It's about time we dropped a truth bomb. A lot of people these days have this really limited view of self-care. They think it's all about being self-indulgent and just pampering yourself, but that's not even close to the real deal. And there's actually a term for this. It's called self-coddling. Self-coddling refers to the act of excessively comforting or pampering oneself, often to the point of indulgence or avoidance of challenges or discomfort. You'd be surprised how often self-love is disguised as something harmful. Like self-coddling. In today's society, the term self-love is thrown around as if it's the latest trend and it can sometimes be used to cover up unhealthy habits. This is why we're breaking down the five signs that you don't wanna miss to help you understand the crucial difference between self-love and self-coddling. Only what's comfortable. Imagine this.  You can't believe it because you've wanted them to ask you out forever. But you're more of an indoor activity kind of person and you worry that you'll embarrass yourself if you go. So you decline. You convince yourself itself love because your social battery is low and you need to chill night in. But you can't shake that sad, disappointing feeling and wonder what you missed out on. Only doing what's comfortable is a classic sign of self-coddling. Self-help content creator, Kat Alefthro, explains that coddling perpetuates the notion of a lack of self-trust and the caring for yourself requires you to push yourself and show yourself that even if you fail, you will be okay. So even if you go on that hike and something embarrassing happens, it's unlikely it'll make or break your relationship. Instead, it could be a chance for you to bond or even share a first kiss with an epic view. And if they did make fun of you, then you can count yourself lucky that you figured out their true colors knowing you'll be better off without them. Just perfect. Ever noticed people who get offended just by the idea that they could do something wrong? And when confronted, they completely deny it. It's like how Mary defended herself in the film Persuasion saying, I'm just too kind and that's my problem. They give all of my attention to others and then I suffer for it. Self-love isn't only about loving what you do right. It's about accepting all of you including being able to identify your flaws and work on them.  So, which have you been really doing? If you find this video relatable and helpful, please give the video a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel. Now, moving on to the next point, low self-esteem. Self-coddling is often rooted in how your parents or caregivers raised you. David Rock, who holds a doctorate in the neuroscience of leadership, explains kids can grow their self-esteem and status by doing difficult things and by being told they're capable of more and seeing this in themselves. If your parents or caregivers always removed any challenges in your way, their over-involvement may have taught you that you can't handle difficult things yourself which can make you feel incapable. Explain self-help content creator, Cat. This is why parental coddling which leads to self-coddling often results in long-term consequences such as low self-esteem.  Entitled, does the term helicopter parents sound familiar? It's a term that is used to describe parents who coddle their children. Helicopter parents can be allergic to the word no, catering to their child's every request, doing whatever it takes to protect them, explains journalist Taylor Bennett. Even though their intentions are usually good and they wholeheartedly believe that they're acting in their child's best interest, the hyper-protection can inhibit the development of a child's crucial life skills. This can lead to a cycle of self-coddling as an adult where you constantly seek external validation, support, and comfort as you didn't have the opportunity to gain confidence in how to overcome problems on your own. Has to be relaxing. When your cup is empty, it's natural to want to do what's comfortable or easy. If the choice is a walk in nature or curling up with some sweet treats and binging your favorite show, the show will usually win. But what's important to understand about self-love is that it's not always doing what's relaxing. In fact, sometimes the best thing you can do is the thing you're dreading. Do you ever notice that you feel so much better after turning off all digital noise and spending time with a pet or taking a late night drive like the world gets calm and quiet? Or the feeling of relief after talking to your therapist when it would have been easier to keep it all inside? Self-love isn't always easy, but you're always worth it.  Get your very own sigh. 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Hello everyone Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense and we are going to start a series on Minuteman Tactics. Now that's going to be fun and exciting because let's be honest in general there are not that many tactics videos on YouTube. So I want to talk about what this series is going to be about what we're going to cover and then why we're doing it because I think the why is always much more important than people give it credence for. So the first thing why are we going to make this series? Well, the big reason we are going to make this series is because every time that I've seen videos on tactics on YouTube, which we're going to talk about what that word means, but every time I see those videos that I can think of I've only ever seen a carbon copy of what they do in the United States Army or the Marines That's it. They someone flipped open the Ranger handbook pointed at CQB and said okay well the first guy goes here and the second guy goes here and these are your points of domination and that's it that's how you do CQB, you know done moving on and I think there's a lot of danger in that thinking the first and in my opinion the most obvious problem is that the tactics that we use in the Army are built around the capabilities that they have in the Army They have the giant corporate structure of the United States Military to support how they do these tactics, right? They have the different weapons and equipment and that of course informs their tactics and how they do stuff Well, you don't have all of that so not all the time But there are some modifications that need to be made and I don't think anybody really thinks that through that I've seen the second thing and and maybe the less obvious point is you have to remember that the United States Army or the Marines your average grunt your average fighter is 19 maybe 20 maybe 21 years old, right? A lot of these things are built for some 19 year old from New Jersey Who's never even seen a gun let alone fired one and now you're going to integrate him into a fire team And you're supposed to put him out on the front to shoot bad guys, right? Like there's different safety checks that they have and there's different Modes of operation and modes of control and modes of leadership management that they have because you have a 19 year old Who doesn't know anything and so he requires a little bit more oversight now in your crew? Maybe you have a 19 year old but more than likely you have some middle-aged guys Who are probably a little bit more put together as far as their skill sets go and their safety goes God? I hope so if not let's talk about that and and so you are coming from a different place You have people who choose to do this in their free time who spend their money to buy their own equipment and training and Practice together. That's a totally different genre. That's much more akin to a Special forces type setup with highly motivated highly skilled individuals not to say that minute men are the same as special forces That's not what I'm saying at all. There's some significant differences there However, it's more akin to that than it is to just some grunts Who's just there to serve us a couple years because you know, he wants his college degree and This is a way to pay for it and he doesn't really care the big differences in control leadership and tactics and motivation And so that needs to be taken into account So when you start to look at those differences in context It seems to me that what we need is a better understanding of tactics for the minute man We need a better understanding of what differences there are what our context is what that's going to look like to us What are most likely available equipment? What are all these things and how should that therefore inform our tactics? And so that's why we're going to make this series. So the next thing I want to talk about is what are Tactics, what does that word mean what I thought it meant when I first started reading and researching and what I think a lot of people Think it means is they think it means battle drills, right? They think it means I'm gonna do this and then I'm gonna move over here You know, I'm gonna pew pew pew. They're gonna say moving. I'm gonna say move They're gonna move then they're gonna pew pew pew and then we're gonna have that conversation. I'm gonna move that's tactics That's not tactics. That's a battle drill Now do you need different battle drills in order to accomplish some battlefield movement? Yes, of course, obviously in order to be effective on the battlefield you need battle drills That's why we have them. However tactics. I think is a real simple definition. It's a common-sense solution To a battlefield problem a common-sense solution to a battlefield problem So we are gonna talk about battle drills in this series, right? Because naming this series Minuteman battle drills just doesn't have the same ring to it as Minuteman tactics Everybody gets all excited about that word. However, you need to understand that in general Tactics are a battle or a common-sense solution to a battlefield problem. And so you might have Different tactics that you employ at different times your tactics will evolve and change as you get into whatever conflict you get into You'll have some maybe go-tos, but at the same time you'll have some other ones that you have to make up and adapt and use Right adapt improvise overcome Right, so there are different things that you're gonna have to do and I don't want us to get stuck in this thinking Because I think most of us get stuck here where it's like well These are the the tactics that we use and everything else is anathema and stupid and doesn't work And I'll get you killed and all this other stuff and we need to be much more thinking outside the box Tactics has an art and a science side to it The Marines talk about this very effectively that there is both an art and a science side to tactics And we need to take both of those into account And you can't just be all science like just the battle drills and what we do and and you can't just be all Art like hey man, just Lucy you see right you have to find that balance About sometimes need to be more artistic in the situation Sometimes you need to just do the battle drill and and there are different situations that dictate that and that all comes down To you and your intelligence and you're thinking in the moment, right? So we don't want to get stuck in this world where we only think that tactics are what the book says It's in the manual. That's it.  That's not True and and if you're like listen, who's this guy and what are all his qualifications? And who is he to tell me what tactics are if you've been following this channel for a while You know that I read a lot if you don't haven't been following and you're new here You can go look at my tactical book reviews I read a lot of books on top of that if you're wondering what kind of classes as you bend you because I'm not a military or Police guy that that's not my background at all I have all the classes I've ever been to on my website You can go check that out and at the end of the day you're like this guy's full of shit I don't want to listen to him. You don't have to good for you if however You are interested in adapting what the standard military tactics and battle drills and stuff like that are To your context as just an everyday guy, then I think this series is gonna be for you So I would like you to think of this series as kind of like a collegiate course right like a Grandmasters course or whatever those those things are called We are gonna basically do that and we're gonna have a textbook and our textbook is going to be max velocities Tactical manual small unit tactics. I picked this book for a couple reasons one He writes it towards everyday people so he out of all the tactical books I've read he has that bent of like how is this like more for everyday people now I think there's still some things we're gonna we're gonna tweak and change and whatever because Everybody gets their own nuance and it's my YouTube channel. So I get to do what I want However, this is gonna be our textbook and this book has about 10 chapters in it Has a couple of appendices that we're not gonna cover and stuff like that But we are I'm going to lecture through each chapter in this book and I'm going to use this book as a guide So depending on how deep you want to go you should order this book on Amazon. I think it's 30 bucks If you haven't read this book, you should anyway, it's really good We are gonna use this book as kind of our starting point in our manual. There'll be some stuff we cover There'll be some stuff we don't cover I'm not gonna read the book to you but I am gonna use the chapters as guidelines and as Buckets to talk through information if you don't want to read the book and just want to listen to me talk You can do that too but you will definitely get the most out of this thing if you read the book in in Conjunction with the actual lecture as we go through the course. I will pull in different other source materials I will do the best I can to reference those back to the source materials Sometimes I won't get to do that because I don't remember where it's from and or it's kind of an amalgamation of things and whatever But I'll do the best I can to reference you back to the original materials So that if you are interested like me and you want to go read the footnotes, then you can do that I'm gonna make several assumptions as we go through this series the first assumption I'm gonna make is that you are a competent gunfighter and What I mean by gunfighter there is you've been to a class or 10 you understand how your gun works You know how to fix it when a malfunctions, you know how to take it apart and clean it You in general are squared away with your gun You shoot with your buddies sometimes and have a general understanding of how to not shoot your buddies, right? There are some basic core competency skills That you have that you can feed them into your tactics, right?  That's fine Go take a class conveniently enough. I teach classes come see me. We'll have a good time. However I'm making the assumption that you've taken some classes that you understand how the gun works that you Grasp basic safety really well that you're able to have these core competencies Otherwise don't go out and do this stuff without that disclaimer, you know, never do any of this stuff ever This is just for academic reasons blah blah blah one of the other assumptions I'm making is that in general you're squared away with your kit if you have not seen my Minuteman gear series go ahead and watch that That'll take you deeper into the kit world But in general, I'm assuming that that's kind of squared away And you got your mags placed right and your water and your sustainment kid and in general you've got that under control We all know that kit is a never-ending battle and it's we're all just we're all chasing the dragon Let's just be honest. What are the other assumptions? I'm making like I mentioned earlier is that you and your guys lean more towards that Special forces kind of deal.  We're not going to necessarily have that extreme oversight and and Real micro management of their actions here because we are assuming that the people we're working with are a little bit more seasoned Are a little bit smarter a little bit able to more think on their feet?


Once there was a gold-seeking prospector he funded all of his endeavors with his own money and paid his diggers for each hole They dug or mined whether or not they found anything one day one of them finally struck gold and boom He was rich his years of working hard and creating jobs were finally being rewarded not so fast Why do you get the entire gold nugget after all I dug the hole shouldn't we be splitting it 50 50? Boy that is just ridiculous.  I should have known you were a gold digger Seems silly right? Unfortunately, it's happening in the world today many argue that all workers are entitled to a proportional share of their boss's profits But that's just not right most new business owners go years without ever seeing a profit And that's if they're lucky enough to get any money most businesses fail after all not only do They need a large share of the profits to compensate for all the time and money They've spent on the enterprise they deserve it for their years and years of unpaid labor nonsense What about after they've recouped their costs then any excess money they pull in from their workers is that nope once again? The only reason their workers are able to make any money in this context is because someone else built the business not to mention Business owners invest thousands and sometimes millions or billions into their enterprises in order to develop new products and technologies to improve the Lives of their consumers and pull in more capital to pay themselves and their workers please Those rich jerk wads can afford to pay sorry But that usually isn't true either most businesses are small businesses and part of why people start them is because they want to be in full Control of the value of their labor, which is the same thing you want But it's not something you're entitled to unless you start a business yourself Otherwise no one would ever start a new business and our economy would stagnate. Oh, that's just economic spombo chombo I don't see why I shouldn't get an equal share of profits Okay, there's an easier way to settle this. Are you willing to get paid less on years where profits are down? And would you go into debt if the business you worked for did no, that's why Hey folks, thank you so much for watching if you enjoyed this video and one of you more similar educational content Please check out fee.org. Thank you


My parents went to the university and I just grew up in a family that was just such a supporter of the university always watching the different sports and just really just cheered on the tide in any way possible. When I was looking for colleges my parents really encouraged me to look at Alabama and I kind of wanted to be different and like kind of start a new trend for the family and I just kind of came to Alabama on a tour and not really expecting anything and just when I went on my tour I just really fell in love with the campus and the people here. One thing I got to do that was so fun is I dressed up like Nick Saban for the parade and I got to stand on the float and wave to all the people who we drove past and it was so fun for me, probably a highlight of freshman year because I not only got to just have some fun on the parade dressing up like Nick Saban but I also got to show my Alabama football pride.


Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here for today's video. How to use Ethernet on Ubuntu Linux or perhaps a better description will be how to prefer to use Ethernet on Ubuntu. So if you like me prefer using wired internet or Ethernet over wireless, even though wireless internet is great and very convenient, typically Ethernet in terms of reliability still performs it and other concerns like latency. So there's a couple of things you can do if you want to kind of force your system. If you like me, any modern computer really is going to have a Wi-Fi capability in its networking card. So a couple of things you can do. So if you're in the, if you have a bunch of Linux and you have an applet like this, I'm using LXDE, then you can click into the network manager there and you can see at the bottom there is two buttons. One says enable networking and one says enable Wi-Fi. So what I do is untick enable Wi-Fi and that's going to force the network manager not to see any Wi-Fi network. So it disables Wi-Fi via a graphical approach and usually typically this persists through a reboot. So this is actually what I do and for any weird reason I need to connect to a Wi-Fi network now and again from this desktop computer. I can just enable it for a once-off use and then disable it again. Now the second thing you can do is if you go into edit connections, you're going to have a list of connections, Ethernet and wireless. Now if you go into one of the connections, you're going to click on the cog wheel and you're going to get your settings for that connection. Now on the first tab here it's called general. There's a box it says connect automatically with priority and if you hover over that for a second you'll get to a little explainer and they'll tell you here connection priority for automatic activation. Connections with higher numbers are preferred when selecting profiles for automatic activation. The default value is zero. So basically the standard behavior network manager if you have wired and Wi-Fi enabled at the same time is it's going to pluck out the best connection and once multiple connections are connected or set to automatic connection it'll say this is the strongest connection therefore the fastest connection this is what I want to use or this is what I think you want to use. However you can change that behavior by manually adjusting these automatic priority connection settings. All you need to do here is give the wired connection a higher value it can even be a higher value by one integer in other words by one than the wireless network and this is one way that you can keep the Wi-Fi active in network manager and just manually set the priority for your wired network to a higher value than your wireless network and that's another way that you can force your system to use wired internet aka ethernet for your connectivity needs. I hope this video has been useful if you'd like to get more videos from me about linux tech and other subjects please subscribe to this youtube channel


The Donald Trump administration gave lethal defensive aid to Ukraine javelin missiles to take out Russian tanks Do you know what throughout the Obama administration? I repeatedly pressed President Obama to give lethal aid to Ukraine I traveled to Ukraine. I went to the Maiden Square in Kiev and they needed lethal aid But the Obama administration they said teddy bears and MRE Exactly Here we go again with Democrat Party activist Chuck Todd who seems to believe that the truth is something that's Approved and released by the Democrat National Committee This was proven once again in a typically contentious interview with Ted Cruz where Todd makes more than one dubious claim Thankfully Cruz was ready and he shut down several attempts by Todd to advance several false narratives one that Trump's Ukrainian policy Somehow emboldens Putin and two that Ukraine didn't have any hand in election meddling both of which are easily refuted What the president did with Ukraine? Somehow was tough on Russia or didn't the president by just introducing all of this delayed aid Play into the hands of Russia The Donald Trump administration gave lethal defensive aid to Ukraine javelin missiles to take out Russian tanks You know what throughout the Obama administration? I repeatedly pressed President Obama to give lethal aid to Ukraine I traveled to Ukraine I went to the Maiden Square in Kiev and they needed lethal aid but the Obama administration they said teddy bears and MRE This really isn't difficult who armed Ukraine and who refused to President Trump and Republican have armed Ukraine with javelin missiles Which I'm telling you is a total game changer the introduction of these weapons ensures that Russia won't be Advancing any further into Ukrainian territory on the other hand Democrats and Obama Refused to arm Ukraine and chose to only send them blankets and MRE's which of these do you think played more into Putin's hands? The answer is obvious and it's another reason why nobody should trust these fake journalists and just to remind you Chuck Todd's wife owns a company that receives millions from Democrats And it's been proven that Chuck Todd pulls punches for Democrats who give his wife millions Yesterday House Democrats put out a 55 page report. They called it a scholar scholarly report That purports to say you don't have to prove a crime. You don't have to prove a law was violated That is exactly why the impeachment It was written into the Constitution and you know it's striking in poker There's something called a tell when a player has a really bad hand and they reveal it It's a tell what we saw last night was a tell from the House Democrats You know just a few weeks ago their talking point was bribery bribery bribery They're now admitting they can't prove a crime. They can't prove a law was violated and here's why Any president any administration is justified and in investing corruption. Yeah, okay, Todd The US justice system also says innocent until proven guilty Democrats can't prove any crime. We're supposedly gonna impeach a president for daring to request investigations Democrats seem to think that investigating Democrat corruption is an impeachable offense. How convenient for them How the hell did Hunter Biden get that position on the board of that Ukrainian energy company? Not only did the US government already know that company was corrupt But Hunter Biden already had had multiple drug offenses He knows nothing about the energy sector and he doesn't speak Ukrainian The only thing that he had going for him is that his dad was the vice president of the United States Yet are supposedly trustworthy media sees nothing wrong with that and then Joe Biden brags about withholding already Congressionally approved aid money unless Ukraine fires the prosecutor that is investigating that very Ukrainian energy company We're supposed to believe that Biden didn't personally benefit from that Chuck Let me point out a game that the media is playing You know a question that that you've asked the number of people is you've said to senators sort of a gas Do you believe that Ukraine and not Russia interfered in the election now that? That in a court of law would be struck as a misleading question. Of course Russia interfered in our election Here's the game the media is playing because Russia interfered the media pretends nobody else did two years ago There was article after article after article in the mainstream media about Ukrainian interference in the elections But now the Democrats have no evidence of a crime no evidence of violating the law And so suddenly Ukrainian in interference is treated as the media clutches their pearls. Oh my goodness You can't say that or you're you're trying to make you're trying to equate Equival a equal make them both seem equal. I don't I don't understand these people are just lazy It's so obvious what they're doing as Cruz rightly pointed out There's been reporting on Ukrainian interference going back to 2017 China too and yet Todd frames it as though Republicans are saying that only Ukraine interfered as if it's impossible for multiple countries to interfere take this CBS news article from 2017 it does its best to spin and downplay Democrat Party efforts to sabotage Trump through Ukraine But begrudgingly admits that its interference and that quote We don't expect campaigns to behave this way in regards to the DNC and Clinton Anyway, this is typical subterfuge that the media uses to confuse people and muddy the waters I understand that you want to dismiss Ukrainian interference because a they were trying to get Hillary Clinton elected Which is what the vast majority of the media wanted anyway bingo as I pointed out before 97% of the media's donations went to Hillary Clinton not that it wasn't completely obvious who they wanted to win Acknowledging Ukrainian interference in the election would disarm their narrative that somehow these efforts only benefited Republicans It's the same reason that they never talk about the fact these Russian efforts also included anti-Trump rallies and anti-Trump ads And some of which were promoted by CNN I believe that their ultimate goal here is to Delegitimize any election that Republicans win and then give the all clear when Democrats win if you think about it It's really just a continuation of what they've been doing since the Bush administration who they claimed was an illegitimate president Combined with the increasing censorship of their political opposition, we're well on our way to one-party rule All right, that's all I could take of Chuck Todd today Please hit that like button share and subscribe if you'd like to support this channel You can find all the links in the description and the pin comment. 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Okay. Good afternoon. Today is Tuesday, March 14, 2023. This is an adjudicatory hearing before the Massachusetts Gaming Commission relative to the alleged non-compliance of Plain Ridge Park Casino with Massachusetts Gaming Law Chapter 23 and Section 3, 205-CMR, 247.01, subsection 2A2, and the Massachusetts Sports Wadring Cabellon. I will refer to Plain Ridge Park Casino today as PPC. My name is Kathy Judston. I'm the chair of the commission. I'm joined today by my colleagues, commissioners Eileen O'Brien, Brad Hill, Patricia Skinner, and Jordan Mainer. The entire commission will preside over the hearing and decision of this matter. This hearing will be conducted in accordance with 205-CMR 101.01, GL Chapter 30A, sections 10 and 11, and 801-CMR 1.02, the informal Fair Hearing Rules. This hearing is being conducted via remote collaboration technology. Before we begin, I'd like to explain the process that will govern this proceeding. First, a notice of hearing was provided to PPC in advance of today's hearing. It identifies the alleged non-compliance incident that will be the focus of the commission's attention at this hearing, and the relevant statutes, regulations, and catalog. A pre-hearing conference was also conducted. Pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 23 and Sections 4 and 16, and 205-CMR 232, the commission may hold this adjudicatory hearing, and the conclusion of the hearing may decide to issue a civil administrative penalty, impose conditions on PPC's license, suspend PPC's license, revoke PPC's license, reprimand PPC, and or assess a fine on PPC. At the conclusion of my opening comments, this proceeding will commence with the presentation of the evidence in this matter. Specifically, the commission will first call Heather Hall, IEB's Chief Enforcement Council, and any other witnesses listed on the Notice of Hearing or Witness List. PPC may ask questions of any witness who testifies. PPC will then be called upon to make a presentation and to call additional witnesses, if any. Any commissioner may question any witness who is testifying at any point during or after their presentation. However, I do ask that you request permission first for any question or follow-up question to ensure appropriate procedure and process. PPC may raise any objection it desires at any time. However, the basis for all objections must be clearly stated. And finally, at the conclusion of all the evidence, PPC will be provided an opportunity to make a closing statement to summarize its view of the evidence. Before we begin, I understand that there are pre-marked exhibits that have been prepared in advance of this hearing. Those exhibits are identified on the exhibit list that has been circulated. They are as follows. Exhibit one, Investigations and Enforcement Bureau Sports Wagering Noncompliance Incident Review Report, dated February 10, 2023. Exhibit two, Notice of March 14, 2023 hearing. Exhibit three, Email from Joseph Winsell to Burkane and Diane Podolac, dated February 3, 2023. Exhibit four, Canby Incident Report, dated February 6, 2023. And exhibit five, Sports Book, SOP for Checking Excluded Mass College Teams in Canby. Are there any objections to exhibits one through five being marked and entered into evidence? I'll turn first to Councilor Hall. Thank you, Chair. I don't have any objection. I haven't seen all of the exhibits that I think came in from PPC, but I don't have any objection to them at this point. Councilor Monaghan, can you take care of that, please? I can absolutely send those exhibits over to Councilor Hall. I would just note that the IEB is not a party in this particular hearing. So I see. I see. That's my, my correction. Thank you so much. You should, you should, she should have those in any case. All right. So I guess the objections really would be raised by PPC. Do you have any objections to those of it one through five? Do not. And to North, because you're in a, in a one conference room, as you know, the challenges of holding a meeting virtually is difficult. So I can't, I can't determine who is actually sitting there. I see you. At the back. So I'm joined by Chris Oriana, who's our Chief Compliance Officer. Thank you, Chris. Yeah. Joined by his deputy, Samantha Hagerty, and then also Josh Pearl, who you're familiar with from an Interactive. Thank you. You're, I won't be able to read expressions. So, so what it's worth. So who will be representing you today, North? So Chris will begin and then at some point he'll pass off to me for a statement, but we'll, we'll be here jointly, but Chris will be leading for us. Okay. So I can turn to Chris. So I hear no objections to the exhibits one to five being marked. That's correct. No, no objections on the exhibits. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you. So thank you. Those exhibits shall be admitted into evidence in order to maintain a clean record. I ask that documents are referred to by exhibit number. At this point, I'll ask if PPC would like to stipulate the exhibit one, the IEB Sports Wadring Non-Compliance Incident Review Report. Mr. Sarno. Good afternoon again, Madam Chair and commissioners. Yes, PPC stipulates to exhibit one. Thank you very much. If PPC would like to have any additional documents entered into evidence during the course of the hearing, I would ask that they be properly introduced and marked. I will add that no final decision will be made at the conclusion of the public portion of this hearing. Instead, at the conclusion of the proceeding, commission will privately deliberate and ultimately issue a written decision. If at any point during the commission's deliberations it determines that additional testimonial or documentary evidence is desirable, it reserves the right to ask PPC to provide such evidence prior to a final decision being made. So we'll now swear all the witnesses in. Anyone who will be potentially testifying at this proceeding, please raise your right hand. Thank you. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you will provide before the commission at this proceeding will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? I know for the record that I'll have responded in the affirmative. Before we begin, does PPC have any preliminary issues or objections? None, Madam Chair. We're ready to proceed. Thank you. All right, with that, I ask Attorney Collin to present exhibit one, the Investigations and Enforcement Bureau Sports Waging Non-compliance Incident Review Report dated February 10, 2023. Thank you, Chair. And good afternoon, Chair and Commissioners. As you are aware, the IEB has submitted its incident review on this self-reported matter, and I briefed the commission on February 14. I will, however, go through the highlights of the report here for the record. I'll also note that I'll defer to Sports Waging Director Bruce Band and his team and the others who are here on behalf of PPC to note if I missed anything. So as you're all aware, the IEB conducted a review of a sports wagering incident that occurred at PPC. Specifically, on February 3, 2023, PPC compliance manager Lisa McKinney notified Sports Waging Director Bruce Band that PPC mistakenly offered wagering on an unauthorized event. The error was reported to PPC management internally by a PPC sportsbook event writer. The event offered for wagering was a February 2 regular season Men's College basketball game, which was Merrimack versus the Long Island University Sharks. Upon learning of the error, PPC notified its Sports Waging Event System provider, Camby. And with respect to the kind of key facts here, the wagering was allowed for approximately seven hours. The total stakes or amount wager was approximately $6,848. The total patron winnings were approximately $4,270. As for the number of bets placed, there were 33 bets placed across 27 coupons or tickets. One of the tickets had seven distinct wagers on it. Two player cards were used and the remainder of the bets were anonymous. With respect to the location of the bets, four were placed at cashiers, the cashiers desk, which is over the counter, and the remainder were replaced at kiosks. And with respect to the reported reason for the error, PPC sportsbook manager, Ryan Blake, reported that it occurred because Camby had mistakenly assigned participant school state for Merrimack College as Florida instead of Massachusetts. That allowed Merrimack College in Massachusetts to bypass offering compliance filters, which were configured to block all regular season matches involving mass teams based on their assigned school participant state. Camby reported that they were notified of the error on February 3rd at approximately 12.15 PM and that they fixed the error within about 10 minutes. In addition, Camby reported that after fixing the error, it further reviewed the matter and confirmed that only Merrimack College was affected and that all other mass teams in Camby's system were properly assigned to the mass school. No other games involving Massachusetts teams were offered, including a Merrimack game that actually had been scheduled for that same day. In addition, Camby reported that it also reviewed all of the bets for any suspicious activity and found none. So with respect to remedial information and mitigating information, PPC reported that Camby conducted a separate audit to confirm that all other mass schools were properly coded in its system and they were. In addition, Camby added a second layer of protection by essentially creating a blacklist or additional filter for NCAA bets and mass that were not part of a tournament involving four or more teams. That filter is independent from the state location field listed in its system and serves to block all local mass collegiate teams from being available in regular season games without needing to rely on the assigned participant state as the sole filter. Camby relayed that it will also follow up with its entire team regarding the guidelines for the process of coding the participant states. That may have happened since we last briefed the Commission on the matter and I'll defer to the Commission to inquire about that. In addition, I would just note, I think in the report and when we previously spoke with the Commission about this on February 14th, we had indicated that PPC PSA and Camby provided the MGC with their listings and I think it's actually that they gave the MGC the list that Stirlcarpenter had created but long and short essentially the outcome was the same. PPC PSA and Camby worked with director Vanstein particularly Stirlcarpenter to ensure that the list of all mass institutions to which the prohibition should apply was accurate and I did speak with Bruce Van and confirmed that and in addition so as described by North Brownsville PPC's Vice President and General Manager who I know is here today PPC has provided the list of prohibited Massachusetts teams to all of its sportsbook personnel and instructed staff including the writers and managers of the sportsbook to ensure that the best they are taking are authorized. PPC has also instituted a daily check to confirm that no prohibited mass collegiate teams are offered for wagering in Camby system and PPC sportsbook manager who checks the daily list is required to sign off on it a testing to having reviewed it and confirm that no Massachusetts collegiate team prohibited wagers are offered and I just want to note and highlight as I have previously North did also report that PPC recognized and rewarded the team writer who initially identified and reported this this issue and he's also relayed that PPC's goal is to create a culture of commitment to compliance as its top priority and to encourage its staff to promptly report non-compliance and that's I think you know the end of the preferred remarks I have but happy to answer any questions. People I turn to my fellow commissioners on behalf of PPC Mr. Sareano do you have any questions for Bernie Hall? No questions madam chair thank you. Thank you. Okay I'll turn to my fellow commissioners questions for Bernie Hall. Let's start with the attorney hall. I have one question that I may have missed. Can you remind me what the time of the game was? Sure. Let me just look at our key. I know it was for approximately seven hours and I know actually I may have to defer to Chris on it. I know it was on a February second. I don't know the specific time of the game off the top of my head but I north of Chris may know that. The bet was up for seven hours and so it looks like it was 11 to 620. Mr. Sareano do you remind me of the time of the game please? It was it was an evening game madam chair we're checking the precise time and we'll get we'll provide that information as soon as we have it. Okay that would be helpful. Thank you. All right commissioners. Do you have questions for PPC or for our own team other witnesses? Madam chair I do have clarifying question I guess more of a concern than I have a question under the report that we just heard it sounds as though the bets were made not only at the kiosk but also at the cage and I understand that one of the writers identified that there was a problem. I'm trying to understand in my head how it happened at the cage. I can understand the kiosk but the cage I would have hoped would have been caught by numerous people not just one person. I don't know if you want to elaborate on that and not a little bit. What happened? Mr. Sareano. So just to be clear when we say the cage we're talking about the wagering counter so not the actual player services or cashier cage. So yes those wagers were placed with a rider. That's an unfortunate circumstance. I think that this was on like day two of operations. They were deeply involved in still learning a lot of our systems and this was just an error and oversight on that part. And I think I heard in testimony that that person had been spoken to. But what type of can you elaborate a little bit more of what's taken place since then? So with regards to our expectations, we certainly made people aware of what their requirements are. So we've reiterated our commitment to compliance and making sure that folks know look, if you have any question at all in your mind, please don't place that way. You know, take the time, get your supervisor, manager, if there's ever a doubt, we want to make sure that we clear that doubt before we proceed. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. Other questions for PPC witnesses? Madam Chair, if we if I may, we had a brief statement. Oh, my apologies. I should have invited that. My apologies. Thank you, Mr. Sari. No, thanks. So we again, we accept the testimony of Councillor Hall. We accept the findings by the IEB and to get a regret that this matter occurred whenever we have an incident of non-compliance. We take it with the utmost seriousness and so we're here to make that presentation and accept responsibility. North would like to make a brief statement that I think identify some of the documents that are in the record very briefly and again, gives a bit more factual context regarding this incident. But once again, we accept the IEB's findings in this matter and regret the fact that we're here. Thank you. And again, my apologies go right ahead. Mr. Brown, so good afternoon, Madam Chair. Good afternoon, commissioners.  And I want to start our remarks by saying that both Penn Entertainment and PPC understand the importance of compliance. We understand that we were not in compliance and the situation we will discuss today and we take responsibility for the outcomes. We accept the findings of the IEB's report, which is marked as Exit 1. To summarize the details, on Friday, February 3rd, a ticket writer at PPC made us aware that there was a wager available for Merrimack College, College's NCAA Division 1 men's basketball. We immediately notified our odds management and technology vendor, Camby, and they immediately conducted an investigation. Our vendor found the source of the error and corrected it within 11 minutes of being notified. We self reported the violation to the MGC on the same day and we followed up as we learned more. Exhibit 3 shows our initial report and our update as we learn more technology and odds management. Fender, Camby conducted an internal investigation and issued the findings of that investigation to the NGC. That report, incident report is marked as Exhibit 4. That investigation revealed that due to a data input error by Camby, the location of the Merrimack College was listed incorrectly. Due to this miscoding, Camby's wagering management system permitted wagers on the Merrimack College Long Island University men's basketball game on Thursday, February 2nd. As an aside, we recognize the team member who identified the error because a key part of our culture of compliance is that everyone has a role in compliance and in reporting items of potential non-compliance. As a result of the investigation, PPC and Camby implemented the following remedial actions. Number one, our vendor conducted a separate audit to confirm that all other Massachusetts institutions were properly coded. That audit determined that all other Massachusetts institutions were properly coded. Our vendor added a layer of protection by adding a screen to NCAA vets in Massachusetts that is independent of the location field listed in their wager system. PPC, PSI and our vendor provided MGC staff with a listing of all Massachusetts institutions to which the prohibition should apply. MGC verified that the listing is complete. Number four, PPC provided the listing of prohibited teams to all sportsbook personnel. And lastly, number five, PPC instituted a daily check with sign off by sportsbook management to confirm that no prohibited teams are offered that day. The standard operating procedure reflecting these remedial actions is marked as exhibit five. As always, we remain committed to prompt identification, remediation and self reporting of any issues of noncompliance. To conclude, we regret this error. We accept our responsibility for it. We ask the commission consider and mitigation our prompt discovery and self report our open and transparent communication regarding this instance and our prompt implementation of a remediation procedure. At PPC, we strive to exceed the commission's expectations on compliance matters and we take any instance of noncompliance seriously. As my colleague, Mr. Soriano said at the outset, we have representatives from Camby and Penn Sports Interactive available to answer any questions regarding this matter. And of course, Mr. Soriano and I are available as well. We would like to thank Director Lillios, Counselor Hall, Director Band and the entire IEB team as well as Counselor Monahan for their assistance with this matter. We appreciate the thoroughness and professionalism of the commission staff and that concludes our affirmative statement. Thank you for your time. Thank you. I'll turn back to commissioners if you have questions for PPC. I have a question, Madam Chair. Mr. Skinner. Good afternoon, everyone. I wonder, North, if you could clarify the status of the wagers and the redemption of the winnings. I know at some point the tickets were frozen just getting looking to get an understanding of where that stands. So thank you, Commissioner Skinner, for the question. All of those wagers have been settled at this time. There were a number that were settled at the kiosk and the ones that were not settled at the time of the initial recording were settled in accordance with our House rules, which state that any instance in which a wager is offered that is prohibited, that money would be refunded to the patron. So does that mean if a patron won, they would they would be issued their winnings as well as the amount wagered on that particular game? No, so the the patron would after the fact. So this this issue happened. The the event was settled and scored such that it was available for redemption. Subsequent to us finding out that this had happened, there were some people who did receive their funds back and the instance in which they won, they were able to claim those winnings. People who presented to us afterwards, who had a a ticket would have their their money refunded to them. If there was anybody who is able to produce a ticket that that shows that they had a losing wager, we would of course settle that in accordance with our House rules that would state that it would be refunded their initial wager amount. OK, thank you for that clarification. And then I understand there were two player cards used were so I expect that that means you were able to determine who those individuals were. And if so, was there any outreach to those individuals in advance, meaning once you identify the issue with the wager, what communication, if any, did you have with those individual patrons? I believe that we were able to identify those were known players to us. And so we were able to let them know their winnings would be or their initial wager rather would be refunded. OK, and how is that done? Is that through an email, a phone call? I believe that the patron was in is in with some degree of frequency, so we were able to contact that person. OK, thank you. I don't know if anyone can answer that this anyone who is present today, but there in an email in exhibit three, it's actually exhibit three that you know it references Division two and three. It does not have any relevance to this. Incident today, and if so, can someone explain it? It does not have relevance to today. I think the question was around whether or not wagers were accepted on Division two and Division three games. And of course, the answer to that would be, you know, it will depend on whether or not that market is is offered. If it's not specifically prohibited, then we were more than likely offer that market. But the list of teams that we're checking includes all teams who are Massachusetts institutions, regardless of their decision. OK, thank you for that context. And in terms of the communication flow, is it am I correct in understanding that PPC notifies Penn Sports Interactive, who will then notify the vendor can be in this instance? And if that's correct, would it would PPC be better served at all with a direct line of communication to its vendor? So thank you, Commissioner Skinner. So we currently when the incident was discovered, we have a mechanism which we can put in a ticket with can be and put in as a priority or emergency ticket. That was the initial notification to can be was through that method. And then we were also able to reach out to them directly through our relationships with PIP. So we did notify them directly via their their ticketing system immediately at the issue, and then we were able to get very prompt resolution on it by following it up with a phone call. OK, thank you. Well, Madam Chair, that's all the questions I have for now. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioners, other questions for PPC or other witnesses? I don't know. Yes, commissioner. So this is certainly a follow up to Mr. Skinner, but really just trying to understand the process. Can you walk me through this situation where the PPC Sports Book Manager, and this is speaking to your mitigating remedial measures. The PPC Sports Book Manager checks the list daily. Let's say that an issue like this occurs. What happens at that moment? So the notification happens. How does this physically? How does this move until the? Actual event is not offered on a platform or a kiosk or a cage. So the procedure internally would be that we would follow really the same procedure that we did before. If the event was still alive, then of course we would, meaning it was still possible for wagers to be accepted when and can be, for example, had not yet turned that wager off, right? We were still accepting wagers. I think that, you know, number one, we would certainly involve can be right away. We would let all writers know they're not to accept that wager. And then, you know, I think in another reasonable step, you know, that could be taken as we would just shut down the wager and kiosk and force everyone to a to a ticket writer so that we could screen for those wagers until such time that candy would be able to confirm that the wager has been shut down. How long would this process be from the time you realized it? Have you done any stress tests on this? So we've not. So in this this instance, from the time that we, our ticket writer found it, we made can be aware. As we said, it's probably, you know, less than 30 minutes in total. But the time that it took for can be to respond. So our our initial information went into them. I believe it like 1215. And then they had the wager shut down by 1226. So just 11 minutes. Thank you. That's all I have. Other questions. I'm I'm double checking my notes because I'm. I am a little bit confused by the timeline. I have to admit, I don't know if anyone else is might just be my own notations. That's why I asked about when the game was. So madam chair, I think something perhaps there's a a confusion on the number of hours that the wager was available. Yeah, I have seven years. Exactly. It was an evening game, but these things were redeemed the next day. So I think what we're saying in that instance is that the market was open. So when the game begins or is closed, depending on the wager types, then the market is closed. And so really what that means is from the time the game ended and the best were scored all the times that wagers were permissible from from that time until from the time the market opened until everything was done and settled was that number of hours. So the redemptions continued into the next day. So at this point, people were redeeming against a settled event that had happened in the past. So I'm going to just ask that you hold questions. This is an adjudicatory hearing. So we will have to have a question addressed to you, which if you could just thank you. North, that's exactly my confusion. So the timeline is the game was on the game was on the second in the evening. And the seven hours is that timeframe of when you could bet on it. Got it. That doesn't seem long enough. So I mean, it was the window before the game. Correct. And so there were five in-game wagers that were placed. So when the game, like I said, depending on the bet type there are certain bet types that cannot be placed after the game begins. And then there are wagers that can be placed during game time. So what we're saying is from the time the market initially opened until the market was set meaning all wagers had been scored. That period was the seven hours. Now those- That was the seven hours. Okay, that's really helpful for me. And then it wasn't until so approximately the wagering was allowed for those seven hours but it still wasn't detected until the next day. Correct. So when patrons, when a patron came to the window to redeem that ticket is when we were able to determine that it had happened. Yeah. I've got it now. That's, I'm struggling with the seven hours because I was thinking of- It had to be more, right? Because the next day in your mind you're thinking it had to be 12 or something like that because- It's a longer period of detection but the bet was allowed for seven hours. Correct. Okay, thank you. Other questions, commissioners? I'm gonna turn to our division of sports wagering. Is there any clarification director ban or Mr. Carpenter that you would like to add or correction of IEB's report? I'll turn to director ban first. No, I think the report's accurate, Madam Chair. Thank you. All set, Mr. Carpenter? Yes, I was just going to state that the game was at 5 p.m. Well, thank you very much. 5 p.m. on the second- February 2nd, took place at Merrimack. At Merrimack, yes, thank you. Okay. Other questions for any witness? Okay. Well, hearing that, commissioners, you have no additional questions. Would PPC like to make a closing statement? Very briefly, Madam Chair. Again, we'd like to thank the commission for its time today. Thank the staff for working with us to identify, report, and remediate this incident. Again, we regret that we're here today under these circumstances. We regret that this occurred. However, I'd like to again point out that when incidents like this do occur, we pride ourselves on prompt response and thorough self-reporting and identifying causes so that we can avoid such circumstances again in the future. And that has always been our commitment to this commission and will remain so. With that, we have nothing further. Okay, thank you. And again, for the record, I think all the commissioners acknowledge it was a self-reporting here, so thank you for that. All right, unless there are any further matters that PPC or my fellow commissioners would like to address, I'll now conclude this portion of the proceeding. Anything further? Okay. The commission will deliberate about matter in private and issue a written decision. The proceeding at this point, however, remains open. If at any point during deliberations, the commission determines that further testimonial or documentary evidence is desirable, it may send notice of such to the applicant and provide instructions as to how to proceed. We thank all who participated in today's hearing. And at this point, we are adjourned. Thank you. And to my fellow commissioners, why don't we take a 10 minute break and then we'll return to our deliberations for the afternoon. Okay, so we'll return. There are 120, does that make sense? I see. Yes, Madam Chair. Thank you, Commissioner Hill. All right, excellent. Thank you so much.


Today we're talking volume six chapter six. We have the exclusive clip of next week's episode and we are interviewing the voice of Ruby Lindsay Jones And we'll be answering community questions that you have submitted using hashtag Ruby Roo. This is Ruby Rewind Congratulations, you've made it to another week Welcome out to Ruby Rewind if this is your first time watching the show Then have a seat you know get some snacks whatever hang out with us because what we do is every week We recap and talk about the latest episode of Ruby with you guys. Mm-hmm all the drama. Who are you Chad? Oh? I'm Ellie Mayne and I am Jackie E. Zawa Hello again everybody. We'll be answering your community questions. So excited about that, too. Yeah, I just use a hashtag Ruby Rw Ask us your questions comments things like that. We talked about it here on the show So let's get right into it. Wow. This was a very spooky episode a very spooky episode a horror edition of Ruby Yeah, like I had a moment where I screwed it up onto the edge of my seat I was like leaning forward and I was getting into it Jackie jumped Oh my god, yeah, the part where Ruby's deciding whether or not to drop the relic into the well and then yeah, the eyes glow and Covers her face because then she's like I Do so bad with like jump scares and horror movies, and I love it, but oh How we go any further? I do want to really quick say thank you to Express VPN for sponsoring this episode We'll be talking about them just in a little bit and also as always you can go to roosty.com forward slash play And we'll have a megaphone poll that you can participate along with here in just a little bit. Mm-hmm. Yeah I was gonna ask if you got the literary reference of today's episode The literary reference for mm-hmm apathy town for the entire that sort of theme of like of being too apathetic to do anything It comes from a story called Bartleby the Scrivener, which only a few people got on really on Twitter. Yes We're about a guy who ends up will he ends up perishing because he's can't be bothered to eat Is it like but towards the end of it?  That's cool. I've never heard of that before I was thinking we were doing like a rip van winkle thing. Mm-hmm first But no it was not they took some creative license with making me apathy into an actual evil creature Which yeah, so cool. It was really spooky. Um, I was curious though if it's a creature of like pure apathy It's a good thing because like if that thing had just ran a little bit quicker or cared a little bit more like they Would have won because they're so like oh, whatever. I guess I'll kill this girl We have a great tweet here from Joe Kenman grimental Their real name is the apathy. I'm calling them mentos and there's nothing you can do to stop me And now we will call them that as well Joe. I love Joe. Hi Joe They're like but the effect that they had on the on the girls was amazing like towards the end of the episode when Blake Just goes it's fine. Yeah, I know and it's weird Creeping dangly little fingers going towards her face. So the fingers also so when Mars was writing this he was like, I don't know what happens when like they get you like when you get got by the apathy and Carrie was the one that was decided that like these three long fingers just like scrambling your insights When you because you can't be you can't be bothered to move anymore, and they just they get you gross That's really gross and now we know that That's what they were gonna do. But yeah, apparently just their apathy radiation It was just enough to make everyone not care enough that they just never got out of bed To do anything I have mornings like that One of my favorite shots was when the like apathy signal boosts out And you get to think it's just like a slow-mo, and you see Yang's eyes just go Man there was there was a lot of that and it was creeping me out like the half-lidded Starting like I was like yeah it started like look at the sleepy eyes But then when all three it was Ruby was talking with the other three Yeah, and I was like, okay, don't like it anymore. No very zombie like really wonky So obviously we got to find out what the cool creature wasn't glad they didn't string that out But there's so much that went down this episode when we were talking we were more addressing of croaks alkalism Yeah, like Ruby smash in that bottle And then I thought they're they're gonna have a moment because like she gave him a hug She got nice again. I'm like no have that moment with uncle man. I just still loves him I just like you know you can I love tons of people if I'm like we're gonna We're gonna have this talk right now because you're you're messing up big. I love people, but I will intervene Ruby's just like hey well I mean there's a weird power indifference that to like an older family member like going up to me like hey You just clearly have a problem isn't the most comfortable of things It seems like we're heading there though where and you're trying to save the world You probably have to address a few things along the way. Yeah, and Ruby's getting frustrated She's gonna snap started with like Really soft touch like hey, and then it was like I'm getting pissed But then I but I do love you and like you can talk to me next time. There's gonna be that hard conversation later I'm pretty sure Yeah, definitely heading there. I remember years ago when gray wrote a journal And he said that Ruby's gonna be going into like these more darker themes and a little bit more realistic I think this is like the episode of the turning point. Yeah of that cuz oh so much I feel so bad for her. She has so much burden on her I know she's trying so hard everyone else got to apathy so quickly and she still was like no guys. Come on It's okay. Well, she has that spirit, you know, I like it like towards the end That's like the scariest bit is when like it almost gets Ruby, and she's like I am tired Yeah But the biggest thing the episode took me so it was hard to hold back until now We've got another look at the silver eyes It's becoming clear what they well they do yes, they are the Cyclops of grim They dissolve things. Yeah, which is really cool, but apparently it's all based around Good feelings. Yeah, which is interesting love right in connection to other people. Yeah, cuz I always thought it was like You know it always happened in moments of like extreme trauma and fear, right? So I kind of figured it was coming from that, you know, I never got that You know it was more like a fight or flight. Yeah, kind of like a fighter flight We like reflex, but actually it's like no, I love those person right exactly Yeah, I always thought it was emotion-based like someone that you care about Significantly because with the whole you know if we can talk about it the whole pure thing But I always took it as like she just got to that point of emotional like like an emotional peak And that's what caused the silver eyes to activate Hmm. I never got like trauma from it. So it's really interesting how we like completely took two different That's very nice wasting. It's really interesting how I was right and you were wrong I really hope that Maria does become this like little like Yoda teacher that I want her to be to like teach Ruby How to use those eyes. Oh, yeah, she totally is and I love the the the justification as to why it's because we got to see through You know her vision and everything's got that kind of blue tint So when she's like she's like what color are your eyes? I'm like that's why she didn't even know we were totally right We called it that she had silver eyes But she didn't know that Ruby did until right then and I was like, oh, that's awesome Do you think it's a connection to having the silver eyes and now needing the glasses? I think so do you think so? Yeah, that's so much power Coming out it has to have like some kind of deterioration attached to it Loft says do you think that Maria's glasses became her eyes because her eyes were removed by Salem's followers? Oh, oh That would be gnarly. That would look like some Blade Runner stuff. That's grim Oh, I didn't think about that Well, we'll see what happens. I I'm very curious to find out more and just to hear now that we know But still the one thing I want to throw out there It's she still didn't come across them by happens dance. No, you know what I mean? She was on that train she saw them and she intentionally placed herself on the disconnected car to be with them So even though she might have just discovered she has silver eyes like she knows something about them And she's there for a reason what if like so Look like the girls mission right now is to get the relic to Atlas, right? Yeah What if this lady is just trying to round up people with silver eyes who clearly like some kind of like you've connected in some Way in order to like harness that power to use it Maybe She's trying to get like a tribe's people of silver eyes together. How many people are there? I don't know with because I think it's got to be familial. That's that's my right, you know Descendants of Ozpin and Salem. Oh, yeah, we talked about that a little bit. We'll see But let's see what you guys want to know. We got some questions from the community Jackie want to hit the first one Yes, of course Here we go when Maria said that she had silver eyes You think she went blind from overusing them like Iggy kitten, too. I say yes, just love too many people She loved too hard too fast, or maybe it's like using three times and then you're done And by the way, you're down to two Well when she said did she says did she say I have silver eyes or should I had Silver eyes, you know what? I don't know had she said I had isn't it obvious I had silver eyes So she now I don't know I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if they're gone or they just changed cheese I really hope we get a reveal of just like sockets. Oh That'd be really creepy and her like nice sweet old woman face Expected for her to take off the glasses momentarily and then you got to see like silver eyes like maybe they just you know I know I don't know. I that means they might be holding back It might just be like the eyes are gone. Oh, we'll have to find out Well I hope you guys pulled up that megaphone poll if you didn't you can head to roosterteeth.com forward slash play because we're gonna ask you a Question right now that you can participate with so we want to know what do you think? Using the silver eyes causes blindness. So again head to roosterteeth.com slash play and we'll check back in on that here in a second All right while you're doing that. Let's see the next question and it comes from Oh, no Next question comes from Red anemones as of now we've seen humanoid grim and cinders grafted grim arm Do you think certain grim were once humans that Salem bathed in the grim pool? That's Cyberman deal like an upgrade for like an evil upgrade. Yeah, just dunk you in the pool Now you're a gross monster like have an accolese moment where you kind of like We learned from the journals that these apathy guys were just like hiding out in the woods And he went like and the farmer went and got to and hit them in the cellar And then they like then the rest came to find them. What are they doing? Just chillin in the woods Maybe They were a whole group of people and how do they reproduce? Perhaps she bathed them all. That's another question Yeah, they reproduced especially the apathy monsters because you think they'd be like Gotta put a lot of effort into dating and you think they just be like Just like Do you think we'll have a mental breakdown and finally tell the truth about so much a ruby 96 I Don't know if I'm a mental breakdown, but he might get real drunk I have so much resentment for crow right now. Jackie's mad at crow. I they're in a fight Part of it.  You gotta step up a little bit more It's gotta be rough when your sevens is bad luck.  That's true And you gotta be scared like what happens you turn into a bird and then you get like attacked by a hawk right away Yeah, he's got that bad luck.  All right. Oh, oh, you please represent How do you think John or in red would have dealt in this episode situation? Kinsey official. I think Nora would have really stood out here. Yeah, as like like the strongest against the app I think yes, like what happened? What about John? No, it's like such a positive little bean. That's true But he gets really sad about certain things That's true I feel like he would have like the episode would have turned faster because everyone would have been like, okay What's going on with John? He's just in a corner Yeah, and yeah, I think it would take like cuz you see like Ruby has a lot of I think it would take a while for them to wear it down I think like nor yeah rent I feel would go there right real quick But like nor I feel would have been to stand out there and just smack some stuff with her hammer That's all you really need Or we get to see like a super sad side of her which we've never seen before That would be like that would make that would break my heart Yeah, me too John could have boosted everyone's like semblance and stuff So then maybe they would have been stronger against the apathy off of his semblance because you know he boosts right doesn't heal He boosts everyone to have extra bonus content now He was boosting Ren would that hide them from all of them and would it negate the effects? Whoa? That would have been cool too, but then they would have just been like hiding in there amongst them like saddits Like and then like how they like to sleep apparently is like this, right? And then you'll wake up like Make you guys sleepy That doesn't seem like a very apathetic pose, you know look my jaw at a nap real quick So creepy well done. Yeah team like this super good job on that one. Oh, yeah, really as soon as we all saw them We were like no No, thank you To someone one of you yelled run like out of there Jackie. I think it was you I I don't know what I said It was a very genuine reaction if I was you know when she discovers them you see her eyes go wide I've just been like run like nope. They'll turn it get out. Yeah, we're running away from this immediately Yeah, all right Well, let's check it on the megaphone pole and see what you guys thought Oh, this is the silver eyes cause blindness. I think so either. No, I think there's some been some other Tom foolery behind the scenes That made this lady go blind. Yeah Yeah, I can see that. I I really like that theory about Salem's henchmen like Popping out her eyes as I seem like a Tyrion move. It does. Yeah He probably would do it. She's I didn't make the character that just seems very Grim I'm just saying Hey, speaking of saying things this episode of rewind is brought to you by Express VPN VPN is super important to have without one your internet browsing data can be tracked by your ISP cellular provider add companies and hackers When you use a VPN your public access IP is masked So even the websites you visit won't be able to identify you express VPN has the fastest speeds It's consistently faster than other VPN providers has server locations in 94 countries giving you plenty of options to choose from They have 24 7 customer 24 7 customer support So you can get help whenever you need it apps for every device Windows iOS Android Mac Linux router and more It's super easy to use you can connect with just one click I use Express VPN to keep my data safe and because it's so fast and reliable You can get Express VPN for less than $7 a month with a 30-day money-back guarantee Take back your internet privacy today find out how you can get three months free by going to express VPN comm slash rewind That's EXP our ESS VPN comm slash rewind for three months free with a one-year package Visit Express VPN comm slash rewind to learn more take back your internet privacy today And thank you Lindsey Jones Of course, I love coming on here. Yeah, you were the very first one we ever had on this show. Really, that's awesome episode one of I will say I brought on my sweet little ruby hoodie because I want to watch you But now I just kind of turned into a grandma. I was like, I'm gonna put this on my legs Oh How did you enjoy this like slightly more horror themed like I dug it and I was listening to you guys talk about some of the fan theories and just like your theories in general About what these grim are all about or like how they got started I love the idea of like Salem turning people into grim by throwing them into the pools Or if they did it willingly, that's even creepier. Okay. I want to join your evil grim undead army Salem I feel like Tyrion would have been like the first one in though. Oh, absolutely You know, you know, so this is the boost of my pool that turns people into grip and you look and he's like already in mid cannonball You know, just right into it Like he wanted he would want to grim scorpion tail Oh, right.  Yeah Just a bit just a dip like a little toe. Yeah, and he's like, oh, this is cool I did like the fan theory also. I mean like so far. We haven't seen it's true But maybe it'll come up in the future of like, okay So Salem is technically Part grim at least because she waited in the pool and jumped in herself But she gave birth to children who were human Right. Well, they had magic powers, but they were human for the most part. What does she gave birth to more grim?  You know, I was like, whoa, what have you been doing standing there like My bad eyes, sorry Well, I feel like she's had a long time like experiment In her evilness. So maybe she's just been like dipping a few people here She's got a lot of projects a lot of potatoes in the oven. Yeah, you think and sometimes creepy grim potatoes in the oven But those grim specifically were awesome And I completely agree like the whole concept of not just a grim attacking like those are creepy Also, you know, you get the bale wolves or an evermore. You're like, ah, I gotta defend myself But like the fact that it makes you not care that you're dying is the creepiest thing in the world It removes your sense of well, yeah, all your well power is gone I love that Bartleby the Scribner is a part of the reference to you And that's so cool because it's called like Bartleby Farms Yeah, yeah, and the guy's name was that. Um, so by the way, we really need to get you into the mocap studio So that you can mocap in the room I actually, uh, did all the apathy It was really nice I saw that I was like, is this Ellie's work? It looks like Ellie's work Yes, definitely. Um, all right. Well, Lindsay, we've got some questions from the community for you Yeah, uh, so Jackie, you want to fire off the first one here? Yep. Yep How does it feel to express much darker emotions in this volume like clungus fungus clungus Forget his question. Let's just talk about that. I'm all about it. Um, I mean, I won't swear because it's this is a ruby show But um, we talk about it like the no, uh, no sh it ruby like we're done Dumb with this crap and a lot of fans have said like, okay I really like that ruby's gone into this emotional depth that wasn't there in volumes four and five She's kind of taking uh, taking control of leadership again and moving forward with everybody else But I as an actor interpreting the scripts. I understood the journey that she went on so volume three Clearly she witnessed some stuff that was not too awesome like the deaths of her friends, etc So volumes four and five. I felt like she was kind of Looking for someone to tell her what to do or like I need guidance. Where can I go? And she had ospin and crow to look after like, okay, I'll follow your lead. Well, now she can't trust either of them So here we are. She's got to step up. Exactly What was it fun getting to do the more? Yeah, absolutely. It was really really cool. Great Uh, next question comes from Yeah Lindsay, uh, have you ever modified parts of ruby's character? Such that it changed what was originally planned for a certain scene or even just in general I get the chance to like tweak dialogue a little bit Which is nice and we were talking about that before we came on the show Like if I feel like a line's kind of been repeated or maybe there's a cooler way to say it or a more ruby way to say something Then yeah, uh, as far as plot goes I mean we've been talking about things like the new grim since volume one So I feel like we got a lot of input in that sense of like, oh, it'd be really cool If we did this or like what if this character went here? What did this grim existed? So yes and no, I feel like again, it's more dialogue tweaks for my part Cool. That's very cool. Ellie, you want to get the next one? Yeah, how do you think ruby will handle having to mature so quickly over the course of volume six? I am excited for it, especially addressing cross alcoholism. She guys talked about I So far there hasn't been a moment like that that I can think of but I'm excited for the like Really deep intervention chat like hey, okay. Everything I'm dealing with here Like I'm literally trying to save the world here and you're making this a big problem with your drinking So let's let's sit down and chat about this for a little bit I'm excited for that to kind of remand some of the friendships that she has too I feel like there's still like a little bit of a rift between her and yang and everybody else because of everything They've gone through so yeah, I mean She's got a lot ahead of her for sure It's interesting because from the very beginning of the show She's been continually told that like she's a leader and she's special and like, you know She was obviously the leader of team ruby and so now it's like she has no choice But to like take that off has to yeah Before she could like kind of sit back and learn how to do it and now it's like, oh, no No, you lead like you have to lead now. Yeah, and actually there's kind of one moment that like I thought played really well and hinted at that too. It's when Um oscar is saying well ospin through oscar is saying like don't talk to jinn You don't want to know what's going to happen, but I'm hiding secrets Yeah, and crow goes, you know, do what you think is right kiddo and I'm like that's awesome Yeah, like he's encouraging her to take the lead. He also had a sword pointed right at She's really against crow right now Oh It just okay. All right on a positive for protecting her. They were like no uncle crow.  What you can do? Yeah, uh, well uniform galaxy 37 wants to uh, what's been your favorite part of working on ruby since the show began So, you know very easy to answer question not broad at all one month Um, I just love seeing where it's come I mean we were just at a convention this weekend me and the other ruby girls and vick as well as place crow And just the animation quality is incredible and the plot devices that are being implemented now And I mean not to tutor on horns, but like voice acting as well This has been a huge journey for us too. We weren't voice actors before we started this And now we watched this most recent episode and we're all like great job everybody Like we really expressed the emotions that we needed to a lot of complex emotions, too But we thought we nailed it. Yeah. Yeah And a lot of you are getting other opportunities to do more voice acting and things Yes, I think we've said it before like a really cool part of this show is watching a studio get better at what it's doing Like like every every season has got something new and something really exciting to it like because I to do this I started what from the beginning again and watched all the way through and I'm like, whoa That's a crazy amount of growth in the show. Oh, it's wild. Yeah, we're the first people who are like, hey, can we record volume one? Oh, I know that feeling well when you've been voicing a character for a very long time And you really get better and hit your stride and find out what the character sounds like and what the delivery is And then you look back on those early things that are there forever and you're just like Only I could change great did say it best.  That's where we started So it's it's got a special place in our hearts for sure. It's like seeing your high school yearbook. Exactly I wish I knew how to do wings back then Jackie, do you want to grab this last question? Yeah How did you react when you first were told that ruby would learn more about her silver eyes in this season? It's very exciting because uh the character maria was introduced And I didn't know anything about her or her backstory and then miles filled me in a little bit I was like, oh sweet. Like she is her Toyota, which is fantastic I'm so excited for this like and like it's a it's a trope But it's going to be used well Is this aged character who comes in with a lot of knowledge and wisdom that the main character hasn't had before in this experience What i'm interested in seeing is like what her relationship is going to be like with maria Like is she going to get closer to her than she is with crow like maybe crow We'll have some jealousy issues and be like, yo, I trained ruby.   I'm just Ruby's just shaking her like no finish the sentence Yeah, exactly I'm just saying I'm not putting anything faster. We'll see now with her eye theory too I heard your guys's theory about like what happened with her eyes and her blindness There's been some interesting fan theories too The one that I like the most is that not that she went blind fighting Or someone stole her eyes or that the overuse of her eyes made her have blindness Is that maybe she gave up her eyes at some point like to save someone she loved or something else Or to save the world She's like I got to give up this power and we've seen that you can transfer power like the maidens So why couldn't you do with silver eyes? Yeah, I don't know. We don't know what happens when they die and if they're thinking of somebody Do they suddenly get silver eyes, right? Or I guess it would just choose like a random baby Just a random baby I don't know Interesting babies are like all love at that point to be like constantly All right. Well, Lindsay, uh, we like to have some fun with our guests on the show And sometimes we make them go through a series of quick rapid-fire questions. That's good that we call the lightning round All right, Lindsay, you've got 60 seconds to answer all of our questions As best you can we'll let you know if you won or if you fail. Sounds good. All right. Let's bring up the first one and it comes from Somebody, uh, what would rubies a favorite video game be smash brothers All right Recently during achievement, honey, you said ruby was 17. Well, how about they between volumes 5 and 6 her volume Or her birthdays are halloween. So I mean technically was in the middle of it. Yeah, right. Yeah. Yes All right, uh, if all the characters you've voiced we're in a death battle who would win Oh God Would miraculously win somehow If I was good grating the whole team the ability to turn into animals. What do you think each member would become? Oh, that's a rubies very doglike obviously Blake is a cat yang tiny dragon. Uh, why is ferret white ferret nice It's summer rose the summer maiden Uh, I don't know That's a good question. What are we gonna get a t-rex grab soon? I hope As soon as I write it, you're Lindsay on a scale of zero to ten. How much were you afraid during this chapter 20? We were in a fight ruby or metal sonic. Oh ruby, of course.  I'm not short Yes, perfect. All right, uh, let's go to the judges and see if you passed or failed You're hard to please. I thought you did a good job. They don't want the t-rex grim. It's not too much The world's not ready. I'm sorry. I'm just getting did I hear there were 50 questions? What?  I'm not that bad. No hope I'm not like it's perfect again with the mo cap ellie. We're really under like utilizing you here personally embraced ruby semblance I don't have that speed. I'm sorry Well, they definitely set you up to fail there So I gotta come back. I'll finish it next time. Sounds good. All right. Well, that was the ruby rewind lightning round I just really like making that asset play. I know I know you do Cool. Uh, well, thank you guys, uh, so much uh for coming out and watching the show and thank you for being on it Lindsay, appreciate it. Um, whoa chat. That is a really cool hoodie. Oh, is it? Yeah If only you could get your own at the store dot rooster cheetah You could also get some of these really cool things that we're wearing too and this the ruby hoodie Which is my poissonal favorite. Yeah, I saw a lot of questions about these cosplay hoodies. They are available now So you guys can go pick those up. Um Yeah, it is time Let's take a look at next week's episode roll it Now you understand I've got to get the relic before it can be secured in atlas It's the only way that salem It's the only way we can accomplish our goal You're not the only one who wants ruby dead But unfortunately, salem does not feel the same way That was a lot of info. It was and we got to reuse that really cool set Oh, yeah, no kidding. It's beautiful in there. I love it. I love all the falling I don't know what you would call it leaves. I guess it let leaves that look like fireflies. Very cool. Oh, man Well, now I've got many questions for next week. Uh, if you guys have questions for next week You use that hashtag ruby rw You can send us questions comments or even fan art last week. We called out for the knuckle evie pokemon crossover We got some suggestions That's my new favorite ebillution Yeah, it is amazing and it's like look we got this cool like a chugram Stop making grim cute. I got to fight them Guys leave a comment below with all of your reactions theories and questions about the next episode And send us cute stuff like that too. We love that. Yeah, definitely. And uh, then we'll see you next week Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into that behind the scenes look at ruby don't forget volume seven is over on the website And on the website 20% off anything and free shipping on all orders over 75 dollars Did you know green monday was a thing? Uh, I did not but I will google it from the cover of my home while I'm purchasing all this nice merch


What's the word y'all? It hadn't even been 3 hours since I posted the video about Bradley Biel and I said it felt like Biel to the Miami Heat isn't inevitability. He just got traded. Hold on, hold on. He just got traded to the Phoenix Suns. I'm about to private the video from earlier. It's irrelevant right now. It happened. Chris Paul, Landry Shaman, a handful of second round picks. What does that mean? Nobody knows. Is it two? Is it 12? And then multiple pick swaps. You thought the demonstrator for Kevin a right a couple months ago was going all in with all the pick swaps and stuff they did? No, this is it. Chris Paul is now on the Washington Wizards, so I'm assuming he's not going to play next season. But who knows? Chris Paul has a history of going to random teams and being okay enough to help them make the playoffs. Wouldn't that be a timeline of he helps the Wizards get to the playoffs before Bradley Biel and Perzinkis and Kuzma could? I am. I'm at a loss. I don't know how to feel. I don't, on paper, really like the idea of Bradley Biel, Devin Booker and Kevin Durant. Obviously the talent is going to be to, Bradley Biel is really, really good. And now that he's your third option instead of a first option, he's probably going to be even better. But I still feel like fundamentally this Suns roster is going to be messing a lot of stuff. Devin Booker has played a ton of on-ball point guard type roles over the last couple of seasons. And then Bradley Biel has also played those type of roles in Washington. But I can't lie. The idea of having a real, real point guard for this type of team feels great, but it's not going to happen at this point. Yeah, let me go ahead private that video because it's not even relevant. I can already watch. I'm going to look at the comment section real quick. Then you find out he's traded for Chris Paul. Just got traded a few minutes ago. As I'm watching the video, who's here after the trade? Well damn, Biel to the Suns. All right, I get it.  It wasn't even 24. I'm unlistening it right now. Okay, anyway, we knew that Bradley Biel had the ultimate amount of leverage with his no trade clause. And the Suns and the Miami Heat were the two finalists. I felt like the Miami Heat were going to get their guy and there was another report or rumor that was saying like, Hey, if they could get Bradley Biel without giving up Tyler Hero, they was going to throw Tyler Hero in a different trade. And now this Miami Heat team looks even even more different. And I don't know what the backup plan for the Miami Heat. That's not really relevant. We need to talk about these Suns because they were able to keep Deondra Aiden out. They were going to move Deondra Aiden in a different trade to maybe help out that depth. Hopefully, because as of right now, it's Biel Booker, a Kogi, Durant and Aiden, then the bench has Cameron Payne, Tori Craig. These are people, so many people are free agents. This roster is about to be extremely top heavy, which has worked in some cases through our history, but more likely than not, unless you've got three of the greatest of all time in your roster, you need depth. You just do. And I'm assuming that their idea is, Hey, we're going to put together the team. Maybe move Aiden in a little bit, I guess there's yet to be seen. But if we're not going to move them, we're getting a bunch of players in free agency that are looking for that ring, some ring chaser dudes, Allah, Ray Allen, back in the Heal days, stuff like that. But if you're looking at the available guys, how many of these dudes are about to take a minimum or close to a minimum to come play on this team? Can you get Dwight Powell to say that? Can you get, I don't know. I just don't know.  The dude, the second biggest contract in the current NBA, and in NBA history, just got traded. And the also trader for Kevin Durant, he has done some great things and imparted that as like the TV right stuff. So that's Matt Ispi for that. But I'm a little bit afraid that now that he's here, he's going to continue to do this and this and this, these big old moves. And ultimately, it might set them back. Now again, you do have Kevin, you do have Devin, and you do have Brad. So that's talent. But I'm a little bit afraid, man. I'm just a little bit afraid because Kevin again, knock on wood because we want everybody to be healthy over the last couple of seasons since that injury history and it's, oh man, I just don't know how to, I don't know how to feel. For the Washington Wizards standpoint, I'm very curious to see how their fans are feeling.   And then some seconds and a swap or two down the line. But bigger than all, you Washington's in the Bradley Beale stuff. And he was cool for your organization for the time being, I mean, he was one of the longest tenured individual, you know, single team guys left in the league with him being drafted as far, what year is that? 2012? Boy, that's, it don't even feel like that long. So one of the longest tenured single team dudes and now he's a part of the Phoenix Suns. So it should be interesting, man. Hey, listen, we only a couple of days into free AT. The NBA finals just wrapped up a couple of nights ago. And here we are seeing an all-star caliber. I know it's been a few years, but all-star caliber player getting traded. And now we have a new big three. I could already see the conversations. I looked on Twitter other than see the actual tweet, but the discourse around it is that Kevin can't just play ball. And then he needs a big, he needs a big three to be formed or super team to be formed.  I need to see the rest of the things that they do, but they do have Toppian's handle out of this world. I would say if I were gonna, if I was gonna make a prediction that it's 70, 30, that DeAndre Aden does get traded, I'm just saying based on their lack of depth, I don't know how you can look at this roster and be like, yeah, this is the, this is how we're running it. It just feels like there's a deal to be made for multiple role players for sending DeAndre Aden to a team that maybe wants to get younger or wants to take a chance on the center that may have lost a little bit of value this season. I don't really know. Like, let me look at the teams again, NBA standings and try to figure out what team could give you some quality pieces to help build out this team. And it's shames for DeAndre Aden. Oh, yep. The first thing I do when I check my phone is see a tweet of Kevin with Russ and James and then him with the, with the Warriors dudes and then him with James and Cavry and now would be old lens. Oh man. Okay. Back to what I was talking about with the DeAndre Aden stuff. I don't know. I'm looking at teams. The center position is one of the deeper positions in basketball. So it's hard to say who would, who would make the happen.  I don't really know. I'm curious. I mean, this just opens up Chris Paul because I'm assuming based on what I know right now, which is basically just will just tweet that, that we will see Chris Paul, it waived, bought out, had whatever, whatever the, the racialization of the words are. And now he's one of the high commodities on the market because they're going to be teams that are looking for a point guard caliber play. And though he's not the same Chris Paul from two years ago that was an all star, he's still okay enough to be the floor general. I always say this is about Chris Paul. Even when his individual performances are going to go down, the one thing that's going to be the same is this up here. He's going to think the game. He's going to get you in the right spots. He's going to make the passes. And I felt like the type of point guard that you need over there in Phoenix. They thought otherwise, which we'll see if that's true.  I'm, I'm, I'm shocked. I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm completely shocked. I'm, we'll see exactly what unfolds. But let me know what you think about the Bradley Biel trade to the Phoenix sons. Are you, do you think it's a dub? Do you think it's an L? I mean, I guess the only time will tell. We talked about in the last video that Bradley Biel, when he's catching a shoot is a 40% three point shooter still. So there's some worlds, obviously what has worked because talent finds a way, but boy, boy, they're super thin right now. Full off season ahead. So maybe they make some more adjustments, but we'll see.