Got to stay fueled up for the Nike Turbo Pegasus run My my put it in my belly. This is what I'm talking about. All right. Thank you, honey Come on come on got a few of the run today got a few of the run stay tuned YouTube Good afternoon, YouTube. Good. Afternoon Oh Man oh, man. Okay this shoe go check out a couple videos in the upper right-hand corner if you have not seen any Videos and vlogs about this vapor fly 4% flying it. It's been a fun shoe to run in but today I got to talk about this guy because at the Mall of America yesterday. I did this That's right. I picked up a pair of the Nike zoom Pegasus 35 turbo shoes and basically last night I took them out for a three-mile spin quick run just a quick run today. I'm gonna go much further at least 12 miles possibly 16 I don't know and then I'll give you up my initial impressions at the end of this video I've just had what I think of the shoe and how it performed on a longer run So in addition come back tomorrow because I keep getting comments about these sunglasses I want to give you my thoughts on these sunglasses tell you what they are why I wear this specific model and brand I'd love to share come back tomorrow for that video and let's lace up and get this baby done It's alright about 10 miles so far at 730 pace not too shabby not too shabby I am training for a half marathon right now So I did not carry my GoPro 7 on the first 10 miles I'm gonna go out for six more in the Nike zoom Pegasus 35 turbos And just so you know they also have the Nike zoom Pegasus shield So what is that what is that shoe basically the it's the same shoe as this one that I'm wearing right now But it's the shield version meaning the upper so the part that wraps around the top of your foot is more water Resistant water repellent so if you live in an area that gets a lot of rain like the Northwest Or maybe you live in an area that gets a lot of snow and slush through the winter You might want to look into that shoe as opposed to this one for running as I'd say especially in the winter time So many of you commented in yesterday's vlog about how this shoe like a lot of you guys own this shoe that I'm wearing right now And you love it, but I actually want to ask the question of the day What shoe are you anticipating in the next month being released whether it's a Nike whether it's an ASICs Soccany new balance Hoka you tell me down in the comments like what shoe are you excited about any let's just say the rest of 2018 I do you have a shoe that's like on the radar that you're definitely gonna buy once it's released All right I've got six more miles gonna go inside grab the GoPro bring it along and then I'll give you my thoughts my initial impressions on This shoe here in a minute here in a minute, and I will not did I already mention this? I will not to all the new subscribers. I promise. I will not sugarcoat my gear reviews I'll give you my gut honest opinion. I'm not here to sell shoes for Nike for new balance for Solomon for anybody Ultra lay. I'm here to just give you my gut reaction. Just want to put that out there. All right So if you want to see how I Filmed this run meaning the loops that I did make sure you got connect with me on Strava I'd love to connect with you and just you know, see how your training is going What types of training you like to do and which surface you like to focus on trail? Trail road Track so anyway, let's connect on Strava. My profile is down below 16 miles I'll give you the I give you the full breakdown in a minute. I got to get some water 16 miles It's hot it's hot out. Oh, man Just chilling guys just chilling on a Sunday after a 16 mile run Solid run. I know and the Nike zoom Pegasus 35 Turbos and I'm gonna give you my full thoughts here in seconds my initial impressions But for all thank you for subscribing you guys are amazing and it's blown me away So for all the new subscribers like if you've been subscribed for a long time You know my front yard and my the patio and where we live in Denver But for all the new subscribers you haven't seen this yet And this channel is a you know, we do a lot of running. I do a lot of running But it's also a life channel communicating my story with you through the YouTube So here's my front yard in the patio, and it's a beautiful Sunday afternoon. So we're just relaxing Trying to recover from the trip. All right. Here we go And there's true love and little Michael So Anyway, just want to communicate not only running with you, but life with you You know the story and this is where we live in our in our humble abode. It's welcome to the good life I Got to clean them up for you guys for a little cinematic turbo beauty. Shall we shall we enjoy those shots? This shoe is a good-looking shoe. I must say like they did nail the aesthetic Value of this shoe from the upper even all the way down to the outsole It's just a good-looking shoe, and I hope hopefully you enjoy those shots Okay, basically folks time for my first impressions of the Nike Pegasus 35 Turbos, I don't said zoom turbos, but before I get to that I have two caveats I what I'm about to share with you come is coming to you through the lens these two lenses first I Have traditionally been an ultra runner over the last five years What does that mean basically doing long-distance training and races meaning longer than marathon distance on Dirt on trails in the mountains so long distance running at altitude usually in the mountains So that's kind of my context for my comments, and I am currently suffering. This is point number two I'm currently suffering from planter fasciitis in my left foot, and it hurts it hurts And until I really take a break which is coming soon after my race in about two weeks I'm gonna take a break to let it heal I have been running in the last five years in hokas and Solemn's not exclusively, but mostly these two brands hoka and Solomon and frankly I I love them both I really love the solemn's for just that aggressive uphill running And I do enjoy the hokas for some more recovery days. They have a little more cushion a little more Absorption of the pounding if I can put it that way so But moving forward. I am realizing so I tried to run a hundred mile race about a month ago Go check it out. It was interesting. I'll just put it that way. You got to go watch it and Last week I ran a 15 minute and 36 second 5k on a track solo So what that tells me at sea level, but it was solo not in a race just a time trial So what that tells me is that at the age of 33? I still have a little bit of speed left and I'm wondering if I should Rain in the hundred mile and 50 mile attempts moving forward save that for my 40s and Focus a little bit more on let's say the half marathon the marathon and the 50ks Especially why did I buy this Nike Pegasus? 35 the name is crazy. Nike Pegasus 35 turbos. I am getting ramping I'm ramping up a little bit for 2019 being the year that I attempt a fast marathon. All right, I'm getting excited But it means I need to explore shoes that are different than these two.  I Give it a six out of ten That's not a very good score that's the oath for the overall feel and ride of the shoe I was hoping for more, but guess what? I When I bought it yesterday, I had kind of in my mind that I'd be able to wear this on a Regular basis meaning for recovery days easier days just your everyday shoe But I didn't realize how lightweight it is. I mean I knew it was lightweight when I picked it up in the store But I didn't realize how lightweight it is. This is a fast shoe. I ran 735 today 737 30 miles for 16 miles today, and it was good. I felt decent, but I wanted to go faster and Basically, I was holding back in this shoe and this like this shoe could almost be used for a race or it's hold on instead of Instead of the vapor fly like you could legitimately run a race in this shoe You know especially I would say like a 10-miler a half marathon probably not the marathon or a 10k but right in that sweet spot of like 10 mile or half marathon and So folks my initial impression is not so good It it my planter fasciitis was hurting a lot and so I did have to say okay, Seth Left foot hurts right foot. Yeah, it okay. That feels good left foot hurts and so every other step I was I trying to feel how does this shoe feel on my good foot and The the ride was just like I wanted to be up on the toe box up on my toes on my forefoot The entire time bottom line at 730 pace. I felt like I was holding back and it made the ride of the shoe Feel weird. Have you guys experienced that in this shoe? Like does it feel it feels like a fast shoe to me? And so I think this shoe is gonna be great for 10 mile tempo runs at Sub 620 pace for me and that might be sub 820 pace for you or sub 1020 pace for you Like whatever your tempo pace is this in my humble opinion and listen This is just my first impression, but that's what this shoe is gonna be for Capiche. That's my first impression I'm excited. It's I am excited. I think I'm going to love this shoe And I think the six out of ten will eventually rise up to Seven and a half to eight out of ten. Does that make sense comment below? Let me know your thoughts, especially if you own this shoe I'd be or even the Pegasus 35 not the turbo. Do you own that shoe if you do? Let me know below. Let's get a conversation going so I can get to the bottom of this and hopefully we can help each other understand This shoe moving forward so that you know, I don't think I made a mistake buying this shoe It's just not going to be my everyday Kind of easy recovery day shoe instead. This is gonna be the tempo shoe This is gonna be the time trial slash racing shoe, you know mountain shoe for the Solomon Hoka will probably be it will be the easy day will be the easy day Don't forget to come back tomorrow for a little review of the sunglasses and yes many more running videos coming up real soon And if you made it this far, thank you type turbo for this guy turbo for this guy down in the comments Let me know and the reason I'm asking you to do that is that I want to if you guys have Questions or thoughts or ideas about running? I want to be here for you and hopefully you can reciprocate the information back to me if I have questions because I am not a Nike expert I'm just transitioning back into the Nikes after taking a little break and I'm excited So you guys can probably teach me a lot about these shoes as well See beauty work hard


First up for our lighting round sessions is Amy Jo Elson, who's from our first Nebraska presenter, yay, of the day, who is from our Barrett Public Library in Rawlsson, Nebraska, and talk about how they did a library artist in residence program. That sounds so cool. So go ahead, Amy, and take it away. Tell us all about what you did there. All right, thank you. I hope everyone is warm here in Omaha. I'm in Omaha right now. It is very cold, so I'm in a school building, and I am keeping my hands clasped. It is quite cold today. Well, I am here to talk to you about the process that the Baywright Public Library in Rawlsson, Nebraska, went through to secure an artist in residence and then how the programming went and what results we saw. So we'll talk through those things. Let's see if I can control my PowerPoint here. There we go. So the first question is, if you're looking at doing a program like this, is why should you do it? Why is an artist in residence? Why is expanding access to the arts something that libraries should be involved in? So to answer that, I've got a couple quotes from the from the ALA interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights here. I highlighted the pieces that I think are really important, and I'll just mention the photo that I have here is actually our artist in residence. His name is Fernando Antonio Montejano telling a scary story for kids at our fall, our library and town fall festival. We decided to go forward with a library artist in residence in part because it satisfies some of the core competencies pushed forward by the ALA and the Children's Library Association. So learning about the arts expands our vision of humanity. It connects us to our communities, and arts is something that we're very interested in incorporating throughout our library programs. So that's where we started, and so why did our library specifically choose an artist in residence? Which if you're unfamiliar with that program, an artist in residence is an artist that stays with the organization usually for a period of time for the purposes of the grant that we applied for and received, which I'll talk a little bit about later. An artist in residence holds more than 30 sessions, and those sessions can be defined in different ways. They're generally, yeah, they're not 30 independent sessions, but it can be like one event might count as two or three sessions depending on the length and the complexity of it. So it's less daunting than it sounds like as far as programming goes. But Baywright specifically is in Ralston, Nebraska, which is in the center of Omaha. If you are unfamiliar with it, it is a 1.65 square mile piece of land in the center of Omaha, Nebraska. Well, surrounded on three sides by Omaha and one side by La Vista. So it's a weird, it's kind of an enigma. It's this little independent community in the middle of a large metropolitan area. We are landlocked, so there's no opportunity for expansion. And also the city has moved further and further to the west and the south around the city of Ralston. So Omaha has moved further to the south and west. And as that has happened, our population has changed in Ralston. So we're now part of almost the older part of the city of the metropolitan area, which is an interesting place to be. And again, our population has changed. And we know that we're missing some of those people. So we're missing people new to the area. We're missing changing demographic groups. The school district that Ralston has also has a much larger area than the city itself. So they have separate demographic needs. So it's an interesting, it's a very interesting place to be. We know that we have a growing Latinx population. The difference between the 2010 census and the 2020 census is we had 10% Latinx population within the city of Ralston. By 2020, we had 20%. The school district itself actually has 44% Latinx population. So we've gone from a predominantly older, very white identifying population to a younger, non-white identifying population, which comes with awesome opportunities. So some of the pictures you see here, I point to the screen like you can see me pointing at it. But this is from our Dia de los Muertos program. And Fernando helped with that as well. He is bilingual. His language of birth, language of origin is Spanish. So he's English, Spanish. And then he speaks a little French as well, which comes in handy with some of our other minority or marginalized populations. So it's been a great opportunity to have Fernando there with us. Our library use, as I'm sure it does for many of you as well, skews heavily older and white. So we know that we're missing part of our population. We're not doing a good job reaching them. So art is our way of reaching out and expanding. And in this context, art includes lots of things. When I talk about the programming that we've done, you'll see some of the different things, music, poetry, writing, crafts, actual visual art, which you can see here on this slide. So we've done a little of everything. We're kind of dabbling to try and we're throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. So what was our process? It actually wasn't difficult. If you're in Nebraska, I strongly encourage you to check out the Nebraska Arts Council website. I've got a link here for anyone in Nebraska who hasn't accessed that grant money before. It is a very simple application. It does require you to report. There is a community section where you require, where you're required to put in community information. So that's where things like census data or school district data, anything that can show the demographics of your community or a change over time that you're trying to meet is very powerful in that particular section. But it is probably the shortest, simplest grant application I have ever filled out. So I highly encourage you to do that. And if you're not in Nebraska, I encourage you to look for an equivalent organization in your state. So this is the Nebraska Arts Council, but there are many of those across the U.S. Yeah, so the first thing we needed to do was find an artist. We chose Fernando specifically because I had seen him present at an opera preview. At one point he stood up and talked about the themes in the opera and things like that and read a little bit of his writing. And he just is very approachable. So I reached out to him. He was happy to work with us. We came up with an agreement. I filled out the grant application. We met to go through scheduling, worked out payment, and then started the program. And then all I have to do at the end is report, which is also pretty simple through the Nebraska Arts Council. So again, if you're in Nebraska and you haven't checked them out, please do. It's a great way to get some quick funding. So what we've seen so far, I've got a list of programs that we've completed, and then we've got some upcoming programs. And again, we've got 30, basically 30 units to divide among different sessions with Fernando. A side benefit that was not planned was the reader is an independent newspaper in, it's kind of a news magazine in the Omaha area. And Fernando happens to write for them part time. So after talking with us and learning about some of the other programs we had going on, he went back to the reader and said, I would like to do a story on this library. And we ended up being the cover story. So that was a great side benefit. Yeah. And it brought some new traffic, new people into the library, and actually opened up some new funding avenues for us as well, which has been a phenomenal side benefit. Yeah. So here's Fernando. This is his headshot. He's a great guy. So far, we've seen an increase in attendance at events, an increase in requests for our Spanish language collection, which was not very large, but we're working on it. It's getting bigger. We've also connected with arts organizations in the greater Omaha area. So we have free tickets to the Omaha Symphony. I'll have some for Opera Omaha this spring. And a couple, they've come and done story times. We give those tickets out free to families who come and request them. That's been a great connection for our community. And then the new funding, if any of you have people in your community who invest through Thrivent, which is a, I think it was, I think it was originally a Lutheran organization. I'm not sure if that's still their connection, but they are a faith-based organization. So because of their, the way it was explained to me is because of their tax structure, they have giving that they're, the people who invest through them, they have a certain amount that they can give back to the community every year. So if you know of people in your community who work with Thrivent or have investment available through them, they have a little bit of money every year that they say, I want it to go to this organization. So that's something I learned. And that's been a good thing for us. We're building a pollinator garden with some of that money. We're also doing another program with the Nebraska Arts Council this spring. And I'll wrap it up really quickly because I want people to have time to ask questions. So those are the steps that we went through. If anybody has questions, I'm happy to share my email. But if you're in Nebraska, tap that Nebraska Arts Council grant. It is, it is a great opportunity. We definitely promote them from our side to have had lots of success with libraries using it. Yeah. That's not something you necessarily think of because it doesn't say libraries in the title, but they want to work with libraries. That is, yeah. Yeah, they do. They do. Yeah. So if anybody does have any questions, please do type into the question section of your go-to webinar interface. I think this is such a fun program to do. And just so much you get out of it, so many different sessions. It's not just a one-shot. Right. Right. And it's been great to have that. He's very connected in the community, which a lot of artists are. So that's been a great opportunity for us to kind of reach, to expand our reach as an institution. Absolutely. Yeah. Just, just reading what's coming in here. So did you, one question here, did you have, because there's so many different things, is, I know libraries are always looking for programming, but this seems like so much for, especially a small library. Did you have any trouble trying to get it all done? I mean, get all of these things scheduled? I mean, it seems to be so many different sessions. It is a lot of different things. I only work 15 hours a week at the library. And, and I, I do some circulation coverage during that time too. So if I can do it, believe me, you can do it. Yes. That would be the first thing, but also we piggybacked on things. Like the Fall Festival was a larger event that we added our artists to. He's doing a bilingual story time for us. So it's our regular scheduled story time. And we're having him come and do it. As a presenter said, you don't have to reinvent the wheel every time you can do something that's the same thing or similar. Yeah. Right. Right. You can kind of tag it on to other events that you already have planned. We did a, a, so we have movie nights and we had Fernando come in and do a, he's a movie buff. And so he came in and talked about like some of the themes that were in the movie and some of the, the different things. We had a great community conversation about the movie, everything, everywhere, all at once. All right. Awesome. All right. Sorry, we're going to have to move on to the next. Perfect. Yeah. Perfect timing. I want to make sure that all of our 10 minute lightning rounds get done here. So thank you so much, Amy. This is an awesome program. And definitely people will be reaching out to you. We will have links to all emails and whatnot available too. We'll have it added. I don't know if you had it in the slides, but you can put it into your slides for when they do get shared when someone was asking about that. Okay. Yeah. All right. Great. Thank you so much.


Hello and welcome back to this very short vlog. If I look tired, that's because I am. I am running a Kickstarter whilst working full-time, whilst trying to finish this comic up and uh yeah it's been a big uh big time. I just wanted to talk to you guys about running a Kickstarter and like the process of it a little bit. I also wanted to update you guys that the project is now fully fully funded on Kickstarter which is really exciting. That means the comic is definitely going to be printed and yeah I need to finish it but I'm really happy that I get to share it with everyone and it's going to be so cool to be able to have like four short horror comics and just like a collection of horror comics and I'm already getting like excited to start on the next one uh the haunted water park but that's another story and uh yeah so I just want to share my day going through the motions of working full-time whilst also running a Kickstarter trying to advertise that, trying to do YouTube, trying to do Etsy. I've put my Etsy on holiday mode for now because I realize maybe just maybe it's a little bit too much to handle and uh just doing the Kickstarter now so trying to just let people know on Instagram because Instagram is so rubbish um with the algorithm so I don't know who's seeing it so I'm just trying to post a lot to let people know that it's live. I also messaged people on Etsy who had previously bought my comics to just let them know um I felt a little bit intrusive doing that so I'm not sure if it was the right thing to do but then people said thank you for letting them know and also if they loved my other comics like they I only messaged people who bought them and gave them like five star reviews and said they like enjoyed them so I felt like they would want to know that it's there. I don't know let me know if it's it felt a little bit scummy but I don't know if it's like fully scummy or if it's okay um but yeah letting you guys know as well again sorry if I keep bothering you if you've seen this multiple times but the Kickstarter is live if you're fancy taking a look but yeah I just uh work in this morning and doing my meetings and I had a lot of work to catch up on and then I decided on my lunch break I wanted to draw Olivia the slow and all at once disappearance of Olivia and Newbury because I had her on my mind and I thought I could do a little teaser because basically um if you back the Kickstarter there's a tier where you can also get the other comics or you can just add on one or all of the comics as well as an add-on thing so I just wanted to share that that that's an option because maybe people don't know that as well I really miss drawing with just my fountain pen and going straight in without any pencil because that's what I like to do in my sketchbook and since I've been doing the comic and finishing it up I haven't really been doing that so much so it's nice to take a little break from everything and draw Olivia um with her hand anyway and I failed at this hand and so I was like I hate that hand I'm going to draw another hand and so analyze the problem of using a fountain pen without any pencils in the end I think I really like the way the story came out I had to jazz it up a little bit in photoshop which you'll see in a moment but it was just where the ink bled a little bit from the fountain pen I have this fountain pen that is really good with alcohol markers like the blue ink never smudges but since using this black ink it kind of smudges a little bit sometimes um but I think it just takes a longer time to dry so I think I was just impatient and yeah so I just go in photoshop and just rub out those bits of like smudged ink which isn't like a big deal so it wasn't so difficult and then I just posted it on instagram yeah this is the drawing that I did and I kind of like kind of like it yeah and also I like this idea of having her like beckoning you into the woods um if you haven't read that comic that might be a bit confusing but if you've read the comic maybe you'll be like oh that's that's cool so I wanted to do a little nod to that and maybe I'll draw Emily and other characters as well and just thinking about delving back into those stories and it would be really cool so maybe I will do that but yeah so back at work um after my lunch break uploading instagram seeing if people respond what to do trying to do more reels as well which is a bit strange I don't know I like tiktok but reels are like a little bit slightly different formats so it's like oh I do tiktok and then you do an instagram it's like the reel is slightly different so it's more work on top but I think I should aim to try and do more reels as well I'll let people know it's just basically marketing marketing marketing now um trying to let people know about the project because obviously if we get more funds the better it is the more I can print uh the more I can print of all the comics and I can also do the stretch goals so it'll be really good basically I can afford my bills that would be great and yeah so that's basically it this is a really short vlog and uh yeah I just hope that you guys are doing well and everything's going well for you because it's going well for me so far with the Kickstarter I'm very excited it's one of those things where it's like before I've launched it I was so anxious like no one's gonna back it even though people have backed stuff before and people are still consistently buying my comics I still have that self doubt and have to tell myself just go for it and I'm sure everybody else feels like that sometimes so if you're listening to this just go for it do the thing um sometimes we fail sometimes we don't but it's just about doing it and learning and that's my takeaway for this vlog so I hope that you enjoyed watching this really really short vlog really really short and uh I'll see you next time bye what is that claw what is that really


Storytelling brings a presentation to life. Stories can help you reach your audience, get them engaged, and help them remember your message. There's scientific research that backs this up. Neuroscientists have measured brain activity as it relates to speaker and listener. They've discovered that our brains create an emotional connection. It's called neurocoupling where the listener's brain activity actually mirrors that of the storyteller. The stronger the coupling between the speaker and the listener, the better the understanding. Storytelling is the most influential form of communication because the listener actually experiences the story as if it was real. Your audience doesn't passively receive your message. They actively participate in it emotionally. If you're expressive and provide detailed description and dialogue, you can transport your audience into the story as if they're living it right along with you. Listeners in a heightened state of emotion are more attentive, receptive, and remember more. There are outstanding books, videos, and workshops on storytelling. It's an art that can be mastered through practice and training. This course isn't about storytelling, it's about Prezi. But I can show you how to structure your Prezi like a story. Storytellers begin by establishing a setting. As a presenter, you need to establish a setting too. Your listeners need to have enough detail that they can put themselves into the story with you. They need to be able to identify with the characters you describe. Don't use yourself as the hero of your story. Use a character they can relate to. Make them the hero. Like a story, a good presentation has a clear beginning, middle, and end. The situation is laid out at the beginning. A conflict arises in the middle and is resolved by the end of the story. This conflict doesn't have to be between two people. It could be between different viewpoints, for example, or competing products, or between the present situation and a more favorable future situation. Conflict is what makes your story interesting. Your audience feels the same positive emotions as the story's hero when the conflict is finally resolved. The story's resolution is the whole point of your presentation. It's the most memorable part of the story. You should be able to express it in a single, concise statement or call to action. If your audience could walk away with just one key takeaway, what would it be? Just like a story all hinges on the conflict resolution, your presentation hinges on this key idea. It fulfills your presentation's statement of purpose. To accomplish this, your presentation should be carefully constructed. Outline the key events of the story and keep refining them until you're confident that they express your ideas. Then write a script that ensures that your audience will be drawn in and relive the experience the way you want them to. Since Prezi is such a visual and cinematic platform, I also recommend that you storyboard your script. For each frame you've planned, make a sketch of what your audience will see that corresponds to what you'll say. Please don't skip this step. Some people think that scripting and storyboarding their presentation will make it too stiff and robotic. You don't have to deliver a memorized script, but in the process of writing and polishing your script, you'll make important decisions on what to include and how to express your ideas. It'll also help reduce anxiety when you're ready to finally present your Prezi.


Yep, I did it. I started a podcast finally. It's been planned all summer long I have some really good content and I'm pumped for this podcast. The podcast is called making it happen and If you know me and you follow me on Instagram or any social media platform You know that I love to be creative I love to be inspired and I love to just do stuff as far as video creation and photography like I'm now getting more into video world and That's kind of you know been my thing right now, and that's kind of what I work in marketing I do video and photography for business called McPherson guitars in Sparta, Wisconsin, and so We're gonna we're gonna dive deep into all that stuff but I don't want to waste your time and I'm just gonna go through three different things that Kind of define this podcast who I am and why I'm doing it the podcast is called making it happen And I want to seek out creators I want to seek out people who are making their dreams happen like making their dreams come true and working hard at it and Whether they might have a nine to five and doing the other thing on the side like I want to know those people bring them on to the Podcast and learn I want to ask questions I want to dissect everything that they're doing and if they're successful like even better if they're not That's fine, too I just want to know you and I want to know the people who are making it happen for themselves and for the family so Phone call haha, it's probably silent that Johnny Q. Who am I? Alright, so Recently we moved to Sparta, Wisconsin my family and I Sarah my kid Ethan and my other kid Adeline so I have two kids and We moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota All for a job in Sparta, Wisconsin now to give you some sort of like contact Sparta, Wisconsin is a land of 10,000 people Minnesota has 10,000 lakes so it's like I feel like I went to high school And then I moved back to high school like my high school class That's how small that is but it's not bad. The people are very nice Very Midwestern, you know, Minnesota nice ish and it's not you know, we're not used to kind of the small environment small country town So in that perspective, it's hard to to be here But my job is very rewarding I get to do what I love Sarah it's getting to do what she loves and that's being a stay-at-home mom right now and she's Nurturing and you know taking care of the kids on a daily basis. And so that's why we're in Sparta, Wisconsin So if you have seen me on social posts about different things from a different city, it's because I live in a different city And yeah, it's I work for McPherson guitars incredible company incredible people and It's honestly one of my dream jobs not McPherson itself But like the work that I get to do and be creative and do video and photography just It's it's a dream job and over not even like a year ago I started to get into film and video so I pretty much taught myself I've proved myself and it's gone really well And so in that sense I'm making it happen for myself and for my family like the fact that my family can stay home and Not do anything, but just like my mom not my mom Sarah is the mom and she can work on the kids. That's a drink I mean most families today most couples have daycare that that they have to pay for and That's we don't want to do that because we want to take care of our kids They're on and you know bring them up or have their upbringing be be good in a sense So in a sense where it's not like other people taking care of the kids so I'm blessed that I can do that for Sarah and the kids and My job allows me to do that and so it's it's just super awesome. It's great and I love it Where was I I lost my train of thought No, but it's just been awesome to be here in that Minneapolis gosh to be in sparta We've been here for almost a year we moved in November and December of 2018 and so we're coming up and around a year and I really didn't really announce it to the world. It didn't announce that hey we're moving to Wisconsin because Honestly, I was just so sick of life I had been let go of a second job in the corporate America marketing world My first job was just brutal and we'll get into that hopefully in some other episodes and it was I was just not treated very fairly and My second job I did that for like three or four months and then I wasn't treated fairly there and Just a lot of things that happened in those two corporate jobs that I learned a lot I did a lot in marketing and SEO, you know, all this different all these different things of websites and then Before then I started a YouTube channel So I think I started a YouTube channel the beginning of 2018 like April or an April April or May of 2018 and That's where I began to get a lot of hate from people And it's really awkward to say that but a lot of my friends in my friend group Just were hating and just ragging on me because I was starting a YouTube channel And I think in their mind because they saw you know a DSLR like a pro camera with the microphone on top They thought I was trying to be famous and that's not really why I was trying to do that I was at the time just sick of life like my corporate job. I was trying to be a bass player I mean I was playing around town in Minneapolis. I was traveling doing different things I was managing different, you know records and producing different things And so it was all just about playing bass and wanted to be on stage or the platform and be the manager You know do all the touring stuff and just be the bass player. So That's when I started to get into YouTube and I wanted to document my entire Process and journey because as you know, I follow a lot of Gary Vee and Grant Cardone Like a lot of the big hitters that are motivational speakers But also really good with money and marketing and they were all saying Document your process document your journey. It's all about the journey and your process and not the destination, right? And so I'm like, all right, whatever. So I went to Best Buy. I bought a Sony a63 camera and started filming and Boy, okay, I didn't know anything about anything video related at that point. So this was like yeah over a year ago I didn't I didn't know anything. I mean, I knew some stuff when it comes to lighting composition and Framework when it you know when it comes to DSLRs because I was I was in photography pretty much all of my life And now going into video like what do I film in do I film in 24 frame per seconds or 60 like what is What is do I do 1080 for like? I don't know what to do. And so I really dove deep into adobe premiere, which is an which is an editing software Uh tool that I use there is stuff like final cut pro a da Vinci But I use premiere and let me tell you premiere when you first look at it when you first open it up You're like Oh, this is an editing software. This is weird. Oh, I can't do this. And so I kind of just I was like, oh, okay. I'll do the bare minimum. Where do I find the cut feature? I can cut my footage Okay, splice it together with this other footage. Yay. I made a video and it's three minutes long And the content was just pure garbage I mean I look at it now And it's just not the best, you know in regard to I guess quality of video because I was trying to I was filming in 4k the a 6300 by sony Let's you film in 4k and I was like, I want to use 4k because everybody uses 4k It's like the best resolution. It'll look so good. It's gonna look really crispy Yeah, it sucks to edit because it's so much data so much like file and It's so much It's just so much to your computer and you have to have a really good computer to edit that and it's got to be fast I do not have a really good computer Wow, that's a long story all that to say I just started vlogging and started, you know documenting my journey as a bass player Giving advice to future bass players and musicians how to do things how not to do things And yeah, my friends were just dogging on me like what are you trying to do? You'll never get anywhere. You won't make any money from it You're never gonna get famous and that's what they didn't understand I'm always in trying to do those things if they come to me That's awesome. I will accept them, you know with open hands That's because of my hard work and what they didn't understand is I wanted to do this because I was so fed up and I just wanted to do something different I wanted to push myself to the limit quote unquote And see what I could do creatively All of my friends were on instagram facebook twitter You know linked in all the social media platforms and I wanted to do something different Like how can I Johnny Q Prepare something to the world in a different form that's a little bit more post-production And a little bit more work so that when people see it They think oh, that's actually really good quality and to you put a lot of work into this for 15 seconds on instagram story Why in the world would he do that? So that kind of a mentality that's what I wanted to bring to the table And that's where oh, let me shut this off. It's it's just like Okay, it shut off That's where I was like that's where I want to put my work and effort to bring something valuable So the content that I create is valuable for you for me and everybody else watching and I want to be inspired Not for my own content, but I want you also to be inspired from it And that mentality Completely changed my my entire like Johnny Q my entire self The mentality of okay, you have to make it happen now Okay, you have to set yourself up where you're not going to fail and if you do who cares if you fail because if you know me Man, I don't care if I fail I've failed so many times and I just don't even care But like those failures and those like pivotal moments in my life where I've Quote unquote have failed Have actually opened a different door and it's like whoa If I wouldn't have done the thing that I failed at this door wouldn't have opened And I would not be where I am today. And so that's why we move to sparta That's why I have this job because I chose to do more than just you know Be be okay with with with the life that I had No, I wanted to grab life by the horns and just like take the horns off I wanted to rip them off and put them on myself and be like, ah, I got the horns That's that's really weird analogy, but you get it So that's that's who Johnny Q is and from that from the vlogging to editing You know people at McPherson saw that And I was recommended through the grapevine through my my mentor and people that I've worked with for free by the way Which that's a whole different Don't even get me started on this because people who say I need to be paid for everything that I do I would disagree with you. I have this job and this freedom and this flexibility and this amazing job and work environment Because I worked my butt off for free for years like I'm talking five plus years Okay, it was only my corporate job that I was like getting real money If you want to think like that the bass playing there's no money in music Again, that's a whole different thing that I'm going to speak on in these episodes But yeah, like that's because I chose to work for free I got this opportunity and I'm in a way better place My family is in a way better place now than ever before And it's incredible. So we're truly blessed and it's amazing. All right back to like working hard So, yeah, like I worked my butt off to create this vlog and I think I vlogged daily for Oh man, I want to say What was it? I think like almost 13 days. I was just so obsessed with learning more Finding new ways to film the same stuff like finding Yeah, different angles of my of my wife and kid walking down the street getting Starbucks like how do I create a story? And that's where it kind of started learning my craft in adobe premiere and as a videographer now And I wouldn't call myself a videographer because I'm not I don't have an aria lexa I don't have a red camera. I don't have all these, you know, big things But then I realized it's not the gear that makes you it's you that makes you And so in that sense, I was making it happen in in the midst of People saying you're not going to be able to do this.  You can't do video Why would you spend all your time editing when you know, you can do editing on photos and do weddings and all all the above? But I thought no Like as human beings, we should be able to push ourselves More than what we can handle obviously in a good and healthy way But this was a form for me to be creative and actually try to understand More than just one side of the creative social media platform, which is youtube I had no idea like how to start on youtube. I just did it And time after time like I just kept failing and then at one point I reached over a thousand subscribers And to be, you know, very not verified but to be like a partner with youtube And essentially to get paid on youtube to monetize videos you need to cross the threshold of a thousand subscribers and I believe it's four thousand minutes watched So people have to watch all of your content at least four thousand minutes That uh at least four thousand minutes have to be watched on your video content And I surpassed that within oh man. I want to say Four five months and that's not like whoa, that's that's a lot That's a world record because other people have Done way more in far less time. But to me that was like, oh I think I have something that people want to see or hear So why don't I continue to do this vlogging in youtube channel, but also Turn it around and actually make it about something I really do know which is photography And now video is becoming part of that and now because I did all the stuff in early 2018 the door opens for A whole new chapter to be moved to a whole different state to do the work that I You know have been kind of dreaming about but I had no idea how to do a year ago But now I get to do that full time and excel in it and Okay, sarah and I both went to the interview We kind of got to know the people at McPherson And that day I got offered a job at McPherson guitars as a social media content manager Which is I mean now evolved into like artists relations and doing a lot of marketing work with McPherson and A lot of cool stuff is happening. And so because I was You know not hesitant to Do the work up front which is getting into adobe premiere spending the money on a camera to make these vlogs If I hadn't you know if I was not able to do that in the beginning and if I was just scared None of the rest of Wisconsin would have opened up And I'm sure you know it would have in a sense where my mentor recommended me But I would not have the knowledge to do video. So that's what I'm getting at So because I started video in 2018 and dove deep like I just I literally just dove in like this ocean without any floaties on And I'm like I need to drown so that I can literally rise And actually do this. So that's what I did. I mean you can ask my wife I would spend hours editing. I would go from Like four in the morning. I would go film do work come back spend time with the family go film another vlog Come back at like 10 and then edit from like 10 30 to three four in the morning. I mean it was Brutal, but I just wanted to learn like I was pushing myself to know more about video because I know in the future Video is going to be the thing like everybody's raving about video And if you're a good creator with video and editing, dude, you can get tons of work So that's why I started it and because of that hard work and pushing myself and making it happen And mind you we were not in a good place financially Or no one a good place physically like as far as location in Minneapolis We had this rink-a-dink town home and it was just not that safe So it wasn't like oh, we were making really good money and I can just go do these things No, I was sacrificing time with my family Sacrificing time with my with my wife and kid like it's just it was not good But because of all that hard work all of that all that stuff that we went through It now has pushed us into a way better place. And so I don't know where like where you are or where how you're struggling Or what you want to do in life But the art of making it happen is in all of us We just have to find that inner like thing that drives us and make it happen It's it's very it's like it's in there. We all we all have it. I truly believe we all have it We just have to start which is why pegged like I have pegged another term I guess in my social media recently and that's keep on creating So in the midst of adversity in the midst of people saying dude, you're never going to do this Or why would you do that?  For that to happen you have to keep on creating I 100% fully believe this Let's say you want to start a business and you are working a nine to five. Okay You might think oh, I can't do this because I don't have enough time or I don't have my schedule doesn't allow it I would say you're wrong. I'm sure you can take three to four hours per day out of your Quote-unquote busy schedule with hanging out with friends and going out to bars and drinking Scratch all that stay home work on a business plan work on what you want to create And go from there if it's creating more content on your youtube channel on your instagram Whatever it is figure out a schedule for yourself and keep on creating keep making videos keep posting photography I keep you know grinding it out because all of that work Well, won't just go unnoticed if it's truly good work and you're good at what you do People will see that and you will get work. I promise you I I have lived the part. I'm living it right now I'm telling you that when I moved to Wisconsin to the land of 10,000 people Like my high school graduating class not really I have gotten More work like people have reached out to me about brand work. They have reached out about corporate work More so than I was in Minneapolis doing the actual vlogging and youtubeing It's weird, right? You would think that Minneapolis has all these opportunities and it does But it wasn't it wasn't until I actually started You know creating for myself and creating to create and I wasn't you know All my last video did so poorly It just it wasn't 4k.  You you have all your life to live And again, that's why I started all of this and now this podcast I should have done it three months ago, but I really wanted to plan this really well I really wanted to you know make this a john and q thing and not Oh, I have to do it because everybody's doing it. I gotta start a podcast No, I'm gonna make it me and make it personal and I hope you guys like what you know what we put out so Yeah, this is what this podcast is on it's making it happen And I hope that it inspires you in some way to make your own stuff happen If you're not seeing it come to life, how can you find ways to push stuff aside sacrifice some events sacrifice some of your time And make content, you know create that business start small Like you don't go all in head first like I did unless you can handle the work And you're like truly committed because the thing that got me to here was consistency It wasn't oh I was going hard for three weeks and then I just literally stopped for two and a half months If I would have done that again, I would not be here and I would not be the video person and photographer I am today I will not be like a fast editor in premiere if I was just going to stop Like I'm pretty fast on premiere. I can edit, you know a five minute video six minute video it within like two hours You're like, oh, that's that doesn't sound hard I mean we have a lot of content in that one video that you're making with lots of b-roll and like talking head It can go up to like four or five hours depending on how good you want to make it But like I'm pretty fast and I got really good at color correcting and actually framing up the shot You know from the gecko and so that's why that's how I can do all this stuff But if you can like dive deep like I did and actually commit to it Then you'll be totally fine, but you have to be consistent. That's what I've been learning so far and it's I mean it's been come it's true its Consistency is key and there was a lull in my youtube upload schedule I think like two and a half three weeks maybe and I'm like, no I gotta get back on it And now I'm putting up videos on the daily. This is video 23 Well, not this is a podcast, but it'll be a video But currently I'm on day 23 and I'm not gonna stop Like I've always wanted to do or had a goal of doing daily vlogging for a year That's a tough one And it's not like sparta is the most creative town ever and so I have to really Put on my creative hat and get those creative juices flowing. So wish me luck on that for sure Yeah, well, that's uh, that's what it's like 22 minutes into the podcast. Yeah, I like it Awesome, man. I should have started this months ago, but Yeah, I just wanted to make it myself and like I said, I hope this Brings you value. I hope you find inspiration in the upcoming episodes. So Uh, I would love for you to subscribe to this podcast subscribe to my channel Johnny Q on youtube and if you want to follow me on instagram, it's at Johnny Q with three underscores So Thanks so much for watching. Sorry. That's my youtube thing. Thanks so much for listening and I'll catch you next time Do I say like I'm a youtube thing. I say I'll catch you next time on the Johnny Q channel I should make I should probably make an outro Also come up with a tune, but I just want to get started and just do it So it's all right like my first video was garbage this podcast this first episode isn't garbage, but it'll get better All right, guys. Thanks so much for listening and I'll catch you next time on the Make it happen podcast All right We'll we'll go with something we'll I'll figure something out. All right. Thanks guys


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In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful, respected viewers, assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you. Hello and welcome to the 19th episode of the Treaties of Rights series. Today we will discuss the right of the prayer leader. Regarding this, Imam Sajjad Zain al-Abdina alaihi assalam has said, and the right of your prayer leader is that you should know that he has taken on the role of a mediator between you and God and appeared in the presence of your Lord on your behalf. And he speaks for you, but you do not speak for him. And he supplicates for you, but you do not supplicate for him. And he has besieged for you, and you do not besiege for him. And he has spared you the anxiety of standing before God the Almighty and the question of interrogation for your prayer. But you do not spare him that. Should he perform the prayer imperfectly, he is held responsible for that, not you. And if he makes a mistake during the prayer, you will not be his partner in it. There is no authority in this for him over you. Then he protected you through himself, and he protected your prayer through his prayer. Therefore, thank him for this, and there is no power or strength but in God. What Imam Sajjad al-Abdina al-Abdina al-Abdina al-Abdina alaihi assalam tells us here is that the people praying should know that the prayer leader is a mediator between them and the Lord. He is praying to Allah on their behalf. He asks on their behalf. He suffers the fear of being in the position of being interrogated for their sake. If there are any shortcomings in the prayers, the responsibility rests upon his shoulders. The people attending the prayer are not considered partners in this fault. The prayer leader has no authority over others. He is just the maintainer of others and their prayers at the threshold of God the Almighty. The discussion here is not centered on the prayer itself. Rather, it is about the rights of the leader of the prayers.  Now they all attend to God who is the source of all perfections. The prayer leader is guiding a caravan of hearts towards Allah. He expresses ultimate humbleness to God on their behalf. He unites the rich and the poor, the employer and the employee, the master and the slave, the black and the white, the informed and the uninformed together through saying the prayers. Ritual prayer contains in itself many beautiful and heartwarming lessons behind it. Its main idea is so universal and extraordinary. People from all walks of life unite under one Imam or one leader for Allah swt. The Almighty Allah has established certain forms of worship to be done in a group. He has set up a certain time and place to do them too. He has done so in order for the believers to achieve the blessings and effects of such social activities on their path to perfection. We can name a few of the effects of congregational prayers as follows. When everyone of the congregational prayers moves towards and performing the various acts of bowing down, prostrating and sitting down in harmony, the majesty of the Lord is manifested. Also when congregational prayers are performed, the might of the Muslims and their majesty and power is demonstrated. When the people follow the prayer leader and their emotions and in what they say in prayers, then they will learn to have order and to abide by the rules. Praying together as a group, several times each day the social ties and the sense of brotherhood between them is reinforced. Praying as a group also develops a sense of mutual trust that can be used when they are to witness about something or make a deal. Since the congregational prayers are always performed on time, they provide the best chance for one to approach God and seek his acceptance of prayers. When one part spates in the prayers, especially the congregational prayers, he abandons the materialistic life and is delved into the spiritual life. Once he starts the prayers, he leaves everything but God behind him and directs his full attention to Allah SWT. An important benefit of congregational prayers is that they are a good means of the development of mosques and places of worship. This includes both the physical and spiritual aspects of development. Another important benefit of congregational prayers is that the attendees get to know each other and their ties of friendship are strengthened. Finally, in the congregational prayers, all people of different classes and races get together and stand in one line. There is no difference between the rich and the poor, the black and the white, the master and the slave, the informed and the uninformed person. Congregational prayer is the best form of elimination of racism. The gap between the people of different classes or races is reduced to zero once they attend the prayers. Fadhul ibn Shaddan, quran authority of Ma'amur adha alaihi salam. Congregational prayers are decreed because true devotion, submission and servitude of Allah shall not be attained unless it is done in public. The public performance of such deeds is a clear testimony of the uniqueness of God for the people of the East and the West. It can be done in public so that even hypocrites and those who belittle the Muslims in private practically have to do what they have verbally confessed in public and have to make their devotion and submission clear to the public. This is done so that it becomes easily possible for the people to testify as to one another's being Muslim. In addition to these, another benefit of the congregational prayer is that it makes it possible to help others and to cooperate with one another. It becomes possible for the people to worship God. Through congregational prayers, a lot of the bad deeds and acts of disobedience to God that exalted and the high are forbidden. Let's go for a quick break. We'll be right back. In another tradition, we read Imam Sadaq peace and blessings be upon him, quoted on the authority of his noble father, who quoted on the authority of God's prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, his pure family, think well of one who performs all his five daily sessions of prayers. In congregations, as Muhammad, peace be upon him, has said, God has established congregational prayers as the means by which men can publicly recognize the servitude to God. And the people of the West and the East can become fully aware of this divine proof. The congregational prayer also fosters cooperation, helping each other in the prevention of wicked deeds. Abu Sayyid, quoted on the authority of the noble prophet of God, Muhammad, peace be upon him, after prayer, Gabriel descended with 70,000 angels and said, O Muhammad, your Lord sends greetings and grants you two gifts, which he has never donated to any of the prophets before you. The prophet asked, O Gabriel, what are these two gifts? Gabriel said, three units of prayer, and saying congregational prayers five times each day. The prophet asked Gabriel, what is the reward of congregational prayers for my nation? Gabriel said, whenever there are two people attending congregational prayer, each one shall be rewarded the reward of 150 prayers for each unit of congregation prayer. When there are three people, the reward will be of that 250 prayers. When there are four people on the prayer, then the reward will be that of 1,200 prayers. When there are five people on the prayer, the reward will be that of 1,300 prayers. When there are six people on the prayer, the reward will be of that 2,400 prayers. When there are seven people in the prayer, the reward will be that of 4,800 prayers. When there are eight people, the reward will be that of 9,600 prayers for each unit of prayer. When there are 10 people, the reward will be of that 19,000 prayers. When there are more than 10 people, the reward cannot be recorded. Even if all the water and all the seas and the heavens and the earth turns into ink, and the wood from all the trees turns into pens, and all the men, the jinns and the angels start to record, they cannot record the reward. O Muhammad, hearing the praises of the Lord that a believer hears in the congregational prayers is better than 70 pilgrimages and 1,000 non-mandatory pilgrimages for him. In another tradition, Zorara said, I asked Imam Sadaq peace and blessings be upon him. Will the congregational prayer be right with just two people? The Imam said, yes. The second man must stand on the right of the prayer leader. According to another tradition, Johani came to the Prophet and said, I live in the desert. After the call for the prayer, there are only my servants, my wife, and my children present there. I say the prayer with them. Is this considered to be a congregational prayer? The Prophet replied, yes. Then considering all the reward, why do the followers of Imam Ali, the commander of the faithful Amir al-Muminin peace be upon him, lose it all by not attending congregational prayers? Is this not a great loss for them indeed? From this, we can clearly understand the importance of congregational prayers. To conclude, we will mention what the late Hajj Mirza Maliki Tabrizi has said regarding congregational prayers. The main wisdom behind the decree on congregational prayers is the unity of the hearts of the believers in God's affair. There are many benefits to this unity, including the strengthening of Islam. In addition to this, congregational prayers are very effective in the perfection of the soul. It's strengthening the soul and trotting along the path towards God, and obtaining divine rewards. This is because God's mercy will encompass all of them if they are united in God's way, if it should be meant to descend upon any one of them. This is true even if not all of them deserve to receive God's mercy. The similitude of the unity of hearts is like that of the joining of narrow muddy streams of water. Once they join, they turn into a wide river that can cleanse everything on its way. This river will no longer become dirty from the least bit of added impurities. Thus, what is important is the unity of the hearts. If one succeeds into uniting congregational prayers with people whose hearts are united with God, then he can be hopeful to receive the reward what is promised in the traditions. However, the people who are attending the prayers are jealous of each other and hold a grudge against each other, then hoping to receive rewards is a far-reaching aspiration. It is not considered hope in God, rather it is fooling oneself. When a prayer leader purifies his soul, anyone who knows him shall love him. He will also be kind with the believers due to this bond of divine love, therefore their congregation will be a divine one. However, if the people who unite in prayer are really disunited in their hearts and are enemies of one another, are jealous of the God-given blessings that each other one has, then there will not be any illumination from this type of unity, especially if one side involved is the prayer leader himself. This is all because the major effect of any worship is due to the way it affects the heart and illuminates it. With this, we conclude this episode. Stay tuned for another episode on the treaties of rights. Thank you all for watching and may Allah hasten the reappearance of our beloved Imam Mahdi.


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Howdy how's it going? My name's Davy Chappie and I have Critical Role to think, in large part for me having a job right now. If it weren't for the immense popularity of Critical Role, along with other celebrities trying the game out, nerd culture as a whole going through a renaissance of mainstream popularity, Stranger Things creating hype for the game and 5e being far and away the most new player friendly edition of D&D that existed to date, D&D would never have reached the heights that it did and Hasbro might have decided that it was worth putting their greedy corporation mits on the franchise to turn everything into a rehash Hell, I've been approached by chads and heathers alike to teach them what all the loaded dice were about and it's eventually what influenced me to start up this whole YouTube channel, and we have all that to think in large part to this company of critters. So today I'm going to be talking about the newly released official book that covers the world of Critical Role, The Explorer's Guide to Wild Mount. I'm going to give my thoughts on the book, I'll talk about the three new subclasses presented within, and I'll give a brief overview of all the ways that the Critical Role team made this the best book ever. As always, keep in mind that a lot of this is just my opinion, so if you feel like it's not my turn to roll, feel free to play your games however you want. And real quick, I want to give a brief shout out to my patreons this month. Kale, Krista, Robert, Rhys, Rusty, Gear, Michael, Harkin, Lukas, Comer, Pale, Horseman, the 4th, Kale, Hefter, Zack, Bowl. Thank you so much for a pleasure to me, I'm Davy Chappie and I'm here to say, but with that out of the way, let's begin. So The Explorer's Guide to Wild Mount takes you through the main continent within the second campaign of the homebrew world that Critical Role takes place in and provides context and details for locations, myths, legends and patrons that the gang have run into during their two cripplingly long campaigns. It goes over the history of the continent of Wild Mount and reading it gives a sense of satisfaction to those who study it, whether you're a new washer of Critical Role that hears about locations that the cast are going to and you get giddy with excitement, or you're an avid fan that flips through the book to find all your favorite locations with all your favorite memories. And the back of the book even has a giant, tear away, blow up map of Wild Mount, just like how Eperon and Baldur's Gate had one, but this one is one-sided and way bigger and more detailed. I really appreciate that you can pick a location on the map, flip to its page, and then learn the population density, points of interest, and even get suggested story hooks to help push you towards adventuring in what would otherwise be a footnote of a town. It's a breath of fresh air for both fans and newcomers alike, but most importantly, unlike The Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, it isn't boring as hell to read through. Beyond the Gazetteer, The Explorer's Guide to Wild Mount goes over how each race is treated within the main civilizations of Wild Mount, and for some reason it inexplicably comes with each and every single race in the entire game.    It's like this book was tired of getting comments from fans saying, but what about my race that I like? Where does that fit in?  And you know what? I get that.  Unfortunately, it doesn't really bring any new races of its own to the table, so you'll just have to enjoy all the reprints. But it does add new subraces in the form of the Pallid Elf, a pale elf that, unlike most elves, has only existed as a species for about a century and has natural fey-like magic, the Lotus Den Halfling, a fey-touched Halfling with natural druid magic, the Dragon Blood Dragonborn, a variant subtype of the normal dragonborn that is much more in tune with its draconic ancestry by having a naturally powerful and charismatic presence, and also ACTUALLY having tails, and the Ravenite Dragonborn, a once again tail-nudered dragonborn sub-race with a strong physique and a penchant for punching things. Both of these Dragonborn have dark vision, and both of these races are moderately better than the base version, which is saying so little that it's a bit depressing. I also got curious and checked on the Orc, and yep, they got rid of the Intelligence Negative, so maybe Matt watches my videos? Or he listens to, like, literally everyone else who said the same thing. But he couldn't keep his mitts unedified forever, as in a surprising move, Matt added his own take on the Revenant called the Hollow One, which is less of a race on its own and more of a template that you just layer on top of a recently deceased character to make them unrecently deceased through the sheer power of not wanting to die. Other miscellaneous bits of the book include new magic items like the ever-famous Luxon Beacon and potions of possibility, along with dozens of other really cool magical items, including usable vestiges of divergence, evil arms of the betrayers, but unfortunately, no gauntlets of Pumat Sol, which is a crying shame. The book also comes with a sort of backstory generator called a Heroic Chronicle, giving players all the powers of not needing Xanathar's guide to everything anymore because Wildmount is the only book daddy you will ever need. Unlike Xanathar's backstory generator, however, the Heroic Chronicle doesn't have you roll for literally every facet of your character's life, such as your age, number of siblings, what each sibling does for a living, your mother's maiden name, the last four digits of your social, but instead, the HC only concerns itself with aspects of your backstory that are likely to make a direct impact on your game.  It's a neat little set of rollable tables that I can see myself using once or twice when I run out of ideas, but people who have no trouble making characters anyway aren't really going to have a lot of mileage here. But I think that this, paired with the backstory generator from Xanathars, will really be able to sculpt out a character for players who have a really hard time making stuff up. Finally, Wildemount comes with four, count them, four, different, fully scripted mini-adventures for your players to enjoy, taking you from the Menagerie Coast in the West to Hopperduke in Western Wynedere to the Biting North, and you get a nice ghostly adventure in Eastern Wynedere. Getting four different adventures in one book is crazy to think about, given that most world books barely even give one, and it shows how much dedication went into what I think is one of the best expansions of 5e to date, and no expansion would be complete without new archetypes, so the Explorers Guide to Wildemount comes packaged with three new subclasses for you to play, one for the Fighter and two for the Wizard, because Matt heard my pleas to stop making wizard subclasses and responded with What If I Do Anyway? All of these subclasses draw their power from Dunamis, a powerful force of existential power that behaves exactly like the weave from the Forgotten Realms, but where most spellcasters only scratch the surface of magic by manipulating the threads, Dunamancers push things further, splitting and collapsing Dunamis in every direction until they've created their own primal forces of magic. This grants them access to not only new subclasses, but also to over a dozen new spells created specifically and exclusively for practitioners of Dunamancy. These spells let Dunamancers harness both gravity powers and time powers, creating black holes, rifts in reality, and all sorts of time fuckery that make them the most dangerous spellcasters in all of existence. First up, the Echo Knight uses Dunamancy to summon forth a shadowy vestige of itself from an alternate timeline, and it fights along with this Echo, pulling more and more energy from other possible realities where that fighter chose to fight in a slightly different way.  As a subclass, you now have the power to be twice the fighter you were before, kind of literally in fact. Playing this subclass doesn't change the way that you should approach being a fighter, it just means that instead of having to choose where you put yourself on the battlefield, you now get to make that choice twice and cover more ground. The only disadvantage is that your Echo will go down after literally anything hits it, but since you can just bring a new one out as a bonus action whenever you want, that's not really the biggest concern. You weren't using that bonus action anyway. Next up is my all-time favorite wizard archetype, the Cronergy Wizard, better known as the Time Wizard.  As a hero of time, you can reverse time in key moments to get a different result, you get a higher initiative because you read ahead in the campaign book so you know when all the combat encounters will happen, you can freeze people in time, freeze spells and time beads for use later, and you can pull together all of your mental forward-tude and exhaust yourself to completely decide the outcome of certain events. The thing that impresses me the most about this subclass is that it isn't a broken mess of overpowered time bullshit, it's a really well balanced school of magic that is perfect for those wizards who want to turn back the gears of fate and keep their party supported without forcing the DM to endure all of the BS that the Divination Wizard has. Finally, the last subclass is the Graviturgy Wizard, a mage with the power to control the top and bottom of any relationship, and if you don't understand the gravity of that power, then trust me, it's pretty heavy. As a Graviturgist, you can change the density of objects to make them either lighter or heavier, you can slide creatures around the battlefield when you hit them with a spell, you can speed up strikes to make them hit harder, slow people down to soften their fall, and you can emit a powerful wave of CHONK energy that'll crush your enemies with the mighty thunder thighs of your potent magic. The Graviturgy Wizard is a good choice for anybody looking to manipulate the speed of things, but honestly, I feel like the subclass features are a little lacking, especially since it only gets one feature at second level instead of the usual two. That being said, the Graviturgist is still worth picking up for its exclusive gravity spells, and with any luck, you'll still find plenty of enjoyment tricking ogres into thinking that they're really fat. Buuuut that'll about do it, I hope you enjoyed this video, leave a like, comment, subscribe, check out my social media in the description below, and maybe support me on Patreon so that I can take a vacation and catch up with like the 50 episodes of Critical Role that I'm behind on. But yeah, is it Thursday yet?


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