Good morning, everybody. I'm Tim Berglund, the chair of the House Energy and Technology Committee. It is Friday, May 21st. It is our 1030th hearing. We actually hadn't posted this hearing with a much advanced notice. And I think the floor is going to be in and out today as we work on kind of final budget things and some, a few final bills that we've got to get done. I wanted the opportunity for our committee to meet what's probably going to be the last time for this session. And actually just to talk about a few different things, primarily some of the artificial intelligence things that we've looked at in recent months, I think we started taking testimony on those two bills and just the issue generally, probably late March. So we looked at that over the course of maybe a half dozen hearings or so. And I know that there's interest on several members of our committee to do some work on that legislatively. And my ambition is that we do do work on that in January. And I'm hopeful that we will be able to pass a bill in January. In recent weeks, I have been having kind of off-camera conversations with Representative Sims and Representative Rogers, just about this topic generally. And they have been very helpful in finding people to come testify and scheduling things. And we've had some, I think we had one conversation informally with a couple of folks at ADS. This was probably back in April now, but it was just helpful in helping me put together some of the discussion we've had in committee. And actually, I sent members an email at about 20 after 10 this morning. And I included in there a half dozen questions, again, that were just meant to prompt conversation. And I don't expect us to have a real deep conversation on this topic this morning. But I know that Representative Sims and Representative Rogers are interested in doing some work on this topic in the off-session. And I think it would be helpful to give a little feedback. We don't have to stick to these questions. But, you know, these are kind of high-level prompts for the conversation. What I would also say is there is no pride of authorship here. I know that Lucy and Catherine are eager and happy to work with any committee members who want to work on this topic in the off-session. So I intend to stay in touch with them here and there just to hear what they're working on, working our way towards a piece of legislation that our committee can react to in January. But I would encourage any and all committee members who would like to do some more work on this to touch base with Catherine and Lucy because I know, as I said, they're interested in pushing this forward in our off-session. So one of the things that I want to have us have us spend our time on today is I've got a few other things as well. But I don't want to let the session end without thinking about some of these things. So, since this is a public hearing, I'm going to read some of these questions because they haven't been posted to our website. There were two bills that are on our wall right now, H263, which more deals with the artificial intelligence inventory, H410, which is more focused on setting up an artificial intelligence commission that would work to guide state government on policies and issues related to artificial intelligence. And as I said, I'd sent members some questions, should we be working toward one bill or keeping these two bills separate? That's something that has come up occasionally in recent weeks and months in our committee. The second question was ADS had suggested including flexibility in creating the inventory to account for unexpectedly difficult tasks and or withholding information that causes a security concern to disclose. H263 was very specific on inventory requirements. How prescriptive do we want to be in that bill? And then a third question was ADS suggested keeping the inventories and nuts and bolts presentation of where we are now, moving the pieces that have to do with ethical judgment making over to the committee's jurisdiction. I'm not sure if that was very quick, but committee thoughts on that and do we generally agree. Next question, what's the vision for the inventory going forward? Should this be something that we add a request for feedback from ADS on whether and how frequently it should be updated? Where should the AI commission be housed? ACCD, ADS somewhere else? You might recall that the commission, the task force that we'd set up a few years ago, I believe was housed in ACCD. And finally, are there any other comments on the makeup or duties of the commission? Economic development as part of the commission's charge. That was something that we heard some testimony on that there is a burgeoning industry in the state of Vermont that deals in these areas. Yeah, and those were meant to be prompts more than anything that, you know, we don't have to stick to those particular questions, but I'd be interested in feedback, particularly as we think about these issues in the obsession. So, Laura. Great. I would love to see us. I'd love to see us kind of go go big with one bill. And break it apart if we need to. The other thing that I would just like to encourage us to think about as we're doing this is we're going to learn a lot. I think we're learning that, you know, there's not a lot of, there aren't a lot of paths to follow in consideration of either of these. So I would, I don't, you know, I'm kind of torn. I don't know if we actually want to keep it as specific the inventory, as we have it to kind of see what comes out of the woodwork and reaction to that, or, you know, if we want to go, if we want to go I guess my inclination might be to be more specific and just see, you know, what is the shape of interest in this discussion. I mean, I don't even feel like we have a good grasp on that, like what is who's going to be interested in this. Right. So, and then, I don't, I don't really know where this AI Commission should be housed, you know, in, I don't think it's 80. Well, I don't know. I don't know. I will mention something. And I would ask Catherine and Lucy to make sure my memory is correct here. As I said, we'd had kind of an off camera and on camera. We had ADS in here a couple of weeks ago to talk about this issue. So I got an email from, I think it was from Mark at ADS, but basically saying that, you know, my sense was that they are ready and willing to go on an inventory, and that they have, you know, some very, this sounds doable was the feedback I was getting from him. My concern that I had a month ago was, well, what kind of can of worms are we opening here is this going to even be able to be accomplished. And I thought we got some very positive feedback from him being an email saying we can do this. I think the direction would be helpful, but it's yet, yeah, and throughout other agencies. You know, and I worry less about economic development being part of the commission's charge and more about understanding, you know, just understanding more about the effects on society and what it is that we should be watching for and regulating. I think that this, this is going to continue to evolve and, you know, entrepreneurs are going to continue to to develop AI, you know, without, without our assistance, you know, I mean, I think so, so I'm less concerned in terms of economic development, good to know how our, how our businesses are using it, but you know, I feel like this is a public a public, public safety public privacy issue. Largely. So I think that's all I have to say right now. Okay, but but I will bookmark on that last point you made. I think we've acknowledged the different points in this discussion in recent months that exactly that point that quite possibly this bill in these issues they dip into the Commerce Committee they dip into the Judiciary Committee and and there may be others as well that we want to keep keep on the radar representative Yes, I'll piggyback on top of ours comment, especially the last one. I think Adam sent around link to or at least a reference to the 60 minutes program last Sunday where they were talking about a facial recognition system and how it because of reliance solely on the computer. I wound up identifying people incorrectly, and they're getting arrested and held and everything else even though they had nothing to do with the particular particular crime. So, one thing that I would like to see is an emphasis. When we do an inventory of the state systems. What what systems are we using that rely solely on our computer output to make a decision that materially affects people. And ensure that we always have human review of that particular decision. So whether it's facial recognition whether it's determination of somebody getting benefits or anything else I think I think it's necessary to include a human element in there to review the output. Make sure that you know whatever the computer decided isn't a glitch. And the other thing is, I think we should. I think the commission should be tasked with creating ethical guidelines for commercial development. And I don't think we can go much further than that because we don't really have control over private enterprise. I'm not sure how much how much farther we could actually exert influence on that, but I think we should definitely state where we think the ethical limits are. And I would say in that last point Mike I can't remember who the witness was but I had never thought of regulation this way but I thought it was an interesting context. And the witness had had mentioned that one of the precursors to regulation and government action is oftentimes kind of setting these ethical guidelines and frameworks for how to think about this stuff. And in the future that might might evolve into some more direct government action but that was something that was an interesting concept as to what the work of the commission. If we set up a commission that you know sets up some of some ethical guidelines so Lucy and then Catherine. I was, I was going to say if you know I'm sorry a little bit further. If we have the ethical guidelines. I don't think I don't think government interference wouldn't necessarily be required, unless we see a violation of those guidelines that is serious enough for us to react to it so. In that case, you know we see, we see that happening in terms of use of force and police departments and things like that. We reacted by two to violations of what we think is proper. And it's set up numerous new restrictions as a result. Lucy and then Catherine. Yeah, I pretty much agree with everything. Lauren Mike's comments and I particularly I've been kind of thinking about the economic development piece a little bit and it might be nice to get a little some some feedback from the Commerce and Economic Development Committee, because I do feel strongly that that's not my area of expertise but wondering if at this point it's not quite the right time to be thinking about that side of things and maybe kind of watching as things develop, whether there's a role for us later on but you know at this point in time it seems like kind of this train is coming whether we encourage it or not so that was just that was just a thought and then I, I'm leaning. I've been putting quite a bit of thought into where the Commission should live. And at this point I'm leaning towards agency of digital services if they'll if they'll have it. And I think I might have said this before but the reason for me is, you know, in talking with agency and digital of digital services about what it is and is not appropriate for them to be doing with the AI inventory, and you know hearing loud and clear from them, we can tell you the technology we have, we are not set up and don't have the training or expertise to make any ethical decisions here. I think for me that really that I was, I was appreciative of them kind of just laying that out but to me that kind of emphasize that it could be really positive to have the commission housed at ADS because I think it would be good to have the people who understand the technology, and the people who have the expertise in understanding the ethics of the technology together in one place. So, I guess those are the kind of reflections I've been having. I'm just appreciating this this conversation and agree with much of what is said and that the sort of first focus of the commission can be setting this ethical guidelines framework and then that probably, you know, might lead to future policy work. One of the other things that commission is asked to do is to produce reports on educational opportunities and business growth opportunities. I was also wondering whether we might want to consider adding to that list of a future of work issues I think we've heard from a number of our colleagues about how work is changing. And I appreciated the owner of Faraday's sort of call that we not just be the horse and buggy folks I call all changes bad, but sort of embrace that this is change that is happening, and that, you know, probably folks have to sit on tolls, you know, to take change and you know using automation for that is a really good thing but how do we help train and create future, you know high quality work opportunities for folks so I'd love to you know maybe think about how the commission is as strategic as possible in the reports that it produces and again sort of agree that the focus should be on those ethical guidelines. That's it I'm wondering whether there are some additional actions we might want the commission to take immediately. What I'm thinking about is procurement policies and again I don't know whether that lives within ADS, although I think I heard ADS saying we're happy to sort of host this but we want to be maybe informed and guided by a commission that has broader expertise and sort of live on this work and so wonder whether we might want to think about the commission, helping inform a set of procurement policies for the state for when it, you know chooses to procure software that has AI technology, and maybe one last thing I would add. I'm curious whether there might be an immediate legislative piece around transparency of when AI systems are used and whether that's something that could be within the purview of state government is that we sort of require that when decisions and maybe it's only for the kind of high stakes algorithms around Liberty finances and livelihood but you know when an AI decision making system automated decision making system is making the decision based on someone's livelihood, you know, should we consider kind of really in the short term requiring at least some transparency around that. Yeah, just thoughts I wanted to share. Yeah, now that's a good one and I heard some of that in in Mike's comments as well that you know that that there needs to be a threshold. In addition to policies there needs to be a threshold when people's livelihoods when when people's kind of personal well being is being is being affected by these things. Okay. Great. That's helpful to me. I've been taking notes here on people's thoughts. So again, my, you know Lucy and Catherine have reached out to me with great interest in working on this in the off session, and, you know, maybe we'll touch base a few times. And just, you know, to kind of continue this conversation and I would welcome and encourage members who are interested in also kind of doing a deep dive on this to reach out to them to, you know, kind of coordinate some work on this. So, so thank you for that that this was helpful for me just kind of been bringing my kind of centering me on this and kind of thinking about what's got to be done and again I've told you my ambitions as committee chair which is I would like to pass a piece of legislation on this in the community. And I think it's very, very, very important. Because I would like to see the, the judiciary committee and the commerce committee, perhaps take a peek at this and, and one other thing that I think hadn't been flagged but I want to flag is the potential for, you know, if we do a commission, it's really ought to be a modest appropriation to support that work and so ultimately this may potentially wind up in the appropriations committee, which is another reason I would like to kind of accelerate this work to get in the front of the line, so to speak, as the appropriations committee starts their work in late, late January on the budget. Catherine is your hand still up from before. Okay, Mike and then Laura. I'm interested in what kind of work during the summer. Lucy and Catherine might be undertaking my mind might be interested. Okay, well then, as I said I would encourage you to reach out to him. Laura and then Sally. I'm interested but I cued in Mr chair on the judiciary and commerce aspects of your comments. And I'm wondering if we have talked with anyone on those committees. I'm just to maybe have them kind of toggle along on that summer fall. So you know what I will do on our committee's behalf and whatever where I will reach out to the chairs of those committees so I will reach out to Maxine grad and to, to Mike and see, you know, as those things have crossed their plates. I don't know if AI ever wound up any place and go well must have this. If the task force was an ACCD a few years ago. I'm guessing that there was someone in that committee who may have looked under the hood so let me reach out. Let me reach out to them. And if there are members who have a particular interest, I'll come back to you all. So that's a great suggestion. My comment is also just that I would be interested in looking for the tasks are in everything so Lucy and Catherine put my name down. Awesome. Okay, I'm making a note. It's not even a to do list it's like a to do binder that I have going here. Yeah, Mr chair need some time off this summer. Long year and a half. Goodness, great. Okay, well thank you for that discussion. You know a couple other things that that I wanted to mention to Mike is your hand up from before for it is but I want to I want to make one more comment and please go ahead. If a number of us are planning to get together we've got to worry about a quorum of our committee. And we wouldn't want to have five people meeting without some public notice. Let me also reach out to the speaker on that and see what we can do. And we can get groups of two. Right. Do that. Subcommittee. I don't know the answer to that I think it's an important concern. But let me ask, let me ask about that. I would say, Mr chair that my interest is in kind of keeping along with the education aspect so you know as there are things that are being read or or things to kind of keep along with that. Well, and that that's another possible angle that you know this work group could could do is is maybe each particular meeting is focusing on a particular topic that maybe one or two folks don't, you know, are less interested in and wouldn't wouldn't join that discussion. So that might be another way to handle. Let me just check in with the speaker on that. I mean, I'll tell you in the off session in previous years. I don't know. Yeah, I've definitely met with large groups of legislators to talk about a particular piece of legislation. And I can't recall if there are issues around corn things there. So, I, I'm going to say that that is going to end our kind of formal policy stuff for today. I did want to take a few minutes as a committee. And again acknowledging this is probably the last time we're going to meet this session. And I know Matthew's camera is not on but to express a heartfelt thank you to Matthew for the work you've done to kind of keep us in gear. And, you know, in some ways I feel bad that we haven't had the opportunity to, and this actually goes for Sally and Catherine as well as new members of the legislature, but, but importantly for Matthew that we haven't had an opportunity to sit in the same room and work together and I feel like the, the job of committee assistant that Matthew has had to do, he has had to kind of make up as he's gone along, there is no playbook to how to do this. And so, just in so many ways. And, you know, I've probably worked more closely with Matthew than anybody on the committee just in terms of, you know, getting all the organizational things around the committee done, and Matthew you have done an extraordinary job, I am so appreciative of the work you've done just kind of keeping our committee on the rails, so to speak. And, you know, one of the, you know, there are a handful of committee assistants who have been in the legislature, probably, I don't know if it's for decades but for a long time. And, you know, I don't know if it's a career path that people consider, it's pretty hard to make a living on five months a year work, but somehow I'm hopeful. I think the opportunity avails itself that you'll be back with us next year, because you've done awesome work, and I'm hopeful we're going to be working in person, and then we'll be able to get a chance to sit in the same room with you. And hopefully it's not that room, but at any rate, I just again wanted to formally and publicly thank you for incredible work this year. So, yay. On a less formal note. I wasn't sure I was going to bring this up but Laura and Avram and I, as we were waiting in a zoom room I can't remember when it was Monday or Tuesday night this week on the conference committee. I made a note and I mentioned them there's something I've got to bring up to the committee. So, it's a little inside joke that my family has been playing this year, and I'll just share it with you now.  And we were talking about when there's a hostage video. What, you know what the hostage does to kind of signal to people in the public that you know that they're being held hostage and that anything they're saying is not actually to be taken seriously. What we came down to in there. They also laugh about how, how badly I dress, but the dare of me wearing the exact same tie and jacket and shirt every day of the session which I'm hopeful today is the last day, which I have actually accomplished if you'll go back and look that I have worn the exact same time and jacket. Actually, I have a couple of different white shirts so this is not the exact same shirt. The other part of that bet that came up was then acknowledging how ridiculous I looked in the same thing every day. Will anyone actually bring it up that dad you are wearing the exact same tie and jacket every.  So nobody's done it nobody's called out but I've worn the exact same time. Very specific order. Yeah, I thought there were rules that we had to do this. If you were a G, you know, I know I'm new. So anyway, the cat is out of the bag. You don't have your hand. I, yeah, I got to admit that I've relegated myself only a couple of shirts. Usually it's the same tie. And one thing I told my wife also made the comment should be wearing the same thing every day. I said, you know, I don't know. I don't think guys notice what people are wearing, but women might and I don't know whether they'd make a comment but I certainly wouldn't notice what other people are wearing every day. Well, I also I will chime in and say I absolutely did not notice but would have fully endorsed it had I noticed. And yeah, I think I excitedly anticipate the time in our society when women can also do that and have nobody notice. Exactly. Not at all. Well, I had to share that way. I almost broke that out with with Avram and with Laura the other night I was like, yeah, I'm going to share this with the committee. Being let out of his confinements today. I thought your hostage look with the with the beard shave.  That was amazing. That was spectacular. Truly. Yeah, that was hostage life worthy. Yeah, I've still got some of those pictures so Catherine and Sally maybe you haven't seen those I had a beard kind of down to my, you know, it was down here, it was not pretty. It was, it was awesome. The other thing that I want to share with committee more on a serious note, although semi serious but the sentiment is serious, which is the, I don't even know how many there are I think there's 14 chairs meet every week and you know it's it's kind of a policy discussion it's kind of a. It's kind of a Kovac session. It's kind of a planning session. But, you know, also people talk about, you know, challenges that they have working in committee and in two senses, in one sense I would say that conversation has been foreign to me, and, and in one sense, it's actually been a great conversation and what's been kind of considering. It's not a lot but some committee chairs talk about challenges that they have in kind of working with their committee and how great this committee has been to work with. And it's not that we, you know, always agree on things but I think it's been an incredibly respectful committee, I think it's been a committee that asked really good questions people kind of show up ready to do work, and it's just been a great conversation to work with. And that's my kind of subjective view on that I will also say objectively feedback that I've gotten from either people who testify in our committee or other chairs, or other members of the legislature who come and share with us how impressed people are with our committee. And that personally makes me feel good. But I think you all should feel good as well that people look at this committee and think that's a committee that does good work that is prepared that is respectful I like going and I think we have a lot of time there. And, and I think we do do good work. And so I just want to share that great feedback that I've gotten and and share with you I think it's, you know, something we should all be proud of. So, and keep up the good work. So I want to share that publicly with you. I'll just say that that I'm looking forward to getting together at Catherine's in June, because I think it'd be great, just for all of us to get together in person. Really missing that. Yeah, yeah, I'm, I am so hopeful we can get together next year. And if we do, one of the things that I'm getting a sense for is that if we do meet in person. There's no way they're going to let us meet in a smaller committee room as we have so we might have that to might have that to look forward to. So, anyway, I just saw. Yeah, go ahead, Catherine. Yeah, really looking forward to hosting everyone. It's been such a strange situation to join the legislature in this year and have most of the interaction be you know through through the, the zoom tile so really looking forward to having you all I'll send directions and more details and probably next week, give a little bit of time to unplug that. Yeah. Maybe I'll just put in a plug I sent this out by email to the all house but really inspired by. I think Commissioner Snyder is testimony in our committee for Rygate around the forest economy and the challenges it faces. Red Wing caucus had him in to talk a little bit more depth with the caucus about some of the issues and a group of folks from Red Wing wanted to do more learning this summer and so if any of you all are interested in meeting in person it cool sites across Vermont this summer and learning more about the issues of the forest economy. Let me know if you haven't already. I will say as an aside on that. There are a couple of folks, one ledges one senator and two folks in the private kind of private sector who are trying to schedule. We're trying to schedule me as chair of this committee for a visit to the Rygate plant, which I've never been to. And if the opportunity arises, I'd be happy to, you know, to extend that invitation to people who would be interested in seeing that so, okay, well I will send that around if that's something that we're able to do. But that was going to be sometime this summer. I think I mentioned that as a suggestion for the rural economic, you know, working group. As well. Since it seems like we're winding down. You know, I just want to on behalf of the committee. I think there's probably unanimous consensus. Thank you to your leadership and guidance and sense of humor and poker face are really. They are extraordinary. Catherine and Sally, I mean, truly, you are lucky to have had Tim be your first chair and and thank you, Tim. Yeah, thank you for that. It's just a great group of people to work with. So looking forward to 20, I want to publicly say something too because obviously being new. And at the very beginning, everybody would say, well, usually we do, but not this year because it's going to be different. So I had no idea what to expect. And I feel so fortunate to have been assigned to this committee where, as you said, Mr. Chair, we don't always agree, but we've been able to talk respectfully and come up with a solution. And I'm just, as I said, I feel very fortunate to have been assigned to work with you all. Thank you, Sally. That's great to hear. So that's all I got for this morning. And this, as I said, this is probably the last time we're going to meet. So hope to, you know, for folks who can make it to Catherine's in a few weeks look forward to seeing you there. And a couple of things I'm going to check in and probably email folks on in terms of, you know, with the speaker in terms of how folks might be able to or not be able to work over the summer on some things and I'll get back to you on that. And that's it. Have a happy summer.


What part do you like? He eats pumpkin top? Shocking. I know. Shocking. Shocking, I like Thanksgiving meal. I know. It's all. Do you put cream on it? It just depends. Put as much as you need. All right, D-Led. Jarvis is very anti-puking part of this. Yeah, Coach, want to be some of the keys to get ready for Jacksonville and get my office going with the offensive team. Sure, D-Led. It's like every week you got to prepare. We need to have a good week of practice. We need to get back to playing smarter football, which I felt like we did, for the most part, through a six-game stretch. We went four and two. I thought we played pretty good. Like I said, we did a little obstacle. But what we did do, we got to get back to work. We got to play smarter, get an execute better. We got to coach smarter, all the above. But it's going to start today out of practice. That's the way we prepare. As every week, you have to deal with different issues, different schemes you're playing, different match-ups, and that's life in the NFL. But we're excited to get back to work today. In the start of the game by game, y'all were hot near top, but we were there for a second. Now look at what was working there. Absolutely. But to recapture that? Absolutely, D-Led. And there's some things that we got to do better. We understand that there's different challenges every week, certain match-ups up front, or maybe the cover schemes or the players you're playing. Certainly, we need to get back to what I said. We got to get back to playing smarter, which we've had, for a six-game stretch, that we need to get back to this week. And yeah, we did do a good job on Monday about asking about Matt Ryan's foot and Kodaro and any other injury updates for him. Daniel Mahoff will, I guess, be with you. They'll be out there today. We'll evaluate them day to day. But they'll be out there today. Michael? Yeah, I guess when you look at Matt Ryan, I mean, is there any real concern that he wouldn't be available on Sunday? I mean, again, the longer you're in this league, Michael, strange things happen. So, you know, I feel pretty good about it. But as always, you've got to have a consistency plan. So, in case something happens to any of your players, but I feel pretty good. If the guy's a practicing, usually it's a good sign. And as far as, is there more that you can do to get Matt, for Matt to get any more protection? There's a lot of things you can do. Like I said, just from top-bottom, like I said, when we've played pretty smart and we've executed well, it's looked pretty good. We have, and it's looked like it has the last two weeks. But I'm confident we'll get back on track and it gets a good opponent and a really important game for us Sunday. Do you feel like you found a defensive identity? Well, that's what you're building. Which is still, you know, it's still a work in progress and really in all three phases. We want to get to the point where the most physical, smartest team on the field. And, you know, at times we've shown flashes in certain situations and other times we have. And I think when we didn't, and that was going back to Thursday, it was the most disappointing. You're playing a really good team, a championship caliber defense, and a good team that's historically won a lot of games, and you make those minor mistakes, you deserve to lose. And that's what's frustrating because we have done it at times. If we hadn't all year and you're saying the same song and dance and you're selling hope and this and that, but we have done it. It's a grind in NFL season. That's what I was saying. There's gonna be little obstacles in the way. We got to work through them and I'm confident that we will. Using the word playing smarter or being smarter. Yes. I'm assuming you're talking about the self-inflicted wounds and the situation with the ball, but what are you kind of meaning when you're talking about playing smarter? There's a lot of different examples. Getting your depth on a route. So it's a game within the games that you don't realize, you know, if you get your depths, a lot of times you can save yourself for some of those short yard situations and stay on track, right? And you become more efficient. And it's a minor detail, but they all matter when you talk about timing and spacing and trust in the passing game. And that's a small example. Or understanding the call we need to make protection wise, getting on the same page and making it. So you can have better protection. So you're gonna avoid some of the, you don't give the defensive advantage in certain situations. Those are all little details. That's why football's so fun. I mean, you love that people love this game and there's so many variables. It's so different than any other sport. Because those little details, the games of the game that you have no idea unless you're sitting in a meeting room, you don't know what's being asked. You got a general idea. Most people that played, you got a general idea. But so you're running a six man protection. There's teams week to week, they tweak things, you may ask for something. And if you don't execute it, it can look pretty bad. And that's the fun part about football and really pro football. But those are the things that we can be smarter about. What percentage of that is the way that you operate out here versus the people that you bring in? So how much of it is the people? How much of it can you develop? That is a great question. And that's the truth.  I mean, I think for the most part, we got the right guys. Certainly, you need the right people. It's not, I didn't go to med school so I don't do heart transplants. But you try to have that culture, you try to get the right people in there and there's an identity that way you want to play. Because year over year, especially at the end of the season, that's what can wear people down. But it definitely goes hand in hand. Definitely goes hand in hand. I always use an analogy.  Same thought. That's a good question, guys. How then do you develop it so with the people? Well, it's, you know, you want to get the right people, you want to have the right culture and you got to hold everybody to the same standard. Or if you want to use that word, which is a trendy word, but that is true. You can't start making exceptions.  You always talk about, you know, it's season we can meet for goals and we can play games in a field. How do you convey that wishes to your team kind of helping them understand that for goalers or the record that Jack was having, like, this is a game that you got to be ready for? You would hope, I think, for all of us in life, it's about perspective. I think there's no, and the football is just kind of a microcosm of it, right?   So I think there's plenty of examples of history in a lot of different industries. Or you look at, you know, seasons of the past, you're not the first team to ever start 0-2. You're not the first team that started 4-6 and then made a run and got to the playoffs. So there's a historical precedent there too and you got to keep things in perspective. So I think that's one thing and it's the hardest thing to do because what people normally want to do is you want to relax and be comfortable. And NFL is a grind and like you said, if you don't bring it, it doesn't matter what your record is going into a game. It's pro football. You can be a humble to the heartbeat and you can't ever lose sight of that. And we've got counting examples. You just look at this season for us. So that's a big part of it. But I think perspective is such a big part of life and especially in this game. Do you feel more of a passing? Yeah, I thought Q, he ran hard. It was good to see. I thought he was coming up physical. I thought he ran physical. You know, he's a guy that's worked through it, but hasn't been the probably easiest season for him. You know, it's not, it's a hard job. We understand he's NFL, but guys like him who go through the ups and downs and the journey of the roster, but I thought he certainly earned the right for more carries and we just have to see how the game plan goes and how his week goes. There's a lot of things. There's a lot of things that can break down on a play. Again, you don't, unless you're in the meeting rooms, you don't understand, you know, what you think you see is not necessarily what really happened. You look at it again, like the ones that are night, you gotta give, again, the defense has a say in it too, and for you, you can't forget that. Certainly when it doesn't work and that's the job you signed up for, okay, why didn't, no, I didn't work. Was it a bad, was it a poor scheme? Was it a poor matchup that we execute?  Or they throw a different look at you. If somebody gets beat up front, there's a lot of things to attribute to it. And then other times, again, when you've got really, I always thought the outliers, you know, it doesn't matter what you call. Sometimes you just got a great player, you know, and they're just gonna make a play. So there's a lot of factors that go into it. We start to look at it. You know, at times where you have a small lack of execution, there's a ripple effect to it. And that, certainly, that happened Thursday night. But there's been times we've been okay. Other times we need to get a lot better. More said, starting with him yesterday. Mm-hmm.  Correct. And sometimes, and that's the simplest answer, Dustin, I thought, and he has, he's putting pretty well for us lately, but we're still living through a pandemic, and I know there's things change daily, and so that's life, and that's reality. And so, obviously, Dustin goes on the COVID-R, and you've got to find a punter. And so Thomas, the guy that we've liked, that's why you have a good pro scouting staff, and everybody's on the same page, and you bring them in here. So we brought Thomas in here, and we brought Don Maggio back in here, and we'll just see how the week goes. Somebody's got a punt. Hopefully we're not putting a lot, but somebody's got a punt. They did this, and they did this, and it's manner's on, but how are y'all trying to get him one least here, again? D-Led, it's pretty simple, man. Like, we try to get all her players open. There's never a lack of intent. We like calling up all over the field.  Sometimes it's not necessarily the route. It takes all 11 in the passing game. You know, if you have a breakdown of protection or somebody wins, and the route doesn't have a chance to develop. Or if he doesn't run a good route. So that's the thing too. Again, you can, a still picture in this game doesn't tell you the whole thing would happen. Again, you don't know what we're asking to do. Guy could be short on a route. Doesn't take the right release. He said the defense has a say too. Like all these guys, we work really hard every day to try to get them open. And, you know, it takes all 11. It's a coordinated effort from all of us, you know, players and coaches. And on the surface, when they see the end result, and he runs away from somebody the first play of the Dallas game, you know, it looks pretty damn good. But there's several factors to it. He lines up all over the place. But as a team, I know the focus, I know the hype. He's a rookie, but as an offense, we gotta play better. And that's everybody. So, you know, anything else you got to add to that? I mean, it's more about. Yeah, the whole line, I'm just trying to make sure because, you know, he said it's hard to change the mid-season. And he said, schematic, tweak, it's down. I'm like, my brain's going, hey, he's staying with the line. They just got play back. We'll see you Sunday. Just gonna get a guess, and there's no update on the count. No, there's Monday. There's no update. So, as we get an update, we'll give you an update. There's no update. Yeah. As far as what your receivers are able to do, create a separation to run in the rounds, if you generally, how do you kind of assess or you could play history, what to see? Kind of the story of our season. The times just look pretty good. At other times, it needs to be better. And that's just what it is.  And that's usually a pretty good indicator when you're seeing some one-on-ones. You see it more on third down in certain situations. And, you know, you can do different things. And we certainly motion a lot. You play out a bunches and stacks. But when you're playing a really good defense and you're going one-on-one, you're gonna learn a lot about your player. It doesn't mean that that's the way it's gonna be because it didn't look good Thursday night. It doesn't mean that we can't go in there and play and improve. And obviously, you actually get better on Sunday. But that's a challenge week to week. And the other hard challenge is the focus for 17 games to bring it week after week, day after day. To all speed, kind of last third of the season of managing players, managing practices, is different coaches different? That's another good question. It just depends on your team where you're at. Where you're one, other than a few guys, we're a pretty young football team. So I think there's a constant evolution. We look at it every day. We track guys, workloads. A lot of thought goes into it. Obviously, everybody's dealing with injuries, so you gotta be smart. So you may wanna practice most of your team, but this guy may need to be limited just to get him managed maybe as a veteran and try to be progressive there. If you've got an older team, like I said, my first year in the league with Joe Gibbs, we had a very veteran team and he took a different approach, but we had a really veteran team. Right now we got a young team and so I think every coach, that's the fun part, you gotta make the best decision, but that's a constant evaluation. And, but I know this, most of our guys, we need to practice right now. But is that during a big-out season? Yeah. You go into the season saying, okay, if there are X, then I'm gonna do that. Like, do you plan all that well before the season were easy? You plan ahead, but there are certain things that happen. I mean, like, you may have injuries there and you need to get more work. And a guy that's a veteran to say, hey, maybe on November or on a Wednesday, we can help him rest. I know that's a popular word in sports. You talk about load management or whatever the term you wanna use, but resting and managing your players and know that they're all different. It's not one-sided if it's all, but overall, we're year one, we got a young team. We need to play a lot better and it starts with practice. But if you get to a certain point in your program, and again, you got 31 other flavors, then that's the fun part. And you wanna make sure it's what's best for your team or the health of your team's at, where you're at in the season, what you need to accomplish. Yeah, but. I mean, you know. No, I like it. I just, you know, it's, like I said, I think like most of the league, whether you structure a practice, I know the teams that play this right in your first year not covering Thanksgiving game. It's been a while. Yeah, it's been a while. So, I know I love Thanksgiving. You know, I wish I could see my whole family, but I got a job to do. And certainly the players and coaches, everybody will take time to hopefully eat with, they wanna eat with tomorrow after we put work in in the morning. I don't have a favorite Thanksgiving memory. Yeah, but, yeah, maybe Christmas maybe, but not Thanksgiving. Yeah, it was like a spade, like, you know, football game when you're like 10 or something. No, not that I remember. Yeah, practice, well, who's on practice? Do you know how many contact practices we have left? And Coach Taylor was saying he had the letter and we got three left, the rest of the way. Who's that? Well, Zach Taylor, he's on, you know. I'm good for Zach, yeah, yeah, that's pretty standard. No, you got my three left, or you need to stay with him, or? We'll just see how it goes, you got it. We're well aware of the rules, we're well aware of how many we've got left. Yes, correct. You just answered your own question. What do you need me for? What do you need me for? You just answered your own question. No, no, I got it here, they don't, they don't. No, no, no, I can't be like Chuck Nolan. We can't go full goal line on Friday, so. What you want to say? Sure, yeah. Everybody's playing by the same rules. He's trying to say anyway something here. No, no, I'm just kidding. Yeah, I mean, I think there's something wrong with you if you don't like mac and cheese. I must take a poll in here, like who doesn't like mac and cheese? Can we take a poll? Like who doesn't like mac and cheese all the way? Okay, let's just take a poll. It's one of those things, there's very few things that everybody can agree on these days. But I would think, I mean, there's probably somebody that's offended by it right now, but. Let's put it at this deal, I think 90% of people probably like mac and cheese, they don't, they don't, they're lying. Take me step one, like how are you going to go against anyone, attack that guy, and you've used that now to kind of like, as a coach, you kind of like regurgitate it. You just try to understand everybody's got different every issues, every player's a little bit different. What's their skill set? What are their strengths? Who their matchup is? What they're going against? Yeah, it's all taken account of. It's not one side, it's all.  I mean, he's got a live arm. I mean, he's a talented player, and I'm building to bet he's going to figure it out.  I can see why he was the first overall pick.  When he gets calling, he's a great athlete. He's got a live arm. But thanks to him, I know it's popular, but some people will say no to Turkey. What is his name? I'll eat Turkey. There's not a lot of things. As you can tell right here, that there's not a lot of things that don't. So, any more, any more food questions? All right, hope you guys have a good day.


Dropshipping on the Facebook Marketplace. You may know the Facebook Marketplace as a place to sell items that you have laying around the house to your local market. For example, anyone in your neighborhood would contact you on Facebook and let you know that they would like to pick up this item and it wouldn't go anywhere beyond that. But now we are proud to show you how you can dropship on the Facebook Marketplace and already start to implement automation settings that we already put inside the system. So watch this quick intro and let's begin. What is up everybody? Hope you're all having a wonderful day today. My name is Iran from AutoDS. I'm the Content Manager and I've also been dropshipping for the last several years. And this video is all about the Facebook Marketplace and better yet, how to dropship on the Facebook Marketplace and even already add in some automation settings. So as you know, the Facebook Marketplace is huge. Many people see it as a local marketplace for selling only products that are local in a close radius. But that is not completely true. Dropshippers are already starting to dropship on Facebook Marketplace and it's already starting to be a very profitable business method to adopt. Another thing that I love about the Facebook Marketplace is that you can get free organic traffic to your store by using the power of Facebook's groups. So you just find relevant groups that have to do with your niche and direct them to buy products from your Facebook store. On top of that, Facebook has really low fees for their Marketplace. Any order that you have on your store, you will only pay a 5% fee and that is all. If the product costs less than $8, your fee will be a fixed 40% instead of 5%. When we compare it to eBay and Shopify where the fees can easily climb to 9%, 10% and above, Facebook is cutting those fees by at least half and it makes it much more profitable to use their Marketplace. We're paying less fees and we're using the power of their Marketplace which is a huge, huge market which is completely untapped at this point. So yes, we are the early birds here and let's get the most out of what we can before all of our competitors start joining the fun. And right before we begin, I just want to remind you guys, if you are new to our YouTube channel, this is the part where you need to subscribe to always stay updated on all of the latest and all of the hottest topics that are coming out in the dropshipping world. So without further ado, let's get to the good stuff. Now currently there is no way to completely automate the Facebook Marketplace dropshipping but you know us here at AutoDS, we're always going to keep you one step ahead of your competition. We already integrated some semi-automation settings into the Facebook Marketplace so you can already start dropshipping and you can do things like import products to the Facebook Marketplace Store and price and stock monitoring in semi-automation which I will get to in just about a minute. Okay, so what can we do and how can we get it done? The first thing that you need to do is make sure that you have the AutoDS Chrome Helper extension installed. If you don't have it, just search Google for AutoDS Helper or use the link right below this video to download and install that Chrome extension. Once you install it, head over to the AutoDS platform. On the left side, click on settings and then go to plans and add-ons. Scroll down to the Facebook Marketplace plan and click on buy plan. What we're doing here is we're adding the Facebook plan to our AutoDS account so that we can start the automation process that we already have going on. So choose whichever package is good for you and once you click on the right package, go ahead and confirm the package settings and now as you can see we have a Facebook Marketplace plan available under our plans and add-ons for AutoDS. The next step is to add a Facebook Store to our AutoDS accounts so that we can keep progress of everything that's going on. So on the top left we're going to click on add store then we're going to click again on add store and on select store type we're going to choose Facebook Store. Now we're going to choose a name for our Facebook Store and this is only internal for AutoDS it will not show up on our Facebook account so I'm just going to call it my Facebook Store and click on add store. My Facebook Store has been successfully added and we can see it over here on the top left and here it is down here. The next step is to start adding products to our Facebook Store so let's go ahead and do that now. We'll begin by heading to Amazon and we'll search for a product to add to our Facebook Store. So let's head to the best sellers where we can always find some great hidden gems over here and we'll click on movers and shakers that will show us the most trending products from the last 24 hours. Now we'll head into some categories that are fit for dropshipping for example let's go into the home and kitchen and let's scroll a little bit and let's get these travel mugs that we're seeing over here. Okay so let's say that this is the product that I want to add to my Facebook Store. So the first thing that I want to do is grab the products URL or the product ID so I can either grab the whole URL or just the product ID the asin which is right over here. I can also use the import to autods button which is available through the extension that we installed and it'll just import to our store in just the click of a button but in this case I'm going to show you how to do it using the autods platform so we're going to head back to the platform and on the left side we'll click on add products and in the publish tool we're going to select our Facebook Store so here it is right here my Facebook Store I'm going to highlight it and click on next okay so we're publishing the product to my Facebook Store here we can enter the product URL or ID we can also upload a CSV file if we want to add multiple products to our store or use the autods finder if you don't have time for product research and you want autods to find and add those bestsellers for you so again for this example I'm going to add the products ID over here make sure that all of the information down here is correct the supplier is Amazon, Region United States and in advanced options we do not want to upload variations on Facebook because Facebook does not support variations but I will keep it on so just in case if you keep it on you'll see soon how you can add only a single product out of all of the variants to the Facebook Marketplace so I'm going to keep this on for now but remember that Facebook Marketplace does not support variations and we're not going to allow out of stock variations so go over the correct settings that you want for your store click on next here we won't really be using a product template because Facebook's Marketplace has its own template we can tag the product and name it Facebook products so in a month or two one on one to analyze how the Facebook products went I'm just going to open up the tags all of the products that have this tag and I'll see the list of those products it'll be much easier to analyze and optimize it in the future now regarding automation it's not relevant for the Facebook Marketplace so you can leave it on or off it doesn't matter then we're going to click on next enter your pricing settings your total fees so we know that Facebook is charging us a 5% fee and set exactly how much you want to profit on top of the fees that you're paying on top of your break even you can also add dynamic profiting now I want to remind you that the price in stock monitoring is semi automated we're going to get to that in a minute so once we're done with that we're going to click on next the shipping and policies is not relevant it's only if you're drop shipping on ebay or Shopify so we're going to click on next and here you can choose if you want to add the product as a draft publish it to your Facebook store which will only publish right now to auto DS we're going to get to that soon or schedule to publish it at a later time and date which isn't really relevant right now for the Facebook Marketplace so we're just going to add it as a draft and we're going to click on next now the item is being added to the draft section of our store so on the left side let's click on drafts okay and here we go we have the product on our drafts page so let's take a look the destination of this product is my facebook store so we know that it's connected to our facebook store now we want to add an internal product note and i'm going to tell you why in just a couple of minutes but for now add an internal product note for every product that you're adding from facebook and what we want to add in the note is the url or the web address of the product from the source site so if you don't have the source site open just click on view source product and it'll take you again to the source site where you have that product we're going to copy the url and in the product note we're going to paste that url and keep it over here okay and that's done now we know that the supplier is amazon us but we have 41 variants even though we know that facebook does not support variants at this time so what are we gonna do about that first we're going to open up the item editor by clicking on the arrow over here then we're going to click on variants and here we're going to choose the variant that we want to add to our facebook store so let's say we want to keep the first one up here so we're simply going to select all of the variants deselect the one that we want and then we're going to delete them now we're deleting 40 out of the 41 variations and the reason that we're deleting them is because we don't want them to take up space on our auto ds subscription plan so yes i'm sure now all of the variants have been removed and we are left with that one variant that we want to add to our facebook store now the next step is to head over to your facebook account head over to the marketplace now on the left side we're going to click on create new listing choose listing type we're going to choose item for sale and as you can see over here we have a paste from autodesk button that was integrated into our facebook marketplace when we are creating a new listing this is from the autodesk chrome extension that we installed so that is why we began this video by downloading and installing the autodesk chrome extension so it's important that you take everything step by step now in order to paste we need something to copy so head back to the autodesk platform now i want to remind you guys that we're in the draft page we opened up the item editor and we clicked on variants if you look over here on the right side there is a copy icon i'm going to click on that copy to clipboard now we'll head back to facebook and we'll click on paste from autodesk what's happening here as we can see right in front of me in live is that all of the products information is being copied from autodesk to the facebook marketplace create a listing so as we can see we already have the product title we have the product price which is $22 the source price is 18.6 so i didn't really add any extra profit but this is just an example but remember that when we were adding a product on autodesk we got the break even setting so you got the 5% fee and on top of that go ahead and add another 20 30 50 percent or however much you want to profit the facebook marketplace is new and there's a lot of profit that we can make over there so let's continue we got the title we got the price you got the item details now facebook's text fields are not that user friendly so you do have to go inside the description here on the left side and make the line breaks where we need to have them and so forth so you do need to go over the product description and fix it up a little bit as you see here on the right side so we're going to make some line breaks and we're going to make all of the text makes sense of course we're going to read everything and proof read it and go over everything and optimize it but we're saving a lot of time with the whole copy and paste situation that we see that's going on over here so as you can see we're going to click left and right all of the product images have been added now since we're only using a certain variation which is this one over here we can go ahead and delete the rest of the product images that are not relevant for what we need so if we just go up here we can delete the pink one the green one and so forth so make sure that the image is showing exactly what you are selling first we have the pictures then we have the title then we have the price then the category that it belongs to so we need to choose a category in this case let's just go with appliances the condition is new the brand you can talk about the brand you can not talk about the brand it's completely up to you so i'm just going to write branded again we're going to optimize the product description you can add a product tag if you want but we already have that on autodesk and it's much better organized over there then you got the product location so since we chose an item that's amazon prime and amazon prime ships from the us we can just choose any location from the united states so i'm going to keep it on san jose california that's fine with me and in the availability you can either list it as a single item or list as in stock since we are dropshipping and we know that our suppliers have more in stock we're going to choose list as in stock so that once the product sells it won't go out of stock it will stay on our facebook marketplace and we can continue selling it so list as in stock and that is all when it comes to adding products to facebook marketplace from autodesk so you may have noticed that it's not fully automated we do have to copy the variant by clicking on copy inside the product's variants and we have to paste it using the pace from autodesk and then start optimizing the title a little bit the products category the condition and we're going to add the line breaks and add bullet points and everything else in the product description to make sure it looks really nice the product location list as in stock and then click on next now you can choose if you want to add this listing to other groups on facebook which are mostly buy and sell groups that you have joined in the past and once you are done you're going to click on publish that is it when it comes to adding products from autodesk to facebook now you're asking yourself what about the automation what happens when i get a sell and so forth let's start going over that right now so we already know how to add products to the facebook marketplace the next thing that you want to do is head back to autodesk click on settings and then on the top right click on notifications here we have all of the notifications that we're getting from autodesk through email so we have order notifications which is not relevant for facebook only for ebay and Shopify at this point but we do have monitoring notifications and these are relevant for facebook so we are going to enable stock monitoring updates and we are going to enable price monitoring updates what's going to happen now is every time the stock or the price changes on one of the products that we have on the facebook marketplace autodesk will send us an email telling us exactly what change was made and to which product now since we already added a note on our product let's go back to the drafts page remember that we added an internal product note with the products url so once we get an email saying the price of this item changed or the stock of this item changed you will be able to see this note that you wrote on the product inside that email so you'll be able to go straight to that product listing and see what's going on over there before making the changes on your facebook store so that is exactly why we want to add notes on the products that we're adding to the facebook marketplace now while we are still here we're going to click on import now the product is moving from the drafts page to the products page and then we'll go back to those notifications so what's going to happen now is autodesk will start monitoring the product and as you can see now product has been imported to selling platform now if i click on products and only my facebook store is selected i will only see the products that i have in that store and here we go it's that variation that we chose so we got this product we got the internal note with the source url and anytime we're going to have a price change on the source site or a stock change on the source site we'll get an email right away because we went to settings we went to notifications and we enabled these monitoring notifications of course once you're done enabling them you have to click on save otherwise it won't save it and make sure that your email down here is correct so let's just change it to my email liran at autodesk.com and make sure once again that this email is correct because this is the email that autodesk is going to send all of these updates too and the email frequency will simply tell you how much profit you made every day on your dropshipping store through email so you can get this update daily weekly or monthly so choose whatever fits for you just make sure that the email here is correct and that you enabled stock and price monitoring updates so once again you're going to get an email the stock here changed or the price here changed open up that email see the update open up autodesk and make whatever changes that you need on the facebook marketplace now keep in mind the products that you have in stock over here on facebook marketplace if the stocks or the price changes autodesk will make sure to change it on the autodesk platform but it will not change it on facebook you have to go manually into the facebook marketplace and make the changes yourself that is why autodesk will notify you through mail whatever's going on so you'll never miss an update on your store and that is how price and stock monitoring is done at this point and it actually works great so you can go ahead and start trying it now now regarding orders we do not have order automations for the facebook marketplace yet you will of course get a notification from facebook that you sold the product so you'll get notified anyway but this is all of the automation settings that we have available right now for the facebook marketplace so as you can see you can already get started you can already add products and save a lot of time doing so and you can already start your facebook marketplace dropshipping business right after watching this video remember we are the early birds that are adopting this business model right before anyone else it's like beginning dropshipping eight years ago when not so many people knew about it and today there's a lot of people that are already doing it all of the early birds from back then lived through the golden era of dropshipping and already collected all of their golden eggs now dropshipping is still open to everyone there's a lot of sales to be made a lot of profit to be had but if you're going to stay ahead of your competition and entering untapped marketplaces like the facebook marketplace for dropshipping before everyone else you are going to be much smarter than everyone you'll make much more money than anyone else and when the rest of the dropshippers decide to join the facebook marketplace you're already going to be hands and knees deep inside so go ahead and begin right after this video and don't forget that we have a lot of content when it comes to facebook marketplace dropshipping which is going to come out really soon i'm talking about product finding and the best dropshipping categories to use on the facebook marketplace and so much more things that we have planned for you so go ahead and start before anyone else enjoy the fruits and don't forget to subscribe to our youtube channel to always stay updated on very valuable and informational videos like this one we have them coming out all the time and all we want to do is provide knowledge and help you 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So for all the adults in this room, please find your inner child and for the children continue being awesome children and turn on your listening ears because I'm going to ask questions after and we'll see who is listening carefully. So the book I'm going to be reading is called The Empty Pot by Demi. If you know the story and you know the ending, let's keep it a surprise for those who don't. Okay? And it's always nice to hear a story twice. Or maybe more than twice. Okay. A long time ago in China, there was a boy named Ng. Came flowers, bushes, and as if by magic, everyone in the kingdom loved flowers too. They planted them everywhere and the air smelled like perfume. The emperor loved birds and animals, but flowers most of all. And he tended his own garden every day. But the emperor was very old. He needed to choose a successor to the throne. Who would his successor be? And how would the emperor choose? Because the emperor loved flowers so much, he decided to let the flowers choose. The next day, a proclamation was issued. All the children in the land were to come to the palace. There they would be given special flower seeds by the emperor. Whoever can show me their best in a year's time, he said, will succeed me to the throne. This news created excitement throughout the land. Children from all over the country swarmed to the palace to get their flower seeds. All the parents wanted their children to be chosen emperor. And all the children hoped they would be chosen too. When Ping received his seed from the emperor, he was the happiest child of all. He was sure he could grow the most beautiful flower. Ping filled a flower pot with rich soil. He planted the seed in it very carefully. He watered it every day. He couldn't wait to see it sprout, grow, and blossom into a beautiful flower. Day after day passed, but nothing grew in his pot. Ping was very worried. He put new soil into a bigger pot. Then he transferred the seed into the black soil. Another two months he waited. Still nothing happened. Bye and bye the whole year passed. Spring came and all the children put on their best clothes to greet the emperor. They rushed to the palace with their beautiful flowers eagerly hoping to be chosen. Ping was ashamed of his empty pot. He thought the other children would laugh at him because for once he couldn't get a flower to grow. His clever friend ran by holding a great big plant. Ping! he said. You're not really going to the emperor with an empty pot, are you? Couldn't you grow a great big flower like mine? I've grown lots of flowers better than yours, Ping said. It's just this seed that won't grow. Ping's father overheard this and said, You did your best and your best is good enough to present to the emperor. Holding the empty pot in his hand, Ping went straight away to the palace. The emperor was looking at the flowers slowly one by one. How beautiful all the flowers were, but the emperor was frowning and did not say a word. Finally he came to Ping. Ping hung his head in shame expecting to be punished. The emperor asked him, Why did you bring me an empty pot? Ping started to cry and replied, I planted the seed you gave me and I watered it every day but it didn't sprout. I put it in a better pot with better soil but still it didn't sprout. I tended it all year long but nothing grew. So today I had to bring an empty pot without a flower. It was the best that I could do. When the emperor heard these words, a smile slowly spread over his face and he put his arm around Ping. Then he exclaimed to one and all, I have found him. I have found the one person worthy of being emperor. Where you got your seeds from I do not know for the seeds I gave you had all been cooked. So it was impossible for any of them to grow. I admire Ping's great courage to appear before me with the empty truth and now I will reward him with my entire kingdom and make him emperor of all land. The end. Do you guys like the story? Yeah! So I have a few questions for you. Three questions to be exact. The first one is, why do you think the emperor was frowning? Because...  So the emperor was frowning because the seeds that he gave away were cooked and he knew that everyone, all the kids, the flowers were lying. Nice. So he saw the lie inside the flowers, huh? Yeah. Okay, my next question is, sometimes others can make you feel small when you're doing the right thing. How does Ping feel when he sees his enemy? He helps him through it. Yes. So Ping feels kind of like disappointed because he couldn't grow like a flower like his friend did and he was disappointed. So, yeah. And who helped him through it? His dad. His dad. Because that's what parents do. They help us through our problems. Thank you. Okay, last question. Can the truth ever be empty? Remember in the last part, what does the emperor say? I admire Ping's great courage to appear before me with the empty truth. Why does the author use the empty truth? Can the truth ever be empty? Yes. So yeah. So what do you mean by like the truth is empty?  It's like it's like empty and clean. That is, that's actually one of the most beautiful responses I've heard to that answer. Did everyone hear that? She said that the empty, the truth is empty because it's empty from filth, basically. That's what she was saying. All right. So it's pure because truth is always, it's full of truth and empty of false. Thank you. I learned something today when the teacher becomes the student.


What's going on, nip nip fam, welcome back to another video. If you guys are new to the channel, make sure you guys hit that subscribe button, turn on your post notification bell, leave a positive comment down below for a chance to get a post notification shower out at the end of today's video. So I don't know if you guys can hear water running right now, but Janice is currently in the shower and as you guys can tell by the title and thumbnail of the video, we are going to be pranking her tonight. The prank I'm going to be doing tonight is basically just going to be sleeping on the floor just to see how she reacts. Obviously, she's going to feel some type of way that I don't want to sleep with her in bed. And honestly, I don't know what I'm really going to say as to, you know, what's my excuse for sleeping on the floor, but you guys already know that whatever comes off the top of the head, I'm just going to go with it. But like I said, she's currently in the shower. So I'm going to take you guys to the room right now.  And the next time you guys see me, the prank will begin. I'll be fresh out the shower. I'll put the pillows on the floor, the blankets on the floor, you know, the home night, and then we can get right into the prank. So if you guys are ready for today's video, make sure you guys smash that thumbs up button, comment down below Team Isaiah all day every day because this one's about to be a banger, guys. Let's go. Hey, Miss, hold it here. Well, you turned on AC, not me. You got a whole sweater up here that yet he was living in here. Well, you always had the AC mad high. Can you pass me the pillows? Which one? I don't know, which one? Mine, I guess. Pass me the pillows and then let me get the home night blanket. No, that's mine. Come on. No, what do you want to watch? You want to watch for a little Netflix? Well, let me come to you first. Let me get the blanket, please. You always try to steal my blankets. Just give it back to me.  Just give it back before I go to sleep and then we won't have no peace. Ow! Are you okay? Are you okay? Bro, my cap just came off my knee. Oh, I think you mean a little excessive. He don't even care, look at him. Try to cuddle, you okay? What am I actually doing?  Let me see, are you okay? Yes, I'm fine, I'm good. Why are you putting everything on the floor? I'm sleeping on the floor tonight. I'm not sleeping on the bed. What do you mean? What I just said, I'm not sleeping on the bed. Why are you sleeping on the floor? Because he be taking up all the room. Every time I'm on my side, he ends up on my side and I can never move. Every morning I wake up, one foot off the bed. Every morning I wake up, my head is off the bed. Another morning I wake up, my ankle's off the bed. Like, bro, I don't got space. Do you see how small he is? Yeah, and do you see my anger as to why that gets me angry? Why would I? I feel like he's always on my side now. No, he's not. No, he's not. Babe, seriously? Seriously, what? You're really about to go sleep on the floor. There's another reason too, but I'm not going to sleep because I'm trying to be nice. Why? I'm trying to be nice, I'm not going to sleep. For what? I don't know what I'm going to say. What are you not going to say? That's not very comfortable. Because you're not sleeping on carpets. Every time we at your mom's house, you know I'd be sleeping on a carpet. Yeah, but that just makes no sense and it really makes me upset. We have a whole king-sized bed and you're going to sleep on the floor. So you see my frustration. We have a whole king-sized bed and yet I can't fit on it with you and him. Let's be honest, you're not that tall. Like, you don't even have to make it. It's all, first of all, all right, first of all, I am a strong 5'8", 5'9", with sneakers. And that's first.  So as to why I can't fit on the bed is beyond me and that's why I'm sleeping on the floor. So maybe if you start sleeping way too close to the edge, maybe you need to sleep on the bed. I have no choice. He doesn't give me room. And then the other reason, I'm not going to lie, you make me say it because you know. How am I making you sleep on the bed? The other reason, the other reason is when I wake up in the morning and you give that babe, you know I'm like that, I'm not gonna lie, it'd be hot. What are you talking about? Babe, your breath and it's normal and that's fine. And I'm not insulting you or anything. But your breath in the morning, hot. You clearly are though, that's not- I'm not, I'm not trying to insult you, but that's normal. I have hot breath in the morning, everyone has hot breath in the morning. So wait, you're telling me- That's fine, I just can't smell it, I can't smell it. Listen to me, you're telling me that you don't want to sleep on the bed because I have hot breath in the morning? Mainly because of him, but yes, the hot breath is there. I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't even sleep facing your way, so how you be smelling me? Like I said, when you wake up in the morning- And I don't even talk to you in the morning, I literally- Well, we're gonna do this thing again where you just don't let me talk. Listen, I literally just wake up and go to the bathroom and brush my teeth. And I use mouthwash, I floss and everything. Okay, babe. You don't even be brushing your teeth first. I brush my teeth first. So if anything, I should be the one complaining about your breath.  In the morning. Yeah. Now you want to get a hold of it. Exactly. You don't even be near me in the morning because I don't be wanting to be around no one in the morning. That's what I do.  You be up here like- It's so funny. That's what you do. Alright, I don't even be like that.  Like I said, I never said that you talk to me in the morning. What I said was that first initial yawn that you give in the morning- You are going to yawn, oh my god. That's such BS, I don't even yawn all the time. I be right next to you.  And I don't like it, I'm sorry.  But that's not the problem. Like I said, the problem is he don't give me space. You're acting like no. You over here concentrating on your breath when the main focus is him. You over here focused on your breath. Ain't no one worried about your breath Janice, like I said.  Why are you slaying you baby? You don't even do anything wrong. Nah, I'm not in life. I can't, I don't got a good visual of the TV here so I don't think I really want to watch TV right now. You're ridiculous for sleeping on the floor instead of trying to figure something out. There is nothing to figure out, either he sleeps on the floor or you sleep on the floor. My man, you're not sleeping on the floor. Then I'm sleeping on the floor and I won't care about that, I won't care about that. If you want to be ridiculous to sleep on the floor and have bad pains, I don't want you to- Bad pains. Bad pains, I don't want to hear you complain about it.  Um, yeah, because I have body issues. The only thing I ever complain about is if there's no soap when I go to take a shower.  How do I leave you with a small soap? I just said how. Like I said, I didn't watch the TV tonight because I don't really got a good angle. So. Why can't you, you make no sense. Hey, I'm trying to go to sleep. Bro, you- I'm trying to go to sleep. I'm trying to go to sleep. I'm trying to go to sleep is not even that late. You can literally come and sit on the bed and watch TV with me and if you really want to be irresponsible and ridiculous and crazy. Yes. What is irresponsible, I have to do with anything.  What are you talking about? I am perfectly good. That's not safe for your body. Safe for my body, what is this, a hazard?  What's gonna hurt me? People are not meant to sleep on the floor for a reason. Janice, my back and my spine is as straight as a pencil. I am good, no scoliosis here. I'm good. So now you're coming for my scoliosis? Since when you got scoliosis? I've always had scoliosis, you know that. Oh my God. Like I said, just you go, you have a whole bed to yourself, both of you.  But. Oh, thanks. I don't know, and the issue, I guess for you, I don't know. Maybe have like a little container of ice breakers, the mints next to you. So when you wake up and you just pop it open before you yawn, I really appreciate that. Now, I'm going to bed.  Don't be salty. I'm not salty, you're just annoying. Good night, babe. Done, good night, nothing. Go ahead, sleep on the floor. Baby! You're just gonna let me sleep on the floor and be OK with it? Prank, and you're gonna let me be OK?   You do it. What kind of relationship do we have here? A good relationship. And you just let me do what I want? Yeah, that's not it. That doesn't happen in a relationship. You're supposed to control me. No, I'm not gonna control you. This is supposed to be toxic. No, it's not, unfortunately. I ain't broke.  Even the ridiculous ones, like you wanted to sleep on the floor. What type of good girlfriend are you? I'm a great girlfriend. I know you are. Thank you, bro. All right, well, anyway, say team Isaiah because I got you anyway. So say it. No, I want to hold on to something else so you can ask for it. Say it, or I sleep on the floor. I'm going to sleep on the floor if you don't say it. I have a hold back to myself. I'm going to sleep on the floor if you don't say it. I'm not saying it. I'm letting you sleep on the floor. That means I have a hold back to myself. I'm going to go sleep in the car. That's not you if you want to sleep in a cold car. I can never win. You see what I mean? No matter where I lay, he goes and takes over. Bloop, you have no respect for daddy. You just don't care. You just don't care. I'm not joking. When I said that he literally takes up all his space and I'm on the edge, he literally takes up all his space. I don't understand it. Lately, he's always been on my side. No, he hasn't. Maybe when we fall asleep, but somehow in the middle of the night, he squirms his little self to my side and then I end up getting pushed off the bed. How does something so miniature and literally like the size of maybe twice my hand takes up all the space in the bed? Imagine if we had a big dog. Geez, bro. He runs this house. He does. He does. And that bothers me. He's trying to go to bed. Oh my God. Don't look at my hair. I know I look crazy. I don't want to hear it. Your hair looks like super flat. Let's just don't look at my hair. Time for today's post notification show. You're really not gonna say team Isaiah because I'm really tired of you not saying it. No, I'm not gonna say team Isaiah, but what? You're so mature. Anyway, guys, it is time for today's post notification shout out. Today's post notification shout out goes out to Carlos Borboa. Shout out to you, bro. Thank you so much for your love and support. If you guys want to post notification shout out, all you guys got to do is like, comment, share, subscribe, and turn your post notification bells on to your notification bell whenever we post a new video. Also comment down below team Isaiah because if you don't, you're not getting a shout out. It's as simple as that. Did you really mean that thing that you said about my breath? Bro, no, let's not act like nobody wakes up with hot breath. Everybody got hot breath in the morning. You got hot breath in the morning. You looking at the screen right now? I know you got hot breath. Don't even try to say you don't.  I don't think so.  All right. You know who's breath really stink in the morning? Bloops. Bro, he could melt the whole house down if he really tried. But with all that being said, we will see you guys in the next video.


No It's freezing. It's really cold. It's like 30s 38 30 something Friggin freezing Doing it for all the cold people out there. We could dunk into cold You know I'm going to a gym. You know what I mean? It's harder for me. I'm not used to this side of stuff. Oh And it's like I'm trying to get warm, but it's not working I don't even like I just like ran to my car and we're going and I don't even know it says 39 in my car, which is warmer than what it is outside. So there's that and Let's go Made it and I'm hyped. Let's get in the gym All right, I'm gonna make it. I think I'm gonna make it beautiful out though. There's no freaking clouds in the sky Nothing, I feel confident that first jump felt good. I didn't really think about my knees So my hamstrings are extremely tight. My abs are really sore, too I meant sore, but both are really sore from that workout So today's more of recovery and just mobility works See how I feel and just get loose and stay healthy and get good Supposedly Terence Ferguson 2k did something last night. I didn't see it It gets us through it here and another chance at a dog Anyway, it's so cold my brain hurts like I'm getting a brain freeze from breathing cold air I think it's too cold for my fingers.  That's pretty much it I'm excited for my next dunk session stretched. Well, and let's get it Copyright, I don't even understand it Like can you use a part of a song piece of a song under 30 seconds of a song and what else I don't get is that? I'm bringing more awareness to the song. Nobody thinks I made this song. I'm not trying to make money off the song I get that my monetization of my video makes me money off the song if I make any money off these YouTube videos But the point is if anything people are here in that song be like what is that dope song and they go find it So it's bringing more awareness to the artist. I'm helping out. It's a loop. It's a cycle. We're all in this together Anyway, if you want to hear more rants and random thoughts like this you can check out my podcast good segue Steve and Thanks for watching. I usually leave the words at the end, but this is personal Using premiere now instead of Final Cut Pro and so my videos right now. I'm kind of getting through the learning curve But after that should be fire flames coming out of your screen melting your keyboard and then your hands and then you're melting your bones, bro All right, I'm out. Sorry


And Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau has vowed to deal with promoters of false information on social media targeted at incite and crisis in the state. The governor stated this while briefing newsmen on Monday after a visit to some injured victims of the August 14 massacre along Rukuba Road in just enough local government. And the governor expressed his pleasure over the use of social media platforms by those he called merchants of conflict since the attack. He states that the government will now rest and deal with them to self as a deterrent to others. Three days, when it took a different dimension, we've done a lot of things to cope, to nip it in the pot. But when it was getting to that scale, that's why you saw us putting some measures, including lockdown and curfew and others. Today we've gone on an assessment and we have seen. First, on behalf of the government, I still stand to condemn these acts. These are clear acts of criminality. All those who perpetrated these acts were criminals. I see them as criminals, completely criminals.