Remember that time I said Ticket Tip Thursday was going to be a thing, and then I was going to make videos, and there would be tickets and tips on Thursdays? Well, it's back. Let's talk about pods. Wrong pods. We're talking ticket pods, right? Now, what's up, guys? Welcome back. Ryan Stratz here on Thumbs Up Run, where we're talking about buying tickets, selling tickets, and making sure that you have all the fun with your tickets. Today, we're talking all about ticketing pods. Ticket pods, what are they? How do they work? How do you get them? Can you move them? Can you sell them? Can you keep them? Can you hold them? Let's talk about all things. Ticketing pods, right? Now. All right, first off, ticketing pods. What are they? Basically, it's the way that industry has now moved forward when trying to actually run live events. This way, they're able to get people socially distanced, spaced out, get more people inside the building, and still make a little bit of money, but at the same time, try and keep everybody safe, secure, healthy, happy, all that good stuff. Suchy, the venues are putting people in what they call pods, basically just little groups of either 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, whatever number of seats, sign them all together as one purchase. You've got to buy that whole package, that whole section, that whole ticketing pod together. Ka-peesh! Get it? Awesome. Now, it's very simple to see what I've got here. I got my handy-dandy phone. Just jump on over into Ticketmaster. We'll go over there, take a look, and you'll see what I'm talking about. So we're going to actually, I know for a fact right now, Indianapolis colds, they're selling their seats in pods. In fact, all NFL venues, which are currently selling seats, are selling them in pods. What you'll see is that once we actually zoom in, jump into the event, get past the first level of agreements, what you can do, take a look at the map view, and you can see here very simply how they've decided to arrange the venue in terms of what's available for purchasing and what's not. So what you can see here, there are a lot of circles across them. Basically these seats are not available. They have been wiped out completely. These seats available are the ones that are, you know, the gaps in between. So you can see there's like a gap of four there, another four, another pair of there, another four. So they're basically selling them in fours and twos. And you can see up here, you can go up a bit to a higher section. We'll get a different view, but essentially same thing. You can see here how they're actually arranging these seats. They're putting in, you know, approximately six feet apart between the different sections of different pods. Not always the case, but as you can see, sometimes just a row in between people. Sometimes it's beside each other. Sometimes it's just, you know, they're just gapped all far apart from everybody else. So it's very dependent on each venue. So make sure that when you are buying your tickets, take a look at the ticketing map. See how they're spacing people out. Very simply, you can see that they're actually spacing people out and they're not selling some seats in between them to ensure social distancing is available to be done at the event. Fantastic, wonderful, excellent. Let's move on. Though, what if I want to go and try and buy a set of seats in a pod, I just go ahead, click on one of the seats and you'll see what it says here. Group of four, 97 each. I click add, I clicked on one and if I try then to hit next, I will get an error. This group is a group of four, therefore you must purchase all four tickets. So I will then go ahead, add the next one and the next one and the next one and then I will hit next and then let me check out. Very simply, otherwise you can do it on the list view. Same idea, you just search, put your filter in for two or four seats. Generally you'll be able to find what you're looking for. Many venues, they're actually only selling them in pairs or in groups of four. Very difficult to find different denominations right now as in singles or threes or bigger than four but you know, obviously every venue, every event, your mileage may vary. So go ahead, take a look, go through the filters, see what comes up. So very simply, that's the ticketing pod's work, essentially they're just seats put in a group together, you must purchase all at once so that the buyer who's going is going with people who are all within their bubble and making sure that everybody's able to stay safe, have fun, have a good time, go to the event and stay far apart but close, but far, but close to each other. Now you may ask, what if I end up deciding that I can no longer attend that event? Can I resell my tickets? Simple answer, yes. More longer and confusing answer, it depends. The whole reason there are pods is to enable social distancing so that whole group is going in together, they're sitting together doing everything together, they're best friends for life together at that event. If it turns out that you can no longer attend the event and that you're trying to sell your seat, unfortunately if it's just one or two or three of you who are no longer able to go, you've got to get rid of all four seats together if you want to sell them. Unfortunately, you can't sell those other three seats, so you don't have to sell all of them together or none of them. That's the only way to do it. The integrity of the pod must be maintained at all times. Capiche, can't break it up. So that's pods, very simple, very easy, nothing else to it. Basically, if you buy a pod, you've got to use the whole pod. If you can't use the pod, you've got to sell the whole pod together. That's basically it, that's all. There's nothing else to it really, it's quite simple. Quite, quite simple, easy, wonderful. Now, NFL does have a few terms and conditions that you must agree to prior to going ahead and actually making that purchase of seats. Go over here and subscribe, you'll be able to stay tuned, get all the information once that video drops, otherwise you'll see it over here once it's ready and it'll be awesome. Capiche, that's all I've got for today and see you guys next time.


Hey everyone, welcome back to the Nintendo Prime and today is the day it's Nintendo Direct Day and yes later today We will be reacting live to that Nintendo Direct The stream is already set up in fact I'll put a link at the very top of the description below If you guys to go set up your notifications to watch our live reaction We'll be going up roughly an hour ahead of time So we can answer all of your questions and kind of get hyped together Hopefully responsibly hyped heading into the beginning and start of that direct It's a 40-minute beast, but that doesn't mean the news stops and the reason we left the Nintendo Direct logo up behind me Is because some of this stuff might actually come out today. We have Some interesting stuff here for you We first off get a our first real look at the Switch OLED now We had a look where it was from a phone shot in a retail store But now someone in Japan a youtuber in particular has unboxed it and now we get some actual close-up Gameplay look here. It's not in my opinion the greatest Comparison But I don't really think that was the point of the video it was more of an unboxing and showcase video So we'll we'll take a little bit of look at that footage Beyond all of that we have all these rumors. It's rumor city Obviously with a direct on the horizon some of the old rumors are cropping back up But with new twists Emily Rogers is speaking out on multiple things Emily Rogers known as one of the best in nintendo insiders Maybe ever Is speaking up on things she knows about nintendo switch online and the different platforms that are going to be coming to it Including one that hasn't even been speculated about yet And then obviously she gives updates as well on other things things like metroid prime You heard me not metroid prime trilogy metroid prime Very very interesting there Also We get to visit a third party game that's been rumored to be coming to switch for over a year But hasn't really had any updates about it But the person who's been at the forefront of a lot of capcom related leaks has come forward to release more details about it Again, there's no guarantee any of this stuff is actually talked about at the direct today But this is stuff that we are now getting some rumored updates for so grab your tim foil hats, which Dang it. I keep forgetting to grab my tim foil hat. Where is it? Gosh one second one second Oh tim foil hat Patty come here Where are you? What is going on? Oh There it is. Okay. Okay Grab your tim foil hats folks And buckle up By the way, we're giving away switch OLED. So before we get to the rumors and all that We are giving away a nintendo switch OLED system You got to be subscribed to the channel and then show up at a live stream we do next week But let's just start with subscribing today. We're worried about the direct and then we'll get to how we'll be announcing the winner later All right, so our first story comes from a japanese youtube channel, which I can't pronounce They do have 10 million subscribers though So it's quite a big channel and chances are they've actually probably partnered up with nintendo to get this early access and First unboxing look this does happen. I expect next week We'll probably have some us youtubers and outlets like ign being able to do unboxings as well And they might even do better comparisons at that time But we actually get to see it in action and as you're seeing here A number of games are showed off. There's a focus on smash bros, of course I think that it looks fine for what it is There's a couple shots where you can kind of see it Not really directly on where you can kind of notice the screen does look more vibrant and brighter In the switch light and base nintendo switch, but it's not a very good look or comparison Again, I don't know that that was the point They go over other things to show how the dock can fold almost all the way down to flat with the table But not quite so you can get kind of that slight angle up If that's an angle you prefer depending on your sitting arrangement or play style Maybe you do want to go down and look at it like this like me wood angled But you don't want to hold it, you know, there's there's just more options here He looks at the docker though. He breaks the Back door off the dock. I think this might actually be a common Issue some people have with the new dock that have used the old one because the old dock folds down from the top down This one folds from the bottom up So if you go into it trying to fold it from the top down, you're just going to snap it off And I don't know if he actually literally broke it or if it just came off and it'll snap right back in Uh, but yeah, it it's definitely a interesting look at least at the switch Again, the switch OLED comes out on October 8th. We are giving away one and I am going to be doing a much more in-depth Um one we not only take a look at all, you know What it looks like on the outside in comparison and all that will actually take apart the systems as well To a certain degree. I don't know if I'm going to dig all the way down to the panel level I have heard some people do actually have questions about the OLED panel What kind of panel it is? I'm going to do my best to try to figure that out And if I have to tear it out all the way to the panel level to figure that out We did get some additional information in the safety updates on nintendo switch or nintendo switches Support page by the way, and it did mention one interesting thing. I'd like to bring up That's just about the OLED model and that's that there's a thin film on there that you're not supposed to remove Um, so yes, there will be something that you technically could pick at and peel off But if you do that, you're going to break your switch how this is going to affect using screen protectors I don't think it'll be a big deal. We've seen thin films like this on OLED panels before So I don't think it's going to matter I don't think it's just going to come off like you're taking off a normal screen protector You'd probably have to work at it that thin film I think is there to help disperse things a bit and maybe not have as bad a burn in There's also a note in there about burning and that if you have a switch or led You shouldn't turn off the automatic sleep function Basically, some people like to leave their switch on and just sitting on the home screen Don't do that because it'll burn in. Um, so like, you know, they have automatic sleep functions to deal with that So anyways, um, yeah, that's a brief look at switch OLED At least from japan now here is where we got to take off the nintendo prime hat Which by the way, you can get at our merch store down in the description It's the stream labs merch store, by the way I know there's multiple stores, but that's the one where you can get that And we got to go ahead and put on our tinfoil hats because it's rumor time and these rumors are pretty insane So first off, let's get to the prime trilogy potential rumor here coming from emily rogers And she put this out on twitter. She said reply to prime trilogy Last I heard nintendo was busy working on metroid prime one To celebrate the game's 20th anniversary in 2022 I'm not sure if we're getting a trilogy or just a rerelease of the first game I'm leaning toward the latter, but I hope we get the former So we've had it for a long time rumor that metroid prime trilogy hd has been done But maybe they scrapped the idea of doing an hd trilogy and are focusing on individual game releases And if they do that, it does raise my expectations for what this is In the past, I just thought take the current trilogy, throw it in hd with switch controls And call it a day But maybe they're going to put more work into it than that And it's going to get more of a remastering treatment Think xenoverte chronicles definitive edition style treatment So metroid prime definitive edition Where the visuals actually are notably improved To a point that it does look almost fundamentally different than the original release That's something I would expect if they're just going to do an individual game Instead of giving us that trilogy remaster So again, that's what emily rogers is saying It is a rumor, no guarantee this is even talked about tomorrow, by the way She does know 2022 that gives us a whole year for them at this point If you talk about it But yeah, this is just a rumor from emily rogers But her rumors don't stop there Because she also goes into the nintendo switch online service Which we all know about the gameboy Gameboy slash gameboy color and n64 stuff But here's what she said Gameboy slash gameboy color and n64 And at least one other system She said coming to the nintendo switch online That said, I don't know if they'll get announced and released at the same time So you should temper your expectations She's not saying all these platforms are being announced tomorrow Or all of them are going to come out at the same time But they are coming and they are coming up quickly And she says nintendo switch online's library is finally reaching its potential I just wish it didn't take five years to add new systems And then it said nintendo switch online is basically getting a trio of systems That were all popular in the 90s So I keep thinking back Popular in the 90s Well that would exclude gameboy advance Because gameboy advance was in the 2000s That would also exclude gamecube Because gamecube was in the 2000s Now we already have snes that was also part of the 90s But we already have that The only other 90s platforms were n64 And then obviously gameboy color But she notes in a reply to somebody else That nintendo considers gameboy and gameboy color to be the same generation So that's not what she's referencing here She's referencing another system popular in the 90s And some of you might be thinking well if this is nintendo it's virtual boy But she says popular Virtual boy was never popular So I don't think it's that You start thinking about popular in the 90s You start thinking about some old rumors that have cropped up I start to start leaning towards the fact that Sega Genesis might be a platform added to the switch Now we know that Sega and nintendo are kind of like this I mean even games like bayonetta 3 Bayonetta is owned by Sega We talk about platinum Platinum doesn't own bayonetta Sega does So you got that You got sonic and mario at the olympic games Obviously we were getting all the sonic games Including the brand new one next year Starting to see that potentially That you might be willing to work with nintendo To release Sega Genesis on the switch Now that's speculation on my part Emily Rogers does not say it's that platform But she said three platforms popular in the 90s Well gameboy n64 that checks that that that that that works But virtual boy wasn't popular Nintendo didn't have another popular platform in the 90s Well besides SNES and we already have that So Genesis That's the only one I could think of That was actually popular in the 90s Now this obviously is still all tenfold rumors all that jazz I can't verify any of this stuff But that is what she is saying But the rumors don't stop there because well Dust golem has spoken up For those who don't know who dust golem is He is a very popular capcom leaker He has been leaking information from capcom For quite a long time Call him a capcom insider if you would like He leaked a whole bunch of stuff about The last resident evil village game Before it came out including its name Before it was ever announced He leaked a bunch of stuff about monster hunter rise And monster hunter stories too Long before those games were even unveiled He has been busy leaking stuff for a long time And one thing we got out of a data mine Hack situation was this resident evil outbreak Resident evil outrage It's kind of had two different names Game that was coming to nintendo switch Potentially exclusively with a massive budget And dust golem has been on top of covering it for a while But he's been quite silent on it until now Cause obviously we have a direct And so he's being pressed on Hey is this where we finally hear about this game And here is what he said in a very long twitter thread So buckle up He said so people keep asking me if resident evil outrage Or whatever it ends up being called Note it's been called outbreak outrage Lots of different naming conventions Potentially here Will be at tomorrows nintendo direct The honest answer is I don't know So again You know we got the tin foil hat on But remember He's not saying that we are getting this game at the direct None of this stuff is going to be happening at the direct This is just new rumors That might happen at the direct But also might not So he goes But I have some things I want to talk about Speculate and give my reasoning on So if interested in that read on So I talked about this before This particular resident evil game has been an odd one for me In items in terms of hearing about it I've heard minor things on the game over the longest period Since late 2017 I've known about the project for over four years now But I've only ever gotten minor updates on it One thing I am mighty positive of Is this isn't a capcom division one lead project But neither was you know revelations one and two Which both were nintendo ones That ended up getting ported later to other platforms And those were both the lead devs Or to se So it doesn't really mean too much Now I have had it confirmed from a source Several months ago That I consider 100% reliable They've never been wrong But usually only give me breadcrumbs Then whole details Several months ago That resident evil switch is a thing in development And capcom had an RE game They wanted to announce for the 25th anniversary window That they had it yet But at the time The exact announcement window Wasn't decided or concrete yet I noticed capcom kind of crammed their switch releases All in summer Close together Like they had something big to announce And currently they have had almost nothing announced Which is unusual for them Or which is I also noticed This time frame is similar to the monster hunter rise stuff That was announced at a nintendo direct A week ahead of tokyo game show And again this directs happening A week ahead of tokyo game show It then released the march after Just similarly to be noted I'd love for it to be here tomorrow AKA today And I think it has a solid chance of showing up But to see This has been the resident evil game pre announcement I've known the least reliably I think he meant reliably about I'm very curious about it And anticipating seeing what does It doesn't pan out Part of the fun of these things So basically He has heard from an extremely reliable source That yes there is in fact a resident evil game Being worked on by somebody for switch And yes it is going to be something that's semi You know exclusive in some way Or you know timed exclusive Or something right But the point here is That there is something resident evil coming I gotta take this off for some reason Give me a little itchy head here Come on tinfoil hat I'm gonna go back to this one Here's the thing I want resident evil outrage Outbreak whatever it is Ends up being called To come to nintendo switch I would love to see it announced now And it does make sense If you look at how they handle monster rise And stories too Now would be about the time to announce it If it's going to be a big march game For nintendo switch And we've talked in the past So maybe that march game will tune three or this But maybe it ends up being this So we'll have to wait and see I'm very curious because it's been rumored To be a massive budget game With at least the budget of resident evil eight Even if it's not made by the main resident evil team So again There's just a lot of things Remember it's supposed to be like revelations three But then they didn't want to use the revelations branding Because you know that Brandy did sell super well from them They want this to be its own But still use some of the same characters And so I don't know There's a lot of stuff going out there about this game But those are the big rumors today Before the direct I wanted to get this video out before the direct Just in case this stuff is in the direct But even if none of these rumors are It doesn't mean they're not true So as always hypersponsibly I know it's tough It's the day of the nintendo direct It's very hard to I'm having a hard time hyping responsibly I don't know how you guys are doing But I think it's time that I don't know Maybe by the nintendo direct today We'll launch our new merch line of hypersponsibly Because I think we all might need it Whether or not we're excited or disappointed By the upcoming nintendo direct Now we will have our pre-show And our post-show as well for a little bit So thank you guys so much for tuning in I am nintendo ruffle jance from nintendo prime It has been a pleasure to make this video for you this morning Hypersponsibly And I'll see you in the next one


When the narcissist realises they're nothing. When they realise they're not as important or special as they thought. When they're confronted with the unpleasant consequences of their actions. Narcissists show a reckless lack of care and attention. They are heedless of danger and of the consequences of their actions. They are thoughtless and careless. They show a lack of care about risks and danger. They act without thinking about the result of their actions. It's their way of life. But there are certain consequences that come along with the way in which they choose to live. They may initially escape their punishment. They may go unnoticed and endell with. But over time it will begin to catch up with them. They will be confronted with the consequences of how they choose to live. You may have been good to them. You may have showed a lack of desire for revenge. But not everyone is like that. Some people aren't going to put up with it. Some people are going to want revenge. Some people are going to see an opportunity. Sometimes the narcissist will run into another narcissist. But it will be someone who has more knowledge and skill than the narcissist you were with. And they will get them involved in a difficult and confusing situation. They will get them so involved in an activity that they do not notice other things. Because the narcissist was always looking for the next shiny new toy. The next bigger better deal. They were always looking for a way to obtain high rates of return. For a small investment. That's what they're drawn to. So they believe they're going to get something out of it. They believe that it's going to pay off. Because they don't realise that they're being played. This new person is telling them all sorts of lies and stories to keep them engaged. They have set up a scheme to manipulate people with this type of mentality. So the narcissist attaches themselves to this new person. But this new person is just doing it for excitement and fun. They just want to see if they can succeed. So the narcissist commits themselves to this new person. But after some time they begin to realise that this new situation isn't benefiting them. And they never expected that to happen. So they may have already married this new person. They may have had children together. They may have bought a house together. But this new person will pretend to cooperate. Because narcissists don't care about how things turn out. They don't care about the consequences. They're not planning on being there long term anyway. But the narcissist invested all of their time, energy and money into this new situation. Because they thought they were going to get something out of it. They didn't know that the other person was also a narcissist who was deceiving them. So everything falls apart. The narcissist is left with nothing. The new person moves on to another victim. And now they're left without any understanding of what just happened. When you lose the narcissist to another person. That person is often a narcissist as well. They just knew how to persuade the narcissist that you were with to support them. They knew how to impress the narcissist. They knew how to seek their favour and affection. Female narcissists will use their physical appearance. They will take pictures and reveal in outfits. They will use seductive poses. While male narcissists will use money, power and status. Because it draws certain types of people in. Narcissists feel like they can benefit from that. They feel like they can get something out of it. They're very gullible and over trusting. They're easily persuaded to believe something.  They will go above and beyond for this new person. To such an excessive and exaggerated degree. They will give them compliments. They will express their approval and admiration for all of them. They will go to the point of complete insanity. They will do things that most people wouldn't do. Because they want something. And in that moment they have no consciousness of their own dignity. They have no shame. There's no boundaries or limits. And that's how they stay ahead of the competition. That's how they gain the advantage over other people. Because they're willing to do things that most people wouldn't do. They don't realise that they're dealing with another narcissist. But that's how it works so well. They both know what the other person wants. Because they're both narcissists. So they're selling dreams to each other. They're selling fantasies. And they're both just eating it up. The male narcissist will compliment her. He will text her good morning beautiful every day. He will make her feel special. Which is exactly what she's looking for after things didn't go well with you. They know how to lure and entice away people. Who are in these types of situations. They know how to trap them. So the narcissist will trick and confuse you. Into thinking that they've got to be somewhere or do something. And then they will just disappear. You won't hear from them. Because they're involved with this new person. And when two narcissists are pursuing each other. It works very well in the beginning. Because they're both playing a role. They're both putting on an act. They're both running game. So they know exactly what the other person wants. They know exactly what to say. They know exactly what to do. But it's all nonsense. It's all fake. The narcissist was always looking for the bigger better deal. They were always looking for the next shiny new toy. They were always on social media. Comparing their situation to other people's situation. They were always looking at other people's lives. Until they saw something they liked. Until they saw something they wanted. And that is when they began to devalue you. They began to put you down. And make you feel like you're not good enough.  They began to invest their energy and emotions into something else. They started pushing you away. They started arguments for no reason. They wanted an excuse for them to leave. Because something else had their attention. They found something which they thought was a better deal than you are. Without realizing that they were being tricked and deceived. They're both not who they're saying they are. They both have other people that they're entertaining. They're both trying to take advantage of each other. But they're both trying to force each other into doing what they want. Which is where the argument starts. Because they both desire power and control. And someone has to submit. Someone has to take a seat. But neither of them are willing to do that.  Because as they're trying to develop something. They realize that they're not gaining an advantage. They realize that they were sold a dream. They were lied to. Because they're not doing what they said they were going to do. And many of them don't even have the means. They don't have the financial resources. They don't have the ability to accomplish what they set out to do. So they begin to realize that they've been tricked. They begin to realize that the dealer was someone who is just like them. Someone who is only looking out for themselves. And now it's too late. Because they lost so much in the process of trying to acquire this new person. They thought they were going to gain an advantage over you. They thought they were going to do better. So they treated you in an extremely unfair way.  But then it all fell apart. It didn't work out. The new person was a narcissist too. They both deceived each other. That's all it was. It was fake. But they treated you like garbage. Because they thought they had won the jackpot. They thought they would never need to deal with you again. Which got them in a lot of trouble. Because they didn't consider the consequences of their actions. They didn't consider what might happen in the future.  Because they thought they had found a perfect situation with that was going to solve all of their problems. But it didn't turn out that way. They ended up being misled. And then it's like they just disappeared off of the face of the game. Especially if you know about what happened to them. They can't even come back to look you in the eye no more. They're too embarrassed. Because after everything they said to you. About all of these big things they're going to be doing without you.  And they said that they were going to be travelling the world. They were going to be moving to Dubai. And living the life of their dreams. But then they discovered that this new person wasn't about anything anyway. They were just running game. They're working in Tesco. So now they can't come back. They can't even look you in the face. Because they're embarrassed.   And now they're working all day. They're running themselves into the grounds. And then they come home. And they're sitting in their studio apartment surrounded by cockroaches. Eating ramen noodles every night. That's embarrassing. So they will ghost you. They will stay hidden. Because they don't want you to know about it. And sometimes you won't know. Because they're very good at creating an illusion. They know how to coordinate the elements of a situation to produce a desired effect. So you may be thinking that they've moved on and they're happy without you. And they will take pictures to make you think they're doing well. But if you were a flyer on the wall. You would be laughing at them. You would be laughing. Because what they're doing now is nothing to brag and boast about. But they thought they had hit the jackpot. They thought this new person was powerful and important. Because that's how they portrayed themselves to be. Until they realized that it was all a lie. And when that happens. They will disappear. Because they don't want to give you the satisfaction. They don't want you to laugh at them. After they told you they don't need you anymore. They made you believe that they were victorious over everything. That they were too strong to be defeated. So they don't want you to know that they've been tricked. But this is when they realize they're nothing. They showing modest and low estimate of their importance. So it's not easy for them to find a suitable replacement. But this is what's going on when they start posting pictures of the new person. When they disappear from social media. Because they don't want you to know about it. After they made you feel like you're nothing. And they were never grateful for what you did for them. But when the situation is reversed. And you gain an advantage over them. They can't deal with it. They won't even contact you. They won't even try to return. Because they're so embarrassed. Especially if you know about it.  So they don't want to hear that.  They don't like losing. They know about it. And you're making fun of them. They don't want that. They're not going to put themselves in a position. Where they will be humiliated. Thank you for watching. I hope this video wears in it with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate. My PayPal link is in the video description. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Who know like better pain like who know like that thing? Not me. Definitely not me What's the best thing you think about in your life so far? My my family That's the best thing I think I've had. Yeah, definitely the best thing I've had My family My sanity Because it's a cold war than it had My sanity It's the best thing I've had in my life so far. It's not even about the money, but The fact that I am still able to differentiate between right and wrong Get my sanity right try to fix my life know that I have goals Inspirations things like that if you know we're working out but I have you know a Yeah, so it is my sanity for me because man Like I've had my sanity for two days Like Do you know what it means I'm getting to work in 15 minutes a journey that takes me 15 minutes How many hours you spend in normal day And then you spent on the and are that is your journey to work every day is like 30 45 50 minutes without traffic It is the it's your son Is that where you see What's your local government? You look at me No, you have to be And I feel like I still You can imagine the struggle to get here on time Try my guy 45 minutes without traffic Yeah, oh my gosh Give from from my junction is like take something means from my junction so from y'all see your joint I love what something is like 15 minutes. You are see your junction six minutes Wow Oh my god, I know my sister But yes, we still want to move further down, please we want to come close out Many five minutes to work Five minutes. I want to just strike. I don't need I don't want cars no more I don't have a living on the street here. Yeah, that's true But you go and make food Yeah Anyway, let's move on to the first story of the day and this one is on Ghanian Norwood actress and Which is Juliette Brian has revealed that a boyfriend locked her up and raped her for days She narrated that while he was raping her the boyfriend was smiling and when she told him it was rape He said they were in a relationship. She said when I told him it was rape He said but when the relationship I didn't say yes, I was in the mood It pinned me down and was doing whatever he wanted. He was smiling. I told him he is a rapist I fought my way out of that relationship because he even locked me in his house for days It was my sister Sonia and I came to find me. I was scared I panicked because it was huge and taller than me. It raped me for days. I Mean one time now I'm talking about for days But you know in Nigerian law, you know, now I know this is what I'm talking about a relationship Oh, I feel it is telling of the fact that you know, there is nothing like marital rape in our laws So I mean there is there is there is no law like it's not an offense there You cannot assume I actually had to go and read up about it earlier today like there is you can rape your wife Except she's not up to puberty You can't if she's up to puberty, it's not considered as rape. So I feel it's telling of that fact Yeah, I know this very fact like it's time of that fact that he said Yeah, yeah, yeah, like I actually did read so it's time not for that Yeah, people say I'm your wife now or you're my wife now. So how can I rape my wife? I mean we when we got to the order we got married and everything So how will it be good at I raped you so I feel it is coming up that fact that he just said that and If in like for a certain this is just like the mindset of everybody I feel it is high time that A law is put into place concerning this because most people just go of the fact I mean we're talking about we we saw this story where a lady said she arrested her husband because He I think he's slapped out something and when she got there What were people what were people saying are fellow Nigerians already saying that it's your husband So why are you arresting him for something like that and everything? I'm like is it that we give leeway to some of these things to happen and for some of these remain to go through this And going to report then seems like a big deal because I mean who's going to take it serious Like who's going to take it serious who's going to believe and everything so in the law it says okay except you are Not up to puberty. That is when it is considered rape. You've confirmed it, right? So except no, no, but the Penal Code the Penal Code is also standing recognizes that the criminal law doesn't but the Penal Code does So if I go to a police station and I told him my husband According to the Penal Code. Yes, you can be he can be prosecuted. He can yeah, but hold him to the pen now We are talking about as a law a standard law in Nigeria.  Why in beat you? About what she did Jonathan like who cares about what she did the woman came with black eye So long first and then the first thing you're asking now. What do you say? What did you do? It's just like how they ask great victims. What were you wearing? Where were you wearing? Why were you doing like such questions? Yeah So for me, right for me in as much as you know, I'm on Juliet side Of course if she says she has been right. She has been great. My problem with Juliet is that I remember a book I read the book cover to cover a toast to life I was at the book launch at Oriental or something and all of that like I was there I covered this this same story was in that book. She came on tea time. She said the same story She's gone to several interviews. She said the same story and this guy is still walking free Do you know how many other women is probably doing it too? Like can you just call out this guy for crying out loud? You see where I'm going because if it's all set in stone If it's something that we take very very serious, he won't be walking free. Do you get? But we take it seriously I'm talking about law. Of course we take we the citizens We are always the one gonna in that seat But at least that we call the person out. Can he come out to defend himself? Can you see something? She has refused to say who it was. I know that, you know, rape victims do not and no pressure on any of them It is when you're bold enough You remember the Nigerian girl that went to where was the Kigali Where she was raped by she was almost raped by the security guard. Do you remember that story? The last story You know, she was almost raped and everything. This girl was in therapy for a year She wasn't able to speak. She was still traumatized from the event But she just spoke up this year and was you taking us seriously? Jonathan like things are being done. People have been fired. People have lost their job You just have to do your job today. You have to tell us if you have to come out No, but I feel like it is when she's comfortable Maybe she's not comfortable to speak up because I've been to the comment section I'm also of the opinion like come on. You've been telling us. Just tell us who this person and the fact that she says this person is Nigerian You didn't know that part, right? Yeah. She says this guy is Nigerian Jonathan, she's a Ghanaian woman Accusing a Nigerian man. A lot of people actually thought it was a last relationship Which was to icebergs lame But with this new description, he has been vindicated because icebergs lame is a shuddy Say what you like It's just sad that a lot of these things where we talk about them We talk on social media we clamor for justice and everything and at the end It's just swept to the side as if nothing happened and I feel like the same time. Yeah I'm glad she's actually speaking about it But I'd like you said it has to get to a point where she's very comfortable releasing The identity of the person and I feel at that point Justice has to be served because you can't really she's she's making claims She has not directly accused anybody so you can't just try to hang on and force that to say okay What's it this person? So we have to actually wait till she's comfortable. I can only imagine how Traumatizing going through something like that is imagine You don't see now.  Can they not take you seriously, but can you speak to truth?


I'm just going to ask you a question sorry if it sounds a bit cliche but it's just I'm aware of my American audience who will want to know what is the difference between the navy seals and say the SA and the SAS. Well there's a number there's a number of differences one would be so isn't it I'll describe what we are and then I'll describe what I think navy seals are to make that distinction but certainly for the SAS we traditionally recruit from REF army, navy, territorial and the law come in and then they're split into troops and that's it and we have our boat troops if boat troops one quarter of our squadrons that do that and they'll do traditional navy seal type operations generally. What happens normally for the SPS the special boat service is that they are primarily recruited from Marines and that Marines will then join the SPS and the SPS will then do their boat course whichever boat troop guys go and do with them. Now that SPS boat course and sort of parts of the marine course will be similar to what the navy seals go through when they do their training and the navy seals in my understanding is that SEAL Team 6 are the sort of main counter-terrorist unit within the navy seals they'll go through quite a rigorous sort of marine based selection process which will have different modules attached to it but then navy seals and this is where some people get mixed up navy seals are probably because particularly SEAL Team 6 are predominantly the main sort of door kickers counter-terrorism unit within the US people think it's DILA Force. DILA Force are completely separate and DILA Force were modeled on the SES so there was a major I'm trying to remember his name he came across and he saw selection he saw how the SES were sort of structured and what they were meant for and he went back and he designed almost a sort of replica in terms of a six month selection process what they were looking for and that made DILA Force who are traditionally from all sorts Green Berets Rangers and all that sort of stuff and they have a counter-terrorism element to them as well but they operate slightly differently in how they go about doing their business and the only reason I say that is because I was fortunate enough to do an exchange with both of them so when we went out to the Middle East I ended up in a team with SEAL Team 6 and one of the DILA Force teams as well so yeah they're slightly different in how they are people get mixed up between the SES and the SPS and the SPS are probably closer to SEAL Team 6 and the SES are a sort of hybrid of SEAL Team 6 and DILA Force you know just like their Rangers are like our parrots but to put it in perspective the US Marines have more soldiers than our army more ships than our Navy and more aircraft than our RAF and that's just their Marines so they're a big unit the US so when the US talk about special forces you know they've they've got over a hundred thousand special forces you know we have maybe 500 you know and of course another thing to remember is the SES of our army and the SPS and the Navy SEALs are a Navy just I just thought I'd clear that up for people who didn't know yeah and with the special air service although you know people might think that's RAF or it might be Navy but we also have there's quite a lot of Marines in the SES so we have a lot of X Navy just like we have a lot of RAF there might be guys from Rafferage and stuff in there and so the SES are a sort of hybrid of all the units within the British military really which is one of our strengths you know we wouldn't want to have all paras all Marines you know all Navy we would we like the fact that we've got people from all different backgrounds and stuff hello friend I'm Chris Fraule I'm a former Royal Marines commando and I'm the only person I know that's ticked every item of my bucket list now if you'd like to achieve all your goals hit the subscribe button and I'll show you and smash it out the park


Thank you so much. I think the team had exchanged for media for having me here and apologies. I know this is a session just before lunch I'll try and make it as interesting as possible. I believe it kind of ran a little late So it was a very kind introduction. Yes I have been at Mastercard for five years now and I will predominantly talk about how The financial services industry and the payments industry Is embracing, you know, mobile technology to reach out to consumers digitally savvy consumers But a lot of what I'm going to talk about Also is true across industries because at the end of the day people are people consumers are consumers Now for many of you who follow advertising and marketing Mastercard stag line actually since 1997 and it's kind of coincidental. This is the 25th year of priceless But the the consumer insight behind it is there are some things that money can't buy and The best things in life are often things that money can't buy and it's interesting for a payments brand to go and say this Because if you talk pure business Mastercard all the networks all the banks make money when we use our credit or debit cards Right, we have something called the interchange fee and that's where we make the money So to actually go out and say the best things in life are actually things that you cannot buy Is very counterintuitive. It was actually in the US of the late 90s It was a very counter-cultural nuance, but the fact that it stood for 25 years says something But the fact is if you look at it and if you look at all of ourselves as people for those of us who are parents like I'm a mom Some of the experiences that you have in life simply cannot be bought with money My youngest son is five years old and when he greets me when I get home from work saying mama I made this painting just for you no amount of money in the world can can buy that and all of us have experienced things as children as siblings as friends and There are some incredible moments Now you may wonder why I'm talking about all of this The fact is in the last two years. We've been through a Pandemic that I pray to God none of us experiences again in our lifetimes But what the pandemic has done is from a consumer perspective Brought mobile technology front center and square in our lives The fact is today Forget people like us. I mean, I am accused of living on my mobile phone, which is probably true But even think of our parents people who may not have used the internet earlier did not have a choice Right. We have young kids. My oldest son is 10 and he's pestering us to get him a mobile So what the pandemic has done is it has temporarily? Substituted real human connections with mobile-based connections and while as the pandemic recedes and the world gets back to a quote-unquote new normal It is true that we all want to and we must get back to physical interactions I mean, I'm very happy this event is happening physically and not virtually not having us glued to our computer screens, but What the mobile technology does fundamentally and that's the first point I want to make is it enables Experiences to be more vibrant and it removes geographical boundaries from experiences and let me give you a quick example Mastercard is sponsoring the BCCI cricket matches And it's been a phenomenal experience to get out there watch the match live now Obviously every stadium has certain limitations of capacity and I'm just taking sporting events as an example And not everybody can be at the stadium when a match occurs But what 5g immersive technology allows you to do is to experience it as close as possible To what actually happens again? Is this a substitute for actually being there probably not but as a market here when you're looking at scale When you're looking at reaching consumers beyond what your on-ground activation can reach This really helps you get there And I think with 5g technology with the seamlessness with the convenience of it. It has certainly helped us Both as people so if I am interested in ballet for example I can sit here and watch a ballet performance in the US far far more seamlessly and with far better quality than I could earlier And and as a market here It helps you disperse your message to a much wider set of the audience The second big area and again something that we are focused on Is when people buy high-value items so for example if you're decorating your house It's something that's high involvement. You want to discuss it. You want to get opinions again 5g technology has helped us Reach out to and bring the experience life. So if I'm sitting here in Mumbai I have say a designer who's in Hyderabad for argument's sake This enables the process of engaging with the product and therefore the purchase journey Far more seamless than it would be if you just had to either exchange messages or exchange pictures There is something about the audio visual medium that you can now Personalize and bring to each person's house and that's I think been the second area where a lot of brands across Not just restricted to payments, but across the spectrum have kind of engaged engaged in this couple of areas very specifically where We are where the payments industry has sort of been forced to innovate as they say necessity is the mother of invention In the start of the pandemic we found that obviously credit card issuance and overall in India as affluence levels go up Credit card issuance is skyrocketing nowhere near where it is in developed countries, but it's growing month on month Unfortunately come the pandemic there was like a boom just stop across the industry and that was because traditionally When you get a credit card you fill up a form you have an agent they look at your documents and then they give you a card With the uncertainty that the world faced around COVID and think back to April May 2020 We had no idea when a vaccine was coming. What would happen people were forced to get into ekyc or online Know your customer and while it started with Necessity because you have to I mean a bank cannot issue a credit card without seeing people's documents They realize that this is efficient. This is cost effective You don't need to send people out to tier three four five towns. You can do it online and guess what? It's not like delinquency suddenly went through the roof So sometimes I think and I think this is a realization across that we haven't sure it's wise to be prudent Nobody is saying, you know So caution to the winds and issue cards to whoever you want, but we realize that this helps all of us Accelerate and ride the wave And ride the wave of credit card issuance in this country and that obviously means more spends It gives people a chance to you know get an unsecured loan and all of it The second area again from a pandemic perspective is the other side of payments Which is the place where you spend which is the merchant now again? All of you have seen those traditional point of sale machines same situation as credit cards You needed extensive documentation. You needed a person to visit make sure there's the shop there not there etc Again come the pandemic no one's willing to step out shutters are down so on and so forth So again go get down to eco KYC We've got a bunch of fintechs working in that space and again It accelerates the process of getting more and more shops to embrace digital payments makes it seem a Makes it smoother senior and faster for the industry overall So these have been I think a couple of areas where This industry and the pandemic horrendous though It's been has kind of forced innovation which even after you know the pandemic has receded and life has kind of become normal our places where You know we see a digital first consumers kind of being out there I'll now quickly switch on to a second part of the digital first consumer experience Especially the age of millennials and the generations that follow Now as I said, this is an age of consumers who've grown up on the on the mobile phone I mean they cannot imagine a time where mobile phones did not exist I mean I have seen this with with some of the kids of today You see the old landline phone and then they'll be like oh my god. What is this like is this a piece from a museum kind of stuff That generation loves to voice their opinions. Okay, and they rightly and and and it's it's a joy You know as someone who's older than that age bracket It's a joy to see their views and especially on topics of tremendous interest like for example travel With the resurgence of travel. Thankfully, you see a lot of what we call user generated content out there for a brand Which is into enabling priceless moments It's a great way to partner with some people and get that kind of real time on the go content That would not have been possible had mobile networks been kind of you know patchy and glitchy Likewise, you see some great and honest consumer reviews, right? The the advantage of technology is as it becomes better and more fail safe The better the better it is for people to honestly share what's going on If you would pardon my French the ability to bullshit goes down a bit if you know the if if the networks are clean and clear And people are allowed to Sort of voice and display what they actually see So I think those have been some of the real Benefits some of the ways in which brands Mastercard and several others Have kind of tapped on to the new era of of 5g and payments and so on The last bit and I noticed I have six minutes left But I kind of try and stop a little a little earlier and happy to take questions So Mastercard's ethos as I mentioned at the beginning of my of my talk is about enabling priceless moments I mean the joy as I said for me as a mother when my son comes and gives me that Rather not so well-drawn Picture which he says mama's just for you or indeed You know the first ad we ran in India is about a son who takes his parents on an overseas Overseas trip and the sheer joy on you know His parents face when they kind of see and it was Singapore so it was not like it's the most exotic destination in the world But just a sheer joy of enabling that is what Mastercard is all about and let's face it payments are ubiquitous Sadly, we do spend a fair number of times each day and nobody likes to Think about the actual process of spending if you think about it Nobody gets up in the morning and says hey great. Where can I use my credit card today? But what they do think of is where they are going to spend and what does that spending do for them? So for example if I'm planning a vacation for the December holidays I'm debating with a few friends with my husband and then I say yeah, I want to book XYZ place It's the process of what your what you get out of paying that really gives people Joy if they are following their passions So again, if you are a soccer fan and you want to watch the UEFA Champions League Can Mastercard enable you to get there and live your dreams When people make payments, let's face it every one of us wants it to be unobstusive Effective quick seamless and absolutely safe the last thing you want to hear is oh my card has been declined or even worse to say There's been a fraudulent transaction. Please contact your bank. Please block your card, etc, etc So that's a very fine line that we have to walk There is a lot of joy in spending on the things that you want Which is really to live your passions with the people whom you want to spend it with whether it's your family or your Friends or whoever but at the same time the process of payment has to be absolutely Unobstusive you don't want it to take more than 30 seconds and you want it to be absolutely safe And the advantage again of 5g technology and as mobile technology improves it enables Seamless payments in every part of the country. We've all been in situations You're in a holiday in the Himalayas and oops OTP. Yeah, yeah Hopefully as 5g technology improves and spreads across the length and breadth of the country that will hopefully be history And that will mean more and more people Embrace digital payments and continue to to partake in it because the honest truth is especially for the first time user And I'll again talk of the previous generation my mom in Chennai For example who had to use digital payments for the first time one bad experience and they're gone for good So it's imperative that you know as technology improves and that to me is the greatest enabler of mobile technology for digital Payments which is to really make it accessible to everybody in tier six seven eight and you know even in rural India So that's what I had to share happy to take any questions Thank you Oh Hello, yeah, great ma'am the fight is faster than 4g great how about a call drop and Cybercrime even for 4g. There's a hard to stop the cybercrime Because everything is linked Adarkad is laying that is laying saw link. I'm really I don't know what are the majors taken by the government technology has limitations. I Know about the technology. So what are your views on these two things? Especially the card when I give my CVP number and all like their kids this cybercrime is only faster My wallet is going to get faster empty So absolutely appreciate your concerns and see cybercrime or any other crime for that matter is a reality And I'll be honest and say as much as there are great brains working to keep digital payments safer They're also equally intelligent people working on the next way of next way of you know Siphoning off yours and mine and everybody else's wallet having said which I would just say a couple of points I think the government and the RBI and all the The players in the payment space be it banks be it fintechs or networks like Mastercard are working very closely to make Payments as safe as possible and a recent example is the RBI's directive on tokenization Which is nothing but storing your card one time at a merchant Let's say Flipkart and your 16 digit card number is then masked. So even if somebody hacks into it Let's say despite all the safeguards that you have in place some criminal managers to get there They will have a set of numbers which have no meaning and it's encrypted at the back end is anything foolproof Sadly, no, but I think there is a lot of push on the government and To and the RBI and especially the current ruling regime to really make the safer because that's the only way digital payments Are going to grow the second point I would say is Mastercard and a lot of players are working on the latest technologies using artificial intelligence using machine learning and So on to make to try and stop breaches before they happen because from a consumer experience perspective Yeah, once your card is and I had a fraudulent transaction myself a couple of weeks ago had to block my card had to reissue it It's not as as fun as trying to block it before it happens. And I think that's the second one Sorry No cross questions No, so see that there is yeah And as you said sometimes the fact that an OTP doesn't come right if they are bandwidth issues it leads to It leads to criminals having a field day We have known of cases where somebody calls and says oh, I'm calling from so-and-so bank or I'm calling from the RBI Okay, please give me your you know Give me your card details and we'll make the payment But that brings me sort of my most important point Technology is their policies their regulation is there everyone's working towards it But finally you need consumer education because no amount of technology can save anyone if people fall for this Oh, I'm calling from the RBI. Please give me your details That's it matter over because you are then literally opening you're handing them your locker and saying please take it So that is again something and as a marketing function lead that is a large part of my work to educate people Just one final question from the lady out here quick. Can we just get the mic past? Yeah, just allow us a moment If you could just have your introduction to Mansi and then we can quickly do it. Yeah, my name is Charlie I am from Lakshya Media Group. I just wanted to ask you that Pandemic has also changed the way people spend right We have UPI Google pay which are digital different formats which has come up. So how has that? You know affected Mastercard because I'm sure there has an effect. So, you know, so how it has that I just want to know that of course it has and again as I said We have a government which is very very committed to driving digital payments and moving India a little bit away from cash I don't think it'll ever be completely away because cash is very cultural to us as a nation But yes, UPI has been a great Sort of form factor of digital payments, but remember one thing and I'll share this fact with everyone in this room Despite all of the growth of digital payments 85% of transactions in India today are still done in cash So there is monumental headroom for this industry to grow and I think the more people educate the more people realize Make make the more players make people realize the benefits of digital payments I think it's only good for all of us and that's really kind of the common Sort of goal that that we all have Yes, spending has grown digital payments overall grew monumentally in the pandemic as I said You didn't have an option because physical stores were not there. You had to sit at home and order I can still remember my mother cursing saying why is you know, why am I having to do this? But it is what it is and yes So I think there's enough room and more for UPI for cards for all the fintechs all the modes of payment to all coexist Thank you


How many of you use closure or know what closure is? How many of you are testers? Cool. So what is the problem? So testing real-world, stateful business logic is really hard. There are a lot of cases to worry about. There are a lot of combinations. So for example, here is the microwave oven state machine diagram. And as you can see, there is a lot of transitions that can happen. And it has inherent state built into it, which needs to be tested. Even if you have a functional programming language or any of that sort, you still need to test against a certain state. And it becomes difficult to eliminate all possible combinations. How many times should you set the timer back? You may not encounter a bug if you set the timer once. But third time, it might be a bug. And if you try to eliminate all possible combinations, the test becomes very unreadable and they become really hard to use. And what this test is really about. So what I am proposing is that using DSL is a way of writing tests which can solve this problem. So what is a DSL? A DSL is a domain specific language which is like a programming language designed specifically to address solutions to problems in a specific domain. So this is not a general purpose language. It's targeted towards the domain. So let's take a real example of that. So at HelpShift, we are making embeddable support desks for native apps. So as a developer, you can take our SDK, put it inside. Each domain can have several apps. Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Ghana has a Ghana app. Each app can have several sections. Each section can have several FAQs. And each FAQ can have several translations in several languages. So here is a Ghana.com FAQ page. How many of you know Ghana.com? Yeah, cool. So that's the domain. This is the app. That's the FAQ section. And within that section, these are the available FAQs, which can be searched by the customers. And here's how you can create an FAQ on our dashboard. Here's you can add a title, a body, and some metadata, like whether the FAQ is available or not. And there are two published meta. So one is that globally, whether this FAQ is available, and each translation can separately be turned on and off. I need to talk about that because it's important later. So there is a problem in our system, which we were trying to solve, is that currently we could not have one FAQ common across several apps. If you have, say, a privacy policy.