Now what is a winning menu? It appeals to a wide range of different taste buds and taste palates. It also tailors to specifically our client avatar because even within the client avatar that we are serving, they all have different taste palates and also different circumstances as well that we want a tailor to. So then that way we can strategically be able to make as much as possible from these people. It also increases the chance that people are going to order from you again and again. And that's the reason why having a winning menu is essential for your business's success. Now also I just touched up on it. Why is it important? It because it allows you to make it very profitable offering to your customers and also each item serves a very particular purpose. Okay. So we're not just throwing items on the menu just because we want to, but rather it's very strategic on what we are serving to our customers. Now the biggest menu mistakes that I see a lot of small businesses make is the fact that they offer way too many variations in the same product. So for example, cupcake business, they offer 10 cupcake flavors because they want to appeal to the masses. They want to make sure that they appeal to everyone because their customers are asking for this flavor, that flavor, this flavor. As I was sharing with you, there is something called the Pareto's law because 20% of the items should be making up for 80% of all your revenue. So that's the reason why we want to cut down on the flavors that we offer and we only want to serve the items and the flavors that are the most popular. So for example, if we're talking about the cupcake example, it is very difficult for us to sell out all 10 flavors every single day. And if we don't sell out of the 10 different flavors, then what's going to happen, that means there's going to be spoilage. And when spoilage happens, that means we're going to be a lot less profitable. So instead of doing that, I would offer maybe even just five flavors, the most popular vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and offer it at different ways of appearing. What does that mean? That means we offer normal size cupcakes, we have cupcake in a jar to go, and we have mini cupcake sampler. So basically you're offering different variation of the same product, not just different flavors. And that way you're going to appeal to more people. Now we're going to be talking about the four different menu items you would need to shape your winning menu. First up, the hero item. This acts as a baseline pricing for your whole menu. Okay.  And if you haven't already done so, go back to the previous lesson. We talked about competitive analysis to see what your competitors are charging and how you're going to be able to stand and where you stand within this whole market. Right. So after you figured out, hey, you know what, we're going to stand right here because this is the quality we offer and the experience we offer, which is the reason why we can charge this price amongst our competitors. You figured it out already. So that's how we figured out our ice cream and selling it at $5.95. This is our dessert brand and we were selling this item for $5.95. This is the baseline of all the different items that we're going to be offering. So same thing for you. Identify your baseline based on the hero item that you're serving. Second, a decoy item. What does that mean? It means it's going to be a much more expensive hero item. Okay. So for example, make your hero item look way more attractive than it is or you could bundle with a bigger variation. So for example, a $30 gold flake ice cream. When you serve something like this, your intention is not to sell a lot of these items. Rather, this acts as a decoy. Okay. When you put a $30 gold flake ice cream against a $6 ice cream, that looks like this in relation when people are comparing, this becomes very attractive as a hero item versus a $30 ice cream cone like this. And that's the reason why you would want to have a decoy item because it just makes your hero item look that much more attractive. Okay. A pro tip is that a lot of small businesses actually price really high to lead their customers to believe their main item, the hero item, is an amazing deal. So for example, us in Vancouver, we have something called the Steve's and Pizza. They sell pizza for $850, guys. $850 pizza. Have you even heard of something like that before? This is what it looks like. Okay. It has a medley of tiger prawns, lobster, ratatouille, steelhead and caviar, selling for $850. And do you think that they bank on selling a lot of these to make money? No. They're having this there as a decoy item just to make all the other pizzas that they serve seem much more affordable. $45 a pizza, comparative to $850. Okay.  You know what? I'll take it. But when you put a $45 pizza amongst dominoes, pizza hut, this is a very expensive pizza, yet these guys are doing exceptionally well, having lineups out the doors all the time. That's why decoy pricing is so, so important in your menu mix. Next up, alternative item. It's a product that is less expensive than your hero item, because sometimes when people are coming ordering from you online, per se, they're not really looking for exactly what you have to offer. But if you have a cheaper option, it becomes an alternative that they're like, you know what, I don't mind giving it a try. The thing that you need to understand is that the variation in the alternative item could just be a smaller variation of your hero item. So you give them a taste, a teaser of what you are selling and the quality of your product. So then that way, once you have the foot in the door, then you can sell them the whole package, right? It shouldn't cannibalize the hero item itself. So for example, if I'm selling my cup of ice cream, my ice cream sandwiches wouldn't cannibalize my cup of ice cream because this could be thrown into the freezer. So then I can grab it anytime I want. And the cup of ice cream, I can have it right there. And then it could be a product that caters to a different audience as well. So for example, ice cream sandwich people, some people just love ice cream sandwich while others want their whole Sunday. And that's the reason why we should always have an alternative item for our whole winning menu matrix. Okay. And it should be a little bit less in pricing because that becomes a teaser to get your foot in the door. Next up, upsell item. These are add-on products to increase your order totals. Okay. These are complimentary items. That is an easy yes, right? So think about if I were to order an ice cream and someone's telling me, Hey, you don't want to do you want to add a toast and marshmallow for only $1.95? Sure, it's only $1.95. Why not? And that's a really great piece of upsell item. That's going to bring your total value up and you're going to end up making more money by having upsell items that are an easy win. Key word here, guys, is to have an easy win. We don't want to have any friction. It just wants to be an add-on with a lot of different menus. You're going to see that there's going to be a lot of add-on items that are less than $10. Because if it's less than $10, people usually are like, Yeah, why not? Because it is an easy win. Pro tip here is that all products do not need to launch at the same time. I know there's going to be a lot of work that you're going to be doing to build your food business brand. So having said that, we don't want to launch all these products all at the same time. It's a very common thing that for businesses to have coming soon on the website or on your Instagram, but you can just give a teaser to your customers of what is to come. Not having these items will not break your menu, would not break your ban. And I'm just sharing this with you so then when you're ready, you can launch these items and plan for it. So what we've done with Bulbasaur, our case study to showcase to you is basically having different items and writing down the strategy, writing down the prices, the description of what we're offering and the product name and whether it is a hero item or just basically a decor or an upsell. So this is really great case study for you to actually learn from. Once again, go into the resources below, download it and actually read through this as an example.  Also, you should get organized with the menu pricing template. Once again, in the resources below.


Welcome to All Hands Update. Here's what's happening around your Navy today. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson will visit India February 2nd through the 6th to help strengthen our maritime partnership with him. The CNO will meet with key national security officials from across the government of India to discuss Navy-to-Navy relations and opportunities for further cooperation. Sailors for Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 1, Company 15 embarked on USNS Safeguard and began an 80-day mission to document World War II aircraft crash sites around Papua New Guinea. They will gather information for a potential excavation of a B-24 Liberator that crashed off the coast of Kawa Island. It's that time of the year when sailors of the year are recognized at commands worldwide. If you happen to pass by one of those sailors, congratulate them on a job well done. You can read more about what's happening around your Navy and Navy.mil.


Sailors and Marines assigned to PCU Somerset are preparing the ship for its commissioning Saturday. The ship pulled into port Friday at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia. Petty Officer Shayla Mondragon, one of the ship's crew, shared the significance of the ship's namesake. Once I started researching the history of the ship then I was really excited to be part of something like this and to help memorialize the people who fought back on that day. Somerset is named for the Pennsylvania County where Flight 93 crashed on 9-11. Passengers on this flight struggled with terrorists to regain control of the hijacked aircraft. Watch as Somerset's crew brings her to life Saturday on Navy Dot Mill and direct to Sailor. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Tony Rosa.


Everybody forced here ripping 2023 Bowman draft baseball sapphire 5 box number 12 random teams. Go ahead and random and then we'll rip. Good luck 4 and 4 8 8 on our random 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and 8 Braden K down to fill the bar and the teams here 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and 8 Brewers down to Phillies Braden with the Brewers Jeff W. Ray's Mike S. Reds Phillip R. Nationals Mike S. Twins Phillip R. Pirates and Jays Chuck S. Cardinals Phillip R. White Sox Jonathan L. Marlins Lance HD backs Phillip with the Cubs and Royals Andrew C. Red Sox Braden K Dodgers Christopher K. Metz Jeff W. Yankees Giants Phillip Guardians Peter and Braves Sander with the Rockies Michael A. Astros Phillip R. A's Ray with the Mariners Peter and angels Matt F. Rangers Phillip R. Tigers Jacob F. Orioles Stephen H. Padres Phillip R. Phillies All right guys, there's a link in chat only two to go in that dual case now. There's a link for the results as well So we'll do group breaks until probably right after midnight Eastern and then for personals there are currently 14 boxes in queue. Yeah 13 or 14. Let's keep going And that's are going to get in this as well How and they think they have the most base cards in the set so they have I think the most cards in Sapphire Don't quote me on that, but they got a lot cross Bonilla Max Clark and Carlson Reed of Bradenburg Braden Taylor and even solace Shreya Morgan for the rays followed by a gold Colin Howe There you go CK. That's what you're looking for right there 28 of 50. We'll get that sweet card magged Congrats CK Goldhawk first bowman. What do you know? Camp alderman and Ludwig Espinosa my manifesting cards again like the other day Hero Wyatt's Chris Clark Marcella Meyer and Brian Acuna Abner dude. Come on now. Come on now Come on What's up with that? 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It's one of the mixers Yeah, guys can sign it and make sure to shoot any email if you want to consign Troy and Hurley I guess right isn't much it is much bigger on the sapphire cards Thank You Arias Fisher Muth and Barofin We'll get that we'll get that later on Lane Red red alert red alert red alert CJ Kafis followed by a Dodger Wyatt Crowell red first bowman sapphire three of five Brayden with the Dodgers Brayden hit like a red earlier didn't he I think so Holy hell Christian Napchick and Colesamon Cymru Through it here Karrig Collier Marcus Brown and Levi Wells Davidson Gutierrez gold auto tight Pete Man sapphire is hot guys. We do not have a ton of sapphire left tomorrow with Kyle and the breaks over The next like four days after this up to like Tuesday. There's not a whole lot outside of that Gold sapphire auto sweet Pete's Yeah, that one's getting mag two Jacob Wilson and Hunter Owen Where's what sold? Where's a Caprice classic sold hmm for the Sean window a guy. Yeah, I got a guy in Hylia. Oh boy Hylia, huh Got signed with blood Baseball all sold out guys. Let's get football going PC PCs. We're all building PC sports cards where Who we do it through we do have some more Some cool some so you're gonna up our service a bit on that too guys There's something else some good news coming soon for y'all as well. That should be fun Lot of fun things coming up this to start this year. We got some we got some really fun stuff working That's gonna I think pretty much has benefit y'all we're like expanding some things 16 to go flawless serial numbers Oh, yep, see like what Lane just said. I don't want to say too much but Lane said it So yeah, we're working on creating an option for y'all to get cards graded through them from breaks Yep Adrienne Santana first Because we've done in the past, but I think we're getting to the point where We're able to take on more. So yeah Adrienne Santana yellow to 75 Dionne Jorge Rockies That's pretty much all the info we have right now Celestine and Castro Scottsdale. I don't want to go Scottsdale Actually, that wouldn't be so bad. Let's do it. How do we convince Rich got Cole Miller? We're gonna get a second of Popka shop We're gonna take over this town Black sapphire Connor burns reds number to ten Two of ten reds black sapphire Anderson and mash y'all Paul Skeens first bowman a gold type heat base now you serious right now Seattle Be for real be for real Seattle Where they at where they at? Ray. Yes, it's silly to Pete's To Pete's is on a tell-all Andrew Gilbert Yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool to see that it's cool. 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Come on now Johnny Farmello Arias Rock of fortnight in Brooks Lee the thunder Just cheated the blazers like they were children yesterday Garrett Forester Mikey Romero Devin Celtibon and Bergoglia Denton Regio Keener and Walton Yeah, Lane gets to go to the Shaq Jersey retirement, which just so happens to be the Thunder game against the magic Redfield of Raddenburg first woman auto for the Marlins Jonathan L with the Marlins Whitman and Riley Vecchero followed by orange John Watts Brown going to Toronto 13 of 25 Taylor and Hudpool Cruella Lord Jonah Cox and Clifford Zavala with a yellow Christian Campbell to 75 Boston Zach Thornton Jonathan Mejia Jackson Wiggins yellow Joe Whitman for the Giants out of 75 first bowman Louis St. Helicunia Jason Chorio. How do you feel about this beat the last sapphire break of the night? Awesome? I can't even look up Sean Shoulder is an act of locking up.  Oh, dude.  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Y'all to 75 Hurley D-backs Got Cunningham and Jet Williams Another fun sapphire break. Let's recap everybody Let's do it Got to get football filled up baseball sold out. We've got flawless and we've got NT That's that's it for tonight. That's it a little bit of space for personals later on But we do have to get the brakes filled up first All right. Yeah, I guess not trash Hurley Hall Sullivan Campbell Whitman, Jorge, Hunniman Ty Pete Skone wetter Valdez Watts Brown Clifford burns Clemmy Bradfield Vrattenberg louder Louder a gold calling out for the Mets calling out auto for the Mets Gold Eldridge for the Giants red sapphire white Crowell for the road for the Dodgers and a gold auto type heat mariners Another great sapphire break moving on everybody. Thank you again


Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for granting me leave to make a brief intervention. I will commence my brief discourse this morning, Mr. Deputy Speaker, by indicating that I'm happy we are not here today for another ma dipwete to facilitate bogus fly-by-night projects. But for repairs of the school plant associated with the development of our nation's key asset, our human resource. We all know that education leads to a more productive future both for the individual and for societies. As a matter of fact, if we take our journey through the corridors of time, we'll recognize, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that Russia, together with its wider construct of the USSR, mounted from the status of underdeveloped country to develop country and superpower, mainly on the wings of education. Japan owes its phenomenal growth as an industrial power to education. And we can go through Asia and look at Taiwan and other countries around the world. And only last week, through the Saudi Development Fund, we were able to secure funding for St. Joseph's Hospital and of course for the stadium. But that's one of the show. This is why the Philip J.P. administration makes health and education urgent priorities. And there was a lady called Marie Levins who said and I quote, students who are not well enough will not learn well enough. So if they are not well enough to learn, they cannot learn well enough. And although, Mr. Speaker, the economy is still recovering. At the last budget, we noted that we have not returned to pre-Covid levels. But this is what the manager of this economy has been able to do for education. We brought back the laptop programs and you heard the minister for education indicating that every child that would go to Form 1 would receive a laptop at registration. We and Form 4. We saw the payment of facility fees whilst recovering, Mr. Speaker, from COVID. This is commitment to education, commitment to the people of this country. A commitment to utilize the revenues that we are able to raise to fuel the development of the people of the country. We are still in recovery mode and the manager of the economy, the Honorable Member for Cass Resist, the Honorable Philip J.P. is able to pay math and English for CSEC, school bursaries and to provide relief, Mr. Speaker, for the school children and the staff at our various schools. But not only his competence in the field of economics and finance that I wish to accentuate, Mr. Speaker, I want to, for the record, because I know that the misinformation barons are at work and, of course, we like to manuva within the parameters of the law. And therefore, Mr. Speaker, I support the resolution brought to this Honorable House from the Minister of Finance to approve the transfer of $5,400,000 from the consolidated fund to the contingencies fund for the purpose of supporting the recovery efforts of the Department of Education, sustainable development and innovation science technology and vocational training due to the passage and damage caused by tropical storm breath and be catering for future emergencies. As the Prime Minister and Minister for Finance alluded to, Mr. Speaker, while he was presenting this motion, the consolidated fund, the Public Finance Management Act of 1501 makes provisions for the following funds. The consolidated fund, these relevant provisions in the aforementioned act that provides for payments into and out of the consolidated fund are sections 13 and 14 respectively. The contingencies fund, the relevant provisions governing the contingencies fund are sections 15, 16, 17 and 19 respectively. The sinking fund, this fund is governed by sections 20 and 21 respectively. We all recall, Mr. Speaker, the former Prime Minister and Minister for Finance castigating our government for not establishing a sinking fund for debt repayments. But no sooner had he established the sinking fund, Mr. Speaker, he sank it. Mr. Speaker, he of course did not understand that our government inherited a massive deficit and it really made no financial sense to borrow funds at 5% to establish a sinking fund on which the government would earn 2% or 3%. So you want to go and borrow, at 5%, you have a big loan paying at 5% but you put it in some account where you are getting 2% or 3%. No sane Minister for Finance would believe that this is better business and if you are employed, if any business they are going to fire you as a result which is what the public of this country did on the 26th of July 2021. The Public Management Act establishes a special fund which is governed by sections 22, 23 and 24 and a trust fund which is governed by section 25 of the Public Finance Management Act Cap 1501. Mr. Speaker, as I indicated earlier, the contingencies fund is governed by sections 15 to 19 and sections 15 provide for establishing the contingencies funds and state. For the purposes of section 81 of the Constitution of St. Lucia, Cap 1.01, there is established a contingencies fund. It is clear from the foregoing, Mr. Speaker, that the Constitution of St. Lucia makes provisions for the establishment of a contingencies fund. In fact, section 81 of the Constitution of St. Lucia states as follows. There shall be such provisions as made made by parliament for the establishment of a contingencies fund and for authorizing the minister responsible for finance if satisfied that there has a reason, an urgent and unforeseen need for expenditure for which no other provision exists to make advances from that fund to meet that need. Two, where any advance is made from the contingencies fund, a supplementary estimate shall as soon as possible be laid before the house and when the supplementary estimate has been approved by the house, a supplementary appropriation bill shall be introduced as soon as possible in the house for the purpose of replacing the amounts so advanced. From the foregoing, Mr. Speaker, the Constitution provides for parliament to establish a contingencies fund to meet urgent and unforeseen expenditures for which no other provisions exist. The approval of parliament is required, Mr. Speaker, for the establishment of a contingencies fund and for authorizing the minister of finance to make advances to meet that need, namely an urgent and unforeseen need for expenditure for which no provision has been made. Section 16, Mr. Speaker, provides for transfers to the contingencies fund and states as follows. The minister, who is the minister of finance, may buy an affirmative resolution of parliament transfer from the consolidated fund, a prescribed sum, as may be required for the operation of the contingencies fund. Hence, this section provides the reason why the minister of finance is coming to this honorable house to seek authority by way of an affirmative resolution to transfer funds from the consolidated fund to the contingencies fund. Section 17 provides for the administration of the contingencies fund. This section provides as follows, Mr. Speaker. One, the accountant general shall administer the contingencies fund. Two, the minister after consultation with the accountant general may, by order, publish in the Gazette, specify the amount for permanent capital in the contingencies fund. Three, the accountant general shall keep the contingencies fund separate from other accounts maintained at a financial institution approved by the minister and shall pay into that account all monies appropriated to the contingencies fund by an appropriation act. B, without delay, pay from the contingencies fund all advances made on the section 19. Section 18 provides for the preparation of financial statements in respect of the contingencies fund to be prepared by the accountant general, which is to be audited by the director of audit. The checks and balances Mr. Speaker are clearly provided for in section 18. Finally, section 19 of the act provides for advances from the contingency fund. One, the minister may, in the case of an urgent or unforeseen need for expenditure, by a contingencies fund warrant and in anticipation of the grant of an appropriation by parliament, offer rise and advance from the contingencies fund, where a, no monies have been appropriated or for which the sum appropriated is insufficient, b, funds cannot be reallocated as provided for on the section 43 and c, public monies cannot be deferred without serious detriment to the public service. Two, the total of the sums offer rise on the subsection 1 to be advanced from the contingencies fund shall not exceed the total sum offer rise on the section 17. Three, where an advance is made from the contingencies fund on the dissection, a supplementary estimate of the sum required for the service for which such advance was made shall be paid before parliament as soon as possible, but in any event, not later than four months from the date on which the contingencies fund warrant was issued and shall be included in a supplementary appropriation bill for appropriation. This section, Mr. Speaker, is in keeping with the need for meeting the requirements of the constitution which I stated earlier. Mr. Speaker, we are not doing things when convenient. We are maneuvering within the parameters of the law which is necessary for the maintenance of good governance in this country. Four, on the grant of an appropriation to meet the expenditure in respect of which an advance is made on the dissection the contingencies fund warrant of rising that advance lapses and seizes to have effect and the advance is deemed to have been made for the purpose of the appropriation and shall be accounted for in the prescribed manner. Given the foregoing, Mr. Speaker, this has clearly identified the need for unforeseen expenditure that cannot be met since no monies had been appropriated or for which the sum appropriated is insufficient. Funds cannot be reallocated as provided for on the section 43. See, public monies cannot be deferred without serious detriment to the public service. And therefore, Mr. Speaker, this is an urgent and unforeseen expenditure which was not provided and therefore I wish to give my full support to this resolution that one, parliament of arises to transfer from the consolidated fund to the contingencies fund the amount of $5,400,000 and of course, support the recovery efforts of the Department of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training due to the passage and damage caused by tropical storm breath and be cater for future emergencies. Mr. Speaker, I now yield the floor.


So we at DHL and as a Universal Service Provider in Germany very much focus on sustainability as CO2 reductions. I think we as a transport intensive business have to keep that in the focus. We are inherently difficult to abate carbon in transportation. It is more difficult than in some other industries, but it is absolutely needed. So we put a lot of effort in electrifying our last mile fleet in securing that the electricity we buy is green. So also invest in solar panels, for instance, which is increasingly viable. We have a lot of real estate, we have a lot of buildings, so it's an opportunity to do that. But we also increasingly go into line hall. We use bio-methan for instance as an alternative fuel. It can be procured in quite some quantities. So we have several hundred trucks now that we run on bio-methan. So there's a lot in that area. And ultimately also when it comes to flying we need sustainable aviation fuel. We are partnering with several companies on that. So the environmental aspect for us is extremely important and a great area of focus. But obviously we also want to be a sustainable employer, socially responsible to our employee base, have working conditions, have safety in our operations. So there are other aspects of being sustainable and responsible as opposed to provider as well.


Howdy, folks. Welcome back to CCTV. If you see the sunburn, just got back from spring break. We're here representing UVM, and we're going to talk to you about a bunch of different things, but I think the commoditization of entities on social media is something we're really interested in. How does that fit into either of your lives? So yeah, we really kind of focused on one aspect was going to be, you know, art and music, and how often, at least personally for me, a lot of times when I'll be scrolling on any sort of major platform like Instagram, Twitter, or I don't know, not really Facebook anymore, but we'll find that I think a lot of artists struggle to find their niche in such a saturated landscape, and as well, they might find that their content that they make might not be exactly what they want just because of the nature of how the algorithm functions and how it's really hard to get a hit on such a big platform like that. It's all about the algorithm. I feel as an artist myself who usually makes digital art or in that realm, the last thing I want to do is market myself, but I also want to show the world what I've created, and I think we're entering this new age where everything is so digitized and like so pre-picked in our media that I think it's hard to, for an artist, to kind of prioritize like marketing themself or commodifying themself, which is very different, but it definitely falls into so many different aspects, like sports, athletes too, or headed into March Madness at the big time. Yeah, very exciting time, especially for sports fans. It's one of the biggest sporting events of the year. I think it's kind of talking about commodifying, like with athletes it's like the opposite, like you kind of want to put yourself out there to get like brand deals, money, and like promote yourself so you can like get drafted higher, so I think it's kind of interesting with artists and like athletes, it's kind of like two different things. Yeah, how does music do you think play into that? Or as you as a listener, maybe not as a creator? I think it's super interesting, because I think it has like a good and a bad side, because I discovered so much like new music through Instagram Reels, for example, and then there's just one part of the song that gets picked up by the algorithm, and then everyone all of a sudden like knows the song, and it's super nice because you get to know like smaller bands, but then on the other hand I think it also like affects how we listen to stuff, and it's always about just getting the highlight, and then I only listen to that part of the song most of the time, and it's such a like different consuming music in a different way. It's not like listening to the whole album from beginning to end, but just one song, one part. Yeah, I was sitting on the plane yesterday, I don't know if you know the album, Depression Cherry, Beach House, but Space Song is like so oversaturated in media, and I like almost forgot that it was on the album because I always skip it, because I just you hear it so much, so yeah, I think it's good for like another thing is like a struggling artist, musician, whatever, like they'll be able to get themselves out there, but maybe that's not the the way they want to do it, or maybe that is the way they want to do it, but I think there's a line between making something for the love of the art or making something to make money. So for yourself do you feel like you feel more restricted with when you're trying to like put something out there by you know whatever's popular, or do you think that because it's such a you know open avenue that you feel like your creativity can be like more fostered in that kind of area? I think that comparison is often a losing battle, especially as an artist, where you're seeing so many things and it's hard to convince yourself that you're doing something unique, so in that regard one of the barriers for me making money off of something I create is that once that money starts paying the bills then it's hard to you know keep that spark for that creativity of life, but I don't know there are just so many different avenues and realms it's just an interesting topic. Yeah, it brings more questions. Yeah. Hi everyone my name is Camille and I'm here with Brooke and I'm Logan and today we're just going to be having a conversation about targeted ads that we see on social media. So what targeted ads do you guys see on social media? I use TikTok a lot and I don't know if TikTok thinks I have bad dental hygiene but I always get these oil pulling ads like all the time, so I don't know what they're trying to say about me, but yeah that's what I usually get. Yeah it's interesting I feel like sometimes they know your hobby is a little too well. I'm a runner and I also consume a lot of energy drinks and for the last like six months I want to say I've never clicked on one, never searched for one, but I continually get these targeted cannabis infused energy drinks. Who knows why? I don't know, but yeah. I use Instagram quite often and I get quite a few New York Times ads for all the New York Times games and they're all like always animated and they're always within like the stories on Instagram and they're really easy to click by. How often do you guys see ads on Instagram or TikTok? I feel like it's like now it's like the majority of my content feels like it's an ad which seems crazy. Yeah we were having a discussion a little earlier about how now the ads aren't as obvious and they're kind of hidden within your feed and we spend so much time like scrolling through and we don't even notice when you're scrolling between stories that there's ads in between we're kind of just desensitized to all of it. And sometimes there's multiple ads within that one story and so it's just easy to click sure it's still not realized seeing multiple ads. Yeah I feel like that's the worst feeling is like you just start reading something just out of habit and then you like five minutes later you realize it's an ad and I just feel scammed. Do you guys think there's a problem with targeted ads or do you mind? I think at one point it definitely freaked me out but now I'm just almost like desensitized to it like we were talking about so I think it still does like freak me out sometimes when it's a very specific ad. Yeah I feel like I didn't I don't think about it much and like till we had this conversation but like I think also just like how like social media evolved in general is like you're it's like way beyond just your social group and it's like and now it's like even beyond that it's like into consumerism so it's it's weird because I feel like instead of getting like entertaining content it's like mostly just advertising. Yeah and I feel like the ads are mostly stuff that we don't even really need necessarily like and especially on TikTok they have this new like TikTok shop where each yeah yeah yeah um and they're disguised as a video you don't even know it's an ad and then there's like a small little thing at the bottom that says like ad yeah so it's kind of hard to tell and you kind of have to be aware of it. It's hard to tell if it's sponsored content or just someone making it because they like it. Yeah I feel like they're they're definitely walking like fine lines with like the laws around advertising and like admitting that it's advertising. Yeah it's scary to know that your phone is always listening to you and since seeing the ads about stuff that you talked about. Oh that's like it irks me. Yeah yeah well that's probably all we have time for today. It's all we have time for today thank you for listening to um our conversation about targeted ads on social media. Be aware of your content. Could be a hidden ad. What's up you guys I'm your targeted ad Trisha and welcome back to that bad targeted ad. Today we got three contestants all targeted ads we got a pickle a pickle kit ad spirited airlines and cheap ski apparel you're not supposed to know who is who so let's meet our contestants. Hi. Hi which targeted ad can you tell us a little bit of what targeted ad you are today. Well I am I'm super cheap let's start there twenty six dollars are you a college student do you have no money we can get you there anywhere actually anywhere you want to be twelve hour flight thirteen hour flight thirty minute flight and it all costs twenty six dollars but you only get one bag you can't chew gum on the plane and you may or may not have to take off your shoes and there might be a little hamster wheel in the back that you're running the plane yourself that's that's done right yeah are you a college student who's given up on their dreams of traveling and you don't have any money this is your girl she's going to be stalking you like crazy let's meet the next contestant do you like to try new things are you always up for a little adventure do you like to eat fun foods do you want to be a muckbanger have you ever wanted to do that we have deals five kids all you and your friends can try it it's a great deal salty sweet crunchy gooey everything you could want in your mouth it's amazing man i'm sold next up we're going to meet our last targeted ads so start making your decisions on who you think they are again we have spirited airlines pickle kits and bad uvm apparel ski apparel we'll just rock with this mic are you a uvm student that only came here because you like skiing probably because that's just about everyone here so as the season comes to a close the amazing season that we had i think it's uh it's time where you're starting to forget about the pain of the money you spent on your season pass and now you can spend some more money on new ski apparel so when you're skiing down the park and you see all those people with the super baggy clothes that are four times too big if you're like me you're thinking i need some of those so i can get it for you 1299 plus a million shipping and handling and it's all yours you heard him folks if you didn't spend enough on the icon pass hill rob your bank account all right we got 130 seconds left with the show so now it's time to reveal who are our contestants you guys let's hold those signs up did you guess so i'm your targeted ad trisha i'm talking to you guys about your bad targeted ads on that bad targeted ad that's the show um check us out next week when we have diet pills what else we got bad targeted ads farmers markets tinder maybe and some diet pills so check us out next week and signing off that that's your targeted bad targeted ad trisha hey guys welcome to our burlington foodie chat um so what do you guys like to eat for dinner well especially in burlington my favorite place is deadless wine bar if you know you know it's the best place in all of the world they do oh god they do wine tastings every thursday they have charcuterie they have fresh pasta their menu changes seasonally based on what's fresh in the area 10 out of 10 recommend i'm gonna just have to try that place never meant to go never been i've never been either but do you guys have favorite restaurants or dinners well for me personally i love to cook a good curry so when i don't feel like cooking a good curry i have to get it delivered from red panda a very great place in south burlington probably the best curry i've had ever what kind of ever yeah well that's a great question they have a couple different options but i'm a good classic red curry classic curry red curry at home i do yes yeah that's pretty good is it good yeah i would say nice i'm good um i love jersey mikes i would say jersey mikes is probably my favorite place to eat um i could have a breakfast lunch and dinner um um what else is good in burlington yeah i work at flatbread so if anyone wants to come and get pizza that's pretty good i wouldn't go there probably if i wasn't working yep but for free pizza it's pretty good i used to work at friendly toast yeah if you're in the mood for some day drinking some morning drinking some bloody marriage you know where to go yeah um lots of good flights maybe iced coffee flight mimosa flight i don't know why i'm getting them free advertisement i'm not even paying you anymore nope not anymore nope what's the work environment like there um it was pretty good um a little corporatey um see that but it was pretty good the people there are really nice i'm not my lovely boyfriend there um but yeah don't work there anymore knock knock don't want to work there anymore so it's real i work at nectar's food there is um yeah okay but it's not known for its food i'll just say yeah yeah and we really only serve on thursday nights for trivia but if you want to come test your knowledge at some trivia then i also don't know but thursday's trivia night i'll be there serving yeah where do you guys work nowhere i'm a student that's my job yeah that's me right now i'm trying to find a job that's what i have to stop that was a great conversation guys flatbread is good if you want pizza or beer um there's a lot of good places in burlington that's who conclusion there's a lot of good spots to eat in burlington yeah thank you come again


Hello learners, welcome to this discussion on the relationship of political science with other social sciences. Now this discussion pertains to unit 2 of the course political theory part A from the BA first semester program in political science. Now when we try to examine the relationship between political science and other social sciences what we find is that political science being a social science is closely related to other social sciences such as history, economics, sociology, psychology, ethics etc. Thus political science is an autonomous discipline yet it has a very close relationship with other fields of study like economics, history, sociology, psychology, anthropology and ethics. So in this unit we shall discuss the relationship of political science with other social sciences. Now first let us try to focus on the relationship of political science with sociology. Now sociology is the science of society it deals with the origin, development and structure of all forms of human associations in the society. Political science on the other hand mainly deals with one form of human association namely the state. Political science studies the state and government while sociology studies nation, tribe, clan, family and all forms of human associations the state being one of them. However although the spheres of the two sciences have been separated both political science and sociology are complementary to each other. For instance the state which is the subject matter of political science is also dealt with by sociology. As such the scope of political science is much narrower than that of sociology. Moreover political science is restricted to only the political aspect of man's life while sociology deals with the social man in all the forms in all the various aspects of his life namely social, ethnic, economic, political, religious, etc. The behavioral political scientists have taken much from sociological writings of American sociologists like Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton and others to enrich empirical political theory. This popular trend gave birth to a new subject called political sociology. Political science studies the evolution of the state from its very birth and tries to analyze the complex social forces which are responsible for bringing the state organization into existence. By presenting these facts sociology helps political science. Similarly political science also helps sociology by presenting the details about the state and the government. Now we come to the relationship between political science and history. Political science is closely related to history. In order to fully understand the origin and development of political institutions we have to take the help of history. As we find that the political institutions that exist today in a particular form have the roots in the past. At the same time it must be mentioned that history is not merely a record of past events and institutions. For example the nature of monarchy in Britain and the functioning of the British Parliament can be appreciated only in the light of a thorough study of the history of Britain. The history of Britain reveals that the English people continually protested and struggled against the despotic monarchy of their own rulers resulting in the glorious revolution of 1688. It paved the way for the establishment of a limited monarchy and recognition of the rights of the parliament of Britain. The study of history becomes fruitful only when the political significance of various historical events and movements is properly appreciated. Thus both history and political science are complementary and contributory. For the understanding of history knowledge of political institutions and the principles which govern them is very vital. Again political scientists draw conclusions from historical events and arrive at principles which govern political life. The relationship between history and political science has been very aptly described by the British historian Sir John Sealy as follows. History without political science has no fruit. Political science without history has no root. Now let us examine the relationship of political science with economics. The relation between political science and economics is very intimate. As a matter of fact economics started its career as political economy. The Greeks regarded political economy as the art of providing revenue for the state. In the name of the book by the British political economist Admiral Smith, the father of modern economics was titled, Wealth of Nations. Admiral Smith pointed out that economics is a science to enrich people and the state. Writers like Machiavelli, Italian thinker John Locke was a British philosopher, Bentham again a British political philosopher, James Mill, British political thinker and James Mill another prominent British political thinker discussed political and economic affairs together. According to Karl Marx was a German thinker it is the economic factor alone which determines the politics of a nation. The forms and functions of government are considerably influenced by economic forces. The concepts of individualism, socialism and communism are primarily based on economic principles. Conversely, the economic activities of a country are largely determined by the existing form of government and its policies. Economic stability accounts for political stability and vice versa. Modern states are confronted with numerous economic problems which cannot be solved except through the political action of the state. The taxation policy of the government, its export and import policy, its exchange rates and the banking system related policies etc influence the economy of a country to a great extent. The modern state is now regarded as a welfare state whose main functions are economic in nature. Now, we try to discuss the relationship between political science and ethics. The relationship between political science and ethics is very close. Both of political science and ethics aim at doing good to man and promoting the common welfare. The state was organized for maintaining law, order and morality. As a matter of fact, laws should be enacted in such a way as to strengthen the moral beliefs of the state. Since long, social and political philosophers have tried to integrate their ideas about state, government and law with certain ethical standards. Modern for human beings and human values is a fundamental aspect of modern day political science. The ancient philosophers duly emphasized the moral end of the state. For example, in the ancient period, the Greek philosopher Plato put forward the theory of the ideal state. Aristotle also said that state exists for good life. During the medieval period, theology governed the ethical standards in politics. Modern political thinkers like Rousseau who was a French political philosopher, then Kant who was a German political philosopher, Hegel, another German philosopher, Green who was a British political philosopher and of course Mahatma Gandhi also attacks great importance to ethics and morality in political science. Modern writers also speak of the close relationship between ethics and political science. Mahatma Gandhi tried to combine political principles with moral values and laid stress on the fact that both ends and means should always be good. So Mahatma Gandhi tried to establish an integral connection between ethical means and ethical aims. In the next section, we shall talk about the relationship between political science and anthropology, political science and psychology and so on. In the previous sections, we discussed the relationship of political science with history, sociology, economics and ethics. In this particular section, we shall talk about the relationship of political science with other disciplines such as anthropology, psychology and so on. First, let us deal with the relationship of political science with anthropology. Political science is closely related to anthropology. Anthropology has a wealth of material regarding diverse types of social systems in terms of the customs, attitudes, values, patterns of behavior, leadership, etc. Political science takes the help of such data for making comparative analysis. Writers like James, who was an American anthropologist and Morgan, another American anthropologist, have collected immense facts from anthropology on the basis of which they have explained the origin of the state. Racial unity is still regarded as a strong bond of nationality. The modern system of law has been constantly influenced by ancient usages, customs and religious institutions recorded by anthropology. So we find that there is a relationship between anthropology and political science in terms of each influencing the other. Now, let us try to examine the relationship of political science with geography. Political science has also some relation with geography. The character and national life of peoples are influenced by physical conditions of a state such as topography, climatic conditions, insularity, presence of absence of rivers or mountains, proximity to or distance from the sea. So these geographical factors influence the character and national life of people of different countries. The difference in geographical factors largely explains the difference in the trend of political thought, economy and administrative systems of different countries. Various writers have attempted to prove the relationship between geographical environment and political organizations of the people. French political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau argued that climatic conditions could determine the nature of the quality of a nation. French political philosopher Montesquieu emphasized the influence of physical environments on the forms of government and liberty of the people. Now, let us try to discuss the relationship of political science with psychology. Political science has an intimate relationship with psychology, the science of the human mind. Social psychology in particular is of great help in understanding the mind and behavior of the human groups. The ideas and laws propounded by this state are likely to fail if they ignore the psychological factors of people. Thus, political science is integrally related to other social sciences such as sociology, history, economics, ethics, anthropology and so on. Political science helps us to understand other social sciences better and vice versa. Thank you.


Not just a trucker. Weekend fun. Oh yes, when you live with dogs, this is what you find yourself spending most of your free time doing. My better half is on the other side of the house right now with the mop, I believe. There's the mop. Always cleaning. Because the goal is to make the house look like no dogs live here at all. Not an easy task. Gotta make sure you get underneath everything. Luckily here, I can just get right back to the back wall without moving it. But these couches, they're gonna have to move. If you wanna impress your wife, this is how you do it. Believe me, you'll thank me. I mean, we're trying to make a baby, so anything like this will help, I'm told. So here we are, doing our part. We'll do this now and we'll cash in later. How about that? Did I get a large steep tea? One milk. One milk and half a sugar? An extra large coffee with two cream and a shot of espresso to go, please? Inside the coffee, yeah. The steep tea was one milk, half a sugar, yeah. Two cream? That was it. Super duper. She said, she said thank you. I always hit that curve. Every time. Everyone hits that curve. Okay, so she took our order and then she took our order again. You know what I'm saying? That's okay. Someone got real excited about their Timmy's over there and they tried to burst through the wall and cut the line, obviously. That actually looks like the snow plows did that. I bet you anything in the snow plow did that. Somebody's in trouble. Yeah, that's a cement fence. You don't see those every day. Yeah. I bet she doesn't get that much. Did I become a cadet? Traffic duty. He'll get there, buddy. He'll get there. That is a bright orange dodge. Something about dodge and the people that, I should be careful what I say here because you guys probably own those trucks. What is it about dodge ram trucks and their bright colors?  Royal purple. It's always dodge. You never see a bright orange Chevy. Never. You do in the classic trucks sometimes. Sometimes, but it's just, or like a lime green F-150. That just doesn't exist. They're gonna prove us wrong and send us pictures. Oh, probably. He's coming up behind us now. Oh, he heard us. Careful. Lock the doors. Weiner, don't look at him. Don't look at him. Don't look at me, mug him, aren't you? Our gracious overlords have allowed us to visit with our family. So we're very excited. Yeah, we're very excited to go and see her dad and step mom and her new fuzzy little brother. You're gonna meet your uncle today. Your young baby uncle. He's a bit of a brat too.  Yeah, so we gotta go and see the little guy. They got a new puppy. That's what we're talking about. Her parents got a new puppy, so technically that makes the puppy her brother. Half. Half brother. So there's the joke. Just filling in for the people who are still like what? Her brother, baby uncle, what kind of weird family? My stepmother did not give birth. They got a shorty. So we're out here in Winnipeg right now. We're just picking up some supper and we're gonna bring it on down there and enjoy an evening. Finally, after two months of strict lockdown, we're easing it just a little bit. Only two of us can go and luckily for us there's only two humans in our family. So. Well, I wouldn't say luckily, but conveniently at the moment. Very true. Conveniently, there's only two humans in our family. So we can go and visit with their household which also only has two humans. They don't consider our children to be humans, so. Yeah. We do. It's been an interesting year. So. It is what it is. But we're excited. We're excited. We've been waiting for this. Wow. Finally able to visit and they can't get enough of each other. It was love at first bite. Yep. Weiner. Get him. Your new uncle? Look how tired Weiner is already. Great playing hard. What a Weiner. Whew. That's a work out, eh?  Come on, Weiner. Come on, Weiner.  He's just gonna, he's got those bug eyes going. Oh, a Weiner? He's sunny. One of them how? He's sunny. Say hello to everybody.  Let's go. Hey, Cujo Jr. What's his sister let go of me. His real name is Cujo. Sonny Chewbacca now. Sonny Chewbacca? Okay, get him. They're just gonna play with each other into exhaust. He's getting to be exhausted. Yeah, it's so, definitely so fun.  But it's hard to beat him. Don't bite me. You'll bite her? Sonny is a shorty, right? Yeah, she's a New Yorkie. Get him. Now he's just over nine weeks old. And a holy terror. But the cutest little thing when he's got a holy terror. Okay. None of that. Oh. Yeah, no porn on that one.  Keep it appropriate, boys. Little biter?  Head home, Weiner. You all tuckered out? Look at this little guy.  Yep, he is a baby. He's a baby. Are you gonna sleep, Harry? See you later, sunshine. Yep. Say bye to Uncle Sonny. Bye, Uncle Sonny. Bye bye. I don't really like you, but I do. But I don't, but I do. People said they'd never see the day when they got a dog. Look at this. We got a dog. It happened. There's hope for everybody. We can all get dogs. I'm gonna let him pee first, probably. Yeah, you gotta take one to the road. Yeah, there it is. Don't forget that. Just arriving back, back in town. I explained to them yesterday or the day before the difference between the city and town. Even though Steinbach is technically a city. But it's not the city. No. It's a city, but it's not the city. In Manitoba Speak, when anybody in Manitoba says the city, they're talking about Winnipeg. They're not talking about Brandon. They're not talking about Portage. It is the capital of Manitoba. And it's where about, what, 98% of people in Manitoba live? I cannot confirm or deny that statement because I have no hot clue. Steinbach is the third largest city in Manitoba. So we're on the top three. We're on the podium. We're quite something. Is that still true? I think so. I know, Winkler is pretty big, though, too. Yeah, I thought they were bigger than us. Apparently not. Didn't they vote Walmart before us? Yeah, they did. Didn't make sense. Didn't make sense at all. I was very jealous. But now we have a Walmart, so everything's okay now. The world is okay. It's fine. They've righted all the wrongs in the southeast. Exactly. The rivalry between Dietz and Janzi. We settled this side first. So technically this is, this is the real side. But we're looking forward to getting home now to our boys.  They're going to be able to smell the little guy on us. Yeah, don't lean her. He smells like the puppy. Okay? Smell like your new buddy? Uncle Sonny? Uncle Sonny. So I've been editing this video here and I've got company. He's been here the whole time. I usually have that heater running. He likes it because it's warm under there. So it's the next day here. We got my publisher right here. We got my backup editor over there. Just taking a break. I've been doing all the work around here like usual. They're not much help. But they do provide good company. They always have to be in whatever room I'm in. And this is their king-size bed. So our dogs have a bigger bed than we do. So it's the next day. And I don't want to spoil too much of tomorrow's vlog. But I'm here by myself at home. And in order to find out why, I guess you're going to have to watch tomorrow's video and see what happened. Don't spread any bad rumors, okay? I'm only going to be alone for a couple of hours. Okay? I've got to host myself for a couple of hours. So I don't need these crazy rumors I've seen spreading around. It's all good. Brett's at work. There you go. I said it. And I got the whole host of myself. I don't know what to do with myself. I'm so excited. So I came back here. Got my work done. And I've got my PlayStation. Well, I had my PlayStation going out here. I guess it turned off on its own. That means I took too long to edit my video, clearly. And yeah, I'm just going to go wash the pick up. Do some hanging out. Some... I'll figure it out. I haven't had to host myself in a while. So we'll figure it out. Join me tomorrow and help me figure it out. Please. So with the easing of restrictions over the past two and a half months we've been on what they call lockdown. That's kind of a scary word to use for because it's not really a lockdown. It was... We weren't in prison. But it was very uncomfortable. We didn't like it. They're easing some of these restrictions now so we can go visiting with a couple of people. And also, obviously, Britt can go back to work which is great for her and for us because she's been forced out of work by this health order for two and a half months now already. So she's really excited to get back... get back at it. She loves her job. She loves what she does. Sort of like me. We both really love what we do, which is... It's very fortunate for us because I know that there's a lot of people out there probably a lot of people out there who don't like what they do and that must be... You know, it would be terrible to wake up every day to do a job that you hate but sometimes you got to do what you got to do, right? So we're both very fortunate. And... Oh, she was just ecstatic this morning. She was in such a good mood. She was so happy. Maybe she just wants to get away from me. I don't know. But I'm pretty sure it's the job. She really loves the job and she loves her coworkers there. She hasn't seen them in two and a half months. So... I'm happy for. It's also Sunday today when I'm finishing this. This is Saturday's video but I'm just finishing the video and updating you on what's going on a little bit. And Sunday shopping is now allowed out in the southeast of Manitoba here in Steinbeck. So we'll talk about that more tomorrow. So it opens up more opportunity for more hours for her at work. And... Yeah, we're gonna keep on keeping on. I really like what I'm doing now. Uh... I really feel like we got ourselves in a really good position. Uh... Like I said, we sold our old house. Expensive house. With the profit of that house, we were able to pay off both of our vehicles. Uh... We were able to get into a smaller house here that we actually turned... It turns out we really love this house. It's... It's grown on us so quickly and we're much happier here than we were at our old place. Very low maintenance. Like, right now it's all wintertime so there's nothing to do outside but shovel snow anyways. But in winter... In summertime, mowing the lawn will literally take 20 minutes, if that, with a push mower. And then we have our spot outside of town yet where we're gonna be building in a few years. So, uh... We're gonna keep our heads up and nose to the grind. I think that's how the saying goes. I always forget. Keep working hard and keep our goals in sight and work towards achieving every single one of them. And just winning on a daily basis. Always being... Trying to be number one. Always trying to be a winner. That's what I want to... Pass forward on to you guys through my vlogs. Be a little bit of a motivational character, I guess. You have to be humble when you don't win because you're not gonna win every time. You have to be able to accept defeat but also don't give up when you are defeated. Use that as a stepping stone and as a learning experience to win next time. So you get up the next day. Use what you learned from your defeat yesterday and apply that to today and try again. We're gonna keep our goals in sight and with everything going on in the world right now it's tough to stay positive. Believe me. I'm able to edit out some stuff in my videos and I can choose what I talk about. Not every day is a good day for me.  We all have bad days. I'm just like you. But I choose to focus on the positive and I choose to only share the positive because there's enough negative in the world right now. I'm sure you guys don't need any more of it from me. So I'd rather encourage you with the positive points of my day and the positive points of my life so that we focus on those things instead because if you turn on the TV you're gonna get all the negative stuff going on. They feed off negativity. Bad news sells. Good news doesn't sell. Alright, if there's something good that happened that's not what people want to hear. It seems that way because the news is always gonna focus on the bad. So here on this channel I wanna focus on the good things going on while still recognizing this world's not perfect especially this last year and the year we're in right now with this whole pandemic and really strange lockdowns that we gotta keep looking up we gotta keep pushing forward. Hopefully I can help motivate you a little bit because there's nothing we can do about what's going on really on our own. I'm not a doctor. I can't tell you what's happening. I can tell you my opinions on it but you already know them. I'm kind of on both sides of the fence. I see both sides of it. I see what it can do to people how it can get you sick but I also see the side of it where locking us in our homes and preventing us from seeing our loved ones really really puts people into a very dark place and depression can really lead to even worse consequences in some cases. So I see both sides of it but the only thing I can do is try to stay positive here on this channel. I've been rambling for almost six minutes here already. I hope you guys had a great day. Let's focus on what's good. Tell yourself today's gonna be a good day because you'd be surprised what you can speak into existence and what can happen when you just set your mind on the positive and say, okay, I don't care what's gonna happen today we're gonna make it a good day and if it turns out to be a bad day I have bad days too. You're not the only one. Try again tomorrow. That's all I can tell you. Anyways, I've been rambling long enough here wanted to get some stuff off my chest here and let you guys know that I also do have bad days but they become less and less and the more I focus on making it a good day even when that seems impossible. Talk to you tomorrow everybody if you lasted this long in the video you're probably tired of my voice by now I hope that by tomorrow you will be okay with some more of my voice because there's gonna be another video tomorrow and I hope you tune in. Take care everybody. Have a great weekend.


Fulbert. Ghost baby, ghost baby. Fulbert, no, a winner. Here's how not to parrot your dog. Just let her off leash. Don't worry, this is Wheel of 2K. This will literally be the most random video ever. Well, it'll still be Wheel of 2K, but most random set for sure. To make a long story short, I'm back home in Michigan with my family for one single day. And usually I'm at my house in Michigan. You know, long story short, I'm not. Ghost baby. Like a ghost. How many of you guys remember ghosts? Goose's real name is Nala. We call her Goose. Just like Luna's real name is Luna, but her real name is Fulbert. Hi, Fulbert. Where's your winner? We usually ask mom for words of wisdom, but dad can do it too. Gentlemen, never drink man's last beer. Nice. Mama! It's your turn. You've got a lot to beat. That's really good.  Now almost break your foot, which is what I did. That's really relatable. That's gonna help him out a lot. That should be the new merch, boys. Never kick with your toe with the shin guard. I forgot. Look at them. Oh my goodness. Look at dad getting turned. Truth. Mom, I'm gonna see Bailey. No, I love Bailey. Well, just be friends, right? Yeah, we are just friends. We've always been just friends. She's one of our favorites. She's one of our favorites. She is. That's cute. Okay, we'll have 2K. Ooh, what jersey should I wear? We've got McHale Bridges, Luca Donchich, Lebron. Luca. Luca. I love him. He is the new Dirk. That was truly my childhood hero. I was a young man. I was in junior high and I became obsessed with Dirk Nowitzki. All right, cool. We're going to Luca Jersey today. Where did that come from? Oh my God. Do you think it fits? My 50. Wait, I see that. Oh my God. No shot. Okay, I'm pulling rank, Mom. I'm sorry, I have to do this. This thing must have been a monster. That or I'm small.  Well, 2K, let's get it. Is this the first episode with Dark Matter Jimmy Butler? I do want to apologize. I know that 2K has been discombobulated this season. I've recorded episodes in Arizona, Hawaii, now Michigan, and probably in Vegas too. So I'm trying to keep all my ducks in a row, but it's not easy. Either way, I know we have Dark Matter Jimmy now, who sadly is not going to make it to the NBA finals. But guess what? Jason Tatum did. So we got a finals player in here anyway. Okay, so the people we need to get out of the lineup like right now is Rodman for sure. And then probably a few Dark Matters on the bench. But I think center-wise, like I'm good. Like having Yao Ming and Will is massive. I would very much like a new point guard. As much as I have loved having Yao, he's really not that good. So if I could really choose who I get today, I think I would take a Dark Matter Power Forward. It's Will and 2K. We're just gonna get whatever we get. All right, five and three. Four games remaining. I'll pull up the cheat sheet right now so you guys can take a peek at it. I think we're either getting a henna tattoo or I'm gonna be on Jupiter playing 2K, like I said last time. Also, I did just get a new real tattoo. I don't know if you guys have seen it yet. It is the Greek god Atlas. So Atlas is always symbolic of someone who's got like a big burden. They're really carrying a lot of stress or something like that, you know? The Atlas tattoo for me was symbolic of me carrying my massive cock around with me. What is that? What is that?      All right boys, this team could use a brand new point guard for sure. Could use a brand new Power Forward, but it's kind of up to the wheel to decide A. Okay, all we gotta hope is that whatever team this lands on has a point guard or a Power Forward. At least a pretty good one. All right, so we can take any single player in the game, but they must come from the Brooklyn. Oh my God, that's, it's such a good team. But I don't think they're gonna have the position. There's gonna be like an insane Kevin Durant. Is there a dark matter, Kevin Durant? I feel like I should just go with the best player available. Ooh. Oh, and he goes for over 100K, does he? Wow. He technically could go at Power Forward. I could run a small Power Forward. I like traditional Power Forward.  All right, so here's him compared to the Jason Tatum that we just got. Also, he happens to be a 10 Flawless, which is just sick. Take that anyway, it doesn't really matter.  He's like 7'5", but whatever. He has 29 Hall of Fame, 43 gold. His three pointer is hard 99, and so is his mid range. Yeah, we gotta shoot with this man. I like it. I think this will be fun. So, let's do Durant at Power Forward, Tatum at Small Forward. We have Max Jimmy Butler, so I gotta worry about that anymore. LeBrono coming at Small, Kuzma comes in at Power, and I think Rodman just stays out. I really did like that Rodman, so I'll put Rodman down here. Okay, I think we're ready. Half working setup. I may or may not even get this footage. My controller literally has sand in it, about three buttons work. I've got my freshman year of high school Derknavitsky jersey. I don't think I'll ever be more ready for a wheel of 2K than I am right now. All right, boys, the Utah Jazz Mommy Milkers, five and three, a winning record. Let's go six and three right now, boys. Ray Allen, Luca Donchich, my mom's favorite, whoa. I think for the first time in wheel of 2K history, I'm playing a team worse than mine. What psychopath did these jerseys, bro? What is wrong with you? Why did you put white jerseys on?  Why did you do that? All right, well, you know what? Yau's gonna go off as always, but who did this?  Jason Tatum with a block, baby. God damn, who is on what team, bro? All right, I got a little bit of a mismatch, no lie. Let's just take a bucket. I love you, Yau Ming. I love you so much for existing.  Why can't I make my own jersey and mad? And this is why. You get psychopaths who make white jerseys as they're away jerseys or home jerseys, whichever one it's supposed to be. That's just psychotic. What are you doing? You just got a shot clock. Oh my God. Ooh, good cross. Leak out, splash, gotta be, gotta be. Let's go Tatum. Do we have two new players who've not seen the court at all? That's Tatum and Durant. We're starting out hot here. All right, I'm guarding the roll, man. Hey, look at that defense. Let's go Durant. I see you, Yau, Dish, Jai, he's gone. He literally quit so fast. He didn't even have time to think about that. Okay, I don't actually know what to do now. I don't have anything in place for getting a rage quit that fast. I'm gonna lie. Bobby Milker's move is six and three, just like that. A point guard? Kinda just depends what we got. I said Team Wheel Geo. Ooh, okay. Team Wheel Galaxy Opal. All right, boys, so any single Galaxy Opal, but they've gotta come from whatever we land on right here. Phoenix Suns, I take that. Wait, what team is that? Ooh, the Sixers. All right, Galaxy Opals, there's a, ooh, shoot. Okay, so he's a small forward shooting guard. Matisse, I feel like he's probably pretty good, right? Okay, so yeah, there's an Embiid, but he's a hard center. I don't need a center at all, I've yow, and I have Wilt Chamberlain already. So I think it's gonna be Matisse Thible, and he'll probably just go where Clay is. Oh, don't worry, guys, there's Dolph Shays. I've never wanted anybody more.  What did you blow the guy? Would you blow Ronnie 2K for this card? Let's just compare them first before I do anything crazy here. So Thible's actually a little bit smaller, which I do not like. Offensive overall is a 91. Oh, so he's more of a defender. Defender and rebounder, and he can still shoot the lights out. Clay makes him look so poverty. Passing is worse. Defense is significantly better. Damn, I really like that interior defense too. I think I like Matisse Thible better here. I actually do. There's nothing I love more in 2K than a rebound. Just a good old fashioned offensive rebound. I think if Thible can do that, I'll be happy. So starting lineup is Jha, Jimmy, Jason, Kevin, and Yao with Arenas, Thible, James, Kuzma, and Chamberlain. All right, we're gonna keep things simple with this next game, all right? There's Galactic Packs in store. I'm gonna play a game. If I win the game, I get three of any pack in the store. If I lose, nothing happens. Because, I mean, I've already won, but I don't wanna play another game for the record because then we'll only have 11 episodes of Wheel of 2K as opposed to the 12. Every season's supposed to have 12 episodes, so I can't play one for the record right now. Is that his squad? Oh, I saw that. I thought it was mine. Very good team. He's got some of the new players, but nothing that I'm too worried about. And you know what? The jersey, ooh, the jerseys actually work. Can't ask for anything more, and I just lost the ball in the first possession. You know, to play a God squad in a game that doesn't actually matter, someone who probably knows what he's doing, I'm bad. Oh, good pass.  Dude, I think I'm getting boxed. I think I'm getting boxed. Like a fish, wise men, just... Oh, okay. All right, Jimward. Eee. I thought that might be his first bucket as a dark matter. Oh, good move.  I'm getting dumpstered right now. Oh, go yow. Yes, sir. Great positioning. You got that, yow. We're gonna find a way.  You open like a thousand packs for one golden ticket in EA. 2K will just hand you a dark matter just for existing. Free bucket? Free bucky? How are you getting clamped, bud? What do you have to say about it? Thank God this wasn't the first guy we played. This is the first guy we played. We were in so much trouble. No. No, we didn't agree that deep. Dude, this is so bad. It's not even funny. I can't even basketball. Please, somebody got somebody, bro. All right. All right, yow. If I'm losing by 25, I'm going to quit. I'm gonna be honest. I have no shame. There's nothing to earn. There's nothing to upgrade. This doesn't go with the record. I go down by 25. I'm digging it. I like a champion. Floater. Ooh. I did not even mean to do that. I don't actually know what I did. I think I just did a dunk with a shot stick. Ooh. Ooh. Oh! I think I actually broke his ankles. Wait, did he fall? I'm pretty sure he fell, dude.  I own you. No, no. No, you own me and my whole family. Oh my God. He just signed the papers. He owns me my whole family. Go job.  Dunks and his gamer actually kind of bad. I swear you just get blocked on like half of them. Matisse! Hey, that's how we added him right there. Oh, pull-up skirt. Good cross. Into built chamberlain.  You're not guarding from chamberlain. Who are you? Oh, good cross, Matisse! Oh, damn. Okay, free bucket. Free bucket and one. Dude, I hate, like, that makes no sense. Dunks are just so broken. What's going on, guys? Could we guard over here? I don't know. Oh, I was just down by 12. I'm down by 21. That's the kind of dunk I like right there. Put it in fast. There's Kyle Kuzma coming over for the help side again. Is there anyone to stop your dudes from doing help side? That's all of his buckets. Down 22, we're gonna find a way to win.  I'm sorry, but no, you said fucking, who is that? All right, so three packs to open from the store since I just beat this guy. Stop the cap. Whoever I get goes on the squad. Let's get it. This is Wheel of 2K, obviously. So a rule is a rule. Last person to score wins the game. So, I mean, really good game to my opponent. Dude, he played his heart out. I feel like, no, maybe he just needed to buy better players or something. No, maybe he just needed to buy better. Okay, so what packs do I want here? Okay, Swish is more expensive. That makes me feel like, on average, it's better. Galactic, bro. What if we got this Lebron or this Garnet, which we just played against this Garnet, I use the same. Invincible, T-Mack, Taco Fall would be really good too. And there is a John Wall. It's just a dark matter. Yeah, let's just do three of these. Let's do three Galactics. Three Galactic packs for the dub we just got. Is that Dark Matter? Oh, that's Pink Diamond, right? It's a center from the 86, 87 Lakers?  And he is me. I am him. Dude, even if that guy's the most cracked 2K card, I'm not using him. I'm not using literally Jim Jones, bro. Gio, okay. If this is a 98 Gio point guard, this is awesome. Marbury! Wait, that's actually sick, okay. I'll probably keep Jaws my starter, but I'll put him in for Gilbert Arenas. That's actually way better than Gilbert Arenas, too. I think, don't quote me on it, but I think he's gonna be Final pack, three of three, we've got a rattle. Oh, it's a Galaxial Bull again. Small forward, Eastern Conference number. Ooh, that's Antoine Walker, I think. And I don't think I'm gonna use him. I don't have any interest in using him. So the only real adjustment is Marbury comes in here. Is he even better than Gilbert Arenas? Damn, yeah, so Arenas can shoot better for the most part. Oh, he's way better defensively. Rebounding better, speed better. Yeah, I like Marbury better here. I like Marbury better here. Let's just say this. If I ever play a guy like that again, I think I'm quitting in the first quarter. Dude, and he didn't even respond to me. I said, dude, IDK, you're kind of bad. He literally didn't respond. Well, hopefully Kevin Durant will get a new showing. I feel like he did not play well at all. Hi boys, hey, I love you. Thanks for watching. There's always a little ratchet setup with 2K, but that's episode nine in the books. To recap, we are six and three now. That loss didn't impact our record, but we're six and three. There's three games left. All I need is one dub to secure 2K high. I could technically win the next three games. I could be giving away five signed jerseys. All right, boys, we'll see what happens. I love you. I'll see you in the next video. Peace.


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Nice! Imagine a romantic encounter with a Springfield XDM and an FNS handgun. What do you suppose you would see? Hey there friends, thanks for checking in today. We're looking at a Tissus Zagana PX9 budget handgun that Looks like an XD model. You look at the way the grip meets the frame with the upper You take a look at that and say why that's an XD handgun. Clearly it is But it's not and then you look at the way this slide contours down those slide cuts when we look at the FN slide cuts pretty identical there And so this is like the offspring of those two handguns and I picked this up and I got it for a budget price It's certainly a budget There's no doubt about that and it has even dropped because they came out with a gen 2 model that I'm not seeing That great of a difference of some heavier stippling on the grip a couple other Accentuated features, but overall the PX9 is a pretty nice handgun for a fair price You're looking at between 300 and $330 for the Zagana PX9. It's a full-size handgun 4.5 inch barrel and magazines that carry 18 rounds big-time bonus 3 18 round magazines So I think some of these Other manufacturers should take notice, you know people complain about the Turkish made guns But they sure give you a lot in the case three 18 round mags Backstraps a makeshift holster. That's it's not that great But it'll get you through you could carry right out of the case and then go get yourself something better But they they offer that and and those are nice things to have especially those magazines. I mentioned the grip Smooth very smooth the gen 2 a little more texture Not not a bad backstrap there Of course a full grip on the gun has a full rail there for any accessories front serrations I already mentioned four and a half inch barrel Definitely full-size black serrated adjustable rear sight front Black no dot pinned in So it's it offers quite a bit for like 300 bucks You can see there it has an ambidextrous thumb safety once engaged Okay, you could see that it will lock the slide and the trigger and Ambidee control there drop that and you're good to go. Let's talk about the trigger I am measuring five and a half pounds And also has a striker fire indicator there very small. Okay, you could feel it but I'm measuring a five and a half pound trigger and Reset right there. I love full-size guns. I always have I Love this when I first took it out. I thought it shot very nice I did have a couple stove pipes right out of the case Maybe the second or third mag had a couple stove pipes outside of that It's performed well, which is not too uncommon with the new gun to have an issue here there But I did did like the way this shot. I expected to but you never know and it was Basically what I hoped for with some of my other large full-size handgun You know something that could be reliable something that is accurate and something that builds confidence now here We have a dual recoil spring all steel guide rod There's that upper And then of course a polymer of frame now if you look here those are some heavy-duty frame rails So they didn't they didn't chips out on this, you know, they added three mags and they have Steel sights And even that little holster And created a pretty nice handgun now. I mentioned they have a gen 2 model I you know, I took a look at it. I studied it. I was trying to see the differences. I didn't come up with much In terms of how it differs. I know one has a four inch barrel have your texturing little different Look and in contour with the thumb safety, but overall it was essentially the same thing But here it is part of the budget series here right there Zagana Px9 made by thesis not Tice S thesis that's the correct way to say it and I think they did a pretty good job for a Budget price if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up Button, thanks for watching and you guys be safe