James Beck is the director of content and communication at ConsenSys, where he has spent the last five years telling the story of Ethereum to journalists and the individuals around the world. Prior to ConsenSys, James worked in public affairs and led us, US politicians and journalists on delegation to China to improve in understanding between the two countries. James is an enthusiastic member of the queer underground New York sea dance scene, and also is a Voluntary Street keyword in New York City. Thank you and welcome. Thank you so much. So that was a nice introduction. Do I have a way to flip through slides? This thing. There you go. So a lot of this talk is really setting the stage of 2021. Beyond the bull market, that was really the year in which I think Web3, Ethereum, all the things that we've been talking about at the last five dev cons really ascended into a lot of the popular narratives in pop culture. But with all that new attention came a widened aperture of critique. So first of all, one of the things that really brings attention is money, unfortunately. And that's when we had 2021 was record VC investment. So 40 of the 47 Web3 unicorns were born in 2021. We also had Web3 outpacing biotech as a sector, which to me is wild considering what we've achieved in Web3 so far. And similarly, a lot of the deals at least in Q4 2021 happened in the United States. You see outsize deals going to the United States compared to places like Latin America. And with a lot of popular understanding of Web3 came celebrities also changing their profile pictures to board apes. I encourage all of you to see if they have their PFPs. We also saw a lot of media doing like what is Web3 crypto explainers, NFT explainers. And so in a lot of ways this, you know, Web3 is already part of the popular imagination. And similarly brand started rebranding. So you have Metaverse becoming or you have Facebook becoming meta for whatever reason, because they think the metaverse is the future. You have Radio Shack. I don't even know what Radio Shack is doing. But if you check out their homepage, they seem to be a crypto company that is doing swaps. And yeah, also Square became block and not to blockchain. But with any frenzy sentiment turns. So, you know, there's a couple of people I have shown here. This is Molly White. She had a whole little feature on her in the Washington Post. She's a very prolific Wikipedia editor and now has devoted a lot of her time to maintaining this website called Web3 is Going Great, which catalogs all the stuff that we'd rather not have reflected on our industry. Ben McKenzie, he's a pretty washed up actor from the Orange County. He has also created an entire online persona around critiquing Web3 and really pointing out scams and critiquing shills of crypto. Finally, Stephen Deal, I think a lot of people, if you spend any time on crypto Twitter, have seen him get dragged by the crypto community. But he has submitted an entire paper to the US Congress, you know, urging them to resist crypto's increasing lobbying efforts in Washington DC. If you want to see, I mean, there was a crypto policy symposium last month.  You have Jamiah McKelly. If any of you work in PR, don't respond to her emails at the FT. She's not going to listen to you in good faith.  We have Frances Coppola, who's, as she describes, a banking expert. But there are a lot of these people that spend day in, day out critiquing Web3. And it's to be kind of understood. So, Water and Music analyzes music and technology and how they intersect. And recently, the founder, Sherry, who has been really focused on music NFTs, which I think is an interesting way of looking at pop culture intersecting with Web3 narratives. So they released this report last year sort of analyzing, all right, if you're a big artist and you're doing an NFT drop, what were the reactions on Twitter? They used various Twitter tracking tracking tools to understand sentiment. And as you can see, there were very few NFT drops in late 2020, mostly in the genre of dance and electronic music. And then all of a sudden in the second quarter of 2021, you have all these major labels taking their artists and saying, how do we get into this? This seems to be a big chance for a cash grab. Let's do an NFT launch. And as you can see, perceptions started shifting. But overall, you could say most of it was positive sentiment. That doesn't explain, though, then a lot of the artists, some artists that I really love, all of a sudden deciding to drop their plans for an NFT. These are some of the things that she analyzed in the report and some of the things that she noticed. So, one, Twitter has not proven to be an effective platform for artists to address fan concerns around NFTs, especially around environmental and financial concerns. And she says Twitter is not exactly the best platform for nuanced discussion of complex topics. Also, Twitter data ultimately does not provide a complete picture of a fan's experience with music. The fear of adverse Twitter reactions alone can certainly dissuade an artist from experimenting with the technology. And we saw a lot of that, whether it was Jacob Collier had a pretty exciting NFT launch planned, dropped it, and Niels Fromm, who's a pianist who's German, also spoke out vehemently against NFTs after he started learning from his community of people who were saying he shouldn't do an NFT drop. But, you know, one of the things she also noticed is that negative sentiment doesn't actually, doesn't necessarily affect the financial performance of an NFT drop. Charlie XCX ended up getting a lot of blowback from her fans, but sold her NFT for 20 ETH. Similarly, even if you have an active community, it may not be the best way to sustain community engagement and community building experiences. Okay, so clearly some brands thought, okay, we need to confront this NFT stigma. You have Royal calling NFTs limited digital assets. Phenopoly calls them digital collectibles, and Surkey calls them fan passes. So already there's an idea that you can shift perception just with a name, but I don't think that's all there is to it. Narrative shape our perceptions. Narratives and then our perceptions form our realities which end up influencing our choices and actions. People hear a good story once and remember it for the rest of their lives. So that's why I think narratives are important. These are the four tactics I'm going to discuss for the remaining 20 minutes and hopefully have some time for questions. These are just tactics and actually Florian's talk prior to mine set this up pretty nicely because he was kind of describing in the ways in which there's already such a negative sentiment among mainstream regulators and how is that affecting the way in which people understand Web3 and our space. So I'm going to go through each of these, but first one is we need to better understand global sentiment around Web3 and that happens through polling and brand analysis. We also need to celebrate the inspiring stories of Web3. Every day there's going to be a hack. Every day there's going to be a scam. There are going to be grifters, but there are many stories that are inspiring and I've been going to a ton of talks here and I'm hearing them every day. We also need to win over environmentally conscious consumers and companies and finally we need to inspire with knowledge that sparks action. So how do we better understand global sentiment around Web3? I have to say crypto polling has gotten better, but it's really limited. There are a number of mainstream polling companies like Morning Consult that have regular crypto polls. Gemini actually did a really good one called the Global State of Port and it surveyed 30,000 people in 20 countries, but one of the things that is important is that they were only asking questions around crypto as a digital asset. It makes sense. Gemini is an exchange. People buy and sell ETH, Bitcoin and other assets. They weren't thinking of Web3 beyond buying and selling and speculating on these assets. This is another one that actually came out not too long ago from Morning Consult. They had a lot of coverage, but I'm just focusing on this one. Seven of the top ten adopter countries have some form of capital control and that's only something they realized through doing this survey and so Nigeria actually leads in cryptocurrency activity with 55% of the adults responding to the survey saying they buy or sell crypto at least once a month. Contrast that with the US. Only 16% say they buy or sell and then most of Western Europe fall below the median cryptocurrency usage range. And then you also have, quote, some countries such as Turkey and Argentina have experienced extremely high inflation in recent months which may be encouraging the retail use of buying and selling cryptocurrency. But I have to say again, Morning Consult is defining usage as buying and selling not using your Web3 wallet like MetaMask or Rainbow connecting to an account buying an NFT. That's not included in this. So again, people are only thinking and polling around buying and selling of cryptocurrencies which to me is only a partial story especially when we talk about Web3. So for that reason we at Consensus have actually earlier in Q2 of this year we did a survey of 22,500 adults in 15 countries I just noticed typo but what we wanted to do is actually contrast this with some of the other surveys we've seen out there which are just about buying and selling assets and think about actual Web3 usage. The report is going to come out later this year but I've actually highlighted some interesting data. So for one, we asked do you own a non-fungible token? It's a pretty simple question and some of the responses you could say yes I own one or several no I don't know what an NFT is. Look at Vietnam, it's pretty remarkable in that of the respondents although this was a survey conducted online so there's a bit of bias in terms of people who have internet access 50% said they own an NFT. Contrast that with Western Europe. Very few people have an NFT or even know what an NFT is. I think that's pretty telling given that this is a global community and there's a lot more adoption in places that aren't necessarily represented by those early statistics I showed of VC investment. We saw similar things with DAO awareness and participation. Vietnam, India, Indonesia all are higher than any of the other countries in terms of awareness of what a DAO is and yet at the same time in Vietnam there's so much awareness of what DAOs are potentially through reading and just general interest in cryptocurrencies but a lot of people aren't involved in any and I think that's a huge gap for us to approach as a community. I don't know if any of you have been following the discourse ahead of DevCon but it was pretty discouraging to see some bigger names in crypto critique the Ethereum foundation for hosting DevCon and Bogota. I think this is actually a perfect place to host future DevCons including maybe in the future Vietnam maybe we could have something in India or Nigeria and so I saw Kami write this article which is really timely it came out a few days before we all left and she's like the dead end of Eurocentric crypto and you should read the whole thing it's on mirror hopefully you can see in the top left but some choice quotes I believe emerging regions are where the next trailblazing use cases for crypto and blockchain will originate and why? Necessity breeds innovation. The financial, political and social issues that so-called developing countries experience paired with the maturing blockchain ecosystem will result in an environment ripe for the development of some of the most high impact applications of our time. So I think when we go to our next segment how to celebrate the inspiring stories of Web 3 I think a lot of the inspiring stories we haven't yet seen yet but I think a lot of the applications and use cases are currently being developed in places I need them most and we can talk about remittance payments we can talk about all the novel applications of DAOs so when I was talking about Molly White earlier this is her website Web 3 is going great it's a running log that I have to check once a week just because I need to know I need to feel the pain but this is just this week alone you know the US SEC is investigating UGA Labs we have Mango that that hack happened I believe yesterday and then you know Celsius they're masquerading as DeFi, as C-Fi and they're yeah they doxxed all their customers it's really messed up so there's just a litany of all these stories that come out often and so when you think about Web 3 and we want to encourage everyone in our industry to really share the stories of like utility and action and positive benefits it becomes hard when it's drowned out by all these negative stories and I don't want us to just be these sort of people like Carl Manger who say Bitcoin fixes this I don't think that's where we're going I don't think we should just say a Dow would fix this you know a multi-sig would fix this, Ethereum fixes this instead it's got to be real use cases I'm gonna I got his name wrong but Max yesterday gave a really exciting talk on the ways in which Ukraine has been supported by Ethereum donations and cryptocurrency donations in general but if you think about it it came out of necessity the National Bank of Ukraine made it difficult to transfer funds from Ukraine to the EU what isn't always on network 24-7 financial access it's cryptocurrency but then already we've seen impact from crypto donations I thought it was fascinating that more than half of all the donations have actually been spent in cryptocurrency so it's not people immediately switching them to fiat they're staying within crypto and spending and using it and using crypto and there's been many different estimates but Elliptic said around 77 million in crypto donations were given to the Ukraine war effort since the war began 45% being ETH and you know we talk about ReFi a lot especially in the Gitcoin community but one thing that I liked after ETH Barcelona was this there was an op-ed in CoinDesk from a professor who said Ethereum is to act as a laboratory for a broader political project and a site of economic experimentation although pro markets the aim of Web3 isn't exploitation but regeneration and a lot of what you saw at Shelling Point were projects around regeneration you could even see in Gitcoin grants 15 all the different environmental projects and I donated to a lot of them but it would be interesting to keep following up with all these groups and it wasn't just groups in the US it wasn't just groups in Western Europe these are groups all over the world that are using an open funding platform to source funds and hopefully solve environmental issues either on very local levels or on broader levels like turning carbon credits on chain people may have forgotten about Constitution Dow but a lot of the ideas around Constitution Dow last November about a year ago have really still like I keep thinking about when are we going to see the next Constitution Dow for something that isn't so frivolous as buying a copy of the Constitution there was a really good write-up in FWB from Drew Miller and Kevin Munger and these are people who study social movements and write and they said here was a group of people staking a claim for Web3 a tool that could be used to build a world with new rules by purchasing rules of the old one Constitution Dow represented a super-sized version of something that the world they created would be extremely good at so what is Web3 extremely good at? Mass Memified Mobilization and you could see in how much money was raised just for this really fun activity of buying a copy of the doubt not even knowing what they would do with it after and not even knowing that they could be outbid because all the funding was transparent but think about what we can do when we have that ability to quickly fund across borders not needing to require ACH transfers and actually moving money and coordination at the speed of the internet I don't have time to talk about this slide but I've been on the Susu Tanda Hue however you call it trained for a long time so if anyone has ideas for rotating savings account please talk to me I think there is an easy way to make a pool together that actually is sort of the same financial tool that people have been using all over the world for hundreds and hundreds of years prior to banks and lending yeah it's an awesome idea and I think it needs to be made at some hackathon sometime so step 3 is to win over environmentally conscious consumers we merged proof of stake that was a big deal I had been writing about it for a long time I'd been off by the date and I said coming soon coming soon but when we did this survey earlier this year we actually had even gotten to the point of proof of stake and now we have a network that's using 99.995% less energy and I say 995% because we actually did a survey or a report with the Cryptocarbons Rating Institute to actually understand not just in theoretical back of the envelope math but by running validators and comparing it with the proof of work Ethereum network and what they actually found was that beyond the energy reduction CO2 emissions are down 99.992% so from 11 million tons annually to 870 which is about 100 US homes that's incredible and you know the overall the consensus marketing team said how are we going to get people who are maybe not that interested in Ethereum maybe don't know what the merge is to care about this environmental fact and so we did this big campaign around the merge we also tried new tactics such as paid media across like earned paid partner and we really I think this was one of the first times as a community overall there was a lot of messaging alignment you know Carl at the EF started with the 99.95% more energy efficiency a country's worth of power no more but what we ended up seeing is that 90 what we found is that 90 I think it was I don't have it on the slide but 98% of the articles that ended up covering this were either positive or neutral sentiment we ended up taking out a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal you know Joe and other talking heads were on mainstream media and so we had this moment to where the world's attention was on Ethereum and we could actually reiterate this environmental message but it shouldn't just stop there and I think just to put this in context this is maybe the largest decarbonization event of any industry in history and it really aligns well with what's happening at Cope 27 there's a lot of industries trying to figure out how to decarbonize and the Ethereum community did it in a decentralized way across hundreds of different companies thousands of actors so it also shows us that really really complex global problems like you know the earth's warming climate can actually be solved outside of necessarily using governments or industries so it was a pretty cool story that we need to keep telling fourth step we need to inspire knowledge that actually sparks action and this is about not just using you know cryptocurrency to buy and sell as an investment but thinking about the actual novel use cases that Web3 enables everyone and I've heard a lot of talks everyone is talking about how education is a challenge and we have some amazing groups She-Fi for example, 101.xyz, Rabbit Hole there's a lot of people focused on educating people about the Web3 ecosystem and from all the polling we also see that you know globally people are more likely to you know try and use a wallet if they understand what you can do with the wallet so more than half the respondents in Latin America 51% said educational resources would make them more comfortable purchasing cryptocurrency so what we're doing is we're building a learn website for MetaMask I'm going to give you a little sneak preview but we're really excited about this because in a lot of ways and what we're going to hear, Taylor Monahan is giving a talk later sort of about the original sin of needing a seed phrase and how challenging that makes it for mainstream adoption but given that we still need to teach people about where Web3 is now and we're going to do so in a way that prioritizes simple messaging but isn't talking down to our readers we're going to have it available in multiple languages we're hoping actually 10 different languages based on where we're seeing the most MetaMask usage and that's not places necessarily that you think it does represent some of the places we saw on the map earlier such as Turkey, such as Vietnam, such as Indonesia we need to meet learners where they are in their own language and finally we want it based on experiential design so the idea that you're not just reading pages and pages about the theory of Web3 you're actually able to test it out without having to download a wallet without having to load it up with ETH and actually risk financially what you know maybe you clicking accept for something but it's actually going to give you permissions to drain your wallet or give someone else permissions to drain your wallet so this is an early look at it I don't focus too much on the 3D because these are all changing but the idea is that we're going to start out very simple this is v1 of the site it's going to be a Web3 101 course teaching you what a digital identity is how to keep your secret recovery phrase safe what a crypto wallet is and then introducing people to DAOs, DeFi, NFTs and every single lesson is going to have some experiential component where the user actually gets to click through and experience what for example doing a swap on MetaMask or another site or we're going to have it try to be fun and engaging where for example on the NFT side you're going to get to use a very simple illustrator and make your own NFT and go through that process again this is a work in progress we're hoping to have this out by the end of November so we look forward to sharing this with all of you soon I'm going to end with a quote if this will switch so just as kind of a closing thought or a minute for questions there's a tendency to treat technology as agency that has some essential property rather than as a site for struggle where people are fighting both internally and externally to it so I don't think that there is any inherent indelible principles to Ethereum I think that technology is technology it's neutral inevitably it's this community it's all of us here at DevCon it's the people that use and respect our technology that are going to be applying and ascribing values to it it's a site of struggle crypto can be used to scam people of their money but it can also be used to fund recovery efforts in Ukraine crypto can totally be used to sell monkey pictures online but it can also be used as a novel way of transferring digital ownership across different metaverse worlds and so there's no fixed state it's always changing and it happens with narratives and so I'd love to talk to any of you if you have ideas and thank you so much for having me at DevCon I think we have one minute for questions if anyone has any Any questions? There are Fira, welcome Fira she's an NFT artist from Colombia welcome bearded guy in the back hi hi hello I'm the first NFT artist from Colombia so congratulations welcome to my country do you like my country? I love Bogota I can't say I have been anywhere else besides Bogota this is my first time but I have to say it's like anyone who is worried about safety hasn't been to Texas where there's a shooting every single day thank you for having us okay any other questions? no? we don't have any time well if you have any question please look for the speaker oh yeah in the white jacket she's been avidly but quickly please thanks for your talk my question is it appears that the general sentiment for crypto and FTs from western countries is very positive is very negative but from developing countries it's very positive what do you think are the causes of that divergence? I think that a lot of the NFT sales I mean we look at our metamask statistics and a lot of the market places have been created in the US so you talk about open sea foundation inevitably there's going to be a wider aperture of critique if you have more people participating in them and also in terms of like pop culture board apes were really like a lot of people if they think of an NFT they think of that or they think of you know you go on Twitter or Instagram and you immediately have thousands of people saying buy my NFT a lot of bots I'm not sure I think you know I've lived in China I have experienced you know on WeChat groups and I think there's just generally a different understanding of what it could be used for in the future you know that's something that deserves further investigation that's a great question I think why I brought that up though is to say in our efforts to popularize mainstream Ethereum applications people should not be overlooking East Asia especially Vietnam, India, Indonesia there hasn't been as much NFT adoption for example in Japan


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Thank you for a very interesting presentation. So I have two quick thoughts. One is, you're identifying that it's probably the bargaining power channel that is having a role to play. So do you see changes happening in terms of the expenditure or the decision making that women have when it comes to expenses on the food expenditure, schooling expenditure, and other things, right? Because that would substantiate that this is really the bargaining power that is leading to this differential impact. And the second thing was you are finding this the impact coming from rural areas, right? And in rural areas, most of the women are engaged in these family farms where they directly contribute to the production, which can be used for self-consumption and directly aids to the, you know, the households died to diversity in that sense. And that's what I find in one of my papers that both types of labor market engagement as well as home engagement can have an impact. So I was interested in understanding what is really going in the Indonesian context, right? Because you're finding that it's when they are doing this. So is there any trade-off that they are facing in terms of taking labor market employment compared to working on the family farm? Hi, thank you for a very interesting presentation. Just a quick, very quick, small question. You included age of the child as a control, but you didn't comment anything on the results. And I thought it was like positive, and maybe as the, I don't know, if you have any hypothesis about this, if this is as the child grows up, the maternal employment effect is larger because maybe for smaller kids, one of the two forces is rebelling, or if you have thought about it, or just to comment on that. Thank you. Okay, so thanks for the question. So first point, bargaining power and expenditure. So our measure of bargaining power is basically, I didn't have the time to talk about this, is basically the expenses that mothers make on food, routine expensive purchases, clothes, clothes and children clothes. So it also includes, in a way, expenditure for education. So that's basically how we capture this. The other questions about rural, the effect on rural areas. In my view, it's largely captured by the fact that actually most of these women are kind of in the informal sector. So if, for example, we look at the descriptive statistics, I think I have it here. So most of them are kind of self-employed and family worker. We have 15% are a family worker. So it's largely comes from this type of employment, which is most we spread, of course, in rural areas. It's also true that in rural areas, we might observe, but we don't can observe this in the data, kind of also larger networks of child care, informal child care provision. So the neighbor, which you don't, cannot have so much in town, you know, in urban areas. So this might bring the effect that we see, that is only in rural and not in urban areas. And age, so that's basically just the effect of age on child development, so because it's not interacted with the maternal employment. So it basically just means that as the child grows, then it's, which is consistent with the height for age, then the height is, you know, is improved or with schooling even better. So it's, yeah. And not caring much about what other people's perception is, right? So maybe you could, you know, shed some light on that. And the final comment is about the reverse causality here, right? Because it's possible that, you know, you're marrying them early, so if there are girls who are not married early, they tend to be harassed more. And that's what is leading to this relationship that you are capturing here. Thank you. Thank you very much for the very interesting presentation. I think she asked the first, the question I had about who is asking, whose perception your caption has already been asked, but I also wanted to find out what, I don't know if I missed it during your presentation, but what are these specific questions about, you know, about harassment? And then I was wondering if you get to capture, you get to look at the differences in effects when you look at actually lived experiences if people actually report that they have been harassed. Was there anything like that in the data so that you can actually look at the effects for the lived experiences versus the perception to see, you know, if there's anything going on. And I also wanted to find out if you've considered, maybe, I guess there are several questions about, you know, perception. So maybe if you can create an index out of it and see, you know, what you find instead of maybe looking at one after the other. Thanks. Yes, so these are very good comments. I agree with you that whose perception is it? It matters the most. So I think you, I have to, I haven't explored that, but you would probably agree that generally when these surveys, the surveyors go to the households, it's the head of the household that they try to interact with. So I'm guessing maybe that will be the case. But yeah, I will be, it will be interesting to check that who is that. And your other point was related to removing that own perception of household from that variable. So you think that that's not a right thing to do. Yeah, yeah, actually that's what the paper is trying to do that, not looking at the actual crime rate, but the perception of households, how they feel, because we are trying to explode the chastity mechanism. Yeah, so that's a valid point. So maybe I think that first when I started this, I did it without removing. The results are the same, but maybe I should include it and put it in an appendix or something. And your point about, what was your point, sorry? Yeah, so that the question is how frequently unmarried girls are harassed in the community, in your locality, so that's the question. And all other questions related to the crime, like theft, robbery, so they are the same. And the answers are never frequently sometimes. So that's how it is. So is there a way to capture a particular household has somebody, maybe a female or a male who has actually experienced some form of harassment? Because that could be a strong indicator. Is it not just like, you know, in this household, somebody was there anything like that? Yeah, I don't think we have that, yeah, but that's a good point, we don't have it. Hi, sir, really nice presentation and a lot of interesting insights, but at the same time some, you know, some which are not very, you know, settling also. So I would highlight my concerns. And but first I want to start with the fact that the wealth shocks, right? So if I understood it correctly, you're talking about whether shocks. Not just whether shocks, it's all negative possible shocks. It's a lot of disasters. Business, not sales, family, debt, loss, income, it's a bunch of them, but I mean, we might have to emphasize the pressure source for some floods. Flux, right? Yeah, so they are weather shocks and they generally lead to income shocks, not wealth shocks, right? And probably that is why you're not able to capture any significant changes when it comes to schooling or early marriages, right? Because these are temporary shocks. Today you have drought this year, next year you might not have it. So keeping the climate change aspect aside, but that's probably one of the explanations why you don't find a lot there. Also the school expenses, right? They're not very high anyways. And if there are such shocks, the returns to being in the labor market are anyway lower. So you would rather prefer to stay in school where you don't have to pay a lot instead of going to, you know, leaving school and adding to the job market. So that is probably one story you can explore there. The second thing that I found a bit difficult was the negative coefficient of the bright price, right? So if there is a shock to income, it makes perfect sense that you don't have dowry to pay. But when it comes to bright price, that is the amount that you are going to be receiving if you marry your daughter early, right? So that should have had a positive coefficient, even if it's not significant, but you're finding a negative significant coefficient. That worries me a lot, right? So what is really going on then? Because the story that you're trying to build that doesn't, you know, it doesn't really reconcile with the results you're finding between dowry and the bright price. So that's where the difference with Pakistan comes in. So with bright price, yeah, that's true that it would come in from the husband's side, but a lot of these marriages are within the community and I think a very large number of people who are married with their cousins, right? So it's not just that it's a different family, it could be the same family as well, like it could be their cousin, like their hala son or something, right? So the effect, I think the shock, if it affects, so it would be the whole neighborhood basically. So it's not just that the family here itself is not able to pay dowry, at the same time the groom's family will not be able to offer a higher bright price as well. So from the both sides, it would be a decrease and it would be, yes, it would be more of mutual agreement to postpone the marriages then. So I should have added that, we had a lot of cousin marriages, I think about 80% in this sample. And again, these are first cousins, so like very close relatives. So I would think that that's the mechanism here, it's not just the bride's family or also the groom's family, they would decide with them. And, yes. If you actually have a distance, right, if they are within the same community versus outside the community? Yeah. Because that's how marriages started, right? Exactly. We ensure the estate can be in shocks. So in my data, I can track where they go and they stay in the same villages basically. I should add that to the paper, I don't have enough space left, but that should, I should put that. I was wondering whether your framework allows for dual labor markets in terms of formal versus informal employment and to which extent your elasticity might differ precisely if you take this into account. So I don't know whether you have done it and what are your thoughts on that. And the second question is, I wonder as well how well you capture what's going on at the top of the distribution given that you use survey data, have you wondered what might be the effect of use, not mean data to look at what's going on in terms of a gender gap within your model? Very nice paper. Two questions. One, I want, maybe you could elaborate a little bit more how you think about imperfect sustainability between men and women. And you're thinking about within what you call an abstract occupation, women and men are doing fundamentally different jobs, different things, and that's why they're imperfect substitutes. And the second is, I'm just, this is a small curiosity, but why did you, I mean in 94 Mexico suffered humongous labor market crisis, the tequila crisis, right? So, aren't you making your life very difficult by starting in 89? Why do you gain, I mean, I presume that chalk changed the labor market in very dramatic ways. Last, the city of labor supply responds to wages, right? And for the skilled unskilled for women, we were seeing that the elasticity is high compared to that of men. So, there are two reasons for which this could arise. One possibly could be that they are engaged in different types of skilled work, right? And if that is the case, then it comes back to the point that was made back there, right? That they might not be substitutable after all, right? So, how do you like, do you find something happening there in terms of the substitutability and the elasticity in terms of the interaction of these two parameters? Great, so these are great questions. Thank you. About the formula and formal, I think the model is, it's reaching out that we can potentially integrate formula and informal. One of the elements that, again, we've been thinking a lot, is how wage determination is done is through, we're essentially perfectly functioning market. So, wages equal marginal productivities and we like to move into another type of determination. That would be interesting if we move in the direction of formula and formal workers. But I can see ways in which we could extend the model because it's really flexible to think about that. That was like the first, about the top of the distribution, we cannot say a lot. So, we use survey data. We do some exercises using census data, but that's not gonna really, it's not gonna help you a lot. So, yeah, if you want, you have to be careful about, if you're thinking about the wage gap at the top, you have to be careful of that, although we are always dealing with labor income, right? We're not dealing with capital income or the sort of thing that might be important at the top. That's the second, that's a tough question about imperfect substitutability, but it's a very good question, I've been thinking a lot about. Personally, I do not think this is technical substitutability. I do not think that this is just some things that male female workers can do or cannot do. What I think is that if you break these occupations, if you really break these occupation at higher digits, what you're gonna observe is very strong occupational segregation. And you observe it in the data once you decompose that. So what is happening is that females and male are simply working in different occupations once you really go and desegregate that. And when they're entering those occupations, females are competing with females, not necessarily with male. Is this, the market is very segregated, particularly at the lower end of the distribution. So if you go at the bottom, that happens if you go at the top in high-skill occupations, in occupation of people that have tertiary occupations, the mix is much, it's much, I would quote unquote, better. So I think in substitutability in that sense, but that is capturing the model in terms of a technical parameter. And we've had, yeah, I've had some struggles when I present this just to not give the wrong kind of, the wrong interpretation to that, but I think that is the case in terms of Mexico. So we use kind of, when I was looking at the gaps in that period, we don't take exactly the moment, but when I was looking at the gaps of the distribution, we don't take exactly 94, 93, 94. So we take before and everything over here, estimated over the 20 years, 20 so much years that we have of the data, but I agree. We have a huge shock over there in 93, 94. Now, this is a model that is nothing, specific nothing particular to Mexico. This is a model that we can apply. And what we're trying to do is, maybe I'll pitch it over here. So we have a wage page for this and we're trying to do is just automatize the model so it can apply in other circumstances because we believe that it could be an interesting model just to think about these issues in other contexts. But I agree with Julianne in that sense. And I don't know. And the last is about the wage elasticities of labor supply. I don't have, the only thing that I could say in that regard is that our estimated elasticities are very close to what you observe in other estimates of the literature, but you would really have to, not only that, but the pattern of becoming less elastic over time that happens between in on-scale and in-scale. It's also something that it's observed and the fact that essentially, mail labor supplies basically in elastic. So it's very consistent as to exactly why I wouldn't, again, I could, we don't have evidence on that. But I believe it's a super interesting pattern that you're observing. So it's kind of converging more to mail in that sense. So that's, thank you. Thank you.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late sports cards ripping two boxes of 2020 at Bowman Baseball Jumbo HTA for Jeffrey H. It's good luck here Jeffrey. Let's do it my friend. So no paper all ship outside of the top couple of guys. Witt, Peña, Dominguez, Volpe, Jaren Durand, I would say those probably gonna be the top five. So we'll sleep on top of those first, especially Dominguez right now.  So good luck buddy. Congrats again on the platinum booklet. From NT the other night. That's going to you my friend. First, there's Dominguez first. Nice. Too much wine for Anthony. Oh, oh, oh that's true. It is 2020. I forgot. The 2020 Bowman. That's why, that's why he's bummed. Joe Genord, nice one there for the Metz. Congrats Jeffrey. It's too late.  Push me to the edge. I forgot to sort the paper and the chrome. I'm about, I know, prepping my ears in advance is rich. That noise canceling stuff on. It's ridiculous with these two. Ronald Acuni to 4.99. Jaren Durand, first paper. Jeremy Peña, first paper. Completely forgot about that entire thing in this. And then this clown. And then he comes in and makes sure to remind us. Ah, should have been a better ready. That is Ezekiel Durand. Nice one there to 4.99. First refractor auto. Congrats Jeffrey. Out of work. He's killing it in Texas. Killing it. Part of the, that bad Yankees tray for Joey Gallo. Sam Huff first and base. Dominguez first paper. And Volpe first paper. Wilfred Astadio to 125. Teal to shimmer. Ears ringing a little bit. I hate it. Thomas. Jaren Durand, first chrome. Just sealed De La Cruz. And then the top loader, I riot. I'm about to riot. You could count on at least four or five of Sean either I've had it or I'm over it every night. And I can't say what I really want to say. I got to keep it PG dude. If we could let it rip dude it'd be. To 150 your Don Alvarez rookie auto. Jeffrey, congrats buddy. That's huge actually. There you go Jeffrey. Congrats my friend. We'll get that into a mag. I forgot he's a rookie in this. Not bad. I can't say what I really want to say. Yeah. Oh, I'd really like to let you have it. Purple Jazz Chisel to 250. Just a verbal lashing. Nothing like waiting until 130 for your best foot song. Verbal lashing. Blasovic base space. Bobby Whitt paper first. Blue paper. Jared Kalmick to 150. Bobby Whitt chrome. Chrome first. They really did do him dirty. God. God. It's right. I would. I would assume. And base. All right. So that's paper. No go. Yeah.  I'm going to curl those. All right. Base first auto Jackson Rutledge. Going to the Nationals. Nice one there. Wonton Bomb. Anthony's just saying stuff now dude. Anthony's just typing in words. You thought it wasn't going to be a day of care when you. I think I'm going to have to play it a while. When you apply it to work. Here you go. Rest of the year. Vargas.  I've been talking to your father about this. Xavier Edwards. Olcizer. Acidio. And paper base. I'll see a J-Dom dude. Especially now like. Oh true blue. Come on. True blue J-Dom auto. That is a Bobby Bradley. True blue rookie auto to 150 for the Guardians. I do it for salmon to secure my trash spot. Robert plus some. Paper base that time. What if I react and throw something at you. Reacting go. And it's that. What's boom. We're like oh my god.  Whit paper first. I'm always number one on the trend. Unless I'm not here you can pretty much bank on me being number one. Yeah. Especially this three days. Sharon Durant I know. It's three days. Two and then a break for two. No it's because it's Wednesday and then it's a break for like five. Yeah yeah I get you four days later. Today and this this week it was two then break then one then three days break then two again. Like I should get hazard pay. Time and a half. Yeah PTSD pay all kinds of stuff. Especially with this guy. This other guy in the circus over here. In your first paper. Man that's a good thing you know because when that. When I thought that was the end thing I tried to get George the force to come and jump him. Come on let's go get him. Let's go get him. Yeah we're gonna treat this dude. Ooh gold come on. Come on baby. Come on. That is Adley Rochman. Yellow to 75. Dude that was a crazy two boxes actually. Yordan and Adley. Granted it's not Adley first but I mean regardless. Come on. That's huge dude. Congrats four of 75. Jeffrey there you go buddy. Let's go man. Jeffrey's on fire these past couple days dude. Let's go man. Jason Dominguez first paper. I don't know what will be interesting. There's a volt behind it. Miguel Vargas and base mediocre at best. Go guys Jean Diaz. The Hankins the 499. True blue Gus Varland. So 150. I think we may have Poisson our last Poisson tonight. Jesus. Unless there's one in here. Don't even do it. There's one in there. Come on. One time give us a Poisson. No. Purple Shohei not bad to 250. That'll work. Volpe first. Just watching intently. Yeah I think that's going to be it. And Carnasio. Yes. Evan White. And base. Yes. That'll do it for your break there Jeffrey. Congrats buddy. Two really nice cards. Had the Adley. Had the Yordon. That's going to work. Really good break. Thanks again as always Jeffrey. We'll get those right out to you buddy.


Alright guys so I've decided to update my dash cam for my Range Rover so I went ahead and purchased this from Amazon myself. This is the Hupecos 360 degree four channel dash cam. I'm going to go ahead and unbox this showcase how it looks, some of the specifications and give you some sample footage in both daytime and nighttime of each of the four different channels. So let's go ahead and open this up. So there you have the user manual I believe it's called the VAT model. This actually comes in at 250 pounds. There was a £50 voucher so I got it for £200 so check out the link in the description if you want to find out more information and maybe take a look at purchasing it yourself. You've got a couple of sticky pads that you will use for the back camera and the front camera itself. So inside the accessories box comes with one packet here which has five wire tidy sticky pads and a wire tool to put in the edges of your roof and sides of your car. So you have a USB-C powered power cable which I thought there would be an option to have one that goes to a USB port rather than the 12 volt power port in your car. It doesn't seem like that's the case so you'll have to connect it via this to power it on. You have yourself the back camera which will plug into a 3.5 millimeter jack port on the main dash cam. It has a couple of sticky pads in there to connect to the back of this like so and then you also have the windshield attachment. So those are the cables and the accessories so let's take a look at the actual dash cam. So they have it, got a nice large LCD screen there on the front, a few buttons there, mode, power button, left and right directional buttons and okay button. I'll take a look at the user guides just to see what all of these buttons do and we'll try it out once I've set it up in the car and it actually looks pretty cool. These actually rotate so when you want to get the left and the right views then you can actually position them accordingly. If you want to face them a little bit towards the cabin then you have the option to adjust it like that. There is the main camera on the back. Let's take off the sticky pad on this. There you go. It says the ultra wide angle lens, full HD digital recorder. The front facing camera is 4k and the left and the right and the back cameras are 1080p native resolution. Now along the top you have the USB-C power port there. The SD card I believe actually comes with one as part of the package from Amazon. This is a Lexar 128 gigabyte micro SD which is quite nice that they do supply it rather than you having to buy one separately. Then you have the port for the back camera and there is the microphone. There's a microphone in here as well because this actually allows you to speak to this device and give voice commands and we'll be testing it out and they include take photo, start video, turn on or off audio, turn on or off Wi-Fi, turn on and off the screen. This also has built in faster 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi which I think is really good and it does have GPS tracking as well which is accommodated with an app that you can download by scanning the QR code in the user manual. This also has something called super night vision. It does loop recording and it also does speed tracking. Those are the key highlights and specifications so pretty standard. We're going to try out everything. I'm not hardwiring this to my car itself to give 24-7 parking monitoring or anything like that but for a stand dash cam that will give me a 360 degree vision of loop recording that's one of the things I was looking out for and this seemed to have decent reviews online so I will be testing that out myself. So let's go ahead head out to the car and set this up. Okay so I've got it set up. The first thing you'll notice is that this is on sort of a tilted angle it's not completely straight. I don't know if this is a design fault but the actual cables themselves they actually get caught trapped and that's primarily due to the windshield mount being directly over where the ports need to go which is not a great design but that's not too much of an issue because the actual cameras themselves they can be tilted from sideways and left and right to make sure they look absolutely straight once you are viewing the live video. So let's take a look. I've got the back camera also connected so I've got all four channels covered. When you hit okay menu you can go through these options here so you've got Wi-Fi, infrared loop record, G-Sensor, parking, language screen saver, clocks, format the card and reset. If you go to the next page you've got your GPS status, speed adjust, speed unit. Let me go ahead to the unit. Mine is in miles per hour but you can also change it to kilometers per hour. Then you also have the time zone. Let's go ahead change that. So I'm in BST so that will be GMT plus one. Hit okay and then if I wanted to go into daylight savings then I can turn that on or off from here. So that's all of the menu options then you can also go into the dash cam, play back the footage directly from here. Go to voice control, dashboard and settings. Let's go ahead and check out voice control. So these are all of the different commands. Going to see if these work. Turn off screen. Turn on screen. Okay that was pretty instantaneous. Show front camera. Show both camera. Oh this is pretty nice actually. The voice commands I'm actually very impressed with that. That works quickly. It's quite instant and it actually does exactly what you say. So you've got all of the key information just there as well, date and time, etc. So I think it's looking good. Let's just quickly check out some of these other options. So if you go into playback you can actually play back from either of the cameras I believe. Front and rear most likely. Okay now let's go over to dashboard and this is actually quite nice.  So you can actually just leave it on this dashboard rather than seeing any live view which I think is quite nice. So left right front back I think is pretty nice. One thing I would say is I've positioned this in a way that it doesn't really block my windscreen view when I'm driving. So that's why a bit of the mirror and this large compartment that's in my Range Rover Vila it does block the right camera a little bit. I don't know if you guys can see that clearly but I can still see a little bit of the window outside to the right side. This is an issue just for myself because of the position that I've put it in but just note that when you do reposition is it is actually quite bulky and it may block and obstruct a little bit of the view on the road ahead of you. So you have to remember to position this in a way where it doesn't really do that and I can still see a little bit of my right side but because of the way I've positioned it it does get maybe 20 or 25 blocked but for me that's not too much of an issue. So now let's go ahead and take some sample footage in both daytime and night time and see how each of these four channels come out. I'm going to download it via the app the TS Cam app that comes with this device that you can see in the user manual and I think that's going to be a lot easier to do than taking the SD card out because the position where the SD card is at the top there is going to be very awkward you're going to have to fiddle around with the cables maybe move it out maybe just take the dash cam off so it's a bit of a pain so it's better to just download directly from the app which I'll do. So we'll showcase the app how that looks as well and let's just get straight into that. Okay so now let's talk through the app and see how that works. I'm just going to show you the QR codes here in case you wanted to pause the video and check out the app on either the iOS or the Google Play Store. So we'll dive in and just remember that you need to have the dash cam powered on and you need to be in your car connected to the dash cam Wi-Fi for the app to work. Okay so this is the app this is how you will see it first and you'll see the front camera as the main view there's a little switch button just next to where it says picture quality description this is where you can switch between all of the four cameras so if you press that I can go to the back press it again you go to the left hand side and then to the right hand side so very quick and responsive live view and then when you press it again you go back to the front if you go into the storage option that was on the bottom left here you'll see all of your clips that the dash cam has recorded very quick and easy to play back any of the footage you have a few tabs there emergency parking monitoring and photos if you select you can select multiple videos like this and you'll be able to download them directly to your phone's gallery which is a quick and convenient way to take backups of all of your videos that the dash cam has recorded rather than you having to take the sd card out and transferring it to your laptop so this can take some time the front camera is 4k so it is going to be slightly larger file size than the rest of them but as you can see it is downloading pretty quickly and you can get them stored very quickly on your phone so that is a very quick and convenient way just to take videos and store them as backups and play it back whenever you like there you go the download has completed and it was straightforward when you go back you can stop recording and go into the device settings and take a look at some of the options there so pretty straightforward everything you basically need from a dash cam app it was simple to connect and i didn't have any problems using this and i connected the first time as well so not overly complicated it's very nice and it's very easy to use so for me i would give it a thumbs up so now let's take a look at some sample footage that i've taken in both daytime and nighttime okay so let's start with the daytime footage and i'll just show you a quick full screen view of all the cameras starting with the front camera so here's all of them side by side and actually you can see the biggest difference in quality with the front 4k camera than all the others it is really clear and you can read the road signs and more importantly the license plates very clearly the left camera has good visibility out of the window and although my setup for the right camera is partially obstructed it still looks good that camera seems like the lowest quality but any car right behind me the license plates are still easily readable so let's see how the audio quality comes out with the internal mic on the dash cam i'm just talking normally in the car and testing out the microphone from this dash cam so hopefully you guys can hear me quite clearly it's pretty quiet it's not so great so if you're having a conversation with someone out of your window i don't think you'd be able to hear the person on the outside at all so moving on to night recordings and again starting with a quick full screen cycle through all four channels now you'll notice the left and right camera here are on infrared night mode but we'll talk about that in a second the back camera however is quite grainy and i think it might even be 720p let alone 1080 okay so talking about the difference in night mode quality for each of these channels the front is still clear but my sharp led lights reflecting on other license plates makes it hard to read those license plates but that would be the case with any dash cam to be honest but the roads and the buildings are very clear so can't fault on the front camera's quality overall the left and right cameras you'll notice they switch between infrared night mode and color night vision intermittently this is because when i drive through dark areas there isn't much light sources for the dash cam to capture to be able to accurately get color vision so it switches to infrared mode which i think is actually quite good because it then tries to maintain visible scenes throughout your entire ride so what that means is that just in case you do have an accident it will have some form of clarity on how those events unfolded and finally the back camera maintains color vision throughout but due to poor lighting reflections and maybe due to the demister lines on my rear windscreen the quality isn't great at night but i would say it's manageable so that's all i wanted to showcase on the hupecos 360 dash cam all in all i'm happy with the purchase and for 200 pounds i think it's definitely worth having this 360 degree setup that does everything you need it to do as always remember to like subscribe and catch you at the next one


What's up guys welcome to today's vlog so on the vlog today what we're gonna be doing is a tour video so a lot of you guys have asked what the studio looks like what the new salon looks like all that you might have seen pictures of it but it's gonna be really fun to take you through it also tonight is podcast night so I'll be getting prepped for that so I'll show you guys our podcast setup so this can be a big tour video it's a big place so I'm excited to show you guys so I'm gonna take you guys this is the studio we'll get back to that I'll be working in here all day but I want to get the salon open before our clients get here and all that so let's go to the first room of the salon alright guys so I'm standing on the front of the salon right now it's very cold outside but I want to show you guys this is our driveway so we're actually kind of hidden which to me as a beginning business wouldn't be the greatest idea but now that we're an established business people know where we're at it works for us because it's hidden it's kind of secluded so it's a nice relaxing place so here's the front door so this is the first room that you enter when you come into salon gratitude this is our reception area we have a beverage area back there we have the reception desk there our retail and then through that door is the salon we'll go to that at the very end but here's a look at the reception area okay so the next room that we're gonna be walking into is our employee break room conference area it's where we can have our meetings and they can also get a break from their guests so that is this room right here so once you get through the employee break room conference room area then you get into the parlor that is our barber shop so let's get that turned on so I want to show you guys a couple of my favorite things about this room the first thing is the barber chairs this barber chair came from a nerve a beauty calm I love the fact that it has an old school look to it but brand new technology so you can lean your guests back you can trim their beards up you can give them a shave you can do whatever you want so these are the stations that we use from a nerve a beauty as well love the pattern the wood feel with also the metal we love that look for the barbershop has the mirror mounted on the wall it's got drawers for all of your stuff don't really have a lot of stuff and nice cabinetry for holding any of your stuff as well these are also for a salon so you could use it in both but I like being able to set up my clippers set up my combs everything like that having a little bit more counter space when this is a barbershop because you just have a lot more tools to work with then we got a nice little waiting area we got our tv a nice selection of adult beverages so that is the parlor room at salon gratitude now just around the corner I'm going to take you guys to our shampoo room we'll get that turned on so this is our shampoo room couple things I really love about this first off these are my nerve a beauty as well your guests gets to lay back nice it also has a head rest so her neck isn't getting pinched in the crease of the sink right here the cabinetry we got at Ikea Christina did this kind of custom countertop just a couple pieces of plywood over top of the Ikea stuff painted it black put the gold around it that turned out really cool holds all of our shampoo and everything got our hot towel warmer and then up here we actually have our toners so that while you're doing hair back here your shampooing you can actually pick a toner and use it on your gas another thing I love about this room is while you're relaxing getting shampooed you can actually look out into this beautiful view okay so that is our shampoo area or wash house whatever you want to call it now I'm going to take you guys to the main salon room a couple bathrooms okay so now we're entering the main salon floor at salon gratitude so I'm going to take you guys through a lot there's a lot to talk about in this room the first thing I want to talk about is the color bar and the cool thing about this is Christina built this all from the ground up from Ikea so it's really cool because it's very functional we still have some racks to put up in a few different things but for the most part it's a function in color bar the worst part was getting the plumbing put in but then after that it just takes time so Christina put that together it looks really awesome functions really well it's got a lot of room on it for people mixing color a couple cabinets we'll stop here a couple cabinets here for the salon product so what we use in the salon I want we wanted to keep them kind of concealed so they weren't out and everybody was looking at them all the time so we put them in here we have two different cabinets for that so this is our waiting area we got a few different chairs I believe Christina found these at some kind of home goods or something like that nice frilly pillows up there not much to talk about with the waiting area but some cool chairs now I've got these this equipment over here these are our color processors we have a few of them these two are the same these are newer models we got these from Minerva Beauty as well and then this one is our workhorse we got this from Minerva Beauty it's just a color processor so those of you that don't know what that is you put it over your highlights it's heat but it also helps open up the cuticle and just brighten the highlights so you can process color faster and just have a better workflow in the salon this is actually the station that I work at doing here in the salon so this chair obviously came from Minerva Beauty I love the simple feel of the chair Christina wanted to do this color and at first I was like I can't believe you're picking that color but when I saw everything kind of come together obviously the color works really well in here so so we got a working tray next to it we don't have cabinet stations and my big thing with that is it just keeps away the clutter so you can see in here everybody puts their stuff away at night and then when they get here in the morning when they need a blow dryer they plug it in when you're not using blow dryer you put it away and it just keeps this on nice and clean this is our mirror the thing I love about this these are customized because we got them from Minerva but it was a dark wood and it had a black trim Christina sanded off the dark wood and then painted the gold trim on there to kind of go with the feeling they also weren't double-sided it was really hard to find double-sided mirrors so we connected them with a little connector the two mirrors together they hang it's nice and heavy so it doesn't move a lot and we also got the chains and painted them gold to match everything as well all the light fixtures we found online except for that one we found locally but just nice neutral lighting now I'm going to take you over this is our color area this is where we color our guest hair and the reason we have a different area for coloring it does open up the stations a little bit but also we got these mats behind it helps keep color off the floor we got these carts at Minerva as well it has the foil holder you can also place some other stuff there you can color up to four bowls in there so pretty cool setup we got a more simple chair for the color area as well so it's just a sleeker feel so we put three of those here and then this is the view from the outside behind the salon so that is the salon tour I hope you guys like it also this is where we do all of our shots for our gratitude salon official instagram page so if you guys want to check that out we use the diva ring light I get a lot of questions on how what lighting to use when taking pictures for instagram that thing works really well also the fact that we have these skylights overhead helps during the day a lot because you get the overhead lighting and then you get the front lighting there plus a white wall which really helps I think that's pretty much it I'll do an updated tour sometime as well but I wanted to give you guys this first look uh everything that we have going on now let's get back over to the studio this is Christina's office but I'm not going to show it to you yet because it's not done and she would probably be upset now we're gonna go through this is also a lounge area which has just a lot of boxes and a lot of stuff because we are still putting it together so this is a bathroom another bathroom it's kind of like the employee bathroom and then we have the studio entrance here the red light means that I'm filming so that's usually the sign that people don't go into so over here I have the product shelves these these shelves I put in so I could just have easy access to the products I need to use in the videos things that I like some of my favorite things so it's just easy I can mix it on here and put it all together so back here is kind of an exciting thing this right here is our live production studio so everything that we do we can put live on the internet everything it's over there everything it's over there all of it can be live on the internet with a click of a button which is really nice this is a tv monitor so anything that we're doing live you can see on that tv also have a big tv back there near my desk that you can see from the studio space and that is also a monitor you can see what you're doing live as well we have another monitor here I have some more Minerva beauty equipment here another chair here and then also this is a really cool thing that we're actually putting in the parlor this is a big old not old big new it's a big light up barber pole which I'm in love with it mounts to the wall this thing's got to be I mean I'm six foot tall so it's almost six feet tall so a pretty sweet addition I don't even have any idea how much that is Minerva sent it for me to review but I love the thing and I can't take it out of my office even though I should put it in the salon okay so next thing I want to talk about is the logo that's back here behind us this is the free salon education logo like most of you guys know but the cool thing about this this room was a Pilates studio so because it was a Pilates studio this was all mirror this whole thing so what I did was I had it wrapped with a matte black finish and left the logo out so it looks like we did a mirrored logo but really it was just a mirror that we covered now this is the podcast table podcast logo is on it all the microphones we use road podcasting microphones all of that stuff runs over to where I sit on the podcast so this is where we do the sound so we run the sound of the studio live so we can run all the different microphones run music through here my laptop hooks up to all of this stuff and then this is all of our headphone monitoring all that stuff under here so I can basically sit in this spot and run all the sound and everything for the show and then Christina sits over there and runs all the live video these are all the different cameras we use 5d mark fours for the shots of each of us so we use kino flow lighting for for the whole studio for the podcast setup and also for the studio setup it's just the best lighting that that I can find that I know about and it works really really well and then this is my desk it's a little bit of a mess but I use a 27 inch iMac for editing the videos and also this big screen which helps with video editing you just have a lot more space to work with so I like that setup I also do all of my voiceover work with the road podcaster mic the usb mic plugs right into the computer got some old cameras here some lenses the drone and that is pretty much it that is the tour of the studio so there's a lot going on and obviously I skipped over things very quickly but if you guys want to know anything else or you saw something that I didn't talk about post it in the comments below I would love to answer your questions on anything that I can so thank you guys so much for joining me on this tour I hope you guys enjoyed the tour of the studio I know it's kind of a lot to take in but hopefully it gives you guys some ideas uh or at least shows you guys kind of where we work so hope you like it if you did like it hit the like button hit the subscribe button I'll see you guys


In Belgium, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says there is still time and space for diplomacy between Russia and NATO allies over Ukraine. In Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron says France will withdraw its troops from Mali but keep forces in West Africa. In Thailand, supporters of the King call for measures against rights group Amnesty International over its calls to reform the monarchy. And in Zimbabwe, health officials say job losses and school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have worsened drug abuse and a mental health crisis.


I'm very pleased to have you here. Frank is a national president. Five years of American token. Yes. He was so nice to make pay for something. And I know something of that volunteer work effect quite vivid. My seniors have been doing this remarkable. We're proud of you. Appreciate your interest. Sorry you can't be at the center. Out in Minneapolis. Well, that's next week, isn't it? Yes, sir. Well, there's the video tape for it. Right. But then at least I'll be there on tape. We appreciate that. Great deal. I have a gift I'd like to present to you, if I may, if we can get that. Mr. President, this is pretty heavy, so I'm going to hold it while I talk if that's okay. But on behalf of more than 626,000 members of the Telephone Pioneers of America, in the United States and in Canada, I want to express to you our great appreciation for your interest in and your support of the Telephone Pioneers of America, and especially your willingness to take the time to acknowledge our 75th anniversary. To commemorate the occasion, we wanted you to have this telephone instrument which dates back to 1911, as a matter of fact. And that, of course, is the year in which Telephone Pioneers of America was founded, November 2, 1911, to be specific. And in all the years that you've gone by since, I think we've established a pretty good record of community service. And we particularly wanted to recognize you and your interest in us with this telephone. Well, listen, I want to tell you, thank you when I have to say, I'm a little older than, this is about several months, but the same year. And I think that phones very much like this, and perhaps exactly like this, were still in operation for some years of my life back there. I'm in a small rural town in Illinois. I remember phones like this. And whereas a matter of fact, out there on the rural lines, if you rang your neighbor's call, you could count on a few of the other neighbors to pick up the phone just to see what was going on. Well, this telephone will actually work if you put a battery on it. And it'll, you can use it as an intercom. Of course, it doesn't have a dial. It doesn't have a touchstone pad. But it's the real time. And that's how you got your name. That's how you made it work. I also want to tell you that we're very much aware of Europe. It's heavy. Yeah, I got it. You must be doing a lot of chopping wood at the ranch. Dennis will tell you about that. But we're very much aware of your message in terms of volunteerism and the call for the private sector initiative. And I really don't know of any organization that's been more in accord with that message or more fully responsible than Telephone Pond is America. And I know in the tape message that you have for us, you and Mrs. Reagan gave us a challenge to help them fight against drugs. And we will show that tape and I believe the Telephone Pond is America will respond fully, completely in a way that will make us all very proud. I don't know how you can take on even one additional thing, but I know you will and I'm very grateful. Would you like that? Well, they wanted you to turn it around if you could for one more good picture so they could get the two of you in the front of the telephone. Why don't you like to have it on the wall? It might also be appropriate to read the inscription this is presented to President Ronald Reagan with great admiration and gratitude by the Telephone Pond is of America on the occasion of their 75th anniversary, 1911 through 1986. Well, Mr. President. That's yours. Well, thank you very much. I think that will go in a presidential library that's being planned for Stanford. It can be made to work. It can be made to work. That seat only just needs a battery. Telephone business has come a long way in San Francisco. Yes, yes. Well, I believe you. I'm so grateful. I know. Do I have to figure right that all of the volunteer effort of your people would amount to about 300,000 man hours of work a year? 300,000 in 40,000 weeks. Yes, that's right. Yes. Yeah. In a lot of different areas. I work on drug abuse is one of the projects. I work with the hearing impaired. Yes. There's another one. Help with the blind. It's just quite a really exciting story when you examine what all these good people do. It's just appreciate it. Thank you so much. Well, thank you. Thank you for that. Pleased to have that. Thank you for all that you mean to all of us. Yes. Thank you for a lot of space. Appreciate it. Yes, sir. And I hope you won't forgive us for letting you kind of get hurt. Well, yeah. It's worth it.  You know, we're still trying to puzzle out. I hope really that happened. But it was a weird accident the way that happened as he's probably explained to you. We were trying to keep him a secret. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mr. President. How do you do? Nice to see you. I'm familiar with that over there. Thank you for making them available to us. It's good to see you. And thank you for what you have done. I'm sorry to be long due and so forth, but serving out of commission. Thank you, Mr. President. You know, you made this country safe for my children, my children's children. That's very kind of you. We got you a letter of honor. Thank you. They're writing it in one. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Are you off again, David? Are you going to Camp David? Yep. Have fun, sir. I hope you enjoyed being here for a little while. Oh, that was great. This is great of us too. I sure will. Good to see you. Thank you. Mr. President, nice to see you, sir. Nice to see you. We're a little late. Hello, Mr. President. It's very nice to meet you. This is my granddaughter, Debbie Love. She has something for you. Thank you very much. Our class put that together with a little picture. We wanted to be sure that you knew how much they supported you. Well, thank you. You tell all of them things. This is my grandson, John Love.  I got too much things for you. Thank you very much. This is my daughter, Sarah. Hello there. She's the youngest. She sleeps, sleeps. Hello there, dear. This is my daughter, Mary. My daughter's name. I have a family. Close. I like the way it is. I want to be sure to be here today. You guys are here. You had to do this a little while before.  Okay, great. Thank you very much, Jim. For you, I did something wrong. I did something wrong. Did you do this? I did something wrong here. Did I? No, that's correct. That's correct. And you, yes. You get the bookmark. Thank you very much. You get the cufflinks. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Then, the box is this jar with the seal and grade on it. And it contains jelly beans. Ah-ha. And now... Did you get one of John's? I think John should take it. Give it to him. Take that. Take that. Take that. Take that. Take that. Take that. Take that. Take that. Take that. Take that. Take that one. And because I know your folks aren't going to want you to open that up on the way home, it's a sample of what's in the jar. Oh, that's great. And then, the one and one alone. Am I right? That's right. That's right. But later on, I think I got this jar. Too soon. Too soon. Too soon. Love, you presently appreciate those very much. I appreciate very much the chance to be able to serve you in the Mayans. It's interesting. It's a communist country that doesn't do everything that Soviets tell it to do, which is we're trying to keep it that way. Yes. And... Well, thank you for doing that. Thank you, sir. Oh, seriously. Thank you very much, Mr. President. Well, should we give him a picture? All right. Good to see you. Very nice meeting you, Michael. It's my pleasure. Thank you very much. Now that we have one, I think we should have a group picture. All right. Where would you like this? Well, why don't you ladies get in the middle? That's all right. All right. That makes a prettier picture. All right, fine. Little bit. It's a very special birthday for Mr. President to be here. Now, don't forget us if you're souvenirs while you're going. Cuff links. Oh, no. Thank you. And the bookmark. Thank you. And stick bin. No. Thank you very much. Well, Mr. President's been a great honor representing you and Maritius. And a great admirer of yours and everything you're doing, Mr. President. Thank you. And I'm grateful to you for taking on this task. Well, thank you very much. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you again, Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Hello there. Just fine. Nice to see you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, I wish you well. And I thank you very much for what you've done. Thank you very much. One second. Give me a little souvenir for you. Oh, thank you. Thank you. I'll take care of things when we're all right, though. Yes. Thank you so much. Thank you. Well, Mr. President, I have a great honor and a great pleasure. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you for doing it. May I present my wife, Rob, and our daughter, Carol, there. Nice to see you. I think maybe the ladies could get between us. We could have a family picture. All right. Thank you. One second. Superiors here. Thank you. Cufflings. Oh, thank you. And a chummer with a state seal. Thank you. Mr. President, congratulations. Thank you. Well, it's going to mean a lot to my mission out there to know that you're backing them. Mr. President, I see presidents. Are you going to go? No. Maybe there'll be an opportunity. Absolutely. Thank you, Carol. I have a very separate idea. I just want to say that this land is not seen in the middle of the world, and in the leadership that's done here in the community. So we will honor and give it to you. Thank you very much. I will be a result of the subnative. Thank you for doing it. This is Andre Seltzer. And this is James Williams. Andre, how are you? I'm good. I see you well. And I appreciate what you're doing. And also, thank you for taking care of my friend. Give it to me. I'll call you. It's kind of funny to see you in person, and it's always been there for me. Well, it's a privilege. It's a privilege. Well, my pleasure. Mr. President, this is Officer Robin Hector. Also one of the writers. Nice to see you again, sir. How are you? I just want the horse that's ready to go for tomorrow. We're ready. We've got to go back and feed him. The weather holds up. Yeah, I'd like to ride tomorrow. I'll be glad to have you down. Whatever you want to come and come down. It's very good to see you. Thank you. You're welcome. Hi. Well, we're not allowed here. I understand that we're over one at a time. I get pictures as if we're doing the interview. So whichever of you is first, take the left-hand chair. Thank you, sir. Have you thought about what first thing you'd do? How would you do it? I don't know. What first thing you'd do? Oh, and I have the pleasure of being there on a mission for President Nixon when I was the governor's first son. I'm sure that's a good one. But I think it's a good one. The book written by the Mayor of the University of Wisconsin. How about you? Now, are those three separate names? No. Two names and one last name. These are two people. And that's the... And that's the last name. Yes. That they did. This is... Well, isn't it? Yes. It's 12%. You planned to visit the Philippines when they... Well, as I was saying, you're probably here. We have visited there before. And I don't know whether there will be an opportunity in the limited time left to me, but I hope there will be.


This video will show you how to type a bulleted list in Microsoft Word. First, open Microsoft Word. If you have a Microsoft Word shortcut icon on your desktop or taskbar, you can click on the icon to open the program. If you don't see an icon, you can find Microsoft Word in the list of programs on your start menu. After you open Microsoft Word, in most cases, you will need to select Blank Document to open a new document. Once this is done, you have a blank page that you can type on. The first thing you'll type is your name. Then hit Enter on your keyboard to go to the next line. Now you can type the title of your document. Household tips for helping the environment. If you make a mistake, use the Backspace key on the keyboard to erase the letter and type it correctly. You'll want the title to be centered. To do this, go to the Home tab in the toolbar. You'll see a button that shows Text Centered. And if you hover over it, you will see that it says Center. Click on the Center button once to center your title. Next, hit Enter again to go to the next line. Your text will be centered. You'll want your bulleted list on the left, so you will need to go back to the Home tab in the toolbar and find the button to Align Text Left and click on it. You are typing a bulleted list, so it's going to have markers for each line. The markers are called Bullets. To find the button for Bullets, go to the Home tab and find the Bullet button. It is right above the button for Align Text Left. If you click on the drop-down arrow next to the button, you will see different bullet styles which you can choose from. Select the bullet style and start to type your tips. For this video, I will type these tips. Recycle garbage.  Make sure you hit Enter after each tip to start a new bullet on your list. When you are finished, you will have a list of household tips. If you look at the example, you can see that it is a Word document. It's fine like it is and you can print this out or save it. But you can also make changes and format the document differently. For example, you can click and drag your mouse across to highlight the title. Then you can go to the Home tab and find where it says Be for Bold. If you click on that, your letters will get darker. You can also make the letters bigger by going up and clicking on Grow Font, the large A. You can also change spacing by highlighting your tips and going to Line and Paragraph Spacing. If you click on the arrow, you will see that the spacing right now is 1.15. You can change it to 2.0 or 3.0 to leave more space between each line. For this demo, I will select 2.0 to change the spacing to Double Spaced. When you are finished working on your list, you need to save your document. To do this, go to the File tab and select Save As.  Next, type the name of your document in the box next to the words File Name and click Save. If you are using a school computer, be sure to ask your teacher where they'd like you to save your document. I am using my own computer, so I am going to save my file on the desktop. I click the File tab, then select Save As. Next, I click this PC and select Desktop. It has my name already, but I am going to go to After My Name and type Household Tips. And then I am going to click Save. My file is now saved to my desktop. I can close my document by clicking on the X at the top right corner. If I want to open my file again, I can find it on my desktop and open it. And that is how you make a bulleted list in Microsoft Word. If you have questions, you can watch the video again or ask your teacher.


The Battle of the Continent becomes Europe's total war. One month later, Holland falls. Beloved Queen Wilhelmina seeks refuge abroad. Millions of Belgians re-enact the tragic migration of 1914. May 28th, Leopold King of the Belgians surrenders, and the world despairs. Dunkirk. Here, 300,000 allied soldiers battle and swim to safety under an inferno of fire. June 5th, the critical Battle of France begins for three terrifying weeks the armies of Wagon fall back in the face of overwhelming mechanized might. Italy, while France fights for its life, Italy marches beside Germany. Six weeks after Holland and Belgium were crushed, tragic history is enacted at Campania. The image of General Foch watches as another conqueror arrives. He boards the same railroad car where Foch himself gave the armistice terms to the defeated Germany of 1918. These Nazi officials come with different emotions than those other Germans 22 years before. This time, French plenipotentiaries seeking terms instead of giving them arrive to learn the fate of their republic. Grim formality went victor and banquished meat. With terms stated, Adolf Hitler allows time for the French to telephone the Vichy government. Silently, the French delegates follow for conference with the man who became Premier of France only six days before. Henri Fattin, who must give the answer. Weighted hearts return to the historic car bearing their faithful message. France has decided, and the knee is bowed in submission with a flourish of tragic pens. The war spreads eastward. Britain's fleet blasts the port of Perfora in Somaliland. To Welshmen, to Scots, to all the shores of General de Gaulle, pray Frenchmen still fight Germany. Waves of Nazi planes swarm westward to the world's largest city. Some reach London's warehouses, tenements, and great docks. Londoners take to shelter, unafraid. All in young, their spirit undismayed. Pandemonium rages for hours, days, and months. London burns by night, but daylight finds undaunted grift and confidence. As the job of digging out proceeds. Even the dummies get attention. We mean dummy. Buckingham Palace, symbol of empire. Residents of Britain's monarchs does not escape the Nazi reign of steel. King George and Queen Elizabeth examine a piece of the missile that demolished a part of their palace home. Paul's Cathedral, where royalty and commoner worshipped, also suffered. A bomb pierces the roof, destroys an altar, but spares other treasured monuments. The heroic RAF takes an ever-increasing toll. Nazi planes have fallen on English soil by the thousands. It may well be that the final extinction of a baleful domination will pave the way to a broader solidarity of all the men in all the lands than we could ever have planned if we had not marched together through the fire. Made to Britain, short of war. In exchange for Atlantic naval bases in English possessions, 50 discarded World War destroyers are reconditioned. At a Canadian port, Americans transfer the sorely needed warcraft. Shoots for war years before Russia and Germany made use of them in actual conflict, but with the Axis powers, United States speeds the building of its first two-ocean navy. It sets in motion the nation's machinery for drafting all men between the ages of 21 and 35. October 16th. On this day, millions of American youth in every corner of the nation register for military service. History repeats itself. A World War drama is re-enacted. The same fish balls from which capsules were drawn for the wartime draft in 1917 again serves for the country's first peacetime call. America throbs to the beat of the most startling presidential campaign in many decades. Wendell Wilkie arouses amazing devotion and respect in his strenuous bid for the White House. President Roosevelt also has given thunderous receptions for the first time in history a president of the United States is re-elected for a third term.