Hi everybody, welcome to the June press books monthly product update. I'm still waxed at the product manager and we have a lot of exciting things that we're looking forward to sharing with you today. The most exciting thing I guess to share is not actually a product change, it's a person. I don't want to introduce you to and I want to just say we're really pleased we had a very extensive and important search to find and hire our first UX and UI designer. For people that don't know UX stands for user experience and UI is user interface and the designer role was a really important one that we were missing at press books and we are missing that no longer because we've hired Michelle. I wanted to hand over to Michelle to introduce yourself and say a few words about what brought her here. Thank you. So yes, I'm Michelle Waremczuk and I am press books new UX UI designer. So I have a background in design. I began as an exhibit designer at the Royal Alberta Museum and worked there for about nine years. So I've always had a real interest in experience design especially learning in physical spaces and over my career I've really also learned and adopted a lot of digital experience design techniques and methods and so that's what I'm going to be helping with here at press books, making sure that the interfaces are understandable, work the way that you or any users should imagine it to, which also means I'm going to be doing a lot of testing on the site and different adjustments that we're thinking about making with press book users. So I'm here and I'm really excited to support this community. Well thank you Michelle. So the two things that I want to say are one, one of the big projects we expect to begin working on soon as many of you know is a redesign of the network catalog provided by Alvin. This has been long desired, long awaited in the works and we're planning based on the feedback that others have given here and other places grievously to make the Alvin catalog look and feel much more like the press books directory in terms of its functionality and appearance. So that Michelle is going to be helping lead that project here. We're probably going to be starting that in our very next sprint in July and we would love to hear, I believe Michelle will probably be contacting some of you or many of you to be user, to give your user experience feedback as we start to do some UX research and things like that. So if you want to help by giving feedback or know of users who you think would give useful feedback for us, that's something that we're going to begin doing more as Michelle has the professional skills and experience to do that well for us in the future. The next thing that I wanted to do is actually hand it over to someone else who's in the meeting for press books. A colleague Thomas is our documentation and support specialist and he's going to give an overview of several improvements and changes that he's made to documentation over the last few months. Hi everyone. I think some of you may have corresponded with me over email in the past. Aside from doing technical support, part of my role here is to maintain and update the documentation, primarily the user guide and network manager guide. The guides that I inherited when I began here were quite sprawling. There was a fair amount of redundant info and made it hard to find certain things. And there were also some broken links and some outdated material that I had to correct. So some of the work has been cleaning up the guides, consolidating chapters and kind of organizing them in a way that aims to be more simple and intuitive. Network manager guide has been overhauled in this way recently. And that's also involved setting up redirects for previous chapter URLs whenever those have moved. I'm also working on increasing the coverage of the docs or how much material the guides cover. Which is an ongoing project. For example, I've been adding more material on using press books results for LMS in the network manager guide. This chapter is one that I've added this past month on customizing LTI 1.3 settings. I'm also adding videos that, in addition to the written instructions for certain things to demonstrate them that way. And yeah, I'm always sort of trying to improve these guides. And if there are ways in which the documentation could better achieve that like material that you'd like us to include in there, please feel free to let me know at the premium support email address. Right now I'm using the questions that come into that inbox as a kind of index of what needs to be added. But if you have any particular requests or suggestions, any feedback is definitely welcome. Awesome. Thank you. And I want to say just as an observer, I've been involved with press books for a long time. And the work that Thomas has done on these guides and the kind of how proactive he's been on documentation, I think has been awesome. And I really, really appreciate it just as a person in this community. Okay. So I think what you can expect in the next couple of months is basically what Thomas said that as we get repeated support questions in, we'll be adding and clarifying documentation. If you are aware of things that your users are having a hard time doing or that you think docs are missing or could be added, please let us know and we'll try to add them as quick as we can. The other thing that Thomas has been doing that I think has been really valuable is for some of the more complicated processes that have multiple parts, he started making videos that show the steps from beginning to end.  But for things that seem pretty stable and pretty repeated, we're happy to make more of these kind of training videos. So if you're aware of a topic that you think could really use a video or you like a video showing it, let us know and we can start making more of those. So those are the two things we want to share up front. I think what you're hopefully seeing is that there has been an increased emphasis and will be on the user experience. We want to make sure that we're making software for people and that it works for the people that want to use it. So over the next few months, I think you'll probably also see other changes that are designed to help improve the onboarding experience for brand new users, the overall experience for network managers, and just make press books easier to use and navigate because we know there's a, I mean, it's a very complicated dashboard with lots and lots of features and anything that we can do to reduce that cognitive overload or overhead so that people can more quickly and easily publish the things they want to publish would be a win for us and hopefully a win for the people who are trying to publish things. So that's who we want to share first. What I'm going to do next is show you a demonstration of some of the recent features and things that we have released and that we've been working on on our team. So the first thing that I want to share actually is related to the user dashboard. So what you'll notice now is when a regular user logs into the press books dashboard, we've changed kind of the initial dashboard display to make things a little clearer and easier for them to get started. So the first thing that's going to happen is here's a user that already has a couple of books and they're going to see it get started with press books box. It says welcome to name of the network, get started on your next publishing project by creating a new book or cloning an existing book. It gives them a link to the directory where they can find thousands of books to clone. And then there's two very simple icons that take them to the creative book or the clone of book routine. If you're a brand new user and haven't created a book, the message will be slightly different, but that's just the welcome orientation message. So hopefully this is clear first steps or next steps for anyone using press books. The other thing that we added was this was based on feedback from both Amy and from Thomas is we wanted to make it easier for people to know where they could get out or the sport resources if they're stuck with something. So this is a new widget that's added to the dashboard everywhere. It just says need help and it shows them several places they can go for help. The most common is the user guide. There's also the YouTube channel where Thomas has been adding new training videos. Anyone is welcome to attend a live training webinar. If you haven't been to this link before, it's going to show you a schedule on our website of upcoming trainings that Amy or others at press books will offer. So there's a getting started with press books webinar which is intended for beginning new users. We typically offer that every month and then there's an advanced webinar which is like once you've started and want to use some of the advanced educational features. Those are offered on a regular basis, typically once enough and you can see a schedule and register and attend those at no charge. We also have a link to the community forum which is a place where open source users can discuss ideas or features and where you can also go and answer other people's questions. This is not the premium support channel but it's a place where any of our open source users can discuss issues and ideas within one another. We try to monitor this and respond occasionally but it's mainly for users to ask questions of other users and help one another out. If you've listed an email address we say for additional support contact your network manager and we display the email address of the support email that you've listed. Lauren asked a question in the chat she said regarding the new get started with press books box. If someone has been invited to be a part of a book but it's the first time they log into press books will they see the create clone book buttons? Yes provided that they have permission to create a clone book like if you don't allow people to create books on your network then it won't show but generally yes but what they'll also see is there's going to be a bar above it with all of their pending invitations so if you have a pending invitation that shows up first and then beneath it it will say get started so hopefully they won't get confused with that choice they'll see their pending invitation and then accept it and they'll be good there. The thing I wanted to show you next though is if you're a network manager and you want to change the email address that appears to users here's how you can do that so I've got to open a new window network managers have this thing here that lets them customize the root site of their network so you would click dashboard here you'd click appearance and customize and you're going to find a contact form and there is a contact email which is the contact email for your network you can change this to be whatever email you would like or remove it and have no email or whatever but if you enter an email here that's the contact email that this form will go to it's also the email address that will be displayed to to users on that page so I'm going to in this case I'm going to remove the contact email and turn off the contact form and then I'll show you what what users will see if you don't have a contact email listed all right so I'm going to refresh the screen here and you're going to notice this sentence will go away because I no longer have a contact email listed so that's how you can customize the contact email that's shown to users if you don't want them to send you help support requests or if you just don't need a contact method if you are providing a press books network it probably is time to your users to have a way that they can contact you with questions and support but that's up to you we're not going to require you to do it okay the next thing is a pretty minor change it's like deep cuts if you love trade publishing but there is something available in press books when you go to your book info there is generally there's a couple of ways to enter subject terms most people use these FEMA subject terms which are the preferred method for doing things but if you're in the U.S. bookselling trade and your the store you work with requires bisack subject terms there's something called bisack subject terms it's the I can't remember what it stands for but it's a U.S. trade book publishing trade company and they have a bunch of subject headings they release a new version of their subject list every year press books purchases that list and integrates it with our software so we've updated to the most recent release of the bisack subject terms so I don't know all the subject terms but some of these are new I don't know if antiques and collectibles canadiana is new but you can now indicate that your book is on the subject of canadiana antiques and collectibles like you've always wanted so there you go that we've updated the bisack subject terms and that's available now in all of the press books networks that we host and in open source versions of press books we've made a few changes to the lti plug-in that we provide and results for lms there were two in particular there were two kinds of pages that people sometimes wanted to link to so now you can produce an lti link which launches your main press books network dashboard page or main press books network page so let me show you that this is an lti link when launched it's going to load the landing page for your press books network and you will be logged in as a user via lti so here is an lti link that shows you the main landing page of a press books network the other thing that we added support for which might be more commonly used is we also allow you to launch the admin dashboard of the press books page so as a user i could click this link and i could then see my dashboard embedded within the lms i don't think these are really common use cases most of the time people want to do this at press books itself rather than seeing it kind of constrained inside of an lms frame but if that's what you need or want to do for some reason you can do it now i will just explain the lti pattern for both of these links the url you need to enter would be the full url of your network followed by this pattern format lti launch and that will take you to the home page of your network if you wanted to launch the admin page the pattern for that url is going to be the full path to the admin page which would be your network slash wp slash wp admin followed by format lti launch and both of those will then resolve to the expected location we had someone who was asking about integrating h5p activities with lti with the lti plugin is i don't know much about that but is what you're demonstrating here um i don't know is i don't even know what i'm asking just someone brought it up in a meeting the other day so press books provides an add-on feature for enterprise networks called results for lms and what results for lms allows you to do is to add as many h5p activities as you would like to a press chapter to configure that chapter for grading and to connect it to your lms grade book that means that when a student launches the chapter they complete the activities and then the grade is automatically sent to their grade book we have videos and information about that particular add-on available elsewhere so i'm not going to go into huge detail about it now but the things that i was just showing are small changes to the lti plugin that is used by that product okay thank you other things that i wanted to share that we released several bug fixes that that um hopefully we'll fix some bugs that might have been frustrating or annoying one of the big ones was um users could unlist glossary terms which means you created a glossary term but you chose not to display it in your glossary lists when people were doing that those glossary terms actually weren't being included when the book was cloned because they were unlisted and it was causing some display problems in clone books we fixed that bug so that unlisted glossary terms are correctly cloned and will be included and the the references to glossary terms will be correct in the new books i don't think i need to demo that but if you were affected by it know that it's fixed and hopefully that's going better for you it wasn't affecting a lot of users but those that were it was annoying so if you have any questions for us thomas or i can handle those um through premium support another bug that we fixed i had to do with bulk actions that network managers could take from the book list or the user list um one of the delete the bulk action and delete had broken and we fixed that that's what the back and working as expected so you can now use the bulk actions from the user and book list and a third bug was um in the theme selector feature one of the fonts that people could select aligreia wasn't working properly it had been misnamed it's actually aligreous sounds and we fixed that so that now if you use that theme selector feature aligreous sounds will be embedded in your e-pub and pdf exports correctly um and that's something you can do in the clue in our malala anyone have questions about any of those things or feel like they need to see them um that concludes the big bug fix uh feature release updates that we have i'm going to actually switch gears and show you all something that we're working on that will be launched soon but isn't quite i mean it's happening soon it is probably going to be mostly of interest for people that are not at this call but um what we have been realizing is there are a lot of people that use press books for educational publishing they want to publish open textbooks they want to include h5p they want to do teaching and learning with open content and press books is the tool for them we think that we provide a really great set of services for people at institutions and people that have enterprise press books networks um but there's a lots of individuals that want to use those educational features but that don't have institutional affiliation and so we've been trying really hard to develop a product that will allow individuals without institutional affiliation to use educational press books features pressbooks.com is the old old site for self-published authors and there's a lot of problems with that it's grown very large there's lots of spam books it has a sub in sub domain installation and it's brittle and we can't do all the things on that network that we want to be able to do just because of infrastructure decisions we made a long time ago so the idea is that we're going to be launching a new subscription service for individuals that will allow them to have the educational features that people have come to expect and know in love from the enterprise version so i'm going to show you a quick preview of what's coming and how it can be used and then we'll be announcing this in like a much larger release soon so you're getting some peak or some preview all right so here i have a development network here and when a user clicks sign in they'll see a new kind of interactive page that allows them to sign into their existing account with uh username or password or if they don't have an account to register for a new account people can register with an email address and create a password or they can use any of these common social tools to integrate with an existing account so uh let's say i want to use my google account and i'm going to log in i have a lot of google accounts so let me use my gmail one i have now logged in and created a press books account with my gmail account creating a book is pretty similar to what it's always been i'm going to make a fake demo book and you'll see that when a person creates a book on this new network they'll be enrolled in a free trial that lasts for a week and in the free trial they'll be able to do all the things that they could do on the trial version of pressbooks.com there'll be a banner that tells you how long the trial lasts and when it's set to expire and they can do lots of the things that you can do with press books if you make exports that have watermarks etc etc then if they want to there will be an upgrade option and they'll be able to choose one of these subscription monthly subscription plans to upgrade their book you can select a self-publisher plan which would allow you to do all of these things for this price a month or a collaboration plan which gives you all of the high powered education features we had kind of been selling these individuals in a more complicated Byzantine way and so this is going to be a self-service kind of option here is a book that has been newly created it's on a free trial plan and if i like the free trial and i'd like to continue using press books on a subscription basis here's how i can do it i'm going to select a plan that i want to update upgrade to and it will take me to a stripe integration which will allow me to pay for a monthly subscription via credit card so this will tell me all the details of my subscription i can choose to do a monthly subscription or pay upfront for an annual subscription which is less expensive if you already purchased a upgrade on the old pressbooks.com service will provide you with the promo code which gives you credit or a discount or so you can add that there if you have it it will also assess tax for you if you're in canada because we press books is required to collect tax from people in canada normally what you do is you'd enter your information over here i have a test credit card that i've already entered but you'd enter your information i put a fake name in there and and then what i'll do is i'll click the subscribe button you'll see i have successfully subscribed to this so press books knows that i have an active subscription for this book and it's now telling me i'm on the self publisher plan here's when the plan will renew i can choose to manage my subscription anytime i could also add a premium support add-on which would allow me to do other things like file support tickets and get premium help from the press book staff even though i don't have an institutional uh subscription i can upgrade to collaboration pretty easily if i'd like so i could select this plan or click manage your subscription you click manage your subscription what will happen is you're brought into an interface where you see any of the uh subscriptions that you have you can choose to update your plan by switching to a yearly billing or moving to the other tier or i can go back and i switched to collaboration i'm going to confirm my new plan here's the amount that's due now i'm going confirm that so i've just changed to my the collaboration plan so if i went back to press books you'd see i'm now on the collaboration plan and if i want to cancel my plan at any point i can also do that from the manage my plan option and i'm going to say please cancel my plan and my plan will be canceled at the end of the term that i paid for so i can continue using these features until then but i will not be charged for additional renewal so i'm going to cancel this plan and you can tell us why you canceled i don't need it anymore and submit my feedback or you could skip that step and then when you go back to your book you'll see i'm on the collaboration plan but my plan will be canceled on this date if i change my mind i can renew do that so that's kind of what happens there you'll notice that now that i'm on the collaboration plan i now have h5p available to me and several of the other educational features that i may want to use including adding users and doing all the things that we want to do so that's sort of the new thing that's coming and i'll pause the demo there and say i awkwardly presented it any questions for me about what's going on and what's happening with this new product you you actually are just hitting something that i've encountered very recently with projects that need to exist outside of other networks and so using the they will dot-com version and then trying to figure out how to get h5p in there so i'm i'm happy to hear that you've read my mind and that the moving from the dot-com classic to this service you mentioned help with like the account if you've already purchased the purchase the book on the other network is there gonna be any migration assistance with that as well or jr you are a plant i love that question okay so here's what's happening we haven't announced it quite yet but it will be announcing will be coming in july but we're building a migration form that will be displayed on pressbooks.com and what it will allow people to do is request migration very simply so you can request any or all of the books or none of the books you have on pressbooks.com over the next several months and if you request migration we will clone and copy all of the content we'll move your user account over and then you'll get an automatic notification saying your book's been moved to the url we put redirects in place feel free to try it out and upgrade if you purchased the previous thing here's your promo code so we have an automated flow so we know that that's going to be an inconvenience for people to not be able to use pressbooks.com anymore especially long-term users we think that the new features and the way this is set up will be exciting for people and they'll want to use it more and so we want to try to minimize the disruption or the annoyance for anybody as much as we can the second thing to note is if you have a public openly licensed book on pressbooks.com and you don't want to pay for subscription we're not going to delete those books those are public good books we will continue to host those at the new service as read-only books free of charge indefinitely students won't be disrupted people who are lying on that content won't be disrupted and anyone who wants to of course can still clone that book and make copies and do it on the enterprise network or on this new service or wherever they like we're trying to avoid putting people out and and making things hard for them and we want to do the right thing by people even if they don't want to continue using pressbooks there the press yeah amy we haven't fully announced this yes but the intention is we're going to we're shutting down pressbooks.com and it will be replaced by this new service and we'd like to keep and migrate and move anything that's of use from pressbooks.com this the sad truth maybe i shouldn't say this on the recording but the sad truth is it turns out when you give people the ability to make free things on the internet there's a lot more spam than there is useful stuff so there's like a hundred and something thousand books on pressbooks.com of which well over 90 percent are either abandoned projects or spammy not not good stuff amy's got a hand up amy you want to ask a question yeah i think um i think you're answering this but i just want to make sure that i understand um so so legacy books that were created on pressbook.com will persist um but people won't be able to make new free accounts for longer than a week so i'm just thinking about the folks that i direct to pressbooks.com it's like you know if you want to experiment with pressbooks and play around and make a sandbox and just see how it works and if it might work for you you can go ahead and make this free account but if they did create something that they wanted to copy into the open or again network they'd have to do that within the space of a week is that the message that i should give people? Yes kind of um so what i'm doing right now is probably bad practice i'm telling people about a thing before it's been publicly announced so there will be a we have a communications plan that my colleague Lee will actually share it'll be professional it'll be we'll try to make everything very clear i'm going to try to clarify a couple pieces of things that i just said to make sure they're clear legacy books on pressbooks.com will be migrated it'll be a pressbooks.pub URL so they'll live it a new address with redirects in place so that if you went to the old site you would find it without being lost or interrupted that means free open the licensed books will get moved there and they'll live there forever if it wasn't an open the licensed book it was just a project that you made you will be able to migrate it and we're happy to migrate it for you and you can choose to try the trial out and if the trial expires you don't want it we'll get rid of your book or you could purchase a subscription and keep it as long as you want for books that are not open the licensed books the accounts never go away so if you have a pressbooks.pub account you can use that account you can create as many books as you want and they'll all have a seven-day free trial and then when the free trial is up you'll have a couple of weeks to decide do i want to keep it do i want to upgrade it before it's disposed of so i think the idea would be anybody who wants to can try out pressbooks you got a week to see if you like it if you like it and want to keep it there you can upgrade it if you don't want to keep it there you can move it to open oregon or to an enterprise or a self-hosted or wherever you think it should live that's not the new service and that's the intention so there'll be an official announcement in in the next couple of weeks there'll be a long announcement we'll begin display banners and we're going to be communicating via email with everyone that's affected we really don't want people to feel blindsided or lost or so i think the idea also is going to be it's just going to be an easier transition or flow for people so they say i start as a faculty user let's say there's three or four faculty user from the same institution that have been using pressbooks.pub it may make sense for them to say let's do this on an enterprise level and it'll be a really easy path for them to say we're going to stop paying for individual subscriptions we're just going to move to enterprise model enterprise subscription so hopefully it just seems less complicated and the product is more continuous educational features are what people generally want from pressbooks and we want to make that available to everybody whether you have it at an institution or whether you're just an individual who wants to publish something you want to publish thanks all for attending the webinar and we look forward to seeing you next month


In this video we'll be talking about the Google IT support professional certificate and whether or not it's worth it. There will be a brief overview of the course. We'll talk about the time to completion, the cost, the demand of the jobs you might go into, the salary of the jobs you might go into, the production value, the chances of landing you a job, and then the overall value of the course. And I'll be ranking all of these on a scale from one to 10 with 10 being the best and then at the very end I'll give you a final score as well as my thoughts on the pros and cons of the certificate and whether or not it's worth it. So if you appreciate me doing these types of videos let me know by gently tapping that like button and let's jump into it right now. So first of all what exactly is the Google IT support certificate? So Google basically came out with a bunch of different certificates in response to the fact that there were certain jobs that they were having a lot of trouble filling and the reason they were having trouble filling these jobs is because there simply were not enough people who had those skills. And so what did they do? They created their own certificate program to teach people the skills that they needed. Right so it says right after the title the Google IT support professional certificate that this is your path to a career in IT. In this program you'll learn in-demand skills that will have you job ready in less than six months no degree or experience required. And this is hosted on a website called Coursera. Now you can actually audit the course for free and you can take the first week of the course seven days completely free. And then after that I believe it's $39 per month and that's $39 a month in US and Canada in other countries is cheaper and they also offer financial aid. And since Google established this certification system it has been acknowledged by many in the industry as a great entry level primer to get into these careers. Now the common job titles that they have listed on here are going to be database administrator, IT specialist, help desk technician, IT support specialist, IT technician, computer user specialist, and IT assistant. Now here's my first small little gripe with a certificate. I know from experience because I've helped people get into these careers quite a bit. The entry level job you're going to get when you first get into IT is very likely going to be help desk. So this sort of thing right here when they list a bunch of different careers like that that just confuses people who are new which this is an entry level certificate. So really they should just tell people to try to go for like the lower level jobs like help desk technician. And I think people would actually have a much better chance of success. The cool thing about when you get into tech and IT is you can go into just about any career path you want. I mean you can get into IT do that for a few years and then become a software developer or we go into cybersecurity or all sorts of different things. So you're definitely not stuck in the help desk position. That's just going to be your first entry level job. And then after that you're essentially going to get paid to learn valuable skills. Now going over just a brief overview of the courses the courses you're going to encounter in their certificate. Course number one in the certificate is going to be technical support fundamentals. Course number two is going to be the bits and bytes of computer networking. Course three is going to be operating systems and you becoming a power user. Course four is going to be system administration and IT infrastructure services. Course five which is the final course is going to be IT security defense against the digital dark arts. Kind of cool. That's kind of like a Harry Potter reference. And as you can see all these courses have either a 4.8 or a 4.7 star rating. So that is extremely good. If you look on Coursera there's a lot of other courses that are still really good that have like a 4.5 star rating. So when you see 4.7 4.8 4.9 that is basically in like the epic category. Alright so now let's talk about the time to completion. Now this is going to get a little interesting because I'm going to talk about the time to completion versus other types of careers as well as the time to completion versus other types of IT related certificates or other ways of getting into IT related careers. So first of all right off the bat they say that it's going to take about six months with about 10 hours of study a week. Now that is completely false right. I think the reason they put that on there is because they want to make it look a little bit better to employers but the reality of the situation is you can get this IT cert done in less than a month and even if you're busy less than two months. This IT certification is not that difficult. It might take you around 30 hours or so and I know this because many people who follow my channel and many of the students that I help have taken this certification and they've been able to knock it out really quickly. So also this is 100% self-paced learn on your own time so you know you don't have to show up to a class. You don't have to do things at a certain timeline. It's all learning on your own time. So there's positives to that in that you can do it whenever you want to. You can do it in the middle of the night if you'd like to. But the negatives is you have to be somebody who actually does the work on your own. You have to be self-driven. Now there are going to be graded exams as well for each of the courses but I believe they're not proctored which I mean I'm not going to just outright say it but if the graded exam is not proctored chances are there's a lot of people who cheat on it. So it's probably not that difficult to pass the exams. So here are a few testimonials from people on Reddit who have actually taken this and they talk about how long it took them to get through it. So this person says it honestly depends on how many hours you can put in on a daily weekly basis. I've been doing about one to two hours a day and I'm more than 60% done with the program in about one month. If you can actually spend four to eight hours a day you could definitely finish it in under a month but if you're only dedicating something like two to three hours a week it could easily take you over six months. This person right here says I just finished in a month and I work 10-hour days at least five days a week right. So this is somebody who's working 50-hour weeks at their job and they were able to finish it in a month. Now there's two really obvious comparisons here. The first one of course is going to be a college degree like a bachelor's degree and that takes about four to five years on average and then the second comparison is going to be a bootcamp which is typically going to take somewhere between like three months to 12 months. So being able to finish a certification like this in probably about one to two months realistically is very good. Now another thing you can compare this to is online courses and I have seen online courses that get people jobs faster than that but it really does depend on the career that you're trying to go for. If you're trying to go for like a higher level IT role of course it's going to take longer but overall the time to completion is very good overall and also good for IT specifically. So I'm going to give this one an 8.5 out of 10. Next we're going to be talking about the cost of the certificate. All right so college costs about $100,000 boot camps costs like $10,000 or more so how much does this certificate cost? Well it's hosted on Coursera which charges about $39 a month after the initial free seven day trial and by the way if you want to check out the course I will link it down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. So if you took six months which is the maximum amount of time to finish it that would be about $234 but realistically if you took two months that's going to be about $78. So that is extremely affordable especially for something that doesn't take very long and could potentially get you a job. Now Coursera does offer financial aid so that's something to look into if you can't afford the $39 a month cost and the Coursera refund policy is after the initial seven day free trial you can cancel it no penalty but after that they do not give refunds right so definitely check that out try the seven day trial but make sure you cancel it before the seven days ends unless you'd want to you know pay the full amount. So I guess that would be a little bit of a nitpick there is they don't have the best refund policy but to be fair the way that Coursera is structured you'd probably have a bunch of people who are just trying to game the system if they did have a full refund and $39 a month really isn't that much to expect and also sometimes they will have promos for Coursera plus which will give you access to like 7,000 different courses it's a little bit more than $39 a month but I highly recommend checking out Coursera plus if you haven't already there is a chance that by the time this video posts they're still doing the promo for that so definitely check that out because I think you'd save like $200 on it and pretty much everyone who leaves reviews for Coursera says that it's extremely affordable so this person for instance I think it did help me get a job I also finished in three months so it was cheap I found the OS portion in the networking section to be great the other three not as much so they said you know oh the other three sections they weren't a huge fan of but you know it's only $39 and it's cheap right so that's one of the great things about the certificate is you aren't really risking all that much time or money so even if you find that you don't really like some of the sections I mean it's $39 a month right and you can compare that to a college or a bootcamp where you are risking a significant amount of your time or money and that's actually one of the beautiful things about these Coursera certifications is let's say you take the IT certification and you don't like it that's great you just saved yourself a ton of time and money because the alternative in the past would have been going to a bootcamp or going to get an IT degree and you probably would have spent $10,000 on the bootcamp or you might have even gotten like two or three years into your degree before you figured out that you didn't like it you would have wasted a ton of time and money whereas with these Coursera certifications you can kind of hop around to different in-demand careers and figure out which one you like and I think that's one of the biggest value propositions of these certs so in terms of the cost there's really no comparison this is by far one of the most affordable options out there this one gets a 10 out of 10 next we're going to be talking about the demand for different careers you can go into with this certification now like I said the real first career you're probably going to go into is going to be IT help desk you might also go into something like support specialist but they do name a bunch of other careers that you could rapidly get into after this to get into some of these careers it would require further certifications in my experience and in my opinion but the google certification will get you a significant amount of the way there so for instance database administration if you type that in on linkedin at the entry level you're going to see 136,000 results for computer specialist you're going to see 140,000 results for support specialist at the entry level you're going to see 111,000 results so tons of demand for these types of careers if you look up computer support specialist on bls you're going to see 875,000 jobs and it's growing at 6% which is as fast as average now the great thing about it related jobs especially like help desk for instance is they are some of the easiest to land to get your foot in the door in the tech industry so I can't tell you how many people where I've seen their first job in the tech industry was in it they did not have to get a degree they were able to get into it with just certifications hello it have you try turning it off and on again then after they worked at the help desk position in it they move up to a higher level position they start making more money and then maybe they move over to cyber security and then maybe they move over to software development or tech sales I think you get the point here IT is a great place to start in the tech industry and then you can go into other career paths from there and tech is the one industry that has the most opportunity out of all the industries out there it truly is S tier and even on the home page it says that there is about 400,000 in-demand job openings in IT and that's probably including all of those other careers so yeah this one is going to get a 10 out of 10 when it comes to demand there is a ton of opportunity here next on the list is going to be salary so on the main page they say that there is a $52,000 median entry level salary and that is likely going to be for a help desk type role so on glass door help desk technicians make about $46,000 a year system analysts make about $86,000 a year and database administrators make about $84,000 a year and there's actually a ton of positions you can rise up into like I mentioned before so for instance IT directors make about $160,000 so for instance anything data related you're going to be making a ton of money anything cloud related you'll likely make a bunch more money as well if you go into software development you'll make more money cyber security tends to pay a little bit better too so there are a ton of opportunities for you to move into within IT as well as outside of IT but still within tech and the way I like to see this is help desk is an entry level job you can land extremely quickly and easily and you are literally going to get paid to learn right so some people see that $52,000 a year and they think oh that's not that much well actually for an entry level job that's great for one and for two you're literally getting paid to learn right so this is not something you have to get a degree for you can land this job and then essentially you're going to get paid to learn and by the time you know somebody else was graduating from college you're probably going to be making it pretty close to the $100,000 a year mark whereas they're going to be $100,000 in debt so when you think about it like that the salary sounds extremely good so I'm going to go ahead and give this one a 9.5 out of 10 when it comes to salary next on the list is going to be the production value and the engagement now this of course is extremely subjective and it has to do with the personality of the instructors but Google typically will hire people to make these courses that are their employees right so these are people who know exactly the skills you need to know in order to be successful they recently got hired by Google so they know about that entire process and when you look at the reviews it tends to be very good now someone on reddit actually went and conducted a survey to figure out like what the best Google certificates were and I believe this certificate actually came out as number one so for some reason they did a super good job with this certificate it's probably the most popular one it's the one that the most people have taken it's still maintained a really good you know 4.8 star rating and if you look at the reviews it's very good so for instance Constantine says the Google IT support professional certificate helped me get a system administrator position because the interviewer was specifically looking for someone who understood networks and active directory this person said the certificate wasn't just the foundation for me learning it it was the foundation to starting a whole career right so out of all the Google career certificates this might actually be the best one when it comes to the ratings etc how many people have taken it so I'm going to give this one a 10 out of 10 when it comes to production value next one on the list is its chances of landing you a job now one of the really cool things is after completing it they're going to give you access to a job board that 300 plus companies use now I mentioned that there were probably more positive reviews for this one than just about any other certificate out there and I'm not kidding when I say that I'm going to go over a bunch of the reviews in this section so here's an engineer level two at Amazon's who says I have hired a couple of equipment coordinators starting position at Amazon IT they only had the Google cert they demonstrated a willingness to learn and even though the Google cert didn't teach them everything the willingness was is far more valuable to me I can teach someone how to do a job I can't teach personality and personal development traits and I've said this many times the types of people who tend to be attracted to alternative education which is what I focus on on this channel tend to be the types of people who are willing to learn right these are the types of people who think outside the box they're not just some sheep who decides to go to college just because everybody else says that they should and that is why employers tend to notice these things and that's why this is getting people really good results so this person says are you me I got the Google cert before I started the A plus they're referring to CompTIA A plus and got hired despite not having any other tech experience when I finished the second part of A plus they didn't even care so CompTIA A plus in case you're not aware is basically the gold standard for IT or at least it has been for a long time and I'm not saying that certification isn't good it's still relatively good but with that being said it's starting to reach a saturation point where so many people have it that it doesn't really set you apart anymore and that's why you see reviews like this where people get the Google cert and it really does set them apart so this person says I'm not at the level of A plus but if you can afford it it's good I actually got a job offer before getting my A plus and all that was on my resume was the Google IT support they asked me about it and they find it interesting here's some YouTube comments from people I can honestly say that this certification did help me land my IT job the company is in the Google ecosystem and they wanted someone with Google experience and knowledge so I applied and put down the certification on my resume I was then offered the job with no IT experience other than that certificate this person says I took the course from November 2019 till May 2020 and I kid you not I landed my first IT job two weeks after I finished the course this person says it was able to land me an interview and a job I had no formal IT experience just self-taught skills and no degree this person says I landed a tier three IT support engineer role after taking this course nine days after finishing it in fact if you take great notes put in the extra effort in late nights on YouTube researching what you don't fully grasp this is an excellent certificate here's another person on Reddit who talked about how they were hired with the Google IT support professional certificate hey all I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has helped me on this subreddit the position is a level one tech mostly bench repair and some troubleshooting of residential thick clients so I feel like it's a perfect entry level fit well they want me to get my A plus they are willing to pay for the test and I have 90 days for 1001 1002 each but I wanted to give a shout out to the Google IT cert I know it doesn't have the industry respect of A plus for entry level right now but I would not have gotten through an interview without it they told me the only reservation they had was my lack of hands on and that I was hired basically off of my interview responses and then later on they go on to say so that's all I know that some level ones help desks are hired without any cert but if it's to get through the door improve you have some knowledge I just wanted to give a shout out to the Google IT in case anyone was considering just do it it will not hurt so this person got a job and then down below they were asked if they got it through Coursera I did and I was able to get it within the free trial period as I already had experience but no certs due to lack of funds got a new better job within three months so they were actually able to finish the entire cert within the trial period which is seven days that's pretty fast this person says I took it and landed a help desk job with no prior experience or other certs being completely new to IT it did break the ice and prep me decently for the interview tech questions the cert itself didn't really hold any weight but the information was definitely good enough to help get my foot in the door so there's basically an endless amount of testimonials of people who have gotten jobs with this cert and I know from personal experience a bunch of people have been getting jobs with this now another thing that they don't really mention that's actually amazing is the fact that if you put this cert on your LinkedIn even if you put that you're just currently taking it many times recruiters will actually start contacting you this is basically like a cheat code recruiters are actually using this certificate to find people to head hunt people for certain positions and then HR does respect this certificate right it's a big company Google everybody knows Google HR absolutely respects anything that comes out of Google now this combined with the fact that you get access to that job board I mentioned before that has 300 plus companies really does give it a high chance of landing you a job for a certificate and also because of the fact that certificates are very common in it they're basically the industry standard there are other careers out there where a certificate might get you you know 50% of the way there or 80% of the way there but it's probably not going to land you a job but an it things are different so you can absolutely get a job with just the Google it support certificate in some cases if you want to get like a slightly higher level position you might want to get another one like comp to a plus but that being said I'm going to give this one a 9 out of 10 when it comes to the chances of landing you a job next let's go over what value the certificate offers alright so it's reported right on the main page that 75% of Google career certificate graduates in the United States report an improvement in their career trajectory within six months of the certificate completion so that's pretty good a lot of people were probably just taking the certificate to brush up on things a lot of people were probably just taking it because they wanted to learn a little bit about it a lot of people were taking it because they were considering maybe going into it and then they decided that they didn't want to so 75% reporting positive outcomes is awesome especially for something that's so cheap easy and fast to take now this is relatively well respected it's becoming more and more respected as time goes on you know companies are realizing more and more that colleges simply cannot keep up with the changes in the economy and the changes in job demand and so certifications are becoming a viable alternative to get educated now one of the great things that they're going to do when you take this certificate is they're going to help you make a portfolio and I cannot state how important making a portfolio is especially in it not only do you want to make a portfolio but you want to make a portfolio that showcases the skills that companies actually want and then you want to make that portfolio extremely easy for people to access right so they have these applied learning projects where you're actually going to not only be learning the skills but you're going to be applying them and you're going to be applying them in such a way where you can actually use that as your portfolio which is awesome so they say here through a mix of videos assessments and hands-on labs you'll be introduced to troubleshooting customer service networking operating systems and security foundational it skills required for an entry level job so not only are you going to learn a little bit of the theoretical knowledge but you're also going to learn practical skills on top of that then of course you're going to earn that career credential and you're going to earn the certificate itself which you can put on your LinkedIn profile as well as on your resume and it says here these skills that you are going to gain are debugging encryption algorithms and techniques customer service network protocols cloud computing binary code customer support Linux troubleshooting domain name system or DNS IPv4 and network model now overall I think the main reason that people are not successful with college or boot camps in many cases is simply because they figure out at some point that they're not interested in going into that career now unfortunately in college a lot of the time that's going to happen like two to three years in when you've already spent like fifty sixty thousand dollars and in a boot camp it might happen when you're already into it to the point where you can't get a refund but the great thing about these certificates is they only cost thirty nine dollars a month so like I said before you're really not risking that much time effort or money and you're probably going to figure out whether this is stuff that you actually like so if you take this it certificate and you don't like it great go check out the UX design certificate you take that you don't like it great go check out the data analytics certificate eventually you're going to find something that you actually enjoy and at the very least you're going to learn a ton about yourself and you're going to figure out something else that you want to do because ironically a lot of the time you will figure out what you want to do by first figuring out what you don't want to do now is this certificate guaranteed to get you a job absolutely not does it give you a pretty good chance of getting you a job yes and for the price of you know seventy eight dollars or even you know two hundred and forty dollars if it takes you six months that is a ridiculous value so when it comes to value this certificate is absolutely off the charts i'm going to give it a 10 out of 10 so the overall score here is 9.57 out of 10 out of all the different google certificates this one has the most positive review so it has the highest score overall i think as long as you understand the value proposition of this certificate you're not going to be disappointed by it the people who end up disappointed are the ones who think it's a free ticket to a job which is not i mean think about it it costs thirty nine dollars a month do you really think it's going to be better than a college degree or a bootcamp but even if it gets you like 80 of the way to a job at thirty nine dollars a month that is absolutely worth it yes you're probably going to have to supplement it with a lot of study outside you're probably going to have to make a better portfolio and work on your resume etc but this is going to get you a significant amount of the way there so this gets a massive thumbs up from me i think the google it support certificate is awesome i love what google and coursera is doing as well and if you're ever wondering what careers are highly in demand just go check out these certificates even if you don't take them just go check out the certs because these are the ones the companies need people in so badly that they're actually creating their own certificates for which is a lot of time effort and money on their part now if you're interested in other really good google certificates i actually made a top five video on that and you can check that out right here


We're here in the town of El Ceibo in Guatemala We are very very close to the Mexican border Hola buenas, aqui? Okay, welcome to Mexico! The first place that we're going to try and get to today is called Aluxes It's a sanctuary for rescued wildlife Wow, so we entered this like crazy back road here And there's so much tropical forests around, it's crazy Yes, absolutely beautiful, it's so nice and green And we saw already like really really big big trees and yeah, it looks epic Yeah, I mean I have no idea where the GPS is trying to take us This must be the right way to Palenque, but yeah, certainly not a main road, that's for sure Bienvenidos a Palenque! So we basically just rode all the way through to Palenque I think it was like our longest ride So far like two hours and 40 minutes and one go Yeah, wow And now I am really really thirsty because I've been sweating the whole time Yeah, me too Yeah, and it's just better maybe in this circumstance with this heat Just to get this part of the ride done, get our gear off Drink a whole bunch of water Yeah And then visit an ecological park at Aluxes in 100 meters They have so many signs for it They have a lot of signs for this place Yeah, you really can't miss it Just pray that it's open Oh, look nice and shaded Yeah, let's try and find a shaded spot This will have to do Okay It's like partially shaded Oh, we did it It's still 39 degrees by the way, so it did not cool down One, pickety We're gonna have a little snack We're gonna have a drink of water And then we'll see whether we can still visit this place today So we didn't have really very much water left And we finished everything And we just had like a bag of cookies each So the first thing we're gonna do Is see if they have something to drink Maybe something to eat And then we'll see some beautiful animals How many macaws there are here Incredible There's two more over here as well And this bird shows exactly what this organisation does Because for the last 70 years The Scarlet Macaw has actually been extinct In the Chiapas region of Mexico And this organisation has worked to breed And re-release back into the wild Over 80 of these beautiful birds And now those birds have just given birth To the first generation of wild Scarlet Macaws In this region for 70 years He's picking the flowers over there Yeah Isn't that beautiful? So that perfectly shows what the Alexis Eco Park is all about Because this place is not a zoo It is a wildlife rehabilitation centre So their aim is always to get the animals That come in here from the illegal wildlife trade Or mistreatment Their aim is to rehabilitate them And release them back into the wild But of course, that isn't always possible Some of the animals have been mistreated Some of the animals are too friendly to humans And some of the animals just simply Wouldn't survive back in the wild These animals are kept here To live a really nice life here And delight all of the tourists that come here That also give this organisation their sole income Because they're a non-government organisation They aren't funded by any major organisations So all the funding they get is from visitors like us But enough info It's time to see these beautiful animals Wow A Jaguar That is absolutely incredible So these guys can live for over 20 years And can reach 100 kilograms This is a pretty big guy right here Wow, crazy So I'm just reading about why this Jaguar is here And apparently this is called Lola the Jaguar And this Jaguar was bought by a family To basically be exploited And used for photography, for photo shoots For commercials And basically for the profit of the family that owned her When she wasn't being used She was basically placed in a cage And was incredibly unhappy and suffering So the Eluxis organisation actually rescued Lola And now she has a multi-level massive enclosure And is definitely enjoying a far better quality of life Than when she was captive It might not be back in the wild for Lola But at least it's a much better situation than she was in before Oh look they're there Wow, we're just getting a glimpse of a manatee So apparently they have three and one baby Which is amazing We just saw the little nose popping up That's so beautiful So cool Wow, and these guys can weigh between 400 and 600 kilos And grow to a length of four and a half metres So these are some massive animals And they're actually living on the North Coast So the Caribbean coast of the whole of Central America He's there, he must be there We finally can see some flamingos Close up We tried really hard on our trip to like find them Film them and just look at them But they were always so far away And here they are I love this bird So like iconic beautiful bird Wow We've arrived at Spider Monkey Island This is some kind of enclosure Look at this They've made like an artificial lake Around these huge trees And there we can see a whole bunch of spider monkeys Playing about up in the trees And if the trees weren't enough They've given them like loads of ropes And sort of climbing apparatus as well So that's really nice They seem to have like a really really nice life here Which makes me really happy So I just lost the top The fluffy bit on the mic And now we have to walk all the way back to try and find it Oh man Okay, well good news and bad news Good news is that we found the fluffy And the bad news is I found a bamboo pole And we've just got to figure out a way To attach something to the end To see if we can do something with this fluffy I can reach it here Okay There Oh no Okay, I've got an idea I get a small stick So I've put a thorny stick on the end of the bamboo And now I'm going to see if I can get that thorny stick Tangled up in the foam See if we can do something here Careful, careful, careful Yeah, yeah, move it like this, yeah Like that Yeah, slowly Very slowly Very slowly It's a little bit swampy, but we got it back Wow, this is an animal that we were hoping to find In Costa Rica But they didn't have them in the Manuel Antonio National Park That we went to They just had them in the Corcovado National Park In the wild But we'll have to settle for seeing him here Down below us Sleeping and relaxing Enjoying his life This is a beautiful tape here And they live across rainforests all over South and Central America And he's like a mix between like a pig, a hippo Maybe a bit of elephant thrown in there Such a crazy animal So they have this massive, crazy, concrete tower here And we're just climbing to the top of it To get a view of the canopy Oh, here we are Oh, wow That's a view, hey? That's a view Hi guys We thought it's a good opportunity to tell you guys more about the charity we have chosen On our Around the World ride Born Free Born Free are an international animal welfare charity That work tirelessly to ensure that all wild animals Whether living in captivity or in the wild Are treated with compassion and respect They work across the world to preserve, protect and rescue wild animals in need Finding compassionate conservation solutions So that humans and wildlife can coexist peacefully If you want to support this amazing charity And find out more about their work Then follow the link in the description below to our Just Giving page Additionally, we'll be donating one pound From every one of our overlanded t-shirt sales to this charity Which is at the moment at £221 So you can choose If you want to donate to Born Free directly Then follow the link in the description below to our fundraiser Or get your hands on one of these from our Etsy store And you'll be supporting these guys as well And you'll have an awesome t-shirt Thanks everybody, and now back to the video Alright, it is nearly six o'clock Oh Jesus, a splash plate Gracias, ciao It is nearly six o'clock And it is time to get out of here Because it's going to be dark in about 20 minutes But I'm so glad that we managed to get here today And managed to see this place Yeah, what a wonderful project What a wonderful thing to do After a pretty stressful day at the border It was really nice to just see some animals Chilling at the end of the day Yeah, exactly, because actually When you're travelling through a lot of countries And you have like a lot of stress because you cross borders You will kind of ask yourself why Am I doing this? Like, it's so stressful And then when you reach a beautiful place like this It's a good reminder Ah, this is the reason why I'm doing this Yeah, because you have to be here to see this This is what the journey gives us Experiences like that So thank you, Alexis That was awesome But now we've got to get to a room with AC Because it's been an incredibly hot day So we found a place on Ioverlander Which is like 500 Mexican pesos for the night Yeah, it's about 22 pounds So not the cheapest room But this area here is very touristic So the room prices are just crazy We wanted to do camping But the temperature is just too high We need our energy at the moment Yeah, we need that air conditioning So I think we're only literally a mile from town So we're gonna head to the room See if they got a room for us And then maybe head out for a bite to eat Because I am starving We just ate a bag of cookies Literally, since breakfast All I've eaten is a bag of cookies What a crazy day, hey? What a crazy day Okay, it looks like we've arrived right in the centre This hotel must be like right in the centre of Palenque What a beautiful area It should be just here on the... Here, actually What's the name? Hadasa Hadasa Hadasa Oh, I can see some macaques up in the trees Oh yeah, Casa Hadasa Okay, yeah, cool There it is I have to show you this room And you won't believe it A.C. The most beautiful bed in the world Free water I'm just going at this We're going at it, it's free Look at this beautiful table Then... A coffee machine It's so stylish Like the furniture are just in harmony with everything It looks so new, clean and nice Like the most beautiful...  Look at this one It's like the biggest bathroom in the world It's so beautiful Oh my god, it's so beautiful Oh my god It was a busy and exhausting day And I'm so happy that we found this little paradise here I'm just waiting for the A.C. to call the room down Because I am so sweating So nice, so nice to have a ride somewhere Yeah And that's it from us today We hope you enjoyed the video If so, please give us a thumbs up Subscribe to the channel Share the video with your friends and family Comment below And we will see you next time An update on Lavi's back They got burnt during our snorkeling So definitely got some healing to do here Look at that It's kind of got some small bubbles And it's a bit... It's a bit peeling Yeah Good morning world Welcome back to the channel It's day number 360


Yet I am actually describing the appearance of a 3,000 year old mummy who was found in the dry sands of the Taklamakan Desert in the region of Xinjiang in western China. He is known as the Shershin Man after his body was found alongside three women and a baby in the Chinese town of Shershin. We know that this man was of European origin and was probably an ancient kelp. In addition to his features the weave of his cloth is identical to those worn by ancient Austrian salt miners from 1300 BC. Furthermore the burial sites of these people were marked by stone structures that were similar to dolmens, houses of the dead which were popular in ancient Europe and Celtic civilizations. The origins of these mummies from western China are far from clear however. One theory posits that the Shershin Man was from the Afanasavio culture, an ancient culture of southern Siberia in Russia. Interestingly some scholars argue that the Afanasavio culture itself was formed in part by migrants from the Don Volga River region of Russia which is much further west, closer to Eastern Europe. Furthermore Elizabeth Weyland Barber, a textile expert believes that the tartan-like cloth worn by the Shershin Man is from the steep area north of the Black Sea around Anatolia and the Caucasus region. Barber argues that certain groups in this Black Sea region split into two with some going west and others going east thousands of years ago. Exactly how all this fits together is far from clear and it is still shrouded in mystery. It does seem however that the peoples of the east and the peoples of the west were more connected thousands of years ago than what is generally believed, with the ancient trading roots of what later became known as the Silk Road, helping to connect these civilizations. What is your thoughts on this story? Please leave your comments below and let me know if you know of any more potential connections between ancient civilizations of the east and the west. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this video, please support this work on Patreon. For as little as £1 per month, you will gain early access to all my videos, the ability to participate in my bi-monthly Q&A on history, access to vote and exclusive polls, and other great, exclusive benefits. The link to the Patreon page of Celtic History Decoded is in the description below. Please also remember to subscribe to this channel and hit the bell so that you are notified every time I post a video. Thank you, speak to you soon.


What they say what they're saying is Women tend to evaluate each other based on a male curriculum. Oh Your female friends are great men Okay It's the message right here Black boy. Tell me how you really feel Cuz I just want to build with you black girl. Tell me how you really feel I Want to keep it real with you. I want to live better eat better. I want to love better sleep better Yeah, I want to feel so aligned I think a lot of women enter relationships in bad faith. Oh like it's it's a I Know I'm a good woman as I'm entering this relationship. You have to prove to me.  Okay. How can I respect you? Valid So, how do we undo that? I think that as a woman, I think that may come from a place of Healing and knowing a sense of self I think that Like you said, if you enter a relationship in Good faith You should We should operate more on The innocent until proven guilty instead of the opposite way around I mean America doesn't operate like that even though they said we should so but I think because of a lot of the inherited trauma that we Have from other relationships from generations from our family From what we see on tv from what we see in our lives From what Other people in our lives preach to us.  I think that If you enter a relationship in good faith and you Are in a place where you're healing or working towards healing that you should extend That same trust To your partner because why would you enter something if You already feel like you're untrustworthy of this person You wouldn't go buy a car and knowing that That's a bad analogy But I don't know that's a really good question and I can only speak for myself in this point um, I think I have a very different view of Love and relationships in life than A lot of other people do that are my age But I I think as women It's pretty much like you said like we have to give our black men more grace, but we feel like Often that they have to prove themselves first it's almost like we Are the ceo and y'all are applying for a job You know and It shouldn't be like that I I often say Two of the most effective tools Of white supremacy was setting a precedent of The black woman is inherently unattractive And the black man is inherently criminal I have to be cognizant of that as a black man. Okay And I have to be Graceful with that in our interactions um There seems to be Or or or that energy isn't reciprocated because the zeitgeist is continuing to push this narrative that niggas ain't shit And niggas are toxic and and guard your heart sis So how do we Because I want to move away from everything niggas can do to be better What can the female black first of all is their black female delegation And what can they do to move this conversation forward? Right now No, if I would say there's as a whole There's a black female delegation right now. Why? to box A woman to box a woman in You cannot fit every single type of woman into this box and be like I am the spokesperson for the black female delegation um, there are So many types of women and just just like their views just differ Right now. Okay. Like the big the big divide as you all have discussed in your other videos. Um, you know You've got the City girl, you know, um the pro-ho movement um, the sexually liberated and free And then you've got like the more like super conservative type of woman You put those two women on a show like this They're gonna go at it like and and not in all aspects because there's probably a lot of similarities. Um underlying that they maybe don't see but um I think like as a whole sometimes like and I see this a lot too where we tear each other down more than You know Black men or more than white people. So I think to say that we can put the whole Black female delegation in a box I don't really agree with that So my personal opinion. Yeah, no, I I I understand and and I think um, you know Me personally one of my one of the things I say all the time is that we need to Stop using that term Black people are not a monolith as a rebuttal Because monolithic people survive Monolith monolithic communities Drive because there's a sense of one band one sound the reason we can't get on the same page because we can't get on the same page right, so Moving back to the whole facebook thing Why is it in your opinion that so many young successful intelligent Therapized Black women or having Um or not having success in loving companionship shit I I do not know I I think there are a lot of People in this world who are operating more off survival and off hurt than off of love and Even in those three terms there's intersectionality but At this age that we're in You get told it's like two different tales. You need to settle down inside a family Not you have that and then you have your young lot and free. These are your best years live it up. So I see more people operating in the young lot and free stage right now um then in the let's settle down and be a family and by a house I mean The economy is not suited for that either, but that's a whole different topic. But um, I don't know. I have trouble dating. Um I'm sure some people in the comments will tell me why after this video, but um, I don't The only thing I see is that like a lot of people aren't Therapized as you say like they they haven't worked through a lot of these Traumas that we're dealing with and they manifest themselves in relationships so you deal with a lot of situations ships a lot of um Things where you know, there's no strings attached or you know, we kind of just doing what we want floating by because We don't know how to operate in that space of being in a committed relationship and respecting and loving and Working together for one common goal yet. We're just I don't think a lot of us are there and there's nothing wrong with that. That's a lot there or something I mean like everybody's not meant to be In a relationship like if they don't want to be um So most black women want to be I'm sorry most black women want to be yeah, are they claim they want to be yeah So and I think that's a that's an interesting conversation because I have it a lot with my male friends and Most if not all of my male friends are the the niggas y'all won't right? What they say if you're curious, I'm curious. Okay What they say is that if you If you see a group of five women right and Let's say one of them has been successful and and she's looking at her group and she's like Um, Emily is a doctor. Um Savannah's a lawyer.  These are women who go to therapy five times a week and they go to the gym six times a week What men are saying What they say what men are saying is Women tend to evaluate each other based on a male curriculum Oh Your female friends are great men Okay, but they are terrible women. Okay. Yeah Because unfortunately and this is part of the message I try to push when I have a conversation with a woman is The things that move the needle for you when it comes to me are necessarily things I would prioritize Damn that the things that move the needle for me when it comes to you are necessarily things you would prioritize But if we're going to look at each other's puzzle pieces who must fit we can't be the same So you being strong black educated Makes you a great dude Doesn't necessarily make you a great and sometimes unfortunately it actually works to your detriment Because the more educated you are the less agreeable you are The more successful you are the harder you are to please the more traveled you are The easier it is for you to get bored So as a man Damn Okay That 80% of women in your group Tend to seem like a terrible proposition So what are your thoughts on that?  I don't want to be strong. I want to be soft, you know, um, but um Yeah, and I Can a hundred percent agree to that As much as it hurts me to say it um, I can a hundred percent agree to that and I speak on that because um A friend that I have he kind of told me the same thing. I'm like I want to buy a house. You know, I just can't wait to get my house. I can't wait to buy a new car I want a tesla, you know, can't wait to get my second business off the ground. Um, I'm looking to get in real estate I'm trying to have seven streams of income.   Do you look good and can you turn my house into a home?  Like I don't give a damn Like, you know, like I'm gonna be the one bringing in the money You know, you can work if you want to but you don't have to you know type of thing um, he was like Now if you want a different type of man that might need you for your money And might need you to go get those degrees because he's struggling and yeah He loves that part about you because you are the caretaker in the relationship but for The caliber of man that most women want They don't care about that. So I think that your point is a hundred percent valid as much as it hurts to say like And sometimes I get caught up in saying that so I'll be like I know more good women than I know good men, but it's because I'm engaging my the women friends on male standards, so That just slapped me in the face


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I know, it takes... How long does it take? So you got an hour? I know, you got rippin' Wi-Fi. Well, yeah, you got an hour-long screen recording of the episode. Right. And then you got an hour-long reaction on top of that. So that makes the file even larger, though. So it's a big thing. Today we're doing a movie review. Mm. I guess kind of a movie. Hehehehe. He's turned into a little boy. He really has. And instead of saying Bengali film. Yep. Starring our Dost. Slosh Dika. Mukherjee, right? Yeah, Mukherjee. Slosh Dika Mukherjee. There's two pronunciations for it. Sometimes people pronounce Mukherjee, but the predominant, and I believe hers, as well as like Andrani's, is Mukherjee. Mukherjee. Yeah, no relation. Well, yes, like seagulls. There's millions of seagulls and we are all linked at some dimension. So yes, because they're all Bengali. We're watching the Bengali, 2020 Bengali film. Tashar Gowar? Tashar Gowar. Yeah, Tashar Gowar and Man. I could hardly get through. I mean, this was like Lagan. It was so long. It was an extremely long film. I watched it in six days. You just have to be able to sit through a really long film. It's gonna take about a week. Yeah. It's like a series. So give it a week, watch at least five minutes a day. It's 47 minutes. It's 47 minutes long. Directed by, say his name? Which technically, by the way, Sudipta Roy, that qualifies for like the Globes and the Oscars as a film. As an actual film. No, I believe the Oscars is 55 minutes. So this would be considered short film, which is ridiculous. Globes, I think it has to just get past like 20 or something. Anyway, but the synopsis is a housewife of an upper middle class family, stuck between the worlds that is around her and within her. This is the story of her world, her home, her search, her, for herself. Yeah. We, we... Oh, hang on, just like she's at camp. Will she be able to find what she is looking for? Will she? I don't know. I don't know. Do we want to do a non-spoiler? Okay, it's 47 minutes. We're going to do a non-spoiler because the majority of you probably have not seen it. Yeah, I know. If I don't want to ruin it for you. It was a little indie film. I think it's on Hoi Choy now. I know that. Yes, it is on Hoi Choy. It's on Hoi Choy. Did you watch it when then, Johnny? No. When I, at the time when I watched it, she was asleep. Just go ahead and watch it. She asked me what I thought of it. Okay. What did you think of it, Rick? I, at first, I thought, okay, what's going on? And I was like, I don't know if I'm going to like this, the first five, six minutes. And then when I realized where we were going, I really liked it. Yeah, I mean, it is, it's really, really good. Yeah, it's very, very well done. Very well done. In terms of the acting, filmmaking, everything. It's basically, I don't want to give a lot away. It's basically, there's somebody, it actually takes place in the pandemic. Well, let's hear, we're going to give you two because obviously this video is going to sit on the channel for the life of the channel. So there will be a point when most of you, hopefully will have seen this and want to come back and hear what we have to say about some of the spoiler stuff. So let's just tell you right now, watch it. It's 47 minutes. It's 47 minutes and then come on back because we want to talk about the things we want to talk about that give stuff away. And don't, this film will be ruined, like most films will be ruined for you if you hear stuff about it before seeing it. It's worth your time. It is worth, absolutely worth your time. So go, go watch it. It's on, like I said, it's on Hoi Choy. I think if, obviously if you've been gone, you might have already seen it or you might have Hoi Choy. Yeah, and it just, you may already have it. Yeah, so. But if you're not, I would still encourage you to go watch it. It's basically a one woman show. That is, it's a one woman show. So go watch that please. We're going to get into spoilers now. That's our non-spoiler review is go watch it. Rick. So obviously going into this, expecting it to be good because it's Swojstika, rooting for her. We're always going to be honest, which is interesting. Did you know that the same number of letters for stupid is the same number of letters for honest? Whoa. Yeah, that's a coincidence. It is a coincidence. So I went in with high expectations, but obviously I actually went in with a little foreboding because when we've interviewed people and gotten to know them now, it's like going to see the play of a friend, you're not going to lie if it's soft. That's true.  Because number one, you want the artist to be great no matter who's doing it. Well, it's somebody you know and care about. Yeah. It's the last thing you want to do. So thankfully, thankfully, this is what it is, not just because of the concept, but because of her. Yeah. She just does with it something that's really difficult to do. Primarily, when something's written to break the fourth wall, it requires a very good actor to draw you in. And there were times where I felt like she was looking deep into my eyes. I really felt personally, that's what, at first, I was like, oh, okay, I hope this becomes more personal than it feels right now because if it just floats above the top here, I'm not going to like this. Yeah. And it dropped in and got really wonderfully weird. I thought she did a very, very good job with, one, making you care for her. Yes. And then also giving a sense of, a relatable sense. One, at the beginning, she was basically my wife, who is a introvert and loves plants. You can't see him right now. My wife, she's about 100 plants in our house alone, not including our outdoor plants. She loves plants and so she was like, I just love my plants. I want to stay away from everyone. And I was like, oh, look, it's my wife's story. And also, in a similar sense, somebody who, her spirit came across as somebody who's just really, just a genuinely content and happy person. Yeah, absolutely. And so I thought she did a very good job. And then also bringing in the creepy factor and the fact that obviously this awful stuff has happened to her. And we can talk about the filmmaking of that, which I thought was really great. I don't know what they do with the husband. The fact that you can relate to her. And then also, whenever she looked like it's right here on the poster, it's a very like, I know what I did. I know it's probably wrong. I don't care.  She had a lot of stuff going on. She vacillates between three different, at one point I was thinking to myself, there's no fricking husband. Yeah, I was thinking that for a while. If there is, he's dead from there.  And she does it in a way that's not, this is another thing that's difficult. Like if you've seen an old film called Civil where Sally Field started her early life, she plays a woman, it's a true story about a woman with 17 personalities. And she, this woman, like a lot of people with multiple personality disorder will just switch from personality to personality. This isn't like that. This is a, that's kind of a flow from place to place. Without ever, it's not a surprise because we saw this quality in her and Patelok. She has the quality of an actress who never indicates, never tries. She just does her best to embody and be. And I'd love to see behind the scenes. I'd love to talk with her about what the process was like and what the relationship was with the director. Yeah, absolutely been a play. Oh, this would make a fantastic play. Yeah. Although what would you do? Cause one of the elements of this that I thought was great was that he became the every man by us and never seen his face. Yeah, which is one of the things I want to talk about with the filmmaking, I love that. Cause it makes it, you're not just looking at this guy. This is, it could be anybody. And any man. Any man you see on the street could be this guy. And they were probably saying it's probably a lot of people, especially in older Indian culture, you know, with maybe a range marriage or just that's they fell into an abusive relationship. And he's, you know, cheating on her.  And it's just fine. But they don't show his face, which I thought was really, really well done. And a good decision by the filmmaker. Agreed. And I also think it touches on a subject that I don't know how much it's talked about in India because I know personal things are not often shared. Going to counseling is offered considered anathema or. Just family man. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But there have been globally situations where the lockdowns have put strains on families. So for example, interestingly here in the United States birth rates dropped and you would think it was the opposite. Everybody's at home. Yeah, you do. Right. But what it does is it has forced people to address things that they might not have addressed before where there were problems. For example, he's exhibiting strain and tension. She says at one point, such a sad line when she says he's probably stressed out because he's not able to see her like he was because of lockdown. And I wouldn't surprise me. And I'm knowing Shlostaka and the things that she posts, which right now is nothing but COVID support.  And it wouldn't surprise me if one of the goals of the film is to get women in particular to see this and not feel alone and reach out for help. Whether it's abuse that's just standard or stuff has come up because of COVID that, but it's done in a really high-brow intelligent way. I love the filmmaking. I thought the filmmaking was absolutely very well done in Billington to the cinematography score was wonderful. You've added that since it was just her carrying the film and it seemed, I know it's 47 minutes already short, felt like 25. Yeah, it really did. I didn't want it to end. It really goes by. I felt like we've had one or two short films that felt longer than this. Like an 18 minute one? Yeah, absolutely. We've had some that felt longer than this. That felt longer than this film. And it's a testament because it's just one person really. I mean, there's one other person you can hear his voice and he's technically in there, but it's not. I love, I love Forth Wahlberg's. I love Forth Wahlberg's. I don't know why. It was even before Deadpool. I know, I know it was. It's because like, I like that. Because to me, Forth Wahlberg symbolized that directors know that you're not nitty. You know this is a film. You know that. And I like that directors like just take that away. I'm like, this is a film, but you know, we're just gonna talk right now. It's okay, it's fine. I really enjoy that, but obviously it can go bad. If it's not done right, it can go bad. But I thought it was done very, very, very well. It often can be an excuse for bad writing because you can get exposition and just, okay, I'm gonna tell you now rather than show you. Yeah, I was afraid it was gonna do that. That's what I meant by my uncomfortableness at the beginning. I would say the only gripe I really have is that it was a little predictable. I was to where it went. I kind of, I knew that was gonna happen. It was at least something I thought was a real plausible idea. There wasn't- It wasn't predictable on how it got there in like a store, like in terms of how it was filmed. But I was like, I almost knew like from basically when, especially when she was talking about her mother-in-law and what she let happen to her and what she did to her.  Yeah, that's probably gonna happen. And in fact, I had five or six scenarios, which in a movie that is extraordinarily good, like a Christopher no, like inception, you're guessing ends and then the ending is way beyond anything you guessed. This had an ending that was one of my possibilities. And I agree with you. If that's a gripe and this is a small gripe, it would just be, it would have been that much more phenomenal if we had something happened in the end where we went, what? Yeah, I was waiting for one of those little things at the end and I would have really been like, oh, this is great. Like it was all in her head. Yeah, something like that. But even that, I would have guessed that. Yeah, so there's a couple of scenarios that you probably could have guessed and it's like I said, I'm being nitpicky here. I really enjoy this film in terms of all the acting, the score, I thought the cinematography, the way they shot, a lot of close-ups on her face. And then it's just her talking to herself, the entire time. Yeah. That's not easy to do. No. That's very few films pulled that off. I mean, I can think of one other that was luck, but that was just Tom Hardy and that was an hour and a half. Watch that movie. That was a phenomenal. Great movie. Phenomenal. And even I thought it was really well done. I think they found a really good balance, for example, in that moment when they're showing us her laying in the fetal position and the blood trickling down her legs and she's crying. That was pretty much perfectly done because you could have gone not enough or you could have gone over the top, especially for any woman that's experienced something like that. I think this was just enough to stir without triggering somebody. So all in all, hopefully you're watching this because you've seen it at this point.  I would still go watch it. Go watch it. It's unfortunate that you stayed here for, to be spoiled.  Absolutely. That means absolutely nothing. That's why we call them dummies. But I thought she did that well and as well as the cinematography, I thought it was really, really well done. So overall, I really enjoyed it. And it's also our first supposed to go Bengali film. Yeah, it was. I've seen her in a couple of things on Hoi Choy that were TV series stuff. And it really does show the difference because she's... We've seen her in Hindi in the Shant thing. Obviously, Patalak. Right. And I don't know if there's something else, but... There was one other thing, I think, that we saw her in. Was it? Okay, I don't remember it. I don't either. But anyway, in a couple of the other TV shows that she'd done, the writing isn't as good as this or Patalak. And there's only so much an actor can do when the writing isn't giving them what they need. It just shows. And you'll hear this all the time with actors win Emmys or Tony Awards or Oscars, whatever it might be. And I'm sure it's this way as well. I hope it's this way in any of the awards in India. The first words out of most of their lips is going to be thank you to the writers. Because actors don't have anything without the writers. And the difference between good writing and bad writing is astronomical when you watch. It's a great example. If you watch some of the TV shows she's in, I would say in some of the TV shows I've seen her in, she was fine on Hoi Choy. But she's magnificent in Patalak and she is extremely good in this. It's a testament to the writing too. An actor can save some bad writing, not all of them. I'm hearty. Yeah, venom. He saves the writing. Fun film, but it's only because hearty did so well. He saved it. There was a lot of bad writing in venom. If you haven't seen that film, hopefully the second one. Painful sometimes.  What's her name? Oh. Oh, wait, sorry. Yeah, he said that. I have feelings. Let us know what you thought about this film. What should be the next Bengali and the next Shikha film that we should watch? Let us know down below.


If you're the GM, are you bringing back Saquon next year? That's, he's a free agent. You gotta make a deal with Saquon. If you look at the last couple of games, he didn't have any big games, why? Because everybody loaded the box. This guy was having a phenomenal year. He's still having a phenomenal year. But because you don't have the wide receivers on the outside to attract and pull coverage and keep defenses from loading the box, now you're gonna have a Saquon Barkley struggling. No, Saquon Barkley deserves a big time contract. If the Giants don't do it, then somebody else will. But when you bring Saquon back, you need to go make sure you go get Odell Beckham Jr. Find a way. Don't let him go to the Cowboys. You need him on the outside, creating those seven-man boxes. Making teams play cover two.