Welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series I hope you're all well had a great weekend and before we get started I just need to give each and every one of you a huge Thank you big shout out for all the suggestions that we got last week all the comments as well You're all incredible and make doing this sort of content so worthwhile honestly It's amazing as I say, I hope you had a great weekend what you up to we are gonna be back today We said on Friday that we ended up with a couple of losses So the big problems for the core team was the X and Y, the Lunala, Zernius combination So we've had some really good suggestions. We had Tyranitar from Mario We had Greninja from stew. We had Nyligo. We had one that I'm gonna use today From Arryn and that was Raikou. So here is the team that we've got Raikou Now on face value, we do have a little bit of a worse matchup against Groudon, Volcarona, things like that But we've got Tex in there to get around them. So just to recap the team for you The team is in the description below. So if you'd like to go up cruise over that try it out If you try it, do let me know how you get on with it and how you find it It is a really fun team to play So we've got the Zygarde there. We've got coil on it We've got the Thousand Arrows. We've got the extreme speed kind of standard We put the Sogellium Z on Sugileo So we've got that Steel Z type attack that we can utilize if we want to Obviously new Cazernius and any time we would like Which is really useful. Kept the super power, kept the wide guard, kept the protect Got the Phineas, exactly the same incineral. We've put Snarl on there over knockoff to kind of alleviate Those special attackers a little bit more We've got Raikou obviously the new member of the team over the Venusaur Now this Raikou build is very interesting So it can take a full power walk from Kyogre and Arryn It can also Snarl a Lunala Chip it, break the Shadow Shield and allow Sugileo to take the Z move The menacing moon raise, Melstrom, however you pronounce it And then return back with its own Z move to pick up the knockout there Which is quite nice. It's a combination and we're not really going to rely on too much But we know it's there if we can make use of it Snarl's really good for Cernius. We take a plus one Moonblast from Cernius with this Raikou, Proxerberry We've also got Reflect on there as well Just to bolster those defensive stats of the team It means that we are able to take a Groudon, Precious Blades Straight up without an Intimidate Support from the Incineron and Toxicrog Did so well last week. I feel like we don't want to keep it in Now before I lock into this team there is another team that I would like to show you It's got a little bit of a variation of the Raikou And that is the Taranaton. Now this team is really interesting We will feature this at some point this week But it's got Scarf Tito there and it can do I think quite a lot of work Now if you guys would like to see the Tito in action Let me know and I will make sure to feature it if not If you'd like to continue with this one that's fine So without further ado let's get into today's episode I'd better get some music on To the music so hopefully the levels are fine Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent of the day We'll get some music on Lead title defense why not we always kick into this one on a Monday But hopefully as well we've obviously got the green screen working now As you guys have said would be better without any overlay at all So that it doesn't cut into text and things like that I've tweaked as well the actual capture card So hopefully the graphics capture card wires are coming through A lot cleaner a lot clearer for you guys Hopefully the audio is well and we're fine tuning everything So hopefully everything is coming across really good for you guys And the green screen makes it a bit more aesthetically pleasing Do let me know though your comments are always appreciated It's taken a little bit longer than I'd like to to find an opponent So if it does take a little while we have to search again I'll come straight back to when we find an opponent And we have our first opponent of the day is Teo from Italy playing a team of It's going to be Incinero Groudon Typically Zernius, Charizard, Raichu and Venusaur So we're going up against today So straight away in with Groudon We didn't play one single Groudon last week Going up against that Groudon Zernius core here It's going to be really difficult We need to make sure that we are managing the Groudon very well So Sogaleo has a better time dealing with this Zernius We have to be also very careful around the Charizard That can outspeed our Sogaleo and do a lot of damage So I think for starters we definitely want Incinero I do probably want to bring Raichu Although the Raichu is a terrible terrible Pokemon for us to see It doesn't stop us setting up the Reflect and utilising Snarls though Definitely want to have a Finny for some terrain support Against that Venusaur in particular And maybe Zygarde So maybe we don't bring Raichu to this one really The Reflect would be very useful I think we might go Sogaleo, Finny and Zygarde Up front It's kind of difficult And this kind of answers a question for us a little bit Because if we're not bringing Raichu to this game Although there is the Raichu There is a lot of things in there that don't make it accessible For the Raichu to really perform very well And it's not really meant for the Groudon matchup If the team can co-op with this sort of matchup Reasonably well It means that we can alleviate that slot that we've got for the Raichu For those other matchups And then when we bump into the Iveltals The Lunala calls Then we can test it there and see if it works You know how we want it to So we've got our Leeds out We go Incineroar We go Sogaleo We don't get affected by the Intimidate From the opposing side of the field And we do see that we are this slot in Incineroar Though we do get the Intimidate Onto both the Incineroar and the Groudon And we could just pick There's a part of me that wants to switch in Tap of Finny here Start getting some Icy Wind Control We could wide guard with Sogaleo But it is a little bit risky And I think I'm just going to protect Because if they fake out our Incineroar Then we're in a lot of trouble Well Groudon I'm going to switch out We're just going to see it switch straight out Raichu coming onto the field And you've also got to consider as well The opposing Incineroar could just flablet into our Sogaleo So that's something we need to keep in mind as well But we will get the terrain up This prevents the Raichu from going crazy with those Nuzzles And we'll just protect with Sogaleo going into this first turn And likely we may see a U-turn from No, it's just that flablet So it was the right call that we make Going into that one Now I could switch out Tap of Finny into Zygod Here in just superpower the Incineroar But I'm not feeling massively confident About really leaving it in when the sun's up And I could get Zygod in For Sogaleo right now And we could potentially swagger it That might not be a bad option You could swagger Yeah And bring in Zygod And get Zygod powered up now Keep the Sogaleo for later When that Zorneus probably hits the field And start making use of it as soon as we can So here we go We'll get in Get this Misty Seed Proc'd Which is always, always what we want to do There's the fake out It's going to be into Sogaleo Which is perfect Means we do get this swagger off And hopefully we see a flablet and not a U-turn Because the U-turn would cause us a few problems And there's a flablet which is ideal It's going to be into the Zygod But Zygod in a lovely position now Like really nice position Because the Incineroar's threatened The Ryche's threatened We can icy wind So it means that we're staying in control of this match Going into the next turn In just 1000 hours here There's no threat of wide guard or anything like that Coming out So we're just going to see the Incineroar switch out Going to see that Groudon come back in We all plus two The Incineroar wants to go out Because it can potentially come back in And intimidate the Spamus Going to see a wild charge there From the Ryche But it will go down this turn We will get an icy wind onto this Groudon Which is super important And then this plus 2000 hours Which is going to be really nice We'll get rid of the Ryche It'll do a nice chunk of damage To that Groudon in the process And it does open the door for the Incineroar To come back in for my opponent Or potentially Potentially Dazzornious Which we've got to be a little bit careful about still Because we aren't our complete form yet We have taken a little bit of chip damage But we still should be taking attacks from Yeah, it's just going to be the Incineroar here Coming back in It's going to have that fake out pressure Going into this next turn But I think as well what we can do Is just switch Finney out At this point Incineroar Is expendable I would say Although it's very valuable to us That intimidates going to be more than Useful for us in this situation Just to reduce the attack damage of the Groudon And that Incineroar And because I got it still In a really nice position on plus one And just in case we see a U turn From the opposing Incineroar This next turn And bring in Dazzornious Then kind of alleviates that So we've got the fake out support Going into the next turn as well So let's see Protect from Zygarde We'll just play it really safe here Don't need to take any risks There's the U turn It isn't to the Zygarde though So we catch my opponent out On that side of the field there So we do see just a Precious Blades Being pinged out from this Groudon And my opponent trying to get that That Dazzornious onto the field Now I do not really worry About the Groudon too much So I'm going to fake out the Incineroar Stop the U turn And just go for this thousand arrows once again If we take a Precious Blades It's maybe proxies into our Yeah we're not going to see that We're just going to see Groudon protect now There's the fake out into the opposing Incineroar We're going to stop that moving Plus one thousand arrows should get this Incineroar And I really wouldn't complain If we didn't either Kind of postponing that Yeah that that I mean that is perfect for us Perspawning the Dazzornious coming onto the field Is a lot more useful for us In this position Because now we can thousand arrows Get this Groudon down to a really low position And then if we lose Incineroar We get Sogaleo onto the field We can then extreme speed that Groudon The following turn To get the chip that we need onto it I'm going to U turn out onto the Incineroar Just in case we see a hard switch And then Sogaleo can come on And just clean up the Dazzornious As we're going to see here So Dazzornious actually going to hit the field now And I mean I really don't mind this either Because at the same time Dazzornious coming in Taking this plus one thousand arrows And a random name We might be able to do it today We're going to see a berry proc on the Groudon Which yeah we don't really want to be seeing But at the same time We are going to get a U turn off With Incineroar What's this Groudon doing? I mean we have Pretty sure we icy winded it Didn't we earlier Do we get Finney in now? I think we could possibly We could get Sogaleo in I just don't want to take a precipice blade So that's why we're going to get Finney in Sogaleo we need to keep We need to keep It's like main prerogative right now for us See Oh it's going sword stance Trixie, Trixie Groudon What is this Groudon sitting on? Yeah minus one speed We got the icy wind I'm forgetting again that we've icy winded It's like they're caught on our episode last week All over again And if you did miss any of the episodes from last week I'll pop a card up right above here And you can go back and check last week's games out There was a lot of good games we had last week So we've got the Xerneas We've got the Groudon coming out It is going to be plus one We'll get Incineroar back in now And we will just thousand arrows once again If this Xerneas decides to go for I hope it doesn't go for a moonblast here We should take it And we will outspeed the Groudon So we will be able to pick up the chaos onto this Xerneas If we can take the moonblast Which I'm hoping Ooh Oh it's into the Incineroar slot Ha That surprised me Expecting the protect onto the Xerneas We're going to be able to clean up the Xerneas Oh it's so close Come on you're breaking our hearts here But Zygoth dodges Because it is a ninja of course And we'll be able to get the Tapu Fini back onto the field We can extreme speed And we can swagger once again If we would like to Or we can just I mean Do we swagger again? We probably want to swagger again The Zygoth And extreme speed The Xerneas I don't worry about the Groudon too much right now I feel like it's so pressured right now It's not got room to go for a sword stance It could do this turn 100% Okay the Groudon going to protect And we'll get that extreme speed So A random name We've done it We beat the Xerneas We're back this week We're going to get this swagger off Put us back onto plus two Which will put us to plus one When that Incineroar comes back onto the field now And we've got more than enough to deal with With what's in front of us Just get around this fake out pressure We'll probably see A sword stance From the Groudon I would imagine But I'm going to just icy wind With Finny I'll do a heal pulse I kind of don't really want to Because I want us to get the Megazord form In this match It's like the Zygoth show all over But hopefully in the next one We can bring that Raikou Because the Raikou I feel Does a really nice job But like I said at the start of this episode I think the one thing that really we Kind of looking for Is if we could handle this sort of call Well enough with without even considering that slot Which I feel like we can do Now we got away with a few turns here and there Of course but that's going to happen in any match So we could have protected on those turns as well Which opened the door So I think the core in general Did I not select a move there? Oh come on I did select I don't know My time went down But okay Our opponent disconnects Which is really sad But we got the Zernius And we were definitely going to win that match So regardless of the disconnect Good game to my opponent And we'll move on to our next one And hopefully it's just as good As that first one to kick us off today But like I said at the start of the episode guys We've got the Tyranitar variant as well So we can try that And there's a huge part of me I was speaking to one of our good patrons Of the channel Pokermarty earlier And I was telling them There's such a big part of me that wants to I want to keep this quite serious So we can have a really good team at the end of the week But there's a part of me that's like I just want to do fun things In Drapion Was as one Pokémon I really want to build into this core But I'm like I can't do it I can't do it But I really do I feel like Drapion could do some work It makes that ground on matchup way worse But it could do It could do some It could do some stuff It could definitely do some stuff Anyway We've got our next opponent So let's hop into team preview Before we run out of time Because we've got Kyogre, Ditto Ludicolor Driftblim Eveltole And Tapufeet Tapulele Tapulele Not Tapufinny This is a really good one here We've got the 4riku We've got the Kyogre The Eveltole core here It's a really nice combination And we sort of have a lot of success In the Sun series Not so much in the Moon series But it's still got a lot of potential You've got the Ludicolor there With the fake ad support It's got that swift swim ability That pairs Sun nicely with the Kyogre Got to be a little bit careful of that Ditto It's probably an imposter Ditto It's there for a zernius check And imagine with maybe a red card Attached to it Kind of makes sense in this sort of core You've got the Tapulele And that Driftblim as well combination You're going to have the psychic terrain And then the unburdened Double in the speed of that Driftblim So I think we're going to lead Riku in this match I will bring Do I bring Sogeleon? Probably not up front I definitely want Zygarde I don't think I want I definitely want Toxicroak and Tapufinny They're the ones we're going with Running out of time But at least we bring the Zygarde We've not brought the Sogeleo So it's a little sad We haven't seen much of it today But there's plenty of episodes left In this week For us to utilize Sogeleo It's such a big Pokemon It performed so well last week So if Zygarde takes over this week Then I don't mind too much Because the one thing that we've got Going for us is that Zygarde Can steal the show this week Sogeleo's had its time But maybe with the Tapulele Included in the team here Sogeleo wouldn't have been a bad choice And the Veltel really covers the Tapulele Quite nicely from that specific threat Okay so we can go for a Thunderbolt here I think we'll probably just go for a Snarl I should have been paying more attention to When the pressure and when the psychic terrain went up Because this Lele could be Scarfed I'm going to go for the Snarl And I think I'm going to switch Zygarde Out into Tapufinny Get rid of this psychic terrain Because we just don't want this Being something that we have to Okay we're going to see Ditto hit the field now What's little old Ditto going to do It's going to turn into Zygarde But you don't mind too much Hopefully Although the Raikou It's a nice play from my opponent Expecting maybe a T-Ball into that slot But we ain't going for that Because we're going to get this misty terrain up And there's a Moonblast It's going to be into Zygarde Into that Tapufinny here And we take it pretty comfortably We'll get the Snarl off Which is really nice We can start We can start doing some damages next turn If we'd like to We could set up a Reflect as well Which is going to be super useful We're going to see a red card It's going to throw out the Raikou So we're not going to have an option for that Oh perfect Perfect timing, Mr. Zygarde Perfect timing Okay so I think this next turn This is probably Scarfed Tapu-Lele as well So I think what we'll do is We will just protect Zygarde here And go for the icy wind Support with our Tapufinny Tapufinny is such good support here It's not really threatening too much From the Ditto Which is now Zygarde Or the Tapu-Lele And if we can just reduce the speed on things We might force the Tapu-Lele out here as well Maybe I might be playing a little bit passive As if the uh This is one thing that I do worry about a little bit But if that Lele is Scarfed It means the Kyogre isn't So we should be out speeding it the next turn And just the Poison Ditto protects That's fine I mean that is totally fine So we can just go get this icy wind Hopefully onto the Kyogre And this is what I mean about a little bit passive Like we're not taking advantage of a turn Where we could potentially be getting an attack off The Lele was snarled so minus one So it's fine though, it's fine We're not too far behind So I think now we'll go a thousand arrows And we will go for a swagger into Zygarde And hopefully get that set up And plus two should be doing a lot of damage to this Kyogre My opponent still probably feels like they're maybe on the back foot But we've got to be a little bit careful about a potential Thunder coming out into Tapu-Fini Or an Ice Beam into our Zygarde But we do get the plus two Which is really nice So we are going to get this thousand arrows We know our speed in this Kyogre We're going to get some really good damage onto it this next turn Oh we just missed the knockout A critical hit as well That's huge There's the Thunder Okay that's fine This is fine Because we're going to get Raikou back in Right now My opponent has no switches into the Tapu Lele I think taking something down here would have put us Way further behind than we actually want it to be So we'll get this Raikou in And we outspeed both targets On my opponent's side of the field with our Zygarde So we've just got the Evaltul to worry about now So do we snarl or do we reflect Set that up Because the Evaltul could be a physical variant So it's kind of nice just to have that option later on If we would like to Yeah I think we will reflect Because we've got room now to pick up the double knockout here On both things on my opponent's side of the field Forget the reflector I'm just doing this in case the Evaltul is physical And that's the thing we've got to keep in mind Kyogre switching out for the Tapu Lele Which is really interesting Because it's potentially going to go down here to A thousand arrows We're going to see the Ditto protect Obviously we can't utilize extreme speed anymore Because of this psychic terrain being active But Raikou putting in some work getting this light screen up Going to get a thousand arrows If we can take down the Lele here I think we can close this game up pretty comfortably Not close It is so close All right I think we got a thousand arrows And we go snarl Yeah Because a thousand arrows will take down the Ditto Will take a moonblast into Zygarde potentially Yeah that's fine Wow I mean we take that so comfortably Get the snarl off Going to take down the Lele Reduce the special attack on the Ditto The thousand arrows from our Zygarde should take that down It's a shame that we're not We've not taken a little bit more damage So we can get the power construct activated But I mean it's fine isn't it The Kyogre comes back in It is going to be really prone to going down to A thunderbolt from Raikou And we're not worrying about the Evaltul now Throwing out a potential big Z move Because of that reflect that we've got up with the Raikou Which does kind of cover things quite nicely here for us So Evaltul coming back in And for one Pokemon that's given us so many problems Last week when we faced it It's not causing us too many problems right this second So we'll get the thunderbolt off into the Kyogre We'll go for that thousand arrows again We'll ground that Evaltul And again it can't go for a sucker punch If it's got it It's got to go for foul play Which you potentially could do But again I'm not massively worried Because as long as you get the Kyogre Then Raikou can deal with this This Evaltul pretty handily So we'll get the thunderbolt into the Kyogre It's not going to protect this turn We do take it down So just this lowly Evaltul to consider It's going to go for a knock off Because of the reflect though We take that pretty comfortably We get this thousand arrows off And now the zygote's going to be in range Hopefully have a thunderbolt Yeah, yeah, yeah I think minimum it's about 49 About 44% on an assault vest variant So we can't extreme speed it Because it is grounded now So we'll go for the thousand arrows again And Raikou going to steal the shore To finish us off today Which is brilliant And there we go We get the forfeit from our opponent And we are able to pick up another win So a really good start for us today guys And we got to showcase A couple of the new features to the team Especially having the zygote take down Azernius Which is what we wanted to do And then having the new member of the team The Raikou come in And putting so much work The pressure with the snarl The reflect up And then just the t-bolt Picking up really two chaos at the end Which I know one of them was a forfeit But you know, we're going to take that onto it Right, we'll end it there guys It's been a lot of fun We'll be back tomorrow Remember to let me know in the comments down below About the Tito If you'd like to see that at some point this week But we will continue tomorrow's episode With the Raikou And probably come on to the Tito Maybe Wednesday Then revert back and then make a decision Thursday, Friday About what the final build is going to be going into The last stages of the week So thank you so much for tuning in though guys Let me know in the comment section below What you think of the team today And I look forward to reading through those And replying to you as soon as I am able to So take care of yourselves Have a great day, whatever you're up to And I will see you all for another episode tomorrow So until then guys, take care and bye bye


I am Lisa Savage. Welcome. Thanks for being with us tonight. We're here to do pathways to progress. We are also a podcast now. So check us out on Spotify and like us and rate us. I'm here tonight with Portland City Councilor Victoria Pelletier and Roberto, check the comprehensive plan Rodriguez. And we are going to be reviewing the year 2022, the roses, the beautiful sweet things that happened, the thorns, the hard, difficult things that happened. And then we're going to spend some time on buds, in other words, potential. Things that you're excited about, things that you see happening and developing. And hopefully we'll come out of here with a lot of optimism for the new year. I know you guys feel a lot more relaxed being sophomores rather than fresh. Yes. Yeah, I think I was watching our first episode earlier today and I was like, oh my gosh, I feel like I was such a baby. And now I'm, you know, I'm seasoned and we've been in for a full year. So it feels nice to be a sophomore on the council and come into this new session. At least for me, just knowing a little bit more of like how it works. We've almost been meeting in person now for nearly a full year. So that feels really natural. So yeah, being a sophomore on the council and at least just getting that first year down and surviving that first year for me feels like a really big deal. So it is a really big deal. It's an accomplishment. Congratulations. Thank you. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, 100%. And I think maybe it's not always this way. But when we are first month, there seemed like the agendas were packed with like incredibly controversial issues.  And in a matter of like three or four months in the spring, I felt like things got more into a groove and certainly now going into our sophomore year, I feel way more relaxed. I like that word a lot, a way more relaxed. And, you know, you have familiarity with the patterns and the routine of things. Certainly knowing the people like the department heads, that also helps a ton. And you know, you start to build working relationships with people and know how they communicate. They get to know how you communicate. Certainly we have our own unique approach to the work. Yeah, definitely in a better place. Well, you kind of have a new council now. You have lots of new members, yes. And you don't have the charter. I mean, the charter commission only happens every 10 years. Right. So that's you got that under your belt. Yeah, that's so true. Because that was happening on the background all through last year, which was incredibly heated and contested. And then, of course, it's built into our work, of course. And clearly, we were part of the campaigns and in the elections. Yeah, that's a layer. See, I always forget about that. A significant layer that we had to deal with. Yeah, we did a lot, yo. We did a lot, yeah. And I think, too, it's like something's always happening while we were on the council. And even just now, I was like, well, it's nice. Like nothing will be going on. So we'll kind of get to just do the work. But then the mayor's race is going to be happening. So this will be Mayor Snyder's last year. And so our third term or our third year on the council will be serving with a new mayor as well. So that will be really interesting to see what happens with that. And with the new city manager. And that's right. Who was I talking to this week that I said, every council, I feel plays a role based on the circumstances of the time that they're serving in. And for a while there, you had a council that had continuity. We had the same city manager and the same council it felt like for a long time. We had some several members that were there for many terms. And now we have a council that's here in a period of transition, lots of interim department heads, a new city manager coming in, a new mayor coming in. And like we just said, an entirely new council. So we're certainly in a period of transition. And it feels like it's our responsibility to carry the city and help people through a really difficult time of change. Well, let's look at 22 a little bit before we move on to what's gonna happen in 23. Who wants to go first? You wanna start with the bad? You wanna start with the good? I really wish to start with the bad. Okay. And then we can go to the good. That sounds good. So what's your, pick a couple of thorns for us there, Victoria. Shocker, I think one of my biggest thorns was obviously the hazard pay vote heard around the world and then the subsequent couple of months. That was my first couple of meetings on the council. Everyone was getting to know me for the very first time as well. And so I think that combined with everything made it a really challenging time. The vote obviously didn't go the way that I wanted it to. But I do think that it helps me prepare for what it's like when you feel like the whole city is looking at you and talking about you. And I was getting a ton of emails. I was getting a ton of calls, a lot of heat. A lot of people were very upset with me. And that was really challenging. But I also, I'm kind of glad it happened so early because then when I made it through the other side, I was like, well, I was like, that was pretty bad. But I at least made it where I know that feeling really early. So that was tough. And that certainly didn't go my way. Some of the charter questions didn't go my way either. I mean, that wasn't something that I had a direct, that I directly worked on. But I was really excited for a couple of the questions, specifically question two. I was actually excited just to see how that would really change our local government, how that would change the representation. And unfortunately, that did not go my way either. But again, that's the nature of this world of politics. Is that sometimes things go your way, sometimes they don't. But I still am very excited to continue to advocate as much as I can to make local government as accessible to the people as possible. And I'm doing that a lot just through my own social media work. And I'm hoping that if anything, people feel a little bit more in the know as to what's going on than they did a couple of years ago. So those are probably like my two thorns are just things that didn't go my way. But again, I think one of the first things I said on this show was that not everything is gonna go my way. And I have to get over that really quickly. So I think that I did, and now it's just kind of moving forward for the future. Okay. I don't know that I had any particular vote or issue that I felt really bad about not having to carry it over the way that I wanted to. There were a couple of land bank votes where we're designating some parcels to the land bank that I wanted us to make a deeper dive into whether or not we could potentially have housing development. And those didn't, I didn't do a good job at getting my votes aligned beforehand. But I think if there was one aspect of the work last year that was super, super challenging, not challenging, but that I did not enjoy and that was certainly a thorn. I think some of the dynamics with the district three counselor, I felt that times were just beyond, I think what I had expected to this work to include, I think at times I got really personal, having him attack me on social media and just making accusations that were completely untrue. I think he was jeopardizing both the organization that I'm working with and my reputation and so much more. And I never understood where that came from. So that to me was really disheartening because there were horrible attacks. He was clearly having people in this town siding with him that didn't care about how ugly it got. They were just adding fuel to a fire. And the fact that he just instigated that was really, it was disheartening. And that was certainly the biggest thorn. And I totally appreciate the challenges of this work. Like I've been doing it for seven years now, or six years now. And I'd never experienced something like that from a colleague. So that was the biggest thorn for sure. I'm glad that that's what we're doing. Yeah, well, that's behind you for sure, completely. Let's move on to some roses. Some of the sweet things. Recently, well, I think my first early rose was I just got to spend a lot of time in a lot of our schools. And that felt phenomenal to me to be able to visit with Portland High School, to be able to visit with Deering. Black Student Union was amazing. I go to King Middle School. I feel like pretty often they're in my district and I love hanging out with all the kids and the educators. So that really kept me going. Was just getting to engage with young people. I'm super impressed by all of the young people that we have in schools and just how much they are involved in what's happening. So much more than I was at that age and it's really inspiring to see. And so that's always been one of my favorite parts is just getting to engage with the students as much as I can. And then recently at our inauguration, I got to read and sponsor a proclamation for our racial equity work. And I'm really excited for that. It'll be the city's first DEI committee that we'll have and it will work with the new DEI manager that we're hiring, which we're still in the process of that. So it's essentially when this person gets hired, we will then form a DEI committee and it feels exciting because that was kind of a lift. I think that was a lot of conversations of getting that to be cemented in writing. And I feel really excited that I was able to bring that across the finish line. And now going forward regardless of who is hired or whether I'm there, whether I'm not, I'm excited that we can really start prioritizing racial equity at the city of Portland. So that felt like a big win for me. It's good to get some infrastructure in place because then as you said, people change, circumstances shift, but if you have that vision and that goal, what you want to accomplish, that's really helpful. I kid you about in a return to the strategic plan, but I'm totally like that myself. If I don't understand what the context is, I can't make sense of the individual fact or policy or whatever. So I do think that's a huge step forward for Portland. Congratulations. Thank you. Awesome. Yeah, so actually along the same lines, the part that I felt most satisfaction with was the work that we did at the sustainability and transportation committee. And it was precisely because I always felt like there was a clarity into what we were doing. We were following some of the big plans that multi-regional or multi-minicipalities have come together to put forward and we've been kind of like taking part of it. So I feel like I know what we're trying to do. All we have to do is be good advocates and get as informed as possible and advance it. And then we build capacity to get those structures by adding a position to the department. So that committee to me felt like really effective council work. We've talked about wanting to be in positions where you are going to be effective in having a broad impact. And that committee has certainly been a good lesson in how government can be effective in advancing things forward. So that's been super, super rewarding. And the staff too has just been Troy and his staff has been amazing to work with. So by far, one of the most satisfying parts of the weekly routines. Did you both keep your same committee assignments? Yeah, yeah. And so in that committee, we've been serving together and we'll continue this coming year with Councilor Zaro. So committees are definitely a rose. I might have expected you to say, wow, that's a lot of extra work. Wow, that's a lot of extra time. But that's where you really get in there and do some things. And on the council, there's a lot of procedural stuff. There's a lot of just things that have to be dealt with. And that's really great to hear. So what are you excited about for the coming year? You've alluded to a couple of different things. Where do you see your work heading this year? Yeah, I'm excited for what's to come. I mean, some of that definitely involves what I just talked about with the racial equity, hiring the racial equity manager. And I hope that that's something that we can get moving forward on and maybe even have a determination in the spring or in the summer. I'm excited too for our Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee. It's the first time in Portland that we've had an all women committee. So that's really cool. I'm serving with Councilor Travaro and Councilor Fornir. And we had a really great first meeting and we're talking about a lot of things in terms of making sure that we're cementing abortion here in Portland and making it as safe as possible. It is luckily still legal here in Maine, but I think we're trying to put as much work as we can forward so that if anything does happen in the future, at least Portland is protected. So that's really exciting. We're gonna look at making sure that we're providing as many resources as we can for our unhoused community members, the larger shelters opening up in Riverside. I think in like a month and a half, I think maybe March, beginning of March. So that's gonna be a lot of conversations around staffing and around making sure that we are providing the necessary resources for people to get to and from. And I'm just looking forward, I think, to us really putting out a lot of work. I think that committee specifically is so important in terms of the community aspect of Portland. And I'm similar to the Sustainability and Transportation Committee. It's a three-person committee and I'm excited for us to just churn out as much work as possible. So I certainly look forward to that and seeing where we are at the end of the year. Great. One of the pieces that I'm most excited about is carrying over the results of the election. So the clean elections ordinances that we have to put in place, we already have a timeline for that. And that's happening like in the immediate future. So we need to get that stuff in place by April. So that it could be part of our budget, right? Because we need to fund it somehow. And then the candidates that wanna run for November, it is accessible to them. So I talked about how important I thought that was and how transformative that really could be from municipal government and democracy as a whole. So I'm really excited to play a role in that. Can you share any details of what you think the clean election opportunities for candidates are gonna be or are we still too far out there? There's still a lot to be determined but what we heard from the city clerk's office is that they're looking at the state procedures and see how much of that we can mirror here. But I know that there's groups that have been talking with the city clerk's office to look at programs like in other cities like Seattle and New York. And there's some really interesting clean election programs out there where registered voters or even non-registered voters like residents have vouchers and that's the way that they could contribute to candidates campaigns. And I've heard already a multitude of ideas that are out there. I'm not sure how far and broad we can explore them and what's applicable here to Portland but I'm excited that we have a city clerk's office that's receptive to hearing from community partners about these ideas and then when we get to dive into the work we'll figure out what's the best match for Portland. But again, that's transformative work and I'm excited to be part of that. Yeah, vouchers, what an interesting idea. Yeah, I think Seattle does that. Seattle does? Yeah, and I hear that it's not like because they automatically mail their ballots to register voters, you automatically get those vouchers. So you get a high percentage of all participation. And you said but even if they aren't registered voters they can get the vouchers. I believe that I heard those examples of non-registered voters, just residents being able to participate in the clean elections. So it's in a way kind of like a vote before you get to vote. You get to support that candidate financially with your voucher. So that's an idea I think, I don't know again if Portland has the capacity to run a program that detailed but exciting that that's an option out there for us to explore. Right, well Portland's not that big of a city that populous of a city so it seems like that might be it's kind of, it's analogous to you have to collect signatures to get nominated to get your name on the ballot. And so basically you're collecting the funding to go with that because you both know getting a signature, getting your name on the ballot that does not a campaign make. Right. And you end up reaching into your pocket a lot, right? Some people are in a position to do that and some people aren't and that's something that we're always reminding viewers about that it's not good representative government if only the people with the resources to do that can get their name on the ballot or get elected. Right. Absolutely. Yeah, there are too many constituencies and issues that just don't make it into the conversation. So wow, that would be exciting. I don't think the state of Maine is giving out vouchers for claiming. I don't see it happening any time soon. What's the state model you can donate $5 to any candidate and it doesn't have to be a candidate in your own district. And if they get enough, right, there's like a trigger point where they've got enough people I've given them $5 and then they qualify for the clean elections fund. Are you in favor of setting that bar pretty high, pretty low? Yeah, I mean. In terms of how much money or vouchers or whatever it does a candidate have to get to. I think that because the municipality has to hold that within its budget we kind of have to be realistic. But I think the idea is that it grows, right? That we can expand it. And also there's circumstances that happen at different times of the campaign trail that people are gonna need additional funds or there's different types of campaigns, right? Like a city council district race versus a mayoral race are gonna be two completely different experiences and have a different financial requirements. We'll have to see what other municipalities do was within our budget capacity. And again, if there's an idea that we can revisit this year over year and either expand it or tweak it as the circumstances dictate. And our candidate is it going to be mandatory? In other words, is everybody gonna be a clean elections candidate or? I would love it. Person A can take corporate money over here and outspend the clean elections people or? I would love it for it to be mandatory. I doubt we'll get that. You both would. Yeah, absolutely. There's two votes right there. Yeah, yeah, right, two votes. So. I know. Because I know that is an issue at the state level and at the national level where people are like, I ran clean elections once but my opponent didn't so then I was outspent completely and I'm not sure I wanna do that again. Even people that philosophically think clean election funds are the way to go. I think that one of the biggest problems that we saw with the charter campaign is not the candidates themselves but like those action committees that get formed. So that's why I really wanna limit. Like they raised half a million dollars. I think they ended with a million. Why are they all in this city? So that's the stuff that I think we really need to like put a hold on. I mean, if we can get $10,000 to run an at-large campaign I mean I ran under less than that. I think that's a reason for me that's reasonable for candidates. But those action committees I think that stopping that craziness that we saw last year that we should all have urgency towards that. That was horrible. I mean no one in this city enjoyed the way that those campaigns that were being funneled by Airbnb and Uber. No one enjoyed seeing that stuff. They tend to be real negative and had personal attacks. That doesn't fit into this city. That stuff is not what Portlanders want in their politics. So you think the council can create a law that keeps political action committees from participating in elections? That is very ambitious. I would be very impressed. I'm not being skeptical. I'm just wondering how that would work. But it's for 20 years already. I know, that's the list of buds that could be coming up. Yeah, I like that. I think it's certainly, we're all talking about having big systemic impact. I think that that's the kind of stuff that we meant. That would be huge in fact. Can we talk about transportation a little bit? It's a subject near and dear to my heart just because I've lived in places where public transportation was available to even the most low income people. In this country, you basically often have to keep a car to even be employed in this state especially. And so what's a bud for transportation that you see developing here? I mean. You talked about some kind of transportation out to the new shelter because it's not in the city center. Yeah, I'm not. And again, we're hoping there's an advisory group that's being created for that type of conversation. And so our committee will have a little bit of a look into it but that was one of the biggest concerns was the level of transportation and when it's gonna be running to and from the new shelters. The new shelters in Riverton, it's off Peninsula and it's gonna be really challenging. I think for a lot of people who need that shelter to be able to get there. So that I think is the number one question is how is it running? When is it running? Who is it going to pick up? And how can we make sure that that's not an issue of getting people the care that they need? Because I think even where I am, I have Deering Oaks Park in my district. District one has the Bayside area not in their district and not. Those areas are certainly going to be places where I hope the shuttle would be considering picking up. But again, I have no idea it will really depend on the conversations that are happening at the advisory committee level. And I'm hopeful that we can have our eye on it through our HHS committee to make any changes that we need to make. But yeah, that's a huge question. Yeah. And I think other than the immediate, when we talk about transportation, the immediate thoughts of vehicles and buses. I think the pedestrian and bicycle aspect, looking at our city and to making it more pedestrian friendly. So there's a lot I think that we can start doing. These things take many years, right? Because there's a lot of investments particularly we were talking in our committee about sidewalks. We have to make commitments in the CIP where year over year we're spending a percentage of that CIP money to create more sidewalks and to create more of these, the signal walking passes, particularly in Forrest Avenue which is like a highway out there. So anything that we can do to make it more pedestrian friendly and bicycle, these forms of transportation that are a little bit more accessible to people. And in the city, our size, I think if we go in that route, we can probably make it a lot easier for people to get around without depending on those vehicles. And then obviously the infrastructure to those really needy folks in making sure that those shuttles running time that they're accessible, yeah. So this is going to be a separate from the regular bus system that serves Portland? Or it will be a, oh you do. Okay, what's the thinking there? I think they're trying to just make sure that they have a shuttle that all they're doing is going back and forth from the shelter. At least that's my hope in that there's no like time constraints of when there is going to be a to and from shuttle. But again, I got to tour the facility. It feels like so, I did, but it was, oh my gosh, I don't even remember when we were getting to do those tours. It was before the holidays and it wasn't done. So I'm looking forward to going again because there were a lot of questions like that that were still being worked on by the time that I got to tour it, so. And what's the capacity of the Riverton Shelter intended to be? It's much more than that in the Coxford Street. Yeah, I want to say on the women's side, it was like close to like 70 or 80. And then I think on the men's side, it was 60, I think. These are the numbers that came into my head immediately. I put it all on my phone when we were there visiting, but it is going to be a lot larger than anything that we have now, so. Families can stay there? Families can stay there. They have certain areas that will be dedicated to families. But I think too, with a couple of the other shelters that we have, I think that they're hoping to alleviate the impact for these family shelters where single individuals will be using Riverton and then the family shelter will be able to remain operational. And presumably there will be feeding meals there because it's too far to come in. Yeah, the last time I was there, they had, they were going to do an RFP for some local food options to make sure because of course we have a lot of different ethnicities and races and cultures here. And so they wanted to make sure that they had culturally relevant food. So that's the last that I heard is that they were going to do a couple of RFPs for food delivery service. So we'll see, I hope I can get to tour it again because again it's supposed to open, I think March 1st, which is so much sooner than I actually thought that it was going to open. So I'm hopeful that we'll be able to see it again one more time before they do. And I'm sure that, I'm sure those emails are coming to us, any minute. Well, I think my grandchildren would think I was remiss if I didn't in our last few minutes here ask you about the parks and recreation situation in Portland. What do you see happening there? Well, my grandchildren just love the parks, that we go from one park to the next, to the next, to the next. Anything happening in parks that we should know about or the rec programs? Again, I don't live in Portland. I mean, the parks are the ever changing conversation of what are we utilizing parks for. Notice I didn't say the F-T word. The continuous back and forth in that I think was the most relevant in our recent vote. I feel like, again, time is escaping me. It was maybe a couple months ago or a couple weeks ago, the Payson Park conversation about whether or not we were gonna have a concert in Payson Park. That drew out a lot of responses from individuals that were saying parks are not for concerts, parks are for concerts, Payson Park can't hold it, why can it be somewhere else? Similar to the food truck conversation on the Eastern prom, do food trucks belong in the park, do they not? And so I think we're trying to figure out our park usage and what it's for and how it will serve Portland as we continue to grow and expand. So I look forward to having more of those conversations. We postpone the Payson Park vote. The food truck determination actually should be coming out in probably a couple of weeks, but it's an interesting discussion to have in Portland because people are very passionate about parks and what they're supposed to be used for. So I don't know, to answer your question, to answer your question, I'm not sure what's gonna happen with the park. There might be concerts, there might be food trucks. Or there might not be, yeah. We don't know. I have no idea. Well, we are coming toward the end of our show. Is there a last thought that either of you would like to share with us about 2023? What do you think is gonna excite you? Or should we thank our crew? Yeah, I mean, I'm thankful that we're able to be here. So thank you. Thank you both of you into Portland Media Center because I'm glad that we get to continue this into our sophomore year. I actually think that's really cool and it's a big privilege that we get this platform to share and I like watching our old episodes and seeing how we've grown and changed and it's been really fun. So that's all I have to share. This is the first episode of 2023 and I'm excited to see where we are at the end of the year. Absolutely. I think this is definitely one of the roses, one of the shining moments of the year. And it started really kind of like low key where it was like, hey, let's just try this. And I didn't have any idea how long we'd be doing it. I thought it'd be the first few months or whatever. And then it was obvious then that we did have a routine and then we were set here on the schedule. And yeah, I'm excited for this year to do it again. We missed a month. So I feel like we really had good momentum, kind of like a little bit of a hiccup when here we're back. Yeah, I'm really, this has definitely been a very grateful to have done. It's been a great opportunity and looking forward to doing it again this year. Great. Well, I'm super excited that we became a podcast. So our whole archive, all our first eight shows are on Spotify. They will be on Apple too, but right now they're on Spotify and that's great to be able to people can revisit that. And now going forward, each episode will be a podcast. And I know that you, Roberto, thought that that would help build audience, that not everyone's gonna sit through a video or watch live TV, great as it is. But they can listen to a podcast while they're making dinner or whatever they're doing. So that's a great leap for it. I think that's my bud that I would say. Rose, working with you all, working with the wonderful Warren Edgar, our director and Jeffrey Cooper, our audio wizard and David Bedell, our cameraman, thank you so much, could not do the show without you. Thank you to Portland Media Center for hosting us and thank you to our audience because obviously without an audience, we don't have a show. You've been so encouraging and I've heard so many positives from people that I know that have watched the show and really feel that it's useful and they learn things and they feel closer to their city government because you take the time to do this. So let's try and maybe do it a little more often. We said we'd do it once a month and that's been a little challenging. We're gonna try to stick. That's my New Year's resolution, monthly. There you go. Works for me.


Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE's 2018 and new year. I think this is actually my first interview of the year. I'm pretty excited to have a CUBE conversation here in the Palo Alto studios to talk about a pretty interesting topic. It's been growing over time, but it's getting more and more sophisticated in a much bigger region. That's dynamic pricing, right? It's not just stick the sticker on the item like it used to be back in the day and that's the price. And it's a much more complicated, much more sophisticated. And we're excited to have Alex Shartsis. He's the CEO of Perfect Price. Alex, good to see you. Thanks for having me. So dynamic pricing, right? We've saw it, I guess probably the airlines are maybe the first ones to do it or you know, priceline.com was kind of the first one to talk about, you know, hotels have rooms that they can't get rid of, but it's moved a lot further down the path than that. I mean, now even the Giants, I think have flex pricing, whether it's the Dodgers on a Friday night or it's Toronto on a Tuesday. Yeah, I mean, I think it's kind of just a really interesting subject because everybody's experienced it, right?  And I think what people don't realize is a lot of times they benefit from it. You're able to get that flight for a little bit less, you're able to get the Uber for a little bit less, especially than a taxi. And yeah, sometimes there's surge pricing, there's last minute fares, there's things that are more expensive, but it's something that every consumer has dealt with. And I think a lot of us think about pricing from a consumer standpoint, because we're all consumers, but from a business standpoint, there's nothing more impactful than dynamic pricing. Yeah, and pricing in and of itself is such a complicated issue. And you go through some of the stuff in your website, you know, are you coming at it from a cost point of view? Is it a cost plus kind of a model? Or is it a value model? So there's a lot of factors, right? There is no kind of perfect price. You don't want a price at the top of the market, you know, then you're giving up some volume. So what are some of the factors when you talk to people as the pricing evolution is happening, from kind of what they used to do to what they're trying to do now with dynamic pricing and how you can help them? Yeah, so I think if you think about sort of pricing evolving from, the cost plus was kind of the beginning. Like I bought the potato from the farmer for five bucks a pound and I'm going to sell it for 10 bucks a pound. And that covers my cost of shipping it and having a stall at the bazaar, whatever. I think, you know, today, a lot of companies still do that, which still shocks me. But there's, you know, it became this sort of in the middle of last century, which is kind of weird to say value-based pricing became a thing. So it wasn't that I would sell them for 10 bucks a pound because it's just double what I paid for them. It's people are willing to pay 10 bucks a pound. And if I try and sell them for 12, nobody buys them or a lot fewer people buy them. And if I sell them for seven, I run out and could have made a lot more money. So what value-based pricing was is really like, what is my customer willing to pay? And the bazaar was a great place. You'd have a conversation. You know, Alex, how much do you really need this potato? How much do you really want this thing? Oh, you're wearing a nice suit. Think I'm going to charge you more for this. And that obviously went away when the department store was invented and people would walk around and see a tag on the item. And so what we do and what I think our customers are really benefiting from is this notion of really accurately figuring out with that, not only the value the customer is getting, but also factoring in all the other business related costs and fixed costs and things like that, that should or should not be part of that equation so that the company can sometimes sell maybe at a loss on that one unit. But you know, in the case of a travel business like an airline or a hotel, loss is a very subjective thing. And you're able to make money by lowering the price for a certain segment or for a certain time or for certain origin destination, whatever that combination is, and increase your overall profitability by doing so. Plus bring in some customers that wouldn't have been able to buy from you before. So that's an interesting point of view, right? Because always, you know, kind of what are you optimizing for? Are you optimizing for the single transaction or are you optimizing for the bucket of transactions? And then that can get you to very different places. So as, have you seen it kind of evolve? What are some of the key factors that tell one of your customers you've got a great opportunity to increase profitability, increase revenue, increase client satisfaction. Again, what are you measuring? What are you optimizing for by incorporating a dynamic pricing? And then how do they get started? Right, good questions. So we went into this thinking, you know, there are a lot of businesses that are stuck in, you know, cost plus pricing and they would benefit the most from dynamic pricing or from using AI to price things because they're doing such a bad job of it today. And it turns out they like doing a bad job of it for whatever reason and we have, I've not been successful at convincing them that maybe there's a better way to do it. But the companies that already have a lot of people and a lot of invested in pricing in some fashion, some companies call it revenue management. Those companies are the ones that really benefit. And the reason is they've already seen an impact. So one of the key things for us is has you, one of the first questions we ask people is why are we talking about pricing? Did you do something? Did something change in your business that you noticed that had an impact? And every one of our customers has been able to say yes to that they, somebody made a mistake and they changed their price and they saw a huge swing in their business and they realized, oh, maybe we should think about it this time. It's usually some kind of a mistake that undercuts it. Not usually, but it's, I mean, more than once it's happened.  But for the more sophisticated companies, they've already seen, you know, they've been, some of the companies we work with have had pricing teams since the 70s. And so they have constantly improving and they see using AI to do dynamic pricing is the next evolution. And they don't want to get left behind. They know it's core to their business. And just as enterprise software is moving to the cloud, machine learning people are starting to use or have been using the graphics core for a while. Like you can't ignore that trend if it's core to your business. So that's interesting. So we didn't really kind of talk about the impact of AI and surely AI or for intelligence to do a better job of optimization because as you said, if you've already invested in pricing, it's a complicated thing. There's so many factors.  And then how do you factor in convenience? How do you factor in prime? I mean, there's other, these other things that have absolutely nothing to do with the physical price that can enable you to, as you said, you know, get more revenue, get more profitability in these factors. So now we have AI, we have these crazy big machines. We have cloud computing and big data. Huge disruptor to this marketplace and a really new opportunity to bring a lot more power to bear out of magic. Yeah, I mean, I think, so Amazon's a great example because people have really experienced dynamic pricing with Amazon just because you put something in your cart the next day it changes by five cents. And Amazon's dynamic pricing is really interesting because Bezos is very vocal about being consumer centric. And so they're looking at what the market's doing and what things are priced elsewhere. And they're always trying to be competitive and give you value because they recognize, you said earlier, you know, is it what are you trying to optimize for? Is it revenue, is it profit? There are other things you can optimize for that actually improve both of those numbers like how frequently you come back to that as a customer. If I'm Amazon, do I go to Amazon or do I look at Target or Walmart first? That is a huge impact in Amazon's profitability. Beyond, I mean, and you may do that because of price that one time or over your experience with Amazon as a retailer. But so I think what's interesting about AI is that it enables us to go just like the ad industry did went from having a lot of humans trying to solve a problem that really wasn't solvable by humans. So taking a lot of shortcuts, doing what they could, it actually solves the problem. So if you think about the ad industry, you might, if you're spending $10 million on ads, which I'm sure some of your listeners would be, and you're running a campaign, you probably have an agency, they probably have 10 people managing your campaign. They're looking at where the 30 or 40 creatives, the thousand publishers it's running on, they're pretty soon the numbers get big. I'm not going to do it right now on camera, but you multiply it out and you're talking about millions. And they're all multivariate, right? So there's all the different different spaces. Is the purple creative doing well on the female focused websites for 20 to 30, but not for 40, 50, and at some point you can't keep track of all the permutations. And one of the fun, one of the weird twists I learned working in that industry is that when you get down to actually people to click and convert, that's a very small number. So you might have millions or tens of millions of impressions, but you might only have a thousand or 2,000 customers that ended up out of it. So you're trying to back out, okay, well that was a customer. Where did they start? And that becomes a very, very thin line to draw. And 10 years ago, that was all people.  And today 78% of those campaigns, 78% of those ads are served by AI. Those decisions aren't made by humans anymore. And I think if you think about dynamic pricing for businesses that are very large and have really complex businesses, like, you know, rental car companies, hotels, airlines, transportation, trucking, where you're dealing with thousands of different factors, why would you trust that to people if you don't have to? Yeah, as long as you have the data, right? And this investigation is pretty interesting. You guys have a better appeal to people that already understand the value of dynamic pricing, which you're really offering them is a new way to do it. And the AI-based way to do it, a cloud-based way to do it. Yeah, the one place where we found a lot of interest that hasn't been, that haven't had sophisticated solutions in the past are companies that don't have a lot of direct competition. And because a lot of, at least in travel, a huge part of the revenue management function is what are the Joneses doing, right? If I'm a Hilton, like, what's the Marriott around the corner, rent it, you know, selling their rooms for. And for better or for worse, I think there's a place for it, but I don't think it's quite the same place. It's just easy for a human to go to your boss and say, well, boss, the Marriott around the corner is at $250 a night, so we're at $260 because I think our rooms are nicer, right? And yet in your data is actually the optimal price. Like if you look at your data, you can actually get to that price. Maybe you set some rules or you put some limits on the AI. So if the Marriott's at 300, you're not at 1,000. Maybe you should be, right? You should maybe think about that a little bit if that's what the AI is thinking. But people, if you don't have that crutch, if you don't have a direct competitor around the corner from you, then it becomes really hard. And that's why Uber started doing this in the first place because the new taxi pricing was wrong. But Travis and Ryan and the people who started Uber there, they key part of the value proposition was always being able to get a car. And so the only way you do that is basically by pricing people out of the market when you don't have enough cars. And then that one person who really like needs to go to the hospital or, you know, as a VC and needs to go to a New Year's party, whatever it is, like they can pay the $200 to get to that thing they really need to because there still is a car as opposed to not having a car. Right. So you bring up a whole nother kind of layer of complexity. And that's the third party providers.  So how does that factor in when you not only you're worrying about your own pricing vis-a-vis your competition around the street or kind of your classic set of competitors, but now you've got this whole another layer of distribution that's kind of outside your direct control with a whole different type of a pricing structure I would imagine in terms of supporting. Right. And are you seeing that expand to other places or is travel such a unique thing because of the perishability of the assets? Yeah, I mean, so I think it will expand to other places. I mean, we think transportation in general, you know, also trucking and I mean, everything that that has these sort of high operating leverage models where you have a lot of vehicles or, you know, or distribution centers or things like, yeah, there's the more accurately you fit your pricing to demand the more money you'll make the better run your business will be the more time it'll save. It has a lot of implications. You know, I think one of the things that's really interesting about, you know, the different channels is traditionally they have played a role, you know, you think about like Nordstrom Rack or TJ Maxx or price line, right? Hotwire, right?  So you give them to Hotwire or you give them to price line. That's I think always going to play a role. A lot of these other places are drawing from the same inventory.  What's interesting is because of software but because of legal agreements and also because of software, there isn't a lot of variation in price even though every travel site says, you know, cheapest prices or best price guarantee or whatever, like they're all getting their pricing data from the same place. It is the same price.  If you're renting, if you're getting a room at a Hilton, you can be pretty positive that wherever you book that room at a Hilton it's going to be the same price. Right, right. So it's just pure marketing when they're trying to compete because ultimately the system kicks out what that third party available price is or is that even dynamic? Well, if you think about, you know, if I've worked in the travel industry for a while so I don't want to share things that I shouldn't share but if you just think about if you were the company that powered all of these different sites and had your own big consumer-facing website would you be okay if Hilton could rent its rooms for 50 or 100 bucks less on its website than it lets you rent them for? Probably not. Probably not. So, so, so before we run out of time, I mean, so kind of what are the key, the key kind of attributes of the business that really lend itself to having an opportunity to increase profitability and revenue with dynamic pricing?  Second one is having a significant number of things that you sell.  But if you're a rental car company and have thousands of cars or a telecompany with thousands of rooms, anything where there's either a lot of variation over a small number of products or a large number of products with a lot of variation. And finally, you know, to us, it seems like there's just, there's this, you're already a data-focused company. Other people have written about this, but like you know that there's value in your data. You haven't figured out how to get it out of there yet or maybe you're doing some things with it. But you are committed to running your business more efficiently. That just, I guess the marketers would call it a psychographic profile, but that kind of attitude, you know, not being content with, hey, we've done this for 40 years this way and it's worked great, but really wanting to leverage your data and knowing that there is enough data there. Those are the three things that really give us this signal that there's a difference. And we don't worry about price protection, I guess. Nobody goes back once they buy their item. They're like, yeah, this is what I want. It's a cognitive dissonance. It's perfect. So, and I just wondered too, what industries are people not thinking about maybe that you're starting to see get more involved in dynamic pricing? I mean, obviously we know travel and those types of, you've mentioned cars a number of times, we've talked about kind of some of the crazy stuff that goes on on Amazon, but is there some other kind of, you know, ones that people might never think about? I mean, I think the two big ones are the transportation, trucking industry. Just, you know, there's a ton of permutations there and not, they kind of got left out of Web 1.0 and so I think there's just a lot to be done there. The other one is event ticketing. You mentioned the A's and the Giants, but they're kind of the exceptions. I think, you know, there's a lot of ink has been spilled over price gouging and scalpers and things like that. And I think if that industry took a hard look at pricing their products more effectively, they would, everybody would be better off consumers and the promoters and the venues themselves. Yes, in the Bob Lester's letter, he likes to talk a lot about the concert industry. All right, well, Alex Chartz is CEO of Perfect Price. Thanks for taking a few minutes out of your day and sharing the story. Thank you. All right, he's Alex. I'm Jeff. You're watching theCUBE from our Palo Alto studios. Happy New Year, everybody. See you next time.


The same day, at 1709 UTC, Rocket Lab were flying once again for a personal record-breaking eighth time this year. This electron was launching the IT-ARGOS up from here mission, carrying General Otomics Gazelle's satellite to a 750km sun-synchronous orbit from Launch Complex 1B on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. Not a lot is known about Gazelle, apart from the fact that it is a satellite bus for science payloads such as Argos 4 and Radmon which were flown on this mission.


Before we're through here, I just look forward to this to welcome you all to the White House. Now you're not, you're across the street from it, but this is considered part of the White House too. And I want to congratulate you on the magnificent season that you had and in winning the second consecutive, for the second consecutive year, the NCAA's women's basketball national title. I know that you came from behind last Sunday against Tennessee and won in the second half being a Southern Californian. I can say that this is the kind of performance that made USC a giant in the sports world. And now you're part of that impressive sports tradition. Not only one another title for the school, you've done a great deal, I think, for women's sports, women's athletics. There was a time when the only jumping that was done at an athletic contest by women was by the cheerleaders. And now there's nothing wrong with that. I've been in athletics and played football, not basketball myself. I know it means a great deal to have that kind of support, so there's an honorable place for the cheerleaders, but you are proving that women can make their mark as well in the field of athletics out there in the floor of the arena. It's pretty hard not to recognize players like Pam and Paul McGee who scored almost 5,000 points between them. Where are you? There. There. There. It must be pretty hard to guard every once in a while, must think that he's seeing double. Well, and also then the, congratulate Cheryl Miller. Thank you, my friend. All right. Name the most valuable player in that title tournament, and also this year's top collegiate women's basketball player. But then I can also add a congratulation to all of you as a team because it was a great team effort. And I think that your coach, the university, your friends and family all must be very proud of you, and they have every reason to be, and you have a reason to be proud of yourselves and what you've accomplished. I think you're an inspiration to athletes all over America. I think simply put, well done. And now I'd like to say hello to each one of you if I could meet each of you. Nice to see you. Mr. President, on behalf of the University of Southern California, the women's athletic program and the women's basketball team, we would like to thank you for honoring us here today. We're very excited when we got the call, and we're going to have a wonderful time while we're here. And on behalf of you, we'd like to thank you very much. We've also brought some gifts for you and Nancy, and I'd like to present those to you when you want to shoot hoops. And I hope this fits. Well, thank you. Thank you especially. I won't use this for shooting baskets because I see you've all signed. So we'll keep it for looking and not walking. I'll start over here.


Greetings. In this screencast, we're going to learn some of the basic graphing capabilities of the software package GeoGebra. For this screencast, our objectives are going to be to learn about the Algebra view and the Graphics view in GeoGebra, to learn how to enter a function in GeoGebra, to learn how to set the viewing in GeoGebra, and hopefully with your experience with a graphing calculator, you know that that can be a difficult task, but a very important task in trying to get an appropriate view for the graph of a function. We're going to learn how to use GeoGebra to approximate points of intersection of two graphs, and finally, we're going to learn how to plot some points in GeoGebra. So, here are the functions that we're going to be using. And so again, you might want to write these down, pause and write these down, so you have these at your disposal. And entering the function in GeoGebra just like in your graphing calculator, with this first function f of x with minus one half times x squared. When I enter that in GeoGebra, I'm going to use minus x squared divided by two. So that's going to be our basic setup. So here is the standard screen that you will see when you open up the GeoGebra program. And again, you have the algebra view over here in the graphics view over here. And the other important aspect of it is going to be the input line down at the bottom here. That's where we're going to be entering the functions that we graph. And for adjusting the viewing window and so forth, there are going to be two ways to do that. One will be similar to how you do that with your graphing calculator. And the other, we're primarily going to be using this button up here, which says move graphics view. And we'll show how to use that. It gives a very visual way to set the viewing window. So we're going to enter our first function. And you basically type that just like you do in the graphing calculator on a single line, except we can enter f of x equals, and now we can write minus x squared divided by two, minus 5x plus 7, and hit enter. And we will get our first view of a graph of that function. And as you can see, it's not a very adequate graph. It does not show much of the function and especially does not show the interesting parts of that. But one of the nice things you can do here is you can use this button, click on it, and you can move the graph around as you see fit. Eventually, you'll see, okay, we look up way up there and there seem to be a vertex. This is the graph of a parabola. And we might want to still show the axes. We don't want to just see the vertex, but we might want to see the axes as well. So I might start off with something, oh, let's keep the axes about right there. And when I'm in this move graphics view, one nice thing is if you go to the axes, notice what happens there, you get that double arrow. And what you can do is move the axes that way. And you might say, okay, for the x-axis, that seems fairly reasonable. It's showing the two x-intercepts. And what we have to do then is adjust the y-axis. And we do that by grabbing a hold of that, get that double arrow. And in this case, bringing it down. And, lo and behold, we now have a reasonably nice picture of the graph of that parabola. And that is a very nice way to set up the viewing window and adjust the viewing window, I should say, for a graph of a function in GeoGebra. If you want to use something more similar to your graphing calculator, it's kind of in a menu which isn't the easiest to find. I wish it would be a little easier, but it still is there. You go to options, advanced. And this little icon up here, you can see what pops up there is preference for graphics. And now you can see you have x-min, x-max, y-min, y-max. You can set those just like you do with the graphing calculator. We'll talk about this ratio down here, x-axis to y-axis in a future screencast. But right now you can see it's in a ratio of 1 to about 2.7. But I'm not going to adjust the viewing window any further than this right now, since we do have a nice viewing window for this particular function. And now we're going to enter the second function. And as I said, that one comes out, or we had set up as g of x equals a fairly simple one, a linear function, x plus 2. And when I hit that, I immediately get that. And you can see, again, this may not be the most optimal viewing window for this. When we add this new function, we might have to readjust the viewing window. In particular, it looks like we might want to readjust the y-axis. So again, I'll go up here and get that move thing and adjust there. I probably just want to move it up a little bit then. You can see how nicely you can kind of move this around. And now I have both points of intersection showing on the graph. And I can consider this to be a very nice graph of these two functions. It's also very easy to find points of intersection, or I should really say in this case approximate points of intersection. One way to do that, or probably the easiest way to do that, and that's just getting used to where some of these things are located, is this point menu up here. It says new point, but if you hit this little arrow, down arrow here, you get some other options, and in particular, intersect two objects. And when I intersect two objects, what I have to do now is select those. And you can see as I move to the graph of the parabola, it kind of becomes highlighted and I select that one. And then I go down to the straight line and it should highlight and select that one. And hey, there are my two points of intersection showing. And again, what's happening is in this graphics view, we see the two points of intersection in the algebra view. You can see the coordinates of those two points of intersection. Technically, those are the approximate coordinates. And the default for GeoGebra is to show two decimal places. If you would like to show more decimal places than that, again, you can go to options and a rounding option. And just select what you want, for example, four decimal places. And now I have the points of intersection correct to four decimal places. And that's kind of some basic graphing in GeoGebra. One last thing that I actually forgot to mention in the objectives, but is a very nice feature of this, is to, if you go to the file menu and export, you can copy the graphics view to clipboard. And that copies it to the clipboard. And what that allows me to do at this point is to paste that into a word processing document. And again, we will try to look at that in another screencast. Again, if you look at that export, you can actually save the graphics view in various formats. And again, that is something we will not look at here. So there you have the basic graphing capabilities of GeoGebra. And hopefully you can see it's relatively easy, but you might have to get some practice at doing it and play with it a little bit yourself. That's it for now. Thanks for watching.


Hello everyone, it's your girl Kinsey here from Leighton Sports Cards and I am Ripon 2022 Peninni Legacy Football Hobby 6 box break number 14 random teams. Here's a look at the random results. You can always find these at leightonsportscards.com underneath the results tab and the link is also in chat for you. Best of luck. Here we go. We're going to pull a dare and pair this time around. Malik Willis, Chrome Rookie, Kobe Brandt, Pippa Doe for the ages, Cooper Cupp, Johnson, Burks, we've got Minnie, Joe Scheiste to 125, Bangles, Ford, Williams, Red to 229, 299, Devo, James Cook, Robinson, we've got 250, Rookie Otto, Aiden Hutchinson, Lyons, boom! Travis A. Nice low number there. That is 26 out of 50. Nice Hutchinson. We'll mag that one for you at the Marcus Ware. Big hits from Premier. We hit a Rookie Otto of Sidney Risebigger from Red Bull out of 99, I believe. Ritter, Kyle Hamilton, Silver, Nikobi Dean under the lights. Of course, Travis. Beautiful card. Williams, likely great start, I should say, huh? So, five boxes. Five and a half boxes to go. Meiji Gardner, Bluetooth 50, William Perry for the bears. Watson, Rhys Hall, McDuffie, Oni, Scronk. Big pack here. Okay, let's see. Pierce Stoves out of 249. We've got a Trey McBride, two-color patch auto, or two-patch auto. Trey McBride. First overall tie-in take and Cardinals hit there.  This is a McBride case. He pulled three autos out of what? Six boxes. Matt Corral out of the last half. Rookie Mini Silver of Skymore. Hutchinson Rookie, Ajaibo, we've got to 199. Garrett Wilson, nice one there. Moore, Chris Alave, Spiller, Jordan Davis. Swarm there is a Mini there though. That's not it. Bronze Rookie, Pierre Strong Jr. Hey Sean, what's up? What's happening? Price, Neal, McCaffrey. Last pack, box one. Batty, Gordon, Green to 100. AJ Brown, Titans, Aaron Rodgers. James Cook, Robinson, we've got a Calvin Austin, the third to 249 on the Futures RPA. Steelers wide receiver there. John Elway, Desmond Ritter Rookie, Kyle Hamilton, Silver Rookie, Romeo Dupes. Dupes is out on that. Silver. Williams, Lysling, Houston Dupes. Good thing, but then again. Let me cheat the third, Gardner. Awkward at 25. For the Atres, Nick Boles for the Eagles. Tevin Lloyd, Malik Willis. Aaron Rodgers under the light. Dang it, they put the silly special on the card. That's pretty cool. Bryant, Thibodeau. Johnson the second, Berks, we've got Mini Blue Rookie, Garrett Wilson to 20 on that one, nice. Garrett Wilson. Jets. Second to wide receiver taken. Ford, Williams, Blue, 50 of 50. Curtis Martin on the legends. Stingley Jr. Carson Strong, Orange Rookie of Romeo Dupes. 249, Packard. Hill, Garrett Wilson Rookie. Here it is. We got 19 out of 65. Marcus Allen on the dare to tear. Raiders hit there. Who's got the Raiders case hit? You're fine, I believe Raiders is a combo. Travis, hey, back at it again. Congrats on that, Travis. Again, we won't rip this, we'll ship it to you. So you can either decide to rip it or keep it sealed, I guess. That's cool, finally. I've never opened one of these either. I've seen the last few that I've looked at, people pull bangers out of it. I saw a guy, one of my buddies had this, what was it, a Herbert year, dare to tear, opened it, pulled a Super Factor Mini Herbert Rookie. Really? Yeah, crazy. So awesome. Travis having himself a break. Each box he's hit the big, big banger. Rocker, Walker the third out of 150 yellow legends of Curtis Martin to Marcus Ware. I don't even know how to start to open that. Tolbert, Trayvon Walker, Chrome Rookie Tri-Quan Thornton. Yeah, but then you have to indent them a little and you don't know where the card underneath is sitting. Pickins, booth, yeah. Daxon Hill for the Bengal Silver Rookie Auto. The Caphrie. It was like just one turn. Yeah. Shakir, Jackson, we've got Bronze Mini Chase Claypole for the Steelers out of 75. Steelers, Aaron Rodgers. Last pack, box two. Strong Jr. Haskins, we've got legends of 299 Michael Vick and Cooper Cup. Robinson, David Bell. Under the Lights, Chrome, Sam Howe. Kenny Pickett. We've got Eagles, Silver Rookie, Jordan Davis Eagles. Joe Montana. Kara Laftis, Bailey Zaffi. We've got many of Aiden Hutchinson on the bronze under the lights. You go Lions again. There's 75 on that one. AP. It's like everyone's super chatty and then disappears. Super chatty and then disappears. I guess it was dinner time over on the West Coast. Daxon, McDuffie to 50 Ed Reed Ravens. Hold the bedtime here on the East Coast for people. I wish. Breeze Hall Rookie, Frisker, Debo. We're going to talk really good about this Breeze Hall kid. What? A Breeze Hall? Blue Crystal Lave, nice one there. Saints to 35 on the Rookie Chrome. I'll play someone to throw the ball to. He was in Marriota? No. No Jets. Oh Jets. I don't know why you were thinking. I thought you said a Lave for the Saints. I'm thinking Marriotas in Atlanta. Jabbo, Matt Corral. Nice. Red to 199 and Deuce McAllister. Oh, cool. I wish we could too. But Sean broke our box. Jake London. Chrome. Romeo Deuce. Probably Spectrum. Making bulk a week in advance and stuff. Pickins, booths. Yeah, we'll see. Better. It's all these guys' chance this year. Shakir, Jackson, Minnie on the Orange. Joe Mixon, Bangles to 125. For the Ages, Nick Coles. Strong, Haskins. 299, Micah Parsons. Stingley Jr. We've got to 99. Sam Howe, Futures RPA. Nice one there. Commanders. Sam Howe. Take a QB RPA. Jamal Lewis. Parsons, Strong, Thornton. Jermaine Johnson II. Silver Rookie Chrome. Hill, Garrett Wilson. We've got to go to our last pack. Box three. Rockers, Walker III. We've got Yellow to 150. Kenny Holiday. Generations. Box four. Get everyone. Personals are also full tonight. Gonna try my best to get through everything. What I don't get through tonight. Forest Will. Try as best to get through tomorrow. Tolbert's. Best of luck, Justin. Yeah, last night's was crazy. Gold bar tealaw. One-of-one shield. Devante Adams. Sam or Devante Adams. Devante Smith. Romo. Justin, every box we've seen has been fire. It's been fire. Drake London. McBride. We've got many Mac Jones Orange II 125. Go Patriots. Marshall Paul. Star Wars tonight. Um, no. Now I think we ripped all the Star Wars we have. I don't think we have anymore. Yeah, Pickens, Booth, Alavade, a 100 rookie sinks. I don't believe there's any more Star Wars in the Zee building. Shakir Jackson. We've got out of 58 in Hutchinson. Rookie Auto under the lights. Travis, go buy a Lotto ticket. Wow. 43 out of 50. We'll mag that one. Manning. He's got two Hutchinson autos in a Deer to Ter car. I see his strong Haskins, a rookie Silver Desmond Ritter. Falcon. There he is. Stingley Jr. If you open that Deer to Ter you'll have to let us know what was inside. Please.  Orange to 125. Curtis Martin. I mean, I would probably open that. I mean, it's not a huge name, Marcus Allen. I mean, if it was like a Lawrence or Mac Jones, maybe not. Lloyd, Malik Willis. Kyle Hamilton, Chrome Rookie. So it's always the same player that's on the car? No, there's different players. But I mean, like if it was a low number of Jones or a low number like Tom Brady, I probably wouldn't, you know, because you had to take a chance that there's not something worth more. Bryant. Thibodeau. We've got a Kyren Williams out of 249 Patch Auto. Kyren Williams. I'm not sure of this one off the top of my head. All right, Travis, you got to let us know, please. Are you going to rip it? We want to know. Kyren Williams, it's bugging me now. I know where he is. Oh, Rams. That's right. Rams on this one. Here you go, L.A. Yeah, hop back and shout once you get it. Let us know what was in there. Johnson the second. Berks. Sometimes they're like Speckle or super low number. Ford Williams. Red of 299. Kyler Murray on the color match. That's what I was going to ask him. What cost was that? Just a second. Cook. Robinson finds Ward. No, no, no. It could be anyone. It's not a Marcus Allen on the inside. I guess it could be, but it's not guaranteed to be the same person. Desmond Ritter, highly unlikely actually. Kyle Hamilton. Bronze rookie of Thornton.  They're actually a lot low numbered than most of their minis. Williams. Last pack, Gearbox 4. Warner Orange to 199. Rookie. Alec Pierce. Breece Hall. We've got to 249. John Nietzsche the third patch auto. John Nietzsche the third. Let me see you again. Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche. Oh, this one off my camera. Remember where he is off the top of my head? Texans. That's right. Texans on Nietzsche the third. BK. No. Watson Silver Rookie. Isaiah Spiller. Pierce. Where? G-Bow. Matt Corral. Red to 299. Deuce McAllister. St. Victor. St. Victor's back. Did you? We had some earlier. I was a little nervous there for a while. Robinson Bell under the lights. Kyler Murray from. Kenny Pickett Rookie. Aaron Rodgers. St. Victor, I'm praying for no rain on Saturday. It's my birthday. I got 16 dudes who want to play golf. That's fun. Bailey Zappi.  I hasn't rained in what months, I think, St. Victor, right? Orange under the lights. Breece Hall to 125. Cooper Cup. Since what, May? That's it. Something crazy like that. Yeah, May. Yeah, that's crazy. We've got Blu to 50. Cameron Jordan for the Saints. Lloyd Malik Willis. We've got Orange Rookie and Mod Garner for the Jets. That is out of Ward 49. We definitely don't have a problem with the rain here. Hurricane season here in Florida. Every day. Pippa Doe. 20 Gonzalez. No rain Saturday, please. Williams Johnson, the third. 299, Tom Brady. Nick Foles. I actually have a barbecue Saturday, so I hope it doesn't rain either. Skymore and Aiden Hutchinson. Rookie Chrome, Drake London. Davis. We've got Chris Olave. Out of 35. Blue Rookie Auto. Skymore. Sheeps. Reggie Wayne's Time Machine. Neal Spiller. Minnie John Dotson. Wes Welker. Last Pack. Box 5. Legend's Yellow to 150. John Elway. Brian Erlacher. After this, we've got Chronicles NT and then End in the Night with some Eminence. Skymore. Aiden Hutchinson. Chrome Rookie Skymore. Davis. Chris Olave. We've got 250 points for random at the end. 15 points all night tonight. That's a good thing. Neal Spiller. We've got Under the Lights of John Dotson. Out of 50. Bryce. We've got Aqua to 25. Justin Jefferson. Here you go, Bryce. Jay Jay. Malik Willis. We've got Fatty and Frank Gore. Devin O. Devin Lloyd. We've got Kenny Pickett on the bronze. Ricky Steelers. Out of 100. Grant. We've got another Deire de Terre. 65. Chargers on this go around. See like a Herbie numbered. This one where I would definitely think about a little bit more of ripping rather than, you know, the other one. Chargers. Brian F. 17 of 65. That's it. Go from not pulling any to two. There you go. Is it even with a Herbie? Yeah. It's awesome. Yeah, those are full cards. Fuller Johnson, yeah. Orange to 125. Cunningham, you know actually who invented that. Have you ever been to the cart shop over in Castleberry? Bigly? I think so. Alan, one of the owners there is the one who gave them the idea for the Deire de Terre cards. That's pretty cool. Robinson Bell. Under the Lights Chrome, Joe Burrow. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like some of them, it's like do I want to open this or not? Pick it. Generations, Vikings. Yeah, that's what I was telling him. I saw the one last year, a Herbie one of one. No, I'm going to get pulled out of there. Gold vinyl. TJ Watt for this dealer is on the Orange to 125. Reggie Wayne. Dotson, McDuffie. Red to 299. Jerry Judy. Wes Welker. We've got a Bresol to 99 on the Futures Patch Auto. Nice one there. Jets. Number one, a running back pick. Erlacher. News, Watson. Sam House. Silver Under the Lights. What? My luck, I put the knife straight through the car trying to get it open. That's another reason why I would probably use the Stake Seal. Last pack here, and then I'll do the random for the 250 points. Mabel. Matt Corral. Orange to 199 and Reed and Tony Gonzalez. Yeah, exactly. That's why I sent mine to Brennan. Out of 250 points, let me get this a random setup. All right, again here all 28 teams and we're in the break, gonna roll the dice. Whatever team ends up on top after the random, we'll win the 250 points. 11 times here. Good luck, everyone. One. Two. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Cowboys. Getting 250 on the points. Excuse me, hiccups, man. Recap time. We had Brees Hall RPA, Justin Herbert Dare to 65 Chargers. Skymore. John Michi the third RPA, Kyren Williams RPA, Sam Howell RPA. Jordan Davis, Daxon Hill, Dare to Terror, Marcus Allen to 65 Raiders. Calvin Austin the third RPA, Trey McBride RPA. And not one, but two, Aiden Hutchinson autos to 50. Congrats on these Travis with the Lions. 43 of 50 and 26 out of 50. Alright, that'll do for the break, everyone. Thanks again. We've got Chronicles coming right up.


Hi, my name is Megan Denise Smith, and I'm the GBV Operations Officer for Ireland, Bangladesh. Here we work towards creating a safer environment and violence-free environment for women and girls, primarily through our work in our Women and Girls Safe Spaces. In these spaces, women and girls can access life-saving information, build support networks, and also receive direct assistance, including survivor-centered case management support, as well as learn new skills. We have a lot of empowerment-focused curriculum for women and girls to build their leadership skills and to effectively be able to self-advocate for themselves in their community and be respected as leaders in their community. A big part of that work is also working with community leaders and also duty-bearers stakeholders here on the themes of gender, GBV, and women's empowerment overall, so that we can better develop systems for GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response for both Rohingya refugees as well as the host community.