Oh a limo We'll get out of the way then Through motorfest video here for you guys today It took me a minute to actually get crew motorfest to work big Thank you to Ubisoft for sending it to me prior to release and the ultimate edition big Thank you to them for partnering up for some videos here But the reason it took me for so long to get it going I couldn't get the game to work correctly on the PC. I kept having some lagging issues I kept having some frame rate issues and things like that, but it's resulting with my recording software, but now We're up and running. We are on our fanatech club sport V2.5 because the moza does not work with the crew Right now, so we're on the full fanatech setup. I miss you guys follow me on all social media It's found in the description box below. Let's just have a little fun with it So like I said, we are here on the crew and We're in the Liberty Walk 890 just because it was one of the cars that I got And we're just gonna have a little fun with this today Not sure what we're gonna really get into But we're just kind of ripping this this car here on The fanatech and it's been a minute since I've been on my fanatech wheel But overall impressions it feels quite nice on the fanatech. I really hope moza Gives some support for it soon so that I can use all my parameters and stuff like that Because it will be real nice to use my handbrake and shifter and everything. It's on my rig without having to change my rig over completely This Liberty Walk harassment ain't our knees kind of a killer. I like it Oh First kids, I mean we're there To be guys are playing crew motorfoil, so let me know it's down in the context down below We're having around this thing in paddle shifters. No, but because we don't have the fanatech stuff on Inside I've been fully tearing my rig apart Because I'm still using the beat the pedals on this rig right now. It's not bad You have a static camera Definitely not a bad feel All right problem fixed we'll can't stick We've I've just recently been having a lot of Some PC issues recently with connectivity with my cameras and Wheels and games and support and stuff like that recently that I really need to I think completely refresh my PC and Go full-on Re-reset with all new software and stuff like that I think I did notice about the finish pedal it doesn't engage right away So you're like all the way on the break That's probably just a setting thing that I need to address or it could just be the game some sort of That zone that needs to be adjust. Like I said the visuals and the sound of this game is so nice And kind of actually excited that it's been working now because I was having issues before Was not yep that's your things gonna be crazy This person suffer drifting maybe the cards that are set up for drifting and all differently If they do let me know down in the comments. You guys are on here with this We're gonna go straight to the Japan And see what we can get into for today's episode kind of just dipping our toes Into true motor fest once again a big thank you to that game devs for hooking me up with this Let's go discover almost everything the Japanese drivers have to offer There's a lot of them first event available six feet unlocked By photos, okay. Well, we got to get to the first one. So Where we going first another activity awaits We're going guys got the NSX I want but at least we have This a 90 take you to Japan. So we brought Japan to you There's a special gathering tonight at the Japanese temple the start of a whole new experience Here's what to expect when getting there a traditional Japanese summer five and lots of Kyushu cars meaning iconic Classic and made in Japan On top of this expect some exciting encounters, okay I mean, I'm down We got a we got a nice Japan car here Well kind of all right, we're gonna do the sprint one of a car. It's gonna give us Oh, it's loading us into the sx. So the car I wanted we're gonna get to drive. So that's cool So make sure you guys follow me on all social media on the description box below I do appreciate all you guys coming in for another video here on the channel Got a lot of cool things coming up here in the future with a lot of new games and everything coming out And we're just gonna go full send Oh, we got a factory NSX that's not what I wanted but I mean, I guess it'll work I feel like we would not be doing that Game on we're going for some proper Japanese street racing. Let's show them guys Okay, why not I didn't don't think proper Japanese tree raising the involved in crashing I Like I should be okay. We'll say you're driving the MSX isn't your regular street car was made back in the 90s To stand neck and neck with that. We have nitrous portion. He's not just like shingles Oh You know that if a rookie beats us with his NSX, we won't hear the end of it, right? I don't even want to think about giving shingles a satisfaction They're focused and win this thing then I totally have forgot I had nitrous have them on like one of the hardest New sports car experimental. I wasn't asking you he meant 68% done and we're kind of moving in Oh, I should have been paying attention I wasn't paying attention. Well, you can tell it's been a minute since I've done This type of racing On the road, you know, it is a nice kind of change of pace You guys if you want to keep seeing crew motorfest here on the channel Let me know down in the comment section down below. I'd appreciate it all the support I mean we're nowhere near First they're gonna eat they're gonna get us though. So I think that's good to you for this episode here on the crew Motorfest we may have to come back and try to beat this again. So as always, I think I've come back watching. I'm evil rabbit I'll see you guys on the track


Going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards ripping at the finest pristine tribute to chrome eight box MLB mixer number one random team stuff again at your random results as always find those on the website another results tab as Well as a link in chat Yeah, how are you doing? Starts with a TC hobby That's Bubba Thompson refractor a rookie otter 499 for the Rangers it's time for the charlie morten break. Oh god Best I could do is gyre surgeons gyre surgeons Letty and more base Now just eight to go in pyt of national treasures football avicile garcia prism for the marlins H2 go on that one add the ruchman refractor rookie nice one there for the uh orials Eight spots remain on that teams are all on sale Grab them on up magenta jared wallster 399 Torque and nolyn gorman max mire rookie jig the grom refractor Yoshida clayton kershaw refractor churras music effing gattus offer deal deal deal uh wander negative base james outman refractor josh young insert Alrighty It's up again. Everybody watching the stream boat jacks in ultraviolet all-stars. It's one there for the royals Very cool super short print Garrett Cole I told you about the akunin one of that right? That was inscribed the chosen one. Yeah, Michael Harris. That's so sick mobe shit Corbin burns michael's the panic refractor cola latty jr refractor prism von grissom Last one here All right, two finest boxes 23 finest next Yeah Light blue masatake Yoshida the 300 for the red sox rookie bets refractor headliners nolyn aronado And their buddy moe is doing right now Nolan gorman to 99 jordan walker green rookie auto congrats on that st. Louis There's a little mark on the left there. I'm gonna send an empty box and wrapper very nice Jordan Walker 32 of 99 Yeah, he'll live this will talk for the month. I think it's true Michael toglia refractor alvarez rookie and zack wheeler Oswald peraza Jordan Walker Headliners latty mobe shit axe mire chris bryant to 175 Logan webgadly rushman refractor wilson contraris josh young rookie joy menaces blue oscar gonzalez to 150 for the guardians got base auto jj bladay going to the marlins Nice one there miami JJ bladay Rory with the packers and lions. Thank you rory rory. Let's go rory. We're down to six ntpy Down to six teams remaining. That's awesome. Thank you guys rory. Appreciate you, buddy Pascantino ron and akunya and base base All right, let me drop you guys that link again real quick Five to go still on divisions That's also divisions We are down to one two three four five and six six to go I'll get this guy out of here Headliners akunya Forget him out please That's matthew liberator to 300 refractor auto zikiel doran going to the rangers. Nice one there texas Tovar adi logan ohapi refractor rookie walde chuck and bobby witt jr Volpe rookie Uh brett Beatty teal shimmer to 175 beshet and fujanami world's finest salvi headliners shohei Logan web and mclannahan Garrett mitchell refractor rookie for the brew crew yelich and freddy freeman Jordan walker. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We got a moment's auto. That's gonna be first of all It's gonna be wandered 199. We got a moment's auto yordon alvarez going to the astros nice one there congrats houston Some air yordon action. I have the rushman. I know logan ohapi gold rookie oscar gonzalez 10 of 50 Um, he is josh young. He's gonna have a rough time So I'm all the wrong things to do Last to talk to your sheet up purple to 250 air and judge watch. What's up? Oh, yeah, michael harris rookie Oh, yeah, he'll come in every now and then you'll see matt l Garrett coal refractor and base. Oh, yeah. I'll do the two, uh, two tc jumbos next Oh Just look there, okay, uh prism zack gallin and vulpi refractor I know I saw him on one time Invited him At his controller, yeah austin riley teal wave ryan bayo. It's a 199 nice one there for the red socks Adley rookie Logan ohapi rookie Purple micah stremski to 250 toke. I know it's unreal to think about kade kevali refractor rookie. Yeah, that's brutal That's brutal Chris sail to 99 Prism salvi and mookie bets refractor Michael harris rookie At a riley green purple auto will benson nice one there to 250 for the guardians congrats cleveland cleveland Still six to go everybody corbin carol refractor Six to go also going to chop you link to divisions as well five to go on divisions And 15 to go on star wars six series random hit style By 15 to go Get that sold on out five two go Yeah, you can take those all right keep it moving.   That was super annoying Which is good. So that was definitely a step up josh young So yeah, it makes it cuts a lot of time off jararian carnazione and garret michael That's like the most underrated yet. No, I mean it's one less thing right right prep 80 adly titans gabriel morano. I mean it's still pretty unnecessary for some carlos korea And royce lewis, but it did make it a little easier a little easier Riley green Josh young base auto germain palacios Going to the tigers roller line on the bottom empty box and wrapper coming your way tigers and adjordan grochans Going to the tigers yoshita rookie masataka jordan walker rookie cruise prism marcus semian And megal vargas refractor no one gorman rookie Melendez jordan walker refractor nice one there. All right, I'll do it for box one of jumbo on a box two of jumbo go pristine finish with tribute finish with tribute no one gorman base auto matthew liberator Nice one there cardinals roller line on this one too on the bottom empty box and wrapper and an akunya refractor coming to the uh Cardinals on this one now got us invested in some fruit company. I said I don't have to worry about money anymore. That's true. There you go Kodai Senga I know is that a reference or something that's going over my head So far andrew mccutchen or is that legit arison? base price terrain to one 99 kodai senga and habir Assad pink andres himenez to 399 Juan soto and aswaldo cabrera No, I do I do I do I do I it's been like eight years since I've seen it to be honest anthony rizzo Miguel cabrera base auto zikil tovar nice one there for the uh, rockies Um, that's it's coming back to me now. I remember that I remember that part. Wow hidden gems freddy freeman super short print nice one there dodgers That's sick, dude First one of those I've seen I want to see what the odds are on that real quick hidden gems There's no checklist for hidden gems. It's one in 11,000 packs. You can bag that one. I would say sorry shon There's literally no hidden gems on the checklist That's nasty though. I'm in I'm in uh, kyle talker prism anthony, uh, rendone and a brat baby refractor That's pretty sick. I guess I have not seen one of those yet cunha cal stevensson danzby swanson refractor on grissom uh, shea langlears price harper rees hoskins We have one more auto still remaining in this box these castillo j ran and zander bogarth refractor Be joe at ten spots in this and ten spots in that alvarez One of those crazy 18 box personals Morel, uh, alex bregman. We've got refractor auto michael siani to 499 grads on that one. They're reds austin haze james ouchman card.  Hi with the bangles. We're down to five down to five everybody All right stupor steen now that was that was an easy decision it's donnie's burner Probably barrios and purple mark maguire to uh, 99 rice harper o snap And yordan a jazz chisel and evan lee heavenly evan lee Right there. Oh, honestly alcantra erin judge And evan lee heavenly evan lee again for the nationals Indra ben attendee purple andre dawson to 99 sammy sosa and alex bregman 26 of 75 nice one there for the astros on the on-card auto Kyle schwerber and marcus simian around the diamond for the rangers jersey auto Nice one there Congrats love air attack. There's no one gorman alex manoa fresh faces auto nice one for the blue jays You can figure it out Nick prado rookie and gold logano hoppy nice one there angels to 50 Jason picking up a pristine division again guys We've got just five teams left now in nt pick your team and five to go in divisions It's gonna drop you the divisions link five to go five to go And five to go in nt p yt as well ravens cowboys broncos jags jets Five to go as well in nt p yt Five to go Five to go Thank you again everybody Four taking spots. Keep it moving here regular adonis. Oh snap erin judge Is he killed so far to 75? Oh That go on to the top ten worst sticks Or not yet Willie maze Red ty france one of five go into the mariners One there mirrors. I know It's not bad enough There are some that Swing of summers erin judge short print nice one there for the yanks That's yankies and paul goldschmidt Gold jeff mcneil 27 to 50 Huh? Now because you gotta um, you gotta refer you gotta go back to the Yeah, there you go So like if you would I've noticed matt told me this because I didn't know this for a while If you are on a p yt If you click on a p yt break and then you are trying to scroll down you click on a team It changes the link. So it's a variant only for that team So say like you drop the link for the rate like right now you have it on the ravens If you drop the link In chat and someone clicks on it It'll show the entire break is sold out because it's it's only because you have it on the ravens. That's only shows the ravens So you always have to go like back and forth just to make sure But matt like matt showed me that I'm like, oh my god. Thank god. Yeah, I know that now for to go It's off the board now Andrew picking up the cowboys Down to four to go everybody four to go on nt p yt 15 to go on star wars sig series random hit style at the end of night everybody as well second box of pristine is on the way here Masataka Yoshida and Miguel Cabrera Gunnar Henderson rookie And vladdy going going gone There's a travestar no for the braves You said that That's awesome Reggie Jackson purple clayton kershaw to 99 for the Dodgers Adley rutchman Nice one there Gabriel Moreno, so that diamond backs and blue jays on the back See what we do with this real quick. Let me take a picture I'm assuming that might be a random, but I'm gonna text for us just to be sure And oh, yes, it's gonna and it's back. Well, yes, I'm gonna assume that Moreno is gonna be a random I'm not sure. I apparently matt had one of those today. I'm not sure what he did on it Mike yads and louisa rise and your martina is going going gone. Reggie Jackson for the ace And Juan Gonzalez to 75 the group chat He put it to the d backs. All right, Robbie ray and evan longoria. I'm gonna text our group chat. Just see what it's the Situation would be there a little weird True waters ozzie smith and frank thomas going going gone Cal Mitchell, I think he's on Toronto right now. That's that that's what's confusing me. You always start the cards by the back Travis swaggery rookie orange mookie bets to 25 24 of 25 going going on one soto Oh checklist shows d backs. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's a good point. I can look at the d back I can look at the checklist Is Rookie autograph set checklist card number r a gmo shows Now it's p a gm. Just getting p a gm. Hold on. That's not on though. It's a cult Okay, fine on the checklist now What is it?  Now technically just be the rookie autograph. Oh, why aren't why dude? Why? I was on top scroll that entire time That's boddish right there Hold on hold on hold on hold on. We're getting there Yep, this has this has diamond backs This has diamond backs So yeah, that'll go d backs That'll go d backs checklist says diamond backs. I'll drop you guys the checklist that I'm using cardboard connection No, no, no, I'm glad Tony. I'm glad I'm glad no worries at all Oswald peraza. It's a 75. Nice one there yanks So that'll go to the diamond backs. That's what it says on the checklist Uh, nowhere. I believe is he listed As a blue j. Let me double check though Yeah, he's not listed anywhere on the checklist as a blue j. So that's going to go to the diamond backs cool Adrienne Beltray and Marcus Simeon around the diamond going to the rangers again. I think that's the second Simeon in two boxes Peter Downs, Nolan Gorman Orange, Evan Longoria, 13 of 25. Nice one for the v backs. Congrats Arizona And last but not least one box of tribute. Good luck everybody See a big time hit out of this Come on obs Twice now like two minutes Mookie bets the 75 Broke Sean Jose Altuve. That's so true And nice one here is going to be Eloy Jimenez. We call brother Donnie 22 of 750 for the Cubs Miguel Cabrera Jayrod A nice one here for the A's Dave Stewart 166 out of 199 Congrats on that one Dave Stewart Olympus. Nice. Greg Maddox Goldie Olympus. Peter Lanzo. It's a 199. Congrats on that Mets A little polar bear action there on the Olympus auto Luis Castillo Robin the ounce for the brew crew to 50 27 to 50 Nice one there Buxton Ryan Mountcastle got Lucas G. Alito 43 of 99 Nice one there for the white socks On the auto and big poppy and Manny Ramirez 54 of 99 dual jerseys last pack here. Good luck everybody. David Ortiz Wander Franco and Ozzy Albie's 14 of 50. Nice one there for the Braves Ozzy Albie's On the auto Do a quick recap here everybody jersey cards man ram big poppy. You're Robin the ounce and Eloy Got autos Lucas G. Alito. Peter Lanzo. Dave Stewart Marcus Simeon twice Michael Siani base auto Zekele Tovar Ozzy Albie's A Matthew Libetor, Jermaine Palacios, Will Benson, Brian Bayo to 199 Jordan Alvarez, Zekele Doran, JJ Bladet Bubba Thompson Oswald Paraza, Alex Bregman, Alec Manoa, Gabriel Moreno Again checklist says Diamondbacks for this one. So this will go Diamondbacks Have that marked off Hidden Gems super short print Freddie Freeman For the Dodgers and then a Jordan Walker Green to 99 for the Cardinals. I'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the fill up next. We've got uh luminance


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Welcome to ToffeeTV, this is the Everton News Daily. It's been a quietish day today and a lot going on actually in regards to outgoings or potential outgoings shall I say. So let's get straight into it. Yannick Bellassie, this afternoon's had talks with Steve Bruce at Aston Villa attempt to hijack Middlesbrough's loan. The wing had travelled to Bodymor this morning. Bellassie now has a decision to make whether it's Middlesbrough or it's going to be Aston Villa on loan. That will be a loan deal that goes through according to Sky Sports. Also according to Football Insider, Bolton Wonders are closing in on the low move for Everton McFielder, Joe Williams.  So maybe a low move would probably be the best option for him. What you make of that, do you think that's probably best for his development? Let us know in the comments on that one. Lee Probert has been announced to referee Everton's trip to Bournemouth at the weekend. So make of that what you will. Lee Probert is in charge for our trip to the Vitality on Saturday. And Everton finally have named their price for Adamola Luckman according to Sky Sports. The Blues have said that they want 28 million plus add-ons for the young forward. Now it's interesting that me and Baz have had a discussion about this on the Ask Us Anything show. I believe we should sell Adamola Luckman because I think this situation has gone on for too long. Trust me that does pay me to say that because he's got so much quality as bags of ability. Baz's opinion is that he plays on his start on the bench until he can build his way into the team until he stops sulking basically. But let us know your thoughts on that one. Adamola Luckman apparently ever won 28 million for him. Do you think that's enough? Do you think we should be asking for more? Let us know your thoughts in the comments whether you'd sell him or not. So that is all it is today. Balasi looks like he could have his loan move. Lee Probert announced as referee and Bolton Wunderers closing in on the loan move for Williams and Adamola Luckman's price is named. Thanks for watching The Everton News Daily. If you want more exclusive content make sure to subscribe to Patreon. Thanks for watching The Everton News Daily and I'll see you later.


Let's talk about the acquisition. So are there many people coming to you? Are you thinking of selling or are people approaching you about buying your company? What was that like? Yeah, so got to the point in like, I mean, late 2017, 2018, when my co-founder and I were thinking about, you know, okay, what does the future look like for us? You're six, seven years in, the seven-year reach is here. Yeah, actually, you know, from ideal lab point, when we started full-time, we're about five years in at that point. And we were thinking, okay, so this space is getting more competitive. We have, you know, the landscape looks way different than when we started. We have more competitors doing this. We are either going to need to raise money, seriously raise money. To stay competitive, to become a player or to plant your flag. Yeah. Yeah. To really scale and take this to the next level or join a strategic partner that we can add more value as one would be even more valuable. So we're kind of looking at both. This is why people say one plus one equals three sometimes. This is exactly that. Yeah. So we were thinking about what to do and right around that time, we did have some inbound interest. Okay. And were your investors helping with this or is it? Not the investor so much as the board. Okay. Although we did, so we did have one, let's see where did Armando come on. Armando is one of our angel investors who was also a successful entrepreneur. He sold his company at Espresso to Hootsuite. And awesome. When he was looking at my monthly or quarterly investor updates, he saw very similar trend to where at Espresso was his company was like two years prior. Kudos to Armando for actually looking at investor updates. Yeah. That's so appreciated. So many people don't familiar. And I think I can help these guys because he was basically in charge of their growth engine. Okay. And so he reached out and we started talking about this side note here, but we started talking about him coming on as an advisor, almost like a super advisor, almost a part-time COO that level. Not just everybody talks about advisors and they never hear from him again. This was like, we're going to meet twice a week. He lives in San Francisco. So we're going to jump on a Google Hangout or something twice a week, go through our financials, go through our strategy and like it's going to work with us to help us grow. So that actually happened. That was one of the English syndicates too. So he did a syndicate, he raised some money, he came on as an advisor and he helped us out a ton. Now he's kind of packaged this up and it's helping some other companies too. Yeah. So he helped a ton in sort of with this strategy as well as our board. And Mike and I realized and thought about it and said, okay, well, we raise VC money now. We're basically committing to at least another five years to grow the company to the size that the return would be good enough for the VC. The VC is probably five years. Maybe at least three. So if we want to do that, we're starting to see more and more competition. We're seeing companies that we partner with traditionally have partnered with Shopify now launch their own Amazon and eBay integration. So they become friend of me almost like, are they competing? Are they not? We still do very well and have a great partnership with Shopify. That's fascinating. So they're starting to see more and more of that like other writings on the wall, consolidation in the market. Yeah. This is becoming not a nice to have anymore. It's becoming a must have. Right. For the big players to stay competitive. Yeah. And so it makes perfect sense. Like joining forces with a bigger company makes more sense than trying to go at this alone. And so rather than pursuing investment, we looked at that and it's right at that same time. We had go daddy reach out to us and say, hey, most people know us for domains and hosting because that's what we've done. Yeah. But we are now in a position where we're launching tools to help everyday entrepreneurs be successful online. And we launched this website builder and it has online store products. So you can launch and set up your online store super quickly. We have all these other tools to like scheduling if you're a hairdresser or something like that, or we can sell digital goods. We can sell not even sell, but you can spin up a website really quickly. You can do bookkeeping like we have all these tools for for entrepreneurs. And we see that the major gap is this marketplace integration. And you guys do it better than anybody else for small businesses. And so we would love to have you build a white label solution for us where you are powering it. Oh, interesting. Okay, online store. So we said, okay. And we've never done that before, but we started going down that path and working on the deal with them. And is this taking away all your tech resources? Not all of them now, but majority table some of the priorities that we had. Yeah, we thought this was going to be big. We thought this could, I mean, we're at that point, we weren't necessarily even taking acquisition. We were just like strategic class growth engine for us where we can just have a huge leaf on all of many customers. But pretty quickly, their corp dev team came forward and said, Hey, you know, we see these kinds of heavy technical partnerships work better for one company. How far into the integration did they ask me and started building it. Okay. So it's pretty early on. Still working through some of the contracts. And what we weren't ready to sell yet. Mike and I in this 2017. So he said, we held him off and said, you know what, let's just focus on the partnership for now. They said, great. Well, if you ever want to have the discussion again, let us know. So the partnership we signed the deal that took months to get legal. Absolutely. Yeah, signed the deal started working on the actual technical integration in 2000, early 2018. And it took us about six months. So late 2018, we were ready to launch. And at that point, we started getting some other interest about interest coming in. And so we reached out to go daddy again and said, Hey, we're interested in having that conversation again, took that, you know, that went on for a while. In the meantime, we had launched the white label integration and it did really well. We got thousands of go daddy sellers. But you were you knew, right?  You're like, you had to get it right. They're interested. Of course. And of course, you know, they want to, when we came back, they're like, well, let's, let's see how the integration does first. Yeah. And you're like, no problem. And meanwhile, you're getting other inbound hits. What a perfect, that's amazing. It wasn't like super aggressive at the time, but we had some interest and but when it started heating up, we had the discussions with go daddy and a few others. And ultimately, and were you pretty candid with them? We were, we didn't, you know, we didn't, you know, you wouldn't say the name totally with the amounts for anything, but we were getting other poppers. Yeah. But ultimately, you know, for us, Mike and I, the culture of who we were going to join was super important. How they were going to treat our employees was super important. The great thing is that we had just got to spend a year plus working with go daddy, both on the dev side, people who would be end up being my boss, the technical side. And we love our engineers said, you know, of all the partners we've worked with and the best. And we just really love the opportunity on go at go daddy because they have this 19 million customers already from the domains and hosting side. Yeah. And it's huge. You know, there's still one of the biggest domain providers in the world.  Most people kind of go daddy. That's true. So it's a huge lead gen for them, huge massive competitive advantage over their competitors. Yeah. And this, you know, their whole, what was called go central at the time, which is now this websites plus marketing suite that they have email marketing and all kinds of other stuff was really exciting to be in mind to be a part of that growth kind of felt start up. They're really scrappy getting this thing going.  That was super stressful actually because, you know, taking care of your employees is actually very difficult in an acquisition. And I think a lot of people don't, there's been, there's a lot of horror stories that don't get told enough, but sometimes the employees are put on, I would say like a four year golden handcuff or sometimes a three year golden handcuff. But then they're fired in year two. And so they never get the payout. And this is never told to anybody, but this happens all the time. And then what ends up happening is it goes an HR from the buying company will pay these people, not what they were supposed to get, but a percentage of it just to keep quiet and not effectively get negative press. But it sounds like not the case for you, which is wonderful. And that will not happen here. GoDaddy acquires a lot of companies. We were the 24th company in the last five years I think that they've acquired. And we were able to speak to a lot of founders from prior acquisitions before signing with them all for great things. And you know, it's kind of like for them, that's great. The reputation is important, right? It's almost like a VC. VCs don't sign NDAs, you know, famously don't sign NDAs and people are worried that VCs are going to steal their idea. It's like that's not going to happen because they'll never do another deal ever. Right. If they know if their integrity is large.  It's almost like talking to a politician and they'll just say, we stand behind all of our founders. We believe they're always doing the right thing. And we'll always do that. And if any stock becomes available in the company, we'll gobble it up because we're, you know, we believe big time these people will succeed. And I'm always like, wow, that is not true at all. But I love the commitment to the cause because they know the reputation is so huge. And then in GoDaddy's case, they want to continue to acquire companies. And so they know if they have over a bunch of former founders, that word is going to get out and we'll never acquire a company again. Right. So you have a big party? They want it. I mean, they're good people. So they won't do that anyway, but it's nice to hear. But there is, you know, there is a incentive for them not to do that as well because we're in their business. So we retained all our employees. Everybody did well, you know, every employee had stock options. I know and CEO of the year. That's so nice. No, I'm seeing it like, you know, what's important, we retained everybody. That was very big for us. This is a very uncommon story. You're not going to lay off anybody. Yeah. So if you need to have that, including the meditation, including the meditation coach, the hardest part though was, you know, GoDaddy is a public company. So you have to keep it very quiet during the due diligence period leading up to it, even from our employees. So our employees did not know until the day of the week over. Did they send a team in to do any IT type of network security stuff? Yes, a little bit. Like a training.  So they were coming in for the part, like the business leaders were coming in for the partnership side of things and even the tech leaders. But during due diligence, which was six or seven weeks before closing out for that full time, which was one of the most stressful things I've ever gone through in my life, we did have one point where we had to tell a couple of our technical leads about the acquisition because they had to do a technical due diligence. Yes. And Mike and I could not So Mike, you and Mike are not technical. You know, I started my career as a software engineer. So I consider myself technical like a product guy, but I am no longer writing code. I cannot walk you through our code and tell you what to do. So we needed somebody very technical to do that. So we did have to near the end let a few people know, but most of the team did not know and we had planned a big party. It was actually really fun because I believe super stressful. So we closed it on a Wednesday, I believe in April 10th. It was a Wednesday. And even up until like that last weekend, we were negotiating little fine points of the deal. And but we still need to leave enough time for all of our investors to sign off on this. Right. I mean, it's a massive packet of paper. How many signatures did you need? In total. He needed about 15 or so. Yeah, maybe more, something like that. So we had to give our investors a heads up of like, Hey, this is coming. So be ready. And then we send it out on a Sunday. It has to be back by Tuesday. So we could close on Wednesday.  They're all across the country, the world, like somewhere on vacation. It was gnarly.  So we had the whole, this whole event space, we had like 20 people from GoDaddy come down in secret hiding throughout the day because we made the announcement to the team after the markets closed because GoDaddy is public. Totally, which is nice to be on the West Coast. Yeah. Yeah. But we did a little, even a little bit later, we did like three o'clock because we just wanted to give the rest of the day to go parking. Do you make the announcement? Are you on the microphone? Oh, that's so cool. Yeah. We were secretly recorded it. So we had swag, GoDaddy swag. We had all kinds of stuff set up a whole party with champagne at a bar nearby with champagne and food and a bunch of... Not your landlord's, but a different bar. Totally, yeah. A landlord's bar is a fun sports bar, but working with the PR team at GoDaddy was really cool because they had like, they call it a TikTok right down to the minute of we are going to tell the team at three o'clock at 3.05, the press release is going to go out at 3.10. This is going to happen at 3.11. This is going to happen. And it's like, boom, when we rehearsed it, it was fun. And is your phone going nuts at some point? It did after that, yeah. But it was fun telling the team because we have monthly... That's so cool. All hands meetings where town halls, we call them right, where we just kind of like review what's going on with the company. And so we set it up like that. Mike and I set it up like monthly town hall for April. And we started going through some of the metrics and celebrating. We had hit revenue milestone actually just before that. So we're kind of celebrating that. It's pretty amazing all of this coming together. Yeah. And talking through how we got to that revenue milestone. And then we kind of said, well, we got to that. And everybody already knew about the partnership that we had with Daddy. So we said, we got to that revenue milestone without even considering the revenue that's going to come from the partnership. And this is how cool that partnership is. These are some of the commercials that GoDaddy has been doing for this online store and we played some really cool video spots that GoDaddy produced and getting everybody kind of hyped up. It's like fast paced music on these videos and everything. And then I said, wouldn't it be really cool if we all were working? I forgot exactly. Something to the effect of like if we're all, if we join this company and we're all working. If you were one. And then it was like quiet. And then we announced that we've been acquired. And it was people were like, it took a moment. People were shocked, super happy. A couple of people were crying like in happiness. Of course. And we were coached very well to say, you know, the first thing you mean to make sure you say after that is don't worry, you all have new jobs. Yeah. It's getting fired. Yeah. Because that's what people are waiting for. And they're not going to hear anything else until they hear that. What's tomorrow look like. Yep. Yeah. And so we said that and reiterated the same office. Everything's good. Higher pay. By the way, we have 20 go daddy people waiting to party with you. So let's go back up.


You don't have to pretend to be someone you're not. But I am one of those people's features. And I know and I'd love to be able to break it. I feel it's so innate in who I am that I don't know how. I know it causes problems in my life. It causes me to be a victim, you know. Because I'd be nice when I really wanted to say, you know, I don't want to be around you anymore. Or something like that. Can you address that, like, and the tips about what happened? You know, how do people break that one? It's really so much for the good they are. Okay, great. As for the people, please. Yeah, it's one of the most insidious defenses against our true self. Because it's like the whole world is projected out there with all of these people. And whether we talk about teenage peer pressure, which is a version of people pleasing, it gets to be very intense when teenagers are kind of working through what is my identity and who loves me and who likes me and peer groups and all that. But we can say that even that same desire to be liked, to be included, to belong to something and someone and feel that sense of belongingness, that does seem to follow us all the way through our adult lifetime as well. And like you were saying, to become such a habit that we realize that there's conflict with that. Where we sometimes will speak something or say something for someone's approval or to be liked. To not hurt the feelings. Yeah, to not hurt the feelings, you know, and to kind of not rock the boat too much.  And then when we're away from that situation, we can have conflicting thoughts and feelings that come in. Why did I say that? Why did I commit to that? To do that this weekend? I would much rather do this, this, this weekend instead of that. And then we have this like a war going on inside. Like if I could commit a meeting, you know, like we got to hear all the different sides and it's like suddenly we're at a meeting of the United Nations in our own mind. And I find that the way through that is basically what I would call integrity of mind, where everything that we perceive and feel and think and believe and desire becomes into alignment. But to me, when Jesus is talking about right-mindedness, he's talking about an integrity of mind where everything is completely in alignment. So there's no aspect of our mind that's out of alignment, that wants to do something else, that where there's conflicting things that are coming in, whether they're conflicting identities or conflicting desires or conflicting outcomes, that all of that is washed away where we come into alignment with God or we come into our sense of right-mindedness. But it takes a lot of practice because we're trained in the other way. We're trained to have our identity and our emotional well-being based on how other people treat us, how other people speak to us, how the world seems to come at us seems to have a lot to do with our state of mind, instead of us being 100% responsible for our state of mind. So I really love that part of the course where Jesus says, I am responsible for what I see. I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve. And everything that seems to happen to me, I ask for and receive as I have asked. Talk about 100% responsibility. That's like a whole po-no-pono statement on the course. Like there's no where you can squeeze that out on. It's 100% responsibility. And really, it's wonderful when we're willing to start to take that much responsibility for our state of mind. I also like the line in the course where Jesus says, you are not responsible for the error. You are responsible for accepting the correction for the error. Because I think a lot of times when we start to take responsibility, we start to take ownership of guilt. We start to take ownership of blame, and we reel it in, and then we feel like, I'm doing this to myself, and it's terrible. It feels awful. And we stop short of forgiveness. We stop short of that release. Like, this is not God's will for me. God wills for me to be innocent, to feel that innocence. And so we can bring it back sometimes all the way back to the thoughts, but we still feel responsible for the thoughts. We still feel responsible for the erroneous thoughts. And we need Jesus to remind us you are not responsible for the error. You are responsible for the correction of the error. That's what the Atonement is about. And I think with people pleasing, we get a lot of opportunities on a daily basis to kind of allow the spirit to help us navigate our mind and the world that's projected from our mind. And the only way that we can really be free of people pleasing is we have to get down to the underlying beliefs and assumptions that are underneath our stream of thoughts that seem to be our everyday life. We have to get underneath that down to the level of belief. One time I was asking the Holy Spirit of Jesus, I said, because I like to do maps. Even when I was in seventh grade, I don't do all maps and color in countries and do all that. I'm very graphic. So I asked the Holy Spirit to give me graphic representation, a map of the mind, so I could know what was going on. And the outer level was the level of perception. And then the emotions were right underneath it. And the thoughts were under the emotions. And then the beliefs were under the thoughts. And in the core, the bullseye was desire. And I remember reading in the course, truth will be returned to your awareness by your desire as it was lost to your awareness by your desire for something else. So desire is at the core of everything. That's like our point of prayer, our point of power. But those beliefs that we hold on to are right outside that ring of desire. And until we get down to the underlying beliefs, it just seems as if the world is outside of us that our identity is shaky at best and that we need a lot of approval and being liked in order to feel good about ourselves. When actually we have to learn to have integrity, really deep integrity before we can actually reach that point of peace. So for me, I had to start to see how far am I willing to go with this integrity. How far am I willing to go where I actually start to experience that there's nothing outside of me. I had to start questioning everything about the world. For example, when I would get disturbed about politicians and various political stances or whatever, I had Jesus inside saying, you're not really involved in politics. Politics are in you. When I got upset about society, I said I just am never going to be able to be peaceful as long as I'm living in this society, in this culture and I will never be peaceful. Jesus would say, you are not in the society. The society is in you. It was always pointing me back to everything that I perceive is based on belief. All the way to the point that he's saying that there is no world apart from what you think. That everything we think is out there in the world is actually in consciousness and we're still holding it in consciousness. We're still holding onto the beliefs and the concepts and then tricking ourselves to think that the world is doing it to us instead of us having the power. Us having... We can control the direction of our thinking. We don't have to succumb to ego thinking. We can actually align with God and think with God and we're still trying to think against God. Another area for me was around competition. This is such a competitive society. Jesus is like, oh no, no, no. This society is not competitive. You have to be visual. He said never underestimate the need to be visual against the idea of competition. And so when you start to really take it to heart, you start to take a look at where am I competitive? Where do I still value the competition? Where is it that I still believe the competition will bring me something that will give me peace of mind? Then you start to really have a healing that occurs because in one sense you're stepping back in your mind from these thoughts, from these beliefs and feeling an empowerment that comes from the miracle. When he calls out a Course in Miracles, he means it. He actually is calling us to be miracle workers. And that took a while for me to take in because I got the wrong person. I had ambitions and goals for my life, but miracle worker was not... I don't think that's on the SAT test or any of our aptitude tests in high school. The miracle worker.  It's just not even in the discussion. But at some point I began to really work with this and going, I guess I'm supposed to be a miracle worker. I think that's where this is all heading. And he also said, seek not to change the world. Seek rather to change your mind about the world. So it's not like we're going out to try to bestow miracles on people or convert people or save people or any of that stuff. It's all for our own mind training, our own mind healing. And it's not about trying to change anybody at all or fix anybody at all. And that runs right in opposition to the people pleasing which is kind of like, oh, I'm going to act the way you want me to act and say the things that you want me to say because otherwise you may leave. And there's still this deep sense of fear of abandonment and fear of loss. Why would we people please unless we were afraid of losing our jobs or afraid of losing our relationships or afraid of losing our parents and children? Why would we people please at all? We would just tell it like it is. We would say it. We would speak from our heart. And the more we work with the Course in Miracles and authentic spirituality, we actually see that it is valuable for us to extend the truth inside of us that really nothing's going to come down on us. And I isn't going to cave and fall in on us if we start really extending and sharing this love that wants to pour through us. It's quite the opposite. And then when I got into a Course in Miracles it was like all this love and joy I just wanted to just come pouring through me at my course group. You start off from your course group and then all of a sudden I was going to like five course groups a week. And I was like, this is really good stuff. But the ego was really terrifying. Like, oh, this is not good. You're shy. You should be doing all this joining and hugging and talking about your emotions and all that stuff. But I could feel like that was the beginning of the end for the ego. And then the more I just let it grow stronger and stronger in my awareness, the more I realized that I didn't have anything to lose by being authentic and really sharing what was on my heart. But actually people appreciated that and felt more and more like we had these deep heart-to-heart connections. So I started out like most of us with a circle of friends practicing with them. And then I started to just say, ah, I'm going to be willing and open to go wherever I'm invited. And then I started to get more and more, when you get happy you seem to get a lot of invitations. People like to be around happy people. It's like we don't have to have a lot of money or a lot of status or don't have to drive a certain type of car and if you're happy, people like to be around you.


How's it going everybody my name is John Hammond and we're looking at girls go cyber start. This is the second video in the series I'm in my car at work because that's apparently the only good place where I can record now So let's dive right back into it This is some small simple kind of easy at least granular and difficulty very very good trajectory and what you're learning and what you're playing with because it's meant for high school students meant for high school girls and I'm neither of those things But we're doing it because it's fun and good internet content Hello world is challenge three blows an about me page for a well-known hacker How would a hacker why would a hacker display all this information about himself? Good question? It's a red herring. However, there's one secret weird way to contact him Manage to inject in the page an email address if you find it, that's the coding to solve the challenge. So Send me an email address send me an email Does that do anything? That doesn't do it. Oh, whoa, I highlighted and I found stuff. Why is that? Sorry, that was too real. I don't even know if I like that. I can't even that's I don't know how much challenge That really is let's let's make a directory zero three. Hello world Complete apparently because that's all we really needed. I highlighted it on accident. I was gonna like view the source I was gonna do some real real stuff. All right, that's the correct code. Sweet. Let's go challenge for Text mountain not all secret codes hidden by hackers need to be encrypted to be hard to find take this one example of a hacker Who really loves books so much so that he hides secret codes within them the most of the meticulous forensic investigators Only the most the meticulous forensic inventors could find words. I'm not gonna read these anymore.  Do I have to highlight text in this too on the geological success of Organic beings that is that's what girls go cyber service all about right these interesting puzzles some of them are Fun some of them are silly trying to determine what this is it you might be staring in my face. Oh Secret code Matt Kalu. Why was that there? That's What was the name of this challenge? text mountain Make directory zero four text mountain.  He managed to get around it. Can you oh Last pass. I'm glad you're here to help dude Can I see with this? Enter what? What is this? Is that a oh, it's a fridge. It's literally a fridge And just get around it enter Hit the space hit space Technician access only admin What what is the password if I view the source of that page? Does it say it value equals password? So admin is password developer notes. This will be disabled if not access from the technicians laptop. I have to Run this Can I do that? Oh, I guess I could just change it in The developer notes or I could just kind of run that right. Yeah, okay So what I was thinking is if I modified it within the inspector of developer tools like made that button enabled That would allow me to click it or I could just copy the JavaScript value that it kind of needed to be able to Display that so there we go that we logged in that was fun. That one was interesting Make directory zero five lazy locked login daily lock login complete No flag Dot text and let's drop down a solution dot text Change the elements in HTML to be enabled Submit elements with dev tools whoa caps lock or Just copy and run the JavaScript code in the console good enough. All right.  What What am I what am I doing I can't click or drag any of these what is this This is a medium difficulty challenge, and I'm just struggling hard piece 6 It's all work fine ID parent The office getting the below JavaScript is not part of the challenge. I dig the it Make these a little bit visible for you guys attempt flag with a value the puzzle below Are these images like?  This is weird man. Do I have to download these I? Feel like I have to download these Seven eight nine Let's do it make directory. This is challenge six right zero six missing puzzle piece. Oh It's a missing puzzle piece therefore. I have to get number ten right Or number nine actually where why was a number nine visible? Was it supposed to be the fudge? So six is the one that's visible isn't visible Display equals none. I should have read that do I have to make it? Not Invisible Search for zero six zero six zero six Hello Let's display equals none. Let's make that displayed. Oh Oh, you sneaky dog It was plain text that I could I have highlighted that? Like is that all I needed to do I know flag dot text put that there if I refresh that page Like will it give me the real thing again. Oh, I wouldn't have even been able to do that What is it that is that challenge? That's got to be something that's actually obfuscated move flag dot text to zero six Blah blah blah CD zero six cat flag cat flag challenge Yeah, what is that? so That's that's obviously like a rot 13 something echo this For I in one two two twenty six. Let's do a quick Caesar Cypher brute force Caesar. I Done What is that is that rot 13? Hello All right screw. I lost my command history when I really wanted it. Is that what 13 it is rot 13?  Maybe I guess I could have just checked that out originally, but All right, man Going on nine minutes here. Let's check it out. Let's get one more challenge. Oh seven lights out an Infamous fact an infamous hacker who goes by the name of light bulb is as you may have guessed Obsessed with many kinds of different lights so much so that he is hacked in with his local cities main control system and decided to turn off all the street lights Oh, wait, this is a URL thing. Can you figure how he did it? Turn them all back on Strange thing is if you need an access there's no bit until I'm all off all at once So it's just a URL and there are nine of them, right? Let's get dev tools out of here. You can see this one two three five five six seven eight nine Ten and let's go to twelve All lights are on Yeah All on equals true. Yeah, what is that was supposed to do, right? so much so And a strange thing is even if you get access system, there's no button to turn them off at once Turn them off on by one So I have to turn them all off equals true Yeah, okay. That was a weird guess. I don't know if I could have a mess with that whatever Glow and set in let's put that in challenge seven lights out like directory zero seven Challenge lights out. Oh, I should have made that complete. Okay. Good.  That's that let's call it quits here because I think we're over 10 minutes now And that's been fun and enjoyable. 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People have been talking about this game for a long time. I see it played everywhere. It's got a good theme, like basically the theme of rampage theme. And it shot up the board game geek rankings. I'm pretty sure it's way up there. Let me see exactly where it is. Yep. It has average rating of seven point four five. It's ranked 108. I think I think it's actually higher on the actual straight up list. No, on the straight up list, it's 108 on the family game list. It's 16. Well, that's pretty good.  Like, wow, that's that's a bit. I want to take it aside because this game King of Tokyo and several other games that are like it, that have come out in recent history are all just Yahtzee with a twist. Not saying that's bad. I'm saying almost everyone we've talked to has never played Yahtzee. Right. So let's list the games that you get through your life and not run into Yahtzee. Yahtzee is like one under monopoly and one above Candyland in terms of basic games. Everyone plays with their so here are the games that are just like Yahtzee roll through the ages, not through the ages, but roll through the ages. Skyline was that the one? Yeah, Skyline. All right. Well, what was the game? I played at anime Boston where you colonize the planet. I forget you forget in front here. Yeah. Is that Yahtzee? Yeah, that's Yahtzee. OK. Yeah. There's just tons of frigging games that are all actually just Yahtzee. I guess, you know, zombie dice is sort of Yahtzee ish. Not exactly, but sort of. Yeah, basically, these are the games it is alien frontiers from before where you roll a bunch of dice, usually five, and then you pick which ones you want to keep and re-roll the rest and do that twice. It's basically the same mechanic as draw poker, only you get to draw twice.  Yahtzee is one of those old as games that super studied ever. At least I assume until recently, everyone I'd ever met had played it. And suddenly, you know, I'm introducing these games to people and I'm like, oh, yeah, it's basically Yahtzee, but with an attack component. And they're like, Yahtzee, what? You mean the guy that talks about games online?   So if you basically what Yahtzee games come down to is, you know, is probability, right? And there's different combinations of the dye results will result in different scores or points or whatever. So you need to know what you need, right? In terms of score, you want more points generally. And, you know, all of them have different odds. High scoring things. And if the game is well designed, have low odds and things that score low are very easy to roll, relatively speaking, in terms of percentages. But you roll all the dice initially and you see what your results are and thus you need to calculate, aha. Knowing that my first roll, now I can see certain scoring possibilities are more or less likely. Something that might be more points might actually be more likely than something that is less points given the dice I have already rolled. Like I've already got three sixes. So rolling two sixes on two dice, right? And with two chances to roll them, that's pretty likely right now, actually, you know, whereas it was incredibly unlikely when I rolled just all the dice to begin with. So any game that has that mechanic of roll dice, pick some and do the poker thing until you have your set and then deploy the set in some fashion onto a board or a score sheet. If you play Yahtzee until you can play it basically perfectly where the winner is basically random based on the look of the dice. You'll be good at all of those games because once you master that, that's the core of the game and all the other stuff is just increasingly obtuse ways of actually maximizing the role after you roll it or understanding what is worth more points in a game like alien frontier is worth noting I played alien frontiers for the first time at anime Boston and yeah, I just played Yahtzee and I won by so much. It was ridiculous. Right. Like if I play Yahtzee against some kid like a middle school or high school kid, at least understand what's going on. Unless they're the really smart kid, you know, I'm just going to win if Scott and I play. We might as well flip a coin me and rim play. Let's just post keep taking the score sheets over and over again. It's probably going to come out to 50% winning after a little bit of trivia in the standard standard officially published rules of Yahtzee. What is the maximum possible score? I think you can only get a certain number of Yahtzees. Yes. Right. Do you know how many? Because I had to look it up. I did not remember. I believe I'm trying to remember. I think that my Yahtzee score sheets that I had when I was a kid official ones said I got a triple Yahtzee. You would get like 500 or something triple Yahtzee. That was a different game. Was it? Yes. Oh, I guess we had triple Yahtzee. Yes. You had three Yahtzees in one game that you would score a triple Yahtzee to get many hundreds. Right.  So in the standard game there are 13 chips and you can get on chip for every additional Yahtzee you get. So if you get all 13 and you max out the rest of the game your maximum total score is 1575. Okay. That sounds about right. Unless Wikipedia. I remember high. Yeah. I remember good Yahtzee scores would be in like the high eight hundred nine hundreds or low thousands. Yep. You know if you got a Yahtzee that's hundreds. But seriously in general if you want to be good at games and I feel like I'm going to add this to some of our panels for the next time we talk about this stuff. Yahtzee itself is while it's not a good game for people who know better is a great game to learn a lot of the basic skills of gaming. Yeah. You're not going to be good at games unless you can master Yahtzee and Yahtzee is so transparent and easy to master just because it's not trying to hide or conceal anything with theme or anything like that. So if you just play a lot of Yahtzee into you've mastered it then you're going to be really good at all these other games are talking about because it teaches you sort of opportunity cost about it teaches you odds it teaches you when you're falling behind you've got to go for things that are less and less likely to catch up. Yep. The Hail Mary. Yeah. It's the game. It also teaches you dice rolling and Jigaboo Jonesing. Yep. Because you're all in that cup. I learned how to cheat as a kid by swirling the dice at the end or putting him in having two dice that I swirl while one's banging around in the middle and then immediately flipping the cup over I could consistently give myself three of a kind or really good odds and getting along straight. We had I had basically like I didn't have the whole game I had like remnants of the game because I think it was my great uncles and it was mad old and decrepit but it was basically from the pieces left over I could tell it was had these orange dice and a cup and sort of a blue tray similar to a Yahtzee tray. Yep. And it but all the dice had letters on them spelling. Yeah. I don't remember what the name of the game was. Yeah. Let me see if I can find it on the board game. Geek. So yeah, King of Tokyo is at its core Yahtzee but instead of deploying your dice to points you deploy your dice to sort of one of three areas you can either build up energy to buy superpowers you can attack other players directly to kick them out of the game or you can acquire victory points.  So it adds that element it's not a great game it's eminently solvable the odds once you figure them out and once you know the strategy there's not a lot going on there. It ends up having chip taking game elements with the attacking but the way it gets around that is very elegant. It's a very sort of I can see why this is a Richard Garfield game. So what the way it works is you roll your dice and if you get the clause which lets you attack if you're in Tokyo you do damage to everyone who's not in Tokyo. If you're not in Tokyo you only do damage to the person who's in Tokyo.  If you stay in Tokyo all the way until your next turn you get two victory points for remaining in Tokyo.  I found the word Yahtzee it's spilling spell also known as Scribbidge which is now I guess known as word Yahtzee but yeah this is the exact one that I had sit here with these orange dice and the cup. I've never seen that in my life.  So I don't know what do you think of King of Tokyo because you played it with me. Well King of Tokyo I think has some really elegant elements to it right. The fact that the chip taking is based on are you in or out as opposed to I'm attacking this play right it's basically you're forced into Tokyo right if you don't want to be and then it's like you know you basically you either leave as soon as someone rolls a claw on purpose because you're going to die or you hold out to the bitter fucking if you're going to if you're going to stay in there you got to stay in there until it's your turn unless something freakish happens right like maybe you know somebody rolls like four claws and it's like okay I didn't think it would roll for claws right I thought I could make it around with my 10 health but I guess not so I'm going to pull out now right but even then if you get down in your health from like a four claw roll when you're in Tokyo and you're out of Tokyo the person you just went in you know if they give it becomes to you know whoever's in Tokyo if they roll and do some damage that might kill you off so think of this they're not safe but you need to roll hearts if you're in Tokyo it's like King of the Hill you're getting points for being in the king of the hill place but instead of basically now every other player is doing damage only to you while if you're in Tokyo you're doing damage to everyone else so when you're in Tokyo you're effectively getting an analog to victory points by doing damage because you're taking everyone else down equally but if anyone attacks you they're all attacking just you and knocking you out of the game yep I think the strategy having only played it a few times is to stay the fuck out of Tokyo I agree because the first game I played I stayed the fuck out of Tokyo and I ended up winning and the second game I was trying to stay in a few times to get points and I just died now I wouldn't go for damage either I'd let other players do that of course then it's Briggsmanship game but I would go for energy to buy the superpowers and also victory points just get is basically take victory points opportunistically so you're try to be like second place in victory points that way if someone blitzes toward the end you can either beat them on the blitz or kill them but you're not so far behind you can ever catch up like if you roll two threes go for that third three get all those victory points but otherwise go all energy buy as many superpowers as you can and just be the invincible asshole who wins the game kind of on his own at the end when everyone else is kind of weak I think that is the basic way to win and staying out of Tokyo means you can roll heart so if you do take damage you can you'll be good right but basically it's a light game quick to play quick to teach could be reboxed into basically a tiny bag yeah and anyone can learn and play this game right so it's it's sort of like you can get people who are less gamery to play a game that does have some good strategies in it right that they normally might be a verse to playing the theme is excellent awesome theme are just great the pieces are super high quality right there's a there's a monster for every personal taste like I like all the monsters except King Kong because he's lame I think the Kraken and the evil bunny are cracking Kraken it's a crack it's a titan have you never been mellow of course I think I pay at first when I saw the cover of the box you know because usually in rampage I always pick Lizzie so I was thinking I'd either be the Godzilla or I'd be the the cyberbunny because I mean cyber right yeah but then when I open the box I saw oh there's a Kraken that's basically just as good as the dinosaur he's got a good face Godzilla right and then I saw the Mecha Dragon I'm like well fuck I mean that's you know that's slightly edges the other ones out but all of them are great except for the friggin King Kong and now I would compare this actually to skyline the game that wasn't it like part of the Kickstarter for ground floor yeah it's much better than ground floor well ground floor is a shit game we talked about that but skyline was kind of fun but it's basically just a shorter Yahtzee skyline is to Yahtzee what Yooker is to Whist so between skyline and King of Tokyo I think King of Tokyo is a better game I also agree because skyline didn't have as many of the interactive elements only interactive elementsmanship the only brings a ship it had was like the one piece left you know that that extra piece you leave over in the storage or whatever it's called the leftover bits that someone else can grab all of right yeah that was it yeah that's it whereas this one it's like you're directly Yahtzee and you need to react to people right if someone you know if you see it's like you know if it's depending on who's in Tokyo you might re-roll a claw you know not to hurt them right because they're gonna lose anyway you're better off getting some points or something yep right let them stay in there and get killed by someone else so you know is vicious it adds a little bit more sort of randomness but it's it's the Yahtzee randomness that's heavily mitigated by odds you know exactly the risk you're taking by going for x over y over z and the odds of six-sided dice are trivial to calculate in your head you don't even need to calculate them you just need to have the rough feel of them I mean I played Yahtzee from my childhood probably over a thousand times because we was like it's like the family game like every family would play it I'd go over to friends houses and they would all play it like everyone played Yahtzee we played in school and like elementary school I had a book of Yahtzee score sheets and they were empty so I had a second book of Yahtzee score sheets so that's how many it's a man ya one Yahtzee score she can play Yahtzee like fucking six times on both sides we had a Yahtzee box from the fifties like late fifties maybe early sixties well we had we had a trip we are all full of like my parents playing it when they were kids yep yep I think that was the triple Yahtzee we had was my parents one and then I think I had another one where I got the second set of score we don't know yahtzee travel Yahtzee when I learned about triple Yahtzee as a kid I was like well it's obviously better than regular Yahtzee so I made my own sheet and then I went to Kinko's and paid to have it duplicated hmm I was very proud of that that same Kinko's refused to let me Xerox pages out of my dungeons and dragon cyclopedia because that would be copyright infringement that was in the early days when copy machines and Kinko's were not exactly common and no one really knew like people were afraid of Kinko's for copyright stuff and Kinko's really weird about that but yeah this is a this is a kind of game that if you go to conventions or are commonly introducing games to other people like hey would you like to play a game or hey you've come over to my party let's play a light game while waiting for more people to show up this is your game just buy it it's also a great game if you want to introduce games like this to your kids a kid who is too young for Yahtzee even though I think six-year-olds can play Yahtzee just fine if you can count and you can if you can play poker you play Yahtzee right now my grandpa taught me poker and I was like no one might not be interested in Yahtzee will play this because you're a monster you're fucking up other monsters with your claw yep it's also got some after references to old robot movies and old monster movies and it's just very well done for what it is and it's not that expensive a lot of times games that are of this caliber cost way more than this for no good reason yeah what I think it really is just that you know there are these certain games that like the warm-up game right and you think of it as like a spotted or something along those lines right but those games I think are almost too light right they don't really you know get you sitting at a table to play a board game they don't really get you doing any sort of strategies or anything right and they get because they're so light they get too much play I think those are better for the stand-up you know we really don't have time for a game let's play spot it right I think this is really a real warm-up game right you still get the people sitting at the table you know playing the game properly and then you can switch to a real game once they're sitting there like that as it's much harder to switch into a Puerto Rico from a spotted than it is to switch from a king of Tokyo to a Puerto Rico yep and it's so quick to teach that you can get the people who normally wouldn't play a game to just oh I'll play it you'll be done with the whole game in 20 minutes plus five minutes of teaching tops yeah and nerds like the themes you can nurse to play is even if they're not board game people yep yeah so but seriously if you want to be good at games you haven't played Yahtzee play Yahtzee you don't even need to play with other people just play it by yourself I played solo Yahtzees I played many a solo Yahtzee this has been Geek Nights with rim and scott special thanks to DJ pretzel for the opening music can't leave for web design and brand okay for the logos be sure to visit our website at front row crew dot com for show notes discussion news and more remember Geek Nights is not one but four different shows sci-tech Mondays gaming Tuesdays anime comic Wednesdays and indiscriminate Thursdays Geek Nights is distributed under a creative comments attribution 3.0 license Geek Nights is recorded live with no studio and no audience but unlike those other late shows it's actually recorded at night


Working to make our communities more prepared for disasters, Cal OES convened public information officers from across the state in Sacramento for a Crisis Communications Academy. You get to get your message out. One of the main things I want communicators to come away with not only the technical capacity of doing the job as emergency communicators but also having the skills and the confidence to be able to charge forward so when they're in moments of crisis or emergency communication they can react. The event provided hands-on training to more than 100 communicators. So the question is why is this academy important and I would argue it's important for three reasons. I love the number three. Number one is we want to know the most recent research on how we establish trust. Number two we want to know the most recent research and practice of how we overcome anxiety stress and number three we want to be on top of the research that indicates what are the changes we have to make in our communications in a crisis situation. These unique skills help public information officers provide the life-saving messaging to their local communities during emergency or natural disaster. I've really learned about the industry standards around emergency communications. That's something that I have now in my toolkit to bring back to the city of Long Beach. I haven't worked in any emergency communications before but now with this training I'm able to come back and be prepared, prepare my team, prepare my department in my city on how to handle an emergency whether it's an earthquake or a wildfire or even drought. Cal OES is proud to foster the next generation of crisis communicators. Relationships are so important in disasters and by working closely with our local government counterparts from all across the state at this training we're actually able to build capacity for not if but when a disaster happens locally so we're actively training local government public information officers working with them on the basics the building blocks of how we communicate during disaster with the ultimate goal being to be how do we better serve the public and keep them safe during a time of crisis. To see more from us visit news.cal OES.ca.gov and follow us on all our social media platforms.


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If we're going to go for jobs, when somebody is applying for a job, you're telling me they apply one job at a time until they get rejected or they apply for multiple jobs and let the jobs come to them where they can have an option to choose which job is best fit and have a better chance at getting a job for one. But women aren't the applicants. Women are the job. You're not the applicant. You're the job. Yeah, you're the job. You're not the one applying. Are you hollering at dudes? No, you're the job. I didn't say me, but there's women who do. The vast majority of women, the vast majority of women are not shooting a shot. They shot their shot and it worked. They're trash. Women are trash at shooting a shot. Women are absolute because again, they don't understand men and they've never had to use anything outside of sexuality.   I looked at him at a 45 degree angle. He shouldn't know that I wanted him. I gave him a smile and he didn't do nothing. So that was my way of doing my shot. One of the questions I asked is like, if you were a dude for a day, what kind of dude would you be? And I've asked a lot of women this question. They would be trash. They wouldn't get no pussy. Because they don't understand the game. Number one, y'all don't know how to deal with rejection. No, we don't. Number two, y'all don't have to. Most women have never had to develop a talk game. Women who can talk are usually the below average looking women because they have to compensate for their lack of the beautiful women. Because I know how to hold a conversation. No, I'm not talking about hold a conversation. I'm talking about like shoot your shot at somebody like he might have been if he if you want to do something, you convince him. We have to convince our way for the most part. Not really. If she's interested off back for the most but it's ours to lose. Because like I said before, most women are looking for a reason to disqualify us. So even like even keeping your game. I've seen it where I was a guy approached my friend a long time ago. And I was like, he's cute. And she was like, yes, she was dirty.  Dead completely. I'm not that picky. I mean, you can't be sounding like I don't know. I have a very sultry voice for a woman. So my voice came deeper than yours. But think of the most handsome guy, you know, if he sounded like Tweety Bird, it would not happen. That's not normal. But that's what I'm talking about, though. Like these things, or if you smell bad, my point is, it's ours to lose. So even the game of like, like a woman literally can can do her thing and like not say a word.   But again, if you lose that, if you turn into a dude and now that look looks like layering, it doesn't work anymore.  I don't know. Am I looking at this? Are we looking at each other? Like men are doing that now too. Men are not really approaching, especially if they don't want to get embarrassed. They probably had a chance. I'll give advice to men. Don't be so direct. Don't be so direct. Just break it down. Go ahead. Let me get your number. Oh, okay. Just come up to a woman and say, Hi, how are you? My name is so and so I saw you across the room and I just wanted to let you know you look so beautiful tonight. What are you drinking on? How's your day been? What brings you here? And see if she's receptive to the conversation. She's looking like, where are you talking to me?  Now she's like, Oh, yeah, talking. Then that's when you kind of go in and say, Well, I don't want to interrupt your night. I see you busy with your friends and stuff. But is there any way would you like to talk more maybe over drinks or something one day? And then kind of really deal with that. Just don't just be like, Hey, you cute. Can I get your number? Okay. No for the big screen. I feel like I'm on the spotlight right now. No, that's that's, that's, that's, that's facts. That's actually really good advice. And that's what I asked. That always works. Like, if a guy approached me like that and I'm like, you just acknowledge me as a human being and not just be like, Can I get your number? Like, you don't even know how I sound. You don't even know if I have a man or anything.   I just wanted to let you know if you, if you, if you're available to talk, you don't even gotta ask if I got a man or not.   So what I would say before you even approach the woman is take a second, take a beat to really think to yourself, do I actually want to get to know her? Is there something about her that's interesting?  Because I think if it's just hormones, you just want to have sex with her, that's where you can get the hey, how you doing?  I've been telling men, is she worth my time before you approach? Is she worth my time? That's a different and then I think what you're saying is phenomenal. I think it absolutely that's always the way to go. Always got me like I love a man that can just kind of come up and just want to have a conversation. I'll talk to you. I mean, I'd be interested you in initially, but if we're having like a great conversation, I'm just gonna give you my number anyway, because I'm just like, man, like, I'm glad you just came up just to talk to me instead of just saying, Hey, can I get your number? Like, it kind of just made me feel like you're just trying to grab numbers for the night.


Dr. Garber, you're here at the Kids First annual meeting giving a presentation, and the theme of the presentation is keeping kids out of the middle. Tell us about that a little bit. Good morning. I'm thrilled to be here with Kids First. It's a wonderful organization promoting the needs of children whose families are in transition. We're here today to talk about how parents who are in conflict and chaos can serve the needs of their children. And when parents are going through those transitions, families going through the transitions, what kind of effects can they have on children? Unfortunately, the outcome can be catastrophic for children over the course of a lifetime. It's important to be aware that when children are triangulated into that is pulled into the midst of adult conflict and chaos, they can end up feeling that it's their fault. They engage in a lot of self-blaming behavior. They become angry, depressed. They can as a result have school failures, get involved in drugs and alcohol, teenage pregnancies, all sorts of nasty outcomes. We can't guarantee that those things won't happen, and they certainly don't happen in every instance. But the best course of development allows a child to remain a child as long as possible to feel held and safe and confident and secure no matter the nature of the adult relationship. So these changes and these impacts can affect a child for years, not just during that period during the conflict? For a lifetime. In fact, we often see that children who grow up in the midst of chaos and conflict go on to recreate those relationships as adults. And what are some of the signs that parents can look for to see that their child may be having these problems during these transitions? Parents should be alert to their children's behavior at all times, regardless of what's going on in the home or the school or the larger environment. Just in general, we live in very conflicted and chaotic times. Children often react to the nature of their environment. I would have parents watch for changes in the child's characteristic behavior, changes in sleeping, eating, toileting, getting along with others, compliance with authority. Those sorts of changes don't necessarily mean that adult conflict is having its trickle down destructive effect, but it means that something's going on for the child. The easier thing to watch for is what the parents themselves are doing. Parents who pull children into their conflict, who turn to their child in place of turning to an appropriate adult peer. Those are the beginning signs and symptoms that the child can be hurt. Often children in these situations are forced to take on other roles in the relationship with their parents. Talk about that a little bit. You're exactly right and it can be a very destructive process. Children feel good when they're prematurely promoted into the role of an adult's helper or ally. Children even feel good when they're forced to become a parents caregiver, him or herself. Those things can communicate to the child in the short term. Mommy loves me, daddy values me, that sort of thing, but it deprives the child of the opportunity to remain a child, to enjoy the opportunity to discover friends and relationships, to learn ABC 123. All those necessary foundational steps can be compromised in the process. When parents are going through these transitions, what are the essentials that they should do themselves for good coparenting? The answers are complex, but to boil it down, let me suggest a handful of relatively clear things that parents can do. Number one, I want co-parents, regardless of the quality of their adult relationship, to communicate together proactively and to put the child's needs first. That is one of the first things to go when co-parents become highly conflicted, when emotion corrupts their ability to focus on child's needs. I want those same co-parents also to be able to maintain coparenting consistency. When children go back and forth between two or more homes, and they experience very different expectations, boundaries, limits, privileges and such between those two homes, that can be a very confusing and disruptive experience for the child. Finally, I want the parents to be able to compromise in the child's best interests. So we're talking about communication, consistency and compromise as the basic elements of serving the child's needs. Parents always say that they love their children, they want to put them first, but they put them into these situations where the child is torn between parents. Why did they do that? Well, it's easy to understand that when you lose the person that has been your emotional foundation, you turn to the next best thing.  That's not the way we want children to be raised. We want to give children the opportunity to remain children as long as possible without being forced into adulthood or pulled into their adult's conflict. What resources should parents reach out for to help them through this process? At the most general level, it's important that parents find other appropriate adults to turn to to support them so that they can make healthy decisions and so their emotional gas tanks can be filled and thereby they can fill their child's emotional gas tanks. So turning to a therapist, to a clergy person, to a dear friend, a neighbor, that sort of thing. But here in the Freeport area and throughout Maine, Kids First offers terrific programs for adults and for children alike.