Guys, what is up on sportsman like conduct here with gab in brief or another week of NFL talk? And yeah, let's get right into it Sorry, we were gone last week somebody down bad somebody was sick and still not feeling great, but we are rolling so Yeah, let's let's go. Let's there's a lot to talk about this weekend kind of sucked Can we just Talk about that. Can we start there? Can we talk about how the the super super wild card weekend? Was it very super? No, it was not the new format the extra teams There's no reason why either the Steelers or the Eagles needed to be in these playoffs Yeah, like that was just terrible. I did not need to watch either of that. I didn't need to watch that big Ben didn't want to be there He straight up said before the game even started, I don't think he was being sarcastic I do not think he was being sarcastic. He went hundred percent meant that when he said, you know what guys? I don't really want to be there. We're not very good. We're gonna get our asses kicked, but we're gonna have fun Yeah, no, I did I saw a lot of people like saying Oh, he is he's joking around. He's just being sarcastic like I generally don't know nothing about it was funny like I did it I think he was admitting defeat before it actually happened He knew that they weren't gonna stand a chance against the Chiefs and I mean He was he was right if he was actually being a hundred percent serious. He was totally right But I think he wasn't like he's not being like 100 percent serious But I don't think that it was sarcastic in any means because if you're gonna be sarcastic You got to let out a little chuckle. Yeah.  Yeah, you see the nausea you shared it on his story. He was like what the fuck? Oh My god, so you knew before that game even started it was already over Yeah, and it's I mean and then the game itself Like you had Travis Kelsey throwing touchdowns like you had linemen scoring it Yeah, you had Tyree kill on the sideline with the cheerleaders pom-poms celebrating Backflips that that first quarter the first quarter when I Really neither team could figure it out. It was just like I like what's that? It was bad But at least it was a little bit competitive in that like first 15 minutes Yeah, the chiefs just ran away with that. It was just it was brutal to watch Yeah, like even with the TJ one touch on I'm like, there's no way that this is gonna be this is nothing Nothing about this is gonna be no, it didn't feel great about the entire thing But I don't think Anybody was really surprised at the outcome of that game Yeah, I don't think anyone was like I just I feel like that Out of every game this past weekend that seemed like the the biggest lock the most definite like yeah There's no shot that there's gonna be an upset in this game Yeah, and even like like we like you said you literally said we wasted the chargers We wasted the chargers to watch this deal. Yeah, at least they probably could have scored like 25 The charts before time the thing is the matchups would have been a little different. So I think it would have been I Want to say it or it would it would be the raiders, but still like the chargers that would be more competitive Yeah, and then the chart. Yeah chargers bangles would be freaking electric.  I don't know what to beat the bangles the way that defense play the other night though I don't think they know it was five degrees outside Yeah, I just but ever since the buy like we're gonna obviously get a little bit more into that game But like ever since the buy they just seems so checked out and like not Not the same team that Started the year and right like it was built up like the Cardinals Yeah, like the Cardinals. Yeah, last yeah last night was bad, too The Cardinals look like such frauds last night and I've been like I didn't want to say it because I just don't want people to be mad at me But I just I just didn't think the Cardinals were we're gonna do it. They did it. I Hope so like I wanted them to Um Just because I I I like Kingsbury. I mean, that's that's no secret. I like Cliff Kingsbury a lot And I just thought like that they were the best Team for the really the first full half of the season. I would say maybe even three quarters Okay, like they were crushing everybody and then that we went to one game and ever It's been downhill ever since then it's been downhill and I know they lost, you know, Deandre Hopkins Travis Travis Kelsey JJ Watt was hurt for Pretty much the majority of the season.  I just I I That's crazy to me, but I mean, that's the type of guy he is. He's he's a big He's a big for the team guy and if he felt like him returning was gonna help the team like I understand right coming back It's I don't understand The aspect of like your nuts You're crazy. You're coming you had surgery like two and a half three months ago and now you're back you're nuts, but Yeah, it's a Disappointed with the Cardinals me too I feel like they're like us for myself though I went to a Cardinals game and I watched them win. So I'm not gonna put that on myself. I watched them beat the Browns mmm So I'm not gonna put that on me I was like I'm not gonna put that on you either, but I'm just saying like I saw them win big and I saw them I Saw Odell score a touchdown for their money. Yep. It's uh It's I Don't know the playoff picture now We're gonna go through We're not done like recap and but the playoff right now with them out. I think it's a little bit more interesting I think the Rams The Rams proved me wrong when I said a couple months ago that I'm not sure these additions are really gonna pay dividends Like they thought they would Last night man. Oh, yeah, look at Odell. They really did von Miller guy right here looked Von Miller looked great. He looked fast. Oh, that was throwing like I've seen him do that a couple times. I like I know that he's a great quarterback. Oh, yeah He's more than capable. He's more than capable of doing it 40 yards. Just that's a furthest throw I've seen in a while Sometimes you just need to change location Change of scenery and things work out a little nicer for you I don't know but like my thing about Odell right now is that a lot of Browns fans are discrediting what he did yesterday They're like, oh, I was only it was only four receptions. It was only this well He has Cooper Cup. He has Matt Saffron.  Yeah, like I don't you guys didn't want him there So you should be happy that he's gone and Exactly, right. However, it is a bad luck on Baker Mayfield.  I think we all kind of anticipated that happening too. So so What else? Should we just talk about can we you want to just get it out of the way? Yeah, I might as well might as well the bill is absolutely beat the living shit out of the Patriots on Saturday night and I am here to speak at the funeral basically I'm really sorry At least you made it there.  First of all, right you did a team that Nobody saw me there nobody Thought that they would make the playoffs when I gave my Like record prediction preseason. I said they would go ten and seven. That was extreme wishful thinking that was putting More faith in them than I think a lot of people had that was being a little bit more of a Homer than I think most people would Have been at the like junker I Just I'm I'm I'm disappointed like I'm not gonna lie I'm disappointed. I think like I said after the buy They just seemed like a completely different team that just like was uninterested couldn't get it together Did it seem like they didn't really know? Not what was going on but like how to Play with each other like there was that one play against the Dolphins where Kyle Vaenoise just jogging right next to two I like they just seemed Complacent, I'm not gonna say checked out, but they seem complacent.  They completely did everything better than you but against the bills Like I don't want to compliment them. I don't like them. It's just the fact that they didn't do anything wrong No, they literally played a perfect football game. Yeah. Yeah, they really did Disgusting right against Bill Belichick to like yeah, that's the greatest coach of all time and you're letting Sean Sean McDermott and the buffalo That's you Letting all these fans get like Their heads blown up all this is what it's gonna be like for the next 20 years buckle up like oh my give me You know they had to do it, you know, like I know it hurts so bad But you just know like if you were in their situation and you did that you would be I Would be Tweeting every single thing when the Browns like when the Browns won their playoff game No, when they didn't even win that playoff game when they beat the Steelers to go to the playoffs I tweeted playoffs is probably like 30 times and Twitter kept telling me you can't do that anymore. You already tweeted that.  I think they're very talented Josh Allen has continued to Make me a believer Yes, let's go.  Who's the better quarterback right now?  No kidding. That's usually how it works That's how it's supposed to work But Josh Allen Continues to impress me continues to make me a believer like I said thought he was Thought he was just another laughing stock bills quarterback and he's he's really good He's I'd put him in the top five Quarterbacks in the league right now. Yeah, he's yeah, Josh Allen is that guy I love Josh Allen like going off of your tweet the other day like who I'm pissed at him Who in your division would you like one-half from other teams? Give me day Every single day twice on Sundays, like he he's canceled this week though.  Yeah Come on. Just don't do it once What I mean, it was funny. It was so funny I hope those fans an apology though, I really do I really do so The first time I went there. I had such a fun time like every time I've been there.   I had shots. I had beers. They had a DJ Pizza wings my scarf caught on fire someone stopped it out Like I had so much fun It was unbelievable It was great like I had the best Experience ever so I'd take back what I said. I'm sorry for that. Like they're talking number one like nothing Nothing is gonna compare with that. It was six degrees outside And that was the most I've ever had in my life Yeah, shout out to the bills for that. You're still nuts for doing that if I if I wasn't like sick last week I definitely think I would have joined you but Well, I had like I wasn't cold at all. I bought a coat from I don't think it's like North Face before I left Because I'm like I need something really good to make it through this. I had like seven pairs of pants on three hoodies Hand warmers gloves, I was good. I wasn't even cold at all. So yeah The beers were cold though.  I'd be pissed. You would have to carry me out of there I would be actually distraught to the point of like not being able to move Okay question for you. I need to know your opinion on the situation because everybody else is Um Everybody else's is Probably the same, but I don't know how you feel Okay, the dildo on the field. Yeah, why do they do that? It was funny. They do it all the time though, and it's just like at this point. It's it's weird Like I know it's their thing. I know like I get it.  How do you come on? How do you get it in?  Have you ever walked into an NFL stadium? They barely check for anything They checked my bag once and made me yeah, but you're not putting on your bag you're putting that in your well listen When you're walking in there you got on layers. I could have put that in my hoodie pocket I could put that in the hoodie pocket above that and one of my three pairs of pants pocket like Honestly, also, I took in like a microphone. I took in my phone charger.  I Don't know didn't know I just want to know what Kendrick Bourne actually said here because if you see like any videos or clips of him He's always smiling.  I'm sorry I need I need to know so if we can clip this KB. What did you say when we need to know on the field? Please respond.  Whose job is it to remove it from there? You know that thing is covered in turf beads after that Disgusting you just got to hope it's been like washed or something All the bacteria is frozen in that thing.  It could be a beach ball. It could be a Barbie doll It could be anything Fake penis oh It's crazy. I didn't hit anybody Unlike the Cowboys fans.  Yeah I really like him right. I like the practice squad thing like pay for the practice squad players like that's cool Yeah, no, that's incredible, but his car mother saw him about When he realized like or when he was told that the fans were throwing stuff at the rafts and not at the Cowboys players like Hmm, maybe learn the rules of the game right So you don't have end up in a situation like that where you have You run a QB draw with 14 seconds left no time outs And you have to speed to the line and have the have the ref set the ball for you, which is the rule Right, I don't know how he didn't know that how his offensive line didn't know that how his center didn't know that how his Coordinator or head coach did not know that Or they were moving the ball is that there's just too much going on and their brains like didn't function but like That's the rule. You can't blame the refs for enforcing the rule That's how and to say credit to them for throwing stuff at the refs like a Screw off with that. That's Because he was all he was all upset and He was saying how it's super disrespectful For the fans to do that to the players. We all go out there and just try to do our jobs day in day out Whatever, yeah, but then takes it back for the Yeah, that's just because you didn't like what happened Yeah, because you did something wrong because you didn't you didn't have any Awareness to the rule the time the lack of time outs That's their fault.  They do now. It's their fault that you lost the game Like what Madison just said it could have been at the players. Yeah, because they were pissed at you. Yeah, I would be I Know I know a lot of cow. I've seen a lot of Cowboys fans blame the refs and not Grasp the fact that the team messed up So I'm sure a lot of it was directed at the refs But I'm I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of fans were thrown at the players to for it's still terrible Yeah, I mean, there's no excuse. It's just and we've this has been a thing for the last like year and a half where Quarantine right quarantine ended and we all go back in and like that You act like the water bottle at Kyrie and stuff. Like there's no reason to do this There's no like the road dildo on field away from everybody. Sure The roasts of that players and refs cuz you're angry a little too far, you know a little too far Speaking of the Cowboys though in that whole situation at what point does Mike McCarthy get fired for this because this I feel like terrible this was the most egregious Lack of awareness time management that I Not that I've ever seen but right it's just up there with things that Thanks things that shouldn't have happened that did Like you have no timeouts left. Why are you running a quarterback draw with? 15 seconds left Okay, you know on the field three times. Yeah on the sideline.  I don't know. I don't know the Cowboys the Cowboys I Don't I just they're so talented to it. So it's so disappointing That and the penalties also Like how in discipline can you be in a playoff game? You're supposed to be America's team But you let them all down It's the Cowboys in the New England Patriots when it came to those penalties this weekend. It's just like What are you doing like you're like be better than that? I don't know but it's just it's crazy to me that this team is so talented and like every year it seems Well, not obviously last year cuz that got hurt and stuff, but right It's just like the cowboy way they have the potential they have the potential to do it and Something they get to that end of the season and something flips in their brains, and it's just like Collapse mode. Um, they let a terrible quarterback Beat them Yeah, Jimmy G he almost sold that game for them Jimmy G really had a really bad end of that game He said no guys, I don't want to move on here. You go take the ball back Let's see what you can do and then they said real you know what I'll one up you right there real quick real bad end of that game and The way Shanahan jumped on it after the game to say oh well He is still right or injury like right.  Yeah, that's what he does And I'm like, are you you're the one that said okay to do it? He's like well, it's because we listened to analytics.  No timeouts.  You have authority to override anything that gets relayed to you as head coach of professional football team That's your job And then if they're only like throw everybody else under the bus for that Lame boo tomato tomatoes thrown tomatoes. I don't like Rodgers, but like It's stuff like that that makes me like understand why like they didn't really get along and imagine Aaron Rodgers ran like that He would walk off the field.  I'm out. I retired. I'm done It's just it's just amazing to me and then Jerry Jones. It does typical Jerry Jones and I think he's never been so disappointed after a game or whatever like I feel like I've heard that so many times. I Don't know.  I Don't know but the 49 I mean the 49ers looked good Up until that that last quarter when Jimmy G just decided to be You know Jimmy Jimmy J is Mina comes calls him, which is hysterical and Going into Green Bay, especially if he's actually injured that's gonna be Interest right like it's gonna be like a toe injury face off Yeah, because if if they win it's gonna be like in spite of Jimmy J. It's not gonna be because of him, right? Not that I think that they are gonna win but But that's that um what other games this week bangles bangles Raiders The other and only interesting game of the weekend I would say yeah the Cowboys game in this game were the only two like exciting ones I have something to say about that game and people might get mad for what I'm gonna say But I mean it I really do mean it and I love Joe Burrow Joe Burrow is awesome But he was not one of the best quarterbacks this weekend He played okay. He didn't do anything crazy, but he did enough to win. Yeah, sometimes. That's all you need He did enough, but if they want to beat the Titans, you're gonna have to do a little more Yeah, I mean it's it's safe to say that like Josh Allen and Patrick Holmes take that that spot right that's quarterback to the weekend, but Also, I have a problem with see I like the bangles I do but there is one thing that made me so mad before they played Bangles fans. I love you guys, but do not put LeBron and Joe Burrow in the same fucking sentence What there was high videos saying Joe Burrow is the best thing that's happened to Ohio since LeBron and I'm like Don't ever say that again don't ever say that again also northeast Ohio and Cincinnati are not the same place We are not the same Kentucky yeah Yeah So don't ever and I repeat ever say that about LeBron and Joe Burrow again Yeah, that's weird And they were like eating that up. I'm like you guys didn't even like LeBron you guys probably didn't even watch him That's I just I don't know. I mean like there's two different sports one is the Arguably the greatest of his sport ever the other right the other one's like What it's second year quarterback that's having a good year, but like That's it's not the same thing and I like Joe Burrow But do not put those two like that. How do you feel about the Joe Burrow Tom Brady comparison hate it?   I don't want to hear you can compare like styles of play and like mechanics and stuff like that like all like Yeah, you know, like his his form is very similar to Tom Brady that sure That'll give you because you just look at it and if it looks the same Yeah, okay, but don't sit here and tell me Mack Jones or Joe Burrow is the next time Brady because it's just no ignorant It's going to be another Tom Brady. It's like you can't even say and The same could be true with the the LeBron and Michael Jordan argument like yeah LeBron and Jordan are like 1a 1b Whoever you want in those spots, you know, but you can't do Tom Brady 1a Joe Burrow There's never gonna be another Tom Brady, please stop with the comparisons Please stop saying oh, this guy's the next guy. This guy's the next guy Tom Brady's Tom Brady years old about to be 45 years old this summer and he's still playing He's still on another potential Super Bowl run If he wins his eighth, yeah, he might be done. I doubt it to be honest with you I think he's gonna try to go for 10 at this point because he's absolutely psychotic But don't compare these young guys to him Especially while he's still playing that's disrespectful I think like the closest thing that we could ever get to that right now with the guys playing Is Patrick Holmes. He's still not even gonna be close Yeah, like that's the closest you can get like Mahomes is putting up the numbers Mahomes is coming close to to He's going to the Super Bowl. He's doing that like Brady's. Yeah. This is my This very well could be his third Super Bowl in three years That is the only person I would even put under the same Zip code as Tom Brady let alone Saying that he's the next guy like There's never gonna be another one Please stop because you give me headaches when you do this people. Please. I'm begging you Hurts it hurts not discrediting anything that Joe Burrow has done. He's awesome. Not at all. I love Joe Burrow Chill out a little just two completely different quarterbacks one is All the way over here in terms of being will be actual greatest player in this league Ever And the other is just starting like stop give it some time give it some time You even start with that Let it marinate just a little bit before you throw it on the grill. I'm begging you Yeah, like and then the whole like is burrow versus Herbert the next Brady versus Manning and I'm like hell no, it's not No, it's not. There's so many other quarterbacks that are so better. It's not It's not at this point. I would say In terms of like teams being teams being good quarterbacks being good if there was going to be the next Brady Manning it would be Alan Mahomes, right? It would be that's why we're at it would be the bills and chiefs fight me like we're gonna get a taste of it this weekend essentially finding each other to the death to get to that spot and Both of those guys are super young. Both of those teams are super talented and will be for the next very long time years to come Like if if there's anything that's going to be even close to it You know those patriots and colts teams were and then those patriots and broncos teams were towards the end of Peyton's career. It's going to be these two the third They're the closest thing in my opinion. I just Right, like we just give it some time before you start making that crazy statement Yeah, I just Okay, so since we're talking about those, so it's just the fact that Brady's still playing and people are doing this Right. Yeah, I just like dude. You're done Oh, I don't know Um, this graphic this one's good if you had to pick one quarterback to have for the next 10 years Who would you pick? Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes? I don't like either of them. You do to start Right, but if you had to think You had to pick one of the two. Who are you picking and why I know who I'm picking I'm picking Patrick Mahomes um Both are great. Both would be phenomenal. Like both are great options. Like you can't go wrong.   It's just the thing with Patrick Mahomes is Is It's like the scrambling is it the family? That's family. It's got a little bit to do with it. Just a little bit um All the scrambling he does though, like sometimes I feel like he does it just to like put on a show He doesn't need to do it.  What are you doing?  It's cool to watch right now, but as his As he gets older and like as his career progresses That that's gonna hurt That's gonna hurt him physically. It's gonna hurt. I think his production because That when you throw sidearm it It messes up a lot of stuff in your shoulder and if he he does it on a consistent basis Like he does now as he gets older and older in this league. I'm just worried that it's gonna actually cause an injury and I just think Josh Allen like Pound for pound has more Power like he's a he's a gunslinger. He is pretty powerful. He's nuts. He's insane He was thrown in 50 mile per hour wind gusts that first came against the Patriots and it was like it didn't even make a difference it was wild um Yeah, like both like for me like both are just so good But i'm going to go with Patrick Rehones because I already know he's a proven winner like he can do it Yeah Yeah, but he has had A lot of help around him and I think that's the only reason why i'm not necessarily on his side This I mean, there's I don't think there's a wrong answer here at all, right? I think but that's the point of like having a team you want the best ones out there with the best players Yeah But I want you look at not to go back and make everything about time brady, but it's true Weapons No, he that's why he left. That's why he left. He said I don't have enough. So I got a dip. I got to get And he was I got to get antonio brown I got to get chris gong when I got to get old-ass Leonard for that on the team Six super bowls with no weapons the one come on. He had weapons he had what gab please look at Yes, he did. I was throwing a chris hole and just got pulled off of the penn state lacrosse team And when it's on brand for them But that's the that's what i'm trying to say. He doesn't have brady never up until the last year and a half with tim But brady never had anybody had some weapons the one year. He did he lost a super bowl the one year He had weapons No Guys, please somebody back me up on this you look at you look at the list of brady's receivers throughout his career like Rachea Caldwell Kembrale Tompkins like What are we doing? He's had grunk. He's had randy moss Aaron Hernandez The best of the best at their positions though. Yeah, too.  He had antonio brown weapon He had josh gordon weapon He had josh gordon who couldn't stay off the we have He had josh gordon for a collective like six games still happen And then he said And then he said, um, I don't have enough here. I need more So he was right His last year and then that's why he won last year with the Patriots. He had nakeel harry jacoby miers julian edelman who was playing with half a body Yeah, but like it just goes with your what you're saying about pat through homes when he had the weapons He was great when he didn't he was okay, but like he has them so you can't blame him for that My homes has always had weapons Oh, he should You should always want weapons brady should have always had weapons too. He shouldn't have had to throw to Nikila harry ever, but that's oh my god, that's different jermaine wiggins who was like Twice the size of what he was back then um If we're talking about weapons, let's talk about something I said this weekend pissed everybody off Yeah, oh man And I'll say it again. I'll keep saying it I'm gonna add juju every single day and I'm gonna say hey, please come to the browns.  Just I deleted it so you can come to cleveland Wow You actually deleted it. I deleted it. There's some other reasons why I deleted it, but well those cannot be said But however, I deleted it. I need juju to come to the cleveland browns.    It's just it's without I don't understand your fan base. I don't understand Because I would take staphon diggs in a heartbeat like And yeah, he's a bill Right, but like you would why don't want your team? I would take him in a heartbeat. I don't understand it's like I don't know go ahead All I have to say is like, I just don't see any like thing I get it like the tiktok thing, but I feel like he's fine. Like I feel like he had his moment I roasted him. He got trolled He grew up. He grew past that and I feel like he's not causing any drama Like if you talk to anybody on the stealers they're like, oh my god, he's such a great teammate He's so good at the locker room. He's good for this team.    That was a total guess.  Hell. Yeah, anybody would want Miles Garrett on their team I just don't understand you I don't I'm not it's not you obviously but your your fan base some of them It makes no sense to me. It's like you want to continue to be bottom of the barrel mediocre Shitty cleveland browns, but when there's there's when you can improve there's things to help the team There's things to make the team better. You don't want to do it. You just want to stick to the old ways You want to say I don't want anybody that was ever on their team like I saw people make the comparison to like how steal how do you think stealers fans felt when like joe hayden became a stealer They loved it. They were happy That's they were happy.   I don't get it.  Like there was a tweet this tweet You will love this one.  I've ever seen in my life someone in like May when like the erin rogers rumors were going around saying like he was trying to leave, you know When he did his little lockout Someone said this is exactly what said I would rather lose games with baker Than win games with erin rogers get the hell out of here. No, what is that being wooden?    I saw I saw some patriots fans today talking about You know getting rid of bella check saying how mac jones had a bad season Because he didn't have any he only had one game winning drive dramatic only one game winning drive That's how we're gonna rate how his season was and this is going from the person who didn't even want him to begin with Well, how many game winning drives that you need to have though? Like that's another question apparently more than one Okay, but I mean like how many games like did you have to have a game winning drive to win though? That's like I mean not that many off the top of my head there there were four The first game against miami where he did orchestrated game winning drive. It's not his fault damian harris fumbled the football um the game against dallas where he Put them ahead with two minutes left.   I have a feeling Um real quick someone in the comments said that person is definitely trolling about the erin rogers tweet No, they were not they were 100 serious like i'm not even we're not even kidding like that's how bad it gets they were serious and um It's it's a disease It's bad being a browns fan is the worst thing that's ever happened to my life and I didn't even ask for it I It's bad.  I feel like that's what That's what my life is like.  All right at this point zero out of 10. Don't recommend No, like I just so conditioned to not at this point because I already know what's gonna happen I hate if you know what's gonna happen It's all better poor Madison everybody told me to become a browns fan The dumbest thing That anyone could have ever done to you and you know, we're really sorry We're really sorry Here we go from Adam Schefter an apology from Cowboys quarterback duck press got I deeply regret the comments I made regarding the officials after the game on sunday I was caught up in the emotion of a disappointing loss and my words were uncalled for and unfair Yeah, they were So congrats for growing up today But they made you post that probably. Oh, yeah, I'm sure but You were caught up in all the emotion and everything But you gave a very clear and concise reason as to why fans shouldn't be throwing stuff at the players But when it came to the referees, it was like, ah good for them Yeah, like I get it.   Yeah, um, at least it was a notes app Yeah I'll give him credit for that Okay, the notes app. Oh my god. Nope. See here we go Cowboys fans in the comments. No, bro You were 100 right. It has like 28 likes already in one minute Y'all are sick You guys are sickos Don't apologize the game was 100 rigged Please There all the comments were saying you were right. You were right. Don't apologize See now y'all are freaks I just I don't Whatever that just let's yeah, let's just not Of all teams of all teams the historic Dallas Cowboys don't know the rules Big surprise there. I just don't get it Okay, let's just move on from Dak and let's talk about teams that are actually playing this week Uh, yeah, should we go through the picks? Yeah, let's There's not that many so Here we go. Yeah ours are we're vastly different this week. That's just pretty interesting, right But I mean these games are exciting. Finally. Yeah. No, they really are I think this is gonna be a really good weekend of football. Um Check it first Yeah, okay so I know that these are not in order of uh when they're being played Just go with it guys. I don't really care. Uh, we're just gonna go. Okay. So the LA Rams at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Um, I in my 25 years of being live my 21 years of being able to watch and understand professional sports Know that betting against tom brady is the wrong thing to do especially at home, especially in a home playoff game So For that reason I am taking the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Plus, I think they're getting Leonard Cornette back this week um, which is huge for them And uh, yeah the Rams I the Rams scare me In this game. I think that they are really figuring themselves out and on you know On the right track, uh, I I'm just not betting against brady. I'm just not doing it. Um Niners at Packers If you want me to just go rebuttal to Rams Oh, yeah. Yeah, good idea. Okay go. Yeah So why I think the Rams are going to win this game. Okay, so if Matthew Stafford doesn't have damn butterfingers out there and throw in a million picks The Rams will win this game I think they just have really great offensive weapons I like what they're doing. They have cam acres back and I think that they are going to get the job done Their defense look crazy good. Yeah Kyler was couldn't do anything. He literally couldn't do anything. However, he probably couldn't see over them Yeah, I don't know just scary. I think it's gonna this is gonna be a good game I think it's gonna be a lot of points But I think The Rams win this like 33 to 31. Okay Sorry, Tom Brady Antonio Brown's gonna be tweeting up a storm after this one It's what I got. Yeah. No, I think it's gonna be really a Close high scoring game too. I'm just gonna take I'm gonna take the box. I think I think if anybody Could do it. It's gonna be Brady and if he needs a game winning drive that because they're all so very important in this world Uh I've got faith and Brady to do it because I've seen him do it a million times. So um All right next nfc game 49ers at Packers The I I mean The Packers I think are just the best team in the playoffs right now The best thing left jimmy g's gonna pull a baker mayfield in lambo And fire off some pig sexes. Well, that's who I mean, especially if he's got a sprained shoulder, which I think is what they're calling it um so they say Fred Warner's got an ankle sprain, which is he's essentially their quarterback of their defense What about that psychopath nick nosa? He's concussed, right? I don't know. I'm not laughing at his injury. I'm just laughing at No, he's he's a psycho. Um, I believe he's concussed so I I wouldn't be surprised if they're without him this weekend, which I mean sucks for them lessons third their chances in my opinion not that I really think they had much to begin with but um Yeah, I just think I think the Packers are the all-around better team So I'm gonna take Packers Packers. I think barn rogers has a lot in the nfc championship I can't wait I think Aaron rogers is going to like I I don't know. I think he's really just gonna do it all This playoff season. I think he's just gonna keep winning Yeah, and I think he has a lot of anchor inventions and a lot of things have not been going as a way this year So he is ready to Go off him and the misses are on the rocks too. So I hear Are they that's I saw who said that? What no way on one of the Listen, okay. When did when did you see this? Where did you see this? Because now I have some like theories running through my mind Oh, I've got lots of theories. It was on somebody's instagram story. Uh, it was Let me see if I can find it. Let me see if I remember who it was Okay, so this is what I think about that. So we know we know about Aaron rogers We know he is anti-family man and it's playoff time So it's definitely anti-family man at this point.  He tried that ones didn't work out. So let's try it again Okay, here we go. Okay magazine Oh, Jesus.  Have you ever heard that man? I'm not surprised in the slightest in the slightest but Who knows maybe that'll maybe that'll affect the way he plays maybe he's he's so Torn up about the fact that his relationship might be ending with crazy earthy crunchy make her own I don't know toothpaste and stuff but that she like doesn't use normal people toothpaste or whatever So, I don't know. Let's see.  I can't hear you. Where'd you go? You muted yourself I don't know bro. I got nothing There we go.  Okay. We're good. Anyway anyway, um What other okay, so this one This I'm excited for this game. I think I think I think the bangles can do it No I'm mad about the lebron thing So, oh no, it's a no from me Because when you try to compare yourself to lebron nothing good is gonna happen to you. Yeah That's fair I just think The titans coming off a buy like sometimes that buy does more harm than good Um And the bail's offense is just so fun. There it is. It is very fun.  He can take it. No, I know. I mean, I know I'm not worried about him, but I'm just saying like Is he up to playing speed is the thing? Yeah, but he's definitely rested It's definitely going to be the healthiest one out there. His legs are as fresh as daisies, but I don't know. I mean, this is the the one game Out of the four that whoever wins like I'll be happy with because I like this titan seem to um I I love a j brown I think he should have been a patriot So like watching him succeed kind of furthers my narrative that that should have happened and the pager is really Fucked up in that 2019. Yeah.   Don't ever do that again Joe burrow can be king of your jungle, but he's not king of ohio. So don't ever do that again. Oh my god Okay, I'm done. I'm done talking about that one, but I do think that the titans will win this game I think Derek Henry is going to have a big game I think he's gonna go off and Yeah, but I just don't like this game. I don't like it. I think it's kind of Really like compared to the bills and The chiefs like this game is just like, okay. Well, it's like a second tier Yeah, this is the one seat. I'm like, but the bill's chiefs game seems like a championship game and now Like do I really want to watch the chiefs or bills play the titans? No I don't want to watch that. Do I want to play see them play the bangles? Yeah, probably a little bit more but still I'd rather watch them play again than the other ones Yeah, I think They're still really good teams. I don't think it's going to be as exciting or explosive as you know, the bill's chiefs game, but I still think it's it's fun. I mean The bangles are extremely young they're Really, I mean we had our our rankings of The teams that are left in the playoffs and Fandall put them at eight out of eight like nobody really believes in them to go farther than they have so far So that makes it fun.  So what does it matter? but I just think The chiefs are after watching that game the other night. I know it was just the Steelers, but like Like I said earlier, you had Travis Kelsie throwing touchdowns.   I said that before um I think this is gonna be a really good game another high scoring game like the bucks and rams game. I just think the chiefs are More equipped to do it and it's a home game. It is a home game and arrowhead is crazy. I mean, they did play there already The sheer yeah, I just Arrowhead playoff atmosphere like that patriots AFC championship game there. It was loud Loud I feel like they're used to loud games too Yeah, no, I'm sure bills fans are too like I mean, I've never been in Buffalo, but it seems like an electric place, but arrowhead's known for being like the loudest in in the league for a long long long time and I think I just I don't feel comfortable picking against the home team in this one. That's all I'm just I'm picking the bills till I can't pick them anymore So if that means picking them now and can't pick them next week or picking them in the super bowl That's what I'm going with Man, if they make it to the super bowl Oh, I'd be so sick. What if they made it lost again? I would be so sad for them It'd be so sad not me Ah, that would be Oh, I would love it. I would love it I love everything about it, especially that one guy that's That said going 0 and 4 is better than the pass record in the super bowl Oh, yeah It was 0 and 5. Oh my goodness. Stefan digs two touchdowns to spite me this week. Yeah, probably it's gonna happen. It's really gonna happen. No, it is I feel like I feel like we've been hyping up this game to be like so electric and high scoring. It'll probably end like 17 to like 13 could you imagine I'd be so pissed especially with the way this last weekend went with how disappointing the majority of these games were I needed to be like 40s both teams Yeah, I have a feeling it will be I mean both of these defenses are are good But I think both of the offenses are just so much better that it's it's just gonna be right like a fun time Big scoring party essentially um Yeah, I Don't know it'll be interesting I also wouldn't hate it if it was like a garoppolo brady NFC championship game Yuck, I would hate it.  Yeah, they did But that narrative's still going around here. You'd be surprised how much that's still a talking point See, I would love an erin rogers. It's not I want I don't want this happen, but it would be sick erin rogers tom brady erin rogers win I know you don't like that one if it ended up being a packers bill super bowl. I don't think I would watch Oh, that'd be so fun. I don't think I think that's I think that would be the most fun matchup I think I would want nothing to do with that. I mean I want no part of it I want that to happen More than anything or or Odell odell super bowl ring I would like that Yeah Yep That's what I got. That's all I got. Yeah, I don't know I don't know. We're just on the The fu buffalo train this weekend over here I feel it. I just don't want I was on the fu kairi train yesterday. So I get it I don't want to I don't want to deal. Um What else is that it? That's all I got. Oh the scores bot. That's in the chat. The Bruins are losing five one after the first period That's that's nice. That's sickening. Woohoo All right. Well That kind of ruined my night. Anyway, um On that note This yeah, I think we're we're pretty much done. This is more like just a football centric show. I know basketball and hockey are in there. They're big swing of things right now, but like It's another we got playoffs that trumps everything The playoffs don't care Don't care. Um One message I have for you guys before you go if you are listening to this show I need you to vote Darius garland jared allen for mba all-star. It's in cleveland. We Need them we need them to make it. When is the all-star game? Uh, see, I don't know the exact date. It's like the second week of the week after the Super Bowl whenever that week is So like valentine's day ish um Yeah, or like that the no the Super Bowl is the 13th The Super Bowl being pushed back a week throws me off so much. So it's 14th is on a monday, right? And then that week all-star so got it. Okay Okay, maybe we can Madison coming in clutch february 20th february 20th. That's it go calves Let's see. Let's see if uh My little Celtics boys can make it in there. They're starting to pick it back up. We'll see Uh on that note, we're done here. Happy to be back Thank you guys for hanging out. This is probably one of the more lively chats. We've had in a long time I like really good. I'd like to take full credit for that by making everybody angry that I said tom birdie has had no weapons So So thank you guys, uh, you're all still wrong, but thank you anyway Yeah, thanks guys. I hope you had so much fun It will be back uh next week This is gonna be my next week is my last show in this apartment. So we gotta Make it a good one. Go out with bank. We'll send it off Uh, yeah, and yeah, that's it We'll see you guys later


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to the Teenage Mutant Digital Guide to Color Theory. For about 13 years I've been teaching people about programming in various tech things for about four, for various organizations, and coloring color theory is one of my very favorite technical-adjacent topics to teach. And that's because it's a really interesting combination of science, human factors, aesthetics, and it has a really big impact on users. And qualified to talk about this particular topic, which is the Teenage Mutant Digital's, and color theory because I wanted to be one of them. I also am very excited about this microphone because I like to pretend that I'm a boy dance. Six parts. We are going to talk about color groups. We're going to talk about color associations. We will talk about the color wheel. We'll talk about color combinations. We'll talk about color properties and terms. And we'll talk about accessibility just a little bit because it's important. So let's do this. So when we're talking about color, you need to start at the beginning and that means we're going to talk about color groups. And so this helps us really understand, search this, understand the foundation and the principles of colors. And all colors fall into one of three groups. We have warm colors, cool colors, and neutral colors. So when we think about warm colors, these are generally thought to be very positive and energetic. And colors in this group have actually been shown to have the right physical effect on people. They can raise your blood pressure, they can raise your respiration rate, they can even enhance your metabolism. And if you think about the kind of brands that use warm colors, you'll see a lot of organizations that are trying to communicate fun or energy or playfulness. So think about brands like this who have one of the best food companies use this. Like Donalds, lots of red and lots of red yellow because they're trying to, one, like make you excited about eating high quality snacks. And they also kind of want to get you in and out really fast, right? So they want to kind of keep you moving in and out. Next, we have cool color groups. Colors in this group are thought to be a little bit calmer and more relaxing. They're often associated with stability and composure. And then again, if you think about the kinds of brands that are using these colors, they often really want you to trust them. So you'll see a lot of banks and hospitals and insurance companies and Facebook. They really just want you to be like, it's fine, we're safe, you're safe here. And then, we have neutral color groups. So neutral colors are often more conservative. They can sort of skew a little bit cooler or a little bit warmer. It's good that these top three colors, they're skewing a little bit more cool so they have a little bit more blue in them. Colors in this sort of the cooler side of neutral will be like grays and sort of more on the black side of colors. And then these two colors in the bottom are skewing a little bit warmer, so they have a little bit more red. So things like tan or beige. And so these are often used as like the base of the color palette. So you'll often have, like I said, a neutral color, so it'll be sort of a foundation of your color palette. You'll have a warmer, cool tone that uses your accent color to really pop. Last group we'll talk about now is colors for mutants. It's not a color group, but you know, it's mutants. And they tend to have fairly specific uses as well. Very specific sort of cultural associations. Just to be thinking about examples of groups that fall into this category, we have things like the X-Men, Godzilla, the Turtles. And this leads us to color associations. So like mutants, we have very strong cultural associations with colors. So whether or not we really consciously need, realize this color is caring meaning. So the exact meaning can be very subjective based on design choices or sort of other sort of contextual pieces of the puzzle, but a lot of it is very heavily influenced by the culture that you grew up in. So that means that it's really important to be aware of your user when you are choosing color colors and selecting making these choices. Because different cultures, different traditions, different societies and religious beliefs have very different cultural associations with color and they're very strong, very deeply held associations. So if you think about an example of this is the color white. In Western cultures or many Western cultures, white is often associated with cleanliness or purity. It's a very bright, often sort of like a cleansing positive color. And then in many Eastern cultures, it's actually associated with death. It is the color used in mourning and it's often used in funerals. So one color to very different associations. So this is beginning as a good reminder to like know your audience, know your user. So when we talk kind of back to the color groups, back to some specific colors, when we think about these specific colors they have very strong associations with them and red is one that is a very, very strong color. It is often associated with determination. It's also very polarized. You have some color associated with the devil. It's also the color associated with the Cuban. So it's like love and hate. It's a very passionate color. And if we think about the turtles, we have Raphael, sort of good ol' breath. He's kind of a Jersey boy. He's a little bit sassy. He's got a lot of attitude problems. But he's definitely very strongly associated with this particular color. His personality is really rooted in and reflected in these cultural associations that we tend to have with red. It is, he's very strong. He's very intense. He can get kind of angry. He's very passionate about things. He has opinions. He really leans into it. Like he's a very strong opinionated character. Then we have the color orange. Now orange is also a very, it's also been a warm color group. It's used a little bit more on the positive playful side of these sort of reddish colors, whereas red can be very passionate. Color orange tends to be much more positive and energetic. If you think about the kind of brands or places you might see orange, there's a lot of things that are included in my children's books or things that children will use. So it's a very positive, playful color. And we have Michelangelo. Right, so Mike is the goofy one, right? He's the one who likes, he's very playful, he's very silly, he's very goofy. He is also sort of like the really outgoing, friendly one in the group. And he's very, again, very tied to this association that we have with orange. Then we have blue. And again, blue colors are a little bit more associated with stability. Blue is, we have Leonardo. So Leonardo is like the leader of the group.  He's the one who makes the plans and sort of follows through on things. He's the one who, if he says he's gonna do something, it's gonna get that. He makes sure that everybody stays on track and is doing what they need to do. Then we have purple. So in the history of purple, it's pretty interesting. So purple has historically been a really difficult dye to make. So the things you needed to create the dye for purple was very expensive and it was really hard to access. So the people who had purple clothing, fabrics, anything like that were associated with money. So you have people that were in the clergy, people who were in like monarchies, so people like kings and queens, those sorts of folks. Those were the only places of the only people that you tended to see the color purple because it was very expensive. So because of that, that's where historical, where where purple came from, we understand that so we sort of culturally associate purple with dignity, wisdom, sometimes creativity, anything but the turtles, we have Donatello. So Donatello is like the engineer of the group. He's the problem solver. He's very curious, he's very like-hearted, but he's very smart and he's very, he's a little bit more studious than some of the others. He tends to fix things very easily. He likes to get his hands in stuff and really understand the problem and engineer a solution for it. Then we have Neutral. And again, Neutral colors are often associated with relaxation, they're dependable, they're often very calm, and we have Splinter, right? So Splinter's like the neutral, rounding force of the turtles. And all of the, all of his, all of his, you know, children, turtles, they are these little accent colors on his sort of base neutral, stable foundation that he sets for them. So now that I've understand, you can talk a little bit about color groups, you understand sort of the foundations of colors and where they come from. Now we can start to talk about the color reel. So this allows us to really dig into the relationships between colors. So this is how we understand the period of colors and how they are created. So get started with that. We're gonna talk about primary colors. So primary colors are the base colors. All of the colors are created from these. And those colors are red, blue, and yellow. So essentially, you cannot make a color, you cannot use any combination of colors to make red, blue, or yellow, but all of their colors come from some sort of combination of those three colors. Then we talk about the turtles. This thing comes back to like the period of color, comes back to the period of personalities. So these two, we have this very sort of polarizing, warm, cool personality combination. We have Raphael is this very intense red, he's very much like, he's very aggressive, he's very assertive, we have Leonardo, who's like the most pure, cool color, and they balance each other out, they counter each other out really well. You have this cool, hot dynamic, and they sort of, we have one who's a little bit more firing, one who's able to sort of keep them under control and balance and keep them on track. Then we have secondary colors. Secondary colors are created by evenly mixing two primary colors. So a secondary color would be essentially like purple, orange, or green, and they're made by blending two primary colors, be the equal amounts. Then we think back to the turtles. We have Donatello and Raphael, Michael Angel, oh my gosh, excuse me, she said the wrong one, oh my gosh. So no, Donatello, Michael Angel. So again, we have this hot, cool dynamic. They still have very, very intense sort of personalities, but they're a little bit softer, they're not quite as intense as Raphael and Leonardo, but they still get some of that hot, cool dynamic where it's like Donatello's a little bit more studious, Michael Angel is a little bit more goofy, a little bit more free-for-all. So they still have that hot, cool dynamic, but they're a little bit soft, they're not as intense. The relationship that they have with each other and the rest of the group is not as intense as Raphael and Leonardo. So now that we understand color groups, we've talked a little bit about the color wheel and how to create colors. Now we can start to talk about combining colors. So this is one of those things that can sometimes seem a little bit, can seem pretty straightforward, like creating a color combination that's not so bad, but it can kind of turn into a vacuum of sadness. Like it's not always something as easy as you might expect. So we do have a few rules to kind of help you, help guide you in your color matching efforts. So to that end, we're gonna start off by talking about complementary color combinations. So this is one of the most straightforward, easy to produce color combinations. So you essentially take two colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel. In this example, we have purple and yellow. So this is gonna be a primary color and secondary color. And you just do a line directly across the color row from each other, and that is your complementary color combination. This is not always the most effective combination because they can be very intense. That's a boundary edge between the two colors. So we took this purple and yellow and we'll slide them up right next to each other. That boundary edge between those colors can have a little bit of a visual vibration. It can actually feel pretty harsh. It can be kind of intense. It doesn't always look nice. So to kind of get around that, we have this concept of a split complementary. So this is where you take this complementary color combination. So there's two colors directly across the color wheel from each other. Then you go up a tick or down a tick on the color wheel, on one of those. And it gives you a slightly more softened combination. So you'll still have that high contrast pairing, but it'll be a little bit less intense, a little bit less punchy, maybe a little bit less of a vibration that you actually look at it. You'll see a lot of sports teams are really leveraging this in their logos. So you can. Then we have this concept of a triad. So a triad is essentially when you take the color wheel, you take a triangle, and you drop the triangle directly on the color wheel. So this gives you a really evenly balanced, straightforward combination which gives you a nice balance of either warm and cool colors because you're very, very balanced grouping of colors. So it's very easy to predict and very easy to use. Then we have this concept of a titratic color scheme. This is when you take a rectangle, so not just a square, but you have to take a rectangle and you drop it across the color wheel and it gives you, again, a very balanced combination of warm and cool colors. And it also gives you the turtles. This is as close as I get to go see if there is something there. You end up with this. What they have seemed like a very arbitrary grouping of colors is actually very intentional. So we have seen that we have this very high contrast, punchy colors, and they are evenly distributed. They are very balanced. They get a nice mix of hot, cool, and aggressive, and a little bit softer personalities and tones. And there's contrast, but there's not conflict between these personalities and these characters. Thank you. All right. So now that we understand color groups, we've talked about the color wheel. We understand sort of the basics of starting to how we can make colors. Now we can start to talk about color properties. So this is to help us with some vocabulary, help us be able to make better conversations with people about color as one does. It's great to bring out at parties, impress your grandma on holidays. It's great. So, color properties. All right. So we're gonna start off with hue. So hue is essentially, it defines a pure color. In some cases, you can almost just use the term hue interchangeably with the word color. You'll often see these as a primary or secondary color on the color wheel. So these will be colors that are very bright, very punchy. They're often sort of the colors you might find in like an eight-pack box of crayons when you're a little kid. So they're often the colors that have names. So like red, purple, all those sorts of colors. Next, we have value. So value describes how light or dark a color is. So in this example, we have a low value color, which is this purple on the far side. So that means that it is actually absorbing more light than it is reflecting back into your eye. So a low value color is gonna be a darker color. And then we have the high value color, which is this yellow. So that means that it's reflecting more light back into your eye. So you have low and high value that just describes the darkness or lightness of a color. Then we have tone. So tones are made by mixing pure color with a neutral or gray-scale color. So the tone is essentially the term tone itself refers to the variation of that specific color or hue that you're referring to specifically. Then we have a tint.   So we have tones, and then shades and tints are variations of tones. If you really wanna be fancy, you can shade tints or shades. If that's too much, you can just say tone and it's still correct. So don't worry, be nice to yourself. All right, so let me have saturation. So saturation is pretty interesting. So particularly good saturation. This defines the range of purity of a color. And it goes from 100% saturated or 100% pure color, which is what we have on this far side of this really bright vibrant green-y yellow color to 0% saturated, which is in this sort of tonal gray on this side. So this is a really interesting sort of thing. So you can essentially, something that's also worth noting when you desaturate a color in equal steps, like this example here, you'll see that those bars start to look like they have to have a gradient in them, but that's just an optical illusion that your eyes are playing on you. It's actually just the color within each bar is consistent. It's just the pairing of each of those bars next to each other creates this like trick on your eyes that allows you to sort of look like each one of those bars is actually gradient, which is kind of an interesting thing. And it's also interesting when you are, actually when you're painting, so you're using like physical painting paint brushes, to create this tonal gray, you take two colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel and you blend them in equal amounts. And then in the center, you end up with a tonal gray. So you have completely desaturated that color by taking two opposite colors onto complementary colors to colors opposite each other on the color wheel and you blend them in equal amounts. And that ends up with a totally neutral color. It is completely desaturated, but it's still tonal. So it still has some of the characteristics and sort of visual flavor that you might find in one of the two like starting colors, which means it didn't pair very nicely with one of those two other colors. So if you were trying to select a color palette, this is a great way to find the right neutral color to use as your base. And then you can use one of the fully saturated hues as like your accent color for your logos or your highlight colors. And so then when you're talking about tonal gray, again it's made by combining two colors opposite each other on the color wheel in equal amounts. We have splinter. So splinter is the tonal gray of the turtles. So splinter is basically made by combining all of his students in equal amounts and then in the middle he gets splinter.  And he has basically done it and you see parts of him in all of the students. But he is neutral, he is very calm, he's very centered. So splinter is the tonal gray of the turtles. We get back to accessibility strategies because this is important. And when you talk about color blindness, about 4.5% of the population has some form of color vision deficiencies. So in the US that's about 13 million people. And this might not seem like something that is like, maybe this is sort of one of those things and like, this isn't my job. Like I'm an engineer, I'm gonna be working on, like back in I'm gonna be building tables. I don't know, like 13 million people was a lot of potential users. And if you're not paying attention to that and you're not being mindful of that or aware of that then that's, that could be a problem, problematic for your business. So, pay attention to that. So, Wendy are, one of the big things to keep in mind is don't rely solely on color, communicate a message to your users. So if you look at this example we're gonna start up with some forms. Excuse me, there's little forms, right? They're fun. They're great, love forms. So, in this example we see that we have success in error messages being communicated exclusively with colors. So the boundary of the inputs are changing colors based on, to communicate which inputs have the correct type of content put into them so the form would be successful on them. We have one, so this third one for email is red, which indicates like, this isn't gonna work, this is the problem you need to fix this one. The problem with this is that the most common type of color vision deficiency is red, green, color blindness. So, that means that you are now just right off the bat excluding a pretty significant number of users from being able to use this form successfully. Because if they can't see that, they can't see that color change. They're not gonna understand what they did wrong and they're not gonna understand why this form wants them in. And you're gonna have frustrated users think that they are their product, that's a problem. So, if we put this through like a red, green, color vision deficiency simulator, we can see that we can't tell the difference, right? So like, this is something just keep in mind like, think about your users, think about whether or not they can actually see what you see. So, we can see right now that when I have that, dude, when I put this through the color vision deficiency simulator, I can't see which form, which input is they want. So, a better solution again is to not just rely solely on color to communicate to your users. So, in this case, we have pulled in error messaging, so we're actually like lining up a little bit of language around to help a user understand what went wrong. And we're pulling in some universal icons. And universal icons is a little bit of a dangerous game, like that's not really, the concept of a universal icon is a little bit untrue. It's not necessarily something that exists, but these are pretty straightforward. We have a little check mark for success and a little X for failure. So, that's something that most people will be able to understand. And when you combine it with some very explicit verbiage around what went wrong, that will help them understand. So, now if we put this through that color vision deficiency simulator, we see that we can still figure out what's going on. You know what went wrong. We can go in and we can fix this. It's great. So, a little easy change, nothing huge, makes a huge difference for your users. And something to keep in mind too is that this now makes this form much more usable for everyone. It's not just focused around your users that have some sort of accessibility restraints. This makes a better product for everyone who's using it for your entire user base. So, that's awesome. Now, if we think of the turtles, what about the turtles before? We know we talk a lot about colors and how they are very much bound to the cultural associations we have with these particular colors, that they're a little fancy bandanas match. So, something we've got. We have to make it, you can't see all those colors. What are we gonna do? So, now put the turtles through a color vision deficiency simulator. And if we look at this, we can still, we can't tell based on just the colors alone, who's who. But, we can absolutely tell who they are because of their weapons. Don't rely just on color to communicate with users. So, simply by having these very distinctive, very unique weapons for each individual turtle, we have made them accessible. We did it. Amazing. So, essentially, this is just a good reminder. Don't communicate solely through color and expect your users to understand. You have to make sure that you're giving people multiple ways to understand your messaging and understand what you're trying to communicate. So, these parts, they colored colors and conspiracy theories. My research and references were exclusively from being a kid in the 90s. And I'm pretty sure that I nailed it. So, question for you. Should developers care about colors? Yes, so, even if you are not building up the UI of the product. Hopefully not. Well, fingers crossed. Based on the UIs I've seen developers do. That was mean. So, it actually does matter. So, Jeff just said that there was things about those examples that I showed to the forum that you weren't able to see. And maybe some other people in this room weren't able to see those differences until we pulled an icon to place. So, that is something to keep in mind is that there are places outside of just the UI of a product that your color choices can have a really positive impact on your team or make things easier for their team. So, Trello has a colorblind version. So, rather than just relying on colors to change the background or indicate which cards are ready to go or whatever, they actually incorporate textures. There are different settings on text editors. They print syntax highlighting color palettes that are more appropriate for colorblind users. So, it's something to think about like if you are fully color-sided and you're pairing a lot with someone or you have people on your team who are not fully color-sided, the choices that you make on how you set up your system or if you're pairing with somebody a lot, you could make it easier for them by switching the syntax highlighting on your text editor. So, just being aware of these things can be really helpful. We have our talk to people who don't write code. Let's call them normal humans. Oh! And many times I've heard or perhaps you've participated in a conversation where programmers are like, you should try programming and then normal people say, I could never do that. And the programmer's like, no, just try it. Everything will be cool. You can learn this stuff in several hours or whatever. That seems very reasonable to programmers but then you take the same programmer and you turn them to the designer or design team and they're like, designers, they create magic. I could never do a thing like this. Clearly you were born with these abilities and I as a lowly programmer could never do that. Could never do that. Why do you think that is? Why do programmers perceive design and color and like art in a large domain to be so impossible when they already are doing a thing that other people consider impossible? That's a good question. So I think some of it that I've sort of seen is some of it is this concept of like, well, that's not my job. And so there's a lack of, they don't necessarily feel like that's where they should be investing their time and energy. I think some of it is just a lack of context or understanding for what the job actually is. I think what I've seen or learned from being around engineers, that there is a tendency of sort of misconception that design is just putting the pretty on stuff.  It makes me cringe. And it's like people say it in a good way. You know, they mean it.   I mean, it's not how things work. So it's actually much more technical thought, especially like model-y design is incorporated in sort of modern and digital product development. It's bigger than just making things pretty. It actually has a lot to do with understanding users. It has to do a lot with understanding like why people do what they do. So there's some really interesting pieces of it that are actually fairly technical and can get pretty interesting. So I think something that is just a misconception or lack of understanding of what the job actually is or what the industry is. But it's kind of, it actually has a lot of parallels. Like I know quite a few designers who sort of switch pivoted from design into programming and part of why they did that is because it sort of hits on the same like creative buttons that they were getting from design and it just gives them a different outlook for that. And I think that there could be a place for that from developers as well, but I think that it just doesn't seem to be back in another direction very often. That's an interesting point. You do see more designers become developers than developers become designers. Why is that? It's kind of like one-way flow. It's probably money. You know, it's not, I don't know who's doing it. So, you know, before, when we were first thinking about launching a second program, in terms of we're going to do a design program, hence the terms we'll solve for hand design. And then started doing the market research and I remember really clearly this conversation with IBM where it said like, how do you get designers now? And they said, oh, we go to our institute and we'll hire five of them. We'll pay them like 45K. And then after six months, whoever's the best, we'll keep them and fire the other four. Cool. Way to like plug hundreds of people into this sweet pipeline. I mean, you said that. I was like, oh, 45 right out of the school? Great. It's a different, it's a very different industry. If somebody says, okay, I'm going to be, I like the idea of independence. I want to be able to hold my own a little bit or make some smart small choices when it comes to design and UX and support. What's the most like realistic path where I don't want to become a designer. I don't want to become a color expert, but I want to like dig in more deeply. Yeah. What do I do? So there are a lot of good resources. I think things to sort of think about. They're kind of like big buckets of things to kind of think about. So basic design fundamentals. So they help build your eye and your vocabulary around design. So things to think about would be like color, like you talked about today, typography. So being able to communicate with designers around the way we fray essentially. Like, because a lot of design is around having to communicate to somebody without actually speaking to them. So typography allows you to essentially write words and create things that are highly legible, really effectively when you can't be there to speak to someone in person. So what about typography fundamentals? Understand a little bit about the basic layout principles and then also some UX principles and UX foundational pieces. Some resources for those. Don't make me think by Steve Crowe is a good resource. It's very easy to read. It just has some good concepts for my user flow. So how to do some user testing, how to understand how to set up the products that's a little bit more effective for users, more efficient for users. Some basic typography books that again are very easy to read and easy to absorb and digest. Ellen Lupton has a couple of books. The one that is probably the best, I think, to just sort of dive into. It's very focused on typography fundamentals. It's called Thinking with Type. Is it the same author that did the non-designer's design book? She might have. She works at, she's at Micah. So the narrowing that's due to Baltimore. She's written quite a bit about that. She has several sort of design principles books as well. But I think typography and UX are both really good places to get started. I think that typography show is actually a really good call because as we're talking about yesterday when Kachina's talking about patterns and digital acuity and so what you're already as a developer, very comfortable in the world of text, you also, to me, one of the mistakes people make whenever they consider art in any form, UX, or design, whatever, is they imagine like, let me start with this blank page and then come up with something beautiful. And with typography, you naturally start with like, let me start with some words and then we push them around different ways. It is rare that, especially as a novice typographer, that you would start with like, yeah, I said it. And I'm going to next do this soon in the five people. That's a little bit of a word on our history. It was a good one. Thank you. Thanks, Madison.  You're going to start with text probably. And then start like formatting and pushing around, understanding like alignment and hierarchy and all those things. Or I think as an engineer, if you're mostly spending time in a text editor, even like you, there are pretty interesting typography choices you can find in within your text editor. So if you have, if you're working with somebody who's dyslexic, for example, there are specific forms that are easier for people who have dyslexia to understand and parse. Like people with like different cognitive disabilities typography can have a really big impact on them. So again, like if you're thinking about just usability, if you're working with people on a team, there are just big like typography. If you understand it a little bit, you can make better choices to support other people even if what you're doing is not building out like a user-facing product, which is kind of cool. I think there is a downside. Tell me if you can use it right or wrong. Can't. So learning more about design and typography and so forth. Can you notice everything? But then you're sad all the time? Correct. Living in a world starts to become like slightly sad. Or you're just offended by the crimes against typography and like run random to life. That's true. You start making up terms for fonts like Zaphthenom, one of my friends calls it the font of rides and babies. Just be here. Nobody laughed, it's fine. It's fine. Question. Hi, so I'm Zach. And so the company I work for has been in love with gradients as of late. Late, late. I know. So something that as a front end developer I've been trying to think about is like what are some strategies to approach their designs and try to make them more accessible without like coming across them on a tag in their design? Because that seems like some of the ways that they kind of take it when I'm suggesting things like that. Yeah, there's a lot of theme links sometimes. So the question is just like how if somebody's making a design choice specifically gradient based that you find upsetting, emotional, personal level, what do you do? So with gradients I think something to think about is just like contrast ratio. So there are color contrast ratio and contrast ratio checkers. So essentially what that means is like the color of the text versus the color of the background. And is there enough contrast? So is the value different enough between both of those like text in front and color in the back? Is that, is the difference great enough that you can still very clearly read that text? And sometimes what can happen with gradients is because you're going from like either a really light color or a dark color that can sort of mess up that contrast ratio. So running something through a contrast checker to make sure that you can actually very clearly see that. So sometimes that can be just like encouraging people to soften the gradient a little bit or if you can make a viable explanation for why this is not great for users. I think that can back you up a little bit. I think having vocabulary and having some empathy towards the design process and like how they got to that point can be really helpful to give you some ground to stand on when you're having those conversations. Because it is also important to think about when you, by the time you get a design when you are at home or something when you are working as a designer or as a front-end engineer or just an engineer at dinner or when you're building out something that's gone through multiple rounds of revisions, multiple rounds of review, it's gone through clients and like off on. So it's not always just a super straightforward conversation. So being able to have vocabulary to have a straightforward conversation to advocate for your users and not just like, I don't like it, but like, this might be hard for someone to read. That could be really helpful. And then also if you keep bringing those conversations and having those insightful moments with everyone's like, that can also be helpful to be tuned that process earlier so you can speak up earlier in the process and before you just get handed something and you're like, I don't know about this. Depending on what side you're in, I'll be done. To your point with like the research and work that goes into things, sometimes when you encounter the end product, like we have a designer who I love that we've worked with for five years and I know whenever he delivers something that I don't like, there were early times where I said something about it and that was a big mistake. And he let me know that that was a mistake on my part that feedback was not a part of our process. That's. It can't run through your own message. Correct. And what I found is that if I sat with it for a little while, or sat with it a couple of days or sat with it a week, and then I would like warm up to be like, yeah, actually this is great. You know, people have put a lot of time into it. Even when you first needed it, you're not familiar with it. You don't have all the context and understanding. Or asking why. So like if there's a decision and I'm like, it's something that you don't like. If you ask like what were the choices that led us to this, that could be really good to give you some more information and understanding around like why is the way that it is. Because like art is very subjective. Design is when it's done well isn't. Design is about building out something that's functional and usable for somebody who isn't you. So it is. So asking why and understanding how we got to where we are can be really helpful to understand just how to have that conversation and where to angle it from. So you started mentioning the dyslexia friendly fonts and colorblind friendly color schemes. And I get kind of excited about like setting up my environment to be more friendly in that way. And I was wondering if there are any drawbacks or downsides to like particular things that make things friendly for some people that might make things less friendly for other people. Anyway, you can do not have anything like that. So drawbacks for using some of these different like fonts or color schemes. The fonts, so typically fonts that are more, that are designed with people who have dyslexia or deal with dyslexia, they're generally made to the shapes of each letter form is unique to that letter form. So it's not as, it's not as, it's harder for somebody to look at it and might sort of have the letters slip around them or like look wrong to them. So it's easier for them to identify these each individual character a little bit quicker. So it's a, for somebody who doesn't have a cognitive disability like that, that would probably, the difference would most likely just be that you're going to get used to looking at a different type of face. So most text editors are set in a modest space font, so they're just like each letter is consistent and it's facing between each character is really the same. So just making those adjustments. And then typically the color schemes are just, the biggest difference is that they are very high contrast and they try to avoid color pairings that are typically really tricky for people with different types of color blindness. So again, it might just be getting used to this very high contrast color palette that may not necessarily look quite as like pretty as some of the ones that are designed for people that are like fully color-sided. So it might just be making some just little mental adjustments and just getting used to what things look like. But I don't think it's necessarily going to get downside to it. Nailed it. Nailed it. Nailed it. Nailed it. Nailed it. Nailed it. Nailed it. Nailed it. Nailed it. Nailed it.


Do you want to know how I got this massive? My father was a glorious man. One day we were having dinner. He looks at my mother, then he looks to me and says, you have to get excruciatingly massive.  So I'm going to show you the ultimate recipe to make a smoothie. So we have a lot of ingredients here because we want to fuel up of course over autumn so we can bloat max gains so we can post physique to Instagram and Twitter. So the ingredients are as follows. The base is some good old Swedish milk.  True story. Continuing on having some good old cream as well obviously to again bloat max the calories in this smoothie so yeah some good old cream there. Then we have some Russian yogurt it's only 17% and I have a wish for anyone at Lindals if you're watching this video could you please make one that is bigger and could you also not have a plastic container could you have one of those older paper bags or not bags but containers that would be much appreciated. I'm speaking on behalf of mother nature when I said that so less plastic packaging. I have consulted the bears of wisdom and they say that you need to if you're going to bulk if you're going to put on some size and some mass you need some blueberries so some good old blueberries much cheaper to buy frozen so yeah good stuff good stuff you can talk to any bear out in the forest if you want they will say the same thing it it is known lost but not least the greatest way of all time Jotunheim blueberry way absolutely glorious and I'm saying this in the humblest way possible because you all know me I'm very humble I think humility is a an important quality but I can back it up if I say this is the greatest way of all time someone might argue and say that the chocolate is the better option it's up for debate actually it's a scholars are arguing which is the best way the blueberry per vanilla or the chocolate who knows let me know in the comment section below for those of you who have had a privilege to try so anyway what we'll do is simply put all of these fine ingredients into a mixer gonna mix it I don't measure anything because I'm too magnificent to be so strict so I'm just gonna throw in a few deciliters of everything I use two scoops by the way and yeah I'll be right back juicy do you want to know how I got this massive I commenced a cut for summer trying to get shredded but I got a bit too thin I got a bit too shredded until it came to a point where my wife she couldn't stand the sight of me so I decided to blow it max so this is the recipe you must use if you are in that situation voila looks like this tastes absolutely amazing tastes like some sort of blueberry ice cream to be perfectly honest but anyway something else I need to address is that you might see a lot of Scandinavian guys being cocked because it's all part of the plan than a an absolute specimen like myself comes along and everyone is losing their minds that being said I will now consume this then we'll train something fun grotesque max physique I've transcended the bloat backstage and gone directly to the grotesque max stage anyway I thought to ask you something do you want to know how I got this juicy and massive my brother was a anesthetic man and when we were about 16 he was 17 we were at the sofa and we watched the film Ongbak about a tie boxer then I decided to myself I need to start training tie boxing that's the real origin story thank you for watching XXO BOOM


You know, I think one of the archetypal human struggles is the creative and the provider. Now, the creative almost represents the things inside of us that we want to bring into the world. They're the things we just like to do for fun. They're the things that are deeply meaningful, even if they don't produce any financial returns. Really, the creative is kind of like the soul of a person, what you really deeply desire to do. Now, on the other hand, we have the human material obligations. They're going to a job to pay our rent to exist on the piece of land we've chosen to exist on for the rest of our lives. But how do you reconcile both? Because one is meeting a spiritual or emotional need, while the other is meeting a material required need just to survive. In this video, I want to share what I think of as the creative roadmap to having both. Hey guys, Alex Hein, author of the book, Milk the Pigeon, a field guide for anyone lost in their 20s, which is on Amazon. And I've included a free download below this video, which is for a free goal-shading worksheet. If you'd like to plan out how to make this year the best year ever of your life, that worksheet down there below is free, and I'll show you exactly how to do that. Check it out down there. All right, so this morning I was journaling a bit, and I was reflecting on a very important piece of my journey, which is really how I made all of this stuff work. And I came up with this four-step process that I think can really help any of you, specifically if the work and financial quadrant of your life is the one you're deciding you really have to work on. So the first step to meeting and marrying those emotional creative needs with your tangible financial needs is to just get your baseline income to whatever survival level is for you. You know, for me, that baseline number was, as a single guy with no kids, if I just made 3,000 US a month, I could live on that no problem. Now for you, it may be either lower, depending on where you live or how spartan you live, or based on your financial resources, it may be 2,000 or less than that a month, it may be a lot more if you have kids. But the most important thing first and foremost, get your base needs met, even if you hate what you have to do. In the process of me figuring out how I could build something I liked to work on, while also paying my rent, the first thing I did was I had either one or two day jobs. So I had one job at first that was only 20 hours a week. And so I supplemented it by working a second job first as an entrepreneur. And then I was the front desk person for a local acupuncturist and integrative medicine clinic. So I had two day jobs that were basically meeting my base financial needs. Now, if I something happened and I just won Milano, I would have quit both of them the next day. Okay, so I didn't really want to be at either of them. They were just necessary evils for me to actually pay my rent and eat while I could do the other things that I wanted to end up doing. But every single night I came home and for a couple hours each night, I studied business, I studied the creative process and how I was going to build all of this stuff and really turn it into a real sustainable enterprise. So this archetype is basically get a day job, do your work and creative soul stuff at night. The second phase is really if you have the option, reduce the fat as much as possible. Reduce your day job hours as much as humanly possible, like really to the very, very, very core amount you need to survive. I had a coaching client once and he had a good salary. He was making like $80,000 as an engineer, but his work arrangement was pretty flexible. So as we were talking about this and as we realized he wanted to move more towards being a musician, what we did was he was able to negotiate going from 45 hours a week to 20. And he got a huge pay cut, he went from making like $80,000 a year to like 40, 45, but it was still enough to meet his base needs and focus on what was most important, which was time, time to build the new life that he wanted. So if you're able to do that in some way, then figure out what it takes to have just a poverty level income, poverty level, just enough to eat rice, beans and vegetables and pay your rent so that you get time back, the time to have no stress, the time to create what you want. So the third phase is do what you want. You know Bertrand Russell, this American writer, he has this great essay in praise of idleness and he talks about this utopian vision where what would happen if people only had to work four hours a day instead of eight? You know, then the painters that wanted to just paint, whether for profit or just for fun and soul fulfillment, they could just paint. And the inventors that wanted to create these unique creations could do that just for fun with no required outcome. And the scientists could make these fun, incredible new discoveries that would help people just because that is their heart's desire, you know, and that's what they want to do every day. The musicians could make music and all the other people could do what they wanted to do, not because they had to, but because they wanted to. And I love this idea. What would you do if you only had to work four hours a day to cover your base needs? If you only worked from eight to 12, the whole day was off, how would you spend it? You now have your freedom if you've gotten to this step. So do what you want to do and avoid trap number four. Trap number four is don't wobble, which all that means is if you start getting back enough time and you have just enough money to meet your needs, don't fall back into the money trap. And it's easy to do. You know, as soon as I had quit my full-time job, and now I was only working three or four hours a day in this business, the main thing was like, well, I have all this time now, I have nothing to do, but I'm only making 2500 US a month.  So you can guess what happened.  I'm in this business I originally had built to do more things I liked, but now I'm doing things I don't like just for money because I wanted to earn more money because I didn't have enough. You see the circular logic here?  And then you've gone back into this prison that you were just trying to escape for years. So the real question is, can you get to that point of meeting your base financial needs and then create for the rest of your life free? Create freely what you want to create. You know, some of those things are probably going to make you money and some of them won't. But net net, if you have your base needs met, then you can go ahead and you can keep creating everything you want to create.  They've made hundreds of thousands of dollars. The YouTube videos I'm making now are originally the break from my business. And now this is my business, the biggest chunk. So often the things you pursue just for creative growth will make an income. Not always, but sometimes. So if you don't fall back into the fear trap of just doing things for money, you can create unlimitedly just for an infinite period of time, the kind of life and the kind of things you want to make. So if I did it all over again, that's what I would do. Get to your base level to survive and then just do what you want. Some will make money, some will not, but you'll always be free and you'll always be excited about your days. That's what I got you guys. That is what I wish I knew years back then. Again, the first link below this video is for a free worksheet. I plan out how to make this year the best year of your life. You're also going to get a free email series on that topic. 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