Hi everybody it's Sandy and welcome to my YouTube channel where today I'm going to talk about faith booking. Faith booking is like scrapbooking your art journaling but it's documenting your faith journey. I faith book as a Christian but you can use whatever faith tradition you come from or you can also just document things you've learned in life. It's a great way to write down those lessons that you've learned so you don't have to relearn them again when you've forgotten all the things you've discovered through your years and the wisdom you've gained. So I'm going to be using a 12 by 12 pad of watercolor paper and I'm going to show you a technique that you can use on cards or anything else too so don't tune out just because it's a 12 by 12. This is a pad of paper by a company called Fluid and it's high quality paper so it's good stuff and I've drawn an eagle on it in pencil and the eagle I just downloaded from the internet and traced the outline just the outside edges because I don't need all that detail in the middle and I'm painting with an old yucky brush some incredible white masking fluid. There are several types of masking fluid that you can get. There's some that are orange or green so you can see them better. I just happened to pick this one up. They all seem to work about the same as far as I can tell aside from the color and I'm masking out the head and the tail so that they'll be white and then doing a couple splatters which were not as effective as I was hoping they would be and after you put this on you want to wait for it to dry probably 10 15 20 minutes or so at the most would be fine. You don't want to leave it overnight probably because I hear that the stuff can become eventually permanently a fix to your paper so don't let it go too long. I'm painting water over top of all of that and I'm using this big brush I don't even know who makes it. It's just one that I think my mom gave me years back and it's just a big wide brush and the bristles don't fall out and for something like this that's really all you need is a brush that doesn't lose its bristles on your paper. I'm going to use my three-quarter inch oval wash brush to do my painting it's by the silver brush company in the black velvet line and there is in the description down below lots of links to all the supplies that I'm using for this but I'm just going to paint colors all over this just random I was thinking originally of doing just all kind of stripey colors and I changed my mind kind of halfway through and decided I was going to make a little more a little more texture to it and and just be really loose with it. It's one of those few times when I can be really loose because I'm just covering the background with colors there's no rhyme or reason to why I put one color on one side one color on another just letting them go. I'm using my Holbein watercolor paints and if you saw my videos recently in my getting started with watercolor series I use these they're the most expensive ones that I tried and so I thought I would give them a shot here and see what they do with this particular technique. This is also related to a card that I did the lost and found technique and I'm going to use some similar things that I did in that except I'm also going to show you how to kind of force an image into that lost and found idea and I'll explain more about that as we get there but I'm also going to use salt and I got a lot of grief for that lost and found video when I use salt. I never claimed to invent it and it's just something that was new to me because I hadn't hadn't tried it before it's been around for ages and here I'm going to use regular table salt as well as some sea salt some larger crystals just to see what that does and a lot of you have said in comments that you know if you wait until the paint is halfway dry and then you put the salt on then you don't need the heat set it but the reason that I'm doing it the way I am I wanted the paint to be very wet because it'll absorb the most color it seems when it's really wet if I waited till it was half dry but it didn't absorb very much and I wanted to get this really strong texture and I found that if I put it on right away and then heat set it then it would stop it from moving entirely because what happens after after you put this on there if you don't wait for it to dry completely then those as you move the salt crystals off the page and you wipe them with with a paper towel or whatever you're going to remove them with then paint will drag so I've decided that for the better part of valor I'm drying it with my heat gun so that at least that the paint stops absorbing and I can move those salt crystals and not drag paint around so I heat set it just a little bit I wanted to see how far you need to heat set it I did find out that if you touch hot salt crystals they are hot on your finger but here I'm rubbing off some of the salt and down here in the corner some of those crystals were still wet and you can see where I got some drag now that could also make a really cool technique if you use that drag in your favor so I reheat set it a little bit more and then started brushing off more of the salt and you can get pretty hefty with with how much you rub the paper after you get it good and dry so all the salt is gone and now I got out my rubber cement pickup to get the masking fluid off and you want to be gentle with this as well because you don't want to rip the surface of the paper higher quality papers will react a little bit nicer with this technique and if you're using something with certain kinds of surfaces then it might start to tear the paper so you may want to do some tests on a scrap of whatever you have and see what what kind of abuse it can take before you use a whole sheet like this I wasn't sure if it was going to hold up and I was really glad that this paper did after all of this work to get this page done so now on to the lost and found piece of this and what I did was take the paint and on one part of the image I would color inside that outline that I had drawn on and on other parts draw on the outside and add paint outside the image because what that does is create kind of a push and pull so that the image starts to look as though it's partially within the paper and kind of some parts are going in some parts are going popping out it just creates a really interesting look and it's one of the thoughts that I had when I was doing the lost and found technique and I was thinking of all the different ways that you can get an image to work on something like this I could easily see like cutting out something on your cricket and creating giant flower shapes and overlaying them over top of each other or doing all different kinds of of butterflies on something like this any kind of image that works with whatever you're trying to communicate on your page would be really fun with this kind of technique you can match the colors to whatever the topic is for it and I think it could be really cool could also look very masculine if you use a lot of brown and gray type of colors you can mix in some metallic paints oh my gosh there's just so many things you can do a lot of different mixed media pieces that you could add to it to to just do a lot of fun things to it so I'm going to continue with the other the other wing I'm going to do the same thing painting inside on the top portion of the wing and on the tips and painting outside down the bottom portion of that wing and just let the watercolors be really soft one of the other cool things about watercolor is that they are transparent so as you start painting layers you still see what's underneath of them so you're still going to retain a lot of that texture that's underneath as you paint the shape on the top and that's the whole you know beautiful idea about this lost and found look that things look like they're they're just part of that textured background and I really love that about them when I started this I literally only had this far of an idea in my head was just to to paint something where the the image looked like it was partially inside and partially outside the image or the texture and I didn't really know exactly where else to go with it and whether or not I was supposed to go any further with it and when I say supposed to go I I will fess up to the fact that I am not the author of half of my ideas and that the the real author is God and that is why this page is going to be the first one in my my scrapbook my my 12 by 12 brand new Facebook that I'm starting and that is because I you know like I said when I asked what is it that I'm supposed to do with this God told me to start painting more realistically in the center and I don't know that he actually said those words so those of you who are wondering just do I hear voices not really all the time but I got a vision for this it was like I saw the piece completed and it has you know this dark rich realistic looking eagle portion in the center and it fades out and blends out to the wing tips and that is in a lot of times a lot of people ask where I get these ideas how they develop how they how they come to be and that's really what happens most of the time and as crazy as it may sound to those who don't believe in God I do and this is why because I know that there's something out there telling me what to do there is someone that is instructing me and guiding me my creativity and I wouldn't be the artist that I am without God in my life and I'll just put that out there hopefully it won't cause a lot of dislikes on this video but that is the honest truth about how my art happens so this page is going to have the Bible verse from Isaiah 40 but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings like eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint and one of the reasons that that verse means so much to me especially right now is that over the past number of years I have learned this lesson again and again that needs to be documented and cemented in my brain forever that this verse has a promise in it those who wait for the Lord shall have all those things those who wait on God will not be tired those are the ones who will walk and not faint those are the ones who will renew their strength and mount up on wings like eagles and through the last couple years I've had Operation Right Home in my life I've been running a charity for since 2007 I guess it is and ever since then I've always had two jobs I've had my day job mostly outside of the home for most of those years and then I quit that job and started working full-time at home on Operation Right Home as well as running my own business and that means that I'm always doing something I'm always like crazy busy always always always running and what I have found that those times when I I really get to the point where I want to punch a wall and say I quit I can't do it anymore I just can't keep it up those are the moments when I realize I've been relying on me and my strength and I've stopped asking God for advice and that is never a wise thing for me to do I need to constantly be asking God what I'm supposed to do next and what I'm supposed to be focusing on because he's the one who knows the best ideas he's the one who knows what's going to bear the most fruit for my for me in my life for Operation Right Home and for my business and now that Operation Right Home is coming to an end so if you didn't know that we're accepting our last cards by August 1st and that means after August 1st I'm going to start the wrap-up period for the charity and then I'm going to move into a whole new phase in my life and I want to make sure that I don't forget the lesson I've learned that I need to wait on the Lord in order to not be weary and feel faint I need to remember that because I have so many ideas in my head right now I have notebooks that I have started to fill with ideas for things I want to do and things I want to try and things I want to paint and directions I want to take and I don't know how much of that is me and how much of that is God directing me and I know that what I really want to focus on is asking him for his advice on a regular ongoing every day moment by moment basis because if I start relying on me I'm going to be in serious trouble and I don't want to be in serious trouble so this is going to be the first page in my new 12 by 12 scrapbook Facebook that I'm starting and I'm going to be able to see that every single time I open it up and remind myself of why it is that I am where I am and what I need to do to keep moving forward in good and positive directions without being tired and so that is my hope now I wanted to create a section down here in the bottom right for my journaling and my title and I wanted it to be a little more solid of an area and here again is another lesson I started by thinking well what if I did something drippy and you know this is again me in my head thinking I should do something drippy because that's what people tell me watercolor you know it moves on its own it does this drippy thing you should let it do what it wants to do and not try to make it look like what you want it to look like because I do tend to do that I try to make one medium look like another that that's just one of my fun things I like to play with but what I realized about halfway through doing this section was what am I doing I am trying to be like someone else I'm trying to do drippy watercolor like I see other people do and I love drippy watercolor I love how it looks I could look at it all day long it doesn't mean I'm good at it and it doesn't mean that I like to actually do it myself so what I started to do that you'll see me change here is blending some of that out so I get a little softer edges on things I'll still retain some of that texture but I started adding more water and a little more richness of color to try to I don't know make it feel more like me because the the drippy wasn't working for me and that is another lesson that I'm going to have to have another page on I think about how not to try to be someone else I get a lot of comments on my blog and on YouTube about how I don't watercolor the way watercolors are meant to be painted and why are you doing this and I'm doing it because there are many styles for many mediums and I'm so glad that there are so many different styles that are okay to do. Michelangelo when I went to the Sistine Chapel I saw how many styles he had I did not realize by looking in books that every section of that was painted in all these different styles and it blew my mind thinking wow I could have multiple styles just like Michelangelo if he can do it I can do it and I don't have to mimic everybody else's watercolor style just because I like their watercolor style I need to paint the way I am built to paint and that is what I'm hoping to continue to learn how to do because I don't know what my style is right now and I'm learning that right here on YouTube in front of all of you guys so here is my finished page that's going in my Facebook and I added my my traditional elements of scrapping and stuff to it in order to finish it off and and add the words to it but I thought this would be a really great great and auspicious beginning for my Facebooking journey now I hope that you learned something from this about watercolor or faith or who knows what maybe just about the masking fluid might be all you got from it but I hope it was helpful in some way here's a couple more videos if you're interested in seeing more of my work and I will see you guys another time have a great weekend we'll see you later bye bye


Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Sussman, week three, almost in the books. And to help us down on the waiver wire to my guy, Frank Stamphill, what's happening, Frankie? Not much, Greg. Excited to be here. Talk some waiver wire heading into week four of the NFL season. We're cruising by. We got a few New York Giants on the list as well. I know that gets you pumped up, Greg. Absolutely. I am super pumped up to talk about the Giants today. Specifically, where we begin. Right at the quarterback position. He's like, I'm in Danny Dimes. Yes, that's right, Greg. Danny Dimes. Let's put this guy in the Hall of Fame already. A lot of people excited about Daniel Jones and what he did yesterday, leading the Giants to the comeback against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was awesome. Statistically, I can't knock the guy. I know a lot of people were skeptical of the pick by Dave Gettleman. But he looked the part 23 of 36, 336 passing yards, 9.3 yards per attempt yesterday, 2 passing touchdowns and additional 28 rushing yards and 2 rushing touchdowns as well, including the game winning touchdown yesterday as well. The guy has athleticism. That's what we like for fantasy football too. Normally, when we have these quarterbacks that, you know, we have some question marks about their arm and what they're going to do as a passer. If they can run, that makes all the difference when it comes to fantasy football. And this guy's actually really athletic. He had a 60 yard rushing touchdown at Duke as well as their starting quarterback. I understand it was against the Tampa Bay Bucks. You know, their defense, they are who we thought they were. But heading into next week, they go up against Washington. This secondary is a little washed up. They're not as good as they once were. In their first two matchups, this is before the Monday Night football game, they've allowed three passing touchdowns in each of those games. So I'm looking at Daniel Jones as a streaming option heading into week four if you lost your breeze, if you lost Ben Rothesberger. Hell, I would use Daniel Jones over Baker Mayfield, who faces the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore in week four. There I said it. And you know what, the skill set that he has, he's really good at throwing a ball short and to intermediate routes. Look at the players that they have on this team. That fits his skill set perfectly. Sterling Shepherd, Evan Ingram, they're going to get golden tape back. These are all players that can make plays after the catch. Put them in the hall of fame, Greg. Danny Dimes heading into week four, waiver wire pickup. Daniel Jones on the year has more fantasy points thus far than Baker Mayfield himself. By weeks from beginning in week four, you may need to fill a spot for a guy like Jimmy G. Daniel Jones is a fine replacement. He is going to the hall of fame. Give me another quarterback though, Frank, that you could be interested in. Daniel Jones, you don't get him on the waiver wire because it costs too much money. Who's another option where you could turn to? How about we go right across the field, Case Keenum on the other side, going up against this New York Giants secondary, just an absolutely brutal secondary and defense overall. Greg, I would ask you because you are the Giants fan here, but I don't think you have the answer either. What are they doing putting Genoris Jenkins one-on-one in coverage with Mike Evans? Nobody has the answer there. It's just completely crazy what they were doing yesterday, but this secondary has been torched all season long. And before Monday Night Football, Case Keenum has actually looked pretty good so far. He's the QB eight in fantasy points per game. He's got 600 passing yards, completing 69% of his passes. He's got five passing touchdowns already so far. And I just really liked this matchup. Again, 380 passing yards and three touchdowns allowed to Jamis Winston in week three. How about in week one? They go up against Dak Prescott. They allow 400 passing yards and four passing touchdowns as well. So obviously we'll go with the Hall of Famer, Daniel Jones first, but if you missed out on him, you need a streaming quarterback heading into week four. You're playing a Super Flex League and for some reason Case Keenum isn't owned already. Really liked that matchup going up against the New York Giants. I like what you say for some reason Case Keenum's not owned. He's not owned in your Super Flex League, Frank. Plead the fifth. But in all seriousness, I actually picked up Case Keenum earlier this week in preparation for next week. I just hope by the time Monday Night Football is over, Case Keenum is A still healthy and B still has the job. Keenum against the Giants makes way too much sense. I love the matchup. You saw what Jamis Winston just did. Put Keenum in there if you lose out on Danny Dimes on the waiver wire. Let's move on to the running back position. And we're actually gonna go back to the Giants. Stay in this game for this. The State Goan Barkley is gonna miss some time with a high ankle sprain, which means the next man up is Wayne Gaulman. He didn't look great yesterday, but if a starting running back's out there, you gotta go pay it for him. Yeah, that's exactly right, Greg. As of now, the news that we have on State Goan Barkley is that he's going to miss quote a couple of weeks. He's out indefinitely with that high ankle sprain. You saw him celebrating after the wind hopping around on one foot. He had the crutches and everything. So he's gonna at least miss two to three weeks, I would imagine, maybe even longer than that. And anytime we have the opportunity for a starting running back, you have to be in on that player. So if you own State Goan Barkley, you should have already had Wayne Gaulman on your team. That's why we talk about handcuffing the running backs that you draft early on in fantasy football. But if not, you're gonna have to spend a decent amount of your fab to make sure that you get him. It's not a bad matchup going up against Washington either here. But look, when it comes to Wayne Gaulman, he's a fourth round pick from 2017. He can catch the ball out of the backfield. He had over 60 receptions in his three year career at Clemson. The only other running back to have on the roster as of now is Elijah Penny. So he's not great. We've seen that so far. And believe it or not, Greg, your Giants all offensive line, according to football outsiders, is ranked as the number one run blocking offensive line. So again, you get that opportunity here, not saying he's a must start running back, but if you lost State Goan Barkley, he's going to at least be in discussion as a flex option. That's Wayne Gaulman of the New York Giants. They didn't look all that good yesterday against Tampa Bay, but they have been able to create room and State Goan Barkley. Well, he's found the room to run, but it won't be Barkley in there anymore. It will be Gaulman. This is true opportunity behind a revamped offensive line with Daniel Jones at the quarterback to make his mark. If he doesn't, well, he'll be replaced soon enough by somebody like Rod Smith, CJ Anderson, of course, out there as well. But right now, Wayne Gaulman, the next man up from the Giants and for your fantasy team. Yesterday, before the Kansas City Baltimore game kicked off, fantasy owners were sent into a frenzy because LaShaw McCoy was told, we were told it was going to be third on the depth chart. Of course, there he was, starting and well performing, scoring two touchdowns. It was very, very frustrating until the fourth quarter where LaShaw McCoy had to leave the game due to the ankle injury that he sustained last week. Darrell Williams was the next man up. It wasn't a committee with Darwin Thompson. It was all Darrell Williams, including the game's ceiling possession.  There's no reason to believe that Darrell Williams won't still be the next man up, which means he should be the next man up for your fantasy teams. Yeah, Greg, and I'll piggyback off that as well. Even if McCoy or Damien Williams are active next week, I don't think that they're going to be 100%. And this looks like a full-on committee right now. I just want exposure to this Chief's offense. The Chief's offense that's averaging over 33 points per game so far this season, Darrell Williams played 37 snaps yesterday against the Baltimore Ravens that led all Chiefs running backs. And as you mentioned, LaShaw McCoy re-injured himself. So there's just a really clear opportunity here to get exposure to a really good offense and get a running back that looked pretty good against a solid Ravens defense. Darrell Williams yesterday, nine carries for 62 yards, 6.9 yards per carry, caught all five of his targets for 47 yards. I said this last week, Greg, when we were talking about DeMarcus Robinson, again, it's gonna sound like, you know, I'm just, I'm being, I'm saying the same thing over and over here, but you just want exposure to this Chief's offense.  You have to worry about DeMarcus Robinson down the field. You have to worry about Travis Kelsey in the middle of the field, making plays basically everywhere. That leaves a lot of running lanes and a lot of opportunity to pick up big chunk plays as a receiver, as a running back for this Chief's offense. So we'd still have to see what's going on with LaShaw McCoy and Damien Williams, but regardless, I think Darrell Williams proved himself yesterday, and he's probably going to earn more touches moving forward. Just pay attention to those injuries when it comes to the Kansas City Chiefs heading into week four. I think it's also important to remember that Kansas City doesn't care if they run the ball at all, right? Like, they'll use it only to set up the passing game, but that's it. It's Patrick Mahomes' show throughout the game. The running back, if you get to the one yard line and you can plunge in, a screen pass, we saw what they could do. But just remember, the running back, the running game, it's not going to be a huge deal, but you do want that running back, and right now, it may be Darrell Williams. Let's move on to the wide receivers, Frank, and that brings us to New England, who lost Antonio Brown, and yesterday they may have lost Julian Edmund as well. He left the game in the second quarter with a chest injury. Well, we haven't received an update yet, and over now, more playing time for Philip Dorsett, especially without James White in the fold. It was a whole lot of Dorsett with Josh Gordon being in and out of the contest. Dorsett, we told you on Friday, go pick him up if you can. If you didn't, it's going to cost you a whole lot more this week. Yeah, that's exactly right, Greg. Following the release of Antonio Brown, you should have already had Philip Dorsett on your team, but he's still available in a ton of Yahoo Fantasy football leagues right now. Philip Dorsett played 70 snaps that led all Patriots wide receivers in week three going up against the New York Jets. He had six receptions on 53 yards, scored a touchdown, had seven targets that represented 16% of the target share. The way that I'm viewing this offense right now is Josh Gordon's really been elevated to that Antonio Brown role. Julian Edmund is still Julian Edmund, assuming he's healthy. And Philip Dorsett has now been elevated to that Josh Gordon role. So much like the Kansas City Chiefs, we really want exposure to this New England Patriots offense, one of the best in the league right now. They're averaging over 35 points per game. And when it comes to Philip Dorsett, look, it's taken him a few years, former first round pick of the Indianapolis Colts. It hasn't worked out there, but he's latched on with the Patriots. He's made some place. He's earned Tom Brady's trust. And we talk about that a lot when it comes to the Patriots, specifically Tom Brady. If you earn his trust, he's going to continue to go back to you. So, you know, opposing defenses are trying to stop Josh Gordon and Julian Edmund. They have to worry about James White catching passes out of the backfield and Sony Michelle grinding it up the middle. Philip Dorsett, while, you know, he might not get the most consistent targets, he's going to be able to make the most of those targets. And if there's anything wrong with Julian Edmund, that'll just open up more of a target share for Philip Dorsett. So honestly, Greg, you really just want exposure to this Patriots offense. You want as much exposure as possible of that Patriots offense and Brady has a connection with Philip Dorsett. We have now seen that through the first couple of weeks.  Philip Dorsett's going to have a role and a sustainable role in this offense. The floor may be not all that high. We know what the ceiling could be. Philip Dorsett, well worth picking up this week. In Pittsburgh, it hasn't been all good since Big Ben went down as this team lost yesterday. But Deontay Johnson, well, he showed up and he scored a touchdown in his first career start. What could Johnson be with Mason Rudolph as quarterback? I think we're probably going to get some inconsistency here from Deontay Johnson, but the one thing Mason Rudolph has been able to do well, even going back to college and we saw it yesterday is throw the deep ball. Now I assume James Washington's going to get a few of these deep ball targets every single week as well, because they have a connection. Going back to Oklahoma State, Mason Rudolph and James Washington played together. But yesterday, it was Deontay Johnson. He caught that deep ball, 39 yard touchdown, finished with only three catches, but 52 yards, that touchdown, as we mentioned, six targets that represented 23% of the target share. If you drafted a Dante Moncree for James Washington as your wide receiver, four wide receiver, five coming into the season, you're going to want to grab Deontay Johnson off waivers. And heading into week four, the Cincinnati Bengals are the team that the Steelers are going to be facing, and their defense could be had. They haven't been a great defense thus far. We saw them get torched specifically by the San Francisco 49ers in week two. Debo Samuel caught a touchdown against them. So this is more of a depth play. You're going to want Deontay Johnson for your bi-week replacements. I'm not sure he's going to be an every week starter, but in week four, Sneaky going up against the Cincinnati Bengals, and it's worth mentioning that the Pittsburgh Steelers have been pretty good at drafting wide receivers over the years. They just drafted Deontay Johnson in the third round of the 2019 NFL draft. So you can hang your hat on that as well. More of a bi-week replacement, but he's getting the opportunity to start.  I agree. It's more of a bi-week replacement than anything else, but Johnson getting the start now, and we don't know what this passing offense is going to be. The floor is low, but hey, he could spark. Maybe he sparks. Well, maybe we'll get some points out of your flex spot during a tough bi-week. Let's move on to the tight end where last week we nailed it with Will Disley. Talk more about him in a moment. This week, who's the tight end that you're most after? It's Dawson Knox, Greg. And if you didn't know the name Dawson Knox before yesterday, you do now. You saw that 49-yard catch. If you haven't, please just go watch that 49-yard catch that Dawson Knox had yesterday. He basically took the souls of two Cincinnati Bengals offender, really, really athletic profile here from Dawson Knox. Wound up leading the Bills in receiving overall in week three. 67 receiving yards on three catches. He had a touchdown on four targets. I played 43 snaps, ran 21 routes. Both of those numbers led Bills tight ends yesterday, so this kid's coming along very well, very quickly. We see, again, it's only his third game in the NFL as a rookie, and he's already leading the tight end position in both snaps and routes run for the Buffalo Bills. And I mentioned how athletic he was. He tested really, really well, both his 40 and his speed score ranked in the 85th percentile of the NFL Combine. That's according to playerprofiler.com. So the athleticism is there. There's an opportunity here. Yes, Josh Allen likes to throw the deep ball. John Brown is his number one target. They like to target Cole Beasley over the middle of the field as well. But heading into week four, the Buffalo Bills are going up against the New England Patriots. The Patriots have done well against tight ends, but the Bills are going to need every single person to step up if they're going to have a chance of competing with the New England Patriots. And not only that, look, if you're playing a dynasty or keeper league, I really think that there's some long-term upside for Dawson Knox here as well. So hopefully he builds off this rapport. The athletic profile is there. I'm in on Dawson Knox. Heading into week four, Greg. We'll see what Dawson Knox can mean if he can be a consistent option for Josh Allen in that offense in week four against the Patriots. I don't know. Going forward in dynasty, as Frank said, it could be a value. We haven't found the tight end yet that Josh Allen is going to rely on. Maybe Dawson Knox and his athletic ability is that guy. Now, I mentioned last week our tight end choicest of Will Disley, who scored a touchdown on the untimely play at the end of the game yesterday. But even still, he was really solid in the PBR. And going forward, he needs to be owned in more leagues, especially this week, Frank, where he goes up against a team that allows the most yards, the most points, the most touchdowns, tight ends in all the football. Yeah, that defense is the Cardinals' defense. We'll get into that in a little bit, but Will Disley, I still don't understand why he's just 45% owned on Yahoo right now. Two massive games back to back here yesterday against the Saints. He mentioned the touchdown that he scored super late in that game, but finished with six receptions, 62 yards in that touchdown on seven targets. Those seven targets were second on the team behind only Tyler Lockett, who is obviously stepping up as this team's number one receiver in the passing game. Going up against the Arizona Cardinals, Greg, you mentioned it, what they've allowed to tight ends this year has been massive. We saw yesterday, Greg Olson, two receiving touchdowns against this Cardinals' defense. In week one, it was TJ Hocketson, monster game, over 100 yards, and a receiving touchdown. Week two, going up against Mark Andrews, over 100 yards, a receiving touchdown as well. Will Disley is going to eat the Arizona Cardinals alive in week four. Hell, Greg, if you were tight end eligible, I would pick you up and start you against the Arizona Cardinals. That's how good this matchup is, but even without the matchup, you should own Will Disley, especially if you drafted a Jared Cook that hasn't worked out, obviously. Tight ends are really hard to find. Will Disley should be owned in more than 45% of leagues. I agree, tight ends are not easy to find, and Will Disley going against Arizona, no freaking brainer, man, and he's involved in this offense with Russell Wilson. Yes, Tyler Lockett, DK Metcalf. They're certainly a part of it, but so is Will Disley. He is a constantly targeted piece. You can rely on Disley. He may not exactly be a top tight end, besides this week, but he's certainly a reliable one. Finally, here on The Hurry Up, let's get to our streaming defense of the week, Frank. Not a lot to choose from, so where are you headed? I'm going to go to the Indianapolis Colts who are hosting the Oakland Raiders heading into week four. I don't think the Colts defense is an amazing one, but they are a solid defense. They're a bend, but don't break defense. And when it comes to going up against the Oakland Raiders, I just don't see a lot of offensive weapons there. Outside of Darren Waller, who's been awesome. Josh Jacobs, I think, is going to be a player as well. He still needs to get better in past protection overall. But we've seen when the Oakland Raiders fall behind, which I think can be the case in week four against the Indianapolis Colts, Josh Jacobs doesn't really see the field much. When they lost Antonio Brown, Tyrell Williams was elevated to the wide receiver one for this team. I like Tyrell Williams, he scored a touchdown in each game. He's a solid player, but he doesn't really scare me that much. For example, if you double team him, I don't really think that there's another receiver on this team that you're really worried about that's going to beat you. And when it comes to this Raiders offense overall, they're averaging just 16 points per game on that side of the football. 322 total yards of offense per game so far in the first three weeks of the season. And I like to target defenses, in this case, the Indianapolis Colts, going up against an offense that I think will be playing from behind. So we're going to see more drop backs, which will give you more opportunity for sacks, more opportunity for turnovers as well. The Indianapolis Colts, a team that I'm looking at streaming in week four against the Oakland Raiders, Greg. Well, in the past few weeks, the Colts have won games thanks to their offense. It's been impressive. Don't forget about what the defense has been. They've done their job and that's why the Colts sit pretty at two and one. That's it for us here on the Fandal Hurry Up. Frank, good luck on your waiver wire this week. Thanks, Greg. As I've mentioned every week, we'll be doing a lot of those together. Let's see how many daily dime shares we can actually end up with. True story, Frank tried to quit all teams with me last night. I wouldn't let him. Hopefully the waiver wire goes well, so he'll stay as part of my team going forward. Have a great night, everybody. We'll see you tomorrow.


Our next speaker who's going to talk for about 10 minutes is a fellow named Jeffrey Rosen Jeff is someone I've got to know pretty well over the last year or so Actually, I first met him at an event that was hosted by the an American Antitrust Institute by Bert Faurr Who's that Frank Faurr is dead about three four years ago? but Jeff is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and He is also a professor of law at George Washington University He's author of a book called the Supreme Court the personalities and rivalries that defined America. I also know He's got a book coming out. I believe in June Which is about? Louis Brandeis Who was probably the most important? Jeffersonian thinker in the 20th century and really helped to establish the intellectual Foundations for what took place under the Wilson administration and then the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1913 and 1945 in which we saw a real distribution of power in this country and Certainly during a period in which the kind of concentration of power that we see in Amazon Would not have been allowed to exist. So anyway So Jeff's going to talk for about 10 minutes and give us a little perspective on how folks I believe He's going to give us a perspective on how folks would have viewed this A century 80 years ago a century ago Thank you so much and great to be here So it is indeed a good time to talk about Louis Brandeis tomorrow is the hundredth anniversary of his nomination to the Supreme Court and June 1st is the hundredth anniversary of his confirmation and Brandeis as Barry says was the greatest Jeffersonian Critic of what he unforgettably called the curse of bigness in business and government in the 20th century He has more to tell us about the effects of monopoly power on Democracy and equality and liberty than any other thinker of the 20th century He also has more to tell us about the challenge of translating values of free speech and privacy in an age of new technologies So therefore it is helpful as it is when you face any contested constitutional question to ask the following immortal Query Wbd what would Brandeis do and I want to briefly give some history of his Thoughts on the curse of bigness and then channel him on the subject of today's conference Which is how to protect free expression in the age of Amazon so Brandeis serves on the Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939 he's the leader of this very distinctive Jeffersonian tradition He's a progressive champion of small government and small business But he also embodies a bipartisan constitutional tradition that's gaining traction today on both sides of the aisle from the populist Sanders Left to the Tea Party right and that is a defender of personal and economic liberty and a foe of Centralization in business and government so at a time of great polarization between Conservatives and libertarians who prefer small government and free enterprise and liberals and progressives who want a more energetic regulatory state Brandeis Represents and blends both sides of this crucial debate He endorsed the Jeffersonian ideal of small business and local democracy But applied these ideas to uphold state regulations that tame the excesses of big business and monopoly It's really important to right remember how central this anti monopoly tradition is in American constitutional history Both Jefferson and Brandeis viewed American history as a battle between the forces of consolidation and decentralization between agrarian producers and monopolistic financiers in responding to the proposed Constitution Jefferson who remember wasn't at the convention. He was in Paris at the time Expected that America would be divided into self-governing agricultural units of the smallest scale possible Brandeis also insisted that decentralization in government and economics was the only way to protect the liberty of Farmers industrial workers and small producers. Obviously, we no longer live in an agrarian age but it is arguable that the small independent producers of today are the authors and freelancers and Creative writers who are trying to make a living It is important to remember also if you want a historical pedigree for this tradition The Boston Tea Party which sparked the American revolution was a rebellion against the government-granted monopoly held by the East India Company and after the Constitutional Convention Jefferson complained to Madison that the Constitution had no bill of rights protecting restrictions against monopoly and Jefferson actually supported the following constitutional amendment Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature and their own inventions in art for a term not exceeding a certain number of years But for no longer term and for no other purpose That is how central his views about the connection between monopoly and creative expression were Brandeis obviously was not a strict constructionist But he's sympathetic to Jefferson's views on political economy and he developed Jefferson's distinction between merchant bankers Who lent their own capital capital for productive enterprises and monopolists who? Underwrote risky instruments with what Brandeis? Unforgettable called other people's money and rereading that classic of 1913 is highly salient in the election of 2016 the monopolies of Brandeis's day were not government chartered banks like the Bank of the US which was Jefferson's concern or Amazon and Walmart instead. They were the web of private investment banks and railroads Controlled by Brandeis's nemesis JP Morgan and in other people's money Brandeis denounced Morgan for the oligarchic economic and political power That his control over the quick capital of others allowed him to wield Morgan and other oligarchs made reckless bets on complicated instruments whose value they couldn't possibly understand and in this sense Brandeis's opposition to bigness in business and government is connected to his pragmatic understanding of the limitations of human knowledge So what about Amazon? WWBD when it comes to the question of Amazon and free expression Brandeis I think would have been concerned by the internet's tendency to increase the trends toward digital monopoly By eliminating physical barriers to consolidation such as the cost of real estate The result is vast network power by online mega stores from Amazon to iTunes That can more easily crush their rivals than the chain stores that Brandeis so Denounced this fulfills Brandeis's worst fears about the transformation of citizens into consumers The suppression within citizens of the support of the consciousness of being producers and the isolation of producers and consumers from each other The decision to suspend traditional enforcement of antitrust laws in the 1980s as well as the globalizing powers of the internet Have accelerated the powers of distributors like Amazon Setting in motion a tremendous concentration of power in the hands of the mega stores that makes Brandeis's fear of the power of chain Stores to crush independent businesses look understated as a result giant chain stores Stores like Amazon can sell products for less than they pay for them in order to drive less well-capitalized retailers out of business The mega stores can also set different prices for the same product pitting producer against producer and bankrupting many of them in the process This trend has also put pressure on independent producers like authors and publishers Who are no longer able to set prices for their creative work in the face of the power of the giant distributors And it is important to remember that for most of American history It was the producers not the distributors and retailers who set prices I Think Brandeis might have supported efforts Controversial efforts to check the power of Amazon and restore the power to set prices to producers such as the fixed price agreements That were just mentioned in the last panel that countries in the European Union have allowed Bookstores to adopt to promote less popular but culturally significant books rather than concentrate only on best sellers He might also have been sympathetic to the US publicers who are trying to maintain the price of ebooks against Amazon's decision To use its 90% market power to sell ebooks for less than it paid for them He might even have approved of the side deal between Apple and five of the biggest publishers that would have allowed the publishers To set ebook prices but guaranteed that books distributed in Apple's iBooks always had the lowest price Remember that antitrust regulators shut that practice down Charging it was a classic case of horizontal competitors colluding to force Amazon to change its business business practices Europe is very different European regulators have launched antitrust Investigations into Amazon Google and Facebook that Brandeis would have supported for Brandeis book pricing should offer reasonable rewards for the Individual creative author as Frank Forges said not the giant distributor And he might even have tolerated a looser definition of cartels as a way of maintaining competition in the pride in the publishing industry Brandeis might have been surprised by the fact that authors and freelance artists are now the most visible representatives of the producing classes and that small tech startups can imagine no greater success than being acquired by tech Giants like Google and Google's decision to improve its Wall Street balance sheets by Disaggregating its various units into a decentralized holding company called Alphabet would have given Brandeis only one satisfaction so The economic evidence is mixed today as it was in Brandeis's day about whether laws protecting small businesses by regulating megastores help or harm Consumers economic productivity efficiency and ultimately communities and democracy But Brandeis believed it was permissible to sacrifice some efficiency if this preserved self-governance and democratic participation But now that the internet has created other operatunities for participation the cost and benefits of the Protectionism he believed necessary for democracy are worth Reexamining with an open mind I can't end to talk on Brandeis free expression and monopoly without quoting his beautiful words from his Whitney concurrence the most important free speech Defense of the entire 20th century And here they are Those who want our independence believe that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties and that in its Government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means They believe liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty They believe that freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are Means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth That without free speech and assembly discussion would be futile that with them Discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine that the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people That public discussion is a political duty and that this should be a fundamental principle of American government There is much to unpack there But that notion that democracy cannot survive both ignorant and free and that citizens have an Obligation a duty to educate themselves about the facts that are necessary to make informed decisions in democracy And that only with a vibrant press and a well-working literary marketplace can those facts become available Remains today as salient as ever as Brandeis put it if we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold Thank you so much and we're looking forward to the rest of the discussion


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