From New York City, it's the Cube. Covering Automation Anywhere, Imagine. Brought to you by Automation Anywhere. We're in Midtown Manhattan at the Automation Anywhere, Imagine Crawfers 2019. Really excited to be here. 1,500 people talking about RPA, but really the RPA story is much more than just robotic process automation. It's really a new way to work, which we hear about all over the place and really reimagining what this technology can do. We're excited to have our next guest, she's Shelly Kramer, an analyst and partner for Futurum Research. Shelly, great to see you. Great to see you too, and you got it. I got it right. You got it right. Well, you're a very busy lady. You got all kinds of stuff going on, which is what we like. So first off, just kind of, have you been here before General Impressions of the Show? This is my first, this is my first Automation Anywhere event. And so it's exciting. I write a lot about RPA and about the future of work and workforce transformation. So it's great to be here. Yeah, and you just wrote not a super uplifting article on LinkedIn about employee dissatisfaction and some of the issues with employee retention. We talked before we turned the cameras on about things like calling them human resources and human capital, they're people. And I thought Mahir really touched on it well in the keynote today that this is not a rip and replace technology for people. This is a tool to help us do our jobs better, just like our laptops and our mobile phones and our applications. So are you excited about the opportunity? Do you see it as transformative? I do see it as transformative. And I think that before we talk about the technology that we have to talk about people and I'm pulling this out of my memory banks. So on average, about 82% of employees within any organization are disengaged, okay? 82%. So the ping pong tables and the foosball tables are not doing it? And so when you think about it, an engaged workforce are people who wake up in the morning or whenever it is they go to work and who are excited about what they're doing, excited about their company they're working for, love the culture that they're working within, love all those things that they're doing. And so when you realize that 82% of people are disengaged, that's problematic. Then you're talking about the toughest talent acquisition market that we've had in a really long time. So we're all fighting for top talent, not just top tech talent, but any kind of talent. And so focusing on how we can make the workforce better and create better cultures and put systems and processes in place that can make people do their jobs more efficiently, more productively and actually like them. That's to me, that's the beginning of where we get to this technology piece and what our PA can do, how AI plays a role in there and how you can, how employees can partner, you think of technology as a partner as opposed to worrying about technology replacing them. So I think it's an exciting time in the workforce and when you think about it that way, it makes a lot of sense. Do you think the difference in kind of the expectations that people have when they go to work to be engaged as a function of the millennials who are looking for something that's more mission led, is it a function of just the competition, is it so robust that before people could get away with having maybe a less compelling work experience? What do you think is driving the change or has it changed and maybe now we're just paying more attention to it? You know, I think it's changed in a little bit. I think that you and I are old enough that when we were coming of age and we were working our way up the corporate ladder, you know, you kind of sold a little bit of your soul to the company store. No matter, I mean, I grew up in advertising, right? And you know, I worked crazy hours and I loved it, but I never questioned that there were dues that I had to pay and that sort of thing. And I think that people don't necessarily expect the world on a platter, but I think especially the more skilled you are, whether it's knowledge of tech or whatever it is, in today's market, I think that we know, and again, it could be someone my age, it could be someone that's 25, it could be someone that's 40, I can find something else. So the minute this isn't doing it for me, I can go find something else. Now that said, there are also people who are punching a clock. You know what I'm saying? And I don't mean shift workers necessarily as much as I need to pay the mortgage, I need to get my kids fed. I don't love this job. Maybe it's a path to something. One of my daughters works for an insurance company. She has a very non-glamorous job, she doesn't love it, but she knows she has to do it for X amount of time before she can be considered for this different promotion and she is watching the clock on literally, on getting to that milestone and asking for her promotion and if that doesn't happen, she'll leave. So I think that when you can, people don't feel like they need to be stuck. So I think that we as leaders and as executives in the workforce, I think you always have to be mindful about what the work environment that you're creating is and focus on how do we get people and how do we fulfill the value prop that we use when we entice them to say yes to our offer? How do we get them to stay? There's so many things there. But one of the things you just mentioned is, I don't think they accept it like we did maybe when we were coming up, which is you hire somebody and you hire them for the attributes that they're bringing into your organization than it used to be, then you give them the employee rule book and you basically squash all the individual creativity and ingenuity and enthusiasm, which is why you hired them in the first place and we don't see that as much anymore. But at the same token, now everyone's worried about robots taking their job. At the same time, there's so many unfulfilled wrecks out there and as you said, it's the most competitive labor market out there. How are employers supposed to kind of square that circle because they need to bring the automation, they want to keep the people happy. It's a hyper competitive market and they need mission, but we've got to pay the bills and get the products out. I think that we can never forget that people who work for our companies need to pay the bills too, right? So when you can give them something that they can be excited about to do, that helps, right? But it's just kind of like, I'm thinking back to the presentation and I can't remember his name, but the VP of product did a presentation about today on mortgage loan application. That has to be one of the most boring things, right? If you're in the mortgage loan processing, do this, do this, do this, fill in this spreadsheet, blah blah blah, by the way, I hate creating spreadsheets. I just want to look at a finished one. But anyway, it was so cool to just look at this and I shot a video of it and shared it on Twitter if you want to see what I'm talking about, but it was just so cool that you can do this and do this and do this and you create this process and in no time the technology has done all the work and all the calculations and you've got a recommendation, approve, not approve. And so if you're in the mortgage loan business, the way to think about that, at least the way that I think to think about it is, does it mean that your job is going to go away? It's just like my daughter doing that not very exciting job that she's doing. If automation could fuel some of the mundane, repeatable, banal tasks so that she could focus on the other part of the equation where it's more interesting and more exciting, I think then that's really the value equation there. But I think as, I think what businesses have to do is be transparent and very honest with their employees and tell them this is why we're doing this and this is what our PA means and this is how it's going to add value and we're not doing this to necessarily replace humans. This is so that we can make this work better, more efficient, more, you know. And I think that, you know, I'll step back and say from a personal example, we went through a process last year where we evaluated all of our business processes and we looked at how much time our employees were spending because we tracked time doing certain tasks and then we were realizing the value there, we were actually paying too much in terms of the time investment or tasks that didn't make sense so then we set out integrating automation into our processes and it was a big project and people were kind of worried, you know and they were kind of worried about it but one of the things that we told them early on was like this is not so that we don't have work for you, this is so that we can make what it is you're doing more efficient and you can do things you like better. And so, and that has happened and we didn't lose any of our team and a lot of those tasks that they were doing are now automated but they're doing stuff that they like more so I think that's really the challenge for businesses is the messaging and then involving your teams in the process of deployment of any kind of technology. I think it's just the soul crushing expression is so valid for these types of activities and I think again Mahir had a great stat, 4% of his jobs require a medium level of creativity which people want to get off from under that but if we can define it as a tool and as I'm thinking of personal digital assistance well that used to be just my Palm 3 was my PDA, right? Wow, no one was threatened by the Palm taking the job away so I think you're right, if we can put it in the context of it's just another tool that's just going to help you get your job done, that's a very different way to frame the problem versus kind of this rip and replace narrative which we hear kind of over and over again. Well and I think it also goes beyond Jeff, it goes beyond and I think that employees at every level have to understand this, it goes beyond just helping you get your job done. It really is about the companies that survive today and tomorrow are the companies who transform and we talk a lot about digital transformation and I'm out there on the front lines all day every day and I can promise you there are many, many companies who are far from really understanding and embracing this and understanding what it takes from a technology standpoint and the value that data adds and how to use that data and the impact that that has on customer experience and all that sort of thing so I think it really is about much more than this will make your job suck less, right? I think it's about this is how our company stays successful, this is how you help make your job and the role you play within our organization, what you want it to be and I think that you can probably tell I've been marketing because I'm always thinking about how you spin something and I don't mean in a spin like a PR way but I think we all have to step back and think about it in terms of the whole equation and there are a whole lot of companies that don't exist anymore and whether you're talking about the financial services sector and every business everywhere is being disrupted. I told a story I was talking with here earlier this morning and I was telling him a story about how my husband and I just bought a new car and we expected to get a loan for that car from our community, it's not a community bank from our local bank. Your local bank. Our local bank has been recently purchased by a bigger bank in the last couple of years but we run all of our corporate money, I mean everything that we've ever done is here in this bank and so we of course fill out the loan application, no problem, give us an interest rate, no problem but they made every part, my husband and I both travel a lot for business and every part of the process required us to be somewhere together to have an official closing, to do this, to do that and it was just like we couldn't ever purchase this car because they were making it so difficult for us so we ended up talking with the car dealer who said oh my God we can fix you up, financed it through their banking partner which is a huge national bank, approved in five minutes, loan documents in five minutes, hey come on out, you sign this tomorrow, he can sign this when he gets back and when I talked to my bank after the transaction I said here's the deal, I wanted to do business with you but when you make it difficult for a customer to give you their money they're not going to hesitate to give somebody else their money so I think the banking industry is one example of these processes that are so cumbersome that in some ways can be automated but it just, it doesn't make sense and customers today, you and I are impatient people as are people younger than we are and we know there has to be a better way. Technology can give us a better way. Right, and you know they can use different data sets and I mean I bought some stuff recently and you just push the button on the phone and it takes a minute, the wheel spins and then you're approved, right? You're done. You're done and it's a completely different experience but the part about the digital transformation I wanted to follow up is it came up today where a lot of times people are the integration point between these systems, very similar to the example that you just used and you can't digitally transform if all these automated systems ultimately have to bottleneck through some person to take this piece of data and stick it over there. So it's absolutely critical to get those people out of the way. So as you look forward 2019, what are some of the big trends beyond RPA and kind of personal digital assistance not called POM that you're seeing and that you're excited about? Well I think that it's hard not to be excited about RPA just simply because it's predicted to be at 1.9 billion this year and to almost double by 2021. I mean it makes sense that companies like Automation Anywhere are doubling down on that, right? It also makes sense that gigantic companies like IBM and Deloitte and EMI, I mean they're all here in force. They're all here, right? There's a reason for that, right? Because IBM's customers want this and Microsoft's customers want this. So I think that in general I think that technology is fueling our world, our personal lives, our business world and I think that probably one of the biggest things that I pay attention to and that we pay attention to is that technology alone isn't the answer. It's the partnership of human beings and their skill sets and capabilities and data and automation and artificial intelligence and all those things. So I think that it's an incredibly exciting time. It's kind of like when you go back to the video that we saw this morning in the overview about the internet and I don't know if you remember this. I don't know, I don't know how much older I am than you but I remember that internet machine and wow, I could send an email, you know? But then when you think about how and those comments, you know, that Matt Lauer and Katie Couric were making, like the word dumb comments, we didn't know. We didn't know the impact the internet could have, would have, you know. And so I think the same is true of this kind of technology today, this next generation of technology. So there's not just one thing I'm interested in. I'm interested in all of it. You've got to keep learning, right? Because we have a hard time with, we're very linear and everything's growing exponentially. So you've got to be willing to learn the next thing because it's right around the corner. And I think that's so key. That's a great wrap. I think that people who are happiest today are people who actually love change and who love learning. And I would say, I would posit that most, those are not inherently things that people, traits that people possess. I'm lucky because I do. But you see what I'm saying? I think that, I don't think that you would be, I think- It's an interesting question whether that's inherent if there's just people that like to learn and are curious all the time. And then they got to stick in the muds and can the stick in the muds change their attitude and become learners again? Or maybe they won't. I mean, you know, I think that they're, I do think that there are people who are wired to like change and are curious and who love learning. And I think there are a whole bunch of people who are not. And I would, I truly believe that for success in today's world and moving forward for young people and not so young people, you better get there if that's not your deal. Because I don't think that, and I have stumbled across conversations of people having like, that's not going to happen. So I don't have to worry about it because I'm going to be out of here by then. And you know what?  But especially for young people making their way. It's an A-okay mindset, but it's not the fact. That's the problem. It's happening, I mean, the future is here and it's happening at a faster pace. Well, Shelly, we could go on and on and on but we're going to have to leave it there. And I appreciate you taking a few minutes out of your day. Absolutely, my pleasure. All right. Shelly, I'm Jeff, you're watching theCUBE. We're at Automation Anywhere Imagine in Midtown, Manhattan. Thanks for watching. See you next time.


I'm Brigitte Maas, I'm a forage agronomist and I'm working for SIRT. I'm based in Nairobi and I'm the first person for SIRT to work in the forages area in Africa, particularly in eastern and central Africa. And for me the opportunity was really to make a lot of contacts with not only every colleagues and other centers colleagues but also a number of stakeholders. And it was I think a wonderful opportunity to open an avenue for future research, now particularly into new initiatives with high protein legumes, better feeds for different animals, not only ruminants, but we are also talking of monogastrics for example. So what's interesting about this particular proposal? The proposal is very broad and particularly we are working along value chains which will hopefully have much better opportunity for future impacts and not so much very limited focus on a particular technique or technology but rather really the larger integration along a value chain.


Story of my life waiting for pain to die It's just after 11 30 a.m. Sunday morning November 14th my sister's birthday everybody tell Karen happy birthday We are trying to keep what's her face? Calm It's a work in progress because we're going for a W. A. L. K. and To say she gets excited is an understatement So anyway, we're gonna go for a walk this morning. It's not rainy out at the moment. It's Partially overcast 64 degrees kind of warmer than it's been and but windy but we're gonna go for a walk and we will See what we can see She's being good so far. Good girl. Anyway, we'll be back everybody. I don't think I vlog yet again today I think it's on the second day and I really waited until God knows when what time is it? 136 p.m. Not quite as late as the other day. Anyway, I have been just lazing around I need to go downstairs and do the dishes, but I don't really want to I've been lazing around today just catching up on things I did have one more video I Wanted to film for the month For sure, I mean, I still need to do mission inspirations, which I've got a print. I Don't remember where I left off October Then do novembers. I don't know Anyway, besides that I wanted to film another art foamy's video playing with my art foamy's episode 3 and some tips and tricks and things I am discovering about art foamy's and I Unexpectedly doing a rainbow So if you want to know how I did that with my art foamy's and what exactly I did I ain't gonna show you you got to watch the video on Saturday the 20th You gotta watch a video. This is one of the ones. This isn't my art foamy stamp design But how cool is that bird in rainbow? right I Did do some of my designs so I did rainbow arrows because who doesn't love a good rainbow arrow and I also did our favorite moon Rainbow moon and I did the little mini paisley a few times. I can only see this one right now Because there's so many papers, but here's this one. Oh, here's another one I know I did it more than that but anyway So that's my paisley and then that's another this is another one Cool, right? Okay, so I had a lot of fun with that. So but you got to go watch the video Anyway, I've been doing that and just kind of lazing around I got the video edited in It's loading right now as we speak and then in the meantime I've got to figure out what I did with mission inspiration and need to print those Because I have no idea November 16th, I think um, it's 9 12 a.m. It is 42 degrees out 42 It's not supposed to rain the next couple of days, but it's supposed to be cold and believe me. It's cold I think our high today is supposed to be 48 so obviously in the car I'm headed out to go to the grocery store side mirror had to wipe it off. That's better. I'll be back You know to say my car needs to warm up is probably the understatement of the century. All right Like she needs a couple minutes Anyway We are going to go to the post office and check the PO box first and then we'll go to the grocery store I think that's the only two places we have to go Thankfully but You know supply chain being what it is like, I guess you never know right and I need to get stuff for Thanksgiving dinner. So I guess we'll find out and I need to switch on though. Hey guys, it is 2 42 p.m If I just you know where my hair is growing out, it just I am so surprised the mail's here I'm shocked. Okay It's never here this early. Um Anyway, I came home after doing all that and running errands and My key doesn't want to come out Having lunch I went upstairs and I started working on the new youtube channel again and basically I've done all that for the rest of the day while I was Loading video in between sessions of getting video to load and sorting and organizing them I was die cutting some new doily dies that I got Um, I like having the little mini doilies to do paper clusters and stuff with But they're kind of hard to find and they're kind of expensive and I thought why can't I just buy a couple of dies and use paper I've got laying around the art room or dollars to a craft paper or something um To make my own and so I've been doing that and it's a workout pretty well I mean, it's tricky. They're kind of a thinlet type die and They have a mind of their own and they're doily dies. So there's a lot of little teeny bits. It makes a big mess, but I just sit there for an hour or so every now and then and cut doilies and It's all good November 17th, I think was walking out. Obviously we're in the car. I was walking out the front door across the driveway and I think just out of sight of the security camera the coyote was In the woods staring at me as it came out the front door Like it's becoming a problem and I'm trying to get a hold of the HOA management people And the school and like the dead trees and stuff are like, of course an issue But the coyotes an issue a bigger issue. I think At the moment. So yeah, anyway, I it's my makeup. Funny. Anyway, I am Helping out adopted daughter Jenny this morning with something she needs to be doing And so I'm going to be helping her with that. I guess I should have blended a little bit better before I left house uh, anyway And I it'll probably be out for a couple hours helping her So I have my drawing bag with me and my small tablet And uh, yeah, and for those that don't know Jenny I used to have a daycare business and Jenny was my very first baby at the daycare And she's now a grown-up married old lady and we've sort of adopted her and her husband into our family so she's my second daughter and Yeah, when they need help with something like we're there to help them. So You know, we're going to go take care of someone that this morning and If I have free time while I'm waiting I might drive over to dickblick or craft warehouse because both are nearby and I don't know We'll see. We'll see what happens. I don't know. All right I'm going to get myself situated and I'm going to get myself on the road over to her house The coyote kind of freaked me out, but you know All right, I'll be back for 18th. I am taking the course by felix shinburger at water colorist and penning artist And he and the I haven't gotten past the introduction by the way But he did say in the beginning introduction part of the course He shared what his preferred color palette of colors was that he uses besides pen and ink in his work and Of course at first The art supply hoarder that I am Was tempted to oh, oh, I need to go out to the store today.  I am going to get to paper clusters at some point Chasing a book. Well, if you've seen this clip, you've seen the other clips. He's back. It's bright. It's daytime. It's lunchtime Here is you see him. He just made himself at home In my front yard. I don't think he's scared of me in the least. Yeah, wildly coyote the wildlife people so I think I talked about the palette of colors I put together for the class I'm taking by Felix Scheinberger um The only color I'm not super sure about is the naples yellow. My naples yellow seems to be more flesh toned I think than the one he's using Which is um, yeah, but I think it'll work I think I think it'll still work. So these are the ones I came up with. These are the dried swatches for using just what I had and this is The palette of colors. These are schminkie colors. I have some of them Um, these are the ones he uses and you know, this is printed off the computer. So the color swatch isn't perfectly accurate anyway That is drawing down. Let's just see here on the table. I got some drawing done and I got some more stuff done on the new youtube channel was hoping I could get it done today I've got five more videos to do and it says you've reached your daily upload limit.  I've been meaning to film. I've been using the bags for about a week now and um, we'll go through the pros and cons of them and um, yeah, that's going to be a patreon video Sorry, um, I will link the two bags. I am using down below for you all here in the vlog since I keep mentioning them I also mentioned the derwent bag. Somebody has mentioned to me which is now Excuse me. It's now on my amazon wishlist because no, I have a bag thing Sorry all that. Um, anyway, um, so but um So I will link all three bags down below But I'm going to do a pro and con video and how I'm using it video for patrons and supporters At some point you all might see it But they get the first look for sure and it might be a video that's just for them. No guarantees. Anyway um Yeah, so I'm going to do that. I think I don't think I'll get it edited today And the lighting is like kind of weird because it's dark and stormy outside But I'm going to do my best because that's all we can do I'll be back. Okay guys. So I got the art bag video filmed Uh for the patrons and supporters I will like I said for you guys link the art bags down below that I'm currently using. Um, except The this one no This one, I don't remember where I got this one I have a feeling it might have been from wish or something. I don't know Um, but the other ones I will link. Um, this one Is a makeup bag. It doesn't come in that color anymore. It now comes in This color if you want to know the details about how I'm using the bags What's in all the bags what works what doesn't what I've modified what I haven't You have to be a patron or supporter. Sorry. All right. That's it for the minute I'm going to clean things up and go back downstairs I think because I think I'm done up here for the day. Uh, if YouTube is finished, maybe I'll be back It's Friday morning November 19th 10 a.m. Straight up um, I just edited a video for the patrons and supporters And it is saving and rendering right now Um, hopefully later this afternoon I can get it and the rest of the old video onto their private youtube channel for them Today I'm gonna get that just done. I'd love to get that done so I can focus on other stuff Audrey to do breakfast dishes to do Um, there's always an art project to work on. Uh, let's be honest. So, um I've always got that to do But which one to do first? I don't know. I might Go do laundry and dishes first instead of art. I know shocking, right? Tomorrow morning we need to get up Um shortly after breakfast and we need to um Go to Costco and get some Things that we're running low on and some stuff for dinner tomorrow night That guy Polly is and Polly says dad our tourists are gonna all come over I think we're gonna just do something simple like frozen lasagna and garlic bread. Um Something very easy low-key um So that's good and but we need to get all this stuff for that tomorrow morning Uh And maybe go to winco and or Fred Meyer because I almost said target because We have a few other things we're out of and you just kind of never know With the supply chain issues being what they are Which things are going to be in stock at which stores? So yeah, that's a thing So anyway, all right, that's it for the minute. Yes, I'm just pacing around our room getting some extra steps in This is something I do on a fairly regular basis Which is why before we even go out walking in the evening I sometimes have as many as 5000 steps ready because I just pace Probably is why my knee is all messed up and messed up is not the word I wanted to use The word I wanted to use is starting with F But y'all know what I mean. I don't want to be demonetized. All right, that's it for the minute I may do a little bit more work on that today We'll see but definitely probably soon because I'm I'm ready And I have some things I want to do to that Although I'll be honest with y'all. I'm really liking it just in black and white Let me go over there and show you I didn't think I would like it as much as I do But there's just something about that that I'm Very tempted to start a different painting on and leave this one the way it is I am very tempted. What do you all think leave something in the comments below? All right, that's it for the minute. I'll be back. Hey guys. I don't think I've checked in today I remember 20th 2 59 p.m. So it's almost three o'clock and I didn't check in yet. Oops so We went and ran a whole bunch of errands this morning and now we're going to go out for a walk My name is 750 p.m. On saturday and the family has just left from having a very nice dinner together and um The kids went back to their house with Pauli's father And I think he and his dad are doing more kitchen run out tonight. Is that right? Yes He's putting up The upper cabinets, right? They're going to try to get the cabinets in and I guess they put two new windows in today Yeah, anyway, they're trying hard to get it done for the christmas holidays Our tourist said something about having it done for christmas for rebecca. So Anyway, it was a very nice evening I do think that we're probably lily watching tomorrow. We heard that as they were leaving And yeah, so anyway, but that's okay. You'll see that in the next week vlog Good morning, everybody Did my exit last night for the vlog make sense? In case I was really tired. Could you tell? Holy cow All right, I hope you guys have had a great week that it's been a good time and that you have had um, uh, say a safe healthy happy week Yeah, all right. If uh, you have any questions comments or concerns leave them down below uh, check out the video description for relevant links and Um links to the etsy shop and all that most of it is in my link treblista links, which is down below Anyway, you can also send me happy mail. My address is down there. Feel free All right, that's it for now I'll see you in the next vlog go out and have a good time Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys


Who's ready? We're ready! This looks like two up in the side pan. The temperature is around 86 every day. It says there might be a slight chance of rain. Hopefully it's clear. Joan's gonna take the cat first and then pick me up and then we'll go to the airport together. So I'll see you guys in the car. Let's go! Owner of Daystays! She's taking us to side pan! It is a swimwear and resort wear brand created in 2012 by Haeyoung and me through her love for summer, travel and fashion. All the swimwear are made with recycled plastic and sustainability is a huge part of the brand's philosophy. They've been doing annual trips for 10 years and Haeyoung and me invited me to this year's trip to side pan and I was so excited to go on this trip with them. So yeah, back to the vlog. So passionately on the plane, I have bibimbap sauce on my mask. We're going to our hotel right now called PIC. Look at the view from our room! I'll just keep some of you. I like that version. Let's go swimming. This is the closet room where we have all of the Daystays stuff. You can pick out whatever you want to wear whenever. What do I want to wear today? So for our dinner outfit, I chose this lemon dress. Black lemon dress. And Joan chose this lavender colored mini dress. We're going to eat at Seaside Grill. It's so humid that I think the camera lens got blurry. Lavender color. Joan and I are trying to sleep. We're having a party outside. Today we're actually going to get our PCR test and go to the beach. And we're going to check out of this hotel and go to another hotel. The weather is beautiful today. Look at the palm trees dancing. I didn't eat breakfast, but I didn't feel like eating breakfast for my day outfit. I'm going to wear this Daystays top. Can you tell? Oh, it's me. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. It's a drive-through PCR test. So we're waiting. Are you ready? A little bit. Starting with vegetables. It's so good. It really looks like a rebellious teenage child. Like a mom. I want to buy some hot cheetos. It's so good. And the menu here is a lot of milk. It's so exciting. Sisters! I'm going to leave in a hurry and I forgot to bring both my cameras. So I don't think I'm going to be vlogging much. Oh my god, it's raining now. It's snorkeling. You can watch Yoyo's vlog to see all the underwater action. I saw a lot of fishies. Very colorful ones too. Now we're going back to the hotel and we're probably going to eat and spend some time in the city. Back from the island we got a little break and Joan is watching her basketball game between Atlanta and Georgia. No, Atlanta and Miami. Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta Hawks. Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat. Look how close she is to the screen right now.  Always watch the really close games. Going to Namdaemun. Food in Saipan. Namdaemun. Wow. You're pretty good. I love Saipan. Maybe, maybe. They have hot cheetos maybe. Nata chips. I'm so excited to try this one. Assam banana milk tea. I've never tried banana milk tea before. These dried mangoes from Guam. Fish oil. Because health is important. Oh and I got two cute little mini dresses. Of course all day stays and we're going to go have tea time. Next few hours. We're gonna dodge it.


What's up internet? Today we're reviewing the ASUS RTX 3080 OC which was kindly lent to us by ASUS. So the process for all graphics cards now is that NVIDIA or AMD comes up with a chip design and then licenses it out to all of the different third-party manufacturers. So pare-pareho lang yung mga chip na yan. Lahat ng 3080, pare-ho, 3070, 3060Ti the design of those chips are exactly the same. Yung challenge para sa mga brands How do we make our card faster, cooler, mas magatating nan compared to everybody else? So does the tough 3080 OC manage to differentiate itself from the rest of the cards? Yes it does. And how does it do that? First of all, this is a big boy card at 11.8 inches so make sure you have enough space in your case and the first old school design feature that I really like is that the power connectors are 2.8 pin. The founder's edition of the 3080 had a 12 pin connector. Tuto may kasama naman adapter but for me, I dislike ang gulo ko siya ng mga adapter na yan, mawawala yan hindi siya compatible for some reason dun sa 8 pin na meron ka. It's always a bad idea when you try to add something new that it's not natively supported, you need to have an adapter or things like that. So thank God the tough 3080 OC has the old style or the classic 8 pin and you need two of those. I have a very old ring but I was able to use the 3080 no problem using my existing PSU. So that's one less thing to worry about when you're buying this card. Second important old school design feature is that ASUS opted to go with the traditional cooling scheme. Again, if you look at the founder's edition of the 3080 there's a very novel cooling mechanism. It looks very different. But for this tough card ASUS went with what it knows. So the cooling system has three fans. The center fan rotates opposite to the other two fans and supposedly this creates less turbulence for the airflow throughout the fan. You can see the heat pipes jutting out of the front of the card as well as the thickness of the cooler itself indicating quality. This isn't a flimsy thing and there is enough material there to help radiate out the heat of this card. There's also a physical switch on the card itself to switch from performance to quiet mode if you're the type who's bothered na sobrang ingay ng fans on load. But for me, I want that performance. So no question, I clicked it onto performance. Even on load though, this card isn't particularly noisy. So all of these are tried in true technology and you can see that they work really well with ASUS stuff because you can game at load without worrying about high temps. We did a short meta analysis of other reviews of this card and everyone agrees that its cooling is quite good. We experienced this also in our own testing because we tested it in an open air test setup and we could, you know, nararamdaman mong gano ka-init yung bugan ng card. But the card itself, the temperatures on load were still very good. So we could feel the heat because the cooling system was efficiently shunting that away from the card and out into the open air. Going along with the general quality of the card is its very solid backplate. You don't feel that because it is a big card, baka overtime or the weight of it in your case over time might deform the card. But the backplate is very sturdy and serves as a spine to make sure that the card remains in place. For its outputs, the card has two HDMI 2.1 ports and three display port 1.4. And I bring that up because as you mentioned in another video, it's very important to note what your outputs are on a GPU para compatible siya dun sa monitor mo. Lastly, there is some slight RGB on this card. Very minimal, just the tough logo. So kahit ito medyo old school, di nila bling-bling masyado kahit yung mga fans and things like that, just a very subtle effect with the logo. And the tough brand is really more about performance rather than all of the bells and whistles.  But the tough line is solidly based in performance without the bells and whistles. So how does it do with performance? And all of the four main cards from the Founders Edition, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, lahat yung naglalaro within the same performance range. They're all based on the 3080 and depending on the game, one card might be higher than the other. The boost clock actually of the ASUS stuff is higher. It's 1815 compared to the Founders Edition, which is at 1,710 MHz. But really the numbers boil down to all of these cards being very close in performance. Again, based on the meta-analysis of the reviews that we saw as well as based on our own testing, you can expect this card to run most games if at 1080p, over 170 FPS, if at 2K or 1440p, at over 130 FPS and 4K gaming over 80 FPS. This is a summary over multiple games and these are results from multiple games tallied from different reviews as well as our own. We like to do this because mas maganda siyang snapshot of the performance of the card. If you're only focused on one game, there's so many things that change per game and per reviewer. The settings of that game, the test bench of that reviewer, if you've overclocked anything in the system, how well the game is optimized. So andami mga variables between games and between system review build and between system review units. So we like to do this sort of meta-analysis blending our own findings as well as yung na-report na sa internet kasi hindi naman ito ganun ka bago tong card na ito. This came on in September. So a lot of people have been able to kick the tires around and see how fast it goes. Pero yung maganda dito sa ASUS TUF RTX 3080 OC is that yes, its performance is around the same as the three other main cards pero usually yung SRP niya mas wababa. We saw one review that said that you should definitely get this over a Founder's Edition. We had another review that said that the Founder's Edition was slightly faster. So paiba-iba yung results pero kunti lang indifference and what everybody agrees is that usually you can find this card for cheaper compared to the Founder's Edition. Good luck mahanap mo yung dito sa atin. The MSI card and the Gigabyte card. So pound for pound this is basically the same performance as those three other cards and usually at a lower price point. ASUS also has a non-OC version of this card so it's the TUF, RTX 3080 and that's even cheaper and a lot of people say that is super value for money. So if you can find either this one the 3080 OC or the 3080 TUF then both are very good competitors compared to the other 3080 cards. I give the TUF 3080 OC a 9.5 out of 10 dock just 0.5 because they are still a bit hard to find now but if you can find it there really isn't any good reason not to get it. It would be my go-to card mainstream 3080 options. So to conclude it's a good card at a good price and yung makita dito sa TUF 3080 OC it's just good solid performance no other fancy gimmicks that you don't really need it focuses on doing things well being able to plug in to your existing PSU very capable cooling system and finally giving you the performance that you come to expect from an RTX 3080. Thanks for watching. And thank you to you guys who have joined our YouTube membership. There are some cool perks to joining such as getting advanced notice of incoming items and being able to reserve based on the items that are coming in. 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This is stock number 11139. We are here at Summit Auto in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Your new and used Ram and heavy-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2015 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Long Box SLT. This truck has a 6.4 liter V8 Hemi motor. It has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. Bright red is the color. It's a special paint that you could order in 2015. So if you are like boy this is a different color I've never seen before it's because it is a special color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you'd like to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link to our website. Click that and check us out there. This one does come with some really nice BF Goodrich K02 tires. These are LT 275 70 R18s and they have probably about I'd say 80 to 90% of the tread last so very new tires on here. Frame and underbody is in really nice condition. I believe this truck came out of North Dakota. Has these steel rooms with the chrome covers. No major dents or dings on that front fender. The headlight lenses are nice and clear and it does come with the factory fog lights. Front bumper absolutely perfect. No major dents or dings on that. And the hood is in really nice shape as well. I didn't see any dents on there. Passenger side front fender is in nice shape too. And the passenger side rim, no scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of the truck take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the truck you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and that is why we offer the Summit Auto Fast Pass option in the upper right hand part of your screen. A link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get pre-approved, see a payment quote, even appraise the trade all from the comfort of your own home. It has the wheel-to-wheel side steps. Doors look really good down that side. No scuffs or scrapes on that back rim and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Framing under bodies in really nice shape. Very little to no corrosion. It's like that all the way underneath. Has all the remaining factory exhaust and the lower rockers all look really nice. Didn't see any corrosion on them either. Has a trucks port, soft tonneau cover. I didn't see any rips or tears on that. Tailgate is in nice shape. Didn't see any major dents or dings on there. The only thing I noticed is there is one dent on that rear bumper but that's really the only thing I noticed on the entire truck. Locking tailgate, backup camera, has a really nice sprained bedliner. Bed rail, fifth wheel bed rails. Bed is in really nice shape. It does have this step gate which secures onto here and then it folds down so you can use that to get up into the bed. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly and as you go down this side of the truck just as clean as that passenger side. No dents or dings on the box here and for full disclosure this back rim is in nice shape as well. Down the rest of the side of the truck looks really good. No dents, no dings, no scuffs, no scrapes. It does have the heated fold-out tonneau. They have built in directional signals on them. Inside the SLT package gives you the gray cloth interior. There are no rips, there are no tears on those seats. They are in really nice shape. Side curtain airbags, power driver seat, lumbar, factory all-weather floor mats throughout on the truck. Auto headlamps, power windows, power locks and power mirrors. These mirrors also power fold in which is kind of a unique option for an SLT. I always like showing that both sides are working and as we hop inside the truck here be able to check out the instrument cluster here so you can check out the miles and everything. You can see that this one has 39,154 miles. You get the digital speedometer, outside temp and compass display. It comes with the leather-wrapped steering wheel. That's in really nice shape. Didn't see any major rips or tears on there. Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, cruise controls on the right and you do get audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. It comes with the six-speed automatic transmission, 8.4 3C radio, AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. This is where your backup camera shows up and you can do your climate controls here as well. Now this being the 3C you can add navigation to this radio for $595. See your sales professional for more details. Down here you can have your more tactile climate control buttons so if you don't like using the radio up there you can use those. It has the turned-out four-wheel drive, factory brake controller and stability control tow hull and your parking sensors. You can turn those off and on. It does have a 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in, passenger side floor mat and seat are in excellent shape. No rips or tears or stains on there. Very nice and clean and the headliner is in really nice clean condition as well. You get your power side and rear window button, map lights and your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and line systems and then this one does have the 911 and assist buttons on there. Those are features of the vehicle that you never have to pay a subscription for. This one also comes with a CD player and that is in the center console there. And we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood and start it up. The back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips or tears back here.  Needs power sliding rear window. Seats are in excellent shape.  If you got pets you can put both sides down. They got a nice flat place to lay or if you got muddy boots or tools you put them on there and you get your seats dirty. You also have storage underneath there and then you do have two in-floor storage bins on both sides with removable containers for easy cleaning. You can put ice and drinks in there and then dump it out and it's like you have too many coolers wherever you go. And then those side-current airbags on the front seats there. You also get the child safety locks on the back doors and then the bottom ones are the doors and the door sills all look really good on this truck. We'll start it up and take a quick look under the hood. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.4 liter V8 Hemi motor. Engine bay is very clean runs very smooth. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. The truck has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go. Really unique color and I'd recommend it from a quality and condition standpoint. 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Good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Arma with the Stock Swoosh Happy Valentine's Day everyone. I am doing a market review because I'd like to do these in the weekends when the market's closed and my brain is 100% relaxed. So let's take a look at the market.  The last six months of the spy has had a harder drop down than the QQQs. So that's why I want to look at this. Now take into consideration the spy made brand new all-time highs in 2015. The QQQs did not. So you got to take all of that into consideration. Also the spy retested the anomaly day twice. Hell, the QQs did not. So yeah this is the right chart to really focus on right now to see where we're going with it. So I've been watching this, watching this, watching this since the beginning of the year. The year opened here January 4th. We gapped down. We gapped down fell, retraced ourselves into the close of the day, gapped up the following day, couldn't hold it, gapped down. Ever since this day the gapped down, actually this is this is a number here. Oh my Lanta. I've been saying 198 and there it is. Yep. I can't make this up. I tried. Anyways what we need to do is and luckily I don't have to make it up because it's right there in the chart and I just know what to look for. What we need to do is get over this number. Over this number 198. It's again remember supporter resistance are areas but the resistance now that's going to take us back up where we need to go that people are going to start believing and getting conviction in the market again is 198 and of course 200 will help but once we hit up over 198 we should just go right to the $200 number. We will still be under the 200 per moving average of the daily chart of the spot. Does that matter? No. Why? Market is still in the uptrend. I'm the only one probably that's calling it that way but the fact is we are and so we will eventually if all things stay the way that they are get over this number. Now what makes me say that we will do this sooner rather than later given the drop down in the last month many many people probably don't believe me but I'm telling you this activity that's happened in the last week in the market this was yeah Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday was bullish. I know it seems like it's not but it actually was more bullish than bearish so if I have to read the trading action of the last week it's telling me bullish why because we had a gap down here that failed to go lower on Monday the 8th. We gapped up then the following day actually the day that we actually did this here and did the close on Monday we rallied hard into the close held held okay could have broken and fallen off a planet that day didn't do it. Now this day here we gapped down but we rally big rally big couldn't get over 187 but then the following day we did open rally that day couldn't have we didn't have a fall through but we did have a big big rally on this day in the intraday then we fell this was Wednesday there were some people talking made the market fall into the afternoon following day we fell again gap down fall through from the previous day of the Wednesday into the Thursday but we didn't go anywhere again you see this we went nowhere fell drop broke rallied again held held the anomaly day held the area held the support so buying at every point of the way is coming in what it means to what it means to the buying is coming in and the selling is not following through this is not what I would consider paticking action institutional selling I don't see it it's not happening there's no follow-through this is actually bullish I'll sell off in here a gap down here then a gap up here the right behind the Friday is bullish action so this is bullish to me even though we don't have some massive green body bar day and even though we've fallen since beginning of the year this is a reversal of this drop down we should see some follow-through here but we got to get over 198 and that's you know not crazy far from here but it's you know we got a rally we got a rally and continue and rally and keep going so we should have the rally into the rest of the month of February but we'll have to see where we gap on Friday remember Monday's a holiday the markets close it's President's Day Tuesday we open we'll have to see what happens I think actually would be good for the market because whatever happens overseas will not affect us then which sometimes happens Sunday into Monday we won't have that because Monday will trade in other countries normal so we rallied a lot on Friday after we gapped up we fell and then we rallied and I knew that we would support ourselves on Friday so and we did it and you could have bought the market Friday and it was a gap up was valid by so all in all it what what I would like to just what I'm interested to see what I'm very curious to see and I guess I'm gonna find out is can we get over 198 and 200 before the end of February that that's what I would like to see happen in ideal world the market recovers without a shot of a doubt trades over and above and beyond through this area by the end of the month that's two weeks that's more than more than enough time that's plenty of time that's a lot of time some people will still read that market as bearish and will short into that area reading is resistance but it really isn't you could you could say it's a temporary resistance but I'm not even looking at that like that I'm just looking at an area that the market needs to move above and beyond and if we do that for the end of the month it's it's good it's good for the spring to have a very bullish spring and and then we should make a new high still if here this is what I'm predicting if we can do this if we can I don't know if we can if we will if we can if we can get up to this area and over this area and up to this area by the end of February March and April could be you know nice fall through months for the market to make new highs whether they happen in March or whether it happens in April I have no idea but one thing's for sure whenever it happens it is going to be swift and furious that the market will blow over the numbers every blow number I had has been lowered because I never thought we drop off this bunch so the blow number really is 215 215 210 210 210 which is not even the previous high 210 is really a new blow number so we get over 210 we should blow over the high of round 215 ish and continue up to 225 which were some targets that people had in the market last year that we never got to just ran out of time ran out a year and then we open the market down and we've been falling all year but not really remember I like to short I'm very good at shorting what does that mean it means I'm good at spotting weakness as result of me focusing so much on shorting I've learned to read strength very well as to so the benefit of getting good at one thing is you often get good at the other thing too so I'm good at reading weakness and as a result of that I've gotten good at reading strength too this is showing strength here in the market okay and this is not weakness so you've got to look at it read what the institutions are doing make sure that everything lines up reading trends in the market or stocks has nothing to do with lower lows and lower highs and higher lows and higher highs if it was that easy to make decisions about trading trends we know and whatever lose any money actually I just write a program and sell it and we'd all make money but then nobody would really make any real money because there wouldn't be any money to be had so at the end of the day how do I do it gaps I have a method of strategy it's a 26 point rating system and golden gaps I'm doing a live webinar Tuesday night if you'd like to come at 5 30 Eastern time in the next golden gap class it's February 20th and 21st this is an amazing call I've made for the market to still make a new brand new all-time high and still do it really at the beginning of this calendar year I'm not talking later the year I'm talking still beginning the calendar year could do it even after the fact that we dropped off into the first part of the year and but I'm telling you we didn't go anywhere and I knew the anomaly did what hold me did we held and every time we go down there and hold I say oh my lanta and and then when I see this here this action and specifically the action from the Thursday and the Friday I say whoop whoop this is actually bullish email me at Melissa at the sockswish.com if you'd like more information and I will do probably a lot of market videos in the next two weeks because I really want to see what happens but I'm telling you don't be surprised don't be surprised if when we get to some of these numbers I'm talking about 198 200 and really 210 is the big big big big number we can have like almost a straight-up action here let me just see if I can find anything like I'm like I see it I see it in my mind I just want to see if there's anything that I can even find to show you like what I see it's gonna happen when I say the blow number let me just see if there's anything even anything no can't even say this because it's not bullish enough it's a rally it's not what I mean let me just there may be nothing there may be nothing like what I'm seeing is gonna happen which is which is amazing let me just see if there's anything like I'm seeing in my mind is gonna happen no too tight too tight too tight too tight too normal well this is the closest thing now this is this isn't a great example but this is the closest thing that I can find right now I'm gonna I'll keep looking this is the closest thing that I can find right now it's not a good example though I'm gonna I'm gonna keep looking I'll be I'll look in the room this week but this is the closest thing that I can find right now is something what I'm thinking it's gonna happen when we blow it'll be like like almost straight up because this happened in a matter of like really a little bit like more than a week and this had a gymungus move 141 75 this isn't even really what it this isn't even really want to talk about this is the closest thing I can find right now I'll have to find what I mean but in my mind if I drew it and often I and often I see things before they happen and that's that's what I'm seeing and I and I saw it I saw it even before this thing happened here this year I saw last year in the previous year and we played out and we did it but I didn't I couldn't predict this would happen here does it matter no because we're still holding the uptrend but it's like in my mind I see how it's gonna do it I just can't I can't find anything actually in the last few years that even is what I'm seeing is gonna happen and that's very interesting it's very interesting now I'm gonna keep going back and looking to see if I can find something in the last ten years but if I can't find anything that's like what I see it's that's gonna be unbelievable that I'm predicting it because I think it's gonna be I think what what I saw previously like a year and a half ago and then Carrie turned to this year again no one believes me anymore no one believes me anymore because a lot of people think the markets bearish and it's it's absolutely absolutely not but I'm telling you that everything I'm seeing that's gonna happen the predictions that I'm making are all based on gaps okay so that's how they would make the predictions but in my mind I'm seeing this setting up to be a a time when the market is going to it's gonna go in a big way that's the people are gonna be surprised that's the best way that I can say it like to a regular person where people are gonna be shocked surprised and then the confidence that people lost in the market is gonna be reinvigorated people will feel better again than about investing and training and and and when they get their statements in the mail every month for the 401ks and mutual funds they'll feel happy they'll feel excited and people then will spend money with ease and banks will be happy and everyone will be happy there's a time coming up and in the market and I do believe it begins in 2016 where people then feel exhilaration again about their investments and excitement about investing and training it's when is that really gonna start to play out not till after we see a very significant rally okay which is more than over the high it's gonna be a rally that lasts and it could last for years and I did predict that a year and a half ago we rallied in 2015 made brand new all-time highs but it lacked the follow-through then into the summer of 2015 it we couldn't make a new high then at the end of the year although we rally some stocks did make a new high market didn't got tired and then this year early in the year we just we just couldn't do it to ourselves we just had some situations here but it's nothing that's like a problem and I and I've been double triple checking myself every single day to make sure I mean every day the market gaps down or gaps up I read it you could you could rate the market every day actually if I knew my system to do that but I'm focusing on it I'm seeing it and it's real so we'll see what happens but look for a time of optimism that's gonna happen and I believe it begins in 2016 and then I believe it lasts for several years and so this is opportunity opportunity in the market if you know how to read it to invest in stocks and the market long-term you got to have guts to do it though because it hasn't happened yet but you got to have guts to train to make a lot of money and to make predictions I mean the the Amazon trade and the Google trade that I took the options that I was in that I was up a lot of money and and had huge profits and prior to the earnings were gutsy gutsy calls and and and gutsy ones but every day I take gutsy trades in the market because I day trade in the one-minute chart so you just got to know what to look for you just have to be very focused and have a strategy if you believe in the strategy know what you're doing you can take the risk and I do so have a great Valentine's Day everyone we'll be watching the market email me at melissathestalkswish.com if you'd like to sign up for the next Golden Gap course can't wait to see what the market does in the month of February have a great day everyone


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Okay, so here we go I'm gonna set my time where we want to first of course thank the public theater, thank how around for helping us put this together, especially now that we've been doing on zoom we've been doing on zoom for, for years now so this is very great, but we're just very grateful. We're going to set our timers I got my little timer here while you're ready and good. Okay, okay. There's 20 minutes, how are we doing. Alrighty, lolly was that 20 minutes. Yeah, great. Okay, okay if anybody has any questions I'm here. Looks like we got a question. So my question is the feedback I'm getting on the play that I'm working on right now consistently is that it's like not clear what my protagonist wants. But that's like kind of what I'm going for, but not in a way that makes people like not like the play like I don't I don't want to be receiving that as like negative feedback. Right. And I've heard playwrights I admire talk about like being able to create characters who don't have objectives. So I feel like that is possible but also I don't hear that talked about a lot, like it feels like for many people like what defines a good place, like something about someone having like clear wants and pursuing those things. So I was wondering if you had any advice about like how to make a play work with a character or a protagonist who doesn't like know what they want. So you're player to admire who talk about plays where characters don't have objectives or don't have clear wants. What are the names of those plays. Well, I'm thinking of. I don't know what plays they were talking about but I was watching an interview with Claire Baron, and she was saying like, I don't know what I want in any given situation, like there's like probably 10% of my life I could identify like, this is what I wanted and this is why this is what I was trying to do when I said this thing to that person. He felt very true to me and so I wanted to. I think it is very true. So I don't know Claire, you know, as a person, you know as a person so I'm not speaking for her for them. But just as me as a person. It is true. Claire is completely right yeah there's there's you know there's many to most of the times in our lives we say things and we don't know what we want. And while all the world's the stage, the process of making art is selecting choosing and, you know, Picasso's Guernica isn't what it looked like if you were to take a picture. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, Hamlet. If if those real events happen, probably didn't happen like that. Right. So we're not creating real life. Because to put on stage because that's what we're doing in real life. So my just my just, you know, kind of push back against comments like, you know, I have people I know are students or whatever like they write something in their play or their novel or whatever and if the comment if the overwhelming comments are, it's not really working, you know, they're going well it happened just like that real life. It's like, so what, so what, this isn't real life. It's a play. It's a novel. It's a song it's a, it's a documentary even even reality shows. Right. So, I mean and this isn't did I am I remembering correctly did you say more than one note that you're getting was suggesting was leaning in that direction. Okay, okay, so, so, yes, I very much agree sometimes we do say that we don't know why we do. Yes. And that's life. And even though life imitates art, life is not art. Yeah, and so when we construct a narrative it's constructed. Right. So it, it, I think it behooves us to like go well let us consider, you know, thinking about some of those rules for construction. Does that, does that make sense. Yeah, this isn't to discount what happens in real life. Okay, so I think I think what makes stories strong is, and again because when you're in your real life you're in your real life right we're in, you're in your real life right now. You're not standing outside of your real life constructing something rewriting the end more than once figuring out what the, what you know what the exciting incident might be figuring out if she's going to wear a green dress she didn't wear a green dress in real life cares. Yeah, I'm saying. So we have to embrace the, the, the, the kind of rules of the road, and to some extent, I think, I think so, because it actually doesn't make. In my opinion, it doesn't make the narrative weaker, it makes it stronger more interesting. Yeah.  Yeah, you see, so you can do it so you can have it that way she can be confused, but you can know what she's going for. Yeah. You know, she can act in opposite ways to what you even you know what she wants, but you have an idea about what's going on. And again if this were one note you got from an isolated person everybody else was like oh it's fantastic you know, I would say then forget it but at least consider an alternative. Or and or when you can find those five or three or eight or 27 awesome plays that fit into that paradigm, then go for it, then you've got your answer right there that they are. Right, you know what I mean if you have like yes yes look you know here's a play called lovely Blee and none of the characters know what they want and it's great and I love it great there there's your answer then go for it. Follow, follow, follow that. Right. So, yeah, it's a. And what is your character want. Are you asking me that. Yeah, what's their name and what do they want. So, maybe this is what is giving me a hard time is I'm like, I'm writing it about about a real life thing and I don't totally understand for myself like where the play ends in real life begins but it's about my friend Leah, who at the beginning of the play wants to be a doctor and she goes to medical school. And then like at the very beginning of the play, she gets assaulted, and then has all these questions about like what does care look like, and how do we like heal trauma within a medical system. I'm trying to like a play about ideas and so I think that's getting me like, like, I'm trying to like illustrate ideas more than I'm. No, but I mean, just because your character. I mean I'm just talking about your character not your friend. Right.  There you go. Right. Yeah, traveling.  And then she has to question what is care look like. So she wants to know what care looks like. Yeah, okay. It's not like, you know, it's just a simple she wants to know what care looks like. Yeah, she will, she will do her best to find the answers to that. And it might not look like what she thought it looked like in the beginning of the play. Maybe it looks like something else. Yeah. That makes sense to me.  Who knows what we want what we want a variety of things we want community. We want just maybe a sense of like, I'm not the only one with that question. You know what I mean we want we want just to have 20 minutes to write that are unencumbered.   And I would I wonder if the person who said they don't know what they want. I want to have a little bit and actually most times people do know what they want. I just don't want to talk about it. I want to have a good day. I want to have a good day. I want to be peaceful. I want to have a nice time. I want to walk down the street without someone yelling at me. Right.  I want to you know the things like that there's a variety of wants. So, so I would just explore all the avenues explore being okay with having your character want something and going for it. And also finding specific works of literature in which the character doesn't know what they want and are just and it's really compelling and exciting to you. Right. So you can explore all the all the avenues, you know. Thank you. Thank you. Good question. Thanks so much, Emma. Matthew, you're up next. Hey, Matthew. Hey, how are you. Happy to see you. Happy to see you too. Thank you so much. Happy to be back. Have a question I had written a poetry collection now have a video artwork that was inspired by the poetry collection. It's basically shooting, ultimately around 100 people who are in the future, who from time to time will be wandering into the room getting a chance to look at through a window at us in the past. And you answered so much of my question and talking about want that was wonderful. Each of those people comes in and they have something that they they they have a reason to walk in and want to look at people in the past and maybe communicate something. That's really, really helpful. The other part of it is, given that there may be 100 people, some might be in very briefly. How do I keep it? What kind of things can I do to keep it organic and to keep it fresh so that each of these people who's coming in to make connections with people in the past. And it's not starting to feel very repetitive or or uninteresting or or inorganic to who these people seem like they might be. That's a big question sounds like a very beautiful project. I wonder if you if you if it starts feeling repetitive. Maybe you could cut cut what's repetitive. It starts feeling repetitive like what I put that note or that idea or that theme, you know, a couple of times already do I need to hit it again. You know, you can. You could trim it down. You know, there's that. Well I'll be able to work with the actors to. Oh that's great okay that so you're gonna like workshop it is that is that a. Is part of the subtext there there are different lines that will be visible to to us the viewers that will be rolled out single lines every six seconds roughly six or seven seconds and they'll be showing something happening in our present. And the future is there and ultimately it's for the the viewer to be able to juxtapose what they're seeing there versus what's happening in the future. So that that will keep some momentum there it also will create some arcs in terms of what is happening in the future is it war. And they don't need to be directly connected where you see something that you read a line just if an actor is coming in. And it's an effect creating 100 different scenes that each each will feel potentially connected to other people in the room potentially building on something that that came from somebody before, but also somebody who's coming in with their And going in whatever direction they might they might organically to want to go. Well so so I just want to know where you are in the in the process of creating it so you're you're going to have a workshop of it you're going to involve the involvement actors. Yeah, well there's a lot on the technical side I'm almost halfway through writing those every six or seven second lines, the sense of that. And then it's just a matter of putting the word out and seeing if I can invite enough actors who are interested in showing up. A lot of this is going to be put together in post production everybody will be layered individually so there might be two or three people who can be playing against each other. It could be portrayed as a family. There could be relationships that are established between some people. There will be a number of individuals. Again just a question. If this were 20 I would think it would be fairly straightforward process but given that it's 100 it could even be more people. Well I think I think we're really going to have to just write it and see what you got then write it see what you got and you know what they say about film and TV and video it's you know it's created and post so in the editing room you're going to really. It's going to be created in the editing process, and you'll see if something like I said again if something's repetitive you can cut it do you like cutting or are you a. I'm pretty merciless if it's going to help the work yeah great and there you go so you can cut trim add you know, ADR you know add you know voices after the fact or whatever. But I think it's going to be probably made in post. In effect an organic process and on the post side. It'll be fun. It'll be fun. It sounds like a great project man. Thanks I really appreciate it. Thanks for the advice. Thank you. Thank you Matthew. We have Lynn next. Hey Lynn. Hey Lynn. I think I there you go. Hey girl. How are you. I'm okay how are you good good. So I was writing a play. And then somebody in our group here, a couple, some months ago said. You made the suggestion or somebody had asked a question you said why don't you write the story of this play, and then go back to the play. And it just struck me I thought oh that's a really good idea. So, I started just writing, literally, this story, kind of the back story of these, these characters and stuff like that. And, and then I saw a play. I saw this play a friend of mine was in called the orchid, which was a thing and one of the actors who's who I did a play with. John McKinney is a deaf actor. And I found that he spoke to me more than any of the words did. You know, so, and I just keep on thinking about those that silence which spoke so much, you know, and I wondered where the balance is, I don't mean the balance of silence and words to tell the story but how, how not to write the silences in and write the silences in the words. Is that a crazy question. Who was it Miles Davis, it's not about the notes it's about the silence. Yes, maybe remember I wrote that down a long time ago. I think you said that yes. Right. So, I mean, what I don't understand why that you want to write in silences.  Either. Either. I mean, that's a double question. So, whatever you're writing, whether it's the story of the play, which is, which means it's a story, I suppose. Yes, novel or a short story or just to expand my understanding of all of the characters. Right. And then so as you're writing this the story of the play or a short story that you would then adapt into the play. You really become aware of silence and the power of silence. Yes. Yes. And so why don't you write in silence. Just silence. Composers write rests. Okay. Composers. You write rest, right? Rest, rest, coordinate rest, half note rest, whole rest, long rest. An orchestra, you know, my son now plays an orchestra. It's like a page goes by. They're just counting in silence. You know, it's great. So can you just write in silence? Is that weird? No, no, no. That, that helps, you know, part of the answer. Yeah. What about the other part? The, I've been writing the story of these people and their stories, you know, the underbelly.  But I've been writing that for so long to get, how do I get back into the play of these people? Stop writing the underbelly. Start writing. Okay. Just stop. Go back to the play and just start writing the play. Okay. You know, unless you want it to be a short story, which is fine. It's probably a long short story then. Oh, then it's a novel. I don't know. But, you know, let me just stop. How do you get back into it?  I mean, I sometimes when I'm, you know, I don't know what to do, I just, I just pretend that I'm somebody else trying to do something else.  I don't know, but how, if I were a person who really, really needed to get in shape, what would I do? You know, it's like that. And I go, well, I just put on my tennis shoes and go out for a walk. You know, sometimes it's that simple. Just, just go ahead and begin.  It's really not, it's not. And I can't remember the quote, but the thinking makes it so. That's a quote from somewhere. Well, it, it's so interesting because I saw a play of yours with a bowling alley. I thought it sort of blew my mind, you can be anywhere and anything on the stage. And it was such a wonderful thing. That, that possibility which I guess we, we censor ourselves because of whatever. And when I saw that I thought it can be anywhere, just anywhere, anything, you know. And it can, but you have to sit down and write it. Yes. Because it can't, it can, it can be, it can't be anywhere or anything if, if one does not you or me or anybody has not actually put in the, the, you know, time at the, yeah, at the typewriter or the notebook or the laptop or whatever. Then it can be nothing. Yeah, it has to have a context. I mean I write every day, but it, if it doesn't have a context, then there's no form to it. Well, if you're not telling some kind of a. Yeah, the intent, what the intent to make us a thing. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, if you don't have the intent to make a thing then you have, then, yeah. I mean intent is, is very important. It's not everything, but it's almost everything. Yeah. Thank you. It's always great talking with you. Yeah. What did you say. It's great. It's always great talking with you. It's always great seeing and talking with you. I think Kat raised their hand but then maybe unraised it. Are you interested in asking a question Kat. Yes, please. I've unraised it. Thank you for the opportunity. My question is, I'm writing, I'm writing in verse at the moment some sections of the work in verse, and at the moment I'm sort of following my nose on it. So I've actually articulated in words, why, or the function. And so I've started asking people sort of survey, survey style like what do you think the function or value or place positionality that verse have in contemporary plays and performances. I've asked quite a few people and I'd love to hear what you think. poetry. Yeah, so metered. Through musicals are they not. Still, people are still writing sung through musicals, right, which is a form of metered verse it's just set to music. So your question. Yeah, there's a lot of thinking going on these days. Are you enjoying it.  You have to meet yourself Kat. Is it enjoyable. Yes, I mean, difficult. Yes, sure, sure. It's difficult, like everything. Right. It's difficult.  Some days it's it's it's trial a law some days it's OMG, you know who knows right it's all of those things, but if it's enjoyable to you, then it's worth it. You know, sure, we can see like, Oh gee, are people writing plays and verse these days well sure. People are writing still writing musicals I think as long as people write, you know poetry is very much alive these days slam poets and, and all those things. Yeah, if it's enjoyable to you that I think you should continue.  Yeah, if you're in for your enjoyment. Is that your question I'm not sure of your question. I'm like was like the rhetorical and structural placement of verse like as openers and interludes and sort of, you know, like in a musical my understanding is is that the song comes when simply words are not enough. It becomes in into a new realm where the song, but I don't know if that if that is true of spoken verse every time. I'm pondering that. It's like, like, why are they like if you could imagine the question like why are they speaking in verse here. Do you want to give yourself permission to write in verse. I was like, right in verse. It's okay.  Or they sing when they have a song in their heart or they sing when, when, oh it's a fun moment, because if you think of like Shakespeare. I mean, gee, there's so many great. It's in verse though. So, yeah. Now is the winner of our discontent I mean he could have said they could have said it in prose but they said it in verse, you know, I would, you said you're following your nose. What does your nose not know. Why have you stopped following your nose. I just, it's a it's a vignette style work so I'm like where does it go and what brings to it and what makes shifts and where to sit within the work. It sounds like you're writing something very beautiful and I would just keep telling yourself the story of it. You know the story is the is the is the yarn, literally that will help you navigate the maze in which the minotaur sits, like with Ariadne, you know, and the minotaur and the yarn is the thing that's going to help you navigate the maze. Yeah, I can't name any, any like contemporary verse plays off the top of my head but I can think of a lot of great musicals they're totally sung through to me or like first place, even if you saw recently, I think it was all sung through the hang Taylor Mack was all sung through. I didn't buy the book and open it and see if it was in fact in verse I don't know but it was sung through so it. I imagine that it had, I mean it had very great meter and rhythm and time and all that. And so. Yeah, and I didn't stop to think once, gee, why are they singing right here. Because it was just that beautiful. So. Thanks for a question. Thank you. Thank you cat we have time for one more questions I'm going to meet you. Crystal. It's crystal. Hi, great to see you. Great to see you to always great to see you. Okay, so I'm in working on two things. Well, okay. I have a short film that I'm like right now, like trying to raise money for to try to shoot this year and and and and I'm working on writing the therapist, the one I told you about the the one with the crazy stuff. With the short film. I, I want to, I want to write it a feature version of it. But I don't have experience in writing a feature from a short film, because when I wrote it, the initial idea was that it would stay. It would stay a short film because it was calm. It was enough story or enough of like the imagination could only go so far that it could 15 minutes and be satisfactory and still be passionate about it. And now it's like, okay, like how do I, I guess elongate it because I can usually chop down or trim the fat off of stories. Not well, not not willingly, but I do it when I have to, but to elongate that's that seems like a brand new challenge that I haven't had to deal with, with any of my stories. I guess my question is like, how do I even like start when I was already satisfied with 15 minutes because I kind of felt like that's all I had in me, but I, I need, I do need to make it a feature length or full length. Can you use another topic or you have to, I mean, you satisfy your pleas with what you have and yet you have to make it a feature length. I don't understand why you can't just choose another topic. Another topic like another story. Yeah. Because this the the goal in mind with this was okay. That this would be what I forget what it's called as not a spectacle. I can't remember the term but basically something to introduce me into the world of filming as like right after. It would be something that would be something that I could say okay well, if you want to see more. You know, I wanted to kind of have something. I really like to work with those characters and that situation and that. Yeah. Okay, okay. So usually with a 15 or 20 minute film or just dealing with the core thing that happens right. Right. Okay, if you think of let's say you know like, Hamlet right thing that happens you know he realizes he comes home realizes his dad the short version like take Hamlet. Right. Okay, take something you know, like Hamlet. Sorry, but it's on my mind. So the short version would be he comes home. He realizes his uncle killed his dad. He gets really mad. He kills his uncle. Right. Oh, that's 15 minute film right right now realize now let's look at it in its five act version. Right. Okay, he comes home. They've seen it goes. He doesn't believe them then he goes oh my gosh it's his dad swear swear. You don't see you know so we add late so we blew it up. So what you can do actually as an exercise I'm just making this up so I don't know if it's gonna work out but it could work. Take some some some movies, right because you can just sit there and like watch a movie right. Okay, a couple of take three movies that you love. Okay, watch them. Okay three movies you got to love them they got to be and maybe they're kind of like the same kind of genre each thing or maybe not know maybe one's a rom-com one's a thriller and one's I don't know action adventure. Okay, okay, and take them watch them enjoy them and write off the short version of the plot. Like the 15 minute version if I could do this in 15 minutes what would it be and then write out the long version and watch how it they're like expanded on. I'm just making it up right now. I don't know sounds like it worked. Okay, that could be really fun and plus you get to watch movies added bonus you make some popcorn get the kids involved, the hubby, you know y'all chilling watching Netflix, what could be better while you're working secretly. Okay, you know what I'm saying. Okay, yeah, and then you see, oh, look, you know, with Hamlet just short they introduced a girlfriend. And the girlfriend brother has a brother. And the brother and the girlfriend, they have a dad who talks a lot. Right.   Okay. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay, sounds like so much fun I might do it tonight myself just for the fun. Okay, look at 601. Oh, it is. Thank you. You guys are great. The next week is the fourth of July but we'll be back the following week. Yeah. Okay. Thank you as independent as you can.