How to work with CJ dropshipping, one of the best suppliers that we can work with today on our dropshipping business. CJ dropshipping has maybe not been around for a while, at least not as long as Aliexpress and Alibaba, but they are a direct competitor to them and are actually much better in so many ways. In this video, I'm going to talk about CJ dropshipping, how to work with them, a full overview on the supplier and everything that you can do with them and how to profit in your dropshipping business. So just watch this quick intro and let's begin. Okay, so what are some of the benefits of working with CJ dropshipping? The first one, they have a huge variety of products. Let me just show you their website. So here's CJ dropshipping's website. As you can see, it kind of resembles Aliexpress's website where you got the categories on the left side, a rotating banner here in the middle and the categories even look the same. They have the same words and maybe even the same icons, I'm not sure. But when you hover over them, you get all the subcategories on the right. So once again, it really resembles Aliexpress's layout, at least their basic layout. And they got flash sales, flash deals, just like Aliexpress. The reason that I'm showing you guys that they very much resemble Aliexpress is just so you can see the comparison and that they are really trying to compete with them. They're seeing exactly what their main competitor is doing. And they're implementing the same practices on their website, which is very similar to the advice that I'm always giving you guys when it comes to looking at what your competitors are doing, whether it's their Shopify stores or the products that they're selling on eBay or Shopify or Facebook or any other selling platform, you copy your best competitors practices and do the same things on your store. Do not copy the same products one by one, but do find similar ones and so forth. So always get inspired by your main competitors, which is what they did over here. So here's CJ Dropshipping's main website. And as you can see, they have a lot of categories, lots of subcategories and lots of products which we didn't get to yet. Another great advantage of working with CJ Dropshipping is that they have US warehouses. So a lot of their inventory is already inside a US warehouse and they can ship it out from the US to the US anywhere between two to five days. Some products you have to pay for shipping, others you won't have to. And there's a link right here which can take you straight to the USA warehouse or you can simply search for any product on CJ Dropshipping and simply filter it by the US warehouse as you can see over here. And as you can see, they also have a warehouse in Thailand, China, Germany, Indonesia, Australia, Japan, Canada and we can go on and on and on and on. So as time passes, I can see that more and more warehouses are being added to this list. CJ Dropshipping wants to be one of the biggest suppliers or local suppliers that's available all around the world. So a worldwide supplier that's available everywhere. So in our case, we're talking about the US. So we're going to search for products for any product that they have in the US warehouse. So right now there's a search with no words at all. So I'm just getting all kinds of random products from a US warehouse or I can search for something specific. But let's just go inside any product and see what we have in store. It'll take me to the product page where I can get more information about the product. But I want to show you that it's actually coming out of a US warehouse. So here we have this electric van car dual head cooling. So it's two fans for your car that are USB operated shipping from a US warehouse. So this product costs $19.78. And as you can see, we got free shipping over here. So we're shipping from the US to the US. This product will arrive anywhere between three to seven days. Standard US shipping estimated delivery time three to seven days shipping costs $0 tracking information available. So that's how you know that the products are coming out of US warehouses. And that is one of the biggest advantages when working with CJ Dropshipping. There are so many warehouses to choose from. Therefore, you can ship quickly to any country that you want. Just search for the product, see if it matches your warehouse, see if it matches your location, put up that product up for sale. And when people buy it, they will see that it will arrive fast to their country. And that is going to give you a nice competitive edge over your competition. Another reason to work with CJ Dropshipping is because they have reliable customer support. So for any problem that you may be having, you can simply on the top right, go to their support center, click on ticket. And here you can open a ticket, wait for them to get back to you, which is usually quick, or you can even open a live chat as you see here on the bottom left and get a representative to chat with you live on any problem that you may be having. So customer service is one of the most important parts when it comes to running a successful drop shipping business for the long term. And this is one of the things that we really want to pay attention to make sure that the suppliers that we are working with have good customer service that we can pass on to our buyers. Another great advantage of working with CJ Dropshipping is that you can source products and negotiate to get better prices. So this is something that a lot of people are doing. Not too many people have too much field experience when it comes to sourcing products, but you should know that CJ Dropshipping does have an option to source your products. You can even buy inventory, you can buy stock from a Chinese warehouse, store it in a US warehouse. So if for example, you have a product that is selling well, but it's coming from China and the shipping times are slow, you can ask CJ Dropshipping to source this product for you, you can get a quote. They will quote you for, let's say you want to get 100 pieces of some teddy bear from China. So there's a place where you can post a sourcing request. Once again, all the links that I'm clicking on, everything that I'm showing you guys, I remind you is on the blog in the link below this video. So what I can do in this sourcing request, I can click on individual product. And here I can tell CJ Dropshipping, Hey, look, I got this product, either it's selling really well for me. So can you get me a price if I want to get 300 of this unit and store it in your warehouses. So they can source this product, find it from Chinese suppliers and get a nice quote for you to ship some inventory to CJ Dropshipping's warehouse. You can also check with suppliers by yourself, see how much it's going to cost and then talk to CJ Dropshipping about how much it's going to cost to store those products in their warehouse. So you can do it both ways. And another thing that you can do here is you can simply tell them, Hey, look, there's this product that's selling really well. Maybe you guys should bring it to your stock or allow me to drop ship it so you can either make a bulk purchase, ask for a quote for a bulk purchase or click on drop shipping and give them the URL of a product that's selling really well. And simply what you're doing here is you're recommending them to get this product to a US warehouse or to any other regions warehouse, because you know that this product is going to sell well for them. So you can do two things here, they both work really well. And this is a great benefit when it comes to working with CJ Dropshipping. I can't think of too many suppliers that give all of these benefits all in one package from one supplier. There's only one at this point and it is CJ Dropshipping. Another great benefit of working with them is that you can combine several packages in one package or several products in one package. So in other words, today, for example, when you're buying products, for example, from Amazon or Home Depot or Walmart or even AliExpress, Lowe's, Home Depot or any supplier that you can think of, once you add several products, they are not coming from the same warehouse. So if one customer buys five products from your store, and you buy those products and ship it out to that customer, they're going to get their packages at different times and different days, which is not practical or convenient at all. But when buying from CJ Dropshipping, five different items, but from the same warehouse, they will all be packaged up under the same package. So the customer is only going to get one package on one day and that is going to make it that much more convenient. So several products under one package is another great advantage that we have when working with CJ Dropshipping. Another great benefit is that you can add white label branding. This means that if you're already running your own brand and you want each package to come out with a specific box or a specific brand in specific brand packaging, then you can do that simply reach out to CJ Dropshipping, tell them all the orders coming out of my account, I want it to be done like this with that, they will tell you what they need on their side to make that work. And that is how you can get white label branding on your packages easily with CJ Dropshipping. Again, I can't think of one supplier that can put all of these packages, all of these benefits under one supplier, except for CJ Dropshipping, which is what makes it so great to work with. Now, when it comes to return policies, it may not be as simple as other methods like Amazon Prime, where you have 30 days, no questions asked whatsoever. CJ Dropshipping does make it a little bit more difficult when it comes to returns. So thank God that returns don't make up for most of our work. It's just a small percentage, but it's very important to take this into account. So they have no problem with returns, no problem with refunds and replacements. But just like any other Chinese supplier, they'd rather not get the product shipped back, they would want you to work it out with your buyer. Maybe they can send you some kind of compensation depends on really what the problem is, and you can move that on to your buyer. At the end of the day, they'd rather not get the packages back. If something arrived damage or didn't arrive on time, you can always reach out to CJ Dropshipping, they'll send another package out, and that will fix that problem. But it really depends on what the problem is and what you can do, and how they can help you solve it. So if you want to learn about CJ Dropshipping's return policies, we have a link to it in the blog, which I said again is right below this video. But if you want to go over their refund policies, they have a full page for that, very, very descriptive. And again, you can always reach out to their customer support for any problem that you're having, and they will do their best to help you out just as you're doing your best to help out your buyers. Everybody's looking for customer satisfaction, we all understand that the long term survivability of our dropshipping business relies very much on customer service. So go over the refund policies a little bit and always know that you can reach out to them on any problem that you have. Now, one of the biggest advantages of working with the supplier is the next benefit that I'm going to talk to you guys about. They have POD, which means print on demand. So you can actually dropship print on demand products. And this is really, really great. Let me show you what I mean. So I'm going to click on the printful print on demand solution link on the blog, or just go to CJ dropshipping and on the top bar, you'll have the print on demand link. So it's going to take you to this page print on demand, you sell, we print, print and ship on demand worldwide. So what you can do here is pretty self explanatory. You can sell products to your customers and ask them how they want to customize it, what text they want to add to the t-shirt or to whatever it is that they are buying. So if you have a pet niche or if you have a general store, definitely, definitely check out print on demand and see if your customer base fits this model. A lot of people love to customize their orders and not many dropshippers know how to do it print on demand is one of the best aspects when it comes to dropshipping. Once again, because not a lot of people are doing it and you can really be one of the first to utilize it without buying all of the shirts in advance and buying inventory before you sell them. So print on demand, one of the best features that we have on CJ dropshipping. Another reason to use them is that they can offer you a service to make professional videos for a product that you are selling well. So if there is any product that you are selling well and there is no video for that product, you can reach out to CJ dropshipping, tell them, hey, I'm selling this product really well. Can you make a video for this product and they will guide you through that process. Here, there's a page where you can see how they are implementing what I just explained. So video for winning products. Here they can give you that same service that I just talked about making great images, which usually you won't want to go for images. Usually your product should have images, but you can ask them to make white backgrounds, transparent backgrounds, as you can see here and so forth. But really the banger here is the videos. If you're dropshipping, for example, on Shopify, videos is one of the best ways to showcase your products. So if you're missing a video for your product, CJ dropshipping has you covered. Now the next thing that I want to talk about is product finding. Aside from providing professional customer service and working really hard on the customer service part, the other part that you need to work on really, really hard is your product research and which products you are selling on your store. That's the difference between products that will sell and products that won't sell. And the customer service that you do need to work hard on is for the long term survivability of your dropshipping business. Product research, how can we find the right products to sell from CJ dropshipping or any other supplier for that matter. Well, there's a few things that you can do, but one of the best things is something that I mentioned a few minutes ago in this video getting inspired from your competitors, seeing what they are selling, what's going well for them and looking for similar products to the ones that they are selling. You can try to sell the same product, but you will have to obviously change the product description, change the title, change the marketing angle a little bit and so forth. But the best thing that I would do and what I do on my stores is I simply look for similar products, maybe a different variation of that product, a different color or a different size, a product that has the same features but has some more additional features. Look for similar products to the ones that are selling from other eBay sellers or from other Shopify sellers or whatever selling platform you are selling on. The second method is to simply use your supplier and search for products there. So let's do that on CJ dropshipping. Here I am on their website. Here on the left side, we have the categories. So let's just go ahead and hop into any category. Anything here would fit the dropshipping business model. So it's not like other suppliers that you have to watch out for and see exactly which categories you're under and seeing if these products are, you know, if you can even resell them. So you won't be having that problem here. So let's go to home garden furniture. Let's go to curtains. Okay, so now I'm getting a whole bunch of curtains and pictures and other home decor products. Now, what I would want to do here is search for products that are actually selling well for the supplier. So what I would do is first you can sort it by the best match. This gives you those products that are usually selling the most. And the next thing that you want to do is see the lists. So here you can you're actually checking the popularity of this product. And this icon is showing you free shipping. Now I want to remind you guys if you're working with auto DS, you can include the shipping price always in the product's price. So whether the supplier gives you free shipping or not auto DS knows to take that shipping price added to your product price and still offer free shipping to your customers. So you do not have to worry about the shipping price but do take it into consideration for products that do have shipping prices. So what you want to do here is to check the actual popularity of the product. So one way to do that is the higher the lists, the more popular it is. And if we click on a product like this one, for example, let's go inside the product listing. So here is the product page. Now what I want to do is take a look at the product scroll down and see that there's a lot of information. We got the sizes, we got the product description and we got even more photos. So again, this really much resembles Ali Express' layout but that's not the point here. So first what we can see is everything here is complete and we really don't need anything else to sell this product but what we do want to do is to see if this product is even popular. We want to check it in the market. So if you're dropshipping on eBay, what you want to do here is copy the product's title but not all of it. Let's just take what this product is and maybe one feature that it has. So this is an Indian Mandala tapestry wall hanging throw bedspread yoga mat. It's not a yoga mat. Decor blackout curtains. So it looks like a hanging wall photo but it's actually a window curtain. So in this case, what I'm going to do is search for blackout curtains that have Indian in it. Let's see if we can find something close or something that's selling. So this is a very random product that I just chose but let's just go with it and understand the structure which is the most important thing here. So I'm going to search for blackout curtains Indian and let's even add blue. Okay, so what I'm seeing here is not the same product that I was seeing on CJ dropshipping. Let's put them side by side to remind you guys what we are trying to sell and what we're actually seeing here. So nothing here looks the same not even close. The next thing I want to do is see if this product is even popular like if people are buying this product enough. So here on the left side we have sold items but not completed items. So I'm going to go back and uncheck completed items. Now I can see items that are being sold that have the words blackout curtains Indian and blue in them and as you can see nothing looks like the product that we saw on CJ dropshipping but all of these products did sell. So today is May 4th and as you can see this product sold on May 2nd. This one sold on April 24th. This one on May 2nd. This one on February. This one on April 2nd. So all of these products did sell in the last month. Let's scroll up a little bit. Here we got May 2nd, April 27th, April 25th. So all in the last week or two. So people are buying products that have blackout curtains and some Indian design in them in the color blue. So maybe this product will sell. Maybe we can give it a try. That is just one example of how you want to do it. But since the products there really were curtains and this looks more like a wall photo I would move on to the next product. But that is a really quick example of how you'd want to take a product search for it on eBay or any other platform that you want to sell on and see if this product is even popular if it's even selling. So that is one way to conduct your product research. Now remember CJ dropshipping's got warehouses all around the world. So anytime you see a popular product you can definitely find it on CJ dropshipping. In a warehouse that's probably closer to your target audience or try it on different warehouses to different regions in different locations and see if the product that is selling well in China or in the US can also sell well in UK or any other country that you can think of. So that is another great thing that we can do with the multiple warehouses that we got and one of the best ways to conduct product research. So we talked about all of the important things when it comes to CJ dropshipping especially the things that really helped them stand out with their sourcing fulfillment services print on demand and their photography and video service and also their custom packaging. I really hope that you guys found this video informational. If you have any questions about CJ dropshipping, if there's anything you want to know let me know in the comments below and I will personally answer your suggestions and your comments. And once again guys if you're new to our channel this is the part where you need to subscribe to always stay updated on all of the latest and all of the hottest topics that we have coming out in the dropshipping world that has always been created from dropshippers for dropshippers such as yourselves. Thank you for watching. Good luck with CJ dropshipping. See you in the future videos.


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Welcome to Digital Asset News. Take a top story in cryptocurrency and digital assets and bring around a bite-sized piece. Today, it's a pretty great story about global domination. First up, PayPal acquires crypto security from Curve for only $200 million, which in all realities is just a drop in the bucket. And I'm going to show you why I believe that PayPal is going to become one of the biggest players in the cryptocurrency and digital asset space with this acquisition. On top of that, we're going to take a look at Binance Coin or BNB being offered for live staking over there on Binance. And at first glance, it looks pretty great at 20, almost 28%. Until you look at the details, you realize this isn't really much that is special. And it's just a great marketing ploy on top of the fact that other institutions or brokerages in this case, Voyager getting into a massive staking opportunities. But again, you have to peel back the onions to take a look at all the layers. So we'll take a look at what's going on there. But first take a look at the markets with today, it is March 9th, 6 p.m. Houston, Texas time. And we're still in Houston, dealing with our investment property.  I don't get it or whatever. And just cosmetic stuff. But this is the great thing about being in crypto. I mean, you can take profits when you need your profits and put them into other opportunities that are out there, whether that be land, whether that be homes, loans, other opportunities as far as cryptocurrency, whatever you want to do. And these are the times to do it because this is a great bull run.  I think it's going to be massive, but only time will tell. But these are the things that we'd like to do, me and my wife. So we'll just keep doing those. Anyhow, let's take a look at what's going on in the market today. Let me blow this up so you can see what the heck I'm talking about. So first up, Bitcoin. Great job. I mean, it's almost at $55,000. It's probably going to hit that tonight, maybe $56,000 tomorrow. Who knows? Maybe $60,000? It's crypto. No, it's everybody's guess. It's a crapshoot. 6% in 24 hours. Ethereum, off that news of the EIP 1559. They're going to burn Ethereum and they're going to reduce those minor fees to like a standard one. So we'll see how that works out. We did a video about this. And again, it's a great start, but they have to do more and just, that's the truth. Binance coin up massively. And this is the problem with our market. We hear about these great yields. We're like, great, this is awesome. This is a great story. But we don't really look at what's going on as far as like the details. And that's why I need to share this with you. Cardano's up. Tethers, nobody cares. Polkadot is up as well. And just so you know, real quick that Polkadot is up. First of all, there's a couple of partnerships to renounce. Pocosvops really jumping off, all these different things. But on top of that, you've also got a ledger live integration, where you're going to be able to stake Polkadot on ledger. So that'll be coming out very soon, actually. So I'm excited about that myself. We've got that on top of what else is up big time. XRP, resilient, good for you guys. Litecoin up, privacy, number one, all that great stuff. 4%, Rapterra, 22%. They're doing a lot of, you know, so Terra is, it's all about stable coins, a basket of stable coins, which is really what I think Facebook is trying to do. And Terra just beat them to it. And they're making a lot of partnerships. So they're going to be great. But there was Iota up, some more partnerships that were announced. And it's about the same thing. But there was one more that Theta network was up because of Sony and those types of things. And then Dogecoin is up because Mark Cuban tweeted out that the Dallas Madrex are going to accept Dogecoin. Who cares? So if you're holding Dogecoin great, it went up, I don't know. Actually, it went down 3%. So that's Doge. All right. So that's what's going on the market. Let's jump into the main top story, shall we? Let's do that. So first up, PayPal acquires a curve. Who cares? Right?  It is, but it isn't. This is, this is a big story. I'm going to tell you why. So first up, it was sold for, it was PayPal acquired curve and their team for $200 million. And before people like, wow, it's a lot of money. That's nothing. I mean, that's for, for what they got and what they're going to do with this. This is like a drop in the bucket. PayPal, I think that's probably their tip money.  We need you guys to do certain things. And it's not going to be for custody services, which is what I thought it was going to be. It's something totally different. So going into this curve is a growing number of companies, including Bitco, a company that PayPal explored buying last year that helped banks and others protect their crypto holdings from hackers. So if you remember, not too long ago, there was a great story about PayPal was going to be looking into Bitco to actually, you know, purchasing that for their security solution for whatever reason or another, it just kind of fell through. I don't know what it was, but when you take a look at curve, we're going to take a look at that, not in great detail because it's pretty tactical stuff, but you're going to see why they went with curve because it's the future. And it's, it's, it goes beyond cold storage. It goes beyond multi signatures. It just goes beyond all that and it makes things incredibly safe. And that's what PayPal is looking for. So on top of that, the company is a pioneer and they're talking about curve and using multi-party computation or MPC to safeguard holdings. This is the difference. Unlike traditional storage techniques, which typically rely on scattering the key to a digital wall in various places, MPC multi-party computation relies on mathematics and cloud computing to prevent unauthorized access. So instead of just having somebody who's like somewhere, remember all those scams that were going on where you had like one CEO and he was the only one with the private key and then all of a sudden he would just disappear. Well, that just goes away because they're going to allow from multi-party computations a plethora of people to make these computations or to, to get into their system in an air-gapped way. And they'll be able to sign off on different signatures and for transactions so they can move these funds around. But it won't be one person. It won't be a single point of failure. And that's what makes this great. So in an interview with Decrypt, Jose Fernandez de Pante, VP and General Manager of PayPal's Blockchain, said PayPal has been in talks with Curve for nearly a year. So, you know, this wasn't just a haphazard thing, which I wouldn't think that a multi-billion dollar company would do, and they didn't. They sought to acquire the 40 person team due to its sophistication. So then it goes on and talks about Curve is not being acquired to run a custody service. This was interesting, which involves charging third parties to safeguard their assets. Instead, PayPal will rely on Curve's technology to provide a security layer for PayPal's own digital assets. They're not going to custody for anybody else. It's just their own that they're going to be just holding and accumulating and just letting it sit there. So this is what they're trying to do. And they're going to own so much cryptocurrencies and digital assets. I think at some point they will probably rival Grayscale. Imagine a world which PayPal, imagine a world which PayPal is different custody providers and needs to move assets from one provider to another. While PayPal's crypto service is only available in the US, the common points to how the company is not just planning to expand its retail crypto offerings, but to deploy crypto's underlying technology blockchain on a global scale. And then to finish up, the biggest opportunity for crypto to transfer and finance lies beyond peer-to-peer consumer transactions. Instead, he points to the potential for merchants, people like me, that use PayPal and they can buy stuff on it, the 346 million merchants that they have access to payment transaction costs, the sort charged by banks credit card networks and others have remained stubbornly high despite the arrival of new efficiencies. Trust me, I know because I, first of all, PayPal still charges 1.99% plus 30 cents per transaction. The same thing that Stripe does. So I don't know what they're talking about. Hopefully they can drop those prices. These costs, which are passed on to consumers are especially stiff for poor consumers. They can move monies across borders. What was the big thing here? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So far, PayPal has been tight lipped by the technology. They said the system that they need to adapt has to have high throughput in the form of thousands of transactions per second. He noted that the company has looked at blockchains like Ethereum, Stellar, Algorand and Solana, but emphasized that it's not endorsing any of them for now. So lots of breakdown here. But when they talk about, it's just for us. It's just the things that we want to do. First of all, when you buy cryptocurrency on PayPal, you're not getting cryptocurrency. You're getting paper crypto. You can't transfer it off that platform into a cold storage. It just doesn't work like that. Everything is settled in US dollars, even the things that you pay for emersions because PayPal knows at some point all fiat throughout the history of the world has failed at some point or another. So like, you know what? We want something better than that. We want something that actually will not go away for a long, quite a long time and it's truly finite. So that's why they picked Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin. So all those different things, they're just going to accumulate over and over and over again. And what are they going to do? They're going to give you dollars. What has happened to the dollar since 1910? Well, it's just been devaluing as time has gone on. So they were just accumulating, accumulating, accumulating. This is great news for PayPal, which really what it comes down to. If you take a look at it, when I talk about how they're going to dominate, so if they're not going to let everybody have their hands in the cookie jar to get the crypto, well, first of all, how many do they have compared to like the other exchanges? Well, this is a nice little article I found over at shrimpy.io and they talked about Coinbase and Binance. This was in October of 2020. So I'm sure they've gone up a little bit, sure. Coinbase, the stats are around 30 million users. Binance, they said similar to Coinbase with no precise numbers. However, based on an interview given by CZ, he suggests they support about 15 million users. And it probably could be more than that. I have no idea. I know one article he says, CZ said that there's 100 million users as far as cryptocurrency globally, not that he has 100 million, but there's 100 million globally. So we take a look at that. And let's take a look at how many PayPal has. Well, PayPal has 286 million active users and their merchants are 386 million right there. So when I talk about how PayPal is going to be one of the dominating factors, what do you think has more pull right now? If Binance lists a coin, Coinbase lists a coin or PayPal lists Solana. What do you think would happen to that price right now? Do you think it'll be bigger over on Coinbase or Binance? Not anymore. Not anymore. They've got four. And if they list the next one or the next three or the next five doesn't matter, all those will go to the moon. So this, I think is a pretty big thing. On top of that, I would say about this curve, when people are like, you know, what is so great about it? First of all, I think the smart people that are in this space are using curve. They're not using cold storage on a ledger institution-wise. This is not for like me and you retail schlubs. It's just for institutions. And I actually talked about this in one of my videos when I talked about iTrust. iTrust is the Roth IRA that I use, that I've been using now for two years and I'm heavily into over there Bitcoin, a little bit of gold and silver, but Ethereum and Polkadot because in Q2 you're going to be able to stake in iTrust and it will not be taxed because it's a Roth IRA. And you can check out that video a little bit. But the whole thing with this is it just talks about how iTrust got involved with curve and they're using curve for their institutional storage and how great it is. And then just real quick to simplify this, this is how curve works. You know, we talked about that multi-party computation, NPC. So what you can do here is you can customize the wallet, spending rules that govern how and funds can be transferred from your wallets. You can specify any combination which uses groups and machines can improve different transactions. So these are for large institutions like a PayPal. Execute with speed. You don't need to have cold wallets and physical vaults and all that goes with them with curvy of the security of a cold wallet with the convenience of a cloud service. Pretty interesting. You can use any blockchain on top of that. And the very last thing is that you can authenticate users through MFA's easily add and remove users, change permissions, move them between groups and grant them access to wallets, loss devices, deprovision employees and share management can be done in a click. On top of that they have a $50 million insurance policy for all cryptocurrency. So when you're looking at something that you know really could change things, this is one of those. And I think this was a great move. So I think the biggest losers today probably will be Bitco. I mean they were close to getting bought out, just didn't work out. And I mean it is what it is. So let me know what you think in the comment section. And let's move on to our next piece. And let me just preface it with this. If you're looking for a Roth IRA, crypto Roth IRA, if you have additional 401k, 403b, military TSP, 457, get with these guys. These are the ones that I use. There's a link in the description. Get 30 days for free and just sit down with them. I did a 30 minute call with them first because I was like, I don't know why I would need this. And then when we sat down, I understood why. I also did a quick little video. It's about, what is this, about 23 minutes and explains the difference between a Roth, a traditional and a SEP and how much you can save in taxes. And here's a hint, you pay zero in taxes with the Roth IRA. All right, let's move on to our last piece actually. So next up, finance is now life. I'm not going to bore you with the other details and the hype because who cares? This is what it is. The interest rate that you're going to get for that 27%, it's all how much you want to lock up and the minimum maximum amounts, okay? So the 30 day lockup is 8%. All right, you know, not too bad. I get 8% for 30 days. Great. But you got a maximum limit of 5,000 BNB per user. Still not too bad, right? 8%. I'll take it. The real question is, are they going to be able to do this again and again and again? The answer, I have no idea. I would think that at some point, maybe these would stay, but the higher tiers would probably go away. 60 day lockup offers 12% and it has a maximum limit of 500 BNB per user. So you're like, all right, 500, I guess. And then, but that's a lot of BNB, let's be honest, because like BNB right now is like 200 bucks, so it's a lot of money. But to get that pretty good one, 90 day lockup offers 16.5% APY, maximum limit of 100. And interestingly, the highest API of 27.5% is given out to the shortest duration of 15 days. However, users are limited to deposit only five tokens in this offer. And it's a first come first serve. The time of press, the 30-day offering was the only rate available. So I gotta tell you, bravo, Binance. That's pretty good. And I know some people will say, well, that's, you know, it still is pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty good. I mean, it's great. I mean, if you're looking at it, you're like, this is a pretty good deal. I should do this.   But I know they were, they were doing the same thing with like other cryptos they were offering like people just to ship it over there. And they were giving them these great rates. And everybody thought it was like forever. And it was like 30 days.  So just be aware that the things that get into these APYs and yield and stuff like that, just look at the fine detail.  Oh, it was only for 30 days. I got you. So on top of that is also friends of the show, Voyager. Yeah, Rob's a shill. What are you gonna do? Oh, one more thing, things I talk about on this channel, I'm pretty biased, because I own everything I talk about it pretty much on, like, let's accept Solana. I don't own Solana. Although I should sounds pretty good. I just added Swissborg actually to my to my account. We did a an interview with these guys. I just, I just I was picked off because I couldn't get it. And I put a little tweet, I'm like, I'd love to get it. And then of course, people smarter than me, which isn't hard. They said, hey, just go over to Kucoin, and you can get it. And that's exactly I did. American users, even people in Texas, they can open up an account and they can buy up Swissborg. And the fees are pretty reasonable. I have no affiliate link. Just go to Kucoin. That's all I got. Anyhow, Voyager, not to be outdone, they're like, hey, look, we got some some great APY. And they talk about welcome to March interest mania interest rates for this month have been raised. So you get 9% of USDC. That's pretty good. 6.25 on Bitcoin, 5.2 on ETH 8% on that's pretty good. 5.25 on ADA. It's really good 5.5 and link really good 6.5 on Litecoin. So again, do not think that these are all set in stone and you will get these at all times. So if you don't have your crypto on Voyager, you can put it over there. And this is what you get. Just leave it on there. And that's pretty much how it is.    Sometimes I don't get to send over the ledger. That's just how it goes. So just keep it on there and you will gain some interest. Now, everything else, of course, if you want to keep it in like your own wallet with your own mnemonic phrases, and do it like that, like, I'm excited about Polkadot being on the ledger and I can stake it. I'm probably going to do that. Anyhow, so that's what's going on today in the world. And it's supposed to be, that's supposed to be, it will be a great year. And, you know, we saw these big dips, these peaks and valleys, and I know people were flipping out.  It's going to go up, it's going to go down. But just look at the four year cycles like we always talk about, and look at all the news, all the positive news that is going on. Can you imagine this happening in 2017 where we have a PayPal buying an institutional grade custody service just so they can move some money around and store all their crypto? Would you ever imagine that Elon Musk would be tweeting him about Dogecoin and the SEC would might be investigating him because of Doge, or the fact that they bought billions or 1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin, MicroStrategy, MassMutual, everybody else that you could probably, you know, put in there, Paul Tudor Jones, and all those guys. I mean, it's going to be a great year. So, all you got to do, this is, this is what I always tell myself.  That's really all I got. All right, so look, that's it for today. If you like the video, go ahead and give it a thumbs up that helped the channel tremendously. I'd appreciate that. Also, consider subscribing. A lot of things we talk about are time sensitive and that is it. So, I'll link that video about the Roth IRA at the end and I'll let YouTube do its magic for the other one. So, that's it. Thanks for watching. I appreciate it and I'll see you on the next one.


Good day, fellow investors. I'm here today with Peter Barclayn, who is a professional asset manager. He runs the niche master's fund, which is a fund that focuses on small niche companies that are great businesses and that have an advantage over other businesses. He was a consultant for more than 30 years. He had the consulting business with his partner, Perry Enster, that we did an interview a few weeks ago, and they were consulting companies like Deloitte, Unilever, IBM, you name it. He has a consulting experience, and now he is really a professional asset manager. The beautiful thing is, and also the reason why I am here now talking to him, is that you and Perry have your money in the fund. You have a skin in the game, so you're not selling anything. You just mostly manage your money and from your friends and interested people, so it's not something like a bank or something, and that's why we have here the opportunity to learn from you. Something that I find amazing, and Peter can tell it much better, is you were a consultant and an investor, and I think we should start with that. What's the difference when you come to a company like a consultant or as an investor? Well, thanks, Sven. I think there are many differences, but one of the interesting ones is that, and I think you should mention that the kind of consulting we did was not any kind of consulting, but strategy consulting, which we define as the most important issues that face a company or a company's management. So we went to see companies, of course, constantly, and we had quite a few clients around the world, and every time we came to visit a CEO for the first time, knowing full well that there would be a bill for the services, there was hardly an end to the number of problems that a company will lay out, and that's of course the nature of business. There's a lot of issues that have to be taken care of and developed, but as an investor, when I go and visit companies, I have yet to hear one CEO mention one problem unprompted. Of course, we ask them for problems that we think they might face to hear their opinions, but other than that, they do not volunteer problems. I think maybe the best or the most important qualification to be a CEO is to be a great salesman. And how do you navigate that? Well, obviously, we just have to realize that that's the position, it's the natural state of affairs. Actually, it goes deeper than this, because there are things we can ask them, because of all the stock market ethical rules, even every time a company answers a question to us that is of any relevance about the company, they actually have to make the same information available to all other investors. So it's in actual fact very little that we can find out by asking management, not only very little we can find out, but very little we can find out that everybody else doesn't know. So I think that's one of the key things about that. With your consulting experience, can you find those things that perhaps other people don't see? Yes, I think sometimes we can. Sometimes we would ask questions that investors would not usually ask. We're very keen on competitive advantage, for example. The company needs to be able to explain why it can do what it does better than the competition. We have ourselves a long list of things we ask about companies, and to ask for clarification about that is something that is. I mean, for example, what is the meaningful difference between one company's products and another company's products? And some will explain, and these are not secrets, but these are some things that we would take into consideration. Speaking of competitive advantages, would you elaborate on the strategy of your fund and what are you focusing on? Our funds focus, I mean, we have a sentence that is relatively small companies, companies that are exposed to growth, and companies that we can buy for a reasonable price, value companies. And for all of these companies that have profitability, that can be protected from the competition. And that is just our way of defining competitive advantage, that the advantage is that the profits you make as a company can be protected from the competition. Because you know that every time a company shows great results, there will be competitors or potential competitors out there who wants to take those profits away. And they will. And I strongly believe in markets these days. And when somebody sees somebody has done something great, somebody tries to copy it. And if they can't, if they haven't put up barriers to entry, then they will. And then the profitability will erode. So we try to, I mean, when we have a chance to do it, we try to engage management in conversations about the strategy. And the strategy is not which new market they want to go into, which new product they want to develop only. And that's relatively straightforward. By the strategy we mean the plan they have put in place to protect their profitability against the competition. And let us know, why do you focus on small companies? What's the advantage that you give in your hedge fund there? I mean, we believe that, and I think we have a good reason to believe, so you can be shown statistically, that over time, small companies grow their profits faster than big companies. And it's almost a natural thing if you are a hundred million dollar company, it's easier to get 10% growth that if you are a billion dollar company, you need to create a lot more. So smaller companies give us an advantage to achieve more growth. The disadvantage this gives us is that there's a limit to how big the investments can be. But this is a good, I think a good trade-off. We think we look for slightly higher returns, but in a smaller fund. So if we go deeper into that, what are the specific factors that you're looking when you watch at the competitive advantage, the barriers to entry? And so elaborate a little bit more on that, because I'm sure the viewers are very interested in knowing, okay, how, how to do it? Because there are thousands of small companies out there. So how can we find the ones that will deliver long-term sustainable returns as you find them? So when we, when academics use the term barriers to entry, they typically envision some kind of physical barrier, that some kind of thing you can see, that means that competitors can't enter your business. But that's not actually how it's defined, or certainly not how we define it. We define a barrier. Well, first of all, a company in order to be, to have a competitive advantage, it must naturally follow that it will then use that advantage to make more money than the competition, otherwise it's just wishy-washy. So if you have a company that makes a certain level of profits and you want that to be higher than the competition, then it can only do one or two things to achieve that. Either sell the products at a higher price than the competition or produce the products and deliver them at a lower cost or a combination of the two. And the in-between becomes the profit. So in other words, an excellent company has an advantage to increase the price and or lower the cost of its products. Now, that's the, that'll be the barrier to entry because the barrier to entry is not to do what an existing company does, but to make the profits that an existing company makes. So if I look at a company, say in a pharmaceutical business that has been in that business and runs the company and has run it for, say, 20 years, based on patience, and I say, I could make what they make, or maybe not me personally, but I could hire a bunch of engineers to make what they make, except that one, I can't get the price they get because they have a brand that has been incorporated, introduced to the market for more than 20 years. So even though I could sell my products even to their customers, I would still not be able to make their profits. For the first barrier to entry, namely the branding advances. The second one might be that I would have a scale disadvantage. I would be so small in the market that my cost per unit would be much higher than the established player. The result being that, yes, I can sell the product, but at a too high cost. So I don't get the right price and I don't get the right cost and I end up not making any money. So the barrier to entry are all these things that affect prices and patience is one, branding is another, image is a third, and we have a whole long list of those. Would you mind explaining that on an example perhaps? Yes, no, I don't mind. Take an example of a branding advantage.  Would you say those are well-known brands or good brands? Yeah, most people would say they're well-known brands and they're good brands. But if you start to look at the administrative perspective, then you ask yourself, why is Coca-Cola a good brand? Does Coca-Cola or is Coca-Cola as a company able to charge a higher price for a cola than the competition? And the answer is more or less yes. Coca-Cola is typically 30-40% more expensive than a local cola in a country around the world. And the cost of making Coca-Cola, because they make so many, such a huge company, is so low that there's no soft drink that is cheaper to make than Coca-Cola. As a result, Coca-Cola makes a huge profit and they make billions of dollars every year and they have done for maybe 120 years at least. Now, if you ask Shell, they will probably also tell you that they have a great brand name too. Shell is a well-known brand. But how much do people pay extra for a leader of Shell petroleum or gasoline than they do for a leader of any other gasoline? And you will realize it's certainly not 30% that Coca-Cola gets. It may be a little bit and it may be explained by the location of the Shell refilling stations more than the actual value of the Shell brand. So the Shell brand may help the company with their name recognition. I know I go into Shell, I have a Shell credit card maybe, so that's why I go to fill up the tank. But it doesn't actually explain why Shell makes a lot of money. Shell does make a lot of money, but for other reasons. For example, for their concessions in various countries around the world. But then that is what we need to understand. So I think that's the best example I can give of two well-known brands where one actually creates economic value at the bottom line and the other doesn't. It's just there for other reasons. It's more like I call those trademarks. So that's an example of higher pricing. But there are many, many others and I probably can't even remember all of them, but off the top of my head. But one would be very certainly you have a patent. Your competitors are therefore forbidden from producing the same thing as you. Hence, you can charge a higher price than you otherwise would. Then there is the question of reputation. We all have to have a good reputation. Without a reputation there is nothing we can do in any business. But there are some businesses that are different in the sense that reputation actually leads to a higher price in addition to more business. Take, for example, brain surgery.   So you were conscious enough to be the one to go and pick which surgeon to employ for this job. Then you would ask yourself, is this an important thing? And of course the answer is yes, because we all know this kind of surgery can go wrong. So your task becomes, how do I pick a good brain surgeon? In fact, the best brain surgeon I can find.  So how do you pick the brain surgeon that you want to use? Well, you go and talk to people. You read trade magazines, perhaps medical journals and so on and so forth. And you will find the brain surgeon who has the best reputation, who has the most happy or surviving patients and so on and so forth. Then you go talk to them. And so you can almost imagine the dialogue where you ask the brain surgeon, can you do this for me? And it says, yes, I can and I have 100 cases I can show you. But can you give me a discount?  Over on the other side of the street may be a brain surgeon that sees this and is envious and puts up a sign that says this week, you know, 20% discount on brain surgery. And how many customers do you think they're getting? Not at all. So the person with the good reputation ends up with not only all the customers but also all the profits. So that's the way the reputation works. Well, thank you for this introduction. I don't know, am I allowed to use your quote that CEOs are salesmen or will that put you in trouble from a consulting investing perspective? I think most CEOs would be proud to be recognized as sales people. So I don't think that's a bad thing. Alright, then I'll use it. Well, thank you for this introduction. We'll make another few videos and to discuss also your specialties and how you see the world, how you invest. We'll talk about Brexit, about value investing, how to find the quality company. So that will come in the following videos. And thank you very much for this introduction. And we'll chat again.


hey everyone welcome back to another counter side video so today we're going to cover so this is Tashio for the week so she just dropped yesterday and i'm going to discuss with you guys what lineup i brought what alternative lineups you actually can consider and also their gear so to start off there are actually three main heroes or units that you need to bring first and foremost you need to bring gabriel so gabriel is going to be here so gabriel's gear is going to be more or less the recommended gear is should be um all hp but using evasion and hp set is actually good for him as well i used him and his survivable as well next would be joshion joshion you need to equip him with cdr gears okay so change it up for pve or for danger close it needs to be with cdr and then last perquisite would be either um arias or you could also have shinatsu so shinatsu i didn't actually opt for shinatsu i actually went with arias but actually you could bring two healers to your team but i actually opted for one it actually worked for me so let's check out arias and her gear so for arias i already have her i forgot already have at level 110 she also has cdr gear if you want if you prefer shinatsu then also cdr gear okay those so these are basically the three that uh must haves for you the other one that i brought is actually going to be rifleman admin rifleman admin rifleman is going to be only attack speed so full attack speed then you have geiyun so most of you guys in pvp have her at um at cdr but for this one you're going to have her at attack speed next would be hilday so hilday is actually a surprise pick that i had to try out um kind of not kind of good as well because she provides additional attack percentage to all counters and counter crit as well so for hilday preferably this is going to be all um attack gear i actually use attack gear when i used her i actually brought her back here so this is just extra gear that i have but for hilday um it's it's going to be all attack gear next would be hayami sanai which is going to be hayami is actually a sniper which which which uh specializes in in siege uh where is she okay here she is so also preferably equip her with uh what they call it with cdr she's actually very squishy she's usually one of the first to die um that is why she needs to you know she needs to crank up her skills her special skill in her ultimate skill quickly that is why i equipped her with cdr gear and the last on this list of eight is going to be awakened ceo yun but actually this oh sorry um cdr for her as well the best actually the best um awakened you need to bring is going to be awakened you mina um i'm gonna do another video and try to try to do it with awakened you mina but for this one i actually brought um ceo yun okay so as you can see those are my line my lineups the other alternatives that you can bring if you don't want to bring hilday you could bring irons admin sword fighter and also jane though those are the ones that you can substitute and also if you don't want to bring uh hayami um you could actually bring shinatsu an additional healer um so you you could have two healers and also shinja but based on this type of um this type of um stage for solicit asho um you won't really need another healer okay guys so let's take a look at solicit asho's debuffs so basically for this reincarnation of solicit asho she is actually giving out an air unit speed minus 75 percent um it's not really applicable um even if you i think you you you bring an air unit um they're they aren't going to be deployed that far so more or less this buff is actually safe more or less for everyone so but i'm actually deploying all ground units for this match you will have a buff for alt squad units attack plus 100 hp and skill haste plus 50 so let's take a look at the alt squad just in case you want to use some of those units okay so what we have here for the alt squad um probably you're gonna you can actually use seiyun for this boss really depend up up to you but for me the reason why i didn't bring her is is it because i'm going to use her in the other um danger close boss so that is why i didn't opt for her but you have options at this point okay so as you can see here guys this is actually the team that i was able to deploy so the ship that i used is lake superior and the operator is actually just an additional buff um for this one and more or less the deployment cycle would be um uh gabriel first then it's going to be joshun then the next preferably would be a healer so more or less you have to move rius here either you deploy seiyun or you deploy rius first okay so more or less let's i'll i'll take you guys to the battle that i had let's discuss that while we break down the individual moments in that battle that i had okay guys as you can see here same units that i mentioned a while ago and let's check it out on how i did in this battle in terms of deployment we will have to probably stick to a certain deployment order at the start so deploy gabriel here at the edge of where he can be deployed so that he can push back or not let the boss go through then next would be seiyun then next would be rius the the next actually summons that would come after the first three would be dependent up to you as you can see here um units are very survivable it's gonna take a while for for ours to die out even though there's no um other healer here um she can actually still survive and more or less the your only problem in actually in this boss is actually dealing a lot of damage that is why i highly recommend you mina or awaken you mina you replace her with um awakened you replace awaken seiyun seiyun seiyun with awaken you mina to inflict more damage with the boss so that is actually what is going to be a challenge for you guys especially if you don't have her um as i was bringing awaken see you in here the damage apparently wasn't enough because you have to deal a lot of damage from the start especially while she's not moving forward so as you can see here um i haven't really summoned anybody and most of them have survived and again it's pretty much very maintenance so i just i just actually summoned ryo so it's a well all cycle ready you will have very much a lot of deployment um currency for you to deploy your healer um and cycle them in a regular basis so as we break through the first threshold here so this is going there are actually various um dps checks especially after each threshold so you will have three thresholds as you can see here in her health bar so again at this point you will already have a lot of spare deployment cost to redeploy units because definitely she will be taking care of some of your units so again at this point i'm at seven three but it's really really highly advisable that you deal as much damage um probably reach around 8 000 i'm gonna do a redo of this um what they call this of this stage using awaken see you you probably by the weekend um or probably yeah probably by the weekend um because again um for me this stage is really hard to crack especially if you don't have a lot of dps okay so i'm gonna be i think i'm gonna stay up to seven eight for this one yes seven eight and that is it for this run so as you can see guys are remaining hp is going to be four to three percent and more or less that is it for solicitation so again you're not really required to finish off the boss it would be good that you do but again there are some units guys that you don't really have and deal as much damage as possible gabriel just you and a healer is is a must the rest you can actually figure out for yourself on what are you going to add or who are you going to add okay guys so hopefully this helped you out and for those who have stuck this far in this video please do subscribe because this helps my channel a lot also don't forget to click that bell icon and also don't forget to like this video thank you guys stay safe take care this is the 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Now, as you can see, I've got a trash team. In fact, that's an understatement. I don't have any players at all. But what I do have is a plan. On this beautiful wheel right here, we have the top 25 college football programs. If you got beef with the teams that are on there, it's the AP top 25, okay? So go yell at them. I'm gonna spin this wheel to fill in my squad, but there's a catch. I can only fill each position once. So if I get Oklahoma State and I choose Mason Rudolph as my quarterback, and then on the next spin I get Oklahoma, I can't replace Mason Rudolph with Jalen Hertz or Kyler Murray. I'm stuck with my pick. Now for wide receivers, I will get two wide receivers. One tight end. I can take O-line as I please. And the same thing with defense. So the player that we choose, we gotta be strategic here. And I'm giving myself 15 spins. So any positions I don't fill are gonna get a gold or a silver. All right, our first player, I feel like I shouldn't take quarterback right now unless I get like the player of my dreams. Let's see, we got, ooh, Arkansas? Oh, almost started out with Michigan State, Arkansas. Call me, I'm casual all you want, but I don't know every single Arkansas player off the top of my head, so I'm looking online. 80 overall, Frank Ragnar was not a bad option. Ooh, we can also go 87 overall, Hunter Henry. That's a good pickup. Although I feel like we gotta take the obvious choice here. Everybody already knew I was gonna go Felipe Franks. This must be a tight ball. I'm pretty sure he's supposed to be a 99 overall, but they've got him here at a 73. No shocker on this one.  Who's gonna stop me? Who's gonna stop? I literally don't know a single thing about this guy. In fact, I don't even know if that's how you pronounce his name. What's wrong with you? Ah! Is that where we're starting? I'll give you a top, ooh, I won in the top five team. Although I don't mind Ole Miss at all. I could get DK. Ah, ah, Wake Forest? Yo, there's some good options already. I see Jesse Bates. Jesse Bates is insane. Jesse Bates is literally the only reputable option from Wake Forest. Jesse Bates, thank you for going to Wake Forest. You saved my video. In fact, I think that's why Jesse Bates went to Wake Forest. He was watching one of my videos one day and he said, wow, Wake Forest is looking real thin. It would be a bummer if Papa Moons got Wake Forest on a real spend. I should probably build it. Jesse Bates, I appreciate you for that. All right, top five team, baby. I need a stud running back, a stud wide receiver. It's non-negotiable. I didn't see state. I gotta stop, I gotta stop judging. I gotta stop judging these teams because I just don't know who's been there. Bradley Chubb, Ikema Kwanu. They've got studs, Jermaine Pratt. Okay, they have a ton of studs on like a million different places in the ball. You know who they have though? But Naheem Hines went to NC State. And you know why Naheem Hines is insane in this game? It's kind of dope because this Naheem Hines is like the campus heroes promo too, which is really cool for the colleges. I think Naheem Hines is one of the only running backs in the game who gets Backfield Master. He has Backfield mismatch and you can give him running back apprentice in tier two. Well, we can't put any abilities on our quarterback so we might as well go Naheem Hines here. 87 Naheem Hines, 87 Jesse Bates. This is going really well. Give me a top five team so I can get a absolutely insane wide receiver. Miami, BYU, you can get Zach Wilson.  I can become a Mormon. There's nothing in the Book of Mormon that says you can't have sex with your best friends. I really shouldn't go down the religion path, should I? Yeah, I really shouldn't do that.   Can I please smooch you right on the lips? Well, that's never happened to you. You probably don't use Dr. Squatch. 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Off the don't piece, literally the only player I can think of for BYU is Zach Wilson. But I know they've had a lot of studs. Zach Wilson, Jamal Williams, Fred Warner. Are you kidding me? Fred Warner is probably the move here. Taysom Hill also went to BYU. But I think Fred Warner is the move. Fred Warner is one of the best users in the game. This is my account where no matter what I do, Fred Warner's card art will not load. No matter what I do. Regardless of whether his picture exists or not, Fred Warner did go to BYU. All right, user middle linebacker, free safety, running back, quarterback. I would take Florida because Kyle Pitts went to Florida, right? Please tell me Kyle Pitts went to Florida. Marcus May, McPherson, Keanu Neal. They had Damian Pierce. Yeah, they have Kyle Pitts. I feel like realistically, how are we gonna get a better tight end than Kyle Pitts? It would not be easy. I really think Kyle Pitts is the move here. Kyle Pitts is such a good tight end. Even as a core elite, 85 overall, he's got 84 speed. So this will be our tight end right now. So we got Naheem Hines, Kyle Pitts, Philippa Rex. I wanted to make this a challenge on myself.  Right now I'm thinking corners, edge rushers and wide receivers is kind of what we've got left. Looks like we might get Oklahoma. Okay, so I can't get Jalen Hurza-Kyler, which is what I really would have wanted at quarterback. Markey Andrews went to Oklahoma. Damn, you could get Hollywood Brown. We could get offensive line. Creed Humphries actually a really good offensive lineman. I could get Trent Williams. Dude, this is actually an insane option to get Trent Williams because probably the best left, he is the best left tackle in the game. 88 overall, Trent Williams, Oklahoma. I don't think we're gonna get another excellent opportunity at a stud alignment like that. So I think we gotta take him when it's available. Well, I went in with a plan and I did not get a player from my plan, but that's okay. Utah, I think that's Utah. I'm sniping, yup, Utah. Who is in the league from Utah? Julian Blackman, Garrett Bowles, Jalen Johnson. Does he have a good card? Devin Lloyd, Eric Rowe, Marcus Williams. Eric Rowe has an 87 overall strong safety from Utah. That is a massive clutch. Massive clutch. All right, hey, that's huge for us actually. Having Eric Rowe right there is gonna help a lot. So we got Jesse Bates up high, Eric Rowe up high. We're gonna get Baylor. Xavian Howard, ooh. I feel like Xavian Howard's the obvious pickup here. We just kind of built like the Dolphin secondary, but Xavian Howard is an 86 overall corner. That's our first corner on the team. I forgot to deactivate these teams along the way, but there's no double ups on the teams either, but Southern California, USC.  WRU, bro. Robert Woods, Amonra, Juju, Michael Pittman. I feel like Pittman's probably the move. I feel like he has the best card here. Pittman's got an 87. Yeah, that's certain that that's the move, but what's Juju's cards looking like? Ooh, Juju's got an 87? Dude, this is actually savage. This summer I got to hang out with Juju.  I'm just gonna pull the bias card here. I'm taking Juju. I knew he went to USC. He also has a baked inability. What is it? Outside apprentice, Juju Smith Schuster. Edge rushers, wide receivers. That's kind of what I'm thinking. Oh, we were so close to Georgia. We're not gonna get it Oregon though. Oregon does have some studs. Absolutely. Cayman Timidow is an Oregon, but I feel like I don't want to lie back. I feel like I want. I could put Cayman Timidow as an edge rusher. He was an edge rusher in college and actually almost makes more sense that way. DeForest Buckner. There's way too many good options here. Timidow, Sewell, DeForest Buckner, Eric Armstead. My lion's bias wants me to take Penae Sewell. I'll tell you why I'm taking Penae Sewell. I think Eric Armstead and DeForest Buckner are awesome picks too, but Penae Sewell, this is actually his campus hero card with the Oregon patch on it. That's just so much cooler. So I'm running with this. I'm happy to have it. All right, not gonna lie. I'm losing track of how many players I've already got. Reset. Oh, our first top five. Our first top five is Ohio State. I will take that any day. Over the university of Michigan. Woo! Ohio State has literally so many studs and so many positions. I could do anything I want. Honestly, I could do anything I want. This list is so massive. Right off the dome piece, I'm thinking Chase Young as my edge rusher. Cameron Hayward. I could get Interior D-Line. Marshawn Latimore. I could get another corner. I kind of feel like I do need a second corner. Chris Olave, Michael Thomas, bro. I could get a wide receiver. I feel like after Michael Thomas's week one performance, he probably should have gotten a new card. Ooh, Denzel Ward too. There's so many good options. No, you know what?   I have zero D-Line. Zero D-Line. Not to mention, guess what, baby? It makes me so much happier to get him when they have this patch on it. This is the campus hero Chase Young. He's got the Ohio State patch on him. I remember him when he was in the Big Ten. He was a horrifying guy to play against. He was like the most surefire draft talent I've seen in a long time. All right, boys. Chase Young off the edge. I still have one wide receiver and one corner. So I feel like we kind of got to focus up there. Is this going to go to Kentucky? Kentucky. All right, I know off the dome piece, the athletic Josh Allen went to Kentucky, but that's one of the only players I know. I think the move here is Josh Allen. Now that I think about it, he may not be an edge rusher, but Josh Allen is a linebacker and I only have one linebacker right now. Kentucky has blessed me with not gritty Josh Allen, guys, talking about the athletic one. It's Josh Allen, right here. Beautiful.  Oh, I'm going to get, ah! Let's go! All right, about a billion options, literally about a billion options here, about a billion. Probably a billion legend options too, right? So Georgia, we got number one Georgia. Hilariously, we actually could go George Pickens. George Pickens has an 87 overall wide receiver. You know what I'm doing for the memes here? Bringing out the Black Air Force energy. George Pickens said, look at that, he's got matchup nightmare, bro.  They're all doing the meme with us. They know it. Let's take a look at the lineup before we do our final two spins. Figure out what we need the most. So we're actually at 85 overall. Granted, I haven't filled the other positions so that overall is not accurate. The edges of my line are really good. Left tackle, right tackle's nice. Cowpits love it. George Pickens, Juju's sick. Naheem Hines, amazing. And Felipe Franks.  Why did I do that? Defense Josh Allen incognito, Fred Warner. Jesse Bates, Eric Rowe, Edge rusher, Chase Young, and Xavier and Howard. I think a corner two, a corner two and a right end is probably priority. All right, boys! We got one of two spins to get a corner and an edge rusher slash interior O-line. It's Miami. All right, Miami. Now Miami is an incredible historic team. Frank Gore, there's Andre Johnson, Ted Hendricks, Michael Irvin, Warren Sapp, Ed Reid. Okay, so this team's like insane. Ray Lewis, none of those players are maddened right now. Got to roll with the punches here. Let's see what our actual options are. Greg Rousseau, Jalen Phillips. Jalen Phillips I like a lot without having Ray Lewis, Ed Reid, or any of those legends. I'm kind of thin here. We're going to take Kalleus Campbell. I said I want a right end. I can get a right end right here. 84 overall, Kalleus Campbell. He's nothing special, but this is what happens when it comes down to the final picks. Final spin, I need a corner. So badly, who's going to have a corner for me? Texas A&M? Pitt? Pitt, are you really going to have? I feel like there's no way. Oh my God, they have Aaron Donnell. Ah! They have Tyler Boyd, James Connor, Aaron Donnell. Wow, some studs. I feel like we got to go best player available. Like I could go Avante Maddox, but how am I going to take 80 Avante Maddox when Aaron Donnell went to Pitt, bro? I got to take Aaron Donnell. I got to take Aaron Donnell. Let's go Aaron Donnell. So Kalleus Campbell actually go to de-tackle, which is kind of fitting for him anyway. I feel like he is kind of more of a defensive tackle than an edge rusher. Wow, wait a minute. So I don't have a corner two at all. But we did load up on defense with those final two spins. So I can't say I'm unhappy. All right, boys, 15 spins. Building our team using just the college wheel. We ended up with Trent Williams, Penae Sewell, Kyle Pitts, George Pickens, Felipe Franks, Naheem Hines, Juju Smith-Schuster, Jesse Bates, Josh Allen, Fred Warner, Eric Rowe, I chase young kids. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Kalleus Campbell, Aaron Donald, and Xavier Howard. I actually love this team. This is a pretty nasty team. I think it's gonna be really fun to play with. All right, I'm gonna fill all the required slots with just the shitty gold or silver. We don't have to go crazy here. All right, so let's give Naheem Hines running back apprentice. Now that our team is ready. So we can give him hot routes. I say we just go edge threat on both sides and hope we get some nasty pass rush. That way we won't have to rely on our corners as much. Oh, darn it, Aaron Donald doesn't get edge threat. I guess I'll just make Fred Warner good. And then edge threat on Chase Young, absolutely. We'll also give him unstoppable force. Chase Young is so good. We built an 80 overall team from spinning the wheel of college teams. Felipe Franks is my quarterback. Let's go win a ball game. Top three, I've got Chase Young, Naheem Hines and George Pickens is up on the top three. Joe Mixon, oh my God. He's got Karl Banks with Michigan State. He's got Karl Banks. Oh, he's got Mariota too, dude. He's got his own little campus heroes line up in there. Nope, same thing. Fred Warner's right, dude, that Fred Warner's so good. Okay, play action, right? Oh my God, he runs it again, he's stuffed. Look at us. Oh, he just throws a short one to Kyle Pitts. Damn, we could've got to turn over right there. Josh Allen's my user. Oh, that's a bad time. Hey, Josh Allen's there though, we're all over it. Ah, I'm on Roy. I'm not supposed to be on Roy, but I am and he's gonna get a laser beam because I'm user in the wrong guy. That sucks, man. Oh, right here, right here, right here. I know you want to. I need lurker so bad, I need lurker so bad. Oh my God, if I have a lurker, that's a touchdown. Oh, he's gonna run the ball. Get in there, get in there, get in there. Let's go. Oh no, it's a handoff off the middle. Fred Warner's there. Everybody's there. I might've missed with Fred Warner actually, but cut it off, Fred Warner. Oh, dude, he could've ran that in. Dude, he got spooked. He got spooked. All right, hey, let's go. We're gonna start out with the play-action game. I'm most likely gonna hit Naheem Hines. Ssss. Felipe Franks goes down to Derek Brown, no good. Let's establish the run game. Naheem Hines the left side, running behind Trent Williams. Amazing blocks, Trent Williams, cutting side. See, this is how you run a play-action game right here. Naheem, Naheem, yes sir. That's why you run backfield master right there. Felipe Franks one for one, 14 yards, baby. I expect this to set up really nicely, especially with Trent Williams, baby. Hey, good tackle by his user. Still four yards.  Oh my goodness, Naheem. Yeah, I don't have interior alligned though, so I'm not really getting blocks there. Why am I killing him so bad with this? Sort of does, I'm throwing wide. Pick ins, menace. Felipe Franks throwing a perfect ball game right now. A simple Naheem Hines throw. Oh my God, wait. Ooh, close to the end zone. Felipe Franks is three for three for 50 yards. No, oh, that was perfect, but I didn't get a block from Trent Williams at that time.  No, Naheem, oh no, we can't take a field goal, dude. We marched so far with Felipe Franks, I'll hand him the ball off of the middle. Let's go Naheem. Shit, I should have done it. Okay, first Nintendo, from the one yard line. Let's get a blitz, let's get a safety. Safety! No way, he just picked up six on that. That's a crime. Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine! Hey! We got that ball back, let's go. Hey, we got about half two. Look at this stifling difference from my gold corners. Okay, great blocks. Great broken tackle, Naheem, but it's not enough. George Pickens is gonna run this deep corner route. He's gonna torch his man for a touchdown. Let's go, George. Let's go, George! Let's go, George! Got him! Black Air Force cleats, give him to him, bro. Wow, could not have any easier. Taking eight only, 19 seconds ball half. Let's get it, George Pickens. All right, I'm not even gonna lie. We have set up like a pretty dominant run game here. I wouldn't be surprised if he bites on this again. Let's look for Kyle Pitts here though.  Let's go hat back stretch. Second and 18, it's a risky play call, but I trust our run game. I'm gonna send pits across this formation. No play action. Felipe's gotta step up and go and fumble. All right, we picked it up. It's fourth and 11, but when Felipe sees a laser beam throw to juju smish ju- He's gonna take it, and he's gonna deliver!   Naheem! Oh, weird animation, really weird animation. I could have gone so much better.  It's so good. There goes Naheem Hines for another 14 yards. Coppets, let's go, same thing. Beautiful, very bizarre animation, but I don't ask those questions. Let's go. Hey, PA Crosser's touchdown now. Oh no, why? Ah, Bethro! No, a music throw!  Why is he playing perfect? Shit, I can't. Felipe! Oh, two sacks for Carl Banks, kind of makes me sad, but...  Dude, field goal is low key to move here. Field goal is the move, but you know who this is, right? Like you guys understand, this is Felipe Franks, right? This isn't your run of the mill quarterback. This is Felipe Franks. Felipe Franks doesn't take field goals. He throws laser beams to George Pickens for touchdowns.  He hasn't scored, he's not gonna score now. Watch, I'm gonna fake underneath here. Oh, he delivers a laser to McLaurin. I said I was gonna guard the tight end and I gave up! Wait, he didn't get a first. Oh, he did?  This one. Throw it! Damn, nice throw. Come on, boys! Not like this, gentlemen. Damn it, that's so unlucky. We need a big hit. Hey, we goal line stood him up last time, we'll do it again. First and goal, be wary of the run, be wary of the run, Eric Rowe. Let's go, let's go, good stuff, good stuff. Nothing's there, nothing's there, let's go! Third and goal.  No! And Eric Rowe house sit. Eric Rowe can house sit. Please don't quit, please don't. Please, I wanna see my stats. No, I wanna see my Felipe Franksters. Ah! Dude, this video has been so sick. I really hope you guys enjoyed this video. I've made a video like this in a long time, like a straight up spin the wheel. And I hope you guys enjoyed it because team building was an absolute blast. That was literally one of the most fun games I've played in the hot minute. That was awesome. Hey, shout out the squad, Felipe Franks. I think every single one of our players made a monster play. Yeah, because Juju Smith had that 4,000 conversion from the nine yard line. Jesse Bates had early breakups. Eric Rowe with a pick. I just don't know if Aaron Donald did anything. Aaron Donald might have been the only guy I didn't do anything. All right, hey, I appreciate you boys to watch this always. Let me know if you like the video. I might wanna do more. I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.


They love Camden Yards. So they have four games against the Orioles. Matt Harvey will go for the Orioles. And for the Yankees it's Davy Garcia. Now Davy Garcia did not make the rotation coming into the season. But Paul, I contend he's going to play a huge role for this team because the amount of innings that every team is going to have to cover out of its starting rotation, you're going to need a six starter, you're going to need a seven starter, probably an eighth starter. So this is the first chance for us to see Davy Garcia in the regular season this year. Well he's part of that depth and you're right, Michael, you're going to need extra pitching. You can never have enough pitching. That's the old saying and it is true this day and age, no doubt about it. But again, like Cleveland, Baltimore the same deal. You walk in there, you go there, there are teams that you should beat. You go in there and play four good games, good things are going to happen. And right now you see the Yankees playing much better baseball. So a good series in my mind coming ahead. And then the Orioles actually got off to snide today. They beat the A's, stopped the A's long winning streak. So the Yankees will get a team that is not trying to break a losing streak of its own and the Yankees will try to start one of their own.


Welcome to Microterrorz. Scary stories for kids, where it's always the spooky season, full of chills, thrills, and spine-tingling spooks. Microterrorz are family-friendly frights for those ages 8 and up. And while our stories are for younger years, we are still talking about things that go bump in the night, and some children may not be able to handle what others can. Parental consent is recommended. Now for tonight's Microterrorz. The Cricket by Scott Donnelly In the middle of the woods, with warm sunbeams shining down through the gaps in the canopy, uh, wait, no, deep in the woods where the sun doesn't dare invade, a cricket sat perched upon a mossy rock. In the coldness of the woods that surrounded it, the cricket knew he had committed a crime against nature, and chirped nervously without, no, scratch that, the cricket didn't care one bit that he committed the ultimate crime against nature. He scoffed at nature. Nature didn't control him. He was a rebel cricket. A rebel cricket with no one to tell him what he could do and could not do.  The cricket looked around as he chirped. His legs rubbed together arrogantly. He made the only sound for miles, and that's the way he liked it. Out of nowhere, the leaves rustled nearby. The cricket went silent. He gawked at the location of the disturbance. Leaves and bushes moved, eventually giving way to a bushy groundhog. Wait, no. It was a Wolverine with sharp teeth and anger in his eyes that emerged from the brush. He'd heard the rumors around the woods. Some rebel cricket had committed crimes and atrocities against nature, and that cricket had escaped to these shadowy parts of the forest, the forbidden forest. The Wolverine had heard the chirps. They're what led him to this location. The Wolverine lowered himself into a stealthy crawl and kept his eye peeled. That cricket could be anywhere, the Wolverine thought. I'll be the hero of the woods if I can put a stop to his little reign of terror. As the Wolverine slunk through the tall grass and weeds, scanning the forest floor for any sign of the cricket, he suddenly stopped. Something wasn't right. Something felt wrong. It felt like he was being watched from above. No, wait. He was being watched from everywhere, out of thin air, an army of grasshoppers. Praying mantises materialized in a circle around him, shedding away unprecedented invisibility cloaks. They stood on their back legs, their arms creeping outward, each with a bow staff and their sticky grips. One of the mantises took large steps towards the Wolverine. Who do you think you are to cross into the territory of the mantis? It said. The Wolverine rose up from its stealth crawl and looked around. He was trapped by the bow staff wielding army of mantises. He gulped hard, knowing his fate might have already been sealed. I was searching for a cricket, the Wolverine said. I didn't mean to trespass. The mantises all looked at each other and then the lead mantis said, There are no crickets here. There he is. The Wolverine replied, I've tracked him to this location. I've heard his chirps. You are all in the presence of a cricket, a rebel cricket, guilty of the most heinous natural crimes you could imagine. The mantises all laughed. You think a cricket on that level of corruption could sneak by our security lasers? The lead mantis said. The Wolverine rose to its hind legs and flashed its teeth at the mantises. Wait, no. The Wolverine rose up and pulled a hidden weapon from underneath a fold in its fur. It was a musket. The Wolverine smirked. If I could, then how could a cricket not? The army of mantises were all on guard now. They held their bow staffs all ready for a fight. The lead mantis held his ground, swirling his tongue around inside of his mouth. With his beady black eyes, he studied the Wolverine. If you're here for the cricket, he said, then why pull that impressive musket on us? Because you're not listening to me. I needed to show you. Wait, wait. The Wolverine said. Because you're in my way. I am on a secret mission and not even an army of invisible grasshoppers can stop me. That cricket must be stopped at all costs. We're not grasshoppers. The lead mantis said. Clearly offended by such a common understandable mistake. We're mantises. Praying mantises. And you'd better pray we don't resort to. The Wolverine was tired of talking. He aimed the musket and held down the trigger. A barrage of acorns fired out from the barrel.  Some were clipped in the head. Some had their bow staffs knocked out of their grip. The lead mantis charged the Wolverine, exhibiting a brave howl.  The ground split open and a massive tyrannosaurus rex rose up from underneath, lava spewing up all around it like liquid fireworks. The army of mantises fought off the barrage of flaming Boomerangs and the Wolverine continued to relentlessly fire them. The roar of the prehistoric beast rumbled through the chests and hearts of the warriors. The lava flowed, threatening to... Uh, no. Threatening to... Completely engulfing the mantises. The Wolverine refocused his aim on the tyrannosaurus rex, firing the fire-enhanced Boomerangs at its face. As the random, bizarre battle in the Forbidden Forest played out, eventually causing a catastrophic collapse of the Earth's crust, which sent earthquakes across the... No. Which, um... Which split the planet in half, the crickets continued to just sit upon its mossy rock, smirking and chirping, going down the ship. The ship in a devastating state that he was responsible for. The ultimate atrocity against nature! The cricket laughed as the two halves of Earth drifted away into the... Wait, as the two halves of Earth exploded and destroyed the universe. Thank you for listening to Microterrorz. Join us each Saturday for another scary story. For more fun, visit our website at Microterrorz.com, where we will also have spooky games you can print out and play, like Wicked Word Searches, Mysterious Mises, and more. Microterrorz.com is also where you can find us on your favorite social media, and even send in your own scary story for us to tell. Plus, you'll learn more about our author, Scott Donnelly, who has other horrors for both young and old. I hope you'll join me again soon. From Microterrorz, scary stories for kids. Also with someone you know who loves all things strange and macabre. If you want to listen to the podcast, you can find it at WeirdDarkness.com.


But what exactly is season two of the vlog? Season two of the vlog is gonna be a lot more interactive, a lot more of my friends are gonna be on it, showing you guys more of what my day-to-day life at Princeton is like, not just the classes, but the more social and extracurricular scenes as well. I am running a little late, but right now I'm headed to math class. I haven't taken math since high school, so this is low-key one of my harder classes. Weeks have been a little bit hot, but now it's getting to the point where I can wear some long shirts, which I really enjoy. I'm excited for this new season of the vlog because there's a lot of opportunities that are gonna be happening this year that I wanna bring you guys along with me. All right, so I have just wrapped up all my classes. I started my day at 10 a.m., just finished up at 1.30. It's gonna go get some work done now. I had a business meeting to discuss some. As you know, we always got that bubble tea. Because I've been waiting for about two weeks now, and it's finally in, so let me wait till I get to my dorm room now. All right, so these are canvas prints. I'm pretty sure it's like 24 by 30, or the message might be off, but I ordered them online. They just came in. It's hard to tell on camera, but they are pretty massive. Also, today I just got some products from RGMB, you know, the sponsor I'm working with that we're partnering together, and I just sent over a few products, but they are looking super fly. I really like this one. It is Sunday. I am not feeling too hot after last night. I just, I don't know what's wrong with me, but I'm working, I'm grinding today, but my coffee machine just came in, so I'm gonna set this up real quick.


Professor Procop is in the English department. A caring, very invested individual. He takes the initiative in his department and in his classes to really go a little bit further. He's okay with waiting in the awkward silences until someone speaks because he wants you to think for yourself. He's not just going to give you the answers. His process in general is how do I help this person succeed and how do I help this person actually do well in life. Actually I grew up in a house that is only about one mile from the house that I live in today but I went to Poland for two years in the Peace Corps in the early 1990s. I lived in Washington D.C. for a time and I taught English at a private language school in a small town up in the mountains in Japan. Met the love of my life. My wife, very soon after returning to Poland, we were married in 1998 and then my three boys were all born in Poland and then we came to the United States in 2006. Professor Procop is just a really fun professor. He really loves teaching and he loves his students and he loves to watch them grow in their knowledge of film and grow in their understanding of current issues and in their depth of reading and reading good literature and writing about it. Professor Procop has helped me step out of my comfort zone and I've learned to take risks from his class. It's kind of a cliche but all truth is God's truth and so no matter what we're looking at, I think there's always a spiritual way to look at that. In my literature classes, for example, we'll read short stories by self-professed atheists but there's always God in their work. No matter what they may say, God has planted in us a desire to know him. The first thing that I think I would really like students to get is a sense of their vocation in this world and vocation doesn't necessarily mean job. Vocation means calling. What is God calling them to do? And then the second thing I would say is for them to be challenged. Only a faith that has been challenged in one way or another is a really strong faith and I think a mind that has been challenged becomes a much stronger mind.