Sailors from the United States Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force competed in volleyball, tug-a-war, and soccer for the first ever Sasebo Sailors' Koryu Captain's Cup. At the end, the winner was announced, JMSDF. We had a presentation of the trophy and also we decided to have some barbecue and cookout. JMSDF Force has been really, really supportive of this and they really enjoyed everything they did and I thank them a lot. We are building a really, really close relationship with them and that's really, really wonderful. Thanks to the Koryu program, Japanese and American Sasebo Sailors strengthened local and international relationships. Petty Officer Christina Coffey, Fleet Activities, Sasebo, Japan.


The Boston University Terriers led by superstar freshman Jack Eichel will take on the North Dakota Athletics in the first NCAA Frozen Four game this Thursday at Boston's TD Garden. You know it's a dream come true of mine, I grew up watching the Frozen Four my whole life so I've always wanted to play in it and you know this is such a special season for us right now. I spoke with BU students to see what they thought of the hockey team's success. So what do you think about BU hockey and how well they've done this year? I mean I think it's awesome they made it to the Frozen Four and I'm just excited to have a school where I can actually go and have school spirit without it. Football team is really hard and I'm really proud of them. Unfortunately student tickets are quite hard to come by. Because it's really exciting having the game be so close to campus but NCAA handles the ticket allotment and so it was really small so that's kind of been our week where our last two weeks has just kind of been having to kind of crush people's spirits a little bit be like sorry like you know there's not really a lot we can do because we didn't have that much control over how many tickets we sold. The small amount of lottery tickets chosen has Boston fans speaking out about the high ticket prices. Do you think BU should have done a better job of allowing more students to go and making it more affordable? Yeah it'd be nice if they had like allocated tickets for the students that they could buy that weren't like $400 now. But at the end of the day BU students are quite proud of their team. I think it's really awesome that BU is on the national map this year. I'm upset because they haven't been this good until now and it's my senior year but I'm bummed because I didn't get a ticket.


The section championships that the brain or little falls girls hockey team has played in over the past two years have been legendary. A quadruple overtime lost to Rozo two years ago, a triple overtime win last year against those same Rams tonight. A new opponent for the Warriors as North Wright County. They beat the Rams in the semis and that set up tonight's championship showdown. Brain or little false trying to get back in the state tournament for just the second time scoreless second Cheyenne a bear gets us our first goal with the shot from the slot. Just 14 seconds later, Sophie Robinson's point blast finds its way somehow through the goalie. They go up to into the second period. Into the third Shaley Struths. Her shot is blocked Emma Booth with the rebound she scores North right North Wright County puts up a big fight in the third period, but brain or little falls holds on for the three to two victory. Congratulations, they're going to the state tournament. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


The dude that was homeless that's now got more money than he knows what to do with my good buddy. Mr. Marlin Faulkner Come on now this dude. It doesn't get much better than Marlin What's up? What's up 8% nation? Freaking energy let's go listen motion creates emotion baby. That's what you taught me, isn't it? Listen, I've got a bonus with you because you had me come up to Springfield to your office And I thought we were friends and we're just gonna hang out and I was a little you know I my hair wasn't cut. I wasn't good and you said hey look at that. There's a studio. Let's go in there Marlin It's how I walk in the studio and I'm looking around and you go. Oh look there's some chairs Let's sit down and we sat down and recorded one of the most incredible that video has changed my life The number of people that have reached out to me that want to work with me because of you man You were an influencer and I'm just glad to know you and glad to be a part of this thing, man Oh Everybody knows Marlin Faulkner man that the interview that changed the industry forever You'd go homeless to making hundreds of thousands of dollars and he is absolutely crushing it The interview is a homeless to a hundred K a month. You can find it on YouTube I think we've got like 30,000 agents that have seen that over the course of last year and It's all you man I mean did you know that you would have such an impact when you jumped on it just started talking about your story? I didn't and I didn't know why because it's my story. So a lot of times People don't like the adversity in because they don't know it's that's part of their story When I was homeless, I didn't know that I would be sharing that story And so if I were to complain to stop so no, I didn't think it was I didn't think my life was that impactful I just knew I didn't want to stay where I was at and The fact that we got it out there and listen it's gonna continue to get out there and working with coach Michael Burt now and Starting to work on a book with him and just starting to do stuff with you brother.  That's what I think Well, I think I'm the best kept secret in America. Come on now And and it ain't bad and what's funny is those votes listening like if you don't think that about yourself That's a problem. You should man and Marlon now does which is incredible What are you most excited about Friday and Saturday this 8% virtual conference because you are gonna be on the event Dropping it like it's hot and freaking bringing it bro. I'm bringing it for sure But I'm excited just about hearing you've sat down with the legends When I you know, I always heard Cody that you were like the five friends that are closest to you and the five people around you That's who you like well when I was homeless when I when I moved back into my house I started listening to Eric Thomas less brown Tony Robbins, you know, I started listening all these guys So you've got some heavy hitters on And so I'm excited just to hear from not just a Brian Tracy, which I can't wait to hear Not just a less brown who's one of my all-time favorites not just in the the bomb calm I think the best in the in the universe because I heard there's a guy on Mars that speaks I think Eric Thomas can beat him too And so I'm just excited about hearing from everybody because this is what I love about you Cody You put together something where people can get more Like my mom always told me there's givers and takers and buddy you're a giver And so I'm just excited about watching what you put together for free like a free conference Like 10,000 asians. I'm mad. We don't have 100,000 on like we can't get 10,000. Listen, I'm giving 101 dollars I'm giving 101. Tell me where to send it whoever doing something post something Come on now. Let's go. Listen to tomorrow's a new day, but today is the day Today is the only time we happen today And I get up. I get I heard Nate offer. That's why I jumped on I looked up and Nate offer I'm like, why is Nate on it? I'm not on and what that man did for my life He changed my life because he picked up a phone and called me That's right What if what if right now someone can pick up a phone and call somebody and it changes their life? Maybe they're not homeless. What if what if they're making money that costs too much What if they're a job that they can't leave that they hate? Yeah, what if there's someone that you need to pick up the phone and call that that has you know Some medical issues or family or man. Come on. Let's pick up the phone Yes, I love it. Dude. That's what it's all about. Well, here's here's what we can do. You really want to give away a hundred bucks? Yeah Okay, why don't we have you? Um, let's see if we can like I'm about to drink some soup by the way When you said that I was like, I haven't eaten either. I thought about leaving and you said this is influence people I was like, well landing's on and someone else.  I'm like, dang it. I can't eat because of kodi. Let's go influence. Oh, baby The paper's not taken. We're giving that's it. How about how about someone? that Actually goes to a percent. How about the person that goes to 8% virtual.com and registers The most amount of people don't even don't even doesn't and then tells them Hey, I registered you for you for this because you need to hear it. That's good 100 bucks How crazy is that the person that does that and they can prove with the list Okay, so take a picture of the list send it to kassidy at kodiaskins after you do it Manually go register them report it back to kassidy that you did it and we will choose The person that registered the most people. Thank you. Kelly by the way For 8% virtual.com because that that's that's marlin's way of giving back. So thank you for continuing to give back uh Pretty much every time I see you man. You just give back Oh man, you've got this incredible team.  I'll just say it that way Uh, this is cutting time We want to make sure stuff goes and the staff that you have and what you're putting together so incredible How can people not get signed up? Just coming What are you gonna do watch watch basketball? You watch madness watch watch kids shoot a basketball, which is great. I'm gonna watch it too, but not during 8% nation That's right That they say man make make the barrier to entry so low That you do a you do your part to help everyone be successful absolutely and You've always done that man, you know Oh man, I I want to be with the fires hot man That's why I like sticking around you and just watching you win watching what you're doing next.  I didn't know why you bought the new home I'm gonna come live in your new home because you're never there, but But when I got the phone with you my wife said I said man, he makes me feel better about myself Hmm How many people do you guys know that when you get off the phone with them you feel better about yourself? That's cody askins. That's 8% nation. That's what we're trying to do here You're always lifting man. You're giving and taking and brother you've given so much I want to give back by speaking. I want to give back by donating 100 bucks I want to do whatever I can to help people realize that they need this That they need this They do man.  Yes, I get too much excitement. Everybody They got quite Why I became marlin falter because my mom and that I'm just teasing Um, that's that's how I originally started, but um, I became marlin falter because Uh, a mandate offer picked up the phone and called me and said you're worth more than you are Yep, you don't even know how good you are I became marlin falter because I got around Uh, a company in symmetry financial group and got around a guy like an edward pritchett or brand matt smith the guys that were better than me See, I was taught the first thing the the biggest thing that the most expensive thing you own is your ego And I got to be around men that didn't have egos They had what I wanted and they allowed me the opportunity to come in and follow them and make mistakes and screw it up And fall down and and keep going My buddy brian delaney told me this the other day. He said when my son began to walk He said he said, you know why most people fail at life Because when they fall down people overreact He said when my son was learning how to walk when he would fall down We would clap and cheer I became marlin falting because every time I fell down I had men that didn't overreact in my life But they clapped and cheer and they said that's good. You're getting closer. You're getting better Oh Oh, that's good. Sorry you get me going dude. We're now we're now going to charge for this anybody's watching for three please Into the machine. It's gonna go to marlin. Not me. He's gonna we're gonna collect money from marlin today because of how incredible He is and I'm a golden gold. He's dropping man. Um Chelsea on fit. Chelsea baker said hey, I work with him did she Hey, Chelsea, what's going on sis? 8% nation You when the first time listen. No, you let me talk. Let me ask a question You're eating you eat. Let me ask the question dang it I met you and I said why 8% nation and you said I have a dream To help every insurance agent in america And you're a kid man It's it wasn't about you. It was about what you could do for other people That's why 8% nation That's why there's a marlin faulkner because there's people like cody askings They care more about others than they do themselves So to answer your question How did I become marlin faulkner because I met men that cared more about me than they did themselves I met a cody askings. I met a coach michael burk that cares more about me than he does himself That's good, man. Jeez Jeez, I'm ready to I'm fired up. Are you guys firing up man? Who's ready to run through the wall? Who's gonna invite 8,000 people on their own to this? Like marlin's talking like this for free. Can you imagine what he's gonna talk about? On a virtual conference. This is just impromptu imagine when he's prepped and ready Fired up brother fired up. I'm just so fired up to be a part of listen I don't like busy people like busy people, but you know what important people like important people What am I mean by important?  I gotta go.  What are you waiting for? Eric tom is my favorite video. He said what are you waiting for? Find out what you want and get up and go make sure every day that you're going after that thing The why aren't you inviting people to 8% nation? Exactly Here's why cody because there's two kind of pains in life Are you seeing my my text by the way? Yeah, I got you.  Listen the pain of the pain of discipline weighs ounces The pain of regret weighs tons And I didn't want to regret I was scared when they'd offer called me and said hey I want you to join this this this insurance company. I was scared to death. I wasn't living at home But I was tired of regretting. I was tired of it. Are you tired of regretting? When I got when I got to symmetry financial group and I started working the pain of discipline hurt I wasn't used to having a schedule. I wasn't used to reading books. I wasn't used to waking up early I wasn't used to meditating But the pain of discipline weighs that it was so worth it See, I was always taught don't ask don't ask what's gonna cost. That's what it's worth I love my life. We'll go shopping and and when I was when we were broke and we were on food stamps We always look at the price like what's it gonna cost? We don't do that anymore So how much is this worth to us? What is this worth? What's it worth you to get 10 people to 8 nation? What's it worth that the company you're at and what you're doing? What's it worth?  Is it gonna cost you effort? We're bringing fire. He's got some he's got some heavyweights lined up. Listen. It's not about speaking on the stage I don't care. I don't need to speak. I want to listen. I still have things to learn. I still got room to grow But I don't want the pain of regret I'm inviting people to 8% nationwide because it may change their life How selfish would I be if I didn't invite someone to something that potentially could change their life like my life was changed It ain't about me It's just not It's not It's about the lives that we're trying to change a free event What if one person's life Is worth changing Because I know I was that one person and they'd offered He called a bunch of people but I answered He said a bunch of things, but I listened He told me what to do and I heard them It's time to go to the next level It's time to level up If you're tired of doing what you've been doing, let's do something new Let's go new places. Let's dream bigger. Let's have more. Let's do more. Let's be more I don't know why cody's let me talk. I feel I love it I think it's the first live event I've ever spoken on. I don't think I've ever spoken on a live event before I could go my buddy told me the other day.  He said but before you learn to fly Before you got to learn how to run And he said here's the reality most people never take off in life and fly because they got too much baggage He said last time I went to the airport. They only let me check two To see cody before I became marlin faulkner. I had all kind of I had I had chicago airport full of baggage Wondered why I couldn't take off Why can't I be like cody askings? Why can't I be like a less brown? I had too much baggage And it was an event like this that I went to a symmetry financial I went to an event and I had to hear something to change my life And I realized I got to start laying down baggage. I can't live the way I used to live I got to do something different And man, I started flying So maybe if where you're at maybe it's not doing more. Maybe it's letting go of what you haven't let go of See we always on January 1st. We want to do more be more have more But if your cups full, how do you get more? Maybe you got to pour some stuff out.  Hey, it's okay to pour this out Dude, you got to let me go. You got to get me off of here. I'm about to start preaching And I just got to give you the mic and and get out of the way Man, I love it Like when we play basketball together and we're on the same team You give me the ball if you get out of the way When we speak, I'm gonna just give you the mic and I'm gonna get out of the way I'm not gonna make this public rikoni ask us and I do have a bet when we play basketball When I was a football player we play basketball There's a there's a bet we might have to youtube live this event because I've I've got a lot of pride I started working out. Listen before I was talking about working out, bro.  I'm not gonna use excuse. I'm a football player I'm just gonna make it happen because that listen you taught me that I just got to go to work And so when we play basketball, I'm gonna go to work on you and I know you're good But listen Dude, I was born for challenges. I was like I was like pizza dough every time you turn up the heat I rise brother. Let's go. That's the new one. God. I gotta write that down. I just thought of that I played I played Sunday night And the longer we played the better I got. I mean that was I really good guys on the other team and I had some scrubs and we won every game We went like seven games in a row. I played for three hours on Sunday night Like Eric Thomas said you got that dog in you buddy Got it. I love the challenge Listen, if you score on me once you might listen, you might you scored once you may not score good If you score again, um, listen, I'm built to wake up and get up That's it. You're built to fall down. I'm I'm built to fall down and get up That's what less brown says. He said if you can fall in your back, that's good because if you can look up You can get up. Don't get me started on my guys Who are you most excited to listen to this weekend? Um I listen Eric Thomas every day Yeah, I listen to less brown three or four times a week I really am interested. I've never heard Brian Tracy. I read his books I've never heard from him and some of the stuff he said was fired Um, so I'm excited to listen to that one of the greats in the industry Oh, it's freaking ridiculous. Yeah The knowledge in the house. I'm just you know what Cody? I'm not gonna pick. I'm just excited Number one. I'm excited for you and what you're doing in a world where COVID is is taking people out of the game You rose up like dope. Do I keep rising up? You're doing a free event That's it. I'm just well. I'm just excited. I'm not I'm just excited. Can't you tell I'm excited I'm excited, baby. Whoo. I could I could tell you're excited dude. The key the key.  Maybe, you know, I'm like, well I don't know. That's I just that's just It's not what this is. This one's about, you know So will you please tell the story about when you're going to work? That's my favorite story I it's the best you guys listen. This is the best story I tell this story and then I say by the way, it was cody asking. It's not me But I tell the story. Will you please tell the story? It's my favorite story You're a better storyteller than me, but I'll do my best. Yes, please do please do I was when I was 16 years old I was working at a little grocery store called apple market in rogersville, missouri And I was supposed to go to work on a saturday from four o'clock to ten o'clock. I was part-time I was 16 years old. I was like, uh, I was getting carts out of the parking lot I was filling the shelves. I was mopping the floor like I did all that And you know full putting the boxes in the box Breaker downer in the back whatever it was called if I wouldn't call back and I went I was it was a saturday. It was about three o'clock. So let's go to work in an hour And I was throwing up Didn't feel well tummy ache and actually puking And I go to my dad and I'm like, hey, uh, I'm Not feeling real well. I'm not going to go to work today And he looked at me And said And I still hear this today every time I don't want to do something He said you do whatever you want to do But you know what I would do And so I will I went to work because I've never seen him miss a day of work. Okay He's been very healthy. He's been very fortunate. I've never seen him miss a day of work in 31 years Here's why I love that story. I'm trying to get emotional Man because I don't have a dad to tell me that Like I think about who could I have been if I had a man In my life that I looked up to that spoke to me like that That's how I felt for most of my life, but you know how I feel now That's the story I told my sons See sometimes if you if you don't get what you want out of life, you have to become what you want out of life That's right So I never had someone tell me that If I didn't want to go to work, I just didn't go and I lived most of my life on food stamps Not able to take care of my wife and four kids But now that I know now that I've heard the story You do what you want to do, but you know what I'd do That's it Brother come on dude. I might be That that his competitiveness came out in that statement, didn't he? I mean he came out It came out You do what you want to do, but you know what I did Oh I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna jump to My buddy Ali in a second. Um, what's got you uh, what's got you so for those that maybe somebody's on the fence Um about registering themselves registering their entire company their entire, you know, everybody they know they've ever known Why should they do so and show up friday and saturday? hmm What if the life that you're living is not the life you're supposed to be living I mean all the dreams that you've ever dreamed Are minute compared to the dreams that you're supposed to be living. What if The charity you're supposed to be able to give to What if your kids are supposed to have more what if you're supposed to do more what if you're supposed to be more What if you find that at eight percent nation? or Go on living life just the way you have um I don't know what you do, but I know what I'd do Come on now You do what you want to do You know what I'm gonna do boom I'm excited to hear you, uh Drop it like it's hot on on this weekend man. Thank you for being a part of it Thank you for coming in spending a few minutes with us You're an unbelievable dude and everybody needs to get to know mr. Marlon Faulkner I appreciate you. I love you and your wife. I love what you're building I love that I learned that it's not just about me It's about so many more and we've heard it said a million times, but nobody does it but you did mr. Askins If you want To get what you want in life help enough people get what they want out of life I mean you're a living example of that and I'll forever stay hits to your wagon brother. I appreciate you. Thank you so much See you guys at eight percent nation. Let's go Appreciate you buddy. Thank you marl. Hey make sure you guys go to a percent virtual.com to register to get a part of this thing To get leveled up if you don't quit you can't fail. Hey if you enjoyed this I got another one. You're gonna love it's right there. Click on it See you in there. So on today's show the five tips to become the best sales person Ever on planet earth period boom. There you go. Let's do that. Come on now. Let's do it man Let's hit it. What do you got for us kody? Let's do it. Well. Thank you for having me man I love the show. Love you guys


Ahoy-hoy and welcome to r slash dank memes from site 19 where I go over only the dankest memes from r slash dank memes from site 19. Let's get started. Having no fine SCPs, the GOC and infographics. I don't know, the infographics had some good ideas, I just don't think in practice most of those good ideas would actually accomplish anything of a value. Oh man, I feel, I almost now feel like going after that video was a sort of low hanging fruit, but I mean, I worry sometimes that when people watch videos like that, that's the impression of the SCP foundation that they get. So really it's, I'm not trying to like bring anybody down, I'm just trying to make sure that everyone gets correct information. Ah, and I know the video was like, what was it, you versus the SCP foundation or versus SCP, some, some clickbaity title anyway, which I've done clickbaity titles exactly like that before. So I'm not, I'm not judging that, but at the same time it's like, just get it right. If you want to talk about the GOC, let's just talk about the GOC, but that doesn't get as many clicks as saying it's the SCP foundation. Let's just, foundation needs to find the difference between this picture and this picture. They're the same picture. Yeah, it's just a starfish. Dr. Samarian tries, tries. Wow. You know, I'm gonna say you might want to do a little bit of spell checking and a little bit of a grammar correction there. Bro, I'm straight up not having a good time. I actually, I'm gonna be honest with you, when I did that voice for 682, I, I still actually have never heard this version done for real. So I have no idea what the actual, bro, I'm not having a good time, I'm straight up not having a good time is how it actually goes. The infographics show making another stu, that's not fair. Let's not be mean. There's no need to be mean. Just be, just be correct. Just don't be wrong. And that's all.  I don't know. You versus the SCP, we will watch your career with great shotgun directly to, a shotgun directly to SCP 173 space. Sure. Let's give it a try and see what happens. Also, whoever this was took the screenshot really, really quickly. 25 minutes after the video went out. Damn. Ah, the SPC Foundation, saving humanity by punching sharks. Or, you know, just punching sharks and let's say that humanity gets saved. That's sort of an incidental benefit. The SPC Foundation does not care about saving humanity, all they care about is punching sharks. Can you give us any insight on your origins? SCP-XXXX remains silent. Okay, I think we're done here. Forget to complete the meme. This is like the standard, yeah, this is the standard template for an interview, isn't it? YouTube just now. Dr. Sumerian, the infographics show is wrong. I have waited for no five days for this. Oh, man. I guess I, you know, I could have come out with that even earlier, but like, I was kind of not sure I was wanting to do it at all for various reasons. I don't like the idea of going after somebody else. You know, reacting to something is one thing. Reacting to something that you know you're not going to like is a completely different story.  The femur breaker is just to injure the lures. I didn't know it was called the femur breaker. I didn't know that was, oh God, it used to lure the lure subject. Injure, I'm sorry, it's used to injure the lure subject. I'm going to get on other people about being correct. I should at least try to be correct myself. The sound emitted by said subject will be transmitted over the site public address system. Once SCP 106 is entered the cell, it must be lifted back up using the ELO-ID electromagnets. You know, it's this, how'd you figure that one out trial and error? That's a, that's another thing I've noticed about a lot of SCPs. Like, you know, SCP such and such will produce if, if shot with a 12 gauge shotgun shell, SCP XXX will produce exactly seven milliliters of blood before regenerating itself. And I'm like, how did you know? How do you, why? First of all, why do I need to know that specific piece of information? And second of all, how many tests did you do to get that? And why? Jesus Christ, I don't. I mean, this is a Dr. Sumerian meme, so I tend to include those, but also what? I mean, I get the one on the upper left and one on the bottom right, but I don't get the two. Okay, well, hold on. Maybe I wasn't looking too closely, but it looks like they have burn marks. So I guess that's the joke. I didn't notice it on, on the, I just now noticed on the one on the bottom left. And once I saw that, I figured that must be the unifying thread. Is there like a red like on the other side of that face on the upper right? I don't know the characters, so I don't know for sure. But I also don't understand what, you know, what's the, what, what, what is each of these supposed to represent? I don't understand what our slash dank memes from site 19 sees versus canon. You're wrong about everything, even God sips angst. Is it really? Is he that angsty? I don't know. Maybe he is. What do you mean? I can't f at 173. Who else is supposed to do it? Kill me, please. I'm only here to kill kids, drink milk, and I'm all out of milk. I'm only here. I don't know. Is that true of Clef? This is supposed to be Sumerian Brighton Clef. I don't know if that's necessarily true. Didn't Clef kill a guy for killing kids? I don't know. Man, I do know that he did do that. So that's not really accurate. Every other organization after the Church of the Broken God renames itself to renames itself the Church of the Fixed God or repaired God, maybe?  The SCP fanbase is a highly unheard of community. Millions of fans. Yeah. Every time someone goes, man, SCP foundation is close to being mainstream. I'm like, it kind of already is. Especially since like, I mean, once the kids that are kids actually grow up to be like full-on teenagers, I think it's going to reach a critical mass of like, super popular. But it's already super, I mean, it's already super popular and it's culturally significant at this point. Like anything that people like, there's so much gatekeeping still going on. You're not a real SCP fan if you don't X. Or you're not a real, you know, just, we'll get there. But just because just because people are gatekeeping doesn't mean the gatekeeping is correct. That's the important takeaway, I think. Stop saying I look like Zuko.  And I am not a coward. I mean, I appreciate this. I'll probably use the top frame as part of the thumbnail. But, I mean, I appreciate this. But also, I don't know anything about Zuko. And I've never said stop saying, I guess this is supposed to be a meme, but still, I don't know who Zuko is or what he's about. It's a Marion uploads video. Oh, man. Encouraging.  Enjoy the things I enjoy instead. Can't just ignore people who like the things you don't like.  Stop it.  New scientists on the side. Look, but around the world, okay? Whatever it is, I'll understand. Random SCP to find the Laws of Fix. There's nothing about this, I understand. Infographics show makes crappy SCP video, literally. All of r slash dank memes from site 19. Wrong. I have become the meme. And there's nothing I can do about it. You know what I'll say this? I don't want the infographics. I don't, I'm thinking I'm making another one of those because that was a pretty successful video, but I don't want the, like, it's not a us versus them sort of thing. I want to make sure that's clear. I know none of these have been fully towards that, but I've seen it in the community like recently. Like when people talk about the Infographics show, they talk about it in a sense of like being a us versus them thing. And I'm really, really not a fan of that, but anyway. Thank you very much for watching. If you'd like to see more videos like this, please hit the subscribe button. Don't miss the subscribe button. I always say that, and I think it's gotten to become so rote and common that people ask for that, that people kind of just forget, like they hear it, and it just doesn't process. Hit the subscribe button and hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos. And then head on over to patreon.com forward slash D Sumerian, like everybody here on the screen already has, including VV, Dr. J Redacted, and Lawful Evil. It's nice to know that I'm not alone out here, and I'll see you all again on Thursday.


Michael with how well Chapman has thrown this season. Are you surprised to see him not be able to come through in that ninth inning. I mean yeah definitely. I mean he's such a stud that you totally expect it to be a quick one two three with two possibly three punch outs. So it's tough but I mean that's how baseball works.  What did you feel like was going on on the mound. Yeah I felt like I nibbled a little bit in in that first inning. I got a limit walks that gets me pulled from a game a lot earlier. And yeah I felt like I was in my lanes pretty close but missing a ball off a ball down whatever it is. And started to kind of get into a groove in that like second third inning. But then I got another shot down ending after I was Geo hit a bomb in the fourth. So this point of myself for not getting a fourth inning scoreless or clean. Any other questions for Michael. Michael how just overall do you kind of evaluate the season that you've had so far. You obviously bounce back and forth between starting or leaving to bad some success and some games that haven't gone as well. Yeah I mean you're kind of in spot on right there it's been a little up and down. Started off hot but I felt like it was almost a lucky hot. I didn't feel great in my mechanics and was working my way out of some jams. And then those jams kind of caught up to me a little bit. I'd say in the middle of so far this season. But as of late I've been feeling a lot more comfortable. I like getting into that starters routine of throwing a bullpen in between and no one I'm going to be on the mound and it's that routine gets me where I can actually work on some things and get some more mount time and meaningful mount time because one of the bullpen I might have to be hot that day so it's a lot easier to work on things in this setting so I feel like I'm making strides but it still hasn't been perfect yet.


Hello everybody. Hi, I'm James Vincent. Apparently I'm going to tell you about selling the future and I think the best way to do that is to give you some case studies in the last 20 years. I've been lucky enough to be in the room helping explain the future, introduce the future and so I'm going to do some case studies with Apple, Airbnb, Snapchat and also some other brands that we're working on. So first of all, I founder is my company. We don't I have three wonderful partners. We couldn't afford the vowels, so the vowels fell away. That was a big Chinese company. So we called FNDR founder and we work in a sort of peer-to-peer with founders of all nature and I'll give you a bunch of different examples of that. We worked together with over 130 founders one by one and so I'm going to tell you some stories about how we've introduced some pretty interesting things that people have not seen before. So, but I'm going to start with the big three guys. These are three people that I've worked very closely with in the last 20 years. So from 2000 to 2011 I work with Steve Jobs. I ran a meeting with him every Wednesday from one till three. I ran the ad agency and the marketing company for Apple and we introduced iTunes, iPod, iPhone, App Store, iPad, all of those different products. From 2015 to 2018 I work with Brian and help introduce to Airbnb with the bailout, the logo and the belief of in a world where seven, actually now eight billion people can belong. So I'm going to tell you a story about human belonging which is the narrative of Airbnb and I'm going to tell you a story about Snapchat which is about authentic friendship which is almost kind of ironic because it's ephemeral. It goes away and yet it actually builds long-term friendship. So I want to tell you that story too. So we're going to start with the fact that intentional narrative is both the origin and the destination story. So if you're going to introduce, sell the future, being a brand that's trusted is super important that that narrative is understood and that every time a product comes out it reinforces the brand. A brand isn't something that you start doing five years into building the business. You do it immediately. Your products and your brand need to be very, very tightly connected. I think these three pretty good examples of that. So what is a brand? So I would argue it's three things. Firstly, it's a uniting narrative. So it's a story that every time you go in the Apple Store, you just buy one of their products and it works.  You now trust Apple to do that. So that would argue everybody in this room either has an Apple device or one that was stolen or borrowed from an Apple device. So obviously I spent a lot of time with Apple so I'm a little biased, but I think they came up with the iPhone first. So a uniting narrative and then connected to culture, right? So one of the things and there's Apple 40 years old, how do you carry on being relevant? You carry on being relevant. Airbnb has their hosts so they have a community of people that constantly feed into the brand and make sure it's relevant. And then being trusted, you know, I think last week, of course, was a terrible time for Web3. I was actually at Web Summit the week before talking about how you build iconic brands in Web3. And I presented this slide, which is actually we need to get to a place where there are trusted brands in Web3. And of course, last week was the beginning of understanding that we have a lot of work to do with regard to that. So let me tell you three case studies. I'm going to jump into Apple, probably the most familiar of the three that I'm going to talk to you about. I think the thing to realize is that he didn't set out to change the computer industry. He set out to change the way people think creatively. And so this was an idealistic goal that was incredibly huge and its intention runs through everything they did. So let me tell you about that. The way I look at Apple, and I was involved in the last three ones of these stories, but the story goes way back before me. 1984, which some people think is one of the finest commercials ever made by Ridley Scott, he was already selling the future. Because this, if you know the commercial, it was at Big Blue, IBM was actually sort of the bad guy. And they were describing how the future would be like drone, like everybody would be following and copying and everybody looked the same and the Apple was about self expression. So step one, 1984, Apple defined its enemy. We're not that. 1997, think different. Possibly, certainly one of my favorite campaigns, I'm sure a lot of people have seen this and understood it.  So this was a company that was almost bankrupt, Steve came back, resuscitated the brand and think different, revitalized its relationship and it gave it permission in culture to introduce the future once again. And that once again began, I think, with iPod. So if you remember when a computer was a room, then it became a thing under your desk and then it became a thing that you could carry around. And of course, now it's the thing that you all have in your pocket and you live on, right? That's just a supercomputer in your pocket, but you can't start there. You started with music. You started with a human behavior shift. We always used to say that if you can perform an Apple product, you know what it is. So that's iPod. Right? So Silhouette's campaign, that was my first campaign. Thousand songs in your pocket was just a very simple way of explaining it. If you remember back then, people were on Lime Wire and Napster stealing music or they were using a CD Walkman with 12 songs that skipped. So neither of those were very good solutions, but iTunes and iPod came along and said, actually, you will pay for music if it's an amazing experience. And that was selling the future. Radically, I don't know how many of you remember this. I know it's 20 years ago, so maybe half the audience doesn't remember this, but those people that are older than 20 will remember the moment when they put their hands on the first iPod. It was really a moment of, wow, and there's a click wheel and they're like, wow, it's because I've got lots of music. I've got lots, yeah, you've got a thousand songs. You've got to click your way through it, right? If you've got 12 songs, you don't need a click wheel. So hardware, software, working together, that was selling the future. And it sold the future that became in 2006 with step five, the phone. And the phone, there's an app for that, was the campaign that we did that explained probably the last 15 years. So many of the companies in the last 15 years have been established on an app store. And there's an app for that was this explanation that a phone, a super computer in your pocket, it's like a Swiss Army knife. So the fascinating thing when the phone first came out, excuse me, the first reaction of people was where are the buttons, right? So anybody used to use a crackberry or a Nokia or probably more Nokia here, but... And most people were like, where's the buttons and why is it just a screen? I really, how am I going to interact with this thing, right? What do I do? You're like, don't worry, it's all good. So actually, there's a keyboard and you press these things, but there's also more importantly, apps. You click on an app and it opens up and it's super simple.   And so each one of those apps was reinventing a device that had been in culture for 100 years and always had buttons. And even the smartphones, if you remember, weren't that smart.  And the iPhone suddenly introduced, it wasn't that quick at the beginning, but it suddenly introduced the real internet where the internet actually looked like the internet. And that took a series of pieces of communication that brought you step by step by step into seeing that the future actually, a device should simply be a screen that buttons completely distract you from that human interaction, that ability to be creative, to express yourself, which is the underlying story of Apple. So I'm going to go quickly to two other quick case studies. So Airbnb, it's not about the way we travel, but the way we live through travel. I don't know about you. If you've been to Airbnb, I'm sure most people have. When you go on an Airbnb, you kind of bring your best human. You know, you send a no. I see your lovely place. I'd like to stay there. I'm just here with my cute little family. Is it free?  They say, yeah, at the end, when you're leaving, they ask you to do a review. It's not like a Yelp review or a TripAdvisor review where you say, the coffee was cold. I didn't like the way that she smiled at me. You write a private review. You go, you know, you need to do a little bit of work in the bathroom or there wasn't enough of this. And then you do a public review. So you take the sting out of the public discourse. And so the brand becomes a very positive brand. And also the product gets improved. So Brian, as a designer from RISD, designed for good human behavior. I had him on a stage in New York and I did a podcast with him recently and he talked about why are more companies not led by creative people because creative people can design for good human behavior. And I think there are plenty of bad examples of software designed for not good human behavior. I think Airbnb designs for good human behavior. It's possible. So I worked with him and we came up with Don't Go There Live There. We introduced the TRIPS platform. I worked at Airbnb and created the Experiences product, which became meant that Airbnb became a travel company rather than an accommodation company and could IPO in that way. So and here's the almost the biggest paradox of all was Snapchat. So, you know, Evan had this ephemeral it goes away, right? It goes away. So whatever you write goes away. That sounds like it's going to be of no use whatsoever. But it turns out on social media actually creates better behavior. Why? Because on most social media, you are lying to strangers. You're lying because you didn't have a great day, but you posted a picture of a sunset or a happy family and you're not having a great time. Or rather than lying to strangers, Truth to Friends actually works out when you can be honest and truthful with a small number of people because you're more honest and truthful. It's a small group. So Snapchat is typically 15, 20, 30 people. You're more honest and truthful. You're real friends. You're not showboating. You're not pretending you're cool. You're not pretending you've got 15,000 friends. You're actually behaving honestly and truthfully. So this was a campaign that we did. They did after we worked together about real friends and obviously other social platforms. I'm not sure whether they are real friends. Okay, so these three guys, that's how they have sold the future. They were consistent in the way they built their brand. With Apple it was thinking creatively. With Airbnb it was living through travel and with Snapchat it was lasting friendship. So, the future. I really don't like talking about the future because I don't think you can predict it. But what you can do is model it. So at Founder we have a model that we use with founders that are looking to create a new thing that people haven't seen before, which is the future. What is that model? We think there's three steps. So whether it's Web 3, digital media, the internet, biological revolution, all the millions of other things that are going on today in this very building. So there are three steps and if you rush all the way to the end, which I think sometimes people do, you miss very critical steps in introducing new behaviors, some of which I've just told you in the case studies. So first the shock absorber. So in Web 3 that is physical and digital and the difference between the digital dualism that people feel when they go into digital land. So a lot of the projects we're doing now is with Web 2 companies figuring out how to add Web 3, how to build a digital and a physical connection. The bridge divide, it's something, a product that bridges the divide between physical and digital so that ultimately you can be a springboard. And I think a lot of people think you can run straight to a springboard to introduce the future. I think you need to go through these steps. So here we are, I'll give you the example, which of course is Apple. iPod was the shock absorber. It said digital media is okay. It's a thousand, you plug it in, it just goes in, you click wheel, don't worry, trust the device, it's gonna work. And so it bridged digital media into a physical device with hardware and software fully integrated. The bridging device was the iPhone as soon as the phone came out, everyone after they said, where are the buttons? They said, wow, okay, this is really a supercomputer. It can do all kinds of things. But actually the springboard was the App Store, right? Because of course so many companies have been created on that platform. And so I think, yeah, if you're looking for a model for the future, that's pretty much as good as good as I can give you today. So I'm gonna give you, just to end off, I have a few more minutes. I'm gonna give you five other examples, not the big guys, but these are companies that we work with at Founder and have worked with in the last five years. Some of which you'll know, so Haar Aerospace's electric aeroplane. So hands up, who wants to fly on an electric aeroplane? Okay, for those people that didn't put their hand up, it might be because you're worried that someone didn't plug it in the night before. So I'm gonna tell you that there is a jet engine at the back of this electric aeroplane, just in case someone didn't plug it in and it runs out of power at 30,000 feet. So how many people would like to fly on an aeroplane with its electric powered but also has a jet engine at the back, just in case? Okay, pretty much everybody, thank you. So the lesson here is introducing the new with the familiar. So Steve was always going on about how important it was not to introduce new with new. And again, I think that's something that a lot of people get wrong. They introduced the new with the new and basically I'm not gonna do new on top of new until next year or the year after or the year after. Cause I'll wait till someone else figures it out. If you go and look at some of the keynotes from Apple, iPod, iPhone, iPad, there are lessons in storytelling. They're really worth looking at those keynotes. One of the things is he always uses familiarity to introduce new products. You're using email, this is how you use it. You're looking at photos, this is how you use it. You're in the internet, this is how you use it. So always through the lens of the familiar. And that's why this aeroplane looks like an aeroplane. So a lot of aeroplane, electric aeroplanes don't look like aeroplanes and so I'm a little nervous to get into it. Guess what? Human behavior says I wanna get into an aeroplane that kinda looks like an aeroplane. We called it an iPhone. We had all kinds of names. In the end we were just like let's call it an iPhone. Let's not have that battle. Cause there's too many new things but let's have some familiarity. So we called it iPhone cause we're apparently calling everything I at the time. Bowery is vertical farming. And so they're about feeding people wherever the need is and vertical farming with the unpredictable climate that we have today. And so we work with Irving, the founder and helped him talk to wherever there's food is needed we can grow it. We're working with Jason at Discord. As you probably know from Discord, huge in gaming and it's now being used across all kinds of different product experiences. Product is experience, experience is brand. Make sure that your brand and your product do not get too separated. You don't build brand five years from now.  So rare if people know is a great NFT case study cause it's for those people that collected cards when you were children, when you were kids, I collected Panini football cards and this is the digital version of that in Fantasy League, but there's an NFT behind each one. So it was also familiar. It's a familiar behavior backed by an NFT. So I might argue a beautiful bridge between digital and physical because I've got a physical behavior backed by a digital one. So Soura has been this huge opportunity. We came up with this line, own your game. They're now in all types of sports in pretty much every league in the world. And finally, Meaty is Mycelium, which for those people that don't know is what grows below a mushroom. It's the largest single organism in the world. And the idea we came up with was actually not to talk about mushrooms too much, but just keep it really simple. We came up with this idea, good energy and just keep it super, super simple, which is always super important too. So introduce the new with the familiar. Bring voice to your vision. So use your language, tell a story, make it, have an impact, make sure that people leave with the story that you want them to have. But live that through your product because your product is your experience and your experience is your brand. Be an interaction with the new world and a connection with the old. So NFTs through a case study of real life and keep it simple, always keep it simple. 1,000 songs in your pocket. There's an app for that. Don't be afraid of the inevitable. Inevitable language is good language. The way you deliver it has to be unique, but inevitable language is good language. So my final thought, because I have no seconds left, so I think I have to get off, is try not to be a solution to an old world problem.  And with that, I'm done. Thank you.


Hi, everybody. Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com. I'm very excited about this. 2021 Leaf, greatest hits basketball. Random hit break, number two. It's just nine spots. Everyone's guaranteed a hit. So we're gonna open up the box and then we'll randomize these names right here. We'll randomize the names, randomize the hits, and then we'll match up with something and hopefully it's the thing that you want. Big thanks to Nick, Bennett and Rick for buying your spot straight up, which I appreciate. And congrats to the winners of spots. Alan, Rick again, congrats to the winners. Alan and Rick won one in one of the filler packs and then Rick actually bought all the spots in the second filler pack. So it automatically gets those two hits right there. Plus the pack. That was in a different video. All right, so again, I'm gonna open up the box, type in all the hits and we'll see what happens. I mean, take a look at the sell sheet here. There could be potentially some really amazing stuff. All right, well, let's get to it. 2021 Leaf greatest hits basketball. Thanks to everybody who got into the action. Yeah, Rick's got the odds on his side, that is for sure. Adjust the levels here a little bit. Yeah, Rick's got the odds for sure, but from my perspective, I hope everyone gets a monster, which certainly is possible in something like this. I like this, this Ultra Pro, I guess cigarette top kind of case right there. All right, and we're just gonna go from front to back. Let's see if I can pull up the camera just a little bit here so we can see everything. All right, we're gonna go front to back. Here's the first one already. And we'll type them in the order that they are pulled. We're gonna lead off with a silver prism, Donovan Mitchell. Wow, nice rookie card here. From 1718, Prism Basketball. Centering is at 10. Wow, edges, surface, and corners are all at 9.5 for a total grade of 9.5. I feel like you rarely see the centering 10 on prism stuff. That's always pretty difficult to get. This little dust on top of here, but that can easily be cleaned off. Nice. That's the first one. Second one is, is Charles Barkley from 86 Fleer. Nice, PSA eight. It's another nice one. Next up is, ooh, nice rookie Yannis, PSA 10 from 2013-14 Panini Hoops Basketball. Wow, that's an excellent time to get this one. Bucks winning a championship, Yannis. Finals MVP, that's hashtag good for the hobby. Next up, this guy was great in the playoffs. Trey Young, 2018-19, Panini Prism Basketball, PSA 10, base Trey Young. He could only get better. That team could only get better. Next up is, wow, Kobe from 1996. Finest basketball, PSA nine. We've got, looks like, finest apprentices insert. Kobe Bean Bryant, RIP, missed this guy. Oh, and Trey Young, Redmond's reminding me, just inked a new deal today. Good for him. All right. Next one is, we got an SGC nine LeBron James from 2003-04 Tops Basketball. So far, so good. Next three, last three. Jason Tatum, rookie, PSA 10. That is awesome. What a case. I wish we had more of this. We'll try to dig up some more of this, ladies and gentlemen. No more in the store now, but this is the kind of quality that we're pulling out of here. Two more to go. We've got James Hardin. Look how young he looks here. 2009 Tops Basketball, James Hardin, PSA nine. That is awesome. And the final one is, wow. For the Chicago Bulls, that is Michael Jordan. 1986 Fleer Basketball sticker, Michael Jordan, PSA eight. We saw this recently in our 1986 Fleer Basketball full set break that we did over the national. That is nice, that's it. All right, so here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna pause the video. We're gonna type in all of the hits in the order that they were pulled. And when we come back, we'll run the randomizer and see who gets what. Stick around. All right, welcome back. Look at this. There are all the hits. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Nine hits for these peeps right here. Thank you. And let's do it. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. Four and a three. Four and a three, lucky seven times. Your names first. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time. We got Richard down to Richard. Four and a three, seven times for the hits. One, two, three, four, five, six. And three more times. Five, six, and seventh and final time. After seven, the Jordan's on top. The Donovan Mitchell's on the bottom. All the other great hits are in between. Woo, let's see what we got. Let's see how it shakes out for everybody. I mean, I would be happy with any card in this bunch. All right, Richard, Rick, you've got the Michael Jordan 1986 Fleer sticker. PSA eight. You also get the Yanis rookie card, PSA 10. Nicoba with the Jason Tatum, 17, 18 prism, PSA 10. Rick, you got the Trey Young, 18, 19 prism, PSA 10. You also get the LeBron James 0304 Tops Basketball SGC nine. Bennett with the James Harden 2009 Tops Basketball PSA nine. Rick with the Charles Barkley 1986 Fleer, PSA eight. Allen with the Kobe, gets the Kobe Bryant 1996 finest apprentices, PSA nine. And Rick also with the Donovan Mitchell, 17, 18 rookie card from Prism Silver Parallel BGS nine with a centering of a 10, which again, as I said earlier, I feel like I rarely, rarely see that on the centering. Here's another look at everything again. Thanks everyone for getting in, appreciate it. Lot of nice stuff here. Big ups to, big ups to Lee for putting together a really nice box here. I don't know if they're all gonna be this amazing, but they're pretty nice. Thanks everybody. Keep your eye for more on jaspyscasebreaks.com. There's the James Harden guys. Can't get over how the young he looks without a beard. Beard makes him look older. And there is the Michael Jordan right there as well. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye bye.


for spacious skies, for amber waves of prey, for purple mountain majesties above the fernshed his braids on land from sea to shining sea.


The Cavalcade of America presented by DuPont. The story that will be told in music and drama this evening on the Cavalcade of America presented by DuPont is the story of a pioneer in American music, Edward McDowell. We're privileged to have with us this evening Mrs. McDowell, widow of the composer-musician who has given us much valuable assistance in the preparation of our story. Mrs. McDowell, won't you say a word to our audience? Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It gives me great pleasure to be here to see the dramatization of the life of my husband and my own unimportant life, and I know I'm going to watch it with a very great interest. Thank you all. Thank you, Mrs. McDowell. Even in the latter years of the 19th century, the standing of musicians in America was still very doubtful. It remained for a quiet, retiring man to help the American artist achieve proper recognition in his own country. His name was Edward McDowell, and he was born in New York City in 1861. We meet him first, a sensitive boy of 12, practicing on his piano. He is interrupted by his grandfather, a hard-fisted old school Quaker who in his gruff way is genuinely fond of the boy. Miss Practicing. Well, that's good. It's time I had a talk with you. Edward, what do you intend to do when you grow up? I know what I'd like to be if I'm ever good enough. Well, what is it you'd like? I want to be a musician.  You must do some useful work in the world. Yes, friend, father. Musician.  Oh, but you were young. You forget such nonsense. But, grandfather, why isn't it all right to be a musician? Edward, you come of God-fearing people who work. People who do things with their hands. That's what made this a great country. But, grandfather... No real man with red blood in his veins would spend his time doing parlor tricks at the piano or sawing on a fiddle in the park. But, grandfather, that isn't what I want. I want to write music. Music like Beethoven's or Brahms. Only the way an American would write. Well, I'm going to speak to your mother.  Why, it's scandalous. Listen, grandfather, there's an organ grinder outside. Do you suppose he made up the tune he's playing? Oh, look, the monkey's holding a cup in his hand.  But the man is happy. He's smiling. Well, at least he works, grinding that organ to earn his living. Boy, Edward bursting with talent grows older, outstrips his teachers, and with the help of his mother goes to Europe to study with the great masters. At 14, he wins a full scholarship to National Conservatory at Paris, the first American to be so honored. For three years, he undergoes the most intensive training. Later, he travels to Germany for more study. And there, Joachim Roth arranges a meeting for the young lad of 19 with Europe's greatest piano virtuoso, Franz Liszt, who agrees listen to something quite unheard of. A concerto by an American.  My playing is over. I like your play.  That is a fitting review. Nine, nine, it is a compliment. McDowell, I am learning. I see first an American, shy, timid. Then my ears hear a talent that is like Chopin, Schumann. And it is a new talent. I do not quite understand. I hear strains of this that I know, and that, what is it, American music? No, not yet. Many of those strains are borrowed from the masters I admire most. Honest young man. My boy, when you go home, I think you will write some very great music. He used his influence to have Edward McDowell play his concerto in Zurich, and it achieved a great success. Now his path crosses that of another young American, Marion Nevins. A Connecticut girl come to Europe to study with Clara Schumann, wife of the great musician Robert Schumann. Madame Schumann accepted her as a pupil, but was suddenly taken ill. Joaquin Rapp, interested in the talented young girl, insisted upon her taking lessons from McDowell. He sends Marion to see the young pianist composer. Oh, please sit down, Miss Nevins. Thank you, Mr. McDowell. Now, tell me, why did you come to Europe to study music and then by asking lessons of an American? Madame Schumann was taken ill, and Herr Rapp sent me to you. He said you were young and that you spoke English, that you'd make a good teacher for me. In fact, he insisted that I study with you for a time. Well, if Herr Rapp insists, I suppose we must make the best of it, both of us. I suppose so. You understand, Miss Nevins, that I'm a very busy man. I have lately been appointed Professor of the Piano at the Darmstadt Conservatory. Tell me, just what does that mean? Well, it means most of my pupils are young girls.  Oh, I see. And then to change my social standing, I have to go each week to teach some young counts and countesses who usually go to sleep when I try to explain counterpoint. Oh. There's some sort of relationship to Queen Victoria, just what I don't know. That must be fun. Well, the best part of it is the fine dinner I always have there, but not with a family, of course. I understand. Perhaps you wonder why I'm here when there are plenty of good musicians at home under whom I might study. You see, there's something about Europe that draws many who hope to be artists. I know. That's why I'm here, too. To study in these surroundings, to study with...  Oh. But, you know, Ms. Nevins, I'm going back to America as soon as I think I've learned enough. So? I'm going back to make America see that there's a place for a serious musician, that musicians are neither fools nor idlers, that they have a high task, to make more people alive to beauty. But what of your own talent? Well, what there is will thrive by hard work. A musician mustn't be a monk. I will write better American music if I work and teach and know the people at home and write music when I can. Yes, but there must be times free of people and worries for you to write your music. Yes. But that would be enshrined. Perhaps it will happen, too. You think so? Yes. I... Well, um, really, Ms. Nevins, I suppose it's time to begin your first lesson. Uh, suppose first you play for me. In combination of circumstances that when Marion Nevins first visited Edward McDowell, she did not want to study the piano with him. Neither did he wish to teach her. He listened while she played. She thought she played very well, but McDowell said, you have a fine talent, but you can't play the piano yet. Someday you will. And that was the beginning of their friendship. In 1884, whenever McDowell went back to America, he and Ms. Nevins were married at her old home near New London, Connecticut. Through the years, he carried out his ideal, giving concerts, teaching, composing, and as his position became more secure, pointing the way for all American artists to win the faith and respect of their country. Among his writings shortly after his return was a short piece called Scotch Poems, which Don Borges and our Dupont Cavalcade Orchestra will play now. In 1896, the McDowells bought a deserted farmhouse situated on a 100-acre tract of land at Peterborough, New Hampshire. To help her husband with his composing, Mrs. McDowell had a small log cabin erected on the property at some distance from the main farmhouse in the woods. In it were a piano, a fireplace, a table, a chair. It was plain with nothing to distract his attention, a place for work. The building of this first cabin was to have far-reaching results, not only upon McDowell himself, but upon all Americans, in every line of art. In it, McDowell did much of his best work. His place of relaxation was the music room of the remodeled farmhouse Hillcrest. Mrs. McDowell sits at the piano in this music room. We're talking the two or three of the Peterborough men. Good golfers, all of them. If it aren't you teaching them to waste their time, they're all businessmen, you know. Waste their time at golf? Why do you think I gave that land to the town or golf length so that a lot of people would get out in the open air and forget the daily drudgery of life? Well, I hope you'll forgive one of those golfers for what he said last week about your music. Well, what was that? He said that when he heard music, he wanted to hear a tune. And that when he heard your music, he knew it was yours because it didn't have any tune. I suppose that's true to some extent. And the things I'm really trying to do, there isn't always a dominant melody. But tell me, what were you playing when I came in? This. I did. I found it on a couple of pieces of paper that you'd thrown into the fireplace. I was just about to light it with a match. Merrin, you know you're not supposed to rescue those scraps of paper from the fire. My theory still holds that a man must keep up this technique of writing just as a musician must practice at his instrument. I know. But I haven't a glance at this one before I burned it. I like the melody, so I kept it to show you. Well, let me see it. It's not bad at all. Then am I forgiven for rescuing it? I'm sorry if I sounded cross. You know what gave me the idea for this? Something you saw, as usual? The first thing I noticed this morning outside the door. A wild rose. Yes. It sounds like a wild rose. Just as the tool water lily sounds like those water lilies looked growing in that muddy pond. Well, I wish others understood my inspiration as you do. The perfume of flowers and pictures like Ross Turner's Golden Galleon, the roar of the ocean. They all suggest music to me. Edward, speaking of the ocean, reminds me, have you had any words from the publishers of the sea pieces? Oh, didn't I tell you I had leather this morning? No. I guess you were rescuing that music, took it right out of my head. Marion, they've accepted my sea pieces. Oh, Edward. Isn't that splendid? Oh, I'm glad. Oh, I'm really a very lucky man.  Look at that forest of ours. I can't imagine a finer place to work.  No, Marion. I've been thinking about that. There's plenty of room here for more cabins like the one that you had built for me, a place to get away from the outside world and concentrate and work. Now, you want to fill our woods more grumpy artists? Many more. My pupils and the young, eager people following the arts, they should come here. They should feel the night and the dawn here. They should from time to time be free from strain, live near the smell of pine trees growing in the soil of their own land. And then, then they'll compose and write and paint, and no one will dare laugh at them as artists and Americans. That was Nautilus, one of McDowell's sea pieces. The orchestra will now play another selection from the same suite to the sea. Play American music, but the sum of American art was enriched when the name of Edward McDowell was added to the leaders of the Cavalcade of America, used in a tireless search for better products. This work involved many activities which at first glance might seem a far cry from the popular notion of what the chemist does. Take, for example, a major do-pont activity. Test control research. Chemists, entomologists, and pathologists all are engaged in the task of finding ways to control destructive insects, spongy, bacteria, weeds, and marine growths such as the barnacle. One phase of this do-pont research program which has produced results all of us can see is the recently developed treatment of lumber. Freshly cut lumber, as you know, is bright and clean. But stack this lumber in the yard, and soon it may begin to lose its beauty. Frequently fungy or mold starts to look inside 36 hours. Before a week is over, you can see this growth in the form of blue streaks or blotches called sap stain or blue stain, which destroys the natural beauty of grain and color. This condition was of great concern to lumbermen everywhere. But chemistry went to work and found ways to solve this problem. Montt perfected the chemical product now sold under the trademark Ligna sand. Freshly cut boards are dipped in it, and the result is lumber protected from the discoloring ravages of fungi, lumber that retains its bright attractiveness, whether it be boards or large planks for building or the thin cuts used for strawberry boxes and crates. Another important contribution of the chemist to the life and usefulness of lumber is the development of a product called chromated zinc chloride. Wood impregnated under pressure with this chemical does not catch fire so easily. It is decay and rot, and offers considerable resistance to the destructive appetite of the termite. This wood treatment research is a good example of how the work of the chemist touches the daily lives of all of us as he improves existing products and creates new ones. A constant effort to produce better things for better living through chemistry. Continental Journeys, a story comparing modern travel with the days of the covered wagon, will be heard next week at this same time when DuPont again presents the Cavalcade of America. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.


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You too team keep it clean. What's going on? It's a engraving here with another video and another Another episode of NFL questions from subscribers This question came from my guy Rodney V This wasn't even an official NFL question from subscriber He was just in the comment section of another video and that's what I'm gonna start doing too with some of y'all so just Just be on the lookout to so some of these questions are gonna come from y'all in the comment section Y'all don't even know y'all being part of an FL question from subscribers So if the question is a pretty good one, and we may just do a video for it Anyway, this one came from Rodney V and the question that he asked was Did the Ravens overdo it at the wide receiver position? Did they do too much because he feels like With all the Ravens there are all the Ravens signings and the draft and the guy from the CFL No, and whatnot and the undrafted free agents. Are they doing overkill at the wide receiver position? And why do they just keep handing the keys to veterans for what and? My response to that I don't really think they did. I don't think they did overkill As far as the wide receiver position why because last year you saw those results with those wide receivers The only one that was even worth mentioning Mike Wallace made the most plays out of everybody and that's really That really wasn't even saying much that that's not that wouldn't even be hard for him to do because It just that he didn't have much competition He had Jerry Macklin and he came on strong from first couple games and then that was it He showed he was too soft. He couldn't hang and look look what happened to his career now Look where he's at now. He's not even signed the dude is He's like 29 or 30 years old maybe younger maybe he's like 28 29, but I forget how old he is But he ain't even signed yet. Jerry Macklin the same Jerry Macklin who used to be a beast with the Eagles Same Jerry Macklin who was okay with the chiefs but with the Eagles. He was a monster like where is that guy? But I don't think it's overkill. I don't think they did too much at the wide receiver position Reason being because of what we had last year was just we had such a poor group man We had such a poor group the group They during OTA's they showed promise when on paper before the season they showed promise They look like we were gonna have a nice a super fast wide receiver core They look like these guys were just they were gonna be killing it man. We had a Mike Wallace Oh, he's fast. We had a Jerry Macklin. He can catch and he got it some decent speed We had Perryman. He's super fast. We had Chris Moore. He got some speed on him, too but If you got all that speed, but either can't catch Mike Wallace You can't stay healthy Jerry Macklin you got if you got all of that that speed and you just can't it doesn't it doesn't go Well, if you can't catch the ball if you can't stay on the field and you can't make plays It doesn't go if you're not in tune with your quarterback Which was a big problem last year, which wasn't just what it wasn't Jerry Macklin's fault for that part because Flacco had missed all the all the preseason He missed a lot of he had missed a good chunk of the offseason because of his back problem Flacco thought he could Flacco thought he could deadlift 500, but no Flacco you maxed out of 250, buddy Don't do that again Don't try to show out man I think he was in the competition of some with Brandon Williams and he was trying to show out Flacco got a little cocky He might have had a couple beers before practice or something try to deadlift 500 And it ain't agree with him missed all the pro preseason, but um Yeah, this it bodes well for competition like night. You just said he said the more bodies the better which is true I agree. So with all these wide receivers with all these different guys that we got Hopefully the the best will shine and like I said in a reply to his comment I said, I don't think they even handed the keys to the veterans like that because they just the only the only Veteran I feel like they made a hand of the keys to is a Michael Crabtree because he's the only one that's locking number one He's our number one receiver. That's it That's clear today. He's our number one guy But after that it's kind of shaky because you know sneeze gonna be a slot guy Could he be a slot guy and a number two receiver? We'll see That true number two receiver though. Is it John Brown is gonna be Chris more is it gonna be somebody else? We don't know we don't know but the fact that they brought in so many receivers It shows that the receiver put the receiving position the receivers the spots the roster spots the depth chart is up for grabs right now And it's up in the air Only spot. That's a lock Is Michael Crabtree is number one and Snead in the slot So that's it That's it. Hopefully we can get improvements from our receivers. Hopefully They man because it's been frustrated man It's been frustrated, you know frustrating the most frustrating part it is is that the Ravens every year They have to go out and find people's leftovers at the wide receiver position because of poor development Not necessarily poor drafting but poor development Maybe poor drafting for the Peri-man thing because I heard a lot of y'all say that he was projected to be like a fourth round pick and the Ravens reach for but for development Ravens have done like really really bad on that front Because with developing wide receivers It just hasn't it hasn't worked out for them at all They haven't developed the good at all and when when your best receiver that you've ever developed on your team is a Tori Smith That's not a good sign It's not a good sign at all not saying anything is wrong with Tori. Well, he's not a number one receiver. He's a he's a good number two at best Because when he was a number one receiver, that's just that's not him That's not him. I love Tori Smith. Love them in Baltimore. He's not a number one receiver But when when that's the best receiver that you've ever both drafted and developed there's a problem There's a big problem.  They were not playing.  They told us that what's up, Stephen? They told us that before I mean, yeah before the offseason They said they wanted to completely redo the wide receiver position and they have completely redone it we have The only person we got left from last year is Chris Moore and Perryman for now Perryman for now But Perryman and probably be gone within the next 30 days It probably be gone because they said he's do a roster bonus of like 600,000 on the third day of training camp So yeah, Perryman, he's gonna be out of this sooner. It's not enough for me so Nitro said old dented and discarded at wide receivers the Ravens way. Yeah, they always pick up people left You always pick up people left over. That's what they do And I mean, I think the reason why they keep doing it is Because they've had success doing it But you still got to get your own guys too. So hopefully Jaleel Scott and Jordan lastly, hopefully they are they can be it man Hopefully they can grow with the team and do that thing Because I mean Raven Ravens have been doing it for a while They've been doing it dog getting the older wide receivers who toward the end of their career for a while But it's worked out for them for the most part like a Derek Mason like a and Juan Bolton like a Steve Smith senior that that's what the Hushman Zata was He was decent. He did his last play as a Raven was definitely his worst Where Flacco put it on the money I can always say Flacco comes up in clutch time clutch time boy Flacco will be on point. He will be on point It will not if it's a clutch game It'll never be Flacco's Flacco's fault for the reason why we lost never when it's clutch time never Like that game that Steelers game. It wasn't against the Steelers. I think it was It's in the playoffs against the Steelers Flacco threw the ball fourth in like 12 or fourth in 16 fourth and long something like that and fourth down This is a game right here Fourth and long and Flacco put the money he put the ball on the money right in TJ Who's from the jotter's chest? Now I don't follow the World Cup Jamie. What's up, Elias? He put it in who's men's out of chess and who's men's out of dropping and Juan Bolton had a big drop in that game earlier to that would have been a touchdown But they didn't have to settle for a field goal and they end up that end up costing them big time, too But my point is These receivers man, it sucks though. We don't have quality receivers that can really help And we just got to find all these other guys Ravens just traded Camilla Korea and Zach Zyler and fourth-rounder for Marquis good one Yeah Anyway, that's that I Didn't hear anything about that.  Hopefully that changes. Hopefully it does, man Something's got to give but anyway, I just had to shout out that question. So shout out to my guy That was a real good question And like I say if y'all want to be part of NFL questions from subscribers Send me a DM on Instagram Twitter or snapchat with your question. We'll do it in the video Make sure you leave a like on the video. Yeah