okay James P. Madonna the Facebook group everything is food all right here's the duck and approach approaching the duck that's out of luck and in this case the duck is out of luck hopefully they'll bring out more but I think I see leg of land okay now I honestly don't know what this is I hope it's land it smells like lamb yeah it smells like lamb okay considering that it smells like lamb it looks like lamb from a leg of lamb and it's most likely lamb it's some let me get some lamb flavored onions here I want to give a shout out to the creator Mario Petrus because the Greeks love lamb then again so does the entire Middle these onions are probably I am at the royal kibachi grill and buffet go 46 west south of Brooklyn Jersey all right okay well you know what look how tender this is you know what I'm gonna have to come back for the shrimp and wrapped in flounder you know what I'm gonna have some roll grape leaves as a side dish with stuffed shells spinach or grotton mac and cheese here's something interesting we got muscles and clams my calamari not yet but these shrimp are really good these fried shrimp are excellent I say that every every week every is my friend all right all right some roll grape leaves as a side dish roll grape leaves also a Greek and Middle Eastern delight it's round one there we go lots of leg of lamb a few morsels of roast duck and roll grape leaves around to James being done of the Facebook group everything is food food food food food food food I just want to say I want to do a little bashing of food snobs there are there are people out there that are food snobs beer craft beer snobs wine snobs whiskey snobs and food snobs you know at least these onion rings don't look too bad but man I'm gonna pass and you get more of these you know it's all elitism due to insecurity okay get some squash yellow squash is delicious the green ones probably a zucchini get some cauliflower grilled cauliflower I love cauliflower in the cabbage family everything in the cabbage family is very healthy for you you know but the food sobs can really go right to help really well snobbery in any any given field has their charities these so these kalabasa heads you know I'll grab another one supposed to be good luck in China even the image of the cauliflower I have to do some research in it okay there we got some fried shrimp grilled zucchini yellow squash and cauliflower my grandparents just to say Kali cauliflower God knows why I get some muscles check on the seafood salad got some calamari legs oh some tentacles man that's good oh I love that yeah get some tentacles going there some tentacles are in there it's not easy to fish out the tentacles but really seriously I'm encountering you know human race is really extremely annoying I'm encountering more and more snobbery on social media than ever before you know these people really need they really need one to Captain Kirk's photon torpedoes fired at them really seriously I would love to do it you know and you all you all know who you are put them in a headlock and just squeeze until the the head pops you know all right surround to now should I go for more lemons I wait a minute there's some lemon seeds here man all right you know what I've been growing lemon plants they've been actually sprouting you know I'm gonna come back to those seeds I learned how to do it on YouTube how to grow plants is a baby version of the money trees for the money tree probably retail gimmick is the point said yeah they need a lot of water to get a water room I hear every day that's why most of them die after Christmas okay ready for round three James P. Madonna the Facebook group everything is food as also seen on YouTube everything is food is also on YouTube going way back when I first created the group okay here we got some whitings salmon flavor I much prefer the sushi let me see let me see if they brought out the hardcore sushi otherwise I'll have to get a whiting no no no hardcore sushi no nope nope nope wiped out they had all the California style rolls I'm not gonna get the same thing again the Mongolian barbecue no whiting whiting whiting is not a bad fish got more of it so this time it's roast beef okay see we got here asparagus some grilled asparagus you know I think it makes my urine stink to high heavens when you pee when you pee there's something about asparagus that makes you your urine smell really bad alright let me get some lemons hey what happened they moved oh for God's sakes they move the lemons people think some like spinach salad very high nutritional value I really should eat some fresh mozzarella the mutz you know in honor of Salvatore Mercurio so somebody dropped something I heard a loud bang when I said Salvatore Mercurio out there they interfere with me I give him a shout out that's the fresh mutz and toots here's the mutz now I don't know if these are leachies because they're orange it might be I don't know cum quats low quats high quats medium quats hey they just brought out the tray leche dessert dessert what's that blueberry cheesecake oh oh oh could be blue could be blueberry cheesecake it's hard to say interesting you know it's very sweet though I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna give one of these a shot and see how they are look like blueberry cheesecakes see let's just give it a shot okay got more lemon seeds from my collection because I'm able to sprout lemons I learned on YouTube got a whiting there I'm winding down to the end of this week's lunch buffet Friday afternoon Facebook group everything is true royal abachi grill and buffet son of book in Jersey I'm very happy that his establishment is getting busy busier and busier


This class is very good. It's so beautiful class. I'm very like it because the student is very friendly. The teacher is so nice. The class is good because the teacher is nice because it's the teacher for class. It's about my idea class. So that's good, that's great. I'm here like every Thursdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. I'm gonna be better like before but right now I think I'm better. This class teaches me how to use the computer and send emails. My idea class right now is computer class. We use a computer. It is online. It's easy to learn. Yes, in this class we don't use any book. My idea class is with a lot of people. We can speak, we can write, we can read at the same time. It's a program we are learning about computers and English together. I like it because it's something different. We take discussion of language and the teacher helps me speaking, learning and reading. Now our class is interactive study. We learn English, we will help computer and our teacher is very careful and we mainly help us with study English. My class is very big. It's very friendly students and good teachers. I like English.


Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny, and happy 8 year anniversary to FNAF. Apologies for not posting anything yesterday, I just wanted to relax a bit, I haven't done that on a FNAF anniversary in years, cause I'm always streaming with you guys. Which by the way, currently trying to set up a special charity stream this month, hopefully it's gonna go well, so stay tuned for that. But it was just nice to sit back, relax on a very special day, watch some amazing videos by all the talented people in the community.  And also shout out to everyone else, of course all my YouTube friends, all of you guys watching for giving me this opportunity, but you're not here to listen to that, you're here for all of the anniversary news we got yesterday, and my goodness, did we get a lot of exciting stuff. Unfortunately, no posts about Ruin, no posts about the FNAF movie, no posts from Scott, but we still got a lot of news on merchandise, some Fazbear fan verse stuff, and also some official artwork and teases from a few companies. So without further ado, if you're excited, hit the like button, if you're new, subscribe to the channel, like 88% of the people watching are not subscribed, let's get to 50k by the end of the year. First up, we got a bit of YouTube's news, this wasn't necessarily posted on the anniversary, but it was still posted kinda close to it. Ken Carter showed off some more details, and Beto looks at the upcoming Pop Goes the Weasel figure. He looks absolutely adorable, I cannot wait to get him, he can also stand upside down, he can do a headstand on his top hat, and also YouTube showed off a official full reveal of the upcoming Ignited Freddy fan verse figure and a bit of his box. On his box, you can see him peeking through the office, through a door, you can also see him hiding behind the window in the bedroom minigame. He's got a quote saying, no light can save you now, which is actually a nightmare Freddy quote from Ultimate Custom Night. Both these figures look awesome, unfortunately no reveal for the upcoming Candy the Cat, YouTube's figure for the fan verse, but hopefully we can get that in the future. Now let's go back to Pop Goes Arcade for the upcoming 2.3 update, and it looks like a lot of different changes are being made for the update. Ken put out a tweet saying, super speed is now the first upgrade you get from BB's Hit List in the West Forest. Number 2, Money Boots is replacing the Crit Boost upgrade from BB's Hit List. It gives you 5 coins for every 10 seconds of walking. And finally number 3, a 10% Crit Boost is now the default Crit Chance. That's a bit more detail on the upcoming update regarding Pop Goes Arcade, not quite sure when it's going to be released, it seems like they're doing a lot of new changes in addition, so I'm happy they're taking their time with it. And now we can get into some anniversary posts we got yesterday. Starting off we got some amazing artwork by Clickteam, happy birthday to the world's favorite pizza loving bear, Freddy. They also encouraged a lot of community members to post their own anniversary artwork underneath the tweet, and so if you want to go check it out, brighten up your day, I'll leave the tweet link down below. Then of course we were all expecting it, we got some more artwork for the anniversary from Steelwall Studios. You got all the animatronics surrounding the Night Guard in the office peeking through, we also got the spring traps and Vanny at the bottom with a celebration cake. Some very cute art and now let's move back to U2's with some more Security Breach merchandise. Because on the anniversary we got officially revealed to us the Glamrock Freddy, Monty Gator, and Roxanne Wolfe plushies from U2's. They did this in collaboration with Deregular Sauce, as you can see his amazing Glamrock Freddy cosplay in the picture. You can also see on the left side of the image the Pop Goes and Ignited Freddy U2's. And on the right side that looks like the sleeve for, I'm assuming Pop Goes, it looks like it has some green aesthetic to it. And also you may notice there's no Chica in that image, no Glamrock Chica plushie. Well thankfully Sauce did confirm that there is a Chica plushie, but he just didn't get it sent to them. Though he does say that she's just as adorable as the other, so she looks good people. Another very interesting piece of anniversary news, it looks like Cloak may be collaborating with FNAF once again. Cloak if you don't know is a clothing company owned by Markiplier and Jacksepticeye. And they tweeted out this fan-made image of the cupcake from FNAF, hinting towards either another wave of FNAF collaboration products, or maybe they're gonna be restarking some of their old products. It's unclear right now, hopefully we'll get another update with this news pretty soon. And now we move on to some of the big stuff, starting off with brand new Hex merchandise. A while ago we got T's Wave 3, which is the toy characters, Toy Freddy, Bonnie Chica and Balloon Boy. And in Daco's most recent video celebrating the FNAF anniversary, he showed off some images of the prototype. Let's make that clear, prototype plushies. These are not final, these still have changes to go through, but this is a look at prototype Toy Freddy. And then here's a look at some prototype limbs for Toy Bonnie. Now I believe Daco said they're gonna be changing the materials for these plushies, because unlike the FNAF 1 crew, the toys are made of plastic. So he said they're going for a smoother material that represents plastic. And now we move on to Hex Fanverse plushies. This is something we were speculating for quite a bit, because the Hex Twitter account was always replying to Kane and Emile, and we finally got revealed to us, yes, Candy and Popgos are getting Hex plushies. This is what they look like, as you can see, Popgos is gonna be holding the head of Black Rabbit, and Candy's gonna be holding a burger, representing the burger and fries from the FNAF games. Now what's interesting is that Daco and Kane and Emile all hinted towards more Fanverse plushies being made in the future. Now they didn't say who's gonna be made after Popgos and Candy's, but if they do make some, these images could hint to who's gonna be next. Not only does this image show off that they're gonna be releasing in late 2022, the Candy and Popgos Hex plushies, but it also says a bonus from Hex to be revealed at another time. The Popgos one has bonus highlighted in yellow, and the Candy's one has bonus highlighted in pink. Now I'm not saying this is confirmed, but Blake the Badger's color is yellow, and Cindy's color is pink. So maybe if we get more Hex Fanverse plushies down the line, we'll see Cindy and Blake, but for right now, all we have confirmed is Popgos and Candy's late this year. And finally, again, we got the Funko Fanverse plushies of Popgos and Candy. Oh my gosh, they look so, so good. In my opinion, they absolutely nailed these plushies. Even Popgos has a full-on vest with plushies like Captain Foxy. I think they just printed on the vest, but he looks great. He's got a full-on vest. He's got a bow tie. He's got the awesome top hat. Candy has his segmented tie. They each have little fangs poking out. Oh my God, they just look so cute. They look so cute. I've been gushing over these guys for like the full 24 hours. And what's even more exciting is that they're estimated to be released this month, later this month on the 25th of August. Cain did show off another view of the Popgos plushie confirming he does have a tail. And because these are exclusive to GameStop, he says for those asking whether these plushies will arrive in other countries, I don't know. And neither does Scott. We really hope so. But at the moment, it seems to be an undisclosed agreement between Striker. If you don't know, Striker Entertainment is actually the company that has the license to FNAF and Funko. If I find out the answer, I will share. And there is one more plushie we need to talk about. The classic Blake the Badger Funko plushie. So I'm sorry. It looks great. No, he looks great. He looks awesome. So this is classic Blake the Badger. If you're wondering why he's classic Blake, it's because this is the design from 2016, not Blake's design from Popgos Evergreen. Cain says, due to some miscommunication, Funko used references of Blake the Badger from the original 2016 Popgos game for this product rather than from Popgos Evergreen. Instead of scrapping the plushie entirely, we have decided to release it in a very limited run as a special classic version of Blake. Batches of this plushie have already been shipped to game stops across the US. But the plan is that they will not reorder or restock it. An Evergreen Blake plushie might be considered in the future to replace classic Blake, but this is not confirmed yet. So basically saying, this dude is going to be unbelievably rare. He will probably be the rarest FNAF plushie ever because they're restocking him or they're stalking him only once, ever in the entirety of this plushie's existence. And then he's not being sent out to any more stores. I'll admit, I kinda like him. He looks goofy in a cute way in my opinion. I like him. I don't think he's too, too bad. Of course, he's still not obviously good. But I am hopeful that we do get an Evergreen Funko plushie. I think that could look amazing. And those are our three brand new Fanverse Funko plushies. You got Popko's The Weasel, Blake the Badger Classic from Popko's 2016, and also Candy the Cat, all exclusive to GameStop. I was just this close to posting this video and Jason Blum, the man behind the FNAF movie just did the unthinkable. Jason just put out a tweet saying it's great to be walking with Jim Henson's Creature Shop, their experience and expertise with animatronics is absolutely killer. And in the image, you can see this fine young man. I appreciate you so much. Designing a animatronic suit for an actor to wear in the FNAF movie. That is Freddy Goddang Fazbear. He's making a Freddy suit.  It's finally making progress, yes. This is, this is huge. This is huge. They're designing suits that people are gonna be wear, that people are gonna be wearing for the film. This is crazy. So that does debunk a few theories going around actually. I believe back when the movie was being walked on by Warner Brothers, they were making animatronics, like real animatronics that were gonna be used for the film. It looks like with Blumhouse, it seems like they're now gonna be taking the approach of people in costumes, which if you've seen the Banana Splits movie and Willy's Wonderland can be pulled off well if you do it right. The Banana Splits did not do it right. Willy's Wonderland did it pretty well. Luckily, Blumhouse is a very, very great studio, a very great studio, in regards to making small budget films that look phenomenal. So I'm really, really hoping, I'm hoping it's gonna be good. I'm hoping they get fantastic actors. This is crazy. This is finally making some progress. Oh my God, thank you, Jason. Oh geez. Anyway, so that's a very quick update on the FNAF film. They're making progress, yes. And that will do it for this anniversary news video. I know some people are disappointed we didn't get any updates on the movie, no updates on the ruin DLC, but I'd imagine those updates will come pretty soon, hopefully. And even Scott said that a lot of big things are coming out later this year, so maybe we're just still waiting on a few more updates. But in my opinion, this was a fantastic anniversary. I'm so glad the fanverse kind of took center stage. It shows the growth of FNAF as a franchise. And of course, mad respect. I'm so proud of Kane and Emil and everyone working on the fanverse. This is a, it's an incredible milestone. Official merchandise coming out this year. So what announcement this year got you the most excited? Is it the fanverse plushies? Is it more Hex coming out later this year? Or was it some YouTube figures and plushies? Let me know in the comments down below. Thank you so much for watching. I really do appreciate you guys watching and sticking through me. If you actually don't know, my channel is turning five years old in a couple of days on August 15th. So August is a very special month for me, FNAF, the channel. It's surreal. FNAF eight years, my channel five years. But thank you guys so much genuinely. It means the world to me. So thanks. That was a lame outro and I'll see you on the flip side. Bye.


So, if you're going to claim that sex increases genetic diversity with the goal of reducing susceptibility to parasites, then you'd have to somehow make the link between what people find sexy and whether or not that actually indicates parasite free-ness. And it's true, they found that old boy Peacock here has his amazing, gorgeous feathers if he had parasites. Then he... all of his food, all of his energy, all of his time is going to be spent eating to feed his parasites. And he's not going to have the energy or the resources to build that phenomenal tail. They've looked at Peacock immune systems and found that, yeah, the cooler your tail is, the stronger your immune system is. And the ladies use the tail as evidence for the strong immune system that's resistant to parasites. This encourages a genetic, what? Like, set of cards or genetic compilation that encourages that parasite free immune system. They've looked at some fish and these fish or even our little birds here who are building their crazy tunnels or their crazy displays for the ladies. If you are having to maintain a population of parasites in your gut, then, dude, you're not going to have the energy to go around and find all those blue things to make the pretty little display for the ladies to impress them. So, you're not going to have the energy to pull it off. The ladies that or the fellows that are most attractive to the ladies, it has been confirmed, are the displays that they're putting forth are correlated with lower parasite infections. Isn't that phenomenal? Okay, so let's just take a little moment to look at the parasites. What are parasite strategies and how are the parasites involved in this whole thing?


I'm really happy to be here this afternoon to welcome you to this afternoon's lecture. As you said, it's part of the Powering the Future series, which we're very happy to sponsor and very happy to be associated with, and I suppose the high-level purpose of those lectures is to inform and to generate debate about the critical kind of energy issues of our time. And I suppose against that background, today's talk and today's eminent kind of speaker really fit the bill in terms of the series. Today's speaker is Professor Willis Kempton. He's a research director at the University of Delaware Center for Carbon-Free Power Integration. He's a professor at the School of Marine and Science Policy, and he's a renowned expert in the field of offshore wind generation and electric vehicle integration. The title of today's presentation, Introducing Grid Integrated Vehicles to Europe, in the presentation, Professor Kempton will talk to us about his insights gained from research and kind of practical work in the United States, in the Netherlands, in Denmark, and in the United Kingdom. The whole kind of concept of vehicle-to-grid integration is not new. It's been around for probably a quarter of a century and I suppose very simply it kind of looks at electric vehicles and it looks at their potential beyond simply decarbonizing transport, it looks at their potential to offer support to grid and grid operators to make grids more efficient, to offer ancillary services to grid operators and in particular to upper I suppose a channel to deal with the increasingly kind of significant issue of managing large amounts of variable renewable power, wind or solar on the system. So it's looking at electric vehicles in a very, very broad way, looking at all of the kind of potential and the possibilities that they offer. And I suppose it's not new, it's been around as I say for a quarter of a century, it's kind of been more on the theoretical, the fanciful side, until recent times and it's on a journey now from the fanciful or theoretical and I'm not sure those two words go particularly well together, but it is on that journey through into the practical and into the commercial realm where it's becoming offering real possibilities to kind of grid operators and the fact that it is down to the work of Professor Kempton and his associates in no small degree, particularly through the use of their offshoot venture, Nuvi, which has in Delaware, it now has the first commercially operating bank of electric vehicles offering commercial services to the local grid. ESP has benefited from Dr. Kempton's work through our involvement and his in the IEA's working group on vehicle to grid integration and we like to think of ourselves among European utilities as being proactive in this space. Going back to 2009 when we started installing the basic charging infrastructure across the country right down to our leadership among European grids in the whole area of electromobility. This is something that we see as being very important and as a utility we look forward to a time when electric vehicles are much more widespread out there, when they're making a very significant contribution to the decarbonisation of our society and in that work the work of Professor Kempton and his associates is absolutely fundamental. So without further ado I'd like to welcome Professor Kempton and I look forward as I'm sure all of you do to his presentation. So thank you. Now thank you for that very kind introduction, I appreciate it. So I appreciate being invited and I appreciate your attendance, thank you very much for coming. The title as in the announcement in advance is Implementing Grid Integrated Vehicles in Europe. So you'll probably recognise this island which seems to be moving into the future quite rapidly with very large amounts of wind already generating and an unbelievable wind resource, Scotland and Ireland I think have the best wind resources in Europe. And also a pretty well developed electric vehicle charging infrastructure for in-route charging. So these two, I see a connection between these two, right now they're doing very well each on their own, maybe a little bit faster purchasing of vehicles would be nice but the infrastructure is out there facilitating trips by those who do purchase. So I'll talk about wind and solar as variable generation which I think is more relevant from a grid operator perspective than talking about renewables, hydro is renewable, hydro is dispatchable. We're really concerned here about variable generation which means that it's not variable by when you pull the lever back and forth but it's variable by when the good Lord wants it to vary. So that doesn't always match load of course. So storage can be part of that picture but lest I oversell storage I want to be clear this is not necessarily a near-term problem. We have lots of facilities on the grid for adjusting to generator outages, unexpected outages, unexpected loss of load and those facilities also work for variable generation up to some level and it's not a, it's bright line when you go over something but Ireland is doing quite well now with 24% of electric generation coming from wind. I learned at lunch that there's something like 2% or 3% curtailment there which to me seems not so bad. If you've invested in a wind farm and you're getting curtailed it might seem bad. So transmission use of existing generators will deal with variable generation at some level. I would say up to 50% that's a very soft number. But if storage is built for other purposes it can be very low cost to use storage to help balance the grid. So the idea as alluded to in the introduction is that we use the equipment in electric vehicles that is not just the batteries but the batteries and the chargers which would like to be bidirectional. And we are taking advantage of the fact that this is an expensive resource that's purchased for private transportation in its idle 23 hours a day, typical OECD country average. It's actually more than that in Japan for example. So here's an expensive resource, it's close to the grid, it's got storage in it, it's purchased for the purpose of travel and can we do something with it the rest of the day other than that one hour when it's typically in use. If we pay for that, which we should for using something we should pay for it, then that also brings the payment to the electric vehicle owner which further lowers the total cost of ownership. So the idea here is that it's low cost storage for the grid, it enables renewable energy to provide a large fraction of electricity coming from variable generation and it also provides a second revenue stream or a revenue stream to the EV owner, that's the concept. So we call it the grid integrated vehicle, we would like that vehicle to be able to not only draw power at a variable controllable rate but also to return power to the grid that increases the value and it's not twice as much a rough, rough rule of thumb as that if you can do both ways it's worth about eight times as much and we can go into why that is and it's a different number in different national situations. So we would like vehicle to grid power as well as grid integrated vehicle, that is some grid operator whether it be the DSO or the DSO or wind farm operator, some grid operator is controlling in part the flow of power in and out constrained by the needs for travel which always get highest priority. So what's the current status of this? As Pat alluded to it's been a theory, it's been publications, it's now starting to be real with companies and actually revenue flowing, revenue is still less than cost, let's be clear but there is revenue flowing. So our EV group at the University of Delaware has experienced from ten years of implementation now with partners in other parts of the world, we created technologies to use this, there's an ecosystem of three technologies, developed, tested, patented, supported by technical staff at the university and partners who are licensing these technologies. Those partners include original equipment manufacturers that is of automobiles, auto manufacturers, tier one suppliers, the people who make the parts for automobiles, charging station manufacturers, DSOs, DSOs and so forth and these are partners some of whom are licensees, some of whom are using the technology and just selling it as a product. In several locations we are registered as a power provider that is from the TSO perspective we're a generator, you go in it's a parking lot with cars, it doesn't look like a generator but from a regulatory standpoint and from what we are doing for the electric system we're a generator and we're earning revenue in some of these markets. So the three components that I talked about that make up this ecosystem, the aggregation server, it's an essential location, it does real time operation of a set of vehicles and it provides services to an electric grid entity of some kind. So it talks to the vehicles in one direction, talks to the grid operator in the other direction and provides translations in those cases. Second is the, so the vehicle smart link goes in the car, it links the car to communications to the aggregator, it also controls charging and reports what it's doing to the server and then there's electric vehicle supply equipment, that's a standard term, that map that I showed you on the right shows electric vehicle supply equipment in Ireland. But we add some capabilities there, there's an internet portal to the car, there's of course a power connection which you have to have, there's a TSO certified meter which is maybe a little bit stepped up in certifications from what would be in a charging station where you're just charging the customer for electricity, we have a permit for interconnect. So from the TSO perspective it may be the charging station that's actually the generator rather than the car because they're used to generators staying in one place. So when you file a form for a generator you have to give an address. So that's the charging station, it's not the car. It's a grid location, that is the charging station knows what distribution feeder it's on, what substation it's behind, what the breakers are, both the distribution system and in the building, so it's a real grid location the way a DSO would think of it rather than a GPS location which doesn't tell you what you need to know. Okay, so the aggregator, not much glory here, it's this rack mount server and then the 64-bit encrypted box that we get, this one is in Delaware from our local grid operator PJM Interconnection. So PJM sends signals, they go into the server, they filter through 70,000 lines of code and then they go out to the cars coming the other direction, they get metering reports from the cars, they add those together, it's a simple addition going the other way and then we report the total power. So to PJM, to our grid operator, it looks like one big resource. Of course, if they want to audit us, they can get down to each individual car, they can put meters on each one, they want to audit and so forth, but normal operation, they're giving us a single dispatch signal, we're giving back a report of what we did. Inside the car, the vehicle smart link, found in this case, this was in the mini-E, BMW's mini-E. We found some empty space inside the weatherproof box, which is always great and then we can plug into where we want to and that small bit of electronic communication and processing can also be integrated with an off-board charger if it's a vehicle with DC charging. So obviously you have to work with OEM engineers to do this, to put anything into the car, so this tends to be a fairly lengthy process with telecoms and then, you know, they, in this case, airlift a car out to our lab and then we actually put everything together and it doesn't actually work the way we thought it would, so then we fix it. But ultimately, it does work, so there's actually a tier one supplier and OEM and then my team on the right there.  We also have cars that are driving around and parking in different locations. So we have also developed EVSEs, as they say, part of this ecosystem. We really didn't want to do that as quite a bit of effort, but we're not able to get a manufacturer to take this seriously. So in this EVSE, we have communications that we want and we're pushing communication signals through the pilot signal. So we're not adding pins, we're not adding wireless. We always know exactly what car we're talking to. Each charging station is serialized and that serial number goes out digitally. The car has a VIN number, which it also passes back digitally. We know exactly where the resource is. There's never any question. By the way, this is a 19 kilowatt single phase charger, around 1200 euro cost. We've also got a three phase, sorry, this is a three phase one. That's a single phase one there. We also have a three phase one, which can certainly do 42 kilowatts here at 400 volt distribution, 63 amp, but also can go up to 83 kilowatts. So this is more than many DC chargers. It's under 2000 euro cost to the end user. So it just illustrates the cost effectiveness, I think, of AC charging. So types of markets, what are the markets for storage of electricity? It's not really a well-developed market yet. The markets weren't designed for storage, but you can fit storage into existing markets often. So what is the purpose of storage? Well, you can balance second by second fluctuations in the system that can't be predicted. Failures, as I mentioned, loss of load goes the other direction. You can also move electricity from hours of excess electricity to hours of shortage, so-called arbitrage or hourly market, time of day shifting. You can also hold extra electricity and readiness, much like the car is doing for the next trip, and release it only when there's an unexpected failure. Those markets are often called spinning reserves or contingency reserves. So these are markets that exist. They're not quite right, so we kind of struggle to fit into them. We usually have multiple meetings with the TSO before something gets started, but there are existing markets. There are other markets that can't be so easily fit into yet. Let's categorize this whole wider set of markets. So for the TSOs, I mentioned those. They already have typically bidding. We can bid against other providers. The DSOs do not have organized markets. They're regulated, but you could today have a bilateral agreement. You could say, well, you're going to spend all this money to upgrade your system, or how are you going to deal with high voltage on that distribution feeder that's got lots of solar panels on it?  Well, we can do the same thing for half that much. So you could have those kind of bilateral agreements, but it's complicated because it is a regulated industry. So you would have to get regulators willing to think a little bit differently about the way those things are done, because obviously the DSO has to recover their costs. Third, possible value would be so-called vehicle to building. That is, you could maybe lower peak demand, or you could lower a capacity charge. See, demand charge, it's called in the US, it's called here. This is a charge for the highest kilowatts of the month, their highest kilowatts of the year, what's that charge called? Sorry, maximum capacity. Power capacity, yeah. Right, so if that's a short enough window, that could be lowered. That takes some tricks technology-wise, but it is possible to do. And then, of course, emergency power is what everybody talks about. You can do PV balancing if you're not getting much credit for backfading, like in Germany now. You could just absorb that power into a storage system in the car. What we have found so far is that the TSO markets are the easiest to enter and provide the greatest value several times more than these others, although some of the DSO markets may be equally lucrative. So we have, as a business, stayed mostly with the TSO markets. We're very eager to talk to DSOs who think that we can do something with them and that we can have a three-way conversation with the regulator or whatever. But you'll hear more about TSO markets, just because after looking at all these, it seems to be the most lucrative. So we think you should start with high-value markets. They're actually more challenging, technically. In some ways, regulatorally, they're more challenging. In other ways, they're not. But what we see, most other groups are kind of starting with an easy market. Well, we're going to do emergency power or we're going to do peak shifting. Okay, and then that's easier technically. You don't have to spend as much money on engineering effort and you don't make as many mistakes. Okay, that's all great. But sometimes the hardware specifications for those easy markets won't work for the harder markets. At lunch, we were talking about these fast response markets that prevent the grid from going down, valuable, may require a 10-second response time, one-second response time. We're looking at national grid may be going to one new service that would be 100 millisecond response time. So if you're going to do 100 milliseconds, you've got to design that into everything from the battery, not the batteries, but the bidirectional charger, communications to the car, the charging station, that all has to be pushing down the time. And if we didn't start with the hard markets, we wouldn't be able to go into them without making a bunch of technology changes. So that's why we are working on these more difficult, fast response markets. Okay, so we are in commercial operation today, as noted. Just quickly, their main licensees for the aggregator, sort of turns out as sort of the central piece, are Nuvi, operating in Europe, and a bit in Asia, and EVGo, operating in only the United States. So EVGo and the University of Delaware have a project in the US with the TSO, PGM Interconnection, that is operating commercially. No experimental, no trial, no test. It's just, you know, we have to follow all the rules and we get paid at the end of the month. The Nuvi and the Nu Motion have a project in the Netherlands with Tenet, and that is a commercial trial. So Tenet is enforcing the rules, but there's some rules that we're not able to follow yet. We're in discussions, it makes sense to change those rules, or are we going to have to do something different technology-wise. Third project, Nuvi, DTU, Nissan, and NL. I have a project in Denmark. There the TSO, and again at DK, is evaluating our tests. So we're demonstrating this new technology that doesn't look like anything else on their grid. Works. So we're doing extensive testing at the Danish Technical University, and they will evaluate those tests, and then they'll decide, is this a reasonable power resource or not? And then with similar partners, Nuvi, Nissan, and NL, in England and Wales with the TSO National Grid, we will be announcing a trial project May 10th, which is coming up right soon now, in London. So I'll be in London tomorrow for that announcement. Nissan has a factory in Newcastle, and right now all the cars they're producing are capable of two-way power flow back and forth to the grid if you have the right charging station, and NL is making the charging station. So that's the partnership. Nuvi knows how to create value out of this, and NL makes the charging station, and Nissan is making the cars. So let's take a look at each of these briefly. We're providing Ensler Services Regulation in PJM in the US. We have been validated for 300 kilowatts. We passed their validation tests, so we're approved to operate commercially, and then we bid in 100 kilowatt units, so we can bid 100, 200, or 300. If we add more cars and more charging stations, then we'll have to get retested for four or five or 600, whatever. So they're not used to power plants that grow over time, from 300 kilowatts to 10 megawatts, so we actually have to go back and retest every time we change our capacity. We have stationary cars as shown in the photo. We also have driving customer cars, total of about 30 EVs. All of these are bi-directional power flow. They're between 10 and 19 kilowatts bi-directional, and the revenue there is about $150 per car per month, as long as the customer keeps it plugged in most of the time when they're not driving it. If you only plug in once every three days, an hour before you need to go somewhere, then there's not gonna be any revenue. So that's what PJM looks like, the blue section there, part of the Eastern Interconnect, which is quite large. Although PJM itself is fairly large, 470 companies, 51 million people serve, peak load of 144 gigawatts. So we're a very small part of the area size. So when it first came online and was actually validated as a legitimate power generator, we got press in the New York Times and so forth, so it seems to be a new thing in the world that gets news coverage. So Denmark, we're operating here pre-commercially, as I mentioned in the testing phase now. The purpose is to establish a new resource for Denmark, which is approximately, let me forget my figures, I think it's 40, I guess it's 50% wind powered now. Don't quote that one, call Chatham House Rules on that number, which may be wrong, sorry. 44, okay, thank you. So they're very interested in storage, and the initial service that we'll provide is what's called Frequency Control Disturbance Reserves in DK2, that's Eastern Denmark. The rules are different in the two sides of Denmark. This is part of the Nordic system. They part we're in. Right now we have three vehicles being tested. There's a customer already lined up, which will have 12 EVs, and then they expand to 40, and then presumably, hopefully, we just go on and then that becomes part of the Nissan offering. You buy a Nissan, you can take a little package and sign up for these services. We'll pay, I believe the business model that Nuvi is using is that the customer gets about half of the revenue from the grid services, which should be motivating. Or they may get a free charging station, depends on the customer. Here we have to bid, in Denmark we have to bid, sorry, via a BRP, Balance Responsible Party, which so far seems to add an extra layer of bureaucracy that is not helpful at all, but we'll see, maybe it actually is helpful at some point. But anyway, those are the rules in Denmark. We're using a BRP to go to and again at DK. That's what the system looks like. This is a, some of you probably looked at this snapshot of the Danish grid. You can actually see how much wind is operating and how much is exported and so forth. And the total grams per kilowatt hour of the Danish electrical system at the time this was snapped was 230 grams per kilowatt hour, which is pretty good to run a country on. So, that's the team at, this is actually at Danish Technical University, where we're doing the testing right now. This is a Nuvi, University of Delaware, NL, and a couple of ex-InergyNet DK people. No active InergyNet person there in the photo. I'm prejudiced towards one better over another. Okay, so Netherlands. They're the grid operators' tenant. We're operating on the primary reserves market there. We've got 15,000 EVs providing service, so much bigger than the other locations. What we did there was adapt to an existing EVSC provider. Somebody's, I don't have them on this slide. The new motion is the provider there. So they already had a network and we just connected our aggregator to their network so we could talk to those 15,000 charging stations. When a car plugs in, we do some charging in some level on the top of grid services. So we have a shrunk total capacity and the customer really doesn't ever see the difference. They got an email or something saying this is gonna happen, but they don't even notice it. It's unidirectional, it's not using the full capacity, so we're not, of course, not getting this total amount of revenue we could under a different system, but still it is earning 20,000 euro per year just as sort of an add-on to their existing charging system. So it is considered a trial by tenant, so a tenant is dispatching us, or actually we're running off the grid frequency and they're getting a daily report on what the cars do, they're evaluating that and then at the end we'll talk about are we gonna continue going forward? Do we need to change something? Do they need to change the rules? So that'll be an evaluation that happens in a couple of months. So tenant has the Netherlands branch and then also it's connected. It also runs a lot of another big country next to it, so we're thinking about that, of course, at the same time. So I promised in this talk to explore policy barriers and I'm not sure how fast or slow to go through that or whether that's a discussion point. How am I doing on time? You start 10 minutes to go? 10 minutes, okay, well maybe I can go through the policy barriers a bit. Okay, so I'll just read these out. I mean, if somebody wants to break in or ask a question, please feel free. We'll sort of transition into discussion here if I'm unclear or you think I'm really missing something. So the TSO markets were really designed mostly for thermal generation, maybe hydro which is a bit faster, but it's doing really well if it responds in 15 seconds to 10 minutes, depending on what kind of iron you've got. It might be six hours or 24 hours. So they really don't kind of have a special treatment for things that can respond in one second or 100 milliseconds. So that means there's not a, oh, you guys are really saving us a lot of effort, so of course we should be paying you more. No, we don't hear that when we got walking in the door. So we think ultimately through time as markets get restructured, there will be, as has happened in PJM, partly because there was a federal FERC order, a separation of markets into faster markets and slower markets. And the faster market people bid against each other and the slower market people bid against each other. So far, the faster markets are more valuable. At some point they may not be, they may be a lower value, but we can also run on the slower markets too. So the markets were not really designed for that. Other types of ways that these markets are not designed for it is the capacity in, for example, in some, in so-e areas, including a tenant, the capacity has to be constant for the entire week, I mentioned that before. That doesn't really make sense for cars. In some cases in the Nordic system in particular, the response has to be held for eight plus hours. If we can respond in one second, we'd really like to not have to hold the same thing for hours and hours because it's a limited storage resource. We don't have a great big pile of coal. We just keep shoveling into the hopper. We've got a battery and it either empties or fills, depending on the frequencies, too low or too high. So we would like to have a certain amount of time that we'll do what we can and then some other resource comes in. And of course, if we're not holding for eight hours, we shouldn't get paid as much as if we would. We'd like to hold for 15 minutes, 30, maybe 45 minutes. But then we're just, I mean, we can hold for eight hours, okay, but our capacity is gonna be really low. We're gonna bid three kilowatts or one kilowatt instead of 10 kilowatts, which the resource is capable of. So again, we come in the market's like, how long do we have to hold? Well, as long as the frequency stays low. Oh, great. The Nordic system does not stay on 50 hertz very well. Okay, so lack of markets for DSO services, the second policy barrier actually should be indented a bit. So these should be indented under that. No, they should be indented under that. But the, no, sorry, this is the separate bullets here. So there's not markets for DSO services I mentioned. We'd like to see up and down requests balancing over time, maybe within a half hour. Not be, we have discharge, discharge, discharge, don't do anything for half an hour. But now discharge, discharge, discharge. We'd rather be balancing. We'd rather be cleaning up the last big generator's errors. So sometimes they're high, sometimes we're low. That's the perfect thing for storage resource. And whether it's a building with a bunch of batteries in it or a car, it doesn't matter. Or I pumped hydro for that matter. They all do better if it's sometimes high, sometimes low rather than you're always doing extra or you're always absorbing. So we've got regulations for electrical devices which don't yet match vehicles very well. For example, UL standard that we would put the car, subject the car to, requires that the inverter be firmly bolted to the building. So that doesn't work for a car. So just the electrical standards are not always well matched. We're working on that and that's taken time and money. Those new standards are getting done in some jurisdictions at least. So second set of policy barriers. I mentioned already, ECHEVSC is a power plant. RET plums need to register that way. For a power plant, you build for three years and you do one registration process and if it takes six months, that's okay. We'd like to do 10 units a day and register all of them.  Right now, there's not really storage behind the meter regulations. So we would like to be able to do net meter and you can say, well, why should you get free use of the distribution system? Okay, there's an argument there. But we're trying to serve the distribution system. So we shouldn't get charged retail when we pull the electricity in and then get only paid back wholesale when we're pushing it out. We're adjusting the frequency either way. So if there's that kind of a toll gate that only charges more one way than the other, it makes it much harder to make this a cost-effective resource and you can say, well, okay, go home. You don't have a cost-effective resource. Okay, fine. But it's gonna cost a lot more for big buildings with batteries, building hydro, building compressed air storage. So I think it's in society's interest in the electrical system's interest to not excessively toll the back and forth flow here. That's a debate we can have. That's that last bullet as well. Yep. Okay, the last set of policy barriers. At first one, we can debate that at the time when I can try. Yeah, BRP, hourly balancing, is that really relevant if you're doing fast frequency adjustment? Do you really want to be in a BRP regime where you've shifted a little bit of power from one hour to another and now you're trying to balance that? We split the meter here. The TSO cares about power response in response to a grid event or a frequency deviation. And so we've got a kilowatt meter in the charging station that's a certified meter. The DNO is still metering kilowatt hours. That works great. Any kilowatt hour, any net kilowatt hours that go through, we or the customer, car owner, pays for it. No short change in the TSO. But then we've got a separate kilowatt meter that's used for the TSO. Other ways to do it, for arbitrage, you wouldn't do that, you'd have two kilowatt hour meters maybe. So that's not a typical way to split kilowatt and kilowatt hour metering. But it makes the business case much easier. So these are all solvable problems, but there's a lot of them. We spend a lot of time in meeting rooms and in various cities around the continent and the British Isles here. And they're not gonna get solved right away. So it makes life more interesting, I guess that's the positive. So result, kind of quick summary for bullets. We're in pre-commercial and even commercial operation of grid integrated vehicles already. More locations launching. The technology definitely works. It's not a theory. Well, there's theory behind it, but it also works. And it pays for itself. You don't need subsidies, although somebody's got to invest initially because you don't have positive cash flow initially. And in some markets, it's self-supporting. So we're seeking out those markets. If the rules don't allow it, if there's a much cheaper way to do frequency balancing, for example, then we wouldn't go into that area with this technology now. And there are many policy barriers still remain. So thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.


So, the USM initiative started in 2013 as a grassroots initiative. We have converted 66 courses across the state to OER over the last four years and saving in total about $3 million for students, but we're just scratching the surface. Those open educational resources have been digitized and are no longer confined to textbook or, you know, a physical format. And so, as we use that, we can reduce the cost significantly of the textbooks. We don't have printing costs. We don't have shipping costs. We can do it at the speed of light, which is, you know, the speed of electricity and the internet, and we can provide those to students, which of course reduces that cost for them. And that's really a student success issue. What's the product going to cost to students? And that's often a negotiation with a vendor. We try to keep it under $100. We think that the textbook market's averaging $120 to $150. So if we can come in under $100, we save the students a significant amount of money. And oftentimes we can even get as low as $50. One of the biggest advantages to working with OER is the student access piece. Unfortunately, right now a lot of our students have to wait for their financial aid check to arrive, which can be two, three, four weeks in order to have the money they need to purchase their instructional materials, their textbook, and so forth. So when we're able through OER to make instructional materials available on the first day of class, that's a huge advantage right off the bat and allows our students to help them be more successful in their courses. The use of open educational resources, that's just a strong trend that's going to, as we have more openness in societies, that's going to have the opening of, the gloss notes, right? The opening of education across the, and the access to those things. That's going to be a deeper trend. So I try to look at the deeper trends. We did spend a lot of time on a couple of introductory courses where we had to take all of that OER material integrated into the adaptive system. I like that a lot because it gives the faculty members the opportunity to do what they want to do. They can edit that material, they can reconfigure it. It's a much more viable and flexible solution. Faculty work very hard and they're pulled in many, many different directions. When we add to their loads by suggesting that they're now going to have to take a textbook or what they had been using that was prepackaged, had all the PowerPoints, had the assessments, allowed them to pretty much follow along through the table of contents and now suggest that they need to recreate that themselves, it can be a daunting thought, a daunting task. When we can support their efforts as much as possible by providing the instructional design support, the library support, and support through the various vendors that are now available to help us with these initiatives, I think we can lower that challenge and overcome that barrier.


So nowadays, there are over a hundred different brands you could choose for your wife routers. You could go at the classic Netgear, you could go TP Link, you could go practically any other brand. But there was this router that was very shortly lived and it was made by Apple and it was called the airport routers. And not many people use them today because they are quite a bit old. But my family does still use them and they're pretty neat. So I'm gonna show you kind of our airport setup. Alright, so inside of our basement server closet, we do actually have the main airport. This is an airport base station and it plugs right into our fiber optic mode. But this is not the only airport that we have within the house. So this one is right here. It is connected to an ethernet jack that used to be used for my computer because this is where I had my desk. But this is a mini airport extreme plugged into a network switch that kind of runs a couple other things in my room. And then we have another one upstairs in the living room. That one is right here in our living room and it plugs into our low security system but also provides Wi-Fi for for instance the Apple TV over here and practically other every device that we have within our house.


We can take this a step further and work out a general formula for the maximum range of projectile motion, which is launched and lands at the same height. We already have an equation for our range x, which depends on vi, theta, and g. If we substitute theta equals 45 degrees into the equation, then sin of 2 theta is 1, and the maximum range is vi squared over g. And this is the maximum range for any projectile motion, which is launched, from, and lands at, the same height. For this particular situation, we can work out Dolphin's maximum range by substituting in vi, which is 5 meters per second, and g, which is 9.8 meters per second squared. This yields a maximum range of 2.55 meters. I covered a lot in this video, but by now you've seen most of the questions you might be asked about projectile motion calculations.


It feels like I say this every year, but it should be a holiday like opening day should definitely be a holiday and I can't wait. I'm gonna wake up. There's gonna be like 15 games tomorrow and I just I'm I'm very excited and yesterday was our AL preview today NL And then when we're done, we wake up tomorrow and we get to actually stop previewing stuff and watch games True AL preview is great because Rob I think what ended up happening is Ali convinced us that the Mariners might have a legitimate shot at Doing some big damage this year In L East is is gonna be a wild division this year. I think there's three teams that legitimately have a shot Mo the the top two of those I still think the Braves and the Mets are a slight tick above where the Phillies are at but the Phillies are gonna rake this year and they're gonna be a lot of fun to watch I don't know if they're quite as good as the Braves and the Mets But they're gonna be just as fun if not more fun to watch because Aside from their two aces they have they're gonna give up a lot of runs and they're gonna score a lot of runs Which is always well as a hitter professionally a lot of fun to watch Pitching ninja might not like that as much, but this division is interesting for me I This is I think this one's a toss-up down to the very very end I think the Mets and the Braves are gonna go back and forth and I do Ultimately have the Mets pulling it out in the regular season, but I mean again toss up there. I think Yeah, I so does Reese and you know I think Hoskins being out for the year is difficult for them. They were already kind of in a place where They're offensively loaded. You can't really afford to deal with many injuries then rangers Suarez Who's their number three guy who knows like hopefully it's not too long But he's not gonna be available to start the year Reese Hoskins out for the year So I don't know. I mean we saw a few minutes ago Christian Pasha was traded for I don't know about you But that doesn't put me over the top for them to for them to win the NL East But this is I agree with you Ali. I think this division is probably gonna be the most exciting one to watch I have the Mets over the Braves in the regular season. Yeah, I think we'll talk more Long-term in a little while but for the regular season I think just the pitching depth of the Mets is just gonna I think pitching depth throughout a regular season is huge And they they certainly have that not you know, not that the Braves Don't with Fried and Spencer Strider who I'm very high on You know, I just I wish I knew it was happening with Michael Soroka I'm a huge fan of his and I don't really know as we haven't known for like two or three years what's happening with him So I hope he's back in healthy Justin Justin Yeah, we're distant distant relatives. Yes Yeah, just the more the more distant you get the further the name Yeah Yeah, I agree. That's a big reason he chose to sign with the Mets is He said he wanted to you know, Justin was a big part of the reason he signed there Which I think is really cool for him to say that and you know, it's always a tough transition But we'll see I'm excited to watch him Who you asking me or other people I say Justin I have Justin shocker Is that true max is the most tweeted pitcher in your Who's second In the last couple of years because max has been around as long as you've been doing this Shohei hasn't I would say in the last two years. It's got to be shohei Yeah My vote is Spencer Strider. I know max freed is Yeah Yeah, rob. Who are you? We know I I have the Mets in the nle's in a toss up for the regular season Who's your division winner? I do I think this year having you know, I don't think we got Ronald Acuna last year. I think we saw one year He came back probably I don't want to say too soon, but he wasn't himself last year coming back from his injury I think this year we're getting we'll get back to close to 40 40 ronald acuna And you know, that's not technically in addition to this lineup But it but it is like this guy's one of the best players in baseball when he's healthy And hopefully now a couple over a year removed from this injury Almost two years removed. We get we get him back. I agree. Is that a little foreshadowing there? Is that Um, yeah, I I agree. I I had him the year he went down. I think I picked him to win The the mvp. So hopefully he's at least back to that form because he's one of the most exciting players in baseball I know we haven't Talked about them because as we can see here on the fandom sports book the marlins are plus 4 000 to win the division But as a big pitching guy rob these the marlins have to be an exciting team For you certainly and I think they're a little under. I mean their offense is going to be a lot better Pitching staff is electric.  He's going to be playing in which matters I think you know, he's obviously comfortable in that stadium. I think he's going to be a big addition to that lineup Very very very tough division for them to be in but I think they could make some noise at least Yep, I agree. I wonder what um No, I was just like I was going to look at there to make the playoff odds and in this division Braves are at minus six fifty to make the playoffs um We can we'll talk about We'll talk about sigh young in a little while, but I got a lot to say about him Yes Yeah, you're a pitching guy. Of course, you're not high on the cardinals folks Stroh is my dude like stroh and I go back a long way and and I think he's a good leader of that team. I think that they have a shot. I wouldn't wouldn't surprise me No, I I'm really relieved to hear you say that. I didn't know we're on like exactly you didn't even have to convince me like the We are Look, I don't I don't feel like Whoa, whoa, whoa, alley One Yes But two what I was going to say is if you're looking if you like the cubs I don't know if I don't know if they're going to win the division But what I would wouldn't hate looking at is their win total here is 76 and a half. I don't take that I definitely like the over there of seven. I think this team is I think the way they are right now they're a 500 baseball team And 500 gets you into contention that last, you know month of the year with the extra playoff team Look, I think 76 and a half is really low I agree with you and I think and I didn't mention tayon too who has been like an absolute study edit that sweeper And he's another guy that that could have a big year I think that's a value pick. I agree with you Let's go. I want to hear you talk about the cubs rotation real quick because there's some names in there justin steele Hayden Wasneski. Yeah, he's yeah ty. I mean Stroman is the name that we all know but there's some guys with Really good stuff that could surprise some people this year, right? Yeah, I mean wasneski is is legit one of the filthiest guys in baseball His slider sweeper is filthy hit 97 in the spring Um, I like him. He's a competitor. I think he's a big dude for that team steele same way Um, and keegan thompson's low key good Drew smiley is a solid veteran like they have pictures and I think people are sleeping on them so much. Yep. I I agree. I I was saying I When I did uh, I did offseason grades earlier this offseason and I gave the cubs an a it was like One of the top three best off seasons and to me That doesn't mean that they're going to win the world series. It just means of everybody like Who improved? More than they improved and I think there's a conversation we had yesterday I think the angels have vastly improved. I think the cubs had perhaps the best offseason there was I mean building a team starts up the middle and you look at danzby swanson niko horner gold glovers cody bellinger and centerfield gold glove caliber guy out there They've built this core that already is is pretty solid And I look I I think we're undervaluing the cubs. Obviously. We're all in agreement here Shocker alley got us on that train once again But yeah, I don't we're just following I don't see this team being a 76 win team I just don't I think their pitching is better. I think I think at the end of this year We're talking about justin steele and Hayden, how do you say his last name rob with nesky with nesky? And tayona a lot more than we have been so far So do you view like I view the cardinals as a thin staff that is I have a lot of question marks like they could be really good. They could also not be Um And that's where I see the difference. I can see it wouldn't surprise me to see the cubs overtake them But I also wouldn't surprise me to see the cards Have you know, I kind of get everything they can out of that That rotation. I do worry about that I'm gonna go look at the cardinals win total. So the cubs is at 76 and a half this has the cardinals 12 games better than the cubs at 80 88 and a half That's a lot. I think that's a lot too Ben you said 76 and a half the cubs headed and just looked up they had 74 wins last year.  Yeah Okay, we're all in agreement here. Yeah, Chicago cubs Chicago cubs over 76 and a half wins They could very well do that like I I'm a little nervous Okay No, no, you can like I think that's fair. I think they can do that I'm not sure I'm there to pick it, but I am a little nervous on The like the brewers have pitching no doubt Burns is obviously not happy And he I worry about impressing a little much. He could also could be the best pitcher in the anil and he probably You know, you could definitely make that But I also worry that he presses To try to make a point and maybe Doesn't Follow it up as well. So the cubs could win the division I I would also add about the brewers again. I'm on I'm higher on the cardinals than you guys I think the lineup is by far the best in that division. Oh sure. Yeah, and and the pitching isn't Great, but I'm a little, you know, like montgomery Well in spring really good when he got to the cardinals last year Michaelis who knows of jack flarity? I hope he's I hope he is back and healthy But not super good signs of that in spring training. I'm higher on the cardinals than most but the brewers to your your point Obviously the pitching is there but Why I feel like everybody rode off jesse wanker after one One down year and now he's been hitting well in spring training with the brewers like You know, we can talk about their lineup But if jesse wanker is the jesse wanker that we saw a couple of years in a row prior to his Stent in seattle then this lineup all of a sudden gets much deeper with two big lefty bats and him and Yellich, which is also another question mark. They just have a lot of question marks Which is my concern But if any of those question marks turn around wanker Yellich then we could be void voids another big question mark, but This team they're they are good So but but to that point we have question marks on both the two favorites, right? Like we have question marks. I have question marks on the cardinals pitching Um, we have question marks on the brewers offense The cut like if you have those question marks, why not roll the dice, right? Well, I would say where I don't have question marks is with the front office of the cardinals over the front office of the Brewers and come trade deadline time Last year the brewers were right there in first place in the division and they got worse and gave away their their closer who's the best closer not named evan Diaz and baseball and They didn't add to their offense, which was their big problem Whereas the cardinals needed pitching and they went out and got it So, you know, I think this is going to be a tight division And I trust the cardinals to do more down the stretch if they need to improve Then I do the brewers who don't seem to really want to add around the team You got what you got and we're going to focus with that and I just I don't I don't love that about them Did you I felt like that it was deflating too like I felt like you you felt that in the in the fan base getting rid of hater Um, it just felt that way like it was like you you have a shot and you're just Not that devon like devon williams is my dude he stood But it was nice having two guys I've never seen a reaction in a locker room like I did from the brewers You mentioned the the fans Players in the locker room were visibly upset and shaken by that trade And I that was that was the demise of their season. I think and Yeah, obviously they they ended up blowing it down the stretch and not being very good And is that all like josh haters fault? No, obviously not but that did something to the locker room and They continue to do things that just Frustrate me and players corbin burns this offseason over 750 thousand dollars Like I don't believe that the brewers organization and this is getting really into the weeds on who's gonna win the division But I I believe in the cardinals Willingness to to do what's right to win in the moment. Then I do the brewers Yeah, I that I agree with and to me Baseball becomes this weird game Where you're taking an absolute stud like corbin burns who you want to be totally bought in over 750 thousand dollars Just give the man like are you telling me he's not worth that? Like It's corbin burns. They blamed him for not making the playoffs.  That's one thing but now creating this drama Which you created last year doesn't make any sense. Yeah, I agree All right, you should own a team. Let's all own a team What team yeah Like just don't tell anybody we're gonna buy a team. Nobody's nobody knows this We got all the answers I'm feeling You know who you know a team I want to own the Arizona Diamondbacks because That's the division we're talking about next and that's the team I believe in not to win the division But they're heading in the right direction. We'll talk about we'll talk about them in a minute, but Are you ready to are you ready to go into the nl west here? Yeah, I I mean unless we want to talk Pirates or reds Rob might want to talk reds with I love the red like so Like people don't get out on the reds like The hunter green is in for a big year and I'm not the only guy to say it obviously other people saw it too But he after struggling at first was dominant towards the end of the season Dude throws, you know 103 will play. He's got a nasty slider. I know he's working on his change up He is meant to be a star.  There's some guys that are gonna be fun to watch hunter green leading the charge there But I'm saying for me.  Like I like these guys True, you're gonna get a lot of content out of the reds. I am just like my marlins too. Yeah All right, um, NL West here Our season was the changing of the guards in this division. I am all over the Padres this year If it's not gonna be the Braves, I hope it's the Padres Yeah, I mean I yeah, I mean not this much. I mean in the nl in general, obviously, but uh, Yeah, I'm I'm all over the Padres There's to me There's no doubt in my mind that the Padres are by far the better lineup I was watching the exhibition between the Dodgers and the angels last night The Dodgers lineup aside from Mookie and freddy and will smith has some legitimate issues and By far the Padres are the better lineup I I'm a big fan of their rotation with obviously the names. We know darvish snell and muskrove I think nick martinez is going to be really good this year I I think on paper their team is definitely better I think we can all agree there the problem with the Padres the last couple of years has been getting over the hump of performing better than Performing up to their capability and we talked about this a little bit yesterday With the Padres even though we were doing the american league is they're a team that hasn't lived up to the hype yet And I almost feel like that playoff series against the Dodgers last year Is going to be able to be the changing of the guard for them in the nls They had a big Dodgers problem the Dodgers were the Padres Padre Yeah, that works and nice and I think that I think they got over that hump I really do and I think this year We're we're looking at a team and if we go if we go back to look at the odds The Dodgers are still the favorite and that's simply because they're the Dodgers and they've been winning the division a lot in years past The Padres are the better team and I I don't think there's any way around that I mean the Dodgers had a 90 win floor for a decade. Yeah, like that's a that's a long time Yeah, I I I agree. I wonder there there are win totals this year. I want to see Let's check those out win totals. Where's the Where's the Dodgers Los Angeles Dodgers? 96 and a half is what they're at And the Padres Are at 93 and a half. So they have a basically a three game difference And I just I I just I don't agree with that. I think the Dodgers are I think the Padres are definitely the better team I think the I think the Dodgers took a big step back They lost trade turner. They didn't add a short stop. They got Bit they got bit by not adding a short stop when they decided to and I I don't blame this They they went in and believed in Gavin Lux and unfortunately what happened happened with him being out for the year now But it really leaves them in a tough place depth wise If they if they accrue any injuries this year, they're really going to be in trouble Yeah, I I agree. I have a lot betting on like Dustin May to have a big year. I think he's also got Perhaps the just a natural Jump off the page stuff Of anybody in the nl Um, but he's got to put it together for a full year. Where are you at with Dustin may may good hair or bad hair? I love his hair like I I think it's great hair. I think he's got great. He's got hops you watch him jump on the mound He's fan like he is a guy.  He's an athlete He is an athlete and pitchers are athletes dog gone it um, so I was that even a question it is It's a baseball. It's a baseball Us position players do not consider pitchers athletes in a locker room. It's very much So like when we go out to stretch or get ready for a game, it's like athletes this way pitchers over there Like it's yeah, definitely a thing that pitchers aren't athletes. Absolutely but Hey, so what do you think about about I think blake snell is terminally He's like forever underrated to me I I have his stuff as being Um top notch when he's on It's it's just being consistent for him But his stuff is unhittable when he's on well I What he did in the really the second half of the year last year like I I feel like He got to san diego. It took him a little while to get acclimated and then last year he came in with you know again like Is blake wood is blake snell gonna be and he really struggled to find the zone a lot but once he figured it out and he was good Playoffs good in the second half I mean, we're talking about a lefty that throws a hundred with nasty curve ball nasty slider. I mean And we we don't really talk about like to your point We don't really talk about and I think because of the question mark of like what blake snell are you gonna get? You know, the stuff is gonna be there and he's he's nasty Yeah, I I totally agree and I feel like every time he is Underrated by by fans at how good his stuff is Rob, where do you I when I mentioned nick martinez a little while ago and I saw you like shaking your head How do you feel you're all in on nick martinez as well big year coming? I think he's totally legit. Yeah, I absolutely am in on him I like that rotation a lot and I think that they're the It surprises me that there'd be more money on the Dodgers other than the fact that Dodgers always went Where where are the Dodgers better than the Padres? Lineup pitching rotation. I would argue no for both of those Wow No, they have some depth in their bullpen, but I'm not saying that the Padres don't either I I just I don't see a lane where The Dodgers are the Dodgers are a playoff team, right? They're gonna they're gonna win. I think around 90 ish 90 to 95 games and that in that area They're good and I think that division will be a battle the whole way through I just I I think the Padres are one of the best teams in baseball clearly and I don't see a lane where The the Dodgers are a better team and then they got over the hump of not being able to beat the Dodgers So then you have all that you finally have confidence You have a better pitching rotation. You definitely have a better offense. You have the better closer I don't know. I I definitely like the Padres here I think the question is are you gonna get the hater that you saw towards the end of the season Which you should expect to get like that is that is who hater is Or the hater you saw in the first part of the season where it was kind of all over the place I think the hater has been so good for so For this stretch of time that anybody that doubts that dude is just wrong like he's the he's the he's a stud Well, if you remember it wasn't even the first Half of the season at the beginning of the year a couple of months the first two months of the year There was a legitimate discussion about like a sigh young closer again, right? Yeah, that's how good he was And then he went through one of the most strange stretches Not yips related that I've ever seen a pitcher hit. It really was wild and Then he got back to it was good and good at the end of the year good in the playoffs And I I have no reason like you said to believe we're not going to get Dominant josh hater again Yeah, and I had some inside scoop that it was just purely a very minor mechanical tweak that he did Uh, which created him back to being unhittable josh hater and I would expect unhittable josh hater this year that dude is money All right. Yep. I agree So we're all in agreeance and I think we are Yeah, wow one division. All right, I'll take it Yep, I think we are as well All right, well we talked all three divisions Now let's talk national league winners. Yeah, let's just check this out.  I I think Offensively Ronald Acuna Jr. This year. I think we get him back. I think Austin Riley's Everywhere you look with this team, right? You have Michael Harris the second out in the outfield now And then their starting rotation is dominant And then I was really looking at their bullpen the other day And it's really I think gonna be a very underrated part of their game They got nick anderson in that bullpen now AJ mentor will be a a big part of it and then ricella glaceous who when he came over to the braves last year was a top Three four closer in the game of baseball once he got there though He wasn't he wasn't closing. He was mostly eighth inning But top three four reliever in the game of baseball now. He's going to be that closer I think the Atlanta Braves are a are a as complete of a team as it gets and they are my in L champion Did nobody pay attention like I thought the same thing when a glaceous came over I was like that is a huge get for the Braves And I felt like nobody paid attention to that other than like I felt I was beating that drum And I totally agree with you like I love that dude. Yep. I agree. I do too. I do too.  Are they your nl champion pick? Yes, Ben. They are my nl champion pick Along with my world series pick. I think they are the world series So now we have to agree because you're never wrong like I'm Rob, what about you? Who's your who do you like here? I? It's tough like I can make an argument for the the mats I can make an argument for the Padres, but I'm in Atlanta and we're all going Braves Wow That means it's not gonna happen. Yeah. No, don't say that. You're not allowed to say that here Listen, we know the Mets are gonna met Sorry, no offense. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. There's a new pitcher in town. All right And I think the new pitchers in town give put some respect on Kota's name I'm sorry. I just I think the Braves all around are better They have power all throughout their lineup a stellar pitching staff like we've been beating Yeah, it was I don't need to make my case. I I already made it but a strider for the full year Doing Spencer strider stuff. He is just dominant yeah like So much fun to watch. I agree. Let's um before we all of us are on all of us are on the Braves This is sad. We can't do that. So let's All right, we can we're not gonna go to cubs like we're not saying like miracle season cubs. No, we need to be realistic Okay, before before we finish up I want to talk about the the sigh young because we've mentioned a lot about Spencer strider And I have the odds up right here My don't tell me your own My nl sigh young winner is Spencer strider and he has the what one two three fifth best odds At plus 1000 to win the award last year He became the fastest pitcher in history to 200 strikeouts in a season passing randy johnson And I feel like we're just not talking about that I I tried to talk about as much as anybody would listen. I totally agree with you like like It was my people are talking. I mean granted Framber was fed like I heard that like why are you picking strider over friend like strider all time history of baseball The fastest starter 200 k's and that is a big deal And he was he also threw the best game last year with 16 k's and was Just lights out and that's him like I think he's going to continue to get better Working a little bit on a change up not that he needs it I It's tough though because I also think You can make a case for burns obviously who's always there I do worry about the contract stuff But I think that goes one way or another he either uses that to fuel him or he uses it to do too much Which they're both possibilities. Yeah, and what about like I like the idea of Scherzer with the pitch clock With his gamesmanship to me. It's one of the things of all the pitchers in baseball I see the pitch clock helping him Because he views this as a challenge and as a game and will use that to his advantage. So It wouldn't surprise me to see him have a surprise have a really good year this year Um, not that many enough. Obviously it's max Scherzer. He's gonna have a good year every year But this may be a uniquely plus he's pitching alongside that other dude Who's a scion award winner in the american league? Yeah, and he may just want to prove himself Like just say, you know, I'm the big dog here max is competitive The other guy's competitive too. It may bring out the best in both I think they're gonna I think I think it's gonna bring out They're both the most competitive people you'll find and I think them being On the same team going back and forth all year long on the all-time strikeout list passing people together passing each other Every time they start I think we're in for a treat with those two guys leading that rotation and we're gonna see something special for sure So one thing I remember this quote where I think it was Justin who said even walking down the street I have to be first like I feel like I it's always a competition everything even if I don't say it I'm competing. Was he like that? Oh, yeah, he's like that my whole childhood. I'm nine years younger and I could never Win at anything and the one time I finally won in something. I remember like it was yesterday I beat him in a video game and he said to me he looked at me and said even a blind squirrel Finds a nut every once in a while and I didn't know what that meant So I went and asked my parents and they told me and then I started crying and to this day It's really upset me that Justin said that and he's so competitive that he actually hated He did not like that. I beat him in a video game and he's always been that competitive And that's forever been a thing and that's why I will take it with me To the grave that I am one for one with a homer off of my brother and my career So that's the ultimate win So you don't even need a group hug here. You've gotten over that like you own him now Yeah, I got over it our whole life We would talk about when when we're both playing professional baseball I'm gonna hit a home run off of you and Justin said no, I'm gonna drill you in the ribs So it was like this whole thing our whole life and then I Turns out we're both playing professional baseball a little bit different But I did play professional baseball and got one at bad off of them First pitch I saw hit a homer touched home ran back to my field and have never faced him again Does that ever come up like at family? Gatherings like do you know you always you would never bring that up like at Thanksgiving or so? Oh, I bring it up all the time and so do other people.  Yeah, you do. So do other people. It's great. Yeah I hope he's watching There's a chance he watches a lot of my stuff. He's he's a great He's a great great older brother and I think him and max this year are gonna do special things in New York I'm excited. Yeah, do we have the MVP picks too? We're gonna do that. Yes. I think we need to Talk about Okay, so I have a case for two guys For MVP and I want to see if either of you bring them up. Does it rhyme with ronald acuña jr? No, and I really I really like that, but I wasn't gonna come out and pick two braves players. I tried so one of them is a braves player though Austin riley Yes, yes, I love Austin Riley. He's hard not to like like he just he he's a stud I um, I just had Literally last week. I just had Austin Riley. I saw that my podcast. It's a good interview I'm a huge huge fan of his. I mean the guy is as hard of a worker as you'll find Um, he just is gonna continue to get better. I I I like that a lot So are you on? No, I'm on wan soto. I I'm going to I know soto is the favorite here, but Yeah, before last year we were talking about wan soto as being the best hitter in the game of baseball And at 23 years old at the time heading into last year Passing ted williams in certain categories and saying this guy could ultimately end up being one of the greatest hitters of all time Then he had one down year by his standards And then he shows up in the wbc and spring training and hits 800 with a bunch of bombs Like this guy's about to go off this year Finally has himself a place that he knows he's gonna play all year started the year last year in washington Which I don't care what anybody says starting a year When you're when you're trying to win an mvp with a team that you just know isn't going to be very good Is a difficult situation to be in he's on a good team RBI opportunities will be there every single at bat most likely. I think he I think he goes off this year This is the first time we mentioned washington and it was in a I Don't doubt like One as a pitching guy watching his at bats They're brilliant like he his knowledge of the strikes on is better than any umpire He is in control of every at bat. He takes even when he's not doing well. So like that is a that's a good pick I like akunya He's just he's just you can't take your eyes off that dude when he's when he's playing. Yep I like that too I also I also had pray turner in the mix. Oh Oh, well, yeah Mr. Stud all american hard to not go with that with the way he's playing right now The wvc kind of like swin me. I was all in on austin And I was like Crap, maybe I should make a case for tray turner as well. So I wouldn't be upset if Either one of them won or ronald looking jr. But Turner was so much fun to watch in that too. Yeah, it was so fun. And I am like anti-fillies They I went to the nl ds series last year in a brave shirt and I was I'm still like recovering from the trauma They're tough Well, what about rookie of the year? I know, uh Ben is all in on on, uh, Yeah, corbin carol for me. Yeah Okay, I feel like it's not a good thing that I'm on a lot of the same things as you because he is my rookie It could be like jing saying that she's my rookie of the year as well I'm going codi sanga. So that is my pick The odds are are up here now corbin carol is the favorite jordan walker right behind codi sanga plus 800 Um, look, I'm the conductor of the corbin carol bandwagon. I'm all in on this guy and He has every single tool imaginable. He is Um, my comparison for him is jacobi ellsbury. I mean, he will he will be the fastest guy in baseball this year He's shown and 100 of bats last year. He hit four homers. I mean, I think we're about to see a pretty special year from him Yeah, I'm going sanga just because it was professional experience and I think being alongside two first ballad hall of famers to help Guide him is almost an unfair advantage with his stuff. I mean again touching 99 the ghost fork Good degree of confidence and a lot of experience and able to pick the brain of two studs I think that that not that, you know, long term. I'm with you I just I I worry about the bumps that you get as a rookie and I think that that his Experience might push him over. Yeah, ali. Where are you at your corbin? I am I am as well. I know a lot of the the bets have come in on jordan walker as well, but I'm on corbin karelia. So I live in decatur and he went to decatur high school jordan walker He's right down the road. Yeah, so It's hard not to like the dude. Did you ever see him play in high school? You know, I am trying to remember because I'm sure he played when I coached like I was I was coached I was a pitching coach For a high school team. We played them regularly. So I'm trying to remember. I'm gonna ask my son if If we played them, I feel like you'd remember the six foot six Probably like a freshman at the time. So we were like playing and it was really young just like, uh Our team played drew jones as well. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he was okay. He's Yeah, we had a lot of good good folks down here in georgia. Yeah, george is a hot bed for talent. That's for sure Yep, they also are Never mind. I'm not even gonna make the comment again. What were you gonna say? I was just gonna say something They also like to you know, the braves Ninja, I don't know if you've heard ali's a big braves fan Good for her.  They're very like they are so much fun. They're so much fun I love watching and I've been I had them winning the world series So 2021 22 and this year too. Yeah, I've um, you know We obviously saw them win it in 21 They were close last year and they're gonna come back this year And snit is such a good manager to Ben if you have Them winning the nationally do you have them winning the world series or no? I do not I have the astros over the braves In seven is my prediction Wow So you're Yeah, yeah astros over braves rematch of 2021 little different result, but Yeah, that's my prediction Yeah, that's so tough like Obviously, I mean that could very well happen. I don't know about seven. I'd like to see the braves Win it again. Anyway, but uh I hope the braves yankees with the braves winning. Oh, yeah, that's right Yeah All right. Well, I think we just Did we killed it? I don't care anybody disagrees with us. They're just wrong. Yeah complete agreement Agreeing on a lot of this isn't bad luck Oh, it is Yep, well, this was a lot of fun guys, but we're done two previews now now. There's nothing to do but opening day I know I'm excited like what what are we gonna watch tomorrow? Like is there the braves? They're on it one If you're wondering, I'm definitely gonna be watching that. I'm gonna have my three monitors up watching every single game possible So yeah, this is gonna be insane. Like I'm already stressing out about the amount of work I'm gonna have to do during the day with Getting this getting that We should um, we should keep doing this throughout the regular season though That's the freaking Lutley. This is fun. Yeah, I'm down Yeah, same. All right. Well, I think that does it for our nl preview, right guys? Are we good? Yeah, we killed it. I don't care again what anybody said. We killed it. Well, everyone enjoy opening day Thank you for hanging out with myself and ali and pitching ninja for an al and nl preview We're gonna do stuff throughout the regular season It'll be a lot of fun come back and hang out with us throughout the year on fandall and twitch and youtube Wherever it might be But for now enjoy opening day everyone. I hope everyone has a blast. I know I will And I hope you you know, I hope you learned some stuff from us Hey, and a shout out to ben here for controlling all this like yes Adjutri like not only Not only doing this stuff, but like you're the maestro behind this. Yes. Thank you. Thanks.  It hasn't been it hasn't it hasn't been easy, but he froze for me He doesn't hear it Can you guys hear me? So here it's it's funny before we finish up I have to say so my the way you guys can see me because I'm still visible for on the stream The way you guys can see me I have my laptop in front of me because you guys are seeing me through a different way And I saw my battery percentage ticking down and it was gonna be perfect And then rob started going on a tangent about how technologically I've been doing great And I was like, oh no, my camera's gonna go for them And but you know it's still working out fine for the stream. So thank you Good work, dude. Good work everyone. Thank you all for for listening Thanks for listening to our nl preview and we will be back throughout the regular season with more So enjoy opening day everyone ali and rob enjoy opening day to you guys as well Thanks Ben you too


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