So fight scenes are super super common across all types of media and all types of fiction. And there's a bunch of different types of fight scenes as well. There's one-on-one attacks and duels. There's one kung fu master versus a dozen evil henchmen. There's fights where characters are running away and have to kind of fight their way out while they're doing so. There's super power matchups. There's gun duels. I mean the sky really is the limit here. That said, a lot of fights in all sorts of media are just really really really bad. Like it's always obvious when the people writing, slash directing, slash choreographing the fights just don't know what they're doing at all. And no one is there to teach them. So that's why I'm making this video. Like that's why I'm going, hey let's just talk about fight scenes a little bit. Let's see if I can get some advice out there which will make things a little bit better. And this is mostly going to be aimed at writers but I think there's some advice here that could work for other people as well. And we could just talk about it but that sounds a little boring so let's be more visual today. So we're outside. Now the first thing you need to ask is who is in conflict and why? Is it just a couple of friends who are mad at each other and started swinging? Is it a bar fight? Is it a supervised boxing match between bitter rivals or is it a fight to the death? The motivation behind things is what makes the audience care and caring is what makes them entertained. Like if it's visual form and you're just seeing two characters fight okay really? Is it we're just speeding right through neighborhood? If it's visual medium like a movie and we're just watching characters fight you can get away with thinner plot and characters but you can't really do that in written form like whether it's comic book there's just still images or an actual book where it's just words. You just can't get away with that. You need to have some motivation and by having motivation it makes it easier to get into the character's heads and so they you can really feel the fear, the exhaustion, the determination and whatever else is going through there and that is how you get the audience invested. Being in a fight and I don't just mean a fight to the death but any sort of fight at all is exhausting and tiring and kind of scary.  The mindset of somebody who's trying to defeat an opponent in boxing even if it's somebody they really hate is going to be different than somebody who's trying to kill a stranger who's running at them with an axe like it's gonna be night and day but that's all just setup for the fight. What about what happens during the fight itself? If you'd like you can think of it as emotional narrative which is like why people are doing it and technical narrative which is what happens. That's pretty basic though. You should also be wondering like what do the people involved actually know about fighting or more specifically what do the people involved to know about the type of fighting that is relevant. See John Wick is great at what he does but if you put him in some plate armor and expected him to fight some knights he probably wouldn't do that well. Similarly a samurai would be very good at what they do but if you put them into a modern gunfight they would probably fail. A lot of my channel focuses on fantasy and a lot of people watching you probably are working on something fantasy related as well meaning there are probably sort of magic powers or superpowers involved and so you should ask how can these be incorporated into combat. Something like Mistborn does this very well. You know for example they have pewter burning which increases your body's physical capabilities like size, strength, durability that sort of thing. They also are able to push and pull on medals or even manipulate their opponent's emotions. All of these are very useful in a fight. Now in a regular real world fight size and weight matter a lot. I am not going to defeat Dave Bautista in a fight. It's just it's just not going to happen he has too much of an advantage. Now you throw weapons into the mix or you throw magic into the mix that changes the calculus quite a bit that can even the playing field because if I can shoot lightning at him or move at the speed of sound or even just cut him real bad with one of these that changes things a lot it evens the playing field but however they're fighting and whatever they're fighting with you need to have knowledge and practice in order to do it effectively. So you should ask yourself what can the characters involved do? What sort of practice do they have? What sort of knowledge do they have? How long have they been doing it? Are they somebody who has been training with master swordsmen for years or are they just somebody who picked it up yesterday and barely know what they're doing? Oftentimes the worst type of person to fight at least in a fight to the death is a brave amateur because they're just going to come charging right in and not really know what they're doing and you're just going to wind up both getting stabbed and both dying probably. People who know what they're doing tend to act in more predictable ways but the flip side of that is that if you don't have much experience then sometimes you can freeze up like a couple of months ago I actually was in a long-sword tournament and I fought against another guy who I had never met before and he just unleashed at me you know he just came in full throttle the whole way and I'll admit I kind of froze up wasn't sure what I was doing and got hit several times and I wound up losing that match but a little while later I fought that same guy again and because I knew what to expect and I was expecting okay he's gonna come at me with a lot of force I just gotta counter that I did better I still lost but I did better. But even if you don't freeze up the characters need to know how to act and how to react if they're going to fight because way too often I see people writing characters thinking while they're fighting and that's not something you have time for they happen real fast you don't have time to think you just have time to act and react that's why training and practice are so important anime is particularly bad about this it'll have characters monologue for like 10 minutes in their heads about what's going on and what they're going to do inside you are resisting trying to rekindle some of your former strength in real life you've been training for a while you've seen the exact kind of attack that they're doing a thousand times in a row in training so you just counter it and follow it up that's all it is it's no thinking at all now you don't have to be an aristocrat who trains all day or a monk who lives in a secluded temple in order to get good at this sort of thing it doesn't take that long to at least learn the basics becoming a master yeah that takes much longer but just learning the basics is pretty easy to do and that's why a lot of people throughout history have done it pretty much every culture every human culture at least has had some form of martial arts that people have practiced a lot of them weren't named or codified and a lot of them have died out as well but they've always existed for example moi tai now until recently that didn't even have a name the name moi tai just translates as tai boxing and because before recently that was just the way that they fought and then they came into contact with westerners and they're like well this is kind of like what the boxing you guys do except it's a tai version so they just called it tai boxing however there are a lot of very very distinct styles though for example you can widely split it into hard arts which are about striking and soft arts which are about grappling if you want to see differences on how those function literally just watch an MMA match because those usually have a lot of both but then watch that and compare it to say a Jackie Chan fight scene and you'll see it's night and day and then compare it to like a sword fight for most movies again very very different the point is these are all very distinct there's a lot of different ways of fighting which all look very different and come from very different cultures and obviously weapons shake that up as well like this right here is a long sword now i am trained in english longsword specifically which is different than say french or german or italian and english longsword assumes that you and your opponents are both wearing armor so it has a lot of like really big sweeping motions because you need power to break through steel plate but there's also english bastard sword which is the exact same weapon just used in a different way because bastard sword assumes you and your opponent are not wearing armor so this one has a lot more really small brief quick movements and there's also a bigger emphasis on stabbing because you don't really need to get through their armor and those are two distinct styles using the same weapon coming from the same place imagine how different it could be if we also started looking at the rest of europe or africa and the middle east or east asia or anywhere the point is there's a lot a lot a lot of different ways you can do this you generally want to have at least a basic idea of what the fight looks like in your head as you're writing it you don't want to describe every attack and every block and everything because that would get tedious pretty quick but you do want to have at least a general idea of it so you can describe it at least in broad terms and you also like i said you want to know how these characters would fight so what sort of culture do they come from and how did they learn so martial arts wherever they come from have generally been developed for one of three reasons number one being for sport you know this is something like boxing or western wrestling where you're not really trying to hurt the other guy you're just doing it for fun and obviously you can still get pretty badly messed up while doing this but the intent is not to kill people the second reason is for self defense in a civilian context so this the staff here is a korean bong and this was normally they're six feet long this one's only five feet for some reason not sure why but this was originally not a weapon it was a farm tool it's something that you use to carry buckets of water you know you go out to the well you put one on each side and you carry it like this but if somebody attacks you then well okay you already have this and you're good to go you can just start attacking right there and the third reason they were created was again for warfare english longsword it's designed to fight somebody using armor you're not going to see that a lot outside of a battle there's a lot of overlap between these three different types of styles but they are still pretty distinct during world war two american marines were really only taught basic boxing and wrestling for close quarters combat and i mean that's fine but it's a life or death scenario in war so it didn't work super well when they were fighting against japanese soldiers who were much better trained in things like kenjutsu and jujutsu and then during the vietnam war some similar things happened which is why the modern day marine corps martial arts program was developed now a lot of times civilians did not have access to weapons either for legal reasons or for practical ones uh the korean bong i just showed you was a farm tool which they just happened to use the as a weapon they learned to use it that way this is an english quarter staff and this is just a weapon like you can see it's much bigger much bulkier it's really difficult to fit inside at all and so you're probably not going to carry this around all day just on the off chance that somebody might try to start something with you generally speaking people learn to fight with what they had on hand so ask yourself what do people carry around in your setting is it normal for them to just have knives on their person all the time well then they should learn to fight using these and if someone from that culture does get into a knife battle they probably won't be really scared and acting like they don't know what they're doing they're gonna be very confident they'll know exactly what they're trying to do and they're just gonna go for it they might not be the best at it but they'll know what they're doing in france people actually dueled to the death so often that the government forbid carrying swords or guns around in public so people learn to fight using canes which were pretty normal there's an entire school of martial arts built around fighting with these things which i know nothing about i know there's whacking and i know that you can use this top handle to like grip and pull people but i don't know anything else about it in brazil slaves were not allowed to wield weapons or practice martial arts because their masters were afraid they would use it in a rebellion so they developed capoeira which is a martial art style which was just disguised as a dance so if you want to know what sort of weapons people have or and how they would fight then ask yourself what sort of resources and technology they have available to make those weapons and then look at the limitations they have and how they work around that wait a minute did james trick us into watching another world building video yes he did now shut up and listen american indians didn't have metal working so they didn't have long swords or plate armor or anything like that they made their weapons out of things like wood and bone and rock polynesian people often didn't even have rock that they could use properly they had to make weapons out of wood a lot of the time like polynesian war paddles are still deadly but they are made of wood and sometimes they would actually put shark's teeth on the sides of it so it could also cut and stab and in all situations you should always be thinking of improvised weapons this right here is anasgrima it is just a stick like you could be walking through the woods or the jungle or something get ambushed and pick up a branch that looks exactly like this and use it to fight bad guys unless you are a bad guy in which case you'd probably be using it to fight good guys but that's not important and because this sort of object is so common it was an improvised weapon that just became a regular weapon now you just make these and theoretically people could just carry these around because they're real light they're small they're easy to keep with you this on the other hand is a gun stock war club which was developed in a similar way uh basically what happened was before the bayonet was invented but after people started using muskets and battle uh if your opponent came up close to you and you didn't have time to reload what you would do is you would flip it up so you hold it by the barrel and then you just swing it at them and europeans did this while they were fighting against native tribes in what is now the northeastern united states and they thought oh it's a good idea so they just carved their own out of wood this one's actually made a polymer but they carved them out of wood and they added a blade to the tip of it and a lot of times the spikes on these things was just made from kitchen knives or other stuff that the natives either traded with or stole from white people and actually this one only has one spike but sometimes they'd have three or four or even more people are smart i mean both individuals and societies they're smart if you give them something they will find a way to make use of it and as an added bonus if you're unfamiliar with a weapon or a style you're not going to be totally sure how to counter it so if somebody comes at you with something like this you're going to hesitate for a split second and not be sure what to do and a split second is all it takes so take all of that into account what sort of society do your characters come from what if any experience or resources do they have and from that you can tell what they would or how they would fight and how well they would fight and what they would fight with now terrain is super important arguably more important than the combatants themselves because terrain can be muddy you can get stuck it can be slippery and you can fall it can be dark or misty so it restricts your vision if you're in the woods or something then there's routes to trip you branches to restrict your movement if you're indoors there's things like furniture and tables and things that can trip you up and that is exactly why we say you must maintain a small stance this is nice terrain out here and you still slipped on your butt if you're out in rough terrain nasty it's wet it's snowy or there's objects underground you'll do that in front of your opponent and you will die way too many people write fight scenes as if they're happening in empty flat rings and that's just not how real battles happen at all because if I'm fighting someone on something like this this is just grass and it's mostly flat and that's going to be quite a bit different than if we're both in waist deep water and we're kind of sinking into the mud and like if you fall under the water in that situation you're done and that's the point I'm getting at use the obstacles to your advantage because if you're not paying attention to them in a fight then you could trip or otherwise get in a bad situation and then your opponent will finish you off but you can also use that to your advantage you can trip them up if you're fighting more than one person you can sort of get them into a situation where they can only come at you one at a time like there's a million different ways to do this throwing and grappling are also really important things to consider when it comes to terrain and obstacles because some of you watching this have probably done something like wrestling or Brazilian jiu-jitsu or something like that where there's a lot of throwing and grappling but when you practice that it's on a mat usually so if somebody throws you or otherwise gets you onto the mat that kind of hurts but it's not that bad whereas if you do it out here on this grass which is you know kind of soft but there's like hard dirt underneath it that's going to hurt some more if you go right over there to the sidewalk or the street so you're falling on asphalt and concrete we're talking broken bones and concussions if you get thrown to the ground so these are really important things to consider all in all fight scenes should pretty much never be fought in empty spaces like just blank empty voids that's not how it should work something that's actually very similar to terrain but not quite the same is what the combatants are wearing and how they're feeling now right now i'm wearing this gambasin it's basically just a thick padded jacket it's a type of armor you know like it's not going to stop something heavy like a battle axe but it can stop something small like a knife and if it's a wound that would otherwise be fatal can turn into a minor one because this is pretty thick the main problem with it is not just that it's kind of bulky and heavy nothing too awful but that it's hot like it's actually pretty early in the morning that's sun beaten down on me is killing me man and i haven't even really fought anybody in this right now and if you don't believe me just put on a winter coat and then run on a treadmill for a couple of minutes and see how you feel afterwards you're not going to be at your best i also have these lovely gauntlets on and these do a great job protecting my hands but if i drop something if i drop my weapon while i'm wearing these i need to take them off to pick it back up and i can tell you that from first hand experience i also have this lovely mask which will protect my head in the event of it getting hit by something but you can also see it's covering up my face so it kind of restricts my vision not a lot not by as much as like you know knights with their plate helmets and they have just that little thin visor to see through it's not restricting it that much but it is still restricting it now if i had to put all that on and then i fought somebody right now it would be okay it would still be uncomfortable but it would be okay at the end of the day but if i was marching all day didn't have enough water had barely eaten and then i had to fight an entire battle at the end of it which could last for a couple of minutes or it could last for hours and hours i'm not going to be at my best in fact people are very rarely at 100 percent when it comes to physical activity what if you get attacked when you're on your way home from work and you're really tired or what if you have not eaten properly in a week and you're working your way through a blizzard or what if you're sick and you're searching for a magical cure or anything like that that's gonna beat down on you you know you're not going to be at your best when you're like that and that comes back to what i was saying earlier get inside the characters heads and make the audience feel what they are feeling as an example what is more interesting somebody who's in perfect shape effortlessly cutting down their opponents with a flurry of fancy moves that they had no trouble doing or somebody who can barely stand deciding to dig down deep grab the last vest vestiges of their strength and fight off somebody who wants to make them one more in a long line of corpses because i know what's more interesting to me and at the end of the day fighting somebody trying to hurt them is a difficult thing to do like you have to overcome some mental barriers because most people don't want to hurt each other and they especially don't want to kill each other that said very few things annoy me more in fiction than when people fight with deadly weapons like swords and nobody gets killed or even seriously hurt during it like this one's blunted but if it were sharp you pull it out when you are going to kill somebody it's not for threatening them it's not for trying to cut off their hand and disable them or turn the flat of the blade so you hit them in the head and knock them unconscious which is an actual thing i've seen done before it's like god it's so stupid like you are pulling it out to kill them because even if you only give them a minor wound it can get infected or they can bleed to death like no matter what you do there is a very real chance that the other person will die in fact there's a greater chance that they will die than that they will live and so you do not hold back and you do not limit yourself by only attacking non-vital areas because if you do that you're putting yourself at a disadvantage and you will most likely die when it comes down to a fight to the death it is you or the other person and if you're not going to choose you then you may as well just give up you have to be a little bit of a psychopath to be good at fighting at the end of the day now i've been talking about realism and using real martial arts as a template for this entire video but does realism really matter like does your fight scene being more realistic make it better it depends recently i did a video on the live action one piece series which you should check out if you get a chance it's a very good show and the fight scenes in that are pretty over the top like there's people doing flips people getting kicked through buildings people destroying stuff it's it's pretty over the top it's not realistic in the slightest but one piece is also a very goofy series you know people who are half fish or people who have bodies made of rubber are pretty common place there so seeing them do all this crazy stuff it it checks out in fact if they decided to be dark and gritty and realistic just during the fight scenes it would be strange you know it wouldn't really fit the tone but on the other end of that spectrum if we have someone like say john wick suddenly start running up buildings and punching through concrete walls and stuff it would be weird and it just wouldn't fit what i'm getting at is that tone is far more important than anything else that said when people say those big flashy moves you see in kung fu movies and martial arts and stuff those usually aren't used in a real fight but i do want to point out that those still serve an actual purpose like i got my quarter staff again and like spinning this thing around over my head and such like this probably isn't going to be used in a real fight but it is still teaching me something you know it's serving a purpose it's teaching me balance and control it's making it so i'm less likely to lose control of this thing or drop it during a real fight and when you see kung fu masters doing like flying kicks and stuff well that's the same thing those sorts of things can also be useful as an intimidation tactic like you see in kung fu movies sometimes people right before they fight they'll do like a hundred flashy moves just by themselves and then get into a fighting stance what they're saying there is hey i know what i'm doing don't try to start anything with me and that is a very real thing from martial arts like if i do this i'm saying don't fuck with me i have the power of god and anime on my side fight scenes are just one way of showcasing conflict that can happen in all sorts of different stories and the tone of the fight scenes should match the tone of the story so that's where i'm going to leave you just make sure everything matches up see you later subscribe and stuff also i might do a world building martial arts video later if people are interested goodbye wait don't click away i know you think the video 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As a PMM, you're really collaborating with so many cross-functional stakeholders and you act as the quarterback between these teams. You should be able to identify gaps in the current processes, optimize them for more efficiency, and help different teams speak to each other to deliver these outcomes. I think that's a really great point you made about not only focusing on your transferable skills that you've had before, but also looking to how you continue to develop and grow as you get into further proper marketing experiences.


Hello, my name is Rosa Maria Costich-Disneros and I am collaborating with the Independent Theatre Hungary. I'm here today with Richard O'Neill and Tamás Segedi. We're all in different locations, but because of the beauty of technology, we're able to connect and sit here today to talk about European family. I love both. I hope you're well. Welcome to the conversation. Thank you. Yes. If you could both start by introducing yourselves, your practice, where you are, I think that'd be helpful as well. Thank you. Hi, I'm Richard O'Neill. I'm from a nomadic Romani family in the north of England. That's where I'm speaking to you from now. And I'm a writer. I write all kinds of things. I write everything from children's books to plays, but I particularly love plays. It's such a wonderful thrill to sit down there and watch your words being spoken by somebody else and whether that's in English or a different language. It's a particular thrill to see these ideas come to life. Yes, thank you. And Tamás? Hi, I'm Tamás Segedi from Hungary. I'm living in Budapest. I work as an actor and a director in theatres. And I work as a teacher in a primary school. I teach in Romani language and I work as a drama teacher. And in the last few months, I started to work as a writer, too. I started to write some plays for children, specifically for children. And in the future, I would like to write more plays just for children, for every person. So here we are with two writers. It's lovely. Yes, it's lovely. And so speaking of writing, Ken, we're here talking about European family. Can you tell me a little bit about the work and your role within that work, if you were an actor or a writer? And yeah, a little bit more about that. Whoever wants to go first? Yeah, I'll go. It was interesting for me, the European family, because we were actually in lockdown. So we couldn't do anything else apart from do this, what we're doing now, which is online. And just as a storyteller and a writer, naturally being collecting stories. And there were so many beautiful stories that came out of the lockdown, particularly in England with people who, because I work with a lot of Roma people who are from Eastern Europe, who currently live in England. And a lot of them were unable to move, of course, because of the lockdown. Some of them needed to get back home. And some of them need to get back to England fairly quickly. And there were so many stories around that about, you know, how to get from one place to the other. And then when you're a fairly close family as part of a close community, that feeling of being split up, of being disconnected, and talking with the independent theatre. And they were talking about wanting to do a play. And I ended up doing some acting in that play, which is not my first choice, really. But I enjoyed it. I think I was okay in it. I'll let other people judge that. But it was such a lovely experience, I had all of these stories, and I came up with all of these ideas, and then talking to the actors, the cast, if you will, then we were able to work round, and they were able to do some of the writing themselves for the things they wanted to say. So it's very much a collective piece, even though I'd had most of the ideas. So that was really interesting to me, because it was like a family. And even though we were connecting on the internet, and we became kind of like a family, and we had all these rehearsals, we had some recordings. And yeah, we actually went into those roles, and I did feel like I was Thomas' dad for quite a while, which was quite good. So I really enjoyed that. Thank you. Thank you. I really enjoyed it too, because that was my first time when I play in a movie or in a theater. It was between these two parts of this artistic way. And it was the first time when I worked as an actor in English. So it was a good experience to me, how to play it, how to do it in another language, not my native language. So it was a good experience. And that was the second nice thing in this way. As Richard said, we were all around the world. And someone was Italy, someone was in Spain. Richard was in Britain. I was in Hungary. And my other colleague, Lucy, was in Hungary too, but we are not in the... We are in personality contact. So it was another specialty thing in this movie, in this way. And that was nice when we started to work, started to write our stories, which will be in the play. And how we are thinking on the lockdown, in personality or from the other people, the stories from the news, which will be in the story. And the third thing, not just actors and writers, maybe, the story. We were cameramen, we were the lighting man, we were the... We make our background. Yes. And everything's happened. And yes. And the show must go on. Yes. Yes. And I really enjoyed it because when I make theater, I love to make the furniture, the props in the theater, directing theater performance. I love to make the props too. So if I play in the show, I build the theater before this art at the moment before the show starts, I bake down and start the show with an actor. Sure. And so it sounds like Tamás, you've said that there are lots of different people from a number of places. And Richard, you said that there were many stories, all of you brought stories with you. Can you tell me a little bit, Richard, about those stories? I don't know, Tamás, if you want to get your earpiece so we can hear you a little better. I know I think it fell off, yeah. Richard, if you can tell us a little bit about some of the stories. Yeah, I think it was really interesting what Tamás said there and it was just adding on to what I was saying. We really had an ownership of what we would do it. And even though we had people, other people from the theater who were the independent theater watching us and asking us to move things around. And again, I'm used to live performance as a performer. And you just keep going. And once you've done it, you've done it, you think I can do better next time. But when you're doing that, it's very easy for somebody who's watching you, our director here to say, let's do that again. Let's do that again. So there's quite a few things that we did it again and again. And I'm just like, I'm not used to this. But what also was important for me was it was very organic in many ways because we did become like a family. And we are different, Tamás and I had different generations. And for me, there was that nice intergenerational because I think sometimes in theater, sometimes, you know, TV or film, then we very much separate the generations. This is an older person, this is a younger person. And it was actually very inclusive, I found. And that was important to me because the stories that we had running through the European family were things that were happening to people outside in the real world. People were dying and people could not go to their funeral. And, you know, that's hard for anybody.  So there was that was in the play about this fact that, you know, somebody had died, but the rituals that we usually have, we couldn't do. You know, there's a lot of rituals within the Romani communities that we follow. And I realized that that was happening to people that they weren't able to do it. So the grief that they were having was becoming what we might call complicated grief. So we were, and then there's this difference between the generations. There are differences, obviously, and there are similarities, too.  Yes.  But there's also something quite lovely that this is happening online in a digital way, where people can watch the work and see someone maybe from their country and, and also at the same time see a story from somewhere else that's through theater, not through the news, not through media, not through that political lens. So it's quite, I think, a really beautiful way to reflect on something that, you know, the world was going through, but through this very kind of specific context. Thomas, did you want to add anything about the stories that were coming up for you or that were part of, ended up being part of European family? Yes, that was so important and that was so interesting, as Richard said. The lockdown, there was families break down from each other. And there was another way in this story, because there's some situation when some piece, some part of the family, the boy, the children, who didn't want to go home. And it was a good chance to say, sorry, there is a lockdown, I couldn't go home, sorry, I had to stay here. And that was another interesting way. And that was a good chance to make some secret in the story, which came up during the story at the last part of the movie of the show. So there are some secrets, which is many thematic of the story. Yes. There are refugees in the camp who had to stay on that place, because there are the virus is locked down all the people, the refugees too. And there are some social worker who had to go to help them, had to go to care them during the virus. And they had to take their job harder than in normal way, in this situation. And there was a secret in this story, in that family. There was a guy who is a gay, who have a boyfriend. And this is the big secret, which came up in the story in the out. And this idea of grief, or of stories, of secrets is quite, I think, you know, an international, we all have, you know, a secret, we all have grief, we all have something that's very private. And so it's lovely that you, you know, the work was kind of looking at that and how to share that, because I think it's a, you know, that's one of the beauties of art and that we can create a space to look at maybe some things that might be taboo or difficult to talk about. And so do you have any feedback of how maybe people who watch the work, or even amongst, you know, you the actors in the group, how it was like to deal with these topics around grief and secrets, and to make sure that you present it in a way that's respectful, but still true to that, you know, to the story, was that something that came up for you guys? It was for me, I mean, for me, as a writer of my own community, as a writer about my community, then I feel a responsibility that I don't feel if I write about something else. So there is a responsibility because, you know, because of the space we exist in, in terms of racism, and all of the other things and lack of opportunities and so on and so forth for Romanian people around the world. We know that we're not in a, you know, a very strong position. So we have to be really, really careful as a writer that we take that responsibility. We don't want to do anything that's actually going to cause more damage. But on the other hand, we don't want to do something that's all sweetness and light and pretend that there aren't, that we're not real people. So that is a very fine balance which we're always considering all the time. So there's a responsibility and a very fine balance. And we thought about that and we talked about that. And I think we did, we did pretty well with that. One of the things we also wanted to reflect was the, the European family, you know, the stories that are in this, this play, this film, what everyone would call it, are universal. As you said, you know, families have this. And I think the particular character that Thomas played, he's away from home. He's living somewhere else. Now, when you come from a particular community, whatever that is, there is a certain freedom when you move away and people can't see what you do. So even if you're having Zoom calls and you're writing letters as people used to do or phone calls, you say, yeah, I'm fine. Because I'm still, you know, because I'm still practicing the community things. And of course, I'm still going to church, mother, and because I'm still doing this, whatever community is. But what happened, I think with the lockdown was that for some people that actually gave them more freedom, because they didn't have to interact. They didn't have to travel from wherever they'd gone to to come back home. They could just keep this facade going via the internet. But then of course, like everything else, most secrets and families come out. And when they do come out, you know, it causes shockwaves. So, and then, and then of course, in most families, as we find, there's a big secret, but actually, it's not a secret to everybody. People go, you know, we are new. Oh, yeah, I knew about that. In the universal themes, but we wanted to make sure that it reflected. And then in terms of feedback, there were lots of people I've spoken to since, who said everything from, oh, man, this is just like the best soap opera ever. Because, you know, when's the next one? You know, they wanted to see this family carry on. They actually had invested in it. And then of course, there are some people from the community who say, well, well, he wouldn't wear that shirt. But overall, enjoyed it. People enjoyed it. And I think they valued it. So yeah, so I was very, very pleased with the feedback I had. And Thomas, yes. Yes. As the same, many of the person who looked this video, they asked, okay, when is the next, when is the next step of this family? Because they started to love this family and this story. So it was so nice to thinking on and get this feedback. So it was a lovely family. And another way, I got some feedback from this whole symbolic this story. Because the center of the family, the mother and the mother is in Britain. Or somewhere in Europe, you know, because there was not concrete in the story, but where. But many of them thinking, okay, they are in Britain. And the others from the family go across in Europe, in other countries in Europe. And they broken. They couldn't get in conversation as the family. That was the sad way of the story. And the happiest way in the story, how they fight against the the far, how they fight against the problems and how they get the contact together. And it was the symbolic of the Romani people. Because if we are think us as a big family, there are no orders. There are no far. We can, we can fight against the far. We can, we can get in touch across the internet. We can get to work together. If we are one, we can do this. So that was the message for many, many people. You guys did that. You know, you did that. And what a beautiful, you know, I'm assuming you almost feel very proud that people want to know more that they were so invested in the work and that you could do that through this theater, film, play, you know, that was online. And so that's also, you know, it's, I know it's not easy to communicate feelings and to really engage people through this medium. And so the fact that you guys could, through the acting, through the editing, through the, the stories, you know, it's, it's a, you know, I would, I'm assuming you should be very proud and happy that you were able to do that. And also, you know, it's, it's not easy. I think some of, as you said, Richard, some of the topics you're talking about, and it's a fine line. And so I thinking about that, is there something that you want the audience to know about the work after seeing it? Is there a kind of key message? I think, Thomas, you started to talk about that, that if you want to do something, you, we can do it and that that's something true to the Romani community. Is there anything else that you'd like to, you hope the audience walks away with after seeing this work?  That's, that's what it's about. It's stories are there to be enjoyed, they're there to move us, they're there to remind us about ourselves. You know, if it, if it, if it makes somebody think and act slightly differently, maybe a bit more positively or something or provides a bit of comfort to their family, that would be great. I think the other thing professionally I would like it to do is to say, look, this was done during lockdown in our front rooms, with our families, we had to keep our families out of the way and the dogs out of the way and, you know, all this stuff going on, to make this little tunnel in our front rooms or wherever we were, you know, in my caravan sometimes, trying to get that business quiet and then the internet's not working properly because everybody's on the internet. So, you know, we did it, we did it in real life and we, and I think, you know, we're, I want people to see that we tried our best, you know, and we can write and we can produce things and this is probably a starting point.  We've got to start to create this Romani, you know, this Romani stories and the independent theatre company in Hungary, just since they did the Roma Heroes in 2017, just worked tirelessly, non-stop, made an impact around the world and people are watching this around the world now and that gives me so much pleasure, I can't tell you. Yes, and I think, you know, that's such a, that came through to me in watching the work that it's about, you know, I could see values, you know, that there were decisions that were made and it was, there was something about holding on to some values, whether those were personal or made through the team, there was something quite beautiful about, you know, this is, as a unit, we want to share this work in this way, these stories, even though we're in different places. And so my last question is, where did the title come from, European family? Was that just that organically come up or was that proposed by someone? Richard laughing. I am laughing because I had a title in mind. It somehow got lost in translation, it got lost in internet, it got lost in, so it's somehow got confused. I was going to call it woke, mainly because it was a play on, on the word wake, which is, you know, when somebody dies, we have this and a lot of people, you know, use the word differently.   And of course the word woke, very important that, you know, the father in this play gets a little bit more woke. So, but it has somehow that got lost. It sounds good, doesn't it? It sounds really, really good. But it somehow got lost in the email, I think. And so I don't know who it was, who just said European family. But yeah, we are, you know, we're a European family, we're a European family of artists. So yeah, I'm quite happy with that. So we'll save the woke one for another time. Yes, I mean, and, you know, that's a play on words there. Now it's used all the time. And so it would have been interesting to see if that was the title, what that would have, how that would have evolved. But there's something also quite lovely about European family. And I, you know, I think it's also quite fitting. So, you know, maybe the next play Richard or a book might use woke. Yes, is there anything else? Yes, Thomas, did you want to say something? Yes, that was the work title of this story, as Richard said, woke. And that was another title. During we are thinking on the titles of the story of this play, that was the European Roma family. And at the last editing, we are talking about this, because, okay, this is a story about Roma family. But all the stories, all the human stories and the heart in this story can be universal, not just for Roma people. It's enough to know they are Roma family. But in the title, it's enough, as we say, European family. Because if we are thinking in Europe as a big family, and if our countries wanted to work together and share the values in Europe and share everything, sharing the culture in Europe, we must think in this big place as a union. Yes, yes. And you know, there's that point about kind of the human, that the human is at the core of this. And the stories are all kind of, I think that's what makes them universal. And you guys did that so well, that while there were cultural elements in there, and cultural and also kind of country, those elements specific to various characters, there's also, but at the core, I think it's about the human and that human spirit. And I feel that's perhaps what comes through the most, why people really were able to find something in it, as both of you have said. And it's also, at the time of lockdown, the world was kind of coming together in a number of ways, and not coming together as well. And I think that that came in a bit with the story as well. So it feels quite reflecting the times, but also a hope for the future of, let's look at the human and let's see, you know, that that core of the person is really what matters, not the labels or the secrets or, you know, but it's about the person. Well, thank you so much both for sitting down and sharing your memories about creating the work, the title, acting in the work, and yes, and just making this work that is accessible and inclusive and so important and timely. So thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.


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To provide students around the region with the much needed tools to succeed and further their education, a back-to-school supply giveaway took place right here in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. We started this out in 2015, trying to get the kids something to get excited for to go back to school. COVID's actually slowed it down some, we're having a new drive up, but the kids are still excited, they're getting kind of ice cream, they're getting supplies in the, judging our old school, we do that old math, if some of these parents got to do that new math, there wouldn't be a lot of scratch pads. Floyd County Judge Executive Robbie Williams says that his focus is helping to meet the needs of the families and students during the pandemic. With everything that's going on, it's just helping them out, it's just one less thing they have to worry about. The city has done an excellent job of doing this each year and we're happy to help as much as we can, but now I have to give credit to the city, they do a heck of a job. We know that it's just been a crazy time that we're in right now and so we're trying to make things feel as exciting and as normal as we can for these kids that are heading into a new school year. In my role, working with Bluegrass Care Navigators, which our main service line is hospice, we don't get to interact with kids as much, so being here today, getting to see their bright smiling faces has just been a joy. Williams says that this event was possible through a collaborative effort among the community. A lot of volunteers, a lot of corporate sponsors, businesses that have taken time and money and donated the labor, people to come here and work today, and it means a lot, especially in the times we're living in now, that people can come together for the betterment of our community. Organizers say that they are giving out 500 backpacks with all the school supplies that are required this year. This school year is going to be totally different this year. But they know how important it is so they're trying to get them off on the right track. And again, scratch pad for parents. Reporting from the Mountain Arts Center in Preston's Work, Kentucky, I'm Jeremy Justice with Mountain Top News.


Welcome to the Crimson Engine. My name is Rubidium. Today we're looking at three different scenarios in which it's probably better to run your lights off batteries than it is to connect them to the main power. Don't get me wrong, mains power is great. It's never going to run out. It's incredibly cheap. It's widely accessible. But sometimes running your lights off batteries is going to give you way more freedom, way more movement, way more control. So today we're going to look at three different times where that's going to be your best option. The first time is any time the light has to move and move a lot. An extra cable is just going to get tangled. It's going to get caught in things. It's going to be too long. Here you see we do a modified poor man's process with a light on top of a C-stand swinging around giving the effect of street lights passing under the car. If you had any kind of cable on this, it's going to get tangled really, really quickly. So I just put this IntelliTek light cannon with a Bebob V-mount mini battery and was able to spin it around manually and not get into any kind of tangles or troubles with cables. The second time is any time you're away from mains power or mains power isn't an option. Here we see another driving shot, but this time shot while driving. I put the Lightcloth LC120 tucked into the sunroof holder. I was able to run that off a battery and able to get pretty decent exposure for a night shot conversation in a car. Now I didn't really finesse this or balance it out or put too much thought into it. I just wanted to show how you can get a big light source quite bright in a moving car by running it off an external battery. This thing will give you over an hour and a half of light. So you could probably shoot all night in a car with just a couple of these. If you use the D-tap on the side, you're able to run additional lights off the same battery and that means you won't have to keep track of different levels at different times.  A third time that it's going to really pay to use lights off batteries is when you're doing what's called a follow fill. That's when someone walks behind camera with a light to fill in the shadows or just give a little bit more illumination on your subject. Here you see one from Black Swan where they're using a lightball on the end of a stick to basically act as the key for Natalie Portman as she's walking through New York City. This was my own version from the dancing video that I shot for Ablesony which I'm going to do a breakdown of on my channel as well in a couple of weeks. And we just used a simple light stick behind camera in order to add illumination to the dancer as we moved around because the camera was so free flowing that we were going to see any light that we put up. And it meant that if we wanted light, which we did, we needed to move it as the camera moved. Running a light off batteries adds an entire new dimension to where you're able to put lights, how you're able to use lights, how you're able to move lights. And I would encourage you in your own workflow to do some experimentation and see where a battery mounted light might help. Thank you very much for watching. There are links to these things in the descriptions. Leave a question in the comments and I will see you next time.


What's up everyone, Takedown here. Welcome back to the return of my retro gaming series here on my channel today. Up first for episode one is going to be, in my opinion, the most iconic and retro game there is Pac-Man. So I'm going to be doing this for today's episode and basically my goal for my retro gaming series is to, each episode, whatever game I choose to play that day is going to be basically just to try to beat my high score. So my personal high score for Pac-Man is 22,010 points. I'm going to, I'm basically just going to try to beat my high score today for this episode. Let's get right into it.  This used to be my thing. I used to have the Nintendo Entertainment System, the NES growing up and I had Pac-Man on it. It was, oh he almost got me. I gotta go in here. It was a lot of fun. I actually have a lot of games on the NES I would love to find again just to kind of reminisce on my childhood if that makes any sense. But some of the ones I used to play are not necessarily rare. They're just hard to find now. If that makes sense. I thought they were going to come down this way but clearly they're not. Yeah it's not, they're not rare games. I didn't want to hit this one though. Yeah we're also looking for a NES system hoping to find one relatively cheap. I know some people are putting them skyrocketing for the prices. They charge ridiculous for the price. Oh I thought I hit it. Damn. But yeah I'm gonna try to find a NES system. I really want to get some of the old games from. I know it wasn't from my childhood. I know the system came out in the 80s but it was the first system I played during my childhood. So it basically the system means a lot to me. Playing Mario Kirby. I forget the dirt bike game. Blades of glory a hockey game that was my first hockey game I played as Canadian. Hockey is you lie.  We're gonna try this one more time. I think I'm talking not paying attention there but that is my goals as far as getting a retro system. The series is also going to include Galaga, Dig Dug, Cubert. PS4 actually if you go under free games they actually have a just don't want to get caught here. They actually have a mine I was gonna say Minecraft. Minefield version. PS4 minefield version and I'm actually decent.  I didn't know how it worked. I'm just gonna get it now. But now I'm pretty decent at it. I can do some wins. So I'm gonna be trying to beat the clock. I guess I'm gonna try to like see how fast I can beat minefield. That is my goal for that episode. But yeah I do have retro games. I'm excited to play. I'm really excited for this series just because retro gaming was my childhood basically. We didn't have PS4s, PS3s, we didn't have online gaming back when I started really gaming. So it's fun to look back at those memories. So one game I never played. I have the PS4. I have the PS4 version. It's Mega Man. And honestly, roast me down in the comments if you will. I'm not a fan of that game. I tried the first one. I have the first six Mega Man games. Tried the first one. Not a fan. It's tricky but it's tricky to the point where it's just not even enjoyable. Tried the second one. Same thing for me. Tried the third one. Same thing for me. So it's not a game for me. I'm not ragging on people that actually enjoy the game. It's just I can't. I've tried numerous times. I tried different... Oh I thought I had time. Yeah I tried different games of it. It's not one for me. But I was gonna turn that into an episode series. But if I'm not having fun playing the game, there's no point in my minds to play the game. Just to get a video out of it. You know what I mean? But definitely the other games. I'm definitely gonna be playing Pac-Man again in the future. It's not like a one-and-done. I'm gonna be bringing it back for sure just because I love it. Surprisingly, I just got my extra life. See if it's actually worth. Ah it wasn't worth me getting. Sometimes I'm not beating my high score. And I think I'm just gonna say this is gonna be my last attempt for it. Because I'm 10,000 points shy from getting an M on my last life. And this is the first time in today's episode that I'm getting to the third level. So I'm not doing the greatest. I'm not necessarily a retro gamer. But I still enjoy playing retro games. That's where it all started. That's where gaming all started in my opinion. Can I come down here? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Ha! Bite me. I almost got caught there. There are a little bit trickier than I. I thought he was gonna get me. I really did. I already screwed up twice there. Oh, I'll get that again. Alright. I should not have gotten you. I'm gonna get caught here. I know it. I apologize for losing, not being the greatest at this game. Am I gonna get to level four? No, I thought I had so much time. But yeah, first retro gaming episode after bringing it back. I know I've played these before in the past, but I didn't really have commitment. I just made them for quick and easy videos, which they are quick and easy videos. But it is like a blast from the past for me, my childhood, playing the games that I grew up on. I really wish there was an arcade around me. A retro gaming arcade would be epic. But anyways, we'll leave this episode here. I will be back soon with Dig Dug Gallagher minefield. It is the PS4 version, but it is still minefield. Cuberts and potentially some other retro games that I might have or get. So I will leave this video here. Hope you guys did enjoy it. I'll see you guys in the next one. Please take care. Peace.


Hey, hello, buddies. Thanks for watching. Okay, so part two of my Mercari what sold and This is my tenth video tonight. So I'm just trying on hats at this point and I wasn't sure how to how to wear it So I decided I'd fold that up and then if keep it kind of like so you could still see my eyes. Oh My goodness, it's almost 1 a.m. 1 a.m. Video 10 Like I said in my lap part one I put off Doing videos for a while and I'm so behind on my what sold so I'm like having a marathon here Yeah, how are you guys? How is everyone? This is a Mercari what sold I sold $2,600 on Mercari this month. That is not profits, you know, I have to take out like my fees I have to take out what I paid for the items all that jazz But normally I sell about 500 to a thousand on Mercari. So I don't know what happened in April I think it's kind of the things I was selling and if you watch part one Definitely go watch part one because there's certain items that have sold really well for me So if you have those items, definitely get them listed on Mercari because these items are selling faster on Mercari Then they are on eBay because everything Take that back the jewelry the bulk jewelry is only on Mercari and I did sell a lot of that So let's dig in All right, this hat is like from I think high school I I pulled out a bag of hats from a long long time ago And I pulled them out some time ago, but they've been stuck up in a cabinet and I'm like I need hats because my hair Yeah, I need I need to see my hairdresser and that's not happening right now So it is April 30th. This video probably post In may or June who knows? But uh, yeah, it's April 30th. So we're about a month and a half At the stay-at-home order here in Ohio. So, yeah Yeah Is what it is, you know All right, let's get started Um, and I just hit 5000 subscribers So I don't know what I'm at now because now is probably a month later. So Thanks for being here and let's check out these mercari bolos. So Do I have it on screen share? Yes, I do. All right. So vitality bracelets I purchased these these were a part of my bulk buy I bought it on ebay to sell on ebay and it ended up being 344 pounds of jewelry if you want to hear about how that all transpired and how I got that deal You can go over to my playlist. I bought it on ebay to sell on ebay And there is a video where I weigh the items so you can get the whole backstory Of how that worked out. It was a really fantastic find So these bracelets brace let's Uh vitality, I don't know the brand but uh, it was eight of them. They sold for 16 dollars with free shipping The next item are these connects 38 black connector clips and basically what I did is I took a screaming serpent Connect set and I parted it out I kind of wanted to see how it would how I could do with that and it ended up it's been really good Um, I'm definitely making more money that way, but it does take longer Most of my items have sold on ebay, but this one sold on mercari $15 with free shipping The next item is this Crazy little monkey.  It's like this big. It's teeny tiny Like teeny tiny Uh an inch and a half And I've looked it up and I was really surprised at what these were selling for so I was like, well, I'm just gonna list it It's a bread and butter item, but 12 bucks with free shipping I made like eight or nine bucks on this monkey and it came in a lot of items. So I pretty much got it free Shopkins buildable display buildings again It was a bulk purchase at a garage sale a ton of toys And I sold this for 20 dollars with free shipping. So you build it and then the little shopkins sit in the windows This came from a garage sale. I paid like a dollar for it. It's a nicolodian avatar drawing kit from 2007 And yeah, I sold this for 36 dollars with free shipping Pretty awesome. And there's the front of it The next item is the simpsons car. It came from my simpsons haul from the thrift store I have a video on that haul if you guys want to go check out everything I got I sold this for 26 dollars with free shipping And it's a model kit like somebody bought it and put it together And yeah, pretty cool. It is vintage. I think This little kid old doll I sold her for 22 dollars with free shipping And this came from a thrift store buy. It was a Big lot of toys And so I had probably less than a dollar in her Here's the other one little kid old and this one sold for 20 dollars or I'm sorry 21 with free shipping This is one of my goodwill bins buys and if you guys go check out my I got it at the bins Thrift with me videos you will see when I picked this item up It is a sodor signal house thomas the train. I have sold the sodor Items before they do really well I knew this was a bolo And it sold for 28 dollars with free shipping and goodwill bins is by weight The next item is this brawl. It was a I picked it up at a discount store. I paid six dollars and 35 cents for it The inner tag is marked through they do that so that you cannot return the items to the store And this one was new without tags and it sold for 22 dollars with free shipping These little earrings came from my bulk buy. I bought it on ebay to sell on ebay And I sold these for 28 dollars free shipping. So I had pennies in this Here's another one of my crafters lots Okay, so this one came from I bought it on ebay to sell on ebay, but it was not my 344 pound bulk buy This was another one that I bought on ebay and I I still made money, but um, it was like an auction and I bought a couple things from the same seller It was okay. You know, I pulled out a few things, but overall it was mostly crafter items But I sold three and a half pounds for 35 dollars and I did free shipping on that so Lots of clip on your vintage items, but um, people make crafts out of these so The next item is another jewelry lot this one was 11 pounds and it sold for 99 dollars with free shipping and You know poshmark takes 10 percent And I sold three lots to the same person within like a month So she bought a bag.  So this was over like the course of a month I want to say I have about four or five bags left, but they are 16 pound bags and so they're a little more um And those I'm not sure if they're going to fit in a medium flat raider if I'm going to have to use a large flat rate But I do have more listed So the next item was this one. It was nine pounds. I sold it for 81 dollars with free shipping This one was 12 pounds. I sold it for 102 dollars with free shipping This is a crafter's lot. So it's seven pounds. Um, and I sold it for 64 dollars with free shipping So every item in here is either broken or completely tangled to the point where I did not want to untangle it anymore These were um watch parts and movements I had two separate lots listed and they asked me to combine the items and they would give me a hundred dollars and um Actually somebody else that asked me to bundle it and then somebody else bought it So this was given to me by my husband. He didn't want to mess with it and I said I will list it So I made a hundred dollars and I offered free shipping on that. So that was that was a score for me I have nothing in it and he bought out a watchmaker's estate. So This is a vintage disney set. I picked this up at an estate sale It was in a drawer if you guys are not checking the estate sale drawers Definitely check the estate sale stores drawers. I have done really well Finding the hidden treasures. This one's I I want to say I paid maybe seven dollars for this I did pay a little more and it sold for 51 dollars with free shipping This disney store exclusive ru plush. Um, I sold for a little less because the tag Right here was cut off, but it did have the disney store patch on the bottom I picked this up. I want to say at The goodwill for like a buck and I sold it for 15 with free shipping This ideal toys doll this is um It was in a bulk buy of barbie's actually so I have less than a dollar in it and it sold for 19 dollars free shipping This brats doll I sold for 12 dollars free shipping and she has you know, she's only got the skirt on and her hair's kind of messy This I picked up at a thrift store. I think it was two dollars and 50 cents. It's vintage grapes hand blown glass It's hollow. It's beautiful. It's sold for 25 dollars with free shipping This fire and rescue book. It's a leap reader. It sold for 12 dollars free shipping This is another goodwill bins fine And you see me smiling because I just think it's so cool because I'm kind of new to the goodwill bins But I picked this up. It was kind of heavy. So I probably let's just say I paid five for it I probably didn't pay that much, but let's just go high So goodwill bins around five bucks and I sold it for 30 dollars free shipping and Yeah, I think yeah that went media mail These night golf pants Nike sorry. I always say night. I'm working on it. Nike golf pants I bought it a garage sale for a couple bucks and I sold them for 40 dollars and free shipping This faith bracelet came from my bulk buy 344 pounds. I sold this for 12 dollars with free shipping This brawl I picked up at a discount store for six dollars and 35 cents and it sold for 23 dollars free shipping This is another brawl from that same discount store.  I picked up at a garage sale for like a buck and it sold for 25 dollars free shipping Okay, this Mary K case. I have another one and I just want these things out of my house So this was listed on ebay for a long time and I think it was on poshmark also, but I didn't cross post it until I don't think it was on mercari as long And it sold for 45 dollars free shipping now. This is a bigger item So I can't remember what it cost me to ship, but it was kind of expensive Maybe 20 so I still made money. I picked it up for a buck at a garage sale. So still good money and Yeah Happy it's gone. This was a retail arbitrage item. I picked up at the bargain hunt And I it was three dollars and I sold it for 23 dollars and the buyer paid the shipping on this one Lala Lala lopsie lala lopsie. I don't know how to say it But these are little miniature dolls and it comes with the two little play sets This came from a garage sale. It was a bulk purchase I basically they had a whole tarp of toys and I bought them all I sold this for 48 dollars with free shipping Harry Potter xbox games garage sale probably paid a buck for both of them had it forever I posted it on 11 17 So I've had it a long time And again people are buying things like this right now given the circumstances. So I sold it for 14 dollars with free shipping The earth kingdom Chronicles avatar book I sold these for 24 dollars with free shipping. These avatar items seem to do really well So I'm definitely going to be on the lookout for those Here's some shopkins happy place dolls. These are like, I don't know like this big And these sold for 48 dollars with free shipping and these were a part of the same sale that I got the Where are they? Ah I didn't think it was that far back. Did I skip it the lala lousie? Hmm. I don't know where it went. You guys know what I'm talking about though, right? There those same sale So I got them really cheap 48 dollars free shipping on those Triplet trouble books. I think I paid 10 cents each at a garage sale for these So I'm all in at 50 cents sold it for 10 free shipping shipped a media mail. I like to sell books on mercury Here's some more same sale 10 cents each. So all in 60 cents sold it for 12 with free shipping Bread and butter guys bread and butter super easy to list This little fisher price loving family dollhouse skateboard set. I sold this for 11 dollars free shipping I buy this stuff in bulk. So I get it for like pennies Another uh vintage magic castle readers children's books sold for 10 dollars free shipping. These were 10 cents each I think these were the 10. No, this was a different sale. This was a box full that I bought for like five bucks And there were a ton of books. So I probably have less than a buck in this I sold it for 12 dollars with free shipping And this cleaver made inflatable air chair. I sold this for 32 dollars with free shipping. I picked it up at a garage sale for five dollars This martha stort paper punch spider web stamp. It's like a paper punch stamp thing It is a spider web. It's super cool. And I picked these up at garage sales The martha stort ones do really well. Some of them can be a big bolo This one sold for 15 dollars with free shipping. So a bread and butter item But still I probably had 50 cents. Maybe a buck in it. I can't remember This little cabbage patch doll came from a garage sale. I think I paid like 50 cents or something for her Solder for 17 dollars with free shipping And that concludes my what's sold on mercury. So tell me what you guys think Mercury is pretty cool, right? I feel like the last couple days it's been kind of slow and like I had this momentum going and I was super super excited And I'm really hoping that it picks up again But I think a lot of it had to do with like that leap pad stuff and my jewelry And, you know, I had a lot of other miscellaneous items also, but those were like I did really good with that stuff and I still have lots of jewelry left. So we'll see how it goes. Um Thanks for watching. I've got posh mark bolo videos. I have eBay bolo videos. I have category bolo videos Um featured seller videos if you want to be featured Message me in my bolo buddies facebook group and I'd be happy to take a look at your store and if we can work something out That would be awesome. Um, I do it free. It's there's no charge for it So when I I guess I should tell people that I wonder if people think I charge them Um, so it is completely free to be featured Basically, I look at your store and then I share your bolos and it helps everybody learn and it gets you exposure for your store So anyway, thanks for watching and be sure to check out the description of the video I've got links down there to my stores if you guys want to make me an offer on something I'm happy to look at offers be sure to tell Ah be sure to tell me you're a subscriber of the channel And if you want me to shout out that you bought something I'm happy to do that. If you just want me to say a subscriber. I'm fine with that also Um, I love getting I love it when people buy from me that are my subscribers. It's super fun. It's like the highlight of my day I'm like whoo-hoo. I call my husband. I'm like I sold something to a subscriber Probably thinks I'm nuts, but it's exciting, you know. All right, you guys. Thanks for watching. Have a great night And if you made it to the end of the video comment. I made it to the end of the video Thanks for watching And then what about this hat? Should I fold it up? All right, you guys it's 1 a.m. I'm going to bed. Have a good night