So what we want to do is to have a content management system where you can put in your skill and the skill shouldn't be a program. It should be just something very simple where you can put in that information, how to access an external database. So that's applying the Viki principle and of course we are addressing open source community as the first multiplier because they understand what we are doing and then approaching everybody. Everybody who is able to write a Viki article should be able to write a Susie skill. So the challenge is reach mass audience to have mass skills. So if you are using, for example, Amazon Echo, then it can do a lot of things before you actually activate a skill. It's like the operation system of skills and we have to create all of that as well. So maybe they created this with a lot of manpower when we need this manpower as a community to create this as well, not only the special skills. So we created a whole infrastructure of systems and that's our webpage. If you want to create a skill or if you want to click on the burger, then you get the chat icon and you can already test Susie and ask it some things. It cannot only give you text results, it can also give you map results, images or videos as a result. But if you want to create a skill, then you need an account to log in and then click on skills. And we have a skill repository that's our content management system for skills. You can have a nice icon and then you click on one of these things and you have an overview of the skill and furthermore you can click on edit.  And of course you can also take that skill text and copy it and make something new out of it and modify it. And the good thing is all these things are published in the GitHub repository. So if you say save, it's internally creating a commit and it's pushed to GitHub to the directory called Susie Skill Data, for the Azure Susie Skill Data. So in this ecosphere we need a lot of things. We created all these things in a Google Summer of Code project that create work of the students. So we need all these kind of conversational skills. So it's a lot of work and it's still ongoing. We have some of them and you can do something with it but it's not so complete that it can compete with something like Alexa. And the digital, I call this the digital assistant ecosphere where we need all these apps and we need all these skills. So it's a huge amount of work. It's not a small program. It's an ecosphere for digital assistants. So we made a speaker. This is a kind of development device. I'm selling these so you can have them. And we have the Android app, the iOS app, desktop app, web application and the skill language, wiki-like content management system. So do I have time left for the Susie mind? Okay, so I would like to get more into detail. So if you want to use Susie, you have the Susie server, which is just a program where you feed in a question and you get a JSON object back. So you can put another client on top. You can create your own chat client. You can create your expert system or whatever you like just by using the JSON server in the background. And here are some details how this server is constructed. So there is a bit of history in this project. The history is that I developed the Yasi peer-to-peer web search engine as a distributed system for web search, which cannot be censored and which is hosted by the persons who are running them. And then we created lock-lock because web search doesn't reach to the social media content. Lock-lock is a social media harvester taking mostly tweets from Twitter. And when we created lock-lock it appeared that we can ask a lot of different kind of questions like who tweeted most about Force Asia last year? So this is a complex sentence and if you want to have a search interface you would need a lot of buttons to construct this kind of filter and something but you could also just say this sentence. So we needed a specialized national language query parser. So we started to do some national language understanding in a query parser and this cost that we developed Susie in the beginning. So Susie and lock-lock was the same thing. And then we made more abstractions. So we said Susie is an aggregation system for a distributed search engine. So Susie is actually a meter search engine which you can configure. It's important to get a lot of information inside so you have, it's important to be able to access external information. And one thing we need to do is normalization. Everything which we take in must have the same data shape inside of Susie. So we need a common data structure for everything which we can put in. We have a normalization and post-ranking means everything that comes out must be ranked in our own way how to say what's important or not. Usually if you do a meter search you have a desktop search result but we found out that it's sufficient to have a dialogue result because most things are about knowledge so we can express knowledge in sentence. And therefore we needed conversation rules and an interaction model for this. So we had been able to attach more sources like Wafam Alpha or structured data from DPPDR and finally found out that we can feed back everything which we had found back to our own database and it's called the reflection memory. So the result that we got is again an input for the next search. So if this data structure is equal to this data structure then this data structure is equal to this data structure and we call it this generalized data structure Susie Fort. So if you do a query to the Susie server then what you get back is essentially a Susie fort together with an action connected to that fort. And an action means you can do something with that fort. Like there's knowledge inside and you can have an expression saying I say something about that fort. So you see it's not a normal idea of having a chat port. It's a more general approach to do this. So that's the engine inside. We have these skills which are doing the transformation from the external data to the internal fort format. Usually it happens that several skills can apply to the input. So we need a ranking to the skills. Then we do something which is very similar to the Prolog programming language. So we can do backtracking and that means thinking about a result. Something can be true, can be false. You can verify a search result and say this search result is not sufficient for what I wanted. So it fails and does backtracking and tests another alternative and at the end you have an answer. So we want to have a learning component so we can learn which skill is a good skill which one is not a good skill. We have a data memory which remembers which had been the answer before so we can learn from this as well. And we are able that skill can call another skill. We call this reflection. So we can have an output which is saying there's a substring and this substring should be replaced with another call to Susie itself. So this is kind of recursion which we call reflection. And to have a, this is the development zone. You have so-called Susie dreams where it's easy to develop a Susie skill. You can say in a chat dream and then the name of the dream, like Dream Force Asia. And you can open an etherpad which is called Force Asia and then that etherpad is the development zone for the skill, which is just the text. And that's the final vision that Susie is able to create its own skill by just by doing a conversation. So I talk to Susie and Susie is learning from what I'm talking and that process should be a skill itself. So yeah, so the implementation of this part is in the same fashion as an expert system is implemented. So the idea of first order logic, the implementation of what is true backtracking and following a decision tree to find the right answer. Yeah, for the skills, we defined skill language and abstraction of how you define what a skill is. So it's not a programming language, it's something which is much easier for everybody to learn and it's called the language of thought. And we also have collaboration elements like the Susie Dream is a collaboration tool and there are machine learning elements inside and the console room is the method to attach external data sources. So we have a lot of elements which are actually part of theory of artificial intelligence. So this is truly a tool of artificial intelligence. And I would like to give some examples for the Susie language of thought. It's derived by the theory of horn clauses which are implemented best in the best way in Prolog. And there's a variant of Prolog which is called a functional Prolog and functional Prolog is the example which is then used for the language of thought which have terms, not terms, but just sentences and we are applying the same rules to the language of thought terms like we apply on functional Prolog. It's just a different way of notation that it would go too deep if I explain this in detail here. So I would go to some examples before I go there. It's a comparison what you have to do if you want to implement a scale. So for Alexa, you can do this in Python, in Java and so on. Every personal assistant has to be programmed in the programming language and Susie is not going this way. We are having a configuration where we have the language of thought. So it's like a market language. So in web development you had HTML as the language you should use and then there was a wiki code or markdown or markup or however the flavor was called. It's a very simple way. Everybody can write this because it's so natural to write this. If you just write plain text then it's already marked down. So this should be the same with skills. If you just write down some lines of text, it's a skill, okay? So it's as easy as markdown. So this is an example. On the left side is a Susie dream and on the right side you can test this dream by saying dream quick test and then you can test this. Yeah, it's available at dream Susie AI and you go into chat and say dream, and then you are developing your skill. You also have that input window in the content management system where you can develop the skill in here and there's a preview window where you can test the skill as well. It was working until yesterday then it wasn't working and now it's working again so I hope it stays working. If it's not working you can use the Susie dream and everything is pushed into the skit repository which is what you write in there. So everything which you put in there is live for everything. So this is the same with Wikipedia. What you put in Wikipedia is live for everybody. So you have to take care of what you do and don't destroy things. There's another way to do debugging when developing skills. So if you ask something and you get an answer, answer is 42 of the questions about life, universe and everything, then you think who made this and how did it come into the system? You say explain. Explain is not a special word, it's also a skill but explain takes something out of the data structure of the Susie fort because the fort knows how the fort was constructed and then the answer is my answer was defined in that skill. Generals, games, trivia and accessories, hitchhiker, persona, okay? And then you can click on the link and you can edit the skill right away. It's going to the git repository but explain is also a skill so you can say explain again and explain, explains, explain. So everything should be a skill, not a special word. Everything should go out of the data structure of the Susie fort. So this is a kind of operation system like skill and it's in the 0001 foundation skill which defines what explain is. So okay, here are some extreme examples. So I think this is the most simple hello world from all the examples of hello world. So the most simple hello world possible at all. So this is the hello world implementation if you say hello Susie will say world. And this doesn't look like programming but this is actually, this is skill language, Susie language of fort. It's just two lines. So a skill is only two lines. So I said it should be simple as writing a wiki article so it must be really simple and this looks ridiculously simple. So that's the utterance, that's the answer. Okay, you can have exceptions where the second line can be more complex and we have a bank expression saying what kind of special expression it is. So this is an embedded JavaScript. Here's a pattern, this is pattern matching. That pattern goes into this variable number one so that's the first pattern. It can do some computation and the result of the computation is then placed into the bank variable. So you can do everything with this by putting in a JavaScript and that's an example of how to create a console rule. So this is accessing the lock lock API which is searching for tweets. So if you want to have a tweet about anything you put in that anything into the query object here and the result is in statuses. So what you have to do to define an external API is just two things which is the URL and the JSON path and the JSON path has to point to an array of objects. Array of objects because mostly external APIs create something which is like a search result. They always have a list of results and the first result is then taken from this list and that object has an attribute called text. So we put in the text and the text is then displayed as a result of the skill. And if you apply some logic more here and do comparison of text and if you don't like that text backtracking is applied to have another result out of the result list. So yeah, there's another example, it's more complex and unfortunately we have an API key here. We don't have a solution for API keys so you have to put in them in clear text but a better solution is being developed. Yeah. And this is an example where I can say news or anything new and it applies both. So here are the examples from the most simple to the most complex. We have already seen the most complex construction here. Roses are red. Susie, the heck is the answer to roses are red. You can apply randomness on answer. So if you ask what is your favorite dish, Susie answers potatoes or vegetables or fish. So one of that. You can have different utterances. So either you say, or the answer is hello. So we have patterns. The star matches anything and you can use that anything to reply it inside your result. This is just like Eliza, the 30 or 40 year old program which was an AI demonstration. But most of these engines are working in this way and we are just working on top of this way of examples. So if you have two stars, then it matches with a one and two and you can take more attributes into one answer. And this is called an assignment. If you use that greater sign, then you can assign something which is visible in the answer into your variable. And this is then going into a Susie fort. The memory of Susie is a stream of forts. So this becomes part of a fort and can be remembered out of the stream of forts. So beer brand then is available in one of the forts in the last fort. And it can be remembered from there by using the variable name and you can put it inside another answer if you wanted. So next example is an invisible assignment. So if you say I'm so happy, Susie will answer good for you and does not print out excited but will store the word excited into mood. And you can use this to store different words according to what you said. And if you say how do I feel it will print out that word what it's remembered before. You can use this for decisions. So if the variable mood is set, then it answers you are in that mood. And if it's not set, Susie says, I don't know your mood because it can see if the variable is set or not. It can do comparisons here and say, is that variable equal to something? And then it's a constraint on the answer. You can, this is introduction to reflection. So if you define something which is called function color, function is not a special word, it's just a word. You can also say table color or whatever you want to. It just matches then with something which you want to use in reflection. So this is a random function for colors. And if you create the skill about what is your favorite color? So this, of course you want to have matches which are, which matches more of what you can say. But if this is the question and the color is set, then Susie will say my favorite color is color. But usually the color is not set. Then it will do a reflection. So this back quote means, this is called inside of the skill computation. It will do function color, replace this with the color and store it in color and say that color. Okay? All right. Yeah, and these are the examples I already shown, JavaScript, computations inside JavaScript and the console rule to access external APIs. What we not have implemented so far, so far backtracking is incomplete. First order logic like prologue is incomplete that skills can read skills to compute something out of it should be implemented. So this is the to-do list, the backlog of the Susie implementation. So a lot of work for this year, but with the help of the First Asia community, we have worked so far to make all this happening. This is the sign of last year of the Susie speaker, but this year it's much smaller and it's actually working. So I hope that you want to join in and want to contribute to that project. And yes, that's it. Thank you. Thank you for listening. Are there questions? Well, for Q and Cal, we have five minutes for questions. What kind of an LP system is being used for this Susie.ai for natural language understanding? Like if we are speaking anything, then how Susie will understand all the things that what we are saying. Yeah, right now we only have regular expression based on these pattern matching, but what I want to have is a NLU component on top, which is formulating what kind of structure we have created. So it's not that we forget to have NLU in this structure, but it should operate like a plug-in on top. So you can have natural language understanding. But right now it's just pattern matching. Okay, so is it possible that maybe in future we can use open source NLU like Raza or anything? Yeah, that would be great. Okay, so that is a possibility, right? And okay, so as per my understanding right now, we can create a logical database chatbot, I would say. Yes. It's not actual AI right now. Yeah, right now you can create a conversation flow like a tree with these variables, but it's not very ergonomic. Next step is to enhance the Susie language of thought to have a reflection of that tree-like language. And we also want to have a visual editor where you can create that tree and see what kind of conversation flow you're implementing. But that's not yet there, but we should have this. Okay, okay, this looks pretty interesting. Yeah, this is the work in progress. So that's how we bent. Okay, good. I like to discuss more, but we'll take it offline. All right, thank you very much, Michael, thanks. Hey, hi, Michael. And first of all, really nice presentation. And the way you presented the slides was really awesome, so thank you for it. I have one question. So first, in the initial section of the slide, you told that the search engine is the one which basically doesn't let you just search about anything. It presents the results in the stepwise format. So one question is that does that increase any complexity or overhead on the system itself? Because it has to be internal processing, a lot of processing itself to get the exact results out. And it might take a lot of time and it might be computationally expensive, especially where low-end devices are concerned. So I wanted to ask that, what is your thought on this? So we are attaching to external search engines, which are just, yeah, almost everything is a search engine if there's a database and it's searching in some way. So we depend on the response time of that external API. There's no search engine in Zuzi. It's just attaching external things. And so backtracking could be a problem if it's running too long and there must be some methods to interrupt backtracking. But this is a general search problem, not search like search engine, but a heuristic search as in AI. So it must be, these methods are incomplete by definition of the original problem. So there must be an interruption and we must work with this in some way. I don't have an exact answer to this, how we handle this. Okay, and just one more question that where exactly Zuzi placed itself in terms of the ongoing or the existing chatbots? Like maybe Watson or maybe the open source chatbots which is present in Mozilla or in any other, which can readily use the answers when we are on IRC or anything. So it's like Zuzi, where does it place itself or where do you think Zuzi come in power with that? It depends on the use case. So if you say, how good is it at playing music, then it's actually now better because you can ask play something and it will take some music from YouTube and play it. It's not something which Alexa can do. They are restricted in some other ways. You have to have an account with a music provider and so on. So we are free to attach any kind of source which is playing music. So we can do better right now actually. But if it's about knowledge and say a lot of ergonomic thing like setting a timer. This is a lot hardware related. So if you have setting a timer in an Android application we have to attach to the Android functions and it's still a lot of things to do. So there's a lot of work to be done. So it depends on the area you are talking about. In some fields we can be better right now. In some fields we have still a lot of things to do and I don't know when we keep up with this work. But our chance is that in our community we find out the use cases which are important for us and implement that, concentrate on that.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with 2022 tops archives baseball 10 box pick your team number three all-card ship full case break 10 boxes Pyt 3 on the 13th Thanks everyone for getting in Mark got a handful of teams to close out this break. So I appreciate that Thank you. We'll get those last spot mojo stars next to his name pop that right here Got a little thursday night football just just on my telephone right there Not a great game amazon paid a lot of money for this thursday night football exclusive live broadcast license and It's been a little Tough times for them Now there there hasn't I don't think there's been a touchdown Remember two on-card autos of box. I don't think there's been a touchdown In the last however many quarters I think adam cupperman was saying But five five or six quarters Without a touchdown. It's crazy Yeah, what is amazon looking for a return policy? The thursday night football Might not be a free free returns for prime members. I was on the commanders three nothing commanders 30 seconds left in the first half Gilo, what's going on? I know I was bummed about the uh cleveland yankees game being postponed Because now we have to sit through this Have to endure This thursday night football game. I don't think it gets any better for uh I don't think it gets any better for amazon next week Saints at cardinals It's okay. I guess What about I guess next the week eight Baltimore at tampa bay That should be a fun one Philadelphia at houston Week after that at lana at carolina after that that's week 10 Week 11 tennessee at green bay Thanksgiving day matchup None of those are on prime And then after that week 13 is pretty uh, is it pretty good buffalo at new england? I guess we'll have to see where new england's at Raiders at rams It could be pretty fun. I guess I guess yeah, we got a case we can watch olave Jacksonville at at at jets week after that dallas at tennessee And then that's and that's that You know, and why isn't justin throwing the ball? Come on justin fields. Throw it. Throw it a little bit here Good luck everybody All card ship. I think that might be A variation if it's like solid in the back solid color in the back All card ships. So if I if I miss anything like that You'll definitely get it. Uh chris walker with the royals will get all those, uh, bobby whip juniors Mark with the braves will get that greg mag greg maddox that is Those those toxic fumes may may harm Citizens in that area of my tower Maddox johnathan saying maddox is a variation nice and our first auto Hey, there she is rachel balkovac Minor league manager the yankee system mark s with the yankees got the yankees straight up 92 out of 150 That's quarry seager six out of 15 rangers be for daniel norex was saying yeah, it looks like kroger is gonna absorb, uh, albertsons And yeah, albertsons has not just albertsons, right? Yeah, I think they own vaughn safeway I've never heard of jewel osco though. What's jewel osco? I don't think greg mags ever wore glasses on the mound Jewel osco is a big illinois grocery chain. Okay 18 out of 199 kyle bradish o's rent with the oryals Other homer for yordan alvarez today And there's coco crisp a's edition Going to chad right Not numbered but nice clean on card autograph. There's our wander franco. Those are for the raise mark with the raise Not uh, not many left, but some in chicago Rex is saying next one greetings from toronto so that first one was uh Was erin judge. I went to mark in the yankees and that goes to uh, richard and the blue jays Huh drugstore and grows like a bigger cvs and if cvs sold Do I mean I guess cvs does sell kind of groceries. Do they sell produce? At jewel osco, or is it more more dry goods? Produced ellie dry goods frozen foods, etc Never heard of it and osco only exists as an indoor pharmacy at jewel groceries got it Well, the guardians yankees game got postponed. I guess they're doing that tomorrow and then tomorrow We got three games tomorrow then guardians at yankees will be in the morning 10 a.m. My time or the early game for some of you the middle game will be the braves at fillies Then the late game will be Dodgers at Padres 149 out of 199. That is isaac kainer philepha yankees edition and remember jimmy key Some good penmanship there jimmy key blue jakes That goes to richard. We'll do an autograph recap too at the at the end of the break It's kettle marté 53 out of 99 and we got nice Red foil 7 out of 50 Spencer torkelson That's for detroit. That's going to go to mark Oh, and a jose can say go A's that'll be for chad right and the a's All right next box Anyone remember when cvs used to be a drug a store called hooks? No, I've always known it as cvs Jeremy remembers though He's got baseball cards in there. There's Fernando to tis jr Padres, that'll be for Jake and the friars Yeah, that's right. I remember you telling me that Toys R Us reopening in macy's macy's I'll carve out a little little corner at macy's Think they'll sell cards uh No Jeremy i'm just i just gonna take care of bobby with jr and julio rodriguez Mainly the top tier guys I'll see you have a couple for you though and a frank thomas autograph All right, he's got a good auto that goes to mark and the white socks one of his last spot mojo teams Trust me mark. She'll like it too and a reed detmer's six out of 15 Angels and also also for mark And there's erin rowan And that's a name I have not thought about in a long time A long time That's for the fillies patrick with the fighting fills bobby with jr royals and then julio For seattle patrick And then an orange Sean murphy seven out of 15 And that's for chad right in the a's another box down another box to go and looks like There's not a football is back Three nothing that's it I don't know how many quarters, but it's been a number of quarters In a row going going back to last thursday Or a touchdown has not been scored I think there were no touchdowns last thursday right was that that was the colts Colts broncos game, I don't think there were any touchdowns maybe one of the first quarter, but I think it's been maybe five or six quarters of no touchdown of no touchdown football on thursday nights I don't know if this is what amazon signed up for Right exactly fantasy owners of defenses are excited I wonder how many draft kings Wow adam saying it's six quarters plus overtime of no touchdown football Last this is definitely not what amazon signed up for Although there's almost like a A train wrecky sort of sort of feel to it like you almost have to watch I wonder how many draft kings Uh lineups like showdown lineups have uh Have uh defenses in their captain's spot. Wow the live over under is 21 and a half I mean you would think one of these one of these quarterbacks will toss like a pick six or something like that And I guess karsten wence's hand is hurt Hurt hurt his hand somehow so I don't know if they're going to be throwing the ball too often It's kind of crazy to think that a baseball team Gilo's right the astros have scored more more points today And these two nfl teams combined Another box. Good luck everybody There's louis garcia seven out of 25 I mean i've got on tnt I've got star wars The empire strikes back Which i've seen a million times That's still more exciting than this game And we've got another erin roan Patrick with the fillies This one's a different parallel though Come on punting just go it 56 out of 99 they should just force these teams just to Go for it on fourth down I want gadel to call up You know both met both head coaches and be like listen, we can't have this We can't have this you're uh We're going for it every fourth down There's davie johnson manager for the Mets david with the Mets Ah the issue with the prime games is that i don't have a smart tv in the bedroom So i can't intentionally fall asleep with the game on You know where you can get a smart tv I'm surprised that uh there aren't more amazon commercials saying hey get your smart tvs on amazon There's mike schmidt 52 out of 99 Well those numbers are pretty good Fillies that'll be for patrick Yeah, i'm like saying mike tower saying that is that this Football game is making a smart tv dumb and Our second autograph is carlo spainia for the raise mark s With tampa bay I know maybe this would be a let twitter make the play call kind of game. I'd go for it every fourth down Just make them go for it every fourth down You know keep putting each team in good field positions. They can they can try to just get some touchdowns here All right next box classic patching really Really powerful Cleveland this is for you Edge issue there Often a problem with box toppers, but that'll go to jake With the guardians Now the the total now the live total is now down to 18 and a half huh Remember that game years ago where they didn't have an announcer that just had crowd noise. No, I don't Watching your nephews football game over a stream. No announcers and that was weird Yeah, it's just like the pa guy going number 55 two-yard game to the right Yeah, when I went to my first nfl game last year broncos at raiders um It was uh It was just It was just odd, you know, like the pacing of the game is is so so different. Um The pacing of the game is so different with without, you know, the broadcasters I was back in 1980 The as an experiment the mbc television network broadcast without assigning any commentators to cover it I'm assuming it was not successful Yeah, the the nfl It's sort of difficult. There's so many So many rules, you know and so many You know I don't know. There's just a lot going on there. So It's hard to uh For new fans unless you grew up with it I mean it takes a while to kind of Learn the game Figure out all the little all the rules But somehow still extremely compelling A Jackson co-war autograph for kansas city Chris walker with the royals Yeah, yeah, maybe someone still has it on it. Yeah, not a dvr. Yeah vhs Maybe someone still has it on a vhs for gila or beta max, maybe I want to say that there is In silver lake here in la sort of hipstery part of town uh I think someone opened up a video store With um Uh VHS Oh, was that there was a jaren durand that i've missed This jaren durand? Is that a variation? All right, there's bill masarovsky 18 out of 50 For the pirates that'll be for steven And that looked like the same as Oh was it was one him of him swinging But this one okay, I get it So usually they're just Portraits that was more like an action shot. I'll be expecting one more auto There it is That's elissa naked For the giants That will be for john and the giants A touchdown Your attention, please a touchdown has been scored And they missed showing the start of that play they they didn't They didn't expect it to happen adam the the the The director in the broadcasting booth is just like yeah camera three, you know, just let's get some crowd shots or something Justin fields heaves it up And lands in the bread basket of number 18. Who is that? Darnell mooney The Dodgers That will be for John and the Dodgers Oh, so they're showing a replay and I I missed it too. That's to be honest I'll be stunned if there was a another touchdown in this game With what if what if the commanders counter with a touchdown? I'm a I'm a faint Excuse me So apparently the team ran to the line to catch the defense with 12 men on the field Live broadcasts still showing the replay of the previous play Yeah, watch it end 38 35 Take the over everybody take the live over Oh, that's brutal drizzle bees his fantasy opponent 2.85 fantasy points for karson wenz There's a montee urvin 21 out of 99 And jesson fields just just reared back just heaved it over there Todd what's going on? You're lurking in the background. You know, I would never despair to your ears Like you are your might your bears. I think I think both teams deserve a little disparagement And there's an adam frazier For the mariners mariners going back home down o2 In the ds series Closing their first playoff game in a couple of decades It was a green wander franco 55 out of 125 I like seeing some of that color there Raise that's going to be for mark Save a little Say suzuki for jeremy I hope people tailed your dante pest first td pick I don't think he had the first td Or was it don't was it dante pedis Yeah, it was dante pedis Another wander franco Parallel here. It's another one from mark. What was uh 54 out of 199. What what was the odd? What were your odds again, nick? And terry what are the odds on the on the on the raiders going Going on going 11 and five. Well, that did have to play one more, right? 12 and five you mean Julio Rodriguez 25 to 1 And international signing hoy park pirates Steven with the buckos. All right Another box And we got rice harper Todd saying what the bears are bears are in a two-year rebuild. So I've got to be patient with justin fields Logan countering 12-year rebuild more like logan's a packers guy, of course Clown question bro rice harper patrick with the fillies He thought khalil was the real deal khalil who? khalil matt khalil herbert khalil herbert Is he the real deal? He's got four carries 65 yards. That's not bad. It's not bad considering. I feel like uh I feel like for whatever it's worth. Yeah that um Washington kind of has a decent run deep and cheapo Is that what i'll michael said on tv? Oh, you know what? I just noticed that adam One of those carries was for 64 yards So that's interesting Commanders are in the red zone third and go. Oh, no no touchdown for uh No touchdown. I want to see Oh, they were actually in a pistol formation Logan asking you guys can remember if the fillies win the world series it means financial doom for america explain this this wild theory What has there been an economic downturn like coincidentally? Each time the fillies have won a world series. That'd be kind of funny like some people have made connections with like if if like a certain pop song is If a certain pop song is is number one on the charts With a certain kind of whatever then uh You know, then that means that's that means like a recession or something like that Uh, willy randolph for steven pirates willy randolph And albert pools to 199 for the cardinals. It's going to go to mark. Oh, and that's a hula rudder. He gets terries like dan. That's right 1991 and uh in 2008 The housing crisis in 2008 what happened in 1991 Is that persian gulf war? Is that what led to it? That's kind of crazy Come on fillies Roger clements 48 out of 50 wander franco You know mike tower. I feel like who was the coach that that repeated that uh that line but um But no one got it. No one realized it. He was just kind of Making a joke and there's ray night. Oh and good night. That's for david in the Mets All right Next box. All right greetings from boston. It's rafael devers It's johnathan the red socks Yeah, it has A lot of decent stuff in here You know, I asked that yesterday terry and someone said someone I didn't I didn't look at the checklist myself like someone said, uh Said that no At box hoppers can are there are no autos for box hoppers But there are the same inserts in the regular size those can be uh There are autograph possibilities there. Oh joey slide. Just Just snuck it into that Just inside the pole Seven six. All right another box. Good luck O'Neill cruise green 92 out of 125 That will be for the pirates steven with the pirates And we got a Jorge pasada. That's from mark hip hip Jorge 43 out of 99 And a red mic trout 14 out of 75 a little color match All those Julio's going to seattle for patrick and the trout going to uh Mark and the angels got joey vato 26 out of 50 for the red legs That's for bill bell Who's gonna have the next big breakout season next year cabrion haze, maybe looking says trout The trouts had a lot of breakout seasons I said, I mean, I suppose cabrion haze some rookie year Was a was a was a breakout season terry's thinking titis johnathan india trout There's jeff jankins brew crew That's going to be for john and the brewers I mean, here's a guy that could be poised to have A proper breakout season. I feel like injury sort of derailed his this past season But that could be one to look for just to really put together a a big season start to finish Yeah, bobby wit How many times will a pitcher nail to tis next season? If you no reason to really Hey, my trot box topper nice It's pretty cool another one from mark and the angels James outman Dodgers Dodgers youngster james outman breakout season terry saying that should be cool Or maybe what about miguel vargas? Not maybe miguel vargas should have had that pinch hit opportunity instead of austin barnes last night Yeah, giloh is predicting uh his royals are going to sign erin judge He'll be inspired and have a 50-50 season Well, they are limiting times you can throw to the to the runner Bases are getting a little bigger too Now vargas needs another year. I don't know Dodgers thought it was good enough to be on the postseason roster Cody belger's gonna be gone if he doesn't play well brandon h is saying I think he's already gone I think I think they're just gonna let him walk Or does he has one more year of arbitration, but I don't think the I don't think the dodgers are gonna offer anything I'm not sure how louise rodríguez is doing rex dodgers prospect Have to look that up Right. Yeah, I think belger would be in line for like an 18 million dollar arbitration offer or something like that. Yeah, why not put that money towards uh You know try to put that towards trade turner instead. All right second to last box. Good luck everybody Got a green jackson koar 111 out of 125 Yeah, it'll be interesting to see michael bush Um finally see if he can uh Break into that squad He might be he might be uh You know justin turner is not getting any younger. I think michael bush has been playing third base I think he was he was draft as a third baseman. I don't know if they've moved him around But yeah, it'll be it'll be cool to see them in camp Oh, he's been in the outfield because he struggles at third base And maybe edwin reos then It has to be Justin turner's contract is almost up to there's al bumbry for the orioles It'll be for brent and baltimore They may resign justin turner, but I feel like he'll get like a a shorter term cheap deal maybe stick them in a dh more often you probably stretch out his His career a little bit longer hunter green 76 out of 99 and a kyle muller To 90 that's 199 that is for mark and the Braves terry would be surprised if bush or or pagas Be traded early or at the deadline you know, let's see how this uh Let's see how this offseason goes, but that's what um, you know, I gotta see what they're gonna do with this guy But they can pivot in a lot of different directions because of that farm system and there is keith hernan is Cardinals addition and that is for mark and st. Louis Think the dodgers will be in on erin judge It could be interesting Suppose if you're yeah without bellinger I think they'll I think they'll get outbid though by somebody that Greetings from st. Louis. There's no an aeronado. That's for mark and the cardinals And I feel like I feel like that's not really a dodgers mo, right? I think they'd rather pay Players are a little bit younger But I don't know we'll see I mean everyone everyone's gonna Everyone's gonna put in a phone call to erin judge's representation Grizzle beats things giants. Yeah, a lot of people it seems to be saying giants the Go back home narrative That's northern california where he's from I know giants fans, you know, they've been clamoring for sort of a star name to get in there, so Let's see Yeah, I think the dodger will give in after judge, but they won't overpay. Yeah I could see the dodgers doing like, uh, you know like the I don't think judge will take it, but I think they'll they'll probably try to offer in like Fewer years, but a higher average annual value She was saying angels probably have a terrible deal waiting for him. Yeah, they've got like a 500 million 15 year deal 600 million dollar 15 year deal or something like that Taking erin judge through his year 50 season Judge won't get 300 million like the other guys. I know the owner's facing tough financial conditions. Yeah, but Seems like every time a team goes up for sale People are tacking on an extra 500 million dollar value for that team You know, look at look at what like the the phoenix sons are going for look at like Look at what the nationals are probably gonna end up selling for All right final box The shorts off market will be kind of crazy Danesby swanson's free agent trey turner's a free agent car with korea is opting out There's whitey ford seven out of 25 for the yankees Yeah, jason pulled that Pulled that massive brady box But that was a different box the one we gave away in that mixer went to somebody else There's gran and web for the snakes patrick for the damex She ordered on alvarez another dinger for him today 35 out of 125 Tormenting the uh the mariners It's kasey mys to 199 Should be one more auto right? Yeah. Ah, that's nice fan favorite autograph blue parallel spencer torkelson Detroit tigers That's what we're looking for here tigers mark with detroit And there you go gang nice way to end this archive's break Thanks everybody for watching. Here's a quick little recap Like all the old school designs Some nice color So a lot of fun stuff here boys and girls. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye


U.S. warns Russia against nuclear-capable anti-satellite weapons. The Biden administration recently issued direct warnings to the Russian government against deploying a nuclear-capable anti-satellite weapon U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News. The warning was part of a broader diplomatic push that has also involved urging the Indian and Chinese governments, among others, to weigh in directly with Moscow. The talks come after a warning from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, Republican of Ohio, who issued a cryptic statement last week regarding a serious national security threat, propelled the matter to public prominence. White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby later said Turner's concern was related to a space-based anti-satellite capability being developed by Russia but added, the capability had not yet been deployed and did not pose any immediate threat to American citizens. We are not talking about a weapon that can be used to attack human beings or cause physical destruction here on Earth, Kirby said. That said, we've been closely monitoring this Russian activity and we will continue to take it very seriously. CIA Director William Burns recently engaged with Russian spy chief Sergei Naryshkin about the matter according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive talks.


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Here's the fact. You don't know what the results of your work is going to be. Any day that you do the work, or even you have a goal for three months later, or a month later, or a year later, you don't know if the work that you're doing is going to result in the thing that you had planned. Hopefully it will, and sometimes it does, but sometimes it doesn't, and it wasn't because you didn't try or you didn't plan for it. So the fact is that you and I, neither of us have a guarantee of what is going to happen with the actions that we take, right? You don't have a guarantee. The only and the other fact is that you have to work, if you want to have any level of material comfort, or maybe if you're financially supported by somebody else, you have to work because you know that that's how you will truly grow and fulfill your sense of purpose and contribution. So two facts that we know. We have to work, and number two, we don't know what the results of our work will be. No matter how smart you are, no matter how, you know, you've paid money to a coach to give you the consultant to give you the perfect business plan, it doesn't matter. You've taken classes and you have an ideal week-to-week plan, month-to-month plan that's going to lead you to in the successful authentic business, there's no guarantees for any of that. So we have to work, and yet we don't know the results. And so what can we do? We can only control one thing, which is how we work. Now we can also control how much we work, that's the other, I guess we can control two things, how much we work, and we can control how we work. Now in this video I want to talk about how we work. Most of us work in a way, we've been raised by this mantra of work hard, or recently it's more known as hustle, you know, hustle your face off, as Gary Vaynerchuk would say. I really like Gary Vaynerchuk for a lot of reasons, but this is one point where I would disagree. I think he softened his message over the years actually, but he used to say, hustle your face off, and that's a lot of the motivational gurus are using that kind of language of hustle and pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and you just kind of work hard and grind, right? That's actually the current word is grind, you've got to grind, hustle, grind. And that's how we are usually taught to work. What does hustle and grind mean?  And yeah, there's a place for that, you know, that kind of energy can help you to keep going if you're, you know, stretching yourself, especially physically, et cetera, kind of those sounds and those that kind of angry or, you know, ferociousness can help for sure. But that's not how most of us, that's not the kind of work that most of us do. We're usually at the computer, we're writing something, we're thinking about something, we're planning something, we're responding, we're organizing. It's not a hustle, grind, ferocious football player kind of energy. It doesn't make sense to that. And yet we still have this kind of way of working that is tied to the results. So if we think we're going to get good results, we keep working, right? And if we're doubtful we're going to get good results, we stop working. We doubt ourselves and we say, well, maybe this isn't worth it. How does this matter anyway? Who's going to even see this? You know, I'm probably not coming across wise or smart or, you know, I don't want to be looked down on. I don't want to be criticized. What if someone takes this advice and disagrees with me or gets a bad result or whatever it may be? We usually work with fear. That's how we usually work. Whether or not you know it, right? We usually have, we've been raised to work with fear as the base underlying emotion that gives rise to anxiety, self-doubt, self-criticism, perfectionism, procrastination. All of that stuff that prevents you from working with joy is fear. That's the underlying essence of it all. And starting today, and maybe you've been practicing this already, maybe you've read my book Joyful Productivity or taken my course on that, but starting today I encourage you, maybe even challenge you to work from love. So what does that mean to work from love? It means recognizing that there is love within you, that deep within you, available at all times is a space and an energy of profound joy, peace, focus and love and a sense of well-being. Deep within you is that space all the time. Sometimes you're not in touch with it. A lot of times we're not in touch with it, but it's not natural to be in touch with it unless you repeat that practice of being in touch with it, because the opposite has happened all your life. You have practiced being in touch with the underlying essence of fear about everything that you do. This might not work out, what if so and so criticizes me? What if I look bad? It's all fear and that's how we've been raised typically, school and the workplace is based much on fear rather than love. And so that's how we work when we're building our own business too, even though it's our own business, we get to decide how we work. We are still working a lot in that fear rather than the essence of love from which springs joy and creativity and calm focus and all the other good stuff that can be infused in our work today and every day. So my question to you, if you choose, you can feel free to comment below. How do you reconnect with that space in you of profound and never-ending joy, profound and eternal peace and unconditional love? How do you connect with that space within yourself? You probably have a way of doing it. I'm sure you have a way of doing it. Maybe it's something that you might want to do more often. The way I do it, I call it energy reboot. I've talked about it in various videos. You can search online for my energy reboot practice, just George Cow, energy reboot, and you'll probably find my blog post about that. That's what I do multiple times a day. I usually do it at least once every working hour, sometimes twice an hour. So every half hour, I do the energy reboot. So what about you? That only takes me less than a minute to do the energy reboot. Some people meditate, and that's a wonderful thing. Or some people pray, and that's a wonderful thing. Or journal. Great. But the problem is that the meditation and the journaling and the prayer usually only happens once or twice a day. You meditate in the morning, and then you're supposed to be good for the rest of the day, and then you meditate again in the evening.  Great. Wonderful. But what about praying every half hour? What about praying every hour calling out for support and reaching that deep space of well-being again? So that's really the practice, or journaling. At night, great. Great. So journaling once an hour to help you get back into that spaciousness of being one with everything or however you want to call it. So, and Stacey wrote here, breathe, yeah, exactly. Intentional breathing, not just in the morning when you go outside and breathe, but you should be intentionally breathing all the time. Every hour, come back to intentional breathing. So that's my question for you, and my encouragement for you today, is to reconnect and recommit to whatever practice helps you find that spaciousness of perfect joy, peace, love, playfulness.  Well, if you reconnect with what you believe to be true about that, you will come to believe it as if it was not even a faith statement, like it's actually real. I actually believe that I'm completely secure. Now, reconnect so that you can work from a place of genuine creativity, because genuine creativity comes from total security, right? If we don't have that, we have fear, which then creates a necessity of work that is actually filled with anxiety and fear of judgment, and so we are not authentic. We are working for somebody else's praise. We're working for the money rather than for the worthwhileness of the task itself. And it is true, of course, we need money, and we need praise to have a business that works. But if you first connect with that eternal security, and then find your creativity from there, from that spaciousness, you will create more authentically, more consistently, because you'll actually be having fun in everything that you do, not just on the weekends and evenings when you're playing this or watching that or enjoying this.  And out of the fun aspect of work will come the sustainability of your work and the consistency of it and a power of presence that isn't there when there's fear. So that's what I encourage you to reconnect with today, reconnect with that spark within you of perfect love and work from there, do your business from there. And that way you won't be feeling like you always have to attach what you do to a result. Oh, I'm talking to this person, so therefore they must say yes to me, right? Oh, I'm writing this or I am posting that and I must therefore get a certain level of response. I'm selling this so therefore I must get these sales or otherwise I'll feel discouraged and want to quit and anxious and all that stuff and self doubt and criticism. That's all because of your practice of fear all your life, your practice of working from fear and you know, a fear of someone's judgment or of your own judgment of whatever. So now let's work in a new way, starting today, reconnect using your own practice that you know works to help you reconnect with that spaciousness within you. And starting today, reconnect with that multiple times a day, set a reminder for yourself. However, every hour top of the hour, have I reconnected today? Have I reconnected this hour? I haven't. That's worth my minutes to reconnect. I can have 59 minutes to work fine, but I need that one minute to reconnect. I do this actually for three minutes every half hour. I do a stretch practice and then I do, I do my reconnection with my reboot. It's worth, it's worth 10% of my working time. I tie the 10% tied means 10%, right? So in every 60 minutes, I tied six minutes. So I only work 54 minutes, but I tied the six minutes to my stretching my well-being practices. And what about you? Do you have a budget every working hour for your well-being? Isn't your well-being worth it? Or are you just unconsciously working? And that's what it means to live and work consciously, doesn't it? It means to have a conscious business. It's not just to have conscious principles, but to have conscious practices every working hour. Otherwise, it's not a conscious business. It's not a conscious life. It's unconscious autopilot practicing the fear that we've practiced all our life. So today, return to the practice of love. Return to the practice of connection every single hour. It's worth it. One minute out of every hour, that's all I ask of you. And you can stretch towards doing it for six minutes every hour like I do it, right? Every single hour. Not just in the morning meditate, not just in the evening pray, every single hour. And with repetition and practice comes a presence and a normal joy and calmness will be your normal way of being. And focus and creativity and authentic risk taking, not much is risky anymore for me because I believe in internal security. So everything is just play. Everything is just play. That will become normal for you too. And as that becomes more and more normal, you will be able to create and explore and experience a lot more in your business. So I hope this is beneficial for you and I look forward. If you want to comment below with what your practice is that you're going to do every hour, go for it. Let me know. I love to see that. All right. Thanks for joining me for this video. Actually those who were able to make it live, Helena, Tom, Stacy, Marie-Louise, Karen, Jace, Carissa, Paolo. Thank you all for joining me live here. Thank you. Okay. Yeah. Tom, you are right on about it's very challenging to, if you already find yourself in a financially tight position. Yeah. It's hard. It's hard to return to that love and it's probably more important than ever, right? Because none of us want to feel anxiety. Of course, none of us want to worry. And worry and anxiety don't really help us to work smarter. But if we want, of course, we're going to work smarter. Of course, we're going to maybe work more, okay? Work more hours if we need to. But how we work is entirely, how you work is entirely in your control every single hour. So take that minute. Take that minute every hour today. No matter what you're doing. To reconnect. All right. Blessings and I will see you all in the next video.


But I was scrolling through YouTube looking for video ideas because I was a bit dry and suddenly I see this Bugs Bunny thumbnail which looks freaking horrific and I clicked on it. And that's how we are on CN Company's YouTube channel, shout out to them by the way, make sure to check them out because their work looks pretty darn amazing. And not only do they have a Bugs Bunny horror short film, they do have a Mickey Mouse which is called Creepy Mouse Horror Short Film. So we're gonna be reacting to those and let's go ahead and jump into the Creepy Mouse Short Horror Inspired Creepy Pasta from Mickey Mouse. Did not watch this video? Don't do it, don't. Oh, he messed up. What a savage. Ah, they yelled Creepy Mouse, uh, suicide mouse. He just died. Alright, so it seems like she's not very creeped out of it, but the TV turned on. Imagine waking up and seeing that on your TV screen. Yo, he's got his very sharp teeth.  What? What the frick is wrong with this guy? Mickey gotta work on his drawing skills. I know why he just went into his house. Okay, so the TV is back on after he turned it off. Oh, we got the strap. Yo, what? Alright, it seemed like it didn't make it out of there alive. What the heck? Look at that Mickey Mouse. Have another like where it was yet. What? Dude, he's just up there in the corner like, what the heck, man? Looks pretty creepy. What would you guys do? You guys wake up and you see this Mickey Mouse just there hanging on the corner of your wall like, I'll jump out the window or something, man. Moving on to his other short film. It is a Bugs Bunny one. As I mentioned earlier, it's called Bad Bunny, not the singer Bad Bunny, but in reference to a Bugs Bunny being a Bad Bunny, you know? So let's go ahead and jump into this. It's haunting season. Oh, damnit. Oh, he's about to blast down for you. Got no chill. Don't we actually killed him? I missed the old cartoons. Hey, so now since he got Daffy, he's after Bugs. I feel like he's been really tracking them down. Danger. Hey, so it seems like he's actually pinpointed Bugs Bunny location. And now he's out to hunt them. Not going there. Gonna pay me to go in there at all, man. Is that a carrot? Next is that. Yo. All right.  I highly doubt that's going to work, though, because we all know Bugs is a trickster. Oh, boy. Shoot, bro. He threw a carrot in the barrel of his gun. A rabbit hole. He goes, that's all folks. Dude, that was freaking amazing. That was way better than I expected. Like their production level was like freaking insane. And like the way they actually managed to do the bake him out in the Bugs Bunny, pretty horrifying. All right, well, shout out to a Seaac company. Awesome work, man. I don't know if you could... It was well made. I don't think you guys could have done any better than this. Maybe you can. Maybe their next film. Who knows if they're dropping next film. That would be awesome. They did like the Winnie the Pooh one. Even though there is a movie coming out. I don't know if you guys heard about that. There's like a scary Winnie the Pooh. I don't know if it was fake enough, but I seen a trailer on it. I don't freaking know. Well, shout out to Seaac company one more time and make sure to go check them out. And I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.


Hey, welcome back to my YouTube channel guys. Today we're going to talk about what do New Zealanders really think about Americans? Now we are a family of six who have lived here for about five years so I am just going to share my experience in the stereotypes that people have of Americans here in New Zealand and talk a little bit about whether I think that those are true or not. So stay tuned, subscribe below. This video is going to be good. This video is sponsored by Squarespace. Squarespace is a great all-in-one platform to get your business online quickly. When I head back to the States I always get the question, what do New Zealanders think of Americans? Do they like us? Are you accepted over there? What are the stereotypes? And so today I'm going to talk about 10 of those stereotypes that I hear quite often from New Zealanders as an American living here in New Zealand. Now the first reaction that I generally get from New Zealanders about Americans is number one, that they're friendly. Yeah, they actually think that Americans are friendly but we kind of know otherwise, right? I'm just kidding. Depending on where you live in America I would say certain areas of the US are much more friendly than others but in general the Kiwis perspective is that Americans are friendly and so if they've traveled to the US or they've met Americans here, their experience is that they're very welcoming and that they're very nice people and they like them a lot. The second stereotype that I hear quite often is that they really have no problem speaking their mind and I would say that that is definitely true compared to the Kiwi way. Now Kiwis, New Zealanders, and this is a general stereotype, tend to be passive-aggressive. They don't just come out and tell you what they really think about you. Whereas Americans would be like, I don't really like that you did that. And not all Americans but in general that would happen more there than it would ever hear and so you have to kind of adjust how you talk about things. I've noticed that I've had to adjust quite a bit at work where if I have a thought about something or an opinion like I can't just be like I don't think that's a good idea. Don't say that. Don't say that. So they think that the Americans speak their mind and we definitely do compared to them and so in some ways they are off put by our confrontational nature but at the same time they also it's frustrating for an American to be here for not really knowing what people think of you. They're all acting so nice to you but then you find out later after you've been here for a while they're a little passive-aggressive and maybe what they've portrayed isn't actually true. So it's very interesting but yes the stereotype is that Americans speak their mind and I would agree compared to Kiwis we definitely do. And number three another stereotype is that Americans are loud. Very loud and enthusiastic as you can see with my videos which is why I think a lot of New Zealanders like my videos but that's just a guess comment below if you agree. But yeah so they were loud and enthusiastic and I would agree. I have noticed now that I've been here for multiple years I have noticed when we come into a room my husband my kids that we are quite loud compared to everybody else and I've become much more aware of it. And so I'm not saying that they that New Zealanders don't like that. I'm saying that they just went up and Americans here are they're very loud. They're just very you know because Kiwis are very like they don't you know want to elevate themselves. They have the tall poppy syndrome and so they don't like to be like loud and like you know expressive and enthusiastic. And this is general. I have met plenty of very enthusiastic Kiwis. So this is just general and it's just I think it's just the enthusiasm is portrayed differently than an American would. And so we would just be like oh go on in your face all these hands talking as I know you've meant many of you have commented on how much I move my hands. So I would say I am a generally a very enthusiastic person but yes that is another stereotype of Americans loud and enthusiastic. And number four Americans do everything bigger. They just do everything bigger. Whether it's their drinks the amount of food you get at a restaurant. They're big buildings. They're big cities. They do everything bigger. And my experience with New Zealanders is they love that. They're from a very small country with and then when you have a small country in a small population your ability to build big things is very limited. And so when you come to a country that is much bigger with a much larger population and you can build big things it's very interesting. And so yeah we just do things bigger and we think bigger and it's just different to then kind of more of a small country feel. And number five New Zealanders think that Americans are quite wasteful. Yeah they think that they always need something to throw away. That they have no problem using paper and plastic and throwing it away and they just have a very much a convenient culture where everything's pre-packaged and so there's something to throw away. They're not too focused on environmental issues, sustainability whereas New Zealander will jump on to those issues much quicker and be more willing to adapt to that. So since I've been here for example like grocery stores have eliminated plastic bags completely like completely to the point where you there are bags that you can buy there but you generally have to bring all your own stuff to put stuff in and people in New Zealand just adapted very quickly. 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I personally also love the analytics. I always like to know what's going on behind the scenes.  I highly recommend that you check out Squarespace. Take some time today to go to Squarespace.com and check out your free trial and then when you're ready to purchase your website or your domain you get 10% off with the link below. And number six New Zealanders think that Americans are quite patriotic. Americans talk about how great their country is and how much they love their country and so their feeling is that Americans are very patriotic, which I think is true. What they don't understand is they don't understand our gun laws, they don't understand Americans voting for Trump, you know these are some of like the big ones that in general they're like we don't understand this. And anytime I want to have a conversation about that I would get the attention of the whole room when I try to explain the differences between the two political parties in the US and how big the divide is and that it's hard to understand from somebody here living in New Zealand. It's just a different culture, a different value system and different things going on. And so yeah and so they appreciate that a little bit but I have to be honest during the last election, the US election, I wanted to create, I actually did, I created a teacher that said I don't want to talk politics because anytime something was on the news everybody asks the local American what they thought about it and you know quite frankly I don't live in the US and so I certainly don't want to deal with politics in the US if I'm not there. So yeah so they think that Americans are very patriotic, you know. Americans talk about the freedoms and the fact that they're in the greatest country on earth and so that's how they see us. They don't necessarily agree because quite frankly a lot of Americans haven't seen the rest of the world but you know they just know that Americans tend to be very patriotic. And number seven a question I get all the time is is America like the movies? Is it really like that? Is high schools really like that? Are universities and fraternities and sororities really like that? Do people really have those big mansions in all these TV shows? Are their kitchens really that nice? And you know I just tell them don't believe everything that you see on TV okay? It's not a good reference point but if they've never been somewhere and they see it all over the movies and TV well you tend to think that that's what it's like and so I get lots of detail questions about how things are run and different because it is quite different in terms of a lot of different issues but yeah they're always wondering if I if it's just like in the movies or TV and if I've met a famous person they think that they're just all over the place and that you can just meet them you know anywhere but quite frankly being in the Wellington region I think that there's a lot more famous people actually right here right now than that I would run into in Wisconsin in the US. And number eight Kiwis think that Americans are naive to the rest of the world and I would say that I agree with that. I think that the reason why they feel that they're naive is because they don't travel much outside of the US as a general rule of thumb. They just don't seem to know about the rest of the world not not only like where things are located but just about other ways of doing things like they don't seem to understand universal health care and that so many countries function perfectly fine even with large populations with that they don't understand how you can't back up the environmental issues as a general rule of thumb and they don't you know they just think that you they think that Americans think that their way of life is the only way of life because I haven't seen other places and I think I would tend to agree with that I mean you know you are kind of brought up in the US with this is the greatest place on earth why would you want to go anywhere else and so until you go and see that other places are perfectly happy running things a totally different way not one is necessarily better or worse than the other but that they're different and they function and they're good and they both have their pros and cons and I feel like Americans would be more open to talking about a lot of these issues if they were more open to experience these kinds of things the differences in different cultures and how it could work you know in American culture and number nine Americans how do I say it they have a need to be the best in the world okay so I get comments all the time here about you know the world series of baseball when it's really just played in the US there's no other countries involved or there's lots of comments of we have the best in the world we have you know and but there's nobody else that's competing for that so they just like to they have this need to feel that they're the best and so that is a New Zealanders stereotype that we just need to be the best and they think that we are the best at a lot of things like I mean music entertainment there's so many amazing things that America shares with the world like that is not that is undeniable okay but it's so funny that they label like the world's best this and that and it's it's not the world that's even doing it it's just you guys so it's kind of funny and number 10 last but not least they think that they're driven by money right that they are overworked and driven by money that money is the reason that they just overvalue it is basically what I think a New Zealander would think whereas New Zealanders they they very much value family time they very very much value rest enjoyment enjoying life over overworking to make more money to expand your business like I don't see a lot of businesses like scaling you know getting bigger you know if they have a business and it gives them a nice living they have no desire to change that we're not trying to be bigger and better I'm I'm happy to have the lifestyle that I have and satisfied with that and I can go home and have dinner with my wife and they're happy with that and so it's just very different where they they just think that we're very driven by money and I think that's true compared just for me living in both cultures and seeing the drive and the ambition definitely different now America has great drive and ambition and they actually get a lot of things done here I've noticed you know we're definitely valuing our morning and afternoon tea and being okay with a lot more inefficiencies than I've experienced in the U.S. but you know you can't have everything you can't like create the most amazing things but only work 30 hours a week that's just not how it is so yeah they just think that they are a little overworked and they should take a little break and take some time off well I hope you enjoyed the video today guys and I hope you got some insight on what Kiwis actually think of Americans and I want to thank Squarespace for sponsoring this video and make sure that you click the link below to get 10 off a website or domain through Squarespace and make sure you check out my new American recipe book it is a little up with the link below and it's only eight dollars it's an e-book and it's a really great resource if you want to try some American recipes but comment below let me know your thoughts like what are your thoughts what is your stereotypes of Americans or if you are American living in New Zealand what other things have you heard that maybe I would have missed so comment those below make sure you subscribe below we have great videos coming out every week have a great week


What's going on everybody got Kyle here with lane sports cards and we are ripping another digs touchdown. Wow We are ripping two boxes of mosaic football mosaic choice 2023 Um, these two are gonna both both be for neil b. Good luck my man neil. Let's see what we got digs again digs again Well fire today So we got a silver mosaic dj johnson panthers Find that a mosaic of kirk christian kirk And auto not bad there. It's going to be second-year auto of desmond ridder Desmond ridder on the second-year auto and we also have another auto behind it To back to back on the autos neil not numbered on the ridder and we have a der manti dawson red and yellow in focus Auto throwback for the stealers Back to back on the autos got an extra one there for you Some more sleeves We've got trevon digs numbered to 80. Um rookie nice cj stroud numbered to 80 nice one there neil 20 of 80 on the stroud Texas is looking pretty good, man Had a couple good weeks in a row Stroud there to 80 on the rookie Got another pickens to 80 This one is green and red not numbered of scurronsky And davon a chain on the uh a chan i was told green and red Rookie for the fins. He's having a good week too, man. He's uh four touchdowns last week too this week Alrighty neil box two box two of mosaic choice Very nice cj there We got a gold might be the red but laurence taylor at a tealaw And our second auto is going to be rashi rice We did it again neil backed up back Rashi rice on the auto And on the auto we got mike quick that one is um throwback for the eagles Supposed to get one auto got two in both of these mike quick for the eagles Both not numbered Take four autos. We're supposed to get two Um, there's a joe nameth number 280 got rookie. Uh, javaeus martin to 80 ray lewis to 80 Red and greens not numbered. We got a jacorian Bennett rookie for the raiders and a bj ojolari for the cardinals Righty there neil not bad. We got um cj stroud to 80 and a couple of A couple of autos very nice one there a couple extra autos. I should say Very nice. We'll mag up that cj for you. Thank you neil


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com with Nick Jaspy and the Nick cam up there just a Nick hand cam And he's gonna be starting ripping open or actually you can see his face on this cam right here We're about to do pick your team 37 all 12 boxes right here Pyt 37 2019 Bowman chrome baseball Big thanks all of these folks for getting to the action if you have a little rooftop next to your name That means you won that in the that hanger box that we did a little bit earlier Rex with last spot mojo, and there's everybody else Thanks everyone for getting in And here's the first box handed to me right here. Let's pop this open Zachary Harms was wondering just in general first time watching something like this. Yeah, so For a Pyt break where it says pick your team right there for a Pyt break You're literally picking your own teams at a fixed price So some of the teams might be more expensive depending on you know What can potentially be pulled out of here and some of the teams will be a lot cheaper? So then you pick your teams and then we rip open the boxes on camera we record everything So in case you miss a break we'll upload it and you can see exactly what we've pulled And we'll show you everything and then per the terms of the group break and the description in the chat or in the on the website We'll get all the cards that you particularly purchase So for example Rex is in the chat and he got the Cubs So any Cubs cards I pull out of here will go to him and in this particular break all cards ship most of the time it's better in commons don't ship, but I think for bowman chrome They do they put like rookie cards, but then there's prospects in there. So it gets kind of confusing There you go, yeah for normal normal bowman baseball which drops at the end of the month the brand new one finally around will be No paper, yeah But yeah, that's that in general. That's how it works act and if you watch some of our Some of our videos on this channel and be sure to subscribe to If you watch the videos on our channel You'll kind of get a you'll kind of get an idea of how the random team works on some of the different variations of these group breaks works Right and redried in descriptions carefully could be one of those no shit breaks someday Eric McKenna are there more breaks like this one? No Not at the moment But jazzy's case breaks calm we have our whole list of breaks Nick usually posts new breaks Either very late at night Like almost like 2 a.m. Our time or very early or a mid-afternoon middle mid-morning La time It's one soda to 499 nice cast in here a rookie Remember all card ship. So if I breeze by something that is a little more significant don't worry It'll still go to you I think we have plenty of other baseball breaks on the side Eric if you're feeling some baseball. There's cam rogner For the brew crew that's going to go to your event And the brewers easy packs to read. There's Christian Robinson purple wave Folly Lee and shoe Renlau Travis Swaggerty another one Soto. I'm not sure Tyler. What is the item description to tell you? And there's Geraldo Pardo mo for Phil and the Diamondbacks Phil won that spot in that hanger box Break that we just did a moment ago. Did I upload that video for people my I did upload that video people my It's a three box break. I'll go by the item description please and tell me not what I write in the In the in the item description or in the schedule, that's just a rough It's just a rough thing. I'm just trying those quickly so for you for people and there's chance Adams to 250 And there's Mitch Hannigar right there 567 8 9 10 11 12 bits Steel stack right here. So we're probably socially distanced by the way folks It might not seem like that on camera, but we are elite farmhands Jordan Adams Mike trout And we've got Eli white on card autograph for Anthony Lopez and the Rangers Nice one for Texas McCarthy McCarthy didn't know who the Melville Meteor was Yeah Is that not a common name that people I thought it was pretty common, but maybe it's cuz we're on the West Coast Yeah, I mean you people in Jersey come there's rice to rank to 99 Peter Lonzo rookie Fernando to tease rookie He is also like the most So the Fernando to tease junior goes to your event in the pod and might as well top load those significant ones here So that'll go to the Padres your event and the Peter Lonzo your rookie of the year goes to Mary Lou and the Mets Kyle Wright brand now and Zach Brown band For the brew crew. That's for your event and the Brewers Autograph to 499 refractor auto. All right tossing around Zach Brown band here Rebel did not know it was his nickname until he pulled his nickname card out of a heritage blaster in Walmart Huh? Wait, where rebel where are you again? That's Kyle, right? Maybe it's not as common as I thought maybe it is a coastal thing McCarthy. Maybe I'm just being coastal biased paying no respect to second city Chicago Wow, Ryan says I live in PA and never heard of that nickname until tonight Maybe it's just not There you go, he's also inscribed it on Ooh a redemption there's Nick green purple shimmer. I know Ronald can you not a rookie in this set, that's right Yeah, for the football mixer, we got to sell out There's brand loud to 150 see Joey Bart.  They're going through it quickly They might this might just look like it's a Veteran common not something as special as so There's Jorge Alcala for the twins that'll be for Eric spies. I guess you're not crazy McCarthy I apologize for making you think you're hysterical I guess more people didn't know the Melville meteor More than I thought There he is the Melville meteor Mike trout Mary to Jessica Just was that's what it says Enjoyes playing golf. There's I guess there's a pop-up video of him. Just getting things over the net and then now This is cool. He he is a big weather guy His Twitter often talks a lot about the weather going into different special when he's on the road Alonso and for now, it's peace junior together again Vince is in New York and has heard the nickname. I thought I thought everyone did but I guess not There are some people who have not You're not a hymn as to 250 is for the blue jays Brandon Mathis and your redemption is elite farmhands autograph of F e for Fernando Wow Fernando Tatis Jr. Whoo That is nice Very valid you have until 2021 You have the rest of this year and the next year that goes to your event with the Padres nice Sdp That's pretty nice. There you go. And those two to teach junior rookie cards to I don't know from this head either, but There you go Might even be worth grading one of these cards in here, too And we got another cam rogner for the Brewers. That's another one for your event. You're welcome your event And another one here, too, you picked him right picked him right to refractor KC mice who could be the Next like verlander for the Tigers. He's supposed to be real good Number one overall pick in 2018 That goes to Matt's double field in the Tigers we got John Duplantier refractor for Phil and The Diamond baths and we've got a Yankee a Nick green and that will be for John Samuelsson and the Bronx bombers Mitchell light the Dodgers to 150 That goes to Logan who won my Dodgers in the hanger box that we did a little bit ago There's our first Vlad Guerrero, Jr. For Brandon Mathis first of lad jr. Rookie base rookie for the bluebirds So that's a tease junior will kind of look like this except with him on it elite farmhands That's the kind of design you're looking for your event which I Think you should redeem that sounds like it looks like to me a pretty cool card Chrome's been out for a while, too, so I would imagine That all those autographs are have been submitted by now nice Keston here Another one for your event. What a break in Arizona fall league autograph for the brew crew A lot of Brewer's fans in our community who like this kid who's from Southern, California You see Irvine Gold shimmer Brian Roqueo to 50 42 out of 50 And that will be for the tribe that'll go to Brandon Mathis who won that spot and there's Justin Turner right there Next stack right here. We've got Blue boba shut 131 out of 150 And that goes to Brandon Mathis in the blue Jays nice And we've got Ryan Feltner 250 I like when the parallel matches the color of the team right there Rockies That'll be for Ian who won that spot that hanger box break. We did Buster Posey to 499 refractor for the Giants That goes to the Giants that'll be for Darren McKenzie little oppo Joe mojo got for my Dodgers purple shimmer Robinson Ortiz and Got Austin Warner Cardinals Ryan Croft won that team is Garrett Whitlock 250 The best place to sell cards these days. Yeah eBay seems to be just such a massive marketplace. It's hard to avoid eBay you get definitely get the most eyeballs I think but also more competition for your card It's tough to say and the fees But yeah, you can try using the social media service, I think a lot of people are selling directly through there but then again you sacrifice some of the Protections you may get But I guess it's like selling on Craigslist though if you if you just use common sense and are safe about it and What not then Those services should work too A lot of people just use Instagram for example just to show off their cards, you know I mean they can be like hey, I got a Connor Pilkington and take a nice picture of it And that's pretty much your listing right there and then someone could DM you and be like hey I want that Connor Pilkington, you know, you're like, all right It's 50 bucks for Connor Pilkington base card out of 2019 Bowman Crone be like done Paypal me here and Then there's a level of trust involved but you know the person Is hoping that you're sending him that correct car Connor Pilkington Oh, that's really good.  There's Nick Madrigal Yeah trades could be tricky too Yep, a lot of people do run buy-sell and trade groups on Facebook in fact we do Do I have a do I have a link for that? I actually erased all of my break notes It was it was sad times I have to read it was getting cluttered anyway after we do it Yeah, I had like a million checklists on there Yeah, this is not your Facebook Not my Facebook I know they upgraded me to a new one Is that is that us the hangouts? Yeah, yeah, that's not bad. Hey, so Zach Paul if you have a Facebook, I'm assuming most people do You can click that link that's in the chat. We may have to approve you to the group But that's where you can buy a selling chat with now. I can't vouch for all 745 people 750 people in there but a majority of the people Three quarters of the people have to be have to have purchased from us at least once or have been in the chat to get that link so There's Victor Robles to 99 nice green for mark bar Another Pete Alonzo and to tease juniors. Yeah, join that group and you'll be able to see some there's some familiar names at post regularly there What does having my space to you for you? Nothing? If you're still hanging on to your my space Mac That ship has sailed a decade or two ago You got to be sharp on the end we got we got we got McCarthy on Instagram, so I feel good about that All right, there is Israel Panetta Nice autograph for mark bar. That's Got a nice bold autograph. I like that Mr. Shackleton the mosaic is ready to go whenever you pop in and give him the Okay, nice Eloy Jimenez rookie who has the White Sox Logan with the White Sox and there's Danny Diaz another Red Sox for Karen Buster Posey to 150 and There's a Micah Adolfo to 250 for Logan and the White Sox There's Levan Soto for the halos will Christian with the angels Yeah, we did hit another economy David Apollo That was one of the big hits of the night. We pulled a couple I Think a pink hyper jammer ant a couple silver jammer ants were pretty nice So all sorts of things All right, you can see the two other stacks on the can file just bring those out here Thanks to Nick for helping this break go a little more quickly Gets us a little bit ahead of schedule Dionne Sanford and Remember all card ship. It's all the cards you see here. We'll go to you to 499 David Peralta. What do we have coming up? Whoo, look at this We got Arizona Fall League alumni autograph Ronald Acuna jr. 43 out of 60 Brandon Mathis with the Bravos nice and Phil you'll get that David Peralta Um, I don't know what that McDavid ended up going for is that even on auction yet? Goes on auction either sometime this month or next month Mac There's Mason and well, it's like it's like the Gretzky T206 We're gonna call it the Jassy's McDavid Rangers Anthony. I know Sean Tell her if she wants to come by and sort that out for me. I'd appreciate that but I've been washing my hands so much more frequently and using alcohol based hand sanitizers Which dry out your hands as everyone knows it doesn't doesn't make my nails look as nice So I'm picking up what she's putting down for sure First world problems There's a Quentin Torres Costa for the brew crew another brewer for your oven There's Jose Devers. I think Yeah, cousin of Raphael Devers That goes to the fish that'll go to John Samuelson. All right two more boxes to go ladies and gentlemen And we've got Brian Rokeo as our next autograph that'll go to the Indians Brandon Mathis Funkhouser, it's a great name Colby Allard to 250 for the Braves That's Paul's kid by the way if you remember Paul Quantrill and there's Moises Gomez for the Rays That'll be for Brian Croft picked up the Rays straight up. Hi Ray Yeah, having the same problem seat. Yeah, same She gets it Rachel gets it. There's Luis Garcia Philly's Philly's Ryan with the fight and Phil's Joey Gallo to 99 for the Rangers Rangers that'll be for Anthony Vlad Jr. Will go to Brandon in the Blue Jays Pop that into a tea loader as well Garrett Whitlock refractor Kershaw to 250 purple Kershaw Cedric Mullins back there. All right one more box and we've got Talmito Augustine For Mark Barr and the Nationals We've got one more box Logan Nick Sanzel, Keston Hira and Hans Kraus to 250 and Derek D with the Red Legs gets the Nick Sanzel could be a big season for him this year Miguel Cabrera fractured a 499 Yeah, Max saying learn to new thing you you can learn something new every day at Jaspy's I feel like that's That's our extra level of value that we provide ladies and gentlemen He learned my Mack McCarthy learned Trout's nickname tonight and wise hands are so dry lately the hand sanitizer. Yeah the alcohol-based hand sanitizer of which 90% of hand sanitizer is our alcohol base that that goes to the Yankees John Samuelsson that autograph We'll dry out those hands even if you moisturize your hands with lotion as much as possible. It's still Still it'll dry it. It'll dry it out as soon as you wash your hands We'll dry it out man. If you have if you have some aloe hand sanitizer laying around Joe Joe Beck We'll gladly take that we have a little bit at the shop here, but Not enough But that's like holy grail right, but even those don't help it. I mean it's slightly better, but There's 18 out of 25 Sam Henkees Henke Henkees Know why that name tripping me up and our final autograph is Durbin Feldman to 150 going to Karen and the Red Sox And what else do we have here? We've got a force Whitley to 150 For the Astros and his teammate Kyle Tucker goes to Brian Croft who won the Astros in that hanger box All right. Nice anything else I have to do in this break. No nothing all card ship There you go ladies and gentlemen Thanks for watching Joe for jazby's case breaks calm. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye. Bye


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