Hello and welcome to another session on triangles as we discussed in the previous session We are now going to prove the SSS similarity criterion in the last session You all observed how we validated this particular criterion which says that if the corresponding sites of two triangles are proportional Then they are similar right so we saw that in the GeoGibra demonstration in the previous session If you have not checked that out, I would request you to go there and have a look once and then probably come here and Understand the proof. Okay, so let's try and prove this Theorem, okay, so or this particular criteria. So how to go about it clearly first of all We need to draw a triangle. So let me draw a Triangle, so let's take two triangles ABC. So this is ABC and let me name it as DEF Okay, DEF. These are the two Triangles with us now. What's given? So let's write the given criteria first. So given is What is given guys? So SSS is already given right so AB upon DE is Equal to BC BC upon EF Which is further equal to CA Upon FD. So this is given. Okay, and we have to prove So we have to prove that they are similar. These two triangles are similar or in other words angle A is equal to angle D Angle B is equal to angle E and Angle C is equal to angle F Correct. This is what we need to establish Okay, so let's now establish it How to go about it? So first of all, we are going to do a construction again the ideas We already know that is of congruence and Let's say basic proportionality theorem, which we studied in this series. We are going to use them Okay, so the construction is something like this. So I'm marking a point E dash and F dash on DE and DF respectively Such that such that AB is equal to DE dash Okay, and AC is equal to DF dash Okay, this is the construction. I'm doing and then I'm joining E dash F dash is joint Okay, this is the construction. So this is what the Construction is about. Okay. Now what? Oh, let me just draw a straight line here. Yeah, so this is Okay now So how to go about the proof now, so let's write the proof Okay, so what's the first thing first thing guys? So let's first consider triangles ABC and and triangle DE dash and F dash Okay Okay, so clearly DE is equal to or DE dash is equal to AB and and D F dash is equal to AC Correct. Now in triangle DE F DE F DE F, can we not say that DE dash by DE dash by DE is equal to DF dash by DF Why why can we say that because the simple reason that DE dash is equal to AB and and DF dash is equal to AC given right and we had and we also had this relation that AB by DE is equal to AC by DF this was given Right, so I've simply removed this AV or replaced this AB by DE dash and this AC by DF dash in the given criteria so you can check this given criteria So here if you compare these two this was given and I have made use of that correct And I have simply replaced AB by DE dash and CA by DF dash because that's what I have constructed I hope this is clear. So let me also take this diagram Parallely wherever I am writing it so that becomes clear to you all the time So let me also copy this and paste again and so that I can show you The diagram every time I'm doing something in the proof Okay, so let me just so I'm just for the time being Reducing the size of it so that it is in the same frame. Okay, so I hope this is understandable Okay, now if that is so then what can I say I can say Ah that e dash f dash becomes parallel to EF This follows directly from here and why is that this is converse of Converse of DPT Isn't it converse of DPT so hence becomes parallel the moment it becomes parallel. What can I say I can say that Angle DE dash F dash will be equal to D E F and let me call this angle as X both of them, right? Fair enough. So this is equal because of corresponding angles These are corresponding angles Okay, now corresponding angles established next what is next? Okay, so the moment I say that now let's consider In triangle. So let us write here in triangles In triangles now notice the triangles carefully D E F. I'm saying D first E dash F dash and Triangle D E F Okay, so what's what's that D angle D is common? right common angle and And Angle D E dash F dash is equal to angle B E F which is equal to X just proved above therefore. What can I conclude by? by a a criteria criterion triangle D E dash F dash is similar to triangle D E F. I hope you noticed how did I write the similar sign similar right till the signs? Okay, these are similar the moment. This is similar. What do we conclude we conclude that two triangles are similar Then their corresponding sites will be proportional as well. So hence hence hence we can say What can we say D E dash upon D E is equal to E dash F dash upon E F Right, this is Corresponding parts of similar time triangle Is it so? Can I not now say that if this is so? Then I'm writing it here, but I'm writing but we know that D E dash is equal to a B by construction right by construction therefore, what can I say a B by D E Is equal to E dash F dash by E F Right, so just replace this D E dash by a B here right also a B by D E was given to be equal to BC by E F Check where was it given here see a B by D E is equal to BC by E F given it was given So I'm using that Right, it is given therefore that the triangles be at sight. Okay, therefore we can say E dash F dash by E F is equal to BC upon E F Isn't it if I can say that this means E dash F dash is equal to BC So what did we prove or what did we achieve? We achieved that this side BC is equal to this E dash F dash okay E dash F dash now if you see if we take in triangles now in triangle ABC and D E dash F dash What do we see a B is equal to D E dash by construction I'm writing by construction BC is equal to E dash F dash proved above here proved above and C a is equal to F dash D by construction again Okay, so what do we conclude then therefore? triangle ABC is congruent to triangle D E dash F dash right see and by what criteria by SSS Criteria congruence criteria, so we established that the two triangles are congruent therefore. What can we establish we can say? angle a is equal to angle D and Angle B is equal to angle D E dash F dash is equal to angle E Which is equal to X See again by corresponding parts of corresponding triangles CPCT Isn't it the moment we established that what do we conclude guys? What do we conclude that means the two corresponding angles are equal therefore? I'm just writing here for the want of space therefore conclusion conclusion is Angle A is equal to angle E. Sorry angle D Angle B is equal to angle E and Hence the third angle has to be same angle C is equal to angle F hence fruit I Hope you Understood this right so it was a little bigger proof So here here is the gist of you know the entire thing. This is a proof So basically what did we do we started with? The given criteria that the ratios are same then we drew two points E dash F dash on the other triangle making AB is equal to D dash and AC is equal to D F dash and Then we established the congruence between them and then eventually found out that angle A was equal to angle D and Angle B was equal to angle E and hence we could establish that the two Corresponding set of the angles are also equal and hence they are similar Triangles meaning thereby if SSS criteria is there if you have all the three sides proportional then automatically The angles would be equal and hence the two figures would be similar


Welcome to DTNS Experiment Week. All this week, DTNS is on summer vacation, but in its place is Experiment Week where our producers and contributors are trying out new show ideas and releasing them right here on the DTNS feed. Enjoy. Welcome to Tech TV Scrappo, the podcast that talks to the people and personalities who made the Tech TV network such an innovative and forward-thinking channel. My name is Roger Chang and I'm the host of the show and I was also a former producer and editor at Tech TV. When Tech TV launched back in August of 1998 as ZDTV, it was positioned as a 24-hour cable network devoted to computers, technology, and the Internet. As part of that mission, two help and how-to shows were created, the Screensavers and Call for Help. The Screensavers focused on a more tech-literate audience that saw technology as both a tool and a hobby. Call for Help focused on who were either computer neo-fights and needed more help, or they were people who used technology purely for business and work. Eventually, Tech TV became G4 TV and during that transition, the Screensavers was transitioned into the show known as Attack of the Show, whereas Call for Help went off the air, or so it is commonly thought. In fact, Call for Help migrated north like Geese to Canada where it was part of the G4 Tech TV Canada network. I have with me, with great pleasure, Jen Cutter, because you happened to work at Call for Help Canada. Now, I guess the first question I should ask you is, how did you start? How did you get in the door into Tech TV Canada? And more importantly, how did you get on Call for Help? They are one in the same story, and it's kind of this, it's a huge snowball. It's kind of ridiculous. So Amber Mac, the main host of Call for Help with Leo, she had her own like side YouTube show called Command End, and she had posted that on the internet. I had made my own videos at openalpha.tv for YouTube kind of thing, just talking about the gaming stuff that I love to talk about. And I'd been doing my work in Windows Movie Maker. And then I saw Command End, and I was like, Oh, like the show shot in Toronto, I know where they're shooting. So I looked up their editor, Brian, and I emailed him because I was too scared to email Amber.  Well, Amber Mac is the host of Call for Help Canada with Leo Laporte. And gosh, she's been doing everything forever. I've seen her on every news network in Canada. And right now she's doing tons of podcasts and corporate events. And you see her every once in a while on DTNX. She's a tech legend up here. And she's the one that got you in the door?  So yeah, I, exactly. I contacted her editor, Brian, to say like, Hey, you guys are doing all this cool stuff. I'm in Toronto too. I'd love to learn more. And he's like, Well, just come to a shoot. So I went to a shoot. He invited me down. I got to meet Amber Mac. I got to meet Michael Azra, a producer at Call for Help, who was doing Command End with her at the time. And then they gave me all sorts of tips and stuff. And they said, Hey, there's a meet up going on the next day. You should come out to that too. And I was like, Oh, okay, cool. So I went to this meet up. And this was a really good meet up to be at because Leo was there. Kevin Rose was there. Alex Albrecht was there. They were so kind. They introduced me to everybody. And so I got to talk to Leo. And Leo's like, Oh, like, Well, what do you do? And I said, Oh, I did a show on YouTube. And he's like, Oh, check it out. And I'm like, Oh, sure. All right, bye. By the time I got home after that amazing party, I had a voicemail from Leo saying, Hey, I liked your shows. You should come down to the studio tomorrow while we're recording. And I was like, Okay. I called in sick to work. I went to the studio. I got introduced to everybody. Everyone's taping segments. To me, it's chaos because so many things are happening all at once. And at the end of the last taping of the day, Leo says, Stay tuned next. Stay tuned next month. I've got a new girl you're gonna love. And I'm just like literally sitting on the floor beside Alex Albrecht going like, Oh, that's neat. I wonder who he's talking about. And Alex is like thumping me on the back and Kevin Rose is cheering. And I'm like, Wait, what just happened? And I'm thinking like, Oh, God, someone's going to tell me what happens next, right? Everything's just been a blur for the last three days. I guess the follow up question I have for you at that point is, have you heard of Tech TV? Did you know what call for help was before, before that point?  Or was it like completely new? And then you just had to kind of school yourself on all that before, before you came in? I had heard of Tech TV, mostly because I heard of xplay, because we did have xplay air up here on other networks at the time. But then when all this stuff started happening, like I had Googled who Amber Mack was before emailing the editor. And then I had Googled who Leo was before showing up at the meetup. And then yeah, like that night after Leo was like, Okay, and like, we're going to get you on the show next month. I just did this huge deep dive.  So amazingly, my parents were the ones who had the cable package. So I was like, Hey, I'm going to come over and like fill your DVR and watch eight billion shows before next month. So that's how I schooled myself. I'd like looking up clips on the internet. Now, what did you think of that network at the time? I mean, from from my point of view, as a producer, you know, tech TV was was literally positioned as a specialty, technology, computer information network is spent off them from the original Ziff Davis brand. Did it have a different kind of look and feel in Canada? Or is it pretty much the same? The studio for call for help is smaller than half of my basement. It was the tiny I don't know how they managed to fit three desks and three cameras and all of those lights and all it was in the Omni building, which isn't going to mean anything to anyone outside of Toronto. But Omni is this multicultural network in Toronto and Southern Ontario. And it's like they had to move other shows stuff out for us to use the studio for the one week a month that we did. So I was really shocked that the set that actually looked really good on TV was so tiny. So so small. And you didn't have any prior television or broadcast studio experience before that point? I had exactly 22 minutes of on camera time on my previous two open alpha episodes before I set foot in a TV studio. That was all just self recorded and published. That was me shooting in my apartment was what that was. And my best friend came and helped me out with the camera when I wanted to move things around. Now, when you started, did they give you an assigned role as a producer or were you there for just a limited limited capacity? For example, when I started, I was an intern. And so what I did was all the intern stuff. I brought products over to the studio and I brought them back. I wasn't really hired until there was an opening. And I just happened to be graduating from SF State. So this, you know, the show producer brought me inside, Roger walked with me. And I started with this, like, are you graduate? It's like, did you graduate yet? It's like, No, I graduate in like four weeks. It's like, Okay, would you like a job? It's like, Yes, I would like a job. Well, we need a PA. You're really smart. You're really good with with all the computers and stuff. Can you handle that? It's like, Yes. And that's where my job came from. Was yours kind of similar or were they like, you're going to be doing gaming, you know, do gaming stuff? Or was there a more in depth kind of a or not in depth, but a more calculated plan for you into the into the show? It was, it was pretty defined. Like, it took me a while to figure it out what it was. But basically, especially for like, I don't know, my first like 12 episodes, I reported directly to Leo, all of my pitches went to him. And then like, if I needed help sourcing something, I usually did that on my own. But on occasion, I had to ask Amber, I was like, Amber, my thing died. Could you have a replacement? One of these at the studio that I could use. And she always helped me out. But basically, I got to pitch absolutely anything I wanted. It did not have to be gaming related. It just had to be tech related. And yeah, so I would send him like four or five pitches, he'd pick three or four of them. And then I'd be told what days to show up at the studio and with how many different outfits of clothing. Oh, interesting. So you were in effect a non air contributor for the for the show. No, I mean, that's that's fantastic. I think it's a it's a testament to your skill and your in your knowledge that they felt so comfortable that, you know, you would easily slot in. Oh, I'm sure somebody thought Leo was crazy for bringing on this literally random girl who like, now I've done tons of print work at this point, like I've written for gaming magazine since I was a teenager. And at this point, you know, in my early 20s, I've done several E threes and all that stuff. But TV, like nobody ever looked at me and said, you know what, that girl needs to be on camera. I mean, it's it's such an unusual experience. And I'll interject my life story in here, just as a, just as a comparison in contrast, you know, I come from a broadcasting background, along with Sarah Lane, we actually graduated together from the same school. In fact, much of the studio crew and a lot of the producers at ZDTV, when I was originally ZDTV, also came from the same school. And so it was a very weird experience to go from a classroom. It's like, Hey, my job also has the same people in it. And, you know, as a PA production assistant, when I when I started working, my role specifically was to ensure that the set machines were working, that all the stuff needed for that day shoot was there, whether it was a gadget, a product, or, you know, basically bookmarking the URLs, webpages, making sure they are all loaded, preloaded, pre-cached. So they, you know, when Leo or one of the other hosts clicked on a link, and I will make a side note here, I actually had to do both screensavers and call for help. So I was involved with both shows from the very beginning. You know, I had to make sure all that was set. It was also my job to make sure that the set stayed, you know, workable. That means all the set computers, the lighting, if there's any issues, I would, you know, it was lighting, I would let the studio crew notice like, I need a new bulb for this for this set. But that was my job. And I also doubled as a gopher. So if someone needed something, I would either drive out and get it or I would run out on foot and grab it at the local safe ways. So I mean, it's a very, it's a very interesting dichotomy between your experience and mine. I had, I worked with two producers on screensavers and two producers on call for help. And I also worked with Leo, who was managing editor at the time. So all the questions, anything to do with any of the content on the shows passed through Leo because he had the final say on whether it made it on air. With screensavers, some of that workload was split between him and Cape Attello, who's the original co-host for the screensavers. But for call for help, Leo was so and so he run it by him. And this is this is very interesting, we would give him the questions that we wanted to use for the week, the Friday before. And he would go over on the week, the weekends, he would just go over them. And on his commutes, he would use a little, he would use a little dictaphone and he would just record his answers. And that was one of my jobs was to trans, not transmute, transcribe all those tapes into like actual, you know, into actual script content for the show, I would work with the producers, said, this is what Leo says, this is probably what we need. My job was to double check what his answers were. And if they were slightly different, or there was another better answer, I was supposed to slot that in. Yeah, I'm like, looking back, it's kind of ridiculous the amount of trust I was given, because obviously, television uses teleprompters. And I was allowed to write for Leo basically, like, here are the questions that you need to prompt for this next segment. And they let me write that stuff, which was really cool. I know you keep in contact with Amber Mac. Yes. And are there any other people you kind of regularly keep in touch with from your from your days back then? I should do a better job of reaching out. But one person I do keep in contact with and actually ended up working with after call for help is Steve Saylor. He, you may know him by his old gaming nickname snowball, he's a Twitch streamer, he works on accessibility and gaming. He used to run the teleprompter for call for help for a season or so. And then he ended up producing a show that I did with Darren Kitchen of hack five called the war room, we did this old school World of Warcraft radio show. But also I want to shout out Sean Carothers, who I feel like basically was the main producer of anything else I had to do on the show, I ran through him. Sean Carothers, amazing, amazing guy, same skill set as you, he made sure everything works. If I ever had a problem with anything, he took care of it. Mike Lazazera, another fantastic producer. Leo was amazing. The camera crew was so sweet. I feel like I will give a special shout out to bear. Let's see. Oh, God, there are so many people I wish camera person bear was a camera person. Okay, I'm just making sure it wasn't like literal bear that they kept around. Oh, no, we didn't have the room for it. But but everyone is really sweet and teach me the basics. Like, yeah, so we're going to shoot this, but we need you to stand on this box. And I'm like, why? Because you're short and you need to be taller next to Leo. And then there was a whole discussion like the first day, it's like, you need to go put on a different sweater. Because we can see your belly button. And I'm like, Well, you couldn't a minute ago, just let me not stand on the box. And it's like, Yeah, well, we can't do that. Go, go put on a sweater. It's like, Oh, what else? What else? Oh, it's so cool. The studio was on the lake shore too. So it's always such a lovely drive getting up there. And so yeah, so after that first year, in order to lighten Leo's load a bit, I was handed off to another segment producer called Mohit. And Mohit was a guy pitched all the rest of my stuff to for the last bit of the year. And I think that's all the main people that I dealt with on a daily basis. Because our shooting schedule was very different from yours. Because you guys, what did you guys do? Did you guys shoot like every day? Every day? I understand. And the only reason why I know this is because I talked to Leo about this because he was asking me questions initially. Because it involved because of Cancon or Canadian content rules, Leo can never be the host of the show. So he was just a perennial guest. And so but they had to gang shoot all the episodes. So he would be up there for like a, when I say up there, he was be up in Canada, like fly up from the San Francisco Bay Area to Toronto, I think, and and shoot like a within a week or two weeks of like all the stuff they would need for the following month or so. If I understand that correctly. Yeah, I picked him up in the airport once or twice. He would fly into YYZ in Toronto. So wait, you were also like the chauffeur? Well, I lived like literally next to the airport. So technically, I had volunteered. I was like, I can't if you ever need a ride from the airport, I'm like literally down the street. I hope you got a discount on your rent. No, like you honestly, you don't hear the planes after a while. It's when the planes stop that you noticed something's wrong. It's too quiet. It's too quiet. Yeah, so there is always one week a month where Leo would fly up and we would shoot three to four episodes a day, which is why I was told to bring multiple sets of clothes. So that if I shot like first show in the morning and the first show after lunch, I could, you know, change my shirt and pants and stuff. Were you did you actively go out? It's like, all right, I got to buy TV friendly clothes, and then just have like part of your wardrobe TV only. Well, to start, Leo was very adamant that I only wear the stuff I like wore at home. And I was not like, don't try to be pretty was the unspoken thing.  And I was like, okay, awesome. And then we did like one press event in the States. And he's like, maybe bring a girl shirt. I'm like, okay, I can do that too. I mean, no, that's great.  This is where you hang out. This is where you work in your your technology. And I know with call for help, they were trying to make it feel more like a home office. So a lot of the colors, a lot of the if you look at Leo's wardrobe tended to be more business casual, right? So you had soft, warm, it was very, it was a very, very, you know, conscious effort. And I'm glad to hear that like when they did it moved it to Canada, they weren't so hung up on you looking or dressing in a very specific way. Yeah, I had so much freedom, like I'm looking back and the jobs I've had since it's like, wow, I really, I really got lucky with my first camera experience. Was there one or maybe a handful of episodes that stand out in your mind? The most like when you think of your time there, it's the thing that pops in your head immediately? Let's see. Oh, like the the Step Mania episode where I was showing people you could play DDR on your PC or laptop. That show was fun and chaotic. Because yeah, like I had everything tech that could have gone wrong went wrong. And I had Amber and Sean Carruthers helping me out with like parts to put this together. And I like nearly had to solder part of my pad because it did not like being shoved in my car and then dragged around the studio for a while to get that working. So it was a lot of like fly by the seat of your pants stuff. But I really loved watching everybody else work. I learned so much from seeing how calm they were. And call for help. I don't know if this was the same for you guys down there, but we were live to tape. Oh, yeah, always. Well, the thing is, we were live live live live. We had it. We didn't even have a 10 second delay when we first started out. So we were always paranoid. We get the one live caller who would like be really nice when we call screen and that was one of my jobs as an intern was a call screener. And we were just I mean, especially Leo because he did a radio show for the longest time, even before even before doing tech TV in the site. Before it, he was just like, you know, we needed we needed 10 second delay because one of these days we're gonna get a call is really nice.  Thankfully, never had that. But yeah, we were always live. Yeah, for us, I remember being warned like as I'm about to step into the studio producer grabs my shoulders like, Okay, so listen, the callers can hear everything that happens in the studio because they're just on hold all day. So like, don't say anything you wouldn't want to call her to hear.  So I'm just gonna sit here and watch. What do you think you got most of the experience? Was there a skill set? Were there people that you network? Was it a combination of both? Was there anything that you feel that I have become a different but a better person because of this experience? One of the most surprising benefits of the show to me was all of a sudden, my job was now legitimate. Even though I've been writing for print magazines and writing for websites and making legitimate money as a gaming journalist, since I was a teenager, the second I showed up on TV suddenly, I now I had a real job. So my family stopped telling people that I worked in IT. Oh, actually, I guess that's a side question. As I see now, it makes me think of a second secondary question of that. Because my mom, when she found like, Oh, your show's on and I was regularly on air, she would be really excited because, you know, at the restaurant, it was the middle of the day when they were closed because they were open for lunch, they closed for three hours and they open for dinner. And during that three hours, she would clean and then just sit down and watch TV. And I would be on and she'd be very excited. And she would always tell me, it's like, Oh, you have to be very careful about, you know, how you speak because people, you know, think highly of you now and all that. Did your family have a very similar kind of view of your of your time in front of the camera? Well, I think like that just kind of set it for them that I wasn't wasting my life. Like this was a real job with real outcomes that other people see. It wasn't, it wasn't me like because I didn't go to university. I started working straight out of high school. And yeah, it was just really nice to have that sense of legitimacy. And it definitely made pitching things in the future to other places easier. And then other news networks started calling me. So like CB24 was like, Hey, there's a Nintendo event. Can you do a hit for us? And to be like, Yes, I will send me a cameraman. I'll show up and do that hit. So I got to do stuff like that. So I showed up on the CBC ones and CB24. And then yeah, I think it was after that because I had done E3 for many, many years. And then at the launch of the Nintendo DS TV Tokyo came up to me and they're like, Hey, can you speak English? You want to do a thing with us? And I'd be like, Okay, sure. So I showed up on TV Tokyo for a couple of segments. That was really fun. And once you could say that you've been on TV, it made a huge difference. And it really, I'd say why didn't my fan base not so much in Canada, because very few people in Canada seem to have the network. But because we had a lot of international deals, all of a sudden I started getting all of this mail from Australia, and some from the UK and a lot from the United States.  Do you find that you suddenly became more recognizable where you were just in the store? Or you were just, you know, somewhere very you thought was very innocuous and some say, Hey, you're Jen Cutter, you're from Comfort Help Canada. Yeah, I definitely are recognized at conferences a lot more. You know, there's good and bad that comes with that. I had some person following me around PAX East. And then I my friend sent me a link saying like, Hey, do you know this guy? Because he's posted 300 pictures of you on his Flickr account. I'm like, Oh, that's not great. I'll have to look at that when I'm home. But yeah, like in computer stores in Toronto, occasionally like grocery shopping. And then like, at least once a year for five years, somebody would see me go like, Oh, Oh, Amber. And I'm like, Oh, so close. Like, I knew that like they could recognize me from the show. And then they reached for the first female female name that they associated with that show. And so they'd call me Amber. For people who are do not know what I look like, I do not look like Amber Mac. Amber Mac is a gorgeous person. And I am a very nerdy hockey player. But I'm thinking like, you can't if you put me and Amber next to each other, you're not going to confuse us as related. They were always very apologetic about it. Like, Oh, no, we had Jen Jen. Can you say hi to Amber for me? It's like, Yes, I will say hi to Amber for you. Don't worry about it. I guess, I guess to close. If you had to do it all over again, would you have done anything differently knowing what you do know now? Or do you think like, overall, the experience was beneficial for the way it played out in the way you, you know, you experienced things? Oh, for what I know now, I would absolutely have asked way more questions. I would have asked for like more responsibility. I would have tried to pitch some different form segments. I'd love to have like, done a segment with Sean or with Mike, just to get like more faces in front of the camera. But like, I had an absolutely wonderful time. I'm so glad that it happened. I'm just really grateful for the whole experience.  I often, I often say to anyone who cares to listen, which is not many, because my wife has stopped listening as well, that, you know, my time at tech TV, ZDTV was like going to a second university, like industry facing kind of education. But I, you know, I made a lot of great friends and made a lot of intelligent, smart people who I am grateful that I still know today. And one of those people, believe it or not, is you. It's great. Like I would have never met you otherwise. It was so great. Like one of the huge benefits of going to E3 aside of from going to E3 was because I had a G4 tech TV Canada press pass, they would let me into like the G4 staging area where they had all of the stuff for X play and attack of the show. So I'd get to go meet all the people there and hang out and meet so many friends there. I was I was Olivia Munn stand in for a couple of segments when standing was not feeling well. And I was like, I can stand there and do that. Sure. Unfortunately, we're we're at our time limit. But before we go, is there anywhere you would like people to follow your comings and goings, social media platform, blog, anything you'd like to shout out? Oh, well, I am at Jen Cutter, Jen with two fans at literally every current social media platform on the planet, of which there are many will find out who wins in a year from now, I guess. And then there's Jen Cutter com and open alpha dot TV. All right, that's it for this episode of tech TV scrapbook. And if you'd like to hear more stories from behind the scenes of ZDTV tech TV from the people who work there, email me at feedback at daily tech news show dot com. If there's enough interest, I will continue the series with other producers on our talent and crew that made ZDTV tech TV possible. Hey, folks, Tom Merritt here again. That's it for Experiment Week. Thanks to all the contributors who made these great shows. We hope you enjoyed it. Let us know what you think email us feedback at daily tech news show dot com. We're back to regular shows on Monday. See you then.


We're changing things up, we are because we got so much going on between now and the conference and the event, the big mega event baby, April St. Agents and Welfth conference. We're replacing brain power and live cold calling and we're putting those together as insurance agent training. And you say, well, dude, why would you do that? Well, because with insurance agent training, we can make cold calls. We can call leads. We can address your questions specifically. We can walk through all the things that you're struggling with and we can still we can still get some brain power going. I know Lauren's going to miss this. Lauren was incredible on this show on brain power. Every money to she's got a pun going on between now and the conference. I'm keeping her so busy where she's like, hey, it would be nice if you just focused on training insurance agents between now and the conference and then maybe, you know what, who knows, maybe, maybe by popular demand, maybe maybe we'll bring something back. So today is all about why do insurance agents struggle and what do they struggle with? Every agent's different. You all struggle with different things, but you all have something that you struggle with. And so today we're going to use the whiteboard. We're going to walk through a few things that are going to fix the things that you're struggling with. We're going to get into specifics. And I want you guys to be able to help me. DG is going to grab the laptop and hand it to me in here in a couple of seconds. And that way, when you guys leave come is I'll be able to see exactly what you're saying, what you're doing, what you're struggling with today.  Did you just say hello? Thank you, brother. Hello. Thank you, brother. As you're jumping in on Facebook or YouTube world, go ahead and let us know. Hey, let me know. You're here. What's up, Lauren? What's up, Roth? What's up, Dylan? What's up, everybody else? Dude, hey, jumping in on Facebook. Please share this thing out. What's up, Jorge? If you're jumping in on Facebook and YouTube, let me know you're here. Thank you. Thank you. Let me know what you're struggling with and what you want to address because today is all about what do insurance agents struggle with? It's a new insurance agent training. Mrs. Simmons is live on YouTube. What's up? Vince Pabonato is jumping in. Insurance agent training. Again, we're combining brain power and loud cold calling between now and the conference every Monday at 2. We'll be interest agent training. Maybe we'll call leads. Maybe we'll cold call. Maybe we'll address your questions. Maybe we'll do whiteboards, whatever it is that you need help with. That's what we're going to focus on. So today is all about what agents struggle with. And so we're going to jump into insurance agent training and what you struggle with. Insurance agents all struggle with a specific number of things. I don't even have notes today. I don't even need notes because as much as I come to you live on camera and as much as I talk to you guys, dude, I already know what you struggle with. And I know what you need help with. I would say the biggest thing that agents struggle with is to start it off. You're going to notice a pattern is prospecting, prospecting is getting in front of people. That's all prospecting is. Prospecting is getting in front of people. A lot of insurance agents struggle with this. You guys know I'm a big believer in this. I'm a big proponent in this. What's up? Agents struggle with playing it too safe. Dude, that's also true, which I promise we will get to 100%. Agents struggle with prospecting and getting in front of people. Because at the end of the day, you may be the greatest salesperson in the world. You watching on YouTube and Facebook, you may be absolutely amazing. But if you don't see anybody, if you don't ask anybody, if you don't tell anybody, if nobody hears your story, then what's the matter? The greatest salesperson in the world is a lot of wasted talent if they don't get in front of people. So prospecting is super important. Having a weekly prospecting system that gets you in front of so many prospects week in and week out. You guys know that I talk about my philosophy all the time. Where I talk about set 15, C10, cell 5. You guys know that's kind of my weekly system that I preach a lot, 15, 10, and 5. Most agents never get to this. Most agents never get to this. They never C10, and they definitely never write 5 apps. Because you can't prep 5 apps if you don't ask 10. Agents struggle with seeing, asking, and having a duplicatable system. Because there's some agents out there that you may set 15 appointments and you may say 10 one week. But then the rest of the month, the next three weeks, you're going to end up writing about an average of about, you're going to see like two people a week. Because that's normal. That's customary. That's easy. Insurance agents need training, and they need training bad. They struggle with a lot of different things that I want to cover and that I want to help you with. The next thing that they struggle with, man, they struggle with phone skills. Most people are scared to use a telephone, which in turn is directly related to setting appointments. Most agents just struggle with the phone miserably, and you don't know what to do and know what to say. If you can see that, if everything's looking good, let me know. What is up? What's up, Dayang? Naveed. Let me know, okay, we're jumping into phone skills, setting appointments. Most agents never pick up the phone because they don't have confidence in their phone skills ability. You don't pick up the phone because you're scared. You don't pick up the phone because no one's properly trained you how to pick it up. Dude, it's easy. It's easy to pick it up. It ain't even that heavy, but if you don't know what to do, if you don't have the knowledge, if you've not been instructed, if someone hasn't educated you, you won't pick it up because you don't know any better. What we're going to walk through together, so three life, that's what, what's up, Austin? Thanks for joining, brother. Not only do you struggle with prospecting, not only do you struggle with phone skills and setting appointments, but you also struggle with a slew of other things as well. These are just a couple of the obvious. Need better phone skills. Jorge, do me a favor, jump, jump in this new mentorship training program because agents say that they struggle, but agents don't invest in themselves. And you guys know me as I walk through this and we talk about the specific things that you struggle with. You guys need to be spending more money. You say, Cody, dude, what does that even mean? Dude, that means that I just sent $54,000 to Nissan Stadium for half of the deposit on Friday. That means that I just gave someone 30 grand today to be a sponsor and a speaker in a bit. That means that, hey, maybe I believe in getting attention and spending some freaking dough as you guys need to. What's up, Danny? What's up, Jorge? What's up, Austin? On YouTube, Tommy Max says, hey, agents struggle with investing money on leads and personal development. Offer us today, great value on the new mentorship program. Thank you, Tommy Max. Prospect in getting in front of people. And 92% of agents fail because they struggle with that. Phone skills, setting appointments, being able to set appointments when you talk to people. That's how a lot of people struggle with. The next thing that agents struggle with is they struggle with overcoming objections and make sure that you can read my handwriting and see it okay. I know we get a little glare sometimes on our boards. Overcoming objections, a lot of agents struggle with overcoming objections. Because when they say, dude, I didn't do that, dude, they did. So figure out how to remedy that. Or they say, hey, I'm not interested. Or hey, I'm good, I'm happy, I don't need you. If they say anything, if they say, hey, I need to talk to my wife, I'm not sure, I need to think about it. I don't have the money, I'm broke. Do you know what to say? We're in the process of developing a new mentorship training program for the next nine weeks that it's less than a couple hundred dollars. It's an $8,000 value, and it's something that I'm going to tell you about later on in the video. Mark says, hey dude, read the script, baby, dude. That's one of the biggest reasons agents struggle, man, is they don't read the script. But you can't read a script if you don't know what script to read. But Mark, I'm with your brother. Overcoming objections, that's something agents struggle with a lot. Also, the sales presentation, and when we go through this, I want you guys to tell me which one of these you struggle with, or maybe you struggle with all of them. And you're like, dude, I would love to fix these things, man. Can you help me? Dude, I promise we can help you, and we can fix these things. But we can't fix them until you admit that there's a problem. That's the first step with anything we do is, hey dude, if you want to get better, if you want to improve, if you want to get better at something, you must admit that you can get better. The sales presentation needs to be a systematic step-by-step process that gets you from, hey, my name's Cody, and you're in the warm up, and then you're cooling down and walking out of the house saying, hey, thanks for the business, welcome to the family. Most agents following the process, thanks Alyssa, I love that. This is more of a process than anything following the process of the sales presentation. 92% of agents, insurance agents fail because they don't know how to run a systematic sales presentation that delivers results, that delivers the clothes, that helps you write business, that helps you make money. And that's why we're going through this live on camera today. It's all about the things that you're struggling with and how we can position you to fix those. The next thing is, as we jump in, I want you guys to know, I want to know which ones of these that you struggle with. Is it number one, number two, number three, number four? Maybe it's number five. What do you guys think number five is? Number five is closing. Most people never close because they never do what? They never ask. We talked about this for 72 minutes last night live on Facebook and YouTube. You're going to say, dude, you're not, you do way too much video. Dude, I'm here to help people. I need to do more. Can't help people, but if I don't train them and if I don't give them free knowledge and expertise. My personal issue is early objection. Alyssa, we can fix that. We've got a, we have a link in our Facebook description for our mentorship program. Make sure that you jump in on that. Is it in comments? Cause I'm not seeing it in the, okay, it's in comments. Make sure you jump in and grab the link to this new mentorship program. We're going to repost it right now. This is a program where you're going to get $8,000 worth of value. We're going to walk through a ton of stuff and it's, you get me for nine weeks, you can hang out in the penthouse suite.  So closing ask. Alyssa just said she struggles with objections early when someone says, Hey dude, I'm not the decision maker or, you know, hey, I don't have the, I'm broke. I don't have any money, but you can, you can tell me what you have to offer. Dude, I'm telling them by the end of that, they're going to find some free money to start spending money even more. Also even more important than when it comes to closing, there's trial closes. You guys don't know how to walk through trials closes. You don't know how to ask questions in ways that you get answered. You don't know how to close literally almost everybody you talk to you. Last night, which was, Hey, I need to be, when I'm, when I'm in a closing mode, I need to be more sold on me closing them than they are on me not closing them. What's up, Mark? Be proactive. We'll avoid most objections or, or maybe it's number six. Maybe again, that comes back to asking, but any of this you could say, well, dude, you know what, I don't know how to ask. I don't ask because I don't know how. Well, dude, all of this comes back to no, being, you know, prospecting, getting in front of people, phone skills, setting appointments, overcoming objections. I've got a specific process of how to overcome objections where you can overcome any objection at any time. They're going to have to hang up on you for them not to buy. Sales presentation, a eight-staff employment process that dives in and it's deep. Closing and asking, you don't close because you don't ask. And then when you do ask for referrals, do you know how to ask for referrals? When that time comes and you need to extract at least one referral from that prospect now. What's your go-to phrase? What do you say? What do you do? And does it work? Don't give me a phrase if it don't work. If it doesn't work 100% of the time, then, dude, it ain't good. It ain't valuable. It ain't worth it. You can not ask for referrals and you won't get any. Or you can ask poorly or incorrectly at any. It goes back to closing. I'm more sold on me getting a referral from them than they are on not giving me one. Alyssa says, hey, is it OK to be aggressive? What is too aggressive or not being aggressive enough?


We have to start with Derek Henry, right? 41 touches, 237 yards, three touchdowns. It built as it went for Derek Henry. Took a while, but as it got going, it built. What led to Derek Henry's success as the game wore on? Yeah, I mean, I think it was really a commitment from Todd and his staff to stick with the game plan. You know, certainly the line, getting on guys, sticking on their blocks, receivers, tight ends, trying to block those support players. I think we finished up with 87 yards in the third quarter alone. And then that type of success really allowed us to open up the playbook and stay in the drives. You won time of possession for the ball game by almost 20 minutes. Were you even a little surprised by that? Well, a little bit, but I mean, it seemed like we had it a long time. You know, we were able to get into some of those drives like I alluded to. And defensively, we came away with 3-3 in-outs there in the second half and the overtime, you know, which got the ball back to the offense quick, kept the defense off the field. But yeah, once we kind of got to the end of the game and we had sealed it there to look down and see that we had it that long, pretty impressive. Ola Adaini had the quarterback sack in over time of Russell Wilson that got you the ball back and you ended up winning it from there. A lot of Titans fans are like, who's Ola Adaini? Tell us who he is and why you liked him so much coming over from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah, I mean, Ola was a rookie free agent out of Toledo. He signed with Pittsburgh. He ended up making the team every year for Pittsburgh, carved out a role on special teams. You know, that was kind of what we signed him for was the kicking game and he's certainly been a permanent fixture in there for us. But we've slowly incorporated, he's earned some reps defensively in practice and certainly had a big one for us Sunday up in Seattle. Alright, let's talk about Indianapolis. Defensively, physical in the front seven, what do you like about those guys up front for the Colts? A lot of playmakers, Mike, a lot of playmakers, you know, Buckner, he's a problem in there. He's long, he's explosive. He's a really good run player, plays with a high motor, he can rush the passer and then off the ball, you know, you got to know where Darius Leonard is. You know, if you're looking for him, usually find where the ball's at and that's, he's usually around the pile somewhere. Finally, there's no sneaking up on each other when Indianapolis plays Tennessee. Really, both teams know what they're in for Sunday at Nissan Stadium, right? I mean, it's a division game. We play those guys twice a year. We've seen their personnel, the coaching staffs have, for the most part, remained intact. So, you know, schematically, there's a few wrinkles here and there. We know what they're trying to do and they know what we're trying to do. Those division games are paramount for your success in the season and how it's going to end up in the postseason, so there's no hiding behind anything. It's going to be what it's going to be.


What are you teaching your children? What are we teaching our children of the planet? What relation do we have to this air? What relation do we have to this water, to this food, to our planet and to our sun? Are these just objects that we pillage for resources and then sell in an economy? Or are these sacred and divine things? How do we teach our children? Do we even collectively recognize that the same water that we are drinking now is the same water that dinosaurs drank? That that same water cycle has been happening for billions of years? The same water that makes up 70% of your body? The same water that you drink for hydration that you shower with to clean is all part of that hydrological cycle on this planet. Do we teach children that? Do children truly embody that knowledge, that wisdom deep within their core? We are here on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, a First Nations people of Canada in British Columbia here in Vancouver. And this is all super sacred to them. And it's becoming more and more clear that Canada is focused on teaching their children about the First Nations. And they're trying to do their best to heal what has been a series of hundreds of years of trauma for their First Nations people. Here we are at the beautiful University of British Columbia at their Museum of Anthropology where they house all so many of the First Nations artifacts here. And they have a co-creative relationship, a harmonious relationship with many of the First Nations indigenous tribes that then help teach young children about the truth of their history. We in the United States and around the world can do better at teaching our children about the truth of indigeneity and the truth about colonialism and the truth about the traumas that it has caused and further progress the healing that needs to happen in order for us to all be whole and for us to all consciously evolve together. What are we teaching our children? Think about it. Think very carefully about what we are teaching our children. Think very carefully about how it can be more about interconnectedness, interdependence on each other and nature and not feelings of separation. Think very vigilantly about how it can be about augmenting the existing educational fabric to teach more about the First Nations around the world and what colonialism did and how we can heal that trauma, how we can integrate best together moving forward. This is paramount. Canada is doing this well. They are healing well. And the United States can learn a thing or two. Imagine if California did this. Imagine if the East Coast did this. Imagine if all around the world we did a better job at truly teaching our children about First Nations people and about the history of what has happened and how to best integrate moving forward, how to best heal. This is a great learning lesson and I'm very grateful to be here. Thanks everyone for tuning in and remember what are we teaching our children. Ask yourselves, ask each other and make this a first principle point of this reality we find ourselves in.


We're gonna do some World Cup comparisons. It's Aaron Rodgers, Ronaldo, that's too easy, right?  Are they doing anything? Did the goalie get hurt? What did I miss? Who got hurt? Who was hurt? Yeah, what happened? All right, over the weekend, Karim Benzema on the defending World Cup, winning French national team was ruled out at the entire tournament. He had a thigh injury. It was really sad. And one of my dear followers said, hey, I need help with this in NFL terms. What is it? I said to my dad and I asked and I said, I got you. I said, this would be like if the chiefs, hello, losing Kelsey, lost Kelsey and they still had Tyreek Hill, who Tyreek Hill's kind of the embape of it all. So it's all true and I got lots of love for that. So here we go with some more NFL World Cup comps. I'm sitting there at Manhattan Beach with my father, bothering him as he's trying to enjoy a sunset. Like, but dad, but like, what really is messy?    And you completely ignored him and are talking about Poland and Mexico. So, oh, Mexico almost scored. No acknowledgement of the Niners pursuing Rodgers and Brady. I kind of didn't hear him. I'm not as good at my job as I thought that I was. And then there's like, this isn't working. Now it's not working. Everyone's running around the studio. Everyone's running a muck. I didn't hear that, but what do you, hey, the Brady, it's back to San Mateo. It's all very cute. And then you bring Adam in from San Mateo and they all, I don't buy it. I don't buy it. The Aaron Rodgers thing, you think Shanahan is gonna go for, no, it's not half. I don't believe in any of this, but I like that it's all on the table. It's quite dramatic. Yeah, and I like that I wore my green for a team Mexico today after all this.  Okay, let's do it. Let's do some of these comparisons. And we have some great tweets. Thanks everybody for tweeting it and up at Adam's show. They were awesome. All right, so we're gonna start it off. You've been talking a lot about Levendavsky for this parlay. Who is the Robert Levendavsky of the NFL world? Okay, I'm gonna say, and I've done a lot of thoughts about this because he is Robert Levendavsky who I need to score for my parlay. It's very like messy. You saw messy this morning. Great players, prolific players, great supporting cast that put them and orchestrate everything so they're the star and they score goals. That's just what it is.  You're the only focal point. It's not built that way. And it never works out. And that's kind of what Levendavsky is. So he's among the best, arguably the best at his position. He was a Bayern guy. He left to find happiness in Barcelona. He scores a hella goals. He was robbed of the Ballon d'Or, in my opinion. In the NFL, to me, he is Devontae Adams and Poland are the Raiders. Devontae, yeah. Devontae is elite, top tier, but he's kind of the only show in town for his squad. Everyone heard, everyone had experienced on the Raiders and Devontae is the guy. Okay, I don't love this. What's happening? Okay, here it is. Look at these two. Yeah, lots of similarities here. So, well, here's the crazy stat that you and I found. Oh, as my mic pack just falls. This is just a complete show today. Speaking of show, he's the only show in town and he's the only show in time. And this one, we found a crazy number. Over the last three games, he's averaging over 15 targets a game. What a vacuum. That's unbelievable. 138 yards per game. Let's talk about it with all the movement is driving me crazy. And he's this guy right here, Devontae Adams has scored five touchdowns. Okay, that's Lewandowski on Poland. So we're watching the game here and he's the sole draw of defenders. It's pretty much all him. There's no one else like the pressure off. This is a tough group, by the way. You saw what Saudi Arabia did this morning. Chester called it. You have the Messi, who's the Messi, who's the Mahomes of the whole thing. And Mexico, which is happening right now. So this is the AFC West of groups. It is tough sledding. Neither, by the way, have won a world title or championship for their squad on the world's biggest stage. So it is all on them hammer. What's the confidence level that Lewandowski actually gets that goal today for you? I'm in the car with my dad and I go, Dad, what are the champs? I'm gonna do this parley. Oh, so he's doing this. He's like, yeah. He's never done it. And Mexico is really good and they're good defensively. And so I don't think it happens, but I've never done well on a parley. So part of me thinks that it'll happen because I'm not confident in it at all. So I'm trying something new. Yeah, you're due. You're definitely due. God, am I due. We'll keep it moving here. How about the bills? Even my cup is Mexico colors. Wow. What is happening? The whole world's against you. Yeah, as usual. Yeah, it could be like a reverse jinx in some way, though. But really quick, really quick. You know, you brought a lot of bad luck to a team, so maybe having their colors. Yeah, before we move on, though, the Devonta Adams thing is wild. Oh, yeah. No, the way that he's playing right now and it's kind of gotten lost because the Raiders are so far out of it, but he's just taking the team on his back right now. I mean, that game-winning touchdown over time against the Broncos, he just, he willed that team to a win and it's pretty awesome to see. Yeah, what else we got? All right, how about the bills? A team with a lot of talent. They're kind of a trendy pick to go all the way, even though they haven't done it yet. Who would be the bills comp in a world cup? I'm gonna say, I played with Belgium for a long time because I think, you know, my daddy goes, watch out for the Belgium, that'll be good, so there's that. But I think ultimately we came to the Netherlands as the team because they are a loaded squad and there's always a super strong performance, but they always come up short at the end. It's like the bills when it comes to making and winning a Super Bowl. So there's a lot of comparisons to be made there as we look at some of this, but they've got a lot of top five love, Netherlands and everybody's top five. The bills, they're obviously the favorite to win it all. So there's, you know, kind of all of that going on. Ultimately, I'm looking at some of the numbers, the Netherlands are great comparisons. They made it to the finals and lost to Spain in 2010. Third place in Brazil, their second place team, that's what they are. They've been to the finals three times and it's never worked out, hammy. Yeah, and I'm sure Bill's fans are gonna find a way to make this comparison a slight against them.  That'll be great. I think that they feel, but you know what I thought about that? Like, if I compare them to Belgium, they'll be more mad for some reason than the Netherlands. That's true, because you point to the Netherlands, you're right, they've had a lot of success. They've had a lot of winning teams, you know. So I think it's a great comparison. I love that one. That's my favorite so far. All right, I gotta switch home. So I'm gonna take this shot. I hate everything right now. Go ahead. All right, you know, I have to bring this guy off. Tell me. Who is the Aaron Rodgers of this World Cup?  It just is. Get over it, people. Ronaldo, both, it's just too much sense. There's some differences, but listen, they're both all-time greats, prolific, both in the best ever convo. But here we are, people, at the back nine, and it's, you know, not how anyone wants to see it go down. There's drama on both sides, and you know, you look at the wins. Ronaldo's won a lot. Ronaldo has 32 trophies in his career, five Ballon d'Ors in his career. That's the same thing as an MVP kind of. You know, Rodgers has four, he had two in a row. Now, Ronaldo's never won a World Cup, right? They're best finished with fourth place. He did win a UEFA championship though. Look at those two. And that was back in 2016. They beat France, and that kind of equals out, right? That's like their one Super Bowl at peace. They have that in common. But there's so much to prove, that these two should have so many wins for their respective national teams, or the teams that they sort of like, you know, were drafted to. That would what Aaron Rodgers makes of Green Bay. So, Ronaldo, you know, he's like a, he's got a PhD in histrionics. He's off the bench for Manu right now. He's leaving the pitch. He's mad, he wants to play, he can't, he doesn't have it anymore. And it's not going so hot for Aaron either. You know, those packages are sitting there four and seven. They've got the Eagles in Philly this week. It's probably a wrap, honestly, for this Packer squad. The difference there, I do think like, I think he's cooked Ronaldo. He's, you know, physically, he doesn't have it anymore. Prolific, amazing career. People are saying Aaron doesn't have it. You take away, you give him a bit of a better, more experienced supporting cast that's come into their own. You get rid of that thumb injury. I don't think Aaron is lost to beat. I really don't. I agree, and you brought it up too. I think the thumb injury is, is bothering him a little bit more than he's letting on. And that's one thing he hasn't made an excuse about, but I think you see it sometimes. It's, he seems to really be favoring it. It seems to be, it seems to be affecting him. But I'm a little surprised he didn't go messy here. I feel like losing a Saudi Arabia in the first game is kind of like losing to the Niners at Lambeau Field in the snow as a one seed. But messy is like, you're trying to get me to say something bad about Aaron Rodgers. And I'm gonna take, I'm gonna take the bait. The, the antics are the difference. I think Messi is a very, you know, undersized, more humble sort of player than Aaron Rodgers. And the, the drama doesn't surround him and follow him like it does a Ronaldo and a Rodgers. Fine, I said it. I mean, that's fair. So Messi is like a Terran Scrolls, I guess. No, no. Kind of, sure, yeah. Go ahead. All right, last one, I was watching Team USA yesterday, very frustrating game, but it's a fun team to watch. There's a lot of, you know, a lot of new players, a lot of names that we might not be used to on this Team USA this year. So who would be the NFL comp to, to Team USA? I'm curious to see what Mark Ingram has to say about this. I know we stand by ready to come on and we got these cards here. And he was watching the game, he tweeted about it. But I'm like, you think about USA and USA is young, very young. They're inexperienced, they're counted out, they're all heart. To me, USA is Mike McDaniel, okay? New head coach, shiny, youthful.  They have their unassuming leader and police-polistic. You know, this is a guy who doesn't take shine and studies, sets up his teammates to crush it. We saw it yesterday against Wales Hamilton. The goal assist of police, of Timothy, Timothy Way. I mean, that is too at a Tyree kill if I've ever seen it out there. So I feel also strongly that Ted Lasso would root for and write billboards for Mike McDaniel of all coaches. So the USA is in fact Mike McD. I mean, I love this choice. He's one of my favorite personalities in the NFL right now. And I also, I like the comparison because he kind of came out of nowhere for a lot of people this past year. And I feel like with this Team USA, it's similar. Like you don't really have as many of the household names that we grew up with. Like Alexi Lawless, that type of a guy on this team. So I like it. I like it. Do we have some really good tweets? I know you went through and picked out some of your faves. What have we got? All right, let's hit the first one. Brazil or the Cowboys, storied franchise that hasn't won in 20 plus years with some embarrassing playoff and knockout losses since. A good mix of young town and veterans and a favorite to win it all this year. I can't argue they better win it all, especially with Tony Pollard doing what he's doing. Let's just run through the tweets. We'll talk under them. We don't have to come on camera. Let's bang them out and go. All right, here's the next one. The Bears are England. Fans travel really well. They act like their team invented the sport and they keep talking about that one win many decades ago, but they haven't been relevant for way too long. That's kind of harsh. It's kind of harsh. There were a lot of comparisons to England and Jets fans as well being sort of wild. Here's one from C. Tawaleed. OBJ is Neymar. This is a comparison that another trite one, but it makes sense. Generational talents, divisive. I don't know if they're divisive. Who aren't in their prime anymore? Both burst on the senior show. Flimps is a brilliant still. OBJ got his rink in Neymar. Get his medal. I mean, Brazil very heavily favored in this tourney. And then what do you got here, Hammy? Italy equals the Steelers. Multiple championships, strong defense. Many old time great players, storied history, but not winning a championship this year. I can't believe Italy didn't make it. Italy didn't make it. So Italy is kind of like the Rams, huh? Yeah, that's a good one too. I think I like that even better than the Steelers. My red carding. I mean, honestly, Italy always in the mix don't even qualify for the world. That doesn't happen. That does not happen. So kind of like the Rams having a historic Super Bowl hangover upset. Sean Payton said on the Fox said that it's one where you're in bed till the afternoon. What does Sean Payton know about staying in bed till the afternoon after your hangover? I bet Mark Ingram has answers for me next.


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