and welcome to I Have Notes, a show where people with a surprisingly full IMDB page talk things creative animation, maybe Elon Musk and Grimes Kid, who knows, we'll find out. I'm Keri Chakras and with me is my co-host. Hi, I'm Isabel Yola and we also have Erin and Jordan with us today. Hi guys. Hello. Hi. We're back. Good to be back. We made it to two. Good to have you back. Y'all are my favorite guests on I Have Notes so far. Thanks, Keri. That's really good to be here. I was nervous that I'm standing in one of the rehearsals was your favorite. Well, you know, there's still time. Anything could change. But now, how's everybody doing? I'll be good. I just ate like a third of a bag of chips with some sour cream. So I'm like on a spectrum a little less than okay, but livable. How big was this bag? Well, it's the HEB bags and HEB is from Texas. So it's sort of pretty big. Can I ask about the emotions and feelings that led to this decision? Yes. I got stressed. It's weird because I'm supposed to have my time off or I'm supposed to be not working, but then I thought about working and then I checked Slack and then I got stressed.  So second day of no working, I'm like, oh man, this is bad, guys. As soon as I get time off, I delete Slack off my phone immediately. That is a good thing to do. I've tried just muting it and like without fail, I'll accidentally press on it. What used to get me is the not even just like the notification sound, but the badge icon, like the number. If I have like anything on there, I need to clear it. And so it is sometimes torture to just let that number keep going up.  It does show the notification in the home screen. But that's like, if I look at my phone and I see it, I can check it there and it's fine. But I'm not getting the buzz. I used to be in voice recordings and stuff and my phone would just keep buzzing every time I would get a Slack and then like in an hour recording or something, I would check it and it would be like 70 unread messages. And this is in the midst of production and stuff. So it could get pretty bad. You would not like the life I live. I pretty much always have at least 30 unread Slack. We need them. Just clear it. Give me your phone. There are things that I need to do with them. So I leave it marked as unread. I've given up on my email. I can't even do that. Don't even try. I have set reminders. It's like I'm going to read this and then remind me in an hour or something because if I leave it unread, I'm going to like just check it reflexively. So it's not going to be good. Yeah, but maybe in an hour I'm playing Final Fantasy 7. And that's not a good time. So now I'm busy. Now I'm really busy. Yeah. It's important. You know what?  Look. Okay. I don't know what it is. I think I'm addicted to MMOs. There's so many things I need to do and I want to do. But then also being a cat boy in a fantasy world has risen to the top of that somehow. And it shouldn't. But I can't stop playing MMO. I don't know. I haven't played it too much yet. But it was a bad decision that I'm sure I will regret later. Have you been addicted to other MMOs before? Were you on that wild train? Oh, I was on that wild train. I played it like the day it came out. And thankfully that was back when I was in school. So it was just like a summer where I just like basically I became nocturnal. And I would stay with my brother. Yeah. Yeah. That I just like I spent like a whole like year basically.  And then since then I've mostly stayed out of them.  No, I tried a couple of times. I couldn't do it. Once I got out, I stayed out. But that's good. But Final Fantasy though.  I tried it. I modeled my my character for my cat. Especially after a furry conversation. Yeah. Oh, of course. I haven't seen any furry fan art of us and I'm kind of disappointed. I think I'm going to have to commission somebody because I really wanted to happen. I'll commission Aaron. Yeah. Furries? Yeah. Is there is there like a council? A council of furries. Like how do I get in contact with the furries? I don't know. They get to go outside and start like a ritual bonfire or something. That's fair. Hey. Hey, can we talk about trolls too? Whoa. Can we talk about also AMC? The Troll too. And how I'm very confused at what AMC is doing. Oh, man. Yeah. So I actually just watched. There's this YouTube channel I like called Let Me Explain. And it's this guy who covers a movie summaries. Basically kind of does like a basic like here's the gist of it. Here's my opinion. And I just like the way he presents it and how he talks because I think he's really funny. And he's super relatable. So even if it's what Elizabeth Olson in another movie, he always refers to Scarlet Witch. Nice. Me too. It's easy for plebeians like me to remember. And he just released a video for Trolls 2 versus AMC. And it was just a wonderful explanation of how Universal is going into streaming. And apparently they said something that made AMC mad. So AMC is deciding not to put in theaters any universal films. So that includes like the James Bond movie, the Trolls 2 movie. Fast and the Furious. Fast and Furious. Oh my God. What are they thinking? They're thinking they're very important to the studio. And they're wrong. Yeah. I just don't understand. I'm okay. Here's the positive on this. I'm really happy that Universal made a bunch of money on Trolls 2 in this like weird time period that we're in. I'm not going to say trying times because everybody's saying that. We're in a really weird time and they tried something out and it worked. And that's, I don't see how that's not good. Yeah. And I don't understand what weird power play AMC is pulling of like, well, we're not going to show your movies then. See, the thing is like Trolls 2 made more money in the like five weeks it's been out on demand than Trolls 1 made in five months while it was in theaters. Oh my God. What the heck? Yes, exactly. Troll 2 is like this dark horse that has appeared in photos. Is this the only like animated movie to come out like in the, apparently in the midst of the lockdown? I think there's more coming. I know Onward came out like just before because that was the last movie I saw in theaters and then they like released it on Disney Plus. It really quickly, like way sooner than it was. I heard a bunch of people watching it and stuff, but I don't know how that like, you know, there's still a crossover there. So it's not like fully, you know, you can really measure how it was impacted. But yeah, Trolls 2 is really interesting to look at, especially now that they have beef with a movie theater. But can I read the quote that will for AMC release? Yes, please. Oh my God, Aaron, please. So this is, I don't know who hurt these people, but man. Apparently Universal. Apparently Trolls did. It is disappointing to us, but Jeff's comments as to Universal's unilateral actions and intentions have left us with no choice. AMC said in a statement, therefore, effective immediately, AMC will no longer play any Universal movies in our theaters in the United States, Europe, or the Middle East. This policy is not some hollow or ill-considered threat. Which is, there you go. It's very, that's very, because of Trolls 2. This is, this is not some hollow or ill-considered threat. It is a very full and well-considered threat. We are threatening you with all of our might. All of our nothing might. Yeah. Also, I'm surprised they have movie theaters or AMC theaters in Europe in the Middle East. That was. That destined me a little bit. Yeah. Are they only in Saudi Arabia?  I don't know. I thought it was just the American thing. I don't know. I don't even know the last time I went to an AMC theater, you know? Yeah, I. Like I only, we have, we're blessed with Alamo Draft House in Austin. Alamo, yeah, it's spoiled. I can never go back to a normal theater. The only time I would ever go to AMC was like if they were doing some like weird showing. Oh, right. Um. Because they do do that. Yeah, they will, but I mean that's not going to be universal to begin with. Yeah. But that's also. Yeah. It will be fast and nefarious. That's not how they're making money. They're making money off of fast and nefarious.  Yeah. So I, according to the, um, let me explain video with some of the statistics is like, I think AMC is actually the number one movie theaters in like globally. Okay. So they have a huge bid, but at the same time, they're also going very, some, they're, they're doing very badly, um, amid COVID right now. So it's kind of like a, oh, how are they desperate? What's going on? It definitely sounds like it. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's a weird situation. I mean. And then the big thing too with universal is that, uh, unlike what we were talking about with, um, Pixar and how they got onward onto Disney plus with universal's movies, they're only letting people read them. They're not actually letting people own them. So that's how they're getting, they're basically relating. I mean, there's also, there's also a price barrier to watching onward, but it's like, you also get so much more with it as well. So it really, yeah, it doesn't, it's not as easily translatable to like box office numbers. But, but you mentioning, um, AMC struggling, uh, right now Disney plus is really the only revenue stream for Disney I, that I can think of. And it's starting to show, uh, this is a tweet from cartoon brew. It says Walt Disney company quarterly profits plunge 91% year over year from $5.4 billion to $460 million. That is, that hurts my head. That is the difference of $5 billion. It's so hard to wrap my head around because also $460 million is a ton of money. But you know what else is a bigger ton of money? $5.6 billion. I hear a lot about this tweet is, um, it's just an image of Mickey Mouse with his hands out and it says in arch letters, everything's fucked. I saw that in Vegas one time. There's, there is, I saw Minnie Mouse passed down the street and it was basically the same thing. It's so hard to imagine what you do with that much money sometimes. No, I can imagine. Oh yeah, you're right. I said, I mean, and then I was like, okay, no, if you think about the Disney, the Disney company and what they have, it's, it's a considerable amount of money. At what point do you try to start buying a state? Like there's, I mean, they own, they own some islands, right? Their cruises go to, yeah, some private islands, but like, like they have so many things, uh, so many companies they own and like operations that they run, but they're all affected, except for their digital like SWAD platform. Like they can't do cruises, Disneyland, all their parks are closed. Yeah, they can do merchandise, but that's slower. Yeah, they're not releasing any movies. They're not shooting any movies. So even if their animated projects are still, projects are still going, they're not getting released anywhere. And I guess they're not, you know, putting them out on Disney Plus, premiering them on Disney Plus because of the problem with, you know, you can't track the, the sale of it. So they would have to do what, uh, trolls did and just have people rent it. But then I feel like that would kind of devalue Disney Plus then. Exactly. Yeah, they've been undercutting themselves. So they, they almost put themselves in a, right, own tough spot. Almost like maybe they shouldn't have done Disney Plus, but then again, who would predict a pandemic? Yeah, exactly. I know in the grand scheme of things, Disney Plus, or here, here's how we can weigh it. Baby Yoda in the pandemic. You know, baby Yoda is pretty good. He wasn't worth it. I'm not going to say that it was worth it. I am going to say that I really like baby Yoda. That's what I'm going to say. I'll say that. If there's a sacrifice of baby Yoda, will things go back to normal? I don't know, man. If we couldn't fix this pandemic. On the flip side, I'm willing to try. I'm willing to try. I agree. Also, Erin, is that, is that the, is that the shirt that you talked about last week? It is. My great hospital bedside manager. Oh no. I wore this to work, and then I had to leave immediately to go to the hospital, and it didn't occur to me to change. Well, it's a cool shirt. Yeah, I like it. So that part of it is good. If I were in a hospital, I probably wouldn't like it. Yeah. Just quarantine things. Speaking of, this is not actually a good segue, but speaking of just quarantine things, something happened today that as of this recording, I still know to be true. And so I'm waiting, I'm waiting for the second tweet that's like, this isn't real. But until then, I have a little game that I'd like to play with y'all. We have a graphic if we could pull that first one up. What did Elon Musk and Grimes name their child? Boy, did they, hang on, give me one second. So what I want to do is, it's okay. I've got four names. This is multiple choice. I wanted to pitch my own name. Well, hey, you know what? Can I still do that?  Okay, I think they named their child Morpheus. Oh my God. That's pretty good. Yeah, it would have been better. Knowing Grimes and Elon Musk, that's just the chaotic energy. My guess is going to be like, for the combination of those two people, it was going to be either like... Fried Morpheus? Or like a sound. Like just like, you have to make a sound to say the child name. There's a dolphin screeching noises. Yeah, it's like, yow, yow. Jordan, you're walking over there. You're getting close. So, Erin, also I'd like to point out that you probably pick Morpheus as kind of a weird name. And you have no idea how, that is basically James of this situation. I want to give a fair shot. Okay, if we get that graphic back up. So here's our options. A. Show me Fred. Fred. Okay, nice and classic. Maybe a little boring, but you know. B. Rupert. All right. Maybe. I wasn't thinking that when I made this, but you're right. C. We've got Elon Jr. Once, you know, security has like five other kids, I think, but he wants to pass it on. Oh, he does? And then there's D. How do you pronounce that? Is that a model number of a printer? I guess which one do y'all think might be the name of their child? Is D pronounced? I would like to know how I genuine, genuine try. Jordan, can you pronounce D? I don't. So I can't pronounce it. I can try, but my guess is you have to solve the equation. The answer is the child's name. I think we can go ahead. I think it's pretty clear that it was in fact D. Yeah. Oh, no way. I was really hoping for Fred. I did. I was I was gunning for Rupert personally. What are they thinking? There needs to be a stop to this. This isn't positive. I'm sorry. Let's make this possible. Can we make this positive?  Like if anyone else had done it, they'd be like, come on, people, what are you doing? But like there are people who perceive Elon Musk's his aura, his like weird lifestyle, his brain, if you will.  They perceive it in such a way that they're like, oh, he would. What else would it be? Of course, classic Elon. So smart. I think I saw something that it might be like an aviation. And I own I own one of his vehicles. So yeah, that's probably from someone who has kind of bought in. But also I recognize he's kind of a nerd douche. Yeah. Kerry, you own one of his other vehicles too. Look. Yeah, Kerry also owns this. I like to support Elon. I like the vision he's going for. Yeah. And I also like even some of his weird things where he's like, I think we could genetically make cat girls. I think that's possible. I'm like, OK, OK, I'm not going to stop you. OK, if you were to do that, like I would be all on board. Right. Like he does a pretty shitty thing, but oh, man. That's my thing. It's like it's it's there's a certain point where the bad's going out with a good. And and I'm worried about that. I feel like we're getting closer all the time. To cat girls. Or to Elon losing it. That's what Kerry said, not the cat girl. Oh, OK, well, I pulled up an article while we were talking about because I'm just I'm trying to remember what that a and that e combination is. I pulled up an article and it's like a Scandinavian vowel. Right. So there's there's a you guys I'll read out out loud. So one person on Twitter appeared to guess the pronunciation correctly because Elon Musk himself liked their tweet and they said X Ash Archangel because the tweet also showed a screenshot of a wiki page that explained that the a e is a ligature named Ash. And a 12 a 12 is thought to be in reference to the CIA aircraft Lockheed a 12, which was code named Archangel. Oh my God. He basically named his kid like Kingdom Hearts name. Right. The secret message memes that only he gets. I like I even I would be down if like the middle name was like the weird a thing. Yeah. Like that's like I guess I'm on the fence.  And like my like my my my real name is Kyrian. And that yeah. I had no idea. I really don't know that.  I had no idea. I feel like I do carry a short for Kyrian. And it's like I grew up and that was like an interesting childhood. And I'm not like upset about it. My parents like it's not it's not a big deal. But like that wasn't awesome. I can't even imagine. Like what are you what are you going to do when you have a substitute teacher? You just go to class. Yeah. Maybe they just won't go to class because they're Elon's kid. Also true. Honestly, the amount of privilege in this child's life is going to be so great that like everyone already knows how to pronounce their name. The school that this kid goes to will probably have other X-Arc angels there as well. Other equations to solve. Was it Gwyneth Pacho's kids like Apple or something? Hey, Apple is actually a pretty common name. Is it? Okay. Well in the Philippines. Okay. I was just saying for a while Apple used to be like I can't believe she named her kid Apple. Yeah. Now Apple is like so normal in Vlaze that you were begging for someone to be named Apple again. The evolution from Apple was Blue Ivy and Northwest. And now there's X-Archangel apparently. So all this comes to Elon, please be a good person. Yeah. Think of your child. Take us to Mars and then stop. Yeah. So I don't think I don't think Grimes should be blameless as well. That's fair. It was probably her idea. Oh yeah. Grimes of the past, present and future. Grimes of whatever bad idea she had before. What if the doctor named the child that? Think of the design and they're like, Doctor, please just pick something. The printer had an error and printed an error code. And then they just went with it. I guess this is what we have to name her. Yeah. I'm sorry to dunk on a newborn. But yeah, I just so too. And we're already that newborn is already like way richer and more famous than any of us. So that is true. I don't feel that bad. That's hey. Yeah. Okay. Look, yes, I get it. Oh man. How do we say away from that? I don't know. I don't know. Oh man. We ran through a lot of things. What are we going to talk? I don't go ahead. I was going to I was going to talk about the video. I told you guys about this video, but it came out like right after last week's episode came up and we were talking about like struggling for productivity in the times of quarantine and lockdown. And I always forget the order of letters in his name is a GCP. CGP. It's AE X 12. CGP Gray who makes a lot of great YouTube videos, but he made a really good one about productivity and kind of like he used this metaphor of like everyone being in their own spaceship in suspended animation around the world. And you know, while we're in lockdown and how to keep the ship that is you running and the core, the power core being like mental health and physical health. And basically just like how you can physically compartmentalize that and like so that like when you're in like a specific space, you're doing a specific thing that is meant to help those two functions, the health, the physical and the mental. I highly recommend it. I put some of this stuff into practice and it's helped a little bit. So check out this video. That's awesome. I guess, I mean, that's a good way to bring this up. It's like, how's everybody doing this week? And we kind of really does change week to week, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. This last week was a little bit tougher.  I did not like last week. Yeah, sometimes they're just bad. Yeah, sometimes they're just really bad. I don't feel like anything really changed. And maybe it's because maybe I don't take like stock of things happening around me as well as I should. I kind of just let things play out so that like I don't ever get to like emotionally up or down, which might be a problem in itself. But I don't know what happened, but I had been on a perfect streak of journaling every day and last Monday was the last time I did it. And like, I didn't mean to stop. It's just like so many of my entries had just become it's another day in quarantine. There's kind of what I did. Here's what's kind of going on in the world. That like I didn't really feel the need to like I guess do it last week. And I don't know, I can cheat it by editing the date and like keeping that streak going because part of the satisfaction is having the streak. But yeah, it's sitting at 118 days and I'm seven days behind now. So yeah, I should just pick it up again and like restart. I get that though. If I have a habit, I mean, this isn't, you know, I'm sure this is very common, but like if I have a habit and I drop it, it becomes like almost like this guilt that I dropped it. Yeah. And it's like a failure. And yeah, picking it up and just starting the failure again. Right. It's like, I almost want to just forget about it because then I won't think about the failure versus like just like, no, Kerry, stop, just do it. Just go do the thing and then you'll be that much better. And it's so easy for me to do. It's an app on my phone. So I have really no excuse. Like the last time I tried journaling, it was one of those line of day journals. So it was already low stakes. It was like five lines per day. And I made it to about mid-April as well. No. So before I stop. So. Probably wasn't a pandemic that time though. No, it wasn't. So no excuse that time. But yeah, I just need to, I need to get back on it again because it was helping like, you know, I try not to do anything specific. It's just, what am I thinking right now? Or like, what happened today?  I just write about that. I write about the thing that happened. You know, I don't, I try not to like get into it too much. I try to treat it like kind of like the line of day thing. So it's not really more than like two paragraphs. But I just found myself like writing the same things over and over, which maybe I just need to mix up what I'm doing at home. Maybe that's a sign. Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever gone through and like, gone back to the beginning of the year and started reading through it? I did. Yeah. Yeah. Some good times. Fun stuff happening. Oh no. Okay. Maybe don't. Maybe don't. It wasn't recent, but I was thinking about like the last time I did it. And yeah, it was like, I went on a trip. I went back home to California and we went to Disneyland and went to a friend's wedding. And yeah, those are good times. When was the last time I felt joy? Hmm. Ah, March, whatever. And we go back to Disneyland now. You know, if I wanted to. I actually changed the way that I do my bullet journal just because of everything that's happened. There have been a couple of layouts because I watch a lot of YouTube videos where it's a lot of people who have like millions of subscribers. And all they do is like really lay out their bullet journal and teach you how to like write script and stuff. And yeah, I buy into it. So there is, they did a few layouts that I had changed the way I'd done it from the beginning of the year when I started making bullet journal. But then now it kind of was, it became really clear in the middle of like April or March that I don't even need the day by day calendar anymore. I don't need a week or a to-do list for the week anymore because it's kind of just the same. And so I had to change my journaling into something that's a bit more nucleus or kind of just like this cloud of ideas. And I don't even do anything day by day anymore. It's kind of just like, well, all right, I guess I'm just going back to stream of stream of consciousness writing because what's the point of having a to-do list sometimes if like I kind of just, I'm living day by day just by like doing that to-do list. So it's just, it's a different way of thinking now. It's kind of wild. Yeah. I wonder if like, when did you change this? Was it about like a week ago? It was, oh, I actually, I did it April. Okay. I wonder if that's just like the time of year where it's like, it's like, you're about a third of the way or a quarter of the year, quarter of the way into the year. And it's like, you've been doing the same thing. Is it just natural for you to like, want to change or like consciously like something needs to change, support to keep going and for it to feel fresh? So I wonder, you know, kind of like what you're doing. I wonder if I approach it in a different way, if that would help and make journaling feel fresh and new. I think that's interesting. Maybe I should try something like that. Yeah. That's interesting because I feel like, like this was part of a New Year's resolution until I watched this other CGP gray video that explained why New Year's resolutions are dumb and having New Year's is a better idea, which I also like to apply that. I could talk about that in a second. But yeah, so I was like, you know, it's always like, I made a promise to myself in January, you know, I got to just push through and instead of just like trying to stick to this like commitment of just doing it to do it, mixing it up and like, you're still doing the same thing and kind of giving it a refresh. Yeah, because it's the heart of the idea, not like to the letter exactly. It's like, yeah, you wanted to track your year. You wanted to be like more conscious of your thoughts. How you do that, that's not the important part. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Maybe this is your new bullet journal. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. So I have notes every week. Yeah. Actually, I'm very excited to do this podcast because it's like, uh, finally something new, something different. It is kind of neat that I have this in the middle of all this. This human interaction. Yeah. That's not a meeting. That's not a meeting. Yeah. Last week was all meetings for me, so I think that's why I was suffering. And thank God it's not making dumb jokes about fast food like other podcasts that some of us might be on. At least you get fed. Ooh, good point. It's barely food, Carrie. That's it's barely food. That's fair. I mean, at least you get to learn about Elon Musk and Grimes his child. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what he's like. Highlights. He sleeps down again at night now. Highlight of my day. My biggest issue with last week was just a reminder that breaks are really important even if you like what you're doing. Oh, yeah. That's true. We had to, uh, we're, basically last week we recorded our stay at home or work from home commentary for the Volume 7 disc, which was great. And it worked out fine. And I enjoyed doing it. I enjoyed the people I was talking with. It was all great. But that added like, you know, three and a half hours of stuff to my week. And because of that, like things were tighter. And I wasn't even necessarily working longer hours. We've been really great about that. But just not even like, just the way things shook out. Like I wasn't taking a break because like, oh, I wanted to finish this thing in between meetings or something like that. And by the end of the week, I was just done. It's just like your week got denser because of it. And even though you have fun doing it, you're still expensing that energy in that effort.  Oh, I was really dreading that. It's, you still like, you know, put effort into it.  It makes perfect sense. Yeah, especially when things get denser, like that's a good time to be aware of the whole life. As like a concert artist because like, I like doing art as like a hobby outside of work also. But if I'm like doing art already eight hours a day, it's like, oh, now I'm done with work. What am I going to do? That's not too tired. Yeah. So I've been like kind of burnout. I don't know if y'all wanted to talk about that at some point. But last year is definitely kind of like a burnout year. So I'm kind of glad this year I've taken more of a step back and doing more art direction, directing, directing. Sorry. But I definitely want to get back into the habit of like drawing for myself outside of work and like not putting pressure on myself to still be creative, I guess. Yeah. Okay. Like one of my things is, one of my goals is to fill out a sketchbook in one month. I'm saying it now so I can hold myself accountable. But it's a pretty small sketchbook. It's maybe like 70 pages. Hopefully with you I think in a month. Oh god. Maybe next year I'll do it. Yeah, I just want to get back to drawing and like refresh myself. I feel like kind of rusty after kind of falling off good habits. Yeah. Yeah, I kind of thought like doing journaling every week or every day would help me like become a better writer. But I feel like it's so extreme of consciousness and kind of short that it's not really a creative effort. It's more like a psychological check-in. Well, yeah, I feel like there's so much of writing. I feel like it's almost less about the writing and more of the editing that comes afterwards. Oh yeah. You know, like the... I'm not going to edit the whole proposal. Yeah. Well, it's so rare that like the first time you write a scene, like that's what it is. You know, it's about like learning how to... Like I don't feel like the end goal of being like a writer or anything is that just, oh, you just write gold perfect every time. It's like, how do you take feedback and look at your own and make it better? So yeah, it's like, yeah, I see what you're saying where it's like, oh, I'm writing more. I'm practicing that muscle more. It's like, but only a part of the muscle. Yeah. Yeah, it's not the whole process. Yeah. Yeah. It's so good. Yeah, I still see value in it. Oh, definitely.  So yeah, I just need to get back onto it. But I've always wondered, Erin, like as an artist who works as an artist as well, balancing that hobby and work. Because I write for work. I rarely write as a hobby. It's not the thing I go and do at doodle stories and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's like, yeah, how do you balance it? Oh God, I definitely couldn't answer that because I feel like I'm still trying to figure that out myself. Yeah, I just don't have an answer besides me kind of taking. I haven't been as hard on myself as I have been in the past. Definitely, like after work, like maybe in the past year or so, I've been like, oh, like I feel bad for not doing art for like Twitter or social media afterwards. But lately, I'm trying to tell myself, okay, well, you're doing this really intensive job and you're still doing art. Even if it's not art for yourself. So I'm just trying not to beat myself up over it. I think that's super important. Like the first step. Yeah, because like when you mentioned burnout, like I feel like that's where it comes in for me is like people, you know, the word burnout gets thrown out around all the time. And you know, there's definitely the overworking part of it, but there's also the overpressure part of it. Yeah, yeah. And that's where I usually get it. It's like it's not always external. It's mostly me. It's mostly internally out. Yeah. It's just like I have to do it. And you know, I just got it. I got it. I got to get it done. I owe it to myself, you know, to work on this or something. And yeah, that's when you can just like, that's when apathy happens. And when you have that first thought of, maybe I don't really need to, that's when you know it's burned out. Yeah.  You know, just holding myself to it too much and just stopped caring. I have been living where you're talking about right now. I honestly like, I, and that's like, it's exactly what you, I think, Jordan, what you brought up when I was talking about my last week was that like, I love what I'm doing. And it's not always fatigue. Like we are, as a team, like we're not crunching. We're not putting in overtime. We haven't in like a year and a half. Like we're, yeah, our hours are great. Work is great. Everyone's super nice. Like it's, it's been very good. But I've been doing the same thing for a very long time. And I also, yeah, I have like a lot of pressure that I put on myself. And like, honestly, like I, again, I think we, I'm going to keep caveatting this. It's like, I wish all this COVID stuff didn't happen. I'm excited for everybody to get back safely. I've enjoyed having to figure out how to record from home. Because it's been like a production thing that's been entirely different from my day to day. Yeah. Yeah. And it's something I still like. I like photography. I like film. I like audio. Like I like all that stuff. And I don't get to do it normally. So when it's like, Hey, can you figure out how to work from home? I'm like, yeah, I can do that. Yeah, let me get a camera. Let me do this thing. Like let me, I have this light. Let me use that. Like it's, it's sometimes I really feel like you just have to like completely step away from what you've been doing. Yeah. And I almost dive into something else. Yeah. You said you worked on like a tiny project at the, I was at the beginning of this year. It was. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about. It was a pixel thing. Yeah. It was like a little pixel pixel art thing. And like it was just something like for a sales deal that didn't go through. But they wanted like a little sample of what was going to happen. And it was like, I don't really need to like do all this work on it. But like, I like did like a temp VO. I added it. Like I did, I did everything that wasn't like just my normal job. Yeah. And it was like, I did it because it was fun. And I kept doing it because I was having fun. And then like tossed over to Issa and she like animated it and did some of the art. And it was like, I don't know. It was like low, it was like a low scale production thing. And it was just kind of fun to mix it up and do something new. And like, I feel like that kind of recharge like my batteries and stuff. And yeah. So I guess, I guess like the core of it is just like changing it up really helps.    I think one of the bigger things too is kind of learning to say no to a lot of things as well. I actually just had this happen today, funny enough, because I'm not supposed to be working. You had the day off. Yeah. Yeah. So why are you here? I said last week that I promised to be here. I just, I just really wanted to not think about work even though it's obvious. It's because you love us so much. Aw. You guys are great. You guys are my favorite artists. The validation. And I got a message asking if I could like be on camera again tomorrow. And this was in the morning. So I was like, oh yeah, sure. Tomorrow, just an hour sounds fine. And then I kind of spiraled after a couple of hours. Hence my like chip binge because I was kind of like, oh, I, I'm suddenly stressed thinking about this because I wanted to bake a pie. And I felt like suddenly just an hour of thinking about having to work and like put up my folding screen and turning the camera on and just making sure that everything's okay because I share an apartment now and like I have to be considerate of my roommate's time. So it's just a lot of these things suddenly I just got very stressed and then I had to tell that person like, okay, I should have said no in hindsight. I cannot work tomorrow because actually it's my job and I suddenly got very stressed about it and they're like, oh yeah, no, it's no problem. But I was like, oh God, I should have said no. It's, it's just that feeling of really, it's like you said Jordan being able to recognize it is so important to that process of making sure like you kind of give yourself that and be realistic with yourself. Yeah, and it's really, it really is just like a self-care thing where it's like you're, you're not doing it for any other reason other than like for yourself.  As we know, sometimes it takes two, maybe three tries to get the intro right. Hey, all right. Look, you had me, I had to read something verbatim. I can't read. Okay, that's not in my contract. I don't even know if I have a contract. Probably, I don't know. It's okay, I did it. I messed up twice last week. No one knows that movie magic. But now, it's true. Yeah, it's a commitment and it takes like hyping yourself up to like, you know, be on, you know. Yeah, and then there's the hours of thinking about it later, wondering if you did a good job or not. Oh my God, we're- And then going to bed and replaying the whole thing in your head to being like a, and said that. We're an entire, this entire group is like introverts. So we all think the same way, which is why I know we all understand each other. Too real right now. I need y'all to stop. This call out, it's not right. It's okay, it's just me in a couple hours. No big deal. It's like a normal Tuesday night. Oh man, what's a race week look like? Can we, maybe we look forward in a positive way. Oh yeah. I am excited about the video games that I'm playing and I'm excited about some meetings I have coming up that I can't talk about.  I'm going to look at your calendar, Kari. Work wise, I actually have some cool stuff I get to work on and involves writing, which I don't get to do a lot of these days. So do that. There is some personal stuff. One thing about the lockdown and like being home more is like I, for some reason I've had so many ideas for like new stories and stuff. Just like all projects, I just want to start them. I have a note in the notes app that's just like all the ideas. I should just like start one of those one day. That'd be a good outlet. That first step, yeah. Yeah, just literally start it. And non-work related, I feel like my Animal Crossing Island is like 98% where I want it to be. So all the day-to-day stuff where it's like, oh, I have to build the bridge or build the incline or move somebody's house and weigh the day. All that's done. Everything is where it's supposed to be. I just need like a couple more pieces of furniture. I have a list of like things I want to add to like certain spots and then it'll be done. But like, yeah, I feel like I can have people over now. The only people who have been to my island are Cole and Gus. Wow, that's a privilege. Yeah. Is what happened?  And then after that you're like, well, no one. He actually liked my layout and really was like, oh, cool. And we went to the secret beach of the North Shore that every island has and we hung out there. It was really cute. I, hang on, this is really weird citation. I saw a thing on TikTok where somebody lined like 25 beds in a row and they just rolled down them. I saw one with the toilet lids lifting up as you walked down. It's so good. Erin, what are you looking for this week? Oh, well, before this I got asked to do some art things for some non-animation related stuff. So that'll be coming out Friday-ish or sometime next week, hopefully. And then started Watching Tower of God and a new episode comes out this week. And I'm excited for that. Issa, that was really good. Before Issa goes, the thing I wanted to tell you before the recording is that I started Watching Tower of God. Oh, damn, you think? Yeah, because you put a link. You put a link to it and I watched it like an hour before the recording started. I watched the first episode. I liked it. Oh, I am shocked. Yeah. Getting Jordan to watch anime. It's funny because I think we all commonly forget that Jordan actually watches anime. I will watch a anime. A specific kind of anime. I haven't gotten into an anime since Kill a Kill.  I don't watch the Jojo's and I don't watch the My Hero. That was a fix. So I mean, it's so surreal and weird. It has the corny tropes of an anime that in the back of my head, I'm always like, oh, my parents would be like, so married before watching it. Yeah. That's horrible.  My mental image of Jordan is he watches anime that is mostly meme-able. But then I feel like you would need to watch Jojo's. Also true. Have you watched Jojo's? Meme City Central. I can't explain what it is that gets me into an anime or why I will keep watching one or whatever. I stopped watching Attack on Titan. I think I watched two seasons of that. I get that.  I was. Have you ever seen Space Patrol of Loco? No. What did you just say? Okay. It's a... I think you would actually... I don't think it's like Neo-Yokio because I really like Neo. I think you would like it. It's short episodes and it's very fast-paced and kind of meme-y. Yeah. Okay. You can watch it all within an hour or two. I think they actually released a movie version of it on YouTube for free. Does Aggretsuko count as an anime? I think so. I'm not holding on that. I love... Does Yu-Ki-Oh count? Wait, Jordan, are you going to continue watching Tower of Guns? Yeah. The way the first episode ends is really interesting. Maybe we should watch it or talk about it next week. Okay. Yes. I'll watch an episode. Oh, that's what Yu-Ki-Oh is looking for. Yeah. I have to watch the series cause. That's true. Yeah, Yu-Ki-Oh, what are you looking for too? I fell off a terrace, too. Don't fall off a house, Jordan. Sorry, I couldn't let that go. It's not necessarily a weekly thing as it's more this earlier this week. I've set a new goal for myself. And it's a combination of teamwork and lots of talking. But essentially I'm saving. I have to start saving money now. And that's weird to say, but it's kind of exciting. I get it. I'm going to look forward to kind of the next step for life things. Yeah, it's essentially you look at your empty house in Animal Crossing and you think about all the things you could possibly put in it. So that's the exciting part for me. That's what I'm looking for. Issa's getting a couch. Finally, after all these years. Yeah, she's been standing for so long. Her feet hurt. That reminds me of the yearly themed video. Yeah. So yeah, he talks about just sticking to I want to do X is setting yourself up for failure when you say you want to do X. You really mean generally it would be nice to get better at doing X or something. My resolution being I want to journal every day is me just being like, I want to take better track and record my year and how it evolves. Right. No, that's more general or having would example be like instead of saying, I'm going to jog every day. Like I'm going to live a healthier lifestyle. Exactly. Yeah. So it becomes like your yearly theme becomes health, you know, being more active. My my theme that I decided to go with was also financial and I wanted to better track all my spending and, you know, where, you know, what I'm buying and where the money's coming in, where the money's going out, like where can I cut back on stuff. And I used to use mint, which just does it all for you automatically. But that leads to complacency. So what I switched to was a spreadsheet where I input every transaction. Wow. More and that really helped. And yeah, I mean, I've been in a similar boat as you, Issa, when it's time to like meet a savings goal or a financial goal. And it is very satisfying when you get there. So I'm looking forward to you achieving that. Now, what do you do if you need four goals for your year? Like health and financial and mental health. That's what you're saying is what what if your life is a mess? Yeah.  What do you do? What do you do then? What if you've just been putting things off for like, I don't know, nine years? Carrie, what did we say like about like the personal projects? When's the best time to do it? Just you just got to start. That's great. I'm going to go jogging tonight. There you go. You've inspired me. There you go.  We'll see. I'm going to run in Final Fantasy XIV. You can like get a treadmill and like jog while you play Final Fantasy XIV. That's true. Hey, real talk though.  That's what I'm going to do. But I can jog at the same time. We'll see how that goes. That's a great way to end it. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Yeah. Thank you everybody for checking this episode. We really like doing this both because we like talking to each other. And I mean, I've already gotten some messages of people saying that, you know, they've been wanting some of the show like this or like maybe it's helped them with the creative thing. So we I just think that's really cool. And we'd love to continue to spread that. So if you, you know, if you do happen to like this and would be down to share it, that would be really helpful. Yeah, tell your friends. Yeah. That was a nice way. Like, yes, please just tell your friends. Do it. Do it. Watch our show. Hey, your friends to watch it. I'll be the hype. Yeah, do it. Carries us. Do it. You know, yeah, first members, that's great. It's on YouTube. It's on Spotify, iTunes, podcasts, all that stuff. Yeah, just right now, just consume it anyway. Like you just need people to watch it. Yeah. Be a first member. Watch it there. Then go listen to it. Then send your friend a YouTube link. There you go. Can we ask people to just watch it in the background on loop on YouTube all day? 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it's satire. And I'm going to teach you about the open source projects and fascist thoughts. So friends, Ruby programmers, listen up. I have discovered a revolution, a revolution in marketing open source, a revolution in marketing social media marketing, a revolution in promotion better than Godline.  Refusionary technique is fascist propaganda. That's right, fascism. How sad you have. Sit back and I'll show you how. I read this book, Robert Paxton's The Avenue of Fascism. I don't read many books, but this was the best one. I need to stress fascism based on what they did and what they said.  For all for fascism to work, you need three accessions. You need community to convince them they are one. They have to be accessible to the community. They have to walk around and say things like that would be bad for the community. You shouldn't do that. That's awful for the community. They don't need to have some sort of humiliating element to draw everyone to this new community. It exploits insecurity and trust for their motivations. And then you have to create a landing, turning their fear into common action. We all know that everyone rails is really fond of making enemies of things. By doing this, you create two benefits. Unity for expelling intro members, rival web frameworks, things like that, and profit for getting money and power behind your wildest dreams. So I came up with an acronym, this is for our members, really love acronyms. Che up. Community, humiliation, enemy, unity, profit. The Che side is your external face to the world. It binds your followers together just like Ace and Pan dates.  Their brains turn off and they repeat your catchphrases, like stab in the back and not the dermity, or convention or configurations, or events over friends, or citizen journalists that you can post. Let me read an awesome quote for you. The fascist theater wanted to bring his people into the warmth of belonging to a race not fully aware of its identity, historic destiny, and power. The excitement of participating in a vast public enterprise. The gratification of submerging oneself in a way of shared feelings of sacrificing one's petty concerns for the group's good and the thrill of domination. The essential promise that you have to give is some imaginary upside. You don't want the real one because the real upside is for you. But something like, hey, if you help people be famous, or you make tons of money in my community, even better if it prays on some rational fear like xenophobia or racism, and even more better if the promise is implied. Early fascist movements flaunted their contempt for bourgeois values, and for those who wanted only to earn money, money, filthy money, they attacked international finance capitalism almost as loudly as they attacked socialists. They even promised to expropriate the parts of their owners in favor of patriotic artisans and large landowners in favor of peasants. So remember, there's what they said and what they actually did. But this is what they actually did, the upside. What's bound to get the youth to utilize their rational furger and create a desperate unity of purpose? To craft a beautiful Ponzi scheme to gain new profits and power. Once in power, fascist regimes banned strikes, dissolved independent labor unions, lowered wages and purchasing power, and started running the ominous industries to the immense satisfaction of employers, the real upside, cash. Once you have your assessed followers, you can screw them over with backroom deals, Ponzi schemes, power grabs, manipulated public opinion, and most importantly, free work from the suckers. Next, I will demonstrate this revolutionary propaganda technique in the real world. I'll start with my own free hackers union as a failure. Free hackers union did go anywhere. Does anyone remember the free hackers union? Oh, like five years ago, that's probably it. So I said, here are a community of hackers. We've been humiliated for years by business douchette. Oh, God. We must create a club that excludes the business douchebags. Unity, working as one, we can fight them and take back control of that yet. So that didn't really work because we were all decentralized and started with this anarchist group. And there really wasn't a problem. So there's no upside. So why would anyone want to join this? Don't follow my lead. Vail. Let's strike community. We're a community of programmers releasing source code, corporations with closed source of who really ended us for years. We must create a free software to fight our capitalist enemies. Eventually fragmented by the open source community. So they started getting as big as they could have. And they were actively against the profit. So again, fail. So don't follow these in your project. Instead, let's look at something that's not an open source project, but sort of an open source project. By the way, I am not a Republican.  I'm not. We are a community of citizen journalists. We have been humiliated by Fox News. We've been serving this for years. We have been fighting against the mainstream media with grassroots journalism. This convinced thousands of people right for free. And Huffington Post sold to AOL Time Warner. They conservative news my name. I received this email from Roddy all on September 8. Hey, I heard about your podcast. You want to put zero on you in Model 2? Oh, I'm sorry. That's a lot like what I'm going to Model 2. Then in November 9, he announced that joint was buying his stuff and funding it. What's funny? Because when I was at their office, and I went down there and talked to them, they were all these guys working on it and joined this funding the hell out of it. So why are they saying they're funding it in November? Let me give you guys a little calendar lesson. So September, I see Roddy with a full team with tons of money being spent. October, November. So my claim is they create a team. Why? Well, obviously, there's some kind of upside. So let's look at no jazz. We are a community of JavaScript web developers. Fred's have been humiliating us for years. We must use events to fight threats. This prevents thousands of programmers to work for joint for free. And except they change to the contributor license agreement, so that they can read license note and they deal with Dell and Intel and all sorts of other companies. And they were funding it for months and months and months before anyone showed up and they didn't look like Roddy was a way better programmer than he actually is. The profit is joint will be the only company to really make money on note. Anyone remember this? Linux is going to destroy Windows. This is from a mousepad that someone I work with actually still owns. It's ten years old. He keeps it clean and everything. So let's look at Linux. We are a community of Unix head kernel hackers. Microsoft has been humiliating us for years. We must rise up and expand and destroy them with tucks. They're just giving us thousands to track software for Linux. And all the Linux company named all this money. How about Java? We're a community of former C++ programmers. C++ has been humiliating us for years with this hardware's collection. We must defeat C++ and any companies that use it. Join the Java community product in the process and be free. Committing billions of dollars in free development, supporting corporations, while some of our systems control the JCP behind the scenes worth a purge. Does anyone remember the JCP? Yeah, on rail. Now let's go over beyond rails. We're a community of web developers. In 2004, Java has been humiliating us for years. In 2005, Ankle Brackets has been humiliating us for years. In 2006, Anker Price has been humiliating us for years.  And in 2011, I am your new animator.  Yes, people. I have become so powerful that I am the foil for an entire community of people. By the way, I thought you did all sorts of slides. This is just lame.  Yeah, yeah. It was super awesome. It was an amaz. Oh, and everybody keeps you on this picture. This picture has got to be laid like crazy. I'm in Italy, in Pisa, Italy, playing a left-handed guitar upside down, looking like I know what I'm doing. That works. This created unity of thousands of programs through both software and 37 signal. They can run a multi-million-dollar business with only a handful of people because of this. Other companies actually have eight people to get that. So you must watch out for your enemies. It's important to know that enemies will stop you. Everyone basically knows that's just when they see it. God willing, the law demonstrates that.  You're obsessed with humiliation.  Otherwise, you're going to get humiliated. But they typically can't define it. Now that I've defined it by a shade of, you must be on guard. Choose your enemies wisely, for they will know what you're up to. The best enemy is no enemy. Just don't have one. Communism is great with capitalism. It was going to take forever to kill capitalism. And even after they did, they could just call someone secretly a capitalist. NoJS is doing a great job with those with threads. We must applaud NoJS for their wonderful choice of enemies. Everybody can be the greatest choice, right? There's never been a great choice. Because you need them. Not like Java, XML, WS, Desktop, Enterprise, or me.  You have to move on next month. For example, a socialist, straight unionist, communist, gypsies, and Jews. See, eventually you just have to pick your next one over and over again. And then you run out. It just runs out of steam. Those enemies suck, because you can destroy them. Then you need a new one. The biggest risk to your fledgling regime is the truth. It's the truth. The change side can't know about the upside. If the change side of your little operation knows about the upside, and they know about your bathroom news, meals, or they figure out the policy scheme, and they see that you're secretly making money, for example, wiring and funding a bunch of programmers to hack with one guy to claim one guy works on it, then they'll leave or revolt. Here's an example of what can happen to your machine if you're not paying attention. Oh, let me just see the red line. See the big drop in the blue line. Some day they might write one blog post that's weird and sort of odd or really funny, and have to completely trash your entire operation, because they just don't like it.  Why? With believable lies, disinformation, and more propaganda. You have to say they're paranoid, because nobody believed they were using this pattern. That's just crazy. You have to call them conspiracy theorists. Mentioned tinfoil acts as much as possible. You have to question their moral character. Maybe spirit remembers about their sexuality and religion. Anything really. Anything to keep them distracted from the truth.  Now, let's apply what we've done here. I always like Ruby. I believe it will be destroyed by Ruby on Rails. Projects like Puppet and Chef are the keys to Ruby's future. Let's apply what we've learned and see if this works. This is the problem right now. I wrote a very nice book. I wanted kids, anyone, to learn how to cook. I wrote a great book, and I kept running the programs, who thought they could do it better. And they had bizarre ideas, so I said, you can't modify it, but you can distribute it for free. And the first thing that some guy does in Ruby on Rails at Engine Guard, is he decides, for whatever reason, he's going to rip out all the Python and put Ruby in it. This shows a complete lack of understanding of the student. It doesn't matter what language students use. But then, he decided to throw a big fit when I told him to house some class and quit getting my book out with Ruby in it. The reason why I got that was because people were coming and asking me when I was going to finish this book on Ruby. I was doing a book on Ruby.  So, this is the problem. The gist of the whole issue is that everyone in the industry thinks of this. This summarizes Ruby on Rails. But this is not Ruby. Would everyone agree with me that this does not represent Ruby? So let's see if we can fix that. Let's start a community of two Ruby programs. We have been humiliated before it destroys us. We can be unified against the Rails newsbags to make us look bad. We will profit from Ruby as free of Rails and respect it once again. Yes! Yes! Did it work? Yes!


Under normal circumstances right now you would be seeing Wheel of Mutt Superbowl a glorious video a guaranteed certified hood classic But I just got off the phone with EA and they said We have no idea how to make a video game so I desynced in my divisional playoff game You guys already know this right so I'm grinding my way back to the playoffs And I don't want to just sit here and have you guys not have videos in fact I recently lost my upload streak I had uploaded like four months straight I think every day and it just ended granted that's cuz booby was going through surgery I actually thought she's gonna die. It was horrible, but she's doing well now recovering from surgery So love you boys for the support booby's feeling a lot better EA still sucks gigantic balls There's no questions about it. And ironically now I'm doing a pack-and-play I vowed to like not make pack-and-play a series last year. It was a blast.  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He's got to have some demon speed I'm excited about that low-key. De Nico.  I assume it's gonna be tomorrow's video unless I sell something out But you'll see very soon.  Hey, we got legend player Danny Tomlinson. I have that Colton Miller Grady Jarrett Cimo Fajoco Chris Boswell. Yes, I would love a kicker. I should have known if I was gonna give you a money I was gonna get bent ogre rundown more and I know what's the big animation? I think there's some they put some red if you can take anything of this video.  I'll just do my sets and get out of here.  I'm already to the topper. I gotta see my cool animation at least alright. That's actually sick I'm really excited. He said I'm hard Cooper. All right. Well, that's kind of hard. That's kind of though. I'm not mad I got the wide receivers. Let's go.  I got and let's open some training packs and add some other players Just squad to let's do flashbacks veterans and heavyweights rising stars too expensive I'll flash I could get I could take you to get the Danny dimes.  Please that's actually lit. I'm excited use David Johnson. All right best We got a new hat back with definitely use David Johnson a veteran I think there's Cordero better cities and 91 overall really low chance.  Let's try veteran again I don't have Jimmy Graham from Wheel of Mock. Give me someone not named Jimmy Graham Yeah, go ahead. I'm gonna go for an 88 plus veteran It's gonna give me an 89 then I'll quick sell it and then I'll get a rise is up I'm just gonna flashbacks that gambling addiction.  You're not Danny dimes.  He could be minus the dog fighting Danny dimes is everything that Lamar Jackson wishes. He could be and he's also really good at throwing the football Yes, I'm lying.    You're coming they have Jimmy Graham as my slot receive defense Looks a lot like wheel of Mott. In fact, it is just wheel of Mott. Although David Irving's in now. Wow. No louder milkers I should be executed for that. I'm making one promise in this video right now Danny dimes We'll have over a hundred passing and rushing arts.  It's identifier It's sideline dead. I long range dead. I read I guess Are we talking about the same dude here? I'm just gonna go identifier There's a guy on Twitter every time I tweet.  Yep. Oh get off of that clean Colomac in the middle. Ah, he's got a slow.    Well, we did you didn't You didn't score what okay?  We got it couldn't handle apparently so tansh. Oh, I like your team mr.   I was I have no idea why he has this much momentum I absolutely no reason for it now the screens all glitched out so I have to run inside zone looking dude It's literally lagging the whole game that I can't even run. I'm probably just gonna scramble up the middle here.  I got why Jack Wilson forgets how to throw football huge stop if we can get this. Let's see it boys.     Look at that bomb Who is that? I'm gonna look for Mike Evans on the corner out. Hopefully he can burn his man who's over top of him. Oh sirtan. Maybe not. Oh No, he's got the Jesus Who are you throwing to? Oh, I don't have deflator enforcer on Devin White I Finally dropped on I gotta find something that works that dude this man coverage is killing me Great Your feet are set his feet were set. Why is he so bad? I was not scrambling. I had no honor pressure You literally just threw a shitty ball. I'm gonna throw a deep one in my Kevin's I think I can get out there. Oh Oh All right now we scramble it in now we scramble it in with the schmagnol schmones.  No on the one. How did he get up and get that row? I should scramble it in like I said This is a weird game. I do you know what's weird? I think I'm gonna win. I still think I'm gonna win this game A is open Sort of be Dude that momentum is so good or you can't see where the ball is. That's a nasty person 10 Take off take off season. Dude. Why does he have so much room? Look at this.  Oh, and it's gonna stay. This like literally makes the game lag That's what's fresher. I need a to come down. Oh, no, you went the wrong way. I Need a touchdown.  He cannot throw that corner out Wait a second Yo, I get the ball have I could make it 14 to 21 dude. I swear to God this game's not over.   I Love this game.  Oh Go, can you make that throw Daniel? No, you can't.  That's just the easiest throw for it should be the easiest throw for him Good bye. I should be using him like white shot them. Oh 62 rushing yards. I need a hundred at least I've infinite time Can he make the throat?  Wait a second. No, it's gonna miss it. Wait. Did he make it? Pressure.  I have three time off if I stop him get another two point We go it's over time Third and seven also. I am actually about to get the stop crossers Come on, baby Let's go that this time that this time. I swear to God. We can go over time. Oh, I could have thrown X there We're gonna throw RB outside. Yes, sir. We kind of want to hit Darren Waller here Kind of had to predetermine this.  Oh We don't have the clock to be dicking around like this. Let's see how much pocket time we have Should have good time. Yes. Oh why no, I need to play make her why to the right side Top right top right. Yes.  What a game, bro. All right boys. That's it for today's video I'll see you tomorrow. I think that should be the tinder girls build my team should be funny I'll talk to you then. Thanks so much. It's always peace


To get the best madden team, go to instantmaddencoins.com. You can buy players, coins, and training directly to your account, and code MMG is 10% off. Double or nothing! What's good, boys? You see that beautiful coin count in the top, right? Not only do you see that, you should see this. Playoffs! We have the divisional playoff. We have a beautiful, exact 1.6 million to spend on one team. And we have one player that carried over from last episode. Welcome back to Double or Nothing. I love this series. I know you guys love it too. Before I hop into team building, let's do a little housekeeping. I want to tell you guys the schedule and what we have in store for the next time we do Double or Nothing. Number one, as you might have noticed, Double or Nothing has flown by. This is episode six. There's only eight episodes in this inaugural season because next episode should be 3.2 mil. And after that is 6.4 mil. And that's hopefully the Super Bowl. And I know a lot of you are going to say, damn, I kind of wanted more Double or Nothing, or you should keep the series going. I have some awesome ideas for the new season, but for this first season, I just wanted a quick segue, try out something brand new, see if you boys love it, and then I wanted to hop back into Wheel of Mud. So, Double or Nothing will end on episode eight. That is the finale, but it will come back. Don't worry, we'll have even better rules. I have some really cool ways to make the series keep grinding out. We actually just got crazy lucky that in eight episodes we made it, you know, potentially to the Super Bowl because usually it would take a lot more games than that.  And the second thing to go over is what player did I carry over on the 800K squad?  He wasn't that influential on the team. I don't use wide receivers that much. And that's actually why I like this. I spent a lot of money on Blacksico. He's really good. He's really physical. He's really big. I don't feel like spending big coins on a wide receiver really ever again. So if I can carry over a really good wide receiver, not even have to worry about it, I can go big on other positions and still have a good wide receiver. We've got 1.6 million to build an awesome squad hopping to a game, the divisional playoff game at that, hopefully secured up, keep moving here. I am gonna do skill positions absolutely last. Let's start with the positions that I'm comfortable on going cheap on and we'll go from there because now that we have such a big bankroll, it's a lot different. I think 90 overall offensive linemen are just fine. So I think I'm gonna stay cheap here.  Especially now this team is getting so good, I think I won't need to rely so heavily on the run game. The guy can actually start sending lasers and getting crazy weird with it. Alan Fenica, I'm gonna go in 90 overall center. Ryan Jensen for 40, that is kind of expensive. Playing just a little bit more, we'll get us a 91. It's Tane Moody, 32K, 91 overall right guard. 23K for Marcus Cannon, that is dirt cheap.  Let's grab a fullback. Do you think there's a Zonka in here? I already knew there was a Zonka. I love Zonka, you guys know that, but you know what else I love is Christian Okoye. He has a serious nostalgic feel to me. I use Christian Okoye a lot in my first ever season of Madden Mobile. So we'll go with Okoye, sorry Zonka. So what else is gonna be cheap? Our backup tight end will be cheap. So let's just get a solid 88 overall backup tight end. Bryson Hopkins, I can get a youngin'. I like that, 87 speed. D-tackles I usually go cheap on. So let's go there next, let's go 90, 91. We can absolutely get 90, 91s every time. Malik Collins, 91 overall. Okay, and Christian Barmore. I'm gonna go left end, right end next. I'm willing to go cheap there as well. I think this 90 overall Hassan Reddick is actually gonna be really good. 88 speed, 90 Excel. There's a 97 overall Hassan Reddick and he's an absolute demon. So I'm happy to have a little bit less OP version of him. Left end, six foot nine, two 70, 89 speed, 87 Excel. I'm actually gonna go with this. Spending a little bit more than I'd like to, but that is really good. And let's get a focused kicker. I do think Youngweight Koo is one of the cheapest focused kickers in the game. So go Youngweight Koo, all you need is focused kicker. You don't need a 200K kicker. You just need one with focused kicker. So my two backup wide receivers do not need to be good either. I don't need anybody crazy. Is there a speed demon I could get? There is a series Redux, Will Fuller. He got like a team of the week limited card. It's kind of expensive, 62,000. I was just talking about how I'm not gonna spend a lot of wide receivers, but he is really good. I think this should be our ace in the hole. Just in case, something goes haywire. This is the playoffs. I think it's a good decision to cop a player like that right there. We'll pick up Keenan Allen. I ought to pick up Keenan Allen. All right, we officially have the big boy decision to make 1.1 mil to spend on the rest of the squad.  He's kind of expensive. And by kind of, I mean, he's really expensive, but he's insane, 92,500 coins for 95 overall middle linebacker Tyree. I really haven't used him that much. So I don't know, this could be a liability purchase, but look at this, 97 speed, 96 excel. He has Lurker and Acrobat baked into the card. He is small. His strength is bad. His tackle is bad.  I'm Taylor, right outside linebacker, 94 speed, 93 excel. He's incredible. He's got Lurker and he's got, I don't remember what it's called. I think it's called Crusher where every time you hit somebody, it fatigues him a lot. Left outside linebacker. I'm actually gonna go big here. I'm gonna go with the 94 overall for left outside.  He's insane.  Oh my God, he's so good. How have I never known about this card? 85,000 for Kalomak, it's a lot to spend. He is a beast. All right, next up is free safety, strong safety corners. Very important positions. Who is Andrew Wingard? Six foot 209, 93, 96, 94 hip hop.  Strong safety, Tracy Walker. I get my own. Get a lion here. We got the muttmas players up top 61, 206, 93, 95. Yeah, now you're talking my language. Well, you guys know I love this Jalen Ramsey. This Jalen Ramsey was on my wheel mutt for a long time. Champion-ish in Jalen Ramsey. Physical can tackle, can hit. We're saving a lot of money for our corner and our halfback here. Greg, I think this Greg Newsom is fast. 94, 93, excellent pickup. That Greg Newsom right there. We're staying cheap on corners.  Amani or a warrior. Guys, a beast for the Lions. He might be a little, I was gonna say he might be a little slow, but he's big, 62, 205. I'm actually, dude, I'm building a little Lions team team here, yeah? We're getting players in. All right, that's it for defense. We have 300K a pop to spend on quarterback halfback. I think I'm gonna start with halfback. You guys know, dude, I love halfbacks. They're so important to me. I want a freak of nature. Tony Pollard is really good. Patterson is both of them. Our beast, dude. Can you get the Micah Parsons halfback? I'm not gonna do that. Chris Johnson's enough. Chris Johnson is affordable. Derek Henry is affordable. And this Derek Henry is a menace to society.  I really shouldn't even consider anybody else. I think I have to go with Derek Henry here. He's so good, it's not fair.  Oh my God, I almost forgot I don't have a tight end. Uh-oh. All right, I'm going with the 97 overall Derek Henry. 250K.  I want one that can get hot route master. I know that Justin Herbert can get hot route master. This would be a cool twist of fate though. He's insane. Cause we had trailance at the start of this season. What if we got the super trailance now at the end of the season? It's not gonna get hot route master. I can promise you that. We would have an insane read option game though. I'm kind of tempted to go Romo. For no reason I'm tempted to go Romo. I was thinking about doing trailance, but I do want to show you guys new players. I'm doing Tony Romo so that I can save 244K for an insane tight end. I know this looks weird, but I like it. Hawkinson has a, oh no, he's too expensive. Oh, I wanted this so bad, dude. Oh, that would've been sick. So my options are Travis Kale, CY check, or Darren Waller if I want to go this expensive. You know, as long as I'm getting legends players, this Vernon Davis is a tight end I always wanted to use. 94 speed, 94 catch, 92 catch in traffic. Not a run blocker, but a true receiving threat. I can definitely give him tight end apprentice, but I'll probably give Romo hot route master. 125K coins to spend. We can get backups, like serious backups. We have an insane backfield. We have 97 half back, 95 quarterback. Backup half back is gonna be pretty important. Derek Henry's gonna get abused. So let's get somebody who can understudy him a little bit. I actually like the idea of doing Christian McCaffrey. 79,000 coins left. Oh, please tell me you're within 79K, buddy. Come on. 75,100, exactly what I wanted. 94 speed, 94 excel, 94 agility, Lamar Jackson. Let me walk you through my idea on this. Romo is awesome. He's gonna be hot route master. He's gonna be slinging it. But if I get to a point where I wanna run read option, or I want the ability to scramble, Romo's not really the guy. So if I can just keep Lamar Jackson as the backup and we get to a point where I wanna run read option, I'll sub him in. That's my idea. We got 4,800 leftover of our 1.6 million. I'm going best team overall. Let's see how this looks. I'm insane. This is by far the best team.  The team is a 92 overall. Our backfield consists of Tony Romo, Lamar Jackson, Derek Henry, Christian McCaffrey, and Christian Okoye. Will Fuller, Kenan Allen, and Plexico Burris, Vernon Davis, and Bryson Hopkins as the backup on defense. We got a speed demon Tyreek Hill as our middle live backer. Sean Taylor, right outside. Trevathan at the backup, and Colomac at left outside. We got Tracy Walker and Andrew Wingard, our muttmas players holding up the top with Greg Newsome, Jalen Ramsey, and Amani Aruwariye at corner three. Mason Reddick, Malik Collins, Christian Barmore, and Ed Tutal-Jones on the D line.  Let's give him focus kicker before I forget. All right boys, our team is ready. Let's start doing some abilities. How do we want to do this? I think I am going to put tank on Derek Henry. Most good players should be diving at his ankles anyway.  Automatically break, hit, stick, tackles. I actually am going to go bruiser. I usually don't use bruiser. I usually just use bulldozer. But I need to get in the habit of using stiff arm. Recuperation will be big. He's going to get used a lot. That's six AP on our boy here. Tony Romo as a field general should get protected and Hot Row Master relatively easy, which I think should be the move here. Hot Row Master, beautiful. We can put routes on Derek Henry if we choose. Oh, I would have loved protected. It's a decision between Hot Row Master and protected. I got to go with Hot Row Master. It's that much better. Why don't we just go pocket that eye then just to ensure that we're throwing lasers? We're actually going to give Romo run and gun. Doesn't make a lot of sense. No, but I want to get weird with it. Now at chip nightmare for two, we can dust linebackers and I have enough to put one more on him if I want it. I'm going to give him deep out elite. I run a lot of corner routes if I'm getting cheesy. So let's do it. So Tyree killing Sean Taylor have baked out abilities that's already four AP. So Tyree, he has acrobat lurker baked on. Can I add something else? I think Stonewall would actually be amazing on Tyree because a lot of players are going to try and bully him. If you can prevent additional yardage gains while tackling that might be kind of OP. Go shut down on him. So Sean Taylor has rusher, heavy ball care fatigue on hit stick tackles and lurker. So I think it's kind of important if we can to get him enforcer to AP guarantees the hit stick and then crusher will give heavy fatigue. I think Kalil Mack just with how big he is, how good his edge rush is, I kind of like an edge thread on him. I think we'll go edge threat and under pressure for three AP. I'm okay with it though. Four for that's not bad unstoppable force. Just basically how I ran my Kalil Mack in Madden 20 wheel of mud and he was stupid good at that. Tracy Walker acrobats gonna be nice on you, no? Two AP for acrobats, keep it simple. Ooh, let's make this boy our big hitter, yeah?  Two AP for enforcer on him, two AP for deflator. Just to round him out, really like shut down. So we have two X factors and one AP left. I'm just gonna add something to Tracy Walker. I'm gonna go unfakeable on Tracy Walker and he can have the other X factor as well. Got to show a little bit of love. Detroit Lions, 4,800 coins left over and we have a squad. Everybody's a beast, everybody can play defense. Super well rounded, 92 overall squad. Double or nothing, episode number six. Two more after this boys and we're calling it a season. Perfectly rounded team with the 9,292D. All we've got is to win a playoff game.  We're hopping into this playoff game. We're getting this fat W and we're moving on to the conference chip. That is my goal. Let's get it baby. Look at that beautiful top three. Derek, Kairi, Tony, Romo, Tyree, Kilburn and Caesar Superdome for the conference chip. Let's get it boys. He's got Kyler Murray. You know I was looking at that Kyler Murray. I almost wanted that on my team. It's got 94 speed and he's got Reggie Bush as well. Who's moving for 12 yards to start this out? All right boys, let's not do any more of that in the playoffs, yeah? Kyler Murray, Reggie Bush but he's got that Papamique syndrome and that's the one where you forget to turn on your X factors. I will take any help I can get. No, no, somebody throws a sketchy cross body. All right, Tyree Kil is so, oh okay. No, no, dang it. I thought my detackled snag. You know what? I went cheap on my detackles and D-Line and he is averaging 11 yards to carry right now. 32, run it again. I'm gonna stop it with Tyree. Nope, aw, aw, yes. What am I saying? Double or nothing boys. What do I say?  Fourth and two, big stop.   He's on, he's user, he's user on VitaVeo and there goes Darryl. He's using VitaVeo, which I kind of, okay. He dove a little early. I might go with the stiff arm. Dude, why do you even code that animation in? That's so rude. What did I say? I need bruiser because I need to start using stiff arm. That's a perfect example. We've got daylight you're gonna get. Anything and I would have broken that tackle. That was actually, it's actually a stiff arm I just did right there. He's not there, he's not there, Plexico. I am accidentally on Clomac. I did not want this. Ooh, bad ball. We have to remember, we gotta send Clomac every time. Okay, I'm gonna send Clomac. I don't mind this. Can I get there? I know he is regretting not putting those X-Factors on though. I'll tell you that. Oh, that angle routes there. No sir. Wait, we have to. Wait, one more. Dude, this game is over. 3.2 mil. If I can just not choke, we've got 3.2 mil. Derek Henry just keeps taking the edge. To try this jet sweep, we look forward. I set my ace in the hole. Hit points hard. Playing out of our minds. Dude, I haven't even touched Vernon David. I literally haven't used Vernon David. In fact, I haven't even used High Row Master. I've just ran the ball. Uh, Vernon. Tony, what are you doing? Or not Tony, who is that? Who is the other player trying to steal that two point? They're getting greedy back there. Ramsey, Murray, no, I missed. I'm homeless. I was just gonna ask Cheeks, bro. I could sniff it. I got all the scents coming out of there because... It looks like it was safe. Smells so good too. Don't let them beam us over the top, boys. This man be throwing sketchy. All right, Wingard, can we clamp this up? Where do you wanna throw, Kyler? Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. Oh, he completed that? Uh-oh, I'm stuck on this. I'm on the wrong dudes. I was so worried that Kyler is so fast. All right, let's go on Tyreekio. We got to speed in for a reason, right? Is that a slip screen? It is, it is. Uh-oh. To a big tackle, Tyreekio. Oh, what, what? Hey, hey, hey. I totally missed the tackle part.  So I fulfilled my objective, I guess. Even if it was on accent. Uh-oh, sketchy ball! Tracy Walker! We gotta go, Tracy. We gotta go, Tracy! Off to the races. Let's get this rage quit and take Derek Henry home. Take Derek Henry home, baby! Take Derek Henry home! You gotta quit, you gotta quit, bro. It's a three-point game. Guess he might stick it out. Let me drop 80 on him, but I doubt it. What is going on? How did you get to the playoffs, bro? Dude, I guarantee what happened there. As soon as he loaded up the game and saw that he forgot his X-Factors, he just didn't want to play anymore. I guarantee it. 3.2 million coins to spend in the next episode.  I'm not even gonna pretend that there is a mystery. Derek Henry is coming through. And I think I'm gonna buy expensive alignment. I think I'm gonna build a dominant, dominant run game team for this next game. I don't know if it's just amateur hour or what, but that dude won seven games, got to the playoffs and laid an egg. He's clearly not like LeBron James, the greatest player of all time. He's more like Michael Jordan, where in his first few games, he was playing plumbers and mailmen. And then finally he got to me, the milkman. And I gave him the milk and he wasn't ready for it. I really don't actually have an opinion on basketball. I just figured I'd rile some people up.  LeBron and Jordan. Fat Ws and I will see you in the next episode of Double or Nothing, where we've got 3.2 million coins to spend and then 6.4 for that big boy at the end. All right, hey, I love you boys. I'll see you in the next episode. Peace out.


The Minnesota DNR measured the largest eastern Canadian hemlock in the state, and its home happens to be in Brainerd. Taylor Archer went to see the tree today. Dr. Roland Caron, his late wife Pat, didn't know the house they were moving into 40 years ago, came along with one of Minnesota's largest eastern Canadian hemlocks. Ironically, I wanted to cut the tree down because it's one of the messiest trees in the whole world. Pat and I would say, oh no, let's just leave it alone. Representatives from the Department of Natural Resources came to the care residence last week to measure the exact dimensions. The eastern Canadian hemlock behind me has been measured at 58 feet high with a circumference of 87.5 inches and about a 53 foot crown width. It is not going anywhere anytime soon. The tree is over 100 years old because the house we live in on the north side here was built in 1908. So we're not sure if it was planted at that time or if it was already an existing tree. In 2013, the DNR declared it as an endangered species. It's weathered, you know, windstorms, tornadoes, et cetera, you know, for over 100 years. We're only the third owner of this house. With all the dimensions added up, this tree has a score of about 158. The previous tree, which held the record since 1997, has a score of 123. So anyway, that's the story of the tree. It will not be cut down. In Brainerd, Taylor Archer, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Welcome folks, this is Tom O'Brien of TFNN.  You focus on growth, hope everyone's having a great day, safe day, let's make it a great night folks. Cultivate wisdom. You don't need to accumulate knowledge to become wise. Anyone can become wise. When you become wise, you respect your body, you respect your mind, and you respect your soul. When you become wise, your heart is controlled by your, your life is controlled by your heart, not your head. Market wise, let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow Industries right now, 530. We get the NASDAQ up 462. You get the S&Ps up 97. You're gonna gain inside the NASDAQ folks of 3%, inside the S&Ps 2.1, inside the Dow Industries 1.5. Gold, gold contract up $6, 40 cents traded at 17.85 and ounce. We have silver up 25 cents, $22.48 an ounce, light sweet crude up 242, $71.92, a barrel notes and bonds. The 10 year, down 11 ticks trade in 130.10. The 30 year off 21, at 161.28. You had the 10 year yield in 1.48 right now. So you're still way low, this 10 as well as the 30s, pulling back with lighter volume, and that's saying it still wants higher price. King dollar, King dollar is up 46 ticks, trading out at 96, 374, euros at 112, yens at 113.5 and a British pound is trading out at 132 to one at US dollar. Our phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call folks. Wanna know what's going on in your world and the world of the S&Ps? Let's take a look at them. What do we have out here? Well, there's no doubt you have a gain in price in a monster way. That being said, you have a contraction of volume that is huge. We have a two way market here, man. That's the real bottom line. What you do have is this. So it's a pitch, the spy's up $9.46. If we take a look at this Friday, you were down at 448, you were at 468. That's saying that it's gonna go after the high. You're already into the lows of the high, which is the 467.35. That being said, the contraction and volume is huge, man. So my take is that this is still under consolidation and the lower end of this is, I'm not saying the lower end is from last Wednesday also. I'm going back to where October 25th was, which is the 436 inside of the spy. We take a look at the NDX100. It's the same setup in the NDX. You're going high with a monster contraction of volume out here. So what we have is this, is that you're up $11.13 on the queues, done 39 million shares. Yesterday was light volume, did 67 million. So pretty amazing actually. That being said, now the differential here is that I suspect the queues will get to the lows of the high, the lows of the high at 399.19. And we'll see whether we can basically do it. Let's just inside the NDX100. I just want to look at Apple for a second because Apple has, okay, so that's just the test of the highs. Interesting, okay. So this would have, so check this out. So Apple folks has such a large weighting structure and everything. I think it's, I think it's 8.2% and the S&P is 11.1% in the NASDAQ. There's some monster numbers out here. That being said, if you take a look at Apple right now, Apple's just tested a tie and it's going to be a rejection of higher price with light of volume. We've done 84 million shares. The number to keep your eye on is 170.30. This is going to get really interesting, man, because if you've never seen something like this, meaning that these little subtle moves, okay, mean something, you're going to be really surprised because they do mean something. Yeah, they will see where it shakes out. That's the bottom line. Gold, gold contract out here. The bottom line is that we got, let's see, active contract, okay. So the gold contract has 108,000 contracts, 120,000 contracts traded out here. It did reject lower price at 1772, you're at 1785. Bottom line, you're going to the top of the range that it's been in and we'll see whether it can get any juice out here tomorrow, you know, what it has certainly done, it came back into its strength from November, the middle of November and rejected lower price and good old King dollar. If we take a look at King dollar out here, we have a King dollar, King dollar right now, couldn't handle price out here. We got to a 96, 592, right now you have a couple hundred ticks below that, you're at 96, 368, but King dollar's been trading sideways for about seven or eight days right now. Oil, we take a look at the oil market out here, oil caught a bid once again, oil's up 244, you're trading at 7194 and that has, let's see, 442,000 contracts, that's not bad contract volume, not great, but it's not bad. Yeah, so ice on oil folks is up at 77, but I expect we're gonna go to 77. The real question's gonna be, is it gonna continue with some juice? Cause what oil does have, oil has an acceleration of volume out here today. That's how that baby has. Let's see. Okay, these volumes are at highs, our low volumes doesn't make sense that the case that the bulls to blow those tops out. Okay, so the question, because of the low volume that we have at highs already, wouldn't it make sense that you could blow those highs out? Yeah, it does make that sense, but this is, okay, so let me answer this, not, I was gonna say two separate ways, not two separate ways, what it is is this. So if we look at the spy, last time we went up on the spy, we hit a high with 72 million, now that's not a lot of volume and that's what the tiger's talking about, okay? So would it make sense that you can blow that high away? Yes, it would make sense that you can go test it. I don't expect it's gonna get blown away and I particularly don't expect it's gonna get blown away because keep your eye on Apple. Because if Apple fails out here today, bottom line, you might even hear me change by the end, by five or four, that this would be it and would open down again tomorrow, which would be really weird, trust me, on a move like this. I don't think we're going to, I think because we're on Tuesday in the marketplace, I expect you can get a little bit higher, we'll try to test that high, but this type of contraction of volume is really something you wanna wrap your head around. If Apple, as I said, if Apple fails out here today, that's saying quite a bit, that's saying there's no more new buyers out here, you've tested a high, you've tested it with lighter volume, you're gonna back down, if Apple backs down, the whole deal's gonna back down and NVIDIA, NVIDIA's the same way and if you take a look at NVIDIA, what you're gonna see with NVIDIA, actually NVIDIA has volume behind it, NVIDIA's in better shape than Apple right now, NVIDIA is a 48 million shares trader, which is a decent volume, that's the real bottom line, we're at 3, 20, 87.