What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here and this week I'm gonna talk about the chances of us going to a different town other than just sticking to Woodsboro In scream 5. I know we only really had a film in Woodsboro for scream and scream 4 scream 2 and scream 3 Scream 2 was at Windsor College. We don't actually know where that was at actually I don't I don't think they state if it's in California or not We know scream 3 was in Hollywood, which is in Los Angeles, California in the Los Angeles area And then speaking with screen 5 We very well could see a movie step out of California where we venture out into a new state and a new town now However, I'm a little bit skeptical about this just because of the fact that we know the movie is going to be shooting in Wilmington, North Carolina Carolina later this year and just to get into that that area actually looks like Woodsboro It looks like a lot of different of established establishing shots could be made in that town to go back to Woodsboro So I'm pretty certain that this is where The film will take place back in Woodsboro again, but I want to talk about just let's say we are in a different town Just for the sake of this video Let's say that we venture out into a new town where we have a brand new set of characters We're not gonna be focusing primarily on Sydney Prescott, Dewey Riley and Gail Weathers We're gonna be focusing on a new group of new group of teens or new group of adults young adults who are in a similar predicament where Somebody has has picked up the stick of going around this Nate going around this neighborhood Killing people in the disguise of Ghostface something that's very popular in the pop culture Of course with the stab series in this in this world And they're just basically being a copycat of real-life events that happen to Sydney Prescott Let's say something tragic happens in the town Like a few local teens or a few local girls or somebody gets killed in the in the town That's probably not too far from Woodsboro. Let's say this is set in a Let's say it's just a different state. I'm gonna say it's set in Michigan perhaps set in Michigan and We we find out that this this kill this kill that happened in Michigan It's just something that hits the news on almost every every state. It's like a very big thing that happened The residents in Woodsboro get note of this Dewey Sydney and Gail they feel inclined to travel out and venture out to kind of lend their help to the town and Try to see what's going on here And then of course in the very end just when we think that this has nothing to do with Sydney Prescott Of course, Sydney's gonna be right there in the thick of things Maybe we meet a new lead character and a new young teen teen teen girl Or again could be a young adult woman who I want to say let's say she's portrayed by Tisa Farmiga Who I think is an amazing actress. I actually think she's I wouldn't say she's better than her sister Vera for me guys, I just think Tisa for me if she was in a scream series I could see her pulling it off as a new Sydney type of character or even Samar weaving But we meet a new protagonist Sydney meets this new protagonist is new woman that we're gonna be following and hopefully will carry us into the future of the franchise past scream six and Sydney is Trying to help this help this girl figure out who's causing these killings in the town Sydney kind of is a counselor She's in like a counselor role for this for this woman duly of course comes comes to the area Maybe because he was brought in by the police department in that in the state of Michigan in that area They requested that he be brought in to help them investigate this because it has to do with another ghost face Kilinsbury that he has plenty of knowledge about it because he's gone through this four times they Ask him to bring in anyone he wants to for backup. He he decides he wants to bring in of course His his wife who I'm assuming is still gonna be gale whether that they haven't got a divorce in the film yet And then he also brings in his friend Sydney Prescott who is very familiar with ghost face killing sprees because she was the target of them Four specific times and there's a whole film series regarding the whole her whole life They go to that town We're getting to know a brand new set of characters and just when we think that this has nothing to do with Sydney Of course in the very end while she's here Being like a counselor to these kids and trying to help this new young lady figure out what's going on and who's terrorizing her The motives of the killers are revealed. It has very much something to do with Sydney and again, I'm gonna say This is quite possibly gonna be yes another person who wasn't wasn't someone who had a grudge against Sydney but They they base they basically like catch wind of the fact that she was in town if the ghost face killer let's say whoever ghost face was they caught caught one of course that Sydney's in town and Maybe they have some type of history or type of ripe wood Sydney that they want to that they want to settle since she decided to bring bring herself to town and We find out that this has something to do very much with Sydney Maybe Sydney has wronged this person in the past somehow And then of course we find out that that's the connection with Sydney To this new story because essentially what this is is like a soft reboot. We don't have a story without Dewey Sydney and Gale, but Dewey Sydney and Gale are not gonna be Right there like they're not the they're not gonna be the front the front end of this story because it's gonna be set in a different Town other than Woodsboro the killer isn't primarily targeting Sydney Prescott The killer just starts to target Sydney because Sydney decided to show up in town And then of course we find out in the end like I was mentioning that the killer has a gripe with Sydney Maybe he was wronged by her in the past or if it's a she maybe he or she were wronged by Sydney in the past Maybe they have a prior history with Sydney Prescott. Maybe they went to high school with her. Maybe something from college Maybe something from this whole maybe there maybe something from this whole book something some backlash from her book Just something to think about in regards to us having a screen a screen 5 where it is taking place after screen 4 But we're shifting focus away from our three central characters while they're still Primarily there in the thick of things. It's not gonna be just about Sydney this time It's gonna be about some some some other girl or some other young let's say actually we actually even what if we have a young A young male a young teen male who's our new role in the Sydney role. He could be the one getting targeted by ghost face Sydney's trying to help figure out what happened. Dewey, of course, is trying to help the police department solve the case Gail Wethers is there basically just because again if Gail Wethers isn't her isn't Sydney's or not Sydney's but Dewey's husband still in screen 5. I don't see the point in her really being there Other than the fact that she might just be there to collect a story. She's back to her old tricks again Just like how she wasn't screamed to how she she traveled to Windsor College to get the scoop on everything But I think that would be a really interesting take to have a screen series set in a different town where we're focusing on different characters Focusing on the same type of idea where we have a ghost face killer who's doing the ghost the ghost face stick that we all know and love Roger L. Jackson's back reprising the voice of ghost face But it's just we're not it's not going to be all about Sydney this time. It's about Something something different besides just Sydney. Sydney, of course would end up being tied into it But the story isn't just going to be focusing on our three central characters that we all are very familiar with Because again, as I made clear in my last video Scream needs to make something out of it supporting cast outside of just having them there To just be killed off by ghost face and having one of them be ghost face and they never we never see them again And a lot of you may mention in the comment section that we have plenty of characters from previous films Who could appear I made mention of that in the video? I wasn't saying there aren't plenty of surviving characters that who that could return It's just that none of them have it's like None of them have ever been in a been in a screen movie and then we've seen them in the sequel We've seen them in the next subsequent sequel. So like Detective Kincaid, I would have been great to see him in screen four. Then we could have gotten him back in screen five screen six Cotton weary. I know he was killed Randy Meeks like stuff like that uh, some other characters Like joel that I brought mention of joel isn't isn't dead. It would have been nice to see him in screen three Still being gales cameraman if that was even a even still an ongoing relationship that they had They could have constructed something like that Like just just stop killing off the supporting cast and not bringing anyone back And then we have Kirby Reed who I hope is involved in this Kirby could be involved She's back in the town, of course because actually let's say Kirby Kirby moved to michigan And I know the synopsis says a young woman returns to her hometown after a series of vicious crimes Uh, woosboro isn't Kirby's hometown. So the the young woman wouldn't be Kirby And I don't really think it specifies if the woman is young or not I just think it's that a lot of these news outlets are throwing in that young woman thing I think they're just store. I think what the real synopsis that I believe got first reported by discussing films is that A woman returns her home her hometown to investigate a series of vicious crimes Uh, doesn't necessarily describe them as young but a lot of news outlets took that and started throwing in that young woman Scenario so Kirby doesn't have to be this young woman, but let's say Kirby moved to the michigan state and we have Tysa farmiga or samara weaving somebody who is a up and young Upcoming actors who a lot of people are behind in the horror community And they are our new central character. They return to their hometown After after this uh vicious crime that happened at the beginning of screen five And then of course we would then venture out to bringing in dewey's sydney gale We're getting to know a new set of characters this time around We're not just focusing on the original main trio Because of the simple fact that spyglass might want to venture out and do things past screen six Or they might not even want to do kevin williamson's original plans. They might just want to do their own thing Um, I hope they have some type of type of script that has to do with what kevin williamson originally planned for screen five doesn't necessarily have to be in college, but maybe they Got some insight from him And they're going to tweak their script a bit to fit what he had in mind for his screen five I don't know what what all kevin williamson's influence is going to be on this I I can't wait to wait to see what the final product is going to be based off a trailer Get some official details regarding the cast But I really think a screen movie set in a different town of woodsboro would be a different change of sea Would be a nice thing to see We've seen it before but it wasn't it wasn't in like another small town. It was just in Hollywood or we were at college like I want to see us Have a woodsboro type of deal going on, but it's not in woodsboro. We're in a different step a different town different state And ghostface someone has picked up the ghostface stick and now we have our cast members back To help bring a stop to it to help figure out what's going on in the town Uh, but let me know what you guys think about all this down the comment section below If you haven't already make sure you subscribe it's on a post notification so you never miss a video In the description I have links to all my social media accounts on my facebook twitter and instagram You can mention be there to let me know if there's any movies news or reviews You would like me to cover in the future with all that in mind guys. I will see you in the next


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Everybody forced here ripping 20 22 tops diamond icons baseball hobby 1 box number 31 random hit style So we've got 10 hits in the box 10 spots of the break We will type in the hits as we go along here to the random at the very end to see who's getting what good luck everybody If there's an 11th hit we will combine the two hits of the least value To the best of my abilities Frequent enough to where have that rule. Here we go Usually that means everybody gets an auto or something really nice. So it's not really a bad thing All right, we are gonna start off with an each year old bat relic numbered six out of ten Each year old on bat relic six and ten Cut signature Robin Roberts one out of four That's a nice cut right there Robin Roberts. Good centered on it, too There we go one of four cut signature Robin Roberts The legend right there bat relic auto Nolan Ryan five of ten from one a legendary picture to another Bat relic auto Nolan Ryan the Nolan Ryan Express five of ten Sweet Nolan. All right. I'm sorry. Not bad. We'll have a patch auto here John Smoltz 15 of 25 That's a sick patch Fork are three color for the Braves 15 to 25 Smolty Little light on the J on his auto, but everything else looks pretty good, man. Awesome Smolz That's nasty actually Patch auto chipper Jones 12 of 25 That is a part that is a signature on the patch as well Nice chipper. Not even right now. I'm not doing it 1225 chipper Jones nice big chipper The best ice cream sandwich there is get a one Marichael auto five out of 25 One Marichael auto five of 25 Brent illegal is just trolling. He knows he knows Or does he know he for sure knows Silvering auto Adrian Beltray 25 of 25 That's right there Adrian Beltray Silverink love his auto always so clean doesn't even barely even fits and it still looks good on here So thick 25 of 25 nice Beltray.  Should have signed him next up is a Barry Larkin auto one of 10 The Hall of Famer Silverink auto Barry Larkin one out of 10 next up is a Mark McGuire auto numbered eight of 25 Big Mac and on the backs This would be the 11th hit is a Mariano Rivera auto five out of ten Congrats on whoever gets that one Mariano Rivera five out of ten Freakin awesome, dude. All right, so that's 11 hits. I'm gonna combine the each year old bat relic with With the just make sure here with the um, what am I trying to say the one Marichael auto? So everybody's gonna get an auto here So the one Marichael auto and the each row about relic is one hit. It's one hit. So that gives us 10 right there That's the combo Nobody gets an autos. That's cool Make sure I got it right here. Yeah Beltray. No more Yes, okay. Yeah Good box good box all around it's really solid hits throughout pretty much So good luck everybody on the random will do the hits and the name same amount of times put him side by side To see who's getting what?  I was getting used to the Smoltz barrel like on Nolan Ryan It goes to Cheyenne Ronald are with the patch auto chipper Jones John M with the Mariana Rivera auto to 10 and Kristen s with the one Marichael auto in the each year old bat relic And that is gonna do it. Thanks again everybody Got another one of these up next


I am putting in the hot seat today. My good buddy, Mr. Jeremy Whitaker. Dude, what's up, man? What's up? Dude, as you guys jump in this and watch this, stay with me. This cat did a quarter of a million dollars in his first six months, unreal, and also did $1.2 million in premium in his first 18 months. And we're not talking about P&C. We're talking about life insurance, 1.2 million 18 months. That's freaking crazy, man. Man, I tell you, it did not seem as if that was going to be my story, if you really kind of earn it out. I definitely wasn't foreseeing $1.2 million in 18 months, if you really want to know the truth. I thought it was going to be hard for me to do $100,000 in my first little while, the way it was looking. But I appreciate that. Dude, it's so freaking rare. You guys watching, I understand what I'm talking about. This is unheard of. I don't know if I've ever heard that actually done before. I don't know. Maybe Nate was close, who knows. That's freaking crazy, man. What was it about you? Were you able to jump in the business and just, boom, just flip and explode? There was nothing about me that I was able to jump in the business and flip and explode. There again, if you go back to the first part of my journey here, dude, it was struggle. I thought I was going to be good at this. I come from door-to-door sales, the worst kind of sales.  And I came into this business almost thinking it was going to be similar to selling steaks and chicken. And it wasn't. And so what really excited me about this was that I wasn't going to be looking for my client anymore. That it was going to be a client that sent in a letter and said, hey, I want whatever these services are that you're offering.  And so when I thought about it, I'm like, man, this is going to be like walking up on a bunch of lay-downs. Everybody's going to be a lay-down. And the truth was it wasn't that way. And so I was like everybody else. I got on the phone for the first time and I panicked and got nervous and couldn't do it. And then talk yourself into it. And I'm thinking to myself, I know. I know this has got to be too good to be true, right? This whole insurance, and you can go out and make a six-figure income, and everybody talks about it. But it's got to be too good to be true. It can't be that easy. I bet whenever I get pick up the phone that some of these folks are going to cuss me out or some of these folks are going to tell me they never sent it in. Yeah, exactly. Lo and behold, when I got on the phone, what I heard, they told me, never sent it in. Folks cuss me out. Folks hung up on me, all the good stuff. And for my first six weeks, it was nothing but that. For the first six weeks in this business, all I did was struggle. I would get on the phone. I'd get my teeth kicked in. And then I'd tuck my tail and I'd go out and knock on doors and sell steaks to come to the rescue for me, right? What do you really, it's like a backup plan. That was my backup plan. That was my plan B. And so for me, I can remember wanting to quit in my first six weeks. I remember wanting to quit more than one time in my first six weeks. I can remember texting my mentor and saying, you know, I know you don't know me very well. We just met. But I did. I've spent literally $1,400 on leads. I've got nothing to show for it. All this time I've been in my room dialing on the phone in the office. I could have been out knocking doors and making money to feed my family. And at the end of that text message, I said something else. And I said, I know you don't know me very well there again. But one thing you're gonna figure out about me is I'm not a quitter. Wow. I don't care what I need to read, who I need to talk to, who I need to get around. This has got to work for me. And at that time, that was the first time I had, I guess I was coachable at that point. I was willing to be coached. Dang dude, that's good. What made you that way to where, because 92% of agents fail because a lot of them quit. You're struggling bad. But you're like, dude, I'm not a quitter. Where does that come from? You know, I think that's all my life. I've had to grow up with a self-esteem issue. And I was one of the youngest of a ton of cousins. Definitely the youngest child on my mom's in my household.  And so I always grew up with a big vision of what I could be. But always this thing in my background or in the back of my head going, you're never gonna make it. You can't be that good, you know? And so coming to the insurance industry, I think by that point I had already decided that this guy from West Memphis, Arkansas didn't have very many opportunities laid out in front of him. And all of my life I've let that little voice in the back of my head that went, maybe you're not good enough. All my life I let that take over. And this was finally I decided that I wasn't gonna let that take over anymore. That it didn't matter how anybody felt about it, including myself, that I literally, I was willing to make a commitment and sell out 100% to getting what I wanted in this industry. And so all about, I guess, the first, after about that first six weeks, I decided that it wasn't a problem with this business. This business was perfect. There was people that were making money in this business before I ever stepped into it. It had to be, it wasn't the leads, because there's folks out there working the same leads that I was struggling with and they were getting results. So I had to really take a look in the mirror and go, who is it? What is it? And it was me. That's hard to do, too, isn't it? Yeah. And so it's the hardest look to take at yourself because obviously we all wanna think, we're doing everything the right way and we're giving it all we got. It's gotta be them, right? Never me. And that was the hardest thing to look back and go, dude, you gotta get better. The system is not the leads, not the people, it's you. Wow. What'd you do to get better? So every day, and I still do it to this day, I decided that I was gonna have a routine and I think that for me, my routine is everything. And so when I get up out of the bed, feet hit the floor, it's gratitude right away, right? But then it's what am I listening to? And so I'm flipping on a YouTube, right? And I'm listening to some motivation. I started reading books back then. I read Thinking Girl Rich. Yes. I read Zig Ziglar, a ton of Zig Ziglar on just closing sales, right? So good. I started to read Master Closer with Bing Gay. Just anything I can get my hands on, started to listen to recordings that were out there, other people who had done some sales training of any sort, and I would listen to them and I would rewind them and I'd listen to it again. I'd rewind and listen to it again to where I could say it exactly like they said it. And so what I'd realize about this business is it really doesn't take a smart person. It really doesn't take this genius of a person. It really, a lot of times it's just being a good copycat. You're right. Can I copy what everybody else was doing? Because if I do it the way that they're doing it, I say it just like they're saying it, right? I'm probably gonna get the same result. Yeah. And that's what I realized. So I stole a lot of stuff from Zig Ziggler. There again, from Brian Tracy, from all the heavy weights. And I decided, hey, if it's gonna work for them, it's gonna work for me. And I put that to practice. I review after appointments, after I get out of one and I'm like, man, that went well. I did $3,000 in AP on that one. What could I have done different? What could I have done better? The one's definitely the ones that I didn't sit down with or I didn't sell. What could I have done better, right?  But I think that's selling me short from saying that I do everything possible to get that deal, to help that particular person I was sitting in front of. Exactly. And so just developing a routine where I just decided to get busy and go to work and outside of just working on myself, just taking fricking action, you know? And I think that's the biggest part. See, what I realized is there was a lot of people I looked up to in this business, a lot of people that, you know, at my company were doing 300, 400, $500,000 a year. You see them going out and having weeks, 15, $20,000 weeks. And I knew some of them had been here a while. You know, they had been in the industry maybe three, four, five years. You know, some of them 10, 15 years, some of them brand new. But I knew the bulk of them had whatever amount of experience. And I wasn't gonna be able to compete with them on that. I couldn't compete with them on their amount of experience. I just couldn't. No, it gets true. Where I can compete is I can outwork them, right? What I lack in experience, I can make up for and sure hustle. That's right. And so I decided that it didn't matter to me. If, I knew that if I wanted overall to have more time to build this future legacy and to be able to help a bunch of people that I was gonna have to sacrifice starting with my time. And I knew that I needed a few more swings at it than somebody else did.  They say, hey, I run 15 or 20 appointments. They're out there killing it, that's great. I needed more swings in that. So I had 25 appointments, 30 appointments, you know? Just give myself some more times at the bat because I know broken clocks, right? Twice, twice a day, right? And so I've gotta close some deals if I'm just up to bat way more. And so that's a part of it too. You just put yourself in a position where you couldn't lose. Just couldn't lose. Yeah, and something clicked for you though at some point along those, because the first six weeks was a struggle. Next several weeks, you're getting better, finding the occasional sell, improving a little bit, choosing not to quit, learning, adopting and finding certain things that are working.  And I don't know where that, when that clicked and you just took off and like, like it almost like a light bulb went off, like holy freak, I can do this. Holy freak, I'm better at this than I thought. Holy freak, this is working, I'm gonna do it again. And it just like, the rocket took off, man. Like do you remember a moment or like just some things happening that just like, dude, I got this now. Because a ton of confidence clearly came over you when you had zero for six weeks. I think it happened for me in week number six. Week number six, whenever I was struggling and I sent out that text message to Brad, I said, hey, I know you don't know me very well, but you're gonna figure out I'm not a quitter. He got me on a call with four other people. Two agents had been two years in the business and there was an agent that had been six months in the business and there was myself and there was Brad. Is it anybody else I know that was on that call? I doubt it, no, just Brad Smith, me. And there was a few other agents. But these people took literally an hour, hour and a half with me and they sat through and just went through what I was going through. What objections are you getting on the phone? How did you handle it? This is what I would do in that situation. And for me, I think there was a big trust issue as far as because I could get a certain amount, or a certain amount, I guess a certain distance through my script. As far as I would introduce myself, I'd go through, verifying their information. Then it was time to book an appointment. Couldn't get them to book an appointment. Everybody's like, oh, can you put some in the mail? You know what I mean? It's like, I don't let people come to my house. And so what we figured out is I was really sounding like a salesperson on the phone. And that was because I'm sitting there and I'm reading this script that I really didn't need to be reading word for word. And they dropped that information on me, gave me some other tips, but I don't think that's what changed it, right? This is part of it. What really changed it was me going out in week number six, and I had a total of 20 meetings, and I went out my first 12 of them, and I sold nothing. I got back to that group though, and they were back on the phone with me for another hour, and they go, okay, this is what I would do in this situation. And I went back out Saturday, Sunday, wrote six applications for $10,000 in premium. And I was still super part-time at that point. I was still going out. I had the plan B. I was going out and knocking doors and getting me some cash to pay my bills. That was the last day I did that though, because week number six, when I realized, hey, I'm out there for two days and I made six grand, I was at a lower contract level at that point. I made like six grand in two days. I say, well, there's 28 more days in a freaking month. You know what I mean? What happens if I work all of them? And that's what I did. And so I think the light switch came on for me at that moment, because what ended up happening was June of 2017, I went out and did $41,000, right? I found a routine at work. I said, okay, 20 appointments last week got me $10,000 in production. So I'm gonna schedule 20 appointments this week and 20 appointments the next week. And lo and behold, I did 41,000 in June of 2017. That was my first full-time month in the insurance industry, you know? And then 41,000 after that, 36,000 after that, ended up that 250,000. But I think the lights came on when it was just me going, man, I'm overcomplicating it. I'm starting to sound a little bit like that salesperson over the phone. I think this is a whole lot easier than what I'm making it out to be. And me knowing that I had some other people in my corner willing to help me out with it. Dang. Let's go back. To tell me about your 30, to tell me about you growing up, where, what it looked like, how was it? I wanna get in, I wanna learn why you are who you are. So I, they're getting 30 years old. I've got wife, we're gonna have five children. Wow, congrats buddy. Oldest is getting ready to turn 13 and my youngest is getting ready to turn five. Wow.  I started out young, grew up in, there again, West Memphis, Arkansas, lived there for the first eight or nine years of my life. We moved out actually to Joliette, Illinois, which is right outside of Chicago, and that's really where I say my story started to kind of unfold and change. Like I said, growing up in West Memphis, we were around all of our family, had a bunch of cousins, you know, that had it rough from a psychological standpoint. Had some physical abuses and things of that nature as a toddler. And, you know, moving to Joliette was my brand new start. It was a crazy place because it was like, man, all your family, everything that you know of, it's all, you know, it's there, but my mom, she was making more money, you know, and what happened, and why I'm so thankful that I lived there was the fact that I started to get around a group of people I met, really my first three or four mentors in Joliette, going to a church, you know, and I started to, for the first time I can remember, Rhoda McFarlane, she's one of my really good mentors. She was the first person that ever looked at me and said, you're special. Something in me is telling me to come into you and tell you that the thoughts that you're having, the dreams that you have, the visions, that the way that you see your life and see things are gonna be different from the way that other people see things. And she says, she says, this is kind of what's gonna be making you who you are. She said, don't worry about the noise, don't worry about what anybody else thinks about it. She says, when you get these ideas, take action on them, because that's a part of your gift, that's a part of why you're set apart. And for the first time I saw myself as not, you know, bullied or picked on or left out, or I saw myself as set apart, you know, as something different. And so my mission became, I just wanna help some people the way that she helped me. I wanna help people to feel the way that she made me feel on that day as an 11 year old boy, because what she did for me, she didn't know it. You know, she lit a fire, you know, and she didn't know all the things that I had been through as a kid, but she looked past me, you know, and was able to see right into me. And for me, my passion began at that point to be just to be able to look past people. And so my passion is for average people, for not average by like this bad word that we try to throw around and make average people seem bad. I'm talking like average people that came from an average background, you know, average schools, you know, I had average grades, had average family, and not the only one who had some problems, right?  And I don't believe that we have to live average. And so my passion has always been to encourage average people to show them that they can live above average lives, that they can build out lives that are phenomenal people, you know? And I think even when it comes to cells, that's why I kinda get carried away sometimes with some of my clients, because they truthfully understand that I'm looking past them and who I see them as, and I'm really trying to protect who they're gonna be. But I don't think any of that starts without me going through some of that other stuff as an adolescent.  And here's why it's even more important is because about three weeks from now we're gonna celebrate 12 years of her going home, you know? And she was killed execution style at a Lane Bryant at a clothing store in Chicago. And I think about the impact, the impact that would not have happened if she just wasn't in the right place at the right time in my life. I think about how different my life would look today if she wasn't in the right place at the right time. You know, and at the end of the day, I know that if it wasn't for that moment, in time, I wouldn't be here. Wow. Wow, you've been incredibly successful, got a lot of good things going for you, amazing family, and you sold a ton of freaking insurance, man. It's been a, is it feel like you're on this journey and this crazy ride that's like nowhere near the end? Oh yeah. Because for people that are on it, like we always think that, you know? Like you're Jeremy Whitaker's true potential. As great as you've been, and as much as like 1.2 million 18 months, all this stuff sounds incredible.  Absolutely. I look at it every day and I go, man, the guy that you're looking at today, this is as good as I've ever been, right? But I can also look right back at you and go, this is as bad as you'll ever see me. Ooh, that's good. You won't see me any worse than I am today. And that's because, well, I get to work on me, right? I get to define who am I gonna be? You know, I think that's huge. I don't just see myself as, you know, just a insurance agent. Yeah, that can sell some insurance, right? And that's been through the school hard knocks. That's been because I went out there and failed at it a ton of times. And don't get me wrong, this week, even this week I've had some days in there was like, man, I sucked today, you know? This was bad, right? But I'm gonna keep working on me. And even when you have those bad days, cause a lot of people watching right now like they're gonna have those bad days, man. They're gonna have bad days all the time. As a new agent for six weeks, a lot more bad days than you're gonna have now, right? But when you have those bad days, like, what do you do? What do you say? How do you bounce back? How do you keep pushing?  Like, what happens? Cause we all have bad days. Yeah, and we're gonna continue to. I'm gonna continue to. Yes. I think there's a few things that I do when I have a really horrible day when I was like, man, this was, why is this happening to me? Like, did they not know that nobody sent them out the memo that I did $1.6 million before I came to their house? Yeah, exactly. Come on now. But, you know, I think it's reflecting on it. They're again, at the end of that day, I think where a lot of agents go wrong is they reflect appointment to appointment and that's where you can mess yourself up because I'm thinking about all this negative and all this guy that didn't buy from me and how he was a jerk and how he kicked me out of his house and I'm thinking about all this stuff and guess what, I'm feeding my mind. Feeding all that negativity right back to myself. So when I show up to the next client, what kind of face are that do I have?  They're gonna see that face of defeat. Yes. They're gonna see it all written over me. And so make it through the day, reflect, do all the cussing and yelling and screaming, I do a little bit of that too. Punching the steering wheel. Punch the steering wheel at the end of the day. There you go. Right, at the end of the day, because you don't wanna wake back up, it's like, now let's say if you're married, don't go to bed mad at each other. Don't go to bed mad at yourself. Yeah. There you go. Don't go to bed mad at yourself. It's not a good habit, first off, but second off, when you wake up in the morning, you're not gonna feel any better because you were mad at yourself tonight. And so bury that stuff, but then it's, who am I talking to? I tell you what I do, because I'm really competitive by nature, is I wanna call somebody who I know won this week, somebody who I know kicked some butt this week, and so I've got some good friends in this business that I'll get on the phone with, and I'll say, man, my day sucked, and they'll go, man, I did $20,000 today. And I'm like, okay. Here we go. Here we go. And that is enough for me, a lot of times to spark that fire within me to go, you know what, today's over, tomorrow's gonna be different. I'm gonna crank it up, but if I went to bed knowing that I did every bit, every ounce of what I could to get my production, to get my numbers, yeah, I can't be mad at me, right? Now I've gotta realize that sometimes, sometimes the streets just owe me, right? And other times I owe the streets. I look at it like when we was selling food, I used to say the money is in the bottom of the freezer, right? But what if I told you that at the end of your day, somewhere in your freezer that there's 600 bucks, all you gotta do is get to the bottom of it? How fast could you get to the bottom of it? It's the same way with leads. I feel like if I know for sure, I bought X amount of dollars in leads, I feel like there's $15,000 in that stack of leads. If I could tell myself that there's $15,000 in that stack of leads, how quick can I turn them over? Yeah. And so now it's just getting back to the phone, now it's just going out and knocking some doors, because I know I'm gonna have some of those days where it just sucks, right?  But if I got enough of them, I'm not worried about my production. Right. What's the best, what's the best day you ever had? Best day, single day I've ever had was about 20, I think it was $23,000. It's a good day. In personal production. It's a good day, bro. Really? That, I can't forget that day. So I had, doing some mortgage protection, and so I'm pitching this guy actually, and we're talking through some options, and we're talking about term, and we're talking about return or premium, and we go into talking about some of the other things that we could kind of help him with, and he pulls out this policy, and it's a prudential policy or something like that, and it's gonna expire, and I think he had like two months or three months left on it. Wow. $250,000 policy that he had since he was way young, and we were looking at, get this, we were looking at $200 a month mortgage protection policy before he pulled this policy out, $200 a month, and then he realized I spent all this money over 25 or 28 years, however long it had been before that he had that first $250,000 policy with prudential, so I spent all this friggin' money, and I get, no, no, no, it's just gonna cancel, and then it's gonna go up. It's like, I don't want one of those kind of policies. What kind of policy is that? As I showed him the mortgage protection, he's like, is that gonna cancel on me? And in 25, is that gonna have a term on it? It's like, yeah, it ends in 20 years, and I want that kind of policy, right? And so we started looking at permanent options. What I learned from that one conversation was don't shop with your own wallet, right? That's right. You can't walk into deals and think, hey, I would never spend that kind of money, so I know they wouldn't, because we ended up writing in a big ol' IUL. It was $1,300 a month on his, and then we did a $300 a month on his wife on something that was gonna be a $200 a month deal.  I'm like, man, because I know that he had closed on it. He was already, we were ready to do the application on it before he said, I don't wanna do a policy like that. And so I'm like, man, I knew this was gonna happen. I'm gonna walk out of here with no business. And $200 a month works, but you saw it's great. It's good. Right, right, right, until he says, I don't want that kind of policy that ends.  I thought we had this. But we ended up making it work. And then I went to that right after when we did a couple other little mortgage protection deals. Ended up doing a $23,000 a day that day. Boom. Plenty of days with a dozen appointments and nothing, and then a $23,000 a day. Yeah.  I almost didn't go to an appointment on a Saturday and then wrote a $505 a month final expense policy. You know what I mean? I almost didn't drive to Jeff City for an appointment and wrote a $1,000 a month policy. There's those days where you're like, I don't wanna get out of bed, I don't wanna go, I don't wanna do this, or you start thinking negative, right? I think that's one of the reasons why you probably start with some gratitude in the morning is it's put you in a positive frame of mind. Absolutely. And you're one of the most humble people I know to write a quarter of a million your first six months. 1.2 million in 18 months. Like the numbers, the pure numbers that you're talking about are freaking insane. And to be as humble as you are, it's super, super impressive, man. It's really awesome. Man, I appreciate that. Where does it always, where does that come from? Because it hasn't, I've known you for a little bit now and it hasn't changed and you keep getting better.  You know, I've got some really good mentors, some really good examples of what success looks like. The reason why I came into this business was because I was knocking in this big fancy neighborhood. I knocked on the right door, you know?   He's got cows. They've got like 18 chicken houses. And I sell them steaks and chicken. But what attracted me to him was his personality. It was the fact that not only was he at home at two o'clock on a Tuesday, but he was the nicest person in his neighborhood. He seemed like a person that had truly been working on himself. And so what made me call him, he didn't try to recruit me right then.  And I called him and said, what symmetry financial group? I wanna do what you do for a living. A guy that's at home at two o'clock on a Tuesday with his toddler crawling around and the most down-to-earth humble person I know. And so I realized if I wanted to have his kind of results, I need to imitate what he was doing. He works on the self tremendously. I need to work on myself tremendously. Don't get me wrong. I've got probably one of the biggest egos I know. I've learned how to be mature in that and understand except the fact that I've got that issue and I really try to work on it. I try hard to work on it. I can understand, I appreciate that for sure. What's gonna happen in the future for you as you look ahead, as you finish one year and jump into another, as you start forecasting and thinking about where you're gonna be, not only this year, but five years, 10 years.  Like what's the rest of your life look? How good does this thing get? How good do you get? Where does this journey take you? That's an excellent question. And the truth is, looking at it from here, it looks a little bit more clear than if you had to ask me this question two, three years ago. Because you're talking about a person who came into this industry lost, not really knowing what the heck I was gonna be doing. You know, I didn't wanna do what I was doing anymore, but I was lost. And to see first year going from making six figures at my own company to doubling that my first year to going out in my second year here and doubling that again. And then last year we grew by another 100%. And so you're talking five years out and I'm thinking world domination, is that? There we go. No, that's it. That's what I was expecting. No, total domination, right? Total domination. No, five years from now, seriously. I see ourselves in a place where not only am I able to live the lifestyle that I'm able to live, but there literally are three or four people that I'm mentoring right now that are in position to in two years or a year and a half surpass where I am right now. And my goal is there again to take average people, show them how to live above average lives. And so my next five years, it's gonna be spent doing that. It's gonna be spent helping everyday insurance agents, people that's needing a change, looking for something different to get the most out of this business. That's where I'm going, right? And that may look a little different. That may look like there's seven or eight different offices is what we're planning on closing out actually this year. And so we're talking five years, that could look like 40 offices, right? 100 offices. 100 offices. 20 million premium. One of the things that I love about working and kind of getting to know you is there's no limits. I see how big you think, and it provokes me to think much, much bigger, right? As so much more can be done in a short period of time. Yes. And you're living proof of it. Thanks, buddy. Thanks, man. I'm the dude that would have probably wet his pants and I had no clue what to say five years ago when we turned on that camera and we were sitting here. If we start, you know what I mean, it's just, it's crazy. But you said something earlier that's key though. You don't quit. I'm not a quitter. And that's a message a lot of agents need to hear. Like 92% fell and a lot of people watching this are new, struggling inside of three years. And I'm here in the theme and the message today that no matter how you feel, no matter how difficult this is getting, do not quit. And I also believe that your new motto, you know, for your YouTube channel, everything else you're doing needs to be, I help average people live above average lives. Cause you said that two or three times today. Yeah.  Like it needs to be on a t-shirt. Like it needs to be on a hat. Like it's so good.  Well, after you get done with this keynote coming up and you put that at the top of your site, you've got this rolling header and all this stuff needs to be on your YouTube channel. Like that's really cool. It's really good. You know, I heard somebody say one time and it made so much sense. Somebody asked me, I said, why, why do people quit? Right? And no, the question was asked different. The question was asked, why do people fail? Why do people fail in this business? And I think there's a lot of reasons that we could start to name out. But if you really want to know the big one, I think it's, we just said it is that people quit. That's right. Because I believe there's two different types of people. I don't care in life and business and relationships. There's winners and quitters, right? And if you don't quit, you win.  Right, it doesn't matter how much I fail. Fail is different from me losing, right? As long as I stay in the game, I'm gonna win. That's right. That reminds me, we just said the 8% virtual last year, the theme was, if you don't quit, you can't fail. That's right. And that's what, that's the theme and the message that you need, you guys need to resonate in here today is this dude is not the best sales person in the world, even though there's a lot of days he thinks he is. As do I, right? He's not someone that just had everything given to him through life and just had it easy. He's not someone that had a ton of experience in the insurance business and knew a lot and grew up in it, et cetera. He just decided not to quit. When time's got tough, he got other people on the phone to help him dissect his business and to remind him that if he doesn't quit, things will get good. And a lot of people need to, when things are not going good, it sounds like to me, I've heard this several times, they need to get someone on the phone to remind them that it is going to get better and that to keep looking in the mirror, it's me, but I can get better. True.  And it's not jealousy, it's competitiveness, it's that. And you said it too, like your first six weeks, you sucked. But you knew people were using these leads, making these calls with this script, running this sales process and making this amount of money. With all the tools and resources I got. So if they can do it, so can I. That's right. And there's nothing, there's nothing special, no special talents or abilities that a person needs, right, to be successful in insurance, it's just not. And I've seen people that, man, you think, there's no way that this person should be this good. There's no way that their numbers should look like they do, but they do. And a lot of it is just that sort of resiliency that I don't give up, don't quit, you know, and I'll work the rest of them. I think that's 100% of what people could get better at is. Correct. I joke about it all the time, but it's so true. And you'll hear me say it on my channel plenty of times. You'll hear me say it in real life. But I think if there's one piece of advice, people ask what advice would you give a new agent? Do more, more what? Well, more whatever it is. And are you bad on the phone? Do more dialing. You're bad on the phone. Do more door knocking, right? Are you bad in the home?  Just more than whatever it is that you're doing right now is always gonna give you a better result than what you're getting right now. Yes, yes. We're gonna get better. It's gonna get easier. It's, yeah, it's just, it's continuing on. And I've heard that loud and clear today and I'm really hoping that those listening that are the Jeremy Whitaker, his first six weeks and they're in that spot. It's that it will get better as long as you don't quit. As long as you don't quit. As long as you make the decision, because a lot of things in life is a decision, right? As long as you make the decision, I will not quit. I am not a quitter. It's not gonna happen. It'll eventually get really good. Oh yeah. It'll get easier too. Oh yeah.   Like it just, it gets better. You get better, right? I talked about, talked about lately about there's three things. When someone's got a goal, right? They wanna make 10 grand a month or whatever it is. And if in your case they wanna make 20 grand a month or 40 grand a month or whatever, you know? That there's three things that can hold them back from not hitting their goal. Effort, skill or knowledge. Without effort, you can't learn more or get better. So good. It's really good. That's it. It's crazy. So what's the, what's next for Jeremy Whitaker? You're starting to do a lot of YouTube videos, right? You're starting to, starting to share.  Like it, it, it, I've felt that ever since we met. Like you want to help people make money. Yeah. And that goes back to, to kind of everything that we've, we've looked at. But yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to continue to work on that, putting out content, you know? I want to help some people win this year. I think there's, there's, there's people that are looking at getting into insurance or maybe they got into it at the end of the most uncertain year, you know? We've ever had and they're going, man, what is this? Is this it? You know? I don't know about this insurance thing now. I want, I want to help those people.  For sure. Then we've got a tour that we're putting together as a team where we're getting in front of hundreds of people and, and doing some, some Philadelphia area. So if you're in Philadelphia, we would be out there that way, South Texas, be down in South Texas, a little bit of Mississippi. So we've got a lot of, a lot of good stuff coming up 2021. As we, as we finish up, what's, if, if, what's one thing that you would like to leave the audience with? There's a new agent, they're struggling, they're grasping Ellen to everything you're saying. They get it. They relay a line with you. They, they understand what you're saying. They're like, dude, I'm, I'm, I like this Jeremy Whitaker guy, but I'm not him yet. What would you say? I'd say the Jeremy Whitaker that you look at, that the guy that you're saying you like, wasn't him yet three years ago. Right. And so no matter what, what background a person is coming from, no matter, you know, if you've been in insurance or you've, maybe you're coming over from PNC or, or maybe you're just getting started in PNC, what I'm going to say is, is dig in. Don't see a lot of people with their problem. And I've been guilty of it myself, you know, as, as coming into something and being tow in, like dipping my, dipping my, my pinky toe into the water and seeing, you know, testing out if it's warm enough. Oh, that's a little too cold. Maybe I'll wait or, or, or waiting and, and, and watching and see who's going to jump in first because hopefully if they jump in first, I see their reaction. I know. And I'm going to tell you that, come on in, water's warm. You know, the truth is at some point, you've got to get so committed to it that you can't help but to take action. That's right. I call myself grind time a lot because, you know, at the end of the day, I think there's, there's one thing that, that everybody can do right now that, that can change. I had a guy, Scott, when my first job's ever, he says, there's always something that you can be doing right now that you'll have way less to do later. Didn't, it wasn't very significant or profound. We were actually talking about doing dishes. I had a pizza place, but I took that with me everywhere. What can I be doing in this moment that's going to make life easier for me tomorrow? What, what can I do today that's going to, that's going to allow for me to get closer to next year's goals to that, that five year goal to that 10 year goal was what can I do right now? What, what, what things and think of those and take action on them. You know, I think for me, a lot of people, I don't really like, you know, lip service and people saying, hey, I'm going to do this. And I love people speaking into themselves. Don't get me wrong. I feel like you're supposed to be your best cheerleader. You're supposed to, you know, sell yourself on every idea you have for us. You're supposed to wake up in the mirror and tell yourself you are the one. Do all that stuff. But then when you're done, I think, I've seen so many new agents come in and go, why is it not working? Why is it not working? Why is it not working? And, and I have to there again turn around and ask, why are you not working? Why are you not working? Why are you not working? And so if, if you're being serious about it, if you can either kid yourself and we can get on every podcast and we can listen to Cody Askins, you know, every single video he puts out, but until I do something about it, until I commit to it, right? Whatever that process is that I'm committing to, find one. I mean, like I used to get caught up on a lot of different, you know, videos and a lot of different presentation. I'm gonna do it this way sometime and do it this way sometimes. Now if you ever see me at home, it's the same way every single time, never changes. I picked one. I picked what I was gonna do and I committed to it and I just did it over and over and over and over again. That's right. Pick one. Hmm. And you're getting really good. What's the, what's the name of YouTube channel? So they can go check it out. Grind Time JW. Grind Time JW. JW stands for Jeremy Whitaker. Jeremy Whitaker, that's right. Dude, amazing job. Thank you for sharing your story. Hey, thank you for having me, man. Love, love when you're here, man. Love it. Follow this cat. He's a beast. 1.2 million 18 months. You guys are watching saying, dude, I would love, like put your hands up right now if you would love to be like, dude, I wish I had done 250 in my first six months, man. Unbelievable, unbelievable. Dude, thank you, buddy. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you guys for watching. And as JW said, hey, if you enjoyed this, I got another one you're gonna love. It's right there. Click on it. See you in there. I'm Cody Askins and I'm gonna share with you today how to earn $10,000 weekly as a life insurance agent. So one of the things I want you to think through is typically a lot of interest agents fail. 92% fail. We're gonna walk through the numbers. I'm talking on point and I'm talking leads.


My name is Nyashankwa Tha'i. I'm from South Sudan and I'm currently the Acting Executive Director for Assistance Mission for Africa and I'm here at USIP for the South Sudan Working Group. South Sudanese women have come a long way with their contributions. They are amazing women looking at the fact that they have lived in conflict for so long before the CPA, even after the CPA in the 2013 war. And it's still like 75% of the people affected by conflict in South Sudan are women and children. They are facing so many different difficulties but they still rise above that. And I think one major key contribution South Sudanese women have achieved so far and just to connect it to some recent achievements is that they are able to speak up despite the harmful cultural practices, being silenced despite the shrinking of civic space and the lack of having a safe space. But they still talk and they speak up about inequalities, about gender based violence and about other issues that are affecting women and girls. For the current situation there are predictions that they might be a post conflict, post violence election and definitely women and girls are the ones going to get affected. So the role South Sudanese women can play is influence the spaces where they are and the different umbrellas, being the women coalition, being the women block being women in politics and make sure that they play a role where they are part of the process as an equal partner to prevent any post violence that is going to happen. And also to make sure that the 35% quarter is implemented during the election process whereby they can be part of the electoral process and also they can be part of elected women within the system as partners. In South Sudan looking at the harmful cultural practices the way the society is built is built in a way that sexual gender based violence is not recognized as a crime within the grass root community. For example if a girl went through rape they end up marrying her off to her perpetrator because it brings a lot of shame in the state of holding the perpetrator accountable. So recently last year and the year before they have been cases of intimate partner violence that leads to killing and we lost almost three South Sudanese women who were killed by their own partners. What is being done so far there is a lot of awareness raising on that and looking at the fact that this International Women's Day theme for the year 2023 is looking at how people can use technology and innovation to reduce gender based violence. I believe that South Sudanese women use internet use digital spaces to raise awareness and to speak up and as a result some of these partners are being held accountable by the law. And so far partners are working towards that partners such as UNFPA, other UN agencies and local civil society. They are working together to mitigate sexual gender based violence in GBV and currently we have the GBV law, the GBV bill and also we have the family law at the stage of being discussed at the parliament for it to be passed. So for me I think that is an achievement and it is something to celebrate.


I'm very proud as the senator from Vermont have introduced the most comprehensive climate change legislation which calls for a tax on carbon. Our Secretary Clinton tells us that she's concerned about climate change. Madam Secretary, if you are concerned about climate change, listen to what the international communities are saying, joy in me and impose a tax on carbon.


Hey guys, welcome to the know your s**t show, episode one.  So you have to go buy it. If you don't go buy it, it's only going to be good for a few days. So go get them and don't email me after the special because I can't give you the deal. So you have to get the deal when I say it. So let's get started. DB20 is one of my all-time favorite scissors. I'm going to tell you why and a few things that I love about it. I have both versions of the DB20 right here. We have the 5.7 version and the 6.7 version. So I like both of these for a couple different reasons. The first thing that I love about the DB20 that's the same on both is the ball bearing screw in the scissor. It allows for a really smooth open and close to the scissor so really that's what that's all about. It's the smoothest open and close that you're going to get.  It has a lot of rubbing and friction to the scissor so this allows for the smoothest open and close that you can get. Now the handles on these scissors are exactly the same. So whether you get the 5.7 or the 6.7, you have the same feel in your hand. I love the offset of this scissor so if you like an offset scissor I think this is perfectly done. I like that the tang is not a screw off tang so it's really comfortable. The thing I love about Mizetani Scissor so much is that every detail, these are all hand done. So they're honed in every little circle and bevel to the scissor. So it's a nice soft edge to it. It allows your pinky to sit in there really nice and it's just got a really good feel to your hand. It's balanced really well so you don't get, even if you're using the 6.7 version of this scissor, it doesn't feel that different. You don't feel a lot of weight on the end of the scissor because it's balanced really well. Now the reason I would go with 6.7 over 5.7 would be if I do a lot of scissor over comb, maybe barbering techniques, a lot of point cutting, different things like that. Most of the time I would stick with scissor over comb with this and men's cutting. The reason for that is I would take a little bit smaller sections. Any time a scissor gets a little bit extra length towards the tip, you're going to get a little bit of a weaker feel to the tip. That doesn't mean that this is a weak scissor. It's razor sharp. I love everything about it. You can see how the thickness of the blade goes through here and it gets a little softer towards the end. But that thickness stays almost all the way down the blade. A lot of scissors you'll see and you can take out your scissors right now and look at them. Most of them are not too much fatter towards the base. They're about the same as they get to the tip. So they're going to have a really weak tip. They don't have that metal powering behind it. So that is really the breakdown there. The 5.7 is the one that I use. It's my workhorse scissor. The reason I like the 5.7 is just like I said before, this is for precision cutting for me. I love it because the blade is shorter so it has tons of power from the base to the tip. You don't have to worry about the tip feeling a little bit weak. Now I don't love it for scissor over comb because the blade is so small. You don't get that. But if you're working with precision cutting, the blade is a perfect size for that. So all around you could buy both of these and I would honestly, it would fill your entire collection from a precision to scissor over comb technique. It would work for all of it. So here is the deal. It's also nano powder metal steel so I want to tell you guys that. Nano powder metal steel, the great thing about it is that it's made up of the same size small particles. So if you look at other scissors and I've talked about this in other videos, but most scissors are made of three different types of metal and the chunks of that type of metal, if you look under a microscope, they don't fit together that well. So you don't get as soft of a cut and you don't get as much of a consistency through the blade. These are the same technology that they use to make a Blu-ray disc and if you think about a laser reading a Blu-ray disc, it has to be really fine material so that the laser doesn't skip and go all crazy. So unbelievable technology in this scissor. That's why it's an $800 scissor. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to offer it at 20% off for four days, right? Four days. Or should I do a week?  Let's get crazy and say a week. So let's do one week. It's an $800 scissor. We're going to sell it for $640 on freesaloneducation.com. So that's the deal. You don't even have to put in a code. I'm going to change the price, but it's only for one week and once the price goes up, I cannot change it again. We will have a new scissor every week and I will tell you what I love about it. If you guys have more questions about this scissor, post them in the comments below on Facebook and on YouTube and make sure you subscribe because we're going to have a lot more scissors to come and we'll get your education going on. So welcome to work. That is no your scissor episode one. Thanks for watching. Go pick up your new scissor. We'll see you on the next one. Thanks.


So hello everybody. This talk is going to be about C++17 and C++20 goodies. Now for, yes, it's even hydrogen. So for people who have been to academies before or who have met me before, I'm going to skip about me because there isn't really that much time. Usual disclaimer, make your code readable, pretend the next person who looks at your code is a psychopath and they know where you live. Very, very important note. I'm going to, I'm not going to explain what the code means. You should always sign the meaning by yourselves. Now the question is, why am I giving the same talk again? Because in Academy 2017, I already had a talk named C++17 and 20. That talk was a little bit focused on, let's say, bigger features of C++20 and some smaller features of C++17. Now the things have changed a little bit from 2017. We finally got C++20 ratified. So this is a photo from the proud meeting of ISOCTP where the C++20 was finalized. And two days ago, C++20 was accepted by the ISO. So it's now an official proper standard. And during those three years, all the compilers that we care about now support C++17. So I'm going to focus mostly on little useful features that C++17 gives us with a couple of C++20 features. I'm not going to cover any of the huge C++20 things. For those, you can go and watch the video from Academy 2017 or you can just find dedicated talks on ranges, coroutines and stuff. Okay, so let's begin. This is a little bit slow. So in C++11, we got a function called std to string. And this function is a little bit tedious because you can't convert strings to string. You can convert characters to string. Essentially, you can just convert things like integers and flows, et cetera. So if you wanted to write a function that extends the standard to string, we could do something like this. So we can create a generic function that obviously accepts any type T. And if we got a proper std string inside as a T, then we don't really have to call std to string. Now, in new beautiful C++17, we can check this at compile time where the type T is some specific type that we want. So we can just write if constexpr and then check is same T and std string. Now, in this particular slide, we have two features that didn't exist before C++17. The first one is that now we have prettier type traits. So all the type traits in the standard library, in the header type traits, have the suffix underscore b and underscore t. So instead of having to write is same something, something, column, column value, you can just say is same underscore b and it shortens the code a little bit. Much more important is that nowadays we don't need to write type name as the dk, column, column type or anything like that. You can just say stdk underscore t. So these type names, we had to sparkle over our code almost everywhere. Apart from having these suffixes in C++20 and expected in C++23, we have this quite, even in the cases where you still need to write type name in C++17 and 20. In C++23, it will all be just beautiful and you would always be able to assume that the compiler knows that you forgot to write the type name so you won't need to actually write it. Now for people that know what stdk is, I'd say that you can forget about it and that most of the time in C++20 you will be able to use stdremove cvrep. So if you have a type and that can be a const reference, volatile reference or anything else and you want to strip out all the reference parts and consts and volatile, you can just say stdremove cvrep underscore t and pass it to a certain type like const string, const string ref and this meta function will return you a normal string. So this is one of the things that is new, small thing that will make up your code much prettier in C++17. The second one is the compile time if or if constexpr. If we try to call this same v with a normal if and then try to put it in a function that checks whether something is a string, if it's a string then don't call it a string and if it's not a string then call it a string. Then you have a compiler error because both branches of if need to be valid. In this case, if you're using if constexpr, then only one of the branches will actually be compiled. Both of them need to be valid in syntax but the type t that we passed doesn't need to have a two string function to work on it if it's the same v returns true. So if you go to the first branch, the second branch will not really be checked for semantics. Also we can instead of just checking whether something is the same, we can also check std derived from. Now std derived from doesn't have underscore t because it's not a type trade, it's something that is available in C++17 and it's called the concept. In essence, for the time being just think of concepts as compile time functions that return true or false just like insane did. Just define with a different syntax. And if you want instead of supporting types that are not derived from a string, we can just call static assert in the else branch. Now this is going to lead to a problem because as I said both branches are going to be compiled but not checked semantically. In this case static assert is going to make a compiler error because else branch even if it's not going to be executed the else branch is going to be compiled. If you wanted to do something like a static assert of false what you should do instead is create a meta function like the function that is in the slide called always false. So whatever type you pass to it, it will return a false. And then you can use it in the static assert. So if the boolean value that you pass to static assert depends on t then it's not going to be evaluated in the else branch if only the then branch is going to be executed and compiled. Static assert without an explanation for the assert so without a second argument of the string is also added in C++17.  Now if we wanted to do it a little bit more modern we can just say okay we are creating a template function but we are going to restrict we don't want it to work for all t's we just want to want it to work on specific set of t's and we can just say it's a template function templated on t and we require that t is derived from sd string and this is the syntax that is available since concepts since C++20. If you want to provide several functions one function that works on types derived from string and another function that works on other types you can use this trick to restrict one of those functions by default if the restriction is fulfilled for a certain type that function will be called otherwise it will fall back to the second function the generic version without any requires clause. So this is concepts and constraints in C++20. Also if you don't like the requires clause you can always use the shortest syntax instead of saying template type name t and then requires you can just say template derived from string t and then implement your function and if this is also too much to type for you you can just say string to string not even it doesn't even look like a template function even if it is and then you can just say derived from string auto so automatically deduce the type that needs to be derived from sd string and you have the value of that type so this is the most third syntax for defining restrictions on generic or template functions. Another example of a couple of new things that we have in modern versions of C++ is this one where we have an if we are locking a mutex and we are checking whether a certain map contains a key KDE also we can do something like this we can write a range rate for loop again lock a mutex and then iterate through all the items in a map since we all know that maps are collections of pairs this is going to iterate over all the key values in a pair. So what new features do we have here? The first one is that we can add initializers to if, for and switch so the old four from Dark Ages from the C it already had a couple of clauses inside so the initializer, the condition and increment and nowadays in C++20 we have the same initializer for the range based for loop and since C++17 we have the initializers for if and for switches so if you want to narrow the scope of a variable you don't need to declare it in the outer scope and then just put it inside of a name block you can just put it inside of the if or for or switch. The second thing is that scope locks we didn't really have scope locks before we had something that was called lock guard and it was able to lock a single mutex that you pass through it. Scope lock is a little bit more powerful you can lock several mutexes at once and it uses nice algorithms to avoid deadlocks etc so if you need to lock several mutexes which arguably you shouldn't ever have to do you can use scope lock without any consideration of what locks first, what locks second etc. The second thing that is shown in this example is something that is actually not shown because it's missing lock guard and scope lock are generic template clauses so they need to have template arguments. In C++17 we had automatic type deduction for functions so if you call std make pair the compiler would automatically deduce the generic arguments so the template arguments for that function but it never worked for classes. In this case since C++17 the compiler can deduce that since MMAP mutex is an std mutex that this scope lock is actually a scope lock of std mutex for most of the generic classes that you see in the standard library and it can work obviously on your types that you define. So you don't need to write anymore std vector of int when you create a vector you can just say std vector axis of 103. Again the types are still not dynamic this is not Python. It's just that the compiler can deduce on the 103 that this is going to be a vector of int In the cases where you want to implement your own types the way that the compiler deduces the types for the class is either through a constructor so if you have a constructor that accepts a type t and your class is parameterized on the type t it will automatically deduce from the constructor if you call it with an int it's going t is going to be an int but in some cases you would like to help the compiler to do something a little bit more advanced. So if you don't have the constructors from which the compiler can deduce something you can write something that is called a deduction guide. In this case we have defined some type that is called my type and which we are trying to tell the compiler if somebody calls a constructor with an integer and a float then what it should deduce it should deduce my type of vector of integer and a float and you can write arbitrary deduction guidelines for your types sometimes the constructors are nicer sometimes the deduction guidelines will be prettier and they are usually more powerful. And another thing that was in the example that is from C++ 17 is the aforementioned structure bindings so we have on map, map is a collection of key value pairs so sd pair of something something and usually before C++ 17 we would iterate through a map and then access the keys and values as dot first and dot second. But first and dot second don't really convey any meaning as the names are really generic so if you want to assign the names to parts of a tuple or parts of a pair you can just use structure bindings with square braces and say key and value iterate take all the pairs from the map and assign dot first to key and dot second to value. Now there is something a little bit annoying about the structure bindings is that if we try to capture the key and value by value so not a construct or anything else we just wrote auto key and value from the map we would expect key and value to be proper values so we have an instance of let's say a string and instance of an integer internally this is a little bit more complex so the pair from the map will be stored inside of a proper value with the type std pair of something and key and value from the structure binding are going actually to be a reference to elements inside of the pair even if the compiler is going to try its hardest to lie to you and to tell you that it's a proper value even if you try to use deco type of key and deco type of value which will return that there are normal values that's not true they're actually internally they're going to be references to the elements inside of the std pair so they're not going to be proper values this has some unfortunate side effects that when you want to use more semantics on these things you can't really say return value and expect the compiler to optimize it for you you will have to return std move of value etc and the last section I have two minutes before the question stand this was really fast there's also some new things with standard algorithms so for example the algorithm std reduce which kind of behaves like accumulate but a little bit more generic now if you want to paralyze it you don't need to deal with threads to fire up threads anything else synchronization etc you can just say std reduce I wanted to be executed in parallel so std execution policy parallel and then just pass the same thing that you passed to normal std reduce now if you hate having to write .begin .end everywhere in your code you can use the second version if the slide ever switches you can sorry I have one thing before so again binary search the same thing as we used to have this binary search can be optimized really well if you have constexpr data so most of the algorithms in C++ have the constexpr added to them so if you have data that is known at compile time nothing will end up in executed dynamically the compiler will execute binary searches, sorts, accumulates and everything else during the compile time and to get back to .begin .end if you hate writing those then you should just use std ranges namespace and then instead of having to write pairs of iterators you can just write the collection itself so binary sphere search I'm trying to search 42 in the same way as I did in the last one and the last thing a little bit related to reduce and accumulate is something called fold expressions if you don't have a collection of values but you have a variadic template where you have a function that accepts numerous and arbitrary number of values you can use fold expressions to do the calculation or to reduce all the values so you can write 0 plus dot dot plus values and when you call a sum of 1 2 3 it will add 0 plus 1 plus plus 2 plus 3 fold expressions come in different forms depending on whether you want to go from the left to right with your operator or from the right to left this is used for quite complex things like if you want to invoke certain function on each of the values that you pass again this is not a collection just if you want to invoke it on all the arguments that the user passed to your function you can use the fold expressions operator and say std invoke f on values and it will just unwrap into std invoke f on the first value f on the second value f on the third value and so on another new thing in C++ 17 is the std invoke and this is a function that allows you to call not only lambda's ordinary functions on specific values but also to call pointers to member variables and pointers to member functions as if there were normal functions so you would be able to write something like for each call delete later from q object on window 1, windows 2 and window 3 and the last thing that I want to mention because my time has run out in C++ 20 we also got a new library for string formatting which is meant to obsolete the eos stream for the most part and we can write something like this to generate a really nice banner welcome to academy 22 and I think that's it if there are any questions thank you so much Iwan that was super interesting and a very beautiful banner we have three questions and I think we have time for the first one which is template functions or function template what's your stance so sorry function template it's usual that we call it template function but it's a function template it's a class template because they are not functions they are templates but in normal communication these two terms are quite interchangeable and then the last one do you have inside while didn't gain an initializer seems inconsistent so that was my first impression as well but while with the initializer is the old C4 just without the increment part so while with initializer would be the same as just writing for the first two clauses filled in and then semicolon with an empty third clause so it is inconsistent but it's not useful


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So you want to get those smooth anime shadows that you always see on Twitter. Not a problem. Everything I'm about to show you this week I learned directly from Yuli and Rookie. So big thanks to them because there's no way I would have figured this stuff out on my own. Now before you do any normal editing you gotta smooth the base shadows. To do that you gotta create a proxy mesh that outlines the shape of your body. Now this proxy mesh should be as simple as possible because the fewer poly you have the smoother the subdivision will be. And the higher the subdivision the smoother the shadows will be. So go as high as your computer can go. Once you've made the proxy click your main body, modifiers, mesh data transfer, set the source to the proxy, check face corner data, make sure that it's set to custom normals and change map into nearest corner and best match and face normal. You're done. And now you can see that we got smooth anime shadows for days. After this you just apply the transfer and now your model doesn't even need the proxy anymore. Hope that helps and as always hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.