Wolf, particularly bad lit, you know, okay, Wolf is winning. Okay, here we go. So here's Wolf being asked a question about too many banks in America. This is Richard Wolf with a response to an Ask Prof Wolf question from our Patreon community. And in particular, from Liz Mednick, who asks about what she sees where she lives, a proliferation of banks. Can you believe Richard Wolf has a Patreon account? He's using a capitalist tool to raise money. I thought we're not supposed to be greedy, not wanting money. And he takes questions and not to mention all the technologies he's using right now to live stream this or whatever. But all right, ignore the fact that he takes Patreon. I mean, a good Marxist wouldn't do that. Let's see what he has to say about banks, something I actually know something about. Literally occupying all four corners of an intersection, spreading around the community as if a kind of hysterical process of plunking down bank branches was underway. She worries that this is crazy, that this is too many banks chasing after a limited number of depositors and it won't end well. And she wants my response. Good question. Okay, so there's a proliferation of banks, the bank branches everywhere. You go to a corner, there are four different branches on the four corners. It's just crazy the number of banks that we have in the United States, the number of bank branches we have in the United States, it's insanity. It's really, really bad. Now, the funny thing is in the beginning of Wolf's answer, he's actually says some things that are, God forbid, true. And then he goes completely nuts. But let's start with the truth. Correct observation. Let's see what it means. More than ever in today's capitalism, happening is financialized. Now, one of the things you'll note, and this is true of the Robert Reich video, of many of the videos, is that nobody actually defends capitalism. So capitalism is the mixed economy today. Anything that's happening is a consequence of capitalism if it's happening today. Indeed, in history, the world, according to Richard Wolf, another video I saw of his, the world has always been capitalist. Why? Because there's always been markets. There's always been some semblance of private property in any successful culture. So the world, according to Richard Wolf, has always been capitalist. So every problem that's ever existed, ever in human history, at least since the launch of agriculture, is the fault of capitalism. Because capitalism is the prevailing system always. So he blames World War I and World War II on capitalism, even though, because he thinks the Nazis are capitalists. He blames slavery and capitalism. He blames feudalism and capitalism. He blames colonialism and capitalism. When you don't define your terms, when you don't have clear definitions and understanding, you can do whatever you want. You can say whatever you want. Consumers spend more borrowed money often than they spend of their own earned wages, salaries, and so on. That is true. Every business borrowing wildly, especially in the last 10 years, as the government responded to the crash of 2008 by dropping interest rates to the lowest levels in history. This is the Federal Reserve, central banks, governments, not capitalism, not capitalist, not a system in which there is complete separation of economy from state, which is what capitalism is. No. This is the mixed economy in which the government rules banks. The government rules the central banks. The government determines the interest rates. The government determines the money supply. And yet he is blaming what the government is doing today, in the world we live in today, in our mixed economy. He is blaming all of that. On what? On capitalism. This only system that actually opposes all of that. But everything he says about the evil of what the Federal Reserve has done is true. Of what central bankers have done is true. But that's socialism. Yeah, somebody says in a thing that even accuses, he claims that the Soviet Union wasn't really socialism. It was state capitalism. So capitalism equals evils in the world. Then yeah, all right, capitalism is awful.  What is capitalism? Capitalism is a system in which all property is privately owned, in which the goal of the government is to protect individual rights, protect from coercion, and in which the state owns no means of production, no banks, no central banks, no money. State owns none of that. That would be a definition. Socialism is a system in which the means of production are owned by the state. The means of trade are owned by the state. That's socialism. But if you don't define your terms, you can make up anything you want. You can make up anything you want. And that's basically what he does. Blaming all this on capitalism so much. Which was an incentive, of course, for everyone in economic difficulty, a consumer, a worker, a business, a government, to borrow like crazy. Absolutely. And a consequence of government intervention. Money was rendered so cheap. And so the level of indebtedness exploded. Everybody needs to deal with their debts. True. With the credit system. And therefore everybody needs a bank. Everybody needs a bank all the time. We'll get to the number of banks in the United States in a minute. And as everybody needs a bank, more and more, to get cash out, to solve problems with your checking account, your savings account, your credit card, your home mortgage, and whatever else, the banks not only reap a profit bonanza, but they- Banks are not particularly profitable right now. It's pretty amazing. Profit bonanza. Banks are profit-wise below historical averages. Half of the last 10 years struggle to get back to the kind of profits that they had in the past. Banks are not making huge amounts of money in spite of this debt boom, which he correctly identifies. But just factually, these guys make stuff up. There's no profit bonanza. Same thing is always told to the drug companies. Ooh, the drug companies, they make so much money, but they don't. They return on equity and return on assets. They're pretty average. Banks are pretty low. Somebody who invests in banks for a living, I can tell you, banks are not very profitable right now. They're not badly profitable. They're not losing money by any means. But the idea that they are hugely profitable is such bogus lying, typical of these leftist intellectuals. And by themselves in a tough competition for the loyalty and the business of companies, individuals, and so on. And so a mad rush of competition is underway. And that's what you see. Every spare office, every spare storefront grabbed so that there can be a teller machine, perhaps a teller or two that are living people, and the rest of the apparatus of a bank. Now notice what he's saying is this mad rush of banks to open up more branches, more and more and more branches, because the banks are trying to get the loyalty of their customers. But what is the reality factually? Well, the fact is that over at least the last three years, the number of branches in the United States has declined. The number of branches is less and less. I mean, you can go look at the data. I have, again, this is my field. And the number of branches in the United States is in decline. Banks are not rushing to open branches. They're rushing to close branches. Because how many of you use a branch when you can do all your banking on a phone? So again, just lies, factual lies. It won't end well. It is chaotic. Competition is chaotic. The socials don't like competition.  Competition means that people are pursuing their own self-interest independent of a central planner. They're independent of an economics professor, independent of an expert, independent of a philosopher king. Competition means people actually pursuing their ideas, pursuing their interests, free of asking for permission. It's chaos. They hate chaos. They want order. The best examples of capitalist inefficiency that one could look for. Now, why do America has so many banks? Because, man, America has a lot of banks. I don't know. Some of you live overseas and you don't know the extent to which the American banking system is massive. America has 5,600 banks, 5,600 independent depository institutions. Now, anybody know how many banks they were 50 years ago, 40, 50 years ago, in the 1970s? Well, how many banks? Is this mad rush to open banks? Mad rush to engage in financial activity? How many banks existed back then? Actually 20,000 banks. And why were there so many banks? Was this a phenomenon of capitalism? This capitalism caused a proliferation of banks. I mean, you think a socialist 40 years ago, there were 20,000. Today, there are 5,600. The number shrunk by almost 75%. And why were there 20,000? No other country has anywhere close to that number of banks per capita. So there were 20,000 banks in the 1970s in the United States. Today, there are 5,600 banks. So there's been a shrinkage of 75% in the number of banks. You'd think an economist like Professor Wolf would know this. And of course, the reason there were 20,000 banks in the United States was not because of capitalism. The reason was because of financial regulations. What are the financial regulations that made it possible, made it necessary for 20,000 banks to exist? Well, it was state regulations. States basically did not allow their banks to merge and branch across state lines. In some states, you couldn't have more than one branch. You couldn't have more than one branch so that if you wanted to have a bank in your neighborhood, you'd have to open a new bank. So during the 19th century, 20th century, you had a massive proliferation of banks because of regulation. No other country was like this. Canada, for example, where you could branch anyway, you could consolidate across state lines, you could establish a Canadian bank from coast to coast, has five big banks and a bunch of little banks and less than, I think, 30 or 40 banks overall. And they, by the way, have had no banking crises in their history. The United States is at 12 because we have too many banks, because of the proliferation of banks. Finally, when Congress did something that made sense, it happens once in a while. In 1994, Congress eliminated all the regulations at the state level that prohibit bank mergers, bank consolidation, bank branch openings across state lines and allowed banks to go anywhere they wanted. Finally, when that happened in 1994, since then you've had a lot of consolidation in the banking sector. But again, it's not capitalism that created the problem. It's state intervention, state involvement. And there's no proliferation of bank branches in spite of what you might think. And the fact that there are four bank branches on a corner means that you've got options you can choose which banks to use. Richard Wolff would want to have one bank, a government bank, the same government that is flooding the market with dollars and lowering interest rates to zero. That government, he wants them, those people, to own the one bank.  That's the kind of world Richard Wolff wants. But first, first he should get the facts about this world right. He doesn't have them. Number of branches in the United States are shrinking primarily because of technology. Think about it for a minute. If, as you have in my neighborhood, banks on all four corners of an intersection, here's what you know. With modern computers, one bank could easily handle the business now being handled by four. Of course, and ideally, the government could handle the business of 20. But the only reason there are four banks and not one is because of regulation, that some central plan are put in place, thinking that they were doing what is good for, society, rather than lending the market dictate. Because the market would dictate not four banks on a corner, maybe two, maybe just one. And that's what we're heading, by the way, with bank consolidation. I strongly predict that within 20 years, there'll be less than 1,000 banks in the United States. And you won't have four branches on a corner because all banking will be done from your iPhone. Maybe, I mean, ideally, if the government stays out of it, there probably wouldn't be more than 50 banks in the United States. Good luck with keeping the government out of it, particularly with people like Richard Wolff will call themselves economists and pretend to be such. The same computer could easily handle it. The same or a larger number of tele-machines could exist in one room or anti-chamber of an office as in. That's why there's bank consolidation right now. Bank consolidation Elizabeth Warren wants to end because she says it's anti-competitive. So the socialists have to decide, do they want competition or don't they? And what kind of competition? And how do you measure competition? But the fact is the banking industry is consolidating. There are fewer, fewer branches. There are fewer and fewer banks. But what Wolff really wants is one bank, one by the people, one computer dictating everything to all of us. For the duplication of security personnel, of clerks and so on. All a product of regulation. Idiotic ditto for the safe deposit boxes and so on and so on. This is a vast waste of resources. True. And if we then had regulation, we'd be like Canada with basically five banks. Serving what end? Well, after a few years, some of these banks will collapse and be replaced by another kind of store. The chaotic and inefficient competition among capitalists. Yeah, they'll be replaced by store and then there we will have also inefficient competition between capitalists because we'll have lots of different clothing stores and each clothing store, I mean they could consolidate.  The same ones who put together that wonderful Obama health care exchange. We'll end up with only one or two left. And guess what? They will reward us for this capitalist wasteful competition by becoming monopolies or oligopolies when a very few are in a position to jack up the rates because we're used to banking in our neighborhood. So there you go. The solution, of course, is what? Because capitalism gives us too many banks and then too few banks. What are we going to do? If there's only one bank, it can charge more for the safe deposit box and then checking the cash. You see the picture. It's chaotic. It's inefficient. It's the way capitalism works. Good observation, Liz Mednick. All right, let's get him off my screen. It's pretty disgusting. I mean, this is what they do over and over and over again. They lie. They make up stuff. They engage in pseudo economics, in pseudo facts. They never offer a solution. This solution is, again, this solution is collectivism. This solution is nationalization. This solution is to get rid of private property. This solution is to have one bank. But God forbid not one bank won by the profit motive. This solution has to one bank. One bank that is basically run by the government for the people. No profit, no private property, no private interests. He's an authoritarian, the worst kind of authoritarian. He might call the Soviet Union state capitalism, but the Soviet Union is exactly the system that his ideas have to manifest and he has to know it. Somebody with a PhD in economics, spouting a kind of nonsense that he does, is a massive evader. If somebody who evades reality constantly evades facts, constantly evades the economic theory constantly. And according to objectivism, the source of all evil is evasion. Richard Wolfe is evil. He's a bad human being. He's immoral because of his evasions. He's dishonest. Yet people love him. He appeals to young people. He appeals to their ignorance. He appeals to their naivete. He appeals to their lack of ability to think for themselves. He appeals to their lack of education. He appeals to their altruism and collectivism that they have been filled with throughout their lives. Now, I mentioned this in previous videos where I've talked about Richard Wolfe. He also talks with hatred in his voice.    He is an evil man through and through. And you can see that justice pervades in this world. He's not a happy person. He suffers for his evasions. All right, let's go through some super chat questions. What is the value of selfishness? Use another word, self-esteem. The value of selfishness is that you esteem yourself as a value that you leave according to your nature, which means by the judgment of your own mind and you respect your own mind, you respect your own ability to do the right thing. Therefore, you respect the possibility of being a morally virtuous person. And you regard yourself as a value worth preserving. Let me bring it down from Kant a little bit to a bromide that I had drummed into me as a child. And maybe you've heard it. Happiness comes from making other people happy. Oh yes, I heard it. Who hasn't heard it? And that's the trouble. Let's aim at the day when people will not hear it anymore. Because it isn't true. It isn't justifiable. And the first question you would have to ask is why? Why is it good to want others to be happy, but not yourself? And I suppose you will be told that well, but they will work for your happiness and not their own. Well, it's like an exchange of Christmas presents that neither party wants, but you have to exchange presents and you're not allowed morally to do something for yourself. Whereas what I say, you can make others happy when and if. Those others mean something to you selfishly. If you love them, then you want to make them happy. Fine. If you don't love them, that's not a moral crime. You don't have to love everybody. You cannot love everybody because the meaningless expression, you can love only those whom you value. And if they contribute to your happiness, you contribute to theirs. That's fine. But each one of you has to be selfish about it. Supposing somebody were in love with you and said, I love you because you're so bad. So I sacrifice myself and I'm going to love you. Would you accept that or would you say it's the most? No, sir. I wouldn't either. That's the most insulting thing anyone could have said to you. And yet that's what altruism would demand.  You see, the end of it was she committed suicide. Now that is an altruist practice. That's what altruism leads to. How about it's more blessed to give than to receive? That's obviously the welfare state. That's a clearly motivated slogan to please give me something and you'll be blessed. But I will keep your material good. Using the super chat. And I noticed yesterday, when I appealed for support for the show, many of you stepped forward and actually supported the show for the first time. So I'll do it again. Maybe we'll get some more today. If you like what you're hearing, if you appreciate what I'm doing, then I appreciate your support. Those of you who don't yet support the show, please take this opportunity. Go to Iranbrookshow.com slash support or go to subscribestar.com Iranbrookshow and make a kind of a monthly contribution to keep this going. 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Thanks for coming to forecasting innovation weather.com's emerging technology story So by way of introduction for those of you in the room who don't know me I'm Jeremy Dickens. I'm the technical lead on the CMS team with the weather company known to many people as weather.com I've been with TWC for two years I have been working in Drupal for eight We're we're also now IBM so I guess I'm big blue, which is a little odd, but Fortunately, I'm joined by my better half Matt Davis is my name. I'm a lead Drupal architect at media current I've been working at media current for about three years now And also working on the weather company sites for about three years as well So the obligatory agenda slide, what are we going to be talking about? What is this all about anyway? We have our fancy Roman numerals to show that we have class But really this is mostly going to be a little bit of a story time From the two of us talking about what our companies have done in terms of you know How we've pushed technology forward. I've been a little bit uncomfortable with the subject about like classifying myself as an innovator I think that's fair It's also fair when people say look at all the crap you've done. I'm like, well, yes I guess we have so we're gonna talk a little bit about what innovation is and we're gonna talk about the three major projects where we've That we've worked on that have pushed things forward significantly in our opinion and then we're gonna kind of wrap things up about what it what it means to try to innovate in Today's world right so to kick it off. We're gonna start with an introduction to innovation And as with all good introductions, we'll start by defining our terms So what is innovation to innovate is to make changes in something established? especially by introducing new methods ideas or products in Ovation, I don't do voices Which is awesome, right? I mean so how do I innovate I want to innovate don't you want to innovate you want to innovate? I see you yeah, he's innovating right now as we speak So, you know, you but there's some questions around that right like okay, that's great We know what it is, but how do we do it?  Can I like get the innovation checklist and just start going down and you know marking things off as I accomplish them? And and even if it is based on like some you know Eureka moment How do I follow through on that idea in a way where you know? I can conquer the risk that come along with it face those challenges in order to take that idea into something that's in production So what we're gonna be doing today is really just kind of telling a story a Story of innovation. Hopefully it won't turn into a grandpa Simpson rambling story. It's possible though But it will be a story of Risks, which will try to be pretty honest about the kind of risks that we encountered During this innovation process, but ultimately it's also a story of rewards And and we'll be happy to share the rewards with you Well, some of them So so we'll talk first about progressive decoupling and this is the story of the Drupal 7 weather comm site So by way of background we at the weather company weather calm the weather channel if we have what I think is it's fair to say is a pretty weighty mission statement where our core mission is to deliver Data to people in a timely and accurate manner that can potentially save their lives at very least it helps them plan their day You know, this is thing important stuff to know. What's the weather gonna be like today? Do I need a jacket? Do I need an umbrella? Is there a tornado approaching? These are things that that We consider our core mission That actually drives some pretty significant technical requirements in order to accomplish So we have data oriented concerns. That's that's data looking concerned Yeah, yeah, okay Good. So weather data is highly dynamic in nature. It changes frequently, right? On top of that is highly localized. We have there are places in the world where you know, you can be Well, it probably today you can be in One spot and be getting poured on and then be five minutes away and it could be just overcast or maybe even sunny Exactly Florida for anybody who's listening later This data is also not some subset, you know, we're not just looking at the greater Atlanta area or New York City This data is worldwide in scope and we have customers around the world that depend on this data And then from sort of a more prosaic technical side that data has to be sent and consumed by people in all manner of devices So we call it weather calm, but that also means like your mobile web device It can mean the mobile apps. It can be people on 2g in in areas where the internet infrastructure is not as good as As in the rest of the world. So that has to be a consideration Then as an organization, we have certain team oriented concerns that drove the requirements where we had a large existing and very competent JavaScript team that was Engaged in producing the code that was required to service some of this data And then we had content teams producing videos and and articles talking about weather talking about science Talking about the latest weather event giving news breaking news at the moment that it happens that are around the world Both of those teams have huge velocity requirements. They can't Wait on, you know a six hour code deploy window They have to be able to make their changes and publish their content right now. Oh, and then there's this Which I'm sure nobody else in this room has ever had to worry about these concerns, right? Okay good so Those challenges overall prompted a specific approach Involving Drupal that really at the time wasn't considered. I think media current Started building the we went back and looked at the git logs. The first commits were from the summer of 2013 We launched live in November of 2014 by way of pointing out that the Dries's famous blog post about the future of decoupled Drupal where he apparently coined the phrase progressive decoupling That blog post wasn't put out until de september of 2015 nearly a year after we'd been in production So There are other presentations that have been made at past Drupal cons about kind of deep diving the architecture and what it is But for those of you that haven't seen those Basically, we have Drupal and angular so Drupal is providing this highly cashable markup It's got integrated workflows for managing some of that markup, you know like page management But also editorial workflows It's this source of the source of record for the content that's created on it and the configuration for the individual Components on the page, but it connects to some data stores externally. We might get into later But then the front-end team, you know, there's angular which was even at the time well known It was the I think the leader in the space at the time that we launched It's able to deliver the dynamic content rendering it on the client side So we don't have to save a rendered html page for every single of the millions look at millions of locations that we have Data points for and for the most part no Drupal necessary for them. That's going to be a key point as we go on so Did we did we meet those goals? Do we hit those? Those challenges so we have the highly dynamic data that's solved by a combination of ESI and angular Localized check same thing being able to get that worldwide got it Multiple consumers yet. We have this external data store so we can Create our content saved in the Drupal database gets pushed out to the data store that you know The iOS app can read or any other sort of like, you know, I think there's a Windows Application that reads in this content. So we got that one. That's great So then our team Again our existing JavaScript team not only did they get the framework of choice at the time They didn't need to learn a lick of Drupal Mostly mostly a little bit of form API never hurt anybody Our content teams, you know, they got Drupal's Content editing abilities great, you know, it trained them on how to use Drupal as a content editing platform Put a few tweaks in here and there got it Job script team high velocity. They can make the changes their modules. No big deal content team They can just keep shucking along like Drupal content editors fantastic But one of the key points in all of this is that the driving force behind all of this innovation That led us to create this progressively decoupled architecture before the term even existed Was these specific business requirements? We weren't just out in a field trying to dream up something new for its own sake. It was always driven by these goals Yeah, I mean just by way of of Example our content team has Pretty much a 24-7 requirement. They have to be able to get into Drupal and make their editorial changes So like long deploy windows are right out. So, you know, we go through this we get it launched It's it's up and running. It's in production. We keep iterating We keep moving and anytime you build a large software project, you know, you know You're gonna surface some of those unknown unknowns and this slide is really just um, you know Imagine the ominous music in the background. This is the Dunham right of our presentation. So keep this in mind. He'll be back Meanwhile in San Francisco, so we're gonna take a brief detour now over to San Francisco for the weather underground project So as Jeremy mentioned Weather comm had launched in 2014 November. It was humming along. They were creating tons of JavaScript components over there The platform was really successful And what the company began looking at was migrating its other properties onto this same Drupal platform And this process began in the oh before I get into that though So it's a little bit about some of our intentions when we created this platform in the first place From the get-go we were hoping to create something that would be JavaScript Framework agnostic because we knew that there was a lot of velocity in the JavaScript world and the JavaScript developers like to be able to play with different kinds of tools and the The tool of the moment can change much more rapidly than we might be able to accommodate But at the time there was a lot of consensus around the internal team at the at weather.com around Angular 1 and so we ended up just sprinting full steam ahead with Angular 1 and in the long run over You know after a over a year in production What we ended up with was a platform where our Progressively decoupled model ended up being actually more tightly coupled between Drupal and Angular 1 than we really would have liked And this was a problem in the long run because even though Angular was mature Like I've mentioned the ecosystem in the JavaScript world is moving really really quickly And there were problems that in Angular 1's own innovation story They were surfacing their unknown unknowns as well Things like components and taking advantage of a virtual DOM Weren't possible in Angular 1, but those problems were being solved and addressed in other ways in other kinds of frameworks So when we came to the weather underground Towards the end of 2015 and began talking to them about migrating them on to this platform One of their first requests was we don't want to build this in Angular 1 We really want to be looking at the more innovative new frameworks that are coming out and specifically They were really interested in exploring Angular 2, which if you're not familiar It's the it's like the difference between Drupal 7 and Drupal 8. It's a ground-up rewrite totally different frameworks So we began doing this investigation into what it would take both to Turn our platform back to being JavaScript framework agnostic and into implementing Angular 2 And as it turned out when we started this process, Angular 2 was still in an alpha state And we ended up launching our first Angular 2 pages on the weather underground site in April of 2016 When it was still in a beta state now I don't know how many people in this room have followed the Angular 2 Release story, but it came with breaking change after breaking change after breaking change So we had stuff in production Many many many breaking changes before the official release of Angular 2 and that meant we paid a lot of bleeding edge tax refactoring our components and refactoring whole core pieces of our architecture and how you can Do things like dynamically bootstrap components Into a single lap when you have disparate pieces of your page there and you're too So we paid a lot of that tax But the other side of that story is that because we were early adopters We were able to form really close relationships With the core Angular team at Google and they were actually really interested in our use case Because this progressively decoupled kind of model wasn't how they were originally thinking about the framework being used So we ended up actually helping to influence the possibilities of where Angular itself was going By being involved that early on And ultimately for reasons we'll get into in a little while Whether underground decided to pivot to going fully decoupled and building on top of the Angular Isomorphic story called Angular Universal meaning it has server side and client side rendering Angular And Drupal just serving pieces of data restfully But what was key about that is that because we had those relationships already that pivot was relatively painless We already knew the people and had relationships with the people who were writing Angular Universal and could literally say Hey Patrick JS come down to the weather underground office and let's hack on this for a few hours and make a proof-of-concept in the matter of days and Another big thing that came out of this kind of innovation story is this Drupal 8 module that you can download today called decouple blocks This was built from the ground up in Drupal 8 to be a JavaScript framework agnostic There are currently implementations in Angular react and view And actually this module is also looking for a co-maintainer as well to help implement other frameworks All right So here we kind of get the scene shifts back to weather calm and and things aren't so great those Those unknown unknowns. Well, we we have surfaced them. This is sort of the Empire Strikes Back episode of our story And we're gonna be honest about the things that that we had found in that in that model So so one of the big problems that we ran into as we scaled this system out I mean, it's worth noting our goal that we mentioned earlier was to really let the JavaScript developers have their own independent velocity and Man, they did they took advantage of it and created hundreds of these components and they were being placed in various ways on different Drupal pages. Well, all of the dependency management of that was being handled by Drupal itself So in our platform, we had actually written a whole bunch of custom code in Drupal 7 to manage where different JavaScript assets were needed on any given page and take advantage of Drupal's aggregation to try to bundle those up And keep our performance down now This is problematic if you're familiar with how most of the JavaScript world works because There are lots of really cool ways if you're building a JavaScript app that you can get your sizes of your bundles down things like minification uglification Bundling and then the big one is tree shaking where you can actually shake out all the stuff in a framework that you're not Using to really get your bundle size down now tree shaking is especially important in the Angular 2 story Because it's a huge monolithic framework that if you don't if you can't take advantage of tree shaking You're shipping over a meg just for the platform itself So we knew we wanted to be able to take care of tree shaking But you don't want PHP to be trying to do something like that. It's huge. That's a huge problem space It's not even worth diving into to try to make PHP figure out which of your specific JavaScript functions are being called So this was a big problem that we kept banging our head against that we couldn't have foreseen going into this and then you know talking about velocity so It turned out that yes Well, they were very very happy and very very fast at being able to deliver these modules and create these modules on the front And you know it became a problem that they wanted to go to A different framework or go to angular 1.5 or angular 2. Well, there was a lot of Drupal code invested Investment time needed to do that and our team just didn't have the bandwidth and we became a blocker for them so and even Them putting things on the page that you know might not work in the way that Drupal might want them Would require code reviews on our side. So that's actually the third point on the slide Honestly Philosophically JavaScript should be able to have its own guardrails Those guys should know what JavaScript does and should be able to do that They shouldn't have to worry about breaking Drupal if they do something that Drupal kind of just doesn't like Then we ran into some infrastructure issues Obviously with the way that D7 site works and the way that the traffic that we have to handle We had a complicated caching model And on top of that we had gone with certain caching vendors that you know Well, what if the business decides we need to move to you know a different CDN? That's going to be a problem because we're built to use a particular vendors ESI model Another thing a side effect to the JavaScript aggregation is that because there were so many different Pieces of JavaScript being loaded on so many different pages We had a problem with the sheer number of JavaScript aggregates that were being put onto the file system And I had don't know of anybody else. No one else has ever come to me and said man We've got too many aggregates on our file system Drupal Drupal has a default setting to keep 30 days worth They don't expose that in the UI. It's just there. I don't know anybody else that's ever had to go in and Say hey, I don't need to Kate 48 hours worth So that became a problem for the record the Gluster file system does not like it when you have 50,000 JavaScript files in a single directory. Yeah, it doesn't doesn't play nice Data consistency issues between Drupal as you know the system of record plus the external system just as another example when you have Thousands and thousands of thousands of nodes of article content on your site and they need to be scrubbed to change any HTTP string to an HTTPS string. That's bad enough when you have to push that to an external data store at the same time that's Not something you want to get into And then, you know multi-headed Drupal 7 having 8 to 12 web heads behind, you know your load balancer Talking to one database Maybe not such a great idea. You are gonna run into some problems that does get painful Let me tell you so these are things we were we were able to mostly mitigate these but it was never like clean It was never great. So it certainly made us look at oh, we didn't realize this was going to happen and Have to try to come back on the back end and spend a lot of development time trying to fix all of these various issues Which brings us to the API first initiative and our final area of innovation And the premise this a little bit Those of you some of you may have already kind of read into this the implication that yes Weather calm and whether underground both ultimately made the decision to go fully decoupled in the long run But some of what I think it's important to emphasize here is that that's not To say that progressive decoupling can't serve really useful purposes I think there are lots of good use cases for it and a lot of the problems that we surfaced We're due to the very scale that we were operating on So as we dive into kind of the fully decoupled story We don't want you guys to have the impression that progressive decoupled is not ever the right route to go Actually, there's lots of good reasons to do that But the full decoupling story as we kind of alluded to earlier it started with who once there was kind of decided That we really were we're getting exhausted by these pain points. We were surfacing in the progressive decoupling realm We looked to who first whether underground Because we knew that we had very strong ties back to the angular team And like I said, we literally could send Patrick JS a message and say hey come hang out with us at the office for a few hours And let's look at what a proof of concept of this would would would look like So we were able to really quickly get this spun up on the weather underground side So What it's come down to from where we're taking things here, you know as Drupal developers and where we are in sort of this new next-generation world is that we're gonna provide interfaces and those are gonna be editorial interfaces configuration interfaces But it's not just to our content teams or our our page managers that make you know Put the data on the on the page to be consumed It's also for potentially machines reading that data as well and making decisions about what microservices to include What other systems to call what modifications might be need to be made on those records? So what we're doing is we're really embracing using some already defined standards Like Json API for our document model Using Json schema to do our validation of that model and even maybe some cool things that we'll get into and then open API or swagger to to document those APIs and Really give both the humans developing things against them and even machines that might need to interface them with them a good understanding of what these APIs do So what it it just so happens and we started realizing this last year in New Orleans that the Requirements that we're getting now as far as driving forward just happened to dovetail really nicely with where the whole decoupling conversation in Drupal has gone since we started and it was Not a thing kind of a thing a few people were doing it to now It's a key question that everyone keeps asking over the course of you know this conference So we're putting these up there highlighting that there is an API first initiative Where they're doing a ton of great work Implementing these technologies on the Drupal side Mateo is doing his Json API module. We're hoping to work really closely with him and you know the We just got the open API space to be able to implement swagger on the Drupal side Scamata is very interesting if you're getting into this or looking at it because it also sort of acts as this helper piece with Json schemas and swagger, so we're really excited about the fact that we're driving forward into the space where everybody's kind of Starting to coalesce and push the technology forward But of course we're going even further than that too because we are innovators And there are specific things that we're trying to push even further than where we're hearing a lot of the Drupal community Talking right now a big one that I'm really passionate about is the editorial interfaces And what we're looking at with this project now is for some of our key Editorial interfaces. We're actually going to be decoupling those as well and building single-page JavaScript apps To guide those along now. What's exciting about that from my perspective is that we're going to be using Json API So that all of these different systems that are interacting with Drupal They don't have to we don't have to care where the source of all of these things are because to us and to whatever other systems are Consuming these apis. It's all just Json API all the way out there Sure, yeah, I mean the fact that actually I think the one that's really neat is the one above it so being able to take in a Json schema document potentially and Your custom entity type automatically gets the fields that are defined on that Json schema That again a machine another system could be generating those given, you know, some pretty complicated workflows That that is a use case that is certainly out there that you know I think would pay big dividends in Drupal in the long run And again Drupal being able to talk to other microservices and having other microservices Talk to it to be able to you know, we can push configuration to them They can tell us about their status about their notifications and then I'll finally this whole concept of being technology Agnostic Matt, I'll let you take which it really comes back to that point that I was saying that because we have all these different Systems that are all the glue that's tying them all together is this Structure of Json API so that at any given one of those systems if we wanted to switch it out with something else We could because we know exactly what our data models are how they're going to be structured And that's what's tying everything together So it gives us a much broader ability to be agnostic to the specific ways we implement things It's worth noting about this slide that each one of these comes with buckets full of unknown unknowns that we haven't even Dreamed up yet. You know, this is being a little blue skies So We're already I'm already looking at these for a man. That sounds so exciting and cool. Oh god Well, this is the next example of those icebergs where we could see the top when we know some of the problems But then there's a whole we know that there's this whole other set of problems that we can't even fully realize yet Right so let's wrap up shall we so one of the things about Innovating and being innovative I guess, you know as well What does it get me as a company like what does it get me as was it get my team to be innovative? And just from the perspective that that we have with IBM and TWC I mean, it's pretty easy to see that you know success really does breed success when you Have taken on a seemingly impossible task and been able to solve it That really does a lot for making you feel comfortable taking on that next big challenge And when you have those little god moments, you're like no, I'm not okay. It's all right. We've done this before we know the drill From an organization when you see that your organization is innovating or that your team is innovating or that a team That you work with is innovating it helps motivate your team and the rest of the teams to continue pushing forward I mean nothing makes you feel better than even being next to somebody who's like Really just knocking it out of the park they can they can do wonders for your self-esteem and your motivation levels I mean anybody who's been to a Drupal con before knows that coming here and being around smart people You come away feeling really good about your work and your life, you know most of the time But it is it's something that your entire organization learns that that it gets this motivational sense from it and You know to that again when you're in the room I've always said that I like to be put myself in the room with the smartest people I don't think I'm the smartest person in the room by far But when you get in that situation where you are a thought leader or you're perceived as a thought leader You end up being around other thought leaders and what that actually gives you is this great opportunity to you know bounce ideas off of each Other or collaborate with them directly or indirectly you can see where maybe they've made mistakes Where maybe they've taken a slightly different approach you can get Eureka moments from seeing what they're doing They might have gone east and you're going southeast and then you realize that you kind of went around the mountain two different ways And you realize there's a whole different mountain, but now you know you can kind of do it So I think that's really important and you know getting into how we've partnered like with media current It's been great because that is how what our relationships like and I think when you come to a Drupal con That's what it's like is your look at what everybody's doing and it makes you feel good And it makes you feel confident that you can take these challenges on and you you can actually succeed at them And perhaps also see lightning snow And as a as someone working for a Drupal agency as well, there's tons of benefits that we get not just raining money What one of the things is that as we establish ourselves as you know being at the forefront for example of working with angular That attracts developers who are interested in ways To combine Drupal and Angular that want to work for media current because they see us as helping to lead the path there Obviously, we you know, we've produced a lot of material in terms of blogs and webinars and videos That can have marketing value and drive people back to our site who are curious about all the things that media current does And ultimately, you know, that's that can be really appealing to clients who are trying to figure out similar problems We've already wrapped our head around and been at the forefront of solving All right, so this one's also a little weird because it will advise for innovators Yeah, look, we're struggling for headlines at this point. You're just lucky. You've got slides guys. I promise So just some it made it made Matt and I like have some discussions about maybe what we've learned from all of this work And what you know kind of as technologists What are the things that we might say to someone else who's you know coming at some of these problems We're trying to figure out how they can fit in Or even a larger organization trying to figure out if they're how to manage the treacheries of the modern Technological world, you know first off, you know, you just have to admit that risks are inherent in everything we do day to day But especially in the line of work that we're in and you just have to understand them as best you can And then expect that there will be problems that you didn't see my big role models in life are actually You know astronauts and the team behind them that sent people to the moon and send people to space and you know They went into a complete unknown and engineered a solution by trial and error and the stakes were incredibly high But they were able to mitigate those risks and when they didn't and failed they were able to pick themselves Back up in order to eventually succeed Yeah, one of the key things there in terms of risk evaluation is not just the engineering team having some understanding of Going into unforeseen territory But making sure that all the stakeholders who are involved in a project really understand that yes There are risks we can see but there's a whole bunch of risks that we can't even fully comprehend yet And having their buy-in as well that it's worth going down that road to create something really new And the key thing though that we're really trying to emphasize here is finding collaborators and partners Whether it's a partnership like TWC and media currents or whether it's people at a boff that you meet at Drupal con finding other people who are interested in similar problem spaces and Really jumping in with them and diving in for the long haul And figuring out how you can collaborate together because innovation is never something that just happens in a vacuum It's something that we can all contribute to together and that's it. Thank you very much. Thank you everybody And we have plenty of time for questions Feel free to approach the mic My name is uncle gupta and great presentation there. I had a question So I kind of looked at your previous case study, right? So when you did your Drupal 7 and angular You know sort of set up so one of the use cases was to control layout and how do you manage that in a fully decoupled? It's a good question It's a secret That is actually what we're That's that's that's literally phase one for us is is Building a system that allows that in a decoupled world. That's all I can say In in the Drupal 7 realm, you know our Drupal 7 site was built heavily on panels If you've seen some of the previous case studies and in that Drupal 7 world There's actually a restful panels module that you can use. That's awesome. Yeah, you're the guy. There you go So that's one example of this guy ways that you can have a have a layout That's driven by an editor and then it's actually the entire layout and the contents of a page or put out as Jason That can then be consumed by a separate front-end So trying to be Agnostic with your technology thinking forward you're decoupling the front-end you're decoupling the editor interface You're have everything defined in your JSON schema. What point is Drupal not necessary? That's a really good question Have you had conversations internally about that? Oh, yeah. Yes Absolutely, and that I mean that is the reality that we face right is that in in terms of our overall stack Drupal is in some ways becoming a smaller and smaller piece of that stack But it's also in another way It's kind of the glue that's binding a lot a lot of it together as well because what Drupal is really good at and it's Largest strength. I think it was mentioned in the keynote today is data modeling and handling really complex data structures And that's still the role that Drupal is serving in this Model as we move forward now one of the other things I'll say about that is is that we're also really looking at Ways that the kind of ideas that we're playing around with here Can help shape the future of where Drupal's headed as well So things like like the session that Preston so is going to be giving I think it's tomorrow called decoupled from the inside out Where there are people that's a core conversation where some of the core people are really exploring ways of making Drupal more micro-servicing or completely decoupled Out of the box. So we do think there are there are notions here that could help guide forward Ways that we could really grow the entire Drupal platform as well and and I'll say not only that I mean if I think it it behooves the rest of the CMS world and the technology world for Drupal to to be a leader in in Embracing API first methodologies and having those technologies out of the box. I mean, I think that would drive adoption And certainly inform the conversation about how systems do that in general So I work for a small the weather small weather company in Oklahoma and Over the Oklahoma Mesonet But we have a small team it's state and university driven and we're completely moving to Drupal So this is all all new kind of in the planning stages of getting everything ready, but everything's pretty much the same We have you know very localized data Tons of data coming from sites all over the state Reporting every five minutes, you know, there's constant so is your is Drupal handling the weather data Not necessarily okay good So we you know, we'll also have You know weather entries to where people can go in and edit edit maps or edit info about weather parameters and edit news Articles and things like that too. So that would be the main use for that and then the main structure for the site You know your general navigation and stuff, but I guess my question to you is What would you recommend for a small team and we have like maybe three people that are gonna be working on this and You know things that we can do to help us in this move so Generally for a small team going fully decoupled may be over architecting Yeah, and if you can avoid it Unless you really understand the kind of complexity to your stack that it brings along with it it might be worth really looking at the kind of progressive decoupled model and honestly I would suggest specifically looking at the Decoupled blocks Kind of kind of model because that's a way that you can just take the very specific parts of your page in Drupal 8 that need to be really localized and dynamic and Pass those off to some JavaScript framework of your choosing Almost anything else that I'd say is is almost CMS 101 stuff I mean make sure that you model your data data types accurately make sure you know how to categorize your content You're gonna want to be pushing content to people on-demand make sure you've got a strategy and a solution for the keeping the content fresh Make sure you look at your editorial UIs and that everybody's happy with them when you get started because for a newsroom having that editorial velocity is huge and when that starts getting unwieldy because you've got Too many places that you need to assign categorization like too many taxonomy fields that can really hurt people so Definitely bear that in mind as you're building out Thank you It's funny because we've given the impression that we're super heavily into angular here But the truth is where we are using react as well on the weather. Yeah This is this is the whole thing like one of the drivers was when we launched Angular was the thing now, you know, there's I mean, you know There's too many frameworks almost but and one of the challenges that we have in our d7 is that the investment of development resources into making it work with just any Framework out of the box is just it's too much. It's too heavy Decouple blocks on the other hand has the idea that maybe you would have a site a d8 site where you would choose one But that you wrap The you basically wrap some code some metadata around the framework itself and tell Drupal how to embed it But that could be what handlers exist right now for that React view angular to I think there's an ember one in progress as well but from our team side like our our first Forays into decoupling are live and they're based on well, they're originally based on react I don't I think they may have changed that the front-end teams. They're they're basically using inferno inferno. Yeah, so cool Well, if there are no other questions feel free to come up and talk to us after you're free. Thank you so much


I'm doing a second term for VPPR but at 2.30 I'm filming another Instagram story for UCF. I literally went ham on Black Friday. Guys we're literally going to Fugiana in our pajamas on the first day of Vlogmas. I like went through a dramatic like just changed my like mindset. Hey guys, happy first day of Vlogmas. I'm up pretty early. It is currently 8.25. We're taking council pictures so I took outgoing council pictures and now I'm taking incoming council pictures because I'm doing a second term for VPPR which is Vice President of Public Relations. I can't Moji's in the back but I have to put on my new heels and then head out there. I'm going to be taking the pictures of us so I'm going to bring my tripod, my phone because it has like the little app with the remote on it. We're waiting for everyone to get here. Why are you whispering? I don't know. So we just got done with council pictures and I think they turned out really good. I'm currently importing them on my computer right now. It's taking like a really long time because we did take like 200 pictures but I feel like I've taken more before so I don't know why it's taking that long but in the meantime I do need to clean up my room because as you can see it's kind of messy and after that I am like determined to get this like five page project done today so I really want to get that done before too. It is currently 10 30 so I feel like four hours is like enough if I like actually like focus. I also need to edit a vlog today. It is vlogmas day one and I still have a vlog before vlogmas starts so I want to get that up today so that I can start editing like vlogmas stuff. I definitely have to get used to like vlogging people around me and just like in public just because like I don't really want my vlogmas vlogs to be like super short and I really want to get like a lot of good footage but you know I gotta be super confident. I'm starving right now. It is only 10 30 and our meal plan starts at like 11 30. Used to start at 11 but they push it back to 11 30 which is probably good because the later you eat is like the less you get hungry during the day at least for me. So it is 11 48 and I just sent the pictures to council. I'm gonna post some right now on my Instagram and they look super christmasy and it just looks so festive and like the house is decorated outside so we took like some porch pics and I don't know they just like look really really cute. So meal plan is smashed sandwiches doesn't really sound very appealing so hopefully there's like a pre-made salad or something. We are headed to meal plan. So it's 1 p.m. currently and I actually just submitted my capital to report for December so basically we just have to like show nationals like all the graphics we make and like the pictures we take and the proofs of the t-shirts we make and the banners we make and just like stuff like that. So I just did that. I'm feeling super tired though so I think I'm gonna take like a really quick nap but at 2 30 I'm filming another Instagram story for UCF so I'm probably gonna head over there at like 145 150 because I have a package waiting for me at the mail center. It's just some stuff I bought from Black Friday sales so I'm pretty excited about that. I feel like Black Friday was so long ago and like these packages are taking forever but I'm also very impatient so I'm pretty sure that nap only lasted like 10 minutes or 20 minutes max but I just changed into this plain like black t-shirt dress because when you're on camera you're not really supposed to wear anything super crazy like with any crazy patterns or whatever so I just like threw on this t-shirt dress and I did get a haircut yesterday. I don't know if I told you guys but I got more layers in my hair. I got like a really nice haircut at the beginning of the school year and I fell in love with it so now I'm like all up in the layers trend.  Let's go. Just got to the mailing center so see if they got my package. I literally went ham on Black Friday on the key site because like all my key glasses are like ruined they're just like scratched up or broken I you know I suck. I did go a little bit crazy I think I got like almost five pairs of sunglasses but one of them was free. Let me know if you guys want like a little try-on haul of these sunglasses in the comments down below. I can totally do that for you like tomorrow or something like that. If you guys are curious to see what glasses I got and like how big they are because a lot of them are oversized and I know some people don't like that. I personally love it and some people think it doesn't suit me but I'm just like I just wanted to cover my face like that's all I wanted to do um but I'm excited to open these but I'll probably just wait for another vlog to like show you guys all that. So we are on the golf cart we have our script and this is a break right? Yeah not the best person I have but it's our first time filming it on our own so it shall be fun. All right we are going to film and see if you're in a next. What if these doors have to be opened? Well there we go. So when we do these little like segments we have to like predict what's going to happen so for the football thing we say like if they lose and if they win and then like one part was like about Memphis and there was like literal Memphis like fans like walking beside us and I guess they heard like their name and so they were like kind of like messing around in the background like they weren't being filmed because it was just like audio they thought you know finals are almost over so we finals are almost over so we asked students what they're doing finals are almost over so we're asking students what they're looking forward to what they said. finals are almost over so we're gonna ask students what they're looking forward to this upcoming winter break. finals are almost over so we're finals are almost over so we're asking students what they're looking forward to this upcoming so close finals are almost over so we're asking students what they're looking forward to this upcoming winter break guys we're literally going to Fuji on it in our pajamas I'm so scared they're gonna touch us they're really good they are gonna I look like I'm wearing like what would you call it what's it called kimono yeah is that what it's called I think so okay yeah it would really look like like a Japanese doll yes so I don't know if this is like pajamas but I tried you know do it with pants but hers is cuter than mine so this is what I'm sorry it's great it's comfy it's long it does look comfy I want one of these this year I need them are they expensive though I feel like we wanted a lot see if we get any stairs coming at you live from I think this white sauce is gonna cover one grain of rice literally thank you thank you for covering one sixteenth of my bowl on the first day of vlogmas my roommate gave to me my roommate Chloe she actually got us this Christmas tree which is super cute and I told myself that I'm gonna wait for vlogmas to start to decorate it sorry for the refrigerator noise but I might as well decorate it now how cute is this like it literally came with little ornaments yes right on this segment of vlogmas day I brought Laura on my channel today thank you so much I'm so happy to be here I'm so glad you're here no for real she said she changed her life and I want her to share my life changed with you yeah okay because I think it's awesome and I'm really happy for you I like went through a dramatic like just changed my like mindset on everything and so there was like a situation in my life and it just like really got me down and it made me not love the things that I used to love and Kate answering around yeah so that was like yeah that was like my things you just like go take pictures and like maybe really happy and like after that situation I didn't know if I liked it anymore and I was like in a slump what do you say in a slump yeah yeah I was just not feeling myself I didn't even yeah I didn't even know what I like to do and I just like not I wasn't depressed but I just like wasn't having it what you weren't you yeah exactly and so I was like trying to figure out who I was again it's just like so like stupid but like I managed to get through it and yeah so I like started focusing on Instagram again and I deleted you guys I deleted like all my social media apps except for Instagram so I could focus more on Instagram but it's like the best thing ever and then I've also just followed her on Instagram Laura Z Rossin not Laura it's la la la la oh my gosh and then I just like been trying to change my mindset on like different things in life like I feel like I'm always stressed out about nothing and so there's like this new rule it's called the five changer it's literally so amazing it's called the five by five rule and it's basically saying if you don't see yourself getting mad about it in five years don't spend more than five minutes worrying about it now and so it's like literally like what I'm living by right now and it's iconic I need to literally write that down and like take that to the grave with me because I feel like I focus on like petty stuff yeah no I don't like spend my whole day like being distracted by something like super you know me as well but yeah so I you know I feel like I've assured like my look little like positivity like plug on my channel before I'm a big proponent in the law of attraction basically like when you put out positive vibes in the universe they come back to you you put out negative vibes in the universe they come back to you so just always think of positive things and then like good things will happen to you for sure at least you'll start paying more things because I think that's what it is and just a placebo effect but no for sure but I feel like if you always think of the negative you only focus on the negative things like even if like something little happened that's amazing yeah you don't worry about it because you're so focused on like this negative thing happening anyway yeah especially now that we're like almost about to graduate she's literally graduating next year this time like next year this time one year she's gonna be like a freaking adult not that she's in right now no I'm not it's still a child like what the heck it's so crazy yeah like what do you think you're gonna do I don't know I don't know I'm gonna move back to Atlanta hopefully get my own apartment hopefully with Ryan but yeah I don't know what about you I haven't moved to Atlanta with Sonali I literally like every friend I have in Florida just like migrate up with me like I beg of you all like honestly I feel like that's like the best place to live that it's still close to home yeah but you're not it's a big city yeah stuff to do you're not in the heat badly that's like the main thing that's so true yeah and you'll like that but it's like and when I go there now I'm like freezing really I need to like go on boohoo and order some coats before I go home because I'm gonna freeze my ass off like I like during Black Friday I was like I didn't even have like any coats because I like outgrew them or like gave them to play those closet cuz I'm like not there anymore like I went home I had to use like Ryan's lawyer jackets on myself because I just like didn't have any so yeah but yeah we're super full off our Fuji Yama and you know we're getting on our feels at dinner so thought we would share it with you guys I'm gonna do a project now and edit another vlog and then edit this vlog and then go cry yeah so yeah no positive vibes yeah what I just say this was a sign that Laura was talking about go help yourself girl it's not me it's Chloe it's my sweet yeah yeah yeah so Laura just found out that I have an apple pencil this whole time she's been like apparently that's me guys show me your face chart I did the eyebrows wait isn't that cool Laura is an artist


Sony CDP-CE500, five-disk CD changer. He cut this. Are you ready? At a garage sale, four. Hey, fellow buddies, thanks for watching. It's from my little pony. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. Are you ready for 35 big money Bolo's items that you can hopefully find when you're outsourcing? These items come from my featured members from my Bolo Buddies YouTube channel. And I'm gonna share their Bolo's with you. I'm gonna tell you where they got it, what they paid for it, and what it sold for. And some of these are gonna surprise you. So let's get started. The first item was picked up by Random Chick Vintage. And she has got some really cool items down in her store. That will be, excuse me, that will be linked in the description of the video. And you will see YouTube channels and eBay stores featured in this video. All of those are linked down below. So definitely go and check them out. So that is her eBay store. She's talking about doing a YouTube channel. So stay tuned and I'll link that down below too. So sub her up. So when she posts her first video, you're there for it. This first one is awesome. I love this. It is a vintage handmade house coat. From the 60s or 70s, mod floral robe. One of a kind. Fancy. Check it out. I don't know. It's kind of fancy. Would you wear it? Let me know in the comments. Say I would wear the robe or no way I would not wear the robe. I'm gonna be watching for your comments. All right, I would not wear the robe. She bought this for $2.49 and took a best offer of 65 on that one. I would sell it for 65. Love those margins. Okay, this vintage pink acrylic fleece waffle weave crib blanket. If you guys don't know these crib blankets can sell for big money. One in particular is baby Morgan. She thinks this might be a baby Morgan and maybe the tag was cut off, which could have happened. I'm not super familiar with what the baby Morgan's look like to tell you for sure. I just know that they typically have a tag and they have a satin trim and they are definitely a big money bolo. She got this at a yard sale for $1 and sold it for a best offer of 50. The next item is this Lily Pulitzer dress that she sold over on Poshmark. And one thing to know about this is the straps were altered and it's still sold. They were shortened and she sold this for $40 and she picked this up for $6. The next item is from Antiques from Karen Janet and she is the gal that inherited her mother's horde is what she calls it. But really it's just amazing inventory that her mother had, I believe a shop or something like that and just collected tons and tons of stuff and it's amazing, amazing stuff. And she sells this stuff over on her YouTube channel. So definitely check it out. It looks like she's got something going on over here. I haven't seen that so. All right, let's see what she sold. She sold this Delci luggage bag and this was from the estate and she ended up selling this for $189.99 plus shipping. So it's a carry on luggage bag. D-E-L-S-E-Y is how you spell it. So I'm guessing that's probably kind of a high end brand if it's just a 21 inch, so very cool. The next item she sold is this Mattel 1991 mermaid Barbie in rainbow hair changes color. She got this again from her mother's estate and she sold it for a best offer and I'm not sure what the best offer was, I apologize. And definitely some of those pink box Barbies can be a Bolo. A lot of them are bread and butter but definitely check that bar code. This one here sold on Facebook Marketplace. It is a vintage slag glass tulip hanging lamp and she put a video right here at the beginning which I'll show you is a really great idea. This is actually her first, the first thing you see when you open the listing so she's showing the item and she's got a really good description over there and she ended up selling this on Facebook Marketplace for $75 and this also came from her mother's estate. The next item comes from any time picker and this is his YouTube channel. Go and check him out, all kinds of content over there and he is a Bolo finder as well. So he is creeping up on 600 subs so let's help get him to 600. All right, he sold this forever collectibles, Cleveland Cavaliers, Big Head, Bobblehead. Got it at the Goodwill for $2.29 and he sold this for $99. That's what the bottom looks like. Bobbleheads can be big money for sure, definitely look them up. Sony CDP-CE500, five disc CD changer. He cut this, are you ready? At a garage sale for $20 and he sold it for $399 plus shipping. How fantastic is that? That's a huge Bolo. This Charlie Bears, he picked up at a Goodwill for $2.29 and he sold it for $49.99 and it's designed by Isabella or Isabelle Lee. Never heard of that. So let's look at the tag here. Exclusively designed. Never heard of that brand. So definitely something to look for. The next item comes from where pigs fly farm and they are a nonprofit where they have, they have animals, farm animals and it's like a petting zoo type, not petting zoo but like a petting farm and, but it's all nonprofit and they take care of all these animals. Definitely go check out their channel. They've got information over there on that as well. I also did a video where I featured her Bolo's and I talk about it more so you can also check that out on my channel. But they do eBay to help provide money to, for the nonprofit. So let's talk about her Bolo's. These are Holly Garland Belset and these are really, really cool, a fun little item and they're by Yule Glow and she got these at a live auction, paid $5 and sold them for a hundred. The next item is this deer head. Now, I will say that taxidermy, I think maybe it depends on the animal. I think there's rules for taxidermy. Maybe certain states have different rules, not 100% sure. I just feel like I remember hearing that a while back. If anybody knows, feel free to drop that in the comments. I can't remember all the details. It might be certain animals but this is a deer head. A friend donated it to her and she sold it on eBay for a best offer of $120 plus shipping. And these are coffee mugs and I'm not gonna read them. You can see them. And she got these live auction for $1 and sold them for 50. All right, this one comes from Yard Sales and Dreams, also another awesome YouTube channel and she is definitely a Bolo finder as well. Let's see what she's got for us. She has this one, I love this one. It's not super big money but it's from the 1990s and a good keyword is Y2K to put in the title. I guess there's clothing that they call Y2K and this is a vintage floral sunflower overalls. It's a jumper by Express. So it's not even like a fancy brand. It's a mall brand, it's Express. Right here, you see the vintage tag. Look familiar to anyone? It might. She got this at Yard Sale for 50 cents and sold it for $34 plus shipping. The next item is this Sony, it's a VHS video cassette recorder with no remote. She got this at Yard Sale for $5 and took a best offer of $50 plus shipping. This is a pampered chef tool turnabout, item number 2170 and it's retired. It's a craft caddy. She got this at a thrift store for 12 bucks and sold it for 65 plus shipping. The next item comes from Gigi's Goldmine, another really cool eBay store. No YouTube channel, links are down below if you wanna check out the store. Look at that, that's fancy and cool. Looks like they've got some junk drawer lots if anybody crafts. So go ahead and give them a follow. You can follow any eBay store by clicking the heart. That will let you follow them and you'll get alerts when they post new items to their store. These are Gorham Chantilly Sterling Silver Teaspoons, no monogram, lot of two. And they've sold two lots so far and have two left. And they paid 50 cents a piece for these and sold them for $32 plus shipping. That is great, 50 cents each, wow. The House of the Dead overkill Nintendo Wii game. Here is another one that you might just be able to find at a thrift store or garage sale and they just might not know it has value. This one he got at a church sale for a quarter and sold it for a best offer of $32. The next item comes from Mutton Ridge Fines.  Unbelievable sale, look at those, those are cool. All right, are you ready? All right, so she got these on Facebook Marketplace. She paid $100 for six pieces. And I think there were also some figures that she's selling individually. She sold this purple one, which is Aladdin and Jasmine and their music boxes by Disney. And she sold this one, which is Ariel, The Little Mermaid, $485 each to the same buyer, both of these. So all in for whatever, $485 plus, $485 plus tax and shipping, just crazy, over $1,000. Amazing sale, amazing find. And good for her, I'm super excited for her about this. And she has one more that's listed, it's yellow, the buyer didn't pay and she re-listed it and I'm guessing it's probably gonna sell pretty quick. These Crocs, this is another great Bolo. If you don't know about these, these are the Sport Boat Lace Up ones.  She got these at her honey hole for $2 and she sold them for $89.99 plus shipping. The next item is this Estee Lauder Resilience Alastin Lotion Re-Firming. I'm guessing it's like a face cream or a firming cream for your face. She got this at an estate sale for $1 and she ended up taking a best offer of $75 on this one. All right, a little bluebird is next. All right, let's see what she's got for us. Here is her eBay store, no YouTube channel. She did put some content out a while back, but hasn't done anything lately. I will keep you guys posted if she decides to do content again, but again, really fun store. She's also over on McCarrie and let's see what she's got for us. She sold this Vintage O'Farrell Cowboy Hat Dunga, wait, Durango, I almost said Dungaroo. Durango Women's Custom Made Hat and it's a size small. Check that out. That is some fancy stuff right there. She got this for $0.05 in a bulk buy and it sold for $101.64. The next item is this, I love this. I'm sorry, excuse me. It's a 1999 Rugrats Biacom Nickelodeon Overalls Shirt Set. New with tags, adorable. She got it at a thrift store for $4.95 and sold it for $44.94. The next item comes from Vichy. I had to remember how to say it. And she does not have an eBay store, but I did provide a link down below that will take you into her store into a list of items like this. And you can check out the, whoa, that's freaky, her other items. All right. So what did she sell? She sold this Vintage Halloween 10 Lithograph Noisemaker. And this is not the one that I originally pulled up, but it expired before I made the video. So I wanted to grab something from her store. So I don't know where she got it or what she paid for it, but I wanted you guys to know that these Noisemakers can definitely be a nice bread and butter and can go pretty high. I probably would have auctioned this, but she did end up selling it for $28.95 plus shipping. So Vintage Halloween definitely be on the lookout. These red polka dot 1960s frosted glass Tom Collins Vintage Tumblers. She got these for $5 at an estate sale and sold them for $48.50 plus shipping. This is a Nancy Pelosi real life action figure. Is that a mask? I think that is a mask. She got this out of a dumpster for free and it sold for 49.50. That's interesting. Okay. And the buyer paid shipping. The next one comes from Lombardi Limited and he does a lot of ephemera, postcards, hats, different vintage items, really, really cool store and a My Little Pony Build-A-Bear. So let's see what he sold this for this video. He sold this Dallas, Texas, St. Joseph's Church Academy. It's a postcard and you can see the back here. And he got this in a bulk lot of postcards. So he had pennies in this and he sold it for full asking price of $34.95 free shipping. The next item is this postcard. It's an Old World Santa postcard. He ended up taking the best offer of $58. I'm guessing he probably could have held out for more but sometimes, you know, when you have an offer you just take it. It looks like it's got maybe a little bit of condition issues and it is marked but $58, nice find. And that was also from that big lot of postcards he purchased. This one is a vintage 2000 LeBron James Miami Heat Majestic tie-dye T-shirt, extra large and he actually did the bleaching and tie-dye effect on his own. And he ended up selling this for $52.95 on Best Offer and I'm not sure where he got it. The next one comes from the Funky Pickle Thrifter and she has an awesome YouTube channel. Go check her out. She knows so much about jewelry but she is also a vintage Bolo finder. She finds amazing stuff. The stuff she picks up at garage sales and how cheap she gets stuff, it's fantastic. So definitely sub her up. This vintage infant of Prague statue, she got this at a thrift store for $5 and sold it for $99.99 plus shipping. And this vintage silver aluminum Christmas tree, 45 branches, sparkler, four foot, four inches tall. Sorry guys. Thrift store, three bucks and sort of for $114.99. That's just a little guy. And the next one is this OOP Public Access Ricky Powell photographs. It's a book. And she said that she saw this at a thrift store and it looked special and she checked the bar code and it was. So she paid $10 for this at a thrift store and sold it for $249.99 plus shipping. Wow. All right, the next one comes from Auctions For You. This is her YouTube channel and she wholesales items out to her viewers on YouTube, so she has selling events and her and Donna Telebotelino do this together. They will both be linked down below but definitely check out T Auctions For You on her YouTube and she also has a Facebook group. But if you are looking for inventory, I have bought from her many times and highly recommend her. Right, this Department 56 Snow Village and Donna and T, they go out, they live in two separate states. They became friends and do YouTube auctions together on each other's channels. So this is a snow village and they pick things up wholesale. They go to a states, they buy storage units, they just buy cheap so that they can sell cheap so that we can make money. But this village, I'm not sure what she paid for it, it was probably a bulk buy, but she ended up selling it for $45.99 plus shipping. This one came from a huge toy haul that she got. I can't remember if this was the storage unit or the store buyout, but this is a 1993 Dragon Strike board game with the VH8S tape, new open box, sold for $124.99 plus shipping. And the next item is this Playmobile. Again, huge toy buyout she did. This one sold for $159.99 plus shipping. Some of the Playmobile, if you can get them sealed, it's just like Legos and, oh, what's the other one, Mega Blocks. If they're sealed, new old stock, somebody's gonna want them. There's collectors out there if they're vintage. That one's 1998. So definitely be on the lookout for those items, old toys, sealed, new old stock.  But sometimes there are some big money bolos out there. 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This is stock number 9-4-3-8. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used three-quarter ton and one ton truck headquarters today. We are checking out this super clean 2013 GMC Sierra 3500 regular cab long box single rear wheel This truck has the six liter V8 motor from this HD video We'll be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean all the way around No dents or dings on that front bumper We shoot all of our videos in 1080p So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or a smartphone device I highly recommend you turn in a mod now because it is like you're right here looking at the truck with me You can see it has this painted steel rims. Goodyear Wrangler SRA LT 265 70 R18 tires And these tires have about 70 to 80 percent of the tread left And the reason I want you to turn the HD capabilities on is because this truck is super clean a lot of times when you think of the work truck package you don't think of a Extremely clean well taken care of vehicle, but this one is Just that very very well taken care of no dents or dings on the hood Passing their side rims in nice condition and As we go down this side of the truck you can see just how clean that body is how reflective and Mirror like that paint is it has the black step bars on it No dents or dings down this side of the truck very very clean 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 You can still see the truck here the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here I didn't see any dents or dings down this side Back rim is in really nice condition as well and The back tires have just as much tread as the front tires You can see that frame and underbody is an excellent condition. It has all the remaining factory exhaust and The frame and underbody on this truck is an exceptionally clean condition of the lower rockers look really good Has bushwhacker Bed rail covers Like I said, you just don't see work trucks in this condition a lot of times work trucks are pretty Pretty you heart use pretty hard. So this one's an exceptional condition Backtail gates an excellent condition has the full towing package receiver hitch seven pin wiring no dents or dings on that Rear bumper it has a drop-in bed liner and as you go down this side of the truck Just about as clean as that passenger side the only thing I noticed there's one tiny little ding on the box there But other than that just amazing condition on this truck It helps that it's low miles, but you know, you always want to make sure that What you're looking at is worth it And that it's nice inside the work truck package gives you the black Cloth interior. There are no rips. There are no tears on these seats very very clean Has lumbar support has the rubber floors Power windows power locks. It has the telescopic tow mirrors with the built-in directional signals in them Also has the factory brake controller auto headlamps and As we hop inside here, you can see that this truck indeed has 13,049 miles very low miles on this truck You know being a 13. It's already five years old You know very low miles driven every year has CD player six-speed automatic transmission the four by four shifter on the floor The rubber floors once again for easy cleaning passenger seat is very clean as well. No rips or tears on that I don't believe this truck's ever been smoked in has the on-star in the mirror and It also has your This button indicates that it has a snow plow prep package. So That's what that button means right there. It has the Bluetooth audio controls on the leather wrap steering wheel That's in really nice shape as well No rips or tears on that wheel and we'll take a quick look under the hood Under the hood we have the six liter v8 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 And to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 400 new and used cars trucks SUVs mini vans Wranglers Half tons three-quarter tons one tons you name it. 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