Hello, this is Gerd Leonhardt, Futurist and CEO of the Futures Agency. We're having a conversation today with two colleagues about digital transformation. The first topic will be the digital transformation of the telecom communications business. We have Simon Torrance over here, he will introduce himself shortly and then we have Rohit Talvar, Futurist from London. Why don't we start with Simon, just briefly tell us what you do and then we'll jump to the topic. Yes, so thanks Gerd. I spend most of my time looking at how the telecoms industry needs to evolve and adapt and in the past I created a research programme called Telco 2.0 which is all about looking at the next iteration of the telco business model and the role of telcos in the wider digital economy. In fact this has become sort of the war cry of the telecom companies where they all want to be 2.0 now. They do, they're all about, I'd say they're all about 0.9 at the moment but they have the ambition of getting to 2.0 one day. Well we'll have to help them with that. Rohit, tell us briefly what you do. Hi, I'm Rohit Talvar, I run a company called Fast Futur in London and we help clients in telecoms, media and technology to understand the forces, the trends, the technologies that could shape the next five to twenty years. We focus in particular on more of the new concepts to take to the market, the new business models you need to be driving and how do you actually drive that transformation inside your organisation to embrace what's coming next and evolve quickly from one model to the next at the speed at which markets are changing. Great, so I'm going to learn how Futurist and CEO of Futurist Agency are two members, we have several other members but we focus on these kind of conversations about discovering what somebody's future, the company's future could be and how we get to your preferred future. The three of us have done quite a few telecom things together including the ITU Doha World Summit on the feature in December last year in Doha. So the first question I have that I want to discuss is you mentioned telecom 2.0 and this in fact is kind of an old meme, right, ten years old. But now we're reading just I read a couple days ago about MTN now bundling streaming into the network and of course did you sell doing the same and everybody else, are we finally actually getting there, are we getting done or are we still early? Well still, I suppose I tend to what 2.0 means, I mean I tend to see it as the next iteration of their core business model and of course the telco is their main business model has been to sell you and I connectivity in making phone calls or accessing the web and occasionally they add some TV into that as well and that's been very extremely successful for particularly the mobile industry for the last 20 years, partly I think because it's a scarce resource they're selling, they get a license for spectrum, there's only two or three of them in a market or maybe four and everybody wants to be connected, so everybody wants to have a mobile phone, everybody gets a mobile phone and the only way you can go to do it to get connected is to a mobile operator and they can set a price and they've been extremely good at monetizing that scarce resource which is the unique spectrum that the government has sold. But now everybody does that, more or less right, so you were there with us in Doha and you do some telecom stuff and you do many other things, what was your observation of the issues? So I think what we see is that telecom companies around the world are struggling with four things, one is what is it we do in the future? Simon's just articulated a lot of those services but what is it that we're providing to our end users in terms of the range of platforms, services? The second is what technologies do we need to master to make that happen because the technology is evolving so quickly. The third is what do we actually look like? What's our shape? Are we just a brand buying everything from a whole range of other players or are we trying to master all the underlying capabilities ourselves? And then the fourth is what's our business model? How do we actually do this in a way that we can make money and not just become some giant debt machine? And what we see is that every operator we talk to around the world is struggling with these issues. They used to know exactly what the story was, now they're in a world where it's a rapidly changing reality, what we thought was the right model last year is already out of date, this year are all that have been demonstrated to be unviable in a two or three year time frame. I find in this context this conversation that I'm having a lot with operators because there's been so many over the years is that they intellectually understand the challenge and the possibilities.  We're very risk adverse. We invest a lot in LTE and 5G and whatever, right? But this kind of giant leap of becoming the next generation of who they are reinventing themselves like Tesla has reinvented cars or like Amazon has been inventing reading, you know, that seems like a very, very unnatural thing. This is the main thing that I'm observing. And so I always feel like, you know, our work has been about prodding them to maybe scaring them in many ways to take that leap, you know, how do you think that's going to happen? Well, I think sorry, you're right. I mean, they are infrastructure businesses by background. They're run by finance people and engineers, and they create life critical networks that work guaranteed. That's what they good at all most of the time they work. And as I said, they've been making so much money from that model, it's been very successful in the past, but that is now that's reached the sort of plateau. So as you say, they need to come up with something different. And they do instinctively know, as you say, that they have a whole load of great assets and capabilities within that network, within the fact that everybody has a phone and the amount of data that we're generating about our personal data, information about ourselves, generating the whole time as we move around the world. They do recognize that. And as you say, in principle, they recognize they could leverage that and create new sources of value and therefore new sources of revenue by opening up that capability to other people who want to use it. But when you speak to when you speak to them time after time that all the senior managers who are trying to create these new types of business models, what they'll say is it's the it's the culture that stops us from doing it's the mindset. How do we get them to transform?  Or, you know, how will they actually change? I think future shock doesn't work anymore now because they've had that for the last few years. They're almost paralyzed by if you're a leader in an organization, you're almost paralyzed by the number of people coming and telling you that you're facing disruption, that you need to change everything. And as Simon says, it's this issue of culture. And the organization itself, you have 5,000, 10,000, 100,000 star, who you've spent 20 years perfecting into thinking in a certain way, behaving in a certain way. And now we're saying, no, you've got to be entrepreneurial, you've got to be dynamic, what we did last year, we're not necessarily doing this year. And you've got to think very differently. And that's a very big shift. And unfortunately, whilst the technologies move very, very fast, people don't. Well, this one we have to accept that it's going to take a while. And that's where organizations need to be going through the change programs to get them their management and the rest of their organization waking up to what's changing, and start to get this mindset change going inside the organization. And we just have to accept that you can't accelerate that. Yeah, I think a part of it is working on what's your purpose. I mean, part of the problem is that they tell the telcos particularly very successful organizations making lots of money, and they have shareholders who are expecting a certain rate of return and in the volatile markets these days, telcos are pretty stable, they're not exciting growth businesses. And so there's a there's a dame that there's an opportunity, I guess, is to reinvent why you exist, what's your purpose in life. And we talked about these these sort of life critical networks that they they run if you're doing, you know, if if people are doing robotic surgery these days, which is already a service, the network's got to work for that. So so I had a meeting with some senior management team actually only this this week, and they're very successful company, they they, in terms of the quad play, as we call it that TV and so on. And they were looking for the next wave of growth. And what we started to explore with them is that, could you not be as as the rest of the economy in your the country that you operate is becoming digital, there is the digital economy being created, could you not be the innovation platform for that digital economy, that the platform that allows other people to innovate to serve consumers in that digital world. So rather than you try to come up with services yourself, trying to come with OTT services or new entertainments, let other people do it on your platform. And what what grabbed their attention was when you start to talk about the internet businesses, which the most successful ones are all platforms, they create capabilities that other people innovate on top of. The challenge there is if you are if you are already a pipeline or network, it's very hard to mutate to a platform and vice versa. So let's wrap up this session because we're going to talk about digital transformation in general like we just started to in a separate session. Let's wrap up with three predictions of what's going to happen with telecom in the next five years. I'll take a start. And so three short things about what their destination is. My view is I've said for years, you know, we're heading into what I call the telemedia economy, which converges the telecom and media. So content and network converging in advertising is part of that as part of media is right. So that's going to be a very, very clear cut thing. The Internet of Things Connecting Everything, a whole new business model. Part of that is the whole discussion about big data and paying for privacy, all these extra services. And of course, automation, virtualization, cloud computing, those are giant businesses that they're all going to get into. Key question there will be about ultimately about they are going to become very much a platform rather than a network. And the network will be underneath the platform rather than will be the central part of what it is. I think you just done at least 30 of the three predictions that we might cover. I think that so building on what you've said, I think there's a few things. One is we're going to see a big spreading out in terms of those that get it, that get how the world's changing and those who are still stuck in this very old fashioned, which is part of government type thinking. Those who get it will start to change the way they think, the way they manage and the way they look for opportunity and partner in the marketplace to bring it to market. The second is I think one of the things that we're going to see hitting all of these guys is the kind of rapid wave of increasingly intelligent software, not fully artificially intelligent, but more and more almost lights out operation of everything they do, dynamic reconfiguration of the network, dynamic pricing models and just an increasingly intelligent network, which will need less and less people. The third thing I think we're going to see is a lot of new entrants, because the actual, the underlying pipes, the networks now are a very small piece of what's going to come next. So we might see a few players providing the pipe work, but an awful lot of people filling the role that the traditional telecoms companies played in terms of being that platform provider between the marketplace solution providers and the end consumer. Good point. Yeah, I think I think in any way some of the things that have, I suppose held them back culturally in terms of five nines culture, everything having to be completely robust before they launch it. Actually, as the world becomes more digital, more connected, and we talk about the internet of everything, not just the internet of things, the internet of everything, that requires increasingly network intelligence and it requires security to make it work. As I said, you know, things like robotic surgery, if that doesn't, if the network goes down, that's a disaster. So I think in many ways, if they can, they're going to play an even stronger role in the digital economy. And there's a lovely description of digital economy, which is all economic activity mediated by software, but enabled by telecoms networks. And I think they have that role, that very strong role to play to enable that. I think if they just look a little bit over the parapet about where the digital economy is moving, what their assets and capabilities they could expose into that, then I think they've got a very bright future. But it just needs a slight change in mindset, and a little bit more, and a little bit of thinking about what's our role in the world. I think in general, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong on this, but my observation has been that this is mostly happening in developing countries and in regions that are hungry for their futures. In Europe, we have a problem of regulation, everything's regulated. In America, it's one big country where they satisfy with themselves, so to speak. But if you're looking at operators like MTN and others, you know, who have huge diversity of countries, and they can do all kinds of interesting things because they have to reinvent their future. So this will come out of Africa, will come out of South America, the Caribbean, it will come out of India, it will come out of Indonesia, in my view, not from Europe. I don't know, I think it will, I think just on different levels. So in those emerging markets, that's whether you get the service innovation and then things like the mobile money transfer and M-Pays and so on, because you're solving really important things. But I think back here or in the West or in mature markets, then because the rest of the economy in which they operate is going digital, they are they're acquiring cloud services and secure networks and the telecoms are good at providing that. So I think they'll just be, they'll be innovating, but in a different way, I think. So Robert, bear cards for Europe or good cards for Europe, would you? Let's call the UK also part of Europe. Yeah, but for this practical purpose, UK Europe, are we in a good position there? I don't think it's a case of saying we're in a good or bad position. I think you must have to get down to the country level and the same with the developing economies. What we see is those where you've got progressive government, progressive regulators, who are open to new roles for the players in the economy. You're going to see some quite dramatic stuff happening. So you'll see your telecoms players being a platform for education in some country. Same in the so-called mature economies, where the regulators get it, where governments recognize that shift has to happen quickly, you'll see the market reconfigure, you'll see small companies, we're seeing them in other sectors where you've got 20 employees and they're being valued at 20 billion because of the market impact they can have. So we're going to, I think we'll see a lot of innovation, maybe the ideas coming more from the West, but actually being adopted in all sorts of places around the world as test cases. And the other thing I think we're going to see is a lot of new kind of financing mechanisms, which we haven't really got the time to talk about. But what we're seeing is a kind of radical shift in the way of finance innovation. And I think that is going to make it a lot easier for people to bring game changing ideas to market. Okay, we have to wrap. We're going to go back to a few more sessions about digital transformation. We have with us Simon Torrance, telecom 2.0 expert and internationally known for his knowledge about telecom. We have Robert Talva futurist from Fast Futures, myself, Gerd Leonhardt from the Futures Agency. We're all working together there if you want more information. It's thefuturesagency.com. Thanks for tuning in.


All right, we're going to talk here about the Nibble Tronic. I have here this brave guy C-trap called since today. He's an electronic engineer and he's really into the fascinating thing of using media controllers and playing with it. He makes musical instruments and he's going to show you how to get there. Unfortunately, the musician is ill today. So I don't know, maybe we have to call someone from the audience to help him. I hope to play some music afterwards. But this guy will show it all. You all right? Yep, thank you. Let's light a fuse then. Okay, first, hello. I'm a bit nervous, but happy to be here. I want to ask you to ask you questions as they arise so you can keep track of what is going on. And yeah, then this is what this will be about. I will tell you what I did with this device. Then I will tell you what others did before me and then we want to discuss if you should do the same. As it is traditional, I start with the finished product. What we have here is the current state of the nebutronic. I should get rid of the paper. We see the mouthpiece at the left. Then there's a pressure sensor. It is connected with a split PVC hose. There are four micro switches right next to the microcontroller board you see there. And then we have a joystick and two more sliders. On the underside, there is another slider and a midi jack.  This is the previous version and I will use it to illustrate the working principle. As you can see, it had quite a lot more buttons and it could only play around 11 nodes. One for each button and another one for no button pressed. The working principle is that you have this mouthpiece, this split hose, which allows you to blow through so it figures like a traditional instrument. You put your fingers on the button and play it like a flute. The pressure sensor either triggers a note, if none has been played before, or controls the volume of the synthesizer. So you can have a volume envelope for every note, like a wind instrument does. The buttons define which note is played or trigger another note when you change your finger placement. 11 nodes aren't that many, so I decided to use fewer buttons to play more notes. And the five of the left hand then were used to encode five bits. So using these five buttons, you can then count a binary up to 31. This worked. You have great tone range. You can play four full octaves with that. If you omit the same tones. But it is a bit hard to memorize 32 distinct finger placement. Nobody wants to do that. And so I came up with a more ergonomic control scheme. Where's the next button here? Screw that. Using only five buttons, you can ditch one more because that one was for the thumb and was kind of hard to play. It became a thumb rest. I then added two buttons from the right hand. And that way was able to encode 60 nodes and with the right hand up to four octaves, which was actually it became playable. You only had to remember 12 finger placements. And you started to play semi-tone. So you had the full tone range of four tapes, which is quite something. Remembering finger settings is better than 32, but not yet ideal. And having 16 numbers available for just 12 notes that I needed, then the final refinement I decided to assign the full notes to the even numbers and the semi-tones to the uneven ones. That way, you only have seven finger placements left. And that actually was manageable and has been played last year on this conference. Not by me. I never learned to do this. This is the resulting control scheme. And this is implemented in the current version. And you see you play with actually only three fingers and have the pinky left as modifier for semi-tones. This works.  All the brass rods and threadings and putting it on, it takes ages. It was kind of unergonomic. There are tons of cables. So time for our next iteration. And this is that, that what came from that. On the other side, we have the four buttons for the notes. And a joystick for pitch bend and modulation as somehow they showed up on synthesizers and never went away. So I thought I'd go with that. And two sliders for whatever. You can assign some continuous controller to that and adjust your sound and whatever you do with the MIDI controller. On the lower side, we have now a slider. The slider next to the pressure sensor is used to encode the octaves. And the whole range is mapped to just four. If you want more octaves, you can program them in. You can actually solve this in software, which is nice. But it becomes hard to find your octaves that way after some time. And we have a battery as a power supply, so fewer cables now. I'm missing the next button. Problem is, nothing of what I did is actually really new, as I found out. And there's tons of prior art out there, especially in the common section of the God of Phone blog, you find lots of people asking questions for their own builds. So there are really, really a lot of EWIs out there. As I said, Instructables. This is the wireless God of Phone. Some build I found. This one is interesting. It is a device by Nia Stina, who started to design these things in the 60s and built the first ones in the 70s, and then actually designed the one big commercially available product from Archi. This is a Nia Stina design. So there's actually one person doing all this thing out there. There are a lot of builds. These things are available. And I have never witnessed one being used in some kind of performance. So they exist, and nobody uses them, which was kind of a mystery to me. So there are the reasons why these things exist. There are a lot of practical reasons. There are artistic reasons. You can control not just synthesizers. You can control your light show. And this might make sense in some settings. But the really big advantage of EWIs is that, by traditional instruments, have an interface that is mostly defined by the underlying physics. With an electronic device, you can do what you want. You have no such constraints, and you can build an instrument for somebody who has maybe a non-standard number of fingers or hands. Another idea would be to ditch the breath control completely, replace it with a foot pedal, and you can build a wind instrument that somebody with a weakened lung or some other problems can actually play. So there is the main reason to design these things, to build instruments that otherwise, for people that otherwise couldn't, can play an instrument. As an example, I have the sketch of an EWI for a Tyrannosaurus Rex with a very long neck, reinforced steel mouthpiece, reinforced claw pads, and another band control input that allows the T-Rex with its poor fine motor skills to actually play this thing. Another good reason to build those is to understand what's there. What we have here is the device that is built by Akai. And in the circle, there's a set of metal rollers. And they are opposite of the left-hand finger pads. They react to touch. They can be moved, but they don't detect movement. And I've seen this, and I didn't understand why somebody would build such an interface. And then I built this. We have a question. Oh, thank you. So if you're really interested, I own this device, and I know how to play it. And if you know how to play a saxophone, it's completely obvious why you want to build it that way. I understood it later, because this is the only wind instrument that I actually own and I can't play it, which is a shame. I'm planning to learn it since two years or so. Excuse me. Are there saxophone players here in the room? Maybe they can help you with that. I actually figured it out, because this setup with the octave selection opposite of the left-hand fingers doesn't work too well. You're pushing on the slider, and at the same time pushing against your fingers, so you can play notes that require you to release all your fingers.  And that may be a chromatic element, but it doesn't really work. This could be meditated in several ways, with a neck strap like many traditional instruments. But in the end, I found out that these rollers at the archive are actually used for a tape selection, so no real new idea there. And because they react to touch, you don't really have to push against your fingers. You can move your left-hand fingers completely independent from your thumb. And because these rollers, they give you really good feedback where your thumb is much better than the mechanical slider. So yeah, by building my own device, I kind of imitated accidentally the big one by archive and got to understand why they did what they did, how they came to these conclusions, and I got a really nice understanding about electronic wind instruments. So this is another good reason why you might want to build such a device. Yeah, come on. If you thought you would see something revolutionary here, they exist since the 60s, they make sense. If you have a T-Rex in your life who wants to play wind instrument, now you can build one for him. And you probably should if you want to understand these devices. They pose some interesting software problems. You don't want to spam your synthesizer, but you want to have continuous breath control the whole time and you have to balance that out. The sensor is not quite straightforward and there are a lot of interesting problems to solve there. If you don't want to start from scratch, here are the links and the God of Phone page is great. There are several builds, several different control schemes and there is a lot of theory in there, lots of source code and lots of solutions. At Patchman, there's the historical reference. There are the devices of Niostina and some other exotic builds. Hopkins Electronic Aerophone is actually wireless, which might be interesting to build if you enter that. And of course we have the Nibbletronic, which you have seen here and several pictures. So thank you very much. I have the, I'm under the impression that I've been quite fast this time. I'm kind of as relieved as you and are there any questions? Fantastic. Thank you very much, Seatrap. I think we all appreciate it that you come over to speak about an Nibble instrument. Actually, I can help you as well to point you to some saxophone players who play this acai kind of devices. Are there people here among the audience who play this instrument? Is there a possibility maybe to show as well the instruments, because you have it here in your box? I actually brought it with me. And the full bill of materials is on the page and there are some bought, which you can't order less than six. I don't want to find an orchestra, so yeah. Not yet, but there are enough people here to make that kind of band, I presume. Is this functional? Can we test it without having damages? Not right now. The firmware is kind of bugged currently. I came here to finish the development and to work on the next. iteration because as I said, this solution for octave selection is less than ideal. Probably there are some people who can help you with that. Are there? I thought that maybe some people around here might know something about building hardware. I'm not sure, but... I don't see any hands yet. No one? Okay. We found one. Second. Very nice. Okay, there are questions I presume. Here, from the internet? Yes. The question is why did you choose a non-canonical setup for the finger buttons? A non-what? Excuse me, can you repeat that please? Why have you chosen a non-canonical setup for the finger buttons? I hated playing the recorder at school and I wanted to go as far away as possible from that. I love that. We know that feeling, I presume. Is there another question somewhere here? One second, please take the microphone, sir. Playing the buttons. What exactly does the breath do? What does the pressure sensor do? Is it for volume? It controls the channel volume, I think it's CC7 or something like that, of the whole synthesizer. So you can define your volume envelope for each note. Okay, thank you. Right, and someone else? Question? There are four mics here, someone on the internet. Yes, there, please, sir. Take the mic. So if you want to see somebody who's really good at it, playing the acaiivi, you go to YouTube and search for Original Rays by Michael Brecker. And then you see it's for 15 minutes. Original Rays played by Michael Brecker and his band. Okay, thank you. No one else here with a suggestion. Is there a band that can be now assembled here in the back? No. Thank you very much. Once again, thank you C-Trap for this fantastic presentation.


Hey, how are you folks all right? I just want to Tell you how you can upgrade this It's basically just like the Thousand series DS thousand series rival the source copes You can upgrade them And this DPA 3 2 is no exception mines working at the moment. It's charging a battery 300 pound battery charger No, it's good.  It's very very nice very very nice very very controllable a lot of confidence When I'm running around doing things I'm not just gonna blow stuff up by sticking the wrong thing in the wrong place. It's great There's so much control But let's get back to How you update it? This is a piece of cake. You know just set the things spinning Click on the utility Go into the next The next part and there's the option button and as you can see here I've got everything but the RS 2 3 2 I just couldn't evolve to keep talking My numbers too fair. Yeah, but I'll probably put that in because you know, it's free I'm sure they use these the line. I probably will just to take them back out again And then put them like in again just to make sure I can because You know if this had to go back I would Uninstall these and send it back But anyway, so yeah, so if you want to you put that in all you've got to do is basically go to this website You go there You get this your serial number Serial number I can't actually remember where this is it's gonna be easy place like System system info there we go So the serial numbers and the system info Which is on the main The main utility so you click back on utility System info is there click on there. There you go. You've got your serial number So drop that down on the piece of paper Yeah, then you put your serial number in there You go down to the options. I've got Mines newer version and one point zero nine So that's what I'm using for the older ones. You can use this up to one point zero six But I use that so of course the first one I'm playing was the accuracy So the F3 PT you put it up there. It says 888 options And click generate a private key will come up. You don't need to use that, but there'll be a box Box open about here with your boys like a thousand digits. It's not really a thousand characters not really It's a plug and about 25 something like that. I didn't count them But there's a few there so when you're doing a few You know it's okay for this very simple to do and using this Yeah, it's great. It's nice and quick It is good. So Yeah And so that's how you can get your updates. Thank you very much Rhygel who or whoever it is supplies that That particular facility Because it works very very well My my scapegoat and the same thing so I just kept it at 50 megahertz I'm just put the extra part bits and pieces in That's 50 megahertz is plenty And then the memory it's shared better in the actual The sample rate so Fantastic, I absolutely love it. I absolutely love it. I only had it for a couple of days, but I've really enjoyed it I like this I like this this the way I've got this set up You know, I can go across to these and I've just got got it set up so it's black and white in it So I can see it so clearly these these characters that I thought where these digits I thought we're gonna be too small to see clearly Absolutely easy the way this is That lights pretty much switched off all together. So I don't have anything else coming through until until I switch on As you can see I just like the idea of You know to have it like that it's lovely in the way that highlights up there You know, there's lots of other ways you can have this that's that's a bag of poo This is definitely not quick enough I had a little Little amplifier on it. I built myself So they have anything to see in the lights a little bit And it would have been nice if I could have seen it Like nice if I could have seen you know this moving the same as it does Come back the same as you can see all this moving about when it's when it's drawing the power And that's great.  You know, which is absolutely fantastic exactly. Yeah, this is got more than what I need more than what I need I'm sure I'll be pretty happy with this for a long time to come And I'm gonna make no mistake about plugging in my high voltage Crazy ass Tesla stuff. That's gonna be plugged into this thing Cheap old switch mode 50 quidder Not 30 not 10 ounce and this is gonna be for all the you know Lamps and radios and bits and pieces that I put together and all the kits are billed Yeah Really really chopped absolutely no idea of how chopped it's been driving me nuts or last The last year that this year for power supplies this so far this being number four and The other three including this one which failed at one stage already put out five volts One had to go back because all the display kept messing up and I didn't know what I was doing with it They're a bit snotty, so I got snotty with them and just sent you back out for refund the last one They can Two of them had died to them not died.  You're not gonna go wrong with it Absolutely lovely anyway, so there you go there's My my thoughts on the power supply after a couple of days and how you can give yourself the higher resolution And all the extras courtesy of Regal old Anyway, thanks for watching


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And yes, we have a successful finding of the child. Firefighter Michael Tussie heard a cry. And he asked everybody to be quiet because he had heard the voice of a child. And as we called his name over and over, he sporadically would speak up. And he would give us a shout. And we were able to pinpoint his location and then move into where he was at. When I made contact with Kenneth, Ollie wanted with something to drink. We asked him if he wanted to get a grade and he just stretched straight out for it. And then he started mumbling, mom and dad, that was all we could get out of him.  Our search team saw a bear scat, so there's certainly bears in the area. I actually heard a report of a bear being confirmed, you know, spawning of a bear. Coyotes, even a bobcat, you know, could kill an infant at that age. The investigation is still open as a missing person case. Something did pop up that could be on a criminal or something along that line that it would be dealt with. But at this point it appears as to be a missing person. We weren't expecting him to be alive. We didn't expect him to be there. The man up above is the reason that little boy's here. There's no doubt. As of 12 o'clock today, I spoke with the mother and she stated that the infant was doing extremely good, really good. He no longer had an IV required. His urine output is good and he's eating food. And I don't know, maybe he can't get enough of it and what it could eat. But he is not sure when he's going to be released. But he's at a positive outlook and a full recovery is expected.


We have a full 15 games on tonight's slate for MLB DFS, which means we've got a lot of choices, and it also means scores are going to be high tonight, whether it be for cash games or for term, and you're going to need a lot of points in order to cash for tonight. So our job is to identify high upside plays, both at picture and in stacks, to make sure we can keep up and make sure we can get the requisite point totals to cash for tonight's. That is our goal here. We're going to break things down and get you set for Tuesday night's slain. Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the FanDuel Podcast Network and NumberFire.com. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for NumberFire.com. Here to break down today's 15 game slate with lock set for 705, 4, 2, 9, and just one weather note for today, potentially not even a relevant one, because that is out in Boston, where the rain is likely arriving late in the game for the Red Sox and the Blue Jays. As of right now, it appears as if they will get that game in with the rain coming later on. But I would check back on the timeline of that rain later. So that's the one note I've got for weather for today. Everything else should be good to go. So check back on that later on and make sure that it's good to go. Lots of stuff coming up here on the NumberFire Daily Fantasy Podcast V today, because we also have our PGA DFS podcast for the men's Olympic games. That is with myself and Brandon Gadoula. We are recording on the Fandal YouTube page at 10 o'clock and then on the NumberFire Daily Fantasy Podcast V immediately after that. Brandon will have more PGA today, 3.30 p.m. Eastern time talking about betting and DFS for the men's Olympic games. That is on the Fandal YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter pages. And as always, I will swing by 4 p.m. to break down MOB DFS as well. So make sure you are subscribed to the NumberFire Daily Fantasy Podcast V. Also leave a rating or review if you like what you hear and then swing by today, Fandal YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter to talk to Brandon and myself about PGA and MLB. Hey baseball fans, Fandal has a fun promotion going on called $5 Dinger Tuesdays. It is indeed Dinger Tuesday today. All you have to do is bet a $25 plus bet on me to hit a home run prop on any Tuesday MLB game. You'll receive a $5 site credit, $25 max for each home run hit in the game by either team regardless if your bet wins or loses. Head over to Fandal on Tuesdays to play the $5 Dinger Tuesday. Must be 21 plus and present Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia or West Virginia. Refund issued as a non-withdrawable site credit that expires in seven days. Terms apply, gambling or yeah, that's sorry I missed that part. Terms apply, gambling problem. Off to a great start today. Call 1-800-Gambler in Colorado, 105-224-700. In Iowa, 1-800 bets off. In Indiana, 1-800-9 with it. For confidential help in Michigan, 1-800-270-7117. In Tennessee, call the red line, 1-800-889-979. Or in West Virginia, 1-800-Gambler.net. Pitching preview for today's Slate Lance McCullers is the highest salary pitcher on Fandal. He checks in at $10,500. We have Robbie Ray at $10,000. Followed by Adam Wayne right in $9,700. Sandy Alcantara is $9,300. Then Shane McClanahan, Austin Gomber, Julio Urias, Charlie Warden, Kenton Maeda, Dylan Cease and Logan Webb are the others at $8,000 or higher. So there's no Scherzer type guy for tonight. There's no super high upside guy in that realm. But there are some really good pitchers, underappreciated pitchers I would say, with upside. And one of those guys is Lance McCullers. And I was super into McCullers last week. He was facing Cleveland at home and it wasn't ideal because he let up four runs in five innings. But I want to go back to him tonight. And a lot of it is because last week, looks a bit fluky. He had eight strikeouts across 24 batters faced. He walked just two, which is not a bad number for him specifically. And that's a continuation of the strikeout binge that McCullers has been on recently. Over his past five starts, McCullers has been throwing more sliders and fewer curve balls. And it seems to be working out pretty well because his strikeout rate in that time is 32% with a 3.38 skill interactive ERA. He has at least seven strikeouts in all five of those games. And he's taking that skill into a plus matchup for tonight. He's facing the Mariners who have a 91 WRC plus versus righties with a 26% strikeout rate. So they will draw some walks, which means it's not a perfect matchup, but it does help the McCullers is very good on the road. His strikeout rate has actually gone up on the road this year, which is pretty rare for a Houston guy. We talked last night at Belize Garcia, how his strikeout rate goes down in the road. That's not the case for McCullers. And it all combines to make me feel pretty good about him here. So it's not a bad pitching slate. There are some guys I do like, but I do think McCullers is the top guy on this slate. The other guys I like are all value plays. And that's not to say I don't like some of the other guys in the upper range.  Sandiel Contra has been struggling, Adam Wainwright, been very good, but facing Cleveland on the road at the DH. So I am okay skipping over the rest of the studs in dipping down to the value tier for the other two pitching recommendations for tonight. One reason why I'm willing to do that is because Charlie Morton is down there. I don't know why he's down here. His salary never goes up, but I think that I will take advantage tonight at $8,600 and go with Morton once again. He's facing the Mets and he had a string of two straight starts against them at the end of June and he dominated. He had 18 strikeouts across 13 innings. There has also been a month in between now which means the familiarity that they may have had then has hopefully worn off. And I think that gives us wiggle room to go back to him tonight. Those two Mets games were at the start of a super impressive stretch for Morton. He's up to a string of seven consecutive starts with at least seven strikeouts. He had 11 in one of those games and that 11 strikeout game came against the New York Mets. It was also on the road which helps for tonight with this game being in New York. And all those starts came after the sticky stuff memo was released. We know that Morton, you know, in his current state can do really well against this offense. Interestingly enough, Morton's velocity on his curve ball has been up over his past 10 starts. He has a 28% strikeout rate in that time. He's had tremendous bad at ball data. The only issue has been a few too many walks to drive up his pitch count. The Mets, not a super high walk team at least. You know, they're not low, but they're not a high walk team. And their strikeout rate is right about lead gathered at 24%. So I feel very good about where Morton himself is right now. And the matchup isn't one I think we need to avoid. I think it's pretty easy to put Morton second on our list behind just McCullers.  So Charlie Morton to me easily number two. And I would say he is very much in the same tier as McCullers contending for that top spot for tonight. Now again, Morton is technically our value play here. But again, I do think the other options I want to consider for tonight are also value plays. One is Kenta Maeda. The other is Dylan Cease. Maeda is on a team that is not competing. It doesn't seem like he'll get traded. I wouldn't think so given how team friendly his contract is, but that does add extra uncertainty with the twins not necessarily going all out to win games right now. I think they had Michael Panetta around 85 pitches last night that's, it's in my mind at least. So that's going to push me on to Cease in the three spot at $8,200. He's facing the Royals. It is a tough park for tonight because it is 92 degrees out. So that doesn't help by any means, but it's not a bad matchup. The Royals have a 91 WRC plus versus righties with a low walk rate. Not the biggest strikeout team. So if we're looking at just strikeouts, Kenta Maeda does have the advantage in that department, but they are a team that Cease can do well against. He's been pitching really well recently. He's lowered the usage on his foreseeing fastball over his past nine outings, allowing him to use other pitches. And that plan has worked out pretty well. He has a 3.43 skill interactive ERA in that nine start sample with a 31% strikeout rate. He has one of five pitches in the slate with a strikeout rate above 30%. But some of those guys are in shake your samples or shake your matchups as with Robbie Ray. So from a strikeout perspective, from an upside perspective, Cease is one of the top guys for tonight. The batted ball data for Cease is more middling, but again, we're allowed to focus on upside here because we've got McCullers and Morton for cash games. I think both those guys are viable for cash for tonight, which means we can sell out for upside in the third slot and focus just on tournaments. Cease has that upside. So again, we need guys who can separate from the pack. The way to separate from the pack at picture is get strikeouts. McCullers can get those, Morton can get those, and so can Cease. The Royals have not seen Cease since May 16th, so they're not familiar with his stuff. So I'm willing to ride him here after I get my allocated exposure to McCullers and Maeda.  I feel very good putting Morton and McCullers above him, so it is going to be pretty definitively those at the 1-2, and then I'll go Cease 3, Ken to May 8th of 4. We'll talk about a fifth pitching option in Things to Watch. Before that, do that though, we gotta go to stacks, and we have some flexibility with stacks for today because McCullers are 10-5, not that high-salary, and then the other guys are all value plays. We can kind of afford ourselves some luxury and going with them some studs, which means we can use Trey Turner and Wonsoto and stack the Nationals. And the Nationals are a very different team against lefties than versus righties. They're fine against righties, they're not like actively bad, but they're very boring. I think it's the word I would use for the Nats versus righties. Against lefties, their WRC Plus shoots up to 116, where they 190 ISO, that is the second highest ISO onto Night Slate, and they get a good matchup with they lefty for tonight. They are facing Matt Moore, he has been struggling since he came back to the rotation, at least from a peripheral's perspective. He has a 4.88 skill interactive, he already crossed five starts with a 19% strikeout rate, that is despite nine strikeouts in one game against Miami. So he had a high strikeout game and is still not really working it in the strikeout department. He's also leading up a 42% fly ball rate, and that can lead to dinger issues in a dinger friendly park against a powerful team, and we get all those things for tonight. We saw the Braves get to Moore last week, let up two home runs and six total earned runs, and I think we should feel good about the Nationals from a stacking perspective here. So again, we can get to the studs, Soto, disgusting versus lefties, despite being a lefty, Turner obviously very good too. We can potentially get some value to Ryan Zimmerman if he plays, he's got a lot of power at $2,600. They also did just promote Carter Kaibum, I would expect him to play a decent amount down the stretch. He wasn't like mashing in AAA, but he did hit for a lot more power against lefties than righties. So $2,200 potentially batting in the top two thirds of the lineup. I can get behind that for sure. So we should have the salary to get to the studs, but then maybe Zimmerman, maybe Kaibum has some value here as well. For our second stack, we gotta go back to Garrett Richards, which stinks because he did show some signs of life last week. If you were watching that game, you saw some pretty fun pitches from Richards. It was actually interesting and I was not enjoying it because I had stacked the Blue Jays, but then as the Blue Jays saw him more, they started to get him. They started to make some hard contact and get some damage against him. And now Richards has to face them a second consecutive time, which means we unfortunately should stack them once again here. And that nice start for Richards might not have been a fluke because he has added a changeup to his repertoire recently. He reportedly learned that pitch from Eduardo Rodriguez, which is a good person for him to learn a changeup. And it hasn't been a bad pitch for him. In the four starts with the changeup, he's had minimal walks, the fly ball rate is 31%, the hard hit rate is 39%. So he's better now than he was when the sticky stuff memo first came down. But if we look at just those four starts, the strike area for Richards is still just 15%. He is letting up a ball and play 80% of the time. And that's a tough recipe for success against such a powerful lineup. I don't think he'll necessarily be an auto-stack going forward because again, he looks like he has gotten better, but this is an elite offense, seeing him for a second straight game and they did eventually get to him last week. And that's enough for me to stack the Jays once again for tonight. Another thing that does help here is that changeups are better for countering guys with the platoon advantage.  In other words, righties are impacted the less. And the blue Jays, they've got a couple righties in their lineup. And we want to stack them with the forgiving salaries of pitchers. So we should be able to get to Vlad, should be able to get to Simeon, Bichette, et cetera, et cetera. We do have some value here with Gritchick and Lurdez-Guriel. They can be the keys if you want to stack McCullers and get those super, super high salary guys. And then we can make it work given Guriel and Gritchick are both $2,700 or lower. Finally, for our third stack, the twins have lost a lot of oomph recently with the Nelson Cruz trade and the Alex Kiriloff injury. But at least against lefties, they still have a lot of guys I'm willing to use. So I want to stack them tonight against Tyler Alexander. Alexander has been pitching long relief all year. Now he's getting stretched out as a starter for them. He profiles the person we will likely want to stack against. If you look at Alexander, including his time in the bullpen, he has had a 28 total appearances. His strike rate is 20% with a 5% walk rate, which means he's letting up a lot of balls and play. He has let up a 45% fly ball rate with a 38% hard hit rate. Now you're taking those numbers and likely declining them or making them worse because he's gonna go longer in games because you can't throw as hard. So you expect each individual number to go the wrong way as a guy gets stretched out. We saw the twins take advantage of that two starts ago. He went three and a third innings. It was his first start back in the rotation. He had just one strikeout, let up two earned runs in that time. This will be the fourth time that Alexander has faced the twins since July 9th. Two earned relief, but then that one start. But you combine that together and the twins know what's coming. So we do downgrade the twins significantly with Nelson Cruz being out. It matters a lot that they will not have that bat in the lineup, but even after doing so, I still think this is a good stack for tonight. The one big benefactor of Alexander's low strikeout rate is Brent Rooker, he's $2,100 and he's a guy who strikes at a time. Not quite Miguel Sineau, but kinda close. But he also has massive power again, some more two Sineau. He has put a ball in the third deck in two straight games. So for $2,100, I can take on a high strikeout rate especially against the low strikeout pitcher. And I would also expect Rooker to bat at a pretty impactful spot in the lineup for tonight. So I'll start there. I really love Mitch Garver who plays at $2,500, but I think Garver's caught the past two days. So Ryan Jeffers may start and send and Jeffers also has a lot of power versus lefties. So whether it's Garver or Jeffers, I think the twins catch it tonight will be in play from a stacking perspective and we'll talk about them in just a bit as well. But first let's talk about things to watch for tonight. I didn't get to shame McClanahan in the pitching section but I think he's at least on the radar for DFS now. The big thing for him is pitch count because early in the year they were not letting him go deep in the games. But the past two starts, McClanahan has gone 91 and 93 pitches. Those are his only two starts this year above 90. So it's still not high enough to love him for DFS because you do want like 100 or so pitches if you can but it's high enough to at least consider him. McClanahan has a 30% strikeout radius past five starts with less movement on his foreseen fastball. The Yankees aren't at full health. So I could definitely see using him here. I would rank him fifth behind the colors, Morton, Cece and Maeda but 15 games slayed. I think that the fifth ranked pitcher is least worth considering. So check out McClanahan, see if you like what you want. Make sure you're counting for a reduced pitch count for him relative to others but I would at least put him in your consideration set for tonight. Now I originally did want to stack the Cubs today. They're in a good spot against Vladimir Gutierrez, let's up a lot of fly balls and has been letting him more contact recently but how do your Bayez likely out tonight? They do get downgraded. It's not a certainty that Bayez is out but it sounds like he probably won't be playing for today. So I still think the Cubs are good for one offs. Chris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo, Wilson Catreras, et cetera, et cetera. If Rafael Ortega plays a minimum salary, I can get to him as well but they're just not as fun of a lineup without Bayez. So Cubs are in play but they do get downgraded likely with no Javier Bayez for tonight. Finally, I am down with the Phillies against Eric Feddy. He had a good outing last time out but that was against the Marlins. The Phillies are not great but they are a tougher spot than the Marlins are. Feddy isn't getting strikeouts, he's letting him too much hard contact so the Phillies work as a stack. I just can't push them too high because like the Cubs, they're not an elite offense. So the Phillies and the Cubs are considerations but I'd rank them behind the Nationals, Blue Jays and Twins for tonight. In the spirit of Dinger Tuesday, let's finish up here with some homerun calls for tonight. The boring one will be going back to the Blue Jays because why not? We'll go with George Springer.  Very good versus righties.  He will let up hard contact. Maybe not all the fly balls but I think there's enough there to love George Springer for tonight. The fun one is going back to the Twins and I said Twins catchers before purposely and I'm gonna keep that same phrasing here where my phone homerun call is the Twins catcher. Whether it's Mitch Garver or Ryan Jeffers, I think they're going deep tonight because they both can thump lefties. Good park for hitting tonight so give me George Springer and either Mitch Garver or Ryan Jeffers for tonight as the homerun calls and happy Dinger Tuesday to all who celebrate. That is all that we have here for today on the solo shop but as mentioned we are back twice later today with the PGA podcast at 10 a.m. on the Fandil YouTube page. We also have our Q&A going on later on 3.30. Brandon is talking men's golf. I believe women's as well. And I will have MLB at 4 p.m. So make sure you swing by the Fandil YouTube Twitch, Facebook and Twitter pages and subscribe to the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed. If you have questions for me before 4 p.m. I am on Twitter at Jim Sonnis, J-I-M-S-A-N-N-E-S. You can also follow the Fandil Podcast Network at Fandil Podcast. Thank you everyone for tuning in for today. Good luck for tonight. We'll talk to you once again tomorrow. 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Hi guys. Welcome back to my channel. Today's video I'm going to be discussing my rush week at UCF. I did go through sorority recruitment and I went up until preff night. So if you guys want to stick around and hear the story or my experience, then just keep watching. If you guys are new here, I would love to have you be a subscriber. So just click the red button down below and also turn on your post notifications. I just share my life and all my fun experiences. It also means the world to me if you follow me on Instagram. So check that out down below as well. I just wanted to preface this by saying I am not against sororities. I actually was super excited to be potentially joining one. I have been on rush tick talk and I just love seeing and hearing people's experiences. Getting into my experience. I had a pretty good experience and if I can find them, I will post some pictures so you guys can see kind of like what it was like. So starting off, I did have like a rocky start because there's certain like requirements I think like certain classes like you need to have so many, you need to be taking so many credits and I was going to be taking a trade class at Valencia because I didn't really like it at UCF but I ended up taking it at UCF long story but that's just for another time. Maybe my college experience video like actually what it was like going to UCF. But long story short, there was some drama with that because I was going to be taking a math class off of campus. So from the beginning, it was a little bit of a struggle but it all worked out and everything was fine. I did end up taking trig at UCF. Just a side note. What I remember was you had to upload a picture of yourself and like share your major on this website. I think it was UCF Panhellenic website and you just like input all this information. It was almost like you were applying for something, which you kind of were but like obviously you would get accepted because you're going to go through the rush process. So I just remember uploading my picture. I put my senior picture. It was this picture and I thought it looked good in it.  And I'm just going to say this too. A lot of people are like, there's no tears and blah, blah, blah. Guys, there's tears of life. Okay. There is a class system of life. There is, you're never going to get away from that.  I'm sorry. I was never in a sorority. So maybe people would say like, oh, Alex, like, you don't know what you're talking about. But just knowing and being on planet earth, I know that there's a tear system because there is and anything you do, cheer, dance, sports, whether it be like basketball, baseball, soccer, whether you play the violin or piano. Yes, there's a tear system, gymnastics, no matter what you do in life, jobs, there's always going to be a tear system. So yes, there's a tear system at all the colleges with these sororities. So I just want to throw that in there also to feel like this shirt gives panhellenic vibes. I don't know, very pastel. I know that my shirt was like pink and it had UCF and Chevron. It was like a green or like a yellow. I don't actually remember or still have it, but it might be in one of the photos. I know this video is like all over the place, but this was in 2015. So I'm just kind of like going off of like my memory and stuff. First was meeting all the houses and the girls. And that is when they just like scream at you in the door and like chant and stuff. And I thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone. There's only like a few houses that I just didn't really vibe with, but that's okay. One of my roommates was actually in a sorority and first sorority was like really nice, but they didn't have a house. And that was like one of my biggest criterias like they needed to have a house because like that's part of the experience and that's what you're paying for partially. The second day was like philanthropy day and that is when they just talk to you about their philanthropy. Like some were like St. Jude, Ronald McDonald house, autism speaks. Like they support a lot of nonprofits. Like each chapter has their own. And I remember I got called back to like a lot of the houses I really liked on the second round. And I was excited about that because two of them were like top tier, I guess it was Katie and ZTA. I think out of all of the houses, my favorite one was ZTA. I would love to have been in that one. And I did get called back to both of those for the second day. So I think I'm actually kind of proud of that because I don't know my roommate that was in a sorority. She was like saying that some of the girls in some of the chapters were like bragging on like how many they cut. And she was like talking about like some of those and I'm like, well, I made it to the second round. Yes. So I was kind of excited about that, just knowing kind of how they were and stuff. So that was cool. I liked Kappa Alpha Theta a lot, but they like dropped me I think on the first round as well as Kappa Kappa Gamma. I really liked them too because a lot of people in my major, which was Biomed, were in Kappa Kappa Gamma and I would be like kind of cool to be in that sorority with them. But I think they those two that I really liked also dropped me on the first day. So I was like, okay, I really like ZTA. I was hoping for them and everything. But obviously that didn't work out. But I do remember getting called back to those two houses on the second day, which was the philanthropy day. And after all of the days, you would wait in this big long line at the Panhellenic place because then you would file in and then you would rank and you didn't have like a lot of time to do this, you would like rank the sororities that you liked. So I'd always put like either ZTA or KD like on the top just because and since I'm a legacy of both of those sororities, like maybe that's the reason why I got called back for the second round. Because Valerie was a ZTA and then Sheri was a KD. So I really only think maybe that was the only reason why I got called back. But whatever I like to think of it being my good merit and personality and maybe looks who knows. But anyway, so we put all of our like preferences and stuff and then that would just be like the end of every day. So then going to day three, day three was video day. And I remember video day was pretty cool. I got to see videos of like the sisterhood. I actually get really inspired by sorority videos for like my own videography purposes. And I know that's kind of weird, but like whoever produces them and stuff is super talented. There's some really good ones out there. So if you want to get like creative with like angles shots, people poses, check out sorority recruitment videos because like that's kind of where I get inspiration. So check those out. So I got called to, I think my last houses were Delta Zeta and I loved Delta Zeta. If I, if they had a house, I would probably be a DZ because I really liked that sorority a lot. But again, one of my criteria is was they had to have a house. And then I got called back to Chi Omega. This is for video day remember because we're past, we're past philanthropy day. I got called back to Chi Omega and that was like my least favorite one. Sorry if you're in that one. I got into an argument with this one girl about like what classes you had to take as like a biome major. And I'm like, well, my like guidance counselor person like said this and it was like kind of awkward. I didn't really like them. Sorry, I'm just being completely honest. And then gamma Phi Beta and they were nice too. But like, I just didn't really like that one again. Sorry. Again, my roommate was a gamma Phi Beta and she was like super cool and stuff. I just didn't really like vibe with that one. And again, they didn't have a house. And I know that sounds crazy. But again, if you're spending thousands of dollars to be an organization, number one, you should be able to like kind of choose which one you want to be in because you're paying like thousands of dollars and they should have a house. So those are the three that I got to see video day. And one of them, I think it was Chi Omega, they use like the song by the like, it's like think I could fly. It's by Cal Lantis or something. I don't know Pamela reef uses it in one of her videos. So that's why I just think it's so funny. Okay, so next was preff night or preff day. And I got preffed for gamma Phi Beta and Delta Zeta, I believe, I'm not sure. And like, I really liked them. But again, they didn't have houses. And I didn't really like vibe well with the gamma Phi Beta just cuz. So I decided to drop I didn't make it to bid day, because I was like, I don't want to waste people's times and stuff. And my rogue gamma was so nice. I think she still follows me on Twitter. And UCF pan Hellenic follows me on Twitter. So that's really, really funny. Everyone was super nice. And there's another girl that was really nice. And she still follows me on Twitter for some reason, she probably thinks I'm like a lunatic now. But there's really cool people. And I didn't not have a good time. I had a good time up until that time where I dropped. But since I got my little like thing, and it said like, these are the ones or whatever that you're most likely going to get a bid from I just told my rogue gamma like, hey, I want to drop. And she was like, she didn't push me at all. She was like, really cool about it. And I was just like, this is why and blah, blah, blah. So she was like, okay, I had like a couple papers to like sign saying like, I'm going to drop and everything. So I really wish that we had more control over which house we got and like where we felt comfortable and stuff. And in the grand scheme of things, an organization just like anything else, kind of the money is a big aspect. So you know, I kind of looked at it is, if you don't want my money, then like, okay, there you go. Like it's fine. Guess we're just not meant to be. But I think my favorite part was seeing inside of the houses. Oh my gosh, try Delta's house was my favorite. Oh my gosh, it was so big, and it was so cool. I honestly just wanted to get called back to that house because their house was like gorgeous.  I really liked pie pie. Their house was like really cute. It was very like homey. Like, I remember I loved 80 pie, but they dropped me like the first cut. So I'm like, okay, guess they weren't vibing with me. Like I was hoping to get in that sorority, just because I know a lot of 80 pies. But I guess it just again, wasn't cut out, which is fine. But yeah, I think if I did join a sorority, though, I would have had a better college experience. But going back, I think everything happens for a reason. And I'm really happy that I went through the experience because I don't want to like look back and be like, oh, I wish I rushed because I knew I wanted to rush. And I wanted to be in a sorority so bad, like you guys don't understand, like I was ready to buy all of the stuff. But I'm also so happy I didn't just settle with a sorority just to be in one. It's kind of like a relationship, you shouldn't settle. So I am happy that I didn't just settle on one just to be in a sorority.  I'm glad I did it. I am kind of sad that I didn't get one with a house and everything. And everyone was really nice. Like everyone that was going through rush with me, they were all cool people. And there was like no drama or anything. And meeting all the girls too, like I really thought I was gonna get a bid from Kappa Kappa Gamma because like I knew so many of the girls in there at least like eight because we had classes together. So I'm like, maybe someone's not putting in a good word for me. Like, you know what? All right, I see how it is. Oh, I did want to add it was super hot and uncomfortable during those times, because it was like in the middle of like August. Oh, it was horrible.  Like there was no transportation system. So it was horrible. It is what it is. I think sororities should do, you know, like a different system because I just don't like the way they do it. I think it should just be like you should join. If you want to join, you're gonna get your money either way. So like just be more money, right? So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you guys have any other questions about sorority recruitment at UCF, leave your comments down below. So make sure to give this video a thumbs up, subscribe to my channel, and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye.