What's up everybody? Jay is here for jaspyscasebrakes.com 2022 Panini select football just sold out. This is a six-box hobby half-case break Picker team number 10 remember guys all-card ship and of course XRCs will go to To what the checklist shows and of course the mystery autographs will be randomized until they're announced by the Panini or checklist I Don't think at all man like nothing nothing just literally just walk around and deal with some people and then and then just like I said do meetings Man, I think that's literally what's gonna be That's what I was told so I just think it's also a hassle man. It's you know It's it's cool to go though. I think it's obviously good to brand out and stuff like that But I think it just got it was just getting so expensive for all these years And you know, maybe we'll take it off here and then we'll go to the next one or vice versa Having to take everything ship everything out from over there. It's It is it is kind of tiring grueling. I'm sure we'll still have some representation over there But to my knowledge, I don't think we'll have a booth For anything But I'm sure if you guys are still going I'm sure you can still meet up with Nick and stuff like that there He'll definitely still be buying though. I think he'll just be walking. I Am gonna miss some of that Chicago pizza there though Always like going to Geno's East Portillo's I don't have to worry about that anymore. There's a portillo's over here in Buena Park next to Knott's Bear Farm So I don't miss portillo's as much anymore But I guess I could I could have dry ice a pizza from Chicago if I really wanted to We did that before one year. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah, maybe I'll do that this year To make it feel like I'm there also to guys, you know, we're giving you guys a hundred thousand dollars in wax So I think that's also where the budget went We're giving it back to the customers. So You guys are bummed out. We're not gonna be there just just know that The wax party was Was for you guys Maybe that that's what replaced the national trip Try on David's price nice jumbo patch autograph That is for the 49ers going to Shomatic We got a Jerry Judy Bluefield level Derek Henry to 99. We do have a XRC our first one Bonito for the Denver Broncos Broncos is John to 25 and then Tyler Higbee to 49 autograph Trey Hendrickson to 149 Eddie Jackson. Let's go check on this XRC XRC prism redemption 511 wide receiver to Wide receiver to that's nice Who's wide receiver to guys anybody know the top of their head Let me pull the checklist right now Seattle, let's take a look Well, Seattle that Seattle had defense to I think for sure they they drafted that That Devon witherspoon, but wide receiver to a 511 is Quinton Johnson. Oh, that's right. That's that big receiver That big receiver from a TCU I believe So obviously Jackson Smith in jigba was number one probably and then Quinton Johnson is a charger So it's gonna go LAC Don't worry guys. We still have another two because we didn't get any in the first half Yeah, the checklist is up on the website there guys. Oh, excuse me Water have something stuck Also guys, I want to say I think we have another zebra here. So I guess that some cases do have two zebras I want to say I thought I seen one in a very nice Kenny pig. There we go That is a Steelers John Jackson 99 out of 149 They say we see no pig and no big quarterbacks in the first half. So what do we have here? Derwin James junior Zebra for the chargers. What a break so far Ed With the chargers nice Archer box. I know right V-less Jones, Jr. I Don't want 99 the Sean Watson and a 149 Alec Pierce Out of 75 and then out of 75 their Derek Carr For the Redis Raiders that is David Belcher. Nice Cam Juergens For my Eagles little lineman mojo there 10 out of 25 and Whoo, oh Just a patch of a Brock Purdy For the 49ers and again guys, I said no quarterbacks were hit in the first half of anything. So We're gonna start getting on this half guys five out of ten Very nice here right there That is for the 49ers and Shawn Matic They go Shawn Skull, I know what's his name you guys drafted. Didn't you guys draft the Addison Steve? That dude was good, man. But the question is I Don't think I don't think your receivers have ever been a problem though Steve. It's more mainly been Obviously prime-time Kurt Cousins, right? Little bit of the defense this past year Although Kirk Cousins is very capable of getting the ball proven. It's a pretty good quarterback, but Just seems like Doesn't shine the brightest though under the big stages Would this be like potentially Kurt's last year Right. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying Like I mean receivers you guys always had them right for the last few years, but it's just more like defense, Kurt Center just not getting it done, but And Kurt Cousins has been there for a while now though, right? I think we play you guys early in the season again, don't we Steve? Like it's like an early matchup again Yeah, I mean again, I Like if you look at Kirk Cousins stats like he's probably borderline Hall of Fame, honestly I mean just stats-wise obviously doesn't have many wins under his belt in the sense of like playoff wins or anything like that But you know like he he can ball. It's just it's unfortunate that he hasn't had more success in the playoffs Or down the stretch, you know and obviously you guys can you guys could Mock me all you want, but I mean Kirk Cousins got the stats You know like man you throwing a Super Bowl under that under that those stats You know he's in probably I don't know who else is available, but I'd assume that you either would Sign a big quarterback trade for one or draft if it got really bad, but I Mean I just feel like you guys would probably just end up resigning him if that's the case Yeah, but I think the reason why they're gonna get rid of Alexander They're gonna get rid of Delvin Cook as Alexander Matheson can do the same thing, right? Jordan Davis big boy Yeah, I feel bad man, I hope Trayline still gets a shot somewhere. I mean it's unfortunate because of his injury Kenneth Walker out of 249 Brady and cooks to 75. Oh Sorry, there's extra C right there. Oh There should be Steve. I just got to go double check that there is but there should be Pashall and then a Rashad Bateman. There's like a print line going down right there but Nothing really wrong with the car besides that and that is at 18 out of 75 Ravens, which is Aaron and we got Christian McCaffrey 12 out of 25 the Keem Hicks To 49 Christian Watson is a nice Brian Robinson jr. Neal Traylon Burks for the Titans. Yeah, Sam Howe. There we go. Nice purple patch autograph Brittany and that is 38 out of 49 Trevor Lawrence to 149 Romeo doves to 75 Green Bay Packers. That's 13 out of 75 Ed with that one Daxton Hill. That's one of those super short prints this year Starrcade Damian Pierce that is nice there Steve Lop with the Houston Texans. Well, how about you put Houston one? Now for you. There you go. That's a nice one right there. And we got a Chris Olavi To 75 with a Charles Haley for the Cowboys Super Bowl autographs And that is a Cowboys David Duffy And a Sam Howe rookie silver as well Yeah You don't have a problem actually All right guys, well, we're seeing a lot more nicer stuff here now. Yeah, that's just a base XRC. I Might have shown it already, but it's 506 and it's QB number six. Holy shnikes number six. Who's that? So I know it's Bryce young CJ Shrout Anthony Richardson will love us and then hand-on hooker, but I don't remember what number six is Let's take a look That is Jake For the Saints you're all insane to it. What did he come from? Oh He's this guy. Ah, he's this guy. This is the guy This is the guy that we're saying like look at his photo shoots. Like is he a football player or is he a model? This photo right here is funny as hell This is his rookie photos here right here check this out That's hilarious. Look at This guy actually might sell just for that reason the women probably probably are big fans of him That's so funny And yeah, he's the one that came from Was that Washington that went to Fresno State? That's cool. I Went to a Fresno State football camp one year That's cool. All right So, yeah, that's gonna be New Orleans Saints QB number six So QB number six Saints is Jason waters. I would don't worry guys. We still have another Xrc hiding somewhere and I was shocked. I haven't seen much. I haven't seen no greens yet at all No one-on-ones. I mean, I know every case is different man Here and then over there on Instagram. I was pulling like two to three greens a case two to three golds I pulled two one-on-ones yesterday in a case I'm pulling a lot of nice stuff out of selects. I don't know. I still feel like there's some nice stuff hiding these last two boxes But as you can see this for second half has been a lot better than the first half that party gold patch the starcade Sam how our PA I already got the two Xrc's So definitely a lot better But still could be much better as well Green at some point in here. That would be pretty massive. What if it's a Bailey zappy Steve, huh? Get right back into the game if it was the baby zappy, I know I know Definitely a much better Much better value, but all right, so we have one final Xrc right there guys looks It's just gonna be a base again Justin Jefferson nice one there JJ there Douglas with the Vikings tonight nine and then Corey Davis for the Jets Adam cupperman with an Aiden Hutchinson that looks really nice 71 out of 99 line's going to Jason Nice Desmond Ritter there for the Falcons John Jackson with that one again. We're getting a lot more QB color and just relics and autos now Kind of predicted it just because we didn't hit any in the first half. There's a mere white tonight, and I little prime selections RPA Raiders David with that one Kerr Warner Number to 249 for the Cardinals and then cam Jordan little relic there Saints 42 out of 75 Saints is going to Jason Evan Neil 149 519 Defense number two so that's gonna be Devon Weatherspoon the cornerback for Seattle Yep, yes it is So Seattle Seahawks on the board with that one Douglas. All right, unfortunately, we did get a quarterback It just wasn't a higher high number one quarterback, but Still some nice ones there guys just have one more box left here. Here we go Let's finish it off strong here Dalvin cook out of 99 Mack Jones now Kenneth Walker 15 out of 25 nice tie-dye patch autograph Sweet Seahawks having a good break more Kenneth Walker as well. All right, let's end it off here guys. Good luck sauce Garner tonight and I There's a relic Karen Williams. Hi guys here. We go last of the hits right here, man It's gonna be a Superbowl autograph, which is Otis Anderson of the Giants and out of 149 James Conner So unfortunately no greens in this case.  Wow But we still did get some nice hits though Definitely was hoping for a little bit more though But definitely a much better second half here. All right, no greens refund everybody money back All righty guys. Well, like I said, it's still a nice half case here Hutchinson color. I got the sauce relic Kenneth Walker RPA tie-dye Ritter color I Got the alley see what if you were to the starcade one of the short print Sam Howell Big boy Jordan Davis.  I wanted more but I mean, that's just me being ready for you guys so appreciate it guys now let's switch scenes and And let's do the wax party giveaway spot so again, and we're gonna copy and paste the names and roll and It's gonna be six two and a four six times customer number one gets it after six times one two three four five six six times six six John Jackson, there you go man. Congratulations. Just racking them up man racking them up So there you go man. Congratulations another wax party invite for you And again number 10 is in the books. I'm gonna go double check that there's more cases I'm pretty sure there is and if there is I'll post them some more right now. Jasper's case breaks calm


After all the posts on social media and party with friends, you arrive home and it finally hits you. You are 30. It sure comes a lot quicker than you expected. But here you are now and you can't go back. You go into the mirror and stay hard at yourself and begin to wonder how it's going to be in your 30s. You're expectant that it will be great yet a part of you knows that it has its troubles. Well, in this video I will show you 30 things that will change for worse in your 30s. 1. Responsibilities and commitments will increase The late 20s are a pivotal time in the life of every individual. It is a period where you have to start warming up to face the boatload of personal and financial commitments that will hit you in your 30s. In this period of your life, you become responsible for not just yourself but also others, unlike your early 20s when you are other people's responsibilities. 2. Fear will drastically multiply There are lots of worries in this decade. The fear of meeting up to your plenty expectations, having a family, being able to take care of your parents to mention of you are some of the fears you will encounter. You find yourself being overly careful because you believe that any mistake you make now will stay irredeemable. 3. You will get pessimistic According to news studies, 1 in 6 persons experiences an anxiety condition at some point in their life, usually the third decade. In your 30s, you will feel so pressured and tend to worry about not accomplishing all you plan to do in your 20s. You may even start to doubt if you can still achieve your life's dreams. 4. You might start counting past achievements For a while, nothing will seem to be happening in your life and the only thing you'll find yourself doing is thinking about your past glory. To calm your nerves, you may begin to start looking at the things you have achieved in the past. However, counting past achievement will most likely make you feel terrible rather than good. 5. Realization that time waits for no one Facebook will continually remind you of your memories and even as you smile to some, your eyes will be teary to some because it will dawn on you how fast time flies. You will suddenly realize how many relationships have broken with time. 6. Workplace issues If you are not happy in your workplace, you'll have more problems with your colleagues than even your boss, especially if he is younger. You may also end up changing jobs very often. 7. Inpatience will lurk in Standing in a queue, tolerating douchebags, ignoring comments, become like work. As you grow old, you'll get less patient with people, things and life in general. 8. Junk food become leased on your grocery list Often in your 30s, you'll come back home with plenty of fruits, vegetables and fibers. Instead of going out to get junk, you'll prefer to either prepare your meals or eat solid foods in restaurants. 9. You get confused about getting married You possibly have had one or two of your friends divorced, so the whole marriage thing scares you. You know you want to have a family but you don't want to be part of the league of divorces. 10.  11. Dress sense becomes odd As you grow old, your taste of clothing will get weird. You will wear clothes that are comfortable rather than stylish because unlike your 20s, when you dress to impress, fashion to you now is about looking good and presentable. You may even see some of your old clothes and wonder if you bought those clothes. 12.  Your eating is generally controlled by your mood, workload and other external factors. 13. You will feel old In most cases when asked your age you will find yourself lying about it, especially telling people that you are in your early 30s when you are in your mid or late 30s. 14. Loud music will suddenly begin to annoy you In your 30s you are most likely to question yourself about how it was that you enjoyed loud music and how you got all the energy to shout along loudly and do those crazy kinds of stuff you did in your 20s. 15. You will take any excuse to leave a club or party The idea of spending many hours in the bar with strobe lights, drinks and loud music will become so appalling that you will look for any reason to excuse yourself. You will place more value on your sleep and your time. 16. Hangovers will turn worse In your 30s you would lose your ability to hold liquor. If you used to take in many bottles in your 20s you would have to reduce them in your 30s. And if you eventually get drunk the hangover is usually terrible. 17. Your back hurts When you sit down for too long or lie down for too long or when you stand for too long or when you move at all in any direction and for any reason you will feel intense pain at your back and your body won't respond to things as it did before. 18. Focus on credit card spending becomes a necessity You will pay more attention to your credit card spending. You'd rather stay at home or go out with cash than use your card. If you have a girlfriend who loves to go shopping and stuff be prepared for a break up. 19. You won't have time for friends You may have your pals live in the same neighborhood as you yet see them just once or twice in a week. In your 30s you almost do not have time for family, talk less with friends. Also you probably have been betrayed by a few friends until you feel that friendship is not worth the stress. 20.  If you were not married in your 30s you would feel a need to cater and feel responsible for one but you might feel confused if you are to get a pet or a child since you're probably scared of getting married. 21. Social media fun irritates you These social media challenges you used to do in your 20s suddenly begin to annoy you and you don't want to do them. When you see other young people doing them you find yourself asking what they enjoy in it. 22. Trending songs are unfamiliar to you You suddenly do not follow up with the latest songs and countdowns basically because you do not even understand what they are singing. Studies show that at age 30 we stopped listening to new songs and instead reminisce about the glory days of old. 23. Please wonder how your parents did it You are bewildered at how your parents were able to build a career, have kids and do other stuff. You gain new respect for your parents because you realize how much they have tried. 24. Technology becomes confusing Right now you may think that you can't fall out of love with apps, gadgets, chats and all. You will in your 30s. And the generation behind starts to have new ways to have fun. You might even have to get them to help you do stuff as your older ones now do. 25. You lose interest in fashion Latest fashion trends, paparazzi, clothes, shoes and all will not freak you so much as they did when you were in your 20s. Generally you will feel that there is more to life than fashion. 26. Get annoyed by younger folks The older you become, the higher your demand for respect from more younger people. To you, they have not experienced life so when they talk about certain things or act in specific ways, you feel irritated.  27. You are less interested in those fun activities Skydive and skating and all those will become like a burden to you in your 30s. You are likely to have a change in hobbies and you will prefer writing, knitting and other stuff that will not require much physical energy. 28. You are not interested in looking at the mirror Looking at the mirror either seems like a delay to you or reminds you that you are getting old because of the wrinkles you will see on your face. 29. Sleep in habits Although our body is naturally poised to sleep well in the 30s, demands of work and family often make it difficult. You may fall asleep more quickly than in your 20s but you will experience restlessness and may look for ways to get deep sleep from meditation, bedtime routine and the likes. 30. You might consider going back to your parents Research has shown that one in five Australian households are commonly multi-generational. That is, one more adult offspring living with their parents. You may shove away the thought of moving back because of how society views it. However, it is reasonable to feel that way and if stepping back is what you need to survive, it is not out of place to do that. While these years may feel more pressurized than your 20s, they will unexpectedly also bring personal growth to your life. When you notice these worst changes, be sure always to use them as tools.


Okay, you clicked this video, so that means you want to know if Unreal Engine really is free to use. The short answer is yes. The longer answer is that like many things in life, it's not as straightforward as a simple yes or no answer. So if you're here for the full answer, hi, I'm Shane, this is Gamedev Academy and in this video we'll be discussing under what conditions Unreal Engine is free to use, and also when you'll be expected to pay. First things first, to get a full and accurate answer, we need to go straight to the source, Epic Games. On their website it says that Unreal Engine is free to use for creating linear content like films and for custom and internal projects. It's also free in many cases for game development, a 5% royalty only kicks in if and when your title earns over 1 million US dollars. Let's break that down a little then. The first thing it says is that Unreal Engine is free to use for linear content, and then they give the example of films, but this could also apply to TV, commercials, web video and other similar formats. So that means that if you're Jon Favreau and you want to use Unreal Engine to create virtual sets for the Mandalorian, then it's free to use. No closers or strings attached, no royalties to be paid down the line, they give you full access to the software and you just don't have to pay. They also say that Unreal Engine is free for internal projects. What that means is that let's say you work for a company with lots of remote workers and you don't want to use Zoom for your meetings and don't really want the Zuckerberg tracking every aspect of your life in their metaverse, so you decide to create your own virtual meeting platform using Unreal Engine. You build the solution in-house and it's only used by your company, you're not selling it to anyone else as a solution so it can be classified as an internal project. Well, if that's the case then Unreal Engine is completely free to use. Congratulations, you've just saved yourself hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars that you don't have to spend building your own engine or platform. What about custom projects? These are projects that don't fit neatly into other categories like games or films. For example, Leeds College of Music used augmented reality to teach their students about a mixing desk. This is the type of custom project that Unreal Engine is free to use for, so go ahead and get creative. What about games though? Games are still the most popular use case for Unreal Engine, surely then it's not free to use Unreal Engine to make games. Well, it is free to use if you're developing games. And know what you're thinking? Tim Sweeney has lost his mind. How on earth is Epic Games going to make any money if they don't charge for anything? Well, first of all they make plenty of money selling skins and back-bling to pre-teens on Fortnite, but they do actually charge game developers for using Unreal Engine. Wait, didn't you just say it was free for game development? All right, fictional commenter call you jazz. Yes, they do charge a 5% royalty for game development, but this only kicks in if your title ever earns over 1 million US dollars. So for me, Unreal Engine is 100% free for game development because there's no way I'm ever making over a meal from any game I create. But let's say I did make a million dollars, I'm feeling pretty happy with myself and I'm more than happy to give Epic 5% for providing me with the technology that my success has been built on. As an added bonus, your first million still remains royalty free and you'll only have to pay the 5% on any profits made over 1 million dollars. So in conclusion then, Unreal Engine is free to use for linear content, internal projects, and custom projects. For game development, there's a 5% royalty that only kicks in if your title earns over 1 million US dollars. I hope this video has answered any questions you had about the freeness of Unreal Engine. If you have any more though, let me know in the comments. Also, why do you think Epic makes Unreal Engine free in most cases? Are they just really cool or is it part of some sinister overarching business plan? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this and don't forget to like this video and subscribe to Game Dev Academy for more great content and check out the video that's linked on screen for more on Unreal Engine. Thanks as always to my patrons, you guys are doing God's work, keep it up, and I'll see you all in the next video.


This will be a quick one, because it's not very complicated. Biomutant is not a good video game, and that sucks because I desperately wanted it to be a good video game, but it's not a good video game. In fact, it's pretty much a bad video game. Now, that's not to say there's nothing at all good about it, but it is to say there's a lot that's downright bad about it, a bunch that's incredibly boring and some that is inexplicably annoying. And when you balance that against the very few things that are good, well, it ends up being a big old ball of disappointment. Looking forward to it. In early 2020, this year looked to be a huge one for games. Then stuff happened, and people who work in offices started having to work from home, and next thing you knew, small games like Returnal were suddenly huge releases, and Biomutant somehow became a title I was really looking forward to. I will say that Biomutant is a good example about how awesome publishers are at making good trailers, because in the brief bits of gameplay we saw, Biomutant looked like a winner. The game had been through a hugely difficult development and had seen years of delays, which is usually a bad sign, but everything I heard about Biomutant made me want to love it. Developed by a tiny team, Biomutant had to look of a labor of love. Unfortunately, while Biomutant is a fairly large game from a small team, it fails to have even one thing that it does really well. Let's start with the thing that any great action game needs to get right. Combat Biomutant is a scattered game that has the player in a pretty annoying amount of dialogue, but for the most part the game is broken into four sections. Exploration, dialogue, progression, and combat. Only one of these parts ends up being good, and it's not the part that's most important in an action game.  It has long animations, a parry system, and a stamina management system, which are the things that make Souls-like games work. It also has magic abilities and combos and large amounts of enemies, which is what makes something like Devil May Cry hack and slash games work. The problem is, the game is neither of these things. Souls-like games require enemies with clear attack patterns and precise timing to make the combat feel fair and fun. Hack and slash games require a bunch of combo possibilities and tons of enemies to make up for the power of the player. Biomutant's biggest issues are the result of totally failing to figure out what makes each genre work, and instead it ends up just mashing a bunch of systems together haphazardly. Let me just list the problems here. Biomutant's combat feels weightless and lifeless. Sound design and player animations are weak. There's no active lock-on targeting, so it's finicky and annoying to hit things. Even the biggest weapons have barely any reach, add to this that enemies have annoying levels of health, and what you're left with is neither the fluidity and excitement of a hack and slash, or the careful engagements of a Souls-like. Instead, what you have is a button masher. If enemy animations aren't clear enough to let you know when they're going to attack, and you can't prevent them from attacking by locking them down, you're left with running in circles dodging, hitting an enemy once or twice until they power through your attack, and then they hit you back. The reason this is so disappointing is because it's not a mystery how to make combat work. For as much shit as I give Assassin's Creed these days for having only average combat, those games at least get the very basics of enemy design right. Enemies attack infrequently and have obvious tells. You attack until they're about to attack, and then you dodge or block and repeat. It's too simple and shallow, but it works because they at least got the basics correct. The mechanics and skills match the enemy design. Biomutant is so half-hazardly designed I have trouble understanding what happened. There's enough here to have easily made an effective system. In the best action games like Souls, The Surge, or Devil May Cry, animations and sounds do a lot to sell the combat. It's those things that take a good combat system and elevate it to pure bliss. But a game's combat can succeed without those things. Hellpoint was a Souls-like I had planned on doing a video on back in the day because it was a valiant effort that ultimately ends up being mediocre due to its bad animations and map design. But I finished that game and played a bit of NG+, because the combat still basically worked. The game knew what elements makes a Souls-like work, and they executed on those things with a tiny crowdsourced budget. Biomutant fails to realize even basic video game combat principles. Enemy attacks aren't telegraphed, but player attacks are slow. Player attacks are slow, but encounters have a dozen or more enemies at a time. There's a combo system, but there's only one or two, which means combat boils down to endlessly mashing one button over and over until things die.  I mean, the combat, like, works, it's not broken, it's just bad. The new AC games have very average combat that makes the game feel pretty shallow. Biomutant isn't that. Biomutant has a bad combat system, so if the combat isn't fun, nearly half of your playtime is spent interacting with a system that isn't enjoyable at all. There's another game I recently played that has a combat system that isn't fun. Mass Effect. The Legendary Edition remaster cleans some things up, but it's basically still the original Mass Effect, and the game's combat is pretty bad. It's bad for a cover shooter, it's bad even for an RPG. Even when you're using the biotic powers that make up the entirety of the fun that you can get in Mass Effect's combat, it is still, by and large, pretty awful. But Mass Effect is remembered as a great game because the other pillars of the design are all good to great. Mass Effect's greatness is in its world's building, its dialogue, and its characters. Replaying it convinced me it's not quite as awesome as it's remembered to be, but it is indeed quite good.  Kinda. Dialogue. Mass Effect relies heavily on super high quality voice acting, and a game like Fallout relies on tons of interesting dialogue and quests. Biomutant obviously could not afford dozens of quality voice actors, so one would think you'd just do the text. Instead, Biomutant does gibberish baby talk that then turns into text at the bottom. Even that would have been fine, although not ideal. But for some reason I can't even possibly begin to figure out the game also has a narrator. So here's how this plays out. You click on a muppet, the muppet speaks in total gibberish for 30 seconds, then you read the subtitles, then the narrator reads exactly what you just finished reading. What is the purpose of this? Now the narrator isn't like a bad voice actor, it's just totally unnecessary. I mean watch, watch this. The last part of the game is exploration and progression, and there at least Biomutant does have something to offer. Listen, the game is about muppet mutants in the ruins of the human world, and that's pretty rad. The map really is quite beautiful and the ruins are fun to find and explore. Just wondering the map is what the game does best. In fact the map is so great that it could have been the foundation for a really excellent game. The problem is, while the map is a prerequisite, it's what you do while exploring that matters most. I am as guilty as anyone of talking shit about open world collectathon stuff, but the truth is, that kind of game can absolutely work. Horizon Zero Dawn is a masterpiece, and Ghost of Tsushima does it as well as any other game. The reason those games work is because progression is exciting and ties directly back into the other systems. So exploration drives progression, which makes combat more fun, which makes exploration more fun. Plus, the combat in those games is great. Biomutant has a really cool crafting system and an impressive amount of skills to unlock through exploration. But the fact is, the combat is so poor that there's no incentive to really drive you on exploring the map other than just to look at it. The game really only has the map itself to push you forward. So even as the progression, crafting, and map are objectively very cool systems, the combat and story simply aren't worth engaging with, wrapping up. I told you this would be short. I think this is probably the shortest video ever, but there's just not that much to say. I so badly wanted to love this game.  And those Muppets are so cool. And the map really is great. When we got looks at this game over the years, it seems like it's going to be something different, but unfortunately it's not different at all. It's a collection of systems that other games do better. And it's a game with combat that simply is not good enough. And a story that is bad.  And all the time and love and effort that went into creating the crafting and progression and these beautiful locations was directed to more important and crucial systems. What it boils down to is this. No matter how awesome your map or how beautiful and detailed your environments or how cute your Muppets are, a game must get its combat and dialogue right. If combat and dialogue is going to be most of the game. Biomutant simply does not get those things right. In fact, it gets them catastrophically wrong. And for 60 bucks, we have to expect more from games. I wish this developer the best of luck because I really do love the Muppets and just the visual design and presentation. But this isn't a game that's worth buying. It's honestly not a game that's even worth playing on Game Pass. It's not worth your time.  Alright, thanks for coming. I'll see you next time. Bye.


Dance, arts, ballet, it's for everybody. I wholeheartedly believe that, and I think there's a reason, you know, that you can find arts and dance in every single culture, you know, no matter how far you go back in history. He brings our mission to life in a different way. It always lived, but he is that mission. I mean, he came in middle school to a performance here at the Cougar. The next thing we knew was taking six days to wake up, he's part of our lives. You know, shattered all my misconceptions and preconceived notions about it. The further I delved into the world of ballet, the more I realized I wasn't very good at it. That gnawed at my pride immediately, and so I delved deeper and worked harder and put more time and more effort into it. I always describe it like wisteria. I didn't even know, but it was growing around me, wrapping me up, and I was done for. I fell in love with it. I watched him evolve as a person, not only a dancer, but as a person. I did a lot of international ballet competitions, which are basically like Olympics for ballet. Meddled, and many of them, many of them being the first African American to medal sometimes the first American period. Those competitions created a lot of connections or allowed me to get more notoriety in my career and led to me being able to travel all over the world, being invited to different theaters and companies. And I feel like he made the timing right. I know it was early to come back and become artistic director, but he did it for Redenco and he did it for us. He did it for the, he loves the city. I was around and I would come into the studio and give myself class every once in a while. I got to see the dancers day-to-day a little bit and it wasn't great. You know, there was a lot of uncertainty, you know, not having a director. Ultimately, that's what led me to accept interim director. My initial thought was, you know, all right, I'll get these dancers through the season because, you know, they didn't sign up for this. I ended up getting attached to working with the dancers and really invested. It is always about what is best for the dancer. It's always about more this, more this, that helps them, more performance, more this. It's always about someone else. It is never about him. Enhances the art scene here and he looks at things with a new eye. Before the ballet starts, he comes out on the stage, he greets the audience, he explains to them what the ballet is about, he encourages them to participate. I've never seen this before. To me, Brooklyn Mack stands for what's now, what's new and what's next. It's our gift and we know this and it's so wonderful to know what you have when you have it. I also recognize that, you know, the city, this community, this state deserves a high quality ballet company that can put on, you know, great works that rival national companies. The audience just needs to be introduced to it and broadened and welcomed and know that they're welcome.


If you're not paying attention as an automotive business professional, it's time for you to really start paying attention to what's happening. Number one, the window of opportunity that you've had, I think that's closing shortly, right? Would you guys agree? The window of opportunity we had is going away. We had a really good run. You made some money. Some of you are two years into this industry. You don't know the automotive space. I'm going to make you aware of a couple things. The automotive industry prior was a race to the bottom. If you didn't know how a high school of closing negotiations and building rapport with your clients and a mindset to go out there and do the work, it was a race to the bottom, minus rebates, minus hold back, selling cars, putting things on the road. That's how you got your acquisition, or that's how you got your cars ordered. That's what it was for you. Now, it's a complete 180 shift. A lot of new faces on here. I know quite a few of you have only sold in this new market. We say the market's up. It's just the new standard, right? To have a stack some cash, man. Any outside expenditures, outside of training, get rid of it. Hey, guys, what's up? It's Andy. Do me a favor real quick. Whatever you're doing, stop right now. Grab a pen. Grab a piece of paper. Write down my cell phone number. 918-210-254.<PHONE_NUMBER>. Whatever you're struggling with, whatever you need help with. You want to go to the next level. You want to go to the next gear. You want to make more money. I don't care what it is. You need more leads. Shoot me a text. Let me know what I can help you with. Let's get back to the video. Don't quit. Don't give up, right? Keep pushing. Keep pushing. Sean Pollard told me it's not a wall I'm running into. It's a domino. If you keep running into the domino, and you keep punching the domino, the domino will fall. And then all the other dominoes behind you start falling. But you got to put into work, and you got to believe. A lot of people, you wonder why you're getting the same objections over and over. I got to think about it. Oh, I got to talk to my wife. Guys, it's because you do the same thing. The way that you buy is probably the way that you sell.  Who are you going to be? What kind of winning energy you got? Are you able to stay positive when things go crazy? Well, imagine staying positive in some scenarios that come up. But do you have the ability to stay positive when things aren't going your way? When you lose your best deal? When your wife's fighting with you? When things aren't going the right way? Well, that's going to be your true test of becoming a great person. That's going to be your true test of becoming a great salesperson. When things are falling apart, can you readjust? Can you self-correct? Andy always says the person that can self-correct will always make the most money. Some of you guys, you might have had an easy life. So this may not apply to you. I'm talking to the underdogs.  I want to become somebody. But listen, how do I get there? Well, I'll tell you how you get there. It's the who, man. It's taking action and being around people and consciously paying attention to who can change your life. Now listen, I want you to write this down. Your ability to persuade, your ability to influence, that will be the number one way that you make your dreams come true. I'm going to be very direct. Here's why. Love it or like it. I want you to get results. You think a situation is special to you and it's permanent. It is not. The only thing that's permanent in this life, write this down. The only thing that is permanent in this life is your soul. So when you believe a problem is permanent or pervasive, it becomes self-fulfilling. Self-fulfilling means it is what it is. Don't ever say that again, write that down. It is what it is. Don't ever say that. It is what you make. Some of us are playing so small in our lives because we have big money. You say, it's my problem, I can't fix this, man. My finances are all jacked up and my world's going to an end and it's dude, that's not, that's being pervasive. It's just one thing. That one thing doesn't tie to everything. That one thing is not everything. One, stop eating out. Let's just start there. Two, stop drinking for 90 days and watch how much money you save. If you just did those two things, watch how many thousands of dollars you would save in 90 days. Well, you made it till the end of the video.  I've already got your next training video lined up and ready to go. Click on it before you do that. Like the video, subscribe, makes you set your notifications. Every single day I drop out free F-R-E-E, free training videos for you. Click on the next video and by the way, if you loved it, share it with a friend. Do that for me. Thank you so much. Let's kill it.


So, before the Democratic Party primary, support for Medicare for All was starting to really rise. There were some polls that showed that it surpassed 70%. And it got to a point where we actually started to see a bipartisan consensus emerge. Because a Reuters-Ipsos poll found that a slim majority of Republicans supported Medicare for All. Now, fast forward to the 2019 Democratic Party primary, and it has been attacked relentlessly by not just Republicans, but corporate Democrats who are going out of their way to spread lies about Medicare for All at the behest of the industry. And the reason why I say at the behest of the industry is because you see people like Pete Buttigieg, for example, who has kind of become the chief opponent to Medicare for All. He previously supported it. Like if you go back to February of this year, you can see him advocating and making the case for Medicare for All. But then he started to take money from the health insurance industry. And then lo and behold, now he's changing his tune. And now he's arguing against it, as is Joe Biden, as is Amy Klobuchar. But the problem with their arguments against Medicare for All is that they're not making good faith arguments against Medicare for All. They are lying about Medicare for All. And this is having a substantial impact on public support for Medicare for All. So to give you an example, this is basically what we're dealing with when it comes to attacks on Medicare for All. Candidate Pete Buttigieg has unveiled his plan to remake the U.S. health care system. Buttigieg wants to offer every American coverage under the federal Medicare program, but doesn't want to force anyone to give up their private health insurance plans. Everyone is eligible. Even if you currently get your insurance through your employer at work, you'd still be able to buy into this public option if you wanted. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren believe that we have to force ourselves into Medicare for All, where private insurance is abolished. There are 160 million Americans who get their insurance from their employer. So union workers are a little skeptical because they see that as a loss of a benefit that they fought hard to obtain in the workplace. He's trying to focus on choice, not infringing on people's freedom to make that decision voluntarily. You now have an increasing number of Democratic presidential candidates who are signing up for Medicare if you want it. Mayor Pete said Medicare for All who wanted it. That's a much better formulation. Working towards a universal health care system, but it doesn't wipe out private insurance. So that is now one of three ads from just one presidential contender on the left supposedly in the Democratic Party primary who's lying about Medicare for All. He literally quoted someone who says Medicare for All quote, infringes on people's freedom. That is a bold-faced lie. Because what would Medicare for All actually accomplish? Well, it would give people more freedom because you can see any doctor you want to, networks would be gone. And guess what? It's free at the point of service. So if you don't have any money to your name, you can still go see a doctor. No copays, no deductibles, no monthly premiums, free at the point of service. So by saying it infringes on freedom, that is a lie that has manifested from within the industry that this shill is now repeating. So these are the types of disingenuous attacks that we see on Medicare for All that we've been dealing with. And to be fair, it's not just Pete. It's also Biden. It's also Klobuchar. It's John Delaney. But Mayor Pete has essentially been the face of the anti-Medicare for All movement from within the Democratic Party. Now the reason why I'm talking about these attacks on Medicare for All is because they're actually having an effect. They're working. They're actually successfully driving down support for Medicare for All. And they're doing it quickly. Now simultaneously, as they lie about Medicare for All and drive down support for Medicare for All, support for a public option is actually increasing. So they're winning. So if you look at this poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, support for Medicare for All was at an all-time high of 59% in March of 2018 and hovered around 56%, reaching a high of 57%. But as the primary advanced and voters, you know, saw Democrats fearmonger and lie about Medicare for All pretty brazenly, well, they successfully managed to drive down support for Medicare for All because it has since dropped to 51%. An opposition to Medicare for All rose to 47%. Now when you juxtapose that poll with this one, support for a public option has sharply increased since around the time the Democratic debates started to take place from 65% to 73%. That's an eight-point jump. So it goes to show you that these industry talking points, they work, they're effective. And you know, when Republicans attack Medicare for All, that's one thing, but to hear Democrats attack it, that actually legitimizes the right-wing talking points because people trust Democrats more with health care than they do Republicans. So to hear them say something like Medicare for All infringes on your freedom, that actually resonates with people, unfortunately. Now I know what you're thinking. This is just the overall voting base, Democratic Party primary voters, they still support Medicare for All, right? Well, yes, they do overwhelmingly so, thankfully, but even though 71% of Democrats overall still support Medicare for All, that's actually down 10 points overall since January of this year. So the takeaway is that all of the lies that are being told about Medicare for All, all of the fear mongering, it's working, not just among the general electorate, but among Democratic Party primary voters. They are successfully driving down support for Medicare for All and driving up support for a public option. And let me just say this, a public option is an impediment to Medicare for All. I'm not going to say it's a zero-sum game that you can't have one without the other, but a public option is a catch-22, and it puts up a barrier to getting Medicare for All won because if we get that, then we're not going to be talking about health care reform again for what, another decade, because they're going to say, we already did a public option, isn't that good enough? And they're going to move on to other issues that they view are more pressing. And on top of that, hypothetically speaking, let's say that we get a public option. So you're still not decommodifying health care because the issue with health care in America is that there's this for-profit motive, but if you keep the profit motive in place and you just add a public option, well, you're still disproportionately having a health care system that's based on the market, which means that if you can't afford a public option, you get denied health care.  And on top of that, these health insurance companies, what they're going to do is market cheaper plans to younger people, to healthy people, and then everyone who's sick will be pushed off onto the public plan, and then it will be overburdened and underfunded as a result. And then once it collapses, what's going to happen? Then Republicans and corporate Democrats are going to look at us and point and say, aha, I told you so. I told you that government-run health care doesn't work and you didn't believe me, but now look. And then the cause, the fight for Medicare for All will be that much more difficult when they point to that failure for the public option. So you've got to understand, now is the time to sound the alarm.  We have to get loud. Any time we see Pete Buttigieg on Twitter lie about Medicare for All, we need to ratio that tweet. Any time we see an ad like this ran by someone like Joe Biden, we need to dislike it and we need to share the word with people, because this absolutely is so frustrating to see. Like for the last couple of years, we've been doing everything in our power to raise awareness about Medicare for All, elevate the salience of health care. We've been making calls to all of our elected officials, but now because a couple of sellouts want to get elected because they're taking money from the industry, well, they're driving down what you worked hard to accomplish. Don't let this stand. Don't let Pete Buttigieg or Joe Biden or Amy Klobuchar or any other shill have their way. We worked really, really hard to build up public support for Medicare for All and educate people about what's at stake. And now that could be squandered based on an election where you have so many bad faith actors trying to save the private industry and keep health care a commodity when it shouldn't be a commodity. Video games are a commodity. Clothing is a commodity. Health care, that's a human right. So don't let them lie. Call them out and call out to anyone who uses these same talking points. Now is the time we have to educate people because this cannot stand and this is incredibly worrying to me.


What's up guys and welcome back to the Johnnieki channel. Thanks for watching. Let's try to get 150 likes on this video. You guys are usually pretty awesome about liking my videos but I want to see 150 plus on this video. I don't know if you noticed but I'm in the art studio so we're going to be doing some spin art today. A lot of people have been commenting and DMing me that my art videos is very calming and relaxing.  It's just like it brings me pure joy and I just always think that's truly amazing. I'm glad that I can make content that can benefit you guys so let's get started into this video, sit back and relax and enjoy the show. Yo the 16x20, look at that. That's so good, right here we go. Check it out. Oh baby, it's like the shotting gun up in there. Let's freaking go, look at that. Look at this, look at this piece. That is fan-friggin-tastic. Here we go, peeps we got a 12x12, let's get it. Here's our dark blue. I'm going to put some purple right in there. Put some more blue just like that, a little dark blue in there, just like that. Some black, just like that.  More rose gold up in here, we'll spin it. Here we go, here we go. Ready, ready, look at this piece. Yep, there it is, 12x12. Up is a 12x12, let's get right into it. We're going to start with this fuchsia pink on this beautiful 10, or sorry 12x12, just like this. We're going to add some magenta, more of the squirts. We want to add some pink here, just like this. And then finally we're going to add, this is like a more of a darker pink, just like this. Finally we're going to add just a little bit of black, just for offsetting, some more of this fuchsia, some more of this pink, some more magenta, maybe just a tad bit more black. And finally let it swoosh and droop and drip as usual like this. This is going to look pretty sick. Here we go. All pinks 12x12, yeet. All right, bring it back down. Look at that. It's a beautiful piece. I love it. All right peeps, another 12x12, all greens going out to a customer. Her name is Ashley. Let's get it. All right, here we go. I'm going to start off with, start off with this green, this Christmas green. All right peeps, what's up? We got a 12x12 going out to Ashley. She's linked down below, make sure to go follow her.  So we're going to make it right now. Oh, that's looking so good already. So good. Oh, I love them squirts. Oh, baby. Yes. Here we go. Some of this green here. Oh, that's a good green right there. More of this mint green. Let's get more of this here. Let's get some of this Christmas green up in here. Okay. This is going to be sick.  All right, some more of this. As always, let it droop and drip. That's what we do. Oh, baby. Oh, baby. All right guys, we let it droop and drip, drip. Now let's get it. Here we go. Oh, baby. Here we go. Look at that piece, guys. Love it. Reminds me of, well, since I have kids, we watch PJ Masks. Reminds me of Gekko.


Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Think Tech Hawaii studios. Andrew Lanning, the security guy here for another exciting episode of Security Matters Hawaii. And today, you know, we're fresh off of GSX InfraGuard, got one of the industry heavy weights in the house and a couple of heavy weight players. John Boer is with me. Charles Duncan is here, live in the studio, gentlemen. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Taking the time to come out here. Thank you, Andrew. You're not surfing, right? I know I drug you off the beach. No, I wish. I'm sure you are. Thank you for that. Yeah.  John, you can go first. Just whatever you want to share. You know, you never know who's watching, so be careful. Okay. Sounds good. So I'm John Boer. I'm a regional director for Linnell. I cover Arizona, Nevada, and Hawaii. And I've been with Linnell for about 12 years. I've been in the industry for just a little over 30 years. I started in 1987. So I don't want to make myself look old, but I'm getting old. It's a great industry. I love the technology and I love the fact that it is constantly evolving, constantly improving and constantly making people property and assets more safe and secure every day. Charles. Well, good. Thanks, John. Thanks, John. Thanks for having me. No worries, brother. Welcome. Welcome to the studio. My role is director of strategic accounts. And what that really means is that, like John, I've been doing this for 30 plus years. I've seen a lot of big, big customers out there that look for assistance. They look to push the envelope and they look for people to help them to accomplish kind of what's new in security and how do we do that with the parts of pieces we have today. So that's really what I do. I work with what I now call some of the titanium customers, some of the biggest fortune 50 on the planet that are moving super, super fast. So I think, you know, for me as I attend these kinds of shows and things, what I really try to figure out is what they try to figure out is how do we do more with what we have?  And then when we do leverage and invest that dollar, how do we move to use the right equipment and to move it forward? So always a big balancing act. A lot of these guys have hundreds of millions of dollars worth of security. So we can't just rip it all out, but we got to make it better, safer, faster and easier to use, especially with something like this that everybody has. Sure. Thank you. I'm excited to be here. I saw Bill Gates gave away $35 billion last year, and he still made money. So there's some resources out there for people with resources. Anyway, I love your point on technology, and John, you seem to develop. I've seen develop. I think between us, we might be at about 100 years of technology in this industry. So I'm not the youngest guy in the house for sure. Let's talk about that a little bit. I think on the forefront, you pulled up your phone. Let's talk about credentialing and the way we've moved.  Yet, I think 80-some percent of the legacy market is still using that credential. Correct, yeah. But we've got a lot more to offer today. John, what are you seeing for adoption in the marketplace today for the other types of technology you can use to get in and out of the door? Yeah, so there's really two tracks. There's the traditional credential, plastic credential, but a secure credential. A lot of the conversation we're having with our legacy or long-time customers is getting that upgraded to a secure credential. We all also have the ability now to encrypt that signal from the credential, the reader, to the reader controller, all the way back to the database, and now to the point where we can encrypt the data at rest in the controllers. So the cybersecurity aspect of it has really had an impact on our industry where three, four, five years ago, that wasn't even a consideration. The second track is really the mobile credential, and that is, you know, is there an app for it, right? Everything in technology has to have an app. You know, some states are testing driver's license as a mobile credential. And so we've implemented a very proven technology in our Blue Diamond mobile credentials. It's our own intellectual property. It's developed and has been around for about a dozen years through a couple of our other business units, and we rolled it out about three years ago. And as it has matured, and we've done a lot of voice-of-the-customer feedback on how do you use it, how would you use it, or what's the easiest way for you to use it. And it, you know, is evolved into now where you do not have to interact with your phone.  There are other applications where they do require interaction with the phone, but choices, right? I mean, we give people the choice to use it the way that it best works for their application. Yeah, and in the enterprise, I mean, so here's guys with tens of thousands, hundred thousand dollars, I'm not sure how big, I know you scale globally. So, you know, that consideration for, to get this open supervised device protocol implemented, which is our end-in encryption from the reader back into the hardware, which we didn't have a few years ago, enterprise has got to look to change that hardware out, which is a big lift, right? Expensive. I know that they're engaged in getting that done globally, I mean, especially the financial sector, the regulated industries. What do you see now to your big eyes? What's their appetite for making access control really secure? So that's a good question, and I think as John was talking about the mobile credential, the world that I live in is much higher up, as you say. If you think about the CEOs today, their most important is safety for their employees, most important, but really dovetailing with that is productivity. So as people now work home, abroad, anywhere throughout the world, it's really having a mobile lifestyle and having a way to, you know, access what I need to do, whether it's the desktop, the phone, and have everything kind of vectoring to where I am. So what's interesting is John was talking about mobile credentials. I know a lot of people have some knowledge of our industry, but if we zoom it all the way up, we came here from the mainland, we got on an airplane, we used a mobile credential, we looked at Avis, they told us what lot to go to. So, you know, everybody talks about millennials and what they're doing, but I think we're all millennials when we look at the ease of use. We start looking at the phone, and so what we're starting to see is the mobile credential kind of fits into the ecosystem. So let's do the life of a CEO. So this gentleman is inviting somebody to his firm, somebody from the outside, maybe a CTO or something. Well, somebody has to go in and schedule a visit. There's a visitor management solution that we can take care of employees and contractors, but we need to know visitors are on site, should something happen, so we want to control that. So this visitor is going to get a mobile credential sent to him. He looks on his email, he says, hey, you're coming to Andrew's show at ten o'clock today, by the way, download this credential, you'll get in the parking structure and you'll get in the front door. We'll also know that you've arrived. So one way of that ecosystem is that CTO shows up, he has a credential on his phone, he walks up, he reads the credential, it notifies the CEO that he's there or the assistant, and that's one part of the equation. So now we all approach, we do the introductions and we want to walk through the turnstiles. As John said, we can structure it now where the phone is a badge, it's a very secure credential, but he can just go and walk through the turnstiles and we're not worried about having a badge on his property or using a badge to get in and not only can we manage that visitor, but now we can start to manage the people that use that whole facility, right? Sure. So that goes from visitor management to the employees. Now, here's the other part of that. So I'm an employee, I work in a building similar to this. It may be a floor that my company owns, but the building management owns the company, right? So once again, if we think about what this could do, we can have a wallet that has multiple credentials securely in that wallet. And so now I'm once again, going back to my phone, which I look at every 10 to 15 seconds a day, but I can use that to get into the parking structure. I can use that through this credential to open that parking structure. So what we're really talking about now is the frictionless, millennial way of just making it easy to move around. And the next step is now we're starting to deal with the we works of the world. A lot of these companies are saying, we have such a mobile workforce that we want to employ we works. What is we works? One moment it could be Amazon, one moment it could be General Motors, one moment it could be FedEx, one moment it could be Microsoft. That reader has to understand all of this. So we're starting to look at, as we've talked before, developing some corporate or industry standards so that that reader can read multiple credentials and multiple technologies from different companies. So yeah, we're looking at ease of use and really trying to take it to the next step. But I think the common equation is going to be the problem. I saw the PLA demo last year where we passed a biometric credential and a car credential across your from a NEL platform into a competitor platform into another platform. And you know, from a different type of biometric reader onto a different type of biometric and that all went via active directory integration. Very nice stuff, very spelt, which is the enterprise is looking for that out of a mobile workforce. Really cool stuff. We've got an amazing opportunity to watch the industry change, right? Because I know we all came from hardware integration into now the software base world is going to fix everything. We had a cyber hiccup there. We really didn't get in front of cyber. I think access controls come around and corrected a lot of that. We do have legacy out there that's got to be fixed. And those guys will have to come forward with some spend. There's no real way around that, you know what I mean? What do you think is next on that horizon for credential? Because people sure don't like to be interfered with. We've all done a brand new implementation and no one wants to carry their card. No one's going to be tracked and all those privacy concerns.  You know, I know they banned some facial recognition in some areas for our industry. What do you think the argument is going to be for privacy as we go forward and the we work guy can run around with my NEL credential over the world and everybody knows me and can track me and let me in where I'm supposed to go. What do you think the questions are going to come? You know, what's going to happen? I think one of the key elements in the successful implementation of this kind of technology is how do you manage that information? So I'm managing thousands of card holders across thousands or tens of thousands of doors. And the traditional way it's always been done is if I need access to a different door, let's say I'm working on a project in a different department or I'm changing from first shift to second shift as an employee, I would send an email to my boss. Hopefully my boss would send it to the security people. Hopefully the security people would make the change in time for when I have to show up at three o'clock. Hopefully you can actually work. And my card won't set the door. So what that workflow does is it creates ad hoc workflow. Little bottleneck there. And basically everything gets funneled to the security department to make those changes. Which they don't have time because they're responding to security events. They need more people. So some of the things that we've been working on as a software company to really improve the user experience are workflow tools. So for example, we introduced a new version of a product called Access Manager. It used to be called Air Access Manager. It's an app now. It's an app now. And with Access Manager I can say Andrew as the person in charge of Hawaii, I'm going to give you access to all of the people, all of the doors, all of the access levels in Hawaii. You can move those around however you want to. You don't have to call security. You don't have to bog our team down to make these daily door-to-door changes. However we're not going to let you create new doors, create new card holders, create new time zones or access levels. We're going to give you a tool that's going to allow you to very effectively work within the system you have. Now we have a companion or sister program to that called Card Holders Self Service. This is where as an employee I can log on to the URL on my corporate internet site and I can look up my name and it'll tell me all the doors that I have access to and I can make my request right through this Card Holders Self Service portal. I also can change my own PIN if I'm doing two-factor authentication with the card and the PIN. Very nice. I can manage my own PIN codes. I don't have to send it to security and say, hey, can you, I know, my PIN was compromised, I need a new one. Yeah, yeah. So that's a lot of the focus that we have right now in terms of really developing an enterprise platform, a system that can work efficiently, doesn't require you to hire more people to manage it, it pushes authority down to the people that should have the authority to make those decisions and overall provides a much better user experience. It's awesome. We're talking about making life easier in access control here and Linnell's really sort of leading the industry with a lot of these developments. If you've ever been frustrated standing at a reader because you can't get in and thought the reader was broke but the problem was you and your access level, you know what I'm talking about. We're gonna take a break. We're gonna pay some bills and we'll be right back with John Bohr and Charles Duncan. See you in a minute. Thanks to our ThinkTech underwriters and grand tours, the Atherton Family Foundation, Carol Mun Lee and the Friends of ThinkTech, the Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education, Collateral Analytics, the Cook Foundation, Dwayne Kurisu, the Hawaii Community Foundation, the Hawaii Council of Associations of Abarbon Owners, Hawaii Energy, the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum, Hawaiian Electric Company, Integrated Security Technologies, Galen Ho of BAE Systems, Kamehameha Schools, MW Group, the Shidler Family Foundation, the Sydney Stern Memorial Trust, Olo Foundation, Yuriko J. Sugimura. Thanks so much to you all. Hey, welcome back to Security Matters Hawaii. We've got in the studio lab with Charles Duncan and John Bohr from Manel S2. We've been drilling into credentials, been drilling into usage, we've been drilling into security. We talked a little bit about the sort of the spectrum of what's happening out there in the industry. We talked about what the enterprise is swallowing, what they're not swallowing, what they want us to do next.  How long do you think it's gonna take for industry to redeploy these millions of dollars of hardened solutions? I know the DOD's moving quickly, I work a lot in that space. What about the other, where do you see this appetite in the other maybe regulated industries or in your market space? Yeah, and if I could address that. So again, let's zoom back up. So, Bob Hyre, to properly address that, it's such a broad perspective, right? Yeah. What I see is I see kind of the three levels of what I would call maturation of a company and security. And I'm kind of seeing that in the industry as well. To understand what I'm saying is the first level is you commonize everything. You get one standard, you in essence put a boundary around your assets and when the CEO says, are we secure today? You can say, out of 186 doors, four of them are down, we have a service call, we've got three cameras down, the rest of it, like a military briefing, we're up and we're good, sir. 100% gotcha. So that's first. Second is, then you have to figure out how do I use this system as a productivity tool? So as we're talking about, maybe this phone does other things, maybe I can go to the cafeteria, maybe I can access other sites. Maybe when I'm working from home, there's some sort of I'm on the VPN, so it's compared to see if I'm logging in some other IT security things. That's level two, and then what I call level three is really where individuals start thinking outside the box. It's innovation, it's what can we do? It was what I used, let's empower the CEO to meet people with high technology, sending that credential through the visitor management, using a high security credential to access doors and different things. So that's that level three, and that's where I think it takes kind of level one and level two to get there. And the reason I bring that up is as I see companies go through this maturation, kind of this three cycle, this is I think where the industry is. We've commonized a lot of things. We now have very large companies. I mean, some of, we talked, I have a customer that has over 100,000 portals. Wow. So that's entry points. Wow. And if they didn't have a standard, there's no way construction-wise they could manage it. They're growing phenomenally. So we've met kind of one and two, but three is, okay, so now what do we do different with that portal? What if we do something like this? What if we use a credential and it's a high-secure credential? Our mobile credential is a rolling key with 128 encryption. So every time you use it, it changes. So it says, Andrew, I'm talking to you on 1171716. Next time I talk to you, it'll be on 1121215. So very secure. So we know the credential is secure.  Right. But now when I go through the door, it's also looking at, okay, so if I'm accessing the door, because a lot of companies are gonna go through transition, there's gonna be cards, there's gonna be other credentials, high-security, low-security. Sure. And I'm using my credential to go through that door and I do some soft facial recognition. If it's a high-security area, I know that's Andrew. If it's not, I'm gonna ask Andrew, what's his mother's maiden name?  And a lot of people look at it and they say, okay, you brought up the fact that, you know, facial recognition. Okay, what if I could figure out a way to capture your face, your gait, and some personal biometrics and store it in a 56K, like a one-paragraph email, with no discernible information of somebody who were to extract that, use that as soft confirmation to you. That template, sure. Which we know, these are templates. I think the public doesn't know that, but we do. And so I think as we start going through portals and doing things, we can start to address some of the cyber by hardening the devices and then using devices in a benign way to do checks. So I walk through, another phone is detected, another Bluetooth is detected, and it's not something that's recognized. Maybe somebody just walked in the door behind me. Sure. So there's a lot of things I think we're starting to get through on a benign way. And by hardening the edges and doing things, I think it's starting to make sense to begin to spend the money to what I call taking care of the people, making it more productive. And then through doing that, then you start upgrading boards and different things. As you can imagine, this company with 100,000 portals, one board could control 32 portals. So those boards are a couple thousand dollars. So why am I replacing this? Because I'm also hardening the edge. So that's one way of getting there, but I think we've just begun. As you and I have talked, I think the industry really needs to sit down, raise their hand, take responsibility, and say, we have a problem. Yeah, talk privacy. We need to get standing. So John, you've talked with a lot of the dealers out there in the industry in the Western region, I believe. What's their appetite for what Charles is talking about? Are they getting out there? Is everybody so busy hanging wire and hardware?  Or what's your feeling about the maturation of our dealers, our dealer network out there? Yeah, that's a great question. And I see the whole spectrum. So we work with integrators that have complete IT department. So they do network design, they do the build out, structured wiring, end to end. So in those instances, we're working very closely with the IT folks, with the security folks. That's the ideal situation. I think so. Because then you're getting ahead of it at the beginning, right? You're getting ahead of it at the beginning. But we do have other, what I will call more of an old school where they're a security integrator. And they are now investing in people and resources that have the skill sets to talk to the IT people, to understand the requirements on the IT side of things. And so we're all getting there. It's obviously, we like everybody to get there at the same pace, but that's not realistic. I think part of the challenge for our industry is finding good people. And to me, I see it whether I'm in Minneapolis, Phoenix, or Honolulu. If I could find five good people, I'd hire them on the spot. So I actually have an integrator in Las Vegas who created an apprentice program. They do IT, they do AV, and they do access and video. And they bring a tech in, or a young kid out of school. Doesn't necessarily have to have a degree in anything, but he has the aptitude and the desire to learn. And they have their own certification program to allow these people to test up into a higher pay grade, test up into a better role rather than start off pulling wire. A couple years later, they're a system programmer. A couple years later, they're a project manager, right? So those models work well. But ultimately, we try to get the message out there to our integrators that it is vitally important if you've got customers on older versions of the Lonell-Ongard platform, that they really need to get them upgraded to the current versions. Because we fundamentally change, rewrote the Ongard application into a more modern programming language. It is, from a user experience, user interface, it's much more modernized. It's much more like a Windows 10 iOS type of view than the old school kind of Windows XP kind of work, right? And a lot of our customers are kind of on the mindset, hey, if it's not broke, don't fix it. But they don't realize the benefits they're getting by doing the upgrade, which with a software support plan doesn't even cost them anything for the software. So that's a lot of what we're seeing and the focus right now that Charles and I have, Charles is not as much, because he's working with customers that tend to keep their systems on a version of a version. They're pulling the rest of the industry with them. But I'm working with school districts that are running Ongard 6.4 or some older version. And we go in and talk to them about the benefits and what they gain by upgrading both in cybersecurity, usability, scalability, web clients and mobile clients and those kinds of things that weren't available on those older versions of Ongard. So there's a lot of moving parts to it. And it's, in my opinion, a lot of it is us going out and evangelizing to the integrators. These are the things where we really need to focus for customer retention, customer satisfaction, as well as the ability to allow them to get into some of these new capabilities that aren't backwards compatible with the older software version. That's true. And so we're fortunate enough to have another out here every quarter of the last 20 years in Air's Akron Cobb not seeing any other vendors doing that for this community in Hawaii. And we're literally on an island. So we do need that sort of support. So I want to thank you for that. We've got about two minutes left. If you guys want to throw in a final comment, piece of advice for the marketplace out there. A challenge, whatever you feel like. I mean, with my closing comments, we talk a lot about technology. This is all money. We know that you have budgets. It's hard to get money. A lot of people see security as a cost, not no profit centers. What I say to people is, take the time to at least stop. We like to do what we've been doing. We like to do it over and over and over again, but it's good to stop and ask the question. I'm coming along to maybe maintenance levels where I have to replace things. If I'm doing something new, if I'm growing, if I'm spending dollars, just ask yourself the question, am I investing this dollar properly? Five to eight years ago, you probably did, but it's as easy as a phone call and it's as easy as having somebody come in, sit down and say, I have this card. People call it credentials. Is it secure? Is it not secure? What could I do to add to my system? So when you're investing that dollar, make sure that you're investing it in the future. And getting a couple of dams back maybe or something. It's not just a hardware spin. John, your thoughts? Well, I would agree with 100% of everything Charles said. Additionally, I think that the security industry, working with security professionals, has not been as aggressive in driving technology. As we could be or we should be. And if you compare our industry with other IP video, IP intercom, servers, everything is in VM now. We need to actively go out and promote that. And when you go to a customer and you say, hey, we really recommend you upgrade it. And they say, well, I got to spend the money on this stuff. I've had it in here for 15 years. It works great. And I look at it and I say, what other technology do you have in this building that's 15 years old? And so when you put it in the context of, yeah, it works. It ain't broke. Don't fix it. But put it in the context of, what are you missing out on? What capabilities are you missing out on? And things that can make your life easier, more secure, easier for your employees, and contractors, vendors, everybody that's associated with needing to get in and out of the building. Awesome. Use access control to fix your ecosystem, to make it safer, protect people, to protect assets, figure out how to make it better for you. Hello, everybody. Thanks for joining us today. We'll see you soon. Take care.


So how many weeks do you need to study for step one? In this video, I'm going to break down step by step. If I was a new med student, exactly how I would plan my whole dedicated prep. Let's get into it. All right, guys. Welcome to another video in the MD journey or the TMJ show. If you're listening to it on the podcast, my name is Luxion, internal medicine resident, making videos just like this to help people just like you succeed on their medical journey with less stress. Today I want to talk about a topic that's really famous on this channel, the podcast's blog, and that is step one related questions.  And I want to answer question really, how long should you be studying? And this answer will vary depending on who you ask as well as who you are. And we'll talk about a few of those things in this video before we get started. Make sure you show your support for this video by hitting that like button. It really helps the channel and the community grow or growing at a much faster rate than I've expected. So appreciate your support. And if you haven't subscribed already, we're putting out two videos just like this on a weekly basis. So go ahead and subscribe as well as hit that notification bell to know when videos go live on Wednesdays and Sundays. But let's get into today's video about how you should study for step one and specifically how many weeks you need, how much time you need. Now, I will practice by saying that this is my opinion, but you're watching. So here it is. And I would recommend that you spend about six to eight weeks studying for step one. This is dedicated. So this doesn't include things that you're doing with your classes. You know, all of that is great to build a foundation, but specifically where you're just sitting down and saying, I'm doing nothing else or very little else except studying for step one. Now, most institutions in the United States at least give you about five to six weeks. It was like vacation time, but not really vacation time to go ahead and prep for step one without any course obligations or any rotations. And that's pretty simple. That's what I had. And I took about five weeks to study for my step one. My recommendation for the six to eight weeks really comes down to how long it realistically should take you to get through some of the key resources and potentially get through them twice to understand both the concepts as well as make some mistakes and not have to make them on test day. That's the ultimate goal. So the main resource that all of us use to study for step one is you will for step one, a question bank that has about 2400 questions, at least the making of this video, it may go up and may go down depending on questions they add as well as take away.  If you imagine doing 80 of them or 80 total questions, it usually will take you 30 days to get through one set of all 2400 questions. So if you plan on doing it twice, which I recommend you do at least twice, if not one and a half, the half being just doing all your missed questions the second time around that comes to about 60 days or two months. That's basically why I recommend doing about two months of six to eight week dedicated prep, but you can get away with making it shorter by doing a little bit more you will during maybe a month before you start your dedicated to just kind of get the question things started or starting doing a little bit more questions towards maybe a week two or three when you have done some of the more time intensive resources like first aid, Patoma, sketchy things that require you to watch a lot of videos may take a lot of your time earlier and your dedicated once you finish them, you can then spend that time you were doing the videos instead do more question blocks. This is kind of how I approach my studying. Like I said, I studied for about five weeks during my dedicated to prep for step one and during my week three, four or five, I really ramped up my questions of doing anywhere from three to four question blocks a day and just focusing on the reviews and mistakes that I made. So if you're trying to decide how long you should be studying for step one, the first question you should ask is how long would it realistically take me to get through some of the key resources? So count for your 2400 questions. I want you to pick how many questions you can comfortably feel like you can get through in a day, you know, and also count for time that it takes you to review.  You know, find your strengths and weaknesses and then ask yourself what other resources do you plan on using? But try to get an idea of how many resources of your realistic want to use and how long they'll take you to do.  It doesn't have to be as long. These are things you need to start considering. And if you're somebody who hates watching videos, then maybe your dedicated prep can be shorter because you can get through these questions even quicker. And the last few things I want you to consider is where do you plan on doing some of your practice exams? So the NVME, the creators of the USMLE Step One exam for least sample exams you can take. And the idea is you want to take about one practice exam each week of your dedicated and maybe your last week, week and a half you want to take an extra one to get a little bit more practice doing real Step One like questions. So you want to account for those days doing nothing else but those practice exams. So that may give you a day where you lose from doing your world and you want to account for them as well. And the last thing you should consider on how long your Step One studying should be is one, how your performance has been thus far. You know if you're struggling in your original classes, maybe you need to expand and start studying for Step One a little bit earlier to give yourself the time to rebuild that foundation and then get into the part where you're really raising your score into the 230s, 240s and ideally 250s, 260s. In addition to understanding how you've done, ask yourself, how do you do a test? If you're a poor test taker, if anxiety takes over for you, if that really makes you struggle and underperform, then again maybe you need more time or an optimal amount of time where you can get through the resources without stress at the same time not doing it over too long of a time where again you still get stressed out.  You just wanna make sure where you get the best Step One score as possible to not have somebody looked other way when really they have no reason to just because the name behind your name is not an MD or the school that you come from is not considered a top tier. Those things shouldn't play a role in where you know the residency, but unfortunately they do.  So if you need to study longer because you fall in those categories, then I recommend maybe expanding that into a two and a half month or three months.  So what you need to start considering is how can you start doing some of those initial resources with your classes? Can you start watching sketchy videos or pat down the videos? Or maybe you wanna do a 40 question question block of your world every other day to just kind of get ahead as well as get exposure. But those guys are all the things I want you to consider when it comes to how long you should be studying for step one. I know there's a lot there and really there's no one right answer. Six to eight weeks is about average. Again, you can see I study a little bit less because I just wanted to get it over with. But you may need to study a little bit longer just to account for your personal circumstances. So that's it for this step one video guys. If you guys want more help on your step one exam then check out the playlist that we have basically some of the most popular videos on this channel are regarding step one, I understand. So hopefully you guys enjoy them. And if you want a little bit more help you wanna understand some of my key concepts that I found to be useful when I was studying for step one, we do have a free 30 minute kind of tutorial masterclass session where I kind of walk you through my favorite lessons and discoveries that I made when I was studying for step one. I really think we'll help you out as well. And I'll be linked down below. You guys can access absolutely free. That's basically it for this video guys. Hopefully you enjoyed it. Make sure before you leave that you go ahead and support this video and community by tapping that like button as well as subscribing to the video and hitting that notification bell to be notified when new videos are coming at you every Wednesday and every Sunday each week. And also I appreciate all of you guys that do make it to the end. Drop your comments down below with encouraging comments as well as questions. I really appreciate the interaction of love and making these videos for you. So hopefully you guys can experience that and feel that on the other end of the camera. That's basically it for today. I'm gonna stop that one like I always do. Thank you guys so much for joining me on my journey. I'll see you guys later on yours. Take care. Peace.