What's up everybody and sports and like conduct gabry back again for another week of sports with you guys and this week We finally have some things to talk about. Oh boy. We literally said last week that nothing is going on I know it was the most boring time ever and it couldn't be more exciting right now Lord have mercy. It's like every five seconds. You'll get your phone and somebody's signing somewhere Yeah, my screen time for yesterday has to be really bad And I don't want to know because it's probably gonna make me feel really bad But I could not put my phone down Yeah, no and then as we are coming on here. I just saw a tweet that might be the most Ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life. Oh, here we go like our society is not serious completely unserious people Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Has reached out to Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura, but like Aaron Rodgers is the key person Where are we going with this about serving as his running mate? No On an independent presidential ticket and Tom Palisaro just tweeted this. Oh, so this is like real deal. This this is reputable for sure Let me let me grab my phone for a second because I need to look at this and I need to see it with my own eyes Just so I can see that it is that Insane, how about we No Imagine no No Actually, I cannot this is the biggest meme of the week already. Oh my god. Oh my god I don't even know. I don't even know what to say There's there's really funny replies, but I'm not even gonna read the ones but oh My god guys, I'm really sorry These new these new mad libs are amazing Not mad libs. Yeah, um Crazy so there have been Other things that have happened today and yesterday that we will talk about but like that was just the first thing I saw as I was pulling up like hey, you know if that's what you want to do in signings So that's what you want to do and that's how you want to spend your offseason time Like are you well one my first question is if this does happen which it's not absolutely would never happen But let's just say it does Aaron Rodgers is out there in the political field. Are we leaving the Jets? Has there ever been a player politician Well, almost like a coach like no I was I was gonna go with like Herschel Walker, but he didn't know no no no He didn't make it so no I don't think so but like what do you do? Does he leave the New York Jets? Does he leave him in the dust if he does do this though that? Tunnel run without American flag is gonna do numbers on the internet. Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah Just put that in very first clip of the campaign commercial I don't even know what's even say about that. I want to quote it, but I don't have anything funny or witty or anything to say other than What the yeah? Yeah, yeah, me too. Um All right, I don't know but anyway. Yeah, so that's that that's a thing in case you guys didn't know Nice way started off Aaron way to start it off getting into the Relevant topics the relevant people they're not just already signed on a team. That's that's all taken care of we already know that There have been in the last Let's say, I don't know almost 36 hours Well, even more than that dating back to like the weekend. Yeah crazy stuff going on crazy stuff crazy Where did we start who was rest the first dominoes to fall? This was a russ or was it Jerry Judy? I can't recall Jerry Judy, but I think it was actually Chris Jones That was like an extension, but so I think Chris Jones might have been the first thing and then we go I will say that we go to rest. Surprise. Well, it's always surprised about Jerry Judy No, Chris Jones, I'm not really surprised. Why are you surprised that they gave him that I thought he was gonna get Paid elsewhere. I thought he got paid Get the most that he could possibly get regardless of who it was with we kind of did I That I just I thought like especially Baltimore. I said it last weekend. I thought Baltimore would like really yeah But they have that young guy that they just paid so Yeah Aaron Jones is not a free agent still he signed with Minnesota this morning, which is weird Yeah, we can get to that one too the NFC north the way they it's similar to like how the AFC east has been the last However, many years believe that the way the NFC north just like swaps Yeah, they have a lot of that going strange But that's how you guys are now too And I don't like it at all No, I don't like it. I do not like it. I do not like it and I think that's very weak of them Let's not do that, you know, I thought the AFC north stood for something I thought this was some like gritty football where everyone hated each other and we're not making friends around here Yeah, I guess it doesn't anymore. So that doesn't seem to be the case. No No way Patrick Queen is now a stealer. Do we start with that? We can just start with him I mean named almost everybody, but as well. We want to start with Patrick Queen That was probably the most surprising Signing of This entire free agency so far. I know other people aren't gonna see it like that but to me. I thought that was insane Yeah, I just I just I don't know I I get it players go to rivals all the time, but this one feels a Little weird and a little too much it does feel weird for me Seeing it happen in the AFC north because like you said when I think of the AFC north I think like Rivalry to the max like you yeah Absolutely hate each other.   So when I see like Guys from the brown signing with the bangles or guys with the Raven signing with the sealers. It's like oh That's odd like that just doesn't yeah feel right, you know, yeah, like I'm all for you guys Getting your bag for sure get the most money that you can in these situations, but to the Pittsburgh Steelers.   Yeah, I don't know I don't know. I mean washed No It's just Tennessee. Just it wasn't doing it anymore. He's still What scored 12 touchdowns last season as long as he can stay healthy I mean, he's had what like foot issues like yeah, I had like a mess up foot for the last hour or two years or so Yeah, him and Lamar that it's gonna be real hard to stop that off. What are you gonna do? What can you do? That well, that's the thing. What can you do? Because obviously there's gonna find out The fair Henry's there Henry you can burn you with the legs But I got so good Lamar, but Lamar can also throw they have some pretty solid receivers Oh, my hand yours. Maybe not but I Don't know interesting. Um, very Yeah, say quantu like everybody There's jumping ship. It's weird Say one though like he was never gonna resign with the Giants once that Daniel Jones contract was all done like There was just no way there was no way. Um And he's from Pennsylvania so like going home It's probably super excited.  It's gonna be really awesome the whole thing the whole drama with Tiki Barbara though like I Fierce thing for what for like, I know you're a radio guy And I don't know what it is with former players, especially but radio it like just in general before more players when they become Media specifically radio they just Turn so like I don't know bitter is the right word Sometimes yes. Yeah, sometimes bitter. I Just like they feel like later all the time more than what those players are getting right now And some of them weren't very good. So like just relax a little bit I just like saying you're dead to me. That's that's crazy. No one that one was talk about dramatic like He did everything that he could okay Right if you're gonna be upset with anybody be upset with the front office for letting this get to this point to where it does happen where he does leave like You're not upset with the Daniel Jones contract to be upset with I mean just there's so many other things as a Giants Fan or an analyst of the Giants where you can pinpoint and be like, okay, this is how we got here Don't be mad at the guy for going for leaving because Be mad at that for dropping Daniel Jones He obviously knows the team's not in a successful spot right now I Just signed drew lock Yeah, yeah, and I don't mean that laugh as like anything against drew lock because I do I actually like drew lock a lot but like Just the situation that they're in like they drew lock is good on a team for a number two who already has an established quarterback That's really good. That's not the situation here. Not Daniel Jones. No, like That's the whole but just that you're dead to me is a wild thing to say regardless regardless Whatever Strange um, I Do want to talk about My patriots though because I am pleasantly surprised With the things that have transpired Elliott Wolf I'll Full disclosure be completely honest here going into Free agency going into draft time a little nervous Because this is the first one without Balochek for 20 whatever years 20 years um And I you can make the argument that Bellachek's drafting is not maybe it'll get a little better. We'll see Like there's always that side to the coin that you can talk about but like It's new. It's not something we're used to so going into it. I think the expectations were Um not positive But man, he's he's resigned everybody that is important to this team bringing back Kendrick born and bringing back Hunter Henry is Critical I think no matter who plays quarterback this year Just from a leadership standpoint and a production standpoint like those are two of the most productive people on this team and Hunter Henry especially has been like he scored the most Touchdowns as a tight end for like the last three years in total or some crazy stat like that And that's on teams whose offenses have not been good um Resigning Mike Owain you is I think the biggest out of all of them um Because the offensive line is not being good, but he's been like the one bright spot. So I'm Thoroughly thoroughly impressed with what's going on and everything has been Relatively cheap All things considered like you saw all of the deals for offensive linemen that were being made yesterday and it was like some dude got a hundred million dollars who Respectfully, I don't think is a hundred million dollars worthy. So I saw that I was like, holy shit Big mic is gonna get so much money and it's not gonna be here And it's it's a pretty solid team friendly number And then Antonio Gibson same thing and for the production that Antonio Gibson can bring in a position of need past catching back like I'm not gonna go completely crazy and say like it's No, I'm not I'm not But it's been very very good so far and if they can figure out this Calvin Ridley thing I'm like I feel real good going into the draft because you have enough like what's your percentage of you think Calvin Ridley is gonna really be there um Well, so here's the thing with that Jacksonville If they sign him to an extension before I think it's 4 p.m. Tomorrow They have to give Atlanta a second round pick if it's after 4 p.m. I think it's a third um So I wouldn't I'm assuming that the reason why this is being delayed is because they're waiting until tomorrow because they You can get rid of a lower pick instead of the higher pick obviously um But the Patriots also supposedly had put an offer out there So my thing with this is like And I've seen a lot of people say this and I I said it to you this morning But like I kind of want to retract it a little bit Because there is the benefit of playing in Florida Like the weather obviously but like it's also hot and humid and disgusting september october And it rains a lot and there's also no like income tax or whatever in florida That I can understand But I've seen people say like well, why would they want to come To massachusetts? Why would they want to play in foxboro? There's not this there's not that like You could say It's cold like you could say that about anywhere. Why are these guys going to green bay? What are they going to do in green bay? like Make cheese curds Go ice fishing like what I hate when people say stuff like that because like Yeah, but there's like a really there's a really big difference between the two though if you There is my thing is is like if you say Oh, well, there's no clubs in boston But that's not what I was gonna say That's not what I was seeing people say that and like and if if that's the mindset I don't necessarily know if I want that person on my favorite team Because that doesn't seem like their Priorities are in the right spot. Okay. I think I think the number one thing is who's throwing him the football I think that has a lot to do with it I mean, yeah, I mean, yeah Yeah Yeah, he doesn't know Lord got hurt last year though What let's just say he gets hurt again and it's mac jones.  We've done some things patriots, um No qb there don't know what's gonna happen. Is it gonna be jacobi? Is it gonna be somebody else? I don't know I am happy about the jacobi signing too. I completely forgot to put that in there that's the perfect like potential bridge guy, I think but I don't know. I mean also. I don't want it I don't want them to overpay for calvin ridley either so if they if they miss out on them like I don't think i'm gonna be mad. I'm not gonna be upset. It would have been nice, but There are other other avenues um for a receiver out there, so supposedly they've reached out to the chargers about keenan allen like I don't know. Yeah, the jaguars have two first-round quarterbacks from the same joc class. Yeah mac jones happy trails partner um Man, I uh, I knew it was gonna happen. It was kind of just a matter of one, you know Yeah, sunday morning. I was in some rough shape and I saw that yeah I was waiting for you to post about it and it was like hours going by. I'm like, oh my god, brie. Where are you? What are you doing? I was well, okay, so here's the thing. I didn't realize I thought daylight savings was next weekend Or like this coming um, so was not prepared for that Also went out to watch the yukon game and the saltix game um saturday night and just Whatever it ended up turning into a longer night than it originally was supposed to So I was tired I woke up. I think it was like 10 30 Maybe like 11, which is I'd never sleep that late. I woke up and I saw it and I was like Yeah, this this is good. Um And I've seen a lot of people there's always like those Defenders have a player who like maybe doesn't necessarily deserve a defender Um, but there are mac jones defenders in the patriots fan base and a lot of them are like All of the patriots ruined him blah blah blah like Well, he wasn't very good to begin with so let's start thank you Exactly I've said it before and I'll say it again His rookie season is romanticized in a way that like I can't believe and it wasn't even that good I'm not I'm gonna be honest. It was not that good. It was fine. I always bring up Baker Mayfield's rookie season and then whatever happened after that like well I mean he just he did just get a hundred million dollars. He did he did good for him. Maybe again, maybe it's a change of scenery thing But he's still not that great. So I just I don't know how you look at especially this season of mac jones and Say that he is not A part of why this happened because yeah, I can understand the three coordinators in three years That's tough, especially when one of them is a defensive coordinator moonlighting as an offensive coordinator I understand that um Most patriots fans thought he was the guy after his request. I'm a patriots fan. I'm going to tell you that that's not true um Especially this year like east I don't know how you watch that game in germany and and you say Oh, it's not his fault I don't know how you watch him Yeah, but I feel like a lot of fans were saying that he had playoff potentials in like a sneaky little team A lot. Yeah, a lot of people say if he ended up getting drafted by san francisco that it would be the same production as What they've done with brock purdy. I just don't see that Well, well, I don't think he would be as good, but I think he would have a better chance to well Yeah, anybody would have a better chance if you've got christian mccaffery brandon iu debo Like george kittle any I could probably be putting that offense I mean, you could at least get one yard for sure Thank you I feel yeah, at least at least um Above all else like it was just time to move on like it All of the reports have said like the locker room lost faith in him Throughout the yeah, I don't think there was much to begin with that's what i'm saying like I think the floor It was already on the floor like we didn't really go up much higher No, and it that's just what it was is he was never going to be the guy Moving off of him. Of course you had to and to the people that are freaking out about Him going to jacksonville like the jacksonville fans Please relax. He's not gonna start There's not gonna be a qb battle Trevor Lawrence is gonna start actually have people. Yes. I saw so many jags fans freaking out. They're like, oh my god I don't want this guy. I'm like one relax. He's gonna be a backup So let's chill on mech jones. We don't have to hate on him even more than we already did He's not starting.  I'm sorry. No, it's It's not gonna happen. Um That's crazy. I can't believe people actually think that should we just go down the qb list to the next one Let's go. Well, actually, can I ask you a question first about two quarterbacks? Then I want to Yes go off of those Okay, so I'm gonna give you two different ones and then you're gonna tell me who you think is going to have a Better season this coming year russa wilson. Okay, kirk cousins Kirk oh Okay, russa wilson deshawn watson. No, I think it's frozen Okay, anyways Hold on. Let's see. Am I back? See my wi-fi does this it just dies Just it just goes Okay, sorry my I tried to refresh What did your wi-fi go out to? Oh, you stopped I go to click on my thing and then I accidentally hit refresh and then it kicked me out And I didn't mean to hit refresh, but now I'm here. Sorry Anyway, um, yeah, this happens this hasn't happened to us in a long time, but it it has happened Okay, did you hear my second one? I heard russa wilson or kirk Did you hear my second one? Yes. Yeah. No. Okay, so the next one was russa wilson or deshawn watson Um, yeah, that's what I'm saying like it's tough to say My first one is it is kirk cousins, especially in a weak division. Obviously. That's that's helpful. I just like I don't want to say deshawn because But I think it is especially if the rumors are true that the stealers are shopping diante johnson Yeah, I guess so I would go wrestle I'm just thinking like the people The people around them Oh, I think the people around Deshawn watson the browns are significantly better than the stealers But I don't think that he is going to be playing the whole year I think he's gonna suck and then somehow james wilson is gonna be out there and we're gonna have this cycle over again So that's what I that's what I feel like that's what I feel like, but Russell wilson pittsburgh stealer we can start with him I don't think it's going to be great, but I don't think it's going to be as bad as people think it's going to be I mean, I think they're probably gonna be above 500 like they always are Exactly. It's going to be just very average. They're going to be annoying They're going to get some wins that they shouldn't It's such a good fit for me. I think and we talked about it last week about You know where he could potentially end up and we both said pittsburgh being one of them Mike Tomlin is just like He seems like a clone of Pete Carroll to me So they're just they're going to get along really well and I think it's going to work I don't want to say really well because I just don't know if Russell has it all the way um But I think it's a good landing spot for him now if they can keep deontay johnson I I mean it Crazier things have happened worse teams have been better like I'm I don't know deontay johnson only has one touchdown in two seasons Which is also insane to me, but then like the quarterback sees had has not been All that great either Um, and it's just a one-year deal, right I think so for Russ I just don't think he's going to fit in with the personality of Pittsburgh in general just doesn't seem I know we were just saying like What's the difference between boston all these places? That's not what I'm saying with this one I'm just saying like the people of pittsburgh and russia wilson are not going to mix They're already really upset about it. It seems I think they're warming up to the idea now But a lot of people were not happy about it. They were making fun of it making memes about like pittsburgh fans were So I don't think he's going to really buy into the whole yinzer culture that they have going on over there Yeah He just doesn't fit that vibe, but We'll see. I don't know. I just He'll be better than what people think it's going to be, but I don't think it's going to be great I do I I do think kirk and atlanta is going to be good though. Yeah, I do too I don't really care about really saying like I I think he's going to be fine We've progressed so far with our medical technology And how we can recover from injuries. I think he's going to be okay And he's actually like recovered normal from this. Yeah, not with as opposed to The other presidential party potential future vice president. Yeah, right that one. Um All of the memes though Surrounding the current president signing so so good So good See, I do I don't agree with that at all. I think that the falcons Signed themselves up to be eight and nine every year with cousins. No, I think they're going to win their division Yeah, I think they're gonna You have someone actually Able to get the ball to kyle pits Yeah, which has not happened since he's entered the league He's played on teams with a very dominant run game especially Two years ago with dalvin cook and and madison so Bijon should actually get the ball Finally, they just signed. Oh, yeah, they just signed mooney, too They've still got drake london like I Wild card team If not division winner, look, I'm gonna say absolutely division winner because it's going to be really hard for me To envision The bucks will probably give them a run for their money But like the bucks barely their defense. Yeah, the bucks barely got it done last season They couldn't they couldn't score touchdown on the panther's the last week of the season to win their division They barely got by yeah 100 million dollar man might be able to do it now though It reminds me when the um, they're a super bowl team I didn't think the vikings were a super bowl team at any point But I thought they would be competitive and they were they were always competitive Actually, I think they were a super bowl team Maybe just like a little fake. I like a playoff team. Yeah But they were always competitive Yeah So I don't know. I just super will maybe a little bit of a stretch His weapons in minnesota were so good. So going to Atlanta. I mean, they're so good there, but We'll see Elena's defense was pretty good last year, too like I know They're not one of those like flashy teams, especially Because they have not been good over the last couple years that so they didn't the attention hasn't been on them. But like if you actually Paid attention to the moves on defense they made last off season and how it translated during the season Pretty good. Like yes, yes, they're still the falcons obviously, but like They're definitely not the cleaves and browns. So they have that going for them What are the saints going to do in the nfc south this year? seriously like Nothing carolina's in a rebuild They're not going to be ready for anything all you have are the bucks Tampa Tampa's they brought back mike evans. They brought back baker But they're losing people on defense and defense is probably the strongest side of the ball for them at this point so Why not at lana? I just want I just want to see kirk do the dirty bird is all Oh my god I need it. I don't think he's ready for what's about to happen It's what i'm excited to watch. It's gonna be good. Yeah Yeah, i'm going all in on the falcons and by all in i mean to win their division Yeah, yeah, and no no no not like crazy all in I'm going all in but that's where we're stopping Yeah Yeah, if we had to pick today look at lana's gonna win their division. Um Is anything happened while we have been on air anything of importance? I can I can Not erin rogers. We got that one already. I'll look real quick Let's see if we have anything jaylin mills to the giants. I mean that's okay. Okay. No really nothing Nothing crazy Is anybody gonna sign michael thomas like he was airing it out oof Probably not for a while. Uh, what do you have to say? When he got cut he was just posting all kinds of crazy things on twitter I'm like part of me thinks no but like also if davante parker just signed with philly He's gonna go somewhere Someone's gonna pick up michael thomas What should be the patriots like that would be that would be something that they do That would suck. I wouldn't want that Unless like there is a complete clean bill of health I don't want that Oh frustrating. What else? How about these running backs? We haven't had a little zoom call last season And now they're finally getting it done crazy Seyquan special teams josh jacob's new packer Aaron jones minnesota viking tony pollard tennessee titan austin eckler is a commander He's not gonna last long that's that's the craziest one to me. I think And I know there's the connection with anthony where did oh and then you have um gus edwards going to the chargers in his place Sure. Sure. It's yandre swift. Uh, it's been a mess Yeah, real weird Good for them because we heard you guys we heard you guys last season that no one was getting paid now finally everybody is getting paid joe mixon to the texans I mean, yeah, it's all I want to know. I want to know how after each thing I want to know how that idea developed though because he was gonna get released Well, they only got a seventh rounder. So oh, so okay, so it doesn't even really matter. Yeah I was gonna say why like Why not just wait so you don't have to give anything up. Yeah, they got a seventh round pick for jones, whatever um What was I just gonna say dallas though Yeah, they got a they got about nothing something Yeah, I thought erin jones would be the answer sounded like a great idea I really didn't think minnesota was gonna be in play there um They kind of did him dirty with that The Packers. Yeah Yeah, I agree I get it. It's a business, but like I think that one was a little weird How much of an upgrade is josh jacob's gonna be How much did he cost? I think it's about the same price I there was also somebody said that The Packers wanted him to take a pay cut For like half of whatever his salary was which was like 12 and a half a year And he only ended up signing in minnesota for like seven or eight.  Maybe they kind of just Decided to move on and then use that as an excuse which is Again, we know it's a business and whatever but like there's a difference between good business and shady business Yeah, and I was Hyping up the Packers a little bit But I know josh jacob's is good, but I don't like the vibes. He's bringing to that team. No I don't yeah Him and ajdalen don't like I think ajdalen's gone Do you? No, I think he's a free agent Oh, I thought that was the whole point is they were gonna resign I could be lying to you. So I don't know but josh jacob's is going to Be good, but I just don't like the vibes that he's bringing there He ajdalen signed a four-year deal Did I lie? I'm yeah, he's a free agent. Okay. No, you're right You're right. I thought he was next year. I thought it was aj Or it was erin jones this year aj next year. I didn't think it was both at the same time Interesting. Okay. Well that changes everything then who Zeke josh jacob's and zeke Up in green bay. No, it seems the Patriots. Come on doesn't seem like that's even a thing again like bringing him back No That was a very bellichick. No cut jones like do you guys even No, it bellichick probably most likely would not have done that like unless it was for financial reasons That's because they're just crazy the bill bellichick hate since he has he will do hate bill bellichick It's wild It's not funny. It's not funny, but it is just funny to see all the things that everyone says That's usually how it goes crazy to me But when you win all the time and everyone is like over it, that's when the comments start going It's not it's not because he's bad. It's because it was good and everyone's over it so Jaylin mills just signed a one-year deal with the Giants Good for him. That does absolutely nothing for me Uh, we won the Patriot. I was just having Tom Brady. Oh my god, please please Stop listening to Boston sports radio Why is that what they say? Oh my god, it's They're all it's depends on the day. There will be days where Bellichick was the mastermind and Brady was spoiled and this and that and then there will be Then it works. Oh, it was all about Brady. The only reason why anybody came was because of Brady Like it just depends like if it's a full moon or not, you know, oh, yeah, it's pretty.  Um What else I feel like I have a ridiculous a ridiculous thing about Saquon I don't understand why people are comparing Saquon and Deandre Swift I get that the stats from last year were kind of similar, but that's not telling anything from that Just looking at that. It's not telling me anything If you don't think that Saquon is a significant upgrade from Deandre Swift. I don't even know what to say Like he's so much better My yeah, come on. He's better comes to no. No, I'm not. I yeah, I agree my thinking when it comes to Philly and running backs though is like You could have just like an average Tier guy because if you're gonna run the touch push Every short yard situation every goal line situation. What does it matter? I don't think that's a one purpose Their offense confuses me. I think I think they're gonna be good here I think they are they're very good and they're very talented across the board But like the way the usage of it Is well, I think it's gonna be a little different now with Saquon compared to Deandre Swift. They really don't do the same thing at all I really don't think Deandre Swift is that good. If you look at you just it's just I just don't think he's that good I don't think he's gonna have the same kind of season that he did Who else is in in Chicago running back wise Is it just him right now?  What I can't even I couldn't even tell you I got nothing. I got nothing So maybe that's why he ended up there. Let's let's take a look at the depth Well, I mean, I don't think he's gonna be bad, but I just don't think that he's Saquon's level Saquon is like a generational running back Yeah Oh Deandre Corman Rochon Johnson um Speaking of Chicago though What's going on? What's gonna happen with Justin Fields? No one wants him because I thought for sure it was gonna be Atlanta They got a way better quarterback Sure did and then there was rumor swirling about Pittsburgh and they upgraded better quarterback and now Whether this is accurate reputable or not the rumor swirling on social media is teams are interested in Justin Fields as a backup Yikes, so how is this gonna work because Chicago Chicago is gonna take At number one like there's They're taking there's no doubt in my mind. There's no doubt in my mind. It's gonna be kale Williams If they don't take kale Williams, they're gonna regret that for a very long time Exactly if it's not like that's That's an issue and they're scouting team. They're front office like everybody needs to go because that would be an ungenerational fumble No pun no pun intended if they skip on him I would I won a live stream of the Washington commander's draft room immediately like that would be great They're taking him I don't know what's left for Justin Fields They have to I nothing Marvin Harrison jr. Can do I to me elevates Justin Fields game No build around him. No, I there. No, they're already trying that. It's not working Build what around him build what they traded They traded all those things last season. They did everything they could last year and what What did they get from it? Not good Like it was not good. There were flashes. Yeah, there were a couple games where he looked good There were a couple games where mac jones looked good There's a couple games and Bailey's app He looked good like if we're just gonna go by flashes like that's not gonna win you football games That's not gonna give you a successful season. It's not gonna lead you to the playoffs like It has to be Caleb Williams I just don't know I don't like where where could he possibly go now? Obviously, it's not gonna be new england Because they already picked up jacobi as their veteran guy Atlanta filled their need Pittsburgh filled their need Sam darnold just got like what 10 million dollars from minnesota Which is crazy to me he still gets money like that Um, I mean, I think he would provide more than some Yeah But man, I just I just don't know it's Is an interesting situation that I think it's there's gonna be no resolution to it until Draft time And if it's Caleb Williams if it if and when I'll give them the benefit of the doubt here if and when it's Caleb Williams like it's gonna be interesting to see How that goes seahawks would be interesting but isn't It would be in a backup role Right because geno is back Geno is better than Justin Fields You could pose it as like a potential training camp competition, but like I don't I don't think he would beat out geno No, I'm not seeing that one either Like I just Who's he could be back up for broccoli like I don't know Everybody hates on Caleb.  Why because he cried once and then he wore a dress he paints his nails I think he's gonna be fine And you can't just pass on that you can't pass on someone that has the potential to be that good Right if he turns out to be not that good then that sucks, but you can't take that risk to pass on that I think the only reason why you should have those doubts is because It would be Chicago and like as we've seen throughout history like graveyard Yeah But like I just He's he's gonna be unanimous number on every draft board. He should be there's no doubt in my mind Um I don't know it's it's just crazy though. I mean the league year doesn't start until four o'clock tomorrow and I feel like Yeah, the league half the the free agents pool has already signed.  Is there anything else? Yeah, I got one. Oh, I got one I just wanted to let you guys know that I told you so T Higgins has requested a trade. Oh, yeah, he's gonna leave. I don't know if he's gonna leave I don't know if he's gonna be gone from Cincinnati But he requested a trade and I said that they weren't gonna pay him and look what happened now They haven't discussed the contract since last march.  So t higgins. Where's he gonna go? Houston a lot of places I mean, maybe. Yeah Houston, okay. Oh, yeah, Joe mixes there throughout with that Uh, um, I don't know. I just fun though Who I mean who else? I'm gonna the patriots man. I'll give up my right arm for literally every single team That I there's not a team that you would say like no for t higgins basically.  I don't think Oh, also their fans are talking today that they think that they're gonna get Justin Jefferson If the bangles get Justin Jefferson that I'll tell you right now I'll be in shambles and that will be one of the worst days of my life But I just don't see that happening either He's gotta I I would be furious I would walk into front office right now and say get me out of here if I was just yeah Kirk cousins just left him there And sam darnold is what they brought in And then you look at who like the backups are and it's like nick mollins and that rookie from last year I don't even know I genuinely don't even know his name Like that Could you see Justin Jefferson being traded to the bangles? Like what kind of trade package is that gonna be? To first and like a leap uh I don't know Justin Jefferson to march ace that would absolutely make enough throw up. That's yeah, I don't want to watch it To be honest, I don't want to watch it.  Oh, what if they did though? No, what if they didn't that'd be great if they did Justin Jefferson was He was at lsu with them. Yes, they were all there I would just I would I would have to root against Justin Jefferson and I really like Justin Jefferson I don't want that to happen. So let's not do that for your sake. I hope it doesn't but like just for the grand Ooh, I would be I'd have to clip this real quick and say I am in shambles worst day of my life Oh, that would be so cool Hopefully hopefully for your sake it doesn't happen, but like We shall see if it does though, that'd be crazy. I would not believe it. I would not believe it at all If they would have to give up a lot for him, no, yeah There's yeah, I mean, there's no way Minnesota is gonna be like, yeah, okay, sure And then let him go for like a fourth for magic. I'd be so mad if I were T Higgins though when that happened Yeah Yeah How much How many years does Jedis have on his deal Would it be just like a one-year rental thing? The person contract Bengals would troll non-stop. Yeah, they already do Bengals fans This is the last year of Justin Jefferson's rookie deal So it could just be one-year rental type situation and he Goes elsewhere.  Well, that's what I'm thinking like if you're Not gonna pay T Higgins who would be less Than Justin Jefferson. What would the point be? You know, yeah Would be cool though. Um, all right anything else for Football now before we move on uh james winston So I got it's just funny to say I think he probably wound up playing a couple games And there'll be a lot of memes From that surprise that he's getting paid as much as he's getting paid Yeah, uh, I don't know what I think okay, so I it said incentives like up to Yeah, okay million dollars So it's probably not going to be that but they probably have that in there just in case you know Deshawn goes down again doesn't play half of the season Here's money if you win games play games touchdowns, whatever That's what I think that it is which is Interesting structure for uh supposed to be backup. Oh, yeah for sure But like I guess you have to put it in at this point because you don't know what's gonna happen With the quarterback that you gave a million draft picks for and paying him so much money to perform in play six games a year I don't know I mean you couldn't bring joe flacco back because I think that would have ruined the vibes for deshawn At least james is like Funny Fun, you know funny. Yeah, at least he's funny Good personality to have it might not be good. They might not be good, but at least he will be funny Vibes are there, you know, yeah um, okay Shall we talk quick college basketball because there was something that happened over the weekend That uh Is wild it's it's one of the craziest. I've been watching women's college basketball my entire life And this is one of the craziest things I've ever seen But at the same time I'm not surprised that it happened and I will explain after um scc tournament for the women was this past weekend and uh, not only Was south carolina the number one seed but like they almost lost Uh in the semifinals too. I believe it was tennessee. Is that right? And camilla cardozo the center I don't know how tennessee Allowed this inbound play to happen, but they did She wide open Top of the arc banked it wide open banked a three pointer to win the game like legit time running out The last person that I would think would be shooting that was her Like money And then they go on to the sec championship game and they're playing lsu Which is what we all wanted for sure. Absolutely lsu as we know reigning national champs We know about angel reese we know about Flage we know about everybody um the game was As chippy as I think I've ever seen But that's a lot of all of their games Uh against each other this season there.  Yeah, she is laughing And I love that I love a good like a good rivalry a good like a little bit We need to bring hatred back in sports. Oh, yeah, we do. Yes.   What's going on? And like Camilla comes in all six seven of her six eight of her Big girl would not mess with her if you paid me Comes in and bodies Flage bodies hurt knocks her to the ground as quick As I think I've ever seen anybody get taken down And then that's when It's when it gets nuts flage's brother. Yeah jumps down from the stands who leers the scorers table That was ridiculous. I don't know what was going through his head.  Shout out to like the security officer or the police officer or whoever who was like right behind him right away Because that's wild. He got arrested. Yeah. Oh, absolutely as he should Um, and there were other people that were with him that like jumped down but didn't jump the scores table But they were like screaming and it's plain Thing to do it was giving like a yokich brothers Yeah, that's what yeah, that's what Rob said. Um, yeah, that's what I'm listening I'm I'm an older sister gab.  Oh, yeah for sure. It's on site, but I'm not going on the court I'll tell you right now But that is way too far. No way too far especially because you are a man And these are all yeah, what are you gonna do fight those girls? Right? Well, truthfully, what was going through his head? What was the idea that he had once he got on the court? Was he gonna decker? like Oh god, no um And then whatever everybody's you know, the punishments got doled out Camilla got ejected and now she's out for the first round of the march madness tournament Which is fine. They're gonna play 16 seed anyways. They'll probably beat them by 30 They're gonna be fine. Um They had to finish the game just like five on five I think South Carolina had two subs because they didn't leave the bench area when the whole melee whole bench left LSU whole bench toss except for angel reese which she rolled her ankle She rolled her ankle and she looked at what was happening. She was like she said no that limped over to the bench sat down whatever So she was able to still play and like they were down. I think like seven or eight at the time with Two minutes, maybe a minute and a half left. So it didn't really matter. Um But whatever game over South Carolina wins Don staley the class act that she is In the post game Uh interview right before like the award ceremony She apologizes. So this isn't who we are. This isn't what we're about like Sometimes this game gets heated and you know, you act on Adrenaline and blah blah blah like but she apologized. She took responsibility for What her team did what happened with her players? And she did the same thing at the trophy presentation to the people in the arena So she apologized twice Kim Mulkey Nope No lovely lady that she is Instead of apologizing instead of saying yeah, that's that shouldn't have been us That's that's not what we do similar to what dawn did She said I wish she tried to fight angel instead That's a better height matchup. You don't go trying to take down someone smaller than you like that like What? See I like this comment right here because this is a word that a lot of people like to use to diminish a lot of these people out here John was classy. She was Kim was classless So Isn't she always like isn't she always I just I truly do Part of me feels bad for the the women in the lsu program because like they're all so Talented there. There's a reason why they won the national championship last year. Like they are very Good basketball players makes for a great story though. I'll tell you that Everybody needs a villain. I guess but like I would I would be I don't know if I could play for somebody like him ever You should probably start yelling me. I probably would cry to be honest I played for I had a basketball coach once who Was just like she was just mean just mean person and like I hated it. It made me hate basketball for a period of my Childhood and teenage years and whatever and like I just I couldn't imagine but then also like How am I supposed to take you seriously when you walk around look like you belong on sesame street and some of these outputs like And she was she was rude to the sideline reporter like during the game She was asking about like halftime adjustments or something and she was like seriously You're asking me this and the reporter was like, yeah, that's my job. She's like, yeah My bad. She even she even like tried to be as respectful and possible. I was like, yes, ma'am And Kim just like she's just who she is um It's just LSU basketball, man, I don't know how the school stands by the stuff that she does but Well, I mean when it happens in every single sport when you win Get things done people overlook a lot of things that you're doing. She's a winner. I guess that's why people like to play for she's She's a winner, but she sucks as a person And this isn't anything new either like this this personality thing this attitude thing this dates way back To the Baylor days like this. She's just Kim Mulkey difference.  Trevor enough enough of the Bill Belichick slander. This is this is getting out of it That's funny. I just have one more thing before we go. Yeah I don't know if you guys are up to date on tiktok trends if you guys have been paying attention to what is happening But this is probably one of my favorite movements that has ever Come from tiktok. And so if they ban tiktok I'm gonna be a little mad, but this one i'm glad I happened before We are done With the 90s and by that I mean we're done with 90s basketball. It's over. It's canceled Michael Jordan You're no longer good. We don't want to see the clips. We don't want to see the highlights They weren't doing anything cool. No, I'm just going like extreme with that one I don't think it's as bad as everybody's saying but like we're done with the 90s LeBron's the go to everybody. Give it up It's done. Have you seen those videos though? Uh, no today was the first time that I saw them um I I'm not gonna be a good participant in this conversation because I am pro Michael Jordan Well, you just need to just watch one because they're so funny. You need to watch it because it's funny It will be showing Jordan just like standing in the corner forever for five minutes and not moving around And then he gets the bony's wide open and he makes a shot and everyone's like, oh my god Michael Jordan's so good.  Like you said this morning though after you showed me it it was funny because When you said you were like, oh in 20 years, they're going to make a spell LeBron and say like he played against podcasters Yeah, I saw someone post that and they said when when this happens to LeBron on whatever social media is next It's going to be podcasters and streamers twitch streamers. Yeah So that'll happen Oh, man I'll be I'll be involved in that one. Yeah, LeBron LeBron is talking about guys who like podcast Yeah Paul George not because guess what he's doing podcast That's what they're gonna say. Yeah I'll be here for that. I'm out of bio podcast boy. LeBron. No podcast. So he's doing great Yeah, he's like the barbershop though. Would we consider it a podcaster or a tv show? No, that's a tv show. That's tv show Yeah, we'll we'll act like that one's unexisting Oh Man, well, I think that's all we got because I can't my brain can't do anything else. Um New League year starts tomorrow Happy 2024 football season year football year. Um, all of you think these things can become official tomorrow, so Keep an eye out though because there's always one That gets like backed out of just keep keep an eye um, but we should See some more because everybody's got like post whatever designations for releases and cuts and blah blah blah trades so We'll see what happens and then we will see you guys Next week. We'll talk more march madness Next week. We'll really dive into it because we've got the conference tournaments this weekend and then selection sunday is this coming sunday So we'll have a good maybe we'll fill out a bracket next weekend. Maybe that'll be like our game. Yeah Sure. We can do that. Yeah, we'll do that. Okay. 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I'll just add to that maybe that I've been teaching at Pratt for about 16 years and about 13 of them with some form of the word typography in the name of my classes. I'm here to share some of my experiences in delicate art of removing typography from a curriculum or as it might be set in the post-apocalyptic hellscape that some faculty seem to be imagining. Just to give the presentation some context, their revised curriculum I'll be referencing while being explored for years previously I was mostly determined and started rolling out during a four-year period where I was a part-time assistant chair under Kathleen Creighton, acting chair, lateral to myself, and associate chair under current chair Jessica Wexler. And I should underscore at the beginning that this is a work in progress. We're preparing for year two of the rollout which means that the new junior courses are basically rolling out in about four weeks. So there won't be a bullet pointed what if we learn slide at the end but I suspect the telling of the story so far will shed some light like parents said earlier. It's the things that we're trying. So first some quick facts. Our department has a student sophomore through senior year. We have a Bauhaus-based foundation year and grad comedy as a separate department. We have scale of approximately 120 sophomores increasing to around 200 as graduating class through transfers in theater schools, three concentrations, not majors. For years we have emphasized the convergence of disciplines, the commonalities over the differences. There's some numbers on faculty and staff that speak for themselves. And it's largely the same core curriculum since the 1960s, motion interactivity. We're integrated somewhat over time but along with professional practice in most students cases we're brought in through electives. For the sake of time, I won't go into the reasoning of the pro aside but these are the parameters that we had to work with. It's a staggered rollout so that one cohort as they move through each year will experience the new classes. Most importantly, BFA has moved from 134 to 126 credits and with very few exceptions they moved to three credit courses four and a half hours long. So here's what our curriculum task force and a subsequent departmental curriculum committee both of which I was on did. Don't be too scared. See how much we can read that. So here in one place is where we were and where we're going just in terms of the courses within the department for each concentration. The red are the courses that are shared by all concentrations which then split up as they move through the curriculum. Our mantra was the same but better because hence the fact that we say legacy of above and revised down below as opposed to new and old. As you can see from the red we'll be keeping students from different concentrations and shared courses for a longer period of time and still promoting that convergence that I mentioned. Assuming you can follow and read this you may be able to guess who got nervous when a certain word stopped showing up in the course titles. It was the illustrators. It's always the illustrators and I'm not really blaming them. I'm actually just showing this to suggest that whenever change happens people are going to be frustrated. But right behind the illustrators were the typographers or at least the graphic designers who loved typography. So there's the graphic design arc. A little bit clearer. So one of the framers of this I always saw the typographic arc of typography one through four in the legacy curriculum mirrored in research analysis and process. Bottom there, type in information design and then the two integrated viscums cross-platform and new forms. Context and research, hierarchy and structure then multi-page, multi-platform systems and then experimentation and exploration. But by now you're aware of our mistake. Here are the courses that actually have the word typography in their title. And that's of course what people focus on. Where did the type go they cried? Now we have to teach type end information design, they asked. Our students will be laughed out of the industry.  But when you are a type guy you see the possibilities everywhere. In fact our mistake was probably keeping the word in there at all. We hadn't removed typography. We had minimized it and in people's eyes that probably hurt more. We probably should have called it content and data or something or maybe warp and weft. Or we could have changed the name of all the courses to include typography. Because it should come as no surprise to everyone here that for example a course called research analysis and process should talk about historical context of typography and think about audience and appropriateness of type face choice, touch upon terminology, some limited classification. Again probably some of that connotative de-initiatives that Perrin mentioned earlier. We're talking about cross-platform design. How are you not going to discuss the benefits and the challenges of screen-based type? But we can't put typography in all of the names any more than we can put illustration in all of them. So instead we have to plan ahead, have meetings and conversations and stay diligent about what's actually being put into those courses on a daily basis. And at some point like our students we have to learn by doing. So let's talk about some of what I've done. Last spring we rolled out typography and information design for our sophomores and I realized that all the things I said before meant nothing if I couldn't implement it after about a decade of teaching typography one and two to these students. Through discussions with others I made some decisions of things to keep and things to drop. For the record I kept lucked in, I dropped ringhurst and I apologized for that. I still gave a mid-term and a final but I geared those towards larger concepts instead of minutia which I recognize are our typographic bread and butter. It's easy if we focus on the rules but it's also really easy for the students especially in a mixture of concentrations to be dismissive of that. I actually had a suspicious number of students about a third of the way through the semester say this class is about the fussy details. And I would stop whatever they were doing to underscore that there were indeed typographic devils and gods in the details but I was more interested in how they looked at large organizational and structural issues. So we had more than a couple of discussions about wire frames and about sketching, book mapping. We spent a third of a class folding paper discussing different ways the content could be revealed inside of a brochure. And in a semester long quest to make sure that self-defined illustration students understood the universality of this I even created a book map for where the wild things are. I'm showing how pacing and placement of type in relation to illustrations on the page is still a very conscious decision. But while I wanted to make sure that these are the concepts that stuck with them I did bear in mind that you have to at least walk before you run. And I've been running with a certain kind of type for some time myself. Here's some work from legacy courses type one and two. And it's work that I'm sure you've all seen before. Black and white only please. No shapes or images. Limited number of type faces. It's the transition solidly from type one to two. They're pretty indicative of what was going on during our sophomore year. This one I just enjoy showing because it's a collaborative project with each student interpreting a lyric from a song and then combining them into one book. And probably cause I'm still mourning David Bowie. So with project one I worked from something I knew beginning with the selection of words that they quote unquote illustrated with type and then turned into posters for an event or a cause. I had already opened up the possibilities a few years back for hand-done type. More illustrative approach. And so carried that into the revised course. And I think we hit a similar place in four weeks. You can see on the right in TID versus 12 for type one on the left. Or that's for those counting 18 in class hours versus 36. Of course that's only if we focus on courses of typography in the title. And I certainly recognize and understand that these students got something from their first semester courses and we all benefited from it. On the right there you maybe start to see some more of that typographic hellscape we're all concerned about despite its expressive strengths if you're not. Here's that same student the same week. As so many had noted we now had to teach type and information design. So even as they developed illustrative type I introduced my students to Susan Care, Odleisha and Isotype, compared icon sets to typefaces and have them create pixel and vector based icon sets. And then pictograms which are then turned into posters. And you can see how the typing imagery are starting to work together in an instructive type level on the right there. Here are a couple of more in that retro vein. Project two was a semi-collaboration, design theme publication, two issues, two teams, students research designers that they chose themselves, wrote essays on them and conducted surveys about name and work recognition. Students working on the same issue shared a grid and layouts for their designer essays and then each design discrete front matter, back matter including infographics and covers of their own. So everyone had a book that was both theirs and everyone else's. Don't worry if you didn't follow that, took them a long time to you and I tend to write assignments like stereo instructions. The point of the writing and the research is naturally to create a through line with that research analysis and process class that I mentioned in the same way that I expect other courses to create a through line with typography. So this is one student's work and let's say this is an A. Here's a collection of others showing how students address some of the front and back matter, some of the infographics, some braced illustration more as they were on the right, some were non-traditional. I'll note there was a bit of whiplash when we got to this project after the other ones where they said, you mean we get to use color, we get to use any type faces we want and then they kind of ran from the room before I could change my mind. For the third project, I'll just let Pam here explain it. As part of our final review, she showed the process pretty clearly. It's a multi-day event, identity of visual research, sketching, including wireframes and icon sets, application of icons to a map, integration of map into typographic look and feel, promotional brochure with schedule and a couple of site pages. He's already establishing a sophomore level branding and multi-platform experiences with type, pretty much just what I was looking for with the possible accession, exception that she maybe could have presented to reveal the brochure a little bit better in her presentation. This probably does it more justice. Now for comparison, here's some of the final work from when I taught type three, junior level course, to which I think the TID work compares pretty favorably. Despite the fact that TID students are in theory, 67 and a half hours, for those of you doing the math, of in-class typography in the name instruction behind what the legacy students had for half as much. For my section anyway, we wound up with students in quote unquote one semester of type, arriving at the same point as three semesters in terms of typographic branding and structure and marginally behind in terms of details, which I believe will come. Think of that in terms of concentrations I mentioned for a moment. The Emily, that first point magazine, the A that I pointed out, is an illustration concentration. And admittedly, she's an exceptional one who also embodies what undergrad comedy has traditionally pride ourselves in calling a communications design major. But if we can have those illustration students rivaling the type three work of graphic design students in the legacy curriculum, and then being exposed to more type in their junior year courses, we'll be in some kind of business. So a moment ago, I said for my section anyway, there were 10 of us meeting and comparing notes before, during and after the semester to see how the rollout was going, discuss what I need to shift forward, backward, laterally, what might end up in research now, some process. So I just asked Daisuke Endo, who was also smart enough to discuss typographic context with his research students to share with me some of the strong work from his TID section. Not going to say there aren't some equally unsuccessful examples, as there always are, but I think across the sections, everyone up their game and made grading a little bit harder. So that's a class that's rolled out anyway and one that still perhaps wrong-headedly still has typography and it's title. So now I'd like to talk about some of the preparation for what I see in front of us with the junior year. Earlier I mentioned the arc of type one through four with four being where experimentation or exploration can happen, expecting that to carry over to the new forms course in the junior year. While implementing type and information in spring, I looked at how my last semester of teaching type four to juniors could prep for the new junior level course that I expected to teach. So here are some legacy type four projects from previous semesters where I pushed the students to explore more. On the left is a piece from a how-to project that the students had to submit via snail mail in the process creating an experience and promoting interaction. That's a package that explains how to make Apple Pie complete with the type embedded in the rolling pin. It also assigned over the past five years or so a pass fail project prompting students to do anything they want to relate it to typography using complex books like Pale Fire, Ulysses, Moby Dick. Do something you pass. Don't do something you fail. Inevitably, they took this as a challenge as seen in that hanging plexiglass installation and the type case where each letter transforms the letter that precedes it from Pale Fire. No one did just a postcard or something like that. This last one is a program that a student coded to create iterative typographic posters at the push of a button. So looking at all these explorations, materials and dimensionality, I realized something. I thought that new forms class, who am I kidding, I actually want to explore product environment and materials. And what better place to explore than in a library? Here's ours. It's built in 1896 with interiors by Tiffany Glass in decorating. It's one of the jewels of Pratt's Brooklyn campus. I've been having casual what if conversations with the director for years about doing something with those interiors. So following the model of that pass fail project in type four and looking to product environment materials, I proposed each student that's about, sorry, each student that's about 27 out of two sections, creating some kind of library themed messaging within that environment. So here's some of that environment. As Russ, the director gives each section a tour, discusses themes related to libraries, breaking barriers, activating space, hidden treasures. I wanted to underscore research analysis and process again, integrating the promise of the revised curriculum to the legacy students. They did some of their own digging, came to class ready to discuss themes and how we might build a shared exhibit around them. For the record, the two themes they came up with were transforming community and reticulation. You can look that up. He also came to class for guest crits with Chris Arabajas, who is the director of multimedia services, who deserves a shout out for all the tremendous help he did in installation. The students made things. They tested them in the space and they installed them over a week or so. There were products in there, including interactive experiences. There were certainly some environments as they projected on and installed within the space and exploration with materials, including acrylic and plastic tubing. So I spent more time than I was maybe comfortable with on tall ladders. That's okay. There was AR work, VR work, social media, animations, but I'm just going to highlight a couple of the more tactile ones since I'm talking about product environment materials. Lee here created acrylic words that came from a survey of shared qualities, appreciated by Pratt students, and installed them with a multicolor LED projection so that viewers could create their own typographic light compositions. Julia, who hit the ground running, really wanted to use anamorphic typography to explore how the library worked to activate space, for those who used it. Carlisle utilized those Tiffany glass floors, creating the start of a wayfinding system built around tiling. I'm particularly a fan of what a presence they were from below that's really thinking about the environment itself through the glass floors. Lauren mounted a set of alphabetical letterforms created out of plastic tubing, using the bundling and connections to suggest community and the transforming community class. The library dubbed this the cold collector or something like that, a conductor, because everyone sick or healthy would run their hands along the texture of the surface. I kept trying to get her to refer to it as the elevator because of its location and she refused. But we did adopt the term Ligatube to describe the letterform connections, so score one for plenty humor and typographic anatomy. Bridget created a typeface from tree carvings and used it on dust covers for books related to sustainability in one of the stacks library. Her mother even helped in the installation, that's her in the lower right corner. Extra credit for that. And of course, since these were exhibits though, this was still type four, they needed catalogs for us to display in the library. These would not be pass-fail like the installations were and each student would need to feature all of their classmates' work, creating a new design that factored in the name of the show without just rehashing what they had done for their installation. So these are some more products and you can tell they're products because they're sitting on shelves. And one of those rewarding moments of pedagogy, I sat at each section down when they came in with initial lackluster ideas and expected designs for the catalogs and pointed out how we had just in the pass-fail world worked with scale and scope and light and glass. And I said, see, the reason we did that was you could understand how to apply that to something like a catalog as opposed to dealing just what you would expect in the past. So Lulu here went all in with an acrylic cover, laser cut short pages and layered type. Transparency was actually a big hit with a few students, but it also brought with it explorations of scale and letter forms that were miles away from those first designs. And that can be plenty to create a successful product. These are just some more of the other covers that came out of it. So I said, maybe promised at the beginning that there would be no final bulletin page so I think I can probably end it there. And the presentation, the rollout of course keeps on going. I don't have a closing point about just what one needs in order to roll out something like this. Maybe it's an open mind, same open as the discussion, the sharing and exploration of knowledge that first led us to teach all that exploration. I recognize that I had a distinct advantage over other instructors because my roles in refining the curriculum, which allowed me to focus on each course's context within the larger scheme. As such, I picked up quite a bit through the entire process and forced myself to look even more closely at why and how I teach. So I thought it's only right to share. I referenced most of these people earlier, so thank you again and thank all of you and a special thank you to whoever caught the typo in my abstract and fixed it because it would be really weird to stand up here and talk about removing typography from the curriculum and having a typo in your abstract. Thank you.


So I arrived in Gaza the first day of the ceasefire, August 26th. People were finally safe again and that first day we went out with our team into the border area. There was rubble on the street, you saw the dead animals lying everywhere. People were running out onto the street, we were the first people to move so soon after the conflict to these sensitive areas. And we got to the border area where we work. This is where most of the agricultural land in Gaza, it's a crowd little place but most of the land is there. And I remember seeing my field officers who had been working with the ICC for 10 years, they were speechless. These fields were turned into battlegrounds, everything was upside down.  And yeah, it was like an earthquake but more violent. And so when we looked at the sea of destruction, we weren't sure where to start, what to do. And it was a feeling of hopelessness but just for a second because we got back to the office that day and in my field officers they're so experienced, they've been through three wars already. They immediately said, okay, we have three priorities. First, we have to re-level the land. Without that nothing can happen, we can't rebuild the roads, we can't rebuild the irrigation systems, nothing. So that's the first thing, we need to re-level this agricultural land. Second, once that's done, we improve the access, we open roads.  So we knew from the first day that we had to level the land, that was a precondition for everything else. But before we could do that, we had to clear and check the land of unexploded remnants of war because you had huge amounts of artillery and tank shells fired. Many of them, the UN estimates up to 10% of them didn't explode. So these fields were littered with this ammunition lying around and it was dangerous for us to work. So we worked together with our colleagues from the WEC department, experts in these things. And we set up a system together with the local authorities and with the Israeli army to be able to clear the land. We also did mine risk education sessions with farmers, with the bulldozer drivers. And within several weeks, we managed to clear the land. And then we could start with the bulldozers. And I remember the first day that after this four or five weeks, it seemed like a lifetime that the bulldozers started working. It was six in the morning, the sun was coming up. And I remember these eight bulldozers following our ICRC car and they started turning these huge sand dunes and just making everything flat again. It sounds so simple. And I guess it's every boy's dream to watch these big bulldozers driving around, but they moved so quickly. And so for the next two months, we had 24 bulldozers working from sunrise to sunset every single day. And we managed to re-level all of the border area from the north to the south before the rainy season started in November. And that meant, of course, that farmers wouldn't have to miss another season. Many of these farmers didn't just lose their irrigation systems, didn't just use their inputs, but they also lost their source of livelihoods. They couldn't earn income. They were in debt. And so after re-leveling the land, we followed it up with giving farmers conditional cash grants to be able to restart farming, because they didn't have the money to reinvest into their fields. And so they bought irrigation systems, they bought the inputs, and now they're starting to earn revenue to pay off the debts. I wouldn't say it's a drop in the ocean, but we've got a long way to go. If you look at the scale of the needs in Gaza, our work in the border area addresses a certain place, a certain population. We cannot do everything, but for these communities, these farming communities in the border area, to them it really makes a difference what the ICRC is doing there. And so it was a huge, remarkable experience for me.


Speaker of the House of Representatives Honourable Tadredine Abadz is in pluror the President Bola Amitinibu not to shy away from making tough decisions and tackling insecurity in the country. The Speaker said these on Tuesday while welcoming lawmakers back at the resumption of penari after the Christmas and New Year holidays. Honourable Ambassador Craig de Heir, Union's mother of over 30 people in pletio state as well as many others will have fallen victim to the mindless act of terror in the last few weeks. He challenged the President to rise to the occasion by doing more in safeguarding the lives and property of Nigerians. The time has come to think out of the box and adopt new and contemporary strategies that better respond to the complexities of our current challenges. To our patriotic and brave security forces, while commanding your heroism and sacrifice, the time has come for you to review your approaches and strategies, innovate and adapt. The enemy evolves and so must we. I challenge you to rise to this occasion to demonstrate the indomitable spirit for which you are known and to do more in safeguarding the lives and properties of our people. In these trying times, President Bola Amitinibu, GCFR, has exhibited exemplary leadership and a proactive approach. His recent interventions and directives for more action by security agencies are timely and reflective of his deep-seated resolve to restore peace and order. Indeed, the time has come for the President to demand greater performance and accountability from our service chiefs and all security and enforcement agencies.


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