What's up everybody, welcome to the front yard fantasy hour presented by FanDuel. I'm your host, Simon. I'm joined as always by my beautiful co-host, John Luke. What's up, Jayle? It feels like you're really coming into your own, like as always. You got it now, Simon. It feels like it's really been developing the last few months. I didn't trust that it was as always for about a year or so, but you're here consistently enough, Jayle, now that I can say that with some conviction at this point. Yeah, you're still not sure, but. Josh, when Josh comes back after that trip in space, it might get a little bit less confident whenever I say as always. I'm the one who's on the show the most. I always just say that. That is true. Guys joining us as well today, two more members of the front yard fan. We've got Joey Wright and G-Men J with us as well. What's up, guys? Do we know that Josh is actually coming back for sure? No. We never know that, though. Or is he making poo potatoes on Mars or something like that? Something like that. Yeah. I think that's exactly what he's doing. He's performing the planet with poo potatoes specifically. So you can see that works out his own poo potatoes. Yes, of course. And guys also joining us today is a very special guest and great friend of the show, Steven Johnson. For those of you that do not know Steven, he is a fantasy analyst and has the best meat sticks, not just this side of the Mississippi, both sides of the Mississippi, one of the best voices in the fantasy football space. And now that it's got fishbowl season, if you need an Avi, he's working over there with SFB Avi makers as well. Steven, thank you so much for joining us today. Gentlemen, thank you for having me. Excited as always. I got the text from Jay, like, let's roll. I need some revenge. I think I'm owing four at this point, too. He's so excited to play fantasy fortune. The text just read, you're up, son. Oh, it's my time. I got this. We called you up today to try to get that first W, Steven. And today we are doing something a little bit different. We are playing fantasy fortune, but we are doing teams fantasy fortune. So you're going to be working together with your bud Joey up there going up against J and J L in a two V two matchup of our game fantasy fortune. Before we get started with that, though, we got some people in the chat ready. Mr. Scamper said, Hey, everybody's I. Hey, everybody's on the end there for some reason, maybe this and Jar Jar Binks voice. Like, like everybody's watching way too much. Oh, yeah, you need to start every show with that now. Like that. That's your go to. Hey, what did you start our meeting with the other day?  I was a warrior, mixed Lord of the Rings. No, it was the purge. It was the purge of Star Wars mixed together. I was in a purge like scenario, but everyone had like laser blasters and lightsabers and stuff. You got to finish your stuff. I'm in too much Star Wars. I'm just trying to power through it. It's like a little Rick and Maury mixed in there as well. For sure. There was one woman who lured a man into a giant seashell and when it closed, he reopened. He was gone and she had turned to do a giant neon butterfly. So you can only assume she consumed him. And at that point I awoke from said dream. I've been there. We've got Maria in here said delayed flights. Normally boo, but delayed flights when FYF is on. Woo-hoo. Oh, hi Maria. Welcome in. Dane glad to have you here. Mr. Skipper said as sometimes y'all use that for Josh when he comes back as sometimes. What's up, Albert? Welcome back. Glad to have you here and Albert had a question for us. You said what do you think of the Jarvis Landry signing and I had to look this one up. I missed that. Looks like he just signed with the New Orleans Saints. So Steven, we're going to come to you first. Do you have an immediate reaction like to this Jarvis Landry signing and like it's just like it doesn't move the needle for me much like, yeah, they could probably use another veteran, a healthy veteran because it sounds like Michael Thomas is still having his troubles. Yeah, with recovering from all of the fun that he's had with his ankle. But I guess for me, I'm in agreement with you. It doesn't have that big of an impact on Jarvis Landry for me, but what it does impact is some of the excitement I had for Chris Olave in that offense, right? Like it seemed like it was just this vacuum where if a rookie was going to step up and be that guy that kind of contributed to fantasy early, it was going to be Olave and now I have less confidence in that. I'm less interested in him for redraft. Joey, what about you? How do you feel about this signing? Yeah, I think it might just be the telling sign that Michael Thomas is not going to be on the field when the season starts. I mean, I know Michael Thomas isn't a slot receiver like in the same way that Jarvis Landry is, but you know, while I'm a, you know, it brings my Olave stock down a little bit, I'm not terrified about it. And my take was more for redraft, not for dynasty like long-term like, yeah. But even redraft, like if Thomas is not on the field, Olave is going to get some work even with Jarvis Landry now in the field. Absolutely. J. J. L. Anything you guys wanted to add about this Jarvis Landry signing? Yeah, honestly, it doesn't really worry about Olave at all. He's going to be more of the big play threat. Landry and Michael Thomas are the guys who are going to operate the same part of the field as we lovingly refer to as slant boy. So it brings, you know, depending on the value, I was kind of interested in Michael Thomas, but with this signing, like, like you guys said, it brings him down for this year for me. Jill, I'm guessing based on your facial reaction, you had never heard that nickname. That was the first time you've heard that. No, it sounds borderline offensive. That's okay. Yeah, I'm not. I am not super excited. I think that this team has some fundamental flaws that they need to address. I don't think it's like they're a Jarvis Landry away from being an effective offense. What team is a Jarvis Landry away? I don't know. It seems like that's just icing on the cake at that point. This will fix our problem. Yeah, you just got to plug in one Jarvis Landry. Super saturation. It's not really a yeah. We got Julian in the chat. What's up Julian? Let's go. Mr. Scampers wishing safe travels to Maria and we will all wish safe travels to Maria. Sorry if I spoke for you guys. Everybody all at the same time. One, two, three safe travels. Justin, what's up? Happy Friday. Welcome and and Julian said jail face the slant boy show the replay. Yeah, we'll have to we'll have to clip that whenever Jay said his face just immediately was like, oh, you can't say that guys before we get started with our game today, a couple of reminders. Number one, if you are not already following our guest on Twitter, go and remedy that right now. Like we said in the beginning of the show, he's an incredible fantasy analyst and if you're looking for an avatar or for some meat sticks, the hookup is right there on his Twitter to make sure you guys go follow him over there. It is right there below his face on the screen after you do that. If you're watching this, that means you're already on the FanDuel Twitch or YouTube channels. If you're on Twitch, hit that follow button.  So let us know that you're enjoying what we're doing right here. Then after that, they was a whole team of awesome content creators across a multitude of platforms. So make sure you're following them on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok. They're at FanDuel on every single one of those easy to find and it's a must do. So guys, after you do all of that, then just sit back.   That's what we're about to do.  We've got teams going on today. We've got Jail and Jay going up against Joey and Stephen. So I'll explain the slight changes in rules that we are going to do to adjust for teams. How this game works. This is a lot like the popular television show Wheel of Fortune, but with a fantasy or NFL twist, instead of spinning a wheel, contestants are going to be answering 50-50 NFL or fantasy related trivia questions. If the contestant answering the question gets it right, their teammate will get to guess a letter for the puzzle. We will alternate back and forth, which teammate is answering questions, which teammate is adding letters. If you get a question right, your team will get to go again if you get the question and the letter right. You can do this up to three times. So three times in a row, you can be right banking money each and every time along the way, but after that third time of getting it right, you will have five seconds to solve the puzzle, which if you cannot, we will move on to the other team, but you will get to bank that money at any point on your turn or your teammate's turn, except after a question has started being asked, you can solve the puzzle. Solving the puzzle, if you do it correctly immediately ends of the round or your turn, if you're wrong, if you get it correct, the money that you have put into your round bank will be added into your total bank. Unless you have less than a thousand at which point a minimum of $1,000 will be added. We'll do puzzles like this until the end of the show or we run out of puzzles, at which point the team with the most points will or we die. Honestly, this probably doesn't even have to be we. If one of us dies on stream, I imagine. I'd say we'll probably have to go to like you get a rolling on the Stadyfandola. That's what the remove from show button is for.  Yeah, can we get a hard count here? And I would like you to refer to us. Combine our first names and call a team JL, please. Okay. Team JL. J-A-Y-L.  That makes sense, I guess. And then Steven and Joey, do you guys have a name for your team? Steven, let's pick a wrestling name. Which one should we do? Um, Wrestle Time. That's a lot. Beautiful. Let's just be the elite since we're going to win this. Absolutely. Yeah, we'll be the elite. That's not a wrestling word. That's just a normal word. No, it is. It is. Wrestle Time is really good. Elite, Elite, Elite. You can make a catchy tune about any word, Joey. Be fantastic. Be, be fantastic. It's not a wrestling word. I don't know. I used to chant that every time I was on the wrestling mat in high school. So Joe, maybe you're just not familiar with the sport. That's what's going on. I didn't even know this was something I do with my brothers. It is JL versus the elite. Guys, we do not have a toss-up puzzle. So we are going to jump straight into our first round. JL and J, you guys are actually going to go first on this one and JL, you are going to be answering a question first, which means J, you will be responsible for guessing the letter. How do you split the points if it goes to a three-way? Don't we all want to know? That's a pretty tough one. Question of light, young scans. I don't think any of us know how to handle a three-way. JL, are you ready for your question or would you like to solve the puzzle? Question, please. And I'm going to get out chat. Good call. That is a good reminder to all of our contestants. Make sure you guys are in the private chat, not in the comments. Our viewers are generally much smarter than we are and get the puzzles well before we do. I felt like a teacher's pet right there when I said that. Excuse me. There's people cheating in here. JL, are you ready for your homework, right? Cool, because I did it. Just saying. JL, are you ready for your first question? Yeah. Okay, my question for you is according to fantasy data ADP, according to fantasy data ADP, who was drafted earlier last season? So in 2021, who was drafted earlier? Was it Josh Jacobs or was it Javante Williams? That is a good question. I'll go with, go with Josh Jacobs. Josh Jacobs is correct. He was the RB 18 being drafted at 33 overall about and Javante Williams was down there at 51.7, about to the 25th running back off the board. Nice job, Jail. Is it 18 and 25? 18 and 25 is what I believe I said. Yep. Makes sense. I thought Javante was lower. Me too. Yeah. What question would you like or what letter would you like? Question, I would like an easy question, please. Um, go with an S. Don't screw this up, J. There is one S, J. That's going to have 500 to your total. And J, now it's your turn. So you guys can decide. Do you want another question? Do you want to buy a vowel or would you like to solve? Let's go with another question. Yeah, I would say another question or J, like this one, I'm fine buying vowels because it's just going to be short. Probably. So if you wanted to, we could. What? Buy and. Do we want to discuss or can we go ahead? You pick. Let's go with an I. An I. Not what I want to pick. No I said his puzzle, which means we are moving on to the next. X, the I, Stephen. I kind of want to solve. I'll do it and bonk. Do it. Do it, Cal. I want to say, I know how they do the show and. And I look at the answers. I've watched and I think I know how this is going to play out. You know what? Do it. Do it. Do it. Let's move up to the name here. If you can do this. Okay. We want to solve. Okay. What's it going to be? It's Brian Edwards. It is Brian Edwards. Joey, you got that one exactly right. And you know what? Maybe with the news that came out today, that's why dry in the off season this time of year. And that was a little bit of morsel of a fantasy news. We got to talk about today. So I did put Brian Edwards in there. That is going to put $1,000 in your round bank for correctly getting that one right. We have some guesses in the chat. We had Dolph Lundgren. So close. Miles Sanders, Odell Beckham, Aaron Rodgers, DeAndre Hopkins, Markey Andrews. It's Wrestle Time. Now that's a wrestle word. That is a wrestle word. And Julian said Markey Andrews would have been nuts. Yeah. And that would have been really rude of me to put up there. Guys, before we move on to our next puzzle though, Stephen, I'll start with you. Do you have any interest in Brian Edwards here in Atlanta now that he's been traded? Or is it just I think I speak for all of us where you say you can just go ahead and move on to the next. I mean, honestly, I kind of do like him as a late flyer. I think he could use the change of scenery. And honestly, if I'm at the end of like a draft, the longer bench, it's honestly up for discussion for me to take him just to see how things go. Like he's got that pedigree there. He's shown some spurts. He just hasn't put it all together. But there's not much in Atlanta to fight with for targets. So, you know, I think there's worse players. You can throw a very late, late, late round draft pick at. I'm glad you qualify there at the end because that's similar to how I'm feeling. Like my immediate reaction was like, oh, this is probably good for him. But then the more I think about it, this is the this is the late round flyer territory. This is the guy you take in the last round if he's available if he's sitting there. Joey, anything to add about Brian Edwards in Atlanta? Yeah, I mean, I think he can have some success. And I kind of mentioned this earlier that I think that Brian Edwards going to the Falcons just clears out the target shares in Las Vegas with Hunter Renfrow and Darren Waller. So I think that we'll see them get some more work than Joey with Hunter Renfrow. I saw my mom talk and then I started stumbling. I am ready to rumble. Thank you. I was going to say, can you confirm if you are ready to rumble?  Oh, I'm here to play the game. Yeah. Okay, guys. Nice job, Stephen and Joey. That is going to add $1,000 to your round bank or to your total bank.    Is this is the shit, the noun here or the adjective? It's a noun. It is a noun. But this could be.  Shit fantasy analysts say it could be both, but it's just one in there. That is the noun that we are going with. And since Stephen and Joey got that first one, that means we're going to start with JL and J like whatever this is, this is going to hit home. I've probably read this phrase like six. You probably said it on my timeline. Justin, you're ready for Joey to answer it as soon as we figure it out. Joey, please check your slack. I have a question. That's it. Okay. Thank you. That's what it says. That was the things J or J and Joey say. Jay, it is going to be your question here. Are you ready? I'm ready to rumble. We're going to go back to some ADP from 2021 questions. Are you ready for that? Yeah. Who was drafted earlier last season? Who was drafted earlier last season? Was it Mike Evans or was it Chris Godwin? Redrafted PPR. Redrafted PPR. Yeah. Just to clarify, all of these questions are going to be redraft PPR questions unless I specify dynasty. I think people, I know you love Mike Evans, but he seems to always be underrated. So I'm going to go with Chris Godwin. I'm sorry, Jay. Mike Evans is the correct answer being drafted 38th overall Chris Godwin down there at 48th overall according to him. So about a round difference between these two guys in last year's ADP. Now, something to maybe take into account here is this ADP aggregates from a bunch of people, not just fantasy analysts. I think maybe there's a Chris Godwin doesn't have the name value that Mike Evans does maybe outside of like the analyst community, but I mean, they're both superstars. So that could just be a conjecture right there. Oh, yes. It's Steven's turn to answer a question because you saw the puzzle last time. So we're going to go to Steven. Steven, are you ready for your first question? I believe I'm Steven. Okay. My question for you, Steven, is who was drafted earlier last season 2021? This is PPR redraft. Who was drafted earlier? Was it Alan Robinson or was it DJ Moore? It was Alan Robinson. It absolutely was Alan Robinson. You got that one right. Which letter would you like Joey? Don't screw it up for your teammate. What'd you say? A T. T. There are one, two, three, four. Five. T is going to add 2,500 for wrestle time. I mean, the elite. So Joey, it's your turn, but before we ask you a question, I'll let you guys decide. Do you want to buy any vowels? Would you like to solve or would you like to go straight to the question? We got a good $2,500 bucks. I'd say a vowel probably buy an eye. You know, if it was Brian with an eye, I would have been a genius. Do you want to buy an E since we got a big chunk of change there? Yeah. Okay. We'll buy an E. Okay. Buy in the E. There are four E's in this puzzle. That's going to subtract 400 from your total so far.  Would you like to buy another vowel? Would you like to solve or Joey? Do you want to answer a question? T T T T T T T T T. That's your question. Yeah, good question. I'll look you just focus on the puzzle. I'm going to answer the question. All right. That was a good one, Jail. Okay. Joey, your question. We're going to stick with an ADP question for this round. My question for you is who was drafted earlier last season? Who was drafted earlier last season? Was it Chase Claypool or was it Jamar Chase? Man, that's a really tough question. I'm going to say Chase Claypool. And you would be correct. Chase Claypool was the 26th wide receiver off the board. Jamar chased the 36th wide receiver off the board. Okay. I was hoping maybe that incredible season would cloud your memory of where he was being drafted last year, but it did not. So Steven, it is up to you now to pick the letter. Which letter would you like on the board for your team? I'm going to go with the easy one and say H. H. There are three H's going to add another 1500. And guys, just a reminder, this will be your final round. So this is your last opportunity to buy a vowel if you would like to do so, or you can solve or we can move into your last question. And this question is going to be for Steven. You probably buy a vowel since we've got it here. Yeah. Let me think it A. Yeah. Yeah. Buy an A. Wait. Yep. A? Yeah. There are three A's all in a line that is going to subtract 300 from your total. What would you guys like to do now? And remind your contestants out of the chat for not to mention the beginning of this one. I have no idea. This is Jamar. Do you have any ideas, Joey? I don't. So let's take a question. I'm working through it. Yeah. Okay, Steven, you ready for your question? Yep. Okay. We are going to leave ADP for the time being and my question for you is who scored more PPR fantasy points during the regular season last year? Who scored more PPR fantasy points? Was it A.J. Brown or was it D.J. Moore? Yeah. I want to say it was A.J. Brown. Final answer. Final answer. I'm sorry. It was D.J. Moore 237.5 PPR points to A.J. Brown's 180.9. A.J. Brown also did only play in 13 games. So that might have their points for game were almost identical 13.9 for A.J. Brown 14 for D.J. Moore, D.J. Moore just played in all those extra games compared to him. So I am sorry you guys have all that money sitting there but we're going to go on to the other team now. I believe it is J.L.'s turn to answer a question. If I'm not mistaken, J.L. Would you like a question? Would you like to solve or would you like a question? I'll take a question. Okay. My question for you is who scored more PPR fantasy points last season. Was it Damian Harris or was it Elijah Mitchell? Mitchell. I'm sorry it was Damian Harris. Yep. Damian Harris same similar type question that I just asked Steven. It was the extra games played for Damian Harris that gave him that edge right there. So we are back to the other side. Joey, it is your turn. Would you like a question or would you like to buy a vowel? Can I can I can I talk to my partner? Yeah, no talking. Have a conversation. Are you pretty close on any of this or we need to stay questions? I think since we have 3300 we'd be incline to get a vowel. You want to take a vowel? Do you want to buy an O? What do you think of the I? Got that 8. Well, at that last word, if there's an AT that probably means there's an I somewhere. So I think an I there's okay. All right. People love the eyes. It's by an eye. So you guys would like to purchase an I final decision. Okay. There are four eyes in this puzzle. It's going to attract 400 from your total. What would you like to do now? Solve or take a question or buy another vowel? And it is Joey's turn to answer the question. I believe right. So Joey, would you like a question? No, you got to decide now. I don't want to know it. Do you know it? Okay, Joey. If you know what you can solve right now. Otherwise, I'm going into the question. Question question question because we can't. Okay. Question for Joey. Joe, my question for you is who had more PPR fantasy points last season? Who had more PPR fantasy points? Was it Alexander Madison or was it Darrell Williams? Darrell Williams Darrell Williams is absolutely correct. Joey, which letter would you like? Stephen and and there are three ends in this puzzle. What is that second? I know it. I know it. Solve. Okay. Would you like to solve the hype train is leaving the station? That is correct. The hype train is leaving the station. You solved that one, Stephen. And you guys racked up $4,400 in the process. Hey, Jay, I don't want to alarm you, but the game has started just to let you know exactly how many questions did you get right that round? Simon, I do. Were we supposed to get an extra thousand for solving or was that? No, no, no. I tried. I tried. The thousand is the minimum. Could be so greedy, Joey. You got enough. I've watched this show before, but I don't know how the scoring works. It's just this is the first show that they're paying out an actual money. So I'm just very excited. I walk home. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Just keep an eye on the mailbox. Hopefully it doesn't get lost in the mail. Let's let's go guys. We're going to load up our next puzzle. This is a musician NFL player mashup. It's supposed to say mashup, but up didn't fit. So this is what we got. Musician NFL player mash. I don't know any of your young, young today's music. So Stevie Nicks last week, we had a Lucy in the Skymore with diamonds. It was Beatles. It wasn't just this like the oldest man that's ever existed, Jay. That's older than you are, Jay. That's true. That's hard to get out of here with with your ageist comments about our music. Um, but it also call that music. It also was your turn to answer a question. I believe Jay, unless you would like to solve right away. I would like a question. Okay. My question for you is who had more rushing yards last season? Who had more rushing yards? Was it Alvin Camara or was it Jaylin Hertz? You have to make a difficult one. Okay. I'll go with Camara. Camara is absolutely right with 898 to Jaylin Hertz 784 JL. Which letter would you like for your team? Let's go with a, let's go with an S.  Yeah. Okay. Please let there not be an S. She just did that and then they called. That would have been. There's one S in this puzzle. Um, so guys would you like to have it? Yeah. Yeah. Are you solving? No. Oh, I think Joey actually does. I do absolutely have it. How did you have it? I got it. I think. Now, would you like to solve or would you like a question for JL? Yeah, I got it. Do you want to take JL? Okay, unsolved. Go ahead and solve it. Hold on. Hold on. Let me. He's counting the numbers. No, I don't. Okay. I don't. I don't have it. I don't have it. You have to close your non-dominant eye in order to count properly. That was your problem there. He's about to pull a Carlton. Steal the ball out of my hands. Fourth letter, third row. I need to sign in real quick.  JL, are you ready for your question or would you like to buy a vowel? Yeah. Uh, question. Okay. My question for you is who had more rushing touchdowns last year? Who had more rushing touchdowns? Was it Ryan Tannehill or was it Chuba Hubbard? God. I'll go with Tannehill. Oh, Tannehill is correct with seven to Chuba Hubbard's five J. Which letter would you like? K. There are three K's in this puzzle going to add 1500 and I'm assuming you would like to solve. Kendrick Lamar Jackson. It is Kendrick Lamar Jackson in honor of the new album dropping today. Oh, he said musician. Oh, I thought he said genius. Genius. I'm sorry. That's what he describes. I first thought it was Michael. I thought it was Michael Lamar Jackson. I didn't want to be too specific. If I were to put genius, you guys probably would have gotten it right away. Yeah, musician. It's such a broad category. Yeah, it could have been Joey or K dot or. That's it. Those are the two options. I think those are the only two geniuses. Joey didn't fit. So I do want to shout out Dame three minutes ago getting this one with Kendrick Lamar Jackson. Nice job. Dame with the Dame. Everyone in the chat just shouting for Dame. Julie would say and it's Dame time. Dame time. I'm freaking stoppable. We need a sound board. We do need a sound board. Yeah. How do you guys not have a sound board already? We're poor. We're going to add that money to your banking guys. That was an important round for you guys. If you let them get a couple more thousand, this could have gotten out of hand, but now you're well within striking distance of a single puzzle and we are going to move on to our next one. Mr. Scamber is also letting us know that Dame got this with no letters, no letters on the board. I would like to point out that when I said K J L said and there was three. I didn't say I did not say you. I think Joey said. Oh yeah. That was Joey. I am now offended that you confused me for Joey. Okay. So J. There's a schism on being J L. He's so lucky. The J in there. Good job. The elite. Who was the last person to answer a question on your team? I cannot remember. Me. I was Joey. Joey. So it's a Stevens turn to answer a question on this next one unless you can solve right off the back. This puzzle is what are you doing? I'm just something that you could be doing and that's what's going on here. It's probably fantasy related maybe or football related. We'll see. Only one person knows only one person knows and that person isn't giving away very much information here. Steven, would you like to solve or would you like a question? Okay. My question for you, Steven, is who had more receiving yards last season? Who had more receiving yards? Was it Dallas Goddard or was it Devonta Smith? Poof. Goddard missed a few games. So I'm going to go Devonta Smith. You absolutely nailed that. It was Devonta Smith. Nice job, Steven. Joey, what letter would you like? R. An R. Let's see if there's any R's in this puzzle. There are two R's going to add $1,000 to your round bank. Okay. Now, what would you guys like to do? Would you like to buy a vowel or you want to go into Joey's question? Or so. You want to buy an A? Yeah, I'll soon A. Let's buy an A. Okay. And A, there are three A's in this puzzle. Going to subtract 300. Would you guys like to buy another vowel or move into the next question? I mean, we could probably buy the whole board of a whole set to assist me. I think probably a question. You only got to, if you drop below 500, I will not allow you to buy any more vowels in case there's an instance of more than five vowels being up there. Do you want to buy another vowel? Since we have some money. Now answer a question. We don't want to answer. I wasn't going to try and answer a question. Yeah. Okay. Joey, my question for you is who had more receiving yards last season? Who had more receiving yards? Was it Rob Gronkowski or was it A.J. Brown? A.J. Brown. It was A.J. Brown. Absolutely. Man, that was tricky because it was like. That one was tricky. I apologize. Very confident. Do you know what the, what the, what the rod yards were for each of them? Yeah. Closer than I intended it to be. A.J. Brown. 869. Rob Gronkowski. 802. So they were separated by less than 100. That's my stuff, son. Yeah. I usually try to like keep them at least 100 yards apart. As long as it's not like five or 10. Yeah. That's a question for them so they don't care. Steven, what letter would you like for your teammate? There's a, what are you doing? That means there's an N. Give me an N. Joey, you watch that cheating over there. I saw that. There are three N's in this puzzle. Are we not allowed to talk about the letter? No? Okay. Thanks. I don't know. Simon, are we? No. Yeah. I mean, we're setting it up. We're, we just want to cut out as much of the, this is to keep it flowing, right? One person to answer questions. One person, guess the letter. Keep the game flowing. So after that letter showed up, who gets that letter? Steven did. That means it is Steven's turn for a question unless you guys would like to buy another vowel. And this will be your last opportunity to buy vowels just so you guys know on this term, unless it gets back to you. Let's probably just start buying. Yeah. Yeah. E. E? There is one E in this entire puzzle. Okay. What would you guys like to do now? I know for sure that there's obviously an I in this. So let's buy an I. Okay. Buying an I, there are one, two, three, four, five. So that's going to subtract 500 from your total. There are still more vowels if you guys would like to buy them or we can move on to the next question for Steven. See, I wasn't terrible there either. J. Oh, question. I have no idea what you're talking about. Do you have it? I got a couple of words. What's it going to be guys? Question. Question. Okay. Steven, your question is. Um, my question for you is who had more passing yards last season, who had more passing yards? Was it Matt Ryan or was it Carson Wentz? Matt Ryan. Final answer. Yeah. You are absolutely correct by almost 500 yards. Matt Ryan was just about at 4,000 and Carson Wentz was a little bit over 3500 there. So between 4,000 and Jacksonville game at the end of the year, Joey, which letter would you like? T. A T. So we can bank it. Okay. In this puzzle. You guys have five seconds. Oops. I accidentally subtracted 100. That's fine. I'm going to subtract 500 and then add it all in there and then put another 500 in. You guys should have one additional 500. There we go. Would you guys like you guys have five seconds to solve, otherwise we're moving on to the next team. I got let's just bank it. Okay. You're going to bank this money and we are moving on to JL and Jay. Whose turn is it to answer a question up here? Honestly, don't know. Well, then we're going to go with Jay. Jay, it is your turn to answer a question. Okay. And I'm 100% confident in that. Jay, my question for you is in the week one matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Which team is currently favored by the FanDuel Sportsbook? To the Bengals. It is the Bengals. You're absolutely correct. Which letter would you like? JL. Oh, yeah. JL. Let's go with an F. An F? There are four F's in this puzzle. Going to add 2,000. What would you guys like to do now? You want to buy a Val? Yeah, let's, well, I feel like oh, probably make sense. Give it that. I don't see what. Yeah, we can try it. I don't know. Yeah, that's fine. You want to buy an O? Buy an O. Okay. There's one O. There you go. I would like to solve. Okay. Drafting at Buffalo Wild Wings with my friends. That is absolutely what you are doing. How I would draft if I had any friends for sure. Yeah, this was really just wishful thinking. I'm dropping hints guys. I would really like to go to Buffalo Wild Wings with you guys and do a draft if you're available. Is everyone in? This is an invitation. RSVP, please. Let's make it. We got five people here. Daddy Fandle, that's six. You're not counting the chat, Joey. I was about to mention the chat. Do they like cats into the... We could get like a little high chair and like a little bowl of kibble for Mr. Scampers. Oh, I thought you meant for Albert. I love Mr. Scampers. Got this one in pieces, got drafting that with my friends and Albert and Mr. Scampers came in with Buffalo Wild Wings in the middle right there. That's exactly how I got. I could not figure out Buffalo Wild Wings. Everything else. It's funny. I had I thought about Buffalo Wild Wings and then I just like I didn't even try to make it fit. I was just like, no, that doesn't fit. See Mr. Scampers with his paws putting up the sticker on the draft board just like getting stuck.  You can't reach so you got to pick them up inside. Well, I was imagining Mr. Scampers eating wings. Like I'm then having to like use a little moist towel wet with the paws to get... This is a great show. Guys, we're going to move on to our next puzzle. Puzzle number five of the day. And this is a band NFL player mashup. So similar to the musician one, except this is a band. So this is going to be a band and a player's name combined together into one mess of a sentence or title. I thought you meant band in the other way. Like this is just going to be like Josh Gordon or Martavis Ryan. Yeah, this is a band player combined with a non-band player. Yeah, we're going to start with Stephen and Joey on this one. And guys, who answered the last question for you guys? Okay, so Joey, this is your question. Are you ready? I'm so ready for this question. My question for you is according to the fan dual sports book, which team is currently favored in their week one matchup? The New Orleans Saints or the Atlanta Falcons? Oh, my God, I was doing schedules today. Are they playing each other? They're playing each other. I was like, God, who are they playing? Saints and Falcons. The Saints are favored. That is absolutely correct. Joey, Stephen, which letter would you like? Man, there's a lot of... Tea? There's about 21 options. Yeah, I know. Should we go with tea? Tea. It might be a thought to start it. Yeah, we'll see. Let's see. There are two teas, but it looks like it wasn't where you thought, but that's going to add 1,000 to your total so far. That works though. Would you guys like to buy a vowel or move on to Stephen's question? Before you answer that, I know it's probably very illegal, but I feel like it'd be very funny if Fan Dual Sportsbook just put up a prop for a game that is not going to happen. It just does not exist. See how much handle they can get. Like the Saints versus the Oilers, week one. What would you guys like to do, Joey and Stephen? A vowel, solve or move on to Stephen's question? I kind of want to buy an O and I don't know why. Sure. Would you like to buy an O, please? Okay. Why did you say O like that? This puzzle, what would you guys like to do now? I think we're going to take a question, right? I would like to say though, I visited a Fan Dual Sportsbook in Phoenix, Arizona, and it was wonderful. And Phoebe Pensacola? No, Phoenix, Arizona. Yeah, Phoebe Pensacola. That's what I said. I thought I stuttered or something. You were making fun of me. No, I was. It's like an old college humor video or something where this guy just goes to the cities and says everything wrong. It was like peak early 2000 internet humor that probably won't hate me more. Yeah, it's one of my best stories. If you want me to keep going, just let me know. I love your entire video. Yeah, you guys want me to run through the entire script of that video just in the meantime? Yeah, Stephen. Are you ready for the next question? Yeah, question. Let's go. Okay, Stephen. My question for you is who is currently favorite in their week one matchup according to the Fan Dual Sportsbook? Is it the Cleveland Browns or the Carolina Panthers? Ask me the Browns. It does have to be the Browns. The Browns are absolutely favored minus four to plus. Are all the week one games that terrible? There's some good ones. Bucks and Cowboys should be really fun. Joey, which one would you like to add to you? Um, we would like to buy an R. Oh, you don't buy it. I'm going to pay you for it. An R. Sorry, Joey, you said R. Yeah. Oh, there are no R's in this puzzle. Oh my God, this is, I guess this is a change. Stephen's question answering gone to waste. And I believe it is JL's turn to answer a question. Who knows? Who knows? Good enough for me. Dale, are you ready for your question? Yep. Okay, my question for you is which team ran more plays, more total offensive plays during the 2021 regular season? They all ran like around the same amount of plays. I never, I never use this for trivia plays. Was it the Buffalo Bills or was it the Jacksonville Jaguars? I don't know.  Me. I know you are. I'll go Bills. It was the bills. I'm not tricking you. You're reverse. 1143 to the Jaguars, 1,028 in jail. Got to have some trust in me, man. With that question, I was purposely going to put a big gap. I can't ask those very often, but I can still do them. Big gap of a hundred. That's a pretty big gap for a number of plays. That's a pretty decent size gap right there, Jay. What's the gap between the most, the team with the most plays and the team with the least plays? The team with the most plays has 1,185. The team with the least plays has 954. So about that. Hey, I ask touchdown questions and sometimes those are only separated by one or two. So, so put that in your button. That is the same argument. Yep. 100% the same. Jay, which letter would you like? S.  Yes. There's one every time. There is one S that's going to add 500 to your total. Yeah. What would you guys like to do now? Would you like to buy a vowel? Would you like another question? What do you think, Jayle? We got to do something here, Jay. I'm not going to lie to you. It's not looking good for us. We got to really make some moves here. I don't like your tone. I don't like my tone either, but it's just the truth. So let's do it. You want to buy a vowel? Sure. Thought you picked this time. I'll go with the, I'll go with an E. An E? It's better be toes. There is one E in this puzzle. It's going to subtract 100 from your total and you cannot buy any more vowels, so unless you can solve, I'm going to move on to the next question for Jay here. No, I'm pretty sure that second word is tree. Go ahead. With only one E. Jay, are you ready for your question? Ready to deliver me. Which player threw more passing touchdowns last season? Which player threw more passing touchdowns? Was it Derek Carr or was it Kirk Cousins? Give me Kirkie. And Kirkie is absolutely right by 10 touchdowns, 33 to 23. Jayle, which letter would you like? Let's go with an, let's go with a, let's go with an H. H. H? Yeah. There is one H in this puzzle. Gonna put 500 there. What would you guys like to do now? This will be your last opportunity to buy a vowel or we're going to move into our final question or you can solve. You want to buy another vowel? Yeah. Buy it. What do you say in A? You go next. You pick the next one. You buy an A. An A. There are three A's in this puzzle. I'm talking about. Back 300 from your total. What's next for you guys? Would you like another question or would you like to solve or would you like to buy a vowel? I don't have it yet, Jay. Do you wonder? I don't either. I guess we'll take another question. Okay. And Jay just answered that once with Jayle. This is your question. My question for you is who had more receiving yards during the 2021 regular season? Who had more receiving yards? Was it Jaylin Waddle or was it Tyler Lockett? Lockett. Lockett is absolutely correct. No hesitation from Jayle. Jay, which letter would you like? I've been screwed over so many times, but I'm pretty sure that exact question. I'm going to go safe and bank the money. So with an M. An M? M as in M. M as in Nancy. There are two M's in this puzzle that's going to add 1,000 to your bank and you guys have five seconds to solve before we move on to the other team. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I am so sorry. That wasn't five seconds. I didn't count down on my hand. Do you have it? I know three of the words. Oh my God. I know it. Okay. Oh, I do. I have it. I have it. Go, go. All-time Logan Thomas. It is all-time Logan Thomas. Nice job. All-time low. All-time low. No blue would be nice if I knew who the band was to be able to play the game. All-time low is like super well known. That's a pretty mainstream band. That's not me. I didn't know the love of all-time. They have like the one hit and then... If you're into that. Waitlist, Deer Maria. Oh, they have, they have. Well, of course you go Deer Maria. It's true. It's about a stripper. I remember filing their CD at Barnes & Noble. Yeah, they're right from here. Guys, that is going to add $1,000 to your bank. Hold on. Since you had 800. Did we bank money? Yeah, you did bank money. I didn't add it. Let me go ahead and add that for you. Classic. How does this work? 1,000, 2,000. How many do we have? Somebody rewinding. You had 2,600, I believe. I thought it was 3,600. On a 3,600? I think. I could be wrong, but I think it was 3,600. Somebody rewinding the chat. I bet you I can. Okay. I am going to add 3,600 for the time being. We've added 1,000 and that's what we're going to set unless someone corrects me. I'll try and double check. I'm trusting that you guys are not cheaters. I hope they get so close to us. I don't think cheating is really going to help us out. I think we're back. 3,600 seems high with the amount of numbers with the amount of numbers that was in that puzzle. There weren't that many. 1,600 and then it's zero. I went too far. 1,600 and then that last one, you got two more letters, which would make it 1,600 is what I see. Oh, Mr. Scamers says I see 1,600. Okay. So I gave you 2,000. Oh, I was way off. You guys are at 5,500 and 9,500.  I said go look back. If this is a tag team wrestling match, Jay just try to hit us with a legal steel chain. Oh my God. Stop talking about wrestling. This is hard. Wrestling time. Guys, we have time for at least one more puzzle. We're going two more. Joey and Steven solved that one properly. We did. So Jay, Ellen, Jay, we are starting with you. And I forgot who I answered the last question. I think it's on me. Okay, Jay, are you ready for your first question? I guess. According to the FanDuel Sportsbook, which of these teams is favorite in their matchup against each other in week one? Is it the Jacksonville Jaguars or the Washington Commanders? Are you serious right now? It's the same line as some of these other games I asked. Can you tell me who's home? No. I didn't do that for the other people. They didn't ask. Give me Jacksonville. I'm sorry. It is the Washington Commanders at minus four. Jacksonville Jaguars at plus four.  Usually the home team at three. So unfortunately you're wrong. We're going to move on to Joey and Steven here. Steven, I believe it's your turn to answer a question. Yes. Good enough for me. My question for you, we're going to stay with the FanDuel Sportsbook. My question for you is which team is favored in their week one matchup against each other? Is it the Kansas City Chiefs or the Arizona Cardinals? Chiefs. Chiefs are correct at minus three on the road. They're minus three on the road against the Arizona Cardinals. Joey, which letter would you like? I give him that. I get Jacksonville and Washington. The line was bigger for your game. It was a bigger stretch. All the free agent money in the world cannot buy the Jaguars a line. Joey, which letter would you like for your team? I would like a T, please. A T. There are two T's in this puzzle. We're going to add 1,200 in the bank.  Do you want to buy a vowel or would you like another question? There's at least one vowel I know of that's in this. I want to buy it because of the way the question is. I want to buy an A. Yep. Okay. Yeah, I want to buy an A. We would like to buy an A because we're a united team. There are three A's in this puzzle for such a united team. What would you guys like to do next? Well, let's be nice to have the support of your teammate. I sense Jay would enough you appreciate him, Jay. I'll take a question. Love me. A question. You got it. I don't. Okay. My question for you is who scored more PPR fantasy points last season? Who scored more PPR fantasy points? Was it Rashad Penney or was it Devante Booker? Rashad Penney. I'm sorry. It was Devante Booker with the RLVs in 16 games. Devante Booker outscored him. We are going to go back to the other team now. JL and Jay, are you ready for your question? 2021. Oh, I was looking at 1987. Just kidding. I'm in the same football. Yeah. It was actually their grandfathers with the same exact names that were playing in the league at that time. He wasn't very good then either. Jay, you got the last question wrong and then complained about it. So that means it's JL's turn. So JL, are you ready for your question? Yep. Ready to complain. Okay. My question for you is who was favored in their week one matchup? Is it the dent according to the Fandals sports book? Is it the Denver Broncos or the Seattle Seahawks? Denver Broncos or Seattle Seahawks. I'll go with the Broncos. The Broncos are absolutely correct. Steven's pissed about that. We thought it was too easy. But I'm keeping all the lines in a similar range. You know, you got that one right. Jay, which letter would you like for your team? Let's go with S. And S, bonk. There is no S in this puzzle. Man. You'll have my respect when you earn it, Jay. Do you want to buy an E, Steven? Yeah, let's buy an E. See, E for elite. Fresh. Is it like a buy an E? E for elite. E for rest of the time. E for unique. There are three E's in this puzzle. It's going to put you below the amount required to buy any more vowels. So it's time to answer a question. Whose turn is it to answer a question? Steven's turn. Oh, wait. Oh, yeah, because he had the Devante Booker one. That was a really tricky. Yeah, yeah, that was very tricky, which I'm going to be checking after the show. Yeah, you can check. You can check. It's a hundred percent right. What are you going to do? What are you going to do if Simon was wrong here, Joey?  I just cry in the corner like I do about everything else and not say anything. Not say anything. Leave the FYF check.  Who was drafted earlier? So who has the higher draft capital? Is it AJ Dillon or is it T Higgins? Oh, they were both second round. Uh, but I know AJ Dillon was a little bit later. I'm going T Higgins. T Higgins is correct. And you nailed it. T Higgins was actually the first pick of that second round. Joey, which letter would you like? Um, an R, R, I'm still taking it. There's one R in this puzzle. We're going to add another 500. If you guys like to buy any more vowels, or would you like to move on to the next question that Joey will be answering? I think there's an I in this. Yeah, let's buy an I. I am at the ease of the other ones.  No, there are two eyes in this puzzle. Oh, I accidentally added 500 one, two, three, four, five and then an additional two. So you guys are back down at 700 for this round. Would you guys like to solve? Would you like another vowel? Or would you like a question? I'm going to need your answer. Steven, do you have the answer? I don't know. I know. I know. I know three words. I don't know three. I know we are going. We are going to move on to a question. Joey, my question for you is who had more receiving touchdowns last season? Who had more receiving touchdowns? Catch the ball in the end. Was it Dawson Knox or was it Debo Samuel? Receiving touchdowns, right? Receiving touchdowns. I remember Dawson Knox just catching like an obnoxious number of touchdowns. That's not like what you did there obnoxious. I'm going to go. It's pretty good. Dawson Knox. Dawson Knox is correct. And nine receiving touchdowns for Debo Samuel six. You pulled that one out. Steven, which letter would you like for your team? H. There are two H's in this puzzle that's going to add 1000. What would you guys like to do here? Solve by a vowel or go to the next question to Steven. By an O. By an O. There's one O in this puzzle and that is the last vowel. That is all we've got. Really? So guys, would you like another question or would you like to solve? Do you know it? I don't. I have now I have three words and we are going to have to go on to our next question. Next question. Steven, my question. This is for Steven. Okay. Steven. My question for you is who had more passing yards last season? Who had more passing yards? Was it Derek Carr or was it Ryan Tannehill? Derek Carr. Derek Carr is absolutely correct. Joey, which letter would you like? Oh no. God, I have to pick the. Okay. I'll take the M and M we can bank. Yeah.  Okay. So it's going to add 1000. You guys are going to bank that money regardless, but can you solve the puzzle as well? You've got five seconds. That is the end of your five seconds. We're going to move on to the other team and it sounds like Jail knows the answer to this one. You want to go ahead and solve. I would like to solve Alex. So Jail, where are you? At home with Baker Mayfield. That is where you are. You are at home with Baker Mayfield. Yeah, I like that. That was a good one. I had no clue what the last two words were. Mr. Scamper's got this one about three minutes ago. Nice job celebrating them. And Kraken, you know what? They're over in the Twitch chat. So they did not see Mr. Scamper's answer on YouTube and they got that one as well. It's wrestle time, baby. The elite team wins Joey and Stephen. Stephen, you broke the losing streak with a down victory here today. 12,200 to 5,500. Nice job. And thank you so much for taking the time to come on with us. We really appreciate it. Appreciate it as always guys. Always a fun time. I just needed my butt Joey to get me through the dark times of ending up in second and third place. All you needed and J and JL, you guys did your best. That was really, really well done on your end. Thanks. I was going to say that we should actually wrestle in Canton when we all see each other. Okay, I'm down. But then I immediately remembered the one time I watched Simon wrestle at Pledge in college. We never need to do that again. You want to know something really funny? You want to know a funny wrinkle to that story? That pledge you watched me wrestle is my current girlfriend's ex-boyfriend. We were not dating at the time. They were dating at the time. So she also watched me wrestle that place. And you saw that's why you guys were like, oh, yeah. They were dating. I was just a nobody at the time. Like two Elks in the wild fighting over a dough. What are Elks doing on the beach? Guys, that is going to be it for us today. Before we go though, a couple of reminders. Number one, if you are not already following our guest, Steven on Twitter, go and do that right now at Steven underscore roto. If this show wasn't enough to convince you, maybe his meat sticks will be. So go check them out. But this show should have been enough by itself. After you do that, make sure you are following FanDuel across all of their social platforms. We're talking YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter. They're at FanDuel on every single one of these platforms and they have a whole team of content creators almost as handsome and smart as we are that will help you guys win your leagues and win some cash.  So make sure you guys head over there, subscribe and come play some games with us. Take your end of the day work break while you're scrolling some spreadsheets. That is going to be it for us today. Though, guys, another big thanks to Steven. Thank you to everybody in the chat who played along with us today. We will see you guys on Monday. Adios everyone. Bye bye. Trading me said it's fun. Yeah, I was going to get it.


Hello, DEF CON 29, and welcome to the Ham Radio Village. My name is Tyler Gardner. Call sign, Kilo India 7, Oscar Delta Kilo. Today, I will be presenting amateur radio mesh networking and how mesh network technologies can enable high data rate communications for ham radio operators. Just as a brief introduction, I currently hold a US general class amateur radio license. I also have a master's degree in aerospace engineering. Some of my personal interests include amateur radio, emergency preparedness, assembling computers, and computer programming. Here is a general overview of what I'll be presenting today. I will first talk about what mesh networking is and why amateur radio operators should consider using mesh technologies. I will then talk about the radio spectrum that is available for mesh networking. The performance or data speeds you can see on a mesh network and different network topologies or layouts that you can use. Next, we will get into what types of hardware are available for mesh nodes and the firmware that is typically installed on those nodes. Later, I will go over briefly what it takes to set up a mesh network station or node and some different amateur radio applications of mesh networking. We'll wrap up with a look at my mesh network set up and a field trip to the Dayton Amateur Radio Association Clubhouse. I will then leave you with some suggestions about where you can look for more information. To start out, let's define what a mesh network is. Simply put, a mesh network is a wireless digital TCP-IP network made up of repeaters called nodes. Mesh networking operates on microwave frequencies. Because a mesh network is a TCP-IP network, network-enabled devices such as computers, tablets, and smartphones can connect to a mesh network and communicate over the mesh. To be clear, the term mesh typically refers to a specific network topology or layout. This presentation will cover digital technologies that can be used to form networks of many different topologies. So when I'm talking about mesh networking here, I am more referring to the interconnectable nature of these devices rather than a true mesh topology. As a matter of fact, we'll talk later more about why a true mesh layout isn't always the best topology to use for a network. Now that I've already mentioned nodes, let's talk about what a node is. In amateur radio and digital networking, a node is an individual wireless station. Each node in an amateur network must be licensed using an operator's call sign. Each node must also have a unique name. Mesh network nodes are self-advertising, self-discovering, and self-configuring. In other words, if two nodes are in range of each other, they will automatically connect and form a network. Most nodes consume very little power, with many devices using as little as 3 to 7 watts to run. This makes them very useful for applications where battery power is required, such as portable operations or emergency communications. Conveniently, amateur radio mesh nodes use repurposed, commercially available hardware from manufacturers like Ubiquiti, MicroTik, and TP-Link. To set up these hardware devices as a mesh node, they are flashed with modified firmware. Some nodes allow local devices, such as computers and smartphones, to connect to the mesh network via ethernet or part 15 Wi-Fi. So why should amateur radio operators consider using mesh networking in the first place? Well, there are multiple reasons. Amateur radio operators have always experimented with different technologies, whether for scientific discovery and technological innovation or just for fun. Microwave technologies provide us a new avenue of exploration. Another perhaps more compelling reason, depending on who you talk to, is emergency communications. First responders and emergency personnel today depend more and more on digital technologies for their operations. This slide here shows an excerpt from a final report on the state of Oregon's Cascadia Rising exercise that was conducted in 2016. Note the section circled here in red that reads, existing auxiliary amateur radio processes are slow and not capable of handling the large volumes of traffic expected during an event of this size, mostly due to radio bandwidth issues. Traditional radio voice communications are not sufficient for the large volumes of information and emergency personnel need to communicate and pass today. Even digital modes, such as WinLink, may struggle to transmit the data needed for these emergency events. Therefore, if we as amateur radio operators are to meet the needs of the agencies that we serve, we need to make use of modern technologies. And we need to make sure that we are adapting to those technologies. With that introduction, I hope you now have a general understanding about what a mesh network is and why mesh is useful in amateur radio. Let's jump in now and talk about the radio spectrum available for mesh network use. Amateur radio operators have four primary frequency bands available for mesh networking. The 900 megahertz band, a 2.4 gigahertz band, a 3.4 gigahertz band, and the 5.8 gigahertz band. It is important to note that a large portions of the 2 gigahertz and 5 gigahertz bands are shared with ISM and unlicensed users, in other words, regular Wi-Fi traffic. However, there are some unshared channels available to hams. It is these unshared channels that we want to use so that we can avoid interference from home wireless devices. In the 2.4 gigahertz band, only one channel, channel negative 2, is available for ham radio use and that does not overlap with shared frequencies. If you examine the bandwidth of these channels, channel negative 1 overlaps slightly with the shared frequency space and is therefore often avoided in mesh use. Many more unshared channels are available in the 5 gigahertz band. Now, because the FCC is sunsetting amateur radio access in the 3.4 gigahertz band, I would avoid buying devices for use in that band. In practice, most new nodes should try to use the 5.8 gigahertz band. More frequency spectrum is available in that band. Noise is also less prevalent. The 2.4 gigahertz band is commonly used for mesh networking devices, but it is also very crowded. Many consumer devices use the 2.4 gigahertz band for Wi-Fi and other connections, making it very noisy. The 900 megahertz band is less commonly used for mesh. However, it is great for short distance links where trees and other foliage may be difficult to avoid. Because the 900 megahertz band uses lower frequencies, it is more easily able to penetrate obstacles and obstructions such as trees and foliage. So what type of performance can we expect to get out of an amateur radio mesh network? Well, let's look into that. This slide compares the data rate capabilities of various wireless technologies and the data usage of different use cases. Typical digital amateur radio technologies such as 1200 and 9600 BOD TNCs are commonly used for APRS and WinLink. However, they provide less than 10 kilobits per second of data throughput. Mesh networking with a theoretical achievable 120 megabits per second falls more in line with modern cellular data and Wi-Fi technologies. This capacity allows hams to provide more than just email. With mesh networking, operators can provide infrastructure that supports VoIP calls, video calls, chat programs, direct file transfers, and even live video streams. We have talked about how some bands have more noise than others. In order to support the high data rates that we saw in the previous slide, we need to make sure that our nodes have good connections between them. Two of the metrics that are used to measure a connection quality are signal to noise ratio and link quality. A signal to noise ratio above 30 decibels is great. 10 decibels is usable for some cases, and 6 decibels or less is essentially useless. Link quality is basically a measure of how many packets your node successfully receives from a neighboring node. The goal is to have link quality as close to 100% as possible. When link quality starts to drop, nodes take more time trying to resend data. That slows down a network as a whole. So just remember, you cannot daisy chain multiple links with low link quality. So how do we measure these numbers? Well, luckily, our node hardware can tell us what it's measuring. This is an example of a signal to noise chart in the art and firmware. This chart can be used to troubleshoot connection issues and to aim a directional dish or antenna when you're setting up a node and trying to optimize a link. Because mesh networking uses microwave frequencies, physical obstacles become an issue. Any buildings or trees in the way of our link will cause signal degradation. We also have to consider the Fresno zone when we operate in these frequencies. The Fresno zone can be pictured as an ellipse around the straight line of sight connection between two nodes. Depending on the frequency, the Fresno zone varies in size. We need to keep the Fresno zone clear of the obstacles as much as possible when setting up a link. One thing to remember, a link that works well in the fall or winter may lose performance come spring or summer. Why? Well, if your link or your Fresno zone is in the trees, then the leaves that come in in the spring will cause further obstruction and will cause your link quality to drop. Now that we know that we need to avoid obstacles and keep the Fresno zone clear to maximize the performance of a link, let's look briefly at a tool that we can use to check geographic profiles. Here is an image of a topographical profile generated using the Hey, What's That profiler tool online. This tool allows you to select two or more points on a map and visualize the elevation of terrain between those points. This is very helpful to see if a potential link you are considering is viable or not. If you input the frequency you wish to operate on into the tool, it will also show you the Fresno zone for your link. The link visualized here on this slide actually corresponds to my link from my apartment to the Dayton Amateur Radio Association Clubhouse. That's the same link I showed the Signal to Noise plot for a couple of slides ago. Let me just say I'm very lucky that I live on top of a hill. Now keep in mind that this tool only shows the ground elevation. That means that vegetation, such as trees, which can add 30 to 50 feet of height, do not show up on this tool here. Now that we understand a little bit about the radio spectrum we can use for mesh network and some performance numbers or parameters, let's talk about network topologies. Here are some examples of different network topologies that can be used for mesh networks. The network nodes we'll be looking at are capable of supporting many different network architectures.  Unfortunately, the classic mesh topology is not very practical and usable outside of small use cases, such as your home, shack, within a shelter area, or a gymnasium, or even a small event. It works well when each node can see every other node in the network, and all links are high quality. But in practice, well, there are a few different problems that, if not considered, can cause your mesh network to perform poorly. Two of these problems are known as the hidden node and the unintended link problems. The hidden node problem occurs when two or more nodes are hidden from each other, like in the illustration on the left of this slide. Because the two nodes on either side of the hill cannot see each other, they cannot sequence their transmissions and will end up transmitting at the same time as one another. This doubling will cause most of their packets to interfere with each other, becoming undecodable by other nodes in the network. To compensate for this, these two nodes will try to retransmit their unreceived packets, causing more doubling. So you can see that this sort of starts a vicious cycle. As the hidden nodes continue to retransmit, they will also interfere with other nodes transmitting on the network. One hidden node may not bring down your network, but it will decrease link performance. If more and more hidden nodes are added to a network, performance will decrease drastically. There are a couple of things you can do to minimize this problem. You can make use of dedicated point-to-point links, especially for the backbone links on your network. Minimize areas where you use omnidirectional antennas. Omnis are good for providing local area connections to your network, but they can also easily cause problems, such as this. Now, the other problem shown here, the unintended link problem, happens when two prominent nodes on distant mesh networks inadvertently connect to one another. If the link quality of the long-haul connection is low, these nodes will do nothing but retransmit lost packets. You can minimize this problem by using different network SSIDs, lowering antenna height, and using tilt-down antennas. Better yet, put these prominent nodes on different frequencies. With these problems in mind, let's talk briefly about what you should keep in mind when designing the layout of your network. Remember, your network layout will most likely not look like any of the theoretical layouts I showed earlier. If you want to set up a wide area network, local terrain, available tower or hilltop sites, operator involvement, and your use cases will most likely dictate the size and design of your network. With regard to network resiliency, you may want redundant links for some part of your network. Remember, though, that when you're starting out, you don't need to set up your entire network all at once. Start small, set up a few links, and build from there. Any network is better than no network. Remember to consider what you want to do with your mesh network, what services you may want to host, and who will be the primary users. Effective networks are those that accomplish their intended purpose. All right, now that we have covered quite a bit of theory and network design, how about we talk about some actual hardware? If you remember, I mentioned earlier during the introduction portion of my presentation that most mesh network hardware is repurposed commercially available hardware. Manufacturers, such as Ubiquiti, Microtik, and TP-Link, all have wireless hardware that can be repurposed fairly easily for use as mesh nodes. The devices shown here on this slide are just a few examples. Microtik's HapLite, shown here which sells for around $50, is a great starter device and is also great for home and portable setups, as it can provide a 2.4 gigahertz mesh link, a 5 gigahertz wireless access point for computers and smartphones, and ethernet connectivity for other devices. The mesh firmware that I use and that is widely used in my area is called Arden. The Arden firmware supports more than 50 devices currently. A list of currently supported hardware can be found on ardenmesh.org. I'll talk a little bit more about Arden in a moment. Many devices currently available have a transceiver and antenna integrated into a single unit. Similar to what you would find in many home routers. So when you are shopping for hardware, I would recommend that you look for devices that are multiple input, multiple output capable. Such devices have multiple antennas in them so that they can receive and transmit multiple packets or multiple signals at the same time. If you get a device that needs a separate antenna remember to minimize the length of your feed line. Since we're operating in the microwave bands with this equipment, feed line losses are very high. All right, now on to firmware. As I mentioned, the firmware that I use and that is used by the mesh network I participate in is called Arden. Arden stands for Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network. Arden emerged a while back from the Broadband Hamnet project, which actually created a firmware that runs on older Linksys routers. Arden is based on OpenWRT, a common open source software that can be installed on many routers. As Arden is in continual development, stability updates, performance improvements, and features are steadily being added to the software. Arden currently includes multiple features that provide signal analysis tools and connection metrics. If you don't live physically near anyone who operates an Arden node, you can also use something called tunneling. Tunneling uses the internet to create a link between a tunnel client and a tunnel server. In other words, two different nodes. Obviously, if the internet goes down, so will your tunnel. So that's not a great tool for managing communications. However, tunneling can give you the opportunity to connect to distant mesh networks and experiment. Read up on the requirements for tunneling first, though, since running a tunnel can be a little heavy on your device. And it can cause problems if you are already meshed with a local network and you connect with another larger network. Let's take a look at what the Arden software looks like once installed on a node. Each Arden node can be accessed via a web browser to view its status and edit its configuration. This means that remote nodes can be accessed and managed directly over a mesh network from any internet browser. The screenshot on this slide here shows what the Arden node status page looks like. From here, you can see various pieces of information, including your node's IP address, SSID, channel, and some information about the wireless mesh signal, such as signal noise and the signal to noise ratio. Clicking on the mesh status button gives you information about other devices you are connected to on the local mesh network. Here, you can see that my node, Ki7ODK-HOME, is currently connected wirelessly to my other node, Ki7ODK-NSM2. I also have a couple devices connected via Ethernet to my home node. I'll show you those devices a little later. As you can see, this page also lists the services that other amateur radio operators are currently advertising here on the mesh network. Overall, there were 62 nodes connected to the network when I took this screenshot. Now, clicking the Setup button back on the node status page will take you to the Steadings menu for the node, once you authenticate with a username and password. This is where you can configure the basic radio and network settings for your node. Each Arden node has the ability to provide DHCP leases to local clients connected to the node. Those settings, along with port forwarding and service settings, can be found on this page here. Finally, the firmware for each node can be managed and updated from the administration page. If your node is connected to the internet, then you can update the firmware using the built-in download firmware utility. Otherwise, you can upload an update file from your computer. Additional software packages can be added in the node on this page as well, if you so desire. Now that I've given you a little preview of what hardware is available and what the Arden firmware looks like, let's go over what you need to set up a node. As a minimum, a mesh node needs some form of hardware to run on. That could be any of the ubiquity, micro-tick, or TP-link devices that I've shown so far. Many of those devices use power over ethernet. That means you will also need a power over ethernet injector or power over ethernet capable network switch to power those devices. Now, most of them, when you buy these devices, do come with an injector included. I would just recommend that you check the packaging description to make sure that a PoE injector is included when you buy your device. Otherwise, you'll have to buy one separately. The last thing you really need to set up your node is a computer. Once you buy your hardware, download the firmware, flash the new firmware to your node, and go through the initial setup, you'll be up and running. Now, I know that I gave a very brief preview of what the Arden software looks like, so I understand if some of that seems a little confusing at first glance. Because of time, I'll not be able to go over how to actually flash the Arden software onto a node nor how to set up the initial settings. However, you can find great documentation on that process at ardenmesh.org. Remember, just like any other amateur radio station or endeavor, your mesh station will probably start out small. You may start out with only one node set up in your home or check. As you explore a little more, you may want to connect some devices to your node, like an IP phone or a Raspberry Pi. Eventually, your home setup may include other nodes to provide directional links and other connectivity. It's really up to you to decide what your ideal mesh setup looks like. So what sort of things can you use your mesh node or your mesh network for? Well, some common mesh services include VoIP phone systems and servers, video call services, chat applications, IP cameras for towers and remote sites, file servers, map servers, incident management applications, and more. Really, any type of internet application can be used on a mesh network. The high-speed digital network that an amateur mesh provides can be used for field day to provide network contest logging systems. Mesh networks have also been used to support parades, races, marathons, festivals, and other public events. And as talked about earlier, mesh networks can be a great tool for emergency services and communications. However, remember that when all else fails, amateur radio will fail too if we haven't practiced and prepared. Mesh nodes are not self-powering. They do need backup power. So if you do plan to use your mesh nodes and your mesh network for emergency communications, auxiliary power should be a core part of your infrastructure designed from the beginning. All right, well, now that you've sat through this PowerPoint presentation, how about we go on a field trip? Here is a look at my mesh network setup here inside my apartment. I'm currently using a MicroTik haplight for my local node inside my apartment. The haplight is connected to a Raspberry Pi 3B and a Grandstream VoIP handset. The Raspberry Pi is equipped with a GPS hat that is connected to an extra antenna placed in the window behind me. The GPS hat obtains GPS time to then set the Raspberry Pi's system clock and then provide a network time server for the local mesh. The MicroTik haplight is wirelessly meshed to a nano station and ubiquity bullet that I have housed outside on my porch. Let's go take a look at those devices now. Here's the outside portion of my mesh network setup. You can see here two separate mesh networking devices. The first is the nano station M2 located here on the back of the apartment. The second is the bullet M2 that is connected to the TP-Link grid antenna. This is a directional antenna providing high gain so that I can link to the Dayton Amateur Radio Association Clubhouse omnidirectional node. Both of these devices here are powered by power-refinanted injectors, which I have set up inside Tupperware containers. Now these Tupperware containers I set up this way in order to predict the injectors from rain and other elements since they're situated here outside. All right, now to explain the interconnect between these two devices. The nano station connects to the haplight that I have inside wirelessly. The nano station is then connected via ethernet to its power-refinanted injector. That power-refinanted injector is then connected via ethernet to the other injector, which powers the bolt. That provides a device to device ethernet link so that the nano station and the bullet are not linked wirelessly. That leaves the bullet more free for this wireless link to the Dara Clubhouse. All right, why don't we head to the Dara Clubhouse now to see the equipment there located on the towers. Welcome to the home of the Dayton Amateur Radio Association, also known as Dara, the sponsors of HamVention. The Dayton Amateur Radio Association here at their clubhouse has three separate radio towers. But we today are mainly interested in those devices that are hosted here on the main center radio tower for the Miami Valley Mesh Alliance. Here on the center tower is one omnidirectional antenna and three directional antennas for point-to-point links. If you recall, we talked a little bit about the problems that omnidirectional antennas can cause with the hidden node problem and the unintended link problem. In order to deal with the unintended link problem, the Miami Valley Mesh Alliance currently uses different SSIDs for their different omnidirectional nodes. The node here is the north node. So it has a label N on the end of the SSID for north. The three directional antennas here, used for the point-to-point links, are linking to other towers, hospitals, or other locations in the area. To give you an idea of the performance of the omnidirectional antenna here for the link that I'm using to my apartment, if you recall back to the signal-to-noise ratio plot that I showed earlier in my presentation, I was getting a signal-to-noise ratio of about 24 decimals. And my apartment is a little over four miles south-south-east of this location. With that, I'm achieving about a 6 to 10 megabits per second data rate for my link. During the winter months, when there are not leaves on the trees in between my apartment and here, the clubhouse, my signal-to-noise ratio improves a little bit, upwards of 30 decibels per second. However, the data rate of my link does not really improve because my node is a hidden node. There are two or three other nodes here in the neighborhood that are connected to the omnidirectional antenna. But because my node cannot see them, there are collisions that happen, causing my link quality to drop. So keep in mind that omnidirectional antennas like this one are good for providing local neighborhood links to your mesh network. However, point-to-point links with directional antennas are often much better performing and don't have problems with unintended links or a hidden node problem. Well, thank you, everyone, for watching today. I really appreciate the opportunity to present here, and I hope you've learned at least a little bit about amateur radio mesh networking. If you would like to learn more, here are some sites that you can check out. I've mentioned the first website multiple times now, but feel free to check out ardenmesh.org. There's a lot of great documentation and material on the arden website about mesh networking. You can also find information about another mesh offering at hemwin.org. The profiling tool that I showed earlier can be found at haywhatsthat.com slash profiler.html. I also have listed here what's called a Viewshed Analysis tool that can be found at caltopo.com slash map.html. A Viewshed Analysis tool can be used to visualize what area a node can cover. For example, if you're planning to place a node on a mountain peak, you can use the caltopo Viewshed Analysis tool to place a Viewshed point on top of the mountain peak you're considering, and the tool will shade the areas that will be visible to that node for coverage. Here are some references and acknowledgments that I would like to include in my presentation today. First off, I would like to acknowledge and thank Bill Curtis, WA8APB for the material that he has in his presentation, high-speed broadband wireless networks. I would also like to mention the presentation by Steve Averly, designing a radio-based dead-end network. That's also a good reference if you wish to look that up. That was used for the RatPat group that was presented earlier this year. I would also like to thank the Dayton Amateur Radio Association for allowing me to record portions of this presentation in front of their clubhouse. And finally, I would also like to acknowledge the Miami Valley Mesh Alliance. That is the group that I am part of here, and that is the mesh network that I participate in here in Dayton, Ohio. Well, thank you very much. If there are any questions, I will go ahead and answer those now.


So here we are. The end of an era. As of March 30th, Jurassic Park Builder has been shut down completely. Ever since it was announced that Jurassic Park Builder was shutting down, I've had plenty of people ask me if I was going to make another video on the game. The fact was, I had already done that. I had already taken one last look around the parks I had created and had a few last battles in the tournaments. Good, unquote, tournaments. Even though I probably hadn't played the game in about a year. And you know what? That's alright. When I first found this game, I was in uni and I had only a few animations on YouTube. I would often stay over Whitney's place as it was closer to the uni and do work there. She showed me a little game you could download called Jurassic Park Builder. A few months after that, I created my first Jurassic Park Builder video and uploaded it to YouTube. Okay, I thought I would do a little bit of recording just to show this new expansion that Jurassic Park Builder has updated really. It's just going to be me. I was nervous to say the least, but over time I would get used to it. However, this video garnered a million views in such a short space of time in comparison to the animations I normally do, which take weeks if not months to make and they don't even garner a fraction of those views. It really took me by surprise. I couldn't believe it. At the time I had posted it onto my animation channel, but because the content was so vastly different, I decided to make a new channel and post any future videos there. And unbeknownst to me, at that time, the Game and Beaver was born. At its peak, I would upload three videos a day on this game, which is crazy to think about now. The videos weren't well edited, but at the time, neither were anyone else's who was covering the game. The few edits I did make went down really well with the people who were watching them. Stuff like Amonite Shine, Cocoa Puff Hop, all that nonsense. I was there for the Aquatic update when their Facebook page released a trailer for it. Yeah, Facebook, that's how they revealed stuff back then. The Glacier update, tournaments, card packs and finally, you know, the Indominus Rex, which cost money. The last dinosaur to be added to the game. I played this for a long time and so did a lot of you. But if we're being honest, a lot of us had stopped. Probably 90% of us. In all honesty, we were probably never going to play it again. So it's okay. It's okay to let it go. But yes, I do agree that if you'd spent money on the game like I had, that you should be entitled to some sort of kickback in there other games like Jurassic World, The Game or Alive. Cough, cough. But when it's all said and done, I had fun. I had fun collecting all the dinosaurs, figuring out ways to cheat the system and get books in the battles over and over, meaning all the other small dinosaur YouTube channels. I remember being in an airport in Thailand, frantically trying to connect to the internet to unlock Synthesaurus, which is Starbucks, as it was the last limited creature. And as for Jurassic Park Builder, it's that time. Thank you for kick-starting my channel. I probably wouldn't have started my gaming channel without it. I wouldn't have got to do all these amazing things without it. An app game. Who would have thought? Thank you to everyone who watched that series on my channel. You stuck it out through thick and thin. And now, hopefully, you're watching some other series on the channel. Because if you've been waiting for Jurassic Park Builder videos, oh god help you. Finally, I want to say thank you to everyone who worked on this game. You allowed not just me, but everybody else who played it a little escape from the everyday. A Jurassic Park that existed when there was no new Jurassic Park games out of the time. So this is my swan song to Jurassic Park Builder. Just like me, you'll have some memories of this game as well. And just like that, it comes to an end. So until next time, I'll see you later. Bye-bye.


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Hello guys, welcome to today's video. So on today's video, what I'm gonna be doing is unboxing a brand new blow dryer from Paul Mitchell. Now, what I've decided to do is I wanted to create an unboxing video one day a week for you guys so that you can see new things that are out there so you don't have to purchase them. I'll go over my thoughts about them as we unbox it and then you can make the decision from there whether you wanna pick this new product up or not. So like I said guys, today is our unboxing product day so what we're gonna be taking a look at is the new Paul Mitchell Halo blow dryer. This thing's got a $255 retail price point so it's gonna be really interesting to see what Paul Mitchell has done to make this blow dryer the latest and greatest. So the first thing I wanna start off with is probably the most obvious which is the packaging. I think that they did a great job on the packaging of this product because of the fact that if it's gonna sit on my retail shelves in the salon, I want people to see the design, see what the blow dryer actually looks like. So the one thing that I did notice about this blow dryer that I'm interested in is the fact that it does seem a little large in a world of where we're making blow dryers smaller. Paul Mitchell has made this dryer a little bit larger. Now that doesn't mean anything because it could be a nice and light blow dryer. The packaging which seems pretty hefty doesn't even feel that heavy so it's gonna be interesting to see the weight of the blow dryer. Before we get into anything else, let's unbox this thing so we can take a look. Okay so initial thoughts, that was the easiest unboxing ever.  And also the paperwork which is the user guide for the blow dryer is right in here. Okay so something that I've learned in my older age is you should read the instructions absolutely before using any products because of the fact that it's just good to learn exactly what everything does instead of trying to figure it out for yourself. It happens a lot faster that way. Okay so I think the number one thing that a hairdresser worries about is the length of the cord. So this thing has a nine foot cord which is perfect. It's the standard of any hairdresser's blow dryer. The cord on this blow dryer is super thick which just to me means that it's made with more care, more quality and more driven towards professionals. It's gonna last a long time. So last but not least here is the blow dryer. Now the first thing you have to notice when you look at this thing is the design. It feels really great in the hand. It's nice and sleek but it's got a really unique look. It is a larger blow dryer but a lot of people still love that and when I put the nozzle in my hand which is something that I do quite a bit when I'm round brushing, it feels really good as well. You got nice grip to it but it's still sleek. The weight of it, it's not heavy. It's not super heavy but it's not super light either. So it definitely feels like a workhorse blow dryer. Not a dainty blow dryer but it's not the heaviest blow dryer I've ever held either. So to achieve the unique look that they got with this blow dryer, they teamed up with award-winning industrial designer, Karim Rashid and I have to say from a design standpoint, this is probably the coolest looking blow dryer I've ever seen. Now what I'm most excited about with this blow dryer is the fact that all the buttons on the top of the blow dryer are all digital. So we're gonna get right into that. I'm gonna plug the blow dryer in and let's take it for a test run. Okay, so before I fire this bad boy up, I wanna read to you guys just a couple of the features and benefits of the blow dryer because we're gonna be going through it anyways. And I don't wanna get anything wrong so I did take some notes on it. First thing is, it's got a backlit touchscreen display right on the front which controls the heat, air flow and ion settings which is pretty cool. The next thing is they mention that it's lightweight. I would definitely say it's more of a medium weight professional design. It depends on who you talk to and what blow dryer you've been using in the past. This definitely is not super heavy. So don't feel like you're gonna get a cramp in your arm. If you're styling your hair in your bathroom, it's gonna be great. If you're styling your hair all day behind the chair, I would absolutely use this blow dryer. I would not feel like I'm needing to gain muscles to use the blow dryer whatsoever. It's got three heat settings, three air flow settings and ion settings and a cool shot button. The next amazing feature that I don't think any other blow dryer has, if you know of one let me know in the comments but I have never seen this before. It has a smart sense air filter sensor. So that's probably the biggest destroyer of blow dryers is the fact that we don't clean them out. And this is also magnetic. So it pops right off the back. So it'll let you know when you need to change the air filter. If something's affecting, it's almost like a check engine light on a car. And then you just snap that right back on. No problem. No excuses anymore for not cleaning your blow dryer filter. It's got tourmaline ions, which help reduce frizz and add shine to the hair. And also you get this added bonus diffuser, which I don't know why any blow dryer in this day and age comes without a diffuser anymore. You absolutely need one of these for curly hair. So it's really cool that it comes with it. Now for me, I'm always, that's a pretty cool design. I really like the fact that it matches up with the blow dryer. Again, this has a nice sleek feel, but these feel nice and soft and flexible. So the one thing I wanna check out is how do they attach to the blow dryer? And for me, it looks like they just snap on. They do just snap on. They rotate really easily, but they don't feel like they're gonna fall off. And that's the thing where I'm excited about the fact that this is magnetic, but I've used blow dryers currently. I won't say the name of the blow dryer, but I've been using blow dryers that have a magnetic attachment, which I actually really loved, but the fact is they fall off a lot. So when you're in the salon working throughout the day, that's not something that I want to happen. So these attachments hook on with ease. I have no problem.  So the first button starting in the back of the blow dryer is not actually a button. It is the alert for the air filter. So when the air filter needs to be cleaned, this alert goes on and you know to clean the blow dryer. The next three buttons are your heat settings. So you have low heat, medium heat and high heat. Then you move into the air flow. So then you've got your low, medium and high air flow.  So if you want ions, then you put them on. If you don't want ions, then you turn them off. Why would you not want ions? Well, for me, what I've always learned is the fact that ions seal the cuticle. They help blow dry the hair smoother and shinier. So what you could do is you could do your air drying real quick with the ions off.  So the next test I would say would be the sound test which a lot of people like a quiet blow dryer is this thing quiet. So as soon as I turn it on, this is on low speed, low air flow, high heat. The heat has nothing to do with the sound, but we'll just keep it on high heat for now. So this is our sound test for low air flow. Hello, can you still hear me? This isn't that bad. I could definitely have a conversation with my guests and not have a problem. Also, let's put the condenser on and see if that changes the sound at all. Now I would say that's the same. I could have the same conversation with my guests. No problem. I'm sure you can hear me fine. Now the next one we're gonna do is medium air flow. I honestly don't think that there's a big difference between medium air flow and low air flow, just a tiny sound difference, but I could still absolutely have a conversation and blow a paper off my desk with medium air flow. Now we'll go to high. Now high is definitely a lot louder but I could still have a conversation with my guests but as you can see, I'm definitely talking louder and this is not a super quiet blow dryer at this point. When you switch it back down to low, it's not that bad and honestly a lot of times, unless I'm power drying, I keep my blow dryer on low to medium anyways so I shouldn't have a problem with conversation and then when you don't wanna talk to your guests, you just put it right up here on high and say you can't hear them. Now obviously for those of you that would buy this blow dryer to use in your home, sound doesn't really matter so it's got a lot of power which is really helpful for hairdressers and people at home but you can also calm it down, you can work with the ions, we'll also turn on the ions. So I'm running it on high, I turn the ion on, turn the ion off. Another thing about this blow dryer is these buttons on top are very responsive so I didn't have any problems pushing them. It seems very much like working with an iPhone or anything like that, you just push it, tap it with your finger and it works right away. So the last thing that we'll talk about is the cool switch. The cool switch is really simple to use and it's actually one of my favorite features usually on a blow dryer because as a professional when you're blow drying you wanna bring up the heat but then when you wanna set the hair you wanna have that cool switch to cool it down so that your job goes a lot faster and the hairstyle lasts a lot longer. So the great thing about this cool switch is the fact that you don't have to hold it down to get it to work, you just tap it and it turns it cool and you tap it again and it makes it warm. So I wanna send a big thank you to Paul Mitchell. The fact that they send these tools, they've supported Freestyle On Education for a long time, they sponsor some of the videos. It's just a really great partnership that we have and also I want you guys to know out there that the fact that we can do things like this I hope you enjoy the information that I give you about these tools and products. I hope you enjoy the unboxing videos. None of these unboxing videos will ever be geared towards being a negative. I just wanna give you guys information. These are companies that support what Freestyle On Education is. It's the reason that Freestyle On Education can be free is the fact that we have great companies like Paul Mitchell that support the channel and support the website and all of that. So again, I would love to have your product on here so if any companies are out there and they wanna get involved in the product unboxing my goal is to make these unboxing videos just a way to deliver information to guys about new things that are out there. So the more companies that we get supporting Freestyle On Education, the more products we will have to talk about on this unboxing video and on the other videos that we do. But the number one goal is that we keep educating hairdressers out there. So if you have any questions you wanna learn more about this Paul Mitchell blow dryer you can either post them in the comments below or you can go to Paul Mitchell's website which I'll post in the description below as well. Thank you for the support. Thank you for always being great and I can't wait to see you guys on the next video and hear your comments. I'll see you guys next time. Bye.