Item number SCP-3494 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures Contained instances of SCP-3494 are to be held in a secure anomalous item locker at Site-40. Foundation agents embedded in local law enforcement agencies in the Newark, New Jersey area are to monitor local television stations for SCP-3494 advertisements, removing them when possible. Additionally, Mobile Task Force ROW-900, codenamed Gutbusters, are to search for and contain instances of SCP-3494 and administer amnestics to those with knowledge of SCP-3494. Individuals who have been administered a dose of SCP-3494 are to be held at the Site-40 Anomalous Waste Management Center in specialized waste removal cells until such time as a remedy to their condition is made available. Research into the person of interest known as DADDO is ongoing. Description SCP-3494 is the collective name for a group of anomalous pharmaceuticals advertised as Superlax by DADDO. Unlike previous anomalous drugs manufactured by the individual known as DADDO, SCP-3494 is marketed to the population directly, usually through television ads consisting of a white screen with black text that is spliced into other advertisements during daytime hours. The source of these advertisements is unknown. SCP-3494 instances are cream-colored tablets, roughly 1.1 cm in length, and are delivered to customers in a zipper bag with the words Superlax by DADDO, written on its exterior in black marker. A typed note on standard Xerox paper within the bag indicates that SCP-3494 is a laxative and is, quote, the last anti-poop you will ever need or want, end quote. SCP-3494 has also been advertised in a cream form, quote, to apply directly to problem but whole, end quote. Individuals who are not currently experiencing constipation who are administered a dosage of SCP-3494 are unaffected by the drug, although few have experienced a sudden numbness in the lower gut that lessens over time. However, any individuals who are currently constipated will experience the apparent intended effective SCP-3494, which is the seemingly never-ending expulsion of fecal matter from the subject's anus. While subjects who experience this effect do not otherwise feel any discomfort, they are also powerless to control the expulsion of waste matter. The waste is seemingly generated from an extra-spatial area somewhere within the subject, as not only will the amount of waste produced quickly exceed the subject's body weight, but tested samples of this waste indicate that, after the initial expulsion of waste, all other samples contained human biological material that did not match the subject's genetic profile. So far, all subjects who have been administered a dosage of SCP-3494 are continuing to experience the effects of SCP-3494. There is currently no known method by which to abate these effects. All known afflicted subjects have been moved to the Site-40 Waste Management Facility to help control the flow of waste. Addendum 3494.1 Hotline Communication Advertisements for SCP-3494 often reference a toll-free phone number, 1-800-IM-DADDO, that can be used to order additional dosages of SCP-3494. The following is the transcript from phone calls made by Foundation agents to this number. Begin Agent Mills Log Yes or no? You have reached DADDO? Yes. Home of fine DADDO product and also laundry in turn. How am I can be help you? I… Yes. I'm Agent Mills of… No, I am not interested in your product. Please yes. Do not come back. Thank you. And Log Begin Agent Western Log Yes or no? This is DADDO you are speaking to. Home of fine DADDO product and also laundry in turn. How helpful can I to you be? Yes. Hi. My name is Pat Demure and I saw your advertisement for the Superlax on the TV and I am intrigued. I'm thinking about pulling the trigger, but before I do, I just want to get some more information. Ah yes, very good. Well, you know I need to pull trigger. No gun allowed at laundry in turn, of course. But yes, I help with Superlax. Best lax on market currently. 100% removal of walkage. Get it all out. Best remedy for what else? How many I order for you? Now, one moment. I have a few questions myself. But now a friend of mine took some of your Superlax and they've experienced what I might describe as an excessive waste with… Yes. …considerable waste.  Clean it all out. Yes. Very effective remedy. I see. Yes. But she felt like maybe not all the waste was hers. Yes, that is correct. You mean that's intended? Yes. Why would that ever be intended? Well, you see, that is very simple, of course. Before Datto makes his fine Superlax, he conducts a clinical trial with Focus Group. Focus Group is said to Datto, need to get it all out. Clean out all the poop. So Datto considers this and Datto would think there is many poop in the world. Yes. How best to get it out? Well, fortunately for Datto, Datto is the best vocal ever thinker. You have run in the Uber. Yes. Like the ride-sharing service? Uh, yes. Yes, exactly. So you all ride from someone who is not you, who you outsource right. Yes. Now you don't need to do the transport of yourself. The transport is done for you. I don't think I could quite think how best to get out the poop. Then Datto realized, like the Uber, outsourced the poop. There is many poop in the world, however. So yes, perhaps flow of the poop is more than intended. But more people take the Superlax, yes, and more people share the poop. Like the Uber and no block. Poop should as clean as Whistler. Very helpful, yes. You trust Datto, you get considerate relief. I see. You are satisfied with response. Yes, this I see. Now, how many of the Superlax can you ordering? Is there any chance I could get a hold of a list of people who have purchased- Aha! I slew you out. You are supplier of opposition to Datto. Uninterested in second-hand non-DATTO product. I add you to block call on phone. End log. Additional phone calls made by Foundation agents to the number listed in the advertisement have been unsuccessful. Site 42 is able to continue broadcasting and move up to live-action SCP film adaptations due to the support of viewers, subscribers, and especially our patrons. Special shout out to our Site Director-level patron, Andre Bechert.


The Josephson diode effect is a phenomenon observed in three terminal Josephson devices consisting of an INAS quantum world two-dimensional electron gas, 2DG, proximitized by an epitaxial aluminum superconducting layer. This effect allows for the manipulation of the current phase relationship between two signals, enabling the simultaneous rectification of two signals and non-linear intermodulation effects. Additionally, this effect can be controlled by applying a magnetic field or electrostatically gating the device. This makes it possible to use these devices as gate-gainable building blocks in designing topologically protected qubits. This article was authored by Mohit Gupta, Gino V. Guaciano, Mihi Pentaka, and others.


So, I've actually got good news surprisingly to share with you as it relates to a free and open internet. Jessica Rosen-Warsall, proponent of net neutrality, essentially the antithesis of Ajit Pai, has been confirmed and she is now officially the new FCC chair. So she took to Twitter after her confirmation and said, It's the honor of my lifetime to lead the FCC and serve as the first permanent female chair. Thank you to the President and Senate for entrusting me with this responsibility. There's work to do to make sure modern communications reach everyone everywhere. Now let's get to it. So this is absolutely huge and if you are a supporter of net neutrality, this is a huge victory because Jessica Rosen-Warsall not only supports net neutrality, but she's made it very clear that she wants to undo what Ajit Pai did back in 2017. She wants to restore net neutrality. Now the battle isn't over yet because now the real test comes in the form of confirming Gigi Sohn, which really is up in the air. Gigi Sohn is important. She is an FCC commissioner nominated by the Biden administration who needs to get confirmed for two really important reasons. First and foremost, if she's confirmed, then that will give Democrats on the FCC the majority that they need to undo what Ajit Pai did and restore net neutrality. And second of all, Gigi Sohn is just an incredible advocate for consumers. She's anti big business when it comes to the telecom industry. And she wants to make sure that consumers have more power when it comes to the internet, when it comes to communications. So she's someone who would be an incredible ally. And I'm honestly surprised that Biden nominated her given how progressive she is in this sphere. But it's an open question as to whether or not she will be confirmed because telecom shills within the Republican Party have mounted a very strong campaign against her. And what they're doing to try to stop her from getting confirmed is using a tactic that is conspicuously similar to something that they previously purported to be against. I'm, of course, talking about cancel culture, where you bring up old tweets and try to get somebody canceled and get them fired from their job because of said tweets. As John Handel of Politico reports, Republicans angling to stymie President Joe Biden's tech and telecom agenda are turning to an increasingly familiar tactic, dredging up his nominees, mean tweets, no matter that former President Donald Trump, who remains popular in the Republican Party and has hinted at a new run in 2024, regularly wielded social media to scorch his foes before the top platforms booted him off or that GOP lawmakers, including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, use their social media purchase to spar with critics. Cruz and other Republicans say their big concern is the temperaments of nominees who had served at two powerful independent agencies, the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission. Hence, their outcry about tweets in which FCC nominee Gigi Sohn called Fox News dangerous to our democracy, while FTC pick Alvaro Bedoya labeled immigration and customs enforcement and out of control domestic surveillance agency. The GOP pushback threatens to slow Democrats' efforts to regain voting majorities at the two agencies, which play instrumental roles on issues, including net neutrality, competition and data privacy. The Senate Commerce Committee deadlocked last week on Bedoya's nomination, adding to the procedural hurdles Democrats must overcome to confirm him. While multiple Republicans told Politico, they will put a hold on Sohn if she advances to the floor. So after multiple years of screeching at the top of their lungs about cancel culture, here they are doing the thing that they claim to hate. Is this not the definition of cancel culture where you bring up someone's old tweets and you cancel them?  Now, the tweets in question are as follows. So Gigi Sohn tweeted for all my concerns about Facebook. I believe that Fox News has had the most negative impact on our democracy. It's state-sponsored propaganda with few, if any opposing viewpoints. Where's the hearing about it?  But if you think real Donald Trump is destroying the Constitution and this country, you must vote for Joe Biden full stop. She also wrote the dangerous Sinclair Tribune merger is officially dead. I say that FCC should look at whether Sinclair is qualified to be a broadcast licensee at all. So in some, they're using these tweets as evidence that she will go after Republican and conservative leading outlets and try to censor them. So they use cancel culture to claim that she is a sensorious cancel culture FCC nominee that should be rejected. Now, look, when she says that they should definitely look at whether or not Sinclair is qualified to be a broadcast licensee at all, that isn't a good look for an FCC commissioner. That's not a good look. That's not necessarily something that you want to say because it gives the impression that you're not impartial. It gives the impression that you will target these outlets.  So putting aside a tweet that isn't a good look for a nominee, they know what this is about. This isn't actually about mean tweets. This is about policy and they're using these tweets as a distraction from the real issue here. The real issue is net neutrality. The real issue is Gigi Stone is pro-consumer and anti-big business. And I think it's safe to characterize her as anti-big business. Yes, she does want to further regulate companies that take advantage of the American people, of the consumer. But that doesn't mean that she's sensorious. That doesn't mean that she's going to crack down on free speech. And they know this. But these Republicans are bankrolled by these industries. Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, who are lobbying hard against her and they're serving the interests of their donors who happen to dislike Gigi's own. So that's why they're against her. She's their worst nightmare. So I at this point, I would be surprised if she actually were confirmed because it just seems like, you know, there's so much momentum against Gigi Stone currently and not enough people speaking out on her behalf. I don't think many people are following this issue because net neutrality isn't at the forefront of people's minds as it was back in 2017. So because this is an issue that will likely fly under the radar, at least as it relates to mainstream political politics, I think she'd likely end up sinking. Who knows? But if she were to get confirmed, this would be huge. This means that it's almost a foregone conclusion that net neutrality would be restored by this FCC once they get that majority. But if if she's withdrawn, I don't know that Biden would nominate someone as firebrand as her. We want someone like this on the FCC advocating for people, advocating for consumers. See, currently the deck is totally stacked against consumers. We all are getting screwed, right? It's why net neutrality is an issue that both conservatives and liberals care about and socialists care about because this affects everyone. We all want a free and open Internet, hence why we support net neutrality. We all want to end these monopolies. We want more than one Internet service provider in our area. We want municipal broadband. And you see, if someone like Gigi Stone, who is a vocal supporter of municipal broadband, gets in there and she actually gets that agenda through, then, you know, companies like Comcast would be irrelevant because if you have the choice in your area, just think for a moment that in your area, you have the choice between Comcast, Verizon or a publicly owned Internet provider that offers you gigabit Internet. Who would you choose? You'd pick the publicly owned version nine times out of 10 because you own it. It sure is your tax dollars funded. So of course, you're not going to go for this private company that offers shitty service and is incredibly expensive. So they know that if Gigi Stone gets in there, this is bad for their business, which is why they're fighting against her so hard and using anything to try to bring her down. But the truth is that it's not about mean tweets. They know she's not the sensorious Shtw cancel culture person. She's someone who actually cares about the issues and the issue of net neutrality and she wants to give power back to consumers. And that is specifically what really scares them about Gigi Stone.


This study developed and characterized biocomposites made from HDPE and flax fibres with varying reinforcement ratios and heating rates, revealing improved mechanical properties and thermal stability compared to neat HDPE. This article was authored by Azadine Marklouf, Ahmed Bailodi, Salah Amroun and others.


The National Human Rights Commission's special independent investigative panel in northeast arrived Amateru Yobes state on facts finding mission. The panel was set up following allegations of mass human abuses by the military in the northeast by Reuters. The deputy director, corporate affairs of the commission Fatima Mohamed said the allegations of human rights violations are not ordinary and should not be swept under the carpet. This panel was set up in the following terms of reference. The first one is to investigate the allegations of gross violations of national and international human rights law and principles alleged in the Reuters report against the Niger armed forces. The panel is also charged with receiving memoranda from individuals and organizations with interest in the subject matter of the mandate of the panel. The mandate of the National Human Rights Commission is to investigate cases of human rights violations. And these are heinous cases of human rights violations, which of course, ordinarily should not be left to be swept under the carpet. I'm on earth and I'm saying this truth, as far as I am, so I'm not any other person, I've never known this, I've never witnessed this, in fact, I'm here to do this for the first time. Such a thing will definitely come to my knowledge, either officially or unofficially, but I'm still retreating to you, that is the best of my knowledge and not the worst of my knowledge. And I think that's never going to happen, and in fact, we'll never send you such a heinous case.


Yeah. Thank you, Leonardo. And thanks so much for inviting me here. So this is a, this is a new project that I haven't gotten a chance to talk about anywhere yet. And I'm really excited to talk about it. To this audience in particular. So this is a project is very much like a common at work in search of some algebra project and I think we've found the algebra now. So I mean, I'm very excited about this. It's a contextualizing some things that I've been wondering about for like almost a decade now. And I think we've found the correct algorithm to go with it, but we haven't really pushed very hard into exploring that story and so I hope to convince you that you should do that. Like, if you believe if you believe in combinatorics the way that I do and my co-authors Becky and Jessica, you believe in combinatorics that's telling you this is very nice interesting algebra to look at. And, you know, and this was a very diverse audience, maybe people don't believe in combinatorics as much as I do, but I hope to convince you that this is interesting algebra that you should think about and then you should tell me all about it. Oh, my slides won't go. Come on slides. There we go. So this is going to be a talk about spec modules, really. So, spec modules are the erupts for the symmetric group. They're labeled by partitions of and some ways of writing and as a sum of some non decrease non increasing sequence of positive integers. Okay, so it's easy to see that such objects correspond to conjugacy classes inside the symmetric group so the character theory is telling you that that's the right number of erupts.  And so the like, why am I doing this a Schubert calculus seminar, like respect modules, but I want to think about things not just like, not just the like isomorphism class of this module but I want to like realize it very concretely. Like it's going to be made up of like explicit elements and the elements are just going to be like global sections of some line bundle on some partial flag variety and like depending on your lambda, you have like some choice and like which flag variety you're thinking about. And so we're going to do this all like very explicitly. And so the point is for me like, there's many ways to build up to build a spec module to build some irreducible representation.  And maybe algebraically you don't really care about that so much but combinatorially you do very much care about the basis that comes with your object. And it's not canonical like different ways of building a spec module are going to give you different bases and combinatorics, of course we spend a lot of time looking at our distinguished bases thinking about how to change basis between things.  We're going to like think about this as a object with with a basis stuck onto it. Okay, so I'm not going to think about all spec modules today I'm going to think about some non obvious two parameter family spec modules, coming from shapes that look like this so so there's some number K, we have two rows of size k, and then we have that stuck on a flagpole of height L. And these are the things we're looking at. Maybe not the family, you would first think to write down but I hope to convince you that this is a really nice interesting family of things to look at. And the first, the first place that these were sort of isolated these partitions at least, or like, look that as a thing. There's some work of Richard Stanley from the mid 90s. Based on observations of Kathy or horror and Andre Zilovinsky, looking at this particular set of partitions and it's all purely enumerative at that point. By ejecting some things with some other things, noticing some numerology, but I know it's been hints for a while that these are special shapes somehow. So, you know, we've been calling these flag shaped partitions for a while because it looks like a flag you have this thing and it's stuck on a flagpole. And now with all the flag varieties floating around that seems like a poor choice of names and so they're going to be pennants, right they're particularly long skinny flags on flagpoles. Here we go. This is the like only picture I could find online or something that actually had the flagpole attached. So it has to be preschool, apparently. Let's think about what's going on here. So, let's think about first the case l equals zero. So, l equals zero we have no flagpole. I'm just thinking about two by n rectangles. And in this case there's something really nice and like well understood, you get a basis of your spec module coming out of coming out of like temporarily leave ideas, and it fits into Cooper Berg story of Web's. Exactly like what you would get for the Web's associated to the Algebra SL2. So you're getting these, this diagrammatic basis is labeled by, you know, things that look like this you sort of non crossing matching diagrams I have and points around my circle and I'm pairing them up in some way, such that all of the lines don't they pair wise don't intersect. There's something really nice going on there. And we're going to let our partition have a flagpole it's going to become L be bigger than zero, and you're going to get a corresponding basis of objects that look like this. So we've taken what was a partition of our n things into pairs. And now we're partitioning the blocks that are potentially bigger than size to. So we're looking at non crossing set partitions that have no singleton blocks inside them. So it's, you're looking at, you know, you're taking n things and you're breaking them into pieces, such that the convex hulls are paralyzed non intersecting. And this might look like some sort of funny combinatorial accident but I claim it there's more to it than that. Like there's an SL three version of the story where I won't get too deeply into this but you're looking at, you know, these sorts of things. There's some kind of planar bipartite. Trivalent graph here, giving you a basis element. And, and I claim that there's a corresponding story that sort of a marriage of the SL three web story and the pennant story you get you get pictures like this. It's some kind of planar hypergraph that is bipartite in some sense and trivalent in some sense and elliptic in some sense and they're, they're giving you something very analogous this is a sort of ongoing combinatorial work in progress. I don't understand the story but I claim it's very nice and so this is not like some one off accident. This is a pennant case here or there really is something interesting going on. The history is sort of how we got into this as we were, you know, we're thinking we're motivated by some combinatorics problems are motivated by these dynamic algebraic combinatorics issues that we're thinking of some sort of action on tableau trying to understand dynamics of, of actions on tableau. And these should be the tools that you use to do that. And somehow like we understand kind of the main line of the argument there but we're getting stuck in some places and so we thought we should go back to this pennant case where we understand the combinatorics and we should figure out the algebra and get some more tools so that we can return to these cases and with some extra power. Okay, so I'm not going to actually tell you like what the tableau dynamics are, because most people here probably don't particularly care about these applications. But I think like webs or something that people here should care about. And maybe you do care about them and if you don't care about them you probably should be caring about them. They do all sorts of great things. So they're not just you know telling you about spec modules but there's like the there's a quantum group floating around here. And from that you're getting quantum Lincoln variants so from in this SL2 case, this is giving rise to the Jones polynomial. And the point is that, you know, if you look at a link diagram, and you zoom in on your link diagram, a little neighborhood of it is going to look basically like a matching. So you can use the sort of diagramatics to expand that and obtain an invariance. So if you look at an analogous over here in SL3 case I'm not really sure what to call it but you get something from kind of Cooper Berg invariant. Here is some kind of SL3 quantum Lincoln variant. And so you could sort of hope to do something. I'm telling you I have these things that are basically webs and so you should try to do analogous things in these other places. So, you know, webs are doing nice things on the geometry of springer fibers, springer fibers in general like they're associated to some Jordan type, and they're hard to understand really what they look like. But in these like special Jordan types where you have corresponding webs, you can make things very explicit, you can understand really how the various irreducible components interact with each other. And there's also like really nice cluster algebra stories associated to all these webs. So you should care about webs now I'm giving you some things that are very much like webs. Let's, let's talk about this story. Some more as a, as a sort of warm up to tell you what's going on there. And then we will take our break after we do that and then we will see how to how to fly people on the things and get this tenant story over here. So let's think about that case and see where this is all coming from. I want to think about a polynomial ring and two n variables, and I want to look at the polynomials that are invariant under SL two. So the way I'm thinking about this is that I'm arranging my variables as a two by n matrix or those two by n matrix of distinct and determinants. And I'm just letting SL to act by left multiplication here. So it does some things to my entries of this matrix, and I'm interested in polynomials that are like unaffected by this multiplication. And if you think about this a little bit it's not so hard to see some invariant polynomials. For example, if I look at this two by two minor. That's going to be the same as this two by two minor. That's just something you can compute explicitly. And that's not just like that one like all the two by two minors of this matrix are unaffected by acting by SL to this thing. Okay, so here's a very old theorem not really sure who to attribute anything to. But in fact this is essentially everything. What this ring of invariance is generated algebraically by the two by two minors there's nothing else sitting inside there. They're not, you know, linearly independent or anything they have relations, but they are a generating set. So if I proge this invariant ring, I'm just getting my grass money and this is giving me my grass money and have two planes in n space, which is a thing I like very much. And so these minors these minors are turning into my poker variables. This is not usually how people tell, you know the story of the poker embedding but normally you're thinking of what's going on here is you have your homogenous coordinate ring is going to be some quotient. I'm taking a polynomial ring in my poker variables, modular some relations module of the poker relations. And what I've done here is I set everything up as a subring of something else. The point is that there are relations among these two by two minors, and those relations are just exactly the poker relations that that you would have anyway. And the point of doing things this way is that now I'm not dealing with equivalence classes, like I really have a literal polynomial associated to everything. Okay, so we said that we're spanned by products of two by two minors products of looker so poker manomials. So I want to think about how can I write down such a poker manomial. How do I write down a product of two by two minors. Well, I just need to tell you which minors you're using to tell you a two by two minor of a two row matrix I just need to tell you which columns you're thinking about. And so I could just write down a two row array, where in every column of my array I'm going to tell you which two columns of the matrix to think about. The columns here are not the columns before. So like if I have this this to five column here that's telling me, you know, you should think about this, this minor, a minor that uses the second column, and the fifth column of your matrix of variables. And so you, you know, you take these seven columns they tell you to take seven minors and multiply them together. And this is some seven fold product of looker variables. And we can like, you know, organize this, this array a little bit, right, we might as well arrange so that all of the columns are are increasing. Why not. We can certainly sort of write them however we want. These are, these are greater than signs, not wedges. It doesn't matter like, you know, multiplication is commuted it so I can reorder my columns wherever I want. So I might as well like arrange for my first row here to be weekly increase I can just like sort the columns in some way. But the second row I have basically no control over the second row is just, you know whatever it is it has no nice conditions on it. But every one of these poker monomials I can encode by like some kind of array like this. I sort of try to make it look nice, but the second row looks like kind of a mess. But it's a way of like writing down things and I know that if I write on all these things and that spans my invariant space.  Why don't I just take, if I have eight columns, I'll just put eight dots around a circle. And whenever I'm thinking about the IJ, look record and that let me just draw an edge from I to J. And so this picture here is encoding the same thing as this array up here. Here is my two five edge. It's just telling me to think about the column two column five minor. So I have these two different sort of, I have this sort of, I don't know, this one's easier to type and this one's sort of easier to think about visually. So maybe the like, the key thing of standard monomial theory is to say well I have these products, these poker monomials that span my space, but they're not linearly independent I would like to actually have a basis. And so if I look at M fold products of poker variables. This is spanning some finite dimensional space like what is the dimension of that space, which, which one should I look at to have a basis. And the answer turns out to be to look at all these arrays that we wrote down before. And in general the second row was a complete mess, but let's just restrict the tension to the ones where the second row happens to also be weekly increasing just like the first row was. And it turns out that these are linearly independent of each other. And they, they're also spanning. So they're actually a basis for this thing. And then you know the dimension of everything because there's some kind of combinatorial formula for counting these tableau these are called semi standard tableau. And, and you have some formula for counting them and you know the dimension of this guy. So that's not quite what I want to do I want to. Well, first of all I need an action somewhere and then I want to like find my spec module inside this story. And so what we want to notice is that there is also an action here of a rank and porous so I haven't fordible diagonal matrices, right multiplying my matrix, and they're just scaling the columns of my matrix. So I can look at, you know, a weight space let me look at the all ones weight space. So this means, I'm going to look at products of two by two minors, where my two by two minors involved every column of this matrix exactly once. So every column is going to show up and one of my minors and only one minor. Well, if I look at that piece. That piece, as a set, it's preserved by permuting the columns, I have this right action of the symmetric group, my symmetric group acting by multiplication on the right, it's permuting the columns here, and it preserves this space of invariance. And it's not just like, it's an SN module, it's not just any SN module that happens to be irreducible and it happens to be the spec module that you maybe would have hoped that it would be, it is the one for the two rectangular shape that M M. And this is not I think how people usually teach about spec modules, but I think it is like the best way to think about what they are, like, and how it's very concrete the elements of this are like some very explicit polynomials that you can literally write down. So equivalent classes of anything going on here. So, there's a basis here. So if I'm looking at products of two by two minors where I touch every column exactly once. That means that in my corresponding semi standard tableau, I should be writing down every number between one and exactly once. But semi standard tableau shape M M, where I have bijectively filled the cells with the numbers one, two, and n equals to M. So these are called standard tableau. And of course we also know how to count these and very famously these are the special case there's Catalan many of them so I'm looking at some Catalan dimensional spec module in this setting. And so and they have a very explicit basis for it right. I look at this tableau here, and it says, first take the column columns one and four and take that two by two minor, then take the columns two and five and take that two by two minor. Take the three and seven columns look at that minor take the six and eight columns right down that minor nine and 10 columns. And just take these five two by two minor isn't multiply them together. So here's one of my basis elements, you can literally just write it down or you can your linear algebra one on one students can write down this polynomial. Nothing hard about it. So, I would like to understand the action of the symmetric group on this thing. And in particular for whatever reason, I'm interested in this long cycle. Well, it's one of the sort of the simplest permutations you could think about. It's a coxer element and sort of maybe the easiest coxer element to write down, except for the inverse of it. And let's think about how this acts on my module and in particular let's think about how it acts on my module with respect to the basis that appeared out of standard monomial theory. Well, what it's doing what I'm doing is I'm permuting my columns. So in this case I'm cyclically shuffling my columns around. It's coming from some like cyclic shift map on a grass mania. And so what does that do. If to the basis element my basis element looks like one of these tableau, and now I'm re indexing the columns. So all I need to do is puff all the numbers up by one, except the number 10 is going to turn into a one. I should get this thing, but that's not really the right kind of thing because I like I didn't use do my conventions properly. I should take this column and I should, you know, reorder it to have the one on top should go 110 instead of 10 one. And then I should sort my columns then so that 110 column goes to the front. So I'm going to end up with this. But this is not standard. My second row is no longer increasing. So I took my basis element and I hit it with this cyclic shift map and I ended up with some like other product of bookers that was not a basis element. So we use the quicker relations to rewrite this in terms of things that actually standard like just keep doing these quicker relations think of uses straightening laws for writing this is some sum of standard tableau.  And it's kind of terrible. We took like the easiest of permutations to think about, and we let it act on a basis element, and we ended up with something kind of horrifying. And it's sort of telling us that maybe we should be thinking about a different basis for this world so I would like to find a better. Ask a question. Yeah, the first step is supposed to be easy. The from the first tableau to the second tableau. This one. Yeah. Yeah, I just take my tableau. So I'm okay I'm cheating a little bit there's some science that I'm glossing over. It's like a minus one to the something that I'm ignoring. But basically all I want to do is I want to take these numbers and I want to commute these numbers according to my permutation. And I'm going to get something that's like a tableau except it satisfies no increasing those conditions anywhere. And then recognition just doesn't tell me how to get from one to the other, even if I think about a cycle. I say, based my pattern recognition doesn't tell me how to get from the left one to the middle one, even if I think about a cycle for mutation. So all I do is I have this permutation w. And so I'm just gonna say this is to and this is going to become w of two. All I'm doing is I take these numbers here and I feed them into the permutation and I get some, you know, some array of numbers here that is like, not not the sort of thing you like to call a tableau. And then you like do some stuff to make it look great and there's some signs that get introduced, and then you apply the straightening laws over and over again. And something falls out. And you get this big linear combination of things that actually look correct. But like you don't want to do this right you're trying to understand the action of this like very simple element and you had to do a lot of work. What I'm going to do is find a basis where, you know, the long cycle is going to act in a way we can understand with our with our own brands. Okay, and this is one place that webs come in. So, if I'm thinking about this spec module. What we learned before is that it was going to be spanned by products of pluckers corresponding to matchings. So I take the numbers one to end, and I put them around a disk. And I matched them up in some way. So every edge of that matching that tells me some looker and I have this ij edge that tells me think about the two by two minor that is columns I column J. So, most of these are going to have you know things like this they're going to be like lots of edges all crossing each other everywhere. Just like before most of our tableau were a disaster in the second row. And it turns out that if you restrict to those particular matchings were none of the lines cross each other. You look at these non crossing matchings. Those are linear independent and there's a right number of them and their basis of the space. And it's a better basis in some sense. One one way in which it's better is if I want to understand what does my long cycle due to a basis element it. Again I'm glossing over some signs, but it's going to send it to another basis element. So some big linear combination just takes a basis element to a basis element, and it's even sort of obvious which one it goes to. You just take your diagram and you rotate it. So the long cycle is just being by like spinning spinning these pictures around up to some signs and you know also w not is acting really nicely w not just reflecting your diagram pick it up and you flip it over. So, this basis like it's not a permutation representation in general but it. You know, some of your favorite permutations are acting very nicely right in ways that you can understand through pictures and you don't have to do a lot of arithmetic to understand what's going on. And let's see that this is like genuinely a different basis I mean I guess we know that because things are acting nicely but like if I. So the looker looker relations. They're telling you how to uncross your diagrams, so I'm going to think about the case this is 1234. So, this picture here is telling me to take the 13 minor and the two for minor so it looks like this tableau. 121324. This one is telling me to take the one for minor and the two three minor. And this one over here telling me to take the 12 minor and then the 34 minor. Okay, so you want to notice that these are not the same basis because the basis given by non crossing math chains, that's these two things. So these are the two pictures that are not crossing. Whereas, if I look at the corresponding tableau. This tableau that's now I wish I had more colors. This tableau is bad. The first row is nice but the second row goes for three. So the tableau, the standard monomial basis would be to take this one, and this one. And the polynomials here, each of these polynomials is a product of two quicker variables, but they satisfy this three term relation. And so any two of them are going to be a basis and the web basis is to take these two to be the basis elements and the standard monomial basis to take these two on the outside to be your two basis elements. And then you're either rewriting this one in terms of the other two, using like the straightening law on your tableau, or you're rewriting this one in terms of those two, using your uncrossing rules. So that's what's going on here. Well, let's briefly. Just a quick question. Move on. I feel like the plate when you're trying to understand as an action the thing that you should start with our simple translations, simple reflections, first versus these other actions and I was curious if the, which basis is it easier to see the action of a simple reflection. Basically, everything is bad and the standard monomial basis, you can't really see the action of anything. It's going to be possible to understand that. So I think the right way to like find the thing that you're finding good basis is to think about these guys as a coxer element and the nw not. Once you've done that. Nice things happen for the simple reflections also.  Right. And then, then you know how to undo it. Yeah, okay, yeah. Okay, and this is like a temporary leave thing to do. So, like the diagrammatic ends up being really nice, sort of all the way around you can understand the action. So it's not going to be a permutation representation in general like when I apply this thing I'm going to get two terms popping out. But it's not so hard to see which ones they are. Thanks. That's a good question. Okay, so let me briefly say like what the three row version of this is and then we will like take our, take our break. Three row version I'm going to take a three by n matrix of distinct indeterminance. And I'm thinking about SL three invariance in the same way. And again it's going to be spanned by products of maximal minors and other three by three minors instead of two by two minors. And so I have that space. And again, I have this tourists have this for us here and it's acting, scaling the columns, multiplying on the right. And I'm going to look at this all ones weight space again. So I'm going to look at products of three by three minors, where every column of this matrix is going to show up in exactly one of my three by three minors. So in particular, and had better be multiple of three for this to make any sense. So when I do this. I got some space of invariant polynomials, some particular white space here, and again it carries a symmetric group action is a symmetric group also, you know, multiplying on the right permuting these columns around, and that preserves the set of polynomials where I touch every column exactly once, because if I permute the columns I'm still touching them all exactly once. And I then have some SN module. And again this is just my spec module is like another very concrete realization of the spec module. And standard monomial theory again is going to tell me how to write down a basis for the space, and I have my spec module as a bunch of polynomials. It's going to have a basis given by standard young tableau that are going to be three row rectangles. So M is the, you know, the number of quicker variables I'm thinking about. And this is telling me what to do so here I'm going to take the columns 13 and five of my matrix. I'll take my columns to six and 10 there's another three by three minor by 4811 columns my seven nine 12 columns, I have these four three by three minors. They are disjoint in terms of which columns they think about every column shows up in one of them I mean apparently n equals 12. And that's some explicit polynomial and it lives in my spec module. And the action of SN is easy to understand in the same way I'm just taking these numbers and feeding the numbers into the permutation and getting a new tableau. Right, or on the polynomial, I'm just taking my variables, these variables, and I'm just re indexing them. I'm sending X I to X sub w I, and why I go to Y sub w I, and all that. So I'm just getting this very concrete action of the symmetric group on some like very concrete polynomials. You have a question in there. Oh, okay. You've made some noises. Okay, so there's. So again, again, like I have this basis. If I hit it with the long cycle, they hit it with the long cycle like it's a disaster right like, or hit it with basically any permutation as a disaster like I permute the numbers and I get something that's not a standard tableau. And like I try to unwind it like lots of terms appear. Like you can do it and you can compute it by hand but it takes a while. There's a nice pictorial story in the special case that let's you see what's going on a bit better. There's like lots of names on this but I'm not really sure what to say. This is the basis of SL three web so there's these kind of diagrams that look like this, and I'm not going to tell you like exactly how one does it. The every such diagram there's some like invariant polynomial that you're supposed to write down. You look at this graph and this graph is some sort of a recipe for feeding determinants into each other. And in this basis, one way to see this is a nice basis is if I act by the long cycle, then instead of getting some like big linear combination of basis elements, I just get one thing, like maybe some assign attached to it, and it's just like what you get by spinning this thing.  This one's symmetric so you don't always do that.  And it ends up being very useful. And like for a long time people have been looking for like a good definition of webs and higher ranks. So Cooper bird Cooper works like in general tape but he's only thinking up to rank to think what SL three can think about some other things but like what are you doing with SLK. And people have made definitions and like they're probably even the right definitions but they, they don't quite do the things that we want them to do for like our combinatorial purposes. And instead, I'm going to, I'm going to tell you like we'll take our break here break break time. We're going to go back to this penance story, and I'll tell you how to see this penance story as like some explicit set of polynomials. And there's going to be something like a web basis there like I'm going to have these, these planar diagrams and every planar diagram is going to like give me some corresponding polynomial that I can work with very explicitly. The same things will happen. Okay, so let's stop there for now.


You have a pretty good idea of the destination but you can't see the entire route to get there.  So just go those 30 or 40 feet and then the headlights are going to appear and you can just go the next 30 or 40 feet and just keep doing it that way and that's I think that's a better way to live your life first having to concentrate on what's my final destination and what's the whole route to get there because you know there's going to be detours along the route. You just have to know where you want to go and just live your life in increments.


Disclaimer. This episode, in no way, shape or form, should be taken as legal advice. It is made for entertainment purposes only. If you have legal questions regarding your rights as a tenant, consult a lawyer. Also, this topic was requested by Comrade X. If there is a personal finance topic you would like us to cover, email us at communistfinance at gmail.com.  Hello, comrades. Today, I'd like to share a special story with you. The story of Bolshevik Bunny's apartment. Our Bolshevik Bunny lived on a farm. But for this bunny, the farm held no charm. Yes, our poor bunny was in quite a slump.  I must do what it takes to get away from this desolate, dark, dusty decay. He thought and he thought and he thought some more, and he cursed the plight of the rural poor. He thought of whiskey, vodka, sangria. Then suddenly he had an idea. I know, I'll move to one of the cities. With paved streets and women with big...  He didn't have much to pack the old hick. He went as far as he ever did go. On the bus to Denver, Colorado. Denver, Colorado? Gee, what a town! Just the place to turn my frown upside down. Now that I'm here at this magnificent height, I must find some place. And some place just right. Interlude one. The right apartment. Looking for an apartment is difficult. Not because it's hard to find apartment listings. There is after all the internet. What's difficult about finding an apartment is that you have to balance three factors. Cost. Quality. And location.  Taxes, debt, the end of democracy. But the biggest stress you are likely to face every day is your commute. You can go faster. You can go faster. Thank you.  When searching for an apartment, you want to prioritize location over quality. Specifically, you want an apartment that is as close to your wage slavery, a.k.a. job, as possible. You also want an apartment that's close to your preferred grocery store, healthcare facility, and Marxist bookstore. Studies have shown that reducing your commute can add years to your life.  So if you have the option, choose an apartment that's close to all the amenities you're likely to use daily or weekly, even if it's not pretty or new. Although finding a centrally located, decent apartment at a reasonable price is easier said than done. Greetings, good sir. I am landlord Llama. I run this rental with my dear mama. I'd love to serve you this fine afternoon. I will be done with this phone call real soon. Yes, mother dearest, I'll milk them all dry. Spit on dad's grave for me. Love you, goodbye. How may I help you, dear Mr. Rabbit? Mind if I smoke? I can't kick the habit. I'm Bolshevik Bunny. He said with glee. I'd like to rent an apartment. Tee hee. You try rhyming about renting you- My dear Rabbit, you no longer need hunt. I am wonderfully thrilled that you came. To my apartments, they look all the same. A quality establishment for sure. Why don't I give you a quick little tour? The Llama and Bunny climbed the stairs with haste, through hallway strewn with trash and human waste. Until they reached the apartment foretold, its door was covered with specks of black mold. Oh boy, okay. Said Bolshevik Bunny. Is it just me or does it smell funny? Not to worry. That's just a small gas leak. Maintenance will have it fixed by next week. Is that the toilet? It looks like it's broke. We have an outhouse. In there you can smoke. What if the gas catches fire and burns me? Also, this broken door lock concerns me. I assure you, you should not be alarmed. There's no chance on earth that you'll be harmed. I guess you can't beat the location. Said the Bunny with some trepidation. I've seen enough and am ready to rent, though I'm worried about that broken vent. Oh that just broke today due to the frost. It's a quick fix, but let's talk about cost.  The rent is twelve hundred thirty six bucks. Per month? Screamed the young Bunny in terror. Surely there must be some kind of error. Oh I'm afraid that the rent is quite correct. It's market price. Said the Llama erect. If you don't like the price then you can go. Californians think my rent is low. It shouldn't be hard to find for this slob, a dirty dangerous demeaning job, or two or three to afford life in this slum. I'll be too busy with work to feel calm. So I'll take the apartment, words and all. Wait just a moment. That's not quite your call. Our application is rather thorough for the privilege to live in this burrow. What does applying to live here entail? A credit report, a minor detail. Do you have any prior evictions? History of criminal convictions? There is the slight matter of a small fee. Your income should cover the rent times three. Three times the rent? That's awfully specific. I assure you it's quite scientific. Actually it's not. Interlude to the cost of housing. Often personal finance experts will say that ideally you should only spend 30 to 33 percent of your monthly income on housing and ideally when there's a global pandemic people should be willing to think of others and put on a mask and get a vaccine. Unfortunately we don't live in an ideal world. So the notion that you'll only spend 30 to 33 percent of your income on housing too often is pink. The idea that a specific percentage of your monthly income should go to housing dates back to haphazard studies conducted in the late 19th century. Since the 1970s the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has known that the 30 percent rule is an unreliable metric for measuring housing affordability. To make matters worse as we explained in our episode on debt the price of goods and services like housing has steadily increased while wages have stagnated. For example in Colorado the minimum wage is over $12 an hour much higher than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 which hasn't changed since 2009. Of course if you wanted to rent a one bedroom apartment in Colorado in 2022 you would need to be making at least $22 an hour. In fact if we followed the 30 percent rule for housing not one single state has a minimum wage high enough to make housing affordable. So clearly the 30 percent rule is a fallacy which might not be a big deal except landlords ask prospective tenants to present proof that their income is three times the rent. So naturally poor and working class people who can only work minimum wage jobs are often barred from decent housing. So what is to be done? Well as communists our suggestion is you know seize the means of production abolish rent and re-educate 98 percent of landlords with extreme prejudice. But while you're waiting for the workers' paradise you'll still need a place to stay. Our best advice is for you to find a roommate someone who can help you shoulder the cost of living. Be careful though whom you pick as a roommate. If your roommate fails to pay their share of rent or damages the apartment you as a co-tenant will also be held responsible. After all both your names are on the lease. Well the hurdles to renting ever cease. All that's left is for you to sign our lease. I can't believe how big this lease form is. The paper wasted is just enormous. It's what it takes to be a tenant. Just sign on the line don't be hesitant. What do these words mean? I haven't a clue. I wish someone could explain it but who? I said I wish someone could explain it but who?  You've got rats in your hat.  You're no David Boreanus Mr. Pig. The three words I would use to describe you are greasy black- what? We're on? Interlude three. Get it in writing. Let's say you found a decent apartment. It's centrally located, has working plumbing and heating and by the grace of marks is somehow affordable. You've passed the application and are ready to move in. If your landlord is mildly competent they will have some form of written agreement for you and them to sign. Usually this is a lease. A lease is a long-term contract for renting a space. A typical lease details how much rent is going to be, when and where rents do, and how long the term of your lease will last. Most leases last one year. A lease gives you stability when renting. When you sign a lease you can expect to stay at that apartment for the agreed upon term assuming you pay your rent on time and don't cook meth in the bathtub. Also a landlord cannot raise your rent until the term of your lease is up and you sign a new one. While a lease may give you stability when renting it is imperative that you read every single word of a lease because some landlords are capable of slipping illegal clauses into their rental agreements clauses such as by signing this lease you waive all rights to working plumbing or by signing this lease you agree to breathe asbestos as your kink. Now to be clear these clauses are illegal under federal law a landlord is responsible for making sure their property is habitable which means their property must have a waterproof roof unbroken windows and doors working plumbing and gas lines running hot water working heating fixtures working light fixtures clean common areas proper waste removal no vermin or pests floors stairways and railings in good repair locks on windows and doors also under federal law a landlord cannot discriminate against a prospective tenant based on race color creed national origin religion sex handicap slash disability familial status or marital status in theory because we are talking about the u.s justice system and this brings up an important disclaimer that we said at the beginning of this episode but we're going to say again now as unqualified as we are to give you personal finance advice we are even less qualified to give you legal advice so unqualified we cannot legally give you legal advice legally we cannot tell you what to do if your water heater bursts and your landlord refuses to fix it but what we can say is there are many credible legal resources you can use to deal with an uncooperative landlord resources like the american bar associations website at american bar dot org which can help you find a lawyer who deals in rental law another excellent resource is the u.s department of housing and urban developments website at hot dot gov this website can help you find your state's rental laws which is especially useful if you're having a hard time getting back your security deposit and a security deposit is 1.5 times the rent thanks for the quiz it's meant to cover undue cost to me like an unpaid month or utility it also pays for any damages there but not those caused by normal wear and tear i must pay this if i want to move here as well as the first month's rent let's be clear well nothing ventured nothing gained said the bunny with his voice sounding pained he signed and paid deposit and rent and to his apartment our bunny went 11 and a half months later i waited all night where the f**k were you i was out with the guys bill randy stew you out with one of your little whores right oh why don't you quit breaking my balls night don't you walk away from me you piece of s**t you keep this up and i'm gonna hit then you'll be just like your piece of s**t dad watch your fat mouth now you're making me mad a fat lip you mean then straight to the moon you you no you no five minutes later i can't take no more i want to move out everyone moves now there's no need to pout please can't we at least stop talking in rhyme we've gone far too far to stop at this time oh fine just let me leave this apartment well we'll miss you at our little tenement let's head right on up and check out your lair the smell of stale urine perfumed the air as llama and bunny went up the stair to the small room of an ending despair there's a small gas leak that simply won't do for that i'll charge 43 52 significant damage to the air vents 127 and 63 cents but last year you said you'd fix that by spring oh i assure you i said no such thing i cannot recollect speaking those words plus an extra fee for cleaning the it appears that the toilet is broken what that will cost is best left unspoken but but it was broken when i got here and you didn't have it fixed for a year don't lie to me these toilets don't come cheap the cut to your deposit will be steep and what's this said the llama with false shock it seems that this door has a broken lock well now that won't do that won't do it all the amount you get back will be quite small this is ridiculous this is absurd i cannot believe the things i've just heard you've said you'd make this place more inviting did you get any of that in writing if you want to get your security deposit back you must do three things one record the apartment's condition when you first move in moving can be stressful after months of searching for a new apartment packing all your belongings into your car and getting lost on the way to your new home all you want to do is move in and be done with it but not so fast comrades before you try and fit that oversized couch through the front door you want to do a thorough inspection of your new apartment before moving in hopefully you already inspected your apartment and made sure it had all the basic necessities so why do you need to do another inspection because you want to establish what your apartment's condition was when you first moved in we at the communist manifesto for personal finance believe that we have dignity oh oh god so we're not going to debase ourselves by going on a long screen about how 98 percent of landlords are scum sucking parasites who rob the working class or how the only difference between a landlord and a pile of manure is that manure actually serves a purpose or how a potted plant could do a landlord's job because landlords don't have jobs sorry to disappoint you comrades but we won't be saying any of those things what we will say is that on occasion landlords have been known to act in bad faith and if you're unfortunate enough to have a bad faith landlord they may try to hold you responsible for damages already done to the apartment before you started living there and then they'll continue not fixing the problem so they can charge the next tenants for the same thing that's why it's important to inspect and document any defects with your apartment before you start living there carpet stains rust peeling paint broken blinds jenki doorknobs write down any minor defect with the apartment and more importantly take pictures once you've documented the issues inform your property manager slash landlord and ask for repairs by doing this you establish a record about what your apartment's condition was before you started living there so that way when you move out you won't be held responsible for the mysterious red carpet stains you saw when you first walked through the door all you'll have to worry about is cleaning up after your own mess which brings us to to establish how clean is clean if your landlord is mildly intelligent they will have a checklist for how clean they want the apartment to be when you leave and to be fair it is your obligation as a tenant to try and clean the apartment to the best of your ability assuming you clean the apartment to the landlord's standards have been a model tenant and the apartment is in good repair excluding normal wear and tear you should get your full security deposit back but again landlords have been known to act in bad faith so that's why it's important to do this last step three know the law again hud.gov is an excellent resource for finding out what your state's rental laws are there you can find out how long your landlord can hold your security deposit and what they can deduct from your deposit for example in the state of colorado a landlord has 30 days to either a return the full security deposit or b return a portion of the deposit with an itemized list of expenses incurred under colorado law if a landlord does not return the deposit to the tenant within 30 days the landlord forfeits all rights to withhold any of the security deposit if you find yourself in a situation where your landlord is clearly violating your state's rental laws it is imperative that you seek legal resources immediately again the american bar association's website at americanbar.org is an excellent resource for finding a lawyer who deals in rental law basically if you want to avoid undue hassle over your security deposit know the law get everything in writing and document your apartment's condition that way you can avoid situations like this my dear rabbit we've made the deductions your apartment is under construction what remains of your deposit is slim yes mother dear i'm almost done with him 128 dollars two cents i have your address i'll send your check hence do you know when we might get that to me i'm afraid the time frame is tbd so our bunny returned to the farm without rent to pay but still without charm he sat by the mailbox and well faucet his meager security deposit all he had left his check was a late thing and he still is waiting still is waiting we hope you've learned of some renting dangers and not to trust landlords who are strangers remember get everything in writing and take clear pictures with decent lighting to our sad little tale we're glad you've been voyeur and when in doubt call a lawyer now dear comrades we've reached a conclusion as always you are the revolution produced in collaboration with fort collins public media if you have comments questions or suggestions for future episodes please email us at communistfinance at gmail.com or follow us on instagram at comrad roark


What's up football fans, welcome inside the Fandals sportsbook here at the Meadowlands. It's been a minute since we were here. I'm excited to be back in these digs. It's week three and we're betting it. Thanks for hanging with us. I'm Lisa Kearney alongside the best betting experts in the business. Roll call. What's up guys? These guys are breaking down the biggest games of the week, dropping their best bets on the board. Plus of course, we've got your best value DFS plays as well as we do every single week. Download the Fandals sportsbook app right now. We're giving new users a risk-free bet up to 1,000 bucks. Be sure to plug in that promo code. It's going to be right there at the bottom of your screen all show long.  All right. Time to kick this thing off and we start with a huge NFC matchup of two undefeated teams. We've got the bucks on the road in LA taken on the Rams. Let's get right into it here in week three. The Rams wide receiver, Cooper Cup off to a hot start this season. So much fun to watch play, tied for the lead league with 16 receptions, third in yards as for the bucks. We know return to all starters from last year's Super Bowl when they look just as good off to a 2-0 start. No surprise there, but 79 points combined in those two games, the most in the league. Want to welcome in a special guest here joining us this week, Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre with us. Yes, talk to us about his thoughts on just how far this bucks team can go. Hey, Brett. Whether you like the Buccaneers or not, they have everyone back to 2-0 at this point. A lot of football has to play. Tom Brady's playing outstanding football as you would expect. So they're the team, I mean, if everything goes according to plan, they win it. There's no if ands buts about it. No excuses there for Tampa Bay. Back-to-back for the Bucs says Brett. Thank you, Brett. We'll hear more from Brett here a little later in the show. David Ed, one of the teams that could prevent the Bucs from repeating, of course, these Los Angeles Rams who, by the way, have the fourth shortest Super Bowl odds, L.A., a one and a half point home underdog with Tampa Bay in town. Dave, who are you taking in this one? I'm taking the Rams. So I guess the question is would a loss to the Rams be considered things going according to the plan for the Bucs because last year the Bucs actually lost to the Rams in Tampa. Now they have to come to L.A. after two home games. Their first game and have to travel all the way to the West Coast. I think that the Rams are just the better team regardless and I think the Rams are the Super Bowl winner this year. I'd like to begin with but I loved what I've seen from their defense versus what I've seen from Tampa's defense. Tampa's defense given a 54 point so far to teams that have only averaged 13 in their other games. And Tom Brady in two games against the Rams under Sean McVeigh, 66.9 quarterback rating where his career average is 97. Sean McVeigh knows how to stop Tom Brady and he's going to do it yet again. We saw phenomenal defensive performance from Tampa Bay from last year's playoffs but I have some real concerns about if that's going to persist this season in part because look through just two games this season, EPA per drop back, the Buccaneers are 22nd in that department and now they get a really tough matchup with Matt Stafford and Cooper Cup. Combined this quarterback wide receiver duo has the second highest total EPA in the NFL so that side of the ball looks like the Rams should be able to dominate on the other side. Yeah, Tom Brady. Yeah, he could keep up but Dave as you mentioned Rams defense, a lot of household names. They should be able to shine in this one. I think it's the Bucs defense. That's a big question mark for me. I'm taking the Rams as well. Guys plus money, getting points there at home. A very good team at that. Again, plus 1,300 to win the Super Bowl at their home stadium and so five. Lots more to come on those Rams but want to get the right take there. So we're going to get out to Chicago, bring in our NFL expert Cole Wright. Hey, Cole, huge NFC matchup. You heard the guys take. Which team do you have winning this game and by how many points? Well, Dave and Ed, I thought you were better than that going with the Rams but I guess that's what I get for thinking because people that keep doubting Tom Brady will eventually you're going to learn. He's just a shade under 700 passing yards completion percentage right at 65%. Nine touchdowns, just two interceptions in the Bucs. Well, their offense, it's rolling. Now we know the Rams defense and they're as good as it gets. So we saw Aaron Donald didn't really check in on the stats sheet but Jalen Ramsey, he did but they beat the Colts. The Colts Bucs, I think Tampa Bay is just a little bit better there. So I'm going to go with TB 12 and Tampa 28 to 21. That's why I see this one shaking out. All right, Cole, thank you. If you roll with the Bucs, a winning $50 bet means you're going to collect more than $92. You can place that bet right now on the Fandals Sports Book app. Again, that promo code more weighs 1000. Now to another big NFC matchup, the one and one Packers at the two and oh 49ers, big bright spot here for San Francisco, Debo Samuel. We heard Ed talking about him last week in those next gen stats. The wide receiver leads the NFL in yards tied for second with 15 receptions. And you look at the other side here, the Packers. We saw them pull away in that second half on Monday Night Football to beat the Lions, Aaron Rodgers afterwards saying, quote, it was nice to get those trolls off our back for at least a week. Can't get comments from the quarterback, no surprise there. More comments now from another quarterback, Brett Favre telling us what makes Rodgers so good year after year. Brett. He's got great arm strength. He's got tremendous accuracy. But I think most importantly, two things, his playmaking ability, meaning you draw a play up and it ends up totally the opposite of the way it's drawn up. He gets flushed out of the pocket. He scrambles around and you can make a throw from any position regardless of where his body is deported off the ground, moving to the left or to the right, moving to the right, going to the left. I think you can do it and make all the throws and plays. But also his football IQ is off the charts. You're not going to really outsmart him. You know, you can draw up a different scheme, but these don't figure it out. And we've seen that playmaking ability now for 16 seasons. Pony Rodgers and the Packers getting three on the road there in San Francisco. How do you feel about that line? Well, first of all, on behalf of the more ways to win family, I want to thank Brett for getting dressed up for today's show. Had me wondering if he was wearing maybe a pair of Wrangler jeans underneath that t-shirt, Dave. I know you might have a couple of those in your closet somewhere. No, look, I like the 49ers. They're two and oh, both road victories. These two teams played the Lions. San Francisco took their foot off the gas and had a four touchdown lead that they kind of gave away. The Packers, on the other hand, took advantage of Jared Gough fumbles and it made the victory look more one sided than it really was.  It'll keep Rogers on the sideline in San Francisco covers. Well, this is a prime time game and Aaron Rodgers loves that. We saw what he did in that Thursday night game and the Monday night game. And we know what he's going to do here. There's seven on one against the spread in their last eight regular season prime time games. What I liked about what I saw in a week two from the Packers was the way that they were bringing Aaron Jones into the pass game. Short passes to the left hand side were resulting in touchdowns. What's happened with the San Francisco defense? They've given up three passing touchdowns this year. They've all been short left passes. I think they can expose that left side of the field and get into the end zone multiple times. I think the Packers are the right play here. Can't see those numbers seven, oh, and one. Thank you, Dave. Let's get more numbers here. Time now to dig in deep into these NFL's next gen stats. My favorite segment of the show. The NFL analyzes the location, speed and acceleration of every player on every play, then uses that information to determine various data sets here. It's called next gen stats. We're using that information to bet this game. So, Ed, you're our analytics guy. Give us a next gen stat that you're using to pick this Packers Niners game. What you got? Well, Monday night was a get right game for Aaron Rodgers as we can see on his pass chart.  You don't see many of those. Rodgers beat the Lions with quick short passes. On throws it took fewer than two and a half seconds. Rodgers was 14 of 15 for 127 yards and three touchdowns and nearly all of those yards came after the catch. So far, quarterbacks have been throwing shallower against this 49ers defense. So, Rodgers may be able to exploit that matchup. So, give me the Packers Moneyline Moneymaker. I don't know where I've heard this phrase before, but it sounds catchy. So, I'm talking about, I'm gonna make some money on that once I finally coined that phrase. Awesome Ed, thank you. Next level info from Next Gen Stats. If you want to tail Ed, great. Wager on the Packers plus the points. A winning $50 bet means you're gonna elect more than $93. It's the Fandals Sportsbook app. And a reminder, you can make your first bet on the app risk-free. 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You know, last week, he saw 76% in New York's running back rushes. He had a 9.4% target share. There's nothing wrong with that. And even though the Giants have eased Saquon back into things, he's still top 15 in the league in Snapshare among all running backs. Now the Giants get a beatable Falcons defense where the offense should be able to move the ball better and create those scoring opportunities for Saquon. So I don't think he should be this cheap. He's only $6,000. He should probably be closer to $7,000. So he's a pretty good value. I also like Mike Williams this week. Williams is just one of nine wide receivers who's seen a 25% target share in each of his first two games this season. He's currently out targeting teammate Keenan Allen. Now he gets a chief's defense in a game with a massive over-under where the Chargers could be forced to pass a lot, which means more volume going Mike Williams way. He also should be more expensive than $6,000. And then finally, there's AJ Brown.  He's seen about a 23% share in each of the first two games for the Titans. The Titans offense got a little bit better last week. They looked a little bit better. On the season, they have five touchdowns in total. Four of those touchdowns have been rushing touchdowns with one just being a passing touchdown. That should regress. We generally see that number regress. It's not gonna keep up at that same pace, which is good news for AJ Brown.  I think he's a good bet in week three. Awesome stuff, JJ, as always. And there you have it. Go to Fatal.com, sign up for free DFS competitions right now and each week of the NFL season. Use JJ's information for a chance to win millions in prizes. And of course, follow our guru at late round QB on Twitter and Instagram. And of course, there are more fun fantasy contests right now on Fandall.com. Make sure to sign up for the Callaway Ryder Cup Eagle Contest Series. Tons of fun and you can enter three DFS contests and play all weekend long. 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The Callaway Golf Pickham Contest and the Callaway Ryder Cup Eagle Contest Series with the team Callaway bonus cash to win those cash prizes. Have fun and good luck. And we continue on here on more ways to win to get back to our game previews now and make some quick picks on some more games this weekend. The Bills saw them bounce back in a big way from their week one homeless. Shutting out the Dolphins, 35 to nothing. Looks very bit of that Super Bowl, very every bit I should say of that Super Bowl contender. They've been built up to be more on that. As for Washington, quarterback Tyler Heinecke earned his first career NFL win as a starter last week. Saw him drive the team down the field to set up that game winning kick as time expired. Dave, coming to you to bet this game for us. Two very different wins for these two very different teams. Let's say that up front. Washington getting seven points in this game. Who do you like here? Well, that was a very much expected win for me. Buffalo against Miami, there are certain teams that Buffalo match up very well against and the Dolphins is one of them. They beat him six times in a row now. Another team they match up well against is Washington. They're seven and one against the spread the last eight times against Washington, including the most recent win 24 to nine back in 2019. In that game, Devon Singletary went for 95 yards. Had a touchdown. I see the same thing here. The Bills are gonna take care of business at home against a team that they typically dominate. Give me Buffalo to cover. All right, Devon, not enough for you, Dave. Now to the AFC North here, the Bengals traveled to Pittsburgh to face the Steelers. Both teams, one and one coming off a week to loss. Bengals lost in Chicago. Steelers lost at home against the Radars. Pittsburgh, a three point home favorite against the Bengals. Pony, you're in Pittsburgh. You know I follow you on Twitter, so I know you have a lot to say about these Steelers. Can they cover that number, Pony? Well, then that means you saw me funnel a beer before their last game against the Radars. I probably needed a few more based on how that game went, Lisa. I like the Steelers here. You know, Joe Burrow has never won a road game in the NFL. He's still winless away from Cincinnati. And I don't think it starts here with a putrid offensive line. And we saw that Steelers defense in the front recab against the Bill's offensive line. I think the Steelers cover the three easily. Steelers, fans, give the points, give them all. Another AFC North team. Let's get to these Cleveland Browns. They're hosting the Chicago Bears this week. Both teams, one and one coming off home wins. Bears rookie quarterback Justin Fields will make his first career NFL start after Andy Dalton suffered that knee injury last week. Much more to play out here with that quarterback situation in Chicago. Getting seven points in this one. Cole, you're in Chicago where, if you remember, the Bears traded up nine spots to draft fields at 11 overall. Future looks to be now. And then Matt Nagy comes back and says, hold up because when Dalton is healthy, he'll be back. We look here at week three and we take body of work. We look at that here from what we'll get from Justin Fields in his debut. What do you think? Who wins this match up and by how many points? Apparently Andy Dalton and not fully healthy because we do know the new quarterback won in Chicago will be Justin Soldier Fields. That's good news. Also good news was that the Bears, they lean on their defense and the home crowd last week. They're number one tied with New Orleans Saints when it comes to big plays and for Justin Fields to go out there and get this David Montgomery offense really going. That's what they're looking for. Now Sean DeSye and that defense and they need to contain Baker Mayfield on the play action in weeks one and two flawless 14 to 14. So containing him, it'll be easier said than done but I think the Bears, they have it in their back pocket 21 to 17, the Bears and they rolling Cleveland. Great stuff. Well, Ed, you use Next Gen Stats to pick the Packers Niners game earlier in the show. Now I want to come back to you for you to give us three bets based on that next level, Next Gen data that you think are of good value right now on the Fandals Sports Book app for week three. I like to say the board is open. Where are you taking us, Ed? Lisa, let's start with the Titans. They were trailing by 15 and a half time to the Seahawks and normally you'd have to pass more in that situation but not if you're the Titans. You just handed off to Derek Henry and the plan worked. Here's his carry chart from that game. Yellow lines are short games, green lines are bigger gains and touchdowns and yeah, he ran a lot. Next Gen Stats is a stat called rushing yards over expected based upon how close defenders are, speed, direction of other players, et cetera. While Henry had 88 rushing yards over expected, most of anyone in week two, you might think, well, Seattle just seemed to stack the box more. Well, they did. Henry faced eight or more defenders near the line of scrimmage, more than half the time and it didn't matter, he had 5.2 yards per carry. Even if Henry has a quieter game this go round, the Titans passing attack has a favorable matchup against the Colts so I've got Tennessee covering in that one. Now Derek Henry, most rushing yards over expected but in second place in week two was Lamar Jackson. Here's the Ravens quarterback's carry chart. Jackson strikes a good balance between big gains both between the hash marks and runs to the sidelines. He amassed 72 rushing yards over expected with a rushing success rate of 68.8%, meaning nearly 70% of the time when he took off, his team became likelier to move the chains or score. Overall contribution was 6.7 yards per carry, including the game winner. It might seem like a suspicious line of seven and a half against the winless Lions but I'm gonna bite. I say my Super Bowl pick will roll. Now after monster season opener, James Winston had a rough week two against the Panthers. Here's his pass chart. Green dots completions, not many of those, white dots incompletions, too many of those and those two interceptions, the red ones deep down there, they're more out of desperation than say a mistake per se. His completion percentage over expected for the day was negative 13.9%, the worst of any starter in week two. He did face some pressure, Caroline has sent an extra defender more than 30% of the time, but that rate is in the middle of the pack and it's hard to say if the Saints are wearing down because of all the travel or if Carolina knew how to dial up the right amount of pressure. New England should actually be an easier test for Winston so I'm gonna take the Saints to cover in that one. Great stuff and you know how much I love those next gen stats. Awesome by you. Take that information now, use it to place your bets on the Fandals Sports Book app. You can place a wager on the bets that Ed just talked about or hey, just keep scrolling. Hundreds of others available for you right now. Again, Fandals Sports Book app and for new users plug in that promo code more ways 1000. Let's bring it home here to the Meadowlands now. The Giants set to host the Falcons across the parking lot from where I'm standing right now here in the Fandals Sports Book. Both teams looking for their first win of the season last week. Giants fans were saying they're going Daniel Jones looks like an absolute ball player. Yes, this is what we've been waiting for. This week, the Giants are three point home favorites in this matchup pony. Coming to you first for you pick here. Who do you like in this matchup with the Falcons in town? I like Atlanta. The final score of that Falcons Bucks game last week was so misleading because of two late pick sixes. In all honesty, actually the Falcons out gained Tom Brady with all those weapons in Tampa Bay. They had more totally yards. So now they're getting three points against the Giants team that can't get Saquon Barkley going. I'm going to take Atlanta. I'm going to take the Giants. Here's why. Matt Ryan's one and three against the spread at MetLife whether it be against the Jets or the Giants over his career averaging one touchdown. But it's not the only one that has access to the next gen stats. I look this up pony. They track the win percentage probability of a team throughout the game. The Giants have been competitive. They were an 80% chance of winning late into the fourth quarter last week. Atlanta in the fourth quarter, despite you saying that they out gained their win percentage and either of their games in the fourth quarter the maximum has been 17%. So you have a non-competitive Atlanta Falcons against a team that's actually been competitive in the Giants. I'll take New York. And of course, JJ Zachariasin said also plug Saquon Barkley into your lineup. He is a great DFS play for this week. And I like to say placing bets on your phone or computer is easy. We all do it. Yes, but you can get the full Fandall experience if you get yourself right here to the Fandall Sportsbook at the Meadowlands. Doors are open for all the games this weekend and every day of the week. The Fandall Sportsbook at the Meadowlands located right across the parking lot from MetLife Stadium. 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Trevor Lawrence to just 118 yards passing. Jets are getting points this week. A lot of them, 10 and a half. This is the biggest number of the week. Ed, do you like the Jets and the points in this spot? I don't, the Jets need more points for me to feel comfortable and pony. I hope you're gonna change your tune about Teddy Bridgewater because in this situation he is the real deal through two weeks of this season. In terms of his completion percentage over expected he's at 11 and a half percent. That's second best among all quarterbacks in football. And he's doing it in part by running a lot. His run frequency is greater than 21%. That's third highest in football and that's actually a good thing. He's not running for his life. These are designed runs. His rollout frequency, getting out of the pocket, firing and completing a pass. That's at 14.7% of all of his plays. That's second highest in football. Teddy Bridgewater is bringing a lot of dynamic playmaking to this Broncos offense and I expect that to continue against the Jets. Had you're fallen for something that statisticians always worn against? Recency biased and small sample size. You think Teddy Bridgewater is really the second or third best quarterback in the NFL? No way. He's gonna come back down to earth. I don't see Bridgewater covering a double digit spread against Alabama, let alone the Jets. I'm gonna take New York. Take those points. A lot of them, 10 and a half points on that line. Thanks guys. Let's check back in with our NFL analyst Cole right now.  Gotta give you some love first though. You have the Cowboys and Raiders, both pulling road upsets, winning out right there in week two. Yes, fist bump. You nailed both of those picks. Virtual fist bump for that. Give us two more teams who are on upset alert here in week three. Well, first things first, New Orleans out east taking on those Patriots. I'm gonna have to go with the Saints because they're tied with the Bears when it comes to that number one big play defense. And that's what they're looking to do. They're looking to make plays and neutralize Mac Jones. Still zero picks. So it's gonna be a battle of close one, 21-20. I see the Saints coming out on top of this one. And anytime the Falcons and G-Men square off, I'm just gonna have to go with Matt Ryan just because we know that the Giants and they have an affinity for giving the ball away. Even though this year Daniel Jones has minimized that just a little bit, 28 to 14. The dirty birds, they're gonna be dancing in this one, Lisa. Cool, I was actually sitting here writing down these picks because I need to make sure and float those out. Thank you so much for my plus money. Go ahead and tail Cole's upset picks or hey, make any other bet on the Fandals Sportsbook app right now. Risk free up to 1,000 bucks. All you gotta do, sign up for that to Fandals Sportsbook account. New users, risk free bet up to $1,000 just by using that promo code more ways 1,000. Of course, our experts are giving you their risk-free bet of the week here. There it is. Bet the NFL right there on the Fandals Sportsbook app. Your first bet risk-free with that promo code. Dave and Ed, shout out to you guys. Dave, you picked a money line parlay on the bills and Ravens that hit in week two. $1,000 risk-free bet paid out more than 4,200 bucks. Hope a lot of people were listening to you last week. Ed, you have the Seahawks and Titans alternate total. They're at 58 and a half. Your risk-free $1,000 bet paid out 2,600 bucks. So thank you both. Let's do it all again this week. Dave, where's your money going? Very similar to last week. It's going to pay almost exactly the same. $1,000 gets you back just over 4,200. Two baby dogs at home. The Rams, a very slight underdog. And then the Minnesota Vikings. Ed pointed out earlier how Seahawks can't stop the run. What is Mike Zimmer going to do? He's going to pound down and cook. And they're going to win that game on the ground. So Rams and Vikings both have to win outright. Give me an alternate spread in this Rams, Buccaneers game. I like the Rams minus 5 and 1 half. I still want to have that 6 just in case this game goes into overtime, which is a possible path here. But look, the Buccaneers defense gives it more yards after the catch by receivers than anyone else in the NFL. And yes, Cooper cups a phenomenal playmaker, but the Rams have other good receivers who can play in space. $1,000 risk-free bet gets me 2,800 bucks. I'm going to buck the trend. I'm going to go with three favorites. Underdogs have been so good in the first two weeks. This is the first time, Lisa, we've waited this long to talk to your chiefs on a show. I'm going to take Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and Tennessee, all favorites, put them together in a three-team parlay. You're going to collect almost $7,000. Yes, I am. 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