catch a can this morning. This is the view from our balcony. It is an obnoxiously bright five-something in the morning. All right, I'll be back. It's called a training pole. As you can see the little claw marks. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Yeah.  Put the cubby down there and she'd walk away. Mm-hmm. She'd leave that baby crying and whining and doing their thing.  Mm-hmm. She would actually hump up her back, flatten out her ears and charge that baby going 35 miles an hour and scare the DJZs out of that baby. In doing so, that baby would climb up that pole. The reason mama wants that baby to learn to climb up that pole is a very serious one. Not a Disney around here. Mama, baby, papa does not live together. They do not stay together throughout their lives. You have mama and baby and you have a sperm donor. Mm-hmm. That's it, okay?  Mm-hmm. Okay. So it's out there for one reason only because he wakes up, he needs to go to the bathroom.  That's the only thing the male bear wants. So the female is teaching that child for 18 to 24 months to survive. And the first thing is to climb a tree. Now, this is an old version. It's a big one. A male bear can climb this tree. Don't get me wrong. Okay. They're using those little trees throughout the area. Now, everything. The Santa Berries have their name as a Santa Berries because the berries look like little clusters of rope. Okay. Devil's Club. Devil's Club. It's called Devil's Club. Devil's for a lady. So I like to cuddle up to her because, again, the natural oils is a bug repellent. Oh. During the wintertime, during the cold days, she's actually 10 degrees warmer than outside air. So that's why I cuddle into her. She is a great tree. Yes, they make... Where? Zipliners. Tree monkeys. Tree monkeys. Otherwise, they're zipliners. Oh, yeah. Two in the tree here. Look, the tree. Oh, wait. Let's see if I can find them with the camera now that I zoomed in. There's two bald eagles in the tree right there. Let's see. Wait. Tree. There they are, right there. Got him. Oh, up. I know. I know. You have to walk up. Do I have any questions when I stand in here just waiting a few seconds? Okay. Okay. I have to get a shot. So I shake me. Okay. Do you have little ears? Yeah. That happens to be called sparrows. Sparrows starts with cutting out these trees and it has to cut out all of those leaves. But you can see it's down here. My daughter always told me so, but I didn't believe them. But I did. So, do it in here. Wait. They never like anything else because they are less comfortable. Okay. I know. They don't use it today. No, they don't use it today. These come from, these all come from the different. So they, I got, I got some of the fight. Yeah. I got some of the fight. I got some of the fight. I'm going to get a shot. Okay. I got some of the fight. I got some of the fight. Well, these last ones, if you put a meal in the noodle facility, so they're just cold. But all this stuff is actually just cold. So they're just cold in here stuff. Be very careful, I don't want to be in any kind of coldness. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm okay.  Move over here, look straight ahead. I'll actually have you just kind of stay right there. How's everybody doing today? Good. My name is Brittany. I'm with the Alaska Raptor Center. We here in Ketchikan are an educational extension of our main facility that's located in Sitka, Alaska. It's about 200 miles northeast of here. The Alaska Raptor Center is a non-for-profit organization. We are the only full service avian hospital in all of Alaska and actually one of the largest in the country too, which we're pretty proud of. All the birds that we have here in Ketchikan with us are permanent residents with the center. They've either had some sort of injury or a behavioral concern that wouldn't allow them to be released back into the wild, so they stay with us. Okay, so here we are leaving Ketchikan, Alaska. Interesting little town. They have 35 miles of road on the whole island. Most of it is wild. Forest, rainforest, bears, rainforest. They get a half an inch of rain here every single day of the entire year. The average between 160 to 200 inches a year. That's a whole heck of a lot of rain. Considering San Jose gets about 24 to 26 inches a year. Right? It was a cute little town, very friendly. Now we're on to the next stop. We'll be back.


Hi, welcome to Seymour's World commentary on Think Tech Hawaii. My name is Seymour Kazimerski. You can find all my commentaries and Seymour's World's episodes on the Think Tech Hawaii website. I welcome your comments by email, text, or phone. You can reach me at Seymour.Kazimerski at gmail.com or my phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Today's commentary is happy new year to all our Jewish friends and families around the world. But this message is for all of us, for Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Arabs, Muslims, anybody who believes in a higher power. If Rosh Hashanah could be summed up in one word, that would be love, potential, and life. Uh oh, that's three words. Uh oh, what are you going to do? I'm still learning how to count. Let's take a look at each of these words and reflect on their meaning in the context of Rosh Hashanah. Follow me. The first word is love. If you have heard anything about Rosh Hashanah, what you have probably heard is either that it is the Jewish New Year or that it is the day of judgment. Well, I'm here to tell you that while both are true, they are also very misunderstood. Let's consider the notion of judgment. The truth is the prospect of judgment is very uncomfortable and nobody likes to be judged. We don't like to be judged by a boss, a teacher, and certainly not by our peers. At the same time, there's a very beautiful dimension to judgment. Think about parents and children. Parents are concerned about and judge a whole range of items related to their children. Parents are concerned about their children's grades in school, what kind of lunch they have, what kinds of friends they associate with, and what websites they frequent, and a lot more. From the child's perspective, this can seem a bit intrusive, but the truth is there's only one reason why our parents are so interested in virtually every detail over their children's lives. It's because they deeply love their children. In fact, one of the most devastating things a parent can do to a child is not to judge. Why? Because a parent who isn't interested in what their child is doing is sending a message that says clearly, I don't care about you. A child who hears such a message will inevitably draw the conclusion that they are not worth their parent's attention, and that is about the most destructive message a child can absorb. On Rosh Hashanah, when we say that God sits in judgment, what we are saying is that God loves us. He cares about each and every one of us. He cares about who we are, how we live, and whether or not we are actualizing the potential he gave us. That the creator of the universe actually cares about little old me is a remarkably empowering and life-giving idea. The reality that we confront on Rosh Hashanah is one that highlights the intrinsic value and preciousness of every life in the eyes of God. Second is potential. Did you ever wonder what Jews are celebrating on Rosh Hashanah? Rosh Hashanah is the anniversary of the creation of the first human being. The Jewish year begins with focusing on the awesome nature and potential that exists within each of us. When you look at the world around you, it's clear that God is not only quite powerful, but very, very creative. That being the case, God could have launched mankind with a family, a village, or a whole planet filled with people. Why did he begin with just one person? Jewish tradition teaches that God began with one person to teach us about the fantastic potential inherent in each of us. Each of us has the ability to have an impact on the entire world, and each of us is capable of making a world of difference. As we stand at the threshold of a new year, we ask ourselves some simple questions. What can I do in the coming year to actualize more of my potential? How can I contribute, even in a small way, to making the world a better place? What can I do to make a difference in someone's life? Every Rosh Hashanah represents a vote of confidence from God in our individual personal potential. Every Rosh Hashanah also presents us with a fresh opportunity to unlock more and more of that great God-given gift. Third is life. Throughout the Rosh Hashanah prayers, Jews are asking God to remember us for life and inscribe us in the book of life. When Jews greet one another, we say, may you have a good year and may you be written and sealed for a year of good life and peace. Our prayers for life are meant to be understood at face value. We want to live, but they also have a deeper meaning. Consider this. I once met a Holocaust survivor who said, I would choose to go through all those years in Auschwitz again rather than spend one day of my life as a Nazi. That is an incredible statement. And what it means, I believe, is this. One can be alive, strong and healthy, yet be dead at the same time. A life lived in the boots of a Nazi or under the flag of Al Qaeda or Hezbollah is a life utterly drained of all meaning. You see, there are certain choices that we make and certain courses of actions that we pursue that have the ability to infuse life with life. And there are others that drain life of everything God intended for. On Rosh Hashanah, Jews not only ask for life, strive to be people who embrace the kind of values, ideals and choices that fulfill our day with life, with meaning, with goodness, with spirituality, with life. I told you this message is for all of us. Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Arabs, Muslims, anybody, anybody who believes in a higher power. I hope it helps you understand the meaning of life. My name is Seymour Kazimursky. You are watching a commentary of Seymour's World, which you can find on the Think Tech Hawaii website. I welcome your comments by email, text or phone. You can always reach me at Seymour.Kazimursky Gmail or<PHONE_NUMBER>. Happy New Year to all of you. Aloha.


re we go. All right, let me get these copied over now. All right, here they come. Give me one sec, guys. Be right back. Oh, man. What a card. I did say platinum. I did say platinum. I did not think we were gonna get a Trevor Lawrence, though. Purple. Hortugal. CR7 Christiana Ronaldo. Sean M. with group H. 43 of 99. Trey Lance. 7 out of 25. Boom. 65 of 99. Trey Lance. Two Trey Lance RPAs, dude. Barry. This is a heater right now. You're on, man. Dylan Johnson. Quartzside Lebron. 10 of 49. Wow, Barry. You're killing it right now, man. And Judge. There's... Wow. Live wonder, Franco. Boom of 100. Actisco. Herbert Jones. Boom. One of one for the Pelicans. There you go, Barry. What a way to start off the day. First box of the day with one of one's. And on the back, a familiar face. Trevor Lawrence. RPA 2 of 3. The Eye of the Jaguar. It's the Eye of the Jaguar. Let's Haro Martinez. That's a very nice gold. 10 of 10, Argentina. Good break we got going here. Red CR7 and a gold let's Haro. These are huge, dude. We've got Collar Wheel of Josh Allen. That is a monster card right there. These are so hard to pull in Celestial. So hard. I've pulled two since I've started breaking. I've pulled two of these. So hard. Wow. Scotty Barnes, downtown. Toronto. I haven't seen this one yet. I freaking love that with the actual Raptors. That's so cool. Orange Auto. The 25. That's an orange shimmer auto of Jake Fox. Going to the Cardians again. That is 2 of 25. Derek Killenay right now, man. Gold Lamello Ball. Unreal, man. 8 of 10. Premier level. That's gold. Right. Gold Kaboom. Boom. Goodness. Yeah. 3 of 10. That's why he's the MVP. That's why he's the goat. The goat. Good night. Purple Rookie. Jason Tatum. Celtics 12 of 99. Wow. There he is. Dude, someone tell Blake. Woo-hoo. Don's boy. We've got Jalen of 10. We've got... All right, guys. Last break of the day or of the day time, I should say, of the day time. So good luck. What's going on, everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards. We're ripping 2022 Bowman Draft Jumbo 8-Box full case break number 7, random team style. Here's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find these on the website under the results tab, as well as the link in chat. Good luck, everybody. 40-pound case of Bowman Draft. Plenty of group break spots with Forest tonight as well. Forest will be starting at 5 p.m. Eastern time. It'll be starting about two hours from now. So show Forest some love. The Subaru Forest there. What is that? That's another group of them. All right. Got Desert Sons. I was just going to say that. Oh, yeah. Desert Sons is a classic. Cutter coffee. First auto. Nice one there for the Red Sox. Congrats, Boston. You have a Spider-Man water bottle. I feel like you own one of those. I feel like you may own one of those. I don't. I promise. Explains a lot. Amy. What are you, three? What are you, three? Oh, no. Oh, my God, what this kid do? True blue of Carson Palmquist. Jake's boy for 150. Cutter coffee again. Red Sox sweeping this time to 250 on the purple. There you go, Boston. Steve G with two hits right off the bat. Congrats, Steve. It's not super cold actually in Florida. Surprisingly not super cold yet, Connor. It will. It will get cold. But right now it's not too, too bad. It's like manageable. Is this, how cold is it supposed to get? Oh, wow. I think Christmas night or Christmas night is supposed to get like. Ricardo Cabrera. Reds. Guarantee the over and under of people in my family saying, you prof the cold weather with you when you came up here. It's going to be like what's up. I mean, we'll probably have Christmas with like between 15 and 20 people. I'll take an over of seven. Yeah, honestly. There's Ryan Ritter to 499. Why didn't you keep it down there? I love families. Oh, yeah. Negative four in Kentucky. Really freezing in Georgia. Yeah, Georgia is cold, too. Really? Someone was saying it was like 18 degrees in Georgia. Wow. I know Bo. Bo H, one of our like regulars on the YouTube and switch. He's from Georgia. There's Mason Barnett. That's for the Royals first auto. Congrats, Ferhan. Only 60. That is chilly. Minus 40 in Montana yesterday. Oh my goodness. Negative two in Missouri with four inches of snow. Minus 40. PA is supposed to be like negative 40 tonight.  What is going on? I'm just slamming the doorbell now. It's your boy. Kevin Alcantara to 250. But that guy needs help. Your boy, Don. Not out of this case yet. We did hit a holiday to a 199 auto in the last case, as well as a Kumar Rocker purple auto to 250. So a couple of big hits so far. Everybody hide your group orders. Donnie's here. Absolutely. We don't stop at. So you know the drill? That's my fault. Let's stop acting like a toddler. What are you, three? What are you, three? What are you, here's what are you ordering? Grilled cheese and five guys. Oh yeah. They can sit around that one right now. Ready? I'm going to make one of fours when he comes in. And I guarantee this is going to be his reaction. Ready? Yeah, dude. It's good. Have you ever tried it? Yeah, dude. It's good. I fold a couple of dill and less goes. Yes. Shade that smack. Thank you, man. I think 460 we have on a box on these for jumbo and it's like somewhere in the 600s for super jumbo I believe. 460 jumbo, 720 supers. Super jumbo. Gotcha, yeah. 460 for a jumbo. Yeah, we pulled a base auto and a green auto last case. Not out of this case yet. Let's go. Let's go. No, no. Jake's top loading. Donnie is not top. But Donnie's just here to sort and ship I believe tonight. I would not mess up a simple pizza order. Promise. Not forget the ranch. Michael Hernandez to 250. Nobody knows. Dominic Keegan, the race. Yeah, when Donnie's top loading for me at some point I'll have him explain the whole situation. At least give him a chance to defend himself. We can get him in here right now. I'll text him. Okay, buddy. Is we getting an auto out of that first stack? Interesting. That's weird. Oh well. On to the next one. Like that forest impression. That was amazing. We got a gold. One min show. So one fifth. We've got gold auto is Drew Gilbert. 20 out of 50 for the Astros. Nice one there Houston. Carla W. There you go, Carla. Where are you going to start? That was like the perfect, like exactly how he sounds. When he comes in, we got to see if he likes it. Yeah, dude. Yeah, dude. It's good. Everybody try it. Oh, is that? You're all in. Confident. Confident. Not first though. I couldn't tell you what was on the TV for the last five hours. Florida versus. Oh, Florida versus Utah. That's right. Okay, never mind. I could tell you. Thanks for the reminder. Good, you're not focused on the TV. Breaking? Oh yeah. Dead or addicted to breaking. There you go, Connor. That's a nice car, man. Any gold auto is going to be fired out of this. That's true. Not going to lie. There's not a lot of places that only serve hot dogs. That's true. That's true. Paul was trying to defend hot dogs today too. I wasn't having it at five. But, but okay. You go to five guys to have a really good burger. Yes, exactly. Don't go to have a hot dog. That's right. You certainly don't go to get a grilled cheese. No, that is awful. Okay. Children's baby. What are you, three? So we're stealing Sean's thunder. Oh yeah. Three. There's sky blue paper to 499. Kenya Huggins.  Yeah, I agree with that. I didn't even know they had grilled cheese on their menu, to be honest. Because I don't look at the King's menu. Because it's for when you're three. Kevin Perrata, base first auto. I saw in their Mets, congrats. Vincent W. J-Dogs is the only hot dog place. Someone said they make a grilled cheese burger at five guys. I highly recommend it. See that's different though. What? Grilled cheese burger. Like basically like a patty melt, essentially. That sounds pretty good actually. Like I would get that. They never knew they had it. That I would get. That's okay. That's because we have burger. That's burger though. Yes, you have the main part. Two beef patties in the topping sandwich between two grilled cheese sandwiches. Yeah, there you go. There's sunny Dishara. And green Yasser Mercedes to 999. Oh it's only available at limited places. Ah, that's worrying. That's wack. And last pack here guys. Needs out, I was hoping it was. I guess just make a note on the sale sheet. Missing one auto. In box too. Okay. That's chrome dust, it's killing me. It is weird. Maybe we'll have an extra. Hopefully. Hey, thanks for all the gift thing there Zach. Um, what was I gonna say? Someone just asked, is grilled cheese with a tomato soup actually a pizza? It does have all the components of the pizza. Like if you dip a grilled cheese into a tomato soup. It could be. No. It could be. I would in my eyes know. You're okay, fair. That's a soup and sandwich. True. But I can see how someone could try to argue that is a pizza. In my opinion it's not. Jared McKenzie, 340 out of 499. Refractor Auto for the Nationals. Nah, I can't agree with you. Because it's two separate components. Yeah. And they're made together, that's a thing. Correct. Like if you put tomato soup on a grilled cheese sandwich. Like in it, somehow. Then kind of, yes. Like if you made tomato soup part of the sandwich, other than dipping it. Yeah. Yes. Customary air sauce is like a thing. True. It's not like a soup. True. So funny when Sean was reading off on Forrest and Wayne said they get grilled cheese from five guys. He just goes, he's just shaking. I said he goes, it's a grown man. We're in grilled cheese off a menu. It's bread and cheese. It's truth. It's truth. It's a grown man. I mean there are places that serve like grilled cheese, but like the next level. Yeah. Which I would accept. Like I'm not even going to say I would never order a grilled cheese off a place. No, no, definitely not. It's like a born May one. No, no. Yeah, no. It's just five guys that's really bread and cheese on a grill. Yeah. Wait, Jeremy Pena autographs do we have? I don't know. We probably have some in the shop. I don't own any personally. Yeah, I was going to say I don't think there's any out there right now. Yeah, you would know better than anybody. Absolutely, yeah. There's Yson Morbell. It's a 499 sky blue paper. True blue. Denzer Guzman to 150. And base auto Tyler Schweitzer for the White Sox. Nido Nido. There you go, Neeks. Feeling good, man? You don't have COVID. Yeah, I know that's big. That's for sure. That's big time. Especially right now. Right, honestly.  What's up? What's up? You're right there in the pink. That's good. I'm glad you're able to go, Neeks. That's awesome, dude. Trace Sweeney on the Aqua. Not Aqua. Sky blue. Rome. Come on, baby. Be an auto. Give us an auto. Give us a purple auto. Why not? Why not us? Why not now? It is Dillon de Lucia. Purple auto. 132 out of 250 for the Guardians. Grats on that. Cleveland. Josh S. Oh, printing plate. One of one. Walter Ford. Nice one there. That's going to the Mariners. Congrats, Seattle. Actual cyan. Printing plate. Cool. First one of those I pulled this year. Paper. Green. Eric Brown, Jr. to 99. Green speckle for the brew crew. Kyle Menzardo. Another future Jake shirt jersey. Oh, thanks. Thank you. Is it a grilled cheese pizza? Yes. No ranch. Grilled cheese from five guys. Grilled cheese from five guys. Pizza, no ranch. He told Donnie for me here real quick. Want to hear my forest impression really quick? We were talking about, I was like, when forest comes in here, I'm going to make fun of them for getting grilled cheese at five guys. And this is what he's going to say. Yeah, dude, it's good. Have you ever tried it? Yeah, that's what I said. See, there you go. This is exactly what I mean. Why wouldn't I say that? Yeah, dude, it's good. It is good. I feel I'm not saying I'm like, I'm going to go there like, I can't wait to get me a grilled cheese. Goodbye, guys. We have a little hot dog to fire there. I have been at five guys in like two years. Really? Fair enough. The cheddar bacon dogs, get a couple of those to fire. But you can put everything on too. You can put onions, you can put on the burger, you can put on that. So it makes it pretty falling. All right. See, he's making a case for it. Slowly talking me into it, I got to be honest. Making a case for it. Yeah, that's what I say. What do you mean? Why would I not say that? Well, maybe, yeah. That's Simon Juan to 50. This break I think was $130 a spot. True blue, Cole Young to 150. Yeah, one team or combo team per spot. Yes, principle. Yeah, there's I think 28 spots to the break and there's two combo spots. So the Yankees and the White Sox are one combo and the Marlins and the Phillies. There's Deandre Smith, base rookie auto, base first auto for the Mets. There's a Aqua or Sky Blue Hayden Dunhurst, the 499 on the paper for the Royals. Edison Paulino on the Aqua Chrome. Refractor Auto, Landon Sims, the 499, Diamondbacks. There's your Donnie De Los Santos for the Pirates on the White Speckle. Purple Robert O'Sell to 250. And Douglas Hodo the third, 188 out of 199 on the Aqua Lava. That does not sound like a real name. Douglas Hodo the third. Sounds like a Star Wars name. Douglas Hodo. That wasn't a real card, I don't think. I don't think that card truly exists. That sounds like a Harry Potter character, like someone in the Lord of the Rings. What's up?   Watch out for the Astha at one point. Give me all the Hodo's. Redemption is Bowman and Victor Autograph Red Parallel, Max Muncie going to the A's. Nice one there, Oakland. David S. Grats on that. That'll be the five right there, Max Muncie. That's pretty cool. I don't know, Bo, to be honest. Yonkyl Fernandez to 150. They did his picture kind of dirty in this one. Not bad, totally. No, no, holiday got screwed. Blue, Mason Wynne, not numbered. There was a redemption for a first, then yeah, but Muncie's been through a few Bowmans now. Aqua Lava, Jason Dominguez for the Inks. And Green, Victor Medeiros, 40 out of 99 for the Angels. This one there, L.A., not familiar? Yeah, let's see, I believe him's here. Did you really? Yeah. Will you play it? Is there any animal beers you could think of you played against? Oh yeah. Who? Reese Hines. We play against the IMG national team. Eddie's Leonard to... Pretty much every single one of those guys was drafted. Yeah, who was the best, the most notable you played against? Or you were in the same conference for like... I'd say that team for sure. That too, this is everybody. Well, there's Reese Hines. I can't think of who else was going to see who else was going to see. Stirland Thompson, base auto, first for the Rockies. Clark Elliott, that is White Speckle for the A's. Got Dandy DeAndrade and Purple Nick York to 250. My rocker, I'm going to refract her. Played against J-Rod and Jeremy Pena in the minors, nice. Jayce Jung, that's a 499. What team were you on? You played on Trayvon Walker's team, though? That's pretty sick, dude. That's awesome.  Yeah, really. The guys getting drafted for the minors and stuff, then. Reese Hines is the most notable name. Reese Hines, yeah. We're deep right now? Since Nadi is, man. Since Nadi. The picture that started against us is on the Dodgers now. That's nasty. He was drafted by the Blue Jays and then traded. Traded. That's awesome, Beau. That's so cool, man. Elijah Green! Elijah Green! There he is. Base auto for the Nationals. Congrats, Nats. Chuck S. There you go, buddy. Nice green. There's Samuel Munoz, white speckle. Elijah's going to be from, like, Wisconsin or something. He's going to be the one of the one of the Nessians out of what? He's going to be the one of the Nessian one of the Nessians. That'd be insane. And the Mbappe one of them. And the Ronaldo one of them. There's Dylan Ray, the 75.  Donnie Toplode again. Everyone in chat is just going to wreck him. Oh, yeah. Willie Vasquez. It's at 1.99. Is Donnie Toplode tonight? Yeah, he's the next time he does. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, no. Sean's Toplode tonight. So, I don't know why it's only 7am. Yeah, I know. He's like, I'm just going to go pretty much home and grab myself to go to the airport. I'm like, that's all you can do. Right, honestly. Sleepy for an hour is a negative at that point. Yeah. Might as well not. Purple Tanner Schoble, it's $2.50. Dustin Harris and Victor Autograph, 7 out of 99. There's some scratches and stuff on that. We'll send an empty box and wrapper with a ranger. Sorry about that, rangers. What's up? Maybe you didn't. Where are you from? I'm from Miami. Oh, okay. I thought we played their school, I guess. What kind of pizza do you get for us? Oh, there's a Bianca. There's this one that has pepperoni, garlic, and ricotta. Oh, my God.  Oh. But the pepperoni and the Bianca are going to be the final ones. Okay. Do some scouting. Got some 7-Eleven. Nice heat lamp pizza. I would not be bragging if I brought you guys 7-Eleven pizza. Dylan, or sunny day shiara. It's a 9-Eleven. What kind of pizza do you get? Pizza. It's out there. That's what I would say if I got you 7-Eleven pizza. It's dough with some. It's legally pizza, all right? We're even pushing it on legally at that point. It's almost food, okay? Somewhat counts. It passes. Passes, right? They serve it in public schools. It's fun. True. Yeah, true. What's up, Bronx? Refractor Alex Freeman, autographed to 499 for the Dodgers. It's the second Freeman we pulled this break. What up, what up? How you doing, man? There's Ivan Melendez to 499. That's good. I'm out of exhaustion too. Happy holidays to you too. Thanks, man. She had it. Thank you, Bronx. Happy holidays. I'm about to be exhausted tomorrow, dude. I'll wake up. How much is your plate? It's 8. No, 9. But we have to, I mean, I have to get to the airport super early since Christmas Eve. Yeah. So it's a super travel day. So I'm scheduling an Uber for 5 tomorrow. 5.30, 5.30. Get there at 6 and just try to get through security. Sleep like a baby on the plane, though. You'll have to travel after you leave. What's up? You still have to travel after me. Somewhat. My parents are picking us up. So it's like a 20-minute drive from the airport, 25-minute drive. Thank you. I appreciate it, Randy. Not looking forward to it, dude. We're just flying from Florida to Connecticut. So it's like a two-hour flight, two-and-a-half hour flight. It's not terrible, but it's going to be annoying. Colson Montgomery to 499. Victor Scott, the second for the Cardinals on the base auto. Yeah. I'll be napping for sure. I'll be napping for sure. I can assure you of that. Air apparent, Brooks Lee, 32 out of 50 on the gold. Nice one there for the twins. It's been up here already. Orange. Come on, baby. Come on, be big. Give us an orange auto, too. I don't think it's an auto. We do have a blue behind it. So it's not going to be an auto, but it's going to be an orange. True orange of Ben Joyce for the Angels. Nice one there on the chrome. That's sick. Then we've got blue wave auto, Victor Scott. 68 out of 150, two Victor Scots in this box. Congrats, Cardinals. Can I see Cardinals? Yeah, true. I know Open. You know Open. Gotcha. Jackson Chorio, nice one there. It's a 150 on the Invicta Atomic. Do like a hundred of them. Yeah, orange on number to 25. Principal. To 25. I'm going to take that orange back after this pack really quick, too. I'm just going to show the back of it. Yeah. I forgot to say what it was number two. Brandon Barrera. So that is numbered nine of 25. Nine of 25. Orange. Just pulled the orange Jackson holiday of that, which was nasty to base. Yeah, that thing was disgusting. I would do the 101. Reving inside is one of five. That's sickening, dude. It's too fast. There's Michael Kennedy for the Pirates base auto not numbered. So we didn't go three for three with Victor Scott, apparently. Pack of box seven. Then runs the last box of the break, everybody. Same meal as Zavala. Sky blue paper at 4.99. All right. Last box of the morning, guys. Good luck, everybody. The forest is looking on spots, too. Oh, good. Update series are both sold out. Nice. Yeah. Forest is slowly but surely getting his spots sold out. Thank you, guys. Good looking spots, for sure. Yeah, we're doing breaks. I've been ripping since 11. 11 a.m. And then Forest is coming in at night. He's going till 5. All right. It's going till probably 2 a.m. tonight. All right. Here we go. Blue paper, Simon Juan to 150. There's Jet Williams. Nice one there. 163 out of 199 for the Metz. Congrats, Metz. Solid card, for sure. Christian MacCara, blue. Gabriel Hughes, white speckle not numbered for the Rockies. We've got Green Jack Branigan to 99 for the Pirates. And Refractor Drew Gilbert, 323 out of 499. Going to the Stroze on the Auto. Aqua to 199. Nice. Last couple packs here. Last stack. Should have our Auto on top here. Redemption, it looks like. It's always not a bad site. It's going to be Brooks Lee. Chrome Prospect, Autograph, Purple Refractor. Boom. Going to the Twins. There you go. Satinori, why? Congrats, man. Nice one there. We'll get that mag for you. How long have I been collecting Dino's? Pretty much my whole life, since I was like 6 years old. I would say give or take. Been really like hardcore collecting since about 2013. Like doing social media stuff with it. Like my own card account, all that kind of stuff. But I've been like collecting ever since I was a kid. There's Cole Young. Nice one there. Purple Paper to 250. There's Reggie Crawford Blue. Purple Leonardo Balcazar to 250 on the Chrome. Like favorite cards or top three cards in general? Like value-ized junk. My favorites are anything my Ravens. So probably my... I have like the Ray Lewis, Ed Reid, and Jamal Lewis, one-on-one from Flawless. Like Triple Shield. Couple Ray Lewis autos I really like. Gutierrez, Bates, and Bates. That'll do it for the break, guys. Do a quick recap here. What's up, Joha? How you doing, buddy? We've got printing plates of Walter Ford for the Mariners. Max Muncie and Victor Parallel for the Ys. Bass is Michael Kennedy Pirates. Victor Scott Cardinals. Elijah Green for the Nationals. Appreciate that, man. Sterling Thompson Rockies. Deandre Smith Metz. Tyler Schweitzer, White Sox. Kevin Perrata Metz. Mason Barnett for the Royals. Cutter Coffee Red Sox. Nour Fractors to $4.99. Drew Gilbert Astros. Jared Mackenzie Nats. Landon Sims Diamondbacks. Alex Freeland for the Dodgers. Purples to $2.50. Dillon de Lucia. Guardians, Cutter Coffee Red Sox. Teal Lava to $1.99. Jet Williams Metz. Douglas Hodo, the third for the Orioles. Jeez, man. Blues to $1.50. Blue Wave, Victor Scott. Dustin Harris in Victor Otto for the Rangers. Victor Moretos. Green to $9.99. Angels, Gold, Drew Gilbert to $5.50 for the Astros. And then we have a Brooks Lee Refractor Purple Parallel. Going to the Twins. That'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up is, we're done. So, Forrest will be alive in a little bit. Oops, back to there. All right, guys. That'll do it for me tonight, or not tonight today. Appreciate you guys all hanging out. Let me drop you guys the break schedule really quick. Forrest looking pretty good on spots. Definitely could use some love a little bit later on. But he is looking pretty solid right now. So, we do appreciate you all for all that. Everybody, have a happy holidays. I won't see you guys again until Wednesday. I'm going to be off for the next five or so days. Be up and connect with the family. So, I will, everybody, I hope you have a great holidays. Be safe. Have a healthy holiday as well.  And I will see you guys on Wednesday.


I'm Jerry Bain, multimedia producer for EDUCAUSE, and I'm here with Tom Kavanaugh, John Fritz, and Cynthia Golden. Could you guys introduce yourselves, starting with you, Tom? Sure. I am Tom Kavanaugh. I am Vice Provost for Digital Learning at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Yeah, I'm John Fritz. I'm the Associate Vice President for Instructional Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, UMBC. And I'm Cynthia Golden. I am Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the University Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. I'm curious about assessment. How is your institution approaching faculty to be more focused on learning outcomes? Assessment obviously becomes more complex given the situation we're in, an unplanned move to online. Can you talk about assessment and how you guys are approaching that strategy? I'll go ahead and start. And it's been, I think, a series of increasingly urgent triages. When we moved this spring completely online, it was a bit of a fire drill, and we had a bunch of faculty that had never really thought about online assessments before. They, particularly in the hard sciences and engineering, they were used to giving classroom close booked exams, especially kind of written exams where you would like build a formula and they would check your work, especially in engineering and computer science disciplines. So for them, it was a bit of a challenge for other faculty who we have worked with traditionally in online development. They didn't have as hard a time with it because they kind of already understood online assessment affordances and limitations and how do you do try to or try to attempt to do authentic assessments as opposed to kind of knowledge recall kind of assessments. But for those faculty that had already, you know, created their assignments and assessments in those disciplines that are not used to that kind of a strategy. We did have to kind of talk them through proctoring strategies and the technical challenges sometimes associated with proctoring, which was exacerbated by the fact that many of our students just didn't have the equipment. They just didn't have webcams. They didn't they didn't have their laptops. When we went remote UCF happened to be on spring break. So students stuff is still in their dorms. They couldn't go and get it. So even if they had it, they couldn't access it in some cases and in other cases we had students who didn't know they needed to purchase that when they signed up for this course last November. And then when the time came for them to try to obtain a webcam. You couldn't get them. So it was a real struggle and trying to talk faculty through some of these different strategies trying to recognize that not every student has the same homogenous setup. Whether it's equipment or bandwidth, something as simple as a test strategy of showing one question at a time in the LMS versus showing the whole test at once in the LMS. Faculty like to show one question at a time it's randomized them it's a, it's a, you know, an academic integrity strategy. However, we started getting a bunch of complaints from students that their bandwidth was so low that it was taking too long for these one question at a time exams to show each question that by the end of the test. They hadn't gotten through it all, because it just took too long too long for the questions to load so we started espousing the faculty show all the questions at once which they weren't thrilled about. It was just very practical sorts of things like that that we were dealing with. So we had some challenges, just as Tom described in terms of what students had available to them. You know we had some some students who is especially in computer science class where the faculty member would say, you have to use our respond this lockdown browser and webcam monitor, and you couldn't buy it. And the faculty member was digging in on that requirement and so we had to have some conversations about, you know, even if they wanted to it couldn't do it and and so it's been sort of massaging, asking faculty to kind of rethink how they do assessment, which then is a short hop to jump back to what are your learning outcomes, your goals, and are they in alignment. You know, regardless of the pandemic, you know students hate it when they're taught one way but assessed a different way, and when those things are out of sync. You know what do you mean it's, you know, 50, you know question multiple choice test we never went over these kinds of things in the class either for lecture or whatever. So the those kinds of disconnects or things that are out of sync that pops up quite a bit, especially in a situation like this. But you know getting faculty to think about, you know, at scale, how can you do assessment. Maybe it's not everybody taking the same test, certainly not the same questions randomizing those questions. You know that that has been a challenge for us, particularly in the STEM disciplines, because that's just what they've been accustomed to for years. So for us at Pitt, we did have some similar issues. Our decision to go online happened while our students were on spring break and we started our remote classes. March 23, I think it was, and, and because our semester ends earlier than a lot of others we finish our classes toward the end of April and our commencement is usually the last weekend in April. Because of that timing we knew that when the inquiry started coming in about remote proctoring that we were not going to have time to develop an enterprise solution. And some of our schools or professional schools had some remote proctoring solutions in place. The university runs a large testing center for in person proctor testing, that would obviously not be open. And so what we tried to do was work with faculty and encourage that they think about other ways to address assessments and alternatives like open book exams or short answers or writing a transformative essay. That's the things that that our consultants suggested and we spent time with faculty, helping to move them in that direction. We also thought it might be a really good opportunity to think about high stakes exams and how to really measure student learning and consider some alternatives to the, you know, 100 question fill in the blank tests. Most of our students at Pitt were able to come back to the residence halls and get their things in that week that we took to prepare for remote learning. So we didn't have some of those issues that that john described, for example, but one of the things that our central it. Group did in conjunction with the provost office was to work to provide tablets and hotspots to students who didn't have robust enough access from the devices they had or who didn't have devices that they could use. And interestingly enough, we had some faculty in in that situation mostly with the network. Some of our faculty live places where there was just not good dependable network access. So we had to deal with some of those same issues at Pitt and it was a really nice partnership between it and the provost office to to make these devices and hotspots available to people.


You don't dress well.  We come to St. Lucia, and our team plays in the world. What a moment for St. Lucia. What a moment for Julian Alfrey. We're very proud of her. She has done very well. In fact, she has done what no other team has done. We're going to be top five in the world. I'm talking about over eight billion people. Sir. The ultimate final explodes into life. Richardson on the outside. Jackson's going really well in the middle. It's her title. This is her event. Thomas trying to... Big up to Julian Alfrey. She's holding. She's still... I'm proud of her. I'm proud of her. I'm proud of her. I'm proud of the Prime Minister. He was around us, backing us up. It's a tremendous, tremendous... She's one of the best in the world.


Sup guys, how we doing? Welcome back to another video and welcome to episode number two player number 99 of the NFL's top 100 players of 2021 this is a video series. I have been looking forward to making for a long time. I think a lot of the introduction type Talk that I spouted out was done in episode number one. So guys, we're gonna crack into it. I'm not gonna be here for too long Today's player is none other than Brandon Graham defense of end for the Eagles comes in at number 99 on the list But before we get into that a quick word from our exclusive video sponsor the Ridge wallet Sup guys first and foremost. Thank you for clicking on this video. 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He's he's a menace on the field from what I can remember But what was he like last year? Let's find out I didn't know if we was talking about somebody else and I didn't seen it where people talk about other people Well, I'm loving this so far I Don't seen it. I didn't I didn't know if we was talking about somebody else And I didn't seen it where people talk about other people, you know I So that's did they did they tell him he's on the list or are they saying if you are on the list Talk about yourself and your own game instead of talking about other people. I'm not quite sure what happened there Let's try and find out How you feel about making a list oh So I didn't I didn't know if we was talking about somebody else cuz I didn't see So they say how do you feel about you know possibly making the list and he's like well shit I didn't think I was gonna talk about me. I'm talking about my old teammates Ain't it where people talk about other people, you know, I'm saying Man honestly, how can you not smile? How can you not oh, why am I laughing? I don't know. I just didn't expect that But he's how long wheels on the field man. He can talk you out of your games big treat You know if you don't know Right, I could tell honestly with his voice right It's a wee bit raspy at the top end and I'm like, yeah, you've done a lot of slidging on that field, haven't you? Yes What is he six foot six to nice tackle Too far And I'll tell you what he probably did go the other way after that for sure He's low to the ground. He's explosive. He's strong It's got he's got pace to he looks like he's about four four point eight flat for the 40-yard dash Maybe even faster How much force would you have to apply to send an NFL running back no less Flying through the air Again That is a lot that's that's a bit of power But not only that he's got the finesse because I do like his his tackling technique Cheek-to-cheek we like to call it in rugby The cheek of your face to the cheek of the opposing man's Yeah, yeah, I can tell Joe Burrow didn't like that one bit Man, let's never get old First ever like walk off like game over type sec It was best feeling because I can see the sideline erupted everybody going crazy I knew that I've been We're rushing them and stuff like that. So I just decided to go speed. I think like I was gonna pull slip through Man, I said my eyes on me. Yeah, man. I just want to tell you what that's just too much That is immense There were two giants players literally two of them trying to protect that quarterback and neither could do shit It just all happened in slow motion After the games some of the comments you get it'd be cool to hear how people view you Thank you coach Interestingly enough, we didn't really hear a hell of a lot from Anyone else so no wonder they asked him how he felt about himself at the start of the interview because well That's basically all we heard and I'm not saying I mind at all because a guy like this With a personality like this should be a treasure Should be seen as a treasure in the world of American football now I know there's a hell of a lot of personalities out there But I like this guy Brandon Graham Eagles defensive end guys. 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Item number SCP-535 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-535 is to be kept in a secure storage room at Site B. Standard positive action defenses, explosive, chemical, biological, and memetic are to be in place at all times, according to standard operating procedure. SCP-535 itself is to be placed in its own containment unit, a soundproofed lead lined steel box of dimensions 4 meters by 4 meters by 4 meters, and of thickness no less than 5 centimeters at all points. SCP-535 is secured to a pedestal in its containment unit, such that it is positioned in the center of the box. No memetic-based SCPs are to come into contact with SCP-535. No liquid is to come into contact with SCP-535, except under controlled testing circumstances. To facilitate this, the containment unit should be sealed and contained backup dehumidification apparatus. SCP-535 should not be handled directly, except under controlled testing circumstances. If the need to handle SCP-535 arises, it should only be performed by one personnel of level 3 clearance or higher, with no other individuals present in the immediate area, and with mechanical apparatus to prevent being within 1 meter of SCP-535. SCP-535 is not to come in contact with other anomalies associated with information transfer, such as SCP-606. Description SCP-535 appears to be an ordinary 250 milliliter borosilicate glass laboratory beaker. It was recovered from an abandoned storage facility in U.S.A. SCP-535's origin has been traced to a glassware factory in U.S.A. owned by the U.S.A. Corporation. Save its manufacture of SCP-535. No evidence of any extra-normal activity has been found in relation to said factory or corporation. All liquid touching the inner surface of SCP-535 will immediately transform into a pale translucent liquid of viscosity 1.511Cp, approximately the viscosity of mercury, from here on designated as SCP-535-1. Other forms of matter are not affected. Analysis of SCP-535-1 has revealed that it is composed of approximately 36% water. However, the remaining 46% encompasses 14 previously unknown substances. It is fit for human consumption, disregarding the non-chemical effects of SCP-535, and produces no visible reactions. When SCP-535-1 is poured out of SCP-535, and comes into contact with a solid or liquid surface, it instantaneously evaporates, leaving no discernable trace. One various forms of information storage or transmission comes within one meter of SCP-535-1. SCP-535-1 will activate and change color depending on the nature of the source. The following colors have been observed. Red. All digital media. Computers, compact discs, etc. Orange. Radio waves. Yellow. Sound waves. Lime green. Photographic film. Blue. Text and physical visual imagery. The precise hue of blue has been observed to change depending on the medium the text or images are transcribed on. Purple. Magnetic tape. White. The human brain. Black. Data expunged. Analysis of activated SCP-535-1 shows it to be chemically identical to inactivated SCP-535-1. SCP-535-1 appears to absorb information from its surroundings. If activated SCP-535-1 is poured out of SCP-535, it will subsequently transmit the data it has contained to whatever it lands on, if it is compatible in some way. For example, if activated SCP-535-1 comes into contact with a computer and is then poured onto a different computer, the information from the first computer will be copied to the second. If activated SCP-535-1 was poured onto any non-digital device in this case, there would be no effect. In both situations, SCP-535-1 would evaporate and disappear. The amount of SCP-535-1 utilized appears to have no effect, and multiple transmissions of data can be made by conserving the contents of SCP-535. Pouring activated SCP-535-1 on the device which initially activated it has no effect. The various forms of electromagnetic waves able to activate SCP-535-1 will be retransmitted to the surroundings, regardless of the object SCP-535-1 is poured on. Physical text and images will be transcribed onto any solid surface in the areas where SCP-535-1 is poured onto. Note that text displayed on a digital screen is considered digital media, rather than print. This is invariably in the same medium the text was originally written in. Any large collection of text is usually unreadable, as it is resized to fit inside the area in contact with SCP-535-1, and only a relatively small amount of SCP-535-1 is available at any one time, due to SCP-535's small size. When a living human comes within range of SCP-535-1, SCP-535-1 turns white. However, human memories and thoughts are not retransmitted with the same efficiency as other information. The effects of pouring active white SCP-535-1 onto another person are highly unpredictable. In benign situations, the subject may acquire a minor fact or memory. More common, however, is mental illness, including but not limited to schizophrenia, disassociative identity disorder, severe anxiety, or generalized hallucinations. Schizophrenia is also a common effect. In the most extreme cases, coma, followed by death, may occur. So far, no pattern has been discerned as to the potential effects of active white SCP-535-1. Further testing with caution is warranted. The mental contents of other beings do not affect SCP-535-1, with the exception of data expunged, resulting in data expunged. Addendum. Dr. Wilde has suggested using the replicative properties of SCP-535 with regards to physical media to reproduce substances of value to the foundation. This proposal has been approved by O5-2, and preliminary experimentation has been scheduled. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-534, Misplaced Blood, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


Alright, welcome to another episode of Let There Be Talk. This is episode number 742 on the Monday, March 25th. I'm out here in New York City, getting ready to do some shows for a few days. I'm at the stand. I'm at the cellar tonight and tomorrow night. So come on down if you're in town. And also I want to give a good shout out to Standard and Strange, which is my favorite store in New York City. I will be heading over there today to see what they got and see my buddy Neil and Jeremy. CenterAndStrange.com, your one stop shop for all of your denim, leather, and boots needs. Japanese high quality products. You know, I'm talking about the Real McCoys, Y2, Momotaro denim, John Lofgren boots. Oh man, everything in there. Check it out. StandardandStrange.com. Hope you guys are doing good and hope you had a great weekend. I've been out on the road nonstop here, working and telling jokes. Feeling good and I'm glad that you're here. Thank you so much. I also want to welcome a brand new Patreoner to the show, Chris Doherty. Thank you for joining my Patreoner. And also Stanley, Stanley, two names, both Stanley. Welcome to the Patreoner. Patreon.com slash Dean Del Ray. You want to join the Patreon. I just put up another bonus episode. And on that bonus episode I dive into, what do I talk about on that? The new black crows record. I talk about old school Benji the dog movies when I was a kid. Yeah, I'm getting edgy on you. And my six year anniversary of being past at the Comedy Cellar, which was yesterday. March 24th. Six years ago. Wild. Anyway, check that out. Bonus Let There Be Talks, 154 of them on Patreon. Today I sit down for a very rare something I don't do a lot on Let There Be Talk. I don't have people back that much because usually I have them on and we cover kind of their body of work. But there's few people on over the years that have done it two, three times. And this is a man who has done it. This is his third time, Mr. Neil Francis. And I think back to years ago when I first heard Neil Francis, I was blown away and had him on the podcast years ago. His story is insane. He had hit rock bottom on drugs, lost his band, moved into a church in Chicago. I was playing B3 Oregon at the Sunday and what Thursday, whatever those things are called, the church gatherings. What is that? The ceremonies, the congregate, I don't know, congregation, whatever it is. I don't know much about church because when I was growing up, I know that my mom would make me go so she could just get me out of the house for a little bit. And, oh man, it just bugged me. And then she just knew, I can't go there anymore. And we weren't religious at all, so I was like, why am I going if you're not going, mom? Anyway, his story blew me away. Years ago, 2019, he released a record with a song called Changes that just blew my mind. And his whole record blew my mind.  The three of us out there, all three of us met through podcasting and music. And there we were doing 33 shows across America. I absolutely love Neil Francis. I love his music and I just love everything about him. He's one of those people that I really hit it off with. And we could just talk music and life, everything for hours. His album from 2021 in Plain Sight is out there. But we sat down and we really dug into the newest project that he released, Francis Comes Alive. Don't forget about his 2022 record, Sentimental Garbage. This guy puts out records. But we talk about his live record out right now that is just an incredible, incredible record. Francis Comes Alive, a little spin on Peter Frampton's Comes Alive, of course. And it was a huge thing that he filmed and recorded and it was just awesome to see that. He's going to be doing the Full Francis Comes Alive one more time out at Bonnaroo. Anyway, I love the guy and I want you guys to check out his music. If you have not heard the first two episodes, we did one years ago on Zoom when he was living in Chicago. We did the second one on the tour bus somewhere in America on the tour last, what, a year and a half ago or something. And then we did this one at my house. He's in town recording a new record. This guy writes and records all the time. He is the real deal, man.  This guy lives and breathes music. And man, he was killing it on the Marcus King tour. There were nights where Marcus, myself and him were all singing and it was just so much fun. I love you, brother. And I love all you guys. Thank you for supporting the podcast. I'm going to say this one more time. I've been saying it over the last few weeks and it seems to have been working. Please leave a review of the podcast on iTunes. There's thousands of you listening.  And I got some new ones here. Let's see here. Let there be talk and punch it in.  Here's some reviews.  Myself came upon Delray with the Dark Fonzie thing years ago. Then proceeded into his own personal podcast episodes and fell in love with it. I enjoy everything about Dean and what he does and represents himself. Thank you for everything, Dean Delray, you rock my friend. There you go, right there. That's from Smitty Man, 1970s. Let's read one more right here. Best Music Podcast, hands down from Nimble9. Great interviews with great guests. Rock on, Dean. Dean not only knows music, he knows the music making people. There you go, man. It's that easy. Just go to iTunes and leave a review and also while you're at it, subscribe to my podcast on YouTube. Tour dates are at deandelray.com. Lots of tour dates coming up. The Greek June 8th in Berkeley, Belco Arena two nights in Denver with Bill Burr. A run at the Comedy Cellar in Las Vegas July 8th through, I don't know, the 17th or something.  And that is July 27, 8, 9 or something like that. It's on the website. I don't know what the... But it's in July. I return back to Acme. Candles late, my friend. I love you, Neil Francis. Thanks for coming by and doing the show. Can't wait to hear the new record. And thank you guys for tuning in every Monday. Candles lit, Neil Francis. All right. Here we are. Another episode of Let It Be Talk. This is a rare, rare thing on Let It Be Talk. A three time visitor. A three timer. You've been on three times. Yeah, man. Yeah. When did you do... Oh, you were living in Chicago. Yeah. And it was during COVID, right? In the Pando. Fuck. And then on the road with Marcus. Yeah, we did that. In the tour bus. Yeah. And now here. Yeah. Los Feliz Live. The new headquarters. Yeah. New headquarters for the podcast. Yeah, yeah.  You're out here working on a new record, right? We're working. It's just me out here with Sergio Rios, our producer. Is it an album and EP? What are you working on? It's a full record. Wow. How many songs? Man, I got like 18 songs, but we're probably going to release maybe half that. Right. So... Were you writing those when we were on the road together? Yeah. I mean, we had been touring pretty consistently for like two and a half years. And so every time I was in between, I was just going for it. How is the writing process? Do you write on the piano or guitar or what? It depends. I mean, I always write on piano, but this situation is just kind of dependent on like, you know, whether I'm collaborating with someone. Sometimes I'm doing like a full blown demo with all the instrumentation. And I play everything myself in those instances. This time around, your band members are going to play on the record, right? Yeah. And they were on the last one too. So it's the same guys I have on the road with me. And then there were on the last EP and the last studio album. So... Since I saw you, I mean, we did that two month tour.  There's not really any downtime with an artist these days. You do three times as many shows as I do. But still, like it's like, you don't work. You don't eat. Right. You know, there's no money from record sales. Yes. So it's all live money.  Exactly. Right. And that's this year. We're not doing very much because, you know, we're in between records. It's still the same cycle. You know, you kind of have to have new material even as a kind of in response to that model where like you're providing a live experience. And so just by virtue of wanting to present something different every time you go back as like, you know, part of the agreement with your fans is that it's not going to just be the same old song and dance every time you go back. Yeah. That's same with comedy. Right. Like I just did a venue this weekend for Collins.  And you're like, well, I don't want to go do a new hour. We've got a bunch of people here. You want to see the greatest hits and well, no, I haven't seen you yet. Oh, yeah, yeah. And so you're like, well, I still, I still want to do this stuff. A couple bangers in there. Yeah. So yeah. And, you know, eventually you want to get the other stuff as big as that. But yeah. And also I was shooting some of it. So I was like, well, let's shoot some of the old stuff.  Sure. So you got to play the old stuff and that stuff is really polished too. So we know it's going to hit. It's like, you know, we got that in the can. Yeah. But then, you know, do you ever go to a club and kind of treat it as like a workshop? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, like I'm just going to do new stuff tonight. A lot of what I do is open with like something I know is going to work really good for about 10 minutes and then just switch into new shit for a while and start working it out on the road. Yeah. The better I do it, the better it gets. And if you don't do it, if you have that fear of not doing it, you never grow. Right. And then you're like, well, what am I doing out here? You know, I want to get, you know, if I go somewhere for a weekend, I want to get the new stuff in there.  Yeah. It was tricky for us just having such a busy schedule, you know, there wasn't really like a lot of energy or even time to just rehearse in between tours. So any, any new stuff we added was just like, all right, we got to commit this sound check to brushing up on this one, you know? And so that's how we would prepare covers and new tunes and everything on this record we're doing is like brand new. There's only a few instances we've ever played any of this stuff live. Oh, wow. Yeah. Now let me ask you, since I saw you last, you did the Francis Comes Alive and you did a full, what was it, 11 piece band and you filmed it and recorded it, right? Yeah, yeah. And you did that in Chicago. Yep. Let's go through that because that became pretty, pretty successful. People really like it and it looks beautiful. Thank you. Thank you, man. I'm really proud of it. It was like huge team effort. And I had this, this is going to get a little woo-woo, but you know, to your California audience, they won't, they won't be offended, but it's, I was like in this like breath work ceremony where I was literally on some sort of a psychedelic plane as a result of this 40 minute breath work thing I was doing. Is that that guy on YouTube? What's his name? Wim Hof. Yeah. It's, I don't know what he does in comparison to this because I haven't really checked out his stuff. Right. But the guy who ran it was like, you know, there's a lineage about trying to achieve this altered state through breathing, you know, without any sort of plant medicine or what have you. And as a result of this experience, I saw a vision of what ended up being the concert, you know, and so I came, came out of that, like came back from this retreat I did. And I was like in a total manic state. I just went to my manager's like, we got to do a huge band because prior to that, we knew we wanted to do a live record, but it was, I was going to like play it conservative like, we'll just do the four piece, you know, we won't really do any new material. We just like, I want to get it right.  And it's just going to be insane. And he's like, all right, cool, like you've sold me, but like, how are we going to do this? How are you going to pay for it? Exactly. And it was, you know, two months until the concert, which is it ended up coming out really well just because the director, Alec Bassey, who I've done four music videos with at this point, you know, he has great vision and a great talent for like taking a concept that was pretty abstract when I presented it to him and interpreting that and then being able to source materials economically, et cetera, you know. And he hired his crew. I hired a lot of, you know, old buddies for the audio crew and the band was all people I've played with, you know, over the last decade in and around Chicago. So it was a real kind of like a family experience, which was sweet. And what was the venue? It's called Talia Hall. Yeah. In Chicago. And what did it hold? I said a thousand cap. Oh, that's cool. Sold out two nights, which is two nights. Really great for me.  And it was right down the street from my apartment, too. So like the second night I just walked. It was like the coolest thing ever, man, you know, just being able to walk to the theater and that was a great gig, you know. But yeah, everything we recorded, everything to two inch 24 track tape, including a dress rehearsal that took place, you know, the night before we started the shows. And so we had like five hours of audio and sat and listened to all of it the Monday after the shows. And we ended up using all of night too. So everything you see in here is from. Wow. One shot. Yeah, man. That's cool. Yeah.  We brought in the machine. Yeah. And we brought in a mixing console and something. Was it like a studer machine? It wasn't a studer. I'm trying to remember what tape machine it was. It might have been a Tascam. And then how many rolls of tape? Because they're 15 minutes each, right? No, we weren't recording at 30 yet. So we were recording at 15. Oh, so you had 30. Yeah, yeah. So we had probably 10 reels. Damn. Yeah. So did you do that when you came down to the end? Would you be like talking while they changed the reel real quick? Yeah. So we actually had to stop the show. Yeah. And they made this like sign that said tape change with like a little reel to reel uptake reel on it. And they just like held that out to the audience.  And then Alec was able to work that into the movie too. Because that was like, that was something we were proud of, you know, because it's not so many people do anymore. Right. And it just like even right after the show, we'd be listening to what we just recorded and just faders up across the mixing console. It just sounded like a record right away. That's cool. You know, which is what I love about tape. And that's why I'm still making records that way, even though it's kind of like, every time I go back to doing it, I'm like, is this, is this how I should be doing things? And then I like have listened to it. I'm like, yeah, this sounds rad. Like, there's no way around it. So I'm still a tape guy.  It's interesting. France has come to live a play on obviously Frampton Comes Alive, which is one of the, probably the one that really kicked everybody into doing live records. I mean, we had the Allman Brothers live at the Fillmore stuff. But the Frampton Comes Alive became this format where bands, it was weird like Kiss Alive, Frampton Comes Alive, ACDC, If You Want Blood, Cheap Trick, you know, Live at Budakon. These were all records that spring loaded these bands' careers when their studio albums were really just kind of laying dormant. That was definitely true for Frampton. Of course. Frampton Comes Alive was one of the top selling records of all time. I think until like Thriller overtook it. Yeah. But that was like a long time. Thriller, Back in Black, Eagles' Greatest Hits. Eagles' Greatest Hits, of course. But still, Frampton Comes Alive is still in their top 10. I'm going to see him this year, finally. I've never seen him. Sweet. And he's playing at the Greek. Oh, okay. Yeah. Because Frampton Comes Alive was at the Marin County Civic Center. Yeah, right. That was a Frank Lloyd Wright. Yep, Frank Lloyd Wright. And I saw many concerts in there. Nice. And including like... How big is that room?  I don't know, maybe? It's 3,000? I think it's 3,000. Okay. Yeah. It is a crazy building, blue roof. And next to it is... It goes across the highway, too, right? No, no. Well, next door is like the Marin County Courthouse and the jail and everything. And the whole thing is just Frank Lloyd Wright, you know, like growing up in the Bay Area, drive by it every day on the way to work. He'd be like, look at that kooky building. Yeah. It's just wild. So cool. He did part of it there. And I think he did part of it somewhere else. San Jose or something. I can't remember. I didn't know that. But he, you know, he really was the blueprint of everybody. And it was interesting that here you would have the same songs, do you feel like I do? And show me the way and stuff like that on a studio album. And I couldn't even tell you the last time I listened to Frampton Studio album. Oh, no. And that's what I heard growing up on the radio was the live version of, do you feel like we do? Of course. And just like the way they incorporated the crowd into the vibe, you know, very subtly.  Talk box. You know, the keyboard solo is great on that too. Yeah. That guy just passed away. Bob Maill. Bob Maill. Bob Maill. Bob Maill. I always thought he was saying John Maill. Yeah, John Maill. What? John Maill is like a great jazz keyboard player. Yeah. But yeah, that was pretty influential. And so it was a joke. Obviously at the beginning where we're all just like, oh, we got to call this Francis Comes Alive. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe we should, you know. Yeah. And then Peter Frampton ended up catching wind of the whole project because my good buddy Tom Cusimano is connected with Peter and he was like, hey man, check this out because the big paper in Chicago that sometimes did a story about the shows. Yeah. And he like sent him the link. He was like, oh, I wish Neil all the best of luck. You know, congratulations. And I was like, I got that text the day of the first show.  We got a blessing from.  Francis Comes Alive, you're doing a spin off the greatest fucking. Right.  So, you know, I think we did it all right. You know. So it came out. And now you're going to do Bonnaroo, which we talked about your first time you went to Bonnaroo. You were 17. He had a backstage pass and you're back there just drinking beers going crazy. It was like tool and police and the roots and just a killer.  And it's a dream come true to play at Bonnaroo. And we were supposed to do it. I think we were booked in 2020 and then we were booked in 2021 and that one got rained out. I don't know if you remember that. I do remember that. So this is like a long time coming, you know, and we've been really excited about it. And so to be able to present the 11 piece there, which will be the, it will be the last big man show for a while because, you know, I'm going to present that concept again with new material, but as far as the Francis Comes Alive band, this will be the last time we do it. So it's going to be really special.  Ashlyn Kraft. Ashlyn Kraft. Yeah, Ashlyn Kraft out on the tour. One thing I've noticed about you and I wanted to tell you what your thoughts on it is. You have seemed to climb to this headliner status now in a good kind of, you know, I would say five to a thousand, maybe a little bit bigger headline and all over and selling them out. And what do you think? There's multiple things to get there, but what do you think's really helped word of media, the music? What do you see is the real key? I really think it was, you know, our commitment to touring as heavily as we did, but actually getting in front of people. And then obviously presenting the music at, you know, a high level of like execution was essential to getting people to spread the word of mouth. Because we never had a big hit song. My last studio record had a couple tracks that were getting play on AAA radio. Changes. Right, but no, that was even... Changes did really well streaming and also on like college radio. And then when we released in plain sight I had a couple tunes like Problems and Can't Stop the Rain that started getting circulated on like AAA radio and like satellite radio stations. But, you know, I never had like a big hit in those spheres and also just...  And that's a great boon to their success. But it's just been, you know, kind of brick by brick for us and I feel like that is a good key to longevity just because, you know, those people are there for the thing that we're providing, you know, the live experience. Yeah, it wasn't like viral when you go viral a couple weeks later. And they're there for that one song. Yeah, somebody else goes viral a couple weeks later and they forget about you. Yeah, so like, you know... Dopamine hits. I'm not gonna, you know, turn down that viral moment. Of course. It's gratifying to know that you can still just beat the pavement and chip away at it and succeed because that's really the the only idea we had. Yeah. It's just like, all right, guys, get back in the van, let's go. And, you know, it was a long tour.  Let's say you killed what you were every night open for Marcus, but then people leave and they don't even remember the next day. Right, right, right.  We're at the merch booth, you know. And then the next day, they just go about their life. Yeah. And that's an interesting animal. I don't take it for granted. You know, it's a pretty unique thing that I get to devote my life to music this way. You know, I haven't worked a straight job in years. Yeah. And if you haven't heard his first episode on here, basically had burned it all the way down to the ground with drugs and alcohol.   Yeah, man. That's, you know, we're just, as they say, one day at a time.  Yeah. You know, kind of like, should I be going after this, you know, X, Y, Z? Right.  Yeah.  I think you just got to do what you love to do and if it hits, it hits, because I'm the same way. I'm out there and, and I can't really look at other people, every, you know, as they say, as cliche as it sounds, as everybody has their own path or journey. And if you're enjoying what you're doing, then who cares what's happening? Yeah. And to me, I always am just, all I want to do is work. I want to do the thing.  You can record. You could be in a studio with me. If I can't get gigs, I can't just do comedy. You know what I mean? On Zoom with no, hey, comedy here, you know? So that is the only. Unless you're like recording skits or something. Right. Right. Well, that's different. Yeah.  You can wear a wig and like make a video with yourself playing two characters. Right, right. You can do all that shit, but the energy that I love of the audience was stand up. Oh yeah. Is why I get up every day. That's what, you know, that's what I'm after too. Yeah. The first time I played piano in front of my family at like a Christmas party and everybody was clapping for me and all of a sudden I was important and, you know, validated. And it's like, you're still chasing that in some way. Yeah. Yeah. I said it on a podcast recently. Little League was probably the first time I was performing. Sure.  I didn't have many opportunities to be praised in my Little League career, but, you know, that's why I stuck with piano, you know?  You strike out. Yeah.  Well. That's why the term striking out happens with anything dating. Yeah. You know, comedy music, whatever. It's like, ah, I struck out. Yeah.  You know what I mean? It was like, you're not setting them up for letting them, you know, take in failure. Participation award.  Yeah, but if you're a kid, you know. You know. If you get the fourth place trophy, you're hiding that. I know. Yeah.  Yeah, yeah.  There's still a plenty of shame going around for the kids. All right. Nobody's mounting up in their house a fourth place trophy. What's that? That's my fourth place trophy. Yeah, Billy. Fourth place. My son went fourth place.  Yeah. You know, that's kind of a good motivator sometimes. I think he might have started doing that, you know, after. Yeah. Yeah. Well, those are the, there's two different ways to look at that. You could put it up and just be surrounded by your failure. Yeah. Or you could put it up after you get successful. Yeah. I'd be like, there you go. Remember that? Yeah. Remember that? That's why a lot of people like, you see the Academy Awards last night. I was watching it. You know, there's Robert Downey Jr.  Christopher Nolan gets me.  You know, artists are lunatics. Yeah. And then when to become lunatics, then the industry's like, well, I don't know, he's hard to work with.  He's the real deal. Yeah. Yeah. I like Robert Downey Jr. He's great. I read a Rolling Stone article that was, you know, it was just an interview of him one day when I was recently sober and he's like, man, at this point, if I don't try to live a righteous life, I'm not doing enough, you know, cause he's, he's burned it down several times, you know. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. You're with the prison.  Yeah. Which is just like a total fallacy. Totally. It's that Keith Richards mythology. He's like the only guy who can do it somehow, you know. Yeah.  Oh, it's awful.  And also the amount of high I get from walking on stage sober. Oh yeah. And getting this energy, it doesn't even come close to the cocaine. Well, and I knew that while I was using two and that's why I would get fucked up after the show because I'd want to keep feeling good. Right, right. Because nothing compares to that. No. Yeah. But, you know, back to your point of like remembering those like humbler times is like, I have my UPS name tag, my UPS store name tag on my fridge. It's like this little magnetic thing I used to wear. Yeah. You know, at the counter. Yeah. And I just like, that's always on my fridge and I'm like, all right. I got a photo of the last day I worked at the motorcycle shop. UPS store and yeah, we're doing all right. And like, that's it. You see it. I, you know, that was a good gig too. You know, that was an important gig for me to have too. But I'm, I'm happier doing this. I walk around and I see people working construction in the morning and I'm like, oh, that's that's what I did. Swinging a hammer, man.  Good bread.   Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Having the energy for anything after that, after working any sort of labor. Yeah. Cause I was a, I was a telemarketer like after I was working at the UPS store and I was doing that for, like 10 months.   And so like, I'd be calling like businesses. Just like, hey, can I speak to the owner of the business?  I hope to God you didn't go to college for this, man. Like, you'd make more money swinging a hammer and I'm just like, yeah, you're right. What were you slinging? Toner? No, man. We were slinging. It was like a debt consolidation service.  It was, it was pretty gnarly.  Yeah.  And now you're calling I'm going, hey, look, dude, we can, yeah, we can consolidate your debt.  Man, yeah. The cold calls is the worst. You ever get one? Now you're like, I don't answer the phone ever because of all the AI scams and everything. But once in a while, they've got it down now where it just shows like your friend's name. You know, I got a nails calling. Hello. Shit. Hi, Dean.  Oh, it's fucked.  Oh yeah. I grew up in. Yeah. Or if I'm out here for long enough, calling from an 818 or like a 323 area code. And you think it might be like a, you know, and it has someone's name.  I seen one. It came up and it said fucking, I don't know how they do. It was a comedy club. Yeah. I was like, you got to take that call. Yeah. You got to take it.  Oh my God.  I don't know, man. It's about to get weirder.  Shutter. Yeah. It is about to get weirder. Now, while you're working on the record right now, are you thinking about artwork for the album cover because you, you released vinyl. Yeah. I mean, tell you the truth. No, I haven't thought shit about artwork or even really an album title just because I've been so focused on completing all this material. And we haven't even chosen what's going to finally make the record yet. Yeah. So that's going to probably determine a lot of like, you know, the packaging and what I want to name the whole project and everything, you know. How are you going to pick the tunes?  I mean, I've already, I already know what horses are kind of the favorites right now. Yeah. But I always open it up to collaboration. You know, the band's definitely going to hear it. And I appreciate their input more than almost anybody.  And then I've got several, you know, musician friends around the country that I share things with and probably you. Yeah. You know, kick some stuff your way. And how about rival Sunstyle? They did a lot of songs and then they released two records in a year like the 70s.  And like, I'm kind of inspired by watching bands like King Giz. Oh, yeah. They're like, they're releasing something every two months. It's crazy, right? Which is nuts. But like, I kind of see how they can do it.  It's not like, instead of like a rehearsal, it's like, okay, I've got a song. Call the guys. We come in, we cut it in a day. Put it out. It's in the can. Yeah. You know? And then you send it to the mixing engineer rather than this like process which I've been adhering to for the last five years, which is like, okay, I'm writing the song in my apartment. Then I make a demo. Then, you know, we book the recording session months down the line. We show it for the recording session and there's all this pressure because you're spending so much bread. Yeah. And then like, you know, you're recording this, you're re-recording the song and you're trying to capture some of the magic that may have been on the demo too. Yeah. Which is so hard to do. That's another thing, man. That's another thing. It's crazy. Yeah.  Demo-itis is so real, man. I mean, it's so real that a lot of bands eventually use the demos on some of the records Exactly. and remix them and add stuff to them because that original fire and that original of no pressure. Yeah. Because you're like, well, I was just tracking that in my house You deliver a great performance sometimes. Totally. Totally. That's a lot with comedy too. You write jokes sometimes spontaneous on stage. Those are great jokes. Yeah. And then you go to do them a couple of weeks later and they're not as good. Yeah. Because it was just so in the moment and organic. It's crazy because that happens in every single medium or like aspect of art that I've tried to engage in like when I was in architecture school, for example, I would do a sketch and then trying to turn it into the real thing is like, like this sketch and it would look brilliant, etc. And then like you spend so much time trying to like clean it up but also capture the energy of the original you know, off the cuff thing and I think there is something in the to be said about that the unconscious being involved in the creation of the initial whatever it is demo. Yeah. And like it goes that goes back to Carl Jung just like being accessed in that moment you know where it's not being forced it's just coming through and that's like where the real stuff that we can all get connected to that's the real sauce you know.  When you're not sitting down going, okay, let's do it. Yeah.


So should you get the new iPad Pro in 2019? Well, in this video I'll be doing a quick review of what's new, what I like about it, what I use it for, what I don't like, and I recommend if you should buy one or not. So let's go ahead and hit that intro. Welcome back to the channel. It's your boy Noah. It's your first time here. I make videos on health, fitness, and tech to improve your life. And if you haven't subscribed already, go ahead and hit that subscribe button. So the new iPad Pro, what's new about it? Well, I would say the first thing is the screen size and the reason being is because now the bezels are less. So it's actually, I have the 11 inch. It's the same size as 2017's 10.5 inch, but now the bezels around the screen are a lot thinner. So now you get a lot more screen space. So that also leads to the screen itself. It is the liquid retina display, which honestly just means that it's just fancier and it has a lot more clarity. The colors are a lot more vibrant and it is just a nicer screen. The look and feel is also a little bit different. It's a little bit more modern. I think a little bit more futuristic looking. I have the space gray version and I really love the look and feel very, it's like thin, but also solid at the same time. It also has the new face ID function. So now instead of using your finger, there's no button on the front of the device. It's just the camera. So you can actually use the front facing camera to unlock your iPad. It also has a few different features like gestures and multitasking. You can have up to three apps open at the same time and you could just navigate it a lot different. Like there's a dock now at the bottom of the screen that you can swipe up and access your most recently used apps or the apps that you like to use the most. And it also now has the new charger of the USB-C which is starting to become a little bit more popular now. Starting to become a little bit more mainstream and no more lightning connector. So if you have any old lightning connectors, it's not gonna work in here. And then on the back has a 12 megapixel camera, shoots 4K video, very clear. And I think it's like an eight megapixel front facing camera. So very, very, they went all in on this device. And to be honest with you, I love this thing. This is like probably my favorite purchase of 2018. Like by far wouldn't return it. It's super small, it's powerful, it's fast, it's great for on the go usage. Like love this thing. Now I use it for a couple of things. The first main thing that I use it for is just taking notes. I have the keyboard case from Apple and I use it to take notes. In fact, for this video itself, I used it to take the notes for this video. And what's funny is I actually kind of use it like a director where I'll when I'm making videos, I'm like, okay, this is the new topic. Great thing about the notes features that when you type notes on your iPad, it actually sends it over on the iCloud so I can have it on my iPhone. So I use like jot down ideas, thoughts, taking notes at like a conference or something like that. Very, very useful. Now the second thing I use it for is editing photos and videos on the go for social media, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, just like short, quick videos. The third main thing I use it for is actually client work. So with my clients in the Body Competit Academy, we have weekly check-in calls. So basically what I'll do is I'll take notes on here so I can see their progress, how much weight they're losing, what they're eating, how much they're working out and just taking notes on different goals that they may have. And then of course I use it for the normal media usage, YouTube, Netflix, streaming basketball and football games that are on. It's like very clear. It's like having like a mini TV in front of me and it's very useful to kick back on the couch and just pop it up on my knees and I'm good to go. All right guys, it is now time to announce the winner of the AirPods second generation just to go ahead and show you that I am very fair about this. It is out of 187 names. I looked at everybody who commented and it was also a subscriber to the channel. And if you did those two things, you are in this list so I'm excited about it. So we are going to do a random name generator. I'm just going to click it and whoever wins, that's the person who wins. All right, so let's go ahead and do it. Suspense general please. Starts now. And I'll make sure to reach out to your address so we can send these to you. Now if you didn't win, don't be upset just yet because I want to show you guys one more thing. So remember, don't leave just yet. I'll show you one more thing. So you guys were so amazing that you guys got me to 2,000 subscribers. So I thought about it and I was like, well if I'm at 2,000 subscribers, doesn't that mean I should probably do two giveaways? So that is right. I will be giving away a second pair of AirPods the second generation when I come back from Spain in two weeks. So probably around May 4th, May 5th, May 5th is my birthday. So I'll probably give it around that time. This is probably going to be the last giveaway for a little bit until my next milestone which I'm thinking is going to be 5,000 subscribers. I'll probably do another giveaway. But I will be doing a, like I said, a giveaway for the AirPods second generation again. Go ahead and check the link in the pinned comment below. That's got to give you all the details and you also follow those. But the main thing is comment below what type of piece of tech you want me to review next. Which piece of tech you're like, hey, I really wondered about this one that you would want me to do a honest review about. I want to make sure I'm just putting out the right videos for you guys. Okay, whether it's cameras, phones, headphones, whatever it is, let me know in the comments. So yeah, let's go ahead and head back to the iPad review. And then finally I use that for reading. So I use my Kindle app. I also have a few of my study books on here for my certifications that I had. It's like reading a normal book basically. You can just swipe, swipe, swipe and be good. Then now there are a few things I don't really like about the iPad Pro. Really the main thing is that it's just not a full replacement for a computer. I know a lot of people have been asking that. No, it's not a full replacement. And the reason why I say that it is powerful, but the OS is still something as of a tablet itself. This doesn't have a file system. Like I said, this is still under a tablet. So there's no desktop that you have. You can't have different folders. And what I really, really wish that they could do is you can't plug in like a USB or a hard drive and put like different documents on here. The only thing you can really transfer by plugging in is photos and videos. But I think those would be my really only qualms about it. Now I only have two accessories for the device. And that is the keyboard case for Apple and then the Apple Pencil 2. Basically the case looks like this. It's magnetic, which is pretty interesting. And then clips on like so. So it's just like that. And that's how I usually kind of like type and you could swipe. So it kind of give you like a computer feel, but it's not really a full computer. And then of course the Apple Pencil, again, attaches magnetically. You probably see in the commercial where they go like this. Just like that. And it's pretty cool. But I would say that I think I just kind of got a little trigger happy and bought this because I was like, oh, let me buy the whole set. But I don't really use it too much. I might use it to write notes sometimes. But I would really recommend if you are like an artist or you love to draw or stuff like that, then I would get it if I were you. But other than that, it would save you like $170. Now do I recommend you buy this in 2019? So I would say buy it if you have like one of the older, older iPads. Like I upgraded from the iPad Air, which was like four or five years ago back when I was working at T-Mobile. And it was getting slow. It couldn't update. It couldn't do any of the multitasking. So that's why I upgraded. Or let's say that you are like an on-to-go creator, artist, or you like to work on like some Microsoft Office files like PowerPoint or Excel or something like that. Then say, yeah, like I would get it. But again, it's not a full replacement for your computer. So that's what you're looking for. This is not it. But if you're looking for a kind of like a nice companion, I would say this works perfectly for that. Now, if you just want to use it for a media device, like watching like YouTube videos, social media, and web browsing, I would save your money and just buy like the 2018 iPad or get the iPad mini. Or if you want to, the 2017 iPad Pro is probably discounted as well. So you can't go wrong with that. But if you just do a media usage, then it's just going to be an expensive TV for you. So yeah, that is a quick wrap up about the iPad Pro. And if you should get one in 2019, let me know below. Are you interested in getting an iPad Pro? Do you have one? What do you like? What do you don't like? Let me know in the comment box below. I hope this video was helpful for you. I'll catch you all later. You already know, embrace the hype.