Gentlemen, the President of the United States. How do you do? Please be seated. I'm delighted to welcome you, the businessmen and women of the year, to the White House. Today is part of Minority Development Week. We pay tribute to the minority business owners of our nation, and in a few minutes it will be my great pleasure here to participate in the remainder of the ceremony with regard to them. I know they've, Mac has just presented them to you. Not too long ago, I was asked to explain the difference between a small businessman and a big businessman or woman. And my answer was, well, a big one is what a small one would be if the government would get out of the way and leave them alone. Well, that's what we're trying hard to do and to help you all make it big. And the last thing you need is to climb aboard the economic train and after a long tough fight to buy a ticket and then see the train come to a screeching, grinding halt. Less than four years ago, the heavy freight of double-digit inflation, high taxes, record interest rates and over-regulation had stopped the economic train dead in its tracks. Well, that's all been changed and today a strong and a vibrant America is settling in. Inflation is plummeted by nearly two-thirds and it's staying down. Purchasing power is back in the hands of the consumers and that's great news for America's business community. Productivity is rising and economic growth is solid. And the best news of all is over six million more Americans have jobs than just 21 months ago. Jobs that you are helping provide. But we're far from finished and there's much more that can and must be done. If the dream of America is to be strengthened, we mustn't waste the genius or the one mind or the strength of one body or the spirit of one soul. We must use every capability we have and the surest way to do that is to mobilize the power of private enterprise and let you work your magic. I believe that when it comes to making sure that all Americans from every walk of life, every color, creed and religion have the chance to make it big. And there's no better way than to keep the economy sparkling and the opportunities expanding for you and for all our citizens. We know that given opportunities, minority firms can prevail in fair and open competition.  You're bringing hundreds of thousands of jobs to hardworking Americans, providing innovative products, needed services and ideas and opportunities for the future. The only one thing I want to see is your success grow and your numbers increase. And that's why we'll keep supporting at every level of government a broad range of programs to reach out to disadvantaged sectors of the community. As you know, we'll soon enter the third year of our 10-year program to assist directly in forming 60,000 new minority businesses and to help expand at least 60,000 existing minority firms. The program's on schedule and we're going to keep it that way. We're seeing the same results in our objective to procure some $15 billion in minority business goods and services for the federal government through fiscal year 1985. And what this means is that your firms will receive nearly $3 billion more in federal contracting in three years than was provided in all the 12 years during the last three administrations. Now we're determined to increase opportunities for minority businesses to participate in federal procurement. And I might mention that these figures do not include procurement by recipients of federal grants and cooperative agreements. And that adds an additional $6-7 billion to the total. We want to see your business community continue to grow and grow. We're working hard to be sensitive to your concerns and to build on the beginning that we've made together. And I'm delighted to be able to take part in this celebration today. Minority Enterprise Development Week provides an excellent opportunity to salute some of America's most successful entrepreneurs, the men and women who are the real heroes behind America's success. God bless you for what you're doing and we're going to continue to try and help in any way we can. The business men and women here today represent industries as diverse as steel, automobile and computers. And they're all pioneers in America's continuing frontier of opportunity, the free market system. And now for the most pleasant job that I've had all week and I'm sure happy that it wasn't up to me to pick the winners. As far as I'm concerned, you're all winners and we're very proud of what you're doing. So now I shall step back and we'll proceed with the ceremony for those who've already been named here today and what a pleasure it is to honor them. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. President. First, I would like to take the privilege of announcing the winners from the Minority Business Development Agency, the awards that they're giving out. First, Mr. President is Peggy Shrieve, who is President of the Frontier Engineering Company from Oklahoma. Next, Mr. President, Herman Valentine of Norfolk, Virginia Systems Management American Corporation. And now may I ask Jim Sanders, the head of the Small Business Administration, for his awards, please. Mr. President, it's a great privilege for me to participate with you this morning in honoring these fine people. The first I would like to present to you the Gambo brothers from El Paso, Frank, Albert. These are the winners, Small Business Minority Winners of the Year. And our next Small Business Minority Winner of the Year, Mr. President, is somebody you probably heard of a few years ago. We used to play basketball around Detroit. He turned into a steel all-star now, so Dave Bing, Mr. President. We have done it. All right. Well, again, thank you all for being here. And now, as the little girl in the letter told me one day, now get back to your office and go to work. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. That concludes the ceremonies.


All right, welcome to another animation analysis and today I'm gonna take a look at the new soul trailer that came out actually just this morning Since I was about to record something. I thought let's actually do this So things a couple things that I saw in a trailer were really really cool I'm also a big fan of more simplified characters and The look of that and how they're animated and a couple of visual things in this that are really really cool And it's always great to see and watch things in Slow motion step-by-step seeing the squishiness the squash and stretch All those characters and it's always cool to see Little details, you know, even this is very tiny, but as the body goes in Even the feet have still a little bit of extra animation when it relaxes. I love all that detail stuff there Very cute designs. Love the renders. Love the look of this. I obviously have the lines and the color changes It's very cool And as I recommend to all my students, it's always cool to see in trailers when professional animators animate Just even look at things like blinks And look at frame by frame How is there blink for how long like do you want to be active? So you don't have that much of an ease in when the lids open up and rest there Like just kind of practice and I mean don't put that in your reel But look at that copy that look at your curves and study How this looks when you have a blink where the eyes kind of lead over so they chose to be honest I'm going to look over there Into this clean hand poses. It's just really really interesting to watch And this was interesting too, like I'm always a big fan of having a direction the character That was kind of interesting to see when do they move forward? When do they move back like we look at your overall character movement and what that means So for her if you look at her You can see through all of this she has an overall movement of going forward As you can frame through you can see arms go back, but the body keeps going forward So if you play this in real time Because she's interested she wants to get To know more about this character and then the interest you can show this by leaning forward But also keep going with the moving hold forward as opposed to let's pretend This person is something else and she's not so sure about about this guy She could lean back and have that moving hold going away from this person to get more distance or social Distancing as the new word is here And again different type of blinks. You can look at how slow they are how fast they are I also really like the detail of the lines here, but then how it fades out on the feet It's just interesting different styles where like some parts almost feel 2d Some things are just a bit more Stylized and simple is really cool and then we get back to this role which has really cool renders as always Look at that Ever since look at that get a widescreen format like toy story Interesting lens choices there. It's just very I love renders like this It's just so interesting to see and again as you frame through you can see as the character has the smile and The shoulders go up and arm go up You can see just a little bit of going up in the nostrils and the cheeks Super super detail. It's very cool Nice clean simplified Ham poses we're getting into triangles.  There's still a lot of complexity in there if you look at the mouth just what the corners are doing here See you have a little bit of Inhale you can see how the chest Leads the action. There is a lot of Inhaling there as then the body expands and goes up and it's kind of like the mouth goes a little bit together for the with the inhale but then Goes out and you can see how it just reveals the teeth a bit and you can see that corners There's a little bit of a smile in there. It's watches in real time again Little things it's a small shot, but at the same time got so many little details in there. They're great to observe Love how that mouth is still there kind of trailing That opening there love the expression service going what is going on there? So cute Look at that. I know this is one of those when I do the Trailer reviews where all you hear from me is look at that Cool character designs, though There's a lot of distinct and different faces Always cool to see that doesn't feel very generic Same thing here different type of Hold and into a smile again all those little things that would recommend students to go through and and you can always Have a little library of people smiling people blinking people inhaling Just see how different companies are doing this different animators and different styles in in movies and then it's also cool to Track your arcs and see how it goes down and has that extension again with the clean triangle shape of your hand pose Look at that. It's a beautiful pose And then coming up with a slight hold and then coming back up Into this leading into bam into That burst with the offset on this also because it's heavier and holds this So cool Love this look at that look at the detail in the city That's what I loved about spider verse 2 where just it really feels like a city that's That has life to it and their history to it and it's not Super clean. Sorry. I was completely distracted as I was saying this by That lean in with that knee To then come out into that step That's great. Oh, come on. Look at that render here. I am again. Come on Love that look How dare he a cover on the iphone? I use covers all the time And for fast motions like this, it's cool to see what are the breakdowns What shapes do you see when you have something really fast every now and then you can't really register all the changes in the posing So when this happens, sometimes you just catch a glimpse So sometimes you just have to kind of emphasize a specific pose And the cool thing is this with the light catching this hand here that really stands out. So if you watch this I definitely read that frame So when you have fast motions and you might even have motion blur And if this in your student shot or wherever whatever you work on you have to be aware of well If I do a lot of blurring, you're not going to see things. You're not going to see a shape You're not going to see a facial expression. So you have to kind of decide. Well, what moves are slowed down So that there is no blur so we can read things and then on top of that you get the lighting And then you have just the expression of wow and even on one frame You see the offsets of one finger just to give it a less of a default hand pose there Or finger pose And then we're back into this and I love the change in style Look at that. That's a cool frame Just the details of all this just simplifying this And then you get into The whole thing about cameras where he feels a bit out of control. So you get a bit more handheld there So it's not so static and locked Which of course is all me reading to things that could be totally wrong. I was gonna people do this Well, that's actually not what we intended but that's what I what I take from this, but I love the Just the frame with the graphic nature of this And of course big actions love to frame through this where you have your clean posing Through the body and I love this here This is something that why I wanted to record is because you have this kind of invisible wall I mean to some degree we see what what there is but I love this where you have it's up to you as an animator depending on your spacing On your body mechanics reactions to something where it's somewhat invisible I mean you can make this more invisible for your exercise But where you sell the properties of Of a character that in the character interacts with that makes sense Meaning that you could be walking on something sticky and then it's ice and how you change that stickiness how the foot goes And then steps on ice and then slips. That's all Up to you clearly since you're the animator, but I like seeing this I like feeling the change of something that's purely based on your animation and your timing and your spacing Sorry, I'm learning out, but I love that stuff. I love how You can do all of this here It's very cool. I love this too. That's that look the look of all this and then how it bursts through And then I love all this look at that. This is what Struck me when I was watching this trail of just that change And then we're getting into this type of style How does love is when the animation just takes it a step further and just pushes the visual style Then it turns almost into Drawings very cool So neat. I love all this Just that the painterly feeling of it slightly burp but always certain sections that are clean Just for enough detail. I love all this This is so me nerding out. We're going. Okay. Okay. Oh, look at that. Come on again. I'm back to being oh, come on Love this. Look at that frame Love the look love the colors So cool Again, you can see the stretchiness Over how many frames you might have bam like over one frame a big pop So that you really have that snappiness, but you can still relax into Somewhat of an ease in where it's a bit more relaxed this way and even the body Relaxing going down and then you got this Come on. I love it. Look at that So curious how they animated this if this was in 2d or a 3d rake that has controls and then it's rendered flat like that which probably 3d, I don't know, but I love it. Look at that.  Basically The little tiny hops as it runs It's cute very cool concept too of Looking at in terms of is a life worth living even though, you know, it's gonna end It's cool too Yeah, absolutely in love with this That style and you can see how the lines kind of change in terms of what is seen not seen because of the silhouettes It's really neat and back to big moves with squash and stretch You can see the squishiness and how it comes back up with the scrambling of the legs Definitely something to study and go through frame by frame I love that Look at that. Definitely want to go through frame by frame and look at If you do something this fast again, you have moments where it's blurry You're not going to see much but then when it's Somewhat slower so that the blur goes away. You can really push the hand poses for a read And it's important for something that is that fast. So again, if you watch this in real time This is definitely a pose you're red Because it's one frame, but it's kind of a half frame there. So it gets clearer And if you watch this, these are the frames that register those big moments nice That's when I just go oh dear What was the rig like? How simple was that? Probably a pain to animate This is I'm always a big fan of when you have characters that are simplified where it's mostly head Looking at how the heads are animated in terms of head accents and what moves in when Just a little bit of adjustments depending on those big mouth changes that will influence the head That's always my big thing about lip sync. You got to be very careful that you don't just do the body And then just add lip sync and that's it where this feels very isolated and kind of almost copy paste You can see like how the lips go forward and because of that there's a little bit of drop in the head as well And then as the Corners go back boom your head goes back a bit not saying that Mouse shapes and the the extremes of corners are the thing that will Always motivate your head moves. I mean it can be the opposite. It can be whatever depending on the performance But I would definitely not discount that so if you do have a big thing on a mouth opening this way that potentially Could be added or accentuated with a head accent as a complementary thing And then it goes back to these renders that I absolutely love look at that So cool, of course this makes me hungry it's uh Definitely cool to see two mouth shapes when someone is eating the squishiness Where if you do have this where you go down with the shades, but it's still closed It's like when you say, I don't know. It's a mother. You might have the m shape and then Fairly common in student work would be then to relax the mouth shape open it up as the jaw opens But then you can keep it for a frame or two where the m shape is still there So the even though the jaw opens your mouth is still closed and gets pulled down Like that shape gets pulled down because of the jaw going down too So don't forget those little squishy aspects of when uh when you're doing lip sync and just a little accents on tongues Don't forget to animate the tongue. You mean if it's a little short thing You still feel it I mean this gets you see because it's such a th And these two and you have a big shape extension there You have the asymmetry in the shape But then how many stops how the shapes relaxes because you don't want to just hit a shape and unlock it You have to think about well, it's it depends how realistic you want to go if it's a it's a muscle that fires It can fire quickly, but then it will still come back and relax and ease in But especially if you have a moving hole just look at you That uh, you don't lock the shapes As you do this. I love this. I'm always a big fan when people get slapped. I know this sounds horrible, but This just cracked me up and I wanted to go there frame by frame to see what happens And it's such a slap that you still have movements in the body and the arms But it's mostly this goes first then the head And then he got the the stop on the head and the reaction on the haps great Definitely more stylized as even when the head stops, there's no major reaction on the chest as The head moves and stops I just love that. I don't know why But her two slaps cracked me up Interesting though that he says, okay, I get it But there's no lip sync so might just be it's a couple cases, you know sometimes in trailers You have sounds or whatever that are from other parts of the movies for later They're just added there as a joke to work in the trailer It's clearly not talking there, but So good and you can see the offsets in the in the glasses and then what the hat is doing So good Yeah, I'm definitely Definitely curious about this movie. Look at that. Look Definitely a lot of references of people looking and reacting to things in that trailer Just seeing the little details and still the asymmetry So cool This would be a great moment for a a piper cameo little bird running through Oh great mechanics too. This would be your your weight assignment But instead of a box it's something like this that if your parents you definitely know How that feels a very nice clean Hand silhouette there, but I love stuff like that again that the city is alive It's living there people doing several things and it's not just You know a set and then characters like back in the old days I mean this is complicated a lot of work, but I love this. I love the look of all this so cool And especially then the contrast when you have the simple Look of it more stylized and then something like this I love this. Sorry. This is me. I'm silently drawing on things with no explanations But I love I love going through trailers And looking at things frame by frame and just seeing how people animate things Because even though I've been doing this for a couple years It's like every time I start something like, okay, well, how do I do this? I feel like I don't know I don't know how to animate. Let me just look at how professionals dude are doing things the right way I always feel bad when I see shots like this though Was this one animator and then this was someone else So was the animated task to do everything although I believe Pixar has background animators and crowd animators and stuff like that Think at ILM we do everything in a shot unless it's super super crowded and then Sim will help us But if we had a shot like this, this would be you doing everything But then hopefully you have a library of cycles and everything that you can put in and populate So you don't have to like one animator has to animate everything and is stuck on that shot for I don't know How long so benefiting from a library is always good. Hopefully at the beginning of a show You create That to save time again. I'm going through. I'm always a big fan of hands One of these days. I want to do a clip about tangled and frozen. They have really beautiful hand poses in those movies cool cool looks there and the ends Okay, I'm waiting for someone to photoshop the falcon in there This will be your hyperspace or This could be almost as kind of the look in the jj star tricks put in a an enterprise or enough a falcon Come on guys. I want to see a gif a meme Definitely count me in look at this love this This is such a cool look Yeah, absolutely love it. I'm so in for this movie and even on something like this where it's flat and stylized the overshoots the little stretchiness And especially if it's that simple you can see how you can simplify the lip sync The counts where it's just you don't have to do all that detail But you just want to focus on your on your extremes and readability and silhouette And it still works so cool yeah absolutely in Congratulations to everybody who is working on this. This looks fantastic So if you're still watching this, uh, I know I've done with these type of clips and recordings This is just me nerding out on things but and I know that during those trailers Trailer analyses. I'm always so nerdy and I don't know if that's helpful at all to anybody But I just wanted to share my excitement and I'm gonna go through Some other trailers like connected to that just look absolutely fantastic And you just want to go through there frame by frame and to see the goodness That people are doing so that's it from me. All right. Thanks


might be our biggest hemlock we've ever milled i think so that is a beast that is a real beast yeah it doesn't quite fit on the mill we're gonna have to do some rolling tweaking bending where you gotta yeah we can go that way cross our legs cross our fingers if we can even roll it we ain't moving that too easy can't even get a grip on it need a bigger peevee i'm a little bit nervous about the yeah we'll make it that'll make it it's wedged in down here we should throw another wedge down here though if you got one ready that's a beast we only got beauty donnie yeah i don't know what's gonna happen here a couple years old ain't it i think so 26 27 28 28 inches yeah that's a beast i wouldn't mind jacking that end up but i don't think we can i don't you can't lift that no way no way i mean what's our distance i mean our i was thinking about cutting off some of this butt if we don't need it but if we need it we'll leave it uh or should we just mill it well see what you got yeah because i know we're missing a little chunk down that end yeah here you go donnie can you you don't want him all right i got 10 foot right here this is only a 10 footer so right there so 13 so it's 14 what do we need two by eight 14s it's like yeah i've been cutting them for i thought 14 and a half yeah it's 14 six that's what we need okay perfect so we need two by eights out of this yeah you think i can get a couple two by eights out of this i think you might get two right now the bell's down below so i can't measure down below the bell so my first cut i mean i'm already up there 22 there should i give her a try i gotta say i would rather cut smaller logs yeah me too i mean that was a lot of work yeah i don't i mean we got a lot of stuff out of it what was the count i lost everything over there so one two three four there's five and a five there there's five on there now yeah six seven eight so eight two by eight rafters we got uh four two by eight eight yeah four two by eight one i got three two by four eight studs and uh one long two by four gotcha a lot of good stuff out of it just takes a long time to get it i don't know what's better smaller logs going faster yeah yeah that was about as big as you would like in turn eight eight per logging too bad eight per logging this was the one i was worried if it was shaky but it looks all right i think it's gonna mess with it but it's here but that's probably where we grabbed on yeah that's with the tongs can we this is the bottom one a little thicker that one wore me out that's uh that's the biggest hemlock we've done yet it was 26 inches at the bottom over 20 on the narrow end got a little load here we brought down with a trailer to dump off and uh we'll drop those if we can find the spark to put them you know what was up next time


Hello everyone, I hope you are all having a fantastic day like my name is Anna and Abelene and I'm very Because this is the first day of talks in the tropical Sunset And today we have the talk of Ethereum business witness in 2022 with Dan Shah and Dan Burnett Thank you so much. Thank you All the Dan's Ethereum enterprise how you have to be called Dan So hi, I'm Dan Shah from the Ethereum Foundation You know, I work with the enterprise big businesses back in 2017 at the launch of the Ethereum the enterprise Ethereum Alliance the EA you know Vitalik called for collaboration amongst private and you know public You know to be able to support enterprise needs and You know, I I joined back in In 2020 to come in and support those enterprise users You know when I came in There were some you know sort of big blockers for you know going on on mainnet you know concerns around privacy gas prices and You know regulatory regulatory risks of holding assets Over the past year and a half I've been really happy to see a massive sea change away from only Private chain and you know gradual introduction of Real real mainnet adoption, but I really didn't know you know what was going on and really happy to share what Dan Burnett and the EA have been working on You know to really you know give us some proof give us some data and Been really surprised at At the maturity of what's going on You know things are farther Ahead and farther on mainnet than you might think so Dan Burnett Hello, there we go. All right. Okay. Thanks And I may ask you to put the notes font size back to what we had agreed to All right. Thanks. Yeah. All right. So anyway, what I'm here to talk to you about today is a report that the EA wrote Issued earlier this year our Ethereum business readiness report so You know in the media all the stories are focused on you know popular media, right? All focused on crypto speculation NFT speculation Big collapses and things like that, but as the Ethereum ecosystem matures more and more businesses are actually adopting the technology Unfortunately, that story is not as visible to the general public. Okay, and it's as As an organization that is committed to enabling Other organizations to adopt and use business Ethereum in their day-to-day business operations We thought it was important to shed light on what's actually happening in business use of Ethereum today So behind the DeFi NFT and so on headlines now There are some challenges to this in particular day-to-day projects are all happening behind the scenes Okay, many of us know about them are those who are sort of crypto savvy But those outside of this room outside of the the crypto bubble are definitely not aware of them So our our goal was to Find them and quantify them and that's that's what we set out to do So we did a mix of direct interviews case study development Surveys and also the other Important part with this particular report was to be able to educate business decision makers about how to think about a theorem-based deployments So the work that we did is based on both quantitative and qualitative research We did the quantitative research while I'll talk about that a little bit more later But the point is that we focus primarily on the qualitative our goal was to was to do storytelling Based on case studies and interviews and when I say storytelling, I mean stories that make sense to businesses One of the reasons we focus so much on case studies Is you know, everyone in this ecosystem likes to ask well, what are the use cases? What are the use cases? What are the use cases use cases are for sellers case studies are for buyers Buyers don't want to hear what you could do Buyers want to hear what works today. So that was one of the the important goals that drove what we did So just very quickly I'm gonna I'm gonna walk through this part. This is something that's in the report We from a business perspective We describe kind of the the history of the aetherium platform as having three main phases in the early days Of course, there's a lot of excitement experimentation with you know Decentralize all the things and there's a lot of great experimentation that's still happening, of course But there was a realization pretty early on that there were some limitations from a business Perspective in using the public main net and in particular the three that we always talked about the three P's were privacy Permissioning and performance. Those were things that the the broader Public community was not interested in focusing on at the time, but but for businesses are just absolutely essential Okay, and that actually led to a focus on private blockchains Private consortium networks using aetherium or or other other technologies now as we all know There has been a great revival of interest in public blockchain And this is actually from a business perspective also that's driven by of course what we've seen with consumer DeFi Which is demonstrated that decentralized business models can work Also NFTs, but also some technological improvements, and I'll I'll talk about that a little bit more later on So before I Before I talk about what's on this slide I want to mention that from this point on Everything that I describe is being viewed through a business lens Okay, so when I when I show circles of certain sizes and so on this is based on our particular data set What we did is we we collected a data set that was restricted to down to about a hundred and eighteen Business-oriented aetherium projects. These are projects These are companies or projects that are active now have live teams and are developing solutions for traditional business problems So the data set is somewhat small and eclectic and keep that in mind when I when I draw some conclusions like I do on this particular slide Yes, please reduce the font size back down one or two. Thank you on the notes Okay Stop there Thanks, so Okay, so on the left side here what we have is the business projects organized by industry and The lion's share of course has been an infrastructure and fintech unsurprisingly We're basically still in in the stage of building the platform and selling picks and shovels Okay, I mean that is really where the industry is particularly from a business perspective Now if you look at use cases on the right side most of the activity is in software development and fintech Which of course aligns with what I just said and so again, it's still early stages. There's a lot of need for building core Materials yet, so I just wanted to throw this up some people like looking at logos This is a subset of the companies and projects that are in our database I'm not going to talk about it. This isn't exhaustive But just to give you an idea of some of the the companies and projects that showed up in that list of 118 Now one of the things we wanted to do was well look if we're gonna if we're gonna put out a report on Business readiness of a theorem we have to define what business readiness means Okay, so that was our first goal was to figure that out and through the interviews that we did We came up with a way to define it that we believe is is useful for business so our goal keep in mind with this report is to Always to do two things and education is one of those parts So we wanted to make sure to educate people and we also wanted to give businesses a tool as they evaluate Aetherium technology and deployment possibilities So we developed what we call our aetherium business readiness framework And we think this is the first attempt That we're aware of to do this in a in a neutral way Okay, so we're not selling anything in particular other than aetherium of course right So what we ended up with is seven technical criteria, which you'll see in the the coming slides and three non technical criteria with some detailed definitions again whose whose goal is to educate a business audience and Through this we believe that businesses can learn a lot about what is important and what to think about as they as they're considering deployments Okay, so down the left side here, and I know this is an eye chart. I don't expect you to read it I'm just gonna describe some of what's on here. So down the left side are seven plus three criteria They are quickly network cost network decentralization and security scaling privacy sustainability usability interoperability and then regulation and compliance ecosystem resources and ecosystem robustness and From our perspective and all the interviews we did those captured the factors that businesses cared about We it was particularly important to us to make sure that we included decentralization Because a lot of businesses today just still don't even understand why that is something they should care about Okay So anyway, if you look at all these criteria on the left not all businesses are going to care equally about those criteria So the goal of this particular chart of this particular Item this section of the report was to answer the question. Which of these criteria are actually important to me? So what we looked at was four different types of businesses as we call them large corporates small and medium enterprises startups And then there's government which is not a business, but they're they're a category worth considering in in this discussion so There are two things I want to highlight so on the sustainability side and I again I know you can't see all of these but I just want to talk about a couple of them So almost all businesses care about the environment But governments and highly visible corporates care a lot because they can face very high and costly reputational risk Okay, if they if they screw up sustainability nowadays on the security side All companies of course want the best security But corporates and governments Interestingly, they have a lot of resources to ensure security whether it's financial resources legal technical whatever and so in some cases And I know this is sacrilege to say it okay, but in some cases. They're willing to centralize to sacrifice some decentralization in Return for scaling But that's not true for smaller businesses in particular one of the main appeals of blockchain technology is precisely the security against Technical failure attack manipulation and so on that network decentralization Offers so they may be less willing to compromise in that particular respect now We did this because we wanted to show this before we got to Describing different architectures and where we think they fall okay so what we did then was we We basically evaluated those criteria against four different deployment architectures You'll see we call it a network archetype in the report What we're talking about is basic deployment architectures the four categories you have five columns But there are four primary ones is the public main net main net plus an L2 main net plus a sidechain and private network The second column is main net post upgrades Because we put this report out of course before The merge and there's a lot of other great stuff coming and we wanted to make sure that people didn't look at the lighter The lighter Boxes here which don't look so good for the public main net and say oh, yeah, that's always going to be the case No, it's definitely not and as we do this report each year We're going to continue updating it in terms of where where we're actually at so a few examples here from a network cost perspective The cost to actually operate a private network can be very low Even when you're running your own infrastructure that the actual operations cost can be quite low And we know the main net is expensive today Okay, and that's being worked on we know in terms of ease of use by businesses and Layer twos or side chains actually have the most support interestingly Because the ones who are building those layer twos or side chains Provide a lot of information and a lot of help on how to make use of them If you do a private chain on the other hand, it's all on you right So it's not easy at all if you want to do a private chain You have to do a lot of the work yourself from a compliance perspective a private network It's the easiest to implement, you know controls such as KYC And on you know the main net is of course fully decentralized on the other on the other end So most of this shouldn't surprise you too much, but again, this is written for Chances are it's written for your customers the people you're trying to sell to and who need someone to explain this to them In a way that they can understand That did not do okay. Alright, so one of the things we did was we want to give examples of how you might use this Framework for a specific use case and again, I know it's an eye chart. You can't see all these it's all in the report but We basically analyze these criteria against The deployment architectures that that I talked about so for each of these architectures We scored the criteria is very poor poor neutral good and very good where good is out here and Poor is in the center on these radar graphs So I'm just gonna hit a couple of headlights So the upper left one is asset tokenization and then payments payment solutions is just to the right of that So for asset tokenization main net scores very high on usability and interoperability for tokenization But you know if you have a project for which high performance and regulatory compliance or priorities You'll want to be working with an L2 or a side chain or or you could consider building a private network on the payments side For payments use case a theorem is a payments network essentially out of the box I mean You know finding information about how to do how to do payments with a theorem or something built on top of a theorem is not at all Hard, but again if you have high volume, you're gonna want to work with a layer 2 or side chain particularly if you have if you're if you're addressing retail customers now Interestingly, if you actually have a wholesale business, you might not need to go to that and you could actually do a private network More simply today more simply more cheaply if you have a wholesale business Okay, I said that we did interviews We actually have way more than six interviews, but I just wanted to give a few examples of some of the people that we spoke with We spoke with people who actually were building these projects We also spoke with some well-known people in the space and probably some of the people here in the room And I just haven't seen them yet But I just want to give you an idea this within the report We actually include quotes Throughout because we found that the quotes from these people are the thing that are the they expressed this better than any of us could Because they're dealing with it every every single day. So I've got I've got three examples here and the one that I'm gonna I'm gonna actually call out is is in the middle from Benson of Acre Africa Acre Africa provides Parametric insurance for small holding farmers in Africa So what they said is we could have done this on our own with a database But we wanted public proof that those triggers that the customers signed up for when buying are Still the same ones used when it comes time to pay out That is a great example of the transparency that you get from a good blockchain solution. So anyway, this is just a few We have a lot more But these interviews really helped us with the insights, which is what I'm going to get to shortly So we took that 118 projects and whittled it down to 12 for a super deep dive Okay, so we were looking at doing case studies on on 12 of them Nine of the projects were ready for us to include them in the report and three said we want to be there But not yet talk to us next year Okay, so we ended up with nine that are in the report. I don't have time to go through them I wish I did two shorter presentation today But please do read it in the report because there's a lot of great insights For each one of these we did a detailed case study and also put the key takeaways for a business audience again Okay So after all of that we tried to distill everything that we had heard into some some insight So if you're gonna take pictures of anything, it's probably this slide and the next one So there is a growing appreciation now publicly right of an ability to use the public blockchain that is new That's a that's a really good thing to hear and decentralized business models are beginning to make some sense because Defy right so people realize there's something there. They don't know how to do use it yet They don't know how to how to make it work yet, but but they know there's something there that's important Technological advances zk proofs, etc. Are addressing the privacy concerns and a variety of the upgrades Coming or have already happened in the main net are going to be addressing the remaining business issues over time but now of course we know that You need to use multiple Multiple layers or multiple networks in order to address some of the performance and and permissioning I want to talk about private and public Blockchain for a moment There are still as I mentioned some good use cases for for private blockchains But we're beginning to see the use cases merge much more strongly than we've seen before We're also beginning to see some hybrid options where people are using private for some things and public for others And that's that's that's an interesting an interesting result as well. One of the things we heard very clearly Was that L2s and side chains are no one expects those to be a temporary solution? So even with everything that's planned in terms of upgrades for Ethereum No one who is actually actually building projects today Believes that L2s and side chains are are going to be temporary. They're expecting them to be here to stay to you know to remain Okay When we first when we did the research here the number one blocker that was listed was sustainability across the board This of course now That's not the big blocker that it was because of the merge So the second one is now the top one and that one was regulation and that's not probably not going to surprise this audience But it's interesting because it's actually not a blocker for all use cases And if you can you can see some of the use cases where it's not in the report or catch me later And I'm happy to talk with you but there are some for which it's not an issue yet and Hey NFTs are really making people aware of what digital assets are and can do so that's that's pretty neat And then the final comments I want to make are that look we believe this is going to sound obvious, right? We believe that the Ethereum ecosystem is ready for business. Of course, we're going to say that no actually here's the caveat The caveat is it is not yet out of the box ready That's the key result that we got Okay, you don't scroll that far please all right So anyway, the good news is there are a lot of different options, right? There are a number of different architectures, and they're not bad I know that this community is trying to push the the edges at the EA. We're trying to move the middle Okay, and so it's helpful for us to be able to explain that there are alternatives today and And those alternatives will get you moving and you don't want to wait There are good reasons to explore decentralized models Okay, of the you know and and to take advantage of the processes of the type Ethereum makes possible One of the quotes that we heard was since what previously relied on faith between two or more parties Can now be proven mathematically on a blockchain any situation which someone has to say I have to trust you is an Opportunity for a blockchain based solution today We increasingly see this being put into practice going forward the opportunities are as numerous as the myriad business challenges That depend on this kind of trust Okay, so here's my EA slide On the left is free materials on the right is what members get I'm not going to walk through all of it But I want to talk about on the left side We have primers that we're putting out there basically if you remember like the college You know plastic two-sided sheet sheet sheets were for algebra or whatever else That's what we're putting out and they're targeted at non-technical business people C-sweets in general we want to make sure they understand the trade-offs of the things that we're talking about They are free to download and use. They're under our resources tab We also have a large number of educational webinars blogs We hold events and so on one of the things that we just launched this week. It's brand new So hit it hard and expect some problems, but we do want you to try it on our website lower right corner There's a chat a chat icon Look at some of the options that come up But the reason we did that is that's intended to be a help desk It has a help desk for business people one of the things we heard most often from businesses was Look, I can call anybody that I do business with but how do I call aetherium? That is literally what they said. How do I call aetherium? So our goal was to create a front-end that makes it easy to answer some of those initial Business questions that people have our goal is not to steer them to a particular provider But to help get that initial understanding out of the way so when they come to talk to you They have some idea what they're talking about All right, and the last thing I want to put up here is There's lots more in the report you can download it for free that QR code will take you to that URL Which takes you to our website where you can You can download the report so with that I'm going to see if Dan has Anything you'd like to finish with great. Thanks, Dan so you know for 2022 we got through 100 projects and you know got down to you know just just to Just a few of them You know kind of the call to action is You know if you have a project that you're working on Grab a Dan any Dan will do probably one of these dance or anybody at the the Enterprise aetherium Alliance the EA and You know we'd love to you know hear about your project and You'll potentially include it in Next year's work Yep, this was the first one Keep sending them in so we can we can do more. Thanks. Thank you Thank you so much done and done for this amazing overview of how the EA it's been impacting the enterprise adoption. Thank you so much and So should we leave now? Yeah, but but there's some few minutes Okay, maybe if there's questions Yeah, well we have eight or questions so we can start there Hi, we are going to give you the microphones Yeah for the people that Hi, so can you share some specific examples of? Specific businesses who are implementing aetherium today on a public or private Chain because you gave like more of a general overview, but I know you're a soft specific Companies that are doing that right I understand and they've just taken away my my list with my notes where I left all the companies So I could answer that question with a whole bunch, but it's okay so one of the One of the companies that That we know of is Alaya. They did a a public placement. I'm sorry private placement using Using blockchain and that was that was very successful Microsoft uses NFTs to track Components in their Azure Server farms, so they basically do supply chain Tracking using an NFT for every single component not because and and by the way, they're doing this essentially privately Okay, they're doing it on a private network But the reason they're using NFTs is because they found them very convenient as a as a holder For information that they needed to carry along the the process I mentioned Acre Africa. That's another one of my favorites. Oh Gosh, let's see. So one of my favorites is the Again, it's a Microsoft Microsoft UI, you know, they've been a really really great partners and doing a lot of good work They have taken all of The Xbox royalties that they would You know potentially give to EA games and all all the network that that are a part of You know the Xbox network and they've tokenized that and what used to be You know financial reconciliation that you know took months You know now is is a You know spark contract-driven instantaneous project process that You know it goes through the entire supply chain large and small You know partners down the line, you know automatically get get there get their fair share and Just a fantastic example and use case for for for blockchain and there's a lot more I really do mean, you know download the report. You'll you'll get a lot more from that. Thank you Okay, so the time is up Oh Thanks, but you can ask for sure more things here. Yep. Thank you


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We were saying last week about how evident it was wasn't it in terms of the fact that obviously beat Brentford away which was great and then they beat Villar in the Cup and obviously then had Luton at home and that was going to be the one that was going to be a guarantee three points it wasn't. Which then made us then worry about obviously last Saturday against Bournemouth who were a better outfit than Luton and then they played really well when they thoroughly deserved their victory. So I tell you what you wouldn't want to be a bookmaker at the minute would you with Everton bets going in because you just don't know which team you're going to get week in week out. It's really weird in it because if you want to be ultra positive right now we can turn round and two stats we can use to be ultra positive is Everton have won 75% of the last four games. Big thing and also if you were going to if we weren't going to win both home games we were going to lose one and win one Saturday was the one to win going in Ned. We are joined by Ned Dave. I think I need to build this up because this won't be a regular the care and I can guarantee you. But we are joined by Ned. We've lost one ginger this week. He is Vuley Vuh and himself all over. You've lost a ginger but you've got D ginger. The same telling ginger. He's picked himself up but Ned if being ultra positive if we weren't going to win and Everton very rarely win back to back home games like in a week when we had two games on the run at home. So if we were going to lose one and win one we done it in the right order didn't we? Yeah I think the thing for me losing it as good as down personally I think I think Borm if I think they're genuinely terrible and I don't think that the manager will last a roller. But I think they'll one of the teams that we battled with and we've already rolled it. Is it what his nickname? Skate. Skate a roller. No roller skate. It could be a long half an hour. We've already dropped points against the likes of Wolves. It will be battling with following what I thought we would off but I think they'll be above us now anyway. By the end of the season I think they'll be points safe. But I think the Borm I think will be in a similar boat. I think they'll end up stacking the manager anyway. So they're probably a team that's going to improve. I think for us if you look at the pattern you know beat Villa worked really hard. The Luton is a team that come to Goodison will not have a lot of the ball and that doesn't suit how we want to play. And I think for Everton we've just got this way of playing now that's just it is what it is. Some teams it will suit the way they play in terms of you know not having a lot of the ball and we can counter and grab the odd set piece. The odd three and it will be amazing but I don't think that's going to happen more often. Remember when I said like the start this is ultra positive. I feel as though you don't rattle on the positivity. I think they'll win games this season when it suits us and then they'll just be games. But I think in those games it will come down to you know winning every battle with every second ball. I think when we beat Villa we worked really hard. It suited the way we played and then Luton it just we didn't suit the way they played. We just worked them in our battles. I think if we had a long enough break they suit the way we played because they wanted a lot of the ball and we won our battles and it's as simple as that. I think it was the intensity to be honest. I think and having Jack had us on back because Dave compared to the other home games. Everton were on it immediately in this one. I never let up. Obviously the goal helped because we got it in the first 10 minutes. But did you feel as well it was a bit more like you know we on a hard back to like the David Moisey type home games. That intensity of just being on top of a team which goodness and then helps us get a stronger home record because we've moved away from that in the last few years. That's how it felt to me on Saturday. I mean I don't disagree. I mean but the other way of looking at it is the fact that they were just clinical in their chances as well. Because don't forget that against Luton the first 20 minutes they were on it and they were all over them and actually had they converted one or even two of those and it would have been a very different picture. So yeah I think it was more intense but I think they just they took their chances. I mean Garners took his chance fantastically well I thought. He knew exactly what he was doing. He knew where he was putting it. You know Jack Harrison's goal was great. I mean really really good. I mean the technique to get that right was I like Jack Harrison a lot actually not just because of that. I like what he's about. You know I've since I've seen him you know of the few games that he's played. I think he definitely makes us a better side. You know and when you think about potentially having him on one side and Danjima on the other side I think that you know it's an exciting attacking option. You know it doesn't normally work out like that because he doesn't normally play them both together but you know what I mean but I think potentially that would be good going forward. Now listen it was a good performance. It was an important three points and yeah we just need more performances like that. Absolutely. I mean Dave's right isn't he obviously. We got the goal and that settled everything on Dan. Harrison's goal was brilliant. We could have had more sec. You know we got more in the second half but we should have scored more goals as well. We bit the bar. So it's been you know it was good from that. I don't think Everton let up this week either. I think he did continue to do what was working for them the whole way through. But Jack Harrison just on him. He's exactly what we need isn't he. He's a lad who plays off the right and he works his plums off on him. It's just nice saying. I remember last season every two that would come to good was saying they just looked so much energetic and so much livelier than Everton. And like he's not like he's not like rapido but he's got so much energy. Rapido what that show that was on Channel 4 was really really fast. He will remember Rapido. He's using the reference me you know. But you know it wasn't the 70s. What when was it? It was like 90s. Before I was born. That's what I said but you referenced it. What I'm saying is it's just nice having someone who's lively and intense and just gets the ball on. Just wants to attack and wants to take plays on. He's a proper Everton winger I think. No you're right. I think you're right. If they get Patterson in that side as well on the overlap or eating James Coleman. He gets back like they said it'll give us other options. And then of course he doesn't do anything. There's rumours and they are rumours. I'm a manager of a little bit of a fall out. But I'm quite sure he'll work his way back into it. And if he does then that gives us another attack and option as well to have. But McNeill was also. McNeill they play well. They both work really really hard. So it was good. We go on to that break now. Is there an extent now whereby we're praising the way that they were on Saturday. And they played well and they got their just rewards. But is there not an element in terms of the fact that on Saturday they were doing what they should be doing. They were doing their job. They were playing with intensity and press and focus and commitment and guile and all these other positive words that we haven't seen enough of. So is this not what should be happening week in week out. Because if they played like that week in week out we wouldn't have any problems. No we wouldn't be looking over our shoulder the whole time and worrying what chef you have done and worrying what Luton have done. Burnley you know but that's a frustration for me. Is that you know we're not actually as a side and as a squad. We're not actually as bad as we've perhaps felt we are in recent times if that makes sense. You know I think we've all been you know there's been a lot of doom and gloom and stuff like that.  You know we're not going to we're not pulling up any trees and stuff like that. You know we're not going to sort of worry worry the top four anytime soon. But we're not that bad aside and there's no reason why we can't be comfortably sitting in the mid table. No I think you're absolutely right. I mean I've said it on the air and sometimes people have disagreed with me and other times they're like okay but this team and squad is better than what it's performed. And you know me and we often have this means John Blaine especially after this is like is the manager getting what he should be getting out of the squad. And we can apply that to Frank Lampard apply to Rafferbyn he says whatever whatever whatever. On Saturday and over the three of the last four games they've proven that they are a capable squad. But for me I said on Saturday in the after match stuff and that's the bar now. That Saturday's got to be the bar. We should have beaten Luton, we should have beaten Wolves, we should have beaten Fulham. But for me those three performances weigh in at the intensity of Saturday and therefore Saturday is the bar. If everything can repeat that more often than not a good decision in particular they'll have no problems this season. They'll win more games than they lose I would suggest. I think they come out in these games looking confident. Like I said to you against Luton you could tell that every player in every position was better than the opposing player in their position.  But then that confidence just seems to drop as soon as that first goal gets in. So I said the other day it's about getting the first goal in the games. I don't think we've lost a game under Sean Dites where we've scored the first goal. I said yesterday that's that isn't it? It's something like 70% of the teams you showed the first goal in the Premier League win the game. So it's key the first goal is always key. I just think with our players it comes down to confidence obviously. You have to be set up right as well. I still feel a bit nervous sometimes when I watch them on the ball but ultimately that's because it's not our game. Every win we've had we've had less possession. So like I said before it's about the games that suit us so I just think it's a confidence thing. So getting the goal early like we did against Bournemouth you could see we can continue to do what we're doing and it works when we get more goals. Well hopefully listen hopefully we take that forward now and like I said we've won 75% of the games of the last four. That's the metric we used this week because it's a positive one. We now go into a block of four games which are very difficult. But we've got two weeks off before that and we can all you want now as you play is to come back from international duty in good shape. Obviously we play Liverpool a 12 on the next time we jog up. We don't have to worry about that right now Dave do you think? We've got that over there but you know you bend the bully. It's nice going into a break off the back of a win and a good performance. That's what I'm saying if we had to win one of those two own games Bournemouth was the one to win wasn't it? Yeah and I mean the other thing that I was making myself feel a bit better about the other day with regards to the Luton thing is I think I said a couple of weeks ago. I kind of said you know we should be winning both of those games at home but we need to be taking a minimum of four points out of those possible six. Now we've taken three from six so I was trying to console myself about the fact that well it's only one point less than I had kind of said was necessary. So maybe that's a positive. It's not really because we should never have lost to Luton at home. But if we had our first one more for you, if we'd have drawn a Brentford and drawn a Brentford and drawn with Luton and beat Bournemouth we'd be three games on beating in the Premier League but we'd have only won one of them. We've now got more points. You can't just take wins from people. Yeah I'm just saying. I'm saying you know that there's another way to look at it. I like to go back to your point before Barry about the fact that you know if they play anything like they played on Saturday more often than not a goodness and then there will be no problems this season and I think that's a generalisation but I think it's very true. What do you think of this one day before we move on? I said yesterday I've just got a feeling watching. I've seen the three team and Bournemouth with Treffel on Saturday looked at them and thought that he might be. They were, I mean they're not a great sign but even by their standards they had a shock around. Well it's that you know emprison you close trying to play out from the back when you're not good enough to do it and then keep giving the ball to the opposition that's bizarre but there you go that's up for them. But looking at the three promoter teams I actually not convinced Luton and Sheffield United are getting into the 20s with the points and I don't even know whether Burnley will post more than mid 20s points. For the simple reason that when I look at all three of them they're all like they're all Luton the tightest of the three but they just haven't got a goal in them. They passed up three open goals of the weekend and I'll give them two but one was a charge in the clearance down the flu in the top corner and the other one was a set piece. I look at Sheff United I just don't see them scoring any goals at the any goals and I look at Burnley and they can't score goals and they're letting them in. So I just wonder if you know from an Everton perspective this would be the season where you can all and I don't this is not going to be a bar I judge Everton by by the way. I was going to say I mean yeah yeah they are but isn't isn't a tragic state of affairs though the fact that you know we're making ourselves feel better by the fact that there are three significantly worse. Oh that's not my bar for 17. No no no I know I know I know I know it's not I know it's not I know it's not but you know that's that's how far you know we've fallen in many ways the fact that we are consoling ourselves by by how bad they are. Yeah I think it's more to me it's just more I can sleep a little bit easier. It almost looks like the three teams have like not prepared to go down but they're okay to come up and go down and they'll be fine. We look at like a forest last season or like following a few seasons prior come up spend loads of money try and make sure you're saying the Premier League.  It looks like Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United it looks like they're not quite ready yet and the buildings if they go down they can be financially okay and come straight back up if they can. Well it's the plan for your club isn't it? Burnley I think I don't think they want to do that they might be going well if Welsh comes the Welsh we can be alright. But I think Luton and Sheffield United that it's absolutely about developing their clubs going even if we go we've got a big slug of money next year will be better and then if we get back up the year after them we're in a better place and we'll have more money to shoot through at it then. I'd actually say that they're two very different clubs as well though I mean you know Sheffield United is a big club. It's big debts that's why I'm trying to clear it. Oh yeah I understand they've been in this situation before you know this is very much new territory in recent years for Luton. So I think you're right I think from a Luton perspective they would probably not fancy their chances any more than about 50-50 in terms of staying up and if they don't stay up and there's every chance that they won't then it will have been a learning exercise it will have been financially beneficial to the club.  So they come up they give it their best shot if it's good enough it's good enough if it's not it's not and then they go back with no shame whatsoever. You know and as you say they're in a better position then to build again whether it be next year or the year after or certainly in the next five years to then come up in a better position. Absolutely. But yeah I'm not so sure Burnley have that attitude I think Burnley you know obviously they've spent that many seasons in the top flight you know in recent times that they won't see they won't have that same attitude I don't think. No and new owners obviously they've had relatively new owners that last year they'll they'll want a different outcome on people we'll have to wait and see. Dave moving on you made the public announcement on this forecast a few weeks ago. Quite a quite a definitive one I would say quite an affirmative one that the paddleboard season was over. Yeah. Looking at your Instagram over the weekend you were back out on said paddleboard in delicious weather. It was it was unexpected. You know for me as much as it was you and I did I said I said about whatever it was three maybe even four weeks ago I said well that's it you know that's paddleboard season done. As the weather was changing and then suddenly it's got better again. Fortunately I didn't deflate said inflatable paddleboard and I didn't put it in the garage which I should have done but I still out in the garden. And then Saturday was beautiful and then Sunday was even nicer and I said to my brother-in-law I said should we go for a little paddle on Sunday it's like 23 degrees or something here so we went out and we paddled for about five miles or something and we came back and then we stopped off for a little pub on the river by us and we had a couple of pints in the sunshine and then we came home and it was it was a thoroughly pleasant day but yeah very much unexpected because I thought we were done for the season. I do think we're done now. I mean it's sunny here today now at the time of recording right so we're recording on Tuesday but I think this is it supposed to rain tomorrow so I think this is I think we finally have it but we'll see you never know. You never know your copy right? I hate it.  No I hate the sun in October. Why do you hate the sun in October? Because it's climate change. Is it climate change? Yes. Go back and look over the history books. It was different climate from last year. I want to wear my coat. Hang on pause, pause, pause. I don't like rain. I don't like being wet. Don't get me wrong. Don't get them wrong. I was in a coat in a hoodie and I was like I'm comfy. But why though? I like cold weather. But Ned, you're going to have plenty of weeks and months coming up where you can wear multiple hoodies I would suggest. I'll enjoy those multiple months. But you will, you'll have plenty. And listen, I'm not taking away the seriousness of what you're suggesting in terms of climate change and that's a bad thing. And that the weather at the moment would certainly give way to the argument that the climate is a bit screwed at the moment and it shouldn't be like this in October. However, it was so bloody cold last winter, I think. It certainly was in my house. That I'm in no rush to get the snug rug out and be sitting there in two hoodies in the evening watching telly and stuff like that. I'm quite happy in my shorts for now. Knowing that I will get full use of my entire autumn winter collection very, very soon. Dave's nailed it. I don't pay the gas bill. Exactly there you go. I can't even go out and sun down. Never mind the sun, look at me, I'm see through. I get burnt very, very, very easy. So this is in October. I haven't been able to go out and do anything for months. Tell you what though. I did one gig outdoors and I slept for about three months. That was because you didn't put sun cream on. You didn't have a hat on. You had jeans on. Nobody told me I'd be singing in the sun. Mate, there's a little, there's a thing on your phone that tells you hour by hour temperatures. At the one time I did take sun cream somewhere. I accidentally took the sun cream I took to America. That was jammed and I was at the top of a mountain at 30 degree heat hiking like that. Please come out. I mean please stop doing it with your hand. Yes, don't do this again. Especially when we're not talking about sun cream coming out on the other hand. Exactly. It's a really unsavory image. There's two things to pick up on here, Ned, I think. Firstly, in terms of the sunscreen, I think that goes down as user error for sure. I think so. And then the second thing is that as you rightly pointed out, you don't pay the gas bill. And I think the risk of sounding partially patronising and maybe old is that if you did pay the gas bill like myself and like Baz, you'd be in no rush for that weather to turn because as soon as it gets cold, you start costing old people like me and him lots more money.  Exactly Ned, so you're trying to bring that on for people. I just think that our government should give people free heating. OK, but at the moment we're not. So therefore you can understand why Dave gets his paddleboard back out at any opportunity. Why I like to, you know, I'm up on a sat in Sunday morning, the cracker door and watching my lad play football. And it's the grass is wet because it's that type of time of the year. It's a bit cool Ned, I want sun, I want one. That's what I want. Last year it was like the longest winter ever. It was freezing from about November till the end of April. It was freezing. Let's settle for about 10 degrees. We'll meet halfway. No, we won't meet halfway. Me and Dave will welcome warm days throughout the year. The only time I'll accept freezing weather and even snow is the 23rd of December for four days. I've allocated four days for a bit of snow. Bit of snow. We can just all sit in with our double hoodie on. We can have a little bit of more chocolate than watch TV. Just chill Christmas films, wherever. Evidence box and day game can be off so we don't have to worry about football. We'll have a few days and it's lovely. Then it can go back to 20 degrees and we can be warm again. The worst thing about leading up to those halcyon days is when it's freezing in the morning and you put a hoodie on or a coat. And then by the afternoon work or whatever, you're like sweaty. But you can't take it off.  But then you're like, oh. That's when layers come into play Ned.  And if it's been, you know, today, as you can see, it's T-shirt weather. It could be a T-shirt. It could be a T-shirt with a shirt over it. It could be a T-shirt with a hoodie. I mean, all of these items are removable and therefore you can apply the right amount of clothing for the weather conditions which you find. You're getting life lessons. We're sure cutting you. I mean, you're sitting there getting all Greta Thunberg, you know. And me and Baz are actually, you know, we're giving you an education in the school of life. Solutions, Dave. What are you bringing in solutions? I've just got three thin layers. And then I felt like an onion.  I was like, what's that in the pictures? Again, like I would say, Dave mentioned it before. Use your error. I don't put three layers on to go. Where were you the cinema? The pictures. Why would you put three layers on to go to the cinema? Just get cold in the pictures though. Three layers though, Dave. That's too much. I mean, I was cold in Tesco the other day as well to be honest with you. But I was stood by the fish fingers in the frozen. But it was particularly chilly. And I was in my shorts and I felt a little bit, you know, like I could have done with a bit more beef. The way I look at it, well, but that was probably the different aisle of beef.  Get comfortable with being uncomfortable, Dave. I have a cold shower every morning in the cold. Do you? I have me warm, get washed under me hot shower and then I do two minutes of cold when I finish. Yeah, every day. Every day. I built up for ages and got more and more time until I got about six seconds and I just fought and I'm like... Six seconds? Yeah.   Never miss, never miss that. Yeah, but what do you do in the cold shower in two minutes? You don't wash yourself in two minutes. So I will stand under it. For two minutes? For two minutes, yeah.  Shock proteins? Yes. You can make up things. Beins, bram, fat, which would be good for you. As well. So there you go. There you go. Because I asked on a premiere for some questions for Ned which I think Dave can interject as well. Some random questions. But obviously it's going to be for both or for all three of us if we're going to do that. Now you've asked a question for Ned. It's going to be a little difficult. No, no, it's not. It's going to be fair. It's for all three. It's for all three. I just said you were on it. Let's do it. OK, so where we go. Mikey says... OK. I'll read it. I mean it's a little bit math but let's go. Is it broadcastable? It is broadcastable. It's just a little bit. Let's go. Should a person who is in the electric chair about to be executed be given first aid if they have a heart attack or waiting for the switch to be switched on? I had to probably said no due to the outcomes probably. Not always. Yeah but you know I suppose the thing is though it's all to do with at what point their human needs must have been getting all deep here. At which point their basic human needs are not required to be fulfilled. So here's a scenario for you.  In other words, you've passed that point where you're now flying. So it's almost a bit like is there a point when you go to the electric chair where suddenly you've gone through the x-ray machine and stuff and then you're kind of death side. Point of no return. Absolutely. You can't go back because you've forgotten something from boots. Absolutely. They've already checked your bags and stuff. And at that point then do you not qualify because you're then just waiting to take off to heaven. Cos it could be argued that you've brought the heart attack on to get first aid to prolong yourself being put in the chair. It's an electric chair. It's not going to be pleasant. It's not euthanasia with lethal injection, which may just send you to sleep and then do it. So it's more humane. It's not great anyway. See, I think there's a technicality there that you don't. I think if it was for euthanasia, if they were giving you lethal injection, I think that's more humane apparently. It's not meant to be great though, is it? No. I mean none of the options are great. No. I mean great is not a word that I put for anything. It's not synonymous with the subject matter. I'll put myself in that situation. If I'm getting in that chair, I'm hoping that until that grong. I'm hoping until that millisecond where the man goes. Yeah, it could be a woman. It could be a woman. When you did that though, you reminded me very much of, I don't know whether you ever watched Graham Norton, but at the end of the Graham Norton show they have the red chair. When you were doing that, the first thing I thought of was Graham Norton, which is less execution and more just public humiliation, but it was a similar action in terms of how you would end there. If you had someone then, just to layer on to this question.  Who would you like to see last night following the gong as you put it? Someone I really like. No, of course, but no, you'd get to choose. Stephen Pena. You'd want Stephen Pena to pull the gong. I'd be like, I love you lad. What I was going to say is, before that millisecond where he goes gong, if I have an art, I'm hoping up until that point that someone could still walk in and go stop. We've got this. We need him for 1878. He's been part of this. He's going to pull a cat record in 20 minutes. I'm like, help me. I could still be innocent. You know what I mean? OK, OK. But if it wasn't, you'd want Stephen Pena to be the person that pulled it. Dave, would you have any preference for anybody? Hang on, hang on, hang on. You were just about to say, Dave, have you thought about this before? Was what you were? And the answer, the simple answer is no. Weirdly, I haven't thought about who I would choose if anybody in the world to be my executioner and the final face that I see before I car kill. But if we're going to go for this theme, then I don't know, Peter Reid, because you know, I also reckon that Peter would bring in a nice bottle of red or something like that, you know, and would be the sort of bloke that would share it as well. Have a quick glass with you. Absolutely. If you're going to go have a nice glass of red with Reedy. That would be all right. That would be all right. You can be like, I'll be shocked if this doesn't work. And you'll be like, oh. That's good. Fair play. Two great shots. I'm choosing a man to hold. Danny Staples says, did you ever borrow a long play VHS and try to play it on a short play VHS player by mistake? This is, I guess this is more to me and you, Dave. Ned won't know what VHS is. No, I used to have VHS. I just don't know what a short long tape is. There was two different types. You're not entirely alone there, Ned, because I don't, I mean, I've heard of both of them. I don't really, was a long play, did that play slower? Yeah, I think so. And I think it was just, it was to give you more recording time. I think. So, but it was the same. I think the heads went round slower maybe. Maybe, yeah. The answer to that, Danny, is no. I'm afraid for me. It's a no for me, Dan. It's a no for me. And a no for him, Ned. Not so pair palach i wedi ni. Apparently it's still alive. Apparently. There was rumours that he'd met his demise the other week, but apparently that's not true. No, pair palach i. No, not so pair palach i. No, I'm not so pair palach i. Quite clearly it's still alive. Because he's message us. Because if he's message us from the grave, haven't had the thing pulled by Stephen Pena, then fair play, it's all, you know, the circle of life or not life.  Could you work this issue towards a long term relationship? No. No, okay. No, no. There you go. Quick answer, no. Marcus says, if you could only eat one colour food for a whole year, what colour and why would you choose, like brown, like chocolate, sausage, steak, et cetera, white, chicken, rice, polo, mint, he put polos in, tremendous. So one colour food, what food colour would it be? I want to think outside the box here.  What is the blue then? Blue cheese. I don't know any blue food. So every time I eat I'd be surprised. I'd be like, oh, I've never had this. Berries, yeah. I've never had a blue berry. Blue smarties. Blue smarties. I could be like, I could not. I don't know the chocolates inside, but they are blue on the outside. Well, you know. Dave, if you had to choose one colour, what would it be for a year? Well, interestingly, I've actually just given up eating red meat only as a Friday. But this is a new thing for me. Okay, yeah. So I'm now going to just eat chicken, turkey, fish and veggie stuff. Okay. As a new initiative. So I don't know. I mean, if you had to choose one colour, it's difficult, isn't it? I mean, I suppose the one that would look the most impressive and look the healthiest would be green. But yeah. And that will be the healthiest for you. Probably would be the healthiest. So I suppose green would be the answer because you wouldn't want to say, you know, you're thinking about chicken. You wouldn't want to say white, would you? I don't want to just eat white food. No. But then I wouldn't say brown either because all of the fun brown things, you know, I'm not really on. So. So we're going with green. Let's go with green. I think so. My answer. Peter says it. Does Ned think he could take Dave in a cage fight? Dave Viti. Yeah. Probably. Yeah. Because he's just a fountain creator. I think Dave's had enough experience because Dave couldn't even take on a hole in the wall. I see what he's done now. I do. I see what he's done there. See what he's done there. I think Dave did take the hole in the wall on first. I think the question we need to ask could Dave take on two giraffes? No, I can. So I'm obviously more tougher than Dave. Would Dave take on a seagull because you are obsessed with fighting the seagull? Do you know what? I'll back Dave against like 10 seagulls. Obviously I could take on about 100. But I reckon Dave could take a few seagulls. I don't think he could take 10 or? No, I don't think so. You've spent enough time. I'm not saying I'm not saying you get the better of Dave. I just think the awkwardness of trying a battle with that many seagulls. It's a mob mentality. This is a problem, you know, and this is when they go for people on the beach with their ice creams, is that obviously one comes in and take them then the others, kind of attack it and use it and all this.  It is a team sport. It is a team sport. Also, on the subjects of seagulls, is it just me or are they getting statistically bigger as time goes on? In other words, are the seagulls now bigger than they were 10 years ago and 20 years ago? Because they seem to me that some of them are almost the size of an average-sized dog. Are we just getting smaller? Maybe. No, but I do shrink if we get older. I'll be honest. I do think you're probably right, Dave. I think they are getting bigger. Some of them, you see it. They are, hence. It's not just everything that can fly is getting bigger. Bees are like that. I don't think they're quite that big. Are we playing to get them bigger? Yeah, that's true. I mean, you know what I'll do as a special gift is maybe I'll do some research on the size of seagulls over the past 30 years. I think they're getting bigger. Sorry, not next year. We can't wait until next year, next week, even. That will be a long study you're doing there. There might be a lot of information. For a year. Like a seagull thesis. It will be a thesis, but literally a dissertation on seagull size. Seagull size on paddleboards by David Vitty. Mick says, what is the strangest food combination you enjoy? Now, this will be you more than I think me and Dave. Last night, I had an omelet and four potato waffles. See, that works for me, I think. That's amazing. I always like a pizza. Sometimes if I can't decide between a kebab shop or a Chinese, I'll get both. You'll get a Chinese with a kebab? Not a kebab, I'll get a burger or a cheesy garlic bread. And a Chinese with it. You do have some strange combinations.  Is anybody else not eat rice? Just rice.  I couldn't decide whether I wanted salt and pepper chicken with egg fried rice or burger chips. You didn't get it. What you did was you got fried rice and a burger. That is not a pre-match meal. It's protein, carbs and juices. It's the dryness that comes to me with that. If you had some sauce involved, for example, if you were having the rice, but then you had some, I don't know, sweet and sour sauce or black bean sauce or teriyaki sauce or something, and that would make it all right. But it's the dryness of just plain rice, which would be my biggest worry. It's potato. When I see it on the plate, I'll be honest, it unsettled me. But it's egg fried. It unsettled me. It looked. It gave me serial killer vibes. The fact that you were having dry rice.  I thought that you were a potential killer. I'm there for somebody to be concerned about.  Just fried rice. No-one was trying to kill you, but it looked worrying. I did say to see it at the time, and you did then sit there complaining that you didn't feel very good when you were going to play football. No-one's ever had a bake for a pre-match meal. That was because it was 30 degrees outside. And you had three layers on. You didn't know what layer to take on. On your paddle board. I didn't film a footy pod that day. You didn't. Anyway Ned, I'd like to say it's been a pleasure having you on. But it's been alright. I'll be honest. It's been okay. I was hoping you'd bring a little bit more comedic value to it. But you were up against obviously someone who was known as Comedy Dave. So I understand why you realised. That was an entirely ironic title anyway. Well, you say that. Nothing to fear here. I think you are quite amusing Dave. My comedy is not for an afternoon show. I won't lie. It's not for any show I'll be honest. When all the cameras are off, it's when you come through. Right. That is us for this week. We will be back next week. But we won't be talking about any event games. We will be looking ahead to Maisie Side Dabia. You're matching for about four seconds. And we'll be talking about Peds Trip to France. We will. Peds Trip to France. And Dave Siegel study. Oh yeah. I'll present my thesis. The thesis next week. It'll be amusing. And England. Yeah. Like you said, we'll be talking Peds. And Dave Siegel study. We will be on the agenda next week. David Witty. Thank you very much. As always. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for everyone who's listening. Subscribe. Comment. Like. Five stars. Share. Do all of that good stuff. And we'll see you next week. Bye.