Good morning, good morning, good morning, everybody. Welcome back to my video. Thank you so much for joining me today. Now, this is a bit of a fun one. This video is all about how to get rid of an ear infection that's bacterial or fungal. Now, mine is a bit of a story. This is the reason why this video came about. So a couple of years ago, I actually had a staff infection on my face. It was a skin infection, but it sort of started here and just worked its way up. Just kept moving along, moving along, moving along. I'd gotten rid of it with natural means. So I'll share it in the description below what I did to help heal my skin infection naturally. But it just would keep moving. So it healed, but then I'd find it somewhere else on my face. And I think it was due to a low immune system at the time, because usually your body can sort of keep it at bay, but mine wasn't keeping it at bay at the time. Anyway, it eventually moved into my ear. So the stuff actually got inside my ear canal, and it was very irritated, very sore, and I'm blocking it. I couldn't hear out of it. So I was finding it naturally up to that point, but once it got inside my ear, I was a bit worried then because I didn't want it to damage my ear and have problems hearing later on. Because your ears are very sensitive. They're like your eyes. You want to take very good care of them. And I was very cautious that I didn't want it to be in there too long because it could cause damage. So I went to see a doctor about it. They gave me antibiotics for it, and they gave me an antibiotic topical cream to put on it. And that works immediately. It was fantastic. Got rid of the staff infection completely. I didn't have a problem with it after that, which was awesome. However, I found that ever since my staff infection in my ear, it would like when I went swimming, it would get waterlogged. And I never used to have this problem even as a kid. My ears like canals are quite big, so they drain out really easily. But with this one, it was always getting blocked and it wouldn't drain out probably. Like I'd have to like do a lot to try and get the water out. And sometimes it just won't come out. I think eventually it just got out itself, but it would sit there for ages. Anyway, I started getting irritation with it and my earwax started blocking my ears sometimes. So I couldn't actually hear out of it. And I was like, oh, I thought it was just an over like earwax problem.  I was very careful not to push the earwax further in. I was trying to more like scoop around the edges, but it wasn't really helping. Then I got a mimakaki stick. It's like a Japanese utensil. I'll write the word down at the bottom because I haven't pronounced that right. I'm in my kaki stick. I think that's how you say it. And that is really helpful. It's got like a little kind of fade bit at the end and just helps to kind of scoop out earwax rather than pushing it in like a cotton bud does. I got a reusable one, so it's more eco-friendly. You know me. So I got that and I was scooping out the earwax, but it just wasn't helping. Like kind of get rid of it. It was sort of really deep in my ear. I didn't want to put the stick too far in because I got a lot of damage to my ear, John. So I was just struggling with it. Anyway, beginning of this year, 2020, I was at the beach and I was like, oh, this is just getting worse with all the waterlogged, like getting stuck in my ear and the earwax just keeps building up and I can't get rid of it. It was just very uncomfortable. And so I went to see a doctor again. I try not to see doctors. I'm not trying to let my body heal itself, but it wasn't healing itself. So I went to see a doctor and they prescribed me waxle. They said they couldn't really see any blocks like earwax block in my ear, but they gave it to me anyway. And I put the waxle in my ear, um, like a cream and I let it sit in there and supposed to dissolve the earwax, but I think I left it in too long. I don't know how, but because I did it for the minute, I said, but I think I left it in too long anyway and it burnt my ear, like my ear canal so sore. The earwax was gone, so to say, but my ear canal was really burnt and red raw and so sore. And so for a week afterwards, it was just really tender, really raw. Oh, it was not nice. Not nice guys. It was not a great time for me. So I put a lot like I went to the, to the sea and this helped like try to get the seawater to heal it and after a while it was fine. But I think it, like the swelling from the staff and just me using waxle in my ear kind of shrunk my ear canal a bit with like swelling and inflammation. Anyway, I was starting to have irritation now in my ear, like it was itchy and then it was sore and it was like just really irritated and I was like, I was trying to wait for it waited out until it like got better itself because sometimes it can do that, but it just wasn't for me. So about a month ago, I went to see my naturopath and I got it to check my ear and we found out that I had a fungal and bacterial infection in there and that was what was causing my irritated ear and it was a little bit in this one, but it wasn't as much. Anyway, she prescribed me a natural kind of remedy for my ear and oh my gosh, it works so well. Best thing ever. So I'll share with you guys what that is today. It's really easy to do and I did it at the start around two to three times a day on days where my ear was more irritated. I'd do it three times, but when it wasn't so bad, I'd just do it two times a day, morning and night and it helped me so much. It's been a month now. It's still a little bit there. I can feel it sometimes, but as long as I keep on top of it with this remedy, like this eardrop remedy that I make, it's really helpful and it's like really improved my ear tenfold. I've been also making sure not to have too much sugar and to help really with my detoxing. I've also paired it with infrared saunas which helps with detoxing and you kind of sweat to release toxins and by doing that, it's helped to also really heal my ear as well. Now when you do this, you need to do it in both ears because my naturopath said that if you only do it in one ear, like if you only do the ointment in one ear, the infection will just move across because your ears are like linked. So if you just do it in one, the infection most likely will just move to the other ear and then you'll have it in the other one. So you do them both at the same time and then you block them up with a cotton bud and you leave it in there and make sure you don't wash out the solution at all. You just let it completely absorb and then take out the cotton buds. The cotton buds are just there to help stop the solution running down your face. So just leave them in there, don't wash the ointment out at all, let it sink into your skin and I just do them morning and night and it's helped me so much. I imagine in a few more months time it's going to be completely gone so I'm very excited about that. Finally, two years in the making, it's finally getting better. I also have noticed since doing the ointment that my ear canal is actually like less swollen so it's like bigger now, which is great. So now when I swim I can actually like get the water out which is fantastic. So this is a win-win overall. Anyway long, sorry short, this is what I do to help rectify a fungal or bacterial ear infection. So to make these ear drops you want to start by filling up your egg cup about one to two inches of the way with olive oil. Then place the egg cup containing the olive oil into a bowl and pour boiling water around it in the bowl making sure to cover the egg cup but not allowing the water to flow over into the olive oil. You just want to heat up the oil inside. Then once the oil is warm, not hot though, you just want it to be warm. You can test a sample on the underside of your wrist where the skin is thin so it can feel the change in temperature much more effectively. So once the oil is warm, take the egg cup out of the water and add in two to three drops of either chamomile tea tree or lavender essential oil. I did a bit of tea tree and lavender. Then you want to mix it through, then once that's done grab your dropper and you're ready to pop it into your ears. Alrighty so once we have our solution like so we're going to drop it into your ears. I'd usually do one and then leave my head on the side for a couple of moments and then I put the cotton bod or cotton ball in and then I do the other side and do the same.  Now one thing to note is that it's really ideal if you get organic cotton balls because cotton is one of the most like pesticide sprayed crops that we grow. So it's really laden in pesticides and chemicals so putting that in your ear is not great. So if you can really opt to get organic cotton and hopefully as if you can as well like ethically and sustainably farmed cotton as well. I'm in the process of looking for some of the moment so what I do I'll link in the description below the ones that I get. So basically what we do with the e-drops like I said before, try not to drop it. Nothing to see here. Meg's going to see this later and be like you dropped oil in our room. I'm like yeah sorry oops. So once you've got a nice little bit of the just be like of your e-drops. Don't mind that it's just rainy outside. I'm all storming before so enjoy the pitter-patter of the rain. A bit of ASMR going for you guys. And also don't worry about my e-drop. I was I've made many homemade DIYs in the past and one of them just hasn't been able to get properly cleaned out. Like I've cleaned it as much as possible but I haven't been able to get all the residue out of it so that's why it kind of looks really strange but the e-dropper itself is actually quite clean.  It's really uncomfortable to start to take a while to get used to it. Well it still makes me shiver when I get it in my ear and just put enough in until it's um like blocking your ear so you can feel that it's in there it's all the way down and you can't really hear out of it. It's like partially blocked. And then I usually break up the cotton ball in two so that it saves on waste because I don't need a whole cotton ball in my ear. So I break it in two and then I put one side of it in my ear and just like make sure that it's pressed in nice and firm so it doesn't just pop out later on. And there you can just feel it drain down afterwards which is so nice because it's really uncomfortable putting it sitting on your e-drum. And then I get the next dose and I put that bit in my ear too. Every time. I leave it in there for a moment or two and then block it up with my cotton bud. And yeah you can't really hear much out of it afterwards. I must say it's a look and a half with the cotton buds in your ear so you can go walk around with that and just go about your daily life and it's so easy. And it'll just sit and do its thing in your ear, help to kill any bacteria. You can use chamomile, lavender or tea tree oil like I said before. Probably not eucalyptus just because it's a bit more harsh and your ears are sensitive like I said like your eyes. You want to protect them so you don't want to use anything too harsh on them. So just a couple of drops of lavender or tea tree or chamomile or you can do what I did where I did a bit of lavender and a bit of tea tree and mix that in to a solution. The recipe for this ear infection remedy will be in the description below for you guys if you want to check it out later or refer back to it a later date. So feel free to check it out. Today's giant shout out goes to yummywisher. Thank you so much for commenting on my keto bread recipe. I'm so glad you liked it. You're most welcome. I'm glad you got a lot out of it. Thank you everyone for watching and for commenting my videos. It really means so much to me. I've enjoyed today's video and if you do like make any of the recipes I share in any of my videos please feel free to tag me on social media especially on Instagram. I am there mostly most of the time. 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This is covering the spread part of the fandal podcast network our week of 10,000 sports here on covering the spread begins today because we are talking both the NBA and the PGA breaking down a five gain slate in the NBA for tonight and also talking the AT&T pebble Beach Pro M by bringing on Brandon Gedula to break down both those it is gonna be a big week here on covering the spread. We're talking basketball golf Hockey soccer we talked some football. We're gonna talk NASCAR all in the same week Let's dive in and get you all said for Tuesday night in the NBA and PGA This is covering the spread right here on the fandal podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim Sonos. I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire calm joined here as mentioned by Brandon Gedula, he is a senior managing editor of number fire calm We can find Brandon on Twitter at Gedula 13 branded it is time to shine because we are Current out football. We've got basketball. What you do. We got golf. What you do I know you're stoked for the new baseball season just around the corner, too. So how you do it? Yeah, I look baseball is about here March 30th, right? I've had my Calendar you actually know what the opening day is. There's no March 30th I have no idea. I Am behind on all things baseball because I've been focusing on draft stuff focusing on Rebuilding everything in NASCAR trying to bet more golf head-to-head. So just I'm I'm behind man I believe it. I believe it's March 30th is the start date and then October 1st 2027 is when the season ends Yes, your favorite actually, no it goes into November if you're for being fully honest Oh, does the regular season go to November? Well, no the the postseason will if it's if the World Series goes like seven games So, you know, I know you were joking, but also it does go longer than that. I know you said 2027, but Still regardless. I'm sure you're stoked for that. How was your royal rumble you talked about that last week? How did that go on Saturday? It's so good, you know, people call it a little bit predictable with with Cody Rose winning the rumble and The same insane bloodline storyline come into a head, but boy, you know, you couldn't done it much better So I think they're doing a great job. I understood every word you just said. Absolutely. No notes. No questions No feedback. 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Yeah, I mean I think being cautious with your bets is always Good news if you if you you know approach it from that perspective and really only You know place a bet that you feel great about that's why a big part of you know what I do is I You know, I've talked about like my process for betting NBA Questionable tags are the worst Because that's information that I don't have and though to make We can make educated guesses and we can kind of think through but One of my favorite parts about the NBA is just the fact that Even on a night like tonight if there's a game or two that's you know impacted by a questionable tag There are other ways to go But I think that is very very crucial, but yeah I mean as far as like the the trade deadline itself and like player transactions, obviously a Move for a key player is going to impact one team. Well, two, you know two teams in that regard and You know, there's there's gonna be some time some downtime Where players you've got traded are not going to be active and if you're just looking at For like full season numbers or you know something that I reference a lot like past 10 games numbers like You're gonna be you're gonna have gaps right in your sample and in your data So that is very very impactful that being said this season Like we could kind of see a lot of moves because everything's super clustered. I went back Yeah, if you just take a look at the standings, it'll feel like everything's like pretty pretty clustered But I went back into the number fire database and entering February this year, which I know it's We're technically still in January, but you know just to make it simple entering February only nine teams have a 70% chance to make the playoffs according to number fires model the prior decade We've averaged about 13.9 at this point in the season Currently 21 teams have at least a 40% chance to reach the postseason, which is up from 17 over the past decade So like more teams are in the mix but not like solidified yet So we could see a lot of extra shaking up here from teams that are on the fringe And there aren't that many teams that are you know out there Dominating the standings looking to to sort of be the one piece away anything like that now We have already seen like the Lakers. I think there's only really been two trades Probably the most notable one is the Lakers making that deal for a Rui Hachimura, but they could still be in the trade market And it's not even just trades like its motivation at this point I went back to to look at you know pre deadline and post deadline correlation between like team numbers last year the correlation between a team's Pre deadline offensive rating and post deadline was point six one, which is like it's not Solid it's not one right For defensive rating it's point five five for net it's point six eight So like pretty solid there, but you know that that that what that tells us is like It's more like that a good team is gonna sort of stay good or bad teams gonna stay bad But then it's not like a super super strong correlation of like point nine or something where there's no shift So I think it really is something that we need to be very very mindful of Whether there a team does make a trade or doesn't We're gonna have to watch motivation. We're gonna have to watch the rotation So I think for me to sum it all up. I'm looking at lineups every single day Yeah, and putting that into the into the my model So I'm not really gonna change a whole lot. Maybe I'll be a little bit more cautious in the days leading up to the deadline But sure. Um, yeah, it's it's gonna be a spot where whatever your process is you got to make sure that you're updating for you know these different Different rotations that teams might actually be able to put on the floor right and you were talking about the information aspect of it And like there are a lot of people who can make quality bets based on information if they have you know If they have that information, we don't we are numbers people. We don't have that information So if you have that information sick, you know fire away do your best We don't have that so we're not gonna operate that way We're talking about the way we operate and we're not gonna have the information before Most people do so I think that it's always important to tailor towards what your strengths are and to know that for sure And also kind of what you're saying, too It's better to make it to to not make a bet than make a bet you regret So I think that kind of the null hypothesis should kind of be I'm not gonna make a bet here And if you can find different information to reject then I'll hypothesis this week go for it But you won't always get to that point. Yeah, let's shift our focus here specifically to Tuesday Now we got a couple of naturally televised games on TNT the first one Lakers and Nicks That's kind of fun got some playoff implications there We also the pelicans and nuggets later on looking at those two games specifically Brandon People want to watch those games wants an action in the line. Are there any bets? You see as being good values in those two So the Lakers played last night Against the Nets lost by 17 So we're not gonna get a great read on their injury status officially until later in the day That's just typically how that works But LeBron James whenever we do get an official injury report. He's gonna I would assume appear as questionable Didn't play Against the Nets now according to head coach starving ham This might be a little bit of a different situation for LeBron. He's dealing with quote significant soreness With his foot. So I don't think it's necessarily a given that you see LeBron is questionable And like he just plays or is a hundred percent Anthony Davis didn't play last night either, but we're probably likely to get him back again Just dealing with my assumptions on any any information beyond that For the Nicks Mitchell Robinson's out and that's kind of relevant He's not like, you know people who better play DFS are gonna know that name If you're just kind of winding into NBA because you know bet the NFL and you're kind of like, you know Giving things a shot. He's a really impactful player the Nicks They're they're offensive rating actually drops 8.2 points when he's off the floor compared to what it is when he's on the floor Their defensive rating climbs 1.8 points. So it's like a net net of 10 points per 100 possession. So that's pretty relevant. I Also don't like I look at like home road stuff Just to kind of get a feel for teams because I think home road in the NBA with with how travel works and like motivation and prep Is kind of relevant, but the Nicks at home are just 12 and 13 Covered in 37 and a half percent of their games. That's despite an opponent adjusted net rating of plus 1.4 So kind of interesting there, but overall What I'm seeing is that the total has dropped like six or seven points depending on you know Where you're looking I would assume that means no LeBron if I'm kind of reading reading the tea leaves there My model thinks the Nicks should be favored by 3.4 instead of 2 if LeBron plays and by 4.9 if LeBron's out Which sounds kind of small But that's assuming that Anthony Davis is playing and so, you know, it's it's kind of reasonable there without both They're really bad, but that kind of helps out Then I'm also seeing the value on the over now that it's dropped so much It was 230 and a half before we clicked record I have it around 235 worth or without LeBron because either their offense gets better or their defense gets worse Yeah, that spread is not three and a half. So, okay, legitimately right where you have it 3.4, right? Yeah, so they they convene to you which is always a good feeling at least but If it doesn't lead to a bet you said over 230 and a half because you had 235 there That's assuming LeBron does not play on your end It's either because with the Lakers It's basically their offense is either good or the defense is worse. It's kind of balances out there Okay, and it's dropped a ton. So, okay. Yeah, 235 and a half Maybe you want to keep an eye on that see if it drops more potentially With the way the market said moved maybe you can get more there But keeping on that see where the inflection point is to see if it will move any more beyond that What about pelicans and nuggets right now nuggets six and a half point favorites total that game is 233 and a half anything you like there Yes, so Jim all worries questionable I feel like a lot of these you know prime time games to be and I think it's a good I think it's good. Since we started doing this. I'm realizing like, you know, this is these are typically games from like, okay Key questionable tags. I'm not really gonna look that much into it until later in the day and sort of figured out from there but it's like a good exercise because it's important to to be reactive to Key players being in or out of the lineup Denver's a plus six point four for with him versus without Jamal Murray So another potential big mover, but as long as they have Nikol Jokic It's really not a huge issue statistically like he's obviously the much bigger impact on for the pelicans Zion Williamson remains alts Brandon Ingram returned recently played two games But he was limited 25 and 28 minutes rested on a back-to-back after his most recent game Hasn't really been up to speed exactly. So that's like a hard one to adjust for I would probably manually bump them down a little bit Because I'm not assuming like a full minutes workload for him but Denver Pretty dominant overall obviously, but especially at home 22 and 4 with the league best plus 11 adjusted net rating 61 and a half percent cover rate Notably their games fall like three point two points shy of their implied team total at home So basically kind of one of those situations where if I see something like that I'm thinking they're consistently overrated at home offensively sure Or there's blown teams out and either way But so I think I think stuff like that is somewhat relevant whenever you see such a big number there But for me, I have Denver by seven and a half and a total of two thirty two and a half Pretty spot-on if Murray's out if he plays then Like I'm seeing I'm seeing value on Denver now that it's back down to I guess not back down I don't know if it started a six and a half or anything, but if it's six and a half I would kind of be okay taking Denver minus six and a half there The over it's not like more of a lean for you than like some of you're like rushing it back, correct Yeah, it's it's if I if I'm like within one point of something and I'm within one point of the the total now where I would technically We'd be under but you know, it's one of those spots where look like I see it But I'm not necessarily Loving it. Yeah, so I think we got to be alright Identifying those situations and you know, maybe a smaller unit bad a partial unit bad depending on like what your personal You just want to pay for like entertainment, you know Always again do that with like just do that responsibly. Yeah, but if you are looking for something there That's where you could go but Brandon sounds like more or so for him not a ton You like in that game, so let's open up the board here We do have three other games on the board for Tuesday night in the NBA anything you like in those games So Milwaukee's hosting the the Hornets that totals climbing I had it at two 43 and a half not my model, but like now it's up to 244. Yeah, so it's it's just going up But my model likes the under okay kind of a lot which is one of the spots where I'm worried But in you know, it's a five game sample With Lamello ball Terry Rozier in Gordon Hayward, but no Kelly Ubre or Cody Martin The Hornets in that split up an offensive rating of 105.4, which is terrible Even if I open that up to just having Ubre and Martin off the floor not necessarily out of the game get more possessions But it's a similar split where the offense is just really bad You know double-digit spread could be a blowout potential situation I think this game goes under because of the Hornets inability to score with the current lineup, but I think I'm always lower on the Hornets and I'm assuming it's like a Lamello ball situation You're like people want to root for the Hornets and think they score a lot of points and they you know They can and do but statistically there there's some caveats with them. So I like the under there That's my favorite one my favorite thing outside the national TV games Yeah, like you said 244 is a total in that game under is minus 110 if you said that it's rising You know, it's another one to keep your eye on see If the market is stagnated at 244 because I could imply it could be on the verge of correcting a bit But right now 244 the number for that one anything else in the NBA before you move on to some PGA Jimmy baller's questionable. So I don't really like that heat Cavaliers game If I had to you know, if I was looking for some fun, I'd go over for clippers and bulls But those two teams really pain me. I don't love either side of that But my model does see Some value in the over the clippers offense is just really good with koala entered and Paul George both active, but I See those two teams and I just kind of I Don't like it, but the model does No, it's not say I like the under I just I don't like watching those two That's what we base it all around. All right, how much you like the teams Okay, well, I rest of the NBA for today, but we'll talk some more NBA tomorrow with Tom Vecchio Talks in NHL with him as well for today though. Let's move in to some golf We got the AT&T pebble beach pro am coming up this week And if you don't know about this event, it is a three-course setup where there are a lot of celebrities playing in the field So it can be odd I think that's why they have the three courses because celebrities can take a little bit longer golfing than the pros do Brandon, what should people know about this event before we dive into the markets here? Yes, or three courses all you know pretty short overall Which does kind of bear out in the stats we're driving distance itself is not a must If you just look at like past winners, you'll kind of see that too And doesn't so we have some like non-PGA tour guys at this point who have won numerous times Like that's weird to have Dustin Johnson as a non-PGA. I'm still used to that I also hadn't heard his name in a very long time Yeah, actually I was on the treadmill last night and flipped on like I think the 2015 Masters and I saw him and he looked Very young and I was like, oh DJ Days have changed. Yeah Another a guy did not technically see on on the feed But who's also familiar with the Custon national film Eccleston's one here five times But recent winners who were like in the field Tom Hoagie last year Nick Taylor Ted Potter Ted Potter junior spreadsheet room in her Ted Potter junior Ted Potter comma junior Ted Potter junior period. It's it's everything. Yeah Surprise is no Ted Ted Potter comma junior no period. That's the one I haven't I've seen that have you that's that's egregious I hate that But then like Jordan speeds Jimmy Walker DA points the other winners in the field. So If you're not really a huge golf fan Don't like don't There you don't you shouldn't really know any of those names other than Jordan speed. So but that goes this show You should know Tom Hoagie Tom Hoagie rules. You should know Tom Hoagie I'm gonna make that assertion now. I'm saying you should familiarize yourself with Tom Hoagie if you don't yeah, that's fair But like when you see a list of names like that who have won But also like we know like Phil and DJ one here like, you know, it's still a pretty wide open field Whenever you have a course or trio of courses in this situation where They're pretty easy overall like winning scores are around 19 under 18 under 17 under they've all been between 17 and 19 the past Five years you're gonna get a lot a lot more potential at the top of the field whenever driving distance isn't a must You're gonna see a lot more guys who aren't Eliminated from contention right away So basically this one's gonna be a bit more open than we that I like to see I Kind of like to see a tough course and then just stick with the studs so Spoiler alert that's gonna factor into my to my outright recommendations But yeah, we're looking for you know some driving accuracy if you want But really irons because of the tiny greens These are some of the smallest greens across the the three courses that we get on the PGA tour that correlates the Distrosion approach or iron play so once some irons And and some some putting that's basically what I think this one comes down to Irons we can familiarize ourselves Tom Hokey. Yeah, you know, I did one. Yeah, okay So let's take a look at the markets right now over at Fandall sportsbook We have three co-favorites right now Jordan Spieth Matt Fitzpatrick go cats and Victor Hovland are all 11 to 1 at Fandall sportsbook speed open a 50 and obviously not a ton of interest there So he lengthened but Fitzpatrick and Hovland did too which sounds like a kind of meshes of what you were saying where More guys are able to contend which makes it tougher to back a guy at super short odds So any outrides do you like based on the current odds? Yes, so I'm gonna start my card with one of Matt Fitzpatrick and Victor Hovland I'm going to go with Fitzpatrick because my model likes him more. He's a better Just long-term golfer and I don't want to like simplify it and I don't want to talk bad about Victor Hovland who's a very fun and be very good. There you go But like long-term they're kind of kind of similar golfers at this point, but Fitzpatrick has the much better short game So kind of you know take that for for what it's worth But you know Fitzpatrick it 11 to 1 I'm actually seeing value there in the model should be 10 to 1 which is where he was when I think things opened, but He's gained a lot of distance despite that still pretty average in accuracy with 6th year last year 7th of the century tournament of champions to kick off 2023 and if you just get open up Whatever player page of preference you use you'll see a ton of great finishes Now finishes alone or not something that you should just look at you should look at the strokes game numbers whenever they're available And if you do that, you'll see a lot of good numbers for Fitzpatrick So I'm starting my betting card with one of the two between Hovland and Fitzpatrick and I'm I'm just gonna I got to decide so I'm gonna go Fitzpatrick. And if you're not you you're someone else looking at those two guys What would be the pitch for Hovland? You know, what would you need to value in order to go Hovland instead of Fitzpatrick there? honestly Like it's close enough It's just the fact that my model has Hovland a little bit worse long term once I wait I wait for like recency and field of strength But but Hovland is one of the most balanced drivers that we have on tours. We can gain distance and accuracy Just one of the best teeter green golfers on the planet if the putter gets hot like Yeah, that's a plus and I don't know for certain if this bears out of the stats But smaller greens means less chipping Like in a sense if you if you can actually hit the green like it makes sense on my head But if you're if you're if you're missing the greens in chipping, you're not probably gonna do enough here anyway So I think that'd be the case for Hovland, but for that reason I'm feeling I'm feeling good with math It's Patrick. Okay Are there any longer shots you like for this week or is it more so a week where outrides just in general are not catching your fancy It's a little bit where I'm not gonna have as many outrides as I typically do I just you know Now strangely This tournament tends to be like a multi-stroke tournament I think five straight the winners one by at least two like six of the past seven It's been at least multiple strokes But despite that I feel like there's always a lot of a lot of names that you just wouldn't necessarily be on But they're in contention. So I do think that Matt Kutcher at 37 to 1 Is very very reasonable and I think Scott Stallings at 55 to 1 on Fandalsports book also very reasonable now bear in mind even in my model These are sub 3% likely to win guys. Yeah, and so if you're new to betting golf like yeah That's a big return, but the probability is still quite low even if there's value on those I I Will pair top tens for each of those guys to help safeguard in case of a runner-up finish so that I don't come up You know With nothing if they if they do well, I don't always do that But for longer shots, I typically like to get access to that Kutcher He's really accurate and if you downplay stroke scan off the tee Which I'm not necessarily doing but I'm down playing Distance so if you just look at approach around the green and putting Kutcher's fourth in the field in in those stats over the past 50 rounds according to data golf for Stallings doesn't necessarily look like the right overall fit based on just stats But does have three top 15s here in the past six years did miss two of the past three cuts at this event But the form's good. I think the values there offer Stallings for this week Yeah, and stallings like long term is better than what the most more recent stats and say he's had a rough month or so But like long term he grades out pretty well But you mentioned the t10 bets for Kutcher and stallings Kutcher's t10 plus 360 stallings plus 490 to pair with the outright So if you want a bit more safety on those any other non-outrides catching your eye right now over a fan duel or elsewhere Yes, they're not a whole lot Posted feel like it's been a little bit slow the past couple weeks, but Brennan Todd top 10. He's plus 850 Unless he moved but forms a bit a bit up and down, but 16th year last year. He's very accurate. He's viable with the iron play You know, you can't really look at like his past top 10 rate and project it because he just plays a lot of courses That don't fit him very well. This one should be pretty good for him and then Matthew Neesmith plus 650 to top 10 65th year last year 16th and 11th as well though over the past three years top 30 in both ball striking stats So stroking off the tee and stroking approach never a bad thing I like a good plus 650 plus 850 top 10 feels Feels very fun to get access to that and then you know, it's a lot less volatile than Converting a win, especially it especially the public beach You were talking about how distance may not be super necessary this week and then gave us a card of Neesmith Todd Kutcher this all makes a lot of sense. Yeah, the mesh is very well with what you were saying earlier on. All right, that is all that we have here for today across the NBA and The PGA as mentioned, we are back once again tomorrow talking NBA and NHL with Tom Vecchio More NHL coming up later on it this week too, Austin Swain will swing by Thursday to talk that and then Austin Cass He's gonna talk EPL with us on Friday. So Loaded week Brandon. I want to thank you for kicking things off on a high note here with some NBA and PGA Good luck to you tonight on those and we'll talk to you once again here very soon All right, I'll talk to you about some DFS in a bit and then Always looking forward to breaking down the next one. I meant very soon. Very literally. Yes We'll be talking DFS for PGA here and not too long. We'll probably be talking some of the guys We just discussed on the show as well fine Brandon on Twitter. I could do a 13 You can also check out his simulations for PGA over at number fire comm and his NBA betting guides on number fire as well I am on Twitter at Jim Sonnis and J. I am s a n n e s You can also follow the fan dual podcast network at fan will podcast want to thank you all for tuning in for today Good luck to you with your NBA bets for Tuesday I will talk to you once again tomorrow to talk some NBA and NHL with Tom Vecchio This has been covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network


Hi, I'm Corey Butler. I'm going to be talking about CLI First Development. The CLI First Strategy is a thought framework for managing development projects. The main activity is prioritizing the design and evolution of a command line interpreter throughout the software development lifecycle. In simple terms, I'm going to show you how to develop a CLI tool that serves as the core of your app, both back end and front end, and your workflow. The CLI First Strategy is similar to the traditional software development lifecycle. It shares the same goals, but differs in how they're achieved. Unlike the traditional approach, CLI First encourages coding at every stage. Both strategies rely on a team's ability to agree about what is going to be made. This means teams must convert intangible concepts and ideas into something tangible. The CLI First Strategy strikes a balance by replacing or augmenting the specification with a shared command line utility. I'll show you how to do this, but first, let's review the tools we're going to use. I'll be demonstrating the strategy with the Author Shell Library. It's a lightweight shell framework for creating CLI experiences in any modern JavaScript runtime. On the left, we have Node.js, and the right shows the browser code. You can see the functional code is the same for both runtimes. It only differs in the import source and how user input is collected and passed to the shell. I'll also be using a CLI DevTools extension for browsers, which mimics a terminal experience with auto-completion, hints, suggestions, and more. To illustrate the planning stage of the CLI First Strategy, let's consider building a team communication app. An application like this is going to have a couple of different core features, maybe a member directory, wall or discussion feature, profile management where you can manage your avatar, email, name, so forth, and some sort of notification feature that's going to notify you when you have a new message or when you've received a reply. Now, like any system, there's a number of different concerns or disciplines that are going to be required to actually implement such a system, like the user interface, an API, database or data store, DevOps process, quality assurance. This is just a short list. Obviously, there are more in most applications, but you get the idea. Remember that in the traditional software development lifecycle, the requirements gathering process ends with a specification, whereas the CLI First approach ends with software. The reason this is important is because in the traditional approach, it's a sequential process, meaning that the features are defined first. Then you worry about the implementation concerns. With the CLI First approach, we're combining those, where we're thinking about features and concerns at the same time. Now, the way to address this is fairly simple. We just need to align on what those features and concerns are. To do this with a CLI tool, it's actually pretty straightforward. We need a dictionary of some sort, and what better way to do that than with a help screen? On the right side of the screen, you can see a configuration for a shell. This is designed specifically for the author shell library, and we're providing a couple of configuration options. First, we're going to call this application team. We've got our description and a version, and then we've identified several different commands. You may notice that these commands are loosely related to the features that we have. There's the user and directory wall notification with a small description of each of these. To implement this, we're importing this configuration into our shell library. This happens to be the node version. Similarly, we're doing the same thing in the browser. Let's take a look at the results of this. Switch over to a terminal here, and we immediately have a help environment with everything defined. Now, let's take a look at this in the browser. I'll open DevTools here and follow the instructions. It just tells us to type team help. You can see we have the exact same information accessible in both the browser and in the terminal. I mentioned that we were going to be using the command line extension for this. Let's take a look at that. That's installed here. I'm going to clear this out so that you can see the same thing. This, by default, has the help feature. You could type it in like that, or it simply hit enter, and it provides you the information the same way that you would do if you were executing this as a command through the console. This is a little bit easier, and you'll see that more throughout the rest of this presentation. At this stage, we have created a very simplistic command line tool that documents our system and the features within it that is accessible on a desktop, on a server, and in the browser. In a matter of minutes, the project momentum just increased. By creating a basic CLI help screen, groups are forced to trim the fat in an almost surgical manner. The incredibly direct nature of the command line enforces ruthless simplicity. Command serves as standard terminology to define the systems and applications being built. My favorite benefit of this stage is the fact there is working software. It's software that doesn't do anything, but the ideas are baked into the core. This serves as inspiration, and it's an excellent onboarding tool. We also have a strong sense of confidence in our project trajectory. The prototyping stage is a proving ground. It's kind of like the entrepreneur's equivalent of a proof of concept. It's time to prove that each area of concern, like the user interface and APIs, can work in an aligned manner while maintaining independence and how they each choose to implement their part of the project. At this stage, we're pretty much just mocking up functionality at a finer level of detail. I'm going to add a sub-command to serve as a placeholder for authenticating a user. To do this, we add a command like this, and let's give it a description. This will just be retrieving an access code or access token. You know what? Let's make an alias for that. We'll just call it A for now, and then we need to actually handle this. In this case, for the time being, since this is just a prototype, just a placeholder, we're just going to say console.log not implemented yet. Let's save this, but let's take a look at the team user. Now, you can see the new help has been updated. Let's go ahead and run that. You can see here that it just says not implemented yet. Let's take a brief look at that in the browser as well. Here, we can see the exact same command provides the exact same output. Again, if we put in user help, we'll be able to see the same help command as well. Everything that we did in the planning stage immediately transfers into the prototyping stage, and we also have just a small, tiny bit of functionality. Again, it doesn't really do much, but it serves as a placeholder, and this is something that we can use to build upon in the future. The beautiful part about this is that teams can still work independently. Regardless of the pace that you go at, by providing some placeholders, you're able to then start incrementally adding functionality into your application and into your system. Hopefully, it's obvious how rapid the transition is between the phases of the strategy. By inheriting the progress of the planning phase, prototyping can be very quick and super flexible. So far, the CLI tool has a user authenticate command. I'd like to see this working from a terminal and the browser. So I'm going to start by creating a basic working API. Then we'll build an API client into the CLI tool. I pre-built a simple node API skeleton using the common API library. This library provides many features for rapidly creating backends. I've added several endpoints representing the features of the application that we care about, along with basic auth security. You can also see I've launched the server in the top terminal. I've also updated the CLI's user authenticate command with an HTTP request for an access token. You can see both runtimes retrieve the same token using the same command. So as you can see, this process is still inheriting the progress from the stages before. It allows for us to work independently in our own area of expertise, UI, API, data, and anywhere else. Yet we remain unified in our approach. The software systems are always changing. The CLI-first approach can't prevent this from happening, but it can provide a predictable way for responding to change. Think of it like having a go-to battle plan for any situation. To illustrate, let's pretend the group communication system has been in use for a while and has proven to be a reliable way to communicate with the entire workforce. In an effort to boost morale, the system needs to provide a new inspirational quote of the day. There are a few challenges with this. First, it involves a new unproven third-party service to provide quotes. It also means the implementation of the user experience may differ between run times. At this point, we can restart the CLI-first process for this portion of the system. Think about this. In a real production system, this can be a huge benefit because it reduces the price of fixing technical debt. In other words, it won't cost you as much time or stress to change your system. Since a command line tool is flexible, it can be introduced to the development workforce incrementally the same way the original features and functionality were introduced. This buys time, reduces stress, and keeps the system clean. Instead of avoiding change, people start to embrace it. If this common challenge is one you face, the CLI-first strategy is likely to offer you significant relief. So let's embrace this quote of the day change in our app. At this point, we have the user directory, wall, and notification. Now, I've already preconfigured this to add a new command called quote. We're using quotes.rest here for our quote of the day. So we don't actually know what we're going to get back from this right now. But what we do know is that their API documentation shows us that we get back contents with some quote. It's basically a JSON object that comes back. Now, we need to present this in different ways depending on the runtime that we're running in. So you can see here that we're leveraging the new global this feature of ECMAScript to determine whether or not the window object exists. That's unique to the browser. So we know that if the window object exists, we're in the browser. Otherwise, we're assuming that we're in Node.js or another runtime. So all we're doing here is providing a block of text. We're saying we're going to insert this block quote into the web app with the quote and the author. In Node, we're going to be doing the same thing, but we're going to be logging this out to the standard out. So we're providing the quote and then we're providing the author. So let's take a look at this and actually run this command here now. So I'm going to say team, I'll clear this out, team quote. You can see the quote here. Let's go take this into the browser as well and run the same thing. This time, you'll notice that the browser changed. So earlier, we were talking about how we could emit an event or trigger some sort of action depending on which runtime we're in. In this case, we simply made a change to the web page. So you can see here a kind of interesting concept where you can come in to the CLI depth tools extension or into the console, type in a command and it's going to update the UI. Now that doesn't work the same way in the terminal, but think about the power behind this. If you are an API developer and your UI developer comes to you and says, I'm not getting the data back that you're saying I should be getting back. As the API developer, you can say, well, please provide me the command that you use to capture that data. So the UI developer can provide that command. The API developer can go in to the browser and run the exact same command, see the error, take that offline and use that in their own development environment, however they see fit, because they have the same command line tool. So now you can start troubleshooting. So not only is it troubleshooting that way, but you can take this concept significantly further if you wanted to think about unit testing, integration testing, all kinds of things that you could potentially automate with a command line tool that's the same across run times or at least the input and output is the same, even if the implementation is different as it is here. If you need to integrate this with other things such as an approval process, you could. You don't have to release this quote command. You don't even have to use this quote command in all run times until you're competent in it. So it's a very light amount of overhead to give you a significant amount of flexibility in your development process. As you can see, the process of pivoting is very adaptable and it provides predictability in how you adapt to change. A flexible approach like this has a wonderful effect on tech teams. It enables behaviors that create organic growth, which fundamentally change your development culture. We've already seen how the tooling and the process can adapt to changing plans, new features, heavier development and complete pivots. The final phase is maintenance. The word maintenance is often thought of as work done in the aftermath of a new feature. The CLI first way of thinking views it more as growth activities. It's both the end of a cycle and seeds of the next cycle. For example, pretend the organization introduces a new JavaScript runtime to your standard stack, like Deno. Perhaps the runtime has some characteristics that require some modification to your code. In Deno, there is a global window object just like the browser. With the existing command code for our quote of the day feature, it'll misinterpret the runtime mistaking Deno for the browser, producing HTML when it should be writing to standard output. This is a minor maintenance task. We'll use optional chaining to solve this. We'll be leveraging the navigator object, which Deno does not have on its window object. We'll also be mindful to update the version. With the updates in place, a new version of the CLI tool can be released with the modified functionality. Let's see how this looks. First, we'll refresh this page and notice that there is now a version 1.0.1. In our terminal, to do the same thing, we'll see we're also at version 1.0.1. When we run the quote command, we get a quote, likewise in the console. Now, the important thing to note here is that the app didn't break, despite the fact that we made some changes. Now, if it had broken, we could roll back to a prior version of the tool. So you can see that the maintenance process is still inheriting progress from all of the phases before it. You can also start to see that the process itself can be version controlled, simply because you can maintain multiple versions of your CLI, such as a fork or another feature branch, anything that you really want. So you have point-in-time understanding of your process. This whole project is a lot easier with the CLI tool simply because the help is documenting the system as we go. So as we make changes, we're only changing that documentation when something important changes, such as a new feature or a change to the way that something is accomplished. Remember, the CLI-first strategy is ultimately a thought framework or best practice of sorts. You can use it to ease into planning with a tool that provides help. Prove your stack works by wireframing placeholders together with actual code. Develop your part of a system with confidence knowing the work you do will be understood by others. You'll be prepared with a battle plan for addressing change. Maintain your applications with repeatable practices. All this can be done well with the assistant of code at every stage. This flexible strategy can be used for testing, onboarding, documentation, DevOps, applications, and even tooling. Whether you choose to use it for one purpose or many, you'll benefit from the speed, simplicity, and standardization a command line utility provides. For teams, it provides a more streamlined approach for collaboration and automating workflows. Many organizations already have their own homegrown CLI tools. If this describes your organization, you already have a set of standards to build upon and integrate into your systems. If you've never considered using a CLI concept in the browser before, I recommend trying it out. In my personal experience, browser CLIs have increased our productivity by an order of magnitude. Testing and debugging alone is far simpler when we don't have to point and click through every user journey. We just run a command. Troubleshooting apps is often easier when an error can be recreated just by issuing a command. When we first started using the CLI first strategy, it was for speed. Today, I find the documentation aspect to be just as, if not more valuable. CLI help menus act like a Cliff's Notes guide, giving all developers the ability to read about the parts of the system they care about without getting bogged down with too much unnecessary detail. If you are interested in trying out the CLI first strategy, you can use the same tools you've seen today. I'll be posting more information about the CLI first strategy on the GitHub repo listed here, and I can be reached on Twitter and Quora if you have questions about it. I will most likely make follow-up videos as well in the near future. Thanks for joining me today, and have a great conference.


Hello and welcome to the lecture for the persuasive presentation assignment guide as with all these assignment guide lectures I highly encourage you to go ahead and go on blackboard and check out the full written assignment guide With that said, let's go ahead and dive in here and get started So in the next few minutes, I'm going to lay out what you need to know to be successful in your final presentation Inside this class so the persuasive presentation the way that the persuasive presentation works is that you and your group members will choose a Controversial current problem that exists right now in the status quo and you will need to get approval on that topic for me So when you think you have a topic go ahead and email me and I'll let you know what I think This topic has to be a controversial issue Could be a local issue and you need to make sure that you're choosing something that people in this class Are at least some of them are opposed to doing because you need to actually engage in some persuasion inside this During the presentation, you all will analyze the problem discuss its implications propose some solutions and Deal with some naysayers inside that and ultimately come up with a way that you could actually implement Some change and solvency to that problem. All right, let's go ahead and talk about the content content is huge inside this one Because not only are you providing references that are of high quality nature. You are making and supporting arguments So you should have a series of claims Connected to evidence that are all bind together with good logic inside here and are Void of any potential fallacies inside there So make sure that you're doing that kind of aim to follow that one source per minute Guideline that we've set in previous presentations if you want to be successful So at the very minimum you need to have at least eight high quality sources to pass But you should be aiming for more in the range of 20 high quality sources if you want to get a good grade on this All right, I have tentatively broke down this theoretical presentation Into a spot a five speaker model that said you could obviously adapt these main points to any size group that you were doing This four so let's go ahead and talk about the introduction the introduction is very similar to what you did last time You're gonna start off with an attention getter Have some audience adaptation of thesis statement The only thing different about the thesis statement is whereas last time it was something along the lines of today We're here to inform you about this topic this time. It should be something along the lines of today We're here to persuade you to do blah inside of here Then preview the main points where you got to choose the main points last time this time They're already chosen for you. You're gonna talk about the problems with a plan to solve the resistance to and ways to enact The change and so forth. So their main points will already be set out So let's go ahead and talk about those main points the main points in this presentation At least the first chunk of them follow what we call the stock issues paradigm Which include talking about the harms that exist the reasons why they exist a plan to solve and why that plan actually Does solve inside of here so start off with a harm and the harm should be something bad that is happening Right now in the world ultimately because of whatever problem it is that you want to talk about and so say for example We were going to give a presentation on why marijuana should be legalized We might start off by talking about the harm associated with Environmental degradation that's taking place throughout the Northwest United States as people are trying to grow marijuana Inside the forest and we can talk about the extent to which this environmental Degregation is happening who is affected by all these chemicals and things that are being poured in the streams and what the consequences Is it are because of this and of course using facts and statistics to go ahead and support all these claims that we were making We're going to do this again We could say that perhaps prisons are overcrowded and we could talk about how overcrowded they are Who is affected and then the reason why we could say because people are being locked up For being arrested for a possession and distribution and other things related to marijuana This leads us to the inherency and the inherency is the argument for cause The reason why these problems continue to exist and in the case of marijuana being illegal It has to do with the law the fact that marijuana is labeled a scheduled one narcotic Underneath the United States federal law and in addition to that that we have treaty agreements that we've signed South American countries that says under no circumstances will we ever legalize Marijuana so that being said that moves us on to the next point for us to be able to Solve any of the harms that we talked about we need a plan that Overcomes the speed bump right over comes the Inherency and allows us to do something about the harms and that's where the plan comes in the plan is a policy change These are policy change You can't just say we should have some awareness Awareness is not going to cut it if anyone comes up and just says we need more awareness You are already failing this part of the presentation Instead think of a policy that you can change that might make these things better So in the case of marijuana being illegal, let's go ahead and make it legal our plan The United States federal government should enact a bill that will be signed by the president's legalizing marijuana Reclassifying it as a recreational Substance and we're going to go to say that that'll be passed by Congress signed by the president It's going to be funded through normal means We would hope that this Would pass as soon as possible, but it would probably take about a year for it really to have any effect and Shoots, let's go ahead and say the FDA is going to be the enforcement mechanism Inside this what I've done is laid it out a potential plan that is going to solve these things We might need to add a writer on that to say we're going to renegotiate our treaties with South American countries So that we're not being bound by those treaty laws But nonetheless, we have a plan that could potentially solve the problem that leads us to the next step We actually have to explain and give sources and evidence that things would get better, right? So in the first part we said that we had prompts the environmental Degregation in a world where marijuana is legal I suppose we could argue that people could just go ahead and grow this stuff up and down the central valley assuming that There's some water and as a result for that we could use good sustainable farming practices that aren't going to destroy the forest Yay Harm to we're talking about overcrowded prisons If we're not throwing people in jail for possession and distribution charges anymore for marijuana less people in jail More money good thing less people having lives destroyed and all of that kind of stuff so at this point we're about halfway through the presentation and we have laid out a good stock issues argument that talks about the harms the Inherency the plan and the solvency now where things get interesting There are always going to be naysayers to any controversial issue. That's why it's controversial There weren't naysayers it probably wouldn't be an issue Nonetheless, we need to deal with their arguments in this part of the presentation We need to look at the people that say our plan shouldn't happen Try to gain some insight into why they are arguing that that's the case and showing why they are wrong Right and this is the key point that people confuse if you've got that one group member that doesn't like the group topic It's like oh great. I'll just argue against you during this part of the presentation You are fundamentally misunderstanding the presentation itself What the resistance part of the presentation is is a chance for you to explain why other people are against your plan and Why the arguments that they are making are flawed or just plain wrong or at the end of the day Don't matter because the harms that you talked about Outweigh any potential issues that they're talking about right, you know people will say that if we were to legalize marijuana that it would take over our society and that it would be a gateway drug and The amounts of addiction to harder drugs would skyrocket You know based on that we could provide some good sources and evidence that show that that's not true and that Marijuana does not tend to function as a gateway drug or even if we want to say fine You know there's right there's some evidence to support that it doesn't matter because even if everybody that Used it became an addict It would still be better than the environmental Degregation that is destroying ecosystems and like you know ultimately is up to you at angle you want to take with it But I will leave that to you and your group members But make sure that you present their arguments and you present them strongly But then you were refute those arguments with your own evidence and stances All right, so at this point we've laid out an argument. We've talked about the naysayers We've dealt with them. It's time for us to enact some persuasion and persuade our audience that something has to change So right this point we need some clear things that the people in your room Can and should be persuaded to do to make your plan a reality So in my theoretical example, we tried to argue that Congress should pass a bill One of the ways that we can call people to action as we can say hey write your congressperson Tell them to pass a bill that changes this law that changes these things Or go on to wethepeople.gov and sign this position now Here's an important point that often gets people in trouble do not speak in hypotheticals here Your goal is to actually persuade people to take action So if you just come in you're like well, you know, you could sign a petition or maybe like go to a protest Or something like that and that would be good You are epically failing the implementation stuff you need to call us to action You need to tell us what you should do. It should be something that we can actually take and Do something with so like I've had students put QR codes and have people scan them with their cell phones Signed petitions right in class. Those are great ideas. I've had people actually bring petitions in I've had people bring letters that they can sign and send to their congressperson Like make this actually happen do not just do it theoretically because you will do very horribly on this section All right last as you so go ahead and sum this thing up do the typical conclusion thing such as Reassert and reinforcing the thesis explain why you persuaded us and how you persuaded us Summarize those main points tie back to your audience and go ahead and finish with a good stylized attention getter that leave us interested and Wanting more All right, this concludes the lecture. I highly encourage you once again to check out that online assignment guide There are templates and examples and things that will help you get started inside of here But as always if you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at one of the variety of channels that are made available to you Thanks and have a fantastic day


you've gone through a period of burnout, you're wanting to get back to usual things, you're feeling like your energy levels are a bit more on point. So one of the things that I definitely encourage people to do during this period is to adopt a reasonable routine in regards to capability.  Don't just jump straight into that because you're inevitably just not going to be able to do it. You want to ease yourself into something and this doesn't necessarily have to be something related to work. This could be literally just, this is the time I'm going to wake up, this time I'm going to go to sleep, I'm going to try to, I'm going to do this at this time, I'm going to go for a walk, going to do some crocheting in the evening, setting up a routine, very, very important. You can sort of add on to that as you get better and better, perhaps incorporate more work related things, productivity, that kind of thing. Make changes slowly, as I said, go easy on yourself and take breaks.


I came here to teach Craig I had a drive, but it looks like it's closed so Craig I got to teach you how to drive another time. Yeah, like I want to learn from you. Rude.  Hey, so I just got to Wonderland for its final day of operation. It's absolutely dead. I don't think many rides are cycling. As you can see, I'll zoom in. There's snow on Leviathan. So that's definitely not going to be cycling anytime soon, especially on its low dip points. There's some snow. So yeah, the park's gonna look really pretty and I'm glad they chose to open because I'm gonna be able to get a construction update for you guys. I'm gonna be able to vlog inside the park for its final day of operation and be able to get some really awesome footage. So I hope you guys are enjoying my vlogs and I really hope you enjoy the construction update that's gonna be coming out today. The vlog will be probably out tomorrow, but yeah, awesome. I'll see you guys inside the park. I'm gonna go meet up with Christian. See you there. Bye. Yeah, so lots of snow. As I was saying Leviathan is completely covered in snow. This is so strange to be at Canada's Wonderland literally in October with snow. I don't remember the last time I've been here with snow. I think maybe April actually to be honest. April-May. But yeah, I'm gonna go inside the park now. See there. Look how stunning Yukon Stryker looks, especially with the snow covered top. I don't know if you guys can actually make that out. So let me zoom in for you. Now it really is mimicking a Canadian mountaintop. It's not even Halloween here yet and there's snow pretty much everywhere. It didn't snow here as much as it did back where I live, but it's almost like the weather is playing or dressing up for Halloween as winter. Anyways, I'm gonna go grab some construction shots for you guys for a video that probably would have been released yesterday if you're watching this today. But yeah, stay tuned for more on the last day of Canada's Wonderland's operations. Have a good one. All right, so a lot of the rides are closed still. Behemoth is testing still. PMing, getting ready for operations later. Mindbuster is testing as well. Leviathan's down, not testing. And the water park's closed, which is unfortunate. I was really looking forward to going for a dip today. But yeah, there's Behemoth testing. We are just waiting for some rides to open up, grabbing shots of Yukon Stryker. So I got a lot of questions on where I live in compared to Wonderland and I can give you guys a house tour. So this is where I live. Wonderland was generous enough to give me property on their property. So yeah, we'll do a little house tour. Oh, and when Canada's Wonderland gets a little too cold to attend, they get a little more crafty and turn their body heater or dryer into a body heater. It's pretty crafty. Not gonna lie. So it looks like Canada's Wonderland is already getting Frontier Canada ready for next year. They're changing some of their signage and I must say I really like it. What do you guys think? Comment down below what you think of the new signage in Frontier Canada. So Craig, remember when I convinced you it was gonna be an invert? Yeah. Are you embarrassed? Very. You shouldn't be. All right, we're gonna ride rides. I don't understand why the most reliable ride at Wonderland is not working today. I mean this thing's always open. I have no idea what could possibly be going on. This ride's so reliable. Yeah. Obviously I'm kidding. The ride's down today. Probably too cold or probably broke or who knows? God me. That's like literally me. This ride does not open or wake up until noon when you're getting food at three in the morning and you're trying to be quiet. Coming to Michigan's Adventure in 2021. Sorry about it. It is this me. Like me. So me. Python finally opened. It's open. There's snow. What could be more Canadian than being in a theme park with snow? All we need, all we're missing is igloos. So I was walking or sitting at a girl pointed and said, look at that circle. And I turned around triggered beyond belief, thinking she was talking about me.  Like so me. Yep, definitely me. When you have to get up for an exam, sigh. I came here to teach Craig I had a drive but it looks like it's closed. So Craig I'm gonna have to teach you how to drive another time. Yeah, like I want to learn from you. Rude. So there was Canada's Wonderland ghost phone and now there's Canada's Wonderland ghost rain. It's raining in one spot. I'm just kidding. It's just the snow melting off of drop tower and it's stripping on me this very second. How wonderful. Oh, for those of you that wonder how I get to Wonderland every day, well, this is my mode of transportation. Very reliable. Welcome back. We hope you enjoyed your ride on Broadway. Alrighty, so it was at this moment that my camera died. It gave me the air camera exhausted or battery exhausted. I forget which one it is. It was I believe it was battery exhausted, which is again, so me. So hopefully you really enjoyed this vlog. It's going to be one of many coming out throughout the off seasons. I have a lot planned for the off season. As you know, we're about to launch Key to the City, Disversal, downtime and we're working on a comedy series as well. So hopefully you guys really enjoy those things coming out for our November 3rd launch. So stay tuned tomorrow for our announcement video. The announcement video is going to be me reacting to a trailer for a movie. It's just going to be a quick cheesy reaction to kind of set the tone for what the channel is going to be moving forward with Disversal. So hopefully you guys really enjoy that. Another thing that I wanted to let you guys know is I'm really sad that it's the off season. So Wonderland is now closed for operation by the time that this video is somewhat released. It'll be going through how we hunt tonight. But after that, it's closed. So I just wanted to let you guys know that one we will have construction tours going through the off season. We have some really cool giveaways going all of November. So stay tuned for more information on that. I'm just waiting for some final information on what we're going to be giving away. So hopefully you guys really enjoy that. And then hopefully you guys really enjoy our new channel as we head into the off season and winter months for content related to a theme parks and roller coasters. And then some of it not so much related to theme parks and roller coasters is going to be one series that's all about falling in love with a specific city. So hopefully you guys like that segment. It will be activities and there will be some outside of Wonderland kind of amusement activities going on in that series. So I'm so excited. Again, the announcement will be tomorrow at I believe 3pm. The announcement video will be released. The premiere is already up on our channel. So head on over there give it a like and ring that notification bell so you're ready for the the announcement and you can sit down and kind of chat with me as we watch the announcement video together. So hopefully you guys enjoyed today's vlog. Hopefully you have an amazing Halloween. Thanks for watching. Hit that like button subscribe if you haven't and share this video for others to watch. Don't forget to head on over to our Facebook page because that is where we'll be doing most of our giveaways. So amusement insetters on Facebook. Make sure you go hit that I'll hit the I'll link the notification down below for you guys. And as always, have a great one guys. Bye


If a problem with eating on camera, what do you do when we have to do like a food-tasting thing? Moron. That's specifically for food. We're still eating on camera. I'm not listening to you smack your gob. While we're trying to watch a trailer. Smack my gob? Yes.   Rick. You follow us on Instagram and Twitter. They go juicy. Double-handed juicy, double-handed juicy, double-handed juicy for you today. Double-handed juicy, double-handed juicy, double-handed juicy for you today. And today... That was pretty good. What reacted to the trailer that honestly I thought we had to react to? Honestly? Honestly. I thought we had to react to. Honestly? I thought we had to. Let's just do the whole thing. It's a show. Root. Con. You know what movie of his I think we should see in review someday? What? Just wait. Do you like what it did the other day? I dropped the song. I did. You did the song and then you did the review. Should we watch this one? We watched it. Finally. But anyways, yeah. This is called Zero. Have you heard of it? Yeah. I honestly thought we had reacted to this. We have not. Huh. Yeah. It sounds like we did. Yeah. Like we thought... We've been hearing about an SRK zero thing for a long, long time. Yup. Anyway. Yeah. This is why I thought we had done it already.  Well, because honestly, a lot of what the comments are now are people asking us to react to stuff we reacted to nine months ago. Well, that happens right now because there's people who... I'll see comments like I saw one this week. It's like, what's the relationship between you two? Yeah. And people are getting messages on Instagram all the time of I just got your... So that's going to happen. React to Gully Boy. Right. That's my favorite one. My favorite was that comment was react to Gully Boy. It's like, yeah, you're definitely new to this channel. Go check. God bless you. Search if we've reacted to a trailer and then request. Seriously. Please. That's all you have to do. The name of the trailer and more than like, you don't even have to put an OSR. We'll pop up just with you with the name of the trailer. Where are they? Cool. Here we go. This is called zero. Last night, for the last three hours, I've been in love with you. It's been so nice. I've fallen in love with you. Siddharth, I fell in love with you. Yeah. We'll meet again very soon. Like you. Why do you want to be like us?  Look at that. 10, 9. There was only one person who I could talk to with my eyes. She was with me. I was with her. If I had been with her, my life would have been the same. But my life was different. I didn't want to live. But maybe this dream has snatched us away from us. Instead, we snatched away the dream of India from God. It's time for the marriage. Love brings love to life. We seriously felt this. Doesn't it? Have we seen a teaser of this? Because I looked it up when we saw when I was doing some research on what we should react to next, and I saw a bunch of requests for zero. And I was like, and I always see requests for zero because I was like, I'm pretty sure we've reacted to it. Yeah, but the last, the skylines and zero, why do I feel like we've seen a teaser to this? At least. I don't know why that looked and felt so familiar, but I'll tell you what didn't look familiar. What didn't look familiar is this premise. I don't remember the girl shaking, and I don't remember SRK's character being small. So I'm really kind of, my brain is kind of twisted right now. Yeah, I have no idea why it looks so familiar. I'm thinking I got it mixed up with the 2.0, maybe. Maybe. Because... But why would we have done it on 2.0? No, the film called 2.0. Oh! Gotcha. Because I think that has a little person in it as well. Who is the score? Because the music at the end there was... Yeah. So we haven't reacted to it. So if you... I don't know where this is because it looked familiar. We must have dreamt it. It really did look familiar to me. But again, I don't remember any kind of... I would have remembered the premise. Well, I know the premise because of... I know people have said when he played a... I don't know if he's playing a dwarf or... Some... Excuse me. Little person. Which is funny because that can never happen. I was literally going to talk about that. You've gotten to the place and I don't... Well, here's the thing. I'm of two minds about it. Me too. One, actors should be able to play whatever they want. Correct. For the most part. For the most part. Not different... Well, I guess there are exceptions because I was like, not different races but then you look at Robert Downey Jr. Yeah.  Exactly. It depends because the job of an actor is to portray beings. All beings of all kinds. So... Yeah. And having to do with Hollywood is very inclusive when we want to include people. Of course. That have opportunities. And if there's an actor who is... I believe it was a couple of years back where Cranston played a disabled guy. Yes. Certain people got upset that they didn't cast a disabled actor. Right. I... And then it also happens if a straight guy plays a gay guy. I know. And I'm of two minds. One, I'm like, sure if that guy was the right for the role but also if that's the case then gay people can only play gay people.  Do you think that's what they want? No. No. We never have Barney from How I Met Your Mother which is the most womanizing character like ever. Exactly. Played by a gay man. Right. We're going to take this extrapolated all the way out. That's okay, sorry.  Come on. I'm of two minds because I'm all about inclusivity and giving people a shot that I haven't gotten a shot if they are right for the role.  Right. That depends. I don't know how this is, so you could tell us. And I'm not opposed to it. I just don't know. Correct. It's one of those things. But it was. Katrina Kafe was in that we knew her. Correct. She was recognized. And then Anushka from PK. Correct. That's where it's been. I was looking at her face and going, I know this face. I know this actress. I like her a lot. It's because we saw PK like back in March. So it's been a long time since I've seen her in anything. At this point, basically, if SRK is in something, I want to see it. Yeah. And her, I like her a lot. But you can tell us if it's because we know, he's just like any other star. He's had flops and stuff. Correct. So you could tell us if this is one of the ones that. Kaseya, what's the synopsis here? The story revolves around Bala Singh. That's okay. A vertically challenged man who is full of charm and wit with a pinch of arrogance, born to a wealthy family and raised in an environment of affluence. He is challenged to broaden his horizon and find purpose in life. Yeah, it seemed like a coming of age story, almost of a guy who's kind of arrogant. And then he didn't like to see this girl in a wheelchair. And then he grows to know her. Yeah. Realize she's a person. Right. And also threw himself to thinking, I've got to sew my wild oats. And really the things to experience in life are these things.  This isn't what life's all about. That's the case. It's probably a beautiful story based on what we could see. I hope that's the case. Yeah. You know, you could tell us. And yeah, do you guys, how often is that the case? Like what Corbin was talking about is a big deal right now in Hollywood. It's not a big deal in India. It's not? Yeah. Okay. Because I remember when we did the clothes one. Yeah. And I was talking to people on Twitter. I was like, yeah, I'm nervous about this. Yeah. We're white guys. This is a different culture. Right. It's like when we did the tinuk-tinuk parody, we were not going to put turbans on our head in any way, shape or form. And people said in India, we don't care. So they wouldn't care, for example, if a role was supposed to be portrayed, for example, if you're doing Game of Thrones, you need to have Tyrion has to be played by someone who's a little person. That's just the nature of the character. If they had had another actor do that with special effects to make him appear to be a little person. And it was an Indian show that Indian audiences wouldn't react what they would hear. Probably not. And Nets is so interesting because Lord of the Rings, Gimli, I know. He was the biggest person on set. Correct. He mans over six feet tall. And so, yeah, I'm up two minds about it. Because my first instinct would be, no, you need to cast a little. I always forget what the proper term for them are. I think what they prefer is a little person. Okay. Yes. Or just human beings. Making jokes. But my first instinct would be, no, you need to cast a little person. Just cast whatever best person there is. It's probably Peter Dinklage. Right. Just go cast him. Yeah. But then also, you have the Lord of the Rings, Cronundrum. And it's like, You don't know. Right. Because actors are going to think about it differently than regular people will. Exactly.  Blah, blah, blah. And it's like, yeah, that's not what acting is. Exactly. Acting, you can play whatever role it requires you. That's the point of being an actor, is to be other people. And if you say certain people have to play certain things, then that's the only thing they can play. Right. And that's not acting. Correct. Anyways. We're on a soapbox. Sorry. But let us know how this is. Obviously, I'm not saying that I'm upset that he's playing a little bit. Not at all. I'm just raising the point. We're not saying that at all. We're just bringing up a topic that's probably much bigger here than it is in India. I guarantee it. Yeah. Yeah. Let us know how this was. And also, let us know why this looks so familiar to me. Because I don't know. It looked really familiar. Me too, man. I recognized a lot of their shots. And the ending, when it said zero with the light, and we saw the different, it looked like it was a combination of famous skylines, because I definitely saw Manhattan in there. But I think there may have been Mumbai. I don't know. Anyway, it looks familiar. Let us know!


Ukraine steps up attacks on Russian targets in occupied territories and inside Russia. Experts at the Institute for the Study of War ISW have noted that Ukraine is ramping up attacks on the Russian military and other key targets in occupied Ukraine and inside Russia. Ukraine appears to be intensifying attacks against the Russian military, logistics facilities and other vital targets in the rear areas of Ukraine's occupied territories and inside Russia. Defense Intelligence reported that Ukrainian resistance struck the Russian military headquarters in the occupied city of Melitopol, Zaporizhia Oblast, killing at least three officers of the Russian Federal Security Service and the National Guard. Analysts pointed out that the 12th of November statement by Ukraine's Defense Intelligence followed an attack by Ukrainian resistance on the former head of the People's Militia of the Russian-backed Luhansk People's Republic strikes on a Russian military base in the occupied town of Skadovsk, Kursan Oblast and Black Sea Fleet assets in Crimea and three rear-guard strikes and resistance raids in Russia. In addition, experts say Ukrainian forces have been conducting a military campaign targeting Russian-occupied Crimea since the summer of 2023.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. I am Sumedha and on the daily roundup we are bringing you a glimpse of some of the most important stories that we report about here at NewsClick. The Supreme Court is all set to hear the challenge to Article 35A as tension prevails in the valley. Clearing its stance on Article 35A, the JNK Governor has asserted that it has sought the adjourning of the hearing. A statement from the Governor's office said in a quote, our stance is clear on it. We have requested the Supreme Court to defer the hearing. The Governor had to release this note amid protests and panic that has gripped the valley, which is sparked by the rumours of an ordinance which is set to repeal the Article 35A. Governor Satya Pal Malik has also emphasised that the increased deployment of security forces should be seen in the context of preparations for the coming elections. So what is Article 35A and what does it matter to Jammu and Kashmir? Article 35A is the provision which is incorporated in the Indian constitution in 1954. The provision provides the Jammu and Kashmir legislative powers to decide the permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir and to ensure their special rights and privileges in the public sector jobs. Acquisition of property in the state, scholarships, other public and welfare. The act was incorporated into the constitution by the then President Rajendra Prasad on the advice of Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet. In the view of recent developments, the state has imposed restrictions in certain parts of Srinagar to prevent separatists called protests against the mass deterioration of the 150 Jamaat-e-Islami militants. So who is Jamaat-e-Islami and why is there a crackdown on it? Jamaat-e-Islami in Jammu and Kashmir is a social religious political party which was founded before the partition in 1942. It was a part of the Jamaat-e-Hind and is more inclined towards Pakistan. At the onset of militancy, the valley's largest outfit, Hejbul-Majahideen called itself the armed wing of the Jamaat. Meanwhile, heavy contingents of the state police and the CRPF have been deployed across the city to maintain law and order. Many separatist leaders including Abdul Hamid Fayaz and Mohammad Yaseen Malik were also taken into preventive custody ahead of the Article 35A hearing. In New Delhi today, thousands of Anganwadi workers came together to protest against the policies of the Modi government. The workers came from the parks of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. The workers have been consistently reiterating their demands to be recognized as full-time workers being given the statutory minimum wage of 18,000 per month. Currently, there is no fixed wage that the workers enjoy. They are dependent on the states to pay them according to their whims and fancies. They have been demanding that the minimum wage to be increased to Rs. 1500 for workers and Rs. 750 for the helpers. They are also demanding benefits of pensions, retirements, leaves, etc. Take a look at our ground report. They have been cheated by the Modi government. And particularly, even the announcement that was made in September after the massive Mazdoor Kisan rally and also in the budget. In the budget itself, the impression was given that another time they are announcing which itself is a deceit. But even that amount has not been paid in many states. The main demand is that despite all these years, the Anganwadi ICDS is still not being established. And immediately, they are asking that the protest in Haryana is going to be held in Bade Pema Ne Prabhakar, Kerala in Haryana. And the main demand is that the government that had made an agreement with us should not apply it to the state government of Haryana, which is the BJP. The second demand is that the Prime Minister had announced on 11th September that the workers will get the helpers of Rs. 700 for Rs. 1500. So, they are not getting it down. Many systems have not received the money from the central government. They are not getting any money from the central government from September. So, they are about 6 months away. They are not getting the share of the central government. Apart from this, the government had said that they will get the X Gracia. They will be promoted on the basis of their seniority. There are such matters. So, on 8th February last year, on 20th February, there was a total struggle. But the government of the BJP is against the workers. They are not going to solve their problems. In international news, there is an emergency which has been declared in Sudan following anti-government demonstrations. A state of emergency was declared in Sudan by the President Omar al-Bashir on 22nd February after the desolation of the cabinet and local governments for at least one year. Following the announcement, al-Bashir issued two decrees which set up the caretaker administration. He appointed 16 army officers and two security officers as new governors for the eight provinces of the country. In response to this, a large number of people gathered outside the al-Said and Abdul Rahman Mosque in Qasala to demonstrate against the al-Bashir government. After coming to power in 1989 through a military coup, al-Bashir has been accused of curbing people and movements using the brutal force against dissent. His regime has also been engaged in a civil war with rebel groups in the Darfur region since 2003. That's all that we have for you today on this episode of the Daily Roundup. 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Hello welcome back to the tea of the day and today, I've got fresh marjoram I'm a little excited and a little bit scared about this one because I have few so my Dried marjoram tea it didn't go so well Wasn't quite fond of it so without further ado. I say let's give this a shot and see how it is, huh? No, not quite Okay, it's just a little too Kind of like the dill tea where it gets just a bit too Dark and muddled in the in the flavor Kind of like if you're drinking spinach water or something. It's just not a good taste. It's a bit It's not bitter, but it's just too dark is how I want to describe it Just too too much of that greeny water taste that is not nice Like if you're juicing stuff and you're like I'm gonna put all these vegetables together and make it a drink Yeah, it'll be wonderful and you're like that taste that's because of the green vegetables That just don't taste good when you juice them that way I'm sorry They need other friends that have some sugars and stuff in them even if they're natural because it just doesn't taste good This isn't that bad, but it's still It's got a bit of it that dirty dark taste to it that you know It's it's not the Natural herb flavor of it. Isn't that exciting? I could see this being an accent flavor for a food and be perfectly fine But as a drink No tea fail Sorry, it's not working. I wish it was but it's not There's not much else I can say sorry my dream T. You're not that good But you know me I'm still gonna drink it. I have a happy tea day Never goes better than mine