Well, welcome to another post-tweet jam, so collab talk, tweet jam discussion, and I've got a great topic today where we're going to be talking about are your customers still asking which tool and when, which is a popular question for the Microsoft 365 platform. Joining me today is Martina Grom, the CEO of Atwork and a Microsoft Regional Director and dual MVP in Office Apps and Services as well as Azure. Congratulations on that. There's a lot of content to maintain that the dual MVP status, so props to you for that. Yeah, and thanks for the invitation, Christian. It's a lot of content to maintain, but if you like the content you need to maintain, it's much easier to process this, but it's huge, especially Azure, and I'm more specialized in Azure security right now. It's not the whole EIS part and so on, so it's all around security, but this is a lot, but I still, I love the technology and I love to learn new things. That's great. A little bit about your company, what you guys do and focus on? Yeah, Atwork is located in Austria in Vienna, and we are focusing on Cloud solutions around Microsoft Azure, around Microsoft 365. We do a lot of governance consulting services and so on, and we also develop our own products like delegate 365 or governance toolkits and so on, so it's kind of a split company. One part is more in the product side, and the other one is more on the consulting and strategy side. Well, I know that this topic again gets to the heart of what your company does and your expertise, and we both go way back as SharePoint MVPs, and we are Yammer fans and Microsoft Teams of course, so kind of all of those in one drive, you can't forget that within the workloads, but so let's kind of dive in. So this is seven questions, love to get your opinion on all of these. So question number one, we started out saying in your view, which features and tools are driving the most growth and adoption of the Microsoft 365 platform and why? So currently and due to the pandemic in 2020, it's in my opinion, it's Microsoft Teams because people needed the tool to collaborate and to communicate on a day-to-day basis, and Microsoft Teams is a perfect toolset if you have that, and if you work in the Microsoft Universe, if you are on another planet or Universe, you probably walked away with other tools, but I see a lot of adoption around Microsoft Teams, and I see also that my customers are really thankful for having tools like that to stay connected. You know what's interesting is that we saw a lot again with that SharePoint history, organizations would go in and build these complex tool sets and platforms where they're trying to bundle features together and capabilities and link to line of business applications and all that capability. A lot of that work, look, there's still that, those efforts are still underway, but so much of that is gone now that you have this out-of-the-box service of Microsoft Teams, which does allow you to surface all of those other tools and solutions, especially if your organizations from a governance standpoint that struggle with shadow IT, if people using these third-party tools and things that are out there, they can relax a lot of those restrictions, not to say they shouldn't go and try and consolidate and clean up and align to the business, like these are our standard solutions, but if there's a business unit that has a specialized need for a third-party project management tool that's specific to the customers that are working with, they can do that and surface that as a tab within Microsoft Teams. That's a new thing and there's not a development effort needed to go and integrate that into the SharePoint intranet, which was the historical path. Yeah. It was like customers still looking at the one solution which fits all, and there are many tools who try that, but you need an integrated solution, but also people get it to use more tools on the day-to-day basis. Yeah. Well, something else I commented on, and we'll talk about a little bit later, one of the other questions too, but Yammer growth is happening again, which is exciting to see. It's funny, people that are within the SharePoint community, there are a lot of haters out there on Yammer, and I was a Yammer fan and user prior to Microsoft acquiring the platform, but I think recognizing the frustration was the lack of integration. Microsoft acquired the company, made a bunch of promises, and then didn't deliver, and it's standalone. I think a lot of where the, which tool do I use and when do I use it happen because I think that really was created after the Yammer acquisition. Well, where should I do this now? Yeah. Also, it's like if you're not deep into the specific services, you do not know the differences, and it's from your perspective, it's probably, oh, it's just another tool who does the same like all other tools. So why should I use that? This is also something which need to be explained a little bit better from our perspective and to bring use cases to customers. We're going to dive into that in some of the other questions. So let's see, question number two. So are your customers or your organization still asking which Microsoft 365 tools to use and when? So are you hearing that question or a version of that question with customers? Yeah. I'm still hearing that question, and I think it's still a legitimate question because it's like when you start or if you start your Microsoft 365 journey, you probably don't want to use all tools from the beginning on because you need to learn about that. You said, okay, I'm switching my mail services, I'm switching SharePoint, I'm moving into Teams. So probably, Yama might be too much in the beginning, but might be relevant a little bit later. So it's like it really depends on the maturity of the company, and I see a lot of talks about that. Also, for instance, now we have a new webinar feature within Microsoft Teams, and now I got the questions. What should I use now? Is it a meeting, is it a life event, or is it a webinar? I don't know. This is the explanation users need to get and answers that they see, okay, what am I using, for which use case I have in my organization. Well, I think guidance for any IT organization in the company, when you have questions like that, rather than get frustrated, like why do we keep hearing about this? We use SharePoint or we use Teams this way, whatever it is, there's obviously a gap in the education process, the training of end users. Maybe you have some missing scenarios to fill some gaps, and so you should look at it, this Microsoft Speak here as an opportunity to go and review and say, okay, what are we missing here? Is it because a lot of times, let's say it's fair to say that it's an end user education opportunity. It's less so where there's a gap in the technology. It's more of, let me help you understand this is how they're used, and instead of just saying, well, which is the right tool to use one, say, well, here understand different scenarios for this and use the one that is most appropriate and fits with the intended goal. Also, what I think it's really important is that people have a choice to use those tools, the like and the love, and this is also if Microsoft would give only the one and only tool and name it, this is Microsoft 365, do whatever you want with that. It would be not enough for the people because they said, yeah, but I want this and that, and I want the pink one and the blue one and the yellow one. It's like in private life on your private device, you are using different apps for different scenarios, and it's the same. Right. Well, that's a great way to put it as well. It's like you think about when people, if they are validly asking that question, which tool and confuse, I don't understand with all the tools that are out there, and just say like, look at what's on your phone. Yeah. Exactly. This is what I do. I have like five or six chat tools. Why do I have that? Because different constituencies, when I'm talking with my family members, when I'm talking with community members, when I'm talking with like I'm on Clubhouse, and there's people that are not part of the Microsoft 365 community that are largely out on there, it's other constituencies, different tools for different use, and I know which ones to use when. If I'm going to share a message about a family activity happening this weekend, I'm not going to go out to Twitter. Yeah. It's the same and it's also in my history, I always looked at other tools, I needed to learn about Google Apps, I needed to learn about Zoom, what are they doing better? Why are people loving that? Otherwise, you're stuck in a little house which is probably called Microsoft, but there's a whole planet out there. Yeah. Exactly. Well, let's jump in. So we've got three more focused questions here. So question three, is Microsoft Teams changing the way that your customers, your organization collaborate? Has it become your hub for teamwork? That's a clear answer and it's yes, because we are all spending the last months at home, working on the screen, talking to a screen, collaborating on the screen, and team was incredible helpful to keep us connected, kind of, and also to support us in our day-to-day work. So it's like, so that the most used collaboration tool is still Outlook and email. Yeah. But the whole communication part, like instant communication or in instant chat or a call or seeing other people is delivered through Teams, and this is why it's important for organizations. Well, one thing too is that when you think of, again, SharePoint as an internet and being that hub prior to Teams, and building out to add all these features in, and really it was SharePoint as that Swiss Army knife idea that you can make it whatever you want it to be, and so it got stretched in every different direction, and didn't do that great of a job in most of those directions, great of the core capabilities. So Teams, like when I launched my own company from day one, which was that January, so four years ago, was when Teams was launched. Starting using Teams day one with two or more people, we found productivity in that as the features were added and it did more and more, like we did more and more, we found chat, yes, but meetings like this doing something and then hitting record and getting the transcripts and automatically making that part of our information records. It just became part of the way that we worked, and so it was great to have that capability. Maybe that's a key difference is SharePoint versus Teams, where SharePoint has largely been more of a mid to enterprise-sized company solution, and small to medium businesses were left out, saying it was too expensive or too much of an IT overhead to maintain that and used all these other third-party solutions. Now, Teams can solve that need for a two-three-person organization as well as a 200,000-person organization. Yeah, it's true. Also, it's like the same if you're compared with Outlook or Exchange, Outlook can do a lot of things. It can do project management, delivering emails, manage your calendar, and so on, but it can't do everything very well. You can do everything with it, as you can do everything with SharePoint, but there's a missing piece. Right. Well, and I think that's too. Which tool to use when? Probably the most frustrating answer to that question for customers, for end-users is, well, it depends. But it really should be the beginning of a conversation of what are you trying to accomplish. The answer will be different. I mean, what's the best practice for my organization may not be the best practice for yours, which neither of ours will be a best practice for this massive enterprise. That's what we have options. There are some organizations that the culture of collaboration. I assume that you're given your team's background and focus, and our focus around collaboration technology, we're collaboration-centric. Other organizations are very email-centric. Others are very portal, workflow-centric, and so they can have heavier usage of that capability, of each of those capabilities, but still interact with those other business units that have a different collaboration culture, and it still work. Exactly. Teams provides a good baseline for all that core capabilities into each of these. It does, and also, Microsoft did a pretty good job last year, because they delivered very fast, they scaled, and they really supported a lot of organizations. Well, you brought up the example of the webinar type, the features, the cable, some of which are still coming, but a lot of that was a reaction where, I think at the beginning of last year, they kept saying, well, that's not what our technology is. It's not meant to be a webinar, and all of us at the community said, well, it should. You should think about that, and add those features. So we're not having to go and pay those other third-party fees and services. Yeah. Well, question four is, while SharePoint remains the top solution for Intranets, has its role evolved with your customers and organization? So for me, yes, because SharePoint delivers a lot of things, and if I talk about SharePoint, I always mean one drive as well. Because it's part of the SharePoint universe for me, and I see SharePoint supports people working from everywhere. If they are working file-centric, they have their documents with them, they can work from everywhere and so on. Then you have another part like Intranets or the collaboration part where I see we work together on the project, we need to collaborate on the team side in SharePoint and so on. Now with the new colors like Microsoft, Weaver and the whole integration in there, people really like that. They said, oh, Martina, can we talk about the new Intranets because we are planning something? It looks very promising what Microsoft delivered through Weaver, and we have a whole integration part, and people really like that a lot currently. Well, I think Weaver is starting to, I know that's a much bigger topic, starting to deliver on that promise of, you've got all this data, it's all in there and now you even have more ad hoc collaboration and transactional data that's coming through all the interactions via teams, your documents in SharePoint, all of that stuff, all of your files, how do we start leveraging that? How do we start tapping into that knowledge and surfacing data so it's not just about search, but automated ways that you can better leverage this capability and do it in a way that is mindful of meeting burnout is a real thing, screen fatigue in general, and delivering data that is more thoughtful of the way that we work and our individual organizational needs. Definitely. Well, if you talk about Microsoft Teams or OneDrive, I mean SharePoint is under the hood for both those solutions. But is there less of a need to talk about to know about SharePoint? Yeah. I'm a person who really wants to understand what is below everything so I was always interested in Teams architecture as well as Microsoft Groups architecture and I really tried to explain that, what cost that they understand. They are not using only Teams because there is an exchange part which comes with it, and there's a big SharePoint part which comes with it. This is a challenge because people see only the product name and says, there's Teams and it does everything. It's much easier if they understand what's behind that and if SharePoint is used as a document repository only or supporting search, or if I have a calendar functionality, I need to understand that this is probably a hidden exchange mailbox because I haven't moved my mailboxes for whatever reason. This is really helpful for customers if you understand that, and if you look behind that, then it's much easier to build the governance because you see that the things are connected and not separated anymore. There was in the first two years after Team was released, there was an architectural diagram, very high level that showed that, that split the division between that, and where some of the compliance and other rules, engines kind of hit across both of those things. But I used to share that all the time, just because the top level to explain, up on top is the display portion of that, documents, SharePoint, meetings, chat, exchange through that. Your governance tools that you're using today and have been for years for SharePoint or for Exchange, still valid, still doing all that work behind it. Obviously, things are evolved and there's updates and there's new features and capabilities, but the core is all still the same, that architecture, that basic architecture is still the same. I think we need to dig that thing up again. But also, if you talk about previously, it was all around SharePoint governance, but if you talk about Microsoft Teams, you need to talk about Microsoft 365 governance, and look at the whole picture. Well, that always had gaps, stream, your video content. I mean, what was missing from all of those SharePoint governance discussions, were all of the instant messages, all the chats. I mean, with Skype. Next change. Right, next change, right. And the fact that they're in context are information assets that need to be protected, that need to be backed up and restoreable, that need to be auditable. I need to be able to go in and do an e-discovery and pull the conversation that we had in instant message, the chat, in relation to that document, which is being held. Yeah. Yeah. Little details. Little. Governance is a full-time job. I know. It is. All right, well, question five, with Yammer growth again on the rise, which business scenarios are driving this growth? So what I see a lot, so for every organization, Yammer brings a big social part into an organization, and this part is currently missing. So that people can just connect without the organizational and without their projects and the colleagues that work on a day-to-day basis that they can just reach out to other people in the organization or just talk about other things. So this is one of the use cases. I see a lot that people need the communication channel as well. And another use case, which was very popular last year, was a management came and said, I need to do an event where everyone in the organization can hear and listen to me. And this is done through a town hall event in Yammer, and this is also very popular, or I need to reach every person in the organization and I do not want to send an email to everyone. So these are the kinds of use cases which are really helpful with Yammer and they delivered very well here. Right. And the other one too is that, and I know that Microsoft with the Yammer acquisition years ago pulled back from the social tools within SharePoint itself, but sometimes teams, which is more project specific, and I know that there are all company teams. I don't want to get into that. I'm not a fan of all company teams. I usually mute them and stay away from them, but we're also my company. At point, we use Yammer and it works as designed as a place where you can go and ask broad questions and you don't know where the expertise where the input comes from. I would always use the example of, because this has happened to me so many times, but I would join a new company. I'd have a role, a focus of format that job and people were oblivious to what my prior history was. I remember, I've been told that different roles, like, well, that's not your job. I'm like, yeah, but I did that for five years in this other role with this other company. I have specific experience in that area. Why would you discount my voice? Because it doesn't fit my current job description. That makes no sense, but if you don't have the way to surface that kind of discussion and reach out to it. I mean, I go back to one of my favorite examples of Yammer, the power of Yammer, was back with the nationwide insurance example at the SharePoint conference years back. I think it was the one in Los Angeles in 2012. Is that right? Anyway, back there, eight, nine years ago, or whenever that was. And the example was used where someone who was a relatively new employee in support was found something that was trying to get feedback this is a recurring issue, whatever it was. This is a recurring issue. What's our best practice? What should we do in this scenario? And it says, I think this might be a path, no feedback. And then the CEO saw that message, responded to it, and then dozens of people that went in, commented, and started really expanding on the idea and ended up solving a big problem with support for customers. And this support person won an award because of raising this issue. But again, it speaks to the power of this broad, let the world see, in your organization, see and have access to this information and then share ideas. And you don't know where that good idea is gonna come from. Yeah, and also, Yammer is a great ideation tool. And also, Yammer doesn't know any hierarchies and no barriers. So, and it's not, if you can't speak up, if it's not fitting your current job role, there's probably, your experience is valuable to everyone. And if you have an idea to a specific topic, you should share it because it's knowledge you're sharing. And sharing knowledge is very important that people just have that knowledge and they can gain benefits from it. Well, the best ideas in the world are rarely that lone wolf has this great idea, execute on it, solves all these problems. The best ideas tend to be iterative, collaborative activities. I have like the root of an idea, you add on to it, we test something, we try it out, somebody else comes in and says, we tried that, this is where we failed, but here's another idea to take a different direction. And at the end of that, it's like the, did a MVP video last week and the example was used at the Beatles, played together for a decade before they were an overnight success. And on average, there's another quote, can't remember who made the quote that said like, every overnight success takes like 20 years to have that overnight success. But same with ideas. And right, it's capturing that, those information assets, pulling that knowledge out of people's brains and putting it out in a place where it could be consumed and action taken. And also in our organization, because we started with Yama before Teams was presented to us and we had a discussion about that. Now we have Teams, should we close down Yama, we won't use it, we're a small company and so on, but now both of them are used equally. So we have our Teams with Teamwork together and we have our Yama network where we are sharing ideas, knowledge, experiences, fun stuff, things like that. And it works pretty well. Well, so I have an observation, in my experience, I'm seeing that the more that we're seeing the integration, so the Yama, like I, so I have the Yama app in the left rail of Teams and I use that as a jump in there. But when you have, like I love that when I'm, I've started a discussion on Yama and it pushes it to outlook or I can share things in with Teams and move things between those. It makes me more aware, it makes it so that it's more shareable, the ideas and the content. So if an idea that's broad, that's shared in Yama, I can share it to a specific context of a project or an initiative that I'm working on over within Teams. I think that is helping drive, again, my personal experience, that's helping drive the Yama growth. A lot and people who rely on notifications, they really love that the Yama notifications show up in Teams as well because then they can simply switch and this also answers the which tool when. Use Teams, integrate Yama there and you're good to go. Right, agreed. It works really well. Question number six, in your opinion, what are the primary gaps in the Microsoft 365 offerings and how are customers filling this gap? And just to preface this by saying when I asked this question out during the tweet jam, it went very quiet for a couple of minutes. Like people were nervous to criticize in there. It's like, look, we all know that there are times where there are gaps. I think the first person to answer, don't remember who it was, but said governance remains a gap. It's still a very manual process. I don't know that I want Microsoft attempting to define and solve all governance problems for me, but that was the first response back. So any other obvious gaps that you're seeing? So what I see as a gap, and this is currently pretty true, is for me the management of different entry points. And I try to talk about that as nice as I can do, but if you're part of a lot of tenants and you are guests in a lot of environments, it's pretty hard to stay on track and also to communicate with people. I understand why this is the case, but I'm still hoping for a better solution. So let's say it that way. Well, I just, my feelings on this yesterday, we were just talking about this offline with a coworker about how they've resolved it for the mobile app, like I can, so same thing, I have, I don't know how many guest networks I'm a member of. In fact, I just saw somebody gave advice of on a monthly basis, removing yourself from unused guest tenants. And I'm overdue, and I've done that several times, that I'm no longer actively participating in. But even the ones that I'm actively in that are part of my job, dozens of these networks, but I also have three distinct logins, which I use one of them at least once or twice a week, the other two daily, and logging out, logging back in. Again, on the mobile device, I can have my three logins with all of the tenants, with all of the guest networks and easily move in between those, barring, putting an emulator on my desktop and running the mobile app. You can't do that in the desktop or the mobile versions. You have to then have multiple tabs open. Well, the problem is, as you know, like somebody shares a file, which one is that coming from? Did I save that on my company tenant and my community tenant and this other customer tenant? And which one am I logged into? And if you don't log out it, even if you're incognito within that, it gets confused by that. And so I'm finding that every day, constantly having to log out, log back in to make sure I'm on the right version of Word or PowerPoint or whatever I'm working on and saving to in OneDrive, they need to clean that up. The multi-tenant issue. Yeah, definitely. And on the other side, if you look at it from an opportunity perspective, so like it was for us. So we looked at Office 365 or Microsoft 365 and all the gaps are opportunities for partners to build solutions. So like this is why Delegate happened because we found a gap within the product and said, okay, there is no solution for that, but we can build one. And it's still a risk because you have a very strong competitor, which is Microsoft. Microsoft can build it by themselves and they can destroy your business model, voluntary or not voluntary. It just happens because customers expect Microsoft need to solve everything. And this is not the case. And I see the gaps scenario also as a great opportunity to bring new apps into the market and bring more value to customers. Agreed, that's the, and I like that the phrasing too of it's not a problem. It's not a gap. It's an opportunity. It is. But it is. Yeah, it is. And one of the first questions that was asked when Teams was launched as people saw the proliferation of Teams and had still the growth of the SharePoint sites underneath that with the existing SharePoint infrastructure and the confusion like, where do I go and which is the right one and how is it attached and all those things. And like AppPoint went and built the My Hub app, which is the number two most downloaded app in the Microsoft store, a free app that's out there, but solves that was the attempt to solve that. Where do I go? How do I navigate? If I'm part of dozens or some people claim hundreds, I know some people out there were quite a bit, but to organize all that, again, it was an opportunity and companies stepped up to resolve that. So there are definitely opportunities out there and being in the Microsoft ecosystem, you always have to be aware that Microsoft might say, hey, that's a fantastic idea and that solves the problem. And then they go build the functionality. Yeah, and also. It's a great example of that. Yeah, and also think about it, Microsoft 365, it's not a product and it's not a service anymore. It's a platform you can build on it. So, and this is the opportunity you have here. And I think also Teams apps will be huge in the future. Agreed, and I think Microsoft is investing a lot of effort, certainly in the channel around Teams as a platform and apps. So that's a major investment. We'll see with the next fiscal year where it fits with the KPIs that they drive on their sales but I have a good feeling that those will both be in play there again. And then for the question seven or final question here, what three things could Microsoft do to help answer outstanding questions about which tool and when? So I had an interesting conversation with a customer of mine who used to go to Microsoft Ignite and he said, I like the virtual Ignite a lot. It brings me information about new products, about new services and so on that they can follow up. But what I'm really missing is the practical experience. So I only see product managers presenting new features but I do not find any use case for me and my company. I need an interaction with other people and so on. So currently Microsoft is moving pretty fast and I see also that some people, they are not doing Microsoft 365 the whole day and it's hard for them to follow up with the speed. And I think Microsoft also give people a time to adopt the things, to think about that, to find solutions around that and to use it. Otherwise it's kind of a bumpy ride right now. That's been one of the most common questions is an MVP that people would ask me. Like how is you as an MVP in an RD? How do you keep up with so much going on? And the short answer is none of us do. Like we're relying on each other. There are certain sources that I go to and from all of that, I mean, we still things that slip through the gaps and I'll hear about something. When did that come out? It's like, well, that was like two months ago. Okay, I missed that. And there almost needs to be a cadence to the release. I know that it's, I realized that it's a SaaS offering. It's cloud offering. And so there are updates that are happening depending on the ring that you're on, but it's in real time. And so every week there are new things every single week without fail. But there almost needs to be kind of a cadence around that like a monthly cycle for that where they get added in or something. I don't know. I don't know the answer. I'm just talking out loud, but it's, because that's an issue. Yeah, and also currently I see a lot of organizations. I do a lot of business continuity services right now, bringing the latest and relevant news to organizations for their tenants because they said, I can't keep up, but bring me a summary and filled out everything which is not relevant for me and my organization because you know us. And this is also interesting. And the other part is Microsoft is going very fast and very slow because they're promising a lot sometimes and not delivering fast enough. So it's kind of a double-sided medal sometimes. And I think this is, I can handle that but it's still, when I get the questions, what is this happening, the never-ending answer soon? But I know. So the most used word is soon, so because we don't know. Well, it's, and I know that there have long been, I've provided, I've been very vocal in the community about upgrading the roadmap site. And the fact that Microsoft, I mean, we've complained about it for years and Microsoft went and built the roadmap site, fantastic. But then they would, you know, there was no history of, well, did that date just change? You almost had to take a screenshot and then hold Microsoft to it and be like, well, look, yeah, you were saying March 31st, now you're saying May 31st. Like, and then there's no data. Like, why did that slip? What's going on? You know, but there was no alert, the things that are out there. And also, and so they've gotten much better at that. It's not perfect, but then obviously things are dynamic. Things are changing daily. And Microsoft is looking at the data and to understand the timing of these things. And they also want it to work when they put it out there live. So generally if they find, run into issues or, you know, they're in their testing and their earliest rings internally where they're releasing these features, they're catching problems that they didn't foresee, you know, cross workload, clashes kind of things. But one of the things I've been saying for a long time, and I know that they're continuing to work on the roadmap side is, I would love it if it was a personalized roadmap view that would tell me what's on my tenant. So I'm not having to go in, because this was a question that came up in our office hours this week, which we do every Monday at 8 a.m. Pacific. But where somebody said, you know, hey, I understand that these, you know, the number of users in a live meeting are changing from 300 to 1,000. When do I know that the change has happened? And so like our direction was, well, you go and look at the documentation, the Microsoft side, they won't change the documentation until it's GA, once it's GA, it's out there. Or it'll say this is coming kind of thing. If it's just changed, it's there, it's updated. But it would be great if I could go in there and look at on a daily or weekly basis, the roadmap from my tenant's perspective to see what new features have now successfully added. Yeah, they can do that for selected services. So they're recognizing that, that they said, oh, we know you use that feature and you might be impacted, look at that. But they are not doing it for every feature. Yes, would be a great filter. It's a wish list. Yeah, yeah. It's a wish list, my tenant. Yeah, it'll remain on my wish list. It's been there for three years, so. Yeah. Well, Martina, I really appreciate your time. Thanks for participating, again, in the tweet jam. And they're always fun.  I'm gonna go back through the tie graph stats on the last tab. And if you go to link.tigraph.com slash collab talk, you can find that, the stats for past episodes as well. But on the last tab is all of the tweets that used the collab talk hashtag during that one hour session.  I always mind that to find out what other ideas, crazy or practical ideas that are out there that our fellow MVPs and experts shared. It's always a wealth of information. Yeah, and I think it's useful just to think about some of the comments, why they are happening and what are the comments worth, yeah, definitely. Again, never discount when somebody provides that feedback, it's better to understand their perspective, why they're asking that. Why are they're saying that? Like we still don't know which tool to use when and get to the root of what that is. Is it an education issue? Is it that they're not, they're the right technology? Are they having other technical issues? Get to the root of that by understanding. Yeah, it's true. Well, thanks so much for your time and we'll talk to you soon. Yeah, and thanks for the opportunity. See you soon, hopefully in person. See you soon.


Heying adults, it is Katie Hartfield and I am coming to you from Houston, Texas where I am gearing up for the Steubenville Encounter Conference and you know, the Steubenville Youth Conferences have really been an enormous part of my life and it's where I first fell in love with Christ It's where I really learned to pray when I took part in the Francis Ken lead program as a high school student It's where as a youth minister I took hundreds of teens every year year after year and watched their lives change forever And now where I'm blessed to be a part of the ministry team When I first heard that the youth conferences were going to be expanding into young adults I got chills Because when you look at the youth conferences and the way that they have impacted Vocations and ministries in the lives of teenagers and then you think about Steubenville having that same sort of impact on young adults the potential ripple effects are Absolutely mind-blowing to me and you know, I think that young adults often times sort of feel like a lost demographic in ministry and I think that this conference is really more than just an opportunity to go and to have a retreat experience But it's really a movement. It's a message that you as young adults are not forgotten And as young adults, you know, we have the passion and the excitement of young people But we also have something that they don't have and that's resources and skills in order to take really concrete Action in the world. My husband was just saying today How young adults are at what he called the age of influence and what he meant by this is that they have so much Power in being able to impact the lives of people who are younger than them But also in their peer groups and even people who are older Because a young adult that swims against the current and really lives as a light Really stands out to other people who are in who encounter them at this conference. We're going to talk a lot about mission We're gonna talk a lot about motivation We're gonna talk a lot about living our lives with passion and our hope for each of you is that you're going to leave With a new fire and a new clarity for God's will in your life So I am so excited about this weekend and I'm excited not just because it's going to be a suitable youth conference That has young adults there instead of teenagers But I'm excited because the conference office has meticulously Deserved a schedule that is meant for you with content and activities that are going to be young adult friendly And you'll still feel like you get the student welfare But also that God is going to encounter you And he's going to encounter you in a personal and a singular way that wherever you are in your relationship with Christ That the Lord wants to meet you right there and that he wants to use this as a chance to take you further And I can't wait to experience this conference with you in the meantime You're going to be in my prayers and you can send me a prayer as well if you don't mind So God bless you and I will see you soon


So in this workshop we're going to be looking at healthy preserving, it's a really important part of the natural chef course We'll send you all of the recipes and tips from this session And we'll give you further details if you would like to take your learning further I'm going to teach you how to make your own homemade dried mushrooms like these ones here We're also going to be making our own homemade vegetable stock powder Which is much healthier than the ones you get in shops and completely natural Then we're going to dive into the world of fermentation I'm going to show you how to make a basic sauerkraut step by step like this one here And we're going to make a really unusual ferment using fruit and honey So it's like a fermented probiotic jam completely uncooked very simple and very nutritious


If I had to choose between some bird waking me up at 6am every morning or being deathly ill for two days, I'd probably take one flu over the cuckoo's nest. Imagine you're sitting at a round table at some party with your beverage of choice and someone makes a toast. When the toast is finished, you're expected to conclude with a cheers, clinking your glass against everyone else's at the table. With two or three other people, no big deal, but six or seven, your throat starts to get kind of parched by the time you're finished with all the clinking. Also, although the number of clinks you have to get through in order to drink your beverage only increases by one every time another person is added to the table, the total number of clinks grows by one for every person already at the table. Three people, three clinks. Four people, six clinks. Five people, ten clinks. If you have any familiarity with mathematics, your first suspicion might be that this growth pattern is exponential because it accelerates the bigger it gets. But we've actually left exponentials in the dust. We're in the realm of combinatorial explosion, where the factorial operator reigns supreme. Compared to the rocket ship that is n-factorial, the normally mind-blowing growth rate of a simple exponential function looks like a doddering snail who isn't in a particular hurry. Combinatorial explosion, like that of clinks during cheers, is the basis of the birthday paradox, a favorite example of mathematicians specializing in combinatorics. How many people do you need in a group before you can be more than 50% sure that two of them share a birthday? Most people think the number must be something like 180, but they don't realize that birthdays work like clinks. Every person that you add to the group doesn't just add one more chance for a shared birthday. It adds one more chance per person already in the group. Once you get to just 23 people, odds are that two of them were probably born on the same day of the year. That might seem unintuitively low, but if we were all sitting at a very large table together, we'd have to clink our glasses 185 times in total, more than half the number of days in a year. This sort of combinatorial explosion shows up in all sorts of places, from computer science to warfare. But I want to focus on one example that's particularly relevant right now, at the beginning of cold and flu season. Epidemiology and herd immunity. Influenza is an adaptive little family of critters that we've only recently developed any capacity to fight with medicine. It mutates in ways that are hard to predict and which always seem to find purchase in human hosts.  But that's not always the case. Last year, 900,000 people were hospitalized for flu-related symptoms and complications. 80,000 people in the United States died, including hundreds of pediatric deaths, as children under the age of five are at significantly increased risk. A bad flu can easily find purchase in people with compromised immune systems and breed until it overwhelms the remaining defenses, rendering them vulnerable to the fatal hemorrhagic pneumonia that stops them from breathing. Those figures are partially why any doctor worth their salt will get on your case to get a flu shot and to stay home if you come down with a full-blown illness. Most of us treat flusies in with a sort of cavalier acceptance because it's usually not a huge deal even if we do catch it, but doctors are aware that we're locked in a perpetual war against this organism and that war has fatalities. The flu shot has a ton of clear medical benefits and almost no drawbacks. It obviously decreases the chances that you'll contract the flu if you're exposed to it by an inconsiderate coworker or a checkout clerk who can't afford to take a day off. If you do catch it, it shortens the average length of time that you'll feel like crap, which is nice. Many people imagine that they've gotten the flu from a shot, but the substances used in flu vaccines are very tightly controlled, are injected into a location that isn't really conducive to the flu's replication and really can't give you the flu. It just turns out that around the time that people get their shots, they also happen to be exposed to a lot of active flu virus. But the real reason doctors get up in arms about flu shots doesn't really have to do with whether or not you specifically get sick. It has to do with that principle of combinatorial growth. Let's start down at the flu's eye view at the cellular level. Viruses aren't really intelligent in any sense of the word. They're essentially just conveniently shaped packages of protein with a DNA blueprint inside for making more, which means that they're not great at doing their thing. They don't have any sophisticated abilities for movement or targeting. Their mechanism of infection is stochastic, depending solely on the law of large numbers and things happening to bump into each other in precisely the right way at random.  But with enough snowballs, maybe one manages it. Of course, that singular event isn't enough to get you sick. Even a full cells worth of flu virus exploding out into your body faces the same astronomically slim odds of everything going exactly right to replicate again. However, that probability shoots up with every subsequent cell that gets infected because of combinatorial explosion. Just like clinks of glasses, each additional lucky virus doesn't just add one more chance for the virus to get a foothold, but a whole set of interactions with every other cell that that first cell comes in contact with. The flu shot can't guarantee that that runaway process won't happen, but it can increase the inertia that it takes to get the ball rolling and slow its acceleration. Even if a group of cells gets unlucky and starts manufacturing flu, the antibodies created by the flu vaccine act on the same principle. They increase the number of stochastic interactions that will be fatal to the virus. This is why flu duration is decreased if you get your shot, even if you do get sick. Now, if we zoom out, this picture is surprisingly accurate for the spread of communicable disease through a society, replacing the cells with individual humans. Every interaction that you have with someone carrying the virus, whether they're visibly sick or not, is a role of the dice. If only a couple people are carrying the disease, it's actually pretty unlikely that you'll run into one in the first place, let alone get sick. But as the number of carriers climbs and the number of carriers you encounter, the number of chances that you have to be unlucky enough to contract the virus gets higher and higher. The flu shot has a similar retarding effect at this scale via something called herd immunity. The idea is to limit the spread of the disease by retarding its opportunities for infection. Rather than depending on each individual person's immune system to repel the flu, vaccinated people act as a buffer between the infected and more potential targets for infection. Someone who's vaccinated isn't invulnerable, but they're not participating fully in the combinatorial explosion. They're not really clinking with everyone else and don't carry infection as readily from person to person as a result. The effects of herd immunity are dramatic. In 1995, the U.S. began a program of chickenpox vaccination for children over the age of five, the youngest age that had been determined to be safe from complications due to the vaccine. Obviously, those children showed a decrease incidence of chickenpox, but the incidence of the disease for children under five who weren't vaccinated fell almost 90% by 2008. There were still children over five who weren't vaccinated and there were still kids who got chickenpox. The only thing that changed was that numerous children who might have otherwise gotten chickenpox were removed from the equation and didn't add their whole network of interactions to the total number of opportunities for the disease to spread. As a result, the number of infant mortalities due to chickenpox went from about 50 per year to zero. Look, I get it.  You almost never get sick, just a few sniffles at worst and that doesn't seem to depend on whether or not you get the flu shot. You've probably never known anyone who's been hospitalized for flu-related complications and nobody with a compromised immune system has given you grief for not getting immunized. But even if you feel like your amazing constitution is sufficient protection for you, we are fighting a desperate numbers game against the power of combinatorial explosion and every tiny advantage that we can muster has massive consequences. If you can avoid being communicable, even for the half day it takes for your awesome immune system to eradicate the last vestiges of flu exposure, that's a couple fewer clinks and that can really make a difference. Please, get your flu shot. What instances can you think of where combinations of individual entities are what result in enormous growth? Please leave a comment below and let me know what you think. Thank you very much for watching. Don't forget to blah, blah, subscribe, blah, share and don't stop thunking. Also, get your flu shot. Just go. I mean, it takes like five minutes. It's free at most pharmacies. Just get a flu shot. Do it.


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My name is Rita or you could call me Priyam Jay. Today we'll be talking about possible questions on infection prevention and control. Now you could get asked, tell us about the time that you had to look after a patient who was suspected of having an infection and how did you handle it. Now the first thing I want you to remember when answering this question is always link your answer to a standard of practice. This makes your answers evidence-based. Now you could link your answer to the NMC code of practice or you could link your answer to the trust, to the local trust value for which you are interviewing for. In this case, we'll be linking our answers to the NMC code of practice, Preserve Safety. Now the first thing you highlight is isolation. The first point you make when answering this question is isolation. You need to isolate your patient. That's the first thing you do. Now the second thing you do is the use of your personal protective equipment. The third thing you do is carrying out a diagnostic test. Now the fourth thing is proper disposal of your PPE, proper disposal of waste products, proper disposal of used linen and proper disposal of shafts in the shaft vein. Every trust has their policy on disposal of used linen so you have to follow the local trust policy on proper disposal of waste products and used linen. Now the next thing you always have to remember is hand washing and hand sanitising. You could take it a top notch by saying that you need to wash your hand for at least 30 seconds using the six step of hand washing technique which is palm to palm, fingers interlocked, back to back, fingers interlocked, knuckles of both hands, the thumb inside your palm, you scratch it and your wrist then you rinse. This should be done for at least 30 seconds and you could also highlight the five moments of hand washing technique. Now the next point you make is documentation, accurate documentation and proper handover to your colleagues. This is very important in infection prevention and control. The next point you make is education of patients and their relatives on infection prevention and control. You could educate them on hand washing technique or handling of waste products like their sputum or when they cough. So just depending on the question that has been presented to you, you educate them on how to prevent the spread of that infection. Now the next point to make is audits. It is important that audit is carried out. This helps the ward or the department or the trust to understand what area they're feeling in the prevention of infection and this would help them improve in their practice. And the last point to make is detects, detects. Some people always think detects is a bad thing. No, it's not always a bad thing. Detects helps us to learn from incidents. So it is always important for us to detect incidents so that staffs can learn from those incidents and the trust can put in measures to prevent those incidents from occurring again. And that question that could be asked is quite tricky actually, is on you come to work and you see a consultant or your line manager wearing a long sleeve shirt while working within the clinical area. How would you handle it and what would you do? Now that can be a very intimidating question, okay? So the first thing you do is call that consultant or the line manager to a quiet place, to a private and quiet place. The next thing is to find out their knowledge of infection prevention and control. This is to enable you feeling any gap in knowledge that they might have on infection prevention and control. Then the next thing you do is you're feeling any gap in knowledge that they might have and tell them the importance of having and above the elbow shirt all the time when they are in the clinical area. Then the next thing is to find out if they need any training on prevention of infection and find out when last they had their training on infection prevention and control and ensure that they get booked on the training. Now this can be very intimidating, I understand, but you need to ensure that you make this point and ask them to make a, to write a reflection on what had happened and how they can do better. That is how you answer that question and you could also add that you would do a detex on that incident so that staffs and older senior colleagues can learn from the incident and measures can be put in place to ensure that such things do not occur again in the clinical area. Thank you very much for listening to this episode of infection prevention and control. See you in the next episode of possible questions for band five and band six interviews. Do not forget to subscribe to my channel. Bye-bye.


It was the one it was the one This one was heavy. It sure was dude Sure was I was going to watch it again for this podcast because there was so much going on But I kind of couldn't bring myself to Really?  I want to say about this this show I Kind of like the way that Rick and Morty will abuse its premise this show Basically because of the fact that this is a nihilistic Thrill ride the show doesn't give a fuck about anything and it's already established literally everything is possible Because we're in we're in the multiverse the infinite multiverse every possibility will happen And the show really takes advantage of that in this episode Because everything about this Citadel is like why would it be that way, right? But then it but then like if in the infinite multiverse every possibility will happen Then like it's all justified like there just there's just a reason there's a reason that one Rick is just like that I don't know what that reason is, but there there is one. Oh, yeah out there Yeah, there's no doubt about it and it's it's just used to such a great effect and they're they're using them to tell I mean, you know, it's been said but really more than any episode before to use the multiple clones of Rick's and Morty's in the way they're used in this episode is absolutely fantastic.   Yeah, you know, I mean It's definitely it's it makes a lot of different like Commentaries on real-world stuff, but none that's specific enough to like say oh, they're doing that It's all like just like a vague gets into your mind, you know, yeah Like that's what I think is powerful about it is that it never made me think oh This is like a parallel for I don't know black lives matter or something which another show would do it's more like I Don't know it's it spoke to something more fundamental to me I felt the same way that this is how it's always been and always will be I thought it would have been so easy for them to I would honestly my sensors were in full gear looking for like SJW cuck shit. I really was I was I was on the lookout knowing just as it was going through the episode and I was not I did not find myself in any way like able to to contest in any like You know just just there was nothing to object to in the in the story that was presented here Everything here was perfectly logical Do you say that I would say I was on the opposite side. I had an eye out for pushing a Like a conservative agenda or like a little bit. It's like I don't think this show has ever come off as being on the side of like Social justice, you know, you know, I he Rick is not that kind of guy You know, it's interesting about that that that actually tells me something I think because I have been aware of the discussion going on lately about Dan Harmon sort of like airing on the side I wouldn't even say that he's like on the social justice warrior side, but he's like had some pretty pretty Pretty much discussed comments about how like Trump is like a literal Nazi or I can't honestly remember the exact quote It was I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case, but Dan Harmon also himself is a Like Dan Harmon. There's this I haven't actually seen this. I'm talking about the second hand So you're getting some real tertiary knowledge.  Absolutely despise a social just to see I mean this show's kind of made fun of social justice warriors before yeah in some ways You know so like I never really bought the argument that people were making that like I When you're in sort of the I don't even know if Dan Harmon is in the LA bubble or whatever But when the all the people around you are perpetuating the notion that like someone is a certain way or you know Like the alt-right is full of like actual Nazis or just like that the that the country is being consumed by like Nazi propaganda or something Like I could see why someone would say something that could be interpreted Maybe it's our fault for being so reactionary to the things he says for assuming that he's not see I don't I don't know the full context.    Is it really do you really see the connection here?  That's so no, this is obviously about the elite class exactly exactly ruling class This is that's why I said like this felt to me like it was speaking to all time Not about current events, you know like this is it's that's why we keep getting the refrain throughout the episode like same old Story Morty's killing Morty's same old story Rick's killing Morty's like this is the same old story that has been told for All time and like the the behind-the-scenes Rick council is all corporate people. It's all leaders of corporations It like if they're they're the Illuminati Exactly, that's right, you know and like to me it had more parallels to like I don't know Like the way the room is designed in everything felt like a Greek society thing or just like this all time felt timeless It felt like this is how it's always well, of course because like again I think the what I said before about like race is the obvious thing to go to when you watch this But I really think it's more about class. This is really a class divide that we're seeing here between The bourgeois and the bourgeoisie and the proletariat the thing is like You know, there's a lot of a lot of a lot of free radical thinkers out there who Talk about how the biggest and I agree with this notion that the the biggest problem Facing us is that everyone tries to make everything a race thing, but it is a class thing Yeah, right, right the real problems in our society are are more based around class and like Improvised people of all races have the same issues You know exactly there might be more impoverished people who are black But like everyone who's impoverished is facing these issues and this episode kind of tackles that in that it's not just Morty's who are in this lower class.   That's the wrong word, but I feel like using it anyway I'm using it as a meme. I'm using it as the meme version now come to me master. It just means good Yeah, you've ruined it it we ruined it to be fair, but he used it right Yeah, it was just it was just a climactic moment. It was fantastic, you know so Yeah, this this episode is this cap We finally have the return of the plot thread the one important plot thread We've been waiting for the whole show which okay, so the first time I watched Rick and Morty season one I was watching it on the adult swim website, which accidentally played the episodes out of order It goes it went episode one ten eleven and then played the rest The second episode I ever saw was the Council of Rick's episode Which establishes this character so I like all through the show I was expecting there to be like an ongoing plot line because I'd seen that episode But it never you know obviously didn't get brought up again in season one because it was actually episode ten never got Addressed in season two like we still have the Council of Rick's but this evil Morty that was revealed at the end of Season one episode ten has had no callback Until the end of this episode twist which was fucking awesome, you know I didn't see it coming at all That's interesting because as soon as I saw that there was a Morty candidate running for office I immediately knew where it was going. I called the rest of the episode and I didn't know what happened That's interesting. I had no idea. I mean it's good to know that I am that much smarter than you it feels good It feels well after he after he gave his speech.  We'll see to be fair I I do get where the Trump parallels come from in one dimension because his whole thing was that he was just an absolute like Populist just telling the people what they wanted to hear and totally like abusing the weaknesses of democracy Because he has his own private agenda that I would say he was more like Obama to me. Hey, that's a good point That's a good damn point. He says is like like every word out of his mouth is change and hope Yeah, you know like that's how Obama won was he just kept promising that like You know he he prayed on the fact that people thought the last eight years had been bad And that if we change something it will be good not to mention that Morty is basically from the like repressed minority You know quote-unquote race of this world. Frankly Obama is a perfect parallel. I saw him more as first black president You know, we'll show you like like we've said that the race the racial stuff in this episode isn't is not too direct But like the most obvious parallel is Morty is Morty's are black, you know, of course And like so for him to be the first Morty president is like, okay This is first black president, you know, like to me it looked like a big Obama parallel and you know a lot of people would say When Obama got in office, it was basically, you know, like nothing really changed Yeah, especially now that we can look back at his legacy We can bear witness to like the dealings he made with the financial system and like the elites at the expense of the lower People not to mention his record number of deportations of the immigrants that everyone thinks for some reason that Obama was a champion of But actually wasn't and and not to mention the countless drone strikes that he you know did way more than any prison in history If you if anybody if you're really woke, you know, they're all the same. Yeah, all of them are the same Sufo is the only political party that knows the truth.   I don't think it speaks to any one Situation or candidate. This is just the whole system. This is what the system is This is what it means to have a system.  But then I thought about it and like Like how does any of us get where we are? It's just the circumstances of our birth, right? You're right. I wouldn't say that Like like you might think Okay, we work we're in a I don't want to say an intellectual job, but a job that involves thinking right right like we're we we analyze things We pull it apart. We're obviously not as smart as scientists. We're not as smart as as other But then you have to wonder well some of those scientists aren't really that smart.   I'm proud to do it so like When you think about it people You know the fact that they're all Rick It's it's not about being Rick. It's about what happened to Rick Hey, that's exactly what happened to Rick within his life You know the first Rick we're like introduced to in this episode is one called simple Rick Yeah, who realized at some point that his daughter was the most important thing to him and never became a super scientist And so they captured him and replay his memory on loop And extract his fluids and put it in a candy so that you can taste what it feels like to be a simple person Which when they bring that back at the end of the episode that was one of my biggest like Standing ovation moments of the season so it was incredible It was incredible and I knew it was coming that one I did seek like as soon as the guy came like the Willy Wonka Rick came in and was talking to him I was like, what is this guy's angle and then as he's taking him out.        That is a bleak joke, you know So there's never a moment of like just a fun ha ha joke. It's all like oh You know damn and and there's lots of like really good dialogue in this episode Like there's so there's one Morty who's been literally program. He's an experimental Morty Program to be dramatic like he's like more to be like Morty as he puts it To make you sad and kind of bored But then like his line where they're like he says He says like I want you know I want the system to be fixed on the Citadel like I want things to be good here and the other kids Because he's at he's at a wishing well We have to throw in something important in order to get your wish and He says I want things to be good here And they're like you better throw in something really important and he said well I hope so and he jumps in and like as soon as I hope so but I doubt it But I doubt it.  He's just like same old story. Yeah, Rick's killing Morty's and it's just like Yeah, it's fucking real oh That of course we haven't talked about the the campaign running Morty, you know the other kind of wage slave Morty guy He was sort of the other Kind of tied into the main plot there So there's just another guy sort of sort of similar to the to the candy making Rick as I gave them a little name So it's a campaign Morty there campaign manager for the the Morty who's trying to run for office And of course, it's I mean we're gonna get to it, but I love the whole It's just so brilliant to me This is the exact perfect way for like evil Morty to seize control through like this kind of system Like there's no way I mean I would have been hugely like I bra raising skeptical if this Morty had like somehow through force Taken over the system here and in fact by one curiosity at the end of the episode was through what exact force is Like is president Morty controller?  I guess that's pretty good I would assume they just worked for him already, you know like yeah, he's offering them something You know, yeah, he must be he must be they they pair we don't know what his angle is yet, right? Like because I couldn't tell if his aim is to perpetuate the system But under Morty rule or if it's to change the system in some way to benefit himself It's hard to say because at the end like the the council the the the Rick business council are all people who say you know We we were the real ones running things from behind the scenes even before right So for Morty to assassinate all of them means that now there is an opportunity for a full stop change Yeah, since both the real council of ricks and the The you know see CEO ricks are all dead, but who knows what he's trying to do We can end out we can at least infer from the way that he has gotten into this position and killing these people You know in the way he did and being willing to manipulate the system in this way that he certainly does not mind sacrificing pawns on his on his way to the top So and he I mean the the main thing that's been brought up about this Morty is that he has this weird Like receiver thing under his eye, right, which makes me think that he's either Doing this all under like either a ricks command or maybe he's a Rick in disguise Maybe like there's something about this Morty that he's not quite just Morty. That's true.  I mean, I don't know what the receiver thing is, but maybe he's a robot or something Yeah, maybe there's something about this one that he can push things into his eyeballs If you remember, I think the the his like the the quote-unquote evil Rick that we first met him under that turned out To be a robot as I recall so like we don't actually know who his Rick originally was So maybe they're like so his Rick is unaccounted for and you know, there's always a Rick to every Morty So that was certainly something that I want to know about Yeah, there's a lot there's a lot going on with this guy and I don't know if we'll get any more answers this season They might be playing the really long game with this particular mystery, you know I just this was so satisfying the way they doled it out. So like yeah I was waiting for it for a long time and I was I was you know, just Desperate for it, but like to then have it sprung upon you in such a brilliantly written way in such a satisfying way Kind of makes it it maybe if not completely worth it, but like just now that we've got it feels so much better for it Yeah Yeah, it's good stuff, man Well, is there any other things you have I written down or anything any other stuff you want to address about this episode? Um, I think there was actually um, oh Oh, oh, I remember the one other thing that I'm interested in is I'm really wondering What is going to be the event that there's got to inevitably a clash with with evil Morty here? And I'm I'm just really excited to see our Morty who who has been previously established At least possibly to be the most Morty Morty or the Prime Morty or whatever it was the good Morty Yeah, that's a fair way to frame it. I'm very interested to see him Do something and even in this very episode like at the very beginning You know, you can just feel Morty beginning to strain at the bonds of like when they're like, yeah You know, he's talking back to Rick's more and the whole his increasing nihilism as we've been going through the series Just showing a maturity of the character. I'm very interested to see I definitely have the feeling that the final Confrontation of Rick and Morty will be between the two Morties it seems that way to the good Morty the ultimate good versus the ultimate evil Morty and You know and maybe Rick I don't know what Rick will do but like that that is definitely gonna be He'll be coming down to I think I think building up both of these morties to be to have a showdown And you know, it's great.  I totally can understand how a Morty could actually get this kind of leverage It's been shown to us in a thousand ways how Rick is a total fuck-up at managing his relationship So it just I just I'm just so satisfied with it And the fact that it is relevant to our culture and even our current political climate is just like a cherry on top And it's fascinating and great. It's brilliant writing All right, everybody catch you next week. Hope it's as good as this one doubtful of that, but we'll see Always been it's been a bunch of good episodes. That's true. I think so. Yeah looking forward to it. Bye everybody. Bye. Bye


Hey friends today I am hanging out at the Magic Kingdom and I thought it would be fun to come out and do a shopping video Where I actually go around to different lands and see what's fun to actually purchase And I did this before at Epcot where I went shopping around world showcase and a lot of you guys like that So I thought today maybe we'll try it out at Magic Kingdom. So Let's go do this We're gonna start here on Main Street, USA and then make our way around the Magic Kingdom hitting up Frontier land Liberty Square Adventure land fantasy land and then also Tomorrowland and I think it's gonna be interesting the things that we find. There's a lot of different places. We can buy stuff I do kind of want to find things that I think are unique or something that is actually connected to The land that we're shopping in like something that says Frontier land or Main Street, USA That stuff kind of gets my attention But also anything else that we kind of just feel like it's fancy, you know, they're just gonna go for it and wing it We could start in the Emporium But I think we're gonna head right on into the crystal art store Established in 1875 and I bet you will find some unique things in there I absolutely love all the things they make in there They blow glass and I'm sure something there is gonna catch my eye Look at all the amazing items in here Wow, and also I can hear them etching some glass over here. So maybe we'll take a peek see I think this is unique is you can get personalized mugs. Look at that. That's a huge mug. Holy moly But look at oh don't want to disturb him Of course some of the items in here are very expensive and they're also very fragile So we're gonna have to be a little careful You can buy some tiara's and also some bracelets and charms These are actually going from anywhere from $49 up to $80 And like I said, they have a little bit of everything for everybody a nice Penset right here a very expensive Simba. That is almost $5,000 for Simba, but it's Simba I'm not really finding anything that's catching my eye in here I mean everything's catching my eye because it's so shiny But I think we can have to go to another store and find something even though There is a crystal debt star that I was looking at but I think I can do better Look at those Star Wars crystals up there There's two C3 PO's and then right in the back corner there. There is a hanging I think well, it's a glass debt star. That's $500. So I think I'm gonna maybe try to find a different store Right outside the crystal art store. They do custom Silhouettes and I was actually thinking about doing that. I think that would be fun to have a silhouette from Main Street USA It's always here and I walked past it Thousands of times but I never did it and I think it would be fun Like I said, they're gonna do my hat my glasses and it's gonna look just like me I hope Right here is the stand and I'll show you exactly the prices and what they're gonna do So you get a silhouette per person and it includes one free copy for ten dollars And then you can get a frame for nine ninety five.  I just gotta look straight ahead and He's just gonna sketch it you sketch it right cut it out. Oh, I'm excited. All right And now the finishing product there. Oh, you glue it right on, huh? Oh nice All right, I am blown away on how amazing this is look at they even got the details of my beard and my mustache My glasses my brim of my hat. This is this is so amazing And you actually get two of them so you get two for the price of one and they're both You know looking well, they're not looking in a different direction, but they're looking. I'm looking I'm looking at myself Well, that was such an amazing deal best bang for your buck as it comes to like a personalized item from Walt Disney World $20 you get two pictures one frame Honestly, the work that he did though. This was like top-notch. I wasn't expecting it to look that great But it is the best so now Main Street USA is done. We can move to our next land I'm gonna try to keep a tally of how much I spend today But I know that we're gonna be buying one thing from each of the lands and I think the next spot We're gonna head is to adventure land because I think that's the closest from here. I Can not get over how excited I am about this though I don't even know where I'm gonna hang it at my house, but it's gonna look good. Look at that. I Want to try to make this as cost-friendly as possible And I have to remember that we have other places that we're gonna go to like in Liberty Square There's momentum more a and that's gonna be a store I'm probably gonna find lots of things that I like so we're gonna try to be as cost-friendly as possible There aren't many merchandise locations in adventure land I mean if you want some fancy Ray bands then we got you covered But also the Pirates of the Caribbean gift shop probably has a couple of nifty things we can check out So we're gonna hit both of those places up So we'll check out the island supply here and see what they got going on. They might even have some deals on some glasses They have some really nice Disney Ray bands and these are Mickey Mouse ones. There's actually a new one see in the back there I'm celebrating pin. I'm Celebrating new Mickey Ray band April 2021. We're gonna try to give you a little look at the glasses to look at that That's very nice, but probably very expensive. It is buy one get one sixty dollars off But I don't know if we're gonna be in line for that. Oh Yeah, the new Mickey Ray bands are two hundred and thirty dollars And you don't get an annual pass holder discount on them Funny thing is is you can get an annual pass holder discount on any other glasses in the store Except for the ones with Mickey on them. That's no pass holder discount figure that So now we'll head into Plaza del Sol the Pirates of the Caribbean gift shop, and we're gonna see what they have in here. I Was not expecting on walking in here and finding something immediately, but I think I did Take a look at all this amazing Jungle cruise merchandise including a jungle cruise cookie jar. Oh My ward I never seen this before this must be new, but I like it. Oh, I'm gonna slip it up. How much is it? I think it's $55 that's not too shabby I'm pretty sure I'm all in on the cookie jar But I want to give the store a once-over just in case something else catches my fancy They do have some pretty cool items for Pirates of the Caribbean some coffee mugs I'm not too sure what this is. It says did men tell no tales. Is this a shooter? I don't know but also I do like this coffee mug down here because it has a lid on it But what can I say? I mean that cookie jar is just way too good to pass up And I bet you they're gonna be sold out in no time and they have a lot of other cool stuff They have the ornaments they have the t-shirts the amazing colossal stupendous eight wonder of the world the backside of water Thank you. I Am officially now the proud owner of a jungle cruise cookie jar Now we're gonna make our way over to frontier land and we're gonna cut through by the country bear jamboree So far we spent just around 70 dollars. That's not too good I wanted to be cost-effective, but I didn't buy the Ray bands, so I guess that's cost-effective In adventure land, I would have stopped at the bazaar, but the bazaar is just basically a seating area for dole whips now I don't even think they sell anything over there Yeah, the bazaar is all shut down I remember they used to have little snakes hanging from that tree there and a whole bunch of goodies in here now It's just a dole whip eating area In frontier land they have a couple of places we can find things including big owls trading posts There's actually one thing I actually thought about getting but I don't know when or where I can wear it because it is way too hot in Florida And here we are at good old big owls and like I said, they have something here I really was thinking about buying, but there's no way I can wear this in Florida $14.95 though. It's probably so hot. Oh my lord. You think you can get away with walking around wearing this? Whoo! Yeah, I Know I'm pretty brave with wearing the spirit jerseys and the jackets and the hats and hot weather But no way that would never happen. Maybe back up in Pennsylvania We'll hop inside the frontier mercantile, but first we got to say hi to Chippendale up there They're doing their things. They're probably hot today. Holy moly. I got their nice cooling hats on though One thing I noticed is they're not counting people as they're going into merchandise spots So you can just walk in and out freely. They're not actually stopping people. That's a big change. Oh And the cattle kids coming But look at this nobody's sitting out here counting how many people go in and out You can just walk in and out as you want This store actually doesn't have a lot of frontier like frontier land items It's mainly a lot of pins magic bands But there is something that is frontier landish and it caught my attention. So I think we're gonna be going in this direction It's these magnets here and they've got some pretty good magnets. Welcome to Westview. So this is from Wanda vision and then over here my other ride is a Nautilus My other ride is a doom buggy My other ride is a monorail and then of course my other ride is the wildest in the wilderness I think I might actually get this. I think it's so funny. Let's see how much it is 1499 not too shabby.  I think I like a little bit more And that is a Mickey Mouse sheriff badge Look at these 795 each and they're all different saying so this one says Wild West this one says grandma And that's very fancy and this one says boss Over on this side. This one says amigo princess Down here. I don't know what this says cow puncher. Is this a cow puncher? I'm getting the cow puncher. I Could tell you right now. I just paid $7 and 95 cents to be official Mickey cow puncher And I could not be happier. I don't even know what a cow puncher is I should probably look that up, but I think it's so funny and unique I had to get it front here land done now on the Liberty Square Technically there are two very good Shopping places here at the Liberty Square Momento More which is the Haunted Mansion gift shop and then also the old Christmas shop That is a Christmas shop. That's all year round. So we're gonna take a look in both of them Cow puncher is another word for cowboy. So that's good. I'm really happy. I got that And I think totally now we're around just under 80 bucks. I have to say I did kind of Estimate or try to see how much it was gonna cost me to do this video today And I was thinking around maybe 120 130 dollars now I don't know if we're gonna be able to meet that goal because you know at the same time I do want to buy things but I also want to buy things that I think I'm most interested in you know what I mean Like I could have gotten some cheaper than the cookie jar But I was like I gotta have the cookie jar and I could have gotten something more expensive than the cow puncher badge But I wanted the cow puncher badge So it is whatever the heart desires as long as we're not going too crazy gray bands. It's out of my blood can't do that Now on to the ye old Christmas shop. Let's see what they got going on in here, but Momento More is calling me It always smells so amazing in here. They have a nice selection of ornaments a couple of new ones and I think there's one in particular. That's newer that I haven't seen before so I'm gonna point that one out first Here is a main street cinema Ornament and it actually says steamboat really on it and this is right now the temporary location for the confectionary. These are hand Painted look at how fancy that is how much are they 2999? Yeah, that's not too bad and then down here They have the happiest most magical place on earth ornament I almost said happiest place on earth But in the same way it is and it's Disney parks blown glass. These are so nice and they have tons of different selections of things But I think we're gonna head on over to Momento More first Those ornaments are pretty nice, but I want something like frightful. I want a haunted mansion something That's like my thing. I mean it's my favorite attraction in Liberty Square I mean there's not many it's almost my favorite attraction in Walt Disney World I feel like when people ask like what your favorite ride is or anything like that that is a hard Conversation piece. I really couldn't even give you a top three because I would constantly take one away and just be like No, no, I love that one too much. I just love them all And here it is Momento More. Usually there's a line to get in here I don't think we have a line today. Lucky us Lots of good things inside here. I love this haunted mansion blanket over here 59.99 it is. Oh, it's got that material though. I feel like that would make me itch So I'm probably not gonna get that but still a very nice pattern They have a lot of cool figurines over here like a Madame Leodo one This is a hundred and forty dollars and then they have a ghost jar where you can bring a ghost home That is 29.99 See a lot of good stuff here, and it makes it hard because you want to buy everything This right here is really cool. I've been eyeing this up for a while. It's eighty dollars But look at that. It moves. It's got the 13th hour Oh choices Even though I want that clock Really really bad. I think I found something that I need to get and it's not for me But I definitely want to get this for her Gracie is well overdue for a new Dog collar and the one that she has now is a haunted mansion one And it was actually made by someone who watches the videos Jerry and Mary. So thank you Jerry and Mary her dog collar She's been wearing that for the past two years the same one And I still use the leash that you made her to and she loves it But I feel like it's almost hitting its end point So it'd be nice to get her another one and this is nice. Look at that very sturdy very nice 1799 and then also maybe a harness, but I don't know what size she is though See what harnesses I hear you have to be very like particular and measure it So I don't know if we'll do that just today, but the the collar. Yeah, I think that would be fun Well, it was decided Gracie got a new collar. So let's just recap a little bit. We've got a silhouette We've got a cookie job. We got a cow puncher and now we got a collar I think we did pretty well. We're just about at a hundred dollars and We still have two more lands. We're fantasy land and tomorrow land So we're gonna go over our original budget, but it's okay because I'm having a great time making this video I hope you guys are enjoying this video. I think it's so fun. It's like an adventure and I can't wait to see what else We're gonna get now Now there's technically two really good shopping locations here in fantasy land too. Hey, who are you? There's one that is in the Philhar magic gift shop and then also the art of Disney store that used to be on Main Street USA, which is now the temporary location for the Confectionary is actually back here by Gaston's Tavern So we'll check both of those out and also sir Mickey's. I totally forgot about sir Mickey's. I Was just walking around. I realized I don't need my mask anymore. I Do that often. I really do forget about it You got so accustomed just wearing it that you just put it on and you just completely forget I'm driven all the way home with my mask on before and once I got home and I got out of the car It's like what was I doing? But it's just something that we just kind of got used to and it's gonna be hard to break that habit and just feel like Again, even though we want it. It's just hard to do it. I don't know why Here is the merchandise location right outside Mickey's Philhar magic and I like the decorations in here Especially over on this side because you can see it's all themed for Philhar magic look at Donald up there There's Maestro Mickey and then the whole entire band is here Now they don't have many of things that are just kind of focused for fantasy land But I'm sure we'll find something if not we have some other stories to go to They have a nice selection of it's a small world Merchandise including this one that says I conquered it's a small world and even a snow globe. Look it That's really nice. Dare I is it gonna play? It's a small world because that's like important I think we're gonna head on back to the Beast's castle and see what things they have to offer over there Really didn't see much in there. I did like the it's a small world stuff But I think we could find something a little bit better something. I'm just like up. That's the one That's the silver tuna. I Also need to get something to eat today, so I'm not too sure what I'm gonna be eating I don't know if we're gonna go to Gaston's Tavern or if we'll get something over in Tomorrowland a lot of good offerings either way I Don't think it's gonna be Gaston's Tavern It looks like there is a hefty line of people waiting to get items from there, so maybe we'll wait till tomorrow land Lots of people trying to get that great stuff because it's delicious But where we're going is in Bonjour village gifts, and this is like I said before the art of Disney Store now They have some amazing things in here some things that are actually very expensive too, but I'm kind of like I want that and there's a lot of things like I said, but you have to you have to compromise You have to feel good about the price and feel good about the product So you might feel good about the product, but then you're like, oh, no, that's a little too expensive You're gonna have that buyer's regret. You want to have that happy medium. That's where I want to be For instance, I want this. I think it's beautiful. Look at that framework And this is an actual original custom art, but the price $3,500 Holy moly That is so expensive, but it's magnificent. I love it They do have a lot of neat like Beauty and the Beast things here though because it's actually right over here by Beast Castle And some of these items are really awesome. If you're a big fan of Beauty and the Beast, you're gonna love it You can get yourself a Beauty and the Beast handheld mirror And look at that Beauty is from within It's only $29.99 and then a couple of the character statues here This is so cool. I love this It's an actual enchanted rose and I have one out of the box over here. I'll show you that in a second I don't know how much this is though There it is. It's $69.99 Holy moly. It's a snow globe doll. That is pretty I like it Nothing in here is really popping out to me and giving me that happy medium feeling There is one thing I would have gone, but now I can't get it because I already got one And I'll show you what that is It's this Mickey cookie jar. $40. I would have totally gotten this cookie jar But I already bought a cookie jar today How many people do you think in the world can say, wow, that's enough cookie jars. I already got one today I don't think I can walk out of here with two cookie jars. It is a nice one though Oh yeah. Hello Well, this is going to be tough I mean, I don't want to settle for something that I don't want in Fantasyland So I think we're going to head on over to Sir Mickey's and see what they have there I mean, we have to find something. It's Fantasyland Before I backtrack back to Sir Mickey's I think I'm going to dive into the 100 acre goods And see if they have anything in here. A lot of this is Winnie the Pooh stuff But they might have some Sevendor's Mind Train items And I think that would be cool They have some nice Winnie the Pooh mugs They have Eeyore and Pooh Bear And these are $19.99 They also have a couple of other Winnie the Pooh items And these are a little bit different. Like, look at this one I like this one. This is more or less after the book itself And that's kind of fancy. It's a nice little mug Well, that one's on Clarence. $13.99 A Clarence item here at the Magic Kingdom Wow, actually it's all on Clarence. The pillow's too $17.99 But that's kind of fancy The bag? $12.99? Holy moly Even though all of that merchandise was discounted Really wasn't anything for me in there So one more stop And I don't even know if they have any merchandise locations down there But we're gonna head on over to Storybook Circus I'm not too sure that there is anything open over here But I could see if they have any popcorn buckets over here Because they usually have a good popcorn bucket selection And that might be something I would be interested in buying I haven't had a collection of popcorn buckets before But I thought about starting it and I don't know It would be a good idea to do this like my first one Perfect, they have a steamboat really popcorn bucket I think that would be a good first to start a collection now Now I think I'm gonna be in the popcorn bucket collection game I think this is gonna be a good, I feel good about this This is that happy medium feeling, I feel good There it is, right there $18 and plus I can get some popcorn Now I kinda got two birds with one stone Because I got a nice snack and I bought something in Fantasyland I asked for it with the popcorn on the side Because I kinda just like the way it looks So I wanted to preserve it Also I don't want to spill my popcorn as I walked around Because now I have a bag hanging off me And then a bag in my hand We are definitely running out of hands to hold things Because I still have the camera And we got tomorrow land to go to next So now we need to recap We end up getting a silhouette We got ourselves a cookie jar We got ourselves a cow puncher We got ourselves a dog collar A new popcorn bucket And now we're heading into tomorrow land And our first stop is Star Traders Here it is Ooh, they got the new Corella stuff coming out Oh boy Now I can't pass judgment because I haven't seen the new movie yet The Corella DeVille movie My mask is upside down But they have a new line of merchandise And I have to say I don't think I like it I mean I don't get it I mean I love Corella DeVille I love the 101 Dalmatians Look at the people moving by up there But I don't understand this I guess I have to see the movie There's no spots, there's nothing And they just have regular dogs Where's the Dalmatians? They have this dog And then they have this dog over here But I don't see any Dalmatians So I'm like huh I wonder I guess I'll just have to watch the movie But I was just like wait a second This store is nice but nothing really tomorrowlandy Tomorrowlandy I like that Nothing really tomorrowlandy I know where they do have some tomorrowlandy items And that's over in the Space Mountain gift shop And I bet you all find something good in there Inside the Tomorrowland power company They're generating a bright new tomorrow Did anybody else notice that there is a clock right there And it's kind of like in the shape of a hidden Mickey gear Very interesting huh And I bet you they have a lot of good Tomorrowland stuff in here They have a lot of cool Tomorrowland things in here They've got shirts that say Give me my Space Space Mountain Tomorrowland They have Space Mountain coffee mugs Oh those look fancy Not too ideal to drink out of I don't even know if they're coffee mugs They might be miniature cookie jars They also have some Tomorrowland merchandise And oh they do have Space Mountain cookie jars How funny is that I might have to start a Space Mountain Or I might have to just start a cookie jar collection I mean I got the Jungle Cruise one This looks really fancy How much are they? Oh 40 dollars That's not too bad Honestly I really really do like that Space Mountain cookie jar I don't think I would use it as a cookie jar I think I would put it up with my monorail set Like next to the contemporary Like above my kitchen I don't know if you guys have ever seen my house before But I think that would look good I might be sold on it Honestly I might be sold on the Space Mountain cookie jar Yep I think I'm getting it I don't know how I'm going to carry this all the way out Oh boy we've got a lot of stuff But it's coming home with me And with that I think we are done here today I think we did really good We got a lot of fun stuff And we spent around 150 dollars That was a little bit over budget than what I wanted to do But 150 dollars I got two cookie jars I got a new dog collar I got my fancy badge I mean I got a new popcorn bucket I think I did pretty well like I said And it was a fun video And it's about the memories That's how I feel So I hope you enjoyed the video I enjoyed making it We'll see you next time Bye Can we take a second And appreciate these monorails going by right now It's the perfect time of the day right now


Governments create money all the time. We do that for war. I mean, look at what happened in Germany recently overnight. They created 100 billion euros for the war effort. So why do we actually treat our social problems around health, around public education, public transport, climate change as urgently as we treat climate and then use tax to redistribute in a progressive way, not a regressive way and to steer the economy to be more inclusive and sustainable. That should be the question, not nitpicking on one number. Thank you.