This is the SF Productions podcast network If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times people love time travel from the pop culture bunker I'm Mindy and I'm mark you can check out our audio podcast How I got my wife to read comics on itunes or on our website SF podcast network comm We're coming up on the new fall TV season where the overriding theme there always is one is Reboots and last year it was military dramas two years ago The theme was time travel, which made me think of all the examples of time travel in the media It's always been a popular topic in fiction for Centuries of not millennia It was generally used as a way to discuss social issues of the time or maybe just mock them Memoirs of the 20th century was a 1733 book about diplomatic letters from 1997 to 98 and was a warning about Jesuits Golf in the year 2000 shows us a world where men's activities are limited to the links and for some strange reason politics While Masculinized women do the rest women's suffrage was a major social discussion of the time on all 7603 involved a group sent to the year 7603 ad by a fairy to see a world where gender roles were reversed Rifang Winkle in 1819 is the classic story of a man who sleeps 20 years only to find he has been forgotten Christmas Carol in 1843 provides both past and future time travel via ghosts looking backward 2000 to 1887 from 1887 had a hypnotized man sleep until the year 2000 and familiar to everyone is a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court from 1989 Where Mark Twain has a straw man trap time travel back to well King Arthur's time 1895 brought us HD Wells is the time machine a story. We'll get back to in just a minute Armageddon 2019 ad from 1928 introduces us to time traveler Buck Rogers Ray Bradbury is the sound of thunder 1952 explained the butterfly effect By the 60s time travel became its own fictional genre with hundreds of novels and short stories So let's move on to films We already mentioned the time machine a man watches the world rise and fall ending up in the year eight 802 601 ad where humans have split into the childlike Eloi and the underground more locks that prey on them There have been three film versions There is a 1960 version with Robert Taylor and Alan Young the one you've likely seen with the ornate velvet chair Slash time machine. There's also a 1978 made for TV movie and the 2002 version with Guy Pierce The 1960 version is rather modlin and Robert Taylor is serviceable in the main role of George that Alan Young shines playing three roles this be in 1900 this be son in 1917 and 1966 the letter rolls affected by war which George sees happen in fast motion during his travels This is rather unique in time travel usually it's instantaneous or the result of a long sleep The machine itself became the subject of an episode of the Big Bang Theory now We also mentioned a Connecticut Yankee which also had three film versions a silent version in 1921 a 1931 version starring Will Rogers and a 1949 musical comedy starring Bing Crosby 1968 brought us Planet of the Apes based on a French novel Astronauts including Charles and Eston go off course to what they think is another planet where apes evolve from men But spoiler it's actually a future earth post nuclear war some memorable quotes Get just sticking paws off me a damn daddy ape They blew it up.  They blew it up. And if you think I haven't heard those a million times you're insane It's been parody many times from the Simpsons stop the Planet of the Apes I want to get off to mad men and of course there were many many sequels beneath the escape from conquest of battle for and 70s TV shows both live-action and animated and of course the recent cinematic reboot Woody Allen's sleeper in 1973 shows a shlubby man of 1973 becoming a hero in a near-future fighting a totalitarian government Time after time in 1979 turns HG Wells into an action hero chasing Jack the Ripper into modern times Malcolm McDowell stars 1980s the final countdown asks the question. What if a modern aircraft carrier is thrown back to December 7th? 1941 just in time to stop the Japs Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen star This was a period where Hollywood was trying to mesh classic Hollywood tales with the sci-fi explosion caused by Star Wars at all 1984's Philadelphia experiment is similar in concept except the time jump goes into the future Somewhere in time 1980 sees Christopher Reeve fresh from his Kryptonian role use self-hypnosis to travel back to meet a girl Jane Seymour he sees in a portrait That one never made sense to me Time Bandits in 1981 comes from the Monty Python school with director Terry Gilliam Directing and John Cleese co-starring a boy runs into time-traveling dwarves looking for loot the Terminator 1984 and its various sequels reboots and TV series Surround a mere future where robots have taken over and how the only answer is to go back in time to stop it from happening And of course it made a star out of Arnold of course it was basically a rip-off of an Outer Limits episode The back to the future trilogy 1985 89 and 90 turned Michael J. Fox from a TV star to a movie star It all took us back in time to the 1950s and the 1880s as well as the far-flung world of 2015 the trilogy made almost a billion dollars at the box office and spawned countless commercial tie-ins Bill and Ted's excellent adventure 1989 has two idiots Keanu Reeves and Alex winter receive a time machine because their high school band ends up transforming a future society And so they're given that as a gift so that they can complete a school history project Because if they don't they don't graduate and the band doesn't become big I watched that and remembered nothing about it. I had to look it up on Wikipedia a sequel TV shows comics and theme park rides came out of it Army of Darkness in 1992 is part of the evil dead franchise with Bruce Campbell going back to 1380 to find the necromicon Groundhog Day 1993 introduced the concept of a time loop with Bill Murray trapped Celebrating the same day over and over and wooing Andy McDowell by trial and error Time cop in 1984 is a Jean-Claude van Damme vehicle and his beat is to protect the past and the future Pleasantville 1998 has teams Tommy McGuire and Reese Witherspoon Sent to a mythical 50s black-and-white TV town by magical TV repair man Don Knotts Frequency in 2000 uses a ham radio to connect Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviesel over a 30-year span And that was made into a TV show. Yeah recently. Yeah, the butterfly effect in 2004 stars Ashton Kutcher Remember when he was a movie star as a man who can supernaturally inhabit his young self to change the past and screw up The present as a result Idiocracy 2006 stars Luke Wilson who was chosen as an average American for a government experiment He winds up 500 years later as the smartest man on earth How well the rest of the world has become stupid because smart people realized over a population was a problem But dumb people did not it could be argued that it won't take 500 years to reach that point and we may be entering it already The time traveler's wife in 2009 stars Eric Banna as a man who jumps forward in time due to a genetic defect Which causes problems in his marriage Safety not guaranteed in 2002 is a tiny budgeted film where a classified ad seeking a time travel companion changes the life of Aubrey Plaza Actual time travel only occurs in the very last scene and it's questionable even then Looper in 2012 sees the mob using time travel to clean up issues in this case Sending Joseph Gordon-Levitt to kill his older self Bruce Willis. It's rather confusing Edge of tomorrow in 2014 has Tom Cruise fighting aliens in a time loop and Restarting every time he dies like a video game and there's plenty more But let's jump over to TV There were certainly series that touched on time travel like the Twilight Zone and Star Trek But we're gonna limit this to shows where that's the main focus The time tunnel 1966 to 67 was an Irwin Allen production. Mr. Disaster a Secret government time travel project goes awry Sary sending James Darren and Robert Colbert into the time stream Conveniently landing each week at a critical event mostly on backlots or existing film sets Using stock footage while Whit Bissell and Lee Merriweather watch through a literal tunnel it's about time in 1966 to 67 and see even then TV networks did concepts and cult clusters is a Sureward Schwartz slapstick comedy from the man who brought us Gilligan's Island in the Breedy Bunch Where as the theme song explains? It's about time. It's about space about two men in the strangest place It's about time. It's about flight traveling faster than the speed of light Here is their tale of the brave crew as through the barrier of time they flew To this ancient site that being prehistoric Earth where they befriend cavemen The show quickly tanked and flipping the script bringing the cavemen back to 1966 did not help Quantum leap from 89 to 93 Starr Scott Bacula who inhabits the bodies of people in the past writing wrongs and learning a lesson or two He's helped out by an AI named Al a hologram only he can see played by Dean Stockwell life on Mars 2006 to 2007 is a British series where a modern police detective Involved an auto accident finds himself in 1973 still as a cop now. You really like that show Yeah, they remade it as an American show too. Yeah, so we see the inverse of this on Continuum in 2012 to 2015 where a detective from 2077 Finds yourself thrown back to 2012 now catching criminals from the future Outlander which began in 2014 sees 1945 British nurse Catalonia Balf swept back to 1743 where she meets and marries Scottish warrior Sam Hugen And it's based on a series of books Of course this CW DC comic series tend to deal with time travel especially the flash But legends of tomorrow in 2016 to now is all about it a team of DC heroes and villains band together with Rip Hunter played by Arthur Darval to fix problems in the time Stream the show was rather pedestrian until one of the precepts of time travel fiction that changes in time have consequences Was basically thrown out of the window turning the show into a hoot to watch a big boss fight this past season Involved a demon and a faux Teddy Ruxpin who won the fight and we mentioned the 2016 plethora of time travel series and this was only one of three Time after time was a TV reboot of the 1979 film Timeless 2016 and ongoing now involves yet another government project gone awry as well as a shadowy conspiracy throughout history Leaving a small team to stop the bad guys from changing history and this series is still in question as a whether it's going to continue or not They still haven't made the call So of course we didn't forget Doctor who? 1963 to 1989 2005 and ongoing a show that started as a way to educate kids about history Quickly turned into a sci-fi mainstay in the UK and later in the US an alien and his human companion or companions Go through time in what looks like a British police box Which is much larger on the inside and save the day in the universe Invention being the mother of necessity and ill health of original lead William Hartnell Created the idea of regeneration that the doctor would live multiple lives changing into a different actor each time We're on doctor number 13 Jodi Whitaker the first female in the role today The show ran for decades on the BBC only stopping due to an ill-planned film project Then restarting with a much larger budget a few years later We could talk about doctor who for a whole episode and we have so as you see there's a just a a boatload of time travel is something that is an evergreen concept and We'll continue to be generated in films and TVs and books and video games and whatever else right and you can travel through time by checking out old Episodes of our audio podcast how I got my wife treat comics on iTunes or on our website sfpodcastnetwork.com From the pop culture bunker. I'm mark and I'm Mindy. Thanks for watching. Alonzi


We fund organisations and projects in sub-Saharan Africa that leverage the power of mobile and web technology to bring about social change in Africa. We particularly focus on fostering accountable institutions and active informed citizens. So one of the concepts that we're grappling with is something called the accountability stack and effectively this is trying to establish what is the data that citizens really need and civil society in order to hold government and other institutions to account. And this could include things like legal information, company director information, parliamentary proceedings and so on and so forth. So one of the things that we've done in order to support this is fund parliamentary monitoring sites throughout Africa and these are usually developed through a local organisation in a given African country in partnership with my society, a UK based organisation. So one example here is Masalendo which is in Kenya and essentially this enables citizens to look at parliamentary proceedings, what's taking place in sub-committees, elected representatives and you can even see they've got a rating system for MPs. Now one thing that's worth highlighting here is most of you probably know the vast majority of citizens in Africa aren't online and so I think as people have mentioned today it's really important that we translate this data into meaningful information and that we use intermediaries like civil society and journalists to really highlight the information that might be of interest to the general public. And so this is a good example here and what Masalendo did is that looking at the data on their site they noticed that 100 MPs in Kenya were hardly actually participating in parliamentary debate and so they fed this to journalists in a really simple infographic and this resulted in two pages of front page news on this story and that really enabled citizens to start debating on these matters. This is another example called People's Assembly, a similar site in South Africa and as you can see they've developed a whole load of infographics here so one for example on crime statistics in South Africa comparing them from year to year or the departmental outcomes of audit findings and what they've done which is interesting is when they feed these on social media so things like Twitter and Facebook they found that they can drive a lot more interest in these issues without anyone actually ever looking on the site itself. We're also supporting a group in Nigeria called Budget and they very much recognise that one of the main causes of corruption in the country was that people didn't actually know about public expenditure and how resources were allocated and so they started creating all sorts of infographics, you can see two of them here, which are trying to convey the complex information in the budget to citizens in a more simple format. So for example they're very interested in the fuel industry, about 70% of Nigeria's revenue is contributed from this industry and for example when there were the fuel subsidy protests that were causing a lot of violence in 2012 in Nigeria they produce simple infographics that help people understand what this subsidy actually entailed and it enabled to stimulate more informed debate. But they've also recognised that there's only so many citizens that will even understand the infographics and so they've started thinking how can they really reach communities on the ground that matter that fundamentally care about things like their local health clinic, their local school and so what they did is develop a platform called Tracker and what this does is using open data it outlines all the different projects that the government has promised to fulfil in the current budget. And then they've looked at these projects and seen what is actually happening on the ground. So this photo here is from Ogan State in Nigeria and there were basically children, over 400 children in two classrooms, hardly any desks and benches at all in the classrooms. Some of them were having to study under thatched roofs which were leaking in the rain and they noticed that in the budget it was actually stating that three new classrooms were meant to be constructed for this school. So what they did is they actually went on to the ground on the community and showcased what was actually taking place that was relevant in these data. And so they said to them you were meant to have these three classrooms constructed and they really helped them to plan how they could constructively use this evidence to liaise with various government departments. And thankfully now the construction is taking place and the three classrooms have been built. So this is a real live example. This is another example that I really love and what I think is really exciting about this is how it amplified the voices of a marginalised community in northern Nigeria who weren't at all online but they leveraged the power of technology to amplify their voices. So to cut a very long story short in northern Nigeria, a community called Begega, there was really bad lead poisoning that took place due to poor mining practices which was leaving hundreds of children dying and thousands more in really poor health. And the government announced in their budget again using open data that they had promised to allocate 5.3 million to clean up the region. But what this team discovered, a team called Follow the Money in Nigeria, what they discovered was that actually when they went to the ground none of this was taking place. And so they collected lots of stories, testimonies and photographic evidence to show people that this was not actually taking place. And they made a really simple infographic that essentially said the government has promised this money, we don't actually, we haven't received this, this is what's happening on the ground. And they managed to muster up the interest of a lot of civil society organisations of people like Save the Children and Human Rights Watch. And they basically had a really targeted Twitter and Facebook campaign. They asked all these different groups on the same day to tweet the government department saying where is this money gone to target particular Facebook wars of senators and MPs. And amazingly 48 hours after this campaign the senator for the ecology and environment announced that the funds were going to be released. And they've actually been tracking the changes ever since which Medesans on Frontier has been providing for example the medical treatment. I wanted to show you this picture to give you a sense of what the services are like in northern Uganda. This was a region which has had over 10 years of conflict due to the Lord's Resistance Army and basically the infrastructure is in complete disarray. So this is a road that one community is meant to use in order to access the market where they sell their produce and their local secondary school. Now the government has a peace recovery and development plan and again they've published openly all of the information about the different projects in this area that have been promised to the community. But this is an example of a project that hasn't actually been undertaken. Here's another example of a maternity ward in the region and there's massive shortage of staff, there's drug stock outs, patients even have to bring their own linen to the hospital. So these are the sorts of infrastructure that we're dealing with on the ground. Now there's a fantastic group called Women of Uganda Network and they very much recognise that again these services weren't actually being delivered. And so they developed a very simple SMS based platform which enabled citizens to report issues in service delivery in their area and these were all placed on a digital map. And they also trained them to do things like take photos and video documentation to show what was really taking place in their communities. And then what's exciting is instead of just leaving this as a pretty map, which can sometimes happen, they actually formed these groups called voluntary sector accountability committees. And they were comprised of people like trusted community members, civil society, local leaders. And they actually worked together to form a really constructive relationship with various government authorities in order to get some of these results resolved. And there's all sorts of fantastic examples. For example, they had a new health centre that was built in a Loni parish. They've had schools which have had new classrooms constructed and they managed to identify a lot of malpractice in health practitioners, teachers and have this address. So really, really good on the ground examples here. So I wish I could give you about 10 more examples because they're really awesome, fantastic examples. Somewhere good to look actually is the one campaigns follow the money website. They've got a few other examples of how data is being used to hold authorities to account. And you can also look at my journalistic site, Lauren Traceman journalistic. There's lots more examples like this, but I wanted to leave you with a few take home messages. First one is to really recognise here. We've been talking a lot about analysing data, seeing trends, but we really need to think about how can citizens actually use this data. And it is possible for citizens and civil society to use this data to hold institutions to account and improve service delivery in their area. But in order to do this, we need to make sure that the data is a sufficient local level. Most people are interested in their local school, their local hospital, rather than national outcomes. It's also important that we translate this data into meaningful information, even if we have funky infographics. Fundamentally, citizens want to know how is this going to affect me? And we often need intermediaries like journalists, civil society in order to do this. I also want to highlight the transformative power of information technology here. Effectively, it can amplify impact by enabling us to share, create and access information at a lower cost, greater speed and greater scale than ever before possible. But we must remember that this needs to be complemented with on the ground initiatives. It's the on the ground work that's really going to lead to the results. And where data can help is collecting the evidence to make the case in campaigning and advocacy. And what I want to highlight here as well is that local solutions are often most successful. Most of the organisations we support are African organisations with their head offices in various African countries. They understand the local context, the cultural nuances, and they're really the ones that are going to be able to form ongoing relationships on the ground. Another thing we've really found is that you need good relationships with government and you need them to be on board. So it's really important to constructively engage with various authorities. Someone like Wugnet, for example, they managed to train some of the local leaders so that they actually felt confident to respond to some of these reports coming in from citizens. Thank you very much for listening. I know this was a bit of a whittle-stop tour and so if anyone does want to come and see me for further examples later, I'm very happy to take questions. Thank you.


You are probably one of the top five files in baseball on Instagram. Sweet. So I pulled up some pictures from your Instagram feed. You ready to check it out? Sweet. This morning on the way to the stadium. I took a luggage truck. I woke up too late. And I missed the bus. So I was going to get an Uber and the guy was like, hey now we'll take you. We'll take you. I was like, what? He wrote the cooking truck on it? Yeah. It's better if he wrote in the back. With the luggage? Just getting all banged up. Got to be a part of everything. Be a part of the whole entire process that no one ever sees. Everyone just sees the major leagues and sees the field and all this kind of stuff. They have no idea that guys are underneath hitting, stretching, trying to get their bodies ready just to come out here and perform for actual 12 minutes of concentration. All right. The fat cow, the cow coming towards the donut. Someone sent that too and I was like, I got to be posted. The cow just like walking. That's me as soon as I see a donut. Yeah, I got it. I'm coming. But like I said, living out where I live in Maryland, you know, you got cows out there and I've definitely fed the cows. So it's kind of, it's kind of, you know, kind of hard on me. So one of your best performing posts actually was with the donuts. I'm telling you, man, I'm sentimental towards donuts. Who doesn't like donuts? People that don't like donuts is like saying you don't like breathing. You can't be friends with somebody who doesn't like donuts. Yeah, it's like that Maya Angelou post. You can't be friends with someone who doesn't like laugh. You can't trust them. You don't like donuts? Like seriously, you might like tasty cakes. Get like something sweet. Okay. I know sugar's bad. I get all that. Damn it. I want some donuts. You love donuts so much that you even put some on your cleats. My donut monarchs. You're filming those of the Homer Simpsons. These were going around social media too. These are a big hit, man.  But I might wear them today. I brought them. And players weekend. KD Custom Kicks. Man. Look at those. Laentes. The monarchs. I mean, if you look at them, they're monarchs. And every dad in America's had them. You're going to have them soon. You'll catch them around the stadium if you just look. Trust me. Look down at people's feet. You'll see the monarchs. Those weren't as heavy as I thought. They had a couple hits the first day. The second day they didn't have no hits. So I didn't wear them the third day. You're trying to bring these bad boys back. Knock yourself out like throughout the league. I mean, everybody. I want people to wear monarchs. I want to. So for Christmas this year, I'm giving my brothers and my cousins all the men in my family. I'm giving them all monarchs. First off, they're 50 bucks. So I'm saving a lot. And they're comfortable. I think those are like 4E wide. Wow. Space shuttles. So I'll see you on Christmas. Yeah. 11 and a half. Now you also love cooking. This is years ago. So my best friend, Charity, we came. Me and my wife came up to New York. We were making pasta. It was good. We all made our own pastas. Made raviolis and... How'd it come out? We... Oh, it came out great. Nice. We didn't expect anything less. And you get it popping in your own kitchen. Oh, yeah, for sure. The real sous chef. Me? The best sous chef in America. The best sous chef in America. And here you are with your family. Your Christmas photo. In San Diego! You see his son? Only reason why we wore long sleeve pajamas is because we took a picture. I took that stuff off. And this next one. Boom. You feel me? 14 years old right there. Bello. In Spanish, bello. It means handsome. We're sitting on La Jolla Cove. I remember those batting gloves. This is 1999. So those batting gloves are some of my favorite pair of batting gloves that I obviously can't find today, but... So that's a good spot to take photos in front of the water, right? La Jolla Cove? Man, Christmas photo, Facebook photo. This is the shores. This is the shore side. This is me spending my money where I live at. This is the team taking transportation over to La Jolla Cove. Because we couldn't... The otherwise ain't allowance there. So it's two transformations that, you know, I get that 14, take a picture in La Jolla Cove and at 33, I get to live in La Jolla. Some more cool pictures. You've got these baseball cards. I sign a lot of baseball cards in off-season for tops and collectors and all that stuff. And some are really, really cool. A lot of the one-on-ones are really cool to pick. It's crazy, though, is I sign the card. But whoever gets them asks me again, can you sign this? I'm like, I signed the card. It's like, what do you want me to sign twice? So they want two autographs on one. A lot of people want a lot of things, man. So that's crazy. So you go from this baseball photo to actually having your own baseball card. That's got to be another crazy dream, right? This whole process has been a dream. It's been a fantasy. I mean, no one understands what it is to be a Major League player. And no one understands what it's to be a Major League player that, you know, like myself has sustained time and there's plenty of players on the other side who've done the same. And it's a dream come true. It's a pretty sweet card. You're known for throwing a pie, too, as some people. I missed the pies. It was a part of the, it was a culture. We started in 09 and it just graduated. And if you see, I'm really toned in that picture. Got a great physique. Straight Beach body workouts out in San Diego. You were filming Lifted Sand. But it's great that it was just a part of our celebrations. And, you know, I may have hit a couple of people too hard, but it was part of it. And it was part of the excitement. The fans really loved it, really enjoyed everything of it. They looked forward to it. You know, it was one camera. After the game, post-game interviews, it turned out to be, you know, 10 to 15 cameras. And then the fans stayed just for that moment because they knew I was coming with a pie. I tasted every pie before I launched it into someone's face. So we got a couple more. This one, you always got to reflect. Here you go. My fall league jersey. I still have that jersey. My mom finally gave it back to me. My mom got all my original stuff, all my firsts. And it took, oh, painstaking to get all that stuff back. She still has my first hitting ball and my first home run ball. But everything else, I had to get back. She's like, no, I want it. Can I get it back, woman? She's like, no. A couple bribings, a couple vacations, some patience. So you were able to get the right jersey back from her? I got, yeah. Because you got this one and you got the other one. I got number 25 and the number 10. And I got all those jerseys back from her, yep. And trust me, that woman's a tough negotiator. I learned my negotiating from my mama. You might have to hire her as an agent. My mama does my taxes. She does the first part of my taxes. I started making more money. She's like, yeah, it's a little different, son. So with Instagram, you also do a great job freezing awareness. And you always have. My tailgate. My six-annual tailgate is coming up. The best part about it, though, is the Raiders is coming. Oakland, a team that, you know, obviously I'm from San Diego.  CeCe is supposed to be at the tailgate.  He's going to get a lot of flack for it. And I love his comment towards that. He said, I'm six, seven. What are they going to do to me? Are you going to beat me up? No, what it is, what you want. But the tailgate's been amazing. Low-cash has came out the last two years. They've been, their music has been blowing up. But what I called it is Baltimore helping Baltimore. I don't ask my outside friends. I don't ask my agents in LA. I don't ask people in different cities. I ask Baltimore to help your city. Everybody's saying, you know, in all cities, New York has problems. In England, it's problems.  If you can change the culture of these 10, 11 to 14-year-old kids, change their mindset as they get to 15, 17, and become an adult, that goes a long way. A lot of people are scared to talk to these kids because, now I don't know why. To be honest, a lot of people are scared. Me, I've never been scared to talk to these kids. Because me, I see myself in these kids. I see kids that just need some help, need a branch of life. And a lot of people don't understand living in the inner city, living in the hood is not easy. It's stressful. It's depressing. You don't have resources. A lot of these kids, they need schooling simply to get meals. But, you know, a lot of the upper echelon, they care. A lot of people don't care for these kids. And me, and my wife, my family, we've been fortunate enough, obviously been blessed on the field to be able to do things off the field. And it's just been rewarding to see kids you don't know, but kids that are very similar to you have an opportunity now. And that's all I try to do is create an opportunity for these kids to do something. Now, whatever they want to do is up to them. But I'm just trying to give them an opportunity to be somebody. And it's awesome to see these kids that want to be somebody and fight to be somebody. So now, whether it's giving back, creating fun hashtags, like Stay Hungry, which is huge. What's your favorite part about Instagram? My favorite part of Instagram, I think, is just, it's the interaction obviously with fans, but it's the awareness that you can create. Just all social media in general, the reach you can create with it.  I've helped out and they've helped me out in various things. I've been able to mentor random high school kids. I've told people I've always been open book and I've had a lot of high school kids just hit me up, send me their videos of them hitting and, hey, can you give me any idea? And I tell them all the time, you better than me. Can you give me any tips? But it's like the reach that you have with it is something you can't describe. And it's cool to be able to reach out to the people that support you, the people that come out and appreciate your work and say, obviously, you have to take the good with the bad and there's more good than the bad. But it's always been cool to interact with the people that really support you and find your craft to be amazing. It's time for the plug. Why should somebody follow you? I don't want to plug. You don't want to plug. You don't need to plug. Your content speaks for itself.


All right, running through the Panthers schedule this year. Week one, it's a fun one. The Browns, this is the Baker revenge game. The Panthers get the win, then they head up to New York. I think they lose, then I think they lose to New Orleans. Then I think they lose those next four. That is a gauntlet right there. Then they finally get the win at Atlanta. They'll lose the Sensi, win against the Falcons again. Lose to Baltimore, lose to Denver. Coming off the buy, I think they beat Seattle. Then I think they lose to Pittsburgh. They've got Detroit, they'll win that. Then I think they end with two losses there. So we're looking at five wins total for the Panthers. That's my prediction.