Hey, this is Brett, and this 2019 Chevy Silverado 2500 Crew Cab Short Box LTZ is stock number 14077Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. And this 2019 Chevy Silverado is probably one of the cleanest Duramax trucks that we have on our lot. It has a 6.6 liter Duramax diesel, the L5P engine, which puts out 445 horsepower. It's paired up with the Allison Heavy-Duty 6-speed automatic transmission. And this truck has been fully safety to and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and it is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside. Underneath, start it up, take a look under the hood, giving the most accurate representation that I can of the truck. I got white clear coats of color, and I shoot all my videos in 4K. If you like the video, subscribe to the channel. We do videos like this each and every day, all in 4K quality. And if you subscribe, you get updated every time I do videos here, and it will get you access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and heavy-duty truck walk-arounds on YouTube. This one comes with the 20-inch polished aluminum wheels, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. And it has Goodyear Wrangler SRA tires. These are LT26560R20s, and I would say that these tires have probably 60% to 70% of the tread left on them. Frame and underbody is in nice clean condition. This is a clean title history, clean car facts out of Minnesota, so that's why there's just a little bit of corrosion on that frame, but other than that, very, very nice. Didn't see any major dents or dings on that front fender. Has a projector lamp headlamps, the factory fog lights, the front bumper parking sensors. This one also has the painted bumper group. No major dents or dings on that front bumper. You get the chrome-trimmed grille, the blacked-out bow tie. The hood is in fantastic condition. It has the true co-ole induction. I'll show you how that works at the end of the video, but I didn't see any dents or dings on that hood, and you do get the cab lights up top. This passenger side front fender, just as nice as the driver's side, no dents or dings on there. And the passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes. Now as we go down this side of this 2019 Chevy Silverado, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos, so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision, or make the decision to come take a look at the truck in person from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you do that, definitely let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that I sent you. Back wheel is in excellent shape, and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Maybe even a little bit more of these look like closer to 80 to 90% of the tread left, honestly. Frame and underbody, other than being a little dusty, is in pretty nice condition. This is all the remaining factory exhaust, so it hasn't been altered in any way, and very nice and clean under there. Lower rockers are in excellent shape, no corrosion on them, and it does come with the nice factory chrome step bars. Didn't see any dents or dings on the passenger side rear box. Comes with a Lear color matched truck hat. The rear bumper is in gray shape, no major dents or dings on there, and it does have the backup parking sensors. Full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring. Tailgate is in very nice condition as well. And inside the bed, you get the shock down assist tailgate. A very nice spray and bed liner. Looks almost like a line X. Same material. LED bed lighting, seven pin wiring. It has the fifth wheel and gooseneck prep package. And that spray and bed liner goes right onto the tailgate, which is really nice and very clean back here. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly, as does the cab. Going down the driver side just as clean as that passenger side, no major dents or dings on the box. Looks really good, and for full disclosure, this back wheel, just as nice as the rest. Down the rest of the side truck doors, cab, all look really good. No dents, no dings. Very nice truck. Like I said, this is one of the cleanest dermaxes we have on the lot right now. You get the telescopic tow mirrors. They telescope out like so. They do power fold in. You get LED side lights, built in directional signals on there as well. Those need to be exercised a little bit. Back seats are in fantastic condition.  The headliner is like new, and like I said, those seats are, look like they've never been sat in. You get a winter front storage basin back here, receiver hitch reducer, factory all weather floor mats, carpeting is very nice and clean, and the inside and bottoms of the doors all look fantastic on this truck. No corrosion or anything. Those seats go down like so. Take a look at the VIN sticker. No Canadian trucks here. There's the tire and loading information sticker.  No rips, no tears on those seats. Both of these front seats are heated and cooled and power. Very nice and clean. Very all weather floor mats, auto headlamps turned out four wheel drive, factory brake controller tilt, telescopic steering wheel, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, memory driver seat, Bose sound, wood grain trim, and these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides so you know that both sides are working properly. Hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 32,352 miles. You do get the digital speedometer instrument clusters. Very nice and clean. It comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel, Bluetooth and information center controls on the right, cruise controls on the left, forward collision warning controls and heated steering wheel button. There's your shifter for the six speed Allison heavy duty transmission. This one comes with the Chevy MyLink system. Factory navigation included has highway 41 there so that is working nicely. You get AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities. You also have your home screen here including projection manager where you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android auto or Apple CarPlay and then there are your other apps. I think I got to start the truck to get the backup cameras show so I'll show you that in just a second. Down here is your CD player, more tactile volume tune and climate controls including your dual climate controls, heated and cooled seat buttons, power pedals, stability control that's for your cargo lamps. Also how you turn on your LED side lights and the LED lights in the bed can turn those parking sensors on and off, lean departure warning and factory exhaust brake. Down here are two USBs, two 12 volt power points and a 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in. Two cupholders, you also get your wireless cell phone charge pad so that's pretty cool. Passengers side, floor mat, and seat are in excellent condition. Once again, I don't think it's trucks ever been smoked in. Headliners seats in great shape, headliners absolutely perfect and you get a power sunroof. Map lights, home link buttons for your garage door security systems, lane systems, power sign ring window controls, and sunroof controls on star and SOS buttons in the mirror and we'll start it up. Take a look under the hood, check out all the lights and that will be all set to go. Starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that. I did want to show you the backup camera that is working nicely as well. There are those LED side lights, they are extremely bright and I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video, you've been able to verify the quality condition options and of course, cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out. See all the lights are working nicely. One thing I didn't know, this thing has a lighted or a backlit bow tie on the hood, on the grille there. Looks really good. Under the hood, we have a 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine base, very clean runs, very smooth. Once again, this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and it is 100% ready to go. There is the emission sticker and like I said, I told you I'd show you how this works. The air comes in there, goes down a tube right to there, right into the air intake and that's how your cold air induction works. I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. I would ship this one to California, Texas, New York, Florida, wherever, Wyoming, Montana, whoever is going to get this truck is going to love it. 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More 110 people were taken to hospital in Tokyo after many slipped and fell due to heavy snowfall in eastern Japan, the Tokyo Fire Department said, the injured, transported to hospital were aged 4 to 92 and none were in a life-threatening condition, it said. In neighboring Kanagawa Prefecture, five people were severely injured and 34 sustained minor injuries, while 12 were slightly injured in Saitama Prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency lifted its heavy snow warnings across nine prefectures, but snowfall and rain continued in some areas, some sections on east Japan Railway Company as to a line and own line were suspended, while all services on the Yokohama Line were temporarily halted. Takedo Shinkansen bullet trains were operating at reduced speeds between Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and Odoora Station in Kanagawa Prefecture, all Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines canceled around 30 domestic flights, mostly two were from Tokyo's Haneda Airport. Many passengers in Tokyo's Shinjuku Station could be seen asking for refunds in changing to other train lines, Mayabashi and Gunma Prefecture recorded the highest amount of snowfall at 11 centimeters, while Central Tokyo and the city of Saitama saw 8 centimeters each, according to the Weather Agency.


This is covering the spread part of the fan dual podcast network We are on to the quarterfinals in this year's World Cup as the round of 16 has wrapped up We're gonna break down that round of eight and talk about some matches talk about some other bets We like for this week by bringing in Dr. Ed Feng and getting his read on the rest of the field This is covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim Sonnis I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire calm joined here as mentioned by Dr Ed Feng to fight his work over at the power rank calm Ed we are on to the quarterfinals for the World Cup. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. I had a friend in town. We watched a lot of World Cup hung out So I can't complain at all. Yeah, and we're talking about the the US's loss to the Netherlands We're gonna talk about other stuff that happened during the round of 16 and also take a look forward to the round of eight as well But Ed I was a cruise and Twitter today and I saw our friend Adria Percival was tweeting about how he back tests college football and he back tests all these models and sees they do against the spread and straight up and Your college football numbers a year have actually beaten the market You have been better at picking straight-up winners than even closing lines, which is kind of insane. So a congrats That's pretty sick, but be What happened to make the numbers be so good this year um I mean, look, I think it's a little bit of of good fortune that it's doing so well straight up against the closing markets Um, actually if I if I could plug it a little bit, uh over the last four seasons in the nfl I've actually done better straight up than the closing markets So I guess that's a little that's probably not exactly a huge sample size But anyways, I feel a little bit more confident with with nfl um But but it's clearly nice that things are doing pretty well I mean and and I think like if you bet these numbers early You're also going to be doing pretty well if you try to use my numbers Only in bet on saturday mornings. That's that's probably not going to get you too far. But um Yeah, I mean, I I think it's been really good Again, I've talked a lot on this show about how the model works and how it tends to be pretty aggressive And I think those aggressive adjustments have worked out pretty well this year And I think it's a it's a good omen heading into uh bull pool season Where you are asked to pick the outcome of games straight up and I always think it's a useful tool to use my numbers to help you and win your bull pool But probably even a little bit more so this year and In the past you've done like bowl Guides, I'm assuming this year at the world cup. That's probably not going to happen. Am I correct in that assumption? No, it'll happen. I'll get to it next week. How uh, where where is the time coming from for you to do this? Oh, I don't know not really sure but uh, yeah, no, there'll be there'll be one up next week I'm kind of making the assumption that no one cares about their bull pool this week Yeah, and that uh, if it happens early next week, it'll be plenty of time before I believe the first game kicks off next Not this saturday, but the saturday after we don't get clv in bull pools So there's really no advantage to being early on those so that's awesome I just want to congratulate you on a good year for your numbers You had another one of those it's like part of the reason why You're able to beat the the spreads is because you had a lot of underdogs that your model favored straight up and Got one of those on friday with the utah win I don't know if you haven't straight up but you had them plus two and a half Against usc. So that was a nice one too. I know obviously the kelly williams injury factored into that But like yeah, I mean you had a good year. It was awesome. Yeah, it was a good year I I did have utah straight up in that game I actually purposely didn't say it in the newsletter that I had utah by four points because It's never never good to be off the market by seven points Um, so I I wasn't explicit about that, but I had utah by four um And you know, I mean my reasons for liking utah on that game were usc's absurd turnover margin that was going to tend to Regress and usc's terrible defense And while I would argue that neither of those things came to fruition in the first half they both Came out full force in the second half and uh And uh, yeah, it was it was a nice little nice little win there. 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We're prohibited c full terms at fandal dot com visa And its financial institutions have not sponsored or offered this promotion in any way Let's shift our focus now to the world cup before we take a look at the quarter finals I didn't want to go back to the round of 16 talk about that usa versus netherlands matchup and kind of give a post mortem here on the us What were your final thoughts on the us and what we saw from them in this year's tournament? So i've been screaming as loud as i can about how georan should be on the pitch and how He can play center forward So Nine is is usually center four. This is supposed to be your goal score the us does not has you know history's worst tradition of producing center forwards We really haven't had a good one since i've probably ever but certainly since i've been been really watching the sport over the last 20 some years And if you don't have a good center forward just put your most talented player up there and georana came in the second half And i was pretty happy and then georana didn't really play that well. So that was A little bit disappointing. Yeah, he had a nice. He had a nice little give and go with uh brennan narenson, but So i was a little bit disappointed in that but but i kind of like the idea they call this like a false nine You essentially put like a talented smaller player at your center forward spain won a world cup with that in 2010 and So, yeah, it was nice to see reyna get on there. I was disappointed that he couldn't do better. He kind of looked um He kind of looked like uh weston mckinney in that he wasn't really his full self looks like he's still coming back from injury Uh, I unfortunately haven't had too much of a chance to see med dormant, but out there at least in what 40 ish minutes Uh, he didn't look like the georana that that We all know and so either that could just be the small sample size or Just that he's not quite back from from an injury The other thing is that the dutch finished Really really well. Uh, they they had a couple chance. They hit three one timers that all went into the back of the net and You know, if you don't watch watch much soccer you'd be like, oh, well, they're they're great at finishing um But to just give you a sense for how hard that was like in the france game there was like a perfect cross that like got onto the foot of elivia jiroux who is france's all-time leader in Goals scored and he was unable to finish it. It was a tap in that I would argue that was arguably easier than any of Uh, the three goals that the dutch scored So I think the u.s. Got a little bit unlucky. They were pretty even on expected goals Uh, one of them was that third goal where it was just kind of a defensive bust that no one was back at the back post there so This goes I I think the dutch are a little bit overrated. Um So I don't see them going so too too much further although we'll talk a little bit about how Uh, I think the markets are coming around to the fact that argentina was a little bit overrated at the beginning of the tournament as well It should be a fun match very skilled match Uh, a good one to watch and then also, I mean, I think the future is pretty bright for the us Yeah, um, you have uh, a core of christian pool is that brennan erinson georena west mckinney, um The sojina desk and and and actually we should probably put timoya into that group right now Those those six players are are really strong Players that are playing champions league level club soccer in europe and that that's the core you can build on The problem is like four of those guys are wingers for those six players are wingers, which makes it really hard to get them all on The field at the same time But we do have a good core, uh, you know, if you're The odds that we get a great center forward in four years before we host the world cup in 2026 are pretty small But maybe we can get some help at center back. Um, we could use a little bit of help there in terms of getting the quick passing game that that we all like to see the us play And um, yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot to look forward to I think it was good for them to get out of this group Obviously want a little bit more in the round of 16 But you know, I don't think this is the first time that the us has spent a lot of energy and effort getting out of a reasonably hard group To not hit their highest energy level in the round of 16 and go out It's kind of where you expect, you know, like the 16th best team in the world to end up in the world cup We always hope for better But but maybe we'll see that in four years when we have a little little home field advantage So this can be hard to extrapolate because it is pretty far out What do you think the ceiling is because they have that young core? Are we talking like it's a legit ceiling? I know that's tough. That's a tough question to answer right now. But where do you see that ceiling? I mean, I've always wanted to see this team be a top 10 team in the world And I really thought with this generation of players that we would get there Unfortunately, I think the rest of the world is also getting better. Yeah, uh, England in 2022 is Is simply just not the same England of 2010 where the us and England also played in a world cup England is really advanced their youth development is is getting better and better um I mean, Germany's a lot better team. I know I know the results don't show it in this world cup, but Uh, germany was brilliant and continues to get better. The french are always going to be talented so You know, I mean, I think they're they I would love to see them be a top 10 team and and and a team that you Expect to get into the quarterfinals. Uh, we're not quite there yet. I'm not exactly sure how we get there either without, you know, a couple Uh, you know getting getting another couple great players Uh, but we'll see now you alluded to germany. Let's talk about other route of 16 takeaways Obviously they did not advance but you correctly predicted the way that match would play out in terms of like chaos You said over three and a half goals minus 118. You were like, hey, it's a fish bit But I think it's the right side and it was very much the right side because that game was wild Any other big takeaways for you from the round of 16? Yeah, spain. Let's talk about spain. It's just such a talented team one. I really like to watch play Um, but a team that's a little bit too interested in possessing the ball and not enough interested in scoring the ball So after they they won seven nothing versus costa rica and I think had three xg in the game and three xg in the game So three expected goals is is huge. Yeah, the huge total um, at least according to I get all I get my stuff from uh From at least this morning. I looked at fb rough Another good source is xg philosophy on twitter. He'll he'll post these things Well, he or she will post these things on on twitter after the games but you know spain didn't uh exceed one xg again since that that costa rica match and Yeah, I don't know. I mean with all that talent. I think you have to be a little bit more aggressive You you have to attack you have to try to create more scoring opportunities and and they didn't And uh, just completely flamed out that penalty kick shootout against morocco It was kind of which was which was kind of insane. Um, I think the markets were I mean you should usually think of these Penalty shootouts as a toss up. I think the markets were favoring spain, which I thought was correct Uh, I think you should kind of favor the more skillful team But that that did not work out In in the slightest bit. So so they they flamed out And honestly, that was uh, that was the only real upset pretty chalky round of 16 in seven of the eight matches. Definitely had some excitement here and there. Um, but uh Yeah, no, and I think it sets up for a lot of heavyweight battles, uh going down the stretcher If any thoughts around that that germany match, obviously disappointing down in advance But like it was a interesting that group specifically was wild. Uh, I thought that it was interesting there as well Yeah, for sure So germany goes up one nothing and spain goes up one nothing and germany is essentially through And what happened? I thought germany was brilliant the first 10 minutes And then they kind of took their foot off the gas Which I thought was the wrong strategy because you certainly could have ended up in the situation like eventually happened That japan beats spain and then you're screwed because you can't beat spain on gold differential because Spain put up seven nothing against costa rica and now you are playing costa rica So that game goes into half and it's only one nothing germany my over three and a half is not looking good And so at the half you're just kind of sitting there like, okay, what's going on Second half starts japan's score is not one but two goals. The second of which was uh controversial Um, actually, I think the right call, uh, but anyway, I saw an angle of it They I don't think they showed in the broadcast but an angle where it was pretty clearly like still in I thought yeah No, I think I think it was I think it was clearly in and obviously like that goal Screwed germany and germany ends up going home, but I think in the second half you saw just how explosive germany is um I mean that's kind of how I expected that that's kind of what I expected them to do against costa rica And they scored it well and it easily goes over But but they can't I mean there's there's no way They were gonna get look even if they put the pedals in the metal in this in the first half and went all out the entire game It's unlikely that they passed spain and gold differential, but the way it happens, right? So yeah But yeah, you know at least my bet won and I mean they you know, I mean I thought germany played really well against japan they just allowed a couple counterattack goals that You know could they have done better? Sure But but they lost that one japan got that second goal and uh, it's a shame Um, I mean honestly like they're gonna be favored at home in euro in two years Because they're gonna have the home field advantage. So, um We'll see they they fired one of the one of the head honchos in in the f a but they have not fired the coach yet So we'll see what happens there. Yeah that day of like the chaos of that group was fun So, uh, I I enjoyed as again a very very very aggressively casual observer. I had a lot of fun with that for sure Okay, let's look forward now to the quarterfinal matches. We got all four Quarterfinal matches set and the lines are set over a fandal sportsbook When you look at those beginning friday any value you see a fandal sportsbook for those ed Yeah, so I'm gonna not go with my public type over bet that I had last time I really think you should be betting under goals in this I think I said this last time, you know, the wind draw Wind loss draw market is going to be incredibly efficient as you head into the kickoff of these matches We still have a little bit of time before saturday's matches So, I mean you can kind of tell the holds aren't quite what they will be friday and saturday morning But I still would not recommend trying to find value in those markets try try to go Into to different markets and I'll talk about another one later France in england is really the heavyweight battle here In in this quarterfinals. It should be a heck of a match. It's very very close France is a slight favorite to advance over england. Honestly, I think this england team is really good I think it's I think it's a really talented team But I do like the under in this my numbers have it You can get minus 126 for under two and a half goals here I think this is going to be kind of a it's a pretty tight game It's going to be england's probably going to sit back and try to counter attack even though they don't really have to I think france You know, maybe a little bit overrated just with the way that imbappe kind of finished some chances In the round of of 16 match up So, yeah, I think it's going to be a tight. I think it's going to be tight one You can kind of tell by the wind while a straw market, you know the the probability for a draw is the highest in this one amongst all the four matches And I think it's going to be Uh, I think it's going to be tight. Um, I like under two and a half goals You can get a minus 126 at vandal. Every time I've talked about a bet on the show. I think vandal has moved against me so Maybe you can weigh a little bit on this I don't know We're calling the odds boost. Let's call it that. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I think john's listening to this and the other way just But that's the psyche a little bit The tie market there is plus 220 For the england versus france match, you don't have to like recommend a bet for this one But like how do you see them playing out in terms of like who you think will advance in that game? Because it is like you said a super high profile matchup Yeah, I really don't know. I mean I don't know. I think it's going to be tight. I think I've been kind of underestimating england over the last year Uh, I think they really have gotten better Uh, france is just so so talented um Yeah, I really don't know. I mean, I I think maybe maybe the further the further you get into it Uh, if it does go to the penalty shootouts, I would I would like france. I like france's chances because I do think they're Um, a little bit more skilled in that area But uh, yeah, I don't know. I think both teams are going to be tight and they're they're not going to want to give up advantages And hence hence the under here. All right So under two and a half as you said is minus 126 of fangirl sportsbook for france and england any other bets you're seeing right now Whether be match bets for the quarterfinals or any other markets you like right now Yeah, you know, you kind of sent me an email about like the outright market and uh, I don't I think this is I think the outright market is pretty fair Um, you know, you're still looking at brazil as a pretty big favorite And I think that makes a lot of sense because I I don't know how much resistance Croatia is going to be able to give them in this quarterfinal cruz is old Uh, and brazil is talented. So they have the easiest Way to get through at least this round into the semis Um, and now, you know, france has the hardest matchup But they are the second favorite and I think that says a lot about you know, the markets considered france is the second best favorite now Whereas that was argentina at the beginning of the tournament So I think the markets have kind of flipped there you would kind of hope I kind of I don't know. I kind of wish I would have bet portugal at the beginning of the tournament because they are such a talented team overall and Yeah, they bench vinaldo for this last game And his backup scored a hat trick And you know, he's got a lot of work to do. He's obviously very talented and you know more talented than than any center forward that the us has ever produced or might ever produce but He's gonna have to do a lot of work To be to be known anything other than the guy who replaced ronaldo in the 2022 world cup But but he was brilliant and Yeah, I mean, who knows who they're going to start there I I I don't think you can start ronaldo who doesn't even start for manu at this point Over this kid. I just I don't I don't think you can do that. So, um, you know, portugal has been great So I do think that outright market is uh, it's pretty sharp right now So one one thing I will uh, recommend, you know, if you go over to draft kings They pretty much have like that you can bet on even odd for total goals and they're pretty much putting out markets that, um Have it 50 50 And that really shouldn't be the case with some of these low expected low scoring games like france england You would expect it to be a little bit favored towards even simply because Uh, the possibility of zero the possibility of two is going to be a little bit more in in a low scoring game So, um, you know, you can bet bet france england, uh, minus 110 to be even I think there is some value there. I think the the probability should probably be closer to 54 percent Um, and the same applies for argentina than other ones There over at dk, it's it's going to be a minus 115 But I still think there's there's value there and betting even for the goal total Of that it's a very creative market. I think that's a fun way to do it now going back to the outrides Obviously, I'm not seeing any value there, but you mentioned argentina. They're down to plus 550 Is that more in line with where your numbers have them or are they still overvalued? Uh, broadly in the market in your eyes Um, I don't really know that feels about right. Um, you know in my numbers, they're they're lower They're they're top 10, but kind of in the lower in the top 10 that seems about right given their match up With with the netherlands something that they should be a favorite in My my numbers have the netherlands uh overrated for whatever reason But yeah, that seems about right with with argentina and portugal in about the same place I think I think those nations are about the same. They're they're not as good as brazil and france Um, but they're still talented All right. Well, we got these games these matches kicking off on friday It's gonna be a lot of fun to see how things play out here What more world cup talk coming up on the show? Obviously as we get closer to the end It's gonna be a lot of fun But uh, it's been a pleasure to talk with you at throughout the tournament already But it's still plenty more to come in that regard before let's go ahead though. Got to ask What is going on for you this week at the power rank where you can go find your world soccer numbers if they are on the search that Yeah, check it out at the power rank dot com. I've been pretty fortunate that uh The world soccer rankings picked up a lot of search engine juice and so it's actually the most visited page on the site and so Come come over and uh, check it out. I also have predictions for All for the quarterfinal matches both when law straw and the probability to move on So you can check that out and then while you're here, you can sign up for my free sports betting email newsletter Try to give out tips and bets like you taught at usc and a lot of stuff head into bowl season So check that out at the power rank dot com. Yeah, that would include all member numbers signing up for that For college football the bowls gonna be i'm sure a delight for you to deal with all the opt outs the coaching stuff So god speed ed enjoy. 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Aloha. Thanks for your consideration of the views expressed in this ThinkTech commentary, which we are calling, Attacks in the Red Sea will lead to a new global inflation. The subject we will cover is what is happening in the Red Sea. Shippers are of course increasingly reluctant to take their ships through the Red Sea, and it's likely to stay that way for as long as the Houtis are attacking ships in that area. The problem is, if the Shippers can't ship through the Red Sea, and thus the Suez Canal, they will have to ship around Africa, which takes weeks longer and costs much more in terms of the staffing, operation, and fuel for their ships. If you didn't know it, a good percentage of international cargo goes through the Red Sea, so making all those Shippers sail around Africa will affect the time it will take to deliver that cargo, as well as the cost of delivering it. We should all be concerned. These delays will hurt consumers everywhere. The additional costs will undoubtedly be passed on to consumers everywhere. This in turn will increase the cost of goods everywhere. If this hasn't happened already, it will have to happen soon. There are many reasons to be concerned. For as long as the Houti blockade of the Red Sea lasts, there will be pressure on ship owners and operators, marine insurance carriers, the costs of shipping, and the cost of goods sold. Directly or indirectly, the whole world will be affected. We won't like what will happen. Europe and the US don't want to see a new and more damaging round of inflation, and no one else will either, especially for commodities and food, which have been so problematic for Africa ever since Putin locked up shipments of grain from Ukraine. There are some things we can do. We can and should increase the pressure on the Houtis and on Iran, which supplies them with weapons, direction, and training. That could include more aggressive military action, but would risk expanding the war. Perhaps we could find more creative steps to stop them, but it's not clear what those steps would be. The Houtis say they are supporting Hamas, and this might change once Hamas is defeated or a peace agreement is signed. Here's the takeaway. All things considered, something we'll have to give before we get world trade back to normal and avoid a destructive global inflation that would ultimately affect the global economy. Thanks for your consideration of the views expressed in this ThinkTech commentary, which we are calling Attacks in the Red Sea will lead to a new global inflation. Aloha.


Hey everybody this is Brian and welcome to the 46th lamp tutorial. Today we're going to be going down the SQL road. SQL is a long, long road but we're going to try and make it a little easy. In this first video what we're going to do is we're going to use the MySQL workbench. Remember we downloaded this in a previous tutorial. If not you can just go out and Google MySQL workbench and just go install it. It's pretty easy. All right we've got no connections here so the first thing we need to do is actually create a new connection. And you may have a connection from when we set this up in a previous tutorial. All right so you just enter your password for your MySQL server. Notice how it has a specific port that it's running on 3306 by default. Click store in key chain and then always test your connection. Connection parameters are correct. If you get anything other than that that means you entered the wrong password. Go ahead okay. Oops. Forgot we need a name. My bad. And we'll call this PHP tutorial. Password should already be in the key chain but we're going to enter it again. Parameters are correct. Hit okay. All right now we've got our connection and notice how you can have more than one. So if you manage multiple MySQL servers. Yeah buddy you know what I'm talking about. You can actually manage multiple. Very nice tool. Just double click your connection. You'll see how it says connecting at the bottom. And it opens up this query editor. Now I'm not going to get too in depth into this program because there's a plethora of programs on how to work with MySQL but we are going to cover the basics. I'm going to use MySQL workbench because it does a lot of the heavy lifting and it allows me to explain things easier so I don't have to sit there and fumble my way through writing SQL scripts. All right over here you have your schemas which are also known as you guessed it databases. You see PHP My had been made one when we installed it and we have tables. So this is just kind of how this is laid out a standard database. You have your database and inside your database you'll have tables. Tables store information and inside of a table you have columns. Think of a spreadsheet. That's basically what these are. Big, big spreadsheets. The columns would be like ID, database, user, label, query, etc, etc. Whole bunch of stuff and we're just going to right click, select rows, limit 1,000 and there is the actual query we're using right there. Don't expect you to know what any of this stuff is. I'm just, you know, demonstrating here. Our future tutorials are going to explain all this stuff. So let's actually grab just anything here and select see if we can get no data. Let's edit table data and you can actually go in and add things if you wanted to things of that nature. Nice graphical smooth interface makes it very easy to work with. Let's see here. Altar table. This shows you how you can actually build a table and this is what a table looks like inside of a database. You just have columns and rows would be the actual data filling in. You notice how you got different types here like int, var care, text. Those are different than what you're used to. If you're used to a language like, well, PHP or Java or C++, you'll know what a variable is. A variable is something that will change. Well, databases have their own special type of variables or data types, I should say. So what we're doing is we're saying, well, this will be a variable called debase and its type will be var care and in parentheses it has 255 and what that means is it'll be variable length character 255 is the maximum size. Whereas a text is pretty much the same thing but it doesn't have a big limit. There is actually a limit but it's well beyond the scope of this tutorial. And then you've got different options here like pk, primary key and n not null meaning it can't be empty. I think UQ is unique and then you got AI for auto increment. Notice how it's got this little key icon here. That's called a primary key. Think of it in this term. You have a hundred people in your audience and you need to address a specific or find a specific person. How do you find that person? Well, somebody out there is saying, well, their name. Okay, we'll use their name. Let's say my name's Brian. Out of a hundred people, how many people are going to be named Brian? Well, then you have a first and last name. What if the name's John Smith? How many John Smiths will you have out of a hundred? You may have two or three. So you need a unique way of identifying those people or those rows in the database. That's where you get a primary key. And the primary key sole function is just say this is unique. Notice how it's a primary key and it's auto increment. And what that means is every time you add a record that number, because it's an integer, will automatically increment. So the first will be one, then two, then three, then four, and five, six, and you get the picture. So that is a very rough and loose database primer. In our coming tutorials, we're going to be jumping right into these and actually working with these. Just kind of go out, take a moment, get used to the menus, how things are laid out, what things do different things. And did that make any sense? What things do different things? Well, you know what I meant. Queries can be executed. You can query the database. You can reverse engineer. You can have plugins, scripting, etc., etc. Don't expect you to be a whiz with this. Basically, all you need to know is your databases are here. Inside your databases, you have tables. Inside your tables, you have columns. It's really all you need to know. We'll get into things like views and routines at another time. That's all for this tutorial. Hope you found this educational, and thank you for watching.


Well, to have you back to this or a show, Human Humane Architecture on this Think Tech Hawaii. This is the 274th show, and Eric, the accumulated viewership is as of this moment. Currently Humane Architecture's got 14,751 views. All right, and it's, of course, not about quantity, but quality. And that being said, we're back on volume 11 with you, Matt, and welcome back. Thank you, good to be here. At your Boston base, giving us the banish booze that we desperately need, we think. And via drei Glatzköpfe von der Tankstelle, which means the three bald guys from the gas station, it's only two of us, me, Martin, this bang from the bathroom of its Waikiki Grand, but we're gonna have the third one, the Soto Brown in his Bishop Museum, once he's out of the traffic on H1, which he said will be in supposedly five minutes. So let's get started and talk about him while he's not here, Matt. First slide up, Eric, fast. Thank you. Now, in all seriousness, we go back to show quoting at the top, because we were arguing with the Soto last time after the show because shame on me, I'm always having pinned the picture on Zoom where, what the audience sees. So I did not see that he was joining us secretly and quietly, and so I never was aware of that, so he never joined, but this time this will not happen again. And then he said, he watched the show and he said it went shockingly well without him and Matt, we respectfully disagree with that, right? I, there was, went shockingly bad, badly without him, I would say. Exactly. We can say all this because he isn't here either again. And we also need him because at the top right, we're zooming in because he has been on this island, which we say we can learn a lot from your practices for the longest and then you second longest and me the shortest, but he has also experienced in that temper in the cold and that's why you see him there as bundled up then on that white stuff in his youth. Exactly. There's cute little DeSoto. And then Eric, if you can go to the very left because he keeps saying, okay, I will never go back to this cold. I can't handle it. So at the very top left is what he was happy to return to. There he is even cuter. And he wears these hats that we talked about on the right that DeSoto's former Bishop is him colleague Jim who runs this, I said antique, which is probably not what he likes to hear. We should call it vintage store of things in the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, which architecturally is not unsimilar to what brings us back to your project, which is the Harvard School of Engineering because these buildings down there look very much similar to the Royal Hawaiian. They're a stereotomic and they have a few punched openings into it, which we said in the case of the Royal Hawaiian and some sort of interesting way works here as well. Because usually when they import architecture from elsewhere it doesn't work that well equally, especially not when it's all glass buildings that in Boston at this time probably helps with passive solar but that thing doesn't exist here. So anyway, so tell us about the context, the situation for the project that we see down there, Matt. Well, I think that we sort of introduced the idea of the competition that through which the original project was awarded ultimately to us, but there was some, there was a lot of, let's almost call it baggage or context that came with the idea of building such an important sort of new structure on Harvard's campus, which really at the time there had been a couple of years since Harvard had developed major new parts of their campus and they were expanding the campus to the other side of the Charles River to the southern banks of the Charles River. The business school was there already of course, but this was a lot of land that they were considering expanding the campus onto. And there was always the question, that we were at being asked to answer, well, what is Harvard architecturally from the perspective of landscapes and physically? And so we were, this is just an image of the classic, the sort of the central Harvard yard around which all the freshmen eat and sleep during their first year at Harvard. And that's kind of the quintessential Harvard experience. And a big preoccupation of those early days of the design efforts were, what will be the, how will Harvard be defined on its 21st century campus? Yeah. And again, these trees look naked and there are because this is deciduous and this is temperate climate. So that's starting to get winter or starting to be spring or one or the other. So that's the situation we're basically facing here, the context. And let's jump into the project with the next slide, which once again shows a compilation of sort of multi-duty ways you guys work and sort of multi-media ways. And yeah, I explain what's behind what we see. Yeah. So this is the original competition winning entry for the project, which was basically, it was a almost square site, as you can see, although a couple of the sides bend a little bit. It was a sort of funny shape. And the idea for the project originally was to build sort of build a basement, exactly that shape going down into the ground that was contiguous across the whole site. And then above grade to build a series of buildings, in this case four buildings, each of them with mostly life sciences research programmed into it that would be obviously connected through the basements everywhere and then connected above grade by a series of multi-story pedestrian sort of open-air pedestrian walkways that would allow people to move back and forth. And the point where those pedestrian walkways met the buildings were these winter garden spaces that really were in our mind, if you see that sketch in the upper left, kind of the idea of this courtyard that the buildings form sort of turning vertically and going up inside the buildings. So this was in a sense at a very, it's at a somewhat smaller scale, our response to the Harvard Yard, which is still to create a kind of an outdoor public space, something that everyone could participate in, but then use that to inform the architecture, perhaps more than it is actually at the old Harvard Yard campus, but still very much in that kind of spatial and community spirit. Yeah. And let's look at these interstitial spaces, a little closer in the next slide, because this view of the, as you just said, the competition model is a little better here. It's interesting for me to look at the buildings themselves, they look very sort of rationalist, mine at von Gerkan just passed away, right? And so it almost looks Gerkan-y in some ways here, or Ungas-like, and then on the inside it really breaks open and free, right? Is that- So interesting, it's a lot more interesting to think about this as a sort of a way, a station stop in the process of getting to the final design that we'll eventually get to here, because also bundled up with this concern about what should the new Harvard be and how is the new Harvard Yard gonna emerge in Alston was a really sort of inbuilt conservatism about what the outward looking side of the buildings should really be. And at that time, this is directly across the street from the business school, which is a very conservative environment. There was kind of a thought that, from the outside to the street-facing parts of these buildings, it should be more of a sort of a stone facade with a kind of a gridded appearance and still these were larger than average windows and this was a very high-performing facade. And we actually sort of subverted a little bit because we made all the stone panels have operable parts, the stone parts were the parts that moved to naturally ventilate the spaces. But then if we said that was the approach to the outside, on the inside, we could sort of go a little bit more crazy and define a whole different environment. So we always sort of joke that, at one point the gridded facade sort of turns towards the inside and it just gets kind of swallowed up. Almost like, if you remember that, the scene from the first Aliens movie when it kind of grabs onto somebody's, the guy's face and there's like an umbilical coming off of it. That was almost the image we had of this thing. And that's kind of how it looked actually in principle. Reminds me a lot of the founding father Gunther's case of the Parisa Platz in Berlin, where by Stimman, the head of the building department, zoning department, basically a sign prescribed the old style free war for the whole city. And then it was basically two guys who didn't behave and one was Gunther and the other one was, this reminds me of was Gary, who was behaving on the outside and then freaking out on the inside with his big fish. And Gunther basically said, I'm not even doing it on the outside and fought it through with the museum there, right? So this is, it's a really interesting kind of a thing of talking psychology and architecture and smuggling in things and smuggling things through. And yeah, so that's great. I'm glad you point this out. And there is the Soto, welcome. Good morning or a good day or whatever the heck it is. I'm finally here, but I hardly know where I am. It's okay, we're gonna slide you in smoothly. All right. And I'm gonna do it this way because I was same as you and we bad guys, we shouldn't even be in cars on freeways here, but I came back from the poly and both of us don't get it wrong because you just sort of, I'm not repeating, you're flipping over from way back, which made you hit the title page of the start that ties it when you were young in your beetle. So we're driving safe. Yes, but I had the chance because usually I'm into Stanley Chang's newsletter right before the show, but I got something even more exciting from you, Matt. Explain me what that is, what you sent me, which I then eagerly watched right away. Yeah, this is an interesting program called fellow VIP, which is a kind of bicycle or a tandem bicycle interview conducted on the streets of various cities in Germany. And this happened to be an episode of my partner, Stefan, with the host there bicycling around Stuttgart. So Eric, we give this to Jay as it's just suggestion because isn't it kind of hypocritical? We're supposedly the easy breezy show and we're doing it in a frigid museum and then with a fan operating interior bathroom here. So I think we should. And again, where I have my old bicycle repaired at the McCully bike shop. The one guy there, basically we started talking. He said, oh, Jay and I go back decades and we were the bicycling pioneers on this island. So it should be an easy pitch to you, Jay, right? So let's Jay, I can't imagine trying a bicycle. No, no, it is not the Jay of 2022. Yeah, no, he was. And so it's true. Can you imagine how great your show would be if you were bicycling through, you know, Kakaako and talking about this stuff? So this is a great idea. And then, you know, this is a tandem, but not behind each other, but next pair beside each other, the two people. We should throw in some screenshots from that for the next show and let me give the audience more of an image for you. I can't picture it either. I'll send you the link. Okay, okay. I was about to send it to you, but usually we're fine giving you the German learning sentence and this would be a whole show in German. So I'll give it to that. Yeah, no. But you will still enjoy it. I can at least look at it, even if I won't know what they're talking about. Yeah, no, it was really great, great edutainment and for everyone either, you know, already skilled in the German language or interested in you as you the soda and everyone else, you should definitely watch it. So it's, yeah, many of the things you're now talking about sort of resonates with me and you said, well, of course you heard parts of the stories, you know, over and over again, but having them all together, compiled in one piece is really compelling. So again, we're at the soda, we're now at the competition. We talked about how important architectural competitions are for getting the best project out of it last time. And so this is, as Matt just said, this is the competition model that we find out was sort of very sneaky in terms of trying to have, not to shock the audience with the banish boost too much to begin with and do this later. So this is really cool, you know, to have a competition model that's sort of, yeah, sort of- Are you saying that there was subterfuge? Are you saying they're covering things up, which they sprang on people afterwards? Or there are hidden things in the model that are not obvious to take a building off and then you discover something underneath it? No, it's more about what happens on the interior. That's what I meant. That's what I meant. Yeah, it looks innocent on the outside, but at the inside, it's, yeah, okay. You know, Stefan was saying something really interesting. This reminds me of when he was asked by the showmaster. He said, you know, between the competitions or the design and the building is finally completed. It takes years. They sit like five to seven years. So usually by the time, I mean, even if Arctic days try to be, really hit the spot with zeitgeist, they always miss it by then because of that reason, because seven years later, it's already outdated. So it's better to do something that it doesn't even try to be absolutely, you know, a victim of its time, but in best case being timeless, which is hard to, and you shouldn't, you know, be stressing yourself out to do that either, but you should just do that. What he says, what you think needs to be done and they will be right. And it won't be look old and outdated. By the way, I just saw us having to write the book about Honolulu, The Faden City Guide, the one that was, and it's out of print now, they were saying this about the convention center. And I share that with Phillip and he was a little annoyed about his colleagues about such an assessment. But that's what they said. You remember they said the convention center was already outdated by the time it was built. And we said, we would take a different take on it. And we would say, well, it really is very ambitious as far as the tectonics and the detailing, butt-joint glass and stuff, but it's just wrong in the tropics. That's the way we said we would say it, right? Because again, it is entirely enclosed, except whether they did, I do, I do have to say, they did build the roof to be an area where people could assemble. But as soon as that was publicized, everybody in the condos around the building said, oh, no, no, no, you can't have loud, you can't have loud events on the roof, which will bother all of us. So that shut down the possibility of having outdoor events at that particular venue. So it's not entirely the fault of the architects. It's just the things turned out. Yeah, and speaking of which, surrounding and looking at it from around and above, that gets us to the next slide, because that shows us the condition of the project. As you found it, or as you start to be, yeah, I mean, the existing, the status quo, so to speak, how you found it, right? And another challenge, one of the many challenges it was presenting, right? Right, so that project we were just looking at went on for a couple of years until about 2008, at which point the world, whatever they called it at the time, the world financial collapse, sort of brought the project to a close or to a pause point and Harvard restructured our contract and asked us to basically cap the site. So that basement, that five acre deep, a five acre wide, 60 foot deep basement, we needed to put a whole roof over it and protect all the openings and kind of basically protect the assets. So that's what you're seeing here. This is probably the least inspirational Danish project that's ever been inflicted on the world, but that was actually the final state of the project from about 2010 until 2013. Oh boy. Well, let's skip the next slide up and illustrate that going along with that challenge. So right, once the project did restart and Harvard had identified new occupants for the building, those new occupants developed a building program with us that looked nothing like the original one, even to the point that the column grid that was assumed to be usable for the below grade portions of the building and the above grade portions of the former design needed to be completely rethought. So what this sketch was basically intimating was you had a series of columns in an above grade building that wanted to be in one set of dimensions and a series of built columns below grade that were on a completely different pattern, let's say. And we had to figure out how to bring those two things together right at the ground plane, which was quite an engineering feat. You know, as again, as a lay person, I think this points out that the path between the theoretical and the planned to the real thing can have these huge diversions that you can't anticipate and what you plan for is not necessarily what the building's gonna look like. Right, right, or what it will do in the future, I think it raises lots of questions about the notion of kind of open-minded planning and how much a building can allow itself to evolve with new uses and new purposes. And speaking of planning gets us to the next slide because here's the plan, but why would this be of interest for us? Yudhisoto and I, we actually looked at our university, the University of Hawaii, Manoa, quite in detail and dedicated multiple shows to that. So when we're saying we're needing your mat, your booths so badly, it's not just us in Hawaii, but this might make us thinking we might also need that on campus because there's some recent developments that make our non-existing hair stand up. And I really love, there were the five questions at the end of the VIP Velo with Stefan. And one of them was like, okay, a building renovated or built new and he immediately said, rebuild whatever it takes. And that's what they, we, because I work for this institution, the University of Hawaii and Manoa, do totally wrong. They're tearing down, in fact, not some buildings that you might be sick of, but actually some modern master marvels and replace it with things without any competitions. And in a way that we don't think this is per year my favorite of your shows. One of your talks, the tradition of innovation and the evolution of the tradition of innovation. So just keep this in mind when we go through this here, the audience, this might be very educational for us up on the educational hill in Manoa. So the plan, explain us more, the color. Yeah, so what you're looking at here is actually a plan of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, which was the ultimate occupant of our project in Austin. This is where they occupied space in Cambridge up until basically 2021 when they moved over into the new building. And so you can see that just in terms of the sort of the extent of the spaces they occupied and the, and I can just tell you that everything in orange here, the quality of the space in most of those buildings was very, very poor. They weren't necessarily in many cases designed to research buildings that was, there was very, it was very suboptimal space. There wasn't enough of it. And what we were essentially trying to illustrate here is you can see the red dashed outline of the new site in Austin, how much more compact they would be able to be accommodated in a new building configuration that brought everything more together. So that's really what this was about, was the organization of seeds in Cambridge along Oxford Street. Yeah, and speaking of organization, gets us to the next chart with just labeled program diagram. And on behalf of you guys, and he was actually speaking on behalf of you because he was saying, well, the most work in educational design we're having in the United States with our Boston firm, which you're heading. And he also mentioned these as the first typologies when he was asked about, you know, what he's all doing, what you guys are all doing. And he explained, he says, because it's so exciting because you're working with creative minds and people who never mind what we just said about you age, but potentially there too, I don't give up the hope on my employer so easily, is to work with all these eager people who wanna work for a better future, so work with them. But that being said, that also then comes with quite a complicated way because they're all meaning well, but there's many who have a saying and want something sort of synthesized that might be quite the challenge, right? Which this diagram that you know will tell us more about just gives us a clue, right? Right, yeah. I mean, this is basically, I mean to sort of sum this up, this is a graphic representation of the room program for the building. And it basically breaks down into three components about a third each. The first being obviously research facilities, so wet and dry research laboratories for things as diverse as bioengineering, robotics, soft materials research, mechanics and computer science. And then the second third of the program is teaching facilities. So all of the teaching efforts of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences moved to Austin. And so we have a whole complement of classrooms, teaching laboratory spaces and things of that nature, seminar rooms and group study spaces and so on and so forth. And then the final third is really amenity spaces that are constituted by the science library, the cafeteria that serves the whole building, conferencing spaces and things of that nature. So altogether it's a very diverse program, but one that, as you said, a program that's diverse that really gives us a chance in a way to step out of our own daily existence as architects and kind of live vicariously to our clients, right? Like how we get the chance in our work to be researchers or pseudo researchers for a couple of years or to be lawyers or to be doctors or whatever because we have to know so much about what they do that we really have to almost get in their shoes for a little bit to understand a bit. I'm gonna write, well, great closing note because it has to be, because we're at the end of another exciting 28 minutes and we see you again, but not before the new year because this is the concluding show in the year. And so we will see each other back, the three of us and you, the audience will see each other back. Well, you will see it on the fifth and we will be together on the fourth. And until then you can go back to the World Cup which we see behind you, Matt. Yeah. And we also let you go into some happy holidays. Let them be peaceful in the world, first and foremost and pleasant along with that. So happy holidays for all you guys. 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All right. Jamie, do we have all the groups back this time before we start? Okay, so we're going to do exactly what we did yesterday, except that you'll say different words. And so with four minutes, each group can sort of nominate themselves to come up as they're ready to go. So who wants to get started? Hi, I'm Gita from the Brick Group C. We mostly had a very interesting conversation about audiences' experiences with shows that maybe we felt are not super successful. And first of all, maybe it's a show that we were like, ooh, it wasn't that good, but an audience can love that anyway, and that's totally valid. But also how to engage them. You know, it's okay to not like something. It's okay to go to the theater and not love it, and how to encourage audiences to have that experience and talk about it and let that be okay. That maybe not have a talk back with the artists where people are telling the playwright everything they hated, but to have the audience conversation and have them converse with each other or with the theater staff and make that totally valid and hopefully encourage them to come back and see something else and have that experience and let that experience be that experience. We also had some very bold aspirations. One of them was to get TV writers to write about theater on television in a positive way, not as a joke on a sitcom, on friends where they go see Joe's play and it's so terrible. Like, how can we get theater on TV that people can go to the theater and be like, oh, I went to a play last night. It was pretty good. Or, you know, some kind of way to involve that. So the national conversation about theater is not a joke. This is very, very bold, very bold. We talked about having playwrights more involved in the experience of crafting the marketing materials of the show and how to involve them about the message on a more intimate level. We talked about everyone getting on the new play network and how exciting that is for both organizations and for playwrights. So I'm going to create two accounts tomorrow. Morning. We talked about crafting great taglines that can sell out a show, even a classical show, if you really have a bold tagline, like, trust no one or hell is other people, and it can have nothing to do with it, but it helps sell tickets. Hey, you've got to get people in the door, guys. You've got to get people in the doors. We also wanted to figure out how to bring English language plays to non-English speakers, maybe using technology, incorporating that into the show in some fabulous way that we didn't figure out yet, but we will. And working to find the right audiences for playwrights, like, if we have a new playwright and the play is very specific, you know, there's people out there who that might speak to and, like, how we'd love to find them and get them in the theater and create a relationship with the playwrights. Yeah, so that was mostly it, you know, talking about communication, like, we're here to communicate, like, how to really communicate with people better. And we aspire to balance, and we aspire to bring the two half-priced ticket booths in Boston to life and make them really exciting and engaging and wonderful. And I think that covers our aspirations for Group C. My doppelganger. I have to start with an important announcement. I found some glasses on my chair, and I don't know who they are. They might be Nancy and Burnett, but I'm going to put them on this table, and so at lunch, if you're missing glasses. Just a little bit of detail. Okay. So, group, I can't see them anyway. So Group E started with an interesting challenge, and that challenge was talking about individual aspirations and separating them from our institutional or, like, organization goals. And part of that was, like, wow, maybe we have a super healthy work-life balance. And then the other... That was irony, like, we totally don't. And then the other half of that is, like, we're here and we're, like, in this brain-trust think tank situation, and so maybe we're just too far-steeped in, like, the theater-job conversation more the way we are and, like, what's the person I want to be. Okay, so we started with identifying the communities that we want to reach and how to create genuine relationships. There was a talk of bridges yesterday, the talk of two-way bridges. How do we go out into the neighborhoods and the communities and, like, be real people and be neighbors and fellow citizens? How do you, like, recalibrate what you already have as far as engagement is concerned, so you're not always adding things? How do you evaluate the existing systems and, like, traditions that you have and say, like, wow, I actually don't have to do that anymore. It's more effective and more impactful if I spend time doing this, being, you know, awesome, responsible, genuine engagement, which is this. So we want to stay true to who we are, so, like, maybe you aren't the most excited about Twitter being in the seat next to you and so, like, how do you find a good middle ground for that? How do you, like, not completely change what you believe as an artist or as an institution leader to, like, further engagement? And then, okay, this is my favorite one. So, like, how do we chill out, right? Like, how do we chill out our spaces?  How do you, like, bring people into the theater and them a list of knows, right?  And then, okay, so then re-evaluating the standing rules and structures that we have to be part of the 21st century. So, like, how do we put, like, how do we not make the theater a place where the audience comes to worship the artist? Like, how do you put the artist and the... Ooh! It wasn't me. So, how do you put artists and audience on the same level? Like, how do you really build a community between those two entities? They're in the room together. They might as well acknowledge it. And part of that is, and this is a scandalous part, so be ready, stop the livestream. How do you do something like bring equity rules into the 21st century? How do you... How do you make those restrictions realistic and how do you make them... How do you encourage engagement by changing them? Great. So, Group E was awesome, and thanks, guys. Hi, I'm Lisa Millette from City Lights Theater Company, and I am speaking for Group D. I couldn't remember our letter. An absolutely lovely group of people. Okay, we too had the issue of separating our personal from our institutions, I think, in a way, but it felt okay because that's what we're passionate about, and we were also trying to answer this question in terms of engagement. So, we had some really interesting things come up, though. Okay, one was... And I'm assuming that all of us, if it wasn't super personal, what we're saying is that we'd like to be leaders in this charge and really advocate and rally for these types of changes and get behind them with everything. So, we had... There was an idea about a desire to create greater capacity for producing new work. So, basically to fast track it a little bit more, so playwrights weren't sending things out and waiting forever and ever and ever and maybe never hearing back, but making it possible for organizations, for institutions, to making it easier for them to produce it so that it can just get done more often and quickly. We had one that was getting community partnerships in place before actually producing the work because there was an understanding of how important that was. So, not compromising in that way and finding a strong community partner and then moving forward with creating the work. Okay, so it'll be weird if I talk about myself in the third person, so this was mine. I aspire to find a bigger platform to be able to share some really great ideas and things that have been really working for my small yet mighty theater company. I feel like I have some things that have just hit it out of the park, but I'm in San Jose in a hundred seat warehouse and so things like coming to this and trying to have these conversations is something that I aspire to, so thank you. I was the one who has the parties every night, so that's the kind of thing I can't say enough about how beneficial that's been to the organization. Okay, this was a great one. Not being contained and held back by money, by the bottom line of the work, and we still have to get butts in seats, but carving out time to be able to dream and think big and have big ideas. Trying to get theaters to move away from training their audiences that new work is small, precious, and off-center. So, trying to find a way that the theaters start training their audiences the opposite, that it should support a more robust body of work that's new and just start acting like that's normal. And the wonderful quote from this one was also like larger bodies of new work, so more symphonies, not just duets and quartets, which I thought was great. Okay, one was to resist the urge to follow the go small or go home. This one kind of broke my heart. Fight against that desire to be marketable for your plays to work because if they're small and they don't cost as much and they're not as big of a risk, maybe you'll do the work. That stick to your dreams and the stories that you want to tell. Another one that the American theater embrace the multilingual nature of the country. And also any way that we can encourage a larger pool of actors of color because that is also sometimes a blocking point for producers to produce new work that have ethnic actors because it's harder. Let's see, let's see, let's see. Ah, okay, bringing the new work community, writers and producers, anybody that's doing new work together more to help each other instead of thinking about your own piece of the pie, but really invest in the ecosystem of new work from top to bottom and trying to strengthen it together. Implement new ideas around accessibility to theater in regards to childcare.  So finding all those interesting ideas how to make that work, this is a great one. 70,000 10th graders in New York make it possible for them to see a play. There are 70,000 10th graders in public schools. Make sure every single one of them can see a play. Think about accessibility for theater for all walks of life, not just kids and teens. Is it too late for a 45-year-old that wasn't exposed to theater? So not ignoring, we always say all the old people go to theater but there are some old people that don't. So just making sure that we're inclusive in our outreach. I love this one. Harness the energy and engagement that people have for sports and bring it to theater.  And then we had one sort of general run that sort of seemed to float to the top from our group and it's find ways to do what seems impossible. Just do it. Just find a way. If you love it and you're passionate about it, don't block yourself with I can't because, because, because, because, just find a way. One of those old people she just referred to. I'm Julie Henrikus from StageSource. So we again had the same conversation or the same issues about separating personal from institutions but we went with it and sort of got a little more boots on the ground, I think. Community, large versus small, recognize what that is and where you are and how that influences what you do. Who's in your neighborhood, literally? What's the business next door? How do you interface with them? How do you invite them into your process? And how do you connect with them on not just, on their level and not just say come see us but what do you do and maybe how can you help us do what we do? Open the doors to your theater. Open the doors to your theater. Open the doors to your theater. Get staff there when the audience is there so that you can have conversations. Understand that there are bandwidth issues for everybody working in theater. So how do you use other people to help do engagement? Like how do you have your boards invite playwrights out to dinner or how do you sort of leverage other people who actually are enjoying that opportunity? Remember that people want to have an experience with somebody when they go to your theater. Acknowledge that and try and make that. Test your assumptions all the time. Service orgs. I run a service org so this was me. How did we use them to help foster collaborations to do some of the infrastructural work and to offer support and reward impulses for the current day audience members. So if people want to take a selfie, let them take a selfie, get a tag with your theater, have them posted on Facebook and use that to help do your work. Group B. Group B is breaking the mold. We're going to pass the mic and we're each going to speak for ourselves and summarize what we aspire to. So I aspire to generosity towards the theaters that I work with in finding a way to make it clear to them that we are collaborators and that I'm not asking for more. I want to be a part of the process to give more that I have resources that they need and find a way to work with them if they haven't thought about that before and generosity towards the audience in rethinking my relationship to the audience all the time with every play in the myriad ways in which that can operate. I aspire to all those things too. My personal aspiration is to find better ways to make a home in the communities in which I work instead of just living in the communities in which I work. I aspire to ask more questions of everyone, of my staff, of our audience and of our artists and particularly to do that earlier in our process so actually as part of our development process of new work to begin asking our artists while we're developing their plays how they might be interested in engaging with our audiences so we can start building into our budget for that production money and resources to begin that engagement early. I aspire to partner with more organizations as a way to share responsibilities and resources and to expand the reach of our artists' diverse voices. We had a team member who had to leave a little bit early but we wanted to share her voice as well so Rebecca aspires to expand the definition of risk at Schubert Foundation to be more inclusive of the different ways artists, institutions and audiences define risk. I aspire to hold up the respect, curiosity, delight, accountability and love that I find and give in my deep personal relationships as the aspirational north star for the respect, curiosity, delight, accountability and love I'd like to find and give to the audiences and communities I live in, work with and serve. This is going to sound very simple now. I aspire to be braver in implementing the next practices instead of just the best practices. My personal aspiration is to move beyond the logistical challenges of my geographical situation and be a more generous and more engaged audience member at other theaters around the country. I aspire to seek a balance in the distribution of the funds that I'm honored to manage in an equitable manner, cultivating new relationships while respecting existing ones and doing no harm to those and being mindful in the context of this meeting of thinking of artists, audiences, communities, theaters and honoring the plurality, the variety, the diversity of all of those. Nice work to you. We are group F. F for fun. Fantastic, fabulous. I'm Deb Clapp. I'm Dayfina. And the first thing that we wanted to talk about was it's sort of like chill out but also the exact opposite which is we aspire to be Disney in that we would design the entire experience of people who visit our theaters from the time that they buy a ticket which can be so unpleasant all the way up until they leave the theater. So we feel like that sometimes we say, come and see us, come and see us. Keep your blinders on because we don't want you until you get to the fun stuff is how we put it. So that's the first thing. This was brought up earlier. Hopefully it sounds a little bit different but the idea just to be braver overall to be more courageous and how that also shows up being a woman, being articulate in the work. Laura mentioned that again. And this came up, this idea of thinking about leadership. This was brought up the other day in our small group like where are the leaders are they here but sort of reframing and knowing that we're all leaders and being brave and recognizing our own leadership and also part of that managing up, managing around but not devaluing ourselves. We're all here for a reason, we're leaders. So let's be brave. Something else that other people have mentioned was around creating an experience in which people can be social. So for whatever that means we are totally cognizant that there's a lot of tension around this issue but that we really need to, that people really want to be social and coming into these spaces doesn't mean that you shut down your sociability but that we should, as somebody else said, encourage that more. It's hard to go towards the end because I feel like this is brought up too but just being more of a community member, being a citizen and that has two takes. One, there was a striving for wanting to know who's in our community, et cetera but also how do we think outside of the arts what are the other ways to engage within our community civically and also not to see those things as separate. I feel like there's this sort of unspoken kind of privilege in how we talk about reaching the community that feels like we're separate. So how do we see ourselves as one of the same? We are the community not thinking like we're above it. Mark and I were talking earlier about this idea of oh, we're going to work with the community and they do work in the school and the prisons and this idea of we're better than sort of shows up. So part of, I'm going to do two at the same time. The other thing is a personal goal for me is how do we continue to look within ourselves and to see the space that we're taking up because I think that we go straight to the audience but we don't do our own internal work about our own viewpoints and what we're bringing forth when we walk into a room. Along with that we talked about designing playwrights and playwrights' residencies and the playwrights' interaction with the community and being, you know, sort of really careful about how we do that but allowing the playwright to actually be a part of the community and even, you know, I can't remember his name from Fitchburg, but Nick, what Nick said, you know, some of the projects that they're working on just allowing playwrights to do that in our communities if they want to but also understanding that sometimes they don't. How can we be our own ringleaders? Like, how are we a ringleader in our community? So Laura Jackman was also talking about maybe starting a group of like five to ten or fifteen playwrights and experiencing each other's work. How do we sort of, we were talking about how we go to theater alone a lot. So how do we think about just friendship and how do we bring, how are we a better friend and how do we bring people? We are ringleaders so let's not forget that. So we love you. I love you. Look, we, I have an imaginary friend right now. Creating fandom. We, you know, talked a little bit about video games and it goes to the sports metaphor as well. How do we create excitement around plays and even, you know, going six months or a year out in front of a play to try to talk to audiences about the play and really generate excitement about them. I love the gentleman who said, not talking about best practices but next practices. I would love, we talked about this in our breakfast so how do we come out of this and maybe think about phase three as, are there certain framing questions we can ask? So anytime a theater is working on any project there's a list of things which, you know, just framing the way we think about it and that is always community-minded. Maybe they're not best practices they're just investigative questions to help us think about the work more thoughtfully. I think that's a good place to end. End of play. Thank you. Hey, I'm Jeremy. I work at the Playwright Center. I agree. Thanks. So, yeah, so I'm probably the last person. So, yeah, to everything there. Also, Davey and I can't wait to have six theater dates with you in the next month. I'm really excited about that. I need a friend. Let's be friends. Okay, great. It's done. And that's all we had to say. Thanks. So I think we sort of at the end of the day kind of summed it all up in terms of kind of what are like, but core values kind of that we would like to practice out in the world and tried to use as many words that avoided the same words that we all say and don't always practice. But I'm going to say all of those exact things right now. So these are sort of the spirits of generosity, authenticity, both to ourselves and to the people that we work with and who we serve and who we collaborate with and who we show up to after our kid is sick and they take care of us and say, please go home early. So the third thing is empathy. How do we practice empathy for the greater world and move outside of both ourselves as artists or ourselves as parts of an organization? Self-kindness. Practicing really intense levels of self-kindness. I don't have to tell anyone why in this room because you all do it underpaid for a living. Altruism, which I think a lot of people have spoken about. Again, just the idea of thinking beyond ourselves and just our institution or just the art that I'm making in that moment. Perception shift. How willing am I at any moment, I think as we were just talking about here a moment ago, to change what I think at next practices rather than best accepted practices. Storytelling, let's not forget. I think people were using the words experience and that storytelling is why we all do it or anyway why some of us do it and I think why people come to it ultimately if they're not dragged by other people. They want to come for an experience for the idea of hearing a story in a different way than maybe they've heard before, which is the new part. This was actually mine but we spoke about it a lot I think is the loss in the American theater of focus on process rather than on product and what would it mean if we sort of walked away from here kind of in the end of this thinking about how do we always have... how do we sustain process and the value of process going forward and trusting that the process will take us to the end point rather than only deciding we know what the end point is in the first season planning meeting and then saying well we have to get there so let's just do that. Better listening to each other and to audiences. A spirit of non-competition and I think Keenan as he always does kind of I put this last which is embracing the potential of the future which I think is next practices it's the idea of hey what's happening at OSF and what are you guys doing with that project oh that's really interesting I've been looking for the key to figure that out or wow Playwrights Horizons you're doing this incredible thing with Club Thumb where you have this thing, they want this thing you recognize them they are now offering more things to more Playwrights now how can they give back so thinking about what sort of the potential of the future is and how we're artists we are the ringleaders right we're the leaders, we're the visionaries and that we don't just need to sit around and wait for some other motherfucker to give us the space we're all doing it we're already here, we're already in this room we're already risking, we're already doing all the things that all these studies talk about so let's just step up to the plate and do it I think we talked about that did we get all the groups so we're going to take lunch and lunch is out there and I know we're just running a tad behind but I think we should take our full 30 minutes for lunch because we've earned it and so 30 minutes for lunch so about 10 minutes after one we'll reconvene here