We've got ourselves a fun slay tonight for MLB DFS. We got a handful of pitchers who can get some strikeouts, some guys, I might be lower on their consensus, which is always kind of fun, a little scary, but always kind of fun as well, and some good stacks to turn to. So let's get you set for Wednesday slay of MLB DFS. This is the Fanduel Live Q&A, right here on the Fanduel YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter channels. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for numberfire.com, here to get you set for Wednesday's slay of Daily Fantasy Baseball, as always, no matter where you are watching, you can get your questions in, and for today we'll take them from YouTube, Twitch, Facebook or Twitter to get you set for tonight's slay. Also, make sure you are subscribed there to get notifications as we go live each and every day. You're on the YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter channels back once again tomorrow and Friday at 4 p.m. as well. Start things off with Michael on YouTube. What is branding a doula's spirit animal? Grumpy cat? I don't know, is that like, is that an animal? Like it is an animal.  I don't know, Grumpy cat, I think might be the answer there. I'll ask him and we'll get back to you, Michael, but I like that question. DJs, that's gonna, any update on Chris Bassett's injury and Thoughts and Rangers Suarez tonight? Yeah, that was scary for Chris Bassett. It sounds like he had some facial fractures, but it sounds like his vision is good, which would be like the main thing. So I think based on the way that looked best case scenario, either way, I mean, I hope that the, that it continues to trend that way because that was scary, not fun. I am very squeamish, cannot deal with that stuff, but good to hear that it sounds like at least based on what it could have been and how bad it looked. It sounds like it's been best case scenario thus far, but let's hope that does continue. Michael is asking over under 38 fan to a points for Ozzy, Alby's night, you know, it's tough. I think 38 is a fair number, Michael. I'm gonna have to go over though. You know, I think that Alby's, after he hits the second home run, we're looking at that point at 18.7 times two is too high for me to do my head. That's about 37 and a half. So I'll go over. We'll say he has a runner on base for one of those two home runs. So give me the over there, Michael. Alvin, priority on the raise lineup. And do you prefer a one-off from the Braves or the Red Sox in a 4-3-1? Probably towards the Red Sox there. I think the Braves are a better full team stack than a one-off. I don't think they're as good for one-offs because they're in Miami. It's not a great park. Looking for a one-off, I think that the Red Sox great out really, really well. You just want one guy to hit a dinger off Heaney. The lack of balls in play doesn't matter. It's much for a one-off versus a stack. So I would say Red Sox are great for one-offs. Priorities from the Rays. Let's pull out the Rays lineup because it is in. Brandon Lau, Franco, Cruz, Meadows, Orocerena, Choi. If I were to fill out the Rays lineup for them, this is what it would look like. This is sick. I love it. So I am very on board at the Rays, the opposite of last Friday where they decided to give us a double barreled middle finger. This is a good lineup. Okay, so Cruz is one to me. I think that you look at Watkins, the early platoon splits say we can look, view highly. Righties, Cruz is a righty. So I think that that works out well. I would say Lau is two, Meadows is three. I know that Meadows has the higher ISO, but like I just feel better about Lau for some reason. So I'm going to go with Lau to Meadows three. It's probably going to wind up being G-mon, Choi, number four in part because of salary. Pulling up the Rays, salary is here. We have Choi down at $2,500. I mean, Charlie Morton's not super high salary, so I don't need to save all that much at Pitcher for today, but let's go, let's actually just fill this out here. Let's go with Cruz. Why did I go away from the Rays? Okay, let's go back to the Rays here. Let's get Cruz in there. Let's get Lau over at second base. Let's take Meadows in the outfield. He is still under salary to 32. So actually I might not need the salary savings of G-mon, Choi. So I can kind of play things more straight up between Franco, Arosa, Reyna, and Choi. If I were to do that, play things straight up and just pick my favorite, Choi, 212 ISO. We've got Arosa, Reyna, 153, eighths on base. We'll probably get to bump up because walk-ins is not as restrictive against Rides as some other guys may be.  Playing better baseball overall recently though. So I think that that's, I would bump up on that one there. So number three, is Brett Phillips in the lineup? He's not, that stinks, he's fine. Okay, so I'm gonna go with Choi. Number four, I'm probably higher on G-mon Choi than I should be, I tend to be at least. So if you wanna go Arosa, Reyna, or you wanna go with Franco next, I will not push back on that. I'll go Choi for the salary savings that allows me to feel pretty good about the rest of my lineup. So I would say these are the prioritizations for me, Alvin, on that Rey's lineup. Savon, how's Jack Flaherty had a pitcher for a single entry? So if looking at Jack Flaherty for a single entry, I'm a little bit worried, I'm a little bit lower on him than consensus because pitch count, he went 81 in his first start back, which is lower than I thought it'd be because he went 75 in his final rehab starts. So like from a pitch count projection, I thought that Flaherty between like 85 and 90, he went six in which is good, but went just 81 pitches. And his velocity was down, that's a little bit concerning. So I would say I am likely to be underweight on Flaherty for tonight due to pitch count, effectiveness, et cetera, et cetera. Mateo likes Tampa mixed with Boston bats since it's nice and warm in New York. Temperature in New York is 78 degrees. That's not bad for the slate. So I think that's a fair way to assess things there, Mateo. I think that those are both fine. Boston, a lot of Dinger upside there.  So Mateo, I'm on board with those for today. Jackie and Austin both saying hello over on the Twitch side of things. Of course, Jackie, regular here. Austin is the host of our USC podcast on the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed. Hello to you, Austin, and happy Wednesday. It's time to trap us 95 over on YouTube. Top three stacks today, my man. I would say top three stacks for today are all in bad parks, which is disappointing, but I like the Rays a lot, like the Braves a lot, and like the Mariners a lot. They're in bad parks. But as you can see here, overall park factors for today are not that great. The one good park factor is Chase Field, but the Chase Field roof is closed for tonight. So temperatures lower, not as advantageous for offense as it would be if the roof were to be open. So I think that to me, I'm okay. Being a bit lower on that from a park factors perspective, what that means is we're not losing as much, not missing out as much by stacking teams in bad parks. So to me, it's Rays one, Braves two, Mariners number three. DJ says, I missed his second question. Sorry, DJ, I asked him about Rangers Suarez. Not enough strikeouts for me. Pitch count has been up.  I know the matchup is good, but the Diamondback's not a big strikeout team for Selepti, so need more strikeouts before I get to Rangers Suarez for DFS. Let's talk to Kyle. Do you like a Dodger stack tonight? If so, which player should be targeted? I think they're okay. They're facing JT Brubaker. He is a righty Brubaker. He's been going with more forcing fastballs, more curveballs over his past six starts. And I think that it's led to some okay stuff. He's a fine pitcher. So I don't think the Dodgers are as much of a priority for me as they were heading into last night's slate, but I also think they're a bit lower than the Red Sox and lower than the three teams mentioned before in terms of stacking. And there was also someone else I wanted to put above them too. Cannot recall with the Phillies. So I think the Dodgers probably sixth or so. The Dodgers and Astros battling for sixth in terms of stacks today. So they're fine, but not a priority for me. Savon, how would you rate the following teams for stacks? The White Sox facing Cole Irvin. Fewer strikeouts from him recently. They could be in play. The Dodgers, talk about them. Yankees, Houston and Texas looking to be different. Okay, so looking at some second tier stacks here for Savon. I think that's a good way to view things again. You want to be different? Just lop off the top couple stacks. You'll inherently be on some different teams then. I think the White Sox are interesting. Yankees facing Nick Povetta. I think Povetta is pretty good. I'm okay being lower on the Yankees. Astros are facing Brady Singer. I'd expect them to be decently popular there. Singer gets a lot of fly balls or a lot of ground balls, I should say, which is why they were not in my top stacks for today. So I think I'm okay being lower on Houston. Texas facing Marco Gonzalez. I think he's a pretty good value play. They've seen him a lot recently, but they're also pretty bad. So I would say among those options, Savon, I don't mind the White Sox against Irvin. Irvin's not a bad pitcher, but just not a lot of strikeouts recently. A lot of balls in play, as you can see here. Not the best batted ball data. So I would say the White Sox are probably one there, followed by the Dodgers, then Houston, and not super interested in Texas or New York, but New York above Texas there. Jackie's asking, is it Corey Seger Day? Jackie every day is Corey Seger Day. They've been clarified Kyle Seger Day. Kyle Seger facing Mike Voltenevich and see if that Mariners lineup is out yet. Last night was Corey Seger Day. Also tomorrow, Corey Seger Day too. So we'll be back in Corey Seger later on. As far as Kyle goes, yeah. I think that, I don't remember his salary. Let's pull that up over here. Okay, Kyle is $3,300, that's not too bad. I think that Abraham Toro is pretty good though too. Second base eligible now, I love that. So I think Seger's in play, Toro's in play, Jared Kellnick's in play. Overall, just give me all the Mariners for today. Jerry is asking about the Braves and the Dodgers. Have not talked about the Braves yet, but I do like them a lot. I haven't talked about why I want to stack them. They're facing Haces Lazardo. Lazardo is a guy like a lot. I am hoping he will eventually turn things around, mostly from my dynasty team because I still got him there. Hasn't happened yet. Three starts with Miami, a 5.91 skill interactive ERA, rough plate discipline numbers, not the best fatted ball data.  Ozzy Albee's Jorge Soler, devolved batting lower than I thought he might. So a little bit annoying there. Travis Darno batting sixth though, I think that'll work. He's been out for a very long time, but you know, a guy who in the past has had some good numbers versus left. You see the salary is here on Darno. He is $2,800, so a good way to save some salary there. If I'm ranking out the Braves in terms of prioritization, I would say, let's go back to the lineup, Albee's one, he's just too good. Soler number two, Swanson three. I'll go Riley over Duvall because Duvall is lower in the order and then we'll go Duvall and Darno, but all those guys are super in play and especially when a value play, Darno, pretty good option there. So I think that the Braves are great, Jerry. Dodgers again, a little bit lower for me. Austin on Twitch. Baltimore bullpen has a 16% strikeout rate, whoof, and a 12% walk rate since the trade deadline. All the rays, all of them. Let's see if there's a ray I wouldn't use today. Nope, they're all fine. So yeah, all the rays. Brody over on Twitter, Boston dominates tonight, right? Yeah, I think that they're in a pretty good spot against Heaney. Obviously, Heaney has had some massive, massive dinger issues. The Red Sox, very good against lefties. I think the Pavedda should pitch decently well too. So I saw Tim asking for some money lines. Red Sox are plus 104. I am very tempted by that, Tim. So I think that Boston, very interesting money line perspective. I think they'll be popular for daily fantasy tonight because people love to stack against Heaney. They should love that. I think that they're more so a team like for one Austin full stack for today. They're from my fifth ranked stacks. I do still like them, but I think people will be pretty, pretty jazzed about the Sox given the match with Heaney. Again, they should be, but I like some other spots more. Jackie likes the Angels and Mariners favorite remaining stacks. I do like the Mariners a lot. Angels facing Terrick Scubble. Scubble's been pitching better, still living up a lot of hard contacts as you can see here. This is 11 stars with decreased movement. So pretty big sample, 23% strikeout rate, not a lot of walks, getting some more ground ball. So I think I like Scubble at decent amounts in general, not for pitching tonight. Don't use them as a pitcher, but a little bit lower on the Angels because I think Scubble is pretty talented. Savon saw the Yankees beat Boston yesterday at the Yankees game. These Boston players are really hitters. Like you say, it's crazy, but New York is better. Okay, so I've got the Boston money line. Savon's got the Yankees going head to head here. I think it's a pretty tight game. We can, we'll see how it goes. So I think that should be a fun game. They always are for sure. And Savon saw Voight hit a home run too. Yeah, he's fun. He's been, he was rough earlier on this year, not in line for today, Anthony Rizzo is back off the COVID IL, but having Luke Voight is a fun thing. The Yankees defuse. Lance Lynn is a GPP pivot from Morton Peralta and the White Sox stack. So Lynn's in a tough matchup, but he's a good pitcher. And I think that that is enough where you could justify using him. The reason that I'm not there is the ask, or the, the ages don't strike out that much. 21% strikeout rates. He's still been good despite the decreased velocity and recently 3.77 skill interactive ERA, 26% strikeout rates. So I do think that you can justify it because he's good. I won't get there personally because the A's are just an offense. I respect a lot. It's not to Jerry. I think the Boston, New York game is going to be a nine to six type game, but New York do strike out a lot. What's your thoughts? Nine to six sounds about fair. I know Aero Epstein is a pretty sharp better than a person who hosts the morning after on sports grid says she's on the under there. She's pretty good. So I think that I'm staying away from the total in that game. I believe is 10, 10. I think that's a stay away to me. So stay away from me in that one. I prefer the Yankees or the Red Sox side if you want to stack that game up. Aaron, hey Jim, is Pavetta a reverse splits pitcher? Let's look, let's go over here and check out Nick Pavetta's numbers. Show you how to check that out over on fan grass. You go to the person's page, check out splits. And we're not going to look at Woba allowed because I know we're up to about 250 plate appearances against both righties and lefties at this point in the year. That's still kind of small. So ignore Woba. We don't care about that. We're going to look at his strikeout right first. He has a 28% strikeout right versus lefties versus 26% versus righties. Does walk more lefties though? Bad at ball data, lets it morph or gets fewer ground balls against lefties than he does against righties. So I'd say he's pretty even, Aaron, to both sides but he's pretty good too. I think that Nick Pavetta is a pitcher I respect. That's why I'm not super jazzed but the Yankees getting Rizzo back does help everyone in this lineup. But despite that, I'm still not as into the Yankees for today. So Vaughn, how would you rank the White Sox and Dodgers for tonight? If we're talking about ranking those guys like the individual batters for tonight or ranking them for stacking I would say the White Sox are above the Dodgers. They're probably number six. So it'd be like White Sox, Astros, Dodgers behind the top five we talked about before. So White Sox, probably six behind the Rays, Braves, Mariners and then the Phillies are four. The Red Sox are five. And then White Sox six, Astros seven, Dodgers eight. Aaron, rank the four first baseman considered salary considered. So Anthony Rizzo, Freddie Freeman, Max Muncie and Cody Bellinger. Okay. So we've got Rizzo facing Pavetta. We have Freeman going against the lefty but facing Haces Lazardo in the spot we do on a stack. Max Muncie facing JT Brubaker and Cody Bellinger also facing JT Brubaker. I'd probably go Freeman. I know it's a lefty but Freeman is a pretty good hitter overall. And that's just the team that I am most inclined to stack for today. Check out Freeman's numbers without the platoon advantage and see what he's been doing there. Just to make sure we are okay. Plugging him in there. 154 ISO, lower fly ball rate doesn't strike out a whole lot. So that's actually a little bit underwhelming. So maybe I go Muncie one. Let's go Muncie one, Freeman two, Bellinger three and then Rizzo four for those first baseman. DJ thoughts on Robbie Grossman and Grayson Griner. They're facing Shohei Otani, hard pass for me. Savon, rate the Yankees for tonight if you had to pick them. So we're looking at Povetta being more of a neutral split sky, which means we can go at either righties or lefties. And again, I'm not as high on the Yankees that I have a lot of respect for Povetta as a pitcher but just hypothetically if you, and again, I'd never talk you out of anyone because if your process leads you somewhere follow your process. So let's say you do wanna stack the Yankees where should you go if you decide to do that? Let's make sure I saw Rizzo's in there today. Gallo, Stanton, Judge Lamehue. DJ Lamehue will be dead last, absolutely no chance. Okay, so we're gonna rank these guys. I would say let's go Gallo one, judge two, Stanton three, Rizzo four. Let's go with Ruegneto door five. Gary Sanchez six. And then everyone else is not a consideration. That's the way I'd rank the Yankees for today. Brandon says he has never really considered a spirit animal but initial guess is an owl. Owls are kind of similar to cats, so I'll buy that. Give me stock in that answer. I'm on favor of that. All right, favor of that. Matthew, would you rank or would you stack the braids against Miami tonight? Yes, number two stack for today for me Matthew. I think that they are a tremendous option for today. Lizardo, rough year overall that has continued in Miami as well. So I think the braids are really good stack. I think Ozzy Albie's is one of the best hitters on the slate, not considering salary. So very on board there. And I just think that they're a tremendous stack for tonight. I also do like Charlie Morton in terms of pitching as well. Savon Zeschi for my favorite value pick as a hitter. Okay, Jared Kelnick I think at $2,400 probably gonna be that guy. Not checked the Mariners lineup yet, $2,400. He really, really struggled open up the year but since he came back up, since the start of August or so he's been just ripping baseballs, getting good results really good peripherals. So I think that we should feel pretty good about Jared Kelnick at $2,400. So give me him. I think he's a pretty solid option. Alvin is asking for the favorite braids bats. Let's check out the lineup for today. Okay, so Bob over here. Let's pull up the braids number versus lefties. Ozzy Alby's number one. That's been the consistent thread throughout the show for today. Alby's one no matter what. After that is the consideration.  So we got Alby's one, Soler two. Swanson's gonna be number three for me. And then I'll go Riley four over Duvall. Duvall five. Freeman six. Actually I should go Freeman above. Freeman above Duvall. I should be Freeman above Riley two. And despite it's lefty on lefty. So okay, let's restart here. Alby's one, Soler two. Swanson three. Freeman four. Riley five. Duvall six. Travis Darno seven. All those guys super in play. Heredia is hitting the ball well versus lefties but he batting eighth in front of a pitcher. That always annoys me. Caps upside quite a bit. So I would say Heredia less of a consideration with those top seven guys all really good. That's the order I'd rank them. DJ is asking about Brian De La Cruz. He's facing Charlie Morton. No thanks. Pervetas, Jerry says Pervetas is gonna struggle as well. Two to six gonna give him trouble. Mark my words but the Yankees do strike out a lot. Okay, so Jerry likes the Yankees too. I think of Savon who's also in the Yankees. So Jerry and Savon two very good question askers on the Yankees for today. So take that for what you will. I trust them. I select the Red Sox but I do trust Jerry and Savon as well. Sean on Twitter. Is that a pitcher? Is that pitcher list in order of ranking? That's in order of start, which makes it very confusing why I can't like, I can never figure out the chronological order of games. When they list the games over on Fandula, the teams listing chronological order, they're listed there. That's also the listing here. This is just because like literally all I do Sean is I go to mlb.com and like list them out in order and then fill in the rest of the stuff. So the pitcher rankings for today because I don't have them in order because that make things way too easy on me. Pitcher rankings are Charlie Morton number one, Freddie Peralta number two, Shohei Otani number three, then there was a tier drop down to probably, I guess I should put Lancelin four and then Marco Gonzalez number five. Jack Flaherty would be up there but I'm okay being underweight on him for today. So they're not ranked. That's just had the order that the games are starting for today. Austin's, oh sorry, sorry. Let's go to Savon and YouTube. Think a 3-3-2 stack works tonight. I try to get a four player stack in every lineup if I can. With that said, you know, whatever gives you the best lineup, I try to get a four player stack in there whenever I can personally. I'd skew towards a four, two, two versus a three, three, two. So one four player stack and then two, two player stacks but three, three, two works. If you look at like the numbers behind stacking, any stack that starts with four tends to be the preferred route for sure. Austin, hey Jim, you went over this in the podcast but are you more concerned than normal about Freddie Peralta's length? I'm concerned about every brewer's length. I feel like they had been more willing to piggyback him more so than Burns or Woodruff. I think they piggybacked him once. The second time he had a short stint. So let's see here. It was a 68 pitch outing. That one was due to, like they were up against the pirates pretty big and they took him out of that. So I don't consider it on a piggyback. I think it was just like the situation they were in. So I'm concerned about him and I really did consider Austin putting him below Otani as a result of that. Couldn't quite convince myself to do it because Otani's form is not quite as solid but I think with all brewers pitchers that needs to be on your mind at least. We saw Woodruff have it happen like last week I think it was. So it can happen to anyone. It's concerned with Peralta for sure. And it's something to keep in mind at all times. It is a, it's rough for sure. Aaron, we know, sorry, I skipped a couple here. Defuse, Paul Blackburn to start with the A's now over Cole Irvin. Okay, is it an opener situation? I haven't seen the tweet on this yet. But let's, if anyone sees updates on if Blackburn is opening for Irvin, let me know. Let's check out the numbers on Paul Blackburn here. In AAA gets a lot of ground balls when he was a pitcher back in 2018.  There's no zip projections on him, no the bat either.  I know that we prefer them versus a lefty over righty but Blackburn, not a shutdown guy. They're not like a top stack right now because Blackburn does get ground balls but I think that it does improve them a bit. Aaron says, Jim, one of the politest and patient, DFS show host in the biz. That's not because of me. I actually am not super patient as a human being. It's because you ask good questions, everyone. So that's a you thing more than it's a me thing. Savan says, let's go Jerry. So Savan and Jerry on the Yankees train tonight. I agree, good luck to you guys. I hope it goes well. Jerry says, home run call. Okay, Jerry's home run call. Freddie Freeman, JP Crawford. Okay, I like it. I'd see if that lineup is out yet because I would like to go through the stacking rankings of them. It is not out yet but hopefully I'll get in here before we close up shot for today but I like the call and Freeman Jerry getting the lefty on lefty there. DJ, do you like Carson Kelly against Ranger Suarez? So I mentioned before, I don't want to use Suarez as a pitcher but I also don't really want to use batters against him. Kelly back now because of the ground balls he generates. So yeah, Kelly's back. Okay, cool. That's fun. He's been back for a while now. Where have I been? Clearly I'm not using the Diamondbacks at all. Either way, I don't want to use guys against him because he gets a lot of ground balls. In the rotation, a 13% fly ball rate allowed. So I'll be passing on all Diamondbacks for today. Salvatore, top pitchers to stack against. I would say one a stack against Lazardo, one a stack against Watkins, one two stack against Fulton-Nevich. Those are the main guys who want to stack against for today and then going to Bertha Castellanos after that and then to Heaney. Those are the five for me. Brandon, thought about it more whichever animal is colorblind works. I think dogs are colorblind. So you don't have to look at Jim's conditional formatting. Rude, rude, so rude. I think this is great personally. Look at how easy it is to tell where the good stuff is. Like, wow, Charlie Borton seems good. Maybe we won't use him in DFS. Hint, you do. Sorry, Brandon. You're just basic. Can't help it. Let's see here. Savon, teams to avoid tonight. So let's think about this in terms of like, teams I'll be lower on than consensus. Probably lower than the Astros, on the Astros than consensus because Singer gets a lot of ground balls. I can see that being the case. So that'd be the one team I like them still, but I think that I'll be lower than on them than consensus because Singer does get ground balls. Savon is asking if Abelius Garcia is a one-off for Texas here facing Marko Gonzalez. I think Gonzalez is good enough for how to avoid that. Does a good job of stressing our contact. No, it's lefty on righty, but still not wanting to go there. I missed Austin's question before. We know, just kidding. I did talk about that. Just kidding. My bad. Savon is asking if Eloy Jimenez will hit home run. I think I'd avoid that one if you're talking betting because Blackburn does get so many ground balls. So he's tremendous. He's always good. Always a good bet for home run. Probably going to be a bit overvalued against a ground ball pitcher. And, okay. So they're saying that Blackburn will be a full starter for tonight and they're going to push Irvin to tomorrow. Okay. So Cole Irvin tomorrow, Blackburn will be a full starter and in the rotation. Again, the White Sox are okay. Not as powerful of a team against a righty versus a lefty. So a little bit lower there. Let's talk to Renee over on YouTube. What do you think about Yarbro? Okay. So there's going to be the primary pitcher for the raise tonight. Coming off the COVID IL, and that always kind of scares me because I believe he tested positive versus being there due to a close contact. So worried a bit about length there. I'm projecting around 75 or so pitches for Yarbro. The Orioles not a big strikeout team versus lefties. So I like the thought process there, Renee. I think that you're looking in the right places trying to get there. Worried about pitch count for Yarbro because of the COVID IL thing and because they have an opener in front of it means he can't get the quality start bonus on FanDuel. So those are the two downsides that I mentioned there, but I like your thought process there, Renee, in looking for someone who people will not be talking about. Jerry, what are your thoughts on Otani? I have him ranked third for tonight in pitching behind Morton and Peralta. The reason he is third and not first is because there's been a slight strikeout downtick recently. This is his past eight starts with more sliders. He has a 25% strikeout rate whereas Peralta in his most relevant sample, it's a 30%.  I want to go with Otani over Peralta. I would not push back. I think that's fully justifiable. Show hey, Otani, really good. Tigers have been playing better baseball recently, but they do strikeout quite a bit still. So I would not fight back on anyone ranking Otani first, ranking him third, not going to push back, but I have him third just because the strikeout take a little bit concerning for me. And then let's go with a final question. Salvatore says he's going to go Miami just because I like Charlie Morton. I like the braze from the stacking perspective. So we got Jerry and Savon going head to head to meet you with the Red Sox versus Yankees and I'll go ahead to head with Salvatore on the braze versus the Marlins. We'll see how things play out. Should be a fun night overall. That is all that we have here for today on the FanDuel Live Q&A, but as always, we are back once again tomorrow to talk more on LBDFS. If you want a quick look at the sheet for tomorrow, we're going to go with a split slate podcast for tomorrow for the solo shots. So talking both the early only slate, I'm assuming it'll be the one o'clock and two o'clock games which are right here. And then we have the main slate up here. So if you want to screenshot that to get set for tomorrow, hopefully they'll put you on the right foot in terms of daily fantasy, although we'll have Irvin there instead of Caprellian because of the change there. If you have questions for me, I am on Twitter at Jim Sonnis, J-I-M-S-A-N-N-E-S. Make sure you are subscribed to the FanDuel YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter pages. Thank you all for tuning in. Good luck to you tonight. We'll talk to you once again tomorrow. This has been the FanDuel Live Q&A.


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In fact, you can still see some of the wear knobs on there, so I'd say these are, either we put them on in our shop, brand new, or somebody just put them on before we bought it. Frame and underbody is in pretty nice shape. Front fender is in excellent condition. I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. Has the projector lamp headlamps, the factory fog lights, and the front bumper is in excellent shape as well. I didn't see any major dents or dings on there, and it does have the front bumper parking sensors. The grille is in really nice condition. It is a Z71 grille on there. The hood is in fantastic shape, no dents or dings on that, and the passenger side front fender looks really, really good. Passengers side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes, and check out this Havana Brown Metallica. It is such a cool color, it's got a lot of metal flake to it, and this paint is very glossy, very shiny, and in the sun this color is just pops. As you go down this side of this 2018 Chevy Silverado 2500 double cab, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is as well. We take these HD videos, so if you are far away or even if you're close by, you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle. You can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here, so when you do get here that there's no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. Back rim is in excellent shape, and these back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Frame and underbody is in really nice shape, you get the Rancho shocks there, and it's like that all the way underneath, looks really good, lower rockers, cab corners, all look really good as well, and you get the nice factory chrome step bars that are in excellent shape too. Down this side of the box, I didn't see any dents or dings coming around to the back of the vehicle, rear bumper is in fantastic shape as well, rear bumper steps, backup parking sensors, and of course the full towing package which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring. The tailgate is in excellent condition too, and it comes with a tiger soft, I believe it's a fold up tonneau cover, that's in really nice shape. The bed is locked so we'll have to unlock it to take a look at that in just a second here. As you go down the driver side box, just as nice as that passenger side, looks really good and for full disclosure, this back rim is in nice shape as well. Down the rest of this side of the truck, doors look really good, and it does have the telescopic tow mirrors, built in directional signals, LED side lights, they do telescope out like so, they also fold in like that. Inside the LTZ package gives you the black leather interior, there are no rips, there are no tears on the seats, they are in very nice condition. Both of these front seats are heated, you get the power driver seat, factory all weather formats, auto headlamps, tilt or tilt, telescopic steering wheel, turned out four wheel drive and factory brake controller, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, memory driver seat, Bose sound, and these mirrors do power fold in, I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly. We'll take a quick look at the bed of the truck, make sure that's unlocked here, has the shock down assist, so it's never going to slam down on you, and this one has a weather tech bed mat back here, and that is in nice shape, I'm guessing there's maybe, yeah there's fifth wheel bed rails in this truck, and underneath that bed mat, pretty nice condition, maybe just a little bit of light duty usage, it does have LED bed lights back here as well, and for the most part the bed's in really nice shape, and I believe that is a fold up tonneau cover, and that bed mat goes on to the tailgate as well. Alright, we'll hop inside the truck, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior, can see that this one has 62,578 miles, you do get that Z71 instrument cluster, digital spinometer, outside temperature display, and that that instrument cluster is very nice and clean, this truck's like new inside, it is, you'll be very impressed, heated steering wheel, cruise controls on the left, steering wheel is in nice shape, bluetooth and audio, or information center controls on the right does have audio controls on the back of the steering wheel, this one comes with the six speed automatic transmission with the optional tab shift, this one has the factory navigation system on the Chevy MyLink radio, you also get AM FM, and serious XM radio capabilities, you can hear those speakers work really good, CD player as well, this is also where your backup camera shows up, and you do get a projection manager for, you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, so if you had a different navigation system you wanted to use such as Waze or Google Maps, you could do that, so that's a really neat system as well, down here you have your heated seats, your dual climate controls, power pedals, stability control, that's for your cargo lamps, that's also how you turn on your LED side lights and your LED bed lights, parking sensors you can turn those off and on, and then your downhills sys control, two USBs, two 12 volt power points, and then a 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in, get a couple holders for cell phones or whatever, you also have a storage area and cup holders there, and then you have the wireless cell phone charge pad, which is a very nice feature as well, passenger side, floor mat, and seat are in excellent condition, no rips or tears on that, and the headliner is in very nice condition as well, I didn't see any rips or tears on there, it smells very clean inside this truck, you do get map lights up here, and this button indicates that you have the snowplow prep package on this truck as well, on-star and SOS buttons in the rear room here, we'll take a quick look at the back seats, and then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood, the back seats are just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears back here, it does have the latch, child safety system for any child car seats you want to put back here, and a fixed glass rear window with the built-in rear defrost, so these seats do have side curtain airbags, which is an option on the GM trucks, all-weather floor mats, and the carpeting is like new, very very clean in this truck, like I said I don't think you'll have any disappointments with the interior on this vehicle at all, and the exterior is not that bad either, we'll start it up and take a quick look under the hood, starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that, and check out those LED side lights, they are super bright, remember they turn on with the cargo lamps, and I would personally like the thank you for checking out the video today, and hopefully from this HD video, you'll have been able to verify the quality and condition of this truck all the way around inside and out, and under the hood we have the 6-liter V8 gas engine, engine bay is extremely clean, runs very smooth, and once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by all we're service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process, it has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go, there is your emissions sticker, and I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint, and to see more pictures of this 2018 Chevy Silverado 2500 Double Cab Short Box LTZ, or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, or one of our other, you know what we got to go to that website right there, summitauto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com, and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. 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Boom, what's up, everyone? Welcome to Simulation. I'm your host, Alan Sokian. We are still at the Ross Science Film Festival, the fifth annual, where we are celebrating films that are making tremendous impacts and waves in civilization, inspiring them in science and technology. We are now with Daniel Solinger, who is the Director of Immortality or Bust. Hello, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Really appreciate it, and we really appreciate your film. Your film is incredible. It's really good work, and we've had Zoltanis found on the show before. That links in the bio to that show. This is very important, the transhumanist movement, the ending aging movement, the hard work that it takes to be at the cutting edge of teaching other people about the importance of this. Tell us about the journey. Well, it's been a long journey. I just looked at my thing. It's been a long journey. I just looked at my Instagram feed, and I realized that four years ago is when I reached out to Zoltan and I said, hey, you're running for president for the transhumanist party. That sounds interesting. And he wrote me back, you know, like I basically said, how can I help?  Why don't you make a documentary about it? And then I went up to San Francisco and I met with him.  And then tell us on that on the story side of things, the importance of the transhumanism, the importance of ending aging and getting more people into that realm of thinking. Well, I've been following transhumanism since the early 90s, like the very beginning. And so I've always been very excited about it. And it's been interesting seeing all these technologies come online like CRISPR and stuff that can actually bring a lot of the things that transhumanist community has been talking about for years to actual reality. And so I'm very excited about it. The fact that Zoltan was out there making it, you know, taking it mainstream. I always wondered, like, when is politics going to get involved in the technology that's happening?   And so the movie itself, though, I guess the question is about the movie itself is that, you know, we follow Zoltan Esvan on his 2016 presidential campaign.  And but unfortunately, at the same time, Zoltan is struggling with his dad's failing health and having to juxtapose his his desire and passion for the technology that would enable us to radically extend life and seeing that is not coming online quick enough to help his dad. And that's that's what's sort of the interesting tension in the film. Yeah, Daniel actually had me crying when you did. You had me crying because I started really thinking about how if we frame this as a point for youth and even adults and just tell them, what would it feel like if you were told that you had an ailment that was uncurable and that you were going to die within a couple of weeks or months? How would that feel? Would you care about science and technology then? And so if we put this frame of you or your parents or whomever has this ailment that is unsolvable, you would start caring so much about science and technology to fix this ailment. You'd start caring so much about aging and radical life extension, etc. So when when when when Zolt was there with his father passed for me, that's what kicked in the sense of just it's going to be happening to so many hundred plus thousand people, 150,000 a day die from aging around the world. And so that was a very important and you gave this you went to cryogenic facilities, biohacking studios, etc. You you were totally there showing people like we're already making moves. We just need more people involved in trying new things and and getting politics involved and involved and entrepreneurs involved, etc. That's true. Yeah, I mean, I've had the experience like my father-in-law died recently.  I have such a sense of frustration and sadness because I feel like if they could just have hung on like another 20, like I feel sad for anybody who dies right now because I feel like, you know, in another 20 years, it's going to be a much more optional proposition. You know, it's going to be, you know, whatever they're dying of now, you know, in 20 years, there's going to be all this technology and information to deal with it. You know, so yeah, it's it's it's it's so nice actually to be alive today, but it's also so sad to see that people die like right on the cusp of like when all this technology is coming online. Yeah, yeah. Now, I would like to ask you a bit about, you know, distributions, obviously important. So you guys are aiming to distribute the film. Do you have other ideas for what's coming next for you as well? Yeah. So yes, I do. So this is our world premiere at the Raw Science Film Festival in 2019. And we are I just put it out to sales agents who help us in the selling process of produced 64 movies. So I'm well experienced in getting the movies out there and in front of an audience. And so we have several sales agents interested and then from that and then we're going to go and play at a lot of more film festivals. And through that process of going and playing more film festivals and having a sales agent, we will make the right deal to get it in the widest available places that are possible. Love it. And then other ideas for you for the next upcoming. Well, yeah, I have several other movies that are either in post or, you know, yeah, but they're more narrative films. But in terms of I would love to do more work specifically around the law of accelerating returns and, you know, the technologies that are coming online, I would love to do it. I haven't even talked to her about it. But we over the course of the movie, we interviewed Liz Parrish. And I would love to do a movie on her and what she's doing. You know, yeah, yeah. And I know there's some footage. Maybe I'm like shouldn't say this, but there's some footage of her like getting her test done or her initial injections done. And I don't know if there's I'm sure your audience is aware that she injected herself with a retrofitted virus that lengthened her telomeres, which would be a huge thing in terms of of defeating aging. So and I don't know if that's the movie, but I'm really open to doing more work in this space. I love it. I'm so happy that you care a lot about the law of accelerating returns, exponential technology and highlighting that and getting more people thinking about that. What do you think about the current state of humanity, like geopolitically with all of the exponential technology that's happening? Well, I mean, first of all, you know, when I first started this project with Zolton, I did a movie in the early 90s called Rhymon Reason. It was about hip hop.  It was a different place. And I said at that time in the early 90s, like I want to make a documentary about hip hop because this will be huge and end up being huge, you know, obviously. And I feel that way about transfusion. Like when Zolton said, I'll make a movie about this. I was like, yes, because this is going to be an enormous wave that's going to hit the shores of popular culture somewhere down the line. I don't know if it's five years. I don't know if it's 10 years, but it's coming. And the exponential technology, the law of accelerating returns and exponential technologies, they're going to happen.   And like, I just know that they're going to get wiped out the way Napster wiped out the music business. Like, you know, it's just it's just coming. They can deny it or try to change it or try to control it.   It's just it's going to it's coming and it's going to be huge. And I always tell people and I talk about this stuff with people all the time.  But it's going to start to get really weird very soon. Like it's starting to get weird. But with the exponential goes, you know, like when we when we have when we have AIS that passed the Turing test, like you can't tell. It's going to get so weird. Like I'm an AI, you can't even tell. Right. Exactly. Or you hadn't you now have a thousand assistants because you've you can clone that AI a thousand times and you can have a thousand AI assistants that understand everything that you want need and just automatically do it for you. Imagine what that world's going to be like. Yeah, I'm glad that I'm glad that you're bringing up all of these pressing future aspects of exponential technology that we really have to have a global conversation about how to best ethically, morally, collectively move forward on just having conversation about what it's going to be like stopping autonomous robots and drones. I'm hoping and I don't want to stay modest here, but I really feel like in our movie, Zoltan goes to the US Capitol and reads a transhumanist Bill of Rights. And it's really good. And I think there will be a day in history when people are going to look back and say that was the moment that was the moment when politics started when somebody had the awareness that the world is different than when human beings were a consistent species. You know, and I don't know when that will be. But I think that I think it was like I think we captured a moment in history that right now I'm like there wasn't a big crowd there. But I think people will look back because we were able to document it. And they're going to say here's the first true effort to change the structure, the political geopolitical structure to understand and take into account cyborgs, artificial intelligence, you know, and all these issues. Yeah, I'm so happy that you brought that up because those six articles of the Transhumanist Bill of Rights are your right. That was right at the start of the inflection point and later on in a couple of decades. Oh, that was it. Those were those first the first time that they tried at the Capitol in DC. It's is it immortality or bust dot com. Immortality or bust dot com. The links in the bio. Last question, what's the most beautiful thing in the world? Well, my wife and child. That's what that one's easy. OK, and then how about past the family? OK, the most beautiful thing in the world. Inspiration, creativity, passion. Yeah, beautiful, beautiful. Thank you so much, everyone. Go check out immortality or bust. It's super good. It's super at the cutting edge. Go and check it out. Daniel, thank you so much for coming on to the show. We greatly greatly appreciate it. Everyone go and build the future. Go and manifest your destiny into the world now. Now much love and we'll see you soon. Peace. All right, good job. Good job. That was great.


G'day mate 40 here last Friday night. God There's a There's a stranger in my bed. There's a pounding in my head There's glitter all over the room There's pink flamingos in the pool. I smell like a mini bar DJs passed out in the yard Barbie's on the barbecue Is this a hickey or a bruise? I Mean pictures of last night ended up online. I'm screwed. Oh, well It's a blacked-out blur, but I'm pretty sure it ruled Damn So last Friday night We danced on tabletops We took too many shots think we kissed but I forgot last Friday night Yeah, we maxed out our credit cards. We got kicked out of the bar. So we hit the boulevard last Friday night He went streaking in the park who went skinny dipping in the dark Then we had a menage or a menage a twat last Friday night. Yeah, I think we broke the law and Always say we're gonna stop I'm trying to connect the dots Don't know what to tell my boss. I think the city towed my car Chandelier is on the floor rip my favorite party dress warrants out for my arrest Think I need a ginger ale that was such an epic fail Okay, last Friday night Katy Perry ladies and gentlemen.  Why do I want to do this work? Why do I want to do this work now? and In what areas of my life am I being dishonest? so I've had had some challenges Over the past week and I was able to reframe these challenges this morning. It's like oh, I'm gonna use these challenges to be the best that I can be Let me let me use these challenges to lift my game to be to be a better man God this chapter 4 we agnostic so what I do is I read through the big book and With those three questions in mind. Why do I want to do this work? Why do I want to do this work now? Where am I being dishonest so why do I want to do this work because I want to be more functional I want to be more adult. I want to experience more of life. I don't want to live such a small cramped You know life in the cave All right, I'm 56 years of age. I want to grow up So this is the challenge to be doomed to an addict's death or to live on a spiritual basis All right, that's the that's the presentation here and so though I Didn't feel like I was you know verging ever verging on death from my addictions I definitely felt discouraged depressed and I noticed how The toll of my troubles and dysfunctions and malfunctions and bad behavior the toll it was taking on me So that it made it more and more difficult to make good decisions and then the downward spiral It was easy to get caught and I keep going down down down like increasingly isolated and then to deal with the pain of isolation detaching into a world of fantasy and And When when reality becomes too painful to spend more and more time in fantasy the more time I spend in fantasy the less Functional I become in reality So that was the downward spiral that I often found myself in So I had to find a spiritual basis for life or else and God I hate that term spiritual Like I thought I'd I'd settle that term a long time ago Spiritual okay, I I took Dennis Prager's definition that Spirituality is a way to try to get the benefits from organized religion without paying the price of organized religion so I thought I'd had this settled like 20 years before but My my approach to life didn't cut it like the things I was doing converting to Judaism Being a good Dennis Prager acolyte just wasn't dealing with my crippling emotional addictions And then this is a sentence that I just started journaling on this morning If a mere code of morals or a better philosophy of life were sufficient to overcome addiction Many of us would have recovered long ago So I thought if I just adopted a new code of morality like Dennis Prager morality ethical monotheism Orthodox Judaism Talmudic morality if I just adopt you know Talmudic morality I'd get my life sorted out But this is what I found your mileage may vary These codes and these philosophies did not save me no matter how much I tried them and how many I tried All right kept trying different codes of morality different philosophies of life New approaches to self-help Therapy took on different causes different habits None of it really cut it for me. I wish to be moral. I wish to be philosophically confident. I Wished all those things with all my might, but the needed power to change my life was not there Right my mere human resources marshaled by my will was not sufficient. In fact, they failed me utterly So lack of power that was my dilemma Like how do I get the power to do the things that I need to do that? I'm not naturally inclined to do so for example I'm not particularly a detailed person And I'm not the type of bloke you want checking the engines before the plane takes off Good afternoon, Mr. East Coast All right, so where do I get the power to do the things I need to do such as To be a good employee, right? I find it useful to think of being an employee is like being a slave like for 40 hours a week All right, I'm there to be the instrument of my employer So this is a medical device. It tells me my blood oxygen level. All right. This is a device It's it's an instrument and I'm gonna be a good employee.  I'm not gonna talk inappropriately to men I'm not getting to try to get distracted from my job tasks by carrying on deep and heavy and meaningful Conversations with people in the workplace when I'm at work. I'm only gonna do work. I'm not gonna do these side things and all my Dedications or my vows or my new codes of morality my my new philosophies of life just didn't cut it So I was continually getting in trouble for the for the sexually provocative and otherwise inappropriate things I'd say in the workplace.  Well, guess what?   They are more stupid or deluded than you or me All right, they may be stupid and deluded in different ways than we are Right, but I've consistently found in work that there are a lot of people that I can relate to There are people that I can get along with and there are people that I can learn from and I can always learn something about human nature And I can always learn some some practical skills in the workplace I'm not either of those. I've learned to put my head down and just focus on my job, which makes it more boring Why can't you get along with the other liberal zombies in the office? Why can't you talk to them about sports talk to them about the weather talk to them about family? Talk to them about poetry I Thought in the past that I could relate to a co-worker then they turn me into HR What is a tip? Don't ask your co-worker for a blowjob Right desist from asking your co-workers for blowjobs. I don't get into sex politics religion or race in the workplace Sports and weather a lame It's an opportunity to connect with other people tell them about a great poem. You've read Talk to them about their hobbies What's wrong with a good kiss on the lips? You don't have to go stampeding after the clatter us Talk to them about their work history talk to them about their hopes and dreams Talk to them about see some non-offensive humor that you've heard recently Talk to them about a great new TV show or movie Find out where they asked them about if they went to church or So many possibilities for human connection All right, we need a power greater than myself that will solve my problem Damn that spoke to me. So Where was this power so I've always kind of known things that I I can only talk to my boss about economics Well, great talk about economics Talk about business talk about Maybe what competitors are doing talk about the trajectory of the field that you're in Doesn't your boss have people that he cares about 40 lose that old big stretch neck hole black t-shirt my bro. You were better than that Doesn't doesn't your boss have a spouse a family hobbies Liberals don't understand economics. They love government handouts and democracy Well, most economists are liberals. So I am going to differ from you now The proportion of liberals to non liberals in the economics department is a smaller proportion than any other Social science or humanities department. So liberals probably outnumber conservatives probably about two to one in economics while and pretty much any other social science they they tend to outnumber conservatives by like 10 to 1 but Just listening to this Katy Perry song Friday night and thinking about the I follow Peter Schiff. Oh, hey That guy has been wrong on so much Anyway, I was just listening to this Katy Perry song and thinking about that the self-destructive addictive patterns that she describes in there thinking about that the need for power and how I had to let go of my feeling that I had Now completely dealt with the problem of spirituality that oh Spirituality is just a cheap cop out for people looking to get the benefits of organized religion without paying the price of organized religion and Then I came to a way of living that says you have to find a spiritual basis for living or or die Essentially, it's like oh, let me let me think a second time here And I remember the first 12-step meeting I went to and it was in a dingy Room it was not an impressive space and you looked around the people and they were not happy campus by and large So I was in a room with like 30 to 40 And it dingy characters seemed like but then when people started sharing I was able to Relate to some part of everybody's share and then after the meeting I was able to bond with people Had so many things in common with with various blokes in the program And so I found there's a tremendous power in Telling stories and sharing stories of like a common, you know life-crushing Compulsion that we all shared So hearing other people's stories telling my story finding a community like feeling at home like my my fantasy started My fantasy started changing My biggest clients are crazy left lib Isn't there anything that you share a common humanity doesn't your friends family hobbies? That you can you can bond with So finding a home Like just kind of calming down hearing other people tell a similar story to me and seeing how various people have made progress with their compulsions Having this community making friends Having having certain rituals Certain readings having having a literature so it was the whole program. It wasn't just higher power God Right, I pretty much always believed in God except for about four years in my life from 18 to 22 So it wasn't just finding a higher power an abstract higher power it was Hearing God made real in the stories of these fellow sufferers.  I need some Stevie Winwood higher love in my life or find a 12-step program I mean That's that's what worked for me. I mean I immediately started calming down Immediately started feeling happier. I immediately was then able to start making better decisions and my fantasy life like calm down from like Marquis de Sade levels to You know PG-13 levels And so like what was the power It was it was a power of where I could contribute that I had a home and I could go and I could contribute I could be a valuable part of this community and that I could walk the path that other people had walked and It was simple. It wasn't easy, but I saw that I could do it Like I read the steps and I read the tools and I heard people's stories and I was like, oh, yeah I can do this and So I had long thought I just I just need a new coat of morals. I just need a better philosophy of life I just need some tweaks in my psychotherapy. I just need a new self-help book But what I needed was power and power comes from connection with other people and I found 12 steps Meetings a really good way to connect with other people I get on the same page with other people create a shared reality with other people Form bonds with people get phone numbers call people regularly and then I was able to take these connections with me everywhere I went so even when I'm alone here at my room It's my connections that are still with me It's like, oh, you know, I can't wait to tell my friend Hi, I'm about this and I'm gonna talk tell my friend Lavey about this book that I'm reading and and John will be off to relate to this challenge that I had this week and Now wonder what advice Peter would have in this situation or oh my god I think I'm experiencing right now something that That Cohen told me about you know years ago and I couldn't understand what he was saying But now now finally I relate so I'm gonna make some notes and I really want to talk to Cohen about this and So by building bonds in 12th step group those bonds would walk with me I'd walk down the street and I'd have a sense of those connections and looking forward to seeing people at the meeting that afternoon So that's how I was able to find access to a power that was sufficient to to help me, you know grapple and overcome These compulsions and emotional addictions that have been crushing my life. Bye. Bye


Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good whatever. British Columbia there. I'm so looking forward to this because we're going to have a bit of medievalism and game of thrones. I mean, what's not to look there. So we're not delaying anymore. I'm going to hand you over to Alan and Palace. Great. Thank you. Thank you. So I'm Tadis Morgan. And this is Alan Levine as everybody knows that he barely needs any introduction. And we're here to show you some stories from the voices of instructors who are using the Open ETC. And I don't know if anybody's been to some of the other Open ETC presentations that have happened at this conference. But I'll just explain briefly. The Open ETC is an ed tech collaborative that's being that was started by myself, Brian Lamb and Grant Potter and now has the addition of Emery Scott and Clint Lalonde and numerous other people in the background as well, including Alan who was brought on this year to help us with some community coordination. But basically what you need to know for this presentation today is that we're really about providing a cooperative structure to Open ETC. We have a lot of work to do with educational technology. Contributions not contracts. We look to people who use the Open ETC to contribute back to keep this going. And it's been running for about five years now. So what we are starting to cultivate is a real collection of really interesting things that have happened in the environment in the Open ETC. And in combing through what's been happening in the Open ETC we pulled out a few examples. We contacted the instructors who actually were responsible for their creations and asked them in their own voice to share what they did in the Open ETC impacted their teaching and learning what it allowed them to do what worked for them. And that's what you're really going to hear today is a couple of stories of instructors in their own voices talking about the Open ETC and their teaching and learning. And then Alan and I are going to come back and really the question we have today is does Open do Open Education practices require Open Ed Tech? And that's really going to be the question that we're going to leave you with today. Excellent. Let's get to the stories. Especially for the WordPress. This is open to all BC educators and students. It's kind of a self-service thing. So we're going to hear first from Dana Wessel-Lightfoot at UNBC about a fascinating history course and I'm going to let her tell it. I can't hear it. Oops, did I goof up? Did I mess up? That's just me. It worked great five minutes ago. Oh boy. Next screen time. Okay. I'm going to share it again with the audio and we're going to start over and reset the clock. This semester I taught a 400 level course on game drones and medievalism. Using two resources from Open ETC a Mattermost chat board and a WordPress course website. I wish I could convey how amazing both of them were in a clear and concise way. I wanted to support my pedagogical vision and the framework I had for my course. Through the course website I could map out the core components of the course for students in a logical way but also through a variety of different structures. Each page I built connected to the others in a relational way so students could see how the whole course fits together but also follow it in a logical fashion. I also created a podcast for the course and the students loved to watch each episode and listen to it when they wanted but also untethered to Wi-Fi or data and I think for our students this semester getting away from screens was so important. It's really crucial to me that the course website was open access so that anyone could use the materials I presented readings, handouts, podcasts and I've had lots of people who have as a result been listening to my podcast who aren't my students but are starting to think about and the way it impacts our society in lots of different ways which is super exciting to me. So alongside the WordPress site I used a Mattermost chat board as a means of communicating with my students but also providing them with a space to discuss course material and connect with one another. While I created separate channels for each group I put the students themselves in charge of establishing the weekly conversations and keeping them going. They loved the chat board framework so much more dynamic than a traditional discussion board on an LMS. It gave students the opportunity to engage with conversation with one another in real time but also when it suited their schedules and it was easy for them to follow and I became an observer. I was only an occasional participant when they would tag me in those discussions but really the students were the drivers and wow did they have amazing conversations. Plus I have to put a plug in for the DM feature as it helped reduce my email and really who doesn't want less email but also stay connected with my students more easily. Email easily gets missed in my inbox which is always overflowing but the DM I would just leave until I had a chance to look at it and I knew it was there. So it was a great tool. So overall I can't imagine teaching a course now without using these resources. They've completely changed the way I think about how I interact with my students online but also the various possibilities that I can use such as the podcast for example to make my class connect to the broader world. We apologize we had hoped we could sort of page through her site as you're talking and it really is worth looking at and also to mention that these stories we created the site that this presentation is embedded in as a place for anybody in the Open ETC who has done a site or used a surface to post a story and audio, text, video and so it's a way of we're asking when we say contributions not contracts is to say like one way you can give back to this community is to just share your work so others in the space and outside can see what is possible but obviously there's so many things we could spend the whole presentation highlighting some points that Dana meant but I hear it kind of transform the way that she looks at her course. She has a fantastic concept but the way this course is structured and I really hope you spend some time visiting it is really impressive. Yeah, I would agree and I think there was a lot of creativity in just taking a WordPress site, adding a webcast to it and then figuring out that the communication space could also be in Mattermost which is the other highly used service that the Open ETC is providing the sector so just the combination of these simple tools and resulting in something really different and unique so and you'll see that in that we'll be sharing, if you want while we're playing the audio for the next one there will be a link in the chat as well that you can just explore because the next one is a great example of I think a mix of community based learning so learning in the community but using WordPress as a way to share student work and also just take the course into a more open way. I used the Open ETC website instead of a conventional program like Blackboard or Canvas for my experiential learning course that I taught first in 2017 and then again 2019 it was on the suggestion of the IT person and IT teaching person Grant Potter at my university University of Northern British Columbia and he just sort of said in passing why don't you just make it all online and open to the world rather than putting behind a walled service in the way that you normally would share course content and messages with students and I like the idea because the course I was doing was an experiential learning and community engagement course at a national historic site near Prince River British Columbia in Port Edward at the North Pacific Canary and it just seemed to really work with the overall goal of the course but thinking about it it actually could work really well with any course. There's no reason why my syllabus needs to be accessible only by a login in fact there's no reason why my assignment descriptions or anything like that needs to be accessible by a login and to communicate with students I can do that of course by email I don't need to do it through this online system so I really like the openness of this OpenETC WordPress website I had experience working with WordPress just making my own professional page and it's a very user friendly interface and so on the one hand just for running the course it was an enjoyable kind of way to run a course and then it really helped with the community engagement and delivery of the course because a huge part of this course and unlike other courses I would teach the students projects were based on their own research in archives and to read interviews with people on site in Port Edward and Prince Rupert and then instead of writing conventional essays which would be normal in a history course they instead have these public history projects and so then the website also served as a way to share with students agreements so the students submitted their essays or their assignments by email but then I said I'd like to put this on the course website and in the case of written assignments sometimes I had minor corrections to a Word document and then they would send me a revised version and we sort of then published it on the course website so this is again another wonderful thing about this OpenETC WordPress website that you can then also show the course deliverables for the students to read, to do so and it was just a wonderful interface and experience teaching with it it's something that now on reflection it could be used more broadly in lots of my teaching there's no as I said already there's no reason why I need to be using something like Canvas or Blackboard to communicate with students because also it's a way to share the things we're doing in the classroom even if it's a conventional kind of class it's a way to share things that we're doing in the classroom with the broader world to be sort of open about course content and hopefully some of the things that students are learning about could actually be used by other people elsewhere So I really love this one because what he had he had a face-to-face sort of class experience but where students were going into communities, indigenous communities up north and northern BC where there used to be a lot of fishing and canneries and they were interacting and interviewing and gathering, you know, looking at historical artifacts and that sort of thing to create this collection. So he has this collection on this website now of student research projects that included audio, video, artifacts that really get at the history this rich history of British Columbian canneries and there's a newspaper article that was written about what he was doing which is also really interesting, I'll get our background people to pop that in the chat as well just to give you a sense of just really the blend of open education practices that was very much community embedded and facilitated by making these artifacts more open and as a result this is a really rich sort of history site around BC canneries which I think is also a great contribution beyond the course so how much time do we have left probably not much I thought we'd go back to the site itself so we could just give an overview, Tainas, of the other stories typically when I've done these kind of presentations I pay a little snippet but I think what they said was so compelling that we wanted to do so just to let you know we got a message from a student from the EdTech program at University of Victoria really profound thing about their Mattermost community which again is an open source version of more or less what Slack or teams do but most of the faculty we hear from say it's a lot simpler for them and their students to use we have from Langara College using an open ETC site to create a book club to discuss current topics we have some more history history sites seem to be well featured here which I really think and then from GIBC Jennifer McFarland is that right Jessica Motherwell yeah teaching a research class which I thought was fascinating she has her students do hand draw comics as a way to practice their understanding of the concepts and then they share them in an open ETC site and sort of it's a community gathering so you can see others people's work and reaction to the same assignment prompts and it's one of my favorites in there so again what we set up is this place where people if they if we can sort of gently encourage them and we say got five minutes they can post their story here and there's lots of ways they can do it they can link it to something they produced they can upload a file or an image and they can even record it directly into the site and then we ask them for some information about it so we're just at the beginning here but we hope that we can sort of encourage this as a community practice within open ETC for people to think as they create sites because there's a lot of things we didn't even show you so there's what we've been able to do in open ETC is to set up more or less sites that are already built out as templates so we've got 10 or 12 that are sort of portfolio style templates for different course areas so students instead of getting an empty WordPress site they get a starter site so there's like hundreds and hundreds of portfolio sites within the mix. Yeah and I think one of the interesting things about doing this process as well is just seeing for example Clint LaLonde is using Mattermost to teach a course and he actually posted a blog post that step by step lays out how he structures it so that in the event that somebody else wants to go well how would I actually move my students out of the LMS into Mattermost and how would I structure Mattermost to make it an effective teaching environment he's already contributed that of his description and audio clip that he provided as well so there's more examples on the site that we created for this presentation there's more examples on the actual site which is what are we calling it openetc.opened.ca is where we're collecting it and I want to say too I want to shout out to Alan who made this really easy as well because one of the things that it allows people to do is just record audio directly onto the site so they don't need to upload anything and I think that's really been helpful in getting contributions as well and also in the dog fooding category this is a site that's also available for openetc members that this template that we use for the site is just within the mix of things that are available there's also people do project sites so you know you heard from the community effort for 25 years of ed tech that site for that is hosted in there we have a couple project many project sites that are in there so there's a nice array of different kinds of sites and I don't do you want to mention or you I could quickly share on Josie's site do you want to talk about that why don't we we'll put the link to Josie says well while you're doing so Josie Gray is a student who's doing a masters in accessibility and design at Okad University and she's just created a really wonderful podcast where she interviews various people around epistemic justice but it's a wonderful site as well and again it's it's a student who's using openetc to create and make possible her graduate work there it is magically showed up thank you and it's really it's a really wonderful podcast it's really worth checking out as well and I think I just want to include that you know there are students that are doing really interesting things as well with the openetc I see Kyle's mentioning yeah it's actually a bad metaphor and I tried to stop using it but software developers had this thing like about 10 years ago about eating your own dog food meaning if you're creating a software product that you actually use it I actually have understood it's got bad connotations and other cultural areas so I generally tried to stop using it but I kind of fell into that but yeah eating your own dog food it's not something we recommend so yeah we encourage you to go explore and the question we have is really maybe it's just one that we leave you with which is do you need open educational technology to actually do open education practices it's something that I've been thinking about quite a bit I do feel like just having seen what instructors are doing what students are doing that definitely it's an important enabler for that but that's really the question that we were hoping to leave you with today and whether that's really where some of our institutional focus may need to go if we really want to level up with open education practices in our institution put some investment into open head tech thank you now I think if you've done great and you've been so welcoming and sharing your material because I think there's a lot of people who philosophically are attracted to open education but they're not quite sure how they actually go about doing it and I like the idea where you have I know you didn't use the term wizards but you also almost have sort of pre-half you know they're sort of IKEA versions and it's if you just join the dots and I don't mean to sound as bad as you but I do think it's really important I think a lot of people would genuinely welcome the opportunity but they don't know what they don't know so I think by showing examples and taking the steps of how to do it and so yeah I think that's really well done I think it's gone really well I think you've answered so many questions people have just been more just sort of acknowledging the work that you're doing the links are all up there and I think they're really really useful and anybody watching the recording because as soon as this is over I'll be certainly jumping on to some of those links so can I get a round of applause from everybody there to sort of acknowledge the work from Val and Christina so yeah oh Clint is in there like that so it's been wonderful so I think look I think thanks very much for that it's only the last last thing you'd like to sort of just one final shout out where's our countdown in Irish yeah I just wanted to be warned by Martin Weller not to oh who listened to him what is he yeah that's all so now look at next time I'm back I was twice in BC two years ago so I happily go out and count Oscar earlier so you know closing Brian video excellent yes we have a closing video so from Deb has been behind the scenes there like that so round of applause from everybody because there's lots of stuff here lots of great comments coming in there like that so thank you very very much thank you Tom Om nom nom


Today I'm coming to you from Cintra in Portugal, where the ECB Forum on Central Banking is currently taking place. The forum brings together central bank governors, academics, financial market representatives, journalists and many others to exchange views on current and future economic developments and to discuss policy issues. As central banks across the world struggle with persistent inflation, it's no surprise that this year's forum is all about stabilizing the economy and using monetary policy in today's challenging environment. You're listening to the ECB podcast, bringing you insights into the world of economics and central banking. My name is Katie Ranger. We took the opportunity while in Portugal to speak with some of the guests here at the forum. Joining the conversation today is Geeta Gopinath, first Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. I'm going to ask her to share her global perspective on current developments. Geeta, I'm thrilled to have you here with me. Welcome to the ECB podcast. Hi, Katie. It's a real pleasure to be here and to participate in this conference. It is a critical time for central banking, so I'm very glad that we're all here to discuss the challenges ahead. The global economy, as we projected in April, is slowing this year compared to last year. We have growth at 2.8% this year as opposed to 3.4% last year. Now, most of that slowing is coming from within advanced economies. Emerging markets, on the other hand, we do see some recovery. Among the larger prints in terms of recovery, there is China because it's reopening from the lockdown. Now, overall, I would say the outlook is challenging also because inflation remains stubbornly high in many countries. And so it's a good opportunity for us here to be discussing this at Cintra. Now, you gave a dinner speech here in Cintra speaking about what you call the three uncomfortable truths about monetary policy. It outlines some of the challenges that you see central banks facing as they contend with high inflation. Things like the uncertainty about when inflation will return to target and the tensions between central banks' price and financial stability objectives. What do you think these challenges will mean concretely for the work of central banks? How will it impact their policymaking? So the first uncomfortable truth is that it's taking too long for inflation to come down back to target. If you look, for instance, at forecasts for when inflation in the euro area returns to target, we're getting to the middle of 2025. That is a long time and that can have important effects on inflation dynamics. What that means is that central banks will have to remain committed to fighting inflation, even if that means risking weaker growth. The second uncomfortable truth is that financial stresses can create tensions between central banks' price and financial stability goals. There are several reasons for it and especially the fact that central banks don't really have the tools to deal with solvency problems. What this first tells you is that it's important to do significant stress testing, supervision, make sure that banks are in a position that they can deal with the increase in interest rates and other challenges that are coming up. Also, this will require a whole-up government approach to not just central banks, but in many cases fiscal authorities will have to step in, as we saw, for instance, in the US. The last uncomfortable truth is that central banks are likely to face more upside risks to inflation than they did before the pandemic. Supply shocks could become more common. We also know that the Phillips Curve is not reliably flat. That then has implications for monetary policy strategy and how we use our tools. I think we have to be a little more refined and more cautious about how we use forward guidance and quantitative easing. Let's look at fiscal policy that you mentioned just there, Gita, and you also touched upon in your speech yesterday. Now, it's played a huge role in alleviating the burden for many of the people hit by recent shocks, most notably the pandemic and the energy crisis. We now find ourselves in yet another crisis, a cost of living crisis, and wages are not rising in quite the same way that prices are, and this is increasing the burden, especially for the low-income groups. Now, we as a central bank are doing all we can to bring inflation back down and to alleviate this burden, but how exactly can fiscal policy best help the most vulnerable here directly? As a central bank, we can't really do that. It's more for governments. So first, I think we should all recognize that labor markets are strong in many economies, including the euro area, where unemployment rates are at record lows. So that is a strength or resilience of the economy that we should recognize. The second thing we should recognize is that the process of bringing inflation down requires the economy to slow and the labor market to cool, so we should expect to see that. But that's needed to be able to have sustainable growth in the future. Fiscal policy can, as you said, provide targeted support, and it has done that very well in terms of providing support to households. I think our general theme is that you have to keep it targeted, because otherwise in this environment, with high levels of inflation and high levels of debt, just broad-based support will then fuel both the high debt and also the inflation problem. And so we should have consistency between fiscal and monetary policy. Okay, let's move a little bit away from inflation and fiscal and monetary policy now, and talk about another topic that's been quite hot recently, and that's geo-economic fragmentation. Now, both you and your colleagues at the IMF have recently discussed the growing threat of more inward oriented behavior by some governments and how this is leading to trade tensions across the world. Gita, what kind of behaviors are you seeing here more concretely, and what does it mean for the world's economies and societies? What's the impact there? The pandemic and the war has made many countries worry about the resilience of their economies, especially to supply chain disruptions and of course to hostility from trading partners. In terms of the most direct impact that we see, we see it right now, for instance, in Europe with the fragmentation in energy supplies. Europe has had to, appropriately, move away from relying on energy supply from Russia to other sources. That's the source of fragmentation, and that has kept energy costs higher in Europe than it is, for instance, in the US. So one of the consequences of this kind of fragmentation is you could end up with more cost pressures. Now, again, I do believe it's important to build resilience. That implies diversifying the sources that you buy your products from. My worry is that countries decide instead to be more inward looking, which is rely on their own home production to produce everything. Then we're in an environment with much higher inefficiency, much higher costs and much higher pressures on inflation and on livelihoods around the world. Gita, thank you so much for joining us today and for sharing your insights on the global view of economic developments at the moment. Thank you, Katie. It was a pleasure to join you. Well, that brings us to the end of this episode. I want to thank Gita Gopinath, first Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund for joining the conversation. Listeners, be sure to check out the show notes for more on this topic. We've also linked to the excellent dinner speech by Gita about three uncomfortable truths for monetary policy, which she gave on the first day of our ECB forum on central banking in case you missed it. You've been listening to the ECB podcast with Katie Ranger. If you like what you've heard, please subscribe and leave us a review. Until next time, thanks for listening.