Our traders in this video, we're gonna talk about how to actually place live orders in the market. See, a lot of you here have brokerage firm accounts and there's a big difference because some of them are online brokers and some of them are direct access. Now, what we're gonna cover is what it's like to have a direct access broker. You know, we haven't noticed every time you put a trade out there and you're finding out the like, I understand like, did I really get executed? Did I not get executed? And why can I not see my order out there? And this is what I've learned when I first became a market maker, that I went out there and I could see my orders with a direct access where before I couldn't do it. And listen, there's sometimes online brokers are good for one thing, but if you're an active trader and you're doing, you know, quite a few trades over the course of the month, you're gonna see the benefit from it. So what we have right here is we have the NASDAQ book you are on the left and we have a direct access system on the right.  But before we do that, we need to cover something very important. It's called the filters. Now, if you follow my little mouse right here, you can see on the left hand corner, you can see where it says I click where it says filters. Now, if I click that, what I usually like to do is depending on the stock, I like to filter out, you know, a lot of little tiny orders and maybe there's too many orders, maybe I wanna filter out big orders and if you look right here, you'll notice that we're looking at the NASDAQ exchange, which means market makeup participant and in the middle right there in that column is the actual price that people look into buy for and the amount of shares. Now, you'll notice that the person that wants to buy the most amount of shares wants to buy, it just basically changed right there, was 69 shares, now it's 100. Now, if you look over, oh, there we go, let me just pause this really quick so the guy doesn't disappear again. So you can see where it says 70. Now, what I want you to look at is right here. You notice right here on this window, do you notice where it says NASDAQ, it says N-X-N-A-S and it says one, it says 390, but technically there is somebody above him, but it's only 70 shares. So you'll notice that if you work your way down that list, you'll get people with one share, 17 shares, five shares. So I kinda like eliminate all those orders out there.  I'm gonna type in 100 right here, which says buy in range. Now, if you've been joining me on our YouTube channel every morning we're live, you might notice I do this all the time and as we start doing trading strategies, you'll notice that I might even do that to 1,000, maybe even 10,000, depending on the volatile the stock. But right now, listen, we're only trading something very, very slow so you can see what an order looks like.  So now I eliminate all the hundreds. So what that kinda does, it kinda matches the level two box right here. So now you'll see it'll kinda be on both sides.  Now you're seeing them all. Now this is real time, this is real live data that's going on.  Now I'm going to, right now I don't have it aggregated. Now if you watched part one video of this I kinda explained to you what aggregating and not aggregating just to reiterate what that means is I'm bunching all the orders in one order. You can see like there's two orders here at 385, four orders out here at 375. So if I unaggregate it, you'll see those two orders that was at 285 but it's 1% 185, the only person at 100.   I'm gonna click NASDAQ, a limit order and I'm going to click and try to buy the stock at $3.91. Now what's gonna happen is on the left-hand side you're gonna notice my order pop up there right in the exchange. Now the spread right now is between 390 and 393 which means if I really wanna buy the stock I can go to a seller and buy from for 393. I don't wanna do that, I wanna negotiate it, I wanna put a limit order out there which a lot of you do but now you're gonna officially see that. So I'm gonna click where it says the buy order and you'll notice right there, Fausse de Pugliese just popped up at 391 and what you'll notice instantaneously somebody sold it to me. So you'll see how I got the execution and I bought it. Now right here you'll see I have, I only trade 100 shares because I'm doing this as just an example but I just got executed and now I'm down a dollar. Why am I down a dollar? Because somebody actually went out there and executed me and if I wanted to get out of the position I actually could sell it to that person and I could take a penny loss. Now what I'm gonna also show you now is I'm going to put a limit order out there to sell.  I wanna sell it for $3.93. I wanna sell it for the least amount of money better than anybody in the market. So I'm gonna click out there, I'm gonna click sell and you'll notice when I click sell there's fouls to paglicia, I just popped up out there. See where it says 392 for 100 shares? That is me. Now you notice I'm not getting executed yet and why is that? Because when I was out there at 91 somebody did execute me, okay? Someone says, oh, someone's willing to pay 91 cents I'm gonna sell it to him but now what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to sell it at 92 and no one's really interested in buying it. Now you basically could see why orders get filled and why they don't get filled. What you're witnessing right now is live orders, okay?  Now if I click where it says aggregate you'll see that not only am I out there looking to sell 100 but someone actually joined me to sell 100. See there's two orders out there one for 100 at 192 and another one for another 192. So you basically are now seeing two orders out there for that price. Now, watch how fast I can cancel my order. I click cancel and see my order canceled right here now my order just canceled up there at 192, okay? And not only did I got my order canceled but someone else canceled the order also that is the power and the speed of direct access. Now you'll notice on the left hand side someone's looking to buy for 191. Now right here you could see I broke even, okay? What that means is if I wanna sell it to that person I could sell it to him.  Now watch what ends up happening. Oops, you know what happened? Somebody executed me, okay? I actually went out there 192 and I actually got executed. It was that fast and you could see that I'm up a penny, I'm up a dollar. So that basically means that I bought it on the bid I solely offer it. That's how fast direct access works. Now we could try that again and we'll do it with a different stock. Now we're looking at a stock called SGRP. Now what I could do is I could bring a brand name stock. I don't want you to think that this only works at inexpensive stocks. The reason why I'm showing you more expensive stocks is because I mean more inexpensive is because they're not really moving so you can watch it pretty quickly, okay? So I wanna do this one more time. I'm gonna put a limit order out there and I'm gonna say I wanna buy 100 shares, okay? And let's say I wanna buy it at $1.29, okay? So I'm gonna click $1.29, I'm gonna lower my price, I'm gonna put a limit order out there. Now if you notice right here on the left-hand side you'll see there's 24,300. I'm gonna go in between the 130 and the 128. So I'm gonna click a buy and you'll notice that right there, there's Fowl Still Puglici. There's my limit order. Now you'll notice why would I put a limit order at $1.29 and I'm not getting executed is because there are people looking to pay more money than me, okay? Now I could sit there and wait and we'll talk about strategies on some other coming videos where it would be a good price to buy and a good price to sell. But all we're looking at right now is what it's like to put limit orders out there on the bid and offer.  I'm gonna cancel my order. Let's just say, you know what? Maybe I wanna pay 131. Now you'll notice at 131 there's already a person out there looking to buy 100. What I am going to do is I'm gonna join that person. So I'll click buy and you'll see at 131 there's Fowl Still Puglici. Now watch how fast this is. Cancel. Look at 131. Fowl Still Puglici's gone. I decide I wanna buy it again.  There I am again. Like that, within seconds.  Boom, canceled. Look over there on the left hand side. No longer there anymore. Oops, I did not cancel. There I did, I did cancel. Now my order's gone, okay? I clicked the wrong button. But you can see how quickly and how fast this could actually happen. Now what I wanna do is I wanna show you something a little bit more of a brand name stock. Let's say, let's go look at AMD, okay? So I'm gonna bring up AMD. Now if you notice, AMD is a very expensive stock and now it's happening, it's moving quite fast. So you could see it's gonna be really difficult to keep track of it. Now if I wanted to go out there and let's just say I wanna buy the stock at 184, okay? So I could click over here and I said, well, I wanna buy 184. I'm gonna load up my price down here. And let's say I wanna buy a 184 and 3 cents. So you can see all the way down here at the bottom, there's one person out there at 184 dollars. Just look on the bid side and I'm gonna place a buy out there at that price, okay? So I'm gonna put a limit order out there to buy. Now you'll notice, there's Fausto Puglici. I have a limit order out there to buy it at 180, 184 and 3 cents and you could see it down there. There's two people down there. If I click cancel, see how I disappeared as quickly as that? So yes, you could do this on brand name stocks and everything else but the power I'm here to show you is that you have full control of the market. You could put limit orders and you could see them out there. You could put limit orders to sell it and you could see it out there. But when you're dealing with it and this is where the direct access broker but when you're dealing with an online broker, you cannot see that out there. And that's hopefully is gonna answer the question why they, why you can see it and why you can't see it. Now, I guess the next question some of you might wanna ask, why did they do that? Why am I not allowed to see my order out there? And I'll tell you why. It's something called payment for order flow.  So what you're technically doing is you're sending an email to them and you're telling them I wanna buy AMD and you know what?  And if you wanna sell a stock, great. Unless they could sell it and make money on you, they're not gonna sell it.  And that's the issue with online brokers and direct access. Now to see more videos like this, make sure you friend us, like us and watch a couple of more videos because we're gonna have tons of these gonna be shared with you and you're gonna see why it's time to start taking the matter in your own hands and having the right system to trade in today's volatile markets.


All right, our next question is from Sydney are green. Have you ever trained someone with body dysmorphia? How do you help people overcome it a lot of people actually? Yeah, I've worked with a few people where it was They were being treated for body dysmorphia. In fact, they got sent to me by their therapist To train them because I was a the therapist was my client So they knew that you know, I would be able to help them I guess because they're experienced with me had to help them develop a better relationship with exercise one of the more effective things that I did with People with varying degrees of body and I say varying degrees because it's super common For some sort of body dysmorphia when you're in the gym working out and especially among my peers It's very common among personal trainers and fitness professionals. Don't you think don't you think we all have a little bit of this? I do I think it's more of a spectrum like I really feel like I really feel like almost every because let's be honest Right like of all the you know hundreds and probably collectively thousands of people that we've trained How many times is somebody came in and they're just like hey, Adam I want to train because I need to exercise and I want to be healthier. It's like that's such a small percentage Most people are driven in there because the way they look Yeah, because that's the main motivation because they hate the way they look where that's what I'm saying, right? And admittedly they come in I hate this tire around my eye just can't stand my flabby And they're like they literally will use that that verbiage So I think that this is more now there's it's so extreme with some people I just had the spectrum that they're having medical Condition and they're being treated for it, but I actually would argue that more There's a probably a higher percentage of people in the gym right now working out that actually suffer from some sort of body Dysmorphia, I would I would agree. I mean we're constantly being or it's reinforced to us that the way our body looks We're being marketed to it's very important. It's like one of the most important things, you know Wisdom isn't that important intelligence isn't that important? It's like how we look That's very important. So we're constantly comparing ourselves to an ideal and so it's it's quite common One of the more effective strategies I would do as a trainer. Well, first of all, I never directly Treated body dysmorphia. I know when to stay in my lane and I always especially if it was a bad case Would always work with the therapist. That was the person who focused directly on that My goal as a trainer was to get the person to Love exercise because it made them feel good Love exercise because they like the strength gains. They like the performance They like the movement themselves. They enjoyed the workouts I my goal was always to move them away from the you know Falling in love with the visible changes from exercise like oh am I getting leaner? Am I do I look any different? It was more like wow I added five pounds to the bar or I could do a full squat today And so they really love the performance and it just took their focus off of the body long enough or with enough Effectiveness to get them to really enjoy working out for some of its other qualities because when you're dealing with this Situation it's very easy like here's a deal if you have body dysmorphia Challenges and you go into working out with the wrong Motivations it'll make it worse. I've seen this many times become very obsessed When you look at people who deal with anorexia or bulimia oftentimes what's what's you know combined with that is over exercising Yeah, so if you go into it the right motivation like if you go into your workout thinking You know if let's say this is you you acknowledge that you have body dysmorphia issues Maybe you're seeing a therapist So now you're going to the gym and rather than thinking I need to burn off calories I need to change the way I look you think you know what I haven't been kind to myself So I'm gonna go to the gym and I'm gonna take care of myself. I need to feel better. I like that I want to move better. I want to feel Stronger I want to see how strong I can get like that's a good one because it's hard It's really hard to get stronger if you're not feeding yourself enough now on the flip side If you're dealing with a man with body dysmorphia sometimes you get what they call bigorexia Which is the opposite where the guy just wants to get bigger doesn't care about you know his health Oftentimes takes anabolic steroids or eats too much food I would have felt more closer into this category in which case I would focus on performance as well But it wouldn't be strength It would be mobility mobility and flexibility because if you push strength with those guys they can also go I love to focus on like a and here's the thing so I if this is a train I don't know if there's a trainer asking this question So I totally understand this challenge because I remember how challenging this was Early in because this dealt with this a ton I remember how hard it was in the beginning versus how hard it or how much easier it became later for me Later on when I built the confidence and experience as a trainer I could tell a client like this like okay like you know regardless if they sat down for me said Oh, I hate the way I look I don't want this this and I would be able to say listen Do you you were referred by somebody to me like that? Do you trust that I'm gonna take good care of you and I would get them to commit that they trust me And they said well, so this is what we're gonna do like I'm not gonna have you get on the scale We're not gonna do these measurements It's not what I want to do is I'm gonna teach you something and I just need you to trust me that I'm gonna Take care of the goals the things that you want But I want you to follow what I would I show you okay And then get that by in first and then the program would be focused around either strength or skills Like I love to take someone yeah, and teach them like a Turkish get up a teacher teaching a great 100% a great Turkish get up could take months and months and months of training and focus and It's it's fun to try and get somebody good at it What a feeling of accomplishment Yeah, and exactly and then when you what when they you watch somebody who can barely balance 10 pounds over their head and do A Kurt Turkish get up all sudden be able to do that with a 40-pound kettlebell or weight over their head and Do it with beautiful form and the whole focus was around that as a byproduct They'll get stronger. They'll feel better You know and and then you can attach and you could show them like how they are making progress with their goals and Disconnect it from the way they love somebody brought that up. That's like falls right into what I was gonna say It's like, you know, I get somebody like that. They're very Physically motivated to change because they hate themselves like they're coming in with that type of energy My favorite thing to do is to introduce them to unconventional tools and unconventional Ways of training that sort of just flips the script So, you know in order to reframe how they think like this is all gonna go in terms of their workouts and what you know muscle size and or you know, how much of this body fat we're gonna lose or this or that like they're just Focused on the actual thing that's right in front of them learning like something like a macebell and like how to swing it properly Like by just doing these things that actually do stimulate the muscle and it does promote You know fitness that we can build upon I just found that like a much better way to at least start You know having them think differently about how this is all gonna go I thought it was interesting when I read about strong men like that took on apprentices I think I brought this up before in the show one time and I can't remember where I read this but I guess that that this was like Like the standard before like let's say Justin is a strong man and I want to work underneath And I want to learn from him and he's this great trainer and he goes all right Well, you have to first be able to do a Turkish get up with a hundred pounds And so I would have to acquire that skill So think of that as a trainer who's getting somebody who's so focused on their body and say like okay Don't worry. We're gonna get to all those things but the first the foundation is we first have got to achieve Whatever and you give them like a strength goal or a skill goal that you want to focus on and then don't worry We're gonna do all those things and it's great because it kind of distracts them From you know their body and changing but what you know as a trainer that they're that's all gonna come as As they're focusing on that, but you're taking their mind off of the way they look.  Okay? I didn't do it before this time I'm gonna do it and if you enter into exercise that way then it makes Things so much better, but it is a very powerful tool and it's all in how you use it And it can definitely push you in one way or the other it all starts with your intention going into it


Four aces are on tonight's slate for MLB DFS. We have Jacob DeGrom, Garrett Cole, Zach Wheeler, Clayton Kershaw all on the slate for today. We're gonna break things down and get you set for tonight in MLB DFS. Let's let you know our favorite studs and how we're playing things for today over on FanDuel. Welcome on in to the FanDuel Fantasy Q&A. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for numberfire.com here to answer your questions for the next 25 minutes and get you set for tonight's slate of MLB DFS. And as mentioned, it's all about the studs for today. We'll talk plenty I'm sure about the studs. We're gonna start things off here with DJ over on Facebook and DJ is asking, is Aaron Savalli worth a look for tonight? And for me, the answer is no. And I realize I am not with consensus on that because I've seen some Savalli discussion several places throughout the day today. Personally, it's not for me because mainly this, the gap between Clayton Kershaw and Aaron Savalli from a Savalli perspective is pretty low. We see Kershaw 10-2, Savalli at 9,000 and the gap between them from a talent perspective and an expected upside perspective is a lot bigger than that. As you can see here, Kershaw has a 29% strikeout rate. This is over is a total of 14 starts this year. Savalli in his eight starts with more cutters is at 20%. So a decrease of 9 percentage points there. They're both pretty good with their walks or batting ball stuff. So Savalli can definitely hang there but the strikeout is a big gap. And also you see here, Kershaw is facing the Phillies, 27% strikeout rate versus lefties this year. We have Savalli facing the Orioles. They're at 24%, not a high strikeout team. The Phillies are better offense than what Kershaw has but the Phillies, yeah, than what Savalli has but that's not enough to make me say yes, I definitively feel good about the upside that Savalli presents. I feel like for me, I just need to have a guy who can get me a lot of points for today. It's very possible that Savalli does that. I think his last time out he had like 10 strikeouts or something, it was a lot. It was 11 strikeouts against Seattle. So he was awesome his last time out. He definitely could have that big game but if I'm trying to predict who will do well today, I think the odds that Kershaw, Wheeler, Cole, the Grom do it are a lot better. So basically my perspective is, is Savalli going to be the highest scoring pitcher on tonight's slate? I think the odds that are pretty slim but I think that the odds or the amount he's rostered will be higher than that. So to me, I'd rather just spend up for these four guys, ignore Savalli, it's not a bad spot. He's not a bad pitcher. He's a good pitcher. It's a good matchup. But I'd rather get the higher upside plays which are to me at least those top four guys in DeGrom, Cole, Wheeler and Kershaw. Let's talk to DeFuse, care to shine on how the Braves show more love or shine some more on the Braves. Now the lineup is that Abraham Monte and the cleanup spot where at the look he is very much because we're trying to get to DeGrom. And that means I will use some guys who may not be the most optimal place. Let's sort here my played appearances and check out the Braves. Almonte has not been bad this year to be fully honest but I probably wouldn't pick to bat him clean up personally. In 39 played appearances versus righties, a 214 ISO, good bat at ball data, good play discipline data. It's not over a large sample, the bat at ball stuff because he hasn't put a lot of balls in play. Let's check out what he's done overall this year to make sure we're not making too many leaps. Not a lot of barrels didn't have any last year. Not a big barrel guy in general but he can it for some power. And I think that that's, I'm willing to believe that he'll be a non-zero in the power department. I don't think he'll keep up with a 206 ISO for the full season but batting forth really good team, a team that I want to stack. I would say that Almonte as a result of that is going to be someone we target even if he's not someone we're expecting to hit for as much power going forward as he has thus far. So let's put Almonte in there. Austin Riley is batting fifth. I think we're probably going to wind up there. Let's pull up the brazen numbers versus righties. Austin Riley, 25% strike area versus righties, 208 ISO, those are good enough numbers for me to get there. So we'll take Riley for sure. I'm likely going to need Dan's V. Swanson as well because I just need the salaries even so you get two to grom. Swanson, not bad, a 39% fly ball rate, a couple of too many strikeouts, not the best power numbers, but he's also not a negative. And for $2,600, I think that works. So we'll go with him. And as we talked about this morning, we in general do want to favor righties versus Richards because he gets fewer ground balls against them. So if I'm spending up for Acunia or for Freeman, I'm going to pick Acunia. I would do that anyway if it didn't really matter what Richards does, but I would still pick Acunia. It does help though that Richards is someone against whom we want to target the right-handed batters. So I think this is the optimal brave stack. It does mean you are scrambling for sure in your other four slots to find the salary savings to get there, but I think you can make it work if you can't get to Acunia, that's totally fine. I know Albie's a switch hitter, so he doesn't like fit the creed we discussed about trying to target the righties, but good numbers for Albie's, 51% fly ball rate versus righties, 201 ISO, four stolen bases, that all works for sure. So if you can't get to Acunia, it's a bummer, but we can still work with this for sure. This is where I'd be looking with the Braves, preferably Acunia, but if you can't make it work, Albie's a good consolation prize at $3,100. Eric, when is sports book going to be legal in Maryland? Don't know, hopefully soon. I think I have a wedding, I guess it's in Virginia, but it's in that area in September, so hopefully, it probably won't be by then, but hopefully it's by then. Kyle, do you like Strahler or Cormac as chief place to the Astros tonight depending on which one plays? So the Astros facing Jordan Lyles definitely is a stack I'm willing to go at. So I think diving in, trying to identify some lower salary plays who might be in lineup is a worthwhile endeavor just to kind of prepare ourselves ahead of time, but depending on what happens with their lineup for today. Okay, so, McCormac is up to 59 plate appearances versus righties, 292 ISO, 31% strikeout rate that's high, but it's not like Miguel Sino high, so it's high, but it's not the worst. Let's pull up his numbers here at other levels to see if this is something we should expect to continue for him. In triple A, back in 2019, 204 ISO had some speed. I think that's encouraging. So if McCormac were to play, I don't think that would be a terrible option. Straw is not the kind of batter I like to use and generally is basically a bunny and bunnies are more so viable for season long stuff versus daily fantasy, because you really are dependent on the steals and straw only five steals so far this year with righties in the mound across 155 plate appearances. So I would rather not use straw, even if that means less exposure to the Orioles. That's fine with me because just, I'm not sure if there's enough juice there. For me to feel really good about him, but McCormac is someone I could consider if he does wind up being in the lineup. We'll see on that, but you know, if he's in there, I think that that could work out. Hopefully Kyle Tucker plays, I do like Kyle Tucker too, but if we don't get Kyle Tucker, McCormac at $2,200 could be a salary saver than the Astros. So Kyle McCormac for me, preferably no straw. Let's talk to Cliff over on Facebook. DeScafani has huge upside for the salary tonight, but DeGrom is a play. You can find the right bargain hitters. Yeah, so I think that DeGrom is the right play. He's my number one pitcher for today. I have Kershaw two, Wheeler three, Cole four. Let's check out DeScafani though, cause I think that he is worth at least talking about. The Diamondbacks, I believe it lost like, quote me or tell me if I'm wrong, but I think it's 93 consecutive games in the road. Like correct me, I might be one or two off on that, but they've been bad. Their strikeout rate versus righties up to 24%. It was low for most of the year. It has increased DeScafani 21% strikeout rate, lower than you'd like, but he does help make up for it a bit by going deeper in games. 103 pitches last time out at 107, a couple of before that Lance Lynn, what in the world that I just linked that wrong or did I click the wrong link? Let's see here, is this DeScafani? This is still Anflin, isn't it? Okay, well, I just linked to the wrong page. Cool, Jim, awesome. Let's go to the DeScafani here manually as opposed to shortcut way. And pull up his numbers recently. Two hit shutout against the Nationals. That's pretty sweet. So he has paths to upside. Yeah, I think that DeScafani definitely works. Eight strikeouts in that game. Washington, I think it's like kind of archetypally, if that's a word, similar to Washington where they're both not good offenses, not super high strikeout teams, but not good in general. So yeah, I think that DeScafani is a defensible option for today. Wouldn't talk you out of him if your process led you there. I think that we were talking about, we got so much from the time on Walker last night. And those are good recommendations by you, the public. He did great. I think that DeScafani, if we're looking for a Walker this late, probably DeScafani might be that guy, $77. I think he works for sure. So Cliff, I'm on board with DeScafani as a potential option. My preferred route is still to spend up, but if you wanna spend down, DeScafani works. I talked about Ian Anderson this morning. Haven't seen the Red Sox lineup yet. Doesn't appear to be out, but if there's no JD Martinez, I would bump up Anderson in that scenario as well. DeFuse, second base one-off. So we talked about Ozzy Albie's earlier. I think that he would definitely work as being a second base one-off. Jose Altube, if you're up there from a secondary perspective, I'd rank him above Polanco. I think the twins are worthwhile for stacking today, but Polanco could work. I also do like to say Sir Hernandez at the same salary as Albie's. Hernandez not typically on my list for DFS because the power is not there, but he has a lot more power versus left. He's leads this year and it's a small sample, but I think it's 101 plate appearances. He's actually showed some pop. So I would say Sir Hernandez works from a stacking perspective or from a one-off perspective at second base. If I were to pick one of those, you know, non-value plays at second base, I would probably go Hernandez first. Probably Hernandez first followed by Albie's because of the salaries and then Altube and Polanco. All those guys are players I am willing to use for today, but that's the order I'd rank them. Gleiber Torres, I think is a viable value or one-off as well. Ty France could work. Actually, the Mariners are facing barely over, so don't wanna go there. I'm here to consider that. He's facing Wheeler, no thanks. So I think for the most part, it's the upper salary guys. If you wanna lower salary guy, and we talked about DeSclifani in a positive life before, but Jeff Rojas, good individual batter and I'd be okay considering him too. So Rojas is probably the top value option, but then to me, I think that overall, Sirza Hernandez probably gonna be the way I go at second base pretty often for today. Alvin, any change to the stack ranks from this morning? No, I'm still on board with going with Atlanta one, Cleveland two, Minnesota three. I've had a harder time getting to Minnesota than I thought I might. So I think if I were to potentially change something, it might be just putting them in the same bucket as the Astros. That's not changing my rankings, but it's putting in that bucket. If I put the twins in the overall high salary bucket, then I'd rank the Astros higher. So if I were to say there were a change, I would say the affordable bucket is Atlanta one, Cleveland two. The non affordable bucket for DeGrom is Houston one, Minnesota two. If you can get to one offs on Houston, Minnesota, definitely okay going there. But I think that Minnesota, just the more I look at their salaries, the more they seem a little bit pricey for me. So I do think that's the one authorization I make is just putting the twins in a different bucket, putting them in the same bucket as the Astros and saying, I probably can't get there if I'm going with DeGrom, mostly Atlanta and Cleveland in those lineups. Cliff, D-vax numbers versus righties are bad. Ballpark favors him too. Yeah, the temperature for today for DeScoffani, 68 degrees, best park on the slate, best situation pitching on the slate too. So yeah, another good thing for DeScoffani there. DJ, Stack Toronto, Houston or Arizona? Not Arizona, we're talking about DeScoffani before. It's not Arizona. And then, Toronto, Stack Toronto, Houston or Arizona. And is Christian Walker with look tonight or after his performance last night or do I avoid him? I wouldn't care too much about what happened last night. I think that the long reliever for San Francisco was a lefty. He's now facing a righty. Christian Walker, I believe has pretty drastic platoon splits. So I wouldn't look at Walker personally. As far as stacking Toronto, Houston or Arizona, I would rank definitely not Toronto. They're facing Garrett Cole. I know he's not been the same recently, but he's still got a 33% strikeout rate over his past eight. Starts the strikeout rate. I think in the two starts since the spin rate decreased, I think he's at 35%. So do not stack Toronto. I would stack Arizona for sure. Wouldn't stack Arizona. Did I say that? I would stack Houston, but not stack Arizona. So to me, DJ, Houston's the only team in that set. I would consider stacking for today. Let's talk to Sean. Do you think the twins pitcher is worth a shot in GPP? Give me some nice sticks. So I think that the talent is pretty good on Bailey Ober. The concern I have is pitch count. As you can see in the three starts he's made this year, he's got 82, 51 and 73 pitches. I think the twins are okay. They're content with keeping him a little bit shorter. So I don't think if I'm like, like if I'm projecting pitch count for Bailey Ober for tonight, I'm probably sticking somewhere closer to like 85 or so. Like that would still be his max. So I think with that in mind, I'm gonna avoid him. I need more pitches out of someone to be super enthused. I think the talent's good. Like I said, he has a 3.63 skill interactive VRA. It's three starts this year. 32% strikeout right back in AAA. So I think he's a talented guy and I don't wanna stack against him, but I'm also not gonna use him because I don't think the pitch count is quite long enough for me yet. Michael, which Cleveland batters do you like other than Cesar Hernandez? So let's, I think the lineup is out. So you can actually check out who they are using for today. Ahmed Rosario batting second, Jose Ramirez, Harold Ramirez, Yu Chang, or Yu Chang is batting sixth, Bobby Bradley, seventh, Austin Hedges. Okay, so let's check out their numbers versus Luffy's this year. And Cleveland, they've actually faced a good number of Luffy's partly because they're really bat against Luffy's. So I feel like teams are okay, kind of grease in the wheel a bit to make sure that they get their Luffy's out there versus Cleveland. So, you know, we actually got some, some decent volume here. Okay, so Yu Chang has 68 plate appearances versus Luffy's, fly ball rate of 48%, not a lot of hard contact and no power. So preferably not there despite the fact he is batting sixth. Maybe you could do it just because, I guess like again, it's salary savings on the night where we do need those salary savings. But to me, I think you start things off here with Hernandez, I'm gonna go Ahmed Rosario because the salary there is not super low salary, but it's, you can get to it with the grom. So we'll do that. Other guys who were in the lineup for today, we've got Jose Ramirez, oh, Harold Ramirez definitely won him because he's $2,500. He's had some solid power numbers this year. We'll do that there. And then I'm probably not gonna be able to get the Jose Ramirez just because yeah, 2475 is tough. I could go Almonte, I know for sure and make that a little bit easier, but I would say the top four guys on Cleveland are gonna be the top four guys for me if a stacking perspective. Eddie Rosario, he's been bad versus righties this year, not great versus lefties either. So we'd like to avoid that. Let's check out Yuchong's numbers in the lower minors to see what he's been doing overall. If we can have some reason for optimism here, maybe we can get ourselves jazzed. Oh, I toggled off minor leagues, actually one of those on there. Okay, so in AAA back in 2019, 174 ISO, that was back when they had the juice ball in AAA. So you would kind of hope for bigger numbers there, but this year if we look at versus both righties and lefties, his barrel rate is 8.1%. That's not the worst. So I'd really rather not use Chung personally because I just don't know if the power is there. So I'm gonna try not to get there, but like realistically, you might have to. So I think that my optimal Cleveland stack for today would be one that likely omits Jose Ramirez and just works with these three guys. And then I have a one off at some point in there, but your other options are you go Chung in there and then you can have 30, 50 left for your Braves or whatever stack. Maybe you go Twins or Astros there and then, or you go with Jose Ramirez and just really scramble for your other four slots. I think both those are viable. My preferred route for today I think is going to be this one with a three player stack and then having a one off somewhere in the lineup. Jerry, how do you feel about Savalli and the Texas middle of the lineups? So again, talk about Savalli earlier, like he's not a bad play because he's a good pitcher. He had a really good game last time out. I just don't think he has the upside to match Kershaw, Wheeler, Cole, the Grom and the salary discrepancy there is not big enough for me. So not super into Savalli tonight personally and then the Texas middle of the order. Okay, so let's pull up Rangers facing Grenki. Grenki's a low strikeout guy, so you could go there but he's still suppressing hard contact. So I'm not super into Texas overall. So to me, probably not a huge priority for me with Texas. Mateo, do you like the Giants bats versus Arizona? Mero Kelly is a guy stacked against a lot earlier in the year. I've not been doing so recently because he's been increasing his strikeout rates not as much of a negative in the bad at ball department. So I'm probably not gonna get to the Giants today. I was fine with them yesterday. I thought they were in a good spot but today I think I'm okay avoiding them against Kelly because he's got some better options elsewhere for this one. Chris is Almonte a good value play. Yeah, talk about him early. I think that if you're looking for a, like a very logical play, Abraham Almonte is probably like the number one process of value for today, where I came above Chong pretty easily. So Almonte, I think $2,200 is a salary for him for today.  So I would say Almonte, probably a priority play among the values for today. Cliff, I'm throwing 50% to Grom. Yes, I am a Mets fan. I think that's a fair number whether you're a Mets fan or not. You can get to him with all three Mets outfield as well, McKinney and Pilar super low salary. We can get there with a two out of three of their outfield, Brantley, Suno and Donaldson, but I won't give any more lineup. I have just think it makes sense and fits. So Mets offense is facing, okay, so they're facing the Cubs and it's Robert Stock starting. It might be a bullpen game. Stock is a reliever, but he was throwing longer in triple A. He went 57, 52 and 66 pitches in his final three triple A outings. I think that they'll get to him. I'm just not sure how much they'll get to the Cubs bullpen after he leaves. They're a good bullpen. So I think the Mets are an option for stacking for today. They're not one I feel great about. So if it makes it easier for you to get to Grom, I think that's fine, but they're not a team I am actively seeking out personally for today. DJ actually asked, what do you know about Robert Stock? The start for the Cubs other than don't use him? Yeah, I wouldn't use him because he won't go long enough. He's a super hard thrower. Like I think he hit like 101 this year in Iowa. So he's a hard thrower, which means we get, we're probably gonna have starters in this game. We're both starters in the first inning hit 100, which is kind of cool with the Grom and Stock starting. I think because he's probably gonna go three or four innings, it means we'd prefer to have it against a team that had a rough bullpen. We'll pull up the numbers here for the Cubs bullpen this year. I think it's a 2.00 ERA for them. Let's check that though. 2.00 ERA for their bullpen. Let's see what the bulk relievers have done because that's kind of the more relevant thing here when we're talking about a bullpen game. So guys who have gone, so Dylan Maples, a lot of strikeouts for him. 1.99 ERA, 3.62 X ERA. Keegan Thompson has gone long a couple of times. Good number of strikeouts for him. 2.18 ERA, Mills went last night. So I think they're fine. The Mets are for stacking. But I think that because the Cubs have some pretty lively arms in the bullpen, it's okay to be a bit lower. And then we've got the number one Ace, Anthony Rizzo coming out of relief. So can't overlook that. I think that that allows me to just say that they're okay but not be super high in them. Okay, Alvin says the Astros lineup just came out. So let's actually already had it here. Okay, so we've got Altuve Bregman or Brantley Bregman, Alvarez-Guriel, Correa McCormick-Strawl and Maldonado. So we talked about McCormick before. It's a bummer that there's no Tucker because Tucker was kind of one affordable guy in that lineup, but McCormick, you know, he's got some power. So I do think that although he's batting seventh, I think that he works, especially if he gets the flexibility else which he would. So let's go to the Astros here. Let's pull up McCormick as a one-off for now. And then I'm gonna take DeGrom out because realistically I'm probably stacking the Astros with Kershaw versus DeGrom just because I don't think I can do it DeGrom even with McCormick in there. We are at 32-29 left. Let's pull up the Houston numbers versus righties this year to see what our priorities should be within this offense. And then we'll sort by plate appearances. Okay, not a big Brantley guy, just not a ton of power there, not a ton of upside.  Jordan Alvarez, obviously very good. So if we're looking here just like from a power perspective, the guys who stand out most there are Alvarez, Tucker, Altuve, Correa. Bregman not running as much this year which does put a dent in his upside. So let's pull up the Astros, check out their salaries over on Fandall. And let's go to Altuve, 4,000, Bregman 35, Correa 35, Alvarez 37. So I'm gonna try this, let's go Alvarez. I know Correa is betting six, this is a bit lower but I'm still fine with that. And if I go with Altuve at second base, then if you go with like the value plays to talk about before like Abraham Almonte, Harold Ramirez, guys like that, you can make this work. So I would say when you are going at Kershaw, I would try to be high on the Astros because this is a pretty solid stack. I'm okay with this one personally. I think that it does work out pretty well. So in your Kershaw lineups, try to jam in the Astros and we're talking about McCormick specifically, I think that he does enough for me to be viable at $2,200. That is all the time that we have here for today on this Fandall fantasy Q&A, should be a fun slate, should be pretty high scoring too, given the pitchers out there. So pick wisely, decide who your top pitcher is, build your stacks around that and try to go win yourself some cash for tonight. 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Okay, so I want to welcome everyone to the second annual faculty author spotlight. Thank you all so much for joining us today. My name is Melissa Chimintra. I'm the scholarly engagement librarian for the social sciences and geospatial data Howard Tilton Memorial Library. I'm super excited to moderate our first of three live chats of this virtual series we will have another tomorrow and Wednesday with two other groups of faculty authors that will share their work with us. So today we've got a really great bunch of faculty authors I'm sure you have been enjoying our candid chat so far. It's been really nice to sort of just chat off the cuff with all of you and sort of shake some of the semester stress away. So today we have with us, Rana Berger professor of philosophy, who will be sharing their book with us nature law and the sacred essays and honor. Actually, this is really special because this was written in honor of Rana. That's something that I haven't heard of before. So I'm excited to hear more about how this happens. I know it's something that's kind of specific to philosophy from what I understand. We also have Dr. Dennis keyhole professor of classical studies. They'll be sharing with us their book titled Roman lot and economics volume one institutions and organization. We also have Dr. Chris Lane professor of history. With their work. Potosi if I'm saying that correctly the silver city that changed the world. Dr Nancy Mabidi professor of political science with glass and gavel the US Supreme Court and alcohol, which I'm also excited to hear more about. Dr Adam McCallan professor of medieval and early modern studies with their work fortifications and it's discontent discontents from Shakespeare to Milton troubled in the walled city. And lastly, Dr Ezra Oscar professor of communication with their work mainstreaming of the headscarf Islamic politics and women in the Turkish media. So as I mentioned that we have a few pre arranged questions to ask all the panelists, and then we'll take questions from attendees if we've got time at the end. So I'm going to jump right in with the first question and y'all can unmute yourselves and answer as you'd like if you all want to answer the question. That is absolutely fine. If you don't want to share that is also okay. And the first is how and why did you choose your book topic. I don't want to start. Yeah, I don't want to call on anybody I don't want to be that kind of person. I'll start with this one because my book is probably the most unconventional in the sense that it's the most popular oriented, probably of our of our scholarly works. It's a history of both alcohol and alcohol law, specifically with respect to the US Supreme Court in the Constitution, but it's also a history of alcohol in American political culture and particularly cocktail culture. So it's a fusion of two of my interests, frankly, I'm a scholar of the US Supreme Court and of constitutional law and of judicial decision making, and I'm also interested in social policy and law. But I'm also a cocktail enthusiast and an amateur historian of alcohol in the United States. And so this book was an effort to put together two interests of mine, and also to try to find somewhat of a more popular frame for talking about the history of the Supreme Court to make it more accessible to a broader audience. I guess I can also answer my book sort of chose me because I was, this is a big two volume collection of essays that involves scholars from law economics and ancient history, writing about Roman law and economics. And I was originally a contributor and I know the person who came up with the idea fairly well, but it soon became pretty obvious that he would need a great deal of editorial help, especially adapting the people who were not scholars of the ancient world to talking about the ancient world so that's how I got involved with mine. I'll go ahead and answer the question myself. This, my book fortification and its discontents from Shakespeare to Milton. It was the classic case of unanswered questions in the first book. I did not set out in life to be a one of the only people who does military cultures and literature in the early modern world I kind of fell into that as I think a lot of young scholars do. There's something I could do. I mean I my dissertation was on aesthetics, you know I do with pictures and poetry and the illusion of images in writing. And I was recalled and deployed and suddenly it seemed a no brainer to write about soldiers and poets in the process of doing that research. And I was running into this statement that was made the scholars we get used to hearing these common places that need to be questioned talking about. Well, of course, the new age of warfare because the city walls were now torn down and armies, etc, etc, etc. I love to do archival research and I love to do in situ research I go out there and I find the old rocks I write better surrounded by the old buildings. So there I am in Quebec, in the West Coast of Africa, looking at buildings that when they were tearing down walls, it seemed to me they're actually building new ones. So I wanted to know what this was about and I sort of discovered that changes to military cultures and militarization as a concept we're forcing radical and widespread rebuilding of the of the European environment. During the periods when the walls were supposed to be coming down. So I decided to focus on that. I can chime in to. I mean, my book is about Turkey and Turkish media I'm interested in the country I will I grew up there born and grew up there. And I was interested in understanding the recent history and politics since 2002, and especially in 2002 the current president came to power and since then the country took an authoritarian direction. And the book is an effort to understand how this happened why this happened, and what is humans role in it. So it was it was kind of an effort to understand what happened how did this happen because this authoritarian turn wasn't expected at the time. Nobody could see what was coming so that was, that was an effort to to to understand what changed after 2002. Yeah, I can just say that it's really great to be here and I appreciate you guys putting this together it's really, really wonderful. And I can see with our panel we have as a historian pretty great coverage of time periods, going from ancient to the present. And I sort of fall in the middle, along with Adam, I guess it's the middle. 16th and 17th centuries. And I sort of fell into this book project.  And I was working on something very pointed and definitive about a great fraud, a gigantic fraud that occurred in the 17th century. But I felt like I needed to have a sense of the big scope of time and so the place I study put to see Bolivia was the most important silver producing region of the world for several hundred years. And it altered global economics and and and as a consequence many other things but starting with economics. I wanted to globalize Latin America I guess that was my initial desire to take a part of the world that's often seen as peripheral and secondary and often victimized by other places, and try to put it at the center. And so I did have an agenda. That was to kind of promote this place and say globalization is nothing new and in fact Latin America was front and center. So that that pushed me along. As Melissa was saying, my this is, it's great to have your book that you didn't have to do all the work to write. I've written books. This is very nice. It is. It's not just philosophy Melissa but there's an all it's really I think probably from German academic world. The feststrift, like a celebratory writing, and it's usually a collection of volumes for a mentor or a scholar, typically you're 65 or 70 or 75 years old somewhere in that range. And it's meant to show the influence of that person's work by students and other scholars. So, as I think in one of those videos I said, I've actually been at Tulane for 40 years. And my first PhD student right at the beginning. And I think that's why I put this thing together. And there are other graduate students from different cohorts over the years, and friends and colleagues. Richard hopefully you know he's got a really beautiful essay on lessing in here. And I think that the hard part was, when you do the volume like this a collection. You're just doing it by the people who studied or influence. I don't know for sure if it'll come together as a whole. And I think we were all really excited to see how much this did. And the theme the title sort of was what pulled it together those themes that conflict of the tension between nature and convention. And then the way that relation is connected and turned with the sacred. And that reflected my work especially in ancient Greek philosophy and the Bible, an uneasy relation of the two roots of our whole Western tradition. So it was exciting to get this and I think it's a way beyond what I could have done myself. I mean the essays go all the way to Kierkegaard and Descartes and Boccaccio and Dante and my monadies way beyond my own narrow sphere.  So it's really coming very satisfying. I can imagine that's not it's just, it just seems so special and rewarding, you know, and obviously very well deserved so. Thank you all for sharing your answers to our first question. I'm going to ask the second, which is what was the most difficult and or most rewarding part of writing this or editing this publication. In terms of like the process or. Yeah, your process. Well I guess. For me the most rewarding thing was to be able to bring a help bring a project that I didn't really start but I was part of at the beginning, through many twists and turns to a final and I think from what other people have said, a very stressful conclusion. And it was partly because it involved scholars, some of whom are quite famous from law and economics in my humble field. So you know it was a challenge to make a work that actually had some kind of unity to it in terms of its intellectual reach. So, and it was a lot of work. So the most satisfying thing I guess was when I got the volumes on my front porch and Jim showing that it was actually done. I'll go next. Just save that this may seem like a strange answer but the answer is it hasn't happened yet. Maybe who are listening or attending the panel or not in the business, you'd be surprised to learn that we don't have millions of people buying these books, you know. So a lot of times the influence of what you do doesn't manifest for a decade. And you don't, you know, like when my first one came out. It was not, I don't think it was very well received at all. It was a lot of fun of me. Within 10 years, though, two books, just like it came out, you know what I mean, because you're breaking new ground, you're talking about something no one's talked about before and other scholars follow you and now I look back on it and say, that was satisfying like right now nobody except me is talking about fortifications and literature in the 17th and 16th centuries on it. So I'm going, someone will ask the same questions and, you know, they'll look at my book and say, you know, he's got some good ideas, but not great ideas. I think I've got great ideas I'm going to build on those. And then all of a sudden you see, like, wow, you're actually in enlarging knowledge so I look forward to the satisfaction by suspect it will be five, 10 years from now. I'm sharing that I think it's a good reminder to all scholars and, you know, budding scholars, you know, to pursue those passions and that you might not see, you know, these accolades come through immediately and it's not always about like the short game right but what you actually contribute overall. I think that's a great reminder. Let's see, I wanted to add something. I've gone kicking and screaming into each new technological development. But it really is so interesting to me because my, you know, experience for so many decades what Adam just described. But now with these sites that I never thought I would do but academia.edu and these videos we do that get, you know, I mean, it's interesting I'm finding out people in, you know, Turkey and all over the world are reading your work you can find out where they are. And I don't know it's interesting to me it's very different world in the last, and especially with our, you know, current virtual distance learning all that. I think my work has gotten more widespread quickly than ever before, because of all these new developments that I resisted. I could add to that I just last summer my book came out just before I was traveling when it was still possible to travel. I traveled to Bolivia, and I took a bag with, you know, as much weight as you could put in it a disposable bag with books just copies of this photo see book, because I was going to a conference and in photo see and I wanted to give copies to the people in the archives and everybody there, even though most of them are like, let us know when it comes out in Spanish. This is nice but we can't read it. I actually carried these books across a swollen river and, you know, had this experience of, you know, I'm actually like in the colonial period, hauling books to the periphery to to distribute them so I guess the most rewarding thing for me was that experience of getting the books to the place that the books about. And then if everything else is fine I don't care if the reviews are positive or negative. I don't care. Did you take pictures of yourself with the swollen river because I just I love this idea of like, I've got to get these books to the archive man. I have pictures of my very wet lower half yeah holding a suitcase on my shoulder. It's too late for the jacket photo. It's extraordinary. I'm not sure if everybody gets that experience, you know, I mean, I don't recommend it right like swollen reverse side of being able to bring you know this piece of work to the actual place that it's about I think that's, you know, potentially once in a lifetime I don't know hopefully not but you know very rewarding I'm assuming I have no idea. So I was at a con conference one time and it rained. So I guess that would be. It's pretty much the same thing. Yeah, I mean, I want to know did you keep a journal like at the night like tonight the swollen river stopped us from the passage but fortunately my the great book delivery I'll write that story for the New Yorker. It's like a Geary and the wrath of God. It was closer to that. No, but I will say the review process very much as Adam said it's it's a slow thing and so you kind of you're tempted to keep checking and then you publish a review yet.  They didn't see what I was trying to do. I had a review like that recently where it was clear that the author of the review just either missed my point entirely or was writing about a different book I couldn't tell. The review came out just a little bit later and it was just like oh man that's exactly what I had in mind I'm glad it worked. Why is it that it didn't work with this person. You never know. This is true. Yeah. Everyone has their own version of your book. You know to to speak about the front end of the production right we're talking about the reception and things like that to think about you know what are both the challenges and the rewarding things in the production of a book. I would say in the case of this book I had I had a couple of, you know, challenging but ultimately rewarding experiences. One is just the experience that I'm sure you know Chris can identify with any historian can identify with and that is searching through an archive and finding. Ah, the gem, the evidence that you needed to make some connection. In my instance, it was between a particular chief justice and a particular favorite cocktail. Since that's one of the motifs of my book. And so among the things I did was weighed into judicial papers which, as many of you know, who work with archives are often not very well organized and so you're just sifting through all kinds of processes and getting an impression of a life that that was really fun for me I don't typically do that kind of work because I'm a political scientist, but it was immensely fun. And I would love to do more of it. And then I suppose the others this is may seem pretty prosaic and mundane, but some of the most rewarding episodes for me were securing the permissions for images that I wanted to use. I mean you wouldn't, you wouldn't believe some of the hurdles one has to surmount and everybody I believe in copyright law sure but you know there are. There are sometimes obstacles that you don't know will be there both financial and otherwise and for some books images are really critical to capture, you know, an epic or to get a sense of a person. And when I secured a particular image that I wanted having to go through a deceased artists family. Well, I was like yeah. So that was kind of a that was kind of a run of the mill production level reward, but I think it made the book stronger. Wow. Can I ask what fate what the favorite cocktail was. Oh, oh, I have to ask. Can I get too deep in the weeds. Well this was Chief Justice Harlan Fisk stone, who was known to be a great wine lover, and who served essentially during World War two he had a pretty short tenure of office. I knew that that was a period in which rum was really, really popular as a beverage, again was really, really popular in the United States, partly because of the legacy of prohibition when domestic production had been shut down and so consumers in the United States and so this had amped up a real taste for rum. But everything we knew about stone was that oh that you know he disdained cocktails, but I found a hand typed recipe that he had saved for a rum based cocktail. So it just validated for me everything about his era, and things that we didn't necessarily know about this former professor, who was supposedly a big wine and cheese fan, but also partook of the things that were popular in the time. To think what I'm going to send Nancy if you don't know there's a website of cocktails named after famous scholars. I'll send you the link later it's great. But I also on the image issues and getting permission, the press kind of covered up my image with the title but this image. I had picked for another project, which I heard in the classics. It's a great lecture it's Jiro Europus, and there's a, it's such a fantastic time with the Greek and biblical Hebrew and Greek. So this is the temple of Solomon with Greek columns and everything. It was an amazing for me to discover the image was so great. It really was about Athens and Jerusalem which is my world. It was a struggle to get permission to use it. And, but at the end it turned out it wasn't from my book it was someone else, you know, it was taken over for my editor here. This whole topic maybe it'll, maybe it'll spawn questions but you know what with Ronas earlier comment about technology copyright laws and what it used to be either. I mean, in the case of someone who owns the photograph is still alive but certainly what you know Chris and I work with there's no one left alive. But so sometimes if an archive owns that image, if it's actually a digital high quality digital image that is that someone else owns you're allowed to use theirs without permission. Yeah, that's a new thing. And I'm I don't even know how I feel about that. I mean, that's not necessarily what we're talking about today but just sort of the way the writing in the scholarly writing has changed. We can now use images without permissions. And it's, I feel like some part of the book is lost if I don't get to say, you know, I want to express my gratitude to the National Archives and Dublin, as if I've been there they know me, you know what I mean. And now I don't get to do that, because I can just take it from someone else who has it. You can still, you can still shout it give a shout out to the National Archives of Dublin. Yeah, I advise my graduate students to plan on another year, getting their permissions together. It's almost an extra book, even though things as Adam says they've gotten a lot easier, it just takes a lot longer than you imagine, even with email and PDFs and documents that you can sign without sending them, you know, through the regular mail, it's still really tough. This cover image in mind for from the very beginning, because it encapsulates the story of the book. It's the mountain. It's the Inca, and the pillars of Hercules that stand for the Habsburg World Empire, and the silver in the middle is actually visible on the original image and there are llamas and people on the mountain. But this image belongs to an Irish baron. And, and I had to write to him personally and, you know, I didn't know exactly how to address him like your grace, your mercy. Was it your most humble servant is requesting this use of this image but he said just call me Sean. So Sean allowed me to use this message or this image he sent me a handwritten permission and said no I'm just glad it's going to be on the book that's great. But it's that reminder that it is a collaborative project even though you know we take credit my name is on there as the author. There are a lot of other people that are involved in the production team. In this case, I was even really surprised when it arrived because they put kind of a silver lining into the book I never asked for anything but they kind of did a really nice job with the production and I was like man this is this is the best looking book I've ever produced I'm really amazed. So, when a press feels like they want to push your stuff that can be kind of nice. I'm going to move on to our last question and then we'll have some time for folks to ask questions any any of the attendees can ask questions or y'all can ask questions of each other. And then for the attendees. When you do want to ask a question, I think you have the ability to raise your hand and then we can unmute you if you want to vocalize your question or you can also use the q amp a. So our last question. Did anything you learn while researching the topic surprise you were there any big surprises or things that maybe you discover that you didn't expect that you want to share. Well, I had a big surprise. One of the papers and the thing I was editing was written by two economists and there to make their discussion of the ancient world, say more historically accurate. I wound up co authoring article with them, or a paper with them. And so I thought it was kind of cool that I work with two economists whom I never even met. And we have a co authored paper. So that's being interdisciplinary for you. I discovered Ireland. Well, and I said, I mean, if the others inviting questions on this topic. A lot of times, probably each of us has an area that's closely related to what we study that we have avoided, like, like, like, like the minds of Moria, if you follow the told me like this, this dark place that you guys don't want to deal with it because there's so much work that I don't know about. And for me doing British studies mean doing a lot with Elizabethan and Jacobi in England, and, you know, and, and also revolutionary England. I don't didn't deal with Ireland because I grew up with Irish nationalism as being such a dominating that whole world. And in this book I couldn't avoid it anymore. I had to like start dealing with Ireland. And so I did and discovered that in the 21st century. A lot of that, the baggage of that sort of fictional Irish nationalism and that weird Celtic racial identification is now finally giving way to something better and new, and sort of discovering the whole world of scholarship that I could get into and this thing that I've been avoiding dealing with. I just dealt with and it was so much fun exciting and I can't wait to do more. I can share a surprising point throughout my writing. So, in my book, I'm analyzing the columns of women journalists who support Erdogan, the, I mean, the guy who came to power in 2002 in Turkey. These are women who most who write in newspapers that that support him. But these women also before the Erdogan came to power. They, they were seen as people who would kind of contribute to the improvement of democracy in the country. So, when when I started working on their columns. I thought, okay, I mean these journalists probably they see politics differently for me and probably they. I mean, I, when I started writing, you know, I regularly observed concentration of power in the hands of Erdogan. And I had, I mean, I thought I was seeing something like I was seeing an increasing authoritarianism and concentration of power. But I thought they saw something different. So they didn't see what what I was observing they'll. When I started writing, when I started reading their columns, one by one, I realized that, oh wow, no they observe they observe the same things you know they observe more concentration of power they observe increasing authoritarianism they observe things are going wrong, but they still support him. And they will continue to support him and they continue to support him to this day so this was a very surprising point for me so that was something to think more about. I had a, I think I was present reading this book and receiving it. I knew that all of the modern thinkers would be new material for me and very interesting but new. But Adam said before there's something close to your word that you have avoided for years and it's a big gap. And that was the thinker xenophon the writer xenophon who wrote Socratic dialogues but is much less studied than play though. And it's really shameful that I've never really studied xenophon. So there's an Espa chapter this book on xenophon it was so he's so pressurously modern in a really interesting way and it was just a fascinating study. So I got excited about it and I'm teaching it this semester. So that was an influential surprise. I guess, among the surprises that I encountered in doing this book which I would describe as a fun book I mean I did it for fun was first of all just how much constitutional law throughout the history of the courts interpretation of the constitution and application to policy questions to legal questions, how much of that has concerned alcohol in some way, and how alcohol and its regulation, or questions about the right to use it or using it in certain circumstances, or commerce involving alcohol. How much of every step developmentally of US constitutional law has some alcohol related connection to it. And I suspected this at the outset that's why I wanted to write the book, but the findings were even more jarring I suppose that that this really is a motif that makes sense for understanding us political culture and constitutional culture. I think I could add that every time you sit down to start a project, whether it's an article or a book, not that we do books all the time. They take a long time, but, but it's a process of discovery. I mean you set out thinking it's going to look kind of like this and I suspect it's going to shape up like so and I have a pretty good working hypothesis I'm fairly confident in. And then as you're working it through its changes directions or at least in my experience. It's a process of oh okay I didn't know about that and now I need to fill this in or I see a gaping hole. You know as Adam and and run I have already said I see something that I missed and I guess I have to go into that now I have to figure that out. In a strange way, writing a book is more of a process of discovery for the scholar and then when you're done with it at a certain level you're kind of like okay now I'm on to something else. I've spent five 10 years working on that now I think I've got it figured out to my satisfaction maybe not to anyone else's, and I'm going to do something else now. That's satisfying even if you know our readerships are not huge. That's sort of the nature of the beast. And I really do appreciate to lane support, I have to say it's been a really supportive place to be a scholar.  It's always a struggle I mean everybody has to piece things together but it's been a really good place to do scholarship. It's been a good advice for PhD students to write that it's not going to all be firmly fixed in the proposal you can remain open to new discovery. Yeah, absolutely.  When you're chatting just now about, you know, you're already on to the next thing or thinking about the next thing. Would you all mind sharing like what that next thing is for you potentially if you have something in the works or that maybe it's just a little seedling in this moment if you wanted to share. This is a really significant question for me because I've been very slow 10-15-20 years I've played another 20 years on air so I move really hesitantly. And I've been teaching these courses at Tulane on Bible and philosophy. And in the academic world as we all know you stay in your own lane, right you develop scholarly skills and a background in training and connections. And it's not so easy to move out of that. So I myself have now it's number of years, probably another 10 years, moving toward wanting to write on Bible which I've been teaching happily but it's different to write on something to teach it. So, yeah, that's a really interesting experience I think some people are more bold and innovative, but just how academia can keep you, you know, rail, it's not so easy to break out of these alleys and move in a new direction. So, teaching can help with that too because most of us teach more broadly than our scholars do. Yeah. Anyway, that's what I want to do next. I have just completed another project after the book it was a journal project and I had an article in it about the alimony debates that took place in Turkey in the last year. And my next next project I think is to rest a bit and, you know, like, gather energy, experience life in, I mean other dimensions of life and then go back to writing but my next project is to gather my energy and rest. Well, I have a long term project on land and many different aspects in the Roman world, but I also, you know, I think a lot of us we get asked to write things. And so they always seem to come up first and so right now I'm supposed to be finishing up something on poverty in the ancient world for a more general collection on poverty, economic aspects of poverty. And then I have another essay that is sort of related to the land project but I was just at a conference for the other one just before this. And so there's always always seems like there's a lot of things to do. I'd like to return to something that that Rana mentioned and that's the the nexus with teaching. One thing that was generated by my work on this book was a special topics course I did a few iterations of, and my colleagues convinced me to entitle it booze drugs and the courts. It would sound more enticing, and I guess it was. But what it what it asked me to think about were some of the parallels in both regulation and rights debates over the saga of alcohol in American law and current debates over both the legalization of cannabis, and also the saga of narcotic drugs and other drug substances in the United States. And of course this recent election cycle we had some very interesting state referenda on these questions. And you know in my in my course I tried to put it all together into some sort of organized theme. But I learned a lot, and I learned that there are lots of directions that this work about controlled substances and intoxicants and the law could go. And of course the obvious debate to investigate is the saga of marijuana in the United States. And of course the current seeming you know move towards greater and greater openness with respect to both medical and recreational cannabis as it's preferred to be turned. So that represents you know a huge opportunity and ability to co author and collaborate with people who are public opinion scholars and things like that. So I'm very excited about lots of different directions, and I continue to research historic cocktails of course and think about what should be our totemic cocktail for the Trump era. For me right now. It's a fun question a frustrating one some ways for British studies, especially because of the finally that the imperial shadow is withdrawing. It's, it's wide open again it's very exciting it's an exciting time to be alive and British studies I mean it really is. I mean, Ireland is, you know, you can actually do Irish studies without having to deal with Irish 19th and 20th century Irish nationalism. You can you can look at things like the Ulster plantation and without having to look at it as a 20th century problem, you know, sort of, you know, early 17th century problem that is wound up in 20th century politics. England itself is sort of looking at its own existence and questioning paradigms like, you know, it's isolation. I mean, I've seen wonderful scholarship coming out of England saying like England wasn't isolated. I mean, back then and Dennis can probably talk to this this more oceans connected land separated right getting getting from from ancient. What is now China to what is now Europe was really really hard to do across land but water connected things. I've seen British scholars even questing like what did what did people what are the Anglo Saxons look like, like what did people look like in England back in the 18th century AD. And the answer isn't they didn't necessarily have like red haired braids I mean they don't we don't really know I mean connections between Britain and Phoenician cultures wide open, but the same reason is wide open here and what I would love to do is talk more about those the idea of England in its past freed from the legacy of empire and you know, in some ways freed from the legacy of 20th century Marxist scholarship which merely recast the same paradigms of imperial thinking in an adverse way is bright wide open but what I would really like to do is go and look at this continent, especially looking at our are, you know, looking at people like red cloud and others as important American figures and and repositioning them in the dialogue. I just got out of, you know, Army War College this year, and I asked the question point blank to the folks which we could do is like, Why are we looking at General Lee. Again, why are we looking at red cloud. You know why are we talking about the tactics of General Jackson. Why are we talking about red cloud. I mean, those are, those are questions about that are vaguely early modern that would love to see us do it like reposition. Really look at this continent as a whole bunch of things and a whole bunch of people that also that contributed to it in ways that we haven't even started to discuss. Does anybody else want to add anything before I open it up. I have a few questions. It looks like we already have a couple in the Q amp a so a reminder pop your questions into the Q amp a which is different from the chat. We are using the zoom webinar platform so it's a little bit different. You should see a Q amp a button at the bottom of your zoom screen. So pop those in there and I'm happy to read those out loud. The next question is for Dr. Berger. Why do you think the themes of nature law and the sacred run through our whole tradition. Yeah, it's a big question I just tried to get really small. And it's often been said that philosophy begins with the question of whether the things that we all accept by convention, whether any of it is actually true by nature. Like every society has its own ideas of what's just and noble. These are the conventions and play those great image that's the cave that every society lives in, and philosophy is asking whether any of those conventions are by nature. It's the intention, which is really I think the, you know, the tool, philosophic inquiry runs through, I think all great thinkers. And then it's compounded or made complex by the biblical tradition or revealed religion. If there's a creator God if God is determined reality. Nature and fix nature. And how does the sacred fit into that dichotomy between nature and convention. And finally, the issue that I've really kind of wrestled with and what with other scholars about is, whether the Bible and religion can have this distinction of nature and convention. It's just an idea of nature, the reality and nature of those. So, yeah, this, there are big questions that doesn't surprise me to see the concrete ways in which it showed up and all these other thinkers, you know, from medieval to modern. But when you think about it, these are such fundamental questions that I think last for human thought. All right, and next question is for Dr. Ascon. The question is, I mean it's from Lisa Hooper. So she says it's so great to see you again by the way. She says she's a very good friend doing his PhD work on an American variation of what you have done. It's such intellectually and emotionally challenging work seeing the parallels and knowing plenty of others are looking at this modern American moment. I'm wondering what techniques you could pass on to other researchers for separating and protecting yourself from your own research. Thank you, Lisa. I can't see you, but thank you very much for the question, which is a great question. I mean, these are very similar topics. I mean, when I worked on this book, I kept thinking about women supporting Trump. And also the last four years, like a lot of things prompted the reaction like I mean I saw this before. And so very similar processes are taking place in two different countries. And there are no techniques that I can think of. And I suspect there is none. I mean, these are not very, these are topics that make you nervous and I think they keep you nervous. Even after you are done with the book and everything you don't know where where it will land in. And so, yeah, I mean that's, I wish, I wish I could say something I could promote something, but I'm afraid these are topics that we have to deal with. And I wrote this book and now I have to deal with anything that it brings to me, right, positive and negative. And the next question I see is also about Erdogan. So, Erdogan regime is kind of they are even Erdogan before came to power. He has been and his party has been very critical of the regime promoted by Ataturk. Ataturk regime was based on a model of westernization. And so Erdogan came to power by constantly criticizing this different aspects of this project. So I mean it is, it is not so easy because Ataturk's project, I mean have been embraced by millions, but there are also social groups who fell outside of it. So he basically played those dynamics, but it is, you know, he is, I mean, his regime hasn't been very fond of the project brought by Ataturk in the first place. Thank you. It looks like we've got one more question in the chat. This might be our final question. It is a very important question. It is from Eric Weedig and it's for Dr. Mavidi. It is worth many of the Supreme Court justices bourbon drinkers. The answer Eric is yes. Bourbon drinkers, absolutely. And bourbon, you know, is popular throughout American history, right from the beginning of the domestic production of whiskey. And it's when it's produced in Kentucky and gets its name all the way up through the 20th century. And even now in, you know, the current revival of cocktail culture, etc. So probably, probably one of the most, you know, outstanding bourbon drinkers of the chief justices was probably Fred Vincent, who was a very good friend of Harry Truman. That's kind of how we got nominated. And Harry Truman was known as a bourbon drinker, loved bourbon. Washington nowadays, just so you won't worry, is not as hard drinking a town as it once was. People are much more moderate. I don't know, is that a good thing or not, who can say, but the, the stories you read about of mid century, last century. That sort of that sort of culture of alcohol and politics has been succeeded by very different, very different behaviors. And she did. And she had a favorite spirit, which was a party, which is an Amaro. And of course, Campari figures in various cocktails, including my favorite cocktail, which is the Negroni. Those are tasty. I'll go have one right now. I have a respectful panel here. If you weren't in New Jersey, I'd say be right there. A lot of fun. Yeah, thank you so much we have one minute left I want to be respectful of everybody's time so I do want to take a moment to thank everybody who participated whether you are a panelist or an attendee I do want to thank Courtney Kearney and Amanda Morlas and Alan Velasquez who were integral to putting this together whether it was editing or communicating with you all or reaching out and all of it that took to make this go and of course all of our faculty authors who without y'all this obviously wouldn't be happening. And this was extremely fun, and very lively so thank you for participating, especially through all of your zoom fatigue which I know we're all experiencing. And then a reminder we'll be doing this again tomorrow with a whole new batch of folks so if you want to pop in tomorrow. We welcome you all back to to hang out and do it all.  Absolutely and that's one of our favorite things about this is as you know getting everybody across campus together because those opportunities don't often exist. So it's always really fun and there's so there's a lot of commonalities between the struggles that y'all face. You know putting this stuff together so it's interesting to hear the different experiences but also the connecting threads that throughout all of this so again thank you so much for participating. And enjoy the rest of your days hopefully it contains a negroni or two. Well thank you all for organizing this this is really nice. Thank you, thank you. Yes, thank you y'all it's been I've laughed a lot it's been wonderful. I've laughed a lot too but it's just been it's been great to just so you know. There is a long faculty meeting to start. Sorry. Negroni's after that. Bye everyone. Thank you.