What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyskatesbreak.com. 20-22, Pinedy Mose, football just slowed off. This is a six box half case break, picket scenes number 10, all-card chip. And here we go. Chris Butler got the Foggins last-bomb mojo. And the Texans. Kaden, I wish I knew a man. We don't really have a scheduled break. And I couldn't even tell you an estimated time. Cause some breaks sometimes can fill in a matter of minutes. Sometimes it takes hours, and we hate to say that, but sometimes it might take a day or two. So I think it's like in the low 20s now. I can't really tell you when that could break. But nothing breaks until it's sold out, so. That's a new break we posted yesterday. You know, obviously if they stuck for a little bit, then once that one fills, you probably don't do another one. But yeah, there's no estimated time for any breaks. Once they sell, they break. Yes, sorry about that. Yeah, no, it's, we're a little different. I mean, some people have scheduled breaks. Some people don't. We're kind of more like the traditional, like, you know, once it sells, it breaks. Sometimes we probably put a filler next to the break if it's taken a little too long, you know, or it's a little too expensive sometimes. But I just think there's so much on the website that it kind of gets lost in the shuffle. But I think hopefully once we do one, people see it and they want to rip more and we can do another. But you know, football section's pretty loaded, so I think that's what kind of got it a little slow. But it's only a $25 break, guys, it's pretty strong. All right, Swagger, Taylor, IU, Giuseppe, and Derek Henry. We got a purple James Washington to 49. Birdie, Gray, and a Javon Chase Montage to blue to 99. The Walker Silver, and first auto is James Robinson. The Jags, Jacksonville Jags where it's David. Nice little Darius Slate. It's Slate to 99. And how about a little Ricky Williams? Autograph there for the Dolphins to 49. Mack Harrell and Herbie Starrs, or Stairmaster. It's Slate. It's like, damn, bro, if you don't like Darius, tell your parents why they named me Darius. Or officially drop the Darius. He doesn't be correcting everybody, it's Slate.  Drop the Darius for my name. I know Flesh was funny though with that. Lakers, take the lead over Miami. All right, we got Travis Etienne, Cooper Cup to 49 purples, Stairmasters. Kenneth Walker, Vilas Jones Jr. for the Bears, Zachary. Naji, and wow, look at that, nice smack Jones. That's out of 15. Who has the Pats? And a Willie Rove. Saints, Rafael, there you go man. All right, what's it called, Tessellation? So what's up, Aaron? Do my Eagles and your Lions do it this weekend or what? My introductions. And you have to admit though, right, they played a lot better than you ever expected, right? Without a doubt. Didn't you predict them to only win like three games this year, three to four? But yeah, the Lions is kind of a little bit more tougher. They need to win, but then hope that the Seattle Seahawks lose. The only one that has the easiest path is the Packers. If they win, they're in. So Seattle, and then Seattle's in the same boat. They need to win, and they need to hope that you guys beat the Packers. But I'm happy with your Lions, man. I guess I'm not even a Lions fan, but I just think they're a talented team. They were fun to watch this year. And looking back at it, man, that Eagles Lions for week one, was just kind of like a glimpse of what they can be, right? Little shaky to start the season after that, you know, won a game and then lost a couple of games really close, but you know, like I said, pretty much the Dallas game and the Patriots game is the only one they really got kind of blown out early in the season with. After that, that was it. You know what I mean? Like they lost a lot of games, but they were really, really close games. I think Dallas ended up being like what, 24-6, and then the Patriots game was like a blowout, like shutout, but other than that, it was like really close games. That team is gonna be fun to watch. Them and the Jacksonville Jaguars are in the same kind of both teams again, going from worst to potentially being a playoff team. And then Jaguars have an opportunity to be first place in their division too. You know what's crazy about San Francisco that I just learned today? And this is coming from, I think the 49ers are definitely one of the most scariest teams because their defense is amazing. You know, their offense isn't built around the quarterback, it's around their playmaker. So as long as the quarterback can deliver the ball and just not limit mistakes and not make any mistakes, they can win. So I'm not trying to say anything bad against the 49ers, but I just found this out today that they've only beat like two teams with a winning record this year. Can you believe that? And it's unfortunate that their division is obviously really bad in that sense that they're all either under 500 or at 500. But I think they've only beat like two or three teams, if that, with a winning record. Montresaint Brown to 99, and Michael Vick center stage. And again, let me see, I'm gonna pull that up right now and see if we can go through it together. So again, week one, Chicago, right? They actually lost that game, but that was a loss, but that's a team with a losing record. Seattle, I think is what, eight and eight right now or something like that. They're trying to become on the winning side, but they're like a break even. They won that game, right? They lost to the Denver Broncos, which that one was a very just ugly game in general, but that was a team of under 500, right? Rams, they beat under 500. Panthers, they beat under 500. Falcons, they lost to, that team was under 500. Now the team that they beat, they lost to against the Chiefs, obviously they're over 500. They beat the Rams again under 500. Chargers is I think the second team that was over that they beat, right? Or no. Seattle and then yeah, the Chargers, right? They won that one. Chargers are like 10 wins. Arizona won under 500. New Orleans Saints under 500. The Dolphins have just died right now, right? Now I guess they're under 500 or they're at 500 barely. Bucks, even though they have the winning record, I think they're barely at 500. Seahawks again, they beat them. Washington, I think break even. And then I think at 500 if anything, or under 500 now. And then the Vegas Raiders are under 500 and they beat them in overtime. Then they play the Arizona Cardinals this week who are under 500. But it's just so funny that like, you know, Eagles got so much criticism for beating some of these teams early on in the season that we're basing off of last year's record, Jalen Tolbert. And then now you look at those teams and now they're actually playoff teams slash about to be a playoff team, you know? And I just think it was so funny. And I'd barely learned that today. Patty Mahone's purple, 49 and 49. Devonte White, Packers, it's going to Simon. Yeah, man, Raiders look good with Stidham, didn't they? So was it really, was it Derry Carlin or what's going on there? That last interception of the game, it wasn't really his fault. I think he got hit while he threw it, didn't he? Which is like a little wobbly up in the air pass. Oh, for sure, right? I mean, let's just be honest. I mean, maybe they didn't say it out loud in the locker room and into the media, but it's valid to have a couple of players or maybe more than a couple of players upset, you know, feel a certain way about Derry Carlin the way he played this season, you know? And then Derry Carlin also, you know, getting a couple of emotional interviews, you know, and those couple losses in the row where, where, you know, he was kind of like, I want it so bad, but yet, you know, or, you know, I know so many people that worked so hard and yet it doesn't translate to win. So, you know, maybe they didn't say it out loud, but maybe a couple of people were like, yeah, hell yeah. I'm happy that Derry Carlin's not playing. He should be benched, you know? He's playing horrible. And yeah, you're right, right? Maybe they wanted to play for Stidham. I mean, Stidham kind of like all the other Patriot quarterbacks like Garoppolo and those guys where they drafted him and potentially could be the next guy up behind Tom Brady, but it just never worked out. We have a Britain Brown. I know a lot of people pulled out some of the Stidhams over the weekend, but drivefully so. It's exactly why you hold onto some of these guys, Tom Brady. Leake. Jake Ferguson, 249. Nicole Harmon. Kansas City Chiefs. Sugar. Yeah, it's been a couple of frustrating weeks, you know? I don't, I wasn't upset about, I wasn't as upset about the Eagles losing to the Cowboys because I kind of figured that probably would happen without Jalen Hertz. I wasn't as confident. And they played a lot better than I thought they would. And at the end of the day, they still had an opportunity to win that game. Although I don't think Gardner-Minsch would look as good as I thought he could have. He still made some throws, made some plays, and like I said, they had a chance. But this weekend was a little bit more frustrating to watch because Gardner-Minsch would look really off. And he's throwing a lot from his back foot. And yes, I think that's a perfect way to say it. He looks scared. He's like, it's like he's hesitant.  Like he's just trying to play as conservative as possible. But yes, the Saints game was a lot more frustrating because I think they should have won that game but the offense couldn't do squat, you know? Defense did their job. Although, you know, they ended up scoring 20 points. Pick six obviously doesn't count towards the defense. You know, they held them to 13 points basically and sacked them out even though how many times, you know, so it was more on the offensive side. So yeah, that one was a little bit more frustrating. But that just, you know, goes to show you obviously, it's good to have a decent backup but at the end of the day, you can't always expect to win with the backup. Obviously the Eagles know how it is to win with a backup but, you know, it ain't gonna happen again, right? I mean, at least that's the way it looks like. If Jaylen Hertz was gonna miss the playoffs, I don't know if I'm as confident as I was with like Nick Foles, you know? So they should get back on track this weekend. Nice Cooper kept there as long as I think Jaylen Hertz plays. I mean, now it's kind of proving why he is your potential, like at least MVP top candidate, you know? It's not just a system sometimes. But it's gonna be interesting though, obviously, because I don't know if the Giants are gonna really play all their starters.  So you kind of wanna keep them fresh but at the same time, you know, I don't see why you would wanna risk injury. I don't think it's that serious. I just think that Eagles have had time, Eagles knew that if they beat Dallas or beat the Saints, he didn't have to play. I guarantee you, Aaron, if his injury happened against the Bears and the Eagles played in the playoffs the next week, he would have got a bunch of painkiller shots and he would have played. But the fact is that why would you do that when they were confident enough to win against the Cowboys and even confident enough to win against the Saints? Now I don't think they're as confident. So now he's probably gonna have to play.  But now, obviously, it's a little different story, right? Now it's kind of like they have to win. I think he might be forced to come in a week earlier, potentially. I mean, the good thing is that as long as he stays healthy, they win, then if his shoulders really soar, you know, the next week, well, they'll have an extra week for a bi-week, so even better. But I think personally he's good, but I just think the Eagles don't want to risk anything. Cause yeah, you could aggravate that. What if he gets pounded on by like a 300-pound lineman and then re-aggraves his shoulders for him? Then you start to get into like some serious things where ligament damage happens and all that. His injury was only one to two weeks sideline, is what it was. I guess MRIs just showed there was just a shoulder sprain and a sore. So, he should be back this week, back to normal, but again, like I said, I just think it's kind of hard, right? You want him healthy for the playoffs, but you kind of want to win first place and lock up the number one seed. Lewis Sine, can he pick it? Yeah, I assume if he does play, he's gonna be very cautious and he's not gonna, he'll still run the ball, but he's not gonna put himself in a position to get hit really hard. If he runs the ball, he's gonna run it, gain some yards and probably slide us a lot in this next game if he gets the opportunity to play. I don't see him being that risky. And Jaylen Hertz throughout the year has shown that he doesn't have to run to make plays. I mean, I think the Titans game was a good one or one of those games where he didn't even run at all. He just threw the ball. Just look at it a zillion times. The Sean Watson and a Kyler Gorda, whoop, stuck there. But yeah, Oliver, sorry about that. You've been getting a lot of good Cooper Cup inserts. Nice colors too. Wow, are the Lakers gonna beat the Heat right now? They're up by four, 20 seconds left. Without LeBron and Anthony Davis, for sure. I think Jaylen Hertz as the game progresses understands what kind of game it's gonna be, or if he's gonna need to run, he's gonna do it. I did aligns week one was one of those games where he needed to run for his life. Cause looking back at it, when I was looking at like highlights like the week after and weeks after just to see it. So I like to just watch highlights a lot. Aidan Hutchinson and that D-line for your guys this week one was going, getting to Jaylen Hertz so much that he needed to run. But that's the beauty of having a quarterback that can run though, all right? Derek Stinley, Len Dawson, 1099, Swagger, Portland Sun, and a nice Josh Allen, man of mastery. Oliver is on the coaching staff? I'm with you, D-Cons. Let's do it. Got the hip rate football done. Might as well get the hip rate exclusive done tonight too. And we only have like two or three cases that left. I think it goes up to 10. I think they're both great. I mean, I don't know, I haven't, I mean Hutchinson had a really cool interception the other day that Preva, when he was hiding in the corner. But I think early on, I think Hutchinson had a much better start to his career. But I want to say Timidow, as of lately has really picked it up. I don't, I would have to compare their stats, honestly.  And then like for Aiden Hutchinson, obviously this past week, he had a pretty good interception too. Like a little disguise. I will double check right now, Steve, once I'm done with this, I gotta go check. I didn't actually go check cause we had the cases, we had the second half here, but if we do have more, I will post more. Our last box here, guys. Yeah, looks like right now Aiden Hutchinson has seven and a half sacks, 31 solo tackles, which is pretty good. Seven and a half sacks, you know, rookie year is pretty awesome. And you know, he probably has an interception. He had an interception against the Giants. Actually he has like two inter, three interceptions actually. It's pretty good. And then Kavion, like I said, his stats look a lot less. So I would probably have to take Aiden, but he has four sacks. But I think recently he's been getting most of his sacks. Like he had one against the Colts, he had one against Washington two weeks ago, and then Washington again a week after that. But he did get the QB hits with the fumble recovery for the touchdown too. But I think Aiden's had a better season though. Allante Taylor, center stage, Arch Manning, Lakers, wah-wah. Roger McCreary, and Miles Garrett, number to 15, Tessellation.  That's a Houston Texans Chris Butler, last bottom level Joe, number two overall pick I believe. Blue Chip Silver. Alrighty guys, well, here was like the main hit right here. The Tessellation there, Derek Stingley, Recruary, Gordon, Sein, Miko Harmon had a 25 Cooper Cup, Britton Brown, Ricky Williams to 49, James Robinson, Vylus Jones. Tessellation right there of Mac Jones, Willie Rolf, little Kenny Pickett Red, Jalen Tolbert, and Devontae Wyatt. So I feel like the first half might have had a lot of the bigger hits, but still some solid stuff here. Now again guys, I'm gonna go double check if I have more, and if I do, I will post up more. It'll be number 11, and 12 will be for the same case. So we can run this back tomorrow or this weekend. I appreciate it guys, like I said, this is break number 10, jazpsqsbreaks.com.


Hi, thanks for staying out late. My name's Lydia Nommish-Mitt. I am the Chicago Chief Rep for PAL, which is the Parent Artist Advocacy League. And I am here to host this lovely panel called How Your Theater Can Become More Equitable, a more equitable employer of parents and caregivers, which is kind of a mouthful. And we have this lovely panel of artists. I'm gonna go maybe down the row and introduce you each. This is Sarah and for me. I asked you for your first name and I didn't ask you for your last name. Oh, yeah, because my last name was super fun. Natalie Goldie. Natalie Goldie. Sometimes it's Glade, because out of correct. Yeah, mm-hmm, it sure is. So Natalie is an actor, writer, producer, and newly appointed director of operations at Piatra Vista, and most recently, mother of a four and a half month old Delight. Oh my God. That was a huge problem at this very moment. So good job getting out of the house this evening. But let me point out. Thank you. Next we have Gaby Randall Bent, who is director, dramaturg, mother, and PhD candidate. And that's making me tired just listing all of those things. And most recently, the newly appointed associate artistic director of the court theater, hello. Yes. Woo! Next we have Kate Wellum, who oversees all foundation, government, and corporate giving at the Goodman Theater, as well as operations in the development department, while also raising two children age one and five, so a little fantastic. Here is co-founder of On Our Team and the creator of Pay Equity Standards, a certification system that recognizes arts organizations that center fair and equitable pay. Thank you for that. She's also the associate director of programs at Lawyers for the Creative Arts, Illinois' only pro bono legal services organization for the arts. Here's our lovely director, who you already saw. I'm the director of the cleanup, obviously. And she's also the accessibility coordinator for Broken Nose Theater. So like, world's colliding, I feel like, with accessibility and talking about parenting. I should also mention, I'm also a parent, if that's not obvious. I didn't mention my own children. They are hopefully asleep. I don't know. I don't know. They're 11 and seven and seven, because like in, I've already forgotten the character's name by the way, like Julie in the play. Somebody has twins in the play. Julie has twins in the play and I was like, that's a lot. Anyway, so, I'm gonna just go down the line and just quickly tell us, like when did theater and parenting first intersect for you? Some of us, maybe it was longer ago, some of us very, very recently. So, what has that looked like for you? Go. I chose the wrong seat. I should not be like this. I won't pick you first. I'm a teacher, so I'll make sure that I divide. I appreciate that. At 2021, October, founder of those pregnant, I was working on a TV set at the time doing COVID safety. And I was immediately falling asleep at like three in the afternoon. Like I couldn't cope with it. Our schedules were 15 hour days. And I was in a long distance marriage and I was like, you know, starting winter. So I was like, this is terrible. And so I had like a combination of like a negative, positive experience, like simultaneously. I was in a sketch group that I was pining to come back to after I finished with the TV show that I ended up quitting early, like two weeks early because I just couldn't do it anymore. And then without any job prospects, I was just like, quit. Because I needed to quit and there was nothing there for me. So I was like, I'm going to come back to my sketch group and I'll just write until I can't write anymore.  And the kind of like initial response from the group was like, oh, congratulations.  And you know, immediately I'm offended. And I'm like, what? I'm not dying. I'm having a baby. I'll be fine. I can still use my hands to type. And my feet still work. I'm good. It just, it was like immediately this kind of like static. And then I ended up getting pushed out of the group in January. So like, I got to do like two shows with them. And then, I don't know, like the vibe was just off. So I got kicked off that. I got kicked off of a lead part in a film. Which was like a portal in a mutual decision. But also, they still haven't filmed yet. So it's like, okay, but now it's not my part anymore. It's like, whatever, it's fine. And then at the same time, Wendy Mateo and Lauren Diaz from Entrevista just like took me in. I was like in the middle of filming Guitar Thief, which is like the last project I did. And I got pregnant during that project. This is a very long answer. Anyway, I was like crying in her car basically. Like she was driving us from location to location. And just letting her know what my situation was like, I don't know what I'm gonna do. Like I'm pregnant. I don't really know anybody in this town in terms of family. And she, like after that, like her and Lorena reached out to me. And we're like, hey, do you like to do theater stuff? And do you like to do admin stuff? Is that something you feel comfortable doing? And she's like, yeah, I can do that.  Like it was phenomenal. Like they've really taken care of me. And it's so yeah, simultaneous negative positive experience coupled with long distance husband who is back. So it's great. Oh. I love the story with L.K. I'm happy to see you. Yeah, I am. It was nice. The baby was born. And that's all in the closet. Okay, go. Okay, I'm ready. So I have a, yeah. So he's two and like three months, which matters because I also have a 10 month old. Oh.  Son was born August 2020, which means that I found out I was pregnant. We, my husband is from the UK. We went and for Christmas and told his family. And then we went to Paris and then we came back and we had all of these plans. And then we didn't do any of that. And I think that that more than anything is colored by experience. In that I actually got to do more than I ever could have done because everything happened in my living room for a year and a half. And so we were present and really sort of together as a family, two together. So then there were four of us. So three, four, four a year and a half. And so I think now I am just now figuring out what it means to be doing the work and to be parenting at the same time. And before everything was just sort of a jumble. And I think the thing that has been such a gift for me is that I have this new position. We have a new, a very old house, we're talking about it, but it's new to us. We had all these big life changes happen at the same time that the whole world changed. And so nothing is normal, which means that everything is on the table. And so my first time back in the rehearsal room after my daughter, I was just like, well, here are the options, like five day weeks, daytime tech. And my production manager was like, cool. And my first show back after my son, I was like, I'm gonna have to do this whole thing on a yoga ball. And they're like, great, should we dress it in black? And I was like, yes, and her name is Beatrice. And so I feel like I get to live in this place of opportunity and of calling shots that I am very grateful for because I know it's very different than what came before and what happened before. But also it's scary because I don't know what's right. Like I don't know what's possible. And so we spend a lot of time waiting it, which is also good. Yeah. I just, all these pandemic babies, I, that's gotta be so hard. I can't even imagine. Like having a kid August, 2020, I was like, well, at least it's not March. Like, I was like, we're lucky. But then it hit me one day when I picked him up from daycare and I just looked at his classroom and I was like, y'all are the babies. Like this is like, you're the, like this whole class is the moment. And they all have their little masks on. Like they're two now. And so they have to wear masks. It's crazy. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Okay. Yeah. So my, my eldest just turned five, like last week. So I'm still getting my mouth around that. But I had an awesome experience. I, as part of my fundraising life, have relationships with a lot of lead funders around town and I was so incredibly lucky to be coming through as a cohort that Goodman sort of just behind the women who had the first babies. And so they were there to be my supervisors and my mentors and to hold the door and not that everything was done but that like the ground had been softened a little bit. And I have a very clear memory of going to visit a little garrity at the Cheney Foundation who is delightful and is sort of retiring. And I am sorry that to anyone who didn't get to know her. But I was five or six months pregnant and doing the thing you start to have to do where you go, so I'm pregnant.  She's a mom. She looked at me and she went, no. That's great. I'm so happy for you, but no. And it was this, I don't know why it was a surprise to me, but it was this moment of like, right, right, two decades, that's the commitment here. And I think I did a lot of recalibrating and my boss who's got, just sent a kid to college, talks about she sort of had women she leaned on and has adages like childcare is a problem that is never solved. You will always be resolving it. So just accept that. Which I find really helpful, actually. So I am so lucky and so blessed to have those mentors and those role models and those people who came right ahead of me. Because anything I've achieved has been on the heels of something they did first. That's amazing. But I don't understand, I mean, my oldest is about to turn 12 and I still don't understand how anybody ever features out childcare. It is the most impossible thing you do with them. I don't know. I mean, I've been here for almost 12 years, so I guess it's been a while. No, it's impossible. Yeah, it's impossible. Yeah. So when you read the introductions, right? I did not include my children in my introduction. And that is kind of like my metaphor for parenting. I definitely heard stories and had friends whose careers ended when they had children. And so I hid my pregnancy until about seven months and then kind of only worked with people who would like accept and welcome a costume designer that was my background. And then two weeks after my 10-year-old was born. Born at 10, no. Um. Two weeks after he was born, I started my first tech. And it was definitely a choice that I wanted to do as a tenacious person who cares about my artistic practice and wanting to be my own person. And that's how my life really didn't change having kids. I took him everywhere with me. And then I also have a four-year-old. I took her everywhere with me, mostly working admin by that point. But yeah, I mean, definitely worked with companies that were good with parents, welcomed children in tech and rehearsals and all of that. But had friends that did not have those experiences with the companies they worked with. Yeah. And when we met, we worked together. And I think those tweens were like two and a three? Yeah. Is that right? A collaboration? Oh, right. It was some sketchbook. I don't know when it was. Well, I mean, collaboration is a great example, right? Yeah. Like kids everywhere. Oh, I had a kid in tech. I had an actor like babysitting his nephew. He's like, can I bring him tech? I was like, yeah, my kid's not gonna be there. So I need to hold some kid. I don't know. That's right. What about you, John? I don't have a second, but I have a two-year-old that I have. I have two and nine months, essentially. So he was January, 2020. So he was eight weeks old. And then the world shut down. So yeah, we also had all sorts of plans.  Like, you know, I was still fixing. Yeah. Yeah. That was fine. I mean, it was more to like, look, here he is, he exists. Okay, now daddy, come take him home. It was more like introducing him to the company. But I mean, they're just, for me, because the pandemic and motherhood coincided. So closely. This is my first full production back working on something. Yeah, I just wasn't sure if I wanted to try and navigate the walkers. But this show was very close to my lived experience and resonated very deeply. And I just really wanted to be able to be involved with telling the story. So I took a chance, I'm trying to figure it out. Figure out the childcare and figure out everything else. It won't be, but it's been better with support than it would have been without because I think if I'd done it with a different company or in different circumstances, it would not have been. So, I mean, speaking about, that sort of goes to my next question anyway, which is what specific things have theaters done to make your work possible easier? So what were some of the specific things on the show done that happened with prop? Yeah, I mean, well, for one, they offered a childcare stipend in addition to the stipend, which is huge. I mean, my husband is, we don't have the kind of relationship where he is a nine to five and so you can watch the kid her evening or like that's not, he's a clinical psychologist. So I, there was a lot of childcare to cover for us. And so yeah, that made it possible if it really, I don't think it would. That's amazing. And that was an offer, all right, right? That was, yeah.  Well, I mean, I love that it's even a thing. It's a show about kids, about parenting, well, not about the kids, it was about early childhood caregiving. And I know there's at least one parent in the cast. Two parents, yeah. Both Lucy and Lynette are parents. Okay, she'll enjoy that, outstanding. And we have, you know, parents on the team out in our playwright alley, it's my parent. Obviously. Austin designer as well as parents. Oh, yeah. So we do. Okay, so let's just, what about anyone else? What's something that a theater company or any related employer has done to sort of make your work possible? Can I jump in? Yeah, jump in. The whole conversation about it's hard to figure out childcare. Part of that is the financial piece. And I have to talk about pay equity. But the floor of supporting parents is paying them a fair and equitable, thriving wage. We talk about a living wage, right? Well, that's a keep on working wage because you can't save your kids' college fund or retirement or these sorts of things. And I don't know if people know what theater workers make, but often it is sub-minimum wages, you know, 1099 contracts and all that comes with that. And so, you know, like all the extra things that companies can do on top of that are great, but it's not paying a fair and equitable wage that is in line with life. You know, it's kind of like the fluff that covers up what's actually happening below. Yeah, I understand. And, man. Yeah? During my maternity, just when things were starting to get kind of shaky, my husband was still unemployed because his contracted end, there's a lot of context there, his contracted end is in St. Louis, but he didn't have a new job yet. So I was on moms and babies, which absolute lifesaver for anyone watching in Illinois, they will pay for everything. Everything.  So, moms and babies. So I got on insurance real easy, but then the Atravista, Lola Wendy, they were like, so for maternity leave, we can't, because that was part-time at that time, we can't offer you actual maternity leave. What we can do is... Let's keep going, just keep going. We can still pay you half of what you were normally working for every paycheck until you come out. And I was like, that's great. And I didn't ask for that. I never put that on their plate or was like, God, I'm joining you for something. They just saw that I had a need and they took care of it. And that made it easier to come back. Yeah, and that sort of chimes with finding a home where people are supported of parents and understand what the needs are and then choosing to give them your talent and work and self. Our entire staff has parents. It's amazing. And like, we're all moms, we all get it. And it's amazing. I love that. I mean, I think that, to Natalie's point, I hesitate to call it community because that also is insidious in ways that sort of takes advantage of what they talked about in the show, the sort of expectation of maternity leave. But I do think that having near peer models, like really sort of like mothering shamelessly, I think is one of the only reasons that I'm where I am. Right? Like, the Jen Goddard who's a production manager at court, my first show there, she was pregnant. And I wasn't even thinking about anything. But like, it was in my head in a way that now, this many years later, five or six years later, like my son wears most of her kids clothes, right? And so like that, and then those clothes get passed on to my good friends who I just co-directed a show with. I was pregnant during my last tech, and then she was pregnant during our tech, right? And so like when somebody says, are you okay? Do you need to take a break? Do what you need? Kids are welcome. It's not, it matters who says that. And so I think like, I think that's the point hiring and paying and empowering parents, and in my experience, mothers especially, not just so that you get their sort of maternal instincts and labor, but that also like they have the voice to say, I see where you are. I see what's going on. Like, you don't have to explain anything to me. Yeah, I think makes a lot of things that feel impossible, much more. Mothering? What is it, mothering shamelessly? I'm gonna steal that phrase. That makes my heart just like sing. Because this is what, I don't know, my kids are older, so this is what I was hoping for when I was little and I would bring, you know, just say like, no, this is what it is. Here's the baby, we have to take a break at this time. I can't come to this, you know, like just putting it out there and being visible. And that that hopefully creates more space. Okay, I'm gonna move forward. In your current role, or roles, what structures do you see in place to support parent artists? I'll start, and I'll help. Oh, the Goodman has a pile of resources, and then I acknowledge that, and then a lot of what we're able to do is become that. I, and the Goodman is, just to give you a sense, we have about 180 employees and we contract about 500 artists a year. So when we talk about two support parents, we're talking about a lot of different working environments. So I actually, for this panel, bugged a couple of people around the theater to work in areas that I don't work in about like, hey, I sort of know, but can I fact check what I think I know? So, and there is formal policy and there is culture, right? So we have eliminated 10 out of 12s. We are union everywhere, so pay is set, and we actually can't offer some of those extra perks because of the way the contracts are set. We can change working conditions. So we've eliminated 10 out of 12s. We're working towards a five day rehearsal week for Emory Shale, regardless of who's on it. We are much more flexible than we used to be about contracted artist conflicts. We have an actor in Christmas Carol right now whose kids are gonna come stay at the theater because that's what that actor needs. On the admin side, it's been a big mental progress, but currently you can get 12 weeks of paid parental leave. 100% paid leave insurance covered holding, which is pretty exciting. And you can also do things, you can accrue up to six weeks of sick and care leave essentially, and we have short term disability leave. So when you start talking about partly the leave and the baby having and that stuff, but also the physicals and the dentist appointments and the, my kid has the sniffles and I can't send them to the police town and give me half an hour to figure out what the situation is. All that stuff helps, but I would also say, and I was talking to our artistic producer, Melchia Stampley about this, and she was saying, and I think it's a great point, so I'm amplifying here, that it matters who's on the other side of the table. She's a parent. And that generally no one wants to bring their kid to work. Right? No one woke up this morning and was like, I'd rather do it on a baby to do the job I'm passionate about and I would rather do my job with a kid, buddy me the whole time, like that's no one's plan. So if someone is coming to say, can I leave early, can I come in late, can I bring my kid to rehearsal, can I bring my kid to tech, whatever it is, you're their last resort. And having people in positions of authority who get that helps tremendously. I, my awesome boss talks all the time super transparently about, I gotta leave at 4.30 today, I got soccer pickup. I'll see you on email, like that's the deal. And it makes it so much easier to say, hey, I'm gonna be at 10 instead of nine because I have to go to the pediatrician this morning or whatever the deal is. She's like, cool, see you then. We're also a hybrid workplace now. So everybody on salary, on staff, is only expected to be in three out of five days a week. And there are parents who have more complicated situations who are basically work from home as much as they want. So there's a lot of pieces and we're still thinking about how to do it better but that's where we're at. Can I jump in? Because I hear a lot of like support for parents who are on staff. And then you think of like the artists who are creating the work and mostly not entirely but their freelance contract work, new safety net, you know? And it just, you know, maternity leave's awesome. Being able to leave early is great but like that's not given to most working theater artists. Yeah, I mean, I think what our hope was with this panel is having like a variety of like from prop to the good men. Maybe it's okay. You know, what are the structures that are in place and what can't, what more can we do? I mean, and the thing is like the more places like the good men, places like the court are putting these policies and structures and cultures in place, like that's gonna, I think in a way it kind of trickled up, right? Because I think it did start with, it feels to me anyway, like it started with artists and it started with people really advocating. And maybe that's me with my advocacy hat on, thinking that we did more than we did. But I think it's also going to show like, oh, this is the expectation. The court's not doing 10 out of 12, so what the why am I gonna do a 10 out of 12 here? Like, so you know, I think it's all, it's a matter of scale like everything else, but 100%, I think freelance artists have it the hardest, right, in terms of not having a stable job and not having those longer term things like benefits and maternity leave and even sick leave. Absolutely. I don't know the structure. Yeah, I think not to belabor the point, but yes, court is also in the position, especially through the relationship with the University of Chicago, right? Where staff members have access to an incredible breadth of resources. There also, I think, is something about relationships that actually to me are the types of things that make policy versus the other way around, right? And so what it means to have a, I was thinking about this too in relationship to this panel, right? Five hour or five day work weeks, straight sixes, which are like, it's my favorite phrase in the world. 10 out of 12 is gone. Not that eight out of 10s are easy. They're still really freaking high, still dark all the time when you're outside. But like, not just doing them, but like understanding who that's for and why, right? Like, and that to me, I think is the work of like the relationality with folks that I think we're not to the point yet, but you start saying, okay, this artist is like, we have more artists around who are more women, especially mothers who are in their mid thirties. All right, and then into their forties who are a part of our relationships and we understand what the need is. We understand what the ask is. We understand what the shows are that we're programming. We understand what the lift is. We understand, and I think that to me feels really important is that it's not just about sort of like blanket policy, but it's about saying we can make changes because you're invited here and also because you're here, we understand what the consequences of those changes are and that drives what the work is and how it grows and gets better, right? Like, I think it would be easy to say this process like was perfect, right? Because it was all these parents and everybody knew what they were doing and everybody knew why you wanted to do it, but like it's actually sort of about the trying. It's about saying actually, this is what our priorities are because these are the people in the room and it's not gonna be perfect this time, but being made a priority I think matters in a lot of ways. In terms of structure, I feel like it's the culture, right? The culture at our offices is we're all moms, so we all understand when you're sending out emails at nine p.m. And you try to catch up on work that you haven't been able to do because you only have your kid in daycare for two days a week and you're packing everything into two days, right? There are days where we have late meetings and I have to go to those meetings and I just bring the kid in from daycare and Lolo just grabs my kid and whisks her away and she's like, all right, geeky time, you know? I don't even have to worry about her in that office. There's toys, there's a bucket of toys in our office. We have, I think we have juice boxes in there. We've had the husbands even come in. Everyone just, our space is, we're a much smaller staff. I think we exude a big presence, but we're significantly small administrative office and we're doing the same things on our stages, right? We're hiring smaller casts, so that allows us also, not that we don't wanna do bigger shows, right? But by being able to focus in on these smaller shows, we're able to focus in that budget on same thing, eight out of 10s where we would offer these stipends to our casts, we're able to honestly cater to their needs and it's because we're so painfully aware of how hard it is to be parent.  Like it's a real No Work Friday, like we're just trying not to have meetings, right? But it's really a day where either you're gonna work or you're not, the expectation is not really there. We know that your kid is coming home hot or maybe you wanna have an extra day with your kid, that's not just the weekend and that's completely understood and acceptable. That is, for me, the structure that we have is that it permeates through our walls, that this is a parent-run facility and we don't, I mean, I really need to finish this sentence, we're just, we're parents. Yeah. Wow, sounds like an amazing play, I'm gonna hang out. So what larger, small things could the theater industry do to dissolve some more of those barriers for parents working in theater? I know Elsa, what you're gonna say about the t-shirt. Artist job theater. Yeah, I mean, there's a huge equity divide between staff, administrators, freelance artists, no matter what company you look at. There's also a huge divide for gender, so the average male artist in Illinois makes about $62,000 a year. The average woman artist in Illinois makes about $45,000 a year. It's painful, right? This is like, I can't put numbers out loud. And you see this play out in lots of different ways, both, I think, a lot of people kind of like nodded to taking less work right when they had kids and those sorts of things, but also the way we pay feminized labor versus masculineized labor. And so you'll have large theaters downtown that pay carpenters like $31 an hour and custom shop workers $17 an hour. This was last September, I'm believing it's gotten better, but that's what makes up that divide. And so you have that kind of internally as staff and then you have at every single theater that hires freelance artists, actors, designers, technicians as they're needed, a divide of pay for those folks, the access to benefits they get, the time off, the security of knowing where the next paycheck is coming which is a huge thing to be able to plan and save and plan your future. So all that is a, it's a big problem and there's been good movement on it, but it's also not enough because people are living through this right now. Yeah. Wow. Thinking forward. Yeah, I have a lot of conversations with people. I agree we should start for a while. I have a lot of friends who are still in that world, but also in my fancy downtown desktop about parent issues that get cast as mother's issues. And I think I would love to get to a place where we acknowledge that most, not most, but many families have more than one parent. And there are artists of many gender identities who are parents and working, and yet it seems to be the women who mostly have these conversations. But I would also love to get to a place where we talk about how an eight out of 10 rather than a 10 out of 12 is helpful if you have a disability. You have to take breaks at regular times if you take insulin. You need to get off your prosthetic limbs at different intervals. Some of the things we're talking about, having the ability to check out midday or say I have a conflict with this rehearsal to go take your aging parent to the doctor. Like a lot of the things that parents need are also things that people in other categories need. And Lord knows some parents are also in those categories. So I would love to see the industry get to a place where we're talking about just humane working conditions for people with complicated lives. And it doesn't necessarily have to be about parenting or mothers as it's supposed to be. Yeah, I think that's something that how I sort of preached from the beginning is whatever you're doing to make work better for parents is going to make work better for everybody. Whether it's better scheduling, better pay, more predictability, better, better. And all of it makes everybody's life better. And what else? Thinking ahead to the future, what do you dream of? Yeah, I think that there's always the risk in advocacy when you identify a need that that becomes perceived as a pathology, right?  There are so many things that put me in identity categories that folks feel certain types of ways because of oppression and white supremacy and misogyny in the world. And those aren't pathologies, they are my experience and they're my identity, but they're, and so as I'm figuring out what it means for me to be a parent and what it means for me to be a mother, the more articulate I am about my experience, the more I feel the tendency to put that in a category that, a category, really like a category, right? And I think what you're offering is something that I feel genuinely, which is, and I love this idea of, not this idea, it's a thing we understand, like the feminization of labor, right? Like so much of my work is in traditionally masculine spaces and I'm like, I'm unabashedly feminine about my approach, I'm unabashedly feminist about my approach, I'm unabashedly black feminist about my approach because the default is not the only way or even the best way to operate. And so I think I often find myself talking about, talking about work weeks, talking about hours, talking about what you ask of people, not because I think that there are metrics that we should be striving towards, but because I have operated in my body for enough years to know that the world was not meant for me and so why would I try to augment things that aren't made for me, rather than articulate the world that I'd like to live in. And I think that that's the work and that is, again, it's not on a policy level, it's on a relational level, so that people start to actually live the thing that then they begin to demand. And so offerings, conversations, invitations are very different than mandates and dictates, but they're the ways that we learn what people need and they're the ways that we learn how people buy into an industry that we all learned that we can't live without but some of us also can't live with, right? So yeah, I just think that the work of identifying who we are and inviting people to bring their whole selves into a space and modeling that readily is the work of saying, okay, I'm dismantling the way things were not because they don't work for me, but because they actually don't work for any of us. And so let's start over and I'm gonna bring all of me, what do you have? And let's talk about it, let's not guess about it, let's be about it together and have juice boxes. Yeah, buckets of toys. Yeah, buckets of toys and like whatever else. I don't know what you need today. Yeah, right, yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Oh, I'm holding back here. You're holding back here, it's like, I don't know. It's just, it's just amazing, I want that. I think it's probably time to wrap up, I hope we haven't gone too late, I'm worried about it. Falling asleep, no, I'm just like. I don't have a little baby at home, I have no excuse. Any final thoughts? Just so, if I could just like double down on the culture thing, right? Like, so this is work that we as parents are doing, you know, to like change that culture and I think we really do need to focus in on changing this for people who have no idea what parenthood is. I still can vaguely remember, you know, pre-parenthood. Mm-hmm, I can't, it's foggy. It's just a little bit there, right? I can still remember just how much I put off having a kid because I knew and it did happen, I knew it would affect my career for the worse, in terms of like, I haven't actually been in front of a camera except this one, since I got pregnant, right? I knew that it would affect my relationship with all of the people that I used to love working with to the point where it's like isolating and you're alone, I'm gonna cry.  So yeah, it's painful. I'm not sad about it anymore, it's just thinking about it. Like, it really does affect your ability to get back to work and honestly, I just wanna get back to work, I love my kid, I need to write stuff, I need to perform, I need to create because that's what I always wanted to do and I wanna be a mother, we should give it to wealth. So yeah, I really want to change that for people who are putting off having kids. Like, people are actually doing this because they don't see any other records, they don't see a future with a child and to know now what that is, I'm like, God, I wish I met her eight years ago. I wish I could have done it, but I didn't feel like I could because it's, of course, other moms up here, there's gotta be one to choose from. Wearing shamelessly is what I'm gonna take away from this panel and that is what it takes to build a world where you don't have to fear becoming a parent and just living whatever life you wanna live and fear that that's going to ruin your career and I know that I was told that it would, I don't know about everybody else but I definitely got that message loud and clear.  Fantastic. All right, I think, I don't know.


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Welcome back to my channel. It's your girl Coco styles and in today's video.  So I'm just gonna jump right into the video and don't waste any time I do have a bonus tip for you at the end. That's really really important So if you stay tuned to the end, you'll get that juice from this whole level up tip Tips that I have so the first thing I'm gonna say is I am like I said, I am looking at my laptop Because I did jot some things down that I did not want to Forget to tell you guys so my first tip is get rid of any negative thoughts that you have in your mind about yourself Okay, some of us may be at a certain age and we kind of feel like we kind of missed the buck on either going to school Or getting a great job. I don't know whatever it is.  Don't let it don't let it hold you back I am a firm believer of things that happen to you happen to you for a reason It is to shape you to who you are today. So anything in the past that happened. Let it go Yesterday was the past whatever happened yesterday. Let it go the only way for you to move forward and be the best version of you Is to let things go in the past, you know, sometimes we hold on to things We bury it from years ago and we kind of forget about it But we also need to address those too before we actually become the best version of ourselves So that's my tip number one get rid of any negative thoughts that you have about yourself in your mind tip number two Reading I love to read any book that I feel like that will help me that self-help books It can be manifestation books. It can just be changing your mind. It can be books about God, whatever Reading reading reading reading will help you clear your mind.  That's gonna You know make you become a better version of yourself So that's tip number two reading reading reading reading reading self-help books. They will really help you And I have a couple that I can actually recommend and I'm gonna put them in the description box because I love these books I sometimes read them more than once to which is so crazy But I am gonna link those in the bottom for you guys to take a look at and purchase those So tip number three therapy Ah Therapy therapy therapy a lot of people do not like to go to see a therapist I don't know why but I feel like you know a lot of people go to church and stuff like that But sometimes that doesn't really always help you I don't know talking to a physical person Could actually help you heal from things that happened to you as a child again a lot of us grew up in single-family homes and you may not have been able to deal with what happened to you as a child or Just dealing with the fact that you either watch your mom be a single mom or your dad be a single dad and talking to somebody can actually heal Some of those past hurts and stuff So number three is going to see a therapist and getting through those problems and healing Healing yourself within because you can look good on the outside, but if you're not good within None of this is gonna even matter So that's tip number three tip number four would be Meditate okay Meditate go to church pray Journal all those things all those things are so positive for yourself at the end of the night I try my best to write five things that I am grateful for okay. I don't care what it is I'm grateful for waking up today. I'm grateful that I was able to walk down the stairs today I'm grateful that I was able to turn on my computer and work my job. I'm grateful for the Sun today I'm grateful that I have food just be grateful for the things that you have because listen There are so many people out there that do not have Anything be grateful for what you have gratitude is everything Okay, so that's tip number four, you know, you want to like I said you want to center yourself and be Just be at peace you want to just be at peace.   So to me, I only get one body Let me take care of it the best that I can and if that means taking some stuff out of my diet I'll do that. I want to live. Okay, so I'm not saying become a vegan Like your girl, but what I am saying is just kind of eat things in moderation Be mindful of the sugars that you're eating be mindful of the salt that you're intaking Be mindful of how much alcohol you drink if you smoke be mindful of that You know, all these things can just affect your body just all together, you know, and we're not getting any younger So the more you take care of the body that you've been given I'm sure the Lord will bless you, honey He will bless you So tip number six is Exercise now, I'm not gonna lie guys. I do not go to the gym every day Now ever since corona has been out here in these streets I have been just like kind of haven't been at the gym however, I have been doing Pilates and It's not the most strenuous Exercise, but it's something to do. I go to the park sometimes and I walk I am not really a big nature girl So when I see bugs and rabbits and stuff running loose is a bit much for me However, walking, you know around the neighborhood and stuff like that It'll make you feel a little bit better that you did something for that day Kind of getting out of the rut of your normal every day just going to work and just coming home and stuff So working out is also another key in your level up journey So that is tip number six tip number seven is your overall health Stay up to date on your for women your GYN visits your dentist visits and Your PCP visits, okay, and if you're in your 40s, make sure you're getting your mammograms Okay, I know what's scary to go. You know, nobody wants to go It's very scary to go to smashing your breasts and stuff. Nobody want to deal with that But it's important. It's important for you guys to take care of yourself and know what's going on with your body It's nothing worse than not knowing what's going on with your body I know a lot of people that do not go to the doctor and I just for the life of me I don't know why but I I truly believe that it's a fear of You know finding something out that you may not want to find out You know, but you will be at ease once you know your status. What's going on with your health? Trust me, you will be at ease So to me, that's a part of leveling up staying on top of your health is Numero, no, okay, because if you're not healthy, guess what you ain't gonna make it to your next the next step of your level up journey Okay, guys So tip number let me see seven That's so tip number eight resting resting resting resting, okay All right guys A lot of us have day jobs a lot of us do YouTube as a full-time job Okay, and I know you guys have to create content and stuff every single day to make sure that you know You're you're getting your stuff out there, but when your body is telling you to rest Please rest. You don't want to faint out there in these streets You don't want to faint of being dehydrated.  You don't want to take like What do you call those things like? What is that thing that people take that they put they mix it with drinks? Um red boom You don't want to take that stuff. I don't feel like that stuff make your heart start racing and stuff But anyway, just like just rest rest your body I know you people have businesses that they're trying to do and stuff like that But I do feel like resting your body when it calls for it It's a must you don't want to wake up and being all tired like I know a tad in the face Stuff like that. So resting your body is a number one key to me Also when it comes to leveling up because if you don't feel good You know that that plays a major role in it. You're gonna walk around like and sluggish and stuff So resting is very very important So tip number. I think that's number eight. I don't know. I'm gonna I'm gonna link. I'm gonna put everything there Your image, okay? So image is fun. You can dress nice. You can do your hair You can do your makeup and stuff like that. However, I will not tell you to go out there and buy All designer bags or designer clothes. I will not say that but I will say this Present yourself like you want to be addressed. Okay, so don't go outside with a head scarf Don't go outside with slippers on don't go outside with pajamas on those things need to stay in your house Okay, I'm not saying you need to be dolled up every single day But be presentable look clean iron your clothes all these little small things that you can incorporate today Do it, you know for the young ones, you know When you start changing your friends may think there's something wrong with you because you're not dressing like them anymore And that's okay. That's okay. That's okay. Be your own person So your image is key and I want to actually touch on that a little bit further So a lot of us have social media and have regular jobs out here So you have to be mindful of what you're putting out there into the internet world because once is out there is going forever Okay, there are companies that do Google you to see what you're like online and they will not hire you Because of that. I've seen it happen.  Don't just don't do certain things that you don't want your employer to have a problem with Okay So the next tip is we're gonna talk about socially now. I consider myself an introvert I do I Do however when I do get to talk to a person.  Okay Also, those same friends may not be happy for you changing. They may start saying stuff Like I said, why are you dressing like that? Why are you reading those type of books? The naysayers you have to let them go and it's okay. Even though you knew them since she was two years old, honey It's fine. Let them go. You you will find new people in your life that Will fit where you're trying to go So sometimes let let them go let go of jealous jealous friends Let go friends who always compare themselves to you like those are not healthy traits to have in your circle when you're trying to level up your life Okay, so tip number I think that's nine There's nine Surround yourself with like-minded people. So again, if you find yourself not connecting with friends that you have since you were a child It's just time to just Find other people that you can kind of grow with okay, or even learn from So if that means just placing yourself in different Environments, then that's just what you have to do. So place yourself with like-minded people The next tip is can kind of actually go with the last one frequent new places, okay? So whatever city that you live in, maybe you want to travel to another state or out of the country, you know Place yourself in new environments and learn new things different cultures and stuff. I'm from New York City. So I am used to Multiple cultures being around so when I move to my new state You know, I made sure that I was around a mix of people because that's what I'm used to I can't just be around One race of people. It's just not gonna work for me. I need to be around a mix of people I need to hear Spanish music. I need to hear Indian music. I need to hear reggae. I need to hear all of this stuff Okay, so, you know, even when you're traveling when you're traveling to other countries and stuff like that You end up you learn about different cultures. It's a beautiful thing Honestly, you know how people live and it also it also makes you feel a lot It makes you feel really really grateful for what you have in your country because some of these countries are very very poor And it'll just make you think about what you have as an individual and be grateful for what you have All right So and then the the tip number I think that's number nine That's not number nine. That's number 14 number 14 Making new friends. So in your travels You being in new environments and frequenting new places and stuff. You're gonna meet new people Okay of different races different cultures and stuff like that Be open to it. Always be open to meeting new people. I will tell you like I said working in New York City I've always had All types of friends from indian to asian. I don't care who it was Those are my those are my my peoples. Okay And it's just what it was. I didn't care what skin color they was. I didn't care what their background was Those are my friends at work, you know Going to lunch with them stuff like that So meet new friends, you know people who are again Further in life than you because you can learn from them. Okay You don't want to always be the smartest person in the room all the time because I kind of feel like it stunts your growth So placing yourself around people who are above you that'll definitely help you And actually this is tip number 15 a juicy tip. Okay dating Level up in your dating life. Okay I will say this Sometimes you have to take a break from dating if you find yourself keep meeting the same type of men all the time Okay, different body Same type of man. You're doing something wrong. Okay, so With that, I would say take a break from it reevaluate. What are you doing wrong or what what aren't you doing? Right, you know and just try new things date other Date other races of men, you know, you never know who you're going to end up with I would never say stick to your own kind.   So level up your dating life date men who are at minimum On your level, okay At minimum because if you don't you're going to feel like you're carrying the relationship You're going to feel like It's almost like dating a beta male.   Also, that's also a part of this whole level up journey and for those of you guys who stayed to the end and my final final final tip is to drum roll Most importantly keep your level up to yourself Okay, I made the mistake of trying to You know bring some friends along with me and it just didn't work out I just kind of felt like I was being kind of pushy with them Just stuff that I was learning and I'm just like, you know try this try this and It just didn't go too well, you know So I just kind of fell back on that so to me keep it to yourself Especially if you have not reached your goals and where you're trying to be keep it to yourself They'll see you at the top. Okay So that's my final tip guys if you guys stayed to the end of this video Let me know if you did comment in the comment box We see you coco and I thank you for joining me today and I see you in the next one. Bye


Well, thank you, Francis. My comments are going to be extremely brief. I recognize we've gone a little over, but we also didn't want to hold back, especially the last few speakers, because there was a lot of good things to hear. I do have to admit that watching Francis do those fancy animations brings back such good memories for me. I remember when I taught him his first animation and PowerPoint, and he's just grown up so much since then. I'm just so proud. For those who are interested who want to know, by the way, I want to personally thank the speakers. I knew you were going to hit home runs all day, and indeed you did. So thank you so much. I thank the audience for your indulgence. We did go a little long. I do want to let you know that all of these talks have been videotaped, and within about a week or two will be put up on the Genome TV channel of YouTube. And they're full glory. And so any of your colleagues who could make it, if you missed any of them or you want to watch any of it again, feel free. You can easily get to that by just going to genome.gov black backslash on Genome TV. So with that, I will thank you, and we'll see you probably 10 years from now. We'll celebrate again. Good night.


Hi there, before I get started, I have to attribute the idea for this video to...someone else! I can't remember who mentioned it because I forgot to write it down. So, thanks to that particular person. I'm gonna presume you know who you are. Anyway, the idea was to take a look at some SNES games that took some real chances and pushed the boundaries of whatever particular genre. And a great example of what I'm mean, just to start out with here is a game called Desaemon, a shoot-em-up that never left Japan. The developer Athena wasn't satisfied with just a run-in-the-mill vertical shoot-em-up though.  It's kind of like the NES Excitebike track editor, but with even more customizable options. You can even compose your own music for God's sake. That's insane. Yeah, this game isn't Japanese, but there isn't really that much text, so it's reasonably English friendly, although it may take a while to really be able to take advantage of this game's capabilities. An extra bonus is that Desaemon uses the SNES mouse as well. So yeah, even if you don't care for shoot-em-ups, Desaemon is definitely worth a look, just for the creator modes, which are way ahead of their time. Of course, when talking about games that defy genres, I have to mention the upcoming Star Fox 2, which will finally be officially released by Nintendo as part of the SNES Classic Edition. This game combines the rail shooter gameplay of the first Star Fox with a strategic element made present in this overhead map that you can roam around freely. You can pick and prioritize where you'd like to go based on the kind of attacks Andross is sending at you from across the map, and even then, some of the areas you visit are more than just eliminating enemies. In other words, it's a bit like Star Fox Command for DS. Star Fox 2 is an interesting blend of fast-paced, good old-fashioned, make-stuff-go-boom kind of gameplay, combined with strategy and puzzle solving. If you're ever jonesing for something unique when it comes to 16-bit games, you can't go wrong with games that are developed by Human Entertainment.   So this is like a survival adventure platformer with a bit of flexibility since there's also four characters to play as, and you can take many different paths that all start in different locations. There's not really another Super Nintendo game out there that's quite like S.O.S. When you think about games that are hard to place a single genre on, of course one of the first games you'll think of is Actraiser, a cleverly designed hybrid between action platforming and a civilization development simulation. What makes Actraiser so good though isn't just the novelty of throwing these two ideas together in the same game, it's how the game is paced. The platforming is challenging without being unfair, featuring some interesting boss fights. But in between each stage you have to grow and develop a civilization from high above on your god cloud. You listen to your people on how to grow their culture and expand their territory and rid the land of demons in this shoot-em-up kind of mode. Again, this is another case of a game where there's just nothing else like it, and it's too bad the sequel didn't follow its lead. Beat-em-up mechanics have been packaged in a number of different contexts in the 16-bit era, and I guess that shouldn't be surprising considering there's only so much you can do with walking to the right and beating up hopeless flunkies. But developers like Capcom took the genre in a little bit of a different direction, like their two arcade ports, King of Dragons, and Night of the Round. The latter features a leveling system that works in a similar way to an adventure-style game like Illusion of Gaia, defeat all the enemies in the area and gear eventually awarded with an armor upgrade. There's also a blocking technique here that plays like something out of a one-on-one fighting game. King of Dragons also has a leveling system predicated on how many points you accumulate, but in this case, experience upgrades your weapon and your health meter. Both of these games are fantastic side-scrolling beat-em-ups that try something a little different for the genre. On the other hand, there's a game like Dragon View that's more of a traditional RPG that fits real-time beat-em-up mechanics into its battle system. There's all the usual RPG stuff like exploration, random battles, equipable weapons and armor, dungeons to explore, and a magic system, but the combat is done in a beat-em-up style that feels a bit like a game like Night of the Round. So yeah, if you want an RPG, but you're tired of simply leaning on the A button for battles, you might want to try Dragon View. If you want a beat-em-up that goes a little further out there, you have to turn to a Japan-only Super Famicom release, Shinra Ketsu Koha, Kunio Tashinobanka. This is actually the second Kunio-kun Super Famicom game, but it's the most ambitious of the two because it's very story-driven with a lot of dialogue in addition to these motorcycle stages that provide a change of pace. The main genre-defying element here, though, is just how heavy on the story this game is, and yes, there is an English translation out there that you can find on romhacking.net. It's considered a prequel to River City Ransom on NES, and it's two-player compatible, but the main thing here is how the story is told, with two friends out to clear their names after being framed. Most beat-em-ups of this era have a kind of generic story, but this one at least tries a different approach in terms of presentation. Let's stick with Super Famicom games that stayed in Japan and finish off with a really weird one, Wonder Project J, that came from the same developers that created Evo Search for Eden, and if you remember how odd that game was, that should give you a hint about this one. The premise is pretty much like the story of Pinocchio. You have to teach this robot kid how to be more human, controlling 16 different stats like aggression, intelligence, and sensitivity.  You go around completing tasks and learning skills, you praise him when he does something right, and admonish him when he gets something wrong. This is such a strange game that I'm not even sure what genre this would fit under. I see it described as a quote-unquote raising sim, but for me that just brings about even more questions. This is an extremely well-made game though. The boy is its own entity entirely, and it's pretty challenging to get him to progress in the right manner and equally frustrating when he refuses, like when he tries to eat the cat. The sprite work here is also incredible, as you can see. So yeah, if you're looking for a game that defies pretty much all genres, check out Wonder Project J. There's an English patch you can use on romhacking.net. All right, I want to thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


this is my fourth tutorial and today we will be solving some problems involving coefficient of determination and also you know model fitting with auto correlated errors. So, here is the first problem. The problem says that your friend says he has fitted a plane to 33 observations on x 1, x 2 and y and his overall regression is just significant at 0.05 level of significance. That means, your friend has fitted a multiple linear regression model with two regressors x 1 and x 2 and one response variable and his test is significant. The fitted model is significant at 5 percent level of significance. Now, you ask him for his r square value that is the coefficient of determination, but he does not know.  So, what are the information given to you is that he has fitted multiple linear regression model with two regressors x 1 and x 2 and his fit is significant at 0.05 level, but he does not know the r square value where r square is the coefficient of determination and it is sort of measured the proportion of variability that is explained by the model. Now, you have to work out this r square value from whatever he has told to you. So, what you know is that your friend has fitted a model like this y equal to beta naught plus beta 1 x 1 plus beta 2 x 2 plus epsilon and this model has been fitted for n equal to 33 observations. So, from this observations I mean from this of information what you can do is that you can construct an overtable for this one. So, here is the an overtable source sum of square degree of freedom and m s and the f statistic. So, the total degree of freedom is 32 because there are only 33 observations and then the regression degree of freedom is 2 because there are three parameters and the residual degree of freedom is 30 and of course, your friend has you know s s regression, s s residual, s s residual and s s total and hence the m s regression, m s residual and f value. So, what you know is that this f is significant. So, this f follows f distribution with the degree of freedom 230 and his test is just significant. So, that means, the observed f value is just greater than or equal to the f value 0.05 at the level of at with degree of freedom 230 which is equal to 3.32. So, you can assume that the observed f value is close to 3.32 and from here you have to compute the r square value.  But, what you know is that you know f which is equal to m s regression by m s residual.  So, this is the problem, well we will see whether this r square can be written in terms of f.  And this one I want to express this one in terms of f. So, this I can write as s s regression by m s residual. So, I will divide both the numerator and denominator by m s residual.  So, this one is equal to s s regression can be written as v 1 m s regression by m s residual.   Where residual has degree of freedom v 2. So, this one is equal to now I can write.   So, this one can be written as v 1 f by v 1 f and now we can compute r square. So, this is how we know we can express r square in terms of f. So, we know that f is close to 3.32 and we know that our v 1 v 1 is the regression degree of freedom that is equal to 2 in our case and v 2 which is the residual degree of freedom that is equal to 30. So, r square can be now written as 2 in the into 3.32 by 2 into 3.32 plus 30. So, which is equal to 0.1812 that means you know what is r square. R square is the proportion of variability in y about mean that is explained by the model. So, you can see here only 80 percent of total variability has been explained by the model. So, r square is this means only 80 percent of total variability has been explained by the model. So, you can see that from this example r square is a very good parameter to measure how good the fit is. See the test is significant. So, the model is significant according to the global f test, but only 18 percent of the total variability has been explained by the model which is quite low. So, we will consider another problem of similar type. So, this problem says that you are given a regression print out that shows a planar fit to x 1, x 2, x 3, x 4 and x 5 plus intercept of course, obtained from a set of 50 observations. The overall f for regression is 10 times as big as the 5 percent upper tail f percentage point. So, you have to compute how big is r square. Well, the here you are considering a model involving 5 regressors. So, y is equal to beta naught plus beta 1 x 1 plus beta 2 x 2 plus beta 5 x 5 plus epsilon. And this model is fitted on 50 observations. So, we can quickly have an invertible just. So, total degree of freedom just the degree of freedom is important. Total degree of freedom is of course 49 and regression degree of freedom is there are 1, 2, 3 total 6 parameters. So, the regression degree of freedom is 5 and the residual degree of freedom is then 44. Well, so what we know is that we know that my v 1 is equal to 5 here, v 2 is equal to 44. And it says that the observed f value is 10 times the tabulated f value. So, for this test here f has degree of freedom f 5, 44 and you have to find the tabulated value for this one at 0.05 and you can check that this value is equal to 2.43. So, what were given is that your observed f value is 10 times bigger than this one. So, your observed f value is then is equal to 10 times of this tabulated f value that is 2.43. So, which is equal to 24 point and this is and you know v 1, v 2 you know f. So, you can compute r square now. So, problem is that how big is r square.   So, 5 into 24.3 plus v 2 is that is the residual degree of freedom that is 44. So, here 73, 43. That means, you have to find the tabulated 73 percent of the total variability in the response variable has been explained by the fitted model which is quite good. So, next we will be considering one problem from regression models with auto correlated errors. So, here is the problem considered the simple linear regression model y t equal to beta naught plus beta 1 x t plus epsilon t where the errors are generated by second order autoregressive process. So, I hope that you can recall. So, here you can see this observations are collected sequentially in time. So, these are time series data basically that is why it is denoted by t here and in case of time series data we know that this epsilon t the error term they are not independent. They are basically correlated and here it is given that the errors are second order errors are having second order autoregressive relation. So, epsilon t is equal to rho 1 epsilon t minus 1 plus rho 2 epsilon t minus 2 plus z t. So, this z t is independent with mean 0 and variance sigma z square. Here rho 1 and rho 2 are called auto correlation parameters. So, the problem is that you know you have to discuss how Cochrane or cut iterative process could be used in this situation. If you can recall we talked about how to fit the regression parameters beta naught and beta 1 in case of first order autoregressive error. So, here instead of first order autoregressive error we have second order autoregressive error. So, this is quite straight forward problem. So it says that what transformation would be used on the variables y t and x t and y t and how would you estimate the parameters rho 1 and rho 2. So, this is the problem how do you estimate this parameter beta naught and beta 1 hat beta 1 and beta naught in the presence of second order autoregressive error. So, let me start the solution for this problem. So, you need to fit this model y t is equal to beta naught plus beta 1 x t plus epsilon t, where this epsilon t is equal to rho 1. This is second order autoregressive epsilon t minus 1 plus rho 2 epsilon t minus 2 plus z t and this z t follows normal distribution with mean 0 and variance sigma t. So, this z square. So, usually you know when you fit a simple linear regression model we assume that epsilon t follows normal distribution with 0 mean and constant variance and they are also independent. So, if this is true then we can estimate beta naught and beta 1 using the ordinary least square technique, but here it is given that this error term they are not independent they are correlated and they follow the second order autoregressive process. So, in this situation how to fit this model. So, what you do is that we transform this response variable y t to y t dashed which is equal to y t minus rho 1 y t minus 1 minus rho 2 y t minus 2. So, this is equal to this is this is equal to this is this is equal to this.  So, you understood. So, this is my y t this is rho 1 y t minus 1 and then rho 2 y t minus 2.  And this one is equal to z t. So, this term is equal to z t. So, I can rewrite this one as say beta naught dashed plus beta 1 call this as x t prime. So, what you do is you transform y t to y t prime and similarly x t to x t prime. So, this is my x t prime plus z t. So, now in this transform model. So, we have transformed y t to y t prime where y t prime is given here. Similarly, we have transformed x t to x t prime and y t prime is given here. As a consequence the error term has been transform to z t. This z t is now independent. Now, z t are independent. So, and also we know that z t follows normal 0 sigma z square. So, the advantage of this one is that now we have a model like y t prime equal to beta naught dashed plus beta 1 x t prime plus z t. And here the error term is error term is x t prime plus normal distribution with mean 0 and variance sigma square and they are also independent. So, now you are in a position to apply your ordinary least square technique to estimate the regression coefficients beta naught prime and beta 1. But, the problem is that you know this y t you see here this y t prime that involves rho 1 and rho 2. Similarly, x t prime involves rho 1 and rho 2. So, we cannot use this transformation unless we know the value of rho 1 and rho 2. So, y t prime and x t prime cannot be used directly as y t prime which is equal to y t minus rho 1 y t minus 1 minus rho 2 y t minus 2 and x t prime which is equal to x t minus rho 1 x t minus 1 minus rho 2 x t minus 2 and x t prime which is equal to x t minus rho 1 x t minus 1 minus rho 2 x t minus 2 are x t prime minus rho 2 x t prime minus rho 2 x function of unknown parameters rho 1 and rho 2. So, unless you know see you are given the data x x t and y t you do not know rho 1 rho 2 unless you do not unless you know the value of rho 1 rho 2 how do you use this transformation. So, we need to estimate them and we know that these are that autocorrelation parameter what is this rho 1 and rho 2 are autocorrelation parameter for this second order autoregressive process rho 1 epsilon t minus 1 plus rho 2 epsilon rho 1 epsilon t minus 1 plus rho 2 epsilon t minus 2 plus z t. So, we need to estimate this rho 1 and rho 2. So, how to do that you know that the E t the observed value of E t epsilon t are t th residual E t. So, what we do is that we fit this model y t equal to beta naught plus beta 1 x t plus epsilon t using ordinary least square technique. And obtain the residual E i. So, we will fit this model we do not ignoring the fact that they are autocorrelated. So, you fit this model and once you have the fitted model you can compute the residuals and then you regress E i on E i minus 1 and then you can compute and E i minus 2 that is you fit a model like E i is equal to rho 1 E i minus 1 plus rho 2 E i minus 2 plus some error z t. So, you know epsilon i's. So, you can fit this model epsilon i's. So, you can fit this model right. So, this is nothing but multiple linear regression model with 2 regressors. So, how do you estimate the parameter rho 1 and rho 2 you compute the least square function s rho 1 rho 2 which is equal to E i minus rho 1 E i minus 1 minus rho 2 E i minus 2 and you minimize this. So, you estimate rho 1 and rho 2 in such a way that this least square function is minimized. And what you do is that you just differentiate this s with respect to rho 1 that equal to 0 will give you one normal equation. And similarly partial derivative of s with respect to rho 2 is equal to 0 this will give you another normal equations let me write down those things. So, E i minus rho 1 E i minus 1 rho 2 E i minus 2 into E i minus 1 this is equal to 0 this is the first normal equation. So, and the second normal equation is E i minus rho 1 E i minus 1 minus rho 2 E i minus 2 into E i minus 2 equal to 0. So, you have 2 normal equations and 2 unknown. So, you can estimate you can find rho 1 and rho 2 call them rho 1 hat and rho 2 hat these are the least square estimate of rho 1 and rho 2. So, once you have this estimated values now you can use this rho 1 hat and rho 2 hat to get the transform values y t prime is equal to y t minus rho 1 hat y t minus 1 minus rho 2 hat y t minus 2. And similarly you get x t prime which is equal to x t minus rho 1 hat x t minus 1 minus rho 2 hat x t minus 2. So, now you can write obtain y t prime and x t prime. So, these are the transform data and now you are in position to apply ordinary least square to the transform data y t prime equal to beta naught prime plus beta 1 x t prime plus z t and here for the transform data you know this z t the error term on transform data this follows normal 0 sigma z square. So, normal with mean 0 and constant variance sigma z square and they are independent. So, you are in position to apply ordinary least square technique and you apply ordinary least square technique here to get the estimated value and the final fitted model is y t prime hat is equal to beta naught prime hat plus beta 1 hat x t. So, this is how we can fit the model in the presence of second order autoregressive error. So, this is called Cochrane Orcut procedure and in a module called regression models with auto correlated errors we talked about the same technique for auto for autoregressive errors with I mean first order autoregressive order. We solve the same problem when there exist a first order autoregressive error and just now we solved for second order autoregressive error. So, let me consider one more problem this is also you know to check whether there exist lag 1 autocorrelation or serial correlation. It says that the following 24 residuals. So, these are the residuals from a straight line fit are equally spaced in time and this is the first order autoregressive error are given in time sequential order. That means, this residuals are obtained from time series data and they are equally spaced I mean the times are equally spaced. So, the question is is there any evidence of lag 1 serial correlation for this 24 residuals. So, it says that you use a two sided test at level alpha equal to 0.05. So, you are given E i for i equal to 1 to 24 and how do you test that there exist lag 1 serial correlation or not. We know that for testing lag 1 serial correlation we need to go for Darby Watson test. So, what we will do is that. So, what is lag 1 correlation is that the correlation between epsilon u and epsilon u plus 1 this correlation is equal to rho which is not equal to 0 if there exist lag 1 autocorrelation. So, what you have to test is that. So, here you can see the errors are one step apart. So, we need to test that H naught rho equal to 0 against the H 1 that rho is not equal to 0. So, H naught says that there is no lag 1 autocorrelation in the residuals. H naught says that and H 1 says there exist lag 1 autocorrelation. So, what we do is that we compute Darby Watson test statistic. What is that? That is D is equal to 0 and equal to sum over E u minus E u minus 1 square u is from 2 to 24 here by E u square for u equal to 1 to 24 and that you can check that you are given E i's right. You are given E u for u equal to 1 to 24. So, we can compute this one this is 2225 by 834 which is equal to 2.67. So, my D is 2.67 and we know that this D is the range of D is from 0 to 4 and it is symmetric about 2. We compute 4 minus D also 4 minus D is equal to 1.33 and what you do is that for testing this two sided alternative we compare this D value compare with D L and D u and this value we will get from the D table. So, for alpha equal to 0.025 because it is two sided test that is why I am taking for alpha equal to 0.025, n equal to 24 and k equal to 1 because it is a straight line fit. So, there is only one regressor in the model that is why k is equal to 1. You can check that your D L and D u is equal to 1.16 and 1.33. Now, we need to think about the critical values for this one. So, what we have is that we have we know that my D is equal to 2.67, my 4 minus D is equal to 1.33 and my D L and D u is equal to 1.16, 1.33. So, if D is less than D L or 4 minus D is equal to 4 minus D is equal less than D L you reject H naught. That means, if the Darby Watson test statistic is small then you reject H naught. Rejecting H naught means there is no autocorrelation. Let us see what is this D value? D is 2.67 which is not equal to D L and similarly, 4 minus D which is equal to 1.33 which is not strictly sorry which is again not less than D L value which is 1.66. So, here D value is large. So, we reject H naught. Rejecting H naught means well so D is not true. So, this is not true. So, we are not going to reject H naught. We accept H naught because as my D which is equal to 2.67 which is not equal to D L which is not less than equal to 1.16. So, this is not true. So, I will accept H naught. So, accepting H naught means no there is no autocorrelation. So, this is not true. So, I accept H naught there is no lag 1 autocorrelation or serial correlation. So, this is the first one and also you can do what you can do is that you check with this one if of course, you will get the same result if D is greater than D U and 4 minus D is greater than D U then it says that you accept H naught which is equal to rho is equal to 0. So, this is the test in terms of D U value D upper values. So, D is greater than D U yes D is 2.67 which is greater than D U 1.33 and also my 4 minus D which is equal to 1.33 is greater than or equal to D U that is 1.33. So, both are true. So, we accept H naught. Accepting H naught means there is no lag 1 autocorrelation or serial correlation in the data. So, we accept H naught means there is no lag 1 autocorrelation or serial correlation in the data. So, we accept H naught means there is no lag 1 auto correlation. Here we have used Darby Watson test to test whether there exist serial autocorrelation lag 1 autocorrelation or not. So, intuitively you know when the D value that is the Darby Watson test statistic whether when that is small that means there exist autocorrelation. And here you can see that the D value is not smaller than the D lower value that is why finally, the conclusion is that there is no lag 1 autocorrelation in the data. So, we talked about this problem and still we have some time. So, we can sort of solve this problem recall the parameter estimation technique in case of in the existence of first order autoregressive errors. So, this is what the Cochrane Orcote method you know and this says that you know how to estimate this parameter beta naught and beta 1 when the data is not in the data there exist first order autocorrelation or among the errors well and this epsilon t they are not independent 0 sigma square they are having the first order autoregressive error. And, what we did there is that we transform y t to y t prime which is equal to y t minus rho y t minus 1 and we can finally, check you can finally, check that this y t prime is equal to beta naught prime plus beta 1 x t prime plus z t and here z t is equal to epsilon t minus rho epsilon t minus 1 and we know that this z t this transform error they are independent and that is why you know you can use ordinary least square technique to this transform data but the problem again is that you know this x t prime and y t prime they involve some unknown parameter rho and we talked about how to estimate those parameters. Those rho I mean the similar technique I mean just know repeating the things here. So, you feed the model using the ordinary least square technique forget ignore the thing that assumption is not true here and fitting the ordinary least square technique you will get the residuals E i's and then you regress E i on E i minus 1 right. You feed this model that is E i is equal to rho E i minus 1 plus z t and the least square estimate of rho is this one you can check that you know you have to estimate rho in such a way that this is minimum. So, the rho value is equal to this and using this rho now you can transform the data y t to y t prime similarly x t to x t prime and now you know that this transform data or the transform model has error z t which is normal 0 sigma square and they are independent. So, you can apply ordinary least square technique to this transform data and you can happily you know estimate beta naught hat and beta 1 hat. So, this is sort of just you know we solve the same problem for second order autodegressive error today. Well, so that is all for today again in the next tutorial class we will be solving some randomly selected problems. Thank you very much.