Guitar and Excel. Open chords, C major scale, F major chord and intervals. Get ready and don't fret. Remember, the board's already totally fretted, so you need to be the calm one in the relationship. Here we are in Excel. If you don't have access to this workbook, that's okay because we basically built this from a blank worksheet, but we started in a prior presentation, so if you want to build this from a blank worksheet, you may want to begin back there. However, you don't necessarily need access to this workbook if looking at this from a music theory standpoint, because we will simply use it as a tool to map out the fretboard, give us our scale and related chords we're focused in on. If you do have access to this workbook though, there's currently four tabs down below, two example tabs, an OG tab and a blank F tab. The OG tab representing the original worksheet we put together in a prior section. It now acting as our starting point going forward showing the entire fretboard, giving us the entire musical alphabet. We then numbered the entire musical alphabet showing the worksheet and the key that we put together to be able to construct the worksheets on the right, giving us the scale that we are focused in on as well as the chords that we're focused in on. We then copied the OG tab over to focus in with this section on the key of the C major scale looking at each individual chord and its location on the open positions. So we started with example C tab over here, which is showing then the hiding of most of the fretboard just showing kind of the open positions from zero fret to three fret. So we can see how to finger this. We then put right next to it our worksheet, which is showing us our scale as well as the chord that we're focused in on. And then we show the chord 135 positions in such a way that we can see how to finger it. We then looked at it in terms of the scale as well the pentatonic scale than the major scale and so on. We're now continuing to do that with the key of F or not the key of F, the key of C, but the chord of F major chord. So we're going to go to the blank tab on the right where we started this process last time and we'll be continuing in this process this time. So we copied this over from the OG tab. We once again hid most of the fretboard. So we're looking just at that open position, put it right next to our worksheet noting here that we're still in the key of C. So our overarching goal map out the entire C major scale on the fretboard in open position, open position, which I'm defining as frets zero through three. So in other words, everything that we've been putting together in this entire section is coming from notes that have been pulled from the C major scale. That's useful to keep in mind because if you put all this stuff together then what you would have done is mapped out the entire C major scale on the fretboard. However, we don't just want to see the C major scale on the fretboard. We want to see what are the useful things that we can construct from the C major scale and some of the useful things are of course the chords. So this time we're looking at the four chord of the C major scale. We constructed it from the C major scale and that's going to be an F major chord. Now we want to take a look at some of the different intervals and numbering systems to get a better understanding of that because they could be quite confusing. This is often an area where people kind of struggle or don't want to spend their time because they want to spend their time playing, of course.  Then when you're just strumming around and playing what you want to play, you'll at least have your mindset in the right position.  So that's what we'll do this time. So what we want to think is we're in the C major chord. We're in the C major scale, I should say. We're in the F chord, which is the four chord of the C major scale. So let's go back and just recall how we construct the C major scale. If I go over to the OG tab, you'll recall that we have all of our notes here. Now it's difficult to actually say the notes in the musical alphabet forwards and backwards when we add the sharps and flats, which is why as we're doing here, we often focus on the key of C, which I think is what actually happened in history, right? They looked at the key of C and then they built from there and that's why they put the sharps and flats maybe in between the key of C, which is kind of a messy kind of thing, but it works out, you know, and that's the tradition we have. So it has its pros and its cons. But when I try to go up and down the musical alphabet, A, A sharp, B, C, C sharp, D, D sharp, E, and then there's no sharp to F, and so on up to the G sharp, which is the 12th note. If you try to count it backwards even, then just counting the alphabet backwards is difficult for going G, F, E, D, C, that would be hard enough. But when you add in the sharps and flats and you try to count backwards and forwards and then you try to remember whether or not you have to say a flat or a sharp as you're spelling out something, that all adds a tremendous level of complexity. If you number the system and we just say an A is a one, an A sharp or a B flat is a two, a B is a three, a four is a C, a five is a C sharp or a D flat, then you have the ability to count up and back very easily. Most people can count backwards in numbers quite easily and then we have the math that we can do with the intervals. So I highly recommend memorizing the number of the notes and I will call these the absolute numbers because every other number that we use is relative. It's relative to something like the scale or the chord that we're looking at. So that's the first thing I'm going to recommend doing. You can not do that if you don't want to. I'm not saying that the sharps and flats aren't useful because that helps us to spell out notes that have all the letters and the alphabet in it and whatnot. I would learn both, right? As you're learning everything, I think it's pretty not too much added memory to learn the numbers. Then we constructed our C major scale by starting on the key of C, which is an absolute number four if we number them. And then we went up a whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, half step. When we define what a whole and half step is, a whole step is just two notes. So it's actually two notes and a half step is one note. If you look at that on the fretboard, then if I was here, a half step would be just one note up. A whole step would be two notes up. So the formula for us to get a C major or any major scale is we start on the root and we apply that formula. And so I'm not going to get into why the formula is there. That's an interesting question, but that's the formula we use to get to our C major. So how do we get the notes in there? We go from four to up to five, six to get a D, two notes up to get from a six to an eight, which is an E, one note up to get to a nine, which is an F, two notes up to get to an 11, which is a G, two notes up to get to, notice it goes to 12 and then around the horn back to one, because there's only 12 notes. And then we go two notes up from one to three to get a B and then one note up to get back to the tonic or the root, which is a C or absolute number four. Okay, so that's going to be, when I look at this worksheet, we're mapping out our scale now with just seven of the 12 notes, which we can see here, seven of the 12 notes, and we're starting with a C. So when we're looking at this numbering system in the C major scale, we're saying the C is the one and the four is the four of relative to the C major scale. This is the four relative to the C major scale. This numbering system to the right, you'll recall, is just simply still just one through seven, but the Greek letters allow us to see whether or not it's going to construct a major or minor scale easily. And the way we construct a major, any of the notes is we just take every other note and you'll see that the intervals will change, and we'll see that when we get to a minor. So it just so happens that if we just take every other note, which is generally what we do because if you pick the note right next to it, like two notes that are right next to each other, there's too much dissonance, it's too close to each other. So usually that's why we kind of pick every other note, and that's, or one reason at least. And so that's the process that we do. And we end up with chords that have intervals that are similar. So, and then we can map those out and say, well, this one happened to create a major, this one a minor, this one a minor, this one a major, this one a major minor, and a diminished, which we'll talk about in its own kind of thing, but you're usually focused on the majors and the minors. So the reason we went from the one to the four is because now as we will see when we map out the intervals, we'll see some similarities between the intervals between these two, because they're both major. And then we'll look at the differences in the minors. So it's useful then when you're strumming around in the evenings to kind of pick around on just the one, four, five, and then pick around on the two, three, six, which means you'd be playing in a different, you'd be playing like a minor, if you'd be playing, you could, you could play in the minor of the six, but we'll talk about that later, because then you'll, then you'll start to be seeing the same patterns, which will start, will build in your head when you plant the seed of looking at this stuff in the mornings for like 15 minutes, right? That's a general idea. So we're down here on the four. Now the problem is when we look at the four, when we name this, notice how we constructed this. We took the F in the key of C, the C is the one, but the F is the four. And then we took every other note to get to the A and then to the C. So you would think I might name this the four, the six, and the one of the C major scale. And you could, you can see it that way, but we don't usually do that. We call it the 135. We still use these names. I'll make this a little bit larger of the 135. So, so why do we call it the 135? Because we're naming this relative to its scale. So in other words, if I went to the F scale over here in the OG tab and I changed this to the key of F, which is a nine, absolute number nine is an F, then now you can see you still get the FAC. And now it is in its own key, the key of F major, the 145, the 145 of its key is FAC. But I get the FAC over here, but I built that from our C major scale. So that's the, so again, that's why I get into this, the relative numbering system. You got to say, well, when I'm talking 145, I'm not talking about that relative to the scale. I just built it in, which is the key of C. I'm talking about it relative to its major scale. Now, luckily, we don't have to go over to the OG tab over here and map out the major scale to do that. Because the other way we can discuss the 135 is by saying of the scale is by saying, well, I know the one is the root of it. And the three has an interval, which will be the same. In this case, if it's a major interval, it'll be four notes away or a whole step and a half step. And then the C will be seven notes away from that first note. So we'll kind of define it by the intervals is the general idea. So that's what we'll look at now. So what I would do is just pick up the guitar in the morning, I'd use my worksheet as a crutch until I can basically finger what I want to finger without the worksheet as a crutch, right? And so you could finger it this way, you can finger it this way. And remember when I say that this is an open position F, you also want to keep in your mind that this is not, in one sense, it is an open position F because it's what you would play in the first three frets, which I'm defining as the open position for an F. But in another sense, it's a bar chord. And that'll be useful when we start to think about the cage system and moving up bar chords because we're basically taking this E position here and we're moving it up to here but then barring off so I have to change my fingers to bar that off. So we're talking about basically an E major bar chord shape, which is what we need to use to play an F because there is no open position F from that sense. So even though you can still think about this as kind of like an open position F, we can play it this way and we can play it this way, which I think is a quite comfortable way to play it and we can play it this way. So let's go ahead and then look at each of these notes and map out the intervals for it. Let's say we were playing like these three notes first, like the kind of easy way to play the F. Now the advantage of this one is that the F is now the lowest note, so this is often a good way to start mapping something out when you're looking at the lowest note being the root because that makes it easier to look at. I say, okay, if that F is the root, you'll notice that the third is right down one and back one, similar to what we saw in the C major scale. And then we have the fifth down here, which is just down one and back one, but that's because we're in that funny interval between these two strings. All right, so then if I go to this first one, I will generally start to just kind of name this out just so I can try to get the numbering system in my mind. I'm going to say this is the relative position one of F, which is an F or a nine. So I'll call that out relative position one of an F, which is, of course, an F. And then I'll go to the next one and say this one right here is going to be relative position three. Let me copy this over here. I'll call it relative position and notice it's a four note away because this is the third. The third is the differentiating factor between a major and a minor. So you can say it's four notes away, which is going to be like two whole steps, but I just think of it as four notes. So I would say this note right here is the four note away, major third. I'm going to define it as a major third to differentiate it from the minor third, which is not something I had to do with the one because whether I was talking about an F major or an F minor or any other mode of F, the one of it would always be an F. When I go to this one, however, with the third, I need to indicate that it's a major in some way. So I at least need to say it's a major third versus a minor third. But I will further differentiate it in my mind to tell me why it's a major third because it's four notes away as opposed to three notes away. Notice how we constructed it. We still just took every other note in the musical alphabet. You could think of it from here or you can think of it from the F. But there's a difference in the absolute intervals in terms of this being four notes away versus three notes away. So I'm going to say that's a four note away major third of the absolute note F, which is a nine. And then I can do my math and I can say nine plus four, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. Notice I get to thirteen when I do that and there's not thirteen notes in the musical alphabet. So I can pull out my trusty calculator here and you don't need a calculator to do this but I'll just want to show it in the calculator for now. Obviously if I say, OK, wait a second. If I was on absolute position nine and then I added four notes to it, that gets me to thirteen. There is no thirteen notes. There's only twelve. So what you would do is subtract out twelve and that gets you to note number one, which is an A. Now oftentimes the easier way to do that I think would be to say if I'm on relative position nine plus I want to try to get to the major third, which I know is four notes away. So I could say plus four is going to get me to thirteen. Anytime I'm in the teens, anytime I'm above twelve and below twenty, the easiest way I think about it is just dropping the one, meaning minus ten, gets me down to three and it's always minus two, right, because there's twelve. So minus, and then I say minus two. So in my head, I think the shortcut way to get there the fastest would say, OK, I was on a nine and then I said plus four because there's an interval of four, that gets me to thirteen and then I just drop it down to three in my head, which is like subtracting ten and then I always just take that minus three, minus two is one. And so if you, that sounds quite complicated, but if you do that a few times you'll start to see that'll start to be relatively easy to do and that way it's easier to get to these positions by counting the intervals. Now I just want to point out as well that if I took this A right here when I say it's, I'm sorry, if I take this F right here and I say it's four notes away, you could do it this way, one, two, three, four. So if I counted up here, that's an A right there and I know that this one down here, that is an A. So notice you could start to see the relative positions in the guitar, right? Because the A, if this is an A, it's one, two, three, four, five frets up and then five frets up the fretboard and one fret above gets you to the same note, right? And I'm not going to talk about octaves and whatnot right now, but just in terms of the tone of the note, that's the same note. So, but obviously we're trying to play this in one position here. So in one position I can remember that that note is going to be down one and back in every string except the funny relationship between these two strings. Okay, so and then this one, I'm going to go to this one and say this is going to be relative, let me go down here and say this is going to be relative position and I'm going to say it's a seven note away fifth. Now when I say it's a seven note away, notice I did not have to say that it's the seven note away major fifth because there is no difference on the fifth between the major and the minor as there is with the third. So I can just say it's a seven note away fifth and that will be the same whether I'm playing a major or a minor. Now remember when I say it's a fifth, that means it's a fifth of the scale. I'm not talking about this scale because this scale is the C major scale. So when I say it's the fifth, I would have to say it's the fifth going to the OG tab of this scale. So the F scale, it would be the fifth, which is a C. So that's where the C is. But obviously I don't normally do that because I don't want to bounce back over to reposition my mind to another scale all the time. I can say, yeah, it's the fifth of that scale, but I'm looking at it in terms of intervals of what I'm playing on. If that's the one, then the fifth is seven notes away. It's the seven note away fifth. So I don't need to go and create the other scale to see that it's the fifth over here. I know that if it's seven notes away, it will be the fifth. And of course, we constructed it the way we constructed over here so we can see that kind of intuitively as well. So I can say, all right, that's the seven note away fifth. So if I did that, it's the seven note away fifth of note nine F. So I'm going to say, all right, well, what does that mean? Nine plus seven is going to give me 16. 16 minus 12 gives us the four. See how we went over 12 there? So in my mind, I would think about it this way. I started on an absolute number nine, absolute note nine, plus the interval, which is seven to get me to the fifth. And that's going to be 16. And then I just dropped the one because I'm somewhere between 12 and 20. So I'll just drop it to just six. And then it's always minus two, six minus two, which is easier to do in your head than, you know, 16 minus 12 generally. So now it's just six minus two. And that gives me my four. Four is the absolute position for a C. Now, again, you could do it this way. I could say, OK, well, if this was an F, I can go up seven notes, right? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And then I get my C up here. And that's great to understand, but that's not going to really help me when I'm trying to play in this position. So it's good to map it out that way. And you could start to see, well, what does it mean when I go? Like how many notes up to get me back to like a whole step or a half step from in the same position when I go up a string? You can start to kind of mold that kind of over in your mind. But so there is that one now notice. So there's the C. So if I did that, let me do that a little bit faster now. So I'm going to if I was doing this without the crutch of the worksheet, I'd be saying, OK, there's a nine, which is an F. And this is relative position one of note nine F, which is note nine F. And then I would look at this one and say this string is going to be relative position. The string is relative position four note away. Major third of note nine, which is an F, which is four plus nine. And so I'd be like nine, 10, 11, 12, 13. OK, 13. I'm just going to drop it to three. And then three minus two is one. So I'm thinking in my mind 13. OK, then I drop it down to just three minus two. That gives me my one, which is an A. And then I can and then I can go, OK, what about this one? This one. And if I'm thinking about that is the seven note away, seven note away fifth. And I don't have to say major or minor because it would be the same, whether it be major or minor of note nine, which is an F. So that's going to be, OK, nine plus seven. So nine plus seven is 16. I drop the one or subtract 10 from it and then minus two, minus two. Or you can think of it as, OK, seven plus four. What did I do? Seven plus nine minus 12. Same thing gets you to the four. OK, so then, of course, you can add this one and you can start thinking, what if I add this one on top and I play it like this and you might map out the intervals in your mind separately. You might want to do that first, right? I can say, well, where's the root? The root's right there. And then I know above that, just like with the C, if I go right above it with every string except for these two, that's going to be a fifth. So now I've got the fifth, I've got the one, and then this position where it's always down one and back will always be the third. So then I'm going to say, OK, and that's a major third I can see. And because of the funny position between these two strings, this one going back just one where you would think that would be like, is the fifth. So I'm going to say, OK, that's the fifth. So relative positions, five, one, major third, fifth. And then I'll map it out this way again and I'll say, OK, this is a five. This is a seven note away fifth of note nine, which is an F and seven plus nine is 16 minus 10 minus two, gives me to the four. This is the root. So this is relative position one of note nine, which is an F, which is, of course, note nine, which is an F. And this is the relative position. This is the relative position four note away major third of note nine, which is an F. And that means that nine plus four gives me 13, dropping it down to just a three minus 10, gives me three minus two, gives me one, or I can say that it's nine plus four minus 12, gives me the one, and then I can say again, this one is going to be the seven note away, another seven note away fifth, seven note away fifth of a nine, which is an F, which is nine plus seven. So again, nine plus seven, 16, dropping it down to a six minus 10, and then subtracting two gives me to the four. And then I can do the whole position, the whole bar chord and map this out. And again, it's really useful to map out the intervals because when you look at this full bar chord, then it's useful to know what's the one three fives of this bar chord. And then I can say, okay, this one is always the root. So that's relative position one. This is going to be the fifth all the time. So that's a really useful interval to see from here to here. That's the fifth. So there's, and I'm going to call it a seven note away fifth. And then this is going to be the root again. So notice I have two of the root here. So I'm going to say that's relative position one of note nine. And here now you see that note again is the third. So I'm going to call it a four note away major third. And then here I'm barring this off now. If I can get that bar to work, it would be right there. And that's going to be the seven note away fifth. And then this is going to be another root, another number one if I was able to bar this off. Now it's useful to see that because notice if I was just able to play these four to wring it out, I have to get down to this a in order for to at least be an F, an F, right? If I don't get these last two to wring out, I'm still okay. And that at least it's an F because I got that. I got all the all the relative notes in there to do that. And then again, I would go in here and just list out the the intervals one at a time. I think that's a good exercise. Now note you could continue to do that with like the notes that are in the major scale. And it gets a lot more confusing. But a lot of times you're like, okay, if I'm playing this, where else could I put my finger? Right? I could open this finger up. What am I doing when I do that? Right? If I open this finger up on a major and I'm thinking of myself here and I open. I'm playing. I'm playing like this, having trouble visualizing this. And then I open this one up. Well, then I'm revealing a D. Now, what is a D? That's actually the 13 when you're thinking of the about it relative to a C major scale. So you could start to do that, but but then it gets a little bit confusing when you go outside of the position three, five, because the seven, nine, eleven, thirteen in this case have been constructed from the C major scale. So they'll actually change then as to whether you're playing in positions, you know, one, three or five of the major. So so we'll talk, we'll talk more about that later. But but for now you could do that. You could start to map out and say, well, what's the interval between like this D and the root here and you could build chords and see how it works. Just remember that as you do that, you can't say that that it's going to be absolute necessarily in that all major, the 13 is all going to be the same because again, those things will kind of differ. The seven is the classic one that the next one you'll pick up generally. And when you look at the seven, there's a difference when you construct the one, the three and the five. So then these intervals that we put up top are really only the intervals between this first, this first row here when I these intervals are have been built from this first one note. So once we start doing like the miners will see that this interval is not, I'm sorry, this interval is not the minor interval. It'll be three. So then we'll have to see which of these things are different. The interval is different on some of these notes than on the one note. And we'll see that in the minors with the three and you'll see different patterns when you get away from that you start looking at the seven. For example, you'll note that when you're looking at a major seven, the one and the four have an interval and the five has, you know, a different interval. So we'll start playing with that later. But if you want to kind of play with that now, I just want to point that out.


The following contains strong language, nudity and scenes of a sexual nature. I know that Josh has had such an amazing time in South Africa and I'm just hoping that my surprise tonight will be the cherry on top. I'm going to miss not seeing you every day when we get home. Do you think you're going to miss me? Yeah, of course. What? Why do you keep looking at us? Because I just don't know what you've got plan next and I just want to get up and don't wait to be quite on us.  I'm getting very suspicious here. There's definitely something going on. Either way... Go on then. This is my chance to hide the key. I'm just going to stick it in the butter dish and ask for some bread when he gets back. So, it shouldn't come in. He's coming back, he's coming back. My biggest worry is that he might say he doesn't even want the key and that's going to push us back so many steps. Josh, I want to have a scene where he's coming and seeing someone here. All right. You are the longest relationship I've had. Everything's very different with you. All right. What are you doing here? I'm just waiting for a bottle. No, there's no bottle. I'm just saying everything's really different with you. Like, I love you from the bottom of my heart and I want to be with you forever. And I feel like everything that I have, I want you to have and everything that you have, you should want me to have and we'll just share everything. And I want you to feel like me and you and we're re-unit like that. In absolutely everything. So, you're the first person I've ever even thought about doing this for. I think you might need to have some bread and butter for this. Oh, my God. She's put an engagement ring in there. No, no, no. I really think you need to have some bread and butter. What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? Listen, if there's something in there, the best is on me. Josh, open the door. Just open the button now. Trust Josh to mess up one of the most romantic things I've ever done. Typical. So I guess this means I've got a key for yours. So you can just keep it forever, it's forever yours. I'm buzzing with that, right? This is the best surprise ever. I've never loved anyone like I love Charlotte and I can't wait to take our next steps together.  House. So you want to have a cheers? Cheers too. Me, Casa. Sue, Casa. I'm Charlotte Crosby and if you're enjoying this channel as much as I think you are, hit the subscribe button for even more amazing MTV videos.


The largest airliner of its kind in the world prepares to enter Navy service with an historic trans-Pacific flight from California to Hawaii. A record cargo of nearly 14,000 pounds of mail and vital war material is loaded aboard. Inside the Mars, which has the space of a 15-room house, members of the crew take their places. Ready for the takeoff. At 22,000 pounds, the huge airliner leaves the water with the grace of a mammoth bird. The planes escort the Mars out to sea. Fifteen hours later, the big ship landed at her destination after a 2,400-mile nonstop flight. The bird traces every phase of the plane's performance. The flight of the Mars marks the beginning of new, long-range aerial operations in the Pacific. Before being shipped overseas, the United States Army's new 240-millimeter howitzers roll into position. Each unit weighs 91,000 pounds. The powerful mobile field guns hurl 360-pound shells a distance of more than 15 miles. And the command is, fire. Cotton factories are searched at the gates to be sure no inflammable materials, like matches, are brought into the plants. They wear special safety shoes, which have no metal pegs that might spark a fire. For this is one of the world's most dangerous jobs, the manufacture of gun cotton, powerful explosives that supply the armies of the United Nations. For smaller caliber arms, comes out like spaghetti, and is cut into pellets ready for use. Dangerous business, yes, but in an emergency, they can slide to safety. In dispatch riders make a final test run before going overseas, specially trained for service on any front, they drive their motorcycles over the roughest terrain. Motorcycle troops are the war's roughest rider. The United States Coast Guard, stationed near Boston, don heavy clothing for a midwinter run aboard the ice boat fleet. Ice boating isn't exactly in the line of duty, but it gives the girls good training in handling sails. It takes a good navigator to pilot one of these speedy craft, and the Coast Guard girls are learning fast. Driven into primitive underground hideaways by fear of air raids and bombardment, a thousand Italian families have found refuge here, many since the first days of the war. Some of the small children were even born in these surroundings. This, the only home they have ever known. Like a mess tent, soldiers feed hungry Italian children food that is left over from the day's meals. There is no provision made for combat units to feed civilians, but the little ones have been so starved by the Nazis that American soldiers are trying to do everything they can to allay the suffering. In an Italian town, American flour is rationed out to civilians. Two of them have seen white flour since Italy entered the war. Anxiously, the women watch, wondering if there will be enough for all. But an Italian official, appointed by the Allied military government, reassures them that all will be fed. This is typical of the immediate emergency relief that follows in the wake of Allied occupation. Rations from the United Nations to help impoverished Italians take up their own job of rehabilitation. Tankers off the coast of Italy feed an equally important supply line. Raging oil pipes from ship to shore. Fifth Army engineers erect and maintain a system of surface tubes, extending from vessels and harbors, direct to front lines. Bridging forests, fields and streams, the oil line provides an ever-flowing supply of fuel for the Allied war machine in Italy. The inartillerymen pound the Nazi-held Italian city of Ortona, a smashing prelude to direct assault, approach to Ortona, the bloodiest single action of the campaign since Salerno. Consciously, they probe the fields for landmines. Behind them come Canadian riflemen to clean out nests of enemy resistance. By street, building by building, Nazi snipers are wiped out. Or is a Nazi sniper, but not for long. So the Fifth Army bind their wounds, prepare for even greater battles. For a new Allied army has landed near Rome, and the number of Nazi prisoners grows greater day by day.


You guys want to know some thoughts and feelings on some upcoming Nintendo Switch games and which one I am currently looking forward to as of right now. I feel like already there has been dropped so many good games. Just now recently, I mean Atelier Marie, the new Raincoat game and I'm also playing Story of Seasons still, a wonderful life. But there was a direct and I'm going to give you my thoughts and impressions on all of the announced games that are now coming. And we could start off with the new Super Mario Brothers game called Wander. It's called Wander. It's a 2D side-scrolling Mario game, very traditional stuff. And you guys know what I think about 2D side-scrolling Mario games. I prefer the 3D Mario games, but I did grow up with the 2D side-scrolling ones. And my favorite 2D Mario, as I've always stated, was Super Mario World. This gives me the vibes a Super Mario World gave me, in a way. And I feel like Nintendo is always good at reimagining the 2D Mario. It is definitely looking good and his facial expressions are very prominent in this one, which we like. I will most likely play it and a lot of people will play it. First part in Nintendo titles are always, in my opinion, very polished. So this one could be exciting. It looks like there are some collectibles to be collected. And I definitely like the overworld map, the tiny bit that we did see from it. Also, there's multiplayer and something I noticed is that they have dropped the new in the title. Because they have done that for, I don't know, 10 years, 15 years. New Super Mario Brothers, but now they have dropped that. There's Joshi riding. There's a lot of nods to older 2D Mario games, which I enjoy seeing. Looks kinda good. Now, another game that I am actually playing right now, and this video is sponsored by Noob the Factionless, a brand new game out now on the Nintendo Switch. Now in this game, you discover the world of oligarchy and you follow in the footsteps of the famous Noob Guild. Noob the Factionless is an old-school RPG game with turn-based battles. And you follow these friends that are going to play an MMO game. And they're talking about the game and they get the game. And they are determined to get good in this fictional universe that is the MMO game that they are playing. That is so hilarious. The graphics and colors of this game are really beautiful.  And I like stories that goes like this, that are breaking the fourth wall. So I am playing Noob the Factionless on my Nintendo Switch. It is also out on the PC, on the PlayStation 5 and 4 and the Xbox. Thank you so much for sponsoring this video and check out Noob the Factionless. Now this one. I didn't see this one coming. Who could actually see this one coming? It's Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon Remastered or Remade. Now this was a 3DS game originally and I played it way back on the 3DS. And this game on the 3DS was probably the best graphics I've ever seen on the 3DS. It was really taking all of the advantage from the 3DS console, I feel like. It just looks so good. Actually I can say the same about all of the Luigi's Mansion games. They are so good looking. Now the thing that I didn't like with Dark Moon was that it was based on episodes. You could no longer free roam the haunted house. This one is more linear and you are doing episodes. It could work for some people, I don't know. I didn't like it originally and that changed. But I do love Luigi's Mansion as a series, as a whole. So I know I will be playing this one. Now we have Star Ocean. The second story are, which is a remake of an older game, and this one I'm going to play. I am a new fan of Star Oceans. Remember my video not too long ago that I dived into the newest Star Ocean game, The Divine Force? And I enjoyed that game so much. So I'm a new fan, so this one is good for me. This one is for me. Star Ocean, the second story are, I love the graphical style. It's needless to say what this style is reminding us of. I'm sure you can think of that. Now it is a classical JRPG and I think you will also maybe like it. I think it looks good anyway. So this one I will be playing. Now the next one. Maybe the biggest surprise of the entire presentation that they had a while back now. I'm late to everything. But I was surprised to see that they are remaking Super Mario RPG. The old Super Nintendo game that I have already played so many times. Already played that and done everything in the game. But I do like that they are keeping that old charm. And this is fully remade. Fully. I am amazed at what they did with the graphics while still keeping that old charm. All of the characters in this game, they look just like I remember them. And it was the first game where Mario and the Mario universe went into an RPG setting. Which I so much enjoyed. And this was the start. This was a game that pioneered Mario RPG going forward. From this I feel like they got the idea to start Paper Mario. And later on the Mario and Luigi series. This one was the start. And I'm happy to see that the current generation of kids and teenagers. And actually everyone that just didn't play the original are now able to dive into this masterpiece of a game. I loved it. The music was stellar and the music was good. Such a game. I am looking forward to playing that. A lot of you are. My discord blew up. Let's just say. Now this game is called Palia. Or Palia. Probably Palia. Which is supposed to be a multiplayer building, crafting game. And it's going to be free to play. This one I feel like it can go either way. Either it's going to be the big thing that everyone is going to play for the first couple of weeks of the game releasing. And it's going to be a huge hype train. Probably also talked a lot about on my discord if that is the case. If the game runs good. Or on the other side. The game will flop. Not run good. The servers will crash and burn. I'm excited to see him. Because I like everything that I have seen in the trailer so far. With the building and the crafting and you know the social aspects. And you know I like that kind of stuff. I enjoy what I am seeing with Palia. And I'm very curious to see how it will live up to my expectations. That I'm already having of it. Okay. This one just needs to come out right now actually. Faye Farm. So ready for this Faye Farm game. Been seeing it for a very long time. But it is coming out pretty soon. Pretty soon. You guys are also ready for this game. Faye Farm. A beautiful farming life simulator game. Where you can also play together with friends. This one is also multiplayer. It has several seasons. It has several crops. And you have different ways of watering your crops. Definitely with that cloud. You can decorate your home. Go out on adventures. It looks like my type of game. Let's be real. I know I have been talking about this game several times on my channel already. But since it is coming up. I felt like I needed to include it in this video. Just one more time. And next time I talk about it. I will actually have played it. Hopefully. You know.  And I blew up as well. Rune Factory Project Dragon. A new Rune Factory game. Actually Marvelous announced four new games. And this was kind of confusing to me. But let's try to review what they announced. They announced two new Rune Factory games. This one Project Dragon. Which is going to be a spin-off of the original Rune Factory series. As you can see. They are focusing on the more eastern side of things. With the entire look of the entire game. And I get that Genshin Impact feeling. When I see the combat in this game. There's a big emphasis on dragons. I like the character art style. I like the colors. You know me by now. This one. I'm actually excited inside of here for. I am very excited about this game. Now they also announced another Rune Factory game. Rune Factory 6. But we got nothing other than the title screen. You guys know that I loved Rune Factory 5. I gave that game a 10 out of 10 on my channel. Despite its flaws. Because the game was so addicting to me. The other two story of seasons games that they have announced. This one traditional one. That's going to be a mainline title. We got a tiny little trailer from that. Just showing some environments. Some seasonal changes. And some animals. That was it. And the other one. We only got still shots like concept art from. And with this game they tried to explain it. More than show it off. They are going multiplayer in this game. A new story of seasons game. Multiplayer. We know nothing. So we will just have to wait and see what they mean. What do they mean with that? And how good is it going to run? We never know. That's the exciting thing. Isn't it? You know nowadays it's like yeah we are excited for all of the games that are coming out. But in the back of our head we are thinking will it run good? We are so damaged right now. Now the last game. And this one I found by accident actually. It's called Kitori Academy. But look how good it looks. This one is announced for the Switch. But I don't know when it's coming out. But it has that Hogwarts legacy feeling to it. Just with a more cel-shaded graphical style. It has farming in it. Where you are squeezing some sort of creature to water your crops. You can collect bugs. You can decorate your home. You can own cats. As sold. And I very much like how this game looks. So it seems to me like it is in the genre that we love. Live sim farming game. Kitori Academy. It's coming for Steam and Switch. Now that was funny. So I wanna know. What games are you guys looking forward to? Because this is what came to mind immediately when I thought about it. Because I'm really happy right now with the games that I do have. And I keep saying that with every video that I do with upcoming games. That I'm currently very happy. I mean we can't complain at this point. I started Master Detective Archives. Raincoat. And I am so immersed. I'm solving detective mysteries right now. I'm happy. And we always like to look forward to stuff. Because that's how we are as human beings. Now make sure you check out Noob the Factionless, the sponsor of this video. Thank you so much again. And I would like you to follow me on Instagram and Twitter. And join the Discord and listen to Diskidisk. I never get that, do I? I will never get that. I would also appreciate it if you hit like on my video before you leave. And thank you so much for watching today. And I will see you later.


Just a quick video for today. I Wanted to bring up something that Reggie Fizer may said in our recent interview about the Nintendo switch In fact what he alludes to is the fact that there are actually Nintendo switch games in 2017 that are not announced yet that should be releasing this year We obviously don't know if it's first or third party, but he said this in an interview with Waypoint So let's just get into the question and his response that led to this So Waypoint goes so Reggie great to see you again E3 2017 is here and for me the big push for switch this year for Nintendo this year was at least the spotlight was Hey, we have switch games coming We have a lot of games coming this year a lot of them are multiplayer focused and by the holiday We will have a really respectable catalogue and then there were also a few gestures towards the future Yoshi Kirby Metroid Prime 4 and Pokemon and I'm curious what you have thought of the response to those promises so far Has that been largely positive or mixed or? Then Reggie Fizer may respond the response to what we showcased and it really is just a small tip For 2018 has been exceptionally positive You've got fancy and Metroid Prime 4 hearing that Mr. Tannaby who's been involved in all of the Metroid Prime games is going to be at the helm of that The fans are tremendously excited That's an understatement. Let me tell you to hear that there's going to be a core Pokemon RPG experience on the Nintendo switch The fans are incredibly excited To see a traditional Kirby experience with him inhaling enemies and copying abilities Fans are excited about that and then the Yoshi game that we showcased with the unique You know motion to go behind the scenes so to speak has people really intrigued So just by showcasing those four games and giving a little bit of a taste Yeah, there's a lot of excitement to what 2018 can hold but to be clear We look at E3 in the here and now our focus is on games that are largely going to be available between now and the end of The holiday season and when you look at that lineup There's a strong game coming literally every month starting tomorrow with arms and then Splatoon 2 and then in August of Mario plus Rabbids September October with Super Mario Odyssey We've got that great pace of content and I can tell you there's more to be announced There you have it Reggie Fuzo may is telling you they have more games to announce for 2017 This comes at the end of a paragraph that's talking about the here and now We obviously don't know if these games are a first-party third-party indie games No idea but when we throw up this graphic, which I'll throw up right now That shows the current lineup for switch and 3ds for the rest of this year and hadn't it a little bit in the next year What we see is that the list for switch while it has all these games is not complete There is more games coming that we don't know about that suggests that we could have a Nintendo Direct as soon as next month We could have a couple months, you know, maybe they want to do it after Splatoon 2 comes out whatever the case may be it sounds like there is more content coming more surprises and That's we're already a pretty jam-packed year from Nintendo side of things, right? Like Nintendo is releasing a ton of games on switch this year a ton of big games and they've already got a slew of big games kind of coming for next year with Fire Emblem and Yoshi and Kirby that we know for sure is coming next year. Plus, we know they're working on Metroid. I It's gonna be very interesting to see what happens But I just wanted to give a quick update and let everyone out there know that yes There are more games coming to switch in 2017. I have no clue what they are But I can't wait to find out Anyways, this is Nathanian Rumble Jants from Nintendo Prime if you'd like to support us You could go to patreon.com slash Nintendo Prime If you I believe the $5 tier is where you gain early access to our podcast So you get the full audio podcast every single Sunday ahead of the public who gets everything on YouTube Split up over five days a week Otherwise you can just like this video if you liked it subscribe for more videos like it in the future And obviously I will just catch you in the next one


We also needed money. And so I think that co-op actually probably helped gain people's trust so that they would want to help. They didn't have to go to a bank to get the bonus money. Cliff tried. Yeah, he actually tried talking to banks. And they said, how many years have you been in business? I said, well, we're starting. I said, thank you. Goodbye. Yes. Yeah. And I guess also as kind of the point guy for the whole project, it made me feel a little more comfortable having a co-op where people should be more engaged at all the responsibility. And if it went south, if it went bad, all the blame wouldn't fall on me. I had a day job.  We were doing this because we needed internet, not because I wanted to run a business or Cliff needed a second income or something. We did it because we needed internet. That was the only reason.


Hello there and welcome everyone. This is Melissa Armo with Stockswashing and Reviewing Amazon. Well, this is a very interesting one today because guess what? The earnings are out tonight. And I think a lot of people think this is higher. Is it higher? Is it lower? I don't know, but I will say this. If it isn't higher, it is going to bust up the seams, meaning gap down in big time. So higher odds and a better play if it gaps down, to be honest with you, because the fact is that I think a lot of people are anticipating that this is going to be higher. This is one of the companies that hasn't really been affected in a negative way in 2020. And the stock has been strong. And the stock broke out here. And the stock rallied. And the stock has made new highs. In fact, it just made new highs on the 16th. I mean, I can't even name five stocks that have made new highs in the last two weeks. So Amazon is super duper, super duper strong. So for whatever reason, this gaps down and rates well. It's got to rate well per my system. It's got to rate 20 points or more per the 26 point gap rating system, whether it's a bullish gap or bearish gap. But I'm telling you right now that the surprise of the week and the surprise of the earnings seasons would be a gap down in Amazon that would tank, tank, tank ourama. So I will be watching this and I'm very excited about an hour and 10 minutes to go. And woo, this could really be a big one where it moves the market in a certain direction up or moves the market in a certain direction down for Friday. Okay, so I will be watching this and I can't wait. Good luck everyone. Don't know what I'm doing with it until tomorrow. And again, if some of the people are still in the original trade that I called in the last week in this that had a move that you could have scoped out of it, then if you got out of it, fine. If you're still in it, fine. You're taking your chances because we don't know, but that could turn out to be a whopper of a one if this works in our favor. So we'll see. Good luck everyone. Have a great day. And email me and Melissa at thestockswish.com if you want to sign up for the gap options newsletter. It's 69.99 a year, 7 grand for 12 months of trains. And I can't wait to see what this does tonight. Have a great night, everyone.


Today I'm sharing with you 15 of my budget friendly dinners. Now usually the budget dinners are really quick and really easy, which I'm a huge fan of. This week's actually been pretty crazy. We went down to Moab, my husband and I, and our two daughters. We went to our youth girls' camp and it was so fun to be rafting the river and just having fun in the outdoors. And now that I'm back, back to being a mom where life is wild, I need to get back to cooking dinner and so I'm gonna start with some of my budget friendly meals. Let's just be honest, they're quick, they're easy and they're cheap. Now the ingredients we need for this is our French bread, which is $1. Our milk, we're gonna use not all of the milk, so it'll be about 86 cents. Our eggs will be 159 and our frosting will be 134. Right, we're gonna start by preheating our oven to 350 degrees. All right, now you're gonna cut the French bread into half inch slices. Mine are closer to an inch and you know, it'll still work, it's fine. Now I'm gonna take a pan and spray it with non-stick cooking spray. I like to use a pan, that's just how I work.  All right, in a little bowl, we're gonna crack five eggs. We're gonna add 3 fourths cup of milk. Now please don't be mad, there are some things I didn't add to the $5. So I already had vanilla, I already had cinnamon and I already had nutmeg. So hopefully you have these in your house. So we have two teaspoons of vanilla, half tablespoon of cinnamon. Whoa, we won't add as much since I got a little out of control. And then two teaspoons of nutmeg. And we're just gonna mix this up really well, break those egg yolks. Then we're gonna pour half of the mixture onto our little French bread, French dose. That might be more than half, but that's okay. I'm gonna spread it around just a little bit. Okay, then we're just gonna add the rest of our bread on there, just going right over top. I know these pieces are a little smaller, but it will still work. Okay, then we're gonna take the rest of our mixture and just pour it on top. Now for my favorite part, you're gonna take about half a cup of brown sugar. We're just gonna sprinkle it on top. Then if you want to, you can add a little bit of cinnamon too. Now with this recipe, you don't have to let it sit overnight, you can just bake it as soon as you're done. Or if you want to have it overnight, that will work too. So either way, it doesn't matter. But we're gonna bake it at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes. All right, our French toast bake is all done cooking. Now I'm gonna take the cream cheese frosting. Yes, I know, it's canned. I actually don't like it, but I'm gonna stick it in the microwave for about 10 seconds or so just to get it nice and soft so we can spread it on top of our French toast. Now the secret is pull this out of the oven, let it sit for about a minute or two, and we're just gonna put a blob of frosting on each French toast bite. Then I'm gently, gently. See I don't want any of that brown sugar to come up. Just gonna spread it across each one. Okay, and we're just gonna let this sit and melt. Now what I'm picking up today is tortillas or a dollar. Cheddar cheese is 186, our eggs are 159, and the salsa I love dipping in salsa comes to $1.23. Okay, we're gonna first start by cracking the eggs. Now, if you haven't seen this before, this is called a cracker. Not sponsored or anything, I just love using it. We're gonna crack all six eggs into a bowl. Then I'm just gonna add a little bit of salt. Sorry, salt is not part of it. I figure most people have salted home, and then we're just going to crunch up the yolks and then mix this all together. And let's skill it on medium heat. I'm gonna spray the bottom of my pan and then just pour in my eggs. We're gonna make some scrambled eggs. Now usually you can add a little milk, cheese scrambled eggs, or water cheese scrambled eggs, or my dad taught me, you know what? You can just cook them just like this and it'll be just fine. All right, we are pretty much done here. Let's just pull this off. All right, next I'm just gonna shred my cheese. Usually I buy pre-shedded, but if you're trying to save money shredding yourself, seriously, it will save you quite a bit. Now, I love these for breakfast time, or I love them for dinner time, or lunch. You know, you can have eggs any time I swear. So we're gonna put our cheese down first on our tortillas. I'm guessing this will make about three. You can really stretch out your eggs. You could make four. Okay, next we're gonna add some eggs. We're just gonna try and spread them out the best that we can. Now I'm gonna put our tortilla right on top of here. Let that cook, it could go for a bit. It's been on for about two minutes. We're just gonna flip them real quick. All right, these are done. So we're just gonna pull them right off. Part of the $5 is the salsa. So we're gonna just pour that into a bowl and then dip in our breakfast quesadillas. The first thing that I got is Rotel, or the Walmart version of it, and that came to 60 cents.  It was just a dollar for the carrots, and I only need one cup. Next is frozen spinach. Now this is a 12 ounce package. I only need five ounces. So we're just going to use half of it. So it'll be about 50 cents. Now the original recipe called for one container, which no one knows what one container is. So I actually got the smallest container because it was only a dollar for about a cup of sour cream. And the last thing I got is our frozen tortellini. Now this was the most expensive thing. It came to about 298, but this is what makes the soup delicious. And one last thing. At the store, I did buy a zucchini, which would come to about 75 cents. The problem is, is that I have searched high and low for this little zucchini. I have no idea where it went. So we're gonna pretend that we put zucchini into this recipe even though I don't know what happened. I swear I bought it, but now it is gone. First we're gonna chop up the vegetables.  But you know, we're just doing carrots right now. All right, now you can make this one in your Instant Pot, but I'm gonna make it in the stock pot today just to show you a different way to make it. So first I'm gonna start with the can of rotel. We dump it into the bottom and add the vegetables. So here are my carrots and put some zucchinis in there. Okay, we're pretending. Next is about five ounces of spinach. So it's about half the bag. So we're just gonna eyeball about half the bag of the frozen spinach. Then there's all kinds of seasoning. I'll put those down below in the description for you. So we gotta make it taste good for the seasoning. Right, right. Now like we did before, we're gonna cheat and use some water and bullion cubes. So we have four cups of water here and we're gonna add just the four bullion cubes. Okay, we're gonna turn this onto low and let this simmer for a bit until pretty much the carrots are cooked through. That's what we want cooked. I might've gone a little carried away with this spinach. There is a lot of spinach in here. So if we're gonna make this, try to stick to five ounces. I think I did more like 10 ounces, but that's okay, I like spinach. Now we're just gonna add all the tortellini and let this cook until those are cooked through. So every package is a little bit different. So it says boil for about three minutes or so. They cook really quick. All right, the pasta is all cooked. Now it's time to add the sour cream. And we're gonna mix this in really good because you don't want chunks in your sour cream in your soup. All right, it is all done. Nice and creamy. So the first thing you're gonna need is ground turkey. That's $3.58. Manwich is $1.22. And the buns are $0.93.  And you are good to go. Now the first ingredient this recipe calls for is ground beef. The only problem was that ground beef was really expensive to date. It was like $5 to $7 for just one pound. So I decided to just get ground turkey. So instead of $5, it was only $2.77. Next up is a can of black beans, which was only $0.62. One can of diced tomatoes, $0.72. And then came the corn. Now you can usually get corn for about $0.50, but the shelves were empty, so I had to pay a little bit more. It was about $1.18 for this little can of corn, but hopefully you can find some for $0.50 at your store. Now the rest of the ingredients I had at home, so I'm not counting that towards my $5. I'm gonna start by using my handy dandy Instant Pot. You can also use the slow cooker or just your stove top for this recipe. So you're gonna first start by pushing the saute button. We want to get the pot nice and hot to cook our meat. All right, now that it's hot already to go, we're gonna take the ground turkey and just cook it up in the bottom of the Instant Pot. And if you haven't seen this, this is my lovely chop and stir. I'll put a link down below for you. My favorite tool in the kitchen. Okay, once the meat is cooked, then you can drain the grease if you want to. Then you're just gonna start adding the things in. So we have our black beans that I've rinsed and drained, diced tomatoes. We have our canned corn that I left all the liquid in there. Now the important thing is we wanna kind of scrape the bottom. We don't want any of that ground turkey left on the bottom of the pot, just cause that will give you the burnt notice. So scrape that bottom just a little bit. Now it calls for some seasoning. I'll put this down below in the description for you. Now it also calls for chicken broth, but because that wasn't in the budget, I decided to do the bouillon cubes. Now the one thing I love about the Instant Pot is that you can add your water. You can add two to three cups. I'm adding two and a half.  And they will cook and dissolve while all of your soup cooks together. Okay, I'm just gonna mix this around one more time before we put the lid on. When we're done, we're gonna go ahead and put the lid on. If you have a little knot, make sure that's turned to ceiling, not venting. Now because everything is pretty much cooked, we're just gonna go pressure cook and we're just gonna cook it for about five minutes. So I'll set the time, then you can just walk away. All right, when it was all done, I went and let all the pressure out of the Instant Pot and then what's left is a delicious taco soup. So the ingredients you need for this one is whipping cream, which is 216. An onion is 50 cents. Broccoli because we're using half the bag is 84 cents. And then of course you need some cheese. So our cheddar cheese is $1.86. So we're gonna start by pushing the saute button on the Instant Pot. First we're gonna chop up an onion, but this is my little secret. If you haven't seen it, I get about three paper towels, get them soaking wet. I'm just gonna put them in between me and the onion. So when I chop up the onion, I'm not gonna be dying inside. My eyes won't be dying. Then just gonna chop it up. Now that we pushed the saute button, it's getting warm and toasty in there. So we're gonna add about a tablespoon or so of olive oil. All right, now that it's nice and hot, we're gonna go ahead and add the onions into it. Just mix those around. We're gonna cook them until they're nice and soft. Okay, now that we've got them all nice and softened and browned, we're gonna add a little bit of chicken broth.  So first I'm gonna add three cups of water into my pot. And then just like I said, we're gonna just add three of these. So you add one of these per cup of water. Next up, I have my broccoli. Now I cooked it for about a minute just to soften things up a little bit so it wasn't frozen. So it'd be easier to cut these giant pieces into smaller pieces. All right, once your broccoli's all chopped up, go ahead and just put it into your instant pot. Then into the pot, we're just gonna add about a fourth teaspoon of nutmeg. Now we're just gonna cook it all up. So go ahead and put your lid on. If you have a little knob, make sure it's turned to ceiling, not venting. Then we're gonna push pressure cook and then we're just gonna cook it for about two minutes. So once you set the timer, you can just leave it and it will cook. Now when it's all done cooking, you're gonna go ahead and release the little knob to let all the pressure out. All right, once you can take the lid off because all the pressure's out, we're gonna add about a cup and a half of whipping cream. Now again, you can use whole milk if you'd like, but if you want it nice and creamy, whipping cream's where it's at. All right, after all the whipping cream is in, we're gonna come down here and push cancel, then push saute again and we're gonna add the cheese and the hot sauce and then we're done. Just gonna shred this whole block because we want the two cups. Then as I shred, I just dump in the cheese. And the last thing is hot sauce. The original recipe called for one tablespoon, but that's kind of a lot. So we're just gonna add a little more than one teaspoon. You can add a tablespoon, just depends on how hot you like your soup. Now it's just time to mix it all together. We're gonna let all that cheese get nice and melted. Now the thing is it's still on saute, we do not want it to boil. So once it starts getting nice and hot, you can turn it off and just have it keep on warm and it'll be ready to go when it's center time. It's looking good. So for this recipe, I found bread that was 93 cents. The cheese is 186. Your can of tomato soup is 117. And we are gonna use a little bit of butter. Our butter came to 318, but we only need a little bit. So we're gonna count that as a dollar. Now to make life a little bit easier, we just cook the soup in the microwave. Then just quickly shred the cheese. Then on the skillet, I like to put my butter down first. The bread, the cheese, right on top. Gonna add more butter. All right, so we're first going to get some sweet potatoes. Now you can use regular potatoes. They actually were out of like individual regular potatoes at my store. So sweet potatoes were on sale. Now for the sausage, I usually use apple chicken sausage, but they weren't on sale this week. So we're going with the smoked sausage, which is still delicious. First, I'm just going to peel my sweet potatoes. I think I didn't know that a peeler did this. I just recently found out and it's my favorite thing now. Okay, so with this sweet potato, we're gonna cut them into bite-sized pieces. The smaller that they are, the faster they will cook. So I like to do pretty small pieces, if you can see here. It's pretty little. Then I'm just gonna dump all of the sweet potatoes onto the sheet pan so I can use this to cut up all of the sausage. We're just gonna cut that in half so I can cut one section at a time.  All right, sausage is done. Let's put it in with the sweet potatoes. Now we're gonna add a little bit of olive oil. If you don't have olive oil, just have vegetable oil, that works too. Then we're just gonna mix this all together just so it's coated with the oil. So when we put the seasoning on, it will stick onto all the pieces. Okay, so now I'm just gonna add a little bit of garlic salt. You can do salt and pepper too if you want. I just love garlic salt with sausage and sweet potatoes. You can always add more when it's done cooking too. And then you're just gonna mix it all together again. Okay, then we're just gonna spread this out. We're gonna cook it at 400 degrees, I don't know, for about 20, 25 minutes. We really just are cooking it till the sweet potatoes are cooked all the way through. So we'll just keep checking those. All right, it is all done, ready to go. That looks so good and smells so good. Our box of pancake mix is 168 and this will make a lot of pancakes. Then we're gonna have a bottle of syrup comes to 148. Our eggs are $1.59. Now I don't know about you, but breakfast for dinner is one of my favorite things to make as a mom, because it's quick, easy and cheap. Not a bad dinner and it will feed your whole family. So the first ingredient you're grabbing is whole wheat English muffins. If you don't love whole wheat, you can just buy normal English muffins too. Next is two cups of broccoli. Now the fresh broccoli was actually too expensive and so I went and checked on the freezer aisle and you can get two cups for just a dollar. So we're gonna do this and then steam it. Next up is our cheese. Now it's a lot cheaper to buy a block of cheese than it is the shredded. So we're gonna save money and buy a block. Now from the previous recipe, we need a five eggs. This one we need 12. So we're using the rest of the 18 eggs. So we're gonna just count this as like 50 cents. Also for this recipe, I'm gonna use more of the milk. I'm gonna use leftover ham. I apologize if you don't have ham. It might cost you an extra dollar or two. You can buy some just diced ham or whatever ham you wanna use. But if you have leftover ham, this is the perfect recipe for it. First we're gonna cut up four English muffins into bite-sized pieces.  Now I'm gonna steam the broccoli so it's not nearly so frozen. Now while the broccoli cooks, I'm gonna cut up my ham into bite-sized pieces. You want about two cups of ham. Okay, in a nine by 13 pan, we're gonna spray it with some cooking spray. And we're gonna add our broccoli. So about two cups of broccoli. And I didn't cook this all the way through, but just enough so it wasn't frozen. Okay, next we're gonna add our bite-sized English muffins and then I also cut up the ham on here too. And then I shredded up some of the cheese so we have a three-fourths cup of cheddar cheese. All right, now we're just gonna gently kind of mix this all together. You just want broccoli and ham and English muffins. Just kind of all, all spread out a little bit. We're gonna go ahead and set this aside and then get our eggs and milk ready. All right, into the bowl, we're gonna crack just 12 eggs. Now there's one extra egg.  To the eggs, we're gonna add one cup of milk, about one teaspoon of paprika. This is almost gone, so I'm just gonna use the rest of it here. And then instead of four teaspoon of crushed red pepper, so I'm just gonna grab like a pinch of it and just kind of put it on in. And I forgot one important thing, salt and pepper to taste. You want some of that. All right, mix that in here too. All right, I think we're ready. Okay, now we're just going to very carefully and gently pour this on. Now this recipe says it needs to sit overnight. I'll be honest, I never do overnight. I don't have the patience for it. So I'm gonna let it sit in the fridge for about 20 minutes. Let it soak in all of that bread and then we're gonna go from there. But if you're gonna make it in the evening and then cook it in the morning, perfect, perfect for overnight. We're gonna cover it with foil and then stick it in the fridge. All right, whether it's been in your fridge for just a little bit or overnight, we're gonna take this and add the rest of Archie. So it's about an extra cup or so. We're gonna cook it 375 for 45 minutes and we're actually gonna cover it while it cooks. Okay, here we go. All right, it is done. Browned on top, it is looking so good. For this recipe, I'm grabbing potatoes, which come to $2.08. Sour cream is $1.16 and cheese is $1.86. Now my favorite way to cook potatoes is in the Instant Pot. So I'm gonna put about six potatoes in here. You can put as many as you want. You need at least one cup of water. We're gonna put the lid on. Then we're gonna push pressure cook. Now these are gonna cook for about 15 minutes because they're kind of small. So once we set it, we can just walk away. Potatoes are done. Let's pull them out. Usually it'd be more gentle to keep the skin on, but you know, all right. Then I like to serve my potatoes cut in half. Then I just like to add a little bit of sour cream and a little bit of cheese. So for this recipe, we are getting some black beans, some diced tomatoes with the chilies in them, some marbled Kobe and Monterey Jack cheese, some long grain rice. And then I got some great value taco seasoning. Okay, so we're gonna cook it in the Instant Pot just because that's my favorite way to cook rice. So we're just gonna add two cups of rice. Now for every cup of rice, you need one and a fourth cups of liquid. So we're gonna add two and a half cups of water. We're also gonna add our other things too. So we're gonna add our diced tomatoes, our black beans. Now these are rinsed and drained, the tomatoes are not. And then just one packet of the taco seasoning. So you're going to mix in the taco seasoning just a little bit just because we don't want powder to kind of fly everywhere. So mix in your taco seasoning. Okay, so now you're gonna put your lid on. If you have a little knob that turns to sealing, make sure that's on sealing. Then we're gonna go down to pressure cook and down to seven minutes. So white rice cooks for just seven minutes. Ooh, there we go. Okay, we're gonna set it and we can just walk away. Okay, while your rice and beans are cooking we're almost done cooking. I'm gonna go ahead and shred the cheese now so we can be all ready for it. All right, the rice is all done cooking. Oh, we'll get all the rest of that out. All the pressure out so we can open the lid. Oh, it looks good. Rice is all cooked. We're just gonna mix this all together right now. Granted, this is only a $5 dinner so you could add chicken to this and make it like a spicy rice bowl, something like that. But because we're trying to stay within the budget we are just going to do it with beans. Now I like this with some cheese on top. It's one of my favorites. So our sauce is $1.40. Our noodles come to $1.58 and the bread is just a dollar. Now really quick, if you haven't figured out how to cook spaghetti in the Instant Pot this is my favorite way. I love cooking noodles in the pot. So I like to break them in half. They'll cook a whole lot easier and then we'll add the liquid. So the rule of thumb when you cook noodles in the Instant Pot is you just wanna make sure that the water is covering all the noodles. You don't want crunchy noodles.  If you have a little knob, make sure it's on sealing, not venting. Then pressure cook and all the noodles cook for four minutes. Noodles are done cooking. I'm gonna pull them right out here. Then I just heated up my spaghetti sauce. Make it all nice and just ready to go. So all you need for this recipe is our pizza sauce which is $1.14. Muffins come to $198 and our cheese, which is $1.86. First you're just gonna grate the cheese. I'm gonna cook these in the air fryer. So we have our English muffins, our pizza sauce and our cheese on top. Now whether you use this or an oven you just cook it until the cheese is melted and it's a little crispy. All right, these cooked about three minutes and they are ready to eat. The things I needed at the store is a five pound bag of Idaho potatoes. Next, this recipe calls for 10 strips of bacon but 10 strips of bacon is kind of expensive. So we went with the bacon bits. A lot cheaper, still the same bacon flavor. Next is one eight ounce package of cream cheese. Then you need some cheddar cheese in there. So we just grabbed a block of cheddar cheese instead of the shredded just because it's a lot cheaper. Now this recipe also calls for sour cream and butter but I already had those two things so I apologize if you don't. That might bump up your price a little bit past the $5. Now I'm gonna try and cook all five pounds of potatoes at the same time. So I'm pulling out the giant eight quarts so we can cook them all.  Our potatoes actually didn't go all the way to the top. So if you have a six quart it might just work. Just fill it up as much as you can. Okay potatoes are washed. We're gonna add about a cup of water in here and then just put it right into our Instant Pot. All right go ahead and put your lid on. You have a little knob that says sealing and venting. Make sure it's on sealing. Okay we're gonna go to pressure cook and we're gonna take our time all the way down to 20 minutes. Now with this machine because it's my eight quart I do have to push start but sometimes you can just walk away once you set the time. All right the potatoes have been done cooking for about six minutes. We're gonna release the pressure and let them out. All right all the pressure's out. Potatoes are dead. All right drained all the liquid.  Now I love this recipe because we're gonna work just straight from the pot. Now my beaders broke last time I used them so I don't have beaders right now. So we're gonna do the potato masher and just mash the heck out of all these potatoes. While we're mashing we're gonna add a half a cup of butter or one stick as my mom used to call it and then we're gonna also add the eight ounces of cream cheese. And then the last thing if you have sour cream it's about one cup of sour cream. I only have about a half a cup but it'll still work. All right then we're gonna keep on mixing this. Now if you had beaders you would mix this until it is nice and smooth but with my potato masher this is about as creamy and as smooth as I'm gonna get it today. All right we are not done yet so we're gonna add salt and pepper to taste and there's a lot of potatoes here so be a little generous with your salt and pepper okay. Then we're gonna add half the package of bacon. Just be careful sometimes that little blue thing comes in it and then about a cup and a half of your shredded cheese. Carefully mix this all together. Okay we're gonna dump this all into our nine by 13 pan. Now we're just gonna spread this out.  I don't have a ton left about half a cup or so. One thing I would change is probably buy a little bit more cheese because this is a lot of potatoes. Then I'm just gonna take the rest of the bacon bits.  So we're gonna cook this 350 degrees for about 30 minutes or so. My potatoes are already hot so mostly just until the cheese is melted we should be good. All right these are all done cooking. My kids are gonna be in heaven. If you like these meals make sure to check out our other easy meals right up there. All right okay I'll see you next time.


Hey everyone, this is Jack. I hope you're all doing well as is I guess tradition at this point because it's the second year in a Row, I've done it I wanted to make a video in which I talk about the Oscars talk about some of the things I like what I don't like what I'm rooting for and overall my thoughts on the 2019 Academy Awards, so I guess just to begin I wanted to give a huge thank you to the synagogue for sending me the t-shirt They run a great Twitter account. They also have their own website in their own shop I currently think this shirt is actually sold out, but they'll have new designs soon And I will definitely be taking a look at that and I would highly encourage you to do the same But in terms of overall the Oscars, I kind of decided to do this video again Before the whole controversy came out where they were cutting out cinematography and editing and some other pretty big categories from the actual broadcast itself and we're gonna do those during commercial breaks and At least for my money that is absurd Forget about like the categories itself We're in like the digital age where everything can be live streamed everything can be put online and yet that's where we're cutting out corners So it just seems pretty silly to me and I'm glad that they reverted back onto that truth be told I think that was a pretty smart marketing ploy by the Academy. I think they got enough attention to I Guess warrant You know we was warrant doing it they obviously went back and Got the discussion out there, which is I guess all that they were looking for But honestly the Academy award viewership has been going down considerably in the past couple of years Personally, I don't even watch it myself. I just get the little updates as they come so and so on this so and so on that Which I think is probably the easiest way to watch it because the actual broadcast itself has never been a Huge thing for me. I know that it's become a part of our culture at this point But honestly watching like the first hour whenever it ends up being it was like the red carpet and all that nonsense That has zero appeal to me Then you actually get the award show itself and you usually get a comedian who I'm not too fond of Doing their thing. It's just not my cup of tea the actual broadcast itself And especially now that we do live in that digital age where all the information is just available in the heartbeat and much rather get the information on my own as opposed to watching a three-hour broadcast that Probably isn't going to mean a whole lot to me So I understand why the Academy is trying to shift some things up to try and get that viewership back But honestly, it seems like they're pursuing a 20th century Approach to getting that viewership back when going online making things digital making more content out there for more people It's probably going to be the best approach But that's just my opinion on the whole Academy Awards controversy because I'm sure some people are interested I probably won't be watching. I'll probably be doing something else and getting updates And learning from that so anyway in terms of the actual content of the Oscars moving away from that But therefore awarding the best films of the year truth be told I'm really not too happy with a lot of the nominations that came out last year I thought they did an excellent job just getting the best movies of the year I feel like you could have really gone through and picked any of the films that were nominated for best picture and make a really good Argument for that being the best movie of the year But if you look at the films that are nominated this year, there are a handful that I absolutely love be it The favorite Rome or just all these great movies, then you get movies like Green Book, which I Just don't see people making an argument that Green Book is the best movie of the year But you know I it was fine, but just not that great So anyway that that I'm not too happy with a lot of the nominations a lot of the movies that I'm written for for All the categories are going to be one in the same. There's certainly a lot of overlap between Roma The favorite my favorite movie of the year even Black Clansman. I especially loved So anyway, so definitely some good movies and I'm glad that they are getting the recognition But I feel like they were just a lot more great movies that didn't get the recognition They probably should have I've spoken about how much I love widows a fair bit and It seems like the When you're Steve McQueen in your most recent film one best picture in 2013 or 2014 hour that works out and then Widows doesn't get nominated. It just seems like I Is widows a better movie than Green Book for my money it is but I don't mean to just pick on Green Book There are several movies that you are nominated for best picture that I feel like maybe that didn't deserve that award, but Anyway enough rambling About that let's kind of go through category by category what I'm rooting for Kind of who I think is gonna win and what I think that means starting off with best picture So personally I'm rooting for the favorite for best picture. I do think Roma is going to win Which I'm super happy with Alfonso Coran is excellent I've discussed a handful of his films in the past and I love pretty much each and every one of them Wasn't too big on gravity though, but excuse me Roma is definitely one of his films that I love and I will definitely be happy if that wins best picture if Black and white foreign language film wins best picture. I think that'll be pretty cool and going forward Ideally trying to get more movies like that in the discussion You don't necessarily need to be these big moving Whatever movies they just have to be good movies and as far as I'm concerned Roma is definitely one of the best films of the year and That'd be spectacular for it to be winning and absolutely deserving The category that I care the next most about is best director I feel like that's probably the second most important category. It's out of best picture and again, I think I'm at this point rooting for Lathi most to win just because I love him his work so much all of it a Huge fan of his stuff as I've mentioned before Again, I think Alfonso Coran is probably gonna take it I think he's the odds favorite if you're doing sports betting on the Oscars I find that pretty funny, but I definitely think he's favored to win and might definitely be happy with that He's had success in the past obviously and for good reason. He's one of the best directors working today and Would love to see him find success. I don't see Any of the other nominated director is winning, but that's just for me in terms of the best actor actress awards. I Don't I don't think I'm the best judge of a great performance. I think it's just kind of The discussion around it is 80% of what wins the best actor best actress awards because it's so versatile It's not like there's an objective best performance Some years are just some there's so much better than the competition There are a whole lot of different intricacies and different subtleties and it's all about Giving a performance that people are looking for so in terms of who I'm rooting for Kind of up in the air at this point. Don't really don't really hear about who wins Those awards, but definitely is an important part of the Oscars and I think Christian Bale is going to take the best actor Award I feel like he's definitely probably the most deserving of the others However, I do think that Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody is definitely gonna be in that conversation, but I wasn't the biggest fan of that movie He was good, but it just felt way too formulated and just too Too much I'm not studio influence, but I guess banned influence. I was reading about how the editing was super impacted by Contracts and how the different band members required a certain amount of screen time and it's 100% not 100% quite a bit of this film is being Dictated by an external force that the creative people behind the film have no impact on obviously There's a little contract director controversy with the film, but getting a little bit went long-winded here In terms of best actress in a leading role The Roma actress, I hope she gets it. She was absolutely spectacular She definitely was just so commanding and so powerful and especially with such a limited Just limited acting it was amazing how well she captured reality So I'm definitely hoping that she takes it. I would not mind if Olivia Coleman took it from the favorite I thought she was excellent and just made that movie so much fun So you can 100% see my bias in these so far, but Yeah, I'm not too concerned about the actor-actress awards I definitely am interested in cinematography and again, it's a toss-up between Roma and the favorite for me So you can definitely see that trend. I thought the cinematography of the favorite inched out by a little bit you can certainly make the argument for either one of them, but Cinematography of the favorite just added so much to it It was this is that zany world and the match with the zany cinematography It worked for me And that's probably who I'm rooting for to win cinematography, but if Roma takes it, I would definitely will not be disappointed Moving on to editing I already discussed that a little bit the fact that Bohemian Rhapsody is nominated for best editing is Just so weird. You can watch the clips. It's not a well-edited movie It's at best it's generic bland nothing creative at worst it's bad editing and Somehow that's not made for best editing so that it was a bit confusing for me Like I said, the Oscars are certainly a flawed thing, but definitely an important part of movie history So what can you do not a whole lot? So in terms of who I'm rooting for for best editing it's either gonna come down to vice or the favorite I thought I feel mostly just so creative and the entire editing team behind the favorites Just so creative and used it so well to help tell its story at the same time I really like the pseudo documentary editing style of vice It was definitely similar to the big short and I love the big short So definitely an interesting editing approach and if it ends up winning I feel like it's definitely deserved I feel like everything is deserved, especially when you compare it to Bohemian Rhapsody winning So anything but Bohemian Rhapsody for best editing and I will not be that disappointed As for the two screenplays personally for Adapted I'm gonna be rooting for if Beale Street could talk by Barry Jenkins again The fact that that movie didn't get more recognition much like widows. It's a bit weird to me it seems like the movie that should have gotten a lot of recognition, especially when compared to other movies that did but It was so well-written so well done And I'm definitely rooting for Barry Jenkins to win that award for best original screenplay Guess what I'm gonna say the favorite. I hope it wins I'm planning on talking about it next video So you can see my excitement as I'm doing my research and getting all that in so but the favorite for best original screenplay I think it's the best deserving and That is my hope so as much as I would love to talk about different things like best documentary Best foreign language film about best animated short best short best animated all that stuff I really can't say that I've seen enough of them and definitely want to make an Informed discussion of the topic. So I'm not gonna go through those categories As I see more I'll definitely be watching the winner of those categories because I generally feel like the Academy does a pretty good job Recognizing that in terms of best animated film I think I've seen most of them and I'm rooting for Isle of Dogs. Wesley Anderson is spectacular and Isle of Dogs is no exception I did see the animated Spider-Man movie and I liked it, but I loved Isle of Dogs I feel like it was just so Just the more more passion was put into it and a lot of passion felt was put into Spider-Man. So That's where I'm coming from on this issue and a quick little promotion here There's a t-shirt and mug shop in the description. Check it out if you're interested But Moving on to the other important categories for best supporting actress I'm personally rooting for Emma Stone the two supporting actresses from the favorite are up and as far as I'm concerned They were the two best supporting actress performances of the year I do know that Often having two people nominated from the same film kind of splits the thing You saw that with like the godfather had there were a half dozen people nominate some exaggeration Quite a few people from the godfather nominated for best supporting actor which meant That Al Pacino didn't end up winning even though he probably did give the best because it was the votes were split for the Godfather supporting actors if that makes sense. So I'm hoping one of them takes it At the same time a lot of other great supporting actress performances of the year So won't be disappointed no matter who wins that award And then for actor in a supporting role Mahershala Ali is excellent. He's one of my favorite actors Just an amazing person who's on a whole lot of charity.  So I'm rooting for him I also thought he was the best part of Green Book and would love to see him take something And then for a lot of the more costume and Production design I feel like Black Panther deserves a lot of those awards. I feel like it created such an immersive world And that that in large part came down to costume and production and set design and all the small things that Are important but don't get as much recognition because there is bigger things The stuff that's not exclusive to filmmaking like a cinematography and editing are 100% exclusive to filmmaking There's something like costume design. A lot of that can be applied to different mediums. So You feel that those are kind of harder to quantify and justify almost that makes sense Perhaps why they don't get as much recognition but Yeah, I definitely feel like Black Panther deserves to take a lot of those just created that immersive world And I know that especially towards the end. There's some wonkyo CG I'm not saying that the special effects award should necessarily go to Black Panther. I haven't seen enough the special effects driven movies to Really make up my mind on that but don't really care about that either if I'm being honest So that's where I am on a lot of the major issues A lot of the major categories. I'm interested in what you have to say. So please drop a comment. Let me know Yeah, and if you're interested in the style of video or just me talking got my list here going through some of the major categories of Yes, I'm the major categories of what's been nominated So if you're interested in seeing more of that, please let me know and let me know what you think of the Oscars as a whole Like I said, I'm pretty sure that was a marketing move to Decide not to show some most important categories during the actual broadcast itself And that was just them trying to be clever. So I don't know what can you do? I won't be watching tomorrow, but I'll be following the updates and written for my movies to do well so that's my level of investment with the Oscars and Yeah, but I definitely didn't want to get this video because Here we go in a little bit of a tangent about the Oscars Because they've been around for so long and because They are a pretty good measure of quality of the film Obviously, you can find the years where they got this wrong and they're gonna be a lot Especially when you look at like retrospect now cultures change and how we view movies in the present as opposed to the past It makes sense that you can point out a lot of problems with the Oscars when you look back They've done a they've got a pretty good trajectory of Getting at least one of the best movies of the year Correct You can always make the argument that this is the movie that should have won this year And you go back in some notoriously bad ones like when saving private Ryan lost to Shakespeare in love That's just inexcusable if I'm being honest, but They do you can point out the bad years and you're gonna find all the top 10 Times the Oscars messed up, but honestly There are a lot of times where they got the right one. Correct. I feel like last year at the shape of water Um, I think year before that was moonlight slash la la land Both of those deserved it in my opinion. So you can definitely go back and find um Times when they did it right in times where it was effectively done so Like on one hand, I appreciate the Oscars is that at the same time The the the live broadcast itself is just not my cup of tea and I like movies about as much as you can like movies. So, um I don't know. I feel like they need to kind of like rework some of that to get it as entertaining as possible at this like if it was just Going through this category this category this category this category just going through every award I didn't enjoy it a lot more, but the live performances and all the stuff on the red carpet and the fashion It's just not my cup of tea and I feel like they were trying to just combine Different audience demographics or the people who love movies makes people who love this aspect and just combining them all together in the live performances and it's Bringing different people together in an individual age where there's so much Information and so much content available out there. That just isn't going to cut it these days. So that's my general opinion on the Oscars Yeah, I'm also Like without getting into like any like political discussion. I'll just be very nature of like making Something that should be like that history of movies is based on the Oscar not based on yeah But it's the Oscars are a significant part of the history of movies. You look back And then you get all these important Like dates in cinema history comes from the Oscars and you look at something like people trying to like politicize and Don't start a discussion of left versus right or anything in that and especially when you look at just American politics It's in four years from now. This isn't going to be relevant But the movie that won best picture that year is so kind of focus on the stuff that's going to be relevant in the future That's my opinion. There are other Areas to discuss politics and I don't anyway getting all ranty here drop a comment Let me know your thoughts on the Oscars and the debacle and what you're hoping to win and all that good stuff If you want to see more, please hit that subscribe button Yeah, new video on the favorite got Excited to talk about that. I'm very excited to talk about that Until then my last video is going to be over here, which I looked at one flew the cuckoo's nest unintentionally About a film that won best picture the day before the Oscars I released that so there's that and also down here is a t-shirt And mug thing so get yourself a mug and a patreon is going to put a link to that right there. So anyway, thank you for watching and we'll see you Two weeks from now