Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with 2021 Panini Immaculate Baseball. Half case, pick your team number 21. Very big thanks to this group right here for getting into the action on a Wednesday. Appreciate everybody getting in. That's Josh. There you go. There's Josh in the chat. Josh with the White Sox, Last Bot Mojo star next to his name. Legend has it that 70% of the time Last Bot Mojo hits 100% of the time according to Jaspy Legend. Fresh case of 2021 Immaculate Baseball. So let's pop this open. Let's see which half we're going to do and we'll roll a die to figure it out.  We'll select that die right there, 1, 2, 3 for the left side, 4, 5, 6 for the right side and it's 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and this side will be for pick your team 21 so this side will be for pick your team 22. Marcos pick your team 22. This half right here, good luck everybody. All right, good luck everybody. First out of the gate is the Legends Relic of Bob Turley. All these ones, maybe they are. All right, that's for the Yankees. That's going to go to Dusty and the Bronx Bombers. We got one out of two, and a redemption back there, one out of 25 and Manny Machado. One out of 25, two color, dual relic, that's going to be for Jackson and the Padres and this redemption, you might have to look this up. He played for a couple different teams. Let's see what the checklist has to say about it. Immaculate Baseball, groupbreakchecklist.com, the official checklist provider of jaskiescasebreaks.com. Not officially, unofficially. We don't have an agreement with them. Let's go to their checklist right here. Immaculate Material Autographs, card number three, White Sox. This is card number Luis Gonzalez. Immaculate Material Autographs, Hollow Silver. Might be out of 25 maybe. Rex said you had to charge your headphones and just set my phone down while we were kept listening to the noise we were saying things we talked about earlier. Oh no, you were a lagger. How long were you lagging behind? 53 minutes behind. Oh my God. I must have been real deja vu there. All right, next triple relic and autograph is Jared Oliva, 23 out of 49 for the Buccos, Diego, the Pirates. Three-color patch and autograph, Dane Dunning, 69 out of 99, Jesse with the Rangers. Dun, dun, dun, dun. And we got from Dane to Dylan, six out of 99, Dylan Cease for the White Sox. That'll be for Josh Monroe, Chicago White Sox, Last Spot Mojo strikes again. That card, a little catching on that box there, I don't like that. All right, anyhow. Next box, good luck, 23 out of 25, Kyle Lewis, Michael with the Mariners. How long does, Chad's wondering how long I think Deshaun Watson gets to spend it? I have no idea. I feel like the NFL is so inconsistent on a lot of their policies. There's Eloy Jimenez, four out of 10. Nice little patch in that little window there, going to another White Sox for Josh. Now we got Isaac Peretis, rookie patch autographs, a Tiger, I believe. Yes, Detroit Tigers. That'll be for Steve, Steve H with Detroit. How long do you think, Chad? I say eight games and then he appeals down to six. There's Brent Rooker, 44 out of 50, three-color patch and autograph. And that'll be for Patrick and the Twins. 19 out of 25, Clutch, Relic and autograph, Dalton Varsha, there you go, Arthur. Nice rookie patch and autograph, he's got some good penmanship there. Maybe it could be a core part of the Diamondbacks rebuild. 93 out of 99, Dylan Carlson, three-color patch and autograph. Terry thinks indefinite? I don't think, I mean, although I wonder if the NFL gets a little annoyed that the Browns did the old $1 million, did the $1 million base salary, and maybe NFL doesn't like that. So the NFL goes, we're not going to suspend him this year, but we'll hit him with a suspension next year. Just to get that suspension money. There is Aristides Aquino, 97 out of 99. But yeah, who knows? I mean, yeah, the NFL is so all over the map with what gets suspended for how long and so who knows. Aquino goes to the Reds, Jeremy, 47 out of 99.  Commissius Woke, Terry's saying if a commissioner was Woke, I feel like Kaepernick would sell the job, right? There's Spencer Howard, rookie triple signature, memorabilia signatures platinum? Is that a one of one? Do you think the Browns, Rex asking if he's using the Browns to actually see something Watson was just for media attention? I don't know if that's the media attention they kind of wanted, if that's what they were going for. Did Sean Watson's actually a really good quarterback? He's a great quarterback actually. So I don't think it's for media attention. I think it's not like something they see in him. Everyone knows he's a great quarterback. He just has some baggage. That's a one of one. Rookie triple memorabilia signatures platinum. I had to double check. That's a one of one Phillies. Dusty with the fighting fills. All over things he'll never get suspended. Like I said, who knows with the NFL? They've been consistent on those policies. Spencer Howard, Philadelphia Phillies, one of one. There you go. Dusty all aboard the Big Hit Express. Oh, I see. I see what you're saying, Oliver. Well, Rex was saying suspend him if the Browns go to the playoffs. And Oliver says he'll never get suspended then. I get it. All right, Will Crow. Dusty, another train whistle for Dusty. Nice patch. Nice autograph. Kaka, Kaka. You could fight like a crow. Fight milk. Dusty all aboard. Next one is Adonis Medina, 50 out of 77. Nice, another Phillie for Dusty. And the last one here is going to be Jersey and autograph Alex Kirilov, 7 out of 44. Silver, ink, autograph. Minnesota twins, Patrick Davis with the twins. All right. Last box of this half case break. Good luck, everybody. Oh, look at that. See that Nike swoosh in the middle there? All right, OK. Let's see what we got. That looks, that's a train whistle. It's got to be. It's a one of one. Oh, oh. Oliver, look at this. And he had a pretty nice season last year too. Tristan McKenzie, quad relic, and the fifth relic is a Nike swoosh, pita's piece of a Nike swoosh in the middle. There you go, Ollie, with the Cleveland Guardians. Cleveland, this is for you. And all aboard the Big Hit Express. It's awesome. That looks pretty sharp, Oliver. Yo, he says, yeah. It's pretty good, right? Rookie relic as well. That'll play. That'll play for sure. And like I said, I don't know what he's doing in the spring right now, but I feel like he had a pretty nice season last year. Couple nice darts down the stretch. Just kept improving from start to start last year. All right, we got Chris Bryant, Cubs edition, 7 out of 25, piece of his lumber, going to Jeremy, 36 out of 70, Jazz Chisholm, four color patch and autograph. That'll be for Patrick Davis and the Marlins. We got an 8 out of 10. We got another tiny Nike swoosh right there. Part of a laundry tag or something like that. Looks like the piece of the elephant. Nice letter. Dolan Jeffries, 8 out of 10. Dusty with the Oakland A's. Oatown. Couple more to go. We've got, wow, 3 out of 3. Trevor Hoffman autograph. You don't see Trevor Hoffman autographs too often. That's Jackson with the San Diego Padres. What an amazing closer. As the guy got older, lost zip on his fastball. That changeup was so devastating. I feel like the pitch, the arm slot, the motion was all the same. And he could vary speeds just enough where it would keep you off balance. And he was really good. And just racked up the saves. Jackson with the Padres. All aboard the Big Hit Express. And the last one here is Future Buster Posey. Maybe that's what Giants fans are hoping. That's a four-color patch on-card autograph. 12 out of 21. RPA. What do they call these? 1221. And then 1221. Like race car. No, an automata piece is making a sound. It's a, someone in the chat's going to tell me right now. Someone smart is going to tell me right now. It's the same going forwards as it is backwards. Anyway, 1221, eBay one of one. That goes to the Giants, Derek Redding. Thanks for getting in, Derek. A palindrome, right. There you go, thanks, Oliver. Thanks, everybody. Second half of Immaculate. This one is knocked out. Second half is in the store right now. Thank you, Nicholas. It's a palindrome. I'm Joe for jaskiescasebrakes.com. Race car.


Hey Teresa, why don't you let me just just get started here with something I just want to thank you know our ownership group Amy Adams, Strunk, Kenneth and Barkley and Susan and their families and you know for this opportunity again to lead the football team not the result that any of us wanted but appreciate their support as we work through a difficult year. They allow John and I to do everything. A lot of us to do our jobs. I'd like to thank the players and the coaches for their commitment throughout the entire offseason the season. It was a tough season the NFL's a tough difficult league and they were resilient through a lot of different experiences. I'd like to especially thank our support staff who kept to help keep our players and our coaches and our family safe throughout this building. The way that it was structured and the difficult situations that came up. I appreciate what they did their hard work and diligence to making sure the meetings were set up in the areas that we used and then I'd like to thank the media for doing your job you know to help promote our football team and be an avenue to our fans. Wish that we could have done this differently but I appreciate you guys staying engaged through you know our virtual settings and I'm going to miss our chat rooms. So with that Teresa why don't you get started? Absolutely Mike. Achieve the AOC south title certainly have some pieces in place with Ryan under contract Derek under contract. How much is this team coming off a disappointing loss maybe poised to build and continue success as opposed to having been in rebuilding mode maybe when you first got here? I mean I don't think anybody ever looks at it like that we're just going to try to you know stick together you know I felt like we stuck together through a lot of different situations that have come up throughout the starting back at April and then obviously stick together through the sting of this defeat you know this day is a tough day for 31 teams that don't win a championship but you know we're going to look to try to build a new team in 2021 there's going to be some players that are the same and there's going to be some that are different they'll be coaches that look differently the front office may look differently that's just the nature of it but you know we have high expectations here every year uh Jeff. Mike I guess what was your closing message to this year's team and then as you try to project forward I guess still some uncertainty heading to this offseason as far as an offseason program and and OTA's minicam what what do you tell them when you don't know what's next? Well we're going to talk to them here in a little bit I um you know I wanted to talk to you guys and then talk to the team as they they come in and finish physicals and things like that and just tell them that you know how I'm proud to coach them I'm proud that they stuck together um and again nobody's happy with the result but uh they need they all need some time away and then be mindful of the decisions that they make um with some time on their hands uh John Gunn. Hey Mike um I know you're all of one day into the offseason but uh as as you look ahead um possibility of a defensive coordinator something you're considering you know defensive coordinator in name for next year and if so you know would that be someone more likely out of staff or on staff? You know John I think what we have to do is we have to evaluate you know every position um on our staff and as well as you know on our roster and so we'll do that and you know we'll make those decisions that that we feel like are in the best interest of the football team and you know that that'll be one of them. Um Terry? Mike in regards obviously with free agency and all you got out of set priorities how possibly different are possibly different though is that Terry why I'm here to address Terry in a free agency you know we're aware of our free agents and the ones that that have contracts that are expiring you know free agency like the same thing we said last year it's a two-way street you know the player has to want to be here the team has to want him back and you know then obviously the contract has to be good for both parties and they have to feel like they got something out of it and you know John and I will continue to discuss that and you know we'll meet with those players and their representatives and and see about getting something done. Alright Toronto. Yeah stand with that that theme the offseason and addressing needs how much of a need do you feel this team has for you know that guy that could really just dominate up front you know despite what you guys were able to do in the last couple of games as far as eight sacks are concerned. You know I just think that you know you know we'll have to identify you know a lot of areas of focus and making sure that you know we do a great job of bringing guys in here that love football that that are talented that that put the team first and you know play with great effort and finish but they get you know they got a lot of football this is a grind this league is a grind and you know so those are the types of players that we're looking for and obviously talented Toronto. Yeah Mike back on the defensive coordinator thing you said during the season you didn't think that that was having an impact on defensive struggles you still feel that way after the season's over do you think there's any benefit to having someone who's I guess quote unquote the head coach of that defense. Yeah you know I think that this thing kind of took a life of its own Joe and I you know I guess that it was really important but you know Shane led the meetings Shane led the walkthroughs Shane called the defense and again I think we get caught up too much in titles and I and I and I guess I apologize because clearly didn't think it would take on a life of its own and you know we'll coach better we'll play better but those are things that we have to do in all three phases you know there were times that it looked like we put all three phases together played really well and then there were stints where you know we didn't do that and you know what we're going to evaluate the roster and the coaching staff and the plays that we run and the scheme that we have and everything across the board you know because we ultimately didn't win a championship. Mike at this point can you shine some light on the the whole process with Dory Jackson and you know what what from the moment he got hurt what you what you thought you could get out of him this year and and and how much of you know how close did you get to getting what you hoped you could from him? No I mean I don't really have much light I mean he wasn't available and when he was available to to practice you know we practiced him and when he wasn't you know up for practice he wouldn't be available for the game and you know when he was able to be available for the game you know we played him and then we monitored how he felt and we worked on that. Paul. Mike you guys had a historically bad third down defense why couldn't you fix it? I guess there's you know we had a couple guys free to make tackles on a quarterback yesterday and a couple guys scramble around then we got some third down stops and you know I think there were times where it looked like it was representative of what we wanted to do from a playing standpoint and a schematic standpoint and then you know other times it was you know shorter distance and that we probably didn't do a good enough job on second down so I think we're all you know we're all responsible and again it's going to be about the playing and the coaching when there's things that don't go well and then when you see it look good and how it's designed to be executed and coached it looks pretty good. And what was it about Shane when you saw him worthy of doing all of those things that you listed that you found him unworthy then of the title? All right you know I just you know I make decisions a while ago and as we worked our way through you know the off-season it was just a decision I made Paul I make a lot of decisions and you know it's a great honor to be in a position to make decisions for the team and sometimes people agree with them and sometimes people don't but we'll keep doing them with the best interest in the team in mind. Hi Gentry. Yeah Mike when do you expect to have some clarity on Arthur's situation in terms of conversations with other teams and if you did have to replace him how important would continuity be given how well things went on that side of the ball? When would I know when some when an owner would want to hire Arthur I would have no idea Gentry. And in terms of continuity given how well things went I mean would that I guess that was kind of one of the the goals in when naming Arthur would you you know what are your thoughts on in terms of trying to continue what you've accomplished with the familiarity of the offense already? Arthur's still our offensive coordinator so when he no longer is then we'll look to to replace him. Hi Gentry. Yeah Mike I was wondering about special teams this year you talked a lot especially on the coaches TV show about wanting to do better in returns you know both kickoff and punt returns when you look at some of the games this year whether it's Pittsburgh or Indianapolis at home but the games that were special teams really let you down this year what are your thoughts on that going into the off season and and while a lot of moves are made you know big spots skill position spots their offensive defensive line how important is special teams and the focus on improving that for next year? Yeah I mean it's just huge importance and I think that you know we had some guys that really developed you know I rarely sit here and try to point guys out but I'm proud of the efforts that Nick Westbrook had a wide receiver that was undrafted that developed into a gunner kickoff coverage guy, guy that blocked this guy on kickoff return so you know you're looking for a skill set and then special teams is also really it comes down to effort and finish and really just just wanting to do it and that's what special teams is and you know we'll have to continue to evaluate that and find guys that you know fit that particular mold you know and then you know as you saw you know Darrington got some returns and I think he'll become more comfortable with it and he'll keep doing it and well it just I think it's a critical element and in phase you know I do so it'll be evaluated just the same as you know the offensive defense. Steve Lemon? Hey Mike where does Isaiah Wilson stand with you guys right now in terms of coming back next year and what role you see for him and then to further out with the rookies not only was he not out there but Darrington, Christian, Chris all because of injuries probably didn't get the number of reps you maybe envisioned or hoped at the start of the year where do you view this rookie class as a whole at this point and how they can help you moving forward? You know I can't comment on Isaiah you know I wouldn't even begin to to be able to eloquently have an answer for you Steve I just think you know with those other guys you know the injuries you know get hurt and I also think that the off season and I feel like we we put our guys our young players in a great position in the off season you know we try to structure their day in May and June the same way that we did would in September and October so that they're coming in early you know they're they're building a routine a functioning routine of coming in early working out getting treatment having breakfast going to a meeting at the same time that we would start our team meeting and the season you know going to position meetings going out on the field at in some capacity having lunch and then going back in for for meetings afterwards and I think that that builds a positive routine for these guys and for them not to have that I think probably you know hurts and then the injuries you know certainly set some of those players back Luke Mike what what qualities do you think Arthur has that are are interesting these other teams and and what do you think he would bring to a team potentially as a head coach I think Arthur do you know do a great job I got a lot of respect for Arthur you know Arthur's always done the best job and the job that he's had you know he hasn't worked the telephones and tried to undercut anybody he's always come to work and you know of a lot of trust in Arthur as a person for a person foremost so and I know he'd do a fantastic job leading anybody's team he was one of the maybe the only holdover from the previous staff when you got here what was it that made you want to keep him around initially I think all those things that I mentioned and I think all those things that I just talked about you know he was he's a tight ends coach you know he's been on different sides of the football you know just like what he had done with that position group and how they responded and how he prepared some of those players to do their job Chris here Hey Mike is you kind of self-evaluate how do you think that you led this team through all the unforeseen adversity of the season the likes of which no one's ever experienced you know I mean I don't think that that's something that is really my decision you know I try to try to do what's best for the players for their families for the coaches for this organization sometimes it's you know sometimes it's the right decisions and the right schedule but and sometimes it's not you know just try to instill an attitude within our team about winning about what it takes to win and try to prepare each and every week and sometimes it's good enough and sometimes it's not so I'd also like to thank our fans too and I know that I thank some people and it was it was cool to see those fans out there for a playoff game I thought they were into it I can't wait till we can get everybody back in our stadium get them back for practice you know how important that is you know to a community we want to we want to have a winning product we want to have a team that they can be proud of you know the way they play they play with great effort and physical and play together as a team Adam Sparks yeah Mike if uh if your defense plays well next season what would you hope the identity of that defense would be be fast you want to be you know be good tacklers be sound be great communicators um yeah I think you have to be smart nowadays you have to be extremely smart have great awareness you know defense is a lot about instincts you know and so so many teams are you know play man covers they're going to try to pick you and if you if you play zone they're they're going to try to stretch out and you know and just the scheme each week changes you're getting ready for different opponents so I think that you have to you have to have just some sort of instincts to you and an awareness but great defense is usually a really good good tacklers you know but Mike just going back to a couple questions ago about you saying you wanted you need to identify players who who love football who love to play football I I know you can only do what you can with the situation that that was presented this year with with COVID having an effect on free agency and draft evaluations and things like things like that do you think it was made substantially harder to identify guys like that because because of what the pandemic kind of did to the process I mean we all were you know we were all working under the same rules buck so you know I don't know I know that it made it difficult to do a lot of things or made it different and so you know that was that was the challenge that was presented to us um and if those are the that's how we have to operate and then we'll we'll need to continue to improve and we always want to improve our evaluation process and find guys that that are going to come in and fit what we do that's time for these last four uh Toronto coach in regards to Corey Davis and you know how the game ended can you shed any light on what happened there um a lot of criticism from the fans you know about him not finishing how can you respond to them in regards yeah I mean absolutely I mean if Corey you know we don't we don't talk about injuries but you know I mean clearly if Corey was able to finish that football game um you know he would have and he would have tried to done everything that he could have done to to help us win it just that wasn't going to be a possibility uh at that time John yeah Mike um in regards to Adam Humphries obviously didn't see him much uh with the concussion situation has he made some strides and and kind of what is his status you know heading into the off season he finished the year on injury reserve um so I would tell you that he wasn't cleared to playing the football game did he make improvement you know during that time that uh that he was out that we didn't see him wasn't cleared to playing the game John he's still in concussion protocol Paul Mike I know you're not one to second guess but it seems like if if you ever took an opportunity the the fourth and two punt from the 40 might be one uh you spend any time last night pondering you're you're very aggressive and that doesn't fit your your coaching MO you know just you try to get a feel for the game and see how things are going and you know we've made decisions um that have worked out and you know that that was the one we went with and again second guess yeah we always second guess everything that we do that doesn't work out we lost the game you know so that's that's our charges to to find out why and and question everything that we do and when we don't when we don't win and um that's that's no different than any other situation you know just felt like that's felt like we'd get a stop felt like we'd get the ball back and score and you know they hit a couple plays we held them to a field goal and had an opportunity there at the end just just went with that went made a decision and went with it and tried to be as decisive as we could but we lost the game so that uh there's a lot of those decisions that come up throughout the game the last one Steve Levin Mike there will be decisions upcoming on both Cory Davis and John O Smith and Free Agency from you guys they both had overall good years in particularly great starts to the season but the production trailed off somewhat certainly towards the end of the year is there any reason for that that you you know no standing here today of of why that may have happened no I mean I don't think that there's anything you know specific you know I think that that's just sometimes that's how the season goes you know could use Harold Landry an example I mean Harold played a fantastic game yesterday very active you know the consistency is something that we all strive for you know they get in in our personal life and our professional life is is being consistent to to whoever you know we're working with or for and so my consistency and you know how I approach the team is critical and their performance players performance is is you know hopefully to be consistent so that you know what you can count on and what you can rely on you know week in and week out


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When they ask for a hair cut that they know that you did, that's when you're doing something right here. You give me. I put it around. Not only that, he's so cold, bro. He's sponsored by these folks right here. They just, they've been looking out for him since the beginning of this belt. Signature fade when the velvet blade. When they dropping your haircuts in wraps, you know you on the some, man. Amen. None other than the Marcus Harper. Yeah. Yeah. Love you to God. Love you to God, man. Welcome to the black market, man. Thank you all for having me. And congratulations on all your success. Come on, man. Oh, yeah, man. Thank you, man. Hey, man, God bless the trap, man. You know what, man? I just want to say I'm proud of y'all, man. Thank you. I really am, man. Like you said, we've known each other for some time, man. And like to see what you guys got going on here is just like inspiring. I see how y'all affect like the whole country, whole world, bro. Like y'all affect the whole culture. And that's something that nobody really be able to like can really claim. You know, I hear you say a lot of times like they suppress my numbers, but like the way that your name drops in the streets, bro, y'all, hey, man, God bless the trap. We thank you, God, for this blessed place. Let it continue to flourish. Let all things come to your glory in this place. We thank you in Jesus' name. We amen. Amen. Bless the trap, bro. I'm glad that you know the truth. Because the people need to hear somebody else say it.  They don't show the real. The impact in the streets is real, right? Yeah, we so far ahead of the game, we can't even hear criticism no more. That's why we had to open up the black market to let everybody know. You can get some of this, too.  Come on, man. Heavy. I'm over here like, didn't it? I subscribe, brother. He in there, man. Y'all in there, bro. I rise for that. I'm proud to be here, man. Man, give us a brief intro. You was telling us how you first got into the game, but tell the people, tell the world, man. Introduce yourself and all that good stuff. Yeah, my name is Marcus Harvey. Some people call me D. Marcus Harvey. I've been cutting hair since I'm pretty much like 12 years old. Started off in the shop in Gwinnett County. Started off sweeping. I was a little fat kid in the shop. They used to call me Bookman. You know what I'm saying? Word. Nigga is, oh, bro.  Ain't buffin' no butt. You ain't try to work. You ain't try to work. It's like 12 barbers in there. So I'm like sweeping up here, cleaning clippers, making store runs, getting a lunch, all that stuff. You said this was in Griffin? No, this was in Pwinnett. Oh, Pwinnett, okay. Yeah, like literally right down the street from the theater where they have it over there. Okay, yeah. Like the next complex. It's crazy. So there's like a little trail behind my apartment complex I go run. Go check it out. You know, one day I saw this little kid sweeping up here and I was like, yo, that's my barber. He was the owner. I was like, yo, how can I get down and do what he's doing? I see y'all giving him cash. Bro was getting cash from everybody.  So that's 12 barbers. So you know, he coming out, peeling out right. Right. So I was like, yo, let me try that. So one Thursday he let me come through, work there for like three, four years, man. And then randomly eighth grade, my homeboy, AJ Templin, shots out to AJ. I was over at his house, man, and we had these little Walmart clippers and I attempted to cut his hair. It ended up being a baldy. It was supposed to be an evening. Then it turned into a fade and then it kind of came to another and it just kept, two hours later, it was a baldy. So pretty much it's where we ended up right at that. So, you know, and then that was the start for me, man. He let you cut him again after that? Yeah. No, he definitely trying to get me here, cut his hair now. True. Like now I'm just saying like, in eighth grade, was he a repeat customer? I ran away from it at that point. I ran away from it at that point, but had to go back to, man, my mom got into a car accident. I'm going into my ninth grade year. So we had to move to Tennessee.  And we in this small town called Morristown, shots out to Morristown East. You know about it. I'm from Tennessee. Yeah, I'm from Tennessee too. Oh, okay. I'm from West Tennessee though, from Denmark. Okay, cool, cool. Yeah, East Tennessee, right outside of Knoxville, you know, you know what it is, you know what it is. My family, my mom. Yeah, we live in Knoxville.  Jeet Jeet. Hey, hey, I love you. Harvey, you're going to run that football for us this Sunday, huh? Yeah. You're going to run that A gap. Suddenly I got a lot of money riding on you. That's how they used to hit me with it, so. You know, there wasn't no barbers there though. Like it was a small town, so there's like two barbers.  Oh, man. I wanted to let him do me like that, and the other one was just too busy. So I started lining myself up with some rusty clippers my cousin gave me, and then I started cutting cats on the team, then kind of started growing from there, then came back to Atlanta, started counting in Atlanta, and it was like I was at Georgia Preliminary, I was at the 13th grade, as we all know, GPC, Shots of the Georgia Preliminary College, you know what I'm saying?


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I really hate how the Sony's don't have flip-out screen, so I really can never tell if I'm in frame or in focus All right much better what's happening guys So as February comes to an end I thought I'd do a quick video on my February favorites of the different products that I've really been using this month And just show the new things that I bought that have really helped me in my college daily life So all right so first and by far my favorite product probably of the year I carry this thing with me every single day. I kid you not that is our My AirPods Oh crap they're not even in here That could have been bad These are literally in my ears all the time Whether I'm walking to class, whether I'm studying, whether I'm editing a video These have come in handy so much and they're so convenient The fact that they fit in this case just fit in your pocket is so seamless They integrate so well with all my Apple devices and I don't have enough good words for the Apple AirPods They're comfortable, they hardly ever fall out of my ear And the sound quality is just incredible for the tiny size that they are I did a whole unboxing and review that I'll link down below But if you guys haven't gotten on the AirPods yet, highly recommend it Because once you have a pair you'll never go back I hate using wired headphones now because Bluetooth just makes so much easier And the fact that it seamlessly connects every time you pop this open It automatically connects with your iPhone or iPad or Mac It just makes life so much easier The Siri function works really well Siri, play music And it's already playing And then you take it out and it automatically pauses the music The only thing is you have to remember to put it back in the case Or else you have a really high chance of losing them Cool feature though, they have Find My AirPods on Find My iPhone app Which is a huge bonus, they play this ringing sound out of the AirPods So that you can find it if you ever lose them Really great feature, kudos to Apple My only complaint and wish for the AirPods 2.0 Is if they made like the slide features to change the volume Or something that can change the tracks without having to pull out my phone But a workaround that I found that works pretty well And I use it pretty often is using your Apple Watch If you have one to change the volume and then to change the tracks Because when you start playing music it'll pop up here as well So you can easily change tracks, change volume, anything like that Alright, so number two is this Cove Commuter speaker I bought this from a channel called Teaching Benz Fashion When they had a promo code for it Since I got it, it's been my favorite Bluetooth speaker I know Bose has a lot, I know a lot of different companies Will make portable Bluetooth speakers But to be honest this has probably the best bang for your buck It's got a lot of different settings You have indoor mode and outdoor mode So the bass will change depending on what setting it's on You can control the volume with this dial Which works pretty well actually And then this you can use to skip tracks Which is something that not a lot of speakers have built into it It's also very portable, it's waterproof Meaning that you can bring this to the beach, you can bring this to the lake And it should be fine You have Siri paired with it And overall it's just been a great speaker to bring to any types of events Especially in college where you don't want to bring it around Like a subwoofer or like a huge Harman Kardon speaker I leave this in my dorm room so that we have good speakers Set up already, but then if I'm on the go I always bring this Just because it's super portable and really easy to use Okay, my third favorite is this Sony RX100 Mark IV I purposely didn't get the Mark V just because I didn't think there were enough features That justified the cost difference But the Mark IV has worked perfectly fine And it's a really great vlogging camera For anyone who's really trying to get in this field Then I can't recommend a camera more than this one Over the Canon G7X Just because I think there's better video qualities on Sony Although the Canon autofocus may be a little bit better In my opinion I think that this is a little bit more compact And Sony's just really been killing the game in their video market I haven't had too much time to go into all of the details Just because I've been using this for running gun vlogging I've shot like my past two or three vlogs on this And they've all turned out fine My only complaint is that the lighting and the exposure sometimes doesn't adjust properly So that can be kind of a pain But the slow motion works really well It looks just as great as my Sony a7s that I'm filming on And the best thing about it is that it's so portable It literally just fits right in my pocket Anywhere I go I bring it to my classes So I don't have to lug around a huge setup to vlog with And to be honest it just has so many of the same qualities And does 120 frames per second slow motion Which is better than my 2,000 dollar camera right here So it's been a great investment I bought it used on eBay for around $650 But I don't regret it at all And if you're really trying to look for a next level vlogging camera But don't want to invest in a DSLR This is the way to go Alright so next up are these Chelsea boots I just got these in the mail a few days ago I haven't had too much time to wear them on any outfits or anything But just look at them This brown leather color is beautiful I've really been looking for a pair of Chelsea boots for a while now And when I saw this on New Republic by Mark McNary I'll link it down below I knew I had to cop it They feel pretty comfortable They're about $100 But they're the perfect boots for a lot of different outfits And overall it seems to be a really popular trend right now So before it gets too hot where you can't wear boots I definitely recommend picking up a pair If you don't like Chelsea boots I also have a pair of chucka boots Those look great with a lot of outfits Especially like jeans Alright and finally is this Levi's denim jacket You guys have seen me wear this in a ton of my vlogs And that's just because I love this thing Not only is it super warm but it's super fashionable It's totally been the trend this winter And I've seen a lot of people starting to pop up with it around campus This is the Levi's brand I bought it on Black Friday But it has this fur and lining Which is so soft And it just looks great with every outfit You pair this with a pair of black jeans And those Chelsea boots that I was talking about You have a fire outfit No one will even be on the same level of a fashion cloud That you have with this bad boy


Ranger Bill, warrior of the woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, showing rare courage in the face of disaster, in the air, on horseback, or in a screaming squad car. Ranger Bill, his mind alert, a ready smile, unswerving, loyal to his mission, and all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done. Oh, you're here, so it's no good trying to hide. Walterson! Who's calling? I'm all hearing bad. You know right well who it is that's calling. Can I do for you? What can you do for me?  You've settled down a bit, old manly. I'm not sure I like the insinuation. I haven't pulled anything underhanded. What do you call stealing one of my biggest customers right out from behind me back? Oh, so that's it. That's it, all right. Oh, manly, there wasn't a thing crooked about my convincing downwell contractors to buy their lumber from me. I was able to give them a better deal than you, that's all. You wouldn't have been able to if I'd known you were going to try. Sometimes it just isn't good business to let your competitor in on what you're planning. You want to know that, old manly? You're a business man. There was a time when I didn't have to worry about fancy deals and the like. There was a time when Nutty Pine was too small to keep two lumber yards in business. Well, times have changed. And so have the business tactics. Now listen, old manly. I'm a busy man, and I haven't got time to listen to your wounded pride. If you want to make any formal accusations, take them over to the sheriff's office. If not, well, I suggest you get back to your own lumber yard. All right, I'll go. But you listen to me, Waltison. I'm tired of listening to you. That does it. Waltison, I'm warning you. If you so much as look at even one other customer of mine, you'll regret the day you ever started here in Nutty Pine. Is that a threat, old manly? That's a threat, sure enough. Your up-to-date methods of swiping what belongs to me... Now you listen to me and listen good. I'm not looking for any trouble with you or anyone else.  Truth hurts, does it? Get moving, old manly. Go back to your own lumber yard and whittle. I'll go. But don't forget what I said, Waltison. If you go near even one more of my customers with your better deals, you will be sorry you ever started in Nutty Pine. That's a threat and a promise. I'm glad that you said that again, old manly. Good and loud like that. What? I think it might help for me to have a witness to that threat. And you just made sure I did. A very good witness. What are you talking about? He's talking about me, old manly. And I am sorry to say I heard the whole thing. I hope you remember what you heard, officer. I may need your word one of these days. Tim, old manly, what's the meaning of words like I heard you speaking just now? You don't understand the whole circumstance, Pat. I have a good reason for the noise I'm making. A good legal reason, Tim? That's a good question. Well, I gotta get back to work. Maybe old manly here can afford to leave his yard once in a while, but I can't. I'll top of the morning, then. That man is the most excess- Oh, Tim, what kind of talk is that? Well, he is. Well, everyone feels like that about a competitor once in a while, to me friend. I'm sure whatever he did was more than enough to rail you in a professional sort of way. But I don't think that threat was very professional. I was just trying to scare him, that's all. He knows better than that. The most you've done is amuse him. Hey, I suppose so. Oh, Pat, my old friend, whatever happened to the old nutty pine? The nice, small town that I moved into and started up my lumberyard in years ago. Come on, Tim, let's have a cup of tea down at the Conor restaurant. Life was so simple, then. These three Irish men were riding along through town, and one said it's windy. Uh-huh. And the second one said, no, it ain't. It's Thursday. And what did the third one say, Stumpy? Well, he said, I'm Thursday too. Let's stop for a cup of tea. Oh, Rourke, I didn't see you come in. You were too busy telling that joke, Stumpy. Afternoon, gentlemen. How are you, Pat? Oh, fine, really, thank you. Stumpy, it's funny you should be telling that story when I came in. Oh, why is that? Well, it just so happens that this morning, at least two Irish men had tea together. That's oh! I am your old friend Tim O'Malley and myself. Well, we haven't seen Tim for some time, Pat. Nor have I, before the Smarlin. It's nice that two old friends like yourselves can get together once in a while for some hot tea and warm conversation. Warm, it was, Bill. As a matter of fact, O'Malley was closer to Steaman than the tea. Oh, what was wrong? It seems that that new lumberyard in town is giving him a bit of competition. Carl Walterson's yard? That's the one. Oh, you were just going by there this morning, O'Malley Beach, when Tim comes roaring out of Walterson's office, breathing fire. I guess this sort of thing is bound to happen. The bigger naughty pine gets, the bigger its problems get. Up until Carl opened his yard, Tim had it pretty easy. He sure is having trouble making the adjustment to competition. You do it, though! I've known Tim as long as anyone. He may be a little quick tempered, but he's all right. I hope you're all right, Stoneman. Oh, hey, now! We didn't hear you come in, Carl. That's what comes of leaving your front door open. Just about anyone can walk right into this ranger station. Well, what can we do for you? Pull up a chair. Well, I can't stay that long. Actually, I just wanted to talk to you about that incident this morning, but I see Pad here has already filled you in on the whole thing. I don't think there's anything to worry about, Carl. You don't think he meant anything by the threat? Threat? Oh, I was just getting to that part. He told me that if I even smiled at any of his accounts, I'd regret the day I ever opened in competition with him. Perhaps I should add that later on in the morning, he told me he was ashamed of making himself such a disgraceful statement. Oh, he said it twice. You heard it one of the times. That sure doesn't sound like old Tim. He did seem a little more put out than usual, but I still don't think there's anything to worry about. What do you say, Bill? I think we'd just better let the whole thing drop, Carl. If Tim was sorry for the way he acted so soon after it happened, we can be pretty sure that it was a flare of the moment and nothing more. I hate to seem like the villain here. Oh, you don't, Carl. If you say it's all right, I guess I'll take your word. Oh, Tim's all right, Mr. Wallace. He just got a hot temper. That's Irish in him. Hey, that's what's in him all right. But he's got something else in him that's just as Irish. And that's why I wouldn't worry. What's that? A warm heart. Seems to me if the Rangers think Mr. O'Malley's all right, he's all right. Well, that's what they said, anyhow. Oh, I think you're all making too much of this whole thing. Obviously, Mr. O'Malley was upset when you took over the Bromwell account. Who wouldn't be?  Oh, he did that all right. Well, dear, it's all over now. Officer O'Rourke and Bill Jefferson and Stumpy Jenkins, I'll say there isn't any more to it. So I don't think we even ought to mention it again. Yeah, I say let's forget the whole thing. I play with Timmy O'Malley, Mr. O'Malley's his grandfather. I play with him at school and he always says how swell his grandpa is. You're all right, of course. I shouldn't carry this any farther. It's just that I've worked too hard to get started around here to be called a crook and threatened. Oh, it's all over now, Carl. Mr. O'Malley will no doubt come by tomorrow to apologize. More coffee, dear? I believe I will. Here, I have an excuse from the table, please. Are you all through? Yes, I'm... All right. Thank you. There you are, dear. Thanks. Dad? Yes, son? I haven't completely finished making that doghouse for Skipper yet, and I was wondering if... No, sorry, son, not tonight. It's been a pretty rugged day, and I just couldn't face that lumberyard again tonight. Oh, is all your homework done, Tommy? Well, sure, Mom. I finished it this afternoon because I thought that tonight maybe we could... Never mind. Oh, that's a shame. Maybe I'll go over to Ronnie's house. See what he's doing. Tommy? Yeah, Dad? I don't know why I never thought of this before. How'd you like to go over to the yard yourself and work on the doghouse? You mean it? Carl, do you think it's all right? Sure. It's all well-lighted streets between here and there. There won't be any trouble, I'm sure. But just be sure to lock the place after you're through. Uh-huh. Well, I think you ought to call us when to get there, Tommy. And again just before you leave to come home. Oh, Mom. Well, that's a good idea, son. Just to be on the safe side. Okay. Boy, it would be great to go there all by myself. Here are the keys, Tommy. Now take care. Uh-huh. Uh, which one is the key for the front door? The golden one with the round head. Be good now. Come home early. I will. Boy, thanks. Oh, Patrick. Oh, yes, a little better. I'm not at all happy with myself the way I acted this morning. Oh, what's that? Well, no, that's a nice, it's nice of you to ask, but well, I'm afraid I don't feel much like it tonight. I know, I know. Yes, it has been a long time since we sat down to a good game of checkers. But not tonight, my old friend. Oh, I was thinking about taking a little walk later. Sometimes that can pick a man's spirits up a bit. Well, thanks again, Pat. Yeah, yes, yes, do call again. Good night. Boy, it sure is swell, Dad. Let me come over to the lumber yard along. I guess he knows I can take care of myself. Oh, almost didn't see him. Maybe I'd better pay attention to what I'm doing. Hey, look at all those sparks coming from that new factory over there. They must be burning something big for them to be coming over the chimney like that. Well, can't stand here all night. I got to find Dad's key and get into the lumber yard. I got a dog-hosted bill. It is too bad, Tim. Couldn't join us tonight, Pat. Would have been good to see him again. Oh, well, I guess the day was a bit too hard on the poor fella. He said something about going for a walk this evening. Well, I hope he's all right. Oops. Sounds like someone's been playing with matches. That sure does. Where do you suppose it is? I don't know, but we'd better find out. I am on call to run apart those things this month for the traffic in the lake, you know. May I use the phone, Bill? Sure, Pat. Go right in. Thanks. Oh, Sam? Oh, this is a rook. Where's the fire? What? You sure? Of course you are. Of course you are. Uh-huh. No. No. It's nothing. I'll be there in a double. I can't believe it. I'm sure you wouldn't do a thing like that. That's the trouble, Pat. Is there anything wrong? I don't know. That fire has burned up Carl Waterston's laundry yard. And you think? I don't know what to think. Come on, fellas. Let's get over there. You can say that again, old timer. Look, there's Carl and his wife over there. Yep, there she is. Derived, why? My boy, Tom. He came here tonight by himself to work on a house dog for his dog Skipper. Sorry, Mrs. Waterston, I haven't. Hey, look over there, quick, Carl. It's not a boy up there. He's on the second floor. What's he doing up there? Probably ran up there to get away from the flames. Oh, Sam, somebody get him out of there. It's possible to get there now, ladies. The whole place is going up. Bill, what are you doing? I'm going over there to those hoses that soaked myself in this handkerchief with water. Then I'll cover my face with it and go in after Tommy. Bill, isn't there any other way? That burning porch below the window stops the possibility of a net or a ladder. The only way to get him is for someone to go in after him. But you might be killed. That's the town's art of the church. See you later. Hey! In forest fires, the world hotter than this. Hope I don't dry out too much before I can... Ah, there's the staircase. I can just get across this blazing room and up those stairs. I might be in business. That whole staircase collapsed. Them and swing over onto the floor. Don't think so, Tommy. Here.  It'll protect you from the smoke and heat. But what do you use? Never mind. Just do as I say. Okay, but... Now, climb on my back. We're getting out of here just as fast as we can. As in we're leaving in a hurry. If we don't go right now, there won't be any floor left to stand on. Okay, Ranger Bill. I'm up on your back. Plenty scary. That makes two of us, Tommy. Do you think we'll make it, Ranger Bill? How can I answer that? Braveest things I've ever seen. Wait till I tell you how I... I know someone else who things don't look so good for. Who's that? The man who set this fire. Tim O'Malley. It looks even worse by daylight. The whole place, a lot of time and effort. Gone up in smoke. I know, dear, but it could be worse. Tommy and Bill are okay. And while the firemen were able to save a lot of the lumber, and the insurance will pay for the greater part of the law. I know you're trying to be cheerful, Irma. I appreciate it. But the insurance can't build a new building as fast as the fire destroyed it. Not even with the lumber they were able to save. I know what you mean. Is it happened to me? You! What are you doing here? Why? Why, I... Come back to see your handwork, eh, O'Malley? What are you talking about?  There's some practical rorg. And if he does what I think he'll do, no explanation will be necessary. Pat, what's he talking about? I can't tell you how much this hurts me, Tim, but I have a warrant for your arrest. What? And what charge? Arson, the burden of Mr. Watterson's yard, and a great deal of his lumber stock. Come on, let's go. See you in court, O'Malley. Mr. Waltherson, if you persist in disturbing this hearing, I shall have to ask you to leave. I am to keep this on a quiet basis. Sorry, Judge, but you can understand how I feel. My boy was almost killed. I'm well aware of the circumstances. I'm also well aware of the facts. Then so far we have no more than circumstantial evidence that Tim O'Malley was even involved. Lots of men argue and threaten each other. Lots of men go for walks alone when they've had an upsetting day. But how many of these men do things with such good timing? The fire on the same day is a threat, and it started at the same time he was on this so-called walk. That's exactly why we're here to decide. Just whether or not Tim O'Malley actually started the fire. Well, I think it's obvious. Your Honor, may I make a suggestion? Well, of course, Bill. How are you feeling? Better, thanks.  Yes, that's right. But I think we've pretty well established that he didn't start the fire. That's right. But I think he might be even more helped than we've thought thus far. You want to ask him a few questions? Is that it? Yes, with your permission. Go right ahead. I don't know what good any of this is. I'm just trying to find out how that fire started. I know how that fire started. If you want to ask someone who was there when it started and can tell you all about it, why not ask Tim O'Malley? Now, Mr. Walterson, I'm not going to ask you again. I really don't need you at this hearing, and I'm beginning to think we'd get along much better without you. I'm sorry, Your Honor. I'll sit down. That's better. Now, Bill, you are going to ask Tommy a few more questions. Thank you, Your Honor. Tommy, you can help us out a lot by trying to remember a few things. Anything you say, Ranger Bill. Boy, after the way you came raining for me and almost burned your hands off. I want you to try to remember everything that happened when you arrived at your father's lumberyard the other night. Will you do that? I'll try. Good boy. Now, just what happened? Well, boy, it's hard to remember. But you know that new factory down the street a little ways from the lumberyard? Yes. Well, they must have been burning something awful big, because sparks were flying out of the chimney and going all over. I know that factory, Bill. The fire inspector requested, oh, must have been about a week ago, court order demanding certain safety precautions having to do with fire. I think one of them was a screen attachment for the chimney. Your Honor, I have to check a couple of things right away concerning this business. May I request a recess while I make a few calls? Longer than that, if you want. Why don't we all get some lunch? This hearing will reconvene at two o'clock. This hearing will resume. Bill, what did you find out? Enough to safely state that Tim O'Malley had nothing to do with the fire. Is that so? I suppose you're going to tell me that a little spark from that factory came all the way down the street and burned that whole big building. That's exactly what I'm going to tell you, Carl. I found out that the screen extension has not as yet been placed on the factory's chimney. I also found out that the wind on the night of the fire was from the northeast. The direction it would have to come from to blow the sparks to your lumber yard. Circumstantial, just as circumstantial as the evidence we have that O'Malley did it. That's right. But the inspector sent for the insurance company and they've completed their report. They have found ashes that are not from your fire in the ruins. Now how could they tell that? They have the technical know-how, Carl. They've also placed the origin of the fire at a spot on the roof of your building. I'm afraid no one could have climbed up there and down again as quickly as needed and not been seen by Tom. He didn't do it, huh? I'm afraid not. I guess I owe him an apology. I think you both might have learned a lesson from all of this. Maybe so. We both called each other crooks. And neither one of you were. A judge, I... I guess you'd better let Tim O'Malley go. You want to be there when we release him? Maybe I'd better. Thanks, Bill.  And a lot of hot arguments, as well as fires, might never happen if the right safety measures are taken ahead of time. Well, see you next week for more adventure with... RANGER!


Welcome to the wide world of e-sports, a show devoted to all things e-sports. I'm your host, Katharine Norr. Today our topic is e-sports risk management, keeping your event safe. With me is Angela Hazlett, my partner in Norr Sports Risk Management and the host of the sports playbook. Welcome, Angela. Kathie, I am so excited to join you and talk about a subject I know we're both passionate about, which is risk management, such an important topic. Thank you for having me join your show. All right, every event director should pay attention to this. I hope that if you put on events that you will pay close attention to this show and adhere to what we tell you about. And this is only a half hour show, so there's a lot more to learn about. And I actually published a textbook called Managing Risk and Sport and Recreation, the Essential Guide to Lost Prevention. Unfortunately, it was published before I got involved in e-sports and probably before the word e-sports was even used. But anyway, we're going to go through a number of risks and talk about them. And we're going to start with kind of the most important one when I think about an electronic sports event. And that is power outage. Excellent. I'm so glad you brought that up because of all the events and tournaments that can happen, power is very critical for e-sports and very essential. I think we can break this down into really two different fronts. There's two concerns that could occur. Something that is facility or system-wide where the entire event has lost power. The entire facility has lost power. And that makes it really challenging because it might be something that has to do with a problem with the facility itself or external. Like maybe the power went out because of a storm outside. And this is very challenging because you're going to have to think about either delaying an event, rescheduling, canceling, having a backup location and an alternative plan. You could have a generator to at least get some lights on, but that's probably not going to solve a problem if you need an internet connection. So that can be a major issue. And speaking of kind of the system-wide, facility-wide disruptions, having some kind of wired ethernet connection to avoid any kind of Wi-Fi disruptions, that would be a preferable approach as well. But then we can flip and look at the more of a smaller scale power disruption where a particular console or a panel of consoles might go down. And this is something that you can plan for and be prepared. So have extra stations. Have backup gaming devices at power strip outlets, extension cords, LED screens if you're having this being watched by a live audience. Having someone there who their responsibility is to correct any of these problems if they do occur. Because we're talking about the need for a lot of power to power all these devices. And it's possible that you may lose power to the equipment. And that would be a critical problem in eSports. You know, Angela, what's interesting to me is that back in the day, we always had to make sure we had flashlights and lanterns. But now everyone has an iPhone and they have a flashlight on their phone or they have another type of phone.  That's a great point. They can help you provide some temporary lighting to at least evacuate the facility, evacuate the location. Sure, because, you know, there could be a need to evacuate because if you lose power and you lose the internet and you can no longer hold the event and you have a large event, for example, you may need to orderly get everyone to orderly leave the facility. So part of your risk management plan will have to be evacuating people in the event that there is a power outage and you don't want to have people trampling each other. So, you know, that everyone has their phone light on. You have your exit signs in compliance with fire codes. And people can be led out in an orderly fashion. So you probably want to tell people about how to do that. Yes, absolutely. Great. That's a great point. We need to have a communication plan, what the message is going to be. And your staff that are helping support the event or volunteers that are there, they need to know what that plan is as well and how to communicate that in a reasonable fashion. We don't want to induce panic, often a power outage is in a panic type situation. But we do want people to safely get to a well lit location. And we'll talk a little bit more about how you evacuate when we're talking about fire. That's our next topic. Absolutely. And fire is a reason why people may need to evacuate more quickly than just having a simple power outage. But protecting people is the number one priority and should be the number one goal and focus. So getting people out in a safe orderly fashion, having a great communication plan, informing the fire department that your event is happening or knowing what the fire plan is for that facility can be very important having that conversation. And where the nearest exit routes are located. If one exit is blocked, how do you get people out in a safe and efficient manner? And then we have to think about protecting property too. There's a lot of expensive equipment that goes into hosting an eSports tournament. And you have to think about that money that is in the facility as well. There might be merchandise or other equipment there. So to try to protect that, that should be a secondary focus to try and preserve property as best as possible. The last piece really thinking about with fire is looking at business continuity. How do we keep our business going? How do we keep our operations going? How do we maybe finish the event or conclude the event in a reasonable fashion? Those are also things to think about. Kevin, what do you think about that? Okay, so one thing that most commercial facilities have are fire protection systems, which includes sprinklers. And sprinklers cause water damage. So we're not only talking about fire damage, but we're also, when we talk about fire, we're also talking about water damage. Because even if you didn't have a fire protection system, which was sprinklers, you would have firefighters that might spray water into the facility. And you know what's interesting to me is I think about, when I think about protecting property, I think about everyone grabbing the hardware.  So usually you just need to protect yourself and get out of there. And so perhaps announcements should say, leave your computer behind, just come evacuated. Yeah, absolutely. And that could cause quite frankly a trip hazard if there's plugs that are being kind of pulled and, you know, there's concrete, a trip hazard can create a problem in evacuating. Hopefully all the equipment is insured. So getting people out and getting people out safely should be the priority. And the equipment is replaceable, right? So that should be a secondary priority. Sure, absolutely. Now we'll move on to weather risks. Okay, so if you turn on the news, if you're not watching about Ukraine right now, you're watching about a tornado that has been wreaking havoc in Texas and other states. So one weather risk of concern is tornado, hurricanes, heavy rains, flooding, earthquakes, tsunami, heat, snow, ice, it really depends on your location. And unfortunately, you know, there are certain areas of the country and of the world that experience, you know, they have a high risk of some of these. And in Hawaii, we have hurricane risk, tsunami risk, earthquake risk and heat. And in other places, snow and ice are an issue, heavy rains, flooding, another issue that we have here, but everywhere has their own risk. And any event organizer should look at, assess those risks and be aware of what risks could occur. And they should look at the impact on attendance, whether attendees can safely attend the event. I mean, can they drive there? Are they going to be able to do so safely? Maybe the weather event is not expected until during your event or not expected until they're driving home from the event. All of those need to be considered. Can they access the venue? And then we talked about power outage. With a lot of these weather events, there's a risk of power outage. So you add another component to it. And you have that risk of people, property and business. So you should be aware of weather forecast by paying attention. And even if your event is inside, don't think that the fact that there's going to be lightning might possibly impact your event. Or don't think that the possibility that there's heavy rain or snow might impact your event. You may need to provide appropriate warnings to attendees about that. And you might need to warn them of any possible challenges like ice and snow. So you'll need to take action to make your event safe in light of the weather issues. You may need to be putting up warning cones because there's water that accumulates that could cause slip and falls. There could be issues of parking lot safety. You may have to clear paths of snow and ice. You also have to be willing to cancel an event or postpone an event in light of severe weather. And you should have an emergency plan in place in case there's a weather issue during your event. You might have to make decisions about whether to evacuate or shelter in place. If you shelter in place, you may have to have provisions for those people sheltering. So any thoughts on that, Angela? I think you covered a wide range of recommendations. I would add that if it's possible to adjust the time of your event, the start or the finish, then that's also maybe a good choice as well. Sometimes rescheduling for another day might cause a significant disruption. But an adjustment by an hour or two really can make a big difference where weather won't disrupt your event. And going back to the power outage piece, you certainly don't want weather adversely impacting your ability to access power for your event. Sure. And we mentioned that parking lot and that's a good segue into human actions. Absolutely. So there are so many things and so many ways that human behavior impacts the events and creates risk. And sometimes it's intentional. Sometimes it's unintentional behavior. But I think we should talk about violence because violence is an issue. Specifically, there's an incident that happened involving an active shooter at an eSports competition in an event in Jacksonville, Florida in 2018 where a gunman came to an eSports competition that was held at a riverfront pizzeria restaurant. There were professional competitors competing for prizes in this online streamed event. It was a regional qualifier for an event in Las Vegas. So basically an active shooter opened fire, killed two competitors, nine others suffered from gunshot wounds and two more were injured fleeing the area. So this active shooter situation has unfortunately extended into the eSports gaming community. So Electronic Arts was basically issued a statement in response to the shooting and they are the software publisher who behind the Madden football video game series, they were sponsoring the games competitive circuit. They canceled the remaining qualifying tournaments and their CEO basically said that they would run a comprehensive review of safety protocols for competitors and spectators. Look for a consistent level of security being provided at all of their competitive gaming events. And I think that's an important lesson for all events to carry forward in thinking about active shooters as a possibility, especially since the gamers, they're focused on their devices, their consoles and they're looking at their computer screens and everybody's focused on that. They're not focused on who else is in the room and what else the other people are doing in that space. So someone else should be kind of monitoring that situation. For the larger events, I think you certainly want to think about providing some kind of security. You may even want to do some kind of screening like metal detector screening as people are entering the venue, particularly spectators that don't have a reason to necessarily bring in anything in their devices. But providing that kind of security and protocols would go a long way. But the other area we should be thinking about is fighting. I know a lot of trash talking is really popular in esports, but fighting is a very real outcome between competitors, between fans. And I know bad behavior really violates esports code of conduct and most platforms, community rules. But that is a reality of the situation that this is an issue we have to be mindful of. And a lot of these events can be intimate where people are in close proximity to one another. Emotions are intense and some of these events are larger scale. So providing venue security, and that could even extend into the parking lot as well. So having those protocols in place. Katherine, is there anything you wanted to add about the violence aspect of human actions? Now, fortunately, esports doesn't really have the culture of people fighting in the arena like in things like soccer. I mean, you see worldwide soccer or football matches where people are fighting. They set fire to the stands. They run onto the field and all this stuff. We haven't really seen that yet with esports, but esports is pretty young. And as people become more passionate about their teams, then it's possible that there those kind of things should happen. But when you're developing your risk management plan, it's always a good idea to consider the possibility. So at least you've thought about what you're going to do in that situation. Exactly. That's exactly right. We should always be looking to what's happening at other events and other venues locally, nationally, internationally, and we should be using them as a model to kind of inform our best practices for risk management strategies and decisions. The other aspect of human behavior that should be considered are accidents. These are not intentional. People trip and fall injuries. These are things to think about. And then one other aspect, so basically your design of where you place equipment, how you do the layout of the facility distancing between people, things like that can be helpful to mitigate any kind of trip and fall injuries. But we have to also think about the gamers are really spending a lot of time on their devices and they are often maybe subject to kind of carpal tunnel syndrome, repetitive strain injury, back pains. So elite players spend a lot of time and in particular seated positions. And so on their devices also something else that's really interesting and unique to eSports that competitors that when they're in really an intense play can actually suffer collapsed lungs from holding their breath during really intense moments of play. So maybe the warning to players remember to breathe, maybe pay attention to make sure they're putting oxygen back into their body. So just kind of reminders that they need to breathe then don't hold their breath, but also providing good ergonomic setups for when they're sitting in their chairs and playing eSports. That's a really important piece as well. So that's something to consider. And then of course the amount of screen time, right? So how much screen time there's the fatigue that can happen with being in front of a screen for a long period of time. So really thinking through that kind of ergonomic piece I think is very helpful. Yeah, the human actions piece is really big here at how so many components and you know it's funny because not really funny but it's interesting that for a lot of events there would be an ambulance on scene. However, a lot of sporting events you wouldn't have that in eSports. So you don't, you have to, you would actually have to make that decision to call 911 if you have you know someone collapse or something like that. And you know because it isn't that common there would probably be you know more of a lag time of making that decision I would think. So it's something to think about. So the next topic is theft and tampering. And you know clearly you know there's a concern about theft of equipment, tampering. You might want to put serial numbers on the equipment. You might want to photograph and catalog them. You may need to do that for your property insurance anyway. And you may you know you may consider security in events because not only you need security for your event if it's a large event for you know to deal with these kind of issues that we've just addressed, but also security in terms of you know equipment that you have expensive equipment there. And you may want to have security cameras as well. One thing important with the theft and tampering piece is a culture of honesty and integrity having rules and enforcement of rules. There is a concern about content and streaming piracy. That isn't as I mean that's certainly something that can occur in events, but that's a really big issue if you're a publisher. And you know in terms of time I think I'm going to skip that and move on to cyber attacks and talk a little bit more about cyber attacks because cyber attacks are super a big concern if you have an event. I mean hackers are looking to profit from eSports. They'll target vulnerable players. They'll push targeted malware. They'll launch DDoS attacks or distributed and denial of service attacks against tournaments and a lot more. So and you know right now we have a big concern about cyber attacks because of the war in Ukraine and you know famously the Russians have threatened cyber attacks and so that's something that has to be you know we have to be concerned about. And then you know that goes along with well one thing that I'll talk about a little bit later when we talk about insurance is cyber insurance and the need. But I happened to watch a cyber insurance webinar this morning and it did occur to me that when you get a cyber insurance policy that they do have a lot of requirements before you can get that policy and those requirements are pretty much risk management requirements. And so frankly I think your cyber insurer can provide a lot of risk management guidelines to you in terms of how you should address that. OK. And then moving on to war and terrorism. OK. As as I mentioned with the Ukraine Russia war right now war and terrorism is at the top of our minds and these things have to be paid attention to. And right now for the United States the issue is more the cyber security piece. However if you're in Poland if you're in a NATO country if you're in even a you know a country that might be non NATO NATO but be close to the action you know you have to be concerned about these kind of threats. So you know that's something that you pay attention to. And you know a lot of insurance policies have exclusions for war and terrorism. So you do want to know what your policy covers. And now let's move on to COVID-19 something that we want to be over with. Yeah I think I think most of us probably know the best practices for COVID-19 but just kind of think about how do you best prepare for situations where you want to avoid people getting sick. Monitor the circumstances monitor the situation you may have to make changes pivot and then just be diligent in enforcing those procedures maybe distancing between consoles between players hand sanitizer testing just be flexible think about how you can pivot in that situation. And then I would sort of go into the social distancing aspect you know maybe is it reasonable to have a facility where so the next slide here he talks about the social distancing piece like should we keep people separated should we have them close together maybe if they're not facing each other maybe it's okay to have them seated next to each other but not across from one another. And that kind of leads me into the transportation piece because people need to come to these events right and go home from these events some people are traveling as teams recently there was a golf team that was traveling and unfortunately the coach and the golfers were killed in a car accident and this just really reminds us that it's important to think about transportation and how that can be a risk particularly if a coach is driving an entire team so should entire teams travel together can you get a third party contractor like a bus with a dedicated dry professional driver you know that will shift some liability with your organization and then the coach can really work on being responsible for those in the bus and maybe keeping them from distracting the driver in that environment. And if people are going to be transporting other teammates or family you know if parents and friends are driving other teammates you know maybe you want policies procedures releases and permissions for them to be driven by other people as well that could be something to consider as well. Speaking about releases let's look at liability waiver okay so I'm sure many of you have signed a liability waiver it serves as a defense to a lawsuit it doesn't mean that if you signed one that or if you have people sign it if you're an event organizer that it won't make it so you're not sued it just means that that you might be able to get out of the lawsuit by filing a motion for a summary judgment and having it dismissed. Liability waivers have to comply with local laws of your jurisdiction or the jurisdiction where the event is held or whatever jurisdiction is selected so you can't just pick a liability waiver off of the internet I draft them all the time for people and you know it depends on their their particular jurisdiction what the laws are okay and can we show that slide again please. And so you want to make sure it's clearly worded and unambiguous and by signing basically the participant is assuming the risk okay. Yeah and I think it's interesting to go back to the active shooter that happened in Jacksonville Florida and that event was was it didn't have they didn't have a permit to actually operate that type of event in that facility so you know when you're talking about a waiver or even when we're talking about insurance if you're not actually following the local rules and you're holding an event that doesn't have the proper permits that could be a problem so that's not necessarily going to save you if you aren't following the rules of the local jurisdiction. Absolutely and you know I will point out that electronically signed waivers are legally enforceable um and that seems to be a common way now let's move up to the insurance piece um and show that okay so when we keep talking about insurance insurance is basically risk financing it's transferring the risk the financial risk to another company which is the insurer and you'll want to buy general liability insurance property insurance cyber security insurance and there may be other insurance you know packages you might want to get you need to talk to a broker a professional to advise you on that. Anyway it was fantastic discussing with this with you Angela. Yeah absolutely Catherine I've really enjoyed it and there is this one more piece that I want to impart on the audience is that these video games do have copyright protection and you do have to have permission to actually use those in public tournaments so that's another way to avoid some risk but thank you for allowing me to be part of this conversation and I hope everyone can avoid having these challenges at their venues and during their competitions. All right fantastic and you can find us at norsports.com and um you know contact us if you have any questions regarding sports risk management or e-sports risk management and thank you to our viewers for joining us today next week my guest will be Ryan Sia to talk about rake tectonic pro the world's first force pad and keyboard set see you then. 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Kiyot has a question about organizing content. Now this is actually something that I teach in my content flow course, but I'm just going to show you on screen a little bit what I do and if you're interested, you could take the full course on or just borrow some of my ideas here. Basically, and you don't have to use every column just like you could see what I do. I don't really use every column, but I put it in a spreadsheet, including some cussing and the title of the blog post. In terms of the topics, let me show you what I do. This is all stats, stats and things like that, but in terms of the organizing by topics, here's what I do for that. So I basically put each topic as a separate column and I name that column and then I do fancy color coding so that conditional formatting, if the cell is not empty, then it shows up as that color. If the cell is not empty, it shows up as a different color. So anyway, so I do conditional formatting so it kind of looks pretty, but if I... And one and two simply means, one means, oh, it's definitely about that topic and two means that, yeah, it's related but not direct. So think about how you might organize your columns, your topics and then do it that way. And the nice thing about doing in the spreadsheet is that if I say, oh, I'm gonna write a book about joyful productivity, I can simply sort the whole column by A to Z and now I can see, yay, here are all of my direct posts about joyful productivity and I can basically put the book together but just now I have my book, right? I just put all those blog posts into a single document and I organize them and now I have a book or a course to say, hey, I'm gonna teach a joyful productivity course, no problem. Let me organize this this way and then let me see which topics I'm gonna teach in the course. So I hope this is helpful and if you're for the full spreadsheet and template and how to use it while you can just go to my content flow course georgecow.com slash content or again, you could just basically do something like this yourself using columns and topics. So hope this helps. All right, so Kiarra says, should I connect the topics to the deliverables? Well, Kiarra, you're asking that because I love talking about organizing by deliverables, organizing our content, our information by deliverables. In this case, I am because each of these topics is either a book of mine, I have a book on content marketing, I have a book on joyful productivity, I don't have a book on optimizing offerings but I have a course about it. I have a book on authentic selling, I have a course on healthy money, I have a book on authentic business. So yes, all of these you can see up here are actually deliverables, yeah. So does that make sense? Any other follow-up question? And if you wanna do it even more simply and I talk about this in the course too, I mean, you could literally put together a document. You know, if you don't wanna use a spreadsheet, you could just put together a document and just start saying your major topics. You know, topic A, whatever you name your topics are, topic B, topic C, you start a document and make it headings. I'm using keyboard shortcuts to make headings here. And then you could just over time, you could say simple content tracking, right? And over time, as you write a blog post or make a video, make it a habit to come back to this document of yours and say, oh yes, that topic was under, that blog post was under topic A or no, that blog post was under topic B or something. So that's a simple way of tracking it.


Good morning folks this is Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year 11 am update and currently we have all the US indices that we track along with all the sectors. With inside the S&P 500 trading to the upside. That was up 180 points. It's about a half or percent seven tenths for the S&P or 28 points nine tenths for the Nasdaq 100 110 points and about eight tenths for the Russell. That's 14 points to the upside. You got trannies up 2% some eyes are up one percent or 27 points. Gold's trading up five bucks. Silver's off 19 cents like we crude back 70 pennies. Natural gas is up eight cents to 30 a treasury. Printed out at 124.8 that is up 12 ticks. Let's go try to figure out what all that means out here by taking a look at that nine panel market update chart. We begin in the upper left hand corner. You've got the ES many. You'll see a new profile that is attempting to form. We're using Stevie's advanced dopper tool here. We will not have confirmation of this profile to this evening. But right now it's 11 am. We know our buyers and sellers are lined up. The buyers are down at the thirty nine sixty nine level and the sellers are up at forty fifty eight. If we take a look at spot politics so far it has tested and rejected its 50 day exponential moving average. If you're a bull you want to see more rally than what you really want to see is that spot politics close the day below twenty eighty one. If it doesn't it's always danger to the upside. If we take a look at the NQ out here what it do on Friday it tested support. And that was the bottom of its bullish structured profile. The support range for the NQ is between eleven nine seventy five and twelve oh eighty three. So that level is held. If in fact we get a close above twelve oh eighty three today. We should see a move all the way back up to the top of that profile. And that's at the twelve four oh eight level. Take a look at the US dollar index today will form or should form bar number nine of eighty nine count. That says US dollar index should top between today and tomorrow. A higher high can form tomorrow and still maintain that pattern. Goldilocks on Friday completed eighty nine count bottom. Now if in fact price close below eighteen fifteen fifty on a daily basis it'll negate that signal and suggest lower price that may even say or suggest to us the US dollar index will negate its TD nine count top. One step at a time. Right now what we know is we do have a confirmed bottom inside of Goldilocks as of Friday. If you take a look at silver no confirmed bottom it's trading right now below a swing point from back in November of last year. It really looks like silver wants lower price. We take a look at lights recruit just a consolidation with inside its daily profile that range between eighty I'm sorry seventy four forty and seventy nine twenty four and natural gas. A nice rally but running right into the resistance area of its bearish structured profile. The opposite of what we saw inside the end queue out there but it needs to close up to seventy even Steven to get its mojo to the upside. Folks stay tuned for the Trader Z show but if you have to start your Monday please have a magnificent one and thanks much for joining us. We'll look forward to seeing you again soon. Take care now.