Okay. Thank you, Ben. So we've had good success so far, and we can see that we have a lot left to do. So how can we scale our work? How can we move that yellow tipping point line to the left so that it happens sooner and faster? That's where you come in. Represent us works to scale your work with training that shares successful strategies and tactics from the campaigns that have won to date. We can be in the entire movement at American Democracy Summit so that we can learn from each other and be motivated by each other. We also have a dashboard of active reform campaigns on our core issues across the country. You can find this dashboard on our website under how we win. You can check out this dashboard and see how you can be involved. We'll connect you to these campaigns if you live in that state. If you don't live in the state, maybe you can donate or you can volunteer with the Action Brigade and do phone banking and text banking and other actions to help the campaigns. Every little bit of help really matters. Speaking of these campaigns. I am excited to introduce Bo Harmon, who will lead a discussion with a select set of leaders from some of these active campaigns. Bo, take it away. Thank you so much. And it's been, it's so cool as I'm looking through the chat of all of the people who are logged on. I saw Florida, I saw Virginia, Delaware, Kansas, California, Arizona, really all across the country. It's fantastic. And I think that that is so important because one of the things that has been so motivating to me since getting involved with rep us almost three years ago, is that every week I find out about a new organization that has started up at the municipal level, at the state level, or sometimes even at the federal level. That's trying to do good in some way. Some of them we work with veterans and we do this with students and we do this with rural voters and we do this with independence. I don't have a slightly different strategy and a slightly different constituency that they're working with, but all of those people are raising their hand and saying I want to try to make things better in my country.  I am thrilled to be joined by four of the best authorities on passing pro voter pro democracy laws in your state that I've come across in all of my work. I'd like to introduce Scott Muller, Andre Bumgardner, Scott Turner and Kelly Potter. And I'm going to ask them to introduce themselves and share a little bit about how they got involved with this work, but I would like to just give them the opportunity to do that. Scott Muller, why don't you start us off in Connecticut. Part of what we're looking at here is each of these states, Connecticut, Utah and Georgia are each trying to pass ranked choice voting laws through their legislature. One, very Democrat state and I say very Democrat, meaning the both chambers of the legislature are Democrat and all statewide offices are Democrat. And two, very Republican states Georgia and Utah, where that same dynamic is true in the reverse, both chambers of the legislature or Republican and all statewide offices are held by Republicans. So, I'm really interested in the compare and the contrast and what sort of problems we are seeing as we try to pass these reforms in red states and in blue states and where we're finding success that we can get that done wherever we happen to be. So with that, I'd like to kick us off and we'll start with our blue staters and Connecticut representative Andre Bumgardner. Could you lead us off and introduce yourself and share a little bit about how you came to some of this work. Absolutely. Well, first and foremost, Bo, thank you so much for having me this evening and a big shout out to my counterpart, Connecticut counterpart Scott Muller, who is also one of my esteemed constituents in the 41st House District. I have the deep honor and privilege of representing the southeastern corner of Connecticut, which encompasses the southern half of Broughton, also known as the submarine capital of the world, as well as mystic and Stonington. I am currently a Democrat. I was elected to my second non consecutive term in the 2022 election cycle, but I was also had the honor of serving in the state legislature and elected back in 2014 at the age of 20. Which made me the youngest state legislator elected in state history. I still have that distinction today. I was actually elected as a Republican. And that's a certainly a story for another day, but I think, you know, it's no doubt that hyper partisanship and politics has always been a huge source of consternation for me. I'm someone who loves working across party lines, someone who believes that it's so important to have a pragmatic approach to policymaking, rolling up your sleeves, solving the difficult challenges confronting our communities. And it is no secret that in the last six to eight years we have seen our state, our whole country become more divided. And so, you know, as I fundamentally believe that ring choice voting can serve as a tool to break that partisan divide and very much look forward to engaging in that discussion of course. And with that, I will pass it on to my dear friend Scott. You might still be muted Scott. Yes, that will help. My name is Scott Mueller retired partner in a large law firm as an international law firm came to all this and been in and out of federal government during my career and law professor as well. I came to all of this really starting the day after Election Day 2016, because I didn't want to spend the rest of the time yelling at my TV which I'd started to do starting in April 2016. I learned about rank choice voting during the course of work that I started doing right after Election Day with a group of others. Some work in rank choice voting had already been done in Connecticut by the time I got involved in the fact I think one of the people on whose shoulders we stand Jonathan Perlow is on this call. There was a group that started all this in 2019 independent of our efforts. I formed Connecticut voters first in 2018 with a former gubernatorial candidate by the name of Oz Gribble. And I've been working really since then, and very actively since we got the support of the governor for rank choice voting in the fall of the 2023 as 2020, 2022, excuse me as he was heading into his election cycle. So I can describe later what we're doing here, but it seems to me as background that that's probably what you need. Fantastic. Thank you guys so much and Connecticut voters first. Scott helps lead is one of the premier grassroots advocacy organizations in the country. Another is Utah rank choice voting which is led by our good friend Kelly Potter. And so Kelly, could you share a little bit about yourself and the work you're doing there. Thanks so much, Bo. It's so fun to be here with all of you and I'm so excited for the work that we're doing here and the opportunity to collaborate with so many more people. So I was a high school government teacher and I got recruited to be the state director of elections in Utah many years ago, and I got to take a deep dive into the world elections and found it to be fascinating. I took a lot of years off to be a stay at home mom and then ran for office in my city and became the mayor. And while I was mayor, I went to a league of cities and towns conference and learned about rank choice voting. And after that they asked me to help with rank choice voting because Utah just had this new pilot program and we had a couple cities that we're going to try this new way of voting. It was so exciting but we want to make sure everyone was educated and the election officials knew what they were doing. And we started with two and then we went to 23 and 12 and so that's why how I got involved and I'm really seeing it make a difference in Utah. That's great and the work you're doing there in Utah is really just tremendous. Our final panelist is one of a good friend of mine, Scott Turner. He is the founder and president of Eternal Vigilance, a non-partisan nonprofit organization in Georgia that is leading the rank choice voting effort there. So Scott, if you could share a little bit about yourself and the work you're doing. Sure, thanks both. Thanks for having me. It's exciting to be here. I was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 2013 in a special election that required a runoff. Here in Georgia, we use runoff elections extensively. We're the only state that uses them in both the primary, well, there are other states that do it or have it on the books now, but we're the only ones that have used it in both our primary and general elections. And in a special election, it was during your Christmas time election, it's a great time to run for office, by the way, highly recommend it. Where you have a political mail coming at the same time as your Christmas cards. And the turnout was just absolutely miserable. So we had a five-way race. My vote total in the first round equalled the vote total in the second round. And that was an indicator to me that that's a broken system that needs to be fixed. And now I've been searching for the answer to that and found it in rank choice voting. And that's why I'm here today and trying, there's some specific problems we're trying to fix here in Georgia that rank choice voting really does provide the best possible solution. Thank you. And Scott, while a lot of our listeners are familiar with rank choice voting, could you outline, like using the runoffs in Georgia as an example of how rank choice voting or instant runoff voting, as it's sometimes called, just kind of how that works? Sure. We thought it might not be totally familiar. Yeah, sure. Our runoff system requires that somebody gets 50% plus one of the total votes cast. And if nobody does, the top two candidates move on to a runoff. So we see this oftentimes now in our statewide races where or in a contested primary for a local or state legislative race where we have the spoiler effect, if you will. And there are three major problems our current runoff system creates. The first is that the local governments are required to pay for those additional elections in the form of these runoffs and it costs about $75 million in aggregate. Those are dollars that are in competition with our police budgets, our fire budgets, our filling pothole budgets, right? Those are the local dollars come out. And so our local government is really taxed to the brink here with this huge cost. Now, some people would say cost doesn't matter if you're delivering a majoritarian winner. But the second problem our runoff system creates is a massive drop off and turnout. We've seen 500,000 to 700,000 people not return for the second round. So we really get a plurality result delayed by a full month, and it's costing us $75 million to do so. That's a huge problem. So bad for democracy all around. And the third problem is that the runoff creates a scenario where we have to have these additional months of campaigning. It goes into the holidays. So when America and Georgia are trying to come together around things like the SEC championship football game, we're bombarded with ads in every break about how horrible Raphael Warnock is or how terrible Herschel Walker is. And that's another type of problem that we would be solving if we could move to an instant runoff system. And it's important to know that rank choice voting or instant runoffs is not a massive tweak to what we do in Georgia. Or a massive overhaul. It is just a tweak as opposed to a massive overhaul because we're taking that runoff process, the thought process of if by first candidate doesn't get 50% plus one that in they're out, who's my second choice. That's already something that is familiar to Georgians. So replacing runoffs with an instant runoff makes a lot of sense in a lot of ways. Thank you. That's super helpful. Kelly, help. The other folks on the call understand kind of the political dynamics that you're working with in Utah and, you know, what the path to victory is. What is it?  What's what's kind of the focus in Utah and what's the what's the path to victory. Sure, you bet. As you mentioned earlier, we have a, we have a super majority Republican legislature and all statewide offices are Republican. And when we, when the Utah legislature approved this pilot program, the legislature said, Hey, yeah, let's try this out. Let's do it for four municipal election cycles and cities can opt in. And it was for municipalities to buy it if they wanted to. Yeah, just cities could try it. And they had to opt into it. And our biggest year we had 23 cities opt in. And after that, the political dynamics change to where the far right. Some of the election denier people decided they didn't like ranked choice voting. So what's happening now is we have a bill in our legislature to end the pilot program. We should have one more cycle. And of course, we want to extend it as a permanent option for cities. But we have legislators who are trying to stop it at this during the session, which is happening right now. And the challenge that we're finding is that there are legislators who say that people will come to them and say, don't vote for this ranked choice voting is terrible. Why? Well, I don't know ask so and so. So it seems it's just a classic example of this polarization where people have learned that their team doesn't like ranked choice voting. They don't really understand it. They don't really know why, but they have been told to go out and lobby against it. And in the past, it was sort of like people weighing out the pros and the cons. And now we have a whole different political dynamic where we're trying to stop it from being eliminated. And our goal is to do a much better job at the grassroots organizing and get people to tell their legislators why they like it and why they want to keep it going in Utah. Thank you. That's really helpful Scott and Georgia. Are you seeing some of that same pushback from within the Republican Party. Oh, 100%. We're fighting off a ban bill similar to what Colleen has seen there. It's like we have a pretty good handle on that, but anything could change at the moment at any moment. The political realities from the fall of the Alaska result has really changed the dynamic here in Georgia. We took the Utah pilot program and modeled it here. We got two years ago, we had a bill that passed out of committee unanimously, both Republicans and Democrats led the bill was sponsored on a bipartisan basis. And both both parties seemed okay with that Utah model. And it did not pass out of the legislature that year, because we have been the center of the political universe when it comes to election reforms and SB 202 and other things. There was just no real appetite to start tweaking elections the year that we were able to get that passed. Then Alaska happened and instantaneously the mood change. So it went from being very receptive to both parties to being a really a partisan issue. We still have Republican champions here, but they're under extreme pressure from the right to dump the idea all together. And so we're having to do some triage and also support them. We have a couple of really good Republicans who have sponsored a piece of legislation called HB 200 that they've just been absolutely slandered and defamed and they really need our help. And so we're working to try to not only fight back the narrative that we should ban ranked voice voting but also support the people who see the value in it regardless of the political pressure that they're feeling. Thank you. That's really interesting without that pressure from the right and being in a solidly democratic state, Scott Mueller and representative gardener. I'm sure that ranked choice voting must be just sailing through with no no problems at all. Help us understand the dynamics that you're seeing in Connecticut around the bill and what kind of the political landscape looks like there. I wonder what I might start with that and maybe turn this over to you. So it's probably worth starting with what our proposal is, which is actually narrow and intentionally narrow. We are proposing essentially enabling legislation because our statutes are written in such a way that without the enabling legislation there's already a ban. Not because it was intended, but because our statutes require plurality. So we're seeking enabling legislation for primaries and in particular for the presidential primary and options for the parties to use rank choice voting if they wish with one exception. And that is a mandatory ranked choice voting ballot for presidential preference primary. We have a bipartisan bill that's been introduced to do that the support of the governor lieutenant governor and others. Why do we choose that what I'll call narrow enabling path in part because and we now actually have a brand new opinion from our attorney general saying that ranked choice voting for the general for the General Assembly and the state office is unconstitutional it's unfortunate that that opinion came out but it just did. We anticipated that as an issue and tried to navigate around it. The Democrat Party is, you know, done well in this state. And we didn't want to prevent a bill that we thought would be threatening to them. And they're, and they're sort of power here. And we sell and I think have had some success in selling ranked choice voting in primaries as being helpful to parties to get better candidates in the general election and to do better. So, Andre, maybe I'll turn this over to you but that's sort of the path we're proposing and why. Very interesting. How, how is it looking from the inside of the legislature representative. Absolutely well as Scott mentioned, this proposal has to pass the legislature. You know our legislature is heavily Democratic in the house we have 98 Democrats 53 Republicans so nearly two thirds majority and then in that state Senate, 24 Democrats and 12 Republicans and so two thirds majority so, you know, we're near veto a total of proof majority in both chambers and also Democratic governor that has voiced his support for ranked choice voting in the past election cycle. I would note I think Mr. Mueller played a huge role in getting the governor to sign on this proposal in large part because of the party that previously endorsed us. Who was one of the governor's opponents four years earlier, campaigned heavily on this proposal. And the very interesting thing about elections here in Connecticut is that, even though we have pretty much a two party duopoly, you know, Republicans and Democrats, there still is an art. There still are opportunities for minor parties to get on the ballot and so Ospreyville did have a ballot position that ultimately endorsed that the party endorsed the governor's reelection campaign in large part because of his endorsement of ranked choice voting so I'm a good friend of the governor's you know I support a good chunk of his proposals, but rest assured I will be holding his feet to the fire to ensure that we can get this over the finish line especially in the sense that this proposal is a lot more narrow scope, more focused on presidential primaries and municipal elections, actually in our in our communities that I represent and Scott lives in in Stonington. I actually just saw the election of a or the first select man of Stonington was just reelected on the forward party. She previously ran as a Democrat, two election cycles and actually ran on the forward party went in large part to break that and divide. And despite the fact that it was a four way race, she still won the majority votes, but a lot of folks were very concerned about the outcome of the election, you know what would happen if the individual for first did not get 50% of the vote. And I think again, this is where ranked choice voting could very much matter. So I again think this more narrowed proposal, I think in has a lot more. We have a great opportunity to get this over the finish line again with a more narrow bill. I should I should just add that that recently reelected first elected is a huge fan of ranked choice voting and if we get the authority to get municipal elections using ranked choice voting Stonington will be high on the list of the first candidates to do that. Right. What I mean we heard, you know, Kelly and Scott Turner talk about some of the challenges of the shift in the Republican Party or at least some wing of the Republican Party and its orientation towards ranked choice voting. And I'd like to ask you, are there other challenge Scott and Kelly. Are there other challenges that you face kind of besides the party shift. What else are you seeing. And I guess what I'm kind of trying to tease out is what sort of similar or similar barriers exist in red states and in blue states. What are we running into in Georgia and in Utah and in Connecticut regardless of the politics of the state. I could take a shot of that or Kelly and go ahead, whichever you prefer. Let me just do this very quickly, putting aside the party politics and candidly I think our, our proposal will help us get past the party politics to a certain extent. There, look, there is in this state it's new, not that many people understand it and the general reaction to things that people don't understand is I'm not sure I want to do it. We have a hurdle to get over with respect to that in this state. We're surprisingly pretty backwards in terms of electoral law, and then we've just moved to early voting we're about to get no excuse absentee voting. There's a certain amount of fatigue. And only the Democrats have done, you know, been in control for a while. There are many who perceive that things are going well and I must say I think they are going reasonably well. But there's a little bit of a sense that is our is ranked as voting a solution in search of a problem. And I think in in primaries, given how how our primary and candidate selection system works, this will help a lot, but that's at least a part of the problem. So newness reform fatigue in this state. The recent attorney general opinion didn't help obviously. But those are that what I would perceive as them as the major. And they're not partisan. They're just the reality of bringing something to. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Kelly or Scott, do you see those similar sorts of problems? Yeah, I would agree with the newness. I was kind of blaming it on being conservatives and that people don't want to try something new, but sorry, my camera's freezing, but I think that is one of the things I also think in our country right now. People are really easily led to believe that something is bad or someone's trying to trick them or there's some conspiracy. And we had an election in one of our largest cities. And I read through a survey they did and some of the responses were. I, it was a non-partisan municipal election and people would say, I don't like ranked choice voting. We should be able to know their political party. It was almost like they were saying, I don't like ranked choice voting. It rained that day. Like there were things that had nothing to do with ranked choice voting. But because the people who are against ranked choice voting were able to kind of get the message out that it was bad. People just hopped on the bandwagon without even understanding it. And I've had, I've talked to even a legislator recently, very conservative legislator and talking about the polling that we've done and showing that the majority of Utahns really like ranked choice voting, particularly those who have tried it. I don't trust that polling. Like they just dismiss the facts and the data because they think they know because their friend told them. So I think that's a really hard hurdle in our lack of trust culture right now with our political system. And I think I'm sure that's happening everywhere. It's bipartisan. It's absolutely right. The real issue. So I am currently fielding the Q and a section and I just wonder if I could highlight a few of the questions that I will then turn it over you to weave into your next engagement. If that's okay. Of course. Thank you. So, so father Gil here, director of organizing and we see a question about whether there are studies or other information other information available to us that helps us know if ranked choice voting is helping address issues like polarization or increasing engagement from voters or reducing feelings of disenfranchisement. And just to tease in a few more of these questions. Are there any concerns with ranked choice voting and and I want to and how would you describe opponents to our CV. So, with that, I'm going to turn it back to over to you all, but thank you for considering the questions in the Q and a. Okay, that that is really interesting. Scott Mueller and representative bone gardener. What sort of objections are you hearing kind of on the policy side. Andre. What I failed to mention is that in Connecticut before anything hits the House floor or the Senate floor for a vote. It has to make its way through one of the legislative committee so in this case, any election reform bill has to go through the government administration and elections, which is actually a bicameral committee so it is co chaired by a House and Senate member. There are many members from each each chamber as well. And in most cases a good chunk of bills do pass on a bipartisan basis, which is, which is great. However, when it comes to election reform measures that you, as you can imagine, like many other states at this time, very few bills do pass on a bipartisan basis. What's unique about our proposal is that it does have bipartisan consensus for. So it is that that is important to know, however, still need to work some of our GA co chairs on the issue. And so that is a conversation that all of us will be engaging in in the next few weeks today actually we commence the beginning of our legislative session our first day of the short legislative session course. It's been a very long day. But nonetheless, it is so important that we continue to articulate reasons for, you know, passing a more narrow bill for with with respect to rank choice voting in the weeks to come. Well, let me use that as an opportunity to ask how represent us as an organization as a as a outreach mechanism, all of the people on this call. How what would be some tangible ways that they can support the effort in Connecticut or Georgia or Utah specifically. What would what is most helpful, say somebody is in state, and there's somebody else from out of state so for in state people what would be the most helpful ways that they could get involved to help make sure that this passes. Absolutely, I'll answer this briefly and then pass it on to Scott, you know, we heard some of the, the poll earlier, you know, asking questions, you know, what is your biggest priority whether it's into corruption and gerrymandering ability to national movement, or CV, etc. But really, you know, I think it's so important to bring people together. And how do we do that, you know, but with the pursuit of it, you know, more just and an equitable democracy that promotes fairness, transparency, you know, government and representation and core values that for all of us. And so I think it's really, really important that you engage your legislators, you engage your senators I hope I'm looking on the call we have hundreds of people on the zoom right now. I hope each and every one of you can name your who your state senator is and who your state representative is, and then within the next 48 hours, you write your representative or your senator about the power and importance of rank choice vote, and how that reform measure can, you know, pay dividends for protecting our democracy in the long run. I would note, as I mentioned earlier, Scott is one of my constituents. RCB, quite frankly, probably would not have been on my radar screen, had it not been for the robust conversations I've had with Scott over the last couple years on this policy proposal. So I cannot overstate the importance of engaging your legislators, especially when they are in the legislative session and actually being well versed on the proposals are for those legislators being specific. And so with that, I'll pass it on to Scott. I think I can do this relatively succinctly let me try. So in Connecticut, get to our website. Sign up we have a whole mechanism for getting to legislators one by one. We are targeting specific legislators so in particular locations sort of getting people to both right to their legislators and candidly pass the word is critically important. Number one, number two, it's actually interesting you have on this call a number of people who are obviously interested enough in this general subject of how do I improve my democracy to be on here. But who themselves don't really understand the ins and outs of rank choice voting, not a surprise. Most people are like that. So general education of what it is and the simple arguments that we know all those of us who spend a lot of time doing it know how to rehearse. We need to get them out there. And in there, at least in this case, in this state in sort of a targeted way. And the last and probably the most important, the disinformation that Colleen put it of the opposition. It's very easy to deal with if we just have someone who will listen to it. So in this state, you know, rehearsing the two or three arguments that are made against it, which are easily rebutted with actual facts is something we could use some help with getting people to listen to facts these days as hard. But that's all we can do. Engage your legislature and educate yourself and educate your, your community about it. I love it. It's got Turner about in Georgia, if people want to help support the cause, what, what would be the way to do that? Yeah, so we, we are leading a coalition of groups that are interested in this issue. And I'd point you first to Better Ballot, Georgia, which is the grassroots advocacy group that we are are loosely affiliated with. We don't have a formal arrangement, but we do cheer them on in their grassroots activism. If you're here, you can learn more about them at betterballotgeorgia.org. And then of course, we're at eternalvigilance.us. And obviously, we echo the same things as Representative Bumgardner and Mr. Muller just said about getting in contact with your legislators. And we'd be happy to assist with that. Either group, if you go and sign up with either of us, we'll be able to help. Elaine, I would, one thing that I know that you have talked about is trying to get people to engage, not just with their legislature, but also with the, with, in Utah, with the state party, and with their local, with their local party. If they're Republican and in a state that is so heavily Republican, you know, a supermajority legislature, as you said, that that was a really interesting approach that I would not have thought of necessarily. Tell me a little bit more about that. Yeah, it is ironic that it was the Republican Party that brought ranked choice voting to Utah. And as a delegate, I know all the delegates loved it. We cut our conventions down from 10 hours to three hours and everyone was loving it. Then all of a sudden, the narrative changed. And so that's why it's important because if the parties keep using it and people are familiar with it and they're not afraid of it, then we can continue this program. And I feel like the people who are against it, they're using fear. Oh, it's a democratic takeover and we're, you know, look what happened in Alaska and self interest where they know if they're even on the far wing of the Republican Party and they represent a small minority that will not get people elected. Those are their motivating factors and they're very, they're very organized and they're very loud and people that like bring choice voting tend to use data and reason and explanations and it's just harder to get through the legislators. So briefly, House Bill 290 for those of you who are in Utah, it's in the government operations committee. Feel free to reach out to any of those legislators or feel free to get on to our website, utahrcv.com get on to our newsletter. There will be times when we're probably going to do some phone banking, but right now we're waiting for this bill to get on an agenda. Hopefully, hoping that it doesn't. We had a circus last year and we don't want to repeat it, but it looks like it might show up again. So that's what we're doing in Utah. And thank you so much for the opportunity to be here. Thank you. As we would love to continue this for another hour, but I know that we need to be respectful of everyone's time. I know. Scott and representative of Baumgartner have had a long day with their first day in the legislature. So thank you both so much for taking time on such a busy day to spend with us. Scott Turner is also in the end killing both. I know we're in the middle of legislative sessions in their states fighting these battles. And so very grateful to each of you for taking your time to walk us through the politics and what's similar. And what's different between trying to pass our CV in the legislature in a red state versus the blue state and what we can do to get people involved in their own state. So thank you all very much and I'll turn it back over to John DeVan to close this out. Thank you, Bo. And John, as you come on. Do you mind addressing one last question in the Q&A before you close this out. And I would. Absolutely. Thank you. And so the question is, how can we as taxpayers hold our elected officials accountable, even when we struggle to make appointments with them or get to see them in person. Yeah, interesting question. Of course, the main way is to be active and participate if you don't like what they're doing, voting them out. Then there are oftentimes this is my point about building the movement. You know, we try to organize a lot of groups. The panelists were just talking about and you saw the importance that there are local groups that know the layout of the local area. And know what the important touch points are and the timing is and all that kind of stuff, things that the national group can't do. We can support them by bringing people to participate. So, I would say join one of these local groups. You can, you can also, if you, if you sign up with represent us, I'll get that to a minute in a minute, you'll, you'll be able to be connected to campaigns across the country really easily. So, you know, that's the most important thing in democracy is to be active and join with others that think like you in a group that can apply more resources and have a louder voice collectively. I hope that answered your question. Thank you very much everybody that was a, I think that was a fantastic, fantastic panel. Thank you Scott Andre Scott and Colleen and bow. It's really motivating to me to hear from these local leaders. It's really important that all of you were here to listen to them and hear them and I hope that you were as motivated after hearing them speak as I was. So now we get to the part about, well, what can you do to help? And the first, the first thing in our list of a few different ways is to join the action brigade. This is our team of volunteers that give air cover and support to city and state campaigns across the country. Sign up and you can make phone calls. You can text bank, send letters to the editor. You know, sometimes you text bank to get people to call their legislature to refer back to the panel, whatever the campaigns need. We endeavor to bring volunteers from across the country to help support these campaigns. When you sign up, if you're in a state with an active campaign, we can connect you directly to that campaign. If you're not in the state. You can do all these other activities. Ben, you met earlier runs this program and he makes it really fun and easy to participate. 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Was good job support Ross back out again with another video. So Originally, I didn't plan on making this video. I Just finished live streaming on YouTube playing some Halo if it didn't multiplayer And I know we was talking about for those who was in the live stream. We was talking about the MJF CM punk Amazing promo that happened tonight on Dynamite But I had to make a video because I'm feeling really passionate about it only because One I really wish I could have did a reaction and posted it here on YouTube But as you guys know TNT is not having that It's and it's not even about the money aspect I'm okay if they take the money from the video But they will actually block it and potentially give me a strike on this channel. So I can't post it I can't post me reacting to it No matter how much I cut up the clip But I had to make this video to talk about it at least to you guys So we can have a discussion in the comment section down below because this was this was one of those things where it's like It's a legendary promo that you can go back to years later and watch It's to me It gives me pipe bomb s type Entertainment and it's so fitting that CM punk being the person to be involved in such a promo segment It's it's fantastic.  It was just great and I like their back and forth it seems like For them to get prepared for this promo segment. They basically just said go in Go in on me. I'm a go in on you and I like that it if you guys remember a segment between Paul Heyman and Vince McMahon and I believe Paul Heyman that came out and talked about it I don't think it was on the podcast, but he mentioned that some show where he was basically like yo That's sick that promo segment between me and Vince I was you know before we went out there I was trying to try to run the promo over with him what I was gonna say and Vince is like I don't want to hear let me tell me out there. He's like, oh, you sure Vince? He's like just tell me out there And I like it's kind of it gets kind of personal Tell me out there in front of them the person the more personal the better and that's why that segment work when When Paul Heyman just really started going in because that's how he felt and the same way here This is the same feeling I get they both just went in like this is how I feel Don't tell me, you know saying what you're about to tell me out there in front of the audience Just go in tell me how you really feel about me and it was beautiful some of the best Mic work I have ever seen in quite some time In wrestling. Oh my goodness the fact that MJF was really playing up the situation with CM Punk leaving then coming back and not really being the guy in WWE and I like the WWE like references here. They did not hold back. I Love the WWE references. They reference John Cena. They reference Triple H MJF did that as well as as well as a CM Punk MJF really was talking about you were scared really, you know saying you're not sure if you're the same CM Punk as of old I Like CM Punk basically saying pretty much MJF you're my jealous fan That's that's what he he he pretty much turned his name into his acronym for his name is my jealous fan I just just so witty and one of the best burns in this in this promo This when he when CM Punk called him he told him MJF you're just a less famous version of the Miz I I was done. I was littered legitimately like oh my God, bro, I Was done. I was like, oh my goodness.  I was like, oh, he oh my he is like a less famous version of the And the business fantastic on the ring on the mic He looks like the meds like it was so crazy.  You do a lot of politicking on what night, you know saying you're basically The you're the epitome of hustle loyalty and respect. He did the you can't see me I like that. I was like, oh my goodness and then CM Punk's Rebuttal is basically like yo, you know saying I'm trying to figure out when you're gonna if Tony Conn has a daughter when when you're gonna marry her and become Become part of the family reference in triple H. I was like, yo, this is so good. Oh my god, bro. This was Fantastic Like I said, it's not many times. I legitimately get goosebumps and excited and hang on every word of a promo segment This was one of them. If you have not seen it go watch it go watch it for yourself and Come back and tell me that in one of the best promo segments you have ever seen 20 minutes of just straight having the crowd in the palm of their hands saying some real Real personal stuff and I can't wait to see their match Whenever they do set it up. I'm looking forward to it and this is just this is just the beginning between these two This was great. This is great. I really don't have much to say other than This was one of the best promos promo segments we've seen Almost all year. It's up there for sure one of the best promo segments And I'm looking forward to what they do in the ring because this is gonna be great So comment down below. Let me know. Did you guys enjoy this promo? I I would be surprised if you didn't if you guys enjoyed this promo as much as I did and are you Are you excited to see MJF go against CM Punk and who would you have ultimately go over in this few Would you have MJF overcome CM Punk or would you have CM Punk? Overcome MJF in this feud depending on how long they feud. Maybe it'd be one match a couple matches Let me know I would love to get your thoughts and opinions on that y'all This is probably gonna be a late upload video only because I'm not gonna be recording I'll post any videos on Thanksgiving. I'm I'm actually doing this The day before Thanksgiving the night before Thanksgiving So I won't be posting any videos on Thanksgiving Just want to relax with my family and you know just kind of take a break for at least that day So it's gonna be a late upload for you guys, but hopefully you guys enjoy it. Appreciate all of the support road to 70k appreciate y'all kicking with me. See y'all next one. Peace


Welcome to Monet Café. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and this lesson should be a lot of fun and I think you're gonna love it. I used only one set of pastels. What is this set? Well you're gonna find out. I was actually awarded this 30 half stick set of this particular brand of pastels and I actually decided to gift it to one of my patrons on my Patreon page and I found out who didn't have a lot of pastels and so I loved it so much I thought you know what I'm gonna send her a new set and I'm gonna keep this one. So you're gonna learn a lot in this lesson and it should be a lot of fun. If you would go ahead and like this video go ahead and subscribe if you haven't already and if you hit the little bell next to the subscribe button you'll be notified of any future videos I post. Also too as I mentioned my patrons are so special to me from my Patreon page. They contribute five dollars a month and it helps me to keep these videos coming, the free videos and my patrons get extra content. Alright here we go. I recently posted something on my Instagram page by the way find me and follow me at Susan Jenkins Artist that showed a little bit of the behind the scenes of what I have to do to record myself and so many people were interested in that that I thought I'd show my setup before starting this painting and a lot of you have mentioned you like the overhead footage which I think helps you see things more clearly. Oh and a must have in my studio is my little buddy Jackson. Before I get to the pastels let me share what surface I'll be using. This is pastel matte. I like to get it in these pads that come in different colors and the color that I'm using today is kind of that gray color but you can see it's got a burgundy it's got a blue it's got the and I love working on that blue paper it's got the gray that I'm using here and it also has kind of a beige color and I decided they have two sizes of the pads. I'll have all these links in the description of the video of the products and now let me talk about these pastels and yes I used only this set of pastels for this painting and it is as you can see it's unison pastels this is their 30 half stick set it's called the starter set and I actually won this set because I entered one of those unison contests they have you enter it and then you share their link and if other people click the link you you get entered again so you have more chances to win and so I shared the link on my Monet cafe art group on Facebook and there's like 15 000 members in there so I thought well that wasn't really fair for me to win plus I have so many pastels that's why I gifted it to one of my patrons and oh she's so excited but like I said this set was so lovely I loved the colors and the values so I decided to keep this one for myself like I said and just send her a new one oh and I have some more products in my art store I have links underneath every video on youtube that will take you to my art store I recently uploaded this new Monet cafe coffee cup with my painting on it and I have some fun t-shirts in the shop as well all right here we go when I initially analyze the colors in the set I could see very quickly that they would really be great for a poppy field painting and while I would love to get all of my own reference images I don't get out a lot just my life and and my art business of course so I resort sometimes to sites like unsplash.com to get reference images I don't live near any poppy field so I'll have the link to that in the description of this video now what I decided to do I want to keep this very simple and kind of a beginner lesson I decided to use only soft pastels you know sometimes I'll do an underpainting with a different medium but I'm going to use only pastels and I decided to use I thought about using that one but it was too light really those four really peachy earthy kind of colored pastels to create an underpainting I'm going to create a base to lay down my poppy field on and because pastel matte surface is water friendly this is a piece of vine charcoal or willow charcoal um I like to sketch with sometimes and because pastel matte is water friendly I knew that I could lay down some pastel and liquefy it now I decided to use I've been using this a lot lately airbrush medium uh you know what is it parents sometimes they'll say do as I say not as I do well don't do as I do in this video because I wasn't happy with the airbrush medium on this pastel matte the way I used it uh just use water or alcohol substitute that for what I'm using as airbrush medium and this was another technique I had used in a previous video where I used a stencil brush for blending and they also make these things called pastel smoothies but you can just use a stencil brush once again if I did this painting over again I would use just water or alcohol and a paint brush the stencil brush with the airbrush medium didn't work that great I had used it previously with alcohol and it was awesome so there's my little um preface to what not to do but you'll totally be able to get the point when I get to adding the liquid to it now what I like to do is just to get in a very loose sketch I'm going to be laying down some of these pastels for the under painting and a lot of people wonder why do you do an under painting well look that's a big old piece of gray paper there and I really just think it's kind of boring and that's a lot of gray to cover up so an underpainting is a way to lay down some values and some color that's really going to complement your final painting and it also too breaks the ice because a lot of times when you start or when I did as an artist I had a tendency to get so specific and tight up in one area and an underpainting allows you to go ahead and get started and to get a base in of some lovely colors and values now I like to use the reason I chose these colors I like to use some complementary color what that means is the opposite on the color wheel if you have like greens like grasses if you look at the color wheel and you look at greens your compliments across from green are going to be reds they're going to be warmer tones or oranges and also like artist Karen Margulis often says she likes to lay down the dirt it happens to be the color of dirt anyway okay it's going to be a brown or warm tone so think of it that way and also know that a compliment color is going to make the color you lay down on top just really sing and look so much better so I love laying down a warm underpainting like this and I sometimes will just tone the whole surface with one color and that works too but in this case I decided to do kind of a gradient of values we know that values in art will go from the foreground to the background they go from darker to lighter the foreground is usually darker then it gets a little lighter lighter and your lightest is going to be more like in the sky so that's why I often will do an underpainting that has kind of that layering effect and I thought these colors were great for that now I did decide to add a little bit more of this more a little bit more brown to it orangey color on top of the the first color I laid down I thought it would make it more interesting and I am going to speed up this underpainting portion and again share with you why not to do it the way that I did it still do everything like this but I would recommend to either just use water or alcohol and a large brush and you can get a better effect I would have definitely gotten a better effect so here I am this experimentation I can't help it I don't know why I have to always try new things but I'm using my stencil brush and my airbrush medium and you know it looks like it's working here and and it was but what happened was the airbrush medium it's like it didn't dry right and it almost dried with a little film to it on top of the pastel matte so I found myself having a little bit of a harder time applying some of the pastel to it so that's why I wouldn't use the airbrush medium on pastel matte again now I'm testing some of my colors now I've got it all dry and I had to use a blow dryer because it took a while to dry and I'm testing colors now the only darks that are in this set was a black which I don't I hardly ever use black and a dark blue but guess what we can mix colors with pastels often people think you can't well it's not like wet mediums you know like watercolor acrylic or oil but you can layer pastels on top of each other especially if you keep a light touch and you can get the illusion of a new color so I didn't want black and I didn't want just that blue and I knew that my foreground had a lot of deep grasses so I just followed my reference image and just had a a general idea of where I was going to lay down some of these darks again a nice light touch and by the way the reason I left the blank spaces where they are for the flowers in the sky I wanted those colors to really show not and I could have I actually should have taken that light colored peach up into the sky I didn't realize I thought I had gone up into where I had the mountains but you'll see I kind of wrestle with getting the sky to cover some of those marks but I wanted those flowers to be so fresh and red colored without that peachy coral color kind of showing through so and I know I can layer some of my smaller flowers on top later so I really just focused on the largest flowers now I know I have this mountain range in the back so I'm going to kind of get it in and I'll share with you ahead of time I sort of copied the mountain range that was in the photo but sometimes we have the artistic license to change things after I was done with the final painting I realized this mountain range was high on the right side and it kind of just sloped down to where it was low on the left side where I am now and I decided later I didn't like that I didn't it felt like it was kind of falling off the page so I ended up raising up the mountains on the left side as well now this is a point where if you are watching on Monet cafe of course it's always free but remember how I mentioned sometimes my patrons get some extra content because of their support I'm going to continue this video in real time with extra commentary for my patrons and don't worry though if you're just watching on Monet cafe you've already gotten a lot of content and I am going to speed it up to some music and I'm not going to speed it up so much that you can't follow what I'm doing once again you'll have the reference image and a link to this description and links to the products and all kinds of useful things in the description of this video so enjoy if you're patron hang on you're getting more content and real time all right guys blessings and don't go away I'll be back at the end for everybody as I shared in my little comment I added while the music was playing I did like it with the little flowers there was a few hints of yellow and white flowers in the reference image but I sort of liked it when it was just the poppies too but again I had a lot of fun with this I add a little bit of red in the field in the distance a little horizontal bands to suggest maybe some of those poppies growing further away it kind of connects the painting too so this one oh my gosh I loved this set of unison pastels I love giving you guys ways that you can paint with for less money I think this set is about $80 now this is an extreme close-up I actually shot it vertically and had to really zoom in on it to show you but now you can kind of see some of those marks and the fresh color that's another good aspect about not overworking a painting the color stays more fresh and here's the final I went back and found the title I called it a time to dance and I got it from Ecclesiastes 3 verse 4 it says a time to weep a time to laugh a time to mourn and a time to dance and here's that little Monet cafe coffee cup and I have some other fun products in my shop if you would like to check it out and I hope you learned a lot and as always God bless and happy painting


Right guys welcome back to another reaction video. I come to you Jacob McDonald. That's my name. I'm a rugby player Through and through, you know, I've played 25 years of rugby. I've I've watched 25 years worth of professional rugby You know, I'd love to say that I I sort of I know look if you if you if you hit me with a player if you hit me with Some stats of a certain player. I'm gonna tell you are they fast are they not that's a pretty easy question in my Book, but as far as NFL players are concerned. Well, we're about to look at the 10 fastest Players in NFL history The one on screen at the moment is none other than CJ 2k Chris Johnson did indeed have the fastest ever clocked NFL scouting combine 40-hour dash and he also went in went went into the league And and became the 7th of 8 total players To clock 2000 rushing yards in a season either way guys. We've got the 10 fastest NFL players in history I'm looking forward to it. I hope you guys are too. Let's let's see. What's up? Let's see if I actually know them. No, I don't mean be much in the league for like four or five years I'm not I've got no expectations.  No doubt I don't mind that is a player's but being one of the fastest players in that tire ache It's you on today's list the fastest players in NFL that's Michael Vick that's CJ 2k and I couldn't quite go Vic There's not a better place to start than the fastest QB to you are kidding me You're not gonna tell me that a that a quarterback an NFL quarterback was actually in the top fast top 10 fastest players in NFL history if If that's true, then I feel absolutely cheated to have never seen him play live Never live Vic mesmerized the world doing things never before seen by a passer Reportedly running a 4.25 40 at the combine. It was prime-time entertainment every time Vick suit 425 And he's number 10 wasn't exclusive to just straight line Vic would often cut shimmy and fake before exploding through the old line You imagine it. You imagine it. Vic started it. Is that just a field or is that? Is that? Michael Vic because I mean 425. Yeah So called 425 is not as if he actually clocked the time, right? Which you know as a stats man, it doesn't really it doesn't really give me Enough but start stop blazing speed Let him to being the first quarterback to rush for a thousand yards in a single season What the first quarterback ever to rush for a thousand yards in a single season that happens every single year The first quarterback ever to rush for a thousand yards now that is a milestone that that's something else Happen to a defense is Vic deciding to tuck it and run There's not a dual-threat passer that has ever had a saying the Eagles at that point Michael Vic as a result the 10th fastest speedster on our list is the all-time leading rusher at the quarterback position with over six thousand yards on the all-time leader in Rushing yards as a quarterback is Just over six thousand yards that seems underwhelming But maybe that's Just because of the fact that I've come into the league with the likes of Lamar Jackson You know what I mean? Look Tom Brady's been in there 21 seasons and he's just cracked a thousand yards So I guess being a quarterback, you know 500 yards a season would be pretty damn good And I guess six thousand yards would be would be up there, but I'm gonna say Then in three short seasons time Lamar Jackson is going to eclipse that he has to he's got to either way we continue cliff branch They say that Al Davis loved speed. He repeatedly overdrafted guys that had great speed Maybe all that time he was trying to look. I would have done the exact same thing Over drafted guys with with great speed. Well, did you do that with the likes of Henry rugs the third maybe? Just maybe either way Kindle what he had in cliff branch in the heyday of the raiders Here we go was the biggest deep threat in the league Before we get to his three Super Bowl championships We have to talk about what cliff branch did as a sprinter in the 1970s semifinal branch broke the 100 meter NCAA record 10 seconds flat You got a wide receiver playing in the league who runs a 10 second flat 100 meter dash that that's That's pretty much the likes of Tyre kill the cheetah. In fact, I feel like he ran a Was it a nine point nine eight was it was it a 20 point something 200 meter dash who knows who knows but they're up there They're there about David branch. Wow. We and his speed translated to the league perfectly He retired the all-time receiving yards leader in playoff history and had three straight and playoff history All pro selections It didn't matter throwing the ball to branch as he was just simply the fastest man of the time Cliff branch Pioneer speed demon. Yeah, I get that NFL history Actually competed in the Olympics winning multiple gold records as a sprinter and relay runner for team USA in the 1983 world championship Gaunt was a part of the world record time for by a hundred team as a hurdler He obliterated the world record time at the 19 for like I've seen this guy before but either way Let's have a look at look. Let's have a look at him. Look at him and stride. Oh my god.    Someone's about to try and angle tap me. I better I better speed it up a wee bit by 50% not not not 90% just 50% couple of extra couple a couple extra feet per per stride and well It's all too easy isn't it for Gaunt even average 20 yards per catch We need your speedster controlling the game because he was just simply faster than everyone else around him Randy Moss Randy Moss was a long strider at 6-4. It took him a little longer than other speedsters to get to his top speed. Oh, yeah Okay, so it took a little longer to get to his top speed Once he did but once he did anyone that could run stride for stride FL found out quickly just how fast the At the combine he ran a four point two five four No, you've got to be joking Me and that speed terrorized the NFL regardless of what Jersey he had How can you say that his first few steps? Slow him down when he runs a four to five forty yard dash that means he runs a ten second flat hundred meter dash for sure No doubt in my mind That's ridiculous Has that been clocked at an NFL combine? I don't believe it has but if it has I'm gonna I'm about to find out Let's have a wee look here college stats all values from the 1998 martial pro day private workout Moss did not attend the 1998 NFL combine, but he did clock apparently a four to five forty yard dash a Forty seven inch vertical jump Yep all right, I Got no words. I've got absolutely nothing to say That is ridiculous. I mean they said Michael Jordan jumped 48 inches I thought that was absolutely ridiculous thought that that was I actually thought that was impossible But seeing that Randy Moss can jump 47. I guess some someone can jump 48 and Michael Jordan Well, he may have been that guy Four to five and forty seven inches Randy molly's number seven us simply was faster and knew he was faster Everybody remembers Moss throwing his hand up running along the sideline I don't remember a step on the Angelo Hall He sprinted past Hall running under a long bomb for the score No single-play shows just how big and fast Moss was more than his Thanksgiving day Can you imagine it six foot four running a four point two five second forty yard dash with the forty seven inch vertical jump as a wide receiver What a Quick screen against the Cowboys He caught the ball along the sideline and proceeded to outrun every angle the Cowboys had on him All they could do that's like D on Sanders Hand on him, but our personal favorite is his bomb from Brady where he outran three jets defenders into the end zone One-and-a-catch have a look at that one Chris Johnson Chris Johnson coming out of ECU blew up the football world with his 40-yard run at the Combine Nobody could stop talking about the number 4.24 I thought it was 422 actually actually that might be confused. I think Tyre kill said and I quote that he ran a 422, but Chris Johnson CJ 2k Ran a 424 And he brought it right into the league.  He caught a pass or took a handoff There was a chance his speed would actually take I tell you what I would have loved nothing More than to see this guy play in his rookie season if nothing else You know second season third season. I feel like he was in the league for like six or seven seasons, but couldn't quite match those first couple Am I wrong only time will tell let's get into it the game over if he broke the initial line of defense Johnson was impossible catch. He's absolutely gone making him the ultimate home run threat in the NFL in 2009 Johnson ran into the record books He ran for over 2,000 yards and broke the all-time single-season scrimmage record at 2,509 yards he and his speed Shit, I'll tell you what I knew he got over 2,000 yards for a As far as along the ground, but I didn't realize he he also got some yards through the year I mean he didn't got too many it must have been like 450 400 at most but Have a look at him. Have a look at him. I tell you what Man I just wish I saw him play. I really do I would have He's the Derek Henry of you know the 2000s, let's be honest and what happened with Derek Henry. Well, lo and behold He becomes the eighth player ever to score 2,000 yards, but he's not gonna be the fastest He's certainly not gonna run a 4-2-4 40-yard dash into the nickname CJ 2k Just like Chris Johnson's record-breaking year his speed is unforgettable Tyreek Hill. Oh, here we go a guy nicknamed cheetah. Well, here we go probably gonna be a good reason We don't make the rules for good reason speed dictates the game plan. It's ridiculous.  You cannot you don't have the speed you simply do not have the speed Yeah Yeah, it's it's laughable actually About themselves at times just to not get beat deep laughter Tyreek Hill at 5 9 It's easy to lose Hill on the field that is until Mahomes finds him And he's throwing up the peace sign in high school. He'll recorded both of 4.25 40 and a sub 10 second 100 meter dash That is pro day a sub 10 second look 4 to 5 whatever it's not Official so to speak But a sub 10 second 100 meter dash and that's that's you know, he would have done that through high school Would have done that through college And he almost he almost got in fact, I I think you might have actually got under 21 seconds for the 200 meter dash This guy is absolutely rapid his nicknames the cheetah and and it's for good reason In 2016 some scouts hand-timed him at a 4.21 in the 40 He could have very well decided to run track for the United States Olympic team instead of scoring touchdowns for the Kansas City Chiefs and hey, you still might after their Super Bowl win He'll vowed to run in the US sprinting trials. Well, that didn't happen. That didn't happen. He did do an ESPN special Which will see just here. Yo comparing his time next to all the best sprinters in the world Shows that he would not only be able to but he'd be right in the mix. Well, I'll tell you what right in the mix Well, I'll tell you who was right in the max is that DK mecca. I mean he actually tried He vied to in his offseason During the 2021 off NFA offseason. He actually vied to become part of the US track team He ran a Seventh place 10.37 second hundred meter dash at the golden games in 2021 and that my friends is one of the best things I've ever seen ever To follow DK mecca through college through the combine to the Seahawks and To run a hundred meter dash to try and get a place in the Tokyo Olympics team I mean that was just absolutely incredible Something I'll never forget Something Tyra kills hasn't done. He said he was gonna do it, but he hasn't now put that speed on a football field You can see why defense is tremor. I mean, I know he's shredded. I know he's shredded D on the thing is He's not at the chiefs anymore. He's not at the chiefs and I'll tell you what D on Sanders Yeah, he's got to be up there. So this is number four. Yeah, D on Sanders number four of All-time the top 10 fastest players in NFL history ah He never clocked a hundred a 40-yard dash I mean all these top guys right they never actually clocked an official 40-yard dash and I feel like that's probably given them an Advantage as far as their stocks as far as talking about their their ability and and and what they what they what they could do and what they what they What they may have done But I'll tell you what all you've got to do is watch a bit of D on Sanders footage and and and you know You can you can realize pretty damn quickly that he is faster Then every single other person on the field with ease With absolute ease. It's ridiculous. Let's have a look at it Neon Dion Dion is the flashiest player the NFL has ever seen He was cocky and bragged non-stop and played corner back want to know what a corner back So really the only opportunity that actually got to run with the ball in hand and show his speed to the absolute max was when he got a an interception So really all I want to say is that it's an absolute tragedy that he wasn't actually playing wide receiver because I mean he would have had Cheese he would have had a hell of a lot more opportunities to actually run with the ball show his speed Show his jump cuts bang bang bang And go hard either way why he could talk so much trash Well, he knew he was a lot of trash player on every single field. He stepped on bro That's the thing legend goes like this thing instead of prepping and going through field drills at the combine Sanders showed up without warming up. He stepped up to the 40 yard dash line and ran a 4.2 flat in street shoes then he immediately got back into the thing is it's not guaranteed It's not it's not actually recorded, right? Okay.  Let's have a look at this Jeepers creepers Where'd you get those peepers? Okay 429 all right, let's go back. Let's what do you say the combine Sanders showed up without warming up He stepped up to the 40 yard dash line and ran a 4.2 flat in street shoes Well, I wouldn't say immediately got back into the limo. He came in and left proving everything he needed to It's a baseball star It's a football star. He comes in he leaves just as quick and Yeah Prime time prime time. Well, we can't confirm. He was prime time from the get go He was prime time Stick to the NFL's fastest receivers throughout his career. It makes the story that much more believable Sanders may very well have run the fastest 40 yard dash ever and he had all the charisma to go along with it Bo Jackson Bo Jackson Four years of the absolute best got taken out of the game way too early We knew that powerful we knew that fast when you're that big when you're the the American football version of John Romo of rugby Yeah, it's gonna take a lot to stay at the top of your game. It really is, you know, you sort of get there and jeez Tell you what? It's a tragedy. Bo Jackson was taken out through a hip injury John Olamu was taken out through a kidney disease and I'll tell you what both players I'd love I'd love to think that both players actually met each other at one point Not sure if that actually happened, but Walking urban legend Everybody has a tale about Bo Jackson in the late 80s, but the NFL's Chuck Norris is more than just a story told in barber shops He's arguably the most Explosive athletes huge in his pre-draft Combine They say that Bo Jackson ran a 4.1 to 40 yard dash if that number sounds ridiculous Well, that's because it is it is don't fret They asked Bo what the actual time was he finally spilled the truth It was in fact only a four point one three a fifth.  That's not possible She'll time. Hmm. Good thing. We solved that myth a four point one four time would make Bo by far the fastest player The NFL has ever seen at a remarkable 230 How tall was he six two There may not have been another player on this list over 225 pounds That would make Bo the fastest pound-for-pound man in NFL history, but that doesn't mean he actually is the fastest We still have two more Who the hell who the hell is gonna come up next I just speedsters can't even imagine Bullet Bob Hayes bullet Bob Hayes. Here he is speed the the Olympic Hurdler or was it the hundred meter hundred meter dasher? Bullet Bob Hayes Is the only true Olympic sprinting gold medalist to play in the NFL and nine nine six only gold medalist and Super Bowl champion Was it nine nine six Bob Hayes speed was it was it nine nine six if that's the case man That is some recollection for you. Let's have a look bullet a Bob Hayes Would you believe at the 1964 summer Olympics in Tokyo had his finest hour as a sprinter First he won the hundred meter and doing so tied the then world record in the hundred meter with the time of ten point zero six seconds Ten zero six with the world record at that point Well fucking we and then you know what happened after that, right? He's got the likes of you same ball thankfully for us. It was also timed before 10 zero six in the mid 60s playing American football For the era of special training absolutely madness broke the world record 100 meter dash running under 10 seconds the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, but the true test of Hayes speed was in a four by 100 relay race Where opponents boasted that they couldn't win? He brings it back he brings it back for the states He brings it back for the states in the final leg of the four by 100 meter dash US team had was Hayes as the anchor of the race Hayes made a dramatic comeback win Running the fastest relay leg in history at eight point five After the race his teammate looked over at the other sprinters and said well, that's all we needed Hayes Transition to the NFL where he was drafted by the Cowboys. Oh, how exciting was that? I mean obviously these these videos these photos are remastered, but how exciting would that have been how? Exciting, I mean, there's no internet, right? It would have magazines it would have been TV at the very best Wow view in the league effectively altered the NFL forever because of his unrivaled speed Defenses invented both press coverage and zone defenses putting some Six points He rewrote Cowboys record books including 22 franchise marks that still stand to this day Only one person in history can say he was so fast He changed the timeline of football bullet Bob Hayes was essentially the NFL's flash Darryl Green Darryl Green has known across the football world for his speed almost exclusively Yes, he was an all-time great cover corner But it was his unmatched speed that people will always remember. So Darryl Green played corner Let's have a look at him I've heard the name before I'll most likely hear it again, but I Need to get you some stats. That's for sure Five nine hundred and eighty four pounds Got picked up in the first round of the 1983 draft pick number 28 went to the Redskins. He's been there for 19 years Two-time Super Bowl champion, but let's have a look at his stats. You know, this is in the 60s Remember Actually, no, no, he's born in the 60s This is in the 80s Track and field his first week was 1982 in San Angelo, Texas We're around a 10.08 and it's 100 meter dash the mark still stands as the all-time best and lonely star conference At the 1982 NCAA championships still in college Green finished six and 100 meter dash and seventh and 200 meter dash His all-time collegiate best in the hundred was 10.08 20.50 in the 200 meters and 45.90 in the 400 meters He was named the most valuable track performer at the 1982 and 1983 Lone Star Conference championships and He holds NFL records as the most consecutive seasons with an interception with 19 19 Seasons with at least one interception most seasons was the least one one one touch reception rushes returns With 20 type of jury rice. Oh my god, this guy was it just he was there or thereabouts for for 19 20 years oldest player with more than 35 yard gain Lateral on punt return 42 years He was playing at 42 almost 43 years old Unbelievable oldest NFL defensive back at 42 years old For time NFL's fastest man competition winner only player to win multiple times and never lose 1996 Walter Payton NFL man of the year award fastest 40-hour dash in NFL history 4.09 seconds And he did that several times through training camp in 1986 you gotta I mean you've it is Wikipedia But you gotta you gotta give them the benefit of the doubt you have to give them the benefit of that I think and that is unbelievable That's American track that's unmatched speech from a time match speed despite being smaller than all his competitors He was a first-team all-pro selection a corner. This was a combination of having the greatest record speed Green reportedly recorded a Mate oh bro at the Washington Redskins training camp in 4.09 the Washington Redskins training camp In his college 10 second 100 meter dash winning 4 NFL's fastest man competitions when the event Still the only undefeated when the event was retired. I'll tell you what that is something. I don't agree with what so ever We need that every single year. We need that every single year Well, if you ask him, it's Tootsie Rolls green's pregame ritual Tootsie Rolls in his socks Just proves that speed must live forever. He was clocked in with a 4.540 yard dash on his 50th birthday. Oh my god Was he faster than bullet Bob? Well, that's a foot race. We'd kill to see so there you have it the fastest players in NFL history. What about you guys? What's your 40 yard dash time? Let me know in the comments down below and don't whoa whoa guys Look, I feel like I may have actually watched that video before but only time will tell only time will tell really appreciate you being here As always much love and well I'll see you in the next one Cheers


Have you ever seen a marketing message that says something like there are only two spots left to this program. I have seen that so many times in the past 13 years that I've been in this industry full time and the sad part is most the time when there's that kind of message to spots left to a program that that message is being sent to thousands of people. So, let's think about this, if there are two spots left. And there are thousands of people getting the invitation. How is everyone supposed to feel who cannot get one of those two spots. So, one of two things is happening. Okay, either. Marketer is lying and there are aren't actually only two spots left there are plenty of spots left but they're just using a trick to get you to buy. Okay, that's one possibility. Which is already is not it's not ethical and that number two is that there really are only two spots left, but they don't care how everyone else feels who can't get those two spots because they want the audience to feel the fear of missing out. FOMO. And why would the audience, why would they want the audience feeling that well, I think knowingly, or unknowingly, they want to control the audience. Okay, let me explain. When, when they do something where it's like, Oh, I, I have to take action on this. Because it's this product sounds so amazing the service this program is going to change my life save my life, whatever it is. And there's only two spots left. I have to act on this, otherwise I'll feel badly. And when the marketing has the has the dynamic of you buy this, or otherwise you feel badly. That is a mechanism of control. And it's basically eroding the audience members sovereignty, or free will, because the result of not doing what the marketing campaign is asking them to do is to feel badly to feel left out to feel like that was the only chance left, etc. What's what's sad to me and particularly is that a lot of heart based people fall into, well, two things they fall into being controlled in this kind of way. But secondly, they fall into using these tactics in their own marketing, because they don't know any better. And maybe you have done this yourself, I certainly have in the past. So we think that that's how that's how you're supposed to do it you're supposed to use persuasive and well FOMO, I'll just say it for your fear of missing out type of marketing. So that once people start working with you then you can be an ethical and heart based person. But the marketing is just supposed to be dirty and kind of evil and right. So marketing supposed to be that way, just kind of like have to do what you have to do it's kind of, it's, it's a means to an end it's not what none of us want to do marketing, but we have to do it so we just have to do it in a dirty and slightly evil kind of way. But then really we are good people we just have to do the unpalatable actions to get people to work with us and then we'll be ethical and abundant and compassionate and sensitive, etc. When we actually do the work with them. I, it's not necessary. And it's bad for the world, because the reality I always have to remind you this. Most of the people who are touched by your marketing will probably never work with you. Yeah. And in fact, the more successful your marketing is the larger percentage of people will never work with you. Why, because the more successful your marketing is the more people that reaches and the more people it reaches just the greater percentage of people who, for whatever reason are not the right fit for you timing. They move on later, whatever they just don't don't work with you. Only if your marketing is not successful is only seen by a few people. And if you're lucky, a few of those few people will work with you but the more your marketing, the more you do your marketing, the more you're changing the world. While only a small percentage of those naturally this is just statistics, what ended up working with you. So, what I'm always trying to do to remind you about authentic marketing is that you're creating karma. Okay, with every marketing action you're taking you're creating karma, and you're also improving or degrading your reputation. So when you do things like two spots left and it's being sent to thousands of people or whatever a lot of people. You just have to realize that people are starting to either lose their trust in you, because it's, it doesn't make sense when you send out that kind of message to thousands of people or even sometimes hundreds of people. George, how should you feel to spots left when there's real scarcity. How do we market that. So if there are two spots left what I don't I don't email to my list. I don't post it on social media. I individually email a couple of the people that have, maybe they have replied to my email newsletter or their, they've commented on my social media or maybe they've inquired in the past I specifically email a few people saying hey, there are only two spots left and you are one of the only people that I'm inviting to this please let me know in the next two days if possible so I can know whether to invite others I give the opportunity to others. You see, so it's a much. It's, it's therefore I'm not bothering or annoying the rest of my audience and this reminds me of. You've ever made popcorn, most of us have, whether it's on the stove or in the microwave, this is what happens right, you turn on the fire you turn on the microwave. And then it starts to heat up the bag, or the heat up the, the, the raw kernels. And then after a little while, you start getting popping popping popping popping and the popping gets faster. This is when the marketing starting to work. The popping, you know, the kernels become the popcorn and then you'll notice that the. It kind of slows down to just like a pop every second or two. And then if you keep the fire going. You will pop a few more, you'll get a few more sales, but then you're going to burn a lot of the other kernels, a lot of the ones that were already popped maybe become burned annoyed, but the ones that are not popped will become burned as well. You risk burning a lot more of the kernels then you pop at the very end. But this is what most marketing is going to teach you just keep on marketing marketing promoting promoting promoting even if you just get one more sale it's worth sending another email. It's worth, you know, doing another social media post.  I mean this is why most email lists are useless. I mean I've coached so many, you know, thousands of people by this point 13 years. I just noticed that a lot of people, they, they are, they're just not aware of these dynamics they learn from most marketers are also not aware of these dynamics and so they exhaust their email list too quickly. They burned the pot. Whereas I used to burn the pot I burned the pot before but then because I've been here for, like I said 13 years. I burned the pot for the first few years I didn't know any better. And then I started over in 2013 2014 and since then I have been very careful not to burn the pot. So you'll notice when I launch something. Are you on my if you're on my email list that particularly my launch list I would like to separate email this one is just my launches you'll notice in my launch list if you subscribe to it. You're only going to get two emails for each thing that I launch two emails. Most marketers send two emails, you know, a day, or a week, a week they send four or five emails for something they're launching. I said to a month, usually only two emails to launch something a month my other email that newsletter is just content and at the bottom of my content newsletters I'll mention something on the launching but they have to scroll all the way to the bottom to see what I'm selling next but I'll tell you this is why my audience is so much more a better relationship with me, much more responsive, because I have built a reputation of not burning the pot. And it's, and it's just because and you know what, here's the thing like, I feel like a lot of you who are watching this are even more sense like I feel like I'm pretty sensitive as a marketer right. And a lot of you are at least as sensitive if not more sensitive than me you're like emotionally tuned in to other people. But for some reason, I see a lot of you like when you start doing your marketing you like lose that sensitivity, because you're just following someone else's formula.  And so therefore, over time, your marketing doesn't get any easier it just keeps on getting really keeps on being really hard. So this. So if, by the way, if you do see a friend or a colleague or just someone you're subscribed to you're subscribed to their email list, and you see them burning the pot. You see them using fear of missing out kind of tactics or kind of controlling tactics. It's a really kind and thoughtful thing if you let them know, because otherwise they won't know they're going to keep burning the pot. Right.  They're just marketers, they just keep the fire on until all the pot is burned and they got a couple more kernels. But then then the marketing just keeps getting harder over the years, whereas my marketing has gotten easier over the years, because of a better relationship with more people. So if you have someone you're subscribed to that's burning the pot. That's kind of annoying you in their marketing. Please let them know. You're doing them a favor. By the way, if I'm burning the pot ever please let me know. I have your opinion on it now I won't. Maybe I won't agree with your opinion on some some things but if I hear several people tell me that independently then of course I will be very, you know, be very, very open to it. So tell the person you're subscribed to who's burning the pot. I really appreciate your content and your and you know the services you promote otherwise I still I wouldn't still be subscribed. But there really is no need to use fear of missing out or other inauthentic marketing tactics, because if your offer is aligned with your audience and you explain it clearly. They're going to buy at their own best time. You know, appreciate your authenticity and your gentleness in your marketing, and you have a longer term relationship that leads to even more sales and easier marketing over time. In other words, you are asking them to motivate their audience based, not on fear, but on love on respect on compassion on a genuine sense of service. Graceful service. Because I like I said, I, whenever I talk to those of you who I get to talk to you are such a graceful, sensitive, compassionate, wholesome person. I look at marketing that's being done by not by you necessarily but by just a lot of people who are normally gracious, sensitive, compassionate people and it's just like I don't understand why that sensitivity hasn't translated into their marketing what's because of their follow. They, they've, they've taken their own authority and set it aside and said, Oh, dear marketing genius dear marketing expert. You must know better than me so you do the marketing your way. Well I serve my clients and my graceful sensitive compassionate way. No, because, first of all, it's that's what that's what inauthentic marketing means you're not aligned between your normal graceful sensitive self versus how you show up in your marketing. And the reason I think is because we believe if we follow the marketing experts scarcity based sort of burning the pot kind of advice. And that will satisfy our business needs and our personal fulfillment needs etc, not realizing that you keep doing that and your marketing keeps getting being hard and very difficult over time and it never gets any easier because you always you've always be always burning people and you always have to keep getting new people so you can burn them again and get new people burn them again. The way that I've been doing it and trying to teach it to you for all these years is, it's a long term strategies a long term view. And let me just say, George, I don't have that long I don't have time I have to get clients now. Well, get clients now not by burning your audience but by doing individual carrying outreach. I don't have clients now in the next three months, because most people when they do marketing they don't reach out one to one. They just send it out to their email list they send it out and put it on social media. Too many times. Right. But if you do individual carrying outreach with your normal grace gracious sense of self not making anyone by, but just letting them know this is available and that you're thinking of them, and that you'd love to really serve them that that's good for them and you just do that with graciously sensitively with enough people that you already know you you already have enough. This is the. This is what I keep trying to talk about in terms of selling and getting enough clients. You already know enough people to get you a full client load. You just aren't reaching out to them one to one in a thoughtful way may take you half an hour to write an email to someone thoughtfully.  Right. I mean what else are you doing.  You spend the half hour writing a thoughtful email to a friend or a colleague, seeing if they know people who would need or appreciate your offer they can give you feedback on the offer. So you do that for an hour a day to people a day. So let's say you work five days that's 10 people individually outreach about your offer per week that's more individual outreach than most solar printers do in a month, you would do that in a week. Most of you don't even do any individual individual outreach period. So this is, you get full client load in the beginning by doing individual outreach, so that your mass marketing can be gentle, can be long term with a long term view, because, well, just like, you know, making the popcorn again. Once you turn on the fire, you got to wait for a while before it starts popping. And most of you. Maybe aren't don't realize you have to wait for a while or aren't willing to wait. So you'd like turn it on way high and it burns the popcorn before even really gets to the popping. Like you can't. Again, this is not the perfect analogy because I think you do have to put on high heat for a while or something anyway, but the idea again is you sustained low heat is much more of an audience builder than high heat until you burn the whole pot. And in the meantime, you do individual graceful sensitive outreach. Like I said, you just do two per day, you spend one hour on your marketing outreach per day, sending two emails, emails to two people. That's 10 people a week. And then you, you send the emails to 10 people a week and you probably know 150 200 people that you could send to 10 people a week that takes you 15 weeks. And then you could circle back around to those same 150 people by that point, maybe they've introduced you to other people and you've gotten more than 150 people at this point. So out of 150 people you email, you'll probably fill your client load or at least get closer to it. You know, get close to it. Think of marketing as a long term relationship building activity with a bunch of people at once, being careful not to burn the pot. And in your selling in your client, you're getting clients you individually email people to a day to a day to a day to a day until you fill your client. So I hope this is helpful. And of course, once you, once you fill your client load or emails people you can circle back around if you want to email those same people maybe every six months or so let's say it's not it's not too often. And then, after six or 12 months you're sustained low heat mass marketing of social media and you know email newsletter, starts to get you client inquiries just by itself without you having to do any more individual outreach. What happened to me that I started in 2014 with the strategy that I'm talking to you about. And I had a full client load in the first year when I started over, because I was doing individual outreach. And then my mass marketing outreach which I had to figure out I mean I'm teaching all the stuff that I learned myself and experimented. In 2014 2015 20 middle 2016 so took me two and a half years of gentle mass marketing with content like this, until I suddenly realized. Oh, I no longer had to do individual outreach all them were coming to me from my gentle marketing like this. So it took me two and a half years because I didn't know what I was doing was experimenting a lot now I can teach it to you and hopefully take you lesson two and a half years. But in the beginning you still just do your graceful individual outreach so I hope this is helpful. The key message is, well really the golden rule, you know you don't want to don't do unto others what you don't like being done unto you. And notice what you like being done unto you and do that also with others in a gentle sustained low heat way. So, I hope this helps and thanks for joining me for these always open to your comments and questions below.