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Let's go straight to questions because there are 10 I think I saved 10 questions and let's start with age 3 rcm as always usernames I apologize and everybody who's watching and listening is your very patient and suffering through my pronunciations and the question is what should you do when you get a super jerk person teaching your animation as in how to deal with bad teachers and someone else below reply with um you know that is like katers like kathus like kathus I don't know also how to deal with the bad teachers that just do not care to help or really teach that's a good question and that's a sad question I mean if you are a teacher any teacher who's watching this this makes no difference if you're watching or not no one's going to care but if you are a teacher that just doesn't care and just kind of doesn't want to teach just gives them a tutorial then sits back and is on their iphone I've heard of some of those teachers I'm not going to name names um it's actually don't remember the name but I've heard of a case where a teacher would just come in get their phone screen tutorial then just browse something and just let them do in like you know three hours of silence or something that's super crazy I mean I would say go to the school and and tell the officials management the assistants your advisor whoever the hierarchy works at your school that this teacher needs to get their sh it together and do something about this or replace the teacher I mean this is really because the students are paying I mean the parents of whoever is paying for the classes and they need to get something out of it so that's it's really not good thing now again how to deal with this I would go again I mean you can talk to them if you're into confrontations you want to hey listen I don't feel like what you're doing here is right I mean you got to tell them like I asked my students to give me feedback I don't get that much feedback and maybe there's something where students don't want to say too much because they fear whatever precautions but I want the relationship between students and teachers to be as honest as possible so if I do something wrong or I teach a wrong way or my Swiss accent is just horrible and you don't understand anything I want people to tell me so I can switch my style around to help them so if you want to if you feel like the teacher is open to that that might be one way but if you're saying there's a super jerk then you got to go above that person then just go with management whoever the HR or whoever and tell them this is just not wrong that's kind of what I would do because the thing is again it's your time and your money so I wouldn't suffer through semester after semester with bad teachers just let them know or let the higher ups know that it's just not right because you know why waste your time with that that's just me I would just I would take action plg 30 30 okay what is the best way to improve your animation skill while working full-time as an animator you are the best well thank you you are the best that's a good question because that's kind of in the same I'm in the same boats I'm a full-time animator for anyone who's new I work at ILM 9 to 6 right depending on the hours might be longer but that's my daytime thing so the way I improve my animation skills that's a good question I hope I'm improving by animating at work what helps me is I know this is not something that's like an easy thing but then you have to go through all the proper channels and get into that the territory but teaching has helped me in terms of analyzing other work identifying problems quickly so I can help the students quickly and then I apply all of that to my own animations everything that I was repeat to my students this is the checklist look for that you know arts and pops and acting choices and you know all the things that you want to put into your shots when I work on my own shots I try to remember that have my own little JD somewhere on the shoulder that repeats the same thing hey imagine this is a student clip what would you tell them and I kind of go through that obviously how do you can how could you improve is by doing work outside of work which I can't I still have the time but that's what I used to do a long time ago to try to do like different clips like different style if you're doing cartoony stuff maybe more realistic realistic more cartoony or continuing with the same area but just kind of refining maybe there's something at work you haven't done for a while like actually just yesterday I think we talked about two days ago I can't remember the Q&A with my students I never animated on Jurassic World or Jurassic Park I'm not that old but and within that franchise so I have pretty much no experience in terms of feature live action feature animation dinosaur realistic animation so that's something I would have to practice at home versus getting that and the feedback from work so that would be my thing so find your area where you feel like you need improvement and then practice that at home if you have the time and if you don't have the time critiquing has helped me and at least look at other things online I mean on nowadays it's I guess it's online where you see awesome animation that might be inspiring to you in terms of that's really cool and then analyze that like analyze yourself not yourself but you do the analysis on other people's work so you can compare that work to your own work I think those are kind of the different areas that I would use to improve um and if you I mean if you really have the time and money um go as a as the full-time working animator take workshops uh or go to a school or anything where you get feedback from someone else like someone that doesn't know you doesn't know you're working can kind of neutrally look at your work and say well you need to do this this and this that will be something again I would love to do that I don't have the time I would love to go back to school so to say and have assignments and have a professional look at my work and and critique the crap out of it because I need I need more practice and that'd be really cool but I don't have the time um but that's again maybe I'm through the other ways but right now that's what comes into mind Moki Tobi Moki Tobi I guess Moki Tobi have you thought of trying to use Blender it would be interesting to see a video of you trying to learn a different software and then the industry standard by the way the best tip for animating cars please I'll get two questions in there um have I thought of trying to use I have absolutely thought of trying to use Blender and it all goes back into time I had more time before this semester but even then I had no time now I have really no time whatsoever but I do want to try it I don't know if you want to suffer through me trying to use it for the first time it'd be really boring to watch how I stumble through this but I do want to go in there and see how is that here's so many good things and I see so many good things with that software so I do want to use it um and the best of animating cars well depends I mean cartoony cars look at cartoony cars out there cars Pixar or the older classic cartoons or motion things of what their style is um and if it's for realistic cars you got to look at reference how do cars move the suspension and you know if it's like a hard suspension soft one bouncy things what type of car they make of the car how you know how do the lean or you know what's the gravity I don't know to me it would be looking at real life reference to see how they behave quote-unquote um and then looking at whatever tools you have do you want to animate the car on on a path or not something like that I'm not sure if that's the best answer to this um kind of stumped on that question but I'll leave it at that Mexican burrito a burrito super cool with the q&a thank you thank you my question is when practicing learning should I worry about how long I am taking on an assignment when I sit down with my own animations I feel I always feel like I'm too slow and was wondering if I should just focus on learning rather than speed that's a good question um should I worry I mean let's put it this way I would first worry about learning this goes back into having a good or bad teacher so you get the material you you get the assignment you get the list whatever you need to do and then practice or practice try to understand the assignment and the principles behind it so don't rely actually that's what we talked about yesterday for sure in the class um don't rely on the teacher's notes to move you forward by that I mean if you just get the list of the teacher's notes and just follow that list and then resubmit your shot but don't understand why you made the changes and what the principles are behind those notes then you will never succeed and or succeed you never improve if that makes sense like you will never like once you go to a next shot you don't know why you made those fixes so you can never make it better on your own so that's what I'm saying first I would focus on learning looking at obviously your education the principles and everything and then when you get to know strength you understand why did I get this note why do I need to do the way shift or the spacing change or the arc changes or the acting choice change whatever whereas acting is a bit more you know subjective but that's what I would do but then also speed to be honest it's a both thing but ultimately I wouldn't I would first focus on the learning and then the speed because you don't want to rush through things because I need to be fast and then it looks crappy and then what's the point so learn the principles make sure you understand all the fixes that you're supposed to implement and then start working on your workflow to be faster I think that will be that will be my advice that's a long one by nilo far navaye navaye and that is actually there's a two-parter of someone else called sumaye nagizade I think this person replied before anyway I have the same question as Eric Malaco I'm learning Maya and 3d animation by myself your channel really helps me to learn more about 3d animation well thank you I'm glad to hear that although I was 2d and 2d game animator I quit my job and decided to switch to 3d because I really want to work in triple game anime game companies I'm practicing every day sometimes I feel lost and ask myself am I on the right track is there any specific exercise like a list or something that newbie animators start with them sometimes I really don't know what to do I stop my practice and start overthinking and asking myself no no maybe I should try body mechanic or no maybe I should make some acting animations and dot dot dot quite a quote quote sorry for a long comment but I'm about to explode and I need help and underneath someone respond with or add it yeah exactly I think that happens when you self-study animation or anything because you don't know where you are in the path of learning and there's no one to tell you what to do after you did for example that especially in the middle path of learning things start to become harder and you need someone to push you those are great comments great questions um so let me go back up here you decided to switch with 3d because you want to work in triple game but you feel lost am on the right track is there a specific exercise list I mean there's the classic 51 exercises for animation that has all kinds of things in there I mean that's definitely somewhere to go in terms of that's the list I want to go through these are all very helpful lists like it's a helpful list of exercises you it will teach you many different aspects of facial acting body mechanics and moves and all kind of stuff and that's for sure good idea I totally agree that it's hard without feedback to understand where you're at I think what I would look at in terms of self-teaching um yeah if you again you have to have feedback because you otherwise you are in that bubble so either your friends post you work online in a forum or obviously if you can't go to school which is not the thing that's self-taught so find somehow a way to get feedback from someone in terms of structure I would look at if you're self-taught to go through the principles like literally going down to bouncing ball like you got to go have a proper foundation for timing and spacing and the bouncing ball is just easy to do in terms of it's no crazy rick just the ball you might have other ricks where you got squash and stretch and other things in there but you can literally just take a sphere in what a software package you have and go with the bouncing ball and different weights and stuff like that I would start with that and then I would go into mechanics I wouldn't go for my bouncing ball or like a pendulum or whatever straight to a walk walks are hard especially once you get to character walks so to me it will be kind of building on top of complex mechanics where you have a bouncing ball the bouncing ball with the tail so you get the drag overlap and all that good stuff and then what I always recommend is subjective but I recommend a sit down because then you can just do just the root sitting down you have to anything crazy with arms and legs but then you can you still have to look at the weight and the arcs and then the little paws and a plop and then you have that impact on the body there's still a lot of you know successive joints that have to overlap and compress I think that could be cool and then you can exaggerate or exactly you can make it more complex by adding a step a turn maybe the arm is leaning here like I have on the chair you know like that you can make sit downs more and more complex just mechanically and then you can start adding character to this is you know someone's tired or anxious or nervous or happy or tired whatever all that good stuff so I think that is one way to go and then going into a jump which again could be just a standing jump jumping for me to be walk to a jump run to a jump you can make this all more more complex and then you can then I will go into pantomime stuff where it's a bit more thought process and and and character driven so that the movements are not just movements for physics and and proper mechanics but driven by a thought process and action and reaction and whatever it is that's kind of what I would say but even within that you would be lost if you're just doing it by yourself so I'm going to put a link in the description with the 51 exercises that might be something that is helpful but if you're I mean if you're typing this you are on some form of machine be it a phone or computer so you have access to let's say LinkedIn or if you want to do an account or Twitter and I know Twitter might not be you know it can be a very negative you know hellhole this is there I say just kind of curate it the way that makes it a bit more positive but at least you can follow animators we can you know follow artists where you can post your work for feedback or just ask for feedback again you might get a lot of unsolicited feedback or opinions you don't want to hear from or I don't know whatever so LinkedIn will be more professional and that would be that so yeah find a structure and exercise list that works for you depending on where you're at level wise and then go through that but try to get some form of feedback even if it's just someone in your household or a friend or someone or send it to me or I could say worst case send it to me I can give you some feedback I have to provide it as my students in my workshop people but feel free to email me and if I can if it's something short I can just write it one or two sentences I can always do that so I will leave it at that vibe of but yeah but yeah but yeah it's always kind of tricky how to plan your shots for example if you have seven days for a single shot then how many days you're gonna spend for gathering references or doing research and how many days do you gonna you're gonna give to execute the shot and is there any do's and don'ts for the shots during tight deadlines those are great questions how do I plan my shots well generally it's the type of shot that's going to dictate how I plan by that I mean if it's something heavy in terms of mechanics especially creature stuff I don't know every creature by heart so I have to look at references so then my first step would be online or books or whatever you have look at references for posing and mechanics and movement how do those creatures move or how do humans move um for something very very complex you know especially if you have you know anytime like parkour or some actiony thing a stunt double stuff that I can't act out then I got to go online and check someone something something that's similar to that action if it's something that I can do then I act it out just to kind of feel how it is how my body moves for whatever action it is if I if I need to study that more than I feel myself for reference or if you have a good acting body you can film someone else that does that that that to me would be first if it's something where I don't need reference and I just want to think about the performance and it's something where it could be character or creature something that is not you know legs and arms and it's just something something else um then I usually just sit there and think which is horrible when someone walks by my desk nowadays it's not the case you know I'm in my office but um at work it's something like this I really like this I'm just thinking because I try to visualize the shot in my head until it's clear like I try to see it in my in my head like the final pass that's the performance that's what I want to do if I don't need reference or I don't need to act it out some stuff you should kind of like yeah that's what I want to do then you go in there and you animate it that's kind of what I do so how many days do I spend for gathering references uh a day I don't want to spend more I mean you can always start with the basics do something submit your shot for review and feedback and then keep looking at things and looking for more references while you wait unless you have a second shot to work on and you do the same thing you keep working so I don't want to spend too much time basically I want to spend enough time to make a good decision I know if it's going to be good but something that's at least informed enough to start um so I don't want to spend four days on something where if my idea my pitch is not good I just wasted four days I prefer to do half a day or a day get a blocking together send it as an idea and then when you get feedback that's a good idea keep going then you can continue with reference gathering for more details or more polish or whatever you need that's kind of my process uh and any do's and don'ts for shots doing tight deadlines um I don't know keep it to me it's keep it clear I don't want to make things too complicated once I have a tight deadline okay well this is the shot this is the deadline don't have too much time let's not spend hours and hours and hours for reference trying to find some crazy details I started simplifying it into what does the shot need what's the story point what does the client need with the leader supervisor need um and then try to execute that idea as clearly as possible and once that has been approved then I can add some other flourishes to the shot to kind of dress it up and make it cooler but um I don't want to go into crazy stuff when it's a really tight deadline then it's just stick to what you need to do like what needs to be read as clearly as possible in the shot story point wise or pose wise um and then I put on some music to drown out everything and just have you know certain mood and then I go in and attack the shot it's very subjective that's kind of what I do I don't know actually comment if what's I'm curious what other people do what are other people's do's and don'ts for tight deadlines and curious what your your distraction free zone thing is that you're going to to uh to get there I know all right Namankari I'm again assuming the pronunciation here how do you plan action sequences for game animations or action movie where it's tough to find or make reference there's a common question that comes up a lot I don't do game animations I can't answer that if you're action movies where it's tough to find references it's kind of like for me it's a two step thing it's basically I look at reference now you're saying it's tough to find but I try to find reference that is at least somewhat similar even if it's extremely removed some part of whatever you're going to animate you will find reference for even if it's just a certain body move a look an arm a grab a fall there's something that you can go this part exists somewhere now if it doesn't then the answer is just make it up then you've got to rely on your experience and all the things you've done make up an idea and then go and animate I mean ultimately you still have to have the skill set of not looking at any reference and think about a shot come up with an idea and animate it from A to Z you know final polish without any reference or help I would still practice that type of thing so but I still try to find as much as possible there's a reference so it's it's related if you have a creature right it's like some fantasy sci-fi creature that looks totally weird you still want to find something that obviously won't look like this but as an audience the audience will go oh that seems familiar they don't have to have that massive reaction but subconsciously they can go you know if it's like something threatening you might find an animal that has a threatening stance or pose or move and you know like like snakey stuff like snakes right he's a snake that's gonna be threatening so if you have any type of creature that's like a threatening snakey thing then you're gonna go you just gonna feel like that's not right that's not like a cuddly creature so I would look at that like what elements can you can you choose from whatever reference human or creature that an audience member is going to react to viscerally in terms of cute or not cute like if you like there are obviously many other ways of reacting to something but like those basic good or bad bad or evil or evil or not evil type of things um and then once you have that like I said then you have to make it up in your own head and and create that performance and just rely on your sense of timing and spacing for the proper weight and then your sense of timing and drama and attainment value to make it a performance hope that makes sense that's kind of what I do again not saying I'm doing it well but that's my that's my approach this guy that's the username this guy sorry sorry one more last question how do you give breath and settle to a character especially when we have like four to five frames damn that's really tough um if you only have that much time I mean the breath is going to be four five frames is so sharp for breath I mean it's also will depend on the action right if you're just doing a you don't have time four five frames is not going to work now if you're doing something action-y I was like and you can do something like a cheek puff or like a chest flare then that might fit in but four frames is super short I will look at something where I settled her character I will look at what is the action you're ending and what is the main aspect of the body part that ends is it something where you know if someone comes to stop with their leg and it's like this where it's the leg is going to hit the root and the pelvis for the whole thing to stop you're going to feel something in the chest it's going to be a chest head with potentially an arm move but it's going to be a lot of compression or just a stop I would I would try to sneak that in there because you can you have to potentially stop the root really quickly that doesn't feel natural like it feels like it's too fast so the momentum has to go somewhere so then any body part where you can show that off where it's a chest or the head that follows through or an arm that has like an overshoot for where you feel like that momentum just doesn't stick and if it's just a regular settle with not a lot of action it's the same thing to me if it's if I'm resting and it's like a I don't know it's a chair on this then I will look at this is the thing that stops first and it might be the saddle on the head so a little adjustment on the head to finish this if it's standing thing weight shift it could be your hips could be an arm I would just look at what is also what is the thing that needs focus I don't kind of all over the place but there's so many ways you can approach this so you have to look at a mechanics way of the momentum so it looks proper in terms of how a character stops but at the same time you have to look at in terms of where is the audience supposed to look at the end of those four to five frames so it might be something where mechanically you're supposed to do like a body compression upper chest whatever but the focus should be on the face because then there's something there or it says something or it cuts to something where the eye needs to be up here not down here and however the eye line is for across the cut then I would exaggerate the head so that if you stop the last it could be a bit of a like a twist in the head and that's the biggest thing that moves so the eye goes to that part that makes sense you have to lead the audience in terms of focus if that's the frame right so let's say I'm stopping here that's my head here and the neck shot has another character within this area I would move that at the end so the eye stays there I don't want to do something where something happens over here right and then in the next shot the audience is supposed to look here but then you have a lot of back and forth and it kind of it's a jarring cut or um stuff like that so that to me that's what I will look at in terms of mechanics what would feel right and then on top of that well would that be overwritten by a performance where you want to focus on some some other body part and then that again will be overwritten in terms of but how does that work if it's a sequence how do you cut to the neck shot where do you want the audience's eye to stop so that cut is smooth and so on and so on so I think there are many ways hopefully one of these is helpful to you Robert good night that's the name when you specialize you're real for a studio how do you analyze this you just work to match your real to what they do like if you apply for blizzard what sort of things do you show for that if you're going to apply for ilm what sort of animation would you prominently show in your reel like would you go for more real real action scenes realized in rl if you're listening there's not rl uh since it's a vfx studio unless stylized slash cartoony and blizzard is more stylized action i hear a lot about specialized your reel to the work the studio does yes and i'm also the same proponent of of that saying um you know again it's that example i mean go broader in terms of let's say ilm and disney like disney feature animation totally different styles so broadly look at what is the general style um and then go from there and then once you have that like let's say ilm now i don't i mean i work at ilm but i'm not going to represent hr or the recruiting aspect or this is not an endorsement of if you do this you will get a job i know this sounds like a massive disclaimer because it is so what i'm going to say now doesn't mean that if you do that you'll get a job i have to say this so but for ilm specifically i would do something where looking at the portfolio of what we're doing like you have Mandalorian season 2 is out right you got the crate dragon really awesome stunt doubles with mando flying around like you have digital stunt doubles that you can apply to maybe bigger creatures you have look at transformers big robots you have pacific rim big creatures um you have star wars you have flying vehicles i would not put star wars on your reel but something where it's a vehicle flying so you have flight dynamics and then we also do a lot of camera work so a lot of the cg stuff like cg cameras we do we get it from layout but there's a lot we have to do to pass on top of that or we have to create the whole camera from scratch so anything that would be camera work because maybe you do previews or post office work so to me it's leaning more that way versus a cartoony stylized looking character doing cartoony animation with lots of you know cartoony stuff in there because that's just not what we do um that would be the biggest thing so look at your reel in terms of the style and then within that just look at what has the company done recently and apply to that like you look at you know some companies are doing the effect stuff but it's not actually it's a bit more a bit more like performance room like a lot of harry potter stuff has creatures but then they talk they perform um or anything stuff like that again you have to look at some companies are more into the performance we effects some are actiony creature stuff some are doing everything so that's kind of how i would approach that again this claim right it doesn't mean that you'll get a job um and i'll leave it at that hope that makes sense basically it should be this game over everything i hope that any of this makes sense anything that i say all right let me check the time oh 29 minutes and 30 seconds this is why i'm looking down here because last time it cut me off so i'm gonna stop this oh this one last question i'm gonna stop this and rerecord and then finish this with a new recording all right i'm back i could have cut this out look at that my timer i'm gonna leave all this in this is all something that i'm doing this guy again is asking it's the last question how do you manage to do youtube plus your daily work that to uploading every single day and what do you think about anime i like those double double totally different questions and funny enough i was just talking about anime yesterday with um my wife's younger sister is here uh it was a lockdown you're kind of living together right now and she watches a ton a ton of anime so she'll be the better person well actually you're asking what i think about it but uh talking to her about it yesterday like i'm so old like my anime thing is you know like dragon ball uh les chevaliers de zodiac the saint seya whatever you know the zodiac or whatever it's called in english whatever you know and then i don't remember the couple ones way back when i was a puppy uh and even though it was in switzerland i we watched french channels and there was a channel called or a show called club doughty and she and her co-hosts would present all kind of shows also anime stuff and there were a ton there i don't know if ken fiss of the north star was part of that lineup but like just so many different old school um anime shows that would watch and that's kind of that i don't really watch them anymore because i don't the time that i have to watch things like the time that i have in general i want to spend with my family so i'm not going to sit down and watch anime with my wife because she's not super into that so like castlevania was like the last thing that i watched that was animated in terms of a non big feature thing i guess um and i know there's a ton of good stuff out there like there i say i've barely seen anything of avatar i know i know a kora or even clone wars not the clone wars is anime but just generally animated tv shows it just it's just hard to find the time so what do i think about it i like it but again my liking of it is steeped in nostalgia and very old old shows that i used to watch i'm sure by now you got a lot more better and i know you do but i would say how about this this guy uh comment and let me know what your favorite anime shows are or movies anything in that style and then i can make a list and uh catch up and watch these or anybody watching these what are your what is your what are your what are your thoughts about anime and what are you your favorite movies and tv shows and then we can go from there um and then i can catch up the other question is how do you manage your youtube plus your daily work well it depends that's my my favorite answer to everything's always it depends um right now i have a really hard time uh to manage it if you are watching my clips more frequently if you're if you're a subscriber you will see that my schedule is now completely upside down i just don't have any time right now i have like i said before i teach five classes i got three classes at the academy uh they're all online obviously right now i got two classes uh i don't manage mentor and i do my workshops as well so my my world right now is is heavy leaning towards teaching with the daytime being work so any free time at lunch i exercise but that is basically teaching working exercising and an evening i watch uh Ted Lasso just finished i watch he wishes be my wife in movies that's stuff like that or mandalore and tonight um that's kind of currently uh the bubble that i'm in now there were too many classes it's usually because classes that i applied to some of us get cancelled to not enough people there or something changes so it's usually give me all of them because i know at least for the academy and mentor one of us going to cancel because of not enough people there or something changes so i never have that many for some reason everything got approved this semester but i'm not going to do that again so there's going to be a certain cap that i want to put in especially for the academy to like the two on-site classes which are online like the online classes you just you write stuff your critique but it's kind of my own schedule i kind of go and log in and record the reviews but the on-site classes which are now online there are three hour blocks so for me that's Tuesday Thursday from six to nine p.m that i have my block so that's like a big chunk uh that's gone and the first class is so big that it's actually six to ten like i have to do extra critiques and stuff so that's a big chunk of time that's just gone and i can't do that anymore so for spring i would only do one on-site online class and then an online if they want me to happen right but i'm not i can't do two on-site slash online classes it's just too much an evening three hour chunk uh is kind of gone so i kind of i have to really pull back because i do want to do other things besides what i'm doing right now they say there's a like a clip i want to animate too for i don't know how long um but also for the channel as you can see like a lot of stuff has just been on hold but i want to continue and i need to find a way around that i just i just don't want to work on weekends that's the thing i want to critique i don't want to animate and i don't want to work i don't do anything on weekend weekends are my my work-life balance thing i want to spend that time with my family but it comes to a point where people again have sent me stuff to review and if they are watching this again thank you and i will review them and this weekend i'm going to break my rule and i'm just gonna work because i need to catch up and i can't just say hey send me things for a review and then they do for free and then i sit on them and i don't review them this doesn't work so i just i have to change it i talked about that with my wife and you know we're figuring out a schedule so there's still family time there but i cannot always like take advantage of people sending me review units and then i don't do anything for it or delay it massive because i can't wait till december until the semester is done like this ridiculous so actually this weekend i'm going to break my rule and start working so i'm going to catch up lots of unboxing and reviews and then i will try to find a different schedule to get back into the rhythm of reviews um fna's all that stuff because again it helps me going back to another question like all that stuff helps also me to learn more and and dissect stuff and have more material for other classes and not just the channel because i try to do material that will serve the channel but all my students all the classes i can show them that stuff i can point them towards the movies or the extra material that i have i can show them in class so i need to get back into that so how do i manage right now poorly and um in the previous semester where i had less to teach um i'm i'm also doing a side project i can't really talk about that needs my attention in the evening uh and because of that i sleep in in the morning where i get up at between six or seven before that when i didn't have that side project i got up a quarter to five and this is how i was managing my stuff where quarter to five i get up and i do the critiques i need to do i record i edit all that stuff up until eight or nine until work starts then it's work work work work and then in the evening i can do family stuff from my own thing what i want to do and that was kind of schedule and then i go to bed between 10 10 30 maybe 11 but usually between 10 or i i guess roughly between 10 and 11 i do want my six to eight hours of sleep preferably seven so that's kind of that's how i used to manage it a very rigorous morning schedule to get everything done they work and then blah blah blah and right now um it's a big tricky the thing that i can upload every day is our critiques because i will always critique my workshops and i have again eight nine hundred files of critiques from my 10 years of teaching so i have so much material in terms of feedback that i can i can upload all the time i mean i would have three years worth of daily uploads of just feedback so and given the comments people like them and they learn from them and it's also kind of a promotion for my workshop where i got workshops link description all that good stuff so you know people watch these feedback clips and well that's cool and they feel like i want to do that for my own thing that's why i'm posting it it's an archive reason and for people to watch this and get interested and then sign up for a workshop as well if they feel it's helpful so my daily upload will always be critiques which again i try to keep the monday to friday uh monday to wednesday and then thursday is ack analysis and friday is an fna again right now it's all just chaos so yeah that's that it's a long answer what is this eight minutes into the last answer um yeah i'm leaving it at that i think i have after this 10 more 10 more uh on youtube but i got other questions on my instagram and someone twitter and i think someone linked in as well so there'll be two more parts one to finish the that's not true and then i got questions on my answers q and a so i will probably say three more parts one more part to finish that the comment list there one more to cover the extra questions on on those q and a answer clips and then one last one to round up all the questions from all the different social media uh sources and that is that and speaking of that is that that is that for this q and a again what is this 10 minutes so probably half an hour 40 minute almost clip very long if you're still watching thank you for watching if you're still listening thank you for listening i appreciate it uh and you know the pitch like and subscribe subscribe if you want to you don't have to but it helps the channel grow will be awesome comment if you have any questions of course comment if you have any 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In this presentation, we're going to enter the data from the payroll register to the earnings records. We're going to do this for the second month of operations for our problem, that being the month of September. We can see the payroll register on this side, the earnings records, we're going to have to scroll over to the right. We tried to put them on the same worksheet, which hopefully will be easier than having two different tabs, but we still have to scroll around a bit. Note the earnings record is in order by the name of the employee and then the pay period. If we scroll back to the payroll register, it's in order by the pay period and then the employees. So we're reversing the ordering in order to get the detail by employee rather than by pay period. Now we need to be very careful to make sure that we're picking up the data from September and not another time period as we go over and pull this information. So to do that, we could try to do something like highlight.


Well, this is interesting. I'm actually really scared right now. This isn't, um... I'm kind of mixed in between insane excitement and terrified to my core. I don't know when you're going to see this video because as I sit here to record this video No one is even sure if this thing exists, so I don't know when I'm even going to upload this But I want to look at it, so I'm recording it now I know a lot of you are gonna have a ton of questions, and I don't know what I should say Hey, hey, quiet up there bucko Right about here in the video. I went and told you guys pretty much how I got the switch and in retrospect I probably just shouldn't say anything, so that's gonna fast forward that and Good, okay Keep you guessing I'm gonna try and swallow the scared and Just embrace the excitement. I am a massive Zelda fan There's been a lot of limited-edition Nintendo switches In fact, we know that because we just bought all of them But none of them really stood out to me as a one that I would really want to use So the idea of a Zelda themed switch. I have been so Insanely excited for this right before we open it I need you to know that I am still doing my breath of the wild full playthrough with crowd control over on twitch I'm I might be live right now. Go check it out. I can answer more questions about this thing Also like comment subscribe all that normal stuff I had a sponsor that was supposed to go on my last video, but it wasn't ready in time. So um Gonna make you wait for it. 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What game do you think you'll want to play the boring gray ones? Or the one that's definitely plated with real 24 carat gold then there was gold 64 cards There was there's been gold controllers through the years and we don't have gold joy cons until now and all my All my gold they look so freaking good the texture The color the design I really I and the white on the back and this Interesting these logos on the back when I was at packs I was really trying to study the giant link that they brought to see if there was any Secrets or things that I could unearth before the game came out and some of the designs on the arm And the symbols were really standing out to me and these are similar symbols on the back here This game is still so shrouded in mystery. I I I'm so excited to play the game and I'm so excited for what is happening right now. It looks so Heckin cool. Okay. The actual switch itself doesn't have much color pop to it. I love that. It's an OLED though Sorry the back the design is nice. I mean it's a bunch of swirls and circles and lines It's definitely fitting on theme. It's minimalistic I don't know how I would have felt about maybe maybe having it be A pure white back might get very dirty Um, maybe a little bit of gold trim.  So I'm just gonna shut up I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna piece it together Also, I am way too scared To actually turn this thing on I am terrified for reasons I don't I don't need Nintendo to know that one has been turned on yet I'll turn it on later Maybe never maybe I'll never turn it on so they can never find me I mean you guys might want to see the joy con straps. It's nice. I want to say gold I guess it's gold. I almost said brown this nice white and gold Strap and then the dock. I I actually have no idea what the dock looks like I can't remember what any the I mean it is on the front of the box But I gotta be honest. I I didn't want to look at the box. I didn't want to study the box before even show the dock I'm now realizing that this is really the first time anyone's had a good look at the box And I kind of skipped it the dive straight in there's nothing Standing out that we haven't already seen in trailers. They're obviously really leaning into this Sky area and these floating platforms as like a big marketing standpoint at least so I really hope Whatever happens up here in the sky is really fleshed out and a lot of fun and not just Floating platforms without much to do. Why do they never do anything for this guy?  It's so clean Usually, I mean zelda stuff's a lot of gold and green But mostly I think gold when you do special edition things, you know, I think about like the wii u It was like black and gold But this white and gold looks so So nice some more trim around the back on either side as well That reminds me of the trim around the wii u special edition and then yeah, just the way that looks is so cool like Again, I really hasn't been a switch that stood out to me as like that is my Special edition switch. This is the first time I feel like I've been given a special edition And the fact that this gets to sit proudly next to my tv Oh my god, it looks so cool It's it's honestly a design of my zelda dreams to have a triforce gold zelda dock and to have gold zelda joycons This is easily The best looking nintendo switch We have and I don't think that's even bias. I mean tell me this doesn't look Just incredible. I'm at a loss of words. I uh I can't I I can't believe that as I sit here right now No one even knows if this thing is real And I have it. Thanks for watching What might be my last youtube video if you don't hear from me again Come come looking for me. Okay. Bye Hey, actually the video is not over yet. Uh, I'm about to come back I am just give it a second Give it a sec. Okay Okay, I uh, I'm back. I don't want to show too much I got I got too tempted and I turned it on And I think there's one little piece of information that is interesting The last time this thing was patched the last software update that it had goes back to june Of last year, they were probably ready at the time because zelda was supposed to be coming out and then it got delayed I don't even know. I don't I don't know. I guess they're just been waiting somewhere Maybe in nintendo's warehouses. Maybe an actual I don't know how it works But yeah, I feel like these were ready for like a year. So this is honestly been kept pretty dang secret I just thought that was interesting. Um Okay, I'm gonna go back into my uh my bunker now


What's up everybody and welcome to the latest edition of the Falcons final whistle podcast. I'm Scott Bayer here with Tori McElaney and Chris rim Checking in with you at two oh seven a.m. Yes, that's right on Friday morning technically a day after The Falcons lost 25 to nothing to the New England Patriots on Thursday night football I am a little astonished guys that they haven't kicked us out yet and and the lights are still on Yeah, here's the thing if anyone wants to send me a Venmo At some point when you listen to this my Venmo is open. I will be looking for any caffeine pick me up. So Yeah, hit a girl up. I'm quite tired. Yeah Tori has now had two servings of ice cream during the game and just downed about half of a bag of M&M's That is yeah That's the thing is I I needed sustenance and Sustenance came in the form of the ice cream and I'm not I have no regrets There is not a part of me that regrets the second thing of ice cream that I got no judgment will be had in this This establishment. Yeah, and I still think that's I still think that's probably better than than than my strategy Which is caffeine on top of Red Bull on top of yeah, Scott does do it does this He does this thing during the week where he has a ton of coffee and then also to Red Bulls And I really don't think it's healthy, but It's not Yeah, we are Over here. We are full on delusional. It is way too late to the viewers who I've Listeners Listeners out there, you know, my body is a temple. This is I do I do eat ice cream from time to time had some tonight was very Unhappy with the lack of rainbow sprinkles tonight, but yeah, they only had chocolate That's a real set but it was it was pretty good nonetheless. Yeah, and That was a fun part of the evening.  We're not going to go over every detail of this one starting off the top We are going to discuss what went wrong how much of an impact not having Patterson was on this game. We're also going to talk about something that Tori was very clear about all game long Be no defensive slander here And I think that's a good point now We're also going to talk about what needs to be fixed and in the last part What games that Falcons fans should be attuned to on Sunday and Monday? Because there's no Falcons football over the course of the weekend So we're going to get to all that but before we do a big Thank you to our sponsor Microsoft Windows 11 the official operating system of the NFL and the Atlanta Falcons The all-new Windows 11 is here to bring you closer to what you love like this Falcons final whistle podcast Learn about all the new awesome features of Windows 11 at windows.com And we're gonna start with quarter number one trying to Summarize exactly what went wrong here, which was another Multiple score loss in a five-day span It was very recently that the Falcons were the number seven seed in the NFC playoff picture They were four and four five days later After a tough loss to the Dallas Cowboys and another one here to the New England Patriots they stand at four and six and This wasn't an identical carbon copy of what happened against Dallas So Tori, where do you think that this particular game went awry? Yeah, I think Gosh, it's it's hard to pinpoint like exactly One spot where it didn't go it started kind of to go off the rails I remember when we were talking to Arthur Smith after the loss to Dallas and he was like You know it was that second quarter and he called it an avalanche Right, but I felt like there wasn't like a specific moment in this game where it fell apart I just felt like the deep the offense never got going. There was never a point in time where I thought that Or or I thought there was just never a point in time where I thought things were going in the right direction for this offense I didn't think that they were picking up steam at all I don't know. It's really really tough when you kind of look at the the numbers itself I you know being outscored by opponent 68 to 3 in the last two games That's you can't there's no sugarcoating that and I don't think coaches or players would be sugarcoating that There's also the fact that the run game is it's still struggling to be established the Patriots out gained the Falcons 134 yards to 40 in the run game I and then there's just the third down in efficiencies that we've seen too There were two for 11 tonight there were one for 11 last week or last week five days ago on Sunday It's just all of these things accumulating to to what went wrong. It's not one moment It's just the whole thing. Yeah, and I think I would agree in terms of it's hard to I don't think there's like a specific moment But one moment that does kind of stand out to me was the field goal that young way made Oh, yeah And he made the field goal and there was a penalty and he got pushed back and then they missed the field goal So I don't I don't think that was a point where you look back and say oh man This is where the game really turned or you know even using that avalanche term that Arthur Smith used last week But I was just a moment that stood out to me in terms of you know Hindsight is 2020 or we can do hypotheticals and things like that, but maybe just seeing points on the board You know helps the team. I don't we I don't know obviously But maybe same points on the board can help a team is 10 3 instead of 10 0 You're maybe going to have time down 13 3 instead of 13 0 so later on in the game Maybe you take that field goal instead of going for that that fourth that fourth down and that was like a 14 play 737 minutes and 30 second drive that ended with no points because of a flag So I don't know if that's the point that where the game changed like you said It was I think just the entire game was just the offense kind of struggling to capitalize on the position The defense put them in right, but that was just a play that stood out to me Yeah, something that I think like also deserves to be talking about like deserves to be Broken down is the fact that they didn't have Cordero Patterson Right, and I think when you look at this offense and what this offense has been over the course of the first half of the season Cordero Patterson has been everything for this offense He has been this the spark plug for this offense And I think looking at it and going into it and not having him you saw why he's so important to this offense Yeah, his value was very clear. There was a point during the game where I think we even discussed What would the score be if Patterson was there and the answer could have been the score would have been exactly the same I doubt that though. It's weird. I'm staring at the box score here and it was it was 16 to nothing That's still a two-score game. It was a two-score game up until two minutes left in the game That's why there's no avalanche. That's why there's no unraveling. It was just kind of a slow Methodical, you know kind of approach to this game. It wasn't terribly exciting in in many ways and not having Patterson there I do think had an impact and it speaks to his volume, but especially when they when Bill Belichick can devote every part of his Schematic mind slowing down Kyle Pitts because there isn't that that that other option and it's not like they just lost Patterson, right? They they lost Patterson, which was compounded by the fact that Hayden Hearst was put on IR earlier Thursday that Calvin Ridley missed his fourth consecutive game. It's a personal matter, but nonetheless that that you have three skill players not there and no offense to Parker Hesse and Marvin Hall and And thank you very much. No offense to those guys, but Hearst Ridley Patterson, it just hits different. It does it changes the dynamic of the game I don't think that can be ignored and we're gonna start quarter number two talking about a Defensive effort that was a lot better than what we saw the Falcons against the Cowboys instead of me doing the intros that I normally do Tori, I'm just gonna turn it over to you. You're gonna let me filibuster You made a great point in the second half. Yeah, a very assertive comment that I think the listeners Yeah, so I guess it was probably like halfway through the third quarter. It was still 13 to nothing and I Mentioned on Twitter.  You have the AJ Terrell Interception which was his first interception this year Which is a really exciting moment for somebody who has been playing as well as we've seen AJ Terrell play this year You had a bunch of three and outs by a four spot this defense You had I just you had a lot of red zone efficiency where they were keeping the Patriots out of the end zone so It yes, they were broken down plays and there were moments that I'm sure this defense would want back But when you're an offense and you're looking at a 13 to nothing You know lead that's does that doesn't make you feel good that you can't outscore that And I think that is where I kind of was just like, you know I'm not gonna say anything about the defense because I liked how they played I thought they played well and That's just kind of what I thought and I mean people can disagree with me all they want But at the end of the day, I feel like this offense. I mean they didn't score any points So it's really hard to be like this wasn't a collective Game when for the most part and Matt Ryan even said it after the game this defense Kept this offense in the game. Yeah, there's obviously no Perfect. I was it there's things they probably plays. They probably want back or situations They might want back, but I think I don't I think what you said I would have a I think we would have a hard time finding someone who could disagree and say the defense played bad This might have been their best game today. Yeah, I think so, you know Especially when you consider the fact that the patch scored 45 last week, right? They scored 54 three weeks ago They scored 24 on the Panthers. This was an offense that was humming coming in. Yeah So and and the the Falcons allowed 19 points so the defense allowed 19 points and I think if you allowed 19 points against Any team I think you'll take that at this level 100% around that number you'll take that So yeah, the defense was was a great and the offensive has had their days where defense has had their days We have to give credit where it's due. Yeah tonight It was D&Ps and the defense as much as you know, maybe they've struggled in the past tonight They had a they had a great night and and I think yeah I think the offense definitely need to step up and when you score zero points We don't we don't need to say that right. Yeah already. They already know Matt Matt said that himself Well, I think going back to like that Carolina game. I remember Arthur Smith saying after the game He was like you have to score more than 13 points Yeah, I think he would say you have to score more than if you have to score more than 13 You definitely have to score more than three and zero exactly. Yeah what I was covering the the The Raiders Charles Woodson was on two pretty bad teams and Chuck was phenomenal as a quote and he was I mean, he's a Hall of Famer He can be as honest as he wants and more than one occasion He'd be like if we gave up less than 20, that's a win Yeah And that should be a win that the offense should make stand because there were times where the defense was given up Less than 20 and they still lost and Charles would look at it at his defensive players and be like we did our job and and I do think that that there is a dividing line of Of responsibility here. That's why yeah, it's 25 to nothing. They gave up 19 points. That's too many But this this Falcons team is built to win games by scoring 28 Right, it's built to do those types of things and while nobody's head is being held high after this one There's a lot of anger and frustration and belief that they've have played below their potential over the last two weeks I do think that defensively though that they hope that this could be something to build on because the Patriots do Things that the Falcons aren't good at defending physical downhill in your face running I thought they were pretty good. Oh my god. I know what to go over Think what the running game? Yeah pets to have three guys who've right ran for a hundred yards this season And you know remandry Stevenson golden Williams and you didn't see them dominate in the way that this this defensive dominated on the ground So I don't want to take us to over the time But that's something that we definitely didn't mention as far as the run defense that was stout to yeah And and I think if you're looking at what we're going to talk about in the next quarter about things that needs to be fixed I think that there are things to build on from this defensive performance as we try to dissect it and see how the Falcons can do better as we move forward And we are moving past this game already 25 to nothing. We've identified it. We've dissected it. It's time to Start looking towards the future a little bit Which is exactly what Arthur Smith said that he's going to do over the course of this mini-buy weekend that he and his coaching staff are Going to go back to the office. They're going to self scout. They're going to reflect They're going to identify ways that they can get better, right the obvious Fan point might be well, I can't get much worse right that you're not scoring points You're losing games you're losing games by multiple scores all bad news Right if you go back to the first two games of the year something I asked Jake Matthews about was there anything to be learned from the first Two games when they got beat by multiple scores by superior teams in weeks one and two and then they came back and they had better stretches, right? So I guess the overall question here is what needs to be fixed right away if you're doing a triage and you're trying to figure out how to get the Falcons rolling again Where do you start? How do you get this thing back? At least so they can be more competitive than they have been over the last two weeks. Yeah, I mean for me. I think I Think they need to figure out a way to Give Matt Ryan more time. I think that's really the most important thing whether that and I'm not going to try to Play coach here because I'm not the coach but whatever that whatever Arthur Smith needs to do to make that happen if that's you know Chipping, you know defensive ends if that whatever that is yeah, Matt Ryan Plays his best when he has time. He doesn't need all day. He just needs a couple seconds And he'll find someone or he'll even run. We've seen we have seen Matty wheels yeah, and I think even with the team being depleted at its receivers I think Russell Gage is still it's still a solid target I think Tajid Sharpe has proven to be reliable and obviously Kyle Pitts is there and also the running backs can catch Mike Davis can catch and and I think so I for me that that's one thing that I think needs to be fixed and and this offense will perform better. I Have a lot of things kind of swirling around in my head But I think this has been a point of emphasis over the course of the last like two years of covering this team But establishing a run game and I think Matt Ryan said it best after The game where he was talking about the run game and he just kind of said he was like You know it wears a defense out and when you're not wearing a defense out it makes it harder on You and I know that we've kind of looked at a lot of stats and I know there are a lot of people on Twitter I see you guys in my mentions all the time asking about Mike Davis and Here's what I'll say about that is I went back and I looked at what his numbers are and what his stats are and it's really hard to kind Of look at those stats and be like oh It's only on Mike Davis because he's getting hit at the line of scrimmage over and over and over again Same thing with Cordero Patterson. The only difference is his Cordero Patterson's yards after Initial contact are a little bit more so When I'm kind of thinking about this run game, it's it's in run blocking and it goes back to what I know Mariah has said before where it's like it's all 11 of us doing our job and I Just think that in order for this defense I mean this defense this offense to be moving the way that it wants to it has to be coupled with a run game That is more productive than what we've seen it be in the last couple of weeks So so that to me is kind of what I I look at as being one of the top Things that needs to be fixed and I think it it'll help out with kind of what Matt Ryan was talking about post game We're you know, he was asked What's the most disappointing part of the last couple weeks of this offensive struggle and he said it's the lack of production I mean, it's sim simply it's the lack of production And so I think when you kind of have the movement down the field that you want and you're not And you're getting kind of like four or five yards on first and second down and not zero yards or a loss I think that's a difference. Yeah This stat blows my mind Against the Patriots the Falcons averaged three point two yards per play that won't get you a first down No, at all which which means that you you're just not moving the ball Productively and to that point. I actually came in thinking Third down offense simply has to be better But a point that you have pointed out that that you've made several times I think I said it last week too including in in press conferences are these negative or Gains on first down that's that put you behind the sticks I was sitting next to our To our head of digital content Dan Gad and he was in shout out Dan shout out Dan He was actually pointing out that all these third downs were third and unmanageable Yeah, it's like third and seven third and eight third and nine that we saw a bunch of different times against the defense that like That can really pack it in so I think that that has to be better the whole operation of keeping the Chains moving and being more efficient, especially on early downs And we're coming down to quarter number four Be in with this Falcons a week 11 game already in the rear view and a whole NFL slate before you I know and a whole off weekend for us and a whole off weekend it kind of brings up the Question here if you're gonna sit down and watch NFL game if you're gonna pay attention to some scores Which one are you going to pay attention to which one should Falcons fans pay attention to as they keep an eye on? the rest of the league I'll go first Though I'm sure Falcons fans won't like my answer But I think it means a lot to the Falcons, but I'm gonna say the Saints and the Eagles I think it's gonna be an interesting game to see One what Saints team shows up because I feel like we've seen a lot of different Saints teams over the course of the The first half of the the season so I'm curious to see what what team shows up and then of course with Philly I mean I got a shout-out Chris rims hometown of Philadelphia But but no that's that's a game that I think is gonna be really interesting to watch not just for The Falcons, but the these these two teams are pretty similar in record I mean the Saints are five and four Eagles are four and six pretty similar to the Falcons. So that's that's the game that I'm gonna watch I think it'll be an interesting one. Yeah, and I'll be watching probably that game too and then on my Laptop or my college used to have three televisions. That is such a boy thing See every boy that I've ever been in there like apartment from the age of like 18 to now 25 That is what their apartment looks like. It's a salt. It's always multiple televisions Well, I mean like one has to be madden. Yes, of course, but the other ones you got to have the games Well, not on Sunday. We have the games on all three Steelers fan pass fan like a Vikings fan or something. So we were watching those games But commitment for me digress, but the game that I think Falcons fans should watch outside of that Saints game would be the Panthers First the football team cam Newton will make his first start like Cam Newton vs. River Bowl run that whole reunion a little bit of tension there Who knows we love we love the tension. We love the storylines, you know, it's just cam You don't know what you're gonna get we've seen cam. He took his helmet off He said I'm back, you know a lot of excitement that he's in a division and this Panthers team They have looked so different if yes, that's exactly like I mean, this is this is the thing about this year Everybody's looking different every week. The Panthers. I think and I might be we're staying but out of every five and five Team in the league. They might be the one team who has like the highest ceiling and Even I want to say the lowest floor, but just can can go either either direction Their defense is so good and then now with cam Newton that quarterback. There's a Christian McCaffrey back There's a lot of questions at the end of the vision and the Falcons play them soon. So that's the game I think they should watch. Yeah, I was definitely gonna take that one For sure. I I guess I'll just go to why not scout out the next opponent Jacksonville is playing the 49ers which are all of a sudden four and five and right back in the middle of things and They looked like world beaters Against the Rams which according to how the NFL is going means that they're gonna lay an egg in Jacksonville Nobody can make any sense of it But nonetheless you might as well check out and see what urban Myers team has to offer I guess But nonetheless And the Falcons can't scout another opponent. They travel out to the Bay area. Hey, you're hometown your neck Yeah, so I think that would be a good one to keep an eye on I'm sure that you're catching a theme here Right is to keep an eye on the NFC teams that are around the Falcons ballpark because if they can listen to us and Correct all the mistakes that we point right number three. We know everything. Oh, yeah, we just wave magic once I mean, that's just how it works But nonetheless, you know keep an eye on the other teams enjoy a Frosty cold one some pretzels and have a good weekend and we will check back in with you Now that quarter number four has wrapped up. We will check back in with you after that Jaguars game From Jacksonville, so let's get out a couple of quick things one. Happy Thanksgiving Everybody Because we have some Canadians on our team and they do not celebrate You know fans overseas you might not oh, yeah, shout out to Germany and UK, you know It's your turkey going on really turkey Thanksgiving, but you know, whatever you like to eat. What do you eat on Thanksgiving? Jamaica food. Oh, yeah You know, I think I think maybe that's the way to go. Honestly. Yeah Though I would like to add my memos chicken and dressing or turkey and dressing to that because I will die on the hill That it's the best and I want to beat you there.  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Hello, I'm David Putnaman. I'm a member of the forum and I think the forum's roadmap is a very important document, very, very important document. I've been asked to say a few words as to why that strikes me as being the case. The forum roadmap looks ahead. It can't precisely predict what's going to happen, but I think it offers some really important markers. The one I want to refer to in most particularly is Ireland's international competitiveness, the type of human being, human material, human capital that we're going to develop over the next 10, 15 years in order to be a player on the world stage. And in this I was enormously influenced by a recent article I read by Michael Yuval Harari. He's a historian, works in Israel. He's written a book called Sapiens, The Brief History of Humankind. And here's what he says. He says, what we're talking about now is like a second industrial revolution. But the products this time will not be textiles or machines or vehicles or even weapons. The product this time will be human beings themselves. What do you mean by that? What he's saying is it will be the quality of human capital that will determine the fate of nations. The first industrial revolution was all about making things and creating competitive advantage by being the makers, the sellers, the manufacturers of goods and services. Now it's going to be the quality of the individual, the human beings. Can we keep them in Ireland? Will they work from here? Will they add value to the Irish economy? How good will our young people be? If they're very good, then Ireland by definition will be an outstanding nation. But if we fail, particularly at the point of their education, we have got a fairly, I have to say dismal future to look forward to. I spent a lot of time in Asia, China, Southeast Asia. What's going on there is remarkable. Everyone should take the chance to visit and understand the nature of the world we're moving into. Ireland's role will be entirely dependent on the quality of its education. And I think that's one of the things that the roadmap and the work of the forum describes extremely well. Thank you.


Let's go over to our guest. Our guest today, folks, is Kelly Lawrence. Kelly is the CEO of Onyx Plus East. Now, the website, folks, is honestandeast.com. Kelly, welcome to TFNN. Hi, Tom. Thank you so much for having me today. Absolutely. Well, the bottom line is that we're in the public markets, Kelly. And it's so cool having you on, because I know you do a huge amount of business in Indiana as well as Florida. Is that correct? We do. We do. We're very active in the Indianapolis Metro area and Tampa and St. Pete markets as well, looking to grow into additional markets over the next year. And so I'm quite familiar with them, folks, in the St. Pete market. So tell us, number one, the bottom line, you come into cities, you like building housing that you can basically walk around the city. Tell us what the challenges are and what the great things are about the housing business right now. Sure. So yeah, we are, as honestandeast, we're very focused on building in walkable infill locations, vibrant communities. It can be around parks, retail, restaurants, employment centers, but really focusing on that lifestyle of walkability and connectivity. And being in the infill, and often that means in an urban location, there are a lot of challenges with that type of development. Often you're assembling many smaller parcels versus suburban development where it might be a large undeveloped site. Also just in a redevelopment situation, you encounter unique situations with past uses on a property, things of that nature. So it can be definitely more challenging, but it also can be really fun and rewarding to see vacant and sometimes being in a property, not necessarily the case here, but often be redeveloped into something that we hope adds to the community that we're building in. Yes. And as Kelly explained that, folks, it certainly does. So an infill, as she explained, is totally different than a track land. Whether it's the Lanaz or the Toll Brothers folks, that's a track land deal. What Kelly's talking about, which is really cool, is coming inside of the city, what an infill is, is that you're finding the lots. And the skill set there, Kelly, is totally different, isn't it, when you're doing an infill? It is. It's really unique challenges. Our sites, we really don't do cookie cutter development given the unique nature of the land that we're buying. We have to get very creative in our land planning. And again, you just have more complexities, be it with urban development districts, or oftentimes we're in historic neighborhoods. And again, working with surrounding, often operating businesses, homeowners, active neighborhoods. And again, you're redeveloping something that could have been industrial, that could have been commercial. So yeah, there's lots of complexities added to being an infill developer. So tell me, in St. Pete right now, they have two beautiful developments in St. Pete, folks. And if you're on our website, you can just get that link. It's onyxandeast.com. One of them, the townhouse development like sold out immediately, right?  You've seen the ups and downs. So you have two nice projects here. Tell me when you first start in one of these, OK? The differential between the buyer of the townhouse and the buyer of basically the apartments. How do you see happening out here right now? You know, I don't know that there's necessarily a different profile. We're just seeing many different demographic groups being drawn to, again, these walkable locations and being able to have new construction. And the benefits that go along with new construction, just brandy finishes, energy efficiency, things of that nature, drawn to these communities. But yes, the demand has been far more than we ever project for these communities. We sold out our 6 Point Row community at First Avenue North and 26th Street before we've delivered a home. So we're actually delivering the first homes there, hopefully fairly soon, and closing that community out towards the end of the year, beginning of 2022. And we're anxious to get Alante started on 15th Street, hoping to break around there in July and really launch our sales effort early fall around Labor Day, likely. So when we, you know, what we feel, I feel myself that we have inflation that's starting to catch hold right now, right? What does a developer like you do, OK? So let's talk about Alante, OK? Because this is a really cool folks, OK? She is just starting a whole other project. Bottom line is that I can come in there and buy this right now, you know, next year, have it. It's like, OK, how do you protect yourself if in fact we're in an inflationary era? I'm sorry, you broke up on me there, Tom. That's fine. How does a home builder protect themselves, right? Meaning that, you know, let's say you're going to pre-sell these units, right? How do you protect yourself if we have an environment like Lumber hit 13 something today and then it went limit down, OK? How do you protect yourself, meaning that you're going to buy all these supplies that seem, the raw supplies seem to be going up inside the home building business? Well, they absolutely do. And that's why we're going to break ground and get through a bit of our site work before we release sales so we can really see where some of those commodity markets are going to shake out. Because this is an unprecedented time relative to those rising costs in our industry and just overall supply chain disruption. So that's part of why we're holding off releasing sales just to watch what happens in that regard. But part of it is just having really good relationships with your trade partners and subcontractors and helping to manage that risk that we take as developers and builders in this time. And when you look, I know you do a lot of business in what Indiana and Florida, right? We are. And I'm sure that you have a lot of connections around the rest of the country. Talk to me about the aspect. I mean, it seems that I've seen three good cycles. This is kind of intriguing. Like the real question is, is that are we the beginning of the cycle, the middle of the cycle? I don't think we're at the end, but what do you think? I really think we're at the beginning to maybe towards the middle. But I think we have a long way to go. I think there's been even a recent Wall Street Journal article this week talking about a $4 million housing unit deficit right now. And I've seen several other articles that are right in that same bandwidth that we are just so undersupplied really over the last 10 years in housing. And now with millennials choosing to buy homes, I mean, that's just a huge demographic shift into home ownership. And so a lot of household formation, we're undersupplied in housing. We've been undersupplied for several years. You now have the construction costs really hampering supply. I think the end user lending is not what it was back in the last cycle, so that's also.