Well everyone, we are approaching the month of February quite rapidly. In fact, after today, there's what, one day left in January, and every single February seemingly during the Nintendo Switch era, but one, we have had a Nintendo Direct. And I think we can sort of forgive the one time we did it. That was 2020. We all know what was going on in the world back then. So I do find it quite fascinating and quite likely that even if Nintendo plans to announce a brand new system here in March or April or whatever, that they're still going to have a Direct because they still have games they need to market, right? Look, when we got the announcement for things like the date for Princess Peach Showtime, some people were like, hey, maybe we're just not going to have a Direct. But reality is we still don't have dates for things like Thousand Year Door, the Weegees Mansion HD, and there's a bunch of third party games and indie games and probably more Nintendo games for Nintendo Switch that need to actually be marketed. So it's very likely we're going to get a Nintendo Direct in February. And nobody really seems to be even the insiders doubting that that's going to happen. But what we have today is a new rumor about a Nintendo Direct happening next week. Now, we had a video we made a few weeks back talking about February 7th as possibly being the date. I'm not going to say it's happening on February 7th here because the rumor is just next week, but we are going to dive into it a little bit. And the reasoning is because we don't know, right? There's some insiders like Nate The Hate who lately have said they haven't heard anything about a Direct, so you got to consider that. But also, hey, you also have guys like Pioro out there calling like a certain Nintendo Direct leak that we talked about a couple weeks ago fake. And he would know because Pioro has a 100% track record with Nintendo Direct leaks. So Pioro is the ultimate leaker, but he's not really going to give us anything till next week if it was next week. So here's what I'm going to just throw out there right now and who is the source on this.  And what was very interesting about it was a special person who showed up a friend of the channel in special Nick from the Xbox era podcast. He has some inside information and sources at times. And he talks about a lot of different things over on the Xbox era show, including sometimes some of the information he has on Nintendo.  Now that's where he left it. He didn't give us dates. He didn't give us any hints at anything. Just Hey, yeah, I did hear about a Direct next week. Okay, cool. What does that mean though? Well, it means yeah, Nintendo Direct could happen next week. Now there's precedent for this. Nintendo does have a financial briefing on February 6. But if you actually go look at the last two February's, this is around the time they have done Nintendo Direct's right around that investors meeting. So it does line up with how Nintendo has handled February Direct's lately. Now it is notable. Nintendo does do Direct's, you know, in the second full week of February all the time. I understand there's Valentine's Day and no, Nintendo doesn't really put Direct's on Valentine's Day. What I really find interesting when people dismiss the whole Valentine's Day thing is because it's a Thursday as if Nintendo has never done Direct's on Wednesdays or Tuesdays. They have a multiple Nintendo Direct's during the Switch generation happening on February 13th, the day before Valentine's Day. So I'm going to throw another that we can't dismiss that our Direct could be happening then. And again, I have no knowledge myself. There's no Direct Nintendo Direct knowledge floating around in my brain. So look, we're not going to sit here and pretend that it is going to happen next week but couldn't happen the week after. There's a reason though that I decided to do the Nintendo Direct Bingo podcast tomorrow. And this is something that I just want to briefly talk to you guys about because look, we're going to have six people on this show including myself. And we're going to be talking about the next Nintendo Direct and giving our predictions through our own Bingo cards. Now actually, you guys can participate in this a little bit and possibly win some prizes. What are we talking about? Well, let's go over to our community post on this. I'll have it linked down in the description in the pinned comment as well. And you're seeing here where it says, hey folks, this upcoming Wednesday we're having our usual Nintendo Prime podcast but doing a special Nintendo Direct Bingo edition. You'll be able to fill out the attached Bingo card and submit it for a chance at one of five prizes. That's right, five winners. How does this work? Well, you will fill out your Bingo card either before or during this Wednesday's show and then during the show only there will be a stated way to submit your Bingo card. The five cards with the most bingos will be awarded a prize. If there's more than five due to ties, the prize will simply be split between the amount of winners. What constitutes a bingo? Five correct predictions across, down, or diagonal. Yes, you can give yourself a free space in the middle. However, if you are in the top five without using a free space and at least one of your bingos uses the middle space, your prize will be doubled. Will you take the risk to double it or take the free space to increase your odds? The choice is yours. We have our standard giveaway and contest rules here. Also during the show, the six participants and this is who's going to be on the show. We're going to have Jake Randall, Andres Restart, SuperMetal Day 64, HMK, Eric, and Nate. We're going to have an open discussion about our own bingo cards. Remember, a direct hasn't happened or been announced. Same with this video today. It's a rumor. This bingo would apply to a Nintendo Direct, a Nintendo Direct Mini, or a partner showcase if that is what Nintendo apps do. Instead, you can set your notifications and all of that. And here is that bingo card. Again, we'll have this link down below if you want to go download and get your bingo card. Ready to submit during the podcast tomorrow. But I just wanted to kind of just talk about this and let you guys know that we do have that going on. In addition, obviously this new rumor from Special Nick about the Direct being next week, I could go into a bunch of my predictions and all that. But actually tonight on our Tuesday live stream at 8pm central, I will actually be filling out my Nintendo Direct bingo card right here with all of you guys. That is my goal. I want to get this bingo card filled out with you. So it's going to be quite interesting. You guys can see back here, I kind of have a bingo card already. This is for all of 2024. This is just for the Nintendo Direct. So I'm pretty excited about it. And yeah, I don't think I'm going to be taking that free space. I still think I'm going to take it. I think I'm going to put something there. We'll see. There's no way in hell I'm going to get 25 predictions correct, but we're going to try. And I want to make sure that I expand it beyond Nintendo. I think a lot of times we focus on just Nintendo announcements. There's not going to be 25 Nintendo announced things. I'm trying to get this correct. I would like a blackout if I can. So I got to start throwing some third party stuff in there as well. Maybe some indie things. We'll see. I'm just throwing out there that this is possibly happening next week. Obviously our Nintendo Direct bingo thing is happening tomorrow just in case. So we don't miss our opportunity to do this with you guys.  Just remember though that again, this is all in good fun. We don't know if Nintendo Direct is going to be happening. There's just rumors out there. There's speculation out there and there's precedent from Nintendo themselves. We do know there's a state of play this week though. And I will let you know I will be live stream reacting to that state of play tomorrow. Anyways, guys, thank you so much for tuning in. I am Nathan of Rubble Jants from Nintendo Prime and I'll catch you in the next video.


So one thing that's happening. I think that's really quite interesting and in many ways is that we're approaching a world that is Omniscience knowing everything Because today in this world is not just Wikipedia But you can tell you know already there's applications like Google now and others that will go out and fetch information for you and deliver it to you in real time And this is a future of information technology. We don't search. We just have things delivered to us So omniscience is within reach. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Well, I would say it's pretty dangerous to be ignorant But it can be just as dangerous to be omniscient Both things are probably true So what do we do about this? What do we do about a world like this? This down here is a project called the Oculus Rift Which is a virtual reality glass glasses that you wear to do virtually do things anything from flying into space to Solving complex problems to operating on a patient to everything to live in a parallel reality The bottom line is this we're living in a world of exponentiality and the stuff that you see in her and other movies about Artificial intelligence, you know, we're only right now at the at the lowest point of that pivot curve And there's many good things about this for example I'll be able to figure out if I'm in the advertising business I'll be able to figure out much more accurately how to reach people and if I'm in the energy business I'm much more efficient with distributing energy. There's many good things about artificial intelligence So then we have to figure out what is this future? Are we going to end up in? This space to where we're connected to this network and how will that interface look like?


2016 is here. Cue the fireworks. And there we go. These were in the Philippines. We filmed this when we hit 2016 a day ago. Do you like the fireworks? Let me hide myself for a little bit. Pretty cool stuff. This was in Eastwood City in Manila in the Philippines. So what's going to happen in 2016 for you and for freedom? Tell us your goals in the comments below and here are ours. While we're going to do more videos just like the ones we've been doing these past few days when the George Show came back. Let me turn on my Dr. George glasses as a few of you have commented in the videos. So one thing I wanted to talk about was the comments you've been giving us about tips on how to help you grow. So I'm going to turn on window capture and this window. Okay. So this is a comment made by Saucy Saturday, great channel name Saucy. He was saying that I have always featured all my video playlist card, all my videos playlist card on my videos near the end. Well that was a great idea Saucy that I think every one of you should do to get more views. In fact what I've also done and I recommend you do as well is put a link to the playlist of the videos related to each video. In this case it's my get more views video. So I have a link to the George Show 2016 playlist. If you click that it'll go here which has all my videos. So not only do you have it in the cards you have mine right here. It's the last card in the last minute of every one of my videos now. Thank you for that tip Saucy Saturday. As well I've added it to my video description. Now put in a helpful description in your playlist. So in this case I talk about how George never gave up, that's me George on his goal for freedom to become a full MCN directly with YouTube and Google. And it happened. Two years ago guys on December 1st 2013. So you should too never give up. And of course partner with freedom because we will help you be free. So do that for your videos in your playlist as well. That's a good tip. Now who remembers this video? The freedom will buy you a car. Seriously. We just hit 10 billion views in the freedom family. Okay. We hit 10 billion views in the freedom family and we will buy someone, a lucky winner, a new $20,000 car when we hit 100 billion views in the freedom family. So how are we doing on this video? By the way didn't see this video? Click that I up there. That will take you directly to the win a car video. So how do you win this car? Well you simply leave a comment beneath this video that says freedom will hit 100 billion views on and you put your guess and you give a tip. My tip, your best tip, your tip that you feel will help everyone grow faster. And this person's tip is to listen to your fans and drive engagement. So this person didn't listen to the instructions. He left a date but he didn't leave a tip. So that does not qualify as an entry. Don't do that. Leave a tip. That's the point of this video is to help everybody grow together. Let's see what Magnus Gaming said 14 hours ago. Freedom will hit 100 billion views on August 14th, 2021. Wow, that's a long way in the future. I'm hoping it will be sooner than that Magnus. And my best tip to help you grow is to always seek new ways to catch a larger audience while also looking into how to use current skills and improve them. It's a good general tip Magnus but I was hoping you could provide a specific tip like use Twitter and tweet in this way like follow people who follow you and give them helpful advice that will help you grow faster. Like that's a very specific tip that I'm hoping others will provide in these comments. But don't worry guys, there are how many? Almost 5,000 comments. That means almost 5,000 tips to help you grow. And we'll go through these tips over time because they keep coming in. You can see these as a day ago, then two days ago, three days ago and so on. So yeah, that was the tip about the car video. And the car video was launched on December 7th, 2014. So it's been just over a year ago and at that time we had 10 billion views. How many do we have now? Let's have a look. So all you do is you click that link in the video description scroll down to where it says network statistics and we have 28.17 billion views. Basically 28 billion views right now. That means we're 28% of the way. So let's do a little math. If it took us a year to go from 10 to 28 billion, let's make it easier. Let's say we're at 30 billion. From 10 to 30 billion, that means we gained 20 billion views in one year. How many more years before we hit 100 billion? Well, about three years because we should be growing a little bit faster each year, but you can do the math yourself and you can try to guess when we will hit that 100 billion mark because there is no right answer. We don't know. We just assume or are guessing based on our growth and trajectory. So that's exciting. What else can I share with you about 2016? So we're definitely going to be reading a lot more of your comments. The video that I made that talked about this one, YouTube sent a gift, George Reed's comments, we had over almost 6,000 views, a ton of likes, although it's not showing how many of these are likes, but most of them are likes, and almost 500 comments. So if you remember, one of the comments was the guy team GBR commenting on how you need to have a space between the punctuation and the link. Well, I made a video about that because it was such a great comment and I didn't know that.  So great. We'll keep doing more of them. What else will we be doing more of in 2016? Well, we will be focusing more on the YouTube analytics that will give you a lot more cool features. As you know, one of my goals is to build the freedom wallet. The freedom wallet will let you take money out as soon as YouTube analytics says you've earned it. So for example, if you have a video that just made you $500 because it went viral and you got a ton of views and that was only five days ago. Well, normally you would need to wait one to two months for that $500. But with the concept of the freedom wallet is if you're a good actor that has been with freedom for a good length of time so we have a history of payment, then you can take out that $500 or most of it based on your history with freedom right away. Now we're actually giving you that money before YouTube pays us for it and before you could have gotten it if you were partnered directly with YouTube. So it's actually just future revenue share. But the reason I want to do this is I can imagine many cases where you need the money now because of an emergency. Oh, my microphone broke. I mean, it hasn't, but let's say it did. So how am I going to make videos? Well, I need money or I'm going on a trip or I'm getting married. I mean, there's many reasons why someone needs money now. And so I think it's a good feature to let people get the money that they've actually earned even though YouTube hasn't paid us for it yet early. But of course, what are the downsides? Downsides are, let's say your channel gets closed tomorrow and we've paid you that $500. Well, we're not going to see any money for you and we've lost $500. So that's why we want to make sure you have a good track record, a good history with us and YouTube before we give you these advances because, of course we don't want to be giving money and then channels getting closed. Also, you will need to at least stay with the network until we get paid for YouTube. So there will be a short lock-in period just because you're getting money from us before we're even getting money from YouTube. So it's just trying to be fair for this. But all of this will be explained when we have this feature in the dashboard so you'll know exactly how it works and what the criteria are. Do you like this concept of freedom wallet? If so, tell me in the comments below. Now, a few of you have also told me that you really like longer videos that you prefer me to keep talking.  Let's make a long video after all. This is the New Year's Celebration video. Let's see that again. There we go. Our fireworks video that we took with our cell phones while this was going on in Eastwood City, Philippines. So we of course have big plans for MGN. How many of you know that Diablo 3 is going to have a new season? Season 5 starting January 15th. Well, it's true. And I will show you. So let's stop the video and I think I have a window here. There we go. So this window represents the Battle.net launcher and Diablo 3 has season 5. Season 5 will start on January 15th at 5pm. Are you going to be playing Diablo 3? Well, play with us. I'll certainly be playing. You remember my 10-hour livestream when season 3 started? Well, I'll do it again with season 5 if you want me to. And of course we're going to do this under the MGN brand because MGN is the multi-gaming network. It's our gaming brand. MGN is where we put all of our gaming content and if you didn't know that, let us show you. So MGN is just YouTube.com slash MGN. Very simple. Uh-oh. I misspelled YouTube.com. Sorry. Alright. So this is our YouTube official channel for MGN. And currently we are showcasing Metal Gear. Welcome to MGN Showcase. This is your host, Real Sykes. And this is the Metal Gear solid modding for Grand Theft Auto. So here you'll find a lot of awesome content for World of Warcraft, Fallout 4, latest games, shows and series, first look game reviews. Tell us what you think of the MGN channel. Go check it out. Click that I right there. That'll take you, wait, can we do channel cards? I don't even know. Let's try before I talk about things that don't exist. So I remember that you couldn't do channel cards at one point. So let's take one of my videos here. So here we are on the 20th floor, day one of operations. Let's take a look. Actually this is a good video too. This is where I'm sitting right now. George, stop talking. And this is the video where I first showed how it looks in our new office here in the Philippines. Pretty cool stuff. So let's go back to cards. Okay, how do I, there we go, cards. So let's see if we can add a channel card. So I can add a channel card. So if I type MGN here and I type a custom message, MGN is the multi gaming network. Uh oh, it's too long. MGN, the multi gaming network. How about that? Oh, there's also a teaser text. Okay, check out our gaming brand MGN. Oh, doesn't like that. Create the card. Let's see how it looks. Check out our gaming brand MGN. MGN, the multi gaming network. So that's how it works. I would probably want to reverse those two comments when I'm talking about the card. Let's see how do I edit this. I would swap that to there and move that to there. Okay, and let's try it again. So now it'll say MGN, the multi gaming network. You click that. Check out our gaming brand. Excuse me. And I still have a little bit of a cold. Sorry about that, guys. I should be healthy, hopefully, by the next video. Okay. So, ooh, I better undo that. Don't want a card in the middle of nowhere. That doesn't make any sense in that video. One moment. How do I remove a card? Trash. Okay, done. Great. Actually, this is more like a live stream. Maybe I should have done a live stream. What do you guys think? Should I be live streaming the George show? Or have a few episodes that are live to talk to you while I'm making the video? If you want that, know the drill. Tell me in the comments below. So we'll be focusing more on the dashboard, building new features for you. We're going to be focusing on MGN, helping you get a better experience for all you gamers out there. And you know MGN has its own CMS. And if you want to apply to move to the MGN CMS, where you'll have access to more exclusive gaming sponsorships, gaming events, gaming announcements, then just open a ticket on our support forum, which is freedom.support.tm. You just go there, log in or sign up. It's all free. And then you can open a ticket to say, hey, I'm a gaming channel. Can you please transfer me to the MGN CMS? Now nothing will change in terms of your rev share, in terms of your monetization. It's exactly the same. The only difference is you'll have access to gaming specific sponsorships, brand deals, events that we do, live streams that we host, and so on and so on, on the MGN channel. YouTube.com slash MGN. And this support forum is also great anytime you have a question, you should go here, or go to our community site www.community.tm. And that is our very active forums where lots of people come every day and look how many members we have. Over 100,000. 400,000 people have signed up to have an account here on the freedom forums, and you should too. We have lots of news, FAQs, support, and the most important one for all new users is introduce yourself. Let's have a look at who has recently introduced themselves on the forums. So four minutes ago, we had who? Dead on the inside. What is that? Let's have a look at that post. Hi, my name is X3NigNogDanDanny, whatever. It's a bit of a long name, I think I'll stop there. I make videos with my friends who are assholes. Well, he doesn't seem like a very friendly guy, but let's check out just how what his channel is. Well, Merry Christmas to YouTube. Let's try another person, shall we? I had no idea that would happen, and let's look at the next guy. 23 minutes ago. GFX Channel. Hey everyone, I'm a motion designer. So let's meet our motion designer on the community forums. And while that's waiting to load, we have a few more. New YouTuber. Introduction. Hmm, did my internet just go down? No, I'm not streaming this, so I'm recording locally, so my recording won't be affected, but I think my internet has stopped working. Well, you get the idea. Introduce yourself on our forums, www.community.tm which is the home of the freedom community. So what else are we going to do in 2016? Well, we're going to launch a AIDS network. What that means is, if your content is appropriate for ages 5 to 9, we're going to have a new revenue stream for you. You'll be able to get your content on a new mobile platform that is launching in February 2016, and that mobile platform will be focused entirely on content videos appropriate for ages 5 to 9. That is going to be coming soon, and I'm going to make videos announcing it as we approach February. But we've already done a test run, and we've already got some channels on the platform. We're doing a beta right now. Now, I won't say anymore, but that's a new revenue stream. So if you think you have content appropriate for children ages 5 to 9, now it doesn't have to be content by kids. It can be content that's just appropriate for ages 5 to 9. And I don't mean learn how to spell or the ABC song. I mean any kind of content that you feel kids ages 5 to 9 would appreciate. Even Minecraft videos that are fun to watch, no cursing, and things that would make it inappropriate, you get the idea. So kids content is coming to the Freedom Family, and everyone with it will have a new revenue stream because this is an off YouTube platform. Which means we're going to be delivering your content on a mobile app that isn't part of YouTube. It's part of a new platform. Alright. What else is coming in 2016 that will help you grow faster? The Freedom Academy is coming! The Freedom Academy. What is that? Well, the Freedom Academy will be like the YouTube Creators Academy and you'll be able to get Freedom Certified. Let me just show you the YouTube Creators Academy in case you don't know about it. So here it is. So we're going to create something like this where you can learn about best practices, learn from other Freedom Partners who are successful. What's the secret of their success? You'll be able to take tests and get graded to be certified as you know your stuff. So here's your certificate very similar to how YouTube lets people be YouTube certified but this is coming very soon and the Freedom Academy will be announced as soon as it's ready. What else is coming in 2016? Well you tell me. What do you want to see in this brand new year? We just started it. This is day two of 2016. What do you want to see in 2016? Tell us in the comments below. Do you want more fireside chats with George like I used to do with you? Do you want to see more of the life in the Philippines? See how people are living and working here with us? And of course we're trying to find more people to come to the Philippines. We hope to reach a hundred over time. A few of you have made comments asking what we're doing on that hundred count. I think we're currently at eight so we're only eight percent of the way there and of course it's just a number we might get more than a hundred. We might end up with less than a hundred but we certainly have room for a hundred people to come here to the Philippines to live and work. As you know we have a very large office space on the 20th floor. 17,000 square feet guys and it's all hours and 1,600 square meters for those of you who prefer metrics, metric measurements. And I hope to fill it up. Fill it out with a lot of good people working together helping the freedom family grow together and helping you all of the freedom partners. 130,000 of you now are partnered with freedom and we have 130 million subscribers. If you remember this slide here we go 130,000 channels, 136 million subscribers in the freedom family. That's amazing guys. Do you know we're growing at 200,000 subscribers a day? That's how fast people are growing in the network and new channels are coming in. Net growth of about 200,000 subscribers every single day. Seven days a week. I think this is long enough. Don't you guys? Let me play the New Year's video one more time and I hope you enjoyed this extended episode of The George Show. If you like these extended versions tell me and of course I'll make more. And we'll see you in the new year, shiny new 2016. Who am I? I am George, CEO and founder of Freedom and you've been watching The George Show extended edition. Take care guys. Happy New Year.


New general manager new faces new era. We're still being introduced to these guys. They're part of our team now They joined us. We didn't join them, but it's even better when they embrace us The last time we talked to Arthur blank He said that he believes that this team could be competitive right now. We want to win now We can win now Terry Fano and coach Arthur Smith. They are on top of this. I can win with this roster I can win in this division We're excited about first day of practice. We're excited about beginning of the season and This is the first time we've been on campus in two years. So Welcome back to football all teams reporting to camp all teams will start You know, what is this team going to look like on both sides of all what are these bases going to be? We know who these people are, but we haven't seen how they work together your new regime like all Of this time matters especially over the years as the NFL has cut back that this matters This is a lot of things that they're having to put on their shoulders over the course of this training camp This is a very very important time And I think it's gonna be really important for this rookie class to just have this extra time a new team new regime You'd love to have as many elements all on the same page from day one There's a real sense of renewed hope and energy because that you know new head coach and new GM and Over the course of the offseason program. It was so much install, right that now it's time to execute I think that they're at that point and they're ready to show these coaches that they can apply what they've learned Obviously, I try to get some sleep last night, you know, you're restless. You're excited. It's like the first day of school But once once that horn goes in my mind. I'm coaching Trying to make sure you know trying to touch every part of the team and do my job coach football team So it was fun. It's fun to be out there He's very smart. He doesn't assume he has all the answers He knows what he wants the team to look like and play like he knows exactly the kind of moves He's gonna have to make to get there and he's gives it is a clear sense of direction But I think he's got the ability to focus both Sunday to Sunday as well as thinking of long-term All right, Ron, let's get it going guys. We got to put another good day in we got pushed through right We're in the middle of training camp Ron. Let's get us going get us going as we get camp started this week As we watch things play out here over the next few weeks and this team starts to come together is If you believe the coaching is going to be better than this team is going to be better This is important for the time in the quarterback, right? If you get right here just inside the hash Perfect the more you move in here Screws up his timing get right here snap it down. He'll make it right or wrong Guys have to come in here and do their jobs and I think that's kind of what I'm looking for I want to see the accountability we keep talking about with the coaching change, right? But I'm really kind of curious to see how that defense lines up with Dean P's and what he does to maximize the talent that he has Out there to improve because whatever the Falcons do Harry this year Gonna rise and fall on the the ability of that defense not to collapse late in games We have room for improvement that improvement has to come through coaching So let me ask you how much better will the coaching be? Reload that we load it Right here Same mistake we made yesterday that coaching staff is holding those guys accountable in every aspect like and if something goes wrong Right then they're fixing it right on the spot. They're not waiting to watch film or anything like that Give me a right tackle. It's got some mental toughness Give them the huddle. Let's go He is not giving guys anything just because you're here doesn't mean you you are older position You don't get ownership of this thing. You got to go earn it Let's look at the ball get five in the huddle with the quarterback and let's go pay attention We talk about discipline in the locker room. How about discipline on the field as well?  You're running a lap 700 people here to help you know the personnel going in the next play have five ready It's deeper than the message just about putting a product on the field putting their work in You know, he made it clear that you know We're not gonna be bad about you know slogans and all this whatever man may be the best player gonna play You know the toughest dude gonna play ain't no fluff You know, we're gonna he gonna try to get the best out of everybody day in the day out and I can't do no But respected I love that about him Next play next play. Hey, we got two yards Congratulations get back in the huddle We got two yards and you're throwing a party Expectation celebrating the guy coming off the football to his job. I think his style is You know, he's gonna be very upfront very honest loud and And let you know what he expects from you and I think guys have bought into that But he's genuine, you know, and I think that's the biggest thing every coach that I've been around if they're true to themselves You buy into what they're all about and that's certainly the case with Arthur Smith Get the right people in the huddle be ready to go too damn lethargic New coach is gonna be some new vibes, you know coach Smith got a he got a way He won't run a program. We got to buy in as players. We got to go all year and put our best for four They know what to expect coming into this week and what Arthur Smith is all about now It's about getting down to business my practice and executing and doing all those things. Hopefully that makes us a really good team Been direct and honest from whole time since we've had them in the spring You know, you build them up in the way that the rules were in the spring and then now you're out here And you're getting into the full speed wraps They know what the expectation is when we talk you have a team meeting every day and then out here a lot of it Is pushing them and trying to get them understand how we want to practice and it's new Any time you have changed things are different, you know the field the practice schedule the routine You know is is different than you know what guys who have been here have been accustomed to you know, it's fresh It's new and it's a challenge. And so, you know, you wake up every morning trying to you know come out with the best energy you can and and try and improve daily and You know, I think guys have done a pretty good job of that the first couple of days It's the style and the way we practice. There's a certain way we want to operate You got to get in condition, you know, no matter how much you've run. It's always first day You're doing all these football movements. There's nothing that quite prepares for it other than practice and getting through these first four days Coach Smith do a good job of having teach tempo and fast tempo or just straight relentless. I'm still learning I'm still learning, you know, that's my first year with Coach Smith and you know I trust him with the process. He got going forward going forward and I'm gonna go all in about it See we can fight through anything get your pad level down. Come on There we go You got to be in good shape. We got to build their legs up and you got to prove it every year Can we improve are we better? You know going into September 12th when we are today There's gonna be growing pains along the way and that's every you need that you need that's the team to improve And so we're better going into September 12th as simple as that People gonna be guessing about what we're doing, but at the end of the day, we're gonna stick to our core values You know, so I just feel good about it. I feel good about it. And I know we're gonna be able to give people here We talk about it all the time the lockers that we have they're not owned the rent it and you know You've got to pay rent every day. You've got to go out there You've got to put in the work and and make sure that they're not putting a different name plate on top of it You know every time I step onto the field I've got something to prove, you know to myself to the organization that you know They're making the right decision and having me here Guys are starting to separate themselves in terms of being able to push through things starting to add up We're trying to challenge them. We're trying to see who emerges. There's really good competition going on It was it was fun to see today. These guys are competing In this year that is going to be all about newness for this team One of the most important things is is these guys coaching staff players Showing us who they are as quickly as they possibly can. Who are they? What do they look like? What is the offensive identity? What is the defensive identity? Can we at least get an idea of what what they are and what they're attempting to be in that vision to build upon? From myself the hate coach Arthur Smith It's an inclusive process and it's it's our team. It's our decisions and it's gonna be our season I'm excited to see when we get to week one and week two What they've got under the hood here and they're gonna work to win right now. We're not here to rebuild. We're here to win


Yeah, I mean if you want to have a great start of the next year you have to be Prospecting harder than you've ever prospected right this second That's the only way you're gonna have the highest yield the highest amount of closings that they reach your full potential for January 2022 if you're really see right now as the markets kind of slow in it No, if you're not prospecting right at the highest velocity that you possibly can right now This is the best time because the market has slowed right, which means that your prospecting should rise It's a seesaw battle at all times, but back to the fear thing.  Plead do tell and the answer I'm telling you it is pretty much every single time They say the exact same thing. They say I don't know What are you scared of I don't know and I don't know if they tell me that because they're scared to tell me what they're scared of and That's their default or if there's some kind of if they really don't know I hadn't figured it out, but I Said come on give me something and so then they say well rejection and I think well What's so bad about that rejection is not rejection number one? Objections aren't objections and rejections not rejection Okay, you're calling it that and you're using that as an excuse not to make calls for a reason. You don't know Rejection and objections are just your prospect telling you what they want to do Instead of thinking about that in a negative sense think about it as Direct orders. They're telling you what they want to do now take that information and help them do it Right. It's it's insane. What do you think? I mean, you're in the business and you you hear a lot of stuff. What do you think the biggest? feared rejection come back or not come back But what what's like a prospect you call and a prospect says what that that scares agents There's a sense of professionalism here, right? There's a sense of okay. We are a business And we all we do offer a service Then we do want to offer this service to as many people as we can to see what we can do to help them, right? And so it I mean, you don't know what to say tell them you're an agent you help people buy and sell real estate You just want to call and see what you can do to help them I mean, you could just default to that if you want to this whole thing about listen I'll tell you what it is Everybody has that same exact emotion in the beginning That's the problem and the winners Say okay, I'm gonna make calls anyway, even though I have this fear that I don't know what to say I'm still gonna make the calls because I know that's what's gonna get me to the top And so they bust through that little stage and then as they make calls They learn what to say because they're making calls. It's a chicken and egg thing Right, you can't know what to say until you make the calls But most agents are scared to make the calls because they don't know what to say You can't have both you have to make the calls, right?   I'm not I can't live like that I got a I got a sleep at night knowing I did everything I could do to make sure that we have the best life that we could possibly have and then I am living up to my full potential That's just me.  I've been there. I have done it I know how long it takes you need to wake up every morning to realize how much fun this is If you go in and think cold calling or calling people and you're thinking oh, no, you know, somebody might reject me This is fine. This is a chore. I don't like this then it's not gonna be fine But if you if you take the phone and you say I'm gonna go help some people today Right, I can't wait to get on the phone and talk to some people and see what in the world They got going on see how they're doing let them know how I'm doing to see if there's anything I can do to help them today Right and when you have those bad calls, which is gonna be you know a couple Then you laugh it off and you and you get now look at my calls I mean people hang up on me. I call them back.  Nobody's ever died from this, right?