Hi, welcome to this new series called The New Code of Work brought to you by Peoplestrong. I'm Abhijit Bhaduri and I'm here in this amazingly beautiful studio of Sony Pictures Network India. And I'm in conversation with the CHRO of Sony Pictures Network, Manu Narangwadwa. And the focus is going to be on what can we learn about the gig economy because this is inevitable. It is going to be the new way in which all organizations will have to rethink their workplace practices. One of the things that I want to do is to remove this whole concept that, you know, the gig economy seems like a very contemporary term, but you would have probably seen it working even in your previous employer's places. Is that accurate to say? Yes and no. In the variety of industries that I have experienced in my last two plus decades of work, I have shifted from education to technology to healthcare, financial services, FMCG to now being media and entertainment industry. The patterns vary drastically from a set employment pattern which a technology, industry or financial services is used to. As you take a fast track towards FMCG, the format of gig workforce is a little prevalent because the last mile distribution largely gets taken care of by workers who are working on freelance contracts. However, when we come closer to media and entertainment industry, which is what I represent today, this industry has operated in the gig format since inception. Today, the media and entertainment industry overall employs about 4 million people in India and you would be surprised that only 20% of this workforce is actually organized or has full-time employment.  Absolutely. In this industry, to be in a full-time employment is rather in the minority, 80% of the industry actually operates on gig format. Right from the first movie that was made way back in 1900-earlies to the formats that you see today in micro-viewing to theatrics, production teams come together. They put an ensemble of the best talent, which is the lead actors, actresses that we see, to directors, to camera person, to anybody who has a role to play in that format. They come together, put that ensemble for the consumer, the viewer and disperse after that format is closed and they move on to the next. So this is a way it has operated all the way and it feels very energizing to see this working so fluently and efficiently in an industry like media and entertainment. And when you think about it's not just media and entertainment but many other sectors. You know, you talked about FMCG and even in manufacturing. There's a whole range of people that we employ today in our home. Chances are that you are not using the term gig worker but many of the people who work in domestic sectors are also gig workers because there is no fixed employer. And of course, you know, when you think about all the ride-sharing services or the delivery services that are run by food delivery companies, all of that is the gig work. But I think when we club all of it together in one place, you know, as one big chunk, perhaps we are missing the nuances of skills because in the gig work for sets, you know, a range of skills from something which is fairly replaceable, you know, for example, in a ride hailing service, you don't really care about who is the person who is delivering you from one place to the other. But in case of, let's say, a performance, let's say with a theater actor or a film actor, you really care about who is the person who is doing that role. So it sort of moves from one end of the talent spectrum to the other. Is it because, you know, creative people find it harder to work in a fixed employment model or is that how it is? Well, I'd rather say that's a myth than reality. Creativity and organized pattern of working are not in contrast with each other. They are rather in harmony of each other. Many creative talent love to abide by the structure and format which production gives them. Having said that, creative talent definitely does not look forward to the bureaucracy and the box that an organization sets itself into.   From a spectrum of what you just stated, what we define in multiple industries, whether it is construction to the teleporting industry today, like in Uber, Ola, the liquid workforce, which is low on skill but high on availability and can be potted across to gig artists, which is literally the most evolved form in which you're paying a premium toward the talent and the skill, it varies across. A workforce pattern on liquid workforce may still enjoy the benefits of organized setup, but a gig artist may look forward to the freedom of expression and definitely not look forward to getting tied down by the system of the organization. So it kind of varies across the spectrum in both the places. Would it therefore be reasonable to say that over a span of time, when you look into the future, the people who are highly skilled, the experts, they will move outside of the organizations and is it going to be, the organizations will have the generalist and, you know, they will employ the specialist. Is that where the future of work is going to be? If I'm holding the crystal ball, my answer would be absolutely yes. The phenomena globally has already moved where 40% of the specialized skill sets being employed by the organizations today are already in a gig format. Whether you take specialized skill set in the form of consult to whether you take specialized skill set in the form of digital evolution of organizations or coming in closer to media and entertainment, the niche skills of the actors, the artists, the camera person, which are very highly skilled and niche in their setup, the organizations do land up contracting for the service, contracting for the skill as compared to getting into a contract of long-term engagement or indefinite engagement of employment as we say. So my answer on the crystal ball will be, I would look forward to seeing almost a 60-40 ratio where 60% of my need of human capital will move to gig format in the years to come. So if you are advising a CHRO about the way to think about talent, a talent strategy, is it reasonable to say that they should incorporate the assumption that a certain part, a certain percentage is going to be fulfilled by the gig workers and these gig artists or gig workers, depending on which end of the spectrum you are talking about, they are not going to be on your roles. And already we see many examples of this. India being a very, very high concentration of the world's population of gig workers is actually provided by India, that's almost 30-40%. And if you also look at the other shift that I noticed is that a number of millennials and Gen Z, they actually like to work in this gig format where they have the freedom and flexibility. So does it mean that you will see a lot more people who are self-driven as you are moving into the gig workforce? Is that a criteria for success? Absolutely. So to your first question on advice to my fellow CHROs or HR leaders who are looking for a mining gig workforce format in their organization setup would be, make sure it is a part of it because it gives you two big advantages. The first biggest advantage it gives you is it gets you the ready reckoner of skills available at a much faster speed than the development time taken for internal talent or as for that matter for hiring somebody afresh. The second biggest advantage which I think all of us run against the time on is managing the business case of full-term employment and the rising costs there on versus managing the operating cost with gig format. So operating cost pressures coupled with the speed of skill that is available literally makes it a necessity for a CHRO to think about gig format inclusion. On the second part of whether it's right for individuals or not, my advice to individuals who are looking in for a gig format work would be if you are somebody who is self-driven, who is self-initiated and not manager-initiated when their goals go for gig. But if you are somebody who is looking in for a constant source of inspiration, direction of a north star by somebody and organization or a person, then gig is not for you. And in fact, we were having this dialogue early on. What was your experience as you transitioned on from being an organized setup worker to being a gig worker right now? I think there are some benefits which I think people really anticipate. So which means you have the freedom to choose the kind of work that you like to do. I think that's one of the biggest advantages. Being able to choose projects which also simultaneously value add back to me. That's a massive advantage. Being able to work with a wide range of industries, which when I work in one particular sector, it gets limited. That is another big advantage. But it certainly means that you become really like your own C-suite.  So you build a network. Eventually as your work grows, I found that it was easy for me to have the flexibility of working with a few gig workers myself and also outsourcing some of the things which I am completely incapable of doing whether it was the taxation part of it, which you sort of work with a professional services company or with some of the other things which you manage. Those are some of the pieces that when you are working inside an organization, it's almost invisible. You just take it for granted. It's always there. But when you're on your own, I think that's one big shift.  But overall, I think the opportunity to really sharpen your skill is a disproportionate advantage that you have as a gig worker. I completely agree with you there that as a gig workforce expands, the biggest thing to look out would be for people who are self-initiators, self-starters, as you rightly stated, but also who want to really run in the speed of upskilling themselves against others much faster.  But when you really take up a gig workforce format and taking a relevance of media and entertainment today, I don't think you're running towards the next job or post. What you're learning towards is excellence. And excellence comes when you are self-investing the time and the effort to be able to learn something new which makes you a better professional and gives you the edge against five others who are competing for the same space. But I also think that you asked about what was the experience like I have talked about what is great. But I also talked to you about what is not great. I think when you're on your own as a freelancer, you miss this at least for someone like me. I love to bounce my ideas off with a group of people. I have always been very lucky to work with an amazingly gifted set of people, professionals who I have worked with.  It doesn't happen like that. So I think that's a disadvantage. Also, I think your personal brand becomes extremely important when you're a gig worker and we don't realize it early enough when you're working because your business card actually takes care of the branding part of it. When you shred your business card, you're really on your own and you're known by the skill and the brand that you represent. So I think that's the other piece that people don't invest early enough. These two I would say are probably the two toughest pieces. In fact, you stated something which makes it very relatable and if one would comment on the pattern of personal branding time and effort investments which leading stars, actors, celebrities, even as for that matter, many people who are behind the scenes also recognized camera persons, recognized artists, design, studio experts, they invest a lot of time on personal branding. In fact, any element of social media is filled and inundated with that. So the remark which you made is so correlational that if you are a gig worker, make sure you invest in your personal brand. Don't shy about it because your personal brand is what gets you the recognition and therefore your next gig assignment as for that matter as well. And it makes it a lot more relatable for a person to associate your value proposition with what you represent as your brand per se. True, true. So if I were to just sort of really summarize a couple of things what stood out for me in this conversation was that this is something that is going on, it's happening and it makes sense because when I look at the statistics, people are living much longer. Longevity has gone up dramatically in every country and especially in a country like India it has gone up a lot and then you also simultaneously when you look at the lifespan of organizations that has dropped down a lot. So in this combination, people are going to actually land up doing multiple stints so you know this whole model of one piece of employment is going to get replaced by multiple gigs or stints. And you also to some extent see that happening in organizations that people are brought together in case of projects. You work together inside the organization and then you disband.  You find an excuse to work with them. In case of a gig, this is how your life is going to be. I want to start with a different part of this whole process about attracting talent, about hiring people and the contracts and all of that. How different is it when you are working with full-time employees versus handling contracts and acquisition for gig workers? Does it really change a lot? What would be the key differences? Well, as you highlighted, gig workforce used to get hired if I'm talking about different industries who are still nascent in hiring gig workforce. The prime drivers were bringing the cost down because I don't have a full-time resource or to fast-track a skill that I want to get on board. Interestingly, organizations, as they are looking at the need to respond to the agility in the market or the speed of consumer sentiment and are also looking at business growth in which the lifetime of an organization itself is shrinking, the gig workforce format is already becoming a prominent part of the business goals. In that spare, the hiring practices are more and more starting to consolidate. Yet there are many comparative contrasts. For example, the philosophy of talent acquisition is to hire a workforce. Whereas when you look at a gig format, it goes for work fit. A very interesting concept from a workforce to work fit. Tell me more about the work fit part of it. Absolutely. So from a work fit perspective, you're hiring for work and the skill that fits the organization's goal as comparing your hiring the force to drive the longevity of the organization. Let me take a few examples around the talent acquisition side. Classically in talent acquisition, we take a process which is very rigorous towards hiring a full-time manpower. And I'm taking an experience of my previous industries in which you will have a long exercise of manpower planning, costing, taking it to budgeting exercises. You had to do the ratios. I'm seeing a smile on your face because I'm sure we've all been there. Absolutely, we've all been there, done that. And really kind of taking it to the CFO and then taking it to the budgeting committee to really say how my OPEC still makes justified keeping the growth agenda of the organization in mind. And this is a long haul complex process. In contrast to that, hiring a gig workforce format is relatively swift agile because one, you're able to bring a person for a relative period of time directly fitted to the work, the work fit. And they are able to also directly correlate that cost with the project operating cost and not necessarily the lifetime cost of the employee who's on board. The second interesting fact is that when somebody hires a full-time employee it usually involves viewing the candidature from a holistic perspective. For example, will this employee be suitable to the job at hand? Will they be suitable to the culture of the organization? Most importantly, will I have a career path for them? And these questions make it very complex to really take a decision on hiring a full-time employee. Fast-track or compare it, the hiring decision for a gig-format worker is far more seamless because you're not looking for a long-term tenor rather you're looking in for the fitment of the skill. Again, work fit. The decisioning becomes faster because also looking into the cultural parameters you're not necessarily looking at a simulation of 100% efficiency. As long as the worker who's coming on a gig-format is on similar value systems as the organization brings to the table it's an easy fit. Why should you care about the values fit? Given the fact that this is for just a project and it's not long-term you are really looking at classically the skills and competencies why would you even worry about culture fit and all of that? Why did I anticipate you'd ask that? Therefore I fitted this answer in because it's a very important element. It's not as significant as you're hiring a full-time employee but it's equally significant when you're hiring a gig workforce resource because irrespective of the longevity in the organization they still do represent the organization's goal and its delivery. At the end of the day the work product whether it is a product or a service for us its content that all of us watch has to be aligned to the philosophy of what the company drives. Just as an example at Sony Pictures Networks our target audience is urban professionals working not working people who are progressive.  So it's very important to have the cultural threads being aligned having said that will I completely go a nine-yard extent to see the cultural fitment for long-term suitability my answer would be relatively lesser but it's a very important part if I must say. And then when you are looking at these contracts what kind of clauses are peculiar to the gig workers and what you would never ever put in for a full-time employee just give me one or two examples of that I mean what would you say? In a gig workforce format the contracts differentiation one big contract differentiation is how you are looking at safeguarding your IP very important part because gig workforce worker is coming in to help you in a part of your larger business school and they could also be working with your competitor? Absolutely. So they would be multi-employed with competition with competitors with alternate industries so IP safeguard is one very important contract element which is a part of our gig workforce the second one which is very interesting is how there is a very direct correlation of paper performance this is a very interesting one which I also learned as I experienced the media and entertainment industry that generally when you hire for a full-time employment there is a very small clause to say your annual bonus pay will be commensurate to how you perform through the year sure however it becomes a lot more granular and peculiar when you are creating a contract for a gig worker in our industry it is very directly correlational as I stated to either the top line the profits that the contract or the project generates to secondly also some fail mode clauses for example if the project has to complete in three months failure to do so also has some accountability on part of the gig worker to make sure it happens because time is value and therefore it is money so these are the two big which I can think of the third differentiator is in a classical employment contract there is a long list of benefits which an employee gets oh that's true which a long-term in nature which takes care of not just the employee but also the ecosystem of the employee so the families covered in the medical insurance and all that the ecosystem is covered whereas in a gig format the rewards and management are largely short-term in nature and therefore the premium on those rewards and benefits are sometimes even 10x premium to what you would pay to a full-time resource give me an example of that because you know in many of the cohorts I mean for example you hire a bunch of people from an engineering college or a you know B school when you do that they largely at least in the initial years move roughly in tandem you know what they earn what the benefits and the positions plus minus a little bit here and there but in case of the gig artists it could be dramatically different how dramatically different could that be? as I stated in the same project if you and I are gig artists but you have gained your personal brand's premium which is much higher than mine so irrespective of you and I doing a very similar job in that project your and my premium differential could be anywhere from x to 10x and that's the differential which the industry is comfortable with because the belief is that you have been able to gain that personal brand in our previous section we talked about personal brand the relevance and the premium of that personal brand comes in because the niche skill and the value proposition which you bring to the table is different than that of mine and the industry is very comfortable with it because the world is moving in that direction gone are the days when we should be only looking at employment contracts in which there is a 10% annual increment rate and there is a appraisal based bonus which comes in if you are a gig worker I think the opportunity is much larger for you to actually hone your skill premiumize your personal brand and therefore get the premium in this space which is much higher than a classical employment worker so in that sense what you are describing is that the gig workers premium is directly correlated to what the audience wants if the audience accepts it it is terrific if the audience rejects it seniority pedigree from which particular college you graduate all of that is completely irrelevant absolutely and they are becoming more and more irrelevant by the day and I am seeing this phenomena broad basing itself not just in media and entertainment but it is broad basing in other skills as well for example in consulting or if you really take the example of other allied industries where the format is expanding itself like technology the enablement of the person who is coming on your project is largely defined by the skillset and the exposure which they bring to the table and the premium of the value is there as compared to the numbers of years of experience the classical whether you are from the top four business schools of the country and so on and so forth which actually leads me to the other piece that you know after the person joins the project you know in case of a full-time employee you hire the person and the first couple of days depending on the kind of industry that you are in is spent in onboarding the person you know the person gets to know you know how does the organization work what are my do's and don'ts and all of that is there something like that you guys also do I mean how does it work well there is this one part of prioritization which one gets to do and as the chief human resource officer I would be honest in stating that in this industry less than 55% of the gig format workers undergo any version of onboarding or assimilation and there is a reason to it it's not the pattern of why we are not doing it but because the gig format worker who comes on board is purpose driven knows that they are getting the skill on the table which is required by the organization so their need or necessity to know the larger ecosystem of the organization which is what an onboarding process does is relatively less their need is higher to get onboarded on the project and the purpose of that project for example if there is a script on which I have onboarded a set of artists the need of onboarding them to the ecosystem of who is the producer, who is the director who is the camera person behind who is going to be the studio artists what is going to be the script looking like the need there is much faster as compared to explaining to them at a larger ecosystem level of what the organization is doing the second biggest part of interesting facet is assimilation the assimilation need though is much higher which goes back to the previous point which I stated it's very important for us to look at the cultural assimilation and thread affinity of the people that we hire even in a gig format because they should be able to represent the cultural ethos of what my brand stands for so less onboarding but a very high focus on assimilating them on and on because that also becomes a factor for them to come back and work on other assignments with us you know this is something I've always wanted to ask somebody who works in the entertainment segment are the creative people you know the popular stereotype you know is that the creative people are really difficult guys they're temperamental is that even true or do you find that you know that's a myth and that they are actually really really very disciplined they need to work at a certain time what has been your experience I'll say it's been a mixed bag of both the industry has become a far more progressive and organized setup given the financial pressures on production and the focus a lot more on the box office collections as compared to just releasing a big theatrical today when small productions land up generating 10 to 20 times the revenue base as expected it's become a lot more important for production houses including ours to make sure our costs are optimally managed so the fiduciary controls have taken precedence so by design all the key artists that you talk about today have developed or have a work ethos which is far more disciplined far more organized as compared to erstwhile eras where some of these things were taken for granted the other piece which I had referred in my erstwhile comments is that when the contracts are designed in a way that you have a role to play in ensuring the timely completion of project by design your ethos and your compliance in your governance helps you do that one very interesting facet which has been my personal learning is that in this industry talent whether it is in front of your screen or behind the screen works really really hard and I think the premium of that hard work is what really creates a continued attraction for this industry and that hard work under very extenuating circumstances right from the time where in some of the production spaces you may not even have an air conditioner or a fan working but you still are expected to deliver your best shot to the times when you may not get your right meal in place this industry toils and continues to put forth the best content and viewership possible I fully agree that that's one of the myths that we have about creative work is that you know I think there are two phases of creative work the first phase is more divergent you know where people are looking at ideas so for example when you're writing fiction you first sort of have multiple idea formats and all of that and then that's only 20% perhaps of the whole process of writing a book or anything and then there is this 80% which is just really back breaking grinding work which you do you write every single day and then you kind of redo pieces which is what nobody talks about and everybody just looks at that first part of that 20% and thinks that wow it's great fun you can just go all over the place but it's really not like that absolutely you talked a little bit about you know the benefits and the compensation pieces are there other differences that you would see you know because in the full-time employees you have stock options you have all kinds of long-term gains that people think of that their increments are you know if the company does well that's sort of addressed whereas the gig worker really is doing all of that by themselves so does the compensation and benefit process for working with gig employees differ in terms of even the way that you pay them it does drastically differ from ongoing payment methods to a gig worker who generally gets paid a fixed amount of contract assignment or paid in tranches of how the transaction milestone is achieved the differences are vast as I stated to you the premium of the payment itself is so vast that it makes it very difficult to compare apples to apples so for a gig workforce pattern based rewards program the focus is a lot more on instant gratification the focus is a lot more on real-time payments and the focus is a lot more on creating benefit frameworks which are real-time and which help in the enablement of the project at hand so right from a meals enablement effort which may seem very sundry for a full-time worker in different formats to making sure that a gig worker is taken care of at the time when they are impaneled with us those are the kind of benefits which make it a lot more short-term focused a lot more real-time focused a lot more individual focused whereas in a larger format rewards are taking care of the ecosystem of the employee as well as I stated so if I were to sort of take a broad design principle I would say that in the full-time employment it's pretty much for at least a large category of employees it remains the same with very little you know there's a pay for performance which may vary but in case of the gig artist that range could be dramatically different so it's very very sharp differentiation depending on the talent and the marketability and the brand and it's a number of other so the decision-making points and principles really seem to be around intangible elements yeah and is it hard to evaluate these intangible elements and come across as fair or are people comfortable saying that that's how it is I think it's very difficult I would honestly you know call out that the intangibility of premium that I attached to the personal brand the skill, the experience and the expertise that somebody gets on the table as a gig worker is far more dependent on the work that you've put behind which makes it perceptive decisioning as compared for a full-time employee where in some many years of data facts are giving me a trend of how good you are or consistent you are what's your stability factor and therefore helps me continue to improve the time value for money so those variations exist but at the end of the day in this industry the evolution has enabled that the premium of being a gig worker is so high that I don't think people will take a U-turn to take a satisfactory stable I would say a lot more secure full-time employment just for you know the sake of it they will rather still put in their risk on their personal brands continue to do assignments which are diverse continue to bring in a lot more focus on enabling and sharpening their skill and therefore get the premium which the industry calls out for would you say that when you think about this particular industry or gig workers in general do they also get regulated by you know terms of contract which could be for instance a full-time employee is bound by the terms and conditions of work so you know if there's a violation of any of that whether it's financial misappropriation or misbehavior with a colleague or all of that you would take action is that even possible with a gig worker or are they immune from this kind of a scenario I would say they are not immune to it in fact this is where the spirit and the letter comes together our employees are as much bound by the code of conduct which the organization permeates as its foundation as much as anybody we get on board as a gig artist to come and work with us the ethos goes behind the fact that they need to be culturally assimilated with what I stand for as a brand so therefore if you are a gig worker does not mean that you will go scot-free by not enabling the code of conduct and the spirit of transparency and integrity in the organization you will as much be accountable in fact our work contracts for gig workforce equally include such stringent clauses around code of conduct around workplace fairness practices as much as they do for full-time employees in one place wherein the responsible employer has to make sure that all size all generations all workforce types have to abide by that base foundation of what you stand for as an organization in the full-time employees there is a great need to build in a formal process of ensuring inclusion and diversity is that something that even works in the area of the gig artists it does in fact in the recent times it has become more and more prevalent just as an example in our diversity and inclusion agenda at SPNI one of our clear inclusion agenda is centered around inclusion of content our content has to be inclusive of the 1.3 billion people who watch it in India who watch it across the globe the diaspora are to make it inclusive for them to watch the content of their type their interests so the inclusion agenda is as much prevalent in any format that we work for the second biggest element is the element of equality of millennials, generations gender and so on when we put a gig format together the diaspora is diverse I have to make sure that my pattern of content which I'm preparing is not alienating from one towards the other and it's as inclusive as possible just as an example one of our recent shows which has been launched in set our flagship channel the lead character is actually a dumb and deaf person it's promoting an inclusive practice to say that irrespective of how differently abled you are but you're still capable of delivering value back so the show circulates around that inclusive practice and that's a lead actor it's a lead actor just in conclusion if I were to sort of highlight that if you were sort of advising people who have not yet started working in a very big way with the gig workforce what are some of the ways in which they could get started what are some of the things to start looking at and what are are there sections which are easier to get started with is it a particular department where you could start work or is it the entire organization or is there a sector which is easier to work with what would you say I think the sectors one should look at starting with my own I would be honest with you Mother Maria please join us media and entertainment industries fun employment opportunity and gig workforce format as well followed by that technology consulting many others are following the lead so I wouldn't alienate one industry over the other having said that if you are keen to adopt a gig workforce format for yourself whether you are working parent who wants to move to a flexible style because in your life your child is your priority or whether you are somebody whose pursuits are beyond and larger than following a nine to five rigor or you are somebody who has seen it all in life and has spent 40 years in corporations but now wants to give back through their expertise and you know experience the gig workforce format is for you the few callouts which I would have if somebody wants to start with and I'm going to pass this question back to you as well because you've been experiencing it for the past few years is one invest in your personal brand it starts with investing in your personal brand in the work that you're doing creating a niche for yourself what you stand for because as a gig worker you would be looked out for that skill for that niche expertise that you bring to the table secondly be explicitly out there to talk about your point I say it in relation to personal brand but I also state from a perspective that you have to be authentic in a gig workforce format you can't be a pretend worker a gig worker has to be authentic to their skill and therefore what they bring to the table and last start practicing self initiation based motivation to work as compared to a manager telling you this is your annual goal and this is what I want you to do so these are some snippets of my learning which I would pass on to anybody who's listening to our video cast today but my question still comes back to you no absolutely not I'm not going to leave you on this one okay so what's your question for me what would your advice be to anybody who wants to enter this space well I would you know I would think that the first important pieces to really you know of course hear this term a lot that you know chase your passion and all one of the pieces I would think is that you know until and unless you have understood all the elements of the CXO suite which means you understand a little bit of finance you understand a little bit of marketing you understand how you can be discovered you understand how to sharpen your skills you've built a nice network there are lots of things that you should really think and prepare for if you are really going to spend a lot of time in the gig workforce I think that would be my first learning that I would sort of really think about the second pieces you know I would agree with what you said that you know being there in the social media articulating your point of view and value adding back to people in many ways I would think that a gig worker is in some sense working in that freemium model you know there's a certain amount of work that you do for free so you know what the content that I put on to LinkedIn for example I always say that you know feel free to use it I give it away yeah I don't put any IP or anything of that sort it's given for anyone so if you follow me on LinkedIn use that that for me is also a way to put out my point of view the kind of areas that interests me the kind of work that I'm doing but I also think that in addition to it you know the ability to work with very diverse set of people to get your ideas leveraging social media not just for promoting yourself which of course you know you do it through the content that you put across but I think even more important and I would say that's 80% of the way you use social media is to be able to listen for ideas listen for skill building listen for who are some of the people who are really doing path breaking work and really connecting up with them so in that sense if you think in a fairly boundary less manner it's a great place to be so that's been the best part about you know being a gig worker for myself as far as I'm concerned that's what I would say many of us are literally looking forward to following a suit and aim and someday I hope we shall but till then I think we'll continue the conversations on it and keep learning from each other Thank you so very much I think it's been incredible to know about you know the world that you live in and it's in some sense you know the world that you describe is a shape of the way the world is going to be in future you know as organizations life is getting shorter and human beings are actually living longer I think and at some point of time or the other we are all going to experience what it means to be part of the gig workforce so I hope what we spoke about today is going to help you to understand both what it means to be a gig worker and two how to get started to really think about your talent strategy not just from a full-time employees point of view but also from the point of view of gig workers to think about when you do your long-term planning to think about the number of people you are going to employ but the portfolio of skills you know short-term long-term how do you sort of go about doing that all of that actually can be built in so with that I hope you have enjoyed this conversation look forward to hearing back from you Thank you


All right, what is up Sabra traders welcome on back here this Wednesday morning here this October 5th shortly after 9 a.m Eastern time Welcome on back here for our morning meeting. Let me get the cam up here. Great to see all of us in social media And great to see all of us back inside the live trading room Grant Patrick Jean Glenn Egan Henry Phil Jim and all of us Otherwise live live right there perfect. So folks nice runner to begin the morning here that kit trade KITT I squeeze up, but be careful. This thing is really low float about 14 million share float It's pretty low with that in mind. So that you know, just I would expect a false breakout a pullback prior to the market opening Thankfully, it hasn't done that just yet. I know a couple of us jumped in and out for about 15 20 cents on a scalp But yeah, I mean that's where you got to be careful get in and out quick if it moves up higher Perhaps there's a chance where you can get back in and reenter But if you're too timid or intimidated to jump in or I find whatever you took your money in the morning in the pre-market There are a couple of other trades early on this morning, too There were more like level one or level two. Thankfully now the order book on this is filling in a lot better a lot more Comparative to the initial pre-market pop. So there have been a couple of days I reckon where the stock traded like three and a half million shares 1.7 million shares It's already trading for this morning. So at what point does this stock exhaust out? We'll see what happens. I would expect definitely a pullback prior to the open if not right when the market opens up Just given the daily chart given the volume. It's traded already. It's already up big 61% At least there's news out on the stock. So, you know, thanks to Grant We ended up seeing the news out on the street and I'll get the official headline right now. So Nordicus Robotics announces additional contract award with the US Defense Innovation unit for an autonomous amphibious robot little tongue twister there here on a Wednesday morning No terms disclosed. So with that, you know, hey, nice squeeze here to begin Let me see if I have my level four open for this trade. I think I do It's actually been a pretty interesting pre-market morning, right and not too surprising giving given a Wednesday mid, you know middle of the week But with that though, like you can't guarantee a perfect, you know Active pre-market if anything it might be calm before the storm But with that though this kit trade one of a few different stocks that ran early in pre-market here So, you know, it looks like it ended up just beginning to squeeze back up and over five Not a whole lot of volume initially on the s there That's where I was expecting a false breakout But from that point the more it needles that resistance breaks above it, you know There's a couple of shakes, too It's so you might get stopped not stopped out But you might end up, you know going break even or taking a tiny loss in pre-market But the more it needles that level you should get that proverbial big move So thankfully this is now beginning to make that move that run off of five But just be careful, you know, that doesn't guarantee continuation right away on up to the next whole number here So, you know, if you happen to see resistance join the ask here I see an order on the bid get filled and it really gets broken through That's the beginning of a real severe pullback So, you know, the kid trade just be careful on but looking pretty strong so far here for this morning Um, I'll tell you why I have while I have this up may as well just jump around here Why not? So the pegy trade was another one early this morning after seven o'clock making a big pop Ended up giving us the high or high going into the eight o'clock move You know, hey listen, there are some trades in pre-market where it's a lot more Volatile a lot more illiquid if anything to to really trade, right? I know not as many of us look to trade in pre-market and if you do trade in pre-market I know that you're trading less shares because I normally do depending on the stock mainly, but you know, if this pegy Not only is it inexpensive But it was really liquid out the gate, you know, the kid trade was not as liquid out the gate now It is but you know pegy out the gate the order book was very, you know filled in penny spread couple cents spread at most And it ended up re-breaking above the two level here off the eight o'clock This was an easy entry actually right off the two level and then from that point ended up running up You know 20 25 cents or so so a nice start on the pegy as well for the pre-market trading session here Uh, we'll jump back to my regular screen in a moment, but I'll put this on our main watch list at least for right now This and that's so much so this ended up making a bit of a squeeze up I took a few trades this morning here myself I ended up jumping into the vev and then I'll jump to the next the next stock here in a moment But vev is the one I took a small loss on I was looking for the break over the vewap And perhaps I should have followed this instead of my trade station platform because if I jump back to my trade station platform I believe that was right off of like 163 Here's the kid trade still pushing up pretty nicely there. Uh, that was the vev trade, right? Yeah, at the time it was like 163 162 even so you could see it was teetering around there just earlier, but even beforehand here off eight o'clock I was looking for that similar pop that the uh pegy had off the vewap here on the vev trade So just didn't get it a little pop over it and then from there pulled back So it took a two cent loss I knew what was going to happen if it was going to make that big move for me And then even afterwards it ended up just trying to retest vewap and then it was just false breaking it If it's not going to make that big move going up Only one of the way it's going to go This stock definitely trades some low volume day to day So that's where you need to really be careful on that's what I was kind of focused on when I took my trade I was like, hey, geez this stock trades like 130,000 shares 23,000 shares back from late september on this one day That's just garbage So, you know, if it's not going to make that move that you're looking for You don't want to be stuck on the wrong side because this is now likely to be a continuous dump off You know for right now, I mean certainly I mean 150 technically is your next support level But other than that, I mean, I don't really see much from book map I'll put this on our list, but it'll be like kind of like at the bottom if anything just you know on the tail end All right, so those were like three stocks at least that we had followed early this morning in pre-market I'll bring open my book map if I need to just coming up Oh, that's right Let me uh, bring it back up Actually, I wanted to show you the other stock that I was trading and this one actually ended up giving me a nice little Profit to begin the morning made a nice nasty shake back down though right grant the bingo stock I was calling this out right off the v-wap here. So afterwards I'm flipping back to my book map and you know I saw the bingo trade begin to squeeze up already above the v-wap here It was retesting it retesting it throughout the morning So you know goes to say what I'd mentioned before on the pegy and others like the more needles that you know Thread that resistance line you should get that move. So I jumped in right off 229 It was off to a great start and I scaled out half right off 237 And then from there it made a nasty shake down thankfully I got outbreak even thankfully it hasn't dumped off just yet But that was a that was a pretty wild random shake there came out of nowhere I don't even think there was a big order that got filled if anything this order may have gotten mainly pulled But nonetheless pulled and then a big order showed up shortly after It hasn't really done much since the bingo trade bngo We've done well on this trade back from the pandemic back from you know early to mid 2020 And on you know off of news we've traded this stock in the past and I think there was news out on bingo Let me turn back to that now here There's the vev tanking but uh bngo I mean we ended up doing well on the trade but even from yesterday There was some news that came out on the stock didn't do a whole lot from that point now It's making a nice, you know a little push here early this morning So at least given the activity, you know again, I'll add this to her list Probably be near the middle near the bottom by the end of it All right, uh, so let's go from top to bottom right now folks current time 908 eastern time I always like to you know make sure that we have enough time to prep our charts Make sure that we're good to go prior to the opening bell All right, so let's say it's top three. We already covered right and top four and this one's cheapy So we're not going to really look to follow that shph this one ended up looking pretty good early prior to the eight o'clock move and since the eight o'clock move garbage so Uh, you know, I'm not as likely to follow this now. It's just trending down really sharply You know, it's active. It's up big. Don't get me wrong But direction factors into this trade heavily and liquidity too You know aside from what you're seeing here. This thing's on a giant Spread otherwise All right, so with that let's keep on going The tops trade another stock that was you know a big tease from the last week or so Thankfully yesterday it ended up leading to a nicer run ended up making this big pop mid-afternoon right from like 385 380 ish up over four I mean took off right away But um ended up building support mainly right broke back over five from that point moving up a little bit higher Got pretty shaky around the sixth level here heading into the uh afternoon meeting and afterwards So, you know, otherwise aside from this one pop. I mean, I think this may have even been after hours Yeah, so this didn't really do a whole lot for us here in the afternoon session But our late afternoon session early on it ended up making a big move up Uh, just given the activity here. It's up over 13 percent at least still from the close We we could put it on our side list. It's been more of a tea stock than anything So nice run yesterday, but uh, you know, we'll see what comes of it if if if anything All right, so bingo. We already have on our list. We keep going down here for right now You know market was dropping off a little bit early on this morning folks, right? So, you know, we'll take a look at the spy likely by the end of it all We have the inverse ETFs on the gainers list like sqqq spxs All the others we're not going to really look to harp on them as much maybe uv x y If if that All right, and that's like also below 5% anyway, so that was actually short work of the gainers list if anything I'll take a look at benzinga pro by the end of this if anything. Let me just jump to my scanner section first All right, let's hop over to the loser's side now see if there's anything that's looking good as a short Uh, you know, whether news came out on the stock or not. I mean, obviously a lot of the top percent gainers from yesterday AERC snti Probably keep going a little bit here fngr that that tanked from yesterday to begin But you know a lot of these runners from the past few trading days or so are now on the loser's side big So i'm not expecting them to make a big dead cap ounce just yet if they do after the open we'll call it out But otherwise, you know, we'll pass i'm telling you after this Freakin hurricane hit my lights have been like flickering non-stop. So if you ever see that I gotta get that damn thing fixed. I've been like lazy after the market closed to call to call up All right AGQ let's see what we have here just a spotty chart for right now It looked good at least in terms of volume price down big shortable But chart there's like, yeah, not much activity there All right, what else we got here folks before my lights like flicker out Let's see so excel again etf not as jumpy to follow that Well, we'll take a look at just some sideless stocks.   Pardon me there Mara is hard to borrow. I mean don't get get me wrong if it's easy to borrow on your end That could be a decent short should the market drop off further Riot same deal. It's actually hard to borrow this morning on trade station for me. Normally easy to borrow Neo dropping off a little bit only down 0.3 percent. You know, it's good sideless stock I haven't even prepped up the neo chart just yet myself Perhaps I will but um, you know either way. I mean just a sideless stock Not fully in love with it just yet American Airlines down over 2% right now. I mean that's making a better drop off currently in pre-market. That could be a better short NCLH and O'Brien was following that from yesterday down over 3% He was expecting the pullback. So he took his profits from the morning Uh going into the close. So there we go. Nice call and with that I mean, hey, perhaps we'll see a nice drop off once again on the NCLH trade and then from there Maybe a dead cap ounce but um, you know NCLH looking relatively active. I wouldn't mind like, you know, putting this on our list here John talking about the kit trade. Oh that ended up making a continued move up to six, but Not a fan of this wick here. I mean, this is where I say be careful to pull back now Then I mean we talk about this in class where no just shortly after nine o'clock If the stock doesn't begin to continue or if the stock doesn't continue to move up It begins to stall out or otherwise makes a pop and drop You got to begin to get out like roughly around that 9 10 9 15 time and At least now it's beginning to make that sharper drop But this is likely to continue to dump off here at some point after the open So you got to be mindful of that nice catch from John though inside our live trading room All right, uh folks, let me know if there's anything else like side list wise that would be good I mean, I'm looking at amd even I know a little expensive, but very liquid trade It is shortable dropping off a little bit I mean that a whole lot happening otherwise Checking benzinga pro right now right now. Let's see Ccl I down over three and a half percent cruise lines seem to be most active if anything You know what? I might just pass from putting anything like on the main list You know, I'm gonna say the cruise lines if anything after the market opens from the side list The ccl's the rcl's nclh is out there All right, those seem to be the best at least Oh nice catch from phil also one of our longtime students phil m Got about 15 cents earlier. He pulled out right off of a 440 ish from 429 entry All right, excellent. All right, so folks Let me know if you have anything else on social media facebook live or youtube But otherwise, I think that we should be good to go again. 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Guys, what's up? It's unsportsmanlike conduct. I know we were away for a week and Bree is still just chilling on the beach somewhere Which I wish I was doing but I have a very special guest with us tonight Mr. Ryan hammer if you guys haven't followed him already you should probably do it He puts out a lot of great content a lot of college basketball stuff right now Which could be very useful to you guys in the next coming weeks So before we do anything give him a follow and yeah, we have a lot to talk about today was a crazy day to say the least and We could just go right in we can do some NFL talk first crazy day We started the day off with Aaron Rodgers. How did you feel about the Aaron Rodgers? I was like kind of surprised. I don't know if I was surprised I like felt like he was always going to the back of the Packers But part of me wanted to see him go to like anywhere else Just something fun and exciting that we didn't see before yeah, I was I wasn't surprised either I think it's very typical Aaron Rodgers of him to Like draw this thing out make us wait and then just do what we knew that he was going to do and Devonte at like I was convinced about that. I was gonna go link up with his old buddy there car and in Vegas I thought maybe like John LA would try to get Rodgers in Denver I just thought and Jordan love will get a chance now that looks like an even bigger waste of a draft pick from a couple years ago Yeah, like you think Jordan love is gonna stay there You think he's gonna go to somewhere else someone someone needs a quarterback, right? I don't know the option right. They don't know if he's good and the one showing he had last year this past season He was bad. He was very good I mean He was probably a little nervous to live up to the Brett farm to live up to the Aaron Rodgers to the Packers standards of way to do things I Guess I just like yeah, it's fair and I he also has no power like he can't go to the Packers back Trade me they're gonna be like ha and they're just gonna like go go back to to do what you're doing Yeah, so I just feel like I just there's very much Aaron Rodgers of him to do that whole thing How many years we don't know because they said it was a fake news. Oh, I thought it was four for 200 million Well, because you know time from report reported that and like some numbers and then Pat replied and said this isn't true This isn't correct. This isn't the right. Okay. Yeah, so like It will be but I don't know Then did you see the Kyler Murray thing like immediately after Aaron Rodgers Kyler Murray? What do you do he put all of his cardinals photos back on Instagram? Oh, yeah I don't know what kind of statement that was he was making with that He wasn't I don't think he's he was ever going anywhere, right? Like it was more just probably frustration I guess but we are time like we're timing just like immediately after the Aaron Rodgers signing because I Just I just don't know. I mean I like Kyler. I Like what he's doing But I just it was the time to bring him back right after Aaron Rodgers and just when you thought he couldn't get any more crazier The next thing we had was Russell Wilson that came out of nowhere that one really did come out of nowhere to me Yeah, that was definitely that was definitely strange I feel like the Seahawks did a really good like it's been in the rumors in like Twitter and social media for a while Like oh Russ might want to leave where would he go who would need and the Seahawks can't win right now But I don't think it was like confirmed by like teams for the most part especially the Seahawks So I think they did a really good job keeping that like under wraps and stuff like that But I really came in a note and they got one hella package that yeah Yeah, they couldn't get anything better first round. They got to first round picks It was drew lock no fan to first Shelby Harris two seconds and And they gave up Russ in a fourth the fifth and fourth or just like whatever But yeah, like two first and two seconds out of it like compared to the staffer trade I think it's a good example like they got two first and Jared golf We're in that trade But like Jared golf is also like a negative because he's got so much money and he's not good Yeah, like that's crazy amount of stuff to see how Scott Yeah, so thinking of their division. How do you think that's gonna work? Like what do you think that puts the Broncos and any kind of contention? I think they're super bull contender to you. I mean, I wouldn't say they're not a super bull contender But I don't think I don't think they're gonna win their division Well, that's not fair Their division is the best division I would say in football right now It's you're right It probably like snuck up last year and people like the NFC West is like really good But then like the AC West kind of snuck up into that conversation and now it's like Literally just complete switch it with with Russ going and like it's pretty crazy to think those are four good teams The Raiders are not bad. They're fine Slander to be honest, I think it's a little I think it's a little too much. I don't think he's terrible I think he played like a maybe top 10 quarterback this season. Exactly. He's like borderline They basically have you can argue they have four top 10 quarterbacks in their division. That's crazy How would you rank them in my home's Herbert Russ? Darryl Carr. Yeah, I think there's I think there's a little gap right now between Herbert to Wilson, I would say like the top two to the bottom two I mean the top two are like phenomenal and Russell Wilson also very good, but I just think those two Whoo, yeah, it's I'm a Justin Herbert truth or I have been since the Oregon is so I'm happy about that Okay, so if we're making a division pick, who are you taking to win this division? There's no way it go against chiefs kind of like you said like I don't actually you didn't say who you thought was gonna win You just said it wouldn't be the broadcast, but I assume it was the chiefs.  I said all that just to lose to the chiefs Like everybody's doing it all that to lose his chiefs.  Yeah, but I mean, he's always gonna play the chiefs Right, that's true. Right. He's probably just saying thank God. It's not in my Well, where was he gonna like the Dolphins? I guess maybe if they want to I guess often still could get we don't know what they're gonna do I thought they're just gonna ride with two of this point Especially the new head coach like loves to or I'm not sure he loves to he's just excited to work with him and stuff like that He's not gonna not bad mouth his quarterback, obviously, but What do you think about von Miller, do you think he has any chance of coming to I saw all this stuff from like Before and he always put some weird stuff up there He's doing an Aaron Rodgers. I just follow Liv and she posts all the Broncos stuff and she about von Miller Stuff, I don't know. I don't think he's going anywhere. But like this one's super. Why would he just always going? Yeah, like why is he why is he doing that to that fan base? I'd be mad You know, I'd be really mad if I was a fan of the Broncos and I did a player like that just like teasing us I'd be so mad if he didn't go back. Yeah Yeah, I guess so their defense is still really good. But yeah We have three comments that Baker Mayfield better than all what's your take on Baker Mayfield? I would love to hear I'm not safe space. I'm not a big I'm not a Baker fan by any means I don't like There are little things that you like I like about him But those things are starting to dwindle at this point and like he's in that conversation That like Daniel Jones is in it and now and like they're all just like what in the world do we do? We're not gonna win with this guy like there's literally no way we can win What are we going to do next and how are we gonna get out of this? I feel like he's where the Browns are gonna have to come to if they're not already there I'm not a Baker fan. I'll just keep it that The Baker does not deserve the statue at Oklahoma.  Like he really good in Oklahoma. That was like he did it all He planted the flag in Ohio State. That was kind of crazy like mad props to that. Yeah, but That's like those are separate lives. He's lived like that. He's done wonders for them in college Like he was a great college quarterback like one of the best. Oh, yeah, however I wish that would be transitioning, but I just It's a little lacking, but we could only hope it gets better. So if you were the Browns GM, what would you do? Like this off like right now, right? What would you do in like a Madden world? I would be like I'm flipping Baker and whatever for someone at this point. It's kind of tough Like right like who's who's an option. That's that much better Right on the market. I can't think of many like I wouldn't even bother with Jimmy G. Yeah I think it's the same thing. They're both worth a turnover a game Yeah, at least and I drafting doesn't make sense to me because like the team is it a win now position and like you've developed a team into a really really good spot outside the quarter opposition and maybe outside receivers also but like for the most part into a really good spot and They need a guy like Russ would have been perfect. What have been a really good idea Why don't they reach out about the Sean wants at this point because like if I feel like if anything would have happened Him legally this I heat it would have happened already. I saw I feel but I'm not gonna speak on the legal stuff I have no idea what's going right. Um, I was I was before everything that went down Like this is last like two seasons ago when we went to the playoffs. I was a big bring to Sean Watson to Cleveland Probably for the best that they didn't do it at that time But oh that would have looked so bad if a team like traded for him and then this stuff came out Oh my god, we're look back. They all definitely did their due diligence and they're I know how I rose been the Eagles Is doing the same thing where they sent like private investigators to like to try to figure stuff out and they got nothing I guess or they got something and they're not trading for them What about Derek Carr, I don't think he's gonna leave but everyone always brings that name up I just don't think he was gonna leave you love that place Yeah, like you just got a new coach you are they're redoing everything there I don't think he's gonna leave I would like Derek Carr on my team But I just don't see that as a step up step in the right direction where they win though Like I'm probably not it wouldn't be any better like I don't think they get in incrementally like more of a contender Yeah, so I just yeah, so Jimmy G. No Derek Carr. Yes, uh Carson Wentz Carson Wentz you you've been on the Carson Wentz wagon for to a bunch of I mean like I feel like I was saying earlier I said Carson Wentz to the Steelers Make sense would be fine and Steelers fans are like, no we won Aaron Rodgers. Well that one went away today So here's what you got you got Carson Wentz going to the Steelers. I think that this team would be not anything by means like Patrick my home's level but Yeah, the Steelers are a tricky one also Wentz is like an interesting one like Wentz is actually he's showing such good flash it like Put that almost MVP or when he got injured at the end of side since then he's like Been good 60 to 70 percent of the time and like it seemed like in crunch time for the cold flask here He wasn't which like it kind of just is what it is Yeah, but like what what in the world do you send for him? Like it better not be a first round pick if it's not right you give Baker and something like I it's just It's just it's similar to the Jimmy G thing. We're like, do you have to get better worth it? It's tough. You're still gonna be worth a couple turnovers a game. Yeah, I think if you're trading for if you have like Baker Daniel Jones Jimmy, they've trade Lance Carson Wentz.  He's gonna be a free agent I would like James But you have to trade Baker also that that's a problem.  The Saints really are high on him Take him. Yeah, just just let's go. She's pack your bags in the car. It's time to swap them out Yeah, but like I just feel like for us and the Steelers were just in a very not good spot for quarterback Like what are they gonna do with Mason Rudolph? Got not literally nothing. They will win six or seven games max Right like Big Ben is So many times better than Yeah, that's that's another like my thing with Browns fans is like love Browns fans to death But like Big Ben played better than Baker Mayfield Yeah, that's crazy to say but I mean without looking at like statistics. He probably did. Yeah, he 100% Statistics will probably support that. Yeah. Yeah, the statistics say that a big Ben played better than that man, so But if I think if the Steelers had Carson ones, I think that they could probably make the playoffs Yeah, it'd be tough out of like because like you obviously it's tough to win the ABC North But like something you're now it's tough to win the AFC right now Right, it gets it gets tough at the bank man the bank with the bang wasn't Ravens. I think the Ravens are gonna be fine They're gonna be they had I would imagine they had the most pivotal injuries. Yeah, 100% Yeah even one of them Ditched us today, but we won't say that But the Ravens, I don't know. I feel like the Ravens are gonna win the North. That's just me Yeah, I would have the hype the bangles had all the hype, but I just don't see him doing it again Yeah, it the bangles. It was a cool run. I don't think I'll give you a hot take I don't think the bangles are gonna go to another Super Bowl in the next five years I said Joe Burrow will never see another Super Bowl and people were really upset with that one But I'm sticking with it Josh Allen he's gonna get there Yeah, Josh Allen is gonna get there multiple times before Joe Burrow sees another Super Bowl Yeah, Josh Allen's a different breed of quarterback He is unreal that man is special and their team is so good to like their team The bangles would have won the Super Bowl. I'll still say this the bill the bills are infinitely better than the bangles 100% Feels I'm thankful that the bangles did not win the Super Bowl. I will say that. Yeah I love Joe Joe Shiesty love Joe Burr Me too at the same time It got like to a really it got to a point where it was like actually annoying Yeah, people were making me dislike someone I really like right everyone in the world is where the glasses the glasses They were gritting everywhere. I was like, oh my god. Hope they lose so bad, right? But if it was my team like see they were doing everything that I wanted the brows They were literally the browns that I thought that's what they were gonna be Doing the same thing kidding me if Joe Burrow was my quarterback I would have had every single thing he's worn to every game all season the kid, right? But like I've been watching Joe Burrow since high school like he's been playing my high school team So I'm just like I was like I'm tired of him sick and tired of him beating me. He's never beat the Browns clearly But I'm sick and tired of him doing has he not beaten him at all No, you guys sweet them is here. Yeah Then we beat them by like 20. I do the same thing about the jets like the game play the last game But whatever I'm counting it it counts the jets beat the Titans and like the Titans be I think the chiefs or the bills Right so like that who beat this team like so the jets are basically super rollers Yeah, the jets won the Super Bowl who's to say that they didn't can't tell us that only the Rams, but that doesn't matter Yeah, but who cares about the right now? Exactly, okay, let's talk a little NBA and then we'll go into some March Madness and then I'll let you Get up out of here. So NBA has been crazy, especially for me. Oh, yeah It's been crazy for me at the beginning of the season. How many wins does you think that the Cavs are gonna win?  They don't talk. Yeah, it's just the Cavs. I'll tell you one thing I I was I have been since he got drafted a huge Darius Garland supporter And I was like I was high on him like I raised and I'm coming into the year like but that doesn't mean I thought the Cavs are gonna be good because the Cavs are gonna win more than 27 games, right like yeah They hit their total before half the season. Was that what it was 27? Yeah, 27. That's how many are we at 38? Right with dude.  I didn't even think we were gonna get to 20 this year Right, so I guess 27 is kind of fair I would have guessed like if I had to put a win total on it I would have guessed probably a little over 27. I would have bet the over but like barely I wouldn't have said like they're gonna be a good obviously I Yeah, it was just like yeah, 20 sounds good to me and then they started actually They're awesome. There's so much fun. They're so much fun Yeah, and now with Keras too like that team that team's actually good like they're probably still like a player away from Yeah, I would say so too. They'd have to trade like Sexton and like picks and someone else for like a leap over that Yeah, just like who that how do you feel about calling Sexton? I think he he's one of those guys who's been very in his first couple years of his career He's been on a bad team. So his stats are super super inflated. Yeah, I think I don't think he's bad He has potential but like he's gonna be a free agent and someone's gonna have to pay him like 20 plus million a year I would I would not do that at all Yeah, I feel like he I feel like he's gonna like find eventually himself in a role of like a six man I think that's gonna work out really well And I think I said that last year what clearly we were terrible. So he was the only one scoring points I said Colin Sexton is going to be a great player in the NBA when he moves to a six man Everyone's like well, he's the only one scoring. I'm like, yeah, cuz he doesn't um pass You're right. He's just super. He's honestly just super aggressive. He just goes goes goes goes and he's a good defender too He's really active like I do like a lot of things about him. I would love to oh my god on a contending team Imagine him coming off the bench like on that was my exact week. That was my exact exact exact Tweet, I said he would be a great bench player on a contending team I said last year and everyone said delete your account.  So yeah, see I made it made it to see what's meant to be true It makes sense But then again those teams that are contending like this go through the sixers the box that can use a guy like that They don't have money to give him 20 25 million a year in the offseason Like it's tough and I It's just really really tough to pinpoint what and often injury to like that really hurts his stock So maybe he will get paid less if you can get him like 15 a year then I'm in like kind of makes sense But it'd be cool to have like him and Bobby Portis on the same rotation. Oh my god What do you think the cabs peak is for this season? I think they already I've I mean I don't think they already hit their peak But like I didn't think this would be it with it. They're probably the five seed right now give or take I think we're six. Okay, but you you're I don't think they're gonna hit the plane I don't think even if they go in a cold trick They should be fine to not hit the plan which is great But like they're gonna get the sixers or bucks first round probably like they're not gonna win the series Yeah, I don't I feel better if they were playing the bucks than the sixers Interesting because we beat the box by like 20 I would say Jarrett and Moby match up so well against like no one matches up will against the honest But like if anyone's going to it's either those two or like Hakim Elijah one Yeah, we are we are the six seed currently Okay, so that's not you guys be fine like But yeah Right when you look back on it, you're gonna be like if you told me on what we would make the playoffs beginning of the year I'd go crazy, but it will be a disappointment. All right It will feel like a disappointment still and you lose but it's still a win But you want more because I mean like it's you would just like to see them play more But I don't know I would not want them to be in a play-in game against the Nets. I Think that's I think that would be the worst right lose possible scenario We would 100% if it was in Cleveland playing game versus the Nets Kyrie was playing. I don't want to show up I'm really not gonna go.  I know I Think that would be crazy like I said that this I'm on the other day and they were just like what do you well There's no way that the Cavs loose and that's I'm telling you 100% if if Brooklyn comes into Cleveland in a play-in game I don't think we're ready for that one and that's okay Yeah, I mean Yeah, because then Kyrie gets to play also like But right you guys will be the if you're in the play and you will be home because you'll get that seven or eight or something Yeah, or if you're the eight, I get if you're not you'll get the seven if you fall into the play You'll be fine Then that's like the Nets are like ninth right now, too They they're closer to falling out to the 11 then getting the six But they're gonna be the sneakiest team in the playoffs if they I Feel like they are yes, everyone's gonna bet their the world on them Like I'd rather bet on the Cavs to go on a 30-game win streak right now I just like the nets like if the nets the nets are gonna be in the play-in for a reason kind of like the Lakers last year Where they're like a missed a ton of guys like the Lakers lost right away like in the first round I'm just I just am afraid of Kyrie at home in Cleveland, Ohio in a playoff game because he would Make a shot at the end probably and then I'll have to say you know what? Anymore Darius will cook them. It's okay. I hope so Okay, so March Madness, you know that I'm clueless and you're the genius of this Again, if you guys need some college basketball information, please give him a follow Go watch stuff because it's so good because I'm sitting over here like, you know what? I don't know who's gonna be in it. I don't know any of the teams I just know that Auburn is Okay at basketball right now because I took a quarrel used to play for them that I mean That's all I need to wear an Auburn shirt all the time. So that's all I know They're they're very very they're gonna get like a one or two seat. They're really really good See that just blows my mind They they came out of nowhere They were like barely at top 25 teams start the year and then they started off like they lost once in over time Early, but then they went on like an 18 game win streak. They're really good at home They're not they struggle so often away, but they haven't played a ton of neutral games So I'm really keen to see how that's gonna go in the SEC tournament Because if they do well in their conference tournament, it'll prove to me like okay They're gonna be fine on neutral courts. It's just playing in away crowds But they don't do well they lose first-rounder in the semi-season. I'll be on my question Like I really my question them taking them into the second weekend Which would be like this week's 16 or something like that like there They've they've shown a lot of flaws in the last few weeks. So yeah, I've probably watched like five college basketball games this season One was when they lost to Arkansas Arkansas like flashing everywhere when he dunked that I was like, oh, okay I was crazy. I watched that one. I watched Purdue Versus Ohio State when they made that crazy shot. Oh, Jay Navi shot. Yeah, I was wild. I watched Ohio State Duke Okay, I was ready early season Duke, North Carolina the other day Of course had to watch Ohio State Michigan and those you've watched okay You picked five amazing games to watch that's why I watched them Like I feel like I'm turning on TV. I'm watching like San Francisco play Pepperdine and I'm watching these ones for a reason. I'm like everybody else around me is watching them So I have to watch them. It's fair. It's a good point. I guess those are good games to watch though Those are good games to watch. Okay, so you make these Excel sheets and you rank all the teams like how do you how do you do this? Do you have like You do number stuff is this how are you going about this? It's like a it's it's bracketology So like I I'm trying to predict the field of 60. Okay, so there's 32 conference winners 36 at large bids And they use I try to do like what the selection committee does on selection Sunday They use like strength of schedule strength of record. They use like really advanced metrics Like all the like the Ken Palm and net ranking to see how they've done all year to see who gets in and I like they call Them resumes and I try to stack them up. I put them all into seeds and I try to see who's gonna play who Someone said do you think Oklahoma gets in? No, Oklahoma's not not gonna get in are they bad like they're like close to 500 They're probably I think they're like 16 and 15 or something like that and like they're gonna need to win They're gonna need to go to the big 12 probably to win the big 12 tournament to be honest They're not gonna win. It's Michigan getting in Michigan's gonna get in they started off slow. They they're picking it up They're a bubble. They removed the coach. They removed the coach. So um, but he's back this week for the big 10 tournament. Oh Is he yeah, so maybe they Okay, yeah, maybe they should they maybe they should and then they'll they'll be good. Yeah, I'd probably be better off They've been better off for the most part. They won without their best player at ranked Ohio State They're made them at home, but I can see it the day. So they're good. They're okay though They're a bubble team. Those are like bubble teams like teams like 50-50 kind of they might get in they might not get in These people are loving it. Okay. We have two more Indiana Indiana's out right now. They lost the Rutgers and that was literally winning get in losing your out Indiana's got to make a make a run of the big 10 tournament to get in And then we got Jacksonville. See I don't even So you want to hear a good story? I'll do a real real fast.   Yeah, that's some wild stuff. Okay. Um, how many Ohio teams are gonna make it? Ohio State Okay, he's right in Ohio or no, it is yes, yeah, right. So right state there or They'll probably should be able to win their final. I got to look over my bracketology Toledo's in Ohio, right? Yep Yeah, I know right what the hell Is a good Ohio you're probably getting Dayton might get into so maybe like five. What about Cleveland State? No, they lost you told me they lost the right state. Yeah, man. Okay. Um Is that your squad? No, but they're just like can look out the window and they're right there Are you gonna pick Auburn to win by the way because of Isaac Coro? It's not a bad pick. I'm just curious I mean, I don't know. I'll have to I'll have to ask my friends, you know, I'll have to look it over And I'll ask Isaac. I'll say hey, are they gonna win? I Need to know the crowd needs to know fair enough Just ask states Can't I don't think I think they lost you today. It might have won. I don't think I don't I don't think they're gonna be in there. No Who do you think I don't want to put you on the spot because it's okay I'm just what I'm used to your day today Like if you were saying today who you think will win or final four or anything like just I would say Gonzaga's a lock to the final four. Okay. I don't I don't I don't want to call it lock That's that's like betting terms and people will get upset if there's a lock Whatever Gonzaga to the final four for sure. Okay, as long as Baylor their guys They have like got James a Kinjo people who are listening might know him But like they have their guys healthy. I love Baylor. I love I love I love Baylor They've been through a lot of injuries, but I love Baylor. I like Murray State to make a run to the final four I've been on that since December. They're like 31 and two. They're all like a 20 game win streak They haven't lost December 15th. That is a team. I love the Murray State racers and I love Arkansas It's hard not to love Arkansas right now, so And we like Arkansas. Yeah, I liked Arkansas when they did that, you know what I just said That was crazy.   Yeah, okay. I'll be looking forward to Most boss in case. Oh, here's my final four Ohio State right state no, I don't know I burn and That's all I got. That's no one else is gonna make it It's pretty easy like you just gotta look at the stats and be like if you like what are you like? Do you like foul shots three-point shooting teams defense offense? What do you like? I don't like defense defense is boring. I like a lot of scoring. I like a lot of three pointers I like a lot of dunk. I like excitement excitement South Dakota State is one of your teams They're a sleeper for you out the second-best offense in the country. They're their elite And you all you want was offense. You're gonna love Gonzaga. You don't want Yep drew Timmy He's still there and they got Chad Holmgren the slender man looking man. I've you know, he is yeah But you want all like that's what you gotta do is just pick out teams big Oh, like I want offense who scores the most points who shoots the best and I don't care about what they have on defense like that's What about Michigan State?   It's gonna be tough. Okay, and I have a thing against them as a Maryland fan I don't like Michigan State. So gotcha You're Maryland. I am my oldest brother who's eight years older than me went there And I was going to the games as a kid That's sick. Yeah, so sad life. I was going to the Maryland sex and craft Solid games so and they would be playing Draymond Green. That is cool. So that's cool to think about I think Aaron crafts like a surgeon now or something. Mm-hmm. Well, I see he was playing overseas for a little bit Yeah, I know he was in med school. So But then he I think he might be doing it now. I don't know. I just can recall the one that's like like most like Significant March Madness memory is aircraft missing that shot laying on the floor and there's a picture of him Just laying there with the ball beside them when they lost to Dayton I remember that very vividly as well. Wow. That's all time March Madness moment and it wasn't a good one But I kind of it was cool for Dayton though. That's true. It's still Ohio, right? Yeah They would have won David was I was gonna pick Dayton to win it all when tournament got canceled with OB Toppin That was the team that year.  Oh man. That wasn't so cool Right now. He's just living it up in New York and everybody is Yeah, I don't know winning winning the mediocre dunk contest Okay, one more Florida State Florida State's definitely out. They're not good. They're definitely out. Yeah, okay, that's okay I have one last question for you. Let's do it. So it's international women's day Who's a woman in your life that really inspires you to be better every single day Okay, do I give one answer? You can get more you can say whatever you want. Okay, I grew up I'm gonna give like a personal answer and like a celebrity answer. Is that cool?  It was my is my favorite baseball player all times What happened to work out? I met me a ham. I played soccer there when she was like eight months pregnant She was wild though. I like look up to her alive I've always always have because when I was young they were in those World Cup runs and like in the penalty shoot I everyone remembers about me a ham and then the classic. It's not cliche because it's not it's it's not all my mom My mama right mama's boys and my mama My mom's really she just embodies really good values that I look up to and has always raised me properly What I think has been properly at least I would say so. Yeah If I would pick one athlete woman to be mine, I would go for Jenny Finch I love that woman Just like playing softball my whole life. Yeah, it's just a really great girl Okay, well, thank you for hopping on here with me tonight. Thank you for giving us all the college basketball tee and guys everybody give Ryan a follow and We will see you next week next Tuesday be here 7 p.m. And that's it Oh, that's it for us tonight. Thanks for having me on


In this video we provide the solution to question number 4 for the practice exam number 3 for Math 1060 in which case we're given a complex quotient 3 plus 5i over 2 minus 2i and we want to compute this quotient and put it in the standard complex form a plus bi. When it comes to complex quotients the strategy you should use is multiply the top and bottom by the conjugate of the denominator so you get 1 minus 2i times 1 plus 2i in the denominator you're always going to get a sum of squares so you get that is you'll take the real part squared and the imaginary part squared so you get 1 squared plus 2 squared like so and as you're squaring it doesn't matter what the sign is in the numerator though you do have to foil things out so you get 3 times 1 which is 3 3 times 2i which is 6i you're going to get 5i times 1 which is 5i and then you're going to get 5i times 2i that's going to give you a negative 10 2 times 5 is 10 and then i times i is negative 1 simplifying this the real parts in the top you get 3 minus 10 which is negative 7 for the imaginary part you're going to get 6i plus 5i which is 11i in the denominator you have a 1 plus 4 like so we do need to break it up into a real part an imaginary part the denominator turns out to be 5 so you get a negative 7 fifths and you get 11 fifths i as the final result this is the standard form in which case then we select choice B as the correct answer.