Husband's got the TV up. He's out on the sofa with the puppy. We are puppy sitting for the day, and I have been film editing the video, the vlog for, I don't even know behind my head, you can even see the computer because of the glare, but anyway, um, I've been editing the vlog for this last week, and it is going to be loaded up to YouTube sometime tonight. If you're watching this vlog, you've already probably seen the last one, and I'm going to go sit and work on some sketching. I've got a bunch of journals out here, different ones ready to go for journal pages. I've got like five of them I'm currently working on. These are just our journals. I have sketchbooks out in the other room, and I have a few more miscellaneous ones in my Ikea cart. I occasionally pull out, so anyway, I never do one at a time. That never happens. So anyway, I am, yeah, working on stuff, avoiding the laundry. Laundry's got to be done, but yeah, so I'm avoiding it for the moment. Nothing exciting going on today. We're puppy sitting. The husband was out doing yard work and stuff like that, so we're kind of, you know, it's like having a toddler in the house, so, you know, you can't do too much. So anyway, I am going to finish in here and go out there and sit with them. I'll try to get some cute footage of Lily being Lily, because you know, all right, that's it for the moment. I'll be back. Guys, it is Monday, February 12th, and I spent the morning talking to my friends, the Zoomers. And as you can see here, working on a bunch of stuff on my table, I'm starting a bunch of new journal pages for journals at once again. And so I've made a mess on the table, but that's okay. Everything's drying.  I've already done all my daily drawings. I had to start a new messy sketch journal because I filled up the old one, woohoo. And at some point after all of the images are shared on social media, I will do a flip here in the vlog, but it'll be probably another week before that happens. And that's it for right now. I'll be back. 13th, and I spent the morning chatting with friends and playing with my resin coasters that I'm working on.  I'm driving with the blinker on because, you know, it's one of those kind of days. Anyway, so I poured this resin last night, and after about 12 hours, I popped them out a little early. And I trimmed some of the crazy funky edges. And the idea is to put them back in the coaster mold upside down and on top of another layer of resin so that I don't have to do like tons of sanding and polishing. I don't know if it's going to work. It's a total experiment. I hope it works.  But I created the coasters by dripping alcohol inks into the wet resin. There's lots of video on how to do that here on YouTube. And so I will put a couple links to a couple of my favorite videos in the description below so you all can experiment if you so have the desire. But yes, I've been playing with, I got the urge late last night to play with some resin. And yeah, anyway, I popped them out early so I could easily trim the edges. They were still soft. So they weren't fully cured. And then I put them back in upside down like I said. So now we're headed over to the grocery store. I've missed the golden hour. So it is lunchtime, which means it's going to be crowded, which is going to suck. But what are you going to do? I need groceries. So anyway, I'll be back. Okay. So the grocery store and two hardware stores later. I finally have everything I need and we can go home. Maybe eat some lunch. It would be good since I'm a bit hungry. Maybe see if the zoomers are still chatting. Then we will maybe chat with them a bit. But I was at the hardware, the last hardware store. And on the check stand, they had these little flyers, advertising, I think bird seed or something. Anyway, had the cutest, cutest picture of the little bird on it. I will try to like include a still a photo of it here somewhere. And I grabbed a couple of them. It's free. The little bird is cute. You can cut a mountain, stick them on your journal page real easily. That's the kind of thing that you all should be looking for to look using your art. Just things laying around. You don't have to go out to the craft store and buy stuff. You can use what you have around you in your art found objects like the little bird. And usually when I see something like that, I usually pick up at least two of them. So I have a spare case. I want to use the image again or send it off to a friend in Happy Mail for all the crazy people. Okay. So anyway, so keep your eyes open. Keep them peeled. Even when you're out running errands, you might, you never know. You might find something. Sorry about the jingling keys again. All right. That's it for the moment. I'll be back. Guys, it is Wednesday, February 14th, Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day. And I spent the morning watching Shannon Green's live broadcast. She did a great job. I also finally unmolded my coasters. So yeah, it worked like a charm. The edge is a little bit funny, but I'm not going to do anything else to them. I love them. And you could really do either side, but I really like this side. And here's the other one. I got asked about a tutorial on these. There's actually a lot of people already on YouTube doing tutorials on how to do these. So what I'm going to do here is link their videos in this description, my couple of favorites. And you guys can learn how to do it and play and everything. And yes, I've got a little makeup on and actually try to do something with my hair today, because you know, it's Valentine's Day. All right. I'm going to go run and get the mail, and then I might chat with some of my art friends a bit on Zoom and maybe try to do some journaling or daily drawing, because I think I need to catch up again. So yeah, I'll be back. Hey guys, how are you? It is Thursday, February 15th. That day after Valentine's Day, I will include a couple of snaps here. Nothing super spectacular or anything, but if you live in the South Bay area, San Jose, go to San Ros Sushi on Cattle, and they have really good food. And here's like a shot of our table with my husband's beer. He had a sahi, I had ginger ale. And anyway, really, really good food. In fact, we even had some Kobe beef. I ate way too much yesterday. I went over my calories on the Lose It app. I think I gained back all three pounds I lost, but anyway, it was good. So we did that last night to celebrate Valentine's Day. And this morning, I was getting some stuff done, getting my steps in, making that a priority. And I was just at Dollar Tree picking up a couple things. I'm going to head over to the shopping center where our post office box is to get the mail. And I want to stop at Staples and look for something maybe they might have there. Nothing super exciting. I have chores to do always. I have a couple of art journal pages to finish. One of them is for another secret project. If you don't know what the first secret project is, and you haven't heard yet, they did, they did already announce it on Instagram. I am one of the featured artists in Heart Journal magazine's upcoming issue in March. It is an online digital magazine.  So you should, they have a really great magazine. You should go check it out. And so I can tell you all about that secret. And I'm going to work on another project for somebody else. So I've got to work on that. And what else? I need to get some filming ahead for March. And I need to, you know, it's that time of year. I need to get the dog to the vet for his checkup. I need to figure out what I'm doing next month so that I can make my appointment for my checkup because that's coming up and all of that stuff. So, you know, it is what it is. I think that's all right now, depending on what's in the mailbox. So we'll find out. I'll be back. Does anybody notice that I do most of my vlogging in the car? It's not intentional, I swear. It just seems to be the place where I remember, oh, I should turn the camera on, I need to vlog. One of my earrings is falling out. Wait a minute. I'm just not capable of multitasking anymore. Anybody else have that problem? My hair is wet again. It's another thing. Anybody notice that my hair seems to be wet like all the time when I'm vlogging? I think I'll always be turning on the camera right after I've taken a shower and washed my hair. I don't know what that is. Anyway, we are headed out to go run errands tonight is family night. So the kids are coming over for dinner with the puppy. I need to get something for dinner. I think I'm going to make something I actually haven't made in a while. And I usually get enough to make two of them because everybody, my hair stuck to me, everybody really likes it. So I usually make two of them and they're not very big. It's like a meatloaf, but it's made with Italian turkey sausage. It's loaded with different vegetables, some breadcrumbs and egg, things like spinach and onion, celery, and also some cheese. I'm going to put the recipe into a Dropbox file that I can share with you all. You can click on it and go over. Actually, you know what? I'll put the recipe on my website and I'll put the link where you can find it and you can print it from there. And it's a really good recipe that I found from a magazine. I bought a stack of vintage magazines years ago to like art with. I don't remember the name of them right now, but anyway, it's one that's not in print anymore. And the magazine in question was from like 1932 or something. It was really old and it had a recipe in it that I altered a bit to be the recipe that you're going to see, but the recipe I found inspired this one. If I can find the name of the magazine and or the issue, I will put that in the recipe on the website. I might not be able to do that, but I'll try. Anyway, we're going to have that for dinner with mashed potatoes and I'll make a nice big green salad. I don't really eat potatoes, so and I'm always trying to get the family to eat vegetables, but the nice thing about this meat dish is it's loaded with them already. So if they choose not to have salad and just have meat potatoes, I already got them to eat their vegetables during the meat. So anyway, so I'm going to go do that. I've got to go to Target for a few things and maybe get the mail if it's late enough to go do that. I've already done my morning typing for those that don't know. I do typing and writing across a few different social media groups every single morning and postings or something. I actually enjoy it. It's not a chore. I know a lot of you are going, God, every day she does that. I actually enjoy it. I do do daily thoughts most of the week. I do have two days a week that my friends Anne, Williamson and Cindy Utter do the thoughts for me to give me a break, but I do other postings other places. So every morning I try to get my coffee in and then do my writing and hopefully get my steps in on the treadmill, which I did do already. And you've probably already seen the footage of me walking on the treadmill. Today I actually did not have pajamas on on the treadmill. I actually had regular clothes on, which is a switch. What else? I think that's it for right now. I was having fun last night playing with a dollar store spirograph. Dollar Tree has a little small pocket spirograph set right now and I will put some pictures in here somewhere. I was playing with it last night and that was a lot of fun and it gave me the idea that those little sketches could be used as embellishments in art journal pages. Wouldn't that be fun? Or you could use it directly on a journal page, which would also be fun. I think that's it for right now. I have another secret project I'm working on. I need to finish today and I need to do some chores. Cleaning. I don't like a dirty house, but I don't like to clean. So that provides a problem. So and I don't have a maid or anything. So I got to do some cleaning today. I've got to do laundry. The bathrooms need a once over. The kids are coming over so I need to do a few things. I'm probably going to wait to vacuum until after the puppy leaves because there's kind of no point till the puppy goes home. Any of you who have pets will understand, especially small ones. All right, that's it for the moment. I'll be back. Good morning. It is Saturday morning. It's still technically morning. It's 11 25. We are just taking a slow start this morning. The husband's outside doing yard work and watering some plants. I got the dishes done. The laundry is working.  I'll take you with me and then we're going to go out tonight to celebrate a friend's birthday. So that's going to be fun. And that's it for the moment. Last night was fun playing Scrabble. It was one of our more challenging Scrabble games. I lost epically. Of course I did. I've only I think one once or twice. Usually somebody else wins. I'm horrible at Scrabble. Last night was really tough especially because I was cooking dinner while we were playing so I kept having to get up and I got all the vowels. I think I had every single A in the pile. I don't know anyway. So it was pretty fun though. And yeah. So that was fun. There's a little bit of footage. If you're watching this you've already seen that. So anyway that's it. Slow start. I don't know if I'm going to get any journaling in today or art in today. Hopefully the daily drawings in at some point. Maybe not. I might just wait until tomorrow morning and catch up. We'll see. All right. That's it for the moment. I'll be back. And the husband's in getting the mail. We were just in Target. I'm going to assert the still pictures here. Everywhere we went in the Target store there were empty coffee cups, empty water box bottles, garbage on the floor. The greeting card department was thrashed. The gift wrapping trimmer's department was thrashed. I've never seen our Target look that bad.  Your department was horrible. I mean and with empty whole four-foot sections that were empty. It was really bad. So anyway, we're almost done. We have one more errand to do after this that we almost forgot. We have to go to the bank and get in the safety deposit box. So we're going to go run and do that really quick and then I get to finally eat some lunch. Yay. All right. I'll be back. Let's get on 85. Yeah. Hi guys. We are headed out for the evening to go celebrate the 50th birthday of a friend. And we want to wish you a good week and a good weekend. It's been a fun one. I'll put any relevant links in the description below. If I've forgotten something, somebody say something. And I hope you've all enjoyed the vlog and you continue to enjoy it. Let me know. And have a good day. Have a good week. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and we will see you later. Bye guys.


such as Homeini was a true backstabber. Yeah, yeah, yeah, huge, huge. The Mullahs, they wanted complete control and they took it. People want to get a feel for who these people were and how they behaved. Look at the revolution that happened in Egypt, right? In Egypt, there was a revolution. Mubarak got kicked out. And then there was elections. And when the elections took place in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood took over. And the Muslim Brotherhood, these low IQ people, they wanted complete control and they thought they could take it right away. And they went fanatic, extreme right away. They started banning things, mandating, had scarves and stuff. So they showed their true colors. They were in the process of going full low IQ on everyone. Boom, hardcore. Egypt is now Islamic nation. That's what they were about to do. And then people sort of went, wait a second, look man, we elected you guys, but we wanted you guys to have, give everybody equal rights. We want equality.  Fine. Have your religious rights, but make sure everyone has their own. No, these guys went full low IQ on everyone, right? Boom, hardcore.  So they lost their main support. Everyone that had allied went to get rid of them, right?  Now it became a military dictatorship, right? Or whatever, military, whatever you want to call it, the regime there, right? Is that better than what the Muslim Brotherhood would do? Hindsight? Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is. In Iran, they were more intelligent, wiser in the way they moved, right? They placed all their people in the right place after the revolution, spies everywhere, spies everywhere, right? And as soon as they gave the work, it was like Star Wars, the code being given out to the clones, right? And then they turned around and killed all the Jedi, right? Not that the Jedi was a good guys. If you look into Star Wars mythology, the whole Jedi thing being, they were the strong arm of the Empire, right? And then they were used and thrown away just like Saudi Arabia used different family factions to take over the House of Saud to take over Saudi Arabia back in the early 19th century, right? So this whole thing played out in that way. They were smart in Iran. In Egypt, they thought they had it and they were mistaken.


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Now, with that being said, just a little bit deeper, because we had a conversation yesterday with an individual in the industry that has a nice amount of clout in what he does, very, very reputable and respectable. And they were asking us about TikTok, some questions around TikTok, because we dropped this really dope report for y'all who don't know. We did a TikTok global report for 2022, had the industry talking about it, posted in many respectable publications. Y'all should check that out. Maybe we'll drop a link below here. We'll do that. So they were asking us some questions. Now, one thing that he said that a lot of managers were complaining him about was it being hard to make a hit on TikTok. There was this moment of time where they just felt like it was making some hits, but they feel like that moment has passed. I'll let you get started on that. I got hella thoughts on it. Obviously, we had the conversation already, but share some of those thoughts that you shared in the combo. Yeah, man. So I think the conversation started because we were talking about the artist generated content. And so for those who haven't seen the report yet, we have this term that we use called AGC, which AGC stands for artist-generated content. It's our term. You see that anywhere? That's our term, people. Just let it be known. So AGC is basically content that the artist makes and put out on their own platform, similar to UGC, which is user-generated content, which is content that people outside of the artist make, put on their platform. So the conversation was sending around how our report found that most of the most recent TikTok hits, their spark was driven by AGC, the artist-generated content, rather than what was more traditional, was influencer campaigns. And so I think that we're in a really unique position where we might be one of a handful of people in the music industry who have been working TikTok in every version of it, you know what I'm saying? Other than when it was musically. But we came pretty close after they switched to TikTok. That's ads, influencers, content advising, manipulation, and media. Yeah, I love it. I love it. Every single aspect. So it's like when we were listening to the guy speak, I'm thinking, okay, this must be coming from managers who maybe are familiar with 2019, 2020 TikTok. Because I don't know if you remember that TikTok, but that TikTok was pretty easy to get viral. We was getting a viral campaign every other week, you know what I'm saying? That was all off of influencers at first too. Yeah, exactly. Just money being spent, taking advantage of the platform, how cheap the attention was, and then just blasting it out a lot. The platform was much more simpler back then.  You fast forward to 2022. The platform is more mature, you know what I'm saying? Like the creators are talking about a more diverse group of things. The community as a whole is pretty sick of dancing. Every time we hear the influencer about a dance trend, they're like, bro, please, please leave me alone about it. So I think it's a lot of these managers and people in the industry who are coming into 2022 TikTok with 2019 aspirations, you know what I'm saying? Oh, I'm just going to be able to pay 50 influencers and it's going to spark everything off. Or I'm just going to be able to get my artist to do a cool little dance trend or something. It's going to spark stuff off. And it's like, no, the platform is much smarter now. I think fans are able to pick up pretty quickly on when they're being marketed to. You can kind of feel the signs out, you know what I'm saying? Like we did with the E-Triple Impulse, bro.  That one time. So it's like the fans are smarter, the platform is matured, and the strategies that work then don't work now. Right. Right. Like 90s and 90s are not going to work. And so I can understand why they would say it is much harder to break an artist on TikTok in that regard, you know what I'm saying? But that's what comes with every platform. There's no platform that gets easier as it builds, you know what I'm saying? Like, bro, one of my biggest regrets is not doing YouTube in 2004, bro. I wish I had, bro, what? You know what I'm saying? Being early to YouTube and just staying with it. We're crazy. Man. I know there's people that got big. I saw them be big, but they kind of like felt like it was the ceiling at the time. They didn't realize that it was still place to grow and go. So yeah, another platform thing is definitely huge. One thing I feel like, all right, managers got to realize, and not just managers, but they mentioned managers have been asking me this, like people got to realize when you get something popping on TikTok, it's still no other place that you can get something popping from zero to millions of streams so quickly, so cheaply on a consistent basis. Right? We've seen this happen time and time again. We've done it as an agency time and time again. The difference is, right? When TikTok was super new, super novel, you might have seen some stuff pop and go like to hundreds of millions and billions of streams more often. Maybe that was happening more often. I'm not even fully of that idea. What I think is there's also way more artists in the game. So it's just a more legitimate percentage that's reflected. But if you get to millions of streams for basically nothing because the price of TikTok is not the price of these other platforms in most cases, it's just up to you to keep the thing popping.  Nobody's going to like feel sorry for you because you got 10 million streams and it stopped there. Now you got enough attention to flip to Instagram. Right? Now you got enough attention to flip to radio. If you have, you know, those relationships begin breaking the artists. We had the convo about Ice Spice. Right? Remember breaking marketing a song is not breaking a song. Breaking a song is not breaking an artist. Right? So there's more leg to that race. I always say if Lil Nas X never made the connection with the labels, right, to do the rest of, you know, the marketing and provide the rest of the resources to continue Old Town Road and take it to his max, he could have just been another internet hit artist. Right? Had a nice little viral moment kept pushing. He was getting close. Right? Those windows are small.  But it literally was the difference between being, I think at that time it was like the most streamed song of all time. It broke some kind of record. It broke a lot of records, literally of all time record breaking type stuff to literally just another hit on a rate on the radio on TikTok and in the rest of internet. That was the difference, right? So you have to realize you have that window when your stuff pops off and you need to move quick and always especially new artists, right? New artists fail to value the moment, right? Because they don't know that this moment is fleeting.  I'm not even doing anything. I go to sleep. I wake up my phones moving faster. I eat some lunch. I wake up. I got some more followers. I got some more streams. I got some more views. And then they finally take a take a step back. Like, man, some of them, honestly, right, which is something y'all got to work on like that mental work. I know I've talked to many artists, they'll be like, man, I'm almost scared of it. Like so much activity. I just get off of TikTok. I just get off of Instagram. I don't do anything because like you get paralyzed. So that's a whole nother conversation that needs to be had, but this moment will not last. You got to capitalize. You can't have no paralysis analysis. You can't just not do anything. Get afraid of negative comments. You can't just, you know, rest on your laurels thinking it's going to apply to the next song, but that's what everybody does. And it sounds like some managers, they don't quite understand like TikTok is what it is. It's up to you to take it to that next level. Like you never stop working a hit to that moment. It's gone gone. All right. It's gone gone. So, so I don't know, man. It's so many things about it. Like with, with, it bothers me every time somebody attacks a platform, I guess, right? It's just like, come on, bro. Like the platform, it's, you know, it's, it's a gun, right? Depends on who has the gun in their hand. You know what I mean? Gun ain't good, gun ain't evil. You know what I mean? And shoot, I could, I could shoot you. Some person don't think I'm good. Some person don't think I'm evil. You know what I mean? So it's like, all of that is relative.  So, like, I think it was some, another interesting thing buddy brought up in that conversation was TikTok over time, right? He was asking if, if we thought artist-generated content has become more effective over time has influencers become campaigns become less effective because we had a stat that basically like two-thirds of content like hits that got sparked off or from organic content, artist-generated content, right? And you know, my whole analysis was, look, influencer campaigns are great. If you look, if you look at the, the data, right? It was artist-generated content. We had user-generated content second and influencer campaigns and ads were last. And when you just think about it, all three, those top artists influencer and user are all content, period. And it makes sense. It makes sense. Content works. The only difference between your shit, your artist-generated content and influencer content is you get unlimited at bats because you got control of this, right? You can keep posting and posting and posting.  So it makes sense when you got more chances and you're not spending money for most of the things to pop off, be that, right? Because then you have managers and astute marketers like us that are like, yo, let's try to actually make it pop off of artist-generated content first and before we pay for it influencers. And then, you know, the user-generated content ain't bread just is what it is. You know what I mean? Like whatever guy does, guy does, you know, that's the luck. I don't even want to say look at a draw. That's just, you know, look, if it happens, it happens. So like the stats make a lot of sense and influencer and user-generated content have not become less impactful. It's just people becoming a lot smarter and understanding the impact of artist-generated content. So if you ain't creating TikTok content, I know you heard this before, but yo, it's a L. Yeah, I like it, bro. And I think, too, like people understand how to more effectively market that music on TikTok.  And we're probably like, you know, we don't completely understand it yet. But now there are so many examples of artists who've used the platform correctly, both in the past and even currently, that I don't know, it just, it makes sense. Like even looking at the line where like artist-generated content is the first thing makes sense. People like to see and hear things from the artist first, right? We like to feel like we're getting that personal connection with them. User-generated content, these are the fans of the artists that he got from making the posts, right? Influencers is like, okay, now he got some budget. He found the bag somewhere. As, it's like, you don't feel like doing nothing at work anymore.  Right. And so I don't know. It's like, I guess it makes sense to me because we see that line happen so many times. Like we see it go from artists to fan, to then we gots with influencers and it gots with ads and then just rinse repeat the whole process that it felt like a little bit of like a dub moment. I mean, even though I think the point I made to him was that they're not less effective, it just makes sense to do them at a different point in the artist campaign. Exactly. Where like 2019, 2020, we were going influencers first, right?  Let's just pay as many influencers as possible. Let's gas it. Let's find a trend. Yep.  We ain't had a viral trend in months, you know what I'm saying? Also, I remember it was just way more expensive to Yeah, yeah, yeah, more more influencers started learning their worth. Becoming more high vibrational creatures, you know what I'm saying? Picking up the information prior from people like I think about it all the time for like, damn, we probably shot ourselves in the foot, but you know, but they got the information for wherever they got it from. Know your value. Know your value. I mean, and it was actually, I think when we started to see it was Well, I don't know. Maybe when you saw it, but I know when it clicked for me was the the Nick D campaign was when it first kind of hit for me. Which part? The ours generated content stuff because we had like 24k golden. He was No, bro. How did it not click to Nick D, bro? Because Nick D's find out what was the first one where I could see it from ground zero because when he came to us, it wasn't going. It wasn't like going crazy. Was it? But fast was a year before that. Oh, you're right. That's true. I forgot about fast. My bad fast. A year before that, right? And he had zero. He only had content. So I to me it was cleared in. It was just I think it was TikTok was still so early and influencers and trends were still working. Well, actually, that's why people still want it. So it was no point of really trying to push them to that. That's kind of where my energy was. Yeah. That's what I said. I'll take it back. I do know why Nick D was the first one. So because it was the first campaign we had where we try all of them at the same time and we could really clearly see like what was driving, what was driving, what, right? Got you. Like we saw the portion that was influenced the focus. I think we had just got access to ads at the time. Like he might have been the first. No, Taj was the first ad client. He had to be like the second ad client we ever had for TikTok. Right.  Damn.  But when we add these other elements to it, spark and really went crazy. So it's like we could keep trying to flip the chart and go influencers as and then convince the artist to make content.  You know what I'm saying? Well, I won't say easy, but it's much easier than when nothing is happening. So that's why I said that was when it clicked for me because I could I could look at all three parts of it working together and be like, oh no, this is clearly the thing that's driving the majority of the people with the content. And so like, but I know that was the point when I mean, I always tell like other people about this, but you know, we had that point that same year where we just like looked at all of our most successful campaigns. It was like, damn, like what's the same thing we got? We got these 10 hours this year that popped off to varying degrees. What, what do they all have in common? And the one thing that they all had in common was they all were pretty good to really good content creators. Yep. Some of them were decent, which we argue like we don't need you to be amazing. We just need you to at least be decent, at least be okay, bro. Like, but most of the really good ones were like really good to amazing content creators to the point to where when they had that shit, it almost felt like it was too easy. You know, it's like, damn, we just got sales man hasn't his own info. He did most of the work, bro.  So I don't know, man. I feel like the point we keep making the artist is a bro, if you got the money, do all of it. Right. Like still do all of it. If you don't have the money, you definitely should be going to come. This is why that's important though, because it goes back to newer artists, not quite understanding the how high something can go. Right. You have that moment again. Oh, I've never had three million streams in 30 days or 60 days before. So I'm like, yo, I don't need anything else. Right. Because I popped all off of organic or maybe it popped off of influencers, not respecting and understanding where the other aspects lie. Right. So it's like, yeah, ads might not be as impactful for creating the spark like artists just generated content, but it doesn't mean ads can't add value to this campaign. Yeah, it doesn't mean IGPR can't add value to this. It doesn't mean that influencers can't add value to it. It's just used strategically in a different way. Yeah. But so many artists is funny because, you know, we've had so many different clients that will move in different ways and they found success in different ways and they'll only swear by that way. Yeah. Next thing you know, nothing else works. Oh man, you know, all I need to do is post content ads don't work. Do you have the artist that popped off with ads and that's all he sees. Right. And then you got the artist that had an influencer campaign or artists that never spend money at all a day in their life because they're meant, but you got a manager that's a hustler and they flip some things they're creative and everybody just falls into their dogmatic mentality and tries to preach and nothing else works while we're kind of in the center and like seeing, you know, all these things work. Yeah. It's just when you do them, who you do them for, what song, like it's it's an entire machine. So, like to Jacory's point, man, like if something gets popping, like one, it doesn't mean anything else doesn't work, but two, like your song can go farther if you do more. It's the same reason why people will work a song. They'll say radio isn't really responsible for creating hits these days. Yeah. Yet when songs get really popping on the internet, what do they do? They take it to the radio. Yeah. Right. Because radio still does have value. You just need to know when to apply the value. Yeah. Like that's that's my point with that. Yeah. All of it really. Yeah. We talk about the whole marketing mix mix. Yeah. Ecosystem. This doesn't make sense to do now. This makes sense to do at these points. And it's like the idea in the ideal world, everybody would do all of it. You know, I think in the more realistic world, you kind of find the combination of things that work for you. And then you get that so tight knit that you feel comfortable enough to experiment. Right.  I at least got this thing, this system over here working for me. Right. I just feel like, yeah, like too many people write it off as just like, I don't know. I guess writing off is like, I think it's the word aspect of it. I always go about that, bro. It's like, if I tell you to go make a post, that's just you got to do.  We got to do it. And I really do feel like that's what it boils on. Because there's no way everybody's seeing the same people on TikTok pop off, seeing it the same way.   And nobody else is coming to the same conclusion that we're coming to. I refuse to believe that we might be the first ones to put it put numbers on it. Right. But there's no way we were the first ones to start thinking about it.   You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm gonna go do this other thing. I hope that works out.  Hey, bro, that's a fact. You already know I'm on your side with that one.


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HBCU Dodgers Radio, welcome back. Today, our privileged guests to talk about our latest chapter in significant philanthropy for historically black colleges and universities is the vice president of institutional advancement at Benedict College, Ms. Leandra Hayes Burgess, who is here to tell us about a very unique scholarship and endowment fund that the school recently announced earlier this month. That could be a model for HBCUs and really is a standard for generational giving at black colleges. So, Madam Vice President, thank you so much for joining us this morning. No, thank you very much for having me. So we're talking about the Melton and Ruth Kimson and Dowd Scholarship. And this is not unique in the sense that this is a gift from a family that has deep ties to Benedict. But it is very unique in that you have plans for and roots in continuing the gift for generations to come. Can you tell us a little more about the specifics of this gift to the institution and why it's so important for Benedict? Well, I can say that the Kimson family, first of all, is just a very, very treasured family to the institution. We have a of the four siblings that attended Benedict College, which is why this scholarship was established in honor of their parents, Melton and Ruth Kimson, who were share coppers and wanted to be able to attend college, but of course had to work the fields and weren't able to, but they, which is also remarkable and commendable, were able to send four children, two boys and two girls, to Benedict College to kind of fulfill the dream that they weren't able to pursue. But Melton Kimson, one of the children who is also a graduate and one of the four siblings was very, very vested in wanting to give back and serve and give time to Benedict College. In fact, he served as a trustee and is currently trustee emeritus for a little over 40 years at Benedict College. And he is the link and I would probably say the leader among the family that really kept everybody very connected to Benedict College over the years. So while it's interesting that none of their children, the action of the four siblings attended Benedict College, they were very immersed in the Benedict College experience, coming to events and games and knowing from Dr. Kimson exactly what was going on with the importance of Benedict College to the African American community, to the state of South Carolina. He's an educator, started off as a mathematics teacher and then moved on to be a principal of several elementary schools and then worked as state supervisor for the State Department of Education and then eventually was appointed by former governor Richard Riley as the executive director of health and education and human services. So really had a pulse and a commitment to education and ensured that his siblings, his nieces and nephews and children were beholding to that but really, really experienced some great times at Benedict College so that they fell in love with the institution. In fact, they helped to recruit and send students from other places throughout the state to come to Benedict as well. And while they do have some other HBCU graduates among their family, it's just those four siblings that actually graduated from Benedict College. So that kind of gives you a sense of the longevity of the relationship and the depth of the relationship that they as a family have established with Benedict over the years. So this started with a $15,000 gift. Tell us about the details of what it will support and how it will grow the college's endowment fund and opportunities for development and student access. Well, it is a need-based scholarship fund which of course we definitely are excited about because as we know, we still serve a unique population of students that definitely have those gaps and we need to provide for that. But they're also beholding to their roots in the sense that because the Milton and Ruth Kimpson they grew up in Calhoun County in South Carolina. So they have established it so that the students that would be coming from that area that we're recruiting would certainly be given first opportunity to receive that award and then they've expanded it to some other counties around. They plan to invest and continue to grow the fund on an annual basis and in fact, even with most endowments when they're established, of course there has to be roughly about a year investment time period before we actually get the yield of the interest to award. So they're going to be funding that out of pocket the first year. So that they can ensure that this fall will be able to actually award a student first. And so there's this commitment and I will say even more about the commitment is the seed was planted by our trustee emeritus in terms of how the gift was established. He actually has a fund that he established first, now maybe about six to seven years ago that has grown to roughly almost the six-figure mark. And so this is again the second one that they've established as a family but they created a family foundation in order to do it. And what's important about this is that it is actually the children of the four siblings that attended Benedict College as well as a couple of the grandchildren, some nieces and nephews that are funding this. So that in itself is something that we are extremely excited about. We are trying to create more of a legacy model in terms of legacy families. We have a lot of alumni that had several siblings that attended Benedict College at the same time. So as we move into our 150th celebration in 2020, that's actually one of our initiatives where we are identifying all of those families and presenting this to them as an opportunity to invest at a greater scale here at the institution and help us to kind of expand our outreach and opportunity for students who need this, especially within the state of South Carolina where still 60% of our students come from the state in terms of our total enrollment. Well, that's what's so interesting about this is because the parents could not attend college and sent their four children. And four children grew up, got married, had babies. The babies did not attend Benedict but remained tied to the institution so much so that they became philanthropically involved. So could you explain how the college has taken a role in cultivating a relationship with that family to not only be supportive of it, but to specifically go above and beyond and say, now we're gonna create thousands and thousands of dollars for Benedict to keep going? Well, interesting enough, I certainly can't take full credit for the cultivation of this. As I stated before, I think this has definitely been a relationship that has been in the making for 40 or more years, probably even longer than that. And several people across the institution have been heavily involved with that, certainly from presidents to our staff and alumni relations. I, myself, began the conversation with the Kimson Foundation representatives and the children in the fall of 2018. I've only been with the institution for a little over a year. And at that time, they had already decided that they wanted to make the gift. They were just trying to figure out the timing, the amount, actually, because our threshold right now is at $10,000 to establish an end-out fund. In my conversations with them, I kind of persuaded them to take that up because I know we're actually gonna be looking to increase that, probably within the next year to year and a half as we move into our 150th celebration. And so they were intrigued by that and said, well, you know, give us a little bit more time and we think that we can grow that fund. So it was a series of conversations. And then I think just engagement from different events. And I've had an opportunity to speak with several of different members of the family at different points and have some meetings and conversations. And the enthusiasm that they had for, we have to make this happen. We have to honor our grandparents and our parents because we realized that what they were able to achieve as sharecroppers and sending four children to Benedict College was truly a remarkable feat. And what they instilled in them was the value of education and the value of an HBCU and the value of just perseverance and when you make up your mind to do something that it may not be possible for you but you can certainly create a legacy for future generations. So I hope I'm answering your question to the extent that you would want but they are a very passionate family and a very successful family. Because when I look at what their children and the grandchildren have achieved, you know, they have a, we have Senator Marlon Kempfman who now has the office space that's named for him in the Charleston area and he's a grandson of the extension of that family. They are educators and lawyers and you know, they're well traveled and well versed and so it was really a great seed that was planted in them in terms of the sky's the limit of where you can go but also giving back. There's in my conversations with them over these last few months just hearing about what they have been doing in their communities and especially as it relates to education and making sure that they were planning season and like I said, they've helped to recruit students to come to Benedict College. And what I do get a sense of is that with the four siblings that they needed to always make sure that they kept Benedict College in mind in terms of their children and grandchildren. And when they came to sign the gift agreement and we really did have a wonderful private affair with them, with the president myself and members of their family, they actually brought some of the great-grandchildren as well. And so planning that seed of this is Benedict College, they told the story of the family legacy and this is where we want you to consider when you get a chance to make those decisions about where you wanna go to college. So the exposure, it's amazing that they keep Benedict in the forefront of their family legacy and we are just head over heels in love with them for doing that but also establishing this new model and they're willing to help tell that story so that we can create this type of philanthropic giving among some of our other alumni and constituents. It's interesting because in philanthropy, a lot of people think it's just easy, like go raise some money. Oh no. And that's one of the hardest things to do because each individual donor to whom you talk will be moved by something different. In other words, when did you ask, how did you ask me? Did you not, maybe I don't want you to ask me, maybe I want you to tell me what's great about your school and let me decide. So there's a psychology and a science behind developing philanthropic relationships. Absolutely. With this family, in what area did you think was the strongest selling point for getting them to continue their relationship? Was it just explaining, hey, here's what Benedict is up to today? Here's the things that we wanna do to put the Kimson name even more out there than it already has been. Was there a specific element that really stood out to the family and say, hey, let's do it now? I think that it's certainly, you hit the nail on the head was I think that just the timing was right and we are entering into this wonderful new era of transformation. They're excited about what they're seeing taking place currently under the leadership of Dr. Roslunardis and the timing was right for them to come together and say, okay, we have been invested because they have been saving for some years and you may have even seen a quote in the release that we put out that they were deciding we weren't doing presents and birthdays and Christmas exchanges so that we could take what we would normally put towards that and put it into the fund. That's what made it interesting because this wasn't one person who said, you know, I have a brother and a sister so I didn't rally my brother and sister and say, hey, y'all gonna give $3,000, we all gonna give $12,000. Like this is a committee. Yes, and it really is, it really is. This is a committee and if you meet the members of this family, you will say, aha, I can see how they can come.  So I don't think it was ever hard for them to come to a consensus that they wanted to make this gift. I think it was just a matter of figuring out, okay, how are we gonna fund it? What is the timeline and when? And I think what really motivated them was that we again are in a period of wonderful transformation under the new leadership of Dr. Artis and they wanted to support that. They wanted to support the efforts in the leadership that she has been providing in terms of providing access to students and knowing a little bit more about the needs of the students within South Carolina, the fact that we still have 84% of our students that require some form of financial aid to be able to persist. I think that that was also one of the things that motivated them to say, let's do it now. Let's figure out how we can do this now.  Four, actually, four straight years of, yes, about four years ago, we hit the $1 million mark in alumni giving and so it's been four consecutive years and we don't intend to drop this year. I think we're just a little unsung. Well, and that's what we're trying to work on. At least the Dodgers is trying to work on reversing that unsung part of it. But it's something that you're obviously speaking to individual donors, you're speaking to corporate donors, families involved.  So if there is one thing that you could say that you and Dr. Artis and everyone else at Benedict does well in making that alignment with people's giving goals, what do you think that is? The students, is it the mission? Is it the forward thinking vision? Is it a strategic plan? There's so many things to sell, but what is the one thing that you think is a major selling point that has convinced so many people, let's invest in Benedict? I can say, and the time that I've been here and work with Dr. Artis, it definitely is the students. And I would say certainly the mission of the institution as well plays into that, but the story about our students, the profile of our students, understanding that we still very much so serve a large population of first generation college students who deserve to have access to a quality education in an environment that is going to embrace them, how they come to us and take them where they need to go. We have really invested in looking at what our students need to be able to come and be successful. We understand that they're coming from environments where there are probably skill sets and because their parents may not have attended, again, the college themselves, they don't know how to properly guide them through the college process. And so there are things that we put in place in terms of going back to basics, teaching soft skills to students, and we make sure that that is a part of what we communicate to donors. When they're making this investment, this is what our students are also receiving as a part of that investment. Uniquely, we realize that our students come to us and they have things and needs that they have just to be able to kind of remove barriers from them. We started a business clothing closet for them on our campus and it's connected to our Career Pathways Initiative, which of course was helped funded through UNCF when we're part of this consortium with Class of University and also Voorhees College. But we are removing barriers and I think a lot of donors in our conversation have gotten really excited about that, especially when we talk to some of our corporate donors and those prospects that we're cultivating because they're saying that those are some of the things that they're looking for or the deficiencies that they may be seeing in some of the graduates as they're transitioning from college to the workforce. So when we're talking about that we are intentionally teaching them soft skills, we are intentionally making sure that they are going to be prepared when they go for an interview and that they look the part, they can speak the part and that they have that confidence. People are getting excited about it from our alumni to I said from individuals and friends of the institution to our potential corporate partners and that has seemed to have been a wonderful draw for us.


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But yeah it's not it's not nice you know it's not nice. It's not nice. They're in a super catch up will be ignored. Metal can mute whenever he wants to address you guys directly.  Yeah if he chooses not to that simply tells you what he thinks of you. You start a stream above mine and then you give rules to me that's that's not okay. I said can that's not a rule. I'm gonna I'm gonna call the internet popo. You can't call it no.  I am refuse. I do I don't recognize the power of the sovereign state of metal commander here. Wow in fact the fact that you just referred to metal commander the country I'm gonna need you to apologize to China now. I'm not John Cena okay.  I do wonder if it's more than that. Like is the somehow a lawyer got into his contract and was like yeah actually you have to correct this or you can be like sued. I probably think they're just the producers or whoever is in charge. I don't know. It's like yeah you might want to apologize because they make us a lot of money and we don't want them to boycott the movie. Lame. You gotta wonder how far it would go before even people like John Cena be like all right all right that's a bit much. We're not gonna do that. That's a bit much. Metal I may be crying all the time but I'm not John Cena. Yeah I'm not a millionaire. It was very successful. A millionaire. A millionaire. Metal called a crows on him. No all crows are bastards. Yeah all crows are bastards. We all know that. A crab. A crab. All crabs are bastards. The Chad Moodle is gracer than John Cena. That's true. Yeah it seems like the whole internet is disappointed in for that one. Surely it'll come up in like whatever he takes like a public question you know. Yeah why are you cucking for China on John? They have like labor camps right?  Yes but money. Oh no I played a jukebox and it has like the original songs in it.  I'm gonna jump into the next mission.  Alright story. Cantina song. We can't be having that knock in the stream down. That'd be terrible. Episode one. The Phantom of Menace. Trap the wild negotiations. Term oil has engulfed the Galactic Republic with a blockade of deadly battleships. Oh blockade. A blockade. Yes of course a blockade. Yes today we shall be reading super chats from episode one two seven. Oh we're getting there. Yeah hopefully we'll get through them. Who knows? Like no promises of any sort. You know what Lego have their own animations for everything. This is no copyright and letting these cutscenes play. Look it's all Lego visions everybody. It's nice and cute. Nothing horrible will happen. A lucky penny. Hell yeah. Look rags Obi-Wan and Qui-Wan. Obi-Wan. Kanubi. And Sylvain. And Sylvain C-3PO. Oh no they've already blown up the thing. No. What is C-3PO's weapon of choice? I imagine it's the blade. That was actually pretty funny. The game I met not you rags I'm so sorry. Oh okay well. Okay. Oh precious precious money. Doesn't everyone remember playing this game? Doesn't everyone? I don't. I don't.  You kidding me? Like it's just a meme at every level. Stop. One two seven was the twin perfect one. Oh boy. New Edgar Wright movie looking good I think so too. I'm gonna want to check it out. I hope it's all of the films. Is there a trailer? Yes but I haven't seen it. That's the only thing is like it's it was funny. I was I mentioned it to YMS and he was like oh yeah I don't want to watch the trailer in case it spoils a single detail and I was like that's probably fair because Edgar Wright's actually good at his job so you got to hold on. Yeah he's called Edgar Wright for a reason. Yeah he's not Edgar wrong. Yeah he's always correct. Die droids. So one of the things Jay has done on like little like polls polling on the YouTube's or Twitter's is the potential for making a video that's about how LEGO Star Wars games are not very good actually. Oh my god. Can you believe it? Yes. It's like I mean yeah. Great for children though I think is what he's going to clarify so that's good. Oh god it's for space wizards and space children. How do I block? Oh there we go. Oh I'm deflecting like a proper Jedi.    I'm gonna kill him. And this hole. Who are these guys? What do they want? What do they do? They could have exploded okay guys I couldn't know if they were dangerous. Oh. Oh. Is this what I want to do? Oh no Obi-Wan died. Oh well. Is that canon? Ah there is a thing over there. That the Star Wars universe is made out of LEGOs. How do they do circuitry work? Like really like you know the really precise stuff? How do they do that? With gumption that's the word that people say right? With a can do attitude. What? Familiars like shoot the enemy? No. Not me. Familiars. Very fan of yours. I'm all rags, chat, frogs, rhinos, krogans and Nazis. Not you metal. Oh man. Wait oh my god. Were you upset that they said hi to the Nazis and said that doesn't include you? No no I was shooting a thing because there was an enemy but the ball spawned a thing for me. It was actually familiar so I was fighting my. Why did they not say hi to me? Yeah. This guy's really confusing. Or does it? Yeah it does.   Didn't get a notification shake my head. Oh my god. Just shake everybody's head. Shake everybody's head. Shake shake shake. More has to collect 1.2 billion studs for chat to be happy. Maybe I will. You don't know. Damn. I'll be your first stud. Oh. Watching the 90s Berserk anime makes me realize how terrible the dialogue is in a lot of places particularly the beginning. It's the reason I advise the manga which doesn't have as Tisamy dialogue. Now there is great dialogue in the 90s anime but it's specific moments and only at points later in the series which makes it hard to keep watching. Well dialogue is genuinely tough and I have assumed this from the fact that very few things have great dialogue. Just like when you're writing your thing and you're like oh we gotta get this information out there okay this character says it. It's like no no no you gotta like really think why they would say it. No. Just have random exposition whenever you want to have anything explain to your audience for whatever reason regardless of context. Don't do that. Writing is easy. Writing M's not hard. Oh I said no. I need C3PO. What a jib. Oh that didn't work well last time you needed him. That's an old team. I want to see three PPO's. Oh PPO. Too hot for TV. EFAP After Dark. That'll stock some shelves in the back room. I get it. I keep blowing up the little droids I feel bad. They shouldn't. They're racist. You tell me this now. Damn. I could have told me 10 years ago. That would be that would be quite the like like the scandal in the trade federation if all a lot of these like factions and planets found out that the federation the battle droids are like really really racist.  Like oh my god. You could have just killed me. You didn't have to. Calamari the slimy fish person. Disgusting. Kill them on sight.  We refuse to fight for the trade federation unless you get rid of and then they unscrew this massive list of races. The Jadoobians. We're not asking for much. All we want is to work in a pure environment. We're only okay with Neimoidians. I could picture the Neimoidians being like how did this happen? This this programmer who's like it's you know just Hitler is there as a programmer. No it's it's they must be developing some kind of artificial intelligence which is made so racist. This feels like a boss. Are you fine with Jedi? Jedi are more of an occupation and not a race. We're tentatively okay with Jedi. What do you think about army of the dead? We have not seen it. Gonna watch it on Sunday. Sunday Sunday Sunday. It's gonna be great. The script for the live action powerpuff girl show leaked yesterday. It's horrible. It makes Batwoman look like a masterpiece. It was real because people got flagged for spreading the script. I have heard and there is a consideration that we might devote either an EFAB and EFAT mini or something to reading through that script because I've heard it is beyond hilarious so. Oh the three hosts we each get to play a powerpuff girl. That kind of works because you're red, Fringius green and well and I'll be blue. Yeah I'll go and be burbles. I guess I'll be blossom. Fringius to be the the hardcore the whitewashed character. No Yeez buttercup the green black one. She's been she was the one that was whitewashed I hear. That's the logic anyway. You know I wouldn't want to spoil because I was just like I said so many funnies. So many funnies. Okay that wouldn't work that way game. I don't believe it. Oh I see what I have to do. I have to stand on here. Yo second person do the thing. I'm behave second player. No is that not what I'm supposed to do so far. Stop. Am I only able to do this five two players because that's outrageous. Outrageous. All right if I stand on this. Oh he does it automatically that's good I guess. I probably don't need all of the studs we've almost got the true Jedi of this level already which I don't even wasn't that hard. I'm gonna be honestly what do I do it myself. Ah beautiful. There is a great dialogue in the 90s anime but specific moments and only at point oh wait I read that sorry. Lego video games were mine and my siblings favorite growing up. They were the hilarious back in the day with characters only communicated through grunts.  It is very amazing how those people could build an entire galactic civilization using nothing but plastic bricks and grunting to one another. It really is a marvel of their tenacity and ingenuity. Oh I always felt too. Yeah it's nice. It really goes to show and they call this sci-fi fantasy but I feel like it's pretty down to it. It's called Ski-Fee.  What's that were you in that call where I accidentally flipped the letters around on Kong Skull Island and I said skonk all island. Skonk all island.  Don't lie I'm skonky. They call him skonks. Oh it's a force field that's not fair. What do you mean you can use the force but they can't? Exactly. Wow. So I gotta don't break these. Why go and help out you old man. Oh my back please don't oh no. I don't know what's happening. I've pissed myself. Oh no. Urinated in my Jedi robes. Why are they so heavy all of a sudden? How come we're British?  Why is it that we've urinated constantly on this spaceship? Must have been the force field. DC Netflix announced their Sandman series cast with the character's pronouns attached to the list. That should be great. I'm sure it will be. We wouldn't want to misgender a fictional character. That would be silly.  I need a midget character apparently. Oh well. Can I do this yet? We can do it in free play though. They're called little people. They're called not normals. Why are you laughing? It's like they prefer that. You're like oh. They are wonderful people. Those little people. I remember I used to watch a show when I was very young. No one else was my sister and I ended up watching it through Osmosis because when you're the oldest of four you just absorb a lot of kids shows. It was called little people and they were just it was like a fisher price thing where they had animated characters and they it was like claymation and they had all of these adventures and it was just awful. All right. Yeah there was one called there was an Asian one in the name with Sonia Lee and her little quirk was other than being Asian was that she could speak to animals. She could like understand animals. And this is the kind of show where the tiger's name is tiger and the bear's name is bear. What did tigers say? Oh no. I think that's a fantastic name. Yeah I feel like you're underwriting the show. It sounds kind of awesome. Well you know as we often say ideas are cheap. Executions is everything and I feel like those I think there should have maybe been a little mass execution. So mass executions. Oh no. Was it nearly was not nearly as good as JJ was. The jet plane? Yeah of course yes not Abrams. I'm specifically referring to JJ the jet plane. Usually he recently said so it like there should have been a plan for Star Wars. Was it? Yeah he was like. Well that's embarrassing considering he made the first movie. Well if you remember as Daisy Ridley said there were notes that uh Ryan Johnson ignored. Yeah that's true. That is true. No I don't know how extensive these notes were but maybe. I mean I would have been curious to see how a full JJ trilogy would have gone you know. That is from Tom Wars the Phantom and Cuticle Connor or Conor. Your name you put his name is Conor C-O-N-O-R instead of two N's. So I can only assume that that is Conor. Which maybe you should just keep. Fuck. We have enough Conors. We need uh we need more Conors. That's like the Beastmaster version of Conor. That's your Beastmaster name is Conor. It does sound like maybe a villain name I'm not sure. Conor the destroyer. Yeah you could be you could be Mollor. Yes that's your Beastmaster name. Metal could be uh Motol. Motol. And I can be rags. Mootlo. Mootlo you streamed during a Super Shed catch up. Hey I started streaming hours ago all right. No he didn't. He's lying to you. How dare he mutually streamed during a metal stream. Oh why are you streaming right now of all times. Who know reverse cards get fucked. You can use reverse cards on reverse cards so you know. No well I have 17 of those. Oh my god droid because. Rags can be Grogu. Oh look at that. That moves OP. Wiped him all out. Even in the small ones. And the women and the children. We've been over this. They're called little people. I can call them the small ones. That's the small ones.   You okay with oompa loompa. I couldn't help but laugh at it.  I feel like that would be a term of endearment. Some might find it offensive though you know. You have to reclaim that word oompa loompa. Don't let them take the oompa loompa from you. When we were when our when our people were slaves in the fields the slave. The Wonka fields. Yeah the one in the Wonka fields where we were we would harvest schnazberries. My favorite. The slave drivers Wonka himself he would call us oompa loompa's but eventually after the civil rights movement and you know the emancipation proclamation and oompa loompa's got their freedom we we we reclaim that word and now it's our word. And see I think that's beautiful really. They'd call us berry pickers.   No you can't say that. You can't say the heart beat. Those are all them oranges. I don't trust them. They work for Wonka. Oompa loompa lives matter. Yes. Loompa lives matter yeah. Um I'd stay but the triumvirate within 136 is too damn golden yet pain inducing. I love it. Hello mubjli and hi rags. Hi. Hello. Uh do y'all play apex and if so who's your main? I do quite quite a lot. I play a lot of apex legends. It's kind of like the only shooter I'm currently playing right now. Uh Bangalore is who I play more than anyone else. Um I got lifeline up to just shy of 10k kills but then they started fiddling with her and I didn't kind of like how a lot of their changes were so I started experimenting with a lot of the other characters and I sort of settled on Bangalore. Really like Bangalore. Well there you go. Any particular reason is it because she's really hot? So Bangalore is a really uh one thing that I found is very important and helpful in apex is that you pick a character that has kind of a kind of has a survival option to get out of a sticky spot um because of how like damage works and how the game sort of plays it's really helpful to be able to have an oh crap button that you could use to sort of get out of sticky situations.