Good day fellow investors. Before starting with the analysis of Louis Vuitton and Richemont, the Cartier stock, let me tell you that by looking at these companies first, what the first thing I have seen is that there is a lot of money in this world. The inequality gap is really getting bigger, the rich are getting richer and it's not unusual to see stocks like Louis Vuitton, Cartier and all those luxury watches and everything increase their sales three times or two times for Richemont. So very interesting analysis. Will there be more wealth in the future? Probably yes, especially with this money printing. So we can expect that the sales of these companies also increase. Let's look at the fundamentals, at the business, the possible investing strategy, what to expect from these investments and then conclude with what are my views and where do I put these stocks onto my, let's say, comparative stock scale. Let's start. So as said, company overviews at the beginning, company fundamentals, investment bank analysts reports and their price targets for Richemont. I have two of them. My investing views, global wealth growth and the strong tailwind there and an investing strategy. So Louis Vuitton is a bigger company than Richemont, more diversified and therefore some suspect more stable in case of a recession. But more about the risks part later. You will be surprised about the business impact of a recession on these businesses. Louis Vuitton's net income in 2009 compared to 2008 dropped only 20%. So that impacts the stock as analysts always project the current into the future, no changes in their trends, they cannot see ups and downs and therefore it hugely affects the stock. But the businesses aren't really affected by a recession that much. 20% drop in earnings is not like they are going bankrupt. What does Louis Vuitton do? Well, they have wine, spirits, small part of revenue, 12%, fashion and leather goods and selective retailing is what makes the bulk of the revenues. The selective retailing is Sephora cosmetics, the DFS luxury travel retail, food hall in Paris, etc. The sales have been growing over the past year, about 9%, 10%. So very good. On Richemont, they are a little bit different, they have most of their sales, again 67% from watches and jewelry. So again, very luxurious items with Cartier as a top brand. And they recently completed an acquisition, Ux, Netaporteur, an online luxury retailer in Europe. They paid 2.7 billion to get full ownership. So the valuation is about 5.3 billion, as they were already the largest shareholder. So they are transitioning into an online luxury game. The Richemont is mostly famous for jewelry brand Cartier and of course the watches. From a few brands here, you might recognize some of them. Let's look at the company fundamentals. On the surface, there isn't a big difference between the two. Louis Vuitton has a peer ratio of 24 and the dividend yield of 1.83%. Richemont has a peer ratio of 12.78. But that's mostly due to one-off non-cash tax gain. So the forward price earnings ratio is close to Louis Vuitton's and the dividend is a bit higher. But the difference comes from the 35% Swiss withholding tax. So if you buy Richemont, you have to see how does that Swiss withholding tax apply to your dividends. Because 45% is a big chunk of your dividends. And evaluations are similar after the dividend tax. The price to sales ratios are also similar. 2.84 for Richemont, 3.43 for Louis Vuitton. Sales growth is 10%. 24% for Richemont. But just 8% excluding the acquired online retailer. What is different in the stock price performance? Louis Vuitton's stock went only up over the past 10 years. Richemont's stock price is back to 2012 levels. So volatile, yes, you might want to take a short-term jump if things improve. They take advantage of that. Apart from the stock price, the balance sheets look different too. 2. If we look at the cash assets of Richemont, we have about 10.6 billion euros in highly liquid assets. Which comes out to 18 euros per share on 75 Swiss francs share. So a pretty significant amount. And the debt is not that big. With Louis Vuitton, it has also 4.6 billion in cash. But more debt going up to 23 billion. Plus most of the assets are goodwill and brand or intangible assets. And you never know how to really value them. It depends on the future cash flows. So let's say the balance sheet doesn't look as good as Richemont's. Plus there is less available liquidity per share. Given all the above excluding consumer preferences, are we going to buy more jewelry, more watches or more leather bags? I would say that from just a value, let's say margin of safety perspective, Richemont looks much better than Louis Vuitton. Let's dig deeper. I have received two analyst reports on Louis Vuitton. And it's really, it mesmerizes me how the analyst environment and how the institutional investment environment works. The first thing is that the analysts target for Richemont as the stock price dropped from 90, 95, 100 to 66 were lowered from 95 to 75. Now the stock price is exactly where those targets are. A few years ago, when the stock price was again low, they were just lowering their price targets. As the stock price goes up, they are increasing their price targets. So they're really working with with a rear view mirror there. And then they focus really on the short term. This is what they start with during the latter part of the quarter, quoting the management, sales in Europe were affected by social unrest in France. The retail channel posted a 5% increase in sales, but blah, blah, blah, France had a strong impact on sales. So the analyst conclude that that might transfer into the future immediately lower the price targets, because their target expires in 2020. So they have a stock price target for the next year. They are looking at what's going on, everything short term. And then exploiting that into the future, they estimate all thanks to investment, both Louis Vuitton and Richemont, 5%, 6% growth over the next few years, and then a terminal growth rate of 3%. And they put that into a model and then they get what is the target price. If the target price, if the stock price goes down, they will lower the target price. So really be careful with analysts targets. They are really focused on the short term because that's their job. And that's their job because most investors are focused on the short term. The biggest concern most investors have is where will Richemont's stock go in the next six months? Will it go back to 100 or will it go down? They are not interested in investing in the business. And this is where you can take advantage of. Funnily again, the acquisition risk given the cash pile and different time horizon from the returns of those done the market is what the analyst of this investment banks points out as a risk. So the market has a different time horizon than a company that would make an acquisition and invest their money into future growth into future market positioning. It's not focused on return on invested capital. It's focused on what will the market think, what will be the dividend in 2020 and where will the stock price go? So it's completely mind blowing the short term ways these things are working. Now the first thing I'm concerned with this from an investment strategy perspective is what is the mode of these brands? Yes, they have a tailwind, but will they still have a tailwind watches, expensive luxury bags, always the same style with Louis Vuitton? Will they still dominate the market in 5 to 10 years? Fashion customer preferences can change, but the tailwind is really strong and we'll talk more about the high networked individuals and their number growing as the rich get richer. However, that's one concern. The second concern is Europe and we have recently seen George Soros writing an article in The Guardian how the EU looks like the Soviet Union in 1991 on the verge of collapse and how really we have to keep that in mind as anything can happen in Europe. Now things look very good, but if this happens, then the luxury brands might be even a hedge due to their Asian exposure, due to their strong balance sheets, low debt, high margins. They might give you a hedge, but they might also give you a very cheap buying opportunity. Analysts alarmed investors when it was at 100 because of the turmoil in Europe lowered immediately the price target as the stock dropped from 100 to 66 just because of the turmoil in France. What will happen to the stock? Not the business, the business did good. If there is real turmoil in Europe, Brexit, less traveling, slowdown, etc., that would be a very hard hit to the stock and then you have to compare how will the business do and what will be the long-term outlook. The long-term outlook, you have global wealth growth and that is a strong tailwind. The amount of wealth forecasted to grow in China over the next 10 years is 180%, so it will practically triple the same situation in India and Chinese wealth will be at the same level with the United States.  My strategy, what I think as a value investor, I would prefer Richmont in this case, but then you have to have the courage to buy it when it dips on a terrible outlook. As it happened in 2003, 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2019, even now it's still in a dip and it might be a good short-term play if it bounces back to the 100, but if there is more turmoil giving the European elections coming, etc., 2019, 2020, you might see it go down to 50 very, very easily. So slow down in Asia would be detrimental, but there is a long-term trend, so this is really a stock, if you like this kind of portfolio exposure that okay, I have to watch it, take advantage of the volatility because the volatility is high, but the volatility in the business is not that high. So that's something that's always a nice investment to look at, to keep it, to add if it really drops and to rebalance if it really is expensive. Price earnings ratios are around 20, 5% earnings yield, the growth, they will grow at 5 to 10% over the next years in a cyclical way, so 5, 6, 7, 8% is what you have to expect from these companies in the long-term as an investment return. So 5 to 8%, not much of a difference when you compare to Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Berkshire, so there is really not an advantage that would lead me, okay, I'm going to buy this, this is going to be a great, great long-term investment. It might be good, but so will many other stocks be like the market, also will do good. So I don't really see a great margin of safety, more with Richmont, but I don't really see a benefit to my investing portfolio that really tries to outperform the market. So that's my view, perhaps you find value in this analysis and you add an interesting stock to your portfolio. Tomorrow I'm going to review the financial education channel's stock portfolio that he showed in a video yesterday, so that will be interesting and don't forget to subscribe to my newsletter to get a weekly overview of the videos I have made, of the articles I have written, not everything goes on the video and of other interesting things that I do also on the podcast. So get the newsletter so on Sunday you can just see, okay, this is for me, this isn't. Thank you for watching, looking forward to comments and I'll see you in the next video.


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A savings bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was held up. The manager was killed. Any leads? Yes. We know who did it. There's a petty larceny hoodlum named George Morgan. Morgan held up the Oak City State Bank in Oak City about a quarter of five, is that correct? I see. The Oak City police captured Morgan almost immediately after the robbery, but the escape was going to be booked.  One of the police fired a couple of shots at him. Morgan was hit, but he wasn't hurt badly. How do we know that? Well, he left a trail of blood behind him. He still had enough strength when he got to the shore to assault a man named Carlisle and steal his boat. I see. It's a small craft, and since Morgan's record shows that he received a dishonorable discharge from the Navy, he can probably handle the boat alone. Jim, what's in Morgan's record? Well, he committed his first crime when he was 11. He was allowed to go free because of his humor.  After his last arrest, three years ago, John's robbery, he was convicted, given a 10-year sentence. Well, he's out on parole now. Oh, on parole? That's right. Morgan happened to hit one of those parole boards that seemed to delight in pardoning dangerous criminals. I'll never be able to understand that. Ain't nobody going to buy it. Jim, what was the name of the boat that Morgan stole from Mr. Carlisle? Neptune's Pal. Or he's going to have to abandon it pretty soon. Why? Mr. Carlisle told the police he didn't have very much gasoline in the tank. Oh, I see. Oh, Morgan, look, it's only about 15 miles of York City. Why don't you run up there and see if you can find out anything, huh? All right, Jim. I'll go over to the coast guard and see if they can give us any help. Yeah, you'll be all right. Thank you. Is your name Carlisle? Oh, yes. How'd you know? Before you came, too, I looked at the registration papers. You can't. Oh, that must have been after quite a while. The last thing I remember was that it was still late. That's quite a nasty wound you have. Yeah. How'd it happen? I, uh, I was fishing with a hard pull. That was about to throw it. It slipped and hit my head.  You were bleeding quite badly. Oh, thank you very much, ma'am. Thanks, all right. How do you feel now? It's okay. Thank you. We've tried to start your motor before, but there doesn't seem to be any gas in the tank. I'd suggest you let us throw you in.  We've got a phone in our boat. We've been called the Coast Guard now, and we'd like to know your date. Well, I, uh, I'd rather you didn't. But they might be searching for you. Well, look, if you called, it would cost me a lot of money. How? Well, my, uh, my dad's president of a steel company. He sent me here to California on a very important business mission. He told me it was my last chance. If I didn't accomplish it, he'd not only refuse to give me another job, but he put the company out of his will. So, if you called the Coast Guard, there'd be a lot of publicity in the papers about me, and dad will surely see it. We won't call. Oh, thank you very much. Say, how about my going back and board our boat and preparing some food? I need your help, Henry. All right. Keep the lines between our boats, Mr. Carlisle. You can eat with us when the food's ready. All right. Here, Marjorie. Let me give you a hand. There you are. Careful, dear. The deck's a little slippery. I'll watch it. You go below, dear. I want to check the line. Then I'll be right down to help you. Henry. Yes? I want you to call the Coast Guard. But, Mr. Carlisle... I'm fairly certain he's not Mr. Carlisle. Why? When I was putting the dressing on his hand, I noticed he has the emission of E.M. And he lied to us about his wounds. How do you know? I worked in a hospital long enough to recognize a bullet wound when I see one. Oh. Please call the Coast Guard right now. I met Ocean tonight. I've never seen the fog this thick. It's really rough. How did you make out with the Coast Guard? I just left them. Oh? Have they located the missing boat? It was accidentally located for them. What do you mean? The Metropolitan Museum owns a yacht named the Eldorado. A man aboard a named Dr. Wilson called the Coast Guard a little while ago. The fog was too heavy for him to give his exact position, but he said that he and his wife had picked up a boat named Neptune's Pound with an injured man aboard it. That must be Morgan. Did the Coast Guard tell us Dr. Wilson about Morgan? No, they wanted to check with us first to find out whether or not to let him know. They thought he might be fighting with a knowledge. I think he ought to know, Jim. I just talked with the SAC. He agrees with you. Who did you talk to at the Coast Guard? Lieutenant Gilbert. He said he asked the doctor to call him back a little while. He ought to call the doctor. They might have some difficulty in contacting him, Murray. Oh, I thought you said they had a telephone on the boat. Well, the thing about those small, short, short telephones is unless you have the phone on and hear your call it, there's no way of knowing that someone is trying to get through you. Oh, I see. But he should be trying. Murray, I think we ought to go down to the Coast Guard headquarters and the Harbor and work right along with Lieutenant Gilbert. Margaret? Yes? I called the Coast Guard. Good. I spoke to a Lieutenant Gilbert. He asked me to call him back in a little while. He said he might have some message for me. Henry, dear, I think it might be better if you called him now instead of waiting. What's wrong with him? I just don't like having that man as close to us. Now, Margaret. Henry, I'm not the fluttery type that a Batman is a criminal. He might have a gun. He has no gun? I'd have felt it when I lifted him up off a tent. Nevertheless, I still think it would be wiser to call the Coast Guard now. All right. 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Criminals like Babyface Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Alvin Crawford and John Dillinger. Your FBI appeals to you as representative citizens to look into the parole situation if handled correctly. The parole system can help to regenerate many a person who has been convicted because of extenuating circumstances. But when that system is abused, as it is currently being abused in some places, it can negate the best work of any law enforcement agency and put back on the streets a criminal who has only recently been convicted of any crime in the book, up to and including murder. Life file continues as a coast guard cutter makes its way through the heavy fog. On deck are special agents Jim Taylor and Murray Proxton. According to the chart, Murray, we're just about where the El Dorado was when Dr Wilson called in this afternoon. Yes, I know, Jim. Between this cutter and the one that's searching the water's solid here, I thought we would have found them by now. Well, they could be 50 feet from us, Jim, and we wouldn't know they were there. The first time you could remember when fog lights didn't help at all. You know, I... I don't like not being able to get in touch with the El Dorado. I'm afraid they run into trouble. They only mean one thing. Morgan must have somehow gotten in control. Oh, yes, Mr. Taylor. The radio room just got a message from the other cutter. They found the El Dorado. They found both the El Dorado and the Neptune's cab. I'm afraid it's not so good so far as you men are concerned. Two boats were drifting free. There wasn't a person aboard either one of them. Watch me. I'm right here. How do you feel? Don't wonder.  We're in an apartment about a block from the ocean. Yeah. Morgan's apartment? No. No, it belongs to a friend of yours. The two of them are in the next room now. Why are they holding us here? Well, I have an idea. He may try to use us as some sort of a shield. He can... Well, I'm glad to see that you're feeling better, Mrs. Wilson. When are you letting us out of here? A real soon. A friend of mine is lending me his boat. We're all going to Mexico together. Mexico? No. I promise on my solemn word of honor that if you release us, we won't go to the police. I'm sorry. I don't trust you. You'll never get out of the harbor in this fog. Mrs. Wilson, I won the Navy Cross during the war for my navigation. With one of the Marines we're in trouble, a Guadalcanal convoy loaded with fresh troops coming from the states got lost in the fog. I will not let them... Look, we don't want to hear any more of your lies. Well, you don't make it easy, Doctor. I don't... I don't...  Marguerite. Sir, hear me good, both of you. I gave my friend a list of provisions for the boat. He'll probably take him a little time to get on the board. We'll have to meet him in an hour. We'll leave by that window and back. We'll go down the fire escape to the alley. At the end of the alley is a pier and a flight of steps leading down to a float that runs underneath the pier. Well, wait on that float until my friend comes to the boat. And remember one thing, I've still got your gun. Special Agent Brockton speaking. Hello, Murray. This is Jim. I'm down Pacific City. What are you doing there? After you went back to the office, Lieutenant Gilbert... The hotels are there in Pacific City, Jim. Who saw them? A male man. There's no traffic on the road this time of night, Jim. It shouldn't take me more than about 20 minutes. Charles Dixon. How does he fit in? I checked through his arrest record to see if he'd ever been arrested with any of the tenants. Good hunch, Jim. We were lucky. Dixon was arrested with Morgan at one time. How long had he been here? Only a couple of minutes. It took me about 10 minutes to wake up the superintendent so that I could get a key. Found anything yet? There is that those of the two people the male man saw in the lobby with Morgan were Dr. and Mrs. Wilson. How do you know that? I found Mrs. Wilson's handbag in the next room. I see. Well, they've been here and moved on already. Now the question is, where did they go? Hey, Murray. Take a look at this. What is it, Jim? A writing tablet. Come on, I think I know where Morgan's headed. Yeah, well, it's keeping my friend. Said for sure he'd made it here under the pier. Well, I'm all right, dear. And I won't say it again. Hold it. The man at the end of the pier will search for him. Maybe he'll see us. You've got enough of his second words. Don't make a sound. Here you go. No way down the shore. It's coming this way. Come and see my friend. How long do you intend to keep us in Mexico? Depends on how you behave. That goat just pulled into another pier. I saw that. Maybe your friend took that money you gave him for provision and ran away? I used to be here. Oh, man! Special Agent, the FBI. Dr. Wilson? Yeah. Good. Agent Brockton will see to it that you and Mrs. Wilson are taken back up to where the El Dorado is anchored. All right, Morgan. Come on, we're going to headquarters. George Morgan was tried in a federal court, convicted and given the death penalty. Charles Dixon, who harbored and hated him, was sentenced to a term in a federal penitentiary. In searching the apartment of Charles Dixon for a clue as to where George Morgan had fled, Special Agent Taylor found a cheap writing tablet. Because of his training, he was able to read the indentations on the top sheet of paper. He recognized the various items as a list of provisions. And when he saw the item fresh water, he realized that Morgan intended to make another trip by boat. An immediate check at the only provision store open all night. Brought about the arrest of Charles Dixon on a charge of harboring a fugitive. 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It might have been a breakup, it might have been not getting to your dream school, it might have been losing your job. All I know is that what you do now is what matters most. So if my life went to zero all over again, I want to share exactly what I would do to rebuild it. What's up guys? Alex Hein here over at Modern Health Monk. Now before we jump in, I've put together a free seven-day self-growth challenge that will help you figure out exactly what you want from life and how to make it happen. So it's the first link right below this video. You're going to email every couple days on how to design an incredible life going forward. So check it out down below the video. The first thing I would do is really mentally count out how far you think you will live and I want to share why this exercise is so important. When I was in grad school I was doing my doctorate and I was talking with a girl one day who was basically complaining about how hard school was and she didn't want to study, she didn't want to put in the time and I was saying you know just put in like three hours a day and you'll probably do fine and she said well no I like going home and I like watching Netflix every day for three hours. I like that ritual you know after dinner from 8 to 11, watch my shows and then go to bed and I'm like well you could work a part-time job in those hours or you could study in those hours but ultimately she didn't want to give up her three hours a day of Netflix to get through a doctorate or grad school or medical school. I don't even know if she graduated, she might have dropped out, I never heard from her again after that year but in less than those three hours a day during my doctorate training I wrote multiple books and brought a business from basic entry level into the six figures all while doing a doctorate over four years and yes I am a psycho and yes I apparently like destroying myself but the fact is I did that in less than three hours a day more probably two hours a day and for her she was watching Bridgerton. It's not to compare it's not to say what she did was wrong and what I did was right I'm just saying if you want to build your life you have to be deliberate about what you're building and I was very deliberate about what I was building and what I wanted to be in four years not just with school but personally if you're 25 right now just google what is the average life expectancy for my gender in my country so for me a male in America is about 79 so I'm 35 now you can do the math but let's just say you're 25 and people in your country live to 75 so you know that you have 50 years left and it takes about 10 years to acquire 10,000 hours in a field which is the middle number it requires for mastery right for let's just say being the top one percent the middle number average number so you could literally if you're 25 become the best one of the best in the world in five different careers you could have five different lifetimes from now even if things went to hell for you you could be the best in a STEM field like a biologist you could be the best in a sport like tennis you could be the best in an intellectual field like engineering or computer programming there are so many ways you could reinvent yourself and rebuild in just one decade 10 years sounds like a long time when you're 25 but when you're 35 you realize how recent 25 was and all the things that you could have done in that intervening time so wherever you are now pace out how many decades you have left and how many things you could be the top one percent in the world in with your remaining lifespan and you'll see that life is long if you live it right the second thing I would do is come up with a list of let's just say 20 experiences you want to have in your life so for me my version of the bucket list was not like go bungee jumping and go skydiving even though I did all of that the bucket list the thing was just what do I want to experience while I'm alive right and we're all going to die we don't know if it's at 26 or if it's at 96 but either way I think the difference is what do you want to experience while you're alive right I mean it's the dreams that basically hold people together if you just worked in nine to five that you hated you had a boring relationship you looked forward to nothing in your life there would be no internal purpose for being alive there would be no feeling of my life is worth it right and I think that's why so many people sedate themselves with tv or drugs or recreational drinking because it is a kind of slow suicide but what experiences do you want to have for me one of the experiences I always wanted to have was I wanted to do a little sabbatical just for a month writing my second book which is called milk the pigeon a field guide for anyone lost in their 20s and one book that inspired me that really inspired me to go after the life I wanted that the life that was the secure life the safe life the life that my parents wanted society wanted but what I actually wanted was the book the alchemist by paulo quello and I remember visualizing in my head all these scenes of southern Spain like tarifa and Gibraltar and the boat he took from southern Spain over to north Africa and the visual of standing on that old fort and tarifa and seeing north Africa across the street there and I thought wouldn't it be awesome to write my next book tracing the footsteps of the alchemist so one day in my little bucket list notebook I wrote down do a month in southern Spain and spend every day just drinking wine and writing your next book so because I had that intention that this was an experience I wanted to have I actually ended up doing that about six years ago and I booked a round trip ticket from Spain I was an entrepreneur so I could take the month off and I went to southern Spain and Portugal every day all I did at sunset I found a great cafe or a great restaurant I just people watched and I just wrote this book that was the guidebook that I wish I had when I was 22 or 25 and that experience is a profound life experience I had that so many people I know envy or would love to have especially people that want to write or creatives that want to think and for me the only reason that happened was because I actually thought about deliberately the kind of experiences I wanted to have ahead of time now the final thing I would do is come up with your perfect day and try to reverse engineer it because look when I went on this whole long winded rant about your bucket list but ultimately the things you do once a year or 10 times in your life will not make you have a happy life unless they're like finding your dream job or marrying a person that's a great person because your life is really comprised of your days right so as the quote goes how we live our days is how we live our lives so if you hate every day but you have a sweet vacation two weeks of the year you're going to hate your life because most of your life is still what you hate so what is the perfect day I remember I was talking to this successful fitness trainer years ago and he said that before Gary Vaynerchuk was this big person he is now he hired him at a very high consulting fee to help him build a better life and better business and he said the first thing Gary V said was what's your perfect day literally that was his first question not business not big picture just what's your perfect day what do you actually want to do every day the guy talked about his wife and his kid and the hours he wanted to work and what he wanted to work on and I think this exercise is so underrated because today is your life literally tomorrow is your life Friday is your life each day is your life so if each day is awesome your life's going to be awesome and if you hate five days a week because of you hate your job and you love two days a week and you you hate five out of seven days that ratio five out of seven of your life right about three quarters of your life you hate so thinking about what your perfect day is tangibly when do you want to wake up what do you want to do for work how many hours do you want to work how much money do you want to make what do you want to live who do you want to be with how often you want vacation once a year 10 times a year you'll find people who are doing it so if you think what are those experiences I want in my lifetime what are those one-off events that would be awesome stories and then day to day on the micro level what is the perfect day by itself you're going to be well on your way to building a really incredible life and a really incredible quality of life because you've thought ahead of time what is my dream life and then you're backtracking to make that happen so those are the three things I would do if I were rebuilding my life from scratch there's also that seven-day self-growth challenge which includes some journaling problems on deliberately planning the plot forward and the path for building the life that you really want so make sure you check it out down below I'll see you guys two other related videos for you there and then I'll see you in the next video


For me, the difference between teaching in a blended format, rather than teaching face-to-face is that it's significantly more multi-dimensional. I've been able to, for example, in the context of this class, bring in what we're calling virtual visitors, who are experts in the field, who we have taught through, who we've spoken to via a Skype-like software, a more sophisticated Skype, which has allowed us to have experts from Montreal, from Edinburgh, from London visit us in class. And that's something that has come to me because of my association with the Center for Pedagogical Innovation here, and the fact that I'm teaching this course. And we then have captured those interviews so that they can be materials for the learning in the subsequent iterations of the class. So it's really broadened my thinking about what I can use as teaching resources and teaching tools. In teaching online versus teaching face-to-face, something that was quite different for me was how I prepared for the course going in. Rather than having some ideas about where I was going and letting the lectures evolve as I went, which I typically do or have done in my on-campus teaching, I found with the online courses that there was a much greater degree of planning. With the massive open online course, we essentially had the course complete before we ever engaged with a student. So it was mostly in the can before any student started engaging with the material. So having the course planned and that lack of flexibility to respond to students' questions and concerns in a significant way to really adjust what we were going to do going forward was quite a difference. When people compare online teaching to face-to-face teaching, they often in my mind actually over-exaggerate the difference. They'll say things like there's an intimacy in a face-to-face setting that you can't get in an online setting and I immediately think of the match.coms and all the ways in which people are meeting each other and having really deep personal relationships online. So I don't accept some of the exaggerated differences, but it is a different medium and it does push you to think in a different way. You cannot be quite as back and forth. You can't be quite as back and forth in the modern 500 seat lecture hall either. But you do really have to think about how to engage, how to somehow bring in the student body and make them feel warm and connected and fuzzy when you're not all sitting in the same room. And that's certainly not impossible, but it does push us to think in creative ways and pushes us to come up with new techniques. There's lots of differences between teaching online and teaching face-to-face. For me, the biggest thing when teaching online is that I try to use many of the principles that have always guided my teaching. So I try to make sure that the students have space to talk in their own voice. I try to figure out ways that the students can be engaged with the material so that there's the development of a learning community. And so in a face-to-face classroom that's fairly easy because everybody's sharing the same space. Everybody has the exact same experience of coming in. They sit in the same chair every week and they get to know one another in an intimate way, I guess, within a classroom. So I try to, when I'm teaching online, I try to take those principles and as much as possible translate them to the online environment. So it's challenging in the sense that in some ways the anonymity of online allows students a sense of freedom to maybe say things that they didn't say within the classroom. So there's benefits and drawbacks to that in the sense that students are less inhibited in terms of maybe expressing extreme opinions in the online environment. But at the same time what I've found is that students who I know are a little reticent to speak within a face-to-face classroom are some of the biggest contributors to the online environment, which is really great. There are so many differences. The first one would be that I don't have to be on the stage so I can rerecord my lectures until almost perfect. I can also revisit the content of my own lectures to answer questions so they're more directly related to the student experience. Also, the course can run even though I'm away on a conference or if my children are sick for instance, so that's a big advantage. For me it was an awakening, it was almost a pedagogical epiphany. I had to rethink my role, my role as a teacher, my role as a thinker in a very humbling manner. It was about making sense of all the information that's already available online, helping the student in organizing the findings, making sense of what's out there. So organize a meaning-making system for the student and that's very humbling because the information is already there in a variety of forms. I love teaching in both environments because of their unique challenges and opportunities because you can do some fantastic things in both environments. One of my own observations when I was teaching face-to-face is that I'm a talker, I like to engage learners with on-the-fly kinds of conversations, I can prompt a classroom conversation based off some fascinating research that's done in dinosaurs for example and I can grasp almost immediately and I think educators have this skill is they can sense when students are not understanding something and they can adapt on-the-fly literally as the class is taking place. The types of conversations, off-the-cuff conversations that can take place in a classroom, there's an energy there and it's really real and I feed off of that. And you get to learn about the people in your classroom in ways that I would say are different and you can build interesting student-teacher relationships because you recognize those people and we tend to associate very clearly with who that person is and what they're bringing into the classroom in a face-to-face environment. Things are a little bit different online. I don't lecture online, it's a facilitation role. The modules and lessons that are designed have all been planned in advance. The engagement therefore is a little bit different. There's a little bit more of a separation. The learners are primarily engaging with the material and the activities that I've designed or I've worked in conjunction with a team to design and so there's a little bit of a separation and that means that the activities can be really, really, really good but I don't necessarily have that immediate feedback when each individual learner is not learning a particular content area. I need to dig a little bit deeper, I need to probe some more and so that's a challenge, right? I like that because there's all kinds of techniques that you can do that to do. The other aspect, because students are interacting with the content, it takes a little bit of a shift and change, right? And that means control. In a classroom, the control aspect of being in control is something that I have to work to relinquish. In an online setting, right away by design because it's more student-centered, I know I'm reaching my students in a more personal and meaningful way and that I find that very satisfying.


Hi everybody, this is Dave Vellante at wikibond.org and we're here at the nation's capital in Washington, D.C. at the Tableau Customer Conference. This is day two for theCUBE, Silicon Angles flagship coverage of the Tableau Customer Conference, TCC 13. I'm here with Jeff Kelly, who's my co-host. I'm sitting in for John Furrier, who is the normal host of this show at theCUBE. He's out in California crunching some data from this weekend's activity with the NFL and the NCAAs, we captured a collector and grabbed thousands and thousands of tweets on those two topics, and John's with the data science team digging through that, so I'm here with Jeff Kelly. We had a full day yesterday. Yesterday was customer day, really. We did have Daniel Juedon, who's the vice president of product marketing at Tableau, but the balance of the day yesterday was customers and of course we wrapped it up with Ray Wang. But essentially what we're seeing here is a really high enthusiasm for Tableau's products and services, really unlocking the power of big data through visualization. Tableau's a leader in that space. They're a recent IPO, company just went public. They're really killing it. We're talking about a $50 million quarter. We're talking about 71% growth rate. We're talking about a $4 billion market cap. We're talking about a couple hundred million dollars in the bank, so this company's well poised for growth. It is well under penetrated. It's got great opportunities overseas. It's got opportunities, what it calls a land and expand. It gets into an account and then like a tick gets its teeth in there and then expands throughout the organization as people learn the power of the product. Having said that, the company's not without competition. There's other players like ClickTech in the marketplace. There's other players doing lightweight visualization as well, the entrenched players of BI and Excel. I call it entrenched BI and Excel HAL. I put on a tweet last night that the way you can compete on those two vectors is with a 10X value proposition. It seems in talking to customers, Jeff Kelly, that's exactly what Tableau has. Last night party at the museum, which if you haven't been, it's fantastic. It's really a tribute to the news throughout the history of the United States news organizations as well. We just heard Nate Silver coming off the keynote. Nate Silver, of course, the political pundit, sports geek, data geek, former writer for the New York Times, 538.com blog now joining ESPN. Jeff Kelly, give me your take on Nate Silver's keynote. Well, it was as expected, it was a great keynote. He talked a lot about really some practical tips to work with data, to become a better data analyst, a better data scientist. To learn how to take into account some of your own biases when looking at data. And he gave some great anecdotes, of course. If you've read his book, you might be familiar with some of them. But he gave some great anecdotes around a number of different industries, whether it be the stock market and not taking into account certain information around housing that led to, in part, led to the financial troubles we had several years ago and continue to this day in some degree, as well as his other passion, of course, being sports and how low-budget teams, such as the A's and the Tampa Bay, are raised, used data and analytics to really compete with some of the more, you know, the teams like the Yankees and the Red Sox who have a lot more money. So it was a good mix of anecdotes and some best practices and some tips and clearly he is revered among the attendees here at the Tableau Customer Conference, or at least so. So we're going to have Nate on a little later to dig into some of those issues a little bit more and very interested to hear about, you know, how some of his experience can be translated to the enterprise, as we mentioned, as I mentioned, you know, his kind of core areas were politics and sports. You know, but we've got a lot of companies here in a variety of markets and I'll be interested to talk to him a little bit about how some of his best practices can be translated into those industries. Yeah, so we have Nate Silver coming on at 1030 today. At least he's committed to coming on. You never know sometimes with these celebrities, the book writers, they've got a book signing today, but he has committed to coming on theCUBE, so we're excited to have him. So tweet your questions at D-Valente or at Jeffrey F. Kelly. We'll give you a shout out if we use one of the questions. Had a couple Rob Bergen sent in a question and had some others around baseball. Some of the obvious ones. Come on guys, come up with questions that we haven't thought of already. Let's see, let's break down the day today. We've got Tom Walker on today. He's the CFO of Tableau. We're just going to talk to him about what it's like to be a public company, what some of his priorities are. Then we've got Nate Silver coming on at 1030. Tom Walker's on at 1005. We've got Kristin Chabot, who's the CEO of Tableau coming on. He's a very dynamic individual. That's at one o'clock. Alyssa Fink's coming on at three o'clock. She's the CMO of Tableau. So a number of Tableau folks. We've got George Matthew coming on, Cube alum. He's the COO and president of Altrix, a Tableau partner doing some really interesting stuff within memory and big data analytics. So keep it right there, everybody. We'll be right back at 9.45, which is five minutes ago. But we're starting in about five minutes from now. Tom Walker's coming on. And before that, Dan Murray of InterWorks. He's the director of BI services. We're going to talk to him about what he's doing with Tableau. So keep it right there. We'll be right back after this word.


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Something I was not ready for when they cut my leg off is how they actually do it. So I'm obviously under anesthesia at the time, but what they do is they cut through your leg bones, but then they leave your calf muscle long. They fold it over the bottom of your leg to give you padding, meaning that this, this whole area used to be the back of my calf. Also meaning, this is the weird part, that touching the front of my leg still feels like touching the back of my calf. Like touching this right here, definitely feels like I'm touching like right there. Cool, but also really weird, which I feel like sums up the entire amputation experience.


What's everybody JC for Jatsby's case breaks calm 2020 opinion you chronicles draft picks football hobby a box case Number four random college football teams So there you go guys So 21 total spots Alabama Crimson tie all the way down here to Texas long horse combo all the way down there So everybody's gonna get a random team slash combo team so 21 total spots Again, this must be the second half I see these a box one two three four five six seven eight boxes and Joel like watermark these So this should be the second half of the case 16 box master So let's roll the dice Customer name straight up and then customers at one spots and select nine right there one two three four five six seven So there you go. Let me confirm that that is correct John then Yes, Mike Aaron Thomas Aisa Yes, so there you go. Let's roll it six into one seven times one two three four five Six and so Matthew down a mic seven times here One two three four five six and so I Will hop guys Michigan Wolverines Kentucky Wildcats all the way down to boys they Broncos Boston College Eagles Cal Golden Bears Cincinnati Bearcats they in Fliers in Florida, Lannick Owens All right, so Matthew you have the Iowa Hawkeyes Wolverines and Kentucky Wildcats Chris with the Gophers Spartans and Rage and Cajun's Ron you got the LSU Tigers Cameron you got the golden Southern Miss Golden Eagles Stanford Cardinals Syracuse Orange TCU Hornfrogs Temple Owls Tennessee Falls Matthew you have the Oregon State Beaver's Arizona State Sun Devils Braden with the Florida State Seminoles for Atlantic Golden Panthers high I'll upside Hawaii Rainbow Wars Illinois and Illinois State Philip you have the Ohio State Buckeyes Aaron with the Alabama's a crimson tide Jaren you have the Clemson Tigers USC Trojans Ryan with the Memphis Tigers Maryland Liberty in Wisconsin Hey, so you have Georgia, Florida, Virginia Thomas with Oklahoma Sooners and EA with my organ ducks Get some Herbert EA. I'll buy it off you rich Texas UCF Tulane UCLA NC Charlotte 49ers Or UNC Charlotte 49ers Utah and Vanderbilt Jeremy you have the Hurricanes SMU South Carolina, South Florida and Rhode Island Roar. You have the Baylor Barris Colorado Washington State and Washington Matthew with the Utah State Aggies Benjamin last fall mojo from select nine you got Mississippi State Missouri Navy North Carolina Princeton, Virginia Tech rich you got Appalachian State, Arizona, Arkansas Auburn Purdue Jonathan with Notre Dame Penn State and Louisiana Tech or yeah, Louisiana Tech and Mike G with Boise State Boston Colors Cal Golden Bears Cincinnati Bearcast Dayton and Florida Atlantic owls So there you go guys, I will give you guys a quick minute for trades if now we're gonna close it So let me know what you guys want to do Marquise Brown Rory this was round about org man.   Oh Maryland will have McFarland they're running back for Pittsburgh For you Ryan Wisconsin that should have the running back. What's his name? I've seen him at the Rose Bowl Jonathan Taylor, you're right. So not not a bad combo. You're thinking of combo teams Brandon you have Florida State, Florida International Hawaii, Illinois and Illinois States All right, let me know if you want to do a trade Rory and Jonathan if not, I'm gonna close it Rory and Jonathan trading now the trade The window is closed. Well, Brandon, I don't know everybody out of yours I know Florida State should have camp acres, which is a pretty good running back, right? I'll go into the Rams, but not sure on Florida and International and Hawaii and the rest of them But definitely camp acres for sure for Florida State.  You're gonna have Roy's Plus there nice. Well, I'm sure we're gonna do that as well Let's get one of these four quarterbacks, but maybe that's why I know everybody's gonna want this one Maybe this one, but I'm rooting for this one Let's go I Just love the idea of Chronicles our little job. We're all little Justin Herbert's name Stanley That is a Anderson and we got a Joe Burrow from select Tonight you're not a little Herbert Chrome. I'll pay to sleep all of these at the end of the break all the top quarterbacks Tyler Johnson to a tug-of-a-law And the Roger Stephen Montez time right there for you guys Montez CD lamb Clyde Edwards Lair Davis UCF and Jerry Judy little silhouette relic from crown round 1999 Alabama gonna Aaron CD line and James Morgan 75 Florida International It's going to Brandon. There you go, buddy. A little something for you there. Look how makers as well. I hope you coming your way And a little Jalen regal nice from TCU TCU horn frogs that is Cameron little pearl Pro Eagle right there now and we got 299 Lipscomb from Vanderbilt Vanderbilt when a rich Obi-Wan. I'm doing well, man. How are you? You know Benjamin autograph 299 from ASU Arizona states Did Oh, that's with Oregon State beaver stuff It's going to Matthew. Oh we go and KJ Hamler three out of 20 Or Penn State and that's Rory with a little trade mojo Malcolm Perry For Navy Navy Benjamin down We got CD lamb this one numbered first Lipscomb a little relic there CD lamb for Oklahoma Thomas is down straight up Joe Burrell and I CD lamb to 25 to a toggle lower other two other Playful and Jonathan Taylor 24 to 25 one off the jersey number Wisconsin that is going to Ryan Shackleton. Yeah, man. I'm in Calius Eurasian Cajuns Louisiana James Morgan to 49 to KJ Hill for Ohio State To 20 from absolute. I was solo sold out During this break, so I'll go through the orders and then we'll break that cello and that unlocks impeccable And we got phenom 17 out of 25 a little to a toggle low and Joe Burrow. I think it's a relic though 199 for LSU All right, so again, I'll pinch these at the end of the break You know the bigger players big quarterback and stuff. I have to do guys. It's Jalen Hurts crack dice 4 out of 15 Oklahoma Herbert Chronicles People's Jones and a little Jordan Love rookie soloist in Utah state Antonio Gandy Goulton All right, so Phoenix that is numbered five out of seven and It's Louisiana or sorry Liberty where you had Liberty Liberty flames It's going to Ryan Swift Brelin Herbert six out of ten to a toggle a loa gold and it's on card very nice That is a beaut Alabama, I think that's going to Aaron There you go Very very nice. We have a big patch auto coming up And Isaiah Simmons to 20 nice little RPA Clemson That's going to Jaren all right guys half way through good luck Quinn says Quintez Cephas Siphus no one for Wisconsin and Cam Acres There you go, Florida State. That's going to a Brannan Florida season. Oh, that's what I was talking about man There you go, and tonight and I say a Simmons little patch auto there another one for Clemson and Jared JK Dobbins number two ninety nine Who in a KJ Hamler downtown Penn State? Look at that Rory Traded and got a downtown except it's not a Herbert's KJ Hamler trade Mojo Jacob Eason and Henry rugs really three more boxes I'll try to Rory See you in it out. Let's get him a nice little a Jacob Eason The main thing about it, you have three quarterbacks there and Baylor Bears with Denzel Mims for Baylor Colorado has Steven Montes Washington State has Anthony Gordon Washington Huskies of Jacob Eason and some other players as well. You got Albert from Missouri Chase Claypool for Notre Dame Michael Hasty And KJ Osborne for Miami I mean hurricane is going to Jeremy Anderson. I mean I He's Sean Vaughan for Vanderbilt and KJ Hamler to 25. Look at that. Very nice Spectra Penn State going to Rory So the KJ Hamler collection coming up right now I two more boxes Chase Young tonight and I for Ohio State in a Philip Jake Luton, we got JK Dobbins, and we got Freddy Swan for the Florida Gators Florida Gators for the Florida Gators out. That's Eason and we got tonight and I there for the Mizzou Tigers little phenom Oak-wook-bomb-bomb-bomb with a mom Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa That's not what I want right here Don't fall stack of cards. Don't fall All right. Hello guys and a one-of-one AJ Dillon. Wow, look at that Gold Vina with a little bit of the Under Armour Boston College Boston. Yep, Mike Geek Little one-of-one AJ Dillon very nice and the last box Quintez for the Wisconsin Badgers and a two-a-tug valoa. Wow another one-of-one with the Alabama Logo right in the middle of the silhouette. That is awesome Alabama Crimson tie that is going to Aaron.  I'm gonna finish with all the bigger Bigger rookies There you go chase young KJ Hamler patch autograph downtown KJ Hamler little patch out of there of Isaiah Simmons Isaiah Simmons again to a toddler low out of ten Until you get a golden out of seven Jonathan Taylor and what are these two monsters right here? AJ Dylan one-on-one from Spectra Gold vinyl and a one-on-one silhouette of to a talk of aloha very nice break for the Alabama Crimson tie and Aaron and there you go guys again. That was the break appreciate it. Jasper's case breaks calm


Okay, let's do an unboxing. This is the Monty Grappa Brenta fountain pen and this pen there's some excitement around this pen because this is a brand new silhouette for Monty Grappa. The Monty Grappa Brenta is the first model designed under Monty Grappa's vintage class. It's carved from resin and it uses thin-lane stainless steel and you'll mostly be able to see that on the cigar style triple bar cap. Before we get to that let's run through the under the false bottom you'll find your information about the pen, the company, your warranty information and some instructional information. This is the standard international size cartridge converter and it comes with a converter and two cartridges. Okay, so let's get a look at this carved design and that cap band. You'll also see the classic contour clip with the Rosolino clamp. I forgot the Monty Grappa logo on the finial and it's a threaded cap. Each of these is fitted with a number six nib in stainless steel 14 karat gold or 14 karat gold flex. I agree. It comes with a standard international size converter and it is, pen is named for the river, the Brenta River that flows past the Monty Grappa historic headquarters. It's a 174 kilometer stretch of water that connects Trento, Bassano and Padua and Venice to the Adriatic Sea which is appropriate since the soft facets really reflect the movement of water. Get more information about this new Monty Grappa Brenta fountain pen at Benchley.com


What do I mean by that? Imagine this you're at a zoo see all these animals whether you're by yourself with a family member a Loved one you're having a good time. Oh, look at the otter look at the cute little gorilla take it away from its family You know like having a good time and then you stop and realize wait a minute that gorilla was taken away from its family That gorilla doesn't belong in the Bronx, New York.  These animals don't look well kept They don't have freedom damn This is depressing should I be enjoying this should I be having a good time? And maybe you do walk out of it with good memories, but then you have that that feeling in your heart Like this is depressing man. Like should I be enjoying this?   No sleep for you. I want more bags under those eyes.  You know what men?  I don't even know all about it, but the actors were fed up They weren't being treated fairly now imagine this I want you to really realize this imagine you created Pokemon, right?  You're Barely making a hundred thousand dollars a year you're and well, but Nick that's a lot not not really compared to The talent that's been put out compared to the sales that you're making Compared to the amount of money the IP is making that's just pocket change.  Okay, these animators are the reason why What you enjoy is why you enjoy it? They're the reason behind all of it not these business suits They just have money. That's their talent.  You know what I mean? It becomes more accessible For people like me that don't really like reading and that's a lot of fucking people all your favorite scenes in anime You have to thank the animators for that the storyboards the directors all of that These are the people that make it special, but imagine Making it that special and being underpaid not only are they putting in over over over over over time But they're being underpaid. They're being pushed beyond belief. They're declining in health. They're declining with family time Some of them just had children. They're unable to spend time with those children It's all it is stuff and what do you get out of it? Your name is not even recognized How many of you know the animators of episodes you like it's a very small percentage you could go Oh, but Nick. Ah, what about this guy? I know this guy. No, there's a very small small percentage Go to a normal person on the street tell them the name their favorite directors of movies their top three I bet they could barely name even two lucky if you get one out of them and I used to be like that, too I used to love movies. I couldn't tell you who directed my favorite movies. That's just how it is So imagine these animators putting in so much Workout so much heart and soul and passion into their work Just to be unrecognized underpaid and pushed beyond belief to the point where they're declining in health and spending time with their families Imagine that What are they getting out of this? Nothing, they're getting nothing but pain they get to work on their passion, but what's the price of that now they're Not Loving what they do. I actually saw a tweet about that like I'm looking for the tweet I can't find it, but I think it was an animator that was saying that this isn't fun anymore They don't want to do this anymore their passion something they really love doing they thought they were born for their path their destiny They no longer want to do it because of this crunch because of what these studios Specifically mappa is pushing them to do and pushing them to be not human.   That would mean that animators would have had the entirety of 2022 and half of 2023 to work on JJK season 2 Except what happened in 2022 chainsaw man happened chainsaw man happened You thought you were going on vacation and having a little break nope Remember what I said about a tsuka's greed What this man did was a sidestep the entire production committee an anime usually has and got the rights to chainsaw man's production for Mappa alone that means that instead of sharing the profits from collabs and blu-rays Etc with the production committee like it has to do with JJK with toho and shawisha and other investors all Profits mappa makes from chainsaw man goes to mappa alone It also means that the entire production is funded by mappa itself Which is very risky chainsaw man shares majority of its animators with JJK by the way So instead of JJK animators working on season 2 after the zero movie They were made to work on chainsaw man season 1 JJK zero aired in December 2021 and chainsaw man season 1 came out in October 2022 you understand that this is too short of a time frame to work on a season of an anime right and it Was completely mappa's decision to do this too not JJK's production committee JJK's production committee Assuredly gave mappa two years to time the work on season 2 But a tsuka and all other executives that enabled him decided that they just had to take on chainsaw man and many other Productions so we took JJK animators staffs precious time that they should have had to work on hidden Inventory Shibuya arc and relocated them to work on chainsaw man season 1 a tsuka's pet project because it was a popular Manga that was booming and he definitely saw in chainsaw man the money that he missed out on with JJK Because he had to share money with the committee instead that is not JJK's production committee's fault It's fully at tsuka's and mappa's executives faults fuck that man and mappa's board.  This isn't the price of it. This shouldn't be the price of it and it's The power of greed which is Deadly and I like to compare the people that are obsessed with greed with the devil because that's what they are their devils and They're treating angels like their own little army like little slaves little robots and it's not right My video isn't gonna do anything. What am I gonna do? I'm a youtuber all I can use is my voice Hope that this reaches the right people Hope that this makes the world or at least my subscribers or the anime community a little bit more aware of what's going on Because a lot of people that are doing what I do aren't talking about this I'm not using their voices they will continue to just react to anime and just write little tweets about it That reach 200 people instead of actually using their voice and their biggest platform to talk about it Because without anime these anime channels would not have a job I wouldn't be able to make a living so I'm here paying my respect and speaking on an issue That's a big fucking issue Paying my dues man I don't even care if JJK goes on hiatus to be honest with you only the selfish little children that have no idea What life really is or what grass looks like will complain about things being delayed Let it be delayed. What do you prefer? Quality or quantity and that's exactly what we're getting right now is both and It shouldn't be we should focus more on quality than pushing things out constantly Maybe I'm part of the few I don't know but if JJK was delayed another year or two or five Whatever as long as the animators are getting the love and respect they deserve. That's fine with me Do I believe it should take five years? No, I think there should be deadlines But if a deadline is risking someone's lives and health and making somebody crunch Nobody should be crunched. Nobody should be overworked and have to put an overtime like that Overtime in general that means you're mismanaging that means you don't know what's going on. You just want money hopefully this changes things these employees finally speaking up and maybe a hiatus is necessary for a situation like this to be taken serious and for Drastic measures things to be changed completely. But yeah guys, that's gonna be it I really wanted to talk about this. It's been a problem on Twitter trending since last night and It's been a problem for longer than I've been a channel actually So it's just being more in the limelight now.  Bye