Hey everyone, Lee Lowell here, smartoptionsower.com. Today, hey, I got a special midweek video here for everyone. It's today's Wednesday, August 4th, 2021. Listen, I got a couple of questions this week about Apple's current dividend. Apple declared a dividend a couple of days ago that goes ex-dividend date on Friday, August 5th, which is, no, I'm sorry, this weekend, August 6th. Let me check the date here real quick. So yes, so Friday, August 6th and two days from now is the ex-dividend date for Apple's dividend. So, and people are selling covered calls on these things on Apple. So there's a relationship between selling covered calls and being aware of the dividend that a company reports. So this special video that I'm making today is specifically about Apple, but it can apply to any company that has a dividend coming up. And if you're currently a call option seller, as a naked call option seller, or selling covered calls, specifically covered calls.  And you could be in for a surprise, something that you didn't know before, if you've never really sold covered calls before I want you to be aware of this situation. So let's jump right in and talk about this. So the lesson here is selling covered calls and dividend dates. It's very important to be aware of when a company is paying out a dividend, but specifically the ex-dividend date. So I just want you to make sure you're reading these things. If you're a seller of call options, whether that's covered calls or naked calls, you could be assigned early on those covered calls before you ever thought that you could be assigned. And the kicker is that you'll have to pay the dividend to the stockholder. So let's jump back for a second and just make sure we're all on the same page. A stockholder will receive a dividend from the company when they pay out the dividend. A call option buyer or a call option holder is not privy to those dividends.  So what call option buyers do, if it's beneficial, they will exercise those call options early, which turns their call options into actual shares of stock. So then they become actual shareholders and then they can receive the dividends. That's what happens. That's what a lot of call option buyers can do. They can exercise their options early if it's beneficial to do so. And I will show you what makes it beneficial.  Now, the X dividend date is probably the most important date here. The X dividend date comes before the actual dividend is paid. The X dividend date is the cutoff date where you have to be shareholders in the company, which actually you have to be an owner of those shares the day before the X dividend date. So let's talk about Apple here for a second. Apple's got a dividend coming up and they go X dividend date on Friday, this Friday, August 6th. So you have to be a shareholder on record before August 6th. So that means August 5th. Basically, you have to have shares of Apple in your account by the end of trading on August 5th in order to receive that dividend. Okay, so any call option buyer that is holding an in the money call option could exercise that option early before August 6th to take ownership of the shares and then to receive the dividend. Now, if you're the call option seller, you may get assigned early and you'll have to pay out the dividend to the shareholders if you don't take action on your short call. So let's run down what you can do on both sides of the transaction to make sure that you're doing it properly. Now, Apple's dividend is 22 cents a share. That's what they've declared. So the call option always consists of or any option consists of 100 shares of stock. So in that case, it'll be $22 for every call option that is held. One call option is 100 shares. So we're talking 22 actual dollars that are on the line here that a call option buyer would exercise their shares just to receive those $22 for every 100 shares that they own. So in this case, if a call option buyer and hence the person on the other side, the call option seller is holding a in the money call option, then they have to decide if it's worth it for them to exercise that call option early to capture the dividend. Now, what will make the person or the call option buyer decide that it's worth it for them to exercise that call option? Well, you have to compare the size of the dividend which is 22 cents versus the time premium that's left in that option contract, okay? So here's what I'm talking about. What's the tipping point in deciding to exercise early? If the dividend payout is greater than the time value of the option then assignment will happen or exercise will happen. Now, some of you may be thinking, well, what's time value? I don't understand what you're talking about, Lee. Can you explain what time value is? Yes, every option contract, I should say every in the money option contract is consists of the options price consists of intrinsic value and extrinsic value. That extrinsic value is what's called the time premium and I'll go over some option examples and I'll show you. So as an option gets closer to expiration that that option is in the money, the time value is there's a little bit of time value left that if you exercise that option and turn it into shares of stock, you will forgo as a profit that extra time value, okay? So some cases it's better to just sell the call option to capture that time value. When you sell an option, you'll capture that time value. When you exercise an option, you will forgo you will give up that extra time value and the time value could be a lot of money. So you have to understand what you're doing. You have to understand how much time value is left in that option, okay? So in Apple's case, the Apple's dividend is 22 cents a share. Is that 22 cents greater or smaller than what's left in the time value of whatever in the money option you're currently holding, okay? And an easy way to understand or see how much time value is left is you look in the last line right here, you look at the corresponding put options price of that same strike, okay? So let me pull up the Apple options here and let's go over some numbers so you'll understand whether it's worthy of you exercising and in the money option early to capture the dividend and we'll talk about what the time value is. So here's Apple options. We got call options over here, put options on the right. So these are Apple options that actually expire on this Friday, August 6th, 2021 which is the ex-dividend date but you'd have to have the shares in your account before that, August 5th. So that's actually tomorrow. Today's Wednesday, August 4th, tomorrow's August 5th, 2021. So we're very timely here but let's take a look at some Apple options just to see what we're talking about. Now Apple's currently trading at $146.75 right here and let's take a quick look at some at-the-money options. Now the 146 calls inputs, the 146 calls, let's look at those. If Apple was to expire today at $146.76, the 146 calls would be in the money by 74 cents right now, okay? You take the stock price and you subtract the call so 146.75 minus 146 equals 75 cents. On expiration day, these 146 calls should be worth no more than 75 cents per contract but as you can see here, they're worth $1.28, $1.29 which is greater than the 75 cents of intrinsic value. Intrinsic value is what you get when you subtract the strike price from the stock price. Right now, this 146 call will be worth 80 cents on expiration day but we're not at expiration yet, we've got two days left so these 146 calls are worth $1.28, $1.29. So why is it worth more than 80 cents? If that's all it's worth on expiration day? Well, that's because you still have some time left. You have two days left and in order to figure out what that time value is, like I said, you look at the corresponding put option of the same strike. The put option's worth 67 or 68 cents. That is the time value. That is the extrinsic value. So what you would do is obviously this call option, the 146 calls has intrinsic value of 80 cents a contract plus another 67, 68 cents. You add those two together and you get its current value of $1.32, $1.31, whatever. So we're talking about is it smart to exercise and in the money option right before a dividend payment. Now Apple's dividend is 22 cents a share. Let's just say you had purchased the 135 calls a month or two ago, hoping that Apple would go up in price. And on the other side, you have the call option seller who has some Apple shares themselves but they wanted to sell some covered calls bringing some extra cash. So you sold the 135 call strike at the time. Maybe Apple was trading at $135 at the time. So you figured I'll sell the at the money 135 calls. Well, you can see Apple has rallied up to $1.46, 86 right now. So these 135 calls are in the money by almost $12 a share. And if you're the call option holder, you need to decide now is it worth it for me to exercise these call options and take ownership of the shares so I can get the 22 cent dividend that Apple will be paying out. And I have to exercise these call options by tomorrow, I guess, August 5th. And it also depends on how fast your broker turns around and actually turns them into shares of stock. So you need to talk with your broker about that. I don't wanna give any wrong information but the shares need to be in your account by end of day August 5th, which is tomorrow. So you have these 135 calls. So what you do is you see how much time value was left by looking at the corresponding put option price which is one or two cents a contract. So there's like no time value left whatsoever. This call option is basically all intrinsic value. So you're seeing that well 22 cents dividend is greater than two cents. So that means it will be smart to exercise these call options turn them into shares of stock and I'll capture the 22 cent dividend. Now the person on the other side, the call option seller that you sold these covered calls, Apple's risen high. So you know that you're going to get assigned at some point but the key here is that if you get assigned you're on the hook to pay out the $22 a share 22 cents per share on these call options. So if you sold one call option and you get assigned early before you realize what's going on not only are you gonna now have short 100 shares of Apple in your account at $135 a share which you knew when you sold the covered calls but now you're gonna have to pay an extra $22 out of your pocket to the option holder.  Now if you sold 10 call options, you're out $220. So you need to be very aware of how much time value is left in these call options if you're a covered call seller. Now the 140 calls are in the money as well and that time premiums worth, time value is worth five cents. So that's still less than 22 cents. You're at risk of being assigned early. So we need to see which options are greater than 22 cents at the moment. So it looks like the 145 calls here, the 145 puts are still worth about 35 cents. So you're okay but you're getting close to that 22 cent mark that you might need to take action.  Well, if you don't want to pay the dividend payout, you have to get out of your call. You have to get out of that short call. How do you do that? Well, you gotta buy the call option back that you sold or you roll your short call out to a further expiration date. Let's take a look August 20th which is the monthly expiration.  So that's very close to the dividend payment as well. So anything that's deep in the money here, apples trading at 147, all these in the money call strikes are you have to check the time value. Now, if you sold the 140 calls, the 140 puts have a extrinsic or time premium of 60 cents. So you're safe on these. Okay, so if you're holding these August 20th and you sold the 140 covered calls, you're still safe because the time premium of 60 cents is greater than the dividend of 22 cents. So you are not in any danger of being assigned early unless you've got a call option buyer who just doesn't understand the game and they exercise their options early which would be detrimental to them because they'll forego the 60 cent time premium. They'll get the dividend of 22 cents but they'll lose out on the 60 cents here. So they'll actually lose out on 38, 39 cent of extra profit. Okay, so if you've sold any covered calls and they happen to be in the money right now and the company is about to declare or is ready to declare a dividend, you need to be aware of the ex-dividend date of that company. So if you're holding a covered call that's in the money, you need to look at the whatever time premium is left and compare it to the dividend price. And then you'll know whether you need to take action.  Okay, so it's very important. I got some questions about that this week. So I hope that answers it. Let's go back to my cheat sheet here. So understand that if you sell covered calls and the company is about to announce an earnings and that option is in the money, make sure that whatever time premium is left is greater than whatever the dividend payment is for that stock. Okay, so just be aware. Now I had a situation that I got taken by surprise. This was just me being lazy. I had to pay out the dividend on, I had a call spread that I had sold that I forgot about the dividend being paid out and I was exercised early or signed early and I had to pay out the dividend a couple of hundred dollars which I was not happy about. I had forgotten about it. So be aware any covered call that you sell or naked call that you sell, understand when the company announces dividends because you may be on the hook to shell out more money than you thought you'll have to pay for those dividends. All right, so that's the special edition of the midweek special edition of selling covered calls and being aware of dividend dates. I hope this has been helpful for some of you. If so, please give me a thumbs up on this YouTube video, leave me a comment, share your own stories if you wish. Send me an email and I hope this has been helpful. This is Lee Lowell signing off.


So you will see a lot of formula in this talk. I would like also to tell you that some of them were also found by another team of researchers, so including Dan Benstein, Tanya Lang, and David Coel. So essentially a similar model, what they call twisted Asian curves. Okay, so let's start. And maybe last comment, so in the last talk, Greg just told you that's all tricks to speed up the arithmetic on the empty curve where exhausted. So I hope that after this talk, you will be convinced that it's not completely true. So if you ask a mathematician what's an empty curve, so he will tell you that's an empty curve is a non-singular, a genius one curve with one rational point on it. So in a more concrete way, you can say that's an empty curve is given by a real stress equation where all the coefficients are in some field F. And what we are looking to is actually the set of rational points on the curve. That is all the points on the field, so that satisfy the stress equation. And here you can see that the point that infinity is always on the curve. So this is our rational point. So if there is just one thing that you have to remember about the empty curve is that's the set of all those points from a group. And so that's something which is very useful. So as you will see in a moment. And the natural element is the point at infinity. And so it's quite easy to get the group flow. So it's given by the code and tangent rule. So what do we need an empty curve? So there are a lot of applications. So here are some of them. So they can be used to factorize integer. So there's a very efficient algorithm due to Lensstrah. You can also use, so I guess you all know that, you can use the empty curve for crypto. And the last application for the empty curve is when you have to prove the probability of some number. So again, using the empty curve, so this is quite efficient. So we have application and of course, what we want is an efficient way to compute on the empty curves. So this is the subject of this talk. So for crypto, so it's useful to use empty curve because today there is no way, sorry, there is some way, but there are no sub exponential way to break the discrete log on the empty curve. So this in turn means that you can use shorter key. And so it means also that the competition are faster. So there are different ways to speed up the arithmetic. So you can of course look at the level of the finite field. So you can prove the arithmetic of the finite field. And of course, you will end up with something which is more efficient. But, and there are still some things to do at this level too. So you can also speed up the empty curve arithmetic. So there are different ways to do so. So you can play with the curve equation. You can also look at different coordinate system. And here there are some points I would like to address. So remember that we have points, we have to add point on the curve. And because of the additional loss, so you have exactly two set of equations. So one to add points and another set to double a point. And what is very nice at least for the implementer is to have just one set to add points. Okay, so when you can use exactly the same formula to add or double points, so we said that the addition is complete. So this is really something which is useful. So first because it makes the implementation easy. Second because also it gives some protection against some side channel attacks. Think for example of all SPA type attack. And also, so for example, if you look at some other implementation, so it means that you can save some space. So it means also you save some money. So I will show you different way to add points.  I will also present you, so sometimes you just need speed, so you don't care about complete formula. So in that case, you may be interesting to have also very fast doubling formula. So I will also show you how this is possible. Also, so one way to compute a scalar multiplication on an elliptic curve, so it's by relying on the so-called Montgomery letter. So in that case, you need what we call a differential addition. So again, we can do it fast. And last formula, so I will show you is auto triple a point. So given some point P, auto compute three times P. So there are many, many, many different way to present an elliptic curve. So here are some of them. So maybe you know the first one, so the classical register as equation, but there are many other one. So all those one are valid over large point field. Okay, so you see the addition curve. So this one. So we can do the same for field of characteristic two. So here are some other curves that we know. So again, you can use the register as equation, but the addition form is also valid and then there is also a binary, so binary Edoard's curve that you can use to play on the binary fields. So if you now take a look at the geometric representation of those curves, so first you may observe that there are indeed elliptic curves, so just one interpoint. And you see at the bottom, so the addition curve and that one is quite beautiful. Actually they are all beautiful because they are very symmetric. So the addition one is very nice. The same for Edoard's, so maybe they are most too beautiful. So maybe you won't agree with that, but I find it beautiful. So this is the equation of an addition curve. So now you have to add two points, so X1, Y1, X2, Y2. So you see that again, the formula is quite elegant. So they are fully symmetric and this is not really a surprise if you look at the curve equation. So you can also double a point, so given X, Y, and Y1, so we have to compute two times this point. So again, you see that formula is quite elegant. So natural elements is the point at infinity one minus one, zero, and you can also observe that to compute the inverse of a point is quite simple, so you have just to swap the two coordinates. So we have a new form, so we can use them for cryptography and actually they have been used. So the first paper, of course, was the paper by S, that's a very old one. And then the two Cheydovsky brothers, so play with the equation and came with a more efficient way to compute on this curve. They can also be used to emulate, so you can use the addition to emulate the doubling. You can also use Asian curve in a parallel way, so it fit nicely in that setting. And also you can play with the coordinates, so not just presenting the point with the classical X, Y, and Z coordinate, but you can add more coordinates to get more efficient arithmetic. So if we look at the startup form, so the one we know today, so you see that it's quite fast, so you just need 12 multiplication to add two points. And if you have enough memory, so it means that you can use extended coordinates, so in that case, you see that you can trade some multiplication against some squares. Problem is, so the same as for the restress equation, so you cannot use as is the same formula to double a point or to add two different points. So of course, because of that, sorry, the addition law is not complete, so you cannot use the addition law to, for example, double a point, but also you cannot add two points if the difference is a point at infinity. Also it's not possible to represent all elliptic curve using this model because you have to assume that there is a point of other three on your curve. And the converse is not true, so it's not because you have a point of other three that you can use this model. So we will generalize the addition model, so we just add one parameter, so parameter C. So in the addition case, C is equal to one. So this is what we call the generalized addition curves. So because we would like to avoid, it was for you. So because you'd like to avoid division, so we look at the projective form, I have competition, so it's difficult to ask you to stay. So to listen to elliptic curve and press some nice things happening there, that's not interesting. So, what did I say? So that's some point on the curve, so at infinity, so the natural element, so we can choose one minus one zero and again you see that's to inverse a point, so it's quite easy, you just have to swap the X and Y coordinates. So, now if we have to develop the addition law, so because we have this isomorphism, sorry, this isomorphism with the regular addition model, so it's easy to get the addition law on this model. So to add two points, so we have this, so which is exactly the same as for the regular addition model and to double a point, so the only difference is that you see parameter C, so in the equation, which is equal to one of course, on the usual addition model. So of course, we can do exactly the same using projective coordinates, so as I told you before, so the problem is that you cannot use that one to double a point, so we have to find something else and actually this is quite easy, so if you have two points, P1 and P2, so there is point T, so which is point of order three, so I can define point Q1 which is equal to P1 plus T and point Q2 which is equal to P2 minus T and instead of computing P1 plus PQ, so we simply compute Q1 plus Q2 and because T minus T is equal to zero, so the result will be the same. So now, we just plug Q1 and Q2 in equation one and we have this and the good news is that this one is unified, so it means that you can use this one to double a point, so if you know swap, so the other of the two points, so instead of computing P1 plus P2, you compute P2 plus P1, so you have another set of formula and so as for the regular addition model, so you see that that one also is very efficient, so there are just one more application by some constants, so this is true over large prime field and also over binary fields, so you see that if you know compare it with the other one, so you see that it's quite competitive, so of course it cannot be faster than the regular addition one, but this one is more general because whenever you have a point of other three, you can use the last form. So far, we have unified formula, so what we really want to have is complete formula, so we are almost close to that, so if you take a look at the Twitterion, so you can write the Twitterion as the unit of three sets, so the set of point of infinity and set T1 and T2, so remember that the first equation I add, so this one, so this one I cannot use it when the two points, the difference of the two points is a point at infinity and this one, so equation two and equation three, so I cannot use that one when the difference of the two points is T1 or in T2, so if no, C is not the cube in the field, so in that case, the additional law is complete, so it means that you can use it to add points, to double points, and there are no exceptions, so whatever the two input points, you can use the very same formula, so you just add one and this is easy to see, so if you look at the definition of T1, you see that when C is not the cube, so the set of rational point in T1 is empty, remember that the formula was valid when the difference of the two points was not in T1, so it's quite easy to see, so of course, additional law is complete, so there are no exceptions, and also of course, so when C is not the cube, you can use this formula so that they are complete, but you can also work in a subgroup H, which is this one from T1, and again, the formula will be complete, so here are two examples, so the first example is when Q is, so the cardinality of the finite field is equal to one mod three, and when C is not the cube, so in that case, the addition is complete, and another example is when you work in a subgroup, which is not a multiple of three, so in that case, also addition is complete, so that was one point, so something we use also in crypto is the Montgomery ladder, so again because it is very efficient, and on top of that, it is also resistant against such an attack, so simple such an attack, which is a good way to compute this kind of multiplication, so here, even a point P, X1, and YY, so I will present it in a compact way by W, so because you see that the expression of W is symmetric, so in X and Y, W of P is equal to W of minus P, because computing the inverse just means to swap the X and Y coordinates, so if I have to double a point using the W coordinates, so here is the formula, if we use as usual a projective form, so you see again that it is quite efficient, so we just need one multiplication, three squaring, and two multiplication by some constants, so this is for the bubbling, no for adding two different points, so I have to assume that I know their difference, so I have to compute W1 plus W5, and so again, so you see that this is quite fast to evaluate, so using a projective form, so we just need six multiplication, one squaring, and one multiplication by a constant, so again, so you see that this is very competitive, so for a binary field, so we just need seven multiplication, four squaring, and one or three multiplication by a constant, so to sum up, so we presented a generalized asian form, so which is quite useful, because first whenever you have a point of other tree, you can use that form, it's possible to derive a complete addition on those curves, the arithmetic is efficient, and this is especially true when working on a field of characteristics, so thank you for your attention.


exploring beneath the waves presented by science at NASA. Oceans cover over 70% of Earth's surface and profoundly influence our planet's atmosphere, weather, and climate. However, uncovering the many secrets hidden beneath the ocean's waves presents unique challenges for researchers and requires specific technology to observe what humans can't see. NASA technologists are developing sensors that can improve measurements of Earth's oceans. Creating new instruments to study aspects of our home planet we haven't before been able to research. Imaging what's below the ocean's surface requires the development of a new instrument capable of improving the information available to scientists. Vegchariath, a scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, says images of objects under the surface are distorted in several ways, making it difficult to gather reliable data about them. Chariath has a technology solution. It's called fluid-lensing. He says, refraction of light by waves distorts the appearance of undersea objects in a number of ways. When a wave passes over, the object seems bigger, due to the magnifying effect of the wave. When the trough passes over, the objects look smaller. Fluid-lensing is the first technique to correct for these effects. Without correcting for refraction, it's impossible to determine the exact size or extent of objects under the water's surface, how they're changing over time, or even precisely where they are. Chariath developed a special camera called FluidCam that uses fluid-lensing to see beneath the waves and capture terabytes worth of 3D images at 1.5 centimeter resolution, snapping imagery from aboard an unmanned aerial vehicle. The key to fluid-lensing lies in the unique software Chariath developed to analyze the imagery collected by FluidCam. He explains that this software turns what would otherwise be a big problem into an advantage, not only eliminating distortions caused by waves, but using their magnification to improve image resolution. He is focusing FluidCam on coral reefs, the health of which have been significantly degraded due to pollution, over-harvesting, increasing ocean temperatures and acidification among other stressors. To understand how the reefs are affected by environmental and human pressures and to work with resource managers to help identify how to sustain reef ecosystems, researchers need to determine how much healthy reef area exists now. Fluid-lensing could help researchers establish a high-resolution baseline of global reef area worldwide by augmenting data sets from multiple NASA satellites and airborne instruments. This effort will help identify the effects of environmental changes on these intricate, life-filled ecosystems. Chariath and his team design special software to teach supercomputers how different conditions, such as different sizes of waves, affect the images captured. The computers combine data from multiple airborne and satellite data sets and identify objects in the images accordingly, distinguishing between what is and is not coral and mapping it with 95% greater accuracy than any previous efforts. He says, we created an observation and training network called NemoNet, through which scientists and members of the public can analyze imagery captured by FluidCam and other instruments to help classify and map coral and 3D. This is the database we use to train our supercomputer to perform global classifications. Chariath is working toward a space-based FluidCam from orbit the camera could map coral reef ecosystems globally and help researchers better understand the overall health of coral reefs. To learn more about the amazing technologies NASA uses to explore on planet, visit science.nasa.gov.


Well, the order came from above, but at that point Commander Sackett was the commander of the Meraviles area. So he gave the orders. The fellow that actually carried out the scuttling was a Lieutenant Commander Al Hedi, who was the first lieutenant. So the decision was made to scuttler because she was still a valuable ship at that point because she could produce lots of little parts and pieces and she was actually doing a lot of work for the Army, like supporting and also construction work that was going on. She was making parts for bulldozers, for tanks, she was making stretchers for take care of casualties. She was a very valuable ship. They literally opened everything up. They could be opened up. The men went to work with sledgehammers on the equipment, the delicate optics and what not.  There were four torpedoes left in the magazines and they wrecked them so they couldn't be used. And so eventually everything that was done to sink the ship was done. She was backed out under her own power. She wasn't towed. She was under way until the very end. The canopas are out in the middle of the Meraviles Harbor going down. I was at 228 signal operation battalion on Baton, Army Outfit. My last order I got from the Army was, you are on your own. Baton is being surrendered. The boats were gone. The crew was gone. They had already left and went to Carigador. Me and three other guys, we formed up and we found some floating material and we swam over to Carigador about a mile away. We were fortunate I think. We caught the tide right. Remember, we got to Carigador. The Marines over there said, telling us, go back to Baton.  But they finally let us aboard and we went back with the canopas crew upon Gary trail on Carigador and they formed what they called the Navy Battalion. They were sending people to various units and various smaller ships within the inshore patrol operating out of Carigador and Meraviles. So she was serving as sort of a personnel pool. The largest amount of men went to the 4th Marine Regiment which had been pulled out of China just before Pearl Harbor in late November. They were originally on Baton and then went to Carigador to man the beach defenses. The Marines sent a couple of sergeants to try to teach us how to be infantrymen. The time on Carigador we were there about 30 days approximately from April of 9th until May the 6th. The Japanese landed on Carigador the night of May the 5th. The Navy Battalion went out and fought them with the Marines and the Army. General Wainwright sent her to Carigador and all the rest of the Philippines on May the 6th of 1942. We were ordered to lay down her arms. The war was over for us and that was all of the canopas at that point. She was on the bottom of the ocean. They finally says we're taking you out. We were put on a boat and taken to Manila. We were marched from the docks to the railroad station in Manila. The Filipinos are all on the sidewalks trying to give us something, helping us if they could. We were loaded and taken to commander to one number three. I was there from only a few days really. I was called out of commander to one by name rank and serial number. We were 1500 all told. But they called us out one after another and load us on the Totori Maru Japanese troopship. There were 1500 Americans and 1500 Japanese soldiers on it. We went from Manila to Formosa, stopped there. We went out and headed out and we were fired on by an American submarine. It fired three torpedoes. One of them broached and the routine on the ship was half of the 1500 Americans were below deck. The other half were on top, up on the deck. But we hollered and we saw all the torpedoes and the commanding officer of the Totori Maru swung the ship just enough. One torpedo passed on one side, the other passed on the other side. Both of them missed. They took us off up on the dock and washed us down with fire hoses. We went out again. Submarines were sighted. We went back in. This time they took Japanese soldiers off. And we went from there over shallow waters of China on up to Busan, Korea I think it was. Loaded on the train and taken on up to Gamuk-do. More than 27,000 Americans were held captive in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Nearly half didn't make it home.


It's DDK, and I'm back today with another video. Shout out to you for tuning in. If you're not subscribed, do me a favor and smash that subscribe button. I will be doing a giveaway when I get 50,000 subscribers. I'm giving away 500. I'm gonna show you guys who's running. The prizes are 250, 150, and 100 in hundreds. We gonna keep on running it, like Chris Brown, when he playing around. In today's video, baby, I have a crazy, I got a crazy story time for you guys. So let's get right into it. Let's get right into the story, baby. I know you wouldn't know this story, baby.  So the order pops in. Book up! That joint come right in, baby. Now, we are going to the airport. We are picking up 50 parcels. The parcels are oversized bags, like some body bags, some big rolling suitcase type of things, and some hat boxes. But the crazy thing about this order is it's supposed to weigh 3,500 to 3,999 pounds, baby. So it's gonna be crazy. But I'm thinking in my head, isn't really gonna weigh this much. I don't really think it is because what you're pretty much telling me is, each bag gotta weigh like 75 pounds or something. I just don't, I don't know, man. I'm thinking it's really not gonna weigh that much. So 50 parcels again, we're driving 18.4 miles. The payout is 229.68. We went there to get that cake to be great. And guess what? We gonna skate. We're headed right to the airport. We get there. Mind you, I'm supposed to pick up this order at 7 p.m., not a.m., 7 p.m. We drive to the airport. I'll call them. Hey, how you doing? This Jerome. I'm here to pick up the bags and the luggage for you. Guess what they say. I'm glad you called. Guess what? Our flight has been delayed three times. The flight has been delayed three times, baby. Why didn't y'all call me? That's what I wanna know. As the flight was delayed, why didn't y'all give me a call? So hey, how you doing, Jerome? The flight is gonna be late. So come at this time. They never told me nothing. So now it's 7 p.m. and I'm gonna have to sit there all the way until 9.30, baby. So two hours and 30 minutes. So I'm like, you know what? Guess what? I ain't gonna know what's going on. I might as well sit in the way to 9.30 cause I might have to get paid for wait time anyway. What we gonna hear in the garage? So this happened. We pulled around to the pickup to pick up all this luggage. And I'm talking about, I'm walking that joint. First off, the ladies seemed like she was kind of rolling a little bit. I'm just gonna tell you guys the truth. They was kind of like, nah, it's not really, they didn't talk to me that much. Just said, wave me over there. Is that just the bags? And that's kind of walked off from there. Really didn't say nothing. So I'm thinking on my head, here we go with this. You, look, I just waited two and a half hours for you to get to the airport. I couldn't laugh. I just waited two and a half hours and you gonna be very ungrateful and not really appreciate what I'm doing. But it's all good, baby. I'm about to get this money and understand me. So, but to load these bags up, I'm talking about the bags were so big and heavy that the airport people had to actually get this big old cart thing and put body bags on there. I had a dolly, but I only was able to use the dolly one time because it was too heavy for the dolly. And like the bags were sliding off and all that stuff and I couldn't get through the door so I was like, forget all that. The dolly you guys stayed in the back of the van. So we get everything loaded up and now we're about to hit the road and get our pockets on the floor. So before I show you guys the footage of us unloading, I'm thinking in my head, the whole time when we drive, I'm thinking in my head like, man, I low key feel like y'all try to play with me. Y'all try to act like I was the help.  I've got to tell you guys this. It's a very important thing I'm gonna tell you this. Look, don't tell nobody this, but look. The person we picked up all this luggage and stuff for, the person, I didn't meet the person, but they are famous. They're celebrity, baby. It's a celebrity. That's why they had to carry all this luggage from the airport to the hotel because it was celebrity and they needed all this stuff for them. So it was crazy, baby. So that happened. But I'm thinking in my head, this is the whole time in my head, baby. As we driving to the pickup location, I'm like, guess what's gonna happen?  And when it's time for them to go back home, they're gonna have to call us because somebody's gonna put the order in the app and then somebody with a van is gonna come, but the van is not gonna be big enough to fit all this stuff because literally, I'm not lying to you guys, literally the van was filled to the brim. Oh, I wanna love it. Before we left the airport, guess what? They had the nerve to ask me, can I fit their luggage in there? Absolutely not.  Guess what?  Get in your Uber and take that luggage with you because it's the same thing. It's the same thing. I understand that everybody famous and all this, but hey, I don't care if it's Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, I don't care about nothing, whoever it is. Hey, treat people right because I ain't going for it. You don't get to just do me how you ever wanna do me. I ain't going for it, baby. My mom always told me, show people how to treat you. So that, boom. So we get there and then we unload and we let's get our pockets on swole. Oh yeah, step back from the puddles, man. Now, I wanna say huge shout out to the guys at the hotel. They helped them out a lot. It was real and it was real in the field, baby. It was real in the field. We got everything unloaded. It took like three or four of us. I had dragged the stuff to the back of the van and they took it, took it, took it, took it. So a huge shout out to them. But guess what happened? I go home, mind you guys. I didn't get home until 12 a.m. The pick up time was 7 p.m. We had to wait till 9 30. Then after 9 30, we had to get all the stuff in the van, take it to this hotel, unload it and we left Chicago at 11 p.m. and I got home at 12 a.m, baby. So we had a long day. But Sunday comes around. How do you follow this all the follows out there, baby? It's Sunday, I wake up in the morning to this text. The text said, hey sir, would you ever available tomorrow? I guess they was trying to say, hey sir, are you available tomorrow? They assigned a too small vehicle to put all that stuff in.  I told y'all what was gonna happen. Can you be there by 10 30 a.m.? So I said, okay, I can do it. But with the short notice, it's gonna be, guess how much? Guess how much I charge them to do this order? I need $500, I need $500, baby. I understand and all this and all that and all this and all this sounds good. But when I was there, it was kind of rude to me and I wasn't really feeling it. Trying to play me like I was like I was to help, like I was nothing. So guess what?  So they said, can you do $400 please? I said, $475 is the lowest I will go. That's it, that's all. That's it, that's all. They said, can you do $450? I said, $475 is the lowest I can go. They said, okay, do you have Zeal Cash App? I said, hey, I got Cash App, Zeal, Venmo, whatever you wanna do, baby. I just need that money like it ain't funny. So they already send me the money.  I get there, everything cool. I get there early, they told me to be there at 1030. I get there like at 1015-ish. I had to park over there, wait for them and then we loaded up all the bags. Now y'all about to see us get to this bag, let's go. And it is time to get it done, to get me the funds, y'all. So as you guys can see, we got these in, right?  Last time I had to take their luggage, I already told y'all that. I didn't take their luggage last time, so they snuck their luggage in. So I might have to put the luggage like up here somewhere on top of that. Now we have the first round of duffel bags, baby. Hey, we got plenty more to go. Y'all just gotta clean my room. We got plenty more to go and they definitely snuck this luggage in. I know what they did, I know what they did. Y'all know what y'all did, but it's all good, baby. Y'all about to pay me folks. Y'all already paid me 475, so I ain't complaining. I'm maintaining it. We have our second set of duffel bags added. They said there's 10 more duffel bags. Then we have some of these right here. Now, this is the finished product, baby. Y'all see what's going on. Look at all this. Ooh, yeah, just like that, baby. Time to get our pockets on store, let's go. Look what we ran into, baby. I'm talking about traffic, traffic. I'm looking for my traffic. There's a four of mine. I'm talking about big traffic, baby. This is only a 16 miles, this is only 18 miles away. And instead, it was gonna take 57 minutes just because of all this traffic, baby. That we are here at the airport to get busy. I'm glad you guys are with me. I can move kind of swift, we are our penipsi. Please observe. So, SkyeCat, hello, how you doing? Are you guys SkyeCat? Yes. Yes, I have to drop all like 50 bags of this band equipment. First slow done, baby. They got two big old cars. They got them joints out. So now we have to work on this, baby. So hopefully it won't come soon so we keep on getting busy. Yeah, baby. I hope you guys enjoyed the content. Now, what I learned from this whole experience is, hey, you got to pay to play and do not sure change yourself all the time thinking that you ain't gonna get the business. Look, if y'all want me to get up and do this, y'all gotta pay me that money, baby. I'm not going for anything less. $4.75 is the lowest I'm going. They pay me the $4.75 with no problem. And before I left, they said, they was very happy with my service. I made everything very easy for them.  After everything, they was real cool. They was real nice. They was, you know, we was having, we was having camaraderie then we was cool then. But before they tried to play me, baby. And I was not going. So learn from my mistakes. Do not always go for BS. I understand that we run into business and all that stuff but everybody needs to pay to play. Hey, hey, get the clapping. Hey, baby. Before we go, let me say this. Do not forget to subscribe. If you want your chance to win some of these dividends. Hey, and have your friends and you out here having a good time while y'all are throwing the grind. I'll see you guys on the next one. We going, we going, we flowing. You already know this, DDK. And I'm on my way.


Why Raven's outside linebacker Matt Judon is a lot more valuable than you think. Will Kalei's Campbell become a leader on this Raven's defense? Is Raven's organization so good to the point where it actually works against him? These and many many more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. YouTube Team Keep It Clean YouTube Team Keep It Clean was going on to sing Raven here with another video and another episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. This is a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to based off of any NFL team that we answered in the video just like this. And if you want to be part of NFL Questions from subscribers, just send me an email at teamkeepitcleanatgmail.com and we'll answer your question in the video just like that. If you ever want to send something to us, the PO box, the address for it is down below in the description. If you ever want to donate to the channel or anything like that, all of that information is down below in the description. We got a lot of questions to cover. We got a whole lot of questions to cover. Today is August 5th and you know what, let's just get into it. First question came from my boy TA804. He said, what's up in Raven? Hope all is well. I've been seeing roster moves opening up recently and a few names that stick out to me besides Antonio Brown are there's Brian Delaney Walker, Jordan Reed, and Josh Gordon. Out of all these names, if healthy, which guys could you see us picking up based on how you think the offense will look? Well, I know he did say he sent this question. He said that he said in a comment section of a recent video, he was like, man, every time I send a question, that person gets picked up referring to Jordan Reed because the 49ers just signed Jordan Reed. I would say, I think Delaney Walker, he would be a really good fit. Obviously Antonio Brown, we know the situation with that, but Delaney Walker, I think out of those guys, I think he would be the best fit because he's worked with Greg Roman and Greg Roman's system before. So I think it would be him. So maybe probably by the time you see this video, he probably get picked up by then. Next question came from a boy, Will. He said, what are doing, Graven? Love from California Bay Area. Oh, shout out to you. We appreciate it, man. From the West Coast. He said, quick question. I love Boykin's potential. His big body speed combo is intriguing, but I feel like he was slightly underused in this offense. True. With Hayden Hurd's shift to ATL, could you see them using Boykin as that third titan in certain packages? He might have to put on some muscle, but his blocking is already a strong point in practicing with guys like Boyle would only improve that. I can't get the Darren Waller situation out of my head and the similarities are uncanny. What are your thoughts? Oh, and you said love the channel. Keep up the good work. Appreciate it, Will. That would be cool. That would be cool. I would like that. You ain't got to make him have a full transition of titan, but if you're using in some packages, that could be cool. But at the same time, if he bolted up to where he just wouldn't, I mean, he can block, but then he would be blocking like more defensive linemen outside line backers. And that's a whole different ball game and blocking like cornerbacks and safeties. So I just wouldn't want it to get to the point where he bulked up too much and he bulked up to where he lost a lot of his speed because he still is a wide receiver. So that would be a tricky situation. And if it came to that, I would just rather him just stick to stick to receiver.  They just did just sign Drill Adams. And they still have some, they still have Charles scoff to maybe able to see what he can do in the NFL soon. And they still do have the opportunity to sign somebody else at that titan position. So you can leave Miles Boykin where he is as a six, five wide receiver that got all the potential in the world. Next question came from my guy, Mark basket 24. He said, do you think the Ravens should try to trade for Darius Leonard so they could add more help to the linebacker position? If so, what do you think the Ravens would trade to get Darius Leonard? Now, Darius Leonard would be great on this team. He is an amazing linebacker, but it would take everything for the Ravens to get Darius Leonard, man. They would have to give up probably multiple first round picks and even more picks, maybe even throwing a player there too. But they just drafted Patrick, Queen and Malik Harris and you got to get them boys a shot. So now Darius Leonard, while it would be nice, it just, it wouldn't be worth it.  Next question also came from my guy, TA804. He said, what up in Raven? By the time you're reading this in NFL world, knows AB will be suspended for eight games. As a longtime Ravens fan who has experienced average to below average wide receiver cores, I'd like us to pick up AB. What are your thoughts on a two year team option with a zero tolerance contract that is cheap and may come with some incentives that could be related to on and off the field stuff? I feel like our locker room is so solid he'll fit right in with no issues. Also wanted to get, okay, before you get into that. Yeah, I mean, y'all know how I feel about AB. I wouldn't mind if the Ravens signed him, I wouldn't mind if the Ravens didn't sign him. I don't think AB is a necessity to what the Ravens need to do and how they can get there. But I feel like he would definitely improve the team, even if it will be for eight games, eight games plus playoffs obviously too. But I feel like he could come in and just and help immediately, like right away, you know, he's going to be putting in work. But I would, I think it would be a one year deal. I mean, a two year deal, if somebody signed him to that, I think that would be more so so just in case he did still have it. And if he if he ended up doing really good, they'd be like, okay, we got you for a second year too. But just a one year deal, incentives, it will be heavily not even heavily incentivized because he'd be missing the first eight games. So it would just be a deal to where yeah, I think any deal that he does sign with anybody is going to be no tolerance. I didn't think anybody going to be putting up with anything. If they see any shenanigans, most teams, they're going to be like, okay, bye. And as far as your second question, he said, I also wanted to get your thoughts on our rematch games with Casey and Tennessee. We should have a fully healthy secondary and improved experience paths Russia that are perfect against Kansas City, and an improved D line and linebacker call, which are crucial in stopping Henry. Yeah, it is big. We are going to be playing a much Kansas City going to be going up against a bunch of different Ravens team and then they went up against, especially last year, because last year, they went up against the the two and two version of the Ravens team. They hadn't gone against the Ravens, the 12 game win streak Ravens, but still no excuses. They still took care of business Ravens did not. So they'll Ravens will definitely be more equipped to take care of Casey.  It's gonna be a battle. I do expect us to play them twice this season. I mean, with the Titans, too, that should that should definitely be a fun game. It's always a fun game against the Titans. Things get very personal when it comes to the Titans and probably because they used to go up against each other a lot more back in the day. But it should be fun, man. And he said, again, thanks for the content. No, again, thank you for the questions and I appreciate it, man. Next question came from a boy, Zay King. He said, I ain't great and hope all is well with you and your family. We all know scoring at the goal line was not hard. However, what if we could make it way easier? I had this idea, this new goal line formation idea. Ronnie Stanley, Orlando Brown lined up a Titan, normal offense, offensive line with Mada Bique and Broderick, Washington and Tackles, Phillips and Kaleas full backs. Rick Steiner running back and going up the middle.  That would be some big boys now. That'd be some big boys. You know how the Chicago Bay, they put the fridge back there, but this would be like this would be like a whole brand smart in the backfield if they did something like that. That would be wild. I think you should try it in Madden and then see how it works out and then let us know. Next question came from a boy, Zay King. He said, I ain't great and hope all is well with you and the family. Appreciate it, man. And if in a playoff game against the Titans drops were a big issue. And in that playoff game, we saw how quick, hard ball Roman lost faith in the run. After this, do you think they will have even less faith in passing the ball? Maybe limiting Lamar to 20 to 25 passes per game. Oh, that's a good question, man. I would definitely hope not. And I don't think so because Lamar, now while he did make some bad passes in that game, he made some really good ones too. He made some really good ones. And of course, the bad will get highlighted over the good because Raven's obviously lost. But he did make some really good passes in that game. And I think that's why they got approached and that's why they got a Duvenay. And that's why it was said that they tried to trade for Deandre Hopkins. But the point is they went after guys with short hands. They went after guys who catch that football, who don't drop. So that was very important. So you can have guys that Lamar can have more trust in and guys that are known for the exact opposite of what was happening in the playoffs. So I don't think they'll necessarily limit Lamar's passing. I don't think they should. I think they just, I hope they don't limit the running of the football like what happened in that playoff game. But I don't know. I don't think the playoff game should limit Lamar's throwing. I think they do need to work on their game planning, especially in playoff moments because that's past two years and big yikes. But yeah, I don't think it'll limit Lamar's passing. Next question came from my boy Adam L. He said, Now I know over the last two months we've been talking about what moves could be made. Now that we know there will be no OTAs, no mini-cams, no pre-season, along with rosters having to start with 80 players instead of 90. All 10 of our draft picks have been signed, where it will be hard for any undrafted free agents to make the roster. Last year we had the top secondary, but our pass rush and defensive line needed improvement, which has now hopefully been taken care of. Now I know Judon signed his franchise tag for 16.8 mil. Do you think it will be smart to trade him, save for Ryan Kerrigan, now that Washington has drafted Montez with Anna Chase Young over the last two years? Also, this could free up CapSpace to bring in Jadavian Clowney on a one-year Provid deal or a veteran at a cheaper price like Everson Griffin. No, I think you might as well just ride out with Judon for this year. Judon already knows the defense, and it is a complex defense, but he knows it, he knows his role, he knows what he can do, and now he'll have more help alongside him. And the one way to think about it is that Judon did get nine and a half sacks. A lot of them came when Ravenson sent a bunch of pressure and whatnot, some of them came against Titans, but nonetheless he still got nine and a half sacks. And for him to have gotten nine and a half sacks last year when the pass rush was not good at all, just imagine what he can do with a better defensive line, better pass rush, better line backers, better speed, just a more physical, more versatile defensive line around him, and more help around him. So I think Judon, and again, he's going to be playing another contract here. So you know he's going to be trying to show out so he can get paid at Brad, man. So I don't think it would be worth it to trade Judon for a Ryan Kerrigan. And his next question was, now what I'm about to ask, I've mentioned before, but I just read an article that makes sense. So I would like to hear your thoughts. Brandon Williams has two years left, but over the last two we have drafted Dalen Mack, well, now he's going, Justin Meta BK and Braderick Washington along with bringing back Justin Ellis. So if EDC was to consider trading B Williams, it frees up 14.2 more cap space, which would open up room to sign Stanley and add picks for next season. What do you think? Now for Brandon Williams, I don't, I don't think he's going anywhere this year because I know the dead, I don't know exactly what the dead money is, but it is crazy to it. It just, it can't happen. I think next year, though, next year he could be going, he's still a really good run stopper, really good run stopper. But I think the Ravens just, they're going to want to continue to get more versatile on a defensive line. And I think, depending on how the other guys do, they could end up taking a defensive lineman early, a disruptive defensive lineman, a disruptive interior defensive lineman early in the draft next year. We just got to see, but I think Brandon Williams, this year, no, he ain't going nowhere this year, but I think next year could be the year. And unfortunately with Brandon Williams, he is a fan favorite. He's really fun, always dancing, always in a good mood, having a good time. But I just, the business side, man, it's tough. It's one of the toughest parts in football, man, when that business gets in the way, man. And that's just the part that it can't be avoided. Next question came from a boy, Jarvis Fowler. He said, how do you think the salary hit, the salary hit on the cap will affect the signing extensions? Oh yeah, the cap dropping from 198.2 mil to 175 mil. That's a big, that's a lot. That's a whole lot. Mark Andrews is Todd Heep and Jacob Breeland is Dennis Pitta without the injury. So, well now, you see, I mean, he sent this way before Jacob Breeland was waived and put on the injury list, but yeah, man, that could have possibly been something, but yeah, it's going to have a big hit on it. Because now you have approximately 25 mil less than you were going into the season with. So that makes the decisions that much harder. And that's, oh, that's, that's scary, man. Because you already couldn't keep everybody, but now you definitely can't keep everybody.  Because yeah, you 25 mil less, man. You 25 mil, about 25 mil in the hole already. So that just, it just makes everything that much tougher. Next question came from my boy Yozef D. He said, what's up in Graven? Keep up the great work. Appreciate it, man. I don't know if you know, but many times on the live stream, I'm very passionate about Matt Judon, and I'm very against all the hate he gets. When Judon made his real estate in KC joke, all the hate poured out on him. But before we talk football, let's talk about why he's a valuable off the field player for the Ravens.  When the Ravens put the tag on him, he made it clear that he is the type of guy that wasn't going to hold out and he's willing to bet on himself this season. So just based off of that alone, I'm confused why people hate on him. Why would anyone hate a player who is confident in his own game, and a player who is well liked by his teammates? Now, let's get to football. First off, after watching some tape myself, which I'm not great at, I found that he seems to be a smart player. I found to my liking that many people who study film for YouTube vids agree with me on that. Ravens will play a 3-4 defense, meaning that outside linebacker will drop back into coverage many more times than an edge rusher in a 4-3 defense. Being that Matt Judon is also progressing every year in pass coverage, the Ravens make him drop back more times than many outside linebackers in a 3-4. For example, in the 2019 season, Khalil Mack had 487 pass rusher attempts, 8.5 sacks. Matt Judon had 450 pass rusher attempts, 9.5 sacks. Now, I'm not saying Judon is as good as Mack. I'm just trying to get people to understand that Judon is really good. Not every team can have a great pass rusher. Let's look at Judon's stats from the 2018-19 season compared to Mack. Mack had 434 pass rusher attempts, 12.5 sacks. Judon had 366 pass rusher attempts, 7 sacks. If Judon is getting the same pass rusher attempts as Mack, 68 more, he may have been able to reach 9 or 10 sacks. In the 2017-18 season for Judon, he had 333 pass rusher attempts and got 8 sacks. I couldn't find Mack's pass rusher attempts for that year. Don't get me wrong, Judon isn't Mack or Donald or Miller, but if you look at Judon's career, he was always the 3rd edge rusher on a team. 2018-19, Judon was behind both Zadaria Smith and Tyrell Suggs and he still produced. This pass season in his first year being one of the top 2 edge rushers, he had nobody else but him who could rush the passer at an above average level. Nobody. Yet, even though he might have been the only pass rusher other teams would have to seriously game playing for, he got 9 and a half sacks. So I feel that if you hate Judon because he isn't Khalil Mack, because he ain't a star, then you'll come to realize that you are wrong. This season, Judon is betting on himself. He's the main edge rusher in his 3-4 defense. And now, he has help. Campbell, Wolf, Matabique, and the development of Ferguson and Bowser will help Judon. It's not much of a question, but if you have any comments on this, please share. Hope you and the family are healthy and happy and making the best of this summer. Go Ravens. Appreciate it man. That was something. Wow. But yeah, he's right. Judon does get a lot of hate. And I think it's for a mix of reasons. One, it just all depends on where the fans are coming from. Some fans, they feel like Judon is and all that. It's just because the, I think one of the biggest problems with the NFL and with being a football player and just one of the toughest things about being an NFL player is that everything is public. So everything is out there. Everything is in the public.  Think about that.  They can watch every single play. They have film of you to watch from every single play that you've ever made. And your pay is publicized too. So they know exactly how much money you're getting every year. They know exactly how much money, they know how much money you're guaranteed to get. They know how much, how, how much average you're getting paid per year. They know all of that stuff. So that, that doesn't go in favor of these players because that allows fans to, to critique them even more because fans would be like, oh, he getting paid this much? Oh, he don't deserve that. Oh, he getting paid earning that much? What? Oh, man, he shouldn't be getting paid that much. And that happens a lot. Again, because everything is publicized. Now, you did bring up some really good, some really good information and really good numbers and whatnot. But with Judon, I think one of the biggest things with him that the Ravens are in favor of is that he's versatile. And I didn't even know that his numbers, his past rush numbers were that good. But one of the things, like, like you did mention in here, he's versatile because he, he'll, he'll pass rush, but he'll also drop back a lot too. And that's exactly what the Ravens need on the team right now. They need guys that can do multiple things and they love guys that can do multiple things. They love that. And Judon, he, he's been improving every year. That's one thing with him. You got, you got to give that to him. You got to give that no matter what side of the Judon fence you on, he has been improving every year regardless of what anybody says. And like you did mention too, something that's extremely important that is underrated is that he is a good teammate. He's a supportive teammate. He's always laughing, always joking around, happy, all that. He has fun. He has a lot of fun. And you want people on your team that are like that. I'm sure, yeah, like you did say, he is a fan favorite.  And when you think about Judon, you think about a guy that's always smiling, joking around, making everybody laugh. And like I said, just having fun. And another thing too, Judon, he used to have a little too much fun on the field, but he cut down on all that.   Cause I remember just, I don't want to say dumb. That's, that's probably, that's not the nicest word to use. The unnecessary stuff, the unnecessary stuff. He, he got rid of that, man. Probably trying to get paid too. Cause you know, I mean, and he did, he has got, but he got that 16.8 mil, that salary, that franchise tag. And then he set up to get a deal next year. So we, we, we're going to see what happens with Judon, man. But I, I do seriously appreciate just all of this, man. You bringing up all of this and you doing your research and detail and being able to share it with a, with us here, Team Keeper Clean, man. We appreciate you, man. Next question came from a boy, Pretty Boy Swive. He said, engraving, what's up? It's pretty boy Swive. I hope I finally, finally get to be in one of your questions and answers. But anyways, how do you feel if the Ravens got three more Super Bowl titles and out of nowhere, they moved to a new state? Would you still cheer for them or go with another team? For me, it's hard, but I think it'll be 50-50. For me, I hope you're doing your family, doing good. Can't wait for you to get the one meal. Hey, appreciate that, Pretty Boy. Thank you, man. Oh, if the Ravens got three more Super Bowl, we'd be so hyped, man. We're so hyped, man. But then if they moved, that would, that would be something. That would certainly be something. That would be a dagger. And I know that, I know Brown's fans would certainly be happy if that happened. They would be jumping for joy. But if, whoa, would I still root for them? Yeah, probably would. I probably would, most likely. It's hard to say. Well, I most likely would, though. That would be some pain right there, though, man. Doing Ravens. We, as Ravens fans, would get that feeling. I mean, the Colts did it. The Colts did it. But then, yeah, they happened to the Browns, and it, that's just something, man. So, yeah, I think I still would root for them. Yeah, I'd probably still root for them, man. It would just change so much. It would be weird, man. Next question came from my boy, Brendan N. He said, I ain't great, but I hope all is well with you and your fam. Quick question. I'm looking at the top 100. And do you think Calais Campbell will become the leader on this Ravens defense? He seems to have that respect in Jacksonville and also won Walter Manning, Walter Peyton. Walter Peyton. Is it Walter Peyton Man of the Year? He put W-M-P-O-T-Y. Anyway, y'all know what I'm talking about. Walter Peyton Man of the Year. Anyway, he said, I love to hear your thoughts. My bad Brendan for putting you on blasts, man. But, oh man, better. But certainly. I think he definitely will. I think there's no question about that. He's already earned that respect, like you said, throughout his career with the Jacksonville Jaguars, certainly. And even with the Arizona Cardinals, but Calais Campbell just in his voice, in the tone of his voice and commands respect. But his play does as well. Like, it could be one thing if somebody's trying to lead you, but then on the field, they can't even lead themselves. But with Calais Campbell, we've seen the production on the field and the consistent production on the field. So that can lead to him being productive off the field in his leadership. So I definitely think he's going to have that leadership role for the Ravens and that could help them go a long way. Next question came from a boy, Alberto. He said, what's up in Raven? My question is, do you think this organization is so good to the point where it hurts themselves? For example, every year we develop our defense to the point where we make them too expensive for us to keep. That's been a problem over the years from Darius Smith to C.J. Mosey. Those are good linebackers that were too expensive for us to keep. And now that our offense is getting better too, we probably won't be able to keep them either. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Keep making content and I'll keep consuming it. Like the vlogs, I appreciate it, man. Much love. Oh, this is cool, man. This is where we met at, I think this was the Ravens open practice, I think. Oh, no, this was the Cardinals game, because I see a little Fitzgerald jersey in the back, man. So shout out to my guy, oh, that never focused. It's still focusing on me. I wish I could just tap it and then go, oh, hey, there it goes. Hey, okay. Well, that focus a little bit. But anyway, shout out to my guy, man. It is a good problem to have. It's a good problem to have. Oh, man. It's like it's a gift in a crash, because yeah, you do develop these guys that end up being good, whether they fifth round picks, whether they first round picks, whether they second, whatever they are, and they end up doing so good for you, and they end up balling out. But then it's like, oh, when it's time to keep them and try to pay them, you can't afford everybody, you can't keep everybody. So people got to go. And that's a very unfortunate part of it, man. People got to go and so you lose out on players and that's part of the NFL. That's why you got to just keep on being a team that drafts well. That's why the draft is so important each and every year, because you got to keep restocking that team. You got to keep reshuffling that team. You got to just keep on building that team up over and over again, because you lose people. So you are you all right. It has been a gift and a curse and it is tough.


Nine steps to improve your sales page conversions. In this video I'm going to share with you a checklist of nine steps that you can use to improve your sales page conversions and make more money And we're starting right now Hey J.R. Fisher here. Don't forget subscribe right now go down there and click that subscribe button and Like this video. Don't forget to smash the bell. There's a little bell next to it You got to click that bell and turn on all notifications Now I've been selling online since 2009 and I've sold millions of dollars with the physical and digital products and on this channel I share those techniques with you so you can start run and grow your online business Hey, I got something special for you too at the end of this video I've got a ninety seven dollar e-commerce course that you can grab absolutely free as an experiment I'm doing right now. So check that out in the description below Let's face it there's millions of people making millions of dollars online and the only difference in them and you is the Techniques they use in the tools that they have access to so all those things I share with you on this channel Have you tried to make sales pages or landing pages on your own? What experience have you had? What problems have you run into? Let me know in the comments below now landing pages are super important Companies that have increased their landing pages by 10 to 15% are seeing a 50% increase in sales Having those individual pages targeting individual products can really boost your sales Now the biggest problem in the past 30 years is a company's inability to actually create Effective landing pages. So in this video, I'm going to show you exactly how to do it now on average the average landing page Converts from 1 to 3% but the companies that are optimizing those pages are seeing 2 to 3 times that conversion rate Just by using a few simple tricks that I'm going to show you in this video Now the truth is to really get data and to know what your conversion is You actually got to build the pages first and then optimize them But these tips will help you do that in the beginning and then once you've got some data once you've got some Conversion statistics, you can make little tweaks in there and improve them more and more number one Understand your campaign goals. Your goal is not to sell them all the products on your site The CTA or call to action should only have one offer so many landing pages that businesses make have Multiple offers on there and they end up confusing the consumer and they never end up buying anything So keep in mind you've got to know what your campaign goal is and that campaign goal is to sell that one product or one Service and not give multiple offers Number two write simple and straightforward headlines Now you only have a few seconds to hold that person's attention So that headline should actually describe the result of what that person wants to get a good example would be New mothers learn how to lose seven pounds in 14 days without cutting out the food you love That's a result that they're looking for that's the kind of headline you should have on your landing page A lot of people think that if they have a really pretty landing page That's going to make them a lot of money But no matter how pretty your landing page is without good content on the page You're not going to make any sales number four is use the right images the right images are crucial Do not make a page that doesn't sell your product or service I looked at a landing page the other day and it was from a dog trainer And she has good pictures of her and her dog and she trains dogs in tons of pictures But she had pictures of other dogs that were unrelated to her business. That was not good image Continuity you've got to have good image continuity those images have to sell your product and service at all times Take this for example Brethren this is a website dedicated to helping companies find the right meeting rooms It has a great landing page that sport high definition images Coupled with really cool icons to highlight their selling points and here's something important to remember good content Coupled with a great image equals high conversions try to get them right both at the same time number five Employee CTAs that make users take action. What do I mean by CTA? I'm talking about a call to action I'm talking about a button make sure that button has a color that contrasts with the background Don't let it blend in make sure it stands out if you can put a shadow behind that button do that The better that button is the more it stands out the higher your conversions are going to be Make sure the size of the button is large enough to where people can see it too often people will put a button size on There that's so small that you can't even find it on the page in addition to that Make sure the message on the button really says what they're going to get if it's download a course have the button Say download a course not click here. Make sure that the button actually is the call to action Now in this landing page here Neil Patel CTA is the perfect example of how a message can push customers into taking much needed action And if you notice the button actually says what he wants you to know teach me how to get 100,000 visitors it actually says what the call to action is number six is highlight the value Proposition let these people know that you've got something Extraordinary to share with them or to sell them and it's a great deal if you do this on your landing page You're going to get much higher conversions take for example this landing page with uber's uber's landing page does a great job With their unique value proposition We have heard stories about people who've quit their monotonous jobs just to drive a cab for uber Why this landing page possesses the right value position to attract such people who are looking to have financial independence? That's what they're going after words like good money and work when you want to work and no office and no boss Really resonate with these people to truly sell the person on the landing page You need to understand their pain points even better than they do if you can describe their pain points Better than they can you're going to get a sale number seven is Loading time matters if that page takes a long time to load it can cost you a lot of sales Now Google has a tool called Google page speed insight You can go there and you can find out why your page is loading fast or not loading fast and make the corrections That are going to be necessary Remember your landing page is the deal breaker make sure it loads Super super fast and you'll see an increase in your sales number eight is optimize your form fields now What do I mean by that if you ask for a lot of information up front from somebody the odds are they're not going to hop In if you're asking for first thing last thing phone number email and address You're going to get a lot fewer people than if you just ask for an email address If you want to get more information after getting the email address you can always do so but it's so important to get The email address first the highest converting pages only ask for an email address now check out this here bills.com is a debt management system and it makes use of a Multiform in a smart way by asking the customers to choose their debt amount and then goes ahead and collects their information Afterwards they've already given up the information about the debt Now you can ask for their personal information because they're already involved and just a simple point to remember Users are more likely to give up an email address than they are a phone number So if you have to pick one or the other always go for the email and then you could follow up to make an appointment and Possibly get their number later number nine is a B test your pages This is the toughest thing for people and I know I've experienced it to where you have a page That's working and you don't want to mess with it if you use a software that can do an a B test We use Cartra and I'll put a link in the description below where you can get Cartra for a dollar It can automatically do this a B split test for you a couple things to remember though If you do an a B split test only change one thing Don't change two or three things on the page because you won't know which page Change actually made the difference for example if you want to change the headline just change the headline have the exact same page Both of them identical except for the headline if you don't want to do the headline you want to do an image That's fine, too. Just change the image, but don't change the headline Remember just change one variable at a time figure out which one converts better And then you can go back and split test that page again now landing page optimization is not an exact science However, these nine rules will help you out immensely if you put them into practice Continually test your pages continually try new things and you'll see your conversions go up Now if you like this video do me a favor go down there and click that subscribe button Don't forget to like this video and turn on the bell notification Smash the bell right next to it there when you do that and you turn on all notifications We can let you know every single time we do a new video and that way you won't miss a single thing now Don't forget if you have questions about your landing page optimization put them below in the comments section I would love to hear them and grab your free course. Oh my gosh. 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