What's good, Josh? Well, Ross back again with another video. So we're going to check out Jim cornet reviews, MJF versus Samoa Joe and the reveal of the devil at AWS worlds. And I've been looking forward to checking out his thoughts and opinions on what happened at worlds in with Samoa Joe winning the AWS championship and Adam Cole being revealed as the devil. Me personally, the probably the most positive thing about that whole situation match and the segment afterwards in my opinion is Samoa Joe being the AWS world champion. I think Samoa Joe deserves to be the top champion. And it was good to see him in that position because I do feel like he if there's anybody that could follow up. MJF is Samoa Joe. He's one of the better things on AWS television. So in my opinion, I definitely believe he deserved that spotlight. MJF will finally get the rest that he needs because his body is banged up. So that that worked out in a sense. The whole Adam Cole being revealed as the devil, even though, you know, it was it was quite obvious, but at the same time, it was one of those things where it wasn't bad, but it's still it's like, I don't know. It from just the people that I've seen talk about it. They just felt like it wasn't bad kind of figured. But I guess it just it didn't hit. It didn't resonate with people as well as you would think it would be as a big reveal like that. It was just more or less like, oh, well, we kind of figured it. I guess it is. It was more like, all right, cool, like a man. That's what I saw the general consensus as on AWS fans on Twitter and everywhere. It's just like a man. It's like, okay, cool. And same when I saw, I was like, all right, that's cool.  I think what hurts it because he's injured. So it's not like he could really do anything his henchman has to. So it's like he's injured right now. So it kind of it doesn't hit as well. If it's somebody that's not injured, but since that he is injured, he, you know, he still has to heal up and stuff. It's one of those things where you can't really get right into the feud anyway, like you would want to. There's more or less, you know, MJ have got to heal up and Adam Cole has to heal up. So it's going to be very interesting to see how they play it out. But the most important thing about this whole angle, in my opinion, is Samoa Joe becoming a world AEW world champion. He rightfully deserves it. So that's the best thing that came out of that. So we're going to see what Jim cornet has to say about this. Appreciate all love support. Let's get right into this one. Well, speaking of not wanting to see anything again, we come to the main event. The the match, the one match that you would want to see on this show. And after suffering through the rest of this thing at this point, I just wanted to get it over with and I wonder how many other people felt like that. Like, OK, let's see what the and I've seen a lot of people that are AEW fans die hard. AEW fans, a lot of them have been saying that this this pay-per-view was probably one of the worst they've had. That's what I have been seeing. I didn't even watch the whole show, but that's what I had been seeing. It was one of the worst shows that AEW has put on in quite a while. This is coming from AEW fans. So. And it's a disservice to the guys in the match. But anyway, they did a number of disservices. It's for the AEW title, Samoa Joe against MJF and they give Joe his entrance and then they have to do the video on the screen and it can't even be serious. I think MJF is maybe getting a little too cute. The local citizens commentary on MJF, but the girl has to mention, oh, and yeah, then we fucked in the back seat of the van. There was a lot of comedy in this, which was out of place, I would think for such a serious match with the champion going in injured and a big reveal of a long running angle, at least being teased and as we found out, going to happen such as it was, they just, can they just not? Can they just not? I don't know what to say. Do they have to diminish everything? Was that a question? Yes. Would they not? Yeah. Can they just not?  No, the devil is going to be revealed as trying to apparently murder MJF or abduct him to a deserted island somewhere.  MJF, of course, you know, a great new outfit for the match and the fans chant he's our scumbag, which we've established apparently the root meaning of that is a used condom. And then Adam Cole gets his music and entrance and he comes out on crutches and in a cast and he's going to be in the corner for MJF and apparently nobody's going to say anything bad about this, including Joe. Why does he had?  And you can't even critique this match. They did. Again, it was the closest thing to two professionals doing their thing without being ridiculous.  You'd remember, but not too much of it. MJF did all of his stuff that gets over with the crowd. I think there's a little bit too much kangaroo kick milking, especially when it doesn't work twice in a row. You know, but they're both good, great workers and great at putting matches together that make some sense. And under this circumstance, it did. They kept it interesting. And and they went a while and then so there's nothing to as I said too much kangaroo milking and kangaroo foiling. I should have said because if it doesn't work a couple of times in a row, just take it out. But basically nothing to say about the match. It's all about what the fuck's going on with these people after the finish, which was Joe gets the sleeper. MJF shoves Joe into the buckle and they squish the referee in the corner and then MJF gives the laugh like he did it on purpose. And did you see what the fans did immediately when the referee went down, Brian? What's that? I learned this in when I first got into business in the early 80s. When you're doing too many run-ins, whenever the referee goes down, if the fans immediately stand up and look to the entrance way, yeah, that's what started killing the horsemen matches in the late 80s. Yes, because when they stand up and look to the entrance, you're doing too many run-ins and that's exactly what they did. But now of course they weren't even getting a run-in till later, but it shows they're doing too many of them. And MJF nut shot at Joe on the ropes and hit the fireman's or got a fireman's carry and hit an F5 on Joe and that got a big pop and then the cover and the referee had gone down and been squished and it was such a bad count because he comes over like he's weak and feeble recovering and then does the most animated violent sharp count one and then was feeble and can't move and then does the same thing to like he like he's a big electric shocked into counting it. Did you see that? I didn't think of it in that context, but you're not lying. You're saying instead of laying there and feebly go one, two, he's like, oh, I can't get there. Oh, I can't do it again. And then MJF asked Adam Cole for give me the dynamite diamond ring and Cole can't find it.  And the referee drops his arm three times and calls for the bell. Yeah. So that's different. The lack of outraged reaction before a hometown crowd or the lack of reaction. I know like they said the crowd went quiet when Bruno lost the belt. And now they say it wasn't the same thing. Right. But that was interesting. This was that was I can't believe what I've seen my hero, my countryman has been defeated instead. I'm shocked instead. This was I can't believe they did that like that. Yeah. Now let's find out who that the ending kind of was flat. Like the ending was just like it was flat.  It was just like, oh, once again, still happy that some old Joe got the win, but I think they could have produced a match that way ended up just a little bit better in my opinion. But we'll see where they go going for it. Devil is and the thing is, yes, with where we're going, it makes sense that Adam Cole couldn't find the ring. Right. But they just and we know MJF is going to take time off because he's hurt. Yeah. And honestly, after this whole thing is about to unfold and already has unfolded here, maybe if he's off for about a year and they forget all about it, that might be the best thing. But Cole goes to console MJF and then the Devil's goons appear and they tackle MJF and one of them holds Cole is trying to fend off with the crutch and the other three rough up MJF and hold him and one of them's got a chair and Cole and MJF are each saying, don't hit him. Hit me. Don't hit him. Hit me and the chair guy turns to Adam Cole and he draws back and the lights go out. And when the lights come back on, Adam Cole is sitting in the chair and the Devil's Stooges are all lined up behind him. I would have did it differently instead of doing the hokey like the hokey sense of like the lights going out. I would have had them, you know, saying I would have had the the mass figures come in there look like they're about to attack and will they attack? They attack MJF. MJF doesn't realize it, but they're not attacking Adam Cole. Adam Cole is trying to get them to stop or whatever. And then they and then you can have them stop. Once he finally gets them to stop, MJF doesn't realize if the fans start to realize it, MJF doesn't realize it. And then you could have had him like slowly reveal the mask and then it could have been something like that. Instead of having the lights go out, just changing it a little bit. You can have him if you want the reveal to happen then cool, but at the same time, you could you could do it in a way where it's like MJF doesn't realize it until it's too late type of situation. He's the last one in the know type situation. So I would have did it potentially like that. So and they all unmasked and it's Roderick Strong, Matt Taven, Mike Bennett and Ward Lou and MJF is how could you do this? Do you remember when we first started seeing the brochachos doing their videos at Denny's or Chili's or Spaghetti Factory or wherever they were dieting at that point. DJI Fridays.  And then you throw in strong and Taven and Bennett and none of this has been serious. None of it has been in any way something that the babyface world champion of the company, MJF should ever fall for it a million years. Yeah.  But we find that they're all in Cahoo. How does any of this and and while I'm on the subject, oh my God, they have spent months, the past three months at least reinforcing that Roderick Strong, Matt Taven and Mike Bennett are comedy characters. No win matches. Can't do anything right. And that's the thing too. And people have pointed that out. It's like once again, you got Adam Cole. That's injured. All these other guys, they've been considered as jokes, essentially. They haven't really been taken seriously. And then Wardlow, which is a very interesting case with him. I get his hatred for MJF, which is very understandable. So if there's anybody that's working in the shadows, cool. But Wardlow literally his whole character art is it's come full circle. He was literally a henchman, the muscle man for MJF only to get out of MJF shadow only to ultimately end up being a henchman for Adam Cole. He literally didn't progress. He literally went right back to where he started just with somebody else over him now. So that's another thing. It's like these guys are not threatening. They don't give off threatening vibes because it's like, well, none of y'all have really done anything in the past year, if anything, and Wardlow just became another muscle man for somebody else again. So an axilla on camera. And now they're the henchmen of the top heel. The devil who is crippled and can't wrestle for at least another six to nine months. Probably. Yeah. That's another thing. So it was all in this. This feud is is you're not even really going to be able to sink into it because your top guy, the top guy is injured. He's hurt. He's hurt. If that's the if that's the explanation, it's even worse.  Yeah, everyone. Yeah. So you wouldn't suspect. I don't associate.  Is that what the plan was? And Wardlow decided on his comeback. The best thing was to be in another faction. I just said another group. Another group because they worked out so well for him in the past to be in another group. It doesn't make any again. Samoa Joe is the one that injured Roddy Strong's neck. Isn't he? Yeah, I think so. That's the reason he's in a net brace with Samoa Joe. Choked him out. And Samoa Joe is now on their side. Well, he was just working for him. Ah, he just took their money. He didn't want to get too much of it on him. So Adam Cole, the leader of the group is crippled and can't wrestle. Nope. Three of the four members of his group have been painted as comedy underneath jobbers who never win matches. Yep. And they have just fucked. They got dem world champion and the only guy that that the company had that was really kind of over still. And then they beat him up. Yep. And Wardlow power bombed him and they pulled out the devil mask and laid it on top of him. Yep. Thanks for coming in, Jeff. Please. I hope your next visit is to the Stamford train station. Unfortunately, I don't believe it will be.  Yeah, he's gonna be there for a while. A few years longer. Yeah. The best thing is that he's gonna be off TV for a while. Hopefully, I don't know about a year. He's definitely needs to be off TV. He needs to heal up. He needs he needs to be off TV. He does. He does. The question is will people care? I'm sure people will care about this few whenever he comes back. Hopefully they built towards that. But he needs to be off TV for a while. He's done enough. Let him rest. Let him heal up. Let people miss him. So when he does come back, he'll he'll be better for it. Seriously, how long will it take people to forget about this? Hopefully a while. But I'm not an Adam Cole fan. And I don't buy him and I could never buy him as a bad guy character. Ever in a million years. I don't know what he did on that show. No, remember in the undisputed era, they were heels in NXT and it worked in the group. And we've done a lot since then. Haven't we done a lot since I'll never be able to see him as a serious heal in any way. And he now has a faction made up of guys who have been treated like comedy jobbers and Wardlow, who is maybe the biggest example of AEW booking malfeasance from a homegrown talent. Yeah, ever in that company. See your times actually. They have messed him up, bro. This upset their fans. I shouldn't say upset this disappointed their fans at the end of a disappointing pay-per-view. That's the general consistency. This was just like, oh, okay. We knew like people expected to be Adam Cole, but it was just like a man to a lot of us. It was just this doesn't make me want to see anything. And if MJ is if MJ is off, who are they feuding with? Who is this faction? It's a faction. Now they're just going to go pick on someone else. And this is what I just. Yeah. If you have gone, we're going to feel with this feud is not really going to take place between MJ up and Adam Cole until much later. Maybe roughly right around this time. Well, maybe like end of 2024 towards the end of 2024. Since they both got to heal up. And then even if you do heal up, you still got to get back in wrestling ring shape. It's just I don't know this week. If MJ is injured, it's just not good. AEW is really not good right now. We'll play the media scram audio shortly. Tony thinks it's great. Of course, but this is why don't why don't they they suspend Adam Cole and all of the goons. So they're suspended as long as MJF is out. So they don't have to feud with anybody else. I don't see MJ versus Adam Cole. Honestly, Adam Cole is smaller than like a teenager. Any wrestler should just be able to crush him. It's like a Rio situation. So I don't I left this pay-per-view event just thinking. Wow. This is the most underwhelming pay-per-view from AEW ever.  This wasn't that this was plotting. And I will say to be honest, and it's again, the arena I used to always go to as a kid. It is a tough room. Usually it's a family audience in that building for WWE. That was one of the problems for Crockett promotions. That's one of the problems today. But they sat there and watch this like. Like a New York City crowd watching a band. Just sit there and watched it. And the booking is so uninspiring and so bad. And who do you come out of this wanting to see more of swerve? I guess because he has an unresolved thing with Keith Lee who we may never see again. And he beat up Dustin Rhodes for no good reason. Jericho, I definitely want to see Jericho. I'm dying to see the crowd. Reactions to Jericho. Yeah, yeah. Everybody got to go on the crowd. Just they completely buried him, bro. They buried him. I've dog they buried him.  Wild song is song as he came out there and it proceeds to bury this nigga mid-match.  Y'all are wrestling fans a while, man. On a tour across the country with this. How is he going to try to turn this so that he could use it? That's the way he thinks. Yeah, he got this where you're like a trademark. Boomi, you know, whatever you got to find a way to make there's not a lot of combat club dead. Eddie Kingston. I don't want to watch another Eddie Kingston match for a while. Danielson.   MJF appears to be off. I like Samoa Joe. I don't know who he's going to wrestle. And who is he going to defend the title against? You know what? Swerves the top baby face.  It's it's the land of bizarro.  People love him. He's he's potentially the next guy up. He may at some point this year win the AEW World Championship.  He didn't win that tournament. Given Joe. As long as he keeps committing attempted murder at aggravated mayhem, apparently swerve will be a popular man.  I forgot about where the fuckers you forgot about him. The elite nowhere to be seen on the last paper of the year. You know, a lot of people are talking about the changing face of the company and how people are leaving. It's also just less exciting. I don't know. Hey, you know, the idea that it's all being booked for one man. It's truer today than ever before. Well, Brian, you know what all of those smart fans and website reporters did immediately after this show was over with, don't you immediately? No, I do not know immediately. They got on their telephones to get on the social media and the Twitter and the Internet's and all of those things and tell everybody that wasn't there what had happened and try to give them the scoops and to do that, you know what they had to have. Don't you? He said up and they had to have to give the scoops a scoop a scooper. No, not a pooper scooper, but a cell phone and a cell phone plan. A wireless plan.  But yeah, man. And here's the thing. I kind of compared this like kind of questionable booking to the same thing that WWE did last year with Jimmy and versus Roman Reigns. I think they they overbooked it. The match shouldn't have involved a not Jimmy J versus Roman Reigns and the match shouldn't involve Jimmy like that solo being involved supposed to be tribal combat.  They jumped a shark in my opinion. They definitely jumped a shark there with the booking and it just made no sense. It was just kind of like wait and that's kind of the vibe here. It was like this doesn't make sense when you really think about it. It's it it makes sense, but it doesn't because of how people have been booked as of late and now we're supposed to buy into them being this dangerous threat when they've been booked as complete goofs and not anyone to be afraid of. But their alternate personas under the mask, their villains and evil is one of those things. Both companies have done it where they jumped the shark completely or the match the build up to the match may have been better and then it just falls flat with the ending. Both companies have done it. This is the you know, like I said, the most recent one for WWE in my opinion was the whole Jimmy J versus Roman Jimmy getting beaten up only to turn on his brother J at the end when it mattered the most.  They real no real sense here. So like I guess we're here now. We got to kind of roll with it. Um, but it gave me those vibes. So y'all comment down below. Let me know how did y'all feel about the MJ versus Samoa Joe match Samoa Joe actually winning the world AW World Heavyweight Championship and then the segment with the devil reveal. How did y'all feel about it? When you first saw it? Were you excited? Were you like Mary? You didn't like it at all and where do you think they're going to go with this whole MJ of Adam Cole and Samoa Joe situation going for it. I appreciate all the love support you guys are on our channel. Road to 150K and I'm seeing you on the speedy YouTube resident champion world. Appreciate y'all kicking in with me. See y'all next one. Peace.


How do you make a better group of friends? Well, here's how you do it. You put yourself in environments of people who are doing exactly the same hobbies and interests that you're into. So for example, if you're into watching NFL on a Sunday and your favorite team is the Denver Broncos, go on to meetup.com and find Broncos supporters in your city. Find out when they're getting together and then just go and put yourself in that environment. And when you're in that environment, you will meet cool people. If you're into cooking, go and put yourself in an environment where there are lots of chefs or cooking classes. If you're into physical exercise and you want to start getting into a little bit more of like a nutrition and lifestyle kind of plan, then rather than just going to the gym, which could be a little bit isolating obviously, go and join a running group or join a yoga class, or go on a yoga retreat, put yourself into an environment there where you don't know people, but just know that the type of people that you're going to meet is going to be interesting to you. For example, there's a festival, which is not for everyone, but there is a festival in the Nevada desert called Burning Man and there's a lot of people think that it's, you know, filled with a whole bunch of hippies, you're all popping drugs and popping pills and taking drugs and going crazy and there's free love and everything. And you know what? There is that, but there's also all the other stuff as well, which is happiness, openness, friendship, and the whole ethos of that particular festival, as there are many festivals around the world, is to help people, is to be friendly and to be smiley and to just make sure that everyone feels welcome. Now, I'm not saying that you have to go to that particular festival, but if you want to be happier and attract happier people, put yourself in an environment where you know there are happy people and that is an example of that. Likewise, if you are wanting to be a Harley Davidson motorcycle rider, then go and join a Harley Davidson motorcycle fan club and all of a sudden you've made a whole new friends, a whole new group of friends. When I first moved to the United States in 2003, I actually flew in a Los Angeles airport and I didn't know whether I was going to turn left or right out of the airport and I ended up living in a hostel, the Hermosa Beach Hostel just south of the airport and I didn't know anyone, knew nobody. But you know what? I used to play rugby. I played rugby in Australia. So what did I do? I typed in Los Angeles rugby and two teams came up, Santa Monica Rugby Club and Los Angeles Rugby Club. So then I went on to the Los Angeles Rugby Club. I phoned the number and said, hi, my name is James. I just arrived in Los Angeles. How do I get start doing training?  We're doing a training on the beach on Tuesday night at 6.30. Come down there. I went, OK, so on Tuesday night at 6.30, I turned up and I went, hi, is Jason here? Jason was the contact I'd spoken to. I said, yeah, over there. I go, Jason, hi, my name's James. I spoke to you on the phone. He goes, oh, yeah, welcome. Hey, everyone, this is James from Australia. Hey, man, how you doing? And then we started playing rugby, touch rugby on the on the beach. And then from there, the season started and I started playing rugby. And I ended up playing for Los Angeles Rugby Club for two years and made some of the best friends of my life, all because we had that united interest that that we're on a same team. We were teammates. We would play sport. And then at the end of the sport, we'd socialize afterwards. When people got to know me and they were friendly with me, they're like, what's your story? I'm like, oh, I just arrived. People tried to help me out with work. They tried to help me out with accommodation. All of a sudden, I had like 20 new friends or because I had a shared interest. In that particular case, it was rugby. So think about the activities and the things that you're into. It's so easy in today's day and age to put yourself in a new environment by going to meetup.com. I mean, you just literally type in meetup.com and you could type in like pottery. And all these pottery groups in your neighborhood will come up and then you just turn up, just turn up to one of these meetings that they have scheduled. The next thing you know, you're hanging out with people who love the same thing. A bond is formed because people like people who are into the same things as them.  All of a sudden, you've got a whole new group of friends. It's like if you're sitting at home and you're like going, I've got no friends. I'm not doing anything. Why would anyone invite me anywhere?  And then when you're in that group, don't just be a taker and like expect someone to invite you to places and parties and entertain. You know, take a genuine interest in other people. Try to help other people be attentive, smile a lot. And when you do that, the people there are going to like you. They're going to feel affection for you. They're going to start to get to know you. Then all of a sudden you'll start fielding these invitations to other meetups and other organizations and other activities. So no sitting on your hands and doing nothing worried about the fact that you don't have a good group of friends. If you don't like the group of friends that you got, get out of them and substitute them for a new group of friends. There's never been a better time. I'll tell you why you think it's so hard to leave your current friends and go into a new group of friends. Because back in us in when we were cave men and cave women, we were in tribes of about 120 on average. And if someone was ostracized from the group, like if the group said, no, that person's got to leave, it was certain death, right?  So we have this stone age mind that is fearful of being ostracized from a group. But guess what? We now live in 2016, 2017, whenever you're watching this. And if you get kicked out of a group, you can just join another one. It's called Facebook or it's called meetup.com or it's called like there's just so many different tribes that you can join now.  We're all one big happy family now, kind of. So don't worry about leaving your current tribe. If it's not serving you, if you're not happy with it, just go out there and explore lots of new tribes. And maybe the new tribe won't be a good fit to begin with. That's OK. Just try again, you know, it's it's pretty simple. So there you go. That's how you go out and make new friends. I hope this helps subscribe. If you're watching this on YouTube down below, leave a comment down below and let me know how you have found new friends. And if you're listening on the James Wanik Shape podcast, thank you for listening. And I'll catch you on the next one. How to set up a business for under a thousand bucks. Can you do it? Yes, you can. According to my mate, the author, Dan Flashman and Brandon.


Hey everybody this is Brett with Summit Auto and I'm here today on assignment at the 2022 Chicago Auto Show. I'm really excited about the show today. They got a lot of really cool stuff. I went in and scoped it out before I did this video just to kind of get an idea of what I'm gonna be doing. We're gonna check out some of the Jeep stuff, the Ford stuff. Got some pretty cool stuff by the Toyota lineup that I'm hoping to get a special video later today or tonight. Maybe even tomorrow morning. But stay tuned for that. It's some really cool stuff and we'll check out all the other brands and everything in there. This year it's only one side. Kind of like it was on the abbreviated version last year. A little bit less vendors, a little bit less food and you got to wear a mask pretty much the whole time you're in there. I'm outside the auto show right now so that's why I'm not wearing a mask. But I'll be having one on once I get back in there and hopefully the videos won't be too muffled. Anyways, I'm gonna be labeling all the videos with hashtag CAS22. That's C-A-S-22. So check those out. Also, or you could just subscribe to our YouTube channel which is in the upper right hand part of screen. Link to subscribe. And if that works for you then you can check out all the videos that we do each and every day including these ones from the Chicago Auto Show. Thanks for checking out the video and I hope you enjoy the rest of them that we do.


Good afternoon, everyone. How's everyone doing today? Are you enjoying yourself at work at Boston? Yeah? Well, welcome. I'm at the end of the day, so we're gonna leave here and go eat, and maybe go to sleep. It's gonna be a long weekend. So today we're talking about speeding up the WordPress. So go quick a little bit about me. I'm Frank. I make a few of the WordPress plugins, a lot of which focus on this type of topic. I'm also a professor at the University of Florida where I teach web development, as well as a few other places where I also teach web development. Now, so why does speed matter? So most of you probably hear because you know speed does matter, but just in case you're unaware, there's a variety of things that speed can affect beyond just your second. So one of the things that speed affects SEO. Now, a lot of the search engines rank higher based on how fast your site speed is. There's a lot of different factors in SEO algorithms, but Google, dot dot go, all of them put a heavier weight on second speed. And recently, a lot of them have been focused on the mobile speed. So if your site renders very quickly on desktop, and then you open up your phone and it takes 10 seconds to load on your phone, that's a bad sum. The phone outweighs the desktop current. So seed affects SEO. In addition to SEO, it affects things called conversions. Now, if you're not familiar with conversions, this is whatever your goal is on your web page or your website. So if you want people to buy from you or sign to your email list, things along those lines. So the term I use, conversions, there's your goal of that page. Now, there's a lot of studies on conversions and site speed. A couple of them is that Walmart found that if it increased your speed of your site, increased the four seconds, it would dramatically decrease the amount of conversions on their site. And also, they found that 79% of customers that were dissatisfied by the performance of your website would leave and then never come back. In addition, 47% of the customers don't even want to wait to two seconds. And then only 16% are willing to wait to five seconds. So a lot of you are hopefully not sites that are loading faster than five seconds, but even at five seconds, only at almost a tenth of your users are almost nine out of ten users would have already left by a time of five seconds. So that's not fast people are looking for. They're looking for two seconds or less. And most of the search engines are looking for a second or less is the stated goal. If you're unsure of how to even start the how to approach site speed, you'll probably want to at least test your site speed. Now, you could open up your web browser and get a little stopwatch app or something. It's probably not the best way to do it. So, luckily, there's a variety of tools we can use to test out our site speed and even give us some guidance of what we can do in knowing these, knowing this data. So, my favorite one is the Pingdom speed test. And that, we'll look at that one in just a moment actually. And that one just said tools.pingdom.com. Most things will do the same thing. We're going to look at Pingdom in just a moment, where you just enter in the URL of your website, and they'll give you a how fast it renders. They'll give you some sort of score or parade and some recommended things you can change. Now, the one that I usually always use Pingdom, but this Google page speed one, I also check there because Google has the biggest search engine. So they're telling you something, hey, you might want to get to. It's probably a good indication they factor that into your SEO. So usually I end up always doing Pingdom, but then also occasionally I also use the page speed insights, knowing that it probably is countered towards that. Now, that last one, the Chrome developer tool is if you're a developer, you might have already been familiar with developer tools.  You can run a lot of these tests from your own browser. The key difference there is that the Chrome developer tools will run it based off your own current speed connection, whereas these other ones will be based on servers, which we'll look at in just a moment. So let's open up Pingdom real quick, just as long as the internet is playing nicely. All right, so we are going to just say random URL, just so you can demonstrate this. Now, depending on where your target customer is, there you're going to see this little drop down of most of these tools where you can select what server to render from. If you are targeting everyone in the world, then it probably won't matter, just choose one that is close to you, but if you are maybe targeting people in the United States, then you would probably pick the United States one. If you're targeting someone in maybe Europe, you might pick the Sweden one. So that would just depend on who your target developer is. For our use case, we're just going to click USA, just so we can get to the actual data. So depending on the site and depending on where I'm at, this could take a couple seconds to load. So this one is broke down here. And now I'm using the Pingdom one, but almost all of these would work the same way.  So this one is 9.100. So it's saying I have a C. It gives me a load time. It tells me a couple of interesting data points. And then we scroll down, it starts giving you a breakdown of the things that they checked. And then it goes into a little bit more technical stuff which we'll go over later. Almost all these tools work the same way. I like this one because it's nice and color coded and it's real quick to check out what's going on. GT Metrics, the other tool I mentioned, has a WordPress specific run test. You can click on my running a WordPress site. It gives you a little bit more advice based off WordPress, but it's not quite as user friendly. So that's not usually the one I end up using, but that does have a WordPress specific test that might be useful as well for you to look at. So once you have an idea of what your speed is at. So the site you just looked at was at two seconds, maybe you looked at yours and it's 10 seconds or one second. Once you have that baseline, then you need to actually start optimizing and improving it. Now the very first thing that matters to the speed is your hosting. This is the very first thing. If you have really bad hosting, almost everything else you do won't matter. Now in addition to hosting riders, there's a lot of technical stuff which I'm not going to get too far into, but things such as the resources allotted to your site, things along those lines are very important. So if you have a really low end host, they might be giving you very minimal amount of resources, so it takes much longer for your site to run. Whereas sites such as WP Engine, Flywheel, SiteGround, a lot of those have really good resources and buy runs through your site and so your site will run faster. Now the good rule of thumb is if you're paying less than a dollar a month, it's probably not good hosting. Now there's a lot of hosting out there, so I'm not going to sit here and give you exact recommendations based on a giant list, but if you're paying less than a dollar a month, it's probably not good hosting. Now another big factor with hosting is the version of PHP that your site is running. Now keeping the PHP update to the recent version is a good idea for many reasons including security, but in terms of site speed, having a hosting provider use the current version, you can go from the one in the older version to the current version and have a 400% site speed, site speed increase. Now if you're not technical, you might not be sure exactly what PHP is. This is the language of request and this is usually managed by your hosting provider, so most of you probably won't be going in and adjusting this, but it'd be something you want to check with your hosting provider to make sure you're using the most recent version. So usually you can just open their chat and be like, hey, what version am I running? I'm using the latest version. It might be somewhere in your cPanel or your account that you can just see it, the current version being 7.2, the last one was 7.1. So if you look and you see it says 5.2 or 5.3, which happens to be security updates in a decade, that would be back. And then also a update to the recent version would see that 400% site speed increase, which would be a massive amount. So think that if you're at 4 seconds loading, just making sure you're up to the recent version, you'd be down to a second. So I just listed a couple quality hosting providers here. There's lots of many, many great hosting providers, but these are a couple of the really good ones. Many of them were here today. There are sponsors here as well as various people walking around. So these are really good ones. If you're the unsure host, this is where you could get started. SiteGround is the price-conscious one. I think they start off around $8 or $9 a month. The other ones are a little bit more expensive because there's a lot more to them, so it depends on the point you're after. Let SiteGround would be an affordable option if you have a women's budget.  If you go find some random theme on the internet, which you probably shouldn't for a variety of reasons, but if you found this random thing, you installed it, and it was a bad theme, and you went and switched to a really good theme, you could see a site speed increase of almost four times. It could be that drastic the quality of the code could affect your site speed that drastically. So finding quality themes should be a high priority.  Most of those are vetted for quality. Those are usually checked, not super thoroughly, but at least it's a good baseline that you're reasonably sure those are okay. If you find one randomly on the internet by searching for great themes, those are probably going to be bitter myths. So you want to find theme developers that you trust, such as the ones in the WordPress repository, or such as, I have a couple of examples here, studio press, elegant themes, there's a couple of them out there that are known in the community to be good quality themes. And if you're unsure, ask anyone you can hear, ask any sponsors, they usually can recommend one if you're unsure. Just don't try to avoid searching randomly on Google and selling them randomly. It might not be a good thing. Now here's a fun tip I came across a couple years ago from someone at another work app is that they run all the demos for the various themes through the speed test. So almost everything in today has some sort of demo set up somewhere. So you can take those demos, all three of them that you like and do three themes, and you can do a speed test on each of those demos. Theoretically, since they're demoing it and they're probably a sort of upsell, they're going to have it on decent hosting, they're probably going to optimize it. So it shouldn't be a good indicator of the speed the theme might have. Now the downside is that there's lots of factors in terms of site speed and theme configurations. So it's not going to be exactly a rule of thumb like this one, rating higher, how to slightly better see speed tests, it's better. But it's a good indication of whether or not this could be a fast theme. Does that make sense? Does anyone have questions on that part, the theme part? Now the next steps, we have decent hosting. We have a quality theme, hopefully. And then the next step is where, how many plugins should you have in your site? How many should you have? What type of plugins? What's a good rule of thumb? And so the one, the one question I get asked quite a bit is how many plugins should I have? And now the unfortunate answer is that there's no recommended amount, because every plugin is very different, every situation is very different. There are sites that have three or four plugins that are very intensive and they probably can't go over that, or they start seeing a speed decrease. Whereas other sites could have hundreds and not be affected. So there's a lot of factors. One couple factors could be the amount of functionality that a plugin provides. So you think of a plugin such as WooCommerce or easy digital downloads like a e-commerce plugin or something along those lines, or some big plugin that's a lot of functionality. There's a block going on there and that'll be different than a plugin that might add a single shortcode or a single food burn block. Those are vastly different plugins and that depending on what you're installing would affect how much you should have. A good rule of thumb though is aimed for around 20 to 30. That's a good rule of thumb. Now again, every situation is different. So you could have hundreds, you could have five or six and it could be different. But a good rule of thumb if you're unsure and get to, and you're up to 30 or 40, you probably might be getting too much. Now a good way to determine it is if you're not using a plugin, deactivate it. There's a lot of plugins that you saw that are single use, maybe like an import plugin or an export plugin or maybe a scan or a check. There's things that you might use one time or maybe once a month. If you're not using it then deactivate it so it's not being loaded. And then if you don't use it that often just go ahead and delete it by yourself. Does that make sense? Any questions on plugins? So the next factor here is you might have come across this term caching before. And caching is a variety of different types of caching or server caching browser caching, plugin caching. And essentially what this is think about WordPress as a whole. Whenever someone goes to your home page there's a lot of things that has to load. It has to load maybe the comments from your database has to load that the user might be logged in and has to load what content display, what bootable bird box are on the page, what widgets you're using in the footer. There's a lot of content that has to load and even some algorithms that has to process. So by default it runs all these processes every time someone goes to a page on their website. What caching does is it runs all of those algorithms and content loading and creates a version of that, a simple copy if you will. And then it just sends that copy every time someone tries to load the page instead of re-running all those algorithms every time. Does that sort of make sense? There's a lot more technicalities to it. That's a good quick overview. And there's a couple of different versions of caching. So that's kind of a big point. So there's server caching and this is more at the server level. So most of us here probably don't have access to this kind of caching, but some of your posting providers will enable this. So you think of the WP engines, the flywheel was the page, they usually have some sort of like meta cache or various aspects of caching that they offer or that they have on by default for you. Now the downside is that if a host has server caching in there they optimize and they have a lot of configurations that prevents you from doing anything with it. So that'd be something that they're to worry about. But we'll get to that in just a moment. The bigger factor is if you see a hosting provider has server caching that's usually a good sign that your site will be a little faster on that because server caching is really good. Now the opposite though is the plug-in caching. And so plug-in caching is what if you're on a hosting provider that doesn't have server caching? So you then know like a shared hosting provider. Maybe you probably still want caching so there's plugins that you can install that will do this for you. So the big difference though is that with server caching which makes it what makes it better is that server caching then can run it's run the server so it doesn't have to ever load enough wordpress and you can just send that copy to the user all by itself. Or as a plug-in if you're at the if you install plug-in wordpress still has to load a little bit to load the plug-in. So server caching tends to be a little bit better but it's only available on certain hosts usually higher end hosts so it's not something everyone can consider and that's where the plug-ins come in that can do this for you it's a slight difference between server and plug-in but it's not going to it's still a really good thing to use some for caching. So a lot of people use W3 total cache now that's a there's a lot of features in that one so it can be a little complicated that's a really good one if you're looking for one. Supercache one is another one Breeze is another one Breeze is made by Cloudwaves it's a hosting provider and what's nice about Breeze is it's really simple you hit the on switch or you hit the off switch so it's really nice it doesn't have a configuration of the others now so depending on your level technical skills it might not be enough for you but if you're looking for just something you can turn on Breeze is a good option. WP Rocket is another one that's recommended to me several times I've not personally used it but it'll be another one as well. Does that caching make sense before everyone does anyone have questions on caching? Breeze. So Breeze is a W3 total cache super cache but they're all plugins that you can install and Breeze is made by Cloudwaves it's a hosting provider but it's in the repository it's free like W3 total cache you can install them and turn on and they're all caching plugins they work very similarly. Does that answer your question? Anyone else with a question on caching? So there's the server caching and plugin caching you're asking if you have both is that good? So depending on the exact configuration of the server caching sometimes they're not compatible so depending on your hosting provider sometimes you can only do the server caching and not plugin caching and others like you can't have both depending on the configurations it's a little bit more technical so it would depend on the exact implementation of server caching and the exact implementation of the plugin cache so they can't be compatible because you just have to find a tunnel a little more usually if you have server caching it's easier not to do plugin caching unless you're at a certain level where you're desperately needed but it's a little bit more technical so maybe afterwards if you want to know more maybe we can discuss it a little bit more that answer your question so next is going to be offloading now offloading is the concept of having some of your resources on your site on some other server now this is useful for a variety of reasons by default your server it's hosting your site it's going to send all the data for your site but it's not going to be fine-tuned for delivering some of these resources whereas some other servers are configured in a better way to send specific resources a good example is images so if we go yes so if we have maybe images on your website most websites have images you might have lots of them depending on your server it might take a little bit to send the images over the users whereas on other servers they might be fine-tuned for this process that can send these a little bit faster but what in addition to that they're also usually part of something called a cda and this is a content delivery network so this is a series of these servers that are fine-tuned for sending this type of data what makes cds really nice is that cds or or a network of these servers spread around the world usually so if i am a mgirt user and i try to go into your website and your site is posted in new york and i live right down the street from new york it has to go down the wire the ethernet wires and it gets me fairly quickly probably but if i was in maybe japan for some part of asia trying to load your site and post it in new york it has to travel all the way around the world so it's going to take several seconds longer to reach me whereas with a cdn it has a network of these servers so there's probably a server down the road from me an agent that can load send me the data for your website instead of it having to go all the way into your most provider in new york so it's a high level overview of cds there's a lot more technicalities to it but these are generally a good idea especially if you have customers or users around the world now i was using the images as an example but a lot of these things that be set up to offload a lot of your resources in addition images so maybe your styles because you're in download like pdfs or various files or as opposed or even the javascript the actual code that renders a lot of the friend dynamics of your website a lot of that can be offloaded to these cds as well so there's a lot of them out there now this is a little bit more technical step but you could use a plugin such as wp s3 offload to do all this for you so amazon s3 if you're not familiar amazon the giant retailer has a giant web technology part of their company where they have servers and the post sites on they also have cds and they have various storage aspects one of their offerings is s3 so it's it's sort of like this cdn concept a little bit different but that's a whole other conversation wp s3 offloaded is a plugin you can install and just turn on and it'll manage that for you so that's a really nice aspect if not there's also a map cdn it's very popular in the plugin space i see this a lot throughout the WordPress community that would be another one you can look into they also have a similar setup where you do sign up for their service and you can sell plugin to turn on and it handles a lot of this for you now this particular thing usually costs some money because you're storing it somewhere so a lot of the stuff we talked about so far goes to the things i mentioned were free the ping-dome the w3 total cash this one would actually cost a little bit of money depending on your site though it could be pennies and money so it just depends on how much resources you have that was something that at least it'll came to you though is that sort of makes sense is anyone confused by offloading so the next big factor are images as the web has grown more and more media is getting placed on the websites you have images and videos in various content but images add data to be sent to the user so you think if you go to your website right now or even my site we went to the frankly so that me it has to send all of that data to my browser it has to send me all the content on the page all the text the styles the scripts the images all that gets sent to my browser now it gets downloaded from the internet so it could be maybe all the text is a couple kilobytes or maybe a couple megabytes if i have an image if i go out with this really nice icon camera water cannon i take this 18 billion megapixel camera and i take a picture and i have this nice image that's 6000 pixels by 6000 pixels and it's only a four gigabyte file and i upload seven of them to my website if someone has to load my website it's going to be 21 gigabytes to download that website and so if you're on dial up or those the internet that would take hours or days to open your website now obviously it's a hyperbole i don't think anyone's uploading that massive image but images could factor in drastically how slow your site loads if you have a lot of images and they're very large so things that you need to remember is that you want smaller images on the website so the smaller the image file the faster page will load so if i have 10 images that are 100 megabytes that's going to be a gigabyte to download that yes a gigabyte to download that website whereas if i had 10 files 10 images that were one kilobyte that's going to be 10 kilobytes and i'll look very fast and if you're if those starts kilobyte megabytes and that doesn't make sense to you that's kind of how storage is on computers and internet brings on how fast things go so the smaller the image the faster the page will load overall now there's two main ways you get smaller image one is smaller dimensions so if you take a picture or the very nice camera it might have a large dimension it might be 7 000 pixels by a thousand pixels but every very large image and on most websites if you take on your phone or on your desktop you might not need that big you probably have that big and there's different areas of your website maybe like a little avatar of yourself or little icons that are only maybe 20 pixels by 20 pixels or 100 pixels by 100 pixels loading in a 7 000 image or pixel would be very large it'd be hundreds times the size you need so you could decrease that you could shorten the width and the height to match what you actually need and you would speed up your site drastically now another aspect you could reduce is the quality of the photo now i know you might think oh i don't want blurry photos or i don't want bad photos on my site you don't have to you most visitors especially on mobile phones can't tell the difference between 70 out of 100 percent and most photographs so you could you could reduce almost a third of the file size and no one would even notice so this this is a general statement if you have really high quality photos you might not be able to reduce it all the way to 100 percent so there's there's some kind of a difference depending on what kind of images you're using but if you reduce the width and height and lower the quality by a little bit you could cut out almost 90 percent of the file size and see a massive speed increase decrease in your website does that make sense does anyone think yes sorry so there's a little bit more technical aspects here but yes rent is great it has high quality so theoretically though it's still you're still not going to need a 6000 by 6000 image so you still can decrease quite a bit to match right now the beauty beautiful thing about technical aspects is that you can actually specify different images to be loaded on different devices it's a little bit more technical than what we're going to go over but there are plugins that'll handle that for you if you search source set or rednet images in the WordPress repository there's plugins that'll enable you to do that so you have one image that gets sent as a rednet display and then a lower image that gets sent for more like a mobile device and that's kind of how you get a rednet does that answer your question any other questions on this part so most of those the dimensions and the quality if you're a designer or if you have a lot of stuff hopefully you might be doing Photoshop or some similar software to do that yourself but if you don't there are a few software solutions that could do this part for you now this is a plugin it's been renamed like a hundred times you might be familiar with it as by different name it used to be WP Smush and I know some others Smush it or something along those lines and now it's Smush image compression optimization and what this plugin does is you and saw it you activated and when you upload a plugin or upload an image it'll do some of this for you while when you upload it so you don't have to quite worry about doing it yourself it's not going to be as great as if you did it yourself but if you're if you're not sure how this all works it would be a good solution as a free plugin so that's nice now the downside and I'll get to the second recommendation moment is the downside of having a plugin do this for you is that it's taking away resources under the website so theoretically if you uploaded a thousand images at once it has to run this process to compress and optimize that image over all those images so it's going to take resources away from the hope that the server on the site that couldn't be dedicated to keeping yourself fast now if you're only uploading an image every now and then you probably won't notice a difference so what Kraken does is that this is more of a service so you upload an image it gets sent to Kraken to run this process and then it sends back an image to replace the image you uploaded that's compressed and optimized so that's another avenue depending on what you're after now the difference is the first one is free because it's a plugin the second one costs money depending on how many images you have I think it starts off at six dollars alone so it's it could be affordable but it's not free so that'd be something to consider I did find just today one of the sponsors WP compress sounds like they do a similar service but focus don't request I have not personally used them I've just met a sponsor today who have this so WP compress is the name so that might be another one to look into I haven't used it so I just learned it today so I can't vouch for it but that'd be another one to look into is that sort of makes sense is anyone questions on that so the next aspect of this is optimizing the scripts and the styles of your website so when someone loads your website they get html which is the actual content layout they get CSS which is the design of your website they get JavaScript which is the script of your website the dynamic aspects and a lot of these files can be very large or a bit larger than they probably need to be so the concept of optimizing these is making these files a bit smaller to make it faster to load and faster to download so there's a couple of ways this happens now you don't have to remember this exact word because I'm going to go over a couple plugins I'm going to do this for you in just a moment but concatenation is the concept of combining these files together rather than having to have 20 separate downloads they use download one file that has all these other styles kind of combined together the other concept is minification so in these design files and scripting files there's a lot of space there's a lot of things as they go through new lines and they have characters in spacing they might have comments in there for themselves for the developers and minification would strip all that out and compact the file down to make it a smaller file so depending on how big these files are you could see a drastic difference between the whole file and the minified file now it's nice is most caching plugins like W3TotalCache that I mentioned earlier and WParocket they have this feature built in for you the thing to worry about though is that a lot of plugins not a lot but many plugins may not work properly if you turn on that option in the cache plugins so I'd be something aware of when you have these cache plugins such as W3TotalCache these are great options concatenation, minification they're usually just called optimization but they might have a set breakdown depending on your caching plugin when you turn it on you'll want to go through your site to make sure it still functions properly because some plugins will could break depending on how they're structured so you want to turn it on and then go through your site and make sure everything still works and if it does it's great if it doesn't then you have to turn it back off and then maybe work with the plugin developer open a support ticket reach on support forums be like hey I've tried to do this it's something broke what's what can I do here now if you're on a host provider that has server caching so such as WPH and Flywheel some of them do not allow you to use plugin caching for conflicting reasons so you want to go and use those plugins however this plugin here will do this optimization step without having the caching part of the plugin so if you do not have caching you could use this plugin to at least do this optimization aspect so I never pronounce this right I'm assuming it's a compromise but it could be something entirely different but that's how it's done and you can find that in the plugin repository is a free plugin you just install and then turn on and then once again you'll want to test your site to make sure nothing broke before you want to wait for them does optimization sort of make sense I know it's a little bit more technical but that makes sense and anyone have any questions okay so keeping your site tidy now once you optimize your images and your themes a lot of those are the bigger aspects but once you've done all that you're still trying to make your site a little bit faster that's when you get to this step now when it comes to WordPress all the data of your WordPress all the comments all your pages all your posts your users all that is stored in a database and when pages get loaded and various aspects of your site is happening that database has to be queried upon and loaded upon a lot of that data so when you have a lot of data it could slow down some of that querying some of that voting now not by lot it's not going to be several seconds just because you have some comments in your site it's not that drastic but it does have a effect on your site so for example if you try to load a post on your site it goes really popular and it has a hundred comments on it which that's great but if there was maybe 10,000 spam comments it has to go through all these comments and the database to find a hundred for that post so sometimes you'll have a spam attack on your site and you'll log in you'll have hundreds of spam comments you have to go through and delete well sometimes if you don't log in your site you forget about it for three years you'll log in you'll see 80,000 spam comments and that's not a hyperbole I had a client I logged in they had 85,000 spam comments that slows down your sites the site has to load go through the comments database the table on the database to find the comments for various posts so you want to keep up with this kind of thing and delete the or move and delete spam comments or your trash comments things along those lines you want to keep tidy and only keep like the active comments same thing with a couple of these other ones the revisions if you're not a warrior WordPress has this cool thing whether you make a change for a post it keeps the older version in case you need to revert back to it or whatever case may be and it also auto saves and things along those lines now depending on your housing provider and your setup it could keep the last 20 to 30 versions of your poster page so these are all this data that you probably don't need so some hosting providers allow you somewhere in the account settings or the management area you can limit the number of revisions so you say well only keep the last copy or the last change I made or only keep the last two or three that's a good idea if you don't want to keep 30 or 40 especially when you're making lots of changes and you have lots of posts in your website that adds up so having a way to limit the revisions hosting providers will you sometimes have this option if they don't there's plugins in the repository that are free that you can install and do this that way as well the last couple ones remove auto-drafts remove old transents this is a little more technical so I don't want to get too far into it but a lot of this is just sort of like the revisions concept where there's just a lot of data that it kind of keeps its backup for you and changes and things along those lines there's plugins you'll install that'll set up data and then when you might install it they won't remove their data all this kind of stuff where we're time built up and these are things that you want to remove luckily there's a plugin called WP suite that'll do a lot of this that's for you and this one's really nice it's one of those plugins you install and it kind of scans your database the plugins you have the themes you have and it goes hey these the 9 000 rows in your database that you're that's just kind of taking up space so using that tool is really great one of the words of caution is that theoretically it could accidentally delete something that you actually need so you want to make sure your site's backed up before you run it just in case I've never had an issue but it's theoretically possible so you want to make sure your site's backed up and then run it and then get rid of the plugins you don't want to keep a set of plugins actively you're not using time back to our earlier thing does that sort of make sense does anyone have questions on that part I know there's a little bit more technical so I don't want to go too far into it but does anyone have questions on that part yes it breaks it into categories but it doesn't break it down like per plugin or anything like that so it will tell you oh when auto drafts you have 217 but that's not going to be super useful for you to check off it doesn't have that granular it breaks into categories so maybe auto drafts it probably won't have any issues but maybe the plugin data maybe you don't get rid of that so you can but it's just not granular as you probably don't think for it any questions on that but we only have a couple minutes left but luckily that is my last slide so we have two minutes left does anyone have any questions this has been a fairly quiet crowd here any questions at all site speed I'm sorry um I don't know is this word camp posting their slides isn't it I don't I don't think they are but I'll post on my Twitter um so at fbcorsa and then it's also going to be a blog post getting launched tomorrow on that website that would be health.ac and that so there'll be a blog post there wouldn't they slide to it and I'll also post on the Twitter as well I'll link to that as well so one of those ways you should find it and then I'll I don't know I don't think the word can't post 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Today, I received a very interesting device, the HDMI video capture card. Let's open it up and see what this device is all about. Inside the box is this. There is no brand name on this device. It simply says HDMI video capture. On one side is a USB 2.0 port and on the other side is an input for HDMI. It also comes with a small USB extension cord. What this device does is it connects to any external device that supports HDMI output such as a camcorder, receives the input and then converts that input into USB which then is read in your computer as a video source. In my case, I purchased this device to connect my DSLR camera which I can then use for live streaming or to use as a webcam for zoom or other online meetings. When you connect the device, it appears as a video source on your PC and you can use it as a web camera for example in an online meeting. When we check the video sources, we will find a new video source called USB Video. Click on that and now the input changes to the DSLR camera and that can be now used as a web camera. And this is the result. If I were to compare this product to its more expensive competitor the Elgato Cam Link, Cam Link is not compatible with all camera models. I had tried it with my Nikon DSLR and it was not working. This on the other hand simply works. When I purchased this product, I paid $40 from Amazon but today I see it is listed for only $30. But I have also seen it available on eBay for much lower, sometimes as low as $15. So you can try it from eBay. Overall I must say that my initial impression is favourable and I am looking forward to using my Nikon camera as a web camera for all my online meetings.


Yeah, we're back with another live J-Fight L. I'm think tech over here and we're talking about Coronaville. What's next? We're talking about the coronavirus with Stephanie Dalton and Winston Welsh as we do every Thursday at 11. Here we are. And so let's talk about what's going on this week. Let's talk about let's talk about his rose garden appearances first. So Winston, is it is it helping? Is it helping in dealing with the virus and helping politically now that he's back doing press conferences and political press conferences about the virus? I don't know. I mean, he did wear a mask and he said it's now patriotic instead of being anti-Trump to wear a mask. But I'm not sure that it's sunk down to his supporters yet. I was talking with a colleague of mine who lives in, whose brother lives in Georgia.  I think she said, and the woman at the counter, nobody was wearing a mask.  And he's like, no, it's there's a pandemic going on, we're all supposed to be wearing masks. But for that, I'd say whatever Donald Trump is doing now, it's not about the public. It would be only because he thinks it's going to help his re-election chances that because he's losing so badly in the public perception as to how he's handling this and people were saying, okay, you got to wear a mask and maybe now he trumps out and he has speeches again. So we'll go from there. But no, I don't think there'll be any effect either way. I think it's clear that he diminished the importance and threat of the coronavirus from the outset. And he made all these ridiculous statements about how it was of no consequence. And even recently, it's just a sniffle, you know, and it's going to disappear a lot. And the question now is he's changing his tune. It's that alternative facts moving while you watch. And now he's saying it's serious. So the question, Stephanie, is that going to stick? Is he going to be able to convince people between now and the election that he's legit, that he's really fighting the good fight against coronavirus? Well, I mean, this tool of the daily briefing is not going to do it for him. And because he got the feedback all wrong. I mean, the people were unhappy about the program and the daily briefing. The feedback was get off the stage, Mr. President. He wasn't doing anything useful. They want the medical people. Those are useful now? Yes. I think so. We need to have, we need to have those charts up for people to understand what the strategies can be to understand how important, for instance, doing something as a nation simultaneously rather than waiting for each state to get to a certain place and then start being able to look at the data to see what a difference it makes.  You guys see the article in the New York Times where there was a, an affirmative strategy developed in the White House to lay it on the states in order to avoid accountability responsibility for him to see that article. It's very interesting. And I think that's, that strategy still exists, doesn't it? He's trying, he's still trying to lay it on the states. He's trying to get out of the way on being responsible for this. Yes. It's a masterful attempt to decoy and just, you know, deploy stuff to, you know, in other ways that don't come back on him. But the fact of the matter is, is it is because everybody understands that without a national policy, it's not going to work and the evidence is continued to accumulate that people do actually do what he says. And if he doesn't say wear a mask, they won't wear a mask. If he says drink the Kool-Aid, they'll drink the Kool-Aid. So that takes me to the lag effect, you know. If Donald Trump changes his view on day one yesterday, whatever this week, how long does it take for that to sink in? How long does it take for that to sink into the woman in the shop in Georgia where she begins to understand, you know, we have a pandemic? Or does she remain ignorant for the next X months, maybe through the election? She never really understands. She's getting all her signals from him, and it never catches up with her. I think there's a lag in terms of public opinion, public information. Well, I attribute that if I could go ahead and check. It's Fox News, because if that person is only watching, is watching one single station and not attending to any other input from media, then they're not going to get the information they need to make the best decisions about their own and their family's health. I mean, that is another accountability that that news station ought to take on. They are not keeping the data up. I've talked to people from Phoenix, Arizona here who didn't know that Phoenix, Arizona was a flame and had to share ICU beds. So, I mean, this is the problem of looking at one source. So, people are really, would you say, Winston, that it's a combination of things? What are the factors that make people so ignorant? Well, there's a willful ignorance inside of so much of the country and denial. I see this Stephen Miller's grandmother died of COVID and the son blame Donald Trump. These are people that are following it that says, maybe there is a connection between people getting sick and people dying. Now, I also read that the CDC said based on its testing that 10 times more people actually have gotten this virus than is being reported, which makes sense. You know, we're not testing most people in most people. We've heard that before. We heard that from Redfield a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, and that's what we're seeing. So, it may be that there's a lot more cases than, of course, then we thought that the people that are getting sick, that they're really getting sick. And we don't know what the long-term effects are of those. It's easier not to look at it. It's easier to put your head in the sand. And also, when you have been told for months and months and months that this is not a problem, it's going to go away miraculously. It's Chinese, so you're not even going to get it if you get it. And maybe we're going to sacrifice a few people. But when you're looking at this and you have a leader that says, don't wear this. If you wear a mask, you're going against me. I think all of that adds up to an atmosphere where people do not want to change their mind. Or if they do, the repeated exposure where they said, oh, well, now Donald Trump is saying we should wear a mask. So how many times do you have to watch, like Stephanie says, Fox News, to get that message? And maybe all of the Fox News people will start wearing a mask for one week if they're sitting on the stage together and say, hey, just to get the message out here, here it is. Oh, I think it's very well taken. And in fact, it leads to a question we just got. And when I say well taken, I mean that it's not only the mask issue. It's this momentum thing that if you say and he does, if you drill down on a lie over and over and over again, it's very hard to get people to get off that because they are blindly loyal to him. And that loyalty drives them to believe him about something he said before, even when he changes his position. And there's some kind of twisted thinking in there that says, well, I'm not accepting what he says now. I accept what he says before. Now, here's the question. Trump also said he was the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln. Do his supporters actually believe that? He's the greatest president of all time of the history of the universe and not even just since Abraham Lincoln. So, you know, don't even qualify it with saying 150 years ago. This he's obviously the best president and the smartest and the brightest. And he's passed his cognitive test of flying colors. Look, Jay, we can't go by really anything that's coming out of the White House. We have to there are signs that it's coming around it. It's Redfield. It's Fauci. It's even Deborah Birx now, although she's sort of on board with the messaging again. I think they're all trying in their own ways. But he's a leader of a movement of willful ignorance. You know, you have a governor camp in Georgia where he is suing Atlanta because Atlanta has a mask requirement.  This is insanity. It is insanity. It's insanity. It's not just Donald Trump. And I'm asking the question is I want to know what is the mechanics behind people who seem to be insane, the people who reject the truth and the obvious evidence again and again and again. You know, and I think what what he has achieved, and I like your view of this, Stephanie, what he has achieved is complete confusion and in a pandemic, confusion has to be about the worst thing you can, you can have. But can we talk about that? You know, because can you lead, can you lead a nation in trying to survive a pandemic by confusing them? Yes, obviously, because he's done it to us. So that means you're asking, well, we need to think about why we're eligible for that. Why are we susceptible? And I have to submit that I believe we've got a chance to read to the education system for the reasons of the pandemic. But we need to do something about making sure we teach history, we teach civics, and we get critical thinking to levels that people must aspire to. In order to be be the democracy, the great democracy we claim to be. Otherwise, we're going to go right down the two. And as I read recently, you know, none of the democracies have lasted. I mean, Greece's went down, Rome's went down, they've all gone down. And so we're the ones that have the cross to bear now. If you want to consider that, if we have the privilege of carrying the cross of democracy forward. And if we really want to do that as a nation, if that's important to us, well, we've got to educate our citizenry and not to be ideological, but to be knowledgeable and know how to think about things that we're just not doing a good job. Well, I think a lot of people around, including here in Hawaii, don't even see this issue. They're not aware of it. They're interested in other issues. But the fact is that COVID is the most significant story of our time, of our lives. Maybe of the last few hundred years.  And it's going to keep on going until we find a way to deal with it. So the question is, you know, what is the worst case analysis on this disease? We know we get all this confusion about what to do.  And we get no leadership of consequence. We get the states all in trouble. And then we get all these distractions like the Portland brown shirt experience on top of all of that, which will get worse. And meanwhile, the virus is relentless. What's going to happen here? I hate to ask you a question that calls for something other than optimism, Winston. But what is going to happen? Go, go, go. Well, you know, yeah, it's a two-way.  I do remain optimistic. You know, we're in tough times right now. I saw a funny posting that says, America closed for repairs. We'll reopen under new management in January. And I think there's something to be said for that, that we've just become so fractured and weirded out that if you're not sick of what's happened from any angle in the last four years, you haven't been paying attention. But we have a chance here to step back to look when this is done. And I think there is remarkable progress being made medically for all types of vaccines that are being tested. We'll come out of this on another end, but then you're going to have your anti-vaxxers. So what is that all going to mean? I don't know. But in the end, when we do the big debrief as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, there's got to be sort of a Corona Truth and Reconciliation Commission, where we look at our systems, our structures, our responsibility and responsibilities. And we'll step back and we will come back so that when the real plague comes, this is just like a kindergarten version. I'm sad to say that's my unoptimistic voice. But you're making, Stephanie, he's making a lot of assumptions. For example, he's assuming that our democracy will remain viable. And the fact is that the COVID, we've had other shows on this question. COVID requires a global response. It requires a non-isolationist response in any event. It requires a collaboration among scientists all over the world, which we are actually standing in the way of. Closing down our relationship with China, not a good idea. Closing down our relationship with the United Nations and the World Health Organization. Not a good idea. We're not doing the kind of collaboration we have to do. It's this is what's going to happen here, and which may not be a perfect solution because you can have a vaccine and you can have a vaccine. They don't all work the same. They're not all as effective as the other ones. So I guess my question is, Stephanie, are you optimistic on this kind of thing? Do you think that the framework of the country, the democratic framework, which is right now failing us, and we'll see in November how much failure we're really dealing with, don't you need that democratic framework in order to solve this problem? And if you don't have that because you have an emerging tyrant going on here and a government that is miles away from what the founders contemplated, without a rule of law, can you solve it without and with isolationist policies? Can you solve COVID or is it going to be a struggle for hundreds of years? Well, I think that it's been unwise for the U.S. to operate as it is. Of course, because we're shortening ourselves on the benefits of our medical expertise. It's not engaged because we're not getting the synthesis of it, which is not just within the United States, but our collaboration, as you say, with all of the others. That's what we need to combat this virus. It's a bad one. It's a challenging one. It's a beast. So we need everybody. It's just like we need the whole world to get that meteorite not to come our way. And we need everybody. And now we've got the meteorite right here and we've decided, well, no, we're going to get all tied up and all this other stuff. And I'm really concerned about what we still have to go through because as these immunizations develop, it looks like we're on a fast track for something that's been publicized lately. And I'm very worried about that because it's going to raise up right away, as Winston said, the anti-vaxxers. And then we're going to have side effects unanticipated, perhaps. And it's a short, it's a rushed job and the fights over who's going to take it. So that's in addition to even if Trump loses the election officially and still has five more months to do damage. We still have so much to go through. It's like we still have the hardest part of this trial to pass through to get to the end. So the question is, will the Democratic framework hold? I mean, right now it's pretty wobbly. But will it hold? And will those Republicans who are conservative, but without authoritarianness trends in that they're not like the revolutionaries for an authoritarian situation really when they get down to it. Maybe they'll be able to step out, especially if he loses the election. But we're in terrible jeopardy. I think the worst part of it is yet to come. So hang on, Slupey. Yeah. And that's not even talking about Douglas, which is on the way to Hawaii. Well, exactly. Class three hurricane. Nobody cares about us out here over the weekend. Yeah. Anyway, after the show, go out and buy food and water. OK, so Winston, I want to drill down with you. I know you've been reading about the research in the vaccine, the research in the therapeutics. How are we doing really? Because, you know, there's a certain amount of confusion about that. You hear it from this guy and then from another guy. And you see an article about this, that and the other thing. It's hard to get your hands around what is really happening, who is doing it and how likely it is to succeed. I think that's an exact summation of where we're at in that. I read all types of things. So this one's in testing. This one's this one's we've just gotten this government funding. The Germans invested in the one that was going to be stolen, you know, earlier by the Americans. You know, we're forgetting, though. Yes, our Democrat democratic framework here is wobbly right now. But we're resilient people and we will come back. We just have had so many people that are, I don't know how we actually share common news and one plus one does actually equal one. And we've got to get back to what else equals, does two plus one equal three? And that's where we've got to go back as a nation and figure out those truths that are just true, whether you like them or not, that viruses are spread from droplets. It's not some conspiracy theory. So where are you vesting your confidence? Is it in Fauci because he's been sidelined? I think it's not clear what's going to happen in the election. I am just because I wanted to be so because the alternative is so dire. We also have to remember even though we may have pulled back from WHO or from, you know, actually, we can't leave the nation now. We can't go to Canada or Mexico. We can't go anywhere.  They care about the almighty dollar, euro, yuan. They will develop treatments and cures because it's in their best interest to do so. And it doesn't matter where their corporate headquarters are. The medicines will ultimately be distributed everywhere. So just based on the enlightened self-interest of these corporate entities, we will have these treatments. We will have these cures. They will come to us. They will be administered in different ways in different places. And the marketplace of sickness and ideas will bear fruit. You see when you open up cities and you say there's no requirement to wear masks, you have a certain level of infections. And when you have others that say we're wearing masks and we're going to vaccinate our population, you're going to have different results. So out of all of that in this sort of sad competition. But the best and brightest will result out of that. So I'm basing it in optimism of... The emerging truth is we have an economy that is totally falling apart while we speak. There's whole sectors of the economy are closed, going bankrupt. You're not in airlines. You're not in airlines. I just have to say that... Fires straights. And so my question to you, Stephanie, is A, do you agree that we have to solve COVID before we can really reopen? And in any event, what is the way we can reopen an economy that is in free fall? That every day while these briefings are made and all these alternative facts are presented to us and all this confusion in Georgia and so many other places about what we have at hand.  Well, I believe that we haven't done all the things we could do as a nation, okay? We haven't done things simultaneously. We're not all wearing masks, blah, blah, the whole list. So could we try that first? If we do all of the things we know and we do them systematically, everywhere, altogether, it's a national objective, it's a plan, it's a policy. Let's try that. That would get us back in the game and maybe get us to open the economy more if we do the things we know to do. But do not think for a minute that if those pharmaceuticals, as you guys are saying, are going to put out all of this and are going to be making all the big bucks, you think our leader is not going to do something about that? Who's going to be in charge of where all of that benefit goes? Who's going to then use the act from the 50s to be able to direct things as the government wants them? That's when he's going to use it, is to be able to have a contingent thing to use. We're even in more jeopardy then as to who is going to get it and who's going to control and decide who gets it. This is why I'm saying we have ahead of us a lot more challenge than we've got behind us, if you can believe it, it's already so hard. But to answer your question, J, is that we need to do what we know to do and we need to do it willingly and voluntarily. We shouldn't even need to have legislation or policy. There should just be a call from our president who's as great as Abraham Lincoln. That's normative and very nice, but that's not happening and is not likely to happen. The reality is I told you about the people in the street in New York, we have some questions. Yes. Trump says to wear a mask, but then he turns around and threatens schools to reopen and is forcing them to reopen or trying. Why do you think Trump is pushing so hard to open the schools? You're the educator among us. Stephanie, what's your answer to that? Well, he wants the parents to go back to work and he thinks that the kids don't get it because he's not reading the studies. He thinks that the youngsters don't really get the virus or have no effects from it, but mostly he wants the structures back in place, the babysitting system of the schools to allow people to get back with the economic work. Right. His plan does not include solving the problem. Okay, let's go to another question. Everyone questions, oh, there's two questions. It's almost half the population of the United States believes that Trump is the greatest president we have ever known. How can this threat to democracy ever be resolved? And I suppose inherent in that Winston is how can COVID be dealt with if half the country believes whatever Trump tells them? Because then that means half of us are confused like the woman in Georgia or the people in Queens who went out and had street parties without masks last night and the Blasio was pulling his hair out because, remember, New York had a bad time. So how can we come together in a country that believes Trump? Half of the country believes Trump. I was reading something somewhere. It's about a third of the nation says Corona death rates have been underreported. This is sort of conspiracy theory. They've been underreported. Another third said they've been overreported. And then I guess the other third didn't really have an opinion. But this is quite interesting that that was broken into thirds instead of halves. But it's probably the question is right. Half of the nation believes in one way. Where do we find the truth with our fellow countrymen that one plus one equals two and one plus two equals three? I think after Donald Trump is out and Stephanie is right, our darker days are ahead. We're going to have a hell of a summer and fall here. And it will follow also hopefully when Joe Biden is in. But he will institute a national policy of directing resources that is appropriate by a leader of a civilized nation and confronting a major health threat like this. And getting people on board and educated and saying, look folks, we're not trying to infringe on your rights here. We're trying to save your life. And these are the facts. These are real facts are not alternative facts. And but we're not there and we're not going to be there. Even if Donald Trump. Changes his tune and says now it's patriotic to wear a mask. That would be like him saying now that voting by mail is, is safe and effective and, and good if he found out that that was going to be better for his outcome. When you got a train going down the tracks pretty fast or a big vote, you can't just put on the brakes and turn to starboard. Like that and expect the whole thing to move. It's a long process. And so we have to just rely as best as we can. As I've been saying for a couple of months on our local officials. On federal officials that are doing the best job they can under the circumstances on. And just your common sense, you've got to take your own individual responsibility here. So. You know, and, and, and pray and pray for the best. There it is. That's the takeaway from this show. So Stephanie, we've been into this for six months. And the results have been dire, both in public understanding in the, in the, in the infection of the pub of the public. And as you said, it's, we had five months, even if Biden wins the election, we got five months more Trump thereabouts, where that could be just like the six months we've just had. So, you know, this thing could spread far and wide much further, much wider, because it's right now, I think everyone agrees it's out of control. So what can we do, you know, to, to track on Winston's thought, what can we do individually? And in terms of, you know, the, our local government, what can we do in those five months to avoid a, a civilizational apocalypse? I mean, we're about to blow up further according to Berks and the kinds of secret conversations we've heard there are that there are more states ready to blast off, plus New York's going to come back if they were that silly to, to go out and do that. I think that all along here, we, Trump could have had a better opportunity to show his, his, his greatness. If the Senate had acted its role, if the Senate had done what its due diligence was, they had done nothing to, to help the house, even when it wasn't democratic. Is the Senate leaving him? Is there a certain indication that the Senate is not so enamored with him anymore? Rand Paul stepping up as a Republican. And I think we ought to send letters to the crazy to tell our senators, everybody across the nation. Get on with it and do just do your job because we're out of options for impeaching him again, or whatever, if only we could do something like that. If things are going to get so bad, maybe Andrew Cuomo needs to be run into the White House temporarily to run the show for the nation. I mean, his performance was so outstanding that, and then we're still stuck with Dumbo here on, on the virus actions. But anyway, the point is, would we just need to write our, get our representatives to do what they're supposed to do? So that's an optimistic point that maybe, maybe the Republican Party will stop supporting him because they'll realize that November will be judgment day on him and on the Republican Party. But the other factor, and this is my last question, Winston, I appreciate if you try to tackle this. Let's see if I got. Yeah. You know, we have violence going on in the streets. It started off innocently enough with the first amendment protest and then some people provocateurs made it violent. And then Trump stepped in, he's going to save us all by, by using these brown shirts. It all looks so much like 1933. And he's now threatening to go into various cities. And the people in the protests are reacting to that, including completely, you know, nonviolent protest. The mayor of Portland was in the protest group demonstrating where her head is that. So my question to you is how are we going to cope with the virus when we have the violence? I don't see an easy solution on the violence and Trump, you know, to satisfy his perception of what his base wants from him is going to go city after city. And the cities are going to respond. And before you know it, the whole country is going to be burning, not only in virus, but in violence. How does this, how does this play? It's my last question. It's not, not an easy question. Much more for me, much more worrisome. The virus we can deal with, we can understand.  You limit contact. We understand that part. But you know, the, the threat to. Our democracy. And when you have a stated goal of going into Democrat controlled cities to, to quench violence. You know, spray painting a building. Nobody's normal people don't want it. They're not participating in this violence, but when you're faced with a threat, then people coming in and trying to, you know, stop on your, stop on the streets. You're not going to be protesting a building. It's not your first amendment, right? But protesting. Legally or demonstrating legally. That's your right as an American citizen. Last time I checked.  You kick the hornet's nest when it doesn't need to be kicked. When things are just calming down actually.  And how are we going to go from here? I think it's going to be, it's going to be something that I think would play to his, his base and, and he might get some traction out of it, but I do not expect the Senate Republicans to step up. The followers of, of the Republic former Republican party or in name of Republican party, they support Donald Trump. They do not support their individual Republican senators or colleagues. He is the leader of the party. That is who they support. We're going to have to figure out what it is that people actually support in Donald Trump's message. And how do we take that and understand that to be integrated into our society? What inside of there is a legitimate concern? And it's, it's very hard to solve a medical problem without medicine. You know, it's like I'm watching this lecture series about the, the black plague. And if you want to see it, you can see it on Amazon. The woman's name is Dorsey Armstrong. And she lectures about the black plague. And one of the things that made it so difficult and lethal was they had no medicine. But if you don't believe in the medicine you have, if you diminish, you know, the effective medicine and you don't use medicine, you lie about medicine. It's, it's taking us back to the 14th century, isn't it? That's where we are. That's where we are. We're in the 14th century. He's done that to us. Thank you, Dr. Trump. So, okay, 30 seconds, Stephanie, what's your, what's your expectation for this coming week? I think they just canceled the Jacksonville Republican convention site. So that, that's a positive thing, I suppose, but that might be the only positive thing that's lying ahead. And I think it's just going to get rougher and rougher. And he's going to, and then if it, just as I've already said, so I would love to see our Republicans get, get their groove on or whatever and get on with their job and that everybody write letters to their senators and reps that, you know, that's the government that's got to do the work here. And he's irredeemable. I'm sorry, Winston, read Mary Trump's book. It explains it all. You know what, I'm going to keep, I'm going to keep up the hope. I want our leaders to rise up to the occasion. Maybe Donald Trump will have a come to Jesus moment and realize, whoa, I've got to do something here because that's what I've got to do. And I am holding out hope beyond hope for that. That he just starts singing a different tune. It's probably not realistic, but let's, let's go, let's all go out on the lanai and smoke some of that stuff. Winston's been smoking. Thank you. Thank you very much, you guys. Thank you, Winston. Thank you, Stephanie. Aloha. We'll see you next week.