All right. Hi everyone. So nice to be back here. My first slush was actually in 2014 and it's it's awesome to see the energy is just as strong as it was back then. So my name is Paul Murphy I'm a partner at Lightspeed. I Am based in London and I lead our European efforts to expand the franchise into Europe We have an amazing session here today with John W. Thompson who is a venture partner at Lightspeed I want to dive into that but before I do so I just want to tell you a little bit about Lightspeed in case you're not familiar with us We are a global fund. We have 12 offices around the world in six countries We have about 18 billion dollars of assets under management and this summer we launched our latest fund family Which is just over seven billion dollars To invest in everything from seed all the way up to pre IPO rounds We've invested in some iconic u.s. Companies that you might be familiar with like snap and a firm But we actually have all host of companies in Europe as well about 30 at last count companies like personio vented Lightyear many others in fact nearly half of our companies are outside of the u.s. So With that I want to jump in talk a little bit about John's amazing career. I'm lucky enough to call him a colleague At Lightspeed which is an incredible Thing for me to be able to do he has 40 years of technology industry experience and before we jump into specific questions I just want to ask John if you could tell us a bit about yourself. How did you end up here? What do you want to be when you grew up? Yeah, those sorts of things well I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida and it is about the biggest contrast to where we are today Than anywhere else in the world because the temperature there never gets below 72 degrees but nonetheless, I grew up in a family where my father was a Military guy became a postal worker and my mother was a local school teacher who ultimately as her career progressed She became a principal and administration Administrator if you will in the county school system the one thing though that I will never forget about my Life experience with my mother and father My mother had a point of view about life which is life is about lifelong learning And so you should plan to learn your entire life and I translated that into I will never retire Because if you're going to learn your entire life, you can't stop working And so while you said I've been in the industry for more than 50 years the actual number is almost 40 years the actual number is almost 53 and I'll cross that 53 mark in June of this year Never in my wildest dreams never ever Did I imagine being in tech? It's a matter of fact. I wanted to be a lawyer because the most prominent people in the African-American community in the 1960s were teachers preachers doctors and lawyers and I knew I couldn't be either of the first three And so I opted to go to law school. Well, lo and behold Six months before going to law school. I sat down with my father-in-law who was a very prominent attorney in West Palm Beach and said Here's what I'm thinking. I'd like to go back to law school and he looks at me and says okay Let's talk about that. How much money do you make now and I told him was about a little over $10,000 a year And so he says so where do you think you'll be a year from now? I said well, I'm about to go on quota So I'll have my first full IBM territory to sell into and generally your salary goes up by 75 to 100% in that first year He said really I went. Yeah, really. He says well, where do you think you'll be three years from now? and I said well, I suspect I'll be three X more than I make now and Really and he says why would you ever leave that job to go to law school? Where you will make essentially the same amount of money in your first year that you make now and It was that conversation with my father-in-law who's long since passed away That got me to say I'm gonna stay and I'm gonna try to concentrate on Technology in a way that I can be effective and quite frankly I can develop some Experiences that are valuable to others in the industry So 53 years in this industry has been an incredible journey for me And I expect to go another 50 years We have the same expectations. So I think you know, there's a few chapters of your Career that I want to dive into and we can all learn from sure start with IBM. So you spent 28 years there You've seen you saw presumably a lot of change. What were the kind of highlights key learnings from your time there? well IBM is an amazing company or at least it was during a period of time that I was working there and one of the things I came to recognize is that It's a structured environment and you had to learn how to Deal in that structure and back in those days. It was always about blue suits and white shirts Well, I was from a community that didn't wear blue suits and white shirts I wore what I call two sister suits Polly and Esther and they were any color but blue And sure enough as time progressed I came to realize While you may be smart enough to advance your career You're not aligned enough to advance your career at IBM and I ended up moving to from Tampa, Florida my first job at IBM to Atlanta and while there I said I need to buy a wool suit It's navy blue and I need to buy a white shirt and a striped tie And that was the aha moment for me that it was more about cultural acceptance not trying to fight who you were and what you wanted to be and Candidly the stay in Atlanta was a great inflection point and about five years later I get a call that says we'd like for you to come to Boston to be the director or I'm sorry The regional sales manager here, and I thought what a great place to go well back then Boston did not have the reputation as being an embracing community and I was going through a divorce and I didn't want to go because of the nature of the community and My two young kids, but I finally made a decision that I'll go because I can always go back to Atlanta Which is the African-American Mecca of the United States? And so I went to Boston and the leader of that region decided I like you and oh by the way I want to prove that Boston nor me are ethnically biased and so within six months I was his chief of staff within a year I was running a branch within two years my branch was the top branch in the nation and then six months later I get a chair call from the chairman of the board saying tag We want you to go to MIT Sloan School will pay your tuition and will continue to pay your salary And so my IBM journey was one that I never imagined But that decision to move to Boston was the most important inflection point in my career never again Did anything that spectacular happen? I mean, it's pretty amazing. So what brought you from Boston to? Then Silicon Valley to go runs tonight. Well, I had been at IBM for 27 years nine months and 13 days And I knew I was never gonna get to run the company And I had joined my first corporate board when I was running our Midwest operation And I would sit in the boardroom and people had these fancy epilepsy said CEO chairman President and I said head of sales for the Midwest and it was so narrow and I went wait a minute They don't know that much more than I do and if they can have those fancy titles Why can't I and sure enough I called John T. Thompson at Hydric and Struggles and said Don't come to see me anymore about a sales job or a marketing job or a product management job If it's not a CEO role, I'm not interested well sure enough 90 days or so later. I get an email note that says in the subject line perfect match And I click on the note and it has no content So I immediately call John and say what is this about and he says well I have a little company that I've been working with for years called Symantec. I went yeah I think I know them He says they're looking for a new CEO. Are you interested? I said well, I don't know. It's a consumer product company I'm an enterprise guy. He says they need somebody who's a tech leader. Do you want to join the company? I said well, I'd like to meet some people first. So I flew to California I met with the team and I concluded why not I'm about to turn 50 and if I ever want to run a company I better do it now. Otherwise, I just won't get there and I joined Symantec then and we took it from 600 million in revenue to 6 billion over a 10-year period And I had a wonderful journey and I concluded I'll never retire I'll never retire because if you can do that you can do it again because you've learned something from that experience and While I may not have an interest in being an operator anymore I do want to be an advisor and consultant an advocate if you will for the teams and that was in part Why I joined Lightspeed. I mean it's it's amazing I think just you know getting the sense of scale 600 million to 6 billion dollars in revenue Is is a massive feat but actually not the biggest one in your career So we'll come to some of that in a bit But I just want to understand some of the nuances of how you took a company from 600 to 6 billion in revenue That's I just can't even think about how you would achieve that Well, as I said, it was a consumer packaged software company when I got there So they had a very strong gaming business a very strong connectivity business a little security company called Norton Antivirus and a few other things and it generated 600 million in revenue But I was from a company that had a diverse portfolio, but it had concentrations within categories And I couldn't understand how this company with all of these diverse categories as small as it was Could really leverage to scale and I learned something from my IBM experience Which was I would spend the first hundred days listening. That's why you have two ears in one mouth You should listen and so I listened and concluded we need to get out of all of these related businesses That are not security related because in 1999 the security problem was escalating exponentially So we did that and we bought a little company in North Carolina Somewhere and started the journey to become a true security company and sold off many of the assets that weren't security or enterprise related and the end result was It kind of progressed quite well for the first 18 months to two years and then two years in I Pre-announced an earnings miss and the stock price dropped 35% in one day And I was like devastated and I came to the conclusion. Wait a minute. We're doing what's right So you should not be devastated by this. Just stay focused. Well, lo and behold two weeks three weeks later The first self-propagating thing Self-propagating virus called nimda hit the marketplace and we were in market with a new product and McAfee our top competitor was not and the company took off and the rest is history I mean, it's a very different company today than when I left it, but nonetheless 600 million to 6 billion you don't do that without effort without building a great team And quite frankly being comfortable with the team you built great Okay, so I want to shift topics a little bit and talk about Boards so, you know the founders in the room you presumably have formed a board if you've raised capital This is a topic that I talked to the founders I work with in Europe quite a lot because I think that There's a lot we can still learn as to how to have effective boards And John you sat on the board or sit on the board of Microsoft Which is you know one of the largest companies in the world you joined in 2012 I believe before we talk about your Microsoft journey specifically Maybe you could just give all of us sort of your view as to what a board and an independent director should do for a company Well, I've been Very clear from the very beginning that just because you have a seat at the board table doesn't mean you run the company the CEO runs the company and I think it's damn important for the board to all come to that and Recognize that they're there to provide insight and counsel not to run the company and I Was quite clear about that at Microsoft And in my early days there it was clear that in my opinion it was time for a change That Steve had been there for 12 years had done a good job of making sure that the revenue continued to move but had not done as good a job in improving the stock performance and They then asked me to Not just be a board member but be the lead independent director and before too long I lead the search and I want an outsider and sure enough I couldn't find one because nobody wanted any part of Microsoft at that point in time And so we turn to two relevant insiders And I remember one of the important statements that bill made to me early in the search process Which is the company is in technology trouble now and we need a leader at the top who is in fact a technologist and That was a very very important statement that resonated with me as I was looking at the two final candidates And we selected Satya who had a very very strong technology background having worked at Sun For a few years and then joining Microsoft That journey to my surprise led to An appreciation and the stock price that I never would have expected yet I mean when I so I actually spent eight years in Microsoft I Unfortunately left the year before John joined and sold all my stock when I left because I thought it's been flat for Eight nine years. It's never gonna change And of course John and sort of new leadership come in and I I was trying to do rough math that it was About one and a half trillion dollars of value creation happened in the last decade one and a half trillion dollars I mean, that's just you know incomprehensible. So What do you think I mean earnings were growing the whole time I was there revenue was growing employees are growing But what changed under Satya's leadership? Well, I think what? people perceived was that Steve did not have as strong a technology Insight as Bill did or candidly paging forward as Satya did and one of the Things that Satya made very clear from the very beginning as his in his role as CEO is that we're going to have a Top position in the cloud. We're not going to be number three four or five We want to be number one or number two and he and Scott Guthrie who runs the cloud business for Microsoft have doubled down And they have created a very very important business for Microsoft more importantly However, is if you look underneath many of the technology things that they have done quietly are Incredible and I can't wait for them to announce a few of those products in that market place. That's exciting or we'll be anticipating that So okay, so if we move on from your your role, you know on the Microsoft board You also sit on I think it's five other Or you sit on five four in total or others One one public and three private okay, and a few of those are light speed companies Which is which is amazing as a as a board member and you talked a bit about the board doesn't run the company the CEO and the management team Run the company But what do you view the the key job of the CEO to be now with all the experience that you've kind of accumulated a witness over the years Well, it's important for the CEO to have a strong and deep perspective on the market place That he or she is trying to penetrate and it's equally strong for them to use their ears and mouth proportionately and all too often Leaders feel that they have to tell the world what they're thinking before they think through what they should be thinking and I learned from my early days on the Microsoft board how important it was to listen not to talk Yeah, because many of the people in the room who will go nameless Wanted to talk rather than listen, and I think that's an important issue for every leader at any level of an organization listen Comprehend and then act and that's what I did for ten years at Samantha. I think we're seeing right now You know the role of a company culture a corporate culture playing, you know Increasingly being part of why some companies grow and survive challenges and others maybe sort of die off When I think about going into an environment like Microsoft or other companies you've been involved in Sometimes the CEO needs to reset the culture and get you know hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of people behind them What do you think the most effective way to do that? We're witnessing some of this play out in the public space right now with with new CEOs making dramatic changes I mean juries out as to how that's gonna work. Do you have any views as to how you shift culture? Well, I think People will follow a leader who they respect and admire and I think as such a came in to an organization That candidly was very much technology centered or long-term technology centered Many on the team truly respected his background and experience and had confidence that he could lead the company To a place where the top-line performance of the company would in fact expand and I as I alluded to earlier He's one of the people that while he may be one of the smartest people in the room He's not the loudest person in the room. He's not the one who has the most to say in the room He uses his ears and mouth Proportionately and that's developed an enormous amount of respect from not just the Microsoft team But from our partners and our customers around the world amazing Okay, so, you know, I want to talk a little bit about now your role as an investor Because sort of you mentioned one email that you got and you know, I know my conversations with you You've actually had many emails and phone calls like that from kind of all walks of life the most senior levels in politics and technology I'm very happy with light speed, but why did you join light speed? Why are you why are you an investor now? Yeah, well, I am as I was winding down my chapter 3 Which was running a little startup that I was gonna run for 90 days I ended up running it for six years as I was winding that down. It was like, okay. I'm never gonna retire So what's the next journey on this chapter or next chapter in this journey? and I joined a firm that That one of the founding partners was a very very good friend and co-investor with me and that was Riverwood Capital and Riverwood does terrific Job at supporting later stage companies and I didn't realize how late stage it was compared to some of what I wanted to do But more importantly They had a business process that was not as engaging as I expected it to be And so I would show up in the office at 8 39 o'clock in the morning and leave at 2 30 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon And I'd do nothing not a damn thing all day long because they had a more controlled approach to how they manage The assessment and ultimate decision to invest in a deal and because I was a new guy on the team They were like we don't want you and so I'm like I got to get out of here and to my surprise Arif Jammu Hamid from lightspeed kept sending me notes saying you should join our team You should join our team and I was candidly pretty adamant that I would not join the lightspeed team because My startup that I had been running for six years went under in large part because the major partner at lightspeed went thumbs down When I asked for more capital and I'm like holy smokes. Why would I ever go to work for that firm? Well, I went there and went to the Monday meeting the partner meeting and I was incredibly impressed and Then following that were two early stage companies that had come in for reviews with the team And I was overwhelmed by then and I turned to Arif and I said can I start tomorrow? Because that was what I wanted to do when I was leaving semantic I had invested in about six or eight little companies over my last two years at semantic because my intent was to become an early stage Investor after I finished my role at semantic Well, I got distracted for six years running virtual instruments And now I'm able to do because of my journey with lightspeed what I had intended to do some eight or nine years ago I've invested directly and probably 20 or more companies since I joined lightspeed I obviously invest in all of their funds and what have you but I'm far more interested in the engagement with the founders and their Teams to see if I can help in some way. Yeah to make them help them scale So what are some of this? You know the founders that you've gravitated towards are there any qualities or characteristics that well They get excited about one of the ones that is destined to go public soon is rubric and The founder of rubric co-founder of rubric I should say was a partner at lightspeed and he came to see me when he had this idea about marrying backup and recovery and security and Low and behold when I spent I don't know 11 billion dollars for veritas That's what we were trying to do But the market was not mature enough at that point to see those things come together So it became an absolute disaster Well rubric is now the fastest growing company in the history of Silicon Valley or at least that's what some say and They have the potential to do an IPO when the market is stable We've done all of the prep for the filing and what have you but I get to spend time with Bipple Daily as a matter of fact at 3 a.m. This morning he called And I had to make sure I turned my damn phone off I wouldn't get any more calls But it's that part of the journey that's so exciting to me that you can find brilliant young founders who Don't start with the obnoxiousness of I'm brilliant and you should acknowledge that they start more but I don't know what you know, let's share insights together and That experience with Bipple and the rubric team has been amazing. It's been good at Illumina And it's been equally good at all of the companies that I've been involved in. Yeah I think that the curiosity certainly for me as well. It's it's high talent high curiosity and decent amount of humility nice combo Okay, so when it again shift gears one more time in the time that we have left it You know since the time that you agreed to come out To tell thank you which thank you very much for doing that my pleasure. This has been an amazing event I've never been here before and If I get invited back I will definitely yeah, it's it's awesome to have have you here But you know in that time the world has has continued to change and it's been very challenging for a lot of people I'm sure many of you in the room You know, you might have had you know, your personal companies get devalued might have struggled to raise financing or had even personal wealth Wiped out with what's happened. It's trying times for sure. And you know, you've been through more than a few cycles Any advice words of wisdom things that have gotten you through those tough times that you could share with the founders in the room well, I think in a Challenging economic environment like the one that we're going through now Every company big or small has to start with do I have the right team and Then do I have enough capital to make it through particularly for startups to make it through at least two years? Because you'd never know how long the recovery period is going to take and I that's one of the issues I learned shortly after I joined lightspeed was how much capital do these teams really need to have on their balance sheet particularly as you enter challenging times more importantly, however, I think the founding team has to come together in a way that unifies them particularly when they're operating in a challenging market and It's incredible to me to look at some of the early-stage companies that I'm involved in and how they're going through a chain cycle now Because the company has matured, but it's time quite frankly to make some Changes in the leadership team because of the scale that they've reached and what they need to do the next cycle around And that's where I get to be very very involved quite frankly. Yeah, that's great So we are out of time. I do have one last question, which is um, are you writing a book and I'll know? Some of us I've been asked to write a book. Oh my gosh for years Yeah, and I just don't believe in that my view is the world will come to interpret who I am and what I've done Based upon what they learn. I don't need to tell the world who I am and what I've done Well, thank you I've enjoyed learning about your career in preparing for this session and thank you for sharing this your lessons with the team So thank you all very much


Okay, do you have mouse guard comics in Australia? Okay, if you're not reading mouse guard, that's a problem. You should. This role-playing game makes the mouse guard comic just happen in your living room. I know it'll probably cost you like $10 more than it costs me to get a mouse guard, but I'm sure you can get it digitally maybe for the same price, commentology or something.  This game just makes the mouse guard comic happen so easily and so quickly that is almost amazing. Right, and the key mechanic in this game is that it's a turn taking game, not in the same way the other ones are turn taking. It's GM turn, player turn, GM turn, player turn, right? It starts with the GM's turn, so the GM's turn, the GM throws stuff at the mice, right?  Now it is time for you to deal with the badger. Oh, yes, the badger is chasing you. What will you do?  Now what will you do? As it rains, it makes everything muddy. Yes, you are tiny mice, but it's a big problem. A big problem. Well, you escaped down to the beach where there is no mud, but there are crabs. Yes, what will you do about the crabs?  Oh, you managed to escape. Okay, that's all I can think of now. I'm the GM. It is now your turn, mice. What will you do? During my turn, you little mice earned some number of clicks based on your role playing, right? If your role playing well enough, you can earn more clicks. And the number thing is checks, actually. It is checks. Checks. You earn checks. I wasn't going to correct you on stage. Whatever. You can use the checks during the mice turn to do stuff. So it's like, okay, mice, it's your turn. Would you get three checks? What do you do to three checks, mice? Okay, one, you're going to get a new sword. Yeah, you left that one in the badger. Yeah, that's what I thought. Two, what else? Oh, some shoes. Yeah, you're going to go buy shoes to deal with the mud that's going to happen again. And three, oh, you're going to heal that wound you got from the crab fight. Yeah. Oh, is it my turn again? Oh, you're on the mice beach resort. And it's high tide. Oh, what now, mice? That's pretty much how the game goes. Now, look at this economy. You play D&D. You have the situation again where someone's rolling a whole bunch of dice because they're louder than everyone else. You have to earn the right to roll the dice in this game.  In D&D, I roll D20 a thousand times. And maybe the average of all those rolls causes an impact on the game.  Right?  Especially when you only get like two or three and you earned a check and you're going to make a roll for it. It's like, okay, I earned the right to roll the dice to try to get shoes. I didn't get the shoes. I don't get the check back. When we played D&D, I would just like literally fall asleep during combat. I was like, oh, I played pacifist. My character runs away and hides until it's over and I fall asleep. And no one was really paying attention when it wasn't their turn. But I think something, you were in that boat, too. In this game, when someone's like, I'm going to roll some dice, everyone kind of stands up like, oh, we should roll some dice already. Stand there.  Big deal. So if I'm going to tell the story of my character here, I'm not going to talk about my strength stat. That's not interesting. And it turns out that that's the only part of my character that is character, that is story, who he knows, what he's done, where he's going, why he fights for what he fights for. That's it. And that whole character sheet, that's it. So try to tell me this is a role playing game, but what percentage of it has anything to do with role playing? That percent. And most of that is a picture.


Hey guys, it's Gabby and Kenny. We are over here at Beckley Creek Park in Louisville, Kentucky and we have the 2021 Toyota Supra. This vehicle is crazy awesome and we're gonna take it for a drive, right Kenny? We are. We are. I think you had a lot of fun driving it out here. I did. I was in the Tacoma. She was in the Supra. Shocker. But we're gonna get this thing down the road. This thing is like about 50 more horsepower than the 2020. This is the 3.0 and we're gonna throw up the drone footage. Get you a little bit of driving time with it and we'll see what you think. Alright, Gabrielle. We are out here. We are rolling around here in the Supra.  Yeah, you might need to come in and trade it for the 21. Yeah, we've only got two right now. They won't be here very long. Well, we do have another one on the way in but it's already sold. It's the blue and then the special edition. Thanks. So yeah, Beckley Creek is a great place to bring this out. Got the kids out rolling around their bikes. It's a nice day for this. You know, one of the things I like a lot about this is I'm hoping that you can see this OK on here. It's just this cluster that's right up here. It's a really stylish cluster. And the interior obviously screams BMW, doesn't it? It does. Yep, it is beautiful. Everything from the shifters down here to the sport mode, which we'll play with here in a little bit, to how you operate all your controls here is clearly BMW. This vehicle also does have that driver assist package, which is really nice. So what comes with that is that dynamic radar cruise control. There's the blind spot monitoring as well, which is nice. Very nice.  There's also the parking sensors with the emergency braking. So those are all going to be those, you know, really nice safety features when you're driving a sports car like this. I'm sure you enjoyed it on the drive out here, didn't you?  It did make me a little nervous. You have a dig a little nervous. You know, one of the great things about it is it's got this heads up display. I'm hoping that we can see this on this camera and actually showing me that I'm speeding about three miles an hour. Maybe I need to board this out. I mean, so the other thing that I love, I love music. And I have a kid, so I have to try and keep the volume down. But when he's not in the car, I really do blur my music. So this one is a 12 speaker GVL audio system with the amplifier. I mean, this sound is nice. What's so great about it too is it's all in this tight little area. I know. So it really feels like it's just conformed to you just like the seats are. Yeah. All right, so let's talk about a few performance stats on this vehicle because let's get real. I mean, it's a super it's performance vehicle. It's not like you're buying this thing to take your family on a vacation. It's the four of you. There's not enough room for that. But what it does have is zero, 60 and under four seconds. And there's the 382 horsepower with 360 pound feet of torque. That can get you in trouble. It definitely could. I almost got in trouble with the cop. Oh, that's probably why he was trailing. I was not going. I was going 30. Like, well, no, I was 55. I'm worried that I already got out of Oxmore Toyota when they saw you pulling out into Shelbyville Road. There's the 8.8 touchscreen. There is the navigation and it has the touchpad rotary, which is right here. So when you're driving, you don't have to mess around and try and touch up here, which can be very dangerous. You'll have it right here, which is super convenient. There is also the wireless Apple CarPlay and it does have the compatible wireless charging. You can actually see my phone is charging right now. A little blue light means it is working. So that's nice, too. You don't have all the extra cords. A lot of technology in this vehicle. I mean, it screams Toyota reliability and safety with BMW aesthetics on the inside. It's definitely a nice compilation by the two of them. I agree. It's impressive. One of the things I think is really neat about this, too, is this rear backup light. This actually has some resemblance to if you were doing IndyCar racing. It's a light that lights up when it's raining. But what we all really want to hear is what this thing sounds like. Well, as they say, that doesn't suck. All right, guys, that was awesome. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I hope you all had fun watching us drive and play around with the 2021 Supra. Now, if you all have any questions, feel free to let us know. I will have all of our contact information listed right here and we do have two currently in stock. So they're probably going to go pretty fast, right? Very quickly.  This is called Nocturnal, I think. I think it is. I don't know exactly. The white one's got a fancy name. I'm not sure it is, but we'll put a link to it down there so you can see it, too. We will. All right, guys, thanks so much. We'll see you all soon. Bye.


This week, pop star Dua Lipa asked late night host Stephen Colbert a question about his faith. In this video, I'm going to be responding to his answer. This video isn't intended to assess or dissect the validity of Stephen Colbert's faith as if I could do that. It's just about learning how we can effectively share the gospel and God's truth with unbelievers. With all that being said, let's jump in. So I think something that your viewers really connect with in your comedy and your hosting skills, especially in the past few years, is how open and honest and authentic you are about the role your faith plays in your life. And I was wondering, is there any, you know, does your faith in your comedy ever overlap? And does one ever win out? I think ultimately us all being mortal, the faith will win out at the end. But I certainly hope when I get to heaven, Jesus has a sense of humor. Maybe you tend to think of God as very stoic and he never cracks a smile at all. But when we look at Proverbs 17-22, it says this, a joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. I think God created us with this internal comedy that flows out of us. This joy, this laughter that flows out of us. And that's reflecting on God's character. We're created in his image. So why would that be something so core to our nature? And yet God has none of it. It wouldn't make any sense. So I do think God has a sense of humor and God laughs because joy is flowing out of him and that flows to his creation. But I'll say this, say this, someone was asking me earlier about what I, this relates to faith because my faith is involved with, I'm a Christian and a Catholic and that's always connected to the idea of love and sacrifice being somehow related and giving yourself to other people and that death is not defeat. If you can see where I'm getting at there. Stephen brings up this idea of his faith being connected to this idea of love and sacrifice. When we look to the scriptures, we can see evidence of that. Greater love has no one than this that someone laid down his life for his friend. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. So we're called to lay our lives down to sacrifice our lives in service to others. But it's important here that we not lose sight of the one who sacrificed for us.  But God shows his love for us that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. The reason that we can lay our lives down in service to others and that that is not defeat is because Christ has already won. I was asking earlier what movie did I really enjoy this year and I said well I really like Belfast, which is Kenneth Branagh's story of his childhood. And one of the reasons I love it is that I'm Irish and Irish American and it's such an Irish movie. And I think this is also a Catholic thing because it's it's funny and it's sad and it's funny about being sad. In the same way that sadness is like a little bit of an emotional death, but not a defeat if you can find a way to laugh about it. Because that laughter keeps you from having fear of it and fear is the thing that keeps you from turning to evil devices to save you from the sadness. As Robert Hayden said we must not be frightened or cajoled into accepting evil as our deliverance from evil. We must keep struggling to maintain our humanity though monsters of abstraction threaten and polices. So it seems like here he taps into a little bit more of a practical application that sadness is not defeat as long as you can laugh through it. I definitely agree on some level that our lives shouldn't be characterized by self pity or feeling bad for ourselves. At the same time though I think sadness does play an important role in each of our lives and we shouldn't discount it as just something totally negative that we should get rid of. But in fact we need to come to terms with why we're feeling this way and when we actually come to terms with the reality of the pain and the suffering that we're experiencing it could also give us a heightened joy in who God is and despite the fact that we experience these things on earth he is with us and his love is enough for us. So if there's some relationship between my faith and my comedy it's that no matter what happens you are never defeated you must understand and see this in the light of eternity and find some way to love and laugh with each other. Why can we laugh through the pain and suffering of our world? Why can we live in victory in light of eternity? I honestly would have loved for Colbert to expand a little bit more on why we can have peace in the end. Is it just because we make a choice to find hope and laughter in tough circumstances? Is it because love ultimately wins out that the suffering the trials and the pain that we experience on this earth ultimately doesn't really matter because we'll all be happy joyful and laughing in the end. This is why as a Christian I believe that we can see beauty, purpose and hope even when we're experiencing some of the most difficult challenges of our lives because love does win out but not in the disembodied oh let's just think positive thoughts and it'll all turn out okay kind of way but in the person of Jesus Christ he was love embodied when he died on the cross to free us from the shackles of sin fully God and fully man to live the life we couldn't live to die on the cross the death we deserve to die. I really hope that Stephen believes that too and that he'll have opportunities to flesh that out to the audience and some of his guests. From experience I can tell you that it is challenging to bring up the topic of sin with unbelievers it's not a fun thing to do it's much easier to say oh God wants to you know bring you peace and he's all love and he's about grace those are fun and easy things to talk about because people are receptive to them. What is not easy to bring up is our problem of sin but without bringing up that bad news the good news of Jesus won't make sense. In order to see the true beauty of God's mercy and his love we need to understand the depths of our own depravity and our rebellion against God. The reason that we can laugh and be joyful and be hopeful even amidst the pain of this world in light of eternity is because God has won he has granted us eternal life but we need to put our faith in him. You see even though Stephen didn't flesh out the heart of the message I hope that this will spur on unbelievers to ask Christians in their life why why do you say that we can have peace in light of eternity what does that mean why do you say we can laugh through the pain why what is this hope and we got to be sharing that hope with them faithfully not compromising it or watering it down at all. Thanks for watching guys and if you enjoyed this video please subscribe because I'm putting out new videos all the time I'll see you next time God bless


Yo, what is up you guys real estate gaming here and today we are here in the creepy elevator for not only are we here in the creepy Elevator we are back in the old school creepy elevator before I had all these updates I think it was barely when he had barely implemented like the immortal game pass to it So we're like in the like in the past previous updates from the creepy elevator Which is pretty cool because I kind of do miss shark attack. All right. That's all the same I do miss these old floors. Let's go check that out and guys before we start this video Oh my god, what is wrong with this guy? Oh my god We start this video guys make sure to slap the like button make sure to use star code realistic G And if you're new to the channel, make sure to subscribe.  Oh my god. He's coming inside the elevator. Oh No, what do we do? Okay? He's stuck at the door dude. He just a taco boy. He ain't somebody. Oh My god, he's going after Sonic red Sonic. Come on. You're faster than that, bro Oh, no, he's coming after us now Yo, this floor is insane. Oh, no only to the ship over there that he attacked.  That was pretty darn insane All right, and we got spuzz Bob here. Hey, oh wait, is this the oh, this is not the floor I always confuse it for the scary elevator floor when he stabs you when you drop like your guts all over the ground. I Really love that floor man, but look at spuzz Bob.  I don't recall spuzz Bob being this manacing My god, let's go to his house. Oh, let's go dance up here with the jellyfish Oh the bad stuff here. You look at that. You guys remember that episode with the jellyfish He starts blasting the loud music and then he leads them like on top of his house They're like swarming his house. That's not that's not it. Yo. Oh Samara, that's not the big foot tomorrow. Is it I don't think it is but if it is Hello big foot tomorrow. We have met and it's quite some time. We have not seen her quite some time But I don't think it's a big foot tomorrow. I think that was from the horror elevator actually. Oh Dude, she just like came out of there so fast Real I will watch the vid around my boy My god, that dude's in the well. Wow. We should look at that her weakness is the well Oh, never mind.  You just tone it down or not My god, I'm just gonna throw my yeep. I'll have my milk backpack I was gonna throw my milk backpack at her. Maybe she would chill out. Oh Gosh, no, go in the well. Oh, man. Hey, what's up, tweeter? Got a little tweeter here. Look at this. No, what's up, bro? All right. Hey, what's up, man? Oh, look here like a little. What is that? Is that like a little unicorn? What is that little thing real? It's my birthday. Hey, is it really your birthday, man? What's up? Yo, all right Let's tell him happy birth Birthday some happy birthday, man. All right. Oh, what is this? Oh, it's an SCP. Oh This is the SCP 682. Oh Is he just I missed his flow. I remember this one. Oh my god. He's doing like three sixes out here Does he have a stomach? Oh, yo, that's who has a stomach under him in his body Oh my god, that is freaky. Oh, I never realized that till right now. Oh my god Yeah, I don't know about this. Yeah, I think I'm more freaked out by him now. Oh my god He's kept in the elevator. I'm more freaked out by the fact that he has he has a mouth on his stomach Dude, that is so weird. Let's see. We can see it. Oh, no, and we're trapped in here. Let's go. Oh my god Let's do it. Just gonna stick his entire body into the elevator. Come on, man. It's not fair All right, so let's see the old killer stone before I got all these updates Look at all these killers before all the predator. I don't remember that floor Mickey Mouse AVI or Mickey Mouse CXA. I think the best floor is actually the shark one that we got in the beginning Charlie because I mean that was dope the sharpest attacking us. Oh my god. Oh Charlie chill out, bro. Where's he at? I don't know. Let's go out here dude. Look at this floor It looks so dope. It's like some underground evil type thing going on. I'm thinking this man Charlie's a killer. Yep It is Charlie the killer man. Where's he at? Is he outside? Oh, he's on top of the elevator.  Let's get him unstuck. Come over here, buddy. Oh, what? Okay, I don't think you can go up here because it teleports you back. Wow. How does it not teleport him in the elevator? It only us. Oh He has a magic carpet. Oh He kind of moved there towards us Okay, oh my god, he won't get a stuff. He wouldn't get off the elevator. Come on Charlie You're not you don't belong up there, buddy.  Dragon Leaf gave me Want a Krabby Patty? Bro, who wouldn't want a Krabby Patty? I would love to taste a Krabby Patty I think we would all want to know how Krabby Patties actually taste I mean nothing's got a smack bro because oh it's Slender Man because people are all obsessed over them. Dude, he's so fast At least it's not reverse Slender Man from the scary from the scary school. I kind of like reverse Slender Man. No Oh my god, you're so fast here Slender Man Slender Bob Slender Doodle All right, let's see we can get him to follow us. Oh, no And that's what we get for trying to mess with the no with the one and only slender boy All right, let's go back in here Cold room right what a bit well, what is this right here? It says reminder. I'm not the original orner Yeah, I remember this elevator was created after Luette had first announced that like he was not gonna update the scary elevator anymore So then this guy came out with the scary like he copied the game and he continued it for the people that wanted it for the elevator to continue and not die and then mr. Luette came back he kept updating it and then from last what I know mr. Luette stopped a Updating the elevator again. So that is why we are back here because this game popped up again So we're back to the old school creepy elevator. Oh my god.   What did I just say? Oh my god, look at him. Why is he like built like that? He's like He's like moving like this. What are you doing? Why is he so stiff? Oh my god, all right. Um, I don't think we can leave the elevator. No, we can't Oh, no, dude and look at his picture. He looks more of a creeper on there Oh gosh now back away Oh my god, here's another screamer that we got on here I wonder who would win in a battle Between him and Tamara screaming at each other That would be horrible, man. I feel like my ears would be bleeding by the end of that Oh gosh, all right My god, what is that noise? I think it's the sword is it? No, but this sword makes it go cray cray, man Makes it go everywhere. Oh jigsaw He's on the tv Um, okay. Oh, oh Oh, great. What if I go up here? Yes I have beat your games jigsaw Ha I held smart in him He thought he was smarter than me and tweeter Jokes on him, buddy We managed to survive his traps. I don't want to turn because I feel like I'm a fall So let me just go on third person And see the trap My god, we got get six six six here with some cool shades. Hey, those are some 3d pixel shades. I like those All right, um, it seems like the terror is over And we can go back down, but wait, let it go all the way in I do not want to die. Yes.  Or we could have just gone up here. It doesn't matter man. We managed to beat him All right, let's see who's next. I'm a fan. What's up fans? Are you like a ceiling fan or like a fan that goes on the window? All right, let's go. Oh, it's the rake. I remember this one. It's a damning rake Yo, I missed his rake. It was a this is the best model for the rake there is on roblox I don't know why people don't use it My god, look the dude I remember he can also climb up the watch tower Let's see if we can get him to go up there. Come over here. Oh now he's hugging the tree. He's a tree hugger, huh? All right, I see you man. You care about the environment That is so nice of him considering he is a killer All right, let's go over here, buddy No, come up here. Yes. Oh, I think he has the same idea. He's trying to get him up there But there's too many people down here. Oh, no All right, we did not manage to get him up there. Oh my god But now he's in the elevator. Yes, smack me away if you want Real do you have animations? I do have animations, but I don't have any on not on Not on I don't have any animations equipped. I used to have some but I feel like some of them make you slower in games That's why I took it off because I feel like when you would try to run or walk who would make you slower I don't know man. That's why I took him off Okay. All right, man Oh, oh gee chara floor All right, I'm gonna be honest. I don't really like this chara floor But I mean, I guess it'll do Kind of reminds me of mario the star All right. I have the most roblox animation. Nice. Oh, we got mario here Oh my god, oh Dude, where did she come from? I just turned and she was all up on my grill, man You gotta give me some some social distancing space chara. Come on cheese louise All right, let's go over here thumbnail maker. What's up, man? Right. So what else? Oh my god, this guy's supposed to be in the middle Oh, look, we got lou at right here And the rents I guess they work together because I mean he has lou at here So he might have had like a conversation with him before he made this game I mean, of course he did right because mr. Lou at would have like probably got mad at him And like go at him and tell people to report the game or something. All right, let's see what we await next michael mires Dude, I'm really digging this floor. I mean this elevator like the killers that are popping out. Oh, what's up, michael?  Hi now you're trapped now. You're trapped in there, bro. What are you gonna do about it, huh? What are you gonna do about it, buddy?  There's a hot dog in there with you Oh Great that just happened, man My god, and we got the headless neighbor here. Yo, how does he not have a head and he's still getting people? Oh my god, yo, what is going on this elevator? Look at this dude like how? Oh my god. All right. You know what? I'm out of this place Is there a red key here? Oh, yeah red keys don't even exist. I'm in the wrong elevator, bro This is not the scary elevator. Oh, and we just died to the hellless neighbor. All right, you guys Well, this was the old creepy elevator. That's the name of the game I'll leave the link in the description for you guys because I know I never do but I will this time Mark my words Well, if you guys enjoyed the video make sure to slap the like button If you're new to the channel make sure to subscribe and turn that notification bell on and I will see you guys in the next one


Oh hoi hoi. So I've done a video on SCP 173 probably six or seven times at this point. And the reason behind that is it's incredibly popular SCP and right now of course one of my SCP 173 videos is blowing up again. It's already got almost three quarters of a million views and it's earning more as always. I don't have a problem with that but I thought I would take advantage of the renewed interest and talk a little bit about how there is a double standard on the SCP wiki when it comes to plagiarism. Was that got to do with SCP 173? Let's find out. So first we probably need to talk about what plagiarism is. Plagiarism is presenting a creative work as though it were an original creation of your own when it isn't. This can also extend sometimes to through inaction allowing others to believe that it is a creative work that you originated. So how does that apply to SCP 173? Well SCP 173's text is inspired by weeping angels. I'm not going to pretend anymore like the SCP wiki does as part of the double standard. I'm not going to pretend anymore that the SCP 173 wasn't inspired by the weeping angels. The dates match up too well. It was literally created like a week or two weeks after the weeping angels premiere. Now the idea is open for anybody. A statue that moves when you're not looking at it is an old old concept. So it's not the text that's really the problem. However because of its mythic nature on the SCP wiki you're going to find plenty of people who will claim without evidence that it was created before that time period. I remember it being around in August or no I'm sorry April of that year. So there's no way by June when the weeping angels episode came out that it wasn't already in existence. It wasn't. None of that's true. It was the earliest version and maybe I'm wrong. I'll put that out there. Maybe everything I found on the internet and every single bit of research I've done and a bunch of other people have done to find the original posting which says that it's like after weeping angels but only a couple weeks which means the proximity is too close for them not to be related I would personally say. Regardless maybe I'm wrong maybe it existed before that. I don't think so but I'm open to the possibility that all of the research I've done is completely incorrect or incomplete regardless. That's not the issue here. The issue is untitled 2004 and I would show an image of it right now but I can't because it's a stolen image that only limited reproduction rights were granted to the wiki for and since this is a commercial work I can't put the image of SCP 173 in my videos and therein lies the problem and we're going to compare SCP 173's plagiarism. An image plagiarism is plagiarism plain and simple it's no different than literary plagiarism and by the way plagiarism and copyright are not the same thing I've harped on this a couple of times in previous videos but something can be okay by copyright law and still be plagiarism. Plagiarism is a moral crime for lack of a better way to put it and in a lot of cases isn't a crime at all it's just something that is severely frowned upon in the creative community of any creative community really. However creative communities tend to only value their own types of work so when you put a stolen image up on an article they don't think to themselves that's plagiarism they just think oh well we need to fix that actually not only until very very recently is that true in fact the current images policy which has reduced our total load of unlicensed images to something like 30 I think at most maybe even less than that was a system that I created and then left before any of the hard work had to be done so a bunch of other people actually took up the mantle after I left and it works making people source their images super easy barely an inconvenience watching a lot of screen ran right lately see I made a reference and a quote and then I said where it came from anyway point is that the image on scp 173 is straight up stolen okay and after the fact and by the way the artist had to get into contact with us at the scp wiki in order to get this to in order to get this taken care of but but let's just move on for a second and talk about the fact that let's talk about the double standard okay one of the easiest articles to use as a reference is something called the moots or mutes and the reason why it's a good to use as a reference is because it contains both type of plagiarism no one assumed that the mutes images were original it was a very popular series to skip and not a single person thought that the images in that article were original and yet they were okay with it until they realized where it was actually from once they looked it up and found that it was from an etsy page they're like okay so this is who it is we would need to contact to get in charge wait a second and they looked at the listing and found that part of the etsy listing the written part of it had been stolen because part of it was framed as you know a whimsy or whatever whimsical story that was included as a listing underneath the dolls that were being sold had been lifted and put into the article and once they knew that literary plagiarism had happened the article became unacceptable now uh our solution and i say are because i was involved in uh this solution at the time was to contact what i can sit well my personal opinion was we needed to contact the aggrieved party and find out what she wanted to do uh and her solution was to just make sure that there was a link to one of her products you know the scp wiki benefited from having this up for years so why not let her benefit a little bit from having a link from the wiki where a lot of people are reading this thing that she wrote to her own works so we did we created a uh work around solution much like the one on scp 173 and that was that however recently and by the way i don't necessarily think that was the right thing to do now that i've had time to really consider it i think asking because this is you know one of those things is like hey we've stolen from you i personally my viewpoint was hey we've stolen from you we have caused you harm how would you like us to handle it we should have taken it down first and then contacted her to let her know that the problem was a problem although i'd say that the scp wiki would be very much against the idea of contacting people who had their shit stolen because if we contacted everybody who had their stuff stolen we would get sued on the scp wiki i don't know i'm using a we i'm not really part of the wiki anymore anyway so once literary plagiarism was identified that was the end of the article in the end recently um they took a hardest line stance on this sort of stuff and they finally got rid of it completely wiped it out and because of that new policy change on how they deal with plagiarism and a hard line stance that no plagiarism is acceptable on the wiki it doesn't matter if you get permission for it it still has to go recently they've come up with a new policy with regards to scp 173 and i am sorry to say absolutely nothing is going to change of course if you thought i was leading up to the idea that scp 173 was going to get taken down because it's plagiarized you you don't understand how the wiki works it is a group of people who do it is not some official it's it's to be fair a lot of big organizations have this exact same problem the scp wiki is definitely one of them uh where it's just an organization of people with various opinions and their opinion is the scp 173 is somehow the cornerstone of the wiki and if we get rid of it well a wrap fucking like scp 173 is somehow it like like there aren't thousands of other scps if we pull scp 173 out because it was stolen what what can we do and anyway the new policy has been that they get rid of the old images i've actually really changed and hardened my stance on this because this is like i said the images policy where you pull the old images out and put new ones in or just pull them out and leave them out uh is something that i personally i personally set up the basics of the current policy i think it maybe has changed a little bit since then and like i said i didn't have to do any of the hard work in enforcing it so i wouldn't give myself too much credit on that count but regardless i think i've hardened a little bit on this stance because i mean what is the difference between stealing an image and stealing text both are creative works art what are artists not somehow creative people or photographers don't have to spend time and effort to create photography like these people don't deserve to have their work respected the same way i don't know like i said i've changed a little bit on this and i've hardened a little bit on my uh my position i think i think these older things that have been straight up plagiarized and when i say plagiarized i mean it because we're talking about articles where people posted up the images and sure even if 90 of the people that read the article just a sin this is not probably true it's probably not much less than 90 but even if 90 of the people who read an article think that the image is an original to the creator and was just lifted off the internet somewhere and and slotted in that 10 is important credit is important and it doesn't matter if it's scp 173 or scp 5 4 i'm not going to give an actual number because i don't know i don't know first of all i could be listed something that is explicitly the same problem it would be very ironic if i listed something new that was exactly the same problem but it doesn't matter if it's scp 173 which is rated to like 6 000 or something or some plus 20 article there's no difference in the wrongness of those things so many problems that they just they moved to fix and then but they won't move all the way they like we're taking a hard line stance against plagiarism on the scp wiki except for all the other plagiarism that we think is okay anyway i think maybe that got a little ranty there but it was important to say thank you very much for watching you enjoyed the video and you want to see more 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I guess, what's your feeling about getting drafted? How do you like your landing spot here in Nashville? Oh, I love it. I love it. Tennessee, they're talking to me a lot in the pre-jab process. So it's definitely one of the things that I knew is a possibility. And I just love being able to be so close to home in Atlanta, man. So my family can go out here, you know, watch the games. Jake, what was your interactions with them like with the Titans leading up to this? I'm sorry, sir. Can you repeat that question? What was your interactions with the Titans coaching staff like leading up to you getting drafted today? Oh, yeah. I've interacted a lot with the OC. He came, worked me out at Pro Day. So definitely had a good familiar sense with them. You missed the 2020 season because of a lot of card dieting. Yes, sir. How do you get into that situation? And what's your status now, in terms of that? Yeah, so I've fully recovered from our carditis. And I'm completely recovered now. And there's no future complications that should come up from it. Jake, I was trying to remember back to the combine. And I was wondering if I recall this correctly. Did you maybe compare yourself a little bit to Jonu Smith in some ways? Yeah, Jonu was one of the guys I like to watch throughout college just because he's a 6-2 guy, just like me.  What did you feel? Is it more than just the height that you have in common with Jonu? Oh, yeah, his playstyle, too, is very, very physical. I feel like he's very good with the ball in his hands. I feel like I'm the same way, but I'm very physical. I'm not afraid to stick my head in there. And then he's very strong after the catch. So that's definitely some of the similarities that people see between me and him. What do you want? You maybe just spoke to it there. But what do you want to be known for here in NFL? I want to be known as a complete player, a complete Titan. You familiar with Frank Wacheck, a former Terrapin? I think you're familiar with him. Yeah, yeah, I am. He is named every day in my meeting room, so, yeah. I got him on the wall there. Yeah, they do. You know, he's on the tight end, all-time great wall. He's on the. OK. You know he play here? I do. Chigas is one of your strong suits, maybe versatility.  Yeah, so I actually think versatility is my number one asset. Just because I can line up outside. I can line up in the backfield. I can line up in the wing. I can line up with my hand in the dirt. I can run routes. I can block from any position. So I feel like versatility is definitely my number one thing. What's the biggest thing you think you need to grow on? Honestly, everything, man, like coming to this league is the next step. So I need to polish everything, you know, from blocking, from catching, from route running. I need to polish everything to get better. Are you familiar with the tag's personality at all, or? I'm not very familiar with who they have right now, but I'm definitely familiar with what they do. That be you? Sir, I'm sorry. I keep getting so many calls and texts while this is happening. I'm sorry. All good. Sorry. As far as the entire team, what do you know about the titans, the history of the titans? I don't know. I don't know too much about the history of titans. I don't have a great historical background on them. Who else did you think would maybe take you in this draft? It was, I don't know. I was just leaving up to this. I feel like I got drafted in the right spot, though. This is around the spot that I felt like I was going to get drafted in. In terms of who, I definitely couldn't tell you. What was your fastest time in the 40, and how much do you think that makes you a threat? The fastest time I ran, I ran a 4-4-4. I feel like that makes me a very dangerous vertical threat down the field, just being able to be guys with my speed.  When was that that you ran the 4-4-4? I ran the 4-4 before the combine when I was training. Familiar with Austin Hooper much? I am. Looking forward to getting to know him. What do you know about his game? I don't know too much about it, but just from the days when I was watching him back, he was in Cleveland, right? Yeah, yes. Yeah, those days, watching him with David and Joku paired with him, I feel like we would definitely compliment each other very well the way that he plays and the way that I play. Can we go to ask some one-on-one? We'll get these last two questions here for you, Taran. Yeah, that's the evolution of the tight end position. How do you feel that really matches the guy with the skill set like yours? I feel like it's perfect, because as you know, we're kind of moving away in our league from just the big block and tight ends. You need a tight end who's to be a mismatch, just because the way the game is evolving. There's so much speed involved in the game now. So you want a tight end who can win those matchups. And I feel like I'm that person who can win those matchups and beat people with speed and just make plays for us. Last question, Kayla. Hey, Chag, can you hear me? Yes, ma'am. Awesome. So I know last season at Maryland, you had some wide receivers go down. You really had to step up really being one of those guys that are catching a lot more balls. Did that give you a little bit more in terms of reps in that type of a situation, not just blocking, but really getting your hands on the ball? Yeah, man. We have really great receivers at our school. And when they went down, I was really the next man up to get all those touches. And for me, I just wanted to showcase my ability with the ball in my hands. And I'm just very happy I got to do that. Got to get more reps, got to get more touches and show my ability. So for sure, when those guys went down, I had to step up. I also want to just ask you personality-wise. You seem like a really outgoing guy, not afraid to speak your mind. How do you feel like you'll be a fit in this Titans culture that it really means a lot to them? Oh, I feel like this is gonna be, they may hit the ground running from day one. Yeah, like you said, I have a very outgoing personality.  So I feel like I'm gonna be a great addition to that locker room. I can't wait to get in with those guys who have a similar mindset to me.