This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. With Farm Bureau Health Plans you'll get lower deductibles and premiums and less hassle. Visit FBHP.com. I'm Mike Keith. This edition of the OTP will introduce Follow Me Through Tennessee, a series that we will run monthly through the 2023 season. The idea was hatched by an Amy Wells Wisecrack, which is also how the OTP was created. Amy made a comment last spring on the OTP about my penchant for finding special places in every county in Tennessee. She makes fun of me about it, but it is true. One of the best things about the job has always been traveling to every corner of this state, meeting some of the best people, talking Titan's football, and discovering some of the best places to eat that you can imagine. This season will introduce you to five outstanding establishments. The great Titans fans will learn about atmosphere, friendliness, and wonderful food, and a Titans helmet will let you know that the two-tone blue nation is always welcome. Follow Me Through Tennessee will not only introduce you to those five restaurants, but also to five talented people that accompanied me in my 2016 Nissan Frontier on these trips. You can catch the Follow Me Through Tennessee features on Titans All Access, on our social digital channels, and right here on the OTP. On the OTP, you'll actually hear our conversation from within the truck. So for the first, it's only fitting that Amy Wells was my travel partner. If you've ever wondered what our conversations are like off the air, you'll find out here on this Labor Day weekend edition of the OTP. We talk a lot of food, which we always do, not just when Amy's pregnant, but all the time. But we also get into her time with the Baltimore Ravens and the Indianapolis Colts, plus how she got the job with the Titans 10 years ago. We hope it doesn't bore you. We hope that it is a pulling back of the curtain, a sharing, if you will, whatever it is. It is real. So stay tuned to Follow Me Through Tennessee. But on this edition of the OTP, you get the first reveal. Amy Wells, in my conversation from the ride to Putnam County, Follow Me Through Tennessee on the OTP, presented by Farm Bureau Helpline. So are you interested to know where we're going? I am interested to know where we're going. We are going east to Silver Point, Tennessee. Okay. Have you ever heard of Silver Point, Tennessee? I sure haven't, but it sounds like a place you've been to. I actually have. Okay. It's near Baxter, Tennessee. Have you ever heard of Baxter, Tennessee? Absolutely not. Right? Okay. So we're in Putnam County. Have you heard of Cookville, Tennessee? Yes. I've been to Cookville, Tennessee. You've worked games in Cookville, Tennessee. I have indeed. That's exactly right. All right. So that's where we're going to that county, to Silver Point, and we're going to the Rose Garden Restaurant. Okay. The Rose Garden Restaurant in Silver Point, Tennessee has breakfast, lunch, all kinds of great things to eat. Apparently the biscuits are outstanding. Love biscuits. But what they're really known for is pie. Pie. Pie. We're going for pie. Yes. Not 3.14. I'm talking about real live pie, 10 different kinds of pie. People come from all over the state, actually all over the south to eat the pie at the Rose Garden Restaurant. Well, I want to be one of those people. I want to try the pie. Me too. I've never been. Really? Coach Mack has been. Oh, well, okay. Coach Doug Matthews took Coach Mack when they were over here recording a show, and Coach Mack swears by the pie at the Rose Garden Restaurant so it has the Coach Mack seal of approval. I have never had a bad dessert when I'm with Coach Mack, so I trust this place. I'm excited. I do too. So we're on the way to Silver Point, Tennessee, in Putnam County, and the Rose Garden Restaurant, and hopefully traffic won't be too bad. All right. Let's go. Let's go.  Well, I mean, there are a lot of places I haven't been, and most of the ones that I haven't been, I would say I've heard of, like the Rose Garden Restaurant. It's just my travels have never taken me to have time to be able to pop over. I've been trying for the last three years since Coach Mack told me about this place, but I'm either generally coming or going or I'm calling a game or something over here, and then I've got to, you know, get back to the house or get back to the office or whatever. So I'm over this way a lot, and there's really no excuse that I have not been to the Rose Garden Restaurant. You were waiting for me to come with you. Well, yes. Let's go with that. That's what you should have just, that was your answer. That was my correct answer. But you are going. I am.  All of us have been most impressed with your diligence. Well, you know, I try and eat a furred or vegetable, you know, which is a little different from my normal diet, but I do. I try and be aware of, you know, getting all the food groups and all of those things. You just try to be careful because you're not the only person that is being impacted. But my sweet tooth is just on a different level right now. So being able to go and have pie, is it different from your first pregnancy? Yes. In my first pregnancy, I wanted sour things. I wanted salty and I wanted sour. This time around, I want sweet. I want sweet and spicy. No kidding. Yeah. What's been your strangest crave so far? Oh my gosh. It's more that whatever I'm eating, I need it to be the hottest thing I've ever eaten in my life. Really? Yeah. And I don't. That's not usually your game. No, I like, I like a good spice, but I don't like things to be overly hot because, you know, at some point there's a line between like flavor and just heat. Right. And I don't like to cross that line. You know, I want to be able to enjoy it and still just taste that it's a little spiced. But right now I need everything that needs to be actually on fire. I need it to singe my esophagus. Like, I don't know why. Does it sound healthy? Oh no. It probably isn't. But it's just what I, what I need, like a spicy pad thai. Oh man. Oh, okay. Yeah. Like I need everything to be super hot, a lot of hot chicken. I don't think the pie is going to be, but I mean, hey, you could probably have something hot while we're here too because again, the food is supposed to be outstanding. But here's the thing. Immediately after that I need something sweet. So this is right up my alley. This is going to be perfect for me. We're going to get you in the middle of it. That's for sure. Oh man. I just, all the pie, what did you say, there's ten? Ten different kinds of pies. Shoot man. They're known for chocolate cream or chocolate ice box. I'm not clear on that yet. Definitely. But chocolate. Yeah. And then coconut, which I love coconut. Oh, a coconut pie. But there's not much better than that. But here's the problem. They're really the kind of pie like best is cherry. Really? I love cherry pie. I love cherry pie. But the problem. Because of the salt. That's right. Yeah. Warrant. Cherry pie. She's my cherry pie. Yeah. Yes, thank you. I figured. But my whole thing now is as an adult, I don't eat a lot of sweets. No. So when I'm going to do sweets, I want chocolate. Okay. Because I don't want to waste the calories. It's like I'm not wasting calories on pumpkin pie generally. I know. And I like pumpkin pie. Yeah. But the thing is, I'm just not going to, I'm not going to sit down and say, I'm ruining my diet today for pumpkin pie. I'm going to ruin it for something chocolate. That's why I like the Dairy Queens. That's why I like the Sonics. Yeah. That's, I mean, that's my thing, but I'm going to get chocolate. See, I prefer on the whole a fruit based dessert. I like fruit pies. I like fruit mixed into my ice cream. I like fruit like on top of a cheesecake or something like that. I love a cobbler. Yeah. With vanilla ice cream. Yeah. Treats. However, there is nothing like a good cream based pie. Like. Like fudge pie. Fudge pie. A good coconut cream pie. A lemon pie. I like lemon. It's not my favorite. The only pie I've ever encountered is in Indiana. They love the butter pies. Butter pies. Oh, with butter pie. What is that? It's gross.  It sounds terrible.  It's not. Who told you that? Everyone from Indiana. Okay. They have it in the press box for every single cult game. Butter pie. Butter pie. That's poor. It's like, you know, chess pie, how there's kind of a layers to it. There's like the lower layer. Chess pie is okay. And then there's the chocolate top layer. Right. It's only the lower layer. It's just. Why not just go eat a crust? It's kind of what it is. It's like crust filled with like a buttery kind of consistency of a like a pecan pie but no pecan. I've never heard of this. It's gross.  Well, I mean, I have nothing against people from Indiana because I'm married to a woman from Indiana. She probably knows about butter pie. Yeah, I don't think so. She ain't doing butter pie. I've gotten a strict order that there better be a chocolate pie on the way home.  I didn't even tell my husband what we were doing because I knew he'd want sweets. And I'm not feeling inclined to share. So if you bring it, well, if you walk in with a pie. I'm not getting into that. Here's the thing though. There has to be solidarity here because if you walk in with a pie and I don't, that's a bad look for me. Yeah, well, that's your problem. So you're just going to hang me up to dry like that? Yeah, absolutely. All right. So you're going to have... I'm glad we've established this early on. We've established the rules. Every man for himself. That's exactly correct. When it comes to pie. Yeah, my wife is chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. Yeah. That's why I like her. But she'll do that stuff like if you give her some chocolate and she's not ready to eat it at that point, she'll like put it in the cabinet, lock it, or put it somewhere. She's exactly like my uncle Mike was. My uncle Mike was famous. We brought him some stuff from Hershey, Pennsylvania one time. Uh-huh. And he took it, he took it, hit it somewhere. He's like, oh, thank you very much.  Yeah. Just not sharing. He hit it. Yeah, and Michelle does the same thing. That's smart. That's a great play. It's not very... It's not very friendly, but if it was a gift for you, protect what's yours because I don't do that. I'll just put it in the refrigerator for later. After the time you come back and it's like, oh, you wanted that? Oh. Yeah. Yeah, I did. No? It was kind of a thing. All right. It's gone. So, I mean, maybe the hiding's the way to go. But the question is, are you going to have something else too? Or are you just going to try all 10 pies? You've got to have a salty component to break it up. So when you have like a... When you have like a milk with it to kind of separate, you know... Milk? Well, but I'm saying... You're kind of a monster. No, no, no. No, but I'm saying that you will, you know, cleanse your palate, so to speak. Oh, yeah, definitely. Probably with, I mean, like coffee. Coffee? Yeah. These kind of places always have the best coffee. They always have great coffee. They always have good, like, biscuits and gravy. Mm-hmm. You've got... When you're going to a down-home place, you've got to get the down-home classics otherwise you're missing an opportunity. Like, they probably... And I probably won't go in this direction because, again, you need a savory with the sweet. But I would guess they probably have incredibly good pancakes. Oh, yeah. I would guess they have incredibly good, like... Breakfast, like, scrambles or like a hash or something like that, you know? Oh, yeah. That's what country cooking is. Because they got a... They got a serious grill. And you know it's back in the back forever and it's like seasoned and exactly what you want. Soak in all the flavor. Oh! That's like my grandmother's skillet was. Yeah! See, this is how people need to eat. Anything that my grandmother did in that skillet was going to be unbelievable. You know, just do a grilled cheese or... You know. And it's got everything. That's why when people come to this part of the country and they eat the food, for the first time, they think they've died and gone to heaven. I tell every person that I know that moves to Tennessee, you are going to gain 10 pounds. But that's just your new baseline. Enjoy it. You'll love it here. Because the food here in this region is better than any other food in this country. And I have no problem saying that. I think it is, too. And I mean, I'd like to say it's just Tennessee because I'm from Tennessee, but it's really the South. It's the South.  It's like one of the best things in the world to me is when you get a covered dish at church. I love that. Yeah. I love that. You know? That's good food. Because these ladies, and generally it's ladies, they're going to bring out something and it's going to be like, you're kidding me. Well, I mean, no, because nobody's like bringing a throwaway dish to something like that. I mean, this is cooking for the Lord. Right. And so it's going to be your best stuff every time. Well, and... I've never brought a throwaway dish to church. No. You bring the good stuff. No, but you get to, you know, those older ladies and they don't exactly need recipes. Nope. They've got the, you know, the pieces they bring. And they ain't done it in a microwave either. Oh, no. No. My stomach is like gurgling. I know. It's so hungry. I can't wait. But I don't eat like this anymore. No. I don't have time to eat like this anymore because you've got to, you've got to sit down. Yeah. Enjoy it. Well, we just don't sit down. No. The way we once did. I have tried to make a concerted effort to at least three nights a week cook and enjoy a meal. That's a great idea. At least three nights a week.  We've got a lot of people going in completely separate directions at all times. But at least. And you get a one year old and another one on the way. Yeah. I mean, we've got, we've got a lot of moving parts in my house. But three nights a week. Sometimes it's a Friday night. Sometimes it's a Tuesday night. You know, it's not always the same night. But I cook a full meal. We can eat on it for a while. Yep. But we sit down. We eat a good meal. Because there's something about eating a good meal that like sticks to your bones a little bit. Well. It kind of revives you. And the thing is, even if like, you know, I do the whole calorie counter thing. Yeah. And I know that. I don't mess with that. I know, I know. But the thing about what you're talking about is, even if you eat a big meal that is more calories than other things, it sticks to your ribs, so to speak. So you're not going in and grabbing a handful of chips later or a handful of pretzels with peanut butter or whatever. Right. I think it's better for me. Yeah. I don't think you can eat every meal like that. No. But, and it makes you so happy. I think it's, for me, it's better for my mind. Oh.  It's what I ate when I did. You kind of got a name for everything, though. Yeah, I do. But when I didn't have any money and I was just kind of starting out as an intern and literally every dollar I had went to rent. And that was about it. I ate a lot of ramen noodles, apples and peanut butter, you know, pretzels and peanut butter, peanut butter on everything. But just really quick, high process things that you could do really fast, chicken nuggets, hot pockets, you know, things that were cheap. By the way, just to stop you, I think they've got a peanut butter pie. I'll eat that. I think there's a peanut butter pie. So go ahead with your story. Yeah, I'll eat that. But anyway, so I keep these things in the house because they're easy things to just throw in real quick and eat. You know, something else that, we're going by the Lebanon exit. This is where Cracker Barrel started. Wait a minute, what? The world headquarters of Cracker Barrel is right down this road, right here. Wait, Cracker Barrel started in Tennessee? Lebanon in Tennessee, not Lebanon, you know, that always lets me know. That always lets me know somebody's not from here. But Lebanon is where Cracker Barrel started. You think about it, and that's why, I think that's one of the reasons people like Cracker Barrel so much is because it's what we talk about. It's that kind of food. It's that kind of food. It's that kind of food.  And I gotta have breakfast there every day. How did I not know this? I don't know. They are biscuits and gravy's phenomenal. Yeah, it's pretty good. It's really good. And we'll plug for Cracker Barrel here. Okay, that's good. They're catering phenomenal. Where did you have Cracker Barrel catering? Well, thank you for asking my key.  It was kind of a crazy time of the year. My family was coming into town. I was like, I do not have the mental capacity. It wasn't the cooking. It was the purchasing groceries. So what I did do is I got a turkey and a couple of sides from Cracker Barrel. They threw in a pie. But no, I'm a no winner. Did you get hash brown casserole? I sure did. Thank you. Yeah, hash brown casserole, turkey and mac and cheese. I like their green beans a lot too. Yeah. And baked apples. Baked apples are good. Yep. If you're seven. No. All the time. Because you eat them, okay, ate them for Thanksgiving dinner and then ate on them for breakfast for like five days. That can't do baked apples. I'll just have an apple if I'm gonna have an apple. Mike, you're so healthy. No, but I just Lame. No, not lame. Those baked apples are good. I can get after some Cracker Barrel. That is apples So you just found out in the Cracker Barrels in Lebanon. Yeah. Great job by you there. That's amazing. Yeah, you've only been here 10 years. You've never heard that. Where are you actually from? I get emails from them. From Cracker Barrel. Yeah. Yeah. More of my conversation with Amy Wells, but first, Hey Titans fans. It's always game on with Duncan. So grab a coffee and kick off the action. Whether that's drinking a cup of coffee on your way to the game or grabbing one to go before watching the game at home. Duncan is always there to help you get your game on. Just like the pros, we need to be at our best at game time, which is why Duncan is the most important part of your game day ritual because it's always the best call for football. Remember, America runs on Duncan. Where am I actually from? Where are you actually from? I'm actually from Columbia, Missouri. That's not where you were born. But that is the place. Where were you actually born? I was born in Bloomington, Illinois. Bloomington, Illinois. Bloomington, Illinois. Yes. So I've lived there for exactly six weeks. Okay. So not really from there. I've only been there maybe one other time. Moved to Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Yeah. Home of the Big Flood. And the Johnstown Chiefs. Yeah. Yes. I lived there until I was seven. Okay. Spent a brief 10 months in Tays Valley, West Virginia. Where is that in West Virginia? It is directly in between Huntington and Charleston. Okay. So lived there long enough for a school year, essentially. Okay. And then we moved to Columbia, Missouri when I was in the fourth grade. Okay. So that's home. So you're from Columbia, Missouri? So I'm from Columbia, Missouri. Because we moved to Franklin when I was in fifth grade. Yeah. So I'm from Franklin. That's right. I get it. If you move somewhere in grade school. And that's where you grow up. Yeah. I agree. I agree. That's not where I was born. No. But people ask me where I'm from. Right. I would say Franklin. It's where you became a person. I don't know about that. I became a person in Columbia, Missouri. I also went to college there. So, and that's where you become a person. Theoretically. Yeah. I think so. Well, that's interesting. But. I knew you'd lived in Baltimore. I've, I bounced around early. But then you were in Baltimore. Then I was in Baltimore. You know, that's the thing that a lot of Titans fans can't get over about you. Then I worked for the Ravens for the Colts. Yeah. That you were Ravens, Amy. Yeah. Well, I wasn't even. I was. What did you do there? Intern number two. Intern number two. Essentially. Yeah. I was a public relations intern for the Baltimore Ravens for my first year in 2011. And it was right after the lockout. Yeah. Which. When did you get there? Oh, so I got there about six weeks before the lockout ended. Okay. So you got there in June? Yeah. The lockout. I remember the lockout actually ended on July 27th. Yeah. And I remember that because I was coming back. We did a whole family cruise and I had essentially got no news about anything. And the first thing that when I turned my phone on, it came up that we were going to go back to Baltimore because Mr. Adams was kind enough that he still paid us. Yeah. A lot of teams did not continue to pay their employees. I got two kids and, you know, and it's like, man, I need to keep getting paid. Right.  So go ahead with your story. Right. So the Baltimore Ravens offered me the internship in June on a Tuesday. I moved to Baltimore on a Thursday. I had never been there. I knew nothing about anything. Just packed up my stuff and moved. Why did you? Why did you even do that? Did you always want to be in the NFL? Well, I wanted to work in football. It didn't occur to me that I had the option of going to the NFL. Like the idea that I could get any sort of position internship or otherwise in the national football league didn't occur to me. I thought that I was going to have to work in a college for a while. And then you graduate to pro's, you know. But a friend of mine from my family's church back home, his cousin worked for the Baltimore Ravens in their communications department. He's still there now. And so he set me up with kind of an informal interview just to get an idea of what his job is and everything. We ended up talking for a really long time on the phone and a couple weeks after that he called and asked if I wanted to interview for their season-long internship position. I said absolutely. Did the interview during a storm so my phone kept dropping the call because it was storming so badly in Columbia at the time so I had to keep calling them back. Always a good way to make a good impression. Yeah, which is a great way to make a first impression. Well, you were memorable. Yeah, I definitely was. And they ended up offering me the gig but the lockout was going on so they basically said, hey, we don't know when this is going to end or if it's going to end but when it does we need you here.  So I said, how about in two days? And they said, great. And I just packed up but you all moved out there found an apartment. My dad had taken vacation time at the same time just kind of coincidentally and so he moved out there with me and or helped me move out there I should say and hung out there for about six weeks and then the lockout ended and I started that day. I was great. Come on in. Training camp starts tomorrow. So how did you transition for Baltimore to Indianapolis? So my internship ended. I moved back to Columbia, Missouri just back into my parents' basement was there for a couple weeks and was just kind of reaching out to people around the league and Chuck Pagano had been the defensive coordinator at the Ravens when I was there he got the head coaching job with a pulse. So I and Chuck Pagano was always so kind to me. He took care of me. He always made sure that like I wasn't alone on major holidays and you know I made it to work on time but he just kind of looked out for me. Coach Mack like? Yeah, very Coach Mack like very, very much so and so when he got the job at Indianapolis it kind of put the pulse on my radar and so I just started ambushing them with calls and emails and there were a couple other coaches that ended up going with Coach Pagano over to Indian so I had some character references that said they put in a good word for me and they ended up offering me the internship initially they just offered me a training camp position so to only be there during training camp and then they had a couple people a couple staffers who ended up leaving and they needed the extra help so they just asked me if I would stay the day before I left to go to Anderson, Indiana which is where the Colts hold training camp they asked me if I would end up staying for the entire season so I threw like a couple extra t-shirts and a lamp in my car and I was like I guess I'll figure it out when I get there and I committed to the whole season again side unseen I had never been to Indiana I had never done anything I just kind of rolled into town and figured it out when I got there I'm not eating the butter pie which I learned when I got there but you had a good experience there right? I had a great experience there everyone I mean I know down with the Colts but also everybody there was very kind I've kept in touch with a bunch of people up there you make a lot of fun of me for being the queen of Indianapolis No! but I think the city is really well designed for hosting events I always enjoy when we go back there we always eat really well when we're there so I enjoy I'm glad that Indy is so close and I'm glad that they're in our division because I enjoy having the opportunity to go back there we work with them we want to meet the Colts but every time we play them we have six touchdowns and they want to do the same to us that's how it is but we work with people it's like you know how I feel about Bob Laney who was there played by play announcer he's an exceptionally nice man and a professional the guy who's doing it now Matt Taylor is one of my favorite guys they have some really really nice folks that you get to know over a period of time I'm not going to sit and say I love their organization or anything because we they're our competitors we want to beat them yeah, bad but are there certain people that we think are good folks? sure well and that's the thing about working in the National Football League as a whole there's so few people that get to do this and you get to know people who are in your other position so who have your role for a different team and you get to know the PR staff and you get to know these people and you form real relationships with them like the person who interned with me in Baltimore is now my daughter's godfather like that's crazy but that's the person that I made strong relationships with he's worked for other NFL teams I've of course worked for other NFL teams but the friendship remained how'd you year about Archer? a Super Bowl actually I was at the oh my gosh 20 I guess it would have been the 2012 Super Bowl so it was the Ravens and the 49ers and I was volunteering to work there as NFL PR people do or used to do I don't know if they still do that but at the time you needed a job in the NFL you volunteered your time for about 10 days to go do PR for the Super Bowl because there's such a huge influx of media that a team PR staff of three or four people just can't handle that load so the league brings in a bunch of people to serve as support staff and that way the PR guys for the teams that are playing are able to enjoy the experience so I volunteered to go the Ravens, the team that I had just left were in the Super Bowl which was a real kick in the face but it made me very useful because I had relationships with a lot of the players a lot of the staff so I was able to kind of be in certain places and no one really noticed I was there because I'm a familiar face and so I was able to help out a lot but anyway I'm telling people that I'm looking for a job and kind of talking around and there was someone from the Tennessee Titans Craig Peters who used to do a lot of with the Vikings now he did a lot of writing for the Tennessee Titans and the website and all that before Jim Wyatt and he said well we have a position that's opening up I know you're doing PR and there's a lot of PR elements to it but it's also going to be kind of an on camera role not sure if you'd be interested in something like that he could have told me that you were washing the floors and I'd be like oh yeah I can do that like sure I just wanted a job in the NFL I wanted to keep this thing going and so I sent him my information I guess he forwarded it along I don't remember actually applying for the job but ended up having a couple phone interviews and then they brought me in for a real interview and never did I realize how on camera heavy it actually was I thought that it was mostly a PR job and so I came in I interviewed with you if you only do the back story I'm terrified to know the back story because I don't I've never told you the back story because I don't really want you to know no? it's probably bad it's not bad but it's fascinating well I thought this was a PR job it was like it was never a PR job and I did a like an on camera test with you yes you did and I thought this is a weird thing to do for a PR job and I don't really know how to do this but I'll try and I did and I don't know if that tape exists if it does it needs to be destroyed I think it exists actually I don't know where it is Jeff Harding would know where it is but I don't want to send it down yep we did talk about the polls because I wanted to give you something to talk about that I knew you would know well it's good you didn't ask about the Titans that wouldn't have been fair but that wouldn't have been fair the whole idea was you've just been there and I was interested to see how much attention you had been paying I don't know that I had been paying a lot but I got the job well you talked about what their off season moves had been what their strengths and weaknesses I remember talking a lot about their offensive lines thinking this is a weirdly specific thing to be talking about but that's what's top of mind right now but that was what separated you and the whole thing because I told Gary Glenn right after we did it he asked me he said she didn't have a lot on camera experience and I said oh no we can work with her because you had the knowledge you understood what was important that's what you were talking about in that bit with me is you were laying out what was important for the Colts off season which told me that you were plugged in to how things work and what people are interested in because you know that's the most important part of the job is you can talk great you can look great you can package things great you can write great but what you're covering is something that people aren't interested in because you don't get it you have no chance and you got that it was it was a terrifying portion of the interview I'm sorry it didn't seem terrifying oh no fake it till you wake it but I didn't realize what the job was until a couple weeks later when I showed up for my first day which oh by the way was going on the Titan's Caravan in Cookville in Bentham County you signed autographs the serendipity of it I shouldn't be doing this you were so excited to sign autographs well no one had ever asked you for an autograph you were a little excited to have chuckled a little bit about how excited you were to sign autographs oh I'm sure because you kept talking about how excited you were to sign autographs well it blew my mind never had I ever and I thought I was a PR person until this exact moment and that's what everything kind of changed and I realized what this job was going to be and I mean it's been it's been about that crazy of a ride ever since like this ride it's been great SeatGeek is now the official ticketing partner of the Tennessee Titans that's right the deal is finalized and SeatGeek is the newest member of the Titan's family if you haven't heard well get used to it because you'll be hearing it a lot more this season whether you're buying or selling tickets to Titan's games or any other live event in Nashville SeatGeek is the place to do it and SeatGeek the new official ticketing partner of the Tennessee Titans so Titan's fans can thank you we just passed Gordonsville tell me about Gordonsville yeah Gordonsville this isn't the first time I've heard you talk about this this is one of those places you'll love because you love high school football they are one of the great single A programs in the state of Tennessee Gordonsville I remember they they had a great all time team in 1984 won the clinic bowl which was the state championship against ECS out of Memphis and then they won another state championship 11 years ago when they were able to beat maybe Huntington Tyler Cohen was the Tennessee Titans Mr. Football that year I think he was the lineman of the year when there were less classifications and we used to do back in lineman once they went to 19 classifications we had to kind of cut it back because we knew that the Academy awards if they did all of the awards on TV you'd be there for like 7 hours you'd have to do lunch and dinner but so they have been to the state playoffs over 30 times I think it's like 35 or 36 times which is really amazing because until 1985 only the district winner went to the playoffs now it's tiered I think 4 teams from each region go to the playoffs and it gives people a chance in 85 to win championships from each district but they've won state championships and I remember Mark Medley was their coach in 83 and 84 I think they were runners up in 83 they won the state in 84 and then 2012 they won it and so it's one of those really cool places where football is such a big deal the last I checked I think the overall population of Gordonsville was less than 1500 people and yet they have strong football which is a community bond which is something phenomenal that's why I love high school sports well and if there's anybody who knows where there's good high school football in this state it's you well they were good when I was in high they were a big story when I was playing so I would read the newspaper you got your name in the paper and you wanted to read about everybody else and Brad Cowan was their big star you knew all these names and they were such a big deal and I still like to read all that stuff now because I think it's fun to think about what a big deal it is to those people and your husband does an amazing job with our high school football stuff and I mean if I had been around and the Titans invited me to be player of the week or coach of the week or to a camp or I mean I would have just I would have gone crazy well it's such a cool thing to be able to listen there's so much more than they want to be able to do when it comes to outreach and if the Titans had a staff of 38 people who could just be doing high school football things it still wouldn't be enough because there's so much that you could do in so many areas because the crossover is so natural and so easy but being able to just put the Titans logo that means so much to so many people around here on different things and let guys be associated with that brand for a game for part of the Friday night football series that the Titans do when they come out and they bring cheerleaders and they get excited or being a coach of the week or being the game of the week or just being associated with an NFL brand and being able to wear that sticker wear that stamp you know it makes the entire game the entire school and a lot of times the entire community the school is in feel like they're part of something so much bigger to be associated with the NFL it makes everything that much you know who digs all this too is Mike Frable oh yeah Mike Frable is like the biggest champion of it because he gets it well because I mean he still got pictures of him being the runner up for state player of the year in Ohio when Mark Edwards the running back who went on to Notre Dame was the player of the year and he was the runner up and I mean and we talk to guys all the time and their college memories are special obviously their Titans memories are special but none of that eclipses high school stuff no ever ever and that's not they can make all this money and buy all these cars and build houses and you know all kinds of stuff and be famous and whatever but man if you talk to Derek Henry about you Lee yeah I mean he's going to talk to you about that he'll talk to you about it and there's always that game you know either that game where they balled out and it was incredible and they just smile and grin or the one that got away uh huh and that one that will always bug them forever and the fact that that high school sports can have that lasting an impact on a person is I mean that's the best part of all this crazy rose garden home style cooking right there it's a real place it's a real place we're almost there here's old Baxter road and here it is we're here oh this really just sneaks right up on you doesn't it says restaurant oh it's cute this is it that does it for this edition of the OTP we hope that you have a great holiday weekend Framie Wells on Mike Keith thanking you for listening to the OT


I describe Aussies as people who work hard and play hard and I love that they value the work-life balance because it means that they love, that they value family as well as they value their work. They're always open and willing to connect with Papua New Guinea. People here are very kind, they're generous, and they're organized. The best thing is that they're very organized. Late back, friendly, and they're really resourceful. Very genuine, very friendly, and very helpful. They treat everyone equally. Very friendly, and they love a good banter. I would say Aussies are very laid back, they're cool, and that's what we'd say in Jamaica, they're airy.


A lot of people ask if bariatric surgery works. Overall, the data is overwhelmingly positive. Patients have improved quality of life. There is resolution or at least improvement in multiple medical problems such as diabetes, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, but even things like cancer risk of certain cancers are reduced. And overall, that leads to a longer life expectancy. But what patients really need to know is bariatric patients are overall happier and healthier after surgery. What makes our program different is the large amount of experience we have. Our program did the first minimally invasive gastric bypass in the state of New Jersey over 20 years ago. We've trained 50 surgeons at our nationally recognized fellowship program, and we have 12 fellowship-trained bariatric surgeons on staff here. We do over 1,000 bariatric cases a year, and we are a referral center for complex and revisional surgery. So to deal with complex cases, the first steps have the right amount of experience and training. So the 12 fellowship-trained surgeons in this program have a breadth of knowledge and general surgery training, but they also have specialized training in bariatric minimally invasive foregut and sometimes robotic surgery that helps us tackle these complex cases. The second part of that is a strong partnership with a multidisciplinary team of advanced endoscopists, radiologists, medical specialists that can help deal with these complex patients. What I want patients to know at the program it's a comprehensive bariatric program that is not just about surgery. We provide personalized, patient-centered care because no two patients are alike. We pride ourselves on our vigorous aftercare program through regular follow-up with surgeons, ongoing support with our dieticians, and a partnership with our fitness and wellness center. So as a general surgeon in training, we do a lot of gastrointestinal and GI surgery, but what's special about bariatric surgery is the long partnership you have with your patient. You know, it's not just surgery and it's over. You follow them and you get to see their medical problems improve and coming off their medications, feeling healthier, happier, but even the little things, the things that we take for granted. So like playing in the park with your kids, going to the movies, fitting in a chair in like an airplane or a movie theater. I mean, those things are really important and it is fulfilling to be able to use your training to help people and see them be successful.


K. Faib populism, notes from the edge of the narrative matrix. It's so important that the public have no real say in US politics that the Empire not only set up two oligarchic puppet parties, which pretend to oppose each other, but also set up fake populist movements within each of those factions, which pretend to be fighting the establishment within those parties.  If you don't fall for the first K. Faib conflict and realize the game is rigged for the powerful, you can still end up buying into the fake populist movements set up to oppose them. I fell for them both early on in this commentary gig. But after a while of watching what they do as opposed to just listening to what they say and seeing where they actually stand and fight or refuse to fight, you see it's all an inception level fakery. The opposition is controlled and so is the opposition to the opposition. It's like when you dream you're waking up from a dream, but you're actually in another dream.  This all sounds like an awful lot of work to go through until you remember that an entire globe-spanning empire depends on the ability to prevent the American public from either a voting in a disruptive government or b fighting a revolution. So much power rides on their ability to do this. Ever since the school shooting in Texas, we've been watching an entire country learn that it's not actually cops job to save anyone or risk any danger. And the only reason they assumed otherwise was because of movies and TV shows. Idea for an action movie. The Rock needs to rescue his kid from an elementary school where there's an active shooter. But first he needs to fight his way through an army of cops trying to stop him. You end mass shootings in America by ceasing to have America serve as the hub of a globe-spanning empire that's held together by violence and non-stop mass media psyops. It's not impossible. It's not even difficult. It's just not an option anyone in charge would ever entertain. I'm finding myself having less and less patience with people who think the U.S. is an innocent little flower regarding the Ukraine war.  Friendly reminder that for a fraction of the cost of funding a world-threatening proxy war against Russia, the U.S. could simply have protected Zelensky from the neo-Nazi militias who were threatening to lynch him if he tried to make peace with Russia and prevented this entire war. The airhead mainstream narrative that Ukrainian forces have been destroying Russian troops and humiliating Putin in epic win after epic win has become unsustainable. Here's a tweet from Bloomberg. Russian troops are making steady progress in Ukraine's east. That's sparking fears they could be poised for a bigger breakthrough. Here's from Reuters. Ukraine says troops may retreat from eastern region as Russia advances. And from the Washington Post, Ukrainian leaders project an image of military invulnerability against Russia, but commanders offer a more realistic portrait of the war, where outgun volunteers is described being abandoned by their military brass and facing certain death on the front.   Whenever I try to talk about the risk of the Ukraine war escalating into a nuclear holocaust, I get people telling me that if that happens, it will be Putin's fault. Like that would make it okay somehow. Like that would somehow validate all the steps our leaders took to get us to that point.  Even pretending it's certain that Russia would be the one to initiate a nuclear exchange, would that thought actually comfort you when you feel the earth shake? Would you feel any better about the decisions which gave rise to that moment by telling yourself Putin started it? I mean, if there's any time where it doesn't matter who started it, it's when the mutual and destruction part of mutually assured destruction goes into action, yeah? I think at that point all our dopey team sports cheering and booing pretty much goes out the window now. Hollywood lies about what American journalists really do in the same way it lies about what American soldiers and police really do, and it has just as disruptive an effect on people's perception of reality. People who accuse you of having Kremlin loyalties when you question or criticize the U.S. empire are admitting that they don't care whether statements are true or false, only whether they demonstrate loyalty to our rulers. That's the lens through which they examine the world, and it's pure brain poison. How can people think lucid thoughts and engage in lucid discourse about ideas and events when they are continuously measured not by how truthful they are, but by what loyalties they appear to demonstrate? They cannot. Empire loyalists have exactly two arguments. One, that foreign leader my government dislikes is comparable to Adolf Hitler, and two, if you object to what my virtuous government has planned for that leader, it means you love and support that leader. I honestly don't understand how anyone can stay abreast of the day-to-day depravity of the oligarchic empire without a daily practice geared toward inner peace. Things are so insane and confusing and are only getting more so. You've got to have a regular discipline to form stability. Meditation, self-inquiry, healing, and energy practices, whatever gets you there, but surely you've got to have something before you can stare into the face of the beast continuously without going mad. I can't imagine looking at this thing every day without any kind of a practice.


Lavrov. West plans in Ukraine will not come true. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the Russian armed forces had taken all necessary measures to prevent the Western Ukrainian plans from coming true and they will not come true. We are watching how the discussions on continuing to pump Ukraine with more and more serious weapons, including offensive weapons, develop in the West. We see all this and not only observe but we also take the necessary measures to prevent attempts to transform Ukraine further. Lavrov, Egyptian Foreign Minister. It's a more serious threat to our security, he said after meeting with. Whatever our Western partners say, no matter how much they try to justify their actions to fill Ukraine with weapons, everyone understands well. The point is that NATO has been in a hybrid war against Russia for a long time, Lavrov added. He noted that the Russian armed forces and special operations command took all necessary measures to prevent the West's plans from coming true and they will not come true. Lavrov concluded. Lavrov said that Moscow is not supporting the idea of severing diplomatic relations with Poland and the Baltic countries. It is necessary to maintain channels for dialogue even in a difficult situation. We are not in favor of severing diplomatic relations even in the most difficult situation. It is necessary to maintain channels for dialogue, resolving issues of our fellow citizens and compatriots. Lavrov told. Poland and the Baltic countries are states where a frantic Russophobic campaign has been unfolding for a long time and which are trying to be the cooperators of any anti-Russian undertakings of the West, the minister said, adding that bilateral relations with these countries have recently degraded catastrophically.


Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the match preview Tottenham Hotspair vs Everton Monday Night Football. Yeah, another big game for Everton. It's not ideal, it's on a Monday night because it could look... Yeah, it will be interesting to see how it looks come Monday night. But let's not think about that now. It's a strange team aren't they Tottenham? It's got good players but obviously their form is very, very up and down. Coming off the back of the feet of Middlesbrun in the FA Cup. Before that beat Leeds, only the Premier League 4-0. It beat Manchester City but then got beat by Bailey. So very strange team to predict aren't they? Yeah, it's weird. It's strange because they've got everything in place there. It showed me the solid. They've got some good players, they've got Harry Kane. He's a fabulous son. He's a good player. And yeah, there's just something missing with them. I don't know what it is. I can't put my finger on it. They had a great win like you said at City but that was coming off the back-to-back home defeat against Southampton and Wolves. So they are up in that. And then he followed that City win with the defeat of Burnley like you said and then he beat Leeds 4-0. And then they're out at Middlesbrun. So they really are at the moment, patty. And then quite clearly going into this one, we know the obvious threat. Those two up front, you know Harry Kane dropping into that number 10 position. Just incredible, brilliant vision and the amount of goals that he's made for Sun. He has a partnership, a fantastic idea. And then he's got a cool of Eskies on loan from you. They've got a nice left foot on me, someone to watch as well. So got loads of good players. Tough game, you know, evident. In fact the only game evident with one in the last 18 against Bears was this fixture last season. But there's no crad in them and evident one with the bottom of the card. It does seem such a long time ago doesn't it when we played that game. Obviously the start of the season, Carlo. A great start in the season. It does seem a long time ago. But it's always a tough game going down there. Obviously Conti for them has come in and not had it all his own way. And obviously he's been quite public about that. And after he got beat up Burnley a lot of talk that he could actually leave. Just because of the way he was talking. But he's come out and he said in his press conference ahead of this game, I'm allowed to be emotional. I'm allowed to, if I'm going to say something, I'm going to say it. I shouldn't have to hide the way I feel essentially. I suppose a lot of managers in the Premier League do try and do that. They don't like to give anything away. But he's saying I'll be emotional if I want to be emotional. But I don't want to be emotional. He's obviously also, I think being sort of critical of what he's been allowed to do. What he was allowed to do in the transfer window even though we brought a couple of decent players in. And at the same time this is down to the players who've been here all this time. Why managers have come and gone. So it is an interesting space. Spaces feel like us just a little bit further along. But you know the sort of stuck in that little loss at the moment as well. Of course they've got good players. Harry Kane as you mentioned and so on. A brilliant partnership who I think after the Leeds game. John the Leeds game and they get the most combinations. Goes going combinations in the Premier League. So when you think some of the top players who were in the Premier League. But that does show that. If you can try and stop them. If you can try and stop the ball getting to them. If you can cut that supply off. Then you've got a chance. You've got a chance and obviously you know I think they've got to be by walls. They've got to be by self-hams in the home recently as well. So I think it's about. It's right in four days. I think it's definitely about you know going there and working hard. Stopping the opportunities. I didn't see them but. They do get frustrated. I think they are on the other side. I do think they prefer to play away from home. I think that frees them up a little bit. But it's going to be tough just because. Simple fact is that away form is not being good enough. Anywhere near good enough. And even with Frank Llanpar coming in. The two way games we've played have been very very poor. So we need to see at least what we saw in the city game in terms of. Effort and desire and the ability on the ball. To fashion some chances. Otherwise you know. There's very little chance of taking any points in this game. Yeah that's been a problem. Intensity and ability to keep that pressing game going. When they're away from home. It's fine. With the crowd. And we've been successful at home under Frank Llanpar. Four home games. He's won three of them. And lost one to sitting. You know we should have got something out of that one. So but it has been away from home. The two way games he's played so far have been poor performance. Southampton was worse than Newcastle and after Newcastle. As I said we struggled to be worse than we were that night. And we were at Southampton after the opening 15-20 minutes. So we've got to go to. We go to Spades. Got to try and get on the front foot. Got to try and. Make sure we stop them playing. Stop King dropping into the 10 and having it all his own way. And if we do that we know we've got plays that deal them under the pit. That can hurt them. And Calvert Louing look like they'll be back in the squad. The Corey's back. Which is a big huge thing for Evan. Traffing back. So go on to you know. Go in we have Van der Beech, Deli back to his eh. Yeah that'd be interesting. Deli because obviously he can play. He's back in the squad. Donnie Van der Beech be back so. You know it's a game that Evan can get something out of definitely. But we know how good Spades can be. And let's just hope they have an off night. Yeah it's obviously for me I think it's about going for the three midfielder again. Obviously Donnie Van der Beech went off with cramp. Cramp I think it wasn't a city wasn't it. So he's going to be okay. He didn't play in the cup game obviously cup tied. So he's going to be available at plenty of rest. He's available. He's got Deli Alley there going back to his old team. That'll be interesting as well. But I think we've got to play with the three Alan de Corey. Obviously massively important. We're big plays in this fixture last season. You know we had them too bad against them recently. 2-2 against them last season and again we should have beaten them. We should have won. FA Cup win last season against them as well. You know win at their place so. Yes it's a difficult season and it's a draw which we should have won. So it's a you know I think that was that country's first game as well. I mean they could have won it. They hit the post of the last minute as well. But we should have had the penalty option as well. Absolutely. So it is a very difficult game if those two for them click. But again for us there's choices. You know who does he go with. Does he stick with. With Charleston. Gordon the Wobby. He's got Grey. Don't want to have it looming. So we have got players that can come in. You know does he. I don't know where you find the position for Deli Alley in the side of the moment. But we have got a few options. It's just about for Frank Lampard. Understanding what he needs to do and where we can hit them. You know these. I've played three at the back. They've played four at the back as well haven't they. So I think again as always it's going to be that midfield battle. I think that's why again we've got to have the three in there. And I think we will. I think we'll use the three for the rest of the season. Because now he's got the three. You know he's mentioned the court. He's saying he's unlike a lot of plays in the Premier League. His unique skillset. Allen is a lot more versatile in the three as well. Get around the pitch and Donny van the Bakes. That player who is so comfortable on the board that he can pick it up. Take it and then move it along. And I think that is the three. And it's going to be interesting then how we work it. Do we play. Do we go with like defensive full backs attacking full backs. You know there's a few different things. It's just obviously so far. We haven't really found the formula. Slightly away from home. We've got to start finding it. We've got to start picking up points. Absolutely we can rely on the home games. Even though the home games may be what? Ultimately key seven. You've got to start building something. Absolutely. How can you not play away from home? They took six points away from home all season. It's absolutely criminal. You know it's March. And everyone took six points. And we had three of them after this. We had four after the first two away games. So we took two points since August away from home. That's embarrassing. And yeah those two points were at Old Trafford in Stamford, Britain. So we've lost us some drosh in between. And don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to try away from that. But to take six points away from home is a disgrace. And it's about time. I'm starting to pick on some points. Yeah, because you just mentioned the day. You start picking points away from home. It takes the pressure off even if it's a draw. It takes the pressure off at home then.  Totting it up. I don't know if I've just got to go there. Game plan, whichever it's going to be. Are we going for the win? Are we going to try and stop spares from creating chances for our goals? Let's just hope it's a positive result. If we win there, it'll be the first time since 2007. We won in six, we won in seven and we won in 2008. We've been three years on the run there. And if they lose, countries never lost three home games in their career on the run. So it's against on spares having lost three home games since the Juan de Mamos. What's the man with it? Back in 2008 or something. They don't normally do it. But then that's football, isn't it? We won a lot of away games last season and we won at places like Arsenal and Anfield where we had one for 20-odd years. Let's have a look at Sun's numbers for this season. 22 o'clock, 22 starts, 10 goals, 5 assists, 2.4 shots per game. His movements are so clever the way, and the way Kane pulls off and has now become that number 10. We've seen the goal last week, the fourth goal against Leeds, absolutely fantastic. And the way Sun got over the top of him. It's funny isn't it, the way he used to be almost like that big bar player come off the bench and scored goals and they had to find a way. Harry Kane has adapted his game so well to pull into that space because he's so good on the ball. There's such a threat. The vision is unbelievable, Harry Kane. The vision is in Kane. Sun's a great finisher. You've got to just try to limit that space for him to run into because there's a threat. Oh, you know there's a side with some. They've got some average players in, but they've got some really good players as well. But then you've seen like the other night against Middlesbrough, for me they didn't do a tap in that game. Middlesbrough beat them in extra time because they deserved to get beat. On the night it wasn't a fluke. They had a very strange football side. They just can't get that consistency. So then I'm going to put three-plast on the knee in the weekend. Wolves don't score loads of goals when I put three-plast on the knee. So you know you're getting chances against them. You've got to take them. Let's just have a look at their team. So obviously that's the amount you play three at the back for Midfield and then the three up front or certainly certainly two behind Harry Kane. Yeah. I don't know, isn't it cool if Esgi, like you said, there's a real threat.  You know Everton is very similar to what Everton played actually under Lampard as well. Whether it'll be interesting to see whether we go back to that against them or whether we stick with the 4-3-3. I personally would stay with the 4-3-3. Yeah. I think we look better balanced with it. I think you've got them three in midfield, I think van der Beek will always offer himself up for the ball likes to take it inside spaces and keep it and keep you going. And the core, I just get around and put it in and then can do the other bit in between and if he's got Richard Arlish on one side and Damari Grey do the other with Don through the middle then I think that's our best. It'd be unfortunate on Anthony Gordon but then he, you know, I think he'd be a good threat coming off the bench. Or unless he went with Gordon on one side with the other and Damari Grey coming off the bench. Like you said before there are options there. You've got Deli from the bench as well. So there's choices there which is good. It'll be a tough game for it. They don't terrify me space. They're a good side and kind, brilliant. But it's a game I look at and think like well let's go and get something then. Let's get something maybe if people don't expect it then cos we were robbed last week against the city around from getting a point that people wouldn't give us a chance of getting. That was taken away from us by the officials so let's double down this week and make sure we get something. Absolutely do. It'll be strong. I've mentioned a couple of these already. Evan have lost 13 of the last 17 Premier League games. Brilliant. Which is scandalous. Evan have winless in their last 10 away games. Two draws, eight defeats. It's their longest run without a win on the road within the same Premier League campaign since a run of 11 between December and May in 2003 and four. Conti is unbeaten in all of his five Premier League games against Evan. Interesting. He's got a million goals past us. Job and pick for place it'll be the 200th Premier League appearance. It'll be the 21st player to make 200 plus appearances in the competition with 100% of them being in the starter. And he's also the fifth player to make his 200th appearance in the competition on his birthday after Noel Wieland. Do you have any thoughts on that? There you go. There you go. Let us know your thoughts on this one. Obviously it's always just tricky. It just always feels tricky going down to Tottenham obviously. But this one. Unbeaten last season against them. Unbeaten this season so far against them. So if we can keep that going then it will be obviously look a little better for us and take that into the upcoming home game. So let us know your thoughts in the comments. How do you think this one is going to go? Make sure you give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already. If you want more great videos, daily live videos. Join us over on Patreon. The link is on the screen and it's in the description right now. See you later.


Hello everyone. Welcome to Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 showcase. During this showcase, some wonderful people will be presenting their works which they did during the hackathon, so get ready to be inspired with some great projects which are done in really short time. Before we start, I have a quick announcement that right after this session to be more precise at 1530 UTC, we will have a jitsi meeting for social gathering, discussions, Q&A, and rest of the showcase for people who doesn't prefer to be recorded. So if you hang on to your seats, the first presentation is from Isaac and will be about visualizing Wikipedia link gender statistics. Sounds very interesting. Mike is yours, Isaac. Thank you. Hi all. I'm Isaac Johnson. I'm a research scientist with the Wikimedia Foundation and today I'll be showcasing the Wikigender script which is a user script that visualizes the distribution of men, women, and people with non-binary gender identities that are linked from Wikipedia articles. The script aims to help uncover systemic biases associated with gender and links on Wikipedia. I want to give some acknowledgments up front. The script was developed by user Taylor Robinson during this hackathon. The backend API that provides the data was developed by me, user Isaac WMF, and the design for the script that you're about to see was inspired by the human and key project. So as an example of what the script does, let's look at the English Wikipedia article for modern art. You'll notice the script inserts a button with the gender equality symbol on the right side of the page. Clicking on that symbol sends a request to the API that I built for the gender statistics associated with the current version of this article. And this is data that's all taken directly from Wikidata, but the backend API contains a snapshot of the data that is pre-formatted to keep the tool quick. All right. So when the data sent back, the script does two things. It adds the summary view at the top where you can see that only 11% of the links to people in this article are for women and there's no transgender or non-binary representation in this article. And as we scroll through this article, we can see that this representation is even more imbalanced in terms of link position. All of the links in the first half of the article are to men and it's not until we get to this kind of see also type section that we begin to see links to women artists. Now if I scroll back to the top and we switch to a different language, say Italian Wikipedia, the script still works. It's in though in its current form it has its layout fully in English still, but we can request the statistics look again. And here we'll see that the Italian version is even more skewed towards male artists. And again that kind of positionality bias exists perhaps even more strongly. So with that kind of in conclusion, I'd like to remind folks that this is a work in progress, but please let us know if you have any feedback on the design. But thanks for watching and I hope that this tool inspires some editing and highlights the importance of work done by groups like Women in Red to combat the gender bias on Wikipedia. Thank you. Thank you Isaac. I am a Women in Red volunteer, so personally I am very interested with this project. And our next presentation is from Luca Mauri and will be about Datatrack, which is a specific Wikipedia instance. Have your stay Luca. Hello, good afternoon. Thank you for having me. So this is very quick presentation for the moment. It's for a small project we are working for some time now. We are from Italy and we are a small group of trackers as you might have imagined. And we run the most complete guide to start track in Italian language. This is a project that is running since several years in different forms. But just recently we migrated a few years ago the project to a standard wiki that is called wiki track. And again more recently in the end of last year we set up a wiki-based instance in order to get the data for our wiki directly from a structured data source. There is actually Datatrack. Datatrack is the site you can see now. So it's a standard media wiki instance with the wiki-based installation. And it provides open data access to start track specifics. So it comprises of course data that might be present also in wiki data for instance. But since this is a specific one we can put in this site also data that are not acceptable, not broad enough for wiki data, but that can be more specifically put into a site like this. I can quickly show you around as you see it is a pretty standard installation. I can show you the setup of a very recent episode that went online. As you can see we are taking advantage of the multi-language capability of wiki-based. So we have of course data in Italian that are useful for our own site. But we will also keep translation for at least in some part of the site in English for instance and in German sometimes. So as you can see we have an organized bunch of data regarding episode for instance in regards to technical data on the episodes, the stars and all the navigation data, external links and also some site links organized in order to simplify the inter wiki links. We can have another look at for instance a fictional vehicle that of course this is a hero ship from one of the main series. As you can see we have a lot of data from it and a very complete site of site links in order to simplify inter wiki. This project is of course open to anybody. So we wanted to let everybody know that it exists. It can be consumed also for of course it is an open wiki-based installation. So it can be consumed from other sources and from other products and we of course welcome the support and the contribution from other users regardless the language you can contribute in. Data track is available on this URL you see here. We also maintain our statistics in wiki apiary. We have an entry in the wiki-based registry we have a twitter account and finally we maintain a github repository with some interesting custom-made lua code that we are using to get information from this site and to present it to our main wiki track. So this is for all the trackers out there to gather and came here to to help us or to take data from from this. So well thank you very much this is this is the site next your time. Thank you very much Luca. Our next presentation is coming from Lucas Wackmeister and will be about M3 API. I hope I read it correctly which is a minimal modern media wiki api client. Mike is yours Lucas. Thanks. Hello I have to admit that my hackathon project I didn't start from scratch at this hackathon but I took some code that I had lying around on my heart disk for a while and polished it and cleaned it up and split it up and added tests and then I called the result M3 API which is the minimal modern media wiki api client. So let's start with the media wiki api client it's a library that you use for JavaScript to interact with the media wiki api so you would create a session for English Wikipedia let me zoom in just a little bit ignore that and then you can make API requests action query, metasite info if there's an array in the value it converts it to a list automatically standard stuff and then you do with those API results whatever you want and what the minimal part in the name means is that this is most of what there is to it it's not a big framework like Pi wiki bot for instance or some other libraries which put a lot of abstractions above the API and then you have something like a function to get a page and then you can make edits to a page and then at the end there's a save method which will do something with the API that's fine there's nothing wrong with that but I just prefer libraries that are a lot closer to the API and so you use these actions directly and you know exactly how you use the API and so if you prefer that style then this is more the library for you so in that respect it's pretty close to the mw api in python but there wasn't anything similar in javascript as far as I could tell so now we have this and it's also modern which mainly just means it uses promises so you use a weight here instead of some callback thing a bit more modern is this which is an async iterator so the module can do query continuation for you and automatically follow the multiple results and then you can as incarnately iterate over that and at the end if you break out of the loop in this example then it stops making more API requests so yeah that's the name explained and so far this is just the version 0.1 I still have ideas for some features that I want to add but haven't added yet but already works is that you can use this from node.js and also in the browser you'll just have to if you use it in the browser you'll have to add origin star because otherwise you can't make cross origin requests and I'm hopefully going to publish this to npm.js later this evening but because I did a stupid and don't know how to use npm I couldn't publish it before so you'll just have to wait a few more hours for that but then if you want you can use this to build your own projects using the media wiki API in javascript and let me know if there's anything missing and maybe I might add that for version 0.2 or eventually a version 1.0 as well but so far this is just the beginning of this I guess thank you thank you Lucas our next speaker is Haas Medine Turkey and we'll be talking about developing a bot to add mess information from APIs to wiki data which is open site patience bot Mike is your Haas Medine I think there is a technical issue um yeah if the next speaker is ready maybe we can continue I'm just waiting a kick from the backstage okay then okay then we can continue with with Galder Gonzanes and the session it will be about Olympic data tone and this is a very hot topic so sounds very interesting have your say Galder hello thank you Nestlehan so some weeks ago I discovered that most of the information we have I'm going to serve my screen I'm going to serve my screen some of the information we have here like for example who won every gold medal or how many gold silver and bronze medals were won by any given country at any given olympics weren't at wiki data so I decided to start an olympic data tone and edit a tone so some people has been here some work has been done not every work and most of the things are not already done and some of the queries we are asking here are not even remotely impossible but one thing I made goes to upload every medal won by every team in the history of all the olympics like this is for example for the current yet finished olympics like gold silver and bronze how how much of them and I have uploaded this for every olympics summer or winter in all the history for all the teams and also some other users like Mr. Synergy has added all the olympia event to all the sporting events but we still miss some information like for example participation of every athlete in which olympic because this is quite messy currently and I tried with open refine but it was really hard because there are a lot of people and it's really hard for open refight to find them but well this information is here so I created a template in basque wikipedia that automatically takes this information from wiki data and so here is the basque wikipedia article about the this one the the united states of the 2020 summer olympics so with only this piece of code we can get this one and this is available for all wikipedia now but we still are missing here the information about who won what because this will need some information here some other things to do and some really complex queries that someone who knows about it should write so Listeria can can do this list automatically and so this is the the work done and let's hear the next speaker thanks a lot gather and let us try again with house a medina I hope it will work this time again and Mike is yours has a medina with our open citation spot do you hear me yeah okay so uh hello everyone so I will be showing some insights about what we have I have done during the wiki uh the wiki uh mania hackathon this year so to introduce ourselves we are a research unit from Tunisia working on data engineering and semantics in general and we are specifically focusing on wikimedia projects so this wikimedia research unit has been created through the collaboration between i3 e tunisia section and wikimedia tunisia as well as the technical aspects so as a research unit we have been concerned about the lack of citations in wik in the scholarly publications that are uh that are indexed by wiki data no digraph and so we had to search for a note for a semantic database that includes citation data and this database should be cc0 so that we cannot have some problems with uh related to uh legal barriers for the reuse of data so we have thankfully we have uh found open citations which is uh an open database for citations and it allows reuse thanks to its cc0 license so thankfully it has a restful api so we will use it so I have done this kit library repository I will share with you the code so I use it request to get the data from that uh from this database and to get the list of our articles in wiki data I used a database uh of james here you shared in fiq chair here that is uh extracted using w damper which is a tool that allows the creation of customized damps for wiki data information so I used that I just read in the line I just uh I did the doi and the wiki data items and I am searching for information user requests from the doi or from the api of open citations so thanks to this I have I will get the doi of all references of each publication in wiki data and to uh to reconcile this dois for the references with wiki data items uh actually uh uh found in uh in wiki data I use this tool which is the wiki data hub tool that allows to return the wiki data item of another wiki data item based on its external identifier and hopefully it has uh gson uh database okay so uh I use this one I'm I I got the wiki data items and I have shared I've shared uh somewhere okay so later on if the wiki data item does not exist in wiki data I have to create a new item so hopefully open citations api has the doi uh has a metadata api that can be used to return metadata for uh an an available article so we can get all the data from there and you use them to create new items for in-existing items in wiki data so once all the data is here where we use wiki uh wiki base integrator as a tool to must upload new information to wiki data and wiki base integrator I must recognize that there are many options for uploading the such information to wiki data there is the the media wiki api there is the py wiki bot but I think and I believe that wiki base integrator is the most easy way so all what you have to log in is to create a login instance and then according to the type of the object you have to set the the statements and then create the references like this create the qualifiers and set up all the things and using uh item engine and write you can add directly informations from wiki data so we have done some some sets of uh of uh trials using uh open citations bot and we found that it has been successful indeed to create new items as you see here as well as to create as well to uh to add citation work relations to wiki data so that's all what I have to share I have just to say that this could not be possible without showing it this bot for in the first day of uh of wiki mania apikaton and thanks to interaction we have got plenty of issues that have been solved to get the better output so thank you wiki mania apikaton thank you house and media and this was our last presentation for this session before closing the session I want to thank to all of the contributors who gave their efforts during the hackathon personally I feel full of inspiration after short cases which displays how great projects can be done in really short time so many thanks to participants please do not forget that you can still add your project to showcase page on the wiki even if you don't prefer to present it in live stream and also another kind of reminder shortly we will have a gist meeting for social gathering Q&A discussions and rest of the showcase where you can join without being recorded so I hope seeing you there thanks for listening


the importance of emotions, whereas, and that's something I totally believe because even in my book, I talk about the rise of emotions in the workplace. Is that something that you observe where you sit at your vantage point, both of you, when you're looking at, you know, what's the scenario like in your environment, and let's say in the European environment? My biggest discovery or what I have learned from George was this, the centrality of emotions in everything we do.  And that was my big takeaway, which was a transformative learning for me from this. And now what I do like, we talk, I mean, I come from a strategy angle. And a lot of time, strategists think it's about an intellectual content, but it is not, right? At the end of the day, it's about getting the team together, getting them to buy into the idea of what you want to do. So that's without being a good emotional connector, you cannot be a good leader.