. The poem arises from a love affair with, as it happens, a Danish sailor who was part of the Bohemian crowd around the Provincetown players in Greenwich Village. Crane's letters are full of, well, both reflections on Eliot and also ecstatic and very moving accounts of his love affair with Emil Opfer. I'll read you just a few sentences from one letter to his friend Waldo Frank. He says, Crane does, it will take many letters to let you know what I mean for myself, at least, when I say in this relationship that I have seen the word made flesh. I mean nothing less, and I know now that there is such a thing as indestructibility in the deepest sense where flesh became transformed through intensity of response to counter-response, where sex was beaten out, where a purity of joy was reached that included tears. Imagery from this and other letters that Crane wrote during the period emerged in voyages. The very first section of voyages had been, in fact, sitting on Crane's desk for three years. Above the fresh ruffles of the surf, bright striped urchins with each other with sand, they have contrived a conquest for shell shucks and their fingers crumble fragments of baked weed, gaily digging and scattering. In answer to their treble reflections, the sun beats lightning on the waves, the waves fold thunder in the sand, and could they hear me? I would tell them, O brilliant kids, frisk with your dog, fondle your shells and sticks, bleached by time in the elements. But there is a line you must not cross, nor ever trust beyond it, spry cordage of your bodies to caresses, too liken faithful from too wide a breast. The bottom of the sea is cruel. The poem begins on shore, begins with kids playing. Their play, in all its innocence, seems to imply and gesture towards ferocious energies that are emblematized by the sea in all of its thunder and lightning and power. They fondle, they flay. The shoreline is a place where there are fragments of debris, proof of the sea's force. The poem begins with a simple moral injunction or practical warning. To give yourself over to the sea would be to enter a field of unbounded energy, to risk your identity, to risk being overwhelmed. Think of proofrock on the shore. Shall I wear my trousers rolled? Crane is there in the same place. And, having issued this warning, acknowledged the cruelty of the bottom of the sea, he throws it off and throws it behind and enters the water. And yet that important piece of cranium punctuation, the dash, a bit of punctuation that separates and connects elements, pushes that warning away and takes us into the sea. And yet this great wink of eternity of rimless floods, like a borderless space, unfettered leewardings, semi-sheeted in procession to where her undinal vast belly crane images the sea here as a woman's body and as a kind of belly that bends towards the moon. It's a kind of vision of the open horizon of the sea, as you know it seems to kind of project the curve of the earth in it. Her undinal vast belly moonward bends, everything, the wrapped inflections of our love. That's a kind of wonderful cranium word, wrapped. It would seem to mean both wrapped in the sense of wrapped up and wrapped in the sense of held in rapture. He's kind of combined possibly through error, these two forms. He makes errors. He's unlike the scholarly Elliott. He continues and now gives us instructions. Take this sea whose diapas and knells on scrolls of silver snowy sentences, the sceptred terror of whose session rends as her demeanor's motion will or ill all but the pieties of lovers' hands. Here, being in the space of the sea is like being in love or in the act of love, as Crane imagines it. It's also like being in a fabulous rhetorical world, a space of gorgeous extravagant language, which Crane unleashes here in all of its terrific force. Its language that is Iambic pentameter, unlike Elliott, is a language as rich and ornate as on the English Renaissance stage. Marlowe would have liked this. It is also a kind of romantic addiction and their elements of sort of late 19th century British and French poetry that Crane is combining here. He says, and onward as bells off San Salvador salute the crocus luster of the stars. In these poinsettia meadows of her tides adagios of islands so my prodigal complete the dark confessions her veins spell. Mark how her turning shoulders wind the hours, and hasten, while her penniless rich palms pass superscription of bent foam and wave, hasten while they are true because they will not be true forever, sleep, death, desire, clothes round one instant in one floating flower. Crane understands that love, like rhetoric, cast a spell and that love and poetry create illusions. He does not, therefore, despise them. This is different from Eliot in a basic way. He acknowledges as it were the temporariness of his desire. In fact, he says, bind us in time, O seasons clear and awe, O minstrel galleons of carob fire, what are minstrel galleons of carob fire? Well, maybe they're actual ships that he's imagining, passing among. Maybe they are the lights of the moon or sun on the sea. He says to the sea, bequeath us, I know we're going to die, bequeath us to no earthly shore, in other words, don't bury us, until and as in legend Crane produces a funny syntactic reversal here. Bequeath us to no earthly shore until is answered in the vortex of our grave the seals wide spin drift gaze toward paradise. There the subject of the sentence comes last. The sentences, the seals wide spin drift gaze, is answered in the vortex of our grave. What Crane has done there is, well, he's reversed the syntactic order of subject and verb. By doing so, he's introduced first the image of death by drowning, that is the vortex of our grave. And he's put that up first and then he's followed it with the image of the seals gaze, which comes and emerges after drowning, that the seal is here, a kind of figure of a kind of consciousness and desire expressed through the eyes that survives death. Look back to the poem preceding called At Melville's Tomb. There is, here, this is a kind of elegy for Melville, which seems to presume falsely that Melville is drowned and not buried on shore, as he is. And there's an image, again, of drowning in lines 11 and 12, and again a kind of image of a vortex. Then in the circuit come of one vast coil after the storm that has wrecked the ship its lashing's charmed and those lashings remind you of the flanks of the kids on the voyages. Its lashings charmed and malice reconciled. Frosted eyes there were that lifted altars and silent answers crept across the stars. How do eyes lift altars? In Crane's letter to Harriet Monroe in defense of this poem and what he calls The Logic of Metaphor, Crane says, well, eyes lift altars in the sense that they bring the object of their desire into being through their desire. That is, you raise the altar, you create the object of worship through your yearning for it. This is, again, a kind of visionary act, and it's a version of the one that we find at the end of the second section of voyages where we see the seagulls, excuse me, the seals wide, spindrift gaze toward paradise, wide because it's a gaze that is large and takes in much space, wide because the sea is a kind of space in which we have latitude of action. Spindrift, it's a word that Crane took from Moby Dick, from Melville, replacing another word, not such a good word, which also came from Moby Dick, Finrini. It's a good he got rid of that. Spindrift is important. When you are in the sea, it is like being in a Crane poem. You don't have the ground under your feet.  You spin and you drift and words mix and match and create words like spindrift. This is a condition that Crane calls in the next poem Infinite Consanguinity, where there's a kind of sharing of elements, a kind of transformation through exchange that goes on. This is understood as what happens in love. It's also understood as a kind of model for poetic process. It's imaged here in this poem, in triumphant language, as a kind of transcendence of death, here describing a moment of climactic intensity.  And where death, if shed like a skin, presumes no carnage, no final death of the body, but rather this single change upon the steep floor flung from dawn to dawn, the silken-skilled transmemberment of song. Permit me voyage love into your hands. The silken-skilled transmemberment of song. This is Crane's final fantastic line of iambic pentameter, where he proclaims a kind of transformation that is at once erotic and rhetorical, where elements between two parties have been exchanged, just as exchanged in reverse, just as the silk and skill give us phonemes that are held in almost a kind of mirror relationship and alliteration, the I-L-K-K-I-L. And then Crane introduces us to another word that he coins, transmemberment. What does transmemberment mean? It seems to be made out of what? Remember, dismember, transformation. He's talking about a kind of activity that involves all these things at once and through it achieves a kind of vision of union, which is, again, as I say, both linguistic and interpersonal. Well, that seems like a good place to stop for now. We'll carry these poems on as a way to read his long poem in reply to the wasteland, The Bridge.


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Hello, thank you for joining me today. I'm in a cemetery in the north of Scotland in the town of Elgin Come here to explore the ruins of the fascinating cathedral just behind me here and see the twin towers So what we're going to do we're going to go and look around and I'll explain to you about how the cathedral came a ruin How it may have looked what there is to see today that building over there, which is half a ruin and half Restored that's where some of the cannons would have lived So this would have all been part of the cathedral close and to give you an idea what it looked like There's a painting of it all just up here. So there's the main west front of the cathedral It's two twin towers. I'm gonna go inside them in a minute Look here. Here is the painting that we've all looked So we're currently about there where we are there in front of the towers We're gonna go around to that porch and walk in through as if we were a layman coming to visit the cathedral So as we come around here, we'll see a lot more of the fascinating graveyard It's a very interesting gravestones. I don't know too much about gravestones, but Something quite interesting to see so many different types some of them are so big we'll get on to that later So as we come around here, there'd have been a porch here And this is where the layman would have entered the church. So that's why I thought would come in this way So if you look there Those are like the foundation stones of the porch there have been an archway here would have come in So as we walk through here I'm effectively walking through where the doors would have been and then you can see roughly where the vaulted ceiling would have gone Markings on stonework. So Into the main church we go now. There's not a great deal left of the nave There's a bit more of the chance to see or standing to higher than what we have here We're gonna have a look there that the South wall isle has survived a bit better and so as the south transept the north transept not so well So what happened was the church was ransacked the roof the lead roof was taken off It was stolen sold for scrap and then that was in the 1500s The roof eventually blew off and there had been a big central tower in the middle that collapsed Destroying the nave. So that's why there's not much of it left today, but the big strong towers Above me here They're still standing you can usually go up the towers, but unfortunately I can't put eggs They're doing some cleaning. I can just about hear a hoover So it's a bit of a shame we can't go up to the top and see the views But maybe we can another day, but what we can do is we can go into the towers We can see some of the things if we go into here Some displays of some of the parts of the cathedral they found on display here I'm not going to explain what every single one is because admittedly my knowledge isn't so great But I just thought we'll have a look anyway But this is quite fascinating this here. This would have been above the tomb of Bishop Archibald Now what you can do to see how it would have looked you can They do a light show so you can bring it all back to life So what I should do I'll press this button down here. We see how it may have looked Stand back It's just saying in 1298 Bishop Archibald died and he's late to rest. Oh, I will show you where he was buried But see this is how it looks They don't paint it but unfortunately a fire ripped through the church and destroyed It's really nice. I've got this light show to show you how it would have been When we, so when we get out there, we'll show you where he was buried Let's now go into this tower into this little door here I'm gonna go up the spiral staircase, which I always enjoy Last time I made a video going up the spiral staircase. Well, some were completely different We're in Hackney in London. We were up an old church tower there. If you're interested have a look at the Screen now This is as high as we're gonna go today into this little room here and there's more lights have just come on more exhibits Dating from the 1400s and even 1300s parts of the church they found But this is like a dog Leave that's to warm off evil spirits. I don't want to warm me off Look at these These vault bosses in the scene Quite scary faces So we're gonna go through here now Normally you'd be able to go and see a bit more which as I said is close to see We can't go up any further that way today. Maybe another day. What we can do is this is Northwest town viewing platform the Northwest town is also close, but We can at least see the viewing platform. So it's as high as we're gonna go to not going to the top But we can see out over the nave see the rose window down at the other end of chancel so Another time perhaps we'll come here. We've got to top. So I really would like to see the future top, but Yeah Let's go back down to ground level Let's go back down to ground level While we're up here, I suppose might as well point out a few things So that's why is looking east that would have been just there the north transit behind it is the chapter house South transit is just hidden by the south west town, but we'll go and have a look around that later So next time we come hopefully Now we're going back down to the ground level. It's quite nice there to be inside the towers Still and See we can see it's not many people here today. It's it's a weekday in the spring So it's quite a lot of what it was myself. I expect if I came in the summer Then there are a lot more people here So that was one of the reasons why I wanted to come here today and see the place Almost happened to myself Here and now let's go and look around the main hall So as we walk up the nave you can see remains where these big columns were so imagine, you know You'd be confederal be bolted ceiling And then when we get to the crossing here, I said that's the chance we're in front of us We look behind that's where we were a moment ago See those little arches there before just below the big arch above the doors. That's as high as we went to today Here is that's the north transit there not a lot of it left and What we'll do we'll go around and we're going to the south transit. So there's the chance Let's go through here's another section. I'll have a look how it would look once And as they're doing some work, I can't take you right up to it But I'll show you where Bishop Archibald whose tomb we saw recreated when lights was buried If you look just through there That triangular That is above his tomb It's nice to see the bolted ceiling above us still. There's another tomb there. This one's a bit better Preserved. I really just really enjoy exploring ruins. I do like a non ruined cathedral But it's just something to me about a ruin. It's just such a fascinating Place I've always ever since I went to Tintin Abbey.  I've always always enjoyed coming to ruins Just think they're really nice places to be We'll come this way again now. I'm taking you around to Chepterhouse That we need to go around And that's your south transit there. So as you can see that survives a bit better So better height than the north transit. He's got parts of the windows still in there And then as I said the south transit not a great deal the north transit rather not great to have it left But the Chepterhouse has survived quite nicely. It's not its original roof, but it's um, it's here You can go in here and have a look So if you come up to here It says danger. I've been working over here. Actually it's never been one Well, perhaps there is. Yeah, perhaps there's someone up there who couldn't see them. So people up there working Go through here a little room here. Watch what this is. It's a small room There's the fireplace in there But we're going into the Chepterhouse You can store this So here we are. This is the Chepterhouse. Have a look at the ceiling If you wonder what the cathedral looked like have a look there So that's before the tower collapsed So the gray the gray Um drawing is what's no longer there. It's kind of drawing the stone color drawing is what has survived There we go. That is how the cathedral looks today The Chepterhouses weren't part of Religious services weren't held in Chepterhouses. They were more for meetings to discuss finances So they're not it's not a religious building But it's attached to a religious building I expect in that door there There's another spiral staircase. So it's not part of what we can see but maybe another time we'll come here Go up there. What we'll do now is we'll go back I say go outside. I know we are outside, but we'll go outside of the cathedral to And we'll have a look at some of the gravestones and then we'll have a bit of a look around Let's just have a look here. I was going to go out through that door there in the south transept But I've just noticed over here in the north transept Remains of a staircase It's more interesting graves. I bet I don't know too much about grave here. Look there's a I'll go up this staircase Just say don't climb on the wall, but as this is a staircase. I don't see but I would yeah, but I wouldn't Yeah, go off the end of here, but I just come up the staircase imagine that would have gone around and around and Up there somewhere. Um, let's go back down there Last rooming I went to Was um up in the northeast of England think of Priory over in Durham. I that was quite exciting ruin to Look around. So if you want to see that video look at have a look at the little screen now interesting how It's not symmetrical at all the transept. They often are but this one isn't there's something I really want to show you out there though There's the towers I said about gravestones. There is one out here that really um is You've kind of just got to see now. Where was it? It is somewhere around here And I think it's just around the corner. Lots of gravestones here, but it's one I Think it's very interesting. Yeah, there it is some nice some noble ones as well So there's the chancell pretty the best surviving part of The cathedral if we make our way around to here. There's one particular gravestone It's just that little bit different Have a look at this one here This is the tallest gravestone in scotland Almost could joke and say it's taller than the towers, but that's just the angle of the camera So, yeah, the tallest gravestone in scotland. It's at least Twice the height of me. So it's probably about 12 foot high. So that's quite an impressive feature If you sort of don't get gravestones like this down in england You might in perhaps high gate cemetery be certainly wouldn't in so many of your average churches I'm not saying you don't get any but This really is quite a Fascinating place to be there's also you get these Um, what must be like a family? Sort of an area. It's like a little room. There was one of them there So look in this one. So you sort of actually go in to a room of gravestone So, yeah, there's a small room here. So this must have belonged to one of the families or probably one of the clans As they'd say scotland. I know more. I've got some scottish blood going back along long way And I know my family have connections to one of the clans and Admittedly, I don't know which one though You get a general view of the cathedral Another spoil staircase there in the chancel. I'd love to go up there, but again, that's not open To the public. So pretty much shown you everything. Oh and over there there's a modern bridge On the road outside over the river Lossy goes up to Lossy Muff. You may have heard of Arieth Lossy Muff Um, so here I'm going to now make my way back through the town center back to the railway station And catch the train back to Inverness. Oh, there's another gate out there. That's Part of the cathedral close. Just see over there where that car just drove past That's one of the old cathedral gates. So from behind Elgin Cathedral Thank you very much for watching. As I said, if you are up here, it's about if you come by train It's about 15 minute walk from the railway station and Elgin's quite an interesting town to look around Anyway, so thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment and from Elgin Cathedral. Goodbye


I'm Captain Daniel Lilly with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 366. We are a heavy helicopter squadron, we fly CH-53 ECHOs, we're able to transport large amounts of troops as well as we are the elite heavy helicopter squadron in the United States military. We worked with MAC to do an expeditionary advance base operation up in Brunswick, Maine where we conducted a lot of confined area landings into LZs that had snow on the ground, allowing us to experience what it's like to white out where we land through the cloud of snow that comes around us. We're getting used to operating in cold weather conditions as well as under snow and icy runways. We're preparing for cold weather exercise training in Norway. So with Norway the temperatures currently are dropping down to negative 30 degrees. In order to prepare for that it's a drastic difference from the day-to-day operations that we have here in North Carolina. The moisture is different, the temperature is different, the winds are different. Even the amount of daylight that we have, the angle of the sun, it all changes. It's a lot of different things that when you move more north you have to adapt for every operation. Additionally you have the maintenance aspect which becomes infinitely more difficult. As Marines try to operate on the aircraft under the cold weather conditions, everything, even the smallest task becomes a little bit more difficult. Whether it's the leading up to the flight, the flight itself, or the maintenance that you have to do afterwards, the cold environment changes it all. We have to be able to fight in every climate place and Norway is no exception.