Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. But if you are unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week as we are doing right now today. And the recording will be available in our show archives for you to watch later at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of our show recordings. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in the topics we have on Encompass Live. So those of you not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries. So they're similar to your state library. So we provide services and training and resources and grants to all types of libraries in the state. So you will find shows on Encompass Live for all types of libraries. Public, academic, K-12, corrections, museums, archives, historical societies, everything and anything. Really, our only criteria is that it's something to do with libraries and any sort of definition version of a library. So we do book reviews, interviews, mini training sessions, demos of services and products, all sorts of things. We bring in guest speakers to Encompass Live sometimes from libraries all across the country. But we also have commission, Nebraska Library Commission staff that do presentations sometimes. And that's what we have this morning. I joined us today is two commission staff, Sally Snyder, good morning Sally. And she is our coordinator of children and young adult library services here at the Nebraska Library Commission. And Amy Owen, one of our information services librarian, good morning Amy here as well. And they're going to talk about a program we've been doing here at the commission for, oh gosh, I don't know how many years, a long time. Our One Book for Nebraska Kids and Teens program, many states or cities have one book for whatever. And we have a Kids and Teens version of that. So I'm going to hand it over to you, Sally and Amy, to tell us all about our program. Okay, thank you. We'll kind of go with a little history first that people may not be aware of how this all started is because we had a One Book, One Nebraska program. I'm not sure exactly when that started, but it had been going through a couple, three years. And then we decided, I'll tell you a little bit more about that. But to get to the webpage, you can go to children and YA right here. And if I can keep it online and go right over here to One Book for Kids slash Teens. And that gets you to the webpage about our program. The One Book for Nebraska, I believe is run by the Nebraska Center for the Book. Yes. But this is run by the Nebraska Library Commission because in 2000, well, that started on it in 2007. I met with Sharon Osega, who was then the director of the Meridian Library system, which now we have. That was when we had six systems. Now we have four systems that would have had the Meridian anymore. But those libraries are still covered by the Central Plains Library system. And she and I talked about a number of ideas that you could get some things going. And this was one of them. And so in 2007, it was our first ever One Book for Nebraska kids. And she made the suggestion for the title we used that in here. And you can look through here and see some, lots of information things, but down here. So that you don't have to scroll all the way through miles and miles of pictures of books. If you want to see what happened in 2007 age, it was rescued Josh McGuire by Ben Michelson. And so as a book for Nebraska kids, it's usually aimed to that fourth to sixth grade readers in general. We all know that kids read at their own level. And so if the kids in fourth grade, they might be reading higher or lower than this particular book. But we're aiming in general for that age group. And back then we did one book for Nebraska kids in 2007. Then we did one book for Nebraska teens in 2008 to 2009. So each book lasted two years. We've alternated naming new books. Well, eventually we were asked to both books new every year. And so we ended up doing that in 2013. Ooh, do I dare scroll all the way through 12 and 13? There we go. This was the first year that we had both books new. Kids, Aliens on Vacation for Kids and the Liath and for Teens. And as we've scrolled around, we've seen all these active links. We have tried for each book to put together some discussion questions, author information. The number of puzzles varies from year to year because back then we were creating lots of puzzles. And I know the answers are right here on the page. And all the kids know where the answers are. Like they're not going to find it. And then some websites that can be of interest as well are all on here. So now I'm going to go, what happens if I hit the background? When I go back to the top. Yay! I did want to point out guidelines can be found here. So how do we decide what is going to be the one book for Nebraska kids? Well, these guidelines are pretty general. The first one is we agreed that it should not be a golden sewer nominee because there are so many books out there. And to hook onto something that is already being promoted in another realm, so to speak, is what it's done. They did say because the team choices are less used, we could, as far as the golden sewer community was concerned, it would be okay for that. But we really try not to piggyback on that. And for years the book must be out in paperback. That's just due to purchasing copies for our book club kits, which you'll hear about later. The book fits the suggested age group. Again, a general range. It's either for what I call upper elementary to early middle school, four to six, four. Often the team book is geared towards high school, but not always. Because teachers in high school really asked me to do that. But at that time there wasn't a golden sewer book for high school. They're working towards that. I understand. So that's great. And then also the book has to have some good discussion books. It doesn't have to be controversial. It just is, you know, things about, well, why, why did you do that for? Hard to have a book discussion if there's nothing to talk about. Exactly. Have different ideas and thoughts and to actually, you know, yeah. Not your arguments, but just things that you can have possibly have a different view about. Yeah. And you could also ask him that can sometimes that's in the discussion questions. But he hadn't found the letter from his cousin. What do you think he would have done next if he didn't know what his cousin told him? And then they can go up on a whole nother tangent and that's also fun for that. All right, so we'll go back to the main page. But so if you have any suggestions for adding something or altering these guidelines. As we know, I certainly would consider other possibilities. It's just kind of what's worked for us so far. And that's where we all look at it. There's no limit to genre or character type or anything like that. Very open. That's a good point. We tried, and while we had rescue Josh, what was the first one? And we tried to bring in different, a lot of diversity in the characters that are represented in the books. We've had The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds was one of the early teen books. We've had the board. We had a couple of the April Henry books. So the strong female character, I believe, and the Joseph Blue Shock. Well, we'll find that later, but I can't think the title of the book was trying to be crazy. So for the current year, we have The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich, which is about, can you say what their tribe is? Oh, the Native American. I shouldn't know. Thank you. Louise Erdrich is right there on the top line. And again, we have some information about the author and some activities, some discussion plans. And our teen book was, is, I should say, Notify Safety First by Holly Carter. And this is a survival in the winter in Alaska book, which are always popular. And this has a strong female character, yes, in Maddie. That's up here. I'm going to click on 22.  All of this information is available to anybody. So if you're not enamored of this year's one book for Nebraska kids or teens, but you've seen one from a couple of years ago, all the information is still up there. Well, early on we have the books in our book club kit. But after a while, some of them have been winnowed away, I believe, because of lack of use and bad conditioning books. I think that we have most of them, though, I think. And I think it's ideal for placing copies. But yeah, we should have kits for most of them. I would have to check at least the last five years or so. We should have all of them. Yeah, we've tried to make sure that whenever there's a new one that we do get. At least the kids here for the commission. Yeah. And it's usually a set of 10. Yeah, generally. Yeah. So sometimes I'm going to donate some that they had. And we'll have those two as that in case you need more. And for this year and the upcoming year. The commission has a set and each of the regional library systems will have their own kit. So there should be plenty to go around. That's great. Yes. So our kids already booked for the timeframe you want. Check with your library system and see if theirs is available. That'll help across the state. Yeah. Oh, yes. These aren't so terrific. They're such good books. They seem to be together with the team book and Barbara. The kids thought with good discussions of kids in particular circumstances that end up the last hour of Friday. And we, we, they are in a room by themselves. No teacher, nobody else around for them to interact. And it's just about how they first don't have anything to say to anybody. And over time, this is hard for me over time. They begin to talk about themselves and talk about. They're happening in their lives and being supportive of each other. It's a really strong. But I don't want to go through here and talk. It's dangerous that I would go through and just talk about every book and tell you what's great about it. And there's information right there for each title to give you a general idea of what the book is about. And what might be some good discussion. Well, it's because we have a discussion guide for each of those, some from the publisher, some from somewhere else, curious city. That's great. And you'll notice for the activities and puzzles throughout the years, a lot of them have been just some print out that you could hand out crossword puzzles, words, or just things like that. And the last couple of years, we've been trying to make it a little more active.  Whoops. Good. So instead of a crossword puzzle, for example, we have Alpham, should I click on Alpham? Yeah. So this is the game that I found on one of our book sites that we use a lot for discussion questions and information. And it's just a, your group can sit around and you would try to name something from the book for every letter of the alphabet. And that could start a fun discussion. So I went through and did it myself and I was able to find something for every letter. So I think. Okay. You know what I'm going to ask you about that. Oh, I can't remember what I had, but I did have something for that. Good job. Well, and I want to just go back quickly and do the snowball fight. Because that's fun too. Yeah. This book like it would be a lot of fun. You can do it two ways. You can use it with the discussion questions. You can print a writing discussion question on a piece of paper, follow it up. And you have a snowball fight. You can do it with just blank paper too. I suggested taking it out of the recycling bin and just using it to kind of, you know, get your wiggles out. Get everyone kind of work out their excess energy and just run around with a snow paper snowball fight. But you can also do it where each paper has a question on it and that whoever ends up with that piece of paper. They use that question to start talking about the book. So either way, but since this book did have some winter scenes. I thought a snowball fight might be fun. We use this one also for the team book. Not if I save you first because that's also set in a snowy area. So is he fitting? And who doesn't like a snowball fight? Well, generally when you don't get all wet in the fight. Right. Right. So, or the headbands game. This one you would have to. But if you've ever played the board game headbands where you have a, an image or a word on a card and you strap it to your forehead where you can't see it. And then you ask, yes or no questions to determine what you are. So we have, I think if you scroll down, there are some, some cards to pronounce with difference objects, character settings in the book. And you could ask, yes or no questions to determine who or what you are. That's so cool. They're taking games that people may have already played. Like, like board games or things they know and just kind of translating it into something that can be just used for anything. Yeah. It's already so I suppose that's easier for some of the kids, especially younger kids to, you know, want to do some of these activities. It doesn't come out very often, but I do have to click on how to make an axe throwing game, because Rady is, is able to do that. I didn't check that link this week. I hope it's still a work. There we go. So yeah, the main character in not if I say he first is an expert axe thrower. So I thought that would be fun. This is a non dangerous version. There's no sharp edges. And I read through this when you first put it out there. I thought this is great because what you throw it at is a something that you've made out of. I can't remember that. Cool noodles. Personally like that. Something soft. Something soft. So it just kind of fits there and stays. Don't you throw it right. I didn't try it myself. I did. I did go axe throwing a couple of weeks ago. So yeah, it's harder than it was. I believe it. Ex throwing is a big as a bit is very popular now. I find it terrifying, but that's just me. Yes. I'm another activity you can do with the birthmark house. There is a printable for the indigenous tribes of Nebraska. This book is that it is sort of. Not really superior. But we had, you know, we are on native land ourselves and it might be interesting to see just, you know, who lived previously or who still lives in your area. And that would be an interesting discussion and maybe even learn more about that history. Maybe have a representative come and talk about their traditional ways of life. And they're going to do some of that. So early on, I created lots of the print out and fill in these puzzles. But as it got going, I ran out of time. And so thank you, Amy came through and started helping with all of this, which has been terrific. And she's, but she's the one who found all of these ideas. So I'm out to your expertise and you're searching skills and talents. This is great. Now, we didn't have down here coming soon. We're going to do that about 1030 and just yeah, yeah. We have made a selection for the one book for Nebraska kids and teens for 2024 next year. We're trying to do that about the middle of the year like about now. So that there's time for getting the page up and getting the activities and things and pull together, which I know this, we just decided this couple weeks. Yeah. And again, if you're doing it in a school setting or in a library, public library where you're working with school-age children. This gives you time to plan for the upcoming year because it is, it's not on a school calendar schedule. It's on a calendar year schedule. So it would be January and December. So you have to be there with this book and then you have to be there the next year. And then by now would be right after that book is going to be. And the book have been chosen by different committees throughout the years. It's never been decided by just one person. Right now it's decided by two people that I agree with that. Because I used to have a youth advisory board made up of children and teen librarians throughout the state who helped give advice on different things. But as time went by, this was really before Zoom became the big deal. We had a whole new way of meeting. We tried to meet once a year and it was hard and kind of like email out questions and ideas and get the information back, but that all was kind of faded away. So then I had a committee here at the commission who considered the books and made recommendations. And people's time is tricky. Here are five books. I need an answer by next week. I try not to do that. So if anyone out there who's listening has a suggestion for a book that you think would make a good one book for Nebraska kids or teens, please email to me what your idea is. Because they don't have to be brand new books. There's no time frame except that they need to be available to purchase to put in a collection. But otherwise it could be something from 10 years ago that really resonates today for some reason or other. You know, yeah, the one book for one Nebraska, some of these ones, they do have more requirements. And like the building store or having to be like Nebraska centric and publish with a certain time. These are not as strict with the, this one. No, this is just what do you think would be interesting for this age group to read and discuss. And that's really the only criteria. We just want people to read. And we want to promote books. So a variety of. Yeah, to find older books doesn't, yeah, there's, there's plenty of, there's so many, so many books being published. There's definitely going to be ones that we've missed over the years. Exactly. And I try hard to hear about every single book and that's not possible. That's just crazy. I do like to sleep at night too. There you go. I know you say the same things I when you do your, your children and teen books, books for the most recent year sessions and even the, the summer reading program book lists. There's going to be ones that you've missed. And I know when we've done the shows, there's a lot of people that have there's a few titles that get suggested and mentioned that, you know, it's impossible for one person to have heard about every single or, you know, book that's been published in a year. We've talked about how we tried to include diversity of characters and abilities. And just their history or background. I just was sad. The last time we did this, that we hadn't done the graphic novel yet. So there's some things on my, on my mind. I just, I've been reading a nonfiction book and I realized I haven't had a nonfiction book on there. Nonfiction is a little trickier to have a discussion about because you can't say, well, I don't think they did have a war. Well, pretty sure they did. History. So, you know, it may be gone fiction isn't the right, um, historical fiction. We had the master's book a couple years ago, but yeah, we're taking some liberties with some of the, yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, nonfiction titles in general in our book club kits, right? Yeah. Yeah. That's true. So maybe that's the best place for them. And if someone wants to take them and have a discussion, more power to you and let me know how it goes, because I'm, I'm not, I guess, ready for that to figure out how to do that. Yeah. And that's something to realize. We have these book, you know, we're talking about this particular program that we pick a particular title. Um, each year that each kids and teens can focus on and all, like if they're talking to their friends, they know, Oh, did you read this one? It's the one that's been picked. But, um, you're not restricted to these that we have got so many, our book club kids, that's just, it's just growing like crazy. Um, both adults and teens and kids of all sorts of titles in there. So if you're not, you've already done these books or wants to try something different. Um, take a look at our website and search for it and find a title you might, um, a different title you might, your teens or your kids might want to do. Yes. And we're going to go there to visit that part of our website here in a minute, but it's 10 30. Should we make an announcement? Yeah, I think so. I think so somewhere we can click. I think we go to the blog. It should be up there. Hopefully. I don't know why it's so resistant to me. There we go. There it is. Man, let's check out what they are. Thinking about it. Look, there's a graphic novel on there. How did that happen? Parachute kids is a graphic novel. Um, based on the author's experiences when, um, this, in this, I'll tell you about this book first in this book, the girl in the middle is the youngest and this from her point of view. That's why it's the kids, but she, her older brother next to her and the oldest her sister, the sister, 16, I can't remember how old her brother is 14, 15, they're in high school together. So, but they come to vacation in the United States with their parents and they're having a great, she wants to go to Disney, Disney World, Disney and anyway. And they're from, oh gosh, Taiwan, Taiwan, well done. But after they get there and after they have a couple vacation, dad has to go back to Taiwan because his, his passport, his visitation is only as on vacation and he has to go back home, go back to work and make more money. And mom stays with them a little longer, but eventually they have an apartment and it's up to the oldest girl who's 16, like I said, to make sure everything runs smoothly so nobody can tell that their parents aren't there anymore. Both parents had to go back to Taiwan and are working to get another visitor's permit or something. Meanwhile, the kids are in the United States going to school and having issues and they weren't expecting to stay. So it is a surprise to everyone that they're in school and they have a certain amount of money they can spend, but they are trying to keep themselves and not make waves. And that can be very difficult when you don't know the language very well or have any kind of support network. So many challenges come up. Interestingly, to me, is that this just came out this year, 2023, April, March, April. It's really new, but it also came out in hardback and paperback at the same time. Thank you. That's perfect. The one book for Nebraska teens is Between the Lines by Nikki Grimes. And this is actually a companion book to her Bronx masquerade. It came out a number of years ago. Wow. Which I did read a number of years ago. This came out 2018. So it's a few couple of years old, but I think it's still very relevant. And it's about, it includes verse and pros and it's about working towards an event. It's a poetry class. And they are working towards a slam poetry competition at the end of the semester. And it's a group of kids who don't really know each other and are rather suspicious of each other. Yes. And they're poetry and through their writing they really come to get to know each other quite well and become their support network. So there's a lot of things that can happen with this book too. As far as poetry and working together and supporting each other. And kids are way into poetry for a group of teens. In particular. Because a lot of people are still having poetry slams themselves and having good success with participants. So I think that's a timely book as well. Cool. Now we will see that it is not yet on the One Book Photographic Kids and Teens page because we have some work to do to pull together information about it. Wait until it was announced. Everything modern. It's only July after all. And right now it's still 2023 so focusing on making sure they read the 23 books this year. But now you know you can plan for the 2024 titles. To think about those and how you might use them. Have a discussion or turn the what over to Amy because she is knowledgeable about her book club. Yeah. As we mentioned before especially for these four titles this year and next year we will have book club kids available at both here at the commission and at each of the regional library systems. If you go to our book club page you can all of these kids are available to libraries. If you have a book club that is not as a human library you would go through the library because we want to mail it to a librarian. Someone that we know just to keep track of it. You can see the rules here. I won't go into that right now. But we have a fairly flexible checkout period. It's not just so many weeks. You tell us when you want them. When you want to hand them out. When you will discuss them and we give you a week on either side of those dates to mail them to and from. We will mail them to you if you happen to be in the Lincoln area. You can drop them off here in our office or pick them up here. Whatever works for you. But you can see you can search by other title if you know those. You can search by genre or keyword grade level. You can search by number of kids if you need a certain number of copies. We have kids that vary from a single copy to more than 20 copies depending on the book. You can browse our entire collection all at once. Fiction, nonfiction. You can just look at Nebraska related books. We have a special section for the Nebraska 150 books from years ago. Or yeah. Fiction, nonfiction, holiday, and new editions. Anytime we add something, those will be here. I think right now we only have one book for this current month. But sometimes that list is quite bold. For these particular books, I think if you search by grade level you might have the easiest time. And usually books have several grade levels associated with them. So I kind of go with someone in the middle. But if you click on there you'll see all of these. There's the grade level next to them. So there's Theme Boy. There's the 2022 book. That was 2020. I remember that one. Yeah. And you'll see some of these out here. That one was the one book for Nebraska 2013. And some of these were golden sewer books. We try to get as many of those as we can. Nominees and winners. Some classics. It's always good to have some classic books. And anytime someone on our staff does a review we try to post a link to that. The Kinsey Milo is our book club librarian and they have been doing a book club spotlight reviews on our website. You can see a nice summary and opinion piece on that. It's good to have other people's opinions. Yes. If we don't have books like that. But Kinsey, they're doing that every week in spotlight. I think so. I've worked for two weeks, I think. I've worked here for two weeks. I knew it was not a regular schedule. I wasn't just sure how I was doing it. Yeah. But yeah, more than we do about the same as our Friday reads. I invited them to join our weekly Friday in mind so now we have them still. That's great. If we don't, if your pick is not available we do also offer read-alikes. Right now I noticed this morning when I was looking at the books I don't have our current books on here, the read-alikes. But these are books that if you liked this book or this genre these characteristics of this book here are some other ones that you might try and these are all books that we own so you would be able to use that to make a informed selection of an alternative book. And we will happily help you find another book if your book is not available. So our 2023 selections are both they are those kids are historical and we said one but so when we were looking for a genre could be looking for historical fiction or you could be looking for realistic fiction it's kind of a way to say water who knows what kind of venture I'm just throwing out books not necessarily about that so sorry let me get back to it I think that first Dark House would fall under historical but we also have books that are more focused on certain Native American readers so this would have fallen under our Native American voices category we have some other other titles this is her first children's book and she made it into an entire series but she has a very prolific author and has many other books that we have also so the one I was trying to do though oh yes that is there is killer and killer than Joseph Poochott that would be yeah that wasn't a song but what I thought it was other our teen book I believe fell under the adventure survival category they're always fun so if you like Gary Paulson or similar Tales of Survival there's Resty Jocelyn Guire and that if I say these are but yes these are available to all librarians across the state for their book groups and so if we needed it for a class it would be we could make that work and also sometimes adult book discussion groups a kids or teen definitely so no so what are we forgetting to oh we talked about the books in series oh yes we haven't talked about that we probably haven't talked about that so First Dark House was part of a series and if you are looking for the next book in a series and you're not sure what it is we put together a books in series database and I think if we see if I have that in here I just want to remind everyone if anyone else does have any other questions you want to ask about the one book from Ask a Kids teens books the program getting titles in there or anything about our book club kids or anything on here go ahead and get it into the questions section and they can answer any of your questions while they're here today I have used our books in series database a number of times when I come across the series I found book 3 and I like to read book 1 first if I have the time so boom I can just go here switch and it's on there and I can find out what is book 1 and you'll see these some of these books have these dv numbers after them those are part of the talking book and braille service to show you because they request by numbers and I believe that this database came around to help talking books because when patrons request books in a series they might not necessarily be automatically coming to them in order and this way they can tell which books they need to get first first to try to keep them in series order and you notice that we're missing any series please let us know we're always happy to update that if your favorite series isn't on our list we need to know absolutely or your second favorite series I'm always very impressed with this database and I know you all Amy get a lot of comments and testimonials from people all across the country using it not just here in Nebraska the series database that we have which I thought that was interesting surprising that it's not really apparently not being done anywhere else very well or as well as what we're doing because we get so many people saying oh yeah I use yours hey I've seen a couple others but and sometimes I see conflicting information sometimes the authors page don't match the other databases so yeah it's interesting to see how they list their series too so what else have you talked about the one book oh yeah we have to do that easiest for you generally I'm on the Nebraska Center for the book each state has their own center for the book our center posts the one book one Nebraska website also with the current mystery of Huntington is the series selection up here in the corner they have the kids and teens page it's a courtesy to us yeah they don't run this program but they do offer information so they can find us that's awesome yeah so if you can't find it one way you can find it in exactly a lot of the same information so but they include other pictures we wouldn't do that but we have two at the bottom which is good so this is the current one and then like you said we can go they have the jump right there to all the previous years too yeah yeah so that's hand and these are on our page too but we also had I also put together a a book review sheet for the kids to fill out it could be you could print for a page there would be just a little mini print out but we can decide if they would recommend it or not it doesn't be back that way I like the words you put in there that's funny, boring or confusing these are good words yeah stupid we're thinking about it a little more critically rather than just saying oh it was good I like why we're the dreaded evil educational so things can be exciting and educational life not if I save you first some good information about saving yourself in a bad situation you can copy that page and use it for anything you want to it doesn't have to be done it doesn't have to be done I'm just taking this and running with it because they made it for me great we love to share all of the things and the mini book all of the scripts that appear as well I found this also they created this site specifically to go with the Birch Ferts House series and it's different phrases and words used in the book and you can hear how they're pronounced that is true I thought this was really cool so I would have to look them up to figure out how to say most words and other languages that I don't speak so I'm trying to sound it out myself which is always a mistake because I'm never right this is a really cool resource if you're reading this book with a group and you can talk about this source and how you can say the word and how often it's not available to you which reminds me of the website where you can find out how authors' names are pronounced and John Cheska who never know how to say that Cheska like Britska of course I have that aside right now I think we have it somewhere so this is a handy use of our little flags over to the left the center for the the rest of the book the rest of the memories and the rest of the access are all quick ways to get to each of those collection of items and then you'll have to type it in up above or figure out where in the list belongs going down just up right there we do have a question here someone's curious about we have these book club kits we've been doing this program since as people can see there since 2007 have you heard from any libraries who have done programming with any of our one book for Nebraska kids or teens titles over the years about anything interesting they've done or how it's gone yes we have heard some libraries for a while a number of years ago we had an evaluation form we were asking people to fill out just saying how many how many participants did you have and what was your discussion like, things like that we had some good general information and now it's just an occasional comment that comes via email or along with the books that come back and oh this was terrific the kids really love the book we had great discussion more or I couldn't get anybody to say anything I don't think anyone's ever told us that part but if that's the case they don't want to tell us that because they want to keep having the books but we haven't done a real evaluation for quite a while now because it's just been moving right along and the books get borrowed sometimes sometimes they are more popular one year and another year just because it happens it's something that catches everybody's attention sure sure you never know what people are going to be interested in it's so interesting when we do these the one books for anything but I'm glad we have the book club kits now for these at the systems too that was a specific request from them actually apparently years ago kids for these and then just they just kind of fell off doing that and they specifically requested they said yeah we need to have these ourselves as well specifically for the one book for Nebraska kids and teens so we ordered the titles for this year and for 2024 the new ones that if they're not here yet they will be soon because the order was placed like within the last couple of weeks literally like they've actually physically come in yet or when that will happen but I haven't seen the parachute kids added yet to our college and so I'm not sure if they have arrived but they're on orders so coming soon and then also the ones for each of the systems when the books come in we'll send them off to their the four systems to each of them to have both of the 2023 titles and both of the 2024 so I'm looking forward to hearing from librarians and hearing how things went with their discussions of whichever of the titles they're using I'm always willing to give an email saying here's what our event was or how long it took or whatever if you're having a book discussion group or you meet once a week for a month or something however you say to that whatever works for your community we'd love to hear about it so please let us know definitely yeah um see one uh I know we just we just announced the 2024 titles so um definitely keep an eye out on the website here I assume like more later in the year or I don't when do you usually get the 2024 info up on here the activities not until like like January or is that it'll be probably in the later in the fall so yeah but before before 2024 yeah but you know as of today what the titles are yeah first announced for the first time today a parachute kids Betty Tang in between the lines and the key crimes so start planning for next year if you want to do the right this fall and you find other information that because we haven't gotten or finished so we can share with everybody because your research is just as helpful as our research and we'll add another line to the links to the activities that you have something that we're willing to share so thank you absolutely if you come up with an activity that works for any of the past books or current books we will have and you think it would be good for everyone we probably share that as well so like the book review sheet that you can use any of the tiles but yes oh yeah you just change the title on that and have used for any of them I think it's great though that you do find activities that are very specific to each book each year too not just the same thing repeated it's great that some can be reused that way because they are perfect for that but you know each book is different and needs its own alright is there anything else you all have Sally and Amy on your agenda on your script there I think we hit everything we listened so if we haven't told you something you're dying to know it's not because it's a secret it's because we didn't think of it so ask away and we'll happily tell you what we know about it yes if anybody has any last minute desperate questions you want to ask of Amy and Sally get it into your questions section there we can ask them now but you can always reach out to the commission you all know where we are and how to reach out of contact us here on the website so you can always ask later if you think of a question at a later time or if anyone has used any of these kids or used any of these books you can let us know what your experiences have been as well yes and if you have suggestions for making things better we're happy to hear those yes if something didn't work for you let us know that and see what we can figure out about making things work better yeah absolutely I can't see if people are typing so I always wait to see if anyone's got some long thing they're writing in but I don't see anything right now so I think we are getting close to the top of the hour I can work on my little wrap up and we'll see if any other questions do 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Raghamuffin cat vs Siberian cat. Where are the differences between these two cat breeds? Raghamuffin's breed standard describes him as a cuddly feline teddy bear. He is characterized by his large size, large walnut-shaped eyes that can be any color, sweet expression, and variety of colors and patterns. One of the interesting facts about the breed is that kittens are born white, then develop their color or pattern as they mature. Some of the differences between the Raghamuffin and the ragdoll are seen in the face. For instance, the Raghamuffin has full cheeks and the eyes are walnut-shaped rather than oval. Raghamuffin has a broad, modified wedge-shaped head with a rounded appearance. It's supported by a short, heavy, strong neck that is especially apparent in males. Mature males are known for their jowls, giving them something of the look of a crusty old brigadier general. The broad-chested body is muscular and heavy, often with a pad of fat on the lower abdomen. 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Good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armell and I'm reviewing here ASNA. This was a failed short today I did do this. It didn't work out. There will be days where you win some you lose some and today was a loss for me but I only did it once and That's why you have rules and that's why you got to be disciplined. One loss isn't the end of the world and I did this took the stop and was done In fact, I didn't even take the stop. I killed it Before it hit the stop, but I still took a loss. So let's just go over it So here it was ran up here shorted it good entry stop originally was 50 Then I put it to 55 then I gave it some more room and then I waited waiting wait It looked great. Look great. It wasn't going anywhere higher. It was holding holding holding I knew traders were buying this today. They like to buy gap fills I'll look at the daily chart and go over that in a minute, but I really didn't feel like institutions would buy this today So I didn't want though this to go over the high today So once it got up here I killed it and you see it really didn't blow through the high of the day or anything But it would have stopped people out then then had to stop at 50 or even 55 So I killed it when it hit over the high in here, but I tried to hang on to it I tried and tried and tried had a bunch of traders that emailed me that actually held on to it and Then ended cost averaging down when it ran up here and added to the short and then actually made money in it I did not do that, you know, I give something the morning You know when it went over the high 11 o'clock. It just killed it But I will tell you that this chart still looks lower It did rally today it rallied in the resistance It held for a long long time, but I think one of the things that affected us today was market. We'll just quick look Market is just so strong. There's almost nothing stopping it 125 looks in sight It could go there before it pulls back. Who knows? Hi today was 123 something. No 123 almost So the bullishness in the market, I think affected this not falling through today However, that's not the reason it didn't work. It just didn't work Sometimes there is no reason when somebody doesn't work It just full-on got sold off into the gap when it closed last night around 6 6 something 601 and it opened today then at 507 It sold off a buck and then that was it There was no more selling that came into in the live day for gap to follow through in the day You have to have selling into the gap when it gaps down Then it has to rate good then it has to set up Then it has to sell off on the live day if you short it and this didn't have the follow through But I do believe this is lower You can watch this for a swing trade or a continuation or follow through even tomorrow But I took a stop in this today one loss and out and and I said I didn't even give it the stop I killed it, but I would have held it through the stop or waited it give it more time if it wouldn't have been late But it was getting later and later and later and I I tried to patient It actually looked great looked great set up on the one the two the five It never set up in the 15 minute and then that was kind of a sign when it started to lift here And then I really watched it, but I'll get it tomorrow. It is earnings season starting next week I'm very excited. There's a lot of things reporting Thursday or Friday. We should have a lot of good gaps Wednesday Thursday Friday, so have a great day everyone email me at Melissa the stocks wish com for more information The Golden Gap class is this weekend Saturday and Sunday And I decided to do a live trading on Monday, which I don't normally do all the time But so many people been asking questions about live ratings I think it'll be a benefit to everyone email me at Melissa the stocks wish com if you would like more information and have great day


All right guys welcome back to another stream again. Sorry. I'm late Actually wait I wasn't yesterday late yesterday, but I had to quick nap. Just didn't wake up in time You know the story if you if you've been around the block Let's cut my annoying voice But welcome all welcome back to another stream. Let's get started with sort of yesterday Actually, not really. Let's just look at today. I mean, it's coming in super hot where it's Getting sort of get like ramp hacked essentially Uh with sort of shorts already. I mean yesterday's was a ideal sort of short. I mean If you look at it, we opened So it came up sort of high And it said to itself. Okay. We're coming up high. We're taking out the stuff or building out A nice little outside structure then peeling away Comes back collects longs and we know that collecting longs is a very good thing if you want to go short The most part we know this part was short. This part was long and each side They're sort of collecting the inverse and they're just moving to and fro Was it was the motions So they hit it down as you can see And we're doing it now sort of in general sort of sense of getting it super aggressive Uh, it does sort of make sense to do, uh, this very aggressively now. I mean if you look at What we have coming up Uh, there we go 10 10 o'clock. So in an hour, we've got was slammed with sort of, uh testimony, so we're expecting Either an aggressive move to predate that or a very large build up to then lead into an explosion Uh, again, the ideas, uh, surrounding today is just, uh, if you're new, uh, and you haven't been exposed Anything that I do, it's just the inverse of whatever's happening prior to the time You do that and You will be successful surprising Or unsurprisingly depending So again, we still have the same sort of divide at the At the same sort of price where we are either collecting long or short Next little sort of, uh, divided side as you can see just below here. We are collecting the shorts In terms of, uh, what's Sort of holding stem and start at the beginning and just look at Just today So as you can see still the same divide but You have, I mean, relativelyistically you have a lot more sort of shorts getting stacked in So this just sort of tells me the fact that the willing to stack in shorts are taking it under So you're probably looking for it to squeeze these shorts out at some sort of interval If we look at Yes Freshly there you go. Yes. Yes. They pretty much did what we wanted Bounced here got rid of all the early shorts, trapped longs came back down That's all I did Same story here. It's already sort of selling off You're seeing it sell off So you might expect an explosion explosion to squeeze these guys out And in kind sort of bitcoin should do the same Again, just give me a couple of seconds while my brain wakes up But looking at things again, it just doesn't really seem too hard where we're looking at things We just got a massive sell off here We're short to certain degree We're working the highs which usually it doesn't indicate but yeah, we do end up going down So we've only really worked the highs So we're expecting that down to come in so Prior sort of 10 were probably super aggressive As we hit that 10 like it if we hit the 10 like this We're probably Climbing back up. They are okay. We worked the highs collect longs or slamming it down to take them out I Slagging there you go There we go Probably take them out here and as soon as we take them out we'll sort of come back and hit into sort of the highest of territory I mean pretty much that's all I got to stay in terms of what I'm thinking happening I said, I just woke up. So you're seeing this for the first time but To be honest It looks really Pretty normal. I think sort of to outlandish. I mean after the last drop, I mean it is sort of reconfiguring itself But it's held on pretty nice in That's essence But very interesting to see how far they take this in terms of the star plant because they do have an insane amount of sort of probably low level all level longs where They're just not too heavy on the liquidations I mean, it's too heavy on the leverage. So the liquidations will be much lower if they are liquidations at all But it could definitely drive a very large wedge And and be very sort of an explosive sort of downside where they introduce a lot But generally you're looking for this to stop on if it doesn't sort of stop on then Like Generally disappointed It doesn't do anything I mean monday's ranger is here. You can see how on tuesday we stop on that Well, today's Tuesday. You can see how we come come in It's a bit higher. I mean, you can see just pinning to it coming back down. This essentially is the ranger playing for today There's 50% You can see that's where we have been coming coming to and we sort of escaped away And that's where our sort of divide is for the week It looks flat Yeah, I mean, that's usually a good sign Uh, good morning This is a good sign if it's flat Because being flat means I mean if you look at here collecting sort of waters Uh, we can see that divide here Where it is at that 50% so again 50% of the weekly being our pivot is Is what it is I'm dying Let me escape. Oh god damn. You still Still on that mean along You're still in that joke long Yeah, it's just got It's uh It's got some support here without too much if it falls it falls aggressively You're probably getting liquidated But it just all depends on what Whatever this balance says What's happening an hour ago European stocks it had thermal head of power European, uh horses I've never seen that By this word Ah, okay Why be fancy Like why why Attach some of what trading is As if that's the way to see how wall street. Yes fed Comments in washington on tuesday. Yeah same thing. We're waiting for it I mean we kind of know what's what we're expecting because we see that heavy sort of snap short and we see everything be red here As you can see mostly red you can see germany's very very I tried to Uh, I mean Teetering jacks as well About this centered Yeah, again, nothing sort of too great Oh, yeah boys. Yeah boys That's what's visual uh Nothing Hey, let's go metal Like I said metal was a really nice buy and forget Alongside, uh Alongside, uh Microsoft Seriously my brain is so asleep right now Uh, but you can see it comes back retests here We gave it a sort of buffer of between these two in terms of when it comes here It could could be nice Thumbs up there's your rise back at that weekly resistance see if you can flip it to do target 200 Two or two see if you can change up the generally Like I said metal is not really a bad bet essentially, uh Until sort of the release of the new sort of quest to I think I should know even after this release For quite a while. It's it's probably going to be a very decent sort of uh buy to have Especially sort of I think I think you wait for one quarter after the new uh to just see cell figures Uh and sort of see adoption, but you can see adoptions as in probably the first week in terms of opening cells to see If uh, if it projects the same as the original uh opolis which for metal did a fantastic sort of job uh, so If you can carry someone the same things It's a good thing But in terms of short term wise again could sort of Uh bounce here go up higher depending on the day or sort of come back down and sort of at least try and test this to some extent Microsoft as well again see where it comes in here Uh, so you see where it came in here super high like I said, it was a great seller Time to sort of sell some but on spec all the way down to that weak level holds that and then on its merry way again 234 was sort of nice little buy-in if you got in late but generally it's it's it's doing it's doing it thing uh and sort of with microsoft especially I think you hold it until You get the Activision blizzard Tell going friend It's I think all but short. I think you're waiting for at least sort of uh end of next quarter uh for that sort of 100 solidify I think Uh, it's it's just passing through sort of legislation now again Uh, not legislation. It's just passing through. Uh, we haven't needs to pass through in order to be finalised Once again, it's uh, a lot of concerns about uh, Microsoft probably becoming a monopoly within scene uh Being argued by sony as a major because they uh, Activision blizzard does own the rights to call of duty, so there's that in terms of uh trying to uh Trying to find it because there's a lot of exclusivity deals, uh that come in when when you're talking about games like Oday earlier and Call of duty, uh, I don't know about now, but you but back In the days, uh, it was usually a constant decided where if your friends are trying to take all of you You get the thing that the friends are on but look cross play now for the most part So should have a negligible effect uh on that but generally activision's purchase Uh, I mean the activision purchase is a great thing for microsoft because it just solidifies uh Solidifies everything because they already bought buffester. They own buffester now Uh, which a lot of people are very much Uh live or die on and it's like oh, okay. They They will only play buffester games or they will never leave buffester games So they got a really good high end cell on there instantly and same as activision blizzard.  I don't even need to look at lit and Okay, sure. Sure Let's finish off with gold uh, then we go into the last two sort of Gold still going to uh continue to go down yesterday. Uh, I was just looking at it from the gas rig of hitting that weekly level Uh And back down it goes again, uh, again last part of the course uh Was a negative on it. I think since uh Uh, it hit sort of nine 19 22 Uh And just been wanting it to come down since so Happy it's coming down And it's another one where I don't know Is that nice little Nice little ask for already so might want to might want to look at this with a bit closer bit sort of better and sort of uh vision than normal things, uh Looking at it up close, uh decent I mean So there's just forming you can see the volumes here here Everything on this didn't get too much. So but you have the previous sort of change here, but Adversity you do have also this area here and these areas here you didn't stop on so that's a nice little Nice little aside for it. Uh, you can see sort of the slide that occurs Uh from that major drop not too much, uh, but it's about what 10 percent though I mean considering how far it moves prior Uh, it's going to be probably excuse for 10 percent Uh, could easy because it'll climb up see if it takes out a star But I mean it hasn't taken out any stops uh period. So You're just looking for it to hold this as soon as it holds this you're probably looking for it to bounce at the highs. Uh, Hopefully be super aggressive. Uh and sort of reclaiming claiming that but generally it's very deep decline And then finally it found sort of, uh, some saving grace here Eventually Yeah, no, uh, that's my thoughts on blur. Just yeah, no Uh Moving on to the next one coming back. I mean bitcoin is Yeah, again, you can see, uh just Pointing itself. I mean coming back up is just was this what a wall image to your daughter ring Nothing sort of too major out of it but You're still coming close and You saw the massive sort of cell just hits into the bed. You're still seeing cells getting added but Climbing back up seeing if you can grab a bit more long. So if you can grab longs, you're probably More inclined to say oh, there we go still have about 40 minutes before a sort of Majorly explodes It's nice. So we're getting some volatility ahead just so we can get Just so we can get a sort of a clearer direction Uh, usually sort of you want to wait for the first part sort of set out But hopefully it just becomes an instant sort of uh hit out reverse. So maybe half the bar I mean for example How it does that I mean this one just pretty instant on the swing down again Sometimes it's on one bar. Sometimes it's sort of gradual release and then boom. There we go So again, there's a lot of sort of variations just sort of depends on how they pick up sort of uh trades I mean, it should be sort of very heavy on this sort of uh volatility in the speed of where it does it Uh, no, it's not FOMC It's just he's he's got testimony. He's just against the lord Uh Tomorrow again another testimony. I don't know what it's testifying against us. I think Uh, uh, this is even worse. Yeah, this is probably even worse than FOMC But in terms of Testifying, but it's it's all good for us because it just comes catalyst for which things Can start moving from again slow start You'll have whoever's on next covering this so You guys already know my views ahead of the time. I mean, it's pretty obvious. It's gonna slam down We're gonna run out these longs And of course we've got a lot of them if it slams first move It's like, okay instant sort of karma back up yo-yo's It pins here More likely gonna pin down lower, but if it goes up higher goes up higher and targets the outside Again, we're playing with a very sort of tight range in terms on the low side was so close to sort of that outside area here We have a bunch of rampage just sort of longs just above this line here So the fact that we pinned here and we're continually going down just shows that this builds up of going short But we still have not liquidated them Probably liquidate them here Then we can carry on I mean, that's all I really want for today and Everything else should be reacting accordingly. I mean if yes does the same and responding kind I mean it's sort of right at the area already So it could do the same thing where he just runs it out and up Looking at it here. You can see that it do have sort of a nice little Side here of longs to get liquidate. So it could do the same thing But same time it's been sitting here for a really long time. So it could just instantaneously Come back in trap walks here into And whatever it does Bitcoin will have more likely responding kind. So It has to be prepared for that to do something different but normally Again, I don't think it affects it too much. I think it would do more of the same thing There we go. You can see kind of that pinned up green is already retracing back on itself Because they've got enough longs and it's just they want to continue building this up We've got five minutes till the actual market opens. So we'll probably expect that volatility So even a Wednesday today There we go. We probably expect that open to increase that short. We'll see if that runs out that long Once we get those longs Yeah, that was to continue down then At some point there'll be a breaking point was We've run out these longs enough just tie it and we've got enough shorts. Let's reverse the trade Uh, and then we can reverse the trade here if we head up into here First level resistance Second level resistance After that pretty smooth sailing until we reach all these highs here So pretty sort of pretty sort of nice sort of side but generally if you're looking for it to sort of flip courses You're looking for it around here to flip Uh The most part I'll get on if it sort of carries on You're happy to carry that on for a bit longer but Again, I think sort of too Let's just wait just uh Is there any reason for wait for the Actually, there's no reason for me to wait to open with you guys because I need to sort of set up myself or today I can't do that stream because I don't want to I really don't like this new setup where I do But you know how because I changed my layout again But you guys know what my thoughts are for today May Allah be with you But you guys know, yeah, you guys know what I'm thinking today It's it's sort of should be a decent sort of easy thing We're already collecting shorts ahead of time. So It should be an easy rise off of this Uh, we'll see if we get that uh undercut and Uh sort of run out of our longs at that 10 o'clock Since if that 10 o'clock you probably might see that slightly dip fit But not too much uh, then ultimately just reverse course, uh Should be sort of part and and uh holding that course for a while Just uh due to the fact that you don't have anything sort of until tomorrow To reverse it in terms of major news So you only really have those two areas of price action that you look for Uh, and Wednesday is usually uh typical to reverse sort of trend. So we'll see what ends up happening Hopefully you guys have a lovely day And make sure you guys trade safe Uh, enjoy the rest of your day and I will hopefully catch you tomorrow Uh peace


Everything in my house sings. Including your weenie. Every, nope. That's a shame, mine does. Mine makes a groaning noise. Why, what would you want out of this? That's good. The IMAX theme.  Hey, welcome back to our two direction. It's the Corbin. I'm Rick. If it isn't loud, you're doing something wrong. We're spam Twitter, choose content. Patreon, Twitter account. Hey! Hey! The notification squads. Woo! We're doing a movie review, you little. Yes. Little what? Is that? Yes. The 2009 film, rocket-sync salesman. Yeah, for the years. Of course. Directed by Shum. Set lift his ball on the floor. Yeah, he did. Wow. Say his name? Schmidt Amen. Amen, who, I don't know if he directed Chalk Day, but let's see. He did. Okay, he was the director of, I don't know if we've seen him anywhere else, other than that, the director. But it's starring Ranbir Kapoor.  But it's 2009 film. It's a comedy drama. A story of a fresh, graduated, trying to find the balance between and the mundane, mundaneing? No maddening. Maddening demands of the professional way and the way of his heart. He looked great in a turban. I'm gonna be honest with you. But, a hundred cents more the view came out 2009. I assume most of you have seen it. So if you haven't watched it, go watch it. Come back, unless you'd like to be spoiled. Rick, your initial thoughts, please. When Andrani first got here, we went to Olive Garden. Because she heard a lot about it. I hadn't been in a few years. And my mom had said, let's go there. So we went, okay, we'll go to Olive Garden and try it. I'm using that as an example because the experience we had at Olive Garden was like, oh, it's like there's a hurt a lot about Olive Garden. But when it was done, we were like, oh. And that's what happened for me watching this. For me, I just thought everything was basically okay. Everything. I thought everybody did fine. I thought the acting was fine. I thought the directing was fine. I thought the cinematography was fine. It wasn't anything that really engaged me. It was too long. And then ultimately, there were things I had problems with the story as far as believability and some moral conundrums I saw. So ultimately for me, I didn't enjoy it. No, I enjoyed, I do agree it's long. I did enjoy this one though. It's surprising to me that you didn't like this one because this one actually felt to me a lot like PK and Three Idiots. Oh my goodness, not even close. In terms of the style of film it is, in terms of, it came out the exact same year. I believe Three Idiots came out in 2009. But in terms of how it was filmed and the story that has a moral to it and then it's kind of like a feel good in the end. It's one of those things. So it's not something that I would ever consider like an awards worthy film. No. But those kind of films as well. So like the Amerikans, it's like, this is gonna be an enjoyable ride and I did enjoy it, but I do agree it is long. It definitely could have probably chopped off at least 30 minutes of this film. Easy. I totally agree with you on that one. But overall, I did enjoy this film. But this film I know did not do well at the box office but I think it's because it came out the exact same week as Three Idiots. Oh.  So clearly there's enough of you who really like the film and I know you get excited when I like a film and disappointed if I don't, because it's one you really like and give it to us because you want us to like it. Yeah. But yeah, I just, again, I didn't have a problem with, like nobody was blaringly bad at all. In fact, most of the performances were fine. Again, there wasn't anything particularly captivating in any of the performances. I also, the moral conundrum I have was the prospects of why he did what he did and how it ends ultimately, which is also a believability factor for me. So I don't know what part you wanna get into first, because basically across the board, whether it's the writing, the directing, the score, the editing, it's gonna be pretty much all across the board for me, just okay. Well, for me it would be story, would be the largest thing I have to talk about. Yeah. But you would probably give it more of a C. It's a C. Okay. Yeah. Because sometimes you have an ability to harp on something and make it sound like you ate something. Right, no, no, no, you didn't. No. No, I give it a C.  Absolutely. But sometimes you have this ability to harp on something and it sounds like you absolutely despise it. Right, because I talk about the thing that bothered me most and people assume that's the only thing I took away from film. I just wanna clarify for everybody. Thank you. No, what I do, either whether I like the film or I dislike the film, I will accentuate the thing that is the biggest for me, whether it's my biggest joy or my biggest problem, and many people can assume that's my only takeaway, but thank you. But I actually really enjoyed Rand Beer and I know you might not agree. I actually, this is one of my favorite performances of his. I actually really, I got invested into this film, which is why she's kind of shocking to me that you didn't get invested into it. And you know what? It was all cliches, but I set myself like almost immediately. It like frames-wise, it felt like a three and it's PK. And I'm like, okay, so this is, well, we're not going in for a bunch of stereo types. There's a bunch of all that. I thought about something that may have shaped it and I tried hard to not allow this to shape. So I have been watching a lot of movies that are up for awards in the past month. Almost, if I'm not watching a movie for the Sags, I'm watching a movie for, oh, I'm sorry, I'm watching a movie every single day. I was trying really hard and I may not have been able to do it to not allow the caliber of cinema I've been seeing this past month influence this because if I was to compare this to the stuff I've been watching. Yeah. Yeah, it's very possible. And especially if you were trying to make it like some awards-worthy film. I wasn't. That's not why. No, I wasn't. I really wasn't. I enjoyed this film the same way I enjoyed PK and three idiots in terms of just, it's an enjoyable film to me with a good performance by the lead. And I think like you said, everybody else did well. There's not anything that's, I'm like, that's the amazing performance, even though I did really enjoy rent beer in this in terms of I enjoyed his ability, I enjoyed his performance, I enjoyed it. As much as you enjoyed Amir in PK? Yeah. You enjoyed PK. Ars. Way more than that.   Yeah, you particularly did like principle. But, so for you, you'd recommend this in the same breath as PK and three idiots. If you're looking for an enjoyable film like that.  Yeah, I would, yeah. Wow. Yeah, I'd not even in the same solar system as those movies. Not even the same solar system. But yeah, I did enjoy his performance quite a bit. I thought he brought an endearingness and a difference, because we've seen a lot of good performances from rent beer. We've seen Barfi. We've seen the. Probably my favorite is Tamasha. An overall performance in three. We haven't seen anything bad. The only time I ever disliked a performance of his, I corrected myself on which was Barfi. And then I saw it again and realized that was all. Even though we didn't appreciate Rockstar. His performance in Rockstar was really, really good. Correct. So I think he, this brought a very different performance. He brought it like an innocence.  Maybe that, maybe that. I just, I love those people. But he brought this kind of vulnerability to him. And I thought it was so unique and so different for him. And the overall film, I just thought had a really nice, even though it was, you know, predictable, you've seen this kind of stories told out many times. Sure. Of a guy that company shits on essentially and decides to, I mean, Michael Scott Paper Company, the exact same thing from the office, right? Also, Martin Scorsese, did you steal a line from this movie? I do want to know that. Was that, sell me this pen? Oh. Was that a famous thing before? Well, because only other place I had ever heard it was Wolf of Wall Street, which came out in 2013. Yes, but there's also another film that came out before that, which is, oh my goodness, Alec Baldwin's in it. And I think it's in there too. No, no, he is in that. It's a sales movie. Got you. Very famous and it was a play before it was a film. And I believe it's there too, but yeah. So it's a popular sales thing. Yeah, but when was Wolf of Wall Street though? 2013, which was not four years after? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Four years after. Which is why I'm curious. It could just strange coincidence, strange coincidence. Right when I saw it, I stopped the film and I'm like, when did Wolf of Wall Street come out? Cause that's how that line was made famous for me and probably most Americans. It's a very famous scene now for Wolf of Wall Street. Yeah, it would be comparable to having somebody be like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, right. And then a couple of years later, you see it in the film. Right, exactly. I'm just curious about that fact. But yeah, his performance, even though you probably thought it might have just been after, I thought it was very different for him. I thought it was a very endearing performance. And I thought everybody else, like you said, was a unique cast of characters. They were all, you know, stereotypical mean boss. The guy with the crazy mutton chops, the pretty secretary. But I thought they all did well in their roles. Yeah, they were fine. Yeah, I agree with you on that. But there was no glaringly bad performances. There was some dialogue that was stereotypical, like who in the office would all throw stuff at you. But that's kind of what I chalk up to the 380 It's P.K. style of film. Because those had those exact same, like the peeing thing.  God, it was so weird in that film. But so yeah, that and then the overall story, it just kept bringing me in. I think it's probably because I cared for Ranbir's character. Even it, so exact example, even did you, so here's having had experience in sales, there were parts of his character that I was like, really man, I mean, I agreed with his dad at the end when his dad said, why don't you just quit and do this on your own and stay here? I would have taken care of you. And I had the exact same thought. I'm like, why are you using the other company's resources to do this? But you seem to be a pretty upright moral guy that you're doing something that's illegal to the point of going to jail for. And I also don't know what it's like in India. I know in the United States, if you work for a company that is involving sales, you typically have to sign a nondisclosure agreement that not only it says you won't be in competition while you're working, but most of them say you won't be in the industry for two years if you ever leave. So if you're doing, I did outside sales of first aid supplies and CPR training. I did also some outside sales in terms of public speaking and personal development projects. And with both of those companies, I signed nondisclosure agreements with both Sintos and captivating that said, whenever I'm done working, I will not be in this industry for two years because I could take trade secrets I learned from them as well as when I was a financial advisor with World Financial Group. I worked for them for a couple of years and was signed an agreement that said I not only won't compete while I'm with the company, but I won't be in the industry for a couple of years afterwards. So the fact that that would even be a consideration to me is highly, highly immoral to do that while you're working at a company. And then it was just too easily wrapped up in the end in terms of the main boss guy, who again, I thought was fine, did a good job, having such a drastic moral compass change in his character on such a simple thing was very hard for me to believe. Well, yeah, I agree, but that's the style of film that it was. We had those same films in the 80s that like everything is, you knew exactly where it's going, even if like this like the crazy boss and whatever film it was, you knew it was gonna end all happy. And I knew 100% how this film was gonna end. I knew too. And I was like. I knew how it was going to, I was just waiting to see how they were gonna do it. And so that's why that didn't bother me. So I was like, the same things happens in this style of film all the time. This is a film that in my opinion, is meant to just be enjoyed and not really thought about outside of, oh, I want a little bit of motivation to do what I want to do. What's the moral to the story for this for you? Follow your dreams and or like believe in yourself more. I'd probably say. Okay. The only reason I'm asking that is because PK is such a clear message of so many important things with, I know you didn't cry, but it has such an emotional element to it comparatively that I don't have a, if somebody liked this, I'm surprised.  Why equate it with that style of film of that we're made at that time in terms of this is a film that's gonna be a little quirky, right? But it has a good overall message in the end, right?  Maybe I miss understanding. It's one thing to say, I consider them to be comparable stylistically. It's another thing to say that you find them to be comparable artistically. I thought you were saying you find them comparable artistically. I do. Yeah, that's what I thought. I do. I 100% do. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think there's, in those films, even though they're, I think they're good films, they both have all those glaring problems of performance, dialogue, but I don't harp on that because of I enjoy the overall feel of the film and the end point.  That three minute monologue is better than all of this. Okay. That's, I'm really shocked that you consider that artistically comparable. I do, because I don't consider those artistic films either. I know you do, I do not. I consider them good, enjoyable films. This, I put in the same breath as I was because I just, I can enjoy a film without one, needing a message from it. Two, loving everything about it. And I overall, I was invested in Ren Beers character and the overall film because, probably mostly because of him and the likeability he brought to that character. Yeah, and it very well might be a big contributor, but I really tried to set that off to the side and I can do that when I know it's happening. It's one thing for me to look back in retrospect and make a recognition of, oh, that's what I was doing, but I knew it the outset. I told myself, I'm five minutes in. And I said, do not measure this by the films you've been watching. Let this be what it is. You recognize the genre. You know the style. Let it be what it is. You still didn't like it. Yeah, no. You still didn't like it. But regardless, let us know what you thought about this film. What should be our next Ren Beer film? I know he has quite a bit that we haven't yet to see obviously Sanju. That's The Anatic Muscles. One that plays a dud. Yeah, Sanju. Sanju. He also has Wake Up Sid, which we haven't seen as well. But I think he has one coming out with Aulia that they're about to announce. I think I've heard, which would be interesting. I don't think they've done one together Definitely not since they've been together. Yeah, not since they've been together So that would be interesting. I don't know what style of film it is I don't know if it's no if it's like the Keon Johar Renvier Yeah, I'm not mistaken. He also because we mentioned this about Amir He hasn't released something since we started the channel. There's a few that haven't with him not mistaken True because he did Sanjoon 2018 right and that was basically his last yeah Animal is barely come out to him 23, but it went straight to video I Don't know what that is that comes out in 2022. Yeah, those are in production. This is the big one Yeah, those are in production. Oh, is this the one with all that might be is that what she did the post on today? Where she was showing the visuals for something well, we've got is that we've reacted to I think a motion poster for this Yeah, because it's it's gonna be like a big film like our right right right massive, right? But yeah, it's alia. Yeah, that's her. Maybe that's what it is dimple. Yeah, it says a ton of people in it Anyways, I know who there you go Let us know what you thought about this film and what your next Ranbir Kapoor film We still need justice for Ranbir because you know Rick hates them Let us know down below