What's going on everyone Sam here late sports cards ripens 22 a prism world cup soccer first off the line two box break Number 22 random team style a random group style. Excuse me. Here's a look again at your random results As always you can find these on the website under the results tab as well as the link in chat So good luck here everybody See what we got Let's do it. Let's do it. These are fun.  Good luck everybody got our pink It's gonna be recharles in for Brazil nice one there Grats on that there Brazil Costa Rica And base one per box again on the pink pinks are not numbered Leave hobby exclusive or exclusive in general National pride on the case hit Joel Campbell Joel Campbell going to Costa Rica. There you go Glenn W With group E congrats man. Nice one there Love the national pride Jeremy doku on the silver for Belgium No, you can just recap it though. Yeah, he did. Oh It's a redemption gotcha gotcha gotcha I was gonna say I can't imagine Josh Allen's got a lot of live autos out there right now outside of his rookie year stuff Got silver Hassan al-Haydos. That's going to Qatar Nice one there just an uncomfortable amount of time base Yeah, Charleston's awesome, dude. He's so good on Brazil by hyper in here It's gonna be William Saliba. That's going to France on the hyper rookie comes more Gaby rookie on the back for Spain. That's Spain didn't make it very far. I don't think they made out of the group stage honestly Who made it out of the group stays the USA? Jamal Muziala that's going to Germany Glen W and it is 312 out of 399 followed by a silver Christian Pulisic going to Howard O with group B with the US base Pull Luca out of this. We all get boxes of optic. Sure. Sure, Rory You guys can all get boxes of optic if we pull Luca Donchich out of this There's a combo Dean Suleymana for Ghana That's gonna be a rookie hyper. I'll immediately lost the Morocco. That's right Oh, it was Germany that didn't get out of the group. Am I right about that? Germany didn't get out of the group stage base So we got our shimmer auto coming up here followed by a purple as well There's Sergei millenkovich savage. There you go crew or Serbia. Congrats on that Robert. Hey Nice one there Robert. Grats on that man. We've got nice for purple going to England Makaio Saka 136 out of 199 There you go. Howard again.  Switzerland, uh, silver cup card That Saka is very solid. We ever yep. We got our shimmer coming up now My big name, baby. We've got For Iran that salmon gatos gonna be number four of five nice shimmer there again group B. That's gonna be Howard O Got a blue borna sosa for Croatia at a 299 Grats on that Croatia on the rookie and uh, rafina for brazil on the silver icon Do you mean national landmarks hoff? I don't know if they made this in 14. I feel like they might have I know they made it in 18 I think they made it in 14 Pretty sure they did Uh autographs you can get yes, there's uh, shuichi ganda japan silver Yeah, you can get like the there's no base legends in this but there are base or like autograph legends and such in this Yes, there are a red coming up And that's gonna be of imran lusa for morocco. That's gonna be to 399 team overner for germany Base you got a cracked ice coming up now too It's gonna be of lucas, uh, torah torah era Torah era for the way nice one there for group um Group H there you go chris. That's chris kind of sake on the phenomena non hollow non rookie or anything non color 14 cells are about 3k whereas 18 is around four and a half the cheese man Yeah, the imbap a tax is right. Thank you, Sean Sean just dropped you guys the link to um bowman chrome hobby. That's a full box or full case 2022 bowman chrome pick your team style. I got five teams left on that one They are all on sale outside of the oakland athletics for like 40 dollars Um, so yeah, check that out a couple of good teams still left since an addy still in there philadelphia a couple other ones as well Got a pink uh felix torah is for ecuador a nice one there ecuador That is edison group a Uh bruno franandis for portugal base Act ice is going to be carl toko and combi for kamerick on the rookie Robert a with group g in kamerick thomas party global reach for ganna hedgery There's silver collins five go into um Kamerun kamerun back-to-back uh colored inserts nice one there base and base Let me check me a public shirt too Yeah Got silver mckel oyer as a ball for spain nice one there spain That is uh group e glenn w gabriel hasus base Hyper coming up now of ka walker for england Group uh group b again with our dough lupus rnandis for france base I had the worst i forget if i told you this or i told don but on friday morning We were doing a full case of this Random group style That's diego costa nice for portugal on the hyper rookie uh portugal chris there you go chris portugal again this time on the cup card and um You know how like all the autos are turned upside down There's just a random base card like turned upside down in the middle of one of the packs Of course, it's killing evapae. I'm like all right.  That is the old setup right there Jimmy the intern over at panini is just laughing right now got a blue and an orange Yeah, chris was there chris remembered that i was so pissed Uh blue is gonna be casper dolberg for england nice one there 126 out of 299 And we got an orange global reach for denmark contraeus christiansen numbered 12 of 25 Congrats on that Uh denmark that's gonna be just denmark uh Glen w nice orange for you glenn Yeah, honestly two denmarks back to back is right There's a denmark pack right there. I thought that was a blue shimmer for a second too, but it was not I guess you could probably Whatever you got it whatever you got there is fine. Yeah, there now we got our blue shimmer luck here everybody come on big name we've got alexis vega that is for um, mexico three of five nice one there mexico mexico is gonna be James a with group c And we've got leon goretzka 10 out of 75 on the blue mojo. That's for germany There you go again glenn w. Who did I say for casper? Did I say did I say the wrong team? I apologize connections. Rodrigo de paul and leandro uh leandro paredes for argentina I said england my bad. Yeah casper dolberg is denmark. My apologies. My apologies. My apologies I know I know I know full man Silver rima freuler for switzerland Is my else is my elisar senegal double packs to go still There's a messy base Silver anthuant griezmann nice one there for france. Congrats glenn w Get up and do the waddle for this one. Hey nice one there uh france And base two to go still looking for our auto Which looks like it'll be in the last pack Oh, no, it'll be in this pack. Just kidding And it's gonna be carlos veila Nice one there for mexico on the international link blue shimmer. Congrats again. That is going to james a I think james swept the shimmers in pat and box number two with both mexico got pao torres for uh spain One out of 399. That's bookend right there. Congrats on that. Uh, I think that is glenn w blue silver gana cup card space base base and last pack. Good luck everybody We've got a blue in here. I want to say yes blue is gonna be uh aotanaka To uh 299 for japan. Congrats japan on the rookie a little bit of a color match there as well And base that'll do for the break guys do a quick recap here Perfect. We've got blues to 299 aotanaka for japan Borna sosa for koresia Casper doleberg for denmark. That is denmark not england denmark Uh purple to 199 paquio saca a nice one there for england great card. He had himself a cup Leon goresca blue mojo to 75 for germany We had orange global reach uh interest christiansen for denmark to 25 our two shimmers to five We had alexis vega on the rookie for mexico and simon gados for iran We had our autos international link is going to be carlos veila for mexico and syria millenkovich sabich going to serbia And we had national pride joel cambal for coserica On the case it I'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the fill next up. We got another two box are coming up


Internal revenue service, IRS tax news, 2023 IRS nationwide tax forms to be held in five cities. Nationwide tax forms, I'm not sure that sounds good. I mean it sounds kind of like the sheriff of Nottingham is coming to town or something and they're acting like it's a good thing and they're going to like promote it like a sneaky. Speaking of deceptive promotions, did you know Hershey chocolate is promoting women's history month with like a Hershey bar? You get it?  You see like most people need to be able to recognize what something is before they're willing to whip out their old credit card. I mean honestly, like never in history have corporations been so brazen and using the old bait and switch.  Typical I'm telling it's typical. As advertised my satisfaction depends on it. They'll go home bait and switch. You know there's laws against that kind of bait and switch and for good reason dang it bait and switch bait and switch no no there was no switch no switch. Honestly like if I'm gonna have to hear about women's history all month I want to at least hear about actual women for crying out loud. Like I don't want to hear about how the discoverer of electricity was actually a woman because like Benjamin Franklin were one of those funny old English wigs from time to time.  I mean like like there's a difference between making fun of the social constructs designed to signify or symbolize something and then actually saying that the thing being symbolized isn't real. I mean it's like the difference between making fun of the way we write the number two and then claiming there's no actual concept of two nests. Like if I was if I was to order two her she bars I don't care if you write down the order with a picture of a cat as long as you can identify and complete the order resulting in me with two her she bars. However if you tell me that two nests doesn't actually exist and therefore you just replaced the two with a zero I'm gonna want my money back you know I'm just that's I mean honestly like personally I think her she would make more money celebrating an imaginative smart and successful woman like for example oh I don't know if they were able to get jk Rawlings in the commercial hey oh that's sorry Phil calm down calm down I'm still recovering from the knife wounds you gave me last time I mentioned her but I'm just saying you know like jk Rawlings clearly knows how to sell a few books and stuff following the old golden rule one iteration of which is don't sell the rights to your intellectual property to big media companies like Disney Amazon because although they have the money they've clearly lost their soul tax pro may register now to earn continuing education credits IR 2023-37 March 2nd 2023 Washington registration for this summer's 2023 IR as nationwide tax forms is now open the forms returned to an in-person format in five cities across the nation for the first time since 2019 so obviously during the pandemic we had the virtual forms which is a whole different kind of looking field for it so we're back to the live forms which is actually that's good news so held for more than 30 years the IRS nationwide tax forms are the IRS marquee outreach event to tax professional community each of the five IRS nationwide tax forms is a three-day event with more than 40 seminars and workshops on a wide variety of federal and state tax issues presented by experts from the IRS and partner organizations from the tax community 2023 nationwide tax forms the cities include New Orleans July 11 through 13 Atlanta Georgia July 25 through 27 national harbor Washington DC August 8 through the 10th San Diego California August 22 through 24 Orlando Florida August 29 through 31 the IR nationwide tax forms are designed specifically for tax professionals enrolled agents certified public accountants certified financial planners and annual filing season program participants as well as uncredentialed tax professionals attendees may earn up to 18 continuing education credits so that is always good in addition to continuing professional education attendees get access to the popular case resolution program as well as dozens of exhibitors in the forum expo hall participants can also participate in focus groups and network with colleagues tax professionals can register now there's a link to the register now here if you want to do that there'll be a link to this in the description


What's good job triple Ross back in again with another video, so we're gonna check out what made the edge versus John Cena a few so special and Not gonna lie to you. This was around the 2005 2006 Time period this was the best feud at that time. There was no doubt about it the whole John Cena holding the title for over a year That was the thing that was going on and then edge cashing in on John Cena after he had a grueling I want to say it was a elimination chamber match and he cashed in his money in the bank briefcase on John Cena and the back and forth Promos and segments they have with each other was fantastic I know a lot of people at that time were starting to get tired of John Cena because he was beating everybody and someone wanted someone different and that's where Edge comes into play and him changing the spinner belt to have the radar logo on the championship I thought that was dope. He edge was really on his game at that time He was definitely a main event player at that time So we're gonna check this out for nostalgia purposes man. Y'all make sure y'all go subscribe to this dude wrestling gifts I'm gonna Link the original video down below and I'm actually about to subscribe to him now because the dude makes some pretty dope content Put the post notifications on so y'all definitely go check out this channel and let's check this video out One of my personal favorite feuds of all time is none other than Edge versus John Cena as a young Cena mark when these two started feuding in 2006 and I swear to God There was nobody and I mean absolutely nobody I hit him more than Edge ages Years later almost 15 years later this feud is still a personal favorite of mine So many matches and moments later this feud just brings me back to a simpler time when little wrestling games Who's to sit there watching raw every week and just wanting to break my TV So let's take a quick look at what made this feud so special This isn't anything serious not a deep analysis honestly just me chilling and talking about a feud for my childhood So let's check it out First things first what made this feud so special well Edge was a straight-up piece of shit Yeah, he was fucker. It was just evil. He was good It was an ass bro, but it worked it worked it was fantastic looking back on it That was some of it's best working now. He's doing you would think like all these years later You know saying now not to discredit his ability, but you wouldn't think it It's like his promo skills his mannerisms would be even better today and it is he's really After all those years of retirement coming back He's definitely coming to his own and the dude is even better than what he was 10 15 years ago in my opinion when it comes to just his mannerisms His his promo work is fantastic, man But not to take anything from take anything away from Edge.  That was Great tag team Hill tag team Hills first. He was cool, especially on SmackDown, but in 2005 man He just became something else. He's not just in his feud with Cena No, no, no this all started way before. Okay, so back in the day team extreme was our team Oh, yeah, we can't forget the real-life drama between Matt and Edge the real-life drama of him getting with leader like that was a real thing and a WWE used that as a storyline and it made you hate Edge.   There was some real tension there and kudos to Matt Being you know trying to you know really work through that because that was a real thing And I think he actually did legitimately I could be wrong here correct me if I'm wrong But I think he did get released Matt did get released by WWE and there was a there was a big Uproar about it and they you know, they brought him back But you know that was a real thing They Matt and Lita was dating and then Edge kind of swooped in and they were cool with each other That's what made it worse.  Okay, so Super Cena had just won an elimination chamber match There's blood everywhere. He somehow overcame the yahud's poor guy It looked like he just fought in a war and then this guy edge Cashes in the money in the bank the first cash in in history Cena's is like dead in the middle of the ring. Vince McMahon announces Edge is cashing in he comes out with Lita And he just claps Cena and becomes a new WWE champion Oh, and then the next day he goes on to have a live sex up one of the craziest One of the craziest segments in raw history I I just want you to understand this is this was wrestling back there You can't do this now, but oh my god.  He was just on another level See this feud was cool because they were polar opposites Cena wasn't ever gonna do a live sex celebration in the middle of the ring.  Yeah, and Cena is the goody two shoes the face of the company Meanwhile edge is out here sticking his tongue down Lita. It just worked polar opposites and they were perfect for each other What else made this special was when you least expected it when it was all good And sena was just chilling out of nowhere the ultimate opportunist edge would just come out and ruin sena's life So we had the cash in to start this right and then at one night stand in 06 Sena and rvd are having this match and all eyes are on sena and rvd And who comes out of nowhere and caught sena the championship. Yeah, of course It was edge a few weeks later. Who comes and wins the title edge even three years later It's 2009 john sena is on a totally different show. He's in a totally different elimination chamber match Edge isn't even in the match He was in the smackdown one and lost in five minutes, but who comes out kills kofi Yep, it's in the match and wins and takes sena's title. Of course, it's hard boy edge Remember when john sena threw edge into the long island sound or yo, yo Remember when edge went to john sena's house, but john sena wasn't there So edge is just messing up the house going through his wardrobe and stuff And he eventually sees sena's dad and just slaps him to the ground. Oh my god And how could you forget edges epic just iconic? I hate you promo in 2009 one of my personal favorite promos of all time I hate you Edge was just a perfect heal to rival the face of the company and of course they had some good matches as well What an insane match they had in 2006 unforgiven the tlc match and that tlc match was fantastic I think it was an edge uh hometown Uh, of course, you know edge was the favorite and he was the heal. It was a great match a fantastic match But of course they gave it back to sena.  They even had some great multi-man matches backlash 07 They had a fatal four way Sean michael versus john sena versus edge versus randy urt And the year before a backlash 06 they had triple h versus sena versus edge And they used to kill it every single time No matter what the match was no matter what the stipulation was no matter who else was in the match They always just had such amazing chemistry. They were good They were good. Even if you guys remember when edge had came back. He was still retired Brock had came back, you know saying and basically uh It was it was kind of he was giving john sena a pep talk He was like yo bro like ever since you lost to the rock you haven't been the same Brock doesn't care about this industry Hey, you got to get it together.  So it was it was they've always had that rivalry in it It always made for great television together If there's any feud that deserves a one-on-one wrestle mania match It was this feud But they just had to bring the big show in man Sena has said multiple times the edge was his favorite opponent to have a match with and they just meshed so well What I also loved about this feud was that for a lot of times edge got the better of sena Like a lot of times. Yeah, he did a true rarity in wwe history The fun fact is the most wins against john sena is by randy urton who has 44 wins against john sena Who's number two on the list? None other than edge with 33 But randy urton has had like 90 more matches with john sena than edge and edge is only 11 wins behind So that's pretty cool edge made sena seem human edge always figured it out He always pulled something the ultimate opportunists Super sena wasn't super sena against edge and that's I think what made it work. That's what made their dynamic work You know, they are The rivals to each other, you know in this era of wrestling you have the stonecolds and the rocks you have that You know rivals of each other, you know, I'm not comparing them to the stonecolds on rock But I'm just comparing them in rivalry rivalry. I can't even say it rivalry Whatever, you know what I'm saying like I'm just comparing them on that level and They were fantastic for each other when it comes to that out of his ass and just beat john sena It was just a special feud and I just loved how they both elevated each other It was a great few that made them both legit superstars. Yes, sena was already made event singing was the face of the company But he didn't have that guy. He didn't have the antithesis He didn't have that iconic enemy Whereas once edge came into the picture. It was a match made in heaven Edge said meant to himself as a main event player here His og feud in 06 and his feud with mcfoley made edge that really catapulted him into superstardom Sena himself has said this feud had everything girlfriends, lackeys, his dad, edge's hometown, sena's hometown Elimination chambers, tlc matches, briefcases, records broken Championship matches won and lost and even a wrestlemania match. Still wish it was 1v1 though Yeah, yeah, man edge versus john sena was truly a special special feud. All right, so hope you guys enjoyed I know this was different from definitely a special few definitely y'all go check out wrestling gifts Subscribe to this channel original video will be down below. But yeah, man I enjoyed this video brought me down memory lane Edge versus sena will always be one of the better feuds in wwe So comment down below. Let me know what was your favorite edge versus sena match If I had to think what's my favorite match from them I'ma probably go that tlc match that tlc match was so good that promo Leading up that promo package leading up to that tlc match was fantastic So comment down below. Let me know. I appreciate all the love and support role too If the guy appreciates our kicking with me, that's the y'all in the next one. Peace


Hello and welcome everyone. My name is LaLina. I am currently an outreach intern with the Wikimedia foundation and this talk is pretty recorded, but if you're attending Wikimedia live then I will be in the chat during the whole presentation. So if at any point you have a question just feel free to ask it there. Today I want to talk to you about Wikipedia and big data. Why big data? Today Wikipedia is one of the largest, if not the largest, knowledge base that's ever existed. But if you think of the typical user they will only ever access a relatively very small proportion of the millions of articles that exist in hundreds of languages. Reading all the articles from just the English Wikipedia would take you over 17 years. That's without any breaks. On the other hand, if you have just an average computer and some programming ability you will be able to analyze not just all the article contents, but also a lot of the other data that exists such as editor activity, page views, how users navigate between different pages by clicking links, and so on in just a few hours. So today I want to bring your attention to a different kind of user one who isn't navigating to individual Wikipedia pages through their browser, but rather accessing and analyzing the underlying data itself and who is in this way able to gather insights that are otherwise hidden a little bit like needles in a very big haystack. Why should you care? People who use Wikipedia in this way may represent a small proportion of all the total users but their work can have a big impact in areas such as social science or decision-making business or even global policy. So let's head over to Google Scholar. Google Scholar is a search engine for scientific papers. So if we type in Wikipedia we see that we get over two million results and this is quite impressive. But if you did the same search in 2012, you wouldn't even reach 200,000 results, which means that this is grown by a factor of 10 or so in about 10 years. Let's dive in and take a look at some of these articles. In this study from 2017 researchers from Stanford and Facebook AI used Wikipedia to build a question answering system. And a question answering system is is more or less what the virtual assistants such as Siri or Alexa are. So if you ask a question, well, then hopefully they will give you the right answer in a reasonable amount of time. And what I found interesting about this particular study is that this QA system is not just able to answer questions from Wikipedia, which of course is valid for itself. But it's also easily transferable to other contexts. So say you have a huge corpus of medical documents, then this QA system could be adapted to answer questions from this new knowledge base and for instance help doctors diagnose patients. So in this case, Wikipedia is not only useful as a means for itself, but also as a tool to create a system that can have a much wider utility. So moving on to another study, here researchers use Wikipedia to gather large amounts of social and economical data, which can otherwise be very time-consuming and expensive to do, especially from poor or inaccessible regions and countries in the world. And this is possible because many of the articles are geo-located. So here for instance, we had the Wikipedia page about Kampala, which is the capital of Uganda. And the highlighted sentence says, 13th fastest growing city on the planet. And what this study found is that when you combine the analysis of millions of statements like this one with other geo-located data such as satellite imagery and survey data, you can get a dataset that is of much higher overall quality than using the separate data sources individually. And it also contains data that would have been very difficult to obtain otherwise. And having the right data to convince stakeholders can mean the difference between your humanitarian project getting funded or not, and which regions, organisms, such as the United Nations focus their poverty relief and education initiatives on. Yet another use case for Wikipedia data is to study trends and make predictions. And in this study, scientists try to predict the box office success of around 300 movies before they were released by studying page views and editing activity on the movies Wikipedia pages. And a typical way to do something like this is by performing sentiment analysis and this is often used on Twitter. So if someone tweets, I can't wait to watch this movie. I'm a huge fan of whatever actor and this will count as positive statements. Or otherwise someone says everyone is talking about this movie, but I just don't get what all the hype is about. And this will count as negative. But in this study, the authors found that they got just as good results without using sentiment analysis by using just purely statistical methods. And this means that this method is both language and context independent. And so it could be used for many other purposes. And here we see the correlation between predicted revenue and actual revenue. And we can say that most of the points are actually quite close to the line. Being on the line would mean a perfect prediction, but this is good enough. But something as large and complex as Wikipedia is also inherently challenging to work with. Because the data is spread over many different tables and many different databases. And most use cases require combining several data sources and parsing and filtering the data before it can be transferred into some form that can be analyzed. So it can be challenging to just understand where to find and how to extract your relevant data. And especially for users that are not from a technical background or are not familiar with Wikimedia. And in some studies, this is even mentioned explicitly, like you're just saying. While being a scientific treasure, the large size of the data set hinders pre-processing and may be a challenging obstacle for potential new studies. This issue is particularly acute in scientific domains where researchers may not be technically and data processing savvy. To deal with this complexity, there are researchers who have come up with their own scripts and frameworks for working with the data. And they are sharing it on GitHub. So for instance, here we see one, it's called Wikistractor. We can see that it's got 2,700 stars and around 800 forks. And this may not seem like a lot, but actually for something that has kind of an issue, this is not bad. And just to end this, I want to say that there are many ways to contribute to Wikimedia. And this could be one of them. So if you're interested in helping build better tools or improve the technical documentation or maybe just even share what challenges you yourself struggle with, if you have worked or working with Wikimedia data, any contribution is encouraged and welcome. Here are the links to the papers and some additional info. And if you have any questions, you are very welcome to reach out on my top page. Thank you.


What's next for Nintendo and movies after the Super Mario Bros movie? We all know what we want from Nintendo. We want Zelda, Metroid and Smash Bros, probably in that order. Will Nintendo give us exactly what we want? Er, when has that ever happened? If there's one thing I've gleaned from the Super Mario Bros movie, it's that Nintendo is playing things as safe as they possibly can with movies. There will be no second Bob Hoskin Super Mario Bros disaster. Illumination is a studio that delivers safe, sturdy animated films that adhere to a well-worn formula.  When my daughter and I saw the Mario movie, there was a trailer for Spider-Verse 2 before the film, and it reminded me of the incredible ways that animation is being pushed in new directions at the moment by some slightly more experimental big-budget cartoons. Turning red, the bad guys, Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken, Puss in Boots. A lot of animation studios are experimenting with various art styles and storytelling. Nintendo doesn't want to do that. They want safe. They want a sure thing. They want a film that doesn't wreck their brand image, which, given Nintendo's movie history, is entirely fair. Of course, this refusal to take risks has led to the Mario movie's major criticism that it's a bit basic, but that's beside the point. So what does an ultra-safe, multiple-movie franchise strategy look like? Well, it doesn't involve rushing headfirst into a dozen new projects with the goal of making the new Avengers. And frankly, while this might not be a popular opinion, I don't think that rushing to a Smash Bros movie would be the smartest strategy for Nintendo. I think they're right to play it safe. The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise. Dracula Untold. The Amazing Spider-Man. A disappointing amount of DC and Marvel films. The original Mario Bros movie from the 90s. There have been plenty of films over the years that have been more focused on setting up sequels and spin-offs than on actually making enjoyable stories in their own right. Movie studios often rush to make franchises without giving audiences a reason to care in the first place. Even in cases where an initial movie is well received, a potential franchise can be brought down by hubris. My favourite example is another animated movie starring Chris Pratt, the Lego Movie. The first one was genuinely very good, so more were made. Instead of doing a sequel though, they first did the Lego Batman movie, and then the Lego Ninjago movie. Two spin-offs that were, I won't lie, decent enjoyable fun films in their own right, but they diluted interest in the whole franchise. Warner Bros fired Lego spin-off movies out so quickly that they killed the momentum of their own fledgling franchise. So I won't be surprised if a Legend of Zelda movie isn't forthcoming. Or if Nintendo simply doesn't give us the Smash Bros movie that many of us are desperate for. They're going to take each film as it comes, one by one, as they figure out the best strategy going forward. That's the right thing to do, because they certainly have lessons to learn from this first attempt. Lessons like, uh, don't play it so safe? Hang on, am I arguing against myself? Applauding Nintendo for not rushing out movies but complaining that they didn't take enough risks in their storytelling. Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. That's how you can tell I'm a true Nintendo fan. I am completely contradictory in what I want. No, wait, what I want is a Zelda film, but that's not relevant right now. Because, of course, Mario isn't the first film in the recent Nintendo movie experiment. First we had Detective Pikachu, a film which absolutely did not play things safe. Remember Creepy Mr Mime? Remember Bill Nye Mewtwo? Remember how instead of doing an I Wanna Be the Very Best Ash Ketchum film, they did a noir mystery movie based on a game that hadn't been localised into English when they first started the project? I find that film fascinating. I think I prefer it over the Mario movie just because it took a big ol' swing, even if it didn't entirely hit for me personally. Here, though, it's clear that Nintendo and the Pokémon Company aren't getting ahead of themselves in rushing a Detective Pikachu franchise. They didn't immediately follow up with a host of additional Pokémon live-action movies. Detective Pikachu came out in 2019. Last month, Deadline reported that legendary pictures kinda maybe Sota has someone in talks to direct a sequel. They're taking things nice and slow. It's likely that whatever comes next will feel very different to the first film as they are just based on lessons learned. Nintendo is very skittish about all this. Everything has to be perfect, and in cases where they have complete control of an IP, unlike the Pokémon situation where they have some influence but don't make the final decisions, it seems like everything has to be completely on-brand. Mario and Pokémon aren't the only properties that Nintendo has explored for cinema, TV, or streaming. In 2015, it was leaked that Nintendo was working with Netflix to make a live-action Zelda show. The leak of the mere fact of this show's existence was enough for Nintendo to pull the plug and cancel an unleaked Star Fox show to boot. If partners don't do exactly what Nintendo wants, they walk. That's probably how we ended up with such a straightforward Mario film. A film that, yes, is fun but also feels so close to the established brand that it plays like 90 minutes of gameplay footage, albeit with better graphics and some delightful Jack Black. This isn't to say that there's anything wrong with the Mario movie, it's simply an acknowledgement that Illumination did exactly what Nintendo wanted and nothing else. It's also worth bearing in mind that all of these projects, Mario, Detective Pikachu, the cancelled Netflix stuff, all were greenlit during the Wii U era. A time when Nintendo also started exploring mobile games, amiibo, classic mini consoles, a theme park, and other off-beat stuff. Flagging console sales led to an unprecedented amount of experimentation. Now that the Switch has proven such a big hit, Nintendo has reigned things in a bit and returned to a more traditional console gaming focus business strategy. While it's nice to have the Mario movie for brand recognition, it's not as necessary as it may have been if the Switch hadn't revitalized Nintendo's core consumer base. This being the case, I suspect that Nintendo will build up the Mario Cinematic brand a little more before exploring other options, which, hmm, while I don't want Nintendo to rush things and make a big mess, I can't deny if I had the choice I'd rather have a Zelda film than a Mario one. I feel like Zelda is more inherently suited to the cinema. Again, not saying anything negative about the Mario movie, just saying something positive about a potential Zelda one. Shigeru Miyamoto has spent the better part of two decades fighting anyone who wants to give Mario games a stronger narrative. If you haven't seen it, it's worth checking out our video on Super Mario Galaxy 2 for some juicy gossip about how he and Yoshiaki Koizumi argued like a married couple about how much narrative the game should have. In contrast, Zelda has dozens of strong potential storylines to explore. Basically pick any game from the Nintendo 64 onwards and there's enough meat on those bones for a film in a way that perhaps is not true of most Mario games. I'd say the same is true of Metroid. Some games would make better films than others, although that's more of a quality of storytelling rather than a quantity issue. This of course leads us to another point. Would Smash Bros. work has a film? Fighting games have a rocky history with cinema to say the least. It's not enough to have a vague justification for characters punching each other. A big hand or some evil clouds or what have you might not be a particularly strong narrative hook, so a Smash movie would of necessity need a bigger departure from the game's storyline. I don't know how I'm not the biggest Smash lore guy, maybe I'm wrong here, but I feel like the games work because the core experience is fun, not because of the twists and turns of the plot and subspace emissary. As is the case with a lot of fighting games, the plot exists merely to give a paper-thin context for the next fight between two recognizable characters. This ultimately is the problem with any video game movie. It's hard to make a film that is more enjoyable than simply playing the game the film is based on. My daughter came out of the Mario movie and immediately wanted to play Mario Odyssey on the Switch. This is mission accomplished for Nintendo, but it does highlight the limitation of any film adaptation of a game. The way to make a film compelling is to provide interesting, relatable characters and a narrative that's exciting to watch unfold. Not all game movies have quite nailed this. In fact, very few have really genuinely got this right. If we look at something like The Last of Us, a game that was basically designed as an interactive TV show from the start, that's a relatively simple conversion. That adaptation worked so well that my mother watched it, but that's because the original game was built with a story-first mindset. For Nintendo properties, that's not always the case. In many ways, Mario is actually one of the hardest Nintendo properties to adapt, not only because Miyamoto doesn't want Mario games to be too plot-heavy, but also because Mario is a company mascot and therefore cannot be shown to have any genuine flaws. With a mascot character, though, recognition is always more important than character growth. The Mario movie is doing fantastically at the box office for a reason, and it's achieving its primary goal of cementing Mario's reputation with society's youngest demographic. We will almost certainly get a sequel, one which will probably again play things very safe and end up as pleasant, enjoyable, solid cartoon entertainment. I suspect that after that film, we might, might, might get more Nintendo properties on the big screen. But, and this is a pretty big but, I have no concrete reason to believe that I am right about any of this. So just to be clear, I have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm probably wrong, and if you have your own theory or if you disagree with my assessment on any film, game, or other media that I've expressed here, I concede you are probably right. Who knows? Maybe Nintendo will announce the Zelda movie tomorrow, complete with a Chris Pratt Mario cameo, and Detective Pikachu, and also Samuel L. Jackson is here, and he's got an envelope with a red seal, or he did have it, it just got stolen by Joker. He never saw it coming!


Hello! Welcome to Learn English Live. My name is Sherri and I am an online English teacher and speech therapist. So I am looking forward to learning together with you today. So let's get started. Let's see who is all here. We have, I have to wait for my feed on my phone to see who's all here today. So let's look at the live chat. Grace is going to join after class. Yes, Dwi, it's great to see you. Thanks for joining. Hello George. Hello Jorge. Great to see you. George is ready to watch. And Anna, I haven't seen you in a long time. How are you? Nice to see you. Thank you so much for stopping by. So today we are going to play a game. We are going to play Jeopardy. Jeopardy is an extremely popular game show here in the United States. So this is going to be a way to improve our English by working on some vocabulary. And you're going to type your answers in the chat.  I'm going to write on our board so we know how much everything is worth. I'm going to do my best to keep track to see who is the winner. So we will start with rooms. The category will be rooms. And I will help you with the question and you will then answer. If you guys can let me know, can you hear me? Let me know if you can hear me in the chat. I hope you can. Let me know in the chat if you're able to hear me okay. Let's see. What to wait and see if you can hear me. George, can you hear me? Let me know. Grace. It's Grace here. Dwi, can you hear me? I'm not seeing anything in the chat. Are you guys there? Yes. Good. Okay. Thank you so much. I'm glad you can hear me. Thank you. So I'm looking forward to playing this game with you guys tonight. And so you are going to learn some new vocabulary. Shall we get started? Let's give it one more minute. Let's give it one more minute. I dropped my lid. I wish I could give you guys the hundreds of dollars that you will win in playing this game. Wow. We need, I should have called some more friends to join us today. We usually have more students than this. You guys are going to get my undivided attention. Okay. You'll get lots of practice in. So we'll give it one more minute. Let's see what happened today. Today was Tuesday. I had a pretty nice day.  I had been offered a couple of new jobs the last few days. So that's been pretty exciting. What is going on with you guys? How are your studies going? How are things going with studying English? Let me know in the chat how things are going today. Dwee, let me know. What are you studying? Excuse me. Okay. So we are ready for our game. It's 704. Let's go ahead and get started. So rooms is the category. Again, the category is rooms. Hello Habiba. Thanks for joining. The category is rooms for $100. I am going to read out loud the question and you will type in the chat the answer. So rooms for $100. Taking a shower and brushing your teeth are both done in this room. Taking a shower and brushing your teeth are both done in this room. Type in the chat. What is the answer? Taking a shower and brushing your teeth are both done in this room. Oh, George. Cozumel. I've been to Cozumel. I loved it. You did some snorkeling. You would say I did some snorkeling and paddling for the first time. It was great but hard. Okay. For George. George for $100. Habiba, great job. You both answered for $100. George is the winner. I'm going to keep a track. George for $100. High five, George and Habiba. Thank you, Anna. Good job. High five. Oh, nice to see you joining us. Hello, Ohm. Thanks for being here. Okay. You guys are correct. Pasha. Please be quiet. My son is making himself salad. Hey, we're bringing some pizza for dinner. Your dad's bringing home pizza. Okay. We're having pizza for dinner. Have you guys had dinner? It is 706 here. So it's close to dinner time. So good work, everyone. Let's move on. The answer, of course, is bathroom. Bathroom. All right. Here we go. So what category shall we go to next? Type in the chat. Would you guys like to do sports, holiday, body or family? What do you think should be the category?  I have one. Thank you. What do you guys think? Categories. Sports, holiday, body or family? Yes. Pizza is yummy. Family. Okay, Habiba. Here we go. Family for $100. Let's listen. Okay, Anna, we'll do sports next. We will do holiday after that. Okay. Here we go. Your mother's father is your what? Your mother's father is your what? Your mother's father is your what? Your mother's father is your what? Your mother's father is your what? Anna, close, but Habiba is correct. Your mother's father is your grandpa or grandfather.  Yes. So grandfather or grandpa, Habiba, you did it. You get, oh, I'm trying to get my star out and it's stuck. You get the gold star. Ding. Great job. Okay. So $100 was what the prize was for Habiba. $100. Of course, I'm not really giving you $100, but we can just pretend, right? So Habiba and George both have $100. So your grandfather. All right. So the next one that we chose was sports. Anna was the next person to answer. So we'll go with sports for $100. I love sports. Hey, Samira. We are playing Jeopardy. So you just type in the comments the answer. So for $100, sports. A small green ball, a net, and two rackets are needed to play this sport. A small green ball, a net, and two rackets are needed to play this sport. Habiba. Yeah. I'm not giving you any money. I don't get paid for this. I'm doing this for free. So you get my praise and you're winning knowledge. You're winning knowledge. Anna says tennis. A small green ball, a net, and two rackets are needed to play this sport. Samira, it's great to see you back. I hope that your studies went well. Yay. We're getting some answers here. Anna is the winner. Yes. We have a woman who has won the women are representing now. So we're going to put Anna as tennis. Yeah. Right. Habiba. I love it. Okay. Habiba, I have four children. I don't have money. All right. So tennis is the answer. Great work, everyone. All right, guys, call your friends. Let them know that we are having fun playing trivia on YouTube together, right? Working on some English. So do you guys have a favorite sport? Let me know in the top and the comments type a full sentence. My favorite sport is and let me know. So my favorite sport is the sport of volleyball. So I really like to play volleyball. Volleyball is played with a ball that's about this size indoors. The ball is usually white, but sometimes it can be other colors outdoors. It's called beach volleyball. And I actually used to play beach volleyball as well in college. Of course, I played indoors and it was a lot of fun. I love the sport. So the next category, let me know what sport you like using a sentence. And our next category will be Dwee's choice of holiday. But first, let's see if anyone has any sentences to type sharing what your favorite sport. Habiba, great sentence. Don't forget your period at the end of your sentence. My favorite sport is basketball. Fantastic. And Samira is using her British English spelling of favorite because I know you love British English. And don't forget your period as well. Habiba enjoys tennis. I do too. I've never had formal tennis lessons, but I do enjoy playing tennis and it is fun to watch. I love watching the Australian Open for tennis. And I like watching Wimbledon, of course. All right. So our next category is Dwee's choice, which is holiday, right? Holiday. So we'll go with holiday. Here we go. Oh, come on. How easy. Santa and presents under the tree are customs of this holiday. So George's favorite is soccer or as the rest of the world calls it, football. Oh, don't be sorry, Samira. There's nothing wrong with what you did. Just put your period. So what's the holiday? Handball. Ayala, nice to see you. Ayala, let me know. Where are you located? Yes. Habiba is correct. So $100 again to Habiba. Now you have $200. Great work. So let's add that. We've got $200 for Habiba. George also has answered Christmas. George, did you go to Cozumel and Cancun with anyone else? Share with us what your trip was like. It sounds fantastic. Yes, Dwee. Christmas. That's correct. Okay. So after holiday, let's see what our next choice was. A sports family. So how about we go with body because that's the only one that we haven't done. For $100, we are going to...   What is it? In jeopardy, when you play this, you have to answer in the form of a question, which is, what is a plank? Good for you, George. That's fantastic. It's always great to go somewhere fun like that with someone that you care about. Anna, yes. Anna, Dwee, Ayala. Great work. High five. Boom, boom. Shakalaka. Great job, everybody. So here we go. I'm going to add $100 to Anna. So tied for first place. We have Habiba and Anna with George in second place. Habiba, great job. Yes. What is your nose? That is exactly if you were on jeopardy. That is exactly how you would answer the question. So here we go. All right. The next category. Let's go back to rooms for $200. Cooking dinner and washing dishes are common in this room. Cooking dinner and washing dishes are common in this room. What room is this? And now we're up to $200. Samira says kitchen. We have some other answers coming in. Great. Yes. Excellent. Well done, guys. Great work. So yes, the answer is kitchen. So we have the winner of that round for $200. What is a kitchen would be? You need to use your article there, Habiba. What is a kitchen or what is the kitchen? Let's see. Wondering about the definite or indefinite article. I think you would say what is the kitchen? What is the kitchen? Yes. Okay. So let's look. Who was the first one? Samira. Samira's on the board with $100. Great job, Samira. Sports for $200. Sports for $200. No hands are allowed in this sport of two goals and a ball. What is it? Yes. For $200. Okay. Anna. Anna, guess what? You were the first one to respond, but if we were going to respond with American English, we would say soccer or Habiba. What is a soccer? Great sentence. So I'm sorry, Anna, but the judges have ruled that George and his answer of soccer is correct. So George won the prize money of $200. So and Samira, maybe did you win $200 too? I think I need to change that. I think you won $200 as well because you said rooms and that was $200. Okay. What is a soccer is correct? And so we have George with $300. Habiba and Anna are at $200 and Samira is at $200. Here we go. Holiday for $200. Holiday. There's a song by Madonna and it's called Holiday and it is kind of a fun song. Samira, yes, you said soccer too, but you were not the first. I apologize. I'm going to play it again. Which is monsters and vampires are common sites on this frightful night? What night is it? So the answer is soccer because Jeopardy is an American game show in the United States. And as you know, we call football that football, we call it soccer. Which is monsters and vampires are common sites on this frightful? Yes, Samira. That is correct. But this game is Jeopardy and it's American English, which I said before you came to the live stream. And yes, technically they're both correct. Halloween is correct and Halloween being a holiday would be capitalized. So Habiba is correct. Halloween. And you would not say what is a Halloween. You would say what is Halloween? A nightmare. Which is monsters and vampires are often in nightmares? That is true. What is Halloween? So let's see here. George had the first answer. So George, guys, you need to catch up to George here. Okay. Halloween has become an increasingly more popular holiday in the United States. And some many countries don't celebrate it at all. Okay, body for $200. Here we go. Body. These 10 things are useful for pointing and picking up objects. These 10 things are useful for pointing and picking up objects for $200. Anna. Anna is the first one with the answer. 10 things. These 10 things are useful for pointing and picking up objects. If there are 10 of them, we don't have 10 hands, but we do have 10 fingers. Fingers. Yes. Okay. So let's take a look at the lineup. We have Anna as the correct answer. So now you're at 500. You are tied with George. Here we go. And family for $200. Okay. Before we move on, if you guys have any questions, go ahead and type those in the chat. I will answer some questions quickly at the end of our game. Okay. If you have any questions for me. Your father's sister is your what? Your father's sister is your what? What? Your father's sister is your what for $200. Samira. Yes. Okay. So the way we spell aunt is A-U-N-T, but it is pronounced the same way as A-N-T in American English. Now some dialects in American English will say aunt instead of aunt. It depends on your regional dialect that you use. Some people will say aunt. Some people will say aunt. And then also what Dwi said, there are also people who will say auntie, but aunt is how I pronounce it. Aunt or aunt. Samira is the winner of $200. So Samira is up to $400. Great job, Samira. Excellent. Okay. Aunt. Now we'll move on to, I'm sorry, rooms for $300. Wouldn't it be nice if you guys won this money, right? So for $300. Here we go. We'll do a brief pause. I just uploaded a new video on the simple present and simple past tense for the word to have, have. There will be a part two that we'll talk about present, perfect, and past perfect. And so you can check that out, but it is on TikTok and I will load it on Instagram very soon. Check out the video. And also I've been working really diligently on a new video for my YouTube channel, learn English with Sherry. It is another shadowing lesson. So it's, I've spent many hours working on this and I really hope to bring it to you guys tomorrow. Hey Michelle, great to see you. Great to see you. So Michelle, we are playing Jeopardy, which is an American game show where there are categories and you answer trivia questions and you win the dollar amount on the board. So we are on rooms for $300. Bicycles and parked cars are normally found in this room. Bicycles. Oh shoot. Oh no, I clicked. Okay, this is my fault. So I am going to have to throw out this answer. I am sorry. I clicked the wrong spot. Yes, George, you are correct. Jorge, I did it by mistake. My fault. I don't know. What do I do when the game show host makes a mistake? I don't know. What do I do? Do I have to give some money back? I don't know. All right, guys. I am sorry. We'll move on to sports for $300. I'll try to do better, guys. Okay. All right. Height is an advantage in the sport of two hoops and an orange ball. Height is an advantage in this sport of two hoops and an orange ball. Hello, Bakhti. Great to see you. We are playing Jeopardy, which is an American game show that has trivia questions. So we're working on vocabulary. I used to play this sport in high school, junior high, and in college. Height is an advantage in this sport of two hoops and an orange ball. Yes, Habiba is bringing in the answer first. You brought the answer. Nice job. Yes, everybody's getting it. Well done. Ayala. It's basketball, basketball. And Anna, your photo looks beautiful on your profile. Samira, yours as well. George, you need to have a closer up shot. I can't really see your face. So, yes, the answer is Ishrak. Hello. Great to see you. Okay. So, basketball is the answer. Bakhti and Ishrak were playing Jeopardy. So, yes. I like the emoji. The emoji is awesome. We have Habiba in you just won $300. $345. So we have a two-way tie, George and Habiba. Okay. Now let's move on to holiday for $300. Holiday for $300. Here we go. Holiday for $300. Men give women roses and chocolates on this romantic February holiday. Men give women roses and chocolates on this romantic February holiday. Michelle, how are you doing? Let me know how you're doing, Michelle. Men give women roses and chocolates on this romantic February holiday. Guys, my husband brought home the pizza and it smells so delicious.  So, Ohm, it is not Christmas. George, you have the date correct, but we need to know the name of the holiday. And so the winner of this answer is Ishrak, Valentine's Day, and it's spelled V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E apostrophe S. It should be capitalized, but I'll give it to you because I'm the judge. Valentine's Day and there should be an apostrophe. They do not have an apostrophe here. So Ishrak, yes, Michelle. Michelle is a channel supporter. Thank you for doing that, Michelle. The channel supporters allow Robin and myself to do these live streams, free live lessons for you guys. So thank you so much. Check out Learn English Live, also my YouTube channel, Learn English with Sherry, and then Shaw English is also an amazing channel. There are hundreds and hundreds of lessons there. Okay, so let's see. What kind of pizza? Habiba? There's pepperoni, beef, and my husband, I think, got a meat lover's pizza with cheese stuffed in the crust. We really like meat here at this house. I know a lot of people don't like meat. Bakhti, you answered in a hurry. Okay, that's understandable. All right, guys. Let's move on. But first, I want to award Ishrak. Ishrak's on the board with $300. Thanks for joining. And here we go. Body for 300. Without these on either side of our heads, our days would be silent. Without these on either side of our heads, our days would be silent. I think my husband would like it if he couldn't hear me. There are some days that he wishes that he didn't hear my voice. All right. Yes, George and Anna. That is correct. Ohm, that was the correct answer. I think you're watching this stream in a different time. So ears. Great job, everyone. Well done. So we've got Bakhti is like bringing the emoji game seriously. So we have, sorry guys, I have asthma and it makes me sometimes cough when I speak a lot. Yes, Rendell. Everyone knows, right? Everyone knows this answer. Is that what you mean? Rendell, let me know. Explain please what your comment means. So yes, ears. And we've have Habiba. Was it Habiba? No, sorry. George. George for 300. I'm running out of room to write down your money, George. Three, four, $800. And let's continue. Rendell, let me know a little bit more, okay? Family for 300. Here we go. Family for $300.    Dwi likes cheese pizza. Rendell, oh, you meant that everyone guessed. Yes, everyone did guess. You're correct. Everyone knew.   Pasha, will you bring me over the garlic knots, please? So I can share with you my dinner. Sister-in-law, your brother's wife, yes, is your sister-in-law. There's nothing in here. Don't bring me an empty box. Okay, so we have sister-in-law. Yes, George is correct. So you get another $300. Would you guys like to see part of our dinner? Make sure you guys leave me some pizza. They're going to eat all the pizza without me. Do you want to see what's in the box? I can share it with you. We have sister-in-law, so George, $300. Excellent work. Sister-in-law is correct. Okay, now we're going to move on to the final round. Oh, you did? Um, Samira, on my end, George answered first. So he's the first one to comment. Samira, I know what you're saying. I've played trivia games where it looks on my phone that I've answered first, but they give it to someone else and it's frustrating. I've lost money that way. Okay, so, Bakhti, you were the first. I don't see your answer either. Okay, so let's talk about rooms. Rooms for $400. Rooms for $400. Detergent and fabric softener are often found in this room. Detergent and fabric softener are often found in this room. What room is it? Detergent and fabric softener are often found in this room for $400. Detergent and fabric softener are often found in this room. I do not see a correct answer yet. we've stumped the panel here guys while we're waiting to see if we get some more answers ooh so these are called garlic knots they are bread that has garlic on it and then you have sauce marinara sauce to dump it in and they're covered in they're covered in like butter oh they're so yummy hmm ish rock yeah ish rock got it it is the laundry room oh nice job the laundry room so when you say I have to do my laundry that means you have to clean your clothes you put them in the washer and dryer mmm that tastes so good guys I'm so sorry to be rude and eat in front of you but I had to smell it and it smells so delicious laundry room so ish rack you just won $400 okay here we go I don't think anyone can catch George he has six a thousand one thousand one hundred points for George ish rack has one thousand not bad Habiba is in at 500 Anna is at 400 and Samira is at 400 for $400 sports $400 me colored balls on a green table are used in this bar favorite a white ball a black ball and many colored balls on a green table are used in this bar favorite now this should not have a hyphen there for many colored sorry someone's come came to my door it should be multicolored balls or many with no hyphen a white ball a black ball and many colored balls on a green table are used in this bar favorite we have billiard bowling ping-pong so let's take a look so the answer is pool or billiards and they spelled it incorrectly it's like this billiards b-i-l-l-a-r billiards so pool thank you thank you Kristen pool or billiards so we have so Anna said billiard a pool table mm-hmm ah Bakhti great have a wonderful class thanks for coming to the live lesson so let's see ah mr. purist mr. purist purist buh mr. purist buh snooker is a form of billiards yes so I think we're gonna go with no one actually ish rack you're right no one got the exact answer I answered too soon I should have waited so we will throw that one out because billiards has an S on the end Anna was close but not quite there all right let's move on to holiday for 400 bunnies baskets and colorful eggs are traditional on this Sunday holiday bunnies baskets and colorful eggs are traditional on this Sunday holiday which is coming up very soon bunnies baskets and colorful eggs are traditional on this Sunday holiday for $400 so ohm is correct ohm great job you have the correct answer the answer is Easter so ohm $400 yes ish rack that is correct okay let's take a look at our next one we're almost there two questions left for $400 body between your wrist and your shoulder you can find this important joint between your wrist and your shoulder you can find this important joint between your wrist and your shoulder you can find this important joint so here's my wrist and well Well, actually, here's my wrist and here's my shoulder. I see George's answer. Yes, George and Dwee, you are correct. Nice job, everyone. It is elbow between your wrist and your shoulder is a joint that's called the elbow. Well done. So we have George is running away with this game. My answering that question. Our last question of the evening is the category of family, family. Now, some people will pronounce this word as family. Family is how it is pronounced, family. I have six people in my family here in my home.   Yes, Michelle, that is correct. I have three, six, I have seven of these. Crazy. Yes, George is rich. George, you can afford to go on another vacation. Yay. George, you are correct. Great job, Samira. Ishrak, yes. So Ayala, niece is if it was your sister's daughter is your niece. Your sister's son is your nephew, nephew. So Dwee, your cousin would be your aunt's and uncle's child would be your cousin. Your aunt and uncle's child would be your cousin. Okay, Samira, it's so interesting because on my screen, he is first. One of the downfalls of playing trivia online, right? It looks like you're first on your end. I've been there and I have lost money playing trivia online, where I was supposed to be the winner and they said I wasn't first. It was really frustrating. All right, guys, great job. Thank you so much for playing Jeopardy on Learn English Live with me. Before I close the live stream down, I will, and I'll show you my screen too. Go and I'll show you. I'll be happy to show you my live, my screenshots on my end. Look at the chat. After this is over, I'll be happy to show you. I really am fair here, I promise. But I also understand I'm competitive and I like to win. Does anyone have any questions before I close down this live stream? Any questions for me before we, before I go and eat my pizza? What do you guys think? Any questions? Thank you so much for those of you who came today to this live lesson. We worked on our vocabulary and also worked on a few other things. I hope you guys enjoyed it. And let me know if anyone else has any questions before I sign off. It was great seeing all of you. I hope that you are all safe and healthy. Yes, I'm going to enjoy my pizza. I plan on doing that. All right, check out my videos. Yes, Samira, I can. I will post, it is cool English. Cool English is the website. It has, they have great resources there. And check out TikTok, Instagram, the newest video on the simple present and simple past of how to use have. Also check out my YouTube channel tomorrow for a new lesson on shadowing. My other live, yes, I will do my other live. Do you mean on hollow? No, Michelle. I started right at seven o'clock. But Michelle, the time changed. That is probably what tripped things up. The time changed here in the United States. We sprung ahead an hour. I'm so sorry, Michelle. Thanks, everybody. Have a great night. And if you're on hollow, I'll maybe see you later. Thanks, Dwee. Goodbye, everyone. See ya. Have a great rest of your week.


Yes, that is exactly how I would like my TV to sound every single time I turn it on. And welcome guys to my review of the LG Star Wars Edition C2 Evo OLED TV. This is an awesome looking TV and also just an awesome looking presentation. Now this is based off the LG C2 OLED TVs that came out earlier. This is just a Star Wars variant. And it has of course a different pricing. If you're getting the regular C2 OLED you're going to be paying about $2,299. This is $700 more at $2,999. So we're going to look at what actually comes with this and if it's worth that extra $700. So first of all it's the packaging, right? When you unbox this device you see Star Wars all over the place. It says Star Wars on the packaging and that is very nice. Now you open it up and this is where you get more of that customized experience here. Besides seeing of course, you know, Darth Vader all over the packaging itself. You agree with what I would call a gallery of galactic proportions that actually houses a lot of the images that you see in your artistic gallery on the device itself. And also your certification of authenticity which shows you the number at which your device was produced and how many are there. There are only 501 units available and my number was 183. Now this also comes with Star Wars stickers as well. So you have stickers of course for Rebels, for the Empire and things like that in there. And that's actually a very cool thing. Now unboxing this is pretty easy and simple, very quick setup. I would say that the TV is relatively light. That's one of the best things about it. And looking at the back of the TV, I wish they could put this in front but it's really no way. You've got, you know, a lot of Darth Vader's signature all around the back. Once your TV is set and you turn it on, this is where you get start getting some of that experience. You get that startup sequence that I showed you at the very beginning of this video. And then you walk into the LG WebOS system. Now I feel WebOS looks kind of cluttered, although it runs pretty fast and smooth. But while you're using and navigating with remote control, you do have of course the magic wand feature. And your wand that shows up on the screen is a lightsaber. Of course Darth Vader's red lightsaber, which is pretty cool. It kind of makes me think maybe they should make a Harry Potter variant of this TV or something like that. But you get the idea. Now speaking of the remote control, this is a very nice solid remote. It feels kind of hefty in the hands but pretty nice. It's all black on the very bottom says Star Wars. And then right above that you have of course all your apps quick access. And then you have all the buttons in black except the ones for the microphone and the mutes that of course have white lettering across. Now hitting the home button takes you back to that WebOS main menu and can navigate through your applications in and out. You also have a source button which allows you to quickly go from connection to connection so as you can see I have my PS5 and Xbox connected to the TV. It's a very fast and fluid experience to actually use that. And of course the setting button takes you to the main settings where you can go ahead and customize them. That's an overlay on the left hand side of the TV. You can go into gallery mode and this takes you to of course the picture gallery which LG is known for with the OLED TVs. And this is something where you can cycle through some of the normal picture galleries but you do have two galleries for Star Wars. So you have one that contains images from the movies especially of course the older movies which had more of Darth Vader. And then you have one that has a lot of sketches with the you know TIE fighters and just other sketches throughout Star Wars which is pretty cool to see and it's a great thing to have as a gallery especially there. So I think that is an added experience with the TV set. When it comes to just using it as a television this thing works really well. As you expect with LG's OLED TVs you have some really great functionality with it. One of that is of course while you're gaming. Whether you're PlayStation 5 or your Xbox it will automatically switch into the game mode where of course HDR is turned on but you also have something really cool. If you hit the settings menu that brings up the game bar and there you can customize your gaming experience. You can go into the settings for your gaming settings. You can change of course the brightness level, the darkness level. You can turn on or you can see if VR VR is on. You can also change your game settings to match different games like RTS, FPS and so on and so forth. And also you can switch to AMD FreeSync but I had nothing with FreeSync. So if you're using a PC that has an AMD graphics card that will work this also supports G-Sync as well. So when you're gaming as you can see whether I'm playing on my PlayStation 5 or my Xbox Series X you can see that it actually follows and matches what is going on on screen in terms of just gaming performance. So you can see I'm doing 60 frames per second playing Forza and VR is on. Same thing with playing Horizon, Forbidden West. It's also about 59, 60 frames per second, VR is also kicked in as well. So those are really cool. Now in terms of game streaming services, Stadia is one of them that's available on LG's WebOS as well as also Nvidia GeForce Now. Now Stadia works really pretty well and plays well. All you need to do is connect the Bluetooth controller and you are good to do it. Go even watching content on this is vibrant. Now the one thing you notice with all the glare is because I was watching you doing daytime while I'm always recording and this is what you get. We know LG older to a fantastic job at night. I really wanted to showcase daytime recording and you can see even though I have shades down and I have some higher windows, once the light comes in, it can deter a bit. It's much better with just watching regular eyesight. The camera doesn't do it as much justice as possible. It's still pretty bright and you can change between those viewing settings like vivid cinema or cinema home. Vivid, of course, is the brightest settings there and you can also go ahead and calibrate it too. But from all viewers, you guys have been going through the settings, but honestly, you need to watch it on cinema home before you really enjoy that experience with Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision as well with this TV. I think the overall package of the TV is very nice and solid, including the audio from the inbuilt speakers. Now, listening to that, you're getting a good audio experience. You do have to crank it up to about 50 percent and it's not as bass heavy, but it still does a good job if you don't have a sound bar yet. Now, leaving you with the final thing that this TV does is once you turn it off, it basically will tell you may the force be with you and kind of concluding your viewing experience. Now, the main question here is this, is it worth the extra $700? For what you have with it, I say no, not really. I mean, there's nothing there that truly adds $700 worth of experience. But if you are a Star Wars fan, it does add a lot of Star Wars features into the TV set that is actually worthwhile as a Star Wars fan. So if you want to point it up that extra seven, you can. Because there are a few looks like there are a few TVs available. I just check the LG website while we bring this video. And I saw that, yes, some available. So if you want to pick one up, go ahead and do that. And if you want to still pick up the the C2 OLED, which is a great TV, go ahead and check that out as well. So stay tuned, guys. I'll have more TV coverage. I have the A95K coming up, which is a QD OLED TV, as well as also we compare that to the other QD OLED and the C2 OLED to see which is actually the top dog in this category. So if you guys have any questions or comments, let me know. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment.


What's going on everybody? Welcome back to another Excel tutorial. Today we will be looking at charts. Now if you have data in Excel and you want to visually show that with bars or graphs or anything like that, you can do that really simply. And I'm going to show you how to do that today. And a lot of people are a little bit intimidated because they think it's a little bit complicated. But I promise you by the end of this video, you will know how to do it like a pro. It's not that difficult. It's just you need to know where to look where to click and how to actually filter through things to make sure that you're visually showing the things that you want to show.  And that is Udemy. You may not know this, but I probably get at least 15 to 50 companies every single month reaching out to me wanting to sponsor the channel and promote their product. And I turned down almost every single one because I either don't know their product or I don't believe in their product.  But Udemy is one that I have consistently promoted over the past year and that's because I truly believe in their product. I've been taking courses off their platform for years and I've honestly learned so much and I cannot recommend them enough. So if you want to take a full fledged Excel course, I have my recommendations in the description if you want to check those out. Thank you again to Udemy for sponsoring this Excel series. So without further ado, let's jump on my screen and get started with this tutorial. All right, so let's jump right into it. Right here we have the Dunder Mifflin sales report. And over here we have all the products that they were selling along with the months that they were sold in. And so in January they sold 450 reams of paper. Down here we have the total items per month. And so in January they sold 898 units of products or things that they sold. And at the very end we have the year end total. So this is the total amount of paper that they sold throughout the year. Now we're going to use this data right here for all of our charts. Now you may not have data exactly like this. It can come in lots of different flavors but you're going to get the basic gist of how to use charts, how to edit it, how to customize it, to fit what you need. And then we're going to kind of put it right over here and kind of create its own sheet where we can kind of visualize all the things that we want to show. So let's jump right back over here into sales. And first thing we need to do is kind of highlight the data that we're going to be working with. Now I'm going to start with everything but you know I'll show you along the way. We don't actually want everything but we can filter that stuff out as we go. So let's go right here and we're going to insert and we're going to go over to charts. Now this is the chart section. There's lots of different types of charts. But the first thing that we're going to be looking at is right here. This is a 2D column or kind of like a bar chart. And we're just going to click right here and we're going to pull this down. So now that we have this down here, there are a few things that I want to show you before we actually really get into it. I kind of want to show you the options that you have. So if you go up here, we have different chart styles. And so if I hover over them, you can see that each one kind of looks a little bit different. And it really doesn't matter. It doesn't really change the data in any way just how you visualize it. And so if that is important, if that is something that you want to stick with a certain theme or a certain look, then go for that. The other thing that's really nice to have over here is this switch row and column. So right down here, you can see this purple and you can see this red. Those are our rows and columns. And we can switch that right here. So if we go like this, now instead of the months being right here, the months are the colors and the actual product is right here. Let's click it again and it'll go back. And so now we have this kind of time series. Now we have January through the end of your total. Now this one is one that I think is super helpful. You can do it down here as well if you go to this filter. But both of these are super helpful because you sometimes just want to select all the data and then kind of get in there and mess with it. Something that we want to get rid of is this total items per month. So we want to remove that. And then we also want to remove this year end total because both of those are kind of the end result. They're not the actual data per month or per product. So we're going to get rid of those and we're going to apply that. And as you can see just right off the bat, our data has changed dramatically. And that's because we aren't including these these large, large numbers that were kind of throwing off the visualization for us. So this one right here as is is already pretty good. What we can do right here is we can change this and we're just going to say products sold per month. Now what we can do if we want to move it to another to another sheet is we can actually move the chart and we can select where we want to move it. We can move it to a chart sheet and we can do that or something that I do almost 99% of the time I just copy and I come over here and I'm going to paste it. And so now we have this chart right over here as well as back here. And so I typically tend to do that because now we can still go over here and change this one as much as we want. So if we want to go in here we can alter this one and it won't affect the other one. So we just have basically two copies. So we're going to keep this one right here. This is going to be our first visualization. And as I said it's fairly straightforward. If you've ever done any types of charts or graphs before right here it's January, February, March, April, May. And if you hover over these you can see that that's the paper. And if we just glance you know the paper is their biggest product by far. And so that blue which is their paper is going to be the biggest every single month. So that makes perfect sense. Now what if we want to change up the kind? So what if we want to change up the kind of visualization that it offers us? Well we have a lot of different options. Let's go right over here to change chart type. Now this is going to offer you just about everything you could possibly imagine or want and even things that you absolutely would never ever want ever. And so I'm going to show you some of the good ones.  I could not imagine a scenario that these are ever used. But within these columns you can do they're called cluster columns, these stacked columns. So it would look just like this. Those are often used as well. And then we have ones that they're just not used often. Let's take a look at this one right here. I mean it's tough. It's tough to look at. But let's let's put it right here. This is basically the same thing that we just had except visualized in a different we'll call it more unique way. And let's just for the sake of it let's put it over here. These two things show the same information. They show the same data just one is shown well and one is not shown well. I'm not a fan of these 3D type of visualizations. I just don't like them. But maybe you do. And you want to use that. That's fantastic. Let's go back. Something else that you probably use a lot are things like these line graphs. Okay. So these are line graphs and they're different types. So they're these stacked 100% stacked line lines with markers, different flavors for this this type of line graph. And so you can go in here and take a look again. Not my favorite. But they have it as an option if you choose so choose to do this. But I kind of I'm kind of a simple guy. But I'm going to go in here and it's pretty clustered. I want to kind of take the ones that have the highest sales or the highest total amount sold. So that would be paper, manila folders, and three ring binders. So let's go in here. We want to keep paper. We want to keep manila folders. And we want to keep three ring binders. And let's apply that. And so now it's a lot cleaner. And we're just going to copy this. And we're going to put it over here. And I'm just putting these all over here for you. Because we'll look at this at the end and just kind of see different options and ways to do things as we have gone through this tutorial. So let's go back here. Now something else that we haven't looked at is the actual colors and color schemes that you can do. So let's go right here to these chart styles. And we can go to color. Now color is something that probably is quite overlooked in actual charts and graphs, some terrible colors like this or this, where they're really close together, especially when you have a lot of them. For example, let's just pretend we put all of them back really quickly. It is near impossible to distinguish these colors. We wouldn't want that. Let's go back to this color. You know, when you have it like in some of these colors at least, at least distinguishes them. So you can kind of see what you're working with. But when you have it in these monochromatic options, sometimes they're just impossible to distinguish. So be sure to choose the right colors that you're using so that if somebody who's never seen this data before looks at it, they can easily distinguish the product and the month that you are looking at. But let's go just back up here. We'll choose this default option. Well, let's choose this one right here. This one's nice, although there's lots of yellows and oranges. Let's see this one. This is not bad. Greens, blues, and like yellows. So that's nice. Other things that we want to look at, and there are these chart elements right here, other things that we can add are things like data labels. And right here, it's super messy. But if we went back and we got rid of some of these things, like the printers, staples, highlighters, pens and total, we apply that. It's a little bit easier to distinguish. And that's, you know, something that you may be interested in doing. You can also add this data table at the bottom, which is the actual columns and rows that you have for this visualization right here. Now, let's expand this quite a bit. I'm going to make this extremely large. If you have something like this, it actually can be pretty nice. You know, maybe we get rid of these data labels, but it can be easy because you're putting it all in one place. You can also make this two separate visualizations. You can have one visualization just like this and right underneath it, you can have the actual rows and columns, but this option allows you to put it all in one. So let's put this back down, because that is way too big. And wait, let's expand it a little bit. Now, if you notice right here, we have our legend up top. It is possible to actually change that. You can go right here and you can move this kind of wherever you want. But it's not exactly easy to put based off how we have it right here. If we go into this chart elements, we get out to legend and hit this little arrow right here. We can select it on the right, the top left and the bottom, or we can just go to more options, which allows us to push it anywhere. But let's say I want to do it just like this. I'm going to put it on the right and I actually want to bring it down right here. And that's just an option if you want to kind of customize it a little further, makes it a little cleaner. You can do that with almost any of these things. So if you click on this, if you click on this, you can move this anywhere as well. So if you want to move this over here on top of it, you can make it look terrible or you can move it right back over here. This is something that you can move around. You just kind of want to make sure you're doing it the right way. So let's get this back where it was. There we go. Now, before we go any further, let's copy that and put it right over here with our other charts and graphs. And if you see over here on this side, we have this format chart area. Notice I haven't showed you this at all yet. That is because I genuinely just don't use this almost at all. There are some good stuff in here. And I'm sure that if you were someone who really wants to go in there and super customize it, you can do that. But honestly, I just never get in here. I never change the glow or the shadows. Just not something I use. And some of these are only for these 3D formatting, which I never use. And so I'm not going to show you and walk through these things. Again, I really don't use it. And so if you want to go in there and mess with it, by all means go for it. It's just not something that I want to take the time to show you. And with that being said, let's go back over to this chart sheet that we have. And it was super, super easy to get these charts and graphs and whatnot. There are lots of different options. Again, if we go back here and we go up here to chart design and go to the change chart type. And again, there are a ton of different options like a pie chart like this. It's, you know, you can try to figure this out and use these. But you know, I wanted to show you the ones that you'll probably use the most, which are these columns and line charts. And they all kind of are similar in their own way. This bar chart is basically, you know, this column chart just on its side. And so they all have their different flavor. They all have their different way of visualizing the data. But in essence, they're using the data in a similar way to, to visualize it and represent the data itself, especially things like these box and whisker plots or these waterfall charts. You know, these are things that usually require specific data to kind of use and so I'm just using data that you'll probably see the most of like this, the sales data. So I hope that this is giving you a pretty good, you know, quick understanding of how to use these, how to customize them, how to copy and paste them over to a different sheet to create some type of little chart and visualization sheet that you can use to show your employers and visualize the data that you are working with. Thank you guys so much for watching. I really appreciate it again. Huge shout out to you to me for sponsoring this Excel series. 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