Hey, what's good y'all should boy down for the down show of friends and we back for the decay pop reaction and guess who's back Don't love me in with him cuz he hasn't Here in a minute the feeling is mutual I came back to me I thought I was gonna do just him but since you have to be here because we need all different perspectives To give everybody, you know The full essence of what they're about to receive I'm talking right now. They haven't seen me in a while That's all I'm saying. I miss you guys so So so what we're gonna do since these are going to keep our back Is we're gonna do that part two that I promise are so they haven't seen BTBT They have no clue They have no clue at all and I told them that they are dangerous They think it's a group.  How they bought the response I promise that okay. I bet a dollar and some skittles and so we got BTB So we bought the reactor that now so make sure you hit the like button, you know Sam share subscribe ring that bell you already know y'all This shot Wait a second So yo, man to me Head and shoulder isolations have been corny since like 2012 Everybody wanted to do T-Pain That shit's been corny ever since then all he is Step up 3d.  No shades of stuff in 3d, but I was a long music video and I love mad change one of my favorite dancers, but like Just mad corny at that time, but they just made that shit look so dope And I ain't a lot like just out the thing that I love about a look you want to start it over because we Know the one thing I love about like Performances You know the one thing I dig about Is how I was grabbing the mouse But the one thing I love about performances is how someone like cash We watch them to a performance and the way he did that like and just in the hits They casually did those hits honestly Start right now whole first in our whole first Oh It's kind of like a ripple. Yeah, it was a little bit of a ripple nasty. All right, the base kick was lovely That's Africa dancing Like that transition that they did with the one Oh Nasty First of all the transition on the walking right? Yeah, they're doing so casually so casually And it's not it's not easy. You have to be on the same pace as their steps. So you get to your spot I'm at the right time Oh I'm sorry, I got one of that back that Picture shot. Let me yeah, let me tell y'all how important picture shots and choreography. This is for y'all, okay? Y'all want them to see this? I'm I got Already stressed out a little bit. Yeah, like Picture shots and choreography are so beautiful in that picture shot They did and let me go back just far enough cuz like I need y'all to catch that. All right That right there that is 49 seconds in guys really would like really courted this whole thing It's like watching replays in football. Yep. It's got my wheels turning I'm sorry shout out to the we never Yo, I appreciate the editors Yeah, man, y'all got dog dancing back here Unless you know what you're doing a great job. You're doing a great job. He can even help himself. Yeah They're at it again. I want to you With that like that trend like I love how editors do transitions and it works so well to choreography like that's That in itself is not easy. It's almost like a Bali world transition. I know how they switch scenes really quickly. Yes, I can get with you. I see that Maybe a reach round thinking about it Oh They're on the music so well, they're hits are so clean I'm big my dude the beanie Second go back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah those isolations Everybody's on the same beat but everybody's not moving in the same direction not so they're still in sync But they're not really in sync. So it gives it. I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it gives them a different texture I have the choreography. We haven't seen this with the other group I don't even know the group. Yeah, I haven't I haven't seen anybody sink. No, everybody's just dancing, right? Why don't you hold this this jewel from us? I Know I've been off a while out of all the videos we've done for you, right? How dare you are not tell us about him Until Dom's album And it was because of the subscribers like like I seen I seen the comment and I was just like how dare y'all tell Donna that to us And I didn't know I didn't know if he was a solo or a group. I really did and they gave me the whole rundown. So that's why That's why I really kind of get y'all to answer if he was a group. Yeah, so, thank you Bob. I'm still mad at you I'm a lot of food but thought like Do a courier like this I would wear a whole beating bro, and I'm just Like Joker from Like a ripple it's a it's a ticket. Yeah It kind of went to a circle. It's like a tick ripple This is changing levels. This is different. This is different from the other videos This is a net and this is next level choreography. This is some hybrid type stuff This is ultra instinct. I just you know like To see how they did You have to do you have two sets of people I feel like watching this whole thing haven't even got a minute into this by the way, it's 58 seconds There's every there's two groups of people that are there on two different Motions, but then everybody together is on one chord That makes any sense because you have people hitting one tick the other people the other tick and then everybody comes together on that last On the base is what they do. It's still adding texture with right. So it's like Doom so everybody moves differently and everybody was at the same time. Nothing gets lost Masterfully done You know We digress whatever that means Okay, I'm sorry. This one the video goes up This is scary. So y'all I was really scared. I gotta run I gotta run it back for y'all to see because I need y'all I need y'all to appreciate Wow how they milk movements because that changed the whole energy of this whole Full of the kid from home alone right now Like let me let it okay, listen so the beginning of this choreography that runs until about a minute a minute three minute five Years they're doing a lot of hits. They're doing ticks. They're doing ripples So it's got you playing with speed too.  They add more people And so the name and then they change senior So then when they go and change clothes and they change clothes So they hit me with a lot like like like and then When and then when it goes up when they bring out the rest of the game It just is one of those videos where like They wanted you to watch more than once. Yeah That's why we doing a part two and how to have y'all in here because it was It's a lot it's a lot of visuals.  Yep We digress whatever that means So pay attention to the switcher Yeah A lot more sharper. Yep a lot more energy Angles It's because the music is doing right Nasty The footwork is yeah incredible If there's anything, okay, I need y'all to watch it's like three to four. We gotta let it go at least 30 seconds It's the footwork. Like if we get stuck here For a long time For 95 minutes trying to dissect this video because this is Glad to make Part three and four. We're gonna have to chop this video up Is that like doing this Like this footwork is nasty This footwork is so clean, but so I still don't know if it's a group or not I don't know either. I think I'm just so focused on the dance. I'm like keep watching I ain't nobody singing. Let me say this the footwork is so clean, but at the same time it's so loose It's like being free. I guess the guy at the beginning is the lead Right, take a seat or he's by himself. Yeah, so I know that guy if I see that guy. I'm all right. Cool. He's Probably gonna sing eventually Sorry That's great. I love that. That's my favorite move so far. Yeah Loose One thing I also noticed about this choreography Sometimes especially with their footwork, they'll do something to one side And then repeat it on the other side But sometimes they'll just do it on one side and then do a whole another movement To add extra texture to it too. Yeah, so that's just Crazy To know when to do that is like really really hard like they put a lot of time and work into this choreography Yeah, that's not easy Okay, just in that format those are Rookie of the years it got on Cheese, but did y'all see that transition like that and they sit down? I'm sorry, man. I need to run that back again Everything's on the music. That's so like the music Oh my goodness, man Are you singing? Yo, I like how this song is going though. I like how the ladies is so set up, bro. This song is going Hey, and they got the female choreography The hills you seen them before Keep watching Yes You can repeat movements. All right. Don't sleep on that. I'm sorry that footwork again that little hop skips, but listen, man You Who said this before we keep on trying to educate y'all trying to listen Where you just got back? You coming out the next day see you in like nine years Wow I'm taking my two leaves before I come back Now, you know, I feel like that's feeling like They should take your notes in spirit, huh? I'm sorry, man. It's astro-projective. I just I just miss out so much But honestly like again to repeat movements and choreography saves so much time and energy like There's always that it's perfect for a chore. That's what everybody does honestly Like put passion into your work But there's nothing wrong with like working smart with it, especially if especially if it hits right Exactly if it's doping up, I wouldn't mind seeing it again Because that's what that's what always gets the crowd in tune because the crowd won't because it's like singing The crowd wants the crowd wants to do the movement get get them something Familiar so they can go along with you. It's like, oh, I know where you're going. Yeah, because that that It's looking loose. I'm like that that gets me. I'm like I want to hop into I just don't have enough elbow room because he's in the way Hey All right, here we go. That's my favorite move Yo, the way people walking into this Yeah, they not playing. They was not playing in this choreography. No They was working at let me Right there Let's let's make them one thing clear. So when it comes to this particular section of the choreography when you bring in um The female dancers that do, you know, the sensual movements that that you would also see in his classes and whatnot um When they do partner work with males, that's Not so easy to do because you have to be in the out to be in sync like For them to do that and then have other people walk in In the middle of that You don't understand Like man, that's that's heavy. That's heavy. Mm-hmm Hey that And I can tell like the ladies are kind of Look to this too. Yeah. Yeah. It was effortless. Yeah, they did it so well though. Yeah to me. They was effortless I thought Oh my gosh This is They doing some concrete Come on, man. Stop playing with them. Yeah, they was effortless. Climb next to the song. Yep Yeah, y'all about to feel all that for the three seconds. Sheesh. We gotta run that whole sequence back It's okay. I want to see this whole part Ooh I'm sorry. It wasn't running that whole run up. Yeah. Yeah. Before we all right So Throughout the whole song They've been very on beat and ticks in the bass line consistently, which is good because you need I'm not dying back here going crazy I'm trying to contain myself in this chair, man. Like Okay The part that gets my excitement is forcing me to take on the elbow room. Just my space. It's my bubble You know, I'm just excited. My elbow was like We didn't get in the chair with the whole song on which He's taking my arm. That's what I'm supposed to do. Did you lose your thought? No, I didn't. That's what I was saying Listen throughout the whole song, they've been hitting basses and they've been in the bass line and the tick That's pretty much the home because you do need something You do need something to anchor yourself so you don't lose You don't you don't go far away. You don't lose the dance But when they started going lyrical like The only part that I would say that I noticed so far I'm moving my back to like, I mean I have to watch the game But in the in the chorus of the choreography where I'm seeing him using the arm movement for loose That's the most time I see them use, you know, use lyrical movements But then like after that when they started just going just straight lyrical with their movements when it came to just pausing holding milking movements It's crazy They just like they're literally doing everything Every single thing They're at it again To me even when I watched it the first time this was gonna be a calm Yeah, because they were getting ready Yeah, and right here That's that was so crazy Yeah, and that was freestyle too. Mm-hmm. Some what they did when they finish off is freestyle See everybody that's free stuff This is crazy Wow And Nasty Beautiful shots like beautiful beautiful What kind of light is that in the back? Yeah I mean it was they shot this great. This was amazing Peace sleep with you smooth. So yes, he is a solo artist This was the scary Scary piece. That's why I wanted y'all to see because I seen this already. Yeah Yeah, y'all finish I finished at 19 y'all finish in like 22 minutes. Yes Yeah, this was this was ridiculous. It was frustrating to watch And I didn't watch the performance film I watched the dance practice And the dance practice was they they matched. I thought it was gonna go down. They matched the energy But that's a bunch of that's how you gotta do though. They matched the energy for the dance practice If you're practically if you're practicing it's like we're gonna shoot like this. Yeah. Yeah, I really I mean I had a conversation about this not too long ago. I'm like you What you do in practice that needs to show up on the stage So it comes off mediocre by any stretch of the imagination It's gonna come off in that business. So they kept that character in practice. It's just like I was playing football Yeah, like we come practice lackluster. You don't play lackluster Yeah, when you like when we play football like we're trying to come for each other's head We're trying to find out who's the weak one You know, we don't even we like yo, maybe we gotta catch up with everybody else Because you do this right now is gonna happen in the game. So he's by himself. He's by myself Yeah, I see that's the point. That's what that's what messed me up. I was like I want to just say that this is a very dangerous guy. It's a very dangerous Yeah, if he choreographed this Oh, don't worry. That's the road. You know the comments on the comments gonna tag y'all be like, uh By the way, y'all gotta sell a youtube channel. So they were at the tag y'all good. They could tag you on youtube If you have a channel I didn't even say that When they said they challenged up, please make sure y'all subscribe. Okay I'm gonna have a shout out their channels Make sure you subscribe and y'all can be an attack and y'all got comments because I know sometimes y'all talking on line And jane so I want them to see y'all comments Well, listen y'all, thank y'all so much. This was part two as I promised We got the bros back in the building. So you'll see more videos We're gonna probably do a lot of part twos like bts 17 that they missed So I want them to get a chance to give y'all their perspectives because I definitely enjoy it myself. So Oh, yeah With that being said we see y'all soon


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Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Everton News Daily. Everton have signed former Leicester City and Hull City goalkeeper Eldin Jankapovic. The 37-year-old has been out of contract since leaving the Foxers in the summer. Everton have had some more of a goalkeeping crisis at the club, England number one Jordan Pickford out currently with a thigh injury and third choice goalkeeper Andy Lonergan out with a knee injury. As it happens Everton are hoping that Pickford will be back after the international break but it has left them with just as me a beg of it and Billy Crelan who is obviously a young goalkeeper and Frank Lampard obviously hasn't wanted to take a chance that if one of those two get injured then we really are putting even less experienced people in the squad. More of an insurance policy I think this one, it will ensure that Pickford and Lonergan can both rehabilitate properly and be ready again for fitness so Jankapovic I imagine will take his place on the substitutes bench in Sunday's home game against West Ham United so there you go. He has come in on a short end deal. Everton have today announced that Carl Darlington will become Everton's new head of academy coaching. Darlington has spent 17 years with the Welsh FA. He was also at a stint as 13 coach at Wrexham and was also previously assistant manager at TNS. He has been involved with the Welsh FA for 17 years, very experienced, sorted out their coaching and put on obviously the UEFA Pro Licence and has seen some big names through that like Miquel Artheta, Terry Henry, Patrick Vieira have all come through the Welsh UEFA Pro Licence course that Darlington was involved in and also involved in the Welsh national team as well. Very well, really experienced, a good understanding of the role and further evidence that Kevin Thelwell is putting that structure in place behind the scenes at Everton. You know obviously we've seen new additions like Kevin Nicholson coming into it, Gareth Proser as well and now Darlington the latest in those changes so hopefully Everton just looking now for a head of recruitment. I think that's the last position needed and filling and then hopefully it will all gel together and we will get that structure in place that we've needed and it can drive the football club forward. So another addition to the Everton coaching staff. Everton have had two kickoff time chains for fixtures. The home game against Leicester City on November the 5th has moved from a three o'clock kickoff that will now be shown live on Sky. Remain on Bonfire night. Remain on November the 5th. It's now a 5.30 kickoff on the Saturday night and Everton's a way trip to Bournemouth in the Carabao Cup that will now take place on Tuesday, November the 8th and the kickoff time is 7.45 for those two games. Finally, Ajax forward Mohammed Cudas is still frustrated that he's moved to Everton in the summer transfer window fell through. This is according to reports in Holland. Cudas has been an excellent form for Ajax despite wanting to join Everton. He's scored five goals and had one assist in eight games so far this season in very good form. Reports in Holland state that he could still move to Everton during the January transfer window. He's frustrated that the move hasn't gone through and expects him to move in that January window to the Toffees. We'll have to wait and see how that plays out. There is I think the 12 games between now and when the transfer window opens. Obviously there's a whale cup break in there as well. So we'll have to see how Cudas does over that period of time because he's still continuing to play well and score. He is in Champions League action as well against Liverpool so we'll see how he does there. But obviously what we've seen of him so far this season he looks like he'd be very interested in addition to Frank Lampard's squad but if he keeps scoring goals like that I'm sure his price tag will go up as well. But interest in one that's coming out of Holland. That is it for the news. Make sure you check out the episode two of the 1878 FM podcast that's available right now. Give the video a thumbs up. Subscribe if you haven't and if you want more videos including daily live videos, join us on Premiere. The link is in the description and the QR code is on the screen. See you later.


Hey everyone Shaber1000 here today. We've got to pull this light out of here light assembly Because I don't know if you can see that Still water in it. So them droplets But don't get that water out of there. It'll start blowing fuses bomb bulbs out So we're gonna go ahead and take care of that real quick And then we're gonna move on to something else because this won't take too long. Hey guys, so To take these out. It's real simple There's two plugs. There's one up here And there's one right down here Now what I use to take them out you can use a little screwdriver, but I got my little Knife here. There's a little notch right there and right there Just pop them out just like that Now this one is different from the other side. The other side has Phillips And this hot this side has a hex head Now I do know this has had minor damage in a crash So I'm thinking that might be what it was the other side has been replaced I'm not sure what size it is It's 5 16ths and I think it's too big. So let's try try quarter-inch I had to put a bulb in this before Okay, let me find the right size Whoo, hot one. Let me find the right size and then I'll come back with you. Okay, that didn't take long There's the next one. I checked 9 30 seconds Yours may differ, but this is a 2010 Chevy Traverse So but either way you're gonna have something similar two screws There's that now I gotta back you out a little bit here Now this comes out This just slides out this way straight back Just like that It's got I'll show you here in just a second. I don't want to dump that upside down right there It's a little rubber Dot and this thing right here Right there. I'll show you and then this just clips on This right here just clips on Just a little metal clip pull that off this will turn eighth of a turn maybe Now pulls out That one same way Okay, so this little nipple here goes in That little rubber grommet there so As you can see here. We have got water Coming out of here And when I was working at the shop in Fertland Park The owner my boss He was my only boss But the owner his headlight was half filled up with water was still working, but he was like it was real damn It was half to three-quarter filled up with water. I Said well those seals around here is what happens these seals they leak inside these seals and My guess is this one's coming Right in through here. I would say right there Because these are two pieces same way as his headlight Had a Ford big old jacked up Ford He said just draining out it'll be fine.  I drilled in it drained it Oh, I'll see that's still not all out of there yet And it drained it all out for him and he said He said don't fill that hole up because it'll give the water something to drain out of which is true But it was low enough where the air wouldn't get to it to blow the bulbs. So all right So I'm just going to keep doing that get all the water out of here I can and we'll set it up here on the hood or somewhere and I'm gonna let it dry out And then we're gonna move on to project to It's another easy fix or well should be this is our next project guys might remember we Had to put a cable on here and You see that Primer bulbs ripped. So I'm gonna show you how to take this out. It's real easy Real simple all I'm gonna do is take a screwdriver put in here Pry it a little bit and put in here and probably you can use two screwdrivers if you want they make tools for this But not everybody's gonna have them tools if you don't work on these every day You're not gonna have them. So I'm just gonna show you how to do this with a screwdriver And we're gonna go ahead and pull this off So we can see inside there when we're done So let me grab a screwdriver and I got to grab something else to put this back in with real easy And I'll be right back with you. Okay guys, so this is what I'm gonna do I just got a little standard screwdriver here. I'm gonna put that in there and You push There's a little tab Here, I'll show you on this new one. I've got here. It's got a little tab right there Okay, you push it in and kind of pry up a little bit whereas my UK friends says prize They prized it up and I'm not making fun of them. It's just I like to Compare different cultures and the way we speak and stuff This looks like it's gonna be That's a little bent someone tightened it way down Gonna need to clean that but I'll save you from that. So we're just gonna stick this in here and push Okay, the camera over Just gonna go in right here Push that out same way with this other side like I said you can use two Screwdrivers if you want. I'm just gonna push this in and pull it up Just like that This one went back in that's okay. There we go. Just like that. That's all there is to it I've seen guys once I get it this far grab this with a pair of pliers But if you got to put this back in for any reason You don't want to do that because you can rip it. I don't know if you can see inside there, but Definitely ripped Okay Now I see some dirt up in here. So I'm gonna get some spray and spray that out real quick now. Hopefully There's diaphragm and a gasket underneath here between the carburetor or between the carburetor and the tank Hopefully that's gonna be all right It's kind of like something like a fuel pump. It's got little valves in there also We're gonna put fresh gas in it because Well, it's just got a little bit anyway I'm sure there's some water in it cuz there's some dirt in there But I'm gonna spray that out real good and then I'll be back with you Okay, now to put this back on what I use is a 17 millimeter socket. I Seen a lot of guys on YouTube do the same thing. So I'm not the only one This is not my idea, but this is just what I've always done Put that in there like that get your tabs lined up here and just push it in And you'll fill them and hear them click There we go. There's that Make sure just confirm a Lot of guys they'll use their screwdriver and push them in like this Just be careful that you don't slide off. There it is that you don't slide off and puncture your new Your new primer bulb sometimes you can oops. Sorry. Sometimes you can just get the bulbs But in this case the guy that I'm doing this for my friend Ryan He got one that has the new clip, but I am going to save this save the retainer and Here over here what we got going on is I'm letting this soak up some fuel into there Like I said, there wasn't much in it and then I'm just going to wipe it around with this and a screwdriver inside there And I'll let it dry out for a minute There you go, and then we'll put fresh fuel in it See as you can see it's starting to siphon up out just turn it like a wick Sometimes it'll just siphon right out of there, but let's make sure you don't leave any of this behind inside there Because that'll clog up your There's actually a little filters in there. Yeah, I see it's so I'm going to get that drained out very nice I mean, it's dirty, but I do see some water in there. So let's go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and do that offscreen I'm just going to drain that out We'll put fresh fuel in it, and I'll show you how you know this thing is working the primer bulb is working All right, now we've got it looking down on the top of the carburetor and we're gonna start pushing this button here Here's the primer I Can feel it and hear it coming up through the primer bulb there goes See it shoots it right into the intake. Hey now Main question Will it start to stay running? Let's get it down off the table. Let's find out forgot to tell you I clean this out looks pretty good Almost like new but it's clean enough. All right guys, so I've already primed it so you guys seen that I don't want to prime it too much because I don't want to flood it. Let's see if it'll start Comment below right now. How many pools? Bricks of strand. I'm gonna say one because we've already primed it right on guys Let's check it out. Let me move you back. I got some High grass right in here. Let's mow a little bit of this to see what happens time to call my friend Ryan Okay, so let's go ahead and put this back gathers a couple little specs in there But those are dry out on their own I cleaned up a little bit But what I'm going to do is this thing's going to be getting you can see all the dirt and stuff that still gets up in here Because the seals here not here there's a little But that's just part of it so it's still going to get in there It finds its way in I'm going to be putting Shoes in arrow here and that D driver's side Which is technically the left side so if you ever go to part store and they want to left or right Think of it as your if you're sitting in the driver's seat The left side will be the driver's side. The right side will be the passenger side I'm going to be putting LED's in this thing. So That's why I didn't spend a lot of time cleaning this out and when I do that This is all going to get detailed. All right, which way is it turned? Just like that Monkey got me a new backpack. So stay tuned for that video now. This is going to clip on Can't remember why I may have to There it is Clips on up here had that backwards. Why didn't you guys say something? This is going to put in there like that now Sure you get that down in there. You're not pinching any wires Line up your little dial over there make sure nothing's hanging out Push it back in you'll hear it clip in and there it is now We're just gonna put our screws back in right there and That'll be Two projects started to completed Like sometimes monkeys. She'll start there for projects Sometimes not all the time and like if something happens and she don't she don't get them completed I Give her some words of wisdom and some encouragement and Like if I think you know I might have something to do later, I may only start one project But I would rather start what I tell her and it's helped her to Say that's what I taught my kids if you start one project and complete one project You Completed the whole you know what I mean you got a hundred percent completed Now if you start four projects you get one completed You only done 20 you've only got 25% completed so My dad told me that one time when I was I don't know that's probably 18 I Said seems like I can't get anything done dad. He said Quit starting so many projects and he explained it to me that way If you start four and you get one done, you know, I got 25% done if you start one project and you get that one project done, that's a hundred percent and That's really worked for me. So All right. Let me go get the keys. Let's check make sure that bulbs still working. All right guys first thing we're going to do We're gonna do headlights So I'd mark the lights on that one's on now. Let's do the turn signal and there it is I don't have to check the brake light because it's on the same circuit as the turn signals so But I will I'll press it for you guys to see Two projects two projects completed a hundred percent of my gold Guess you say don't say your goals too high, right?  You guys see that thing crawling around in there Think it's a spider hang on guys. I got to pull this lens off of here. It's a little spider Yep, he's gone. Okay. Now I can put This back on I thought yesterday. I seen something crawl across my lens When we is in the truck on my video from yesterday we On the intro part when we was going over that bridge. I thought I I thought it was my my finger at first I got the look and I thought well, that's some kind of bug in there All right Okay, well, that's good enough to do our outro. So anyway yesterday One day monkey. I didn't have my window up. She rolled all the other windows up Mine wasn't up yet.  I come out. She had left a key in with the ignition on not running Just with the ignition on Drain the battery. I was like, man, you can't can't do that You can burn stuff up that way because some things need to have Have it running to cool cool itself down like coil packs and stuff like that, right? So yesterday when we got home Same thing.  Well, you look before she said the keys I just had them.  I said why ain't the key coming out? She turned up back and took it out because oh I said it wasn't ten seconds So don't do that guys Don't do that no more mark so I got to get this cleaned up my screen over here's you know sweat dirty fingers whatnot because this is a You know it's a Touch touch screen so and I got to get this lens cleaned up here So all right guys, thanks for watching appreciate it. Stay tuned. I don't know maybe tonight. We'll see I Might do I probably do my pack tonight We want to do a special overnight fishing trip this weekend, but we're not sure it's supposed to be really hot But we'll find out if we get to do that If not that'll happen at a later time and tomorrow I got another fan video. It's a ceiling fan So it should be pretty cool All right guys she better than met the man legend God for now remember we started two projects got two projects done 100% complete or you can look at it as 200% complete if you want so But I look at it this way I set goals Well, my one goal was to fix the lawnmower. I already won't film it because it's just so quick and then I thought well I Come out here with monkey and I seen that water in there. She's like, oh my god. So I'm like, okay now I have two projects. I thought okay, that'll be my goal for today Is the two projects. So I got them done Now the backpack, you know, if I get to it I get to it if I don't I don't that's not that wasn't one of my goals So I'm not real worried about that. So anyway guys, hopefully your week is going great so far Stay safe everyone. Enjoy yourselves. And we'll see you in the next one. Bye. Bye guys. Take care of yourselves


How is it going lads and ladies? It is Petrifying Pumpkins here and today I'm annoyed. Pissed off with Sony Playstation in some ways. Not a huge deal probably but still something that's gotten under my skin and has grinded my gears. Pissed in my cornflakes as it were. I'm wearing my Playstation t-shirt backwards as a sign of disrespect as I do when Playstation make a mistake. Because of this blog post, Playstation blog interview with Herman Hulst. Herman Hulst of course this gentleman here. He used to be the main guy at Gorilla Games. What's the word for the main guys? CEOs? No that's not right. Presidents? Probably the president. He was probably the president of Gorilla Games last year I think it was last year. He got promoted to head of like Playstation Worldwide Studios so he's kind of like he's under Jim Ryan but he's still up there. He took Shuhei Yoshida's job. Anyway I like Herman Hulst. He's a straight shooter you know he's I like the fact that he's got like a history with game development like he was in all them Killzone games the first Horizon game that was all him. So the fact that someone like him is the head of Playstation I always thought that was like a good idea even though I love Shuhei Yoshida and I think maybe he got did a little dirty or something I don't know but whatever regardless the point is that's not what annoys me it's not Herman Hulst it's what he's saying. So the title of this is what's next for Playstation Studios which is fine take a Q&A basically. So the first question do you see single player that's not that's not really interesting basically he's saying yes single player is important to us. Partnerships with second parodies is important to us that's the next question I'm going to get to the good stuff. I guess I should stare up by saying you know this isn't actually virtual reality realize it but because I am a bit of a Sony pony a bit of a Playstation fanboy as some people would say this does interest me a great deal and because this is a Playstation virtual reality dedicated channel maybe a lot of you guys are you know into Playstation stuff as well and not just virtual reality so it might be worth talking about. Basically what's pissing me off here is the fact that cross jeng games are like more pervasive than I was initially thinking. Okay so this is the big one here so how does Playstation 4 factor into Playstation Studios development vision is it still a focus internally for future game development. So Herman says it very much is you can't build a community of over 110 million ps4 owners and then just walk away from it right? You can. Or you don't have to walk away from it I mean look at the past generations we've had you can keep the third party stuff that can be cross jeng your FIFA's your college UZ's your battlefields all that shit that can go back and forward but there's no need to hold back well in this instance Gran Turismo 7 and God of War and of course Horizon as well there's no need to hold these games back with the ps4 I know from a business perspective makes perfect sense like if you shut them out you're shutting out a lot of money but in other ways it's making the Playstation 5 look less attractive in my opinion now that might not necessarily care about that because the ps5 is still selling like hotcakes if it's on the shelf it's gone the next second so that's probably not a big deal anyway let me keep reading and then I'll get to why I don't like this I think that'll be bad news for fans of the ps4 and frankly not very good business so I don't disagree with that necessarily it's not good business in one aspect but he'll go on to adhere to sec where it makes sense to develop a title for both ps4 and ps5 for horizon forbidden west the next god of war and gt7 and by the way I hate the way that it's just subtly dropped in there so for the longest time we knew horizon was going to both everyone kind of assumed god of war maybe will and I think most people thought gt7 was probably going to be ps5 exclusive but now he's just like oh by the way yeah god of war gt7 they're coming to ps4 too you know they're going to be held back by that 2013 hardware uh don't don't worry about that though you know we'll continue looking at that and if ps4 owners want to play that game then they can ps4 owners want to play our ps4 owners want to play that game they can buy ps5 I mean they can't because they're sold out but you get the point that I will be trying to make if they want to go on and play the ps5 version that game will be there for them that being said it's also very important to have showpieces for the ps5 hence the development of Returnal and Ratchet that are exclusive to ps5 two games Herman is that enough Returnal and Ratchet that are exclusive to ps5 I think maybe it's very important to have more than two games for showpieces for the ps5 in my opinion you know I mean look the example I always go to is horizon zero dawn the one that came out in 2017 I think it was one of the developers was interviewed they said that they wanted to have flying mounts in that game so in that game you're able to like override the machines and you can ride them there was like a deer one and a horse one or whatever they wanted to have the flying ones that Aloy could hijack and then you could fly around but because the ps4 is aging hardware even at the time they couldn't stream in the levels like you know the world I guess you should say fast enough so they had to scrap that otherwise it would have been just a very slow flying thing which would have been trash so obviously the fact that forbidden west also has to be running on that 2013 hardware you would imagine they're probably still not going to have flying mounts unless they found some kind of work around to get it working this time which maybe they have I'm not saying they won't but that's just like a very clear cut example of how having to run on 2013 hardware is going to hurt these games now they did have their horizon forbidden west showcase a few days ago in the game looks looks stunning run on the ps5 looks fantastic the ps4 version is definitely not going to look that good it's not the visuals that I'm worried about what god of war or grant resmo7 it's in terms of gameplay features you know I mean imagine god of war a big focus of the original game was moving between these realms you have to go to this room a travel room and then you'd load in and then those all these kind of crazy special effects or you'd go to the world tree god of war reagan rock if they focused on ps5 only maybe they could do like a ratcheting clank thing where it's like instant rift open up a rift walk into the different realm no need for all that like downtime so that's kind of annoying just wanted to get that off my chest wanted to rant about that and again I understand from their point of view it would be stupid kind of to leave all that money on the table because people you know they're going to buy even though as I say that I'm pretty sure Miles Morales sold way more on ps5 than it did on ps4 come on both so really in the end like would it really hurt their pocket a huge amount would it in the long run get more people eager to buy a ps5 I know everyone's eager to buy a ps5 but let's say they sell 20 million ps5's all of a sudden everyone who really wanted one has the one at that stage then you're talking about the people who are like well if it has enough good games then they're going to be looking at like oh well that's on ps4 do I really want to buy a ps5 for this and maybe sales of the ps5 will slow down because of these decisions you know that would be my way of looking at us not the end of the world I'm sure god of war 2 is going to be fantastic and horizon I know it looks fantastic already but you know I can't have thinking about you know the flying mounts are they out the window because of these decisions you know who knows what else we'll be missing out and then to talk about pc gaming as well and how important japan is I'm not too interested in those kind of stuff and I should also mention that the casually slid in that you know god of war got delayed to 2022 doesn't bother me at all as soon as I saw god of war 2021 I was like no way that's coming in 2021 it was just a logo reveal and hadn't shown anything since so I think everyone was expecting that to drop to 2022 so that doesn't bother me whatsoever but the fact that it's coming to ps4 and grant grant charisma probably less so but god of war that's a big one you know and the way he acknowledges as well you know it's always very important it's also very important to have showpieces for ps5 I couldn't agree more with that so why are you taking away showpieces for the ps5? Returnal excellent ratchet probably going to be excellent looks excellent but that's just two games when is the next ps5 exclusive you know after ratchet what's it going to be it's not going to be horizon that's on ps4 not going to be god of war that's not going to be on ps4 not going to be graduation seven so how long are we going to have to wait before we see another game take advantage of the ps5 properly like ratchet because ratchet cannot run on the ps4 because of what that game does in terms of like string like instant war like they built that into the game design so it's impossible for that to run if it was to run on ps4 it would be filled with like awful loaden times that would like break the flow of the gameplay or whatever and it would ruin us so yeah harman holst what are you doing people at playstation what are you doing you know I know you're thinking about the money but that's I feel like that's a short term maybe point of view maybe let's think of a little bit more long term anyway that's my rant over with maybe you agree with me maybe you disagree with me maybe you think I'm an idiot let me know I know already but you can let me know I'm an idiot as well in the comments below and that is this for this video thank you very much for watching before I go let me thank my patreon supporters whose names are on the screen as we speak thanks to their generosity they're keeping this channel nice and moist in particular the top tier patreon supporters whose names are on the screen right now tradition crumb pete halkins daniel the pumpkin patch kid and columbus thomas the third thank you for that generosity it helps me out big time if you'd like to help me on patreon as well the link will be in the description below finally before I go let me thank decepticon for letting me use his music and all my videos link to him will be in the description as well decepticon com with that out of the way thank you for watching i'll see you in the next one i hope stay moist


A lot of the really fun pictures on tonight's site for MLB DFS are in pretty tricky situations, whether it be due to super extreme weather at their park in terms of temperature boosting up offense or just a tough matchup in general, not the best situations. I do think there is one guy who grades that well from a safety perspective and has some upside. But in general, if you want to get a high upside picture for tonight, you're going to take on at least a little bit of risk. We're going to break things down from a DFS perspective, let you know how to navigate that, which guys still grade out well despite those issues and how to handle things today for MLB DFS. Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the FanDuel Podcast Network and NumberFire.com. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for NumberFire.com. Here to break down this 13 game main slate for tonight with lockset for 705 pm Eastern for today. Couple weather notes for this one, mainly revolving around temperature. In Minneapolis with the Twins and Guardians, winds are out to center at 14 miles per hour. It is also 85 degrees, so I bum up batters there where you typically view them at Target Field. Pretty similar story in Chicago for the Blue Jays and the White Sox. Winds are out to left at 13 miles per hour there. It's also 91 degrees, so bum up batters for the Blue Jays and White Sox, which does play into our pitching discussion later on. Finally, it is much warmer in Oakland today than usual, first pitch temperature 85 degrees, so that's more viable in Oakland than they typically would be for the Mariners and the Yays, typically around 64 instead, 85 for today. So, bum up batters in Chicago, Minneapolis and Oakland, relative to where you usually have them. We'll break down the pitching options for tonight in just one second, but first a quick reminder to make sure you are subscribed to the NumberFire Daily Fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcasts. We have, of course, our PGA podcast coming up for the Traveler Championship later on today. Myself and Brandon Godulla breaking that down. Also on the Fandal YouTube page at 10am. We've got USC and NASCAR covered as well and, of course, NFL just around the corner, all in the same place, so hit subscribe on the NumberFire Daily Fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcasts and if you like what you hear, leave us a rating and review as well. Hey, sports fans, there is no better time than today to sign up for Fandal Fantasy. For users who have yet to make a deposit on Fandal Fantasy, you can deposit today to receive two free entries. All you have to do is deposit a minimum of $10 into your Fandal DFS account and you will be instantly rewarded with two free vouchers. This is a limited time offer, so be sure to deposit now and play for free. Head over to Fandal.com or download the Fandal Fantasy app today. Eligibility restrictions apply. Go to Fandal.com or download the Fandal app for more details. Pitching preview for this Tuesday main slate. Nester Cortez is the highest salary pitcher on Fandal, checking in at $10,500, followed by Kevin Gosman at 10-2. Sean Minaya is 99 with Dylan Cease at 96. Zach Gallin, $9,500. Martin Perez, 92. Kyle Gibson is 9,000 with Joe Ryan, Spencer Strider, Matt Swarmer, Jack Flaherty, Jonathan Heasley, Anthony DiSquifani and Marco Gonzalez as the others at $8,000 or higher. I do like Spencer Strider a lot today, but the weather today is really gross. It's super warm in Atlanta, which favors batters. I'm going to bump them out of the top spot as a result of that and put me on Sean Minaya as my top option for tonight. I'm fine with that because Minaya is the one guy who has a blend of safety and upside. He's facing the Diamondbacks and they're a pretty lefty-heavy lineup, which means their numbers against lefties have lagged versus where they're at against righties. They have a 98 WRC Plus from their current active roster against lefties with a 135 for ISO. They are a better team against lefties with Carson Kelly back, but they're still a team I'm okay targeting. Minaya does have his issues, but he's been solid overall. He were up to eight starts on him since his velocity stabilized and the skill interactive VRA for Minaya in that time is 3.70. He has a 26% strikeout rate. That's helped him get eight plus strikeouts three times in this stretch and he had 12 and one of them against a very good Atlanta team. We've seen Minaya be on the road a lot for this time. Five at eight starts on the road. He's now back at home. He's also facing pretty tough offenses and pitched in hitter friendly weather last week against the Cubs. That game, the win game last week, broke up a streak of seven straight games where Minaya went six plus innings. Now back at home against a lefty heavy team. It's also one of the colder games on the slate. I think it's a good bounce back spot for Minaya and I will be on him here. So Sean Minaya to me, the one guy who does blend safety and upside and makes him probably your ideal cash game play for tonight. I do think Strider does enough to sit second despite the hitter friendly weather in Atlanta for tonight because Striders facing the Giants. Now obviously there will be a lot of lefties in that lineup, but those are not been an issue for Strider yet in the rotation. He's faced 49 lefties in his time as a starter. He has a 37% strikeout rate against them with a 6% walk rate. The strikeout rate is 41% against righties, so it is higher against them, but the sample there just 32 batters. So we've seen Strider face a lot of lefty heavy lineups in the most part since he shifted into the rotation. He's still pitched really well in the four starts. He has a 2.90 skill interactive ERA with a 38% strikeout rate. He's holding teams to a 28% hard hit rate as well. The one issue for Strider is he is still walking too many guys. He has a 12% walk rate and the Giants will draw walks. That's another reason to put Strider below Minaya if you're looking for safety, but Strider is fully stretched out. He went 106 pitches in his most recent start, which allows him to walk some guys, not be crazy efficient and still get deep in games. So there is risk here. He could still get knocked around. We have not seen Strider finish 6 innings yet, but I like his upside if things do go right. So it's enough for me to put Strider second behind Minaya for my pitching options for tonight. As far as the third matchup, it can be anyone because Strider is our value play for tonight. Dylan Cease isn't a pretty brutal matchup. He's facing the Jays and the good thing is Cease is at least a righty, not a lefty against them. So it does help a bit. And I think it makes him an option for tournaments given that he's still in Cease and he's got some upside for sure. The Jays against righties are still above average, a 106, WRC plus there. Just not as tough as they are against lefties. Their ISO goes down to 158. They don't draw too many walks. A 7.7% clip there, which is a good boost for Cease because he has struggled with walks. He has a 12% walk rate this year. So against more patient teams, teams that draw played appearances, Cease can struggle, but the Jays aren't necessarily that. Cease can have upside against teams in this mold where they're a bit more free swinging. Cease has a 33% strikeout rate, a 33% hard hit rate allowed. That should help him navigate around their power. Now that's why I like the upside. The floor is shaky because we've seen Cease face the Dodgers, the Red Sox, the Angels, and the Yankees at home since the start of May. And all those teams have better WRC pluses against righties than the Jays. He had his issues in those games. He did let up, you know, six pluser runs a couple times, so it was not pristine by any means, but he also had 11, 11, four, and eight strikeouts. So the upside is definitely there for Cease. It's not a safe matchup. Don't do this if you're not cool with risk, but I am personally. So Cease will be my player pool for tonight. I think that the upside definitely there and outside of Maniah, not a ton of guys who bring a ton of safety. So I think that Cease is a good option as far as your number three spot, but Maniah number one and Strider number two for me for tonight. Let's move now to the stacks. We've got Chichi Gonzalez back on the slate for tonight. He's starting for the Brewers. He's starting a place of Eric Ashby, who went on the IL yesterday. So I think we know that we can stack the Cardinals against Gonzalez for tonight. Gonzalez opened the year with the Twins in AAA, just fine there, 3.44 ERA, got a lot of ground balls. We got called up, made two starts to the Twins, struggled and was immediately DFA. The Brewers did pick him up because they were down some arms, but now he's making his first start with them.  His ground ball rate has been 56% in both AAA and the majors, but he's going to let up a lot of balls in play. His hard hit rate allowed is 44%. So if they do loft it, it's probably going to do some damage. The Cardinals offense is when I do prefer against the lefty because they're lethal there, but they're still pretty good against righties with a 118 WRC+. They're going to put the ball in play a lot, just like we got Gonzalez.  I think they're the top stack of the night. The Cardinals are, and it's one I feel pretty good about. So the Cardinals close to me a high quality stack for the eight. If you need some value to get to Aranado and Goldschmidt, which I don't think you need to necessarily. I think that Nolan Gorman and Juan Yepez are your guys can get the Nolan stack in there with Aranado and Gorman. Gorman is striking out too much, but a 45% fly ball rate and lots of hard contact against righties. Yepez has a 229 ISO against righties with a 40% fly ball rate. I think they're both in a great spot here and I would use them even if they weren't solid values. Gorman 29, we have Yepez at $2,300. So you're not breaking the bank to get them and I would use them either way. So to me, I think both those guys great out well within your Cardinal stacks, whether you need the salary flexibility or not. I am going to stack the Red Sox nights, but I don't think it's a lock that they come through. There's no such thing as a lock in stacking, but you know, just even more so than usual, there's a lot of risk here. For single entry, I would likely pivot elsewhere for the second stack because the Red Sox will likely be very popular, but straight up they are a good stack. They're based in Bo Briskey and that's both why they'll be popular and why we can't pivot. Because for the full season, Briskey has a 4.71 skill interactive ER rate. He has led up a 42% hard hit rate with a 42% fly ball rate, which leads to an expected ER rate of 5.68. That is a very stackable profile. And against the Red Sox in Fenway, we can feel pretty good about stacking against that. But Briskey has been making adjustments. Four starts ago, he threw a couple sinkers, about 2%. He also upped his slider users to 25% in that game. To start after that, he leaned much more into that approach. He threw 10% sinkers there, 34% sliders, and that's the approach he has kept his past two starts as well. And it's working because in that time, Briskey has held the Blue Jays and the Yankees just two runs over 11 and 2 thirds innings. Both the runs he allowed in those two games came on solo home runs. Then he went against the Rangers and he threw seven shutout innings. Given the change in approach, I think there's a chance that this is a legitimate shift for Briskey. That's why I'm willing to fade the Red Sox in single entry, but it's also just a small sample. His strike out rate is not huge. He's still letting up a lot of hard contact. That's why I'm willing to go here in other formats. I think they're a good stack. They're just not bulletproof, which is what they might otherwise be if not for this change in Briskey. On a 13 game slate, there's enough to justify deviating here. So the Red Sox, a good stack for tonight. One I will use, but for a single entry, they're probably not going to be my cup of tea. Rather go with the Cardinals there and potentially with the Angels. We will move now to the third stack of the day. They're facing Jonathan Heasley. Heasley's had some good results at times. He has a 3.72 ERA across seven starts, but the peripherals say that's unlikely to stick around. He has a 5.44 skill interactive ERA. He has walked a lot of batters with a 13% walk rate. He has let up a 44% hard hit rate with a 45% flight ball rate. Just for whatever reason, we haven't seen the results bite him yet. I think it will eventually, that's why I will keep stacking against him, which means turning to the Angels for today. I'm very on board with them in this spot. I think the Angels are a high quality option to deviate from if you assume the Red Sox to be very, very popular. The Angels will be decently popular, but I'd expect the Red Sox to be kind of the more runaway shock on tonight's slate. Against Heasley, I do want to favor the lefties. He's letting up a 48% flight ball rate to them. It's still decent against righties, but a lower at 41%. So no Shohei Otani pitching for today, which means we can include him in these stacks. That's a blessing for sure, a $3,500. Jared Walsh is striking out too much, but has good numbers against righties. Despite that, Brandon Marsh has done enough to be in play. I'm not a huge Eliso and HeFO guy. He'll probably bat fifth or so.  Also, Taylor Ward, super under salary from where he should be at $2,900. So to start with the lefties, favor Otani, Walsh, potentially Marsh, but then I'm probably looking at guys like Stasi and Ward. And of course, Mike Trout after that as well. Things to watch for tonight's slate. I didn't want to talk briefly on Nester Cortes. My reason for being lower on him and not being as high on him, despite the fact that it's Nester Cortes and a risky slate, is about familiarity. He's facing the raise tonight. That is, his second straight start against them and his third start against them since May 26th. Cortes had just five and four strikeouts in the previous two outings. They're a beat up offense. You know, they lost Kevin Kiermeier and Manuel Margot last night. So he could do well, but they've seen him a bunch. So I'm fine being lower on Cortes in this spot and ranking guys like Strider, Cease and Maniah higher for tonight. I don't typically talk about one-offs because I don't, my brain doesn't work that way in DFS. You know, I'll use them, but I don't think about them all that much. I am very down with O'Neill Cruz as a one-off for tonight. He's facing Matt Swarmer. He's led up plenty of hard contacts. He's getting called up.  Cruz, minimum salary. Likely to bat in a good spot in the order. He had both power and speed in AAA. So if you want to get in on the O'Neill Cruz love fest and use him in DFS tonight, I sent more power to you. Not opposed to it. I think that you can definitely feel good about that here. Very justifiable. You will not be alone, but you know, sometimes it's more fun to root for fun guys like him. So I'll do that for tonight personally. Finally, I think the Mariners are in a decent route for taking advantage of the weather in Oakland, the hot weather, relative to usual. They're facing James Cappellian. He is really struggling right now. The Mariners, not a bad offense, but they're not a super high power one either. So we can use them here without having to pay a roster rate tax. And I do like that quite a bit.  Let's finish up here with some Dinger calls for tonight. The boring one, I will go back to the Angels, talk about a lefty against easily. If it's boring, it's got to be Shohei Otani. Otani hasn't put up the best numbers as a batter so far this year, but I still think there's enough in there for me to feel good about him from a hitting perspective. Purely a hitting perspective, still has 13 home runs, still making heart contact, still putting the ball in the air. So Shohei Otani, the boring home run call for today. The more fun one, I will go with Nolan Gorman. I considered one Yepez here because they're both, I think, pretty interesting in this spot, but Gorman will have the between advantage against Chichi Gonzalez, putting the ball in the air a lot, making heart contact, strikeouts less of a concern against Gonzalez than other guys. So good spot for him. I do think Yepez is in play too. So the home run calls on a Dinger Tuesday, Shohei Otani and Nolan Gorman. That is all that we have here for today on the solo shot. Should be a pretty fun slate. And again, you can play things how you want. If you're okay with the risk, you have some good guys to go with there. If you're not okay with risk, I think that Minaya is a good route. So something for everyone on tonight's slate for MLB DFS. Do not forget to subscribe to the NumberFlyer Daily Fantasy podcast feed for PGA, USC and NASCAR podcasts, all the same spot PGA coming up later on today with myself and Brandon Godila. If you've got any questions for me, I am on Twitter at Jim Sonnis, J-I-M-S-A-N-N-E-S. You can also follow the FanDuel Podcast Network at FanDuel Podcast. Big thank you to everyone for tuning in for today. Good luck to you with your MLB DFS lineups. We'll talk to you once again tomorrow to break down Wednesday's slate. This has been the solo shot right here on the FanDuel Podcast Network.


The holiday season offers a great opportunity to look back on the year that's passed and for me to give thanks to all of you for your hard work and dedication. It's been a very busy year at the Ministry of Environment and I'd like to mention some of the highlights that many have helped to make possible. We continue to stand up for British Columbia's interest at the Northern Energy Hearings on the proposed Northern Gateway proposal. We have five clear principles that all heavy oil pipelines must meet. We also recently released a policy intentions paper on creating world-leading land-based spill preparedness and response which is currently out for consultation. I'd like to thank the people who have worked so hard on that intentions paper. Together we've made great strides in helping British Columbians reduce emissions with programs like the Clean Energy Vehicle Transportation programs. Incentives have resulted in the sale of over 280 new vehicles in the province and that's the second highest in Canada. I can say this program, in part, inspired me to buy my own Chevy Volt electric car and I hope others will continue doing the same in the future. It was also a great year for BC Parks. With an extra $3 million to improve access and facilities in our spectacular park system, visitors now have an improved recreation opportunities and better accessibility. And as a further testament to the success of the investments and the dedication of BC Parks staff, camping reservations set a new all-time record this year climbing to over 100,000. You know, the Wood Stove Exchange program continues to see success as residents look to ensure better personal health and air quality in their communities by replacing their old wood stoves with the newer cleaner burning models. Over 5,000 wood burning stoves have been replaced in that program since it began five years ago and we hope to replace another 700 stoves in 2013. I'm also really proud to say that this year, British Columbia's recycling program was awarded the highest ranking in the country by the Extended Producer Responsibility Association and continues to be the national leader in innovative programs. And while I can only touch on a few of the wonderful highlights from the past 12 months, I'd like to personally thank all of you for your hard work and dedication throughout 2012. I hope you get a really well-deserved rest over the holiday season. Spend time with your family, your friends, your loved ones. Don't think about work. From my family to yours, have a very merry Christmas and a happy 2013.


I'm going to talk about creative writing in the age of computers, creative writing in a digital age. The first question that people normally ask me is that, what is creative writing? For poet Ophelia Alcantara de Malanta, writing is like kite flying. You should know when to hold it back and you should know when to let it go. National artist Francis Carcelliana, fictionist, said, write what you know, write something that only you and only you can write. And the national artist for literature, Idi Tiempo, said that writing is quite often the tension between technique and one's raw emotions. Before we try to understand creative writing in the age of computers, we need to understand some basic writing tips, what makes good writing. The first point is that you have to have a very interesting main point. Without an interesting main point, there will be no interesting piece of writing. You should also be aware of structure that writing must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. And the third quality is sincerity that if you're not very honest with your feelings, the readers can see through the heart of the writer. Number four is don't edit as you write. Just write what you want to write and you edit later on. In the end, writing must have this tension between what is concrete and what is abstract, what is specific and what is general, and what is an idea vis-a-vis what is an image. In addition, when you write, you have to use strong verbs and less adjectives. Make your private world more accessible to your reader. You follow the rules before you break them. So for instance, if people play basketball and the medium is the basketball, with words, you make poems and narratives and plays, et cetera. In addition, you shouldn't plagiarize. You should learn how to cite your source if it's necessary. Even if it's a creative piece, you must learn how to cite your sources. You must research, but you don't overdo it, and research involves field research, interviewing people, doing intense archival work, and read, read, read, write. But before you write, you watch good films, listen to good music for inspiration, and you will possess this influence by bringing in your own unique personality when you write. Like fabrics, creative writing can be conceived by weaving with threads into which a very strong twist must be determined. Usually displaying an aura of pastness, each thread in creative writing is invariably an explicit product of one's autobiographical memory. Creative writing texts are often swayed with chronologies of grief, longing, fear of loss, and a passionate desire to memorialize personal history in a public space. To write well, there are five things that you need to consider. First is mastery of form. Second is great emotional power. The third is taking the reader to a journey. Number four is it has to be groundbreaking, and number five has to have the X factor. I'll try to explain it very briefly. Mastery of form would mean that in writing poems, for instance, you worry about how lines are cut, what specific words mean. When you write a story, the traditional story has plot characters setting a theme and so on. A non-traditional story normally has a key moment or a moment of illumination towards the end. You are aware of the rules of the genre that you have chosen, and most importantly, you use the language that you feel you can express your feelings a little more authentically. So, for instance, if you are writing in Filipino, you have to use Filipino very well and you address your audience the best way you can. If you're writing in English, you have to think of a particular audience in mind, and you have to make sure that you have mastery of English. If you're writing in Hiligaynon, you have to know the context, the nature of Panayalan and so on. So, which means that form involves that only the use of the language, but you know the different aspects of the genre that you're getting into. Number two, great emotional power. I think the best quality that good writing should have is, despite sometimes there will be lapses here and there, it's very important that you actually connect to the reader, that the best pieces of work stand out because you actually allow yourself the private world of the author to be accessible. So, when Scarlett O'Hara says, with God as my witness, I shall never go hungry again, so there is always this great impact that it has on the viewer. So, good writing has something like that, that you actually connect to your audience. Number three, you take the reader to a journey which means that a writer has a private world and you allow that private world to be accessible to your readers. For instance, if you are reading a book, let's say Gabriel Garcia Marquez or let's say Jose Garcia Villia, they have their private world every time you read their particular books. For instance, in the case of Love at the Time of Cholera or Hundred Years of Solitude, when you read the book, it appears that you are not in the Philippines but you're in Latin America. So, you should allow the reader to be able to gain access to your private world. There's always this tension between the physical world that you're in and the metaphorical private world where you can be alone, that people usually have a private world, that there is a world where we deal with people every day and there is a private world where you can be alone. At this very moment, it's possible that somebody here is actually looking at me, listening to my lecture but is actually thinking of what to eat or thinking of a long, probably think of the first love or probably thinking of what to do after this class or this session. So eventually, a writer, a good writer must be able to gain the confidence of the reader and be able to expose the reader into the world that he or she is into, the inner world that he or she is into. Number four, ground-breaking. The writer Charles Sanong is one of the first Filipino writers to write about the plight of Chinese Filipinos and as a result, he was able to win many awards here and overseas, get recognition from critics and be read by a lot of people because Chinese Filipinos were never represented the way Charles Sanong did for Charles Sanong. When they're in China, they're not Chinese enough but in the Philippines, they're not Filipino enough and that tension made him a very popular writer. In other words, a good writer has to do something like it has to fill in a gap and that is you have to be a little bit more ground-breaking in your choice of subject and do things like no other writer has done before. And most importantly, number five is the X factor. It's possible that you have mastered the rules of good writing but despite all the rules of good writing, it's like somewhere out there, there's always a person who is probably reading a book that he or she wouldn't want to tell anyone, largely because that book is considered badui. For instance, there's somebody here who probably in his or her playlist has a badui song that he or she listens to but he doesn't admit it. So similarly, with all the rules in your hands, it's possible that when you write, you will not follow what the teacher will say or you will not follow what the experts will say.  In the end, writing is a big gamble and that's what Edith Tiampo said and as I mentioned earlier, it's always this tension between raw emotions and poetic or literary technique. But to measure good writing, usually writers begin by having a teacher discover you as a writer. Usually you come from a classroom and you're asked to participate or take exams in the school paper. Eventually, you become part of a literature or journalism, a communication or a creative writing program. Subsequently, you go into fellowships. You compete for fellowships such as the most prestigious in the Philippines is the Silema National Writers' Workshop. There's also the UP Writers' Workshop, the UST Writers' Workshop, the De La Salle University Workshop, Ateneo Workshop, the Illigan Institute of Technology in the now State University Writers' Workshop, major universities across the Philippines have Writers' Workshops. But eventually, as a young writer, you take this experience in stride, you allow yourself to be influenced by different types of people. There's this question that people would normally ask of me. National artist F. Senol Hasewan said that traditionally creative writing workshops will not make you a great writer, but it allows you to develop a sense of community to meet other writers, to be exposed to a variety of subject positions, and be able to create readership for your works and you read the works of other people as well. Subsequently, that National Writers' Workshop experience will make you a good writer. In so far, as you'll be more aware about what other writers would say, what other writers would think. At the same time, you support each other's writing careers. Number four, there's always this awards and prizes that writers would aspire for the most prestigious. It's usually the Carlos Palangta Memorial Awards for Literature. And then there used to be a cultural center of the Philippines price on these days. There's also the NCA Writers' Price. There's also the Philippine Graphic Price. In so far, as awards are concerned, what is my take on this? Basically, creative writing awards are important. In so far, as they give encouragement to young writers to write some more. But prices should not be considered as the only barometer of good taste or good writing. Ultimately, the test of one's writing is 15 years after you've written a piece of work or years after you die, people still read your work. Or when you write, people read your works despite the fact that you do not have an award. For example, there's this guy named Bob Ong. He's been selling a lot of books. He's almost outselling the Bible. We don't know who Bob Ong is. There are rumors that he is a faculty member from the College of Arts and Letters. Or he is probably one of three faculty members from the College of Arts and Letters. But he's selling 300,000 copies of books. People read him. He doesn't know we do not know who he is. We do not know whether he is actually a living person. But his works are being read by a lot of young people. So in other words, ultimately, it doesn't matter whether you win a prize or you don't win a prize. The most important thing is you write the best way you can and people read your works. So after we talk about how creative writing is actually achieved, now we go into creative writing in a digital age. But before the digital age, we used to write using typewriters, correction fluids, the frequent use of typewriter ribbons which leads to poor quality of print. We used heaps of carbon paper. We were often slowed down by the use of dictionarity sorrows and reference materials before we write. And we used longhand before we type. But after the digital age, there were a lot of technological advancements in the sense that we used user-friendly software programs. Initially, we had huge floppy disks. We had WordStar and WordPerfect before it got into MS Word. But during the digital age, it's very easy for people to write because the computer deletes and corrects mistakes. Computers print after editing the text and corrections can be made before printing. There's no need for carbon paper and computers can print as many copies. And there's an online dictionarity sorrows, no need to retype and you encode directly using computers. That's an example of a Smith corona typewriter which we used to use years ago. And that's the no color screen, the monitor screen. This was the 486, 386 computers that were available in UP during the 1990s. And then this is the Apple Mac Classic, which was very popular in Europe during the 1990s. I'll give you an example of how different it is when you're writing before you use computers and after you started using computers. When I was a younger poet, I wrote in English and in Filipino, but my poems smelled of rooms. They're not bad poems per se, but it spoke of an experience that it was largely confined to a very, I would say, parochial and very limited experience. So I'll read some excerpts. The title of the poem is Ulan. Malakas ang Ulan kahapon dahil dito na dulas ka sa taas ng ba habang tumitirik ang mga sasakayang bumubugan ang sama-sama usok, alikabok at grasa. Tila malalim ang sugat sa iyong tuhuran pagkatapos ng ilang oras halos gadaigdig pa rin ang iyong mga sigaw dahil sakit ka rayom na humahata o sa iyong balad. Sa lakas ng Ulan, maraming bulaklak ang asalanta sa iyong isipan. It was a young Kapili writing those poems. But ultimately I realized that when I got to travel and had been very fortunate to be in different types of place and you grow older a little bit more, your poems stop smelling of rooms. But there's another example of a Rumi poem. So, but before that, this was inspiration for Ulan. Espana corner Arsenio Laxan used to go through that street despite the floods I was able to cross the streets and nothing happens to me, very interesting. Another poem spilled ink allergy a poem that I wrote when I was a teenager it's about my grandmother who passed away. Black ink spills over grandma's footprints deeply, slowly, impensive streaks. When monsters were scary, grandma cuddled me against regressive veins. She caressed the alphabet with gears of dog-cout motion, carving gold for mother goose music in half ascending tones. Now, I must cry a little. Let's cry slip a punch back into the old cradle. Ultimately, I got to travel and one of my favorite places around the world the secret garden in Seoul, Korea where many Korean novellas are actually being shot and they're being shown on GMA and ABS-CBN. And there's this Koshimiro Ryokan in Odawara, Japan at the foot of Mount Fuji. It's the oldest Japanese inn dating back to the period before Meiji Emperor Meiji, Meiji period. Around the time, I wrote a poem when I was studying in Tokyo University in 1993 to 1995. The title of the poem is Resentment. I will read the poem and you can compare with the earlier poems. This one has a little more maturity and sophistication because of traveling and the experience of being able to do research. Like when I was writing before, I was very instinctive. But when I was writing this poem, Resentment, I was using not only my own personal feelings on the subject, but I was also consulting websites regarding certain motifs of leaves and trees and gardens and so forth. At the same time, I had an online dictionary to make sure I used the most appropriate word if I failed to capture it during my first draft, my first writing of the draft of the poem. So I will read the poem Resentment. I have waited for the years to melt down your overgrown nettles, sweet dew, magic flowers stretching to 100 leagues on paddies and green mountains. This is how the wind flies up to my ears. Midnights are always sad. Nobody recites the sutra of clouds glistening with rain. They stood for promises you did not keep for all the mindless gazing at my aloneness, my shameful ways, the absence of roots, leaves, and branches in my family tree. This mystery takes me to a point of death ruffling down huts, clustered in the dusk. Perhaps I can fish on the next sea, push open the morning door, and emerge like petals from a shower. There's a running joke that this poem is actually a poem about love and it exists in a collection of Hemino Abad called 100 Filipino Love Poems. But between you and me, it's actually about some people from the College of Arts and Letters. I wasn't sure if I was going to get 10 year in. So I wrote the poem for them, but some people interpreted as a love poem. Actually it's not. So, but during the digital age, from a creative vantage point, the author writes and reads in front of the computer. The creative process is now mediated by the internet, social networking sites and so forth. The creative process then was impulsive and more romantic. You don't need to do research. Outburst of emotions you can write. But these days, writing has to be premeditated and calculated. You have to be more precise. You have to do research before you actually do your final draft because when you put an image or an idea it has to be consistent with a time frame. You're writing about a particular subject. You have to be very consistent with your time and space. You have to verify historical facts or you have to verify current events for instance just to make sure that what you're writing is actually very accurate. To summarize, using computers I'm even more compelled to conceive each writing text. This is a latitude of metaphors, ideas and images with a design and a system. Writing must have a structure that a writer has to be very conscious of the beginning, the middle and an end and this has to be communicated back to the reader. In attempting to write a good article or a good poem or a good non-fiction piece using computers I must also carefully attend to dramatic unfolding of my memories which means that it's the duty of the writer not just to communicate his ideas but the writer is duty bound to articulate his thoughts and feelings bearing in mind that he is taking the readers to his personal journey hoping that the reader will be able to be moved and find ways of sharing that experience with him or her. At the same time there are ways to find ways of interrogating and transfiguring a profound quietude to bring forth what otherwise has evaded consciousness that it is the duty of a writer to make sure that he or she has a third eye to communicate an ordinary thing for other people which the writer is duty bound to transform as something extraordinary.  At the end of the day there's this saying that poet Ophelia Alcantra de Malanta would all often say that we're all brothers and sisters in pain that writers write because we all feel pain and we try to share each other's pain and we use that pain to transform the imbalances of our everyday life. Consequently, computers afford me opportunities for every recollected detail to live dramatically inside the reader. And at the end of the day during digital age we have to write using technology because without the use of technology I think we will be able to survive good writing. Ultimately good writing has to have a combination of passion and compassion, technique and raw emotions and the use of technology. Without technology these days it's very difficult to do good writing.