Never surrender. We'll do this. You know I do. I've got I've got OBS. We'll make this happen now. I want chocolate I'm gonna be right back Okay, all right, and I'm streaming so we'll see if this works Or if it kicks me out again, okay Still says the streams offline so far Okay Sit here and scratch my beard and contemplation. It's working. Yeah Alrighty then All right, well that was interesting. So those of you guys are watching the published video. I Just tried like a hundred different times for the past 45 minutes to get this stream live.  What'd I just say? Thank you. That's that's my frustrated hair Yeah, I was gonna say you look like you just stepped out of a lightning storm, but Good job All right, so let's see if we get any people here to say hello Yeah, I guess we kind of casually talk until someone comes here and links their channel. Yeah, so I got my chocolate So I'm good. So for now, we'll just review the freedom channel Let's do it. Okay You want me to honestly do that or it's we're live on the freedom channel No, we're good. Okay. Great. Freedom channel is wonderful guys It is Above So anyways guys, we have a few people with us today. We have Steven who is currently not Running a YouTube channel, but he will be soon and then we have mr. Derpy Thunder who is on YouTube and making YouTube videos So I'll let you guys introduce yourself to the know people watching so when this publishes later Yeah, I make a video like once a week or so Whenever I feel like I Really should make more videos Your turn Steven I currently do not make many videos, but I love YouTube and I'm very passionate about YouTube and I love Well watching YouTube, so I'm here YouTube it's just kind of the theme of the day, I suppose It is so there's three people watching. I feel like it's you me Yep, yep, I think so Sounds about right. Let me make sure this is public We have this issue before too where it went live and it only went live for unlisted people and it's like hello Right I don't think we have that option because this is YouTube gaming. I think once you click stream. It's it's going going gone Can you guys hear me eating chocolate? Oh, yeah, okay every single lick Okay, so here. Let's get this party started. Here's our first channel review. Oh Right, you can't send links. Yeah, you have to do it over Skype There we go. All right, so we'll just uh, oh, okay. I see someone We got there you go. Alrighty then Wonderful. Hello and welcome to the first five awkward minutes of us sitting here eating chocolate waiting for people to come show up and say hello Oh Okay, so question are we equal in audio because I can't really review since we're live or else We'll get an awesome endless loop of audio fun. I guess you guys can check I Seems like it you can hear us both. Okay. Yeah, I mean I can hear you guys both just fine I might I might be a bit quiet, but that's always me. So what about Steven? Let me just turn myself Normally, I'm very loud All right, cool. Well, we got people so hello and welcome to the freedom Monday critiques Basically what we do you submit your video title in the comments down below or on the right in this case And we will review your channel live on this and let you know what we think what things you can improve on And what we like what you're currently doing, but things currently do it that we like those words work So yes, anyways guys, let's give us some titles in the chat so we can and please do not spam chat That will actually make it less likely for us to pick you If you use lots of emoticons and whatnot, we will probably skip over you intentionally Possibly those are just two emoticons Technically, well, yeah, technically. Okay. Yeah, fair enough. No way. No, they're different. They're pointing in different angles There's three.  All right. So we got one real quick So I'm going to send that in chat for you guys Cool, let's watch it and then as you guys are booting that up I'm going to put you in the description so you guys can watch it with this a KB viewers Okay, this is bug splat. I'm already liking is very short under one minute even channel trailer. So oh Whoops. Okay, so nice bug splat And there is the link so anyone wants to watch this with us feel free it is now in there You might have to refresh the stream, but it's there. I promise. Okay. Okay I do agree with Derpy though I like channel trailers that are actually under a minute long versus like ten minutes long is like as a trailer That intro is totally cyberlink power director the transition fade Have used that so many times Is this done in minecraft Got the yes minecraft minecraft pixel art You deserve a million subscribers for that Geez, oh my god Please tell me you didn't do this Can you imagine how long this would take nature documentary this is Well, the snake was a little random and the turtles kind of cool hot turtle It's kind of a weird transition there Okay, so are these All right, if you like minecraft speed art builds and wild animal videos, then you're in the right place Okay, so these are wild animals that he's recorded. It was not Steve Irwin Right, so that's a weird combo, but they're both cool I've never seen a wild snake that big Slither towards a camera a nature documentary speed minecraft build pixel art channel Yeah, this is really interesting. I thought the actual video footage was awesome I just yeah, I think it's I'm a little confused about what the actual channel is as of this point Yeah, it seems like just like my main critique the speed art is Incredible well, we haven't seen the speed art, but the finished products aren't incredible I Have zero clue how you managed to do that and I hope you haven't devoted like the last ten years of your life For this one video it's probably like one of those you know that you see those videos where people do the huge domino setups Yeah, it's like they just spend 20 years making one thing to showcase it and fuse at least if you sneeze your videos Not ruined in Minecraft But yeah, this is really cool. This is I'd love to see actually like a speed art thing I'm gonna check real quick biggest. I think critique would be the fact that The Organization of your channel like if you want to do those two things the Documentary nature stuff and speed art I'd recommend doing two different channels for that because someone who subscribes for Minecraft and they see a snake in the next video They might crap a little bit because they might be scared of snakes Very real phobia. Yeah. Oh and also looking at your videos like I love all of your speed art But I just realized that like 90% of your channel is a speed art and only some of it is the wild animals So you could always just kind of segregate that Wow, he did this in Xbox to you got even more brownie points with me It has like yeah, it has Xbox buttons. It's the Minecraft Xbox edition. Oh Wow an actual speed art video right now Yeah, I'm watching him build toad. Yeah, me too actually But yeah, I went for the Twilight Sparkle personally in Twilight Sparkle So I don't know about this song but on the channel trailer, I think that was copyrighted Song wasn't it? So that's something you need to look out for as well because with something of this quality Something that you spend this much time doing I'd hate for your video to get deleted because of copyrighted music So Since I mean he's got seven case subs the videos get decent views obviously there's a fan base for this I mean, come on. Why wouldn't there be these are awesome? But yeah, you definitely don't want to throw all that away by having music that you can't use. Yeah, definitely As a freedom partner you have access to like stuff like epidemic sound Which is you know free royalty free music Places where you could download music that is not copyrighted You can monetize that you can make money off it and there's no risk of it being deleted unless you leave freedom and then keep on using that music So there's zero hassle with it and it's safe. I use it personally. Oh my god, Bambi Kung-Fu pan for Hamtaro. Oh my god. I forgot this existed. That's a cartoon show, isn't it? Yep The actual art is amazing though like fantastic. Yeah Yeah, they're really impressed Yeah, cool stuff there Really not much more that we can say other than you're awesome Keep doing what you're doing except audio work with different types of music and Try and organize your channel. So it's more targeted So that way people who subscribe for one thing won't be disappointed if they see something else, right? Yep, I think pursue your passion. Obviously, it's the Minecraft stuff. So and that is amazing You should you're all right. Yeah, I was about to say like, you know Like draw me in Minecraft and you like make a huge Minecraft structure and you could like send them the world file or something Wait, that's Xbox. I don't know if you could do that in that. I'm still sure you could do something with it Probably not Yeah, make a video of it. Yeah speed art. Make a picture of me, Mike and Steven all in the world Writing a pony writing a pony. There you go. Put Steven on Twilight Sparkle It will it will make me happy. All right Doodle as the stream just started. Yes. This is our first critique actually so welcome to the stream and We're ready for a second one So anyone that wants to be featured leave a comment with your video title in the comments and we'll check it out The new one else want to pick other than I other than me other than Michael Sasty Mike me derpy plan should go for it. Okay. All right Inie-meenie mighty mo I'll just okay here. I'll kind of scroll along and then just blindly point at the screen. All right, not looking not looking tap Okay But I don't even Where's okay crap what happened, I don't know Okay, here. I've got I've got a channel. I'll send it to you. Okay. All right. Let's see what it is Okay, no, I still had okay. Hold on. Are you okay? No browser's breaking Happen to Skype there it is Go to that. All right what video though, I Don't know Let's find out guys me is not a all right video title.  Mr. Rimsio Possibly sounds. Yeah, mr. Rimsio. I mean I see a car right now in the channel trailer So GTA kind of seems like it sounds about right, right? There you go channel trailers subscribed. So I guess we'll let's watch that All right, let's watch it without Mike. Sorry Mike. Yeah, you're gonna have to do that I'm just gonna start playing you guys can talk. I'm trying to put his name in the description and the other one disappeared somehow So I screwed up what I do wrong other than everything to stream. Oh, no Is that copyright the channel trailer yeah, I'm looking at it right now I don't I think is it the actual GTA footage? Yeah, it's footage, but there's music in there Crank that down so we don't get copyright struck on here just in case That's awful when you finish your stream. It's like it wasn't my fault. I didn't mean to I like the pink car Yeah, so I'm gonna actually check out a video instead of the channel trailer I'm gonna do the last latest one black ops 3 1 verse 17 Okay, I like the editing of the trailer I'm not watching the trailer. So I am watching the trailer Mike Watch the trailer. I like the editing of it But but let's do the latest video Okay, all right now. We're I'm watching this one versus 17. Yeah, let's do it Oh First I think your audio and comparison to the music in the background might be a little bit low You want your voice to dominate over the game sounds and the music You want the music there to kind of like paste the video and keep it moving forward and keep it easy to watch So keep that in mind when you're checking out the levels. Holy crap Charge while 17, that was intense Another thing I noticed is like for gameplay videos, you normally want to start with the gameplay I kind of maybe give an intro as the game is starting Because if you spend like the first minute of the video explaining what you're gonna do a lot of times people come just for the Gameplay and they'll they'll quit out of the video or like a fun clip that happens Yeah one v. 17 so you can kind of have that to set the overall mood For the video, I mean I am curious to see how many kills you get overall here comparatively to how many deaths you get You're doing pretty good all things considered No Your audio quality doesn't sound bad Given that it's quiet if you cranked it up As long as it wasn't peaking I'm sure it would actually sound pretty good quality and it'll look pretty good quality and overall it would I'd almost say that the term I'm kind of looking at here is just normalize Yeah, I think the the audio gain you have it that is fine But I would just normalize it whatever editing software you're using. I Have no idea. I would guess premiere because that's kind of the popular one, isn't it?  I also have like hundreds of dollars of plugins for it But yeah, I The music is too loud though if you're saying that the volume of his microphones fine Yeah, I do like how you're consistently talking though rather than leaving a bunch of weird silent moments Because I think there's a lot of times like especially when you're playing against bots or any sort of gameplay video Your commentary kind of drips off and you just let the music take over and it's like well Why am I watching this person then so I do appreciate how you're consistently talking throughout it But definitely we want to hear your voice over the music now if you want to be Really professional and spend like hours of work on one video You can also have the music in there and dip the music down in volume every time you're talking and then dip it back up when you're not Yeah, so you can have periods of the music playing and then periods of you talking and have it alternate back and forth Yeah, I do that in the vlogs every day and that's very tedious Yeah, it's tedious, but it does pay off it makes the video sound and run very professional You have like a super amazing gameplay video.  It might be worth doing it for yeah Another good thing I like to point out normally when we have you know longer game videos I skim through it to get to different parts and I haven't actually even touched the skim button yet I've just been watching the whole thing. So like the idea is cool. It's keeping me watching I'm not jumping through the video to see what's going on With you know, I'm actually the end part of it the flamethrower. You just wrecked everybody Just let everyone on fire Yeah, you know like I actually watched 100% of the video and that doesn't happen a lot But we're watching gameplay stuff on here. So yeah props to you for keeping our attention through it Although this outro is a template it's kind of cool And the closing mother suckers is that what does that what just happened? I didn't hear it I just saw the graphics. I I wasn't listening Pretty sure I heard peace out mother suckers. Okay Nevertheless any closing remarks I Video quality is good audio quality sounds good just needs to be louder. I I Don't know. I mean really I don't know what is expected of Call of Duty videos these days So well, this is the first I've ever seen like this. I didn't even know you can customize I didn't even know you can play with bars Yeah, I normally just see people playing online and you know, they're just playing a game doing 360 So yeah Original and it's something new that I haven't seen before I'm not an avid Call of Duty viewer But we've been doing this for how many weeks and we've done plenty of Call of Duty channels And it's the first of its kind that I've seen so I Really appreciate the editing of the actual video because you like Time that down to cool clips throughout the scene I think it did help that you were facing bots that specific match But instead of leaving it as this longer video with a lot of like downtime It was like every couple seconds something happened. So that's kind of why we ended up watching the whole thing Yeah That was good. I'd say good job But the biggest thing is just make sure that we can hear you because your voice is important, especially if you're a commentator So You know make sure you're at a hundred percent in your music set like 20 percent Not not meaning you crank your gain up all the way, but uh Audio audio is hard. Yeah I fell into that trap with many of my videos when I first started and then I discovered what normalization and compression is and All of a sudden I was like wow People can hear me. You don't have to max out the volume I think a lot of it too is becoming like comfortable with your voice and stuff like that So, you know like you know what you're saying When you like watch it back. So you're hearing it, but keep in mind the person who's watching was not you recording it You weren't editing it. This is the first time they're hearing it. So it might be more difficult for them to pick up Yeah, I imagine grandma Ethel watching this She needs to be able to hear prominently what you're saying Yeah But yeah overall good job. Yeah. All right, cool Steven your turn pick a channel my turn to pick a channel already then um, if it's an anime channel, I'm gonna quit I'm trying not I saw a Pokemon thing come up and I'm wasn't I'm not gonna lie Immediately went to it. Hey, I'll do This is one that just stuck out to me Um Possibly because I'm a gamer and I used to play world of Warcraft So whenever I see the word aggro in any sort of capacity avoid the aggro Yeah, I've been out for seven years. So oh my let's not go there. This is not a support group meeting Hi, my name is Brennan. I am a world of Warcraft addict Draenor ruined the game. Thank you. All right, so let's go there. We're not gonna get into it right now Did you just hurt some feelings Probably YouTube 101 don't be negative if you don't have to you segregate your audience, right? all right, so The first thing I was about this channel is that the first the vid the first video I saw here was 12 minutes long And it would be kind of rich for game videos though Yeah, but it would be sort of nice if there was some sort of channel trailer I mean you have good subs going on If there was some sort of like smaller video that we could watch quick just to get an idea of your channel Um, they're all a little bit long. I see a Counter-Strike video randomly thrown in here already then and I'm watching a Krumpus ad I really do like the audio though, I will throw that out there now The first thing that's starting to annoy me is just the field of view at least on the first notice that Every single Minecraft person we've critiqued on freedom has had a really wide field of view really I thought that was a PvP thing. I didn't think that was something you did just normally. I don't know I think it's a thing. I Personally don't like it either, but I everyone I've watched does this yeah Yeah But I do think the piece of advice is normally when you're when you're doing any sort of gameplay video You want to focus in on what you want them to focus in on your viewers? Like the person we reviewed before he specifically chose just those exact clips where he knew something Happened so that we could focus in on it Versus like and that's kind of the same thing with a wide field of view or it's like if you narrow it down I feel like it helps us kind of streamline what we're looking at In any game Kind of skimming through this I do I again. I really like the audio quality. I like that you're consistently talking This is exactly like the other video it works because there are no gaps and especially being Minecraft Incredibly oversaturated topic. I honestly cannot watch Minecraft videos anymore. Yeah I'm sitting here. I've been watching this. This is this is quite nice. Yeah, I mean it looks good It doesn't feel like laggy or anything like a lot of time you'll see with Minecraft Yeah, texture packs nice and clean I love There's some texture packs you'll see that are just like if this is even I don't think it's facts I'm you know what the funny thing is I I've used facts for so long I actually just look at Minecraft and I'm like, oh, yeah, that's the default texture And I honestly forget sometimes the facts. Oh, yeah. No, this is um, this is like the high detail Where you guys so I skim to like three minutes through the video and all of a sudden the song came on when you wanted to kind of Stop talking and build something. I actually really liked it And I think the song is really good kind of fills up the space really nice It's like three minutes 30 seconds it started fading in around a little time-lapse. That's cool. Yeah So I like that Mike you do that with your vlogs all the time. Yeah, and it normally works out really well I think the choice of song here is pretty good I don't think there's a copyright issue with the song. I'm not really too sure about that though. I Issue is I don't know every song in the world. Yeah, there is music linked down in the bottom You can find music similar to this Just to be safe. I'm a Freedom music Cool. The only thing is I'm noticing the time-lapse and the song lasts a long time Yeah, and I think that even though this is a Minecraft video and longer gameplay is acceptable and fine I would probably cut that down to like a minute minute and a half because if I was watching this I wouldn't want to watch the whole thing. It would just be kind of a quick interlude Yeah, a lot of times when I do this type of stuff like Steven said I do this with the vlogs I will do time lapses, but I cut it to the beat of the song So it speeds up and you still see everything that happened You're just cutting out sections. So you still see the progress You still see how stuff happen and then it makes it a lot more fun to watch because you get into the song and every Time like a beat hits it cuts to a new clip and it's still Conveying your message and it's not wasting a lot of time because with the YouTube algorithm now It's all about watch time if you don't leave me take a look at the YouTube analytics They don't even show the views anymore unless you highlight over it shows watch time now I will also say it's it's a lot of fun to yeah Yeah at first when you're like oh I have to edit the music to the song that sounds like a lot of work It's like do it once. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. You'll see me like whatever I do it I kind of like dance with the song I'm like clicking see in space at the same time as the beats and stuff I always hit it on beat as I'm watching this clip It's fun, but I like what you've done. I like the idea of what you did I think there's a little bit more finessing that needs to be involved with To make it seamless Because it it was like a solid three minutes of time lapse there when it could have been you know like 30 seconds You still could have conveyed the same message Yeah, but your quality your audio quality is really nice Mm-hmm, so when I was listening to the song I was like wow I'm actually listening to the song right now instead of song static background noise as well Or here's and they're watching and then you jump because the song started to freak out like oh my god I'm confused what he's doing though. Are these like traps or something basic garden design Okay So he's he's building a garden Why do I just put a hole on the ground and then put a seed Mike get on his level get on this level I dig straight down. I make a furnace a crafting table and I'm like, okay. It's my home Make a little hobbit hole Um, I mean one piece of comments that you know, don't be afraid to be different I guess I know that a lot of Minecraft videos especially and a lot of other gaming videos are longer But don't be afraid to again kind of reduce the time of it Increase the time on certain things reduce the time on other things kind of play around with that I think it's good to be different Yeah, yeah, so I mean I'm watching the video kind of skim through it a little bit here and I think you could have done it in less amounts of time and generally speaking from what I understand Whether it's gameplay or not when someone looks at a YouTube video Are you more likely to watch like a 20 minute YouTube video or a 10 minute YouTube video? Like people generally lean towards shorter videos So if they see that the overall time is shorter. Yeah, they're more likely to watch it And then as you start to develop your audience, you'll notice people get upset if it's short That's true. Like, you know when I first started the vlogs They were like four or five minute vlogs and as I started to get more people viewing and watching Then people got mad at me when they were like below 10 minutes and now they get mad at me If it's below 20 minutes, it's like yeah, but at the beginning if I did 20 minutes out of never seen any growth Nowadays, I kind of just say to hell with it and I play however long I want and stop it. So yeah I've started making like 22 25 minute videos, but but I've watched your 20 minute videos Okay, well, thank you You're welcome Just think of Twilight Sparkle. I Can't really know who that is, but okay Anyways closing remarks about the channel we only watched that one video was kind of long I see that you have I see you have like Counter-Strike and Minecraft videos seems like the two games that you play on here They're kind of weird cuz I don't think there's a whole lot. Yeah, there's a lot of Counter-Strike videos. Oh, I Don't feel like there's a whole lot of crossover between Minecraft and Counter-Strike necessarily, but I feel like you have enough of both and it's well balanced enough to kind of we did just Like get from a Minecraft and nature Filming channel. Yeah, that's true. We've seen a lot of really interesting crossbreeds today And I don't personally I don't think this is a bad thing. I think this is the first time I've actually looked at a bunch of channels that like they've got variety But I like I think it's your custom thumbnails that really sell it actually like you spend a lot of time on them They all look super clean super nice like when you click on the video, you know what you're getting And I think that that really helps kind of I like how there's they're the same but different. Yeah each time So it's like, you know, you've got the you've got your character in there And then you've got the episode number and then you've got what series it is But the background is different every time so you know, it's a different episode And I I think that's very important when making thumbnails is to make each one a little bit different only thing I'd recommend with the thumbnails is I do like the idea of using a character in there, but you know, like maybe for survival have like You know like a pickaxe or something and change up your character a little bit in each one and You can go places like fiverr and get character rigs of all different positions and you just tell them What positions you want you spend five bucks and you get a whole pack of them So a little stuff like that you could do to set up some variety and you could start to Determine what's what just by the icon and you can kind of set up play a playlist like that. So it's all consistent That and the last thing that I noticed was the video that we watched there was no outro I Would highly recommend an outro slate so that way you can redirect viewers to where you want them But uh was there Yeah, okay, never mind. I went back to see it and cramp us so Yeah, thank you. Yeah, good stuff overall Overall, yeah, I like how clean your channel is and I like the quality of your videos. Just keep that up All right, that's my turn again. So guys be sure to leave the comments Letting us know what video you want us to watch not me or something like that do Check out my video. I met Santa Claus today, you know, so we could check it out and you can't post links They're gonna block it. So yeah, yeah Say the name of the video. Say hi Put a heart and if you're if you're arguing with each other on the on this we probably won't click on your channel Are they to let you know a little bit? They were debating the World of Warcraft trailer, which is awesome by the way Oh the Legion one For the movie. Oh the movie. Oh, yes, I thought you meant like the newest cinematic. No I actually haven't seen the trailer. Oh, you haven't seen this. It's worth seeing. Okay, go watch it. It looks interesting. All right Got another one All righty then and let's go out of the sky chat And I'm gonna put this and the featured videos. So if you guys will check should be there Maybe unless I broke everything as per usual and we got a Grand Theft Auto video Alrighty then does anyone even pronounce a Grand Theft Auto anymore. I feel like everyone just says GTA What's Grand Theft Auto exactly? GTA I Always think of that game site that you could buy stuff from I know yeah, which I buy stuff from there all the time All right, so this is the ET mega are watching GTA 5 marching in Okay, well, I was about to say you better start with the song. Yeah I appreciate the opening scene. That was definitely a good way to start I Love it when people will put like a clip setting you up and before the intro So you have a chance to actually determine what you're about to watch Yeah, the fact that we all laughed And I like your audio There's a little scratch when you yell.  There's a chopper With a pilot who can't fly to save his life Yeah, so the audio isn't bad at all It does sound like it might be like on the verge of peeking though. Yeah Question for you like we're not question for you rather. I'm question for you guys Are there two people talking in this video? I mean, they're like five people singing in the intro Well, I feel like there are I can't tell how many people are actually recording their voices over this. I Thought it was just one But then I keep hearing different voices. Is this one person doing different voices or? Sorry, I just got to one minute in what yeah the death scene. Yeah, no after that Oh, yeah dove into the wall I think it's one person just because I don't see any other credits in the videos Or in the description. That's what I think too Okay, well First thing I normally don't like watching GTA videos It's just like normally not really my type of game, but I am thoroughly enjoying this one Yeah, I appreciate your editing and I appreciate how you're kind of just choosing scenes that you kind of know Well, everyone will like making them straightforward to the points and There's a lot of good stuff happening in this video. This is good. This deserves more than 50 views and two likes Definitely your audio is clean the background music is on point See I can appreciate a video that has effort put into it Yeah, and this this obviously took more than just 10 minutes thrown together Yeah, it makes things must have taken hours. Maybe even days. I don't know When you have to think how long it took you to get the recordings like how long you have to play to get all these different Yeah, any moments like this could have been like a week worth of playing and then a week worth of editing, you know So when people take the extra time to do stuff like this, it's awesome hour and g-mod with me. Oh, yeah Yeah Oh, yeah Okay, well, I love your outro. I Yes, I think your outro is amazing. It is original and creative And I appreciate it very much starts at about four minutes This is because I'm gonna give you No, oh it like leads into the yeah, that's cool Cool So I'm gonna have derpy elaborate on this but Okay, sound to me like the biggest thing that I noticed was it sound like the audio was on the verge of peaking Would you agree with that? Yeah? Yeah, I think the quality is good, but yeah, there's a couple places where like if you yell really loud see There's um Let's see how do I want to put this? I don't know what kind of environment you're in or what area you're recording this But a good rule of thumb is if you're gonna have a lot of parts where you're yelling really loud You want to like, you know yell Really loud and you want to make sure that your microphone can handle that a lot of times If you're yelling and this kind of this might be common sense But it's it's good rule of thumb if you're yelling into a microphone back away from it Mm-hmm the louder you get lean your body away from the microphone the quieter you get lean towards the microphone It's actually a technique used in voice acting, which is what you're doing even yeah And even singing it's it's a very very highly regarded technique you a lot of people use with other sensitive microphone I am reading the comments right now, and I just I was amazed, but I use windows movie maker and PowerPoint to edit this What? This that's what the ET mega just said to us You use windows movie maker to make this this is wow What wow I? Game over Just want this today. Yeah, I'm sorry movie maker can actually make a YouTube. What what I thought maker was PowerPoint Wait, how do you use PowerPoint with wow? What does that even do? What Sorry, I apologize for cutting you off, but I saw that and I was no yeah, that's fine I just power point to make something like the slides or something or I don't really know how how that was involved necessarily, but the fact if you that just shows me that you are severely passionate well now what you're doing here I even throw in there like I don't mean to to cut the oh God, but what's what I'm looking for? I don't mean to cut the celebration on it or make it any less cool But I'm almost curious to see now if you had a real powerful editing program what you could do with it Then because you know you this is very impressive editing for windows movie maker You obviously know the basic practices Hell even beyond that of editing period So, you know, I'd like to see you get a hold of premiere or something or even a light works as a free Light works is what I use like it does max out at 720p But I would prefer to upload at 720p and have more creative freedom Then yes be stuck with PowerPoint only concern about light works light works is actually what I use to make a variety of Things whether it's am v's are actually just regular videos It is amazing, but it will kill your computer. So if you are using a laptop, I Be careful about using light works. Well, he is playing GTA 5 on what seems to be a relatively Computer to be able to handle light works or Definitely be careful about that one because it's like open source and free. It's not necessarily the best at optimizing everything And it will definitely kind of test out your graphics card But it's definitely it's free and you should get it all the tutorials are online for free as well So if you need to learn how to do anything with it, that's a really nice site where it's everything laid out So hence why I have been using it and I like it a quite a bit Yeah, I I can offer nothing for that. I've never used light works. So yeah, it's it's a lot of premiere Okay, it feels pretty close a little bit more less user-friendly, but you still have a lot of like the same options like 16 layers of video and You can render out at 60p stuff like that. So 16 I think the most layers of video I've ever used is like eight Yeah, so I don't if you're using 16 layers of video or even audio. First of all, you're doing something wrong That's well, okay. First of all, you're making an MLG video All right, so Yeah, or we could say with this then try different editors and keep doing what you're doing and Maybe turn down the gain of your mic and then you can have more control over boosting it and post and stuff like that Yeah, I just say it like I mean just kind of can to conclude what I was saying or recap it rather It really does make a big difference You a lot of people assume that you buy a really good microphone You put it on your desk or your stand or your boom arm or whatever it may be and then it just works You plug in the thing and there you go. You sound amazing and the the truth of the matter is it takes as much practice Actually getting settings on the computer working with the microphone as it does learning how to use the microphone like physically use it and So really try to I don't know look up some videos on maybe basic like voice acting practices or microphone placement And I'd really practice with kind of moving around the microphone use use the microphone as a prop to your acting Because the more you think about oh, I'm just acting into a microphone the more You know the worse your your production might come out and so you kind of have to just Pretend the microphone isn't there I guess if that's how you want to do it but you really have to learn to play with it and Last thoughts on this channel really quick I went to your overall videos and I noticed that you don't post very often Which makes sense all things considered if you're spending all of this time, you know making these amazing videos and Just like simple movie editors But if you are and it seems like you are very passionate about making these videos because otherwise you wouldn't have been making them in the first place Try and get lightworks or you know invest in a a better editing software so that you can put out videos on a more regular basis Because I definitely think that these videos will catch on they're awesome And other people will definitely like them, but you got to be posting more often maybe once a week even or For gaming videos. Yeah, once a week is gonna be your goal But you definitely can't be putting out high quality videos like this if you're using I If I could add we don't really mention this too often, but I took a look at your your channel description your channel about page and It says it here welcome to my channel. I'm that guy who wants to have fun and make videos for the sake of it. Enjoy And then please subscribe. I don't really see too much on here really describing what it is you do and I think the way your channel set up I mean you definitely are not just doing a standard gaming channel You definitely are doing a lot of things that have a lot of work into them I mean I almost say is is machinima is that what you'd classify these as I don't really know short Films or something like that being shorts or something. Yeah, but I I'd really use the about page to your advantage and maybe do a bit of a heavier description on what it is that you do because Believe it or not quite a few people do actually look at the about page Especially the first couple lines of the about page are very important because those are what show up when you actually mouse over the channel Mm-hmm, and you really want to sell people right then and there on what it is exactly you do and I don't feel like your about page does the channel much justice considering there is quite a bit of Creativity that you've presented here Yeah, and there's just like this is just an overall life lesson in anything you do But specifically when it comes to anything YouTube even if you're on your resume don't brag about what you do Don't be like that. Oh, yeah, be straightforward about your accomplishments Like be straightforward about what your channel is and like hey your videos are awesome Then you might want to like put in there my videos are awesome, but phrase it in a way that's straightforward But don't play the humble dude That's like oh, you know I just make random fun videos because then people are gonna think oh He just makes random fun videos like you want to be straightforward in your channel about and you want people to understand What your channel is about what your videos are about mm-hmm? Yeah, but Anyways, I think this channel is awesome. There's obviously a little bit of improvement you can do here and there But overall good stuff. I think you know hop on a different video before we spend this time on four videos That's right. Okay, derpy is it your turn? I think so a loft between you two before Um I do have my message copy and pasted I'm sure 90% of the comments in here. I Have seen that video pop up actually There's the Pokemon one again Okay, fine. Let's do the Pokemon one. Are we gonna do the Pokemon one? Yeah, I'll do the poke Steven's day. Where's the where's the Pokemon one? It's the majestic melodic here. It can be my channel The just pick a different one after I'm gonna I want to link it in Skype right now He had it already pulled up. He's been watching it this whole time in his off time I'm I'm terrible at At decision-making, so it's okay Okay, so here's the majestic melodic. All right First thoughts on the channel. I noticed that there's Interesting kind of a lower subscriber count, but this video has quite a bit of views, which is nice I'm gonna go to videos and choose one from here because The homepage video is very long and from a year ago Video is a huge outlier like a lot of these Nothing had 500 something views I see about maybe It was from a year ago though, it's probably been featured the whole time Right, okay, so first thing that I notice and I love Pokemon so as I talk here You can offer the YouTube guidance here, but you're pretty much gonna say the same thing that I'm gonna say I'm looking at your videos here Just the overall videos. Um, okay. Let's just want to pick a video to actually start watching I'm curious. Gen 2 named that Pokemon challenge. It's a picture of his desktop. Oh, it's a longer video I'm just gonna skim through it. Oh, these are actually like challenges They're like Link a random video on YouTube of the Pokemon. Okay Okay, I see it. I found it. We're good. Okay, so here's what I'm seeing about your channel here Um, it is now in the description. There are Okay, so that's just like it's a really cool challenge. You are obviously very passionate about Pokemon You are easy to see that is like anyone will be able to tell from looking at your channel that you love Pokemon And I don't think anyone is going to doubt your skill or your knowledge when it comes to Pokemon, but You are going to want to figure out a way to optimize your Pokemon knowledge and videos for YouTube You can't just put up anything on YouTube and expect it to catch on or get views I mean if you're putting all this stuff up here to share with friends, then that's fine But if you're looking to get views and you're actually looking for it to take off and you know, you know Build a certain level of following then you need to make sure that you're optimizing it not just for yourself But for your fans like why are people going to come to your channel? Why are people going to watch this video? Who is going to watch this video? Those are all questions you need to ask yourself and like that Pokemon challenge video It's a 13 minute challenge and we're staring at a screen of you doing the challenge, which is cool Like I respect it, but there's no way I'm gonna sit here and watch this entire thing I'm gonna skim through it and respect you. That's that's what I'm gonna do But you're definitely gonna want to like figure out a way to get away to yeah Whether they're like shorter videos perhaps because like the fact of matter is not everyone is going to respond to that Hence why I like the the video that was on your Home page that had more views because it was like a Pokemon gameplay people like Pokemon gameplay And I'm assuming that you play Pokemon games. So maybe get more of that stuff on What works and then stick with it You are obviously very passionate about that but I would definitely work on trying to optimize your videos for YouTube and Treating it like a YouTube channel versus just I'm gonna post whatever I want channel It does live streams as well. It looks like Where's the live stream if you go to his main page you can organize it by early videos page You could upload it or organize it by videos or live streams. So oh You know that oh you can They're from quite a bit ago That is cool though No, I don't be mean But definitely so like your devotion to Pokemon is very clear to see and I would love to see your channel actually Like take off a little bit and have other people respect you for that Have other people view it but you got to definitely Figure out a way like gameplay is just always kind of a good way to go like comments on your gameplay You're obviously skillful. So I think that that would be a good thing to do There was this a tough one because I think it's more so You need to find a way to do what you're doing But think about the viewer watching it So try and find a way to share that and express that in a way that the viewer can enjoy it as much as you can I think you know if if I can kind of again I can't really add much to Pokemon but I can I can add to this channel and a general consensus and the way I look at this is The way at least I tend to treat these kind of channels is you don't have a fan base Like I'm just gonna say that bluntly like you don't have a you don't have a decent sized fan base What you're trying to do right now is you're trying to latch on To a fan base that already exists and that fan base is of course the Pokemon fan base And what you're trying to do is say hey you like Pokemon I like Pokemon come watch my stuff and in turn those people that are fans of Pokemon will soon become fans of you And that's how you kind of grow this fan base now what I'm really noticing here is You're struggling at really drawing people in and creating that connection and if you look at all your videos along here I see things that are 11 minutes 15 minutes 13 minutes and I see a couple few that are like five to four minutes and The ones that are much shorter videos Have you know the greater side of views because I see you've got some that are like four seven two and then the shorter Videos have like 16 views 15 views Of course you okay. You got a 14 minute down here that has 40 views But the point is if you make a short video People who have no idea who you are but like Pokemon are more willing to give your video a chance Of course if they like it, they'll stick around and then that's kind of how you grow So I think this is probably the most important instance in which I would very very strongly say focus on video length and In turn that translates to video watch time Watch percentage But I think you definitely need to take what information you're putting on the channel here now and Kind of get into the practice of condensing it down into a much shorter video that can be viewed by a lot more people Another thing too with growing in the audience that's very niche like this You could take advantage of forums and Pokemon communities that are already established And don't necessarily go in there and spam your stuff But make friends with these people go talk to them see what they like and you got to learn what the community wants to see And then when you see what they want to see then when you share it with them Then that's gonna get you more viewership You're gonna have a community to share your stuff with and as you start to build friends in this community It's gonna become much easier to grow Don't don't think that just because you're a part of freedom freedom is your limitation Yeah, like freedom freedom shouldn't limit you at all freedom should help you I mean there's there's freedom that of course you can put your videos on but don't forget. There's as Mike says forums There's reddit. There's oh, yeah, there's probably a Pokemon reddit. That's yeah There are ideas for when it comes to fan communities whether it's Pokemon or any other show or geek or nerd community Which I am practically ever a part of all of them You have to find that community You don't want to be speaking to people who don't like it because otherwise, you know It's gonna fall on deaf ears whenever you go to conventions, which you may as you may do even an anime convention I have seen so many Pokemon cosplayers at anime conventions like use that as a time to make friends You get to make a friend and probably gain a subscriber Yeah, so Facebook Twitter even like any social media site I know for a fact that they have those groups because I'm part of them and You can definitely like just start talking and be active in the group and naturally you will end up getting it but what you need to do first is Organize your channel so that when they come to it. They're like, okay. I want to watch And I I really like what's erpy was saying I think that's just a tip for any YouTube channel one You're kind of starting out and the majority of your views are coming from people who are on the YouTube search Versus your existing subscribers shorter videos are generally a good way to do that Because like you might you're more likely to click on a three minute video in the random search than a 10 minute video But I think that is all I have to say I do respect your you would you have more Pokemon knowledge than me and that is saying something Yeah, so I respect that now if I could just add like one more thing and this kind of from a Design or advertising perspective, but I think the thumbnails you could kind of improve a little bit on There's just a lot of them that I see there's kind of letterboxing and a lot of them look really busy or have kind of unreadable text I think really learning to create thumbnails and emphasize the main point of the video is Quite important and for anyone watching It seems like for this particular channel you lack software because the recording software you have has a watermark on it So I'd assume you might not have the best in the way of photo editors and stuff like that But there's plenty of free powerful programs like a GIMP as a good one. It's like a Photoshop knockoff Yeah, you know you could do all the transparent layers you can layer stuff and have a lot of powerful options And there's tools and tutorials to learn this type of stuff So you can really make powerful branding that stands out and it's not really a ton of work either It's just a matter of learning it and seeing what works for you. So In conclusion, I think you have a really awesome niche to optimize on I think you have the knowledge and The ideas there to succeed you just kind of have to start looking at what is successful in the community And how can you use your skills to? Optimize on that and then start making yourself known in the communities so you could promote your work to them so Awesome, are we gonna do one more video Yeah, let's do one more and then we can wrap that up because we are derpy Right at about an hour.  It's okay We'll be back again and we can only get to so many people in an hour. Unfortunately, so yeah Do you guys have a channel that you would like to choose for the last one all of them? All of them at the same time I have seen this one channel from the very very start continuously not spam, but just okay, you know be very persistent and I Think that the video idea is interesting and I noticed that they were subscribing and kind of already talking to other channels in the chat And so I think oh my god, it's guppy is the channel that I So oh my god, it's a guppy I have noticed you and you have been asking us to critique your ariana grande focus parody to call of duty Zombie a video to watch Yes, so we are not watching the channel trailer. We were watching it was the second to last video All right ariana grande focus parody name on everything. I know right That's nice.  I know It's okay. I wanted to add a little Christmas hat to my squirrel, so I might do that some point Sorry, what video on your avatar? Yeah, that's what I'm doing. Okay. What's uh, right? Ariana grande focus period parody kill is all is the one that we are watching. Alrighty then. Let's see how this one goes Is this really oh my god, it's all original This is awesome. That's the awesome one to end up. Yeah I'm enjoying this that's one thing to say I First of all just appreciate all of this effort. Yeah, that's why I'm loving this Went into this all video content the audio content Even like the singing is not bad. No, not oh, it's it's on tune even if it is auto tune a little bit But like if this was me it'd be like Why I can't make parody videos This is like totally original What I appreciate it the most I think is that I feel like the video was harder to make than the audio Yeah, I mean really though and did well it cuts on the perfect time The fact that you even stripped or like wrote out the text on all of it You know if I'm being honest this I can see this being like a TV ad for the game almost It's like granted it's not like the best singing or like the best ever, but it's amazing Yeah, it doesn't have to be the best. It just has to be like passionate and cool Yeah, yeah, I mean I can tell just from you singing this you're enjoying singing it Yeah, like you're having fun with this video and that's the point the only thing I'd like to point out is as you start to grow and you start to do this more be careful with the Parity stuff like when you get all the background track and stuff because I've seen some people They have no problem at all I've seen some other people who actually get copyright struck for the song the background song Oh from the instrumental. Yeah. Yeah, so my uh my Shrek star got flagged Yeah using the instrumental. Yeah, so a lot of times you actually although it's technically under fair use What a lot of times you have to do is recreate the beat note like find someone who can actually make this stuff and see if They could make something similar So that it's recognized, but it's not Strictly taken. I don't know if that might be what you did here I'm just kind of thrown out a fair warning that as you continue to grow like if you did someone like Justin Bieber chances are it's gonna be copyrighted. Yeah, that's actually happened choose your songs wisely. Yeah another one Yeah, it's it's a fickle world in the fair use Oh, so the background he said the background track was remade no samples from the original song That was smart. There you go. I already got that covered. Also. So, okay last thoughts on that video There wasn't an outro and I feel like it ended a little bit suddenly That was amazing. Yeah, and thank you. I'm very glad you kept on this chat the whole hour and Thank you for being made us rewatch that. Yes The yes, so First of all, I don't think I wanted to come and you said consistent You had an annotation throughout the song like comment for more parodies or if you want to do a different parody like for more parodies Yeah And I think that the parodies are definitely something that you should continue doing because everyone it will catch on like people Will like it but it's a dangerous world of copyright and just like make sure to be safe with that because one flag That's like all it takes. Oh Wow, I see in the comments on that video It says he took three hours to make this wait. That's it. Yeah, how Wow What 30 minutes for the lyrics and the rest of the recording that took you 30 minutes Wow I would take me like 30 days. This is the type of guy that's like alright I charge by the hour and then you do it and you just sit there for like the next 10 hours because that's how Long it should have taken Free money for me. Good thing. I'm fast at what I do That if you did that in such a short amount of time, that was amazing. Um, I mean Think the last thing is I noticed how the chorus had the same video footage And I was almost expecting it to kind of keep being different Slightly just like just slightly different But there aren't like I'm being very very nitty gritty if I'm picking apart stuff like that like that was an amazing video Yeah That was awesome Rest of her channel like I don't even think about like going to the other Videos well, I mean one of us just to critique that video. So yeah Definitely if that took you three hours to make and you like making it you should definitely be making one of those a week Like if you can put out that that much then you should because people are definitely going to like it It's definitely gonna get the views like I see here on your it's gotten many more need more views The other videos I do see I'm kind of look at its videos here. I love the thumbnails. They're really good, but I'm seen I'm leaving and then right after that. There's a video. I'm back And like three videos later quitting YouTube Mike. I'm back You gave me this advice if you have to leave for some reason you have a schedule like every week And you couldn't make a week. Don't mention it Just like just come back Don't keep making the quitting videos and coming back videos. It's not If you start like drawing attention to it then other people will start drawing attention But if you skip a week, it's like, okay guys, what's up? So today we're here with this. They're like, yay Now I haven't watched the videos they might just be like a funny thing. It's not even relevant to that might just be clickbait, but But just be careful about that one Yeah, but from the video we watched awesome stuff. If that's the quality you put out in all your videos Nora agrees Nora really likes it Say hi if you're gonna yell in the stream you have to at least be seen All right, Nora say bye Yeah, guys, that was our last video. Hopefully you enjoyed the stream. Hopefully we are able to get to The people for this hour. I know we kind of talked a lot more than we usually do But that's what happens when you add another person named derpy to the stream I talked a lot and I do too. So yeah, I wasn't sure do we have a quota or something my bad No, I mean we normally just a Pokemon channel, but today we I think it was more in-depth Talking that Even if your channel wasn't mentioned keep my a lot of the concepts we were talking about that doesn't matter what channel you have It doesn't matter what genre you are It doesn't have to be said to your video directly you could still take Advice from what was said in these particular different things and if you didn't listen to it all because you weren't featured You can rewatch it later after it's published But yeah Anyways guys Thank you all for hanging out with us if you want to see more of derpy thunder use in the cards up at the top as well as the Description below if you're new here derpy thunder is one of the people talking if you want to see more of Steven Pretty much just follow Mike this I like follow him around like a puppy Yeah, and he will be making a channel soon and if you want more of me and the talking dog Or in the description of the cards as well, so anyways guys, that's it. We'll see you next time. See ya


Hello everyone, in this video we will be discussing about a linear circuit and try to extract a Thevenin's equivalent out of it where only dependent sources are operating. Here is the learning outcome by the end of this session students will be able to draw a Thevenin's equivalent circuit where only dependent sources are present. Okay, so this is a problem where we only have the presence of dependent sources. We don't have any sort of independent sources here. So let me try to explain you this with a simple example which has a similar analogy.  So the simple idea that we generally perform is we go to the bank and get some loan. So this is a scene where you are dependent on the bank for generating this money for the construction of your house. So in case if you want to generate money where there is no bank then probably your entire plans are going to collapse. So this is something like that wherever we have a linear circuit or any sort of electronic circuit if there is a presence of only independent source that's well and fine. We don't have any dependences but in those cases where we have independent as well as dependent sources then the independent source is responsible for generating some sort of voltage or current across the dependent sources. Whereas in the cases which you are able to see on the screen now where only dependent source is present. Now as you can see here we have as you can see here we have dependent source which is 2 times the current. So and this current is nothing but the loop current flowing in the first mesh across the there exist as 5 ohms and 10 ohms. So here the problem is this is dependent on something a current where the current is not present. So in fact this current I should be actually developed by some independent source then there would have been a physical existence of this dependent source. Now let's have a look at what problems we would face in identification of Thevenin's equivalent circuit for the given network. Let's find this. So step number one is to calculate the Thevenin's resistance or Thevenin's voltage whichever you consider to be more compatible with we will be going for that one. Now the problem what we are having here is okay so just by looking at the circuit we can easily say that by observing the circuit I can easily conclude that the value i is equal to 0. The reason is since there are no independent sources since there is no independent source the value i is going to be 0 and when this i is 0 this entire dependent source is going to be 0 okay. So since there is no current the value of i is going to be 0 and hence if I try to calculate this short circuit current in my upcoming step then probably the value of i is going to be 0. And since there is no independent source the value of voltage in the given circuit is also 0. So if I try to calculate the value of RTH similar to what we have seen earlier where we calculated by applying Ohm's law that is VOC by ISC. This is something like 0 upon 0 which is invalid. So this is an invalid operation even in mathematics. So how would we rectify this or how would we tackle with this kind of problems? The only problem that we have here is since there is no independent source voltage and current both are 0 but that does not mean that the value of R is also going to be 0. So this way of calculating the value of RTH by being dependent on VOC and ISC in the absence of independent source is an improper method. So what we can do is we will externally connect a voltage source which will make some current i to pass through that and then we will be identifying the ratio of V upon i to calculate the value of RTH. Since we are applying this one we are aware of how much voltage we are applying. So generally the policy or generally the way or generally the process that we follow is we apply one volt source or unit volt amount of current. So generally the way of performing this is to calculate a unit amount of voltage or a unit amount of current and then consider we have some voltage and current present in the circuit moving into the circuit so that it forms some voltage or current source according to the availability or the type of the dependent source. So generally the method that we follow is we tend to apply a unit amount of voltage source and a unit amount of current or some amount of current is going to flow. So generally the process that we follow for calculation of these kind of dependent source based problems is that we apply a unit volt of source across the output terminals and that will tend to pass some sort of current into the circuit and hence we will be having a knowledge of what V we have applied and what current is flowing into the circuit and based on which we can easily identify the ratio V upon i to calculate the value of RTH. So let us have a look at how we can do this. So in the first step what we are going to do is apply this V and hence some current i is flowing. So having a look at this particular diagram now let us proceed. Now the modified Thevenin's resistance formula is going to be V what we have applied upon the i which is an action of the applied V. So now we will be applying, we will be considering this node as V and let us try to apply kc across this one and see what equation we are getting. So this is going to give us V upon 10 plus this source that is V minus 2i upon 5 is what we are having is V. So on the right side what we are having is current i. So this is our kc equation. Now let us try to solve this based on observation. I can say that the value of i is nothing but it is V upon 10. So I will try to replace that i with V upon 10 and see what I am getting. So finally the value of V that I am getting is something like 13 by 50 is equal to i. So I am interested in the ratio of V upon i therefore the value of V upon i which is nothing but rth as per this particular formula is 13 by 50. So this is the value of rth. So do we have to calculate anything else that is all. So just after this step number one we can directly proceed to the final step of drawing the equivalent circuit where we have the value of rth as 13 by 50 and the value of Vth can be straight away written as 0 volts. So since it is 0 you can either directly draw it as Vth or you can directly show a short circuit which indicates that the Vth voltage is 0 both are one and the same. So when we are specifically talking about identification of a Thevenin's equivalent circuit where there is some sort of dependency. This operation becomes invalid like we have seen in our earlier videos where we have calculated Thevenin's equivalent based on the availability of only independent sources where we have calculated the Thevenin's resistance and Thevenin's resistance independently. So wherever we have the presence of independent and dependent sources both we need to calculate Voc and Isc and then calculate the value of rth by taking the ratio of Voc upon Isc. Whereas in case of a linear network where there is a presence of only dependent voltage source the calculation of Thevenin's resistance by having the ratio of Voc upon Isc is invalid since both the values are going to be 0 and hence we need to calculate the ratio V upon I where we externally apply this voltage. So this as this is an important observation in our case here are the references thank you.


But in terms of practical discoveries that are the basis for the technologies we use each and every day it was Nikola Tesla Who was the most brilliant of all? He had a mind of the rarest kind he could memorize entire books and visualize inventions with pinpoint accuracy Once he had the concept of an invention fully visualized he then undertook the hard work of bringing it to reality


One of the most exciting tracks in all of NASCAR, coming up this weekend is the GEICO 500 in Talladega and if you've never watched a NASCAR race in Talladega, things get pretty wild. They draft off of each other, they run three and four wide at times. There are a lot of crashes which make me personally kind of nervous but I realize other people have different reactions to those and maybe excited by those. I get very nervous so I'm not a huge fan of that part but the racing is objectively really fun to watch and that leads to a really interesting DFS product because it's easy to pass, you can have random winners at times. There are a lot of different elements that are intriguing here for Talladega. This week though is interesting because our usual strategy for NASCAR DFS has a little bit of a wrench thrown into it. We're going to break that down and what it means for setting your lineups for Sunday's race here today. Welcome on into the Heat Check Fantasy podcast powered by Number Fire. That's right here on the FanDuel Podcast Network and NumberFire.com. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for NumberFire.com here to break down the GEICO 500 from a NASCAR DFS perspective focusing specifically on FanDuel's product. The qualifying order for the race was set last night. Lock is at 3 p.m. Eastern so you have plenty of time to fill out lineups. You could fill out lineups again as we go right now because we have all the information we're going to have before the green flag drops already. So feel free to hop on over and fill out lineups as we go. Here's drivers that I like and find some that you like as well based on your process. We are pretty much back in the full swing of things here on the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed. We've got PGA Podcasts, a UFC podcast previewing Saturday Night's fight. Saturday Night's card just went up on Wednesday with myself and Austin Swain. You can check that out there. And if you're getting into EPL DFS, I talked with Austin Cass of Number Fire to get thoughts on roster construction, how scoring works, stacking, et cetera, et cetera. Really good conversation if you are like me trying to get more into the EPL now that is back. Make sure you find all that by searching for the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed. Wherever you get your podcast next week, NASCAR podcast, PGA podcast, likely a UFC podcast as well. So a lot of good stuff popping. Make sure you are subscribed there. Before we take a look at the track breakdown, the Belmont Stakes are coming up on Saturday and you can stream and bet all the races on the TVG app. TVG has been the home of horse racing for over 20 years and they've got all the action anyone could want. And right now, TVG is offering a risk-free bet on any horse to win any race to all new users. Any race, any horse, you can do it. Just use the promo code FDPOD on TVG and the TVG app. Again, the promo code is FDPOD, F-D-P-O-D as an annual podcast. Then get up to $200 back if you don't win. That's the TVG app, promo code FDPOD, age, residency, and other eligibility restrictions apply. New users only. Refund issued as a non-withdrawable site credit that expires after 30 days. See terms at tvg.com, gambling problem called 1-800-522-4700. Let's dive into the track breakdown here for Talladega and normally in Talladega and Daytona, the two pack racing tracks on the Cup Series circuit, we want to stack the back. The problem is that there was no qualifying this week, which means the best cars for 2020 are all starting right at the front. So the question we have to ask from a DFS perspective is whether we can still stack the back with that being the case. The answer is yes. Let's go through why that's the case here. The big issue with using drivers who start at the front is that they have to finish basically in the top four spots in order to pay off for DFS. Let's look back at the past two spring races in Talladega. Both those spring races had multiple drivers who started at the front who wound up in the perfect line. The 2018 spring race had four drivers who started in the top 12 and the 2019 spring race had three. That could lead us to being more okay with using drivers starting in those positions. But it's a bit more complicated than that. In the 2018 race, three of the drivers who made it after starting in the front had high salaries. One was a pretty big value place. You didn't need a ton for him to pay off. But the three studs who made that perfect lineup finished in the top three spots in that race. In the 2019 race, it was the same thing. The three drivers who made the perfect lineup after starting inside the top 12 finished first, second, and fourth. They finished well, which is why they paid off. So let's say you decided to use that strategy for this race and plug in three drivers starting inside the top 12 spots. What you're doing there is basically making a three driver podium finish parlay bet. If one of those drivers does not finish well, that lineup is not going to cash. With the drivers starting further back, you've got a lot more flexibility. You do not need them to finish inside the top three for them to pay off. In the past six Talladega races, 20 drivers have scored at least 60 fandom points while starting 20th or lower. And 60 is a pretty big number for a Talladega race. Some of those drivers did finish really well, but none of them won the race and they still scored a bunch of fandom points. Two of those drivers who scored 60 points starting 20th or lower finished outside the top 10. 12 of them finished outside the top 5. So basically what you're doing by using drivers starting further back is you're giving yourself additional leeway, additional flexibility from a finishing perspective. They will still need a decent finish, like if they crash, like, you know, that's not going to help you anyway. But your margin for error is so much smaller with those drivers starting up at the front. That's why for cash games and for your core for tournaments, you still want to use drivers starting further back. There are legitimately good drivers starting the middle of the pack for this race and there are some starting outside the top 30 who I like quite a bit and will consider for cash games. Those are the drivers you should lean on for cash games and for your core in tournaments. That's going to lead us, lead to us leaving a bunch of salary on the table and that feels uncomfortable because we don't usually do that, but that is okay here. The average perfect lineup in the past four or a talladega races has left almost $5,000 on the table. One race left over $10,000 so a good chunk of your lineups this week will leave money on the table and you'd likely be wise to do so in cash as well, especially in cash games and that we want to gravitate towards the back and there aren't a ton of expensive drivers back there. So you got to be comfortable leaving salary on the table and potentially a lot of it. When you're doing sprinkles for tournaments, that is where you can use drivers starting at the front. There, we can afford to make bets on who will win the race, so the lack of leeway there is less of an issue. And the driver who wins the race is probably going to be in the perfect lineup regardless of where they start the race. So I would say for each tournament lineup that you build, you can feel free to pick an assumed winner, lock that driver in regardless of where they're starting and then build from there. So that's one situation where you can use drivers starting closer to the front if you assume they are the winner. The other situation in which I am more okay using drivers closer to the front is when I'm stacking teams or manufacturers, which is a key for a track like this. What you'll often see here is that a certain team or manufacturer will dominate a race and fill up the top of the leaderboard. Last year in Talladega, Hendrik Motorsports had the top two drivers. Ryan Priest was a Chevy as well. He finished third. Joe Gibbs raced in some of the top three spots in Daytona in 2019. So this happens pretty often where we see teams or manufacturers dominate the race. If you correctly pick which team that is, your odds of hitting that three driver podium bet parley that we discussed are much higher. So let's say I'm stacking Penske Racing. I'm definitely going to use Matt DiBenedetto who is starting in the middle of the pack and is aligned with that team. But I can also think about using two of Ryan Blaney, Joey Logano or Brad Keselowski in that same lineup even though those guys are starting closer to the front. And you can do this with drivers further back too. Like you can still stack while doing that because Stuart Haas Racing has one driver at each tier. So if you wanted to stack them, you could do so without overexposing yourself to the front of the pack. But that's another situation where I am more on board with drifting closer to the front. It's a lot easier to bet a three driver parley if you can find the correlations. And the way to do so with Talladega and Daytona is by stacking teams and manufacturers. I gravitate towards one manufacturer over the others, but we'll talk about that more in the tier by tier breakdown. So to recap here, the strategies for Talladega. You still want to try to target place differential drivers even though the starting order was set by points. That is especially true for cash games and when building out your core for tournaments. That is even true if it leaves salary on the table. It can be very uncomfortable. I get it. But you could be flirting with $10,000 on the table this weekend and I want you to be aware of that before you start to build lineups. We can assume winners and use them for sure regardless of where they're starting. They can start on the pole if you think they're going to win. You can plug them in and use them for tournament lineups and for tournaments as well. Make sure you have some team stacks, some manufacturer stacks and load up on them in case they happen to be that team or manufacturer that dominates this weekend's race. So with that said, let's dive into our tier by tier breakdown based on the salaries on Fandals starting with the elite tier that is Chase Elliot at $13,300 through Kyle Bush at $11,800. And this entire group is starting inside the top 12 spots. The three drivers are starting near the bottom of that tier and those three drivers all grayed out pretty well. They are Chase Elliot starting 11th, Joey Logano in 9th and Ryan Blaney in 12th. Those three also happen to be the top three drivers in my model for the race, though the model is trying to predict winners rather than best DFS values and the model not as effective in Talladega as it is almost everywhere else. But it is enough for me to rank Logano first and Blaney second among the studs for this race. Logano has won three of the past nine Talladega races. He has six top fives in that time. So he almost always runs at the front. He almost always lead laps. So if I were to power rank drivers and just pick them straight up for this race, even outside of DFS, Joey Logano is my favorite to win this race. As for Ryan Blaney, he won here last fall. It is one of only three top 10s for him at this track, but I know he has great equipment. He has relevant teammates in Logano and Keselowski and clearly he has the talent to get it done. He's starting back in 12th. So a little bit more place differential juice there for Blaney as well. So Logano number one for me, Blaney number two. The reason I'm lower on Chase Elliot, even though he is technically first in my model, is because the Chevy's had a hard time linking bumpers and Daytona this year. They ran well in the qualifying races. They had a ton of speed. But during the race itself, it really seemed like the Fords and Toyotas had an edge because they were better able to bump draft. So of the Chevy's, Chase Elliot is my favorite. I like him a lot. But overall, I'm going to wind up being lower on the Chevy's than I am on most other cars in this race due to that fear. I will still have stacks of Hendrick Motorsport, stacks of Richard Childers racing. I'm going to have those stacks, but I'm going to be lower on them than I am on Stuart Haas racing, Penske racing, and other teams like that. So just making that clear. I will still use Chevy's, but I'm going to have less of them than I have stacks of the Ford. So to me, this tier is ranked Logano one, Blaney two, then Keselowski, Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliot, and Kyle Bush. Hamlin is starting the front, but he is a tremendous pack racer and consistently finishes towards the front. I'm okay with him and would rank him right ahead of Chase Elliot. The second tier on Fandall is Kevin Harvick at $11,600 through Jimmy Johnson at $10,500. In this tier, we do have one driver starting further back. That's Eric Almirola in 15th. And I think he is among the top studs for this race for DFS. Almirola is a recent winner here. He did that in the fall of 2018 and the Stuart Haas cars dominated that entire race. And Almirola had just enough fuel to get the job done. A couple of his teammates did run out of fuel at the end of that race, but Almirola won. That's one of seven consecutive top 10 finishes for Almirola at this track. He has four top buys in that time. And to have that level of consistency at such a wild, erratic, crazy track is basically unheard of. So I think Almirola is the highest starting driver that I am definitely comfortable using in cash games. And I'll still have a good amount of him in tournaments too. I think that Blaney and Legano kind of in consideration for cash games. Legano 9th, Blaney 12th, but Almirola for sure for me is an option there starting back in 15. The rest of this tier is all starting inside the top 10. So I think we can rank them basically by win odds. The only forward in this group is Kevin Harvick and he's team is with Almirola. So there's a potential stack there. The issue I have is that Harvick hasn't had a ton of success on these tracks in the recent past outside of the Talladega fall race that Almirola won. Harvick was one of the dominators in that race. Didn't finish well because he ran out of fuel, but ran really well. So although Harvick is a forward, it's hard for me to get super jazzed about him potentially winning the race. Due to that track record, much higher in the Penske Drivers of Legano, Kezelowski and Blaney than I am on Harvick. One guy I do find kind of interesting here despite driving a Chevy is Alex Bowman. Bowman will probably be, I don't think many people will have him in their lineups because his win odds are pretty long. I think he's 22 to 1. So it's harder to get jazzed about him starting up in 8th. But Bowman has led 20 or more laps in 7 of the past 9 pack racing tracks. Those are since he became a full-time driver for Hendrick Motorsports. Hendrick has a lot of speed on these tracks. My only concern with them is that nose. But Bowman finished second in Talladega last year behind Chase Elliott. And I think that he is someone you can stack with William Byron and Chase Elliott if you want it. But overall, when mixing in winners for tournaments, I do at least want a couple of shares of Bowman just because I don't think anybody's going to have him. And I think there is a path to him winning this race. So Bowman, very interesting for me. Overall, this tier is pretty terrible. I don't like it at all. Almaroll is the only guy I would consider for cash games. Everyone else is tournament only. I'd probably put Bowman at the top of this tier followed by Harvick. But it's kind of gross across the board. And if I wound up underweight on literally everyone in this tier outside of Bowman, I'm not going to shed a tier. Moving down to the mid-range on Fandall, that's Ricky Stenhouse Jr. at $10,100. Through Matt Di Benedetto at $8,100. And this tier is a lot better than the tier above it. The only guy starting at the front is Clint Boyer and he's about in 10th. My favorite option in this middle range on Fandall is the one guy starting outside of the top 24. That's Christopher Bell. And Bell is starting all the way back in 35th, which is as good as it gets from a process perspective. In this car last year was Matt Di Benedetto and Di Benedetto was a threat to win the Daytona 500 in this car. So the equipment, although not great, is good enough for Bell to be competitive. And Bell himself was running near the front in Daytona this year as well before some late race issues. Bell never won here on these tracks in the Xfinity series, but he was third in three of the six races there. He was sixth in another. He also had a second place finish in the truck series at Talladega. So the talent is there. And realistically, you don't even need a top 10 finish for Christopher Bell to pay off for DFS. You just need a solid top 15 or so to be an awesome DFS asset. So Christopher Bell is a cash game option and he has shown we should build around for tournaments. $8,900 is a lot, but his salary got jacked up because of where he's starting. I don't care. He's someone I'm going to use a lot on Sunday. The rest of this tier is really good too. I do like Ricky Sanchez Jr. We'll talk about him in a second. William Byron, Tyler Radick and Austin Dillon, even though they're all driving Chevy, they're all in consideration. Eric Jones, former Daytona winner. He's starting 18th. So this whole tier is really good. But my other favorite option here is Matt DiBenedetto. DiBenedetto starting 23rd. That's the second lowest in this tier behind Christopher Bell. And DiBenedetto has never finished better than 18th in Talladega, but that was almost always in non competitive equipment. Now he's effectively teammates with Blaney Logano and Kezalowski. He will have the speed to get a win. We have seen DiBenedetto push for wins in Daytona before, so I don't doubt he can do it here too. So to me, DiBenedetto and Bell are the two best plays of the entire slate. And I feel comfortable making that statement and locking both those guys into my cash game roster for this weekend. Let's talk quickly about Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Because he has been getting some betting action this week. He opened a 26 to 1 F. Andrews sports book. He's now 22 to 1 to win. And it makes sense because he's a former Talladega winner. He is awesome on this track type. My hesitance here is in DFS and it's largely because he is driving a Chevy. I think Stenhouse is going to be a bit more popular than he should because he's starting 20th. So I'm still going to have a decent amount of Stenhouse. But I do want to actively try to be lower on him than the field. Because of their hands with Stenhouse as high as it gets. And I don't trust Chevy's as much as I do the other manufacturers. Stenhouse previously was with Ford, now with Chevrolet. He was really good in Daytona. So that's not going to stop him from competing in this race. And he will be in my player pool. My hope is to have less of him than the public. Because there are a lot of paths to failure for Rookie Stenhouse Jr. And there are guys I like more in this tier. Specifically again, DiBenedetto and Bell. So if I'm ranking this tier, to me it's Bell 1, DiBenedetto 2. I'm going to go Eric Jones 3 because he is with Joe Gibbs Racing. I think that's intriguing. He stacks well with Christopher Bell, who is a satellite team of Joe Gibbs Racing. Stenhouse will be fourth despite my reservations. Followed by Byron, Redick and Dylan. But overall, this is the best tier to live in on Sunday. Last week in Homestead, I think I was overweight on every single driver in the 8,000 tier. I'm probably going to do that once again this weekend. The value tier on Fandal is Ryan Newman at $8,000 through Ryan Priest at $7,200. And there are some good options here. Two of them are starting outside the top 24. Those guys are Cole Custer and Ryan Priest. Priest drives a Chevy, but I'm less worried about that because I don't need a win out of him. I'm just looking for a guy who gets a good place differential. Priest finished third in Talladega last year. He was eighth in last year's Daytona 500. So he seems able to wheel it around this track type. And he is Stenhouse's teammate. So you could potentially get a stack there in your Stenhouse lineups. As for Custer, not as sold on the talents at this track type. He had just one top 10 here in the Xinnity series under stricter or on pack racing tracks. But he drives for Stuart Haas Racing, good equipment, good teammates. Fits perfectly in stacks with Almerol and then either Harvick or Boyer. Custer will start 28th. Priest is 31st. I think both are in play. I would rank Priest slightly higher between those two. Chris Busher is another driver I would consider for cash games for Talladega, though he's kind of fringy there. I think Di Benedetto and Bell are like lobster cash games. Busher's on the fringe, but he's a pretty solid fringe option. Busher drives for Roush Fenway Racing. So this is the team that Stenhouse was driving for when he won here and he won in Daytona. That's not to say we should expect Busher to win because Stenhouse is a different breed. He's a wild man and he can will a car to a win. So I'm not saying expect Busher to win, but it means this car can't have success on this track type. Busher's success in the pack races has all come in Daytona, but three of his five career top fives in the cup series have come in Daytona. So we can get around that track for sure. And this is the best equipment he has ever had for a Talladega race. I consider equipment more valuable in Talladega than it is for Daytona. Daytona more of a handling track whereas Talladega speed does matter, at least in my eyes. So Busher at $7900 is someone I will use a bunch and he'll be in consideration for my cash game rosters. I would rank Bell higher and I think I'd rank De Benedetto higher too because I feel better about the equipment there, but Busher is flirting with third place overall for this race. This tier to me has ranked Ryan Priest one, Chris Busher two, Cole Custer three, Ryan Newman four and Matt Kenseth five. The punting tier is Ty Dillon at $6800 on down and some really decent options here including Ty Dillon and Bubba Wallace, even though they both drive Chevy's. Both those teams have an alliance with Richard Childers racing. So you could stack Bubba with Ty Dillon, you could stack them with Austin Dillon with Tyler Reddick. You've got options there for sure and I think that's kind of a sneaky stack too if you're going to go with a Chevy stack and just stack all the RCR and RCR affiliated cars. See what happens. Ty has never finished worse than 17th in Talladega. He takes care of his equipment, he gets to the end of the race. He might have won a stage year last year too. I could be misremembering that, but I know he won a stage at some point last year. Regardless, he ran well. He's never finished better than 10th, but you also don't really need him to finish better than 10th. So I like Ty for sure. Bubba is starting 24th, so it's a bit higher in the order, but he doesn't have a runner-up finish in the Daytona 500. He will work in 24th though. I'd rather spend up for guys like Ty Dillon, like Ryan Priest starting a bit deeper in the pack. Bubba is someone I'll filter in, but I think Ty Dillon and Ryan Priest will be closer to the core-ish plays for me. John Hunter Nemechek is starting 22nd. I do like him there because he did have success here in the Xfinity series. He had three top 10s on the pack racing tracks there at four races. He's teammates with Michael McDowell, but he more broadly works in Ford stacks. Like if you want to stack, you know, Penske racing and need a final driver there, I think that John Hunter Nemechek would fit that. This team won here in 2013. Front-row motorsports did. McDowell, his teammate, finished fifth in the fall race here last year. So Nemechek works, and I might put him a smidge ahead of Bubba Wallace just because Nemechek is in a Ford. I feel a little bit better about the prospects there. I would also mention that Brendan Gaughan is starting 39th. His equipment is better suited for Daytona than Talladega. He basically runs only the pack racing tracks, but Gaughan did finish eighth here in the spring last year. So he's in play, but all more exposure to the drivers with better equipment. Again, Ty Dillon, John Hunter Nemechek, Bubba Wallace, and the punting tier. So I'm ranking this tier in that order. Dillon, Nemechek, Wallace, Brendan Gaughan next, Michael McDowell, and Cori LaJoy. All those guys, at least options. But I do think that I want to focus mostly on Ty Dillon there. Let's finish up shop with the picks to win for this race. I am going to stick with what we talked about before. Going to the Ford and going with a driver who has a tremendous track history in Talladega. That guy is Joey Logano. He'll be my pick to win this week. I picked him a lot. Sorry, not that sorry though. Logano, my pick to win are the guys above $10,000. The guys below it, I think there are good options, but the best Ford below $10,000 to me is Matt Di Benedetto. So Matt Di Benedetto will be my pick. We're going to load up on the Penske cars or Penske-ish cars for Di Benedetto's case and make them the picks to win for this weekend. But again, still look for drivers starting further back to be part of your core. Still look for them in cash games, even though it will be uncomfortable to leave what will likely be a large amount of money on the table for your tournament and cash game rosters. That is all that we have for today. Hopefully that was helpful in helping you fill out your lineups. And again, we got more good stuff coming up next week here on the Number Fire Daily Fantasy Podcast Feed and a UFC podcast for tomorrow's card already posted. So search for the Number Fire Daily Fantasy Podcast Feed wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like what you hear, please be sure to leave a rating and review as well. If you have questions for me, I am Jim or at Jim Sonnis on Twitter, J-I-M-S-A-N-N-E-S. You can also follow the FanDuel Podcast Network at FanDuelPodcast. Big thank you to Calvin Theobald, our video producer for on the video side of things here today. Thank you, Cal, as always. And thank you to everyone for tuning in. 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Jamestown Day, or Jamestown Landing Day as we call it, is the day that they actually came back, parked out here, and chose Jamestown as the spot that they were going to settle. Here at Historic Jamestown, we're doing public archaeology, interpreting the site to the public. We've been excavating here since 1994. And on Jamestown Day, we have some extra activity, which are our blacksmithing demonstrations, some of our living history, kind of enhancing the experience. It's so powerful being here, near the site where Dominion plans to build power lines. Talking to the people and hearing just how much they care about this issue really speaks volumes to why we are here to help protect this beautiful place. They didn't have power lines in 1607. It would take away from the whole experience. You're really going to feel for the history, and I feel like there's a sense of emotion that you get being in the physical space that you can't get elsewhere, feeling connected to the people in the past. This entire site was made to look like, you know, how it was, and to put it like giant power lines would really take away from the look and feel that I think people get when they come here. This is unbelievable. There's no place as historic as this new country. And to lose this would just be a sin. You can't allow that to happen.


Thanks, David, and thanks to the Brain Foundation. So David didn't tell you the topic of our research project. Our goal is to develop a new treatment for brain AVMs. And these are collections of abnormal blood vessels that sit inside the brain. And people don't know that they have them until they burst. And when they burst, they cause a hemorrhage bleeding into the brain, which is catastrophic. It either kills the person or causes that type of stroke. And this happens particularly in children and young adults. So it's not a typical type of stroke that you might think of that generally affects older people. It's a young person's disease. And we can treat these things with surgery in some of the patients. But for patients who have large malformations or deep ones, surgery is too dangerous. So we've got this idea that we can treat them with a two-step process. The first step is to use focused radiation, such as the gamma knife, where we focus all the radiation beams into the volume of abnormal blood vessels. And it's like painting a molecular change. So all the cells within that volume will change their molecular characteristics. And then we can inject into the systemic blood circulation an agent that will target those molecular changes and then induce blood clots within those abnormal vessels.  We've actually had a lot of success in the laboratory. We've shown that we can do this in our animal model in the laboratory and completely cure AVMs using this technique. But before taking it to the clinic, we want to make absolutely sure that we've got the best technique available. And at the moment, we're using a single molecule construct. So our systemic agent that we've developed is an antibody connected to a molecule that promotes blood clotting in the blood vessels. But it's a single molecule. So the idea of this project is that we think using nanotechnology, developing artificial cells, if you like, that can carry instead of a single molecule, hundreds or perhaps thousands of these targeting molecules that we'll then collect in the abnormal blood vessels could really amplify the response and make this a much more effective treatment. The gift from the Bain Foundation is really crucial for us to develop the early stages of that work and see if we can develop this technology to be at least as effective as the single molecule approach and hopefully to be more effective. So it's a really important contribution and thanks very much again for the support.