Broadway's my beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the godliest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway's my beat, with Larry Thor, as Detective Danny Quill.  It's a cry or a laugh, but nothing in between. Either way, it's my beat. On special detail, there are no special hours. Don was at the window of my office at police headquarters when I scribbled my last report. An out-of-town schoolteacher was trying to beat the heat by using Columbus Circle for a burlesque runway. I buried that one behind a convenient fan. Bid the boys a fond bourgeois and started home at the side entrance. I didn't make it. All I saw of sunrise was in an alley. The alley reserved for police ambulances coming home to the morgue. The voice stopped me and invited me in. Danny, Danny, come here. The man who stood silhouetted in the slice of light was a man who called himself Capek, a freelance photographer who hung around headquarters. You never knew he was there, but he always was. The quality of Don Danny, who can hold it? Who can imprison it? It is the eternal intonadema for a photographer. Why don't you go home then, Capek? What keeps you here? That ambulance, perhaps. You see, creative men like me have a devotion. It is always the same. Perfection. Everything neat and perfection. Oh, so that's what it is. I watch that stretchin', Joe. Yeah, okay. Hi, Danny. Hi, what do you got, boys? Suicide.  I didn't know anything about it. Well, not your department, Danny. See you later. See what I mean, Danny? Neat and perfection. The man they're bringing in, for instance. What's neat about him? That was Jimmy Dorn, a Cinderella man who only the other day won $17,000 on the Irish sweepstakes. What? You must have read about him. How no newspaper and no newsreel could get a picture of him. Yeah, I remember he was shy. I liked him for that. But I have a picture of him. Oh. Hmm. Dead or alive? Alive, of course. Dead is for any hack with a brownie. Got her with you? Mind if I see it? No harm, I've already sold it to the news. Here, here, look at it, Danny. Not the delicate play of light and shadow. The exquisitive. And this guy looks happy. I never seen anybody look that happy. Because Capec took it at the moment of Jimmy Dorn's greatest joy, the supreme ecstasy of winning $17,000. Yeah, to each his own. How did you get it when no one else could? Hmm. The famous Capec tact? It cost me $50 to arrange it. But the news paid me twice that. That much, huh? When Mr. Dorn committed suicide, it raised the price. You see, in the newspaper game one must... Yeah, excuse me, Capec. Danny Clover, give me the dope on a suicide name of Jimmy Dorn. Yeah, I know it's not my department. I'm nosy. Yeah. Yeah. Lily Dorn. Third Avenue. Okay, that's enough. You have to look, Danny.  Maybe. Be with you in a second, Capec. Hello, Benny. Danny Clover. That's Jimmy Dorn's suicide. Tell the chief I'm going to look into it. Yeah, Benny, I know. It bothers me. Sure, I'll grab some sleep on the subway.  Why should a guy let a subway train make his wife a widow with $17,000 often? Why should all that sudden don't make him want to commit suicide? Is it such a secret why men destroy themselves? Yeah. To me, it's not neat, Capec. It just ain't neat. Third Avenue is a tenement five-storey high and miles long. At nine o'clock in the morning, it was going full blast. The elevated housewives hunched in open windows, kids flipping pennies against the wall, and every seven minutes, it screams. Somewhere between Sam Chew's hand laundry, special attention-paid dupleted dress shirts, and the blue-star delicatessen, cream soda and hot pastrami, two bits. Somewhere between there was a doorbell. I pushed it. Yeah? What do you want? My name's Danny Klover. I want to see Mrs. Dorn. Suddenly, everybody wants to see Mrs. Dorn. Suddenly, I'm a popular lady. I'm from a police, Mrs. Dorn. You guys don't quit, do you? All right. Come on in. You want to know how it is to win $17,000. Is that what you want to know? Look, Mrs. Dorn, I'm sorry about your husband. Oh, sure. You can feel any way you like. Tell me about your husband. Jimmy? Yeah. I'll tell you about him. Jimmy didn't like people. He got afraid of them once, and he never got over it. Why? You know, I don't know. He was always running, and I ran with him. I was his wife, Mr. Klover. I didn't need to know any more than that. But maybe you understood why he refused to see any reporters, when he won all that money.  He bought him an obituary. That doesn't tell me much. This room tells me more. This rat hole. This room says that, doesn't it? Rat hole. I didn't say that, Mrs. Dorn. I'm talking about that circus poster on the wall. Patsy Mack presents the three whirling tornadoes.  You can go now, policeman. You said your questions. Now go. Brody, please. Why didn't you stay in that room? They can't do anything more to us now. Come right on in, mister. Who are you? I'm a clever boy. I don't win sweepstakes, but I stay alive. Yeah, real clever. Now, what about this circus poster? It covers the cracks in the plaster. Three whirling tornadoes. Three men riding motorcycles in a barrel. Mrs. Dorn, for a frightened man, your husband made a dangerous dollar. Look, I told you all I know. Maybe you ought to get out of here. Why should a poster come between us, Mrs. Dorn? We were getting along fine. You had the lady copper. She's saying she's finished talking. That right, Mrs. Dorn? Yes. What did you say? I said that's right. Maybe I should have let it alone, got some sleep, but it kept eating at me. When I found out Jimmy Dorn rode a motorcycle in a barrel, everybody got unhappy. I don't like it when it gets unhappy. So I took a walk and found myself on Broadway in front of a tired building that has a lot of names. You take your choice.  You're perfect for a fairytale ballet that's opening in New York.  Can you play First Trumpet with a Bop-A-Wine outfit? You've got a song that's crying to be published, all with a slight fee of course. And on the fifth floor, you find what you were looking for. The office of Patsy Mack, promoter, entrepreneur and a dollar begotter. Well, it is in Danny Clover. Hi, Patsy. You still pound the stem, Danny? Aren't you ever going to be promoted? Promotion means a desk job away from Broadway. Who wants that? Yeah, I know what you mean. Can I give you something? Oh, great juice to be keen. I've got three fingers left of a bottle given me by a bearded lady who was enamored of my social standing. It'll bring a smile to your lips. You drink it, Patsy, and thank her for me, Patsy. Center a dozen blue roses, or is it red roses for a bearded lady? Yeah, I'll do that. She'll appreciate it. She loves delicate things. Oh, don't they all? Patsy, tell me a story. Okay, and let me see. Oh, have you heard the one about... Yeah, tell me the one about the three whirling tornadoes. The three tornadoes? What fond corner of your memory clutched onto them? Tell me a bottom. Well, I don't remember much a bottom, Danny. They've been out of the business a long time. The three tornadoes, huh? Well, there were three of them. Thanks. There was no one else connected to them. Oh, no, no. The tornadoes ran their own carny toward the villages and the metropolises. Patsy, you've got a reputation for remembering every act that ever played a circus or carnival. What for their names? Oh, you put me on my metal, boy. Now, let me see. There was a... Let me see. Jimmy Dorn. Dorn. Yeah, I think. Could he be the one who ended up under a subway this morning? I'll look into it. Who were the others, Patsy? Well, there was a fella named... Let me see. A russian kind of a name. Danilov. Yeah, that's it. Joe Danilov. Joe Danilov. And the third? Oh, now you're pressing me, boy. The third was a man named... Let me see. Brady? No, no, no. Could it have been Brody? Brody, Brody, that's it. Well, how'd you know, Danny? Brady, Brody, it's a short jump. I'll try real hard. You're sure there was no one else connected with the act? Well, I come to think of it. There was another guy. Yeah? What do you think? Oh, his name doesn't register, Danny. This guy whose name doesn't register? Was it you? Oh, are you kidding? I had nothing to do with the tornado. Well, thanksy. Thanks a lot.   I left Patsy there waving his jaw at nothing, which was about what I had. Nothing. An ex carnival performer wins $17,000 and dies under the wheels of a subway train. They say he jumped. Why should he do a fatal thing like that? Why should Patsy lie to me? A one-sheet poster said, Patsy Mac presents the three whirling tornadoes and Patsy had just told me he had nothing to do with the tornadoes.  His name's Pop. He takes care of the file room of a magazine. Magazine that tells a lot about people, especially the people or show people. The file room was deserted except for Pop. What you doing down here, Danny? Anglin' Pop. Oh, you don't have to hide that comic book from me. My wife packs it with my lunch, Danny. Now, you take this one. Sandra, the jungle queen. Ain't she a honey? Makes a man with men? Yeah, she's keen. What are you holding on a guy named Joe Danilov, Pop? Take a second to find out. How was that name again? Danilov Pop, D for doll, A for avenue, N for... Avenue N? Yeah, avenue N, Pop. Yeah, got it. Only, uh, you didn't spell it right, Danny. You didn't let me finish. Didn't need to. Here's the file on Joe Danilov, all right. Only it's D for dead. Let me see that. Joe Danilov, ex carnival performer, a member of the three tornadoes, was found dead today at the bottom of an elevator shaft. Danilov left no survivors, his wife having died a year ago. Hey, hey, how about this? How about what? Listen, a week before his death, Danilov came out of obscurity to win a cross-country motorcycle race with a purse of $1,000. So he made funeral expenses. That's hot news, huh? Last night, another man. A man named Jimmy Dorn came out of obscurity to win a lot of money. He died two. Two whirling tornadoes all played up, one after another. You know something, Danny? What? I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, sorry, Pop. I was playing with the jigsaw puzzle. Well, you sit right down there and do just that. I'm going upstairs for some coffee. You want some? Coffee, Danny, want some? Yeah, your coffee. Be nice, Pop. I'll just be a few minutes. Don't let anybody kidnap Sandra the Jungle Queen. Yeah, yeah. Two whirling tornadoes. The third one named Brody. Maybe you'll blow away, too. Brody and the bitter widow, Dorn, and Patsy Mac, the sweet guy who told lies. That you, Pop? I never knew what it was that slugged me on the back of my head. It wasn't a comic book. And whoever did, it wasn't Pop. Just before I hit the floor, I had a flash. It wasn't Sandra the Jungle Queen either. You are listening to Broadway's My Beat with Larry Thorne as Detective Danny Clover. A number of paying guests mysteriously disappear. Two elderly spinsters who entertain them have a suspiciously rising bank account. And it's a murder farm story for Casey crime photographer to explore on CBS Tonight. Also on CBS Tonight, you'll hear the network's famous series, Escape, in place of suspense while suspense is on summer leave of absence. Tonight's opener on Escape will be John Russell's famous story, The Fourth Man, a tale of a Pacific Islander adrift on a raft with three murderous companions. Be sure to hear Murder Farm on crime photographer and The Fourth Man on Escape tonight. They come to you on most of these same CBS stations. And now back to Broadway's My Beat. You win a lot of money or dive violently or do both and Broadway'll know all about you. What's your name and your picture in the morning editions? Then Broadway won't care anymore. But I cared. Maybe it's because I've got a cop's curious mind, but it bothered me why Jimmy Dorn died. So I made it my personal business and so far business was rotten. I was on my back when Pop brought me too. It took a little longer to find out that the press clippings I was looking at weren't around. That's a new one. Roll for some old press clippings. This needed thinking. Pop's got to eat. To eat there's a classy sidewalk café on the corner of Broadway in 47th where you stand up to a hot dog and a cup of coffee that dares you. I threw a lump of sugar at it when someone tapped me on the shoulder. Hello, Danny. Mind if I join you? Oh, a K-Pig. Not at all. Grab a napkin. Danny, somehow you look unsymmetrical today. What happened to your head? I had it done over. Your detectives always intruding yourselves into violence and danger.  You should go home and get some rest. What about you, K-Pig? Don't you get any sleep either? I am a vain man, Danny. I've been waiting for the noon edition of the news to come out. It has the picture I took of Jimmy Dorn. Look at it, Danny. Is it not a magnificent reproduction? Yeah, that's quite a picture. How'd you catch the expression? For an artist like me, it is a matter of precise timing. But somehow, underneath this picture is not right. What do you mean? I feel the caption should not read suicide. It should read murder. Oh, it makes you say that. I have captured death in my pictures for a long time, Danny. This is the face of a man whom death was about to touch with murder, not with suicide.  The elements for murder are three, Danny. A widow with $17,000, Danny, where are you going? I've got to make a call. Who calls on a rich widow with onions in his breath? Hey, you up there. You who? You at the window. Who, me? Yeah, you. Oh, Mrs. Dorn, isn't she home? You want somebody, mister? Mrs. Dorn, I've been ringing your bell. Where is she? Oh. You know where Mrs. Dorn went? There's no light downstairs. Her? Yeah, her. She took up 40 front feet of sidewalk, and its insides were designed to take up thousands of man-hours of loneliness. Right now, there were only three lonely people. The bartender, Mrs. Dorn and Brody. Mrs. Dorn and Brody were standing at the end of the bar trying real hard. I hated to do it, but I decided to ruin their evening potum. You don't know when to quit, do you, Clover? Why do you keep coming around? I was saying, Mrs. Dorn... Nothing, nothing at all. Yeah, you can nurse that a long time. Please, we don't want any trouble. We got all... It's this way, Mrs. Dorn. A long time ago, a man named Joe Danilov fell down an elevator shaft and was killed. Seems like he was nobody until he won a motorcycle race. Then he got his name in the papers. Then he died. What does that do to you? What should it do to her? I'll try a refresher. Joe Danilov was a whirling tornado. He belonged in your husband's bank, Mrs. Dorn. Try to react on that. I don't know what you're talking about. You got your reaction, Clover, now blow. Mrs. Dorn, you know your husband just might have been murdered. Mrs. Dorn, consider it. You've got no manners at all. All you've got is a loose mouth. Wait a minute, Brody. The man said somebody might have killed Jimmy. Do you think so, Brody? Ah, this guy's trying to put poison in your brain, Lily. Don't listen to him. You think I shouldn't, huh? Why should you listen to you, Brody? Go read a book, Copper. Go read a book and find out why I should hang around a woman who's married to my best friend, Jimmy Dorn.  He did, didn't he? Yeah. I never thought of it before. I've got a lady who just inherited $17,000. That'll teach you, Lily. That'll teach you not to talk like that.  This'll be a little... Hey, what are you doing? Hey, you can't fight in here. Stop it! I'm running a Haitian joint. Oh, stop! Lily, Lily, Lily, Lily, Lily. Lily, I'm sorry. Don't cry, Lily. Please don't. Talk to him, Brody. Tell him what he wants to know. Tell him what you never told me. Why were you and Jimmy always hiding? Tell him, Brody! Take off, Copper. You've done your bit.  Sure. Only you fascinate me, Brody.  First Joe Danilov, then Jimmy. There's hardly a breeze left of the three whirling tornadoes. What's keeping you alive, Brody? Now there was a guy I just had to see. Capek. There was a chance he had taken more than one picture of Dorn. Maybe in the background I'd see a familiar face. Out in sea beach near Coney Island, I found the door with Capek's name on it. Oh, it's you, Danny. Come in, come in, come in. I didn't want to disturb you, Capek, but I wondered if you took any more pictures of Dorn besides the one that ran in the news. I am not like other photographers, Danny, who take dozens of pictures to get one good one. I take only one and it is always perfection. So the one in the news is the only one? Yes. It, uh... It is important that there should be other ones? It might have been... It's quite a gallery you have on the wall. Yes, yes. Come look, Danny, come look. This one, Danny. This girl who looks like a tired angel on a lonesome street. Yeah, nice. And this one, a derelict sleep in the gutter. It has the texture and the lighting of a Rembrandt, though. Capek, a man with your talent could live in a penthouse with dancing girls. Why do you live here? Hmm, I get some of my business. Hmm, I get some of my best results here. Yeah, everybody gets some. You must have got there fast for this picture. Oh, that one, yes. Well, you know my deal with the police. The minute anything violent happens, I go out with you. I get a picture. You get a body. Who was he? That is a man who was once Joe Donnellove. Donnellove? Yes, I took this picture just after he fell down the elevator shaft. The mood of finality was magnificent. Very dramatic, Capek. Donnellove was one of the three whirling tornadoes. Did you know that? So? Well, to me, Donnellove was simply a man who fell down into space and died. The picture captures this sensation, don't you think? The down-sweeping lines, the shadows like a dark caress, the broken form like some grotesque passion. Everything meets everything. I don't think Capek even saw me open the door and leave. It's a long subway ride and a transfer back to Broadway. Coming up from an underground of naked concrete into the Blair of 49th Street, well, there's a magic to it. I didn't have time to enjoy it. I had a job to do, and a chance to take. And the chance paid off. Patsy Mack was in his office, working late. OK, Danny, so I lied here about my connection with the tornadoes, and why not? First, Joe Donnellove, then Jimmy Dorn. Next, maybe me. Why should I take a chance? Just accidents, the people said. Oh, not just accidents. Danny, not that kind. Tell me, Patsy, why do you think you'll be next? I don't know. It just looks like everybody connected with the tornadoes has written down the little black book. Tell me more, Patsy. This time I'm leveling, Danny. Once I managed the tornadoes, but I dropped them like they're a basket of snakes. Why? What did they do? Remember, I told you there was another guy there back there, but he got sick. He went to a sanitarium. The tornadoes robbed him of everything he ever had. All three of them did, Danny. Yes, Donnellove, Brody and Jimmy Dorn. Donnellove and Dorn are gone. That leaves only Brody, plus the widow Dorn in 17,000 bucks. Were you ever in a sanitarium, Patsy? No. But they might put me away for slugging a cup. Oh, what do you want me to do, Danny? Cross my heart and hope to die? Something easier than that. Use your phone for me. Anything for a friend, Danny. But you are my friend, aren't you, Danny? Call Billboard for me. What? Personal ad, Patsy. A personal ad on the front page where a guy in the show business would be sure to see it. You phrase it. Phrase what? Just this. Anyone connected with the act, the whirling tornadoes, meet at the entrance to Crescent Midway on Coney Island tomorrow night at 11. Have information to wind up affairs of the tornadoes. Phone that in, Patsy. Because you say so, friend? Because the police say so. Patsy. Yeah? Sign your name to it. So I had it all set up. This case had murder in it. And I was pretty sure I knew who the murderer was. It was a matter of supplying a pigeon. That was me. The next day two things happened. The ad was on the front page of Billboard and Rain King. When I hit Coney Island 10.30 that night, it was a wet desert. Neon reflections and stragglers and empty rides. A place with shadows and peeled paint and shadows and shadows. I had to spot the killer before he spotted me. So I picked one of the darkest places under the framework of the roller coaster and walked into it. I really want into it. Danny!   I'm in a dismal mood, Capec. That gun you're holding doesn't make it any brighter. It gives me the bravery to give orders to a policeman.  How are you going to make it look like an accident? I have other ideas. First, I put my gun, my hand in my pocket.  Walk, Danny. Walk! You know, Capec, I think you lost up the job. A long time ago, you told me everything was neat and perfection.  So you killed Dan Love and Dorne. But Brody gets away, eh? Brody in time, policeman. But first you and I take a ride on a roller coaster. Ah, wondering how you'd manage it. Neat and perfection, Danny. Now get on. Now pay for the tickets when the ride is over. In here, Danny, you get in the first car. I'll sit in the car behind you. How are you going to work this, Capec? You going to slug me and heave me over? Like I said, you can't shoot me. Then it wouldn't look like an accident. In a few seconds, when we get to the top, you will see. And I'll keep your hands to your sides, Danny. That's better. Can you get a picture of this one too, Capec? When we get to the top, you will see. The top was two seconds away.  Stand up. I stood up. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw him rise, too. See how I make it look like an accident, Danny? His arm came up in a wide arc, and that was the break I was waiting for. His body arched forward a strike. I twisted, grabbed his hand and elbow and... Let go! Let go of me, Danny! How long can a roller coaster ride last? Long enough. Long enough to piece together the jagged edges of some frightened lives. Danilov and Dorn murdered. Murdered because they crossed a twisted man named Capec. Brody and Patsy Matt hugging the shadows because they were afraid of Capec's revenge. And Lily Dorn with a handful of dust and dollars. You pay for the ride here, mister. Hey, you didn't take that ride all by yourself. Yeah. A little while later, an ambulance came and picked up the dead broken body of Capec. They took a picture of him, too. I caught a ride back to Broadway in a prowl car.  And you're the performer. You can walk the high wire or play it safe in a cage. Me? I guess my dodge is the wire. The goddess, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway. My Beat. Broadway's My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover is produced and directed by Gordon T. Hughes with script by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. Musical direction is by Lud Blusken. Be sure to join us again next week same time, same station for Broadway's My Beat. In just a few minutes on most of these same CBS stations, you'll be hearing the familiar strains of someday I'll find you. And the action, as you know, starts with Mr. Keen, the famed tracer of lost persons. A top-rating detective throughout radio's fall, winter, and spring seasons, Mr. Keen will be on hand all summer. So don't miss one of his great cases these Thursday nights on CBS. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.


Hey guys, it's MJ the students actually and what I want to show you in this video is how to draw five cards From a normal playing card deck So what we have in my app is you click play and you can see that we have drawn some of those standard cards I've also got it so that you can click swap cards and you know possibly go for the flash But how do I draw these five cards? You know, how do I do so that every time I draw I'm getting different cards that do not repeat themselves That's the big thing. You don't want to eights of spades coming up. So how do we do it? Well, I'm going to show you the code What I do or what the general philosophy is is I'm going to be generating two random numbers for each card The first random number I call the suit. So what I do is like this is an Android studio I'm going to create a random variable using this code. So random s1 equals new random and then this random Value is going to be assigned to something which I call the suit So suit one is going to take a random number between One and four so it can be one two three or four this represents clubs hearts diamond spades So I'm going to create a random variable for that Then I'm also going to create another random variable for the number And this number is going to take a random value between one and thirteen and Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to say the card suit is equal to suit one and the cards number is equal to number one And because this is my first card. I simply assign these values But now when I come to the second card, I need to have a Little bit of a check and what I have done is I created a while loop So what I do, oh, what did I click there? Whoops, okay. Yeah, we back. Yeah, so what what I do is I create Exactly the same how did before create another random variable Between one and four and then another random variable between one and thirteen and I sign the cards but I then have this while loop and I say while suit one equals suit two and Number one equals num two. I want to generate another random variable and assign those cards So what this means is that let's say we get ace of spades here And then we get ace of spades again this while loop is going to say these guys are the same Let's generate another random variable and it's going to stay in this loop until we generate another card So remember but both the suits and the numbers have to be the same because we don't mind if we have two aces We have the ace of hearts and the ace of diamond and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to sign the card Now when I want to draw the third card, you can see my logic gets a little bit longer I need to make sure that suit three isn't the same as suit one and num three is equal to the same as num one But I also need to make sure that card three is not the same as card two and again I'm going to do the while loop When I draw the fourth card I need to make sure that the fourth card is not the same as the first card Not the same as the second card and not the same as the third card And then this is going to go in again and then finally for the fifth card You can see the logic does get a little bit long Because now if you check that it's not the same as the first not the same as the second Not the same as the third not the same as the fourth But essentially what we're doing is we're just having a while loop where we're Regenerating our random numbers re-assigning and then checking the condition and by doing that what we can achieve is We can achieve every time that we click play. We're going to see random cards coming up. No duplicates and There we go. That is how we assign Random cards from the 52 card deck and making sure that there are no duplicates Thanks guys so much for watching and check out my other videos around how I made this poker app Specifically how I did these little swap I'll show you guys how I did that in another video, but feel free to download this app The link is in the description below. Thanks guys so much for watching. Cheers


You can get lucky. You could be like, oh, I looked at my analytics one day and it told me that I'm getting a lot of traffic from ads So I spent more money on ads and I got more conversions. That's getting lucky. That's not actually improving things And that happens But to actually improve it for the long term to see that 110-year trend and actually see an increase and not just a blip It takes a lot of work over a long period of time The other thing I want to make super clear is that check out and this is one thing a lot of folks will focus on the checkout And say oh well you need to move this field here or you need to take out these things here And I'll talk about some of that stuff for sure today because that is significant and important But the results that I've seen Start at visitor acquisition Where you get your traffic from? Impacts the effectiveness of your checkout more than anything you can do on your checkout physics I mean unless your checkouts broken But as long as the checkout is working the biggest impact that you'll see is where you get your traffic from That's the that's where check out optimization actually starts not all traffic is equal You can run ads you can do email campaigns. You could do a lot on social you can put Links in lots of places that are outside of your website whether it's on with partners do content marketing with partners If you are a product developer like I am the Plug-in itself or the theme itself is the highest quality traffic you can get period I literally have not met a single product developer who says something other than that The traffic that you get from inside of your plug-in is the most highly qualified traffic that you can get So all of us myself included who are super bothered by our WordPress admin that's covered in Notifications and whatnot That is problematic. I don't like that experience myself But what is the reason it's often because folks are trying to get the most qualified traffic that they can possibly get Which is in the plug-in itself? Those notification banners and whatnot. That's not the best method of it Honestly, and that's not what we do. That's not where we get most of our traffic either but The traffic I see coming from within the plug-in is the traffic that does the best at the checkout without question by like a magnitude of 10 So that's why I say that what I'm saying and then making physical changes to your checkout Whether you're using WooCommerce or you're using Easy digital downloads or you're using Shopify which changes to the checkout there are almost impossible Like significant changes are almost impossible And other platforms Making changes to those checkout processes is challenging. It's totally possible with WordPress options But it's risky you don't know for sure if those changes are going to be beneficial or not And it's hard to roll them back sometimes And you risk Introducing change that actually might introduce breakage to one form or another so While it's important to do physical changes to your checkout in order to get the best results It's also the riskiest place. So that's why whenever I talk about E-commerce checkout stuff. I start with everything that's not the checkout first Again, I it's almost like my title is a little bit clickbaity Let's talk about not check out in order to fix the checkout But that it's really what I have seen in terms of the the best results overall So what do we analyze actually when we're using analytics to understand things What do we analyze the first thing that like I said is the source? Where is your traffic actually coming from? Where are you attracting your visitors from generic blog articles can drive a lot of traffic for sure But not a ton of conversions so in order to actually start driving conversions with content marketing from your blog you're going to have to do a lot of traffic and That's a risk you have to take or an investment you have to consider is if that's going to be one of my primary ways of driving more Conversions I'm going to have to blog a lot and regularly and I'm going to have to spend a lot of time on that content I like content marketing a lot It's definitely one of the things that has driven a lot of conversions for give WP in particular But it is not free. It costs a lot of time a lot of effort And you have to be strategic about that as well Targeted advertising is another really good one. I actually like targeted advertising now Before I did target advertising. I didn't like advertising in general It's also fraught with privacy concerns and things like that Where do they get all this data to know that I want a blue shirt and not a pink shoe like well It's because they are watching me in different ways But I can say I like getting ads about blue shirts instead of pink shoes so there's pros and cons there again American living in Europe privacy concerns is something that I think about a lot but The targeted advertising does have the opportunity to actually take like instead of organic search Which can is a net that's really huge Targeted advertising can say like I just want to try to get these people because I know that these people are interested in what I'm trying to sell And so ideally if you're spending time there That traffic even if it's a lot less traffic than your organic traffic that traffic should have a higher conversion rate Absolutely, and if it's not you're doing something wrong with your advertising. I'm trying not to look at the camera. I'm trying to look good If you're a plug-in author like I like like I mentioned before the links inside of your plug-in are absolutely the most valuable option you have Or if you're a theme author But how you present them is really important I don't have a visualization for this But if you think about the WordPress admin and give WP has a Menu on the side that says donations and in that menu one of the sub menu items says add-ons and In my mind what that does is it highlights to the person? Using our plug-in that there's more that they can do they can add additional stuff on and so Not a lot of people are going to click on that thing because they're like I just need to build a form and move on I got other stuff to do. I'm in my WordPress admin. I'm doing blog posts. I'm Managing my users. I'm doing all this other stuff. I don't need to click on your advertising But the ones who do click on that that's where everything changes and You might be surprised but a lot of people do click on that They click on that and then they see a screen that says here's all the ways in which you can do more Once they click on those buttons. I have utm's on all of those things personally I don't ship any links outside of my control like if it's outside of my website if it's somewhere else in the world It always has a utm that does not collect private information there are folks who use utm's for malicious purposes and that's why that's also a sensitive issue, but I Want to just get the source did this traffic come from my plug-in? Yes, or no if it did come from my plug-in what screen did it come from I can get that as well If it did come from this screen, which button did it come from I can get that as well with utm's So every single link has a utm on it And I know with certainty which button in the plug-in drives the most traffic and drives the most conversion That's what you use the analytics for Is so that you can say with authority is this even working? Does anybody even care about this screen? I know a certainty that it does and I know which ones are are are the best That is by far the most valuable traffic that you get You can get really really good at advertising online advertising and that traffic can start to rival this type of traffic But I have never talked with a plug-in author and I have not yet experienced that paid advertising actually Exceeds the revenue and conversions that you get from inside the product itself next How actually this is actually on the next slide the entry pages when you now I've got traffic I got their attention one way or another. I got some organic traffic. I got some paid traffic I got some traffic from inside the plug-in Now they're on my site Now what am I doing on that page that they landed on? Sometimes what I see in the WordPress ecosystem often is that folks are driving to a blog post Which might be informative when which might be educational, but it doesn't actually do anything to drive conversions And it's not that it has to be busy and pushy and salesy But it does have to be educational and it does have to highlight the way in which you can purchase Those are the biggest things that I try to always say is if you're going to gain traffic and your business is e-commerce Then when they land on your site, you have to do a couple important things is your value proposition obvious When they land on your site, are you informing them educating them on why your site matters to them? In one way or another once you have their attention Are you able to keep it and that's where your value proposition does and then while they're there Are you educating them on the problem that you can solve for them? Again, this sounds weird to be talking about checkouts, but when you do these things You can have a relatively bad checkout experience and it will still perform relatively good Because you did all the right things before they got to the checkout. That's that's the key message I'm trying to drive and then when they're on that page entry pages are your call-to-actions CTAs are your call-to-actions? Explicit don't get cute with call-to-actions. Don't be like let's get started That could mean anything If you're wanting them to buy something say buy my thing and they click on the button that says buy my thing Because the worst thing is you say let's get started and then they end up in a checkout and they're like That's not what I wanted to do. That's not at all what I thought was going to happen That means your checkouts going to have a lot higher abandon rate Because you've got them there, but they're not going to stay there because they didn't want to be there in the first place So don't get cute with the buttons buy now purchase Open your wallet Anything that you want to say that makes it obvious that when they click on the button They're going to be in your cart or your checkout I am going to have lots of time for questions. I love questions. I would actually prefer for these types of things to be conversations so keep them in mind and Be ready for it and then the last thing I'll say before I get into some nitty-gritty details when it comes to the checkout itself Yes, checkout fields are important be minimalist with your checkout fields Don't ask for their nephew's name and their social security and all these things like don't ask for a ton of information Really try to be minimalist when it comes to checkout fields the fewer the better one of them evolutions of Stripe the payment gateway that I have loved is the way in which they're able to have a one field payment area essentially That that's been a big game changer for a lot of folks Do you need billing fields? Sometimes you really do and Billy billing fields can be helpful to prevent against fraud and things like that So but you don't always need them Do you really need their phone number? You got to think through that or not We actually do ask for a phone number, but it's not required It's because we actually do physically call people after they make their purchase And that's an interesting conversation. That's another presentation Is the checkout the best place for them to opt into your marketing? That's a hard question that a lot of people say well, they're there and I need them And so I want them to opt into my marketing, but is that the best place to ask them? They're not that's not their intent. That's not what they're trying to do at that time They want to buy from you. They don't want to get spammed by you You really need to ask the hard questions of whether or not that's the best place to do because all that does is like make them think About something that's not purchase related and if you're making them think about something not purchase related in your checkout You're increasing the chance that they're going to take off And then when it comes to payment options do the opposite be a maximalist And this is something I'm trying to work on on our checkout right now right now We basically have credit card and PayPal Which covers a huge portion of buyers, but more and more there's so many options I just went to go fill my tank at the gas station the other day I could pay in 25 different ways at the gas station. It was overwhelming. It was a bit much honestly I bet I was like G pay should I do that? Should I just take my phone out and tap? I don't know should I put in a card? I have five different cards Which one should I do that can be a little overwhelming? But the reason why you do more of the options at the checkout is because you don't want people to not buy because they don't have their preferred payment method the art between adding a lot of payment method options without being overwhelming is a whole Subject matter by itself as well And often it depends on your payment gateway and the way that they provide it again I feel like stripe is leading the way on that front There might be other opinions about that but the ability to do Apple pay and Google pay and All the credit card options to do to check out lots of German pay payment options as well all within one Simple area with stripe is pretty amazing So you don't want people to take off because they want to pay with Google pay and you don't allow them to do that All right, so show me the checkouts. I have some checkout examples and a little bit of what I walked through how much time do I have? At 10, okay, we're gonna go fast. So The give checkouts over the course of about three years. I'm actually going to flip over here to Figma And walk through it a bit Oh One thing I didn't do is figure out how to zoom in when I don't have my mouse There we go. Cool. So this was our checkout a couple years ago Which is almost like the stock easy digital downloads checkout. It has everything you need And it's boring as hell But being boring on your checkout is not a big problem, honestly Sometimes being boring is helpful because it is minimalist But we really felt like there's a lot that we can do here and just as a spoiler alert It's kind of confusing because you see a lot of down arrows here, but the this one right here is the result 64.65% Decrease in drop-offs these are the analytics So you want to pay attention to attention to on your checkout is add to carts is what it's called when you get it with somebody Actually physically add something to their cart and then how many checkouts did you actually get? How many transactions did you actually get with give WP? We don't have a cart at all. We go straight to checkout because we're basically always only selling one product at a time Not everybody has that so checking add to carts cart to Check out and check out to transaction in the case of give WP It's straight to check out so we got straight to check out and then we got transactions We increased that that differential by 65% because of these changes. I'm about to show you This was our first attempt. We we first went at it with a design. I we were like Let's make it more clear and the most the biggest motivation here was the a key part of the checkout That I feel like is really important is that when they hit buy sometimes what happens is That you go straight to a checkout that's like, all right, give me all your payment info now But literally sometimes they're like, but what am I buying even though they just click buy on your product page? They're at your checkout and they're not totally sure what they're buying. So on the checkout or in the cart Or both ideally there should be a way in which they have an overview of exactly what they're opting into So we wanted to lead with make sure that what they're buying is front and center I don't remember who made the decision to put my face on the checkout, but That happened to which is weird but That section there is about making sure that they understand you can buy and you can decide you don't want it anymore And that's going to be fine. You're going to be fine. That's a really important assurance We wanted to make that front and center as well And then the payment fields are isolated really clear and obvious And then you could see hopefully you're already spotting a problem with this one because I just said a little bit ago Don't get too cute. I got we got cute, right? Get started with give that's a purchase button That's like they're going to finalize their their purchase and it says get started lesson learned. Don't get cute This is a next iteration what we didn't like here is how everything felt Kind of too isolated and like you have to scroll a lot to Did to actually see everything and get down to payment information? So we've tightened it up quite a bit. We tried to make it feel a little more cohesive Still all all basically the same information But but it's a bit more cohesive here and and definitely More tightened up and the other thing here what we didn't like over here You can see that the purchase button is actually physically outside of the area And that felt like a problem for sure So we got that inside of the whole area instead and again Like I mentioned a long time ago doing these Customizations took a ton of effort and each of these are things that we shipped physically and then analyzed is this working And again, so like I said, this isn't results that we did over the course of a couple months This is what we did over the course of three years We did not necessarily not at the same time not a not a this check out and then this check out a B testing requires a ton of traffic to get actionable results and Give WP is a niche it would have taken us probably six months to get the amount of traffic that we wanted So instead we did more of just looking at the analytics before and after But over a period of time as well And we knew that we were going to be iterating over a long period of time So seeing the analytics changed throughout the whole process was the attempt I would love to be able to have enough traffic to a B test to check out over the course of a week That would be awesome. If you're in that position have at it. That's a whole nother presentation Okay, and then this is based almost exactly where we are today What we didn't like which you probably all intuitively understood to we didn't like that in order to get to the payment fields You really had to scroll down. We didn't like that But we also didn't like that after you scroll down you lose that summary of what you're buying it also We didn't like that either. So we're like, how can we have our cake and eat it too? And we ended up with this two-column layout for the check out which I was nervous about a two-column layout Also for mobile and things like that. It's super common nowadays. It happens everywhere but It's been working all right And this is literally a screenshot I took this morning of our check out now We have a an upgrade option at the top and a couple changes over here strong Testimonial right there. I got five minutes. So I'm going to do one more thing and jump into questions iconic WP is a great WooCommerce extension store. They've been using freemius for a long time And we just recently moved them over to WooCommerce and the checkout is actually powered by an iconic WP product called flux checkout And this is essentially the freemius checkout. So when you're on your marketing page, you can click buy now and this freemius Modal pops up and you can make the purchase right there And the great thing about that is you stay on the marketing page it's really just focusing on the Payment information. It's I it's supposed to be quick and generally speaking freemius does have serve a lot of Vendors and they have a lot of data on how their checkout works And so I know that the way that they build these out is intentional and data-driven as well I do want to say I like freemius overall But our business objectives really pushed us towards WooCommerce And this is now the checkout that we have at iconic and I don't have the data because we literally shipped this two weeks ago But a lot of the things that I talked about in terms of how we influenced our give WP checkout was used to Be applied to this checkout. You can see that it's you got the two columns What I like about the flux checkout product that we're using here in WooCommerce Is that you basically are getting a cart and a checkout all on the same page? So you can have multiple products being added here And you could see your cart you see it up here With a description of what this product is there can be multiple products here all at the same time And you can actually be changing that information Live right here and it updates automatically We have the 100% guarantee it doesn't have to have my face or anybody's face It could just be like you get your money back We have the trust pilot stuff all these things are helping to say like if you buy this you're gonna be good Well, we got your back And then when you click to the next You're still you're in the the checkout while you're still have the car overview Really simple fields up here. They're basically in line And then they even has an upsell here where you can add a second product at the same time And we the initial results that we've had within the first couple weeks is that this Upsell is getting already an 8% upsell conversion rate Which I was really surprised. That's very high. I'm expecting that to actually go down I'm thinking it's going to be like 2 to 3 percent in the long run, but initial results are really positive. So Last things before questions Show me the metrics do I have time? These are not our real numbers But this is what is now called looker. I think that's a terrible name, but he used to be called data studio All of this is populated by the weekly data that I pull out of analytics Every single week every single Monday And this is what I do over time. These are not our real numbers But it's an example of what they look like when everything is there I have it set up so that right now it's showing an annual view, but I can break this down to do only week five How was week five? And there's week five information or again I can just take all of it and see the annual and I see the graphs and charts And I'm checking to the website performance itself as a whole our ad performance organic performance email performance social performance affiliate performance I am living in this data. This is the The spreadsheet that populates that again, not our real numbers But this is what I'm looking at all the time, but I make this for everybody else to enjoy the numbers Most people don't enjoy this. I enjoy this I have fun looking at these numbers all the time But I make this a lot more tangible and nutshell oriented and when I say oh, we're seeing a dip here They go, well, what does that mean? Well, let me show you it looks like this That so that's been really helpful and effective for me That was so fast because I'm almost out of time and like I said, I love questions. So we'll jump into questions


No, what? No, it was my girl. It was my girl, right? You know what I mean? I was kind of just talking too fast and I didn't mean to say, like, I f***ing But I did. Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one. One-on-one. Yeah, we gon' talk. Do you think when you were early on you was messing with Mary? Well, okay. How did you think about that? Well, that time I was. You know what I'm saying?  You know what I'm saying? What did you feel like? Okay.  I Mean, I wouldn't use her Got somebody I could meet you if I want to but it would be Mary You know, I said it in the conversation of You know, somebody was to saying how Mary was somebody girl and I was like, whoa, wait a minute. No, what no was my girl It was my girl, right? I was kind of just talking too fast and But I did You know, nothing I said in my book, you know, I'm waiting for whatever I said in my book for the people that I Said it about I'm waiting for them to Come back and be like he's lying.  Yeah, was that Life was that concerning the fact that you was you know doing things. I think you was making moves around there well that between that too, I think after after It became so big, you know in the tour bus where everybody, you know with joke, you know They be a man.  I'm your boss Oh, it didn't change niggas you crazy.   I'm singing backgrounds And I'm doing a gig.  Well, I feel the pin on you and I can't I couldn't you know, I Looked at them as friends And you know after a while I was fired. You was actually singing for Jojo, right? Yeah Cuz he what I mean, you know, I you know Jojo's my boy So I you know, there's not much that I would I would say but Jojo and KC know Know what myself and shout out to my boy show time at those times that we sung for KC and Jojo, okay?  You see the trueness in a person when they hit the pinnacle No, man, when them niggas was drunk and couldn't walk. Yeah, they saw it.    I've been a lot of places I've seen a lot of money I've been on private jets the difference between the jet that you're on now is the jet was probably made in 92 and I flew in in 95 and you might still be flying on that same damn jet They got jets inside there 30 years old still in the air. So yeah, it's nothing new And even when you're talking about Mary J because when I heard the story and stuff like that And for some reason I even looked I was on Timsy and I seen where another young lady talk about she Had sex with Michael B. Jordan and so what I'm like, is it becoming such a thing because me growing up It was like you don't talk about certain things. You don't put that out there But it's now it's like everybody's oh, I slept with this person I slept with that whether it was a man or woman saying it Yeah, but it's like it's just everybody's just putting it out there like why well, you know again You know for me saying it especially at the point of where I was in my life, you know I mean a lot of people knew that you know that after the demise of death row, you know I was struggling and yeah singing backgrounds and things like that, you know at that point. That was my That's my trophy out. That's my trophy. That's right. You know what I mean talking about, you know, I wish Instagram or Crazy stuff that I've seen and done so, you know when I shared that moment it was out of shame some things out of the book Yeah That's a push it Not just to push it just you know, I don't I don't tell people to tell us to share on man I'm proud of it. Man. Everybody know who Mary J. Blodgett. You talk about when they after the death row thing But you went up to New York and you end up dealing with I guess Timberland and all of these I went up there with a Devonte Devonte and you basically were a bigger star at that time, right being that you just left there for Justice be well in the room Well, we were still with death row I was still with death row and death row was kind of like really going up and genuine album hadn't came out So I met genuine and Timberland and Magoo and Missy. Yeah, Missy was with a group sister and you know She wasn't you know all of the acclimates that they have now now they didn't they didn't have so how did you how did you guys Interact was it was it cool? I remember it being cool I was there to work with with Devonte and the person that I really connected with the most was genuine Okay, yeah, yeah, that's my homie. That's my brother.  How did that of when you seen it you like man, you know Genuine at tanks and backgrounds on my first single slip-and-slide. Yeah, slip-and-slide hard. Thank you And into that video to you to see to see Everybody kind of walking something that I felt was rightfully mine. So to say yeah, you know, it wasn't a jealous thing But there was times that I was like man, I wish you know, I wish I didn't you know have this this short end of a stick But I don't call it short in a stick cuz y'all was spending some money there for now I'm talking about now. I'm talking. I guess after that you don't Like I don't I don't you know, I don't complain or I would would never Not talk about or forget what death row or what shouldn't I done for me? Did you ever run into like Timberland him after all those years or you never seen him again? Every now and then I may have seen Timberland and Missy like once or twice But nobody after everybody make it, you know, they all go into a state of I don't remember you.  Don't you think that's God shielding you? Yes Yeah, I don't I don't want to you know, I guess I'm I'm made I'm made for this but I'm not made for Hollywood


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I don't get onto the Giants, Matt, but just looking at the show yard each other played last week. What do y'all got to do to get those conversions going? Yeah, I think we got to do a better job across the board, of not allowing penetration in the middle. And getting some better push and then trying to find ways to get us in space. Get guys opportunities to get that one yard. And so that's one of the things we always look at. What can we do better as players? What can we do better schematically? And where can we improve and try and be better this week? And just the emotional part of that, just when you pick those up, are those kind of injections for the team? Yeah, for sure. It's a game of momentum. And when you get your opportunities, you've four down calls, fourth and one, where a coach giving you confidence to go for it. You've got a chance to extend drives, get points in the board, and you've got to take advantage of those. They're huge swings. And then the third one, particularly late in that game, it's a tight ball game. And the momentum was kind of on our side. So you've got to keep it there. And those are things we've got to correct and do better as we move forward if we want to be the football team we can be. Yeah, for sure. I think that's got to be the mindset every week. That's the mindset that guys need to have is that this is the most important game we're ever going to play. And if we can get back to having guys every week with that same mindset of the same level of intensity and preparation, and I think it's gotten better, I think we have a long way to go. But that's the kind of mindset we have to have every week and have that intensity and urgency to go out there and get the job done. And that's something that I'm going to try and provide all week. Chris, did you know that you broke the record for most passionaries outside of the 2014 season when you did it right after the game? Not until I was asked a question. And so, no, that's the kind of stuff that, you know, obviously I'm proud of that. And, you know, I've been fortunate to stay healthy and, you know, to play with a lot of good players. And so it brings a lot of those memories back into it. But when you're playing, that's the furthest thing from your mind. What was that like for you? Yeah, I mean, it was two yards. I felt good about that. But I think, you know, keeping things in perspective is important. But, you know, I feel like I've always moved better than, you know, than people think. And it's not great, but it's good enough. And, you know, I feel comfortable doing those kind of things.  And when the giant seems to realize it's off the bill, like, how does that change what you do when you're used to things and you go through it like it's not before? Yeah, I mean, that's something, you know, our coaching staff does a great job of looking at that during the week of saying, you know, schematically do we think, you know, these calls are going to work. I think from the player's perspective, you know, your mindset always has to be, regardless of what the call is, you got to make it work.  And we all have to execute our jobs as best we can. It might not be ideal situations all the time. A lot of times you're outnumbered in those situations and comes down to, you know, be very precise with your technique and, you know, all of them and guys playing together to try and crease one gap. You know, so we'll certainly take a look at schematically what we need to do. But at the same time, you know, I think from the player side of it, you got to take that as a challenge to go make the play. Yeah, I mean, I also, you know, I really believe that if you're spending your time thinking about those kind of things, you know, you're not spending your time thinking about the right stuff. Really, all that matters is, you know, having the right mindset for what we need to do this week and what it takes to be at my very best this week. And I've always thought that if you keep that mindset, those other things that come along with it kind of stack themselves up by themselves. And so I've never had that mindset to think of those kind of things.  I think we're really comfortable moving both of them out there and throwing the ball in the passing game too. I think they both have that kind of skill set. But I also think, you know, you look at how Tampa tried to kick around some of what CP was doing last week and that helps us as a football team. So he's kind of an old school player, you know, he can kind of do a little bit of everything. He's got great speed. He's really physical. I feel like he plays the game the right way, tough, hard nosed. He's the kind of guy you want to be around. I think he, you know, he's fitting good with anything. And I'm really happy that he's here. I still feel like it's Roddy White sometimes when I'm hanging off, you know, like this is this is a little strange. He's got the dreads coming out the back too. So, you know, you're like, do a double take. But oddly enough, they both kind of play the game with the same passion to Roddy was, you know, very much that way. Great energy, great passion, tough. You know, but if you produce who cares what number you're wearing when you hand it off to him. When you're in a situation where you put in the position to run, what is your whole thought process when everything is broken down? Yeah, just go, you know, just go get what you can get.  So, you know, you have that kind of internal feel of what the down and distance is. And sometimes, you know, sometimes you think you got six or seven yards, you really only got four. But, you know, it's one of those things you're trying to get every inch you can and try and move the chains. And I think that just, you know, I was actually a triple option quarterback in high school. So if you really go back, I ran the ball a lot more in high school than I threw it. And so, you know, I've been doing that at various different levels, but my entire life. Well, I mean, if I just say away to this question, with just the RPL's evolution of the game, do you think you'll see yourself running more? I don't know if it'll be more, but, you know, there's certainly parts that we do within the passing game, too. Where it's, you know, your run pass options, the true zone read stuff. And that's for Art to draw up. You can ask him about those questions, but, you know, maybe here and there. Obviously, at this level, where does he rank in terms of pure athleticism?  But he's, you know, he's up there. I mean, no question for his size, for how big he is, too.  And, you know, his speed, I mean, he made a great catch on the touchdown, too. He's got great hands, really good vision, really good instinct. I think all those things, he's, you know, he's a complete football player and has all the kind of skills that you would want from a guy doing that, you know, job responsibility for us. Matt, you said in Tampa after the game, you know, you can throw out that 0-2 and make them playoffs in those 17 games. And there's a ton of time left. What are the things about this team that make you feel like you can play your way back into the next?  And I thought some of that was really good. I think it needs to be more consistent. I think when you look at some of the execution that we've had at certain times throughout games has been very good, but it needs to be more consistent. So I think, you know, you draw the positives from our start, some of the good things that we've done. And, you know, if you can do it once, you can do it again.  It's just going to require lots of really ordinary plays that you do really well consistently for four quarters. And so, you know, that's kind of the message that I'm trying to hammer home to our guys. It's just you have to do your job really well, play after play after play. Are you seeing more of that consistency? I mean, we use the term growing pains and things a lot like that. Do you kind of have to go through these moments of inconsistency when you have a younger roster than we've seen around here in the past? Yeah, I think you do when you have young players, but you also got to clip off wins along the way.  You know, I know that first hand being that guy, that there's a lot of improvement that you have to make, but you also have to find ways to get the job done regardless. And so, you know, we can harp on the positives, try and be more consistent, but we've got to find ways to win. I liked what you said about if you can do it once you can do it again.  I don't know where that's from, but I feel like that's something I've had that mindset for a long time. You know, there's no reason to believe that that isn't, you know, the standard for you.  So, I don't know where it came from, but I've kind of used that for a long time. And Arthur Smith talked a lot about, you know, it wasn't perfect, but Jaylen Mayfield did make a step from week one to week two. And just from your perspective, what step did you see him make? Well, I think he just played within the scheme.  You just have to be detailed and, you know, do what you're coached and asked to do. I thought he did a better job of that, for sure. But all of us have to do that. You know, it's not just him. All of us have to kind of, you know, find out exactly what we're being asked to do and try and execute it as best we can. Do you feel like, hey, are you still working on that this season to keep up the speed or is that more training? And were you really working on it? They're still conditioning us. Yeah, so we're working, yeah. And I mean, do you feel like that's a difference at all this year compared to last year? I mean, I've had touchdown runs before, so I don't know if I'm any faster, but I certainly don't feel like I've lost anything. You know, I still feel like I can go out there and move the same way. But I do believe in the conditioning portion of it. And, you know, that's one of the things Arthur has talked about from the start is being, you know, one of the best conditioned teams in the league. And I think that's something we need to continue to buy in. And, you know, sometimes it's easy when you're nicked up as you're going through the year for that to kind of slide by the wayside. But I really do believe that if we can continue to focus on it, that's going to pay dividends for us down the road. Mike? Yeah, I think this is a little bit out there maybe, but if you want mountains, okay, you're going to bring a water, and Georgia Mountains or something, do you pay attention to that? And also, like, do you take that a little bit when the team does the ring of arms ceremony? Like a front full list of like, hey, what's going on there? No, I mean, you don't worry about those kind of things. They have no impact on, you know, the play on the field. I'm happy for Eli. Eli's a friend and a guy that I've known for a long time. Was a competitor for a long time. And so, you know, he deserves it, one of the most clutch players in critical situations. And I'm happy for him and his family. That's going to happen this week, but that doesn't change, you know, what's going to happen on the field. Earlier you mentioned that there are tons of young guys about things that we don't know and continue to do those things. What are some of the things that you feel like y'all have done well in the first two weeks that you want to continue to do this week? Yeah, I think, you know, I think first down and second down, you know, efficiency has been good for us. And it was different in both games. I think in the first half, the Philly game, you know, I think there was really good first down and second down efficiency in the run game. It was tough sledding, you know, in the Tampa game, but I thought the first down and second down efficiency in the past game was really good, keeping ourselves on schedule. So, you know, I think that's a recipe for success moving forward. I think you want to stay, you know, making first downs on first and second down and keeping yourself in third and shorts. You know, the percentages are much higher of extended drives converting third downs when you're at third and five or less. And so I think that's been pretty good so far this year. What is your assessment of that defense? Yeah, I think, you know, I think it's a group that plays hard.  You know, I think the linebackers are savvy veteran guys. They've got some people in the secondary that we've played against in our past in no well. And I think they play hard. They play physical. And so we definitely, you know, have to have our mindset, right? Have a great week of preparation, you know, and make sure that we're as tight as a unit as we can be when we get up there and we're ready to go Sunday. Matt, there's been a lot of conversations about where I played, you know, in the first couple of games. I made a field in his development. What have you seen from Chris Lynch, as far as how he's been playing? Yeah, I think Chris is doing a good job.   And so, I've been impressed with Chris from that standpoint, but in terms of his play, Chris always plays with great effort. He's extremely athletic, you know, can get off combination box and into the second level as good as anybody. And we need that, you know, to continue from him. Did everybody teach y'all at Boston College? Well, I mean, I didn't want to say it since you brought it up. Yeah, they put us in pretty good offense alignment from Boston College, and Chris is, you know, one of the guys in a long line are really good players that have come out at the offensive line group. You live here, anything else? I don't know. He has my... Thanks, guys. Appreciate it.


In my last video we got to work on the downstairs dining room. We are actually converting this into a movie theater slash game room and as you can see it's a bright yellow. So I wanted to go ahead and figure out a new paint color for that area. So started getting that paint on the wall, found the fabric to reupholster my sofa in and we were actually able to finally see the reupholstery after about three and a half weeks, which was such an exciting moment. The sofa was delivered and put in place and this week we are designing the rest of the space. I have been spending a good majority of the morning actually working on kind of like a mood board slash design plan for the downstairs movie room. And that is because this room is quite a bit darker than space design traditionally designed, which I am very excited about. It's like a daring design for me. So it's really, really fun. I love that we're going with the red tone. We have the sofa in there. If you guys have not checked it out, you've got to check out part one. But I've actually been kind of creating and getting my ideas onto kind of a paper and I'll share with you guys what I mean by that in a second. And I kind of wanted to run some of those by you guys so you can get my thought process behind how I design and create a space, like how it comes to be. And I've done one of these videos in the past, but I will say that so much has changed since that video. And it's honestly ever been since I introduced millinode into my actual workflow. And I've been using millinode organically for probably about two and a half years. I remember watching a video, a YouTube video a long time ago and designer was using it and I ended up getting a subscription. I have used it religiously for about two and a half years. Like I designed the entire Sonza family home on millinode. Every single room was its own board. And if you don't really know what it is, I'll jump on into it in a second here because they're actually the sponsor of today's video. And I'm going to dive a little bit into my boards to share with you guys first of all the design for downstairs, but also how incredible of an app and website millinode is for designing and creating or organizing just your thoughts, your ideas, your workflow, whatever it might be. Let me actually share with you guys some of my ideas. This is the back end of my millinode. Now I have quite a few boards on here. And what you could basically do is you can create different boards and basically within the boards, you can actually kind of organize quite a bit. So this one, for example, kitchen right here, this was my kitchen board that I actually created for my kitchen makeover. So I ended up putting, you know, the marble that I purchased from the stone yard in here. I also had the sink faucet I used. This is great, you know, if you want to add items that you're shopping for in your list, that way you can just click right here. It'll take you directly to the exact tile that you kind of have linked within there. You put every single item in there. That's exactly what I actually did for the stones of family home. So every single one of the spaces I designed in millinode first because I wanted to get kind of an idea of the colors together, the imagery together, but then also have all of the links available here. And I was able to add in, you know, I want two chairs and amber velvet. I have this board going actually for the living room makeover, which has quite a bit in there. So this is a kind of a mood board that I created for the mood that I want to go for in the living room. But I also created one for the movie room downstairs. And I kind of wanted to share with you guys the mood board that I'm going for. It's really, really going to be deep and moody. I really love this image here because it's kind of the tones that I'm channeling in this room, this image, and then this one over here. I love how it's a really dark, almost like grandma chic movie theater. I don't know if that makes sense, but you know, the pattern on the curtains in the background and then kind of the shape of some of these stools just kind of leans a little vintage. And that's an aesthetic that I'm going for in this room. So I put this mood board together and then we have our product list of items that are already in the space. So of course, we have kind of architectural elements such as the door and the beams. We also have the lighting element, which I think I'm going to be adding the alabaster pendant from the hallway. And then some of our other pieces, including the sofa you guys saw in last episode, and then this read chair that I recently picked up that I think will look really nice in there. For color palette, we are going red toned. So I love this image here because I really would also love to incorporate a portrait on the wall. I have one in mind that I've had for a while and I'm going to see if it works in there. But something about this I love, I feel like this is a hotel lobby, but I think it's still really, really pretty for the idea of a movie theater. I also added this older one. This is a reupholstered sofa right when I got it. I put my fabric in here and Milano really allows you to collect notes, images, videos, tasks and more all in one place. And you could share it with your colleagues and your friends so that they're able to see your thoughts and ideas in your Milano boards as well. And last but not least Milano is actually free with no time limit. So you could sign up using the link in the description box below to start your next creative project. And I would love to know if any of you guys have ever used Milano or you currently use it for your design projects or your workflow. Alright guys, so we are starting this morning just by kind of grabbing items that I already have. So a lot of these are actually oil paintings that I've been collecting for the vintage drop. I did specifically purchase this one actually the other day for this room and I love it because this pattern has a tiny, tiny bit of blue in it, almost this like aqua tone. So I really wanted to introduce that in a piece of art somewhere and I'm kind of thinking this one might be great just looking at colors at the moment and seeing what we're liking in the space. Also if you guys remember have this hutch which I got for a store for $500 and I'm kind of thinking about maybe putting it right here. So I want to see if that might work because it could potentially be a really cool DIY piece that we might be able to flip into like a TV console. Oh, that's the one. That's the one. I remember this one I got with the easel. It's so cool too. It's almost like some people are trying to, I don't know, not let the tree fly away. I was going to say picking apples but there's no apples. No, yeah. The colors are great. Let's put it back with the other ones. Ooh, that one's coloring is perfection. Wow. It could be pretty to maybe do some sort of like taller like coffee table and like like layer it over the top of this. It adds some nice texture too. She is solid. She is. No one's going to be going into that room from here. Yeah, we got that one on camera that time. Okay, what do you guys think of this? Maybe a tiny bit more towards this way so it's like right up at the edge of the vent right there. Yeah, you are about to freak out when you hear this lovely idea that we just came up with. So I was kind of looking at this and I was thinking about putting a TV inside of here but of course the doors don't work properly. They would have to be completely redone to where they open up properly because at the moment it's either side opens and then there's a shelf as you could see or a piece of wood down the center and we would need the TV to be in the whole entire back. So we're kind of thinking about like removing the entire inside and then redoing the doors but then we thought of even a better idea with using a projector and actually having the projector live inside of this drawer to where we would connect up the drawer. The projector can live all the way across here like the roll and then we can pull it up and latch it up here. So that's kind of the idea and then the actual projector itself would be on this back wall. I actually ended up purchasing this piece mainly because I love how it still looked like an older piece but it has this kind of modern vibe to it. Like I feel like this is something you might see at like CB2 or you know anthropology but it's a piece that still is older and I love the tone of wood. I think it looks really nice with this wall color and I love that it doesn't compete with the beams. They're enough different that it kind of makes sense in here. Wait you guys I think I have a rug for this space. I completely completely forgot about that brown on brown checkerboard rug and Justin just reminded me here she is. But the actual side of it that I want to use is a little bit more warmer. It looks like that and it's like a kind of Berber material. So we brought in the checkerboard rug which is one that I bought a while back and I like it but I will say that with the couch and with like the floor in here it's leaning green and I think that's because the rug is a little bit green toned and just because of the other colors in here as you can see it's just kind of leaning an odd color it's not my favorite. So I kind of want a color more along the lines of this tone right here. So as you can see this just kind of has that green tint to it. This one's just a little bit more neutral and I feel like the color tone just looks really nice. This coffee table was from upstairs living room and I think it's just a little too small. I think we can get away with a little bit of a larger coffee table as you can see here like it just feels a little small on the rug but maybe an additional foot and a half in length would just fill this space out a bit nicer. And then this rug right here which is very similar to the couch but I'm not mad at that at all. If you guys remember this was actually in the breakfast nook the old breakfast nook the blue one I thought the red or the pinkish kind of magenta with the blue looked nice. I think I'm going to lean a little bit more towards these kind of sticking towards a darker colorway like this. I really think that this room needs a darker rug with a lighter coffee table. Here we are at the rugs at Berber. They have a ton but I need something dark and there's not anything. Oh brown ones are on the other side. Okay let's look. It's such a pretty rug. All right we've been walking around for a solid hour and I think I just found this. This intrigues me. We find the most inconvenient products. We had them literally remove this coffee table from the second shelf up here and I still can't make a decision so I'm not too sure. Good morning everyone. We are back in the movie room and I will tell you guys right now that I do not think this rug is the right one. I actually did purchase this for my bedroom or for one of the bedrooms. It's an 8 by 10 but I thought I'd try it out in here when we realized that we had it yesterday and I've been trying to live with it but I really do feel like it pulls away from the sofa. Like the sofa and the upholstery job that they did on it I love. Like I think it's just such a focal point and I feel like the rug just kind of pulls away from it and it's competing so I want something a little bit more simple. I ended up stopping by a rug shop that I always share with you guys the one on La Brea that I'm always in and they had a great rug and it's a brown one so I want to see how that one's going to look in the space.  I don't know if you can see the texture. It's actually a jute like a knotted jute but it has such a pretty variation in color. It kind of has a weathered look to it almost and it is perfect for the space. It really ties all of our colors together and our couch is now the focal point again. Like that is what I wanted. It doesn't distract from the couch. It doesn't pull away. We are in the hallway right now and this is the light that I'm wanting to put in the theater room. Now this light is probably one of my favorite lights in the entire home. It is a 1920s alabaster pendant and I just want to share with you guys how it glows first of all. It's natural state. It's kind of like a yellow toned alabaster and I think it's going to tie in the yellow that we have in the pillows. Also the yellow toned wood of the hutch and so we're going to attempt to unwire this and swap it to that room. The left side of this hutch currently has the inserts that were inside. Now it's like this really not cute plasticky raffia material and then it has this metal letting over the top of it. So I already went ahead and removed it from this side and I'll share with you guys how I did that.  I'm going to be putting this older cane retan inside of there which I actually picked this up at the cane and basket supply this morning and I love how this actually channels the same exact color from the beams. So we're going to be adding that back in. It's going to add a nice richness to the space as well because I think this color kind of paired with the color on the wall it's going to look so nice together. Same color in the coffee table so kind of bringing in the orange color. I was actually pretty nervous to uninstall this alabaster light fixture because it is pretty heavy and it also has 10 different electrical cords on the top of it but they were separated pretty nicely and whoever installed this did a pretty good job so it made it a little bit easier. So once that was out of the hallway I transferred it into our movie room and I'm standing on a ladder here with a box on top that way it holds a good majority of the weight from the pendant while I'm hooking up the actual light fixture and then we wanted to make sure that it worked prior to mounting it to the ceiling. So once that was all done I pushed all the wires up inside of the box and screwed on the base plate. Well it's like we're in the lobby of the movie theater right now. Look. Ah! Movie theater lobby! Put down the cane retan to the size of the doors and I added two inches on either side. I cut out four panels of this that way I could soak it in the bathtub. So you actually want to soak your retan material especially older cane like this. This is actually pretty old that's why it's darker. But soaking the cane actually makes it quite a bit more pliable and stronger and then also when you go ahead and use it and put it in whatever you're using it for whether it's a chair, a door like this one. Once it actually dries down it tightens itself up and shrinks itself to the size of the piece so it really creates a clean finish in the end. However this cane wasn't really going in as expected. But the morning to ya! It's dark in this room right now. It is storming in Los Angeles so we have no sunlight today so as you can see it's pretty dark but it still feels really good in here even at its darkest. I didn't want to let you guys know though that I don't think I'm actually going to be putting the cane in the doors anymore. I looked at it all last night and for some reason to me it just feels like it is an additional element. Like it looks very DIY to me. I think the furniture piece kind of doesn't fit the style of the cane and so with that cane being a completely different color as the piece as well and darker and older it just doesn't feel like it fits if that makes sense. So I actually went into my craft room and if you guys remember this this is Raffia cloth. I used this a long time ago on that IKEA dresser flip. I was thinking of actually putting this in the doors. I'm going to start filming the rest of this room today and like all the styling and additional elements but I didn't want you guys to know about that so I'm not too sure if I'm going to be doing the retan. I think I might do this. I'm going to pop up a photo right here too as well I took yesterday. That shows the retan on one side and then the Raffia cloth on the other side. It kind of gives you an idea. I just feel like the Raffia cloth looks pretty and it almost looks like it would have originally been put inside of there. So let me know what you guys think going in. But I wanted Justin. He just got here right now. Justin come over here. I wanted him to tell you guys about his chair because the freaking chair is crazy.  So they wrote back to me a couple days later and they said that they love the chair. They want to feature in their June auction which is called the important design auction. So it's like some of the most iconic designs from the last 100 years. And so they were obsessed with the chair and they said we'd love to feature it. We think that an auction estimate so when it sells an auction they don't know exactly how much it's going to sell for because it depends on like the bidders and things. What was it? 30. Oh yeah. They think it's going to bring anywhere between 30 to 50 thousand dollars. But the absolute least that they will accept is 28 thousand dollars. I think it's going to sell for 100. We're hoping it's going to sell for more because like 85. It's like really really rare and especially that color of leather is even more rare. Only 50 of the chair was ever made in his whole career. So it's pretty like iconic for a chair. Drew wants me to give it to him and I simply said no. Oh someone also emailed me. You need to give that chair back to the original owner because she had no idea what it was worth. And I said more details on my TikTok but like the lady very much knew. She knew exactly what it was worth. She just wanted it out of her house. She was just rich and wanted it out of her house. Yeah. Ghost auction in June. We can always update you if you want more updates. Stay tuned. And that is where I'm going to leave you guys today. We are actually going to start working on this room quite a bit more today. I'm getting this video up in just a couple of hours but we are going to be adding a lot of the fun elements. So we're doing some curtains in here. We're going to be doing the inserts in the cabinet, some wall art, and another little DIY project I haven't shared with you guys yet. So make sure to stay tuned for that video. I'm not a thousand percent sure if it's going to be coming out Sunday or following Thursday because it is supposed to be storming in LA and it is dark in this room when it's storming. I'm not going to lie like look guys, pretty dark. So I will keep you updated on my Instagram so make sure to follow me over on Lone Fox home and I'll catch you guys in my next one. Bye.


Hey everybody, Matt here for Leighton Sports Cards, ripping one box of 2022 Panini Impeccable WWE Hobby. This is one box break number seven, random left side right digit. All right, here we go. We will randomize four times. Good luck. One, two, three, and four. Chris V down to Hank V. And four times on the numbers. Good luck. One, two, three, and four. Three down to four. All right, we have Chris V, three, Somal C, seven, Eric R, five, Ferhan A, eight, Andreas A, nine, Eric R, two, Chris V, one, Nicholas B, six, Eric R, zero, and Hank V, four. Post those results to the website, drop a link in the chat. We'll start in a minute. All right, results are posted. Here's your link. All right, let's do it. So again, we have national treasures. Road to World Cup soccer ripping tonight. That stuff is on fire already. Grab your spots up for that. Also, Bowman Sterling baseball release day breaks on the main channel tonight. I will be back on the LSE baseball channel tomorrow morning. Handing you stuff and pieces here. Nice. This is 16 of 99, the American Nightmare Cody Rhodes. 16, that is Nicholas B in the sixth spot. Nice Cody. All right, let's go down Morocco one time here. This is Dewdrop, 27 of 35, seven spots, Somal C, MVP, 34 of 49, four-spot Hank V. Nice Montel, Montavious Porter. This is Finn Balor, 39 of 49, nine-spot Andreas A, shirt Relic Otto, that is 86 of 99, Sheamus, six-spot Nicholas B. Next up is Immortal Ink Otto, seven of 25, Bree Bella, seven-spot, that is Somal C, nice Bree. Next up, that is Patch Otto, 10 of 25, Natalia. 10-spot is zero, that is Eric R., is Otto, 10 of 99, Dewdrop, 10 is zero-spot Eric R. This is a redemption. It is not a one-of-one. This will be a random to all. Stainless Stars, Autographs, Purple, Randy Orton. Awesome hit. Good luck on that. Second Orton of the day. Lots of cool hits in that one. Give me just a second. We'll do that random. This is impeccable number seven, Orton. We'll randomize eight times for that Orton. Good luck. That's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. Nicholas B. Congrats, Nicholas, and that will do it for the break. Good stuff. Thank you, everybody. Appreciate it. Number eight's up next.


Classroom Management for Young Learners in Japan With the end goal of working in a Japanese kindergarten or preschool, I decided to take the Teaching English to Young Learners certification course to accompany the TEFL course I recently completed through IDTT. Even though I knew the skills necessary for teaching young learners would differ from teaching learners of other ages, I found a lot of useful information in this course specifically regarding the topic of classroom management. How to Become an English Teacher in Japan For context, most teaching environments for entry-level teaching positions in Japan involve a foreign teacher working alongside a native Japanese teacher. That being said, with the proper certifications and experience, a foreign teacher may become fluent in Japanese and acquire the work experience necessary to lead their own, independently led English classes in Japan. In the case of teaching young learners, I have found that most jobs require two years of prior teaching experience, but once the job is secured, more autonomy is granted in teaching. This creates a new level of responsibility for the teacher in classroom management. In Japan, specifically, teachers are expected to be a parental figure, and cultural sensitivity is important. Disciplining the Students while Still Maintaining a Fun Learning Environment One issue that I've read about foreign teachers having when teaching young learners in Japan is on disciplining the students while still maintaining a fun learning environment. Our first goal in teaching English is to make it as enjoyable as possible so the young learners stay engaged and excited to use English at school. The balance can be difficult to find without the proper experience or guidance, and I myself have wondered how I might go about dealing with those issues in the future. One of the first things the TEFL course outlined in regards to classroom management is the sliding scale of teacher authority and classroom chaos. Many factors can play into how your students perceive you. Things like donor voice, eye contact, and gestures can all help to subtly let students know when to quiet down without having to ruin a fun classroom atmosphere. Another good point in the course was the use of names when giving instruction. The misbehavior is more likely to happen when students feel like they are anonymous, but as the course said, singling out one student on occasion is an effective way to let them know that you're aware who is doing what at any given time. Equally important is the equal treatment of the students, and one of the things to avoid would be playing favorites. While it might seem like common sense, continuously praising one student over others might in turn create misbehavior of other students. Switching seating around to avoid the creation of cliques in the classroom. Right from personal factors and behavior, one of the interesting pieces of advice from the course was to switch seating around to avoid the creation of cliques in the classroom. This advice seems so simple and obvious, but I had never thought about it. When I was a child, I remember teachers moving seating arrangements, but it never made sense until I read it in the context of classroom dynamics. If two students need to be separated, moving the entire classroom seating arrangement around a bit can deter that misbehavior without directly having any confrontation with a misbehaving student. Additionally, switching students from the back row to the front row, and visa versa, will allow students more opportunity to get to know one another in classroom activities or games. Are you ready to take your teaching English to young learners' TEFL course? Coming into this TEFL course, I wasn't expecting to find as much helpful information as I wound up finding. The section on classroom management was one of many useful sections, but considering my personal worries about striking a proper balance of fun and discipline, I feel much more confident that I will have options for dealing with any tough situation in the classroom setting in the future. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.