from crazy people that are not from New England, and all those people from New England. Like it starts like this, it's beautifully attended like all of a sudden, and like this time we're here, and you're like, wow, how many more people live here? And you come back in January and you realize why. So, you know, like thinking about today, just in general, like these ideas of like the weather. And it was like, it's a perfect segue into the story that I've found, and some of you will be familiar when I get to the end of this story, that happened around 1914 in a very similar part of, in a certain time of the year, so that maybe September. So, it's like, it was that time of the year where it's like, it's sweater weather. I can never say that, right? Because every time I say it, I think in that second we had lives again. It's sweater weather. But it's like, it's that time of the year where there's these four kids in the South of France in the middle of 1940s, in 1940, September 1940, was during World War II, and they were just hanging out. They were really kids. They were going out to this like wooded area. And so, if you could imagine that wooded area, which is not very much different than what we're in, but it was like tiny, and you know, you got the petricor mixed with like the idea of like the weather of the fall, like fallen leaves. And it was four kids and this kid had his dog.   And so, the kids go down, so they go down into the hole to try to find the dog. And it starts, they can't do as long as it goes back and they get, they end up getting a lantern. And so, he goes back, so they go back down in there and what they discover in this subterranean mix of all of these caves were 17,000 paintings. They were cave paintings. These were the cave paintings out in the south. And so, these kids, unbeknownst to them, discover probably one of the greatest amateur discoveries in our history and cultural history. And so, they're looking down in that, they're down there looking at it and what they find is like a life force of an ancient civilization encapsulated within the protected bowels of the earth. Like this amazing sort of thing that we find. And the story, this art that they pulled from this that they didn't know to pull it because it's still in the caves, right? And everybody is familiar with cave paintings out in the south, right? You had like any passing interest over that 101 art history credit. You know that that's where we all start, right? Cave paintings of the south. And so, what tells us this history of the civilization, this art that they tell us? It talks about their artistic, it gives us a history and a narrative about their artistic capacity, right? We actually can see how these people, like what they were able to just do, right? Like the way in which they had ideas about hierarchy of scale, color, there was a lot of sophistication in it. They had a lot of cultural and social aspects. So you could see what was happening in these cave paintings, how groups were getting together, how men and women sort of reacted, like all of these sort of cultural understandings. You had environmental and geographic understanding, specifically in terms of biodiversity because they showed multiple different things. While the majority of those images were all of horses, there were lots of like herd animals and like large felines, so you could see what these people were actually doing. They got technology, which is surprisingly that you guys would probably be interested in, right? You could see what their technology was because you could see how they were using the materials that they had readily available to make this art that was on the wall. Cultural exchange, there was evidence that other groups of people who were living at the time would also come into these caves and actually see these things. Ultimately, what we get from this cave painting in LaSalle is a narrative of the story of these people. And I always like to say this, whenever we dig up a society, no matter where we are in the world, we never dig up their accounts or their lawyers. We always dig up their art, right? We never dig up their accounts. We dig up their art and that art is the thing that actually tells us a story. And when it tells us this story, it actually takes us back into a place where we can understand who those people are. And there's a theory behind this, most people don't know this, it's called narrative transportation theory, which revolves around this idea that an immersive experience of absorbing a story so deeply that one person gets transported into that narrative world. Melanie C. Green and Timothy C. Brock first introduced this theory in the early 2000s, aiming to elucidate the profound psychological impact that narratives have on individual. The theory operates on the premise that when an individual's lose themselves in a story, their emotional and cognitive experiences are deeply affected, thereby altering their real world beliefs and attitudes. So why would you wanna transport somebody to a story? So why would you wanna do that? I think about it like the golden rule. And the golden rule as we've always understood it, right? Do unto others as you would have others do unto you is actually a mistranslation. Based on some scholars that the idea is actually not do unto others as you would have them do unto you, it would be do unto others as they would have done unto themselves. So what that means is that if I invite you to my house and my favorite thing to eat for breakfast is mustard and sardines with a side of beet juice. I'm trying to think of the grossest things I could think of. And I've got you towels, heated towel, and you're coming in.  I have done unto you as I would have done unto me. And you will look at that and go, no thank you. This ain't it. So in order to learn a thing about someone, you have to understand them. And in order to understand them, you actually have to have empathy for them. And what happens when we share our narratives? We actually build empathy. And I'll give you another really good example of empathy building in the 20th century. During the March on Washington and the Civil Rights Movement of the 19, well, I always say like, we always like pinpoint the Civil Rights Movement in the middle part of the 20th century, but it actually started in like 1865. Just FYI, like we're gonna say that Civil Rights Movement started there. And when we got to this place almost 100 years later when Dr. King as 27 year old minister decides that he's going to run this bus boycott in Montgomery, which starts a big movement. So one of the things that people don't understand about this is how important television was in the idea because most people don't know that there was a march on Washington. There was a planned march and bus and burnings in the 1940s led by A. Philip Randolph. And A. Philip Randolph goes in and threatens to FDR that if you don't desegregate the military, we're going to do more marches. And so he does this. Like he stands in like a black man in the 1940s goes and threatens the president of the United States with a march on Washington, which is kind of an amazing thing. But the point is I'm trying to get to. So we get to the 1940s, 1950s and 60s and the march on Washington is happening. And specifically the things that are happening in Montgomery and Selma. And one of the things that happens, most people don't know this, but the civil rights activists actually go to a different town. And I'm not sure about, okay, I always forget the town, but I want to say it's a town in Georgia. They go into a town in Georgia and they're going to like desegregate the, they're going to protest. But the sheriff was actually just a reasonable racist. So he doesn't, so he doesn't, he doesn't like pull out guns. He doesn't pull out tanks and like dogs and anything else. He just calmly talks to people and he just has this thing. But the problem with that, that the leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott and a lot of the leaders of the civil rights movement needed was they needed somebody to be reactionary. And so they looked for someone to be reactionary. And so that's when they found Bull Connor, right?  And the reason that they instigate them is because they knew the world was watching and they wanted a story to be told. And that story that gets told is the thing that actually helps change, move the needle, right? It starts that people are watching on the news, black children being brutalized by dogs.  That water was ripping people's skins off. And so people were able to see that. There were actually photographers at the time, during the time that wanted to put down their camera and go and help. And the leaders would say, no, no, no, we need you to document this because we need to tell this type of story. This is a story about who we are as a people. And so we need people to see that. And that story created change. It created a movement.  And so that was some progress and we got some things happening, but we still need to move things forward. But what they did, what Dr. King and the Civil Rights protesters did was create empathy.  And one of the things that people miss about the idea of how our stories work is that we are way more connected narratively than we think we are. And I learned this, I do this accreditation trip in the Middle East in Amman, Jordan about 10 years ago. So I was living in New Hampshire, I still live in New Hampshire. I called New Hampshire white condo, by the way. If you've ever been in New Hampshire, when I leave New Hampshire, I significantly decreased the black population just by leaving the state. But so we go from New Hampshire to the Middle East and it's like this amazing place. I'm expecting Mad Max and the Terror Dome because that's what the television shows us on a regular basis. But it's not, Jordan is not like that. It's a very cosmetology city with women in short skirts, men in colorful clothes, women arguing with shopkeepers. It's just like this amazing place. And I hit it off on the way over there with there was two politicians whose names I won't say. But I hit it off with these two politicians from New Hampshire. They were state politicians. And it was a Democrat and a Republican and the little Republican lady, she was like a little gray haired grandmother. And she and I were talking during dinner. We're like, we're gonna go down to a little bizarre.   And we're looking at the stuff and we're talking and looking like buying souvenirs for our family. And I started noticing people were staring at us. Like people were just looking at us. And at first I was thinking about how people looked at me, because I'm from the South, when I was with white people in the South, like while black people and white people are very similar in the South, they do things a lot different. They do things differently, separately, but they do with them the same. I always tell people that my wife's family, my wife is white and her family's from the South and my family's from the South. And when I go to a cookout at my wife's family, I know they're gonna be fried chicken, collard greens and macaroni and cheese. Those recipes are going to be different than my mom's recipes for fried chicken, collard greens and macaroni and cheese. But I know I'm gonna get that.  Cause you just don't know. Funny story, in New Hampshire where we live, they had a barbecue at the state, like little town fair, the little town fair, they had a barbecue when we were all super excited when we first moved to town.  And I realized that when they say barbecue in New Hampshire, they mean hot chicken. And I don't mean spicy, I mean chicken hot. Like it's just hot chicken. I was like, did y'all put any flavor on it? They were like, we pour vinegar over it. I'm like, that is not flavor. So I always know that because people are very similar. They just do things differently. And what dawned on me when I was in the Middle East with this little senator is that these people in the Middle East were staring at us, not because we were a black man and a white woman, it was because it was obvious that we were Americans, right? And that we came from a similar, they connected us in a way that we would not have connected ourselves. And the reason was is because we shared a similar story and culture. And that story is a story about America and who we are. Like we actually have to leave this country to realize that we are like connected and we're connected through that story. So when I talk about stories, I talk about this idea of what I do as a cartoonist. And so I always say that on a macro level, I make stories that are just unapologetically the truth. And they are forward facing about the systemic oppression that black people face in America.  It's like hitting one down. And so I make these things, but what I'm really doing is sharing stories. And I didn't realize this when I first started. When I first started, I was thinking, oh, I'm drawing these little comics about black people, hipsters who will spend $9 on avocado on toast should buy these $3 mini comics that I'm selling. By the way, if you ever see a group of hipsters, that's called a podcast, a group of hipsters. And so I'm thinking this. And then I go to this first book signing and it was after I did the story about Malaga Island, Maine, which was this mixed race community that was destroyed by the state of Maine in 1911.  And this man came up to me and he had tears in his eyes. And he said, thank you for telling these important stories. And I was like, oh, right, this is something different. This is like, this is how you make change. This is how you connect to people. It's about telling stories. Is it a coincidence that in the early 2000s, one of the most popular television shows on TV was 24 and they had a black president and in 2008, we get a black president? Because the story is in the zeitgeist, right? Is it a coincidence that we have a civil rights movement happening and we have these races, these people who wanna conserve racism, so terrified of the fear of a black planet that we get planted of the apes? Or the idea that in the early part of the 20th century when Jack Johnson knocks out, I don't know who that guy's name is, he's forgotten the history, but if you ever wanna feel good thing, watch him knock this guy out, like there's a video of it, he knocks him out of the ring, this white guy. But he becomes the heavyweight champion and we get King Kong about these white people going into the jungle and conquering these things. Like the stories, the narratives are the thing that becomes part of the cultural experience. Is it a coincidence that in 2016, after the election of President Trump, we get a whole bunch of movies that say, hold still and be quiet and everything's gonna be all right? Those horror movies. We get a whole series of these things because they're in the cultural side guys, because narratives actually change people's minds and they help change things. Studies have shown that if you want to change someone's opinion about something, and they did this with abortion and gay marriage in 2006, 2007, and they found that if they sent someone who was actually gay and actually married to another person, that that was more likely to change someone's mind than it was for you to tell them facts and figures because of that narrative transportation theory, that taking us into those stories. That's what we do on a regular basis, right? Before you know anything about a person, you sit down and you have a conversation with them, right? And when you sit down and you have that conversation, you talk a little bit. You share bits and pieces of it. You tell them why you think the last season of Game of Thrones was terrible, right? You tell them why you think that Tom Brady should never have left the Patriots. You know what I mean?  And so when we share narratives, when we share narratives about whether they're nonfiction or fiction narratives, we're actually putting that stuff, information into the cultural zeitgeist and we're actually helping change stories. We're actually helping change minds and you're actually making change. So, in conclusion, it's important to share stories and to think about how stories and narratives shape the way our society moves through the world because you'll be putting things in the cultural zeitgeist. So think about the ways in which we share stories and how we share stories moving forward because if you do that, you create empathy and empathy is not doing unto others as you would have done unto you.   So share stories. Think about ways in which to share stories. Change the cultural zeitgeist and build empathy and when that doesn't help, hug somebody because that always helps. Thank you guys.


Two teams who had an unexpected rest at the weekend after both having their games postponed. Bradford had been set to host Doncaster, Salford set to stage Colchester, but both fell foul of the freezing conditions that gripped the nation. This is Salford's first game since picking up a much needed win away at Crawley on the 13th of January, ending a run of 12 matches without a victory in all competitions. Bradford will be hoping to fare better than the last time they walked out in front of their fans, and they were beaten here 4-2 by Crawley. There is no win in five league games for Bradford. Can they get themselves going tonight? It's a great ball into the box. Just lacking a finish. Really inviting ball played in. I poke a door, but just lacking somebody to put it in the back of the net, but positive start and a much needed one you would think as well for Graham Alexander's team. Salford coming into the night, eight points above the relegation zone in 21st place. It was Green and Sutton, the two teams trying to catch them for Salford in that match against Crawley. Signs of them coming forwards here this evening. Played in and it's not too far away. All it needed was a touch. Salford feel that they should have a corner here, but goal kick is the decision. First time ball placed across goal. So close to getting themselves in front. Truded here this evening, you would have to say, I couldn't even quite hear a Salford burst forwards and they're sensing the chance perhaps to get themselves ahead. Beaten out by Sam Walker, followed up by Watson. Salford ahead and didn't he take it wonderfully well. Fourteen minutes played here this evening. And it's the visitors who strike first. Positive burst forward. The angle was tight, but the strike was good. Beaten away by Sam Walker, but it fell right into the path of Ryan Watson. Two goals in three games for him. Got that big goal, that late equaliser against Forest Green. He's got Salford up and running here this evening. Will Bradford respond. Just two wins here. Ten home lead games. It was slightly open there for Salford once again, but it's Bradford who can come forward. Your body's ahead of the ball here. Strike from distance, back off the post. And the rebound put away by Halliday. Just the response that Bradford needed here tonight. Behind for just six minutes. He doesn't get too many. He had that half chance earlier in the game. It's effort coming back off the post. Just like with the Salford goal really, the ball falling very kindly for the player coming in. The ball and his strike well. Bradford level. Two proceedings this evening. Bradford will throw in there. Keen to take it quickly, pushed down the line. A couple of options inside the penalty area which he enters now. Twisting and turning. Will it get put away? Comfortable save really for Alex Cairns in the end. A bit of power there to truly trouble the keeper. Declan John whipped in first time by Ryan Watson in the head-up. From that Smith where he's so difficult to deal with. He knows kind of situations. Always the favourite to get himself on the end of that cross. But he was just unable to guide it on target. Let's see that tactic used a few more times tonight here by Salford. Find a victory. He's noticeable that it is. Very subdued here this evening. Salford would take a point you would feel. But we also perhaps sense a chance to take more than that. But they're in trouble here. Tyreek Wright puts it the wrong side of the post. Restoration for him. He's etched on his face. It was just nudge forwards by Gilead and then the strike. Well, there was a big gap to aim at. Salford could have perhaps rolled it across as well. Remains 1-1. Comes the long throw. All the way to the edge of the area. Retrieved by Richard Smallwood. Has it back once more. See what he wanted to do there. And he slings it into the box immediately. Beaten away by Cairns under pressure. Would spell this for Bradford. In comes the cross. Salford's scrapping away. Attack, it seems, as Cairns comes flying out of his goal. A small period of pressure. It was just bodies in the way. Every time that ball looked like it might come loose, wins have been so difficult to find for Salford, as I mentioned that game against Crawley. Giving them a win after 12 matches without one in all competitions. I feel that there's something perhaps more than a point here for them. Spread out to the far side. Smith makes his move into the middle. And it's played towards that back post. And so close to taking the lead for a second time here. Was it a cross? Was it a shot? Smith very nearly got on the end of it. It was just too far in front of him. Sends it long. Much forwards here. Chance for Bradford to get themselves in front. Really smart stop by Cairns to deny Harry Chapman. They had to get that left leg out. Just a touch perhaps too close to the goalkeeper to give him a chance from Chapman. Corner swung in. Header at the back post. Cairns grabs hold of it. He's been the busier of the two goalkeepers in this second half. And Salford unable to get themselves in front for the first time tonight. Chapman got a touch to it, but he couldn't flick it beyond the keeper. And the seconds remaining here is their time for one of these sides to create a one last chance to win the game. They won't beat. And some clues to greet that full-time whistle as well. Bradford yet again failing to find victory. They had to come back from behind as well. Salford started so well and they got themselves into the lead with just 14 minutes played. A really sweet strike by Ryan Watson. His second goal in three games. Bradford got themselves back level soon after Brad Halliday striking on 20 minutes, but neither side able to find a winning goal. It finishes Bradford City one. Salford City one.


ase one changes with phase two reason the logic changes is that once we have the bridge back this is further in the future and we've drawn assuming we have the bridge back and that of course so whenever that happens if you're going to if we come west portola go up seventh across brahmer sorry go up go up across 17th across brahmer and back down now we've gotten close enough to twin lakes but i don't necessarily feel like i need to have gone within wahi distance of that by virtue of having gotten back down and so that's why this is suggested but again as this goes through public outreach if this if the that's a question we'll ask would people rather see all this frequency going one direction or they'd rather have to continue to have the split which will give them 30 minutes through service through twin lakes and 30 minutes service on brahmer great thanks for the explanation so talking about the financial basis for this the contributions of the university are absolutely key to make this work and i understand we have some of these preliminary discussions that suggest that's not ridiculous that that's a possibility it won't be easy it's never easy to extract money from a partner in these kinds of things but even that is not enough to make this really work if we want to be a world-class system i think in our least in our earlier discussions we had a pretty clear idea that we need to look at a local tax and something like a half-cent sales tax um i don't we've talked about this in the past i don't think we can sell this at the level of give us a half-cent sales tax and we'll try and keep the system together for you this is give us a half-cent sales tax and we will have a world-class system that will compete with bolder colorado and portland or again and other places that people you know site is the places where they're dealing with transportation um there's a bunch of other folks that are thinking about getting sales tax it's a strange little dance that goes on like who gets november 24 um you know when there's a more progressive vote that's out there if we're thinking about doing this fairly soon like like a vote in november i don't know we are how and when will we make a decision about beginning to like put our dibs in i mean so that you know when somebody says well we're thinking about november 24 say we've already we put that out there already we've been working on this thing and this is going to get us a world-class and it's tight as monos pointed out to the housing problems that we've gotten and blah blah blah i'm just making a plea here that we need to sort of get out there soon if we're thinking about this year and even some other date in the following year so it's just to michael not to to jared like what are our prospects for they being able to say to people we are even though we're implementing one phase one we're already on phase two and beginning to think about holding our space for a serious sales tax because again i i really think the people in this community would support this if they really knew that it was going to like result in something that really made a difference um which i think we can offer them even what we're talking about here so what are your thoughts about when we sort of launch this to the public and start claiming a date or something it's pretty concrete is a question yeah um so it is kind of a delicate dance with multiple partners and trying to find the right partner and the right timing of the dance and so on so i will tell you that phase two does require participation by the university and it does require if you to run a long term beyond a pilot project it will require an augmentation and funding one of the options could be that ballot measure it's been 45 years since you've been on a ballot by yourself to make improvements with metro i think there's a lot of good resonating sound bites in addition to a pilot that the that the public could actually see feel and and try that could motivate towards a successful ballot measure we've done polling and and obviously uh have seen a lot of strength in the number of folks it would be supportive of increasing funding for metro i will say that those who are looking for dancing partners and looking to land on a strategy and a year all know that we have been seriously considering november of 24 and i would say that just lots of discussions happening on a daily basis and i would assume that the board's talking about it in the very near future because you're right there's a lot of work that needs to be done if november of 24 was the date but there's also a lot of discussion on other dates as well as financial analysis of how we would fare going on a different date if if that was the board's desire our comments okay i will take it out to the public and get comments from public on this Eduardo Montesino like i said i'm more excited about the plan too even or phase two because it's it provides a vision a roadmap you know there's details to be worked out but we'll get there you know it's the vision that we that we got a plan in the community to see that it's going to get us you know to a potential sales tax to a you know to a renowned robust if since that we've needed for a long time you know we've gone through the 12 a's we've gone through the 91 so going out of the way ucs we've gone you know we lost a lot of ridership in ucs staff doing the carpal's we've gone you lost a lot of the farm workers you know because we cut service in watsonville so we've done a lot of these things um so this provides a roadmap you know to get us into the future to get us to get people not only the people that use it all the time but to get people on board because you know we're working on all these plans all the cities in the county to not provide enough space for parking well they need an option and we are that option so we gotta provide that vision and look forward to working with all of you and to provide this continue on this vision moving forward thank you for me i think to uh after hearing the funding coming from ucsc and that's phase two and like what happens if that doesn't actually happen like because phase three was watsonville 15 minute you know trips and watsonville is like if phase two doesn't go through like what happens to phase three uh that's some of our questions um hopefully you know like we could still get that amount of service in watsonville and uh another kind of question i throw in there is like the i know um metro mostly has the large buses i seen some like smaller buses in monorail and i'm wondering like uh is it because like there are no as like wheelchair accessible or has that like any of that uh to reduce you know the cost has that been looked into or to provide more um to reduce cost in some areas i had a quick question um so metro so this is a lot more frequency than metro's ever done before which is really exciting but metro doesn't currently have the operational policies needed to reliably operate frequent service like this things you'd see at other transit agencies such as outdoor boarding to reduce dwell times uh or if you have two buses bunched up right back to back the bus in front goes drop off only so it can you know get ahead a little bit um is metro going to be considering the operational policies in conjunction with the phase two process so we don't really do q and a in this format but you can pose your question and then when we come back to staff i'll see if they can answer that thank you um other public comments um i really like the changes proposed in phase one and in phase two i would just like to encourage everybody involved in developing phase two to consider changes that would make the 35 more reliable as of right now and after it turns around like past then then loman it is almost always behind schedule so thank you thank you mr ergo if you could come and speak to um two questions that were brought up around operational policies to operate at this frequency and then the other one was what if phase two doesn't happen and maybe that's um sure ask so we are actually considering all-door boarding for phase one we haven't made a final decision on that but it's a discussion we've been having perhaps just around the loop at the campus perhaps uh the entirety of the routes 18 and 19 so we are considering all-door boarding uh with phase one and we'll continue to develop operational policies to address bus bunching and reliability as we roll out phase two in terms of what if phase two doesn't happen so again we'll we're going to jump into the details in october at the finance committee meeting and and beyond um but the general idea is that phase two can be faced so there are improvements that we can roll out uh over time assuming we have the operators and resources to do so so it doesn't need to be an all-in-one package some of it does you know if we go forward with this idea of uh introducing a break in the route at cabrillo that obviously has to come with the frequency on both sides to both Watsonville and Santa Cruz um but other improvements like the three and the two can come on uh before just the three i'll say but anyway phase two can be faced well just a question on the question on smaller buses and why can i help with that one um we we recently completed this very similar study for mst for moderately as transits we're very familiar with their smaller buses please remember that operating cost is mostly labor and that the size of the bus does not have a very large effect on the operating cost at all the primary reason to have smaller buses is to fit around tighter corners in difficult geometry it's not because there's any cost savings to it uh so keep that in mind a good a smart transit agency runs the largest bus it will ever need in any time during the course of the day and and the and the empty seats on the bus are not costing you anything so it's better to have a bus that's too large than too small thank you one other question the i hear from boulder creek then loman and um some of the same concerns that were mentioned that lack of reliability and i'm i'm understanding that phase one will address that and obviously part of the problem is it's more rural and harder i mean in scott's valley people say well you've got buses so i don't have to walk from granite creek to scott's valley drive they don't come into my neighborhood so it's not boulder creek or ben loman that's being um you know receiving less service but the question i or what i'm hearing i want to be able to take back that phase one will begin addressing the um efficiency and shorter timeframes phase one is the first step toward it i don't want to promise that taking that little emeline deviation off is going to fix everything that's wrong with route 35 it's a big long route has a lot going on phase three which takes the scott's valley deviation off the route starts to make a bigger difference toward making the route more useful and uh but ultimately you know reliability is going to be a challenge and of course you know access from some of the remote neighborhoods in the forest we've had quite a bit of conversation in the course of the design workshop we talked through all those neighborhoods from which various requests have come and it often just comes down to visualizing the physical reality of what those neighborhoods are and what you would have to do in order to get closer to them it becomes very hard to do efficiently and even highway nine makes it challenging yeah yeah thank you just another issue of small buses is you have to keep a complete separate inventory of parts if you have different different if you have right if instead of three kinds of buses you got 12 kinds of buses or something so yeah especially as you head into this new hydrogen future you're going to want to minimize the diversity of your fleet definitely great thank you and i don't do we need a yeah so this was okay well thank you so much mr. walker for being here today with us and for the presentation and all your work and thank you all for the robust discussion you're here yeah all right we are on item 14 which is ceo oral report all right well i uh i'm just excited about today i'm not going to give you a lengthy list of good bad ugly that's going on behind the scenes because there's not a lot of good there's not a lot of bad or ugly it just really continues to move forward in a positive direction really excited about the the action items that you participated in today i would like to say just a special thanks for all of the public that visited our booth during the fair it was just uh you know on sunday i was there for uh all the afternoon and it just uh was like 20 to 30 people constantly in line to learn about metro to spin the wheel and get a prize and a lot of folks came up and talked about employment with metro and in particular animiri was there and just did like a masterful job of talking to them about you know the benefits of working with metro both for males and females i uh wanted to just recognize that the articulated buses from san diego the 15 that we needed and would like to run on the routes that are servicing the university there was a slight delay as new flyer was having some supply issues and getting san diego their new buses so of course they wouldn't release the artics to us till their new buses came in but the first three of the 15 came in this morning they look great they performed great from san diego on into santa cruz and so we're hopeful that about three buses come in every week until we get to the 15 and so we're going to turn them around we're going to get them on the service you may still see some of the colors that san diego transit uses on them until uh danielle gets a chance to put the metro scheme on them and some one right at a time work on some of them and so we're excited that's it's all going in the right direction but a hiccup and in just timing and um yeah you know what i'm just excited to be here i think that's the comment i'd give you my gosh it's uh this is really exciting and i'm excited to see what the public thinks of phase two and uh finance committee has some heavy lifts ahead of it but it has options and i really think doing a demonstration project as soon as we have the drivers to be able to do phase two we'll give the public a year or two to really experience what this world class uh transit system can do for not only housing but for congestion for equity and in the whole list of opportunities sitting in the county are very positive in discussions about transit signal priority for the 15 minute service so that the buses move through the intersections quickly and that will be a key component and it'll be exciting to to to see how this all unfolds with phase two and we think that we'll be back in november at the latest for an action item with phase two just to kind of give you a preview and a timing of that so with that i i don't have any more comments thank you are there questions for um from the board okay um all right so then item 15 our next meeting is friday october 27th at nine a.m at the watsonville city council chambers that's at 275 main street in watsonville and with that i will adjourn our meeting thank you all for being here


Very important here. You see that our hypothesis comes before we design our data collection tool before we collect any data Before we even look at our data. That is such an important point in doing proper ethical research Now we're going to have our two main questions there research questions We're going to compare admission HPA1C levels between patients with minor major infections and for that question We need to set a null hypothesis and an alternate or test hypothesis Now null hypothesis will state that there is no difference between the the two sets of patients as far as the HPA1C admission levels are concerned That they'll be the same our alternate hypotheses or our test hypothesis will be that there is a difference between the two that if I were to take the mean or median depending and we'll get to that of the minor patients HPA1C and the mean or average or median of the major Infection groups admission HPA1C that there will be a difference between the two note My alternate hypothesis does not state that the patients with a major infection will have a higher HPA1C level than the minor or Lower than the minor that would constitute what we call a one-tailed test And the difference between a one-tailed test and a two-tailed test is really taking your p-value and dividing it by two And that's a very dangerous thing to do especially After the fact after you've looked at your data after you've calculated your first p-values now suddenly to change your mind and say well I've got a p-value of 0.08 if I suddenly said no But before and I knew the major would be higher than the lower and therefore I choose a one-tailed test now I divide that p-value in two so becomes 0.04 in essence It's statistically significant. I published my research. It sounds wonderful. I didn't tell anyone about it. That's unethical research Only at this stage do you set these hypotheses? You do not change them after the fact and How do we choose here? How would I choose between a two-tailed and a one-tailed test? Why didn't I say well, I think the HPA1C is going to be higher in Major infection patients than in minor. Well, it's about convincing your colleagues that this is so through logical arguments or absolute proof that exists in the literature beforehand But somehow you've got to convince your colleagues that it would be proper to look at this from a one-tailed perspective Otherwise, please always default to two-tailed and never ever Change that after the fact Now we come to comparing the admission CRP between patients major and minor infection Now hypothesis again, there'll be no difference between the averages or the medians for the two groups and my alternate hypothesis again I'm gonna say there's going to be a difference. One might be more or less than the other. I Make no judgment call beforehand. I'm just going to call it the difference once again That's a two-tailed test and you see the little graph on the right-hand side there Just a simple graph shown there where we do a two-tailed test so we're going to from if we use a t-statistic we're going to See we're going to calculate the area under the curve for both sides of our distribution function there a Two-tailed test Lastly in our hypothesis here We've also actually got to set our alpha level our level of significance And if we we are going to choose 0.05 So if we find a value of less than 0.05 a p-value or five percent We're going to call this a significant difference and we will reject our null hypothesis and thereby accept our alternate hypothesis if not if it's more than 0.05 We will fail to reject the null hypothesis. Remember the correct terms. You can never prove the null hypothesis You can only fail to reject it. So our alpha level here will be 0.05 Next up we'll have a short chat about protocols and ethics


The resurgence or the second wave which is happening now of COVID-19 has made the life again difficult across the world. During the first episode, let's put it that way of this pandemic across the world. In the medical field, I think lots of relative work had come down out of the fear. Nobody knew who was going to get infected in the hospital facilities or what would happen for those patients who go through an elective or an emergency surgery and those who get the infection later. Now, the recent study which was published in the British Journal of Surgery of Fortnight Echo has answered some of these questions. They have found that those patients who were vaccinated and later went through an elective operation fared very well, their chances of getting a COVID infection inside the hospital or in the immediate first 30 days of the hospital was quite low. So also, the mortality. We all know that those patients who got operated and later they go out and catch infection within first 2 or 3 weeks after the discharge are the ones who fared actually much worse compared to those who never had surgery but contacted COVID. So there are two lessons out of this entire study, at least for us that I think it's better to get vaccinated, especially when you're anticipating an operation, even elective procedures.  So I would probably recommend that's why that more and more people who are looking at an elective operation, maybe a knee replacement, maybe cancer or non-cancer operation or heart surgery, there is no point in postponing it indefinitely. One can definitely go ahead and have the surgery but please get vaccinated early so that your chances of getting an infection is going to be reduced significantly and by any chance, even if you catch an infection in the community post discharge, chances of one getting into a very severe course of the disease are also very, very small. So please get vaccinated and I think even the governments or the institutions certainly should prioritize, like they were prioritizing healthcare workers and others, they should prioritize those patients who require operation across all age groups to consider for early vaccination.


Let's continue on and compare and contrast warfarin and heparin and how they are like and how they differ. The route of administration for warfarin is orally. We give this as a pill form. Heparin, however, is intravenous or subcutaneous only. If we're in a hospital setting, we're likely going to give heparin via an IV as it is much easier to discontinue, but if we do send a patient home on a heparin, specifically a low molecular weight heparin, like an oxaparin or lovinox, then we'll send that home in a subcutaneous formulation that will be able to be injected into the belly. The mechanisms of action of warfarin and heparin do differ. Warfarin works on those vitamin K-defendant clotting factors, those specifically are 2, 7, 9, 10 protein C and protein S. Heparin, however, activates antithrombin, which we discussed how that works, that decreases the action of our 2A or our thrombin, as well as factor 10A. Warfarin works in the liver by working against that vitamin K-dependent clotting factors and keeping them from forming or synthesizing, whereas heparin works in the blood. It works directly on the clotting factors. With warfarin, it does take days. It's very slow for this to get to a point where you see action associated with warfarin, whereas with heparin, it's almost immediate. As soon as you begin giving it, especially if you give it IV, it's an immediate anticoagulation. The duration of action, however, warfarin lasts longer. It takes longer to start to become effective. It's going to take longer for it to get out of the system, so it's going to last longer, whereas heparin is only effective for hours. In order to reverse warfarin, all we have to do is give vitamin K, because it affects the vitamin K clotting factors. We give vitamin K, and we can reverse that effect. If we do need an acute situation or we need someone to immediately reverse the effects of warfarin, we can give fresh frozen plasma. To reverse heparin, we can just stop giving heparin, and we can see that effect very quickly. We do need to reverse it in emergency situations. We can use protamine sulfate. In regards to how we monitor heparin and warfarin, with warfarin, we're going to monitor the PT and the INR, which is mostly going to be checking our extrinsic pathway. Then with heparin, we will monitor the PTT, which is going to be monitoring our intrinsic pathway of the clotting cascade. One further thing that differs between heparin and warfarin is that warfarin is tritogenic. We cannot use this in pregnancy, whereas heparin is not tritogenic, so we can use this in a pregnant female or someone that is almost to give birth and has issues with clots.


The commanders have reached out to every single team about their quarterback situation, allegedly. Ian Rappaport reported how serious are the commanders in their search for a QB. Sources say they made a strong offer for the Seahawks on Russell Wilson. It didn't go anywhere, but a signed Washington is ready to deal. And given what they have on their roster, it may be a QB away. Wow. Maybe. But Ron Rivera said, listen, I don't know how many more years I'm gonna be coaching. We got a brand new name. We got a brand new ownership, right? The wife is now in charge of running things. We got a whole new building, but it'd be nice if we had a new quarterback for this brand new era we're about to enter.  Just said our NFL network, they offer Seattle Turn Down from Washington from Russell Wilson involved multiple first round picks. Again, gotta wonder if it is because Wilson and the Seahawks want to keep this thing going or because Wilson has no desire to be a commander. Oh, okay. He said, we are not commanders. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum around here.


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The Narcissist false image the narcissist likes to project a false idealized image of themselves to the world This is designed to hide their insecurities They want to impress people Whether this is through their appearance intelligence or exaggerated accomplishments They want to be admired They want to be respected They want people to see them as someone who is powerful and successful They want people to be envious of them Regardless of everything that may be going wrong in their lives or everything that they don't like They want people to believe that they are superior to everyone around them They want people to believe that they are special But this is actually to compensate for the fact that they feel inferior to everyone around them They feel that they are not worthy of love admiration respect or acceptance Some narcissists create an idealized self-image of the dominant alpha male or alpha female This is something you might see in relationships family dynamic in work Or in public positions of society which attract a lot of attention or publicity They like to view themselves as being strong powerful Capable of giving judgments or punishments whenever they choose or desire So they create this false idealized image of Being the dominant alpha male or alpha female But this is actually just to compensate for how weak and insecure they really feel inside They have a false sense of pride They regulate their emotions and boost their self-esteem By treating people as though they are insignificant or worthy of contempt Giving them a false sense of confidence and self-respect They gain sadistic pleasure from these offenses And they experience a lack of empathy compassion and consideration Because narcissists want to portray this false idealized image of themselves They are prone to frequent lies and exaggerations About themselves and other people they have the tendency to lift themselves up While putting other people down They want to make themselves feel special and superior to everyone around them By bragging about their accomplishments and taking undeserved credit For some narcissists Their main focus is to make you feel inferior to them Often by use of criticism psychological intimidation and false accusations They have this motive or desire To make you feel inferior to them Because they actually feel inferior to you Because of this They will often distort the facts Make false statements Assassinate your character and persuade you to do something by using force or threats They can become very aggressive and deflective If they are confronted on their negative or inappropriate behavior When they are confronted or challenged They will often experience a temper tantrum Or they will deny it and make up excuses Or shift the blame onto someone else They look at their targets as though one is either a winner or a loser On top or at the bottom and they will do whatever it takes to offensively demonstrate That they are superior to you To defend their idealized false image Because of this They will often violate rules, laws and social norms And this is something that they actually enjoy It makes them feel as though they are special and superior to everyone around them They will often invade your personal space Cut in line Use your property or possessions without asking And break appointments or promises They enjoy treating people around them as though they are worthless or insignificant Or beneath their consideration They will often engage in shaming or humiliating their target Marking or laughter at their expense hate speech and Internet trolling It defends that idealized false self and Reinforces their fantasized ideas and beliefs of being special or superior to everyone around them They enjoy invading your personal boundaries It makes them feel powerful and in control Which cup in sakes for their feelings of insecurity Their pathological need to invade your boundaries Can often result in financial abuse domestic abuse and sexual harassment Many narcissists actually take pride in these behaviors As it makes them feel superior and privileged As though they have been given a special right advantage or immunity Narcissists enjoy arousing negative emotions and emotional distress within you It makes them feel powerful to keep you feeling insecure or unsteady They have a habit of invalidating people's thoughts feelings and priorities And feel no remorse for their actions or behaviors They often blame their victims for their own victimization Or claim that they were deserving of cruel or unjust treatment Narcissists are prone to experiencing emotional drama and chaos They can be very unpredictable And you never know what might cause a narcissistic injury where they react with anger or rage They often become offended or upset And any signs of independence or self-affirmation Where you recognize or suit the existence and value of your individual self They will often become upset if you disagree with their views or opinions Or if you fail to meet their expectations They are very sensitive to criticism But quick to criticize or judge other people Often for things that they cannot see within themselves They have to keep you down Beneath them it is essential for them to do this To regulate their emotions and boost their fragile egos and self-esteem It makes them feel more reassured about themselves There are moves any doubts or fears that they might be beneath you This is why they created that idealized false image It was designed to protect them from any feelings of insecurity or inferiority For them to sustain this false image.  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Step-by-step guide to legally teaching English in South Korea. South Korea is one of the most attractive locations for teaching English as a foreign language. The country has been welcoming foreign teachers for decades with lucrative salary and benefit packages, as well as the government-funded EPIC program that places qualified teachers into public schools across the country. South Korea is a great place to work whether you are a new teacher, or if you have some experience in the field. However it is important that you understand the local job market and regulations before heading off on your adventure. Step 1. Understanding the visa situation. Currently only citizens from the following countries qualify for a teacher work visa, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Therefore non-native English speakers from other countries won't be able to work in South Korea under the E2 teaching visa. However there are teachers from non-English speaking countries that teach in Korea under other visas, such as the F6 spouse visa or the F2 long-term residency visa. In these situations it is up to the individual employer if they choose to hire a non-native English teacher. Other requirements for the E2 visa application for teaching English in South Korea. The university degree must first be notarized and then apostilled, three sealed university transcripts, criminal background check, passport photocopy, resume, signed copy of the school contract, four passport-sized photos, two letters of recommendation. Step 2. Get your TEFL certification. A TEFL certification is not a requirement to obtain an E2 visa for teaching English in South Korea as of now. However due to the competitive EFL market in South Korea, employers will usually only hire teachers who are TEFL qualified. If you want to live and work in South Korea as an English teacher, we recommend that you start your TEFL TESOL course at least one year before your desired start date in South Korea. If you choose an in-class TEFL TESOL course, you will receive your certificate within around four weeks. On the other hand an online course can take anywhere between two and six months. This depends on how much time you have and how quickly you work through the course units. Also keep in mind that while in-class courses were much preferred in the early days of EFL teaching, online TEFL courses are now just as valued. Join our combined TEFL course option in Seoul for a head start in teaching English in South Korea. Step 3. Do your homework and research. If you want to head to South Korea to teach English abroad, do as much research about the local culture and job market as you can. Teachers are either employed by public schools through the government funded EPIC program, where they work for private language academies. There are pros and cons to both options and it's really up to you whichever route you want to go down. Teachers working at a public school are likely to get a few more vacation days and work fewer hours, but private language academies tend to pay higher salaries and have smaller classes. Step 4. Be patient, persistent and flexible. Usually most teachers choose to settle in and around Seoul, but competition for the best jobs is fierce. However there are plenty of other exciting cities and smaller towns that offer a unique cultural experience, that will make your stay in South Korea truly memorable. Also remember that South Korea is a rather small country, allowing you to visit Seoul and other cities in a matter of hours via the express bus and high speed train systems. Step 5. Apply for jobs. Once you have your TEFL certificate in hand and understand the local job market, you are ready to start your job search. All enrolled ITTT students and alumni have access to our lifetime job assistance, including our job boards. We have an extensive network of recruiters and schools in South Korea, to allow you to choose the job offer that suits your needs. We work with a range of renowned recruiters who specialize in the Korean market, and we would love to connect you with them. Besides our own connections and the ITTT job board, you can also search for recruiters in South Korea via an online search.  You can state your location and school preferences, and the recruiter will set up interviews with suitable schools. Are you ready for your South Korea adventure?


Good morning guys. All right survivor 41. It's gonna be a whole new ball game. What have we got for challenges so far? All right, so first challenge.  I like where your head's at different idea though. How about we tie the crates down? With some knots. Yeah, I mean, I guess we can add that just one thing the crate is already really heavy Does that add anything? Whoa there?  Yeah, I'm sure we can add some knots That's my man. All right next you what do you got and how many knots does it have? I don't know if knots are a really good fit for this challenge. You're wrong about that and I'll show you go on Tell me about it. Okay, so everyone starts on a floating platform and they jump off one by one and they swim down to find No, not bingo. Yep. You got it knots. You want them to dive in and find it knots under Water. Oh hell. Yeah. Okay, but that is like that's like super dangerous, right? Yes, and Come on guys. The name of the show is survivor, how are we going to show them surviving if we're not trying to Kill them it's simple stuff. Oh my god. Oh, what what you're not in on surviving being part of survivor But bring me your torch bring you my what you heard me in this game fire represents your internship and whether or not I'll sign your paperwork. I'm not gonna The Jeff has spoken I get in my life All right now someone find me someone who knows how to tie some knots Come on dig deep Hey everyone disembodied voice of Ethan here to let y'all know that we're currently leading patreon members ask us questions on discord for an Exclusive AMA this month. I am on the AMA shopping block thingy So if you're interested in asking me a question head on over to patreon.com Slash door monster before the deadline on October 20th. Thanks for watching the video and have a happy Halloween It's not even it's like nowhere close to Halloween. It's like the night


Welcome back to geeks are sexy.  I want to say hello to my friend Alex who's watching on Facebook live Thanks for thanks for watching Alex. Everybody waved Alex and make him feel welcome. It's great to have you here But what I want to talk about in our panel discussion today and this came from our conversation We had coffee the other day You had such a positive attitude. We talked about how even very tragic things in our lives very very difficult setbacks successful people find ways to Find a positive attitude when everything in the world seems like it's going wrong when everything seems like it's against you And that was very much your story as well Can you tell us a little about how you found the strength how you how you went through what you went through with your son and Came out the other side with all the great work you're doing in the community sure Jason Well, you know, I think that right after my son was killed I knew that it was really important that I had a choice either I was going to fall and Drowned or I was going to somehow stay strong and you know, and I made a decision like a week after he was killed that Somehow I had to turn my pain into strength and And that's what I did in order to do that. It's like when you get a bed every morning I know, you know, you have a choice.  You're gonna have a bad day and it's like before you get a bed I just say okay, so you're gonna get a bed and you're gonna have a good day and you're gonna be strong today and I mean, I think if you can take something so horrific Like what I went through and turn into something so amazing There's no better way to honor a loved one that has been killed or someone close to you a friend that Has has passed. There's no better way to honor that person is to do something So amazing and you know pay it forward and that to me is a great way to do it But again, it's all about choices and I'm making that choice every day And I just find that when you have so much pain you can somehow make it into something so great Yeah, and I would never never wish that on on anybody that kind of pain or that kind of challenge on anybody But that is something we face in our businesses every day not to not to belittle what you've just told us I mean even even in little ways, I mean, you know, you have a bad day But you know, so Greg, what is what is something you found? What is one of the very first big challenges you faced when you started your business and how did you? Dig deep and find the strength to overcome it because sometimes, you know Sometimes we get a great idea to start a business and we just go you know what too hard We see a lot of that out there right three months six months down the road. Somebody's like, um, I'm not doing that How did how did you found the strength to keep going? Yeah? Well, and let me back up just one step Because part of the reason I started my business is because I moved to Vegas a few years ago for a job And after a couple years at that company there were some restructuring my job was eliminated and that really Was tough to deal with But I kind of dug deep as sammy said and and And so i'm sorry Sorry, that's my fault. I didn't I didn't give everybody the intel briefing And and decided this was something that I wanted to try to take the experience I had And the in the expertise I had and apply it in a different way And it's you know, it's exciting. It's exhilarating, but it's challenging I've always worked for companies where people tell you what to do And now I have to go out and find business But that's the fun part because when when you grow something on your own you really can take pride in it But you do have to dig deep and and real Resiliency is a word that you hear a lot about and I think there's a lot to that being able to bounce back learn from Adversity that you have and come out on the other side Absolutely, absolutely. So chris. What's a what's a challenge that you're facing in your business?  You gave us great information about taxes. You got all the numbers I know you know them all off the top of your head, but I'm sure you're facing challenges as well Yeah, maybe I'll take it in a little bit of a different direction and talk about a more technical challenge that my business Sometimes faces so I do things very differently as I was kind of going to explain to you I do think I do everything in the cloud Everything I do is technological and the digital age and when you do taxes or accounting for that matter sometimes people just They want to see their accountant. They've been seeing once a year, you know, right around March or April and hand them a stack of paper And wait for them to do the return then come back see them again sign off on everything take it Mail it and be done with it and that's not how my business operates my business is very different than that I think it's a better model that helps save people time Where I do everything in the cloud, but the challenge with that that I find is sometimes people are scared of technology They don't understand the the encryption of having your data up in something like Dropbox Which is what I'll use for my clients is actually more secure than this paper you have right here Because somebody can just steal this There's nothing important on this There's a bunch of scribbles I made so it doesn't really matter but but had it been important, right? You know storing it in an encrypted method in the cloud is just a lot safer way to do it It's a lot easier for you because you don't have to worry about making an appointment So really the the technical business challenge that I'll face from time to time is getting people over that hump So so how do you get them over that hump? Yeah, so what I have a pretty good success rate with and a lot of it is just getting them comfortable with me Getting them comfortable with with technology and explaining to them Like I've been explaining to you a little bit more about a great thing that I've been able to do Is I have a lot of great clients that are very supportive of my business and they give me great reviews So they talk a little bit about the technology driven approach that I've been doing for years And how efficient it is for them and how much they like it. So that's how I get them over that Okay, yeah, and you know Um, so one of the things I found one of these I found when I started my business I had a hard time Asking other people for help Where is Greg? Where's something where you had to go ask someone for help when it was in this business or in your previous career Was there a time you had a really hard time going to ask somebody for help? Yeah, uh, I haven't I and I still do that every day I um, I know, you know a little bit about human resources and a little bit about employment and labor law But I don't know a lot about marketing about business development about social media And so I I reach out to other people who are starting their own small businesses who other consultants who are out there because You you can always learn from other people I'm a big believer in asking for help Finding out other ways of doing things reaching out Broadening your network and uh and really learning something new every day Awesome awesome. Yeah, it's it's so hard to ask for help. It was a lesson I really had to get over Uh, you know, it came from the air force being in 20 years and after 20 years in the air force It was I'm the guy who has the answers. I'm the guy who has to ask for help right and then It's uh, it's like starting it starting at zero again And it's uh, it's exciting and it's fun, but it's also a little scary sometimes now, sonny I know you're always looking for donors. You're yes, man You're you have nonprofits always have big challenges Whether it's just getting volunteers to show up or getting those donations from those those corporate partners I have no problem asking for help. I know you I know you don't so who are whether it's us around this table Or people in our audience Who are some people you'd like to be connected to or you could use some help Getting connected to to certain certain people or donors Well, we'd like to just reach out to companies that um, you know, they have a lot of companies like to have people To volunteer for certain organizations And we would love to be promoted within companies A lot of people like to have nonprofit organizations attached to whoever they are. We love to partner up We partner up within spirata and a whole community. So yeah, we're always looking for volunteers or someone they would We love to partner up with um, but getting back to your one question about you know being uncomfortable and and doing something new and Getting under out of your comfort zone is you know, I started a chocolate business, which I know I didn't tell you And and I and I thought you don't need my permission when I was listening to you guys talk And you know, I wanted to say anybody out there is listening who wants to start up a small business You know, and it's a it's your passion and you're scared Um, I always wanted to start up my own chocolate business But it took my son to die for me to get the strength to do it and you know I want to tell everybody out there go in do it Don't wait till something traumatic happens be uncomfortable and start that business anyway and you'll see It'll usually be a success if you do it uncomfortable. That's right Anything worth doing is going to make you a little uncomfortable. Don't be afraid to ask for help Thank you all for being here today. We're we're running to the end of our time But chris tell our tell our audience one more time where they can find you how they can get a hold You if they're looking for some accounting or virtual cfo Help. Yeah, so you can find me online through my website, which is www.cndcpa.com All right, sonny, how can how can we reach the foundation or you? Douglas j. Green Memorial Foundation We're also on facebook or sonny shabbro on facebook and Anybody can reach out to me if they need any kind of care packages or donations. I'm always And greg, how can how can everybody find you easiest way is www.ndunamo.com All right. Well again, thank you all for being here alex. Thank you for watching It's great to have a guest on the facebook live. Hi alex And uh, and i'm jason laduke from evil genius leadership consultants. This is geeks are sexy We'll be back on the fourth friday of september. I don't know the date. Um, don't know my calendar for me Thank you for watching. We love to have you here Please get in touch with our guest. Please get in touch with sonny if you want to make a donation Thank you for being here. We'll see you next month. Thanks jason. Thank you. Thank you


This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network Tough tests lie ahead for some of the nation's best college football teams this weekend We've got Texas taking on Oklahoma and the Red River rivalry We've also got Kentucky taking on Georgia and Notre Dame against Louisville some very fun games on tap for this weekend across college Football with undefeated scoring off we're gonna break down those games outline where Ed's value or Ed's model sees value for this We can get you ready for it should be another fun week in college football This is covering the spread right here on the Fandall podcast network and Fandall research My name is Jim Sonnis I am a managing editor of digital media for Fandall research joined here as I am every Wednesday by Dr Ed Feng you can find his work the powering comment check him out on Twitter at the powering and Ed Fun week college football this past week another one coming up on Saturday. How you doing today? I'm doing really well. I'm really excited to see if Michigan's game last week was a fluke Which I missed or whether that was really the the real Michigan they have kind of a similar road game to to a non-division opponent, although I think we get rid of that soon and Yeah, we'll see and then and then Texas Oklahoma should be fantastic I'm looking forward to that as well It's always a fun game, but I think when the stakes are as high as they are It's a thrill now the Michigan game you're referencing last week You had the over in that game over pit in like I think middle of the third quarter So that was pretty nice without much hope from Nebraska too. So correct Correct this week though, Michigan on the road taking on Minnesota Minnesota They're a very hard team for me to figure because the first half against Northwest and they played well They played better the second half against Louisville, but Kevin uneven spot there. So Michigan 19 and a half point favorites in that game. I Feel like Michigan just kind of keeps on passing tests at least that's my my thought on it so far What have you seen from them thus far? Well, I mean, I thought they were kind of bad the first couple of games So, yeah, they did they did not Kind of live up to expectations like they did in those early warm-up games last year where they you know They just destroyed people So there can be a lot of reasons for that Sometimes you're just not playing that well like a Georgia team Which we'll talk about soon too. So Yeah, I don't know. We'll see I still think they have a lot of quiet I I definitely still have a lot of question marks about Michigan and honestly like every single team. Yeah, and That could play into the futures market. We'll talk about Georgia specifically with that Kentucky game But also more broadly with the national championship deciding whether the doors open right now for someone else step in there Check out See if there's any value in the national championship futures and much more all here in just one second First a reminder to make sure you're subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast coming up later on today Tom Vecchio will preview Thursday night scheme between the Bears and the Commanders Not it the most exciting game, but hey if you got some bets down for it, it could be I'll be previewing that for primetime Tom for Thursday night football here on the podcast feed and on fangirl TV Plus and beginning this week Probably with us twice per week for Thursday night football and for Sunday night football That'll be up on Saturday morning to get all those shows as they are posted Make sure you are subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast Now we also have a regular shows up on the Fandall YouTube page and on a fan dual TV plus Snap into action this NFL season with Fandall America's number one sportsbook right now new customers can get $200 and bonus bets Guaranteed when you place a $5 bet that's $200 in bonus bets win or lose if you've been thinking about joining Fandall There is no better time to get in on the action the app is so easy to use There's a wide range of betting options through spreads player props totals and more so visit fandall.com and kick off the NFL season Fandall official partner of the NFL must be 21 plus and president select states Fandall is offering online sports waging in Kansas under an agreement with Kansas Dark Casino LLC first online real money wager Only $10 first deposit required bonus issued as non-latchrable bonus bets that expire seven days after a seat Restricts his applies see terms at sportsbook.fandall.com gambling problem call 1-800 gambler Or visit fandall.com slash RG in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee and Virginia Call 1-800 accept or text next step to 5334 to an Arizona 1-888-789-7777 Or visit ccpg.org slash chat in Connecticut 1-800-9 with it in Indiana 1-800-522-4700 of his a KS gambling health.com in Kansas 1-800-777-770 stop in Louisiana visit MD gambling health.org in Maryland 1-800 gambler.net in West Virginia 1-800-522-4700 in Wyoming hope is here visit gambling helpline ma.org or call<PHONE_NUMBER> for 247 support in Massachusetts or call 1-877-8 hope and why or text hope and why in New York Now Ed you talked last week here on the show about how Georgia had not lived up so far this year and then they went out there and had to scramble to beat Auburn on the road They're still the favorites to win the national championship at three-to-one at Fandall sportsbook. So We've seen some shakiness from Georgia Does that lead to value elsewhere in this market for you Ed based on the current odds? I Think potentially I mean I haven't bet anything But what's interesting about my best set of numbers that I keep from members of the site is that the top five teams are within a point of each other It's the four teams that you would expect from The preseason so Georgia Michigan Ohio State, Alabama and then Texas has got into that conversation as well And you know, I think I think it's pretty interesting at this point Alabama still up there despite their quarterback issues. I don't see them on the top six of the SPF FBS championship odds. So maybe that is whoa 25 to 1 they were 52 weeks ago Yeah So at least they picked a quarterback. So maybe that you know Goes from 50 to 1 to 25 to 1. I mean my numbers would say that, you know, Alabama is Maybe a value there, but it it's I don't know I don't I don't think there really are top teams You know, I talked about those five teams that are within a point of each other And then and then you have like the Pac-12 schools that are also in the top 10 that actually have the good quarterbacks You know the Washington's and and USC's and in my opinion to a less lesser extent Oregon One of those, you know, I mean Michael Panix, Caleb Williams one of those guys probably gonna be the top pick in the next draft Traditionally a team that wins the national title has a guy that is the top pick in the next draft Not always but So, I don't know. I mean, I still don't trust USC's defense So a lot of question marks, I think is wide open, which is kind of fun. It's Not anywhere near, you know, those what five years in a row that it was Alabama or Clemson Yeah, kind of kind of years, right? So it's kind of fun. And yeah, let's hope it continues to be fun Yeah with the USC thing. I think that last week against Colorado was super emblematic of their their season where the offense shreds Caleb Williams is Throwing six touchdowns stuff like that because but then because the defense is brutal They let Colorado back in the game and actually almost make that very competitive. So Can they walk that tight walk that that tight rope the entire year? Maybe because Caleb Williams is very good and can erase a lot of sins on the defense aside but that's a That's a lot of game stream together where the defense that shaky where you need the offense to be perfect every single week And that's a pretty tough ask So I think Alabama 25 to 1 at is interesting at least given that if there's a lack of separation that could mean that we see Georgia Falter at some point. I know the SEC is not as stellar this year as it has been in the years past. So a Decreased Georgia may not mean may not lead to a loss at any point But I still do feel like there's more Ambiguity more uncertainty here, which means that taking a Swipe at a longer shot is not as out of bounds as a mother otherwise. Maybe Yeah, I think I can talk myself into Alabama here just kind of looking at these odds they they are up there in the numbers and It is a wide open year. So so why not a team like Alabama? Why not? All right Let's talk about some games here for week number six beginning with that very fun game between Oklahoma and Texas We're right now. Texas is a six and a half point favorite on a neutral site total is sixty and a half for this game Ed And it's been a fun year so far both these teams are undefeated. How do you see this game playing out of Texas against Oklahoma? Yeah, you know my numbers had Texas by two and a half Honestly, I think my my numbers should be like a little bit too high on Texas simply because they played Kansas last week without Jalen Daniels That game got out of hand I don't know if I missed them on the the injury report or whether the back thing just kind of came up out of nowhere But he didn't play and you know, he's a Heisman level quarterback, right? So that that's definitely going to make a difference in this game So my number should be overestimating Texas, but they only have them by two and a half here I also wonder, you know, how much this is being influenced by the fact that Texas won 49 and nothing last year in the same game So But I also have this feeling that Texas might be really good and the legitimate national title contender as well You know, Oklahoma is a team that I think kind of came I don't know if they were underrated in the markets, but it was a team that you know didn't have a winning record last year But was there oh and five and one score games When you looked under the cover they were a lot better They are up more from the preseason this season than than even Texas so it's kind of balanced by you know this this idea that Texas might really be good and then also You know looking back at what Bill Connelly was saying in the preseason that Oklahoma might need to know the year to get Where they want to go It's kind of stay away from me. I mean the numbers definitely like Oklahoma. I can definitely see you go in that way But I'm not that neck What's the key hold up for you in taking the value even though you're showing a good amount of value there? Is it more the Texas side where you think they may legitimately be very good or is it more so? Not being convinced in Oklahoma given the fact that they've had a lot of change over and Brent Venable still trying to get Everything fully integrated there Is it the Texas side of the Oklahoma side that causes the hold up for you? I think a little bit of both. I mean when you look at who Oklahoma plays it's not exactly You know, they haven't really beaten anyone that use you would say hey That's a really good win, right? So I mean, this is there. There's definitely stepping up in competition I'm not sure that really matters because if you're obliterating bad teams like that's usually a good sign Although that's certainly not what I said about Duke last week right so You know, it is a good sign that you you are obliterating bad competition So I think it's a little bit of both. I just feel I I Don't know exactly how good Oklahoma is and I think Texas could be really good Okay, so even though Ed shows value here on Oklahoma, it is a stay-away for him with Oklahoma plus six and a half Let's talk about the other big battle between undefeated in a week number six in college football That is Kentucky going to Georgia to take on the Bulldogs Georgia right now 14 and a half point favorite total for this game is 47 and a half now we talked about Georgia standing relative to the other heavyweights earlier on but Facing Kentucky is not the same as talking about national championship markets Even though they are they aren't defeated. So can Kentucky cover a two touchdown spread in this specific game? No Don't think Kentucky is very good. I think this is a great by low spot on Georgia You know, you really talked about how they struggled last week against Auburn. They needed a late touchdown To win that game But it you know, it's kind of nice when you have a guy in Brock Bowers Who's yeah, probably the best player in the country, which you don't often say about a tight end But he's been a beast ever since he stepped foot on campus there There's a lot of kind of really ugly things in that game too They gave up almost six yards per carry to an Auburn team that is rebuilding And obviously explosive plays can play a role there But you know, Auburn also had a 45% success rate on the ground That's higher than the the college football average about 42 and a half That that is certainly concerning and no one's gonna say that Georgia is playing up to Georgia standards, right? I do think the kind of like the underlying fundamentals are a little bit better on them When I look at adjusted success rate, they're 13th on offense 17th on defense It's not Georgia standards, but it's it's also not awful either and I just feel like you know, they can they can turn it on at any point and start playing like Georgia and I also really like, you know, it doesn't look like they have any real injuries They're you know, probably their second Most targeted person when he's healthy lad McConkey came back for his first game against Auburn So having him getting fully back into the flow of this is is also encouraging and then Kentucky Kentucky He's just not a very good football team. I mean I talked about the actually I didn't talk about them on the show last week I Like Florida a lot last week against Tucky Kentucky and Kentucky made me look bad because they won that game going away But you know, a lot of that was explosive plays Ray Davis had 280 rushing yards 75 yard touchdown run and And not a lot of else, you know, they have Devon leary at the quarterback position the transfer over for NC State This guy's been terrible up there on the ball for over two seasons now I I don't think Kentucky can break big plays against Georgia's defense partially because big plays have a huge random element Partially because Georgia's defense is elite. I don't think Kentucky is very good Preseason I would have made this more than three touchdowns Right now I have it at about 16 and a half 17. I think there's a lot of value here. I would you know, I mean you could have gotten 14 earlier in the week I still take 14 and a half. I think I think Georgia. I think Georgia can run away with us So as I had to mention Georgia minus 14 and a half right now if they into a sports book the minus 14 and a half is minus 105 at Fandell for this one I think the the encouraging thing Ed if we're talking about the flip side of Georgia We talked about being skeptical of them for the national championship But it kind of goes back to what you said with the Auburn game where when they needed to push They had a guy they could lean on that entire time and he's a legitimate needle mover So the counterpoint would be when Georgia's in tough games They may be okay because when they put the pedal to the metal they can still be Really really scary. So obviously that that may not matter for Kentucky because they may not need to like go Fully in to leaning on Brock Bowers, but like I think that that from a broader perspective was somewhat encouraging I know it's like a bad game overall, but it's encouraging to me to see that when they had turned it on they still could Yeah, I mean anything is like if you want them to cover this like ideally you want them to turn it on When right game kicks off, right? And and that's what you really I mean That's what I think we'll see from Georgia, right? Like they're like we haven't really been playing up to our level Let's let's let's go ahead and do this and and let's start putting away teams in the first half Like we're used to doing in these types of games against teams with not really the same level of talent Yeah, exactly. Okay. So that is on Georgia minus 14 and a half Which is minus 105 right now at Fandell taking on Kentucky Final game. We are going to discuss for today is Notre Dame at Louisville right now Notre Dame is a six and a half point favorite total in this game is 54 and a half is up a point from where it was yesterday Notre Dame has been very good financially to you Ed so far this year got the the cover last week luckily Against Duke got the cover against in the opener as well over in Ireland Can they do it again Ed or does Louisville keep this one close? Yeah, no, I mean, it's interesting. You know, I have this Notre Dame by five so not really showing any value Honestly on either side You know Notre Dame has been pretty good on both sides of the ball definitely team. I believe in They're missing their kicker. So that's certainly not a good thing. And then, you know Louisville is is In the first year under Jeff Brown, they've been pretty good.  They've moved up since then in my numbers But I don't know. I think the market is basically pretty good on this one I wouldn't bet it either way. I believe in Notre Dame, but that looks like just a little bit too high of a number Were you watching able to watch the end of the Duke game last week? I did I did catch that because it looks like it looked like the cover was Definitely not going to happen just because of the game state right kick a field goal towards the end of that game But uh, yeah, I'll take it. Yeah, I I heard market streaming talking after the game like yeah If a steam, you know, we would have encouraged him to go down if we could have and I was like, thank god you didn't because Like and like I get it because I think the counterpoint to saying, okay You should have gone down to kick the field goal The counterpoint is like you really want to trust the kicking game in its current state to win you that game Or do you want the guaranteed points? So? I think that even though Like even though it seems a bit fluky that they scored that touchdown I do think that like all things considered that probably was the right move to to score the touchdown that scenario Right, and I think there's probably a difference, you know In college versus pros, right? I mean we all A much different scenario, but you know patch from the home is taking the slide Yeah, was the end of the game versus the Jets which, you know Call some winners become losers Call some losers become winners But uh, yeah, so I I think uh I don't know. I'm glad you went in so yeah take the win I had over 41 and a half for that Jets That Jets chiefs game, so I was chilling I thought it was a great game personally got to They made it closer than it should have been because it was pretty we got over 43 real fast, but over 40 real fast, but Still, uh, I was okay with the way things transpired at the end of that one That is all that we have here for today and for this week on the college football side of things But fear not Ed is back with us once again tomorrow to break down week number five in the nfl Which should be a fun one once again at if people are looking for the Numbers you referenced in the college football side of things. Where can they get to those? Yeah, I mean you can always get a sample of my stuff in my free email newsletter. Check that out at the power rank dot com The numbers I talk about on the show are saved for paying members of the site You can check out more about that at the power rank dot net nfl predictions college football predictions and uh, I've been doing nfl interception props this year as well So check that out At the power rank dot net Alrighty, that's the power rank net for those the power rank dot com for the general site The football analytics show for Ed's football podcast and on twitter at the power rank I am on twitter at gymsonus j i m s a n n e s We are once again back with you tomorrow talking week number five in the nfl Don't forget to check out primetime tom for thursday night football as well right here in the covering the spread podcast feed this has been covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network


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Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industrial finished down 57, Nasdaq up 45, S&Ps up 5.5, Gold, Gold Contract down $1.80, traded $18.18 an ounce, we had Silver down 9 cents, $20.10 an ounce, Light Sweet crewed off a buck 7, $76.51 a barrel, notes and bonds, a 10-year note, down one tick trading at $1.1028, the 30-year up 5 ticks at $1.2707 and $Kingdala, $Kingdala up 29 ticks, trading $105.644, the euro is out here at a price point of $105, the yen is at $137, the British pound is at $118 to $1 US. We get over and take a look at the spy folks, you get the sideways, move out here today with volume, this is building costs for lower price. We did 68 million shares and you're coming against basically 85 million but you get a sideways move, that's all this is. We're going to take a look at the NBX100, the cues, you get the same type of setup inside the cues, the amount of energy that it takes to either go down like we did yesterday or to go that far up folks, that's what you actually saw out here. The cues, we take a look at the cues, that's a little bit different than the cues, the cues rejected lower price at that $294 and then you can see it got into the bar a bit, so the cues are going to get a little more of a pop. We're up $148, we're at $297.82, gold contract, we're already in an ABC structure down in the gold contract, it looks to me like it's going to go after another B point of an additional ABC down and that B point there is $1810 and it needs 185,000 contracts I think, maybe less than that actually. We did 200 and something thousand yesterday, today we did, yeah you need 185,000, we did 184 today, yesterday you did 240, so we're going to go after it, the real bottom line is that you're going to have the contract volume and if we get it, bottom line, that one there, one of them is 1781 and the other one is I believe around 1760 and it's going to be all about this good old dollar folks, it's all about the dollar, the dollar went higher yesterday with conviction, building cause today went sideways, we're at 105, 670, I expect we're going to get to the 106,500, 107 and if it's a 0.618 you're going to go to 109. Have a great night folks, have a safe night, come back and visit Tommy tomorrow morning, kicks us off 9am, great show folks, we'll get them folks.