Okay, we're back. This is Dave Vellante of Wikibon.org. I fire now in Orlando. I'm here with my co-host John Furrier, and we've got a very special guest. The man, Reggie Jackson, is in the house. So, Reggie, thanks for stopping by. Visit the queue. Sure. I didn't know how to get here, you know. This is on my way out. Just pointing to the lights. Well, I'm glad you could stop by and get something to eat. It's good to have you. Welcome. So, Dave, what is your favorite Yankee moment with Reggie? Are the A's for that matter? Well, I was a big A's fan growing up in Boston. And, you know, so I saw you win three in a row. And, you know, I saw you put this in my heart many times as the great Yankees.  But there's a lot more to your career that I'm sure we can talk about here. How are you, John? So, tell us what's happening at the Callaway Hat on SAP, Callaway's big customer event. You can see we've had them on here. We've had them on. What's your story here today?  And one thing led to another. And I was invited down to come and spend some time with them and share some time with their customers and with their, really, their organization. They had about 15,000 to 20,000 people here. People from all over the globe. And when I met their CEO, Bill McDermott, he saw tonight's fit for them in reference to representing a brand to a point. I've had some fortunate success with the World Championship and producing under pressure. Been a pretty easy guy to forecast, I guess you could say. And then, of course, with SAP and software and people have a fabulous culture, a great environment. It feels really good when you're around all the people. You can feel that there's a push, you know, for the team to be successful. And that's very similar in being with the Yankees. It was very similar in being with the Oakland A's that the environment or the culture there was about winning and thinking about what you can do to do your job in order to make the team better. It feels that way here. When anybody and everyone that I've met, they're proud of the brand. They're proud to show the brand. And I'd finally asked several people, you know, what does SAP stand for? And you hear all kind of things, you know, software and programs and somebody always pays or whatever. But then there was a guy that said solutions, applications and programs. And I thought that was a great thing to say. But in talking to their chief executive officer, one of them, not Jim, but Bill, he had said Reggie, it's software and people. And that makes it easier for me to understand because, you know, with the Yankees, they have an idea of wanting to go about winning, but you have to have leadership in place. You have to have a player and a talent in place. And no matter what kind of plan you have of execution, it takes people to run that plan. It takes people to execute that plan. And so the people here is what the most important part of the SAP is the last letter, really, the people that are involved. And so I'm happy to be part of it. I'm happy to be connected with it. And it feels good to represent. Reggie, we actually met one time in 1993. You remember? We meet a lot of people, of course. It was in 1993 at the course field. My good friend, the McMorris family and the owners box. We've been meeting very short time, but Jerry McMorris recently passed away this past week. Owner of the Rockies brought baseball to there. But he was a businessman. And I bring that up because my next question is really to you as a business person. He's post-baseball. You had a business career. And the question that I had and some people on Twitter wanted to ask you was, what one skill helped you transition from sport, sporting world to the baseball world around being successful? Was it competitiveness? Was it being prepared? Can you talk about just what it took to transition from, say, highly competitive sport to then in business and how you see that happening in today's business? I would think, for me, I would give you an answer to your question by saying, trying to think of how I would fit with other people, other businesses, other entities, if you will, what could I do to add value to a different company? Like, what can I do to add value to someone so successful as SAP or Microsoft or one of their partners that they have? How can I be a value to that person? And you have to humble yourself and be grateful in trying to penetrate that environment, the businesses that are already successful. I've been very fortunate to have gotten along and engaged with some of the significant companies that have gotten me to be a part of their team. Again, I think it's, additionally, I think it's understanding people and understanding where you fit and making sure that your role adds value and builds equity with the brand that you want to represent. You know, in our industry, Reggie, we talk a lot about data. There's a very data-intensive world we live in and baseball is the most data-intensive sport and you're seeing a lot of action going on with, like, fantasy baseball and people analyzing things like the movie and the book, Moneyball, come out and it's just been a phenomenal change. What do you make of all that? And do you think it's as big as some people make it out to be? You know, in the technology business, we like to think that data will drive those decisions versus sort of when you played, it was a lot of gut feel and a lot of instinct. You know, I do think that, David, I do think that data is extremely important. However, without someone to implement it and without the ability to be able to facilitate it, the data doesn't work. You have to have people, you have to have the right characters and, you know, people that have the right character, which make up the correct characters that represent the brand and understand their role. You need a good leader, you need a good manager, you know, good worker bees that are on the team and people need to understand their role or it doesn't matter what kind of data or what kind of plan you want to input. So it's extremely important to have the people involved and wanting to support what you're trying to do, what we're trying to do as a team. So, you know, I love the slogan there, software and people because it's the people part that make the software work into being able to implement it, use it to the right, use it the right way and give the people not too much data because you can get cluttered with it, but just the data that's important for this particular day or is applicable to this particular job, this particular position if you're on the base. You can't take the people out of the decision-making process, can you? Now, what a lot of people might not know is that you were obviously a multi-sport star, you could have been a football player if you wanted to, but you chose, you made the decision to go into baseball. Correct. Talk about that decision that you made. Well, it wasn't a very difficult decision. You know, at the time my father was incarcerated and my mother was taking care of the other children and the family and we needed money. You were allowed to leave college and play baseball. You were not allowed to leave college and play football. I was a better football player in college and in high school than I was baseball player, but the opportunity to put some dollars on a table for a family was in front of you because you could leave school and go into the baseball. If you couldn't do that in football or I would have probably left, I don't think it would have been the right decision. I was a good enough player to have been an outstanding professional football player, I believe, you know, the physical demands, et cetera, certainly wouldn't have been much greater than baseball and the length of the tenure wouldn't have been... It was economic. Did you ever consider both sports after you, you know... I thought about leaving baseball after my first contract squabble with Charlie Finley. But, you know, people around me prevailed and I, you know, paid attention and prayed about things and I did make the right decision. I didn't know what's the decision to make. I just, luckily, stayed in the game of baseball and things worked out pretty well. Well, thanks for coming on the queue. It's been a home run, literally, for us to have you on and grace us with your presence. We called the ESPN of Tech. One crazy question from Twitter was, I wanted to ask you, was that hip move intentional? And it says, I guess you can afford to be honest about it now. Well, I don't really care what the guy said. It's an implication that I lied about it, which I disappointed. But hopefully he didn't mean it that way. But what happened there was, I was fortunate enough to have, in my view, I saw Billy Russell catch the ball and drop it. It didn't just hit his glove and go right to the ground. So in fast motion, that was a slow motion that he did for me because I was at real time. So I picked up instinctively on what he was about to do. I was automatically out because all he had to do was run to the bag and throw the ball the first base if he catches the ball. So as soon as he dropped the ball and went to the second base, he then leaves the ball live. And if you hit a runner in the base pad, there's a three-foot move you have on each side of that line which gives you six feet to move in. I stayed in my space because I had made throws before, perfect throws to third base. I remember in a playoff game, I made a perfect throw to third base in the open coliseum and hit out K-line in the back because he was sliding at the same time. He was probably smart enough to get in the line of the throw to interfere because he was out. I was out so the person rustles through the ball at me and the reason I turned my hip because I had been facing him, I didn't want to get hit in the wrong part of the hip area while I was facing him so I turned my hip to the side so I got hit on the big muscle rather than in the wrong area. The area is on the cube. Reggie Jackson, the legend, thank you so much for joining us. SAP, got the Callaway hat on. People, businesses about performance, about attitude, competitiveness. He's done it all. Thank you so much on the business side and on sports. Appreciate it. You know, for more information, you can go to ReggieJackson.com. If you want, I'm thinking about doing Twitter. I'm on there now, but I'm a little nervous about announcing and learning a follow-up if it goes on. I think Jack Dorsey, the guy that founded, is helping me. And once I get my nerve up, I'm at, let me see, Mr. October at Reggie or Reggie at Mr. October? This is a verified account. We'll take care of Reggie at Mr. October or October at Reggie, something like that. Well, you know what? We'll help you with Twitter. If you just tell the camera, the cube's a home run, and we'll take care of it. It's at October Reggie. At October Reggie. I didn't even know what it is. Okay. Thanks, guys. And thanks for having me. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. I'm Jackson, great person, great human being. What a great sports star and businessman. Very successful inside the cube. And we'll go again any store we can in technology. If it's from athletes, from celebrities, if they have something to share, we will share it with you. This is the cube, our flagship telecast, the ESPN of tech, and we had a Hall of Famer in baseball on right there, Reggie Jackson. And we'll be right back with our next guest after this short break.


All right, here we go everybody 2022 tops chrome McDonald's all-american basketball hobby 12 box full case number one random box style I'm gonna take off the title that ran a box style there. So how it's gonna work I'm gonna open the case just like this and pull the boxes out. I don't know exactly how they are. It should be But yeah, we'll do the random and see one through 12 so it should be left and right Then we'll go top left as one Down to six and then seven through 12 in that order. So one through 12 And if it's like this way like front to back boxes then the front is gonna be the first stack So that should be how it is We'll make it make sense if it's not like that. It's still totally randomized per boxes. Anyway, everybody. So Here we go. You're gonna get an M a number next to your name. That's a box you get Good luck again. You'd everything here.  That's that's a re-roll That is a five four and one Five times on both will put them side by side to see who's getting which box five on the names one two three four and five Alvin down to Francis and five times on the numbers best of luck everybody one two three four and five three down to nine I'm just like that Alvin with three Edward P to Matthew M for Alistair one Alvin s5 Christopher f10 Michael T 11 Ezekiel with 12 Alessandro seven Nixie six Sean M8 Francis M9. Let's get these posted And I'll call out whose boxes who's as we go along here All right now. Let's go ahead and open this thing up and there's your link if you need to see your box number again, okay So that main came here you guys can see what I'll be seeing won't turn over if I don't have to Okay, just like I was hoping um, so what I'm gonna do I'm gonna dump it out and flip them over so that the top is still facing up So this will be one doesn't be seven if that makes sense. So That's a really tight box. So now I'll flip them over. We're all facing up And then it'll be one through six on this side That was saying as the box sat there and seven through 12 on the right side. So we'll go by my stack All right, best of luck everybody Let's see what we got never ripped something like this before Come on Brandon Miller's all around Brandon Miller's all around box one. We'll call them out as we go here box one. This is Alistair. Good luck Alistair Thanks again for grabbing a bunch of spots today. Not just in this one Get 20 packs for spots. We'll try to get through this fairly quickly First few probably a little slower just to try to get our bearings on the product here The buck Alistair design there Janiah Baker Who's that 2k 6 that's there try to understand these as we go along here 2k is 2006 gotcha Ractor of a soon a Brady season nice color here Future stars Maya Najee With a fuchsia mini diamond of KK Bransford 82 of 150 McDonald's logo future teammates Very nice What is the McDonald's logo is that the one a box McDonald's all-american games logo I Think it must be it. I just had just has the arches. That's kind of cool though. I'm loving it How many of Donald's funds can we fit in this break? Arterio Morrist on the 2006 design there. Yeah, that's right Mitchell.  Can Johnny right refractor. So our first auto Yeah, and it is KK Bransford refractor auto Cam Whitmore nice 2006 design Cam Whitmore refractor of Jordan Walsh This wall she's good. He's was the Iowa State. I don't even know man Arkansas future stars Derek Lively probably first rounder this year Grady dick 2006 is it brawny and all American on American this year Tenia or Tenaya Latsen refractor So wouldn't he be in the 2003 version of this Purple Lava Ashlyn Watkins 266 of 299 Yeah, it's reconnected so Can't stop now breaks recording Ashlyn Jackson 2006 refractor Anthony Black. He's pretty good Well, I'll see a big color parallel here More auto coming up at some point Call a way our future stars To 99 Anthony black on the auto nice hits Probable lottery pick maybe top 10 nice Anthony black there. Good job Alistair Solid first box for sure Anthony black 2006 Fractor of Ruby white horn It's a majestic name Hoopers case and Wallace Hoopers stop with that one number two Number two is gonna be Edward P Against it Julian Phillips 2006 insert refractor of Bench mob Bench mob Sounds intense a Future star Sistine Piss off a pistol Lava I'm Ari Bailey number 345 out of 399 Is it Passat like a like a Volkswagen Ashlyn Jackson McDonald's logo there? So want to box the McDonald's all America logo Even though it's just the McDonald's. Oh, it's just the arches Gabriella Jacquez Jacquez I Think they used to make it Ryan our version of it future stars Mark Mitchell But I don't know her be white horn refractor. That is a kiki rice very nice refractor auto kiki rice Kiki I'm sure she never gets anything like that Asked good stuff. So brawny should be in this next year. Nick Smith, Jr. So you mean to make it next year nice Nick Smith, Jr. Insert Sidwell friend school friends Lauren Betzer factor Say Like a soon a Brady Yeah, it's it's kind of like overtime elite, but Donald's all-american so Refractor of Ashlyn Watkins over time elite can be they can leave high school for it or Mark Mitchell black refractor 7 out of 10 big-time mark Mitchell That's what's up. There we go That's definitely one of the names you're looking for right there. He's yelling out there That's awesome, man seven to ten black mark Mitchell. No when he's not in this He was not a United States high school McDonald's all-american Yeah, so there's a lot of like projected first-rounders in this Neither a scoot because he was he is a g league night, right? Yeah, I damn bono just in case You see refractor Brandon Miller. I was a very nice Till and Mitchell To 75 KK Bransford on the yellow auto McDonald's color match to KK auto so far today Okay, that's what people respond to texts Derek Lively on the insert another dookie right there Yeah, Brandon Miller is in this refractor JJ Starling Hoopers Kiki Rice do kikis all over this stuff man University of Notre Dame High School, hmm, I wonder where they go to college Is that is that are they using the the current college system for like high schools now to or you just have to pay to pay a bunch of money to go and Bigger schools preferential treatment Great future stars bono. It's a 50 a Julian Phillips on the gold wave auto Very nice Julian Phillips gold wave auto. Sorry box three. I forgot to call the name But this is box three, of course, and this is for Alvin look Alvin Yeah, Brandon Miller is in this with ink and everything there. He is Brandon Miller 2006 insert refractor of earnest who day Who day like who day? like Bengals Hoopers Amari Bailey actor Ashlyn Jackson There's a lot of packs and stuff. That is a Dylan Mitchell Refractor auto. That's a cool photo. Actually, it's a really cool photo Dylan Mitchell, that's Lane's boy, right? Longhorn Dylan Mitchell. I believe he's a longhorn Derek Lively dookie Local legend refractor Jarris Walker Another really good good guy to hit in this Ashlyn Watkins future stars Ashlyn Jackson 2k6 Refractor of Ayanna Patterson Gold refactor Paris Clark nice gold 31 out of 50 It's like the McDonald's exclusive parallel gold Jordan Walsh Refractor of Mark Mitchell Adam Bono 2006 soon a Brady Brady Refractor of throwing down that is not a refractor. It is refractor but throwing down all lava Ernest Uday number 197 of 399 and McDonald's parallel India Nivar or Nivar Nivar box for Matthew M Not gonna be able to recap this one guys Just the way it goes with a random pack random box that whatever maybe did you get three in one? To me a gardener I'm just curious. Yeah a Nick Smith junior refractor auto. That's probably a wise idea Jarris Walker Who you guys got in the Sweet 16 first round refractor Paris Clark any any more upsets FA you're gonna win the bokeh boys Hooper's Janiah Barker Refractor Chris Livingston, I don't think so right Pretty sure they're still in it Ashlyn Watkins on their refractor auto Elijah more to the Browns Dylan Mitchell refractor Julian Phillips Future stars Flow Jay flow Jay flow Jay Johnson flow Jay Johnson. That's a cool name 2k6 Kiki rice the The Princeton the Princeton princes and the crate and credence Julian Phillips refractor that who's playing a lava cam Whitmore number in 73 of 399 Likely lottery pick as well cam Whitmore case and Wallace 2k6 refractor of Anthony black as well Kala where fracture of KK Bransford I'm are a Bailey future stars a purple lava Anthony black to 43 of 299 nice number to Anthony black McDonald's logo Powerade Jam Fest Powerade Jam Fest Lauren Betz 2k6 on the box number five which is going to Alvin Second box for Alvin here Well, Super Fractor Super Fractor for somebody in the break. Come on at some point future stars Kala where Get your spots for tonight everybody refractor future teammates Get your spots for tonight Sam's got some baseball basketball and football breaks with spots left Justine Passat on the gold wave auto Is it Passat like like the Volkswagen? I don't know You go gold wave auto what's that? Alvin does have some good colors so far 2k6 Jarris Walker as I was saying earlier Jerry's Reagan beers Great name Reagan beers Jordan Walsh anyone the last name beers is cool in my book Chris Livingston on the refractor auto T. He rice refractor of rim rockers Derek Lively All in the insert Cam Whitmore Trying to think which one of you guys made future magic. Hello, where in you know Refractor cam Whitmore nice cam Blaba to Tala shea Cooper 132 of 399 Tala see a Cooper cool case and Wallace refractor of Tania Tanya Tanaia Latsen Tanaia maybe refractor Ashlyn Jackson a Purple Lava Ayanna Patterson 36 at a 299 Ayanna Patterson purple Lava McDonald's logo a Mari Bailey In box hit on those Lauren Betz box six for Nick see box six Box six. Yeah, especially since they're just gonna pretty much get packed up today at some point soon I would think yeah, right factor Dylan Mitchell Nothing left Dylan Mitchell refractor nice one there Come on, let's see a red or a super Dylan Mitchell that's Lane's boy refractor auto Justin Passat I do like that. It's like the chase is both men and women. Yeah, because there are some really good female college How many man is right now? future WNBA all-stars future NBA all-stars Ashlyn Jackson refractor up to me a gardener Dylan Mitchell Hooper's What is this? Oh On-card Gabriela Jacquez Jacquez under armor. That is sick. That is awesome That's really sick. I wonder if that's if that counts because that is I haven't seen that yet It says McDonald's all-american Game day paper auto so that was sign. I'm guessing right around the time of the game Yeah, probably at the game. She's got a really nice signature, too Go Nick Haven't seen that. That's pretty cool. What is it? Yeah, two autos just seems like two or two or three numbered cards usually Ontario Morris refractor Brandon Miller It's just like OTE from last year. Exactly stars mark Mitchell Everyone was like Very unsure about it when it first came out Two weeks later, everyone was trying to rip it. Yeah you know Fracture of Nick Smith Juno. That makes a lot of sense Can Johnny write fuchsia mini diamonds 74 of 150 Dude, her brother is disgusting. I'll call him Jamie Jock as for a while Gabriella hockey is it must be LA legends, dude.  You know, he probably hasn't but I'm The top two is a lot yeah Brandon Miller orange congrats on this one scoot realistically should go one Go Nick Yeah, he plays for the magic Johnny Baker on the McDonald's logo there No, you know, he's not Box seven now going to Alexandros Thanks for filling up all the brakes today everybody Think we have another case of this tomorrow night.  He's not going to jail. He's already been cleared Refractor of Aliyah Gales This is the first year of it first year aqua wave now Dylan Mitchell 169 of one 99 lanes boy Yeah, first year kind of like OTE's chrome was first last year Paris Clark McDonald's logo and I have Barker So that auto did count, right? Fracture of Kiki Rice and Gabriella Hakes girls co MVP co VPs. They're just too good None better than the other Kallel away our future stars refractor Kajani, right? I was McDonald's on all American, but Not the sports just for going to McDonald's Maya Najee that is the second one of these this box second McDonald's refractor, right? Yeah, oh So one and 20 packs is what it says. So that is a box hit But that's just the average I guess Nick Smith, Jr.  That's that's her name Your refractor would just be a regular refractor. I think Hooper's MJ Rice Hooper's Randy's on TV Randy there is that guy future star justine Passat and Asuna Brady refractor auto Hope I'm saying these names right these some of these names are names. I haven't seen before Ashlyn Jackson is soon a right soon a Brady Soon a Refractor justine Passat. I mean she was you guys must be great on to eight now Sean M now your spots first night everybody Sam's live Very shortly after we're gonna end here today Five is the first group break but spots available for Bumman's best. You'll let him pristine Hello, where I saw him on security cameras. He's here. He's in the building So I gotta care for what I say. I'm gonna be listening Kick kick Brantford actually Sam never really watched his stream. So you could say whatever you want about it We never hear it Aqua Lava Ashlyn Watkins not awkward just Lava Ashlyn Watkins 124 399 Donald's rim rockers Donald's parallel Lauren Betts Refractor Chris Livingston. Yeah, we're talking about that second to go Mike very briefly Chris Livingston on the What is it called again I think it might just be paper auto. It's like Yeah, a game day paper auto game day auto will call it game day auto Chris Livingston Probably the only on card in this set. There we go I think every player should probably have a spot in that one Dylan Mitchell on the 2k6 Well, they get back for Elijah Moore refractor Julian Phillips.  Oh, they got a lot back when they got what they've drafted him for back. I Don't think the Browns know how to do do things and it makes sense. We refractor Julian Phillips Number 29 of 99. I don't think they know what they're doing Although you could have you could have seen savvy or saying you could have seen the person They signed last year to a fully guarantee contract and probably known that right away Great trade for the Jets. I think I think more is good, but you're also getting him on like only like two years left on his deal And he barely played he didn't like, you know do a whole lot last year refractor Anthony Black Good for the Jets future stars to me a gardener Me coal got traded there's a Ernest Uday refractor auto his signature is not the best Jarris Walker refractor of Paris Clark Box nine Francis good luck Francis. What did the chiefs get for Meekle Hardman? He got traded the Browns for a second It's great for the Jets, I'll say that Yeah, I like Elijah Moore. I think he's got talent, but like you didn't play hole last year So I got two years on his deal. So like, oh, yeah, you can do traffic with a second rounder. We'll give you a second rounder Browns just be dummies factor JJ Starling Are you straight?  Yeah, the game days of the game days are nice the game days I feel like are gonna be the chase here refractor case and Wallace outside of like unless you get like low-numbered, of course Like the low-numbered chrome will do well, but Ashlyn Watkins Chris Livingston Refractor Janiah Barker. Whoa, what is this? Arkansas bounds six of 25. It's like leopard print What is going on here? Is that orange basketball? I think that's orange basketball right there because it only says to 25 is orange and orange basketball refractors That yeah, looks like like, you know the texture of a basketball. Okay. I'm digging that 6 to 25 Arkansas boys Like that a lot kind of wish I felt like it That could get I could get pretty interesting with with chrome cards JJ Starling. This is a good box here Fractor of a Mari Bailey nice one Jordan Walsh Chance Gray refractor auto I'm Ari Bailey 2k6 Refractor of Gabriela Hakes Julian Phillips. All right, number 10 here Who's got 10 Christopher F Refractor Grady Dick Dick I'm Ari Bailey Refractor Chance Gray how I'm gonna call him greedy Richard We refractor Ayanna Patterson 31 I'm 99 McDonald's logo KK Bransford Ayanna Patterson a Cam Whitmore. This has some noticeable damage on a Cam Whitmore gotta get down in place. He's a Likely lottery pick this year Get a box and wrap her out Sorry about that Christopher. Let's make it up with the with a nice second auto Fractor, uh, Flau J. Johnson flow J. Flau J Jordan Walsh on the insert Chris Livingston refractor of adembona the yellow refractor No, gold refractor MJ rice for 50 gold rice. Nice card there MJ rice on the insert refractor McDonald's all American game Anthony Black Just like, you know, this isn't good enough for me Okay Janiah Barker Aqua auto to 99 Janiah Barker JB JJ Starling refractor is soon a Brady Hooper's Ayanna Patterson Box 11 now go into Michael T. That's the boxes. Good luck everybody Good luck to the last two. I should say MJ rice But thank you everybody for filling out the brakes. We'll say that Fractor adembona Finish finishing behind here, but Sam will be Sam's already here.  Let's see a red refractor of a soon a Brady Amari Bailey on the insert Hooper's Chris Livingston refractor Chance Gray Aqua wave Kajani, right? I was going to be number to 199 197 199 Kajani, right? Flau J. Johnson on the McDonald's refractor Dylan Mitchell last box day time going to Ezekiel What's your name? Major league pickleball is that what this guy's talking about? Oh boy daytime TV is scary not for me a Grace Van Sleuton refractor auto Nice one there What do you mean Dean? Chris Livingston Refractor Cam Whitmore Hooper's Grady Dick Oh, I haven't seen the longer version of it then Clelware refractor Flau J. Johnson, he's everywhere now Can't be stopped Refractor Kiki Rice nice Kiki. Hey, Nick Smith Jr on the on card Game day auto Nick Smith jr. Dylan Mitchell. I know it's popular, but they're literally just sitting there talking about it I think whatever Valley Sports, Florida showing me right now. Flau J. Johnson Yellow refractor Tanya Latsen or Tanya Latsen 66 of 75 Everybody loves pickleball all of a sudden MJ Rice refractor uh indian ibar or nivar Or a nivar maybe Amari Bailey JJ Starling insert refractor Maya Najee Olava Flau J. Johnson That was numbered 63 out of 399 And mcdonalds with a damaged mcdonalds logo gabriella hakez Top here. We're gonna box out to you Ezekiel Thanks again everybody Nice case there talk to you in a moment


Seeing the world as another person sees it can be surprising, confusing, and delightful. It can also show us the limitations in our own worldview, which may differ in substantial ways from our world as it really is. This is one of the reasons that we read fiction. Stories offer us an opportunity not only to travel to different worlds and different time periods, but also to inhabit different worldviews. The easiest way to convey a character's worldview is directly through a first-person perspective. This is a common point of view in which a character in the story also serves as its narrator. First-person narrators are described in our What is a Narrator and What is an Unreliable Narrator videos, and both lessons will give you a good sense of the differences between how these narrators see the world and how that world often is. If you haven't seen these videos, you may want to check them out before we get into today's lesson on free indirect discourse. A second way to deliver a character's worldview is indirectly from a third-person perspective. In this point of view, the narrator may choose to describe the thoughts of a given character from an outside perspective. In the following passage from Flannery O'Connor's short story A Good Man is Hard to Find, we get an indirect sense of the grandmother's worldview as she prepares for an ill-fated family car trip to Florida. The next morning, the grandmother was the first one in the car ready to go. She had her big black valise in one corner, and underneath it she was hiding a basket with pity-sing the cat in it. She didn't intend for the cat to be left alone in the house for three days because he would miss her too much, and she was afraid he might brush up against one of the gas burners and accidentally exfixiate himself. From this passage, you can get a sense of what the grandmother cares about, her cat, and how she values herself. Her cat loves her. But you don't see her worldview in the same way that you see the worldview of a first-person narrator. Instead, you have that worldview described for you by an intermediary, the third-person narrator. Today, I want to talk to you about a fascinating point of view that blends first and third-person perspectives, free indirect discourse. In this point of view, a third-person narrator stops describing the worldview of a given character, telling us what he or she thinks, and instead presents that worldview as if it were the narrator. As I like to think of it, free indirect discourse describes moments in a third-person narrative when the narrator becomes infected by the perspective of one of its characters. Here's one example. In John Steinbeck's novella, The Red Pony, the third chapter begins with the following description. In a mid-afternoon of spring, the little boy Jody walked marshally along the brush-lined road towards his home ranch. Banging his knee against the golden lard bucket he used for school lunch, he contrived a good bass drum while his tongue fluttered sharply against the teeth to fill in snare drums and occasional trumpets. Sometime back, the other members of the squad that walked so smartly from the school had turned into the various little canyons and taken the wagon roads to their own home ranches. Now Jody marched seemingly alone with high-lifted knees and pounding feet, but behind him there was a phantom army, with great flags and swords, silent but deadly. This passage starts in a traditional third-person way, in which an outside narrator describes the action of a character, in this case Jody. But the last line of this passage does something different. Instead of describing to us what Jody is imagining, that he pretends he's marching in front of a phantom army, the narrator presents that army as if it were actually there, silent but deadly. In other words, at this moment we're not seeing the world of a third-person narrator, we're seeing the delightfully boyish world view of Jody. Free Indirect Discourse has been an important feature of Western narratives for over a hundred years, but spotting it is not always this easy. Consider this example, the opening to Joyce Carolots' short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been, which introduces us to a teenage girl named Connie. See if you can spot the moments where the third-person perspective becomes infected with her worldview and becomes free in direct discourse. Her name was Connie. She was 15, and she had a quick, nervous, giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors, or checking other people's faces to make sure her own was all right. Her mother, who noticed everything and knew everything, and hadn't had any reason any longer to look at her own face, always scolded Connie about it. Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you're so pretty, she would say. Connie would raise her eyebrows at these familiar old complaints and look right through her mother into a shadowy vision of herself as she was right at that moment. She knew she was pretty, and that was everything. Her mother had been pretty too, if you could believe those old snapshots in the album, but now her looks were gone, and that was why she was always after Connie. This is, to say the least, a very strange narrative perspective. The third-person narrator seems to think that Connie's mother notices everything and knew everything, but that's of course impossible. The narrator also has a strange familiarity with the family's photograph album and seems absolutely obsessed with beauty. These strange details are signs that Oates has written this passage in free indirect discourse. The narrator isn't describing Connie's worldview from an outsider's perspective, she's inhabiting Connie's worldview. If this were a conventional third-person point of view, we'd get some division between the narrator and Connie, which might look something like this. Connie thought that she was pretty and she believed that that was the most important thing she could be. But instead, with free indirect discourse, we see the world as Connie sees it, even from a third-person perspective. She knew she was pretty and that was everything. So why would you want to identify this strange point of view while you're reading? One reason is simply to know what the author is doing to provoke certain responses from readers. When we read Jody's and Connie's stories, we're immediately drawn to these characters and we feel what they feel in large part because we're momentarily seeing the world as they are seeing it. Another reason I like to identify free indirect discourse and stories is that this narrative mode, like the first person narration, is often ironic, introducing us to moments when the world and a given character's worldview are at odds with one another. These moments are fruitful places to analyze in your literary essays. Let me leave you with one example from Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, that I hope you'll explore on your own. The vast majority of Beloved is told from a third-person point of view that will frequently drop into free indirect discourse to convey the worldview of the novel's protagonist, Setha, as she struggles with the after-effects of slavery. But in chapter 16 of that novel, everything changes and we drop into free indirect discourse of a very different kind, the worldview of a brutal slave owner whom the novel calls schoolteacher. Inhabiting this worldview, seeing how that worldview dehumanizes the person who we are closest to in the story, and having the central event of the novel described from this monstrous person's perspective, produces a complex ironic reaction in readers that goes to the very heart of this incredibly important novel.


X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, XPS, is a powerful tool for studying the chemical modification of surfaces, particularly the distribution and bonding of heteroatom dopants in carbon nanomaterials such as graphene and carbon nanotubes. Nitrogen and boron are the most commonly studied dopants, while phosphorus is becoming increasingly popular. Hundreds of studies have been conducted using XPS to analyze the concentration and bonding of dopants in various materials. Care must be taken when preparing samples, considering the intrinsic photoemission response of the material and performing spectral analysis. Misinterpretations of data can lead to incorrect conclusions about the dopant's bonding configuration, which is critical for understanding how dopants affect the material's properties. This review provides a practical guide for interpreting XPS data of dope-graphitic carbon nanomaterials, and a reference for their binding energies. This article was authored by Thomas Suzy, Thomas Pitchler, and Paula Ayala. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


it's me, John Park. It's time for JPE's product pick of the week. And sorry, I noticed my mic is a little hot. I've got a new setup, somewhat. Let me try to, whoo, rain that in a little bit. There we go. Sorry about that. So first of all, hello and thank you for stopping by. I see we've got some people over in our various chats, and those being the YouTube chat. Hello, John Oh, Jeff Hunt, Chad Lawson, OG, Thinkster, Wet Willy, Dave Odessa. Hello and welcome. Thanks for joining us. If you are somewhere else where you don't see an active chat going on, you may want to check over on our Discord because that is where we've got these fine folks right here. Hello, Liz. Hey, Paul. Super Daddy, Jim Hendrickson, C Grover. Welcome. Thanks for joining us. So head on over there. You can go to Adafru.it slash Discord, jump into the live broadcast chat channel and partake in the fun. So let's see. What have we got here today? We've got a cool product pick, one that's been out for a while, but we've never had the big, big JPE's product pick discount on it. It's going to be a 50% off sort of deal. In fact, you want to see me, let me do this live right here. Let's see how this goes. So here's the site and I'm going to refresh the site. Whoa, look at that half price. Okay, but I'm getting ahead of myself. You can head on over there if you want. Go to that URL right there or to that QR code and you can watch this show from inside of the page there. You can also throw that item or up to 10 of them in your cart, no resellers, but if you want them for yourself and you want them at a deep, deep discount, throw them in your cart. There's no coupon code necessary. All you have to do is check out before or just a little bit after the end of the show because then the price goes back up to normal. We stashed a few. I know we were selling through on these. We stashed a few, I think about 100 of them before the show. So we should have plenty to go around unless the first 10 people just buy 10, in which case, whoa, what are you doing with all these? So before I talk any more about what the product pick is, however, I'm going to jump back just a little bit in time and have Lady Aida introduce it. So please take it away, Lady Aida. Next up, Matrix Portal. We've been doing a lot of Matrix projects and I wanted to make it easier to build some of these internet connected projects. Historically, we've used a Metro M4 Airlift and an RGB Matrix shield. So this breakout plugs into the back of a Matrix and does it all. So let me grab one and I'll show it off. Overhead. Okay, so what we've got here is a SAMD 51 Cortex M4. So it can run up to 200 megahertz. Type C. Everyone's like, when are you going to do USB type C? Okay, now. Now everything is with USB type C. Okay, leave me alone. ESP32 is a Wi-Fi co-processor. So that lets the SAMD 51 do all the LED Matrix driving and a circuit Python or Arduino code and all the Wi-Fi SSL stuff is handled by this chip. Level shifting, onboard SPI flash, breakouts for analog pins, UART, SPI, all the good stuff. Stem EQT connector to use any of our 50 plus boards on it. Two user buttons, side buttons and then one reset button that's kind of recessed. JST port and then these two little SMD hex nuts. Basically, they're soldered onto the PCB, allow for power. So the power comes in from the USB-C or you can, you know, apply power here if you want or through the connector. And it's like no soldering required. You basically, this comes already attached, this header. This header plugs into any hub 75 RGB matrix, which is kind of like every RGB matrix. Everyone that we sell is hub 75. You can use it with 16 by 32 up to 64 by 64. So it's got the extra address e-pin. So if you want to use it with 64 by 64 matrices, it'll work. And here's the demo. It's just going online and getting the price of Bitcoin. Congratulations. It's about $11,000. This is a running circuit Python. It's very easy to make RGB matrix projects. You can chain the matrix. In this case, there's only one right now attached, but you can make a long string of RGB matrices as long as you don't run out of memory. And the SAMD 51 has 192K. So you're good for quite a bit. And we have a really great new library, the Proto Matter Library, which runs on the SAMD 51 and is optimized for driving these displays to get like this beautiful, colorful displays. Almost no work required. And now you don't even have to solder. Don't worry about the wiring, because the wiring is the hardest part of using these LED matrices. People always it's hard to mirror it and you get it wrong and it has to be a certain pin and the clock has to be on the same port. So don't think care of just plug and play to make internet connected LED devices. Yes, indeed. That's what you can do. You can get these to make internet connected LED devices and look, that's it right there. In fact, it's sitting on top of a little LED matrix. That beautiful board right there, plug and play ready to go, ready to make all of your dreams come true even when it's upside down. Hey, there we go. So this right here, that's my product pick of the week this week. It is the Matrix Portal. It is, as Lady Ada said, a SAMD 51 Cortex M4 chip on there. Also has the coprocessor, which is the ESP32, which gets us our Wi-Fi connectivity. We have the Matrix Portal library for Circuit Python and similar functionality in Arduino that makes it really easy to do online things to find statuses and display them. But I'll tell you, one of the things that people are really wild about is it's got an accelerometer on board. So we can do things like the little sand falling sand demo here. Oh, there we go. It's all falling. That is a 64 by 32 panel that I have right there. And the thing is we have a whole bunch of different kinds of panels that you can plug this into. And as you can see here, if I go ahead and unplug power from it, it's at USB-C, I am sending power from the board to the matrix there, and data goes over this little IDC connector there. So this is a standard on these Hub 75 style panels. And this just plugs right into it to deliver the data. And then the power goes over these lines here. These are, if you're wondering, what's the deal with these panels? These are what billboards are made out of. This is what Times Square is entirely made out of. It's just lots of these. So they're made pretty small so that if a couple pixels fail, you pull that section and drop in the next ones. These are meant to plug into a standard set of connectors. But you don't probably have the room for a whole billboard. So we allow you to do one, I think up to four, depending on the number of pixels of the displays can be connected using a ribbon cable for data. And then of course, you got to pass power around. And there are some jumpers to set on the board to do that 64 by 64 height. And then you can go wider with that. So we have some libraries that show you how to do that. I wanted to show you a demo I just made. And I am excited about this because we've now got GIF support. So this is the first time I've used in preparing for the show today, I've used GIF IO on the matrix portal with the matrix display. The nice thing is this display just basically shows up in display IO. You can use it just like pretty much any display you would in display IO. One second while I adjust the camera here to show you the little demo here of a GIF. Here we go. So look at that right there. There is one of our panels with the matrix portal right there. I've got it dark at the moment so you can see the colors a little better. Running a little animated GIF. This is a, I don't know, I think something like a maybe 40 something frame GIF. So it's not tiny, but it plays back great. It plays back really nice and fast. Look at those great colors. And if I adjust my exposure to make it a little brighter, it's going to wash that out. But you can see here, I built the little Lego frame for it. And around the back, you can see there is my matrix portal plugged in. It protrudes off the side and depends on the size of the matrix that you're using how far that is. But that gives you access to these buttons right here. And I don't have them set up to do anything on this demo, but you can use two buttons for user things. And then this top button here is a reset. You can also use, because these have a pretty standard IDC connector ribbon connector, you could make a little ribbon cable situation to move the matrix portal anywhere you want. It doesn't actually have to be rigidly bound to it. It's this kind of little IDC ribbon cable here that'll that'll plug in. And those are keyed for polarity. But yeah, you can see we've got bunches of different kinds of from from little we little 32 by 32 ones. This is 32 by 64, all the way up to if you saw the project I did recently using the Star Trek L cars display that was a pair of 64 by 64s that were joined up for power and data that allowed me to have 128 by 64 pixels. So really nice and big. The learn or yeah, let me go let me go to the product page and then to the learn guide to show you some of the many, many things you can do with it. So first of all, yeah, here's the page. This is that product ID 4745. So you can always get there with a to fruit dot it slash product number in this case 4745. You can get these for the $12 and 48 cents. Just chuck them in your cart. No coupon code needed. If you scroll down in here, you'll get some of the key features. So like I said, at samd 51 Cortex m4 ESP 32 Wi Fi co processor usb type C. We have an I square C stem of Qt connector. So you can add on peripherals to this. Let's say you want to add a little encoder or something to control it. You can. We also have a JST three pin out that can be used for audio playback audio IO or other GPIO uses has that built in list 3d h accelerometer. There are some GPIO pins broken out that you can connect up. The address E line jumper is what we soldered to be able to use 64 by 64 matrices. And then we just declare it in code. And then the buttons indicator neopixel on board power indicator and then the two by 10 socket for hub 75. The pin out you can see here if you go to learn guide that will tell you even more details about what these GPIO pins are that are broken out if you want to use those. And if you click on the learn guide section and just search for matrix portal, you'll see tons and tons of different projects we have here. Here's some nice sprite sheet animation type of stuff from Jepler with this this RGB LED matrices. Learn guide. There's proto matter, which is going to let you use Arduino and some really fast screen refreshes or protest sign on air sign. These like the clock and the weather display. These are pulling data off of different online sources. So we have ways to parse JSON documents and then put that information up on the screen. Here's Liz's great IoT Twitter listener party parent. I believe that one was watching a Twitter account for for a mention and then it would animate the dancing parrot head. So lots of great guides there that you can dive into, especially the ones with connectivity. Here's the scoreboard one uses the phone uses your web page to be able to update. So let's see, what else do I have to show you? Let's let's take a look at this code. So for this project here. For this gift animation, by the way, one of the things you'll notice is I'm using a diffusion LED plastic. This is an this is an acrylic with a diffuse surface on one side that really helps to sort of blend the pixels together a little better. So you don't see the individual very piercing bright points of light, you don't have to use those. But we do sell that plastic in the store too. So you can look for that LED diffusion acrylic. So here's the code for what I'm doing here, you can see it's pretty straightforward. I am importing the matrix portal as matrix that's going to let me use the display really easily. And I'm importing the GIF IO. And then I create my matrix object here and I'm telling it the width and height 64 by 64 in the case of this one right here. We are then using pretty standard display IO hierarchy of groups. And then we're using this from GIF IO the on disk GIF map odg is an on disk GIF. And I have a GIF I put on there called cyber dot GIF. And then we have some timing things, the GIF object is being added to the display display o tile grid, using a particular pixel shader for the color conversions. And then in the main loop, we're simply moving a frame updating moving a frame updating, moving a frame updating. So really straightforward, we could just throw different gifts on this. We'll probably put up this example code somewhere if you want to grab it as a easy way to just get started throwing gifts on, you can then of course do things like have it play a loop of multiple gifts or update only when you press a button.  Let's see what else anything I'm forgetting. Let me know in the chat if you have any questions. Yeah, 2231 puppy said how long will the discount be around after the stream? Not long at all. We the discount is just for the during the show. So give or take sometimes 10 minutes to an hour of someone being able to have the the chance to go and adjust that. So it's it's not a sure thing. What size panel is that? So if your question is about the one that I have on screen here set CET asked, this one is a two millimeter pitch. So that's how close together the pixels are. This is a two millimeter pitch. I believe this one's a two and a half millimeter pitch here. And we have all the way up to six millimeter pitch so you can get pretty big ones. The sometimes here. Here's a nice. Here's a nice example. Here's a 32 by 32 pixel in six millimeter pitch. This is great for doing pixel art stuff. A lot of sprites and icons are 32 by 32. So that's a nice one or 24 by 24. That's a nice one for those. But you can see that the distance between those is rather large. That's the six millimeter. This one I think is a 2.5 millimeter. So big, big difference there between those two. And I believe this is a 64 by 64. So all of those you can drive with the matrix portal. Let's see other questions. Yeah, what Willie question was this is Adafruit circuit Python gift support it is not expressive pixels, but that's another option. There's a learn guide on that. I haven't looked at that. But yeah, we have a couple of different ways to do those as well as just sprite sheet animation. So a sprite sheet that has one long or wide image, and then the code can just like on a on a video game sprite sheet page through those quickly. Jeff Hunt asked, do you did you say they can daisy chain? They sure can. If you look at I'm going to bring up the learn guide again. If you look at the L cars, little cars, Star Trek panel. You'll see on the back. Well, there you go. So there's two of them. And these are two and a half millimeter pitch 64 by 64. So I put those together. And then I gave them both power, as well as shared data. So you can see there that's what that looks like with two of them chained together. You can't see the power hook up there. Let me see. I've got a better image of that. No, I closed it up before I showed you that surely I have a there we go. Here's a nicer full view of it. So you can see that's two panels together and they have the standoffs for power that come off of the matrix portal can deliver about three amps. I think if you have a nice USB C power brick plugged into it, I needed more than that for this. I was going full bright white and 128 by 64 pixels. So I used an external power supply that's a four amp I might even up that to a 10 amp. And then that power can go directly to the panels and then I just tie ground into the matrix portal. So that's a way that you can do that. So yeah, Connor McCarter asked what she uses a power supply main learn guide will we'll talk about all those options for this size and type of panel you can use something like the Raspberry Pi USB C power brick it's like $8 we have it in the store can supply up to three amps at five volts. And that's good for for running the power directly off of the matrix portal when you get bigger displays brighter displays more displays chained together. You can use an external power supply for just the panels like I did there. So check that guide out. That's a that'll show you how. Let's see other questions. Oh yeah, David G says you can go four up of the 64 by 64s. So you can do 128 by 128 pixels. Think that's the max that we can drive but I could be wrong on that I believe actually there's a learn guide that Melissa did where she was driving even more than that I think it was 64 high or 32 high but super wide like four panels wide. Yeah, and David G says if you want to use multiple panels try to simultaneous simultaneously try to order them all at once so that you're more likely to have the same color temperature on them and that's somewhat tweakable especially if you're not doing white. But it's a good point don't wait a year to buy a panel that could could end up being slightly different color shifts to it. Alright, I think is that going to do it? I think that does it. So let's let's finish this up. So that find a convenient way to hold this. It's it's overblown it's sort of blown out there but you get the idea that right there is my product pick of the week this week it is the matrix portal. It's the matrix portal. Thanks everyone for stopping by for JP's product pick of the week. Remember you can head on over to that site right there while the show is on pretty soon after we go off the air that discount will go away but right now it is half off. So pick yourself up a lovely matrix portal and a display and maybe a power supply and take a look at some of those guides don't forget some of that LED plastic to you can score it with a knife and snap it if you're careful if you don't have a laser cutter or a band saw or another way to cut that table saw works pretty well. Alright, thanks everyone for Adafruit Industries. I'm John Park. This has been JP's product pick of the week. Bye bye.